You are ignoring the fact that it takes resources to keep the lighthouses running. Electricity costs, maintainance, and if there's someone still manning it, their salary.
Not saying we should get rid of them, far from it, just that it isn't free to keep going.
I'm not saying that I do that; I was using a 486 on a fairly regular basis 4 or so years ago, and we had a 286 and 386 around that weren't being used. (Got rid of all three a couple years ago.)
However, there are a lot of people who do, and a good recycling program would help quite a bit.
I've got second edition of that book. (They added a fourth author, Stein, so I assume it's the same book.) Someone I know calls it the book of death 'cause it's big enough to kill someone with...
Nah, you just have to figure out how to learn by osmosis.
Actually, on of my friends was telling me about a conversation she had about what would be a cool superpower, and suggested the ability to touch a book and instantly gain all the knowledge inside. Think of heading to the library and just running your hand down the shelves...
Then again, this would prevent the "Forget Your Password?" feature from being of any use...
Randomly generate a new password, and email that off, and make them change it when they log in (or not, because it'd probably be pretty secure). For an added touch, do what/. does (I think) and leave the old password live until the new one is used, that way someone can't be annoying and reset someone else's password so they have to read mail before using it again.
I think they fixed that in a later version; IIRC, it stopped working in high school. (We had them since at least middle school.)
I never cared enough to try to fool it; I could do what I needed to with At Ease when I was in the lab, and knew the password when I was one one in a room.
1. Teachers have off periods. They have work to do. Sure, you could put a couple computers in the department office, but the classroom is where the teacher has notes, books, etc.
2. A lot of schools take attendance by computer. This allows teachers to excuse students from class and the teacher of the class to see that they are excused right away. Or not excused. It keeps teachers from having to make students run to the office to turn in the attendance sheet so they could call home to any students who hadn't called in sick (yes, we did this) giving more class time. Finally, it prevents someone else from having to enter the attendance again.
3. There are perfectly legitimate uses for the computer as a teaching tool. Let's see you demonstrate an animation on the chalkboard. I gurantee you'll get a more accurate graph of f = sin(1/x) using a computer and projector than you will by hand.
For a while the school I was at was using Macs with some front end on it--it was called At Ease IIRC--that were password protected from getting to the finder. The password was the room number of the computer. (Only for the teachers' computers; the labs were different.)
You should look up "evolution" in a dictionary. The word meant "development" for a couple centuries before the theory of evolution and natural selection came along.
In fact, the biological meaning isn't even until definition #6 in the OED.
Doesn't necessarily mean that TDS viewers are getting their knowledge from TDS; it could just be that people who are politically aware appreciate the intelligent humor Stewart and crew brings to the show. Without knowledge of current events and politics, much of the humor is lost.
I went to HS in PA, and my school offered a civics class. It wasn't required though, and wasn't in the main path that most seniors took. I don't know how complete it was.
"Others say that communism fell because no one wanted to wear Bulgarian shoes"
And the Bulgarian shoe market collapsed, and the inhabitants of that poor country evolved into birds, flying high above the layers and layers of rubber on the surface./Obscure?
I use the default theme, just with the color scheme set to silver. I think it looks decent, much better than the XP version of the classic look.
The recently used programs list that I think only shows in the new Start Menu though is a killer feature of the new theme, so even if I wanted to switch I wouldn't.
It's not even that simple... Java 5's full name is Java2 1.5. Here's the version history of Java from what I can make out:
Java 1.0 Java 1.1
The following release was a significant upgrade, so Sun thought it should deserve a special designation. However, because Sun apparently doesn't know about the major version number, it was called...
Java2 1.2 [No, not Java 2.0 or even Java2 1.0] Java2 1.3 Java2 1.4
Again, the next version was a major upgrade. However, instead of doing something sane, or even sane considering their previous pattern, they called it...
