It's because the later you hold off telling students they've been accepted, the less chance a student has of saying "See, I've been accepted to Colleges A, B, and C. Here are the increased aid packages B and C offered me when they heard you accepted me. What can you do to convince me to stay? And what if I get even better offers from the other schools?" I know someone who managed to swing a $40K full scholarship that way.
Time and knowledge can always be used to advantage. Not only might a school end up bleeding out a little more just to keep enrollment up to par, but the students who peeked might be more able to scrounge up the leverage to get a bigger piece of the pie.
Yeah, I could see the mouse working better on a larger pad. However I only needed a smaller pad for pen work (I'm only good at using wrist motion in drawing, anyway). I also did not have a firstborn son I could sacrifice in order to gain such a digitizer.
I never use the Wacom mouse because it requires you to only have the mouse on the pad. My current tethered mouse ranges all over a 2-foot-square area on my desk, depending on my posture, activity, and current clutter level. I think I'd hate this "RFID" mouse as well.
It may use a variation of RFID hardware to accomplish the task...but yeah, RFID is not central to the operation of the device and I too have seen, used, and own similar technology over the years.
Yeah, I'll take the $100 now. Or was it for each misused word? I'm not going to bother searching through your history. There were more than the previous poster caught. I also put in a few comments indicating possible improvement. There isn't any proof that you are more intelligent. Statisically-speaking, I already know I'm above 99th percentile. You could be more intelligent, but I was merely pointing out dependence on spellchecking. Vocabulary doesn't have much to do with intelligence, anyway; it's more of a laziness issue.
Chances are (statically [incorrect usage] speaking), I'm far more intelligent, [remove comma, replace with "and"] well spoken [add hyphen after "well"]then [incorrect usage] you will ever be. Chances are that I have a larger vocabulary then [incorrect usage] you do. I'm far more likely to know what a specific word means then [incorrect usage] you.
I was a horrible speller throughout grade school, and [remove "and"] although [just plain "though" would flow better] it ["it" refers to what? yourself? use "I"] improved greatly during collage [incorrect usage][sentence begins to run on here, may want to chop it up somehow] when I started posting on the internet constantly. That said, there are still a lot of words out there I don't type frequently, and therefore can't spell. I notice when I use one of these words, and spell-check it [ambiguous, might place another "I" after the "and"]. Most of the time, I don't.
(Interestingly, I really only know how to type words, if you ask me how to spell a word, I'd often need to 'type' it with my fingers to know what letters make it up). [run-on sentence, changes tense in the middle]
If you can find a single mis-used[remove hyphen] word in any comment I've ever posted to Slashdot (several thousand) I'll paypal you $100.
In conclusion, you're an idiot. [Unfounded. You only talked about yourself; what does that prove about me? Where's your references; your bibliography?]
I don't have sympathy for the parent poster, I have pity. I cannot imagine relying on a computer spellchecker for posting comments on a website. If you don't know how to spell a word, you probably don't know what it really means. A computer spellchecker is no substitute for learning to type and obtaining a vocabulary. The main use is to flag potential issues after typing a long document. Even then, it won't catch every typo.
Actually it sounds more like news2020, a familiar old soul to those of us who frequent the engineering Usenet groups. His entire focus was on being grilled via mysterious rays. He described many instances of being persecuted by individuals who obviously were just going about their normal lives before being accosted by this kook. We went so far as to explain exactly how he could construct a Faraday shield to completely eliminate electromagnetic waves, but he ignored this and continued to lament his fate. Complained about how the bottled water machine only made noises when he was getting water, described some lethal ray-projecting device his neighbors purchased which sounded exactly like a rowing exercise machine, etc. Everyone agreed he was a kook, we just couldn't decide if he was a kook who believed this stuff or a kook who would spend so much time pretending to be one on the Internet. Maybe it started off as a prank but slowly spiraled into a circle of self-delusion.
I'll just toss in a perfect example to support your argument about smart people sucking as video producers: Seattle Wireless. I'm not even sure how smart they really are, I guess it's just a good illustration of the skill difference.
There is an ultimate solution to this. It probably won't happen until all houses are using one data pipe for all services.
Right now the solution would incolve cable companies providing a special emergency channel on their lines. Every customer has an identification transmitter outside in the cable box. When a user attempts to make an emergency call, the VoIP box uses a subprotocol that cuts through all the nonsense of the Internet and just directly connects to the emergency channel. The emergency calls will be routed to local 911 service at the local cable office. The ID box lets the system know where the user is.
