Certainly it makes sense to standardize financially. Perfectly understandable, I wasn't arguing with that, I was arguing with the suggestion that there's no point teaching macs because they aren't what's used, when as you say, it shouldn't matter. Teach ON windows, fine, but don't teach windows itself. I just feel it's also important to make sure the children understand that there are alternatives, and if there's any way to show them one or two, then do so.
Things like spamassassin annoy me more. Want a stable server... use debian stable, this is fine, until you want spamassassin to be able to actually pick up spam...er... right.
So, upgrade manually, or go grabbing unofficial packages (I took the latter approach).
Indeed, though that's not really relevent to perspective. An American reporter may be biased towards Americans, but they will still have a much better American perspective than, say, a British reporter would have.
Well what I'm thinking more is, say, teach a child the principles of WP, of Spreadsheets, why they can help you. A very basic understanding of relational databases (none of the real theory, maybe at later stages some SQl..., but an idea of how tables interrelate) - and that that's not the only way of databasing. A rough idea of what an OS is, not really how one works, just what one is, why it's important, that there isn't only one, and that others can do the job equally well.
All sorts of things like that. I think it would be considerably better for a child to know why they do formulae in a Spreadsheet, than merely what Excel's syntax is (though it might have to be taught in excell.. fair enough).
It's not a matter of understanding Computer Science, it's a matter of learning the ability to be flexible in what you use, and being able to learn new things rapidly.
because teaching children at that age how to use a particular platform is quite the opposite of what they should be doing. If they can't teach on any platform (that has the basic software support) then there's something wrong with the teaching.
The elements above 92 that have been "discovered" in that they could be predicted, but had never been shown to be possible to create before. It is feasible that the high numbered elements could be created naturally, for example in a supernova, however the real problem is that atoms of that size are fundamentally unstable, so have very short half-lives and therefore collapse into smaller atoms very quickly.
It also depends on the isotope of the element, that is changes the ratio of neutrons to protons (the proton count being the atomic number). For example, the half-life of meitnerium (element 109) is most stable as meitnerium-268, ie 109 protons, 159 neutrons, has a half life of 0.07 seconds. So any amount of it produced will not last long. These results are only theoretical, the isotope produced was meitnerium-266, which has a half-life of 3.8 milliseconds.
So yes, they could occur naturally, but not for long enough for anyone to notice.
I hasten to disagree. Your connection to your ISP could still be SMTP, the ISPs collectively are still free to reimplement with any protocol. Web, SMTP, carrier pigeon to the ISP matters little really once it's there.
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Nono, you miss the point. Different people, who couldn't spell the name they were told to use the same way.
I'm only hypothesising here, maybe he was just one person, maybe his plays really do have more depth than they appear to have, I don't know, may even remind myself to read some different ones to get a better idea. Still, it's a possibility.
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The ACU has disagreed with IUPAC on other names. For example, Seaborgium was not to be used by IUPAC as an element name because Glenn Seaborg was still alive (it's in the rules). However, the ACU felt this wasn't a good reason.
Eventually IUPAC gave in, indeed before he died. Not sure if they've changed their rules as a result.
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As Shakespeare supposedly spelled his own name in 27 different ways (Shakespear, shakespere etc), I don't think he's a useful guide.
I think that's because "Shakespeare" was not a single person.
Surprisingly on that every foreign friend of mine said that English was the easiest foreign language they'd tried to learn.
I interpret that as meaning it's easier to communicate in, but harder to get "right" (and then getting it right develops over time as it's so commonly used).
Any comments?
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No, but there are many people who would agree with that.
Not sure I would, I like using X apps remotely, but proper transparency would certainly be nice.
Sadly true, £3/meg GPRS on orange in the UK. Friend on sprint in Montana has unlimited data. Most annoying. Ok, on orange you can pay for bigger packages that bring that price down, but it still doesn't become unlimited.
Though the line rental to get the local calls free in the states is, as I recall, much higher.
Now, with onetel, in the UK you can get unmetered national/local calls for £15/month + the line rental (£12 or so). So £27 for unmetered national calls... sadly, non-geographical "local" numbers aren't included...
