Indeed. I find it interesting that so many comments on this article are about how bad the education system is in the United States, and people claiming that there's a mountain of data to back up that assertion even though TFA doesn't actually touch on it. Meanwhile, not too long ago, you had this article pointing out that test results are really a straw man, and the US is actually doing rather well with education.
I mean, I'm all for good debate, I'm all for improving things, but if one doesn't use a bit of logical reasoning when one is debating about logical reasoning, there's a slight risk of irony.:)
I never presented any evidence, my point was that the study never collected any data about other countries in the first place. Thus, I don't approve of using a wording that singles out the US as being inferior somehow, when there's really not data (in this study) that implies any such thing. The article also mentions that they hadn't collected this particular data before, so they can't even compare to how US students did 10 years ago, or 5 years ago, or any such thing.
Also, judging by the article, the announcement seemed to boil down to "Students have an easy time with easy questions, but a harder time with hard questions."
The headline implies that US students have more difficulty with reasoning skills than other students as a whole, or that this difficulty is unique to students from the US. I could easily imagine that these skills are lacking for students around the globe...
Huh? Each frame is a good still picture. Blending pairs, whatever that means, would just make a blur. Dropping every frame seems like the right thing to do.
I think you'd end up with a rather short movie if you dropped every frame..
(I know you meant every OTHER frame, I just like being a pedant sometimes)
Did you ever use it in the pre-1.0 days, when there wasn't yet support for layers? You had to open each "layer" entity as a separate file in a separate window, and then it would let you combine/multiply/divide/etc between multiple files to come up with a composite. Now, THAT was a lot of windows to keep track of.
1940s? According to this about article, Steve Kordek's contributions to the modern pinball machine didn't start until 1962.
TFA says that he made a game with the flippers at the bottom of the playing field in 1948. The about.com article didn't give a date for that, but TFA says it happened right after "Humpty Dumpty."
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In the UK, nuclear weapon convoys are unmistakable, and they are incredibly heavily guarded. The weapons are carried in armoured articulated lorries, but they are accompanied by escorts from the police, the nuclear constabulary, the regular army, the marines, decoy trucks, recovery tow vehicles, fire tenders...
Regional roads are closed entirely for them while they pass by, patrolled by police on foot. Nothing is allowed to block their way. They don't stop.
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While you are observing all that, the actual nuclear warhead is being moved in a regular looking lorry marked TESCO.
sPh
Initially, I read "a regular looking lorry marked TEPCO." The statement took a different meaning.:)
Ack!! Have you actually USED any benchtop tools from Harbor Freight? Or any power tools at all? That place is terrible. Also, none of those mills are CNC, so comparing them to 3D printers is not particularly telling.
Apple isn't the only company building things in China, but somehow they've managed to be the most profitable about it. If "Made In China" was the only requisite for extreme profits, then I think there would be a lot more "99 cent" stores dominating the stock market.
The press release doesn't really mention much about iTunes sales. Mostly it's talking about the MASSIVE number of iPhones they sold, and huge increases in almost every other hardware product over this quarter last year (except for the iPod). 37 million iPhones is equivalent to quite a lot of mp3's....
I can't help that think with record breaking profits like this, there has to be some sort of bubble that's about to burst. Maybe it's paranoia brought about by the current economy, but goodness.. $13 billion in profit? More than 25% of their revenue is profit? Something is going on here..
Man. Dockwise has the right idea. I didn't realize they had a ship in the works that was that size. That's fantastic- and I can only imagine they're going to make bank on that investment.
I don't think Dockwise has anything close to big enough for the Concordia. According to Wikipedia (which I'm happy to be able to access today!) their biggest semi-submersible is the Blue Marlin, which only has 178m of deck space. The Concordia would need something more like 250m. I think they'd likely float it and tug it to one of the nearby shipyards...
If you look at CruiseJunkie you'll see a recent event on the Carnival Liberty that's being attributed to a computer glitch. I don't think that's "official" by any means, but I do believe that there are probably some computer safeguards on newer ships. I've been on a bunch of cruise ship bridges and engine offices, and there's plenty of automated systems.
I think they could salvage the ship without THAT much difficulty. They are about 400KM (in either direction) from a Fincantieri shipyard- there's one in Genoa and one in Naples. Fincantieri is the company that built the ship in the first place, so I imagine they'd be pretty accommodating. The ship could be floated by just patching a few holes and putting the gigantic balloon-like things they use to launch tankers under the submerged sections, and just inflating them and tugging the ship off the land. Pump out the water and get the ship upright, and it'd be little worse than the Carnival Splendour that had to be tugged to Mexico. The ship's own engines might still even work. I bet the cost of salvage and revitalization would be less than the cost of making a new ship, which would probably run about $800 million.
