I am taking a collage level physics lab right now, and we just did a lab on RC circuits; I thought it was cool to learn how the RC circuits could be used as high-pass or low-pass filter for a speaker(It was cool to remember seeing an RC circuit in the sub woofer I had installed in my car years ago(but did not know what it was at the time). I was like wow. I know how that works now:) ). Any ways I would suggest looking at what is being done in some university physics labs and 'borrow' there good ideas. yea a lot the labs are kinda boring but there are some good ones.
I believe that its illegal to let a crawlers run 'wild' on the internet in the first place(unless you have permission to do so). at least that was what i was told in my cs class where we made a web crawler. So in either case they will catch a 'bad' guy... but seriously I don't think this is fair. If i hack my friend's computer and install a VNC program on it and use VNC to use there computer to go to the 'porn' site. then they get there house searched! it seems too easy to 'fuck' with this and frame some one???
Then when other people download it we have proof that they(the other people) were doing something 'wrong'(if there actions are out side of fair use). This means we have have our fair use rights back!!! Well as long as we keep the responsibility with the person that has the file and _not_ the person who may of shared the file. Its a big step forward from DRM at least in my view.
thanks you for the link to HCL.... I _have_ had problems finding a usb wifi card that works well in linux. I bought and returned 10 different cards from best buy with NO luck. I will check the list and hopefully find one that works good. I hope the list has detailed information. other list of compatibility i have read were really shitty. And by the way I do have driver issues with linux for various things. But I like the idea of OSS and GNU so i don't care. But don't pretend that every thing is peachy.... there are bad spots on the peach too.
it is disgusting that it came out with: "With eight votes in favor". i think these 8 members of the board need re-evaluated. This is a sad reflection on how big business can mess-up wonderful things made by society.
what if the person was using a dynamic IP address(say cable modem or dial-up)?? your 'solution' will block the next random guy who gets there old IP address. right?
ms office is pretty aggressive about auto saving a back up of where you are in you document. when i was working on a lab write up for my physics class open office crashed on me, and i lost a good bit of work. my last save was before the last chunk of work i had done. i had to redo a some stuff. but that situation was avoidable if it had correctly auto saved my work. maybe this was just a bug(i think it normally auto saves my work). but OO in my view has too many bugs right now. i use its equation editor also but some expressions don't get printed correctly(and its interface is BAD too the equations only refresh 'correctly' if you scroll the window up then back down). it's close to great but not there yet. i would say, if one's business has people able to adapt to changes AND it can meet all you need go for it. else it will likely cost you a lot to use it. for people that can't adapt to change easily OO will just confuse them and likely end up with them wasting time. I remember my little cousin doing his HW on OO and wanting some kind of bubble letter font that was in MS office. he spent hours looking through all the menus for some thing to make bubble letters. To him ALL word processors he though would have this feature so just had to find it. Then he started to search the Internet for pictures of bubble letters to add to the OO document as pictures. long story short it wasted a lot of his time.
i think positive feelings and emotions could be correlated to resistance to cold/flu since people with positive moods are normally under less stress... and since studies show stress of any kind lower one immune system; this is just reconfirming that stress lowers ones immune system ability.... or maybe its the other way around. when one is stressed they have negative emotions and feel badly, thus stress appears to lower immune system ability, but actually its just how you think about the stress the causes the lower immune resistance. or maybe some kind of inter action of the two.
i know personal accounts are pretty meaning less.. but here it goes anyways::> i recently switched to linux on my desktop and the first disro i used was kno??ix(i don't remember how to spell it)i picked it first because i could run it with-out having to install any thing. when i put a real distro on my computer i went with fedora core... since i had read it was the "bleading edge" of red hat and had a big company backing it, i figured that if red hat can be sold and used and this is just whats coming next that it would work good/or better too. Big surprise!! it booted so slowly(i guess my fault partly too since there was some trouble with my wifi card on boot... it would spend 5 min trying to connect before going to boot the rest of the system; but even with out the card it seemed too boot slow). i tolerated that and likely would never have switched; but then almost randomly my gnome session got really messed up; the whole system would just freeze; have to unplug and restart. still same problem.. i switched to using kde from gnome. it worked a little bit.. but still froze. i stopped using that computer.. not sure if the problem was software.. or hardware(corrupted hard drive failing).. i later used ubuntu on another computer and it went much smoother.. so i put it on that computer and had no serious problems. Fedora i don't think is for noobs. i want every thing working to start, and later when i want to play with it be able to do that too. but i think that if one is going to go to the effort to use a gnu/linux distro they will find one that suits them. and every one else will just ask, and there friend will tell them to use some noob friendly distro. so no worries it did not stop me.
