If you were allowed to grade the work you do at the office, what would you give yourself?
Talk about a hopelessly false analogy. If your job consisted of filling jars with water, and some jars came to you with their lids screwed on tight and you weren't allowed to do anything about it, how well do you think you'd get paid? The jar analogy is used in education not as a reference to inherent ability/intelligence in the student, but to the attitudes and resources that they have and are surrounded by. The grades that teachers give out reflect only the performance of the children receiving them, not of the effort put forth by the teachers -- and not for the self-serving reasons you suggest. A teacher can't make parents be more supportive, can't prevent a student from filling his head with an attitude that intelligence is to be mocked. A teacher can't go back in time and make the parents read to their children every night. These factors, not the abilities of the teacher, are what determines the differences in learning between two kids of similar intelligence.
U.S. 69 goes right through Ames IA, home of Iowa State University. ISU's dorms have very strictly enforced rules about presenting a receipt for any road signs displayed in one's room.
I think the correlation with waist size was shown to be independent of BMI...the !=causation argument is still valid, however: I think that the real problem is that the cause of the increased heart attacks is genetic, and linked to another gene that results in a more apple shaped (rather than pear-shaped) body: i.e., if you take two skinny people, one carrier and one not, and got them to gain weight, all fat, equally, one would gain all the weight in the belly, and the other would have it more in the thighs and butt, with some in the chest, arm flab, belly, etc. At this point there is a clear increased risk for the apple-shaped person than the pear-shaped person for heart attack.
The question is, would there still have been an increased risk for the carrier if you'd left them both skinny? Related, does losing the weight once its been gained really fix anything?
Reminds me of an annual party held by the 300+ people of my university's marching band (I was dating a member) -- Duct Tape. Most people would obtain an article of clothing from Goodwill and cover it (including whole suits) but others would construct skirts, tops, etc. entirely from duct tape.
Another amusing band party was where the host wrote a noun on the back of every guest's left hand, and an adjective or verb on the right. It was sort of like mad libs or magnetic poetry. You could probably come up with a number-oriented way of doing this -- maybe an operator on one hand and a number on the other, see if people can make valid equations.
the nerdiest Halloween party I went to was mad-scientist themed.
Seriously, am I the only one who read the title and thought to myself "of course race conditions are bad. I mean, we may not be talking about an OS here, but still, even if it's a game, you gotta take that shit seriously if you're doing threaded programming."
Hey, I didn't say it worked, or that the process wasn't getting corrupted -- just that it was a motivation. See also earlier discussion about the difference between theory and practice.
One of the big motivations is to allow handicapped individuals to have a private voting process. Until modern systems were put into place, a blind person who came into a polling place was accompanied by someone from the Republican and Democratic parties (cue third-party ranting), and she would tell them which candidates she wished to vote for, and they would mark her ballot accordingly. Thanks to HAVA, she can put on a set of headphones and vote with privacy. Other examples based on other disabilities are pretty easy to come up with.
I suspect even that will become passe soon, and we'll want to call it "Universal-American matter". This just proves Slashdot's (and NASA's) American bias, of course.
Good one. Of course then it would blow for whoever was on the recieving end...Think about it. Any carbonated beverage you drink in a gravity field, the bubbles go to the top of your stomach, and you belch them out. But if you had no such helpful gravity field...well, I don't know whether they would migrate to the center or the edges or dance around or what, but I would imagine that whatever the case, belching would be a very bad idea.
Space Collegians are just going to have to stick to shots.
I don't think Google would even have to stretch to a "long-term" argument to spin a withdrawal from China favorably to their shareholders. Google's whole business model, since they began diversifying thier offerings, is built on the trust of the consumer. In the beginning, when it was just search, being better than everyone else was enough. But now that they're asking us for all kinds of personal data, and to allow them intrusion into our email, etc. in exchange for free services funded by "better" ads, the only way that's going to fly is if we trust them. So they could suffer some pretty immediate effects if everyone abandonded them because we stopped trusting them, because they'd compromised their "do no evil" principle.
I don't know which personality test they're having you do, but at least one has been shown to have psychometic value -- the "big five", which has dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, Openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. google scholar for "big five personality". if you score high on neuroticism and/or low on concientiousness, studies would indicate that you're not going to be a great employee. the others can have an impact depending on what you do (i.e., salespeople with high extraversion scores tend to do better than less extraverted ones), but generally aren't conclusive about performance across the board.
One normally doesn't snort raw cow crap, or other carbon neutral things that once burned, can go into human lungs. It's the difference in worrying about the planet versus worrying about human health. And yes, this is a huge problem in third world countries where people (usually women) hover over cooking fires all day.
