Even in the public system, how fast children learn to read is strongly correlated with their family environment, so you might as well keep them home to start. Also most parents are fully capable of teaching basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. It's in the later grades, especially high school, when trained teachers are essential.
Hmm. Your post is a little confusing. I'm by no means an expert, but I did see a few things that might need to be clarified.
1. The digestive system doesn't 'discard' excess fat - it stores it in your adipose tissue. (fat cells) This is why eating more fat than your body can use (which is usually a very small amount, except under ketosis) results in weight gain. To put it simply, eating too much fat makes you fat except under certain conditions.
-What you said about the conversion rate of carbohydrates to glucose being very fast is correct, although the speed of the conversion depends on the nature of the carbohydrates, as others have pointed out. Some people are starting to believe that our problem is we eat so many refined foods, (e.g. white flour, white rice, and white sugar) which are catabolized by the body much faster than the more "traditional" diet of whole-grains and raw vegetables.
-Insulin stimulates the liver and skeletal muscles to lower blood glucose levels by forming _glycogen_, not cholesterol, as you said. The body then uses this glucose stored as glycogen as an energy buffer, to maintain blood glucose levels when digestion stops. This is called glycogenesis, and occurs in response to the release of glucagon hormone.
-When the body runs out of glycogen it starts using another method of making glucose, the gluconeogenic pathway. This normally occurs every night while you sleep, and also during the day if you're fasting, starving, or on an very low-carbohydrate diet. This pathway operates by breaking down protein (your muscles) to glucose, to help keep your brain (the primary user of energy in your body) running.
-Here's the kicker, though: The brain, under normal circumstances, uses _only_ glucose as its energy source, and glucose _cannot_ be synthesized from fatty acids. The only reason the Atkins diet works at all is because after a long enough time without enough carbohydrates, your body enters starvation mode and your liver directs the synthesis of ketone bodies (a safe, transportable form of acetyl-CoA) from fatty acids to supply the brain with energy. This allows the body to slow (but not stop) the breakdown of muscle tissue and survive as long as the supply of fat lasts.
-Again, I'm not an expert, and I welcome correction, but I believe that the traditional wisdom about obesity (balanced diet, cut back on fat, exercise) is more correct than the Atkins idea.
When a cell divides, the progeny cells receive nearly identical copies of the parent cell's DNA, except with slightly shorter telomeres. (This is because the cell's protein machinery "loses" a tiny bit of DNA every time it replicates.) Once the telomeres are "used up", the DNA continues to get shorter, only now it starts to lose actual "important" DNA that controls how the cell functions. Not good.
You are correct in saying that most cells do not live very long, but this is because they are continually making almost-perfect copies of themselves. Unfortunately for us (fortunately for evolution) the process is not quite perfect.
Basically, telomeres exist as sort of "sacrificial" DNA to overcome an inherent "tradeoff" in the process of DNA replication. Once the telomeres are used up, cells begin to break down, and death usually quickly follows.
Oh, and to answer your next question:), telomeres in germ cells (e.g. eggs and sperm) are kept at the "right" length for a normal lifespan by special telomere-making proteins.
I basically agree with the personal responsibility theory, but one point which, I believe, has not been raised, is the possible actions of other people around him in EQ. The mother wants "a record of the son's conversations", which might actually be important, methinks. I can easily imagine a situation where Shawn Woolley, with his mental instability and obvious problems, is influenced by actual suggestions from his friends or guildmembers online. Chatting in or out of EQ with other people is usually a fun experience, but it can also be detrimental.
I strongly suspect that Shawn suggested he was about to commit suicide online. I also suspect that someone he knew online knew enough about him to have contacted game admins/police before his suicide, but didn't.
Ah, here we go: "Elizabeth Woolley remembers when her son was betrayed by an EverQuest associate he had been adventuring with for six months. Shawn's online brother-in-arms stole all the money from his character and refused to give it back. "He was so upset, he was in tears," she said."
