For example a public school student cannot read a bible at recess, but they can read a Koran or a book on Secular Humanism. They cannot wear a cross or a chastity ring, but they can wear a star of David or a crescent or pentagram, or even a scarf or burka or anything they want as long as it isn't from a certain religion that is outlawed.
It would help your argument to be much more solid if you cited sources with such comments
Just saying...but just throwing stuff out there wont exactly get your post noticed as much
Maybe slashdot needs a tag for posts called "citation needed"
Good luck on them finding out where one is when they have chained through a dozen socks 5 or https proxies located in other countries, preferbly ones that laugh at American policy.
If by "shitting" on it, you mean, actually keeping it confined to something resembling what it was meant to do, then yes, we have been. There's a reason violent gun deaths here dwarf all of Europe combined, and it's not because gun control laws are too strict.
Yeah, because gun control and subsequent knife/sword/blade control has worked so well in the UK
If you ban guns, people will just use knives and blades, as shown by the UK banning those shortly after banning most firearms or restricting them to the point of making them near illegal.
If people want to kill each other, they will do it regardless of what is illegal. I mean in prison, they cannot have anything even remotely resembling a weapon, but that sure hasn't stopped prisoners from making shanks. I know a guy who's a guard in a US maximum security prison. The prisoners there go to the point of melting down plastic in the microwave to make weapons that will go through metal detectors. When it comes to killing people, man can be extremely resourceful when restrictions are in place.
Eventually, I assume people will just hammer a nail in a board and use that as weapon...They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
It was actually gym class that had skeet shooting, not really an actual team. However, by the time I got there 5 or so years later, they subbed skeet shooting with archery, which wasn't quite as cool as shooting clay pigeons in the backfield of the school. I wonder if they even allow that now. With the way schools are nowadays, they might be down to using nerf guns. With some of the winners I see around my old hometown nowadays, I'm kind of glad they don't offer skeet shooting in gym anymore.
Admittedly, that would start getting creepy when you realize those are real residences and the like.
Yeah, nothing like that has ever happened before [gamepolitics.com].
Heh, I mapped out my jr. high school years ago when duke nukem 3d had a built in level designer, of course this was long enough ago that my jr. high had just stopped its skeet shooting class a half decade earlier
What you say is quite true, but we're talking about police photography here, not art. Color photography wasn't even all that common (although not THAT uncommon) even when I was a kid.
I agree with you on it being a rarety for much of the 20th century, I just thought you weren't aware it existed that long ago by your statement and was a much newer technology.
Since color processing back then was the bleeding edge of technology and this article discusses the cutting edge of 3d rendering, I felt it went well with the topic, since color tech 80-90 years ago was about as unlikely to be used by normal people as sophisticated rendering would be used by creeps who like children in a very wrong way right now.
I should have included it in my previous post, but Sergey's work in general was quite amazing with more pictures here and some great info on the guy who took them as well as the processes he used. It is hard to get over the fact that the people in these photos are long dead and from tsarist era Russia.
The cameras weren't as good then, so it would have been harder to tell a photo of a model from a photo of a painting of the model. The cameras were not in color. Nobody expected a photo of a painting to be anything but a photo.
I have to beg to differ on this:
1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James Clerk Maxwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography Check out the link for excellent examples of early color photography as well
I think viacomm (cbs parent) was mostly interested in the domain names cnet owns, such as tv.com and news.com. I would think cbs would have some sort of interest in those. Article on other domains they own and how much they paid for them: http://www.igoldrush.com/feat2.htm
Perhaps the researchers are just angry they had to use sliderules and plot points on paper and now we have HP and TI calcs to do it all for us. Not to mention if they can't, there's always TI-BASIC for that.
Though at my university, they barred the use of calculators for calculus and above courses, meanwhile, at the jr college down the road, they allow them and the credits transferr one-to-one. I totally agree it keeps you from relying on it as a mathematical crutch, but graphing calculators do have their merits when you opt to build your own programs for solving things and to save on time when they only give you 45 minutes for a huge test.
