I've been using "laptot" since I purchased by Acer Aspire One back in August,, but was unaware of the prior usage. Guess I should have checked Wikipedia
Small, cheap mini-notebooks like this, or "netbooks" as they have come to be called, are not as fast or as capable as a big computer
Really? My "big" computer is a 5-year old Shuttle with a 1.8 GHZ P4, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, built-in Intel 82845G/GE graphics, a DVD burner, and an Atheros-based wireless card. I didn't claim it was brand-spanking new. I've got a couple of even bigger computers, but the Shuttle is faster and has more RAM. My Acer Aspire One is a little slower on some tasks than the Shuttle, but faster on others, and doesn't have an optical drive. I can live without the optical drive.
The Aspire One replaced a 4-year old Averatec 3250 laptop which had a 1.67GHz Athlon, 60GB HDD, 512 MB RAM, onboard S3 Unichrome graphics, a CDRW/DVD ROM, a RaLink RT2500 wireless chip. The Averatec, like my AA1, came with WinXP. If a 1.67GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a 60 GB HDD was adequate for WinXP four years ago, why isn't a 1.67 GHz Atom with 1GB RAM and 120GB HDD? Besides, I didn't buy my AA1 to run WinXP, I bought to run Fedora and Ubuntu and Puppy Linux, which is does very well, thank you.
I'd like to know if the card reader works properly under Ubuntu. On my Aspire One 150-1570 (the 120GB HDD version that comes w/ WinXP), my xD card is not recognized with either Fedora or Ubuntu; SD cards are recognized in a slot only if that slot is occupied at boot.
I've taught earth science to elementary education majors, very few of them found math and science to be enjoyable, but instead feared it. I can only presume they would transfer this to their students.
Same here.
How about hiring science and math teachers with real science and math degrees instead of education degrees? We know that hiring science and math teachers with education degrees isn't working very well!
Maybe it's really an AR2413 masquerading as an AR5212 (different tools give me different identities). Whatever it is, it doesn't and hasn't ever work with the ath5K driver, but works fine with the madwifi driver. That's what I get for buying the cheapest wireless card I could find at CompUSA back before they closed up shop.
After reading the article, my first thought was that maybe Win98 (or Win2K, but I've never used Win2K) would be a decent match for the XO. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Before everyone starts looking to the oceans/ocean floors for this and that, consider the fact that certain minerals (those containing high concentrations of rare-earth metals, for example) do not occur in oceanic environments, but in rocks that form continental crust. Now as for copper and zinc, oceanic environments are a possibility.
I think these charts reflect nothing. That may be, but I doubt it. I agree that the sample probably does not accurately reflect the voting population. However, as a young, internet-using old fart who happens to be a former statistician, I ask, why are these charts as good as they are at predicting the results?
I can't disagree with the comment itself, but I do disagree with the sig
I can't decide which are dumber: creationists or libertarians. Creationists are dumber
My favorite word problem from Algebra I - we had to write an equation relating their ages:
Mary is twice as old as Jane was when Mary was as old as Jane is now. FWIW, I believe the textbook we used was first published in the early 1960s
Back in 1985, I developed a course for our geology majors I called Computer Applications in Geology, in which students were required to write programs to perform various types of calculations that one encounters in geology. Students were allowed to use any programming language they knew (and would run on the computer lab's IBM PCs or the Apple ][+ in my office). I spent one lecture introducing the PC, another on BASIC (for those students who didn't already know a programming language). Each week, I'd spend one lecture describing the algorithm, then turn the students loose to actually write their programs. I didn't worry about coding style (that was the domain of the CS department, and I didn't want to step on their toes), only whether or not the program worked properly. Given that introductory programming courses today aren't a whole lot different (except, perhaps, for the language taught) from those offered 30 years ago, I'd probably offer something similar to my 1985 course today were I still teaching.
I'm not an isotope geochemist - just a humble (ok, maybe not so humble - after all, I'm posting here) petrologist. No easy way to test for specific unknown molecular ions at this time, so let's leave that as a possibility. Running other solutions of heavy elements seems like a must to confirm the conclusion. As for the chemical purity of the solution, I'm not convinced that eka-thorium would be so distinct as be readily separated from thorium. In conclusion, it's wise to remain sceptical, but I would not dismiss the conclusion out of hand.
Back 30 some-odd years ago, if you were a Math major at UCLA you earned a Bachelor of Arts degree; a Bachelor of Science degree wasn't an option unless you double-majored in a discipline that offered a BS and made the BS-granting discipline your primary major. Been there, done that.
The enormous and irrational bias on/. against anything even remotely affiliated with Microsoft is pathetic and reflects very poorly on the people of the free/open software community.
I've written a few lines of open source code, and I've bashed Microsoft on occasion, but as a Microsoft stockholder, I feel it is my duty to speak up when the company I own a(n infinitesimal piece of) does something illegal/immoral.
