I am puzzled by this.I have used dosens of CFL bulbs in numerous sockets in three different apartments, and I have never encountered one that did not fully illuminate instantaneosuly. Could there be some other factor affecting this? Humidity maybe? (I live in a dry area) Temperature? (I live in an always-warm area) Something about the electrical service? Something about the building's wiring?
"A book about the open source ${ACRONYM} tool ${DICTIONARYWORD} (${NONSESNEWORD} Data Integration) is finally available. ${NONSESNEWORD} ${VERSION} Data Integration: Beginner's Guide by ${AUTHORNAME} is for everybody who is new to ${DICTIONARYWORD}. In a nutshell, this book will give you all the information that you need to get started with ${DICTIONARYWORD} quickly and efficiently, even if you have never used it before.The books offers loads of illustrations and easy-to-follow examples. The code can be downloaded from the publisher website and ${DICTIONARYWORD} is available for free from the SourceForge website. In sum, the book is the best way to get to know the power of the open source ${ACRONYM} tool ${DICTIONARYWORD}, which is part of the ${NONSESNEWORD} ${DIFFERENTACRONYM} suite.
I think a "right to teach" and a "right to learn" is a nice way of stating in human-friendly terms the right to perform write-operations and read-operation without limitation.
Every time I try to migrate users at my company from MS Office to OpenOffice, the story is the same. They accept it at first, but a week or a month later, they come back to me and say "Some of my word files don't work right in my office. can you give me the same version that [name] has?" where [name] is the name of a person who still have MS Office 2002 on their computer.
When I try to track down specific complaints, I usually find a subtle formatting problem that breaks a table over a page boundary, or makes an awkwardly formatted page, or a font that ends up making a particular line of text just one pixel wider than it used to be causing a reflow. Stuff like that.
I get *almost* the same reaction from people when I try to upgrade them to MS Office 2007. (with higher emphasis on "I can't find feature X" and lower emphasis on "this document formats wrong")
I got several MP3 spams this morning. I listened to one (after sandboxing it just in case it was an MPEG decoder exploit) and it was a female synth voice reading the text of a standard pump-and-dump stock spam.
The think about this that would be most exciting to me is the ability to merge input from other types of sensors besides a regular camera. What if you had a camer a that could see into infra-red or ultra-violot, or both, and would merge this data with the visible light, and adjust the colors to the spectrum your eyes can see. And that is just the beginning!
I want goggles that I can use to "see" Wifi hotspots! Or what about visualization of bat-style echolocation?
Why do we praise little Billy (who is playing in traffic) for moving a little closer to the sidewalk, but at the same time scold little Suzie (who has been playing on the front lawn) for moving a little closer to the curb?
BAM! The door splintered off its hinges, and toppled into the room. The cats yowled and scrambled under the furniture. Six police officers with plexiglass masks and riot guns stormed into the room and surrounded Granny's overstuffed floral-patterned armchair.
"Oh, my!" said Granny.
"Drop the knitting!" shouted one of the officers. "And keep your hands were we can see them!" he added.
Granny released the needles, and the scarf fell into her lap with the yarn. The officer who had spoken reached out with the barrel of his gun and nudged the knitting from her lap onto the floor.
"Clear!" shouted another officer.
A young plainclothes officer carrying a digital clipboard entered the room, gingerly stepping over the wreck of the door. He gave the heap of knitting a scowl, and stopped in front of Granny. The riot police shifted aside to give him a clear view of her.
"Abigail Theresa Winslow?" the officer read from his clipboard.
Granny removed her reading glasses and looked up at the man. "Yes, that's my name." she said.
"You are hereby charged with Economic Terrorism in the 2nd Degree. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say is being recorded, and can be used against you in a court of law."
"I don't understand!" wailed Granny, wringing her hands.
The officer ducked down and picked up Granny's knitting. He held it up to the light, lifting it with only his thumb and forefinger, as if he did not like to touch it.
"This is a beautiful scarf, Mrs. Winslow." he said.
"Oh, thank you, but--" Granny began confusedly.
"I can tell you spent a lot of time on it." said the officer.
"Well, yes, I--"
"We have witnesses willing to attest that you sell these scarves for no more than the cost of the yarn..."
