Abosolutes. There is either True or False, not being proven to be True is therefore false. Inserting grey area in between is interesting, to explore possibilities, but when asked True or False, there can be only one.
Agreed. Critical thinking classes should be in high school, and mandatory.
Critical Thinking is seen as a threat to a lot of groups, as well as some parents. I think this is why such a simple, yet neglected concept is left to college, where it's at the option of the student to take the class, rather than have kids coming home challenging their parents, church and community leaders.
Class in college.. here's a photo. Everyone looks at it.
There's a young man in a cap and gown with what appears to be a diploma. A smiling man is standing to one side, a smiling woman to the other and in the forground is a girl about 12 looking bored.
Assertions, true or false: The father is proud of his son. The graduate's younger sister wants an ice cream. The mother is very happy.
The first assertion is not necessarily true (therefore false), how do we know the smiling man is father, uncle, family friend, whatever?
The second assertion is not necessarily true, how do you know she is related to the graduate? Where does it say anything about ice-cream? She could potentially be a young boy with long hair in girls clothing.
The third assertion, mother? How do we know the woman has children? How do we know any of those present is related. It's also false.
Quite fasciniating watching the light go on (perhaps for the first time in their lives) of my classmates. I challenged the assertions immediately because, being a rather literal programmer, I didn't see any statements of fact with the photo, so everything had to be assumptions (and who codes on assumptions? Ok.. lots of people do, that's why we have so many security problems, lack of useful feedback when things don't work and poor interfaces.)
Now consider there are tens of millions of people who haven't even had an introduction to Critical Thinking and they are influenced by advertising, politcal speeches,much of the garbage on talk radio and those evil stinkers who talk young men and women into committing atrocities.
The bad people just got the title 'Hacker' assigned by stupid, lazy people in the media -- you know, the kind who are utterly mistified as to why anyone would want to surf a web.
1Mbps has been slow for at least a decade. In 2002 I had a 5/1Mbps connection and today 25/25.
I had to switch from 56K modem when pages started bloating up. Ebay was horrible, some listings taking 30 seconds or longer to load. Slashdot is one of the slower sites to load, even at 6Mb/s
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers adaption was a brilliant parody of the original material and made a pointed joke of everything Heinlein claimed to stand for.
If you consider the original novel to be profound I can't imagine you would have the sense of self-awareness required to enjoy the film, anyway.
I thought the novel was a very interesting perspective piece. I thought the film was about as faithful to the book as Jurassic Park (film) was to Jurassic Park (novel). Most books suffer in the translation, but I found Verhoeven's whack at the film an extremely dullwitted action film, based on eye-candy CGI affects - which too many films are all about anymore. Would have been much better if they'd have made the film more in the vein of the book, punching up things a little bit and sticking with the view of the soldiers going into combat. A similar treatment to Ender's Game I'm half expecting. Hollywood doesn't do deep sci-fi, or any fiction for that matter, they do know what their audience demands, dumbed-down films.
The people hearing the *FLUSH* right about now were The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems, later Caldera International).
Essentially, they bought some of the original SCO UNIX IP when Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella Inc.
Later, they entered into a licensing agreement with Novell to collect fees based on THEIR copyrights.
Caldera, having delusions of grandeur, decided that they'd *bought* all that UNIX IP, didn't pay Novell a dime, changed their name to The SCO Group, and decided that they'd try to take ownership of ALL *nix by trying to collect royalties on anything *nix derivative (including Linux, which they'd contributed to). They somehow thought that holding huge companies like IBM hostage. Apparently they forgot that IBM's lawyers were INFINITELY nastier predators than ANYONE they could afford to hire.
Not to mention incoming and outgoing lawsuits squaring off against RedHat, AutoZone, SGI, and Daimler Chrysler.
The only thing that kept them afloat that long was intervention by Microsoft, looking to chum the waters further.
In short, the asscreants at The SCO Group (a group of litigation-happy IP trolls who didn't do their homework) have jack and shit to do with the original Santa Cruz Operation (a group of technologists).
