I just gave my son a Nook HD+. I stuck a 32GB micro-SD card in it, on which I included 20,000 epub books, as well as a few other odd-'n-ends. Even with technology a few years old, it seems incredible to me that they could only get 300 books on these things. I used to put that many books on a 2GB SD card on my Dell Axim PDA, which is really old technology today.
Given the goals of OpenStack I'd prefer using it, but running a cloud provisioning student learning instances in an academic institution with the academic discounts from Amazon makes it a no-brainer to run a system that allows our cloud to peak into AWS. Repeated discussions with Rackspace about meeting/beating this deal make it clear that they can't even begin to do that. And we have to get the most bang for our buck to ensure our students have optimal systems for their learning.
I've had radar operators work for me who could see flocks of birds skimming over the ocean, and certainly could see diesel submarine attack periscopes, with an airborne look-down version of the LN-66 radar. The LN-66 was an adaptation of a very standard commercial vessel navigation radar and was far from a sophisticated device, but in the hands of a really skilled operator--a Navy operator, I might add--even relatively unsophisticated radars can do some pretty remarkable things.
...the Chief of Naval Operations would probably take exception to this since Ender's Game has been on their official reading lists for service members pretty much as long as the lists have been published. (Starship Troopers is on there, too.)
The high school kids in the Intro to Linux class I taught last summer looked at four distros and they all agreed that Pinguy OS was the hands-down winner. Most of them even thought it was easier to use right out of the box than MS Windows. Since it's an Ubuntu/Mint derivative, it even has an LTS version. If you've never seen Pinguy OS, try it--you'll like it!
Actually, the Internet--which is the first fully-functional anarchical institution in the history of humanity--was created directly through the efforts of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--so it WAS government that created the Internet. I've always considered the fact that the DoD created the first functional anarchy to be one of the single greatest instances of irony in history.
With CGI technology, the horror and spectacle of the Gordon Riots of 1780 chronicled in Dicken's Barnaby Rudge can be finally brought to the screen, including people actually drowning in booze from the burning of Langdale's wine and spirits warehouse. Almost all Americans and probably most Britons are completely unaware that rioters had the complete run of London for almost three days, right in the middle of the American Revolution. Too bad I don't have time to work on my screenplay!
In Britain and many other countries, physicians complete a five-year Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree and are awarded the title--but not the degree--of Doctor. This is because the general education portion of an American undergraduate degree is not a part of these degrees under the British system. There seems to be some assumption that they get more "general education" in secondary school, but in my experience this is not the case as I get students all the time out of British-style education who enter our graduate program with a Bachelor of Engineering, who have NEVER written a research paper, either in secondary school or in college. This hinges on your opinion of the value of general education; I happen to be a believer, which I guess makes me a believer in the American-style eight-year medical school path.
Some schools cover the gamut; the university where I teach has Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology; we also have an undergraduate business program which is introducing substantial specializations in CS or IT. We have CE and CS through the PhD level and IT through a Master's Degree. BTW, I teach information technology and have for nine years now, and IT works very well in a university environment. Lately some employers hiring coders have been seeking out our graduates over CS grads because coders in our IT program emerge as application developers, while coders from CS are just programmers--they know all the underlying algorithms but don't know how to apply them to solving real business problems.
First, I'm not going to fly TOWARD someone who is illuminating me with a laser; I hope you can see that would be very foolish. Second, the general populace tends to get rather upset when you fly a helicopter low enough to chase people on foot, especially one as large as I flew. Third, people don't fly helicopters for fun--it costs too much to fly them--and this means that when we're flying, we're on a mission and can't just go haring off after boneheads with lasers. In my case it was a Navy helicopter.
...by a laser while piloting a helicopter and it's scary as hell. I don't have a solution but I sure wish I did. There are some sick puppies out there that this continues to go on. These people should be arrested and prosecuted but I recognize that it's difficult to impossible to catch these idiots.
