Yahoo! web-based email has ads? I use Firefox with AdBlock and haven't seen an ad in weeks. Whenever I see one I can block it and be in the clear for a couple more weeks.
You are correct, especially about your second point. As a Biology teacher, I emphasize the point to my students that spiders (and all arthropods) do NOT have blood (that term is reserved for animals with a closed circulatory system). Spiders and other arthropods have a fluid called "hemolymph" (as you mentioned) which contains the equivalent of our blood plus lymphatic fluids (hense the name "hemo"=blood + "lymph").
Do you actually expect any more from BBC News, though?
Mom: "Leave it alone, and it will leave you alone. It's more scared of you than you are of it."
Billy: "OK, Mom."
...
Suzie: "Mommy, Billy's being mauled by a lion!"
Mom & Suzie: "GASP!"
...
We Are Crazy Americans! I don't think our culture or society can handle a reintroduction of these megafauna, unless they are on a closed reserve. Like http://www.wildlifesafari.org/Wildlife Safari in Oregon or other small, closed reserves. They already have lions and elephants, and more!
They may even be integrated onto the motherboard and cost very little, relative to what we pay for standard onboard ethernet today.
That is, if the technology is as good as advertised. If not, it will fade away from the memory of/.ers everwhere. The market will justify whether it is a quality product and worth the money. If it is, it will be mass-produced, competition will increase, and prices will fall!
Using the handy-dandy "WHOIS", I noticed that the site was registered by a "John Goetsch". I then GOOGLED "John Goetsch" and SeaCode and got this information about him:
Here's his personal bio Mr. Goetsch is a parachute instructor in Orange, MA; but a "software geek" at heart. Further information HERE would make me think this is a real idea, but in its earlier stages.
Why would I exchange our "free" ltsp server software for this [garbage]? I'm perfectly happy with what I have. Microsoft is going to have a hard time making a sale to me and others like me.
How many BSOD's can exist at once on a Microsoft thinclient network? An entire office might have an eerie blue glow if something goes wrong!
But what is the purpose of knowing such large prime numbers? How can we use this in a practical way? I'm not flaming, because I'd really like to know how this can be used.
In any case, I like the idea of finding prime numbers just for the sake of finding them. Just like landing on the moon... because we can.
And they're all running on old donated computers. The average computer in our lab is a PII 200-300 MHz with 128-256 RAM. The two things we purchased were a powerful Dell server with lots of RAM (2 GB) and new network cards (which we bought in bulk). We have about 20 computers in our lab and a couple of class computers that run off of the LTSP server. At first we had to do lots of tweaking and modifications, but now it runs beautifully!
Our other lab is a Windows lab which we have to update regularly. We still have to update the LTSP server, but that is just one computer -- it is a pain to update virus software, windows updates, and other software updates for 20+ computers several times a month. We've spent much less time maintaining the LTSP lab than the Windows lab.
This is just my own personal experience with Linux and K12LTSP. I never really used Linux before this project, and have learned a lot since. Thankfully, some people have experienced the same problems as me in the past and the solutions have been resolved. There are also some things I wish I could change, but that's for another discussion board.
It's difficult (and annoying) to discern all the acronyms being thrown around sometimes.
However, I am impressed at how many new display technologies are being invented in such a short period of time. I doubt that more than one or two will survive to the maturity stage because only the best technologies will survive.
I believe OLED stands for "Organic Light Emitting Diode." I know it's been awhile since I took organic chemistry, but organic means the molecules are composed of carbon to some extent (and maybe with other elements). Since these nanotechnology monitors are made using diamond dust (carbon) or nanotubes (also carbon), aren't these new technologies, another type of Organic display? And since they use field-emitting diodes (FED's) to produce the light, wouldn't this really be another OLED?
Please excuse my ignorance, but I think it's just crazy the way we throw all sorts of acronyms around -- sometimes with overlapping or contradicting definitions.
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Tests could be done to simulate this using animals, but there would still be some to argue against it because of ethical and moral concerns.
And in a truly scientific experiment, I doubt the administrators would kill any participants to skew the results (I realize it was tongue-in-cheek).
Animal testing, as much as some people despise it, can lead to prolonging human life and improving the quality of human life.
I like Impress also. However, I don't like the way Impress saves to the web (files way too big). It would be nice to create more simple presentations for the web with smaller file sizes. I think this new format would fit that niche.
If OpenOffice built this into its presentation software. It would be nice if when you save your presentation you have the option to save as an XHTML document. This would dramatically reduce file size and allow OpenOffice to be used more widely (in my opinion) for some web applications.
How hard could it be to port this format (since it is open) to OpenOffice?
Any Volunteers?
His website brandonrouth.tv is not available, but his site has been archived with the Way Back Machine on archive.org.
It looks like he even dressed up as superman (aka Clark Kent) for halloween some previous year.
Here's his picture from the archive.
Archived Halloween Picture
I backed up a smaller version (I don't know my bandwidth limit though):
My backup
Hopefull he's put on some weight since this. He looks kinda skinny to be superman.
Slashdot Mirror
Yahoo! web-based email has ads? I use Firefox with AdBlock and haven't seen an ad in weeks. Whenever I see one I can block it and be in the clear for a couple more weeks.
