There is logic.
Which you can't use if you don't want to eat the wax as well. (Good luck finding "normal" parsnips that aren't coated in wax.) urr... wash them with soap and water. That should take care of the 'wax' most vegetables have. It is supposed to be easily washed off with soap.
So what is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable ? If a tomato is a fruit, so is an eggplant or bell pepper (and they are conventionally accepted vegetables , right ?) .
There is a chance that some stupid airline CEO decided that their planes use The Evil Darklord's software for navigation. Of course we all know that noone would NEVER code a special condition in the software which says
but was there any need to reply to that kind of retarded question? Why not just let him continue in his ignorance.. obviously he has no interest in knowing, otherwise he would have RTFA. Well, I didn't read the white paper, but I did RTFA and that doesn't mention anything why the sound card was used. And I assumed that the simple radio receiver was a simple pci card like radio device (I had a TV signal receiver card that u just digitized the TV signals and u could watch broadcast TV on your computer.. so I was thinking of that when I asked the question), for some reason I didn't realize that they meant a radio with a audio output. Does that make me a bit slow.. yes; ignorant/retarded... maybe; but its not flamebait/troll as u are implying.
Using nothing more than a simple radio receiver, a soundcard and suitable software, Swiss security firm Dreamlab Technologies managed to capture and decode the radio communications between a keyboard and a PC. Why did they need a sound card to crack a wireless keyboard ? Play operatic songs to crack glass keyboards ? or to play "You have been pwned" on blaring speakers after the cracking is over ? On a serious note, they do not need any sound input/output for this, right ?
One of the roles of education should be to teach diversity; not just racial diverity but all diversity. That the world is different everywhere. Some people use Macs, some PC's, some Linux. Some drink coffee, some tea, some soy milk. Some take their shoes off when they enter homes, some don't. Your analogy does not really apply to this specific issue. Its like saying, since since different people all over the world speak different languages, the educators should learn all those languages. You analogy would have been more apt (the tolerance part) if the educators demanded that no one use anything except MS Office.
I know the whole Microsoft Suite, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS. Why isn't the parent modded funny... he knows the whole microsoft suite and XHTML and photoshop and CSS. In case that doesn't sound impressive enough, the microsoft suite has many more resume-worthy items that the parent was too modest to tell you about: Word, Excel, Notepad, Solitaire, Windows media player... Wow ! that sounds like the computer skill set of my mostly computer-illiterate grandfather.. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but
If anyone knows how I could market myself, as a jack-of-all-trades, that'd be great. I would suggest learning more trades.
Firefox will only spell-check textareas, not plain old fields, like the subject field! All you have to do is right click and select spellcheck this field. or change the default to enable spellchecking for text (which is irritating when you see the red lines under everytime you login to a site)
Personally I find the popularity of hybrids interesting, because it's mostly irrational If you mean to Prius, one reason why its so popular is that it is a very good car (ignoring the hybrid part). Also Toyota puts in a lot of higher end gadgets there making it very good value for money. So if you arent too concerned about engine performance for highway overtaking (the Prius is soso) the Prius could be considered as a 'luxury car' by some. And its cheaper than the higher end cars (say an Acura).
We dont have any HOV doleouts here in Austin but the Prius is still popular (though of course not as much as in California)
Of course, there are other "interesting" ways to deal with being wronged. One way is to fight it in another ways. Posting on slashdot is one such way and it might even be more effective (and cheaper than counter suing). Already 500 people know what has happened and that the system was wrong. So, you see, the OP is fighting the system.
did you consider radio ? Sure you may not get the fancy colored maps (which are useful sometimes, I know) but most radio stations will have continuous and updated coverage of the natural emergency situation. I found radios to be reliable and if you get a shortwave, you can literally keep up with events from all over the globe from the safety of your basement.
The heat from those sources has negligible impact on the global mean temperature. Maybe. But I thought you were talking about localized temperatures and not the global mean temperature when you said
Just go downtown, in a large city, and then go 100 miles outside the city, and the temperature in the city will just about always be hotter.
So you have a lab, but you don't want to use it? I'm confused. Unless there's something you're not telling us, you've just proposed to throw away the two best solutions to your problem (a lab and a laptop cart) for no reason other than the geek factor. I'm sorry, but I just can't see what your aim is. Well, I can. First of all a lab is probably (time) shared amongst 5 or 6 classrooms. Hence its impractical to use the lab as a classroom.
The laptop cart, is obviously expensive and more time consuming to set up than a fixed desktop class room (albeit with a smaller monitor).
I have used a classroom with CRT monitors beneath a glass table , tilted at a proper angle, with full powered computers. (This was ~ 7 years ago, and financed by a huge grant by a big corporation). And this was incredibly useful, especially when the instructors made good use of the computers(though this was in a college environment). The point is I agree with the point that a fixed compact desktop solution can easily increase the teaching efficiency in a class. I dont really get the point of having a battery operated machine at each desk, I would rather go with rewiring the room so that each desktop has a AC/DC supply. Batteries have a high maintenance and are expensive. If this is a school, I expect the students will use the computers all day long (if not then as the parent suggested, just use the computer labs!)
I havn't had any false alerts thanks to another semi dead man's safety, which sends me an email 15 days before my actual switch turns on.
I basically have 7 emails to ppl really close to me. One of my password go in one of those emails and that has access to all my email/personal passwords. I havnt put any banking data since I dont think thats going to be too difficult to get, if I am legally dead.
