What makes Apple an attractive vendor is Apple Care. You get your circuitboard replaced for $0 that normally cost a thousand dollars. Hard disk failure? $0 replacement. Optical disk drive failure? $0 replacement.
Given that, how many Macs are covered by SquareTrade warrantys instead of Apple's? Their data may be skewed by selection bias (but I can't say which way).
Unfortunately, many of the places that are the most natural-disaster-free have extreme climates. Maine, for example, never gets severe earthquakes or tornadoes, but gets a lot of snowfall.
I had the speech recognition turned on on my Macintosh until it decided that the sound that my office chair made when I leaned back was "gimp." I'd lean back in my chair, which would make a springy sound, and the Mac would launch X11 and Gimp. Very annoying.
It's not a "game" per se, but it might be interesting to the client to see a spectrogram of their actual speech. Then they could try to match the pattern to a model spectrogram of the therapist's speech.
Then you could make funny fart noises and see what those look like.
Whoever decided that they should be called 'speech pathologists' didn't really think of the patients. 'Speech pathologist' actually quite a difficult thing to say.
That's not only slightly "OT." That is exactly the sort of thing an Occupational Therapist would say.
/r/ is by far the toughest one. It causes people in our profession much consternation. But, as you point out, if all of the other consonants are normal, having the/r/ be a little off isn't that big a deal. There's a wide range of what is intelligible to our ears.
Walters (along with many who grow up speaking Asian languages) cannot even hear the English/r/. She didn't get the joke when they impersonated her on SNL, for example. Some people's brains interpret that sound as something else entirely, which is why they can't produce it.
Some kids have even more extensive phonological problems where other sounds are interpreted as the same (/t/ sounds just like/k/, for example). This is a problem that can mess with reading and language learning beyond just the problem of "talking funny."
How significant a speech impairment are you talking about?
If it is only a speech issue (like a lisp) and they don't value the therapy, then I'm not sure what to say. I know a guy here who has quirky speech, but he's doing fine as an engineering student at a major university.
The reason we target speech in kids so heavily is that speech issues may (although not always) be a symptom of an underlying language problem that interferes with many other aspects of language. It's not just making kids talk better; it's more about giving kids who need it a redundant channel to learn phonology, morphology, and syntax.
do you think there might be discernible reasons why zombies and vampires get so much popular attention over, say, werewolves? Not that there's a meaning, per se, but reasons?
Werewolves represent wildness and nature. Most Americans aren't threatened by anything from nature other than the occasional deer striking a car. It doesn't play on any current, underlying fears.
Does anyone actually "line up" to see a movie when it's first released anymore? Especially these days, Hollywood is putting out utter drivel, so does it really matter if you see it today or in four weeks' time?
I think this might backfire on them. People who might be influenced by marketing buzz to see a movie right away, might forget about it by the time it reaches rental. But if they rent it during the new-release period, they might actually decide to buy it later.
You kinda have to if you're going to see something at all. The theaters don't run movies for weeks and weeks anymore. A couple of weeks and a film is out on its ear for the next thing (for the next Twilight sequel or cheap teen comedy). And usually that last week it's playing on a screen in the theater at the end of the corridor (which I refer to as "the closet"). The turnover slowed a bit when the economy crashed, but films have a short half-life. You can catch it at second-run dollar theaters, but my experience with those hasn't been very positive (including crappier overall theater and the film being scratched-up).
There was a crazy guy in my town who felt as you did. They arrested him for shooting his neighbor (who videotaped his own murder), but he was in town at the time they grabbed him. While he was in jail, there was an "accidental fire" at his house, which was filled with bombmaking material and toxic chemicals. (I was at that fire as a HAZMAT-trained firefighter. We didn't even pull into the driveway; just watched it from a safe distance.)
Language evolves. This is a relatively new use of an old verb that has entered common usage with relatively little opposition, so I anticipate it will be standard in a generation or so. It's a little slangy now, and the types of people who use that structure are those who you wouldn't want on your lawn.
Nothing stopped you from postponing grad school for a few years to pay down the balance.
Postponing grad school would have significantly hobbled an scientific research career; more than a few years would have been required to pay off my loans.
