You mean that there aren't any watches in the world that were placed there by God?... Okay okay, to be serious for a moment, consider this: does it matter whether the world or the game has been designed or not, if the individual game player has limited knowledge of the (game) world anyway?
I understand what you're saying about games having that feeling of being engineered, but perhaps it doesn't necessarily matter if the person experiencing the game for the first time is absolutely clueless about what objects are useful, which are not useful, etc.
That would be for making northbridges and southbridges for motherboards.
Of course, they'd probably have a CPU that NEEDS a new northbridge and southbridge to go along with it, but given that nVidia - at least from what little I've read in the link you gave - denied getting out of the chipset business, it seems plausible that they would develop the northbridge and southbridge for their _CPU_.
I wanted to let you guys know the details about this whole thing without being angry.
Mark Bunker, a well known critic of Scientology, had his Youtube account removed a day or two before he posted the entire Jason Beghe interview. Why? Because of a prior violation on a previous account that had a small clip of the Colbert Report on his channel without Viacom's permission. In any case, he made a new account and made sure that everything on his new account had nothing that violated the TOS. Everything was fine, until he drew much attention to his account from the public when he posted the Jason Beghe interview teaser; Youtube, then, started caring about his prior violation on an account that was closed about a year prior to him getting the most recent warning. His account was banned, much uproar was created, etc. etc. Up to this date, he is still not allowed to be back on Youtube, despite contesting the prior violation and proving that he hadn't violated any copyrights ever since that past offense. Even more, Scientology had an account disabled a while ago for posting identities of anti-Scientology protesters yet now enjoy the luxury of a Youtube paid channel (no comments allowed, of course!)
Now, I pose the question to you guys: does this seem like a violation of free speech or not? I'm inclined to think that it does seem at least hypocritical, as the OP suggested, for Youtube to allow terrorist videos to be on Youtube while not allowing the same leeway for "lesser issues" such as Scientology. Without getting into at least external moral issues, it seems hypocritical to allow one content thread to flourish under the TOS, while not allowing another content thread to flourish under the same TOS. But maybe I'm missing the entire point here? I don't know. Eh, what do you guys think?
The best way to hold parties is to get rid of this "smart people only party with wine" business. I find that "smart people" are fine with partying with beer and with all sorts of other "low brow" activities to keep them occupied in said party.
Throw a good party by being a good host and by organizing it well, but for godsake, if it's a casual party, keep it casual, but don't change the decor just because it's "smart people" partying!
I'm a little bit unclear on Marshall McLuhan's media theory (which, in my opinion, is something that all of us should try to understand, since it grants great insight on the characteristics of mediums as it relates to transforming societies), but it seems that the advent of TV was instrumental in transforming our society into the narcissistic society that we have today, which, in my opinion, is as huge of a jump as the jump from printed press to electricity.
You could of course transmit the same information in the 1950's as you could today but on a different, albeit slower, medium; however, the speed increase and other inherent qualities of the medium is EXACTLY the thing that transformed our society! You see, between simple telegraph and telephone, between telephone and computers, we could transmit the same telegraph message across each medium, yet there are great differences in the inherent characteristics of each medium. Thus, I would say that the jump from, say, radio to television, is just as great as telegraph to telephone, or railroad to airplane.
(I'd write more about this but I'm a little lazy; I can explain a little more from what little I do know if you guys want me to)
Travels to new places? Jeez, what about old familiar places for those of us who live boring, mundane lives?
You might say, "but of course, what's to stop you from plotting movements in your daily life?"
That's exactly the problem. You see, we need new satellite technology (or a voyeuristic photographer, whichever is cheaper) so that I can accurately plot the following morning routine on Google Maps:
1.) Wake up in my bedroom facing north with the huge windows (hint hint) 2.) Go into the bathroom approximately 0.001 degrees away from my bedroom (unfortunately, I use refracting glass, so it might be a bit tough to see where I move around in my bath tub) 3.) Eat toast on my dinner table
Eh, from what I read, it depends on the subject. Math education in California, for instance, is supposedly one of the best in the nation since a couple of Stanford professors reacted to the poor math standards (which, unfortunately, is thoroughly established throughout the rest of the country) and decided to come up with their own math curricula for primary education.
