Me and my sister used to play Starcraft cooperatively. (We go to colleges in different states). To reinforce what a previous poster said, the Yahoo games are fun, and my sis and I still occasionally play games on Yahoo. Note: My sister is an electrical engineering major (she's taken AC's, and looks nothing like Natalie Portman, so don't make me regulate).
Chilling the heart slows down the metablolism of the cells, to try to keep them from dying. Pumping the heart full of warm blood tries to provide the nourishment the heart would get inside of the body, and allows the heart cells to function normally. I could be wrong, but I don't foresee any benefit from pumping an organ with chilled blood.
So doctors say that this can be used in research fo cures for diseases....Well, most of these diseases exist because they are induced by current technologies (skin, lung, etc.). If we didn't come up with such harmful things in the first place, then we wouldn't have to invent more things (who knows what harm will come of them) to cure these diseases.
I don't follow you. While many of our diseases are caused by self-inflicted behavior (smoking, exposure to chemicals, bad diet), most other diseases are not.
The goal of Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly, was to produce transgenic animals that would secrete drugs in their milk. He did that, with another clone, named Polly. This sheep secreted human factor IX, which is used to treat hemophilia B. This disease is inherited, and is not caused by technology.
In one of it's many plot points, some Linux-using anarchists gain control of the the Reuters (I think) newswire, and fake the deaths of both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
A "Wall Street Asshole" who overheard the penguinistas at a party plays this for several billion dollars.
It's an enjoyable book, by the way. You could say it predicted the reality show fad, and is one of the few novels I know of with a realistic depiction of hacking and cracking.
I can't really fault the domain owner, or his lawyer father. The loss of this domain can't be all that much of a blow to his core business, if it would only cost him $5k. Personally, I would much rather dump a non-vital domain for just compensation, than have to live through a hellish court battle.
Sure, it's not fair, but not everyone has time (even if money is not an issue) to deal with stuff like this.
I have an on-the-motherboard chip by C-Media. I automagically had multiplexed sound on my first bootup of Mandrake 8. Now only if I could get my dual monitors working with my Radeon VE.:-(
When my parents were in Catholic school, all their teachers were nuns and priests, but today, Catholic schools I know of have normal lay-people as teachers.
They tend to have abysmally low pay rates, much lower than public schools. (I have a friend that started teaching at a Catholic elementary school last week; her first job out of college.)
As far as I can tell, this looks like it's a working mod. It also appears, that the guy (or gal) might not have a lot of details on how he did this mod, becuase he is selling a book. (look near the bottom).
Also, the Japanese version of Mac Wire has an article about it. (But I have no idea what it says)
I did a search for "Halli Mac" on google. Apparently, the Japanese Mac-enthusiast sites are all over this. But I have no idea what they say either.
That kind of reminds me of the X-Files episodes with the dark mood-lighting in in operating rooms. Wheras, in actual surgery, you have large floodlights, and want as much light as possible.
I just bought a JanSport PackPocket today.
Usually I would just carry around my Visor in my cargo pants. At work (where I had to wear slacks), I carried it in my hand, and just put it in my desk drawer during the day.
But I'm starting back school pretty soon, and will be on the go more often (and can't always wear cargo pants).
I have a friend with one of these, and she loves it. It can hook onto the front of a backpack strap. I'm going to keep my Visor, checkbook, and pens in it. But I just got it today, so I'll see how it turns out.
I sent this off to Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby of Alabama yesterday. Feel free to use it as a basis for similar letters to your elected officials.
Dear Senator _____,
Recently, Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested and jailed in Las Vegas for distributing a software program. This software is allegedly illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Although I strongly oppose the DMCA, I had neglected to write any letters to my elected officials until now. I had falsely believed that violations of the DMCA would be settled in civil court. Only now do I realize what a truly chilling effect the DMCA has on our freedoms. I am very saddened that a foreign visitor with a wife and child can be thrown into jail for what is essentially a thought crime.
