I worked on this with Seth through Prof. Rudich's Andrew's leap program last summer. Interesting stuff. Sure, what my group and I were working on wasn't exactly nanotechnology (in fact, we were working with balloon-based models over 1m cubed, one of which I still have), but hopefully some of the data that was collected will ultimately help produce catoms on a more useful scale. Weather I'll see catoms in my life is debatable, but it's still an interesting field to explore.
Everyone needs a day off, and those who died in military service need to be honored, but if Paypal wants to posture itself as an international company, things need to keep working... even when the USA isn't.
I've never been branded as "gifted" but I've been called bright, etc.
NCLB is a damnation to the sharper crayons in the box, as a former student of Public High School, I can attest to how watered-down classes are getting to be.
If people are in a similar boat as me, check to see if your state has charter schools (especially Cyber schools!) that you can attend. In PA specifically, there's the PA Cyber Charter School, of which I'm currently a student.
If one could reasonably assert that those who would steal an iPod as opposed to buying one would be running windows, you could have an autorun file on the mass storage device that will check to see if it's your machine that it's connected to. If not, it will begin encrypting almost every important filetype that a user may have, followed by a prompt to the effect of "This is a stolen iPod. You have my iPod, I have all your files. If you ever want to see your data decrypted, I'll trade you the password for the safe return of my iPod. You may reach me at user@domain.com".
Although I don't know of the legality of such an action...
I think that's sort of the point... any geek who wants to keep his laptop (or DS or whatever) working knows that you don't let it go near the beach. So the WiFi on the beaches will only benefit those who don't know or don't care about what will happen to their hardware.
Although, I can see the benefit if services like Tmobile's Hotspot@home were more widely used.
I would like to make a bipartisan call for the universal firing of every congress critter who supports this idea in order to protect us from stupidity. Congressmen are not invited to comment on this request.
You can get a just-a-phone phone at Walmart for $20... It's the Motorola C139 (or something like that) branded as a Cingular "Go Phone". Buy the phone, then go into a Cingular store and sign up for your preferred service plan. Take the free phone that they give you, and then move the SIM into the C139. Give the C139 to whomever wants just a phone, and keep the Free phone for yourself!
Tmobile does similar things too... although it won't work with CDMA carriers like Verizon and Sprint.
Net Neutrality is a misguided step that would just be a patch on the root problem... lack of last-mile telecom competition.
Imagine if Time Warner had to compete with Verizon, Comcast, Windstream, and Cox in all of their service area... would they be putting this traffic shaping system on their network?
Imagine if Time Warner had to compete with Verizon, Comcast, Windstream, and Cox in all of their service area... would they be putting this traffic shaping system on their network?
Sarkozy is seen as a divisive figure for his demand that immigrants learn [...] the French language
As an American, I went to Paris in Spring of 2003 as a tourist. I wouldn't recommend it to most people, but someone might like it.
Anyway... I was on the subway and someone initiated an emergency stop... I fell over, landing on a woman in a brown trench coat... I didn't say sorry... I said "ah! Pardón!"
The lesson? If you want people coming to the US to learn english, then you are thereby honour-bound to attempt to learn a good bit of the local language of the country that you're visiting.
Re-rip your CDs at 192Kbps MP3 and delete the old-skool 128kbps MP3s. Then, go to Wal*Mart and search around for the 98 cent headphones... I swear that they're the best I've ever heard!!
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I worked on this with Seth through Prof. Rudich's Andrew's leap program last summer. Interesting stuff. Sure, what my group and I were working on wasn't exactly nanotechnology (in fact, we were working with balloon-based models over 1m cubed, one of which I still have), but hopefully some of the data that was collected will ultimately help produce catoms on a more useful scale. Weather I'll see catoms in my life is debatable, but it's still an interesting field to explore.
Everyone here needs to relax... I'm sure that no matter what those pesky customers say, this will be a great success!
I wonder If I'll get one.
