Haha. Thats quite the timer.
I think my least favorite labs were the one that used a "spark timer" that sparked 10 times per second and we accelerated a cart with the spark hitting a piece of "spark tape" as it went and then measured the distances between them.
However, we did have some little cameras that hooked to the computer and we used "Videopoint" to do all of that stuff, that was pretty interesting.
I agree entirely... People dont know how to use the software (or just use it too much) and will leave it open and allow everybody to download 1gig of music from them. I could barely check my email during my first semester of college at a private university (about $24,000 per year) because of this.
you dont make sense
Do you want to have more USB ports on some sort of wireless device so that it isnt by your computer?
Or do you want a wireless adapter to connect to your usb port
As far as i knew, this isnt really the way that it was working. The reason that the upgrading firmware can make the drives faster, is because of changes they have made technologically since the other drive came out. Since about 24x, not much has changed as far as the actually hardware goes. However, the burning methods, as well as firmware stuff, has changed. One of the big changes in burning modes was going from ZLV (Zone linear velocity) to CAV or more commonly P-CAV (partial constant angular velocity). By doing this, and not changing the actual speed of the drive, the maximum speed reached as well as the average speed ended up being higher. It is just like when a video card manufacturer releases drivers that increase performance. However, in this realm they do not want everybody getting a 48x cdrw for "free" so they dont release the firmware across the board. If it were the case that all of the drives were the same, they would've been selling 48x drives long ago, instead of doing 24, 32, 40, 48. Side note: supposedly lite-on has a 52x drive now. I have a lite-on 48x, maybe i can upgrade!
The people that dont get it are the way that i make money. Doing simple tasks like uninstalling or installing software and getting paid for it makes it seem like stealing. I've gone over to a person's house because their mouse didn't work and wiggled the cable a little, it worked and i got $40.
Pacbell dsl tells me that my minumum bandwidth that i should be getting is 384/128, down/up respectively... they allow up to 1.5 down, but the up stays at 128. I've never had a problem getting these speeds before!
The only problem with them is that they block all of the alt.binaries in newsgroups, anybody know how to get around this or a free newsgroup to use?
The biggest change i noticed since 9/11 is that you actually have to pay (and sign up) to watch the video clips now. I dont think they were in as high of demand before the attacks so i understand them needing to make their money on hosting etc back somehow... but it just sucks not being able to watch anything anymore!
It's definitely nice to hear that these things are planned. it seems as though they should've come earlier... before a lot of the drawing tools and other features that are there. Maybe that's just me though since i am a college student that is always needing header and footer for papers etc. I know that they are not often used for many others. Hopefully we will see both of these features in the next release!:)
Is there a reason that abiWord doesnt have header/footer capabilities or am i just missing it? I've tried to load a word document that has header and footer stuff already in it, and it never shows up right (it just screws up on each page)
Possibly a feature to come? At least i hope so... it's hard to do MLA without them.
I'd assume it'd depend on the reason the person had blindness. For many, im sure that their retinas are indeed fine, but what is the problem is the optic nerve. In fact, one of my friends friends (chain rule) lost his sight from some sort of pressure on his brain that he got from hitting his head, it pinched off the nerve and killed it. Now all we need is synthetic optic nerves!
You're right, i misspoke... it just seems to underline a lot of them. However on a page that i made my own CSS for, it did not underline them. Pages such as www.hotmail.com and http://www.silver-pixel.net both have underlines when there is no underline in IE
I tried mozilla, but opera feels faster, looks nicer, and has features that i enjoy more. The bar at the bottom that tells me how quickly pages are loading as well as the status of the page is really nice, hopefully more browsers will follow with that.
Mozilla still uses the same buttons from Netscape 2 it seems like! I think i have a "browser aversion" just due to the looks, so i didnt give it as much of a chance.
After reading this i tried out opera again (on windows), after a little bit of configuring im actually thinking about switching to it from IE.