Mr. Sklyarov was doing a presentation at a convention on software he had written for his employer in Russia. This software would decrypt e-books created with software by Adobe Systems Inc. Fair uses of these e-books were limited by Adobe's software. The Adobe software limits abilities to print, share, and quote these books. Mr. Sklyarov's decryption software is not illegal in Russia. The software can only be used by someone that lawfully purchases an e-book. If I purchased an Adobe e-book, I could use Mr. Sklyarov's software to transfer this e-book to a handheld computer so I could read it on the road. I could use the software to input the text into a screen-reader for a deaf family member. I could use the software to quote passages for an academic paper. Although some may disagree with me, I believe that these fair uses are within my legal rights.
Copyright infringement is wrong. Mr. Sklyarov is not charged with copyright infringement. He is charged with distribution of software that, in addition to allowing fair use by legitimate consumers, might be used by others to infringe on copyrights. It is ridiculous that this alleged "crime" could result in a five-year prison sentence.
Currently, the office in charge of prosecuting Mr. Sklyarov (the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California) is headed by Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. Mueller is President Bush's nominee for director of the FBI. Mr. Mueller has shown a special interest in computer-related cases. Please consider how Mr. Mueller handles the case of Dmitry Sklyarov when voting on the nomination. If you have a chance to ask questions during the nomination hearings, please bring up the Sklyarov case.
I do not know how Mr. Sklyarov's case will turn out. Adobe has already dropped support of Mr. Sklyarov's prosecution. Hopefully he will be released and allowed to return to his family in Russia. I find it ironic that someone from Russia can come to America and be arrested for a thought crime. I consider the DCMA an affront to the freedom of all Americans and hope that you and your colleagues will have the wisdom to repeal it.
I did this one time. I took a rock song with some delicate acoustic parts, loud parts, and a lots of instruments. I burned the song from a CD to MP3. I couldn't distinguish the CD and the MP3 on my $20 computer speakers (w/ no subwoofer).
Then I tried it out on a friend's computer. He has it hooked up to a fairly nice stereo system. The MP3 just plain didn't sound as good, especially in the quiet parts. Also there didn't seem to be as much "punch" (as they mentioned in the article). There was definitely a loss in quality.
I agree that it was kind of stupid when they complained about losing appreciation of music. What about earlier, when most people listened to recorded music on primitive record players, or maybe low-quality radio.
And trust me, the REAL loss in quality with the Stravinsky piece was when it was recorded in the first place. Hear it live if you want to hear it as it was intended.
Conclusion: MP3 is OK for my $20 computer speakers;-)
Note: I'm just guessing here
You do have something to push against when using propellant.
I am thinking maybe thruster nozzles that resonate as the propellant is pushed past them. That might be used to maximize the thrust produced by the engines.
That's what I love about PalmOS devices. Everything's in memory. You push the power button, and it turns on. The only thing I ever have to wait for is searches on my 4+ meg medical manual.
PowerPoint!
(I feel my karma dropping). It has pictures, animations, sounds, and lets the kids express themselves creatively. It will also get them used to the Windows/Icons/Menus/Pointer things.
Maybe you could burn some CD's full of good clipart and sound effects.
You can give assignments for presentations on certain subjects, and then they can all present to the class
If you can afford more recent versions, PowerPoint has good HTML conversion, and can allow your kids to post their creations to the web.
I have always thought PP was the most fun thing for time killing when I'm at the office, and I have heard that kids love it too.
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I'm sure there has to be a happy medium in this somewhere. You site Word as a program that tries to do everything, to the point that you get lost in the features. I agree. But on the other extreme, I have my latest Linux-Mandrake CD set with thousands of applications. Most of these apps only have one use.
I have always been frustrated by free software, because I am always certain there is a program that does just what I want, but it usually takes me 2 days of searching on the net to find it, only to find that I already have it installed on my computer. I think the key would be finding some ideal number of features to include in each application.
