This is a bad thing in what way? What is wrong with humans engaging in perfectly natural acts in a responsible manner? I'd say the key word is "responsible," and defining what that means. Sex is dangerious and most children don't understand the potential dangers. Parents have a desire for their children to do as well as possible financially, in our culture that seems to involve being married before you have children. Also, STDs are a great risk no matter what precautions are taken, except when both individuals involved have had no oppertunity to become infected.
I'm not sure why it's so difficult for people to see the obvious potential dangers of sex. Here's a simple exersize: Imagine for a moment that for three generations(60 years) people had only one sex partner their entire life. In 60 years nearly every deadly STD would be wiped from the planet. That should be enough to convince anyone that sex can be very dangerious.
I'm just thinking, perhaps the reasoning is that our children are more inclined to have sex than murder people. I may get flamed for this, but it's pretty simple to see that children are influenced by what they witness. If our children found it irrestistable to run with scissors and there was a pandemic of one eyed rugrats, concerned parents might have issues with media depicting people running with scissors. So, I think the reason many parents don't mind their children witnessing depicted violence is that the parents themselves are not particularly drawn towards violence. This is not to say humans are not inclined to violence, but that in comparison we're much more inclined towards sex. I'd estimate by at least an order of magnitude.
When you bought the store you adapted it to become more profitable. You found a niche and fit into it well. Markets change and if you're going to be successful, you've gotta change your buisiness model with them. I think you're probably realizing this too late, but I'd say figure out how to fit the new market. Say... sell MP3 players at low prices, provide some computer stations for kids without credit cards to legally download music in mp3 form to their newly bought MP3 player. Start selling things that can't be pirated, like services. Get into recording and publishing. Get a starbucks franchise in your store and build a little stage for upcoming superstars to show their stuff. Learn to be cool and relaxed. Make your store a cool place for kids to be kids, but also safe a safe place so that parents don't worry about letting their kids hang out there. There are a thousand ways you can make profit if you're as willing to change as you were at first. You got stuck and comfortable and now you're afraid of change. You can't fill your wallet or your stomach with tears, new laws or black-lists, but you can fill them by meeting percieved market needs. I might mention that socializing sells. Every new and great money making idea in recent years revolves around social needs, from starbucks to reality shows.
There were a few statements that stuck out to me in your post...
1 *"lack the time to comfortably allocate study time for the sake of pure learning" 2 *"There's little time for quality family time, especially with those not in our own household" 3 *"precious little time to work on independant and alturistic projects which in theory could be of benefit to soceity"
Not to be pessimistic about humanity in general, but realisticly most people who do not work do not spend their vast amounts of time doing any of the above three points. Likewise, I often times hear them complain that they "don't have time" are stressed and "need a break." In general, no matter what our circumstances or time related stresses, we do what we want with what is left over. I've seen that some of the hardest working folk never complain about stress or lack of time, while the laziest folk do. Some of the hardest working folk(who have the least time) spend the most time learning, spending quality time with their families and volunteering their time for others.
I've found in my own life that my psychology adapts to my circumstances. Counter intuitively, I'm often times much more depressed and stressed when I don't have any "real" stresses. I find it much harder to work after a vacation or if I spend both days of the weekend doing nothing(one day is just enough). Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
Proper grammar and spelling would make it appear as if she cared what 'they' think. They(the school) are the ones who taught her right? So she'll show em' they failed with her mad grammar and spelling. Some day she might grow up and find such things useful, but for now she's a teenager angry with the system and she doesn't care 'nd dey c'n al g0 an' an' an'... I guess what I'm saying is that unless the school is legally punished and the expulsion removed from this kid's records he really will have a lot of trouble. I can almost guarantee that zero universities will remember or care how he was expelled.
I suggest not using an IDE, because in the end you will be freeing your students from being dependent on a particular piece of software. Another benefit is that they will natually begin to understand what actually occurs during linking. Granted, you don't really link with python, but maybe python wouldn't be the best first language. I recall not really knowing at first that Microsoft Visual Studio wasn't compiling my software. I was amazed to find out I could do it by hand from the command prompt. I feel that was the opposite of how it should have been.
That said, for large projects, I use an IDE every day. Every now and then I'll transfer a project over to a different IDE just to see if I like it better. Sometimes I need to dig in and fix a makefile.am, but since I know the nuts and bolts I'm free to do so.
I'd recommend you teach them to use the best tool for the job. At first, for single file projects, an IDE is a bulldozer in a flower garden. Forcing someone to compile every file by hand and then link by hand would be like like bringing a spade into a construction yard. Neither fit quite right, but might eventually get the job done. So if it were me... I'd give them tools as they need them. Make them compile and link a three file project and say, "hey look here's something that will make it a little easier." Then students could use the tools as seemed best to them.
