Breast milk is not only cheaper than similac's artificial version, it is undeniably better. You want your baby to be smart, right? Then get it on the tits, asap (it's not too late).
I like how your in-depth analysis of the failures of a specific distro to meet its claims is -3 flamebait, but your overview of the same topic above is +5 Interesting. It tells me that people know you're right, but when you talk specifics it hurts.
When I see something that will meet actual curriculum requirements in our classrooms without costing me personally hours of unpaid time, I will push for OSS in our classrooms. Until then, I am forced to recommend XP as better than Vista, and take a shower when I get home.
I think he was intrigued that he could run 3 games at apparently 33% each, or one game at 100%, and not notice a difference in gameplay. Which may or may not be quite accurate,since he was only really playing one at a time, not matter how quickly he tabbed between them.
I know it's not a good idea now, but this was seriously a great trick under win98. Win98 Recognized my full 1GB of RAM, but seemed to want to swap things to disk rather than use over 256MB of RAM.
So I just created a RAM disk using the second 512MB of RAM, and voila! Everything ran much faster. When everything is broken, bad ideas become good again.
How is not recognizing that yes, there may a proprietary driver/software that can meet your needs better than this free one not censorship? That is eliminating information that would otherwise be available.
I agree, it's the same censorship problem as microsoft.com not offering linux downloads.
You're assuming that only food-grade cellulose will work in this process, which is naive at best.
Assuming that we set up shop next to an already existing source of cellulose (large scale wood chipper, like a lumberyard?) and convert their waste into fuel, then our energy losses include culturing the microbe and whatever energy they reclaimed by burning the wood.
Anything from 0.5-2 barrels lost per barrel produced, depending on a bunch of factors I couldn't estimate without research. So this process will either double our energy resources (in areas where it applies), or halve them. If the former, awesome. If the latter, hopefully we learned something for later attempts.
If you give people GPLed software to use you must also make the source (including all changes you've made) available to them. That is not waived just because you don't let them take the program home.
In this case that means every voter can demand diebold's source, which in a Free Society can only be considered a Good Thing.
1 mm diameter particles are tiny. For the common man who needs a frame of reference: This is the same length as the distance between the solder balls of many BGA IC packages. Good lord, that didn't help him at all. For the common man: a dime is about 1mm thick.
Well, I went to one of the best schools in Australia and one of the Maths teachers (senior staff member no less) was so bad that he had a retarding effect on his students; year in year out. And if someone better wanted his job, his department head would have some leverage to force him to improve or leave. Since no-one else wants that sucky a job, he's safe.
And I have some sympathy for him, as I have a retarding effect on 3rd grade students. I taught them for 3 weeks, and at the end they knew less than when I started. My 4th grade experience was very little better: I can only effectively teach 5th grade and above.
The union keeps the system from improving. Non-union industries can improve their work methods to increase productivity. They can be flexible. They can try new things and stop doing things that don't work. I worked in a non-union shop before becoming a teacher. It doesn't make a difference.
The problem in education is that administrators want to maximize results with the resources given. They have no concept of the bigger picture. Since they have insufficient resources, they ask too much of teachers, they pay too little, and the fudge results to make themselves look good.
In the non-union shop a department head who was given insufficient resources would refuse to take on the project at all. That's where education administrators fail. If you can't teach well, you need to not teach at all.
Limit the subjects taught to those where there are qualified teachers, and pay whatever salaries required to get those teachers. Fire all the rest and say, "Sorry, we are not teaching history this year because there is no-one in this district qualified to teach it. Maybe next year."
That's the only way the schools will ever be fixed. It's just too bad it's career suicide to fix them.
And nothing in education will ever improve in the US as long as the system is union-controlled. Ah yes, the union allows teachers to be lazy -- working only evey weekend and every night grading and creating lessons plans. And greedy -- recieving 75% of the pay of an equally qualified individual in a 40 hour/week job.
I must have left teaching because of how horribly the union manipulated the system. No, wait, it was when I got tired of putting up with people like you smarting off about lazy teachers.
...teachers unions and the fear of lawsuits make firing the awful ones nearly impossible. I call B.S. on that one. In my time teaching, I saw several bad teachers let go. Problem was, there wasn't anyone better to replace them.
Lighting rods repel lighting, not draw it. Nope, sorry. Lightning Rods attract electrical current, thereby drawing it away from other structures that would be damaged by it.
This is why wooden lightning rods are a bad idea, kids.
