But that's not how verbal bullying works. Verbal bullying is most effective when done in front of a group: it damages the bullied person's reputation. No amount of walking away is going to solve that.
Bullying does not have to include physical violence to be a real problem.
Why the hell is this modded insightful? Being called names/lied about online is just as real as being called names/lied about to your face/in public. There's nothing virtual about "cyberbullies", it's no more than the application of technology to a practice that's been around forever. It may be "just words", but let's face it, the "sticks and stones" argument never amounted to anything much, not when we were kids, and not among adults either (why do you think we have slander/libel laws?). Words DO have an effect.
If it gets hot enough to require 24/7 AC I'd be tempted to cover every available surface with solar panels, including the walls etc. Not just to generate more power, but to reduce the amount of solar energy getting beamed into the house. I've no idea if this would make enough of a difference to be worth bothering, though.
James Follett's novel 'Torus', in which the Soviets build a weapon that works on the same principle: detonate a nuke and use a magnetic field to contain and direct the particles into a beam.
the Balkanisation of online video. Instead of being able to find everything in one place, I'm back to using Google to find individual shows. Also, NBC currently doesn't allow video on its site to be seen outside the US, I suspect the new service won't be any better in this regard.
At least we could count on Apple wanting to distribute these shows worldwide; I doubt NBC will want the trouble of allowing worldwide access (they'd rather sell the rights to the show to a national broadcaster instead).
Are there any players where a media file can disallow 'skipping the commercials'? Will it disallow skipping for commercials only, or will seeking be disabled for the entire file?
but he didn't deserve to be taken away from the mic.
He'd already asked several questions, and had 'used his allotted time'. Should he have been given unlimited time, effectively doing a DOS attack on other people who had questions to ask?
At least 100 people in the room, (plus presumably the staff of wherever this was) and no-one had the sense to smack him in the head (make him go eat/sleep/whatever) before he keeled over? What's this world coming to?
An exercise bike outputs maybe 250W. You'd need to run the bike continuously for it to be able to power anything, and you'd have to spend more than the bike's output on heating water for the shower you'd need after biking for 15 minutes.
If we wanted to do good things for the environment, we'd have an mostly-nuclear merchant shipping fleet by now.
Probably not. There have been some experiments with nuclear-powered freighters, but these were all stopped after only a few years of operation because they were more expensive to operate than their fossil-fueled ships. Now, you could argue that those experiments sucked. The Otto Hahn, for example, was an inefficient design (carried less freight than other ships its size, despite not needing fuel bunkers). There has been no attempt to series-produce reactors, so you end up with expensive one-off designs. Nuclear technology now is much better than in the '60s (current naval reactors are built to last the lifetime of the ship without refueling). But all that said, you'd have to come up with a pretty amazing design to beat the current generation of large ship diesels.
Also, a nuclear reactor requires more (and better) manpower than a diesel. The largest freighters these days have a crew of maybe 30, most of them low-wage, low-education types. Nuclear reactors require personnel with college degrees.
A nuclear-powered freighter might pollute less per km traveled, but you'd have to calculate the lifecycle cost, not just the 'fuel used per km'. Building a reactor is more labor- and power intensive than building a diesel, I suspect.
iPod popularity is due in part to herd mentality, but there are solid technical reasons as well. The main one is the UI: the iPod/iTunes combination beat the shit out of anything else when it first came out, and AIU it's still one of the best around. Because it became so popular early on, there are lots of accessories for it, which creates its own momentum.
Also, the restrictions are something most people (non-geeks) can live with, sound quality is good enough (hell, I've no problem with the sound quality of the iPod and I'm an audio nerd), and it supports all the music formats most people (non-geeks) use.
And it's easily the best-looking music player around. No herd mentality needed to see that one, either.
How about controlling the frequency instead of the power? My electronics knowledge is a bit rusty, but AIU motor speed is pretty much locked to input frequency. Design the controller so that small throttle opening == slow change in frequency, and Bob's your uncle.
I agree the word processors are horrible, but I think that is because the concept is flaws. What we need is something like Lyx, but a lot more polished: what Lyx would be if it had received the same resources as Open Office.
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Pfft. Newbie.
If you're going to rewrite the title of the submission, is it too much to ask not to introduce spelling errors?
But that's not how verbal bullying works. Verbal bullying is most effective when done in front of a group: it damages the bullied person's reputation. No amount of walking away is going to solve that.
Bullying does not have to include physical violence to be a real problem.
Why the hell is this modded insightful? Being called names/lied about online is just as real as being called names/lied about to your face/in public. There's nothing virtual about "cyberbullies", it's no more than the application of technology to a practice that's been around forever.
