I wonder if the Lunar Eclipse will be visible from that point at that time. ~I

It takes me 30 minutes to drive to work every day. It is a 22 mi (no I am not converting it to km for the rest of you) drive one way. So if I follow the windy ass road through the farm fields and behind all of the big rigs and tractors, I get there in 30 minutes. If I get thirty minutes in the air, point my jet pack at the proper flight azimuth to go straight to work, I wager I could make it most of the way there every morning. At the least, I could make it to the petrol station and refill.

Good enough for me.

In fact often the exact opposite - one of my friends back when we where studying told me that he remembers lectures better when doodling (he got top marks in his masters degree), back then I started doodling and found that I have the same experience, doodling "removes" the bored part of me and helps me focus on whats going on.

These days I do the same during meetings and I find that I cope better with the meeting and often remember better what went on.

It has to do with practicality. You've got limited numbers of professors, and huge amounts of students. For some general courses, packing 200 students into a lecture hall is about the only way to cover the material.

When it comes to more specific courses, where you're only going to get 20 students anyway, a seminar format works better.

And yes, I'm a grad student.

So, they made a single error (not releasing Solaris under the GPL 10 years earlier) and wound up losing one battle because of it. They did not lose the Java battle (although if Oracle does not pull it together, Java may yet be crushed by .NET) and they did not lose the OpenOffice.org/StarOffice battle (they do not have Microsoft's market share, but adoption of OpenOffice.org is certainly growing), and those two are probably much more important than Solaris, in the long run; had Sun realized this sooner, perhaps they would not have been taken over.

Thanks for not giving me the benefit of the doubt.

We're comparing two gas tanks here genius. The point is that both are probably filled equally.

If you write, you don’t listen. If you listen, you don’t write. Simple as that.

I HATED “teachers” who gave us the homework of just copying book pages by hand to “learn” them. I couldn’t remember a word of what was written on them.

I specifically avoided taking any notes, as much as possible. And only wrote down formulas, or basic laws. (In a graph, like a mind map, but without the stupid limitations.)
If I didn’t understand everything, I pressed pause, and went back a minute.

Oh, did I mention, that the lectures themselves were only half of where the learning took place, and watching it on video a second time at home filled in the blanks that made the whole lecture useful and stick in the first place?

BASIC has had all that for decades. Clue: there are many versions of BASIC which have progressed since 1964.

Actually, according to this article over at TechReport ( http://techreport.com/articles.x/18448/17 ) the system price (figuring in mobo costs) for AMD procs tends to be higher per unit of performance.

( See this chart: http://techreport.com/r.x/cpu-roundup-2010q1/value-perf-bar-sysprices.gif )

Poppycock to the Regulations. In the phone, power, gas companies, the are all use to and know the various regulators. When I worked at US West, I saw exactly how much of an impact that had on us. BUT, we knew how to work within the framework. Now, with that said, regulations DO cost money. The company response is not free.

But the power companies are holding off doing more power lines in hope that the feds will do it for them, while they take the profits to the bank. And you know what? I am thinking that the feds SHOULD do it. And then charge the power companies for use of it, and the power company would then be allowed to ONLY pass it through (no profits from it). I am not normally a fan of gov. intervention, but in this case, the fed is the right group to get large projects like this done. It used to be that the companies had responsible leaders, but now they have abdicated their role. It is time for the US to do what companies us to do.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly driven back to piracy.

So its not just me? Does anyone have a solution to this? -Chubbz

Hell, feed me enough and I'll show you an "excrement that tests extremes."