Hey, Fortran IV was good for me too - but not good enough. The computer center director at the university at which I was working offered to help me get one of my programs working, but only if I rewrote it in Pascal. So I did.
I've got one of the older versions, which runs Android 1.6. It's definitely not fast. I prefer using a stylus with the on-screen keyboard, but otherwise a finger works well. As an added bonus, It also runs Debian (off the micro SD card). Battery life sucks - maybe an hour with wifi on, about 2.5 hrs with wifi off. Bottom line - it works as expected.
Actually, thinking about it (which is what I should have done originally), the drill core is unlikely to encounter magma, but rather a coarse-grained rock more-or-less gabbroic rock with the viscosity of rock salt.
A (quickly-cooled) sample from the uppermost mantle taken immediately beneath the oceanic crust would be pretty similar to basalt - as you go deeper, the composition would change to something quite unlike the igneous rocks you normally see at the surface of the earth.
... i so what more do you want other then a decent software stack on top of it?
And therein lies the key. A system that could present a mobile device GUI on the phone/tablet, and a desktop GUI on a docked monitor might just be what I need (or not, given that I've neither worked with such a system nor given much thought as to how I'd feel interacting with it)
I'm not at all convinced that smaller school districts is a viable way to address the problems in our schools. The smaller the district, the more homogeneous the tax base. Fine for wealthy districts; not so fine for poorer districts. State funding is still going to be vital, and with control of the purse strings comes a whole plethora of mandates (not all of which are funded by the state).
Assuming Google chooses to subsidize ChromeOS devices, and assuming that ChromeOS devices are capable of running Linux, what fraction of Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint customers is going to supplement/replace ChromeOS with Linux? I can't believe it's going to be a significant number
Now, if ChromeOS came out of the box and ran things like OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus or alternatively Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'd probably replace Fedora,...
If ChromeOS could do all this, it would be functionally indistinguishable from Fedora/Ubuntu/Mandriva/Suse etc...
Things have definitely changed. I was going to say that we've come full-circle, but it's more like a spiral than a circle. We've rotated through 360 degrees, but there's been a translational component to that motion.
I started using personal computers back in 1981 because I wanted to be able to run my software whenever I wanted, and not be dependent on the (university's) mainframe system being up. Today, I can't imagine using the cloud for anything other than as a backup, and then only with strong encryption.
What common mistakes do you frequently have to deal with?
- Software only tested by programmer.
- Manual only written by programmer.
My mid-1980s solution: I wrote the code and handed it to my partner with brief usage instructions. He ran the code, making sure it did what it was supposed to and that it didn't break when entering nonsense (and came back to me with a few areas that needed fixing), and wrote the manual. I'm sure it worked out better than if I had written the manual
When the operating system integrates the SD card with your phone:
It reformats the SD card.
It creates a single file system that spans the internal storage and the SD card.
From this point on, the phone's operating system uses all of the available memory as a single storage space for storing applications and data. The phone will stop working properly if you remove the SD card, and the SD card cannot be read by another phone, device, or PC.
Not unlike the way Linpus Linux treated an SD card in te left slot on the Acer Aspire One AOA110 netbooks. However, Linpus didn't trash the SD card.
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Hey, Fortran IV was good for me too - but not good enough. The computer center director at the university at which I was working offered to help me get one of my programs working, but only if I rewrote it in Pascal. So I did.
Basically, you copy the image to the microSD card and then boot off that card. I found it to be too slow to be worth using - when I want Linux on the go, I'll just carry my netbook. However, for all the details:http://www.slatedroid.com/index.php?/topic/5837-rom-debian-v03-for-flytouch-sd-bootable/page__hl__debian/
I've got one of the older versions, which runs Android 1.6. It's definitely not fast. I prefer using a stylus with the on-screen keyboard, but otherwise a finger works well. As an added bonus, It also runs Debian (off the micro SD card). Battery life sucks - maybe an hour with wifi on, about 2.5 hrs with wifi off. Bottom line - it works as expected.
Actually, thinking about it (which is what I should have done originally), the drill core is unlikely to encounter magma, but rather a coarse-grained rock more-or-less gabbroic rock with the viscosity of rock salt.
A (quickly-cooled) sample from the uppermost mantle taken immediately beneath the oceanic crust would be pretty similar to basalt - as you go deeper, the composition would change to something quite unlike the igneous rocks you normally see at the surface of the earth.
I (and, I dare say, most other igneous petrologists), for one will be extremely surprised if it becomes granite (or even rhyolite).
Actually, Mexico is somewhat nearer to South America than the US
How does it make sense? Where's the evidence? (BTW, I too am a geologist, though not a seismologist or vulcanologist).
Spectroscopes
... i so what more do you want other then a decent software stack on top of it?
And therein lies the key. A system that could present a mobile device GUI on the phone/tablet, and a desktop GUI on a docked monitor might just be what I need (or not, given that I've neither worked with such a system nor given much thought as to how I'd feel interacting with it)
If I were you, I'd put the year-end bonus in a 6-mo CD, and get the tablet when the CD's term is up
Reminds me of this book Consider a Circular Cow
Glad I had a few of those type A teachers along the way. Not sure that you've got the non-A types properly described.
But what do we do when it's the state board of education injecting religion into science education?
I'm not at all convinced that smaller school districts is a viable way to address the problems in our schools. The smaller the district, the more homogeneous the tax base. Fine for wealthy districts; not so fine for poorer districts. State funding is still going to be vital, and with control of the purse strings comes a whole plethora of mandates (not all of which are funded by the state).
There is also little if any correlation in being able to research, and being able to teach.
they are in the bottom of the barrel of teaching ability
Looks like somebody failed either Logic or English (or both)
I prefer to use hydronium hydroxide rather than dihydrogen monoxide, but to each his own
Assuming Google chooses to subsidize ChromeOS devices, and assuming that ChromeOS devices are capable of running Linux, what fraction of Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint customers is going to supplement/replace ChromeOS with Linux? I can't believe it's going to be a significant number
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Now, if ChromeOS came out of the box and ran things like OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus or alternatively Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'd probably replace Fedora,...
If ChromeOS could do all this, it would be functionally indistinguishable from Fedora/Ubuntu/Mandriva/Suse etc...
Things have definitely changed. I was going to say that we've come full-circle, but it's more like a spiral than a circle. We've rotated through 360 degrees, but there's been a translational component to that motion.
I started using personal computers back in 1981 because I wanted to be able to run my software whenever I wanted, and not be dependent on the (university's) mainframe system being up. Today, I can't imagine using the cloud for anything other than as a backup, and then only with strong encryption.
What common mistakes do you frequently have to deal with? - Software only tested by programmer. - Manual only written by programmer.
My mid-1980s solution: I wrote the code and handed it to my partner with brief usage instructions. He ran the code, making sure it did what it was supposed to and that it didn't break when entering nonsense (and came back to me with a few areas that needed fixing), and wrote the manual. I'm sure it worked out better than if I had written the manual
When the operating system integrates the SD card with your phone:
From this point on, the phone's operating system uses all of the available memory as a single storage space for storing applications and data. The phone will stop working properly if you remove the SD card, and the SD card cannot be read by another phone, device, or PC.
Not unlike the way Linpus Linux treated an SD card in te left slot on the Acer Aspire One AOA110 netbooks. However, Linpus didn't trash the SD card.
Unfortunately, REEs aren't overly abundant in basalts and anorthosites, the rocks that apparently make up virtually all of the lunar crust.
They appear to like RHEL:
I wonder if they're paying for support?