...of a subject-specific TLD was so that it could be easily blocked. Don't want.xxx domains in your workplace? Filter any URL that uses it. Same here for those countries. It's not supposed to "promote" homosexuality, it's supposed to make it easier to identify.
"The bad news: Harvard is patenting everything and wants to commercialize it on a proprietary basis." So tired of this. I get it, but I'm tired of it.
I don't think the poster meant that patenting and commercializing is inherently evil; I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to download it for free and use it himself for fun.
It occurred to me that it ought to be in the economic interests of any space agency to push for an astronaut core PRIMARILY made up of women.
They are (on average) smaller, lighter, and eat less, all advantages in an industry where every ounce of extra weight can cost hundreds of dollars.
In the early days of space flight, astronauts were converted test pilots who were all male due to military recruiting rules, which have now changed.
They are equal, if not better, to their male counterparts when it comes to mathematical and scientific ability, and we have finally reached a point where culture has stopped telling them otherwise.
And without a doubt, it would be a public relations coup for the first agency to send up an all-female crew into space.
..."building an app graphically" is to "learning programming" what "using a calculator" is to "learning math." You've replaced an actual understanding of the underlying process with a bunch of buttons to be punched.
It's only still "programming" if you have the knowledge to do it without the tools, but not the time.
If it's so easy to upload an image, shouldn't there be a responsibility to make it just as easy to take one down?
That can generate just as many complaints. Recently, George Takei's Facebook page put up a funny photo which nevertheless contained a picture of an old man's naked butt. Complaints were made to Facebook, and Facebook immediately deleted the image. Not blocked, not hid -- deleted. Takei complained that it should be policy for Facebook to hold the image out-of-sight somewhere until a defense can be made by the one who posted it.
Admins can make it easy to remove stuff, or hard to remove stuff, but anything in between requires a lot of moderation which most admins are too easily bored by.
Why are you looking at nationality? What are you trying to prove? Is this the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Obviously, if one nation has a substantially higher proportion of winners in a competition like this, it suggests there's something in the national culture that encourages it. Other nations would like to know what that is. It's not pride, it's post-game analysis.
I'm honestly surprised that even guys generally don't see anything wrong with it (as evidenced by the fact that the usage of "booth babes" is ubiquitous at such events).
Just because the men in the companies' marketing department don't see anything wrong with it, doesn't mean that other men don't see anything wrong with it. Please don't make the same mistake they do by painting an entire gender with a single broad brush.
Same deal with the perceived need to have kids. Gotta get those buns in the oven, you know. How many times have you seen mummy's little girl pushing along a wee toy pram with a wee baby doll in it? Who brought that damned and damning prop into the kid's life?
Looks like tradition (in its worst guise) and familial pressure to me.
Don't be silly. Little girls like to imitate their moms, and little boys like to imitate their dads. In this case, if the little girl is watching her mom raise ANOTHER little baby (gasp, parents having multiple children! In this day and age!), then she'll probably want to imitate her.
It's also learned from culture and TV, of course. But don't underestimate the simple and powerful influence of a caretaking parent.
they've already been together for 9 years, far longer than average "marriage" (a legal term for a license). Mark already could have had any woman he wanted, and he continues to choose Priscilla.
Which reminds me: do you think he married her right after the IPO because he wanted to give all his attention to her on the honeymoon, or because he wanted to lock in his wealth before the prenup took effect?
Studies done on human babies under one year of age show that they have a concept of number up to three. (Source:... I forget, but it's one of Keith Devlin's books.) These studies are based on the idea that babies stare longer at things that aren't expected -- so if you show them one object, then a second object, then hide them both and then reveal two objects, they are less surprised than if one object plus one object becomes three objects.
However, starting with four, the "innate math" of the brain fails. Everything after the number three is invented by human civilization. This is more remarkable when you consider that language IS innate to the human brain -- normal humans anywhere will develop a complete language, vocabulary and grammar with past and present tenses even if they aren't taught it by adults. (Source: my own head. I'd actually like to know if this is authoritative.)