The quality of Slashdot's stories is astounding. I started reading slashdot so that I wouldn't have to search for "news for nerds, stuff that matters" myself. This is neither news for nerds(except for the sci-fi reference) nor stuff that matters.
I think a stopped clock is right once or twice a day, depending on whether or not it has an AM/PM indicator. Twice a week if it's had a day of the week indicator and no AM/PM. Twice a month if it has a day of the month indicator and it's stuck on a day less than 28... you get the idea. So I think it might be a unfair to compare Cringely to a stopped clock even if he did happen to have a clue once(Which he didn't).
If I recall, wine is an implementation of the Windows API. Perhaps I'm confused, but I don't know the difference between middle-ware and a direct implementation, except perhaps he means the API user interface will seem transparent to the user. However, this is possible with wine as well.
Why not sell a supported distribution of Linux(i.e. Redhat, Mandrake) and let the distributor(i.e. Redhat, Mandrake) support it? Dell could make a commission at the same time. Perhaps even offering an 'extended service' package. Why not?
Ha ha, true. However, I might possibly be able to cause such motion. The guy is just trying to say this is cold fusion, which it's not. I'm probably wrong on a number of counts, but I think the greater error is to call this sort of fusion "cold."
Your error is that you lack an understanding of fusion. The desire is not heat, but in fact _energy_. If it's directed even better. If you do some reading about fusion you'll see them throwing around terms like 'MeV'(Million electron Volts, which refers to the velocity of a particle due to an electric potential field of X MeV) when talking about individual fusion reactions(only two particles) whereas when they talk about all the particles they talk about temperature. You probably ought to learn more before jumping on someone's case.
Aside, I don't see why heat must be an aggregate of unordered motion, because the case in which all the particles move in the same direction is still within the subset of possible aggregate motions called 'random motion.'
I am not quite disagreeing with you, except where you called the parent 'Wrong,' but... If I have a bubble of gas moving at some average velocity and then I stop it such that it's average velocity is 0, the energy must go somewhere. If whatever energy does not leave the bubble (in a form that is not heat) becomes 'heat.' In this case, the gas is stopped by a deturium target.
Perhaps the heat generated by the fusion could power the pyroelectric crystals? I'm not familiar at all with pyroelectric crystals, but I'm imagining there must be a heat differential across the crystal. If the hot side needs to be the same side that fusion occurs on, then perhaps it could be self sustaining to some degree. Then to turn it off you take the heat sink off the cold side.
Anyone know more than I do about the feasibility this?
Also, I noticed the author didn't provide a reference, but it appeared that he cut and pasted the article to his blog... anyone know the reference to validate?
It's actually much worse than that! Everything everyone has read or written after the unmatched [joke] tag has been a joke... Quick, someone close the [joke] tag before the joke reaches instability causing uncontrollable atmospheric heating due to equally uncontrollable laughter.
I don't know if this is a joke, prophecy or an honest testimony. The only difference is that we keep code on one big NFS volume and nearly everyone uses vi, so providing they don't open file../foo, or bar/foo, the swap file kinda acts as a file lock. Creepy. *shiver* Oh, also, we don't add informative comments here.
I'm a bit late to comment on this. I'm a Christian and by the strictest definition a fundamentalist. I'd like to comment that it was not until the enlightenment period that Christian's took a completely literal view of Genesis 1. Up until then it was viewed as poetic and indeed it is. However, it was also typically viewed that the people are actual historical people and not types(i.e. Adam represents mankind rather than an actual man).
Now, my views, I simply say, "God did it." He could have done it a million-gazillion(defn: a whole lot) of different ways. Genesis 1 does not even say the earth was created in seven days, the earth was chaos and empty and then God filled it. In another place the bible says that before God filled it the mountains were covered with water and shaking, which sounds like a pretty scientific early Earth. There are some who would even say that at this point the earth might have been destroyed by a previous flood and was inhabited once before. The point is that Genesis 1 allows a lot of room for different ideas. Nearly everyone has read into what they wanted it to say or completely dismissed it.
In addition, it _is_ written in a language which is now very difficult to translate. There are still many words which are in question. We try to determine what they mean from their roots, but it's hard to decipher what ancient Hebrews were thinking when they put certain root words together.
So here's my message; Christians, you don't know as much as you think you do. Everyone else, you don't know as much as you think you do. Let's not write each other off as completely wrong. Yeah we're gonna disagree at points, but let's just try to take the best from what each other have to say.
I saw nothing regarding uniforms in the article, so I did a search for the word "uniform" and didn't find such a word. I don't know why this got modded up. Moderators, RTFA.
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While small right now, what are the chances that google notebook is a Word competitor?
