McCain's incompetent Web designer couldn't even be bothered to notice that the image in question said "No requests for design help please". Actually TFA states that the newsvine guy uses a.htacess to serve up a different version of the image to anyone who hotlinks. The only reason the 'no requests for design help' showed up was because he had the image in his browser cache when he visited the site. Anyone who didn't have that version in cache would see a version of the image without the 'no requests...' line.
the emphasis is on winning rather than having a rotation to keep as many kids involved This is generally true, but the rules of some sports do encourage participation. Swimming is a sport I participated in in H.S. where this was true. There are about 30 events, and each individual can only swim in 4 events. Each team can have atleast 3 people in an event, so you need about 60 swimmers to have the max people in each event. It's a team competition and you get points for the team based upon your position at the end of the race. Points are awarded for the first 5 finishers (everyone but last). But most high schools don't have enough people to fill every event, so lots of times just participating in an event will guarantee a 4th or 5th place finish, and therefore some points to help the team out.
I'm not sure how this could be applied to other sports, but this shows atleast one example where increasing participation increases your chance of winning.
As others have mentioned that is just false. My high school was down the road from a Community College, and several of the better students took math/physics/etc. classes at that college. In fact I had over 100 credit hours when I graduated from high school. (Which by the way, was kind of a problem. There was a law in college that said if you had over 150 credit hours you couldn't get any financial aid, and many of my 100 credit hours were in classes that didn't get me closer to a degree).
basic summary: While it's true that letter reversal is common in English-speaking dyslexics, the term refers to any reading disability, and the Chinese have their share of folks who struggle to make sense of the written word. However, they seem to have fewer of them than we Anglophones. Some say 15 percent of English speakers are dyslexic, whereas only 7 percent of Chinese speakers are.... Sounds like you could be dyslexic in one language but not the other.
Some tips on DDR. You can get a $10 foam pad from red octane. Then duct tape your cheap pad to the foam, and it will reduce 90% of the pad movement. Plus it's easier on your legs, and makes less noise. Also, I'm not sure which DDR game you use, but check for more options to make the game easier. On the version I play DDR Ultramix 4 (Xbox), you can set it so that you only use the left & right arrows to get familiar with the music. Also, you can add arrows to help raise your dance gauge. Don't give up.
Doubtful... every town I've lived in I've seen a index of "christian vendors". You know, like the HVAC repair guy with the fish on the side of his truck. Those indexes are created so that Christians can give preferential treatment to other christians, not so that liberals/muslims/atheists/scientists/etc. can avoid them.
Group-think is very strong in both of these online communities and you will get moderated down if you disagree with the accepted collective doctrine.
Well then, this idea that "group think is very strong..." must be part of the accepted collective doctrine, because I swear I see one of these posts highly moderated every single day on slashdot.
Maybe you can back that up? My (admittedly limited) research doesn't show that: The top rate reached 91% during the war; this top rate remained in effect until 1964.
In 1964 the top rate was decreased to 70% (1964 Revenue Act), and then to 50% in 1981 (Economic Recovery Tax Act or ERTA).
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced the top rate to 28%, at the same time raising the bottom rate from 11% to 15% (in fact 15% and 28% became the only two tax brackets).
During the 1990s the top rate rose again, standing at 39.6% by the end of the decade.
The biggest problem I see with forms is that users have to enter their email address by hand. One typo, and you can't get back to them. If it's an email link, their return email addy is generated automatically, and you can mostly count on it being correct.
For several years, I have been using random/shuffle modes as my primary listening method. Things are probably getting better now, but for a long time random just didn't work well on most consumer devices. This was always something that I wished was covered better in reviews, but it's very time consuming to test correctly, and since it was rarely reviewed, I think most companies felt that as long as they had some sort of random mode, it didn't matter how good it was.
In one particularly memorable instance, I was listening to a CD on random in my car. This CD had about 30 tracks on it (a TMBG album), and when I played it on random, I consistently got two consecutive tracks in a row. e.g. it would play 4,5,18,19,10,11,7,8,12,13,etc. This only happened with this CD, but I think it showed an interesting failure mode of their random algorithm.
Quoting the features directly from their site - "These panties will monitor the location of your daughter, wife or girlfriend 24 hours a day, and can even monitor their heart rate and body temperature.
