Indeed. It seems like many of the people who complain about the educational system on here don't know what they're talking about. I'm currently 20 and a sophomore in college. My school is certainly not dumbed down, at least not for honors engineering students such as myself. Admittedly, my high school was a joke, but comments like the GP's are, in my experience, incredibly ignorant.
I'd argue that there are two reasons people have children, both of which fulfill biological needs. The first is that we're programmed to an extent to be parents, and as a result many people feel they need to have children at some point in their lives (the "biological clock" theory). The second is that sex is fun, and babies just happen to be byproducts. Since it fulfills these two needs, people keep having kids. Unfortunately, there's no needs to be filled by going to another planet (that I'm aware of at least) so I tend to agree with the GP.
Oh, huh, I must have missed the announcement that the Apple tablet wasn't just a rumor but actually a real thing. Odd, normally I'm on top of things like that. Oh well.
While I'd like to agree with you, I'm not sure I can. This raises the following question: was the reason that parts of Avatar looked unrealistic the fault of the technology, or the fault that we couldn't suspend disbelief to the point of believing in tall blue aliens riding on miniature pterodactyls?
Texting while doing stuff just needs to stop in general. A few friends and I went out last night to go ice skating. I saw two people texting while skating, and the rink was full enough that I suspect there were more I didn't see. As a college student, it's getting fucking ridiculous every time that I have to try to navigate around some clueless person on the sidewalk who's paying more attention to texting than the world around them.
Actually, you can laugh perfectly well through a SCUBA breather. I once vomited out through one with no harm to myself or the equipment, and no extra discomfort besides the regular discomfort of vomiting.
Except this isn't really a dupe, since the last article didn't mention that Google's apparently planning on selling this phone. The last one just said it was a gift to employees.
Christians, for the most part, don't rape young boys, so stop lumping them all together. According to Wikipedia, 76% of the US population identifies as Christian. Do you really believe that 76% of Christians rape young boys? Yes, it does happen sometimes. When it comes to light, though, those responsible have been brought to justice. That hasn't happened yet for Scientology's crimes.
Honest question: suppose you're convicted of a crime you didn't commit, with no chance of being exonerated. You get to choose between spending the rest of your life in prison or being executed. Which would you choose? I think that I personally would probably prefer dying over having to spend the rest of my life locked up with actual criminals for a crime I didn't commit.
Indeed. This is why I have incredibly mixed feelings about reading the comments on religious matters here. On the one hand, we have the reasonable religious people and the reasonable atheists. They actually argue legitimate points in both directions, and the discussions can be quite fascinating (see above where people discuss how Catholic catechism would handle the concept of alien life). On the other hand, we get the idiots who come in with comments like the GP's--you know, the ones like "These people are all idiots and should be put in a mental institution for having imaginary friends!!!11". These people do nothing to help their cause, instead only increasing the dislikes and distrust between the religious and non-religious.
The dragoons (in fact, all Protoss units and buildings) are first created on Aiur and then warped to the battlefield. The construction of pylons creates a strong enough psi field to allow the units to warp in.
Even more likely: only Windows. When I came to college I was offered a subscription to Ruckus, a now-defunct service where you could download music for free but only listen to it before your subscription expired at the end of your time at school. Of course, everyone with a Mac or Linux (yeah, there were a few) were out of luck.
Bach is shit. I'm more of a Beethoven guy myself. Classical is better than baroque.:D
And while you do have a point that The Beatles are receiving less exposure these days due to the fact that they're not on Spotify/iTunes/whatever I just have to make the point that I don't really think they need much more exposure. They're The Beatles.
I'm kind of sick of this argument. I'm 20 and absolutely love The Beatles. They're my third most-played on last.fm and I spent the $250 recently to buy the full set of Beatles: Rock Band equipment. Not only that, almost all of my friends love them just as much as I do. That said, I do know people who don't like them. There's probably some sample bias in here, but in general I've found that the majority of people my age at least know who The Beatles are and know a few songs, even if they don't particularly like them.
I'm going to assume (actually, I'm certain based on how low your UID is) that you're a good deal older than me, and probably not really in contact with people my age. But believe me when I say that people my age do know and love The Beatles and many other older bands that you might think have disappeared. Hell, the music that my first girlfriend and I listened to the most was 1920s big band jazz. How often do you listen to music that old?
Actually, I've seen the idea of doing something like this with movies before here on Slashdot, and thought it was a clever way to try to pinpoint the location of leaks. Say the main character in a movie drinks a soda at some point. Have the can that he actually lifts up to his mouth be blue, and then edit it to be a Coke or Pepsi in two different versions of the final reel. Repeat this with, say, 16 different unimportant changes and you've managed to encode your movie with a 16-bit pattern that unambiguously identifies each one of the original reels. Now when your movie leaks before release date, you go and download the copy, watch it, and figure out where the leak came from. I think that just so long as nothing significant was changed nobody would mind too much.
I never said YouTube was a Google innovation. I'm just making the point that YouTube has much more content than any other video service and as such is likely to remain at the top (and also that as a result probably counts as the best video service on the web).
The GP's point wasn't that Google doesn't have competitors (remember, he said that Google wasn't innovative, just good at what they do). And while in theory you could replace all of Google's products, you probably wouldn't want to. Be honest, do you really think that cuil is a superior search engine to Google's? Do you really think that LiveLeaks has the breadth of content that YouTube has? Does Alltheweb really do image searches as well as Google? Google might be evil, but they are damn good at what they do.
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Indeed. It seems like many of the people who complain about the educational system on here don't know what they're talking about. I'm currently 20 and a sophomore in college. My school is certainly not dumbed down, at least not for honors engineering students such as myself. Admittedly, my high school was a joke, but comments like the GP's are, in my experience, incredibly ignorant.