Yes, I knew all that. What's your point? The buildings are still there and what could have been a noble enterprise was turned into a monster.
Ralph Yarro enriched himself tremendously. While SCO the company might be bankrupt, a lot of the money ended up with him.
Robert Penrose and Val Kriedel (Noorda) both committed suicide over their involvement.
Tens of thousands of us were damaged in some way.
It's a sad thing to drive past the old Santa Cruz Operation buildings, over near Harvey West Park, remembering better times for the company and people. I once attended a free JSP session there when SCO hosted the author and was kind enough to provide refreshments. So much potential, so rudely squandered.
Maybe not quite yet... Someone could buy the portfolio, no?
ONOS! Not teh Micorsfots!
Honestly, I think they have enough on their plate, trying to head off Andriod and iOS. More money into research and do some skull cracking of those departments who refuse to work together (read: support their employer, rather then empire building) and Microsoft could have a chance.. in a few years.
Exactly, and how many pianists out of all those who dedicate themselves make 6 figure incomes.
Wanting your child to be the best, or for your child to want to make their parents proud is only a natural need for a parent/child relationship.
To honor your parents (and ancestors) is a rather deep rooted thing in East and South Asian cultures. Parents need to define what is and isn't honoring - being a slave to online gaming is hardly something to aspire to.
What exactly did they sue over? According to the U.S. Copyright Office:
Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an authorâ(TM)s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form.
It seems to me a reimplementation of the same game should be legal. Change the words, art, and music, and you're good to go.
Yeah, but the example on one of the links definitely looks like they didn't stray very far when copying the villain/scoundrel character. If there's too many examples where the character types are protrayed too similarly Zynga may find itself burned.
I think about getting TV, but only for one purpose - to follow world football. Nothing else is of much interest to me on TV. My own set has been turned one once in the past 12 years. It still works. I just have not patience for the junk which is continually on. Anything worth watching I pick up later on DVD. Which isn't much, either. TV is overrated.
Besides, I already have all the Monty Python DVDs, what else could I want? Ni!
Will be Apple. When they finally make that fatal misstep, which wrankles users no end.. it is actually possible they have already done this, but things take time to work through the market.
But then, when you buy stock in a company with no real product and it tanks to about 50% it's IPO value, you can only blame yourself and your silly Bay of Pigs attitude towards business.
Don't bother us with your pathetic alternative energies. We have to burn every fucking ounce of long-chain hydrocarbons, use up every ounce of radioactive ore, burn every ounce of methane and other simple hydrocarbon, before we even consider your pathetic green hippy alternative energy sources. Only fags and Commies believe in generating electricity by anything other than CO2-vomiting power plants. Oh, and CO2 is totally harmless, no matter how fucking much of it you puke out.
God bless oil! The only way oil could be better is if I could fuck or eat it! Now get off my lawn, you pathetic Marxist hippies.
I'm sure I've been past a few places in the last month where the people are entirely off the grid. I think they are laughing at everyone who doesn't have the luxury of a location suitable for wind or solar, because it really can cut our generated needs. I'm pretty sure at least one was a commune.
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Says the account with exactly three posts, all posted today and all praising Windows 8.
Probably, under another identity, said Vista was ready, too.
The question is, do the excess connections cause intelligence, or does working the brain cause the excess connections?
Seems to me the opinion of science is having ability isn't the same as keeping it sharp -- performing Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, etc, keep your mind in training, same as physical exercise does for heart, muscle and liver.
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not necessarily true (therefore false)
I'm not clear on this bit...
Abosolutes. There is either True or False, not being proven to be True is therefore false. Inserting grey area in between is interesting, to explore possibilities, but when asked True or False, there can be only one.
Agreed. Critical thinking classes should be in high school, and mandatory.
Critical Thinking is seen as a threat to a lot of groups, as well as some parents. I think this is why such a simple, yet neglected concept is left to college, where it's at the option of the student to take the class, rather than have kids coming home challenging their parents, church and community leaders.
Class in college .. here's a photo. Everyone looks at it.
