I guess the most newsworthy part of this story is that apparently - I'm non-US - the US education system has been deflating for some time now, and in this economic situation, the results are finally beginning to show. This girl is definitely not alone, I expect. So, where do you go from here?
Being an Expert Schadenfreude Connaisseur, I do feel somewhat relieved seeing this development, as I intend to continue my career in the US, after I finish my Master here in the Netherlands.
I think another part of Segway hatred is the fact that by standing on it, you place yourself higher than pedestrians, the other sidewalk straight-up traffic participants. This may be a small psychological gesture telling them: You are beneath me. The motorcycle does not have this problem, also because it's not allowed on the sidewalk. A solution could be to treat the Segway as a bicycle.
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Also, the music industry can then simply give out digital copies for free listening online from their website, but they will be perceived as the poor man's music source, like reading books in the library.
Admittedly, I arrived just at the dawn of the CD, but even I can very well imagine gladly paying $XX more for and LP than for a CD, especially since I know and feel that the contents of the CD are the same as of the free digital copy, and that all CD's are exact copies of each other. Their is no added value of the carrier, and I think the music industry decided to forget this. Not only does the LP allow you to literally feel the music in the grooves, but since the carrier is analogue it will be perceived as unique and personal, even though the difference may not be noticeable at first. It's same sort of difference between a book and a pdf file. Same contents, VERY different feel. We still gladly pay quite a lot for a book, but would we pay even a fraction of that for a pdf file of said book? And after time, would you gladly exchange your book for a fresh copy, or keep 'your' copy, even though some pages may be smudged, corners folded? Also, the possibility to ship beautiful and detailed large print artwork with LP's is something that can easily add a couple of bucks to the product's perceived value. Regarding quality of playback, I think DJ turntables show that is not an issue, really.
First, from a European point of view, the "I'll sue your ass for not telling me the sky is blue" way of handling responsibility has caused any identity (government, business, neighbor, colleague, celebrity) that cannot hide in anonymity to be overly cautious. Any acceptable risk of danger is offset by the enormous danger of due compensation if something does go wrong.
Secondly, the government is, due to their required independence, by definition an onlooker with regard to the communities they have to watch/control. Could we easily tell from carefully watching a box of thousands of bouncing rubber balls which ones are behaving differently from the others when it all looks like a blur? Surely, each individual ball would notice discrepancies upon encountering such an outlier, but this cannot be expected from an outsider.
Thirdly, and this combines the first two, the best the onlooker can do to exclude any false negatives in its selection procedure, is to make sure any voluntary irregular behavior is absent, so that the irregular ones are more easily distinguished. For that same reason any, maybe in itself harmless, strange behavior at airports is dealt with as if it were the real thing to discourage such behavior in the future. The assumption is, of course, that the odd balls are unable to act as normal as the regular ones.
Exactly, String Theory is the layman's Rubik's Cube: "It's a stupid toy, because I don't understand it and therefore can't show it off to my friends! Baww...."
You, sir, are a low life, terribly fond of his own delusion of being in a legitimate, respectable business. But I'm sure the money you extort from honest people makes a lot of people shut up in your face. However, everyone despises you behind your back. Kudos for being honest about your 'business', though!
When was the last time you timed out a website address in full? Current browser technology dictates that it's easier to just google a company. And after first finding the site you are looking for, no more than a couple of typed letters uniquely identify the desired website. Even Google itself hardly needs its epynomal domain name, although users might be sceptical about surfing to www..com. So, pick any domain name, as long as it seems trustworthy. I'll leave pointing out the downsides of this approach to you...
Are there certain parts of a standard that leave enough room for interpretation by the auditor to warrant an lawsuit if in hindsight this interpretation may be demonstrably flawed? Or, given all relevant information, will different auditors, following their auditing standards (damn, circular), reach the same conclusion?
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...I'm listening to the music of Warcraft II, just for the awesome! The Fury of the Furries Amiga Forest theme, another such classic. The only games I play are games of yore!
I'm convinced that I have developed a quite sophisticated online ad blind spot. I cannot remember ever having clicked on an add on purpose. As matter of fact, the only ad I can remember is the "how to lose your virginity" ad when googling "world of warcraft"
Or you could ask:
How long does it take to get on the highway?