Now, it's another question whether anybody would want to take a cruise on this cursed ship once revitalization was complete, but it would get renamed and rebranded and most people probably wouldn't even realize.
You can get a Sony Cybershot with Zeiss glass, and I'm sure you can take some very sharp photos. Again, for me I don't think I can be without a DSLR, but the original poster sounded like somebody that wanted to try the latest concept in digital cameras even if it wasn't necessarily the best option for his application..
For myself, I like having the toys and experimenting with them... so if I were going to spend $300 on something, I'll chose a fisheye lens or some other toy before I look at getting a camera that doesn't offer me any new abilities other than being small. Although, that said, I'm curious about getting a camera that I can take under water.:)
I am curious what advantages you imagine you'll get from having interchangeable lenses. For macro purposes, a lot of little point&shoot cameras do great with close focus because their sensors are so small. Likewise, smaller sensors allow for long telephoto lenses to still be very compact. If you were saying you wanted better wide angle capability (for architecture and whatnot) or you wanted to be able to shallow depth-of-field stuff (portraiture and artsy stuff) then I'd think maybe an interchangeable lens camera would be best..
I'm not suggesting you get a crappy point&shoot, just that if you're traveling a lot then you'll want something small and durable.. I lug my DSLR all over because I've already made the investment, but it's killer on my back.
Luckily I haven't spent any time in jail, I'm basing my statements on accounts from close friends, who are not "bad guys..."
That said, I don't think I said anything incorrect- one is indeed restricted to local landlines and will not have the benefit of their phone book on their cell phone. I should have mentioned the part about the numbers for bail bondsmen being posted.
Also, my friends never had to spend any significant amount of time in jail (I think only a couple hours in the most recent case) and it's not like they were mistreated. Still, there are more pleasant ways to spend an evening than getting arrested...
One phone call using a landline at the police station that can only call other landlines within the local area code... and that's after you've had your personal phone confiscated, so if there's anybody you can call that meets those criteria you better have their number memorized.
I am glad you submitted, and glad it made it to the top. I think this is pretty incredible- the thought of one day, truly being able to see through another's eyes... And I know there are already cybernetic eyes out there, but this seems like this research could also lead to some big leaps forward in that area.
Maybe they can help out some aging astronauts, too..
On aircraft carriers, the pilots already are encouraged to make really hard landings to make sure the tailhook catches.. and they also gun the engines as they land, just in case the hook doesn't catch.
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Indeed. I find it interesting that so many comments on this article are about how bad the education system is in the United States, and people claiming that there's a mountain of data to back up that assertion even though TFA doesn't actually touch on it. Meanwhile, not too long ago, you had this article pointing out that test results are really a straw man, and the US is actually doing rather well with education.
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I mean, I'm all for good debate, I'm all for improving things, but if one doesn't use a bit of logical reasoning when one is debating about logical reasoning, there's a slight risk of irony.
The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure skills used by real scientists than do multiple-choice questions
I never presented any evidence, my point was that the study never collected any data about other countries in the first place. Thus, I don't approve of using a wording that singles out the US as being inferior somehow, when there's really not data (in this study) that implies any such thing. The article also mentions that they hadn't collected this particular data before, so they can't even compare to how US students did 10 years ago, or 5 years ago, or any such thing.
Also, judging by the article, the announcement seemed to boil down to "Students have an easy time with easy questions, but a harder time with hard questions."
The headline implies that US students have more difficulty with reasoning skills than other students as a whole, or that this difficulty is unique to students from the US. I could easily imagine that these skills are lacking for students around the globe...
Huh? Each frame is a good still picture. Blending pairs, whatever that means, would just make a blur. Dropping every frame seems like the right thing to do.
I think you'd end up with a rather short movie if you dropped every frame..
(I know you meant every OTHER frame, I just like being a pedant sometimes)
Did you ever use it in the pre-1.0 days, when there wasn't yet support for layers? You had to open each "layer" entity as a separate file in a separate window, and then it would let you combine/multiply/divide/etc between multiple files to come up with a composite. Now, THAT was a lot of windows to keep track of.
1940s? According to this about article, Steve Kordek's contributions to the modern pinball machine didn't start until 1962.
TFA says that he made a game with the flippers at the bottom of the playing field in 1948. The about.com article didn't give a date for that, but TFA says it happened right after "Humpty Dumpty."
While you are observing all that, the actual nuclear warhead is being moved in a regular looking lorry marked TESCO.
sPh
Initially, I read "a regular looking lorry marked TEPCO." The statement took a different meaning. :)
The American Association Against Abusively Applied Acronyms has a problem with the title of this submission.