I'd argue that there are two reasons people have children, both of which fulfill biological needs. The first is that we're programmed to an extent to be parents, and as a result many people feel they need to have children at some point in their lives (the "biological clock" theory). The second is that sex is fun, and babies just happen to be byproducts. Since it fulfills these two needs, people keep having kids. Unfortunately, there's no needs to be filled by going to another planet (that I'm aware of at least) so I tend to agree with the GP.
Oh, huh, I must have missed the announcement that the Apple tablet wasn't just a rumor but actually a real thing. Odd, normally I'm on top of things like that. Oh well.
While I'd like to agree with you, I'm not sure I can. This raises the following question: was the reason that parts of Avatar looked unrealistic the fault of the technology, or the fault that we couldn't suspend disbelief to the point of believing in tall blue aliens riding on miniature pterodactyls?
Texting while doing stuff just needs to stop in general. A few friends and I went out last night to go ice skating. I saw two people texting while skating, and the rink was full enough that I suspect there were more I didn't see. As a college student, it's getting fucking ridiculous every time that I have to try to navigate around some clueless person on the sidewalk who's paying more attention to texting than the world around them.
There something wrong with that?
Actually, you can laugh perfectly well through a SCUBA breather. I once vomited out through one with no harm to myself or the equipment, and no extra discomfort besides the regular discomfort of vomiting.
Except this isn't really a dupe, since the last article didn't mention that Google's apparently planning on selling this phone. The last one just said it was a gift to employees.
Yeah, it was a good spin on a classic.
Christians, for the most part, don't rape young boys, so stop lumping them all together. According to Wikipedia, 76% of the US population identifies as Christian. Do you really believe that 76% of Christians rape young boys? Yes, it does happen sometimes. When it comes to light, though, those responsible have been brought to justice. That hasn't happened yet for Scientology's crimes.
Honest question: suppose you're convicted of a crime you didn't commit, with no chance of being exonerated. You get to choose between spending the rest of your life in prison or being executed. Which would you choose? I think that I personally would probably prefer dying over having to spend the rest of my life locked up with actual criminals for a crime I didn't commit.
Indeed. This is why I have incredibly mixed feelings about reading the comments on religious matters here. On the one hand, we have the reasonable religious people and the reasonable atheists. They actually argue legitimate points in both directions, and the discussions can be quite fascinating (see above where people discuss how Catholic catechism would handle the concept of alien life). On the other hand, we get the idiots who come in with comments like the GP's--you know, the ones like "These people are all idiots and should be put in a mental institution for having imaginary friends!!!11". These people do nothing to help their cause, instead only increasing the dislikes and distrust between the religious and non-religious.
The dragoons (in fact, all Protoss units and buildings) are first created on Aiur and then warped to the battlefield. The construction of pylons creates a strong enough psi field to allow the units to warp in.
I may have played this game too much as a kid.
Holy shit. I'm a fairly large Mac fanboy and that picture is terrifying to me.
Even more likely: only Windows. When I came to college I was offered a subscription to Ruckus, a now-defunct service where you could download music for free but only listen to it before your subscription expired at the end of your time at school. Of course, everyone with a Mac or Linux (yeah, there were a few) were out of luck.
And yet if you decide to use it then you probably have a British accent, which is enough for 90% of American girls.
I'm guessing he meant to say Dead Rising, since there's a Wii version of that.
Oh, sorry, that's my responsible this. I'll keep a better watch on it next time.
Bach is shit. I'm more of a Beethoven guy myself. Classical is better than baroque. :D
And while you do have a point that The Beatles are receiving less exposure these days due to the fact that they're not on Spotify/iTunes/whatever I just have to make the point that I don't really think they need much more exposure. They're The Beatles.
I'm kind of sick of this argument. I'm 20 and absolutely love The Beatles. They're my third most-played on last.fm and I spent the $250 recently to buy the full set of Beatles: Rock Band equipment. Not only that, almost all of my friends love them just as much as I do. That said, I do know people who don't like them. There's probably some sample bias in here, but in general I've found that the majority of people my age at least know who The Beatles are and know a few songs, even if they don't particularly like them.
I'm going to assume (actually, I'm certain based on how low your UID is) that you're a good deal older than me, and probably not really in contact with people my age. But believe me when I say that people my age do know and love The Beatles and many other older bands that you might think have disappeared. Hell, the music that my first girlfriend and I listened to the most was 1920s big band jazz. How often do you listen to music that old?
Actually, I've seen the idea of doing something like this with movies before here on Slashdot, and thought it was a clever way to try to pinpoint the location of leaks. Say the main character in a movie drinks a soda at some point. Have the can that he actually lifts up to his mouth be blue, and then edit it to be a Coke or Pepsi in two different versions of the final reel. Repeat this with, say, 16 different unimportant changes and you've managed to encode your movie with a 16-bit pattern that unambiguously identifies each one of the original reels. Now when your movie leaks before release date, you go and download the copy, watch it, and figure out where the leak came from. I think that just so long as nothing significant was changed nobody would mind too much.
Why don't you just make 5 a little better, make that the top number and make that a little better?
You realize that every time you use the word "sheeple" a lot of people immediately stop reading your post, no matter how valid your points may be?
I never said YouTube was a Google innovation. I'm just making the point that YouTube has much more content than any other video service and as such is likely to remain at the top (and also that as a result probably counts as the best video service on the web).
The GP's point wasn't that Google doesn't have competitors (remember, he said that Google wasn't innovative, just good at what they do). And while in theory you could replace all of Google's products, you probably wouldn't want to. Be honest, do you really think that cuil is a superior search engine to Google's? Do you really think that LiveLeaks has the breadth of content that YouTube has? Does Alltheweb really do image searches as well as Google? Google might be evil, but they are damn good at what they do.