There's a young man in a cap and gown with what appears to be a diploma. A smiling man is standing to one side, a smiling woman to the other and in the forground is a girl about 12 looking bored.
Assertions, true or false: The father is proud of his son. The graduate's younger sister wants an ice cream. The mother is very happy.
The first assertion is not necessarily true (therefore false), how do we know the smiling man is father, uncle, family friend, whatever?
The second assertion is not necessarily true, how do you know she is related to the graduate? Where does it say anything about ice-cream? She could potentially be a young boy with long hair in girls clothing.
The third assertion, mother? How do we know the woman has children? How do we know any of those present is related. It's also false.
Quite fasciniating watching the light go on (perhaps for the first time in their lives) of my classmates. I challenged the assertions immediately because, being a rather literal programmer, I didn't see any statements of fact with the photo, so everything had to be assumptions (and who codes on assumptions? Ok.. lots of people do, that's why we have so many security problems, lack of useful feedback when things don't work and poor interfaces.)
Now consider there are tens of millions of people who haven't even had an introduction to Critical Thinking and they are influenced by advertising, politcal speeches,much of the garbage on talk radio and those evil stinkers who talk young men and women into committing atrocities.
The bad people just got the title 'Hacker' assigned by stupid, lazy people in the media -- you know, the kind who are utterly mistified as to why anyone would want to surf a web.
1Mbps has been slow for at least a decade.
In 2002 I had a 5/1Mbps connection and today 25/25.
I had to switch from 56K modem when pages started bloating up. Ebay was horrible, some listings taking 30 seconds or longer to load. Slashdot is one of the slower sites to load, even at 6Mb/s
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers adaption was a brilliant parody of the original material and made a pointed joke of everything Heinlein claimed to stand for.
If you consider the original novel to be profound I can't imagine you would have the sense of self-awareness required to enjoy the film, anyway.
I thought the novel was a very interesting perspective piece. I thought the film was about as faithful to the book as Jurassic Park (film) was to Jurassic Park (novel). Most books suffer in the translation, but I found Verhoeven's whack at the film an extremely dullwitted action film, based on eye-candy CGI affects - which too many films are all about anymore. Would have been much better if they'd have made the film more in the vein of the book, punching up things a little bit and sticking with the view of the soldiers going into combat. A similar treatment to Ender's Game I'm half expecting. Hollywood doesn't do deep sci-fi, or any fiction for that matter, they do know what their audience demands, dumbed-down films.
He's one of the most appreciated ever.
Alas, his I Robot was translated into a travesty of a film .. rather like happened to Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
Nonono.
That was Santa Cruz Operation.
COMPLETELY different outfit.
The people hearing the *FLUSH* right about now were The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems, later Caldera International).
Essentially, they bought some of the original SCO UNIX IP when Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella Inc.
Later, they entered into a licensing agreement with Novell to collect fees based on THEIR copyrights.
Caldera, having delusions of grandeur, decided that they'd *bought* all that UNIX IP, didn't pay Novell a dime, changed their name to The SCO Group, and decided that they'd try to take ownership of ALL *nix by trying to collect royalties on anything *nix derivative (including Linux, which they'd contributed to). They somehow thought that holding huge companies like IBM hostage. Apparently they forgot that IBM's lawyers were INFINITELY nastier predators than ANYONE they could afford to hire.
Not to mention incoming and outgoing lawsuits squaring off against RedHat, AutoZone, SGI, and Daimler Chrysler.
The only thing that kept them afloat that long was intervention by Microsoft, looking to chum the waters further.
In short, the asscreants at The SCO Group (a group of litigation-happy IP trolls who didn't do their homework) have jack and shit to do with the original Santa Cruz Operation (a group of technologists).
Yes, I knew all that. What's your point? The buildings are still there and what could have been a noble enterprise was turned into a monster.
Ralph Yarro enriched himself tremendously. While SCO the company might be bankrupt, a lot of the money ended up with him.
Robert Penrose and Val Kriedel (Noorda) both committed suicide over their involvement.
Tens of thousands of us were damaged in some way.
