Since the kid will probably want to read a PDF at some point, the OP should pre-install a different PDF reader with Firefox plugin, too. That way the kid won't get an unreadable PDF and follow some website's advice to install Adobe Reader.
As an aggregator, isn't that what this new service is? Seriously I'm asking since I haven't RTFA.
I have my own domain, but I recently switched from using an open-source mail viewer to piping all my mail to a gmail account. I can sort and reply through Google and they are received and sent via my domain. Best of both I think.
Isn't the ability to do this the whole point of BSD licenses over GPL? In other words, didn't John and all the other BSD contributors explicitly approve this sort of arrangement when they decided to develop for BSD instead of GNU/Linux?
I struggle to see what Apple did wrong. I would think that people who support BSD would be cheering over this because BSD didn't limit Apple's freedoms the way the GPL would have.
A) I don't think chemistry was required for people on the vocational track at my high school. People who didn't plan to go to college could take hairstyling or engine repair or AV tech or shop class instead. I was happy that I found time on the college track to fit in a year of shop as it served me well later when I framed houses during summers, and helps me now as I'm pretty well comfortable with building techniques and power tools.
B) Chemistry wasn't required for people on the college track, either. I know this because I chose not to take biology as I didn't want to dissect things. Instead I chose to take two years of chemistry and AP out of it in college (a lifesaver as freshman chemistry at my college turned out to be the worst weed-out course and I already had credit).
That said, presuming that a 15-year-old knows that he or she wants to be a mechanic for the rest of his life, and thus he shouldn't be required to take any more English or science or foreign language or history classes is woefully shortsighted and foolish. Most 15-year-olds don't know everything about what they plan to do; that's one reason why they are minors and still required to attend school and listen to their parents. It's also untrue and breeds an ignorant society to suggest that a person who truly has found their subject needs to training in anything else.
The purpose of high school - check that, the purpose of all school before college - is to provide a well-rounded base of eduction for people so that they can be intelligent (as possible) well rounded members of society, able to acquire and hold a job and care for themselves and their family and pay their taxes. College (or a two-year vocational school) is for people to specialize and devote themselves to the subject of their choice. People who don't want to provide this base for their children (like Quakers) pull their kids from school early.
Actually, I would argue that someone who at 16 knows what they want to do, and considers the rest of high school so unbearable and pointless as to be a waste of the next two years of their life, and isn't smart enough to test out of the rest of high school and graduate early should just drop out. If they can't or won't do the work they don't deserve a high school diploma. Then they should go get their job and be happy forever as you suggest. Or, later, when they realize that the lack of a well-rounded education and the inability to take advanced learning courses has hurt their life, they can take the classes they missed and get a GED. The purpose of a high school diploma is to show that someone has that well rounded base, so a person without it shouldn't graduate.
I don't have a method to get recorded shows off of the HD Dish DVR in my living room, other than to play them out and record them (likely in standard def). It encrypts the files it records, I don't have a capture card that can capture raw HD, and since it's rented I would have to give it back if I quit the service.
Boxee is simply removing the box from my house and taking internet bandwidth in exchange for more tuners. Nothing radical from a security standpoint.
They only need to be rewritten if they have lost their stored charge and thus flipped high. As I noted, you could rewrite the data to the same location without needing to erase it first. Thus you don't need to erase the location first and trigger a cycle. That said the flash vendors I've spoken to are always cagey about writing an unerased location, usually hemming and hawing about it being technically fine before saying the policy is always to erase.
The quantum tunneling effect described for the erase process can weaken the insulation around the isolated gate, eventually preventing that gate from holding its charge. That's the typical end-of-life scenario for a bit of flash memory.
You generally don't say that writes are end-of-life because you could, in theory, write the same pattern to the same byte over and over again (without erasing it) and not cause reduction in part life. Or, since bits erase high and write low, you could write the same byte location eight times, deasserting one new bit each time, then erase the whole thing once, and the total would still only be "one" cycle.
In theory, yes. In flashROM devices the erase process is the aging action. Your write-once-never-erase-read-only flash should last until A) enough charge manages to leak out of gates that you get bit errors, or B) the part fails due to corrosion or other long-term aging issue, similar to any piece of electronics.
If you have raw access to the flashROM you could in theory write the same data into the same unerased bytes to recover from bit errors (if you had an uncorrupted copy), so only aging failures would occur. But of course you can't do this with an SSD as you have no direct access to the memory, and the controller A) wouldn't let you write into unerased space, and B) wouldn't write the data into the exact same place again anyway.