It may be "just words", but let's face it, the "sticks and stones" argument never amounted to anything much, not when we were kids, and not among adults either (why do you think we have slander/libel laws?). Words DO have an effect.
So, where's the underground biohazard lab with the nuke buried underneath where these things can be studied?
If it gets hot enough to require 24/7 AC I'd be tempted to cover every available surface with solar panels, including the walls etc. Not just to generate more power, but to reduce the amount of solar energy getting beamed into the house. I've no idea if this would make enough of a difference to be worth bothering, though.
James Follett's novel 'Torus', in which the Soviets build a weapon that works on the same principle: detonate a nuke and use a magnetic field to contain and direct the particles into a beam.
the Balkanisation of online video. Instead of being able to find everything in one place, I'm back to using Google to find individual shows. Also, NBC currently doesn't allow video on its site to be seen outside the US, I suspect the new service won't be any better in this regard.
At least we could count on Apple wanting to distribute these shows worldwide; I doubt NBC will want the trouble of allowing worldwide access (they'd rather sell the rights to the show to a national broadcaster instead).
Are there any players where a media file can disallow 'skipping the commercials'? Will it disallow skipping for commercials only, or will seeking be disabled for the entire file?
I've bought Toslink cables for E 1.50 (one metre) to E 7 (10 metres), hardly more expensive than USB cables.
Let's hope so, it'd be good to see sanity return to the 'peripheral connections' market. FW400/FW800/USB2/eSATA is just too much.
In the controller, likely. I'm getting 30% higher transfer rates with FW400 than with USB 2.0 on the same external disk.
Which doesn't give me high hopes for USB3. High-speed links are all good and well, but if they keep including cheap-ass controllers, what's the point?
If you have to ask, you automatically fail the test.
but he didn't deserve to be taken away from the mic.
He'd already asked several questions, and had 'used his allotted time'. Should he have been given unlimited time, effectively doing a DOS attack on other people who had questions to ask?
At least 100 people in the room, (plus presumably the staff of wherever this was) and no-one had the sense to smack him in the head (make him go eat/sleep/whatever) before he keeled over? What's this world coming to?
An exercise bike outputs maybe 250W. You'd need to run the bike continuously for it to be able to power anything, and you'd have to spend more than the bike's output on heating water for the shower you'd need after biking for 15 minutes.
If we wanted to do good things for the environment, we'd have an mostly-nuclear merchant shipping fleet by now.
Probably not. There have been some experiments with nuclear-powered freighters, but these were all stopped after only a few years of operation because they were more expensive to operate than their fossil-fueled ships. Now, you could argue that those experiments sucked. The Otto Hahn, for example, was an inefficient design (carried less freight than other ships its size, despite not needing fuel bunkers). There has been no attempt to series-produce reactors, so you end up with expensive one-off designs. Nuclear technology now is much better than in the '60s (current naval reactors are built to last the lifetime of the ship without refueling).
But all that said, you'd have to come up with a pretty amazing design to beat the current generation of large ship diesels.
Also, a nuclear reactor requires more (and better) manpower than a diesel. The largest freighters these days have a crew of maybe 30, most of them low-wage, low-education types. Nuclear reactors require personnel with college degrees.
A nuclear-powered freighter might pollute less per km traveled, but you'd have to calculate the lifecycle cost, not just the 'fuel used per km'. Building a reactor is more labor- and power intensive than building a diesel, I suspect.
iPod popularity is due in part to herd mentality, but there are solid technical reasons as well. The main one is the UI: the iPod/iTunes combination beat the shit out of anything else when it first came out, and AIU it's still one of the best around.
Because it became so popular early on, there are lots of accessories for it, which creates its own momentum.
Also, the restrictions are something most people (non-geeks) can live with, sound quality is good enough (hell, I've no problem with the sound quality of the iPod and I'm an audio nerd), and it supports all the music formats most people (non-geeks) use.
And it's easily the best-looking music player around. No herd mentality needed to see that one, either.
How about controlling the frequency instead of the power? My electronics knowledge is a bit rusty, but AIU motor speed is pretty much locked to input frequency. Design the controller so that small throttle opening == slow change in frequency, and Bob's your uncle.
Alternatively, bring a length of optical cable. In case of emergency, bury it. A backhoe will be along shortly to dig it up.
If you're going to include all the applicable memes in the blurb, there'll be nothing left for us to post about.
"Integrity: we've heard of it"
The Russians claim twice the blast radius of the MOAB for their contraption.
With a vehicle like this, getting out of the crater would have been a cinch.
I agree the word processors are horrible, but I think that is because the concept is flaws. What we need is something like Lyx, but a lot more polished: what Lyx would be if it had received the same resources as Open Office.
Sounds like what you want is Adobe FrameMaker.