Even worse is that most of these contracts stipulate that you're going to pay them for the next two to three years, but don't lock in the price. You can get a $100/mo cell phone or satellite TV plan today and three months from now they could double the price and you'd be obligated to either pay it or pay an early termination fee.
The Families Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 allows a student at a university to require the university to not release their name to anyone. For example, if you check for my name at my school's phonebook, you'll find I'm not listed. If you call my registrar's office and ask for information on me, they'll tell you that they don't have a student by my name. You see, it's against the law for them to even confirm that I'm a student.
Since many schools have outsourced their email systems to Gmail, anyone can generate a full roster of student names through this trick. This could obviously result in many violations of FERPA.
What about OCR'ing the scans? I've tried and failed one previous attempts to find an OSS solution that will allow me to start with jpegs and end up with PDFs or DJVUs. Does anyone have any suggestions on this front?
What he's saying is that ultimately, all of your experimental error has to be accounted for by your model. It would be nice to define 1kg as X atoms of X material, but as of the present, we have no way of measuring X atoms to any precision of any material. This group has moved us one step forward.
For those of your who haven't have chemistry or physics in a few year, 12g of carbon has 6.022x10^23 atoms in it. Counting those accurately is essential to defining the kilogram.
I really have come to like the new development style on the Kernel 2.6 branch. At first, I thought that rolling new features in with security and bug fixes was a bad idea, but it has worked out really nicely. Other projects should consider doing these rolling releases.
I have the Sunrocket "widget" (Linksys voip adapter) plugged directly into my dsl modem, and my router plugged into the widget. The widget is supposed to give its own data priority, but I've never seen any evidence of that.
But if all you care about is keeping BT from using the last XX amount of bandwidth, just dial your max upload and download speeds down in the BT client.
On the ordering page it gives a choice between 104 keys (US) and 105 keys (intl). What is the extra key that the international users get that we don't have?
I'm sick of games being released either for Xbox2/PS3 or Wii. As a Wii-owner, I wish I had access to SF4, GTA, etc. Oh well, maybe its just time to buy an Xbox.
I saw an article just last week on this and it now costs a lot more than 1.2 cents to make a penny.. its closing in on a nickel. I thought it was on msnbc.com, but I can't find it now.
If you're hired to do a job and instead you're posting to a blog, then its no surprise that you'd be fired. Especially considering that a government employee making political posts could be considered a form of propaganda.
I think what we're looking at is what will be an evolutionary step like we saw going from Win95 to Win98. And as I recall, it was quite an improvement. Not to say of course that Win98 was perfect, it had its (huge) flaws, but it was quite a step in the right direction.
Great, an article telling us what Windows 7 isn't. While they're at it, somebody should write a story about how it doesn't use the Linux or MacOS kernels either. From the start Microsoft has been telling us that MinWin is an experimental, non-production kernel and that it wouldn't be in Windows 7. Now CNet reports it and its like new news all over again. Yawn.
With a 200ly lag, you could still hold a meaningful conversation. You might not be able to play CS, but you could transmit the works of Shakespeare and have them get there before your species is long extinct.
Any civilization that wants to communicate across the galaxy is going to use something (and I don't know what that something would be) other than a particle that can't travel faster than light. The Milky Way is about 100,000ly across, so the ping times from one side to the other would be 200,000 years - try playing Intergalactic Counter Strike over that.
Neutrinos might be good for short distances (100ly), but then, you're less likely to encounter interference sources. Since photons are easier to emit and detect, they are the more likely choice.
In summary: photons for short distances, since interference isn't a factor and nothing for long distances since lag time makes meaningful communication impossible.
Any h323 client will do the job, like Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting). Also, for those in the science community, evo.caltech.edu is a nice Java-based collaboration tool.
Where do they get off saying that they don't have the technical means to target? If they can tell what IPs belong to which schools then they absolutely have the means with which to target.
It's old, but its wonderful. It's truly Carl Sagan at his best. And when she's old enough, there's the companion book. And the whole thing is available on Netflix.
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Even worse is that most of these contracts stipulate that you're going to pay them for the next two to three years, but don't lock in the price. You can get a $100/mo cell phone or satellite TV plan today and three months from now they could double the price and you'd be obligated to either pay it or pay an early termination fee.
Ubisoft shows us how its done!
