As long as it's programmed to handle all traffic contingencies with caution. We have a couple of one way streets in our town with legal left turns on red.
Some young girls are very "girly girl" and refuse to touch boy toys which may have cooties. Then others are more like me, in which I had a stuffed ninja turtle (Raphael) interacting with my Barbies in the Barbie Dream House. I have to say as a girl I may have had an easier time than a young boy who was interested in girl toys, since the gender lines had loosened a lot more for girls than they have for boys by the '80s.
We're interested, it's just that very few of our toys encourage it. As a young girl I had to beg for "boy toys" - things like lego kits and kinex - because no one made anything like it for young girls. (My father still gave me a doll every year for Christmas, much to my disappointment. My mother was a bit more on board with it.) That's changing a little - Lego now has toys for girls, and a new company called Goldieblox has made narrated engineering toy kits for girls as well.
The closest I got to learning the logic for programming actually came from sewing and knitting. A lot of the same basic concepts go into it - breaking it down into smaller pieces, and stitching the pieces together in a way that works.
There's actually an interesting reason for why having music on helps us focus better. Since we have two sides of the brain, one is working and the other is always on the lookout for danger. So any other distraction - noise, light, people outside your door - interrupts both halves in prep for fight or flight. (It's a bear! No, wait, it's just George from accounting burping. Ew.)
Putting on music tunes out the distractions for the 2nd half, allowing the first half to hum along uninterrupted.
Funny how those three little words turn a used idea into something that seems brand new? Unfortunately, 90% of the things we put in the magic cloud were never appropriate for the cloud to begin with. Still amazed the VC crowd hasn't learned that lesson yet.
Have you tried Journey on the PS3? It's the closest that a game in the last few years has come to the original spirit of Myst, I think. Beautiful graphics, beautiful music, a series of puzzles, a world to explore.
It seems like their math is like good code. You can get a program to do the same thing in 10 lines what someone else tried to do in 1,000 lines. They're both describing the same basic function, but one is doing it via a brute force in a roundabout way and the other is doing it much more directly.
Then again, mathematicians tend to be a bit crazy. I remember reading one bio-mathematics person determining that bees do their little waggle dances in nine dimensions projected onto two, and I thought she was insane.
Isn't the British government supposed to have created the friggin' world standard for proper service management of IT projects? Do they not read their own material?!
Naw, the primary burden of all those computer upgrades was stuffed upon insurers and hospitals/clinics instead, who quietly did the required systems upgrades with a minimal amount of fuss over the last couple of years. (Except the ones in denial who are now panicking.) They rolled it into their planned systems upgrades, and while the software was a large investment, it also replaced outdated systems with much smoother modern records systems.
About the only major issue with the electronic medical records that some of them are discovering is that clinics which specialize in areas frequented by the elderly consume more data storage since their existing records must be scanned and some of them are 100 pages long. (So a 1TB SAN quickly had to become a 4TB SAN at one clinic since they'd used up 500 GB in about six months.)
Funny enough, I still read the WSJ in print. My office keeps a subscription and puts it in the break room. Me and a few other folks share sections during lunch, or skim the headlines while waiting for coffee.
Actually, the markets have self-corrected once again and far more people are going to urgent care centers than ERs for things that don't need ER care. Having a binary of "primary care physician" and "emergency care" was just asking people to pick the quick ER with expensive care over the cheaper but longer term doctor's appointment - where it could be days or weeks before your PCP could see you. The rise of the UC center and grocery store medical facilities has finally caused the ballooning healthcare costs to flatline this year. Many insurance companies also changed the UC copay to be closer to that of the PCP in an effort to encourage folks to choose that instead of ER.
In short, Americans are finally figuring out that a sinus infection, while something that does require prompt care, does not qualify as a traumatic injury and thus doesn't need a $2,000 visit to the ER. And our wonderful free market system has encouraged clinics to cater just to these people at a much lower price.
I don't disagree, and I do in fact pay subscriptions to a few websites that offer them. In exchange, those websites offer some perks to paid subscribers (one of them shuts off all advertisements.) I've turned off Ad-Block on sites that are careful about not having overly annoying ads as well.
The perk of "seeing content at all" is not enough to convince many folks to pay directly for it.
And they still haven't figured it out, which is why many of them are sticking their content behind ineffective paywalls instead of building robust discussion communities.
These days, I surf to Google News and generally click on the first link that doesn't seem to have a video on it. I read so much faster than I could watch a video that as soon as I see one, I hit backspace instantly. (Also since I'm usually at work with mute on and very few of them have proper closed captioning on their videos!)
