Add to this all the chipped car keys in the world now, and it's even harder to duplicate all the keys on a keychain. Half the ones I have are for work, with big "do not duplicate" stamps on them.
Replace all these with a universal key, and it's bad. Replace all these with a "smart" electronic key, and it might be good. If I could issue one-time or duration-based keys, it would be awesome. I could give my friends a "key" to my house for a week while I was gone, to check on the cat. I could give a "key" to my girlfriend, and if we broke up, I wouldn't have to change the locks to keep any potential craziness out of my apartment.
A universal key-signal sender, which requires a pin or (yeah, I know about the issues with it) biometric signature to open the lock might be damn handy. If I could swipe my thumb over a scan-pad on my phone, and then kick my door open, that would be awesome. Turning keys and knobs with my hands full is a pain in the ass.
Of course, the first time the power goes out, I'm either locked out, or my door is unlocked. I'm not sure which is worse....
Part of the issue is that "programming" is no longer what it used to be, yet everyone still uses the term.
It's the difference between BBS and "Web 2.0". It used to be that geeks only could get a modem and some BBS software running which would allow them to connect to the entire world. Now my grandmother can tweet about the birds at her feeder, and someone in Tajikistan can read about them.
There is a fundamental split now between "designing and writing code" and "programming applications". You want to "program applications". The author and a number of people posting here want to "design and write code". These are two very different things.
I previously worked in a job "programming applications" for customer service reps. I had a stupid-easy gui toolbox, and pre-written database calls. All I did was link the two together, and provide some feedback for the operator. Currently, I'm in scientific computing, writing some bare-bones code to parse an obtuse, undocumented data structure into a usable format. I've got none of the nice easy stuff I had before. It's raw file reads and writes, slowly stepping through lines of output, trying to figure out wtf is going on. No gui, no buttons, nothing but some console output.
Based on the article and comments here, it seems that we almost need to split "programming" up into some clearer terms. There's building a car, and there's driving one. There's writing raw code, and there's using pre-made tools to do a job quickly and efficiently. If I wanted one of those things done well, I wouldn't hire someone who was an expert at the other. Right tool for the job and all....
You hit the nail on the head. I'm a life-long Vermonter. While there were a few eternal protesters about the plant during the last 20 years, by and large we were happy to have it. It makes a bunch of jobs, and provides a lot of power to the state at very competitive rates.
Fast forward to 2002 when Entergy took over, and nobody here is happy. They cranked the plant up to 120% of its designed output, as parts started to fail inspection. The decommissioning fund, which was based on the stock market, tanked. We won't be able to afford to decommission it until 2060 or so now. It will sit mothballed and hot until then.
All this was the lead-up for their petition to extend the operation of the plant 20 years beyond its initial license. It's scheduled to cease operation in 2012. They want to suck another 20 years of profit out of it. Of course, at 120% of the operating power, with parts still failing inspection, and without the money to decommission it. That's the framework for all the issues in the Senate. As has been well noted, they completely shot themselves in the foot with their inability to answer detailed questions about the plant to the Senate.
Vermont is a tiny state. It has the 2nd smallest population in the US. Probably a majority of towns have populations in the thousands. The biggest city is about 60k. When we vote people into state government positions, they are our friends, neighbors, and relatives. They are not some nameless face we saw on a poster. We've done business with them, drank a beer with them, shook their hand and looked them in the eye. Because of that, our state legislators do NOT screw around much. If something is going to be bad for their community, it gets shut down. If you screw over the 4,000 people in your town, you're probably going to have to move.
Because of this climate, Entergy can't get away with lying to the senate then writing a bunch of checks to cover the issues. They were asked point blank if they had any buried pipes. The answer was, "not that we know of". A year later, and buried pipes are leaking tritium into the ground water. When pressed, they answered, "Oh, well we define "buried" as encased in dirt, and carrying liquid. If it's underground, but encased in concrete, and carrying vapor, it's not considered "buried".
