The budget at the high school I just finished graduating from is rather telling: last year there was a ~$6 million capital campaign to enlarge the arts wing and upgrade the stadium. Building a nice arts wing is a good thing. Things are learned. But well over $1 million went into the damned football stadium. Now we've got synthetic grass and a three story press box building. This facility gets most of its use during the fall, and that's just to watch some mediocre teenagers throw a ball around and beat each other up.
If you walk through the math/science building, there is an interesting dichotomy. The teachers that teach the smart kids are awesome, but those that teach the dumb kids, particularly in the math department, absolutely suck. Instead of dumping all that money into athletics, why not pay for academics first? Maybe we could even teach something to the jocks.
I know that at my school, also catholic high school, the administration bullied some kid into 'inviting' them to facebook so that they could comb through everybody's profiles. Multiple people were called to the front office, apparently to answer for pictures or written accounts of drinking, sex, and drugs. I can't really say that I'm sorry for them -- there is no such thing as privacy on the internet. At the same time, the administration should find something better to do. I don't take sides so much simply because I try to stay out of facebook/xanga/livejournal/myspace. I think most of them epitomize the stupidity and superficiality of your average teenage girl.
I might add that I have been personally attacked by a facebook group and an individual known on facebook as "Thomas Torquemada." Not only is there an illusion of privacy, but also of anonymity.
Maybe it's part of the Church's seeming tendency to live vicariously through others. Seems like that's what some of our resident priests do during confession according to my girlfriend.
I especially like the quotient rule, where we have f(x)/g(x): f'(x)=(g(x)f'(x)-f'(x)g'(x))/(g'(x))^2. Or, more easily, if we let f(x) be "Hi" and g(x) be "Ho" and say "D" for derivative, it becomes f'(x)=HoDHi-HiDHo/HoHo
Perhaps if you didn't YELL occasionally like you have TOURETTE'S syndrome, you would be more credible, or at least easier to read.
You must read slashdot way too much. Internet access does not win elections.
Here's the part that gets me modded down: You, zymano, are a genuine idiot. That's not an invitation to mod me down, just a prediction. /political opinion
You may have paid for the hardware, but the software is licensed to you. In this case, you are only allowed to use the portions of it that are openly available. That's the reason, among others, that this camera costs so much less that its bigger brother: it does less stuff. You want to do more stuff? Pay for the camera that does it.
Have you ever heard of this thing called capitalism? Maybe you should read up on it.
Canon has so far said little on the hack but certainly cannot be happy with its potential effect on sales.
That arguement is rediculous. What part of Canon's market that will shell out for that camera will apply this hack? Probably almost none of it, if they can find it or understand it. So that leaves the likes of the slashdot crowd, and that really isn't a big enough group to put a dent into Canon's sales.
Slashdot Mirror
The budget at the high school I just finished graduating from is rather telling: last year there was a ~$6 million capital campaign to enlarge the arts wing and upgrade the stadium. Building a nice arts wing is a good thing. Things are learned. But well over $1 million went into the damned football stadium. Now we've got synthetic grass and a three story press box building. This facility gets most of its use during the fall, and that's just to watch some mediocre teenagers throw a ball around and beat each other up.
If you walk through the math/science building, there is an interesting dichotomy. The teachers that teach the smart kids are awesome, but those that teach the dumb kids, particularly in the math department, absolutely suck. Instead of dumping all that money into athletics, why not pay for academics first? Maybe we could even teach something to the jocks.
Instead of watercooling your next build, why not use whisky?
I know that at my school, also catholic high school, the administration bullied some kid into 'inviting' them to facebook so that they could comb through everybody's profiles. Multiple people were called to the front office, apparently to answer for pictures or written accounts of drinking, sex, and drugs. I can't really say that I'm sorry for them -- there is no such thing as privacy on the internet. At the same time, the administration should find something better to do. I don't take sides so much simply because I try to stay out of facebook/xanga/livejournal/myspace. I think most of them epitomize the stupidity and superficiality of your average teenage girl.
I might add that I have been personally attacked by a facebook group and an individual known on facebook as "Thomas Torquemada." Not only is there an illusion of privacy, but also of anonymity.
Maybe it's part of the Church's seeming tendency to live vicariously through others. Seems like that's what some of our resident priests do during confession according to my girlfriend.
Well, there aren't any G forces at the speed of light. Just getting to it and back down...
Longhorn: Insanely Great
"Laissez Faire" was french...
A year to get to the moon? Come on, the U.S. got there in three days over 30 years ago.
BSD is dead /obligatory
I especially like the quotient rule, where we have f(x)/g(x): f'(x)=(g(x)f'(x)-f'(x)g'(x))/(g'(x))^2. Or, more easily, if we let f(x) be "Hi" and g(x) be "Ho" and say "D" for derivative, it becomes f'(x)=HoDHi-HiDHo/HoHo
...the mice control the earth
Do they even know that they're bad guys, or do they have themselves fooled?
I'll just need your email address, and I'm sure that these poor, confused gentlemen can explain themselves to you.
You're going to pay for this anyway. Maybe not upfront; in fact, maybe it's part of the government's budget. But guess who provides that?
Or "knobhead". Alternatively, to get the boss in trouble with the automated, voice-activated computer support that acts like the PFY, "Yew-Anchors," "Ute Ossers," and "Far Queue." Or "WONKER"
Oh, and does the PFY have a name anyway? I've always wondered about this. The only lead I have is "Sir Steven of the Daisy Wheel Printer."
...does it run linux?
...and it's not that spectacular. The search service is cool, but nothing else is all that different. It's really disappointing actually.
fast pr0n!
I suppose that this is part of the technology that makes a Windows Longhorn installation possible.
Perhaps if you didn't YELL occasionally like you have TOURETTE'S syndrome, you would be more credible, or at least easier to read.
You must read slashdot way too much. Internet access does not win elections.
Here's the part that gets me modded down: You, zymano, are a genuine idiot. That's not an invitation to mod me down, just a prediction.
/political opinion
You may have paid for the hardware, but the software is licensed to you. In this case, you are only allowed to use the portions of it that are openly available. That's the reason, among others, that this camera costs so much less that its bigger brother: it does less stuff. You want to do more stuff? Pay for the camera that does it.
Have you ever heard of this thing called capitalism? Maybe you should read up on it.
Canon has so far said little on the hack but certainly cannot be happy with its potential effect on sales.
That arguement is rediculous. What part of Canon's market that will shell out for that camera will apply this hack? Probably almost none of it, if they can find it or understand it. So that leaves the likes of the slashdot crowd, and that really isn't a big enough group to put a dent into Canon's sales.
That's why it's called a proof of concept. It simply proves that something can be done and is not concerned with doing lots of damage.
But imagine if you administrate a beowulf cluster...then you must be able to fly/leap tall buildings in a single bound or something similar.
You must work in marketing ;)
You must be new here.