be careful of anything with large capacitors or CRTs inside... I am not trying to be your nanny, I was just picturing a teacher who may not specialize in electronics, and a room full of high school students tearing apart a broken CRT tv set or something. I kind of had to cringe and grit my teeth, and imagine the sound it made last time I discharged a 35 inch CRT.
another option, and I just mentioned him on another story the other day... is take a look at the old forest M Mims III books. They are the books that they used to sell for a couple bucks at radioshack. You can still get them from his website, or a few other places (saw them at Fry's the other day) although they cost a few dollars more now. I started reading his books in the 4th grade and I have worked and played with electronics ever since. Each of his books have schematics (and a guide on how to read them) for many projects which can be built for a few dollars on a breadboard. I would suggest looking at something with a simple linear analog IC like a 555 or 556 timer.
If you go to jameco.com you can get component grab bags, or my favorite are the component kits. For example the resistor kit has a selection of common values and a nice plastic storage thing that keeps them nice and neat. Give every student a few LEDs from a grab bag, a 555 timer chip, a battery, some jumper wire, a handful of capacitors and resistors from a couple of component kits, and the schematics to make a simple LED flasher. Then the different students will have different values of resistors and capacitors, and will get different results. Then you can time the flashing of each students project and chart the values of resistor, capacitor, and time. Explaining simple RC circuitry is a good place to start teaching somebody electronics.
The Mims books also get into digital, you could buy some simple nand gate chips and show the students all the different ways to use them, use simple push buttons for input and LEDs for output to save money. It may not be super exciting, but you could build an inventory over a couple years to do something really cool. Use TTL chips, not CMOS because the students will ruin CMOS with ESD. The possibilities are really endless. Any students who really get excited can buy a handful of parts online and build all sorts of neat stuff from those books. There are circuits for opto communications devices, a shortwave radio, a break beam sensor, you name it, its in there.
I burned myself, in public school, in high school physics, while soldering. Pencil iron was sitting funny in the stand, so I grabbed it, as you would grab a pencil but just in front of the grip. 5 minutes later I was in my chemistry class and it was a scantron final... get out your number two pencils... hurts to think about. seriously though, if they can have shop classes with welding I am sure they can have soldering.
quick somebody mod that asshole insightful, he was bashing bush, that should be worth +5 or so... too bad he posted as an anonymous coward, now nobody can go over to his house and give him a thank you blow job.
I on the other hand mention Obama in a negative light in a fucking joke post in a joke thread and get hammered for it. you guys are the biggest bunch of pussies I have ever seen. I hope you all choke to death on an anonymous cowards dick... or maybe Obama's holy dick will be the object of your asphyxia. I hear that when he takes a dump, golden beams shoot from his eyes, and if you drink his piss, it causes your bank acount balance to increase tenfold.
now if they would just make it so I can watch a few youtube videos in a row, without b0rking my firefox running in linux I will be happy.. seriously, can we get this done? Its gotten better over the last couple years, but I still have to kill -9 firefox after watching 10 or so videos. My favorite is when the audio freaks out and plays a 1 second loop at max volume until I kill it. Or I have seen no video, but audio is fine. I am not saying this is youtubes fault, but then again, maybe it is their fault for not using open technology for their videos, which would be available to everyone.
they wouldn't go to all that trouble, they would just call Obama and ask him to print more money for them. I mean the guy already had a trillion or so printed to "fix" the economy this year. I am sure the majority of that could be added onto the CIA budget and nobody would notice.
gotta go with Forrest M. Mims III. I know there are some people out there rolling there eyes because of his stance on intelligent design, but you are missing the point. This is the guy who wrote all the books about electronics radio shack used to sell. Those books are still available, although the price is a little higher now that the shack doesn't stock them. I just saw them at Fry's though, so I know they are readily available. I started reading those books and tinkering with electronics in the 4th grade. It gave me a lifelong love of electronics and science. I still rely on the stuff I learned from those books twenty years later. Check out his website. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, his inventions and experiments are exactly the kind of stuff I would want my kids to do.