I'd like the iPlayer on Linux. You can do that? Great! It'll play swimmingly on my SPARC box then, right?
Everyone needs a day off, and those who died in military service need to be honored, but if Paypal wants to posture itself as an international company, things need to keep working... even when the USA isn't.
(Posted by an American)
Can one of the cryptographers on slashdot comment on weather this is useful to them or not?
(yes, I am paranoid... why do you ask? are you with the CIA?)
I've never been branded as "gifted" but I've been called bright, etc.
NCLB is a damnation to the sharper crayons in the box, as a former student of Public High School, I can attest to how watered-down classes are getting to be.
If people are in a similar boat as me, check to see if your state has charter schools (especially Cyber schools!) that you can attend. In PA specifically, there's the PA Cyber Charter School, of which I'm currently a student.
If one could reasonably assert that those who would steal an iPod as opposed to buying one would be running windows, you could have an autorun file on the mass storage device that will check to see if it's your machine that it's connected to. If not, it will begin encrypting almost every important filetype that a user may have, followed by a prompt to the effect of "This is a stolen iPod. You have my iPod, I have all your files. If you ever want to see your data decrypted, I'll trade you the password for the safe return of my iPod. You may reach me at user@domain.com".
Although I don't know of the legality of such an action...
I think that's sort of the point... any geek who wants to keep his laptop (or DS or whatever) working knows that you don't let it go near the beach. So the WiFi on the beaches will only benefit those who don't know or don't care about what will happen to their hardware.
Although, I can see the benefit if services like Tmobile's Hotspot@home were more widely used.
I would like to make a bipartisan call for the universal firing of every congress critter who supports this idea in order to protect us from stupidity. Congressmen are not invited to comment on this request.
You can get a just-a-phone phone at Walmart for $20... It's the Motorola C139 (or something like that) branded as a Cingular "Go Phone". Buy the phone, then go into a Cingular store and sign up for your preferred service plan. Take the free phone that they give you, and then move the SIM into the C139. Give the C139 to whomever wants just a phone, and keep the Free phone for yourself!
Tmobile does similar things too... although it won't work with CDMA carriers like Verizon and Sprint.
wait... there's a difference?
Damn. Accidentally hit the submit button.
Net Neutrality is a misguided step that would just be a patch on the root problem... lack of last-mile telecom competition.
Imagine if Time Warner had to compete with Verizon, Comcast, Windstream, and Cox in all of their service area... would they be putting this traffic shaping system on their network?
Net Neutrality is a misguided step to
Imagine if Time Warner had to compete with Verizon, Comcast, Windstream, and Cox in all of their service area... would they be putting this traffic shaping system on their network?
Why don't they just ask us to clog their Phone Lines, Internet Tubes, and Fax Machines? It's a whole lot more polite...
let them shoot down the cell phone signals whenever they see one.
*shrug*
Yay! More Government! Woo-hoo!
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As an American, I went to Paris in Spring of 2003 as a tourist. I wouldn't recommend it to most people, but someone might like it.
Anyway... I was on the subway and someone initiated an emergency stop... I fell over, landing on a woman in a brown trench coat... I didn't say sorry... I said "ah! Pardón!"
The lesson?
If you want people coming to the US to learn english, then you are thereby honour-bound to attempt to learn a good bit of the local language of the country that you're visiting.
We have no chance to survive make our time ha ha ha?
If an asset is important enough to be taxed, than it must be of enough value to be considered an item of value in the civil and criminal courts.
But seriously... Hands off my gold!
What about the French Keyboards where the top row is AZERTYUIOP?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
A LiteBrite!
802.11b Mesh Network covering the entire country.
Re-rip your CDs at 192Kbps MP3 and delete the old-skool 128kbps MP3s. Then, go to Wal*Mart and search around for the 98 cent headphones... I swear that they're the best I've ever heard!!
Screw the iPhone... I'd rather have updated Macs and a shiny new OS.
Less pieces of shit, more big cats!