The GPS signals are free. What costs money is having accurate maps and intelligent routing software and making it all fit on a portable device. Google gets around that by having the maps and brains located on a server and relying on quality cell reception to get the information to the (dumb) client.
I agree. When we go on vacation in central NY (Cooperstown area), the cell reception is pretty spotty, let alone use AGPS. If my maps go away, I'm lost.
I disagree, since the Kindle has a large quantity of free and PD books available.
But I think the larger point that Amazon has is correct - that having multiple versions of the same book, each of varying quality, is not a good thing.
Take the case of freecddb vs CDDB (just from a technical standpoint, forget politics or the nasty stuff that CDDB did). When I rip a CD and use freecddb, I'll get varying answers. A 2-CD set often has different artist or album names between the two CDs. Misspellings are common. But CDDB has the CD listed only once, and the information is almost always correct (of course, I still use freecddb most of the time, then mutter, make corrections, and send them up for verification).
Some of the free ebooks I've downloaded for my Kindle are of okay quality (I've found a number of formatting or misspelling issues) compared to non-PD books I purchased from Amazon.
The answer, unfortunately, is that Amazon has to have only a few copies of a book on its site that is of good to great quality, but allow you to download ebooks from other sites (I note that sacred-texts.com didn't have an ebook version of the KJV Bible, for instance, otherwise I may have downloaded it).
Really? I still know my multiplication tables 30+ years later. I know how to calculate a 10% or 20% tip in my head. Even a bit of division without a calculator.
Being interested in the subject helps the student learn, but there are crucial things that everyone should learn, even if they may not ever use it again.
Focusing only on things that interest you will leave you without a rounded education and make you a specialist. Our population can't be made up of people who only know how to multiply 2x2 or only know how to build an engine, or know how to get us to the moon. It results in people who think that fluoridation is bad, or immunizations cause autism, we never landed on the moon, or our president was born in Kenya. It. Is. Bad. For. Our. Country.
If anything unschooling is closer to the junior and senior year of college, or perhaps grad school. This is after the students have enough education to know what they want to learn about. Grade school students don't know that yet.
I reject your hypothetical situation for the same reasons that others have. Both children need to learn their multiplication tables. You're also making the assumption that Child B isn't curious about the world around them. What if Child A isn't curious or doesn't spend their time productively? Video games and TV make awful good temptations.
In my case, we sent my daughter to a Montessori preschool and she just started first grade in public school a few days ago. She has a day off later in September, so instead of spending the day goofing off or learning multiplication tables, she and I are flying to Washington DC for the day and I'll be sure to get her full of museums and other sights in the city. She probably won't understand it all (she's only 6), but I guarantee it's not the last trip of its kind she and I will make.
I think the problem is going to get worse over time, as small differences in KB/KiB and MB/MiB get compounded.
I recently purchased a 1TB drive. After making one large partition and formatting it, df tells me the size is 917G (aka GiB). In my mind, that's a loss of 83 GiB, which is larger than hard drives I got just 7 years ago.
Yes, the normal home user won't notice the difference, but it's still there. I think drive manufacturers are doing a disservice to their customers, but at least they're correct in their labeling and advertising.
In other news, whenever you format an ext3 partition, remember that 5% is set aside for root use. For a 917GiB partition, that's almost 5GiB. Do yourself a favor and reduce it to 1% with tune2fs.
Comcast has needed a cable box (in my area anyway) for the past 8 years for anything other than basic cable.
The box I got worked great with the Tivo - it sent the IR commands to the cable box, the cable box changed channels, and Tivo picked up the audio and video.
Now that I have a Series 3, all that work is now done automatically in the CableCard.
AT&T killed google voice because the "Killer App" that the iPhone has (visual voicemail) is completely, totally, and utterly DESTROYED by it.
If you haven't used google voice, let me explain. Somebody leaves you a voicemail on your GV number. Google does voice recognition on it, and sends you an email of the text. In the email is a little widget that allows you to play the audio.
[...]
The voice recognition of GV is about as good as the handwriting recognition of the original Newton.
Here's what my brother actually said:
Hello, Happy Birthday my brother.
What GV said he said:
Hello, The bird say my brought their.
