"exposure to a wide variety of ideas and knowledge with the intent of preparing the student to be a good citizen - with a sense of history and cultural understanding which should provide a solid point of reference for doing citizen-things like voting, donating to charities, sitting on a jury, etc."
Hmm... sounds like high school to me. I would hope I'd get a more advanced education in college than that necessary to vote, donate, and sit on a jury.
If you're running the cables long distances (e.g. front projection often needs this), or splitting the signal, etc, then you'll see a difference. Three foot runs directly behind your TV you most likely won't.
You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash in the next 100 years.
So 1:4550 would be the calculation if you only were on one commercial airline flight in the next 100 years... most likely it will be many more than that, which gets it closer to the 1:5,000,000 chance (or whatever).
If you'd read Skala's website, you'd see he already addresses your weak argument:
You're using Socket.pm, and it's huge, that's cheating! Read the fucking code. I'm only using Socket.pm for its defined constants (such as SOCK_STREAM). I could easily eliminate Socket.pm, and save probably another 20 bytes or so, by replacing those constants with the numbers they represent; I have not done so yet only for portability's sake - it might make my code Linux-specific and I'd like to avoid that.
Do virus writers really care that much about efficiency? It's not their PC that's gonna run the thing
Except when the user's machine is cranking away at 100% CPU and/or hammering the hdd, they're going to wonder what's up, investigate, and terminate the process.
(Yes, I know the average user won't, but they're more likely to inquire and report it to someone more knowledgeable).
Yes, and that small chance of loss would be that Ken Jennings would be dumb enough to bet more than the difference between his winnings and twice Nancy's.
So even if he was at $22K and Nancy was at $10K, there is still an arithmetic possibility that he would lose.
For all those who said he got beat bad, 0wn3d, or intentionally lost, you obviously didn't see the show.
He bet big like he usually does on two Daily Doubles, and lost about $6K on each... they both were more difficult than average questions (IMO), and it seemed that he just didn't know them. If he would've bet 1/2 what he did, he would've been statistically unbeatable going into the final jeopardy question.
(He was leading $14,400 to $10,000 going into the final answer)
Speaking of MacGyver (okay, it was inferred not spoken)... I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it will be released on DVD beginning in January!
Absolutely... for $1000, I have an SVGA front projector (Infocus X1) hanging from my ceiling (between open living room and dining room), projecting on a blank, beige wall. We currently have HD programming through Comcast, and it's unbelievable.
If you can get whatever room you're using to be very dark, it's definitely the route to go. My coworker has a $2000 34" HDTV, and my "screen" is 110" (about 10 times bigger) for half the cost.
DVDs look great.. once you hit VGA (and using a progressive DVD player), you can't get much better -- the limiting factor in quality is the DVD itself.
Bottom line -- if you can get your room dark, definitely worth getting a front projector. Another advantage is a projector on the ceiling takes up essentially no space, as a big TV would.
You're absolutely correct about VoIP and proprietary apps... specifically, battle tracking systems, (tracking friendly and enemy positions), but the article also mentioned live video feeds.
Currently, the data network piggybacks off the digital voice network (using IP).
The bandwidth requirements seem bottomless. The military will need 40 or 50 times what it used at the height of the Iraq war last year...
I agree with this statement, but...
...enough to give front-line soldiers bandwidth equal to downloading three feature-length movies a second.
Okay, so that's about 100Gb/sec or so? For one, this implies that front-line soldiers can download (with the current data network) one feature length movie every 15 seconds or so (2 Gb/sec), which is absolutely laughable. Maybe 15 hours... (and what format are they talking about anyway?)
Secondly, an individual soldier needs no where near that much information. It's even doubtful that, say, a battalion-level command post would need that much information exchange.
Your target audience for this comment are people who are interested in favorite mathematical equations, yet you feel the necessity to point out the definition of "exponentiation"?....
Wow, you really have no idea what a federal sales tax is all about. Right now, the multi-millionaire on vacation doesn't pay taxes because s/he's not earning income. With a sales tax (which includes services), they would be paying taxes.
