You don't need a technological solution: You just say "no electronic devices allowed in the room of any kind". An analog solution that works. It might sound extreme, but not that long ago, it was the only option as electronic devices didn't exist. If people can't do multiplication using a pencil and paper for a *test*, then maybe they need to fail it. Calculators are supposed to be a tool to make life easier, NOT to remove the need to learn how to do basic math.
So you bring back 10x more diamonds than exist on the planet to finance the trip. Only problem is, with supply up 1000%, the price will go down by two factors or more as there aren't enough uses to justify that much carbon. People will be using it instead of coal in power plants, or as a cheap gravel replacement for county roads, and there will still be too much.
Or do we believe that people in other countries shouldn't be able to express negative opinions about our leaders?
Of course we believe other countries should have freedom of speech, which is why we invade them. Obviously, it is even worth killing thousands upon thousands of people (or more) for it. Me thinks that this won't last, as any court in the US would see this as problematic. The 1st Amendment *clearly* is not limited to citizens.
So while rote memorization for its own sake it pretty much worthless
I hear this often but disagree strongly. Rote memory is perfectly fine for basic math tables, formulas, geography, history, remembering your phone number, etc. Not all things require critical thinking, and having the ability to learn by rote AND use critical thinking is certainly more powerful than only being able to figure everything out by association.
Rote memorization is a tool. It shouldn't be the only tool, but it is an important tool and anyone who can't learn by rote memorization is certainly lacking in their tool set.
Doesn't matter if you have web access on a *phone* that doesn't require wifi access, however. Or if you setup wifi on your device in adhoc mode to just cheat off of one person with their permission.
but about every experienced game developer in the field (including me) realized that super-ambitious projects started by a handful of indies in a basement rarely makes it to the shelves nowadays.
There are some exceptions. Valve has a history of buying up these groups and hiring the original people. Day of Defeat, Portal, Team Fortress all started that way, and they have done the same with other small groups as well. One more reason I'm a fan of Valve, they buy talent and put them to work, giving them the opportunity to expand their original dreams.
Not true. Victims might have a hard time getting prosecutors to go after a case, but I made a living getting "victims" to sign statements saying that they would not testify if they went to court, and they were always, always dropped. That was many years ago, but I can't see that being any different now, at least in the USA.
The supermarkets I visit here in the UK actually tell you the cost per unit of weight or volume anyway.. a simple comparison is all that's needed. I am content with this.
Technically, they are supposed to do the same here across the pond, and they do. Sort of. I always compare shop, but it is common to see two items side by side, and one lists the "price per ounce" while the other lists the "price per pound", forcing me to multiply by 16 to compare. This is not a rare thing either. One is 24 ounce, one is 19.2 ounces, and I'm having to do the math in my head. Fortunately, I'm decent at doing that kind of math, but most aren't. In short, it is a way to comply with the law, while still intentionally misleading consumers.
You make a good point. The 4th Amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, but that is not a small subset of what we call privacy. The first real declaration of a right to privacy in the US was the Privacy Act of 1974, which has nothing to do with the "right" to be anonymous.
Terry v Ohio made it clear that a cop can stop and search you without a warrant on the street even if he only has reasonable suspicion, without it violating your right to privacy under the 4th Amendment. That was 1963, well before 9/11.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a right to be anonymous in the USA. Passing an Amendment or law stating otherwise may or may not be a good idea, but it doesn't exist now. The only thing that makes us "anonymous" now is consumer protection laws that normally prevent the ISP from disclosing our personal information without a warrant.
Unfortunately, lights tend to be close to the ceiling, and heat rises, so lights usually don't do a very good job keeping things warm.
1. Pump / well houses. People have been using them in the winter to prevent freezing for generations. 2. Easy bake oven. My sister used to feed me those cake like things when I was a kid. 3. Critters. Many people use them to provide warmth for their cold blooded pets.
Plus other heat uses that I can't think of while having my first cup of coffee. Most closed places do not have perfectly still air. If you put a heat source in any enclosed area, you create movement in the air, even if most of the heat migrates toward the top of the area. And as someone pointed out, they produce infrared as well. While not a perfect heat source, for some applications, they are quite handy. Or at least they are until 2014, when they get banned. For some applications, fluorescent bulbs are absolutely NOT an adequate replacement.
