I remember hearing that they had planned to do the show mocking who ever became president after the 2000 election. Due to the who recount ordeal, the show ended up being delayed by about a month or so. It could have very easily been That's my Gore.
If you choose to just use a USB stick in place of your hard disk, you will also increase your battery life significantly due to the fact that you don't have to spin up a hard disk.
But "miserable failure" was easily subverted because it's not a particularly interesting phrase in the first place. I'd be much more convenced if you managed to make your personal blog come up as the #1 hit for "news."
Just an interesting side note, Slashdot is on the second page for "news" on google (15th search result).
Halo had LAN support, which allowed 16 people to play all at once. Before this, if you wanted to play an FPS with 16 people, you had to play on the computer. I personally felt that this feature of the multiplayer was the main selling point of the game, although it also had some pretty nice graphics. The single player, while not bad, was certainly repetative at points and I don't think it sold the game the same way the multiplayer did.
Hehe, looks like his site has been taken off the net too. In all seriousness, how much of a chance did his law suit have? Is this considered slander on the part of teacherreviews.com, or was the web site just scared of the negative pubblicity? When I first visited the site, I was suprised by the lack of unfounded, negative remarks made about the teachers I looked up. Maybe my case is the exception.
Originally, I believe that this was because women had slightly better sight than men. Men were given other equally important roles (navigation I think, probably others) that utilized their strengths.
I believe the water would have been most dense (in its liquid form) right before it freezes. It would make sense that this would lead to easier bouncing, but I haven't read the article yet. It could be explained there.
I agree. In my physics class this year, we watched the film that inspired that ad. The name was in German (the english translation was "the way things work", or something to that effect). The film was set in a ware house and consisteted of a half hour series of mechanical and chemical reactions. I believe the film was shot in different pieces but it was still amazing. Also, I believe i read somewhere that the cog ad took over 600 tries to get it right.
When was the last time you did homework? I'm a 17 year old high school senior and I can't remember the last time I didn't use the internet for something homework related. An especially valuable resource has been instant messaging. My teachers encourage collaboration on assignments and thats exactly what my friends and I do. I have a computer in my room, on my desk. The same desk I do my homework on. No, my classmates and I do not run an internet based cheating ring, I'm in 4 AP classes and cheating only lowers your score on the AP tests. In reality, very few high school students cheat on a large scale. Sure, we all bum the occasional homework assignment off of each other, but you can't punish a student when they have somewhere to go and all of their teachers decide to assign two hours of homework each. Just because your child is someone you (hopefully) chose to bring into the world, doesn't make them someone who you can control. Thats the choice you made when you became a parent.
What about e-mails originating from overseas? Those wouldn't be taxed and therefore wouldn't really put much of a damper on spam coming from across the ocean. What about some kind of regulation (whether through the government or the telco) as to what kind of e-mail client would reside on the clients computer?
Back in April, the OpenBSD people landed a contract with DARPA (previous story found here). After several anti-war statements made by several Theo de Raadt involving his dislike of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, the contract, which was funneled through the University of Pennsylvania was pulled (previous story here).
I don't think the government would need a long range scanning device if they wanted to track someone that had an rfid on them. I imagine it would be more likely that certain public places (train stations, airports, highway rest stops) would have close range detection devices at the doorways. These would then be linked to a central database. This senario would be a lot like the movie Minority Report, where tom cruise's character was tracked from place to place (although they used retinal scanners instead of rfid's). Do I think a system like this could ever come to fruition? It's plausible, but I don't think we'll see something like this in the near future.
... and that something is probably in the dictionary
No, I don't think it would. The password wouldn't be comprised of words, but rather with an array of two or three letter abbreviations derived from a series of inkblot pictures. The idea is that very few people would descibe each picture the exact same way. The example they use is someone creating a password made up of the first and last letters of their descriptions of each picture they see.
I've heard some rumors regarding the physics engine. Apparently there is a glitch that allowes you to slow down time as you approach the speed of light. Has anyone been able to produce this exploit or is this just another unfounded rumor?
No, I think this was to show us how much of a hard-core geek he was who doesn't pledge allegiance to any corporate entities. We can tell he's hard-core from the following statement:
"Jazzed on too much caffeine, we did this to ourselves..."
Obviously, anyone crazy enough to go out and get "jazzed" on caffeine of all things should be taken as seriously as we would take Linus himself.
Not sure why this was modded the way it was (initially funny, then troll), but anyway...
