From the link:
"She has also appeared in feature films, including Booty Call..."
While she plays a very formidable character now, it doesn't seem like she always kept her moral integrity.
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I used to work at a library that had practices similar to this. The idea was that the reference librarians would first take a glance over what was being donated and keep what was worth keeping, and the rest that we already had too many copies of or was in a condition to make it not very useful, would go to the book sale for new books. There's only one real flaw with this plan: Reference librarians are usually busy with half a dozen other projects, and this stack of books that piles high (and I worked at a smaller local library) becomes quite a pain to keep on top of. So not everything winds up being accounted for and actually looked over. More goes out to the sale than should. We did have a second line of defence, volunteers whose sole purpose was to run that sale. But, usually their perogative was to pull the books in 'good condition' or potentially 'in-demand' and to put them in a higher priced section. But the resources are usually not there for a public library to really keep on top of the hundreds of donations they get. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that one of the public libraries mentioned above got near a thousand or more books donated a day. Frankly, that's pretty low priority too. The primary job of a library is to provide services in this day and age. Ususally information services, or reference services. Not to dig through the plethora of books donated in a day.
comes down to the lens. No matter how many billions of pixels you fit behind it, the lens is going to determine the first determining factor of the photo quality. It's certainly not the last (thus we move to 3 CCD systems etc. for better color reproduction) but the lens.. is always going to be the biggest factor.
With the uptime of Windows boxes, I have no doubt that at least *somewhat* frequently you will be clearing the RAM and rebooting. At least once every few weeks.
Why the heck should a kid who's never coded before download a bunch of incredibly obscure (to THEM, not US) crap like Cygwin, etc just to pursue some totally unknown hobby?
Plain and simply, they get the interest elsewhere. I remember back when my dad brought home our first computer - Windows 3.1 and DOS - and then, once I seemed to have a pretty firm hold on things we upgraded to Windows 95. It took me a while - but it ended up being wanting to try and code something in Windows, and being broke. So, I went in search of tools to help me with that and stumbled across Cygwin. I was certainly out of my element trying to install it. In the end though, armed with that and a free online C tutorial I found I started on my way(I don't think I was older than 12 at the time.) Anyway - point being when you're looking for things and find something that may help - it doesn't seem all that obscure, it just seems interesting.
Even back then it's not some unknown hobby. You seem to forget computing was becomming mainstream. People hear about programming, yes even kids - and take an interest. Making machines do something that you tell them to do. What's cooler than that? (Well, actually making the machines of course, but that's my slightly older self speaking.) Those that have a true interest are willing to take up any daunting task just to learn more.
Very underwhelming at the moment. Getting 1kb/s down 10kb/s up. Used to seeing down/up speeds in the range of 215KBps/35KB.
Sadly, the Planetquake3 link is toast and I'm not going to be registering for Gamespy.
Well acording to the Jargon File (referenced at dict.org) agnostic is a religion.
Religion
Agnostic. Atheist. Non-observant Jewish. Neo-pagan. Very commonly, three or more of these are combined in the same person. Conventional faith-holding Christianity is rare though not unknown.
Even hackers who identify with a religious affiliation tend to be relaxed about it, hostile to organized religion in general and all forms of religious bigotry in particular. Many enjoy parody' religions such as Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius.
Also, many hackers are influenced to varying degrees by Zen Buddhism or (less commonly) Taoism, and blend them easily with their `native' religions.
There is a definite strain of mystical, almost Gnostic sensibility that shows up even among those hackers not actively involved with neo-paganism, Discordianism, or Zen. Hacker folklore that pays homage to `wizards' and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.
Though, for real definitions: Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
that is not a virgin. She may have been drunk and ugly. The "Lucky" Jedi may not have been sure it was even a "she" and it was probably entirely by accident, but I bet there has to be one.
It would seem to me that as the technologies become more and more similar we are going to see a lot more of this style of integration. With capacity prices dropping drastically, processing power increasing rapidly - why not have an "all in one" style system? Pop-in one of those 1.8GB disc's and wham, you have a PDA with all your appointments stored on the memory stick.
Pop that out, pop in Zelda X, all your saved games also available on that memory stick. Run out of space on that stick? Run out and spend a few bucks on another for saved games.
It keeps the need for vast amounts of solid state media to a minimum, keeps the price of the device down, and provides scalability for the storage needs. Personally, I think it's a nice idea that they integrate these things.
