Just a note: Knowing how much of the planet is covered in water is *not* scientific literacy. That is trivia knowledge.
I hate it when people mistake factoids for science.
I hate it when people mistake popular blurbs for reason.
Maybe. But not knowing that the earth takes one year to revolve around the sun indicates a pretty serious failure to know what the fuck is going on.
And, seriously...if you can't imagine a globe in your head and at least get between 60% and 80% water...you are pretty ignorant. If a lot of people are that ignorant, we have a problem.
As always, I would like to see results of the exact same survey from other countries for comparison.
I turn off my laptop because I will not have it running on battery when I move it around.
Is this a hardware-safety thing, or a saving-energy thing? I've carried my Dell XPS m1210 around in a backpack on standby nearly every day for two and a half years now, with no problems. And the amount of juice it takes to maintain standby is completely negligible--maybe 1 or 2 percent of the battery if you standby overnight.
Once you factor in the stress and extra power required to cold boot and reload every app you use, standby may even be safer and cheaper.
Because we can't even solve the main problem yet of making a tether that won't fall apart. "Oh, and it needs to be superconducting, too" probably won't get far with the engineers.
Wrong. The law would only go into effect when states totaling 270 electoral votes signed on. Once that happens, the winner of the national popular vote wins the election, period.
Think of it this way: suppose we had an instant teleporter to Alpha Centauri, and back. The astronauts walk through the teleporter, look around, take some notes, then instantly teleport home. No reason to go insane.
That's exactly what it would be like (from the astronauts' perspective) if they had a lightspeed ship. Now, stepping out for an afternoon and coming home to find eight and a half years gone might be a little unsettling, but presumably they'd be well prepared for that.
No, you're still not getting it. If they went at the speed of light, they wouldn't have any time to go crazy. The trip would be instantaneous for them...an eyeblink.
You might want to check your understanding of time dilation. If they could go at the speed of light, they'd get to their destination instantaneously, from their own perspective.
We on Earth would still have to wait 4.2 years for them to arrive, and another 4.2 years to hear anything back.
Your friend was negligent. If you're going to skip class, at least make sure you can find out what happened in your absence. You can cry about the prof saying this or not doing that, but you're the only one who will suffer.
Punching buttons on your buddy's remote is probably considered academic dishonesty, which is something you really want to avoid at university.
As for mandatory attendance, it's insulting if you're competent to judge for yourself when you can skip. Lots of students aren't, especially in lower division classes. Personally I'd rather they give a speech to the freshman about how skipping classes will lead to flunking out, and then let the dumb ones go ahead and flunk. But I understand why they do it the other way.
Colleges don't (and cannot) sell you an education. They sell you access to an environment where you can become educated. If you are insufficiently intelligent, motivated, or clued-in to take advantage of it, it isn't the school's fault, nor is there anything in the world they can do about it.
Most people who think they can teach themselves a subject, even to the level of a four-year degree, are overestimating their own initiative and discipline. You may be the rare exception, but if so, the system isn't designed for you anyway.
You don't pay for a cozy environment. You pay the university to certify that you really *did* learn the material to their standards. You pay for access to experts in the field. You pay for use of facilities. All things you can't get on your own, even if you can learn everything independently.
Yup. No way the OP's son got removed from a class for that. I've seen plenty of *actual* misbehavior from dumbass freshmen that never led to their removal from class.
This sounds like the kind of "look what the libruls are doing *now*" sort of email that circulates among my Christian/conservative acquaintances.
Flying to another planet will never relieve overpopulation. Just think for maybe two seconds about the number of babies born every minute, and the resources required to send a kilogram to Mars, or anywhere else.
Things you plan to write in under fifteen minutes are generally better done in Perl. Beyond that point, the verbosity and consistency of Python becomes a distinct advantage.
The "sensor bar" isn't a sensor at all. It's just some IR LED's. The sensor, in the form of a digital camera, is inside the wii-mote. I don't think it would be much good for a mo-cap suit...little cameras all over your body?
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Just a note: Knowing how much of the planet is covered in water is *not* scientific literacy. That is trivia knowledge.
I hate it when people mistake factoids for science.
I hate it when people mistake popular blurbs for reason.
Maybe. But not knowing that the earth takes one year to revolve around the sun indicates a pretty serious failure to know what the fuck is going on.
And, seriously...if you can't imagine a globe in your head and at least get between 60% and 80% water...you are pretty ignorant. If a lot of people are that ignorant, we have a problem.
