"Mid last year they had a promotion where current satellite customers could trade in their equipment and get a free PVR. I've been a customer of theirs for ten years or more. I don't have a freaking PVR."
Yeah, I think the same about my car. Do you know that they put out a new model every year? And I keep paying more money to buy the two year old one that sits in my driveway. The car companies are just a pack of crooks.
The only probem I've seen with #3, is that alot of times the water or juice comes in a larger and more expensive bottle. Many vending machines I've seen H2O sold, sell pop at about 60-70% that cost.
But I agree with what you say there is no need for junk and fast food in schools. I think brown bagging it is the best way to go; and usually cheaper.
In response to the people complaining about the Xbox give away: This is making one healthy meal a day, which is worth it. If the food plan is combined with one hour a day of exercise, as students should have, they well be better off in the long run.
Please, please do not take this as a licence to eat huge amounts of unhealthy food, and not exercise your body.
I know most people understand this but please moderate yourself. There are many more studies that show eating healthy, combined with exercise will make you live longer (not ignoring obesity-related diseases http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4468001.stm). I know more then enough people who have diabetes to say; 'you are damaging your body by continuously eating foods that have low nutritional value'. I know that some foods just taste good, but you have to moderate yourself. Skip the Big bag o' chips for the small one with an apple on the weekend, start slowly.
I'm not versed in the rules for Harvard, but wouldn't this be like a coworker somehow taking a look at their yearly evaluation after sneaking in the manager's office. If they get caught they could get fired.
How different is a university in the States to a company? Does a university have the right to kick someone out if they don't perform to expectations? Or steal? Or harm self or property? If these cases are the same I don't see why Harvard should admit these students.
Besides patience is a virtue.
I've been wondering how plant and animal breeding is not an example of macro-evolution.
Wild strawberries are primarily for birds to eat and generally have a stronger and bitter taste compared to domesticated strawberries, their size is smaller concentrating the seeds on a smaller surface area. Only in the past 500 years or so have strawberries been domesticated to the way we now buy them in stores. Is this not an example of evolution? The plant has (been) adapted to prosper under different conditions.
I think in the strawberries case most of the intermediate plants were not kept, maybe records of them have been. But, if people don't keep their in-betweens why would nature? And I doubt that if you did search for in-betweens in this case it would be very easy to find them. Just like it being difficult to find fossils of plants and animals from even further back in time.
Well last when I was in Vegas for a Bach. Party the line up for the Champagne (wonder if they still promote this right now with the anti-French attitude?) Buffet wasn't quite a shining example of Americain Physical Education class. Not that all Americain people are overweight. But I think that being one of the most affluent contries in the world lends itself to overindulgence.
The digital was a brain freeze, I know it's not analog. I ment compressed digital rather then just ripping the CD raw digital. And lets see Mr. Valenti roll over a CD and case on a computer chair to find out how impervious they are.
Hi everyone,
I have a couple of questions that I was hoping to get some answers/advice for.
I am a Canadian leaving for Japan in a couple of months, and I have well over 50 music CDs. Now due to wanting to travel light I am hopeing to acopy all my CDs to digital form for travel and stick them on a laptop. Now I was wondering if anyone might know of the legalities. I am pretty sure I can copy for personal use in Canada, but does that extend outside to Japan and some asian countries? And does anyone have a good free recording software that they would recommend? I've used the shared(limited) version of Musicmatch Jukebox for about 10 discs and it has managed to screw up on 2 songs out of that so far. I'm not looking for CD quality, just enough compression to stick them all on a 20 gig drive (I can live with 128k sampling)
Ok, This is a slightly off topic but I find it keeps coming up in these posts and I would like to clarify.
The USA holds 5% of the worlds population.
95% of the world are not citizens of the USA.
The assumption that bothers many people I know is that they are labeled with an Anti-Americian title whenever they disagree with what the leaders of the USA have to say right now about gov't, economic, and moral issues. A lot of people in the outside USA world have a democratic form of gov't, and when the USA leaders and some very right wing people from the USA try to enforce issues as above it is seen as a direct insult. How are the people supposed to react when the leader of a small minority of people in the world directly insult them? Roll over and say "Sure thing boss"?
This is a larger problem then is given address. If the USA wants to implement a system of total observation on it own people -fine-, an issue for that 5% of the worlds population to deal with. But when it comes to a technology that contains the information that is not limited to the USA and contains the secure information of people of another soverein nations then it is a larger issue and one of global concern.