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I've been using "laptot" since I purchased by Acer Aspire One back in August,, but was unaware of the prior usage. Guess I should have checked Wikipedia
Small, cheap mini-notebooks like this, or "netbooks" as they have come to be called, are not as fast or as capable as a big computer
Really? My "big" computer is a 5-year old Shuttle with a 1.8 GHZ P4, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, built-in Intel 82845G/GE graphics, a DVD burner, and an Atheros-based wireless card. I didn't claim it was brand-spanking new. I've got a couple of even bigger computers, but the Shuttle is faster and has more RAM. My Acer Aspire One is a little slower on some tasks than the Shuttle, but faster on others, and doesn't have an optical drive. I can live without the optical drive. The Aspire One replaced a 4-year old Averatec 3250 laptop which had a 1.67GHz Athlon, 60GB HDD, 512 MB RAM, onboard S3 Unichrome graphics, a CDRW/DVD ROM, a RaLink RT2500 wireless chip. The Averatec, like my AA1, came with WinXP. If a 1.67GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a 60 GB HDD was adequate for WinXP four years ago, why isn't a 1.67 GHz Atom with 1GB RAM and 120GB HDD? Besides, I didn't buy my AA1 to run WinXP, I bought to run Fedora and Ubuntu and Puppy Linux, which is does very well, thank you.
I'd like to know if the card reader works properly under Ubuntu. On my Aspire One 150-1570 (the 120GB HDD version that comes w/ WinXP), my xD card is not recognized with either Fedora or Ubuntu; SD cards are recognized in a slot only if that slot is occupied at boot.
I've taught earth science to elementary education majors, very few of them found math and science to be enjoyable, but instead feared it. I can only presume they would transfer this to their students.
Same here. How about hiring science and math teachers with real science and math degrees instead of education degrees? We know that hiring science and math teachers with education degrees isn't working very well!
Maybe it's really an AR2413 masquerading as an AR5212 (different tools give me different identities). Whatever it is, it doesn't and hasn't ever work with the ath5K driver, but works fine with the madwifi driver. That's what I get for buying the cheapest wireless card I could find at CompUSA back before they closed up shop.
After reading the article, my first thought was that maybe Win98 (or Win2K, but I've never used Win2K) would be a decent match for the XO. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this.
for my AR5212
Ok, so it's a bit bogus. Be that as it may,
P = -342.27273 + 72.72727*Screen_Size - 0.45000*HDD_Capacity - 0.5000*SDD_Capacity + 4.00000*OS
where:
P = price (in £ with VAT)
Screen_Size is measured in inches
HDD_Capacity is in GB
SDD_Capacity is in GB
OS = 1 for Linux, 0 for XP
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Geology - it's not rocket science, it's rock science
I'd mod you up, but then I couldn't comment on your post :)
Before everyone starts looking to the oceans/ocean floors for this and that, consider the fact that certain minerals (those containing high concentrations of rare-earth metals, for example) do not occur in oceanic environments, but in rocks that form continental crust. Now as for copper and zinc, oceanic environments are a possibility.
No organization that to my knowledge discriminates against Atheists and Gays will get my assistance
Back in 1985, I developed a course for our geology majors I called Computer Applications in Geology, in which students were required to write programs to perform various types of calculations that one encounters in geology. Students were allowed to use any programming language they knew (and would run on the computer lab's IBM PCs or the Apple ][+ in my office). I spent one lecture introducing the PC, another on BASIC (for those students who didn't already know a programming language). Each week, I'd spend one lecture describing the algorithm, then turn the students loose to actually write their programs. I didn't worry about coding style (that was the domain of the CS department, and I didn't want to step on their toes), only whether or not the program worked properly. Given that introductory programming courses today aren't a whole lot different (except, perhaps, for the language taught) from those offered 30 years ago, I'd probably offer something similar to my 1985 course today were I still teaching.
I'm not an isotope geochemist - just a humble (ok, maybe not so humble - after all, I'm posting here) petrologist. No easy way to test for specific unknown molecular ions at this time, so let's leave that as a possibility. Running other solutions of heavy elements seems like a must to confirm the conclusion. As for the chemical purity of the solution, I'm not convinced that eka-thorium would be so distinct as be readily separated from thorium. In conclusion, it's wise to remain sceptical, but I would not dismiss the conclusion out of hand.
I keep my amber waves of grain picture at http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Amber+Waves+of+Grain?content=30777
I had one of those Franklins in my lab (and a ][ Plus in my office). Great machines, never had a problem with the hardware or running Apple software
[quote]It's "aluminium". Get used to it.[/quote] Maybe where you come from...
Happy Puppy Linux user here - FaunOS is a bit too heavy for my old USB sticks
FWIW (and I haven't gotten through all the comments yet, so mod me impatient if this is a dup) congressman Ron Paul is a (medical) doctor too
Don't forget, we've already had the Adamses, Harrisons, and Roosevelts in addition to the Bushes
Back 30 some-odd years ago, if you were a Math major at UCLA you earned a Bachelor of Arts degree; a Bachelor of Science degree wasn't an option unless you double-majored in a discipline that offered a BS and made the BS-granting discipline your primary major. Been there, done that.
The enormous and irrational bias on /. against anything even remotely affiliated with Microsoft is pathetic and reflects very poorly on the people of the free/open software community.
I've written a few lines of open source code, and I've bashed Microsoft on occasion, but as a Microsoft stockholder, I feel it is my duty to speak up when the company I own a(n infinitesimal piece of) does something illegal/immoral.