I'm not a veterinarian, but my spouse is, so I'm in contact with veterinarians regularly. In the majority of cases, these vets entered school with the idea that they would be spending the rest of their lives helping animals and are bitterly disappointed with the reality of ear/tail docking, convenience euthanasia, and the lack of will when confronted with clients who should probably not have pets (neglect, abuse, etc.) - "there's always another vet who will work with these people if I lay down the law."
Do you feel that you and your fellow faculty members are preparing your students for the realities of general practice? Are the veterinarians I'm describing simply being naive?
The biggest market that needs to be tapped is the "average" computer user at home. People need to feel that Linux is user friendly and can easily do everything that they want to do.
I see this a lot. Can you explain why Linux needs to tap any markets?
Why does copyright exist (theoretically)? To give an incentive for creation. Why was it necessary when it was made into the constitution? Because printing was expensive and had a barrier of entry. Today that barrier is very, very small, so we don't get too much in return for that incentive, but the damage it creates to have long copyright terms or copyright at all, is huge.
Since the barrier to creation of new cultural content is so low today, why is there not an incredible flood of same? Your implication that DRM and copyright are preventing potential Rembrandts, Beethovens, and Poes from producing new content is absurd.
If you can't create new cultural content without wholesale copying of the work of others, perhaps your talent lies elsewhere. There's plenty of new content available since the advent of essentially free worldwide publishing. Sturgeon's Law is optimistic in the extreme.
Certainly, current US copyright term lengths are silly. But to assert that one cannot produce Art due to DRM and copyright is equally so.
I think you meant they live for the moment. Living for the future would be something to be proud of... it would indicate insight and planning.
No, thinking about the future distracts you from living in the moment, where everything is "real". These Eloi believe that planning for the future is gauche. Unfortunately, they also believe that the Electricity Fairy and the Food Fairy will provide for them in their idyllic future while all the poor, planning Morlocks are in the grave, having lived unfulfilled, frustrated lives.
Anyone have any other simple, cheap, and education little home ideas (for my crew targetted at age 7-10, though anything would be nice)?
While ejecting all the contents of a 2L bottle of soda in a few ms is fun, making soda (ginger ale, specifically) can teach about basic microbiology, cooking, as well as influence your child's palate toward flavors they're not likely to experience otherwise. With any luck they'll get into making beer in their late teens and be willing to keep you in quality suds through your dotage!
I'm sorry, but what you have said is a total stereotype. Look at police and fire departments.
This analogy is invalid unless your fire departments carry their own individual water supplies or the police precincts are responsible for maintaining the roads they use. I'm sure there are other problems with it, but those are the most obvious.
You: "Oh well, looks like I'll have to cancel your card and go with these guys. Pleasure doing business with you."
Just make sure that other offer isn't ficticious if you plan on following through on your promise to cancel. Most credit card agreements allow for the immediate full payment of any outstanding balance if the account is closed by the customer.
How do you jackasses mod this jackass up, when he's equating driving an SUV with murder?
Not that I agree with the grandparent, but you might want to try reading for content before your knee jerks uncontrollably. He wasn't equating driving an SUV with murder. He was referring to the people that die in accidents with SUVs being driven without care.
And "the Green Taliban"? Now who's throwing around words?
While it is lamentable that a (likely) fake paper will be a setback for stem cell research, I can't help but see it as a blow for all of the sciences. There have been other instances where top science publications released falsified or outright bogus papers, but I believe that this one stands out by virtue of its controversial subject.
This is how self-regulation in science works, regardless of the subject of research. The controversy in the lay community is irrlevant. Fake your reasearch, lose your career. Period. As long as the scientific community lives by that simple rule, it is functioning properly and no amount of celebrity/controversy changes that. If the "every cell is sacred" crowd wants to bleat about it, that's their business.
Manny's?!?!?! Dear god no. Have you ever been in that place? Anecdote has it that the best time to eat there is when Manny (RIP?) is passed out and you can go into the kitchen and cook for yourself.