Fortunately, the audio was available, so I was able to easily hear what he said, but the other GV transcript I got from my wife wasn't much better (the drugstore CVS got turned into "we're going to see me yes").
Google Voice is nice, and I like using it, but don't think it's a miracle app.
Hence why I said YMMV, it's certainly not for everyone. My bus is direct from Burlington to Govt. Center (with 2 DD and a SBUX within about 20 yards where I get dropped off) so my transit time is not that much more than driving.
and I have to commute in every day. Here's a breakdown, as I did each for two years apiece:
- Drive to local T stop: $5/day parking plus ~$60 for T pass, plus gas.
- Drive and park at work: $240/mo plus gas. I would drive about 15k/yr (work plus other driving)
- Drive 1 mi to bus stop: donation to local church to park in their lot (few hundred/yr), $64 for T/bus pass. In the 2.5 years I've been taking the bus, I've driven about 15,000 mi.
Now taking the bus takes a bit longer, but my employer is nice enough to allow me to work from home one day a week, and I often fall asleep or do work while on the bus, as opposed to getting peeved at the traffic around me.
But back to the point, I'd take the word of Al Gore over that of Dick Cheney any day.
And Soros? Really? Go look up the kinds of fun things Richard Mellon Scafie has been up to for the past 20 years. Makes the money Soros contributed look like a drop in the bucket.
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The GPS signals are free. What costs money is having accurate maps and intelligent routing software and making it all fit on a portable device. Google gets around that by having the maps and brains located on a server and relying on quality cell reception to get the information to the (dumb) client.
I agree. When we go on vacation in central NY (Cooperstown area), the cell reception is pretty spotty, let alone use AGPS. If my maps go away, I'm lost.
I'd like to discuss this more, but we're out of time, so we'll have to leave it there.
It's a white hole.
(So what is it?)
If EC2 has the same uptime as bits of that cloud destroying life on earth, I think it'll be around for a while.
And if one does hit us, I guess it won't matter anyway.
This. Maybe instead of atmospheric clouds, they're talking about the Oort Cloud.
Try the Swordplay Showdown in Wii Sports Resort. You'll build up a sweat pretty quickly. Either that, or I'm *really* out of shape.
I disagree, since the Kindle has a large quantity of free and PD books available.
But I think the larger point that Amazon has is correct - that having multiple versions of the same book, each of varying quality, is not a good thing.
Take the case of freecddb vs CDDB (just from a technical standpoint, forget politics or the nasty stuff that CDDB did). When I rip a CD and use freecddb, I'll get varying answers. A 2-CD set often has different artist or album names between the two CDs. Misspellings are common. But CDDB has the CD listed only once, and the information is almost always correct (of course, I still use freecddb most of the time, then mutter, make corrections, and send them up for verification).
Some of the free ebooks I've downloaded for my Kindle are of okay quality (I've found a number of formatting or misspelling issues) compared to non-PD books I purchased from Amazon.
The answer, unfortunately, is that Amazon has to have only a few copies of a book on its site that is of good to great quality, but allow you to download ebooks from other sites (I note that sacred-texts.com didn't have an ebook version of the KJV Bible, for instance, otherwise I may have downloaded it).
Really? I still know my multiplication tables 30+ years later. I know how to calculate a 10% or 20% tip in my head. Even a bit of division without a calculator.
Being interested in the subject helps the student learn, but there are crucial things that everyone should learn, even if they may not ever use it again.
Focusing only on things that interest you will leave you without a rounded education and make you a specialist. Our population can't be made up of people who only know how to multiply 2x2 or only know how to build an engine, or know how to get us to the moon. It results in people who think that fluoridation is bad, or immunizations cause autism, we never landed on the moon, or our president was born in Kenya. It. Is. Bad. For. Our. Country.
If anything unschooling is closer to the junior and senior year of college, or perhaps grad school. This is after the students have enough education to know what they want to learn about. Grade school students don't know that yet.
Ah, so kids are never curious. Got it.
I reject your hypothetical situation for the same reasons that others have. Both children need to learn their multiplication tables. You're also making the assumption that Child B isn't curious about the world around them. What if Child A isn't curious or doesn't spend their time productively? Video games and TV make awful good temptations.
