Also, I feel the need to point out that this is a public charter school in Oakland, I don't pay any fees to send them there, but positions are limited. Most Waldorf schools are private. Truthfully I wasn't looking for specifically for a Waldorf school, we were just looking around for schools that were most likely to provide a good education.
They're pretty tech Savvy (Skye is even e-famous for playing Eve Online) but we felt that the school environment worked well for them. They're learning knitting as part of the hand skills but it's not just picking up some needles and yarn, they started out making their own yarn and needles - it's like those crazy hacker types who want to build their own computer and operating system:)
A lot of the player anger was driven by the fact that this arrived as part of an 'expansion' that managed to take away popular features and forced players to use the Walking In Stations interface even though said interface was incredibly resource intensive and melted GPU's. Also, they screwed up several months previously when at the last minute they dropped support for older CPU's because the library that simulated clothes and hair needed SSE3 extensions. The deployment of the new avatar technology has just been a mess and actual 'flying in space' features have been left unmaintained at the expense.
It should also be pointed out you didn't need to spend real money for microtransactions, you could buy PLEX from other players (who wanted to convert real money into game money) and then, this being Eve, you could troll other players by flying around with MT items that cost more than a capital ship.
I'd love to update my asteroid discovery movie for this, I've rendered a 4kx4k version for some lesser planetariums, but 8kx8k will mean upgrading my disk storage I think.
Sorry, Current generation of Who is consistently better than anything else from the modern of classic era, I've watched ever episode that exists and listened to all the Big Finish audio production and the Moffat era Who really is magnificent.
It says a lot that the best episodes in recent years have all been Moffat penned: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances The Girl In The Fireplace Blink Silence In the Library/Forest of The Dead and of course.... he's now the producer, he's yet to top 'Blink' - but it's consistenly better on so many levels that I find myself feeling sorry for both Tennant and Ecclestone who were fine actors but kept on being given poor scripts to work with.
There are many many classic era episodes that rank up there with the current generation - 'The Talons of Weng Chiang' and 'Genesis of the Daleks' being two particularly fine examples. But there's sooooo much mediocre dross like timelash that brings the classic show down.
The difference is that MP3.com was a different service, and besides, mp3.com was largely a copy of myplay.com - except myplay.com did it right and didn't get sued (they got bought by Bertlesmann and then shut down for being unprofitable)
Yes, before mp3.com launched their my.mp3.com service which was declared illegal.
Myplay tried to get the record industry interested in downloads, but they couldn't get any interest from the majors, the best they could do was their online storage service and DMCA compliant user tailored radio streams. No flash in those days either, you needed to configure winamp or some other external player to actually stream the content.
myplay never had any legal issues, they simply didn't have enough money to maintain such a service back when terabytes of disk space were only available in refrigerator sized racks of disks, and when most people were still on modem connections.
I see the CFL = Mercury thing all the time and frankly it's avoiding the fact that the power savings from replacing an Incandescent with a CFL mean you take less power, burn less coal and release less mercury into the air.
Here's the math: Take a 100w bulb and replace it with a 17W CFL - average lifetime of a CFL is about 10,000 hours. So that 83w power difference over 10,000 hours is 3 gigajoules. Coal power content is about 33 megajoules per kilogram - so that works out to about 90kilograms of coal over the lifetime of the bulb. Mercury content varies but about 10 parts/million is a reasonable average - so that pile of coal will contain about 900 miligrams of mercury. CFL's contain about 5milligrams (although there are 'eco friendly' bulbs that contain less than a milligram.
Now, there are other factors, firstly the fuel cycle of power plants isn't 100% so the amount of coal will be higher, on the other hand, in the US only about 50% of the electrical power comes from coal.
Regardless - Incandescents are *worse* in terms of mercury pollution, and anyone telling you otherwise is either misinformed or lying.
Yeah I used to use a set of DDR pads hooked into my laptop to trigger samples and effects on my laptop while DJ'ing, I just used a macro program to map input events to ui controls.
I hadn't quite finished this, I wanted to record a voiceover, but a friend submitted it before I was ready.
So essentially the video shows asteroids which are known, so in the early portions around 1980 we have less than 10,000 and by the start of this month we have over half a million. Asteroids are highlighted on discovery and within a second they fade to the colour appropriate to their orbit (Green, Yellow and Red), asteroids are usually observed intensely around discovery and once an orbit is determined observers can go back and follow up to refine the exact elements, I only show the discovery, not follow up measurements. This does mean that a number of the objects that are being plotted have orbits that may be so poorly determined that they are 'lost in space' because they were only observed for a short time and by the time people attempted to follow up they were lost.
