It seems related to stress the mother undergoes during pregnancy; among other things, a strong correlation has been noticed between rates of homosexuality and catastrophic events or war conditions in specific areas
This sounds like a very nice feedback mechanism on a species basis. If stress is high, halt reproduction by making the next generation unwilling to mate.
Of course, a mechanism making the next generation sterile could also work, but that might be too drastic.
And finally, I'm not a biologist, so I'm just guessing. But it does sound neat:)
I find it very strange that community based projects are types as communism. Even if the underlying principles are similar, i.e., people doing something to help themselves, what is so bad about that?
Just because some communist societies have not been able to perform well, does not mean that the idea of communities bettering themselves is bad.
I find it very distasteful that unless a corporation decides to do something it should not happen.
Its people that make up a community and the activities of that community should not have to be defined or determined by a corporation
Come on. I expect that out of my college education I should have at least earned the right to have a professor take the time out of their busy schedule to check over my paper for me. Most would glance over it and say it's fine. I only had *two* that actually spent the time to tear my papers down and show me what was wrong so that I wouldn't make those mistakes again.
I would think that a profs job would be to check content rather than grammer. I don't know much about US high school education, but I would expect that students coming into college would know how to write grammatical English
I mainly work on Linux and prepare documents with LaTeX. However a very useful feature would be to edit a PDF (and not by opening the PDF in Vim!).
This would be a great help when collaborating with others who don't use LaTeX. Even the ability to simply add annotations to a certain peice of text would be extremely useful.
Does anybody know of anything that can do this under Linux?
On a related note does anybody know where one could get good quality file type icons (PDF, Word etc). Browsing the Net I see websites that use these types of icons to indicate documents but I was wondering where they got them from.
http://www.isc.ro/ is an alternative site. You can't play on the website itself but it has Java clients which you can download and then connect to the isc.ro server.
Actually when I was a kid, we had gone to Leeds and in a storefront window I saw an ad for 'Fundies' - and in this case they were indeed a form of underwear. However they were 'fun' because they had 4 holes so basically 2 people would get into a single 'fundie' and have... fun:)
Not sure whether fundamentalists would be able to appreciate this
Begorrah ! The ones who knew enough to find the "swag" on a relevant website are the ones who should be first in the queue to be admiited. After all they're the ones with the acumen.
All they did was follow the instructions. You don't need acumen for that
I'm surprised that you think that logical thought is not required for literary study. Without logical thought how do you connect the events or statements in a literary peice? How do you begin to analyse the effects of characters/events on the whole plot? How do you analyse why the story is as it is? What factors lead to the type of writing that you're reading?
Yes, you can do without logical thought - and then studying 'ancient books' is going to be boring as hell.
But it takes guidance to be able to appreciate literature - I used to think the same thing as you, but I relaized that was short sighted and onc e you start applying logical skills, the whole thing becomes more interesting. I had a very knowldegable friend who pointed out things in this way. I suppose I was lucky
This more than anything else is the reason the third world (esp. India and China) will eat us alive
having had my high school and college education in India, I can tell you that before entering college we study 2 languages along with the core sciences - and thats the last 2 years of high school.
Before that, we do geography, history, civics, languages plus math , science (chemistry, biology, physics)
True, college is more focussed - I did chemistry (major) for 3 years and had to take math and physics for 2 years. Thats one aspect I appreciate about college in the US - the fact that you *can* take/study subjects outside your area of specialization.
I certainly learnt chemistry well in India, but I also didn't have the opportunities to broaden my mind.
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I'd like to ask these ID kooks just what god it is that developed all that they propose?
This is a very good point. Would ID'ists accept Hindu versions of creation? Buddhist versions? Muslim versions?
Or is ID only valid for Christian gods?
if they managed to slow light down to 120km/h i'm damn impressed
Well, people have slowed it down to 0 Km/h (or close to that) - http://www.deas.harvard.edu/haulab/link
Simply hilarious!
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/batman_begins/ba tman_begins-tlr4a_480.mov
It seems related to stress the mother undergoes during pregnancy; among other things, a strong correlation has been noticed between rates of homosexuality and catastrophic events or war conditions in specific areas
:)
This sounds like a very nice feedback mechanism on a species basis. If stress is high, halt reproduction by making the next generation unwilling to mate.
Of course, a mechanism making the next generation sterile could also work, but that might be too drastic.
And finally, I'm not a biologist, so I'm just guessing. But it does sound neat
Thats certainly a valid view - but I don't think anybody is saying that state run WiFi is the only WiFi to be available.