True I have heard Deus Ex is good, have not seen Undying though. Doubt I could play either though because i'm running a Pentium 233.
But I still have to say most of the current FPS are just a fancy multiplayer versions of Castle Wolfenstien. Not to totally come down on FPS; I do enjoy playing the odd game of Counter Strike on a friends computer when I get a chance.
It's sort of like the Video Card companies and ID (or whatever the game company is called now) have a symbiote relationship. I mean without a graphically intesive program there is no real need for a graphical processor. Of course everyone will say CG in movies/TV or good CAD, but most used to be done on render specific machines (at a higher cost, but no lost time from solitare and minesweeper). But what happens if Quake/Doom III is a crappy game, or lacks any orginality (1st person shooter being repetitive!!! What are the odds). Then the driving market for the Video Card dries up....
Personally i'm getting tired of the huge boxen, I would much prefer the design of a small and effecient system that doesn't consume space and blanket the room with noise.
Most error in this case is because alot of astronomical experimental data is always error prone. If you need the measurement of a body outside the solar system it is really hard to do a solid measurement. I forget most of my astro 100 course, but I think measurement of extra-solar bodies is done on a star cluster and averaged.
The determination is done using old star positions and observing the slight change to current ones (it has been awhile so someone please correct me if wrong). Anyways, what I do remember is that the errors could be up to 80% by hand, and still fairly high on computer.
Add in error due to the actual mass of Jupiter, and the velocity (not a perfect circle of an orbit).
Speaking from experience, I always try to hire physics, engineering or philosophy graduates for programming positions.
See, I only wish there were more people as forgiving as you are in this case. I am the unemployed physics major struggling to find a job in programming. At this point, 7 months with no related job, I have decided to give up the search and take up teaching English in Japan. After which I plan to finish my Masters off in Canada and become a physics teacher; debt willing.
I don't regret taking physics, I always enjoyed trying to figure out how things worked and physics seemed like the logical choice to me. But I do have advice for people who are taking or planning on taking physics: Focus on a specific field. I took every different type of physics course possible, from thermodynamics to optics to honours quantum. All were interesting (for me at least) but diversity is not really help after graduation. I personally never focused on a releated minor, and bounced from economics, history, and Spanish.
Also it is a good idea to try and work for a professor, or at least give up so free time and help out your department for a solid reference.
Sorry about the topic shift but I hope to guve a bit of information to aspiring physics buffs out there who are really looking for a job after graduation.
Forgive the literal answer to a retorical question.
I have a feeling that one of the old style BBS's (Bulliton Board Systems) would be an origional online community though none were that profound that I remember, of course I was in high school at the time and the only important things to me were Castle Wolfstien 3D, Commander Keen, and some other stuff.
Most likely there were even small forums and the basics of weblogs on the ARPANet though I would not know personally. I'm guessing that if there were such things on ARPA that I would still be mostly academic and military oriented.
In any case, the most successful is the one that matters.
Fly me down to the show and get me on it. I'm entertaining and have, as they say in the biz, an excellent stage presance (speeling eror knot entended). Plus I don't lose my train of thought in uncomfortable situations.
My knowledge of the modern world is vast and plentiful. I am the very image of a modernary general (useless pop trivia full of I am (I can actually do Yoda/Kermit/Marvin the Martian's voice to)).
vague_knowledge(lisp(i_have)))
I am the next Bill Nye, minus the TV of course...
JAB War, good god y'all what is it good for? Huugh, absolutly nothin'!
Slashdot Mirror
"Mid last year they had a promotion where current satellite customers could trade in their equipment and get a free PVR. I've been a customer of theirs for ten years or more. I don't have a freaking PVR." Yeah, I think the same about my car. Do you know that they put out a new model every year? And I keep paying more money to buy the two year old one that sits in my driveway. The car companies are just a pack of crooks.
So are you the exception, or the rule?
The only probem I've seen with #3, is that alot of times the water or juice comes in a larger and more expensive bottle. Many vending machines I've seen H2O sold, sell pop at about 60-70% that cost.
But I agree with what you say there is no need for junk and fast food in schools. I think brown bagging it is the best way to go; and usually cheaper.
In response to the people complaining about the Xbox give away: This is making one healthy meal a day, which is worth it. If the food plan is combined with one hour a day of exercise, as students should have, they well be better off in the long run.
