you'll end up teaching them more about English grammar than they ever would have otherwise learned.
I think the exception to this is my high school spanish teacher. She didn't know English and she didn't know Spanish. We argued for 3 weeks whether the word "Spanish" in the sentence "We are in la clase de la Spanish" (yes, that's how she said it) was an adjective or a verb. She argued in favor of the verb. Ah, public education.
One funny thing to note is she once gave out referrals (passes to go see the principal) to 2 students for "sending psychic messages during a test." The kids were staring at their papers very intensely and, to her, were apparently communicating answers psychically. Another one of her students jumped out of her second story window while she was teaching class, and she didn't know until he came back upstairs through the door.
you have classified yourself as displaying signs of risible ignorance
So true... *sigh*
But I am an electrical engineering senior in a large university, so I can honestly say that I'm around a bunch of nerds almost 24 hours a day (myself included). I don't know one of them who uses Linux as their main operating system - they all use Windows. So their is truth behind my words. I speak only from experience.
Are you serious? I actually don't know many people who use Linux or any other operating systems very much besides Windows. I have a quite a few computers in my apartment, and only one of them is running Red Hat. From my personal experience, Linux is OK for a lot of things. But there are some things it just can't do yet. I was disappointed by all the hype built up around the operating system itself, when the software tools it comes with are not up to par in some cases.
Windows XP, in my opinion, has been one of the best microsoft operating systems available. It has its own set of problems too.
The point is, before bashing another operating system, I try it out for an extended period of time before coming to conclusions. Windows may need to be restarted more often than linux, but linux has actually crashed quite a few times on me as well. And OpenOffice isn't exactly fantastic *yet*
I'm sure a lot of people here on Slashdot use Windows. The driver support on XP is well done in my opinion.
Actually, that's the first post I've made since November. And my first-first post as well. Maybe you should get your facts straight. Who's the troll here?
Readers interested in the correlation between wine and global warming may also be interested in the way in which wine makers prevent frost on the grapes during the colder months - there is a video there on that site that describes the process. They actually just spray the vineyard down with sprinklers, preventing the formation of frost and ice. Can't link to that video directly.
Overall the videos contained on that site are very interesting. You'll learn a lot about wine making if you have time to watch a few. QuickTime required.
About 100 of those stoplights have been equipped with secure sensors so the lights can't be changed by anyone without the proper code, but the rest are unprotected, Hicks said."
And how hard would it be for someone to obtain 'the proper code'? Pretty easily, I would think. Prop up your video camera (with IR nightvision) next to an intersection, record the ambulances passing by, and then go analyze the tape. I may be oversimplifying, but this doesn't sound like a very encrypted method to me. They might as well save the extra $2,500 it takes to 'encrypt' these things and spend it on repairing pot-holes.
With the cameras that have been going up at intersections, I'm sure the next thing will be IR-activated cameras to get pictures of the vehicles using these things.
This would take quite a bit of computational power and a damn good particle engine, but it seems like we're getting to the point where we should be able to grow a virtual human using the info from the human genome. I know nothing about how DNA works, but it seems if we get the mechanics down, we could reproduce it on a computer to virtually grow something organic (human, smaller animal, maybe a plant). From there, it would be a field day to go around modifying the DNA on the computer to see how the virtual being reacts. Has anyone ever heard of an approach like this?
Yeah, I would love to hear you say this again after the Chinese detonate a nuclear warhead over your city.
haha.. you know? you're probably right.
I think making advancements in technology and exploring space in its purest form is a good thing, which is what I think this story is about. At least on the outside.
But communism is definately not such a good thing. As my old friend Ronald once said, "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Reagan.
It seems, though, that China is getting more of a capitalist exterior to integrate with other countries such as the U.S., making it a little more economically dependent on other countries (such as the US) to get things it needs. That (should) decrease our chances of getting nuked any time soon, but you can never tell with those commies.
It's interesting how China kept secret the time and day of the launch. Kind of sad how communism works like that. For such a mark in history, I'm sure the world would have liked to see the launch live on TV, and known about it in advance so they could plan their evenings accordingly.
