What happens is adults encourage them to organize based on race by telling them that this person is another race than everyone else.
Of course - children are blind and cannot tell the difference in colour between "brown" and "white" when it's skin that they are looking at. Only when an adult points it out do they recognise that colour as "brown"
I can see holding off on math, but NOT basic arithmetic. However, when you teach a kid how to add and subtract, do it with examples. Show him two beads have him count, show him two more, have him count, then pile them together and have him count them again. That way he has a basic understanding of what numbers are for and how they work.
With my kid, it's sweets... he learned to count, add and subtract single digit numbers in a real hurry when I'd sneak away some of the sweets he was given:-)
The very first time he was sitting on a couch watching TV with his sweets (+- 8) next to him, I'd wait while his attention was diverted by the TV, and sneak a single sweet. It occurred to him that his sweets were running out without him actually eating them, so I thought him to name them (1-sweetie, 2-sweetie, etc). It wasn't too difficult for him to then reason that 8-sweetie was missing, and that he didn't eat it (taught him to repeat a sweetie name when eating it, and then recount).
1. The notions that adventure games disappeared because people are dumb, was false all the time. The adventure games market was actually a growing market when it got dumped by the publishers. There never was as much as a dip in sales, it went up each year... then nearly went extinct.
Adventure games went extinct because they are, to put it bluntly, a horrible game format. At each and every point of the game you're trying to guess how the adventure maker wants this puzzle to be solved. You (usually) can't use common sense, you (usually) can't use real-world problem-solving, you (never) can't use creativity; you simply have to guess what to do in order for the game to process.
Definitely a cute trick,
While I thank you for your explanation, I have very little trouble doing mental math, estimations, and basically anything from addition through calculus. The point is that there are those who can do math, but can't do it in their head, even though they are otherwise intelligent, an quick-witted.
Well, that's the reason for the "trick" - it enables mental slow-motion-actors like myself to calculate in a reasonable amount of time. I taught this (and a few other basic rules) to a friend of mine who thought my approximations were an intrinsic quality, and he did just fine as soon as he learned the methods.
My only contention is that the mental magic done on numbers is not magic, and can be taught, not that some people can do it and some people cannot (which, feel free to correct me, is your point - that some people can and some cannot (and we should not judge their intelligence on that point)). I figure that *most* can do it if given a few simple rules. Regardless, I believe we both agree that people who cannot do this are not inferior in any intelligence/intellectual way.
The problem you don't see is that while shifting decimals by */10 is easy, as soon as numerals have carries from the *2 or *3 the mental math becomes harder.
Umm... perhaps more tricks can be employed[1]? After all, if you're not after precision, then you can get pretty close to the answer very quickly.
[1] I prefer to work with fractions than decimals, as then my normal bag of "tricks" can be used:-)
PS - forgive typo in previous post - typing fast with no coffee
So, work out 5% and subtract 10% of that from your answer. Not too difficult to do mentally if you want a rough approximate. 5% is merely half of 10%, so
if the amount is X, then 4.5% of X is 1/2(X/10) - 1/2(1/2(X/20)).
For example X=234, 10% is 23.4, 5% is roughly 11.7, 10% of that is 1.17 so 4.5% of 234 will be 11.7 - 1.17 which is roughly 10.6. Yes, that was done mentally before I actually wrote it down.
Some general rules to use for rough mental arithmetic:
finding a multiple of 5% is easier if you first find 10% (eg 35% = 10% * 3 + 10%/2)
multiplying by 10 is easy
multiplying by 2 is easy
So, break everything into sums of multiples of 2 and 10, followed by an addition
(eg. multiplying by 5 = multiply by ten, divide by two,
multiplying by 6 = multiply by 10, divide by two then add one (original value)
multiplying by 7 = add (multiply by 5 and multiply by 2)
multiply by 8 = multiply by 2, 3 times
etc...)
You are missing the point - he did not know what a standard deviation means! That is unforgivable for anyone with a medical degree...hell, it's unforgivable for anyone who has passed a course in statistics in school.
