I use Parallels 7 in OSX and it runs full screen on a separate virtual screen so it's not much different than a real Windows machine other than performance.
I bought Windows 8 only because I could upgrade from Windows Vista 32-bit Business for $39. Windows 8 is very good and they made some nice improvements (e.g. Task Manager, file copy operations, IE10, Windows Defender, etc.). Plus, it's pretty quick for Windows in a VM. First thing I did was install Start8 to regain Windows 7-style Start menu and bypass Metro screen at login. I think the Windows AppStore is a POS (can't search, WTF) and Metro/Charms are a disaster on a desktop. SP1 will hopefully allow the user to disable Metro and reenable the start menu at which point sales will pick up.
BTW, I'm a Mac and Linux user so I want to dislike Windows 8 but it's solid other than the previously mentioned issues which are easily circumvented (for $5).
One of the most spot on posts I've seen here in a while; touche. I'd be more fearful of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program but even that monstrosity won't FUBAR the ozone...the ionosphere and/or localized weather maybe, but rest easy, your beloved ozone layer is safe for now.
On land, the biomass of plants is usually greater than the biomass of herbivores, which is greater than the biomass of carnivores. The reason for this is that every chemical process releases energy in the form of heat. So producers can use only part of the energy from the sun to build their bodies; the rest is lost as heat. In the same way, consumers can use only part of the energy in plants to build their own bodies; the rest is lost as heat. Each trophic level passes along only about
10 percent of the energy from the one below. This generalization is called the 10 percent law.
The 10 percent law explains why ecosystems have so few trophic levels and so few individuals at the highest trophic levels. If on a square meter of land, primary consumers store 15,000 kcal/year, herbivores will be able to consume only about 1,500 kcal/year from that meter, and herbivore-eating carnivores will only get 150 kcals, about as many calories as are in a cup of spaghetti. Carnivores must, therefore, roam over large areas to obtain enough to eat.
This is all IAW the laws of thermodynamics...as you go higher up the food chain you consume more of the lower trophic level than you provide to the next stage up the food chain. This is why influencing a community to eat their food at the lowest trophic level makes sense (in a conservation of energy sense, not a flavor sense).
I read on the Internets Apple just patented the process of sueing some entity; from henceforth, anyone caught violating that patent will ironically be sued.
Is that before or after he cheats on his wife with that burrito? We'd all be vegetarians if meat wasn't so tasty. I understand India's population is a tad high and a vegetarian diet would make it easier to feed everyone, but blatantly lying to children won't gain any confidence with the government. They need to level with people and explain the benefits of not eating meat if that's their goal.
I bet OpenOffice could as well but the Germans had to do things the old way and OpenOffice wouldn't do that. Whatever functionality they were missing in OpenOffice would have been worked-around but sometimes the path of least resistance simply involves throwing (someone else's) money at the problem.
Wasn't a huge reason Apple implemented the "walled garden" approach was to minimize malware? Compare Android and iOS malware and you'll see it has worked (http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2012/10/ios-vs-android-security-comparison.html). I agree it's annoying but at least it has some benefit...I have never had an instance where I couldn't find a program in the AppStore that did exactly what I needed.
In the case of this article, Apple is doing what they are legally obliged to do...protect someone's (idiotic though legal) trademark on a common word. We all should be up in arms...heck, why can grocery stores sell apples or why can people have those windows in their homes without paying royalties? This is the problem.
You knew what you were getting with an i-Device when you bought it so you have no leg to stand on.
We used to America the Melting Pot, where different groups of people and cultures mixed and became more homogenous. Today we see groups wanting to be recognized for something other than "American" and continuing their culture but living in America. A common culture is what I'm afraid of losing and eliminating traditions, religion, not having a common language, etc. are all steps towards that goal. It may be a natural thing to congregate around those like you but I think America is a much richer country when we assimilate towards each other...kind of a merging of hundreds of cultures, languages, backgrounds, etc. to what I'd consider "American" (e.g. the Melting Pot analogy). Sorry to ramble but it's early and I haven't had my coffee.
I'm not against those movements either, I would prefer groups to gain acceptance then homogenize.
A few years back I used iPhoto and it had facial recognition software built-in. When I went through training it, it mis-labeled faced but it did so along family lineage. For example, it would think my dad was me or vice-versa.
