>>No, but he probably thought that a modern anti-personnel grenade was capable of throwing fragments over two hundred meters away.
Throwing fragments is not the same as causing injuries. The casualty radius on a M67 is 15 meters, with a kill radius of 5 meters. (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m67.htm)
In my quake mod I implemented a grenade that actually launched fragments and would bounce off walls, allowing you to hit people around a corner. It was amazing how many fragments you'd have to launch in order to reliably hit someone even 20 feet away. Expanding radius of a sphere and all that.
How would you say Lindeman's (the only lambic easy to find here) stacks up against others? What is your favorite brand? I love that stuff, but I don't drink enough to do much research.
Now do that where you get $300k for your class, then have to pay $100k for regulatory compliance (standardized tests and such), $100k for overheads (the room, the buses, the meals, the one special ed kid in the class who you have to outsource to another school), and $100k in administrative costs to the district. You'll be teaching for free and begging for donations for text books and pencils. And that's where we are today. There's a single student in the Anchorage School District who costs $250,000 all by himself (he gets a nurse at his house, solo trip to school, and special desks and such). When you are spending $250k on a single student, the other $50k wouldn't go far.
I'm not talking about complying with regulations, as that all is part of the problem, just as you say.
I'm saying that if the government would like to write me a check for $300,000 per 30 students, I will give them the most highly educated bunch of whippersnappers the world has ever seen.
In other words, we're spending more than enough money on education, but we're spending it... poorly.
How is this modded insightful? The cost of the entire telescope project, even with the massive cost overruns and across eight years, couldn't pay for even a significant fraction of California's education budget for one year.
It's amazing how ignorant drivel (we have no food? Really?) gets modded up by taking a jab at the Koch brothers, as if they were the Illuminati or something, sitting on the board of every school district around the country.
If you don't think $10,000 per student is enough money, you're delusional. Offer me $200k-$300k per classroom of 20 or 30 kids and I'll give you a group of rocket scientists (pun inteded) in 12 years.
>>This particular "wall" is a bit too brief to be useful for most purposes
And a, uh, bit too biased. Look at what lines the guy focuses on, and you can tell how he votes.
If you want to use a more neutral and more useful tool for your classroom, you can do Bracketing exercises with a timeline around your classroom. Post the major dates on the timeline, so when you refer to a specific year, kids can see (very roughly) what was going on around that time period. You can have them add to it over the year too. Some schools post identical timelines in all history classrooms, so that their kids really get beat into their heads a rough sense of when stuff happened.
That's a strange argument. The market for smartphones is fragmented, yet most people don't seem to have a problem deciding which one to buy.
Well, to put it another way, I'm ignorant on which Android tablets are better than others, and all of the "Top 5 Tablets" at CNET are rated 3.5 stars out of 5.:p
I'm going to be pressured into buying one for business reasons, and if I have to use one, I'd prefer not getting a POS.
>>I went to Best Buy this weekend, and the number of competing, often incompatible tablets, is enough to drive someone to give up and just buy an iPad
Yeah. I still don't see a reason for a tablet for myself, but I'm going to be expected to use one next year, so I went into Best Buy and flipped through their cheat sheet on Android tablets. Beyond knowing screen sizes, it doesn't really tell me anything I needed to know, other than the market is really fragmented. Like you, I was temped to just buy an iPad.
I'm curious to get the input from you or someone else that has done the necessary research on Android tablets as to which the "best one" is supposed to be.
>>So the fact that he was able to access a list of voters is supposed to prove that votes are rigged?
You're right. It doesn't. It shows it is *possible* for votes to be rigged, but we've known that for a long time. A fellow CS guy at UCSD (at UW now), named Yoshi Kohno, has written a long series of papers and presentations on how easy it is to own electronic voting machines. Open USB port? Plug in your specially prepared flash drive, and you can make the machine tapdance for you, if you want.
The reason we got paper printouts of our votes the last time I voted was because of this guy.
But it doesn't mean that voter fraud actually occured. Slashdot ran a story in, oh, 2005 or so purporting to prove statistically that voter fraud occurred in Florida. Was from some guys in Berkeley, IIRC. I looked at it, and debunked it easily. They essentially created a mathematical equation to predict the result of the election, and when the election results didn't match their expectations, they said it "proved" fraud occurred. Plugging in some numbers for their equations, I saw that some counties could have been expected to have 120% Bush, -20% for Kerry, so it was pretty much guaranteed to give a "fraud" result. But they tried to hide this glaring flaw in 10 pages of equations and such.
