I am on east, haven't been able to send email for two days. TG for webmail on my vps!
The port 25 blocking really makes me mad. Cox cable internet is the only broadband I can get (well, other than satellite, hmmm... or SDSL @ $150/m ) and after having a business class DSL at my last residence being told how I can send traffic really bothers me. This is like giving everyone a speeding ticket as soon as they try to pull out of their driveway.
I am in the Washington DC metro area and was a regular user of Peapod (moved recently, now very close to a grocery store). The quality of produce and meat was comparable to what was in the stores. Only problem I ever had with a product was a jar of expired mayo, they gave me a credit to my account. With one or two exceptions (out of 20 or so deliveries) the driver was on time, and even then was only 15 minutes late and someone called to inform me.
I agree, Uplink II would have been sweet. The first one was one of the few games I've bought! (Meaning I don't play many games not that I don't pay for the ones I do play. )
Actual, much better than trans-flective is the cholesteric display. It actually looks better in direct sunlight than it does indoors! And it takes very little power, power consumption is proportional to how many rows you redraw (power is only consumed when you update the image, unlike a normal LCD which is related to time and brightness). Downside is refresh rate, you can about 4hz full-screen, or 8hz half screen, or 16hz quarter screen, etc. You will have problems finding these displays in commercial products, but if daylight readability is absolutely critical it may be worth paying to have some installed after-market.
I agree with kicking students out of class. If college is supposed to prepare you for the "Real World" (where taking another employees work and calling it your own is A Bad Thing) then lets do that. I agree that letting students know the consequences is important, people cheat because they believe they can do it with impunity.
The biggest problem with kicking students out of a class is support from your department/school/university/institution. You may care about the quality of students in your class, and maybe your boss cares about the quality of students in his program, but much beyond that the concerns become financial. If you kick a student out that is lost revenue. The institution where I taught there was actually an unwritten policy that 90% of the engineering students in math and physics classes had to pass, meaning that a professor could only fail or kick out 10%. How can you enforce cheating policies (btw, show me a accredited college/univ that does not have failure of a course as punishment for cheating) if you can only enforce them so many times?
Yea, in the last couple weeks I've been seeing this on our mail server as well. We use a commercial "store and forward" service, and a measureable amount (I'd say 10% or 15%) of our spam is coming through that. Fortunetly our email server has spam filtering built in, it doesn't matter what MX it comes through. Filter on sender address/domain, plus the standard rules based filtering.
I use "an expensive KVM" (2x8 matrix, 2 KVM in, 8 computers out) and had horrible luck with wheel mice on the linux boxes (SuSE 8.x) Using USB to go to the linux boxes solved the problem. I am still using PS/2 to go into the Wintendos to free up USB ports.
Another issue I had problems with is that some of the wheel mice don't work at all if you use a mouse extension cable (my combination is a 3 year old TrackManMarble+ and a Belkin Matrix2).
I got an 8500 on my desk at work a couple months ago. Took it out of the box on Friday, set it up on the network, left it plugged in over the weekend (copying files) with the screen saver on. On Monday I came in and found the login screen being displayed (screensaver had turned off). From just one weekend of operation I have enough burn-in that I can read the Windows (I know, I know...) login prompt clearly. It's only getting worse, when watching DVDs I can see the task bar across the bottom of the screen, including all of the icons in the tool tray.
I think the quality of a SCUBA course is more dependent on the quality of the instructors than the particular organization that generated the material. I have heard horror stories about PADI and NAUI courses, things like skipping material or passing unqualified students. I know my PADI instructor is not doing these things, sounds like your NAUI instructor didn't either.
All of which were reasonable translations of the StarWars universe into video games. They may have had bad interfaces, lacked plots or just weren't fun, but they all had the "StarWars" feel to them. Compare this to any of the Dune games. They were basically C&C with the units named like things from the books.
I guess this is all a matter of what you are looking for. There may be better massively multiplayer games out there, but I enjoy the StarWars universe so I am going to play Galaxies.
My wife and I are getting PADIOpen Water SCUBA certified. My work (a Dept of Defense research lab) has a pool on-site making this pretty easy.
As said previously (about HAM radio), if you just rent the gear and get wet it is not very technical, if you go all the way and learn deep diving, wreck diving, ice diving, etc it gets very technical!
My biggest concern was that this would be a bad product with some familiar names and logos on it. After playing beta for a month I was happy to see this this is just as good as any other "Lucas Arts" product, with rich detail that makes you feel like you are playing in the Star Wars universe. Yes, there are bugs. Yes, there is missing content one week before release. No, there has never been a product that was flawless at release. Yes, I have already pre-ordered it.
I went over for the last day, mainly for the demolition demonstrations. They set off 50lb TNT charges near blast doors, blast-proof windows, etc to demonstrate how well they worked.
For the record, 50lb of TNT leaves a smoking hole in the ground about 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep.
I also use a Z, CF and SD for storage and tkcPlayer for MP3 and OGG files. Great combination. Battery life is a little short, but you can buy extra batteries for it.
I had many problems with netflix about a year ago. Because I am on the east coast and they were mailing movies from CA, it was talking 4 or 5 days for stuff to get back to them, and 4 or 5 days to get me my new movie. In the 5 months that I was a member, several (3+) movies never showed up in my mailbox, and when I quit I was told that I could not rejoin until _I_ paid for the missing movies.
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The Vitreous State Lab at The Catholic University of America has been doing this for 30 years. Read a recent article here.
I saw a demo of this at FPED '03, I was marginally impressed. The resolution is no where near what they lead you to believe.
I am on east, haven't been able to send email for two days. TG for webmail on my vps!
