You obviously didn't RTFAs. The Obama campaign literally STOLE his myspace account from him. If they had just agreed to part company, there would be no issue.
and by counting the neap and spring cycles, covered it 10 feet deep in as little as four months.
Maybe this answers my question, but did animals and insects get trapped along with the plants? It would be fascinating to have an entire ecosystem frozen in time. But if it took four months, I'd guess all the moveable entities moved out before things got buried.
No, it's not just you. I've been really disappointed with CFLs. The older they get, the longer the weird warm-up period gets before they become bright. But maybe it's just us. Other people tell me they don't experience the problem, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe the "better" (how do you tell?) ones don't do it.
What's the pollution/contamination potential for LED-equivalent screw-in bulbs?
LEDs, unfortunately, are way too dim right now for general-purpose lighting. They make great spotlights, but are lousy in terms in Lumens, and not that great in terms of Lumens/watt (before anyone argues with me, PLEASE compare lumens between LEDs and incandescents or CFLs).
Ted Stevens actually being prophetic, rather than just wrong.
You know, Stevens gets a totally bad rap on that whole thing. Exactly what is wrong with that analogy? Even UNIX uses the analogy with pipes; Ritchie* could have just easily called them tubes rather than pipes. And yes, the "tubes" of the Internet CAN get clogged up if there's too much flowing through them.
I've never understood why he took such a beating about it. I guess some people are just determined to believe the worst about people, as though the guy though the Internet was literally air-filled tubes.
They make a fuckton of demands on the public schools, but then they don't back it up with funding.
The kids are already there, the teacher's already there, the school's already there. What, exactly, is more money going to accomplish? Why can't they simply do their job?
Pardon my bluntness, but screw the whining teachers, and administrators and unions! MY demand is that they do their job, and every student better leave their classroom educated to the best of their abilities. The fact that the feds have to demand high standards is an absolutely shameful reflection of public schools.
And you consider the candidates fronted by the Big Two to not be extremist whackos? A politician is a politician.
That's just silly. As one example, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are going to sell off the national parks like the Libertarians promise to do.
American politics is so far to the right of sane that, from the outside, I don't see how you can claim to have a centerist never mind left wing option.
Spread the word, get people to look beyond the Republicrats, and then we have a chance to really shake things up.
And vote for who? All the 3rd parties are extremist wackos. When we have a viable candidate (Perot, before he went insane), people voted for the 3rd party.
I don't know about your school, but I can't believe the fire that was lit under my kid's school because of ECLB. They actually care whether the kids are learning now. Somehow it's bad to "teach to the test", but when the test is testing math, reading comprehension, etc, then I say that teachers SHOULD teach to the test.
The reason a lot of teachers don't like the ECLB is because they're suddenly being held accountable, and the union can't have that.
The best thing we can do for education is to completely destroy the teacher's union and the idea of tenure. But until that happens, the next best thing is testing and exposing the crappy schools, crappy principals and crappy teachers.
There is this thing called the metric system you know.
You know, there's nothing magic about the metric system. The ONLY benefit is easy conversion to different units. Who gives a damn? How often do you have to do that?
In some other ways, the metric system sucks. The range of Fahrenheit is much more useful in everyday life, centigrade is too compressed. A meter is too long, and a centimeter is too short, but a foot is a good, useful length (for some reason, no one uses decimeters, which is a bit more useful, though still too short). And 'foot' is a nice one-syllable word that rolls out of the mouth.
I've never heard of anyone in the workforce telling me to give 80% to 85% effort, why should school be different?
Becuase school is an artificial environment. In your workplace, you give effort toward producing something value. In school, the goal is education, which is not necessarily measured by grades.
Look, I don't expect everyone to understand my point. The biggest thing I learned from college before I dropped out was how artificial the whole thing was. There was nothing there one couldn't learn from reading a book about various subjects. I dropped out because I was already out in the world producing real things, not grades.
That's not to say that there aren't people who benefit from school -- there are. But the world-changing people are not created by school. They will change the world because of their nature, not because of the facts that were packed into their head.
Right now US schools are churing out corporate zombies that are discouraged from taking "uncool" and "too hard" classes like math and science. The Chineese and Indians are slowly surpassing Americans in talent and ability, while US schools are focusing on turing out MBAs.
Only if you think "school", which is only loosely correlated with "education", is the key to a successful future.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports.
I don't know about you, but the biggest drones I've ever known have been the types get the straight As and live to regurgitate information on school tests. Every decade we have stories like this about other countries that are going to surpass the United States because of how much better they can cough up answers on tests (the stories have been happening since AT LEAST the early 70s in my memory). And yet, it never seems to happen.
