Comment Google (Score 4, Insightful) 87
"(Google must simply not have gotten around to Microsoft yet)."
And they will probably take their sweet time, too.
Comment Re:Do yourself a favor (Score 1) 504
Thanks for the advice, but I'm a history major not a oceanographer, and the interesting part of my voyage are the ports with tons of history (Istanbul, Alexandria, Hong Kong, Kyoto, etc.)
The boat is just my way of getting there, not the point of the trip. Sea semester sounds awesome if your into boating however.
The boat is just my way of getting there, not the point of the trip. Sea semester sounds awesome if your into boating however.
Comment Re:Does nobody know about RFC1149? (Score 1) 504
Yeah, what an asshole I am.
Here I am working my ass off to pay my OWN tuition so I can travel the seas, and I want to be able to send a few pics home to mom and dad, and maybe an Aunt or two.
Your right, I should totally work another shift a week so I can buy a phone instead of trying to find a creative solution.
What a Dick I am.
Here I am working my ass off to pay my OWN tuition so I can travel the seas, and I want to be able to send a few pics home to mom and dad, and maybe an Aunt or two.
Your right, I should totally work another shift a week so I can buy a phone instead of trying to find a creative solution.
What a Dick I am.
Comment Re:Sounds like fun (Score 1) 504
sea-mester (or sea semester) is a tall ship program for oceanographers and marine biologists, so learning to function on a ship is important. I'm a histroy major, and the focus of Semester at Sea is really on the ports, so becoming a sailor isn't really the point.
Submission + - Internet communications while at sea?
ubergamer1337 writes: "Next semester I will be participating in a college study abroad program known as Semester at Sea. The gist of it is that over four months 600ish students sail around the world on a converted cruise ship, visiting diverse port cities while taking classes when we are between ports. Debates about its educational merit aside, my internet options while I will be at sea will be severely limited. We get just 100 minutes of internet access for the entire voyage, and once thats gone the only internet access we have is a university email address, which is limited to messages under a megabyte with no attachments. I have been pondering different ways to staying in contact with friends and family back at home without running to an internet cafe in every port, and I have already decided that I want to set up a blog that can be updated by email, but I wanted to ask the collective wisdom of Slashdot if anyone knows of any other ways to transmit more then just your standard message through email. Some things I would be particularity interested in being able to figure out would be a way to send photos (encode them as text?), and a way to get wikipedia pages etc. emailed to me."
Comment Re:Mmmmm, sexy teacher. (Score 1) 658
My friend,
Is that you, John McCain?
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