Why? I get that there are a lot of book fetishists out there that seem to have some inexplicable devotion to the format, but it's not likely to ever happen. You'd need to have an Ebook large enough to handle War and Peace for that to really work, and even if you just settle for something that's appropriate for a chapter, you're probably still going to be paying 20 or 30 times as much as you would for a comparable single page ebook.
In practical terms, you'd be paying a lot of money for no particularly good reason.
E-ink isn't ready for prime time when it comes to children's books. TFS itself pointed out that the new paper can only do 4096 colors, which is just 4 bits of color per channel. That's nowhere near enough color to make it worthwhile for children's books.
At any rate, I wouldn't trust one of these things around random children, they are still fragile.
But having a few colors would be nice, as with the black and white Nook, I have to rely on luminosity to tell between highlights and regular print.
No, what's killing them is congressional mandates. If they could start charging depending upon the destination they wouldn't have that problem. They could do the same zoning system that Fed Ex, UPS and the airlines do and wipe out most of the problem right there. But, it's not something they can do without GOP support largely because it's mostly GOP supporters that are benefiting from the subsidies.
Or if they could require folks that live in the middle of nowhere to come into town to pick up their mail rather than having to deliver it via horse, helicopter or off road vehicle, that too would help a lot.
One of the main reasons why their labor makes up such a large percentage of the cost is that they've been raising rates at below inflation for a very long time.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted. The budge problems could easily be fixed if the USPS would do what USPS and Fed Ex do in terms of charging something that reflects the amount of service provided. As it stands I could go on vacation in Hawaii and mail a first class envelope to Maine for the same cost as what I pay right now to mail that same envelope across town.
And it gets even worse in cases where the USPS has to deliver the mail by helicopter or by horse because somebody chose to live in a place that can't receive mail by the normal means. Meaning that one delivery by horse or helicopter can easily wipe out the proceeds from thousands of other letters.
In cases like that you send a registered letter to the agency requesting proof that you owe the debt. That will stop them dead in their tracks, especially given that lately even legitimate mortgage debt often can't be proven to be owed to the party wanting to collect.
Right, that's the thing, you can't take land with air power. If you want to take the land, you're going to need boots on the ground and preferably something more substantial to support the ground troops. Sure you might get a few surrendering to drones, but you're not going to take and keep ground like that.
IEDs, can have all sorts of triggers depending upon the locale and the resources available. IR is definitely one, but unfortunately, the main limiting factor is ones imagination. Some switches are more practical than others are.
That's hardly interesting, in both of those cases the equipment would have to be used in a legitimate way before that could happen. Unless GE generators are being hooked up directly to the cables used for torture, it's highly unlikely that GE would know that it's being used for nefarious purposes rather than for humanitarian ones.
As for Caterpillar, under that scenario it's unlikely that they'd have done anything wrong, so long as they didn't need to break an embargo to ship the equipment over there.
It was probably Firefox 4 or 5 for which that applies, between the crazy release cycle of major Firefox versions and slashdot's habit of posting things late, it's unlikely that Firefox 6.0.1 was used by the person writing the story.
OK, that explains that. I was trying to figure out why one would have to write a kernel in C or any subset of the kernel in C. I know that C is commonly used for writing OSes, but I couldn't figure out why one couldn't write the kernel is assembly, other than the impracticality of doing so and the lack of portability of such a kernel.
If focal length isn't going to make a difference, then why did the astronomers recommend using binoculars that are giving that much magnification?
And yes, it's going to be worthless for taking photos of stars, but by the same token, if you need that much magnification to see the super nova, then I'm not sure why a camera would be any different.
Generally it only happens if you trade up from a Sempron to one of AMD's pin compatible multicore processors or if you're using nLite OS and got some of the settings wrong. I don't think that Intel had offerings which would allow you to go from single to multicore without changing the motherboard, I could be wrong though. I'm sure it doesn't happen that much these days.
