I agree, my aunt has this machine in her kitchen, it's perfect to watch tv on or surf the web, then you can fold the keyboard up and it the top half of the screen is a clock/display for playing music.
Nice.
This was on an episode of the next generation! Space mission from our time presumed lost... the guy was actually living on an alien planet in a simulated world which was modeled after the book he had with him when he landed on the planet.
Of course he was dead by the time the guys find him, but really bizarre.
My Belkin FM transmitter works well in the car. Travelling across states, you periodically have to change radio stations. That's as much trouble as I've had. I would happily buy the thing again, but a mini would be a great counterpart, and cheaper.
I just got a 40G iPod, and love the convenience of having all my music at any given place. That doesn't mean I'm out of the market for a new one.
My husband and I have two cars, so we might as well have two iPods. The mini would give us more flexibility than having two big iPods. The iPod does not fit comfortably in my pocket, and for any given day, I might just listen to a handful of albums, which would easily fit on the mini.
Docking it and uploading different songs to it in the morning is an easy thing to do. The mini is highly appealing to me largely because of it's size and the fact that it would incorporate seamlessly with my existing setup.
I just trashed my old 98 machine for a new mac. I hadn't upgraded because I had yet to be sold on an alternative. Win98 isn't fantastic, but I did have everything comfortably configured and wasn't about to reload the thing for a relatively similar experience(win 2k or others)
I hung on to that thing because it was reliable, well okay so it would lock up now and again, but it was predictable. Joan
Sometimes our professors would give equations or systems where the calculator would give a totally absurd result or it would give two 'possible' solutions, even though one of them was impossible in the system. the people that did the work by hand had more meaningful answers, square root of something over something, while a calculator answer would be a totally berserk decimal. the teacher would often criticize those turning in papers with such answers, asking, oh can you show the whole class how you got that answer? and the whole time the student never realized how neatly the equation came out when done without the calculator.
but worse still, try turning in one of two possible answers the calculator gave you and it be the wrong one and getting 0 points for your effort.
I didn't take algebra in college but I imagine the simiple solution there is to ban calculators outright or those of greater than scientific capacity.
but in engineering I found that our teachers handled the calculators just fine. Ex: by wanting a number to only three decimal places, but when the calculator figured it out, it rounded differently than you or I would so the class turned in slightly different answers depending on their reliance on the calculator.
I think it will be up to the schools to decide. I remember in high school if you had a HP with the IR port, they made you put electrical tape over the front to keep you from 'cheating'
but the designation calculator will allow these things to be used on tests where a 'pocket PC' or such will probably be prohibited, even if they do the exact same things, there is paranoia about that sort of thing. I also remember when the TI9something came out with the QWERTY keyboard on it, my school also prohibited it's use, as it no longer resembled a calculator but in fact a computer.
The web is an excellent example of such technology -- it's no longer exciting, because it has become part of our life.
A lack of excitement online due to the fact that it has become part of our life.
What a fantastically depressing way to start an article, and make me want to read the rest of it! Listening to the weather report on the news is part of my life so it has lost excitement, so therefore I am only mildly interested in a superior weather/earth reporting system?
And once we give the earth a unified encircling virtual nervous system won't it become the biggest terrorist target ever? Imagine automatically triggering the "communication layer" with false sensor information.
shrug
I am in an undergraduate psychology class at a small college and we have to write a paper with a minimum of five sources. The teacher said that we could only use one Internet source, and that we would have to visit the library to get the other four. She considers the Internet to be either less reliable or less valid a reference than the library.
I found this to be very upsetting because searching the content of an online article for keywords is so much more efficient than having to flip through books skimming to see if they are really what I need. I was not looking forward to making a trip to visit the library.
I was overjoyed after I used my husband's log in to access the library website at his (large) school. It allows limited searches of all their material, so if you have to go you can allready know the book and section and head straight for it. They have also archived old journals and such in pdf format, many of which are the original full text that was published. There were also links to the journal and society webpages for more information. I was able to search, view and print content from these journals from the comfort of my own desk and still haven't set foot in the library.