How long does it take to get dressed?
How long does it take to get the shower temperature right?
The questions you ask refer more to delay times in starting applications, and overall responsiveness.
"Roughly speaking, we predict there could be a 1,000-time reduction in power consumption with electronic computers built in this new way"
Bullshit alert! As we all know, even 2 is a 'rough estimate' of a 1000, allthough not a very good one. But I suppose 1000 sounds both high enough to ensure next year's funding and still be plausible. "It's a nice round number too! People like that, they understand the number 1000, in that it is a lot!" Anyway, found any water on Mars yet?
Life doen not simply come into existence in all it's complexity; there must some driving force for it to extend beyond the most simple stages. In our case, evolution got us to where we are now, and curiosity is driving us where evolution can't take us anymore. I cannot imagine life just staying put; it must either advance or go extinct.
1) All life considers itself supreme in apparent absence of the contrary. The vastness of space will also ensure at least millennia of breating room between first radio contact and first real contact. Besides, if they are capable of interstellar traval and willing to destroy us at first sight, what are the chances we have escaped their attention for so long?
2) Wars will be fought before resources become so scarce we can't power the LHC anymore. If they couldn't spare any resources to begin with, they wouldn't have advances as far as they did.
3) Yes, and somehow all of them will have missed electromagnetic radiation and its uses entirely.
4) Just like us, they son't know, but it can't hurt to try.
5) Intelligent hyve minds don't just suddenly dome into existence, like our beloved Gods.
6) This is just a temporary redistribution of resources.
And so on.
Fermi's paradox is a paradox, a discrepancy between what we see, and what we would expect to see, in essence telling us to look for other ways of communication besides messages in bottles.
In conclusion, we are not special, and it is very likely that our development is simply the most likely one. Our environment, in all its abundance, is simply the most likely one to spawn life. We are not special, and therefore every other civilization will probably be a lot like ours.
How much longer will we be sending out signals into the ether? In 20 years time, everything except the last few yards will be through optical fiber. Furthermore, we have no reason to be sending huge amounts of radiation into space, and would we want to? Vis a vis Zebrowski' The Killing Star.
From our point of view, it seems far more logical than first contact will be made through AI, which probably isn't even in contact with its home planet anymore. Assuming aliens are like us may seem arrogant, but it's still the best assumption, though other ways are possible of course.
I don't buy into the argument that we can't communicate with higher life forms, just because we can't communicate with lower lifeforms, which isn't even 100% true. We are blessed with Socratean humility, and high life forms will too. But I suppose you can cast doubt on any assumption, even these.
I don't buy the whole 'Big Brother'-argument. It's a matter of time before the public gets used to things like this. Now it's possible, and in ten years time, we wonder what the fuss was all about. Although you are right in saying that Obama first opposes the very same ideas he now endorses.
There is a BRCA-free baby now, the gate is open. Let the genetic engineering fest begin! I don't oppose it, I don't welcome it, I just accept it.
Right, and McCain knew what he was talking about, and didn't just repeat what his speechwriter had written down...
And even so, would it not be terribly stupid to dismiss a perfectly good idea, just because your one time opponent got media coverage about it first?
What exactly is your point? That even you are surprised that McCain had some good ideas?
Are we still going to be using paper records in a hundred years? I don't think so. So, if we want to avoid many, many years of format wars in the future, ending with a crappy format no one is happy with, let's pick a decent one now and go with it, albeit slowly.
In a crowd of thousands, there are probably only a few individuals who are up to something. Security personnel currently has no better option than to just look around, waiting to catch someone in the act, at which point it's usually too late. With this kind of technology, security staff will be able to make an educated guess about whom to observe a little more closely. Because, let's face it, most of the time they're just walking around, doing nothing except being present.
..that will definitely be craved by many Slashdot users, and not because of the gift shopping or use of public terminals.
Question is how long it will take before Firefox sees its market share diminish because of this feature, and, consequently, how long it will take Firefox to include it in an update.
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I guess the most newsworthy part of this story is that apparently - I'm non-US - the US education system has been deflating for some time now, and in this economic situation, the results are finally beginning to show. This girl is definitely not alone, I expect. So, where do you go from here?
