My wife and 3.5 year old son go with me every tuesday to Geocache. It is our family night. We just moved and without Geocaching we would not have seen all the parks and trails in the area.
We use a Magellan SportTrak for our adventures.
I work for a defense contractor that makes GPS units for the military but I haven't taken one of the handheld units out for a test drive yet.
If storage is an issue with this alternative transportation method then just store they alternative in the vehicle that you can't afford to drive. It's just sitting there anyway, taking up space. It is just like getting a free mini-garage for all your stuff. Small stuff in the trunk, bigger stuff in the back and pasenger seats.
I have researched the cost for renewable energy for a while.
To get a solar system installed on your house and be tied into the main grid (utility intertie) the cost is about 10 USD/watt. A 1kW system (10-100 Watt panels, inverter, labor) would run about 10,000 USD.
To get a wind system installed runs about 5 USD/watt (utility intertie). A 1kW system would run about $5000 USD.
The sun is more predictable, but also more expensive.
The wind is cheaper but has the chance to produce more power but that is not very predictable.
Also, in the city you will never see a wind generator in somebodies back yard but solar panels are quiet and easily added to existing structures.
All the triangulation schemes I've seen are based on time, not power. Of course they were all in college design labs. The premise was that each tower would send out a "packet" and the object would send a "packet" back with the time delay of the internal circuitry accounted for. The tower would recieve this signal and the time difference between the send/recieve minus the internal circuitry delay would be the travel time. Divide that by 2 to get the one way time delay. This coupled with the speed of propogation would give a distance from the tower. If 2 towers are used and a known distance from each is found you will get 2 points in a 2D space. If 3 towers are used they you will get 1 point in a 2D space. Using another tower that is not in the same plane as the first 3 towers will give you 1 point in a 3D space.
I've seen the 2D location used for radio waves and I've seen the 3D location used with sound waves.
Hello Slashdotters, I frequently game on my Linux PC sometimes 20 hours per week. How do I get my wife to go away for a month so that she'll stop nagging me? I want her come back after a month so that she can clean the house and make some more money for me to waste on games.
I'm not completely sure but I think many ISO 9000 style guidelines require off site storage of data. This "off site" storage may just be another building located on the same property.
I worked for a company that had their data backup stored in another building that was approx. 300 feet away. The ISO auditor said this was fine as long as that building was equipped with a fire suppression sprinkler system.
Interestingly enough this "business park" was installing 12 pairs of fiber from every building to the central office building into their new server room. The server room can have space rented out that you could put a system like this in and have everything done over the fiber connection. This would be a fast connection to offsite backup even for many gigabytes. The connections were dedicated directly from your building to your server.
provide parents with progress reports on their children
Here's the difference. If you routinely provide progress reports then you are not a typical teacher.
Not all teachers do that. Some teachers are lazy and don't say anything except to the students, who then don't say anything to the parents.
I understand that some parents are more than difficult and come in both extremes. Wanting too much info and don't give a crap are bad extremes.
How does this protect the integrity of the children though?
Weekly progress reports available on a website that is "securely" protected (which I think is the key point to the whole/. thread) isn't too unreasonable to ask a teacher to do. I'm not completely convinced that I need to see every paper and grade and homework assignment but I would be very concerned if I only got an update every 9 weeks. The child is my responsibility and I need to make sure they are doing the best that they can.
So you want to teach the students that bein lazy and not doing anything until the end is a better way of doing things?
The parents will call you if they find something weird happening. If you enter nothing all year then the parents will never call you and there will be no interaction just like the old days.
Your resistance to change and position as a teacher of children scares me.
Work with it and see how well it works. See if parents do pay more attention to their childrens schoolwork before you flat out deny access to it. If it doesn't work then go ahead and play your childish games.
An internet connection is available at the local library. If they are poor then maybe they should sell the TV and spend more time at the library for entertainment. The time at the library "could" help their children become better educated and help them step out of poverty.
I said "could" because I realize that reading books at the library just raises the chances that the child will do better in school and get a better job. This is not a 100% chance but it is better than staring at the boob tube like I do.:)
It is in the child's best interest to be watched like a hawk watching a mouse. A parent should be able to step in a teach the child a lesson that could be very dangerous to learn through trial and error. A child should learn many things by trial and error but some things are just too dangerous to learn that way.
School is one of those dangerous lessons. Without a proper education you can seriously mess up your future. Mess that up through trial and error and you may not get the chance again.
Trust is a central issue in this. This is no different than a more thorough/convenient parent-teacher conference. Some people will abuse it and their kids will revolt. I would bet though it would just be the straw that broke the camel's back type of situation. Trust has to be built up. In this case, if the parents routinely check up on you and your story always is the same as what they get from the school, then the trust will be in your honesty. From there you need to build up the trust in your studies. Put a few hours a day into studying if you need to and they will start to trust your study habits.