(apologies in advance if most of what I'll say below is redundant with other people's posts; these are my own views that aren't necessarily unique)
I completely agree. There's a psychological theory to the group based/student driven teaching that's so popular today called "constructivism." It seems to work great for subjects where there is no right answer, where discussion leads someone to a greater intuitive understanding of the underlying meaning of a metaphor or whatever else through the contexts presented by the individual and the group members. However, when we're talking about something where precise definitions and formulations are needed (like math), you REALLY need a strong teacher to present the topics in a lecture format, because the student likely does NOT know the appropriate context as well as the teacher (given that the teacher actually knows his stuff, which unfortunately, seems to be a more extraordinary case in primary school nowadays.) Though I suppose that's just my opinion based on my own responses to the different teaching styles... I just find that you can cram a lot more information in if it's purely lecture based, with students making study groups outside of the classroom in order to get that sort of peer discussion going.
IMO, what I described above extends nicely to technology driven classrooms.
I've had HORRENDOUS classes where the professor relies on technology almost too much to the point where the lecture either becomes boring or nonexistent. Personally, it'd drive me up the wall if I had to sit through a class period where the student is fumbling around with the computer screen on the wall while he's trying to drag a heart to the chest, mostly because it's a waste of time when the rest of the class has already formulated their own understanding of the concept before the other person demonstrates his own understanding in front of the class.
I use ISOMEDIA. I have a Qwest line provisioned by them running at around 7 Mbps/896 kbps, and though it DOES cost a little more than the Qwest bundle (when you take into account that they offer satellite TV... like that's of any use in Seattle), they are totally fine with whatever operating systems and whatever online applications you choose to use.
I don't care about that DoD! What about... Day of Defeat?!? Does it run it better than a fast PC with NOS logos on the side?
On another note, I also want to know if "its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly" means "I can overclock this bitch on air cooling"
Well, I have a TI-89 and it worked fine for me... up until second quarter calculus (integrals, etc.) I found it mostly useless in everything else. In my higher division math classes, it's mostly theory and equations that involve brain power and algebraic manipulation more than computation and numerical methods (though you'll find the latter in applied math classes, which I'm avoiding like the plague), so if you're planning to go into pure(r) mathematics in college, forget about getting a hefty calculator and just stick with a plain old scientific calculator.
Oh, and if it IS computation/numerical methods that are being taught in a math class, usually it's all done in MATLAB or Mathematica, not in a tiny calculator which is cumbersome to program for.
I had two computers refreshing the page on my DSL connection (a bit redundant and counter-intuitive, I know)... took like five minutes for the page to come up.
Here's the kicker: it came up at around 11:01 AM PST. Sold out.
I can't argue with that.:) I'm taking abstract algebra right now and already we've talked about a few applications in computer science, plus the mathematical reasoning we're learning from that class is too rich to pass up.
However, I think learning about "continuous" mathematics is every bit as important as "discrete" mathematics. Hell, real/complex analysis seems to build mathematical reasoning in a somewhat different but equally as important direction as abstract algebra/combinatorics/etc.
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You mean that there aren't any watches in the world that were placed there by God? ... Okay okay, to be serious for a moment, consider this: does it matter whether the world or the game has been designed or not, if the individual game player has limited knowledge of the (game) world anyway?
I understand what you're saying about games having that feeling of being engineered, but perhaps it doesn't necessarily matter if the person experiencing the game for the first time is absolutely clueless about what objects are useful, which are not useful, etc.
You can't expect to prevent theft at all in any kind of party.
