The Youtube Symphony Orchestra itself is somewhat interesting; performing at Carnegie Hall is not.
The openness of submissions is somewhat interesting. It is very normal for auditions of this sort to be conducted through recordings, though.
As for performing at Carnegie Hall, it is actually quite insignificant - all it takes is money and a little skill. IMO as a musician, any (classical) musician worth his salt should have little trouble getting to Carnegie Hall (Perhaps I am deluded, but I have had opportunities to perform there, and I have never felt as if it were anything special).
In one sense, I may consider it a step up from performing in Disneyland... fun and cool, but not musically significant in any way.
It is very nice of Google to pay all the bills, though.
It seems to me that we are going about this in the wrong way.
I propose adding a web-wide restriction that all comments be made in person - no bots allowed. This will allow for easy verification of humanity in nearly all cases, as any who have had any degree of physical interaction with bots can attest.
By the time the bots catch up, I don't know that I'll care too much either way - and at any rate, slight refinements of the test should be quite adequate in detecting botness, at least for as long as it matters...
Of course, by the time bots are capable of passing this test (which should be much harder than the Turing), why would they bother spamming us in the first place?
We will be able to live spam-free forever!
I do harbor some fears that the first attempts at suitable bots may seem to close to me, and I may be screened out by my fellows, but I should manage to survive - at which others may not succeed in case of a revolution.
I'm somewhat surprised that I hadn't heard of Paragon - they seem to have done some very interesting experiments.
I was interested in seeing if it was like a biosphere, or how much regulation would be required. Unfortunately (according to TFA), they haven't actually designed anything yet.
It will also be interesting to see how the plants handle having a lunar day to complete their life cycle. It would be very cool if the plants were able to perpetuate for a while - even if only for a few days/cycles.
I for one will be quite interested in how this develops...
The question remains, however, if any significant portion of The Pirate Bay's users will decide to fork over 5 per month solely to remain anonymous. It seems more likely that the majority either won't care, or will simply start looking for lesser-known torrent trackers to use."
Why would anyone move trackers just for this reason?
This shouldn't affect their normal services in any way, so the only reason someone might shift would be because of a moral problem with the service, correct?
And honestly, how many tpb users would switch in the context of a moral dilemma like this?
I'm applying for the SoC and unfortunately, yes, this is true.
I've got a couple of work options lined up for the summer, but which job I accept depends upon whether or not my proposal gets accepted.
Unfortunately, it seems that the entire schedule is being pushed back by a week. That means that instead of selecting students by the 14th, the selection will be done by the 21st. That's in the middle of finals. Ideally, I would start working the week after, but most companies like to have a define answer sooner than that.
Options follow:
Instead of letting my already quite decent application stand, I can modify it like crazy, adding anything I can think of, and accept this job combination
Forget the SoC altogether
Hope that the companies are fine with me not accepting or denying for another 3 weeks, and expecting them to be all right with my starting within a week from when I give notice.
I'm applying for the SoC and unfortunately, yes, this is true.
I've got a couple of work options lined up for the summer, but which job I accept depends upon whether or not my proposal gets accepted.
Unfortunately, it seems that the entire schedule is being pushed back by a week. That means that instead of selecting students by the 14th, the selection will be done by the 21st.
That's in the middle of finals. Ideally, I would start working the week after, but most companies like to have a define answer sooner than that.
Options follow:
- Instead of letting my already quite decent application stand, I can modify it like crazy, adding anything I can think of, and accept this job combination.
- Forget the SoC altogether
- Hope that the companies are fine with me not accepting or denying for another 3 weeks, and expecting them to be all right with my starting within a week from when I give notice.
So yes, I'm really excited about this extension.
Not only did the U.S. aid in Japan's economic recovery, we did our best to update and enhance their educational system.
A few years ago when I was doing research on teaching methods, I read a book reviewing results of the 1999(?) TIMMS study, and it was noted that the teaching methods used in Japan that have given their students such an edge (~1-1.5 years ahead of similarly aged U.S. students) came from research on educational methods around the 1950's.
I should mention that this edge does not come from the extremely high-pressured environments of Japanese high school (which has not been shown to be any more effective than other systems), this educational edge comes from teaching elementary school students through discovery, which is exactly the sort of learning the OLPC encourages.
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The openness of submissions is somewhat interesting. It is very normal for auditions of this sort to be conducted through recordings, though.
As for performing at Carnegie Hall, it is actually quite insignificant - all it takes is money and a little skill. IMO as a musician, any (classical) musician worth his salt should have little trouble getting to Carnegie Hall (Perhaps I am deluded, but I have had opportunities to perform there, and I have never felt as if it were anything special).