As far as what it does to poor families... ummm, how about not having to pay any taxes?!? There would be a rebate given to everyone below the poverty line which would effectively have them not pay any taxes.
In conclusion, in order to pull your head out of your ass, see the FairTax website.:-)
"Renault decided to take action in justice in the form of a procedure of summary procedure which will lead in particular to a contradictory expertise, without damage of other actions in compensation for the damages that the company would have undergone", according to an official statement of the manufacturer.
Maybe they need a different spokesperson...
There's definitely truth to the phrase "lost in translation"...
What most non-religious practicing people (athiests, for example) don't often consider it seems, is that their beliefs in itself is a world view. I, for one, do not want those world views forced upon my children.
For example, if gay marriage were accepted, then all public schools will teach that it is acceptable to marry someone of the same sex. That's purely a moral decision left for the individual, not something I want shoved down my child's throat. I don't want to have to send them to a private school just for these reasons, either.
So the problem can be simplified as, "whose morals should be represented in the law?", and my answer would be the morals that the laws, the constitution, and this country were founded on.
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"exposure to a wide variety of ideas and knowledge with the intent of preparing the student to be a good citizen - with a sense of history and cultural understanding which should provide a solid point of reference for doing citizen-things like voting, donating to charities, sitting on a jury, etc."
...Oh wait, I did.
Hmm... sounds like high school to me. I would hope I'd get a more advanced education in college than that necessary to vote, donate, and sit on a jury.
If you're running the cables long distances (e.g. front projection often needs this), or splitting the signal, etc, then you'll see a difference. Three foot runs directly behind your TV you most likely won't.
They already tried it before:
"All your base are belong to us"
Based on that, I don't think it worked very well.
Along the same lines... On the site, they say that they cloned a dog called "Missy", and named the project "Missyplicity"...
Add the Twin Cities to the list...
They also have traffic cameras, which I find much more useful.
I'm assuming he means:
You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash in the next 100 years .
So 1:4550 would be the calculation if you only were on one commercial airline flight in the next 100 years... most likely it will be many more than that, which gets it closer to the 1:5,000,000 chance (or whatever).
If you'd read Skala's website, you'd see he already addresses your weak argument:
You're using Socket.pm, and it's huge, that's cheating!
Read the fucking code. I'm only using Socket.pm for its defined constants (such as SOCK_STREAM). I could easily eliminate Socket.pm, and save probably another 20 bytes or so, by replacing those constants with the numbers they represent; I have not done so yet only for portability's sake - it might make my code Linux-specific and I'd like to avoid that.
Do virus writers really care that much about efficiency? It's not their PC that's gonna run the thing
Except when the user's machine is cranking away at 100% CPU and/or hammering the hdd, they're going to wonder what's up, investigate, and terminate the process.
(Yes, I know the average user won't, but they're more likely to inquire and report it to someone more knowledgeable).
Yes, and that small chance of loss would be that Ken Jennings would be dumb enough to bet more than the difference between his winnings and twice Nancy's.
So even if he was at $22K and Nancy was at $10K, there is still an arithmetic possibility that he would lose.
Get off your high horse.
If anyone has a ReplayTV, missed the episode, and wants it, let me know and I'll send it to you...
For all those who said he got beat bad, 0wn3d, or intentionally lost, you obviously didn't see the show.
He bet big like he usually does on two Daily Doubles, and lost about $6K on each... they both were more difficult than average questions (IMO), and it seemed that he just didn't know them. If he would've bet 1/2 what he did, he would've been statistically unbeatable going into the final jeopardy question.
(He was leading $14,400 to $10,000 going into the final answer)
I like the dedication to quality evidenced in their About Us page:
We are a not-for-profit organisation which guarantees the the quality of open source deployments in the public sector (emphasis mine)
Speaking of MacGyver (okay, it was inferred not spoken)... I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it will be released on DVD beginning in January!
