It just seems like reality tv showed up about the same time we stopped hearing about virtual reality. (I could be wrong about the timing - I was deployed when reality tv first showed up in the US)
Since neither one has much to do with reality, why couldn't one have replaced the other? Very few people ever had access to virtual reality, and I don't think that most people really understood what it was beyond some new video game tech.
I got the impression that Zaphod was supposed to be like George Bush. His mannerisms and facial expressions were very similar, and I'm wondering if that's why they decided to make him an idiot.
A lot of the government positions with an odd combination of requirements like that have those specific requirements because they are written with a specific person in mind that exactly meets those requirements. Sometimes it is an individual that is on their way out of the military that they want back in that shop, and sometimes it's just what I like to refer to as "good 'ol boy" syndrome. It can often be very difficult to break into the civilian sector of the government, and this is one of the reasons. Since it's a union job, it is really difficult to get rid of someone after a couple of years, so they want someone that they feel that they "know" before they have spent one day on the job.
-10 degrees Celsius? That's 14 degrees Farenheit. I grew up in WI, where we spent most of the winter below -20 degrees Farenheit, which would be almost -29 degrees Celsius.
I'm sure it gets much colder than that in Iceland.
You think gmail doesn't need Javascript? Try browsing there using Lynx. You get a message telling you to enable Javascript, which is tough to do in Lynx. It seems that they won't even let you view the page without Javascript enabled.
I was digging through their site last week looking for this information, and they said that it would be set up when they let out the next release - that would be this release.
I've been running Ubuntu for almost a month, and I have installed a few packages from Debian repositories, which they do not recommend doing, but I haven't had any problems. I had installed Apache 2.0 and PHP from Debian. Since then, I've uninstalled them and tried the Ubuntu packages, and didn't notice any difference.
Guess I just like installing stuff meant for one thing on another - I also installed Adblock on Netscape.
After our local UPN got bought out, I was unable to follow the series. I know that Paramount wants it's baby on UPN, but maybe it would have done better if they had it in reruns on a national channel. Spike seems to like Trek, it could have done well there.
Ah, well. Nobody has picked up Voyager for reruns yet, so I will probably never see it since I refuse to spend a fortune on series DVD's.
He didn't even compare it with a boy's reaction, he left that to the imagination. Who's to say a boy wouldn't name a truck? Men have been naming ships for years, and my husband named my car. He said she named them like they were dolls, because apparently dolls are the only things that are named.
The problem that I have with it is that it's based on scholarly work. Since he's the president of a college, that probably means that he is studying grades, homework, or teacher reports on male vs. female students. This does not take into account factors that effect the outcome before the students even reach his school.
Some studies have shown that teachers tend to call on girls less and expect them to get lower grades in math and science classes, and that parents also can have a negative effect on girls' attitude toward math. Other studies have shown that girls simply don't like math. hereare some examples.
So, there are dissenting opinions on the subject. This is something that I don't think we can get a really good control case for. Without a control case, how do we know that we aren't starting out with girls that have not been negatively influenced by parents, teachers, or other peers?
I am female, and have always had a natural ability to do math. I don't particularly like it, but I am good at it. (We are talking about a level below calculus, I did not have any kind of natural ability with that!) I used to tutor people that were in the same class as me.
While I only remember having a couple of teachers pick me out or completely ignore me, I'm not sure if that was because of me as a person, or because of gender. I tend to think that it didn't have anything to do with gender. I may not be getting a general idea of what is going on with this, though, because I went to a small college where a decent percentage (about 1/4) of the math and science graduates were female. I also went to elementary/middle/high school in an extremely small town, there were only about 20 people in my graduating class.
That said about teachers specifically, I think that a lot of what happens has to do with what girls pick up from society and school. Parents are sometimes sexist, they have an idea of what their children should be like and treat them as if they were that way. My dad refused to teach me chess after teaching my younger brother, and my mom is always saying how she can't do this or that because she's a girl. This may be unusual with parents specifically, but this is the kind of influence that girls get from the people around them all the time. I went against parental influence on this particular point, but it would appear that I am unusual in this.
