If I understand correctly, the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," actually intended that book to be a historical perspective presenting the concept that the holy grail is the bloodline of Jesus. IE, they intended the work to present what they believe to be an actual historical event.
If that's the case, then I'm copyrighting the American Revolution, in my new book, "McGraw Hill: Reflections on American History."
You guys did an excellent job with my grandfather's funeral, and my family really appreciated it.
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Yup. I think that a lot of people critical of this matter don't realize that:
1) You can't just tell a soldier to learn the bugle and expect anything that is reasonable for a funeral. 2) You can't just tell a professional musician to stand in the place of a soldier.
I think that the average user knows what FireFox is and doesn't care about it. I'm sure that they have heard of it (they don't live in a bubble) and that they understand it (they're not the "e" in the "whee" commercial). They just use IE and don't see how their lives would be much different for using FireFox.
HTML may have been your gateway drug, but calling HTML a programming langauge is like calling LaTeX a programming language. It's just not a programming language.
I was thinking more along the lines of the heroism that was attached to scientists, even by the media. When I was a kid, you couldn't walk without tripping over a VHS of a movie that lionized astronauts, and portrayed science as cool (weird science... space camp (everybody envied the kids going to space camp, there was even a made for tv movie about space camp)... watching shuttle launches on tv).
What do they have now? Rap? The older rappers weren't the breed that you have now, even the gangsta rappers. Modern gangsta rap lionizes selling drugs, killing, pimping... so on. Kids emulate this stuff (they don't do it, they just pretend to be part of it).
I didn't pretend to become a thug... I really went to school, and I'm really getting "Dr." thrown in front of my name. I was really shocked when I moved to the YUPPIE high school to see kids pretending to be in gangs, when I moved from an area that really had gangs and kids who DIDN'T want to be in them.
1) What's NCLB? 2) I don't think that that's changed so much. I never got into the school gifted program, but got into the John's Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and am now pursuing my PhD. I guess that the county gifted program criteria wasn't so hot.
As far as not amounting to anything. When I was a kid, they were pushing vocational computer skills like it was crack. They seriously thought that this crap would make you successful.
As for amounting to anything. For the most part, you really don't have to be smart to amount to anything in life. Remember that major league baseball players make tons more money than professors do, and nobody even watches baseball. They also get more girls.
On the other hand, perhaps you have a genuine interest in science, and really will do something that changes the world. I don't want to discourage a budding scientist. There are other, more important merits to such pursuits.
Still, you can be not terribly bright and have the money, the girls, and the mansion. I guess it depends on how you define "making something of yourself."
Is this a bad thing? Yes, it sucks. Should we care? Eh, I don't really know if I care or not, as long as I'm not stuck with the "geeks" who don't understand anything about computers. Do you think the desire to program computers has declined in the younger generations? Yes If so, what reasons might you cite as the cause? I don't know. When I was a kid. Video games were all the rage, but not that hot. I had a computer that, essentially, all you could do with it was program it, when I was about 5-6 (well, my parents, but they let me play with it as soon as I showed I wouldn't break it). Perhaps I was just lucky in that I didn't have cool 3D video games. Perhaps kids today should be inspired by them, but the technical hurdles to do anything interesting are too high. Perhaps culture has changed in that being uneducated and stupid is now cool.
When I was a kid, I thought than engineering and science were cool. Really, these folks were my heroes. I went to lectures at the local physics lab (aimed at high school and college kids) as soon as I could (I was the only one there with a chaperone, haha). Do modern kids have astronauts as their heroes, or pimps and drug dealers? Do modern kids even think that society gives a shit about them, past whatever age they're able to tell the difference between a heroine needle and a lollipop?
AMD you little b---- Don't be making no threat While Dell's kids copy your rhymes You copy our instruction set Our photomicrolithographic process is superior So you better beware Our chips are getting even smaller Than your market share
Intel holds 80% of the market... they're not falling behind AMD. They're falling behind and AMD is, presumably, gaining the share that they are losing.
Did he really need to call AMD out like some kind of pissed off gangsta rapper?
Don't you ever f---ing forget who invented x86
Those other manufactures are underwater wearing shoes made of bricks
And if you ever release another processor you better lie low
AMD I'll come around and bust a cap in your skull
You know, now that we have more free space in the hospital, I'd really like to talk to you about that rhinoplasty. I know, you came in as a cancer patient, but, since there's more free space, I can offer you a great deal on a new nose.
Also, have you ever thought about a tummy tuck?
I have a couple of organs that I'd like to unload as well.
I can see this working out real well for the used organ salesmen...
I think that the name Blu-Ray sounds cooler, so people are more likely to buy it.
Just like people are more likely to purchase a "Roomba" than they are a "robotic vacuum cleaner." Well, that is it robotic doesn't have the cool buzz factor that it did when I was a kid.
Honestly, I doubt that it would be that dramatic. Consider that, well, if we do blow ourselves up, it will probably be a few million years before anything reasonably intelligent even begins digging. They'll find out civilization, they'll probably have different concepts of emotion and such.
I imagine that if we found fossils that evidenced some highly developed dinosaur blew themselves up, we'd be a interested in it, but nobody would be crying over the matter.
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Oh yeah? Well, I'll write a book about law suits, and I'll sue the secretaries who transcribe court records.
If I understand correctly, the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," actually intended that book to be a historical perspective presenting the concept that the holy grail is the bloodline of Jesus. IE, they intended the work to present what they believe to be an actual historical event.
If that's the case, then I'm copyrighting the American Revolution, in my new book, "McGraw Hill: Reflections on American History."
Dude. They could learn to become Super-Saiyans!!
Well, thanks.
You guys did an excellent job with my grandfather's funeral, and my family really appreciated it.