However, considering that XP was sort of the OS that this was most likely to occur with, they should have fixed it. I'm guessing the main reason they didn't was that they wanted to force people to upgrade to Vista.
I was wondering about that, because even with my 200mm lens with a 1.6x crop factor trying to take a photo of the moon is really tough to do, as it's far enough away that metering doesn't really work very well.
This event is happening significantly further away, which makes me wonder what sort of a lens one would need in order to observe it. I'm guessing that you'd need something on the order of a 1000mm lens to get a halfway decent view. At 500mm you're getting a 5 degree view, and I'm guessing that you'd need to get closer than that. And even that's probably underestimating things.
The outcry is that in the past you'd get whatever ads were sold based upon demographic information, often they wouldn't be targeted at you. But now, everybody is targeting information and data mining whether or not you've given them permission to do so. It's one thing for a service like gmail to do it, they do have a ToS and policies that you can read ahead of time, and quite another for random sites to do it without notifying you that it's happening.
Additionally, it's common for sites like FB to change the policy regularly, requiring people to stay current. Most will adopt reasonable defaults, but some won't.
That's sort of the thing. A lot of people seem to assume that the users are the product when there are other reasonably possibilities. Probably the most likely one is that services like gmail and google voice are just sources of real world data that they can work on better sifting through. Allowing them to better optimize their algorithms. Some of the times when they get it wrong, the person will grant access to the data to figure out what the problem is and improve.
The whole notion that free isn't ever free or that there's only one motivation is the sort of black and white thinking that leads to all sorts of trouble in the long run.
Which is dumb, because despite what the tin foil hat wearers say, the user isn't the product, the user's attention is the product they're selling. Which is what makes a lot of this so boggling to me. non-targeted ads that are viewed are going to be worth much more than targeted ads that miss most of the eyeballs due to being blocked for invading people's privacy or spying on people that haven't consented to it.
Granted Google's services do have ToS, but most sites don't.
And don't forget that if you decide to upgrade from a single core processor to a multicore processor that there's an incredibly annoying procedure that involves doing a repair installation just to activate the other cores. Which I've had to do in the past and it's not fun, all because MS doesn't feel like providing a reasonable way of doing it.
I'm pretty sure that somebody at LA or the architecture firm told them that it's inspired by a sandcrawler. Or possibly the same person that confuses an iPad for a Galaxy Tab
Computers aren't up to the job. I've tutored for quite a while, and there isn't a program that's been developed that's anywhere near as good a a real person. What's more the amount of actual time needed is much less.
There's also the cost of the laptops, if you pay for laptops for an entire class you're looking at a minimum of probably $10k before the cost of support. That's per classroom assuming 30 students per classroom. With that sort of money you could hire a full time tutor for every three classes.
As far as identifying at risk students, it's not that hard, ask any teacher and odds are good that they know exactly who needs help. At least for the at risk ones, the ones that are simply not living up to their potential are much harder to identify.
Indeed, another use of technology is assessing reading comprehension. Doing it by hand is tedious and takes a lot of time, but a computer can estimate the students reading level much more efficiently. It might still mean that the materials aren't quite right, but there's quicky methods that will help with that.
Being able to know that somebody's reading at about a 5th grade level makes selection of interesting reading material much more efficient.
But there's other things like setting up partners in class is much less likely to result in people being left to fend for themselves. And then there's handing in a digital file of ones report rather than a hard copy. That's one most people forget about, but it allows a teacher to track the progress and the changes, and Word for one allows one to embed comments with the corrections.
But, ultimately, technology is a tool and should be brought in with a specific need in mind and one shouldn't be buying technology without understanding the alternatives because it can hurt when done improperly.
Because they're expensive and divert money that could be spent on things that we know increase test scores. Things like tutoring at risk students and evaluating curriculum to find materials that best assist the students in learning.
Laptops themselves are of limited value, the only times I've ever needed one is for getting help and for doing papers, neither of which is an optimal use of time.