If we are responsible netizens we could at least find out Shawn's characters and ask about them on his server, or we could encourage the release of his conversations. We hear about wackos on AOL all the time. Isn't it possible that a similarly manipulative or malevolent writer could have played a role in Shawn's death?
Personally, I always go nasty -a */sbin/init, and it seems to keep everybody in line. Sometimes you have to show X that you're the boss, not coddle and cuddle it.
>not to be rude or anything, but WF makes Mozilla look like linux - development is just plain glacial.
I don't fully understand your analogy - a 3 year project (WF) makes another 3 year project (Mozilla) look like a 9 year project (linux) - but I believe WF has done well for a distributed volunteer effort. Unlike mozilla, none of us are employed by WorldForge, and unlike linux, we don't have a heritage of bad and good OS design to learn from. MOGs are the bleeding edge, which is a good place to be.:)
Also, I believe some careful examination of WorldForge will reveal that we only have 2 different game servers, Cyphesis and STAGE, and that our goals are clearer than many open projects. Witness the rapidly growing Mason documentation at http://moria.mit.edu:8080/wf/dev/systems/in_develo pment/mason and the almost completely defined acorn rules at http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/rule s . I believe that WorldForge seeming slow would only be because we need more help, not that we're unfocused.;)
It would be more correct to say SourceForge has never been considered as more than a interesting toy. All of WF's infrastructure is in house, thanks to our great infra team. Bug tracking, newsgroups, mailing lists, irc, cvs, web, ftp, game servers, zope, wiki, eidetic, we all run our own. Besides, SourceForge is way more confusing than WorldForge.:)
They lost the bet, for two reasons: 1) real programs (as opposed to toy benchmarks) are too unpredictable.
Actually, they win the bet, because Itanium's EPIC technology, among other things, allows the processor to take all possible branches and re-integrate the results later. Rather than stalling for the result of a branch, it calculates both branches, both the true and false answers, and therefore avoids the mispredicted branch problem.
I'm sorry, but if I had mod points, I would mod you down. Your post is not correct as far as I can tell.
If you read a book that does not challenge you, that you do not have trouble with, then it is doubtful you gained anything from it. Your knowledge and learning will only improve if you read hard books. I'm sorry if this seems too much like work, but life is work.
Now, I generally dislike people who generate allegorical comments out of thin air, but at least they are trying to understand the book they're reading. On the flip side, if you do not understand a book, you are not qualified to criticize it, because you didn't read the same book the rest of us did.
Anyway. Here's my on-topic point. Half of the compliments, insults, and analysis of the Lord of the Rings are misinformed. Let me remind you that if your understanding of LotR is flawed, so will be your comments.
As for my view? Hmm. Tolkien himself said that to make myths was to approach perfection. I believe, if you'll forgive my uneducated opinion, that he succeeded, and LotR is worthy of standing next to the books of the ancients.
Is your religion subjectivism? Tell me, then, if Man creates his own values, is there any reason we should not keep slaves and abuse our wives? If I believe in some morally despicable value, why should you care?
But no. Since you characterized religion as having screwy values, it's obvious that you believe in absolute morals yourself. Only a believe in absolute standards could decide whether any set of beliefs is better than others. Therefore, the question is not whether religion is unprovable. Given certain first principles, religion is proven. The question is, what are your first principles and why are they better than mine?
#1 & #3 Dust: There is no air on the moon. Repeat after me: there is no air on the moon. Without air, "The only dust that gets blown around by the exhaust of the rocket is the dust physically touched by the exhaust, or dust hit by other bits of flying dust." On Earth, air helps blow dust in all directions; on the Moon, you have to physically touch dust in order to make it move. The landing did not kick up very much dust. I'll also add that the lander was traveling very slowly when it touched the moon. Ever play the BASIC game LANDER? It makes perfect sense.