My field has a huge problem with lack of scientists. If you put off doctoral work to pay for your master's, that coincides perfectly with prime childrearing years. Once you have a kid or two, you've got more expenses than just student loans and you are in no position to live on a doctoral assistantship anymore, or to put in the hours needed to complete a PhD which are greater and less steady than that of a 40-hr/wk job. (Yeah, I know... Slashdot... no sex... blah blah).
Really? Grad school's been a pretty good deal for me as far as loans go. I just called up my lenders, and got all my student loans deferred (with no interest) until i complete my PhD. And considering that I get paid to do grad school, I plan to pay off those loans as soon as I graduate. I think the answer is to stop whining, save money, and if you couldn't afford the school in the first place, perhaps choose a cheaper option?
Deferred with no interest? How did you manage that? While I'm in grad school I get one bill annually for just the interest. I don't have to pay it; if I don't they add it to the principal. After I got my master's degree, I consolidated at ~3%, so it's not that bad. I'm certainly not whining, but I can say with certainty that I could not have afforded to enter my career on money I saved up beforehand or earned while I was attending classes. The dollar numbers and the waking-hours-per-day numbers do not add up.
I never beat the original Metroid. Right now I am playing through Metroid Prime 1 & 2 before starting 3 and I wonder if I should get the 2D versions into that mix. I'm a lot better with the controller now than I was back then. (Although my reflexes at age 35 may be a bit slower, I realize now there's more to it than that.) Having a physical AV switch on your TV instead of using the automatic one that came with the NES was a godsend. Leaving the thing on for days at a time without interfering with Mom and Dad's TV-watching was great.
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What makes Apple an attractive vendor is Apple Care. You get your circuitboard replaced for $0 that normally cost a thousand dollars. Hard disk failure? $0 replacement. Optical disk drive failure? $0 replacement.
Given that, how many Macs are covered by SquareTrade warrantys instead of Apple's? Their data may be skewed by selection bias (but I can't say which way).
Unfortunately, many of the places that are the most natural-disaster-free have extreme climates. Maine, for example, never gets severe earthquakes or tornadoes, but gets a lot of snowfall.
My understanding is that scanning a book that you own to put it through a brailler or into Kuzweil software is specifically protected by law.
Volume, perhaps? Mini-DVI is shorter than full-size DVI.
Very nice. I have a new sig line.
Mod up. This guy gets it.
I had the speech recognition turned on on my Macintosh until it decided that the sound that my office chair made when I leaned back was "gimp." I'd lean back in my chair, which would make a springy sound, and the Mac would launch X11 and Gimp. Very annoying.
It's not a "game" per se, but it might be interesting to the client to see a spectrogram of their actual speech. Then they could try to match the pattern to a model spectrogram of the therapist's speech.
Then you could make funny fart noises and see what those look like.
Whoever decided that they should be called 'speech pathologists' didn't really think of the patients. 'Speech pathologist' actually quite a difficult thing to say.
That's not only slightly "OT." That is exactly the sort of thing an Occupational Therapist would say.
/r/ is by far the toughest one. It causes people in our profession much consternation. But, as you point out, if all of the other consonants are normal, having the /r/ be a little off isn't that big a deal. There's a wide range of what is intelligible to our ears.
Walters (along with many who grow up speaking Asian languages) cannot even hear the English /r/. She didn't get the joke when they impersonated her on SNL, for example. Some people's brains interpret that sound as something else entirely, which is why they can't produce it.
Some kids have even more extensive phonological problems where other sounds are interpreted as the same (/t/ sounds just like /k/, for example). This is a problem that can mess with reading and language learning beyond just the problem of "talking funny."
Good one. I'd recommend Odama if the speech recognition wasn't so awful.
Or chat/IM using Dragon Speaking Naturally. Social, but where the other person can't actually hear you.
How significant a speech impairment are you talking about?
If it is only a speech issue (like a lisp) and they don't value the therapy, then I'm not sure what to say. I know a guy here who has quirky speech, but he's doing fine as an engineering student at a major university.
The reason we target speech in kids so heavily is that speech issues may (although not always) be a symptom of an underlying language problem that interferes with many other aspects of language. It's not just making kids talk better; it's more about giving kids who need it a redundant channel to learn phonology, morphology, and syntax.
And what prevented those councillors from telling their side of the story?