Hmm, agreed I didn't really think about it that much;) It just irritates me visiting.com websites and finding they serve only a teeny little area in deepest darkest Missouri.
> Just admit it: you're a sick person, and you need help.
That was unnecessary.
There is an issue here, I agree, however child porn is at the extreme end of the scale, there is no real way to draw the line. If you want to allow anonymity you have to either allow it, or not. Let something else deal with the child pornographers, or alternatively, don't have any anonymity yourself.
Compromise is the only way.
The other problem is of course (child porn is one of those few examples *almost* everyone considers bad) who are you to decide what is ok and what isn't?
Arguably I think the.com addresses should be truly international, and only available to companies that DO do business internationally. That would clarify things somewhat straight off.
You're perfectly right about the visability thing of course. You could always offer to ship those pizzas though, just don't offer any "next time free" type guarantees on their delivery time;)
An interesting point and possibly open to abuse. Any idea what the rules are in the states for what constitutes a religion or church of a religion or whatever along those lines and what you have to do to get one recognised?
Far, far too much importance is attached to religion , which is little different from any other emotional/belief contruct based (debatably) on fact.
I would consider allowing religious people to have a day off and not allowing non-religious people to be discrimination (similar to making non sikhs wear crash helmets but not sikhs... but clearly I don't argue with that because the sikh is taking a risk in being allowed to do that... as long as there is no suing for head injuries that could have been prevented by wearing a helmet). Really though, religous reasons for having days off are no different from family reasons, or any other reasons ("My wife wants me to have sundays off" is NO different from "My god wants me to have sundays off" really, from an objective viewpoint).
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Certainly it makes sense to standardize financially. Perfectly understandable, I wasn't arguing with that, I was arguing with the suggestion that there's no point teaching macs because they aren't what's used, when as you say, it shouldn't matter. Teach ON windows, fine, but don't teach windows itself. I just feel it's also important to make sure the children understand that there are alternatives, and if there's any way to show them one or two, then do so.
Things like spamassassin annoy me more. Want a stable server... use debian stable, this is fine, until you want spamassassin to be able to actually pick up spam...er... right.
So, upgrade manually, or go grabbing unofficial packages (I took the latter approach).
I can see what you're saying. Not at all sure it's better for society in the long run though.
Indeed, though that's not really relevent to perspective. An American reporter may be biased towards Americans, but they will still have a much better American perspective than, say, a British reporter would have.
Well what I'm thinking more is, say, teach a child the principles of WP, of Spreadsheets, why they can help you. A very basic understanding of relational databases (none of the real theory, maybe at later stages some SQl..., but an idea of how tables interrelate) - and that that's not the only way of databasing. A rough idea of what an OS is, not really how one works, just what one is, why it's important, that there isn't only one, and that others can do the job equally well.
All sorts of things like that. I think it would be considerably better for a child to know why they do formulae in a Spreadsheet, than merely what Excel's syntax is (though it might have to be taught in excell.. fair enough).
It's not a matter of understanding Computer Science, it's a matter of learning the ability to be flexible in what you use, and being able to learn new things rapidly.
because teaching children at that age how to use a particular platform is quite the opposite of what they should be doing. If they can't teach on any platform (that has the basic software support) then there's something wrong with the teaching.
The elements above 92 that have been "discovered" in that they could be predicted, but had never been shown to be possible to create before. It is feasible that the high numbered elements could be created naturally, for example in a supernova, however the real problem is that atoms of that size are fundamentally unstable, so have very short half-lives and therefore collapse into smaller atoms very quickly.
It also depends on the isotope of the element, that is changes the ratio of neutrons to protons (the proton count being the atomic number). For example, the half-life of meitnerium (element 109) is most stable as meitnerium-268, ie 109 protons, 159 neutrons, has a half life of 0.07 seconds. So any amount of it produced will not last long. These results are only theoretical, the isotope produced was meitnerium-266, which has a half-life of 3.8 milliseconds.