#2 Crosshairs "behind" rocks: "What happened becomes clearer when you look more closely at the images. The times it looks like an object is in front of the crosshair (because the crosshair looks blocked by the
object) is when the object photographed is white. The crosshair is black. Have you ever taken an image that is overexposed? White parts bleed into the film around them, making them look white too. That's all that happened here; the white object in the image ``fills in'' the black crosshair. This is incredibly basic photography."
#4 engine noise: With a properly planned flight, the lander would already be flying very slowly as it nears the moon. Without gravity, slowing down the lander is easy. Only earth needs huge rockets.
This is good news. A generalization made about Star Trek movies is that the odd numbered ones all suck; this trend was started by TMP. TMP was big and shiny, but it lacked a gripping plot or character development. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a much better movie overall. So, to this day, the even numbered movies are perceived as being better.
Kudos to Robert Wise for trying to fix this. There are many people to place the blame for the original failure on, but I'd rather focus on appluading Robert Wise for still wanting to scratch that itch, in the spirit of open source.;)
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I believe rt.org is obviously deluded about the Co$, but what they have to say is interesting. Perhaps our main goal about this, and and most other issues, should be to try and get the truth out in the real world...
from http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm:
"The US Food and Drug Administration raided Scientology offices on 1963-JAN-4 and seized hundreds of the Church's E-meters as illegal medical devices. The devices are now required to carry a disclaimer saying that they are a purely religious artifact. They are used in a Scientology counseling technique known as "auditing". During the 1970s, the Church and many other emerging religions came under increasing attack from the anti-cult movement. In 1977, as a result of an FBI raid, some senior people in the movement's Guardian's Office were convicted of stealing government documents. In 1965, the Australian government had banned Scientology, however in 1983, the High Court of Australia overturned the decision, contributing greatly to the scope of religious freedom in that country."
"Many counter-cult groups accuse the Church of Scientology (and other religious groups with which they disagree on theological grounds) of not allowing members to leave the church, or of endlessly harassing them in an attempt to force them back into the fold. We have found these claims to be false with other religious groups, and we believe that it is also untrue in the case of Scientology. "
"A war of sorts is raging on the Internet between the church, anti-Scientology individuals and persons dedicated to preserving total freedom of speech on the Internet. Starting in 1994-DEC, the Church has aggressively attempted to defend their copyright on a wide range of confidential Church documents including rituals that they regard as highly secret. This has brought them into conflict with numerous Internet users and service providers who are keen to promote the complete freedom of speech on the Net, without regard to copyrights held by individuals and organizations. "
"Both of those candidates stand for continued increase in the size and scope the federal government," - parent poster
"Now that stands in contrast to my worthy opponent's plan, which will increase the size of government dramatically. His plan is three times larger than President Clinton's proposed plan eight years ago. It's a plan that will have 200 new programs, as well -- or expanded programs. It'll create 20,000 new bureaucrats. In other words, it empowers Washington."
"Secondly, the surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government. The Senate Budget Committee did a study of the vice president's expenditures. They projected it could conceivably bust the budget by $900 billion. That means he's either going to have to raise your taxes by $900 billion or go into the Social Security surplus for $900 billion.
This is a plan that is going to increase the bureaucracy by 20,000 people. His targeted tax cut is so detailed, so much fine print, that it's going to require numerous IRS agents.
No, we need somebody to simplify the code, to be fair, to continue prosperity by sharing some of the surplus with the people who pay the bills, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic ladder." - Governor Bush
The electoral college actually enhances your voting power, both by reducing the tyranny of a bare majority and increasing the importance of your individual vote.
"Turning texture compression off on either card results in a serious performance hit, so you will definitely want to leave it on. However, I find NVIDIA's compression artifacting much less bearable than 3dfx's. And it's not just in the sky texture--on the GeForce, simple gray wall textures have purple splotches in them, and the whole image looks less "pure" with compression turned on."