Being an Expert Schadenfreude Connaisseur, I do feel somewhat relieved seeing this development, as I intend to continue my career in the US, after I finish my Master here in the Netherlands.
I think another part of Segway hatred is the fact that by standing on it, you place yourself higher than pedestrians, the other sidewalk straight-up traffic participants. This may be a small psychological gesture telling them: You are beneath me. The motorcycle does not have this problem, also because it's not allowed on the sidewalk. A solution could be to treat the Segway as a bicycle.
(continuing) Also, the music industry can then simply give out digital copies for free listening online from their website, but they will be perceived as the poor man's music source, like reading books in the library.
Admittedly, I arrived just at the dawn of the CD, but even I can very well imagine gladly paying $XX more for and LP than for a CD, especially since I know and feel that the contents of the CD are the same as of the free digital copy, and that all CD's are exact copies of each other. Their is no added value of the carrier, and I think the music industry decided to forget this. Not only does the LP allow you to literally feel the music in the grooves, but since the carrier is analogue it will be perceived as unique and personal, even though the difference may not be noticeable at first. It's same sort of difference between a book and a pdf file. Same contents, VERY different feel. We still gladly pay quite a lot for a book, but would we pay even a fraction of that for a pdf file of said book? And after time, would you gladly exchange your book for a fresh copy, or keep 'your' copy, even though some pages may be smudged, corners folded? Also, the possibility to ship beautiful and detailed large print artwork with LP's is something that can easily add a couple of bucks to the product's perceived value. Regarding quality of playback, I think DJ turntables show that is not an issue, really.
First, from a European point of view, the "I'll sue your ass for not telling me the sky is blue" way of handling responsibility has caused any identity (government, business, neighbor, colleague, celebrity) that cannot hide in anonymity to be overly cautious. Any acceptable risk of danger is offset by the enormous danger of due compensation if something does go wrong. Secondly, the government is, due to their required independence, by definition an onlooker with regard to the communities they have to watch/control. Could we easily tell from carefully watching a box of thousands of bouncing rubber balls which ones are behaving differently from the others when it all looks like a blur? Surely, each individual ball would notice discrepancies upon encountering such an outlier, but this cannot be expected from an outsider. Thirdly, and this combines the first two, the best the onlooker can do to exclude any false negatives in its selection procedure, is to make sure any voluntary irregular behavior is absent, so that the irregular ones are more easily distinguished. For that same reason any, maybe in itself harmless, strange behavior at airports is dealt with as if it were the real thing to discourage such behavior in the future. The assumption is, of course, that the odd balls are unable to act as normal as the regular ones.
Exactly, String Theory is the layman's Rubik's Cube: "It's a stupid toy, because I don't understand it and therefore can't show it off to my friends! Baww...."
You, sir, are a low life, terribly fond of his own delusion of being in a legitimate, respectable business. But I'm sure the money you extort from honest people makes a lot of people shut up in your face. However, everyone despises you behind your back. Kudos for being honest about your 'business', though!
When was the last time you timed out a website address in full? Current browser technology dictates that it's easier to just google a company. And after first finding the site you are looking for, no more than a couple of typed letters uniquely identify the desired website. Even Google itself hardly needs its epynomal domain name, although users might be sceptical about surfing to www..com. So, pick any domain name, as long as it seems trustworthy. I'll leave pointing out the downsides of this approach to you...
Are there certain parts of a standard that leave enough room for interpretation by the auditor to warrant an lawsuit if in hindsight this interpretation may be demonstrably flawed? Or, given all relevant information, will different auditors, following their auditing standards (damn, circular), reach the same conclusion?
...I'm listening to the music of Warcraft II, just for the awesome! The Fury of the Furries Amiga Forest theme, another such classic. The only games I play are games of yore!
I'm convinced that I have developed a quite sophisticated online ad blind spot. I cannot remember ever having clicked on an add on purpose. As matter of fact, the only ad I can remember is the "how to lose your virginity" ad when googling "world of warcraft"
Or you could ask:
How long does it take to get on the highway?
How long does it take to get dressed?
How long does it take to get the shower temperature right?
The questions you ask refer more to delay times in starting applications, and overall responsiveness.