FERPA only applies if you ask for it. If you don't request anonymity, you don't get it.
The Families Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 allows a student at a university to require the university to not release their name to anyone. For example, if you check for my name at my school's phonebook, you'll find I'm not listed. If you call my registrar's office and ask for information on me, they'll tell you that they don't have a student by my name. You see, it's against the law for them to even confirm that I'm a student.
Since many schools have outsourced their email systems to Gmail, anyone can generate a full roster of student names through this trick. This could obviously result in many violations of FERPA.
What about OCR'ing the scans? I've tried and failed one previous attempts to find an OSS solution that will allow me to start with jpegs and end up with PDFs or DJVUs. Does anyone have any suggestions on this front?
What he's saying is that ultimately, all of your experimental error has to be accounted for by your model. It would be nice to define 1kg as X atoms of X material, but as of the present, we have no way of measuring X atoms to any precision of any material. This group has moved us one step forward.
For those of your who haven't have chemistry or physics in a few year, 12g of carbon has 6.022x10^23 atoms in it. Counting those accurately is essential to defining the kilogram.
I really have come to like the new development style on the Kernel 2.6 branch. At first, I thought that rolling new features in with security and bug fixes was a bad idea, but it has worked out really nicely. Other projects should consider doing these rolling releases.
I want .ocm .om and .cm!
I have the Sunrocket "widget" (Linksys voip adapter) plugged directly into my dsl modem, and my router plugged into the widget. The widget is supposed to give its own data priority, but I've never seen any evidence of that.
But if all you care about is keeping BT from using the last XX amount of bandwidth, just dial your max upload and download speeds down in the BT client.
Does anyone know if Blockbuster's movie-rental-by-mail program offers separate queues?
Thats a PQI-style connector on the end. The real PQI drives are a much better deal. Twice as much storage, same price, including shipping:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141265
And as far as small goes, these are smaller (although less capacity):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141275
...the "overclock" button was known as Turbo and the only reason we used it was because our 386's went too damn fast!
On the ordering page it gives a choice between 104 keys (US) and 105 keys (intl). What is the extra key that the international users get that we don't have?
I'm sick of games being released either for Xbox2/PS3 or Wii. As a Wii-owner, I wish I had access to SF4, GTA, etc. Oh well, maybe its just time to buy an Xbox.
I saw an article just last week on this and it now costs a lot more than 1.2 cents to make a penny.. its closing in on a nickel. I thought it was on msnbc.com, but I can't find it now.
If you're hired to do a job and instead you're posting to a blog, then its no surprise that you'd be fired. Especially considering that a government employee making political posts could be considered a form of propaganda.
I think what we're looking at is what will be an evolutionary step like we saw going from Win95 to Win98. And as I recall, it was quite an improvement. Not to say of course that Win98 was perfect, it had its (huge) flaws, but it was quite a step in the right direction.
Great, an article telling us what Windows 7 isn't. While they're at it, somebody should write a story about how it doesn't use the Linux or MacOS kernels either. From the start Microsoft has been telling us that MinWin is an experimental, non-production kernel and that it wouldn't be in Windows 7. Now CNet reports it and its like new news all over again. Yawn.
With a 200ly lag, you could still hold a meaningful conversation. You might not be able to play CS, but you could transmit the works of Shakespeare and have them get there before your species is long extinct.
Any civilization that wants to communicate across the galaxy is going to use something (and I don't know what that something would be) other than a particle that can't travel faster than light. The Milky Way is about 100,000ly across, so the ping times from one side to the other would be 200,000 years - try playing Intergalactic Counter Strike over that.
Neutrinos might be good for short distances (100ly), but then, you're less likely to encounter interference sources. Since photons are easier to emit and detect, they are the more likely choice.
In summary: photons for short distances, since interference isn't a factor and nothing for long distances since lag time makes meaningful communication impossible.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0436218
Any h323 client will do the job, like Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting). Also, for those in the science community, evo.caltech.edu is a nice Java-based collaboration tool.
Where do they get off saying that they don't have the technical means to target? If they can tell what IPs belong to which schools then they absolutely have the means with which to target.
Definitely. If they know that every infringement notice to the campus costs some poor student $50, thats even better than actually having to sue them.
It's old, but its wonderful. It's truly Carl Sagan at his best. And when she's old enough, there's the companion book. And the whole thing is available on Netflix.