"Yes, I just enjoy making--"
"...Severely undercutting the prices of your commercial competitors by an order of magnitude, in spite of the fact that your scarves are obviously superior handcrafted products."
"I... I... well,... Thank you?" said Granny, still confused, but recognizing the compliment to her handiwork.
"Don't get funny with me, Lady!" the officer snapped, leaning in close to Granny's face. "You should be ashamed of yourself! This sort of underpricing makes me sick! I've come to expect this kind of altruistic bull from hackers and teachers, but I never expected it from a respectable citizen with no criminal record. What is this world coming to?"
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Granny.
"Take her away, boys." said the officer.
Two of the riot police gently handcuffed Granny, and lead her out of the room.
"Send in forensics to bag the evidence." said the officer, dropping the knitting, and wiping his thumb and forefinger on his shirt. He looked around the room, and shook his head sadly. "When will people learn? She acted like she didn't even know it was wrong."
Here is what I would do if I was in your situation.
I would get the Openoffice source distribution, and I would replace the OpenOffice logo with a Microsoft Office logo. Then I would change the product name from "OpenOffice" to "MSOffice". There is already functionality to do this within the build system (see how Sun rebrands their distribution as "StarOffice")
Then I would install this "rebranded" OpenOffice distribution on all the required computers, and I would change the default document types to be microsoft formats.
Then I would tell managment that I had done as they asked, and installed microsoft office.
It seems like it's safe, but then the Sarlacc opens its big ugly mouth and the next thing you know, the rover is being digested for 1,000 years.
Which will provide us with lots of fantastic scientific data about the biology of the Martian Sarlacc, and perhaps will help xenobiologists determine where it fits on the evolutionary tree in relation to the better-studied Tatooine Sarlacc.
Did anybody see the episode of Dave Chappelle where they had the fake commerical for the Warp-It-Up-Box? I am glad to see that technology becoming a reality!
Many kids want to know more about copyright. One of my hobbies is programming a game-making tool which lets people make their own game with little programming knowledge. Most of my users are kids and teens. I have been asked many times to explain how copyright works. Kids are interested in knowing how copyright protects their own work, as well how to understand copyright well enough to know how and when they can incorporate other people's work into their own.
Teaching kids about copyright is not just a first-step towards fighting music piracy, it is also a first step towrds teaching them about copyright licences like GPL or Creative Commons.
(that being said, I think linking school funding to RIAA propaganda is reprehensable-- I was just trying to suggest we try to teach kids this stuff ourselves)
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> (4) it only downloads a pointer to the online version of the file
I have an AVI file on my hard drive that says otherwise (although I guess there are settings for that, so it varies from file to file)
Google appears to be using FLV, which plays in your browser through flash. When you click "download", you get an AVI file, which seems to work just fine in VLC.
Have you actually looked at video.google.com yet?
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if you haven't done so already, go to http://video.google.com/ and look at this in action-- despite the knee-jerk fear reaction against DRM, this looks really cool. Try it out. Click the "Submit your video" link. Several important things to notice: (1) you can publish your own videos for sale (2) the DRM is totally optional. You can publish stuff for free just as easily (3) No special software to install, no special codec, it plays through the flash plugin (4) No attempt to prevent you from downloading and saving movies-- in fact there is a nice friendly "download" button next to each video (5) Search for "Russian Climbing"... wow that kid is awesome!
It is not simply the duty of our government regulators to protect us from Loud Annoying Cell Phone Users. It is their duty to protect us from the very indignity of being annoyed, regardless of the source of that annoyance.
I for one will not be happy until we passengers are sedated in the terminal, packed in bubble-wrap, loading into the plane like cargo, and revived with a stiff drink at the destination.
Yeah. Treat school like a day job... a day job where you have six different bosses, and every one of them wants yo to take home half an hour of work every day or you will get demoted.
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I am puzzled by this.I have used dosens of CFL bulbs in numerous sockets in three different apartments, and I have never encountered one that did not fully illuminate instantaneosuly. Could there be some other factor affecting this? Humidity maybe? (I live in a dry area) Temperature? (I live in an always-warm area) Something about the electrical service? Something about the building's wiring?
