Its not exactly easy, but you can hook a record player up to the line-in port on the back of a computer. There are lots of noise removal programs out there so it will sound even better than it does on the record player.
As for CDs, I've got 1.6 days of music on my iPod without giving the iTunes music store a cent.
I don't think I've heard a better statement in this whole discssion.
I am a student still in high school, my grades are ok (80% average, which is typical at my school)( and I am an obsessive computer user, but aren't we all on Slashdot). However, many of my teachers give me poor grades, I don't take notes in class, my assignments are rushed and imprecise. But I'm learning great. I can say I fully understand everything, I am a grade 10 student taking grade 11 chemistry, and I have grade 11 students asking me for help constantly. Marks and learning have no relation, marks are your ability to follow directions.
My marks could be much better, but I'm lazy, and like to spend all my time on the computer. I will agree that for many computers will lower grades, but the system needs to move past our current grading system. I will pay attention in class and understand everything, but I wont take any notes and I wont get around to doing my homework. My understanding of what we are doing is perfect, I get 95%+ on all my tests.
The problem is, my homework is 15-25 questions of the exact same easy sutff, there is no way I will ever do that. It is in no way nessesary to do something 20 times to understand it.
Also, what are the expereinces of others in this area? Most computer obsessives I know have wierd learning styles and are in similar situations. Agree, Disagree? Yourself?
Actually, there is an interesting loophole, if you claim your music was shared accidently you're ok.
Most programs will offest to search your HD, if you let it and it finds all your music you can claim you didn't know what it did.
Or when you download stuff you can claim you didn't know that left it open to other users. Basically, play stupid. The other thing you can do, have an un-protected WAP, that way you can ask them to prove it was you (basically impossible).
The definition of a scramjet is that air enters at super-sonic speeds, if its not you have a ramjet (or if you slow air down before mixing the fuel). 7 feet per second is nowhere near mach 1. I think htat was likely NASA's first ramjet.
(scramjet = super-sonic combustion ramjet, I did a project on scramjets a few year back before the first test flights)
If I have been mis-informed, please do correct me.
Although right now it is a opt-in I think they are doing it so they can go to the government and say "We've got this program that works, now make ISPs filter for us". If they can prove it works, they might be able to convince ISPs or the Govenrment that it is a "Good Idea". That part is what worries me. Or in 6 months we find it never completely leaves your computer and keeps on deleting P2P apps and movies, and a reformat the only way to get rid of it.
I hope this goes the way the CRIA (RIAA Canadian Equiv.) suits went in Canada, the ISPs all refuse to give up the information, they are taken to court, and the courts rule in the ISPs favor. I hope htat sent a precident when the MPAA of Canada starts suing.
But, only time can tell. If they courts rule for them then I might have to stop my movie/music downloading.
This is so true. Someone who shall remain nameless once deleted their IE icon by accident, and their question went like so:
"I just deleted the internet, will I have to pay to get a new one?"
or (other person)
Me: "This computer does have Internet access"
Them: "Yes it has the internet"
Me: "Show me"
Them: (points to IE icon on Desktop) "See! Told Ya! Who's the smart one now?!?!?"
Me: (defeated sigh)
Those are my two best examples, but as someone who does tech support I know far too many like that. People really don't give a damn, and thats unfourtunatly not too likely to change. Ignorance of computing is bliss.
At my school we're going Linux, on the desktop I put shortcut labeled "Internet" and one labeled "Mozilla Firefox", they start the same program, but my school has alot of serious techies and alot of serious "less gifted people", to quote dilbert. There really wasn't any other choice. Though sometimes I wish I called it Internet Explorer, some people have gone "I don't like the websites in Internet. I want the websites in Internet Explorer".
Though, this is also why I will never be out of job.
Although its not a forefront issue is one that is brought up. Generally the left parties support open-source, a good example (though possibly co-incidence) is that the George W Bush website ran IIS but Kerry's ran Apache/Linux.
