The problem with questioning scientific theories in grade school is that the foundations that support the theories (and that refute the "controversies") are typically interdisciplinary, and likely far beyond the introductory level. The teachers themselves are hardly qualified to do this in a classroom setting, even if they're objective and not actively trying to steer the kids astray. Good luck getting into worthwhile debates of Mitochondrial DNA, radiometric dating, fossil records and continental drift. More time would need to be spent teaching those things than actually teaching Evolution.
I remember Dr. Krauss bandying about a statistic that more than 90% of middle school science teachers in the US have never taken a post-secondary science class. Now considering the general state of the US public school system and their obvious inconsistent ability to teach Evolution in the first place, I'm not sure how a teacher can critique something they've never even been exposed to properly.
If the problem with the prequels were length or pacing then editing them down would help. The problem though is that the screenplay is so weak in characters. If you don't value the friendship or love story, then you can't feel the emotional pay offs to any degree. Editing alone definitely can't fix that. It pretty much needs a top to bottom rewrite.
The uncanny valley probably has as much to do with art as it does technical, considering that even in offline rendered images the examples are pretty few where the valley is crossed. For actual moving video/animation, I'm not sure if there's even a single example?
Yep, and it's tough to put equal value to something that you know is costing the publisher virtually $0 (after ebook publishing costs are divided up among many tens of thousands of copies sold.)
I was ready to purchase my first couple e-books from Amazon about a month ago, had my wallet out and everything, and then saw that they were $3 *more* than the hard covers. I didn't want to buy and wait a week for a hard covers, and I didn't want to feel ripped off by buying the e-books. Ended up buying neither.
Great books, btw.
"Dark matter" isn't simply regular matter/particles that we just can't see due to not emitting light. We may not know quite what it is, but we have a pretty good idea about what it is not, and that's regular matter as we know it.
Tablets and smartphones are held much closer to the face than laptop screens tend to be. Your ~125 PPI screen is probably adequate at 24" from your face, but at 12", it's probably not so great.
Would you agree there would be something that we could constitute as a form of evidence to objectively decide whether stoning women for reading is "good" or "bad"?
If we were to perform a study on two otherwise identical cultures and find that either a stoning or non-stoning resulted in a greater average level of prosperity or happiness among the group, would that constitute evidence?
Even without that hypothetical study having been done, would it not be reasonable to assume that either one or the other would probably produce a different level of prosperity, and hence be reasonable to assume that there are likely to be objectively better/worse modes of morality?
I think the jury is clearly still out in regards to free will and many other items relating to consciousness. In either case, I don't think one can chalk up free will to being a plus for theism over atheism. It just happens to be an area that science hasn't had strong input on unlike the many other questions of reality that science has managed to pull away from the grasp of religious explanation (evolution/cosmology vs creation and so forth.)
Be interesting to know how the eyes would handle the flicker. Even through each eye is still getting 60hz, the period of time the shutter is open has gone from 1/2 to 1/4.
Rather fitting that the "Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?", was only confirmed by the Bioware mod by saying the 'EA umbrella' was responsible for the ban, and Bioware's hands are tied on the matter.
Or if gorillas are not deemed to be intelligent enough, and babies are reconfirmed later, what of adult humans who are severely mentally retarded, or even brain damaged. Perhaps there should be a soul IQ test to judge whether or not you're mentally developed enough to even be considered for the prospect of heaven or hell.
I would say that the RIAA is having issues due to the lack of foresight in predicting how the internet would impact their existing business model. They've been in a position of constantly having to play catch up to technology, while letting prices for legit digital distribution be dictated to them between pirating and highly priced traditional media. The genie was already out of the bottle, and even then they chose to drag their feet.
The oil companies/lobby have known about and have been fighting their battle already for decades in one way or another.
"This is the time for truth, transparency and credibility. Secrecy and discretion are not values that are in fashion at the moment. We must be in a condition of having nothing to hide." The crowd applauded.
At least he's being transparent about the desire to be truthful for reasons of modern fashion.
Using a game like Arkham Asylum as a comparison between physx and havok is silly. You've got one physics path that's been specially developed to showcase the strengths of a particular brand of hardware, while the other is left as a compatibility fallback for everything else. That's not an apples to apples comparison. With that same reasoning one could say that ATI has worse anti aliasing than nvidia, simply because the game shipped without support for it for ATI.
To drain that much power from the battery, you would be producing that much more heat, and there's definitely a limit on how quickly an average sized laptop can exhaust its heat.
Part of the problem is that they've chosen to order the instance list strictly by lowest to greatest population, which results in players joining an almost completely random instance every time they switch zones. If the devs were to adjust the instance list order to help guide players to the same few sets of instances for each zone, over time you'd probably see actual communities begin to form as players are allowed to become familiar with each other. If they continue to list the instances randomly as they are now, the community within the game will likely not progress much further than it already has.
My friends list remains virtually empty, and the supergroup I had the luck on being invited to is seemingly dead. There's really no ability in the game to casually meet new friends or groups. You either aggressively pursue them or you're likely to end up playing solo forever. It's weird, but playing Champions almost feels like playing a single player game. I get more of a social gaming experience playing BF2, TF2, or any other multiplayer FPS.
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Pfft.. why must you always think you're the center of the Universe.
The problem with questioning scientific theories in grade school is that the foundations that support the theories (and that refute the "controversies") are typically interdisciplinary, and likely far beyond the introductory level. The teachers themselves are hardly qualified to do this in a classroom setting, even if they're objective and not actively trying to steer the kids astray. Good luck getting into worthwhile debates of Mitochondrial DNA, radiometric dating, fossil records and continental drift. More time would need to be spent teaching those things than actually teaching Evolution.
