I really can't understand your sex-as-media-piracy analogy, and what's worse is that I'm having trouble figuring out how to remap it to a car analogy. Could you maybe rephrase it?
> >He's a professional bicyclist. Not being able to go to France is basically ruining his career. > It's like saying you can keep your car but no gas. > It's like saying you can have your pizza but no crust. >
It's like raaaaaaiiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day....
My new solution: I now keep a dead Dunkin Donuts card [though any dead gift card should do] in a pocket of each jacket, and I can clear my windshield in under a minute.
And yes, I *did* grow up in the windshield-scraping glory days when the Minnesota driver's license was built on a nice, thick piece of plastic.
Laugh all you want about the CueCat and this Google laptop, but it sounds like a great plan to me:
You, the user, scan in a book's barcode with the CueCat (see http://www2.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/CueCat_barcode_scanning), and Google will look it up in Google Books. If it's already cataloged, then you get access to it in the Google Laptop Browser wherever you are. And if not, a Google SpecOps Team fast-ropes down on your location within minutes to seize the book.
> > This is ridiculous. Go live in an IEP state. Most IEP's are legally binding by all public schools. If you > live in an IEP state you can adjust the amount of hours spent on gifted education. >
Would that it were so: I live in Rhode Island, and plenty of kids have IEPs. Not one of them is for being G&T, however.
Our town public school does what it can, but the motto "Teaching for all" should be amended to conclude, "...up to a point." There's just *nothing* extra in the curriculum for smarter kids except perhaps different spelling words. The requirements to serve all the students with IEPs means that the teachers are run ragged just trying to make sure that haven't broached anyone's Rights. (Except, I would argue, the kids whose extra ability goes undiscovered and undeveloped.)
I agree: for the responsibility they carry, pilots deserve a good wage. I'm thinking that the people Chesley Sullenberger saved don't think he's overpaid (and if they passed the hat they could still come up with a little something extra -- you know, for the effort).
Get a DeLorme PN-20 or -40 or -30. The cheapest one, the PN-20, is what I have and I like it. (You get the maps for free!) The other models have more features, but firmware upgrades for the low-end model also receive changes from the high-end models, so you get all the same stuff they do as soon as it's rolled out.
> >...in effect, your cellphone exposes you to much more power than all the cell towers... >
Quiet, or they'll come down there and knock over your cell phone next!
The esteemed eldavojohn wrote, "And nobody's walking down the street passing up shopping at TJ Maxx because of the credit card leak."
I am. Bob's Store, too, and the one thing that I bought from Marshall's since then, I paid for with cash. I even told my wife not to go there any more if she's going to need a credit card: they're idiots and deserve to lose business.
When I geocache in downtown I just carry a metal folding clipboard and write notes if I need "cover" in an exposed area. Taking down (useless, made-up) numbers from a tape measure helped once when two guys were watching me too closely.:7)
I have read of some cachers who keep a high-vis yellow vest in their bag just for situations like this, and I myself once saw a guy wearing one go right into the edge of a construction zone to take tourist photos. (I could tell he probably wasn't employed by the site because he wandered from there right over to a gondola tied up in front of the local mall and shot off some pictures of it, and the flowers, and....:7)
> > Yeah, given the choice between blue tinted eyes and spinal injury most people will chose spinal injury, I know I would. >
I have (naturally) blue eyes, you insensitive clod!
Then your Garmin sucks, too: my Delorme came with full sets of topo maps, and $100 worth of free downloads: aerial photos, satellite images, USGS topo maps, depths charts, etc.:7) And every time they add new features to the high-end model's firmware (the PN-40), they backport it to the cheaper model (PN-20) right away. Yay, Delorme!
(But the idea of using a cell phone for geocaching? Uh, no thanks.)
Slashdot Mirror
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I really can't understand your sex-as-media-piracy analogy, and what's worse is that I'm having trouble figuring out how to remap it to a car analogy. Could you maybe rephrase it?
Will the good people at Public.Resource.Org do the ripping & close-captioning for us, perhaps?
>
>He's a professional bicyclist. Not being able to go to France is basically ruining his career.
> It's like saying you can keep your car but no gas.
> It's like saying you can have your pizza but no crust.
>
It's like raaaaaaiiiiiiiiiin on your wedding day....
My new solution: I now keep a dead Dunkin Donuts card [though any dead gift card should do] in a pocket of each jacket, and I can clear my windshield in under a minute.
