Quite possibly the failure to teach Latin has had a huge impact on people's education these days. Kids have no appreciation as to how fricken dumb some things ancient cultures were, and how much improvement we've made.
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Awesome. I got a redundant moderation on a Second Post. I have mad slacker skillz that I know what the first post is going to say before it's posted, I guess.
I made a typo a few minutes ago and said "LDC", but LED is the wrong technology. It's the kind of display used in clock radios with red blocky displays, if you aren't sure about the difference.
My power company is advertising a power savings of 66% by switching to an LCD from CRT montior. And they are telling people that a screen saver does not power down a CRT so they are still paying for power while it's on.
I've never been a big fan of laptops, I enjoy installing new video cards too much to like an un-upgradable lappy. But with power the way it is, and the nearly silent operation of a laptop, I really have to consider it. I use my computer for TV, and music, and the fans are getting so loud along with the hard drives, that I just don't think I will go the desktop route again. Even if I don't tote my laptop around and instead use it as a "silent" and low power-use desktop, I'm beginning to think it's a better investment than another desktop.
Has anyone bought a laptop-like desktop [without an integrated LCD for instance] and been satisfied playing either games or watching TV/DVD on it?
Just on the cusp of hydrogen fuel cell techonology becoming available, we're about to be hit hard with spikes in both gas and electricity. The SK crown corporation SaskEnergy asked the rate review panel for a 41% increase, but the review panel recommended "only" 27%. Auto gas prices have soared as high as $1.20/litre but have settled back at about a $1 CDN. Natural gas though is what scares Canadians, since most heat their homes with either that or electricity.
Sask Power is running advertising imploring people to unplug their underused second fridge, turn off their computers when not in use, and upgrade to LDC screens to save about 66% the power expense over CRT technology. They claim savings of $50/year if you turn off your computer when it's not in use.
I don't think this is very good news if you're in the market for a large screen TV in the future and want a CRT. With the supply from Sony dwindling, prices won't be dropping as much as we'd like them to in comparison to LCD. And I wonder how much easier it is to recycle components of an LCD screen device, compared to a CRT's? There will be less lead I'm guessing, but are there any rules about throwing LCD monitors/TVs into the landfill?
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"Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger "sick worker" syndrome -- characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression"
If this doesn't prompt you to get up from your computer and go to bed a bit earlier tonight, there's no hope for you, in other words. You'll be involluntarily curled up like a rat ball, if you don't take charge of your wrist health.
This is obviously a MS conspiracy to "digitize" all forms of print media, thereby making paper irrelavent, and thus create a lack of work in the pulp industry, which will reduce deforrestation, and unemployed loggers will have to work in salt mines that Bil Gates owns. The miners will need to sign up on Yahoo Messenger, but they won't realize that Y! is merging protocols with MSN Messenger next year, and since they already have MSN passports they'll have duplicate identities. They'll forget to use one of the identities, so that Microsoft clones can take over their unused identity, and thuse a clone army will be born to crush Google.
And you thought it was a simple effort to make it easier to access print resources online! Ha!
In the past months I've seen eBay online communities disintigrate because the powers that be are power crazed jerks that treat customers like dog food. I've also heard of a Livejournal community that got hijacked by a former moderator, who kicked out the current moderators. Coups are the name of the game in online worlds, and the people in power rarely have a boss or manager over their head from whom you can get justice from.
Powerless people can become tyrants online if they have the chance to conquer a community.
It's a good reminder, and thus newsworthy. Never write something into an email that you wouldn't say to the face of whoever you're talking about.
Talking about confidential matters is what encryption and the telephone or face to face conversation is for. And if you have a "party-line" the telephone won't work either.
Hi CmdrTaco, I see why you don't post on slashdot much as a commentor, you just got a bunch of silly moderators out giving you -1 Redundants and such. Have you had many -1 Troll moderations done to you?
