According to the article, no. Trying to use Powerpoint as a reinforcement is actually counterproductive. When the brain has to process verbal and written variants of the same data, comprehension is reduced. Slides should be used only for things like pictures and diagrams.
The article says that what you propose is the wrong way to do Powerpoint. The basic idea is that when people have to read and hear the same thing, they don't take it in. Visuals should be used for things that are visual, not written.
Thank you! It's not as trivial as the GP makes it sound at all. I had a buddy who drilled through a wall and straight into the mains once. Yeah, that's it, a buddy of mine. Not me. Really, I'd never be that dumb.
No one is accountable to international laws unless the country they are in has signed a treaty to that effect. So you can't be accountable to international law unless you are accountable to the national law that says you are. Avoiding the Christian right is a good idea, but if just anyone could ignore the government, don't you think everyone would, and wouldn't that be an EXTRAORDINARILY BAD idea?
I'm a lobbyist with the North American Automatically Time Changing Clock, Watch and Timepiece Manufacturers Association and we paid good money to have this bill passed so that we can sell more automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
Record profits this year, my friend, record profits. You should have invested in manufacturers of automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
The Fed is an international organization? I knew it was some kind of weird public/private chimera, but international? Is the Fed in league with the Gnomes of Zürich now?
Seriously, what is a "private international organization," why is it above the national laws of the country it is in, and most importantly, how do I become one?
You aren't understanding what I'm saying. The fetus has different needs from the mother. The mother does not want to invest all her resources into a single fetus. The fetus wants all the resources it can get from the mother, even to the point of killing the mother or disabling her ability to have further children, if that increases its chance of survival. The mother and fetus have different needs and are in direct competition for resources. This is a well accepted medical theory, not some kind of wild speculation. Certainly, there are differences between a true parasite and a fetus, but the similarities are there.
However, this is really all beside the point. It does not matter if a fetus is human or not. It does not matter if it can survive outside the mother or not. All societies and all legal systems recognize that there are times that killing is okay. The real question is, is abortion one of those times, if so, why, and if not, why not?
Actually, the little helical molecules DO consider it a parasite, and the baby considers itself a parasite too. There is a fun little hormonal war that goes on between mother and fetus, and sometimes it can get completely out of hand, resulting in the death of one or both. Not fun at all if you've seen it.
Other people do not require constant inputs of my own energy for their survival. They would not DIE if they stopped mooching off me. A fetus would.
Dumbass. It's not called poverty, it's called efficiency, or doing more with less. Along with population growth it is one of the only two things that actually makes economies grow. Nobody but you is saying anybody has to live in mud huts.
I agree that we need a real and united effort to combat global warming, but implying that conservation will do nothing is, quite frankly, irresponsible. Part of an "international Apollo style program to control climate change" will necessarily include energy use reduction as part of the overall strategy. Sorry, we are all going to have to make some sacrifices even if all that means is better insulation and walking the block to the corner store instead of driving.
You use metagnomes. They're the same gnomes who carry out step 2. If they can figure out how to extract profit from underpants, they can figure out how to extract DNA from millions of microbes.
Springy windows are a neat effect, and tunable so they aren't distracting. You can tune the friction and spring strength so they barely wiggle at all. But they are also incompatible with the window-snap module, which I prefer. A separate but similar effect is the focus-shiver effect, which I find very useful, as it makes the window that receives focus shiver a little, calling attention to it. The really useful window-movement plug-in is transparency, to make windows semi-transparent while dragging.
For a really fun time, try turning on springy windows, turning the spring strength all the way down and the friction all the way up. Then try to drag the window. You can stretch it practically all the way around your desktop cube.
All in all, this reminds me of way back in the day when Enlightenment (the window manager, kdawson, not the metaphysical oneness-with-all thing) first came out. Everyone started making these obscenely complex themes showing off how cool E was. Then it seems like everyone uttered a collective "Meh," and went back to FVWM. I did, anyway.
Beryl/Compiz does have other modules that enhance functionality such as tiling/cascading, and some that are mostly for show but have some use, like trailfocus. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that all the effects are scriptable, so that different effects or placement schemes can be applied to different classes of window
First off, he was talking about social issues and you are talking economy. We place limits on our citizens private lives that no other first world country does, and we have far more citizens in prison because of it.
