Yay! This is our chance to use up all the fossil fuels real quick-like and then by the time the cold spell is over we'll all be using nuclear and solar panels.
My high school required everyone to type at least 45 WPM in order to graduate. I did this very well... using the hunt and peck method!!
I spent the entire summer before college agonizingly unlearning the wrong muscle memory and learning correct touch-typing. One of the hardest and most stressful things I've ever done. After that my WPM was at like 35, but with time that has grown to the 80WPM I work at now.
Needless to say, the requirement shouldn't be a set WPM, but the ability to touch type without looking a certain range of characters (say upper and lowercase alpha plus the common punctuation). Once this foundation is set, speed will increase proportionally to the amount that the person uses a computer.
Wait, wait, wait... You're telling me that a Christian, theological seminary actually has a class that involves defending the tenets of the school's beliefs? This is an outrage!
Ok I am a Christian attending an Evangelical theological seminary and I *am* outraged. I'm not even a liberal Christian, I'm definitely traditional. What makes me mad is that this school is turning Evolution into a "tenet" of Christianity, which it isn't! Somehow fighting a scientific theory is a form of evangelism? Ridiculous! In my experience the majority of Christians actually have thought about carefully the issues involved with the creation debate and decided to leave the question open.
Yeah, I know everyone is going to get mad at me for leaving a "solved" scientific question "open," but the point is that the bible doesn't exclude the possibility of Evolution, and even among traditional Christians, that is recognized. On more abstract philosophical grounds, I mean high level epistemology, there are grounds to doubt even Science. Christians tend to be more concerned with high level epistemology and the truth of abstract metaphysics than the average scientist, which makes sense. What doesn't make sense is turning what should be a high level epistemology concern into "gospel" and then spreading it all over the internet.
And there is no malware possible that can read what's written on a post-it note.
Security cameras. If you know what to Google you can find all sorts of security cameras on the internet.
Or just walk in and look yourself.
Seriously? No security camera will have a resolution high enough to actually read what's written on a post it note, assuming it's even in focus. It's not like on TV where you can just "zoom in, and enhance." Probably the best you could get would be to see a vaguely "sunflower" shaped monitor, as described.
Well, here's the outrage from when Microsoft slipped the.NET Framework Assistant into Firefox without asking. Adjust your outrage accordingly...
This one is easily removable like any other add on. At least part of what make Microsoft's add-on so terrible was that in addition to being installed without permission or knowledge, it seemed impossible to remove without specific knowledge most people (even geeks) didn't have.
Why is it that all 'green'cars are prohibitively expensive(Tesla Roadster), horribly ugly(LEAF, Prius, Volt) or largely impractical?(Tesla again)
Seriously, if they made some decent, normal looking 'green' cars, more people might be enthusiastic about buying and using them...
I think most people really like the look of the Prius, and the Leaf and Volt are definitely not ugly. Unless by "ugly" you mean "a little different than what I'm used to."
I will switch to the first carrier that kills the answering machine lady. I really mean it. I don't care if I get fines for not finishing my contract. I hate that voice so much. I wrote to Verizon and let them know of my intent. I'd prefer for Verizon to be the first, since I am happy with them. You know all those people supporting me in the Verizon commercials? What do they do all month? Surely, there is nothing that any of them do that is as important as turning off this message. I say the entire company should grind to a complete standstill and do nothing but work to remove the annoying phone message as soon as possible. I don't care if service goes down. I will live without my phone for a month, if it means no more stupid phone lady.
Never mind that cursive is primarily useful for writing with a fountain pen, and almost nobody uses them regularly.
I think it's the other way around: fountain pens are primarily used to write cursive. But it certainly isn't the only kind, or the primary kind, of pen that can write cursive.
I had always thought that had something to do with the earths gravity smoothing out the craters over time. Does anybody know if any actual research has been done on this?
1. Right and wrong are relative to a person or group. 2. Right is, whatever suits the person/group. 3. Wrong is, what doesn't suit it. Where "suits" is defined as, what gives the most advantages.
There. Done it for ya. Wasn't so hard, if you use common sense, was it?
While it's nice to assume that in a place like America where we all pay our taxes and respect each-others rights, don't forget that relativizing right and wrong like that means that human rights are no longer 'right,' pedophilia is no longer 'wrong,' etc etc... As long as there is someone at the top and in power that is "suited" to stop murder and rape, we're good. But who is to say that someone with very different moral values shouldn't be allowed to be at the top and in power? [Insert typical Hitler (or worse) argument here.]
Any computer scientist who is worried about AI taking over no longer deserves to be referred to as a computer scientist. The state of "artifiical intelligence" can be best described as "a pipe dream."
It's like they missed every robot movie, book, or short story ever written in all of history, until they saw the new Terminator movie, and they freaked out.
