I wouldn't bring anything special, bring your laptop, bring a backup drive to store you photos, if you get bored, buy a sim card and tether.
Chances are, if your like me, you'll start with a lot of energy and you'll be able to work on stuff for a while but you'll loose yourself in the local environment and use your laptop for images. That's what I ended up doing. I don't think I missed a beat in technical terms (truthfully, I was working about 10 hours a month which withered down by itself). There are a lot of internet "cafe's" in that region, so unless your going somewhere with no roads you should have the ability to connect from time to time. Last time I went, even in the bigger villages around anapurna (which can only be accessed by trekking) they have internet cafe's connected via satellite.
That doesn't quite cut it as an explanation. Even if it did not propagate instantaneously, that doesn't mean the magnitude of its motion would not still be magnified by the [100 million light years : 1 foot or so] leverage of the stick, so there is something more going on.
(If he were casting a shadow-puppet of a ship onto a screen 100 million light years away, the *shadow* could indeed "move" faster than light!)
The parent is correct. The push of the stick would be like a wave in medium and that wave could not travel faster than the speed of light. A similar example is a network cable. You cannot push the electrons in the network cable faster than the speed of light, they just propagate in a wave that travels near the speed of light.
There are specific SSD's that are not slower than mag platter drives, but the cheap SSD's are slow in their transfer times.
Take an older slower seagate 160gb (taken from hdtune)ST3160827AS at 56.8 MB/sec and a 12.8 ms seek. Even the advertised maximum of a transcend SATA ssd is a read up to 30 MB / sec and a write up to 28 MB / s. The solid state drive is approximately half the speed of the mag platter drive and realistically, less.
It is true that the latency and seek times are incredibly fast on solid state, but it really depends on what your using the drive for whether solid state will work faster for you or not.
I agree, I recently visited India, Nepal, and Thailand. I had a macbook. It was great for what I needed (I was working while traveling), but I really didn't want to need it. I'd suggest using the internet cafe's which are available everywhere.
A laptop is something you need to take care of. You worry about it being stolen. They can break (mine did, a nice hard floor at a hospital is not a good thing for a laptop to land on)
For the 5 minutes of real stuff you couldn't do if you didn't have one there's always somebody elses you can borrow.
Also, even if you have a laptop, you must back up your pictures on more than just the laptop drive. The worst thing in the world is a single point of failure. Burn pictures, send them home, keep them on a drive, keep them on your flash, etc.
Your right, but different frequency ranges have different properties. The 700Mhz range tends to go through walls and such while the 2.4Ghz range (near our friendly microwave frequency) doesn't pass through solid objects as well.
Think of sound. A base speaker goes through walls etc. while a high frequency sound can be blocked by your hand being put right in front of the speaker.
I don't believe he said war, I believe he said conflict. That being said:
Simply because humans are predisposed to violence (which is still under debate by our brainy science dudes) does not imply that we should not strive for a world without war.
If you believe for an instant that millions of years of predatory survival competition with other species, during which evolution has allowed the strongest genetics to survive, hasn't coded violence into our species then I have a bridge in New York for sale.
I believe it is a fallacy to try and strive for a world without war, however we should control it better to prevent unnecessary loss of life and resources.
I disagree, we as humans may have violent tendancies but that, in no way, translates directly into war. Sports are a great outlet for violent tendancies that neither purposefully causes death nor destruction.
We do have outlets for our violent tendancies that do not require war. We should strive for a world without war. That does not inherently mean a world without violence. Just because there is violence inherent in ourselves, doesn't mean we can't use our agression in safe ways.
If you want a program that can do multiple routes, you can try GMap. The directions aren't yet tuned that well, but they do work and allow for multiple stop routes.
GMap is a GTK# based map program that uses the US Census tiger data as its map source and works offline without need for the internet.
Like others have said, they've already opened up an API using XML Web services. Both for their TerraService product and their MapPoint product.
It's not a windows only thing either. Check out GMap, a GTK# based map program that runs under linux and windows. It uses the terraservice to overlay "satellite" data onto road data.
Ok. First things first. Download the proposed ordinace and read it.
If not read it, at least search for the word blog, internet, web, or anything else internet related. You wont find it.
You will find that anything journalistic related is excluded. Now, as we know here at slashdot, blogs may or may not be journalism. If they are considered journalism, they are excluded. If they are considered personal conversations, they are also excluded.
Note that this ordinance has not passed, and probably wont pass. Regardless, it seems to state some specific guidlines on advertisment funding disclosure for city officials. Thats about it.
Also, if you decide not to disclose information at all, your charged a whopping $10 a day until you disclose. Woo Hoo! Lunch money!
So, you publish your slam campaign on TV (because there is no internet issue covered at all) and pay $10 retroactively after election day till you either win or lose!
They are in no way blocking you from searching for porn, they just aren't suggesting a completion for your query. You can still type it in and get many many results...
