Fine, you all proved there are many good and free number crunchers out there, but I think what is being requested is educational software. Any recommendations?
Is it possible that history may prove that it is a precursory symptom of the inevitable consecuences of industrialization? I mean, in the past it's been slave labour to reduce operational costs. Then, once slavery is outlawed, outsource to where labour is cheapest (next best thing to slavery), then automation.
IT luddites of the world, unite!!!
Ban hammers. They can crush a person's skull. Ban cars. You can run people over with them. Ban wires, cables and ropes. You can strangle people with them. Ban jetliners. You can fly 'em into buildings and kill people.
Stupidity is appalling. Let's remember it's not guns that kill. It's the morons touting them.
And to think I got a bad karma for similar opinions from one a-hole moderator, when I opined about the iPod's battery and the yosemite Mac's faulty IDE controller. Mods, do your thing right or shove it.
We may be unique as homo sapiens species goes, but I doubt if this means that we're the only intelligent life form in the universe. They might not be hominids at all. However, the distances involved in crossing from one stellar system towards another seems to be the biggest problem to overcome before physically contacting anyone else in this universe.
The Blue-and-white G3 with the faulty IDE controller that corrupts a second hard drive, the short-lived battery on the iPod, the faulty headphone jack. Great machine (I started off with one myself), but too many problems associated with it. Besides, nothing you can do on a Mac that can't be done on a PeeCee for a fraction of the price. I recall a joke award given to apple (NYT or somethin')"Designed-Like-a-Picasso-and-Priced-Like -One"
In the not-so-long-run I believe you're right. Those capacities will be rendered meaningless in a few years, what with the popularization of digital video and photography, mp3-amassing, etc. Plus, hard drive sizes are constantly increasing, so even these capacities are doomed to seem small in the future.
Awfully rude and crude way of saying "I believe I can correct you on this one". Where are the moderators? I thought one of the guidelines to moderating was being constructive, not detractive. An italian would say: "You kiss your mother with that mouth?".
Learn to write in print. Scan and OCR your notes. One of the great contrasts of the cold-war space-race was that the U.S. invested tens of thousands of dollars on developing a ballpoint pen that would write in zero-g. A pressurized capsule at the back end of the reservoir forced the ink out. The russians solved the problem by taking pencils to space (subtracted weight from the problem, as well).
Maybe you people could give my lines a little thought:
I acknowledge the importance of ham radios, wether there's power or not. We rely on ham radios to point our communications dishes down here in my country, not to mention police and emergency communications; so there's undoubtedly a need for radios to be functional, especially in rural areas. I live in Venezuela, a third world country recently known for its president, where our rural areas are largely communicationless. When I say communicationless I mean roads are less than adequate, phone lines are non-existent, schools, health and other social services are neglected due to the lack of proper infrastructures, so you can imagine what it means to live in these "settlements". To any developing nation (or to anyone, for that matter) it is clear that the largest network infrastructure layout is the national electrical supply or "the grid". It constitutes the most viable way to bring remote villages to the information age. I live up in the Andean mountains where, unless you live in the city or have a clear line-of-sight (unhampered by valleys and mountains, ham radios are not very useful. Once again, I do not intend to detract ham radios. As I pointed out, they're still a vital necessity, but I'm forced to think that potential benefits for communities must be considered when taking decisions regarding telecommunications that will be turned into laws.
Anyway, could anybody suggest a place to read about the frequency spectrum involved in BPL and radio coms?
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Why not enforce the cold-war treaty banning weapons in space rather than worry about advertising?
Thank God for living in a lawless third-world country that pumps shitloads of oil.
Fine, you all proved there are many good and free number crunchers out there, but I think what is being requested is educational software. Any recommendations?
Isn't a smog-polluted area more "unsightly" than a wind farm?
Is it possible that history may prove that it is a precursory symptom of the inevitable consecuences of industrialization? I mean, in the past it's been slave labour to reduce operational costs. Then, once slavery is outlawed, outsource to where labour is cheapest (next best thing to slavery), then automation. IT luddites of the world, unite!!!
You can't. You just disclosed it publicly
I believe you make decaf by first processing the roasted beans in a chloroform wash and then steam them to remove the solvent.
Ban hammers. They can crush a person's skull. Ban cars. You can run people over with them. Ban wires, cables and ropes. You can strangle people with them. Ban jetliners. You can fly 'em into buildings and kill people. Stupidity is appalling. Let's remember it's not guns that kill. It's the morons touting them.
And to think I got a bad karma for similar opinions from one a-hole moderator, when I opined about the iPod's battery and the yosemite Mac's faulty IDE controller. Mods, do your thing right or shove it.
We may be unique as homo sapiens species goes, but I doubt if this means that we're the only intelligent life form in the universe. They might not be hominids at all. However, the distances involved in crossing from one stellar system towards another seems to be the biggest problem to overcome before physically contacting anyone else in this universe.
The Blue-and-white G3 with the faulty IDE controller that corrupts a second hard drive, the short-lived battery on the iPod, the faulty headphone jack. Great machine (I started off with one myself), but too many problems associated with it. Besides, nothing you can do on a Mac that can't be done on a PeeCee for a fraction of the price. I recall a joke award given to apple (NYT or somethin')"Designed-Like-a-Picasso-and-Priced-Like -One"
In the not-so-long-run I believe you're right. Those capacities will be rendered meaningless in a few years, what with the popularization of digital video and photography, mp3-amassing, etc. Plus, hard drive sizes are constantly increasing, so even these capacities are doomed to seem small in the future.
You've misspelt dictionary.
Awfully rude and crude way of saying "I believe I can correct you on this one". Where are the moderators? I thought one of the guidelines to moderating was being constructive, not detractive. An italian would say: "You kiss your mother with that mouth?".
Learn to write in print. Scan and OCR your notes. One of the great contrasts of the cold-war space-race was that the U.S. invested tens of thousands of dollars on developing a ballpoint pen that would write in zero-g. A pressurized capsule at the back end of the reservoir forced the ink out. The russians solved the problem by taking pencils to space (subtracted weight from the problem, as well).
Maybe you people could give my lines a little thought: I acknowledge the importance of ham radios, wether there's power or not. We rely on ham radios to point our communications dishes down here in my country, not to mention police and emergency communications; so there's undoubtedly a need for radios to be functional, especially in rural areas. I live in Venezuela, a third world country recently known for its president, where our rural areas are largely communicationless. When I say communicationless I mean roads are less than adequate, phone lines are non-existent, schools, health and other social services are neglected due to the lack of proper infrastructures, so you can imagine what it means to live in these "settlements". To any developing nation (or to anyone, for that matter) it is clear that the largest network infrastructure layout is the national electrical supply or "the grid". It constitutes the most viable way to bring remote villages to the information age. I live up in the Andean mountains where, unless you live in the city or have a clear line-of-sight (unhampered by valleys and mountains, ham radios are not very useful. Once again, I do not intend to detract ham radios. As I pointed out, they're still a vital necessity, but I'm forced to think that potential benefits for communities must be considered when taking decisions regarding telecommunications that will be turned into laws. Anyway, could anybody suggest a place to read about the frequency spectrum involved in BPL and radio coms?