As a professional pilot/flight instructor/aircrew coordination trainer with 3500 hours, I think this is pretty much insane. I would not fly any airline that did this.
Advertising in books used to be very common. Early Boy Scout Handbooks had several pages of advertising at the front and back, and many, many children's books from the early part of the 20th century had advertising in the front and back. There certainly is precedent for this and I for one would be happy to see a few ads if it meant people would stop charging ridiculous prices for eBooks-i.e. less than a buck an issue for a print copy of Wired personally delivered to my house versus $3.99 for the iPad version. Shoot, the e-version of Wired ought to be FREE for print subscribers just for propping up a failing business model!
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I believe Novell has been a better shepherd of this distribution than the original owners and have built a much better community. And their distro of OpenOffice.org, Go-OO, rocks--which is why it has become the default version in several other Linux distros. Honestly, I just wish they had some products that made them more money--like Netware used to--so they could go on contributing so much to the open source community. Let's face it, Samba, Mono, and Moonlight--while in many contexts being self-serving for Microsoft--really have made a serious contribution to Linux/Windows interoperability. I look forward to using the new release of openSUSE in the Linux+ class I am teaching this fall--along with Fedora and Ubuntu, of course.
Those who have university Google Apps accounts already can do this. My daughter can log into her regular Gmail account and her university Gmail account simultaneously so obviously Google has had this figured out for a while. I know they have have different URLs but that's not what allows it; it's really just a matter of fixing the cookies to make this happen. I sure as heck could use this and would all the time.
In the graduate program in Information Technology that I work with, we recently revamped the degree to make coding mandatory. Incoming grad students must pass a programming placement exam or complete an intermediate level (not beginning!) software development class, currently in Java or C++. We found we had a lot of students moving to IT with undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering who had seriously deficient coding skills so they were not able to make an adequate contribution in system and network security and voice over IP course projects.
We've always had a fairly robust coding and scripting requirement for our undergrads, who have to do introductory and intermediate Java, introductory C++, UNIX/Linux shell scripting in BASH or Perl, and Javascript. In the undergraduate program we cover all of the core elements of the Information Technology profession as defined by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society:
IT Fundamentals
Programming
Human Computer Interaction
Databases
Networking
Websystems
Information Assurance and Security
Professionalism
Through an unimpeachable source I prefer not to reveal (to protect his job) I understand that the Securities and Exchange Commission is absolutely forbidden from using Open Source Software under any circumstances. Among other problems, this means that many simple everyday IT solutions normally performed by a quick Linux installation cannot be easily done. In some instances this has put them in the ridiculous situation of having to research, locate and purchase a commercial product to do something routinely done with a free Linux application. Despite an apparently sincere commitment to the use of Open Source on the part of U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, the message does not seem to be percolating down to lower levels of the government very well. The kicker is that any software written by U.S. government employees is one step better that Open source: it's actually in the public domain by Title 17 U.S.C. 101.
This device probably derives from an ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin. In this study the researchers discovered that after several weeks of using the device, the information it was providing would begin to be processed by the visual cortex, confirmed by actual measurement of brain activity. So as ircmaxell and Ungrounded Lightning noted, there is solid evidence that somehow the human brain is able to reroute connections to ensure that sensory input is processed properly. I wish I could cite a scholarly source for this but my source is my sister-in-law who is an occupational therapist that participated in the research.
If you do any graphic design work at all, odds are extremely strong that you will have a very distinctive set of fonts installed. My Firefox installation was a 1-of due to not only fonts but the particular mix of add-ons I am sporting.
Interestingly enough my Chrome was unique for plug-ins--and not fonts, and IE was unique for (surprise!) the USER AGENT details.
Go figure.
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I just gave my son a Nook HD+. I stuck a 32GB micro-SD card in it, on which I included 20,000 epub books, as well as a few other odd-'n-ends. Even with technology a few years old, it seems incredible to me that they could only get 300 books on these things. I used to put that many books on a 2GB SD card on my Dell Axim PDA, which is really old technology today.