I'm happy I got "Saskboy" on Slashdot, it's the name I started using in Quake I, and tried to get it for eBay too but someone beat me to it, so I took the next best thing - computer_saskboy. Perhaps you could consider Violated_Taco as your backup identity name?
Blogging is known to be potentially dangerous. In fact I have no doubt that no fewer than 2 sexual beings have looked at my blog in the past hour. And we all know that sex is bad, so sexual beings must be bad too.
But seriously, kids should not be blogging their thoughts in public anyway. It's different if they do it as a kind of job, but otherwise their blogs are just insipid surveys and risk taking opinions that people outside of their trusted social circles should not be entitled to read. Children don't know any better, and can't deal with the consequences when things go awry. They can't even sue someone for libel, or defend themselves directly in a libel suit.
"Better get a second layer on those tinfoil hats!"
Or just don't put on the headgear that controls you.
Either way, I'm not going to work at any job that requires me to wear this remote control, unless it's wireless. Wearing headgear all day with a wire attached would probably give me a sore neck by causing restricted head movements.
Perhaps he wasn't a troll, but he just put his point in a rude way. And it is a weak point at best since nearly everyone has to actually install Linux for it to be on their computer, when that's not the case for Windows or OS-X.
I guess The Onion should have modified the seal some before using it.
You know how seriously people take letter seals these days:^/
(_!_) - Seal of Saskboy on letter to White House
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I don't see how this got an insightful moderation, since it's just a troll.
How many people you know have bought a computer with Linux pre-installed, or comes with Linux recovery CDs? Macs come with OS-X already on it, so people don't tend to install it. If a Linux distro doesn't have a friendly install process, then its not going to be accepted by the masses. It's nothing personal against Linux, it's just a fact of the market place, and getting Linux's foot in the computer door.
In SK, a supposedly labour friendly environment, the government proclaimed that its employees would get 0,1,1% over three years for raises and no more. Since then most departments have cut deals above that, but still barely the rate of inflation is given. People whine and whine about teachers getting 2%/year when that doesn't even cover the cost of inflation which is more like 2.4% last I heard. The average raise was closer to 3% in the private sector.
I think that not giving employees a raise better than inflation's rate, is essentially a pay cut. Presumably the service or good is making more money or is at least as valuable, so why isn't the employee's time?
I'm kinda mortified that you know only one other person who uses that word. I'm rarely mortified, because mortification is a state I like to avoid, but sometimes I manage to achieve that state of horrification.
"Solar Integrated Technologies Inc., Los Angeles, won for its solar roof system designed for large commercial and industrial buildings. The company combines a lightweight, flexible solar-energy system with a single-ply roofing membrane, enabling buildings to generate solar power from their flat rooftops. It has installed SmartRoof panels on a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Los Angeles and a Frito-Lay distribution warehouse in Torrance, Calif.; the Frito-Lay building's 70,000-square-foot roof is less than half covered with solar panels, but the system generates more than a quarter of the building's annual energy needs."
Too bad that 50% roof coverage only generates 25% of the power they need. Perhaps they could get the rest from geothermal energy, although at some plants that would certainly be out of the question.
It pains me to see new buildings going up without any form of solar panels, or light tubes put into them, when it wouldn't cost much to do so, and saves energy in the long run.
Just wait until porn sites use it more. Then there will be Porno Splogs Clog Blog Web Logs. Plogs as I call them will be the next big thing on the Interweb.
The title is a bit ambiguous isn't it? Brain stem, or stem cells, or brain stem stem cells?
But I thought that the thing that made stem cells special was that they could be encouraged to grow into any other type of human cell? Or are there special stem cells just for brains, brain stems, or spinal nerves?
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Quite possibly the failure to teach Latin has had a huge impact on people's education these days. Kids have no appreciation as to how fricken dumb some things ancient cultures were, and how much improvement we've made.
Awesome. I got a redundant moderation on a Second Post. I have mad slacker skillz that I know what the first post is going to say before it's posted, I guess.