So to run the OLPC in realtime, (without backlight) we'd have to set the weight to drop in 4 minutes, or maybe 5 weights to 20 minutes.
With backlight, it'd be 10 weights for 2 minutes of use, which is really not practical.
ctrl-= gives you subscript. to get to ctrl-+, you actually type ctrl-shift-=, and that's superscript. I mis-spoke before. I just type them, I never talk about them. ctrl-[ and ctrl-] make text larger and smaller respectively, by one point. I also know ctrl-< and ctrl-> resize by standard font intervals - one point between 9 and 10, but two between 18 and 20, jumping to ten between 70 and 80. But I never use those, because their intervals are irrelevant to me. And there's others but normally they only come to me as I use them.
My first computer had MS Word 6, on WFWG3.11 -- I'm way too young for wordstar, though I have seen it.
meandering off a bit, I use dozens of keyboard shortcuts daily. Adding new devices? win-break. Minimize all? win-d. Type in a command? win-r. Of course, they're all proprietary, so I've got a bad case of vendor lock-in. But I couldn't give it up, either.
Mice are for people who have time to waste, keyboards are the future.
But that always makes me think of a project I heard of in the 90s, a guy from Canada or somewhere was making gravity-powered radios for the developing world (the same principle as a cuckoo clock, you lift a weight and it turns the gears for hours as it goes down, generating power as it goes).
That sounds like tech that *should* exist and be widely available, but isn't.
That definitely is tech that should exist if it doesn't. A 25Kg weight, raised one meter, dropping slowly and spinning a fly wheel for, say, 10 hours...
How much voltage could it generate at 10cm an hour? How many serial setups like that would it take to charge an olpc? I could personally see lifting 5 of those in order to charge my laptop and feel good about it, although probably I'd rather lift twenty 15kg weight 0.5meters...
A very clean use of human power, because humans are better at bursts of energy, and conversion to electricity is more efficient over time. A disadvantage is that it obviously lacks the portability of a spring-loaded crank (a la portable radios).
Out of curiosity, how long does it take you to charge it manually? What about AC?
Are you aware that the OLPC does not have a hand-crank? That was dropped during early prototypes, as it's just asking too much of a laptop casing.
You can charge one on any input ranging between 5-20volts, so hand charging is possible, but not standard. It'll charge off a car battery, and those are bought and sold as commodities (sans car) all over Africa. You pay to have your battery charged, carry it home and run your lights and radio off of it. Now you'll run a laptop off of it as well.
You can charge it from a standard AC/DC converter, or car charger. I have yet to hear about charging one off USB, but that would be sweet!
Or if the kids're lucky, they can charge them at school.
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Breast milk is not only cheaper than similac's artificial version, it is undeniably better. You want your baby to be smart, right? Then get it on the tits, asap (it's not too late).
I feel you on all the rest though.
My first thought on reading your post is that Blue is not a good, but a blue car obviously is.
This is all good stuff.
I like how your in-depth analysis of the failures of a specific distro to meet its claims is -3 flamebait, but your overview of the same topic above is +5 Interesting. It tells me that people know you're right, but when you talk specifics it hurts. When I see something that will meet actual curriculum requirements in our classrooms without costing me personally hours of unpaid time, I will push for OSS in our classrooms. Until then, I am forced to recommend XP as better than Vista, and take a shower when I get home.
I think he was intrigued that he could run 3 games at apparently 33% each, or one game at 100%, and not notice a difference in gameplay. Which may or may not be quite accurate,since he was only really playing one at a time, not matter how quickly he tabbed between them.
As I recall win98 ran smoother with swap enabled, no matter how much RAM you had. This was a while ago, though.
I know it's not a good idea now, but this was seriously a great trick under win98. Win98 Recognized my full 1GB of RAM, but seemed to want to swap things to disk rather than use over 256MB of RAM. So I just created a RAM disk using the second 512MB of RAM, and voila! Everything ran much faster. When everything is broken, bad ideas become good again.
I agree, it's the same censorship problem as microsoft.com not offering linux downloads.
Indeed. It was obvious 5 minutes into the movie that the screenwriters had not actually read I, Robot.
I've already seen much comment by fanatical vegans on the Internet that even meat from lab-grown cells is deplorable.
But those are vegans. Us vegetarian-types would buy up lab-meat by the ton.
Assuming that we set up shop next to an already existing source of cellulose (large scale wood chipper, like a lumberyard?) and convert their waste into fuel, then our energy losses include culturing the microbe and whatever energy they reclaimed by burning the wood.