As always, I would like to see results of the exact same survey from other countries for comparison.
I turn off my laptop because I will not have it running on battery when I move it around.
Is this a hardware-safety thing, or a saving-energy thing? I've carried my Dell XPS m1210 around in a backpack on standby nearly every day for two and a half years now, with no problems. And the amount of juice it takes to maintain standby is completely negligible--maybe 1 or 2 percent of the battery if you standby overnight.
Once you factor in the stress and extra power required to cold boot and reload every app you use, standby may even be safer and cheaper.
So what happens when Steam starts enforcing their EULA? Talk about foresight...
Because we can't even solve the main problem yet of making a tether that won't fall apart. "Oh, and it needs to be superconducting, too" probably won't get far with the engineers.
Wrong. The law would only go into effect when states totaling 270 electoral votes signed on. Once that happens, the winner of the national popular vote wins the election, period.
Great idea. Go Iowa!
Think of it this way: suppose we had an instant teleporter to Alpha Centauri, and back. The astronauts walk through the teleporter, look around, take some notes, then instantly teleport home. No reason to go insane.
That's exactly what it would be like (from the astronauts' perspective) if they had a lightspeed ship. Now, stepping out for an afternoon and coming home to find eight and a half years gone might be a little unsettling, but presumably they'd be well prepared for that.
No, you're still not getting it. If they went at the speed of light, they wouldn't have any time to go crazy. The trip would be instantaneous for them...an eyeblink.
You might want to check your understanding of time dilation. If they could go at the speed of light, they'd get to their destination instantaneously, from their own perspective.
We on Earth would still have to wait 4.2 years for them to arrive, and another 4.2 years to hear anything back.
I'm guessing you're still a freshman or sophomore. By the time you really get into your major, you won't have any more of those 200-student classes.
By that point, professors are always interested in intelligent questions, and seeing them during office hours becomes much easier.
Your friend was negligent. If you're going to skip class, at least make sure you can find out what happened in your absence. You can cry about the prof saying this or not doing that, but you're the only one who will suffer.
Punching buttons on your buddy's remote is probably considered academic dishonesty, which is something you really want to avoid at university.
As for mandatory attendance, it's insulting if you're competent to judge for yourself when you can skip. Lots of students aren't, especially in lower division classes. Personally I'd rather they give a speech to the freshman about how skipping classes will lead to flunking out, and then let the dumb ones go ahead and flunk. But I understand why they do it the other way.
Colleges don't (and cannot) sell you an education. They sell you access to an environment where you can become educated. If you are insufficiently intelligent, motivated, or clued-in to take advantage of it, it isn't the school's fault, nor is there anything in the world they can do about it.
Most people who think they can teach themselves a subject, even to the level of a four-year degree, are overestimating their own initiative and discipline. You may be the rare exception, but if so, the system isn't designed for you anyway.
You don't pay for a cozy environment. You pay the university to certify that you really *did* learn the material to their standards. You pay for access to experts in the field. You pay for use of facilities. All things you can't get on your own, even if you can learn everything independently.
Yup. No way the OP's son got removed from a class for that. I've seen plenty of *actual* misbehavior from dumbass freshmen that never led to their removal from class.
This sounds like the kind of "look what the libruls are doing *now*" sort of email that circulates among my Christian/conservative acquaintances.
As opposed to the nonmolecular kind?
...does it have any greater power capacity?
Flying to another planet will never relieve overpopulation. Just think for maybe two seconds about the number of babies born every minute, and the resources required to send a kilogram to Mars, or anywhere else.
Things you plan to write in under fifteen minutes are generally better done in Perl. Beyond that point, the verbosity and consistency of Python becomes a distinct advantage.
Is there some reason you don't just open the window and use a fan instead?
Creepy! I just finished making a cantor ternary set scarf.
By the way, I crocheted it...knitting is for girls.
Mathematically I'd have to disagree with that answer, since the empty set is a subset of (included in) every set, including itself.
But I know a lot less about Unix than math, so there's probably a good reason, just like there are good mathematical reasons for the other.
You have it ass backwards. Tina Fey is so hilarious as Palin because Palin is such a loony toon.
Because you often need to interact with text, images, and data directly.
Yes, I first realized this when I saw a sample of moon rock at the Smithsonian. It's almost black.
The "sensor bar" isn't a sensor at all. It's just some IR LED's. The sensor, in the form of a digital camera, is inside the wii-mote. I don't think it would be much good for a mo-cap suit...little cameras all over your body?