This kind of system will probably get integrated into the next big data pipe revolution. It is only slightly less reliable than POTS due to requiring house electricity, and this could actually be fixed by running centralized power as the current phone system does.
So what I'm saying here is that emergency calls will bypass normal Internet protocols, and should work as long as a VoIP box is plugged in. Since many providers use routers with modifiable firmware, this is a solution that may actually be possible in 120 days. We're looking at a firmware upgrade, maybe cable modem firmware upgrades as well, and some extra logic at each cable central office.
DSL systems should just revert to POTS mode since it's already a phone line.
If you resign yourself to spending $150-$200 in addition to the LCD, you can get some amazing results. To be honest, any cheap overhead projector will have a halogen lamp that has too low of a color temperature, too dim of an output, and will need to be replaced every 25-50 hours. The cost adds up. Also, virtually no overhead projector is big enough to light the entire area of a 15" LCD. You will lose up to 60 pixels on both sides of the screen.
If you instead build your own enclosure, you can do some neat stuff. First, you can show the full 1024x768. Also, you can use a metal halide bulb, which typically have a clean white color and put out less heat for the amount of light produced. And metal halide bulbs last anywhere from 8000 to 20,000 hours. You will also be able to get a high-quality lens for good focus across the whole display, something a cheap overhead might not be able to do.
Go to http://www.diyaudio.com/ and visit the Moving Image forum. There are thousands of posts containing ideas, plans, calculations, optics sources, and photos. I'm in the process of building my own projector with a 400W 6500K metal halide bulb, here's a photo of the image projected by a test mockup: http://lserve.homelinux.net:7780/diyaudio/lightsof f.jpg
Due to demand for higher power and longer life, batteries in all mobile devices are approaching power densities of explosives. It's a chemical compound that is designed to hold a lot of energy in its structure, and be able to release it at varying rates. This is only going to become more of a problem as battery technology improves. Fuel cells especially will be tricky to get aboard aircraft.
Instead, find reviews and reliability data for the specific drive. Each drive a manufacturer comes out with could be an entirely new project, with new designs and engineers. Which means that the same company could put out both a lemon and an immortal drive. Can't base your decision on the brand name. The drives are most likely all made in the same factory in China anyway.
If you can't be bothered to hunt down information on every drive you buy, then definitely go for something with a good warranty. And never put yourself in a position where losing a drive will hurt you. This means backups and ideally a nice fat RAID box.
I agree, no weapon is necessary. A sufficiently trained terrorist could take over an aircraft by unaided hand and foot. Plus you can still take aboard cables and bag straps, great for choking people. There are also very effective knives made out of plastics and ceramics, you could easily sneak one through a metal detector. Heck, a very effective weapon is a bunch of shark teeth mounted on a stick. That'll gut you, no problem.
Antivirus is not a silver bullet. If anything, it provides a false sense of security. Most dangerous viruses aren't recognized by antivirus programs until a horde of infected computers runs wild for a few days.
Smart computer usage counts for 99 percent of virus protection. I keep my systems up to date, I never run any program that I have the slightest doubt about, I use non-Microsoft web browsers and email tools, I have good firewalls...and you know what? I've NEVER had a virus.
chorus KPMG, we're strong as can be A team of power and energy We go for the gold Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
KPMG, we're strong as can be A dream of power and energy We go for the gold Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
verse one We create, we innovate We pass the ones that are la-a-ate. A global team, this is our dream of success that we create. We'll be number one, with effort and fun Together each of us will run for gold that shines like the sun in our eyes
chorus KPMG, we're strong as can be A team of power and energy We go for the gold Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
KPMG, we're strong as can be A dream of power and energy We go for the gold Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
verse two The time is now to lead the way We share the same idea that may win by the end of the day Our strength is here to stay Identity, one energy, one strategy, with sympathy These are the words that will lead us into our new world.
There's also Tetanus on Drugs, for PC and Game Boy Advance, written by former classmate of mine...he was already crazy when he wrote it, but it'll send any sane person over the edge.
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Meh...it's an art piece, for sure. But I've had excellent luck with nice, inexpensive Sparkle power supplies from Newegg.
It's because the later you hold off telling students they've been accepted, the less chance a student has of saying "See, I've been accepted to Colleges A, B, and C. Here are the increased aid packages B and C offered me when they heard you accepted me. What can you do to convince me to stay? And what if I get even better offers from the other schools?" I know someone who managed to swing a $40K full scholarship that way.