This is a bad thing in what way? What is wrong with humans engaging in perfectly natural acts in a responsible manner? I'd say the key word is "responsible," and defining what that means. Sex is dangerious and most children don't understand the potential dangers. Parents have a desire for their children to do as well as possible financially, in our culture that seems to involve being married before you have children. Also, STDs are a great risk no matter what precautions are taken, except when both individuals involved have had no oppertunity to become infected.
I'm not sure why it's so difficult for people to see the obvious potential dangers of sex. Here's a simple exersize: Imagine for a moment that for three generations(60 years) people had only one sex partner their entire life. In 60 years nearly every deadly STD would be wiped from the planet. That should be enough to convince anyone that sex can be very dangerious.
I'm just thinking, perhaps the reasoning is that our children are more inclined to have sex than murder people. I may get flamed for this, but it's pretty simple to see that children are influenced by what they witness. If our children found it irrestistable to run with scissors and there was a pandemic of one eyed rugrats, concerned parents might have issues with media depicting people running with scissors. So, I think the reason many parents don't mind their children witnessing depicted violence is that the parents themselves are not particularly drawn towards violence. This is not to say humans are not inclined to violence, but that in comparison we're much more inclined towards sex. I'd estimate by at least an order of magnitude.
When you bought the store you adapted it to become more profitable. You found a niche and fit into it well. Markets change and if you're going to be successful, you've gotta change your buisiness model with them. I think you're probably realizing this too late, but I'd say figure out how to fit the new market. Say... sell MP3 players at low prices, provide some computer stations for kids without credit cards to legally download music in mp3 form to their newly bought MP3 player. Start selling things that can't be pirated, like services. Get into recording and publishing. Get a starbucks franchise in your store and build a little stage for upcoming superstars to show their stuff. Learn to be cool and relaxed. Make your store a cool place for kids to be kids, but also safe a safe place so that parents don't worry about letting their kids hang out there. There are a thousand ways you can make profit if you're as willing to change as you were at first. You got stuck and comfortable and now you're afraid of change. You can't fill your wallet or your stomach with tears, new laws or black-lists, but you can fill them by meeting percieved market needs. I might mention that socializing sells. Every new and great money making idea in recent years revolves around social needs, from starbucks to reality shows.
There were a few statements that stuck out to me in your post...
1 *"lack the time to comfortably allocate study time for the sake of pure learning"
2 *"There's little time for quality family time, especially with those not in our own household"
3 *"precious little time to work on independant and alturistic projects which in theory could be of benefit to soceity"
Not to be pessimistic about humanity in general, but realisticly most people who do not work do not spend their vast amounts of time doing any of the above three points. Likewise, I often times hear them complain that they "don't have time" are stressed and "need a break." In general, no matter what our circumstances or time related stresses, we do what we want with what is left over. I've seen that some of the hardest working folk never complain about stress or lack of time, while the laziest folk do. Some of the hardest working folk(who have the least time) spend the most time learning, spending quality time with their families and volunteering their time for others.
I've found in my own life that my psychology adapts to my circumstances. Counter intuitively, I'm often times much more depressed and stressed when I don't have any "real" stresses. I find it much harder to work after a vacation or if I spend both days of the weekend doing nothing(one day is just enough). Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
Proper grammar and spelling would make it appear as if she cared what 'they' think. They(the school) are the ones who taught her right? So she'll show em' they failed with her mad grammar and spelling. Some day she might grow up and find such things useful, but for now she's a teenager angry with the system and she doesn't care 'nd dey c'n al g0 an' an' an'... I guess what I'm saying is that unless the school is legally punished and the expulsion removed from this kid's records he really will have a lot of trouble. I can almost guarantee that zero universities will remember or care how he was expelled.
I suggest not using an IDE, because in the end you will be freeing your students from being dependent on a particular piece of software. Another benefit is that they will natually begin to understand what actually occurs during linking. Granted, you don't really link with python, but maybe python wouldn't be the best first language. I recall not really knowing at first that Microsoft Visual Studio wasn't compiling my software. I was amazed to find out I could do it by hand from the command prompt. I feel that was the opposite of how it should have been.
That said, for large projects, I use an IDE every day. Every now and then I'll transfer a project over to a different IDE just to see if I like it better. Sometimes I need to dig in and fix a makefile.am, but since I know the nuts and bolts I'm free to do so.
I'd recommend you teach them to use the best tool for the job. At first, for single file projects, an IDE is a bulldozer in a flower garden. Forcing someone to compile every file by hand and then link by hand would be like like bringing a spade into a construction yard. Neither fit quite right, but might eventually get the job done. So if it were me... I'd give them tools as they need them. Make them compile and link a three file project and say, "hey look here's something that will make it a little easier." Then students could use the tools as seemed best to them.
