When I was younger and would ask my mom a question she didn't know the answer to she would often pull out the encyclopedia and look for an answer.
This was how my mom did it and I plan to do the same with my children up to the limit of my patience. My mom taught me to read so that I would stop asking questions all day long and leave her alone. (Okay, not really, but she does say that it was a nice side-benefit).
In our house it was made clear that books were toys and to be used in leisure time for fun. I read them, my brother made roads out of them for his toy trucks.
We're both professional scientists now. Take that for what you will.
But there is only one thing that kept me in line academically as a kid, and that was fear of my father's foot in my ass.
Generally not a good strategy. In my high school class, most of the lower end students regularly got such treatment. They succeeded where you didn't: They simply learned to cope with that treatment. And so once again, no motivation to study.
Absolutely. The foot in the ass is only half of the solution (and probably less than half, and certainly the less important half). There was a carrot to go along with the grandparent-poster's stick. It wasn't necessarily $5, but there must have been something. He doesn't specify in his post and it's possible he wasn't even consciously aware of what it was.
A behaviorist would say "If they don't want the reinforcer, then it isn't a reinforcer." We're not motivating kids with the things they want or need and therefore they tune their education out.
It is possible to synthesize British accents. Hawking has had many opportunities to upgrade his speech software. He chooses to continue to use DECtalk even though it is outdated because it is "his voice" now.
So I suppose someone could carefully manage a tree farm to produce some new perfect instruments.
IANAF (forester), but my brother and other family and friends are.
My understanding is that the German forestry industry is already growing trees slowly for future instuments (although I don't think they are trying to duplicate the ice age conditions). It requires subsidies, though, because of the length of time that it takes to capitalize on the investment. Stockholders/landowners get impatient. A sapling today might be ready by 2150.
My brother is right now nurturing some softwoods that he plans to use to fund his retirement, and that's for normally-growing dimensional lumber. If he was intentionally suppressing their growth to increase the density of the lumber, it would make a valuable thing to pass on to his grandchildren, but that's an awful lot of money, work and land to devote to something you'll never make any money on in your lifetime.
I got WarpSpeed for my T|X and the screen whine went away. If it's a universal hardware problem, how is there a software fix for it?
I also bought PowerDigi since two trips back to support didn't fix the digitizer, which was off by a quarter of an inch along the left edge of the screen.
$30 of software add-ons to make it work the way it should have out of the box. Great. Between that and the squishy power button and I'm done with Palm devices. They had an opportunity to do something awesome and continue to compete, but that time passed a while ago.
Once there is a scientific calculator and spreadsheet capability for Apple handhelds, I'm getting an iPod Touch.
[...] LET PEOPLE BELIEVE IN CREATIONISM. It's ok if someone doesn't want to know everything. Just because you do, and see the logic, does not mean other people do.
If you want to be a doctor, guess what? Medical school is not going to take credits from a biology class with creationism on the syllabus.
Fundies have already formed at least one accredited law school. You don't think a med school is possible at some point?
Perhaps next mission they should take along some sugar. Put it out and see if it 'sublimates' as well.
Memo to all Enforcers: By order of the Council of Elders, anyone caught consuming the sweet, sweet bait near the robotic invader from the blue planet is to have his gelsacs summarily pierced. Signed, K'Breel
himself, the speech synth, and the wheel chair onto the horse's back. He would be a knight after all. I didn't even get to the part of how he could hold the lance.
This is so trollish that I should ignore it, but I should note that I work with a group of speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and rehabilitation engineers who would have loved the challenge and it is almost certainly possible to do.
Google "hippotherapy." Creating such a mounting system wouldn't be a completely useless endeavor.
Celsius is too wussy for climates with real weather.
'Round here 32F can be shorts, t-shirt and sandal weather. OC just sounds too cold for such a warm day.
Sure, eventually Celsius catches up but that point tends to fall outside of standard human operational temperature range. When I lived in Finland, in winter the temps were frequently -35. That's Celsius and Fahrenheit; it didn't matter.
MaCain's web site runs on Windows and uses HTML Tables. Obama's web site runs on Linux, and uses XHTML/CSS. ...and I thought my brother voting on the basis of lapel pins was frivolous.
"It is immoral to bankrupt people for getting sick and any society that has the ability to prevent this has a moral duty to."
