Totally agree with you regarding photos. I use iPhoto to print out books of our family trips, then send copies to the grandparents. You have off site storage, and don't have to worry about finding the correct media player. The kids are able to read it whenever they want to. It's fun to watch my kids snuggle up with their grandparents on the couch with books, not as easy with a laptop or tablet.
I compared my wife's school (a Liberal Arts School in Western Mass) with my own (Pac 10 school in Puget Sound). The only thing the schools shared were the school colors. The difference is really the people you go to school with. I went to classes (with hundreds of students) lectured by Nobel Laureates, but in fact got the bulk of teaching by the TA's. My classmates were good people, looking for a professional career, but nothing spectacular.
My wife, on the other hand, had no class bigger than 100. There were a lot of really bright people. It's really unnerving sometimes watching "The Daily Show" and my wife casually mention that the guest lived across the hall in the freshman dorm. I guess, if my kids have the brain and drive to make it at a school like that, I would definitely scrape together the money.
Posting from a Cr-48 right now. One question I have is how Google will get feedback from me. I suppose the machine will send back information to the mothership ever now and then.
It's interesting experience using the machine right now. There are things that you expect to use on a regular linux laptop that is not available, like software. The experience is more like using an iPad, but without the apps. The apps are just html5 websites, I think. I would like to have a VNC app which would let me do some remote applications.
We've seen many different types of "internet appliances", but this may be the best one yet. I have a whole bunch of internet appliances in my garage, including the 3com audrey and a FrontPath ProGear. (yes, I have no life) I can see Google giving these things out like razor handles.
It's not just the South. My female (blond) medical school classmates at Michigan State told me they would routinely say they were majoring in Hotel/Restaurant Management when bar hopping. Most men (at least those who go bar hopping on Grand River Ave) are fearful of attractive, smart women. I'm lucky to have married someone smarter than me... so I never understood that. My mother was very smart though, and that may make a difference. Hopefully, my boys will find someone smart like their mother.
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I hereby declare Psystar to be a reverse trojan horse. Apple created Psystar so they could sue themselves and once and for all crush any thoughts companies might have of trying to produce generic Apple-compatible platforms for OSX.
livescribe.com sells the Pulse Smart Pen. It can also record the lecture while transcribing your handwriting. the best thing however, is to get last years notes, and bring it with you. then you can read along. professors usually have the same script year after year.
Does anyone remember the Microsoft store at the Metreon? It was set up like those temporary holiday sausage stores you see in the mall around christmas time. I couldn't figure it out then either (Microsoft, not the summer sausages)
thanks for the insight. this would explain my kids behavior with their grandparents. we use iChat, but the kids hate teleconferencing unless they are showing off cool background effects. my parents enjoy seeing the kids goof off anyway, so it works out in the end.
you know, i was thinking while putting together the IKEA bunk bed for the kids... if i only had an extra pair of hands. now i can rent one! sorta like Kali
as a physician, i realize how much resource you need to do things that are routine. when i perform surgery, there has to be nurses pre, inra and post operatively. we need anesthesia, sterile equipment,etc. it's amazing what has to run right in order to get things done. you then have to get that into space, and then do surgery? that's going to be an interest problem to overcome.
wikipedia has a nice write up on "capacitor plague" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
it sounds like bad industrial espionage... apparently, some Taiwanese firm stoled the electrolyte recipe from a Japanese firm, but got the wrong formula. i have a Rev A iMac G5 that had the power supply and motherboard replaced because of this.
i think Newegg can add a "class-action lawsuit" button next to the rebate button, so they can help their customers use their money responsibly. it's the only place i buy my stuff from, and they would have proof of purchase information on file. heck, they can be like Steve Jobs, and just credit me for more purchases from their store!
i'm glad you got modded up. the answer is, of course, Apple Airline.
Seriously, if the airlines can guarantee more space, minimal connections, and speedy security lines, for a few hundred more, i'd pay it. the problem is currently, there is no difference between the $600 seat and the $300 seat. You get 35C no matter what.
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Will the Wave Motion Gun be next?
Totally agree with you regarding photos. I use iPhoto to print out books of our family trips, then send copies to the grandparents. You have off site storage, and don't have to worry about finding the correct media player. The kids are able to read it whenever they want to. It's fun to watch my kids snuggle up with their grandparents on the couch with books, not as easy with a laptop or tablet.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-truth-about-benders-brain I didn't realize that Apple would be responsible for Bender's MOS 6502 brain. Apparently David X Cohen programmed assembly for the Apple ][ in high school.