Do you know how poorly teachers are paid? I do, I'm married to one. They make peanuts compared to what they could make in virtually any other field with the same level of education.
Teachers also get 3+ straight months out of the year off, plus other vacations that the students take. They also get sick days, plus "personal days." I don't believe there are many other jobs out there where you can just take paid for days for personal reasons.
Teachers also get awesome health benefits, much better than most employers offer and a great pension system. I'm not saying they don't deserve it, but I do indeed get tired of hearing how much they are entitled.
Take a look at these stats on teacher's salaries for my area. Starting out at 34k for a liberal arts degree (more than likely) is pretty good. How many other jobs out there for someone with a history or an English major are going to pay that well plus the great benefits? One cannot say that a teacher should make as much if not more than an engineer or programmer when the later group has a far more difficult road to take as an undergraduate.
Although I know it borders on a troll to say, but if you don't like what the job pays, don't bother going into it.
There's plenty of people out there who only take a job knowing they like the pay but not so much the job, while there are other who take a job knowing it may not pay quite so well but they enjoy it. It's just sort of a tradeoff that one must decide.
We brought accountability to the UK school system a while back. Children were tested (nationally) more often (age 7, 11 and 14, as well as the exams at 16). Schools were rated based on the children's results, and "bad" schools told to improve Or Else.
They do this here in the states as well with what they call proficiency testing. In ohio, if you don't pass certain ones, such as the 9th grade before your 12th grade year, you don't graduate high school. I remember there were weeks in school where all the teachers did was drum on about these worthless tests and telling us we needed to review for questions such as pointing where Washington DC was located. Thankfully, I had my Ti-86 to program on and kill time. On top of that, if you passed the test, there were weeks where you wouldn't have to show up to school until halfway through the day because they considered it "unfair" to those who didn't pass it to take it during non-school hours or to make up the work they missed.
Yeah, my school district sucked. Oh yeah, they also had computers that were running windows 2.1 and made in 1987 in 1997! This was also one of the top 10 largest districts in the state. You can pretty much gather I didn't learn anything about computers directly from pre-college public education
It hasn't worked (well, the government's agency sets the exams, and makes them slightly easier every year, so they say it's worked. But university professors get angry because they now have to teach science undergraduates maths that used to be taught in school).
Same here, many universities end up placing kids in pre 100 series classes just to bring them up to pace
"If your user agent has MSIE in it, then this page was served as text/html. Maybe you should stop using MSIE if you are, or change your user agent if you aren't."
If they're using IE, do you think they would even know what a user agent is?
just to play devil's advocate here, you're suggesting a designer should code to standards, and let the page be broken for 80% of his visitors? i don't think many designers would keep that job very long.
Although he didn't directly say it, I assume he implies you code your site to standards and then use conditionals for IE and have it point to a different style sheet for IE browsers as already mentioned by others. It would be silly otherwise as you said to not code for it. Though a majority of people use IE, this is just another instance where the majority is wrong or mostly just too lazy/ignorant to switch to a different browser
After double checking, I guess Fusion would only be an option if you have a Mac based Intel, not sure if there's any way around that. Perhaps VMware workstation would be adequte though.
I have VMware workstation currently which has 8.1 directX support. I haven't tried playing an HD movie or even a dvd yet on it, but I haven't thought about it till now, perhaps I'll try and see how it fairs. I currently have fedora 9 x64 on there with GDM.
Anyone else ever get the feeling that nearly all blog postings on slashdot are just favors to someone with very little useful information contained within the actual post?
Yeah yeah, I know, "You must be near here, right?"
Probably one of the best sources I can think of off the top of my head is the book, Guns Germs and Steel. The book gives a great in depth look at the origins of man, and the crops/domesticated animals we eat as well as lots of maps showing movements through the ages. It's a pretty long read though, but well worth it. The book also goes well into why the decendants of those from Europe and Asia control the world today and not those in Africa, North America or Oceana.