Try Invent With Python: http://inventwithpython.com/
"A book about the open source ${ACRONYM} tool ${DICTIONARYWORD} (${NONSESNEWORD} Data Integration) is finally available. ${NONSESNEWORD} ${VERSION} Data Integration: Beginner's Guide by ${AUTHORNAME} is for everybody who is new to ${DICTIONARYWORD}. In a nutshell, this book will give you all the information that you need to get started with ${DICTIONARYWORD} quickly and efficiently, even if you have never used it before.The books offers loads of illustrations and easy-to-follow examples. The code can be downloaded from the publisher website and ${DICTIONARYWORD} is available for free from the SourceForge website. In sum, the book is the best way to get to know the power of the open source ${ACRONYM} tool ${DICTIONARYWORD}, which is part of the ${NONSESNEWORD} ${DIFFERENTACRONYM} suite.
Each morning I walk my dog, and I go past the newsstands on the corner. I always slow down and peer into them and read the headlines. I never buy one.
Oh, all you haters just don't want to admit how much fun it would be to throw a party that damn nerdy.
I think a "right to teach" and a "right to learn" is a nice way of stating in human-friendly terms the right to perform write-operations and read-operation without limitation.
Every time I try to migrate users at my company from MS Office to OpenOffice, the story is the same. They accept it at first, but a week or a month later, they come back to me and say "Some of my word files don't work right in my office. can you give me the same version that [name] has?" where [name] is the name of a person who still have MS Office 2002 on their computer.
When I try to track down specific complaints, I usually find a subtle formatting problem that breaks a table over a page boundary, or makes an awkwardly formatted page, or a font that ends up making a particular line of text just one pixel wider than it used to be causing a reflow. Stuff like that.
I get *almost* the same reaction from people when I try to upgrade them to MS Office 2007. (with higher emphasis on "I can't find feature X" and lower emphasis on "this document formats wrong")
... also the first known example of "feature creep"
Quit Your Job and Become a Lumberjack!
It's what I dream of doing every time the Windows XP print spooler hands when I am trying to check the properties of a print queue.
I got several MP3 spams this morning. I listened to one (after sandboxing it just in case it was an MPEG decoder exploit) and it was a female synth voice reading the text of a standard pump-and-dump stock spam.
The think about this that would be most exciting to me is the ability to merge input from other types of sensors besides a regular camera. What if you had a camer a that could see into infra-red or ultra-violot, or both, and would merge this data with the visible light, and adjust the colors to the spectrum your eyes can see. And that is just the beginning!
I want goggles that I can use to "see" Wifi hotspots! Or what about visualization of bat-style echolocation?
Why do we praise little Billy (who is playing in traffic) for moving a little closer to the sidewalk, but at the same time scold little Suzie (who has been playing on the front lawn) for moving a little closer to the curb?
BAM! The door splintered off its hinges, and toppled into the room. The cats yowled and scrambled under the furniture. Six police officers with plexiglass masks and riot guns stormed into the room and surrounded Granny's overstuffed floral-patterned armchair.
"Oh, my!" said Granny.
"Drop the knitting!" shouted one of the officers. "And keep your hands were we can see them!" he added.
Granny released the needles, and the scarf fell into her lap with the yarn. The officer who had spoken reached out with the barrel of his gun and nudged the knitting from her lap onto the floor.
"Clear!" shouted another officer.
A young plainclothes officer carrying a digital clipboard entered the room, gingerly stepping over the wreck of the door. He gave the heap of knitting a scowl, and stopped in front of Granny. The riot police shifted aside to give him a clear view of her.
"Abigail Theresa Winslow?" the officer read from his clipboard.
Granny removed her reading glasses and looked up at the man. "Yes, that's my name." she said.
"You are hereby charged with Economic Terrorism in the 2nd Degree. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say is being recorded, and can be used against you in a court of law."
"I don't understand!" wailed Granny, wringing her hands.
The officer ducked down and picked up Granny's knitting. He held it up to the light, lifting it with only his thumb and forefinger, as if he did not like to touch it.
"This is a beautiful scarf, Mrs. Winslow." he said.
"Oh, thank you, but--" Granny began confusedly.
"I can tell you spent a lot of time on it." said the officer.
