I had a similar argument with a teach in middle school when computers had both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives. I was arguing that if the smaller disks held more data, then why not make 5.25" disks with the same technology to get even more storage space. His argument was simply that 3.5" was smaller than 5.25" and the point of the 3.5" disks was physical size as opposed to memory size.
Actually it was '97.
I was a freshman at the time and boy did it screw up my freshmen year. It was a sad event but IMO the culture at MIT changed so drastically it was ridiculous.
Another problem, IMHO, is that the light coming from a flourescent bulb makes everything seem sterile (for lack of a better term). It's just not a very comforting sort of light like you can with a incandescent.
Some people in my office even bring in their own lamps because they can't stand the flourescent light all day long.
I'm baffled that people even bother playing poker on the internet.
On the contrary, I have a friend who is a pretty good poker player and who recently got fired from his 9-5 job. Since then he's been playing online 4-8 hrs. a day and heading to Casinos every couple weekends or so.
He's been making approximately $500 a day from online poker, simply because there are so many people online who don't know what they're doing. Once I heard the numbers he was pulling in I couldn't believe he was working a 9-5 job in the first place!
A Kids In The Hall flick. Hilarious (if you dig the KITH humor and men dressing up like women). It's about a drug company designing a drug that grabs your happiest memory (chemically) to keep you in a happy "high".
A must see...
It's like it's 70 degrees in your head, all the time.
Meaning you are content with what's been said or done and ready to move on to the next step. I think it's a very "New England"-esque term. I've usually heard it used when at a restaurant and you are done with your meal and ready for the check:
Waiter/Waitress: Would you like anything else? Dessert perhaps?
Actually they were traveling too fast to "eject". There is also no ejection procedures available to the crew of the shuttle as something like that would be too heavy and ineffective to implement.
So what if your entire drive is backed up across a huge distributed network. And let's say Joe User had backed up cache files, etc that contained personal info (credit numbers, child pr0n, etc). Joe User is could become one screwed individual. It's a huge risk that the average user might be making unknowingly...
Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide
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It doesn't seem like this person wants his kids to learn about an OS (or deal with it). It sounds like he simply wants to move to linux and hope that the switch doesn't affect what his kids already do on the computer.
I agree with the fact that they should be participating in other activities than just computing, but the more they know now the more prepared they'll be in the future. Because it sounds like they're pretty saavy already (a 3 yr. old chatting? wow.).
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss (Intro by Stephen Hawking) is a fun/interesting read. It talks about the technologies used in the sci-fi series and movies and how they may or may not actually work (warp drive, "beaming", photon torpedos, impulse engines,...). The pre-req knowledge isn't that great either and the author fills in the gaps that a newbie to physics might not understand.
PS: i'm not a trekkie/er, but it's still a good book.
The new VW beetle is NOT air cooled. Only the older model is. (the article claims the beetle is air cooled when the case is actually of a new beetle.)
Just thought I'd let you know.
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Titanium is in fact NOT as strong as steel. Looking at the characteristics of both materials you can see that Ti has an Ultimate Tensile Strength on the order of 220 MPa (for non-alloys) while steels are on the order of 330 MPa (often higher in better grade steels). The "sexiness" of Ti comes into play with it's low density of about 4.5 g/cc (0.163 lb/in^3). This is why it is so valuable to the airline industry where weight is everything.
Ti is also a pain in the ass to work with because it does not dissipate heat really well so your cutting surface gets work hardened really quickly. This is why steel is also so popular; cause of its ease of machining.
That is NOT true. You can certainly have a robot that is not totally autonomous. I say totally because the FIRST control system is actually very powerful and can be programmed (via an onboard BASIC Stamp from Parallax Inc.) to do some very complex controls. And if you throw in the many sensors that come in the kit (gyros, limit switches, pots, etc.) you can add many non-human controlled elements to your machine. These things are definitely robots (if you've never seen them live, you should).
The problem with FIRST is that people like D. Kamen are really closed minded when it comes to anything that is NOT FIRST. And if you've looked at the competition last year and now this year it is becoming much less of a competition with all these aliances and crap. There's less and less competitiveness and people are losing interest [to Battlebots].
