Teen's essay Editor's note and language advisory: Below is what Cary-Grove High School student Allen Lee says he wrote, according to his lawyer. The essay contains language some readers may find offensive.
Published April 27, 2007
Blood sex and Booze. Drugs Drugs Drugs are fun. Stab, Stab, Stab, S...t...a...b..., poke. "So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone..., then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did." Umm, yeah, what to wright about...... I'm leaving to join the Marines and I really don't give a (obscenity) about my academics, so why does the only class that's complete Bull Shit, happen to be the only required class...enough said. The model citizen would stay around to vote in new board member to change the 4 years of English policy, but no one really stays around to vote for that kind of local crap, so whoever gets there name on the Ballet with a pretty face gets to do what the (obscenity) ever they want with local ordinance. A person is smart, but people are dumb selfish animals. We can't make rules for ourselves so we vote others to do it for us, but we can't even do that right, I meen seriously, Bush for President? And our other option was John Kerry who claimed to parktake in Vietnam Special Forces missions that haven't been declassified....(obscenity) Bull Shit. So Power Flower Super Mario. Pudge, hook, rot, dismember "Fresh Meat." Mostly new/young teachers are laid back, and cooperative with students as feedback and input into the curriculum and atmosphere. My current English teacher is a control freak intent on setting a gap between herself and her students like a 63 year old white male fortune 500 company CEO, and a illegal immigrant. If CG was a private catholic school, I could understand, but wtf is her problem. And baking brownies and rice crispies does not make up for it, way to try and justify yourself as a good teacher while underhandedly looking for complements on your cooking. No quarrel on you qualifications as a writer, but as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first cg shooting.
(The following is Lee's explanation of the essay above, given to the media by his lawyer.)
Authors Note: This production of writing is done in the most accurate manner I can depict of the original writing. Grammar and spelling mistakes are included at the best accuracy possible. The first phrase in questions is in fact a Green Day song. The second reference to drugs is in relation to the schools history of drug problems. I am personally clean of all controlled substances. The statement in quotes is done so as a non personal statement as I would have done in reference to a character for a story. The reference to the gun P90 is from a video game, combined with a reference to necrophilia as a comment regarding a seriously messed up situation. A situation such as the rape of villagers during a raid by U.S. troops in Vietnam. I really do not care too much about by continuing academia as in relation to grades. I do however believe on continuing my personal education, and I am actually still working for my classes. My views on the graduation requirements explain themselves. The reference to Mario and Pudge( a DOTA character) are completely random as is this essay. The reference to a person being smart and people being dumb is based on a quote from "Men in Black." I generally do believe the public opinion is best. The rest of the essay is rather self explanatory, the main statement in question I have already released a comment online about. I request that all information I have released is read together, and nothing given separately or as an excerpt as the administration has seen fit to do.
On the night of the Wii launch, I walked into my local gaming store about 10 minutes before midnight to pick up my pre-ordered console. As I stood in line, the manager (who was busy preparing people's Wii bundles so they would be ready when the clock struck midnight) asked one of the employees to reset the PS3, which was in the middle of a demo movie, annoyingly blaring music. The employee walked over to the kiosk, and opened a latch, and the front of the kiosk swung open to reveal a second PS3 sitting in a metal housing below the plastic display case. He pressed a button on the PS3 in the metal housing, and the screen returned to the PS3 menu. The manager explained that the PS3 you see in the plastic case is just an empty shell, in case someone tries to steal it. The real PS3 is in that metal housing.
I don't remember if the metal housing had vents, but I doubt the PS3 is overheating. So far, there have been no reports of PS3's overheating (which may be due to the massive shortage), and it wouldn't surprise me that Sony expects employees to babysit their precious PS3 kiosks.
The author maintains that since regular record shops don't sell MP3s, or gift cards to places that do sell MP3s, its practically impossible for teens to buy legit MP3s on their own.
Who wants to walk out of a record store with a card with which to buy music later, rather than a physical copy of an album?
Too many of these posts seem to be missing the point. Sure, you can buy iTunes cards at Walmart (or the British equivalent), but what teenager hangs out in Walmart? Maybe if they sold iTunes cards at McDonalds or the local pizza joint, they might see a small bump in sales.