Who is "bankrupting" who? If people opt for expensive treatments, then they should pay for that treatment. Or, if they can't afford it, they should choose a less expensive treatment. If the government is preventing less expensive treatments from being available to the public (which is at the root of your concern), then such laws should be overturned, allowing less expensive treatments to exist. Because homeopathy is so much cheaper than chemotherapy and radiation.
How much would you pay to alleviate your own suffering and avert your own death? For most people the answer is, "Everything I have." And also, for most people, the response to that is, "That's a good start, but it still isn't enough."
Money is just a tool. It's an abstract representation of a civilization's capacity to solve problems, and only an indirect symbol of Liberty, not Liberty itself. There's only a small subset of society such as yourself who treat it as the Ultimate Goal. Keeping people alive is the ultimate goal.
Heh, I mapped out my jr. high school years ago when duke nukem 3d had a built in level designer, of course this was long enough ago that my jr. high had just stopped its skeet shooting class a half decade earlier
Our HS shop teacher was a gunsmith.
We made and refinished rifle stocks in woodshop and repaired the actual mechanisms of old rifles and refinished them in the metal shop (Parkerizing usually, re-blueing is really difficult). We didn't have a formal skeet-shooting club, but the teacher didn't mind if we reloaded our empties during study hall (meaning we had gunpowder in large quantities at school).
Wow, times have changed. This wasn't really all that long ago.
I never used our school as a video game map, but we certainly used it as a PnP map for many raids.
Well, it was *believed* to be the best strategy based on not much more than guesswork, and certainly not on any real historical data. Most people would rather live on their knees than die on their feet, I guess. No historical data? There were plenty of hijackings in the 70s and 80s and they usually led to a standoff and the eventual release of the passengers. The intentional crashing was a first of its kind event.
Yeah, this could be a good idea. When I was a kid there was a TV show where you could point your spacecraft at the TV and try to shoot it or get shot by it. I think it just read some broadcasted scan code and made sounds. Wow, that takes me back. The enemy lasers had a flicker that told your toy ship that it had been hit; and also gave some kids seizures. I remember seeing the ads before it came on and wanting the toys... but then I watched the show. Wow, even as a kid I thought it was crap. No amount of marketing could undo what I had seen.
Which brings me to this MMORPG/TV idea. Whether it is a clever idea or not, the execution makes all the difference. Pretty basic ideas can make a good TV show/game and great ideas can be ruined easily. It is hard to make a successful MMORPG and hard to make a good TV show. Doing both at once is going to be super tricky (and Sci-Fi hasn't got a track record of maintaining high production values).
I think even non science fields could benefit from having some basic programming course requried to graduate. like a quarter of haskell or something. Programming?? You're shooting too high. I'd settle for using the right app for a given job.
I know this is going to confirm every bad stereotype the/. crowd has regarding social scientists, but the researchers in my program think I'm some kind of hacker genius because I can get Excel to sum a column and make a pivot table. The last project I got assigned to was keeping the raw data in Word tables.
Maybe next semester I'll do a research colloquium on SQL and basic database construction.
Have they done any research to assess how much mindshare that logo has? Because I don't think it is worth fighting for. I associate the cursive "Johnson & Johnson" logo with J&J far more than the red cross logo (which of course makes me think of the Red Cross).
They could lose the red cross trademark from their products altogether and I don't think I'd notice.
Voice acting for a game is down at the very bottom of things that will make a game succeed... No, but we'd all bitch if the acting sucked.
Acting (and writing) could very easily ruin the high-quality hard work of everyone else, or elevate good to great (as the writing and acting in Portal did). How much that is worth in $$$ should be negotiable, that's all Hollick is saying.
and i doubt he was working 8 hours on any day
for anyone else with his (tiny) skillset, that's like having to work one day in two weeks Do you actually know any professional actors?
It's all well and good to complain that his $1000 per day is a lot of money, but if he's like any of the actors I know he was probably alternating between that and minimum wage+tips.
Man, I really screwed myself out of these low userID wars.:(
If only I'd have known back then! No kidding. You lurk for five years before posting and suddenly you're a n00b.
