I find that at school, even while getting yelled at, and knowing the repercusions of my actions, I still didn't do work. Until they blocked the ports for Steam, and other games, I played them during classes. So, I guess the best way to make sure geeks/nerds are on task is to take away there distractions. Also, make sure that they don't spend all their time trying to get through said distractions. Though, this would get challenging the higher the position is. Either that, or give them some time periodically through the day to do what they want...
FTFA: Other librarians are more strongly opposed to the Google project. "I feel that this is a potential disaster on several levels," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and university librarian at California State University, Fresno. "They are reducing scholarly texts to paragraphs. The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue."
Opposed to people never being able to read the scholarly texts? Surely a librarian , a proponent of reading, wouldn't mind the ability for anyone to have access to any book [scanned]. And hey, it'll save the enviroment, too.
A week ago I installed Mandrake 10.1 on my box. It went all right, for the first twenty minutes of so, except the install froze on me. After I re-attempted the install, everything went all right. Booted in, accessed/dev/ thinking I could get to my FAT32 partition that I store all my data on, except it wasn't there. I could see it in console, just couldn't access it. Now, I'm a complete Linux noob, but I had "ideas", or so I thought. After I sat there just staring at the screen, I decided to get the drivers for my Video/Sound/Et cetera, and modem (56k, behind the times). Downloaded the.tar for the Lucent WinModem, put on flash drive, walked over to my computer, and put it in the USB port. Now, on Windows, normally it works when you stick a USB drive in a port, Linux... apparently not./dev/sda was recognized, but not accessible.
I installed Windows the next day.
In conclusion, Linux may be better, and it may work better, more secure and everything, once installed, but I can't really find any purposes that I can do better on Linux than on Windows, and it's sad to say, I prefer that I don't have to configure everything in Windows. Maybe if I grew up on Linux instead of being used to the way Windows operates, I'd be more open.
Second time in 60,000 years that we know of? If the last time it happened was in 2003, and this is only 2 years later, and the next time is "scheduled to be in 2018 (FTFA)", is it possible we just didn't have the technology to detect it back then?
"In comparison, the on-demand program charges about $10,000 per week to use one-eighth of a Blue Gene/L rack" found here
With 1024 processors per rack, and does that mean you only have access to 128 processors? Or only 1/8 of all of the Blue Gene racks? Not very much of a savings, considering 128mil for all the racks, excluding costs for other equipment and not to mention tax.
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I find that at school, even while getting yelled at, and knowing the repercusions of my actions, I still didn't do work. Until they blocked the ports for Steam, and other games, I played them during classes. So, I guess the best way to make sure geeks/nerds are on task is to take away there distractions. Also, make sure that they don't spend all their time trying to get through said distractions. Though, this would get challenging the higher the position is. Either that, or give them some time periodically through the day to do what they want...
FTFA: Other librarians are more strongly opposed to the Google project. "I feel that this is a potential disaster on several levels," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and university librarian at California State University, Fresno. "They are reducing scholarly texts to paragraphs. The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue."
Opposed to people never being able to read the scholarly texts? Surely a librarian , a proponent of reading, wouldn't mind the ability for anyone to have access to any book [scanned]. And hey, it'll save the enviroment, too.
A week ago I installed Mandrake 10.1 on my box. It went all right, for the first twenty minutes of so, except the install froze on me. After I re-attempted the install, everything went all right. Booted in, accessed /dev/ thinking I could get to my FAT32 partition that I store all my data on, except it wasn't there. I could see it in console, just couldn't access it. Now, I'm a complete Linux noob, but I had "ideas", or so I thought. After I sat there just staring at the screen, I decided to get the drivers for my Video/Sound/Et cetera, and modem (56k, behind the times). Downloaded the .tar for the Lucent WinModem, put on flash drive, walked over to my computer, and put it in the USB port. Now, on Windows, normally it works when you stick a USB drive in a port, Linux... apparently not. /dev/sda was recognized, but not accessible.
I installed Windows the next day.
In conclusion, Linux may be better, and it may work better, more secure and everything, once installed, but I can't really find any purposes that I can do better on Linux than on Windows, and it's sad to say, I prefer that I don't have to configure everything in Windows. Maybe if I grew up on Linux instead of being used to the way Windows operates, I'd be more open.
I don't know about you, but how good can you see a penny from 620 feet?
Second time in 60,000 years that we know of? If the last time it happened was in 2003, and this is only 2 years later, and the next time is "scheduled to be in 2018 (FTFA)", is it possible we just didn't have the technology to detect it back then?
With 1024 processors per rack, and does that mean you only have access to 128 processors? Or only 1/8 of all of the Blue Gene racks? Not very much of a savings, considering 128mil for all the racks, excluding costs for other equipment and not to mention tax.
Who says I can't talk to my computer?
Dude, you just told us you come in three minutes.
Terry Pratchett, I believe. I forget which book, though.
Who needs that when you have a quantum computer? /loser