Wukong (a.k.a. Goku) literally means to have an epiphany/understanding about/of the void(/er, dark matter?). The two Chinese characters used in the name are typical for naming Buddhist disciples As you may know, the Monkey King is such a disciple in the novel Journey to the West, a tome with heavy Chinese Buddhist themes.
You seems to be biased toward utilitarianism. Let some people suffer so that they can become great scientists? You're making a lot of optimistic assumptions here.
I use the left foot on the brake and the right foot on the accelerator. This reduces the delay between stop and go at stop signs and lights. It also feels like more work to have to move the right foot around all the time. And if you find yourself pressing both at times, then this is not for you.
(1) Mozart died in his 30's. Had he lived as long as Haydn, the output would have been 'gi-normous'. Would people think less of the work up to his 30's because they "burn out" from too much Mozart by the time they hear his composition from his hypothetical 80's? I doubt it. Mozart was such a genius that if you appreciated even the obvious pleasantries on the surface of his music you could not get enough Mozart. His music changed as he aged, and had he lived longer his music would have continued to change. In short, there is no such thing as too much Mozart. If a piece weren't good enough, he'd throw it away first.
(2) I listened to the professor's Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, and Joplin samples as objectively as I could. They are rhythmically identical to particular works of the composers. All the program did was swap out notes with others in the same styles as the composer did. Note for note. These are imitations bordering on plagiarism; not original. It'd be like us singing Mary Had A Little Lamb in the same rhythm but different tones. If you step back and enjoy the imitation, they are quite nice. But they are no serious threat to original compositions because they sound like glued together gibberish with no themes. Perhaps one day Emmy v3.11 would do more than just replace the exact same number of notes on a given composition and come up with something original. On that day, she'd be a true composer and not some hack (yes pun intended). Emmy in her current capabilities is truly amazing, though. The professor's knowledge and skills are beyond most mortals.
Back in the 50's in the USA, it was cool for a mom to stay home and tend to the children personally. Then, people got the notion that equal respect for women requires respectable careers (whatever that means). So that went on throughout the 90's as families feel that the women should work, too. A second income couldn't hurt. Helps put the family into a new minivan and big house, etc. etc.
I personally know plenty of families in which the mom quits the job to stay home. There are lot of different reasons for each family, but mostly it's because the family wants control over the upbringing of the children instead of relying on day care and pre-school. Maybe people whose lifestyles do not require a second income are starting to realize the low value of expensive child care services. For a lot of these families, the moms are usually well educated and leave their well-paying jobs to provide better care and attention for the children than what's available from day care.
The stay-at-home-mom is making a come-back, actually, and not outdated at all. It has nothing to do with respect or gender equality but everything to do with what families are willing to give up to give the kids the best care.
No once forced the navy to go grab him. They volunteered. Maybe they were excited to meet him.
The trick is to not ridicule and get your blood pressure up, but to learn. You can even take it to the next level and let go of your own sense morals, ego, and ideals, and play his game. Then, you too can be brave and adventurous as your navy fishes you out.
So Fossett underprepared in his last flight. That's yet another lesson to the rest of us. You don't have to rub it (the tragedy) in (does this expression work in Australia?).
It depends on the type of hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus) you had and your health history. Women who have had a hysterectomy should talk with their doctor about whether they need routine Pap tests.
Usually during a hysterectomy, the cervix is removed with the uterus. This is called a total hysterectomy. Women who have had a total hysterectomy for reasons other than cancer may not need regular Pap tests. Women who have had a total hysterectomy because of abnormal cells or cancer should be tested yearly for vaginal cancer until they have three normal test results. Women who have had only their uterus removed but still have a cervix need regular Pap tests. Even women who have had hysterectomies should see their doctors yearly for pelvic exams.
There are plenty of examples of doctors and hospitals choosing what's habitual, convenient, or more profitable than using good science (don't even get me started on c-section-happy obstetricians and hospitals) , but this PAP thing isn't as black and white as the article makes it out to be.
Yet I'm not one of you douchebags who walks through a parking lot, sees a smoker 60 feet away, downwind, and starts coughing, which I'm guessing would be the category you fall into.
Nah. Only 2% of the population fall into that category. People that fall within 1 std. dev. get annoyed within 55.332 feet!
