Because if you never practice your abstract thought skills through context-independent problems, you will never learn how to think. Education is about building general cognitive skills - and that happens through doing lots of problems, not a few word problems that are supposed to "mean" something to the student and take forever to do. It really doesn't matter so much what they learn, as the fact that they do practice these types of problems. That this isn't happening any more is very distressing to me.
No, it doesn't. Kerry got three purple hearts without spending a single day in the hospital, and he refuses to release the details of what he received them for; meanwhile, his former CO says he was a loose cannon. Bush didn't want to be a frontline grunt, so he signed up to fly fighter planes in the National Guard. Flying isn't exactly an easy form of draft dodging; I'd challenge you to do it if you think that it is. There's nothing wrong with trying to apply your talents where you'd feel they'd best be used. If a major draft-inducing war broke out, I'd probably be applying at a DOD research lab or intelligence agency because my skills would be better used there. Bush decided to fly homeland defense missions, which had to be done by somebody. Had he really wanted to go to war, there wouldn't have been a place to deploy him at the time he signed up for service anyway.
I highly suggest you visit the site wintersoldier.com to learn about Kerry's Vietnam service... and the rather dishonorable actions after he secured discharge to advance his political career. And just remember that the media doesn't often report the full story; a lot of this stuff despite being congressional public record is simply ignored.
(Note to idiot moderators: I know it's offtopic. That's why I'm checking the "no karma bonus" button, and marking it OT in the subject. Don't you have a better post to moderate?)
Maybe you should read a bit more about the issues then. Try looking at the approach on terror, and Kerry's statements about treating counterterrrorism as primarily a police matter, which is the same approach used by Clinton (that set our embassies and the USS Cole up the bomb). It's really really hard to debate whether or not the economy is recovering right now - nobody knows until it actually has recovered fully. But if you put the economy ahead of national security, you'll lose both.
Learning Cocoa is not a barrier. It's a liberation.
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While Europa is interesting for potentially having a liquid water ocean underneath its crust, I'd personally rank Titan more interesting for the liquid hydrocarbon soup, which tends to form organic things over time. I just hope that this mission is only the start of our explorations of the moon.
Why, oh why, did they choose a C++ toolkit? Issues of gcc binary compatibility aside, C++ suffers from the Fragile Base Class (FBC) problem, where adding new instance variables to base classes can break binary compatibility for every derived class. This is why QT has broken binary compatibility twice already in the past. C structures suffer from this same problem, but Mono classes, Objective C classes, et al do not.
I still don't understand the popularity of QT. It's as if people don't want linux to be taken seriously as a deployment platform. Why target a host that won't run your binaries next year?
Your use of parentheses there is amusing and sad. You do know that those parentheses denote serialized lists, right? You've just made a list of a list of a list of a...
Sheesh, learn a little about the language before you go making fun of it.
Sure. I'm not good of thinking of Haskell and Smalltalk examples, but since I know Lisp, I can throw out a few. If you've:
Played Jak & Daxter or any of its sequels
Played Abuse
Booked a reservation on Orbitz
Visited the campaign web sites of Bill Clinton in '96 or Howard Dean in '04
Used the Mirai facial-animation software or watched Gollum in Two Towers / RoTK
Used an AMD processor, parts of whose logic is validated via the ACL2 theorem-prover software
Used GNU/XEmacs
Used AutoCAD
Used the lisppaste pastebot on a bunch of channels on Freenode
You've used or seen a program that was written in a Lisp variant (all but Emacs and AutoCAD were done in ANSI Common Lisp). To find out more, visit CLiki.
Not all the world is a desktop application with a GUI. Lisp and the other languages aren't going away in this space anytime soon. It's just too cumbersome to do many of these things in C++, and too slow to do them in Java (Common Lisp is usually native compiled).
In Soviet Russia, communism marches solemnly towards YOU!
Sadly there are a lot of people who still like communism, the most prominent being International ANSWER, the group who organized most of the anti-Iraq war rallies (and which has ties to North Korea). As they say on ProtestWarrior, Communism only killed 100 million people; let's give it another chance!
eh, if there was a PC guru then, it wasn't ahead of emacs / elisp. TECO Emacs already had macros, and Multics Emacs (implemented in MACLISP) came around in 1978.
Except that Slashdot's craptastic bug-ridden perl filters insert spaces in URLs, causing them to 404 most of the time. This is why people are so anal about links on/.
You know, I keep hearing this crap about iTunes and the RIAA, and it's time that somebody put a stop to it.
I just bought five albums on iTunes. Not one of them was on an RIAA label. One of the labels I bought from is owned by the artist himself (Pete Namlook's FAX label). The others were similar independent labels (Ninja Tune and Tresor). There is non-RIAA music on iTunes in spades, and I will continue to buy from them.
While I appreciate the effort to attempt to make SCO show up on the #1 search for a negative term like that, it doesn't help when you spell it wrong. It's "litigious", not "litigous".