You might have an argument if your talking about a single bike hacked. Going around and doing it to every bike they could find becomes a step beyond that.
Also, when you find the designer of a lock that says it can't be broken, you don't steal a lock. You go, buy that lock, then you try to break it.
Our governments and societies are based on people observing property rights. Without them, we'd probably end up having blood fueds all over again.
To me, a degree is not supposed to teach you how to program something specific, its supposed to teach you intuition and theory about why your program works the way it works. That intuation can lead to more efficient ways of programming because you know how the computer executes what its programmed to do.
That, and they teach you tools that can be used in any language for many functions. That is, they teach you algorithms to complete a general class of things.
Also, the college experience is one that shouldn't be missed. The friends you meet get you a lifelong connection to parts of industry you never knew existed.
One of the reasons i did not buy a mac laptop is because none of them come with high density screens. I'm very specific, i admit, I bought a laptop with an SXGA+ screen (1400x1050) in a 14.1" package. I'm sure i'm not in the majority, but thats not the point.
Apple computers are for a lot of people, but not everybody.
I have a problem with these ratings. According to the criteria, ratings are strongly based on how many computers there are per student. I dont know about your university, but i rarely use the campus computers. When i do, there are always many and they are mostly not used. Most people either have a desktop at home / dorm or a laptop they carry everywhere. To get my university to be on the top 25 on this list, they'll need to have even more unused machines scattered about campus.
In summary, I disagree with the rating criteria. I would like to see the rating based more on how many computers there are per student (including the ones the students own) not how many computers the campus owns per student.
Most GPS's use RS232, or a usb-RS232 converter.
They mostly are able to use the NMEA standard for transsmission. This is definatly one application where linux has all the drivers it needs.
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I've been in a similar trip.
I wouldn't bring anything special, bring your laptop, bring a backup drive to store you photos, if you get bored, buy a sim card and tether.
Chances are, if your like me, you'll start with a lot of energy and you'll be able to work on stuff for a while but you'll loose yourself in the local environment and use your laptop for images. That's what I ended up doing. I don't think I missed a beat in technical terms (truthfully, I was working about 10 hours a month which withered down by itself). There are a lot of internet "cafe's" in that region, so unless your going somewhere with no roads you should have the ability to connect from time to time. Last time I went, even in the bigger villages around anapurna (which can only be accessed by trekking) they have internet cafe's connected via satellite.
Good luck!
This is a heat neutral technology. The sunlight that hits the collectors would have hit the atmosphere instead if the reflectors weren't in the way.
It's kind of like a magnifying glass concentrating a bunch of energy into a smaller area and in a form that we know how distribute better.
The start menu search is something you can add to XP (and is similar to spotlight and quicksilver on the mac)
If you do have to go back to XP, try Launchy. It's an open source start menu indexer that works a lot like the search bar in Windows 7.
That doesn't quite cut it as an explanation. Even if it did not propagate instantaneously, that doesn't mean the magnitude of its motion would not still be magnified by the [100 million light years : 1 foot or so] leverage of the stick, so there is something more going on.
(If he were casting a shadow-puppet of a ship onto a screen 100 million light years away, the *shadow* could indeed "move" faster than light!)
The parent is correct. The push of the stick would be like a wave in medium and that wave could not travel faster than the speed of light. A similar example is a network cable. You cannot push the electrons in the network cable faster than the speed of light, they just propagate in a wave that travels near the speed of light.
There are specific SSD's that are not slower than mag platter drives, but the cheap SSD's are slow in their transfer times.
Take an older slower seagate 160gb (taken from hdtune)ST3160827AS at 56.8 MB/sec and a 12.8 ms seek. Even the advertised maximum of a transcend SATA ssd is a read up to 30 MB / sec and a write up to 28 MB / s. The solid state drive is approximately half the speed of the mag platter drive and realistically, less.
It is true that the latency and seek times are incredibly fast on solid state, but it really depends on what your using the drive for whether solid state will work faster for you or not.
I agree, I recently visited India, Nepal, and Thailand. I had a macbook. It was great for what I needed (I was working while traveling), but I really didn't want to need it. I'd suggest using the internet cafe's which are available everywhere.
A laptop is something you need to take care of. You worry about it being stolen. They can break (mine did, a nice hard floor at a hospital is not a good thing for a laptop to land on)
For the 5 minutes of real stuff you couldn't do if you didn't have one there's always somebody elses you can borrow.
Also, even if you have a laptop, you must back up your pictures on more than just the laptop drive. The worst thing in the world is a single point of failure. Burn pictures, send them home, keep them on a drive, keep them on your flash, etc.
Your right, but different frequency ranges have different properties. The 700Mhz range tends to go through walls and such while the 2.4Ghz range (near our friendly microwave frequency) doesn't pass through solid objects as well.
Think of sound. A base speaker goes through walls etc. while a high frequency sound can be blocked by your hand being put right in front of the speaker.