Please, please do not take this as a licence to eat huge amounts of unhealthy food, and not exercise your body.
I know most people understand this but please moderate yourself. There are many more studies that show eating healthy, combined with exercise will make you live longer (not ignoring obesity-related diseases http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4468001.stm). I know more then enough people who have diabetes to say; 'you are damaging your body by continuously eating foods that have low nutritional value'. I know that some foods just taste good, but you have to moderate yourself. Skip the Big bag o' chips for the small one with an apple on the weekend, start slowly.
Just make a change.
Now why do you think that Blogging is the new media?
I think you'll find the same thing in a newspaper on the editorial page.
I would like someone to prove me wrong, but most blogs are just copies of what people agree with or are limited in their world view.
If blogs were truly a new media they would be more comprehensive rather then a collection of links to other clone blogs (clogs).
I'm not versed in the rules for Harvard, but wouldn't this be like a coworker somehow taking a look at their yearly evaluation after sneaking in the manager's office. If they get caught they could get fired. How different is a university in the States to a company? Does a university have the right to kick someone out if they don't perform to expectations? Or steal? Or harm self or property? If these cases are the same I don't see why Harvard should admit these students. Besides patience is a virtue.
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~sctien/samurai_crabs.ht m
Has a bit of a story, but it's very interesting.
I've been wondering how plant and animal breeding is not an example of macro-evolution.
t m Heike Crab which evolved a human face.
Wild strawberries are primarily for birds to eat and generally have a stronger and bitter taste compared to domesticated strawberries, their size is smaller concentrating the seeds on a smaller surface area. Only in the past 500 years or so have strawberries been domesticated to the way we now buy them in stores. Is this not an example of evolution? The plant has (been) adapted to prosper under different conditions.
I think in the strawberries case most of the intermediate plants were not kept, maybe records of them have been. But, if people don't keep their in-betweens why would nature? And I doubt that if you did search for in-betweens in this case it would be very easy to find them. Just like it being difficult to find fossils of plants and animals from even further back in time.
An interesting page that I read in the past which shows another and better written example is Carl Sagans' http://web.singnet.com.sg/~sctien/samurai_crabs.h
My advice to the hacker crowd. Smoke a fag and get over it.
Well last when I was in Vegas for a Bach. Party the line up for the Champagne (wonder if they still promote this right now with the anti-French attitude?) Buffet wasn't quite a shining example of Americain Physical Education class. Not that all Americain people are overweight. But I think that being one of the most affluent contries in the world lends itself to overindulgence.
s /obese/obse99.htm
Here are some stats.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestat
Want me to Super-Size that for you?
Damn Morlocks, I hate those guys.
Thanks i'll check them out.
The digital was a brain freeze, I know it's not analog. I ment compressed digital rather then just ripping the CD raw digital. And lets see Mr. Valenti roll over a CD and case on a computer chair to find out how impervious they are.
Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions that I was hoping to get some answers/advice for.
I am a Canadian leaving for Japan in a couple of months, and I have well over 50 music CDs. Now due to wanting to travel light I am hopeing to acopy all my CDs to digital form for travel and stick them on a laptop. Now I was wondering if anyone might know of the legalities. I am pretty sure I can copy for personal use in Canada, but does that extend outside to Japan and some asian countries? And does anyone have a good free recording software that they would recommend? I've used the shared(limited) version of Musicmatch Jukebox for about 10 discs and it has managed to screw up on 2 songs out of that so far. I'm not looking for CD quality, just enough compression to stick them all on a 20 gig drive (I can live with 128k sampling)
Missle Defense???
Please it's just going to be the Maginot Line with jet power.
Ok, This is a slightly off topic but I find it keeps coming up in these posts and I would like to clarify.
The USA holds 5% of the worlds population. 95% of the world are not citizens of the USA.
The assumption that bothers many people I know is that they are labeled with an Anti-Americian title whenever they disagree with what the leaders of the USA have to say right now about gov't, economic, and moral issues. A lot of people in the outside USA world have a democratic form of gov't, and when the USA leaders and some very right wing people from the USA try to enforce issues as above it is seen as a direct insult. How are the people supposed to react when the leader of a small minority of people in the world directly insult them? Roll over and say "Sure thing boss"?