Of course. Because if anything were ever possible with manufacturing technology it would already be done today. At least that's what they said in 1880 and 1917 and 1965.
At the same time, a corporation is a collection of people who have been granted special exceptions to the sole proprietorship tax code and legal liability code. The default for legal taxation is that everyone pays, so if an assembly wishes to incorporate, it can and should give up its right to participate in the political process. The same people are most welcome to form a second assembly which does not incorporate and thus can do whatever political activities it wishes. But the first one can't fund the second as the first is banned from politics in exchange for favorable tax code.
This is the same as is already done with non-profit organizations. Why hasn't this already been extended to corporations? Oh yeah, greed.
Like 60, but they're 60HP worth of car I can park downtown without it getting keyed or a door bashed in. (Just kidding, I have no idea how many HP it has. It's plenty enough for fun street driving, not really enough for getting on an on ramp safely.)
It's also a 16 year old car.
Your corvette is also made out of plastic. Just sayin'. =P
I have bought Pandora One subscriptions a few times that I've given as gifts, but I didn't think those were tied to my account except maybe through cookies at time of purchase.
I think all of the channels you worked on just needed more love and attention. To get a truly great variety on a channel, they need to know a wider base of things you like and dislike on that channel.
I have used Pandora since 2005, primarily (90% of the time) listening to the same channel. I started it from four bands I liked with similar music, and then thumbed up maybe 150-200 songs and down maybe 100-1500 over the years. At this point the station is exactly what I want to listen to at work; it plays a several hundred songs I like, I have thumbed down maybe three songs in the last two years, and there's tremendous variety with little repeating. But that's literally years of effort crafting the station.
A pretty large number of other users created a station for themselves based on my station - I can or could see that on my profile page at one point. I think that it gets recommended to people in some fashion. One thing interesting I have noticed is that, while I've never paid for Pandora One, I haven't heard or seen an ad on Pandora since I think 2009. I've had a few conversations with employees over the years, mostly suggesting bands to add or asking (or complaining) about features they should add or removed. I wonder if they have flagged some accounts as "lead users" (or "problem users") or something like that, and have ads excluded from our accounts? Actually come to think of it I haven't hit the monthly 40 hour play cap in more than a year, either. Did they eliminate that for everyone?
The Miata is my downtown car; it's an old beater now and, given its age and size, I can park it or leave it anywhere. Honestly, it's a great car and I'm happy to have bought it and happy to have driven it as my primary vehicle for six or seven years, and happy it's still in (mostly) great shape. But I have another car for power fun now.
I live in Austin, and my family has a wimpy car (16-year-old Miata with a manual transmission) and newer cars (BMWs with both manual and automatic transmission).
Getting the Miata up to highway speeds can be a challenge. I have to merge onto Mopac north and south every day, including taking the north-bound Mopac on-ramp from 2222, where the on ramp is a tight loop. I can wind out the transmission but if people don't get over I'm not going to merge successfully. The 645 can merge wherever because I can meet and beat highway speeds to find a safe gap.
Honestly though, I think the problem with wimpy engine cars is the poor quality of turbochargers. My wife used to have a few Jettas and the turbo lag was atrocious. I recently saw though that there was new turbocharger technology that can "pre-charge" them or somesuch, effectively eliminating the lag. If those become standard, then turbochargers are great and smaller engines will be significantly more successful. (Also, as I see someone else mention, hybrids can solve this easily as well, as electric motors can provide the merge boost too.)
Traffic circles cause a lot of accidents in the U.S. because (you pick, based on your biases) A) Americans aren't used to them, or B) Americans aren't bright enough to understand them.
Several around here have been taken out recently and replaced with stoplights for safety reasons.
I can now walk to a major grocery store to get my milk. It tooks years of waiting for our finances to be in the right place, and the right opportunity in the market, but that's because I wasn't willing to live in an apartment for 10 years before hand. If you're okay with that (and many people are), there are new condo projects flying up around here to give you a choice where an elevator gets you most of the way to that quart of milk.
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Avoid crap from Adobe if at all possible.
Since the kid will probably want to read a PDF at some point, the OP should pre-install a different PDF reader with Firefox plugin, too. That way the kid won't get an unreadable PDF and follow some website's advice to install Adobe Reader.
As an aggregator, isn't that what this new service is? Seriously I'm asking since I haven't RTFA.
I have my own domain, but I recently switched from using an open-source mail viewer to piping all my mail to a gmail account. I can sort and reply through Google and they are received and sent via my domain. Best of both I think.