Anything from 0.5-2 barrels lost per barrel produced, depending on a bunch of factors I couldn't estimate without research. So this process will either double our energy resources (in areas where it applies), or halve them. If the former, awesome. If the latter, hopefully we learned something for later attempts.
In this case that means every voter can demand diebold's source, which in a Free Society can only be considered a Good Thing.
For the common man who needs a frame of reference: This is the same length as the distance between the solder balls of many BGA IC packages. Good lord, that didn't help him at all. For the common man: a dime is about 1mm thick.
And I have some sympathy for him, as I have a retarding effect on 3rd grade students. I taught them for 3 weeks, and at the end they knew less than when I started. My 4th grade experience was very little better: I can only effectively teach 5th grade and above.
You're right, your sister should be fired. But it's not the union preventing it, there's just no-one better applying to replace her.
The problem in education is that administrators want to maximize results with the resources given. They have no concept of the bigger picture. Since they have insufficient resources, they ask too much of teachers, they pay too little, and the fudge results to make themselves look good.
In the non-union shop a department head who was given insufficient resources would refuse to take on the project at all. That's where education administrators fail. If you can't teach well, you need to not teach at all.
Limit the subjects taught to those where there are qualified teachers, and pay whatever salaries required to get those teachers. Fire all the rest and say, "Sorry, we are not teaching history this year because there is no-one in this district qualified to teach it. Maybe next year."
That's the only way the schools will ever be fixed. It's just too bad it's career suicide to fix them.
I must have left teaching because of how horribly the union manipulated the system. No, wait, it was when I got tired of putting up with people like you smarting off about lazy teachers.
...teachers unions and the fear of lawsuits make firing the awful ones nearly impossible. I call B.S. on that one. In my time teaching, I saw several bad teachers let go. Problem was, there wasn't anyone better to replace them.Nope, sorry. Lightning Rods attract electrical current, thereby drawing it away from other structures that would be damaged by it.
This is why wooden lightning rods are a bad idea, kids.
More integrated into the OS!1!!!
More integrated into the interwebs!1!
May I be the first to say... Eww.
I didn't RTFA, so hopefully the summary is wrong.
So to run the OLPC in realtime, (without backlight) we'd have to set the weight to drop in 4 minutes, or maybe 5 weights to 20 minutes. With backlight, it'd be 10 weights for 2 minutes of use, which is really not practical.
ctrl-= gives you subscript. to get to ctrl-+, you actually type ctrl-shift-=, and that's superscript. I mis-spoke before. I just type them, I never talk about them.
ctrl-[ and ctrl-] make text larger and smaller respectively, by one point.
I also know ctrl-< and ctrl-> resize by standard font intervals - one point between 9 and 10, but two between 18 and 20, jumping to ten between 70 and 80. But I never use those, because their intervals are irrelevant to me.
And there's others but normally they only come to me as I use them.
My first computer had MS Word 6, on WFWG3.11 -- I'm way too young for wordstar, though I have seen it.
meandering off a bit, I use dozens of keyboard shortcuts daily. Adding new devices? win-break. Minimize all? win-d. Type in a command? win-r. Of course, they're all proprietary, so I've got a bad case of vendor lock-in. But I couldn't give it up, either.
Mice are for people who have time to waste, keyboards are the future.
That sounds like tech that *should* exist and be widely available, but isn't.
That definitely is tech that should exist if it doesn't. A 25Kg weight, raised one meter, dropping slowly and spinning a fly wheel for, say, 10 hours...
How much voltage could it generate at 10cm an hour? How many serial setups like that would it take to charge an olpc? I could personally see lifting 5 of those in order to charge my laptop and feel good about it, although probably I'd rather lift twenty 15kg weight 0.5meters... A very clean use of human power, because humans are better at bursts of energy, and conversion to electricity is more efficient over time. A disadvantage is that it obviously lacks the portability of a spring-loaded crank (a la portable radios).
Certainly food for thought.
Are you aware that the OLPC does not have a hand-crank?
That was dropped during early prototypes, as it's just asking too much of a laptop casing.
You can charge one on any input ranging between 5-20volts, so hand charging is possible, but not standard. It'll charge off a car battery, and those are bought and sold as commodities (sans car) all over Africa. You pay to have your battery charged, carry it home and run your lights and radio off of it. Now you'll run a laptop off of it as well.
You can charge it from a standard AC/DC converter, or car charger. I have yet to hear about charging one off USB, but that would be sweet!
Or if the kids're lucky, they can charge them at school.