Apparently, many esteemed Slashdot posters do not have first-hand experience with life-threatening food allergies. I do...
It's pretty damn scary to witness someone endure an anaphylactic reaction to a food allergen as they desperately hope that the epinephrine injection will save their life.
Better global labeling of food allergens will help eliminate the risk. I like the idea of standard labels and icons.
This unicode idea is a good one -- we should support it.
An even better solution would be figure out what is causing the increase in food allergens and fix that problem.
Until then, yet another unicode standard seems helpful.
If you'd like to learn more about food allerges, check out https://www.foodallergy.org/ (FARE - Food Allergy Research and Education)
"If approved, this ballot measure would reestablish city autonomy for investing in community broadband services currently limited by Colorado Senate Bill 152 pdf (SB-152). SB-152 significantly limits the ability of municipal governments to provide broadband services, including potential partnerships with private entities. SB-152 includes a provision allowing Colorado municipal governments to exempt themselves from the law’s provisions via a public vote.
The Boulder community would significantly benefit from more economical, higher-capacity broadband services, given the tech-savvy demographic, readiness for next-generation services, and publicly available fiber-optic infrastructure. Learn more about the benefits pdf.
Although the City of Boulder has no current plans to create a public broadband utility or engage in new public-private partnerships, passing the ballot measure would ensure that the planning and execution of new public initiatives would be unencumbered by significant limitations in state law.
Approved Ballot Question
Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services
Shall the City of Boulder be authorized to provide high-speed Internet services (advanced services), telecommunications services, and/or cable television services to residents, businesses, schools, libraries, nonprofit entities and other users of such services, either directly or indirectly with public or private sector partners, as expressly permitted by 29-27-101 to 304, “Competition in Utility and Entertainment Services,” of the Colorado Revised Statutes, without limiting its home rule authority?"
Here's one reason to be afraid of laser eye surgery:
http://eyemaxdifference.com/ni...
"The NIDEK laser system has been specifically designed to simplify use of the laser for the surgeon and technicians.
...
Features of the new Windows®-based graphic user interface offer the ultimate combination of greater convenience and significant time savings."
I mostly have various rss feeds on my iGoogle home page. Very, very useful to quickly see what's happening on pages I pay attention to.
(Like, Slashdot, of course.)
I don't use many of the other gadgets/toys. Well, Weather Underground, Woot watcher, Google Finance are useful, but I could live without them.
Are there alternative sites that provide a similar function?
http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/entry/sun_com_will_disappear_after
"A few days ago I wrote:
The www.sun.com site will be decommissioned on June 1 of this year.
In the comments I went on to say that I doubted there would be 1:1 redirects.
I was wrong. (Don't tell my wife I'm capable of saying that!) The www.sun.com domain will NOT be decommissioned or sold on June 1 of this year. Rather, sun.com URLs will redirect to oracle.com URLs, with 1:1 redirects where possible.
Most of the content that was on BigAdmin, OpenSolaris.com, and some sections of SDN has already been migrated to the System Admin and Developer Community of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
Our engineering team is working on a solution for the Hardware Compatibility List. I'll let you know where it ends up and in what form as soon as I know.
If you find content on those legacy sites that you'd like to ensure we make available on OTN, please let me know.
- Rick"
I prefer using a WaterPik "water flosser" (used to be called "oral irrigator"). It has a plug -- way higher geek factor than dental floss.
http://www.waterpik.com/oral-health
As far as I know, all keyboards around the world can type ASCII characters.
(Does "A" really mean "American" any more? It's the base character set for all things computer-ish.)
Start off with the instructor doing a few short, hands-on presentation on how some thing works.
Simple, well-known household things that one can take apart, observe, and understand.
toaster, desklamp, computer mouse, speaker,...
Then, ask the students to think of one thing they want to talk about.
Let them bring the items into the classroom with lab time to take them apart,
guided by the instructor, and other students.
They can choose junk in their basement or garage, or buy something cheap from
a second-hand store. Or even from the local recycling center.
Need basic tools, multimeters (inexpensive from Harbor Freight -- good enough for this class), etc
Provide some basic instructions on safety and tool usage.