Ouch, slashdot is getting beat by Facebook and not far ahead of myspace right now. Either it doesn't say much about the test or doesn't say much about slashdot. I am placing my bets on the former.
Last Tuesday I went to a Sacramento Kings game. The Kings were ahead one run and my boyfriend left to use the restroom. As soon as I put his glove on (as a defense against the crapload of fouls they were hitting at us) the other team scored two runs.
I almost forgot to add, many of the driver's license numbers in the US are also not random numbers. States such as Michigan and Florida generate their numbers through the soundex system, which also easy to duplicate and there are programs out there that do just that. The number is generated from your DOB and full name.
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It would help your argument to be much more solid if you cited sources with such comments
Just saying...but just throwing stuff out there wont exactly get your post noticed as muchMaybe slashdot needs a tag for posts called "citation needed"
Good luck on them finding out where one is when they have chained through a dozen socks 5 or https proxies located in other countries, preferbly ones that laugh at American policy.
Yeah, because gun control and subsequent knife/sword/blade control has worked so well in the UK
If you ban guns, people will just use knives and blades, as shown by the UK banning those shortly after banning most firearms or restricting them to the point of making them near illegal.
If people want to kill each other, they will do it regardless of what is illegal. I mean in prison, they cannot have anything even remotely resembling a weapon, but that sure hasn't stopped prisoners from making shanks. I know a guy who's a guard in a US maximum security prison. The prisoners there go to the point of melting down plastic in the microwave to make weapons that will go through metal detectors. When it comes to killing people, man can be extremely resourceful when restrictions are in place.
Eventually, I assume people will just hammer a nail in a board and use that as weapon...They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
It was actually gym class that had skeet shooting, not really an actual team. However, by the time I got there 5 or so years later, they subbed skeet shooting with archery, which wasn't quite as cool as shooting clay pigeons in the backfield of the school. I wonder if they even allow that now. With the way schools are nowadays, they might be down to using nerf guns. With some of the winners I see around my old hometown nowadays, I'm kind of glad they don't offer skeet shooting in gym anymore.
Heh, I mapped out my jr. high school years ago when duke nukem 3d had a built in level designer, of course this was long enough ago that my jr. high had just stopped its skeet shooting class a half decade earlier
For a moment, I wondered why the poster was using a floating point integer...60 seemed a little small and an unecessary use of zeros.
The Awesome Bar: what you get when you allow the developers to also name the features.
I agree with you on it being a rarety for much of the 20th century, I just thought you weren't aware it existed that long ago by your statement and was a much newer technology.
Since color processing back then was the bleeding edge of technology and this article discusses the cutting edge of 3d rendering, I felt it went well with the topic, since color tech 80-90 years ago was about as unlikely to be used by normal people as sophisticated rendering would be used by creeps who like children in a very wrong way right now.
I should have included it in my previous post, but Sergey's work in general was quite amazing with more pictures here and some great info on the guy who took them as well as the processes he used. It is hard to get over the fact that the people in these photos are long dead and from tsarist era Russia.
I have to beg to differ on this:
1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James Clerk Maxwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography Check out the link for excellent examples of early color photography as well
Some of these color photos look like they could have been taken in the past couple of decades, but this one was from nearly 100 years ago and in full color: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Prokudin-Gorskii-12.jpg
I think viacomm (cbs parent) was mostly interested in the domain names cnet owns, such as tv.com and news.com. I would think cbs would have some sort of interest in those. Article on other domains they own and how much they paid for them: http://www.igoldrush.com/feat2.htm
Perhaps the researchers are just angry they had to use sliderules and plot points on paper and now we have HP and TI calcs to do it all for us. Not to mention if they can't, there's always TI-BASIC for that.