Though, to the average voter it doesn't matter, many think Microsoft is the best thing since sliced bread and really wont be told otherwise. (These are the same people that say Firefox is auwful before even trying it). And those that don't like Microsoft generally still consider many other political items to be much more important, and to an extent they are correct. If I was American (not Canadian) I would have voted Kerry, but if Kerry liked Microsoft and George W liked Linux I still would have voted for Kerry. I really think nuclear war is a bigger deal than Microsoft vs. OSS; and many would agree with me.
The Canadian Green Party (http://www.greenparty.ca/) is an example of a party that support OSS, if you look at their technology policies (http://www.greenparty.ca/platform2004/en/policies.php?p=16#pt14 , Open Source section) they very specifically say that they will ban proprietary software in government unless there is no OSS alternative, they will say that everything must be done in open, standard formats, they say that anything developed by the government will be open source. They are one of the few parties that makes a big deal of it, and although they have 7% of the popular vote they don't have concentrated enough support to win seats in the House of Commons. They are one of the small parties, I don't see any big parties (Liberal, Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP) doing this, and that might be because they have realized that this doesn't win votes.
But Europe could also cover America.
Its a concept known as mutually assured destruction, and its why there hasn't been nuclear war. I however doubt that George W was a firm grasp of the concept, thats why him winning the '04 election scares me.
I noticed that the summary points out how the AMD64 is faster. Well, what were you expecting, its 64bit vs. 32bit.
If you want a fair comparison then compare the AMD 32bit processors against Intel 32bit processors.
And compare AMD64s against Intel's 64 bit chips.
Don't complain Intel is slow when you're tilting the playing field. Its just like Microsoft claiming Windows is cheaper than Linux, only on a tilted playing field.
Unfourtunatly you are too corect. I know many people that think IE is the web. I once had a conversation with someone:
Me: This computer doesn't does have the internet.
Them: Yes it does (Moves cursor over IE icon on desktop). See! Stupid!
Me: (Laughs)
or..
Them: Hi, you're good with computers, my internet wont start, where can I buy another copy?
The list just goes on.
I haven't completely given up, I've got about 50 people to use Firefox + its been made the only option on the 35 PCs at my school (we're a Mac OS 9 school).
My gas furnace is the radiator type, not forced air. It uses electricity instead of a pilot light, and to open the chimney, but after that its like a gas stove heating water. Just feed it more gas and it keeps going.
As for how the water circulates, I'm not quite certain, but heat+gravity I think, as for there is certanily no motor in there (not only can you not see one the thing is perfectly quit while running). I'm afraid I don't have more information.
I couldn't have said it better myself, how will we ever know if we don't try? If we get so scared of making mistakes we can't progress anymore, progess is about making mistakes, but most importantly, learning from them. Lets not dig ourselves into a big hole.
Short answer: very cold
If you find UK temperatures to be very cold, reccomend staying away for Canada and northern US.
Here in (Canada) I see -40C (-40F for Americans) at my cottage all the time. Now THAT is cold. But -40 and a big coat, and you'll be good for hours, I presume your house is insulated, so you'll be good even longer.
I don't see any reason to not use a UPS for your furnace, if you have a gas furnace like mine, one it gets going it doesn't need electricity, and starting only takes 10 seconds (Though it does draw more power than a computer). A 1 hours UPS will give you 50+ starts of your furnace, or ~20 days without power, more than you'll ever need.
Though, if this issue (as a whole) is a big concern, I reccomend complaining to your electrical company. I don't have a UPS for anything, I have never needed one. Power has never been out in the winter for more than 5 mins. And in the summer the longest has been 3 hours (except the massive blackout, which was ~12 hours)
Here you go: (This is copied from the print view so I get it all, my e-mail has been changed to spam-proof it, nothing else is changed).
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Unfourtunatly, there is something called a "Business Method Patent", where you can patent ways of doing business. IBM used to hold a very silly one of these. Their patent was: Assigning numbers to those waiting in line for washrooms so that they do not need to stay in line until it is their turn. That obviously is not the exact text, but you should get the idea of what the patent did. It was completely rediclous (and IBM realized this and "released" the idea publicly).
