But there was a time when you had to enter your name and/or email address into the form, because there were no assigned user IDs... Perhaps the WayBack Machine would know...
I remember the grand old days of no user IDs on Slashdot (yes kids, no joke!). That was fun, being able to impersonate whoever you wanted... Flame wars would erupt between Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. It eventually got out of hand, and then everyone became a number...
Slashdot recently hit user ID 1 million right? Wow.
A rocketman will be at this year's X-Prize Cup
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I found out recently that one of the 11 rocketmen will be at this year's X-Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Here is another website with some interesting rocketman videos and info. Warning, a lot of the videos look like they are from the 80's...:^)
I wonder if there could be a solar flare powerful enough to render half the earth's electronics unusable... That would cause quite a technological singularity, in the opposite way that NPR imagines it. Any geophysicists out there who care to comment? I know Québec had a blackout in 1989 affecting 6 million people due to a magnetic storm in the atmosphere.
The biggest benefit to my writing ability is from what I have read. Reading a lot has helped me to improve my grammar and build the vocabulary necessary to write eloquently.
My most enjoyable and rewarding writing experience was from my freshman composition professor at the University of Central Florida, who tailored his curriculum towards engineering technical writing (as our class was entirely engineering students). The class was also linked to a humanities and a calculus class, as each student was in the same set of classes. This allowed for a more in-depth approach to writing, both individually and as teams. The same engineering students were reading about Plato's Republic, learning about Mark Tilden's fascinating BEAM robotics, and at the same time, creating technical documentation for anything they chose. At one point in the composition class I remember asking the professor if I could do a story writing assignment in hypertext, and he was very supportive of the idea. We also had a self-directed group "invention" project that generated a lot of group writing work, such as describing the idea and how various aspects of it would work. A paper on the unique structure of the curricula is here.
Neither Slashdot nor CNN posted Apple's official computer recycling webpage, so here it is. For the U.S. (excluding the Cupertino area) they are partnered with a company called Metech to do the recycling. In Cupertino, Apple has had their own recycling facility for quite some time now that has freely accepted used Macs, PCs and some home electronics.
There is nothing inherently wrong with hedging; commodities futures are used by farmers to protect against unexpected drops in crop prices. It is a sound risk management technique.
Perhaps Herb was putting his futures contract writers first, his other employees second, and the customers third.:^)
Southwest Airlines Chairman Herb Kelleher has said before that employees come first, and customers follow next. This is mentioned on their press bibliography page under "LUV in the air". Today they have the highest market capitalization of any airline in the world and one of the highest profit margins as well. They are the third largest airline in the world in terms of passengers carried. 'Nuff said.
A couple weeks ago, after finishing refueling my motorcycle, I put the pump back and started to get ready to leave. I noticed though that the pump display didn't say "Insert card and remove quickly" as it normally says when one leaves -- it said "Remove pump and begin fueling" -- as if it were giving a freebie to the next customer! I have no idea how common this problem is, but it may be prudent to watch out for it.
Remember Mars Climate Orbiter and the mix up between metric and English units?
While I was watching the MRO do its burns to enter orbit on NASA TV yesterday, one person was giving altitude readings in metric while another was giving them in English units. You'd think they would have learned by now!
The Canon PowerShot S2 IS has this feature. It will take three shots at different focus points, and you can adjust how far apart the focus is. I own one, it's fantastic. To see some examples of what it can do, visit my Pacific Northwest picture page.
My parents down in Orlando got to experience the eye going right near their house in 2004 when Charley came through... Although I haven't experienced it myself, I at least partially know what you went through. Us Floridians are definitely NOT looking forward to the increased hurricane count that meteorologists are predicting for the next ten years. I guess now is a good time to ask -- what made you move from SoCal to Florida?:^)
BTW, nice shots on your LiveJournal -- the Everglades ones especially. Isn't the S2 great?
The same day that Katrina was nearing Louisiana, I got a picture of lightning from a feeder band in Jacksonville, Florida -- over 500 miles away. The picture was shot with a Canon Powershot S2 (albeit in video mode -- I cheated by extracting the single frame that had lightning).
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But there was a time when you had to enter your name and/or email address into the form, because there were no assigned user IDs... Perhaps the WayBack Machine would know...
Hmm, good point... Maybe his wife was an adamant supporter of a competing file system?