Seriously, it's not really the coughing or the smell. A lot of us just don't want to get cancer (happens to 2nd hand smokers, ya know). Some people grew up in homes with smoke and are terrified at their future morbidity. Even if you think death is a non-event (hmmm), at least have some sympathy for your traumatized fellow beings.
2 recommendations for making life easier when working in Windows:
Virtual Dimension. It's way better than VirtuaWin. Minimal interface. Does use quite a bit of RAM and maybe CPU, though. My system sped up after I stopped using it.
Grid Move. This is not virtual desktops but partitions your screen into grids. Windows are then easily dragged into trigger regions to be resized into grids. This is very useful for large or multiple screens. If you have nVidia or ATI then your drivers already come with screen grid features. This tool is more flexible and works without nVidia or ATI drivers (such as with a VM or through Remote Desktop). This one I use all the time.
It took me years, but I have finally found these 2 window/desktop tools I've always wanted!
Take Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, for example. It's gameplay is so-so, the plot feels scripted because the entire thing is so cinematic and the game doesn't try to hide that fact. The few English and Japanese words that get shouted by the bots are repetitive.
However, the realistic sounds and graphics do work on me. I felt totally immersed because the jungle cover is beautiful, the enemies are camouflaged, the damage is severe, and my heart rate jumps when the other side bonzai-rushed. When I let myself slip into the game for brief moments, I really felt that I was really there (and realized gee, sux to be in war).
Day of Defeat did not have the same effect. It was just another team deathmatch. MOHPA was much more immersive due to the better technology.
What Dell is really doing here is building the equivalent of a secondary Asus Eee PC into a full-featured, full-size laptop. The Latitude On feature uses a low-power Intel ARM processor, flash storage and Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10) separate from the laptop's main CPU, hard drive and Windows operating system.
But unlike a subnotebook, the Latitude On system won't allow you to install applications. It's essentially a "cloud computing" device that depends on the Internet for much of its functionality.
... ON's custom Web browser is based on Firefox. E-mail, "diary" and contacts are, of course, non-Microsoft applications. But some Microsoft data types are supported in one way or another. The system, for example, includes viewers for Microsoft Office documents (as well as for Adobe PDF documents). The built-in organizer grabs the 100 most recent Outlook e-mail messages from the laptop's cache and displays them.
This is just a dual-booting machine that accesses your Windows partitions for documents and emails. The Linux portion also sounds severely limited compared to a regular Linux distro.
Organic does not have to be a luxury. It is more expensive at the moment simply because of supply and demand. We can convert more farms to increase supply, but most growers feel that non-organic and the status quo is still the safe way to do business.
Organic means natural, sustainable methods and growing and harvesting crops in the right seasons. In fact, it is not a luxury when it comes to convenience. Organic produce means you can only have right crop in the right months. So I would argue that the massive variety available in the mainstream supermarket is the luxury you have become accustomed to.
Mainstream agriculture uses environmentally-unfriendly chemicals and methods. This maximizes crop in the short term but harms the environment in the long term. Mainstream food distribution sends produce thousands of miles to consumers. This entails shipping pollution. Long-distance food are also picked too early and have sub-optimal taste compared to local organic produce (ripe, natural, and in season..., of course it tates good). It really seems like a waste to ship bad food around like that, so I would also argue that the non-organic way is the immoral one, not organic.
Lastly, the obvious... of course it's immoral for non-organic growers to use brain-damaging, cancer-causing pesticides regardless of environmental impact. So, at least eat organic for your health, if not for the environment.
You mentioned that it is unfeasible on a global scale... what did you think people were growing before we had artificial fertilizers and pesticides?
This is OT, but I've been running VMware Server 2 Beta/RC at work for many months now on Ubuntu 8.04 hosting WinXP and Win2003. It wasn't too bad once you get used to the web interface. The updated hardware support is nice. And oh, rdesktop works better than VMware's own console app.
Your root cause analysis is pretty spot-on. Parental guidance is crucial from everything social to academic. Your proposed solutions, like others have pointed out, aren't so great though.
Until there's a good solution (i.e., not COPPA and not totalitarian), the best policy is to live and let live. Most of the time, laws don't work the way they intend, simply because you can't fix (or ever finish fixing) problems just with laws.
Looking at EPA numbers (http://www.fueleconomy.gov), vans and cross-over SUV's are quite similar in fuel efficiency.