Based on pioneering research developed by the U.S. military at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), we have brought this revolutionary technology, previously only available to the military, to you!
These "panties" can trace the exact location of your woman and send the information, via satellite, to your cell phone, PDA, and PC simultaneously! Use our patented mapping system, pantyMap®, to find the exact location of your loved one 24 hours a day. The technology is embedded into a piece of fabric so seamlessly she will never know it's there!"
OK, so it was all an interweb hoax, but just wait a couple more years.
I kind of had that feeling from Google ever since I applied there. I didn't even make it past the 'cultural' interview to get to the 'technical' interview, so it wasn't like they thought I wasn't smart enough.
In my first (and only) interview, they asked several questions regarding what I liked/didn't like about my current job, and why I thought I would like to work for google. Once thing I said was that I liked my current job because the people were very nice, and we didn't have a ton of big egos. I mentioned that my experience was that Comp. Sci. seemed to attract people who thought they were god's gift to mankind, and who felt that they knew everything. (although I put it a bit more diplomatic than that). The interviewer asked me to clarify, and right away I could tell he didn't like my answer. Sure enough the interview ended soon afterwards, and I never heard back from them.
Oh, please. You like google figured this out themselves. I bet 90%+ of companies today don't have any sort of pension that they have to pay out. GM made a stupid short sighted decision to push their costs out into the future, and well... the future finally arrived.
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McCain's incompetent Web designer couldn't even be bothered to notice that the image in question said "No requests for design help please". .htacess to serve up a different version of the image to anyone who hotlinks. The only reason the 'no requests for design help' showed up was because he had the image in his browser cache when he visited the site. Anyone who didn't have that version in cache would see a version of the image without the 'no requests...' line.
Actually TFA states that the newsvine guy uses a
Nice try, but you are disproving "I am therefore I think", not "I think therefore I am".
"I think, therefore I am" translates to (I think -> I am).
p->q is true for: (p && q) || !p
You are setting up !p, so the statement is still true.
OMG just another example of liberal reporting from NPR. Oh wait, I mean factual and informative reporting.
the emphasis is on winning rather than having a rotation to keep as many kids involved
This is generally true, but the rules of some sports do encourage participation. Swimming is a sport I participated in in H.S. where this was true. There are about 30 events, and each individual can only swim in 4 events. Each team can have atleast 3 people in an event, so you need about 60 swimmers to have the max people in each event. It's a team competition and you get points for the team based upon your position at the end of the race. Points are awarded for the first 5 finishers (everyone but last). But most high schools don't have enough people to fill every event, so lots of times just participating in an event will guarantee a 4th or 5th place finish, and therefore some points to help the team out.
I'm not sure how this could be applied to other sports, but this shows atleast one example where increasing participation increases your chance of winning.
As others have mentioned that is just false. My high school was down the road from a Community College, and several of the better students took math/physics/etc. classes at that college. In fact I had over 100 credit hours when I graduated from high school. (Which by the way, was kind of a problem. There was a law in college that said if you had over 150 credit hours you couldn't get any financial aid, and many of my 100 credit hours were in classes that didn't get me closer to a degree).
Like every other matter of importance, this was covered in a straightdope column
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basic summary:
While it's true that letter reversal is common in English-speaking dyslexics, the term refers to any reading disability, and the Chinese have their share of folks who struggle to make sense of the written word. However, they seem to have fewer of them than we Anglophones. Some say 15 percent of English speakers are dyslexic, whereas only 7 percent of Chinese speakers are.
Sounds like you could be dyslexic in one language but not the other.
I was wondering why Wikipedia said the average penis size was only 3 inches.
Some tips on DDR. You can get a $10 foam pad from red octane. Then duct tape your cheap pad to the foam, and it will reduce 90% of the pad movement. Plus it's easier on your legs, and makes less noise. Also, I'm not sure which DDR game you use, but check for more options to make the game easier. On the version I play DDR Ultramix 4 (Xbox), you can set it so that you only use the left & right arrows to get familiar with the music. Also, you can add arrows to help raise your dance gauge. Don't give up.