>>Personally, I find it kind of disappointing that people think providing a checkbox is evil.
Providing a checked checkbox is. And yeah, Microsoft does this too (checked "install Bing toolbar" by default with DirectX) and Oracle does this too (checked "install Yahoo toolbar" with Java), but they're all being shady.
The point I was making with my example was that when you tried to download the Google screensaver it brought you to a page with several checked options to download ("The Google Pack") which will presumably include the screensaver somewhere within it, without saying which one of the checked options had the screensaver (the only thing my mom wanted from the whole thing).
So you click on "get google photos screensaver" and it takes you, not to a link to the download, but to a page for "The Google Pack" which has a bunch of checkboxes for various software options.
None of which are the screensaver. But Chrome is checked by default, as is Google Desktop. So a non-technical user might think that Google Desktop = hey, free screensaver. So they might download that. And get Chrome. (And all the other bloatware like Avast! antivirus found here:http://pack.google.com/pack_installer.html). I knew that it was probably part of Picasa, so I unchecked all of the bloatware options, and just downloaded Picasa, which indeed had the screensaver my mom wanted, and there you go.
But the point is: 1) Google is acting evil (if my mom had tried to do this herself, she'd be stuck with a horrible antivirus product - or two, there's two in the Pack) 2) Chrome installs are up because of their evil.
Giving free advertising to Chrome on Google.com is borderline evil, too. Leverage of monopolistic powers and all.
So, you're saying a good review can be bought only for the price of a new book, eh?
I kid, I kid. It was a well written review. One question - is there an automated migration process for the 1.9 to 2.0 upgrade, or does it take a lot of manual tweaking?
>> You can kill off any remaining cancer cells, but you do so knowing there is a much greater probability for certain cancers down the road (particularly those cancers related to the thyroid).
I think you're overestimating the risk from medical scanning equipment. Unless you mean "a much greater probability" as a 0.001% increase in risk. Maybe.
I'll cure the hypothetical cancer I have right now, thank you.
I work with people all across the country, flying out once or twice a month to teach groups of 30 or so. I've spent years in South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida. The only time I felt vaguely uncomfortable about race was this one year in South Carolina, when all the black people sat on a different side of the lunch room than the white people all week long. But the next year when I came out, it wasn't that way. When I asked the coordinator about it, he said, "Oh, they were all just friends last year." So... eh.
Oh, and in Mississippi, they finally had their first integrated Prom a couple years ago. Morgan Freeman offered to pay for their Prom if they'd integrate it (he has a business nearby in Memphis). That was probably the most mind-blowing thing I've seen in the South. I'm not sure if it was racist, though it was certainly distasteful.
Perhaps you're talking about "secret racism" - you know, that theory that all the white folk are secretly thinking bad thoughts about black people, but in public are perfectly open and pleasant to them?
Or are you confused when friends use racial slurs with each other?
Because I really don't see this pervasive racism you're talking about.
>>If we are lucky they will release the entire source code, so that the open source community can work its magic and port it them selfs
Well... the entire HL2 source code was leaked back in the day... =)
But I'd love to see the *TF2* source code released. Robin (back when he was just a uni student in Australia) released the source code to TF1 (up to a certain version), which enabled me to write CustomTF (I guess some people call it Shaka's Mod) which allows you to build your own class using a cash-based system. Hell of a lot of fun to write and play, and it turned into an open source project in its own right, with various people from around the world taking over leadership of the project at one point or another in the last 14 years.
>>Nebraska's constitution requires a balanced budget and the legislature is forbidden to spend more than the tax revenues take in
Technically, we have the same sort of thing here in California, but when your legislators ignore the law and nobody calls them on it, what can you do? Though the state controller has been stepping up a little more this year, I guess.
I completely agree that it's an unfair burden for Amazon to figure out the taxes for the customers.
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>>No, but he probably thought that a modern anti-personnel grenade was capable of throwing fragments over two hundred meters away.
Throwing fragments is not the same as causing injuries. The casualty radius on a M67 is 15 meters, with a kill radius of 5 meters. (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m67.htm)
In my quake mod I implemented a grenade that actually launched fragments and would bounce off walls, allowing you to hit people around a corner. It was amazing how many fragments you'd have to launch in order to reliably hit someone even 20 feet away. Expanding radius of a sphere and all that.
How would you say Lindeman's (the only lambic easy to find here) stacks up against others? What is your favorite brand? I love that stuff, but I don't drink enough to do much research.
