If you want to have kids who are readers, then you first must set an example. If kids see their parents reading books for pleasure, they will be much more inclined to become readers. Read to your kids every day, until they start to learn to read, then have them read to you every day. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house where both my parents enjoyed reading, and a trip to the town library for new books was a weekly family event.
The article says he made the "discovery of the offset rotor head". Was it lying in a field somewhere, and he tripped over it? Perhaps it was discovered growing on a tree in the Amazon Jungle? Or maybe the author is shortchanging Mr. Wallis by failing to use the correct word, "invented". Sadly, his invention not only made him no money, since he could not profit from patenting it (as he was in the RAF at the time, and any patent would belong to the crown), it doesn't even bare his name.
New York's first subway, built in 1870s, and long forgotten until a part of it was discovered during excavation, about a decade ago, was the Beach Pneumatic Transit. Created by Alfred Ely Beach, people sat in capsules which were driven through underground tubes via air pressure. A variety of circumstances prevented it from ever being extended beyond its initial demonstration length.
Quick correction - it was a model from Mighty Joe Young, not King Kong. He hated working with a fur model, because you couldn't touch it without moving some of the fur. He never again created a fur-covered monster.
Sad news. I was fortunate enough to meet him back in 1981, and got his autograph. It was at an advance showing of the original Clash of the Titans, where he gave a presentation before the film. He brought some of the original figures used for Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and other stop-motion classics. Despite all the computer perfection of today's CGI, it will never match the wonder I experienced when, as a kid, I first saw the battle of the skeleton warriors in Jason and the Argonauts.
Back in the 80s and 90s, one of Microsoft's dirty little secrets was that they were using IBM Midrange computers to do their accounting, because nothing that ran on a Microsoft OS could scale up to handle it.
After explaining how this increased competition, AT&T went on to explain that up is down, white is black, and "The Last Airbender" was an excellent film.
It's 103F outside. Good luck with that whole thermal detection thing. (And I always touch all three buttons in a row at once, but only press down one, and will touch random rows without pressing any, just in case there's a camera nearby.)
Switch from Verison to Sprint several years ago. I get unthrottled, uncapped, unlimited data access for $15 extra, and I can tether my laptop when I'm traveling.
Why am I reminded of the recently invented Japanese cigarette machine, which used a camera and image analysis software to determine if the user is old enough to buy the cigs. Of course, it was easily defeated by simply holding up a picture of grandma in front of the camera.
This is nothing new. ATT offered it (and may still) as a subscription service years ago. It was call Call Management. If a blocked caller-ID number tried to ring through, the caller was asked to leave their name, which was recorded. It then rang the target number, played the name, and gave you a number of options, such as to let the call through, hang up, or play a recording that tells the caller to place the number on their do-not-call list. You could also set up codes for people who are behind phone systems that automatically block caller ID, so they could get through to you.
Of course, we saw this 5 years before "Minority Report", in the alien ship pilot interface on "Earth: Final Conflict".
Although that show had its problems, especially after the 1st year, they got a lot of tech right. Mobile phone video with flexible e-paper type displays, etc.
Last time I looked, lying to Congress was an impeachable offense. That would be Bush's State of the Union I'm referring to, where he regurgitated the lies about attempts to obtain yellow cake. Remember?
I've got an HP 25 that I've had since 1974, and it still works (or would, if I bothered to get a new battery pack for it). The salesmen used to demo the HP calculators by throwing them into a brick wall, then dropping it a bucket of water. They would then pick it up, shake off the water, and turn it on. They always worked.
Back then, if you were an HP calculator owner, you got a free copy of their magazine for a year. It had wonderful horror stories of what people's HPs had been through. I recall one was run over by a truck, on a dirt road. The owner said the buttons were pushed down more than normal, but it still worked perfectly.
Hoff didn't sport a mullet in Knight Rider. We wore the classic 70's ultra-permed "helmet hair", an expanded (inflated, maybe) version of that worn by Mike Brady.
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If you want to have kids who are readers, then you first must set an example. If kids see their parents reading books for pleasure, they will be much more inclined to become readers. Read to your kids every day, until they start to learn to read, then have them read to you every day. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house where both my parents enjoyed reading, and a trip to the town library for new books was a weekly family event.