In my case, we sent my daughter to a Montessori preschool and she just started first grade in public school a few days ago. She has a day off later in September, so instead of spending the day goofing off or learning multiplication tables, she and I are flying to Washington DC for the day and I'll be sure to get her full of museums and other sights in the city. She probably won't understand it all (she's only 6), but I guarantee it's not the last trip of its kind she and I will make.
Do they mean Dual Processor? I've never heard the term 2P server before.
You can specify a number of blocks instead of percent with -r
Whoops, you're right.
I think the problem is going to get worse over time, as small differences in KB/KiB and MB/MiB get compounded.
I recently purchased a 1TB drive. After making one large partition and formatting it, df tells me the size is 917G (aka GiB). In my mind, that's a loss of 83 GiB, which is larger than hard drives I got just 7 years ago.
Yes, the normal home user won't notice the difference, but it's still there. I think drive manufacturers are doing a disservice to their customers, but at least they're correct in their labeling and advertising.
In other news, whenever you format an ext3 partition, remember that 5% is set aside for root use. For a 917GiB partition, that's almost 5GiB. Do yourself a favor and reduce it to 1% with tune2fs.
Comcast has needed a cable box (in my area anyway) for the past 8 years for anything other than basic cable.
The box I got worked great with the Tivo - it sent the IR commands to the cable box, the cable box changed channels, and Tivo picked up the audio and video.
Now that I have a Series 3, all that work is now done automatically in the CableCard.
Uh, what?
If you have a Series 2 (SD) Tivo, then you use a cable box, which is what you'd need anyway to get most of their channels.
If you have a Series 3 (HD) Tivo, then you get a CableCard, which you'd also need anyway.
Sounds like a case of poor cellular...
Yeah, too bad he was on a landline.
AT&T killed google voice because the "Killer App" that the iPhone has (visual voicemail) is completely, totally, and utterly DESTROYED by it.
If you haven't used google voice, let me explain. Somebody leaves you a voicemail on your GV number. Google does voice recognition on it, and sends you an email of the text. In the email is a little widget that allows you to play the audio.
[...]
The voice recognition of GV is about as good as the handwriting recognition of the original Newton.
Here's what my brother actually said:
Hello, Happy Birthday my brother.
What GV said he said:
Hello, The bird say my brought their.
Fortunately, the audio was available, so I was able to easily hear what he said, but the other GV transcript I got from my wife wasn't much better (the drugstore CVS got turned into "we're going to see me yes").
Google Voice is nice, and I like using it, but don't think it's a miracle app.
Even if anyone believes invented it first, purposely waiting for it to get big before suing everyone for it has to be considered just a little fishy.
Fishy, but perfectly legal. Remember that patents and copyright/trademarks are completely different.
I could have a patent on something and hold on to it until 6 months before it expires and sue everyone that violated it.
Now, is the patent itself valid? Let's hope not.
Hence why I said YMMV, it's certainly not for everyone. My bus is direct from Burlington to Govt. Center (with 2 DD and a SBUX within about 20 yards where I get dropped off) so my transit time is not that much more than driving.
and I have to commute in every day. Here's a breakdown, as I did each for two years apiece:
- Drive to local T stop: $5/day parking plus ~$60 for T pass, plus gas.
- Drive and park at work: $240/mo plus gas. I would drive about 15k/yr (work plus other driving)
- Drive 1 mi to bus stop: donation to local church to park in their lot (few hundred/yr), $64 for T/bus pass. In the 2.5 years I've been taking the bus, I've driven about 15,000 mi.
Now taking the bus takes a bit longer, but my employer is nice enough to allow me to work from home one day a week, and I often fall asleep or do work while on the bus, as opposed to getting peeved at the traffic around me.
YMMV. As for me, I'll keep taking the bus.
Shouldn't you be moving to Somalia? I hear there's no pesky government or taxes getting in the way of free enterprise there.
Doesn't that sound just as retarded as your statement?
Obvious troll is obvious.
But back to the point, I'd take the word of Al Gore over that of Dick Cheney any day.
And Soros? Really? Go look up the kinds of fun things Richard Mellon Scafie has been up to for the past 20 years. Makes the money Soros contributed look like a drop in the bucket.
There are tiny USB BT dongles that aren't much bigger than the USB port itself. Check dealextreme.