Karma to burn, karma to burn. Anyway that's easy, because neither the Pubs nor the Dems actually believe in free speech. They believe in Ford Speech, IE the right to say whatever you want as long as they agree with you. (For those that care I call it that because it's just like the saying about what color model-T you can get.)
I mean when I code I never think "Well my code needs to check to see if it might damage hardware." since I try to keep my coding agnostic to the system it's on. (Admittedly financial software in the last place I worked) Starcraft 2 is using either DirectX or OpenGL so I'd expect to be hardware agnostic as well.(Sorry, I'm not a graphics guy so I might be talking out of my but.) Seriously, if I remember correctly there were systems in the early 80's that you could damage if certain code was executed in a certain way but didn't people consider that hardware flaw?(Really, it's no different than expecting them to write code in the game to check for a temperature spike because a fan fell off the card. How would they know what a bad temp would be without writing card specific code?)
I mean the one tech I think they should use is a video camera or similar device to tape the lecture but then again that would probably encourage stupid students to skip the lecture and watch it later. (But it would be a boon for us that went to the lecture, missed a point in the lecture and want to go back and see it again.) Other than that most of the time I don't think the tech would help.
I had an instance of this when I was taking care of mom in her last few months. (With ALS for what it's worth) I basically got a baby monitor and was going to set it up in her room so I could hear if she needed my help. Lets just say she wasn't particularly happy with the idea that I was using a product for infants to help her. (Especially because it was for infants. She really didn't like it because of that fact.) I did manage to find an easier to use walkie talkie with a simple button that you could push to ring me. She was ok with that. (I'm thinking she'd be pissed if I had a device that could keep complete track of her) Just saying, the psychology of it needs to be considered.
He always said that there was little difference between the education at a "good" school vs some state school. The only thing you're really paying for is the name and the only school who's name is worth it is Harvard. (Hey, he was just turning that old saw of "A student is completely responsible for his education, not the university" around.)
I mean while the disease itself affects the central nervous system the underlying cause isn't actually known.(There are some leads like glutamate but they're mostly guesses right now.) So for all anybody knows the cause could have been hiding out in all organs and only screws up the nervous system royally.
Well it does vary quite a bit but really any time he gets pneumonia he's looking at a decent chance of dying. (My mom had ALS and only lasted 4 months. She had one bout with pneumonia and that was it for her.) Plus if you want to argue that being paralyzed like that is death, then that's something we can check with him right now.
Ok, I can't say how this works in other countries since I'm from the US.(And I'll probably get marked as a troll by some stupid moderator. Oh well, the benefits of having Karma to burn.) That being said there's nothing "magical" about 70%. I mean I understand how you go to school for over 12 years and they always use 70% so you automatically assume that "Oh of course 70% is a C" and that no other number can be a C.
The most obvious example of this not being true is the SAT. Average is 500 out of 800 which is 62.5%. What this means is that the person writing the test can make it harder or easier to get alot of points even if they are testing on the entire subject area. (And theoretically any question is "answerable.") They can move the average up or down as they see fit by including more or fewer tricky questions while still testing in the target field. The reason to do this is that if you have a bunch of grades all pinned up at 95%+ you basically can't tell which student is really better than another. You also can see what a student doesn't know. (I mean you could just make the test really easy and then everybody gets 100% )
Think of it this way. If I tell you it's 30 outside is it hot? What you should say to me is you can't tell since you don't have a scale to determine what that 30 actually means. If I asked is it hot when it's 30C you'd know yes it is and 30F is cold. Without some scale to tell you what a number means you can't tell. The same is true for percentages in education. Without a scale to help you interpret what 70% means you can't tell if that's a good or shitty score. (The professor could have made the test such that only a great student could get above 50%. Note, yes I've had courses like that. I had a physics course where the prof made it so hard 30% was passing which shows that yes a professor can put average anywhere he likes.)
I remember some creations trying to have a variable speed of light to explain how the universe is really only 6000 years old. (IE the speed of light was much faster in the distant past.) Anyway the striking thing was the explaination was designed so you couldn't test it. Unfortunately he failed and some physics/astronomy types pointed out there were ways to actually test his hypothesis and of course it fails miserably. (The only thing I remember is that any distant pulsar should have an increasing pulse rate. Since none of them actually have this the speed of light hasn't changed in a very long time and trying to use that to get a young universe is nonsense.) I guess I should check on talkorgins for this or something. (I think that's where the tear down of the "hypothesis" was.)
When did liberals start listening to comedians for their politics.... oh guess that been every sense pelsoi and friends have been a joke of a government.