Oddly enough, I do know how to spell pedantic.
The article says he made the "discovery of the offset rotor head". Was it lying in a field somewhere, and he tripped over it? Perhaps it was discovered growing on a tree in the Amazon Jungle? Or maybe the author is shortchanging Mr. Wallis by failing to use the correct word, "invented". Sadly, his invention not only made him no money, since he could not profit from patenting it (as he was in the RAF at the time, and any patent would belong to the crown), it doesn't even bare his name.
"Yeah, bitch! Magnets!" - Jesse Pinkman
New York's first subway, built in 1870s, and long forgotten until a part of it was discovered during excavation, about a decade ago, was the Beach Pneumatic Transit. Created by Alfred Ely Beach, people sat in capsules which were driven through underground tubes via air pressure. A variety of circumstances prevented it from ever being extended beyond its initial demonstration length.
Quick correction - it was a model from Mighty Joe Young, not King Kong. He hated working with a fur model, because you couldn't touch it without moving some of the fur. He never again created a fur-covered monster.
Sad news. I was fortunate enough to meet him back in 1981, and got his autograph. It was at an advance showing of the original Clash of the Titans, where he gave a presentation before the film. He brought some of the original figures used for Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and other stop-motion classics. Despite all the computer perfection of today's CGI, it will never match the wonder I experienced when, as a kid, I first saw the battle of the skeleton warriors in Jason and the Argonauts.
Back in the 80s and 90s, one of Microsoft's dirty little secrets was that they were using IBM Midrange computers to do their accounting, because nothing that ran on a Microsoft OS could scale up to handle it.
Yes, I'm sure that will happen, right after all our cities are redesigned to take advantage of the revolutionary Segway.
After explaining how this increased competition, AT&T went on to explain that up is down, white is black, and "The Last Airbender" was an excellent film.
It's 103F outside. Good luck with that whole thermal detection thing. (And I always touch all three buttons in a row at once, but only press down one, and will touch random rows without pressing any, just in case there's a camera nearby.)
Switch from Verison to Sprint several years ago. I get unthrottled, uncapped, unlimited data access for $15 extra, and I can tether my laptop when I'm traveling.
I'm guessing that there probably wasn't a whole lot of acrylic around during the evolutionary period when fingerprints developed.
These have been commercially available for decades. Why was this even posted? Slow news day?
It was better 6 months ago, when it was called SplashPad.
We're recycling week-old news now?
The Internet isn't a series of tubes. It's a line of trucks - delivering under-the-table construction materials to Ted Steven's house.
Since the "President of the G8" doesn't have the authority to do SQUAT, who cares?
Why am I reminded of the recently invented Japanese cigarette machine, which used a camera and image analysis software to determine if the user is old enough to buy the cigs. Of course, it was easily defeated by simply holding up a picture of grandma in front of the camera.
This is nothing new. ATT offered it (and may still) as a subscription service years ago. It was call Call Management. If a blocked caller-ID number tried to ring through, the caller was asked to leave their name, which was recorded. It then rang the target number, played the name, and gave you a number of options, such as to let the call through, hang up, or play a recording that tells the caller to place the number on their do-not-call list. You could also set up codes for people who are behind phone systems that automatically block caller ID, so they could get through to you.
Although that show had its problems, especially after the 1st year, they got a lot of tech right. Mobile phone video with flexible e-paper type displays, etc.
I like my hamburgers without the pulp.
Last time I looked, lying to Congress was an impeachable offense. That would be Bush's State of the Union I'm referring to, where he regurgitated the lies about attempts to obtain yellow cake. Remember?
I've got an HP 25 that I've had since 1974, and it still works (or would, if I bothered to get a new battery pack for it). The salesmen used to demo the HP calculators by throwing them into a brick wall, then dropping it a bucket of water. They would then pick it up, shake off the water, and turn it on. They always worked.
Back then, if you were an HP calculator owner, you got a free copy of their magazine for a year. It had wonderful horror stories of what people's HPs had been through. I recall one was run over by a truck, on a dirt road. The owner said the buttons were pushed down more than normal, but it still worked perfectly.
I'd like to see a game boy match that.
On the other hand, McGiver? Total mullet city.