speaking of water seeping in... I was recently in New Orleans and one of the major problems with underground lines in a flood plain is exactly that: flooding (go figure). I was talking to a Doctor in a coffee shop and he was saying not only is the fiber connecting the hospitals extant completely destroyed, but so is the entire fiber network in NO, public school fiber is sunk, private school fiber is sunk, the whole system of underground power and net traffic is sunk. above ground lines didnt fare any better, 9 months later there are still gaping holes in the power grid and net coverage... so maybe there are environmental conditions, like huge hurricanes and being near or below sea level that prevent ares from reaching a cost-effective and relatively failure free infrastructure, above or below ground.
what other possible solutions could there be beside above ground or buried lines? personal genereators/satellite uplinks?
"I think a real problem is that you're also getting them dependant on it."
i think this point is moot because computer ubiquity in the world today makes them necessary tools to function in society. you can't work a white collar job without experience with, at the very least, word processing and email. not to mention presentation software, spread sheets, etc.
being exposed, from a young age, to the digital world, a world that runs parallel to and intersects the analog in myriad, complicated ways, can only benefit children in the long run.
three years ago, the state of maine gave each student entering the seventh grade a spanking new i-book. meanwhile i was still slogging away on a pIII box you had to whack every fifteen minutes to keep the noise manageable.
my sister elizabeth, at the onset of middle school was typing probably 6 wpm, she'll be a sophomore this year and i am sure she maxes out now at around 65wpm. not to mention her buddylist can be wrapped around my own too many times to mention.
students get to keep the laptops until they graduate HS, and can opt to purchase the computers at a remarkably reduced price (considering they'll be 6 years obsolete)
despite her new found typing acuity, she still manages to ruin the home computer with spyware, malware etc.
i think the program (short lived due to bedgetary constraints, Bushwhacked!) is a great and forward thinking one. getting young people aclimated to tech that is more ubiquitous and therefore more necessary each year is important to both their future success and the future success of our economy and the global one.
if i had this case, it would be impossible for me to curb the urge to play SIMAnt, it'd be like having the guide book available IN REAL TIME... waiooooooooooo.
Seperate Card - Remember that the SATA controller is on a seperate card, it's not integrated into the chipset. So these number could (and probably will) change for the better when we see SATA built into the southbridge later this year (was it Grandale from Intel that will do this? I'm too lazy to look it up).
Gigabytes 8INXP has integrated SATA, not in the south bridge but not on a card and certainly on the board, a Silicon Image chip called SATALink.
It seems to me non-malicious traffic is good traffic. I would love to have a site i created be/.ed. What better audience to disseminate the information i have deemed important, information dissemination being one of the over-arching goals of the internet.
And if traffic to a site generates revenue, all the better, the/. effect being similar to opening weekend at the box office: sure, the theaters will sell out but hell, thats what you want! Next week, ticket sales will lag and the rest of society can see the movie too.
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speaking of water seeping in... I was recently in New Orleans and one of the major problems with underground lines in a flood plain is exactly that: flooding (go figure). I was talking to a Doctor in a coffee shop and he was saying not only is the fiber connecting the hospitals extant completely destroyed, but so is the entire fiber network in NO, public school fiber is sunk, private school fiber is sunk, the whole system of underground power and net traffic is sunk. above ground lines didnt fare any better, 9 months later there are still gaping holes in the power grid and net coverage... so maybe there are environmental conditions, like huge hurricanes and being near or below sea level that prevent ares from reaching a cost-effective and relatively failure free infrastructure, above or below ground.
what other possible solutions could there be beside above ground or buried lines? personal genereators/satellite uplinks?
"I think a real problem is that you're also getting them dependant on it."
i think this point is moot because computer ubiquity in the world today makes them necessary tools to function in society. you can't work a white collar job without experience with, at the very least, word processing and email. not to mention presentation software, spread sheets, etc.
being exposed, from a young age, to the digital world, a world that runs parallel to and intersects the analog in myriad, complicated ways, can only benefit children in the long run.
three years ago, the state of maine gave each student entering the seventh grade a spanking new i-book. meanwhile i was still slogging away on a pIII box you had to whack every fifteen minutes to keep the noise manageable.
my sister elizabeth, at the onset of middle school was typing probably 6 wpm, she'll be a sophomore this year and i am sure she maxes out now at around 65wpm. not to mention her buddylist can be wrapped around my own too many times to mention.
students get to keep the laptops until they graduate HS, and can opt to purchase the computers
at a remarkably reduced price (considering they'll be 6 years obsolete)
despite her new found typing acuity, she still manages to ruin the home computer with spyware, malware etc.
i think the program (short lived due to bedgetary constraints, Bushwhacked!) is a great and forward thinking one. getting young people aclimated to tech that is more ubiquitous and therefore more necessary each year is important to both their future success and the future success of our economy and the global one.
if i had this case, it would be impossible for me to curb the urge to play SIMAnt, it'd be like having the guide book available IN REAL TIME... waiooooooooooo.
its hilarious and its right here: no here.
I have no love for spam but it did yield me a great email from: grow@yourmember.big. Its almost postmodernly weird.
Gigabytes 8INXP has integrated SATA, not in the south bridge but not on a card and certainly on the board, a Silicon Image chip called SATALink.
then look out cause RAID here i come.
And if traffic to a site generates revenue, all the better, the /. effect being similar to opening weekend at the box office: sure, the theaters will sell out but hell, thats what you want! Next week, ticket sales will lag and the rest of society can see the movie too.