Anyway, I've learned to tune out advertising, as you say. This seems to be why ads are starting to progress to within the show itself. Take Heroes for example. Why do you think the Nissan Versa and Nissan Rogue are so prevalent? That Heero made such a point about getting the Versa? Well... Nissan paid a -lot- of money, that'd be my guess. If you watch these episodes online, Nissan has transitioned the advertising to match with the shows progression on vehicles as well. (The other two major advertisings were Chase and Cisco, fyi) There is some evolution of advertising going on. Where Heroes used product placement in the content, Lost spills content into the ads. At the end of the last couple seasons they've had B-plot stuff that was embedded in the ad breaks. So in order to find out more stuff about the DHARMA Initiative, you had to visit a Sprite-sponsored website. To encourage people to watch the sponsors' ads they'd throw a random fake ad for things that exist in the show. People were actually rewinding and freeze-framing the ads rather than skipping over them.
Or it is supposed to be. Lumber companies argue that planing + shrinkage takes 1/4 inch off each side, resulting in 1 1/2 x 3 1/2, a 35% reduction in volume. I have a trouble believing this, personally I believe this is more about saving money by scamming consumers by getting the official standard changed, who knows how. My brother built his house with unplaned lumber that he bought directly from the sawmill. The materials were very consistently 2"x4", 2"x6" and 2"x10".
Planing does take 0.25" off each surface.
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"I don't know, let's go look it up together."
When I was younger and would ask my mom a question she didn't know the answer to she would often pull out the encyclopedia and look for an answer.
This was how my mom did it and I plan to do the same with my children up to the limit of my patience. My mom taught me to read so that I would stop asking questions all day long and leave her alone. (Okay, not really, but she does say that it was a nice side-benefit).
In our house it was made clear that books were toys and to be used in leisure time for fun. I read them, my brother made roads out of them for his toy trucks.
We're both professional scientists now. Take that for what you will.
But there is only one thing that kept me in line academically as a kid, and that was fear of my father's foot in my ass.
Generally not a good strategy. In my high school class, most of the lower end students regularly got such treatment. They succeeded where you didn't: They simply learned to cope with that treatment. And so once again, no motivation to study.
Absolutely. The foot in the ass is only half of the solution (and probably less than half, and certainly the less important half). There was a carrot to go along with the grandparent-poster's stick. It wasn't necessarily $5, but there must have been something. He doesn't specify in his post and it's possible he wasn't even consciously aware of what it was.
A behaviorist would say "If they don't want the reinforcer, then it isn't a reinforcer." We're not motivating kids with the things they want or need and therefore they tune their education out.
I am positive that I am not the only slashdotter that thinks they can fix anything with a zip tie.
I'm also a big fan of zip-ties. In my assessment they are up there with duct tape.
It is possible to synthesize British accents. Hawking has had many opportunities to upgrade his speech software. He chooses to continue to use DECtalk even though it is outdated because it is "his voice" now.
So I suppose someone could carefully manage a tree farm to produce some new perfect instruments.
IANAF (forester), but my brother and other family and friends are.
My understanding is that the German forestry industry is already growing trees slowly for future instuments (although I don't think they are trying to duplicate the ice age conditions). It requires subsidies, though, because of the length of time that it takes to capitalize on the investment. Stockholders/landowners get impatient. A sapling today might be ready by 2150.
My brother is right now nurturing some softwoods that he plans to use to fund his retirement, and that's for normally-growing dimensional lumber. If he was intentionally suppressing their growth to increase the density of the lumber, it would make a valuable thing to pass on to his grandchildren, but that's an awful lot of money, work and land to devote to something you'll never make any money on in your lifetime.
I got WarpSpeed for my T|X and the screen whine went away. If it's a universal hardware problem, how is there a software fix for it?
I also bought PowerDigi since two trips back to support didn't fix the digitizer, which was off by a quarter of an inch along the left edge of the screen.
$30 of software add-ons to make it work the way it should have out of the box. Great. Between that and the squishy power button and I'm done with Palm devices. They had an opportunity to do something awesome and continue to compete, but that time passed a while ago.
Once there is a scientific calculator and spreadsheet capability for Apple handhelds, I'm getting an iPod Touch.
[...] LET PEOPLE BELIEVE IN CREATIONISM. It's ok if someone doesn't want to know everything. Just because you do, and see the logic, does not mean other people do.