Second, it is the height of arrogance to say that all poverty is due to lifestyle choice. Frankly, there is not enough opportunity for everyone in America to live above the poverty line. The myth that everyone can make it if they only try hard enough is simply an excuse for lazy heartless people not to feel sorry for the people that their choices happen to be screwing over. We live in an interconnected system. The choices you make determine the choices that others get to make as well, and no myth of universal opportunity is going to change that.
Oh, exactly. I wasn't saying they will, I'm just saying they can. Your original post made it sound as if they don't have the capability to even attempt something like that, when in fact they do, they just lack the political motivation for something so dumb.
I doubt any country would be dumb enough to try to firewall off commercial content that certain national industries don't want. Based on the rulings regarding Internet gambling, I'd be willing to bet that the WTO would come down against a country trying that as de facto restraint of trade.
I'm pretty sure the only country-wide firewalling we'll see will be ideological, not commercial.
Yeah, there's this guy spun who trolls like that all the time.;-) Seriously, though, the really good trolls are the ones you can't really tell are trolls, except by the fact that they seem to get TONS of angry, half-baked replies to their perfectly innocent posts.
I never said you were a troll, I just said you had to be either a newb or pretending not to know how real trolling on slashdot works. Maybe you are just a newb. Do you know about trolltalk and the secret SIDs? Not that there's much there anymore, but slashdot has more going on than most people know about. Anyway, nothing wrong with being a newb, we all start out that way and people who actually try new things will be one again and again.
Dude, are you that much of a newb or just being disingenuous? That's how real trolls operate on this site. You need to keep your karma up to keep trolling successfully. Duh.
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According to the article, no. Trying to use Powerpoint as a reinforcement is actually counterproductive. When the brain has to process verbal and written variants of the same data, comprehension is reduced. Slides should be used only for things like pictures and diagrams.
The article says that what you propose is the wrong way to do Powerpoint. The basic idea is that when people have to read and hear the same thing, they don't take it in. Visuals should be used for things that are visual, not written.
Thank you! It's not as trivial as the GP makes it sound at all. I had a buddy who drilled through a wall and straight into the mains once. Yeah, that's it, a buddy of mine. Not me. Really, I'd never be that dumb.
No one is accountable to international laws unless the country they are in has signed a treaty to that effect. So you can't be accountable to international law unless you are accountable to the national law that says you are. Avoiding the Christian right is a good idea, but if just anyone could ignore the government, don't you think everyone would, and wouldn't that be an EXTRAORDINARILY BAD idea?
I'm a lobbyist with the North American Automatically Time Changing Clock, Watch and Timepiece Manufacturers Association and we paid good money to have this bill passed so that we can sell more automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
Record profits this year, my friend, record profits. You should have invested in manufacturers of automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
The Fed is an international organization? I knew it was some kind of weird public/private chimera, but international? Is the Fed in league with the Gnomes of Zürich now?
Seriously, what is a "private international organization," why is it above the national laws of the country it is in, and most importantly, how do I become one?
You aren't understanding what I'm saying. The fetus has different needs from the mother. The mother does not want to invest all her resources into a single fetus. The fetus wants all the resources it can get from the mother, even to the point of killing the mother or disabling her ability to have further children, if that increases its chance of survival. The mother and fetus have different needs and are in direct competition for resources. This is a well accepted medical theory, not some kind of wild speculation. Certainly, there are differences between a true parasite and a fetus, but the similarities are there.
However, this is really all beside the point. It does not matter if a fetus is human or not. It does not matter if it can survive outside the mother or not. All societies and all legal systems recognize that there are times that killing is okay. The real question is, is abortion one of those times, if so, why, and if not, why not?
Actually, the little helical molecules DO consider it a parasite, and the baby considers itself a parasite too. There is a fun little hormonal war that goes on between mother and fetus, and sometimes it can get completely out of hand, resulting in the death of one or both. Not fun at all if you've seen it.
Other people do not require constant inputs of my own energy for their survival. They would not DIE if they stopped mooching off me. A fetus would.
First off, there's a macho intertwining of cars with manhood,
I tried to intertwine my manhood with my car once. It wasn't macho at all. I got blisters.
Dumbass. It's not called poverty, it's called efficiency, or doing more with less. Along with population growth it is one of the only two things that actually makes economies grow. Nobody but you is saying anybody has to live in mud huts.