"there are a billion search sites out there"...wow i only know of like 20... i hope there all sharing the responsibility of indexing all the webs sites out there... there must be like a _million_ on them to index. if each of the billion search sites try to index that information at the same time it could like DOS the whole Internet.
"our founding fathers set up our educational system" so we could know how to vote? i don't believe this do you have a source to quote from, or is this just your view? not sure if the founding fathers set up the eduction system or if it set its self up?
how does not voting "forfeit all right to complain about anything your government does." I have never heard this law!!(at least not in the US). but seriously there are many good reasons to not vote(and bad reasons to not vote(and _bad_ reasons to vote)). if one were planing on leaving there country and moving to live in different country in the near future, or lives in another country and has dual citizenship, they should _only_ vote in the country there actively (living in)/(going to be living in). They have the right to vote in the other country but that would be _immoral_. One should not vote if they don't feel they understand what there voting for. One should not vote if they don't feel they have researched enough to understand the issues at hand. One should not vote if they think that not voting could make more important changes(getting better selection of choices; getting better access to _good_ non-bias information on officials). One should not vote if they _literary_ 100% don't care about any of the issues at hand. One should choose not to vote if they know there not smart/capable enough to make a good choice(I think i fall in this category). People say, "People died to give us the _right_ to vote", but but i think what they really _mean_ is 'people died to give us the right to change/august/fix our political system'. Voting is not the only way to 'change/august/fix our political system'. Not voting can be a stronger political stance then voting. There are many bad reasons people vote too. they think one person looks better. they saw a lots of signs with that persons name...
if i have this all backwards some one please explain it to me.
That depends. If he wanted to watch videos clips Knoppix would not help much. a lot of the videos clips out there are in proprietary formats. If he just wants to look at a few pictures then yea, that will work ok. And i will assume he did not want to dl full length movies, since that takes while and one would want to keep if after it finishes downloading. being a business laptop, the bios might have been password protected(meaning no booting from any thing but the hard drive). sure he could flash the bios, but that is pretty strong evidence that he was tampering with the machine(plus he would have to open laptop... a bit more work then some would want to do). maybe he could change the boot loader on the hard drive to boot a cd instead of just the the OS(be it unix/linux/osx/windows/or what ever). but that is only possible if his login account has privileges enough to access that part of the hard drive. I don't know, i am sure there are was around all of this. but it might not be as simple as putting a disk in the cd-rom drive.
i though his book was a best seller world wide?.... how much profites does one 'all-mighty' need.. can't we just share his book and not worri about the repurctions of stealing such widely avaible material... besides if he really cared about it he would have protected it hime-self. to hell with ur silly morals... where can i get a free copy??
lol i have been held back befor been in speical ed and pre-ap and classes ap classes... whet to a good collage(still cant spell worth a damn).....and well for me it was the opposite... i remember when my partents had to force the skool to keep me in the pre-ap classes i was making A's in cause they wanted me to go back to special ed program i was in before i transfered that was where i was... they wanted me to stay there cause they get more money off a speical ed child then normal/successful kids... so there is 2 sides to this some times the skool is the source or underachivement... and besides it not prectal to consided how a parten raiser there kids... i cant chage that I DOTN WANT U TO BE ABLE TO... its there right if parnts want to suck at haising there kids.. as long as there not abusive... its cool there freedom.....but it is practal it consider changeing edcuational system......... to change how parents behave is like me suggesting we kill off all the kids under 95 IQ points.. sure it wodl get results but its NOT practal.. jsut like its not practal to consider changing parents... yes i knw they suck... and u make valid points but wht we gona do??? huh sit on slash dot and bitch about it yea right... that fix it?? am waiting.............