Maybe a program like Word could be split up into two or three apps. Maybe a separate program that handles mailing labels (to use your example), form letters, and printing envelopes. Then a standard Word Processor. Then a web-page editor. All of these could have similar interfaces, but only show the features needed for these unique tasks. Combining all three into one monolithic program is definitely a bad idea.
In response to all these people basing TV, I will paraphrase Home Simpson:
"TV gives so much and asks for so little in return."
Of course, I sure a quote from a TV character won't carry much weight with the TV bashers.
He didn't predict "Recombinant DNA techniques to improve existing drugs",
Crick and Watson hadn't elucidated the mechanism of DNA at this point.
He predicited that viruses would be found to be proteins, which is what a lot of people predicted back then. But viruses are mostly protein, but with DNA or RNA being the important part. Maybe if viruses didn't have DNA, some more of his predictions (like a cure for the cold) would have come true. Oh well!
Ah! I have encountered similar stuff at the university help desk where I worked. And people who say the need to type up a paper in "Microsoft 95." The of course, couldn't use the Win95 computers with Office 2000, because they only knew how to use "Microsoft 95"
Or my favorite, a woman who was using a Mac with Office 98 installed. All the Macs were currently being used. She didn't want to open her document on a Win98 machine with Office 2000, because she typed the paper in "Microsoft", and the OS on the Win98 computers looked nothing like the Macs, so it couldn't really be "Microsoft!"
I've noticed this disturbing trend on/.
People say "**** anyone?" and I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. What the hell is Windows97?
It seems to me, that advances in cooler-running processors always means one step forward, two steps back. My 486 had a small fan, and no heatsink. My 286 had a ridiculous-looking little heatsink, with no thermal paste, and no fan.
It also seems like the speed of the processors are increasing exponentially, while the size of the processors are increasing linearly (approx.)
The number of transistors in a P4 has doubled many times since the days of the 286. But a P4 chip is significantly larger than a 286
An extension of this, at my workplace, the network drive had folders with names like
"Drawings from Joe-If you are not Joe do not put drawings here"
and
"Parts lists etc.- Ask Bob if you need help with these"
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Me and my sister used to play Starcraft cooperatively. (We go to colleges in different states). To reinforce what a previous poster said, the Yahoo games are fun, and my sis and I still occasionally play games on Yahoo. Note: My sister is an electrical engineering major (she's taken AC's, and looks nothing like Natalie Portman, so don't make me regulate).
Oh, duh. Of course. Yeah, I wonder if that would be possible too.
Chilling the heart slows down the metablolism of the cells, to try to keep them from dying. Pumping the heart full of warm blood tries to provide the nourishment the heart would get inside of the body, and allows the heart cells to function normally. I could be wrong, but I don't foresee any benefit from pumping an organ with chilled blood.
I don't follow you. While many of our diseases are caused by self-inflicted behavior (smoking, exposure to chemicals, bad diet), most other diseases are not.
The goal of Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly, was to produce transgenic animals that would secrete drugs in their milk. He did that, with another clone, named Polly. This sheep secreted human factor IX, which is used to treat hemophilia B. This disease is inherited, and is not caused by technology.
In one of it's many plot points, some Linux-using anarchists gain control of the the Reuters (I think) newswire, and fake the deaths of both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
A "Wall Street Asshole" who overheard the penguinistas at a party plays this for several billion dollars.
It's an enjoyable book, by the way. You could say it predicted the reality show fad, and is one of the few novels I know of with a realistic depiction of hacking and cracking.
I can't really fault the domain owner, or his lawyer father. The loss of this domain can't be all that much of a blow to his core business, if it would only cost him $5k. Personally, I would much rather dump a non-vital domain for just compensation, than have to live through a hellish court battle.
Sure, it's not fair, but not everyone has time (even if money is not an issue) to deal with stuff like this.
