One thing I've always wondered is how bacteria's limited genetic code relates to antibiotics. Do the bacteria actively resist the antibiotics (implying there would be a point where we have more antibiotics than bacteria can have resistant genes for), or do the antibiotics actively take advantage of a 'glitch' in the bacteria genes (implying that it will be an endless war)? Am I even asking the right questions?
So what we need is time-based limits on DRM (the DRM isn't ruled illegal, that is). Make sure the DRM can't outlast the copyright. Of course we still have the problem that copyright basically doesn't run out.
Unless you're trying to be funny your argument makes no sense. "Murderers' Row" does not have ambiguous meaning in its context- you clearly have no issues understanding it doesn't mean actual murderers; similarly TPB does not have ambiguous meaning in its context- it clearly is advertising the fact that they are involved in piracy. Stating otherwise is bringing it out of context.
Hercules got a helper to seal each neck as he sliced off the hydra heads, instead of just going for the heart. So in your analogy you'd want to give the person a concussion each time you have to correct them so you kill the brain cells that spawned the bad assumption. Going by this article, it would work since eventually they'd just stop being able to think of anything if they keep it up long enough.
I'm at an engineering college where everyone is required to purchase a high-end laptop. When I was taking Calc3 and Differential Equations it was handy for running Maple to solve and graph, and in labs I fire up Excel, but other than that I rarely use it in classes that don't directly need computers (CAD, MatLab, Java classes). Unless the professor asks everyone to bring their laptop that day, they know the few students that do have them open are just using facebook or playing games. The only reasons many students don't open their laptops and surf the net are that we're paying a lot of money to be here and that unlike high school the classes aren't ridiculously easy. If your school is like what I had for high school (replace easy with boring for the less-inclined students), I support the idea of laptop carts. The students should only have the laptops in their hands when engaged in a lesson. Otherwise they will be distractions, and there is no point in giving them laptops just to tell the students to turn them off.
It just says he violated their policy. He may have been using the phone to take pictures against the rules, in which case it would make perfect sense for them to check the pictures on the phone. If he simply had it out or was calling with it, though, I agree it makes no sense to search it.
But the panels are unsightly, so you want to keep them flat on the roof to reduce visibility from the ground. Instead you should just jack up one side of the house.
There is a chemical, telomerase, which has been linked to embryonic stem cell's ability to reproduce limitlessly. If we find out how to activate it in other types of stem cells, telomeres may no longer be a problem.
When I read the beginning of the quote: "We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists", I was expecting to see the quote attributed to Youtube reps, not Warner.
I'm at an engineering college where everyone gets a laptop. I spend most of my time in class using paper and pencil. Sure, we use the laptops when a trusty TI89 can't do the job, or the class uses CAD programs, but they aren't used in class nearly as much as one might think. Except when it's an easy yet boring class, in which case half the class has facebook and MSN running.
Unless school computer labs are overbooked and students don't have sufficient computer access at home, I don't think the laptops will help much. Most of your changes will be from teachers adapting their lessons to the technology, and not the other way around. A few class sets of laptops might be useful for a school to have, though, as it would allow teachers to use them when they occasionally find a good use for them, and the rare use keeps the novelty factor of using a laptop in school, reducing the temptation of surfing the web that comes with boredom. I would be surprised if there isn't a better way to spend the money.
Lawyer: They won't be served by any other means.
Judge: Did you try carrier pigeons? Ducks using semaphore? Pelting their door with artichokes to form Morse code? Cucumbers too?
Lawyer: Yes, we tried all that- including the singing lemurs. Now, can we please just serve them on facebook?
Judge: Blast! I was sure the lemurs would work. Well, we haven't even started with the ones involving mimes... don't start with those crazy ideas of yours just yet!
I have to agree that splitting the states would help make it more fair. Being from Illinois, my vote obviously didn't matter in this election (I did vote). I would hope changing the system to better represent people would get our abysmal vote counts up- it is hypocritical to claim to be the first/best democracy and have the numbers show we don't even care.
Seeing people's thoughts would be amazing when it comes to Savants and other people who think in ways we cannot otherwise understand- such people have often reported numbers having unique sensory perceptions attached to them. This technology would be able to teach us a lot about the potential of the human mind.
You need to train yourself to dream that people are watching you dream. That way they'll be too freaked out thinking you're omniscient to realize that in your dream of them watching you dream, you are dreaming of those dirty thoughts.