Oh yea, and now we will have even more mercury in landfills because of this stupid law.
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. And while I like Windows 7 much better than XP, there is still a lot of software that simply will not work right on 7. We use Peachtree 2004 at the office (ugghhh..) but it is what we use and the boss will not have any part of changing it. It runs at about 20% speed, on faster hardware, and isn't stable. The only reason for computers in the office is to run that application, and email, so it doesn't matter what the OS is as long as it will do that, so we have to stick with XP.
And yes, I have tried Wine on Linux, but it is documented to NOT work with Peachtree 2004 specifically, due to the messed up implementation of Btrieve, so it isn't an option.
You know, we didn't need Rackspace to get involved in this mess, we already had enough people trying to stomp on the preacher's 1st amendment rights. Yes, it may violate their TOS, but still, it was unnecessary and only makes the situation worse. They should have just let it slide and if they had to, release a statement distancing themselves from the church, blah blah blah...
I think that burning the Koran is stupid, senseless and harmful, but the whole idea behind the 1st Amendment is to protect and allow EXACTLY this kind of speech. Either you truly believe in free speech and support the preacher's right to burn the book (even if you find the idea deplorable) or you don't really believe in free speech.
Ironically, I put the 1st amendment as my status on facebook, as I got tired of half my Christian friends talking about how they shouldn't put a mosque near the old twin tower site. I thought it was obvious in that I was saying they have the right to built it anywhere that code allows, even if I find it distasteful. They all universally thought I was supporting THEIR right to say that Muslims have no right to build it there. I guess free speech is great, as long as others don't say something you don't like.
You are arguing for the sake of arguing. Getting the school system to agree on a list of "don't have" items in order to make the menu healthier is trivial. It gets more difficult as you break the list down, but if they have snack and cola machines in the school, then getting rid of those is the easiest first step.
People might not all agree on what is perfectly healthy, but they generally agree on what is UNhealthy: salty, greasy or sugar laden foods.
Where on earth are we going to get a copy of MacOS 7.3 in 2010?
By searching ThePirateBay.org. Assuming it is up. Actually, while searching I hit a "prove you are a human" page that wanted to install a *.exe file, so that might not be the best solution.
I get tired of hearing how the military "signs away most of their rights" when that is patently false. You do have limits on some right, and you really DO sign away a few while you are serving, but the vast majority of rights are the same for civilian and military. What you lose and what you gain is made perfectly clear before you sign on the dotted line. I don't think the system is perfect and sometimes is abused (an usually corrected) by higher ups, but is not quite as draconian as claimed by people "who have a friend in the military" and don't know wtf they are talking about.
And yes, I served in the 80s, and my father retired from the military in the 70s.
Why can't you take a shit in public? Some necessary bodily functions are best performed behind closed doors, according to our culture. Other cultures piss in public. Heck in China they don't use diapers, baby just shits whenever he feels the need, and most baby garments are of the wonderful "split-crotch" kind. Is it OK if our culture has some ideas about what is and isn't appropriate, and we all agree to respect the feelings of others even if we disagree with them? No, it must be the fault of ordinary Americans, who are always wrong about EVERYTHING. Drugs, prostitution, and gambling are all social ills with well-documented effects. Progressives campaigned tirelessly against them back in the 20s and 30s.
Yes, and thank god we outlawed marijuana or those drug crazed negros would still be raping our white women. Same kind of backward thinking that believes that making something illegal will make it go away. And to compare breast feeding to public defecation shows how much of a complete asshole you really are. Go beat your wife and kids somewhere else, the 1940s are over.
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You don't need a technological solution: You just say "no electronic devices allowed in the room of any kind". An analog solution that works. It might sound extreme, but not that long ago, it was the only option as electronic devices didn't exist. If people can't do multiplication using a pencil and paper for a *test*, then maybe they need to fail it. Calculators are supposed to be a tool to make life easier, NOT to remove the need to learn how to do basic math.
So you bring back 10x more diamonds than exist on the planet to finance the trip. Only problem is, with supply up 1000%, the price will go down by two factors or more as there aren't enough uses to justify that much carbon. People will be using it instead of coal in power plants, or as a cheap gravel replacement for county roads, and there will still be too much.