2008 Honda Odyssey 16/23
2008 Honda Pilot 16/22
It's the same engine and roughly the same weight, so no surprises.
Well, at least for Honda and Toyota.
I checked Ford and Chevy, they have much heavier models (all V6 below):
2008 Chevy Uplander Minivan 16/23
2008 Chevy Equinox Crossover 16/24
2008 Chevy Trailblazer SUV 14/20
In addition to Calc, there is also Base, the alternative to MS Access.
Check it out here: http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html
It's gotta be way easier to work in OpenOffice than a whole database system (making up accounts, tables, reports, and all).
Whether they go back home or not is not as important as providing the opportunity for these gifted individuals. They may still contribute something to the world, regardless of their location.
It may not be the mercury. It could be genetics, or whatever. Or it may not cause autism at all. Are you SURE that you have the conclusive answer? So SURE that you would give it to a baby? Older kids will probably be fine, but babies are finicky, not-fully-developed things.
You can't trust doctors, either (they just don't keep up with the science). Or farmers and growers and ranchers. And definitely not the FDA, although for the most part they do a good job. Gotta do your homework.
I know it's fun to bash science-haters, but it is extremely scientific to question science itself. The vaccine skeptics aren't really science haters (they probably just hate obgyns and peds), they probably know more about vaccines than the average/.'er. The flu one doesn't always work, and companies use mercury as a preservative. You think a parent would want to shoot that into their infant? This is why people want to delay vaccines. A lot of babies just get all sorts of issues with them even though clinical trials may have gone through just fine. While there's still no conclusion on whether vaccines cause autism or not, there is a lot of anecdotal "evidence" to prompt further study. Just because the FDA says it's safe doesn't mean it really is.
Some of the audience may be real wackos refusing any sort of modern medicine, but you'd be surprised to learn many well-educated parents are delaying or refusing vaccine. This is because vaccinating very young babies is still a new thing, it hasn't been tried enough, and already we have bad stories going around. It may seem risky to doubt vaccines, but one shot could be all it takes to really screw up a kid. It's a personal decision for all parents.
Just wanted you all to know that at least some people doubt vaccines for very good reasons. It's not all black-and-white or slashdot-vs-stupidpeople.
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Wukong (a.k.a. Goku) literally means to have an epiphany/understanding about/of the void(/er, dark matter?). The two Chinese characters used in the name are typical for naming Buddhist disciples As you may know, the Monkey King is such a disciple in the novel Journey to the West, a tome with heavy Chinese Buddhist themes.
The attempt is to teach everyone even if they are not as smart as you, requiring some creative yet carefully designed lesson plans.
You seems to be biased toward utilitarianism. Let some people suffer so that they can become great scientists? You're making a lot of optimistic assumptions here.
So does MS: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100997681033.aspx
I use the left foot on the brake and the right foot on the accelerator. This reduces the delay between stop and go at stop signs and lights. It also feels like more work to have to move the right foot around all the time. And if you find yourself pressing both at times, then this is not for you.
(1) Mozart died in his 30's. Had he lived as long as Haydn, the output would have been 'gi-normous'. Would people think less of the work up to his 30's because they "burn out" from too much Mozart by the time they hear his composition from his hypothetical 80's? I doubt it. Mozart was such a genius that if you appreciated even the obvious pleasantries on the surface of his music you could not get enough Mozart. His music changed as he aged, and had he lived longer his music would have continued to change. In short, there is no such thing as too much Mozart. If a piece weren't good enough, he'd throw it away first.
(2) I listened to the professor's Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, and Joplin samples as objectively as I could. They are rhythmically identical to particular works of the composers. All the program did was swap out notes with others in the same styles as the composer did. Note for note. These are imitations bordering on plagiarism; not original. It'd be like us singing Mary Had A Little Lamb in the same rhythm but different tones. If you step back and enjoy the imitation, they are quite nice. But they are no serious threat to original compositions because they sound like glued together gibberish with no themes. Perhaps one day Emmy v3.11 would do more than just replace the exact same number of notes on a given composition and come up with something original. On that day, she'd be a true composer and not some hack (yes pun intended). Emmy in her current capabilities is truly amazing, though. The professor's knowledge and skills are beyond most mortals.
