"Your Recommendation: There's a drinking fountain right behind you. It's infinitely better for you than any of the crap in this machine, and it's free. Have a nice day."
The GoldTouch, from KeyOvation (www.keyovation.com). Mine's a Mac, I assume they have non-Mac keyboards. Its design sound exactly what you are looking for.
"Friends, I am in work closet with workers here. There is a shooter here at Discovery. I am ok," read a text from one Discovery employee.
"The police are trying to get the situation under control!INSANE!" read an email to ABCNews.
So, the employees are trapped inside the building with a lunatic with a gun, and with a bomb strapped to his chest; he has taken hostages, and the building is surrounded by SWAT teams. In the midst of this, these employees are sending email, and texting!
Actually, I don't think IA products suck; I am one of the (apparently) few owners of their Kilowatt fitness controllers for the original XBox. It works really well, it is a sensitive controller, and it really makes some games incredibly fun. And, after an hour or two, I am seriously worn out. (I work out in more traditional ways, too.)
I was an EMT in Los Angeles for several years. One of the things my instructor taught us was, "CPR is the safest procedure you can possibly perform: You can't make the patient worse."
(Turned out this was not meant to be funny; the first time I had to do CPR for real, I was nowhere near as nervous as I expected to be.)
You draw the line at the moment that student picks up a dangerous instrument and makes a threatening movement in the direction of the professor...and NOT EVER before.
Except that threatening to kill someone, if you have the means and opportunity, is already a crime; planning to kill someone (with the same assumptions) is a crime. So the state can, and should be, involved at that point.
The reason that climate change has been resisted and argued by so many, for so long, is exactly this. We do not trust the people interpreting this for us at the national level.
Piffle. The reason is that is is easier to deny climate change than to change your lifestyle.
Doesn't matter, though; it is already too late. There is nothing humans can do to stop or even significantly decrease the effects of climate change in less than a thousand years or so; thus, I do not need to change my lifestyle.
A man fell from the top of the Empire State Building. As he passed the tenth floor, he said to himself:
"I've fallen 92 floors, and haven't gotten hurt. I guess this wasn't dangerous after all!"
Even given that such microorganisms can *survive* extremely low temperatures, I wonder if they could *evolve into existence* in such conditions. With such low temperatures, the rate of chemical reactions would be awfully slow, it seems to me. Has there been enough time, either on Earth or on Mars, for life to develop in these areas? Are the microorganisms found in Antartica "native", or did they move there with migrating ocean life, then adapt to the cold conditions?
Not everywhere. I shop at Whole Foods grocery store. That company DOES give EVERY employee some discretion and an appropriate level of power. As a fairly trivial example, one day I bought some fruit or other; it did not scan properly, the computer couldn't tell what it was or tell the clerk how much to charge. I had a whole bunch of other groceries, and there was a long line of people behind me, also with full carts.
Now, in any other store, the clerk would have had to call for a price check ("WHICH apple?"), which would have held up me, her, and all the people in line for several minutes. Instead, she made a reasonable guess as to the price, overrode the computer, and got the job done. Astonished (and PLEASED!), I expressed my surprise at her ability to do that. She told me that they are allowed to do those sort of things, precisely to keep the customers happy. Better to lose a few cents and gain customer satisfaction, than the other way around, she told me.
Seems to me the answer depends on why the students are taking the course--are they training for a future job, or is this course meant to be transferable to a degree program at a four-year university?
I teach physics at two very different community colleges. At one, the course is intended to meet the prerequisite requirements of both of our local universities, while the other college is a technical school, focused on job training. While the course and the material is ostensibly the same, the emphasis (and therefore the student experience) is utterly different.
If this is intended to be transferable, you (or your department head) needs to contact the local universities and determine their transfer requirements.
These are an uglier version of the ones that come up on Woot from time to time. After the third time I saw 'em, I got a pair from Woot; arrived yesterday. I'm loading tunez on them now. I paid 11% what these cost, for half the storage space.
The Woot version doesn't have the big box on the ear pieces; from a distance, you can't really tell there's anything unusual about them, although I look like a Secret Service d00d with the earphones.
None of this should be taken to mean that I am NOT a dork, nor that these are not the dumbest thing I've ever bought.
Very appropriate to announce this discovery at the same time James Doohan's remains are being sent into space. One wonders if there is a closet Trekker in the military press office.:-)
My father (who passed away a few months ago) had a major stroke which put him in a wheelchair. He needed help with the most basic life functions. Later, Parkinson's disease starting taking away his mind--very, very slowly, over a period of 10 years. He *knew* he was losing his memories, his ability to read, and even to form a coherent sentence. He could still understand me, and until almost the very end of his life, I could understand him.
For all 15 years of this degenerative process, up until the last two months of his life, he maintained that life was still worth living, and that in spite of everything, he was still enjoying being alive. (Children, marriages, grandchildren...) Only in the last two months did he say he was ready to die. (He went peacefully.)
One anecdotal data point. My point? Us young folks really can't say what old folks want, or will want. Including ourselves.
"...People say this every generation, because they don't realize people have said it every generation. America is always at some kind of crossroads. And you know what? It usually comes out pretty okay..."
"...before you come up with these dramatic proclamations...remember all the times people before you said those exact same things, and remember how dumb they sounded even five years later..."
This argument reminds me of the story of the guy who fell off the top of the Empire State Building. As he passed the 90th floor, he was heard to mutter, "Well, ninety floors and I'm still okay!"
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And how long (measured in months) until the Bad Guys(TM) have them too? Then what?
"Your Recommendation: There's a drinking fountain right behind you. It's infinitely better for you than any of the crap in this machine, and it's free. Have a nice day."