One of the problems of learning a language like python first, is that it doens't teach you anything about proper dynamic memory allocation, the use of pointers, the use of operating system APIs, etc.
One person's problem is another's blessing. Who are these people that know about proper dynamic memory allocation? Surely you're not talking about the people writing the code responsible for all stack-smashing bugs out there. Not having to worry about dynamic memory allocation and pointers is a Good Thing. I like C as much as the next person but it has its place. The domain of C is not nearly as wide as its use would suggest.
Languages like Python are great for jobs that are not CPU-bound. Memory allocation and OS APIs should be neatly abstracted away if you're doing anything other than systems programming.
If you're talking about the orign of man and life from non-life, there are many [holes in evolution].
The origin of life from non-life is not evolution, it is abiogenesis. Evolution != abiogenesis nor is it a sub/superset thereof. Just to head you off at the pass, evolution also has nothing to do with the big bang.
[... it] is madness to develop a student's mind by inculcating in him an uncritical attitude towards received wisdom and a habitual trust of experts and intellectual authorities.
The quoted statement is true. What does this have to do with the forced teaching of religion or fantasy in a science class? Teach religion in a religion class. Discuss fantasy in a literature class. Teach science in a science class.
The article states than anyons were proposed 30 years ago and that the theory predicts them. This paper describes an experiment that claims to have confirmed the theory. Where is this flaw you're talking about?
If this can be done using "standard materials", as the article mentions, one wonders if our calculated estimates of distance to stars could be off, considering all the unknowns outside the solar system.
Generally, the speed of light is used only for "close" objects. For objects outside of the solar system, other properties are used including parallax, spectral type, and luminosity. None of these properties depend on the speed of light. Here is an informative link on methods used at various distance scales.
By "control of the Internet" one means "physical control of the root DNS servers."
It is possible to set up a DNS server and convince people to use it as a root server.
Control of the physical infrastructure comprising the various networks will remain in the hands of those who maintain jurisdiction over the physical area in which such infrastructure lies.
Assuming the above statements are true, then those wanting to "wrest control of the Internet" from the U.S. are pols simply ignorant of how the Internet works. They've got a bug up their collective ass because somebody told them that the US controls teh internets and gee we can't have that.
If I'm wrong about any of these things, please let me know and explain the error in my thinking.
Moving the generation of usable energy (along with the inherent pollution) to a place other than that of the vehicle's operation does not "harm our environment less". It merely moves the pollution away from the car. Also, the manufacture and disposal of batteries is hardly environmentally friendly.
So I'm torn to even begin to support anything the guy or the new name of the computer entertainment mafia. But they are right.
Unfortunately this is one of those cases where "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". It's a bitter pill to swallow, but if this legislation isn't overturned then modding/emulation may become moot.
I decided to try out Linux, so I downloaded Ubuntu and ran the boot disk. Unfortunately, both my hard drives are NTFS, and Ubuntu doesn't know how to partition them. After half an hour looking around the net for a way to partition an NTFS drive without endangering the data on that drive, I gave up. No Linux for me, because I'm not willing to endanger all my system files or buy a new hard drive just to play around with another OS. "Insert disk and press Enter" my ass.
First off, there is no such thing as an "NTFS Drive". NTFS is a type of filesystem (hence NTFS).It's impossible to say for sure, but from what you say, your entire drive is a monolithic NTFS partition. An adequate comparison to windows would be for you to present it with a drive partitioned entirely with, say, ext3 and/or linux swap partitions. What does the windows installer have to say about this situation? "Unknown partition types, do you wish to obliterate them?"
I don't know about CD-ROM, mice, or USB, but I spent plenty of time in a heterogeneous shop hanging special dongles off of the macs in order to get them to talk to the other machines with internal ethernet cards. Does the name Farallon mean anything to you?
Perhaps we will discover that the E deviates from mc^2 when temperatures are very high or very low or m is very large or magnetic fields are especially strong
Interestingly, these conditions provide a good verification of the relationship between energy and mass. High energy photons (no mass) in extremely strong magnetic fields (e.g. near massive stars or in particle accelerators) lead to the creation of electron/positron pairs (with mass).