Isn't the ability to do this the whole point of BSD licenses over GPL? In other words, didn't John and all the other BSD contributors explicitly approve this sort of arrangement when they decided to develop for BSD instead of GNU/Linux?
I struggle to see what Apple did wrong. I would think that people who support BSD would be cheering over this because BSD didn't limit Apple's freedoms the way the GPL would have.
All they need is one more vote on the Supreme Court and all those social changes can happen. You might find yourself regretful of that choice.
What you suggest is already possible.
A) I don't think chemistry was required for people on the vocational track at my high school. People who didn't plan to go to college could take hairstyling or engine repair or AV tech or shop class instead. I was happy that I found time on the college track to fit in a year of shop as it served me well later when I framed houses during summers, and helps me now as I'm pretty well comfortable with building techniques and power tools.
B) Chemistry wasn't required for people on the college track, either. I know this because I chose not to take biology as I didn't want to dissect things. Instead I chose to take two years of chemistry and AP out of it in college (a lifesaver as freshman chemistry at my college turned out to be the worst weed-out course and I already had credit).
That said, presuming that a 15-year-old knows that he or she wants to be a mechanic for the rest of his life, and thus he shouldn't be required to take any more English or science or foreign language or history classes is woefully shortsighted and foolish. Most 15-year-olds don't know everything about what they plan to do; that's one reason why they are minors and still required to attend school and listen to their parents. It's also untrue and breeds an ignorant society to suggest that a person who truly has found their subject needs to training in anything else.
The purpose of high school - check that, the purpose of all school before college - is to provide a well-rounded base of eduction for people so that they can be intelligent (as possible) well rounded members of society, able to acquire and hold a job and care for themselves and their family and pay their taxes. College (or a two-year vocational school) is for people to specialize and devote themselves to the subject of their choice. People who don't want to provide this base for their children (like Quakers) pull their kids from school early.
Actually, I would argue that someone who at 16 knows what they want to do, and considers the rest of high school so unbearable and pointless as to be a waste of the next two years of their life, and isn't smart enough to test out of the rest of high school and graduate early should just drop out. If they can't or won't do the work they don't deserve a high school diploma. Then they should go get their job and be happy forever as you suggest. Or, later, when they realize that the lack of a well-rounded education and the inability to take advanced learning courses has hurt their life, they can take the classes they missed and get a GED. The purpose of a high school diploma is to show that someone has that well rounded base, so a person without it shouldn't graduate.
I don't have a method to get recorded shows off of the HD Dish DVR in my living room, other than to play them out and record them (likely in standard def). It encrypts the files it records, I don't have a capture card that can capture raw HD, and since it's rented I would have to give it back if I quit the service.
Boxee is simply removing the box from my house and taking internet bandwidth in exchange for more tuners. Nothing radical from a security standpoint.
They only need to be rewritten if they have lost their stored charge and thus flipped high. As I noted, you could rewrite the data to the same location without needing to erase it first. Thus you don't need to erase the location first and trigger a cycle. That said the flash vendors I've spoken to are always cagey about writing an unerased location, usually hemming and hawing about it being technically fine before saying the policy is always to erase.
For flash memory it is the erase cycles, not the write cycles, that drive life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
The quantum tunneling effect described for the erase process can weaken the insulation around the isolated gate, eventually preventing that gate from holding its charge. That's the typical end-of-life scenario for a bit of flash memory.
You generally don't say that writes are end-of-life because you could, in theory, write the same pattern to the same byte over and over again (without erasing it) and not cause reduction in part life. Or, since bits erase high and write low, you could write the same byte location eight times, deasserting one new bit each time, then erase the whole thing once, and the total would still only be "one" cycle.
In theory, yes. In flashROM devices the erase process is the aging action. Your write-once-never-erase-read-only flash should last until A) enough charge manages to leak out of gates that you get bit errors, or B) the part fails due to corrosion or other long-term aging issue, similar to any piece of electronics.
If you have raw access to the flashROM you could in theory write the same data into the same unerased bytes to recover from bit errors (if you had an uncorrupted copy), so only aging failures would occur. But of course you can't do this with an SSD as you have no direct access to the memory, and the controller A) wouldn't let you write into unerased space, and B) wouldn't write the data into the exact same place again anyway.
Of course. Because if anything were ever possible with manufacturing technology it would already be done today. At least that's what they said in 1880 and 1917 and 1965.