It has a mass of 1.000 kg. It weighs 9.806 newtons. (Approximately, depending on the local value of g.)
Anyone who thinks that that is overly pedantic is not a physicist.
The GoldTouch, from KeyOvation (www.keyovation.com). Mine's a Mac, I assume they have non-Mac keyboards. Its design sound exactly what you are looking for.
I want all of my fellow Slashdotters to know that this is, in fact, the first time I have EVER used the following acronym:
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. But this deserved it.
(This should have been a slashpoll...)
Another vote for the Leaf, another pre-order...Happily, I live in one of the trial markets.
Isn't there a legal phrase for that?
"The police are trying to get the situation under control!INSANE!" read an email to ABCNews.
So, the employees are trapped inside the building with a lunatic with a gun, and with a bomb strapped to his chest; he has taken hostages, and the building is surrounded by SWAT teams. In the midst of this, these employees are sending email, and texting!
For some reason, this makes me very happy.
However, I agree that their marketing sucks.
I agree with Corporate Greed and Maximization of Profit. However, the idea that our manufacturing sector is "destroyed" is not supported by the evidence. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html/
(Turned out this was not meant to be funny; the first time I had to do CPR for real, I was nowhere near as nervous as I expected to be.)
Except that threatening to kill someone, if you have the means and opportunity, is already a crime; planning to kill someone (with the same assumptions) is a crime. So the state can, and should be, involved at that point.
Piffle. The reason is that is is easier to deny climate change than to change your lifestyle. Doesn't matter, though; it is already too late. There is nothing humans can do to stop or even significantly decrease the effects of climate change in less than a thousand years or so; thus, I do not need to change my lifestyle.
Where have I heard this before? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1336200/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support
A man fell from the top of the Empire State Building. As he passed the tenth floor, he said to himself: "I've fallen 92 floors, and haven't gotten hurt. I guess this wasn't dangerous after all!"
Even given that such microorganisms can *survive* extremely low temperatures, I wonder if they could *evolve into existence* in such conditions. With such low temperatures, the rate of chemical reactions would be awfully slow, it seems to me. Has there been enough time, either on Earth or on Mars, for life to develop in these areas? Are the microorganisms found in Antartica "native", or did they move there with migrating ocean life, then adapt to the cold conditions?
jIyajbe
Not everywhere. I shop at Whole Foods grocery store. That company DOES give EVERY employee some discretion and an appropriate level of power. As a fairly trivial example, one day I bought some fruit or other; it did not scan properly, the computer couldn't tell what it was or tell the clerk how much to charge. I had a whole bunch of other groceries, and there was a long line of people behind me, also with full carts.
Now, in any other store, the clerk would have had to call for a price check ("WHICH apple?"), which would have held up me, her, and all the people in line for several minutes. Instead, she made a reasonable guess as to the price, overrode the computer, and got the job done. Astonished (and PLEASED!), I expressed my surprise at her ability to do that. She told me that they are allowed to do those sort of things, precisely to keep the customers happy. Better to lose a few cents and gain customer satisfaction, than the other way around, she told me.
I never shop anywhere else now.
Cheers,
jIyajbe
Seems to me the answer depends on why the students are taking the course--are they training for a future job, or is this course meant to be transferable to a degree program at a four-year university?
I teach physics at two very different community colleges. At one, the course is intended to meet the prerequisite requirements of both of our local universities, while the other college is a technical school, focused on job training. While the course and the material is ostensibly the same, the emphasis (and therefore the student experience) is utterly different.
If this is intended to be transferable, you (or your department head) needs to contact the local universities and determine their transfer requirements.
Cheers,
jIyajbe
Here you go! http://www.commutercars.com/
I must disagree with you here.
There were NO interesting points made in that movie!
(Unless, of course, you plan on riding into the next world on a comet.)
Cheers,
jIyajbe
These are an uglier version of the ones that come up on Woot from time to time. After the third time I saw 'em, I got a pair from Woot; arrived yesterday. I'm loading tunez on them now. I paid 11% what these cost, for half the storage space.
The Woot version doesn't have the big box on the ear pieces; from a distance, you can't really tell there's anything unusual about them, although I look like a Secret Service d00d with the earphones.
None of this should be taken to mean that I am NOT a dork, nor that these are not the dumbest thing I've ever bought.
I like 'em anyway. I think it's funny.
jIyajbe
Very appropriate to announce this discovery at the same time James Doohan's remains are being sent into space. One wonders if there is a closet Trekker in the military press office. :-)
Cheers,
jIyajbe
My father (who passed away a few months ago) had a major stroke which put him in a wheelchair. He needed help with the most basic life functions. Later, Parkinson's disease starting taking away his mind--very, very slowly, over a period of 10 years. He *knew* he was losing his memories, his ability to read, and even to form a coherent sentence. He could still understand me, and until almost the very end of his life, I could understand him.
For all 15 years of this degenerative process, up until the last two months of his life, he maintained that life was still worth living, and that in spite of everything, he was still enjoying being alive. (Children, marriages, grandchildren...) Only in the last two months did he say he was ready to die. (He went peacefully.)
One anecdotal data point. My point? Us young folks really can't say what old folks want, or will want. Including ourselves.
That would be "vasectomy".
The bummer is, you still have to use either condoms or monogamy (AIDS, y'know?)
"...People say this every generation, because they don't realize people have said it every generation. America is always at some kind of crossroads. And you know what? It usually comes out pretty okay..."
"...before you come up with these dramatic proclamations...remember all the times people before you said those exact same things, and remember how dumb they sounded even five years later..."
This argument reminds me of the story of the guy who fell off the top of the Empire State Building. As he passed the 90th floor, he was heard to mutter, "Well, ninety floors and I'm still okay!"