Most don't; I think 18 bit color (262144 colors, advertised as "16.2 million") is the most common. Depending on the dithering method used by the monitor it can be hard to tell the difference under most normal circumstances.
For that to work, we need to figure out how to end anti-intellectualism. If children are forced to choose between learning and being popular, many will choose to be popular, and their education will suffer; they will not take the time to learn and discover things on their own because it will be seen as "uncool". Without motivation for self-directed learning, rote learning is pretty much the only option left.
I was lucky. My parents provided an environment that was conducive to what you describe as Discovery Learning, at home where it would have little impact on my social standing; as a result I generally didn't have to make that choice. For example, my dad showed me the basics of an early version of Lotus 1-2-3 when I was 5 years old. He then provided the reference materials and encouragement I needed to teach myself how to do things with Lotus 1-2-3 that even he didn't know at the time. (And because my parents had taught me to read at age 3, I was able to use those references without much help.)
The question of how to create such an environment in a school is difficult to answer, though. (And I'm not convinced that home-schooling is the answer either, or at least the entire answer. What happens with children of parents that are not well educated?) Smaller classes certainly help, but that means hiring more teachers and attracting more people to the teaching profession. That in turn requires spending more money, both on existing teachers and new ones, and where is that money going to come from?
There's likely some amount of truth to it though, related to the brain development of a child. It's not that you can't start learning as an adult, but that you'll have a more intuitive understanding by starting at an early age. Similarly, it's much easier to start learning a spoken/written language as a child than as an adult.
Of course some of the more advanced aspects of both language and programming require a background that most or all children won't have, partly due to time constraints. But if the fundamentals are hard-wired in by learning them while the relevant portions of the brain are developing, the concepts that build upon them should be much easier to pick up at any age.
It could be a hardware quality control issue, where some controllers (including the ones used in development) perform just fine, and others do not. That seems like a fairly likely scenario to me, explaining why some people have no problem with the controls, and others find the game to be unplayable.
My cable company is Time Warner. As far as I can tell, all (or at least most) of the channels that are offered in analog format are also offered in digital format on a separate channel. Some are offered a third time in high definition.
Example: Channel 27 = TNT analog (confirmed using analog-only TV tuner card) Channel 401 = TNT digital (has visible artifacts when the signal is weak) Channel 1827 = TNTHD
All three channels have the same programming at the same time.
Headphones would also be a substantial health hazard. There's no way I would put an object on my head which has been on the head of hundreds of other people just today.
A substantial health hazard? That's news to me. What is done with the headphones on hearing test machines to prevent that from being a health hazard?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.htm l
There are plenty of examples of speciation in plants and animals referenced there. Some of them occurred in a laboratory.
One such example:
Dobzhansky, T. and O. Pavlovsky. 1971. Experimentally created incipient species of Drosophila. Nature. 230:289-292.
Only humans could be so arrogant as to assume that only humans could be so self-deprecating as to assume that we're the only species that could be so arrogant as to...where was I?
Unless, of course, your fstab entries have a lot of options. Then pico's handling of long lines can be annoying, outweighing (in my mind) any benefits of using a simple lightweight text editor.
I think the intended patent is 7247782, "Genetic music".
The link in the story takes me to patent 7250557, which appears to be unrelated ("Plastidic phosphoglucomutase genes").
Yes it does. Chapter 39, titled "There is Music in our Genes", describes work done by Susumu Ohno, Nobuo Munakata, and Kenshi Hayashi to map DNA sequences to melodies.
Ohno has also done the reverse, mapping existing music to DNA sequences. "For example, Ohno maps pieces such as Frederic Chopin's Nocturn, opus 55, no. 1, to musical scores and shows that the Nocturn sequences have remarkable similarities with DNA sequences....Some of these similarities arise from the fact that both DNA and gene sequences contain tandemly recurring segments."
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"What percentage is that?"
"Zero. Zero is a percent, isn't it?"
(0% certainly would be "a surprising amount", at least to me!)
Most don't; I think 18 bit color (262144 colors, advertised as "16.2 million") is the most common. Depending on the dithering method used by the monitor it can be hard to tell the difference under most normal circumstances.
Someone forgot to follow the flowchart!