i see ur point but and i use to agree with u but.. but if u really think about it what real educational gain would come from new {math/science books}/{computer resources}? i remember one calcus book i used that looked like it was 20 years old from highskool... what made the class great was the teacher... i moved skools partly(half) through that cal class to a lager skool with a bigger acidemic budget and we had the newer books but the teacher i had for that class happened to suck... i literly stoped learning any more calcus and some times i would sleep in her class(while still achiveing academicly in her class)... the point being the level of learning has little to do with the material she used to teach it. It was the teacher that made it great. (ps this 'better' skool also had another calcus teacher that was said to be really great... so that goes to show that the newer book was definaly usable and reinforces the idea that the teacher is the real issue here)... when i was in middle skool learning algerbra the pre-ap class used the "old" book (literaly floppy hard covered book probly also 20 years old) the teacher had a set of 'new' algerbra books but DID NOT USE THEM... they sat in the corner of her room.. when questioned about them she said that the state issued books had too many _errors_ and that they did not present the information any better way(infact i think she said they were less info dence and more warm/fussy with pictures).... the old book had example BASIC programs in it that i remeber copying and running on _old_ computer i had at the time WOW!!!! middle skool text book with exable program source can u beat that? the newer one at best mentioned useing ur calculater(witch we were not alowed to use intill the last week of the class... mostly becasue we had to take the highskool EOC test wich required to know how to use a calculater) BTW over half of this middle skool class got 100% on the state EOC highskool test(maybe harder highskool achidemic standers is why teachers suck these days)... honestly that middle school algerbra class was the hardest(in the sence of required learning not memerization) math class i remeber taking till i took a logic class in collage...and for my 3rd example... when i took cs in highskool... our clas room had teh set of all the really old 'crappy' computers... that did not stop my teacher from doing grat job of teaching us(my cs tacher was probly one of the most infuncal teachers i had them..).. well that cs teacher moved to teach at a gifted and talented skool... we got a new one that lowered the bar so much in that the cs classes that even i started to lose interst(i had preread most the text book and pre did most the lessions for the class) but well how he tought was painfully bad... just enough to get every one to print hello-world... tough at teh lowest comment denomanater lovel and disliked it when people worked ahead(he was pretty unhappy wheni started in his class with 1/3 the text book already read) he wanted ever on at he same place and didnot care for teaching for him it was jsut a job to pay teh bills..... i ended up playing hacky sack fulltime him his class..and not learning any thing..(looking back i regreat this sicne i could have done so much more with that time...) oh well.. he managed jsut fine with theolder computers too....i dotn think new computers would have helped pick up for his lack of teaching ???... all-in-all i thik teachers are the real key not there resources... sell the books to pay fro better teachers. great teachers dont need the 'new' shinny books...
second you probly fail to realize that a "multimillion dollar football/track/soccer statium" is an investment... do u have any idea how much money they can make with it.... after it is payed for its all profit!!! that profit(at least where i when to skool) was them shared with _academic_ depatments too... a skool to host acadmen compenataions does nto make as much money as a footballgame would(i know i HATE this but it how life is... what u gona do?)
all in all i disgree with ur post...
"Waiting for 10 hours to DL the thing (plus cost for bandwidth if you're not on a flat, which is quite rare here)."
well thats not exactly true.... u can do other things while a file dls..... but u cant do much while ur driving to teh store to buy a movie.... some people dont like to leave there house too....but other then that i agree with ur point... and this service is nto for me(and i cont think of many people it will be for)
i decided that at the point half way through what u had to say i was too bored to read on that... you mihgt not be the best source to read for this subject.. and i stoped.
"boosts the signal to make sure that people can still use their mobile phones."
i did not know they coudl boost the signal any more then what it was at.... i kinda figured they would already have it as high as they could. i mean why woudl they not jsut keep the signal "boosted" all the times soem places still have dead zones so that coudl help some?? it would be like thouse old computers with the turbo button.. but for ur cell phone reception:)
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I am taking a collage level physics lab right now, and we just did a lab on RC circuits; I thought it was cool to learn how the RC circuits could be used as high-pass or low-pass filter for a speaker(It was cool to remember seeing an RC circuit in the sub woofer I had installed in my car years ago(but did not know what it was at the time). I was like wow. I know how that works now :) ). Any ways I would suggest looking at what is being done in some university physics labs and 'borrow' there good ideas. yea a lot the labs are kinda boring but there are some good ones.