Absolutely... for $1000, I have an SVGA front projector (Infocus X1) hanging from my ceiling (between open living room and dining room), projecting on a blank, beige wall. We currently have HD programming through Comcast, and it's unbelievable.
If you can get whatever room you're using to be very dark, it's definitely the route to go. My coworker has a $2000 34" HDTV, and my "screen" is 110" (about 10 times bigger) for half the cost.
DVDs look great.. once you hit VGA (and using a progressive DVD player), you can't get much better -- the limiting factor in quality is the DVD itself.
Bottom line -- if you can get your room dark, definitely worth getting a front projector. Another advantage is a projector on the ceiling takes up essentially no space, as a big TV would.
You're absolutely correct about VoIP and proprietary apps... specifically, battle tracking systems, (tracking friendly and enemy positions), but the article also mentioned live video feeds.
Currently, the data network piggybacks off the digital voice network (using IP).
Total business is about $100 to each of the 4 through 2005
Wow, they must be feeling extremely patriotic and generous, because I wouldn't even do the work for a hundred bucks...
From TFA:
...enough to give front-line soldiers bandwidth equal to downloading three feature-length movies a second.
The bandwidth requirements seem bottomless. The military will need 40 or 50 times what it used at the height of the Iraq war last year...
I agree with this statement, but...
Okay, so that's about 100Gb/sec or so? For one, this implies that front-line soldiers can download (with the current data network) one feature length movie every 15 seconds or so (2 Gb/sec), which is absolutely laughable. Maybe 15 hours... (and what format are they talking about anyway?)
Secondly, an individual soldier needs no where near that much information. It's even doubtful that, say, a battalion-level command post would need that much information exchange.
So what I'm curious about (and have been wondering from the beginning), is how the president is supposedly supportive of the draft?
Especially considering only democrats support the proposal...?!?
Bill in the senate: S.89
Supporter(s):
Sen Fritz Hollings (DFL)
Bill in the house: H.R.163
Supporter(s):
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003 (DFL)
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004 (DFL)
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003 (DFL)
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004 (DFL)
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003 (DFL)
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003 (DFL)
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003 (DFL)
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003 (DFL)
So again, please tell me how President Bush (or any Republican for that matter) is linked to reinstating conscription?
Your target audience for this comment are people who are interested in favorite mathematical equations, yet you feel the necessity to point out the definition of "exponentiation"?....
Wow, you really have no idea what a federal sales tax is all about. Right now, the multi-millionaire on vacation doesn't pay taxes because s/he's not earning income. With a sales tax (which includes services), they would be paying taxes.
:-)
As far as what it does to poor families... ummm, how about not having to pay any taxes?!? There would be a rebate given to everyone below the poverty line which would effectively have them not pay any taxes.
In conclusion, in order to pull your head out of your ass, see the FairTax website.
I agree this is advertising, but I still certainly find it worthy of posting on /. Very cool auction -- Geek Quotient is high on this one.
"Renault decided to take action in justice in the form of a procedure of summary procedure which will lead in particular to a contradictory expertise, without damage of other actions in compensation for the damages that the company would have undergone", according to an official statement of the manufacturer.
Maybe they need a different spokesperson...
There's definitely truth to the phrase "lost in translation"...
Except that the type of consumer that will buy the cameras with this format won't be as dumb as "the general public".
This format is geared toward professional photographers (as has been pointed out already).
What most non-religious practicing people (athiests, for example) don't often consider it seems, is that their beliefs in itself is a world view. I, for one, do not want those world views forced upon my children.
For example, if gay marriage were accepted, then all public schools will teach that it is acceptable to marry someone of the same sex. That's purely a moral decision left for the individual, not something I want shoved down my child's throat. I don't want to have to send them to a private school just for these reasons, either.
So the problem can be simplified as, "whose morals should be represented in the law?", and my answer would be the morals that the laws, the constitution, and this country were founded on.
I'll bite -- I never have, and I agree with BiAthlon.