So, I suppose that you're going to ignore the numerous studies that show that "people of faith" have a higher survival rate for cancer and other long term illnesses?
I would be very unsuprised if it turned out that the number and type of social connections a patient has turned out to be better indicators of survival than "faith". This might be somewhat hard to measure, as the elderly who compose the bulk of chronic illness patients tend to be either actively religous or lonely. The one postitive thing you can definitely say about religion is that it gets people together.
Rather than use a $80,000 robot and risk a major party foul, why not use multiple strategically placed hemispherical cameras, setting them to shoot photos semi-randomly when people are present, (you could also allow people to pose and say cheese somehow I guess) then batch process the resulting frames post-wedding to find good compositions and remap them? Nah, self-navigating robots are far more cool.
Paradox induces a cascading feedback loop of self-modifying universes (each inducing a time-traveller who goes back and causes another chage) until the sequence halts with a universe in which time travel is not developed.
They are probably referring to other things than the actual release. They don't give any credit to XVID.
If that's what the poster meant, they should have stated such. Neither the Slashdot post nor the linked article mentions this removal of copyright info. Even so, they probably just slapped their own copy of the source up, which would naturally not contain the correct copyright info, due to the supposed circumstances. Granted they should fix that ASAP, but you can't fault them for releasing it quickly without modification to get all the Free Software uber-zealots off their heels a bit...
I didn't intend to argue that the average ten-year-old could understand Calculus if taught properly... nor that the average 10-y/o could grasp Algebra, either. I do believe that 14 year-olds, for the most part, could handle Algebra if taught correctly beginning in elementary school.
Your example about "mixed numbers" certainly validates part of my argument. In fact I wish I had thought of those when formulating my post. (Mayhap I had purposely sublimated my knowledge of their existence:D) Here is a thing which is drilled into students for 2 or 3 years, or longer, if they remain in remedial math until their Junior year, but which has no place whatsoever in Mathematics beyond arithmetic. That they are taught at all is a crime against education. At the very least put an addition sign between theose things, maybe even use it as an opportunity to introduce parenthesis and reinforce the concept of "order of operation".
It is not a matter of cognitive development, it is the result of a poor elementary school preparation.
In elementary school students are taught nothing about mathematics, period. All they are taught is to memorize tables of results of the four major operations. They are taught to apply these operations to larger numbers, but few students will ever grasp why 3x3=9, because they are never taught to understand such concepts, and students who ask are often brushed aside, and frankly this is because few elementary school teachers understand basic mathematics either.
After learning, or more often failing to learn to perform these operations, students then have the rug pulled out from under them... "Oh, by the way, these fraction things are really unsolved divisions, and and the 'equals' sign doesn't really mean 'do some stuff to these things and write the result over there'..."
Furthermore, within the teaching of Algebra and onward, the emphasis is on the memorization of equations and specific cases, with little or no attention paid to the underlying cause of these "facts". I am a firm believer in the not-common-enough practice of "open book" tests or allowed "cheat sheets", which in the proper teaching and testing environment would promote actual learning and understanding as the mind is freed from the need to focus on memorization.
If we actually taught Mathematics from Kindergarten up, rather than teaching counting, then arithmetic, then algebra, we wouldn't have this sudden dramatic drop-off in comprehension at the Algebra level. And if we focused on understanding rather than memorization, we might actually get understanding.
All Government software releases should be BSD-style or Public Domain. Anything GPLish has the problem of requiring anyone using the source code to play it forward, which is not appropriate for Government and particularly in cases such as this hinders the possible benefits by preventing non-open-source developers from integrating any improvements.
I mean sure, I like Linux, and it'd be great to see it as the only secure desktop OS, giving Redmond a sock in the eye, but OTOH, we cannot deny that the vast majority of USians are going to be using MS products on their desktop for the forseeable future, and having a secure OS in every PC is a greater good than the furtherance of one particular OS.
Loki went out of business because it was a bad business. Demand didn't fail to meet Loki's needs, Loki failed to adjust to demand, pressing far more copies than could be sold, outfitting their headquarters with lavish perks... Also, the market Loki was trying to hit was a marginal one at best, consumers who enjoy video games but are willing to buy 2-3 year old games because they just came out for Linux. Anyway, despite Loki's failure, it was a Good Thing(tm) in a way since we got SDL out of the deal.
Did you guys notice when that one doctor guy smiled that he smiled just slightly more than is humanly possible? It was obviously a computer effect but I would like to see what other impossible facial expressions he can perform in upcoming episodes.