So be sure to either invite only your friends, or make everyone responsible for their own stuff, like every other party out there.
That would be for making northbridges and southbridges for motherboards.
Of course, they'd probably have a CPU that NEEDS a new northbridge and southbridge to go along with it, but given that nVidia - at least from what little I've read in the link you gave - denied getting out of the chipset business, it seems plausible that they would develop the northbridge and southbridge for their _CPU_.
This is sanity check here.
I wanted to let you guys know the details about this whole thing without being angry.
Mark Bunker, a well known critic of Scientology, had his Youtube account removed a day or two before he posted the entire Jason Beghe interview. Why? Because of a prior violation on a previous account that had a small clip of the Colbert Report on his channel without Viacom's permission. In any case, he made a new account and made sure that everything on his new account had nothing that violated the TOS. Everything was fine, until he drew much attention to his account from the public when he posted the Jason Beghe interview teaser; Youtube, then, started caring about his prior violation on an account that was closed about a year prior to him getting the most recent warning. His account was banned, much uproar was created, etc. etc. Up to this date, he is still not allowed to be back on Youtube, despite contesting the prior violation and proving that he hadn't violated any copyrights ever since that past offense. Even more, Scientology had an account disabled a while ago for posting identities of anti-Scientology protesters yet now enjoy the luxury of a Youtube paid channel (no comments allowed, of course!)
Now, I pose the question to you guys: does this seem like a violation of free speech or not? I'm inclined to think that it does seem at least hypocritical, as the OP suggested, for Youtube to allow terrorist videos to be on Youtube while not allowing the same leeway for "lesser issues" such as Scientology. Without getting into at least external moral issues, it seems hypocritical to allow one content thread to flourish under the TOS, while not allowing another content thread to flourish under the same TOS. But maybe I'm missing the entire point here? I don't know. Eh, what do you guys think?
I don't know about you guys, but I like having stacks of books to convince people that I'm really really smart
Please... please. Stop it.
The best way to hold parties is to get rid of this "smart people only party with wine" business. I find that "smart people" are fine with partying with beer and with all sorts of other "low brow" activities to keep them occupied in said party.
Throw a good party by being a good host and by organizing it well, but for godsake, if it's a casual party, keep it casual, but don't change the decor just because it's "smart people" partying!
Next experiment: octopus and growth hormone. With women
Eh, I don't know.
I'm a little bit unclear on Marshall McLuhan's media theory (which, in my opinion, is something that all of us should try to understand, since it grants great insight on the characteristics of mediums as it relates to transforming societies), but it seems that the advent of TV was instrumental in transforming our society into the narcissistic society that we have today, which, in my opinion, is as huge of a jump as the jump from printed press to electricity.
You could of course transmit the same information in the 1950's as you could today but on a different, albeit slower, medium; however, the speed increase and other inherent qualities of the medium is EXACTLY the thing that transformed our society! You see, between simple telegraph and telephone, between telephone and computers, we could transmit the same telegraph message across each medium, yet there are great differences in the inherent characteristics of each medium. Thus, I would say that the jump from, say, radio to television, is just as great as telegraph to telephone, or railroad to airplane.
(I'd write more about this but I'm a little lazy; I can explain a little more from what little I do know if you guys want me to)
I also have to comment on my lack of ability to use HTML in such an informative post (hint hint, moderators!)
Easy, put charcoal in pepper churning device Sprinkle charcoal on steak Then, success!
something + nothing = ... more somethings
Is this sort of like the proof that 2 = 1 or what
Where the hell is the trippy 15 minute warp sequence?
Overclocking!
I just bought a set of G.SKILL 2x 1 GB PC-6400 modules for $130 from Newegg.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Travels to new places? Jeez, what about old familiar places for those of us who live boring, mundane lives?
You might say, "but of course, what's to stop you from plotting movements in your daily life?"