You make a very good point, the media today is garbage. If only we could propose bills that would ban media based on intelligence level instead of how badly it would offend parents and sponsors. Maybe a Mensa channel perhaps? Just a thought. While the lose of cursive might be one that we can all absorb, the lose of legible hand writing is one that we can't. We need to move away from teaching cursive at and early age and then acting suprised when, ten years of zero reinforcement later, students can't write it, and move towards accurate, efficient, legible handwriting techniques.
I don't think the emphasis should be on cursive, so much as it should be on legibility. Althought cursive is very elegant and looks pretty on paper, is it really that much more effective at conveying a written message? Cursive seems to be taught at a young age, and then not reinforced. I remember learning and becoming proficient at writing cursive in the second and third grade, but after that, I was never really required to use it. Back in April, I was taking the SAT's and found that there was a portion which required each test taker to copy a written statement in cursive explaining how one would not cheat. Afterwards, many of my peers and I argued this was the hardest part of the test. Cursive seems to me to be quite formal, yet very archaic. Personally, I can read a statement written in legible print just as well as I can read one written in cursive. Is cursive something that is really worth making this big a deal over? Probably not, seeing as how it is the teachers that require papers to be turned in typed on a computer. Anyway, everything I just said is most likely biased because the thought of writing in cursive causes my hand to cramp up.
Now you can get atomic clock precision out of your grandma pendulum clocks. Here is how it works: There is a camcorder fitted inside the clock which monitors the pendulum swing. It has an atomic clock signal receiver. It compares the pendulum swings with the atomic signal hearbeat. The camcorder also has an arm. If the pendulum clock drifts, then it uses its arm to push or pull the pendulum to make correction. " It's not an April Fool's joke, but it is rather impractical.
**Just a disclaimer: I really don't have much experience in the field**
Ok, anyway, it would seem that, sci-fi hobbists aside, most real world hardware and software design is based on what works in the real world and what can turn a profit and keep customers on your side. This is not to say that sci-fi and real world tech have not crossed paths in the past and won't cross again in the future. Many of todays devices have been featured in fiction of the past, and this trend is likely to continue, provided the number of decent sci fi writers doesn't dwindle in comming years.
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I remember hearing that they had planned to do the show mocking who ever became president after the 2000 election. Due to the who recount ordeal, the show ended up being delayed by about a month or so. It could have very easily been That's my Gore.
If you choose to just use a USB stick in place of your hard disk, you will also increase your battery life significantly due to the fact that you don't have to spin up a hard disk.
But "miserable failure" was easily subverted because it's not a particularly interesting phrase in the first place. I'd be much more convenced if you managed to make your personal blog come up as the #1 hit for "news."
Just an interesting side note, Slashdot is on the second page for "news" on google (15th search result).
Halo had LAN support, which allowed 16 people to play all at once. Before this, if you wanted to play an FPS with 16 people, you had to play on the computer. I personally felt that this feature of the multiplayer was the main selling point of the game, although it also had some pretty nice graphics. The single player, while not bad, was certainly repetative at points and I don't think it sold the game the same way the multiplayer did.
Hehe, looks like his site has been taken off the net too. In all seriousness, how much of a chance did his law suit have? Is this considered slander on the part of teacherreviews.com, or was the web site just scared of the negative pubblicity? When I first visited the site, I was suprised by the lack of unfounded, negative remarks made about the teachers I looked up. Maybe my case is the exception.
Originally, I believe that this was because women had slightly better sight than men. Men were given other equally important roles (navigation I think, probably others) that utilized their strengths.
I believe the water would have been most dense (in its liquid form) right before it freezes. It would make sense that this would lead to easier bouncing, but I haven't read the article yet. It could be explained there.
thats a spoof on the Nigerian spam letters, not black mail.
I agree. In my physics class this year, we watched the film that inspired that ad. The name was in German (the english translation was "the way things work", or something to that effect). The film was set in a ware house and consisteted of a half hour series of mechanical and chemical reactions. I believe the film was shot in different pieces but it was still amazing. Also, I believe i read somewhere that the cog ad took over 600 tries to get it right.
That may be a stewie quote. its certainly something he would say.
When was the last time you did homework? I'm a 17 year old high school senior and I can't remember the last time I didn't use the internet for something homework related. An especially valuable resource has been instant messaging. My teachers encourage collaboration on assignments and thats exactly what my friends and I do. I have a computer in my room, on my desk. The same desk I do my homework on. No, my classmates and I do not run an internet based cheating ring, I'm in 4 AP classes and cheating only lowers your score on the AP tests. In reality, very few high school students cheat on a large scale. Sure, we all bum the occasional homework assignment off of each other, but you can't punish a student when they have somewhere to go and all of their teachers decide to assign two hours of homework each. Just because your child is someone you (hopefully) chose to bring into the world, doesn't make them someone who you can control. Thats the choice you made when you became a parent.
no, i believe antiparallel means two vectors 180 degress to each other while perpendicular vectors are at 90 degree angles.
