I volunteer at the local observatory and on open houses we will look at the moon, visible planets, Andromeda galaxy and different colored stars. These are things that can be seen in a small telescope.
Get outside and practice to make sure you can see these before taking a class.
Check for a local observatory and see about getting a tour. Ours will do tours to schools for a donation.
I don't know about you but as a Linux user, I will contact them and let them know that if it doesn't support Linux then I really don't care about their product. The day I cannot get a product and run it on my Linux machines is the day I will stick to illegal downloads.
This also goes for being able to play the product on a device that isn't connected to the Internet.
I have three reasons for not liking CFL's.
1. They don't last in areas that the lights are not on that long. If you use them where you turn the lights on for 5 or 10 minutes, they die very quickly.
2. They don't like being cold. The time it takes to turn on in a cool house (set back thermometer) can seem to be forever.
3. Dimmers. I have yet to see one that works on a dimmer.
I have purchased some LED lights (spot) for less than US$5 each on-line. They work as great desk lamps but the beam width is to narrow. They didn't work on dimmers (main reason to purchase them) but that is due to the current regulator within the bulb. I see that there is a new current regulator that works with standard dimmers.
I hope to change all my gu10 and pars with LEDS when they are dimmer compatible.
I also forgot, CFL's don't come in formats for all the types of bulbs that are out there. LED's will. There is also the option of color choices. I have seen red, blue, green and multicolored ones on-line.
You obviously didn't see the news last night. A Liberal representative was interviewed and stated that this law didn't go far enough in some aspects
The Liberals started the copyright reform push before they got defeated so don't expect support from the Liberals to block this.
Hopefully the bill will die due to an election or take forever in committee.
This may be a political move to appease the pressure from the USA overlords that want to take total control of the media.
I hope all Canadians take time to write to their MP's about how bad this law is. Do watch out for the attempt to drop some of the bad stuff to make the rest of the bad proposals acceptable.
Umm, since when do commercial software developers have trouble working on OSS projects? IBM doesn't seem to have a problem. Neither does HP, Sun, Apple, or Sony. Maybe MS just needs to review their policies if they're finding them too restrictive?
Simple reason. They cannot close the source of these drivers. Microsoft doesn't want open source anything, even when they claim they do. If the sources are open, they it will reveal some strange inner workings of XP. Open source drivers don't make money.
Much of the technology in the XO is developed using open source technology licenses that make it difficult for engineers employed by commercial software companies like Microsoft to work directly on the project. For this reason, we also had to follow a complicated process to figure out interfaces for many of the XO's hardware components and to deal with some of the hardware bugs they were reporting in their design process in order to make progress on our port. All of this slows us down, but that's OK given our overall shared mission here.
It is nice to see Microsoft suffer under the same fate that they threaten so many others with.
All the anti-Microsoft people should support this program and get even more OLPC's out into the public.
If I win the lottery tonight, I will purchase many for our local schools.
I always wondered how there were so many computer break ins, compromises, hacks and the like in 24 at CTU. Now I know. It was written, based on facts.:)
I guess it just shows that truth can be stranger than fiction.
I agree with the single sheet idea. The basic idea is if a new employee arrives, they should be able to grab the manual or sheet for the process and know what to do without having to ask questions.
I took an ISO9000 course many years ago as I worked for a small company that needed to become certified for some contracts. Being small, we couldn't afford the ISO Guru.
The one thing that the course taught us was that a single sheet of a clear and easy to follow process is better than a volume of detailed information.
One thing that I found was quite useful about the ISO9000 documentation was if someone had to fill in for someone that was sick or away, they could follow the procedures and do the job without having to run and ask questions every ten minutes.
In the job I am at now, to find out how to use some of the equipment can be a 10 day headache that includes hours of Googling for manuals and techniques. There are no procedures written up on how to do most of the things we do. When I was a new employee, I was given a manual for a piece of equipment that I needed to fix and after three days of scratching my head, I found out that it wasn't even the correct manual and there was no correct manual. And I was getting into trouble for being slow. Grr.