I currently have a program called PhotoSweeper (http://overmacs.com/photosweeper/) which uses five different methods to find duplicate images. It doesn't use facial recognition but instead it compared the bitmaps and/or histograms with a user-changeable threshold (e.g. identify really close matches or kind of close matches). Very accurate and it would work if you had flat images without layers.
But is it good to mark people of different aptitudes differently?
If I'm hiring an accountant, do I think it's ok that they can't do math because their race isn't good at it? Or do I want the math done right and don't care who does it?
Obviously you'd have to look at an applicant's aptitude and not the applicant's race's aptitude.
Telling someone who got less than 50% that they are great at that subject just because their skin is a certain colour doesn't do them any favours in the future.
Agreed, hire/fire based largely on performance (the rest are team dynamics-related).
Yes, we need to look at how individual students learn and apply different teaching and learning strategies depending on the student. And when there is blatant racism occurring, we should loudly yell "it's racism".
Not doing so isn't helping anyone, and is harming a significant portion of the American population.
I agree. We need to work to make schools better for every student.
In average? Probably not, but so what? There are many other groups in which you could separate the kids - say, number of parents in home - and you'd probably get different averages as well. Grouping by "race" is arbitrary.
Also, the groups themselves show that, because they're bogus: there's no such thing as an "Asian" race.
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That's exactly why we shouldn't make up arbitrary groups of people.
Averages are a method to look at a population but it excludes the individuals which should be the focus. Grouping by race is probably pretty arbitrary but grouping by culture may not be. The book Freakonomics suggested children of African descent who did well in school were teased for being sell outs and acting white. Conversely, children of countries that were influenced by China in the past put education, respect for elders, and support for family as their top issues. Of course these values may erode somewhat as their descendants live in America a long time, but I would suggest it is one possible way to explain some of the factors that affect the different groups of children in our schools.
You mentioned number of parents, are there any studies that correlate this or are you throwing out ideas? I think this type of discussion needs to be pushed to the top of the list for our country right after the economy as it's so important. Also, are the tests skewed to favor or hurt certain groups or not?
Finally, what are the current actions by our country impacting our future? Gay marriage, legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding gambling, eliminating Christian and Jewish religion from public places, no Pledge of Allegiance in schools, etc. are hot topics. Are they worth eroding at what was previously considered "American values" or are we just becoming a more hedonistic and accepting society? I dunno, but I do know we've changed a lot and worry that our priorities are on our personal freedoms and not on our education, culture, and the future of our country.
How will this encourage racism? Are we to think all races learn all subjects equally in school? How about men and women's learning abilities and aptitudes? What about athletics, are we all the same there as well? The truth is, we're all a little different, either through genetics or through culture and environment, and we need to stop yelling "it's racism" and instead look at how we're different. We should emphasize our strengths while working to improve our weaknesses.
I think a good first step is to encourage and promote how cool it is to know stuff, to not have to Google every fact, and to stop glamorizing actors, actresses, musicians, athletes, etc. My in-laws are first generation (South) Korean-Americans and their children are pushed to learn and study so much more than I was and I consider myself to have been motivated to learn when I was growing up (I read a TON of non-fiction).
This problem is primarily a cultural problem with a few contributing factors such as teachers abilities, unions, etc. I think funding is a minor issue as funding does not equate to schools with high performing students.
Just saying the anti-Apple fanbois spew just as much anti-Apple comments as the pro-Apple fanbois do pro-apple comments. I thought it was ironic and don't think it relevant if the underlying comment was on point or not (it was)...it was the fact he/she was cueing the pro-Apple mob when he already formed an anti-Apple mob (figuratively because torches and pitchfork combo sets don't go on sale until after Thanksgiving...unless you opt for the iTorch and the iPitchfork which will allow the user to prod and protest much more condescendingly).
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I use Parallels 7 in OSX and it runs full screen on a separate virtual screen so it's not much different than a real Windows machine other than performance.
Austin Power's really messed my mind up regarding rockets: http://www.rocketreviews.com/descon-dr-evils-pocket-rocket-scott-turnbull.html
Guess I better not blindly install updates and see what other's complain about. I'm not too worried.
Ahhh...thanks for the tip. Not particularly intuitive but good to know they didn't omit this.