I have an on-the-motherboard chip by C-Media. I automagically had multiplexed sound on my first bootup of Mandrake 8. Now only if I could get my dual monitors working with my Radeon VE. :-(
When my parents were in Catholic school, all their teachers were nuns and priests, but today, Catholic schools I know of have normal lay-people as teachers.
They tend to have abysmally low pay rates, much lower than public schools. (I have a friend that started teaching at a Catholic elementary school last week; her first job out of college.)
As far as I can tell, this looks like it's a working mod. It also appears, that the guy (or gal) might not have a lot of details on how he did this mod, becuase he is selling a book. (look near the bottom).
Also, the Japanese version of Mac Wire has an article about it. (But I have no idea what it says)
I did a search for "Halli Mac" on google. Apparently, the Japanese Mac-enthusiast sites are all over this. But I have no idea what they say either.
Probably just another neat case mod.
That kind of reminds me of the X-Files episodes with the dark mood-lighting in in operating rooms. Wheras, in actual surgery, you have large floodlights, and want as much light as possible.
I just bought a JanSport PackPocket today. Usually I would just carry around my Visor in my cargo pants. At work (where I had to wear slacks), I carried it in my hand, and just put it in my desk drawer during the day. But I'm starting back school pretty soon, and will be on the go more often (and can't always wear cargo pants). I have a friend with one of these, and she loves it. It can hook onto the front of a backpack strap. I'm going to keep my Visor, checkbook, and pens in it. But I just got it today, so I'll see how it turns out.
Dear Senator _____, Recently, Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested and jailed in Las Vegas for distributing a software program. This software is allegedly illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Although I strongly oppose the DMCA, I had neglected to write any letters to my elected officials until now. I had falsely believed that violations of the DMCA would be settled in civil court. Only now do I realize what a truly chilling effect the DMCA has on our freedoms. I am very saddened that a foreign visitor with a wife and child can be thrown into jail for what is essentially a thought crime.
Mr. Sklyarov was doing a presentation at a convention on software he had written for his employer in Russia. This software would decrypt e-books created with software by Adobe Systems Inc. Fair uses of these e-books were limited by Adobe's software. The Adobe software limits abilities to print, share, and quote these books. Mr. Sklyarov's decryption software is not illegal in Russia. The software can only be used by someone that lawfully purchases an e-book. If I purchased an Adobe e-book, I could use Mr. Sklyarov's software to transfer this e-book to a handheld computer so I could read it on the road. I could use the software to input the text into a screen-reader for a deaf family member. I could use the software to quote passages for an academic paper. Although some may disagree with me, I believe that these fair uses are within my legal rights.
Copyright infringement is wrong. Mr. Sklyarov is not charged with copyright infringement. He is charged with distribution of software that, in addition to allowing fair use by legitimate consumers, might be used by others to infringe on copyrights. It is ridiculous that this alleged "crime" could result in a five-year prison sentence.
Currently, the office in charge of prosecuting Mr. Sklyarov (the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California) is headed by Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. Mueller is President Bush's nominee for director of the FBI. Mr. Mueller has shown a special interest in computer-related cases. Please consider how Mr. Mueller handles the case of Dmitry Sklyarov when voting on the nomination. If you have a chance to ask questions during the nomination hearings, please bring up the Sklyarov case.
I do not know how Mr. Sklyarov's case will turn out. Adobe has already dropped support of Mr. Sklyarov's prosecution. Hopefully he will be released and allowed to return to his family in Russia. I find it ironic that someone from Russia can come to America and be arrested for a thought crime. I consider the DCMA an affront to the freedom of all Americans and hope that you and your colleagues will have the wisdom to repeal it.
