I agree. On the other hand the response should be proportional. Uploading a textbook should have involved an officer serving a warrant. A raid and seizing equipment is more in line with a massive copyright ring. This over the top shit is really ridiculous and unwarranted. It's like someone caught jaywalking getting clubbed down, handcuffed, dragged away and thrown in the pokey. Enough with the over reactions already.
This thousand times. Technically uploading the history book was a copyright violation and I yes think it could have been handled in some way, like sending a letter describing "Hello, we noticed that you have some material online that we believe should not be distributed freely". But a police raid, gimme a fucking break! Those idiots should be ridiculed for that. It's not that there was some headquarters of armed criminals.
textbook publishers use all kinds of BS to keep there monopoly on educational materials in place.
I'm not sure. When in Finland these teachers had the over-the-weekend marathon to create a math textbook and put it into Github, they commented that they might as well release it for free, as the profit they get from books is always so small anyway. And, in increasing amounts you can read high-quality material for free from the intertubez, further shaking the position of commercially published books.
Actually Notepad++ could use some simple GUI standardizing. For some reason the Help menu is "?", then there is an odd "MISC." tab in the Settings dialog and the centered "Close" button there too. The name of an untitled document is "new1" (with two spaces). Also the editor widget (Scintilla) does not honor Windows cursor blink rate preference. Purely aesthetic things, but these could all be fixed quite easily to make the application look more professional. Otherwise it's a nice text editor.
I heard that FreeRCT is in need for both programmers and graphic artists. Their goal is to create an open game in the spirit of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
Now let's charge that same battery - if we can - in 30 seconds, or 120th of the time. You'll need an 8.4kW charger to do that, which is going to be much larger and heavier than the laptop.
Not necessarily. If you only need to run it about 30 seconds at full blast, it doesn't have to have the size of a PSU designed to constantly deliver 8.4kW.
People are waaaaay too paranoid these days. There is nothing sacred about your name and address. No one can steal your identity with it. If the email had your SSN or DOB in it, that would be different. But your name and address? If you have a landline phone, it's probably in a phone book and on numerous telephone directory websites and has been for years. Public court records have your name and address too. Nobody cares.
Remember that the e-mail contains a lot of other information than just the name, address or telephone number. It gives it much more context than just picking some random contact from a phone book.
I'm also not sure if they are talking about a WiFi or cellular router. The transmit powers are very different.
The translated version says: The school was not equipped to test the effect of mobile phone radiation on them, but it was enough in fact very well. Therefore, the girls had to find an alternative. And the answer was karsefrø. Six trays seeds were put into a room without radiation, and six trays were put into another room next to two routers. Such a broadcast about the same type of radiation as an ordinary mobile.
I agree. The 9th graders certainly did an interesting experiment that deserves the attention. But they must now continue to develop a more thorough test environment to see what actually might be causing the radical difference in the growth of the crass crops. Their test methodology is not accurate enough yet to make any real conclusions.
As I now am unemployed (but a student at least), should I be worried (like I sometimes am) that I don't have a job, or think more often that the world is just so automated that it's not unethical that we all are not actively participating in the work pool?
That is not Vista. You can configure Windows 7 to show full labels too by going to "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" and selecting "Taskbar buttons: Never combine".
And Quake 3... absolutely! When it comes to classic deathmatch, Q3 and Unreal Tournament 2004 are the bees knees.
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They can build these things already? I thought that quantum computers would be only a theoretical idea for many coming years.
I even use the built-in sign-in feature. Kind of cringes to think that my complete list of visited URLs is stored in their server. I'm insane.
I agree. On the other hand the response should be proportional. Uploading a textbook should have involved an officer serving a warrant. A raid and seizing equipment is more in line with a massive copyright ring. This over the top shit is really ridiculous and unwarranted. It's like someone caught jaywalking getting clubbed down, handcuffed, dragged away and thrown in the pokey. Enough with the over reactions already.