Now what happens if you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream (etc)...? Will reality become merged with one of the recursions of your dream once the call stack overflows?
I hope you're satisfied that the world is going to end thanks to you and your dirty thoughts. We can only hope the LHC blackholes get you first!
Maybe it isn't something you can focus on for a whole course, but I messed around with TI89 programming at first. The biggest plus with it is that you can show your friends the results, and can even give them the programs. When you write a C or Java program, it typically exists solely as a learning exercise, and to make a product that is fun to share generally takes far too much experience to get such results in one course. TI basic doesn't require that you memorize syntax, as you pull all of the commands from menus.
My first programs were just animated text produced by long lists of print calls- with no real programming, I had something worth a laugh with my friends. I'm no CS major, so I've only taken two semesters of programming, but I've yet to even achieve that level of social appreciation with the programs I've spent countless hours on. Given a limited set of commands on the TI, instead of being flooded with Java's entire library of methods to muddle through, you can easily see all of your tools, and you are forced to creatively apply them. With no instruction, reading, or anything, I developed a rudimentary form of methods, classes and commenting to make a text-based RPG. Considering these students will have instruction, there is a lot of potential in the TI.
Recognizing that TI Basic is not something a young programmer should focus on, it may be worth just spending a week early in the course learning how to make TI programs, and then encourage them to apply what they learn in the rest of the class to make fun little TI programs so they can show their friends what they've learned to do. Heck, the most enthusiastic programmer I've known was a friend in high school that started a TI programming club and even used assembly to make very simple version of starcraft for the TI. Even if you don't go with TI programming, you need to give the students some form of creative outlet so they can appreciate programming as something that doesn't have to be viewed as work.
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One thing I've always wondered is how bacteria's limited genetic code relates to antibiotics. Do the bacteria actively resist the antibiotics (implying there would be a point where we have more antibiotics than bacteria can have resistant genes for), or do the antibiotics actively take advantage of a 'glitch' in the bacteria genes (implying that it will be an endless war)? Am I even asking the right questions?
So what we need is time-based limits on DRM (the DRM isn't ruled illegal, that is). Make sure the DRM can't outlast the copyright. Of course we still have the problem that copyright basically doesn't run out.
Unless you're trying to be funny your argument makes no sense. "Murderers' Row" does not have ambiguous meaning in its context- you clearly have no issues understanding it doesn't mean actual murderers; similarly TPB does not have ambiguous meaning in its context- it clearly is advertising the fact that they are involved in piracy. Stating otherwise is bringing it out of context.
The obviousness makes it no less important to report this. The day we just let it slide unnoticed is when we've truly given them free reign.
As Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
You can always set your own questions. Just set the answer to "Mother's maiden name?" to "Scottsville Elementary".
Hercules got a helper to seal each neck as he sliced off the hydra heads, instead of just going for the heart. So in your analogy you'd want to give the person a concussion each time you have to correct them so you kill the brain cells that spawned the bad assumption. Going by this article, it would work since eventually they'd just stop being able to think of anything if they keep it up long enough.
I'm at an engineering college where everyone is required to purchase a high-end laptop. When I was taking Calc3 and Differential Equations it was handy for running Maple to solve and graph, and in labs I fire up Excel, but other than that I rarely use it in classes that don't directly need computers (CAD, MatLab, Java classes). Unless the professor asks everyone to bring their laptop that day, they know the few students that do have them open are just using facebook or playing games. The only reasons many students don't open their laptops and surf the net are that we're paying a lot of money to be here and that unlike high school the classes aren't ridiculously easy. If your school is like what I had for high school (replace easy with boring for the less-inclined students), I support the idea of laptop carts. The students should only have the laptops in their hands when engaged in a lesson. Otherwise they will be distractions, and there is no point in giving them laptops just to tell the students to turn them off.
It just says he violated their policy. He may have been using the phone to take pictures against the rules, in which case it would make perfect sense for them to check the pictures on the phone. If he simply had it out or was calling with it, though, I agree it makes no sense to search it.
Monster Cable's stuff isn't actually any better than the generic stuff!
I am assuming by "generic stuff" you mean coat hangers: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-the-difference-between-monster-cable-and/
Now if I can just patent the art of patent trolling...
But the panels are unsightly, so you want to keep them flat on the roof to reduce visibility from the ground. Instead you should just jack up one side of the house.