Play tetris on a train, pull up my schedule for the next day, all for one price. I'd rather spend $150(guessing) on a device that will do all this than $100 on a Gamboy Advance SP and then $300 more on a PDA.
The article says it is an "optical disc" Which I assumed would mean similar to a CD. Like the post above says, they'll likely use a similar technology to the mini-disc.
If their market ends up being the same as Nintendo's (which would seem to be their target competition) I'm sure they'd have some pretty angry youngsters, and even more frightening: parents if their device is not near skip-proof. I can only imagine the temper of some children should their hours of gameplay in Final Fantasy N be lost because their parents hit a speed-bump.
I tend to respect Sony for their ability to implement things well. It will be interesting to see how this device does.
Does anyone know for sure how Sony will implement their media?
If you head over to the main Gutenberg Library site and search for "Time Machine" the audio book appears to come up. It would seem that ibiblio has the book on its FTP (and available for download) for at least "Time Machine". If you're looking to get started here's a direct link to the zip.
Most of them turn 18 during their senior year, but there is a crowd that will not be 18 until after graduation, or even freshman year of college, myself included.
What I see as not discussed yet is the benefits the student has from this. It's not like teachers hand out daily grade reports, you have a general idea what range your grade is. This would be very helpful in my eyes as a student. Though, I admit I wouldn't appreciate my parents looking at my grades daily.
Weekly, might be alright. Though, I have the type of parents that tend to be upset if I'm not getting straight A's. Being realistic, that's not always going to be the case. It may be borderline or as mentioned in an earlier post it may be because the system enters 0's if the teacher has not yet graded the assignment. Not really fair to a student that does well.
Maybe a system based on change in a student's grades would be better. If Johnny drops from an A to a C in a class or their GPA drops 0.3, the system fires off an email to the parent.
Microchip
They offer low speed processors that can easily control that kind of thing from a serial port. Though, you will need to write your own code for it (sometimes the price you pay for doing it yourself.) You should be able to pick-up most of the parts you need for under $30 from Digi-key though the only part that might cost you a bit is the programmer for the processor. (I think you can actually build those too!)
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Where these numbers were smashed?
From the link: "She has also appeared in feature films, including Booty Call..." While she plays a very formidable character now, it doesn't seem like she always kept her moral integrity.
I used to work at a library that had practices similar to this. The idea was that the reference librarians would first take a glance over what was being donated and keep what was worth keeping, and the rest that we already had too many copies of or was in a condition to make it not very useful, would go to the book sale for new books. There's only one real flaw with this plan: Reference librarians are usually busy with half a dozen other projects, and this stack of books that piles high (and I worked at a smaller local library) becomes quite a pain to keep on top of. So not everything winds up being accounted for and actually looked over. More goes out to the sale than should. We did have a second line of defence, volunteers whose sole purpose was to run that sale. But, usually their perogative was to pull the books in 'good condition' or potentially 'in-demand' and to put them in a higher priced section. But the resources are usually not there for a public library to really keep on top of the hundreds of donations they get. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that one of the public libraries mentioned above got near a thousand or more books donated a day. Frankly, that's pretty low priority too. The primary job of a library is to provide services in this day and age. Ususally information services, or reference services. Not to dig through the plethora of books donated in a day.
comes down to the lens. No matter how many billions of pixels you fit behind it, the lens is going to determine the first determining factor of the photo quality. It's certainly not the last (thus we move to 3 CCD systems etc. for better color reproduction) but the lens.. is always going to be the biggest factor.
With the uptime of Windows boxes, I have no doubt that at least *somewhat* frequently you will be clearing the RAM and rebooting. At least once every few weeks.
Well, not if you work for the RIAA/MPAA. Then it's considered legal under the DMCA.
Why the heck should a kid who's never coded before download a bunch of incredibly obscure (to THEM, not US) crap like Cygwin, etc just to pursue some totally unknown hobby?
Plain and simply, they get the interest elsewhere. I remember back when my dad brought home our first computer - Windows 3.1 and DOS - and then, once I seemed to have a pretty firm hold on things we upgraded to Windows 95. It took me a while - but it ended up being wanting to try and code something in Windows, and being broke. So, I went in search of tools to help me with that and stumbled across Cygwin. I was certainly out of my element trying to install it. In the end though, armed with that and a free online C tutorial I found I started on my way(I don't think I was older than 12 at the time.) Anyway - point being when you're looking for things and find something that may help - it doesn't seem all that obscure, it just seems interesting.