That's exactly the problem. You see, we need new satellite technology (or a voyeuristic photographer, whichever is cheaper) so that I can accurately plot the following morning routine on Google Maps:
1.) Wake up in my bedroom facing north with the huge windows (hint hint)
2.) Go into the bathroom approximately 0.001 degrees away from my bedroom (unfortunately, I use refracting glass, so it might be a bit tough to see where I move around in my bath tub)
3.) Eat toast on my dinner table
Eh, from what I read, it depends on the subject. Math education in California, for instance, is supposedly one of the best in the nation since a couple of Stanford professors reacted to the poor math standards (which, unfortunately, is thoroughly established throughout the rest of the country) and decided to come up with their own math curricula for primary education.
(apologies in advance if most of what I'll say below is redundant with other people's posts; these are my own views that aren't necessarily unique)
I completely agree. There's a psychological theory to the group based/student driven teaching that's so popular today called "constructivism." It seems to work great for subjects where there is no right answer, where discussion leads someone to a greater intuitive understanding of the underlying meaning of a metaphor or whatever else through the contexts presented by the individual and the group members. However, when we're talking about something where precise definitions and formulations are needed (like math), you REALLY need a strong teacher to present the topics in a lecture format, because the student likely does NOT know the appropriate context as well as the teacher (given that the teacher actually knows his stuff, which unfortunately, seems to be a more extraordinary case in primary school nowadays.) Though I suppose that's just my opinion based on my own responses to the different teaching styles... I just find that you can cram a lot more information in if it's purely lecture based, with students making study groups outside of the classroom in order to get that sort of peer discussion going.
IMO, what I described above extends nicely to technology driven classrooms.
I've had HORRENDOUS classes where the professor relies on technology almost too much to the point where the lecture either becomes boring or nonexistent. Personally, it'd drive me up the wall if I had to sit through a class period where the student is fumbling around with the computer screen on the wall while he's trying to drag a heart to the chest, mostly because it's a waste of time when the rest of the class has already formulated their own understanding of the concept before the other person demonstrates his own understanding in front of the class.
I use ISOMEDIA. I have a Qwest line provisioned by them running at around 7 Mbps/896 kbps, and though it DOES cost a little more than the Qwest bundle (when you take into account that they offer satellite TV... like that's of any use in Seattle), they are totally fine with whatever operating systems and whatever online applications you choose to use.
I don't care about that DoD! What about... Day of Defeat ?!? Does it run it better than a fast PC with NOS logos on the side?
On another note, I also want to know if "its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly" means "I can overclock this bitch on air cooling"
I really really hope I don't have to hunt for a water chip just so the vault can operate in the near future.
Though it sounds pretty entertaining.
Well, I have a TI-89 and it worked fine for me... up until second quarter calculus (integrals, etc.) I found it mostly useless in everything else. In my higher division math classes, it's mostly theory and equations that involve brain power and algebraic manipulation more than computation and numerical methods (though you'll find the latter in applied math classes, which I'm avoiding like the plague), so if you're planning to go into pure(r) mathematics in college, forget about getting a hefty calculator and just stick with a plain old scientific calculator.
Oh, and if it IS computation/numerical methods that are being taught in a math class, usually it's all done in MATLAB or Mathematica, not in a tiny calculator which is cumbersome to program for.
I had two computers refreshing the page on my DSL connection (a bit redundant and counter-intuitive, I know)... took like five minutes for the page to come up.
Here's the kicker: it came up at around 11:01 AM PST. Sold out.
Stop shining that blu-ray into my eyes, it's too overrated!
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I can't argue with that. :) I'm taking abstract algebra right now and already we've talked about a few applications in computer science, plus the mathematical reasoning we're learning from that class is too rich to pass up.
However, I think learning about "continuous" mathematics is every bit as important as "discrete" mathematics. Hell, real/complex analysis seems to build mathematical reasoning in a somewhat different but equally as important direction as abstract algebra/combinatorics/etc.