Sincerely,
Matt Shook
I did this one time. I took a rock song with some delicate acoustic parts, loud parts, and a lots of instruments. I burned the song from a CD to MP3. I couldn't distinguish the CD and the MP3 on my $20 computer speakers (w/ no subwoofer). Then I tried it out on a friend's computer. He has it hooked up to a fairly nice stereo system. The MP3 just plain didn't sound as good, especially in the quiet parts. Also there didn't seem to be as much "punch" (as they mentioned in the article). There was definitely a loss in quality. I agree that it was kind of stupid when they complained about losing appreciation of music. What about earlier, when most people listened to recorded music on primitive record players, or maybe low-quality radio. And trust me, the REAL loss in quality with the Stravinsky piece was when it was recorded in the first place. Hear it live if you want to hear it as it was intended. Conclusion: MP3 is OK for my $20 computer speakers ;-)
Note: I'm just guessing here
You do have something to push against when using propellant.
I am thinking maybe thruster nozzles that resonate as the propellant is pushed past them. That might be used to maximize the thrust produced by the engines.
That's what I love about PalmOS devices. Everything's in memory. You push the power button, and it turns on. The only thing I ever have to wait for is searches on my 4+ meg medical manual.
PowerPoint! (I feel my karma dropping). It has pictures, animations, sounds, and lets the kids express themselves creatively. It will also get them used to the Windows/Icons/Menus/Pointer things. Maybe you could burn some CD's full of good clipart and sound effects. You can give assignments for presentations on certain subjects, and then they can all present to the class If you can afford more recent versions, PowerPoint has good HTML conversion, and can allow your kids to post their creations to the web. I have always thought PP was the most fun thing for time killing when I'm at the office, and I have heard that kids love it too.
I have always been frustrated by free software, because I am always certain there is a program that does just what I want, but it usually takes me 2 days of searching on the net to find it, only to find that I already have it installed on my computer. I think the key would be finding some ideal number of features to include in each application.
Maybe a program like Word could be split up into two or three apps. Maybe a separate program that handles mailing labels (to use your example), form letters, and printing envelopes. Then a standard Word Processor. Then a web-page editor. All of these could have similar interfaces, but only show the features needed for these unique tasks. Combining all three into one monolithic program is definitely a bad idea.
In response to all these people basing TV, I will paraphrase Home Simpson:
"TV gives so much and asks for so little in return."
Of course, I sure a quote from a TV character won't carry much weight with the TV bashers.
I tried to submit this 50 years ago, but /. seemed to be down that day. :-(
Yeah, if I remember correctly (It's been awhile since I've read 1984), military helicopters were one of the big "futuristic" elements of 1984.
It makes me wonder who Dobson and Totten were.
He didn't predict "Recombinant DNA techniques to improve existing drugs",
Crick and Watson hadn't elucidated the mechanism of DNA at this point.
He predicited that viruses would be found to be proteins, which is what a lot of people predicted back then. But viruses are mostly protein, but with DNA or RNA being the important part. Maybe if viruses didn't have DNA, some more of his predictions (like a cure for the cold) would have come true. Oh well!
Ah! I have encountered similar stuff at the university help desk where I worked. And people who say the need to type up a paper in "Microsoft 95." The of course, couldn't use the Win95 computers with Office 2000, because they only knew how to use "Microsoft 95"
Or my favorite, a woman who was using a Mac with Office 98 installed. All the Macs were currently being used. She didn't want to open her document on a Win98 machine with Office 2000, because she typed the paper in "Microsoft", and the OS on the Win98 computers looked nothing like the Macs, so it couldn't really be "Microsoft!"
I've noticed this disturbing trend on /.
People say "**** anyone?" and I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. What the hell is Windows97?
It seems to me, that advances in cooler-running processors always means one step forward, two steps back. My 486 had a small fan, and no heatsink. My 286 had a ridiculous-looking little heatsink, with no thermal paste, and no fan. It also seems like the speed of the processors are increasing exponentially, while the size of the processors are increasing linearly (approx.) The number of transistors in a P4 has doubled many times since the days of the 286. But a P4 chip is significantly larger than a 286
An extension of this, at my workplace, the network drive had folders with names like "Drawings from Joe-If you are not Joe do not put drawings here" and "Parts lists etc.- Ask Bob if you need help with these"