"Roughly speaking, we predict there could be a 1,000-time reduction in power consumption with electronic computers built in this new way"
Bullshit alert! As we all know, even 2 is a 'rough estimate' of a 1000, allthough not a very good one. But I suppose 1000 sounds both high enough to ensure next year's funding and still be plausible. "It's a nice round number too! People like that, they understand the number 1000, in that it is a lot!" Anyway, found any water on Mars yet?
Now who's being simplistic...
Life doen not simply come into existence in all it's complexity; there must some driving force for it to extend beyond the most simple stages. In our case, evolution got us to where we are now, and curiosity is driving us where evolution can't take us anymore. I cannot imagine life just staying put; it must either advance or go extinct.
1) All life considers itself supreme in apparent absence of the contrary. The vastness of space will also ensure at least millennia of breating room between first radio contact and first real contact. Besides, if they are capable of interstellar traval and willing to destroy us at first sight, what are the chances we have escaped their attention for so long?
2) Wars will be fought before resources become so scarce we can't power the LHC anymore. If they couldn't spare any resources to begin with, they wouldn't have advances as far as they did.
3) Yes, and somehow all of them will have missed electromagnetic radiation and its uses entirely.
4) Just like us, they son't know, but it can't hurt to try.
5) Intelligent hyve minds don't just suddenly dome into existence, like our beloved Gods.
6) This is just a temporary redistribution of resources.
And so on.
Fermi's paradox is a paradox, a discrepancy between what we see, and what we would expect to see, in essence telling us to look for other ways of communication besides messages in bottles.
In conclusion, we are not special, and it is very likely that our development is simply the most likely one. Our environment, in all its abundance, is simply the most likely one to spawn life. We are not special, and therefore every other civilization will probably be a lot like ours.
Indeed, anything is possible, but there is absolutely nothing that supports your suggestion, not unlike relgion...
How much longer will we be sending out signals into the ether? In 20 years time, everything except the last few yards will be through optical fiber. Furthermore, we have no reason to be sending huge amounts of radiation into space, and would we want to? Vis a vis Zebrowski' The Killing Star.
From our point of view, it seems far more logical than first contact will be made through AI, which probably isn't even in contact with its home planet anymore. Assuming aliens are like us may seem arrogant, but it's still the best assumption, though other ways are possible of course.
I don't buy into the argument that we can't communicate with higher life forms, just because we can't communicate with lower lifeforms, which isn't even 100% true. We are blessed with Socratean humility, and high life forms will too. But I suppose you can cast doubt on any assumption, even these.
Immediately, Chinese action movie images went through my head. But alas, no Crouching Tiger in space just yet. Would be cool, though, Zero-G Fights.
I don't buy the whole 'Big Brother'-argument. It's a matter of time before the public gets used to things like this. Now it's possible, and in ten years time, we wonder what the fuss was all about. Although you are right in saying that Obama first opposes the very same ideas he now endorses.
There is a BRCA-free baby now, the gate is open. Let the genetic engineering fest begin! I don't oppose it, I don't welcome it, I just accept it.
Right, and McCain knew what he was talking about, and didn't just repeat what his speechwriter had written down...
And even so, would it not be terribly stupid to dismiss a perfectly good idea, just because your one time opponent got media coverage about it first?
What exactly is your point? That even you are surprised that McCain had some good ideas?
Are we still going to be using paper records in a hundred years? I don't think so. So, if we want to avoid many, many years of format wars in the future, ending with a crappy format no one is happy with, let's pick a decent one now and go with it, albeit slowly.
In a crowd of thousands, there are probably only a few individuals who are up to something. Security personnel currently has no better option than to just look around, waiting to catch someone in the act, at which point it's usually too late. With this kind of technology, security staff will be able to make an educated guess about whom to observe a little more closely. Because, let's face it, most of the time they're just walking around, doing nothing except being present.
...which didn't even seem that implausible at the time.
..that will definitely be craved by many Slashdot users, and not because of the gift shopping or use of public terminals. Question is how long it will take before Firefox sees its market share diminish because of this feature, and, consequently, how long it will take Firefox to include it in an update.
I also stopped after Warcraft 2, but play the entire campaign at least every two years. Just to be able to listen to the music.