In light of the Stuxnet virus and Iranian centrifuge sabotage , I'm surprised that the Russians didn't drop Microsoft sooner.
I compared my wife's school (a Liberal Arts School in Western Mass) with my own (Pac 10 school in Puget Sound). The only thing the schools shared were the school colors. The difference is really the people you go to school with. I went to classes (with hundreds of students) lectured by Nobel Laureates, but in fact got the bulk of teaching by the TA's. My classmates were good people, looking for a professional career, but nothing spectacular. My wife, on the other hand, had no class bigger than 100. There were a lot of really bright people. It's really unnerving sometimes watching "The Daily Show" and my wife casually mention that the guest lived across the hall in the freshman dorm. I guess, if my kids have the brain and drive to make it at a school like that, I would definitely scrape together the money.
Posting from a Cr-48 right now. One question I have is how Google will get feedback from me. I suppose the machine will send back information to the mothership ever now and then. It's interesting experience using the machine right now. There are things that you expect to use on a regular linux laptop that is not available, like software. The experience is more like using an iPad, but without the apps. The apps are just html5 websites, I think. I would like to have a VNC app which would let me do some remote applications. We've seen many different types of "internet appliances", but this may be the best one yet. I have a whole bunch of internet appliances in my garage, including the 3com audrey and a FrontPath ProGear. (yes, I have no life) I can see Google giving these things out like razor handles.
What Matrix sequel?
It was Aloha Airlines flight 243, not Hawaiian. My mother fortunately missed flying on that airplane by taking an earlier flight.
It's not just the South. My female (blond) medical school classmates at Michigan State told me they would routinely say they were majoring in Hotel/Restaurant Management when bar hopping. Most men (at least those who go bar hopping on Grand River Ave) are fearful of attractive, smart women. I'm lucky to have married someone smarter than me... so I never understood that. My mother was very smart though, and that may make a difference. Hopefully, my boys will find someone smart like their mother.
I hereby declare Psystar to be a reverse trojan horse. Apple created Psystar so they could sue themselves and once and for all crush any thoughts companies might have of trying to produce generic Apple-compatible platforms for OSX.
this should be modded "insightful"
livescribe.com sells the Pulse Smart Pen. It can also record the lecture while transcribing your handwriting. the best thing however, is to get last years notes, and bring it with you. then you can read along. professors usually have the same script year after year.
Well, slashdot has to pay the bills too, ya know.
Does anyone remember the Microsoft store at the Metreon? It was set up like those temporary holiday sausage stores you see in the mall around christmas time. I couldn't figure it out then either (Microsoft, not the summer sausages)
thanks for the insight. this would explain my kids behavior with their grandparents. we use iChat, but the kids hate teleconferencing unless they are showing off cool background effects. my parents enjoy seeing the kids goof off anyway, so it works out in the end.
Fire!!! Bomber!!! (sorry, bad Macross 7 joke)
So the Koreans sent up kimchee, the Japanese had ramen. What wonderful food can the British send up to space with their people?
you know, i was thinking while putting together the IKEA bunk bed for the kids... if i only had an extra pair of hands. now i can rent one! sorta like Kali
i do have a machine that goes "Ping"
as a physician, i realize how much resource you need to do things that are routine. when i perform surgery, there has to be nurses pre, inra and post operatively. we need anesthesia, sterile equipment,etc. it's amazing what has to run right in order to get things done. you then have to get that into space, and then do surgery? that's going to be an interest problem to overcome.
wikipedia has a nice write up on "capacitor plague" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague it sounds like bad industrial espionage... apparently, some Taiwanese firm stoled the electrolyte recipe from a Japanese firm, but got the wrong formula. i have a Rev A iMac G5 that had the power supply and motherboard replaced because of this.
i think Newegg can add a "class-action lawsuit" button next to the rebate button, so they can help their customers use their money responsibly. it's the only place i buy my stuff from, and they would have proof of purchase information on file. heck, they can be like Steve Jobs, and just credit me for more purchases from their store!
oh, i don't know. there are some classic "articles" and "short stories" from old Playboy magazines.
Hugo Chavez, the Bush Administration will get you yet!
i'm glad you got modded up. the answer is, of course, Apple Airline. Seriously, if the airlines can guarantee more space, minimal connections, and speedy security lines, for a few hundred more, i'd pay it. the problem is currently, there is no difference between the $600 seat and the $300 seat. You get 35C no matter what.
Didn't John Paul I died because of his investigation into all that money?s piracy_theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I_con