I'm guessing you haven't experienced driving sleet or a blizzard or any other midwest-style winter weather, when the wind gets blowing it will pack snow anywhere and everywhere.
Exactly, Burt Rutan was the brains behind Voyager, the first non-stop, no-refueling, round the world flight. Voyager was built over a 5 year period by Volunteers, using fiberglass, carbon-fiber, and Kevlar, financed by donations.
And as for heading to Oshkosh or Sun N Fun to see all the crazy fliers, check out the Ultralight section at Oshkosh, since there's very little regulation of Ultralights, and there are ballistic parachutes available for the entire aircraft, there is a lot more experimentation going on. One guy we call 'the farmer' comes up every year, usually with a different aircraft each time.
From looking at the press release, it doesn't look like this is a x86 compatible CPU, so I don't think that MS will port Windows 7 to it any time soon. So for the moment it's Linux/Unix only.
It makes sense for Google to have a content store for their Android phones, and it's clear Apple doesn't want to play nice with competitors (Palm Pre, anyone?). I just hope Google do it so well that they frighten Apple into dropping prices and restrictions.
Apple doesn't play nice with people who try to hack the iTunes sync, however, if Palm had an ounce of intelligence they would have used the Public API's for accessing iTunes content like everyone else does.
Also, the Music cartels are the ones fighting for the price points on the music in iTunes, Jobs wanted it all at $.99 but agreed to go variable pricing in order to get concessions on removing DRM.
Isac Asimov: The Complete Stories is a great volume of short stories that cover many 'what-if' situations and would be a great way to get the kids going on 'hard' sf (ie. not simple 'action in space' but questions and where they lead).
For how to actually structure the teaching, personally I would have one of the short stories as an 'assigned reading' for the next class (most are only a few dozen pages, easy reading). At the next class I would have open discussion with the class discussing the story:
What question is the story exploring?
What are other possible answers to the question?
What do you think living in the 'world' of that story would be like?
What are some other implications of ____ that the author didn't explore?
Probably for major tests, I would go away from 'write essay about story' and instead go with something like 'of the stories in this book, find a question that the story is pursuing, and write a different answer to that question', basically look at the path that the author took and see what other paths they could take with the question.
Other collections of short stories could be used for this purpose, but you should know the stories fairly well beforehand to make sure there aren't any that would really be wrong for kids. I've been through Azimov's collection and all of them are more-or-less 'teenager friendly'.
In fact, I think this subject would be very interesting to teach... I may have to look into it...:)
Right, so we've gone from a nation that puts the ten commandments in four different places in the supreme court building, and other references to God in the architecture of the Library of Congress, the White House,and the Jefferson Memorial, to a country that bans prayer in school. From a country founded by the Puritans (even I would consider extreme conservatives) to a country slowly state-by-state legalizing gay marriage and has a thriving and pervasive porn industry. I'd say the Morals of America have greatly changed since it's founding.
Two Billion is an impressive number no matter how you slice it, total number of App downloads, slicing it into the total number of iPhone users to find the average number downloaded, ratio of free vs paid apps, etc. It tells a lot of the strength of the App Store market and the iPhone / iPod Touch market that so many are being downloaded. It encourages developers, not only to create new software but to update and improve existing software released for the iPhone.
Unfortunately the machine to print these books starts around $80k (slow black and white printer) goes to $100k (fast color printer) (does not include instillation, training, or a 10mbit internet connection with a static IP)... I'm guessing that the rate of new instillation won't be all that great for quite some time... I'll be waiting a long while (or driving more than 6 hours) to get my printed, out-of-print books...
The employment agency in Wisconsin did a study, and for non-skilled professions it costs on average $3k to train a new employee to the point he is fully productive. You start considering the cost of bringing a new programmer or other skilled employee up to speed and it's very cost prohibitive for employers to consider employees 'expendable'. Of course that's not going into such considerations as your company getting a reputation and all the good programmers in the area not even considering a job application at your place of business, meaning you are paying more and more for less skilled employees.
Eventually you will reach a point where your productivity is worthless and the boss gets canned/company goes under. Most companies/bosses don't want that, so as much as it pains them, they can't act like employees are expendable.
It very well could be that the IT department is MS only and would mess up any Mac they work on simply because they are clueless, that'd be a reason for not letting them near it.
It may make sense in his situation... he may have an IT department that is MS only, being an executive he has the privilege of using what he wants, but he knows that the IT department is clueless with Macs so he does his own work.
A finished system's structure tends to mimic the structure of the group that produced it. Read about the
Windows Shutdown Crapfest and think about the implications for their website.