As everyone else is saying, congrats to China. Too bad they have to be so undercover about it.
That's a good question, but somewhat difficult to answer without some research, I would imagine. The Chinese were known to write down history on rice paper instead of stone, papyrus, etc. And there's a lesson to be learned from that: If you want something to be remembered for a long time, don't write it down on food. That's one of the main reasons why we don't know as much about earlier Chinese/Japanese civilizations than other civilizations during those time periods.
If you copy one of those quotes into Google, you'll come up with a whole slew of good results.
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Always good to compliment the fellow slashdotter - the sliderule thing mentioned in your sig is awesome. I got a couple sliderules and read the Log-Log Duplex Decitrig Slide Rule Manual to learn how to use them. My plan was to use a sliderule in the classes where calculators were not allowed:)
Hopefully the sliderule will not go the way of the Abacus.. the symbols in the books that teach abacus algorithms are all forgotten; nobody knows how to use an abacus like we did at the beginning of the century. It took only 50 years of western influence (pencil and paper math) on Japan at the beginning of the 20th century for them to completely forget how to use it. Pretty amazing. Although we can at least read our former sliderule books, hardly anybody knows how to use them. And for a legitimate reason too: we have calculators.
By dying off early, they'll consume less of the limited resources of planet Earth. So go on... Because when you die, the planet can stop wasting its finite resources on you.;)
Woaah.. this sounds along the lines of:
* "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." - Lamont Cole
* "This is as good a way to get rid of them as any." - Charles Wursta, Environtmental Defense Fund in response to the implications of millions dying of malaria from a global ban on DDT.
* "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." - Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace
* "While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind." - David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth
* "Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet." - David M. Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service
* "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal
* "I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis
It sounds like these people all have one thing in common: complete disregard and lack of care for human life. I'm not sure about you, but I'm completely against the environmental movement. I'm all for saving the environment, but not at the cost of someone's life. When resources get running too low, I believe our increase in technology will make up for it.
On a side note, does taking rides improve your chances of not getting killed in a car wreck? I agree that taking less rides improves your chances, or riding a bus, but I trust my own defensive driving skills over my neighbor's any day.
This isn't the first motorized surfboard I've seen. I once saw a gas powered surfboard posted on Ebay, and it looked to be created in the 70's or 80's sometime, if not before that. The thing weighed in at over 50 lbs from what I recall, not too practical for surfing or carrying around the beach.
I went surfing for the first time last summer. By the end of the summer, I was feeling pretty cocky about my surfing abilities. At first, though, it seemed like a real pain to fight against the waves paddling, trying in vain to make it out of the kill zone just past where the waves are breaking. But, as I kept it up, my muscles grew. Which was a good thing, because I had an office job at the time that kept me there 15 hours/day. Surfing was the only way to keep fit, and although this might be good for beginners, I think this is just going to contribute to the obesity and laziness of this world.
The previous record for closest approach of an asteroid - 108,000km measured from the centre of the Earth - was set in 1994 by another 10m object named 1994 XM1.
I heard the record for the closest approach of an asteroid was already set billions of years ago. Apparantly everything died or some freak catastrophe like that. Doesn't that still hold the world record?
The real material wealth of space isn't on the moon. It is at mars and the asteroid belt and Jupiter.
Why Jupiter? Do you think it would ever be economically feasible to gather gas resources from the planet? Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly made up of hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, germanium, arsenic, and sulfer. It would take a pretty hefty probe to go in, gather resources, and make it back out against the gravitational pull.
So, on the topic of nipples, why is it that both guys and girls have them? I mean, they're downright useless to the guys. But extra useful for the girls, in my opinion. Anybody have any insights?
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you'll end up teaching them more about English grammar than they ever would have otherwise learned.
I think the exception to this is my high school spanish teacher. She didn't know English and she didn't know Spanish. We argued for 3 weeks whether the word "Spanish" in the sentence "We are in la clase de la Spanish" (yes, that's how she said it) was an adjective or a verb. She argued in favor of the verb. Ah, public education.