Square Enix took your ideas to heart with all their stupid randomly generated "augments" in the last year. Argh! You're right, we keep throwing the "upgrade stones" and our items and crossing our fingers that we get good stats. Over and over and over again. And no one ever gets them maxed out.
So perhaps it isn't that tenured professors are not as "good", it's that they're meaner and tougher and expect more out of their students since they know their evaluations aren't as important any more.
My husband just turned in his tenure portfolio. While the usual "two publications, community service, blah blah" is all in there, his school weighs his student evaluations as a full third of the requirements for tenure. So any prof who neglects students at his school in order to focus on research is going to have a tougher time justifying the promotion.
The TI instruction set is minimal, but includes basic IF and GOTO statements and assigning variables. Folks wrote somes pretty sophisticated game with it, including a text based RPG called "Drug War" that was banned at most schools.
PhD in one year? What planet are you from? Try an average of 4 years in STEM and 8 years in humanities. Professional schools are full time jobs, too - law school or vet school expects you to be there from 8AM to 4PM daily and then to go study another 3 hours at night. Master's degrees are doable in one year depending on the program, but not everyone has a decent university in driving distance. I drove an hour each way to get to my classes. (My gamble paid off - $20,000 in loans netted me a $50,000/year job four miles from my house.)
Especially with graduate school students who returned after being in the work force, there's an issue where students take out loans just to cover basic cost of living expenses. An undergrad is happy with living in a 1 bedroom loft and eating ramen every other day. Someone who went to work after undergrad and got used to a regular paycheck and all the perks that come with it: got married, started a family, bought a house - they will have to take out extra loans simply to maintain their lifestyle. Not every field has night classes that allow someone to work full time (IT is kind of lucky in this respect.) So the person finishing up her PhD while juggling a husband and a kid is going to have to quit her job or drop hours, or go on assistanceship from the school (if one is even available) and take out loans to make up for the missing income.
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As long as it's programmed to handle all traffic contingencies with caution. We have a couple of one way streets in our town with legal left turns on red.
Some young girls are very "girly girl" and refuse to touch boy toys which may have cooties. Then others are more like me, in which I had a stuffed ninja turtle (Raphael) interacting with my Barbies in the Barbie Dream House. I have to say as a girl I may have had an easier time than a young boy who was interested in girl toys, since the gender lines had loosened a lot more for girls than they have for boys by the '80s.
We're interested, it's just that very few of our toys encourage it. As a young girl I had to beg for "boy toys" - things like lego kits and kinex - because no one made anything like it for young girls. (My father still gave me a doll every year for Christmas, much to my disappointment. My mother was a bit more on board with it.) That's changing a little - Lego now has toys for girls, and a new company called Goldieblox has made narrated engineering toy kits for girls as well.
The closest I got to learning the logic for programming actually came from sewing and knitting. A lot of the same basic concepts go into it - breaking it down into smaller pieces, and stitching the pieces together in a way that works.
There's actually an interesting reason for why having music on helps us focus better. Since we have two sides of the brain, one is working and the other is always on the lookout for danger. So any other distraction - noise, light, people outside your door - interrupts both halves in prep for fight or flight. (It's a bear! No, wait, it's just George from accounting burping. Ew.)
Putting on music tunes out the distractions for the 2nd half, allowing the first half to hum along uninterrupted.
Funny how those three little words turn a used idea into something that seems brand new? Unfortunately, 90% of the things we put in the magic cloud were never appropriate for the cloud to begin with. Still amazed the VC crowd hasn't learned that lesson yet.
Have you tried Journey on the PS3? It's the closest that a game in the last few years has come to the original spirit of Myst, I think. Beautiful graphics, beautiful music, a series of puzzles, a world to explore.
Nope, I remember pretty clearly it being dimensions. If it was something as mundane as nine variables, I doubt I would have remembered the article.
Oh look, I found the article! I was wrong, it was six dimensions projected down to two. Still, the point stands. http://discovermagazine.com/1997/nov/quantumhoneybees1263#.Ujo3p8bNXqk
The Japanese have been exploring that concept for years.
It seems like their math is like good code. You can get a program to do the same thing in 10 lines what someone else tried to do in 1,000 lines. They're both describing the same basic function, but one is doing it via a brute force in a roundabout way and the other is doing it much more directly.
Then again, mathematicians tend to be a bit crazy. I remember reading one bio-mathematics person determining that bees do their little waggle dances in nine dimensions projected onto two, and I thought she was insane.