It's interesting because it has interesting effects to script, which FVWM never had.
I agree that we need a real and united effort to combat global warming, but implying that conservation will do nothing is, quite frankly, irresponsible. Part of an "international Apollo style program to control climate change" will necessarily include energy use reduction as part of the overall strategy. Sorry, we are all going to have to make some sacrifices even if all that means is better insulation and walking the block to the corner store instead of driving.
Some of us are in a bit of a "Green Acres" type situation. This would definitely help me convince my wife to go camping more often.
How do you extract dna from millions of microbes?
You use metagnomes. They're the same gnomes who carry out step 2. If they can figure out how to extract profit from underpants, they can figure out how to extract DNA from millions of microbes.
Want to know one of the main stumbling blocks to further widespread adoption of Linux?
Like have time to answer that for you. You know how to google, don't you? RTFA! Damn newbs.
'Tis better to light a candle than be eaten by a grue in the dark.
Springy windows are a neat effect, and tunable so they aren't distracting. You can tune the friction and spring strength so they barely wiggle at all. But they are also incompatible with the window-snap module, which I prefer. A separate but similar effect is the focus-shiver effect, which I find very useful, as it makes the window that receives focus shiver a little, calling attention to it. The really useful window-movement plug-in is transparency, to make windows semi-transparent while dragging.
For a really fun time, try turning on springy windows, turning the spring strength all the way down and the friction all the way up. Then try to drag the window. You can stretch it practically all the way around your desktop cube.
All in all, this reminds me of way back in the day when Enlightenment (the window manager, kdawson, not the metaphysical oneness-with-all thing) first came out. Everyone started making these obscenely complex themes showing off how cool E was. Then it seems like everyone uttered a collective "Meh," and went back to FVWM. I did, anyway.
Beryl/Compiz does have other modules that enhance functionality such as tiling/cascading, and some that are mostly for show but have some use, like trailfocus. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that all the effects are scriptable, so that different effects or placement schemes can be applied to different classes of window
First off, he was talking about social issues and you are talking economy. We place limits on our citizens private lives that no other first world country does, and we have far more citizens in prison because of it.
Second, it is the height of arrogance to say that all poverty is due to lifestyle choice. Frankly, there is not enough opportunity for everyone in America to live above the poverty line. The myth that everyone can make it if they only try hard enough is simply an excuse for lazy heartless people not to feel sorry for the people that their choices happen to be screwing over. We live in an interconnected system. The choices you make determine the choices that others get to make as well, and no myth of universal opportunity is going to change that.
Oh, exactly. I wasn't saying they will, I'm just saying they can. Your original post made it sound as if they don't have the capability to even attempt something like that, when in fact they do, they just lack the political motivation for something so dumb.
I doubt any country would be dumb enough to try to firewall off commercial content that certain national industries don't want. Based on the rulings regarding Internet gambling, I'd be willing to bet that the WTO would come down against a country trying that as de facto restraint of trade.
I'm pretty sure the only country-wide firewalling we'll see will be ideological, not commercial.
Any laws passed in deference to these idiots will have all the power of a UN resolution.
No, they can mandate a firewall that blocks all objectionable content from getting into Canada.
Oh sure, you just want to see the stars in the background so you can calculate where in the Kuiper belt it is and hack into it. I know your type.
Yeah, there's this guy spun who trolls like that all the time. ;-) Seriously, though, the really good trolls are the ones you can't really tell are trolls, except by the fact that they seem to get TONS of angry, half-baked replies to their perfectly innocent posts.
I never said you were a troll, I just said you had to be either a newb or pretending not to know how real trolling on slashdot works. Maybe you are just a newb. Do you know about trolltalk and the secret SIDs? Not that there's much there anymore, but slashdot has more going on than most people know about. Anyway, nothing wrong with being a newb, we all start out that way and people who actually try new things will be one again and again.
Dude, are you that much of a newb or just being disingenuous? That's how real trolls operate on this site. You need to keep your karma up to keep trolling successfully. Duh.
The most secure computer is turned off, unplugged, buried a mile deep in an asteroid somewhere in the Kuiper belt, ringed by defensive lasers, orbited by a swarm of nuclear smart mines and guarded by a whole company of battlemechs.