They might even figure out how to fix something.
Then, for the rest of the couse, each student does their presentation.
(They also "accidentally" learn some presentation skills.)
The best way to learn is to teach!
Years ago, I participated in a "How Things Work" seminar at MIT just like this. Great stuff!
"For old people, it is difficult to click button on mouse but do not move it."
It took me a while to notice this when my mom uses her computer. I had been supporting her remotely using VNC, and couldn't figure out why her windows were resized to be small. When I visited her in person, I saw that she was trying to close a window, but when she click the mouse button, she also move the mouse over to a border, held the mouse down, and ended up reszing the window.
Solution:
- configure larger window decorations (scroll bars, close buttons.)
- configure larger window borders.
I agree. For this age group, GameMaker is motivational.
More fun to build a simple game then to print out a list of x and x^2. Boring.
With GameMaker, you get something interesting with little effort. And, you can readily play with conditionals, local and global variables, poking at objects to make them do things, etc.
You can get started with just the graphical programming model and then easily jump into simple scripts. In debug mode, you can watch variables.
Because scarcity tends to bring out the worst in human behavior. I've seen BMW-driving residents of the affluent Marina section of San Francisco come to fists over a precious parking spot.
Nerds, who generally tend to avoid physical confrontation, are more likely to hack things to get their share.
Doh! Botched the URLs...
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Jean Luc Picard tried one of these Borg electronic contact lenses -- it didn't work well for him.
http://uk.gizmodo.com/borg.jpg
Slashdot Mirror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My grandma would not appreciate your comment. She was fond of saying
"If each person swept their own doorstep, the whole world would be clean."
It's not just about gas usage, it's about minimizing emissions, too:
"more efficient at minimizing fuel consumption AND emissions."
My dilthium crystals are working quite fine.
It's pretty damn scary to witness someone endure an anaphylactic reaction to a food allergen as they desperately hope that the epinephrine injection will save their life.
Better global labeling of food allergens will help eliminate the risk. I like the idea of standard labels and icons. This unicode idea is a good one -- we should support it.
An even better solution would be figure out what is causing the increase in food allergens and fix that problem. Until then, yet another unicode standard seems helpful.
If you'd like to learn more about food allerges, check out https://www.foodallergy.org/ (FARE - Food Allergy Research and Education)
Yup!
"If approved, this ballot measure would reestablish city autonomy for investing in community broadband services currently limited by Colorado Senate Bill 152 pdf (SB-152). SB-152 significantly limits the ability of municipal governments to provide broadband services, including potential partnerships with private entities. SB-152 includes a provision allowing Colorado municipal governments to exempt themselves from the law’s provisions via a public vote.
The Boulder community would significantly benefit from more economical, higher-capacity broadband services, given the tech-savvy demographic, readiness for next-generation services, and publicly available fiber-optic infrastructure. Learn more about the benefits pdf.
Although the City of Boulder has no current plans to create a public broadband utility or engage in new public-private partnerships, passing the ballot measure would ensure that the planning and execution of new public initiatives would be unencumbered by significant limitations in state law.
Approved Ballot Question
Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services Shall the City of Boulder be authorized to provide high-speed Internet services (advanced services), telecommunications services, and/or cable television services to residents, businesses, schools, libraries, nonprofit entities and other users of such services, either directly or indirectly with public or private sector partners, as expressly permitted by 29-27-101 to 304, “Competition in Utility and Entertainment Services,” of the Colorado Revised Statutes, without limiting its home rule authority?"
Here's one reason to be afraid of laser eye surgery:
http://eyemaxdifference.com/ni... "The NIDEK laser system has been specifically designed to simplify use of the laser for the surgeon and technicians.
...
Features of the new Windows®-based graphic user interface offer the ultimate combination of greater convenience and significant time savings."
Doesn't HP make inkjet cartridges? Who would want to work from home making those things. Got to be messy work...
I don't use many of the other gadgets/toys. Well, Weather Underground, Woot watcher, Google Finance are useful, but I could live without them.