You could change your extension, send it, and have it people change it back. Its not exactly easy, but it should work. And its alot easier than having to compress then un-neededly.
It looks like they have actually responded to what I wan't. About 3 months ago I sent a request asking for more contact info, and here it is. (If you doubt me, I can post the message I got back from them about it). They actually listen to customers, its great.
Its too bad we live in a world run by corporations, its rare to get that kind of service.
I think we should be thankful we get 1000mb free, who cares if they charge to foreward?
Yes, I would go and use another search engine, but would I be very happy about it? not at all. That would probably also mean my email was down, I wouldn't be happy about that either.
And I wasn't refering to the big names, I was refering to the other search engines mentioned with this article as being better.
Back when Google's DNS provider was DoS Google went down around here, at many places of work (this is not only mine, but others) there was serious problems, alot of things didn't get done, there was a fair amount of chaos. People depend upon Google alot more than they depend upon GM.
Actually, I think its worth more. Many people could get by without driving a GM vehicle, infact, I reccomend you don't (but thats for another debate on American vs. Japanese car makers, and yes I do live in north america). However millions RELY on Google, and Google alone, to find the information they need. I can't think of using any engine but Google for that matter, they're fast, and so perfectly accurate. For example, I did a search for Perimiter Institute (where I spent my day today, and this place was mentioned above), and many of the engines listed on this page as being "better" returned their website down the list, Google got it first.
Right now Google is the way people find things on the web, GM is not the car manufacturer everyone buys from. I could go through my day without GM, or without cars at all, but in todays digital world, I need Google, not only as a search engine, but they have my GMail account (BTW, invites are availible, just e-mail me). Google's worth to me beats GM's worth to me any day.
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Its not exactly easy, but you can hook a record player up to the line-in port on the back of a computer. There are lots of noise removal programs out there so it will sound even better than it does on the record player.
As for CDs, I've got 1.6 days of music on my iPod without giving the iTunes music store a cent.
You haven't actually used Firefox have you?
Firefox is a standards compliant browser, just like KHTML (Safari's base). If one was to code for Firefox they would be coding for the W3C standards.
No they can't, Secuina reported this vulnerability before, and it has now been patched. Only the active website can show pop-ups.
but grades ain't learning.
I don't think I've heard a better statement in this whole discssion.
I am a student still in high school, my grades are ok (80% average, which is typical at my school)( and I am an obsessive computer user, but aren't we all on Slashdot). However, many of my teachers give me poor grades, I don't take notes in class, my assignments are rushed and imprecise. But I'm learning great. I can say I fully understand everything, I am a grade 10 student taking grade 11 chemistry, and I have grade 11 students asking me for help constantly. Marks and learning have no relation, marks are your ability to follow directions.
My marks could be much better, but I'm lazy, and like to spend all my time on the computer. I will agree that for many computers will lower grades, but the system needs to move past our current grading system. I will pay attention in class and understand everything, but I wont take any notes and I wont get around to doing my homework. My understanding of what we are doing is perfect, I get 95%+ on all my tests.
The problem is, my homework is 15-25 questions of the exact same easy sutff, there is no way I will ever do that. It is in no way nessesary to do something 20 times to understand it.
Also, what are the expereinces of others in this area? Most computer obsessives I know have wierd learning styles and are in similar situations. Agree, Disagree? Yourself?
Actually, there is an interesting loophole, if you claim your music was shared accidently you're ok. Most programs will offest to search your HD, if you let it and it finds all your music you can claim you didn't know what it did. Or when you download stuff you can claim you didn't know that left it open to other users. Basically, play stupid. The other thing you can do, have an un-protected WAP, that way you can ask them to prove it was you (basically impossible).
I sent an invite to Hotmail support, I never got a response back though :(, and they didn't take my invitation, they probably all already have them.
The definition of a scramjet is that air enters at super-sonic speeds, if its not you have a ramjet (or if you slow air down before mixing the fuel). 7 feet per second is nowhere near mach 1. I think htat was likely NASA's first ramjet. (scramjet = super-sonic combustion ramjet, I did a project on scramjets a few year back before the first test flights) If I have been mis-informed, please do correct me.
