-1 Overrated. This is just not true and those who modded it up should feel shame.
This might be true for some very specific, high-traffic and relatively accessible wilderness areas (Gunnison Gorge comes to mind) but not so for the rest. Generally you will only need a permit to camp overnight during summer. Many times permits aren't required outside of June 1 - Sept 15. Additionally, many permits cost nothing and are self-issued by the user. I know they do this in the Maroon Bells due to being the one of the most photographed wilderness area in the country as well as being a particularly dangerous hike due to loose rock and lots of traffic.
Aside from these basic measures, there are also permits for collecting firewood, Christmas trees, and other forest products (varies by region).
What better group of people to ask than a group of geeks with diverse backgrounds?
So, if you were a chef and there was a new type of oven that was really nice but not quite what you wanted, you would go to an internet forum for computer geeks to see what suggestions they might have, because hey, they're diverse?
If it were me, I would be looking for exactly the opposite of a diverse group of people. I would want to hear the suggestions of a very specific group of people (in the case of my example, chefs) that are actually experienced with using the things I'm talking about.
It's attitudes like yours that keep people from asking for help when they need it.
How are you able to infer my attitude? I make a comment that amounts to, "it is sad that educators have to ask computer geeks for suggestions about how to educate" and I have some kind of "attitude"? I guess if I do, it is an attitude that things shouldn't be this bad. This teacher wants to help better his profession and better his students, and yet the very people he should be able to get help from are so unapproachable and/or unhelpful that the teacher is forced to seek help from an outside community.
I'm guessing that some over sensitive teachers modded me down because they thought I was ripping on them. I'm not, simply making a statement that it is unfortunate that our education system is in a state where a teacher has to go to these lengths to find the answer they need. This should be a solved problem already.
Teaching is an exceptionally parochial profession, and I, personally, don't like to be limited to doing things the way that they're usually done.
I commend your effort to stick with it. Teaching (or rather, the political side of the teaching profession) doesn't really encourage maverickism.
A brief summary is great, I agree. I didn't bother to check all the links either, simply because the first one I clicked (the Zeitgeist reference) sent me to some kind of social network website with a bunch of photos and a poor design. I was expecting to be able to read a summary of what it was rather than sift through a bunch of photos of people.
Honestly, I felt it was an apt commentary on the state of education.
A teacher comes to/. to ask a question about tools and software used primarily by teachers. They wouldn't be asking the question if they knew the answer, but what is the expectation from our geeky little comments site? Why are we the expected demographic to have the answer? Why wouldn't you ask this type of thing on a teacher's forum?
I'm being slightly rhetorical here. I don't think you'd ask this on a teacher's forum because you'd get the same response from all the drone teachers touting whatever the "one" tool is that school districts blow money on which is obviously not what the submitter is looking for.
I guess the apt commentary comes down to the fact that the one person we should be able to trust our kids' learning to doesn't know the answer to a teaching domain specific question.
Are the wii controllers still as clumsy as they were when they first came out? If they are, I can't imagine trying to actually use one to draw things on a wall from a distance.
Of course, I'm basing this on a recent experience with that Big Buck Hunter arcade game. It used to use the standard IR sensor at the muzzle like any shooting arcade game. Now it uses something that feels exactly like a wii controller and it's totally awkward and frustrating to play.
I bet if you rewrote this summary, you could probably stuff a few more link$ in there. You know, because that's what we prefer... clicking to some random site rather than reading the content here.
Actually, I know a lot of home brewers. Why are you assuming this and what does this have to do with my previous statement?
What you are saying amounts to, "because you believe that more draft beer supplies are sold to bars/taverns than home brewers, you must not know any home brewers." If my statement was reversed, would you assume I'd never been to a bar?
With iKeg's Technology We Guarantee You Will Never Run Out of Beer
The only time I run out of beer, I've likely already had enough. I don't see this as a problem inherent to beer.
you'll realize almost immediately that SteadyServ isn't making equipment for home use, but for bars and taverns that serve draft beer.
If you told me someone was selling draft beer supplies (or whatever this crap is), my first assumption would be that it was for bars and taverns, not for home use. Thanks for taking time to point out the obvious.
With the new iKeg® system, we aim to ensure that you get your beer, in the right place, at the right time.
This sounds like the way I already get my beer. I can't say I ever get a beer in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Can you also make the beer a liquid?