Ack!! Have you actually USED any benchtop tools from Harbor Freight? Or any power tools at all? That place is terrible. Also, none of those mills are CNC, so comparing them to 3D printers is not particularly telling.
Apple isn't the only company building things in China, but somehow they've managed to be the most profitable about it. If "Made In China" was the only requisite for extreme profits, then I think there would be a lot more "99 cent" stores dominating the stock market.
The press release doesn't really mention much about iTunes sales. Mostly it's talking about the MASSIVE number of iPhones they sold, and huge increases in almost every other hardware product over this quarter last year (except for the iPod). 37 million iPhones is equivalent to quite a lot of mp3's....
I can't help that think with record breaking profits like this, there has to be some sort of bubble that's about to burst. Maybe it's paranoia brought about by the current economy, but goodness.. $13 billion in profit? More than 25% of their revenue is profit? Something is going on here..
Man. Dockwise has the right idea. I didn't realize they had a ship in the works that was that size. That's fantastic- and I can only imagine they're going to make bank on that investment.
I don't think Dockwise has anything close to big enough for the Concordia. According to Wikipedia (which I'm happy to be able to access today!) their biggest semi-submersible is the Blue Marlin, which only has 178m of deck space. The Concordia would need something more like 250m. I think they'd likely float it and tug it to one of the nearby shipyards...
If you look at CruiseJunkie you'll see a recent event on the Carnival Liberty that's being attributed to a computer glitch. I don't think that's "official" by any means, but I do believe that there are probably some computer safeguards on newer ships. I've been on a bunch of cruise ship bridges and engine offices, and there's plenty of automated systems.
I think they could salvage the ship without THAT much difficulty. They are about 400KM (in either direction) from a Fincantieri shipyard- there's one in Genoa and one in Naples. Fincantieri is the company that built the ship in the first place, so I imagine they'd be pretty accommodating. The ship could be floated by just patching a few holes and putting the gigantic balloon-like things they use to launch tankers under the submerged sections, and just inflating them and tugging the ship off the land. Pump out the water and get the ship upright, and it'd be little worse than the Carnival Splendour that had to be tugged to Mexico. The ship's own engines might still even work. I bet the cost of salvage and revitalization would be less than the cost of making a new ship, which would probably run about $800 million.
Now, it's another question whether anybody would want to take a cruise on this cursed ship once revitalization was complete, but it would get renamed and rebranded and most people probably wouldn't even realize.
You can get a Sony Cybershot with Zeiss glass, and I'm sure you can take some very sharp photos. Again, for me I don't think I can be without a DSLR, but the original poster sounded like somebody that wanted to try the latest concept in digital cameras even if it wasn't necessarily the best option for his application..
For myself, I like having the toys and experimenting with them... so if I were going to spend $300 on something, I'll chose a fisheye lens or some other toy before I look at getting a camera that doesn't offer me any new abilities other than being small. Although, that said, I'm curious about getting a camera that I can take under water. :)
I am curious what advantages you imagine you'll get from having interchangeable lenses. For macro purposes, a lot of little point&shoot cameras do great with close focus because their sensors are so small. Likewise, smaller sensors allow for long telephoto lenses to still be very compact. If you were saying you wanted better wide angle capability (for architecture and whatnot) or you wanted to be able to shallow depth-of-field stuff (portraiture and artsy stuff) then I'd think maybe an interchangeable lens camera would be best..
I'm not suggesting you get a crappy point&shoot, just that if you're traveling a lot then you'll want something small and durable.. I lug my DSLR all over because I've already made the investment, but it's killer on my back.
Luckily I haven't spent any time in jail, I'm basing my statements on accounts from close friends, who are not "bad guys..."
That said, I don't think I said anything incorrect- one is indeed restricted to local landlines and will not have the benefit of their phone book on their cell phone. I should have mentioned the part about the numbers for bail bondsmen being posted.
Also, my friends never had to spend any significant amount of time in jail (I think only a couple hours in the most recent case) and it's not like they were mistreated. Still, there are more pleasant ways to spend an evening than getting arrested...
One phone call using a landline at the police station that can only call other landlines within the local area code... and that's after you've had your personal phone confiscated, so if there's anybody you can call that meets those criteria you better have their number memorized.
I got the same thing.
Apple "slashdotted" itself I guess. That, or maybe anonymous is up to some tricks...
I am glad you submitted, and glad it made it to the top. I think this is pretty incredible- the thought of one day, truly being able to see through another's eyes... And I know there are already cybernetic eyes out there, but this seems like this research could also lead to some big leaps forward in that area.
Maybe they can help out some aging astronauts, too..
On aircraft carriers, the pilots already are encouraged to make really hard landings to make sure the tailhook catches.. and they also gun the engines as they land, just in case the hook doesn't catch.