And yes, I *did* grow up in the windshield-scraping glory days when the Minnesota driver's license was built on a nice, thick piece of plastic.
"How do you know he's the king?"
"He hasn't got s*** all over him."
PitaBred, I agree that I should be raising my own kids. (I have several, thanks for asking.)
But sometimes what another parent thinks is OK, I do not -- and how do I keep their child from teaching something I deem inappropriate to my kids?
Laugh all you want about the CueCat and this Google laptop, but it sounds like a great plan to me:
You, the user, scan in a book's barcode with the CueCat (see http://www2.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/CueCat_barcode_scanning), and Google will look it up in Google Books. If it's already cataloged, then you get access to it in the Google Laptop Browser wherever you are. And if not, a Google SpecOps Team fast-ropes down on your location within minutes to seize the book.
Easy!
>
> So, then a monkey raised by humans would speak a human language? Maybe it will grow up to be a bank teller or a fireman?
>
Well, Curious George keeps trying, but still nothing yet...
>
> This is ridiculous. Go live in an IEP state. Most IEP's are legally binding by all public schools. If you
> live in an IEP state you can adjust the amount of hours spent on gifted education.
>
Would that it were so: I live in Rhode Island, and plenty of kids have IEPs. Not one of them is for being G&T, however.
Our town public school does what it can, but the motto "Teaching for all" should be amended to conclude, "...up to a point." There's just *nothing* extra in the curriculum for smarter kids except perhaps different spelling words. The requirements to serve all the students with IEPs means that the teachers are run ragged just trying to make sure that haven't broached anyone's Rights. (Except, I would argue, the kids whose extra ability goes undiscovered and undeveloped.)
Stupid mod points, you're no good when I want to award "+4, Sweet!"
Battleship Cove in Fall River, Mass., has the USS Lionfish: http://battleshipcove.org/ss298-history.htm
Also, they have the battleship USS Massachusetts, two PT boats, an East German (Russian) missile corvette, and a bunch of other stuff.
I went through U-505 in Chicago at the Museum of Science & Industry when I was a wee lad, and it was among the highlights of a very good visit.
Commie Russkie Goatsee?
I agree: for the responsibility they carry, pilots deserve a good wage. I'm thinking that the people Chesley Sullenberger saved don't think he's overpaid (and if they passed the hat they could still come up with a little something extra -- you know, for the effort).
"I'm sure fourteen years must be close to an Internet Millennium."
Let's see, you want in [On The] Internet [No One Knows You're A] Dog Years, so to convert just multiply by seventy.
Get a DeLorme PN-20 or -40 or -30. The cheapest one, the PN-20, is what I have and I like it. (You get the maps for free!) The other models have more features, but firmware upgrades for the low-end model also receive changes from the high-end models, so you get all the same stuff they do as soon as it's rolled out.
> ...in effect, your cellphone exposes you to much more power than all the cell towers ...
>
>
Quiet, or they'll come down there and knock over your cell phone next!
The esteemed eldavojohn wrote, "And nobody's walking down the street passing up shopping at TJ Maxx because of the credit card leak."
I am. Bob's Store, too, and the one thing that I bought from Marshall's since then, I paid for with cash. I even told my wife not to go there any more if she's going to need a credit card: they're idiots and deserve to lose business.
Wireless Yurt.
When I geocache in downtown I just carry a metal folding clipboard and write notes if I need "cover" in an exposed area. Taking down (useless, made-up) numbers from a tape measure helped once when two guys were watching me too closely. :7)
I have read of some cachers who keep a high-vis yellow vest in their bag just for situations like this, and I myself once saw a guy wearing one go right into the edge of a construction zone to take tourist photos. (I could tell he probably wasn't employed by the site because he wandered from there right over to a gondola tied up in front of the local mall and shot off some pictures of it, and the flowers, and.... :7)
>
> Yeah, given the choice between blue tinted eyes and spinal injury most people will chose spinal injury, I know I would.
>
I have (naturally) blue eyes, you insensitive clod!
Hmm, Baby Ruth.
Then your Garmin sucks, too: my Delorme came with full sets of topo maps, and $100 worth of free downloads: aerial photos, satellite images, USGS topo maps, depths charts, etc. :7) And every time they add new features to the high-end model's firmware (the PN-40), they backport it to the cheaper model (PN-20) right away. Yay, Delorme!
(But the idea of using a cell phone for geocaching? Uh, no thanks.)
So why no comparable boo-hoo about other companies Jobs is linked to?