I would be even more impressed if the "mule" turned around and kicked him back.
You are correct, especially about your second point. As a Biology teacher, I emphasize the point to my students that spiders (and all arthropods) do NOT have blood (that term is reserved for animals with a closed circulatory system). Spiders and other arthropods have a fluid called "hemolymph" (as you mentioned) which contains the equivalent of our blood plus lymphatic fluids (hense the name "hemo"=blood + "lymph").
Do you actually expect any more from BBC News, though?
I have to admit that this is the first post on slashdot that's made me laugh outloud in quite a while.
Mom: "Leave it alone, and it will leave you alone. It's more scared of you than you are of it."
...
...
Billy: "OK, Mom."
Suzie: "Mommy, Billy's being mauled by a lion!"
Mom & Suzie: "GASP!"
We Are Crazy Americans! I don't think our culture or society can handle a reintroduction of these megafauna, unless they are on a closed reserve. Like http://www.wildlifesafari.org/Wildlife Safari in Oregon or other small, closed reserves. They already have lions and elephants, and more!
They may even be integrated onto the motherboard and cost very little, relative to what we pay for standard onboard ethernet today. That is, if the technology is as good as advertised. If not, it will fade away from the memory of /.ers everwhere. The market will justify whether it is a quality product and worth the money. If it is, it will be mass-produced, competition will increase, and prices will fall!
Using the handy-dandy "WHOIS", I noticed that the site was registered by a "John Goetsch". I then GOOGLED "John Goetsch" and SeaCode and got this information about him: Here's his personal bio Mr. Goetsch is a parachute instructor in Orange, MA; but a "software geek" at heart. Further information HERE would make me think this is a real idea, but in its earlier stages.
That's my [educated] guess, at least.
Why would I exchange our "free" ltsp server software for this [garbage]? I'm perfectly happy with what I have. Microsoft is going to have a hard time making a sale to me and others like me. How many BSOD's can exist at once on a Microsoft thinclient network? An entire office might have an eerie blue glow if something goes wrong!
But what is the purpose of knowing such large prime numbers? How can we use this in a practical way? I'm not flaming, because I'd really like to know how this can be used.
In any case, I like the idea of finding prime numbers just for the sake of finding them. Just like landing on the moon... because we can.
And they're all running on old donated computers. The average computer in our lab is a PII 200-300 MHz with 128-256 RAM. The two things we purchased were a powerful Dell server with lots of RAM (2 GB) and new network cards (which we bought in bulk). We have about 20 computers in our lab and a couple of class computers that run off of the LTSP server. At first we had to do lots of tweaking and modifications, but now it runs beautifully! Our other lab is a Windows lab which we have to update regularly. We still have to update the LTSP server, but that is just one computer -- it is a pain to update virus software, windows updates, and other software updates for 20+ computers several times a month. We've spent much less time maintaining the LTSP lab than the Windows lab.
This is just my own personal experience with Linux and K12LTSP. I never really used Linux before this project, and have learned a lot since. Thankfully, some people have experienced the same problems as me in the past and the solutions have been resolved. There are also some things I wish I could change, but that's for another discussion board.
Check out the websites for more information on K12LTSP or the Linux Terminal Server Project in general.
I saw that someone else posted about K12LTSP already, but I thought I'd just add my 2 cents.
It's difficult (and annoying) to discern all the acronyms being thrown around sometimes. However, I am impressed at how many new display technologies are being invented in such a short period of time. I doubt that more than one or two will survive to the maturity stage because only the best technologies will survive.
I believe OLED stands for "Organic Light Emitting Diode." I know it's been awhile since I took organic chemistry, but organic means the molecules are composed of carbon to some extent (and maybe with other elements). Since these nanotechnology monitors are made using diamond dust (carbon) or nanotubes (also carbon), aren't these new technologies, another type of Organic display? And since they use field-emitting diodes (FED's) to produce the light, wouldn't this really be another OLED?
Please excuse my ignorance, but I think it's just crazy the way we throw all sorts of acronyms around -- sometimes with overlapping or contradicting definitions.
Tests could be done to simulate this using animals, but there would still be some to argue against it because of ethical and moral concerns.
And in a truly scientific experiment, I doubt the administrators would kill any participants to skew the results (I realize it was tongue-in-cheek).
Animal testing, as much as some people despise it, can lead to prolonging human life and improving the quality of human life.
I like Impress also. However, I don't like the way Impress saves to the web (files way too big). It would be nice to create more simple presentations for the web with smaller file sizes. I think this new format would fit that niche.
If OpenOffice built this into its presentation software. It would be nice if when you save your presentation you have the option to save as an XHTML document. This would dramatically reduce file size and allow OpenOffice to be used more widely (in my opinion) for some web applications. How hard could it be to port this format (since it is open) to OpenOffice? Any Volunteers?
His website brandonrouth.tv is not available, but his site has been archived with the Way Back Machine on archive.org. It looks like he even dressed up as superman (aka Clark Kent) for halloween some previous year. Here's his picture from the archive. Archived Halloween Picture I backed up a smaller version (I don't know my bandwidth limit though): My backup Hopefull he's put on some weight since this. He looks kinda skinny to be superman.