I believe that its illegal to let a crawlers run 'wild' on the internet in the first place(unless you have permission to do so). at least that was what i was told in my cs class where we made a web crawler. So in either case they will catch a 'bad' guy... but seriously I don't think this is fair. If i hack my friend's computer and install a VNC program on it and use VNC to use there computer to go to the 'porn' site. then they get there house searched! it seems too easy to 'fuck' with this and frame some one???
Then when other people download it we have proof that they(the other people) were doing something 'wrong'(if there actions are out side of fair use). This means we have have our fair use rights back!!! Well as long as we keep the responsibility with the person that has the file and _not_ the person who may of shared the file. Its a big step forward from DRM at least in my view.
thanks you for the link to HCL.... I _have_ had problems finding a usb wifi card that works well in linux. I bought and returned 10 different cards from best buy with NO luck. I will check the list and hopefully find one that works good. I hope the list has detailed information. other list of compatibility i have read were really shitty. And by the way I do have driver issues with linux for various things. But I like the idea of OSS and GNU so i don't care. But don't pretend that every thing is peachy.... there are bad spots on the peach too.
it is disgusting that it came out with: "With eight votes in favor". i think these 8 members of the board need re-evaluated. This is a sad reflection on how big business can mess-up wonderful things made by society.
what if the person was using a dynamic IP address(say cable modem or dial-up)?? your 'solution' will block the next random guy who gets there old IP address. right?
ms office is pretty aggressive about auto saving a back up of where you are in you document. when i was working on a lab write up for my physics class open office crashed on me, and i lost a good bit of work. my last save was before the last chunk of work i had done. i had to redo a some stuff. but that situation was avoidable if it had correctly auto saved my work. maybe this was just a bug(i think it normally auto saves my work). but OO in my view has too many bugs right now. i use its equation editor also but some expressions don't get printed correctly(and its interface is BAD too the equations only refresh 'correctly' if you scroll the window up then back down). it's close to great but not there yet. i would say, if one's business has people able to adapt to changes AND it can meet all you need go for it. else it will likely cost you a lot to use it. for people that can't adapt to change easily OO will just confuse them and likely end up with them wasting time. I remember my little cousin doing his HW on OO and wanting some kind of bubble letter font that was in MS office. he spent hours looking through all the menus for some thing to make bubble letters. To him ALL word processors he though would have this feature so just had to find it. Then he started to search the Internet for pictures of bubble letters to add to the OO document as pictures. long story short it wasted a lot of his time.
i think positive feelings and emotions could be correlated to resistance to cold/flu since people with positive moods are normally under less stress... and since studies show stress of any kind lower one immune system; this is just reconfirming that stress lowers ones immune system ability.... or maybe its the other way around. when one is stressed they have negative emotions and feel badly, thus stress appears to lower immune system ability, but actually its just how you think about the stress the causes the lower immune resistance. or maybe some kind of inter action of the two.
i know personal accounts are pretty meaning less.. but here it goes anyways::> i recently switched to linux on my desktop and the first disro i used was kno??ix(i don't remember how to spell it)i picked it first because i could run it with-out having to install any thing. when i put a real distro on my computer i went with fedora core... since i had read it was the "bleading edge" of red hat and had a big company backing it, i figured that if red hat can be sold and used and this is just whats coming next that it would work good/or better too. Big surprise!! it booted so slowly(i guess my fault partly too since there was some trouble with my wifi card on boot... it would spend 5 min trying to connect before going to boot the rest of the system; but even with out the card it seemed too boot slow). i tolerated that and likely would never have switched; but then almost randomly my gnome session got really messed up; the whole system would just freeze; have to unplug and restart. still same problem.. i switched to using kde from gnome. it worked a little bit.. but still froze. i stopped using that computer.. not sure if the problem was software.. or hardware(corrupted hard drive failing).. i later used ubuntu on another computer and it went much smoother.. so i put it on that computer and had no serious problems. Fedora i don't think is for noobs. i want every thing working to start, and later when i want to play with it be able to do that too. but i think that if one is going to go to the effort to use a gnu/linux distro they will find one that suits them. and every one else will just ask, and there friend will tell them to use some noob friendly distro. so no worries it did not stop me.