I remember Dr. Krauss bandying about a statistic that more than 90% of middle school science teachers in the US have never taken a post-secondary science class. Now considering the general state of the US public school system and their obvious inconsistent ability to teach Evolution in the first place, I'm not sure how a teacher can critique something they've never even been exposed to properly.
If the problem with the prequels were length or pacing then editing them down would help. The problem though is that the screenplay is so weak in characters. If you don't value the friendship or love story, then you can't feel the emotional pay offs to any degree. Editing alone definitely can't fix that. It pretty much needs a top to bottom rewrite.
The uncanny valley probably has as much to do with art as it does technical, considering that even in offline rendered images the examples are pretty few where the valley is crossed. For actual moving video/animation, I'm not sure if there's even a single example?
I'm pretty sure that the self-publishing movement of existing authors has had the breaks put on it by the publishers.
Non-compete clauses and so forth.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/publishing-perils-in-the-digital-age/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Yep, and it's tough to put equal value to something that you know is costing the publisher virtually $0 (after ebook publishing costs are divided up among many tens of thousands of copies sold.) I was ready to purchase my first couple e-books from Amazon about a month ago, had my wallet out and everything, and then saw that they were $3 *more* than the hard covers. I didn't want to buy and wait a week for a hard covers, and I didn't want to feel ripped off by buying the e-books. Ended up buying neither. Great books, btw.
It's possible they could mark or imprint something on the DVD so that you simply can't exchange the same disk between a group of people.
"Dark matter" isn't simply regular matter/particles that we just can't see due to not emitting light. We may not know quite what it is, but we have a pretty good idea about what it is not, and that's regular matter as we know it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo#t=1582s Worth watching the whole thing, but this portion briefly addresses gravitational lensing.
Tablets and smartphones are held much closer to the face than laptop screens tend to be. Your ~125 PPI screen is probably adequate at 24" from your face, but at 12", it's probably not so great.
They should ban the ingesting of the Eucharist as the science is still not settled on the effects of transubstantiation.
Would you agree there would be something that we could constitute as a form of evidence to objectively decide whether stoning women for reading is "good" or "bad"? If we were to perform a study on two otherwise identical cultures and find that either a stoning or non-stoning resulted in a greater average level of prosperity or happiness among the group, would that constitute evidence? Even without that hypothetical study having been done, would it not be reasonable to assume that either one or the other would probably produce a different level of prosperity, and hence be reasonable to assume that there are likely to be objectively better/worse modes of morality?
I think the jury is clearly still out in regards to free will and many other items relating to consciousness. In either case, I don't think one can chalk up free will to being a plus for theism over atheism. It just happens to be an area that science hasn't had strong input on unlike the many other questions of reality that science has managed to pull away from the grasp of religious explanation (evolution/cosmology vs creation and so forth.)
Be interesting to know how the eyes would handle the flicker. Even through each eye is still getting 60hz, the period of time the shutter is open has gone from 1/2 to 1/4.
Rather fitting that the "Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?", was only confirmed by the Bioware mod by saying the 'EA umbrella' was responsible for the ban, and Bioware's hands are tied on the matter.
Or if gorillas are not deemed to be intelligent enough, and babies are reconfirmed later, what of adult humans who are severely mentally retarded, or even brain damaged. Perhaps there should be a soul IQ test to judge whether or not you're mentally developed enough to even be considered for the prospect of heaven or hell.
I would say that the RIAA is having issues due to the lack of foresight in predicting how the internet would impact their existing business model. They've been in a position of constantly having to play catch up to technology, while letting prices for legit digital distribution be dictated to them between pirating and highly priced traditional media. The genie was already out of the bottle, and even then they chose to drag their feet. The oil companies/lobby have known about and have been fighting their battle already for decades in one way or another.
"This is the time for truth, transparency and credibility. Secrecy and discretion are not values that are in fashion at the moment. We must be in a condition of having nothing to hide." The crowd applauded.
At least he's being transparent about the desire to be truthful for reasons of modern fashion.
They've demonstrated adaptation/change via passage of genetic traits. That's literally, without hyperbole, the definition of evolution.
Using a game like Arkham Asylum as a comparison between physx and havok is silly. You've got one physics path that's been specially developed to showcase the strengths of a particular brand of hardware, while the other is left as a compatibility fallback for everything else. That's not an apples to apples comparison. With that same reasoning one could say that ATI has worse anti aliasing than nvidia, simply because the game shipped without support for it for ATI.
To drain that much power from the battery, you would be producing that much more heat, and there's definitely a limit on how quickly an average sized laptop can exhaust its heat.
Oh, they have curved lcd's now too, geeze, I am behind the times.
DLP I believe
I don't think Dawkins included one in his book.
Part of the problem is that they've chosen to order the instance list strictly by lowest to greatest population, which results in players joining an almost completely random instance every time they switch zones. If the devs were to adjust the instance list order to help guide players to the same few sets of instances for each zone, over time you'd probably see actual communities begin to form as players are allowed to become familiar with each other. If they continue to list the instances randomly as they are now, the community within the game will likely not progress much further than it already has. My friends list remains virtually empty, and the supergroup I had the luck on being invited to is seemingly dead. There's really no ability in the game to casually meet new friends or groups. You either aggressively pursue them or you're likely to end up playing solo forever. It's weird, but playing Champions almost feels like playing a single player game. I get more of a social gaming experience playing BF2, TF2, or any other multiplayer FPS.