The quality of Slashdot's stories is astounding. I started reading slashdot so that I wouldn't have to search for "news for nerds, stuff that matters" myself. This is neither news for nerds(except for the sci-fi reference) nor stuff that matters.
Well done.
I'm pretty sure it was the Vulcans who made first contact.
I think a stopped clock is right once or twice a day, depending on whether or not it has an AM/PM indicator. Twice a week if it's had a day of the week indicator and no AM/PM. Twice a month if it has a day of the month indicator and it's stuck on a day less than 28... you get the idea. So I think it might be a unfair to compare Cringely to a stopped clock even if he did happen to have a clue once(Which he didn't).
If I recall, wine is an implementation of the Windows API. Perhaps I'm confused, but I don't know the difference between middle-ware and a direct implementation, except perhaps he means the API user interface will seem transparent to the user. However, this is possible with wine as well.
Why not sell a supported distribution of Linux(i.e. Redhat, Mandrake) and let the distributor(i.e. Redhat, Mandrake) support it? Dell could make a commission at the same time. Perhaps even offering an 'extended service' package. Why not?
Ha ha, true. However, I might possibly be able to cause such motion. The guy is just trying to say this is cold fusion, which it's not. I'm probably wrong on a number of counts, but I think the greater error is to call this sort of fusion "cold."
Your error is that you lack an understanding of fusion. The desire is not heat, but in fact _energy_. If it's directed even better. If you do some reading about fusion you'll see them throwing around terms like 'MeV'(Million electron Volts, which refers to the velocity of a particle due to an electric potential field of X MeV) when talking about individual fusion reactions(only two particles) whereas when they talk about all the particles they talk about temperature. You probably ought to learn more before jumping on someone's case.
Aside, I don't see why heat must be an aggregate of unordered motion, because the case in which all the particles move in the same direction is still within the subset of possible aggregate motions called 'random motion.'
I am not quite disagreeing with you, except where you called the parent 'Wrong,' but... If I have a bubble of gas moving at some average velocity and then I stop it such that it's average velocity is 0, the energy must go somewhere. If whatever energy does not leave the bubble (in a form that is not heat) becomes 'heat.' In this case, the gas is stopped by a deturium target.
Perhaps the heat generated by the fusion could power the pyroelectric crystals? I'm not familiar at all with pyroelectric crystals, but I'm imagining there must be a heat differential across the crystal. If the hot side needs to be the same side that fusion occurs on, then perhaps it could be self sustaining to some degree. Then to turn it off you take the heat sink off the cold side.
Anyone know more than I do about the feasibility this?
Also, I noticed the author didn't provide a reference, but it appeared that he cut and pasted the article to his blog... anyone know the reference to validate?
It's actually much worse than that! Everything everyone has read or written after the unmatched [joke] tag has been a joke... Quick, someone close the [joke] tag before the joke reaches instability causing uncontrollable atmospheric heating due to equally uncontrollable laughter.
I don't know if this is a joke, prophecy or an honest testimony. The only difference is that we keep code on one big NFS volume and nearly everyone uses vi, so providing they don't open file ../foo, or bar/foo, the swap file kinda acts as a file lock. Creepy. *shiver* Oh, also, we don't add informative comments here.
This article just proves again that we live in an Electric Universe!
I'm a bit late to comment on this. I'm a Christian and by the strictest definition a fundamentalist. I'd like to comment that it was not until the enlightenment period that Christian's took a completely literal view of Genesis 1. Up until then it was viewed as poetic and indeed it is. However, it was also typically viewed that the people are actual historical people and not types(i.e. Adam represents mankind rather than an actual man).
Now, my views, I simply say, "God did it." He could have done it a million-gazillion(defn: a whole lot) of different ways. Genesis 1 does not even say the earth was created in seven days, the earth was chaos and empty and then God filled it. In another place the bible says that before God filled it the mountains were covered with water and shaking, which sounds like a pretty scientific early Earth. There are some who would even say that at this point the earth might have been destroyed by a previous flood and was inhabited once before. The point is that Genesis 1 allows a lot of room for different ideas. Nearly everyone has read into what they wanted it to say or completely dismissed it.
In addition, it _is_ written in a language which is now very difficult to translate. There are still many words which are in question. We try to determine what they mean from their roots, but it's hard to decipher what ancient Hebrews were thinking when they put certain root words together.
So here's my message; Christians, you don't know as much as you think you do. Everyone else, you don't know as much as you think you do. Let's not write each other off as completely wrong. Yeah we're gonna disagree at points, but let's just try to take the best from what each other have to say.
Peace,
-Josh
I saw nothing regarding uniforms in the article, so I did a search for the word "uniform" and didn't find such a word. I don't know why this got modded up. Moderators, RTFA.
No.
I volume only, perhaps an eye-ball.
Creep-ee