I bought Windows 8 only because I could upgrade from Windows Vista 32-bit Business for $39. Windows 8 is very good and they made some nice improvements (e.g. Task Manager, file copy operations, IE10, Windows Defender, etc.). Plus, it's pretty quick for Windows in a VM. First thing I did was install Start8 to regain Windows 7-style Start menu and bypass Metro screen at login. I think the Windows AppStore is a POS (can't search, WTF) and Metro/Charms are a disaster on a desktop. SP1 will hopefully allow the user to disable Metro and reenable the start menu at which point sales will pick up.
BTW, I'm a Mac and Linux user so I want to dislike Windows 8 but it's solid other than the previously mentioned issues which are easily circumvented (for $5).
One of the most spot on posts I've seen here in a while; touche. I'd be more fearful of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program but even that monstrosity won't FUBAR the ozone...the ionosphere and/or localized weather maybe, but rest easy, your beloved ozone layer is safe for now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
Let's hope this doesn't prompt a huge influx of mice moving into the Chicago area since they seem to have the best lab-rat health care in the nation.
This /. posting brought to you by the CEO of Pengpod (e.g. lame way to advertise a product for free).
One of my favorites:
Windows has detected your mouse has moved and must restart for changes to take effect.
On land, the biomass of plants is usually greater than the biomass of herbivores, which is greater than the biomass of carnivores. The reason for this is that every chemical process releases energy in the form of heat. So producers can use only part of the energy from the sun to build their bodies; the rest is lost as heat. In the same way, consumers can use only part of the energy in plants to build their own bodies; the rest is lost as heat. Each trophic level passes along only about
10 percent of the energy from the one below. This generalization is called the 10 percent law.
The 10 percent law explains why ecosystems have so few trophic levels and so few individuals at the highest trophic levels. If on a square meter of land, primary consumers store 15,000 kcal/year, herbivores will be able to consume only about 1,500 kcal/year from that meter, and herbivore-eating carnivores will only get 150 kcals, about as many calories as are in a cup of spaghetti. Carnivores must, therefore, roam over large areas to obtain enough to eat.
This is all IAW the laws of thermodynamics...as you go higher up the food chain you consume more of the lower trophic level than you provide to the next stage up the food chain. This is why influencing a community to eat their food at the lowest trophic level makes sense (in a conservation of energy sense, not a flavor sense).
I read on the Internets Apple just patented the process of sueing some entity; from henceforth, anyone caught violating that patent will ironically be sued.
Is that before or after he cheats on his wife with that burrito? We'd all be vegetarians if meat wasn't so tasty. I understand India's population is a tad high and a vegetarian diet would make it easier to feed everyone, but blatantly lying to children won't gain any confidence with the government. They need to level with people and explain the benefits of not eating meat if that's their goal.
All your base are belong to us.
I bet OpenOffice could as well but the Germans had to do things the old way and OpenOffice wouldn't do that. Whatever functionality they were missing in OpenOffice would have been worked-around but sometimes the path of least resistance simply involves throwing (someone else's) money at the problem.
Good to see Congress working on the important issues of the day...must mean the economy is either fixed or too FUBARed to bother with.
Foiled again...that's not what I meant :)
Wasn't a huge reason Apple implemented the "walled garden" approach was to minimize malware? Compare Android and iOS malware and you'll see it has worked (http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2012/10/ios-vs-android-security-comparison.html). I agree it's annoying but at least it has some benefit...I have never had an instance where I couldn't find a program in the AppStore that did exactly what I needed.
In the case of this article, Apple is doing what they are legally obliged to do...protect someone's (idiotic though legal) trademark on a common word. We all should be up in arms...heck, why can grocery stores sell apples or why can people have those windows in their homes without paying royalties? This is the problem.
You knew what you were getting with an i-Device when you bought it so you have no leg to stand on.
We used to America the Melting Pot, where different groups of people and cultures mixed and became more homogenous. Today we see groups wanting to be recognized for something other than "American" and continuing their culture but living in America. A common culture is what I'm afraid of losing and eliminating traditions, religion, not having a common language, etc. are all steps towards that goal. It may be a natural thing to congregate around those like you but I think America is a much richer country when we assimilate towards each other...kind of a merging of hundreds of cultures, languages, backgrounds, etc. to what I'd consider "American" (e.g. the Melting Pot analogy). Sorry to ramble but it's early and I haven't had my coffee.