"there are a billion search sites out there"...wow i only know of like 20... i hope there all sharing the responsibility of indexing all the webs sites out there... there must be like a _million_ on them to index. if each of the billion search sites try to index that information at the same time it could like DOS the whole Internet.
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"our founding fathers set up our educational system" so we could know how to vote? i don't believe this do you have a source to quote from, or is this just your view? not sure if the founding fathers set up the eduction system or if it set its self up?
how does not voting "forfeit all right to complain about anything your government does." I have never heard this law!!(at least not in the US). but seriously there are many good reasons to not vote(and bad reasons to not vote(and _bad_ reasons to vote)). if one were planing on leaving there country and moving to live in different country in the near future, or lives in another country and has dual citizenship, they should _only_ vote in the country there actively (living in)/(going to be living in). They have the right to vote in the other country but that would be _immoral_. One should not vote if they don't feel they understand what there voting for. One should not vote if they don't feel they have researched enough to understand the issues at hand. One should not vote if they think that not voting could make more important changes(getting better selection of choices; getting better access to _good_ non-bias information on officials). One should not vote if they _literary_ 100% don't care about any of the issues at hand. One should choose not to vote if they know there not smart/capable enough to make a good choice(I think i fall in this category). People say, "People died to give us the _right_ to vote", but but i think what they really _mean_ is 'people died to give us the right to change/august/fix our political system'. Voting is not the only way to 'change/august/fix our political system'. Not voting can be a stronger political stance then voting. There are many bad reasons people vote too. they think one person looks better. they saw a lots of signs with that persons name...
if i have this all backwards some one please explain it to me.
That depends. If he wanted to watch videos clips Knoppix would not help much. a lot of the videos clips out there are in proprietary formats. If he just wants to look at a few pictures then yea, that will work ok. And i will assume he did not want to dl full length movies, since that takes while and one would want to keep if after it finishes downloading. being a business laptop, the bios might have been password protected(meaning no booting from any thing but the hard drive). sure he could flash the bios, but that is pretty strong evidence that he was tampering with the machine(plus he would have to open laptop... a bit more work then some would want to do). maybe he could change the boot loader on the hard drive to boot a cd instead of just the the OS(be it unix/linux/osx/windows/or what ever). but that is only possible if his login account has privileges enough to access that part of the hard drive. I don't know, i am sure there are was around all of this. but it might not be as simple as putting a disk in the cd-rom drive.
they probly bought the cake from a 3th party and are too scared to release the recipe due to fear of legal consiquences
i though his book was a best seller world wide?.... how much profites does one 'all-mighty' need.. can't we just share his book and not worri about the repurctions of stealing such widely avaible material... besides if he really cared about it he would have protected it hime-self. to hell with ur silly morals... where can i get a free copy??
lol i have been held back befor been in speical ed and pre-ap and classes ap classes... whet to a good collage(still cant spell worth a damn).....and well for me it was the opposite... i remember when my partents had to force the skool to keep me in the pre-ap classes i was making A's in cause they wanted me to go back to special ed program i was in before i transfered that was where i was... they wanted me to stay there cause they get more money off a speical ed child then normal/successful kids... so there is 2 sides to this some times the skool is the source or underachivement... and besides it not prectal to consided how a parten raiser there kids... i cant chage that I DOTN WANT U TO BE ABLE TO... its there right if parnts want to suck at haising there kids.. as long as there not abusive... its cool there freedom.....but it is practal it consider changeing edcuational system......... to change how parents behave is like me suggesting we kill off all the kids under 95 IQ points.. sure it wodl get results but its NOT practal.. jsut like its not practal to consider changing parents... yes i knw they suck... and u make valid points but wht we gona do??? huh sit on slash dot and bitch about it yea right... that fix it?? am waiting.............