An interesting thing to note is this: When a computer exists that is as intelligent as a stupid human, almost every job at and close to minimum wage vanishes. Robots can and will get cheaper than a human worker, no one will need taxi cab drivers, grocery store baggers, first tier phone customer service reps, construction workers, janitors, garbage men, delivery men, mail men, traffic cops, book keepers, data entry people, secretaries, fast food chefs, etc.
At this point we will have two choices as a society. 1) Let them (the stupid people) starve, 2) give them welfare for no other reason than they're economically useless.
Yah, that's a Good Thing. The cost of an autonomous garbage pick up system would presumably be much cheaper in the long run, and we will be free to use that money on things we want to, like going to the movies. So the garbage man will be able to quit the job he hates, but took because he needed the money, and he'll be able to get a job perusing his real interests of film making or perhaps robotics.
The concern for "jobs" is idiotic and short sighted. Most people work boring and trivial jobs which a robot could perform not because it's their passion, but because they need money. If these jobs can be automated, that will open up the opportunity for more jobs that people actually enjoy doing, like planning out where to set up a robitically controlled broccoli farm, choosing the location, negotiating price, programming the computer that manages it, purchasing the hardware, etc... That sounds way more fun to me than driving a combine back and fourth across a field for hours each day.
I'm not sure halos are even part of Christian canon.
Halos are more of an art thing, used to represent a saint. A halo with a cross in it represents Christ. And they always look like yellow or gold circles behind the persons head, not rings above the head. The only thing even remotely close to a halo that I can think of in the Bible is when Moses glows after coming down from mount Siani, and the Transfiguration where Christ glows.
If I own an ISP and I want to opt into this in order to prevent some child porn from being distributed, why don't I have the right to do so? It looks like the ISPs are being up-front about it and not hiding what they are doing.
As much as people on/. complain about this sort of thing, I think that in practical terms, this makes the world a better place.
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Yay! This is our chance to use up all the fossil fuels real quick-like and then by the time the cold spell is over we'll all be using nuclear and solar panels.
It's not actually flightless, though it does spend most of its time on the ground.
Um, it's not funny, it should be insightful. Adding this line should fix the problem.
1. ????
2. ????
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
My high school required everyone to type at least 45 WPM in order to graduate. I did this very well... using the hunt and peck method!!
I spent the entire summer before college agonizingly unlearning the wrong muscle memory and learning correct touch-typing. One of the hardest and most stressful things I've ever done. After that my WPM was at like 35, but with time that has grown to the 80WPM I work at now.
Needless to say, the requirement shouldn't be a set WPM, but the ability to touch type without looking a certain range of characters (say upper and lowercase alpha plus the common punctuation). Once this foundation is set, speed will increase proportionally to the amount that the person uses a computer.
No, he doesn't. The words "accept" and "except" don't sound the same unless you're a tongueless mongoloid.
Well I have a tongue and I disagree.
"Except" and "accept" are both homophonic (same sound) and heterographic (different spelling).
Then making it a configurable option: Enable/disable. Or am I missing something?
you already can disable it in about:config.
Wait, wait, wait... You're telling me that a Christian, theological seminary actually has a class that involves defending the tenets of the school's beliefs? This is an outrage!
Ok I am a Christian attending an Evangelical theological seminary and I *am* outraged. I'm not even a liberal Christian, I'm definitely traditional. What makes me mad is that this school is turning Evolution into a "tenet" of Christianity, which it isn't! Somehow fighting a scientific theory is a form of evangelism? Ridiculous! In my experience the majority of Christians actually have thought about carefully the issues involved with the creation debate and decided to leave the question open.
Yeah, I know everyone is going to get mad at me for leaving a "solved" scientific question "open," but the point is that the bible doesn't exclude the possibility of Evolution, and even among traditional Christians, that is recognized. On more abstract philosophical grounds, I mean high level epistemology, there are grounds to doubt even Science. Christians tend to be more concerned with high level epistemology and the truth of abstract metaphysics than the average scientist, which makes sense. What doesn't make sense is turning what should be a high level epistemology concern into "gospel" and then spreading it all over the internet.
And there is no malware possible that can read what's written on a post-it note.
Security cameras. If you know what to Google you can find all sorts of security cameras on the internet.
Or just walk in and look yourself.
Seriously? No security camera will have a resolution high enough to actually read what's written on a post it note, assuming it's even in focus. It's not like on TV where you can just "zoom in, and enhance." Probably the best you could get would be to see a vaguely "sunflower" shaped monitor, as described.
Well, here's the outrage from when Microsoft slipped the .NET Framework Assistant into Firefox without asking. Adjust your outrage accordingly...
This one is easily removable like any other add on. At least part of what make Microsoft's add-on so terrible was that in addition to being installed without permission or knowledge, it seemed impossible to remove without specific knowledge most people (even geeks) didn't have.
Why is it that all 'green'cars are prohibitively expensive(Tesla Roadster), horribly ugly(LEAF, Prius, Volt) or largely impractical?(Tesla again)
Seriously, if they made some decent, normal looking 'green' cars, more people might be enthusiastic about buying and using them...