the truth is that they had the tapes all along... its just that the technology finally exists to remove all the alien spacecraft from the footage. Now they can show it to us in the alien free form god intended
I was just thinking the good news is that if somebody hacks my brain, they will just find all the information from the internet that I have filled it with.
goatse,
eel soup,
two girls one cup,
kids in sandbox,
dump.jpg (ok that one was off of a Hermes II bbs back in the day, not the internet)
I mean if they want that stuff... they can have it.
other than an enterprise situation where they are already running solaris, is there any reason for anybody to roll out new solaris installs? I am not trying to be a jerk, I really don't know the answer. Is there any essential function that solaris can do, but bsd or linux or whatever cannot do? Not only that, but is there anything that linux and or bsd can't do better, and with a larger community to support it? I could be wrong, but I know for my personal tinkerings I haven't heard anything exciting to me personally about solaris in 10 years. People need to understand that technology evolves quickly, and no matter how emotionally attached we are to an open source project, there is still a good chance that it will become irrelevant at some point.
Don't misunderstand, I am not trying to mitigate the huge pain in the ass this would be to people who are maintaining current solaris systems, but the hard truth is that if volunteers lose interest and there is no big corporate money backing a project, it will likely fall by the wayside. It becomes impossible to even fix security problems if there is not enough developers.
well I suppose you could build two of them. I still wouldn't trust important data to that setup.... but I don't know of any cheaper setup in the long run if you just want to make one copy of everything. What I was just thinking is for a home user, how would you ever collect that much data worth saving... then I remembered that my shitty verizon DSL is the problem (only real connection where I live). I suppose if I had a fast connection I could collect that much porn or something. seriously though, it seems like most of the "home users" that I know that have that much data, its just a collection of free (maybe illegal, but free) downloaded crap. I think to a certain extent the original source is your backup. For example, if I download every ep of STtNG from BT, I am not going to bother backing that up at all, because I assume I will probably just be able to download it again, and the quality will probably be better when I do. Most users really don't have very much truely irreplaceable data. A few gigs of pics maybe, some digital media you actually purchased, a collection of resumes and letters. I have been using computers since I was a kid and I only have maybe 2 or 3 gigs of data I believe is actually important, and that is really a stretch. So this article is stupid, its not a solution for enterprise stuff, and very few "home users" really need that kind of storage.
reminds me of a story a guy told me once. He was a funny guy that tested electronics with me at an electronics factory. He was a cool guy, semi-pro drummer, had lots of stories about when he used to do video editing for the porn industry. I am sure you can picture this guy.
Anyway, he told us whenever he would arrange a date he would go to Cosco and buy the hugest can of Tang. Just the simple old orange flavor in the green can. He would explain "well you know how it is guys... some people think you should give a gift on the first date. A few girls even expect you to bring them flowers or something." He figured it was a great idea to give them something just in case they were "that kind of girl".
So he would knock on the door and the chick would answer, he would say "Here I got you this." and hand her the huge can of tang. If the girl looked a little confused he would just laugh it off and say, aww I love that stuff, everybody loves it. Think about it, you probably haven't had it in a while. The girl would usually laugh it off and say something like "I used to love that stuff when I was a kid, haven't had it in years".
So she would set it inside the door and they would go out on their date and a few hours later he would be dropping her off back at her place. When it would get to the awkward moment of her trying to send him away, or wondering if he should try to kiss her or something, he would spring the trap.... "SAY! can I come in for some TANG?? I could really go for some TANG!". He said they always laughed and it always got him in the door. I don't know if I believe it, but it always made us laugh when he told the story.
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it. If we don't have our cell phone we call information, if our satnav breaks we will use google maps on a smart phone.... in the long run its just no big deal.
I just watched the video and thought exactly the same thing... if this guy could get laid, that bed would be awesome. unfortunately I doubt he will get much opportunity for that.
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don't ask me... RTFM if you really want to know.
be careful of anything with large capacitors or CRTs inside... I am not trying to be your nanny, I was just picturing a teacher who may not specialize in electronics, and a room full of high school students tearing apart a broken CRT tv set or something. I kind of had to cringe and grit my teeth, and imagine the sound it made last time I discharged a 35 inch CRT.
another option, and I just mentioned him on another story the other day... is take a look at the old forest M Mims III books. They are the books that they used to sell for a couple bucks at radioshack. You can still get them from his website, or a few other places (saw them at Fry's the other day) although they cost a few dollars more now. I started reading his books in the 4th grade and I have worked and played with electronics ever since. Each of his books have schematics (and a guide on how to read them) for many projects which can be built for a few dollars on a breadboard. I would suggest looking at something with a simple linear analog IC like a 555 or 556 timer.