As I said, our legislators don't screw around. They got that sort of response from a company that we've steadily lost trust in, and the end result is that we're denying their 20 year extension to operate.
You have no idea how much personal insurance costs, do you?
15 hrs a week for family insurance is pretty cheap. I be the $500 a week or so private insurance was costing him wasn't being made up in 2 workdays at his regular job. $2k a month for family insurance is in no way unheard of. Depending on "preconditions" and all the other garbage that insurance companies screw people with, it might even be a "good deal", comparatively.
Air is plenty conductive - you might recall lightning bolts. Comparing air to water isn't that useful - almost anything is conductive given enough potential difference between two points.
A puddle, unless on an insoluble surface, probably is pretty conductive. As you seem to understand, it's the dissolved ions which are the issue when talking about conductivity. However, the article is about condensation on electronics. Condensed water is very, very non-conductive, ESPECIALLY when you consider the voltages we're talking about.
You can throw out all the examples which have nothing to deal with the article you like. When it comes right down to it, condensed water at the voltages you find in an iPhone means very, very little conduction.
Condensation requires that the relative humidity get above 100%, at the source of the condensation. A very cold iPod in a warm pants pocket will reach 100% humidity on/in the iPod. The pocket will not reach that. The air it was in may not reach that. But for condensation to occur, by definition 100% relative (not specific) humidity was reached at the source of that condensation.
I think this is where Apple will read off the operating manual: 5%-95% relative humidity, NON CONDENSING. If the sensor turned red, then you set up conditions inside your iPod/iPhone where there was condensation. You exceeded the range of humidity for operating the device.
Is it a load of bullshit? Sure. But you bought it, signed on the dotted line, and agreed to operate it under very specific conditions.
I was about to mod you down, but I guess I should educate instead:
Depending on your source, and whether or not the water is highly chlorinated, it can be pretty non-conductive. A couple of examples of this:
The town I used to live in got its water from a reservoir. They lightly chlorinated it, and then pumped it around town. I had a few accidents involving beer/soda and electronics, but in all cases, immediately unplugging the power/battery, disassembling, rinsing well with tap water, and letting dry for a couple days, the electronics worked fine. I had a keyboard with soda inside the membrane, and 8 years later it still works.
I taught high school science for 5 years, and we had a fairly simple conductivity tester - a lightbulb with the circuit broken. The setup had a goose-neck, with two exposed probes. You plugged it into a standard 120V outlet, and when the two probes, about 1/2" apart, were dunked in a conducting solution, the light bulb lit up. Standard tap water in that town did NOT light it up. Add 0.1g of salt to 100ml of water, and it light up just fine.
It's true that pure water won't hurt electronics. And condensed water is likely to be damn pure. Yes, it disassociates into ions. But the concentration is so small, and the distance between the ions so large, that it's essentially non-conducting.
It's sad you got modded up for not knowing what you're talking about.
dolling out billions of dollars a month in foreign oil doesn't make economic sense.
That statement there is what a lot of people miss when talking about nuclear power. Make nuclear power plants, switch away from oil use, and that money gets dolled out to us.
That makes nuclear power look damn cheap. Add in the jobs more plants will create, and it starts to look downright rosy.
CO2 release is a huge problem. But coal does so much more damage than that. Look at the land wasted from coal mining and ash disposal, and look at the land needed for nuclear power plants and waste storage. The two are separated by several orders of magnitude.
This is exactly the same as the automobile vs airplane fear issue.
One kills a small handful of people every day, but only a few at a time, and we never hear about most of them. The other rarely kills anyone, but when things go wrong, lots of people can die at once. And any even remotely problematic issue is widely reported in the media.
Somewhat overlooked is the pole-equator interaction. For cold air to move south, warm air has to move north to displace it. (Warm air has the energy.) Push more warm air north, and you get a corresponding flow of cold air south.