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Wicca was invented in the west.
Using "western" as a pejorative is a near certain indicator that you're dealing with woo.
Dr. Grandin,
I'm not a veterinarian, but my spouse is, so I'm in contact with veterinarians regularly. In the majority of cases, these vets entered school with the idea that they would be spending the rest of their lives helping animals and are bitterly disappointed with the reality of ear/tail docking, convenience euthanasia, and the lack of will when confronted with clients who should probably not have pets (neglect, abuse, etc.) - "there's always another vet who will work with these people if I lay down the law."
Do you feel that you and your fellow faculty members are preparing your students for the realities of general practice? Are the veterinarians I'm describing simply being naive?
Thanks very much for your time.
To righties in the US, spending money on something they don't like is called socialism.
The biggest market that needs to be tapped is the "average" computer user at home. People need to feel that Linux is user friendly and can easily do everything that they want to do.
I see this a lot. Can you explain why Linux needs to tap any markets?
Why does copyright exist (theoretically)? To give an incentive for creation. Why was it necessary when it was made into the constitution? Because printing was expensive and had a barrier of entry. Today that barrier is very, very small, so we don't get too much in return for that incentive, but the damage it creates to have long copyright terms or copyright at all, is huge.
Since the barrier to creation of new cultural content is so low today, why is there not an incredible flood of same? Your implication that DRM and copyright are preventing potential Rembrandts, Beethovens, and Poes from producing new content is absurd.
If you can't create new cultural content without wholesale copying of the work of others, perhaps your talent lies elsewhere. There's plenty of new content available since the advent of essentially free worldwide publishing. Sturgeon's Law is optimistic in the extreme.
Certainly, current US copyright term lengths are silly. But to assert that one cannot produce Art due to DRM and copyright is equally so.
I think you meant they live for the moment. Living for the future would be something to be proud of... it would indicate insight and planning.
No, thinking about the future distracts you from living in the moment, where everything is "real". These Eloi believe that planning for the future is gauche. Unfortunately, they also believe that the Electricity Fairy and the Food Fairy will provide for them in their idyllic future while all the poor, planning Morlocks are in the grave, having lived unfulfilled, frustrated lives.
Anyone have any other simple, cheap, and education little home ideas (for my crew targetted at age 7-10, though anything would be nice)?
While ejecting all the contents of a 2L bottle of soda in a few ms is fun, making soda (ginger ale, specifically) can teach about basic microbiology, cooking, as well as influence your child's palate toward flavors they're not likely to experience otherwise. With any luck they'll get into making beer in their late teens and be willing to keep you in quality suds through your dotage!
I'm sorry, but what you have said is a total stereotype. Look at police and fire departments.
This analogy is invalid unless your fire departments carry their own individual water supplies or the police precincts are responsible for maintaining the roads they use. I'm sure there are other problems with it, but those are the most obvious.
You: "Oh well, looks like I'll have to cancel your card and go with these guys. Pleasure doing business with you."
Just make sure that other offer isn't ficticious if you plan on following through on your promise to cancel. Most credit card agreements allow for the immediate full payment of any outstanding balance if the account is closed by the customer.
How do you jackasses mod this jackass up, when he's equating driving an SUV with murder?
Not that I agree with the grandparent, but you might want to try reading for content before your knee jerks uncontrollably. He wasn't equating driving an SUV with murder. He was referring to the people that die in accidents with SUVs being driven without care.
And "the Green Taliban"? Now who's throwing around words?
What, you don't like a high-yield crystite mine?
While it is lamentable that a (likely) fake paper will be a setback for stem cell research, I can't help but see it as a blow for all of the sciences. There have been other instances where top science publications released falsified or outright bogus papers, but I believe that this one stands out by virtue of its controversial subject.
This is how self-regulation in science works, regardless of the subject of research. The controversy in the lay community is irrlevant. Fake your reasearch, lose your career. Period. As long as the scientific community lives by that simple rule, it is functioning properly and no amount of celebrity/controversy changes that. If the "every cell is sacred" crowd wants to bleat about it, that's their business.
