Do you live in Colorado by chance? I do, and my wife is going to school to get her teaching license. She, and all of her peers in school, are absolutely livid about the CSAP program. CSAP basically does exactly what you described. Each year students take a standardized test, then schools receive funding based on scores. The idea is to motivate schools to do better so that they get more money. It's completely retarded, instead the inner-city schools that need money don't get any. Furthermore, teachers are forced to teach specifically to address the content of the test. Since the CSAP tests don't contain science (yet, it's coming apparently), the students don't learn science.
It's a damn shame, I just hope that CSAP is gone by the time I have children.
I have Vonage VoIP service at home on a cable modem connection. When I talk to a cell phone user over my VoIP phone, there is a noticable lag that occurs. I've gotten used to it, but initially my wife and I found ourselves talking over each other all the time because of the 1-2 second delay. It sounds to me like this service will only compound that problem.
What's described isn't an extended aging process. Aging would be suspended completely. You'd live the entire 1000 years in the body of a 30 year old (or however old you were when you started the treatment).
The only reason you would eventually die is because of an accident (or murder or something). They figured 1,000 years because an average person has less than a 1 in 1000 chance of dying every year.
You can pad recordings on TiVo, but that's not the issue. Besides, when The Bachelor runs from 7:00 until 8:01, the TiVo knows and records for 61 minutes.
The problem comes in when there's something on at 8:00 on another channel that the TiVo needs to record. It can't record it because that show will conflict. Whichever show has the higher priority gets recorded and the other doesn't.
Like others have pointed out, you need a dual tuner TiVo to compensate. Or else TiVo needs to provide the ability to specify that you want partial recordings.
I actually own two TiVos, so I just spend a few minutes a week making sure there are no conflicts. If there are, I schedule one of the recordings on my other TiVo.
Because it's a sure way to lose money? Half Life 2 is a DirectX game (argue this decision if you want). It would take a great deal of work to convert it to OpenGL so it can work natively in Linux. It's not worth the development effort.
As far as I can tell (I'm still downloading it), the highest resolution World Wind provides is 15m/pixel. Keyhole has far higher resolution, down to 1ft/pixel in most areas.
To all of those "this is going to destroy TiVo" people out there, let me remind you of this: it takes 1 second to skip 1 minute of commercials on a TiVo. I own two of them, and this doesn't bother me one bit. So I have to look at a 4-second long banner ad while I fastforward? Who cares?!
Funny how people will mod something up as informative without reading the link that was posted. That document CLEARLY shows that HDTV is always 16:9. Exactly as I said before. THIS guy needs to be modded "Wrong -2".
The funny thing, that actually happens on my 4:3 HDTV. When watching HDTV content, the TV adds black bars on the top and bottom. But some of the stuff that's broadcast in HD has black bars on the sides of 4:3 content (most commercials). So when watching this stuff I actually have a black border all the way around.
Actually, HDTV is 16:9 by definition. Look at the spec for 720p and 1080i, it's all 16:9. However, some channels actually do broadcast their HDTV signals with black bars on the sides. The signal is still 16:9, but the black bars are part of the signal. The Denver NBC affiliate did this with their news broadcast until not too long ago when they actually got all HD equipment. Now not only is the news all HD and 16:9, their freakin' traffic copter uses HD. They claim to be the only station in the country with a HD camera on their chopper. Wow... I got off on a tangent.
Poker is played against other players, not the house. The house makes money by taking a cut of every pot. Poker bots could undermine the industry by scaring off human players that can't play well against a bot. This will reduce the amount of pots that are being played, thus reducing the house cut.
It took me a few seconds to figure out what you were talking about. At first I thought you meant to say that John Lennon was rolling in his grave. But then I remembered, Paul is dead.
Mod me -1 Slow-thinker. But give me a break, I'm on cold medication...
Sorry to be a stickler, but there is nothing but mountains to the west of Rocky Flats. But I actually think you know that and just made a slight grammatical error. Prevailing winds would carry any sort of airborne waste into very populated areas, as they go west to east and the cities or Broomfield, Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton lie to the east. Farther to the east lies Denver International Airport. Here is a map of northern Denver metro area. Rocky Flats is located on the left side of the map just north of Rocky on highway 93. As you can see, much of Denver would be in trouble. Although, as I understand it, there really is no danger of this occuring.
FYI, I live in Wheat Ridge, just northwest of Denver. I went to school in Boulder and drove past Rocky Flats every day. There is some farm land surrounding RF, and the cows all looked fine to me:).
The highest level of detail in Doom 3 is "Ultra" mode, not "High." Ultra requires a video card with 512MB of memory. Basically the difference between ultra and high is the use of completely uncompressed textures in ultra. I'm sure there's other minor differences, but not many.
In fact, I've played Doom 3 at all 4 levels (low, medium, high, and ultra). The game looks damn near identical all the way through. You have to look pretty close to see differences.
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TiVo did away with the phone line requirement a LONG time ago. I've had my TiVo for nearly 2 years and I've never had a land line. You can plug a USB network adaptor into the TiVo and use your broadband connection for updates. Official support for that was added about a year ago, but before that all you had to do was enter a certain code (,#401 or something) into the dialing prefix field during setup and it would use DHCP to get an IP and simply connect that way.
600 million users is only 10% of the 6 billion potential users out there.
6 billion potential users? Last time I checked, most of the world's population didn't even have electricity or running water. Maybe Linux developers need to target that market!
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Want a headache? Look into the current state of "Go" in the computing world.
It's amazing how simple the game is, yet the best computer programs in the world only play at an intermediate level at best.