When people see abnormally cold weather, they often pull out the "heh, so what about global warming NOW!" In reality, that could be a direct cause of the cold weather.
You might want to check on what ice resurfacing machines do. They sit parked in a garage bay 90% of the time. When it's time for them to work, they go out onto the ice, scrape off the top layer, AND MELT IT. Then they flood the ice surface to make it smooth and nice.
Yes, I know we're talking about ice here. But the point of the machine is to be hot. If you've ever watched one, you might have noticed that they steam. There really is no temperature issue with the batteries.
It's weird in a lot (most?) of the US as well. I've had jobs at 3 different colleges now, and I have yet to have to sign anything like that.
Frankly, I find that pretty disturbing. There have been plenty of things added and repealed from constitutions over the years. There's no reason to think the the documents currently align with, and will always align with the signee's morals.
If forced to sign something like that for a job, I'd modify it too. Probably by inserting inserting the words "a copy of" before the word "constitution". I can definitely support and defend a copy of the constitution. I'll hold it in my hand, and fight anyone who tries to take it.
I'm sure that windows can share files over the net just fine. The issue is that it doesn't do it easily, cleanly, or by default. I could probably learn how to do it, but why bother?
>> scp file_location file_destination
That was my original rant - it doesn't matter if either location is on the same file system, a device connected to the computer, a computer on a local network, or running on something in space.
That was my point about ease and efficiency you completely ignored by offering a something that definitely wasn't a solution to my initial complaint.
As for your snarky reply about me not using windows properly, once again you don't seem to understand how that shit works. I wanted to quickly transfer 1gb of files
off a windows laptop in a lab, so I slapped a USB thumb drive into it. As it was the first time it had been plugged in, I was treated to 2 minutes of installation and configuration. The same thumb drive, plugged into the OSX machine across the hall immediately showed up in Finder, and I started pulling files off it 2 seconds later. Sure, should I ever plug that same drive into that same laptop, it probably won't do that. However, it shouldn't have done that in the first place. It's a damn storage device.
If that laptop had any sort of useful networking on it, I'd have just transferred the files from it to the OSX machine. But windows doesn't come with anything that can talk to OSX by default.
Sorry, but when it comes down to it, Windows blows for networking and file transfers. I'm sure that with some windows-fu and some googling, and some third-party software you can get windows to transfer files securely across the internet to another machine. The real question is "Why would you bother?" Unix based systems just do it by default, pretty much as quickly and as efficient as possible.
If you're setting up a VPN to transfer files, you're not using windows properly. You should be playing games on it, and using a decent OS for networking.
Indeed. I don't spill over seats, yet I clock in at a 31.5 BMI. That's 5' 10", and 220 lbs. Yep, I've got a bit of a gut and a very small spare tire. I also have a very big chest and arms, a fair bit of muscle on my back and shoulders, and similarly proportioned legs. I'm clinically obese, using BMI. Using any other measure, I need to lose 10-20 pounds, but other than that I'm in pretty damn good shape.
I fit just fine between the armrests in coach, even on little puddle jumpers. Where I don't fit is in the part of the seat above the armrests. My shoulders aren't narrow enough to avoid my seatmate's. (Although over Christmas, that resulted in pleasant conversations with a couple of cute girls, holding one's hand during take-off and landing, and an exchange of phone numbers with the other one. Best bit of flying I've ever done, for sure!)
As a poster above alluded to, BMI only works for the middle 40% of the population. Get outside that range in height or muscle mass, and BMI is truly garbage. And with that condition, even inside that range it's pretty much garbage.
235? Seriously? Unless you swapped the first two digits, you'd better not get a job at the carnival guessing people's weight. I'm around 5' 10", and by no means (other than BMI, which is a load of garbage) obese. I'm a bit chubby, with a bit of a beer gut, with a big chest and arms, and a fair bit of muscle on my legs. I clock in at 220. While I'm a somewhat big guy, I'm not a fatass by any stretch of the imagination.