I feel great about the requirements of the class, since the teacher doesn't have to know I actually used the Internet for all five sources. For all she knows I was able to find those journals in their original printings. I am also horrified by her seemingly counterproductive stance for the class, and I hope the libraries at both schools continue to find ways to stay relevent.
Exactly. If we could count the number of displaced workers, people who went to college to get a degree in something, now working at some random job just to have a job, I think the numbers would be truly frightening.
I am not unemployed. I am a receptionist, with a BS.
I am a professional member of the IEEE and volunteer member of the IEEE's Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort. I will give you an excerpt from a recent email about the USA Jobs Protection Act and the need to reform the visa programs:
IEEE-USA urges concerned engineers to contact their U.S. Senators and Representatives to enlist their support for the USA Jobs Protection Act (H.R. 2849 & S.1452) as introduced by Representative Nancy Johnson (R-CT) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT). If enacted this important legislation would plug loopholes and prevent abuses of the controversial H-1B (Specialty Occupations) and L-1 (Intra-Company Transfer) temporary visa programs
Please contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives and ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 2849 (in the House) and S. 1452 (in the Senate).
The USA Jobs Protection Act is sponsored by respected Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress and, if enacted, will:
- Prevent employers from using the L-1 visa program to displace American workers,
- Require employers to pay L-1 visa holders prevailing wages,
- Limit the use of blanket L-1 visa applications,
- Prohibit leasing of L-1 visa holders to secondary employers,
- Strengthen the Labor Secretary's authority to investigate abuses of
L-1 and H-1B visas,
- Keep the H-1B cap at 65,000, and
- Expand U.S. worker recruitment and retention requirements to all
employers of H-1B workers (These requirements currently only apply to
"H-1B dependent" employers).
It is a simple matter to search for your representatives and email them to let them know what you think, as well as view the status of current legislation at www.congress.org
Thanks! Joan
A site I've looked at a little: http://www.h1b.info/
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I agree, my aunt has this machine in her kitchen, it's perfect to watch tv on or surf the web, then you can fold the keyboard up and it the top half of the screen is a clock/display for playing music.
Nice.
Southwestern
Southern would be BellSouth
This was on an episode of the next generation! Space mission from our time presumed lost... the guy was actually living on an alien planet in a simulated world which was modeled after the book he had with him when he landed on the planet.
Of course he was dead by the time the guys find him, but really bizarre.
My Belkin FM transmitter works well in the car. Travelling across states, you periodically have to change radio stations. That's as much trouble as I've had.
I would happily buy the thing again, but a mini would be a great counterpart, and cheaper.
I just got a 40G iPod, and love the convenience of having all my music at any given place. That doesn't mean I'm out of the market for a new one.
My husband and I have two cars, so we might as well have two iPods. The mini would give us more flexibility than having two big iPods. The iPod does not fit comfortably in my pocket, and for any given day, I might just listen to a handful of albums, which would easily fit on the mini.
Docking it and uploading different songs to it in the morning is an easy thing to do. The mini is highly appealing to me largely because of it's size and the fact that it would incorporate seamlessly with my existing setup.
Drool.
Joan
I just trashed my old 98 machine for a new mac. I hadn't upgraded because I had yet to be sold on an alternative. Win98 isn't fantastic, but I did have everything comfortably configured and wasn't about to reload the thing for a relatively similar experience(win 2k or others)
I hung on to that thing because it was reliable, well okay so it would lock up now and again, but it was predictable.
Joan
Sometimes our professors would give equations or systems where the calculator would give a totally absurd result or it would give two 'possible' solutions, even though one of them was impossible in the system.
the people that did the work by hand had more meaningful answers, square root of something over something, while a calculator answer would be a totally berserk decimal. the teacher would often criticize those turning in papers with such answers, asking, oh can you show the whole class how you got that answer? and the whole time the student never realized how neatly the equation came out when done without the calculator.
but worse still, try turning in one of two possible answers the calculator gave you and it be the wrong one and getting 0 points for your effort.