This thousand times. Technically uploading the history book was a copyright violation and I yes think it could have been handled in some way, like sending a letter describing "Hello, we noticed that you have some material online that we believe should not be distributed freely". But a police raid, gimme a fucking break! Those idiots should be ridiculed for that. It's not that there was some headquarters of armed criminals.
textbook publishers use all kinds of BS to keep there monopoly on educational materials in place.
I'm not sure. When in Finland these teachers had the over-the-weekend marathon to create a math textbook and put it into Github, they commented that they might as well release it for free, as the profit they get from books is always so small anyway. And, in increasing amounts you can read high-quality material for free from the intertubez, further shaking the position of commercially published books.
Actually Notepad++ could use some simple GUI standardizing. For some reason the Help menu is "?", then there is an odd "MISC." tab in the Settings dialog and the centered "Close" button there too. The name of an untitled document is "new1" (with two spaces). Also the editor widget (Scintilla) does not honor Windows cursor blink rate preference. Purely aesthetic things, but these could all be fixed quite easily to make the application look more professional. Otherwise it's a nice text editor.
I heard that FreeRCT is in need for both programmers and graphic artists. Their goal is to create an open game in the spirit of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
Scientific Linux (CentOS-like) also deserves a mention.
Now let's charge that same battery - if we can - in 30 seconds, or 120th of the time. You'll need an 8.4kW charger to do that, which is going to be much larger and heavier than the laptop.
Not necessarily. If you only need to run it about 30 seconds at full blast, it doesn't have to have the size of a PSU designed to constantly deliver 8.4kW.
People are waaaaay too paranoid these days. There is nothing sacred about your name and address. No one can steal your identity with it. If the email had your SSN or DOB in it, that would be different. But your name and address? If you have a landline phone, it's probably in a phone book and on numerous telephone directory websites and has been for years. Public court records have your name and address too. Nobody cares.
Remember that the e-mail contains a lot of other information than just the name, address or telephone number. It gives it much more context than just picking some random contact from a phone book.
I have the Collector's Edition.
GHz cannot be used to describe a CPU's performance anymore.
8.) ???
What kind of software? That sounds quite interesting.
Thank you for the info. That certainly moves the discussion one level up.
I'm also not sure if they are talking about a WiFi or cellular router. The transmit powers are very different.
The translated version says: The school was not equipped to test the effect of mobile phone radiation on them, but it was enough in fact very well. Therefore, the girls had to find an alternative. And the answer was karsefrø. Six trays seeds were put into a room without radiation, and six trays were put into another room next to two routers. Such a broadcast about the same type of radiation as an ordinary mobile.
D'oh! Cress, not crass. Goes to sit in the corner with a stupid hat...
I agree. The 9th graders certainly did an interesting experiment that deserves the attention. But they must now continue to develop a more thorough test environment to see what actually might be causing the radical difference in the growth of the crass crops. Their test methodology is not accurate enough yet to make any real conclusions.
As I now am unemployed (but a student at least), should I be worried (like I sometimes am) that I don't have a job, or think more often that the world is just so automated that it's not unethical that we all are not actively participating in the work pool?
That is not Vista. You can configure Windows 7 to show full labels too by going to "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" and selecting "Taskbar buttons: Never combine".
And Quake 3... absolutely! When it comes to classic deathmatch, Q3 and Unreal Tournament 2004 are the bees knees.
Ok. I understand then.
Who cares about random cat videos? I watch maybe 5 YouTube videos a year.
There is really good stuff in YouTube these days. Not just cat videos or dogs on skateboards.
How about bigthink or EEVblog, for example?
Use the Extended Support Release of Firefox.
I don't get it. Couldn't you just use a 64-bit compiler and set it to produce 32-bit binaries?
Of course you need Flash. Even YouTube is not able to offer all videos in HTML5 format.
If they think Finland lives in a protected bubble then I've got news for them.
We don't? :(