It has way more updates, more features, and overall it is faster for browsing. It does have a few problems dissplaying certain pages though. One thing it always does is underlines links even if the.css says not to, and the "buttons" on pages are never skinned (even delete etc in hotmail).
Computers in K-12 situations are for education use only. Downloading the newest screener or a gig of mp3's is not educational, even though it is quite fun
At my high school we originally had no internet, then ISDN, then T1 for the entire district, and people were always trying to run these programs.
If it is the teachers that are doing it, it's harder to monitor the computers because you cant make a script that deletes things that arent supposed to be on the computer, etc, but blocking all of the ports except for the necessary ones definitely will help. There arent that many ports needed to check email, surf the web, etc.
As was mentioned earlier, it can be a security issue and there should be polocies for both that as well as the educational use agreement. Teachers have to sign the agreement not to look at porn/do illegal things etc on school computers just as the students do in the local district here.
I've never even gotten one of these email worms before. I'm not sure if this is due to me not having stupid friends that open every single attatchment they get, or what.
I think that my ISP filters mail on the way in to check for virii (i have pacbell DSL in san diego, CA), and if they do they are doing a great job of it.
It's obvious that some of the bugs that IE deals with are obviously dealt with in some of the other browsers as well...
This bug that mozilla has was found in IE before and fixed before mozilla got it fixed... less bugs are found because the user base is smaller.
I agree that IE is the fastest and best browser around currently. I used to always download netscape back in the ie3 days, but now i havent found anything better. There are features that i do like about opera, etc, that i hope get integrated into IE. It is nice to know how fast you are downloading a page at, how much longer it will take to download, etc... tabbed windows - that kind of jazz.
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Haha. Thats quite the timer.
I think my least favorite labs were the one that used a "spark timer" that sparked 10 times per second and we accelerated a cart with the spark hitting a piece of "spark tape" as it went and then measured the distances between them. However, we did have some little cameras that hooked to the computer and we used "Videopoint" to do all of that stuff, that was pretty interesting.
I'm in college and taking my second calculus based physics course (E&M/Optics) and we never had photogates! Use a stopwatch
I agree entirely... People dont know how to use the software (or just use it too much) and will leave it open and allow everybody to download 1gig of music from them. I could barely check my email during my first semester of college at a private university (about $24,000 per year) because of this.
They did fix word 97, it is called word 2000 and XP. (at least fixed some things)
You have to expect programs to have a version upgrade!
you dont make sense Do you want to have more USB ports on some sort of wireless device so that it isnt by your computer? Or do you want a wireless adapter to connect to your usb port
As far as i knew, this isnt really the way that it was working. The reason that the upgrading firmware can make the drives faster, is because of changes they have made technologically since the other drive came out. Since about 24x, not much has changed as far as the actually hardware goes. However, the burning methods, as well as firmware stuff, has changed. One of the big changes in burning modes was going from ZLV (Zone linear velocity) to CAV or more commonly P-CAV (partial constant angular velocity). By doing this, and not changing the actual speed of the drive, the maximum speed reached as well as the average speed ended up being higher. It is just like when a video card manufacturer releases drivers that increase performance. However, in this realm they do not want everybody getting a 48x cdrw for "free" so they dont release the firmware across the board.
If it were the case that all of the drives were the same, they would've been selling 48x drives long ago, instead of doing 24, 32, 40, 48.
Side note: supposedly lite-on has a 52x drive now. I have a lite-on 48x, maybe i can upgrade!
The people that dont get it are the way that i make money. Doing simple tasks like uninstalling or installing software and getting paid for it makes it seem like stealing.
I've gone over to a person's house because their mouse didn't work and wiggled the cable a little, it worked and i got $40.
Don't worry, the comments are still microsoft bashing no matter the topic ;)
None of these items were checked for me. Could this perhaps be only affecting some users? Possibly the submitter forgot to ask them not to share :)
Pacbell dsl tells me that my minumum bandwidth that i should be getting is 384/128, down/up respectively... they allow up to 1.5 down, but the up stays at 128. I've never had a problem getting these speeds before!
