> Unfortunately, NPR's gov't funding has been on a steady decline > since the 1970s, when most of their funding came from our tax > dollars.
Perhaps that's not too unfortunate. I'm a big-government liberal and I'd love for my tax dollars to go to funding public broadcasting, but compared to PBS, NPR has been largely unbothered by conservative executive appointees at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB gives NPR much less funding than it gives PBS, and so it has been unable to influence NPR to the same degree. Partly, this is because radio is much cheaper to produce than television. But anyway, the more NPR has come to rely on individual and corporate sponsors (my station is funded 60% by individuals, 35% by corporate sponsors, and 5% by state, local, and federal government sources), the more independant it has been able to be, since individual and corporate sponsors are more diversified, and less able to exert power to the same degree.
Mmm, I think you both misunderstood. He was being sarcastic, implying that Chinese are going to wake up and say "we [as in the Chinese] missed this opportunity [to have more physical education majors]".
I know what kept me interested in computer classes in elementary school... education video games! Ah... Oregon Trail. It'd be worth checking into what games are cheap/free for education purposes. --
It's not exactly a hack, but the original bulky Gameboy came with a magnifying glass-type apparatus that you could attach to the screen. It included a light as well. --
I disagree. If you're already holding the mouse, you can move around really quickly with gesture-based navigation in Opera. Of course, this is assuming you're using a real mouse; with a laptop touchpad this wouldn't be convenient at all. --
"Just imagine, the large proprietary commercial empires wouldn't be able to roll a truly Free
piece of software into their commercial apps and claim their own innovation..."
Stealing free software is already illegal. If somebody is already claiming it as their own, how is this clause going to stop them? --
This won't help you with customers you've already lost, but it seems to me that you should argue the merits of your platform vs. the security risks of others while you're bidding for the contract, rather than arguing them after you've already lost it. --
It's not just Oracle and IBM in the commercial DB world... Sybase is still a player... at least, I still see lots of job postings for Sybase programmers/DBA's, so it must be doing okay... --
Opera handles crashes much more nicely than Netscape or IE. When you reload it, it gives you the option of beginning your session on your standard start page (like the others) OR it lets you start on the page where you crashed, in which case it remembers your history as well.
Yet another reason why Opera is a terrific browser. --
Many employers make you sign an agreement stating that anything you do with company resources is company property, whether it's Art, Music, Research, or writing a computer program, whether or not the thing you write has anything to do with that company's business. Always read what you sign when you start a new job. --
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IIRC, Ralph Nader's responses were given by his publicist, taken from his standard literature. --
When you use lynx!! No really, I'm not a luddite. But think about it: most of the stuff linked to from/posted on/. consists of articles and rants. In other words: text! Most of the ads are reduced to a short, easily-ignorable phrase, URL, or [IMAGE]. --
I had always understood the current tech slump as the bust that would naturally follow the dot-com boom. I don't think anybody was ever afraid that Net usage would be suffering. Just because people aren't buying their cheese graters from eGrater.com anymore doesn't mean Net usage is down. I don't think anybody was disputing this. --
"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George (Lucas) would do it." -- Mark Hamill (The guy who played Luke Skywalker) --
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For what I find to be the most intelligent, thorough, and generally interesting source of News, turn to your local NPR station on the radio. NPR is seldom, if ever, sensationalist, and it is always informative and educational. This is certainly true on a national level, with programs such as All Things Considered in the evening, and Morning Edition. It has been true on a local level as well everywhere I have lived (Detroit, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia).
I would go with the light sensor: you can tweak it to only work at close range. Alternatively, get two mindstorm units and have them send a laser beam back and forth to each other, if the beam get's broken (i.e. the cat walks between them) spray the water. --
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> Unfortunately, NPR's gov't funding has been on a steady decline
> since the 1970s, when most of their funding came from our tax
> dollars.