Why? My g/friend's a doctor (surgeon) and neither she nor all her friends know what a standard deviation is. When I first realised this, I asked her about the curriculum at med-school, and yup.... it does not include stats:-/ which makes all those "studies" published in medical journals a little suspect.
Actually, we are basing these assumptions after observing every single "alive" thing on this planet, plants included, that destroy each other in order that their species succeeds. Thinking that a species from another planet is going to magically be different means ignoring what we know about every living creature.
Not being an organ donor does not make you a douche bag. People may have valid reasons for choosing not to be a donor. Some of those are religious or ethical,
And those reasons are the ones that make you a douchebag.
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has not taken good care of that organ in their body?
The organ you receive could actually kill you if your body outright rejects it without appropriate post operative medical care.
In a choice between certain death via organ failure and possible death because someone didn't eat right and exercise often, I'll take the latter, thanks. Your argument is plain stupid.
I disagree - for the same reason that flashing banner ads get blocked within my browser even though they don't cover the material. Just because some flashing screen is not actually blocking your view of the board doesn't mean that it isn't distracting.
You think so?
Apple are well known for being litigious pricks, and for having a hard-on for dubious patents that just won't quit; but that doesn't seem to have hurt them much.
It would appear that the lesson that they learned from the "look and feel" lawsuit of the mid-90's was that everything is more fun with a giant pile of patents.
If the British Chiropractic Association claim the use of chiropractic works for certain children’s ailments such as asthma, colic, and frequent ear infections, but refuse to provide any evidence that they do then one can only presume that they knew full well that that they don't work and are hence bogus.
However this is immaterial to the case. In England and Wales (could be different in Scotland as we have a different legal system) the mere fact that Simon Singh's claim whether right or wrong was made and has damaged the claimant aka liabled him to the general public is all that is required in theory for the BCA to win. Truth is no defence against liable in England and Wales.
AIUI, we copied the text of the law from England as far as libel goes, and truth is a defence if it's in the public interest. This certainly qualifies as that.
Exactly, they will sell the games for what they are worth. Get ready for the game of the decade, or miss it because of some false anti blizzard rant. Either way it will be a giant hit.
It might not be. After all, I don't much relish the thought of RPG elements in a RTS game. Not all of us want a WoW experience in our games.
Also note that the original starcraft was initiated based on the wc2 engine, and then they re-did the engine when it could not handle the things they wanted to do (such as cloaking, high/low ground, etc). Presumably the wc3 engine does not do things they envision for starcraft 2.
Of course, Vader's turn-around at the end of ROTJ was just as contrived.
No, it wasn't. He was betrayed by his emperor just 2 minutes before his turn-around, remember? Camera showed him deliberating a bit and I remember thinking that what was probably going through his mind was "My emperor tried to kill me, my son tried to save me even at the end by risking his life - hmmmm who should I help?"
The iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange mail, it would be strange for Apple to remove this feature when it is already present and works well for me.
Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management?
Not likely.
It is running very similar software to the iPhone, which provides this capability. Configuration management may need more tweaks to support iWork but not much more. VPN is already present in the iPhone OS, there is no reason not to carry this across.
Can the iPad be used for videoconferencing?
There is no camera.
There is a space for a camera that fits the camera in the MacBook Pro - this has been shown in the spares delivered to repair shops. This will probably arrive in version 2, something new to buy for all the early adopters. (Disclaimer, I bought the iPhone 2G and then the 3G and was thinking about the 3GS until the iPad arrived;-)
Translation: It's not there right now but you can't prove it won't be there eventually
Dunno - perhaps I'll wait and see if my HTC eventually gets released with a larger touchscreen and tablet software instead of waiting to see if the iPad gets released with all the features I want.
Boils down to the same thing in either case:-)
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What happens is adults encourage them to organize based on race by telling them that this person is another race than everyone else.
Of course - children are blind and cannot tell the difference in colour between "brown" and "white" when it's skin that they are looking at. Only when an adult points it out do they recognise that colour as "brown"
Idiot!