I was surprised to hear and see the obvious artifacts nVidia's over ambitious compression creates.
I'm curious, though, if there's an ultimate texture solution. I'm always reading about double and triple texture redundancy, and the failure of memory bandwidth to get the textures to chips (made worse by sharing the memory between dual chips.)
Is there a perfect way of doing this? Or just compression, redundancy and too little bandwidth?
"According to a survey published April 3 in the journal Nature, 40 percent of all scientists believe in a personal god who answers prayers, 50 percent believed in personal immortality, and 85 percent believed in god in some sense or other. Moreover, those trained in the hard sciences like physics and chemistry were more likely to be religious than those trained in disciplines such as anthropology and psychology."
I'm unable to get a direct link to Nature, because they don't carry their 1997 back issues. I'm tired and going to bed:) so I grabbed the first page off Google that mentions the Nature study. The above source is relevant although I do not agree with it, but I think everyone should see it.
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"a) he can't write. b) noone has heard of him except for slashdot people (who he has only a little credibility with). c) he doesn't agree with the views of most/. readers. d) He can't work with many politicians."
a) Unfortunately, you are a writing eununch, sir, who can critique it but not do it yourself.
b) I live in Canada, and sometimes I read a province wide newspaper. I have seen articles and quotations by Jon Katz in my backwoods little Albertan newspaper. Jon Katz is internationally showcased.
c) He doesn't? Well, he's a paranoid libertairian, at least.
d) Are you kidneying?
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Even in the public system, how fast children learn to read is strongly correlated with their family environment, so you might as well keep them home to start. Also most parents are fully capable of teaching basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. It's in the later grades, especially high school, when trained teachers are essential.
On Easter Day 1800, in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, six people took Communion. SIX. Clearly wasn't the fault of the internet.
(Look under information technology professionals)
Hmm. Your post is a little confusing. I'm by no means an expert, but I did see a few things that might need to be clarified.
1. The digestive system doesn't 'discard' excess fat - it stores it in your adipose tissue. (fat cells) This is why eating more fat than your body can use (which is usually a very small amount, except under ketosis) results in weight gain. To put it simply, eating too much fat makes you fat except under certain conditions.
-What you said about the conversion rate of carbohydrates to glucose being very fast is correct, although the speed of the conversion depends on the nature of the carbohydrates, as others have pointed out. Some people are starting to believe that our problem is we eat so many refined foods, (e.g. white flour, white rice, and white sugar) which are catabolized by the body much faster than the more "traditional" diet of whole-grains and raw vegetables.
-Insulin stimulates the liver and skeletal muscles to lower blood glucose levels by forming _glycogen_, not cholesterol, as you said. The body then uses this glucose stored as glycogen as an energy buffer, to maintain blood glucose levels when digestion stops. This is called glycogenesis, and occurs in response to the release of glucagon hormone.
-When the body runs out of glycogen it starts using another method of making glucose, the gluconeogenic pathway. This normally occurs every night while you sleep, and also during the day if you're fasting, starving, or on an very low-carbohydrate diet. This pathway operates by breaking down protein (your muscles) to glucose, to help keep your brain (the primary user of energy in your body) running.
-Here's the kicker, though: The brain, under normal circumstances, uses _only_ glucose as its energy source, and glucose _cannot_ be synthesized from fatty acids. The only reason the Atkins diet works at all is because after a long enough time without enough carbohydrates, your body enters starvation mode and your liver directs the synthesis of ketone bodies (a safe, transportable form of acetyl-CoA) from fatty acids to supply the brain with energy. This allows the body to slow (but not stop) the breakdown of muscle tissue and survive as long as the supply of fat lasts.
-Again, I'm not an expert, and I welcome correction, but I believe that the traditional wisdom about obesity (balanced diet, cut back on fat, exercise) is more correct than the Atkins idea.