When Jay said, "Fly Fatass, Fly!", he wasn't exaggerating. Kevin Smith is one fat motherfucker. I'd bet that 325 would be on the low end of what he weighs.
Damn, you really don't know what a terminal is, or what they do, do you?
Explorer: \\ComputerName\c$\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\
Doesn't do anything I posted I did. I'm trying to put to words how ridiculously out-of-scope your "solution" is, but I really can't. You really need to learn what people do with terminals before posting on the internet, so you don't look like a complete dumbass. It doesn't help that I'm talking about transfers between machines which are not on the local network, and which don't run windows on either end.
And for the record, I AM using windows properly - I boot into it to play games. It's great for games, and not useful for anything else.
Agreed. The GP is an idiot. I was just commenting to a friend of mine a few hours ago how I don't understand how windows users access data on multiple machines. On my unix based machines, I just ssh in, scp what I want, use ssh with X forwarding to access gui tools, etc. We both agreed that most of windows land involves emailing shit to yourself, and a lot of USB thumb drive use. (Of which I could fire off a good half-hour rant on how poorly windows handles mass storage devices. It's a USB THUMB DRIVE for gods sake. It's not a fucking printer! I want to plug it in, and transfer files to/from it. It doesn't need to be "installed", indexed, and have drivers downloaded for it. Just fucking open a file browser like any sane OS does. )
I hit a terminal, and fired off a one-line command to transfer all the stuff I needed from my work machine to this one this morning. Went and got breakfast, and it was here. When I'm done working, I'll fire off another one line command to transfer all changed files to my work machine. Could you do this outside a terminal? I'm sure you could. But I don't know why you'd even bother trying to get that set up. It's going to take as long or longer with a gui most of the time anyway, so why bother waste the time even setting the gui up?
I have a hard time working on windows, because I'm so much more efficient with a terminal. It's not that I can't use a gui - I'm just an order of magnitude faster using the terminal.
a single stack of those 18,000 sheets will be only 72" (6 feet, or 1.8 meters) tall.
You totally underestimate the space allocated to teachers, combined with the ability to keep it out of the reach of students. Put that stack where grubby hands can reach it, and it will be horizontal in no time. Keeping stacks of papers that deep is lunacy. The best thing I ever did was to digitize everything. When a student needed something, I could get to it in a half-dozen clicks, and I could print it in the span of 10 seconds. Six generation photocopies are the spawn of the devil.
I agree that the idea as a whole isn't all that workable. Books are a mainstay. But you can't have students assessed using books. Quizzes, homework, and supplemental material all comes on paper. If you could replace this with the stuff in question, it would be great. However, I doubt it will be possible before truly fantastic tablets are widely deployed.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't posted already. As someone studying oceans and climate, I never cease to be amazed by how much the ocean currents mess with localized climate. I'm in the northern US, going to school with some Danish kids. For being substantially further south, they're getting their asses kicked by winter here.
It's far colder in the winter here, and far warmer in the summer. Mid-continent is no place for anyone to want to live.
You're right in saying that a bunch of us won't think that's cold. (I'm just south of the border too - the Canadian border...) I was running around with my coat unzipped the other day, it was so warm. It was hot and sunny, and got all the way up to 0 C here! For February, that's pretty warm. 10 C is enough for me to skip the heavy jacket and hat and just wear a sweatshirt over my button-down shirt.
A college friend of mine is from Puerto Rico, and went home for Christmas. We figured out that it was 100 F colder here one night than at her house in PR. Needless to say, she wasn't so happy when she came back here.
That said, it sounds like you've found a great place to live. Best of luck, and stay warm.:-)
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You spelled "pants" wrong...
Add to this all the chipped car keys in the world now, and it's even harder to duplicate all the keys on a keychain. Half the ones I have are for work, with big "do not duplicate" stamps on them.