I was willing to give the second one the benefit of the doubt, especially after I saw The Animatrix. I knew that it and the third one were supposed to have been a single movie, so as long as when the other shoe dropped, it tied up all the loose ends/random shit, it would redeem itself. Because really, redemption was what it was all (supposed to have been) about. I'm basing this on the one short from The Animatrix in which humans have established a base on the surface, in which they are capturing machines, cutting them off and retraining them to think of themselves as human. This succedes, and we watch one switch allegiences when the machines discover the base and overrun them. The humans still lose, because of the machines' sheer strength in numbers, but the point is made: machines who think of themselves as human can't help but become loyal to humans. This brings us back to Zion, where at the end of 2, the avatar of Smith who took over a human mind is discovering what it actually means to be human (the scene where he cuts his hand open). This could have been reinforced by some sort of a love story, maybe involving that kid who worships Neo (this would have probably needed a gender switch on the part of one of these characters to be more palatable to American audiences, but whatever). Once Smith is redeemed, he reenters the matrix and brings some sanity to his other selves. I'm not saying that Smith could have gotten over his hatred of Neo, but he might have put it aside temporarily in order to take on the rest of the machine world. In other words, humanity picked the wrong side in the machine civil war. Also, Neo fighting and defeating him in the real world was pretty pointless.
The other thing that I felt was wrong was which of the 3 main characters died. Should have be Neo, no doubt, and 2 did need to die, but I think it should have been a pregnant Trinity who survived. This is what really breaks the cycle, because it means that the next One is in the very next generation, not centuries away. Also maintains that element of tragedy since that the captain who realized her true love was Morpheus, loses him right away. As it was, the truce at the end was really dystopic, and didn't leave room for much hope, because although humanity lives to fight another day, there was no way they were going to reclaim the surface any time soon. Also, the Oracle and the Architect imply that they're setting everyone who was still in the matrix free, but didn't Smith's takeover destroy their actual, physical minds (just like the one that I'm thinking could have been so much more pivotal to the plot)? Didn't they all literally die when the machines wiped Smith out? Either humanity was about to have a bunch of near-brain-dead zombies, a bunch of Smith clones, or a pile of dead bodies float downstream to them, the last of which will probably result in some genetics problems down the line.
Actually, we have a pretty interesting situation here, because MLB is a legally protected monopoly -- in exchange for allowing Congress to meddle whenever they want (see the steroid hearings this past summer) they are exempt from all antitrust legislation, and nobody else can legally start a baseball league in this country. So, the GP has a point -- not as a matter of general principle, but because This Is Baseball.
It's that big room, with a blue ceiling between 6 am and 6pm most latitudes/days of the year, a black one between 6pm and 6am, has either green bio-carpet or concrete floor, with a giant nuclear-fusion based lighting system. It's generally the more distant components of the lighting system, as well as some wandering light reflectors, that these people seem to be interested in.
China's economy isn't on the rocks like the USSR during the space race so they would actually be able to compete with us.
What are you smoking? for one thing, nobody here knew that the economy of the USSR and other Commmunist countries wouldn't work back in the '50s and '60s -- we'd just come off of WWII, and it seemed like that had proved beyond a doubt that a planned economy can deliver the goods. We treated them like they could outproduce us at our maximum without having any consequences, and they responded by doing things to their people that we find horrific, but we didn't know any of this till after the Wall came down. Until after we'd landed on the moon and by the mid-70's it was clear they weren't going to put a human there, the space race was a very close thing -- and from here, it looked like they were doing it without breaking a sweat.
For another, China's actually in some pretty deep shit right now economically speaking. The lending practices of their banks ought to scare everyone. If they let their currency float with respect to all major foriegn currencies rather than pegging it to the dollar, the whole thing would just go *poof*. But, they've still got the same attitude toward their economy and their citizens that the Soviets did, so it's not going to be any more of a damper to China. It's just that we've managed to pry our way into their society a little better, so when dozens of people die on the pad time after time, we may actually hear about it. Maybe.
I'm just hoping whatever new series comes out has Shatner singing the theme song. Hell, just have him sing the lyrics to the orignal theme from the '60s series.
Slashdot Mirror
A beam walked into a bar, and the bartender asked it if it wanted anything. The beam replied, "Just a moment."
If you were allowed to grade the work you do at the office, what would you give yourself?
