I think the poster is saying that even if he does his milling in a garage or shed (He didn't state where he has his equipment set up), you tend to walk the filings inside the house. (Think sand at a beach-house.)
Even if you contain the milling machine, there's a pretty strong chance that the bits will still be transported inside the habitat areas. And if the milling machine is placed in hard vacuum, then you end up contributing to space-junk.
On the other hand, if they used a thermoplastic, experiments could be designed, conducted and then melt-recycled without shipping anything from the ground.
Somebody suggested "space lego" - not a bad idea. I'm thinking of a plastic 3d extruder, combined with metallic rods and fittings. Kinda like space lego meets space mechano. Again, they would have to ensure screws and fasteners could be kept contained. Maybe use plastic screws or clips instead?
As the child of a dairy farmer, I just had to mod this post up.:D Just goes to show you how bored cattle can get, where putting a remote control near their herd can leave them fascinated for ages.
No, no it really isn't. I notice that if I spend more than one week with a particular group of people on and off, I start using their speech patterns, including pronunciation, tonality, etc. Every now and again, I cringe over something that I've unconsciously mimicked. Getting rid of a stupid accent is the conscious decision, and not an easy one. There's a reason people suggest full immersion language learning.
Yes, but why should taxpayers pay for somebody to pursue a non-employable certification? As you have pointed out, it's quite possible, and much more enjoyable to study this stuff without pursuing a qualification. While education isn't about job training, certification is!
Besides, history is important. The people studying it don't expect to make money with it anyway. They study out of genuine interest, and they serve to keep history alive. Without the historians, the politicos will have complete control to rewrite it to say whatever it is they want.
But do you actually need to do a university degree in order to do this? How about we set up a basic 'study-stipend' that you pay annually to have access to the still-physical source materials (which we use to pay for the libraries to store them in), you organise your life to live in a city with close access to such a library (because, hey, you'd have to move to attend most universities that offer history anyway), organise groups to discuss and research historical ideas, and you set up some "amateur historian" journals? Study doesn't necessarily have to mean accreditation, unless you want qualifications to get job from it.
I'd have to agree with that, as over the last few years, I've found myself using ppa's more and more. Maybe sourceforge needs to consider ppa support if they want the Linux crowd back?
Or you can just make sure that you always squeeze from the base of the tube. When someone comes up with a $5 packaging design to something that costs $2, there's a problem.
As a teacher I don't know if it's about students who are too smart, but that the material is too simple and the school environment is unrealistic. Look on Google for high school tests on mathematics from 50 years ago - that stuff is much more challenging than what we teach now.
The biggest problem (in my opinion) is that it's simply impossible to fail in a realistic manner in junior school nowdays. In Australia, you fail all your subjects in year 3, you still get passed onto year 4, etc. This results in some kids never learn to take education seriously, and others never have a realistic opportunity to try again. Instead each year this second group are dumped into deeper and deeper water. The teachers, parents and principles fight like crazy to keep these kids heads above water, whether they realise that they are drowning or not. To keep both groups of students going, teachers have to let some of the higher end stuff slip, and cover more of the basics. (I had a year 8 class a few years ago where not ONE student knew that multiplying a number by one gave the same number back.) Those students who can handle the basic stuff are never truly challenged, so they either misbehave out of boredom, or coast.
I'd like the Australian school system to say: "If you fail more than one subject out of Mathematics, Science or English in a year, you must repeat those years in those subjects. (If you fail one, that's a signal that you need assistance - extra in-school tutoring, streamed classes, etc.) If you fail twice in a row, you go into the year above, but you also go into a support class. (An extra lesson of Science, for example, rather than an elective. Leave sport alone however, as that's sometimes all the exercise a kid gets.)
Give a kid the option of taking a higher year entrance exam at the start (or end) of each year so that they can jump if they pick stuff up (or are gifted). Combine this with more options at an earlier age (Apprenticeships, traineeships, etc.) Give them the option to drop Science at the end of Year 8 or 9, rather than Year 10. (They still have to do English and Mathematics though.)
If they haven't reached year 10 level by the time compulsory education finishes, (age 15 mostly), they then have the option of taking the missing junior subjects/year levels, some senior subjects (those with lower requirements) or in-school or out-of-school apprenticeships.
