Just as amazing is that there are only about 25,000 protein coding genes in the entire human genome (though obviously there are more proteins possible through splicing and post-translational modification, but I digress). Also amazing is the precision in which the chromosomes wind up all that DNA. Imagine taking a piece of yarn miles and miles long and compacting it into something that could fit into a paper bag - now imagine someone asking you to take out a VERY specific piece of that yarn and exposing it from your roll, disturbing the rest of the yarn as little as possible, then putting it back exactly as it was before when they're finished with it...that's basically what each chromosome has to do when genes are expressed. And it's all mediated by proteins coded in that very DNA.
Consider yourself lucky...my experience with SUV and pickup drivers is that they want to drive 20 over the speed limit in blizzard conditions. So if I'm going 10 under in my little Cavalier, they cut you off and slam on their brakes because the person that (was) in front of me has to slow down to turn left (sounds odd, but this is a daily occurrence in the winter). I wouldn't say I'm an excellent or even great driver, but ABS has saved my ass constantly in these situations (and at night where it's difficult to judge road slipperyness, and not wanting to get caught by the red light camera adds to the freak out factor).
It is a pleasant thought, but I'm sure MS's plan is to just dominate through OEMs first. Force the OEMS to sell systems with only DRM monitors, and wham - in 3 years tops, you have market domination and acceptance of DRM monitors. Retail OS buyers are forced to follow.
The article mentions "talks" passed down from "industry sources". It's all hearsay; none of it is confirmed. Even if this is all true, I'm sure Microsoft has the resources to tie this up in court for years.
Seconded. I've spilled worse things on myself while in lab. Methylene chloride, hexane, ether, chloroform. I've gotten a nice whiff of nitrogen dioxide (and if you live in the city, you've gotten your share also). Like a famous toxicologist said, "the dose makes the poison." If you're getting a couple drops of the low concentration stuff on yourself, you should be okay. Besides, Toshiba isn't that stupid, they probably have some kind of easy system that makes it difficult to expose yourself to the chemical.
Yep, we used them for a biology course and they were totally worthless.
- Answering *five* questions through the clickers took about 30-40 minutes because in a room of 200 people, we had to answer in groups (last names A-D click now, E-H now, etc) otherwise the wall-mounted recievers would be overloaded and the entire system would freeze up.
- Aside from the hacking possibility noted in another reply, in order to answer you had to raise your clicker high up in the air and frantically wave around hoping that the reciever would catch your signal (it was usually in desperation because this *was* for a grade). This meant that everyone could see everyone else's replies.
- The shit just never worked half the time. Maybe the bugs will be ironed out later on, but it seems to be a terribly inefficient "solution" to a problem that wasn't there in the first place. Just do quizzes through old fashioned paper and make your TA's spend 10 minutes to grade them. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that they only used the clickers in the first place so that the university's bookstore can make the 30% cut or whatever with every clicker purchase.
Combine this with the growth of science as a whole over just the past 50 years. The older generations discover more and more things that the younger generations have to learn in addition to the older stuff, and repeat. If the younger generations were so incompetent, we eventually would stop seeing new drugs, more efficient vehicles, (yes, this stuff is still developed in the US as well as everywhere else, believe it or not) and on and on...
Windows will never lose its stranglehold on OS marketshare.
Firefox is free and easy to install, but the vast majority of people still use IE6 (and even IE5) which most agree is inferior. If people can't be buggered to install a simple browser, why would they ever bother to switch their entire OS without OEMs being in on it?
Another problem is that shipping pricing isn't disclosed until you put the item into the shopping cart. Many times the rate is unexpectedly high so the customer will abandon the cart.
Teachers and administrators might be in a bind, because the public sees this problem of "failing schools", and the way they fix it usually goes like this: give school more money; give tests to make sure said money is working. If test scores come back low, then school failed; therefore, public education is failing, and money gets taken away. Educators seem to be under intense pressure to make sure that these test scores are high, and many districts (like yours, maybe) are willing to clear everything else off of the table to ensure that these scores are high. They know that if "they" fail, the media will know immediately, and throw up a nice spin story about how the schools are failing (or a common one, are below every other district in the state).