I didn't take algebra in college but I imagine the simiple solution there is to ban calculators outright or those of greater than scientific capacity.
but in engineering I found that our teachers handled the calculators just fine.
Ex: by wanting a number to only three decimal places, but when the calculator figured it out, it rounded differently than you or I would so the class turned in slightly different answers depending on their reliance on the calculator.
I think it will be up to the schools to decide. I remember in high school if you had a HP with the IR port, they made you put electrical tape over the front to keep you from 'cheating'
but the designation calculator will allow these things to be used on tests where a 'pocket PC' or such will probably be prohibited, even if they do the exact same things, there is paranoia about that sort of thing.
I also remember when the TI9something came out with the QWERTY keyboard on it, my school also prohibited it's use, as it no longer resembled a calculator but in fact a computer.
Engineering students, perhaps? I don't think I would have graduated without my HP48. Joan
The web is an excellent example of such technology -- it's no longer exciting, because it has become part of our life.
A lack of excitement online due to the fact that it has become part of our life.
What a fantastically depressing way to start an article, and make me want to read the rest of it! Listening to the weather report on the news is part of my life so it has lost excitement, so therefore I am only mildly interested in a superior weather/earth reporting system?
And once we give the earth a unified encircling virtual nervous system won't it become the biggest terrorist target ever? Imagine automatically triggering the "communication layer" with false sensor information.
shrug
I am in an undergraduate psychology class at a small college and we have to write a paper with a minimum of five sources. The teacher said that we could only use one Internet source, and that we would have to visit the library to get the other four. She considers the Internet to be either less reliable or less valid a reference than the library.
I found this to be very upsetting because searching the content of an online article for keywords is so much more efficient than having to flip through books skimming to see if they are really what I need. I was not looking forward to making a trip to visit the library.
I was overjoyed after I used my husband's log in to access the library website at his (large) school. It allows limited searches of all their material, so if you have to go you can allready know the book and section and head straight for it. They have also archived old journals and such in pdf format, many of which are the original full text that was published. There were also links to the journal and society webpages for more information. I was able to search, view and print content from these journals from the comfort of my own desk and still haven't set foot in the library.
I feel great about the requirements of the class, since the teacher doesn't have to know I actually used the Internet for all five sources. For all she knows I was able to find those journals in their original printings. I am also horrified by her seemingly counterproductive stance for the class, and I hope the libraries at both schools continue to find ways to stay relevent.
Exactly. If we could count the number of displaced workers, people who went to college to get a degree in something, now working at some random job just to have a job, I think the numbers would be truly frightening.
I am not unemployed. I am a receptionist, with a BS.
I am a professional member of the IEEE and volunteer member of the IEEE's Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort. I will give you an excerpt from a recent email about the USA Jobs Protection Act and the need to reform the visa programs:
IEEE-USA urges concerned engineers to contact their U.S. Senators and
Representatives to enlist their support for the USA Jobs Protection Act
(H.R. 2849 & S.1452) as introduced by Representative Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT). If enacted this important legislation would
plug loopholes and prevent abuses of the controversial H-1B (Specialty
Occupations) and L-1 (Intra-Company Transfer) temporary visa programs
Please contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives and ask them to
co-sponsor H.R. 2849 (in the House) and S. 1452 (in the Senate).
The USA Jobs Protection Act is sponsored by respected Republicans and
Democrats in both houses of Congress and, if enacted, will:
- Prevent employers from using the L-1 visa program to displace
American workers,
- Require employers to pay L-1 visa holders prevailing wages,
- Limit the use of blanket L-1 visa applications,
- Prohibit leasing of L-1 visa holders to secondary employers,
- Strengthen the Labor Secretary's authority to investigate abuses of
L-1 and H-1B visas,
- Keep the H-1B cap at 65,000, and
- Expand U.S. worker recruitment and retention requirements to all
employers of H-1B workers (These requirements currently only apply to
"H-1B dependent" employers).
It is a simple matter to search for your representatives and email them to let them know what you think, as well as view the status of current legislation at www.congress.org
Thanks!
Joan
A site I've looked at a little:
http://www.h1b.info/