Java 2 1.5 aka Java 5 [no, not Java 1.5, not Java 5.0, nor even Java5 1.5]
It would probably not be unconstitutional if they also put "Christianity is a Religion, not a fact, about the universe..." stickers on the Bible, "Islam is a Religion" stickers on the Koran, etc. because then the law is treating everything the same. Let's see what they think about the first one there.
Though this still doesn't seem right, and certainly you could find countless other books that should require the sticker I didn't mention. So it's a pretty stupid idea all around.
I agree with the other poster that prohibiting mandating the stickers isn't really a free speech issue.
Read other comments on this page. MS released a workaround for the flaw 8 days after it was originally posted. At that time, it was not known how critical it was, so MS didn't push a full fix. Now that it is known (Secunia increased the rating 4 days ago), MS has responded quickly.
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Well, think about how many episodes are in a season. *Looks at the Simpsons DVD for comparison.* 22 episodes. At, say, 20 minutes each, that's 7h 20m, not including extras, or about 3 1/2 times the length of a typical movie. Amazon has it for 32 bucks (normally $50), or about twice (three) times the price of a movie.
Even ignoring the fact that saying that the price should be proportinal to the length of the content is a pretty stupid argument, it seems like that isn't all that unreasonable.
(Remember, TV shows may have run on the networks and gotten ad revenue, but the movies ran in the theatres and got ticket revenue.)
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So what are you gonna do, crash on the shoreline 100 miles out? And what's the range on the actual lamp? Probably 100 miles on a good, clear day.
They would be added for extra accuracy, accuracy that for most purposes is only important when you are near shore.
You are ignoring the fact that it takes resources to keep the lighthouses running. Electricity costs, maintainance, and if there's someone still manning it, their salary.
Not saying we should get rid of them, far from it, just that it isn't free to keep going.
I'm not saying that I do that; I was using a 486 on a fairly regular basis 4 or so years ago, and we had a 286 and 386 around that weren't being used. (Got rid of all three a couple years ago.)
However, there are a lot of people who do, and a good recycling program would help quite a bit.
I still posess computers I purchased 20 years ago. Will I get rid of them? Nope.
You're unusual. There are people throwing out computers left and right.
I've got second edition of that book. (They added a fourth author, Stein, so I assume it's the same book.) Someone I know calls it the book of death 'cause it's big enough to kill someone with...
Nah, you just have to figure out how to learn by osmosis.
Actually, on of my friends was telling me about a conversation she had about what would be a cool superpower, and suggested the ability to touch a book and instantly gain all the knowledge inside. Think of heading to the library and just running your hand down the shelves...
Then again, this would prevent the "Forget Your Password?" feature from being of any use...
/. does (I think) and leave the old password live until the new one is used, that way someone can't be annoying and reset someone else's password so they have to read mail before using it again.
Randomly generate a new password, and email that off, and make them change it when they log in (or not, because it'd probably be pretty secure). For an added touch, do what
What happens if your RFID is lost or stolen? I know no one else is going to find my password out unless they torture me or get really amazingly lucky.
I think they fixed that in a later version; IIRC, it stopped working in high school. (We had them since at least middle school.)
I never cared enough to try to fool it; I could do what I needed to with At Ease when I was in the lab, and knew the password when I was one one in a room.
Bull. Even if they aren't used for teaching:
1. Teachers have off periods. They have work to do. Sure, you could put a couple computers in the department office, but the classroom is where the teacher has notes, books, etc.
2. A lot of schools take attendance by computer. This allows teachers to excuse students from class and the teacher of the class to see that they are excused right away. Or not excused. It keeps teachers from having to make students run to the office to turn in the attendance sheet so they could call home to any students who hadn't called in sick (yes, we did this) giving more class time. Finally, it prevents someone else from having to enter the attendance again.
3. There are perfectly legitimate uses for the computer as a teaching tool. Let's see you demonstrate an animation on the chalkboard. I gurantee you'll get a more accurate graph of f = sin(1/x) using a computer and projector than you will by hand.