The irony is that many of these tests are written by half-wits. I don't know if any real research has been done on this, but the rumor is that if one were to dissect one of these "tests", it would be full of ambiguity and inaccuracy. Many times, in the practice tests, the teachers won't be sure why the correct answers are what they are.
But I digress. For every person out there that wants to get rid of these tests, there are two more that want *more* tests to "make sure that the public school isn't failing - again".
What was your major? At most US universities, the number of credit hours you spend on electives is usually a very small fraction of the total number of hours you need to graduate if you're working toward a BS (BAs spend about half of their time on electives). Most of them are finished during your first and second year, and by your third year all of your time is spent on courses completely relevant to your field.
And in the end, your degree probably helped at least a little in getting the job you have now, granted it wasn't everything.
Some of those things need an SLR (especially good control of depth of field)...maybe a 3MP camera phone can replace some of the lower end digital cameras?
That's kind of half true - why knock on the people who can pass these remedial classes with flying colors and also do extremely well in higher classes?
NESterDC is great and all (obvious understatement:) but I think the all the fuss about emulation on the Xbox has to do with that it's got quite a bit more power to handle the more demanding games emulated in MAME. With a little bit of tweeking, the newer Midway games, CPS2, and Stun Runner to name a few might run at a good (full?) speed, whereas on the Dreamcast that might not be possible (maybe, but requiring a lot more work).
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Lenny: Hey look, Homer's got one of those robot cars!
*Crash*
Carl: Yeah, one of those American robot cars...
I don't see a copy of the letter, ala Smoking Gun.
George: I can't teach you how to lie. It's like asking Pavarotti teach me to sing like you. Remember: It's not a lie...if you believe it.
Interesting that Belkin doesn't give an approximate range.
Just as amazing is that there are only about 25,000 protein coding genes in the entire human genome (though obviously there are more proteins possible through splicing and post-translational modification, but I digress). Also amazing is the precision in which the chromosomes wind up all that DNA. Imagine taking a piece of yarn miles and miles long and compacting it into something that could fit into a paper bag - now imagine someone asking you to take out a VERY specific piece of that yarn and exposing it from your roll, disturbing the rest of the yarn as little as possible, then putting it back exactly as it was before when they're finished with it...that's basically what each chromosome has to do when genes are expressed. And it's all mediated by proteins coded in that very DNA.
Consider yourself lucky...my experience with SUV and pickup drivers is that they want to drive 20 over the speed limit in blizzard conditions. So if I'm going 10 under in my little Cavalier, they cut you off and slam on their brakes because the person that (was) in front of me has to slow down to turn left (sounds odd, but this is a daily occurrence in the winter). I wouldn't say I'm an excellent or even great driver, but ABS has saved my ass constantly in these situations (and at night where it's difficult to judge road slipperyness, and not wanting to get caught by the red light camera adds to the freak out factor).
It is a pleasant thought, but I'm sure MS's plan is to just dominate through OEMs first. Force the OEMS to sell systems with only DRM monitors, and wham - in 3 years tops, you have market domination and acceptance of DRM monitors. Retail OS buyers are forced to follow.
Why not just rip the soundtracks from Halo and Halo 2 then slap them into Vista?
The article mentions "talks" passed down from "industry sources". It's all hearsay; none of it is confirmed. Even if this is all true, I'm sure Microsoft has the resources to tie this up in court for years.
Seconded. I've spilled worse things on myself while in lab. Methylene chloride, hexane, ether, chloroform. I've gotten a nice whiff of nitrogen dioxide (and if you live in the city, you've gotten your share also). Like a famous toxicologist said, "the dose makes the poison." If you're getting a couple drops of the low concentration stuff on yourself, you should be okay. Besides, Toshiba isn't that stupid, they probably have some kind of easy system that makes it difficult to expose yourself to the chemical.
Yep, we used them for a biology course and they were totally worthless.