Well to be fair he is a pathlogical liar, can't seem to pay his taxes properly and hates his own constituency so he fits right in as a politician. All he needs now is a sex scandal. (Oh, I so expect to get modded down for this one. I've got Karma to burn though.)
Hey I wasn't totally asleep when I was an undergraduate. Anyway from what I remember a "Free market" was one where the following were all true
1 Entities have the ability to choose products as they see fit with no restrictions (Yeah, ISPs fail that one today)
2 Entities have the information they need in order to make informed decisions. (Hmm, this one is probably a fail too)
3 Entities make rational decisions. IE they make decisions to maximize any money they make and minimize costs
So unless you have a situation where everybody has the ability to make choices, the information to make those choices, and are rational so they can use that information to make choices you don't have a theoretical free market.
So this makes me think of my academic background. When I was first in college back in the early 90's I didn't do well. (I didn't care because I had no expectations of anything beyond a BA so who cares?) Anyway I got older and got bit by the physician bug. So 10 years after I got my BA I went back to school to take all of the premed course work. (I hadn't taken any of it as an undergrad) I was older and had all my shit together so surprise surprise I did extremely well on it and also did well on the MCAT.
So given that were med schools willing to give me the benefit of the doubt since my undergrad coursework was 10-15 years old and that I was a different, far better student now? Of course not, as far as they care the ancient stuff(you know, courses taken when most of the other applicants were in middle school) counted just as much as the new stuff. (Actually more since I took more courses as an undergrad than as a post-bacc premed.) Oh how I wish they would "forget" or at least weigh the new stuff somewhat more heavily. (I mean since it was only a couple years old and in classes they cared about.)
Sorry to say I haven't checked this out but they don't? I mean the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 all have USB ports on them. You'd think you could just plug in any old keyboard and mouse and it'd work. (Hell, didn't Unreal Tournament on the PS2 support keyboard and mouse?)
I mean just doing a quick scan of the article it makes it sound like it's more for Indians (dot, not feather) and other 3rd worlders. You know, people that can't blow a thousand bucks on a computer. If it helps improve their standard of living more power to them. (Hopefully it gets further than that One Laptop thing.)
I mean it isn't that he finds political people. It's that he finds important people to have on his show that you'd think don't have the time to waste showing that on "a stupid comedy show." You have guys Pervez Musharraf, I guess he's just got time to blow on crap like that? What about all the cabinet secretaries that he has on? Selling an administration's point of view to a younger audience is the point, not making anybody seem more human. Hell, it's not that unusual to have some author or historian on to talk history.(Usually to shill a book but the point is the guy or gal comes on to talk politics or history. Not to make the subject matter seem "more human") Hell, When he had on Jim Wallis this year the point wasn't to make the guy seem human. The point was to talk about his critique of the often conservative bent of religion from his point of view as a religious liberal. The point is obvious, he likes having these serious people on because he actually likes talking about these serious subjects like politics and pholosophy and his show gives him the opportunity. (But then he turns around and claims it's just a stupid show on basic cable.)
I figure I'll get modded down for this but I've got karma to burn.(You know since I'm saying something minorly critical about Stewart and we can't have that.) Anyway I'm not buying that whole "I'm just doing a comedy show on basic cable and don't forget the puppets" thing from Stewart. The reason is simple, have you looked at who he interviews? I mean he has important people on his show fairly often and interviews them with some seriousness. (Not always, there's a few jokes but it isn't all jokes.) I mean he's interviewed a couple of world leaders, a sitting Vice President, loads of senators, quite a few former presidents, ETC. I'll give you that Leno did interview the president on the tonight show but that is not a regular thing with him. (He might interview a John McCain or an Al Gore but not with the regularity Stewart does. I mean hell, Stewart will have on an ambassador which should show he does more than "Just comedy".)
I used the repository to install GNomad on my Ubuntu partition. Of course it didn't work so I had to google around to find out I had to edit a file to start it up with sudo so I'd have permission to actually seen my Nomad Zen. (Actually there's another way but I figured if I installed from the respository it'd do the setup correctly.) Kind of annoying and I'm not sure how quick newbies are to googling for it. (But I'm new to Ubuntu as well.)
Anytime I've seen anyone use the phrase "In 10 years" they usually meant to say "I don't know." If you keep that in mind you can easily translate what they say into english. Of course the phrase "In 20 years" means "I really don't know" and of course "In 50 years" means "I don't even know what I need to know to say I don't know."
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Karma to burn, karma to burn. Anyway that's easy, because neither the Pubs nor the Dems actually believe in free speech. They believe in Ford Speech, IE the right to say whatever you want as long as they agree with you. (For those that care I call it that because it's just like the saying about what color model-T you can get.)