Actually I am thinking about the implications about the product... if you check out this comment on that article which explains the reason behind the source control structure, they are controlling a symptom of the problem not the problem. No wonder MS products are so unstable and vulnerable, with wild dependencies going all over the place, only found out months after things are broken, I'm with other commenters and I wonder how they ever released a product at all!
I don't understand how a nano can pick up FM radio. According to my research, FM band radio in the US can have a wavelength of 3.4 meters. How do you pick that up on a device that's less than 10 centimeters long?
Between Fractal Antennas and using the headphone cable as the antenna there are several possibilities for how they get FM into that small package.
Don't look at Apple for this, that's all the music industry for that one. And you can purchase a song and make your own ringtone out of it using iTunes, it just cost and extra $.99 for the ringtone (so $.79 to $1.29 for the song itself, + $.99 for the ringtone, end price from $1.78 to $2.28 for a ringtone, now down to $1.29). This option has been available for a while.
While this is still an inflated price considering what you are actually getting, in comparison to the rest of the industry it's a steal. While the pricing isn't great it's leading the market to lower prices for ringtones. Yay! More useless stuff for people to purchase!
I understand why it is a big deal to share videos across the local network, but songs? Songs are already DRM free, what prevents people from simply copying the song and adding it to their nth machine when they hit the 5 computer limit?
You always could do this, manually copy from one library to another on authorized machines, now you can do it within iTunes (before you could only do it via other means, sneakernet/hd sharing/etc) this will help keep libraries synced up between multiple computers.
Also, a separate store for ringtones that cost as much as the songs themselves, lame, should be bundled in with the song for like.01 cent.
And what's the price for your ringtones now? (other than ones you copy from another phone or load yourself.) Before it was a $1.98 per ringtone ($0.99 for the song, $0.99 to make a ringtone out of it) now they are removing that intermediate step and just selling pre-made ringtones for $1.29... not a bad deal... and far cheaper than purchasing them off Verizon!
Spilling Mercury on an Aircraft is almost as bad as a bomb (except slower) Mercury speeds up the oxidization of Aluminum to the point where you can just about watch it fall apart, spill that on an aircraft and they'll likely ground it for a good long time while they strip to the base structure and make sure every bit of aluminum isn't damaged. Good 'before and after' pics in this article.
I consider this one of the best methods, you get three great things out of this: non-recoverable drives, frustrations worked out, and some really interesting conversation starters if you take it apart (the disk platter deforms in very interesting ways when hit!) For example: This Drive is no longer readable, and if you look at any of the photos that show the top of the drive, you can see how the disk platter deformed.
I've had discussions about this and mainly it's a matter of philosophy and its foundation.
The reason Evolution is linked with abortion, eugenics, euthanasia, and infanticide is because the foundation of Evolution is Survival of the Fittest, the creed that only the strong survive and if you are too weak to survive we shouldn't help you do so. That philosophical foundation easily supports such actions as supporting the evolution of the human species. The distinction is that while those actions are supported by evolution many people who believe in evolution don't support those actions.
The reason Creationism is pitted against those movements is because the philosophical foundation is God made you, therefore you are special and your right to live should not be challenged in any way. The only times it is allowed to be challenged is as punishment for murder and other major crimes, though even that is hotly debated among Christians even more so than non-Christians. The Creationism philosophy defends the right for the elderly and those with 'genetic defects' to live because they are valuable people and can contribute to society, and it also defends the unborn as well (mainly because the Bible has passages with God saying "before you were conceived, I knew you", basically saying that even though they aren't born yet, they are a person).
Now, the truly messed up folk are the ones who believe in ID, it's the bastard child of Creationism and Evolution and makes no sense in either case. It's the mix of two apposing philosophies and is the weaker because of it. There is no support for it in Evolutionary principals and nothing in the Bible or other religious texts that can be twisted far enough to support it without breaking. And actually, the definition of a 'hostile' forum would also include those forums catering to Creationists. They just aren't liked anywhere.
By the way, just how does it work out when someone supports Euthanasia and Abortion but is against the death penalty? "The unborn and the old are ok to kill but the killers and the rapists aren't."???
From the original article (second link) it says this only works in a vacuum, with air present unrolling tape does not produce any X-Rays. I would suspect that this is because Air is less of an insulator than tape, and can reduce the energy involved to levels below the threshold for creating X-Rays...
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I'm guessing you haven't experienced driving sleet or a blizzard or any other midwest-style winter weather, when the wind gets blowing it will pack snow anywhere and everywhere.