Slightly?!? Egads, I haven't seen such a horrifying misuse of computer graphics since around 1995 when the advertising companies "discovered" "morphing" and gave us smiling dogs and whatnot. Yuck-o
First they rip us off by diluting our money supply one maple-leafed penny at a time, now they scheme to drain our space budget with these robot arm shenanigans. Darn them! Darn them to heck I say!
But seriously, I for one welcome our Canadian overlords and their socialized medicine. God save the Queen!
Pay attention to your breathing. Take full "belly" breaths, not just shallow little girly breaths.
Exercise in general. Specifically, exercise your lower abdominals.
Take breaks.
I do not recommend a chiropractor (unless you have a known spinal trauma), but combined with the other steps, a massage therapist can help get rid of that 6-year-old knot in your middle back.
For one, the GPL could not contain such a clause, as it is based (wisely, I feel) on Copyright, and grants additional rights to the user, provided certain steps are followed. Telling someone what OS they can run the software on is a right removal, and therefor incompatible.
Other Free licenses which are based on shrinkwrap-style licensing could incorporate such a restriction, but there are several reasons why I feel that this would be a mistake. Firstly, it is overly combative. Free software has been about sharing and cooperation, and about demonstrating the superiority of such an approach, not about "us" and "them" and fighting a war because "they" are bad and "we" are good. Secondly, if we're going to call it Free(unencumbered) software, it's kind of moronic to then add all sorts of restrictions to its use the same way non-Free software producers do.
What in the GPL says that if you use GPL'd software, the resulting output must declare or advertise this. If I edit text with emacs, must all my letters end with "This letter written with emacs, a GPL'd text editor."? No. Go away, you're polluting a substantive debate with nonsense.
How come saying Worldforge is good merits +3 informative, and saying Worldforge is bad merits "flamebait". Two sides of the same coin eh. I still say pointing to Worldforge as a comparable alternative to Star Wars Galaxies, or UO for that matter, is laughable at best.
I wonder what you mean by doesn't work. They moved the server (again), which means that the new IP address needs to propogate. It took a month before I could get to Bungie.net last time. It sucks, but it doesn't have anything to do with your serial number, it just has to do with Microsoft sucking all assand treating Bungie.net like an embasrassing rash.
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I would be very unsuprised if it turned out that the number and type of social connections a patient has turned out to be better indicators of survival than "faith". This might be somewhat hard to measure, as the elderly who compose the bulk of chronic illness patients tend to be either actively religous or lonely. The one postitive thing you can definitely say about religion is that it gets people together.
Rather than use a $80,000 robot and risk a major party foul, why not use multiple strategically placed hemispherical cameras, setting them to shoot photos semi-randomly when people are present, (you could also allow people to pose and say cheese somehow I guess) then batch process the resulting frames post-wedding to find good compositions and remap them?
Nah, self-navigating robots are far more cool.
Or the Universe halts with a stack overflow...
If that's what the poster meant, they should have stated such. Neither the Slashdot post nor the linked article mentions this removal of copyright info.
Even so, they probably just slapped their own copy of the source up, which would naturally not contain the correct copyright info, due to the supposed circumstances. Granted they should fix that ASAP, but you can't fault them for releasing it quickly without modification to get all the Free Software uber-zealots off their heels a bit...
Releasing the affected code under the GPL is lip service?
No, it's exactly what is supposed to happen.
There should be a 3-part benchmark.
Part 1: Assembled by a truly unbiased panel
Part 2: Assembled by Intel
Part 3: Assembled by AMD
I didn't intend to argue that the average ten-year-old could understand Calculus if taught properly... nor that the average 10-y/o could grasp Algebra, either. I do believe that 14 year-olds, for the most part, could handle Algebra if taught correctly beginning in elementary school.
:D) Here is a thing which is drilled into students for 2 or 3 years, or longer, if they remain in remedial math until their Junior year, but which has no place whatsoever in Mathematics beyond arithmetic. That they are taught at all is a crime against education. At the very least put an addition sign between theose things, maybe even use it as an opportunity to introduce parenthesis and reinforce the concept of "order of operation".
Your example about "mixed numbers" certainly validates part of my argument. In fact I wish I had thought of those when formulating my post. (Mayhap I had purposely sublimated my knowledge of their existence
Mixed numbers... *shudder*
It is not a matter of cognitive development, it is the result of a poor elementary school preparation.