I can see holding off on math, but NOT basic arithmetic. However, when you teach a kid how to add and subtract, do it with examples. Show him two beads have him count, show him two more, have him count, then pile them together and have him count them again. That way he has a basic understanding of what numbers are for and how they work.
With my kid, it's sweets ... he learned to count, add and subtract single digit numbers in a real hurry when I'd sneak away some of the sweets he was given :-)
The very first time he was sitting on a couch watching TV with his sweets (+- 8) next to him, I'd wait while his attention was diverted by the TV, and sneak a single sweet. It occurred to him that his sweets were running out without him actually eating them, so I thought him to name them (1-sweetie, 2-sweetie, etc). It wasn't too difficult for him to then reason that 8-sweetie was missing, and that he didn't eat it (taught him to repeat a sweetie name when eating it, and then recount).
Adventure games went extinct because they are, to put it bluntly, a horrible game format. At each and every point of the game you're trying to guess how the adventure maker wants this puzzle to be solved. You (usually) can't use common sense, you (usually) can't use real-world problem-solving, you (never) can't use creativity; you simply have to guess what to do in order for the game to process.
Ever played nethack?
meh ... probably ... but why ask me?
Definitely a cute trick, While I thank you for your explanation, I have very little trouble doing mental math, estimations, and basically anything from addition through calculus. The point is that there are those who can do math, but can't do it in their head, even though they are otherwise intelligent, an quick-witted.
Well, that's the reason for the "trick" - it enables mental slow-motion-actors like myself to calculate in a reasonable amount of time. I taught this (and a few other basic rules) to a friend of mine who thought my approximations were an intrinsic quality, and he did just fine as soon as he learned the methods.
My only contention is that the mental magic done on numbers is not magic, and can be taught, not that some people can do it and some people cannot (which, feel free to correct me, is your point - that some people can and some cannot (and we should not judge their intelligence on that point)). I figure that *most* can do it if given a few simple rules. Regardless, I believe we both agree that people who cannot do this are not inferior in any intelligence/intellectual way.
The problem you don't see is that while shifting decimals by */10 is easy, as soon as numerals have carries from the *2 or *3 the mental math becomes harder.
Umm ... perhaps more tricks can be employed[1]? After all, if you're not after precision, then you can get pretty close to the answer very quickly.
:-)
[1] I prefer to work with fractions than decimals, as then my normal bag of "tricks" can be used
PS - forgive typo in previous post - typing fast with no coffee
So, work out 5% and subtract 10% of that from your answer. Not too difficult to do mentally if you want a rough approximate. 5% is merely half of 10%, so if the amount is X, then 4.5% of X is 1/2(X/10) - 1/2(1/2(X/20)).
For example X=234, 10% is 23.4, 5% is roughly 11.7, 10% of that is 1.17 so 4.5% of 234 will be 11.7 - 1.17 which is roughly 10.6. Yes, that was done mentally before I actually wrote it down. Some general rules to use for rough mental arithmetic:
finding a multiple of 5% is easier if you first find 10% (eg 35% = 10% * 3 + 10%/2)
multiplying by 10 is easy
multiplying by 2 is easy
So, break everything into sums of multiples of 2 and 10, followed by an addition
(eg. multiplying by 5 = multiply by ten, divide by two,
multiplying by 6 = multiply by 10, divide by two then add one (original value)
multiplying by 7 = add (multiply by 5 and multiply by 2)
multiply by 8 = multiply by 2, 3 times
etc...)
Well, you get the idea
You are missing the point - he did not know what a standard deviation means! That is unforgivable for anyone with a medical degree...hell, it's unforgivable for anyone who has passed a course in statistics in school.
Why? My g/friend's a doctor (surgeon) and neither she nor all her friends know what a standard deviation is. When I first realised this, I asked her about the curriculum at med-school, and yup.... it does not include stats :-/ which makes all those "studies" published in medical journals a little suspect.
Actually, we are basing these assumptions after observing every single "alive" thing on this planet, plants included, that destroy each other in order that their species succeeds. Thinking that a species from another planet is going to magically be different means ignoring what we know about every living creature.