The practical upshot of this is: yes, math is hard. The human brain isn't designed/evolved to do it at any level beyond "one, two, three, lots."
I will agree with PC Magazine on a few points though - why the hell does a notepad have to look like a real life notepad? That's just cutesy stupid bullcrap.
For the same reason that FaceTime has to look like an old-school movie camera, or the YouTube app is an old brown tube television, or the Contacts app is an old leather address book, or the "Phone" icon is an old telephone handset, or the clock app is an old analog circular clock....
It's all about instant recognition. A yellow spiral notepad says "notepad" instead of "word processor", which is probably what Apple doesn't want it to be used as.
1 gram of Moonstone is worth $1000 ?! So... 1 kg is therefore worth $1M ??!!! How expensive is a space rocket and other things needed for aggresive Moon mining ?/s
A moon rocket is so expensive that only one country in the history of the world has ever built them, and they stopped after a few years when they realized no one was racing them anymore.
That's the best part, though -- it's the proteins in the ECM that make it work, apparently by attracting native stem cells, so the ECM is species-neutral. Got a problem with using a pig? Get it from a cow, or a human donor.
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Please, will the sensible and non-crazy muslims please stand up already and disown these lunatics?
They do, actually. It's just not as interesting news fodder, so nobody hears it.
Since the Earth's orbit around the Sun is eliptical it's _never_ the same, is it?
Even an elliptical orbit is right twice a year.
Always test a deployment of new hardware within a single department, or smaller group, before implementing it throughout the building.
...of a subject-specific TLD was so that it could be easily blocked. Don't want .xxx domains in your workplace? Filter any URL that uses it. Same here for those countries. It's not supposed to "promote" homosexuality, it's supposed to make it easier to identify.
"The bad news: Harvard is patenting everything and wants to commercialize it on a proprietary basis." So tired of this. I get it, but I'm tired of it.
I don't think the poster meant that patenting and commercializing is inherently evil; I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to download it for free and use it himself for fun.
My very own Evil Wil Wheaton action figure can be a reality!
Also, this can be defeated by simply using any one of the mechanical locks on the door.
...which you can only employ if you're actually in the room, which thwarts most burglars anyway.
...then I might have to run for office myself.
It occurred to me that it ought to be in the economic interests of any space agency to push for an astronaut core PRIMARILY made up of women.
They are (on average) smaller, lighter, and eat less, all advantages in an industry where every ounce of extra weight can cost hundreds of dollars.
In the early days of space flight, astronauts were converted test pilots who were all male due to military recruiting rules, which have now changed.
They are equal, if not better, to their male counterparts when it comes to mathematical and scientific ability, and we have finally reached a point where culture has stopped telling them otherwise.
And without a doubt, it would be a public relations coup for the first agency to send up an all-female crew into space.
..."building an app graphically" is to "learning programming" what "using a calculator" is to "learning math." You've replaced an actual understanding of the underlying process with a bunch of buttons to be punched.
It's only still "programming" if you have the knowledge to do it without the tools, but not the time.
If it's so easy to upload an image, shouldn't there be a responsibility to make it just as easy to take one down?
That can generate just as many complaints. Recently, George Takei's Facebook page put up a funny photo which nevertheless contained a picture of an old man's naked butt. Complaints were made to Facebook, and Facebook immediately deleted the image. Not blocked, not hid -- deleted. Takei complained that it should be policy for Facebook to hold the image out-of-sight somewhere until a defense can be made by the one who posted it.
Admins can make it easy to remove stuff, or hard to remove stuff, but anything in between requires a lot of moderation which most admins are too easily bored by.
Why are you looking at nationality? What are you trying to prove? Is this the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Obviously, if one nation has a substantially higher proportion of winners in a competition like this, it suggests there's something in the national culture that encourages it. Other nations would like to know what that is. It's not pride, it's post-game analysis.