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Why? I get that there are a lot of book fetishists out there that seem to have some inexplicable devotion to the format, but it's not likely to ever happen. You'd need to have an Ebook large enough to handle War and Peace for that to really work, and even if you just settle for something that's appropriate for a chapter, you're probably still going to be paying 20 or 30 times as much as you would for a comparable single page ebook.
In practical terms, you'd be paying a lot of money for no particularly good reason.
E-ink isn't ready for prime time when it comes to children's books. TFS itself pointed out that the new paper can only do 4096 colors, which is just 4 bits of color per channel. That's nowhere near enough color to make it worthwhile for children's books.
At any rate, I wouldn't trust one of these things around random children, they are still fragile.
But having a few colors would be nice, as with the black and white Nook, I have to rely on luminosity to tell between highlights and regular print.
No, what's killing them is congressional mandates. If they could start charging depending upon the destination they wouldn't have that problem. They could do the same zoning system that Fed Ex, UPS and the airlines do and wipe out most of the problem right there. But, it's not something they can do without GOP support largely because it's mostly GOP supporters that are benefiting from the subsidies.
Or if they could require folks that live in the middle of nowhere to come into town to pick up their mail rather than having to deliver it via horse, helicopter or off road vehicle, that too would help a lot.
One of the main reasons why their labor makes up such a large percentage of the cost is that they've been raising rates at below inflation for a very long time.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted. The budge problems could easily be fixed if the USPS would do what USPS and Fed Ex do in terms of charging something that reflects the amount of service provided. As it stands I could go on vacation in Hawaii and mail a first class envelope to Maine for the same cost as what I pay right now to mail that same envelope across town.
And it gets even worse in cases where the USPS has to deliver the mail by helicopter or by horse because somebody chose to live in a place that can't receive mail by the normal means. Meaning that one delivery by horse or helicopter can easily wipe out the proceeds from thousands of other letters.
In cases like that you send a registered letter to the agency requesting proof that you owe the debt. That will stop them dead in their tracks, especially given that lately even legitimate mortgage debt often can't be proven to be owed to the party wanting to collect.
Right, that's the thing, you can't take land with air power. If you want to take the land, you're going to need boots on the ground and preferably something more substantial to support the ground troops. Sure you might get a few surrendering to drones, but you're not going to take and keep ground like that.
The solution is obvious, we need to breed larger cows.
IEDs, can have all sorts of triggers depending upon the locale and the resources available. IR is definitely one, but unfortunately, the main limiting factor is ones imagination. Some switches are more practical than others are.
That's hardly interesting, in both of those cases the equipment would have to be used in a legitimate way before that could happen. Unless GE generators are being hooked up directly to the cables used for torture, it's highly unlikely that GE would know that it's being used for nefarious purposes rather than for humanitarian ones.
As for Caterpillar, under that scenario it's unlikely that they'd have done anything wrong, so long as they didn't need to break an embargo to ship the equipment over there.
It was probably Firefox 4 or 5 for which that applies, between the crazy release cycle of major Firefox versions and slashdot's habit of posting things late, it's unlikely that Firefox 6.0.1 was used by the person writing the story.
OK, that explains that. I was trying to figure out why one would have to write a kernel in C or any subset of the kernel in C. I know that C is commonly used for writing OSes, but I couldn't figure out why one couldn't write the kernel is assembly, other than the impracticality of doing so and the lack of portability of such a kernel.
If focal length isn't going to make a difference, then why did the astronomers recommend using binoculars that are giving that much magnification?
And yes, it's going to be worthless for taking photos of stars, but by the same token, if you need that much magnification to see the super nova, then I'm not sure why a camera would be any different.
Generally it only happens if you trade up from a Sempron to one of AMD's pin compatible multicore processors or if you're using nLite OS and got some of the settings wrong. I don't think that Intel had offerings which would allow you to go from single to multicore without changing the motherboard, I could be wrong though. I'm sure it doesn't happen that much these days.
However, considering that XP was sort of the OS that this was most likely to occur with, they should have fixed it. I'm guessing the main reason they didn't was that they wanted to force people to upgrade to Vista.