The only problem with them is that they block all of the alt.binaries in newsgroups, anybody know how to get around this or a free newsgroup to use?
The biggest change i noticed since 9/11 is that you actually have to pay (and sign up) to watch the video clips now. I dont think they were in as high of demand before the attacks so i understand them needing to make their money on hosting etc back somehow... but it just sucks not being able to watch anything anymore!
It's definitely nice to hear that these things are planned. it seems as though they should've come earlier... before a lot of the drawing tools and other features that are there. Maybe that's just me though since i am a college student that is always needing header and footer for papers etc. I know that they are not often used for many others. :)
Hopefully we will see both of these features in the next release!
Thanks for the insight on this.
Is there a reason that abiWord doesnt have header/footer capabilities or am i just missing it? I've tried to load a word document that has header and footer stuff already in it, and it never shows up right (it just screws up on each page)
Possibly a feature to come? At least i hope so... it's hard to do MLA without them.
I'd assume it'd depend on the reason the person had blindness. For many, im sure that their retinas are indeed fine, but what is the problem is the optic nerve. In fact, one of my friends friends (chain rule) lost his sight from some sort of pressure on his brain that he got from hitting his head, it pinched off the nerve and killed it. Now all we need is synthetic optic nerves!
You're right, i misspoke... it just seems to underline a lot of them. However on a page that i made my own CSS for, it did not underline them. Pages such as www.hotmail.com and http://www.silver-pixel.net both have underlines when there is no underline in IE
I tried mozilla, but opera feels faster, looks nicer, and has features that i enjoy more. The bar at the bottom that tells me how quickly pages are loading as well as the status of the page is really nice, hopefully more browsers will follow with that.
Mozilla still uses the same buttons from Netscape 2 it seems like! I think i have a "browser aversion" just due to the looks, so i didnt give it as much of a chance.
Tabbed browsing in opera is also very nice.
After reading this i tried out opera again (on windows), after a little bit of configuring im actually thinking about switching to it from IE.
.css says not to, and the "buttons" on pages are never skinned (even delete etc in hotmail).
It has way more updates, more features, and overall it is faster for browsing. It does have a few problems dissplaying certain pages though. One thing it always does is underlines links even if the
Computers in K-12 situations are for education use only. Downloading the newest screener or a gig of mp3's is not educational, even though it is quite fun
At my high school we originally had no internet, then ISDN, then T1 for the entire district, and people were always trying to run these programs.
If it is the teachers that are doing it, it's harder to monitor the computers because you cant make a script that deletes things that arent supposed to be on the computer, etc, but blocking all of the ports except for the necessary ones definitely will help. There arent that many ports needed to check email, surf the web, etc.
As was mentioned earlier, it can be a security issue and there should be polocies for both that as well as the educational use agreement. Teachers have to sign the agreement not to look at porn/do illegal things etc on school computers just as the students do in the local district here.
I've never even gotten one of these email worms before. I'm not sure if this is due to me not having stupid friends that open every single attatchment they get, or what.
I think that my ISP filters mail on the way in to check for virii (i have pacbell DSL in san diego, CA), and if they do they are doing a great job of it.
It's obvious that some of the bugs that IE deals with are obviously dealt with in some of the other browsers as well...
This bug that mozilla has was found in IE before and fixed before mozilla got it fixed... less bugs are found because the user base is smaller.
I agree that IE is the fastest and best browser around currently. I used to always download netscape back in the ie3 days, but now i havent found anything better. There are features that i do like about opera, etc, that i hope get integrated into IE.
It is nice to know how fast you are downloading a page at, how much longer it will take to download, etc... tabbed windows - that kind of jazz.
I actually saw this as well on the site. It had iphoto 1.1 for download, but now it is back to the normal 1.0, and they removed the 1.1 download.
be on the lookout at http://www.apple.com/iphoto/download/
(my first slashdot post in all of history, clap clap)