As someone who went to public school and then completed two university degrees successfully, your complaints about "teaching yourself *entirely*" in the intro classes kinda rubs me raw. Independent learning is an important (The most important?) part of university education. *sheesh* I'd love to find an article I read a few years ago, where it stated that while private schools had a higher university enrolment rate amongst their students, they also had a higher university drop-out rate. Maybe your private high school didn't prepare you as well as you thought it did?
For a while. Until other economies re-gear, then the US becomes the next once-powerful British Empire. Yes, the British economy still has a lot of influence, but hardly the level of global power it used to have. It's going to take a lot of effort for the US to dig itself out of the hole it's dug for itself, if it ever does.
Nothing as "safe" as securities backed by the U.S. government. There may come a day when the U.S. government cannot pay its debts, but likely long before that day comes, the dollars they would be paid off in would be worthless too...
Personally, I have more faith in the U.S. government than, say, Apple, or WalMart.
Really? I'm not sure the rest of the world agrees with you lately.:P
I don't believe that the historic debt was necessarily a bad decision.
The bad decision was to borrow a shitload of money and have a huge party of wasteful spending.
Except that nearly every person I know (and apparently a lot of Americans/Greeks/nations.) have a very hard time distinguishing "money that can be spent" from "money that should be spent". The instant it was possible (economically and politically) for economies to borrow heavily, wasteful spending was probably inevitable. Personally, I can only save money if I lock nearly all my income away in a secondary account that I can't access from a keycard.:(
You don't think that the Anonymous members aren't going to get a bit nervous when the ones that can't hide, get whacked? As other people have commented, Anon has only gone up against soft targets. I get the distinct feeling that they've gotten too cocky for them to make a serious assessment of the danger this time.
I always thought I didn't dream/couldn't remember them, because I had such strong control over them that it was just "imagining in bed". Until as a teen, some strong symbolism showed up and I thought - "Hey, I'M DREAMING HERE!"
At that point it was a matter of trying stuff out. Transformation and dream flying are so cool.:D
Sun wanted to kill OpenOffice, the very project they started? I am afraid I don't follow...
Sun-the-original supported OpenOffice, and even listened to the community regarding our license concerns when they first bought StarOffice out.
Sun-the-new-Oracle-facemask didn't give a damn about this program (from a commercial standpoint) OR the community, started cutting costs (firing developers, etc.) forced the community to create an updated fork (Before OpenOffice vanished off the web completely.) and was left with an almost-useless software trademark that they had no interest in developing. "What are we going to do with this heap of outdated crap now? Let's give it to Apache. At least with that license, if they turn it into something worthwhile, we can grab it back."
I find it amazing that Oracle bought out Sun because it had all these amazing software projects, and then went about mishandling nearly all of them. I'd say it was a conspiracy to shut down a competitor, but:
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Except that StarGate is fiction. It'd be a pretty shitty story that went "Thousands of years ago, a civilisation created a self-replicating machine. It escaped into the environment. And was promptly turned back into raw silicon dioxide by the first bacteria that found it tasty."
Name badges with a bar code and bar code scanners or many other systems cheaper than fingerprints would work far better than silicon snake oil sold to people that are getting their ideas from the movies.
While I think the idea of fingerprint scanners is pretty scary, if the idea is to increase attendance (rather than keeping people out), name badges wouldn't work without a physical person present either. One student shows up with five other students' name badges and scans them in.
If the default option for a security system is to not enable it (accounts are created with broad, rather than limited permissions) - guess what 90% of users will do. (And yes, I'm aware this has changed in later versions of Microsoft, but that's like a child-care worker expecting praise for saying "Oh, we don't let the kids play out on the highway... now.)
Much like the security questions horror in Vista, Microsoft mixes middling to brilliant software engineering, with bloody awful social engineering. And keep in mind this comes from a Linux user.:D
couldn't get past the second sentence... ALL linux distros?
The #1 Linux distro, Ubuntu, does not have a root password set at all. Just use sudo
Do you even use Linux?
sudo requires you to enter a password from an account that has been given admin priviliges. So instead of giving every admin access to the same root password, each admin gets their own password.
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And if he/she does that too much, people fork the project.