There is no 3. Profit! in this scenario.
The President doesn't own the US soil, airports, etc. Hell, some Presidents (Clinton) didn't even own their own home.
And "freedom of speech, but there will be consequences" is not the same as "freedom of speech".
Or do we believe that people in other countries shouldn't be able to express negative opinions about our leaders?
Of course we believe other countries should have freedom of speech, which is why we invade them. Obviously, it is even worth killing thousands upon thousands of people (or more) for it. Me thinks that this won't last, as any court in the US would see this as problematic. The 1st Amendment *clearly* is not limited to citizens.
So while rote memorization for its own sake it pretty much worthless
I hear this often but disagree strongly. Rote memory is perfectly fine for basic math tables, formulas, geography, history, remembering your phone number, etc. Not all things require critical thinking, and having the ability to learn by rote AND use critical thinking is certainly more powerful than only being able to figure everything out by association.
Rote memorization is a tool. It shouldn't be the only tool, but it is an important tool and anyone who can't learn by rote memorization is certainly lacking in their tool set.
Doesn't matter if you have web access on a *phone* that doesn't require wifi access, however. Or if you setup wifi on your device in adhoc mode to just cheat off of one person with their permission.
but about every experienced game developer in the field (including me) realized that super-ambitious projects started by a handful of indies in a basement rarely makes it to the shelves nowadays.
There are some exceptions. Valve has a history of buying up these groups and hiring the original people. Day of Defeat, Portal, Team Fortress all started that way, and they have done the same with other small groups as well. One more reason I'm a fan of Valve, they buy talent and put them to work, giving them the opportunity to expand their original dreams.
Not true. Victims might have a hard time getting prosecutors to go after a case, but I made a living getting "victims" to sign statements saying that they would not testify if they went to court, and they were always, always dropped. That was many years ago, but I can't see that being any different now, at least in the USA.
But here in the USA, our cars get 40 rods to the hogshead, and we still use pecks, casks, and drams as measurements of volume. Well, almost.
Sadly, few pubs serve pints here, usually only 12oz. (3/4 pint) glasses and bottles, and sometimes 22oz "tall" glasses.
In fact three of the computers taken ran Linux.
No wonder Microsoft was pissed and helped the Rusky Feds.
FTA: NRK spokesman Oeyvind Werner Oefsti says Pedersen's actions were a surprise.
Dear Slashdot,
I'm killing myself. My wife left me today.
Thank god. I'm personally tired of all the useless comments from that guy named "Anonymous Coward" anyway.
The supermarkets I visit here in the UK actually tell you the cost per unit of weight or volume anyway.. a simple comparison is all that's needed. I am content with this.
Technically, they are supposed to do the same here across the pond, and they do. Sort of. I always compare shop, but it is common to see two items side by side, and one lists the "price per ounce" while the other lists the "price per pound", forcing me to multiply by 16 to compare. This is not a rare thing either. One is 24 ounce, one is 19.2 ounces, and I'm having to do the math in my head. Fortunately, I'm decent at doing that kind of math, but most aren't. In short, it is a way to comply with the law, while still intentionally misleading consumers.
You make a good point. The 4th Amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, but that is not a small subset of what we call privacy. The first real declaration of a right to privacy in the US was the Privacy Act of 1974, which has nothing to do with the "right" to be anonymous.
Terry v Ohio made it clear that a cop can stop and search you without a warrant on the street even if he only has reasonable suspicion, without it violating your right to privacy under the 4th Amendment. That was 1963, well before 9/11.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a right to be anonymous in the USA. Passing an Amendment or law stating otherwise may or may not be a good idea, but it doesn't exist now. The only thing that makes us "anonymous" now is consumer protection laws that normally prevent the ISP from disclosing our personal information without a warrant.
Unfortunately, lights tend to be close to the ceiling, and heat rises, so lights usually don't do a very good job keeping things warm.