Talk about a hopelessly false analogy. If your job consisted of filling jars with water, and some jars came to you with their lids screwed on tight and you weren't allowed to do anything about it, how well do you think you'd get paid? The jar analogy is used in education not as a reference to inherent ability/intelligence in the student, but to the attitudes and resources that they have and are surrounded by. The grades that teachers give out reflect only the performance of the children receiving them, not of the effort put forth by the teachers -- and not for the self-serving reasons you suggest. A teacher can't make parents be more supportive, can't prevent a student from filling his head with an attitude that intelligence is to be mocked. A teacher can't go back in time and make the parents read to their children every night. These factors, not the abilities of the teacher, are what determines the differences in learning between two kids of similar intelligence.
U.S. 69 goes right through Ames IA, home of Iowa State University. ISU's dorms have very strictly enforced rules about presenting a receipt for any road signs displayed in one's room.
I think the correlation with waist size was shown to be independent of BMI...the !=causation argument is still valid, however: I think that the real problem is that the cause of the increased heart attacks is genetic, and linked to another gene that results in a more apple shaped (rather than pear-shaped) body: i.e., if you take two skinny people, one carrier and one not, and got them to gain weight, all fat, equally, one would gain all the weight in the belly, and the other would have it more in the thighs and butt, with some in the chest, arm flab, belly, etc. At this point there is a clear increased risk for the apple-shaped person than the pear-shaped person for heart attack.
The question is, would there still have been an increased risk for the carrier if you'd left them both skinny? Related, does losing the weight once its been gained really fix anything?
Reminds me of an annual party held by the 300+ people of my university's marching band (I was dating a member) -- Duct Tape. Most people would obtain an article of clothing from Goodwill and cover it (including whole suits) but others would construct skirts, tops, etc. entirely from duct tape.
Another amusing band party was where the host wrote a noun on the back of every guest's left hand, and an adjective or verb on the right. It was sort of like mad libs or magnetic poetry. You could probably come up with a number-oriented way of doing this -- maybe an operator on one hand and a number on the other, see if people can make valid equations.
the nerdiest Halloween party I went to was mad-scientist themed.
Definitely serve the drinks out of klein bottles.
It doesn't matter anyway. The fnords will prevent anyone from successfully aggregating any data about what's really going on.
Seriously, am I the only one who read the title and thought to myself "of course race conditions are bad. I mean, we may not be talking about an OS here, but still, even if it's a game, you gotta take that shit seriously if you're doing threaded programming."
Oh. That kind of race.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote that one already. It's called Harrison Bergeron
Hey, I didn't say it worked, or that the process wasn't getting corrupted -- just that it was a motivation. See also earlier discussion about the difference between theory and practice.
One of the big motivations is to allow handicapped individuals to have a private voting process. Until modern systems were put into place, a blind person who came into a polling place was accompanied by someone from the Republican and Democratic parties (cue third-party ranting), and she would tell them which candidates she wished to vote for, and they would mark her ballot accordingly. Thanks to HAVA, she can put on a set of headphones and vote with privacy. Other examples based on other disabilities are pretty easy to come up with.
So then Earth isn't a planet? This is what this whole article is about, with the moon being signifigant enough to maybe qualify in a billion years.
I suspect even that will become passe soon, and we'll want to call it "Universal-American matter". This just proves Slashdot's (and NASA's) American bias, of course.
Good one. Of course then it would blow for whoever was on the recieving end...Think about it. Any carbonated beverage you drink in a gravity field, the bubbles go to the top of your stomach, and you belch them out. But if you had no such helpful gravity field...well, I don't know whether they would migrate to the center or the edges or dance around or what, but I would imagine that whatever the case, belching would be a very bad idea.
Space Collegians are just going to have to stick to shots.
I don't think Google would even have to stretch to a "long-term" argument to spin a withdrawal from China favorably to their shareholders. Google's whole business model, since they began diversifying thier offerings, is built on the trust of the consumer. In the beginning, when it was just search, being better than everyone else was enough. But now that they're asking us for all kinds of personal data, and to allow them intrusion into our email, etc. in exchange for free services funded by "better" ads, the only way that's going to fly is if we trust them. So they could suffer some pretty immediate effects if everyone abandonded them because we stopped trusting them, because they'd compromised their "do no evil" principle.
I don't know which personality test they're having you do, but at least one has been shown to have psychometic value -- the "big five", which has dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, Openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. google scholar for "big five personality". if you score high on neuroticism and/or low on concientiousness, studies would indicate that you're not going to be a great employee. the others can have an impact depending on what you do (i.e., salespeople with high extraversion scores tend to do better than less extraverted ones), but generally aren't conclusive about performance across the board.
Micheal Bolton: How is it that all these stupid, Neanderthal, Mafia guys can be so good at crime and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it?
I guess office space was wrong...
Oh, for crying out loud, this is Lucas we're talking about! Stirred seeds is exactly what we can expect for dialogue.