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Because if you never practice your abstract thought skills through context-independent problems, you will never learn how to think. Education is about building general cognitive skills - and that happens through doing lots of problems, not a few word problems that are supposed to "mean" something to the student and take forever to do. It really doesn't matter so much what they learn, as the fact that they do practice these types of problems. That this isn't happening any more is very distressing to me.
You should check out SpyBot. It will clean up some things that AdAware can't.
I highly suggest you visit the site wintersoldier.com to learn about Kerry's Vietnam service... and the rather dishonorable actions after he secured discharge to advance his political career. And just remember that the media doesn't often report the full story; a lot of this stuff despite being congressional public record is simply ignored.
(Note to idiot moderators: I know it's offtopic. That's why I'm checking the "no karma bonus" button, and marking it OT in the subject. Don't you have a better post to moderate?)
Maybe you should read a bit more about the issues then. Try looking at the approach on terror, and Kerry's statements about treating counterterrrorism as primarily a police matter, which is the same approach used by Clinton (that set our embassies and the USS Cole up the bomb). It's really really hard to debate whether or not the economy is recovering right now - nobody knows until it actually has recovered fully. But if you put the economy ahead of national security, you'll lose both.
Jesus Christ, they're making Teela Browns!
Learning Cocoa is not a barrier. It's a liberation.
While Europa is interesting for potentially having a liquid water ocean underneath its crust, I'd personally rank Titan more interesting for the liquid hydrocarbon soup, which tends to form organic things over time. I just hope that this mission is only the start of our explorations of the moon.
Actually, the WMDs are probably buried in sand. Saddam seems to have had a penchant for burying things.
Why, oh why, did they choose a C++ toolkit? Issues of gcc binary compatibility aside, C++ suffers from the Fragile Base Class (FBC) problem, where adding new instance variables to base classes can break binary compatibility for every derived class. This is why QT has broken binary compatibility twice already in the past. C structures suffer from this same problem, but Mono classes, Objective C classes, et al do not.
I still don't understand the popularity of QT. It's as if people don't want linux to be taken seriously as a deployment platform. Why target a host that won't run your binaries next year?
Thanks for the information. I didn't know that.
Your use of parentheses there is amusing and sad. You do know that those parentheses denote serialized lists, right? You've just made a list of a list of a list of a ...
Sheesh, learn a little about the language before you go making fun of it.
- Played Jak & Daxter or any of its sequels
- Played Abuse
- Booked a reservation on Orbitz
- Visited the campaign web sites of Bill Clinton in '96 or Howard Dean in '04
- Used the Mirai facial-animation software or watched Gollum in Two Towers / RoTK
- Used an AMD processor, parts of whose logic is validated via the ACL2 theorem-prover software
- Used GNU/XEmacs
- Used AutoCAD
- Used the lisppaste pastebot on a bunch of channels on Freenode
You've used or seen a program that was written in a Lisp variant (all but Emacs and AutoCAD were done in ANSI Common Lisp). To find out more, visit CLiki.Not all the world is a desktop application with a GUI. Lisp and the other languages aren't going away in this space anytime soon. It's just too cumbersome to do many of these things in C++, and too slow to do them in Java (Common Lisp is usually native compiled).
In Soviet Russia, RUSSIAN THINKS IN YOU!
(Stupid lameness filter. Go away.)
Sadly there are a lot of people who still like communism, the most prominent being International ANSWER, the group who organized most of the anti-Iraq war rallies (and which has ties to North Korea). As they say on ProtestWarrior, Communism only killed 100 million people; let's give it another chance!
Wow, best underrated funny comment of the month.
eh, if there was a PC guru then, it wasn't ahead of emacs / elisp. TECO Emacs already had macros, and Multics Emacs (implemented in MACLISP) came around in 1978.
Imagine how damaging this could be if the intruders got the source code! Now Microsoft can view our source!
Umh? Why does everyone feel the need to lie about G5 support? First the Gentoo users, now NetBSD? For the record, NetBSD does not run on G5.
Firefox would be a bit heavy on that class of machine. Have you tried iCab?
Except that Slashdot's craptastic bug-ridden perl filters insert spaces in URLs, causing them to 404 most of the time. This is why people are so anal about links on /.
Except LEM has already suggested it.
I just bought five albums on iTunes. Not one of them was on an RIAA label. One of the labels I bought from is owned by the artist himself (Pete Namlook's FAX label). The others were similar independent labels (Ninja Tune and Tresor). There is non-RIAA music on iTunes in spades, and I will continue to buy from them.
What I heard is that VT isn't removing the identification stickers. I don't know if MacMall is removing them or not.
Obviously you haven't googled, because it does exist. And it runs quite nicely.
While I appreciate the effort to attempt to make SCO show up on the #1 search for a negative term like that, it doesn't help when you spell it wrong. It's "litigious", not "litigous".