I'm also going to disagree here. I'm a teacher at an international school, and my Indian coworker is eloquent, creative, and extremely, extremely hardworking. She puts the rest of us to shame.
I also did this when I worked in the library in college. Although it's true that I took some programing classes, I think this is just common sense. Most of my student coworkers were social science or liberal arts majors, and as far as I saw, they all did the same thing.
I think it's more about whether your fellow students have any sense than whether or not they know about quicksort.
<quote>A good example is Rabies in Japan. The likelihood that an animal will enter the respective country with the respective disease without having the respective vaccine is super low.</quote>
Hahahaha. Good God. Yeah, it's super low. It's because Japanese Agriculture is in-effing-sane.
I have Long Term Residency in Japan; I also have two dogs. I did exponentially more paperwork to bring my American pups to Japan than I did to obtain a three year work visa. (Not that they don't have their reasons, but still.)
I dare you to try and win with random moves even on a 9 by 9 Go board and a four handicap. Even an uncertain 20k player will swamp your randomized moves every time. There are indeed many levels of mastery to Go, but the game has nothing to do with random moves.:)
I started sharing an email account with my step-father when I was six, and within three or four months I had my own account. My knowledge of computers was very basic, but I could clear the cache, cookies, browser history, install and uninstall programs, etc.
I turned out okay.:) Relax, guys. I had no idea what the alt.sex people were talking about until I was ready to know what was going on. Porn was moderately alarming, but something I was going to be exposed to eventually no matter what.
The Internet is a big wide place, but they'll find their peers--What are you afraid of? That they'll become enamored with a different distribution of Linux than you?:) You raised them well. Tell them not to give out personal, physical world information, and let them go.
(Disclosure: I was a Davidson Young Scholar once, never a fellow, although I was part of the experiment at University of Nevada Reno that lead to the Davidson Academy, and I just graduated from the program I'm about to mention.:) )
Ten is good and young, but 12-13 is fairly average. Mary Baldwin College in Virginia ( www.mbc.edu ) has residential program for young students, although unfortunately it only accepts women. Most science focused students transfer to larger, more well-known schools, I'm afraid, although the three from my year that stayed in our little program went to Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and MIT for graduate school. I think our youngest graduate was sixteen.
More than that, it's a reference to "Chobits," a manga and later an anime series circa 2001. The main character is a student living in Tokyo who finds a mysterious 'persocon' who works without an operating system.
The quote is so well-known because of a sequence where she (the android, the main character is male) marches around the city on a mission to buy underwear, shouting, "Pantsu, pantsu!"
Fugues are inherently algorithmic. You take a theme, invert, reserve, invert-reverse, modulate... Bach just did this in a particularly beautiful and inventive way. You'll find his counterpoint and stretto are also somewhat regular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue
[*] The $11.95 Unlimited Plan includes the surcharge of YOUR SOUL at the outset and the BRAIN of one (1) KITTEN per day for each day that we actually make good on our promise and give you real unlimited access to anything on our network.
The owner probably figures that if you care enough to switch to his provider on the mere hope that it -might- stay relatively free of commercial interference, you've probably been meaning to switch to Linux anyways.
Anything you can do with the DS, you can do with the iPhone. Um, no. Especially not in Japan, where the DS is wildly popular with women. The DS has brand-name recognition as something trendy as well as something that plays games. Casual gamers are happy with the DS because "it doesn't seem difficult" to play with. http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/05/ japan_games/ The iPhone won't be nearly so friendly.
Yes, perhaps interesting from an academic point of view, but why are we really looking at this? You don't even have to RTFA to know that our planet will be uninhabitable a long, long time before our sun gets to this stage. Why do we care?
I think that's probably an unfair characterisation. Yes, this game is marketed towards children but considering the splash it made in Japan ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Diamond_ and_Pearl#Reception ) and the franchise's previous success in America, I think it's unlikely that it won't be an important game this year, if not just by sales volume alone.
Anyways, they put out some fun games.:) It couldn't be more mindless than Cooking Mama, after all, and I was (am) terribly fond of that game.
Kill the rumors! Kill the rumors!
Jedi is NOT an organized religion--There have been no large scale attempts to gather up followers under a single authority.
However, it is true that England and Wales officially acknowledge Jedi Knights. [URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757067.stm/]
People who read or study to take a little bit of stress out of their lives aren't considered addicted or obsessive. Why should those who do the same thing on the Internet be considered ill? There's a similar perceived divide between people who spend a lot of time socializing and those who do the same over the 'Net or by phone. I don't know what people don't do because they feel they have to or to self medicate. People often do things to change their mental states--After all, who doesn't like to have fun?
While I'm sure there are people that use the Internet in a way that negatively effects their social life, I think just as many and more use it to enhance their lives in a positive way. People are just making a big deal out the way technology changes their lives.