Replace all these with a universal key, and it's bad. Replace all these with a "smart" electronic key, and it might be good. If I could issue one-time or duration-based keys, it would be awesome. I could give my friends a "key" to my house for a week while I was gone, to check on the cat. I could give a "key" to my girlfriend, and if we broke up, I wouldn't have to change the locks to keep any potential craziness out of my apartment.
A universal key-signal sender, which requires a pin or (yeah, I know about the issues with it) biometric signature to open the lock might be damn handy. If I could swipe my thumb over a scan-pad on my phone, and then kick my door open, that would be awesome. Turning keys and knobs with my hands full is a pain in the ass.
Of course, the first time the power goes out, I'm either locked out, or my door is unlocked. I'm not sure which is worse....
Part of the issue is that "programming" is no longer what it used to be, yet everyone still uses the term.
It's the difference between BBS and "Web 2.0". It used to be that geeks only could get a modem and some BBS software running which would allow them to connect to the entire world. Now my grandmother can tweet about the birds at her feeder, and someone in Tajikistan can read about them.
There is a fundamental split now between "designing and writing code" and "programming applications". You want to "program applications". The author and a number of people posting here want to "design and write code". These are two very different things.
I previously worked in a job "programming applications" for customer service reps. I had a stupid-easy gui toolbox, and pre-written database calls. All I did was link the two together, and provide some feedback for the operator. Currently, I'm in scientific computing, writing some bare-bones code to parse an obtuse, undocumented data structure into a usable format. I've got none of the nice easy stuff I had before. It's raw file reads and writes, slowly stepping through lines of output, trying to figure out wtf is going on. No gui, no buttons, nothing but some console output.
Based on the article and comments here, it seems that we almost need to split "programming" up into some clearer terms. There's building a car, and there's driving one. There's writing raw code, and there's using pre-made tools to do a job quickly and efficiently. If I wanted one of those things done well, I wouldn't hire someone who was an expert at the other. Right tool for the job and all....
I don't know what sucks more - Slashdot's moderation, or me.
I fucked up your mod by mis-clicking, but I can't undo it without posting in this thread. But if I post here, I can't moderate anymore.
Really, one-click modding is stupid. At least make me confirm my mods!
You hit the nail on the head. I'm a life-long Vermonter. While there were a few eternal protesters about the plant during the last 20 years, by and large we were happy to have it. It makes a bunch of jobs, and provides a lot of power to the state at very competitive rates.
Fast forward to 2002 when Entergy took over, and nobody here is happy. They cranked the plant up to 120% of its designed output, as parts started to fail inspection. The decommissioning fund, which was based on the stock market, tanked. We won't be able to afford to decommission it until 2060 or so now. It will sit mothballed and hot until then.
All this was the lead-up for their petition to extend the operation of the plant 20 years beyond its initial license. It's scheduled to cease operation in 2012. They want to suck another 20 years of profit out of it. Of course, at 120% of the operating power, with parts still failing inspection, and without the money to decommission it. That's the framework for all the issues in the Senate. As has been well noted, they completely shot themselves in the foot with their inability to answer detailed questions about the plant to the Senate.
Vermont is a tiny state. It has the 2nd smallest population in the US. Probably a majority of towns have populations in the thousands. The biggest city is about 60k. When we vote people into state government positions, they are our friends, neighbors, and relatives. They are not some nameless face we saw on a poster. We've done business with them, drank a beer with them, shook their hand and looked them in the eye. Because of that, our state legislators do NOT screw around much. If something is going to be bad for their community, it gets shut down. If you screw over the 4,000 people in your town, you're probably going to have to move.
Because of this climate, Entergy can't get away with lying to the senate then writing a bunch of checks to cover the issues. They were asked point blank if they had any buried pipes. The answer was, "not that we know of". A year later, and buried pipes are leaking tritium into the ground water. When pressed, they answered, "Oh, well we define "buried" as encased in dirt, and carrying liquid. If it's underground, but encased in concrete, and carrying vapor, it's not considered "buried".