That 0-fatality will apply if some idiot manages to drive it off of a bridge, especially if it ends up in a river.
We just have to get one of those pigs to bite a spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderham
I mean when I code I never think "Well my code needs to check to see if it might damage hardware." since I try to keep my coding agnostic to the system it's on. (Admittedly financial software in the last place I worked) Starcraft 2 is using either DirectX or OpenGL so I'd expect to be hardware agnostic as well.(Sorry, I'm not a graphics guy so I might be talking out of my but.) Seriously, if I remember correctly there were systems in the early 80's that you could damage if certain code was executed in a certain way but didn't people consider that hardware flaw?(Really, it's no different than expecting them to write code in the game to check for a temperature spike because a fan fell off the card. How would they know what a bad temp would be without writing card specific code?)
I mean the one tech I think they should use is a video camera or similar device to tape the lecture but then again that would probably encourage stupid students to skip the lecture and watch it later. (But it would be a boon for us that went to the lecture, missed a point in the lecture and want to go back and see it again.) Other than that most of the time I don't think the tech would help.
I had an instance of this when I was taking care of mom in her last few months. (With ALS for what it's worth) I basically got a baby monitor and was going to set it up in her room so I could hear if she needed my help. Lets just say she wasn't particularly happy with the idea that I was using a product for infants to help her. (Especially because it was for infants. She really didn't like it because of that fact.) I did manage to find an easier to use walkie talkie with a simple button that you could push to ring me. She was ok with that. (I'm thinking she'd be pissed if I had a device that could keep complete track of her) Just saying, the psychology of it needs to be considered.
He always said that there was little difference between the education at a "good" school vs some state school. The only thing you're really paying for is the name and the only school who's name is worth it is Harvard. (Hey, he was just turning that old saw of "A student is completely responsible for his education, not the university" around.)
It is apparent that you did not get 800 on the verbal section.
That's true, I got a 640 which should be enough for anybody :) (Seriously, I actually got a 640 when I took it in the late 80's
I mean while the disease itself affects the central nervous system the underlying cause isn't actually known.(There are some leads like glutamate but they're mostly guesses right now.) So for all anybody knows the cause could have been hiding out in all organs and only screws up the nervous system royally.
Well it does vary quite a bit but really any time he gets pneumonia he's looking at a decent chance of dying. (My mom had ALS and only lasted 4 months. She had one bout with pneumonia and that was it for her.) Plus if you want to argue that being paralyzed like that is death, then that's something we can check with him right now.
You CAN'T see what a student doesn't know.
Ok, I can't say how this works in other countries since I'm from the US.(And I'll probably get marked as a troll by some stupid moderator. Oh well, the benefits of having Karma to burn.) That being said there's nothing "magical" about 70%. I mean I understand how you go to school for over 12 years and they always use 70% so you automatically assume that "Oh of course 70% is a C" and that no other number can be a C. The most obvious example of this not being true is the SAT. Average is 500 out of 800 which is 62.5%. What this means is that the person writing the test can make it harder or easier to get alot of points even if they are testing on the entire subject area. (And theoretically any question is "answerable.") They can move the average up or down as they see fit by including more or fewer tricky questions while still testing in the target field. The reason to do this is that if you have a bunch of grades all pinned up at 95%+ you basically can't tell which student is really better than another. You also can see what a student doesn't know. (I mean you could just make the test really easy and then everybody gets 100% ) Think of it this way. If I tell you it's 30 outside is it hot? What you should say to me is you can't tell since you don't have a scale to determine what that 30 actually means. If I asked is it hot when it's 30C you'd know yes it is and 30F is cold. Without some scale to tell you what a number means you can't tell. The same is true for percentages in education. Without a scale to help you interpret what 70% means you can't tell if that's a good or shitty score. (The professor could have made the test such that only a great student could get above 50%. Note, yes I've had courses like that. I had a physics course where the prof made it so hard 30% was passing which shows that yes a professor can put average anywhere he likes.)
For the N64 but they didn't use it for the Gamecube or Wii. (Not sure what the DS or PSP use.)
I remember some creations trying to have a variable speed of light to explain how the universe is really only 6000 years old. (IE the speed of light was much faster in the distant past.) Anyway the striking thing was the explaination was designed so you couldn't test it. Unfortunately he failed and some physics/astronomy types pointed out there were ways to actually test his hypothesis and of course it fails miserably. (The only thing I remember is that any distant pulsar should have an increasing pulse rate. Since none of them actually have this the speed of light hasn't changed in a very long time and trying to use that to get a young universe is nonsense.) I guess I should check on talkorgins for this or something. (I think that's where the tear down of the "hypothesis" was.)