Though at my university, they barred the use of calculators for calculus and above courses, meanwhile, at the jr college down the road, they allow them and the credits transferr one-to-one. I totally agree it keeps you from relying on it as a mathematical crutch, but graphing calculators do have their merits when you opt to build your own programs for solving things and to save on time when they only give you 45 minutes for a huge test.
Teachers also get 3+ straight months out of the year off, plus other vacations that the students take. They also get sick days, plus "personal days." I don't believe there are many other jobs out there where you can just take paid for days for personal reasons.
Teachers also get awesome health benefits, much better than most employers offer and a great pension system. I'm not saying they don't deserve it, but I do indeed get tired of hearing how much they are entitled.
Take a look at these stats on teacher's salaries for my area. Starting out at 34k for a liberal arts degree (more than likely) is pretty good. How many other jobs out there for someone with a history or an English major are going to pay that well plus the great benefits? One cannot say that a teacher should make as much if not more than an engineer or programmer when the later group has a far more difficult road to take as an undergraduate.
Although I know it borders on a troll to say, but if you don't like what the job pays, don't bother going into it. There's plenty of people out there who only take a job knowing they like the pay but not so much the job, while there are other who take a job knowing it may not pay quite so well but they enjoy it. It's just sort of a tradeoff that one must decide.
They do this here in the states as well with what they call proficiency testing. In ohio, if you don't pass certain ones, such as the 9th grade before your 12th grade year, you don't graduate high school. I remember there were weeks in school where all the teachers did was drum on about these worthless tests and telling us we needed to review for questions such as pointing where Washington DC was located. Thankfully, I had my Ti-86 to program on and kill time. On top of that, if you passed the test, there were weeks where you wouldn't have to show up to school until halfway through the day because they considered it "unfair" to those who didn't pass it to take it during non-school hours or to make up the work they missed.
Yeah, my school district sucked. Oh yeah, they also had computers that were running windows 2.1 and made in 1987 in 1997! This was also one of the top 10 largest districts in the state. You can pretty much gather I didn't learn anything about computers directly from pre-college public education
Same here, many universities end up placing kids in pre 100 series classes just to bring them up to pace
Sorry, I misread what you wrote
If they're using IE, do you think they would even know what a user agent is?
Although he didn't directly say it, I assume he implies you code your site to standards and then use conditionals for IE and have it point to a different style sheet for IE browsers as already mentioned by others. It would be silly otherwise as you said to not code for it. Though a majority of people use IE, this is just another instance where the majority is wrong or mostly just too lazy/ignorant to switch to a different browser
After double checking, I guess Fusion would only be an option if you have a Mac based Intel, not sure if there's any way around that. Perhaps VMware workstation would be adequte though.
Perhaps VMware Fusion, it supports directx 9 (without shaders, but not needed for video).
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.htmlI have VMware workstation currently which has 8.1 directX support. I haven't tried playing an HD movie or even a dvd yet on it, but I haven't thought about it till now, perhaps I'll try and see how it fairs. I currently have fedora 9 x64 on there with GDM.
grrr....I meant new*
Anyone else ever get the feeling that nearly all blog postings on slashdot are just favors to someone with very little useful information contained within the actual post?
Yeah yeah, I know, "You must be near here, right?"
Probably one of the best sources I can think of off the top of my head is the book, Guns Germs and Steel. The book gives a great in depth look at the origins of man, and the crops/domesticated animals we eat as well as lots of maps showing movements through the ages. It's a pretty long read though, but well worth it. The book also goes well into why the decendants of those from Europe and Asia control the world today and not those in Africa, North America or Oceana.
Ouch, slashdot is getting beat by Facebook and not far ahead of myspace right now. Either it doesn't say much about the test or doesn't say much about slashdot. I am placing my bets on the former.
Since when do teams score runs in basketball?
I almost forgot to add, many of the driver's license numbers in the US are also not random numbers. States such as Michigan and Florida generate their numbers through the soundex system, which also easy to duplicate and there are programs out there that do just that. The number is generated from your DOB and full name.