As I said, our legislators don't screw around. They got that sort of response from a company that we've steadily lost trust in, and the end result is that we're denying their 20 year extension to operate.
You have no idea how much personal insurance costs, do you?
15 hrs a week for family insurance is pretty cheap. I be the $500 a week or so private insurance was costing him wasn't being made up in 2 workdays at his regular job. $2k a month for family insurance is in no way unheard of. Depending on "preconditions" and all the other garbage that insurance companies screw people with, it might even be a "good deal", comparatively.
Air is plenty conductive - you might recall lightning bolts. Comparing air to water isn't that useful - almost anything is conductive given enough potential difference between two points.
A puddle, unless on an insoluble surface, probably is pretty conductive. As you seem to understand, it's the dissolved ions which are the issue when talking about conductivity. However, the article is about condensation on electronics. Condensed water is very, very non-conductive, ESPECIALLY when you consider the voltages we're talking about.
You can throw out all the examples which have nothing to deal with the article you like. When it comes right down to it, condensed water at the voltages you find in an iPhone means very, very little conduction.
You're wrong.
Condensation requires that the relative humidity get above 100%, at the source of the condensation. A very cold iPod in a warm pants pocket will reach 100% humidity on/in the iPod. The pocket will not reach that. The air it was in may not reach that. But for condensation to occur, by definition 100% relative (not specific) humidity was reached at the source of that condensation.
I think this is where Apple will read off the operating manual: 5%-95% relative humidity, NON CONDENSING. If the sensor turned red, then you set up conditions inside your iPod/iPhone where there was condensation. You exceeded the range of humidity for operating the device.
Is it a load of bullshit? Sure. But you bought it, signed on the dotted line, and agreed to operate it under very specific conditions.
I was about to mod you down, but I guess I should educate instead:
Depending on your source, and whether or not the water is highly chlorinated, it can be pretty non-conductive. A couple of examples of this:
The town I used to live in got its water from a reservoir. They lightly chlorinated it, and then pumped it around town. I had a few accidents involving beer/soda and electronics, but in all cases, immediately unplugging the power/battery, disassembling, rinsing well with tap water, and letting dry for a couple days, the electronics worked fine. I had a keyboard with soda inside the membrane, and 8 years later it still works.
I taught high school science for 5 years, and we had a fairly simple conductivity tester - a lightbulb with the circuit broken. The setup had a goose-neck, with two exposed probes. You plugged it into a standard 120V outlet, and when the two probes, about 1/2" apart, were dunked in a conducting solution, the light bulb lit up. Standard tap water in that town did NOT light it up. Add 0.1g of salt to 100ml of water, and it light up just fine.
It's true that pure water won't hurt electronics. And condensed water is likely to be damn pure. Yes, it disassociates into ions. But the concentration is so small, and the distance between the ions so large, that it's essentially non-conducting.
It's sad you got modded up for not knowing what you're talking about.
dolling out billions of dollars a month in foreign oil doesn't make economic sense.
That statement there is what a lot of people miss when talking about nuclear power. Make nuclear power plants, switch away from oil use, and that money gets dolled out to us.
That makes nuclear power look damn cheap. Add in the jobs more plants will create, and it starts to look downright rosy.
Thanks for pointing out what so many people miss.
Pumping waste into the atmosphere is part of the issue with coal power. Here are some of the other major issues:
Coal ash collapse.
Mountain Top Removal.
Filling in valleys with coal ash.
CO2 release is a huge problem. But coal does so much more damage than that. Look at the land wasted from coal mining and ash disposal, and look at the land needed for nuclear power plants and waste storage. The two are separated by several orders of magnitude.
This is exactly the same as the automobile vs airplane fear issue.
One kills a small handful of people every day, but only a few at a time, and we never hear about most of them. The other rarely kills anyone, but when things go wrong, lots of people can die at once. And any even remotely problematic issue is widely reported in the media.