When a cell divides, the progeny cells receive nearly identical copies of the parent cell's DNA, except with slightly shorter telomeres. (This is because the cell's protein machinery "loses" a tiny bit of DNA every time it replicates.) Once the telomeres are "used up", the DNA continues to get shorter, only now it starts to lose actual "important" DNA that controls how the cell functions. Not good.
:), telomeres in germ cells (e.g. eggs and sperm) are kept at the "right" length for a normal lifespan by special telomere-making proteins.
You are correct in saying that most cells do not live very long, but this is because they are continually making almost-perfect copies of themselves. Unfortunately for us (fortunately for evolution) the process is not quite perfect.
Basically, telomeres exist as sort of "sacrificial" DNA to overcome an inherent "tradeoff" in the process of DNA replication. Once the telomeres are used up, cells begin to break down, and death usually quickly follows.
Oh, and to answer your next question
I basically agree with the personal responsibility theory, but one point which, I believe, has not been raised, is the possible actions of other people around him in EQ. The mother wants "a record of the son's conversations", which might actually be important, methinks. I can easily imagine a situation where Shawn Woolley, with his mental instability and obvious problems, is influenced by actual suggestions from his friends or guildmembers online. Chatting in or out of EQ with other people is usually a fun experience, but it can also be detrimental.
I strongly suspect that Shawn suggested he was about to commit suicide online. I also suspect that someone he knew online knew enough about him to have contacted game admins/police before his suicide, but didn't.
Ah, here we go: "Elizabeth Woolley remembers when her son was betrayed by an EverQuest associate he had been adventuring with for six months. Shawn's online brother-in-arms stole all the money from his character and refused to give it back. "He was so upset, he was in tears," she said."
If we are responsible netizens we could at least find out Shawn's characters and ask about them on his server, or we could encourage the release of his conversations. We hear about wackos on AOL all the time. Isn't it possible that a similarly manipulative or malevolent writer could have played a role in Shawn's death?
Personally, I always go nasty -a * /sbin/init, and it seems to keep everybody in line. Sometimes you have to show X that you're the boss, not coddle and cuddle it.
>not to be rude or anything, but WF makes Mozilla look like linux - development is just plain glacial.
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o pment/mason and the almost completely defined acorn rules at http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/rule s . I believe that WorldForge seeming slow would only be because we need more help, not that we're unfocused. ;)
I don't fully understand your analogy - a 3 year project (WF) makes another 3 year project (Mozilla) look like a 9 year project (linux) - but I believe WF has done well for a distributed volunteer effort. Unlike mozilla, none of us are employed by WorldForge, and unlike linux, we don't have a heritage of bad and good OS design to learn from. MOGs are the bleeding edge, which is a good place to be.
Also, I believe some careful examination of WorldForge will reveal that we only have 2 different game servers, Cyphesis and STAGE, and that our goals are clearer than many open projects. Witness the rapidly growing Mason documentation at http://moria.mit.edu:8080/wf/dev/systems/in_devel
It would be more correct to say SourceForge has never been considered as more than a interesting toy. All of WF's infrastructure is in house, thanks to our great infra team. Bug tracking, newsgroups, mailing lists, irc, cvs, web, ftp, game servers, zope, wiki, eidetic, we all run our own. Besides, SourceForge is way more confusing than WorldForge. :)
They lost the bet, for two reasons: 1) real programs (as opposed to toy benchmarks) are too unpredictable.
Actually, they win the bet, because Itanium's EPIC technology, among other things, allows the processor to take all possible branches and re-integrate the results later. Rather than stalling for the result of a branch, it calculates both branches, both the true and false answers, and therefore avoids the mispredicted branch problem.
I'm sorry, but if I had mod points, I would mod you down. Your post is not correct as far as I can tell.
If you read a book that does not challenge you, that you do not have trouble with, then it is doubtful you gained anything from it. Your knowledge and learning will only improve if you read hard books. I'm sorry if this seems too much like work, but life is work.