For a while the school I was at was using Macs with some front end on it--it was called At Ease IIRC--that were password protected from getting to the finder. The password was the room number of the computer. (Only for the teachers' computers; the labs were different.)
*Facepalm*
You can set them to refresh. You have to do it by a window-by-window basis though. (Refresh rate is custom too, default is 20 sec.)
You should look up "evolution" in a dictionary. The word meant "development" for a couple centuries before the theory of evolution and natural selection came along.
In fact, the biological meaning isn't even until definition #6 in the OED.
Why, is there a finite supply of words? "Uh oh, here's the last 'the'..."
Signs point to yes.
Dude, I don't think you should be doing economic predictions based on a Magic Eight Ball...
Doesn't necessarily mean that TDS viewers are getting their knowledge from TDS; it could just be that people who are politically aware appreciate the intelligent humor Stewart and crew brings to the show. Without knowledge of current events and politics, much of the humor is lost.
Remember, correlation doesn't imply causation.
I went to HS in PA, and my school offered a civics class. It wasn't required though, and wasn't in the main path that most seniors took. I don't know how complete it was.
"Others say that communism fell because no one wanted to wear Bulgarian shoes"
/Obscure?
And the Bulgarian shoe market collapsed, and the inhabitants of that poor country evolved into birds, flying high above the layers and layers of rubber on the surface.
Get one! You can find a decent new one for $100. They are a lot of fun to try to learn to ride.
I use the default theme, just with the color scheme set to silver. I think it looks decent, much better than the XP version of the classic look.
The recently used programs list that I think only shows in the new Start Menu though is a killer feature of the new theme, so even if I wanted to switch I wouldn't.
It's not even that simple... Java 5's full name is Java2 1.5. Here's the version history of Java from what I can make out:
Java 1.0
Java 1.1
The following release was a significant upgrade, so Sun thought it should deserve a special designation. However, because Sun apparently doesn't know about the major version number, it was called...
Java2 1.2 [No, not Java 2.0 or even Java2 1.0]
Java2 1.3
Java2 1.4
Again, the next version was a major upgrade. However, instead of doing something sane, or even sane considering their previous pattern, they called it...
Java 2 1.5 aka Java 5 [no, not Java 1.5, not Java 5.0, nor even Java5 1.5]
The only thing that I can think of that is similarily warped is the Unix versions ("The different versions of the UN*X brand operating system are numbered in a logical sequence: 5, 6, 7, 2, 2.9, 3, 4.0, III, 4.1, V, 4.2, V.2, and 4.3"), but that's muddled somewhat because of many dialects of Unix...
What's wrong with log?
It would probably not be unconstitutional if they also put "Christianity is a Religion, not a fact, about the universe..." stickers on the Bible, "Islam is a Religion" stickers on the Koran, etc. because then the law is treating everything the same. Let's see what they think about the first one there.
Though this still doesn't seem right, and certainly you could find countless other books that should require the sticker I didn't mention. So it's a pretty stupid idea all around.
I agree with the other poster that prohibiting mandating the stickers isn't really a free speech issue.
Read other comments on this page. MS released a workaround for the flaw 8 days after it was originally posted. At that time, it was not known how critical it was, so MS didn't push a full fix. Now that it is known (Secunia increased the rating 4 days ago), MS has responded quickly.
Well, think about how many episodes are in a season. *Looks at the Simpsons DVD for comparison.* 22 episodes. At, say, 20 minutes each, that's 7h 20m, not including extras, or about 3 1/2 times the length of a typical movie. Amazon has it for 32 bucks (normally $50), or about twice (three) times the price of a movie.
Even ignoring the fact that saying that the price should be proportinal to the length of the content is a pretty stupid argument, it seems like that isn't all that unreasonable.
(Remember, TV shows may have run on the networks and gotten ad revenue, but the movies ran in the theatres and got ticket revenue.)