Gravitational pull and air friction. The opposite of escape velocity occurs and the Earth's pull and friction causes the craft to come in at speed. A re-entry rocket could be used to help slow decent, but that would require carrying extra fuel on take-off. So it is better to just deal with the heat and dissipate or deflect the heat. Really it is quite unavoidable.
Idioms don't transfer well between languages.
English/Australian: "to refuse to work, especially because you are not satisfied with your pay or working conditions"
http://idioms.thefreedictionar...
I have been intentionally ignoring Yahoo! since they noted a logo change, because I didn't want to see the constant flap. Really this seems to go against reasonable design and tries to look too much like print magazine. Having a clean interface is much more important than having tons of background images and hard to read fonts. I just had a conversation with my daughter about the importance of typography in print material and right there on Yahoo! I see the rules thrown out the window.
Agreed. Used these for years in mechanical and electrical drawing. Cheap to replace if lost ($5 ish) and always have clean, neat lines. Bought them for my kids to do math homework so there is no excuse in not having a sharp pencil and neat work.
Voter tools like Publius are far more valuable than the collection of graphs from Google. Voters need a single place to research and look for information about their ballot. Especially for voters on border lines with other states, issues are muddied as TV and radio aren't focused enough to hit just their target market. Looking at a single place where your ballot is laid out is much more effective.
The organization and source of the Google data is questionable in my mind. Not sure why they have chosen to group things the way the did in the Insights tab and makes it look suspicious.
We started out with PETs in like 1984 because of a progressive teacher. He insisted that computers would soon become very important. The school wouldn't pay for the machine so he bought one and started a computer club where we learned basic architecture and simple programming. I became hooked and tried to get my hands on a Tandy to learn about how the darn thing worked. My parents finally gave in an bought me a C64 to program on and I got my hands on a Vic20 to tear apart and learn how it worked.
Our middle school got one of the early Macs which was used for little more than games. I stuck with learning assembler and machine language on the C64.
By the time I got to HS there was a simple lab of C64 machines. We learned some basic programming and how to control the video and memory in the machines. Very little science and tons of trial and error. After a year of that I found our chemistry teacher had a PCJr. He let us turn into a dual head machine so two of us could work on it at the same time by overlaying the OS with a round-robin OS that allowed dual input and output. We taught ourselves Pascal and memory management. In my spare time I learned the concepts around DBMS and began to create simple database tools to implement inventory systems for the school. Also started working on drawing and architectural programs to use in our drafting classes. Our school wasn't very progressive and only a couple of us were interested enough to teach ourselves how the machines worked. In the end though it sure helped to prep me for college and the real world.
I would avoid Gortek and the Microchips, it is a little aged. Scripting seems to be an easy start and there are a ton of Perl or Python tools ready and available on the internet. I am mentoring a high schooler now and let him chose his language and he is using Perl - easy, tons of tools, lots of flexability. One thing I see with these languages though is that you have to unlearn bad habits unless you have some structured education. Personally I learned Assembler, Basic, C and Pascal as first languages but they will ruin his spirit for programming.
This is nonsense. Monsato has been using patent rights to sue the crap out of farmers who don't toe-the-line and grow Monsato seed. There have been several cases [PDF] where Monsato has specifically targeted farmers who "steal" their patent simply because Monsato seed crops grow adjacent to non-Monsato fields.
Tongue in cheek there are tons of sites that hype this to be a bigger problem. I disagree in principle with these views, but for the conspiracy theorist in me they are an interesting read.
Personal or production scanners need to be cleaned and maintained. Using non-soap cleaners for the lenses and glass helps to keep the crap out. Document joggers align paper - but they also kick dust/dirt out of the paper to be scanned. Most importantly is keeping ahead on your rollers. Clean them with a swab and good alcohol (not the 60-70% medical grade stuff). When the rollers are worn - take them out and replace as soon as possible. Oxidation is the biggest killer of rubber rollers over time. Sometimes highly acidic paper (from the lingin) will cause early failure too. By keeping rollers clean you will have less trouble. Oh, and if you can adjust the tension in the rollers - do that too.
This is one of those instances where I wonder if the drug repurposing is good or bad. The side effects seem to be typical, but as the article points out:
Experts said that the results were promising, but noted that in the past successful drugs in mice often failed to work in people.
So what I am trying to figure out is this an instance where Pfizer or someone else is backing the study. It looks like Easi isn't backing this but is someone else backing the work trying to keep a drug repurposed.
As I think about this I also wonder what happens to the plaque that is removed...so is it reabsorbed into the body?