Time and knowledge can always be used to advantage. Not only might a school end up bleeding out a little more just to keep enrollment up to par, but the students who peeked might be more able to scrounge up the leverage to get a bigger piece of the pie.
Yeah, I could see the mouse working better on a larger pad. However I only needed a smaller pad for pen work (I'm only good at using wrist motion in drawing, anyway). I also did not have a firstborn son I could sacrifice in order to gain such a digitizer.
Less batteries in the landfill, right, but more power wasted by beaming it into the air across a 6"x8" area. NiMH batteries are a nice compromise.
I never use the Wacom mouse because it requires you to only have the mouse on the pad. My current tethered mouse ranges all over a 2-foot-square area on my desk, depending on my posture, activity, and current clutter level. I think I'd hate this "RFID" mouse as well.
It may use a variation of RFID hardware to accomplish the task...but yeah, RFID is not central to the operation of the device and I too have seen, used, and own similar technology over the years.
Yeah, I'll take the $100 now. Or was it for each misused word? I'm not going to bother searching through your history. There were more than the previous poster caught. I also put in a few comments indicating possible improvement. There isn't any proof that you are more intelligent. Statisically-speaking, I already know I'm above 99th percentile. You could be more intelligent, but I was merely pointing out dependence on spellchecking. Vocabulary doesn't have much to do with intelligence, anyway; it's more of a laziness issue.
Chances are (statically [incorrect usage] speaking), I'm far more intelligent, [remove comma, replace with "and"] well spoken [add hyphen after "well"] then [incorrect usage] you will ever be. Chances are that I have a larger vocabulary then [incorrect usage] you do. I'm far more likely to know what a specific word means then [incorrect usage] you.
I was a horrible speller throughout grade school, and [remove "and"] although [just plain "though" would flow better] it ["it" refers to what? yourself? use "I"] improved greatly during collage [incorrect usage] [sentence begins to run on here, may want to chop it up somehow] when I started posting on the internet constantly. That said, there are still a lot of words out there I don't type frequently, and therefore can't spell. I notice when I use one of these words, and spell-check it [ambiguous, might place another "I" after the "and"]. Most of the time, I don't.
(Interestingly, I really only know how to type words, if you ask me how to spell a word, I'd often need to 'type' it with my fingers to know what letters make it up). [run-on sentence, changes tense in the middle]
If you can find a single mis-used[remove hyphen] word in any comment I've ever posted to Slashdot (several thousand) I'll paypal you $100.
In conclusion, you're an idiot. [Unfounded. You only talked about yourself; what does that prove about me? Where's your references; your bibliography?]
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I don't have sympathy for the parent poster, I have pity. I cannot imagine relying on a computer spellchecker for posting comments on a website. If you don't know how to spell a word, you probably don't know what it really means. A computer spellchecker is no substitute for learning to type and obtaining a vocabulary. The main use is to flag potential issues after typing a long document. Even then, it won't catch every typo.
Actually it sounds more like news2020, a familiar old soul to those of us who frequent the engineering Usenet groups. His entire focus was on being grilled via mysterious rays. He described many instances of being persecuted by individuals who obviously were just going about their normal lives before being accosted by this kook. We went so far as to explain exactly how he could construct a Faraday shield to completely eliminate electromagnetic waves, but he ignored this and continued to lament his fate. Complained about how the bottled water machine only made noises when he was getting water, described some lethal ray-projecting device his neighbors purchased which sounded exactly like a rowing exercise machine, etc. Everyone agreed he was a kook, we just couldn't decide if he was a kook who believed this stuff or a kook who would spend so much time pretending to be one on the Internet. Maybe it started off as a prank but slowly spiraled into a circle of self-delusion.
I'll just toss in a perfect example to support your argument about smart people sucking as video producers: Seattle Wireless. I'm not even sure how smart they really are, I guess it's just a good illustration of the skill difference.
The funny part is that in order to view these things smoothly, you almost need a system powerful enough to play HL2 anyway.
There is an ultimate solution to this. It probably won't happen until all houses are using one data pipe for all services.
Right now the solution would incolve cable companies providing a special emergency channel on their lines. Every customer has an identification transmitter outside in the cable box. When a user attempts to make an emergency call, the VoIP box uses a subprotocol that cuts through all the nonsense of the Internet and just directly connects to the emergency channel. The emergency calls will be routed to local 911 service at the local cable office. The ID box lets the system know where the user is.