Why? I'll tell you why. And apologies in advance for this generalization. I know there are exceptions, but here is where the kernel of truth lies:
F-C students are the drones of the world. The A students are the ones good at memorizing, yet become drones when they get into the real world, because memorization only takes you so far. The B-B+ students tends to be the ones that are cruising through on their way to somewhere else. They don't care enough about school to get As, but are smart enough to get Bs without working hard.
It's in the middle where you have the smart AND creative people. They are the ones that move the world. Say what you want about the United States, but the one thing we do well is breed independence. You can't teach that, it's cultural. It has to be bred early.
So only people who aren't hungry would be noble for (re)solving world hunger?
Someone who is poor and hungry shouting that "everyone", including himself, should be fed is less noble, yes. He's using sympathy for the plight of the world for his personal gain. What is he sacrificing?
...but I don't hear anyone faulting Jobs because the iPod makes him shit tons of money either.
I don't fault Reeves for being rich (in fact, I'm in favor of being rich), but are you seriously comparing creating the iPod to doing great works for humanity?
In other words, good work is good work, whether or not there is personal gain.
Good work is good work, but motivations do matter when determining how much praise you heap on someone. Hey, I'm not trying to rain on Reeve's parade, who by all accounts was a really nice guy. But the level of worship that follows him around is not necessarily justified.
What was super about him was his ability to still contribute to society as a quadriplegic.
Well, he was a quadraplegic with a lot of money who wanted to be cured, and thus spent a lot of money on himself. That's not as high on the respect-o-meter as someone who does things without a personal stake.
As if American chocolate wasn't bad enough as it is...
Sheesh. You do realize that the USA is a really, really big place, right? There are literally thousands of chocolate makers. I assume this insightful comment is based on sampling each and every one of them, right? (I know this is insightful because, after all, Slashdot moderated it so).
In other news, America makes great beer, wine, cheese, ice cream, meat, etc, etc, etc -- and also awful examples of the latter products, depending on the price you want to pay.
I'm too lazy to go hunting around, but EXACTLY these sort of comments were being made when XP came out. And it'll be the same story this time around. Once people get used to Vista via new computers purchases, the rest of the computers will follow.
I'm tired of the whining about the two-party system. There ARE more than two candidates -- the other ones are eliminated through the primary elections.
Actually a surprising amount of people are Libertarian to some degree. People just don't vote third party because they don't think third party will win, and because the party in power always gives money to big parties.
That's one reason people don't vote third party, but it's not the dominant one. The reason people don't typically vote for third parties is because all the third parties are extremist wackos (yes, including (or especially, if you prefer) the Libertarians). When we had a relatively legitimate third party candidate (Perot) before he self-destructed, he got a sizeable part of the vote.
Let me get this straight. As long as Castro embraces software freedom, actual political freedom is irrelevant in Stallman's world.
This is the same man who links to impeach Bush sites -- presumably not because of Bush's lack of embracing software freedom, though based on the current evidence, Stallman would forgive Bush for everything if he would embrace free software.
With the state of the economy in this country, men are more desperate for work, and therefore have less leverage to change the shitty conditions they work in.
Desperate? Er, the unemployment rate in this country is 4.4%. Not exactly dire straights. Maybe you live in a crappy area, but the country at large is hardly suffering right now economically.
fewer than a third of teens with profiles use their last names
Is it me, or is 33% a hell of a lot of stupid teens? I don't if I would be crowing that that somehow proves that there isn't a problem with teens protecting their identities.
Microsoft complaining about a company locking competitors out? that's rich...
On the contrary, this is why Microsoft is dominant and Apple is tiny little niche player. Microsoft has ALWAYS generously courted developers for their platforms. They understand that they can't do it all... a vibrant third-party market means more people by Microsoft's platform. Why do you think there's no such thing as the "Microsoft PC"?
Apple has always been incredibly hostile to third parties.
"There is a sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that might be called the Twilight Zone."
How the hell does Jacko correlate the skill of properly aiming and discharging a firearm with moving a thumbstick and pressing a button on a control-pad? There is no link there!
Jack Thompson is indeed an idiot, but you're not helping with silly statements like this. The theory isn't that video games teach one how to fire a gun (truthfully, any fool can do that), but that it desensitizes certain people enough so that they're capable of performing the violence.
Obviously video games don't affect the vast majority of people, but I'm not prepared to say that they don't affect people predisposed to mental illness.
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So what's the issue here?