One funny thing to note is she once gave out referrals (passes to go see the principal) to 2 students for "sending psychic messages during a test." The kids were staring at their papers very intensely and, to her, were apparently communicating answers psychically. Another one of her students jumped out of her second story window while she was teaching class, and she didn't know until he came back upstairs through the door.
you have classified yourself as displaying signs of risible ignorance
So true... *sigh*
But I am an electrical engineering senior in a large university, so I can honestly say that I'm around a bunch of nerds almost 24 hours a day (myself included). I don't know one of them who uses Linux as their main operating system - they all use Windows. So their is truth behind my words. I speak only from experience.
Are you serious? I actually don't know many people who use Linux or any other operating systems very much besides Windows. I have a quite a few computers in my apartment, and only one of them is running Red Hat. From my personal experience, Linux is OK for a lot of things. But there are some things it just can't do yet. I was disappointed by all the hype built up around the operating system itself, when the software tools it comes with are not up to par in some cases. Windows XP, in my opinion, has been one of the best microsoft operating systems available. It has its own set of problems too. The point is, before bashing another operating system, I try it out for an extended period of time before coming to conclusions. Windows may need to be restarted more often than linux, but linux has actually crashed quite a few times on me as well. And OpenOffice isn't exactly fantastic *yet* I'm sure a lot of people here on Slashdot use Windows. The driver support on XP is well done in my opinion.
Actually, that's the first post I've made since November. And my first-first post as well. Maybe you should get your facts straight. Who's the troll here?
Should I leave this MyDoom worm on my machine for a few days... Sure.
... not that many of us /.'ers would know first-hand how fast that would be
Boy, that site was taken off faster than a prom dress.
SilverOak.com has some great wine making videos. Silver Oak is my favorite wine, but it's way too expensive in most cases.
Readers interested in the correlation between wine and global warming may also be interested in the way in which wine makers prevent frost on the grapes during the colder months - there is a video there on that site that describes the process. They actually just spray the vineyard down with sprinklers, preventing the formation of frost and ice. Can't link to that video directly.
Overall the videos contained on that site are very interesting. You'll learn a lot about wine making if you have time to watch a few. QuickTime required.
About 100 of those stoplights have been equipped with secure sensors so the lights can't be changed by anyone without the proper code, but the rest are unprotected, Hicks said."
And how hard would it be for someone to obtain 'the proper code'? Pretty easily, I would think. Prop up your video camera (with IR nightvision) next to an intersection, record the ambulances passing by, and then go analyze the tape. I may be oversimplifying, but this doesn't sound like a very encrypted method to me. They might as well save the extra $2,500 it takes to 'encrypt' these things and spend it on repairing pot-holes.
With the cameras that have been going up at intersections, I'm sure the next thing will be IR-activated cameras to get pictures of the vehicles using these things.
Did anyone else notice that the Wow Signal looks strangely like the Matrix?
That's plain creepy, if you ask me.
This would take quite a bit of computational power and a damn good particle engine, but it seems like we're getting to the point where we should be able to grow a virtual human using the info from the human genome. I know nothing about how DNA works, but it seems if we get the mechanics down, we could reproduce it on a computer to virtually grow something organic (human, smaller animal, maybe a plant). From there, it would be a field day to go around modifying the DNA on the computer to see how the virtual being reacts. Has anyone ever heard of an approach like this?
Yeah, I would love to hear you say this again after the Chinese detonate a nuclear warhead over your city.
haha.. you know? you're probably right.
I think making advancements in technology and exploring space in its purest form is a good thing, which is what I think this story is about. At least on the outside.
But communism is definately not such a good thing. As my old friend Ronald once said, "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Reagan.
It seems, though, that China is getting more of a capitalist exterior to integrate with other countries such as the U.S., making it a little more economically dependent on other countries (such as the US) to get things it needs. That (should) decrease our chances of getting nuked any time soon, but you can never tell with those commies.
It's interesting how China kept secret the time and day of the launch. Kind of sad how communism works like that. For such a mark in history, I'm sure the world would have liked to see the launch live on TV, and known about it in advance so they could plan their evenings accordingly.
As everyone else is saying, congrats to China. Too bad they have to be so undercover about it.