I personally know plenty of families in which the mom quits the job to stay home. There are lot of different reasons for each family, but mostly it's because the family wants control over the upbringing of the children instead of relying on day care and pre-school. Maybe people whose lifestyles do not require a second income are starting to realize the low value of expensive child care services. For a lot of these families, the moms are usually well educated and leave their well-paying jobs to provide better care and attention for the children than what's available from day care.
The stay-at-home-mom is making a come-back, actually, and not outdated at all. It has nothing to do with respect or gender equality but everything to do with what families are willing to give up to give the kids the best care.
No once forced the navy to go grab him. They volunteered. Maybe they were excited to meet him.
The trick is to not ridicule and get your blood pressure up, but to learn. You can even take it to the next level and let go of your own sense morals, ego, and ideals, and play his game. Then, you too can be brave and adventurous as your navy fishes you out.
So Fossett underprepared in his last flight. That's yet another lesson to the rest of us. You don't have to rub it (the tragedy) in (does this expression work in Australia?).
Hang on a sec... did I just feed a troll?
If it really is near-light-speed, then to the traveler, only a small amount of time has passed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Time_dilation_and_space_flight
I had a hysterectomy. Do I still need Pap tests?
It depends on the type of hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus) you had and your health history. Women who have had a hysterectomy should talk with their doctor about whether they need routine Pap tests.
Usually during a hysterectomy, the cervix is removed with the uterus. This is called a total hysterectomy. Women who have had a total hysterectomy for reasons other than cancer may not need regular Pap tests. Women who have had a total hysterectomy because of abnormal cells or cancer should be tested yearly for vaginal cancer until they have three normal test results. Women who have had only their uterus removed but still have a cervix need regular Pap tests. Even women who have had hysterectomies should see their doctors yearly for pelvic exams.
There are plenty of examples of doctors and hospitals choosing what's habitual, convenient, or more profitable than using good science (don't even get me started on c-section-happy obstetricians and hospitals) , but this PAP thing isn't as black and white as the article makes it out to be.
Yet I'm not one of you douchebags who walks through a parking lot, sees a smoker 60 feet away, downwind, and starts coughing, which I'm guessing would be the category you fall into.
Nah. Only 2% of the population fall into that category. People that fall within 1 std. dev. get annoyed within 55.332 feet! Seriously, it's not really the coughing or the smell. A lot of us just don't want to get cancer (happens to 2nd hand smokers, ya know). Some people grew up in homes with smoke and are terrified at their future morbidity. Even if you think death is a non-event (hmmm), at least have some sympathy for your traumatized fellow beings.
Virtual Dimension. It's way better than VirtuaWin. Minimal interface. Does use quite a bit of RAM and maybe CPU, though. My system sped up after I stopped using it.
Grid Move. This is not virtual desktops but partitions your screen into grids. Windows are then easily dragged into trigger regions to be resized into grids. This is very useful for large or multiple screens. If you have nVidia or ATI then your drivers already come with screen grid features. This tool is more flexible and works without nVidia or ATI drivers (such as with a VM or through Remote Desktop). This one I use all the time.
It took me years, but I have finally found these 2 window/desktop tools I've always wanted!
Realism counts a lot! Not everything, but still.
Take Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, for example. It's gameplay is so-so, the plot feels scripted because the entire thing is so cinematic and the game doesn't try to hide that fact. The few English and Japanese words that get shouted by the bots are repetitive.
However, the realistic sounds and graphics do work on me. I felt totally immersed because the jungle cover is beautiful, the enemies are camouflaged, the damage is severe, and my heart rate jumps when the other side bonzai-rushed. When I let myself slip into the game for brief moments, I really felt that I was really there (and realized gee, sux to be in war).
Day of Defeat did not have the same effect. It was just another team deathmatch. MOHPA was much more immersive due to the better technology.
What Dell is really doing here is building the equivalent of a secondary Asus Eee PC into a full-featured, full-size laptop. The Latitude On feature uses a low-power Intel ARM processor, flash storage and Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10) separate from the laptop's main CPU, hard drive and Windows operating system. But unlike a subnotebook, the Latitude On system won't allow you to install applications. It's essentially a "cloud computing" device that depends on the Internet for much of its functionality.
This is just a dual-booting machine that accesses your Windows partitions for documents and emails. The Linux portion also sounds severely limited compared to a regular Linux distro.
File this under "meh".