I'm honestly surprised that even guys generally don't see anything wrong with it (as evidenced by the fact that the usage of "booth babes" is ubiquitous at such events).
Just because the men in the companies' marketing department don't see anything wrong with it, doesn't mean that other men don't see anything wrong with it. Please don't make the same mistake they do by painting an entire gender with a single broad brush.
Same deal with the perceived need to have kids. Gotta get those buns in the oven, you know. How many times have you seen mummy's little girl pushing along a wee toy pram with a wee baby doll in it? Who brought that damned and damning prop into the kid's life?
Looks like tradition (in its worst guise) and familial pressure to me.
Don't be silly. Little girls like to imitate their moms, and little boys like to imitate their dads. In this case, if the little girl is watching her mom raise ANOTHER little baby (gasp, parents having multiple children! In this day and age!), then she'll probably want to imitate her.
It's also learned from culture and TV, of course. But don't underestimate the simple and powerful influence of a caretaking parent.
they've already been together for 9 years, far longer than average "marriage" (a legal term for a license). Mark already could have had any woman he wanted, and he continues to choose Priscilla.
Which reminds me: do you think he married her right after the IPO because he wanted to give all his attention to her on the honeymoon, or because he wanted to lock in his wealth before the prenup took effect?
...You can't have both.
In other shocking revelations, squares are not round.
The cell tower nearest my home is about 2 miles by crow, but 15 miles by car, on the other side of the reservoir. GPS is much more accurate.
Don't they use your distance from multiple cell towers to triangulate your position?
Great job kid! Keep it up and you could have an awesome job at the army corps of engineers, or at some other defense contractor. Great work.
Um... did you know that the Army Corps of Engineers has almost nothing to do with defense contracts?
Please, don't quote the line. You know the one. The one with three comparatives. It's too predictable.
We can requote it. We have the keyboards.
Studies done on human babies under one year of age show that they have a concept of number up to three. (Source: ... I forget, but it's one of Keith Devlin's books.) These studies are based on the idea that babies stare longer at things that aren't expected -- so if you show them one object, then a second object, then hide them both and then reveal two objects, they are less surprised than if one object plus one object becomes three objects.
However, starting with four, the "innate math" of the brain fails. Everything after the number three is invented by human civilization. This is more remarkable when you consider that language IS innate to the human brain -- normal humans anywhere will develop a complete language, vocabulary and grammar with past and present tenses even if they aren't taught it by adults. (Source: my own head. I'd actually like to know if this is authoritative.)
The practical upshot of this is: yes, math is hard. The human brain isn't designed/evolved to do it at any level beyond "one, two, three, lots."
Considering the cult of ignorance North Korea has maintained among its own people for decades, this is probably exactly what the locals believe.
I will agree with PC Magazine on a few points though - why the hell does a notepad have to look like a real life notepad? That's just cutesy stupid bullcrap.
For the same reason that FaceTime has to look like an old-school movie camera, or the YouTube app is an old brown tube television, or the Contacts app is an old leather address book, or the "Phone" icon is an old telephone handset, or the clock app is an old analog circular clock....
It's all about instant recognition. A yellow spiral notepad says "notepad" instead of "word processor", which is probably what Apple doesn't want it to be used as.
But you do need to be on a data plan for a cell phone provider, and as far as I know, OS X desktop only supports wi-fi or ethernet networking.
1 gram of Moonstone is worth $1000 ?! So... 1 kg is therefore worth $1M ??!!! How expensive is a space rocket and other things needed for aggresive Moon mining ? /s
A moon rocket is so expensive that only one country in the history of the world has ever built them, and they stopped after a few years when they realized no one was racing them anymore.
Something here doesn't sound kosher to me...
That's the best part, though -- it's the proteins in the ECM that make it work, apparently by attracting native stem cells, so the ECM is species-neutral. Got a problem with using a pig? Get it from a cow, or a human donor.