I think the super lax security at this school prompts the program to be shut down immediately! It needs proper password protection through secure protocols. The passwords need to change every semester or school year. The parents that don't take an active interest in their child's school work won't bother to find the new password and those students will quickly fall back into the old routine. The problem here is the uninformed parents that don't know crap about security and that the privacy of their child's information is open to almost every other person around. My college days showed me that social security numbers have nothing to do with security.
The most important thing I can say that won't help you right now is teach the child sign language. Learn some basic sign language (eat, drink, sleep, ouch). Start at around 6 months. By 9 months they will be able to tell you when they are hungry. This is wonderful and simplifies your life.
My son is 15 months old and knows eat, shoes, on, and "more" as in more food in sign language. We started him at 12 months. He can only say momma, dadda, hot, look, shoes with his voice, the sign language helps other things. Using sign language and voice he vocally says "shoes" while signing "on". My sister in law is trying to teach him "shiznit" and I'm trying to teach him to say "drunken flirt". In sign we are working on bath, dog, drink, mom, dad, thank you, and milk.
I recommend the book Sign with Your Baby by Joseph Garcia.
I have mod points but the Diaper Genie really rocks and the Vent Aire bottles are worth 10 times their weight in gold. I just couldn't mod this up enough with 1 point.
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I'd like to add that you and your wife are the boss. Don't let grandparents tell you what to do. They give advice not demands.
The doctor is not always right! If you don't feel comfortable with the diagnosis, tell the doctor and if he doesn't acknowledge your worries and help you through them, find a new doctor.
A pediatrician is not neccessarily better than a family practice for all of you.
Don't panic when something odd happens. There are a lot of new things you will experience that will scare the shit out of you. If you have friends with children call them, they've probably had the same thing happen. Don't be afraid to call your parents for advice.
Don't take any crap from daycare providers. They work for you. It is your child, if you think it is dangerous, TELL THEM!
Be flexible with daycare providers. They have seen many children just like yours. They may have recomendations on when to kick the bottle, pacifier or baby food.
I totally agree with 3. It only gets worse as they get older. Tivo also works wonderfully now with my 15 month old for taping Clifford the Big Red Dog and Caillou and Teletubbies.
The Calendar is still riddled with bugs. It is extremely promising though. The LDAP address book in Mozilla is read only so another interface would need to be used to enter addresses and notes. At my previous employer they wanted a sales contacts address book that was writeable by all 4 employees. I found out about LDAP but was clueless as to how to set it up. I pretty much blew my chance to put Linux in the backend there.
Currently where I work we use Exchange 5.5 on NT4. I use Mozilla on my Linux desktop with IMAP and LDAP. It works wonderfully. This is a much larger company 200 PCs and 350 employees in a manufacturing facility. The heaviest use of Outlook 97 I've ever seen is by the ECO (engineering change orders) people. These people are part of document control for ISO 9000 also. They pull all currently approved documentation and procedures from Outlook through some sort of shared folder system then make the changes and save it to an NT server with a mapped drive. The calendaring is huge around here also for meeting rooms and similar things. It is interesting to see how they are open to "anything that will work" but there is a very large fear of the "upgrade". Failed upgrades in the past have scared them. Sometimes if it isn't broke, don't fix it.
Holy Cow! I got first post. It's a good thing all the ACs are off cracking AlJazeera or this would never have happened to me.
I'd like to thank my family, especially my wife for leaving me alone long enough to read/., my son for going to bed early, my parents for never letting me own a computer until college, my teachers in HS for not knowing anything about computers, and my current job for showing me that the IT dept is not necessarily the smartest people to have set up the network.
I'm looking for the same thing. Not for profit company with under 10 employees that won't settle for some hacked together email/calendaring program. They'll pay a little money for a full featured suite but the 2 main people are against MS Exchange because they really aren't even happy with the Win2k server that they are using. They want to go opensource and are looking to me to make it happen. I just don't have the confidence to put something together for them that I can't guarantee will work. That is why I want a complete solution.
The way people drive around with bikes is dangerous. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me from death is my hearing, because the car barrelling toward usually has a blind driver.
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My wife and 3.5 year old son go with me every tuesday to Geocache. It is our family night. We just moved and without Geocaching we would not have seen all the parks and trails in the area.
We use a Magellan SportTrak for our adventures.
I work for a defense contractor that makes GPS units for the military but I haven't taken one of the handheld units out for a test drive yet.