At the start of the videos, the 1980's, CCD's weren't used for astronomy, photographic plates were the primary technology for imaging the sky, furthermore, there were no digital systems for identifying asteroids on these plates, so while many asteroids were no doubt imaged they were generally not of interest to the observers who were probably taking nice pictures of nebula or other photogenic phenomena. Many of the discoveries in the 1980's were still made visually by minor planet hunters who knew what they were looking for. One of the earliest 'bursts' in the video is most likely related to observations of Jupiter searching for new moons around the giant planet, they'd look for objects moving on the plates and then make an orbit determination to see if it was a moon, it's waaaaay cooler to find a moon since they're a rarer commodity, but if you merely find an asteroid at least you get a chance to name it.
By the time we get to the mid 1990's we start to see automated sky search programmes like LINEAR, LONEOS, Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey and these are primarily searching for asteroids in opposition since they're closer to Earth and at peak brightness so you can see a discovery cluster radiating out from the Earth.
In the last 8 months you see WISE which is a satellite performing a full sky survey in the Infrared, its scans the sky at 90 degrees to the sun, so its discovery pattern is very distinctive.
I unlocked my phone within minutes of getting it home. I then proceded to take a look at the apps available via the Cydia store, which is unencumbered by the Apple review process. Pretty much everything I tried was garbage with the developers doing just enough to get something ported and then abandoning it regardless of what kind of glaring bugs are in the system, yes the reveiw process is harsh but it does help maintain a minimum level of quality that is bettter than 99% of the apps in the cydia store. (still, being able to get low level access to my phone still makes the jailbreak worthwhile)
I once helped my brother modify some automation code which was running a slaughterhouse 'processing line'. Technically, we were in the next room, but still closer than I like to be.
Yes you'd be surprised at how quickly kids pick up things, my 4 year old is at least as capable as the kid in the ad. And it's not just with computers, while she likes playing tunes on her mp3 player she prefers to go into the basement and play records from my extensive vinyl collection. She has her own laptop and likes to play all sorts of things on it.
ONe of the greatest works of graphic literature has been picked up for movie adaptations on more than one occasion. I'd love to see this adapted, but then again It's probably impossible to do it justice....
Back in 2003 I asked a similar question - the thought of wearing a piece of jewelry which served no practical purpose was alien to me so I tried to come up with some Ideas on how to make something ornamental like a wedding ring semi-useful.
In the end we got plain wedding bands and then got some awesome designs carved into them.
5 years later I'm proud and happily married (with 2 kids too!) - so don't think too hard, because what really matters is that you want to share this with someone special.
If they can get together enough cash and rocket technology then they could launch their own private rocket high enough to take photos and prove to the world that the world really is flat.
Really, the cost of such a mission is no longer astronomical, they should be willing to put their money where their mouth is.
And in a few decades maybe the lunar landing conspiracy theorists can afford to prove themselves right by sending their own probe to the moon and showing us that there are no astronaut footprints on our nearest neighbour.
I moved from Ireland to California to work at a company called myplay.com and later moved to Napster. Now I'm at imeem.com
I still entertain some deep down belief that one day I might return to astrophysics and submit my thesis, maybe if one of these internet music companies finally make me some money.
(of course, even if I stopped work tomorrow I now have young kids to take care of...)
Kids learn what interests them, my 3 year old daughter can sing her way through some of the tracks in rock band and shows our guests how easy the drums and guitar are.
She also DJ's.... with ye olde vinyl... and got featured in 'Mixmag' when she was 2 years old.
Of course I think she's smart, but of course I'm biased.
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Also, I feel the need to point out that this is a public charter school in Oakland, I don't pay any fees to send them there, but positions are limited. Most Waldorf schools are private. Truthfully I wasn't looking for specifically for a Waldorf school, we were just looking around for schools that were most likely to provide a good education.