If you go to jameco.com you can get component grab bags, or my favorite are the component kits. For example the resistor kit has a selection of common values and a nice plastic storage thing that keeps them nice and neat. Give every student a few LEDs from a grab bag, a 555 timer chip, a battery, some jumper wire, a handful of capacitors and resistors from a couple of component kits, and the schematics to make a simple LED flasher. Then the different students will have different values of resistors and capacitors, and will get different results. Then you can time the flashing of each students project and chart the values of resistor, capacitor, and time. Explaining simple RC circuitry is a good place to start teaching somebody electronics.
The Mims books also get into digital, you could buy some simple nand gate chips and show the students all the different ways to use them, use simple push buttons for input and LEDs for output to save money. It may not be super exciting, but you could build an inventory over a couple years to do something really cool. Use TTL chips, not CMOS because the students will ruin CMOS with ESD. The possibilities are really endless. Any students who really get excited can buy a handful of parts online and build all sorts of neat stuff from those books. There are circuits for opto communications devices, a shortwave radio, a break beam sensor, you name it, its in there.
I burned myself, in public school, in high school physics, while soldering. Pencil iron was sitting funny in the stand, so I grabbed it, as you would grab a pencil but just in front of the grip. 5 minutes later I was in my chemistry class and it was a scantron final... get out your number two pencils... hurts to think about. seriously though, if they can have shop classes with welding I am sure they can have soldering.
quick somebody mod that asshole insightful, he was bashing bush, that should be worth +5 or so... too bad he posted as an anonymous coward, now nobody can go over to his house and give him a thank you blow job.
I on the other hand mention Obama in a negative light in a fucking joke post in a joke thread and get hammered for it. you guys are the biggest bunch of pussies I have ever seen. I hope you all choke to death on an anonymous cowards dick... or maybe Obama's holy dick will be the object of your asphyxia. I hear that when he takes a dump, golden beams shoot from his eyes, and if you drink his piss, it causes your bank acount balance to increase tenfold.
"Sauce code" FTW!
Has that *ever* stopped anyone before?
idk egghead... you tell me, and while your at it... tell me if it runs linux
now if they would just make it so I can watch a few youtube videos in a row, without b0rking my firefox running in linux I will be happy.. seriously, can we get this done? Its gotten better over the last couple years, but I still have to kill -9 firefox after watching 10 or so videos. My favorite is when the audio freaks out and plays a 1 second loop at max volume until I kill it. Or I have seen no video, but audio is fine. I am not saying this is youtubes fault, but then again, maybe it is their fault for not using open technology for their videos, which would be available to everyone.
god damnit you are funny.
they wouldn't go to all that trouble, they would just call Obama and ask him to print more money for them. I mean the guy already had a trillion or so printed to "fix" the economy this year. I am sure the majority of that could be added onto the CIA budget and nobody would notice.
I am just amazed this guy had a 13 foot monitor for that thing.
gotta go with Forrest M. Mims III. I know there are some people out there rolling there eyes because of his stance on intelligent design, but you are missing the point. This is the guy who wrote all the books about electronics radio shack used to sell. Those books are still available, although the price is a little higher now that the shack doesn't stock them. I just saw them at Fry's though, so I know they are readily available. I started reading those books and tinkering with electronics in the 4th grade. It gave me a lifelong love of electronics and science. I still rely on the stuff I learned from those books twenty years later. Check out his website. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, his inventions and experiments are exactly the kind of stuff I would want my kids to do.
the truth is that they had the tapes all along... its just that the technology finally exists to remove all the alien spacecraft from the footage. Now they can show it to us in the alien free form god intended
I would like to announce publicly that my genome is released under the GPL
ohhhh lizabeth... theres no water....
didn't you just read the slashdot front page news that they can hack your brain now? god... pay attention. This is an anti brain hacking device.