I'm not talking about complying with regulations, as that all is part of the problem, just as you say.
I'm saying that if the government would like to write me a check for $300,000 per 30 students, I will give them the most highly educated bunch of whippersnappers the world has ever seen.
In other words, we're spending more than enough money on education, but we're spending it... poorly.
I understand paying people and corporations if they help you develop a product.
I don't understand how an entity can charge (a lot of) money when they didn't actually contribute anything.
How is this modded insightful? The cost of the entire telescope project, even with the massive cost overruns and across eight years, couldn't pay for even a significant fraction of California's education budget for one year.
It's amazing how ignorant drivel (we have no food? Really?) gets modded up by taking a jab at the Koch brothers, as if they were the Illuminati or something, sitting on the board of every school district around the country.
If you don't think $10,000 per student is enough money, you're delusional. Offer me $200k-$300k per classroom of 20 or 30 kids and I'll give you a group of rocket scientists (pun inteded) in 12 years.
>>Anyone's who's seen "DeathRace 2000", would know how this works.
I prefer the cranium bombs from Diamond Age and Shadowrun.
Waay more classy than "butt bombs". You'll never go triple platinum with a name like that.
>>This particular "wall" is a bit too brief to be useful for most purposes
And a, uh, bit too biased. Look at what lines the guy focuses on, and you can tell how he votes.
If you want to use a more neutral and more useful tool for your classroom, you can do Bracketing exercises with a timeline around your classroom. Post the major dates on the timeline, so when you refer to a specific year, kids can see (very roughly) what was going on around that time period. You can have them add to it over the year too. Some schools post identical timelines in all history classrooms, so that their kids really get beat into their heads a rough sense of when stuff happened.
Awesome, thanks for the informative response. Poking around on the sample tablets at Best Buy doesn't substitute for real experience.
Well, to put it another way, I'm ignorant on which Android tablets are better than others, and all of the "Top 5 Tablets" at CNET are rated 3.5 stars out of 5. :p
I'm going to be pressured into buying one for business reasons, and if I have to use one, I'd prefer not getting a POS.
>>I went to Best Buy this weekend, and the number of competing, often incompatible tablets, is enough to drive someone to give up and just buy an iPad
Yeah. I still don't see a reason for a tablet for myself, but I'm going to be expected to use one next year, so I went into Best Buy and flipped through their cheat sheet on Android tablets. Beyond knowing screen sizes, it doesn't really tell me anything I needed to know, other than the market is really fragmented. Like you, I was temped to just buy an iPad.
I'm curious to get the input from you or someone else that has done the necessary research on Android tablets as to which the "best one" is supposed to be.
>>So the fact that he was able to access a list of voters is supposed to prove that votes are rigged?
You're right. It doesn't. It shows it is *possible* for votes to be rigged, but we've known that for a long time. A fellow CS guy at UCSD (at UW now), named Yoshi Kohno, has written a long series of papers and presentations on how easy it is to own electronic voting machines. Open USB port? Plug in your specially prepared flash drive, and you can make the machine tapdance for you, if you want.
For example: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=308
The reason we got paper printouts of our votes the last time I voted was because of this guy.
But it doesn't mean that voter fraud actually occured. Slashdot ran a story in, oh, 2005 or so purporting to prove statistically that voter fraud occurred in Florida. Was from some guys in Berkeley, IIRC. I looked at it, and debunked it easily. They essentially created a mathematical equation to predict the result of the election, and when the election results didn't match their expectations, they said it "proved" fraud occurred. Plugging in some numbers for their equations, I saw that some counties could have been expected to have 120% Bush, -20% for Kerry, so it was pretty much guaranteed to give a "fraud" result. But they tried to hide this glaring flaw in 10 pages of equations and such.
Go back and read what he wrote yourself, foolio.
>>And your definition of evil is basically skewed away from reality. Get a grip you pampered Westerner.
Idiot AC.
I used the word "evil" explicitly to reference Google's purported policy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
>>Personally, I find it kind of disappointing that people think providing a checkbox is evil.
Providing a checked checkbox is. And yeah, Microsoft does this too (checked "install Bing toolbar" by default with DirectX) and Oracle does this too (checked "install Yahoo toolbar" with Java), but they're all being shady.
The point I was making with my example was that when you tried to download the Google screensaver it brought you to a page with several checked options to download ("The Google Pack") which will presumably include the screensaver somewhere within it, without saying which one of the checked options had the screensaver (the only thing my mom wanted from the whole thing).