Not being an organ donor does not make you a douche bag. People may have valid reasons for choosing not to be a donor. Some of those are religious or ethical,
And those reasons are the ones that make you a douchebag.
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has not taken good care of that organ in their body?
The organ you receive could actually kill you if your body outright rejects it without appropriate post operative medical care.
In a choice between certain death via organ failure and possible death because someone didn't eat right and exercise often, I'll take the latter, thanks. Your argument is plain stupid.
You don't say whether or not your wife was infected
I disagree - for the same reason that flashing banner ads get blocked within my browser even though they don't cover the material. Just because some flashing screen is not actually blocking your view of the board doesn't mean that it isn't distracting.
You think so? Apple are well known for being litigious pricks, and for having a hard-on for dubious patents that just won't quit; but that doesn't seem to have hurt them much. It would appear that the lesson that they learned from the "look and feel" lawsuit of the mid-90's was that everything is more fun with a giant pile of patents.
If the British Chiropractic Association claim the use of chiropractic works for certain children’s ailments such as asthma, colic, and frequent ear infections, but refuse to provide any evidence that they do then one can only presume that they knew full well that that they don't work and are hence bogus.
However this is immaterial to the case. In England and Wales (could be different in Scotland as we have a different legal system) the mere fact that Simon Singh's claim whether right or wrong was made and has damaged the claimant aka liabled him to the general public is all that is required in theory for the BCA to win. Truth is no defence against liable in England and Wales.
AIUI, we copied the text of the law from England as far as libel goes, and truth is a defence if it's in the public interest. This certainly qualifies as that.
... Bjørn again christian?
(Thanks, I'll be here all week - don't forget to tip your waitress:-)
I'd bet that the biggest player-base of the current starcraft play it for the RTS game elements. The WoW players know where to find WoW
Exactly, they will sell the games for what they are worth. Get ready for the game of the decade, or miss it because of some false anti blizzard rant. Either way it will be a giant hit.
It might not be. After all, I don't much relish the thought of RPG elements in a RTS game. Not all of us want a WoW experience in our games.
Also note that the original starcraft was initiated based on the wc2 engine, and then they re-did the engine when it could not handle the things they wanted to do (such as cloaking, high/low ground, etc). Presumably the wc3 engine does not do things they envision for starcraft 2.
...Whether they choose to focus on that area or not is a different story.
From the summary:
Interestingly this means that Intel will be sponsoring a mobile Linux distro which will run on ARM."
Is there a mobile distro that *doesn't* support ARM?
All Linux distros can potentially run on ARM ...
Okay, now are you sure about that? :-)
Of course, Vader's turn-around at the end of ROTJ was just as contrived.
No, it wasn't. He was betrayed by his emperor just 2 minutes before his turn-around, remember? Camera showed him deliberating a bit and I remember thinking that what was probably going through his mind was "My emperor tried to kill me, my son tried to save me even at the end by risking his life - hmmmm who should I help?"
Not really contrived - expected.
Don't worry about it - brkello and myself were aiming for +1 funny (maybe) :-)
Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?
Most likely.
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
Not likely.
The iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange mail, it would be strange for Apple to remove this feature when it is already present and works well for me.
Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management?
Not likely.
It is running very similar software to the iPhone, which provides this capability. Configuration management may need more tweaks to support iWork but not much more. VPN is already present in the iPhone OS, there is no reason not to carry this across.
Can the iPad be used for videoconferencing?
There is no camera.
There is a space for a camera that fits the camera in the MacBook Pro - this has been shown in the spares delivered to repair shops. This will probably arrive in version 2, something new to buy for all the early adopters. (Disclaimer, I bought the iPhone 2G and then the 3G and was thinking about the 3GS until the iPad arrived ;-)
Translation: :-)
It's not there right now but you can't prove it won't be there eventually
Dunno - perhaps I'll wait and see if my HTC eventually gets released with a larger touchscreen and tablet software instead of waiting to see if the iPad gets released with all the features I want.
Boils down to the same thing in either case
Golf Court?
(Maybe he heard it at the squash course?)
It wasn't a mistake, lawsuits notwithstanding. They'll do it again because it worked the last time they did it.