My deadmans switch is a simple cron job and I need to reset it once every 3 months.
I guess food, water, shelter, music, reading, writing, morality and all that is out of context these days too. Well biblical morality sure is out of context.
So in a way that less like slavery and more working for a some time to get tangible benefits in the future (albeit not guaranteed). Obviously they wouldn't be interested in becoming slaves unless they had a realistic chance of becoming free, which makes it bonded labor and not exactly slavery.
The only reason I see any one voluntarily becoming a 'slave' is religious/other type of brainwashing, become a slave and gain salvation after you die (which I guess is more or less the modus operandi of all organized religion:) )
Well, voluntary as in: "Hey you have a choice, Do you really want to become my slave ? Otherwise I'll just torture and kill you. Entirely up to yo man, I'm not trying to bias you in either way."
Just like we 'voluntarily' give up money when mugged.
The Malaysian government is full of hair brained idiotic ideas. You can remove 'Malaysian' from that statement and your statement still remains as true.:)
The meddling is noticeable and thats what I hated. Apart from that, I was all smiles. I guess we just had different experiences. I found the service to be good in most of the places (compared to home... maybe we have different standards:).. I dont really go to too many fancy places to eat ) the people were friendly, the local food was interesting (and diverse !) and I still dont think that the locals give a damn about whether a foreigner (or anyone) washes his hands or not. So either I was just plain lucky or maybe you were unlucky.
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Which you can't use if you don't want to eat the wax as well. (Good luck finding "normal" parsnips that aren't coated in wax.) urr... wash them with soap and water. That should take care of the 'wax' most vegetables have. It is supposed to be easily washed off with soap.
So what is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable ? If a tomato is a fruit, so is an eggplant or bell pepper (and they are conventionally accepted vegetables , right ?) .
There is a chance that some stupid airline CEO decided that their planes use The Evil Darklord's software for navigation. Of course we all know that noone would NEVER code a special condition in the software which says
if(passenger_list.contains(entire_linux_kernel_team){
flyinto(mount_everest);
output_evil_voice("muhahahhaa");
}
On the other hand, there is nothing to worry about. This feature probably was shelved and is definitely going to be in the *next* version of the OS.
ditto -- I get that very often on new stories
The congress doesn't read slashdot. They are all on digg :)
We dont have any HOV doleouts here in Austin but the Prius is still popular (though of course not as much as in California)
did you consider radio ? Sure you may not get the fancy colored maps (which are useful sometimes, I know) but most radio stations will have continuous and updated coverage of the natural emergency situation. I found radios to be reliable and if you get a shortwave, you can literally keep up with events from all over the globe from the safety of your basement.
Cities == more furnaces, air conditioners, car engine heat , incandescent lights ?
... but there could be other 'logical' factors too.
I'm not saying that CO2 might not be a factor
Unless there's something you're not telling us, you've just proposed to throw away the two best solutions to your problem (a lab and a laptop cart) for no reason other than the geek factor. I'm sorry, but I just can't see what your aim is. Well, I can. First of all a lab is probably (time) shared amongst 5 or 6 classrooms. Hence its impractical to use the lab as a classroom.
The laptop cart, is obviously expensive and more time consuming to set up than a fixed desktop class room (albeit with a smaller monitor).
I have used a classroom with CRT monitors beneath a glass table , tilted at a proper angle, with full powered computers. (This was ~ 7 years ago, and financed by a huge grant by a big corporation). And this was incredibly useful, especially when the instructors made good use of the computers(though this was in a college environment). The point is I agree with the point that a fixed compact desktop solution can easily increase the teaching efficiency in a class. I dont really get the point of having a battery operated machine at each desk, I would rather go with rewiring the room so that each desktop has a AC
BTW just in cases you were being serious, check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
(thats good enough for my personal server passwords)
Hey, where did the million dollars in my bank account disappear !!!
I havn't had any false alerts thanks to another semi dead man's safety, which sends me an email 15 days before my actual switch turns on.
I basically have 7 emails to ppl really close to me. One of my password go in one of those emails and that has access to all my email/personal passwords. I havnt put any banking data since I dont think thats going to be too difficult to get, if I am legally dead.
My deadmans switch is a simple cron job and I need to reset it once every 3 months.
So in a way that less like slavery and more working for a some time to get tangible benefits in the future (albeit not guaranteed). Obviously they wouldn't be interested in becoming slaves unless they had a realistic chance of becoming free, which makes it bonded labor and not exactly slavery.
:) )
The only reason I see any one voluntarily becoming a 'slave' is religious/other type of brainwashing, become a slave and gain salvation after you die (which I guess is more or less the modus operandi of all organized religion
Well, voluntary as in: "Hey you have a choice, Do you really want to become my slave ? Otherwise I'll just torture and kill you. Entirely up to yo man, I'm not trying to bias you in either way."
Just like we 'voluntarily' give up money when mugged.
Thats your TA's address, isnt it ???
The meddling is noticeable and thats what I hated. Apart from that, I was all smiles. I guess we just had different experiences. I found the service to be good in most of the places (compared to home ... maybe we have different standards :) .. I dont really go to too many fancy places to eat ) the people were friendly, the local food was interesting (and diverse !) and I still dont think that the locals give a damn about whether a foreigner (or anyone) washes his hands or not. So either I was just plain lucky or maybe you were unlucky.