If storage is an issue with this alternative transportation method then just store they alternative in the vehicle that you can't afford to drive. It's just sitting there anyway, taking up space. It is just like getting a free mini-garage for all your stuff. Small stuff in the trunk, bigger stuff in the back and pasenger seats.
I have researched the cost for renewable energy for a while.
To get a solar system installed on your house and be tied into the main grid (utility intertie) the cost is about 10 USD/watt. A 1kW system (10-100 Watt panels, inverter, labor) would run about 10,000 USD.
To get a wind system installed runs about 5 USD/watt (utility intertie). A 1kW system would run about $5000 USD.
The sun is more predictable, but also more expensive.
The wind is cheaper but has the chance to produce more power but that is not very predictable.
Also, in the city you will never see a wind generator in somebodies back yard but solar panels are quiet and easily added to existing structures.
All the triangulation schemes I've seen are based on time, not power. Of course they were all in college design labs. The premise was that each tower would send out a "packet" and the object would send a "packet" back with the time delay of the internal circuitry accounted for. The tower would recieve this signal and the time difference between the send/recieve minus the internal circuitry delay would be the travel time. Divide that by 2 to get the one way time delay. This coupled with the speed of propogation would give a distance from the tower. If 2 towers are used and a known distance from each is found you will get 2 points in a 2D space. If 3 towers are used they you will get 1 point in a 2D space. Using another tower that is not in the same plane as the first 3 towers will give you 1 point in a 3D space.
I've seen the 2D location used for radio waves and I've seen the 3D location used with sound waves.
KDE XPi = Circumference of your desktop?
John (Plasma Boy) Wayland
A power utility in Southern California has a some RAV4-EV's that have over 120,000 miles on them. The RAV4-EV's use Ni-MH, I think.
Same here.
Hello Slashdotters,
I frequently game on my Linux PC sometimes 20 hours per week. How do I get my wife to go away for a month so that she'll stop nagging me? I want her come back after a month so that she can clean the house and make some more money for me to waste on games.
I'm not completely sure but I think many ISO 9000 style guidelines require off site storage of data. This "off site" storage may just be another building located on the same property.
I worked for a company that had their data backup stored in another building that was approx. 300 feet away. The ISO auditor said this was fine as long as that building was equipped with a fire suppression sprinkler system.
Interestingly enough this "business park" was installing 12 pairs of fiber from every building to the central office building into their new server room. The server room can have space rented out that you could put a system like this in and have everything done over the fiber connection. This would be a fast connection to offsite backup even for many gigabytes. The connections were dedicated directly from your building to your server.
Dunwoody
It seems as if he missed a step and couldn't figure it out.
provide parents with progress reports on their children
/. thread) isn't too unreasonable to ask a teacher to do. I'm not completely convinced that I need to see every paper and grade and homework assignment but I would be very concerned if I only got an update every 9 weeks. The child is my responsibility and I need to make sure they are doing the best that they can.
Here's the difference. If you routinely provide progress reports then you are not a typical teacher.
Not all teachers do that. Some teachers are lazy and don't say anything except to the students, who then don't say anything to the parents.
I understand that some parents are more than difficult and come in both extremes. Wanting too much info and don't give a crap are bad extremes.
How does this protect the integrity of the children though?
Weekly progress reports available on a website that is "securely" protected (which I think is the key point to the whole
So you want to teach the students that bein lazy and not doing anything until the end is a better way of doing things?
The parents will call you if they find something weird happening. If you enter nothing all year then the parents will never call you and there will be no interaction just like the old days.
Your resistance to change and position as a teacher of children scares me.
Work with it and see how well it works. See if parents do pay more attention to their childrens schoolwork before you flat out deny access to it. If it doesn't work then go ahead and play your childish games.
"no way the town could find a replacement."
:)
In this job market I bet they could.
An internet connection is available at the local library. If they are poor then maybe they should sell the TV and spend more time at the library for entertainment. The time at the library "could" help their children become better educated and help them step out of poverty.
:)
I said "could" because I realize that reading books at the library just raises the chances that the child will do better in school and get a better job. This is not a 100% chance but it is better than staring at the boob tube like I do.
My favorite:
We had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill both ways! Damn kids nowadays with their CD players and crap. We had AM, AND WE LIKED IT!!!!!
It is in the child's best interest to be watched like a hawk watching a mouse. A parent should be able to step in a teach the child a lesson that could be very dangerous to learn through trial and error. A child should learn many things by trial and error but some things are just too dangerous to learn that way.
School is one of those dangerous lessons. Without a proper education you can seriously mess up your future. Mess that up through trial and error and you may not get the chance again.