Exactly, Burt Rutan was the brains behind Voyager, the first non-stop, no-refueling, round the world flight. Voyager was built over a 5 year period by Volunteers, using fiberglass, carbon-fiber, and Kevlar, financed by donations.
And as for heading to Oshkosh or Sun N Fun to see all the crazy fliers, check out the Ultralight section at Oshkosh, since there's very little regulation of Ultralights, and there are ballistic parachutes available for the entire aircraft, there is a lot more experimentation going on. One guy we call 'the farmer' comes up every year, usually with a different aircraft each time.
No, it'd be:
Blue Screen of DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
(said in the voice of Invader Zim)
U505 at Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It's Wikipedia page, and it's Museum page.
And only then if we get the boot... err... foot...
From looking at the press release, it doesn't look like this is a x86 compatible CPU, so I don't think that MS will port Windows 7 to it any time soon. So for the moment it's Linux/Unix only.
And on the plus side the use of Pigeon.net can assist with starvation issues as well!
It makes sense for Google to have a content store for their Android phones, and it's clear Apple doesn't want to play nice with competitors (Palm Pre, anyone?). I just hope Google do it so well that they frighten Apple into dropping prices and restrictions.
Apple doesn't play nice with people who try to hack the iTunes sync, however, if Palm had an ounce of intelligence they would have used the Public API's for accessing iTunes content like everyone else does.
Also, the Music cartels are the ones fighting for the price points on the music in iTunes, Jobs wanted it all at $.99 but agreed to go variable pricing in order to get concessions on removing DRM.
Isac Asimov: The Complete Stories is a great volume of short stories that cover many 'what-if' situations and would be a great way to get the kids going on 'hard' sf (ie. not simple 'action in space' but questions and where they lead).
For how to actually structure the teaching, personally I would have one of the short stories as an 'assigned reading' for the next class (most are only a few dozen pages, easy reading). At the next class I would have open discussion with the class discussing the story:
Probably for major tests, I would go away from 'write essay about story' and instead go with something like 'of the stories in this book, find a question that the story is pursuing, and write a different answer to that question', basically look at the path that the author took and see what other paths they could take with the question.
Other collections of short stories could be used for this purpose, but you should know the stories fairly well beforehand to make sure there aren't any that would really be wrong for kids. I've been through Azimov's collection and all of them are more-or-less 'teenager friendly'.
In fact, I think this subject would be very interesting to teach... I may have to look into it... :)
My favs:
Right, so we've gone from a nation that puts the ten commandments in four different places in the supreme court building, and other references to God in the architecture of the Library of Congress, the White House,and the Jefferson Memorial, to a country that bans prayer in school. From a country founded by the Puritans (even I would consider extreme conservatives) to a country slowly state-by-state legalizing gay marriage and has a thriving and pervasive porn industry. I'd say the Morals of America have greatly changed since it's founding.
wtf are you on?
Two Billion is an impressive number no matter how you slice it, total number of App downloads, slicing it into the total number of iPhone users to find the average number downloaded, ratio of free vs paid apps, etc. It tells a lot of the strength of the App Store market and the iPhone / iPod Touch market that so many are being downloaded. It encourages developers, not only to create new software but to update and improve existing software released for the iPhone.
Yay! at any of a handful of US locations! Great!
Unfortunately the machine to print these books starts around $80k (slow black and white printer) goes to $100k (fast color printer) (does not include instillation, training, or a 10mbit internet connection with a static IP)... I'm guessing that the rate of new instillation won't be all that great for quite some time... I'll be waiting a long while (or driving more than 6 hours) to get my printed, out-of-print books...
The employment agency in Wisconsin did a study, and for non-skilled professions it costs on average $3k to train a new employee to the point he is fully productive. You start considering the cost of bringing a new programmer or other skilled employee up to speed and it's very cost prohibitive for employers to consider employees 'expendable'. Of course that's not going into such considerations as your company getting a reputation and all the good programmers in the area not even considering a job application at your place of business, meaning you are paying more and more for less skilled employees.
Eventually you will reach a point where your productivity is worthless and the boss gets canned/company goes under. Most companies/bosses don't want that, so as much as it pains them, they can't act like employees are expendable.
It very well could be that the IT department is MS only and would mess up any Mac they work on simply because they are clueless, that'd be a reason for not letting them near it.
It may make sense in his situation... he may have an IT department that is MS only, being an executive he has the privilege of using what he wants, but he knows that the IT department is clueless with Macs so he does his own work.
