Wearing a pair of Sennheiser 280's right now. I've had them for a few years, best money I've ever spent. They're durable and block out a fair bit of office noise. They sound great, too, they're a nice upgrade from the crappy $20 pairs you can find everywhere else. Perfect office headphone, also use them as monitors for my synthesizer.
Briefly, these are:
(1) The world isn't fair - being a genius doesn't automatically mean you have compensating disadvantages. It's quite nice actually!
(2) Just because you can think of some famous people who are eccentric geniuses, this does not imply an actual correlation. Famous crazy people are just easy to remember.
It was done because it offers you the ability to play with people in either scenario, no matter how far away they were.
No. Local play was replaced by internet play because it was seen as more profitable by the games industry to enforce DRM online. If it were truly about adding features, LAN / local play would still be enabled on Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, and Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games.
A million times, this. The PC indies are fantastic and often available DRM-free. Dungeons of Dredmor, Torchlight, and Lone Survivor are all excellent examples.
Not only did computers exist, but I'd say the biggest, most fundamental developments of computer science happened in the 1970s. In that decade, the greats like Lamport, Dijkstra, and Knuth were making the discoveries that underlie all modern systems.
To name a few, linear programming, multithreading, distributed systems and processes, routing, and NP-completeness all got developed during the 70s. Would have been an awesome decade to be a computer scientist.
I'd mod you Informative if I could, thanks for the reply. The numbers you quoted on the costs of public vs. private schools were stunning. $7k for a Catholic private school vs $20k for a public school is a huge gap. However, the gap is much smaller for secular private schools vs. public schools. Secular private schools are around $27k. Do you have ideas on what might account for the differences in these private school costs? Are the religious schools finding external funding to make their tuition cheaper? Do they skimp on lab equipment or something?
Stealing money from me, to pay for your kids (through government, who will assert force to redistribute that money) is wrong.
For any society to thrive, it must invest in its children, even at the expense of non-breeders. Despite your feelings of unfairness, it's unlikely that tax-supported schooling is ever going to go away. But it could definitely use improvement.
Public schools are funded primarily by local property taxes, which means middle- and lower-class parents are given a choice of either (1) moving to a rich area, or (2) putting their kids through the poorly-funded schools they have access to. It has nothing to do with values; it's just money. Home schooling is a practical alternative if you can't afford the "cost" of a good public school.
But if you want to talk values? The far right has plenty to own up to, too. Teaching creationism is insane and harmful. Pushing religion and sexual ideals onto naive kids is repressive and goes against the values of religious tolerance and freedom that are the ideals of the US.
Lastly, you note:
I don't have kids
So why do you even care about what the schools teach?
Watch the Snapkeys video in the link. Notice how the user starts typing one word, and then autocorrect changes it to something completely different. "foo" autocompletes to "movie"? This feels an awful lot like the Hacker Typer.
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Mod parent up. I came here to post exactly this.
The worst that can happen with pot is that you try and drive somewhere intoxicated.
Lost a friend to bad weed that was laced with meth. She smoked it and her heart stopped.
The fact that pot is illegal is by far the biggest reason it is a dangerous drug. Legalize it and regulate the hell out of it, please.
Wearing a pair of Sennheiser 280's right now. I've had them for a few years, best money I've ever spent. They're durable and block out a fair bit of office noise. They sound great, too, they're a nice upgrade from the crappy $20 pairs you can find everywhere else. Perfect office headphone, also use them as monitors for my synthesizer.
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You mean a redundant array of inexpensive ones.
Today, I learned what a RAIV is!
Mod parent up - great post.
The supposed connection between genius and insanity appeals to two irrational modes of thinking:
(1) The Just World Fallacy.
(2) The availability heuristic.
Briefly, these are:
(1) The world isn't fair - being a genius doesn't automatically mean you have compensating disadvantages. It's quite nice actually!
(2) Just because you can think of some famous people who are eccentric geniuses, this does not imply an actual correlation. Famous crazy people are just easy to remember.
If this sentence was a headline, would the answer be "no"?
Why, we could call the regions having differing states of law: "Countries"
Fixed that for you.
It was done because it offers you the ability to play with people in either scenario, no matter how far away they were.
No. Local play was replaced by internet play because it was seen as more profitable by the games industry to enforce DRM online.
If it were truly about adding features, LAN / local play would still be enabled on Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, and Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games.
A million times, this. The PC indies are fantastic and often available DRM-free. Dungeons of Dredmor, Torchlight, and Lone Survivor are all excellent examples.
Why bother with MRI? We can just read the dog's diary.
For the record, PCs existed before 1984
Not only did computers exist, but I'd say the biggest, most fundamental developments of computer science happened in the 1970s. In that decade, the greats like Lamport, Dijkstra, and Knuth were making the discoveries that underlie all modern systems.
To name a few, linear programming, multithreading, distributed systems and processes, routing, and NP-completeness all got developed during the 70s. Would have been an awesome decade to be a computer scientist.
Who cares whose fault it is? If we can stop ourselves from frying, we should.
If you think people with cellphones are dangerous, wait until they start wearing these while driving.
In the Google future, this is not a problem.
Seriously?! There's a release date? Awesome, I didn't know that project was still going. Looking forward to seeing that, the trailers looked great.
As opposed to Americans. See, when Americans do it, it's called collaboration.
I'd mod you Informative if I could, thanks for the reply. The numbers you quoted on the costs of public vs. private schools were stunning. $7k for a Catholic private school vs $20k for a public school is a huge gap. However, the gap is much smaller for secular private schools vs. public schools. Secular private schools are around $27k. Do you have ideas on what might account for the differences in these private school costs? Are the religious schools finding external funding to make their tuition cheaper? Do they skimp on lab equipment or something?
Stealing money from me, to pay for your kids (through government, who will assert force to redistribute that money) is wrong.
For any society to thrive, it must invest in its children, even at the expense of non-breeders. Despite your feelings of unfairness, it's unlikely that tax-supported schooling is ever going to go away. But it could definitely use improvement.
Please do go on! I have just filed patents on all of those. Soon I'll be rich, just like the tech companies!
You can argue all you want,
Yay! In that case:
Public schools are funded primarily by local property taxes, which means middle- and lower-class parents are given a choice of either (1) moving to a rich area, or (2) putting their kids through the poorly-funded schools they have access to. It has nothing to do with values; it's just money. Home schooling is a practical alternative if you can't afford the "cost" of a good public school.
But if you want to talk values? The far right has plenty to own up to, too. Teaching creationism is insane and harmful. Pushing religion and sexual ideals onto naive kids is repressive and goes against the values of religious tolerance and freedom that are the ideals of the US.
Lastly, you note:
I don't have kids
So why do you even care about what the schools teach?
Odd. Possibly some browser compatibility issue. To satisfy your curiosity, then, "hackertyper" prints code onto the screen when you mash random keys.
diphthong
Heheheh. He said "diphthong". Heheheheh.
3. Evolution. Its offspring must be able to adapt to changes in the environment through to natural selection.
I'm a clone, you insensitive clod!
Try typing at that black screen!
Watch the Snapkeys video in the link. Notice how the user starts typing one word, and then autocorrect changes it to something completely different. "foo" autocompletes to "movie"? This feels an awful lot like the Hacker Typer.
They did not change their position. They released some PR damage control to fool people; apparently it worked on you.
On the upside, electric cars should become much more affordable.