Organic does not have to be a luxury. It is more expensive at the moment simply because of supply and demand. We can convert more farms to increase supply, but most growers feel that non-organic and the status quo is still the safe way to do business.
Organic means natural, sustainable methods and growing and harvesting crops in the right seasons. In fact, it is not a luxury when it comes to convenience. Organic produce means you can only have right crop in the right months. So I would argue that the massive variety available in the mainstream supermarket is the luxury you have become accustomed to.
Mainstream agriculture uses environmentally-unfriendly chemicals and methods. This maximizes crop in the short term but harms the environment in the long term. Mainstream food distribution sends produce thousands of miles to consumers. This entails shipping pollution. Long-distance food are also picked too early and have sub-optimal taste compared to local organic produce (ripe, natural, and in season..., of course it tates good). It really seems like a waste to ship bad food around like that, so I would also argue that the non-organic way is the immoral one, not organic.
Lastly, the obvious... of course it's immoral for non-organic growers to use brain-damaging, cancer-causing pesticides regardless of environmental impact. So, at least eat organic for your health, if not for the environment.
You mentioned that it is unfeasible on a global scale... what did you think people were growing before we had artificial fertilizers and pesticides?
This is OT, but I've been running VMware Server 2 Beta/RC at work for many months now on Ubuntu 8.04 hosting WinXP and Win2003. It wasn't too bad once you get used to the web interface. The updated hardware support is nice. And oh, rdesktop works better than VMware's own console app.
The post refers to statistics in the data and has no racial bias in the text. You are looking too hard.
Your root cause analysis is pretty spot-on. Parental guidance is crucial from everything social to academic. Your proposed solutions, like others have pointed out, aren't so great though. Until there's a good solution (i.e., not COPPA and not totalitarian), the best policy is to live and let live. Most of the time, laws don't work the way they intend, simply because you can't fix (or ever finish fixing) problems just with laws.
Looking at EPA numbers (http://www.fueleconomy.gov), vans and cross-over SUV's are quite similar in fuel efficiency. 2008 Honda Odyssey 16/23 2008 Honda Pilot 16/22 It's the same engine and roughly the same weight, so no surprises. Well, at least for Honda and Toyota. I checked Ford and Chevy, they have much heavier models (all V6 below): 2008 Chevy Uplander Minivan 16/23 2008 Chevy Equinox Crossover 16/24 2008 Chevy Trailblazer SUV 14/20
In addition to Calc, there is also Base, the alternative to MS Access. Check it out here: http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html It's gotta be way easier to work in OpenOffice than a whole database system (making up accounts, tables, reports, and all).
Whether they go back home or not is not as important as providing the opportunity for these gifted individuals. They may still contribute something to the world, regardless of their location.
The Yellow Emperor's claim to fame was not taming the Yang Tze but the Yellow River. These are ancient northerners, afterall.
It may not be the mercury. It could be genetics, or whatever. Or it may not cause autism at all. Are you SURE that you have the conclusive answer? So SURE that you would give it to a baby? Older kids will probably be fine, but babies are finicky, not-fully-developed things.
You can't trust doctors, either (they just don't keep up with the science). Or farmers and growers and ranchers. And definitely not the FDA, although for the most part they do a good job. Gotta do your homework. I know it's fun to bash science-haters, but it is extremely scientific to question science itself. The vaccine skeptics aren't really science haters (they probably just hate obgyns and peds), they probably know more about vaccines than the average /.'er. The flu one doesn't always work, and companies use mercury as a preservative. You think a parent would want to shoot that into their infant? This is why people want to delay vaccines. A lot of babies just get all sorts of issues with them even though clinical trials may have gone through just fine. While there's still no conclusion on whether vaccines cause autism or not, there is a lot of anecdotal "evidence" to prompt further study. Just because the FDA says it's safe doesn't mean it really is.
Some of the audience may be real wackos refusing any sort of modern medicine, but you'd be surprised to learn many well-educated parents are delaying or refusing vaccine. This is because vaccinating very young babies is still a new thing, it hasn't been tried enough, and already we have bad stories going around. It may seem risky to doubt vaccines, but one shot could be all it takes to really screw up a kid. It's a personal decision for all parents.
Just wanted you all to know that at least some people doubt vaccines for very good reasons. It's not all black-and-white or slashdot-vs-stupidpeople.