Clearly they had no real response to this blogger, and so just folded.
Leaves me wondering whether they were guilty or merely incompetent.
The same thing that keeps Glenn Beck from using his extensive media access to refute the story that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
do you think there might be discernible reasons why zombies and vampires get so much popular attention over, say, werewolves? Not that there's a meaning, per se, but reasons?
Werewolves represent wildness and nature. Most Americans aren't threatened by anything from nature other than the occasional deer striking a car. It doesn't play on any current, underlying fears.
Proloquo2Go is 235MB. Add some user-generated content (which is what that app is for) and it would go over 256 easily.
Does anyone actually "line up" to see a movie when it's first released anymore? Especially these days, Hollywood is putting out utter drivel, so does it really matter if you see it today or in four weeks' time?
I think this might backfire on them. People who might be influenced by marketing buzz to see a movie right away, might forget about it by the time it reaches rental. But if they rent it during the new-release period, they might actually decide to buy it later.
You kinda have to if you're going to see something at all. The theaters don't run movies for weeks and weeks anymore. A couple of weeks and a film is out on its ear for the next thing (for the next Twilight sequel or cheap teen comedy). And usually that last week it's playing on a screen in the theater at the end of the corridor (which I refer to as "the closet"). The turnover slowed a bit when the economy crashed, but films have a short half-life.
You can catch it at second-run dollar theaters, but my experience with those hasn't been very positive (including crappier overall theater and the film being scratched-up).
There was a crazy guy in my town who felt as you did. They arrested him for shooting his neighbor (who videotaped his own murder), but he was in town at the time they grabbed him.
While he was in jail, there was an "accidental fire" at his house, which was filled with bombmaking material and toxic chemicals. (I was at that fire as a HAZMAT-trained firefighter. We didn't even pull into the driveway; just watched it from a safe distance.)
Everything is easy when you don't understand the problem
Why are you not logged in when you say this? Well said, indeed.
I remember cable news reveling in the month of Florida recounts. Dragging it out is great for them, they can show off their Microsoft Surface devices.
People who hate on gays...
How does one hate on something?
Language evolves. This is a relatively new use of an old verb that has entered common usage with relatively little opposition, so I anticipate it will be standard in a generation or so. It's a little slangy now, and the types of people who use that structure are those who you wouldn't want on your lawn.
Nothing stopped you from postponing grad school for a few years to pay down the balance.
Postponing grad school would have significantly hobbled an scientific research career; more than a few years would have been required to pay off my loans.
My field has a huge problem with lack of scientists. If you put off doctoral work to pay for your master's, that coincides perfectly with prime childrearing years. Once you have a kid or two, you've got more expenses than just student loans and you are in no position to live on a doctoral assistantship anymore, or to put in the hours needed to complete a PhD which are greater and less steady than that of a 40-hr/wk job.
(Yeah, I know... Slashdot... no sex... blah blah).
Really? Grad school's been a pretty good deal for me as far as loans go. I just called up my lenders, and got all my student loans deferred (with no interest) until i complete my PhD. And considering that I get paid to do grad school, I plan to pay off those loans as soon as I graduate. I think the answer is to stop whining, save money, and if you couldn't afford the school in the first place, perhaps choose a cheaper option?
Deferred with no interest? How did you manage that? While I'm in grad school I get one bill annually for just the interest. I don't have to pay it; if I don't they add it to the principal.
After I got my master's degree, I consolidated at ~3%, so it's not that bad. I'm certainly not whining, but I can say with certainty that I could not have afforded to enter my career on money I saved up beforehand or earned while I was attending classes. The dollar numbers and the waking-hours-per-day numbers do not add up.
What, CompSci grads are too good to collect trash?
I mean, how many societies have plumbers as heroes? .
The Mushroom Kingdom?
I never beat the original Metroid. Right now I am playing through Metroid Prime 1 & 2 before starting 3 and I wonder if I should get the 2D versions into that mix. I'm a lot better with the controller now than I was back then. (Although my reflexes at age 35 may be a bit slower, I realize now there's more to it than that.)
Having a physical AV switch on your TV instead of using the automatic one that came with the NES was a godsend. Leaving the thing on for days at a time without interfering with Mom and Dad's TV-watching was great.