Robot wars, Schmobot wars.
Battlebots is where it's at. Robot wars is staged , and the competition is mainly between your robot and the house bots. Battlebots is much better because there's more one on one battles and the arena hazards are just there to add some thrill to it.
But it is not like you have to upgrade what she has in the first place. If she's fine with what she has (it sounds like it's a little behind the times as it is) then why upgrade? Or why feel the need to upgrade?
I totally agree with you.
As I mentioned in my post above, the last time I participated my team consisted of 7 high school students. Absolutely NO help from experienced engineers. We made a really decent robot, but it was a huge reality check when we got to the competition and saw so many expertly designed robots built by professional engineers. The idea behing FIRST is definitely getting lost in many of the teams competing lately, although I'm not sure how something like this can be easily regulated.
That's only as true as you want to believe it to be. Yes, the kit itself costs $5,000+ but you can get your unlimited parts (sheet metal, fasteners, etc.) from just about anywhere. Small Parts Inc. is it's own company, not a FIRST company, so they are not your only option when it comes to purchases.
But aside from the basic kit you can build a reasonable machine for way less than $30,000. The last time I participated (3yrs. ago) me and 6 other high school students built our machine in a room the size of a small office with little to no access to a machine shop. We also didn't have money coming in from a huge corporation and still we had a working robot for the nationals.
It's like anything else in the real world: there's always going to be people out there with more resources and you just have to deal with what you have. And even if you have next to nothing you can still have a good time and compete.
American Pie was not the best movie this summer. Sure, it was funny, but it was like Can't Hardly Wait but over a longer period of time. And definitely more wittier/funnier. But nothing i would spend my time (and $$$) seeing more than once. This was a movie that is way too predictable.
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Mitch Hedberg (r.i.p.):
"I can type 100 words per minute, but it's in my own language."
I had a similar argument with a teach in middle school when computers had both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives. I was arguing that if the smaller disks held more data, then why not make 5.25" disks with the same technology to get even more storage space. His argument was simply that 3.5" was smaller than 5.25" and the point of the 3.5" disks was physical size as opposed to memory size.
lame.
...Krueger kid drank himself to death in '98.
Actually it was '97. I was a freshman at the time and boy did it screw up my freshmen year. It was a sad event but IMO the culture at MIT changed so drastically it was ridiculous.
Another problem, IMHO, is that the light coming from a flourescent bulb makes everything seem sterile (for lack of a better term). It's just not a very comforting sort of light like you can with a incandescent.
Some people in my office even bring in their own lamps because they can't stand the flourescent light all day long.
I'm baffled that people even bother playing poker on the internet.
On the contrary, I have a friend who is a pretty good poker player and who recently got fired from his 9-5 job. Since then he's been playing online 4-8 hrs. a day and heading to Casinos every couple weekends or so.
He's been making approximately $500 a day from online poker, simply because there are so many people online who don't know what they're doing. Once I heard the numbers he was pulling in I couldn't believe he was working a 9-5 job in the first place!
You are suppose to be the last defense against typos and stuff!
...incompatible blue laser formats of Blue-Laser DVDs which can store 36GB of date
36 GB of data? 36 GB to date? tsk tsk tsk...
A Kids In The Hall flick. Hilarious (if you dig the KITH humor and men dressing up like women). It's about a drug company designing a drug that grabs your happiest memory (chemically) to keep you in a happy "high".
A must see...
It's like it's 70 degrees in your head, all the time.
What he means to say is you're (you are) all set.
Meaning you are content with what's been said or done and ready to move on to the next step. I think it's a very "New England"-esque term. I've usually heard it used when at a restaurant and you are done with your meal and ready for the check:
Waiter/Waitress: Would you like anything else? Dessert perhaps?
Patron: No thanks, we're all set.
The Chicago Sun Times has also got some info
Slashdot posters has also got a need for some grammar checking.
Actually they were traveling too fast to "eject". There is also no ejection procedures available to the crew of the shuttle as something like that would be too heavy and ineffective to implement.