Somewhat overlooked is the pole-equator interaction. For cold air to move south, warm air has to move north to displace it. (Warm air has the energy.) Push more warm air north, and you get a corresponding flow of cold air south.
When people see abnormally cold weather, they often pull out the "heh, so what about global warming NOW!" In reality, that could be a direct cause of the cold weather.
Yes!
Which is why anyone with any sense hates it with a passion.
Cold and batteries don't usually mix.
You might want to check on what ice resurfacing machines do. They sit parked in a garage bay 90% of the time. When it's time for them to work, they go out onto the ice, scrape off the top layer, AND MELT IT. Then they flood the ice surface to make it smooth and nice.
Yes, I know we're talking about ice here. But the point of the machine is to be hot. If you've ever watched one, you might have noticed that they steam. There really is no temperature issue with the batteries.
It's weird in a lot (most?) of the US as well. I've had jobs at 3 different colleges now, and I have yet to have to sign anything like that.
Frankly, I find that pretty disturbing. There have been plenty of things added and repealed from constitutions over the years. There's no reason to think the the documents currently align with, and will always align with the signee's morals.
If forced to sign something like that for a job, I'd modify it too. Probably by inserting inserting the words "a copy of" before the word "constitution". I can definitely support and defend a copy of the constitution. I'll hold it in my hand, and fight anyone who tries to take it.
I'm sure that windows can share files over the net just fine. The issue is that it doesn't do it easily, cleanly, or by default. I could probably learn how to do it, but why bother?
>> scp file_location file_destination
That was my original rant - it doesn't matter if either location is on the same file system, a device connected to the computer, a computer on a local network, or running on something in space.
That was my point about ease and efficiency you completely ignored by offering a something that definitely wasn't a solution to my initial complaint.
As for your snarky reply about me not using windows properly, once again you don't seem to understand how that shit works. I wanted to quickly transfer 1gb of files off a windows laptop in a lab, so I slapped a USB thumb drive into it. As it was the first time it had been plugged in, I was treated to 2 minutes of installation and configuration. The same thumb drive, plugged into the OSX machine across the hall immediately showed up in Finder, and I started pulling files off it 2 seconds later. Sure, should I ever plug that same drive into that same laptop, it probably won't do that. However, it shouldn't have done that in the first place. It's a damn storage device.
If that laptop had any sort of useful networking on it, I'd have just transferred the files from it to the OSX machine. But windows doesn't come with anything that can talk to OSX by default.
Sorry, but when it comes down to it, Windows blows for networking and file transfers. I'm sure that with some windows-fu and some googling, and some third-party software you can get windows to transfer files securely across the internet to another machine. The real question is "Why would you bother?" Unix based systems just do it by default, pretty much as quickly and as efficient as possible.
If you're setting up a VPN to transfer files, you're not using windows properly. You should be playing games on it, and using a decent OS for networking.
Indeed. I don't spill over seats, yet I clock in at a 31.5 BMI. That's 5' 10", and 220 lbs. Yep, I've got a bit of a gut and a very small spare tire. I also have a very big chest and arms, a fair bit of muscle on my back and shoulders, and similarly proportioned legs. I'm clinically obese, using BMI. Using any other measure, I need to lose 10-20 pounds, but other than that I'm in pretty damn good shape.
I fit just fine between the armrests in coach, even on little puddle jumpers. Where I don't fit is in the part of the seat above the armrests. My shoulders aren't narrow enough to avoid my seatmate's. (Although over Christmas, that resulted in pleasant conversations with a couple of cute girls, holding one's hand during take-off and landing, and an exchange of phone numbers with the other one. Best bit of flying I've ever done, for sure!)
As a poster above alluded to, BMI only works for the middle 40% of the population. Get outside that range in height or muscle mass, and BMI is truly garbage. And with that condition, even inside that range it's pretty much garbage.