i see ur point but and i use to agree with u but.. but if u really think about it what real educational gain would come from new {math/science books}/{computer resources}? i remember one calcus book i used that looked like it was 20 years old from highskool... what made the class great was the teacher... i moved skools partly(half) through that cal class to a lager skool with a bigger acidemic budget and we had the newer books but the teacher i had for that class happened to suck... i literly stoped learning any more calcus and some times i would sleep in her class(while still achiveing academicly in her class)... the point being the level of learning has little to do with the material she used to teach it. It was the teacher that made it great. (ps this 'better' skool also had another calcus teacher that was said to be really great... so that goes to show that the newer book was definaly usable and reinforces the idea that the teacher is the real issue here)... when i was in middle skool learning algerbra the pre-ap class used the "old" book (literaly floppy hard covered book probly also 20 years old) the teacher had a set of 'new' algerbra books but DID NOT USE THEM... they sat in the corner of her room.. when questioned about them she said that the state issued books had too many _errors_ and that they did not present the information any better way(infact i think she said they were less info dence and more warm/fussy with pictures).... the old book had example BASIC programs in it that i remeber copying and running on _old_ computer i had at the time WOW!!!! middle skool text book with exable program source can u beat that? the newer one at best mentioned useing ur calculater(witch we were not alowed to use intill the last week of the class... mostly becasue we had to take the highskool EOC test wich required to know how to use a calculater) BTW over half of this middle skool class got 100% on the state EOC highskool test(maybe harder highskool achidemic standers is why teachers suck these days)... honestly that middle school algerbra class was the hardest(in the sence of required learning not memerization) math class i remeber taking till i took a logic class in collage...and for my 3rd example... when i took cs in highskool... our clas room had teh set of all the really old 'crappy' computers... that did not stop my teacher from doing grat job of teaching us(my cs tacher was probly one of the most infuncal teachers i had them..).. well that cs teacher moved to teach at a gifted and talented skool... we got a new one that lowered the bar so much in that the cs classes that even i started to lose interst(i had preread most the text book and pre did most the lessions for the class) but well how he tought was painfully bad... just enough to get every one to print hello-world... tough at teh lowest comment denomanater lovel and disliked it when people worked ahead(he was pretty unhappy wheni started in his class with 1/3 the text book already read) he wanted ever on at he same place and didnot care for teaching for him it was jsut a job to pay teh bills..... i ended up playing hacky sack fulltime him his class..and not learning any thing..(looking back i regreat this sicne i could have done so much more with that time...) oh well.. he managed jsut fine with theolder computers too....i dotn think new computers would have helped pick up for his lack of teaching ???... all-in-all i thik teachers are the real key not there resources... sell the books to pay fro better teachers. great teachers dont need the 'new' shinny books...
second you probly fail to realize that a "multimillion dollar football/track/soccer statium" is an investment... do u have any idea how much money they can make with it.... after it is payed for its all profit!!! that profit(at least where i when to skool) was them shared with _academic_ depatments too... a skool to host acadmen compenataions does nto make as much money as a footballgame would(i know i HATE this but it how life is... what u gona do?) all in all i disgree with ur post...
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"Waiting for 10 hours to DL the thing (plus cost for bandwidth if you're not on a flat, which is quite rare here)."
well thats not exactly true.... u can do other things while a file dls..... but u cant do much while ur driving to teh store to buy a movie.... some people dont like to leave there house too....but other then that i agree with ur point... and this service is nto for me(and i cont think of many people it will be for)
i decided that at the point half way through what u had to say i was too bored to read on that... you mihgt not be the best source to read for this subject.. and i stoped.
"boosts the signal to make sure that people can still use their mobile phones."
:)
i did not know they coudl boost the signal any more then what it was at.... i kinda figured they would already have it as high as they could. i mean why woudl they not jsut keep the signal "boosted" all the times soem places still have dead zones so that coudl help some?? it would be like thouse old computers with the turbo button.. but for ur cell phone reception
u forgot win 3.1 and windows for the pda devices and probly more
if my karma was not so bad i would mod u up!!! :)
"i'm seriously considering jumping into this head first, being on the bleeding edge, and going with an implant"
i guess he will bleed when the docors cut him open to do the implant... is that what he ment by bleeding edge??