This kind of system will probably get integrated into the next big data pipe revolution. It is only slightly less reliable than POTS due to requiring house electricity, and this could actually be fixed by running centralized power as the current phone system does.
So what I'm saying here is that emergency calls will bypass normal Internet protocols, and should work as long as a VoIP box is plugged in. Since many providers use routers with modifiable firmware, this is a solution that may actually be possible in 120 days. We're looking at a firmware upgrade, maybe cable modem firmware upgrades as well, and some extra logic at each cable central office.
DSL systems should just revert to POTS mode since it's already a phone line.
If you resign yourself to spending $150-$200 in addition to the LCD, you can get some amazing results. To be honest, any cheap overhead projector will have a halogen lamp that has too low of a color temperature, too dim of an output, and will need to be replaced every 25-50 hours. The cost adds up. Also, virtually no overhead projector is big enough to light the entire area of a 15" LCD. You will lose up to 60 pixels on both sides of the screen.
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If you instead build your own enclosure, you can do some neat stuff. First, you can show the full 1024x768. Also, you can use a metal halide bulb, which typically have a clean white color and put out less heat for the amount of light produced. And metal halide bulbs last anywhere from 8000 to 20,000 hours. You will also be able to get a high-quality lens for good focus across the whole display, something a cheap overhead might not be able to do.
Go to http://www.diyaudio.com/ and visit the Moving Image forum. There are thousands of posts containing ideas, plans, calculations, optics sources, and photos. I'm in the process of building my own projector with a 400W 6500K metal halide bulb, here's a photo of the image projected by a test mockup: http://lserve.homelinux.net:7780/diyaudio/lightso
Toss all this in a flashlight casing and some foggy-headed obscure physics nerd gets to be the first one to play Jedi.
Due to demand for higher power and longer life, batteries in all mobile devices are approaching power densities of explosives. It's a chemical compound that is designed to hold a lot of energy in its structure, and be able to release it at varying rates. This is only going to become more of a problem as battery technology improves. Fuel cells especially will be tricky to get aboard aircraft.
I'm not sure how realistic that part of Snow Crash was, but yeah, it's another possibility. Glass is sharp.
What does "pregnant" have to do with "petrified and covered in hot grits?"
It is already possible and demonstrated to view what is on a CRT by analyzing the brightness changes of the surrounding room through a telescope.
Instead, find reviews and reliability data for the specific drive. Each drive a manufacturer comes out with could be an entirely new project, with new designs and engineers. Which means that the same company could put out both a lemon and an immortal drive. Can't base your decision on the brand name. The drives are most likely all made in the same factory in China anyway.
If you can't be bothered to hunt down information on every drive you buy, then definitely go for something with a good warranty. And never put yourself in a position where losing a drive will hurt you. This means backups and ideally a nice fat RAID box.
I agree, no weapon is necessary. A sufficiently trained terrorist could take over an aircraft by unaided hand and foot. Plus you can still take aboard cables and bag straps, great for choking people. There are also very effective knives made out of plastics and ceramics, you could easily sneak one through a metal detector. Heck, a very effective weapon is a bunch of shark teeth mounted on a stick. That'll gut you, no problem.
That was VERY lame. Did you just give up after the second word, yet kept typing for some reason?
Antivirus is not a silver bullet. If anything, it provides a false sense of security. Most dangerous viruses aren't recognized by antivirus programs until a horde of infected computers runs wild for a few days.
Smart computer usage counts for 99 percent of virus protection. I keep my systems up to date, I never run any program that I have the slightest doubt about, I use non-Microsoft web browsers and email tools, I have good firewalls...and you know what? I've NEVER had a virus.
Heh, it doesn't matter what you do to the song, it never sounds remotely cool!
Remember the old days of Corporate Anthems?
chorus
KPMG, we're strong as can be
A team of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
KPMG, we're strong as can be
A dream of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
verse one
We create, we innovate
We pass the ones that are la-a-ate.
A global team, this is our dream of success that we create.
We'll be number one, with effort and fun
Together each of us will run for gold that shines like the sun in our eyes
chorus
KPMG, we're strong as can be
A team of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
KPMG, we're strong as can be
A dream of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.
verse two
The time is now to lead the way
We share the same idea that may win by the end of the day
Our strength is here to stay
Identity, one energy, one strategy, with sympathy
These are the words that will lead us into our new world.
chorus, repeat ad nauseam
There's also Tetanus on Drugs, for PC and Game Boy Advance, written by former classmate of mine...he was already crazy when he wrote it, but it'll send any sane person over the edge.