Regardless, I think this is definately something useful and helpful if the human studies pan out.
The current philosophy that China will over take the US in technology improvements or economically is based on non-sense from the media and fear mongers. *gasp* The fact of the matter is that there is such disparity in the Chinese economy they will soon be feeling the sobering effects of the rash growth and self-valuing yuan.
Let me fix that for you - Let's separate the two arguments here to keep this focused. The US took on minds from Europe before, during and after the war to deprive other countries the access to those minds. It was a political move and gave us access to their achievements.
If the argument is that we bring on H1-B to deprive other countries access or because we have a lack of that knowledge then H1-B works, in part. It fails in that it doesn't require H1-B applicants to stick around permanently.
The reality is that in general this visa status brings inexpensive labor to bear on the market and creates a revolving door of talent to the States.
I too agree that people under H1-B status aren't bad. In my experience most folks are really nice and they are just trying to get ahead. Unfortunately they become pawns in an economic game. And in the end we train them, they go home and now compete even more heavily on wage in the market.
The article from Ars Technica on this subject brings an interesting view point on the 'simplicity' of the tool set. This is all great and wonderful, but I suspect it will end up like other 'easy' technologies in primary and secondary eduction. Companies will think there is a simple path, educators will be dumped into the middle of it and the result will be classrooms of poorly implemented technology. Worse yet will be states that create new focus groups to identify the curriculum needed in the class room and schools will be forced to purchase technology they cannot use.
Educators need open source material that allows them to quickly mix-and-match to meet their teaching needs and the needs of the children. Bringing a new technology to bear can only go so far if the material available to them is still sub-par from an industry publisher. Besides, with 'approved' material being mostly copyrighted, the educators and schools will still have to pay high prices to access the information.
Making it easy to mash-up material is not going to make it more accessible and won't help improve the ability to teach and learn.
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How about a Commodore running the HVAC for a school? http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1...
Gravitational pull and air friction. The opposite of escape velocity occurs and the Earth's pull and friction causes the craft to come in at speed. A re-entry rocket could be used to help slow decent, but that would require carrying extra fuel on take-off. So it is better to just deal with the heat and dissipate or deflect the heat. Really it is quite unavoidable.
Idioms don't transfer well between languages. English/Australian: "to refuse to work, especially because you are not satisfied with your pay or working conditions" http://idioms.thefreedictionar...
I have been intentionally ignoring Yahoo! since they noted a logo change, because I didn't want to see the constant flap. Really this seems to go against reasonable design and tries to look too much like print magazine. Having a clean interface is much more important than having tons of background images and hard to read fonts. I just had a conversation with my daughter about the importance of typography in print material and right there on Yahoo! I see the rules thrown out the window.
Terrible.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/140287125/Untangling-the-Web-A-Guide-to-Internet-Research
Wire Lube
Agreed. Used these for years in mechanical and electrical drawing. Cheap to replace if lost ($5 ish) and always have clean, neat lines. Bought them for my kids to do math homework so there is no excuse in not having a sharp pencil and neat work.
Voter tools like Publius are far more valuable than the collection of graphs from Google. Voters need a single place to research and look for information about their ballot. Especially for voters on border lines with other states, issues are muddied as TV and radio aren't focused enough to hit just their target market. Looking at a single place where your ballot is laid out is much more effective.
The organization and source of the Google data is questionable in my mind. Not sure why they have chosen to group things the way the did in the Insights tab and makes it look suspicious.
Live feed was still running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jyf6RW1JqF0
...to earn my vote...That is the question that needs to be asked over an over.
We started out with PETs in like 1984 because of a progressive teacher. He insisted that computers would soon become very important. The school wouldn't pay for the machine so he bought one and started a computer club where we learned basic architecture and simple programming. I became hooked and tried to get my hands on a Tandy to learn about how the darn thing worked. My parents finally gave in an bought me a C64 to program on and I got my hands on a Vic20 to tear apart and learn how it worked.
Our middle school got one of the early Macs which was used for little more than games. I stuck with learning assembler and machine language on the C64.