They're pretty tech Savvy (Skye is even e-famous for playing Eve Online) but we felt that the school environment worked well for them. They're learning knitting as part of the hand skills but it's not just picking up some needles and yarn, they started out making their own yarn and needles - it's like those crazy hacker types who want to build their own computer and operating system :)
A lot of the player anger was driven by the fact that this arrived as part of an 'expansion' that managed to take away popular features and forced players to use the Walking In Stations interface even though said interface was incredibly resource intensive and melted GPU's. Also, they screwed up several months previously when at the last minute they dropped support for older CPU's because the library that simulated clothes and hair needed SSE3 extensions. The deployment of the new avatar technology has just been a mess and actual 'flying in space' features have been left unmaintained at the expense.
It should also be pointed out you didn't need to spend real money for microtransactions, you could buy PLEX from other players (who wanted to convert real money into game money) and then, this being Eve, you could troll other players by flying around with MT items that cost more than a capital ship.
I'd love to update my asteroid discovery movie for this, I've rendered a 4kx4k version for some lesser planetariums, but 8kx8k will mean upgrading my disk storage I think.
"I barely know what the hell just happened at the end of an episode"
Maybe it's a generational thing, but my 6 year old daughter frequently has to explain the finer details of the plot to her mum,
Sorry, Current generation of Who is consistently better than anything else from the modern of classic era, I've watched ever episode that exists and listened to all the Big Finish audio production and the Moffat era Who really is magnificent.
It says a lot that the best episodes in recent years have all been Moffat penned:
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
The Girl In The Fireplace
Blink
Silence In the Library/Forest of The Dead
and of course.... he's now the producer, he's yet to top 'Blink' - but it's consistenly better on so many levels that I find myself feeling sorry for both Tennant and Ecclestone who were fine actors but kept on being given poor scripts to work with.
There are many many classic era episodes that rank up there with the current generation - 'The Talons of Weng Chiang' and 'Genesis of the Daleks' being two particularly fine examples. But there's sooooo much mediocre dross like timelash that brings the classic show down.
The difference is that MP3.com was a different service, and besides, mp3.com was largely a copy of myplay.com - except myplay.com did it right and didn't get sued (they got bought by Bertlesmann and then shut down for being unprofitable)
Yes, before mp3.com launched their my.mp3.com service which was declared illegal.
Myplay tried to get the record industry interested in downloads, but they couldn't get any interest from the majors, the best they could do was their online storage service and DMCA compliant user tailored radio streams. No flash in those days either, you needed to configure winamp or some other external player to actually stream the content.
myplay never had any legal issues, they simply didn't have enough money to maintain such a service back when terabytes of disk space were only available in refrigerator sized racks of disks, and when most people were still on modem connections.
Nah, they can still use it, they just won't be able to buy a replacement.
Where do you buy a hand blown carbon filament bulb anyway?
Change the value to 23w and you reduce the mercury 'savings' to about 800milligrams - still 160times more than the mercury content of the worst CFL's
Redo the calculation then with your numbers - even if you reduce the Lifetime to 1000 hours the mercury from power plants is still 20 times higher.
I see the CFL = Mercury thing all the time and frankly it's avoiding the fact that the power savings from replacing an Incandescent with a CFL mean you take less power, burn less coal and release less mercury into the air.
Here's the math:
Take a 100w bulb and replace it with a 17W CFL - average lifetime of a CFL is about 10,000 hours. So that 83w power difference over 10,000 hours is 3 gigajoules. Coal power content is about 33 megajoules per kilogram - so that works out to about 90kilograms of coal over the lifetime of the bulb. Mercury content varies but about 10 parts/million is a reasonable average - so that pile of coal will contain about 900 miligrams of mercury. CFL's contain about 5milligrams (although there are 'eco friendly' bulbs that contain less than a milligram.
Now, there are other factors, firstly the fuel cycle of power plants isn't 100% so the amount of coal will be higher, on the other hand, in the US only about 50% of the electrical power comes from coal.
Regardless - Incandescents are *worse* in terms of mercury pollution, and anyone telling you otherwise is either misinformed or lying.
Yeah I used to use a set of DDR pads hooked into my laptop to trigger samples and effects on my laptop while DJ'ing, I just used a macro program to map input events to ui controls.
I hadn't quite finished this, I wanted to record a voiceover, but a friend submitted it before I was ready.