So yes, they could occur naturally, but not for long enough for anyone to notice.
It's early, that may not have made sense...
I hasten to disagree. Your connection to your ISP could still be SMTP, the ISPs collectively are still free to reimplement with any protocol. Web, SMTP, carrier pigeon to the ISP matters little really once it's there.
Nono, you miss the point. Different people, who couldn't spell the name they were told to use the same way.
I'm only hypothesising here, maybe he was just one person, maybe his plays really do have more depth than they appear to have, I don't know, may even remind myself to read some different ones to get a better idea. Still, it's a possibility.
The ACU has disagreed with IUPAC on other names. For example, Seaborgium was not to be used by IUPAC as an element name because Glenn Seaborg was still alive (it's in the rules). However, the ACU felt this wasn't a good reason.
Eventually IUPAC gave in, indeed before he died. Not sure if they've changed their rules as a result.
As Shakespeare supposedly spelled his own name in 27 different ways (Shakespear, shakespere etc), I don't think he's a useful guide.
I think that's because "Shakespeare" was not a single person.
Though admittedly that's debatable
Surprisingly on that every foreign friend of mine said that English was the easiest foreign language they'd tried to learn.
I interpret that as meaning it's easier to communicate in, but harder to get "right" (and then getting it right develops over time as it's so commonly used).
Any comments?
No, but there are many people who would agree with that.
Not sure I would, I like using X apps remotely, but proper transparency would certainly be nice.
Sadly true, £3/meg GPRS on orange in the UK. Friend on sprint in Montana has unlimited data. Most annoying. Ok, on orange you can pay for bigger packages that bring that price down, but it still doesn't become unlimited.
Though the line rental to get the local calls free in the states is, as I recall, much higher.
Now, with onetel, in the UK you can get unmetered national/local calls for £15/month + the line rental (£12 or so). So £27 for unmetered national calls... sadly, non-geographical "local" numbers aren't included...
Hmm, agreed I didn't really think about it that much ;) It just irritates me visiting .com websites and finding they serve only a teeny little area in deepest darkest Missouri.
> Just admit it: you're a sick person, and you need help.
That was unnecessary.
There is an issue here, I agree, however child porn is at the extreme end of the scale, there is no real way to draw the line. If you want to allow anonymity you have to either allow it, or not. Let something else deal with the child pornographers, or alternatively, don't have any anonymity yourself.
Compromise is the only way.
The other problem is of course (child porn is one of those few examples *almost* everyone considers bad) who are you to decide what is ok and what isn't?
Arguably I think the .com addresses should be truly international, and only available to companies that DO do business internationally. That would clarify things somewhat straight off.
;)
You're perfectly right about the visability thing of course. You could always offer to ship those pizzas though, just don't offer any "next time free" type guarantees on their delivery time
Indeed they do. Shame they seem to run out so bloody often though.
Can't win 'em all!
Surely Cat5 is better than necessary for phone? :)
ie wrong is anything but the way the US does it? Or do you have a better argument there?
I really can't see a lot of difference in practical terms.
An interesting point and possibly open to abuse. Any idea what the rules are in the states for what constitutes a religion or church of a religion or whatever along those lines and what you have to do to get one recognised?
Far, far too much importance is attached to religion , which is little different from any other emotional/belief contruct based (debatably) on fact.
Arguably, yes. Currently on similar terms too as I don't believe I have a wife, and I don't believe I have a God.
Yes... surely you can just not sign the contract? If you agreed to work for the company, you're in no position to moan about the things you agreed to.
Bit scary if all companies did it though.
I would consider allowing religious people to have a day off and not allowing non-religious people to be discrimination (similar to making non sikhs wear crash helmets but not sikhs... but clearly I don't argue with that because the sikh is taking a risk in being allowed to do that... as long as there is no suing for head injuries that could have been prevented by wearing a helmet). Really though, religous reasons for having days off are no different from family reasons, or any other reasons ("My wife wants me to have sundays off" is NO different from "My god wants me to have sundays off" really, from an objective viewpoint).