Addressing the larger question, teens don't buy legit MP3's because it doesn't make sense to fix what ain't broken: Napster was popular before online music stores were, and was a convenient, easy way to get the music you wanted. I used Napster when I was 13, and when it was taken down I moved to Kazaa. Why? Probably because online music stores weren't popular yet (if memory serves me right; if not, please feel free to correct me). My point is a teenager would rather find another program to download music (music that is of acceptable quality) than convince their parents to let them spend money (money of their own, or their parents' money) to download music. (On a personal note, I'd rather download an album than buy it, but if I Really Like(tm) the album, I'll buy a physical copy)
I also question how often and how much an average teenager downloads. I'll probably download about an album a week, but I almost never get around to listening to it (they're usually archived), and more often than not I'll delete it after I do listen to it. Hardly any of the albums I download make it into my regular-listen MP3 collection (which is ~1000 songs, and very few complete albums).
-Sore feet are alleviated by a good pair of shoes...I have a pair of Dr. Scholls [link], and they're spectacular at keeping away pain. I work at a movie theater, and I'm standing for pretty much my entire shift, and while my feet can feel a bit achy, it's nothing I can't simply be too tired to ignore.
-Irritability is resolved by state of mind. Customers can be a bitch, but the more levelheaded you are the better you'll be in the long run.
Find as you type, find as you type, find as you type! I can't believe that with all Opera has done (tabs, integrated Google and Amazon searches), they're still using the antiquated, IE-style "type it in the box, click search, and then we'll find it" method of in-page search. It's the one feature that keeps me from switching from Firefox (I'm not as keen on extensions as some FF users).
I blame it mainly on the Internet, and the fact that those that grew up during the 80's and early 90's didn't have it. Just based on things I've read in this thread, people got into programming during the 80's to entertain themselves and possibly show off to their friends. Now we have the Internet, where people show off their MySpace to their friends, and entertain themselves with viral videos and porn. I'm not blaming porn for the decline of programming, but certainly the Internet has made it much easier for people to entertain themselves and spend time on computers, which is what people who grew up during the 80's and early 90's were doing when they were programming.
Am I the only one who still reads ROKR as the last name of a famous Good Morning America weatherman who has recently shed his rotund image by losing weight?
Mod parent up. For those that don't know, HDR stands for "high dynamic range". Wikipedia, quoting from nVidia's website, sums it up nicely:
Bright things can be really bright
Dark things can be really dark
And details can be seen in both
Also, a note on the current limitations in HDR technology from the article:
[o]ne limiation does exist: the monitors. Virtually all monitors can't display an HDR scene because of two major problems, which is quite similar to the problem of the lighting model:
Most monitors have a specified contrast ratio of 300:1 to 1000:1.
None of them support floating-point pixel schemes.
I think if #39 was true in America we wouldn't need such a controversial/ineffective/(insert your own adjective here) president to get people to vote more often.
39. Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
I'd actually be really interested to see the tin-foil hat myth tested. It's the perfect combination of entertainment and simplified science that the Mythbusters represent. Plus, it's a relatively quick and painless myth to do; they could stick it in as one of their auxiliary myths.
I think you're missing the point of why most teenagers do it...
Look at it this way: Mommy and Daddy are paying for bandwidth and the computer. Junior gets whatever movies/music/games he wants, for a certain amount of time input. The time input is of minimal consequence: leaving the computer on during the day (when Junior is at school) or overnight (when Junior is sleeping) doesn't affect Junior's ability to surf, play games, or IM when he gets home; he just finds his downloaded file, sitting there, shiny and ready for him to enjoy.
Plus, to some kids, it's not about a rental "once in a while". It's about having as many movies as they can get, even if they never watch any of them. You laugh, but I've heard of legitimate cases of this.
As per the "how much media is WORTH downloading", I'll offer you some generalizations: most users of BitTorrent are college kids. College kids have bad taste in movies, or at least, their taste is governed by what they see on TV or what their friends see on TV and tell them. Of course, only the most popular movies/music/games make it to BitTorrent, and the average college student partakes in downloading the file. Additionally, Average College Student may be poor, but they most likely have a computer and a fast internet connection (thanks to the university/college), or at least, a friend/roommate with a computer.
I agree, and I hope that Nintendo's ready to accept the risk it's putting on itself. The controller is probably going to be very hard just to conceive for; the demos they showed to IGN and Gamespot gave us a good impression of what the controller's capable of, but it's up to the game designers to be creative enough to try and branch out, and take advantage of what this controller can really do, much like Advance Wars takes advantage of what the DS can do.