I think the poster is saying that even if he does his milling in a garage or shed (He didn't state where he has his equipment set up), you tend to walk the filings inside the house. (Think sand at a beach-house.) Even if you contain the milling machine, there's a pretty strong chance that the bits will still be transported inside the habitat areas. And if the milling machine is placed in hard vacuum, then you end up contributing to space-junk. On the other hand, if they used a thermoplastic, experiments could be designed, conducted and then melt-recycled without shipping anything from the ground. Somebody suggested "space lego" - not a bad idea. I'm thinking of a plastic 3d extruder, combined with metallic rods and fittings. Kinda like space lego meets space mechano. Again, they would have to ensure screws and fasteners could be kept contained. Maybe use plastic screws or clips instead?
http://xkcd.com/927/
As the child of a dairy farmer, I just had to mod this post up. :D
Just goes to show you how bored cattle can get, where putting a remote control near their herd can leave them fascinated for ages.
Having a stupid accent is a conscious decision.
No, no it really isn't. I notice that if I spend more than one week with a particular group of people on and off, I start using their speech patterns, including pronunciation, tonality, etc. Every now and again, I cringe over something that I've unconsciously mimicked. Getting rid of a stupid accent is the conscious decision, and not an easy one.
There's a reason people suggest full immersion language learning.
Yes, but why should taxpayers pay for somebody to pursue a non-employable certification? As you have pointed out, it's quite possible, and much more enjoyable to study this stuff without pursuing a qualification.
While education isn't about job training, certification is!
Besides, history is important. The people studying it don't expect to make money with it anyway. They study out of genuine interest, and they serve to keep history alive. Without the historians, the politicos will have complete control to rewrite it to say whatever it is they want.
But do you actually need to do a university degree in order to do this? How about we set up a basic 'study-stipend' that you pay annually to have access to the still-physical source materials (which we use to pay for the libraries to store them in), you organise your life to live in a city with close access to such a library (because, hey, you'd have to move to attend most universities that offer history anyway), organise groups to discuss and research historical ideas, and you set up some "amateur historian" journals?
Study doesn't necessarily have to mean accreditation, unless you want qualifications to get job from it.
I'd have to agree with that, as over the last few years, I've found myself using ppa's more and more.
Maybe sourceforge needs to consider ppa support if they want the Linux crowd back?
Or you can just make sure that you always squeeze from the base of the tube. When someone comes up with a $5 packaging design to something that costs $2, there's a problem.
As a teacher I don't know if it's about students who are too smart, but that the material is too simple and the school environment is unrealistic.
Look on Google for high school tests on mathematics from 50 years ago - that stuff is much more challenging than what we teach now.
The biggest problem (in my opinion) is that it's simply impossible to fail in a realistic manner in junior school nowdays. In Australia, you fail all your subjects in year 3, you still get passed onto year 4, etc.
This results in some kids never learn to take education seriously, and others never have a realistic opportunity to try again. Instead each year this second group are dumped into deeper and deeper water. The teachers, parents and principles fight like crazy to keep these kids heads above water, whether they realise that they are drowning or not.
To keep both groups of students going, teachers have to let some of the higher end stuff slip, and cover more of the basics. (I had a year 8 class a few years ago where not ONE student knew that multiplying a number by one gave the same number back.) Those students who can handle the basic stuff are never truly challenged, so they either misbehave out of boredom, or coast.
I'd like the Australian school system to say:
"If you fail more than one subject out of Mathematics, Science or English in a year, you must repeat those years in those subjects. (If you fail one, that's a signal that you need assistance - extra in-school tutoring, streamed classes, etc.) If you fail twice in a row, you go into the year above, but you also go into a support class. (An extra lesson of Science, for example, rather than an elective. Leave sport alone however, as that's sometimes all the exercise a kid gets.)
Give a kid the option of taking a higher year entrance exam at the start (or end) of each year so that they can jump if they pick stuff up (or are gifted). Combine this with more options at an earlier age (Apprenticeships, traineeships, etc.) Give them the option to drop Science at the end of Year 8 or 9, rather than Year 10. (They still have to do English and Mathematics though.)
If they haven't reached year 10 level by the time compulsory education finishes, (age 15 mostly), they then have the option of taking the missing junior subjects/year levels, some senior subjects (those with lower requirements) or in-school or out-of-school apprenticeships.
