Potter's won half a dozen other awards that have as much weight as the Nebula's. Plus it really is just another book award-and honestly I'm not that impressed with the winners;I've read a couple of the classics and well I like HP just as much, if not more-just different standards for evaluating lit.
in the idiotic (and often overwhelming) tide of mommy-government "we know what's best for you" sophism, it is nothing less than delightful to see a vendor actually put up a fight instead of rolling over
I doubt that they'll be the only ones. Most bookstores would have to scrap half their teen section, and check ID's on most everything else-and the online sellers would have to implement some verification system or drop the Oregon market. Fighting the law's cheaper.
Why not? They obviously won't use the same terms you would, but they could easily end up in the same conceptual territory. When kids play with blocks or legos they intuitively consider which combination of blocks will build what tower. When they dress up dolls, kids are toying with combinations of clothes and shoes and which outfits they'll yield-and they do realize that more basics yield more outfits. Basically it's not hard to imagine 'em fighting over which path gets them home fastest or how many things they can build out of their blocks.
Dunno-I think it'd be more coherent if I hadn't flaked on my organization & architecture class (where we used MIPS), but still-eek.
The idiots version: (with help from wiki)
This chip carries out one instruction that's really filled with tons of different instructions-(basically whatever can fit in 48 bits-and because it's treated as one instruction-instantish parallism) and does so using assembly code similar to MIPS assembly. Then it offers two options for a core running it's own instance of linux- vm or Tilera's custom linux. More chips can be added 'cause of a switch that treats the processors as a mesh and routes data that way-instead of the usual method of all data having to pass some central location before it gets where it needs to. (Reduced traffic flow by switching out a major intersection for lots of side roads.)
I have no idea if any of the above is right-pure ad-hoc translation.
It's a minimum of about 20hrs each way (http://www.sidestep.com/s/flightprogress.jsp?searchid=B$r8ynkpesBha6s0Q8hy), almost no nonstop flights, and in my experience flights out to the middle east seem to have a decent amount of families with little kids-and I don't think even first class is sound proof.
Dunno, doesn't seem pleasant, even if it's billable.
Not quite priming-which is basically a memory task where you learn to associate a word/object with another, kind of like associating the content of an array cell with it's index (A[0]=B, you teach yourself to think B when you see 0).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
"I'm going to be modded funny" doesn't 'cause any associative links to be made (which is how psychological priming works-it's Cognitive-Behavioral where you learn to associate your mental image with your wishes and behave based on the new associations) in the brain of the mod-either he mods you up or he doesn't.
Even worse when I want to refer back to a specific part. A/V is nice, but I hate having to rewind a million times for the one part I didn't catch/didn't understand/actually need to know.
Since no professional company in their right mind would work on this, why doesn't NASA just turn the project over to students and pay them through STEM fellowships? (Which yeah, aren't a ton, but not bad either for 2 months of work that doesn't really need to be completed or justified. Freshman/sophmores can kind of code graphics/learn to and can probably be used/abused by a comp sci senior design team working on the game.)
Granted, it won't be very good, but schools could turn this it into a long running project of sorts or just attach it to a graphics course.
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'specially 'cause she's put out two mini-books before to raise money for charity?
Potter's won half a dozen other awards that have as much weight as the Nebula's. Plus it really is just another book award-and honestly I'm not that impressed with the winners;I've read a couple of the classics and well I like HP just as much, if not more-just different standards for evaluating lit.
in the idiotic (and often overwhelming) tide of mommy-government "we know what's best for you" sophism, it is nothing less than delightful to see a vendor actually put up a fight instead of rolling over
I doubt that they'll be the only ones. Most bookstores would have to scrap half their teen section, and check ID's on most everything else-and the online sellers would have to implement some verification system or drop the Oregon market. Fighting the law's cheaper.Why not? They obviously won't use the same terms you would, but they could easily end up in the same conceptual territory. When kids play with blocks or legos they intuitively consider which combination of blocks will build what tower. When they dress up dolls, kids are toying with combinations of clothes and shoes and which outfits they'll yield-and they do realize that more basics yield more outfits. Basically it's not hard to imagine 'em fighting over which path gets them home fastest or how many things they can build out of their blocks.
The idiots version: (with help from wiki) This chip carries out one instruction that's really filled with tons of different instructions-(basically whatever can fit in 48 bits-and because it's treated as one instruction-instantish parallism) and does so using assembly code similar to MIPS assembly. Then it offers two options for a core running it's own instance of linux- vm or Tilera's custom linux. More chips can be added 'cause of a switch that treats the processors as a mesh and routes data that way-instead of the usual method of all data having to pass some central location before it gets where it needs to. (Reduced traffic flow by switching out a major intersection for lots of side roads.) I have no idea if any of the above is right-pure ad-hoc translation.
It's a minimum of about 20hrs each way (http://www.sidestep.com/s/flightprogress.jsp?searchid=B$r8ynkpesBha6s0Q8hy), almost no nonstop flights, and in my experience flights out to the middle east seem to have a decent amount of families with little kids-and I don't think even first class is sound proof. Dunno, doesn't seem pleasant, even if it's billable.
Not quite priming-which is basically a memory task where you learn to associate a word/object with another, kind of like associating the content of an array cell with it's index (A[0]=B, you teach yourself to think B when you see 0). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
"I'm going to be modded funny" doesn't 'cause any associative links to be made (which is how psychological priming works-it's Cognitive-Behavioral where you learn to associate your mental image with your wishes and behave based on the new associations) in the brain of the mod-either he mods you up or he doesn't.
Even worse when I want to refer back to a specific part. A/V is nice, but I hate having to rewind a million times for the one part I didn't catch/didn't understand/actually need to know.
Since no professional company in their right mind would work on this, why doesn't NASA just turn the project over to students and pay them through STEM fellowships? (Which yeah, aren't a ton, but not bad either for 2 months of work that doesn't really need to be completed or justified. Freshman/sophmores can kind of code graphics/learn to and can probably be used/abused by a comp sci senior design team working on the game.) Granted, it won't be very good, but schools could turn this it into a long running project of sorts or just attach it to a graphics course.