1. Pump / well houses. People have been using them in the winter to prevent freezing for generations.
2. Easy bake oven. My sister used to feed me those cake like things when I was a kid.
3. Critters. Many people use them to provide warmth for their cold blooded pets.
Plus other heat uses that I can't think of while having my first cup of coffee. Most closed places do not have perfectly still air. If you put a heat source in any enclosed area, you create movement in the air, even if most of the heat migrates toward the top of the area. And as someone pointed out, they produce infrared as well. While not a perfect heat source, for some applications, they are quite handy. Or at least they are until 2014, when they get banned. For some applications, fluorescent bulbs are absolutely NOT an adequate replacement.
Oh yea, and now we will have even more mercury in landfills because of this stupid law.
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. And while I like Windows 7 much better than XP, there is still a lot of software that simply will not work right on 7. We use Peachtree 2004 at the office (ugghhh..) but it is what we use and the boss will not have any part of changing it. It runs at about 20% speed, on faster hardware, and isn't stable. The only reason for computers in the office is to run that application, and email, so it doesn't matter what the OS is as long as it will do that, so we have to stick with XP.
And yes, I have tried Wine on Linux, but it is documented to NOT work with Peachtree 2004 specifically, due to the messed up implementation of Btrieve, so it isn't an option.
You know, we didn't need Rackspace to get involved in this mess, we already had enough people trying to stomp on the preacher's 1st amendment rights. Yes, it may violate their TOS, but still, it was unnecessary and only makes the situation worse. They should have just let it slide and if they had to, release a statement distancing themselves from the church, blah blah blah...
I think that burning the Koran is stupid, senseless and harmful, but the whole idea behind the 1st Amendment is to protect and allow EXACTLY this kind of speech. Either you truly believe in free speech and support the preacher's right to burn the book (even if you find the idea deplorable) or you don't really believe in free speech.
Ironically, I put the 1st amendment as my status on facebook, as I got tired of half my Christian friends talking about how they shouldn't put a mosque near the old twin tower site. I thought it was obvious in that I was saying they have the right to built it anywhere that code allows, even if I find it distasteful. They all universally thought I was supporting THEIR right to say that Muslims have no right to build it there. I guess free speech is great, as long as others don't say something you don't like.
You are arguing for the sake of arguing. Getting the school system to agree on a list of "don't have" items in order to make the menu healthier is trivial. It gets more difficult as you break the list down, but if they have snack and cola machines in the school, then getting rid of those is the easiest first step.
People might not all agree on what is perfectly healthy, but they generally agree on what is UNhealthy: salty, greasy or sugar laden foods.
Even in high school, I took at class called "Literature of the Super Natural". And that was in Texas.
Where on earth are we going to get a copy of MacOS 7.3 in 2010?
By searching ThePirateBay.org. Assuming it is up. Actually, while searching I hit a "prove you are a human" page that wanted to install a *.exe file, so that might not be the best solution.
I get tired of hearing how the military "signs away most of their rights" when that is patently false. You do have limits on some right, and you really DO sign away a few while you are serving, but the vast majority of rights are the same for civilian and military. What you lose and what you gain is made perfectly clear before you sign on the dotted line. I don't think the system is perfect and sometimes is abused (an usually corrected) by higher ups, but is not quite as draconian as claimed by people "who have a friend in the military" and don't know wtf they are talking about.
And yes, I served in the 80s, and my father retired from the military in the 70s.
Shit, if you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per CPU
You aren't. FTA, the complete systems will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, to a few million. Not the individual CPUs.
An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
I thought it worked the other way around, where they had to prove that x264 is using patented info, not the other way around.
Why can't you take a shit in public? Some necessary bodily functions are best performed behind closed doors, according to our culture. Other cultures piss in public. Heck in China they don't use diapers, baby just shits whenever he feels the need, and most baby garments are of the wonderful "split-crotch" kind. Is it OK if our culture has some ideas about what is and isn't appropriate, and we all agree to respect the feelings of others even if we disagree with them? No, it must be the fault of ordinary Americans, who are always wrong about EVERYTHING. Drugs, prostitution, and gambling are all social ills with well-documented effects. Progressives campaigned tirelessly against them back in the 20s and 30s.
Yes, and thank god we outlawed marijuana or those drug crazed negros would still be raping our white women. Same kind of backward thinking that believes that making something illegal will make it go away. And to compare breast feeding to public defecation shows how much of a complete asshole you really are. Go beat your wife and kids somewhere else, the 1940s are over.