Are there alternative sites that provide a similar function?
English | Geometry | Algebra | Arithmetic
No Latin or Greek...
http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/entry/sun_com_will_disappear_after "A few days ago I wrote: The www.sun.com site will be decommissioned on June 1 of this year. In the comments I went on to say that I doubted there would be 1:1 redirects. I was wrong. (Don't tell my wife I'm capable of saying that!) The www.sun.com domain will NOT be decommissioned or sold on June 1 of this year. Rather, sun.com URLs will redirect to oracle.com URLs, with 1:1 redirects where possible. Most of the content that was on BigAdmin, OpenSolaris.com, and some sections of SDN has already been migrated to the System Admin and Developer Community of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Our engineering team is working on a solution for the Hardware Compatibility List. I'll let you know where it ends up and in what form as soon as I know. If you find content on those legacy sites that you'd like to ensure we make available on OTN, please let me know. - Rick"
Great opportunity to manufacture and sell giant tin foil hats for cars.
How many Slashdot readers would change places with Hurd at this time? How could any of us ever get to quit a job and walk away with $40M?
I prefer using a WaterPik "water flosser" (used to be called "oral irrigator"). It has a plug -- way higher geek factor than dental floss. http://www.waterpik.com/oral-health
As far as I know, all keyboards around the world can type ASCII characters. (Does "A" really mean "American" any more? It's the base character set for all things computer-ish.)
Passover seders usually have an abundance of food. But, of course, not bread, but matzo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matzo
Then, ask the students to think of one thing they want to talk about. Let them bring the items into the classroom with lab time to take them apart, guided by the instructor, and other students. They can choose junk in their basement or garage, or buy something cheap from a second-hand store. Or even from the local recycling center. Need basic tools, multimeters (inexpensive from Harbor Freight -- good enough for this class), etc Provide some basic instructions on safety and tool usage.
They might even figure out how to fix something.
Then, for the rest of the couse, each student does their presentation. (They also "accidentally" learn some presentation skills.)
The best way to learn is to teach!
Years ago, I participated in a "How Things Work" seminar at MIT just like this. Great stuff!
"Radio Schlock" might better describe the current version of this retailer. Junky, overpriced electronics, staffed by clerks with mediocre knowledge.
"For old people, it is difficult to click button on mouse but do not move it." It took me a while to notice this when my mom uses her computer. I had been supporting her remotely using VNC, and couldn't figure out why her windows were resized to be small. When I visited her in person, I saw that she was trying to close a window, but when she click the mouse button, she also move the mouse over to a border, held the mouse down, and ended up reszing the window. Solution: - configure larger window decorations (scroll bars, close buttons.) - configure larger window borders.
I agree. For this age group, GameMaker is motivational. More fun to build a simple game then to print out a list of x and x^2. Boring. With GameMaker, you get something interesting with little effort. And, you can readily play with conditionals, local and global variables, poking at objects to make them do things, etc. You can get started with just the graphical programming model and then easily jump into simple scripts. In debug mode, you can watch variables.
Because scarcity tends to bring out the worst in human behavior. I've seen BMW-driving residents of the affluent Marina section of San Francisco come to fists over a precious parking spot. Nerds, who generally tend to avoid physical confrontation, are more likely to hack things to get their share.
Here's an NPR story from April 23, 2008 on this topic.
Doh! Botched the URLs...
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Jean Luc Picard tried one of these Borg electronic contact lenses -- it didn't work well for him.
http://uk.gizmodo.com/borg.jpg
Seven of Nine liked hers, though.
http://www.startrekdesktopwallpaper.com/new_wallpaper/Star_Trek_Voyager_SevenOfNine_JerryRyan_desktopwallpaper_800.jpg
Jean Luc Picard tried one of these Borg electronic contact lenses -- it didn't work well for him.
http://uk.gizmodo.com/borg.jpg/
Seven of Nine liked hers, though.
http://www.startrekdesktopwallpaper.com/new_wallpaper/Star_Trek_Voyager_SevenOfNine_JerryRyan_desktopwallpaper_800.jpg/