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I'm also going to disagree here. I'm a teacher at an international school, and my Indian coworker is eloquent, creative, and extremely, extremely hardworking. She puts the rest of us to shame.
I also did this when I worked in the library in college. Although it's true that I took some programing classes, I think this is just common sense. Most of my student coworkers were social science or liberal arts majors, and as far as I saw, they all did the same thing.
I think it's more about whether your fellow students have any sense than whether or not they know about quicksort.
Yes. And I still did, right up until you posted that.
Ye gads. Geo-cities. Now those bizarre scaling methods actually make sense!
(I kid, I kid.)
<quote>A good example is Rabies in Japan. The likelihood that an animal will enter the respective country with the respective disease without having the respective vaccine is super low.</quote>
Hahahaha. Good God. Yeah, it's super low. It's because Japanese Agriculture is in-effing-sane.
I have Long Term Residency in Japan; I also have two dogs. I did exponentially more paperwork to bring my American pups to Japan than I did to obtain a three year work visa. (Not that they don't have their reasons, but still.)
I dare you to try and win with random moves even on a 9 by 9 Go board and a four handicap. Even an uncertain 20k player will swamp your randomized moves every time. There are indeed many levels of mastery to Go, but the game has nothing to do with random moves. :)
I started sharing an email account with my step-father when I was six, and within three or four months I had my own account. My knowledge of computers was very basic, but I could clear the cache, cookies, browser history, install and uninstall programs, etc. I turned out okay. :) Relax, guys. I had no idea what the alt.sex people were talking about until I was ready to know what was going on. Porn was moderately alarming, but something I was going to be exposed to eventually no matter what.
The Internet is a big wide place, but they'll find their peers--What are you afraid of? That they'll become enamored with a different distribution of Linux than you? :) You raised them well. Tell them not to give out personal, physical world information, and let them go.
(Disclosure: I was a Davidson Young Scholar once, never a fellow, although I was part of the experiment at University of Nevada Reno that lead to the Davidson Academy, and I just graduated from the program I'm about to mention. :) )
Ten is good and young, but 12-13 is fairly average. Mary Baldwin College in Virginia ( www.mbc.edu ) has residential program for young students, although unfortunately it only accepts women. Most science focused students transfer to larger, more well-known schools, I'm afraid, although the three from my year that stayed in our little program went to Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and MIT for graduate school. I think our youngest graduate was sixteen.
More than that, it's a reference to "Chobits," a manga and later an anime series circa 2001. The main character is a student living in Tokyo who finds a mysterious 'persocon' who works without an operating system. The quote is so well-known because of a sequence where she (the android, the main character is male) marches around the city on a mission to buy underwear, shouting, "Pantsu, pantsu!"
Fugues are inherently algorithmic. You take a theme, invert, reserve, invert-reverse, modulate... Bach just did this in a particularly beautiful and inventive way. You'll find his counterpoint and stretto are also somewhat regular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue
[*] The $11.95 Unlimited Plan includes the surcharge of YOUR SOUL at the outset and the BRAIN of one (1) KITTEN per day for each day that we actually make good on our promise and give you real unlimited access to anything on our network.
You guys don't know the half of the horror--The first thing I read was 'EFF Attacks Online Gaming Parents.
The owner probably figures that if you care enough to switch to his provider on the mere hope that it -might- stay relatively free of commercial interference, you've probably been meaning to switch to Linux anyways.
Yes, perhaps interesting from an academic point of view, but why are we really looking at this? You don't even have to RTFA to know that our planet will be uninhabitable a long, long time before our sun gets to this stage. Why do we care?
Hello? Tech sector? Of course we're on crack. Why else would we be here?
I think that's probably an unfair characterisation. Yes, this game is marketed towards children but considering the splash it made in Japan ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Diamond_ and_Pearl#Reception ) and the franchise's previous success in America, I think it's unlikely that it won't be an important game this year, if not just by sales volume alone.
Anyways, they put out some fun games. :) It couldn't be more mindless than Cooking Mama, after all, and I was (am) terribly fond of that game.
Kill the rumors! Kill the rumors! Jedi is NOT an organized religion--There have been no large scale attempts to gather up followers under a single authority. However, it is true that England and Wales officially acknowledge Jedi Knights. [URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757067.stm/]
People who read or study to take a little bit of stress out of their lives aren't considered addicted or obsessive. Why should those who do the same thing on the Internet be considered ill? There's a similar perceived divide between people who spend a lot of time socializing and those who do the same over the 'Net or by phone. I don't know what people don't do because they feel they have to or to self medicate. People often do things to change their mental states--After all, who doesn't like to have fun? While I'm sure there are people that use the Internet in a way that negatively effects their social life, I think just as many and more use it to enhance their lives in a positive way. People are just making a big deal out the way technology changes their lives.