Now, I generally dislike people who generate allegorical comments out of thin air, but at least they are trying to understand the book they're reading. On the flip side, if you do not understand a book, you are not qualified to criticize it, because you didn't read the same book the rest of us did.
Anyway. Here's my on-topic point. Half of the compliments, insults, and analysis of the Lord of the Rings are misinformed. Let me remind you that if your understanding of LotR is flawed, so will be your comments.
As for my view? Hmm. Tolkien himself said that to make myths was to approach perfection. I believe, if you'll forgive my uneducated opinion, that he succeeded, and LotR is worthy of standing next to the books of the ancients.
Question is, do you want your favorite coder to die from lung cancer, or liver disease?
Choose my poison? Sorry, I'll pass.
Is your religion subjectivism? Tell me, then, if Man creates his own values, is there any reason we should not keep slaves and abuse our wives? If I believe in some morally despicable value, why should you care?
But no. Since you characterized religion as having screwy values, it's obvious that you believe in absolute morals yourself. Only a believe in absolute standards could decide whether any set of beliefs is better than others. Therefore, the question is not whether religion is unprovable. Given certain first principles, religion is proven. The question is, what are your first principles and why are they better than mine?
Sigh.
#1 & #3 Dust: There is no air on the moon. Repeat after me: there is no air on the moon. Without air, "The only dust that gets blown around by the exhaust of the rocket is the dust physically touched by the exhaust, or dust hit by other bits of flying dust." On Earth, air helps blow dust in all directions; on the Moon, you have to physically touch dust in order to make it move. The landing did not kick up very much dust. I'll also add that the lander was traveling very slowly when it touched the moon. Ever play the BASIC game LANDER? It makes perfect sense.
#2 Crosshairs "behind" rocks: "What happened becomes clearer when you look more closely at the images. The times it looks like an object is in front of the crosshair (because the crosshair looks blocked by the
object) is when the object photographed is white. The crosshair is black. Have you ever taken an image that is overexposed? White parts bleed into the film around them, making them look white too. That's all that happened here; the white object in the image ``fills in'' the black crosshair. This is incredibly basic photography."
#4 engine noise: With a properly planned flight, the lander would already be flying very slowly as it nears the moon. Without gravity, slowing down the lander is easy. Only earth needs huge rockets.
Sigh.
This is good news. A generalization made about Star Trek movies is that the odd numbered ones all suck; this trend was started by TMP. TMP was big and shiny, but it lacked a gripping plot or character development. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a much better movie overall. So, to this day, the even numbered movies are perceived as being better.
;)
Kudos to Robert Wise for trying to fix this. There are many people to place the blame for the original failure on, but I'd rather focus on appluading Robert Wise for still wanting to scratch that itch, in the spirit of open source.
I believe rt.org is obviously deluded about the Co$, but what they have to say is interesting. Perhaps our main goal about this, and and most other issues, should be to try and get the truth out in the real world...
from http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm:
"The US Food and Drug Administration raided Scientology offices on 1963-JAN-4 and seized hundreds of the Church's E-meters as illegal medical devices. The devices are now required to carry a disclaimer saying that they are a purely religious artifact. They are used in a Scientology counseling technique known as "auditing". During the 1970s, the Church and many other emerging religions came under increasing attack from the anti-cult movement. In 1977, as a result of an FBI raid, some senior people in the movement's Guardian's Office were convicted of stealing government documents. In 1965, the Australian government had banned Scientology, however in 1983, the High Court of Australia overturned the decision, contributing greatly to the scope of religious freedom in that country."