When did liberals start listening to comedians for their politics .... oh guess that been every sense pelsoi and friends have been a joke of a government.
Well to be fair he is a pathlogical liar, can't seem to pay his taxes properly and hates his own constituency so he fits right in as a politician. All he needs now is a sex scandal. (Oh, I so expect to get modded down for this one. I've got Karma to burn though.)
1 Entities have the ability to choose products as they see fit with no restrictions (Yeah, ISPs fail that one today)
2 Entities have the information they need in order to make informed decisions. (Hmm, this one is probably a fail too)
3 Entities make rational decisions. IE they make decisions to maximize any money they make and minimize costs
So unless you have a situation where everybody has the ability to make choices, the information to make those choices, and are rational so they can use that information to make choices you don't have a theoretical free market.
So this makes me think of my academic background. When I was first in college back in the early 90's I didn't do well. (I didn't care because I had no expectations of anything beyond a BA so who cares?) Anyway I got older and got bit by the physician bug. So 10 years after I got my BA I went back to school to take all of the premed course work. (I hadn't taken any of it as an undergrad) I was older and had all my shit together so surprise surprise I did extremely well on it and also did well on the MCAT. So given that were med schools willing to give me the benefit of the doubt since my undergrad coursework was 10-15 years old and that I was a different, far better student now? Of course not, as far as they care the ancient stuff(you know, courses taken when most of the other applicants were in middle school) counted just as much as the new stuff. (Actually more since I took more courses as an undergrad than as a post-bacc premed.) Oh how I wish they would "forget" or at least weigh the new stuff somewhat more heavily. (I mean since it was only a couple years old and in classes they cared about.)
Umm, you do realize this was something posted on Slashdot, right?
That monster emits "High Energy Photons". (Ok, higher energy photons than any cell phone.) Ban it Ban it Ban it :)
Sorry to say I haven't checked this out but they don't? I mean the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 all have USB ports on them. You'd think you could just plug in any old keyboard and mouse and it'd work. (Hell, didn't Unreal Tournament on the PS2 support keyboard and mouse?)
I mean just doing a quick scan of the article it makes it sound like it's more for Indians (dot, not feather) and other 3rd worlders. You know, people that can't blow a thousand bucks on a computer. If it helps improve their standard of living more power to them. (Hopefully it gets further than that One Laptop thing.)
I mean it isn't that he finds political people. It's that he finds important people to have on his show that you'd think don't have the time to waste showing that on "a stupid comedy show." You have guys Pervez Musharraf, I guess he's just got time to blow on crap like that? What about all the cabinet secretaries that he has on? Selling an administration's point of view to a younger audience is the point, not making anybody seem more human. Hell, it's not that unusual to have some author or historian on to talk history.(Usually to shill a book but the point is the guy or gal comes on to talk politics or history. Not to make the subject matter seem "more human") Hell, When he had on Jim Wallis this year the point wasn't to make the guy seem human. The point was to talk about his critique of the often conservative bent of religion from his point of view as a religious liberal. The point is obvious, he likes having these serious people on because he actually likes talking about these serious subjects like politics and pholosophy and his show gives him the opportunity. (But then he turns around and claims it's just a stupid show on basic cable.)
I figure I'll get modded down for this but I've got karma to burn.(You know since I'm saying something minorly critical about Stewart and we can't have that.) Anyway I'm not buying that whole "I'm just doing a comedy show on basic cable and don't forget the puppets" thing from Stewart. The reason is simple, have you looked at who he interviews? I mean he has important people on his show fairly often and interviews them with some seriousness. (Not always, there's a few jokes but it isn't all jokes.) I mean he's interviewed a couple of world leaders, a sitting Vice President, loads of senators, quite a few former presidents, ETC. I'll give you that Leno did interview the president on the tonight show but that is not a regular thing with him. (He might interview a John McCain or an Al Gore but not with the regularity Stewart does. I mean hell, Stewart will have on an ambassador which should show he does more than "Just comedy".)
I used the repository to install GNomad on my Ubuntu partition. Of course it didn't work so I had to google around to find out I had to edit a file to start it up with sudo so I'd have permission to actually seen my Nomad Zen. (Actually there's another way but I figured if I installed from the respository it'd do the setup correctly.) Kind of annoying and I'm not sure how quick newbies are to googling for it. (But I'm new to Ubuntu as well.)
Anytime I've seen anyone use the phrase "In 10 years" they usually meant to say "I don't know." If you keep that in mind you can easily translate what they say into english. Of course the phrase "In 20 years" means "I really don't know" and of course "In 50 years" means "I don't even know what I need to know to say I don't know."