I'll be your PM and we split the money. You do the code, I'll write all your documents. Deal?
Isn't the British government supposed to have created the friggin' world standard for proper service management of IT projects? Do they not read their own material?!
Naw, the primary burden of all those computer upgrades was stuffed upon insurers and hospitals/clinics instead, who quietly did the required systems upgrades with a minimal amount of fuss over the last couple of years. (Except the ones in denial who are now panicking.) They rolled it into their planned systems upgrades, and while the software was a large investment, it also replaced outdated systems with much smoother modern records systems.
About the only major issue with the electronic medical records that some of them are discovering is that clinics which specialize in areas frequented by the elderly consume more data storage since their existing records must be scanned and some of them are 100 pages long. (So a 1TB SAN quickly had to become a 4TB SAN at one clinic since they'd used up 500 GB in about six months.)
Funny enough, I still read the WSJ in print. My office keeps a subscription and puts it in the break room. Me and a few other folks share sections during lunch, or skim the headlines while waiting for coffee.
Actually, the markets have self-corrected once again and far more people are going to urgent care centers than ERs for things that don't need ER care. Having a binary of "primary care physician" and "emergency care" was just asking people to pick the quick ER with expensive care over the cheaper but longer term doctor's appointment - where it could be days or weeks before your PCP could see you. The rise of the UC center and grocery store medical facilities has finally caused the ballooning healthcare costs to flatline this year. Many insurance companies also changed the UC copay to be closer to that of the PCP in an effort to encourage folks to choose that instead of ER.
In short, Americans are finally figuring out that a sinus infection, while something that does require prompt care, does not qualify as a traumatic injury and thus doesn't need a $2,000 visit to the ER. And our wonderful free market system has encouraged clinics to cater just to these people at a much lower price.
I don't disagree, and I do in fact pay subscriptions to a few websites that offer them. In exchange, those websites offer some perks to paid subscribers (one of them shuts off all advertisements.) I've turned off Ad-Block on sites that are careful about not having overly annoying ads as well.
The perk of "seeing content at all" is not enough to convince many folks to pay directly for it.
Hah, nope. There's a pretty simple browser hack in place to get around the NYT paywall.
And they still haven't figured it out, which is why many of them are sticking their content behind ineffective paywalls instead of building robust discussion communities.
These days, I surf to Google News and generally click on the first link that doesn't seem to have a video on it. I read so much faster than I could watch a video that as soon as I see one, I hit backspace instantly. (Also since I'm usually at work with mute on and very few of them have proper closed captioning on their videos!)
My office really does have guys whose title is "biomatrician." I think that's even the name of their degree.
Square Enix took your ideas to heart with all their stupid randomly generated "augments" in the last year. Argh! You're right, we keep throwing the "upgrade stones" and our items and crossing our fingers that we get good stats. Over and over and over again. And no one ever gets them maxed out.
So perhaps it isn't that tenured professors are not as "good", it's that they're meaner and tougher and expect more out of their students since they know their evaluations aren't as important any more.
My husband just turned in his tenure portfolio. While the usual "two publications, community service, blah blah" is all in there, his school weighs his student evaluations as a full third of the requirements for tenure. So any prof who neglects students at his school in order to focus on research is going to have a tougher time justifying the promotion.
Ironically, most tenured professors are Democrats.
The TI instruction set is minimal, but includes basic IF and GOTO statements and assigning variables. Folks wrote somes pretty sophisticated game with it, including a text based RPG called "Drug War" that was banned at most schools.
PhD in one year? What planet are you from? Try an average of 4 years in STEM and 8 years in humanities. Professional schools are full time jobs, too - law school or vet school expects you to be there from 8AM to 4PM daily and then to go study another 3 hours at night. Master's degrees are doable in one year depending on the program, but not everyone has a decent university in driving distance. I drove an hour each way to get to my classes. (My gamble paid off - $20,000 in loans netted me a $50,000/year job four miles from my house.)
Especially with graduate school students who returned after being in the work force, there's an issue where students take out loans just to cover basic cost of living expenses. An undergrad is happy with living in a 1 bedroom loft and eating ramen every other day. Someone who went to work after undergrad and got used to a regular paycheck and all the perks that come with it: got married, started a family, bought a house - they will have to take out extra loans simply to maintain their lifestyle. Not every field has night classes that allow someone to work full time (IT is kind of lucky in this respect.) So the person finishing up her PhD while juggling a husband and a kid is going to have to quit her job or drop hours, or go on assistanceship from the school (if one is even available) and take out loans to make up for the missing income.