We also want to simplify the lives of all the hard-working people in the beer industry.
Not to trash on bartenders or anything, but grabbing a class, putting it under a tap, and pulling the lever for about 8-10 seconds already sounds quite simple. I actually can't think of too many jobs that pay as well as bartending that are much simpler. Yes, it's hectic on a Friday night, but you're still just pouring beer.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to help keep America from running out of draft beer?
I already addressed this, but it is clear that you're not getting it. There is plenty of draft beer available. If you live in a place where there are only three available choices on tap, I feel for you, but I can already go across the street and order a pint from a selection of about 15 local beers, along with the standard selection of decent beers available at any proper bar. I have yet to go to the bar and have them tell me, "Sorry, we don't have any beer today."
From the summary, I get the impression that the marketing drone that wrote this doesn't actually have an idea of what beer is.
I know very little about Muhammad and the like, so I don't fully understand the teachings; however, what I do know is that ISIS is intent to cut people's heads off for bringing shoes and beds to children.
I can't imagine that Muhammad would think it's okay to behead people for bringing shoes and beds to kids. If they are the kind of people that would deprive children of basic needs, is it any surprise they are also the kind of people that would deprive children of basic education?
I don't think they have any interest in adhering to teachings of Muhammad, and since their educational backgrounds are likely as limited as the children they intend to suppress, I can only assume that they don't realize how easy it is for the rest of the world to see through their thin veil of Islam.
Being paid to do something you love isn't a bad thing.
Also, not necessarily a good thing, either. You need to be very careful doing what you love for a living. The stresses of work, life, etc can make it much less fun. This results in you doing something you don't love for a living. The difference now is that you no longer have something you love doing.
The only reason? That's it? You're saying the success had nothing to do with the original $10 price tag that guaranteed future updates? I think without that early infusion of cash, there wouldn't be any additional resources to develop for other platforms.
I've been using Voice since the beginning and it is now my primary (well, only) number.
Cell phones might be handy, but someone I'm with always has one if there is something urgent (this has happened maybe twice in a few years). People (including my luddite father) ask me, "how do you stay in touch if you don't have a cell phone?" Well, it's actually pretty easy. I just do what everyone did before cell phones. I have a number. If you call it and I answer, great. If I don't answer, leave a message or a text and I'll get back to you.
This is usually the part where someone says, "You don't have kids, do you?" I don't, but I fail to see the pressing need for a cell phone just because you have children.
One of the guys who was in my "counseling" class after I got a DUI was forced onto a moped since there are no licensing requirements. Our classes were mostly during winter, and he would show up just about every week covered in slush and snow.
Probably not for life, but certainly effective at making someone wish they had a proper car again.
If you get a DUI, your ability to drink alcohol will be severely limited.
First off, if it is deemed necessary, you will be put on Antabuse or something similar. Have fun having a drink with that shit in you.
Next, it is probable that you will have to take random urine and/or breath analysis. You are given a phone number, a color, and a state. You call the phone number every day and if the recorded message names your color, you go take a UA. If the message names your state, you go take a breath test. Failure at either of these results means you go back to square one and probably have additional fines, court costs, etc since you are likely violating probation. Not only that, but the breath tests are easily fooled and will give a false positive for even having a smoothie with no booze in it.
While it might make some sense to give someone a choice between the privilege to drive or the privilege to drink booze, in reality they will simply take away both and make it as difficult as possible for you to want to do either for the next 2-5 years.
Passengers are more than welcome to use their phone, so long as they do it in a car driven by someone who hasn't been convicted/ticketed/whatever of TWD. If you aren't happy about that, take the bus.
Not being from the East Coast, I never use the term "wicked" for anything other than to describe a witch or an ex-girlfriend. I now realize it's proper use.
"Wicked good", as in, "not really that good, but better than terrible".
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-1 Overrated. This is just not true and those who modded it up should feel shame.
This might be true for some very specific, high-traffic and relatively accessible wilderness areas (Gunnison Gorge comes to mind) but not so for the rest. Generally you will only need a permit to camp overnight during summer. Many times permits aren't required outside of June 1 - Sept 15. Additionally, many permits cost nothing and are self-issued by the user. I know they do this in the Maroon Bells due to being the one of the most photographed wilderness area in the country as well as being a particularly dangerous hike due to loose rock and lots of traffic.
