By the way, another thing which helped convince me that it isn't a bad idea was the fact that a lot of homeschoolers are ex-teachers. You would be amazed how many ex-teachers there are doing this. Every ex-teacher I talk to says that public schools waste time and they spent the vast majority of their time on a few kids in a class.
Bingo. My mother taught in a public school, then homeschooled my sister and I, and now teaches again for the same public school system. Her reasoning for the homeschooling: "public schools waste time and they spent the vast majority of their time on a few kids in a class."
DSD
I would say that there are two sizes below the cases they describe...microATX cases which are about 4" tall, and the miniITX cases you describe. Either of these seems preferable to the enormous cases in this article.
However, as we move more and more to Internet-based laws and regulations (the paper copies are being phased out) we will all have to have access at higher bandwidth than dialup to register our vehicles, file our taxes, register for school (yes, even primary and secondary school) etc.
All of those applications can easily be done over dialup lines. Why would you need broadband to fill in a web form?
As is replacing the Pope's picture, I suppose, but I would think that that was just a joke, which I suppose may have been offensive to some people, etc, etc, but that's the type of mistake I myself have made more times than I care to remember.
Part of a joke is knowing the proper time and place to tell it--an encyclopedia article is not that place.
As long as he was in the same country as you, wouldn't it have been easier for him to simply mail you a check? Stick to the tried and trusted methods of payment rather than those new-fangled technological solutions when it comes to money...
This discussion started because someone said that ID is not falsifiable. That is incorrect...prove that evolution can create Behe's "irreducibly complex" structures, and Behe will sit down and shut up. Therefore, it is definitely falsifiable. Everything else (Behe's catholicism, your absurd claim that a theory must be proven before it can be disproven) is completely besides the point.
Show the electrical theory that causes lightning and you've proven IMFT wrong. Show the evolutionary theory that causes "irreducibly complex" biological structures and you've proven Behe wrong. They are both falsifiable.
Nonsense, I've been to a talk by Michael Behe (Lehigh prof for ID) and he claimed that if scientists can figured out how evolution deals with his list of "irreducibly complex" biological constructs, then he will be more than happy to accept it. ID (or at least his version of it) is definitely falsifiable.
I thought it looked and sounded fantastic with that 1930's feel, though I'm not into 1930's sci-fi, I'm a fan of 1930's noir. I just found the characters uninteresting and shallow.
I was amazingly excited about Sky Captain because of the style and the fact that it was computer generated...after the terrible reviews I was too depressed to go to see it in the theaters.
I rented it through Netflix and enough time had passed that I was excited again. It was bad...it was so bad that I stopped paying attention near the end and started surfing the net...
I'm glad I listened to the reviews and didn't pay $8.
Anyone who thinks that big organized crime doesn't have their own IT guys who know this stuff forwards and backwards, and set up secure communications and encrypted storage for their bosses is a fool.
Obligatory Sneakers quote: Martin: Organized crime? Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
We had "Roller-Joust." The idea was you would roller skate down the street at each other as fast as you could and the person who fell onto the asphalt after the smash was the loser. Unfortunately, we only played it for about 10 minutes before a mom came screaming out of the house yelling "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" For some reason, we were all forbidden to play it ever again. We were fine with that, as we soon found other ways to pass the time such as the suicidal bike tricks you mentioned...
As I understand it, groups like the PTC typically are mainly concerned with the public airwaves, because those are available freely to anyone with a TV. Cable TV must be paid for so is in a different class, censorship-wise.
If by hard to use, you mean click a button and play, then I don't know what you would consider easy.
I understand it took a while to validate the thing, but after spending hours downloading it on Monday, fifteen extra minutes to verify didn't matter much--I was up and playing at 3:15 EST...
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I would say that there are two sizes below the cases they describe...microATX cases which are about 4" tall, and the miniITX cases you describe. Either of these seems preferable to the enormous cases in this article.
Well, the money isn't really an issue as it will be a new box so Windows XP ($80) + Meedio ($80) > Windows MCE ($120).