Of course I have'nt RTFA so I might be wrong about what the article states
I find it very strange that community based projects are types as communism. Even if the underlying principles are similar, i.e., people doing something to help themselves, what is so bad about that?
Just because some communist societies have not been able to perform well, does not mean that the idea of communities bettering themselves is bad.
I find it very distasteful that unless a corporation decides to do something it should not happen.
Its people that make up a community and the activities of that community should not have to be defined or determined by a corporation
I know :(
But as I get older, it just bugs me more. You'd think that the editors would have aged a bit as well
OK, we've all understood its April 1st. We got the joke. Sheesh.
Come on. I expect that out of my college education I should have at least earned the right to have a professor take the time out of their busy schedule to check over my paper for me. Most would glance over it and say it's fine. I only had *two* that actually spent the time to tear my papers down and show me what was wrong so that I wouldn't make those mistakes again.
I would think that a profs job would be to check content rather than grammer. I don't know much about US high school education, but I would expect that students coming into college would know how to write grammatical English
It already occurs in less developed countries though in the other way - by aborting female foetus'es (or even just dumping female babies)
I mainly work on Linux and prepare documents with LaTeX. However a very useful feature would be to edit a PDF (and not by opening the PDF in Vim!).
This would be a great help when collaborating with others who don't use LaTeX. Even the ability to simply add annotations to a certain peice of text would be extremely useful.
Does anybody know of anything that can do this under Linux?
On a related note does anybody know where one could get good quality file type icons (PDF, Word etc). Browsing the Net I see websites that use these types of icons to indicate documents but I was wondering where they got them from.
Any points would be appreciated
If you're talking about isc.ro, the client is fine. I was also worried but a netstat did'nt show any unecessary connections.
Thats an intersting point - it seems the author of the client is pretty reserved.
And I haven't see any details as to the 'legality' of the whole thing. But at least the name does'nt contain *scrabble* !
Maybe since its called WordBiz that would save it. I sure would hate to see it go
http://www.isc.ro/ is an alternative site. You can't play on the website itself but it has Java clients which you can download and then connect to the isc.ro server.
It's definitely reduced my sleeping hours!
Actually when I was a kid, we had gone to Leeds and in a storefront window I saw an ad for 'Fundies' - and in this case they were indeed a form of underwear. However they were 'fun' because they had 4 holes so basically 2 people would get into a single 'fundie' and have ... fun :)
Not sure whether fundamentalists would be able to appreciate this
Never having used Nero on Windows, are there advantages to using Nero on Linux?
It seems, that cdrecord and k3b (or xtoaster) does everything I need
and millions of IQ scores show (see the Bell Curve book data)
using the above reference pretty much makes your argument a troll.
The arguments made in that book have been pretty well repudiated (Gould, Pinker etc).
As another reply has said, get some balls, and stop whining
Begorrah ! The ones who knew enough to find the "swag" on a relevant website are the ones who should be first in the queue to be admiited. After all they're the ones with the acumen.
All they did was follow the instructions. You don't need acumen for that
I could have, but I think the topic was about having to study courses in school/college that were not related to your area of study
You sound like you just got out of highschool!
I'm surprised that you think that logical thought is not required for literary study. Without logical thought how do you connect the events or statements in a literary peice? How do you begin to analyse the effects of characters/events on the whole plot?
How do you analyse why the story is as it is? What factors lead to the type of writing that you're reading?
Yes, you can do without logical thought - and then studying 'ancient books' is going to be boring as hell.
But it takes guidance to be able to appreciate literature - I used to think the same thing as you, but I relaized that was short sighted and onc e you start applying logical skills, the whole thing becomes more interesting. I had a very knowldegable friend who pointed out things in this way. I suppose I was lucky
This more than anything else is the reason the third world (esp. India and China) will eat us alive
having had my high school and college education in India, I can tell you that before entering college we study 2 languages along with the core sciences - and thats the last 2 years of high school.
Before that, we do geography, history, civics, languages plus math , science (chemistry, biology, physics)
True, college is more focussed - I did chemistry (major) for 3 years and had to take math and physics for 2 years. Thats one aspect I appreciate about college in the US - the fact that you *can* take/study subjects outside your area of specialization.
I certainly learnt chemistry well in India, but I also didn't have the opportunities to broaden my mind.
Sorry!
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wget STREAM_URL
mplayer `head -n 1 DOWNLOADED_URL`
(The actual stream URL is in the file that the link points to)
But it still does'nt play - I on't know why
mplayer -dumpstream STREAM_URL