So what if your entire drive is backed up across a huge distributed network. And let's say Joe User had backed up cache files, etc that contained personal info (credit numbers, child pr0n, etc). Joe User is could become one screwed individual. It's a huge risk that the average user might be making unknowingly...
Spam actually isn't a Pork product.
It doesn't seem like this person wants his kids to learn about an OS (or deal with it). It sounds like he simply wants to move to linux and hope that the switch doesn't affect what his kids already do on the computer.
I agree with the fact that they should be participating in other activities than just computing, but the more they know now the more prepared they'll be in the future. Because it sounds like they're pretty saavy already (a 3 yr. old chatting? wow.).
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss (Intro by Stephen Hawking) is a fun/interesting read. It talks about the technologies used in the sci-fi series and movies and how they may or may not actually work (warp drive, "beaming", photon torpedos, impulse engines, ...). The pre-req knowledge isn't that great either and the author fills in the gaps that a newbie to physics might not understand.
PS: i'm not a trekkie/er, but it's still a good book.
The new VW beetle is NOT air cooled. Only the older model is. (the article claims the beetle is air cooled when the case is actually of a new beetle.)
Just thought I'd let you know.
Titanium is in fact NOT as strong as steel. Looking at the characteristics of both materials you can see that Ti has an Ultimate Tensile Strength on the order of 220 MPa (for non-alloys) while steels are on the order of 330 MPa (often higher in better grade steels). The "sexiness" of Ti comes into play with it's low density of about 4.5 g/cc (0.163 lb/in^3). This is why it is so valuable to the airline industry where weight is everything.
Ti is also a pain in the ass to work with because it does not dissipate heat really well so your cutting surface gets work hardened really quickly. This is why steel is also so popular; cause of its ease of machining.
That is NOT true. You can certainly have a robot that is not totally autonomous. I say totally because the FIRST control system is actually very powerful and can be programmed (via an onboard BASIC Stamp from Parallax Inc.) to do some very complex controls. And if you throw in the many sensors that come in the kit (gyros, limit switches, pots, etc.) you can add many non-human controlled elements to your machine. These things are definitely robots (if you've never seen them live, you should).
The problem with FIRST is that people like D. Kamen are really closed minded when it comes to anything that is NOT FIRST. And if you've looked at the competition last year and now this year it is becoming much less of a competition with all these aliances and crap. There's less and less competitiveness and people are losing interest [to Battlebots].
Robot wars, Schmobot wars.
Battlebots is where it's at. Robot wars is staged , and the competition is mainly between your robot and the house bots. Battlebots is much better because there's more one on one battles and the arena hazards are just there to add some thrill to it.
But it is not like you have to upgrade what she has in the first place. If she's fine with what she has (it sounds like it's a little behind the times as it is) then why upgrade? Or why feel the need to upgrade?
definitely going to coincide with roman history:
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I totally agree with you. As I mentioned in my post above, the last time I participated my team consisted of 7 high school students. Absolutely NO help from experienced engineers. We made a really decent robot, but it was a huge reality check when we got to the competition and saw so many expertly designed robots built by professional engineers. The idea behing FIRST is definitely getting lost in many of the teams competing lately, although I'm not sure how something like this can be easily regulated.
That's only as true as you want to believe it to be. Yes, the kit itself costs $5,000+ but you can get your unlimited parts (sheet metal, fasteners, etc.) from just about anywhere. Small Parts Inc. is it's own company, not a FIRST company, so they are not your only option when it comes to purchases. But aside from the basic kit you can build a reasonable machine for way less than $30,000. The last time I participated (3yrs. ago) me and 6 other high school students built our machine in a room the size of a small office with little to no access to a machine shop. We also didn't have money coming in from a huge corporation and still we had a working robot for the nationals. It's like anything else in the real world: there's always going to be people out there with more resources and you just have to deal with what you have. And even if you have next to nothing you can still have a good time and compete.
do you work for Cisco?
I disagree.
American Pie was not the best movie this summer. Sure, it was funny, but it was like Can't Hardly Wait but over a longer period of time. And definitely more wittier/funnier. But nothing i would spend my time (and $$$) seeing more than once. This was a movie that is way too predictable.