Given the goals of OpenStack I'd prefer using it, but running a cloud provisioning student learning instances in an academic institution with the academic discounts from Amazon makes it a no-brainer to run a system that allows our cloud to peak into AWS. Repeated discussions with Rackspace about meeting/beating this deal make it clear that they can't even begin to do that. And we have to get the most bang for our buck to ensure our students have optimal systems for their learning.
Silas Marner!
Had the same thing happen with Seagates in one of my labs; made the OEM PC vendor replace each one as it failed with a Western Digital drive.
I've had radar operators work for me who could see flocks of birds skimming over the ocean, and certainly could see diesel submarine attack periscopes, with an airborne look-down version of the LN-66 radar. The LN-66 was an adaptation of a very standard commercial vessel navigation radar and was far from a sophisticated device, but in the hands of a really skilled operator--a Navy operator, I might add--even relatively unsophisticated radars can do some pretty remarkable things.
...reset the maxVersion on all of my Add-Ons to 99 so they won't all break with every upgrade...GRRR!
...the Chief of Naval Operations would probably take exception to this since Ender's Game has been on their official reading lists for service members pretty much as long as the lists have been published. (Starship Troopers is on there, too.)
The high school kids in the Intro to Linux class I taught last summer looked at four distros and they all agreed that Pinguy OS was the hands-down winner. Most of them even thought it was easier to use right out of the box than MS Windows. Since it's an Ubuntu/Mint derivative, it even has an LTS version. If you've never seen Pinguy OS, try it--you'll like it!
Actually, the Internet--which is the first fully-functional anarchical institution in the history of humanity--was created directly through the efforts of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--so it WAS government that created the Internet. I've always considered the fact that the DoD created the first functional anarchy to be one of the single greatest instances of irony in history.
With CGI technology, the horror and spectacle of the Gordon Riots of 1780 chronicled in Dicken's Barnaby Rudge can be finally brought to the screen, including people actually drowning in booze from the burning of Langdale's wine and spirits warehouse. Almost all Americans and probably most Britons are completely unaware that rioters had the complete run of London for almost three days, right in the middle of the American Revolution. Too bad I don't have time to work on my screenplay!
In Britain and many other countries, physicians complete a five-year Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree and are awarded the title--but not the degree--of Doctor. This is because the general education portion of an American undergraduate degree is not a part of these degrees under the British system. There seems to be some assumption that they get more "general education" in secondary school, but in my experience this is not the case as I get students all the time out of British-style education who enter our graduate program with a Bachelor of Engineering, who have NEVER written a research paper, either in secondary school or in college. This hinges on your opinion of the value of general education; I happen to be a believer, which I guess makes me a believer in the American-style eight-year medical school path.
Some schools cover the gamut; the university where I teach has Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology; we also have an undergraduate business program which is introducing substantial specializations in CS or IT. We have CE and CS through the PhD level and IT through a Master's Degree. BTW, I teach information technology and have for nine years now, and IT works very well in a university environment. Lately some employers hiring coders have been seeking out our graduates over CS grads because coders in our IT program emerge as application developers, while coders from CS are just programmers--they know all the underlying algorithms but don't know how to apply them to solving real business problems.
First, I'm not going to fly TOWARD someone who is illuminating me with a laser; I hope you can see that would be very foolish. Second, the general populace tends to get rather upset when you fly a helicopter low enough to chase people on foot, especially one as large as I flew. Third, people don't fly helicopters for fun--it costs too much to fly them--and this means that when we're flying, we're on a mission and can't just go haring off after boneheads with lasers. In my case it was a Navy helicopter.
It certainly can damage your vision even at fairly long ranges, and helicopters fly considerably lower than most aircraft.