For that to work, we need to figure out how to end anti-intellectualism. If children are forced to choose between learning and being popular, many will choose to be popular, and their education will suffer; they will not take the time to learn and discover things on their own because it will be seen as "uncool". Without motivation for self-directed learning, rote learning is pretty much the only option left.
I was lucky. My parents provided an environment that was conducive to what you describe as Discovery Learning, at home where it would have little impact on my social standing; as a result I generally didn't have to make that choice. For example, my dad showed me the basics of an early version of Lotus 1-2-3 when I was 5 years old. He then provided the reference materials and encouragement I needed to teach myself how to do things with Lotus 1-2-3 that even he didn't know at the time. (And because my parents had taught me to read at age 3, I was able to use those references without much help.)
The question of how to create such an environment in a school is difficult to answer, though. (And I'm not convinced that home-schooling is the answer either, or at least the entire answer. What happens with children of parents that are not well educated?) Smaller classes certainly help, but that means hiring more teachers and attracting more people to the teaching profession. That in turn requires spending more money, both on existing teachers and new ones, and where is that money going to come from?
You're very clever, young man, but it's no use--it's patents all the way down!
There's a reason why some people refer to those games as "MMOGs" instead of "MMORPGs".
It seems to me this has been done before as Journey to Wild Divine. I suppose that wasn't as portable, though.
There's likely some amount of truth to it though, related to the brain development of a child. It's not that you can't start learning as an adult, but that you'll have a more intuitive understanding by starting at an early age. Similarly, it's much easier to start learning a spoken/written language as a child than as an adult.
Of course some of the more advanced aspects of both language and programming require a background that most or all children won't have, partly due to time constraints. But if the fundamentals are hard-wired in by learning them while the relevant portions of the brain are developing, the concepts that build upon them should be much easier to pick up at any age.
Poor Mercury didn't even make it onto the "denied" list...
It could be a hardware quality control issue, where some controllers (including the ones used in development) perform just fine, and others do not. That seems like a fairly likely scenario to me, explaining why some people have no problem with the controls, and others find the game to be unplayable.
We did this at Circuit City and several other stores when I was helping my parents shop for a new TV. No one objected.
My cable company is Time Warner. As far as I can tell, all (or at least most) of the channels that are offered in analog format are also offered in digital format on a separate channel. Some are offered a third time in high definition.
Example:
Channel 27 = TNT analog (confirmed using analog-only TV tuner card)
Channel 401 = TNT digital (has visible artifacts when the signal is weak)
Channel 1827 = TNTHD
All three channels have the same programming at the same time.
Bizarro Slashdot, where I have a 5 digit ID!
http://barrapunto.com/~Ambiguous+Puzuma
Here's one thing that can happen if the hole is small enough:E xplosive.Decompression.txt
http://www.mu.org/~joe/traveller/archive/General/
(scroll down to the "Gregory Bennett adds" section)
I know a 1/8 inch hole is not the same as a two inch cut, but it's still an interesting anecdote, and it might have some relevance.
And as a result of pointing that out, you now have even more unnecessary validation!
Only humans could be so arrogant as to assume that only humans could be so self-deprecating as to assume that we're the only species that could be so arrogant as to...where was I?
...across the room? There has to be a good story behind this.
Isn't that the sort of thing the Universal Service Fund is supposed to compensate for?
There's a link at the bottom of the article that shows the vote breakdown.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll836.xml
Out of curiosity, what's the reason for trying to post a story every 40-50 minutes, even when you've run out of good stories?
Unless, of course, your fstab entries have a lot of options. Then pico's handling of long lines can be annoying, outweighing (in my mind) any benefits of using a simple lightweight text editor.
I think the intended patent is 7247782, "Genetic music".
The link in the story takes me to patent 7250557, which appears to be unrelated ("Plastidic phosphoglucomutase genes").
Yes it does. Chapter 39, titled "There is Music in our Genes", describes work done by Susumu Ohno, Nobuo Munakata, and Kenshi Hayashi to map DNA sequences to melodies.
Ohno has also done the reverse, mapping existing music to DNA sequences. "For example, Ohno maps pieces such as Frederic Chopin's Nocturn, opus 55, no. 1, to musical scores and shows that the Nocturn sequences have remarkable similarities with DNA sequences....Some of these similarities arise from the fact that both DNA and gene sequences contain tandemly recurring segments."