I think this is actually great for rural areas. Most rural areas do receive TV signals. Some may not, but get broadband everywhere one step at a time.
I'm somewhat confused how the return will work (everybody has a tv station to broadcast with on their roof?)
I disagree, we as humans may have violent tendancies but that, in no way, translates directly into war. Sports are a great outlet for violent tendancies that neither purposefully causes death nor destruction.
We do have outlets for our violent tendancies that do not require war. We should strive for a world without war. That does not inherently mean a world without violence. Just because there is violence inherent in ourselves, doesn't mean we can't use our agression in safe ways.
I definatley agree, also, note that Gtk# is easily installed under windows.
GTK# looks clean under both platforms and the programs run without recompile.
There's also Glade#, an improvement over windows forms.
With the code generator for Glade#, it lets you split UI design from backend work which has worked so well for webforms and the like.
If you want a program that can do multiple routes, you can try GMap. The directions aren't yet tuned that well, but they do work and allow for multiple stop routes.
GMap is a GTK# based map program that uses the US Census tiger data as its map source and works offline without need for the internet.
If you have a windows machine around the house that you'd like to play your MythTV recorded shows on (with commercial skipping), you can try WinMyth.
WinMyth is a windows frontend to MythTv. It connects to your linux backend and acts just like any other mythfrontend.
There are a few. All of them are based on the TIGER US Census data:
GMap is a cross platform one, based on Mono and GTK#, it runs both in linux and windows using OpenGL as the renderer. It can also give you directions.
Roadster is a GTK based one that uses Cairo as its renderer and supports Points of interests.
Try out Gallery Local, a smart client for gallery.
It allows viewing of your gallery offline. It takes advantage of the new XML-RPC routines available in Gallery 2.
Does this mean that there is some radiation protection due to the magnetism in rocks on mars?
Is this enough protection that people won't need heavy gear to protect themselves from solar flares?
Like others have said, they've already opened up an API using XML Web services. Both for their TerraService product and their MapPoint product.
It's not a windows only thing either. Check out GMap, a GTK# based map program that runs under linux and windows. It uses the terraservice to overlay "satellite" data onto road data.
(well, she kinda has a point there... but I like $2 bills because they are prime, like $5 dollar bills)
Umm, How bout 'em $1's?
Ok. First things first. Download the proposed ordinace and read it.
If not read it, at least search for the word blog, internet, web, or anything else internet related. You wont find it.
You will find that anything journalistic related is excluded. Now, as we know here at slashdot, blogs may or may not be journalism. If they are considered journalism, they are excluded. If they are considered personal conversations, they are also excluded.
Note that this ordinance has not passed, and probably wont pass. Regardless, it seems to state some specific guidlines on advertisment funding disclosure for city officials. Thats about it.
Also, if you decide not to disclose information at all, your charged a whopping $10 a day until you disclose. Woo Hoo! Lunch money!
So, you publish your slam campaign on TV (because there is no internet issue covered at all) and pay $10 retroactively after election day till you either win or lose!
Have a nice day!
They are in no way blocking you from searching for porn, they just aren't suggesting a completion for your query. You can still type it in and get many many results...
You might have an argument if your talking about a single bike hacked. Going around and doing it to every bike they could find becomes a step beyond that.
Also, when you find the designer of a lock that says it can't be broken, you don't steal a lock. You go, buy that lock, then you try to break it.
Our governments and societies are based on people observing property rights. Without them, we'd probably end up having blood fueds all over again.
To me, a degree is not supposed to teach you how to program something specific, its supposed to teach you intuition and theory about why your program works the way it works. That intuation can lead to more efficient ways of programming because you know how the computer executes what its programmed to do.
That, and they teach you tools that can be used in any language for many functions. That is, they teach you algorithms to complete a general class of things.
Also, the college experience is one that shouldn't be missed. The friends you meet get you a lifelong connection to parts of industry you never knew existed.
The american heritage dictionary defines it as:
brouhaha Audio pronunciation of "brouhaha" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (brhä-hä) n. a hubbub.
One of the reasons i did not buy a mac laptop is because none of them come with high density screens. I'm very specific, i admit, I bought a laptop with an SXGA+ screen (1400x1050) in a 14.1" package. I'm sure i'm not in the majority, but thats not the point. Apple computers are for a lot of people, but not everybody.
I have a problem with these ratings. According to the criteria, ratings are strongly based on how many computers there are per student. I dont know about your university, but i rarely use the campus computers. When i do, there are always many and they are mostly not used. Most people either have a desktop at home / dorm or a laptop they carry everywhere. To get my university to be on the top 25 on this list, they'll need to have even more unused machines scattered about campus.
In summary, I disagree with the rating criteria. I would like to see the rating based more on how many computers there are per student (including the ones the students own) not how many computers the campus owns per student.
Most GPS's use RS232, or a usb-RS232 converter. They mostly are able to use the NMEA standard for transsmission. This is definatly one application where linux has all the drivers it needs.