Manny's?!?!?! Dear god no. Have you ever been in that place? Anecdote has it that the best time to eat there is when Manny (RIP?) is passed out and you can go into the kitchen and cook for yourself.
One of the problems of learning a language like python first, is that it doens't teach you anything about proper dynamic memory allocation, the use of pointers, the use of operating system APIs, etc.
One person's problem is another's blessing. Who are these people that know about proper dynamic memory allocation? Surely you're not talking about the people writing the code responsible for all stack-smashing bugs out there. Not having to worry about dynamic memory allocation and pointers is a Good Thing. I like C as much as the next person but it has its place. The domain of C is not nearly as wide as its use would suggest.
Languages like Python are great for jobs that are not CPU-bound. Memory allocation and OS APIs should be neatly abstracted away if you're doing anything other than systems programming.
If you're talking about the orign of man and life from non-life, there are many [holes in evolution].
The origin of life from non-life is not evolution, it is abiogenesis. Evolution != abiogenesis nor is it a sub/superset thereof. Just to head you off at the pass, evolution also has nothing to do with the big bang.
[... it] is madness to develop a student's mind by inculcating in him an uncritical attitude towards received wisdom and a habitual trust of experts and intellectual authorities.
The quoted statement is true. What does this have to do with the forced teaching of religion or fantasy in a science class? Teach religion in a religion class. Discuss fantasy in a literature class. Teach science in a science class.
The article states than anyons were proposed 30 years ago and that the theory predicts them. This paper describes an experiment that claims to have confirmed the theory. Where is this flaw you're talking about?
If this can be done using "standard materials", as the article mentions, one wonders if our calculated estimates of distance to stars could be off, considering all the unknowns outside the solar system.
Generally, the speed of light is used only for "close" objects. For objects outside of the solar system, other properties are used including parallax, spectral type, and luminosity. None of these properties depend on the speed of light. Here is an informative link on methods used at various distance scales.
If this is a problem for god, then fuck 'im.
Please tell me if I understand the situation:
By "control of the Internet" one means "physical control of the root DNS servers."
It is possible to set up a DNS server and convince people to use it as a root server.
Control of the physical infrastructure comprising the various networks will remain in the hands of those who maintain jurisdiction over the physical area in which such infrastructure lies.
Assuming the above statements are true, then those wanting to "wrest control of the Internet" from the U.S. are pols simply ignorant of how the Internet works. They've got a bug up their collective ass because somebody told them that the US controls teh internets and gee we can't have that.
If I'm wrong about any of these things, please let me know and explain the error in my thinking.
Moving the generation of usable energy (along with the inherent pollution) to a place other than that of the vehicle's operation does not "harm our environment less". It merely moves the pollution away from the car. Also, the manufacture and disposal of batteries is hardly environmentally friendly.
Unfortunately this is one of those cases where "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". It's a bitter pill to swallow, but if this legislation isn't overturned then modding/emulation may become moot.
First off, there is no such thing as an "NTFS Drive". NTFS is a type of filesystem (hence NTFS).It's impossible to say for sure, but from what you say, your entire drive is a monolithic NTFS partition. An adequate comparison to windows would be for you to present it with a drive partitioned entirely with, say, ext3 and/or linux swap partitions. What does the windows installer have to say about this situation? "Unknown partition types, do you wish to obliterate them?"
I don't know about CD-ROM, mice, or USB, but I spent plenty of time in a heterogeneous shop hanging special dongles off of the macs in order to get them to talk to the other machines with internal ethernet cards. Does the name Farallon mean anything to you?
Perhaps we will discover that the E deviates from mc^2 when temperatures are very high or very low or m is very large or magnetic fields are especially strong
Interestingly, these conditions provide a good verification of the relationship between energy and mass. High energy photons (no mass) in extremely strong magnetic fields (e.g. near massive stars or in particle accelerators) lead to the creation of electron/positron pairs (with mass).