Yes, getting the certification can be a pain, but trying to think complicated can make it much worse than it needs to be.
Here is another program.
I am not experienced in this type of application but it may be useful.
http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/
OpenFOAM CFD Toolbox
Slashdot Mirror
I volunteer at the local observatory and on open houses we will look at the moon, visible planets, Andromeda galaxy and different colored stars. These are things that can be seen in a small telescope.
Get outside and practice to make sure you can see these before taking a class.
Check for a local observatory and see about getting a tour. Ours will do tours to schools for a donation.
There is free astronomy software available on the net.
Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/
Get it for your students. They will enjoy it.
I don't know about you but as a Linux user, I will contact them and let them know that if it doesn't support Linux then I really don't care about their product. The day I cannot get a product and run it on my Linux machines is the day I will stick to illegal downloads.
This also goes for being able to play the product on a device that isn't connected to the Internet.
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
Hum, I work in a very large corporation and we use OSS for many tasks and business operations.
Accounting can be done with GnuCash www.gnucash.org
Business forms through OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org
OOo templates from http://templates.services.openoffice.org/
Depending on the type of business model, you may want to look at mind mapping software and planning software.
I use Linux at home and work.
Some Linux based software has been cross compiled for Windows if you are so inclined.
I have three reasons for not liking CFL's. 1. They don't last in areas that the lights are not on that long. If you use them where you turn the lights on for 5 or 10 minutes, they die very quickly. 2. They don't like being cold. The time it takes to turn on in a cool house (set back thermometer) can seem to be forever. 3. Dimmers. I have yet to see one that works on a dimmer. I have purchased some LED lights (spot) for less than US$5 each on-line. They work as great desk lamps but the beam width is to narrow. They didn't work on dimmers (main reason to purchase them) but that is due to the current regulator within the bulb. I see that there is a new current regulator that works with standard dimmers. I hope to change all my gu10 and pars with LEDS when they are dimmer compatible. I also forgot, CFL's don't come in formats for all the types of bulbs that are out there. LED's will. There is also the option of color choices. I have seen red, blue, green and multicolored ones on-line.
You obviously didn't see the news last night. A Liberal representative was interviewed and stated that this law didn't go far enough in some aspects
The Liberals started the copyright reform push before they got defeated so don't expect support from the Liberals to block this.
Hopefully the bill will die due to an election or take forever in committee.
This may be a political move to appease the pressure from the USA overlords that want to take total control of the media.
I hope all Canadians take time to write to their MP's about how bad this law is. Do watch out for the attempt to drop some of the bad stuff to make the rest of the bad proposals acceptable.
http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php I ordered my OLPC under the give one, get one program.
All the anti-Microsoft people should support this program and get even more OLPC's out into the public.
If I win the lottery tonight, I will purchase many for our local schools.
I always wondered how there were so many computer break ins, compromises, hacks and the like in 24 at CTU. Now I know. It was written, based on facts. :)
I guess it just shows that truth can be stranger than fiction.
I agree with the single sheet idea. The basic idea is if a new employee arrives, they should be able to grab the manual or sheet for the process and know what to do without having to ask questions.
I took an ISO9000 course many years ago as I worked for a small company that needed to become certified for some contracts. Being small, we couldn't afford the ISO Guru.
The one thing that the course taught us was that a single sheet of a clear and easy to follow process is better than a volume of detailed information.
One thing that I found was quite useful about the ISO9000 documentation was if someone had to fill in for someone that was sick or away, they could follow the procedures and do the job without having to run and ask questions every ten minutes.
In the job I am at now, to find out how to use some of the equipment can be a 10 day headache that includes hours of Googling for manuals and techniques. There are no procedures written up on how to do most of the things we do. When I was a new employee, I was given a manual for a piece of equipment that I needed to fix and after three days of scratching my head, I found out that it wasn't even the correct manual and there was no correct manual. And I was getting into trouble for being slow. Grr.
Yes, getting the certification can be a pain, but trying to think complicated can make it much worse than it needs to be.
Here is another program. I am not experienced in this type of application but it may be useful. http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/ OpenFOAM CFD Toolbox