I'm betting this'll ultimately hurt Nintendo, but I'm absolutely praying that this will help them. Because the X360 and PS3 feature more "conventional" controllers (or, what has become the typical setup: D-pad and analog stick on left, four buttons on the right in a diamond, etc.), developers from the current generation will only have to worry about a new development environment to learn. But, developers who want to create a game for the Revolution will have to learn not only a new development environment but the ins and outs of this newfangled controller. Plus with all the brand-new sensors...all I can say is it seems a bit daunting. Look at the dearth of quality DS games. Even Mario 64 DS seemed like an extended demo, showing what the DS was capable of. I wish there was something else that could lure game designers to the Revolution, like a cheap development license, and not just this extremely forward step in controller design. The Revolution seems like the console that could really benefit from the homebrew community.
On the note of controllers, I believe that what the next-next-(next?)-gen consoles should shoot for is true immersion, in the sense of touch: graphics are nearly there, sound is slowly working its way up, but the other three senses are pretty much ignored, mainly because it's very hard to accurately reproduce smells or tastes without resorting to scratch-n-sniff or food, respectively. Especially in racing games, when you see a car powerslide at 75 MPH, but feel nothing of g-forces. I envision a day when we no longer have controllers, but a Matrix-brain-instertion needle, for true immersion. Then even the crappiest games will be worth buying;)
Is it just me, or does anyone else detest the styling of the ROKR E1? If Motorola can release something as slick as the Razr (even if they can't spell it right), you'd think they'd be able to at least make it look nicer than some crap phone from three or four years ago. I personally think the iTunes phone would be better as a clamshell design, or some other, more crazy design I have yet to imagine...
However, the phone seems to be multifunctional, allowing you to store music and data, to the tune (pun intended) of 512MB of total storage (from what I can gather from the FAQ)
Apple definitely deserves props for the iPod nano. Wow, that thing looks amazing... Also, props to Apple for delivering what looks like a great new iTunes release.
A) In the 18th and 19th century (when this city was being established by the French), its location (ie, near the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico) meant they could charge big $$$ for letting people use it. Also, according to Wikipedia, "The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi". So they were worried more about the "flood-prone Mississippi", not a rare and powerful hurricane.
B) This borders on stupid. Don't you think that people living in New Orleans (business owners, residents, etc) know and accept the risk? Or were you expecting them to be psychic, and forsee Katrina months before it occurred, and promptly sell all their property there, and move somewhere else?
Though, in the future, your comments will be noted, and greatly appreciated for their insight.
Men = Pentium (higher IQ, not so great use of it)
Women = AMD (lower IQ, better use of it)
Men once dominated, but the women have taken hold recently, and now people are simply viewing the men as power-sucking hotheads.
Honestly I can't comment on the depth V for Vendetta goes into with the "chapter styling, poetry, etc." However, film is certainly not our most superficial medium. Sure, many people watch films purely for entertainment, and no other real (analytical) value, but just because the majority of the film industry's money is made from those people does not mean that film is "our most superficial medium."
Mythbusters is, in my opinion, one of the best shows on TV today. Like Stargate SG-1 (which I, truthfully, haven't seen), it is entrenched in science, and basically features these two movie tech specialists proving/disproving various urban myths. I like the liberal doses of science they throw in. Also, at the end of every show, they usually blow up whatever they're working on, whether it be a toilet, a car, or their crash test dummy.
I dunno why this was modded offtopic, but anyway... I also noticed a lack of +5's this week (but if you browse over to the Intelligent Design story, you'll find plenty, I'm sure), and I assumed it was some side effect of the poll glitch (some people were having trouble posting/voting in/seeing the poll, and I think Jamie was notified, though I dunno if a fix was issued yet).
Both the parent and grandparent got me thinking...
Why not incorporate both solar power and batteries into hydrogen refueling stations? Deliver water to the refueling stations, have them electrolyze it with a combination of solar and battery power. When the battery runs out, have the refueling stations send it back for a new one. Essentially, the refueling stations become the hydrogen extraction point.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have always wanted to learn C++. I already know a tiny bit (real basic stuff, like "cin/cout", function declaring, and I've just scratched the surface of classes). Does anyone have any good C++ book tutorials/references?
...proper spelling and grammar make the writer look more "grown up". A tpyo or two are one thing...
Talk about irony. Expecially considering that was the only typo in your post.