At the same time, a corporation is a collection of people who have been granted special exceptions to the sole proprietorship tax code and legal liability code. The default for legal taxation is that everyone pays, so if an assembly wishes to incorporate, it can and should give up its right to participate in the political process. The same people are most welcome to form a second assembly which does not incorporate and thus can do whatever political activities it wishes. But the first one can't fund the second as the first is banned from politics in exchange for favorable tax code.
This is the same as is already done with non-profit organizations. Why hasn't this already been extended to corporations? Oh yeah, greed.
Jesus Christ I'm getting an audio ad every third song this morning. Bastards. It's not like I don't know Spotify is out there.
I shouldn't have said anything. I got an audio ad on my channel just now. Someone from Pandora must have read this discussion and turned them back on!
Like 60, but they're 60HP worth of car I can park downtown without it getting keyed or a door bashed in. (Just kidding, I have no idea how many HP it has. It's plenty enough for fun street driving, not really enough for getting on an on ramp safely.)
It's also a 16 year old car.
Your corvette is also made out of plastic. Just sayin'. =P
I have bought Pandora One subscriptions a few times that I've given as gifts, but I didn't think those were tied to my account except maybe through cookies at time of purchase.
Oops, meant down 100-150.
I think all of the channels you worked on just needed more love and attention. To get a truly great variety on a channel, they need to know a wider base of things you like and dislike on that channel.
I have used Pandora since 2005, primarily (90% of the time) listening to the same channel. I started it from four bands I liked with similar music, and then thumbed up maybe 150-200 songs and down maybe 100-1500 over the years. At this point the station is exactly what I want to listen to at work; it plays a several hundred songs I like, I have thumbed down maybe three songs in the last two years, and there's tremendous variety with little repeating. But that's literally years of effort crafting the station.
A pretty large number of other users created a station for themselves based on my station - I can or could see that on my profile page at one point. I think that it gets recommended to people in some fashion. One thing interesting I have noticed is that, while I've never paid for Pandora One, I haven't heard or seen an ad on Pandora since I think 2009. I've had a few conversations with employees over the years, mostly suggesting bands to add or asking (or complaining) about features they should add or removed. I wonder if they have flagged some accounts as "lead users" (or "problem users") or something like that, and have ads excluded from our accounts? Actually come to think of it I haven't hit the monthly 40 hour play cap in more than a year, either. Did they eliminate that for everyone?
The Miata is my downtown car; it's an old beater now and, given its age and size, I can park it or leave it anywhere. Honestly, it's a great car and I'm happy to have bought it and happy to have driven it as my primary vehicle for six or seven years, and happy it's still in (mostly) great shape. But I have another car for power fun now.
My wife's Jettas were 1999 and 2004 IIRC. They were both laggy to hell. If they've done better later, great! We moved on to a different vendor.
I get 27.5 MPG in my first-generation Miata. It's been consistent for the decade I've owned the vehicle.
I don't know about a Corvette, but my V8 BMW gets about 16.5 MPG.
I live in Austin, and my family has a wimpy car (16-year-old Miata with a manual transmission) and newer cars (BMWs with both manual and automatic transmission).
Getting the Miata up to highway speeds can be a challenge. I have to merge onto Mopac north and south every day, including taking the north-bound Mopac on-ramp from 2222, where the on ramp is a tight loop. I can wind out the transmission but if people don't get over I'm not going to merge successfully. The 645 can merge wherever because I can meet and beat highway speeds to find a safe gap.
Honestly though, I think the problem with wimpy engine cars is the poor quality of turbochargers. My wife used to have a few Jettas and the turbo lag was atrocious. I recently saw though that there was new turbocharger technology that can "pre-charge" them or somesuch, effectively eliminating the lag. If those become standard, then turbochargers are great and smaller engines will be significantly more successful. (Also, as I see someone else mention, hybrids can solve this easily as well, as electric motors can provide the merge boost too.)
Because they might be a U.S. Congressman who has a direct impact on science and technology funding, tax law, and application in this country?
I know. WTF "amateurs aka power users"?? Those terms have different meanings for a reason.
Traffic circles cause a lot of accidents in the U.S. because (you pick, based on your biases) A) Americans aren't used to them, or B) Americans aren't bright enough to understand them.
Several around here have been taken out recently and replaced with stoplights for safety reasons.
I can now walk to a major grocery store to get my milk. It tooks years of waiting for our finances to be in the right place, and the right opportunity in the market, but that's because I wasn't willing to live in an apartment for 10 years before hand. If you're okay with that (and many people are), there are new condo projects flying up around here to give you a choice where an elevator gets you most of the way to that quart of milk.