I made a typo a few minutes ago and said "LDC", but LED is the wrong technology. It's the kind of display used in clock radios with red blocky displays, if you aren't sure about the difference.
My power company is advertising a power savings of 66% by switching to an LCD from CRT montior. And they are telling people that a screen saver does not power down a CRT so they are still paying for power while it's on.
I've never been a big fan of laptops, I enjoy installing new video cards too much to like an un-upgradable lappy. But with power the way it is, and the nearly silent operation of a laptop, I really have to consider it. I use my computer for TV, and music, and the fans are getting so loud along with the hard drives, that I just don't think I will go the desktop route again. Even if I don't tote my laptop around and instead use it as a "silent" and low power-use desktop, I'm beginning to think it's a better investment than another desktop.
Has anyone bought a laptop-like desktop [without an integrated LCD for instance] and been satisfied playing either games or watching TV/DVD on it?
Just on the cusp of hydrogen fuel cell techonology becoming available, we're about to be hit hard with spikes in both gas and electricity. The SK crown corporation SaskEnergy asked the rate review panel for a 41% increase, but the review panel recommended "only" 27%. Auto gas prices have soared as high as $1.20/litre but have settled back at about a $1 CDN. Natural gas though is what scares Canadians, since most heat their homes with either that or electricity.
Sask Power is running advertising imploring people to unplug their underused second fridge, turn off their computers when not in use, and upgrade to LDC screens to save about 66% the power expense over CRT technology. They claim savings of $50/year if you turn off your computer when it's not in use.
I don't think this is very good news if you're in the market for a large screen TV in the future and want a CRT. With the supply from Sony dwindling, prices won't be dropping as much as we'd like them to in comparison to LCD. And I wonder how much easier it is to recycle components of an LCD screen device, compared to a CRT's? There will be less lead I'm guessing, but are there any rules about throwing LCD monitors/TVs into the landfill?
"Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger "sick worker" syndrome -- characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression"
If this doesn't prompt you to get up from your computer and go to bed a bit earlier tonight, there's no hope for you, in other words. You'll be involluntarily curled up like a rat ball, if you don't take charge of your wrist health.
This is obviously a MS conspiracy to "digitize" all forms of print media, thereby making paper irrelavent, and thus create a lack of work in the pulp industry, which will reduce deforrestation, and unemployed loggers will have to work in salt mines that Bil Gates owns. The miners will need to sign up on Yahoo Messenger, but they won't realize that Y! is merging protocols with MSN Messenger next year, and since they already have MSN passports they'll have duplicate identities. They'll forget to use one of the identities, so that Microsoft clones can take over their unused identity, and thuse a clone army will be born to crush Google.
And you thought it was a simple effort to make it easier to access print resources online! Ha!
If you're having trouble picking the stories you could just read what was posted yesterday.
Sorry, bad dupe joke there. Or you could read Fark.com.. er nevermind.
In the past months I've seen eBay online communities disintigrate because the powers that be are power crazed jerks that treat customers like dog food. I've also heard of a Livejournal community that got hijacked by a former moderator, who kicked out the current moderators. Coups are the name of the game in online worlds, and the people in power rarely have a boss or manager over their head from whom you can get justice from.
Powerless people can become tyrants online if they have the chance to conquer a community.
It's a good reminder, and thus newsworthy. Never write something into an email that you wouldn't say to the face of whoever you're talking about.
Talking about confidential matters is what encryption and the telephone or face to face conversation is for. And if you have a "party-line" the telephone won't work either.
Hi CmdrTaco,
I see why you don't post on slashdot much as a commentor, you just got a bunch of silly moderators out giving you -1 Redundants and such. Have you had many -1 Troll moderations done to you?
I'm happy I got "Saskboy" on Slashdot, it's the name I started using in Quake I, and tried to get it for eBay too but someone beat me to it, so I took the next best thing - computer_saskboy. Perhaps you could consider Violated_Taco as your backup identity name?