The port 25 blocking really makes me mad. Cox cable internet is the only broadband I can get (well, other than satellite, hmmm... or SDSL @ $150/m ) and after having a business class DSL at my last residence being told how I can send traffic really bothers me. This is like giving everyone a speeding ticket as soon as they try to pull out of their driveway.
I am in the Washington DC metro area and was a regular user of Peapod (moved recently, now very close to a grocery store). The quality of produce and meat was comparable to what was in the stores. Only problem I ever had with a product was a jar of expired mayo, they gave me a credit to my account. With one or two exceptions (out of 20 or so deliveries) the driver was on time, and even then was only 15 minutes late and someone called to inform me.
I agree, Uplink II would have been sweet. The first one was one of the few games I've bought! (Meaning I don't play many games not that I don't pay for the ones I do play. )
I'd like to be there, but at $40 I'd rather buy a video game than listen to people talk about them.
So is my senator going to come over to my house and sort my spam email and junk snail mail that I get from my whois records?
Actual, much better than trans-flective is the cholesteric display. It actually looks better in direct sunlight than it does indoors! And it takes very little power, power consumption is proportional to how many rows you redraw (power is only consumed when you update the image, unlike a normal LCD which is related to time and brightness). Downside is refresh rate, you can about 4hz full-screen, or 8hz half screen, or 16hz quarter screen, etc. You will have problems finding these displays in commercial products, but if daylight readability is absolutely critical it may be worth paying to have some installed after-market.
I agree with kicking students out of class. If college is supposed to prepare you for the "Real World" (where taking another employees work and calling it your own is A Bad Thing) then lets do that. I agree that letting students know the consequences is important, people cheat because they believe they can do it with impunity.
The biggest problem with kicking students out of a class is support from your department/school/university/institution. You may care about the quality of students in your class, and maybe your boss cares about the quality of students in his program, but much beyond that the concerns become financial. If you kick a student out that is lost revenue. The institution where I taught there was actually an unwritten policy that 90% of the engineering students in math and physics classes had to pass, meaning that a professor could only fail or kick out 10%. How can you enforce cheating policies (btw, show me a accredited college/univ that does not have failure of a course as punishment for cheating) if you can only enforce them so many times?
Yea, in the last couple weeks I've been seeing this on our mail server as well. We use a commercial "store and forward" service, and a measureable amount (I'd say 10% or 15%) of our spam is coming through that. Fortunetly our email server has spam filtering built in, it doesn't matter what MX it comes through. Filter on sender address/domain, plus the standard rules based filtering.
I use "an expensive KVM" (2x8 matrix, 2 KVM in, 8 computers out) and had horrible luck with wheel mice on the linux boxes (SuSE 8.x) Using USB to go to the linux boxes solved the problem. I am still using PS/2 to go into the Wintendos to free up USB ports. Another issue I had problems with is that some of the wheel mice don't work at all if you use a mouse extension cable (my combination is a 3 year old TrackManMarble+ and a Belkin Matrix2).
I got an 8500 on my desk at work a couple months ago. Took it out of the box on Friday, set it up on the network, left it plugged in over the weekend (copying files) with the screen saver on. On Monday I came in and found the login screen being displayed (screensaver had turned off). From just one weekend of operation I have enough burn-in that I can read the Windows (I know, I know...) login prompt clearly. It's only getting worse, when watching DVDs I can see the task bar across the bottom of the screen, including all of the icons in the tool tray.
I think the quality of a SCUBA course is more dependent on the quality of the instructors than the particular organization that generated the material. I have heard horror stories about PADI and NAUI courses, things like skipping material or passing unqualified students. I know my PADI instructor is not doing these things, sounds like your NAUI instructor didn't either.
All of which were reasonable translations of the StarWars universe into video games. They may have had bad interfaces, lacked plots or just weren't fun, but they all had the "StarWars" feel to them. Compare this to any of the Dune games. They were basically C&C with the units named like things from the books. I guess this is all a matter of what you are looking for. There may be better massively multiplayer games out there, but I enjoy the StarWars universe so I am going to play Galaxies.
My wife and I are getting PADI Open Water SCUBA certified. My work (a Dept of Defense research lab) has a pool on-site making this pretty easy. As said previously (about HAM radio), if you just rent the gear and get wet it is not very technical, if you go all the way and learn deep diving, wreck diving, ice diving, etc it gets very technical!
My biggest concern was that this would be a bad product with some familiar names and logos on it. After playing beta for a month I was happy to see this this is just as good as any other "Lucas Arts" product, with rich detail that makes you feel like you are playing in the Star Wars universe. Yes, there are bugs. Yes, there is missing content one week before release. No, there has never been a product that was flawless at release. Yes, I have already pre-ordered it.
I went over for the last day, mainly for the demolition demonstrations. They set off 50lb TNT charges near blast doors, blast-proof windows, etc to demonstrate how well they worked.
For the record, 50lb of TNT leaves a smoking hole in the ground about 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep.
Hey, they put one of those in my house I'd be willing to watch NASA TV!
How about ACE? http://freshmeat.net/projects/a.c.e./?topic_id=21% 2C27%2C860%2C87%2C243
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I doubt that he wrote every single line of code... I've heard about this thing called code reuse, maybe he's heard of it too.
I also use a Z, CF and SD for storage and tkcPlayer for MP3 and OGG files. Great combination. Battery life is a little short, but you can buy extra batteries for it.
I had many problems with netflix about a year ago. Because I am on the east coast and they were mailing movies from CA, it was talking 4 or 5 days for stuff to get back to them, and 4 or 5 days to get me my new movie. In the 5 months that I was a member, several (3+) movies never showed up in my mailbox, and when I quit I was told that I could not rejoin until _I_ paid for the missing movies.