I remember the grand old days of no user IDs on Slashdot (yes kids, no joke!). That was fun, being able to impersonate whoever you wanted... Flame wars would erupt between Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. It eventually got out of hand, and then everyone became a number...
Slashdot recently hit user ID 1 million right? Wow.
I found out recently that one of the 11 rocketmen will be at this year's X-Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Here is another website with some interesting rocketman videos and info. Warning, a lot of the videos look like they are from the 80's... :^)
Yeah, why didn't Slashdot close user registrations after user 1,000? j/k :^)
I wonder if there could be a solar flare powerful enough to render half the earth's electronics unusable... That would cause quite a technological singularity, in the opposite way that NPR imagines it. Any geophysicists out there who care to comment? I know Québec had a blackout in 1989 affecting 6 million people due to a magnetic storm in the atmosphere.
Yes... Time to open a chair factory in Redmond!
I thought Microsoft wasn't releasing anything this year... :^)
So "thermiting" is the infinitive verb form of thermite? Fantastic! I will have to incorporate it into my lexicon.
The biggest benefit to my writing ability is from what I have read. Reading a lot has helped me to improve my grammar and build the vocabulary necessary to write eloquently.
My most enjoyable and rewarding writing experience was from my freshman composition professor at the University of Central Florida, who tailored his curriculum towards engineering technical writing (as our class was entirely engineering students). The class was also linked to a humanities and a calculus class, as each student was in the same set of classes. This allowed for a more in-depth approach to writing, both individually and as teams. The same engineering students were reading about Plato's Republic, learning about Mark Tilden's fascinating BEAM robotics, and at the same time, creating technical documentation for anything they chose. At one point in the composition class I remember asking the professor if I could do a story writing assignment in hypertext, and he was very supportive of the idea. We also had a self-directed group "invention" project that generated a lot of group writing work, such as describing the idea and how various aspects of it would work. A paper on the unique structure of the curricula is here.
Neither Slashdot nor CNN posted Apple's official computer recycling webpage, so here it is. For the U.S. (excluding the Cupertino area) they are partnered with a company called Metech to do the recycling. In Cupertino, Apple has had their own recycling facility for quite some time now that has freely accepted used Macs, PCs and some home electronics.
Of course integer decoders exist. So do floating point decoders. What is your point?
That {chirp} sounds like {chirp} a good {chirp} idea, using FDIV-bug CPUs as {chirp} MP3 decoders!
There is nothing inherently wrong with hedging; commodities futures are used by farmers to protect against unexpected drops in crop prices. It is a sound risk management technique.
:^)
Perhaps Herb was putting his futures contract writers first, his other employees second, and the customers third.
Southwest Airlines Chairman Herb Kelleher has said before that employees come first, and customers follow next. This is mentioned on their press bibliography page under "LUV in the air". Today they have the highest market capitalization of any airline in the world and one of the highest profit margins as well. They are the third largest airline in the world in terms of passengers carried. 'Nuff said.
A couple weeks ago, after finishing refueling my motorcycle, I put the pump back and started to get ready to leave. I noticed though that the pump display didn't say "Insert card and remove quickly" as it normally says when one leaves -- it said "Remove pump and begin fueling" -- as if it were giving a freebie to the next customer! I have no idea how common this problem is, but it may be prudent to watch out for it.
Everyone here should know that the parent poster's comments (and mine) are undeniably correct and infallible because our user IDs are below 1,000.
Time for a price rollback at Walmart!
I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the parent poster... :^P
The Canon PowerShot S2 IS has this feature. It will take three shots at different focus points, and you can adjust how far apart the focus is. I own one, it's fantastic. To see some examples of what it can do, visit my Pacific Northwest picture page.
Please see my earlier post about this... There was a related Slashdot poll also.
My parents down in Orlando got to experience the eye going right near their house in 2004 when Charley came through... Although I haven't experienced it myself, I at least partially know what you went through. Us Floridians are definitely NOT looking forward to the increased hurricane count that meteorologists are predicting for the next ten years. I guess now is a good time to ask -- what made you move from SoCal to Florida? :^)
BTW, nice shots on your LiveJournal -- the Everglades ones especially. Isn't the S2 great?
The same day that Katrina was nearing Louisiana, I got a picture of lightning from a feeder band in Jacksonville, Florida -- over 500 miles away. The picture was shot with a Canon Powershot S2 (albeit in video mode -- I cheated by extracting the single frame that had lightning).