In elementary school students are taught nothing about mathematics, period. All they are taught is to memorize tables of results of the four major operations. They are taught to apply these operations to larger numbers, but few students will ever grasp why 3x3=9, because they are never taught to understand such concepts, and students who ask are often brushed aside, and frankly this is because few elementary school teachers understand basic mathematics either.
After learning, or more often failing to learn to perform these operations, students then have the rug pulled out from under them... "Oh, by the way, these fraction things are really unsolved divisions, and and the 'equals' sign doesn't really mean 'do some stuff to these things and write the result over there'..."
Furthermore, within the teaching of Algebra and onward, the emphasis is on the memorization of equations and specific cases, with little or no attention paid to the underlying cause of these "facts". I am a firm believer in the not-common-enough practice of "open book" tests or allowed "cheat sheets", which in the proper teaching and testing environment would promote actual learning and understanding as the mind is freed from the need to focus on memorization.
If we actually taught Mathematics from Kindergarten up, rather than teaching counting, then arithmetic, then algebra, we wouldn't have this sudden dramatic drop-off in comprehension at the Algebra level. And if we focused on understanding rather than memorization, we might actually get understanding.
All Government software releases should be BSD-style or Public Domain. Anything GPLish has the problem of requiring anyone using the source code to play it forward, which is not appropriate for Government and particularly in cases such as this hinders the possible benefits by preventing non-open-source developers from integrating any improvements.
I mean sure, I like Linux, and it'd be great to see it as the only secure desktop OS, giving Redmond a sock in the eye, but OTOH, we cannot deny that the vast majority of USians are going to be using MS products on their desktop for the forseeable future, and having a secure OS in every PC is a greater good than the furtherance of one particular OS.
Loki went out of business because it was a bad business.
Demand didn't fail to meet Loki's needs, Loki failed to adjust to demand, pressing far more copies than could be sold, outfitting their headquarters with lavish perks...
Also, the market Loki was trying to hit was a marginal one at best, consumers who enjoy video games but are willing to buy 2-3 year old games because they just came out for Linux.
Anyway, despite Loki's failure, it was a Good Thing(tm) in a way since we got SDL out of the deal.
God that is the worst theme song of any TV series ever. Worse than "Alf". Worse than "Diffr'nt Strokes". Worse than "Oprah".
Slightly?!? Egads, I haven't seen such a horrifying misuse of computer graphics since around 1995 when the advertising companies "discovered" "morphing" and gave us smiling dogs and whatnot. Yuck-o
I think the header pretty much gives it away with little computation.
"Also, some law written in the 70s (I believe) stated that America can not legally issue assasination orders. They want to repeal that."
There is no such law. It is a presidential order which can be rescinded at any time by any president without consulting anyone.
First they rip us off by diluting our money supply one maple-leafed penny at a time, now they scheme to drain our space budget with these robot arm shenanigans. Darn them! Darn them to heck I say!
But seriously, I for one welcome our Canadian overlords and their socialized medicine. God save the Queen!
What about a dual-deck VCR? I never had one, but surely they could do this, yes/no?
For one, the GPL could not contain such a clause, as it is based (wisely, I feel) on Copyright, and grants additional rights to the user, provided certain steps are followed. Telling someone what OS they can run the software on is a right removal, and therefor incompatible.
Other Free licenses which are based on shrinkwrap-style licensing could incorporate such a restriction, but there are several reasons why I feel that this would be a mistake. Firstly, it is overly combative. Free software has been about sharing and cooperation, and about demonstrating the superiority of such an approach, not about "us" and "them" and fighting a war because "they" are bad and "we" are good. Secondly, if we're going to call it Free(unencumbered) software, it's kind of moronic to then add all sorts of restrictions to its use the same way non-Free software producers do.
What in the GPL says that if you use GPL'd software, the resulting output must declare or advertise this. If I edit text with emacs, must all my letters end with "This letter written with emacs, a GPL'd text editor."? No. Go away, you're polluting a substantive debate with nonsense.
Why not pre-op? Then the card they handed them could say:
How come saying Worldforge is good merits +3 informative, and saying Worldforge is bad merits "flamebait". Two sides of the same coin eh. I still say pointing to Worldforge as a comparable alternative to Star Wars Galaxies, or UO for that matter, is laughable at best.
I wonder what you mean by doesn't work. They moved the server (again), which means that the new IP address needs to propogate. It took a month before I could get to Bungie.net last time. It sucks, but it doesn't have anything to do with your serial number, it just has to do with Microsoft sucking all assand treating Bungie.net like an embasrassing rash.
Except there's only one fat lady left.
But where does he live now? Not in Cananda eh.
No Shatner?