Although right now it is a opt-in I think they are doing it so they can go to the government and say "We've got this program that works, now make ISPs filter for us". If they can prove it works, they might be able to convince ISPs or the Govenrment that it is a "Good Idea". That part is what worries me. Or in 6 months we find it never completely leaves your computer and keeps on deleting P2P apps and movies, and a reformat the only way to get rid of it.
I hope this goes the way the CRIA (RIAA Canadian Equiv.) suits went in Canada, the ISPs all refuse to give up the information, they are taken to court, and the courts rule in the ISPs favor. I hope htat sent a precident when the MPAA of Canada starts suing.
But, only time can tell. If they courts rule for them then I might have to stop my movie/music downloading.
This is so true. Someone who shall remain nameless once deleted their IE icon by accident, and their question went like so:
"I just deleted the internet, will I have to pay to get a new one?"
or (other person)
Me: "This computer does have Internet access"
Them: "Yes it has the internet"
Me: "Show me"
Them: (points to IE icon on Desktop) "See! Told Ya! Who's the smart one now?!?!?"
Me: (defeated sigh)
Those are my two best examples, but as someone who does tech support I know far too many like that. People really don't give a damn, and thats unfourtunatly not too likely to change. Ignorance of computing is bliss.
At my school we're going Linux, on the desktop I put shortcut labeled "Internet" and one labeled "Mozilla Firefox", they start the same program, but my school has alot of serious techies and alot of serious "less gifted people", to quote dilbert. There really wasn't any other choice. Though sometimes I wish I called it Internet Explorer, some people have gone "I don't like the websites in Internet. I want the websites in Internet Explorer".
Though, this is also why I will never be out of job.
Although its not a forefront issue is one that is brought up. Generally the left parties support open-source, a good example (though possibly co-incidence) is that the George W Bush website ran IIS but Kerry's ran Apache/Linux.
s .php?p=16#pt14 , Open Source section) they very specifically say that they will ban proprietary software in government unless there is no OSS alternative, they will say that everything must be done in open, standard formats, they say that anything developed by the government will be open source. They are one of the few parties that makes a big deal of it, and although they have 7% of the popular vote they don't have concentrated enough support to win seats in the House of Commons. They are one of the small parties, I don't see any big parties (Liberal, Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP) doing this, and that might be because they have realized that this doesn't win votes.
Though, to the average voter it doesn't matter, many think Microsoft is the best thing since sliced bread and really wont be told otherwise. (These are the same people that say Firefox is auwful before even trying it). And those that don't like Microsoft generally still consider many other political items to be much more important, and to an extent they are correct. If I was American (not Canadian) I would have voted Kerry, but if Kerry liked Microsoft and George W liked Linux I still would have voted for Kerry. I really think nuclear war is a bigger deal than Microsoft vs. OSS; and many would agree with me.
The Canadian Green Party (http://www.greenparty.ca/) is an example of a party that support OSS, if you look at their technology policies (http://www.greenparty.ca/platform2004/en/policie
But Europe could also cover America. Its a concept known as mutually assured destruction, and its why there hasn't been nuclear war. I however doubt that George W was a firm grasp of the concept, thats why him winning the '04 election scares me.
I noticed that the summary points out how the AMD64 is faster. Well, what were you expecting, its 64bit vs. 32bit.
If you want a fair comparison then compare the AMD 32bit processors against Intel 32bit processors.
And compare AMD64s against Intel's 64 bit chips.
Don't complain Intel is slow when you're tilting the playing field. Its just like Microsoft claiming Windows is cheaper than Linux, only on a tilted playing field.
And apparantly Slashdot mods don't get humor.
Unfourtunatly you are too corect. I know many people that think IE is the web. I once had a conversation with someone:
Me: This computer doesn't does have the internet.
Them: Yes it does (Moves cursor over IE icon on desktop). See! Stupid!
Me: (Laughs)
or..