Yup. I think that a lot of people critical of this matter don't realize that:
1) You can't just tell a soldier to learn the bugle and expect anything that is reasonable for a funeral.
2) You can't just tell a professional musician to stand in the place of a soldier.
Neither would produce a desireable result.
I think that the average user knows what FireFox is and doesn't care about it. I'm sure that they have heard of it (they don't live in a bubble) and that they understand it (they're not the "e" in the "whee" commercial). They just use IE and don't see how their lives would be much different for using FireFox.
Oy. This is true. Still, I doubt that I'll be hacking anything other than documents in LaTeX any time soon.
HTML may have been your gateway drug, but calling HTML a programming langauge is like calling LaTeX a programming language. It's just not a programming language.
You need to fix the stylesheet on your page. The menu on the left covers part of the comic, often making the text unreadable.
I was thinking more along the lines of the heroism that was attached to scientists, even by the media. When I was a kid, you couldn't walk without tripping over a VHS of a movie that lionized astronauts, and portrayed science as cool (weird science... space camp (everybody envied the kids going to space camp, there was even a made for tv movie about space camp)... watching shuttle launches on tv).
What do they have now? Rap? The older rappers weren't the breed that you have now, even the gangsta rappers. Modern gangsta rap lionizes selling drugs, killing, pimping... so on. Kids emulate this stuff (they don't do it, they just pretend to be part of it).
I didn't pretend to become a thug... I really went to school, and I'm really getting "Dr." thrown in front of my name. I was really shocked when I moved to the YUPPIE high school to see kids pretending to be in gangs, when I moved from an area that really had gangs and kids who DIDN'T want to be in them.
1) What's NCLB?
2) I don't think that that's changed so much. I never got into the school gifted program, but got into the John's Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and am now pursuing my PhD. I guess that the county gifted program criteria wasn't so hot.
As far as not amounting to anything. When I was a kid, they were pushing vocational computer skills like it was crack. They seriously thought that this crap would make you successful.
As for amounting to anything. For the most part, you really don't have to be smart to amount to anything in life. Remember that major league baseball players make tons more money than professors do, and nobody even watches baseball. They also get more girls.
On the other hand, perhaps you have a genuine interest in science, and really will do something that changes the world. I don't want to discourage a budding scientist. There are other, more important merits to such pursuits.
Still, you can be not terribly bright and have the money, the girls, and the mansion. I guess it depends on how you define "making something of yourself."
Is this a bad thing? Yes, it sucks.
Should we care? Eh, I don't really know if I care or not, as long as I'm not stuck with the "geeks" who don't understand anything about computers.
Do you think the desire to program computers has declined in the younger generations? Yes
If so, what reasons might you cite as the cause? I don't know. When I was a kid. Video games were all the rage, but not that hot. I had a computer that, essentially, all you could do with it was program it, when I was about 5-6 (well, my parents, but they let me play with it as soon as I showed I wouldn't break it). Perhaps I was just lucky in that I didn't have cool 3D video games. Perhaps kids today should be inspired by them, but the technical hurdles to do anything interesting are too high. Perhaps culture has changed in that being uneducated and stupid is now cool.
When I was a kid, I thought than engineering and science were cool. Really, these folks were my heroes. I went to lectures at the local physics lab (aimed at high school and college kids) as soon as I could (I was the only one there with a chaperone, haha). Do modern kids have astronauts as their heroes, or pimps and drug dealers? Do modern kids even think that society gives a shit about them, past whatever age they're able to tell the difference between a heroine needle and a lollipop?
I was just kidding. Looking for responses since everyone seems to complain about this, but few really seem to understand it.
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I'm confused. Can you tell me how this would have effected you personally?
People keep saying how it will effect them personally, but I guess I just don't understand how.
AMD you little b----
Don't be making no threat
While Dell's kids copy your rhymes
You copy our instruction set
Our photomicrolithographic process is superior
So you better beware
Our chips are getting even smaller
Than your market share
Intel holds 80% of the market... they're not falling behind AMD. They're falling behind and AMD is, presumably, gaining the share that they are losing.
Did he really need to call AMD out like some kind of pissed off gangsta rapper?
Don't you ever f---ing forget who invented x86
Those other manufactures are underwater wearing shoes made of bricks
And if you ever release another processor you better lie low
AMD I'll come around and bust a cap in your skull
You know, now that we have more free space in the hospital, I'd really like to talk to you about that rhinoplasty. I know, you came in as a cancer patient, but, since there's more free space, I can offer you a great deal on a new nose.
Also, have you ever thought about a tummy tuck?
I have a couple of organs that I'd like to unload as well.
I can see this working out real well for the used organ salesmen...
new "Clever car" (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport)
Sure, but it's not such a clevut acronym.
I think that the name Blu-Ray sounds cooler, so people are more likely to buy it.
Just like people are more likely to purchase a "Roomba" than they are a "robotic vacuum cleaner." Well, that is it robotic doesn't have the cool buzz factor that it did when I was a kid.
Maybe you could make it unintelligent enough that it still runs into a wall eventually, shattering itself.
Also, make it very expensive, so the owner feels compelled to catch it before it self destructs.
Ok. Well, you can keep going all you like. I won't hold it against you.
What does this have to do with replacing school mail servers with the Windows Live service?
Windows Live does not support any browsers besides IE 6, does not support POP or IMAP
So, why did they do this? This mail service sounds like garbage (no offense MS). I can't use any standard email client with it.
Honestly, I doubt that it would be that dramatic. Consider that, well, if we do blow ourselves up, it will probably be a few million years before anything reasonably intelligent even begins digging. They'll find out civilization, they'll probably have different concepts of emotion and such.
I imagine that if we found fossils that evidenced some highly developed dinosaur blew themselves up, we'd be a interested in it, but nobody would be crying over the matter.