However, the plugin features look really interesting...thanks for the info...
DSD
Your box sounds great...do you mind posting specs?
So what are the advantages of Meedio vs. Windows MCE?
I was disappointed Oregon Trail never included the "Donner option" if you ran out of food in the mountains.
However, as we move more and more to Internet-based laws and regulations (the paper copies are being phased out) we will all have to have access at higher bandwidth than dialup to register our vehicles, file our taxes, register for school (yes, even primary and secondary school) etc.
All of those applications can easily be done over dialup lines. Why would you need broadband to fill in a web form?
As is replacing the Pope's picture, I suppose, but I would think that that was just a joke, which I suppose may have been offensive to some people, etc, etc, but that's the type of mistake I myself have made more times than I care to remember.
Part of a joke is knowing the proper time and place to tell it--an encyclopedia article is not that place.
As long as he was in the same country as you, wouldn't it have been easier for him to simply mail you a check? Stick to the tried and trusted methods of payment rather than those new-fangled technological solutions when it comes to money...
This discussion started because someone said that ID is not falsifiable. That is incorrect...prove that evolution can create Behe's "irreducibly complex" structures, and Behe will sit down and shut up. Therefore, it is definitely falsifiable.
Everything else (Behe's catholicism, your absurd claim that a theory must be proven before it can be disproven) is completely besides the point.
Show the electrical theory that causes lightning and you've proven IMFT wrong. Show the evolutionary theory that causes "irreducibly complex" biological structures and you've proven Behe wrong. They are both falsifiable.
Nothing that you just said denies that ID is falsifiable.
Nonsense, I've been to a talk by Michael Behe (Lehigh prof for ID) and he claimed that if scientists can figured out how evolution deals with his list of "irreducibly complex" biological constructs, then he will be more than happy to accept it. ID (or at least his version of it) is definitely falsifiable.
I highly recommend "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis on this same theme.
I thought it looked and sounded fantastic with that 1930's feel, though I'm not into 1930's sci-fi, I'm a fan of 1930's noir.
I just found the characters uninteresting and shallow.
I was amazingly excited about Sky Captain because of the style and the fact that it was computer generated...after the terrible reviews I was too depressed to go to see it in the theaters.
I rented it through Netflix and enough time had passed that I was excited again. It was bad...it was so bad that I stopped paying attention near the end and started surfing the net...
I'm glad I listened to the reviews and didn't pay $8.
Anyone who thinks that big organized crime doesn't have their own IT guys who know this stuff forwards and backwards, and set up secure communications and encrypted storage for their bosses is a fool.
Obligatory Sneakers quote:
Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
Does MS produce what may be the most useful internet-related product today?
:-P
Windows XP
I for one, only use paper from free-range rainforests.
I can confirm that free-range paper tastes better than farm-raised paper...it must be the sweet, sweet taste of freedom.
Someone's been playing waaaay too much Fallout/Fallout 2. :-)
We had "Roller-Joust." The idea was you would roller skate down the street at each other as fast as you could and the person who fell onto the asphalt after the smash was the loser. Unfortunately, we only played it for about 10 minutes before a mom came screaming out of the house yelling "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" For some reason, we were all forbidden to play it ever again. We were fine with that, as we soon found other ways to pass the time such as the suicidal bike tricks you mentioned...
As I understand it, groups like the PTC typically are mainly concerned with the public airwaves, because those are available freely to anyone with a TV. Cable TV must be paid for so is in a different class, censorship-wise.
AFAIK, Method B is applied to China while Method A is applied to Cuba. Why the double standard?
I'm hearing rumors that the experiences of the CD vs the online version are drastically different. I had the online version...your mileage may vary.
If by hard to use, you mean click a button and play, then I don't know what you would consider easy.
I understand it took a while to validate the thing, but after spending hours downloading it on Monday, fifteen extra minutes to verify didn't matter much--I was up and playing at 3:15 EST...