So essentially the video shows asteroids which are known, so in the early portions around 1980 we have less than 10,000 and by the start of this month we have over half a million. Asteroids are highlighted on discovery and within a second they fade to the colour appropriate to their orbit (Green, Yellow and Red), asteroids are usually observed intensely around discovery and once an orbit is determined observers can go back and follow up to refine the exact elements, I only show the discovery, not follow up measurements. This does mean that a number of the objects that are being plotted have orbits that may be so poorly determined that they are 'lost in space' because they were only observed for a short time and by the time people attempted to follow up they were lost.
At the start of the videos, the 1980's, CCD's weren't used for astronomy, photographic plates were the primary technology for imaging the sky, furthermore, there were no digital systems for identifying asteroids on these plates, so while many asteroids were no doubt imaged they were generally not of interest to the observers who were probably taking nice pictures of nebula or other photogenic phenomena. Many of the discoveries in the 1980's were still made visually by minor planet hunters who knew what they were looking for. One of the earliest 'bursts' in the video is most likely related to observations of Jupiter searching for new moons around the giant planet, they'd look for objects moving on the plates and then make an orbit determination to see if it was a moon, it's waaaaay cooler to find a moon since they're a rarer commodity, but if you merely find an asteroid at least you get a chance to name it.
By the time we get to the mid 1990's we start to see automated sky search programmes like LINEAR, LONEOS, Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey and these are primarily searching for asteroids in opposition since they're closer to Earth and at peak brightness so you can see a discovery cluster radiating out from the Earth.
In the last 8 months you see WISE which is a satellite performing a full sky survey in the Infrared, its scans the sky at 90 degrees to the sun, so its discovery pattern is very distinctive.
Perhaps a badly chosen comparison, personally, If I were in a collision with another car I'd prefer to be driving a steam locomotive.
'and cars 50 years ago are, in comparison, horseless carriages'
There, fixed it for ya.
I unlocked my phone within minutes of getting it home. I then proceded to take a look at the apps available via the Cydia store, which is unencumbered by the Apple review process.
Pretty much everything I tried was garbage with the developers doing just enough to get something ported and then abandoning it regardless of what kind of glaring bugs are in the system, yes the reveiw process is harsh but it does help maintain a minimum level of quality that is bettter than 99% of the apps in the cydia store.
(still, being able to get low level access to my phone still makes the jailbreak worthwhile)
I once helped my brother modify some automation code which was running a slaughterhouse 'processing line'. Technically, we were in the next room, but still closer than I like to be.
Yes you'd be surprised at how quickly kids pick up things, my 4 year old is at least as capable as the kid in the ad. And it's not just with computers, while she likes playing tunes on her mp3 player she prefers to go into the basement and play records from my extensive vinyl collection. She has her own laptop and likes to play all sorts of things on it.
ONe of the greatest works of graphic literature has been picked up for movie adaptations on more than one occasion. I'd love to see this adapted, but then again It's probably impossible to do it justice....
http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=4514
Myspace's on demand audio is encoded at a somewhat crap quality of 96kbit/sec
imeem is 33% better with 128kbit audio
Back in 2003 I asked a similar question - the thought of wearing a piece of jewelry which served no practical purpose was alien to me so I tried to come up with some Ideas on how to make something ornamental like a wedding ring semi-useful.
In the end we got plain wedding bands and then got some awesome designs carved into them.
5 years later I'm proud and happily married (with 2 kids too!) - so don't think too hard, because what really matters is that you want to share this with someone special.
If they can get together enough cash and rocket technology then they could launch their own private rocket high enough to take photos and prove to the world that the world really is flat.
Really, the cost of such a mission is no longer astronomical, they should be willing to put their money where their mouth is.
And in a few decades maybe the lunar landing conspiracy theorists can afford to prove themselves right by sending their own probe to the moon and showing us that there are no astronaut footprints on our nearest neighbour.
I moved from Ireland to California to work at a company called myplay.com and later moved to Napster. Now I'm at imeem.com
I still entertain some deep down belief that one day I might return to astrophysics and submit my thesis, maybe if one of these internet music companies finally make me some money.
(of course, even if I stopped work tomorrow I now have young kids to take care of...)
Kids learn what interests them, my 3 year old daughter can sing her way through some of the tracks in rock band and shows our guests how easy the drums and guitar are.
She also DJ's.... with ye olde vinyl... and got featured in 'Mixmag' when she was 2 years old.
Of course I think she's smart, but of course I'm biased.
Then again, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Ringworld, and a lot of other 'classic' sci-fi is full of poorly written sex scenes, so not really perfect for pre-teens.