Aside from these basic measures, there are also permits for collecting firewood, Christmas trees, and other forest products (varies by region).
domestication of the canine
In other words, the domestication of humans by the canine. They chose us, not the other way around.
What better group of people to ask than a group of geeks with diverse backgrounds?
So, if you were a chef and there was a new type of oven that was really nice but not quite what you wanted, you would go to an internet forum for computer geeks to see what suggestions they might have, because hey, they're diverse?
If it were me, I would be looking for exactly the opposite of a diverse group of people. I would want to hear the suggestions of a very specific group of people (in the case of my example, chefs) that are actually experienced with using the things I'm talking about.
It's attitudes like yours that keep people from asking for help when they need it.
How are you able to infer my attitude? I make a comment that amounts to, "it is sad that educators have to ask computer geeks for suggestions about how to educate" and I have some kind of "attitude"? I guess if I do, it is an attitude that things shouldn't be this bad. This teacher wants to help better his profession and better his students, and yet the very people he should be able to get help from are so unapproachable and/or unhelpful that the teacher is forced to seek help from an outside community.
I'm guessing that some over sensitive teachers modded me down because they thought I was ripping on them. I'm not, simply making a statement that it is unfortunate that our education system is in a state where a teacher has to go to these lengths to find the answer they need. This should be a solved problem already.
Teaching is an exceptionally parochial profession, and I, personally, don't like to be limited to doing things the way that they're usually done.
I commend your effort to stick with it. Teaching (or rather, the political side of the teaching profession) doesn't really encourage maverickism.
A brief summary is great, I agree. I didn't bother to check all the links either, simply because the first one I clicked (the Zeitgeist reference) sent me to some kind of social network website with a bunch of photos and a poor design. I was expecting to be able to read a summary of what it was rather than sift through a bunch of photos of people.
Honestly, I felt it was an apt commentary on the state of education.
A teacher comes to /. to ask a question about tools and software used primarily by teachers. They wouldn't be asking the question if they knew the answer, but what is the expectation from our geeky little comments site? Why are we the expected demographic to have the answer? Why wouldn't you ask this type of thing on a teacher's forum?
I'm being slightly rhetorical here. I don't think you'd ask this on a teacher's forum because you'd get the same response from all the drone teachers touting whatever the "one" tool is that school districts blow money on which is obviously not what the submitter is looking for.
I guess the apt commentary comes down to the fact that the one person we should be able to trust our kids' learning to doesn't know the answer to a teaching domain specific question.
Are the wii controllers still as clumsy as they were when they first came out? If they are, I can't imagine trying to actually use one to draw things on a wall from a distance.
Of course, I'm basing this on a recent experience with that Big Buck Hunter arcade game. It used to use the standard IR sensor at the muzzle like any shooting arcade game. Now it uses something that feels exactly like a wii controller and it's totally awkward and frustrating to play.
I bet if you rewrote this summary, you could probably stuff a few more link$ in there. You know, because that's what we prefer ... clicking to some random site rather than reading the content here.
It's not that there were forty of the thieves ... no no, they stole 40's. Malt liquor goes back quite a ways.
Actually, I know a lot of home brewers. Why are you assuming this and what does this have to do with my previous statement?
What you are saying amounts to, "because you believe that more draft beer supplies are sold to bars/taverns than home brewers, you must not know any home brewers." If my statement was reversed, would you assume I'd never been to a bar?
The last time I did this, I was labeled "toxic".
Best severance envelope ever.
With iKeg's Technology We Guarantee You Will Never Run Out of Beer
The only time I run out of beer, I've likely already had enough. I don't see this as a problem inherent to beer.
you'll realize almost immediately that SteadyServ isn't making equipment for home use, but for bars and taverns that serve draft beer.
If you told me someone was selling draft beer supplies (or whatever this crap is), my first assumption would be that it was for bars and taverns, not for home use. Thanks for taking time to point out the obvious.
With the new iKeg® system, we aim to ensure that you get your beer, in the right place, at the right time.
This sounds like the way I already get my beer. I can't say I ever get a beer in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Can you also make the beer a liquid?
We also want to simplify the lives of all the hard-working people in the beer industry.