What about e-mails originating from overseas? Those wouldn't be taxed and therefore wouldn't really put much of a damper on spam coming from across the ocean. What about some kind of regulation (whether through the government or the telco) as to what kind of e-mail client would reside on the clients computer?
Version 0.2 was just released for windows today. here's a story on it
Back in April, the OpenBSD people landed a contract with DARPA (previous story found here). After several anti-war statements made by several Theo de Raadt involving his dislike of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, the contract, which was funneled through the University of Pennsylvania was pulled (previous story here).
I don't think the government would need a long range scanning device if they wanted to track someone that had an rfid on them. I imagine it would be more likely that certain public places (train stations, airports, highway rest stops) would have close range detection devices at the doorways. These would then be linked to a central database. This senario would be a lot like the movie Minority Report, where tom cruise's character was tracked from place to place (although they used retinal scanners instead of rfid's). Do I think a system like this could ever come to fruition? It's plausible, but I don't think we'll see something like this in the near future.
... and that something is probably in the dictionary
No, I don't think it would. The password wouldn't be comprised of words, but rather with an array of two or three letter abbreviations derived from a series of inkblot pictures. The idea is that very few people would descibe each picture the exact same way. The example they use is someone creating a password made up of the first and last letters of their descriptions of each picture they see.
I've heard some rumors regarding the physics engine. Apparently there is a glitch that allowes you to slow down time as you approach the speed of light. Has anyone been able to produce this exploit or is this just another unfounded rumor?
No, I think this was to show us how much of a hard-core geek he was who doesn't pledge allegiance to any corporate entities. We can tell he's hard-core from the following statement:
"Jazzed on too much caffeine, we did this to ourselves..."
Obviously, anyone crazy enough to go out and get "jazzed" on caffeine of all things should be taken as seriously as we would take Linus himself.
Not sure why this was modded the way it was (initially funny, then troll), but anyway...
You make a very good point, the media today is garbage. If only we could propose bills that would ban media based on intelligence level instead of how badly it would offend parents and sponsors. Maybe a Mensa channel perhaps? Just a thought. While the lose of cursive might be one that we can all absorb, the lose of legible hand writing is one that we can't. We need to move away from teaching cursive at and early age and then acting suprised when, ten years of zero reinforcement later, students can't write it, and move towards accurate, efficient, legible handwriting techniques.
I don't think the emphasis should be on cursive, so much as it should be on legibility. Althought cursive is very elegant and looks pretty on paper, is it really that much more effective at conveying a written message? Cursive seems to be taught at a young age, and then not reinforced. I remember learning and becoming proficient at writing cursive in the second and third grade, but after that, I was never really required to use it. Back in April, I was taking the SAT's and found that there was a portion which required each test taker to copy a written statement in cursive explaining how one would not cheat. Afterwards, many of my peers and I argued this was the hardest part of the test. Cursive seems to me to be quite formal, yet very archaic. Personally, I can read a statement written in legible print just as well as I can read one written in cursive. Is cursive something that is really worth making this big a deal over? Probably not, seeing as how it is the teachers that require papers to be turned in typed on a computer. Anyway, everything I just said is most likely biased because the thought of writing in cursive causes my hand to cramp up.
I really couldn't tell you, but do you think they'll package tf2 with half-life 2?
heres a revised version of the article:
Now you can get atomic clock precision out of your grandma pendulum clocks. Here is how it works: There is a camcorder fitted inside the clock which monitors the pendulum swing. It has an atomic clock signal receiver. It compares the pendulum swings with the atomic signal hearbeat. The camcorder also has an arm. If the pendulum clock drifts, then it uses its arm to push or pull the pendulum to make correction. " It's not an April Fool's joke, but it is rather impractical.
This is obviously a hoax, everyone knows you can't play games on linux. Linux is the plaything for college computer guys and hackers, not gamers! Duh!
**Just a disclaimer: I really don't have much experience in the field**
Ok, anyway, it would seem that, sci-fi hobbists aside, most real world hardware and software design is based on what works in the real world and what can turn a profit and keep customers on your side. This is not to say that sci-fi and real world tech have not crossed paths in the past and won't cross again in the future. Many of todays devices have been featured in fiction of the past, and this trend is likely to continue, provided the number of decent sci fi writers doesn't dwindle in comming years.