Perhaps that's not too unfortunate. I'm a big-government liberal and I'd love for my tax dollars to go to funding public broadcasting, but compared to PBS, NPR has been largely unbothered by conservative executive appointees at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB gives NPR much less funding than it gives PBS, and so it has been unable to influence NPR to the same degree. Partly, this is because radio is much cheaper to produce than television. But anyway, the more NPR has come to rely on individual and corporate sponsors (my station is funded 60% by individuals, 35% by corporate sponsors, and 5% by state, local, and federal government sources), the more independant it has been able to be, since individual and corporate sponsors are more diversified, and less able to exert power to the same degree.
Mmm, I think you both misunderstood. He was being sarcastic, implying that Chinese are going to wake up and say "we [as in the Chinese] missed this opportunity [to have more physical education majors]".
I know what kept me interested in computer classes in elementary school... education video games! Ah... Oregon Trail. It'd be worth checking into what games are cheap/free for education purposes.
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It's not exactly a hack, but the original bulky Gameboy came with a magnifying glass-type apparatus that you could attach to the screen. It included a light as well.
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I disagree. If you're already holding the mouse, you can move around really quickly with gesture-based navigation in Opera. Of course, this is assuming you're using a real mouse; with a laptop touchpad this wouldn't be convenient at all.
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"Just imagine, the large proprietary commercial empires wouldn't be able to roll a truly Free piece of software into their commercial apps and claim their own innovation..."
Stealing free software is already illegal. If somebody is already claiming it as their own, how is this clause going to stop them?
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This won't help you with customers you've already lost, but it seems to me that you should argue the merits of your platform vs. the security risks of others while you're bidding for the contract, rather than arguing them after you've already lost it.
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According to my CS prof, LISP == Lots of Insane, Silly Parentheses.
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Lisp (LISt Processing) is a language used in Artificial Intelligence circles. Emacs is written in Lisp.
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== slashdot-reading bliss. I don't know what jamie's problem is...
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It's not just Oracle and IBM in the commercial DB world... Sybase is still a player... at least, I still see lots of job postings for Sybase programmers/DBA's, so it must be doing okay...
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lynx. I moderate in lynx, and it never crashes for me.
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Opera handles crashes much more nicely than Netscape or IE. When you reload it, it gives you the option of beginning your session on your standard start page (like the others) OR it lets you start on the page where you crashed, in which case it remembers your history as well.
Yet another reason why Opera is a terrific browser.
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Spinner. It has lots of different channels based on genre, and it's still working today... Of course, it's a Windows-only product, but...
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Many employers make you sign an agreement stating that anything you do with company resources is company property, whether it's Art, Music, Research, or writing a computer program, whether or not the thing you write has anything to do with that company's business. Always read what you sign when you start a new job.
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IIRC, Ralph Nader's responses were given by his publicist, taken from his standard literature.
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When you use lynx!! No really, I'm not a luddite. But think about it: most of the stuff linked to from/posted on /. consists of articles and rants. In other words: text! Most of the ads are reduced to a short, easily-ignorable phrase, URL, or [IMAGE].
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I had always understood the current tech slump as the bust that would naturally follow the dot-com boom. I don't think anybody was ever afraid that Net usage would be suffering. Just because people aren't buying their cheese graters from eGrater.com anymore doesn't mean Net usage is down. I don't think anybody was disputing this.
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Here is the text the Supreme Court's findings.
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George (Lucas) would do it."
-- Mark Hamill (The guy who played Luke Skywalker)
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For what I find to be the most intelligent, thorough, and generally interesting source of News, turn to your local NPR station on the radio. NPR is seldom, if ever, sensationalist, and it is always informative and educational.
This is certainly true on a national level, with programs such as All Things Considered in the evening, and Morning Edition. It has been true on a local level as well everywhere I have lived (Detroit, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia).
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I would go with the light sensor: you can tweak it to only work at close range.
Alternatively, get two mindstorm units and have them send a laser beam back and forth to each other, if the beam get's broken (i.e. the cat walks between them) spray the water.
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I'm not questioning that this is science, but perhaps it's time to create a "Nanotechnology" topic.
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Proof here
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You could load Slashdot on a 286? Impressive...
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