One normally doesn't snort raw cow crap, or other carbon neutral things that once burned, can go into human lungs. It's the difference in worrying about the planet versus worrying about human health. And yes, this is a huge problem in third world countries where people (usually women) hover over cooking fires all day.
I was willing to give the second one the benefit of the doubt, especially after I saw The Animatrix. I knew that it and the third one were supposed to have been a single movie, so as long as when the other shoe dropped, it tied up all the loose ends/random shit, it would redeem itself. Because really, redemption was what it was all (supposed to have been) about. I'm basing this on the one short from The Animatrix in which humans have established a base on the surface, in which they are capturing machines, cutting them off and retraining them to think of themselves as human. This succedes, and we watch one switch allegiences when the machines discover the base and overrun them. The humans still lose, because of the machines' sheer strength in numbers, but the point is made: machines who think of themselves as human can't help but become loyal to humans. This brings us back to Zion, where at the end of 2, the avatar of Smith who took over a human mind is discovering what it actually means to be human (the scene where he cuts his hand open). This could have been reinforced by some sort of a love story, maybe involving that kid who worships Neo (this would have probably needed a gender switch on the part of one of these characters to be more palatable to American audiences, but whatever). Once Smith is redeemed, he reenters the matrix and brings some sanity to his other selves. I'm not saying that Smith could have gotten over his hatred of Neo, but he might have put it aside temporarily in order to take on the rest of the machine world. In other words, humanity picked the wrong side in the machine civil war. Also, Neo fighting and defeating him in the real world was pretty pointless.
The other thing that I felt was wrong was which of the 3 main characters died. Should have be Neo, no doubt, and 2 did need to die, but I think it should have been a pregnant Trinity who survived. This is what really breaks the cycle, because it means that the next One is in the very next generation, not centuries away. Also maintains that element of tragedy since that the captain who realized her true love was Morpheus, loses him right away. As it was, the truce at the end was really dystopic, and didn't leave room for much hope, because although humanity lives to fight another day, there was no way they were going to reclaim the surface any time soon. Also, the Oracle and the Architect imply that they're setting everyone who was still in the matrix free, but didn't Smith's takeover destroy their actual, physical minds (just like the one that I'm thinking could have been so much more pivotal to the plot)? Didn't they all literally die when the machines wiped Smith out? Either humanity was about to have a bunch of near-brain-dead zombies, a bunch of Smith clones, or a pile of dead bodies float downstream to them, the last of which will probably result in some genetics problems down the line.
Actually, we have a pretty interesting situation here, because MLB is a legally protected monopoly -- in exchange for allowing Congress to meddle whenever they want (see the steroid hearings this past summer) they are exempt from all antitrust legislation, and nobody else can legally start a baseball league in this country. So, the GP has a point -- not as a matter of general principle, but because This Is Baseball.
yeah, we have yet to get S-marts from the Sears/K-mart merger. ...Shop smart, shop S-mart!
It's that big room, with a blue ceiling between 6 am and 6pm most latitudes/days of the year, a black one between 6pm and 6am, has either green bio-carpet or concrete floor, with a giant nuclear-fusion based lighting system. It's generally the more distant components of the lighting system, as well as some wandering light reflectors, that these people seem to be interested in.
Now take this project and combine it with Google Maps and it could be very interesting...
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Congratulations, you've just invented the new "imagine a beowulf cluster of
China's economy isn't on the rocks like the USSR during the space race so they would actually be able to compete with us.
What are you smoking? for one thing, nobody here knew that the economy of the USSR and other Commmunist countries wouldn't work back in the '50s and '60s -- we'd just come off of WWII, and it seemed like that had proved beyond a doubt that a planned economy can deliver the goods. We treated them like they could outproduce us at our maximum without having any consequences, and they responded by doing things to their people that we find horrific, but we didn't know any of this till after the Wall came down. Until after we'd landed on the moon and by the mid-70's it was clear they weren't going to put a human there, the space race was a very close thing -- and from here, it looked like they were doing it without breaking a sweat.
For another, China's actually in some pretty deep shit right now economically speaking. The lending practices of their banks ought to scare everyone. If they let their currency float with respect to all major foriegn currencies rather than pegging it to the dollar, the whole thing would just go *poof*. But, they've still got the same attitude toward their economy and their citizens that the Soviets did, so it's not going to be any more of a damper to China. It's just that we've managed to pry our way into their society a little better, so when dozens of people die on the pad time after time, we may actually hear about it. Maybe.
I'm just hoping whatever new series comes out has Shatner singing the theme song. Hell, just have him sing the lyrics to the orignal theme from the '60s series.
Shatner (spoken): Woo. Woo-woo-woo. Ahhh.