If you want to be a doctor, guess what? Medical school is not going to take credits from a biology class with creationism on the syllabus.
Fundies have already formed at least one accredited law school. You don't think a med school is possible at some point?
A keyboard? How quaint.
Perhaps next mission they should take along some sugar. Put it out and see if it 'sublimates' as well.
Memo to all Enforcers:By order of the Council of Elders, anyone caught consuming the sweet, sweet bait near the robotic invader from the blue planet is to have his gelsacs summarily pierced.
Signed,
K'Breel
himself, the speech synth, and the wheel chair onto the horse's back. He would be a knight after all. I didn't even get to the part of how he could hold the lance.
This is so trollish that I should ignore it, but I should note that I work with a group of speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and rehabilitation engineers who would have loved the challenge and it is almost certainly possible to do.Google "hippotherapy." Creating such a mounting system wouldn't be a completely useless endeavor.
'Round here 32F can be shorts, t-shirt and sandal weather. OC just sounds too cold for such a warm day.
Sure, eventually Celsius catches up but that point tends to fall outside of standard human operational temperature range. When I lived in Finland, in winter the temps were frequently -35. That's Celsius and Fahrenheit; it didn't matter.
MaCain's web site runs on Windows and uses HTML Tables. Obama's web site runs on Linux, and uses XHTML/CSS. ...and I thought my brother voting on the basis of lapel pins was frivolous.
Who is "bankrupting" who? If people opt for expensive treatments, then they should pay for that treatment. Or, if they can't afford it, they should choose a less expensive treatment. If the government is preventing less expensive treatments from being available to the public (which is at the root of your concern), then such laws should be overturned, allowing less expensive treatments to exist. Because homeopathy is so much cheaper than chemotherapy and radiation.
How much would you pay to alleviate your own suffering and avert your own death?
For most people the answer is, "Everything I have."
And also, for most people, the response to that is, "That's a good start, but it still isn't enough."
Money is just a tool. It's an abstract representation of a civilization's capacity to solve problems, and only an indirect symbol of Liberty, not Liberty itself. There's only a small subset of society such as yourself who treat it as the Ultimate Goal. Keeping people alive is the ultimate goal.
Heh, I mapped out my jr. high school years ago when duke nukem 3d had a built in level designer, of course this was long enough ago that my jr. high had just stopped its skeet shooting class a half decade earlier
Our HS shop teacher was a gunsmith.We made and refinished rifle stocks in woodshop and repaired the actual mechanisms of old rifles and refinished them in the metal shop (Parkerizing usually, re-blueing is really difficult). We didn't have a formal skeet-shooting club, but the teacher didn't mind if we reloaded our empties during study hall (meaning we had gunpowder in large quantities at school).
Wow, times have changed. This wasn't really all that long ago.
I never used our school as a video game map, but we certainly used it as a PnP map for many raids.
Which brings me to this MMORPG/TV idea. Whether it is a clever idea or not, the execution makes all the difference. Pretty basic ideas can make a good TV show/game and great ideas can be ruined easily. It is hard to make a successful MMORPG and hard to make a good TV show. Doing both at once is going to be super tricky (and Sci-Fi hasn't got a track record of maintaining high production values).
I know this is going to confirm every bad stereotype the
Maybe next semester I'll do a research colloquium on SQL and basic database construction.
Have they done any research to assess how much mindshare that logo has? Because I don't think it is worth fighting for. I associate the cursive "Johnson & Johnson" logo with J&J far more than the red cross logo (which of course makes me think of the Red Cross).
They could lose the red cross trademark from their products altogether and I don't think I'd notice.
Acting (and writing) could very easily ruin the high-quality hard work of everyone else, or elevate good to great (as the writing and acting in Portal did). How much that is worth in $$$ should be negotiable, that's all Hollick is saying.
It's all well and good to complain that his $1000 per day is a lot of money, but if he's like any of the actors I know he was probably alternating between that and minimum wage+tips.
Hotel Dusk Room 215 had a sortof Myst-like point-and-click thing that would not have workd well with a D-pad
The Brain Age series couldn't work without the touchscreen.
I don't know why "just a gimmick" is considered such a bad thing for a feature on a toy.
My G5 iMac will occasionally pop a CD completely out of the drive and onto the floor. Strange.