Them: Hi, you're good with computers, my internet wont start, where can I buy another copy?
The list just goes on.
I haven't completely given up, I've got about 50 people to use Firefox + its been made the only option on the 35 PCs at my school (we're a Mac OS 9 school).
My gas furnace is the radiator type, not forced air. It uses electricity instead of a pilot light, and to open the chimney, but after that its like a gas stove heating water. Just feed it more gas and it keeps going.
As for how the water circulates, I'm not quite certain, but heat+gravity I think, as for there is certanily no motor in there (not only can you not see one the thing is perfectly quit while running). I'm afraid I don't have more information.
Mod parent up.
I couldn't have said it better myself, how will we ever know if we don't try? If we get so scared of making mistakes we can't progress anymore, progess is about making mistakes, but most importantly, learning from them. Lets not dig ourselves into a big hole.
Short answer: very cold If you find UK temperatures to be very cold, reccomend staying away for Canada and northern US. Here in (Canada) I see -40C (-40F for Americans) at my cottage all the time. Now THAT is cold. But -40 and a big coat, and you'll be good for hours, I presume your house is insulated, so you'll be good even longer. I don't see any reason to not use a UPS for your furnace, if you have a gas furnace like mine, one it gets going it doesn't need electricity, and starting only takes 10 seconds (Though it does draw more power than a computer). A 1 hours UPS will give you 50+ starts of your furnace, or ~20 days without power, more than you'll ever need. Though, if this issue (as a whole) is a big concern, I reccomend complaining to your electrical company. I don't have a UPS for anything, I have never needed one. Power has never been out in the winter for more than 5 mins. And in the summer the longest has been 3 hours (except the massive blackout, which was ~12 hours)
If this was enforced the tech software industry would have gone out of business years ago.
I don't see how telephony will be any different.
Here you go: (This is copied from the print view so I get it all, my e-mail has been changed to spam-proof it, nothing else is changed).
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Unfourtunatly, there is something called a "Business Method Patent", where you can patent ways of doing business. IBM used to hold a very silly one of these. Their patent was: Assigning numbers to those waiting in line for washrooms so that they do not need to stay in line until it is their turn. That obviously is not the exact text, but you should get the idea of what the patent did. It was completely rediclous (and IBM realized this and "released" the idea publicly).
You could change your extension, send it, and have it people change it back. Its not exactly easy, but it should work. And its alot easier than having to compress then un-neededly.
It looks like they have actually responded to what I wan't. About 3 months ago I sent a request asking for more contact info, and here it is. (If you doubt me, I can post the message I got back from them about it). They actually listen to customers, its great.
Its too bad we live in a world run by corporations, its rare to get that kind of service.
I think we should be thankful we get 1000mb free, who cares if they charge to foreward?
What is with /. and "Nothing to see" messages, more and more common.
Yes, I would go and use another search engine, but would I be very happy about it? not at all. That would probably also mean my email was down, I wouldn't be happy about that either.
And I wasn't refering to the big names, I was refering to the other search engines mentioned with this article as being better.
Back when Google's DNS provider was DoS Google went down around here, at many places of work (this is not only mine, but others) there was serious problems, alot of things didn't get done, there was a fair amount of chaos. People depend upon Google alot more than they depend upon GM.
Actually, I think its worth more. Many people could get by without driving a GM vehicle, infact, I reccomend you don't (but thats for another debate on American vs. Japanese car makers, and yes I do live in north america). However millions RELY on Google, and Google alone, to find the information they need. I can't think of using any engine but Google for that matter, they're fast, and so perfectly accurate. For example, I did a search for Perimiter Institute (where I spent my day today, and this place was mentioned above), and many of the engines listed on this page as being "better" returned their website down the list, Google got it first.
Right now Google is the way people find things on the web, GM is not the car manufacturer everyone buys from. I could go through my day without GM, or without cars at all, but in todays digital world, I need Google, not only as a search engine, but they have my GMail account (BTW, invites are availible, just e-mail me). Google's worth to me beats GM's worth to me any day.