I think most people really like the look of the Prius, and the Leaf and Volt are definitely not ugly. Unless by "ugly" you mean "a little different than what I'm used to."
d'oh! ok i admit, i didn't finish reading the summary...
the braille on drive-thru ATMs!
I will switch to the first carrier that kills the answering machine lady. I really mean it. I don't care if I get fines for not finishing my contract. I hate that voice so much. I wrote to Verizon and let them know of my intent. I'd prefer for Verizon to be the first, since I am happy with them. You know all those people supporting me in the Verizon commercials? What do they do all month? Surely, there is nothing that any of them do that is as important as turning off this message. I say the entire company should grind to a complete standstill and do nothing but work to remove the annoying phone message as soon as possible. I don't care if service goes down. I will live without my phone for a month, if it means no more stupid phone lady.
Never mind that cursive is primarily useful for writing with a fountain pen, and almost nobody uses them regularly.
I think it's the other way around: fountain pens are primarily used to write cursive. But it certainly isn't the only kind, or the primary kind, of pen that can write cursive.
Syntax is a subset of grammar, you insensitive clod!!
Ha! But you're equivocating, of course. He means code syntax.
I had always thought that had something to do with the earths gravity smoothing out the craters over time. Does anybody know if any actual research has been done on this?
1. Right and wrong are relative to a person or group.
2. Right is, whatever suits the person/group.
3. Wrong is, what doesn't suit it.
Where "suits" is defined as, what gives the most advantages.
There. Done it for ya.
Wasn't so hard, if you use common sense, was it?
While it's nice to assume that in a place like America where we all pay our taxes and respect each-others rights, don't forget that relativizing right and wrong like that means that human rights are no longer 'right,' pedophilia is no longer 'wrong,' etc etc... As long as there is someone at the top and in power that is "suited" to stop murder and rape, we're good. But who is to say that someone with very different moral values shouldn't be allowed to be at the top and in power? [Insert typical Hitler (or worse) argument here.]
Any computer scientist who is worried about AI taking over no longer deserves to be referred to as a computer scientist. The state of "artifiical intelligence" can be best described as "a pipe dream."
It's like they missed every robot movie, book, or short story ever written in all of history, until they saw the new Terminator movie, and they freaked out.
An interesting thing to note is this: When a computer exists that is as intelligent as a stupid human, almost every job at and close to minimum wage vanishes. Robots can and will get cheaper than a human worker, no one will need taxi cab drivers, grocery store baggers, first tier phone customer service reps, construction workers, janitors, garbage men, delivery men, mail men, traffic cops, book keepers, data entry people, secretaries, fast food chefs, etc.
At this point we will have two choices as a society. 1) Let them (the stupid people) starve, 2) give them welfare for no other reason than they're economically useless.
Yah, that's a Good Thing. The cost of an autonomous garbage pick up system would presumably be much cheaper in the long run, and we will be free to use that money on things we want to, like going to the movies. So the garbage man will be able to quit the job he hates, but took because he needed the money, and he'll be able to get a job perusing his real interests of film making or perhaps robotics.
The concern for "jobs" is idiotic and short sighted. Most people work boring and trivial jobs which a robot could perform not because it's their passion, but because they need money. If these jobs can be automated, that will open up the opportunity for more jobs that people actually enjoy doing, like planning out where to set up a robitically controlled broccoli farm, choosing the location, negotiating price, programming the computer that manages it, purchasing the hardware, etc... That sounds way more fun to me than driving a combine back and fourth across a field for hours each day.
I'm not sure halos are even part of Christian canon.
Halos are more of an art thing, used to represent a saint. A halo with a cross in it represents Christ. And they always look like yellow or gold circles behind the persons head, not rings above the head. The only thing even remotely close to a halo that I can think of in the Bible is when Moses glows after coming down from mount Siani, and the Transfiguration where Christ glows.
What's amusing to me is that if you want to education or health care funded in the US, you have to lobby Congress like hell to fund it.
What's amusing to me is that people think education or health care is a proper role for the Federal Government.
What's amusing to me is that people think education or health care is a proper role for unaccountable entities whose primary responsibility is profit.
The point is that the Federal Government is not really accountable. Private schools have to exceed expectations or shut down.
Replying to trolls should be modded off topic. Including this post.
The market share for IE6 is now well down in the single digits.
According to whom? Even on w3schools.com, which is visited almost exclusively by web developers, more than 14% of people are still using IE6.
According to StatCounter: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-US-monthly-200807-200907 . Their graph shows IE6 at 9.45% in July, just barely dipping below 10% for the first time ever.
If I own an ISP and I want to opt into this in order to prevent some child porn from being distributed, why don't I have the right to do so? It looks like the ISPs are being up-front about it and not hiding what they are doing.
As much as people on /. complain about this sort of thing, I think that in practical terms, this makes the world a better place.