Blogging is known to be potentially dangerous. In fact I have no doubt that no fewer than 2 sexual beings have looked at my blog in the past hour. And we all know that sex is bad, so sexual beings must be bad too.
But seriously, kids should not be blogging their thoughts in public anyway. It's different if they do it as a kind of job, but otherwise their blogs are just insipid surveys and risk taking opinions that people outside of their trusted social circles should not be entitled to read. Children don't know any better, and can't deal with the consequences when things go awry. They can't even sue someone for libel, or defend themselves directly in a libel suit.
"Better get a second layer on those tinfoil hats!"
Or just don't put on the headgear that controls you.
Either way, I'm not going to work at any job that requires me to wear this remote control, unless it's wireless. Wearing headgear all day with a wire attached would probably give me a sore neck by causing restricted head movements.
"Analyst firm IDC estimates that the Linux® hardware and software markets will grow to $38 billion by 2008, with annual growth rates topping 25%."
Google will need some of that $38 Billion goodness to keep its stock from stagnating.
Perhaps he wasn't a troll, but he just put his point in a rude way. And it is a weak point at best since nearly everyone has to actually install Linux for it to be on their computer, when that's not the case for Windows or OS-X.
I guess The Onion should have modified the seal some before using it.
:^/
You know how seriously people take letter seals these days
(_!_) - Seal of Saskboy on letter to White House
I don't see how this got an insightful moderation, since it's just a troll.
How many people you know have bought a computer with Linux pre-installed, or comes with Linux recovery CDs? Macs come with OS-X already on it, so people don't tend to install it. If a Linux distro doesn't have a friendly install process, then its not going to be accepted by the masses. It's nothing personal against Linux, it's just a fact of the market place, and getting Linux's foot in the computer door.
In SK, a supposedly labour friendly environment, the government proclaimed that its employees would get 0,1,1% over three years for raises and no more. Since then most departments have cut deals above that, but still barely the rate of inflation is given. People whine and whine about teachers getting 2%/year when that doesn't even cover the cost of inflation which is more like 2.4% last I heard. The average raise was closer to 3% in the private sector.
I think that not giving employees a raise better than inflation's rate, is essentially a pay cut. Presumably the service or good is making more money or is at least as valuable, so why isn't the employee's time?
It figures that Saskatchewan would set the HEIGHT record.
*People uneducated about SK's geography will get the joke, since most people think SK is completely flat when it is not.
On a side note, the UofS is also on the forefront of science with regard to Synchrotrons.
I'm kinda mortified that you know only one other person who uses that word. I'm rarely mortified, because mortification is a state I like to avoid, but sometimes I manage to achieve that state of horrification.
"Solar Integrated Technologies Inc., Los Angeles, won for its solar roof system designed for large commercial and industrial buildings. The company combines a lightweight, flexible solar-energy system with a single-ply roofing membrane, enabling buildings to generate solar power from their flat rooftops. It has installed SmartRoof panels on a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Los Angeles and a Frito-Lay distribution warehouse in Torrance, Calif.; the Frito-Lay building's 70,000-square-foot roof is less than half covered with solar panels, but the system generates more than a quarter of the building's annual energy needs."
Too bad that 50% roof coverage only generates 25% of the power they need. Perhaps they could get the rest from geothermal energy, although at some plants that would certainly be out of the question.
It pains me to see new buildings going up without any form of solar panels, or light tubes put into them, when it wouldn't cost much to do so, and saves energy in the long run.
Just wait until porn sites use it more. Then there will be Porno Splogs Clog Blog Web Logs. Plogs as I call them will be the next big thing on the Interweb.
Move to Canada. The CRTC will protect you for a while at least, and you'll get analogue TV into the 2010s even.
The FCC won't let you be, and Congress has no direct power in Canada.
The title is a bit ambiguous isn't it? Brain stem, or stem cells, or brain stem stem cells?
But I thought that the thing that made stem cells special was that they could be encouraged to grow into any other type of human cell? Or are there special stem cells just for brains, brain stems, or spinal nerves?