Doubtful... every town I've lived in I've seen a index of "christian vendors". You know, like the HVAC repair guy with the fish on the side of his truck. Those indexes are created so that Christians can give preferential treatment to other christians, not so that liberals/muslims/atheists/scientists/etc. can avoid them.
Group-think is very strong in both of these online communities and you will get moderated down if you disagree with the accepted collective doctrine.
Well then, this idea that "group think is very strong..." must be part of the accepted collective doctrine, because I swear I see one of these posts highly moderated every single day on slashdot.
try www.gmbmg.com it just takes your queries, and redirects them to google, with a bunch -inurl tags to filter out the most online stores.
Not perfect, but better than straight google searches if you are trying to research products.
I'd rather vote for Rommel, That magnificent bastard.
That's because he got his training at the Donald Rumsfeld School of Communications.
Maybe you can back that up? My (admittedly limited) research doesn't show that:
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The top rate reached 91% during the war; this top rate remained in effect until 1964.
In 1964 the top rate was decreased to 70% (1964 Revenue Act), and then to 50% in 1981 (Economic Recovery Tax Act or ERTA).
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced the top rate to 28%, at the same time raising the bottom rate from 11% to 15% (in fact 15% and 28% became the only two tax brackets).
During the 1990s the top rate rose again, standing at 39.6% by the end of the decade.
The top rate was cut to 35% and the bottom rate was cut to 10% by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA).
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_Un
I think you mean AAIAAS.
As others have mentioned, they also have these spiral designs in the Netherlands. Here is a pic of one in Amsterdam
And even better, check out this picture of a sign in amsterdam pointing to one. I love the iconography.
That is easier to close your eyes than your ears?
The biggest problem I see with forms is that users have to enter their email address by hand. One typo, and you can't get back to them. If it's an email link, their return email addy is generated automatically, and you can mostly count on it being correct.
Dick Cheneny is an edge case.
For several years, I have been using random/shuffle modes as my primary listening method. Things are probably getting better now, but for a long time random just didn't work well on most consumer devices. This was always something that I wished was covered better in reviews, but it's very time consuming to test correctly, and since it was rarely reviewed, I think most companies felt that as long as they had some sort of random mode, it didn't matter how good it was.
In one particularly memorable instance, I was listening to a CD on random in my car. This CD had about 30 tracks on it (a TMBG album), and when I played it on random, I consistently got two consecutive tracks in a row. e.g. it would play 4,5,18,19,10,11,7,8,12,13,etc. This only happened with this CD, but I think it showed an interesting failure mode of their random algorithm.
[life_of_brian]I'm Brian... and so's my wife[/lob]
Anyone but W is ok with me.
Sounds like the Forget Me Not Panties.
Quoting the features directly from their site - "These panties will monitor the location of your daughter, wife or girlfriend 24 hours a day, and can even monitor their heart rate and body temperature.
Based on pioneering research developed by the U.S. military at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), we have brought this revolutionary technology, previously only available to the military, to you!
These "panties" can trace the exact location of your woman and send the information, via satellite, to your cell phone, PDA, and PC simultaneously! Use our patented mapping system, pantyMap®, to find the exact location of your loved one 24 hours a day. The technology is embedded into a piece of fabric so seamlessly she will never know it's there!"
OK, so it was all an interweb hoax, but just wait a couple more years.
I kind of had that feeling from Google ever since I applied there. I didn't even make it past the 'cultural' interview to get to the 'technical' interview, so it wasn't like they thought I wasn't smart enough.
In my first (and only) interview, they asked several questions regarding what I liked/didn't like about my current job, and why I thought I would like to work for google. Once thing I said was that I liked my current job because the people were very nice, and we didn't have a ton of big egos. I mentioned that my experience was that Comp. Sci. seemed to attract people who thought they were god's gift to mankind, and who felt that they knew everything. (although I put it a bit more diplomatic than that). The interviewer asked me to clarify, and right away I could tell he didn't like my answer. Sure enough the interview ended soon afterwards, and I never heard back from them.
In retrospect, it's probably just as well.
Oh, please. You like google figured this out themselves. I bet 90%+ of companies today don't have any sort of pension that they have to pay out. GM made a stupid short sighted decision to push their costs out into the future, and well... the future finally arrived.