Also, when using a compound subject (as in the quoted example), you use "is", not "and". (In other words, your sentence would read "A typo or two is one thing,...)
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Dammit. You just barely beat me to posting the essay (by an hour). If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Found this just now while browsing TFA.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-070426stude nt-essay,0,5824686.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Teen's essay
Editor's note and language advisory: Below is what Cary-Grove High School student Allen Lee says he wrote, according to his lawyer. The essay contains language some readers may find offensive.
Published April 27, 2007
Blood sex and Booze. Drugs Drugs Drugs are fun. Stab, Stab, Stab, S...t...a...b..., poke. "So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone..., then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did." Umm, yeah, what to wright about...... I'm leaving to join the Marines and I really don't give a (obscenity) about my academics, so why does the only class that's complete Bull Shit, happen to be the only required class...enough said. The model citizen would stay around to vote in new board member to change the 4 years of English policy, but no one really stays around to vote for that kind of local crap, so whoever gets there name on the Ballet with a pretty face gets to do what the (obscenity) ever they want with local ordinance. A person is smart, but people are dumb selfish animals. We can't make rules for ourselves so we vote others to do it for us, but we can't even do that right, I meen seriously, Bush for President? And our other option was John Kerry who claimed to parktake in Vietnam Special Forces missions that haven't been declassified....(obscenity) Bull Shit. So Power Flower Super Mario. Pudge, hook, rot, dismember "Fresh Meat." Mostly new/young teachers are laid back, and cooperative with students as feedback and input into the curriculum and atmosphere. My current English teacher is a control freak intent on setting a gap between herself and her students like a 63 year old white male fortune 500 company CEO, and a illegal immigrant. If CG was a private catholic school, I could understand, but wtf is her problem. And baking brownies and rice crispies does not make up for it, way to try and justify yourself as a good teacher while underhandedly looking for complements on your cooking. No quarrel on you qualifications as a writer, but as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first cg shooting.
(The following is Lee's explanation of the essay above, given to the media by his lawyer.)
Authors Note: This production of writing is done in the most accurate manner I can depict of the original writing. Grammar and spelling mistakes are included at the best accuracy possible. The first phrase in questions is in fact a Green Day song. The second reference to drugs is in relation to the schools history of drug problems. I am personally clean of all controlled substances. The statement in quotes is done so as a non personal statement as I would have done in reference to a character for a story. The reference to the gun P90 is from a video game, combined with a reference to necrophilia as a comment regarding a seriously messed up situation. A situation such as the rape of villagers during a raid by U.S. troops in Vietnam. I really do not care too much about by continuing academia as in relation to grades. I do however believe on continuing my personal education, and I am actually still working for my classes. My views on the graduation requirements explain themselves. The reference to Mario and Pudge( a DOTA character) are completely random as is this essay. The reference to a person being smart and people being dumb is based on a quote from "Men in Black." I generally do believe the public opinion is best. The rest of the essay is rather self explanatory, the main statement in question I have already released a comment online about. I request that all information I have released is read together, and nothing given separately or as an excerpt as the administration has seen fit to do.
On an addit
Interesting story about that.
On the night of the Wii launch, I walked into my local gaming store about 10 minutes before midnight to pick up my pre-ordered console. As I stood in line, the manager (who was busy preparing people's Wii bundles so they would be ready when the clock struck midnight) asked one of the employees to reset the PS3, which was in the middle of a demo movie, annoyingly blaring music. The employee walked over to the kiosk, and opened a latch, and the front of the kiosk swung open to reveal a second PS3 sitting in a metal housing below the plastic display case. He pressed a button on the PS3 in the metal housing, and the screen returned to the PS3 menu. The manager explained that the PS3 you see in the plastic case is just an empty shell, in case someone tries to steal it. The real PS3 is in that metal housing.
I don't remember if the metal housing had vents, but I doubt the PS3 is overheating. So far, there have been no reports of PS3's overheating (which may be due to the massive shortage), and it wouldn't surprise me that Sony expects employees to babysit their precious PS3 kiosks.
Too many of these posts seem to be missing the point. Sure, you can buy iTunes cards at Walmart (or the British equivalent), but what teenager hangs out in Walmart? Maybe if they sold iTunes cards at McDonalds or the local pizza joint, they might see a small bump in sales.