That's a good question, but somewhat difficult to answer without some research, I would imagine. The Chinese were known to write down history on rice paper instead of stone, papyrus, etc. And there's a lesson to be learned from that: If you want something to be remembered for a long time, don't write it down on food. That's one of the main reasons why we don't know as much about earlier Chinese/Japanese civilizations than other civilizations during those time periods.
Sure thing! You can actually find quotes like this all over:
c les/fee/average.html
r istianity'sdefinition.htm
:)
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/arti
http://www.cei.org/gencon/029,03332.cfm
http://www.off-road.com/green/ecoquote.html
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~lgthscac/biblicalch
If you copy one of those quotes into Google, you'll come up with a whole slew of good results.
Offtopic Stuff:
Always good to compliment the fellow slashdotter - the sliderule thing mentioned in your sig is awesome. I got a couple sliderules and read the Log-Log Duplex Decitrig Slide Rule Manual to learn how to use them. My plan was to use a sliderule in the classes where calculators were not allowed
Hopefully the sliderule will not go the way of the Abacus.. the symbols in the books that teach abacus algorithms are all forgotten; nobody knows how to use an abacus like we did at the beginning of the century. It took only 50 years of western influence (pencil and paper math) on Japan at the beginning of the 20th century for them to completely forget how to use it. Pretty amazing. Although we can at least read our former sliderule books, hardly anybody knows how to use them. And for a legitimate reason too: we have calculators.
By dying off early, they'll consume less of the limited resources of planet Earth. So go on ... Because when you die, the planet can stop wasting its finite resources on you. ;)
Woaah.. this sounds along the lines of:
* "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." - Lamont Cole
* "This is as good a way to get rid of them as any." - Charles Wursta, Environtmental Defense Fund in response to the implications of millions dying of malaria from a global ban on DDT.
* "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." - Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace
* "While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind." - David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth
* "Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet." - David M. Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service
* "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal
* "I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis
It sounds like these people all have one thing in common: complete disregard and lack of care for human life. I'm not sure about you, but I'm completely against the environmental movement. I'm all for saving the environment, but not at the cost of someone's life. When resources get running too low, I believe our increase in technology will make up for it.
On a side note, does taking rides improve your chances of not getting killed in a car wreck? I agree that taking less rides improves your chances, or riding a bus, but I trust my own defensive driving skills over my neighbor's any day.
This isn't the first motorized surfboard I've seen. I once saw a gas powered surfboard posted on Ebay, and it looked to be created in the 70's or 80's sometime, if not before that. The thing weighed in at over 50 lbs from what I recall, not too practical for surfing or carrying around the beach.
I went surfing for the first time last summer. By the end of the summer, I was feeling pretty cocky about my surfing abilities. At first, though, it seemed like a real pain to fight against the waves paddling, trying in vain to make it out of the kill zone just past where the waves are breaking. But, as I kept it up, my muscles grew. Which was a good thing, because I had an office job at the time that kept me there 15 hours/day. Surfing was the only way to keep fit, and although this might be good for beginners, I think this is just going to contribute to the obesity and laziness of this world.
Surfing is supposed to be a sport!
The previous record for closest approach of an asteroid - 108,000km measured from the centre of the Earth - was set in 1994 by another 10m object named 1994 XM1.
I heard the record for the closest approach of an asteroid was already set billions of years ago. Apparantly everything died or some freak catastrophe like that. Doesn't that still hold the world record?
The real material wealth of space isn't on the moon. It is at mars and the asteroid belt and Jupiter.
Why Jupiter? Do you think it would ever be economically feasible to gather gas resources from the planet? Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly made up of hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, germanium, arsenic, and sulfer. It would take a pretty hefty probe to go in, gather resources, and make it back out against the gravitational pull.
For those of you who missed earlier posts of this info,
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So, on the topic of nipples, why is it that both guys and girls have them? I mean, they're downright useless to the guys. But extra useful for the girls, in my opinion. Anybody have any insights?
Should [a] License Be Required to Go Online?
No.
"Hackers" want a challenge, windows does not provide that opportunity.
If you eat something off the floor, you're more likely to get a case of foot-herpes in the mouth than anything else. I'd watch out.