I'm not against those movements either, I would prefer groups to gain acceptance then homogenize.
A few years back I used iPhoto and it had facial recognition software built-in. When I went through training it, it mis-labeled faced but it did so along family lineage. For example, it would think my dad was me or vice-versa.
I currently have a program called PhotoSweeper (http://overmacs.com/photosweeper/) which uses five different methods to find duplicate images. It doesn't use facial recognition but instead it compared the bitmaps and/or histograms with a user-changeable threshold (e.g. identify really close matches or kind of close matches). Very accurate and it would work if you had flat images without layers.
But is it good to mark people of different aptitudes differently?
If I'm hiring an accountant, do I think it's ok that they can't do math because their race isn't good at it? Or do I want the math done right and don't care who does it?
Obviously you'd have to look at an applicant's aptitude and not the applicant's race's aptitude.
Telling someone who got less than 50% that they are great at that subject just because their skin is a certain colour doesn't do them any favours in the future.
Agreed, hire/fire based largely on performance (the rest are team dynamics-related).
Yes, we need to look at how individual students learn and apply different teaching and learning strategies depending on the student. And when there is blatant racism occurring, we should loudly yell "it's racism".
Not doing so isn't helping anyone, and is harming a significant portion of the American population.
I agree. We need to work to make schools better for every student.
In average? Probably not, but so what? There are many other groups in which you could separate the kids - say, number of parents in home - and you'd probably get different averages as well. Grouping by "race" is arbitrary.
Also, the groups themselves show that, because they're bogus: there's no such thing as an "Asian" race.
That's exactly why we shouldn't make up arbitrary groups of people.
Averages are a method to look at a population but it excludes the individuals which should be the focus. Grouping by race is probably pretty arbitrary but grouping by culture may not be. The book Freakonomics suggested children of African descent who did well in school were teased for being sell outs and acting white. Conversely, children of countries that were influenced by China in the past put education, respect for elders, and support for family as their top issues. Of course these values may erode somewhat as their descendants live in America a long time, but I would suggest it is one possible way to explain some of the factors that affect the different groups of children in our schools.
You mentioned number of parents, are there any studies that correlate this or are you throwing out ideas? I think this type of discussion needs to be pushed to the top of the list for our country right after the economy as it's so important. Also, are the tests skewed to favor or hurt certain groups or not?
Finally, what are the current actions by our country impacting our future? Gay marriage, legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding gambling, eliminating Christian and Jewish religion from public places, no Pledge of Allegiance in schools, etc. are hot topics. Are they worth eroding at what was previously considered "American values" or are we just becoming a more hedonistic and accepting society? I dunno, but I do know we've changed a lot and worry that our priorities are on our personal freedoms and not on our education, culture, and the future of our country.
How will this encourage racism? Are we to think all races learn all subjects equally in school? How about men and women's learning abilities and aptitudes? What about athletics, are we all the same there as well? The truth is, we're all a little different, either through genetics or through culture and environment, and we need to stop yelling "it's racism" and instead look at how we're different. We should emphasize our strengths while working to improve our weaknesses.
I think a good first step is to encourage and promote how cool it is to know stuff, to not have to Google every fact, and to stop glamorizing actors, actresses, musicians, athletes, etc. My in-laws are first generation (South) Korean-Americans and their children are pushed to learn and study so much more than I was and I consider myself to have been motivated to learn when I was growing up (I read a TON of non-fiction).
This problem is primarily a cultural problem with a few contributing factors such as teachers abilities, unions, etc. I think funding is a minor issue as funding does not equate to schools with high performing students.
Sam Adams makes a good seasonal beer with coffee underpinnings. Pretty dang tasty.
Just saying the anti-Apple fanbois spew just as much anti-Apple comments as the pro-Apple fanbois do pro-apple comments. I thought it was ironic and don't think it relevant if the underlying comment was on point or not (it was)...it was the fact he/she was cueing the pro-Apple mob when he already formed an anti-Apple mob (figuratively because torches and pitchfork combo sets don't go on sale until after Thanksgiving...unless you opt for the iTorch and the iPitchfork which will allow the user to prod and protest much more condescendingly).