I think this is mostly for people that won't install Firefox because they've never heard of it, but might install the new Netscape because they have.
I gave it a try, and on a whim decided to see if any of the Firefox extensions would work on it. I now have AdSense working on Netscape. So, what's the difference between the two?
If you want to try it, just install Firefox.
Would running a laser like this take more or less electricity than the conventional method of passing information? My guess is that it would take less. This alone could be a big deal for places that house large numbers of computers and servers.
Power consumption was a major concern for me when I bought a new fridge. My electric bill (which uses the monthly average system) dropped over $30 per month with the new fridge. While a computer obviously doesn't use as much power as a fridge, the rising price of electricity could eventually drive this market.
The government constantly tests contingency plans at random times. I can just see them shutting down a random area - say northern Michigan - and a bunch of people get hopelessly lost in a blizzard, or some other activity in which a map isn't much help. Guess it's time for a rebound in the popularity of orienteering!
I was under the impression that flying cars have existed since the mid 90's, but that the FAA wouldn't approve them for use. With the new piloting standards, though, it is now quite a bit easier for the average person to get a license. I wonder if that has anything to do with the timing on this.
I'm also curious as to how much fuel these new cars are going to guzzle. If suv's get horrid mileage now, what happens when somebody makes them capable of flight?
I had Suse installed on my laptop, and my wireless card would not work when I ran the updates. The only fix I could find was to completely reinstall Suse and not upgrade anything. I have a Linksys WPT11 card, so if anyone else is using this card, beware of Suse upgrades.
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It just seems like reality tv showed up about the same time we stopped hearing about virtual reality. (I could be wrong about the timing - I was deployed when reality tv first showed up in the US)
Since neither one has much to do with reality, why couldn't one have replaced the other? Very few people ever had access to virtual reality, and I don't think that most people really understood what it was beyond some new video game tech.
Who needs virtual reality when you have reality tv?
I got the impression that Zaphod was supposed to be like George Bush. His mannerisms and facial expressions were very similar, and I'm wondering if that's why they decided to make him an idiot.
A lot of the government positions with an odd combination of requirements like that have those specific requirements because they are written with a specific person in mind that exactly meets those requirements. Sometimes it is an individual that is on their way out of the military that they want back in that shop, and sometimes it's just what I like to refer to as "good 'ol boy" syndrome. It can often be very difficult to break into the civilian sector of the government, and this is one of the reasons. Since it's a union job, it is really difficult to get rid of someone after a couple of years, so they want someone that they feel that they "know" before they have spent one day on the job.
-10 degrees Celsius? That's 14 degrees Farenheit. I grew up in WI, where we spent most of the winter below -20 degrees Farenheit, which would be almost -29 degrees Celsius.
I'm sure it gets much colder than that in Iceland.
Actually, you would be suprised at how many people live fairly close to military bases. Many of these qualify as restricted airspace.
You think gmail doesn't need Javascript? Try browsing there using Lynx. You get a message telling you to enable Javascript, which is tough to do in Lynx. It seems that they won't even let you view the page without Javascript enabled.
Those of us in Louisiana are already under Napoleonic code. :)
Hercules in spaaaace...
I was digging through their site last week looking for this information, and they said that it would be set up when they let out the next release - that would be this release.
I've been running Ubuntu for almost a month, and I have installed a few packages from Debian repositories, which they do not recommend doing, but I haven't had any problems. I had installed Apache 2.0 and PHP from Debian. Since then, I've uninstalled them and tried the Ubuntu packages, and didn't notice any difference.
Guess I just like installing stuff meant for one thing on another - I also installed Adblock on Netscape.
They got bought by Compaq.
He did better on Joey last week.
After our local UPN got bought out, I was unable to follow the series. I know that Paramount wants it's baby on UPN, but maybe it would have done better if they had it in reruns on a national channel. Spike seems to like Trek, it could have done well there.