It's a sad thing to drive past the old Santa Cruz Operation buildings, over near Harvey West Park, remembering better times for the company and people. I once attended a free JSP session there when SCO hosted the author and was kind enough to provide refreshments. So much potential, so rudely squandered.
Good riddance
Maybe not quite yet... Someone could buy the portfolio, no?
ONOS! Not teh Micorsfots!
Honestly, I think they have enough on their plate, trying to head off Andriod and iOS. More money into research and do some skull cracking of those departments who refuse to work together (read: support their employer, rather then empire building) and Microsoft could have a chance .. in a few years.
Owning stock in a company actually mean owning as share in the Goods the company was going to sell?
Seems almost alien in today's world of baffling bulls**t which is what we get out of Wall Street. Makes Calculus look like finger painting.
They're hiring more IT professionals to feed to crocodiles and we have a contract to deliver them!
they can bite my shiny, metal cabinet
How many fake accounts will it take to prop up Farcebook after they've forced Timelines on people and they begin the mass exodus to Google+
Exactly, and how many pianists out of all those who dedicate themselves make 6 figure incomes.
Wanting your child to be the best, or for your child to want to make their parents proud is only a natural need for a parent/child relationship.
To honor your parents (and ancestors) is a rather deep rooted thing in East and South Asian cultures. Parents need to define what is and isn't honoring - being a slave to online gaming is hardly something to aspire to.
Only an Anonymous Coward would endorse Mitt Romney.
On a side note - We aren't all living forever, but this election season is making it feel like forever.
What exactly did they sue over? According to the U.S. Copyright Office:
It seems to me a reimplementation of the same game should be legal. Change the words, art, and music, and you're good to go.
Yeah, but the example on one of the links definitely looks like they didn't stray very far when copying the villain/scoundrel character. If there's too many examples where the character types are protrayed too similarly Zynga may find itself burned.
They'll change.... ...from Metro to Train
Consider how the Paris Metro goes on strike from time to time. Do you really want that reputation? Not that they wouldn't occasionally deserve it...
...and I haven't regretted 1 minute of it.
I think about getting TV, but only for one purpose - to follow world football. Nothing else is of much interest to me on TV. My own set has been turned one once in the past 12 years. It still works. I just have not patience for the junk which is continually on. Anything worth watching I pick up later on DVD. Which isn't much, either. TV is overrated.
Besides, I already have all the Monty Python DVDs, what else could I want? Ni!
Will be Apple. When they finally make that fatal misstep, which wrankles users no end .. it is actually possible they have already done this, but things take time to work through the market.
Getting tired of having the same old ones filled.
Could be worse .. could be having the old one pulled.
But then, when you buy stock in a company with no real product and it tanks to about 50% it's IPO value, you can only blame yourself and your silly Bay of Pigs attitude towards business.
Don't bother us with your pathetic alternative energies. We have to burn every fucking ounce of long-chain hydrocarbons, use up every ounce of radioactive ore, burn every ounce of methane and other simple hydrocarbon, before we even consider your pathetic green hippy alternative energy sources. Only fags and Commies believe in generating electricity by anything other than CO2-vomiting power plants. Oh, and CO2 is totally harmless, no matter how fucking much of it you puke out.
God bless oil! The only way oil could be better is if I could fuck or eat it! Now get off my lawn, you pathetic Marxist hippies.
I'm sure I've been past a few places in the last month where the people are entirely off the grid. I think they are laughing at everyone who doesn't have the luxury of a location suitable for wind or solar, because it really can cut our generated needs. I'm pretty sure at least one was a commune.
Says the account with exactly three posts, all posted today and all praising Windows 8.
Probably, under another identity, said Vista was ready, too.
I'll wait a few years, thanks.
The question is, do the excess connections cause intelligence, or does working the brain cause the excess connections?
Seems to me the opinion of science is having ability isn't the same as keeping it sharp -- performing Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, etc, keep your mind in training, same as physical exercise does for heart, muscle and liver.
But what about your Wisdom?
Seems a better measure than how fast you can perform math, patern recognition, etc.
Thanks to AD&D I learned about the importance of balance Int with Wis