A finished system's structure tends to mimic the structure of the group that produced it. Read about the Windows Shutdown Crapfest and think about the implications for their website.
Actually I am thinking about the implications about the product... if you check out this comment on that article which explains the reason behind the source control structure, they are controlling a symptom of the problem not the problem. No wonder MS products are so unstable and vulnerable, with wild dependencies going all over the place, only found out months after things are broken, I'm with other commenters and I wonder how they ever released a product at all!
I don't understand how a nano can pick up FM radio. According to my research, FM band radio in the US can have a wavelength of 3.4 meters. How do you pick that up on a device that's less than 10 centimeters long?
Between Fractal Antennas and using the headphone cable as the antenna there are several possibilities for how they get FM into that small package.
Don't look at Apple for this, that's all the music industry for that one. And you can purchase a song and make your own ringtone out of it using iTunes, it just cost and extra $.99 for the ringtone (so $.79 to $1.29 for the song itself, + $.99 for the ringtone, end price from $1.78 to $2.28 for a ringtone, now down to $1.29). This option has been available for a while.
While this is still an inflated price considering what you are actually getting, in comparison to the rest of the industry it's a steal. While the pricing isn't great it's leading the market to lower prices for ringtones. Yay! More useless stuff for people to purchase!
I understand why it is a big deal to share videos across the local network, but songs? Songs are already DRM free, what prevents people from simply copying the song and adding it to their nth machine when they hit the 5 computer limit?
You always could do this, manually copy from one library to another on authorized machines, now you can do it within iTunes (before you could only do it via other means, sneakernet/hd sharing/etc) this will help keep libraries synced up between multiple computers.
Also, a separate store for ringtones that cost as much as the songs themselves, lame, should be bundled in with the song for like .01 cent.
And what's the price for your ringtones now? (other than ones you copy from another phone or load yourself.) Before it was a $1.98 per ringtone ($0.99 for the song, $0.99 to make a ringtone out of it) now they are removing that intermediate step and just selling pre-made ringtones for $1.29... not a bad deal... and far cheaper than purchasing them off Verizon!
They are already doing experiments on Time Travel, so why not?
Spilling Mercury on an Aircraft is almost as bad as a bomb (except slower) Mercury speeds up the oxidization of Aluminum to the point where you can just about watch it fall apart, spill that on an aircraft and they'll likely ground it for a good long time while they strip to the base structure and make sure every bit of aluminum isn't damaged. Good 'before and after' pics in this article.
I consider this one of the best methods, you get three great things out of this: non-recoverable drives, frustrations worked out, and some really interesting conversation starters if you take it apart (the disk platter deforms in very interesting ways when hit!) For example: This Drive is no longer readable, and if you look at any of the photos that show the top of the drive, you can see how the disk platter deformed.
I've had discussions about this and mainly it's a matter of philosophy and its foundation.
The reason Evolution is linked with abortion, eugenics, euthanasia, and infanticide is because the foundation of Evolution is Survival of the Fittest, the creed that only the strong survive and if you are too weak to survive we shouldn't help you do so. That philosophical foundation easily supports such actions as supporting the evolution of the human species. The distinction is that while those actions are supported by evolution many people who believe in evolution don't support those actions.
The reason Creationism is pitted against those movements is because the philosophical foundation is God made you, therefore you are special and your right to live should not be challenged in any way. The only times it is allowed to be challenged is as punishment for murder and other major crimes, though even that is hotly debated among Christians even more so than non-Christians. The Creationism philosophy defends the right for the elderly and those with 'genetic defects' to live because they are valuable people and can contribute to society, and it also defends the unborn as well (mainly because the Bible has passages with God saying "before you were conceived, I knew you", basically saying that even though they aren't born yet, they are a person).
Now, the truly messed up folk are the ones who believe in ID, it's the bastard child of Creationism and Evolution and makes no sense in either case. It's the mix of two apposing philosophies and is the weaker because of it. There is no support for it in Evolutionary principals and nothing in the Bible or other religious texts that can be twisted far enough to support it without breaking. And actually, the definition of a 'hostile' forum would also include those forums catering to Creationists. They just aren't liked anywhere.
By the way, just how does it work out when someone supports Euthanasia and Abortion but is against the death penalty? "The unborn and the old are ok to kill but the killers and the rapists aren't."???
From the original article (second link) it says this only works in a vacuum, with air present unrolling tape does not produce any X-Rays. I would suspect that this is because Air is less of an insulator than tape, and can reduce the energy involved to levels below the threshold for creating X-Rays...
However, that's only a guess...