Even back then it's not some unknown hobby. You seem to forget computing was becomming mainstream. People hear about programming, yes even kids - and take an interest. Making machines do something that you tell them to do. What's cooler than that? (Well, actually making the machines of course, but that's my slightly older self speaking.) Those that have a true interest are willing to take up any daunting task just to learn more.
Why not year.month.day then? That seems to make as much sense as the other.
Ended up seeing speeds of 157kB down.
Very underwhelming at the moment. Getting 1kb/s down 10kb/s up. Used to seeing down/up speeds in the range of 215KBps/35KB. Sadly, the Planetquake3 link is toast and I'm not going to be registering for Gamespy.
Well acording to the Jargon File (referenced at dict.org) agnostic is a religion.
Religion
Agnostic. Atheist. Non-observant Jewish. Neo-pagan. Very commonly, three or more of these are combined in the same person. Conventional faith-holding Christianity is rare though not unknown.
Even hackers who identify with a religious affiliation tend to be relaxed about it, hostile to organized religion in general and all forms of
religious bigotry in particular. Many enjoy parody' religions such as Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius.
Also, many hackers are influenced to varying degrees by Zen Buddhism or (less commonly) Taoism, and blend them easily with their `native'
religions.
There is a definite strain of mystical, almost Gnostic sensibility that shows up even among those hackers not actively involved with neo-paganism, Discordianism, or Zen. Hacker folklore that pays homage to `wizards' and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.
Though, for real definitions:
Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
I suppose it just depends on your viewpoint.
that is not a virgin. She may have been drunk and ugly. The "Lucky" Jedi may not have been sure it was even a "she" and it was probably entirely by accident, but I bet there has to be one.
It would seem to me that as the technologies become more and more similar we are going to see a lot more of this style of integration. With capacity prices dropping drastically, processing power increasing rapidly - why not have an "all in one" style system? Pop-in one of those 1.8GB disc's and wham, you have a PDA with all your appointments stored on the memory stick.
Pop that out, pop in Zelda X, all your saved games also available on that memory stick. Run out of space on that stick? Run out and spend a few bucks on another for saved games.
It keeps the need for vast amounts of solid state media to a minimum, keeps the price of the device down, and provides scalability for the storage needs. Personally, I think it's a nice idea that they integrate these things.
Play tetris on a train, pull up my schedule for the next day, all for one price. I'd rather spend $150(guessing) on a device that will do all this than $100 on a Gamboy Advance SP and then $300 more on a PDA.
The article says it is an "optical disc" Which I assumed would mean similar to a CD. Like the post above says, they'll likely use a similar technology to the mini-disc.
If their market ends up being the same as Nintendo's (which would seem to be their target competition) I'm sure they'd have some pretty angry youngsters, and even more frightening: parents if their device is not near skip-proof. I can only imagine the temper of some children should their hours of gameplay in Final Fantasy N be lost because their parents hit a speed-bump.
I tend to respect Sony for their ability to implement things well. It will be interesting to see how this device does.
Does anyone know for sure how Sony will implement their media?
If you head over to the main Gutenberg Library site and search for "Time Machine" the audio book appears to come up. It would seem that ibiblio has the book on its FTP (and available for download) for at least "Time Machine". If you're looking to get started here's a direct link to the zip.
Most of them turn 18 during their senior year, but there is a crowd that will not be 18 until after graduation, or even freshman year of college, myself included.
What I see as not discussed yet is the benefits the student has from this. It's not like teachers hand out daily grade reports, you have a general idea what range your grade is. This would be very helpful in my eyes as a student. Though, I admit I wouldn't appreciate my parents looking at my grades daily.
Weekly, might be alright. Though, I have the type of parents that tend to be upset if I'm not getting straight A's. Being realistic, that's not always going to be the case. It may be borderline or as mentioned in an earlier post it may be because the system enters 0's if the teacher has not yet graded the assignment. Not really fair to a student that does well.
Maybe a system based on change in a student's grades would be better. If Johnny drops from an A to a C in a class or their GPA drops 0.3, the system fires off an email to the parent.
Microchip They offer low speed processors that can easily control that kind of thing from a serial port. Though, you will need to write your own code for it (sometimes the price you pay for doing it yourself.) You should be able to pick-up most of the parts you need for under $30 from Digi-key though the only part that might cost you a bit is the programmer for the processor. (I think you can actually build those too!)