Addressing the larger question, teens don't buy legit MP3's because it doesn't make sense to fix what ain't broken: Napster was popular before online music stores were, and was a convenient, easy way to get the music you wanted. I used Napster when I was 13, and when it was taken down I moved to Kazaa. Why? Probably because online music stores weren't popular yet (if memory serves me right; if not, please feel free to correct me). My point is a teenager would rather find another program to download music (music that is of acceptable quality) than convince their parents to let them spend money (money of their own, or their parents' money) to download music. (On a personal note, I'd rather download an album than buy it, but if I Really Like(tm) the album, I'll buy a physical copy)
I also question how often and how much an average teenager downloads. I'll probably download about an album a week, but I almost never get around to listening to it (they're usually archived), and more often than not I'll delete it after I do listen to it. Hardly any of the albums I download make it into my regular-listen MP3 collection (which is ~1000 songs, and very few complete albums).
-Sore feet are alleviated by a good pair of shoes...I have a pair of Dr. Scholls [link], and they're spectacular at keeping away pain. I work at a movie theater, and I'm standing for pretty much my entire shift, and while my feet can feel a bit achy, it's nothing I can't simply be too tired to ignore.
-Irritability is resolved by state of mind. Customers can be a bitch, but the more levelheaded you are the better you'll be in the long run.
Find as you type, find as you type, find as you type! I can't believe that with all Opera has done (tabs, integrated Google and Amazon searches), they're still using the antiquated, IE-style "type it in the box, click search, and then we'll find it" method of in-page search. It's the one feature that keeps me from switching from Firefox (I'm not as keen on extensions as some FF users).
I blame it mainly on the Internet, and the fact that those that grew up during the 80's and early 90's didn't have it. Just based on things I've read in this thread, people got into programming during the 80's to entertain themselves and possibly show off to their friends. Now we have the Internet, where people show off their MySpace to their friends, and entertain themselves with viral videos and porn. I'm not blaming porn for the decline of programming, but certainly the Internet has made it much easier for people to entertain themselves and spend time on computers, which is what people who grew up during the 80's and early 90's were doing when they were programming.
Am I the only one who still reads ROKR as the last name of a famous Good Morning America weatherman who has recently shed his rotund image by losing weight?
- Bright things can be really bright
- Dark things can be really dark
- And details can be seen in both
Also, a note on the current limitations in HDR technology from the article:I think if #39 was true in America we wouldn't need such a controversial/ineffective/(insert your own adjective here) president to get people to vote more often.
39. Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
I'd actually be really interested to see the tin-foil hat myth tested. It's the perfect combination of entertainment and simplified science that the Mythbusters represent. Plus, it's a relatively quick and painless myth to do; they could stick it in as one of their auxiliary myths.
For the uninformed, here is some valuable information about ontology.
I think you're missing the point of why most teenagers do it...
Look at it this way: Mommy and Daddy are paying for bandwidth and the computer. Junior gets whatever movies/music/games he wants, for a certain amount of time input. The time input is of minimal consequence: leaving the computer on during the day (when Junior is at school) or overnight (when Junior is sleeping) doesn't affect Junior's ability to surf, play games, or IM when he gets home; he just finds his downloaded file, sitting there, shiny and ready for him to enjoy.
Plus, to some kids, it's not about a rental "once in a while". It's about having as many movies as they can get, even if they never watch any of them. You laugh, but I've heard of legitimate cases of this.
As per the "how much media is WORTH downloading", I'll offer you some generalizations: most users of BitTorrent are college kids. College kids have bad taste in movies, or at least, their taste is governed by what they see on TV or what their friends see on TV and tell them. Of course, only the most popular movies/music/games make it to BitTorrent, and the average college student partakes in downloading the file. Additionally, Average College Student may be poor, but they most likely have a computer and a fast internet connection (thanks to the university/college), or at least, a friend/roommate with a computer.
I agree, and I hope that Nintendo's ready to accept the risk it's putting on itself. The controller is probably going to be very hard just to conceive for; the demos they showed to IGN and Gamespot gave us a good impression of what the controller's capable of, but it's up to the game designers to be creative enough to try and branch out, and take advantage of what this controller can really do, much like Advance Wars takes advantage of what the DS can do.