I was just thinking the good news is that if somebody hacks my brain, they will just find all the information from the internet that I have filled it with.
goatse,
eel soup,
two girls one cup,
kids in sandbox,
dump.jpg (ok that one was off of a Hermes II bbs back in the day, not the internet)
I mean if they want that stuff... they can have it.
you might be right, but I am building a new tin foil hat just to be sure.
1. after all in Soviet Russia tin foil makes people into hats 2. 3. profit!
you must be new here, and so on.
other than an enterprise situation where they are already running solaris, is there any reason for anybody to roll out new solaris installs? I am not trying to be a jerk, I really don't know the answer. Is there any essential function that solaris can do, but bsd or linux or whatever cannot do? Not only that, but is there anything that linux and or bsd can't do better, and with a larger community to support it? I could be wrong, but I know for my personal tinkerings I haven't heard anything exciting to me personally about solaris in 10 years. People need to understand that technology evolves quickly, and no matter how emotionally attached we are to an open source project, there is still a good chance that it will become irrelevant at some point.
Don't misunderstand, I am not trying to mitigate the huge pain in the ass this would be to people who are maintaining current solaris systems, but the hard truth is that if volunteers lose interest and there is no big corporate money backing a project, it will likely fall by the wayside. It becomes impossible to even fix security problems if there is not enough developers.
well I suppose you could build two of them. I still wouldn't trust important data to that setup.... but I don't know of any cheaper setup in the long run if you just want to make one copy of everything. What I was just thinking is for a home user, how would you ever collect that much data worth saving... then I remembered that my shitty verizon DSL is the problem (only real connection where I live). I suppose if I had a fast connection I could collect that much porn or something. seriously though, it seems like most of the "home users" that I know that have that much data, its just a collection of free (maybe illegal, but free) downloaded crap. I think to a certain extent the original source is your backup. For example, if I download every ep of STtNG from BT, I am not going to bother backing that up at all, because I assume I will probably just be able to download it again, and the quality will probably be better when I do. Most users really don't have very much truely irreplaceable data. A few gigs of pics maybe, some digital media you actually purchased, a collection of resumes and letters. I have been using computers since I was a kid and I only have maybe 2 or 3 gigs of data I believe is actually important, and that is really a stretch. So this article is stupid, its not a solution for enterprise stuff, and very few "home users" really need that kind of storage.
reminds me of a story a guy told me once. He was a funny guy that tested electronics with me at an electronics factory. He was a cool guy, semi-pro drummer, had lots of stories about when he used to do video editing for the porn industry. I am sure you can picture this guy.
Anyway, he told us whenever he would arrange a date he would go to Cosco and buy the hugest can of Tang. Just the simple old orange flavor in the green can. He would explain "well you know how it is guys... some people think you should give a gift on the first date. A few girls even expect you to bring them flowers or something." He figured it was a great idea to give them something just in case they were "that kind of girl".
So he would knock on the door and the chick would answer, he would say "Here I got you this." and hand her the huge can of tang. If the girl looked a little confused he would just laugh it off and say, aww I love that stuff, everybody loves it. Think about it, you probably haven't had it in a while. The girl would usually laugh it off and say something like "I used to love that stuff when I was a kid, haven't had it in years".
So she would set it inside the door and they would go out on their date and a few hours later he would be dropping her off back at her place. When it would get to the awkward moment of her trying to send him away, or wondering if he should try to kiss her or something, he would spring the trap.... "SAY! can I come in for some TANG?? I could really go for some TANG!". He said they always laughed and it always got him in the door. I don't know if I believe it, but it always made us laugh when he told the story.
yes, but the cool thing about this browser is, if you need tech support there is a special number where you can call and talk to Tony Little!!
in the event your satnav breaks (the case I was talking about) I am sure it would be reasonable to pull over to look at your phone...
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it. If we don't have our cell phone we call information, if our satnav breaks we will use google maps on a smart phone.... in the long run its just no big deal.
I just watched the video and thought exactly the same thing... if this guy could get laid, that bed would be awesome. unfortunately I doubt he will get much opportunity for that.