You obviously didn't RTFAs. The Obama campaign literally STOLE his myspace account from him. If they had just agreed to part company, there would be no issue.
Thanks for the interesting post!
and by counting the neap and spring cycles, covered it 10 feet deep in as little as four months.
Maybe this answers my question, but did animals and insects get trapped along with the plants? It would be fascinating to have an entire ecosystem frozen in time. But if it took four months, I'd guess all the moveable entities moved out before things got buried.
Is that just me?
No, it's not just you. I've been really disappointed with CFLs. The older they get, the longer the weird warm-up period gets before they become bright. But maybe it's just us. Other people tell me they don't experience the problem, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe the "better" (how do you tell?) ones don't do it.
What's the pollution/contamination potential for LED-equivalent screw-in bulbs?
LEDs, unfortunately, are way too dim right now for general-purpose lighting. They make great spotlights, but are lousy in terms in Lumens, and not that great in terms of Lumens/watt (before anyone argues with me, PLEASE compare lumens between LEDs and incandescents or CFLs).
Ted Stevens actually being prophetic, rather than just wrong.
You know, Stevens gets a totally bad rap on that whole thing. Exactly what is wrong with that analogy? Even UNIX uses the analogy with pipes; Ritchie* could have just easily called them tubes rather than pipes. And yes, the "tubes" of the Internet CAN get clogged up if there's too much flowing through them.
I've never understood why he took such a beating about it. I guess some people are just determined to believe the worst about people, as though the guy though the Internet was literally air-filled tubes.
They make a fuckton of demands on the public schools, but then they don't back it up with funding.
The kids are already there, the teacher's already there, the school's already there. What, exactly, is more money going to accomplish? Why can't they simply do their job?
Pardon my bluntness, but screw the whining teachers, and administrators and unions! MY demand is that they do their job, and every student better leave their classroom educated to the best of their abilities. The fact that the feds have to demand high standards is an absolutely shameful reflection of public schools.
And you consider the candidates fronted by the Big Two to not be extremist whackos? A politician is a politician.
That's just silly. As one example, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are going to sell off the national parks like the Libertarians promise to do.
American politics is so far to the right of sane that, from the outside, I don't see how you can claim to have a centerist never mind left wing option.
That's a feature, not a bug. :)
Spread the word, get people to look beyond the Republicrats, and then we have a chance to really shake things up.
And vote for who? All the 3rd parties are extremist wackos. When we have a viable candidate (Perot, before he went insane), people voted for the 3rd party.
I don't know about your school, but I can't believe the fire that was lit under my kid's school because of ECLB. They actually care whether the kids are learning now. Somehow it's bad to "teach to the test", but when the test is testing math, reading comprehension, etc, then I say that teachers SHOULD teach to the test.
The reason a lot of teachers don't like the ECLB is because they're suddenly being held accountable, and the union can't have that.
The best thing we can do for education is to completely destroy the teacher's union and the idea of tenure. But until that happens, the next best thing is testing and exposing the crappy schools, crappy principals and crappy teachers.
There is this thing called the metric system you know.
You know, there's nothing magic about the metric system. The ONLY benefit is easy conversion to different units. Who gives a damn? How often do you have to do that?
In some other ways, the metric system sucks. The range of Fahrenheit is much more useful in everyday life, centigrade is too compressed. A meter is too long, and a centimeter is too short, but a foot is a good, useful length (for some reason, no one uses decimeters, which is a bit more useful, though still too short). And 'foot' is a nice one-syllable word that rolls out of the mouth.
I've never heard of anyone in the workforce telling me to give 80% to 85% effort, why should school be different?
Becuase school is an artificial environment. In your workplace, you give effort toward producing something value. In school, the goal is education, which is not necessarily measured by grades.
Look, I don't expect everyone to understand my point. The biggest thing I learned from college before I dropped out was how artificial the whole thing was. There was nothing there one couldn't learn from reading a book about various subjects. I dropped out because I was already out in the world producing real things, not grades.
That's not to say that there aren't people who benefit from school -- there are. But the world-changing people are not created by school. They will change the world because of their nature, not because of the facts that were packed into their head.
Right now US schools are churing out corporate zombies that are discouraged from taking "uncool" and "too hard" classes like math and science. The Chineese and Indians are slowly surpassing Americans in talent and ability, while US schools are focusing on turing out MBAs.
Only if you think "school", which is only loosely correlated with "education", is the key to a successful future.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports.
I don't know about you, but the biggest drones I've ever known have been the types get the straight As and live to regurgitate information on school tests. Every decade we have stories like this about other countries that are going to surpass the United States because of how much better they can cough up answers on tests (the stories have been happening since AT LEAST the early 70s in my memory). And yet, it never seems to happen.