There is a chemical, telomerase, which has been linked to embryonic stem cell's ability to reproduce limitlessly. If we find out how to activate it in other types of stem cells, telomeres may no longer be a problem.
When I read the beginning of the quote: "We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists", I was expecting to see the quote attributed to Youtube reps, not Warner.
Or Godzilla
Godzilla? Do you have no faith in science at all? ...noting the location it is far more likely to be a kraken.
I'm at an engineering college where everyone gets a laptop. I spend most of my time in class using paper and pencil. Sure, we use the laptops when a trusty TI89 can't do the job, or the class uses CAD programs, but they aren't used in class nearly as much as one might think. Except when it's an easy yet boring class, in which case half the class has facebook and MSN running.
Unless school computer labs are overbooked and students don't have sufficient computer access at home, I don't think the laptops will help much. Most of your changes will be from teachers adapting their lessons to the technology, and not the other way around. A few class sets of laptops might be useful for a school to have, though, as it would allow teachers to use them when they occasionally find a good use for them, and the rare use keeps the novelty factor of using a laptop in school, reducing the temptation of surfing the web that comes with boredom. I would be surprised if there isn't a better way to spend the money.
Just give me a printer that draws on an Etch-a-Sketch. Ink problem solved.
every other avenue had been attempted
Lawyer: They won't be served by any other means.
Judge: Did you try carrier pigeons? Ducks using semaphore? Pelting their door with artichokes to form Morse code? Cucumbers too?
Lawyer: Yes, we tried all that- including the singing lemurs. Now, can we please just serve them on facebook?
Judge: Blast! I was sure the lemurs would work. Well, we haven't even started with the ones involving mimes... don't start with those crazy ideas of yours just yet!
I have to agree that splitting the states would help make it more fair. Being from Illinois, my vote obviously didn't matter in this election (I did vote). I would hope changing the system to better represent people would get our abysmal vote counts up- it is hypocritical to claim to be the first/best democracy and have the numbers show we don't even care.
http://www.newscientist.com/data/galleries/dn16254-damage-that-derailed-higgs-hunt/two.jpg/
No wonder they had a problem- they couldn't even build the thing in a straight line. All that money and they couldn't even afford a level?
Seeing people's thoughts would be amazing when it comes to Savants and other people who think in ways we cannot otherwise understand- such people have often reported numbers having unique sensory perceptions attached to them. This technology would be able to teach us a lot about the potential of the human mind.
You need to train yourself to dream that people are watching you dream. That way they'll be too freaked out thinking you're omniscient to realize that in your dream of them watching you dream, you are dreaming of those dirty thoughts.
Now what happens if you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream that people are watching you dream (etc)...? Will reality become merged with one of the recursions of your dream once the call stack overflows? I hope you're satisfied that the world is going to end thanks to you and your dirty thoughts. We can only hope the LHC blackholes get you first!
Good point- there are no good languages left unmarred. I say skip all of them and just have them write their own languages from scratch.
Maybe it isn't something you can focus on for a whole course, but I messed around with TI89 programming at first. The biggest plus with it is that you can show your friends the results, and can even give them the programs. When you write a C or Java program, it typically exists solely as a learning exercise, and to make a product that is fun to share generally takes far too much experience to get such results in one course. TI basic doesn't require that you memorize syntax, as you pull all of the commands from menus.
My first programs were just animated text produced by long lists of print calls- with no real programming, I had something worth a laugh with my friends. I'm no CS major, so I've only taken two semesters of programming, but I've yet to even achieve that level of social appreciation with the programs I've spent countless hours on. Given a limited set of commands on the TI, instead of being flooded with Java's entire library of methods to muddle through, you can easily see all of your tools, and you are forced to creatively apply them. With no instruction, reading, or anything, I developed a rudimentary form of methods, classes and commenting to make a text-based RPG. Considering these students will have instruction, there is a lot of potential in the TI.
Recognizing that TI Basic is not something a young programmer should focus on, it may be worth just spending a week early in the course learning how to make TI programs, and then encourage them to apply what they learn in the rest of the class to make fun little TI programs so they can show their friends what they've learned to do. Heck, the most enthusiastic programmer I've known was a friend in high school that started a TI programming club and even used assembly to make very simple version of starcraft for the TI. Even if you don't go with TI programming, you need to give the students some form of creative outlet so they can appreciate programming as something that doesn't have to be viewed as work.
How insensitive, blaming the homosexuals for global warming!