- Answering *five* questions through the clickers took about 30-40 minutes because in a room of 200 people, we had to answer in groups (last names A-D click now, E-H now, etc) otherwise the wall-mounted recievers would be overloaded and the entire system would freeze up.
- Aside from the hacking possibility noted in another reply, in order to answer you had to raise your clicker high up in the air and frantically wave around hoping that the reciever would catch your signal (it was usually in desperation because this *was* for a grade). This meant that everyone could see everyone else's replies.
- The shit just never worked half the time. Maybe the bugs will be ironed out later on, but it seems to be a terribly inefficient "solution" to a problem that wasn't there in the first place. Just do quizzes through old fashioned paper and make your TA's spend 10 minutes to grade them. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that they only used the clickers in the first place so that the university's bookstore can make the 30% cut or whatever with every clicker purchase.
Every time I see a post like this, I simply respond with this url:
http://www.intel.com/education/sts/winners.htm
It speaks for itself, really.
Combine this with the growth of science as a whole over just the past 50 years. The older generations discover more and more things that the younger generations have to learn in addition to the older stuff, and repeat. If the younger generations were so incompetent, we eventually would stop seeing new drugs, more efficient vehicles, (yes, this stuff is still developed in the US as well as everywhere else, believe it or not) and on and on...
Windows will never lose its stranglehold on OS marketshare.
Firefox is free and easy to install, but the vast majority of people still use IE6 (and even IE5) which most agree is inferior. If people can't be buggered to install a simple browser, why would they ever bother to switch their entire OS without OEMs being in on it?
Another problem is that shipping pricing isn't disclosed until you put the item into the shopping cart. Many times the rate is unexpectedly high so the customer will abandon the cart.
Teachers and administrators might be in a bind, because the public sees this problem of "failing schools", and the way they fix it usually goes like this: give school more money; give tests to make sure said money is working. If test scores come back low, then school failed; therefore, public education is failing, and money gets taken away. Educators seem to be under intense pressure to make sure that these test scores are high, and many districts (like yours, maybe) are willing to clear everything else off of the table to ensure that these scores are high. They know that if "they" fail, the media will know immediately, and throw up a nice spin story about how the schools are failing (or a common one, are below every other district in the state).
The irony is that many of these tests are written by half-wits. I don't know if any real research has been done on this, but the rumor is that if one were to dissect one of these "tests", it would be full of ambiguity and inaccuracy. Many times, in the practice tests, the teachers won't be sure why the correct answers are what they are.
But I digress. For every person out there that wants to get rid of these tests, there are two more that want *more* tests to "make sure that the public school isn't failing - again".
What was your major? At most US universities, the number of credit hours you spend on electives is usually a very small fraction of the total number of hours you need to graduate if you're working toward a BS (BAs spend about half of their time on electives). Most of them are finished during your first and second year, and by your third year all of your time is spent on courses completely relevant to your field.
And in the end, your degree probably helped at least a little in getting the job you have now, granted it wasn't everything.
Some of those things need an SLR (especially good control of depth of field)...maybe a 3MP camera phone can replace some of the lower end digital cameras?
"Stinger" huh? I'm not falling for that again...
That's kind of half true - why knock on the people who can pass these remedial classes with flying colors and also do extremely well in higher classes?
The DSM is a changing animal...Wasn't it in the DSM III where homosexuality was considered a disease?
Who's got an explanation for the lay on how these could elude the body's natural immune system?
How does this have anything to do with the RIAA?
NESterDC is great and all (obvious understatement :) but I think the all the fuss about emulation on the Xbox has to do with that it's got quite a bit more power to handle the more demanding games emulated in MAME. With a little bit of tweeking, the newer Midway games, CPS2, and Stun Runner to name a few might run at a good (full?) speed, whereas on the Dreamcast that might not be possible (maybe, but requiring a lot more work).
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if I use my Jeep Wrangler as a getaway car in a robbery
Maybe a better example would be a lockpick? Jeeps aren't made to commit robberies, but lockpicks...