Ah, well. Nobody has picked up Voyager for reruns yet, so I will probably never see it since I refuse to spend a fortune on series DVD's.
He didn't even compare it with a boy's reaction, he left that to the imagination. Who's to say a boy wouldn't name a truck? Men have been naming ships for years, and my husband named my car. He said she named them like they were dolls, because apparently dolls are the only things that are named.
The problem that I have with it is that it's based on scholarly work. Since he's the president of a college, that probably means that he is studying grades, homework, or teacher reports on male vs. female students. This does not take into account factors that effect the outcome before the students even reach his school.
Some studies have shown that teachers tend to call on girls less and expect them to get lower grades in math and science classes, and that parents also can have a negative effect on girls' attitude toward math. Other studies have shown that girls simply don't like math. here are some examples.
So, there are dissenting opinions on the subject. This is something that I don't think we can get a really good control case for. Without a control case, how do we know that we aren't starting out with girls that have not been negatively influenced by parents, teachers, or other peers?
I am female, and have always had a natural ability to do math. I don't particularly like it, but I am good at it. (We are talking about a level below calculus, I did not have any kind of natural ability with that!) I used to tutor people that were in the same class as me.
While I only remember having a couple of teachers pick me out or completely ignore me, I'm not sure if that was because of me as a person, or because of gender. I tend to think that it didn't have anything to do with gender. I may not be getting a general idea of what is going on with this, though, because I went to a small college where a decent percentage (about 1/4) of the math and science graduates were female. I also went to elementary/middle/high school in an extremely small town, there were only about 20 people in my graduating class.
That said about teachers specifically, I think that a lot of what happens has to do with what girls pick up from society and school. Parents are sometimes sexist, they have an idea of what their children should be like and treat them as if they were that way. My dad refused to teach me chess after teaching my younger brother, and my mom is always saying how she can't do this or that because she's a girl. This may be unusual with parents specifically, but this is the kind of influence that girls get from the people around them all the time. I went against parental influence on this particular point, but it would appear that I am unusual in this.
I think this is mostly for people that won't install Firefox because they've never heard of it, but might install the new Netscape because they have.
I gave it a try, and on a whim decided to see if any of the Firefox extensions would work on it. I now have AdSense working on Netscape. So, what's the difference between the two? If you want to try it, just install Firefox.
Would running a laser like this take more or less electricity than the conventional method of passing information? My guess is that it would take less. This alone could be a big deal for places that house large numbers of computers and servers.
Power consumption was a major concern for me when I bought a new fridge. My electric bill (which uses the monthly average system) dropped over $30 per month with the new fridge. While a computer obviously doesn't use as much power as a fridge, the rising price of electricity could eventually drive this market.
And here I thought it would be the word "strang" that the spelling nazi's would catch.
Examples include:
And people were actually buying this stuff because it was Y2K compliant.
The government constantly tests contingency plans at random times. I can just see them shutting down a random area - say northern Michigan - and a bunch of people get hopelessly lost in a blizzard, or some other activity in which a map isn't much help. Guess it's time for a rebound in the popularity of orienteering!
Wal-Mart doesn't use loyalty cards, but I'm fairly sure that most of the employees do not know the location of every item on the shelf.
I've actually never had this problem. I do have my minimum font size set as 12, perhaps it has something to do with that?
I was under the impression that flying cars have existed since the mid 90's, but that the FAA wouldn't approve them for use. With the new piloting standards, though, it is now quite a bit easier for the average person to get a license. I wonder if that has anything to do with the timing on this.
I'm also curious as to how much fuel these new cars are going to guzzle. If suv's get horrid mileage now, what happens when somebody makes them capable of flight?
I had Suse installed on my laptop, and my wireless card would not work when I ran the updates. The only fix I could find was to completely reinstall Suse and not upgrade anything. I have a Linksys WPT11 card, so if anyone else is using this card, beware of Suse upgrades.
The maps in Outback are upside-down.