Trust is a central issue in this. This is no different than a more thorough/convenient parent-teacher conference. Some people will abuse it and their kids will revolt. I would bet though it would just be the straw that broke the camel's back type of situation. Trust has to be built up. In this case, if the parents routinely check up on you and your story always is the same as what they get from the school, then the trust will be in your honesty. From there you need to build up the trust in your studies. Put a few hours a day into studying if you need to and they will start to trust your study habits.
I think the super lax security at this school prompts the program to be shut down immediately! It needs proper password protection through secure protocols. The passwords need to change every semester or school year. The parents that don't take an active interest in their child's school work won't bother to find the new password and those students will quickly fall back into the old routine. The problem here is the uninformed parents that don't know crap about security and that the privacy of their child's information is open to almost every other person around. My college days showed me that social security numbers have nothing to do with security.
FWIW, I'm 27, married, with a 15 month old son.
The most important thing I can say that won't help you right now is teach the child sign language. Learn some basic sign language (eat, drink, sleep, ouch). Start at around 6 months. By 9 months they will be able to tell you when they are hungry. This is wonderful and simplifies your life.
My son is 15 months old and knows eat, shoes, on, and "more" as in more food in sign language. We started him at 12 months. He can only say momma, dadda, hot, look, shoes with his voice, the sign language helps other things. Using sign language and voice he vocally says "shoes" while signing "on". My sister in law is trying to teach him "shiznit" and I'm trying to teach him to say "drunken flirt". In sign we are working on bath, dog, drink, mom, dad, thank you, and milk.
I recommend the book Sign with Your Baby by Joseph Garcia.
ISBN Number: 0963622927 for searching
Amazon.com link Hopefully this one works.
For all of our shower gifts to our friends and family we get this book. It is so worth it.
I have mod points but the Diaper Genie really rocks and the Vent Aire bottles are worth 10 times their weight in gold. I just couldn't mod this up enough with 1 point.
I'd like to add that you and your wife are the boss. Don't let grandparents tell you what to do. They give advice not demands.
The doctor is not always right! If you don't feel comfortable with the diagnosis, tell the doctor and if he doesn't acknowledge your worries and help you through them, find a new doctor.
A pediatrician is not neccessarily better than a family practice for all of you.
Don't panic when something odd happens. There are a lot of new things you will experience that will scare the shit out of you. If you have friends with children call them, they've probably had the same thing happen. Don't be afraid to call your parents for advice.
Don't take any crap from daycare providers. They work for you. It is your child, if you think it is dangerous, TELL THEM!
Be flexible with daycare providers. They have seen many children just like yours. They may have recomendations on when to kick the bottle, pacifier or baby food.
I totally agree with 3. It only gets worse as they get older. Tivo also works wonderfully now with my 15 month old for taping Clifford the Big Red Dog and Caillou and Teletubbies.
The Calendar is still riddled with bugs. It is extremely promising though. The LDAP address book in Mozilla is read only so another interface would need to be used to enter addresses and notes. At my previous employer they wanted a sales contacts address book that was writeable by all 4 employees. I found out about LDAP but was clueless as to how to set it up. I pretty much blew my chance to put Linux in the backend there.
Currently where I work we use Exchange 5.5 on NT4. I use Mozilla on my Linux desktop with IMAP and LDAP. It works wonderfully. This is a much larger company 200 PCs and 350 employees in a manufacturing facility. The heaviest use of Outlook 97 I've ever seen is by the ECO (engineering change orders) people. These people are part of document control for ISO 9000 also. They pull all currently approved documentation and procedures from Outlook through some sort of shared folder system then make the changes and save it to an NT server with a mapped drive. The calendaring is huge around here also for meeting rooms and similar things. It is interesting to see how they are open to "anything that will work" but there is a very large fear of the "upgrade". Failed upgrades in the past have scared them. Sometimes if it isn't broke, don't fix it.
Holy Cow! I got first post. It's a good thing all the ACs are off cracking AlJazeera or this would never have happened to me.
/., my son for going to bed early, my parents for never letting me own a computer until college, my teachers in HS for not knowing anything about computers, and my current job for showing me that the IT dept is not necessarily the smartest people to have set up the network.
I'd like to thank my family, especially my wife for leaving me alone long enough to read
I'm looking for the same thing. Not for profit company with under 10 employees that won't settle for some hacked together email/calendaring program. They'll pay a little money for a full featured suite but the 2 main people are against MS Exchange because they really aren't even happy with the Win2k server that they are using. They want to go opensource and are looking to me to make it happen. I just don't have the confidence to put something together for them that I can't guarantee will work. That is why I want a complete solution.
The way people drive around with bikes is dangerous. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me from death is my hearing, because the car barrelling toward usually has a blind driver.