Why? I'll tell you why. And apologies in advance for this generalization. I know there are exceptions, but here is where the kernel of truth lies:
F-C students are the drones of the world. The A students are the ones good at memorizing, yet become drones when they get into the real world, because memorization only takes you so far. The B-B+ students tends to be the ones that are cruising through on their way to somewhere else. They don't care enough about school to get As, but are smart enough to get Bs without working hard.
It's in the middle where you have the smart AND creative people. They are the ones that move the world. Say what you want about the United States, but the one thing we do well is breed independence. You can't teach that, it's cultural. It has to be bred early.
So only people who aren't hungry would be noble for (re)solving world hunger?
Someone who is poor and hungry shouting that "everyone", including himself, should be fed is less noble, yes. He's using sympathy for the plight of the world for his personal gain. What is he sacrificing?
I don't fault Reeves for being rich (in fact, I'm in favor of being rich), but are you seriously comparing creating the iPod to doing great works for humanity?
In other words, good work is good work, whether or not there is personal gain.
Good work is good work, but motivations do matter when determining how much praise you heap on someone. Hey, I'm not trying to rain on Reeve's parade, who by all accounts was a really nice guy. But the level of worship that follows him around is not necessarily justified.
What was super about him was his ability to still contribute to society as a quadriplegic.
Well, he was a quadraplegic with a lot of money who wanted to be cured, and thus spent a lot of money on himself. That's not as high on the respect-o-meter as someone who does things without a personal stake.
As if American chocolate wasn't bad enough as it is...
Sheesh. You do realize that the USA is a really, really big place, right? There are literally thousands of chocolate makers. I assume this insightful comment is based on sampling each and every one of them, right? (I know this is insightful because, after all, Slashdot moderated it so).
In other news, America makes great beer, wine, cheese, ice cream, meat, etc, etc, etc -- and also awful examples of the latter products, depending on the price you want to pay.
I'm too lazy to go hunting around, but EXACTLY these sort of comments were being made when XP came out. And it'll be the same story this time around. Once people get used to Vista via new computers purchases, the rest of the computers will follow.
Thats why we need to break the two party system.
I'm tired of the whining about the two-party system. There ARE more than two candidates -- the other ones are eliminated through the primary elections.
Actually a surprising amount of people are Libertarian to some degree. People just don't vote third party because they don't think third party will win, and because the party in power always gives money to big parties.
That's one reason people don't vote third party, but it's not the dominant one. The reason people don't typically vote for third parties is because all the third parties are extremist wackos (yes, including (or especially, if you prefer) the Libertarians). When we had a relatively legitimate third party candidate (Perot) before he self-destructed, he got a sizeable part of the vote.
Let me get this straight. As long as Castro embraces software freedom, actual political freedom is irrelevant in Stallman's world.
This is the same man who links to impeach Bush sites -- presumably not because of Bush's lack of embracing software freedom, though based on the current evidence, Stallman would forgive Bush for everything if he would embrace free software.
With the state of the economy in this country, men are more desperate for work, and therefore have less leverage to change the shitty conditions they work in.
Desperate? Er, the unemployment rate in this country is 4.4%. Not exactly dire straights. Maybe you live in a crappy area, but the country at large is hardly suffering right now economically.
fewer than a third of teens with profiles use their last names
Is it me, or is 33% a hell of a lot of stupid teens? I don't if I would be crowing that that somehow proves that there isn't a problem with teens protecting their identities.
Microsoft complaining about a company locking competitors out? that's rich...
On the contrary, this is why Microsoft is dominant and Apple is tiny little niche player. Microsoft has ALWAYS generously courted developers for their platforms. They understand that they can't do it all... a vibrant third-party market means more people by Microsoft's platform. Why do you think there's no such thing as the "Microsoft PC"?
Apple has always been incredibly hostile to third parties.
As usual, Rod predicted this:
"There is a sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that might be called the Twilight Zone."
My radio doesn't suck. Of course, I listen mostly to the classical station.
How the hell does Jacko correlate the skill of properly aiming and discharging a firearm with moving a thumbstick and pressing a button on a control-pad? There is no link there!
Jack Thompson is indeed an idiot, but you're not helping with silly statements like this. The theory isn't that video games teach one how to fire a gun (truthfully, any fool can do that), but that it desensitizes certain people enough so that they're capable of performing the violence.
Obviously video games don't affect the vast majority of people, but I'm not prepared to say that they don't affect people predisposed to mental illness.