I was wondering about that, because even with my 200mm lens with a 1.6x crop factor trying to take a photo of the moon is really tough to do, as it's far enough away that metering doesn't really work very well.
This event is happening significantly further away, which makes me wonder what sort of a lens one would need in order to observe it. I'm guessing that you'd need something on the order of a 1000mm lens to get a halfway decent view. At 500mm you're getting a 5 degree view, and I'm guessing that you'd need to get closer than that. And even that's probably underestimating things.
Google has an App for that, oh wait, you want to actually see it, never mind.
The outcry is that in the past you'd get whatever ads were sold based upon demographic information, often they wouldn't be targeted at you. But now, everybody is targeting information and data mining whether or not you've given them permission to do so. It's one thing for a service like gmail to do it, they do have a ToS and policies that you can read ahead of time, and quite another for random sites to do it without notifying you that it's happening.
Additionally, it's common for sites like FB to change the policy regularly, requiring people to stay current. Most will adopt reasonable defaults, but some won't.
That's sort of the thing. A lot of people seem to assume that the users are the product when there are other reasonably possibilities. Probably the most likely one is that services like gmail and google voice are just sources of real world data that they can work on better sifting through. Allowing them to better optimize their algorithms. Some of the times when they get it wrong, the person will grant access to the data to figure out what the problem is and improve.
The whole notion that free isn't ever free or that there's only one motivation is the sort of black and white thinking that leads to all sorts of trouble in the long run.
Which is dumb, because despite what the tin foil hat wearers say, the user isn't the product, the user's attention is the product they're selling. Which is what makes a lot of this so boggling to me. non-targeted ads that are viewed are going to be worth much more than targeted ads that miss most of the eyeballs due to being blocked for invading people's privacy or spying on people that haven't consented to it.
Granted Google's services do have ToS, but most sites don't.
The GP can't help it, he's going blind.
And don't forget that if you decide to upgrade from a single core processor to a multicore processor that there's an incredibly annoying procedure that involves doing a repair installation just to activate the other cores. Which I've had to do in the past and it's not fun, all because MS doesn't feel like providing a reasonable way of doing it.
I'm pretty sure that somebody at LA or the architecture firm told them that it's inspired by a sandcrawler. Or possibly the same person that confuses an iPad for a Galaxy Tab
That would be Episode II.
Computers aren't up to the job. I've tutored for quite a while, and there isn't a program that's been developed that's anywhere near as good a a real person. What's more the amount of actual time needed is much less.
There's also the cost of the laptops, if you pay for laptops for an entire class you're looking at a minimum of probably $10k before the cost of support. That's per classroom assuming 30 students per classroom. With that sort of money you could hire a full time tutor for every three classes.
As far as identifying at risk students, it's not that hard, ask any teacher and odds are good that they know exactly who needs help. At least for the at risk ones, the ones that are simply not living up to their potential are much harder to identify.
Indeed, another use of technology is assessing reading comprehension. Doing it by hand is tedious and takes a lot of time, but a computer can estimate the students reading level much more efficiently. It might still mean that the materials aren't quite right, but there's quicky methods that will help with that.
Being able to know that somebody's reading at about a 5th grade level makes selection of interesting reading material much more efficient.
But there's other things like setting up partners in class is much less likely to result in people being left to fend for themselves. And then there's handing in a digital file of ones report rather than a hard copy. That's one most people forget about, but it allows a teacher to track the progress and the changes, and Word for one allows one to embed comments with the corrections.
But, ultimately, technology is a tool and should be brought in with a specific need in mind and one shouldn't be buying technology without understanding the alternatives because it can hurt when done improperly.
Because they're expensive and divert money that could be spent on things that we know increase test scores. Things like tutoring at risk students and evaluating curriculum to find materials that best assist the students in learning.
Laptops themselves are of limited value, the only times I've ever needed one is for getting help and for doing papers, neither of which is an optimal use of time.