;)
I'm betting this'll ultimately hurt Nintendo, but I'm absolutely praying that this will help them. Because the X360 and PS3 feature more "conventional" controllers (or, what has become the typical setup: D-pad and analog stick on left, four buttons on the right in a diamond, etc.), developers from the current generation will only have to worry about a new development environment to learn. But, developers who want to create a game for the Revolution will have to learn not only a new development environment but the ins and outs of this newfangled controller. Plus with all the brand-new sensors...all I can say is it seems a bit daunting. Look at the dearth of quality DS games. Even Mario 64 DS seemed like an extended demo, showing what the DS was capable of. I wish there was something else that could lure game designers to the Revolution, like a cheap development license, and not just this extremely forward step in controller design. The Revolution seems like the console that could really benefit from the homebrew community.
On the note of controllers, I believe that what the next-next-(next?)-gen consoles should shoot for is true immersion, in the sense of touch: graphics are nearly there, sound is slowly working its way up, but the other three senses are pretty much ignored, mainly because it's very hard to accurately reproduce smells or tastes without resorting to scratch-n-sniff or food, respectively. Especially in racing games, when you see a car powerslide at 75 MPH, but feel nothing of g-forces. I envision a day when we no longer have controllers, but a Matrix-brain-instertion needle, for true immersion. Then even the crappiest games will be worth buying
From Apple's own web site...
Griffin iFM
Why integrate the radio into the iPod (and therefore the radio's cost into the iPod's), when you can sell it as an add-on, and make more money?
Simple business sense, people.
Is it just me, or does anyone else detest the styling of the ROKR E1? If Motorola can release something as slick as the Razr (even if they can't spell it right), you'd think they'd be able to at least make it look nicer than some crap phone from three or four years ago. I personally think the iTunes phone would be better as a clamshell design, or some other, more crazy design I have yet to imagine... However, the phone seems to be multifunctional, allowing you to store music and data, to the tune (pun intended) of 512MB of total storage (from what I can gather from the FAQ) Apple definitely deserves props for the iPod nano. Wow, that thing looks amazing... Also, props to Apple for delivering what looks like a great new iTunes release.
Why was this modded Insightful?
A) In the 18th and 19th century (when this city was being established by the French), its location (ie, near the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico) meant they could charge big $$$ for letting people use it. Also, according to Wikipedia, "The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi". So they were worried more about the "flood-prone Mississippi", not a rare and powerful hurricane.
B) This borders on stupid. Don't you think that people living in New Orleans (business owners, residents, etc) know and accept the risk? Or were you expecting them to be psychic, and forsee Katrina months before it occurred, and promptly sell all their property there, and move somewhere else?
Though, in the future, your comments will be noted, and greatly appreciated for their insight.
Men = Pentium (higher IQ, not so great use of it) Women = AMD (lower IQ, better use of it) Men once dominated, but the women have taken hold recently, and now people are simply viewing the men as power-sucking hotheads.
Honestly I can't comment on the depth V for Vendetta goes into with the "chapter styling, poetry, etc." However, film is certainly not our most superficial medium. Sure, many people watch films purely for entertainment, and no other real (analytical) value, but just because the majority of the film industry's money is made from those people does not mean that film is "our most superficial medium."
Mythbusters is, in my opinion, one of the best shows on TV today. Like Stargate SG-1 (which I, truthfully, haven't seen), it is entrenched in science, and basically features these two movie tech specialists proving/disproving various urban myths. I like the liberal doses of science they throw in. Also, at the end of every show, they usually blow up whatever they're working on, whether it be a toilet, a car, or their crash test dummy.
I dunno why this was modded offtopic, but anyway... I also noticed a lack of +5's this week (but if you browse over to the Intelligent Design story, you'll find plenty, I'm sure), and I assumed it was some side effect of the poll glitch (some people were having trouble posting/voting in/seeing the poll, and I think Jamie was notified, though I dunno if a fix was issued yet).
Not only is it $50 (not a surprise, from Apple...), but it's WINDOWS 2000/XP COMPATIBLE!!
Both the parent and grandparent got me thinking... Why not incorporate both solar power and batteries into hydrogen refueling stations? Deliver water to the refueling stations, have them electrolyze it with a combination of solar and battery power. When the battery runs out, have the refueling stations send it back for a new one. Essentially, the refueling stations become the hydrogen extraction point.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have always wanted to learn C++. I already know a tiny bit (real basic stuff, like "cin/cout", function declaring, and I've just scratched the surface of classes). Does anyone have any good C++ book tutorials/references?
Also, when using a compound subject (as in the quoted example), you use "is", not "and". (In other words, your sentence would read "A typo or two is one thing,...)
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