Not to trash on bartenders or anything, but grabbing a class, putting it under a tap, and pulling the lever for about 8-10 seconds already sounds quite simple. I actually can't think of too many jobs that pay as well as bartending that are much simpler. Yes, it's hectic on a Friday night, but you're still just pouring beer.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to help keep America from running out of draft beer?
I already addressed this, but it is clear that you're not getting it. There is plenty of draft beer available. If you live in a place where there are only three available choices on tap, I feel for you, but I can already go across the street and order a pint from a selection of about 15 local beers, along with the standard selection of decent beers available at any proper bar. I have yet to go to the bar and have them tell me, "Sorry, we don't have any beer today."
From the summary, I get the impression that the marketing drone that wrote this doesn't actually have an idea of what beer is.
It's not often you get these gems from someone not posting as AC. You should make a game of it.
I know very little about Muhammad and the like, so I don't fully understand the teachings; however, what I do know is that ISIS is intent to cut people's heads off for bringing shoes and beds to children.
I can't imagine that Muhammad would think it's okay to behead people for bringing shoes and beds to kids. If they are the kind of people that would deprive children of basic needs, is it any surprise they are also the kind of people that would deprive children of basic education?
I don't think they have any interest in adhering to teachings of Muhammad, and since their educational backgrounds are likely as limited as the children they intend to suppress, I can only assume that they don't realize how easy it is for the rest of the world to see through their thin veil of Islam.
This is why I came, because I wanted to read, to the comments. It gives, which is very satisfying, me a sense of validation.
Being paid to do something you love isn't a bad thing.
Also, not necessarily a good thing, either. You need to be very careful doing what you love for a living. The stresses of work, life, etc can make it much less fun. This results in you doing something you don't love for a living. The difference now is that you no longer have something you love doing.
The only reason? That's it? You're saying the success had nothing to do with the original $10 price tag that guaranteed future updates? I think without that early infusion of cash, there wouldn't be any additional resources to develop for other platforms.
You know, sometimes a company wants to release a product and have it be used yet they do not want mass adoption, hence they won't advertise it.
Google Voice is one of those products.
I can't think of a consumer product that has taken longer to gain traction.
Arby's has been around since the 60's and I still have yet to meet someone who has eaten there.
I've been using Voice since the beginning and it is now my primary (well, only) number.
Cell phones might be handy, but someone I'm with always has one if there is something urgent (this has happened maybe twice in a few years). People (including my luddite father) ask me, "how do you stay in touch if you don't have a cell phone?" Well, it's actually pretty easy. I just do what everyone did before cell phones. I have a number. If you call it and I answer, great. If I don't answer, leave a message or a text and I'll get back to you.
This is usually the part where someone says, "You don't have kids, do you?" I don't, but I fail to see the pressing need for a cell phone just because you have children.
One of the guys who was in my "counseling" class after I got a DUI was forced onto a moped since there are no licensing requirements. Our classes were mostly during winter, and he would show up just about every week covered in slush and snow.
Probably not for life, but certainly effective at making someone wish they had a proper car again.
If you get a DUI, your ability to drink alcohol will be severely limited.
First off, if it is deemed necessary, you will be put on Antabuse or something similar. Have fun having a drink with that shit in you.
Next, it is probable that you will have to take random urine and/or breath analysis. You are given a phone number, a color, and a state. You call the phone number every day and if the recorded message names your color, you go take a UA. If the message names your state, you go take a breath test. Failure at either of these results means you go back to square one and probably have additional fines, court costs, etc since you are likely violating probation. Not only that, but the breath tests are easily fooled and will give a false positive for even having a smoothie with no booze in it.
While it might make some sense to give someone a choice between the privilege to drive or the privilege to drink booze, in reality they will simply take away both and make it as difficult as possible for you to want to do either for the next 2-5 years.
Passengers are more than welcome to use their phone, so long as they do it in a car driven by someone who hasn't been convicted/ticketed/whatever of TWD. If you aren't happy about that, take the bus.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that texting while at a stop light is completely safe and not the same as while you are driving.
You are still operating a vehicle. You are still distracted. That stop light won't be green forever.
Or am I the only one that sees people using their phones at stop lights that aren't paying attention and miss the green light?
But they have wicked-good legroom ...
Not being from the East Coast, I never use the term "wicked" for anything other than to describe a witch or an ex-girlfriend. I now realize it's proper use.
"Wicked good", as in, "not really that good, but better than terrible".