"Well, yes, I--"
"We have witnesses willing to attest that you sell these scarves for no more than the cost of the yarn..."
"Yes, I just enjoy making--"
"...Severely undercutting the prices of your commercial competitors by an order of magnitude, in spite of the fact that your scarves are obviously superior handcrafted products."
"I... I... well, ... Thank you?" said Granny, still confused, but recognizing the compliment to her handiwork.
"Don't get funny with me, Lady!" the officer snapped, leaning in close to Granny's face. "You should be ashamed of yourself! This sort of underpricing makes me sick! I've come to expect this kind of altruistic bull from hackers and teachers, but I never expected it from a respectable citizen with no criminal record. What is this world coming to?"
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Granny.
"Take her away, boys." said the officer.
Two of the riot police gently handcuffed Granny, and lead her out of the room.
"Send in forensics to bag the evidence." said the officer, dropping the knitting, and wiping his thumb and forefinger on his shirt. He looked around the room, and shook his head sadly. "When will people learn? She acted like she didn't even know it was wrong."
Here is what I would do if I was in your situation.
I would get the Openoffice source distribution, and I would replace the OpenOffice logo with a Microsoft Office logo. Then I would change the product name from "OpenOffice" to "MSOffice". There is already functionality to do this within the build system (see how Sun rebrands their distribution as "StarOffice")
Then I would install this "rebranded" OpenOffice distribution on all the required computers, and I would change the default document types to be microsoft formats.
Then I would tell managment that I had done as they asked, and installed microsoft office.
Which will provide us with lots of fantastic scientific data about the biology of the Martian Sarlacc, and perhaps will help xenobiologists determine where it fits on the evolutionary tree in relation to the better-studied Tatooine Sarlacc.
s/warp/wrap
yeah, I can type :P
Did anybody see the episode of Dave Chappelle where they had the fake commerical for the Warp-It-Up-Box? I am glad to see that technology becoming a reality!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player /play.jhtml?itemId=11879
So where do I find plain-text archive of all past and currently pending bills in congress?
Preferably in a subversion repository so I can view diffs between amendments. ;)
If we had a resource like that, I bet we could even train a bayes filter to automaticly detect porky amendments the moment they were proposed.
Many kids want to know more about copyright. One of my hobbies is programming a game-making tool which lets people make their own game with little programming knowledge. Most of my users are kids and teens. I have been asked many times to explain how copyright works. Kids are interested in knowing how copyright protects their own work, as well how to understand copyright well enough to know how and when they can incorporate other people's work into their own.
Teaching kids about copyright is not just a first-step towards fighting music piracy, it is also a first step towrds teaching them about copyright licences like GPL or Creative Commons.
(that being said, I think linking school funding to RIAA propaganda is reprehensable-- I was just trying to suggest we try to teach kids this stuff ourselves)
> (4) it only downloads a pointer to the online version of the file
I have an AVI file on my hard drive that says otherwise (although I guess there are settings for that, so it varies from file to file)
Google appears to be using FLV, which plays in your browser through flash. When you click "download", you get an AVI file, which seems to work just fine in VLC.
if you haven't done so already, go to http://video.google.com/ and look at this in action-- despite the knee-jerk fear reaction against DRM, this looks really cool. Try it out. Click the "Submit your video" link. Several important things to notice: (1) you can publish your own videos for sale (2) the DRM is totally optional. You can publish stuff for free just as easily (3) No special software to install, no special codec, it plays through the flash plugin (4) No attempt to prevent you from downloading and saving movies-- in fact there is a nice friendly "download" button next to each video (5) Search for "Russian Climbing" ... wow that kid is awesome!
It is not simply the duty of our government regulators to protect us from Loud Annoying Cell Phone Users. It is their duty to protect us from the very indignity of being annoyed, regardless of the source of that annoyance.
I for one will not be happy until we passengers are sedated in the terminal, packed in bubble-wrap, loading into the plane like cargo, and revived with a stiff drink at the destination.
Ah! The only way to travel!
Wifi at a Coffee shop... Has there ever been a more compelling reason to push for an implementation of RFC2324?
Yeah. Treat school like a day job... a day job where you have six different bosses, and every one of them wants yo to take home half an hour of work every day or you will get demoted.