This is a larger problem then is given address. If the USA wants to implement a system of total observation on it own people -fine-, an issue for that 5% of the worlds population to deal with. But when it comes to a technology that contains the information that is not limited to the USA and contains the secure information of people of another soverein nations then it is a larger issue and one of global concern.
Actually I think you would find more users of crack and heroin are more likely to start using gateway drugs like caffine, nicotine, and alcohol.
Of course if you like the idea of throughing 15 year olds in jail for a holding weed charge with a bunch of murderers and rapists...
What is with the lame reefer madness link???
/. team sitting around saying:
...,
Slashdot taking up the never ending war on drugs now? I can just see the
"Well we have conquered the online community market, what next?",
"I know lets become crime fighters, and start putting a bunch of 15 years olds in jail for carrying around a joint.",
"Yeah good idea, just let me finish this ciggy and down another overpriced caffinated beer before we go out cruzin' for weed-head punks."
True I have heard Deus Ex is good, have not seen Undying though. Doubt I could play either though because i'm running a Pentium 233.
But I still have to say most of the current FPS are just a fancy multiplayer versions of Castle Wolfenstien. Not to totally come down on FPS; I do enjoy playing the odd game of Counter Strike on a friends computer when I get a chance.
You know I find this sort of interesting.
It's sort of like the Video Card companies and ID (or whatever the game company is called now) have a symbiote relationship. I mean without a graphically intesive program there is no real need for a graphical processor. Of course everyone will say CG in movies/TV or good CAD, but most used to be done on render specific machines (at a higher cost, but no lost time from solitare and minesweeper). But what happens if Quake/Doom III is a crappy game, or lacks any orginality (1st person shooter being repetitive!!! What are the odds). Then the driving market for the Video Card dries up....
Bigger and uglier doesn't strike me as better.
Personally i'm getting tired of the huge boxen, I would much prefer the design of a small and effecient system that doesn't consume space and blanket the room with noise.
Most error in this case is because alot of astronomical experimental data is always error prone. If you need the measurement of a body outside the solar system it is really hard to do a solid measurement. I forget most of my astro 100 course, but I think measurement of extra-solar bodies is done on a star cluster and averaged.
The determination is done using old star positions and observing the slight change to current ones (it has been awhile so someone please correct me if wrong). Anyways, what I do remember is that the errors could be up to 80% by hand, and still fairly high on computer.
Add in error due to the actual mass of Jupiter, and the velocity (not a perfect circle of an orbit).
Speaking from experience, I always try to hire physics, engineering or philosophy graduates for programming positions.
See, I only wish there were more people as forgiving as you are in this case. I am the unemployed physics major struggling to find a job in programming. At this point, 7 months with no related job, I have decided to give up the search and take up teaching English in Japan. After which I plan to finish my Masters off in Canada and become a physics teacher; debt willing.
I don't regret taking physics, I always enjoyed trying to figure out how things worked and physics seemed like the logical choice to me. But I do have advice for people who are taking or planning on taking physics: Focus on a specific field. I took every different type of physics course possible, from thermodynamics to optics to honours quantum. All were interesting (for me at least) but diversity is not really help after graduation. I personally never focused on a releated minor, and bounced from economics, history, and Spanish.
Also it is a good idea to try and work for a professor, or at least give up so free time and help out your department for a solid reference.
Sorry about the topic shift but I hope to guve a bit of information to aspiring physics buffs out there who are really looking for a job after graduation.
Forgive the literal answer to a retorical question.
I have a feeling that one of the old style BBS's (Bulliton Board Systems) would be an origional online community though none were that profound that I remember, of course I was in high school at the time and the only important things to me were Castle Wolfstien 3D, Commander Keen, and some other stuff.
Most likely there were even small forums and the basics of weblogs on the ARPANet though I would not know personally. I'm guessing that if there were such things on ARPA that I would still be mostly academic and military oriented.
In any case, the most successful is the one that matters.
(I cant spell)
Yes, I have a great idea.
Fly me down to the show and get me on it. I'm entertaining and have, as they say in the biz, an excellent stage presance (speeling eror knot entended). Plus I don't lose my train of thought in uncomfortable situations.
My knowledge of the modern world is vast and plentiful. I am the very image of a modernary general (useless pop trivia full of I am (I can actually do Yoda/Kermit/Marvin the Martian's voice to)).
vague_knowledge(lisp(i_have)))
I am the next Bill Nye, minus the TV of course... JAB War, good god y'all what is it good for? Huugh, absolutly nothin'!