235? Seriously? Unless you swapped the first two digits, you'd better not get a job at the carnival guessing people's weight. I'm around 5' 10", and by no means (other than BMI, which is a load of garbage) obese. I'm a bit chubby, with a bit of a beer gut, with a big chest and arms, and a fair bit of muscle on my legs. I clock in at 220. While I'm a somewhat big guy, I'm not a fatass by any stretch of the imagination.
When Jay said, "Fly Fatass, Fly!", he wasn't exaggerating. Kevin Smith is one fat motherfucker. I'd bet that 325 would be on the low end of what he weighs.
Explorer: \\ComputerName\c$\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\
Doesn't do anything I posted I did. I'm trying to put to words how ridiculously out-of-scope your "solution" is, but I really can't. You really need to learn what people do with terminals before posting on the internet, so you don't look like a complete dumbass. It doesn't help that I'm talking about transfers between machines which are not on the local network, and which don't run windows on either end.
And for the record, I AM using windows properly - I boot into it to play games. It's great for games, and not useful for anything else.
Agreed. The GP is an idiot. I was just commenting to a friend of mine a few hours ago how I don't understand how windows users access data on multiple machines. On my unix based machines, I just ssh in, scp what I want, use ssh with X forwarding to access gui tools, etc. We both agreed that most of windows land involves emailing shit to yourself, and a lot of USB thumb drive use. (Of which I could fire off a good half-hour rant on how poorly windows handles mass storage devices. It's a USB THUMB DRIVE for gods sake. It's not a fucking printer! I want to plug it in, and transfer files to/from it. It doesn't need to be "installed", indexed, and have drivers downloaded for it. Just fucking open a file browser like any sane OS does. )
I hit a terminal, and fired off a one-line command to transfer all the stuff I needed from my work machine to this one this morning. Went and got breakfast, and it was here. When I'm done working, I'll fire off another one line command to transfer all changed files to my work machine. Could you do this outside a terminal? I'm sure you could. But I don't know why you'd even bother trying to get that set up. It's going to take as long or longer with a gui most of the time anyway, so why bother waste the time even setting the gui up?
I have a hard time working on windows, because I'm so much more efficient with a terminal. It's not that I can't use a gui - I'm just an order of magnitude faster using the terminal.
Same here with Kubuntu.
a single stack of those 18,000 sheets will be only 72" (6 feet, or 1.8 meters) tall.
You totally underestimate the space allocated to teachers, combined with the ability to keep it out of the reach of students. Put that stack where grubby hands can reach it, and it will be horizontal in no time. Keeping stacks of papers that deep is lunacy. The best thing I ever did was to digitize everything. When a student needed something, I could get to it in a half-dozen clicks, and I could print it in the span of 10 seconds. Six generation photocopies are the spawn of the devil.
I agree that the idea as a whole isn't all that workable. Books are a mainstay. But you can't have students assessed using books. Quizzes, homework, and supplemental material all comes on paper. If you could replace this with the stuff in question, it would be great. However, I doubt it will be possible before truly fantastic tablets are widely deployed.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't posted already. As someone studying oceans and climate, I never cease to be amazed by how much the ocean currents mess with localized climate. I'm in the northern US, going to school with some Danish kids. For being substantially further south, they're getting their asses kicked by winter here.
It's far colder in the winter here, and far warmer in the summer. Mid-continent is no place for anyone to want to live.
You're right in saying that a bunch of us won't think that's cold. (I'm just south of the border too - the Canadian border...) I was running around with my coat unzipped the other day, it was so warm. It was hot and sunny, and got all the way up to 0 C here! For February, that's pretty warm. 10 C is enough for me to skip the heavy jacket and hat and just wear a sweatshirt over my button-down shirt.
:-)
A college friend of mine is from Puerto Rico, and went home for Christmas. We figured out that it was 100 F colder here one night than at her house in PR. Needless to say, she wasn't so happy when she came back here.
That said, it sounds like you've found a great place to live. Best of luck, and stay warm.