Can't safely wear them in a cockpit, and certainly not at night
...by a laser while piloting a helicopter and it's scary as hell. I don't have a solution but I sure wish I did. There are some sick puppies out there that this continues to go on. These people should be arrested and prosecuted but I recognize that it's difficult to impossible to catch these idiots.
As a professional pilot/flight instructor/aircrew coordination trainer with 3500 hours, I think this is pretty much insane. I would not fly any airline that did this.
The most totally addictive game on my C-64: Drelbs. I think it ran on Ataris as well.
Advertising in books used to be very common. Early Boy Scout Handbooks had several pages of advertising at the front and back, and many, many children's books from the early part of the 20th century had advertising in the front and back. There certainly is precedent for this and I for one would be happy to see a few ads if it meant people would stop charging ridiculous prices for eBooks-i.e. less than a buck an issue for a print copy of Wired personally delivered to my house versus $3.99 for the iPad version. Shoot, the e-version of Wired ought to be FREE for print subscribers just for propping up a failing business model!
I believe Novell has been a better shepherd of this distribution than the original owners and have built a much better community. And their distro of OpenOffice.org, Go-OO, rocks--which is why it has become the default version in several other Linux distros. Honestly, I just wish they had some products that made them more money--like Netware used to--so they could go on contributing so much to the open source community. Let's face it, Samba, Mono, and Moonlight--while in many contexts being self-serving for Microsoft--really have made a serious contribution to Linux/Windows interoperability. I look forward to using the new release of openSUSE in the Linux+ class I am teaching this fall--along with Fedora and Ubuntu, of course.
Those who have university Google Apps accounts already can do this. My daughter can log into her regular Gmail account and her university Gmail account simultaneously so obviously Google has had this figured out for a while. I know they have have different URLs but that's not what allows it; it's really just a matter of fixing the cookies to make this happen. I sure as heck could use this and would all the time.
In the graduate program in Information Technology that I work with, we recently revamped the degree to make coding mandatory. Incoming grad students must pass a programming placement exam or complete an intermediate level (not beginning!) software development class, currently in Java or C++. We found we had a lot of students moving to IT with undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering who had seriously deficient coding skills so they were not able to make an adequate contribution in system and network security and voice over IP course projects.
We've always had a fairly robust coding and scripting requirement for our undergrads, who have to do introductory and intermediate Java, introductory C++, UNIX/Linux shell scripting in BASH or Perl, and Javascript. In the undergraduate program we cover all of the core elements of the Information Technology profession as defined by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society:
IT Fundamentals
Programming
Human Computer Interaction
Databases
Networking
Websystems
Information Assurance and Security
Professionalism
Through an unimpeachable source I prefer not to reveal (to protect his job) I understand that the Securities and Exchange Commission is absolutely forbidden from using Open Source Software under any circumstances. Among other problems, this means that many simple everyday IT solutions normally performed by a quick Linux installation cannot be easily done. In some instances this has put them in the ridiculous situation of having to research, locate and purchase a commercial product to do something routinely done with a free Linux application. Despite an apparently sincere commitment to the use of Open Source on the part of U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, the message does not seem to be percolating down to lower levels of the government very well. The kicker is that any software written by U.S. government employees is one step better that Open source: it's actually in the public domain by Title 17 U.S.C. 101.
This device probably derives from an ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin. In this study the researchers discovered that after several weeks of using the device, the information it was providing would begin to be processed by the visual cortex, confirmed by actual measurement of brain activity. So as ircmaxell and Ungrounded Lightning noted, there is solid evidence that somehow the human brain is able to reroute connections to ensure that sensory input is processed properly. I wish I could cite a scholarly source for this but my source is my sister-in-law who is an occupational therapist that participated in the research.
If you do any graphic design work at all, odds are extremely strong that you will have a very distinctive set of fonts installed. My Firefox installation was a 1-of due to not only fonts but the particular mix of add-ons I am sporting. Interestingly enough my Chrome was unique for plug-ins--and not fonts, and IE was unique for (surprise!) the USER AGENT details. Go figure.