As someone who went to public school and then completed two university degrees successfully, your complaints about "teaching yourself *entirely*" in the intro classes kinda rubs me raw. Independent learning is an important (The most important?) part of university education. *sheesh*
I'd love to find an article I read a few years ago, where it stated that while private schools had a higher university enrolment rate amongst their students, they also had a higher university drop-out rate. Maybe your private high school didn't prepare you as well as you thought it did?
Enron?
For a while. Until other economies re-gear, then the US becomes the next once-powerful British Empire.
Yes, the British economy still has a lot of influence, but hardly the level of global power it used to have.
It's going to take a lot of effort for the US to dig itself out of the hole it's dug for itself, if it ever does.
Nothing as "safe" as securities backed by the U.S. government. There may come a day when the U.S. government cannot pay its debts, but likely long before that day comes, the dollars they would be paid off in would be worthless too...
Personally, I have more faith in the U.S. government than, say, Apple, or WalMart.
Really? I'm not sure the rest of the world agrees with you lately. :P
I don't believe that the historic debt was necessarily a bad decision.
The bad decision was to borrow a shitload of money and have a huge party of wasteful spending.
Except that nearly every person I know (and apparently a lot of Americans/Greeks/nations.) have a very hard time distinguishing "money that can be spent" from "money that should be spent". The instant it was possible (economically and politically) for economies to borrow heavily, wasteful spending was probably inevitable. :(
Personally, I can only save money if I lock nearly all my income away in a secondary account that I can't access from a keycard.
You don't think that the Anonymous members aren't going to get a bit nervous when the ones that can't hide, get whacked?
As other people have commented, Anon has only gone up against soft targets.
I get the distinct feeling that they've gotten too cocky for them to make a serious assessment of the danger this time.
Interesting to contemplate how you're going to get the two of them together. :D
Takes ages to master ...
Speak for yourself. :P
I always thought I didn't dream/couldn't remember them, because I had such strong control over them that it was just "imagining in bed". Until as a teen, some strong symbolism showed up and I thought - "Hey, I'M DREAMING HERE!"
At that point it was a matter of trying stuff out. Transformation and dream flying are so cool. :D
At the bottom of this page, you'll find a $20 CNC project.
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/channel-cnc/
Can we call it OpenOpenOffice maybe? :D
Sun wanted to kill OpenOffice, the very project they started? I am afraid I don't follow...
Sun-the-original supported OpenOffice, and even listened to the community regarding our license concerns when they first bought StarOffice out.
Sun-the-new-Oracle-facemask didn't give a damn about this program (from a commercial standpoint) OR the community, started cutting costs (firing developers, etc.) forced the community to create an updated fork (Before OpenOffice vanished off the web completely.) and was left with an almost-useless software trademark that they had no interest in developing. "What are we going to do with this heap of outdated crap now? Let's give it to Apache. At least with that license, if they turn it into something worthwhile, we can grab it back."
I find it amazing that Oracle bought out Sun because it had all these amazing software projects, and then went about mishandling nearly all of them. I'd say it was a conspiracy to shut down a competitor, but:
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Except that StarGate is fiction.
It'd be a pretty shitty story that went "Thousands of years ago, a civilisation created a self-replicating machine. It escaped into the environment. And was promptly turned back into raw silicon dioxide by the first bacteria that found it tasty."
Name badges with a bar code and bar code scanners or many other systems cheaper than fingerprints would work far better than silicon snake oil sold to people that are getting their ideas from the movies.
While I think the idea of fingerprint scanners is pretty scary, if the idea is to increase attendance (rather than keeping people out), name badges wouldn't work without a physical person present either.
One student shows up with five other students' name badges and scans them in.
If the default option for a security system is to not enable it (accounts are created with broad, rather than limited permissions) - guess what 90% of users will do. (And yes, I'm aware this has changed in later versions of Microsoft, but that's like a child-care worker expecting praise for saying "Oh, we don't let the kids play out on the highway ... now.)
Much like the security questions horror in Vista, Microsoft mixes middling to brilliant software engineering, with bloody awful social engineering. And keep in mind this comes from a Linux user. :D
couldn't get past the second sentence... ALL linux distros?
The #1 Linux distro, Ubuntu, does not have a root password set at all. Just use sudo
Do you even use Linux?
sudo requires you to enter a password from an account that has been given admin priviliges.
So instead of giving every admin access to the same root password, each admin gets their own password.