Do you live in Colorado by chance? I do, and my wife is going to school to get her teaching license. She, and all of her peers in school, are absolutely livid about the CSAP program. CSAP basically does exactly what you described. Each year students take a standardized test, then schools receive funding based on scores. The idea is to motivate schools to do better so that they get more money. It's completely retarded, instead the inner-city schools that need money don't get any. Furthermore, teachers are forced to teach specifically to address the content of the test. Since the CSAP tests don't contain science (yet, it's coming apparently), the students don't learn science.
It's a damn shame, I just hope that CSAP is gone by the time I have children.
Of course it costs them something. Why would I sign up for a 2000 minute plan when I can get unlimited calling to anyone on my 300 minute plan?
I have Vonage VoIP service at home on a cable modem connection. When I talk to a cell phone user over my VoIP phone, there is a noticable lag that occurs. I've gotten used to it, but initially my wife and I found ourselves talking over each other all the time because of the 1-2 second delay. It sounds to me like this service will only compound that problem.
I hate to say it, but RTFA.
What's described isn't an extended aging process. Aging would be suspended completely. You'd live the entire 1000 years in the body of a 30 year old (or however old you were when you started the treatment).
The only reason you would eventually die is because of an accident (or murder or something). They figured 1,000 years because an average person has less than a 1 in 1000 chance of dying every year.
You can pad recordings on TiVo, but that's not the issue. Besides, when The Bachelor runs from 7:00 until 8:01, the TiVo knows and records for 61 minutes.
The problem comes in when there's something on at 8:00 on another channel that the TiVo needs to record. It can't record it because that show will conflict. Whichever show has the higher priority gets recorded and the other doesn't.
Like others have pointed out, you need a dual tuner TiVo to compensate. Or else TiVo needs to provide the ability to specify that you want partial recordings.
I actually own two TiVos, so I just spend a few minutes a week making sure there are no conflicts. If there are, I schedule one of the recordings on my other TiVo.
I'm not slaming the US (I live there), it just seems stupid to degrade a nation because of a condition that occurs there.
Because it's a sure way to lose money? Half Life 2 is a DirectX game (argue this decision if you want). It would take a great deal of work to convert it to OpenGL so it can work natively in Linux. It's not worth the development effort.
As far as I can tell (I'm still downloading it), the highest resolution World Wind provides is 15m/pixel. Keyhole has far higher resolution, down to 1ft/pixel in most areas.
To all of those "this is going to destroy TiVo" people out there, let me remind you of this: it takes 1 second to skip 1 minute of commercials on a TiVo. I own two of them, and this doesn't bother me one bit. So I have to look at a 4-second long banner ad while I fastforward? Who cares?!
Sure, send one to entrager@comcast.net
Funny how people will mod something up as informative without reading the link that was posted. That document CLEARLY shows that HDTV is always 16:9. Exactly as I said before. THIS guy needs to be modded "Wrong -2".
The funny thing, that actually happens on my 4:3 HDTV. When watching HDTV content, the TV adds black bars on the top and bottom. But some of the stuff that's broadcast in HD has black bars on the sides of 4:3 content (most commercials). So when watching this stuff I actually have a black border all the way around.
Actually, HDTV is 16:9 by definition. Look at the spec for 720p and 1080i, it's all 16:9. However, some channels actually do broadcast their HDTV signals with black bars on the sides. The signal is still 16:9, but the black bars are part of the signal. The Denver NBC affiliate did this with their news broadcast until not too long ago when they actually got all HD equipment. Now not only is the news all HD and 16:9, their freakin' traffic copter uses HD. They claim to be the only station in the country with a HD camera on their chopper. Wow... I got off on a tangent.
Poker is played against other players, not the house. The house makes money by taking a cut of every pot. Poker bots could undermine the industry by scaring off human players that can't play well against a bot. This will reduce the amount of pots that are being played, thus reducing the house cut.
It took me a few seconds to figure out what you were talking about. At first I thought you meant to say that John Lennon was rolling in his grave. But then I remembered, Paul is dead.
Mod me -1 Slow-thinker. But give me a break, I'm on cold medication...
I found a patch that makes it really easy to install. Download it here.
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
Sorry to be a stickler, but there is nothing but mountains to the west of Rocky Flats. But I actually think you know that and just made a slight grammatical error. Prevailing winds would carry any sort of airborne waste into very populated areas, as they go west to east and the cities or Broomfield, Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton lie to the east. Farther to the east lies Denver International Airport. Here is a map of northern Denver metro area. Rocky Flats is located on the left side of the map just north of Rocky on highway 93. As you can see, much of Denver would be in trouble. Although, as I understand it, there really is no danger of this occuring.
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FYI, I live in Wheat Ridge, just northwest of Denver. I went to school in Boulder and drove past Rocky Flats every day. There is some farm land surrounding RF, and the cows all looked fine to me
No discussion of the time cube is complete without bringing up our good buddy Alex Chiu.
The highest level of detail in Doom 3 is "Ultra" mode, not "High." Ultra requires a video card with 512MB of memory. Basically the difference between ultra and high is the use of completely uncompressed textures in ultra. I'm sure there's other minor differences, but not many.
In fact, I've played Doom 3 at all 4 levels (low, medium, high, and ultra). The game looks damn near identical all the way through. You have to look pretty close to see differences.
TiVo did away with the phone line requirement a LONG time ago. I've had my TiVo for nearly 2 years and I've never had a land line. You can plug a USB network adaptor into the TiVo and use your broadband connection for updates. Official support for that was added about a year ago, but before that all you had to do was enter a certain code (,#401 or something) into the dialing prefix field during setup and it would use DHCP to get an IP and simply connect that way.
Doesn't work in IE either, it just crashed my machine.