In one sense, I may consider it a step up from performing in Disneyland... fun and cool, but not musically significant in any way.
It is very nice of Google to pay all the bills, though.
I propose adding a web-wide restriction that all comments be made in person - no bots allowed.
This will allow for easy verification of humanity in nearly all cases, as any who have had any degree of physical interaction with bots can attest.
By the time the bots catch up, I don't know that I'll care too much either way - and at any rate, slight refinements of the test should be quite adequate in detecting botness, at least for as long as it matters...
Of course, by the time bots are capable of passing this test (which should be much harder than the Turing), why would they bother spamming us in the first place?
We will be able to live spam-free forever!
I do harbor some fears that the first attempts at suitable bots may seem to close to me, and I may be screened out by my fellows, but I should manage to survive - at which others may not succeed in case of a revolution.
I was interested in seeing if it was like a biosphere, or how much regulation would be required. Unfortunately (according to TFA), they haven't actually designed anything yet.
It will also be interesting to see how the plants handle having a lunar day to complete their life cycle. It would be very cool if the plants were able to perpetuate for a while - even if only for a few days/cycles.
I for one will be quite interested in how this develops...
The question remains, however, if any significant portion of The Pirate Bay's users will decide to fork over 5 per month solely to remain anonymous. It seems more likely that the majority either won't care, or will simply start looking for lesser-known torrent trackers to use."
Why would anyone move trackers just for this reason?
This shouldn't affect their normal services in any way, so the only reason someone might shift would be because of a moral problem with the service, correct?
And honestly, how many tpb users would switch in the context of a moral dilemma like this?
I've know people who were pulled over for driving the speed listed on that white sign.
Traffic was fairly busy, and they were driving the 'speed limit', while everyone else was driving about 10 mph faster.
Of course, the stance on this probably varies by region (this is in the midwest, where most of the time there is absolutely no problem going 10 over).
Even if you don't run linux, there are various windows-based options
If the summary is correct, this is a non-issue.
The cell is supposed to collect light at more wavelengths than conventional solar cells.
Well, if this 'cadmium' "can't be destroyed", why don't we just stop production?
I would be very interested in hearing about anyone's efforts to stop the production of cadmium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_specific_impulse_magnetoplasma_rocket
If the worms are coded to spread more slowly, it will decrease the rate of propogation, making it more difficult for the worms to survive.
If they don't alter their code, worms will have a much harder time surviving on networks that take advantage of this discovery.
The net effect is positive.
Just as a point of interest, the sponsoring organization can use any (open source?) license they want to.
Even more interestingly, if Google is your sponsoring organization, you retain all rights to your work.
I'm applying for the SoC and unfortunately, yes, this is true.
I've got a couple of work options lined up for the summer, but which job I accept depends upon whether or not my proposal gets accepted.
Unfortunately, it seems that the entire schedule is being pushed back by a week. That means that instead of selecting students by the 14th, the selection will be done by the 21st. That's in the middle of finals. Ideally, I would start working the week after, but most companies like to have a define answer sooner than that.
Options follow:
I'm really excited about this extension.
I'm applying for the SoC and unfortunately, yes, this is true. I've got a couple of work options lined up for the summer, but which job I accept depends upon whether or not my proposal gets accepted. Unfortunately, it seems that the entire schedule is being pushed back by a week. That means that instead of selecting students by the 14th, the selection will be done by the 21st. That's in the middle of finals. Ideally, I would start working the week after, but most companies like to have a define answer sooner than that. Options follow: - Instead of letting my already quite decent application stand, I can modify it like crazy, adding anything I can think of, and accept this job combination. - Forget the SoC altogether - Hope that the companies are fine with me not accepting or denying for another 3 weeks, and expecting them to be all right with my starting within a week from when I give notice. So yes, I'm really excited about this extension.
Not only did the U.S. aid in Japan's economic recovery, we did our best to update and enhance their educational system.
A few years ago when I was doing research on teaching methods, I read a book reviewing results of the 1999(?) TIMMS study, and it was noted that the teaching methods used in Japan that have given their students such an edge (~1-1.5 years ahead of similarly aged U.S. students) came from research on educational methods around the 1950's.
I should mention that this edge does not come from the extremely high-pressured environments of Japanese high school (which has not been shown to be any more effective than other systems), this educational edge comes from teaching elementary school students through discovery, which is exactly the sort of learning the OLPC encourages.