"Many counter-cult groups accuse the Church of Scientology (and other religious groups with which they disagree on theological grounds) of not allowing members to leave the church, or of endlessly harassing them in an attempt to force them back into the fold. We have found these claims to be false with other religious groups, and we believe that it is also untrue in the case of Scientology. "
"A war of sorts is raging on the Internet between the church, anti-Scientology individuals and persons dedicated to preserving total freedom of speech on the Internet. Starting in 1994-DEC, the Church has aggressively attempted to defend their copyright on a wide range of confidential Church documents including rituals that they regard as highly secret. This has brought them into conflict with numerous Internet users and service providers who are keen to promote the complete freedom of speech on the Net, without regard to copyrights held by individuals and organizations. "
"Both of those candidates stand for continued increase in the size and scope the federal government," - parent poster
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"Now that stands in contrast to my worthy opponent's plan, which will increase the size of government dramatically. His plan is three times larger than President Clinton's proposed plan eight years ago. It's a plan that will have 200 new programs, as well -- or expanded programs. It'll create 20,000 new bureaucrats. In other words, it empowers Washington."
"Secondly, the surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government. The Senate Budget Committee did a study of the vice president's expenditures. They projected it could conceivably bust the budget by $900 billion. That means he's either going to have to raise your taxes by $900 billion or go into the Social Security surplus for $900 billion.
This is a plan that is going to increase the bureaucracy by 20,000 people. His targeted tax cut is so detailed, so much fine print, that it's going to require numerous IRS agents.
No, we need somebody to simplify the code, to be fair, to continue prosperity by sharing some of the surplus with the people who pay the bills, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic ladder." - Governor Bush
Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/transcri
http://spot.colorado.edu/~mcguire/hively.html
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The electoral college actually enhances your voting power, both by reducing the tyranny of a bare majority and increasing the importance of your individual vote.
Therefore you are better off with it. Sorry.
"Turning texture compression off on either card results in a serious performance hit, so you will definitely want to leave it on. However, I find NVIDIA's compression artifacting much less bearable than 3dfx's. And it's not just in the sky texture--on the GeForce, simple gray wall textures have purple splotches in them, and the whole image looks less "pure" with compression turned on."
I was surprised to hear and see the obvious artifacts nVidia's over ambitious compression creates.
I'm curious, though, if there's an ultimate texture solution. I'm always reading about double and triple texture redundancy, and the failure of memory bandwidth to get the textures to chips (made worse by sharing the memory between dual chips.)
Is there a perfect way of doing this? Or just compression, redundancy and too little bandwidth?
>DC sucks. And their stupid bar code reader sucks.
And their little dog, too!
'CmdrTaco hates George Bush, but Bush isn't in charge, so how could Bush be worse than your current administration?' asks a Curious Foreigner.
"According to a survey published April 3 in the journal Nature, 40 percent of all scientists believe in a personal god who answers prayers, 50 percent believed in personal immortality, and 85 percent believed in god in some sense or other. Moreover, those trained in the hard sciences like physics and chemistry were more likely to be religious than those trained in disciplines such as anthropology and psychology."
:) so I grabbed the first page off Google that mentions the Nature study. The above source is relevant although I do not agree with it, but I think everyone should see it.
http://www.wsws.org/news/1997/apr 1997/hg-a7.shtml
I'm unable to get a direct link to Nature, because they don't carry their 1997 back issues. I'm tired and going to bed
"a) he can't write. b) noone has heard of him except for slashdot people (who he has only a little credibility with). c) he doesn't agree with the views of most /. readers. d) He can't work with many politicians."
a) Unfortunately, you are a writing eununch, sir, who can critique it but not do it yourself.
b) I live in Canada, and sometimes I read a province wide newspaper. I have seen articles and quotations by Jon Katz in my backwoods little Albertan newspaper. Jon Katz is internationally showcased.
c) He doesn't? Well, he's a paranoid libertairian, at least.
d) Are you kidneying?
It was easy to find out how to email you.
Google.
Your name seems reasonably unique, and therefore I can say with confidence that the address is
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Google is the answer.
Actually, Google already uses the Open Directory free democratic web directory system.
Which means searching by category with rated results by human editors.
That is not going portal.