>>It's Google who just pushes their software. On our network, several users 'suddenly' had Chrome installed.
Yeah. I wanted to put the Google photo screensaver on my mom's computer. So a quick Google search, and here it is - http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html
So you click on "get google photos screensaver" and it takes you, not to a link to the download, but to a page for "The Google Pack" which has a bunch of checkboxes for various software options.
None of which are the screensaver. But Chrome is checked by default, as is Google Desktop. So a non-technical user might think that Google Desktop = hey, free screensaver. So they might download that. And get Chrome. (And all the other bloatware like Avast! antivirus found here:http://pack.google.com/pack_installer.html). I knew that it was probably part of Picasa, so I unchecked all of the bloatware options, and just downloaded Picasa, which indeed had the screensaver my mom wanted, and there you go.
But the point is:
1) Google is acting evil (if my mom had tried to do this herself, she'd be stuck with a horrible antivirus product - or two, there's two in the Pack)
2) Chrome installs are up because of their evil.
Giving free advertising to Chrome on Google.com is borderline evil, too. Leverage of monopolistic powers and all.
So, you're saying a good review can be bought only for the price of a new book, eh?
I kid, I kid. It was a well written review. One question - is there an automated migration process for the 1.9 to 2.0 upgrade, or does it take a lot of manual tweaking?
>> You can kill off any remaining cancer cells, but you do so knowing there is a much greater probability for certain cancers down the road (particularly those cancers related to the thyroid).
I think you're overestimating the risk from medical scanning equipment. Unless you mean "a much greater probability" as a 0.001% increase in risk. Maybe.
I'll cure the hypothetical cancer I have right now, thank you.
>>Everybody, in general, is racist.
I work with people all across the country, flying out once or twice a month to teach groups of 30 or so. I've spent years in South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida. The only time I felt vaguely uncomfortable about race was this one year in South Carolina, when all the black people sat on a different side of the lunch room than the white people all week long. But the next year when I came out, it wasn't that way. When I asked the coordinator about it, he said, "Oh, they were all just friends last year." So... eh.
Oh, and in Mississippi, they finally had their first integrated Prom a couple years ago. Morgan Freeman offered to pay for their Prom if they'd integrate it (he has a business nearby in Memphis). That was probably the most mind-blowing thing I've seen in the South. I'm not sure if it was racist, though it was certainly distasteful.
Perhaps you're talking about "secret racism" - you know, that theory that all the white folk are secretly thinking bad thoughts about black people, but in public are perfectly open and pleasant to them?
Or are you confused when friends use racial slurs with each other?
Because I really don't see this pervasive racism you're talking about.
>>Sooner or later it is just Feodalism with few improvements
I prefer Foodalism myself. It's a much more delicious tyranny.
>>Who would want to move to America from England to a southern state full of bible bashing racist retards....
I think you're getting your metaphors confused.
Atheists bash Bibles
Christians (well, some Christians) thump them.
And if you think people in the south are still racist, in general, you're the retard.
>>If we are lucky they will release the entire source code, so that the open source community can work its magic and port it them selfs
Well... the entire HL2 source code was leaked back in the day... =)
But I'd love to see the *TF2* source code released. Robin (back when he was just a uni student in Australia) released the source code to TF1 (up to a certain version), which enabled me to write CustomTF (I guess some people call it Shaka's Mod) which allows you to build your own class using a cash-based system. Hell of a lot of fun to write and play, and it turned into an open source project in its own right, with various people from around the world taking over leadership of the project at one point or another in the last 14 years.
People still play it, which is really neat. The Facebook group for it is here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/178060565542861
But I'd love to be able to bring it to an engine written within the current millennium. =)
>>Or shall we start calling Canadians Americans because they are on the same Continent?
More like calling Quebecois people "Canadians".
Wrong house, dude. There's no lawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ras_an_Uachtar%C3%A1in
>>Nebraska's constitution requires a balanced budget and the legislature is forbidden to spend more than the tax revenues take in
Technically, we have the same sort of thing here in California, but when your legislators ignore the law and nobody calls them on it, what can you do? Though the state controller has been stepping up a little more this year, I guess.
I completely agree that it's an unfair burden for Amazon to figure out the taxes for the customers.
>>...in the context of discussing a legal system, it would mean the country.
In the context of discussing "national character" or whatever you want to call it, it's appropriate to refer to the entire island.