By the time I got to HS there was a simple lab of C64 machines. We learned some basic programming and how to control the video and memory in the machines. Very little science and tons of trial and error. After a year of that I found our chemistry teacher had a PCJr. He let us turn into a dual head machine so two of us could work on it at the same time by overlaying the OS with a round-robin OS that allowed dual input and output. We taught ourselves Pascal and memory management. In my spare time I learned the concepts around DBMS and began to create simple database tools to implement inventory systems for the school. Also started working on drawing and architectural programs to use in our drafting classes. Our school wasn't very progressive and only a couple of us were interested enough to teach ourselves how the machines worked. In the end though it sure helped to prep me for college and the real world.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-8-catastrophe-driving-valve-to-embrace-linux/
I would avoid Gortek and the Microchips, it is a little aged. Scripting seems to be an easy start and there are a ton of Perl or Python tools ready and available on the internet. I am mentoring a high schooler now and let him chose his language and he is using Perl - easy, tons of tools, lots of flexability. One thing I see with these languages though is that you have to unlearn bad habits unless you have some structured education. Personally I learned Assembler, Basic, C and Pascal as first languages but they will ruin his spirit for programming.
And now for something completely different...
This is nonsense. Monsato has been using patent rights to sue the crap out of farmers who don't toe-the-line and grow Monsato seed. There have been several cases [PDF] where Monsato has specifically targeted farmers who "steal" their patent simply because Monsato seed crops grow adjacent to non-Monsato fields. Tongue in cheek there are tons of sites that hype this to be a bigger problem. I disagree in principle with these views, but for the conspiracy theorist in me they are an interesting read.
Personal or production scanners need to be cleaned and maintained. Using non-soap cleaners for the lenses and glass helps to keep the crap out. Document joggers align paper - but they also kick dust/dirt out of the paper to be scanned. Most importantly is keeping ahead on your rollers. Clean them with a swab and good alcohol (not the 60-70% medical grade stuff). When the rollers are worn - take them out and replace as soon as possible. Oxidation is the biggest killer of rubber rollers over time. Sometimes highly acidic paper (from the lingin) will cause early failure too. By keeping rollers clean you will have less trouble. Oh, and if you can adjust the tension in the rollers - do that too.
This is one of those instances where I wonder if the drug repurposing is good or bad. The side effects seem to be typical, but as the article points out:
Experts said that the results were promising, but noted that in the past successful drugs in mice often failed to work in people.
So what I am trying to figure out is this an instance where Pfizer or someone else is backing the study. It looks like Easi isn't backing this but is someone else backing the work trying to keep a drug repurposed.
As I think about this I also wonder what happens to the plaque that is removed...so is it reabsorbed into the body?
Regardless, I think this is definately something useful and helpful if the human studies pan out.
Politicians on the cheap 1 USD = 1.015 CAD
Bump. Someone sprinkle modpoints above.
The current philosophy that China will over take the US in technology improvements or economically is based on non-sense from the media and fear mongers. *gasp* The fact of the matter is that there is such disparity in the Chinese economy they will soon be feeling the sobering effects of the rash growth and self-valuing yuan.
Let me fix that for you - Let's separate the two arguments here to keep this focused. The US took on minds from Europe before, during and after the war to deprive other countries the access to those minds. It was a political move and gave us access to their achievements. If the argument is that we bring on H1-B to deprive other countries access or because we have a lack of that knowledge then H1-B works, in part. It fails in that it doesn't require H1-B applicants to stick around permanently. The reality is that in general this visa status brings inexpensive labor to bear on the market and creates a revolving door of talent to the States. I too agree that people under H1-B status aren't bad. In my experience most folks are really nice and they are just trying to get ahead. Unfortunately they become pawns in an economic game. And in the end we train them, they go home and now compete even more heavily on wage in the market.
The article from Ars Technica on this subject brings an interesting view point on the 'simplicity' of the tool set. This is all great and wonderful, but I suspect it will end up like other 'easy' technologies in primary and secondary eduction. Companies will think there is a simple path, educators will be dumped into the middle of it and the result will be classrooms of poorly implemented technology. Worse yet will be states that create new focus groups to identify the curriculum needed in the class room and schools will be forced to purchase technology they cannot use.
Educators need open source material that allows them to quickly mix-and-match to meet their teaching needs and the needs of the children. Bringing a new technology to bear can only go so far if the material available to them is still sub-par from an industry publisher. Besides, with 'approved' material being mostly copyrighted, the educators and schools will still have to pay high prices to access the information.
Making it easy to mash-up material is not going to make it more accessible and won't help improve the ability to teach and learn.
Apparently the Senator withdrew his support. Trying to link to his site: http://rubio.senate.gov/ shows nothing. He did make a facebook posting withdrawing support https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarcoRubio/posts/340889625936408#!/SenatorMarcoRubio Interesting times...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3CFUrwI2_rI
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html Nice cartoon of the situation. Sometimes humor is a good way to express contempt, disbelief and frustration in a safe and meaningful way.