We always assume someone who scores higher on a test must be smarter and more capable than someone who scored a few hundred points lower, yet there are always plenty of cases of people who score lower on tests (perhaps they were not good at taking tests or the test material was simply not a fair measure of what it suposedly says it measures) who end up being more productive or better apt at whatever it is they are doing.
Although that's what most people think these tests are supposed to measure, that's a misconception. In the case of the SAT, they're not measuring intelligence; rather, they're measuring a test-taking quality which has been shown to correlate strongly with "success" in college. That's all.
And that's why drives to get rid of these tests have been almost completely unsuccessful. Despite the evidence that they are unfair to minorities, or biased against certain types of learners, or don't really measure math and language skills, or whatever, the fact of the matter is that they do their job pretty well.
So for video and music that is not streamed, I just download to a local folder and play from there. However, for streamed content, I tend to be up sh*t creek.
With recent versions of mplayer (the last year or so) I haven't come across any streamed media that it can't play, although I sometimes have to do a bit of digging to find the right URL. You can even use the -dumpstream option to make a copy of the file.
If people die in the course of attaining this prize, say goodbye to private space travel and hello to new laws and regulations.
Yep. Just look at what happened when people first died in a private automotive accident. The government stepped in, and now we're all back to horse and buggy.
It is not illegal to download or upload anything. Not yet anyway. It is a civil issue.
Wrong. It is a civil issue (as opposed to a criminal one), but that doesn't make it "not illegal" -- it most definitely is illegal to violate copyright law.
In either case though downloading doesn't count as infringement as far as I know. It's only when you start uploading that you have problems.
Wrong. Read US Code, Title 17, Sec 106; the copyright holder has the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work.
The only way they could get the IP of downloaders would be to set up their own Torrent/filesharer
Anyone participating in a torrent will be able to see the IP addresses of other users on the torrent. And yes, infringement notices do get sent to Bittorrent users quite frequently now.
Which is why the smarter ones amongst us mapped it (and numerous others) to 0.0.0.0 instead. I've yet to find a single IP stack where that isn't the network equivalent of/dev/null.
Unfortunately, many web browsers give a pop up error message when you map them to 0.0.0.0, which makes the solution more painful than the problem. Yeah, it's the browser that's broken, but until people start fixing the browsers, 127.0.0.1 is a better choice.
You're talking about an increase of over sixty million voters over last year. To say the least, that's unlikely. A 60% turnout is probably a slightly more attainable goal.
Aren't fluid lenses on the verge of revolutionizing the size (or lack thereof) of digital camera's?
Although they certainly sound interesting (and useful), I don't think that they address one of the primary problem with small lenses: a small lens can't gather as much light as a large one. That's a physical limitation, and one that we can't just get around.
My machine was a Pentium 166MHz running Windows NT 4.0 workstation.
That's much more machine than you need to run X. A 486 will run X happily, but will have a very tough time decoding MP3s in realtime. Of course, this guy probably means that the system is too slow to run the latest gigantic desktop environment rather than that it's too slow to actually run X, and so it will probably be OK for playback and encoding.
a 2GHz P4 Linux machine I use at work will hiccup occasionally during MP3 playback and normal use
You can probably fix this by increasing the size of the output buffer. (And you don't need root for that.)
You're right, although it should be noted that a lot of mormons will not play games with standard playing cards. (Hence the popularity of the "Rook" cards within mormon families.) However, there is no official church policy forbidding it, as far as I'm aware.
[But I still think a cross-platform, SVG+MathML editor with TeX-like math rendering would be a nice way to publish both web and paper documents, much better than the WYSIWYG word processors most people abuse.]
It seems to me that Lyx comes fairly close to this -- at least, it's cross-platform and the math editing functions are very nice. However, although it makes great paper documents, trying to get it to do HTML leaves a lot to be desired.
Generally, most people use a word processor to edit their own documents, not somebody else's. The whole compatibility thing is, IMO, way overrated -- it's not anywhere near to being the most important aspect of a word processor. Maybe it will prevent it from taking over the world, but popularity has little to do with it being a good program.
That's like saying "All Linux users are elitist snobs", just because there's some jerks mixed in out there.
Well, to be fair, I think that his comment was more akin to saying "Most Linux users are elitist snobs." Of course, some might argue that that one's true, too:)
So, yeah, the police should allow someone to pass when they have papers from a judge that says they can.
He still has to obey the law while doing so. Carrying official papers doesn't suddenly make him immune.
If they (the police) do not at least make an attempt to verify the judicial order, I'd say they are political prisoners.
That's a non sequitur if I ever heard one. Even if we were to accept that they should have let him go in, if he wasn't jailed for political reasons, then he's not a "political prisoner." Since we have no reason to think that Joe Queer Republican wouldn't have been arrested for forcing his way across the security line, claiming that Badnarik and Cobb are political prisoners makes no sense.
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I don't usually get mail from people I know telling me that Paypal has charged my credit card.
And that's why drives to get rid of these tests have been almost completely unsuccessful. Despite the evidence that they are unfair to minorities, or biased against certain types of learners, or don't really measure math and language skills, or whatever, the fact of the matter is that they do their job pretty well.
Oh, and you forgot "people who don't know how to find the period or shift keys."
You're talking about an increase of over sixty million voters over last year. To say the least, that's unlikely. A 60% turnout is probably a slightly more attainable goal.
You're right, although it should be noted that a lot of mormons will not play games with standard playing cards. (Hence the popularity of the "Rook" cards within mormon families.) However, there is no official church policy forbidding it, as far as I'm aware.
I'm not an OO.o user, incidentally.