After watching the TV series, Mos Def as Ford Prefect is a bit wierd. From the few scenes in the trailer, Prefect seems a little too,..., in focus. Whereas in the book and TV series, he also seemed a little out of it.
But then I just saw 5 seconds of Prefect. Can't wait for the movie
Thats certainly true - my comment was'nt really in support of the parent, I was just pointing out the generalization.
Personally, I think bad spelling/grammer is sloppy and in many cases I don't pay as much attention to a post as I would have had it been properly composed. Clearly, thats a failing on my part, because in the end presentation doesn't imply content.
I suppose I'm old fashioned in this 'OMG lol' world
I'm not sure I see the connection between N Korea's stance and our online rights (or even our rights in general). Of course its an interesting peice of news.
I'm just curious - is karma so important that you (and others) have to add disclaimers to comments? I realize that the karma system makes for (hopefully) good comments but it always seems a little desperate when people add disclaimers/plead regarding modpoints
Success and accomplishment in life should be defined by the individual, not the state.
Absolutely! However the problem with this is that , not surprisingly, the majority will take the easy way out and be happy with making money and watching TV. Thats fine if the person wants to do that.
The problem arises when the majority decides that this is the 'cool' way to achieve success and thus leading to marginalizing the (smaller) group that believes builing mental skills is worthwhile.
If society in the US was truly libertarian then everybody would feel no pressure from the majority groupthink. Unfortunately thats not the case so we see that a possible onsequence is that the majority decide math (and other schooling not directly applicable to watching TV etc) and so funding/focus on this area decreases.
when Americans themselves don't care in the first place and have no economic need to change
Your reasoning is certainly correct. But it seems sad that as long finances are OK, its OK for a person (or a people) to not bother to improve their mental skills.
Money is certainly nice - but somehow just ending up as a comfartable potato with a fat bank account seems to be a waste of brain
Nice SF story based on this idea: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail /-/0061 054232/qid=1099695307/br=1-4/ref=br_lf_b_4//002-35 85591-0896067?v=glance&s=books&n=15092
OK, so whats wrong with arguing? Or should we just accept that everybody has diferent beliefs and stop all discourse?
Its entirely possible that one set of beliefs are wrong. Or are you of the politically correct persuasion that 'all beliefs are relative to the believer and hence right'?
IMHO education is critical - both tradition schooling as well as vocational. Education provides direction and discipline. I know, learning the capitals of some country soudns pointless (probably is) but the fact that some things stick with you after those classes can be the seed for future interest.
Without schooling how would a person know that a world exists beyond they're block? And I mean a 'real' world, not the crap world portrayed on TV
I think education helps a country (or in general a civilization) by making people think - about opportunities, possibilities - and in addition I'd go so far as to say provides direction.
And before people get apoplectic about discipline/rigor/straitjacketing etc, I realize there will be people who are fine without schooling. The problem is these people are the minority and will be highly motivated. These people will do fine on their own. But that does'n tmean we should expect everybody to be so.
Slashdot Mirror
If this is all true and verified where the hell is the outcry? This is slimy tactics to the extreme!
From mathworld (whose link is in the summary)
A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number, i.e., a number of the form
2^n - 1
that is prime. In order for it to be prime, n must itself be prime.
Muddying is considered a transitive verb - but in general you're right :)
Sorry for the nitpick
Actually its not pedantic - you might want to call it subtle. But markup is *quite* different from instructions.
Essentially markup tells the browse what type of thing some text is - it says nothing as to what should be done with the text.
Of course, you can call this some form of instruction, but that would muddy the definitions.
Precision is nice
After watching the TV series, Mos Def as Ford Prefect is a bit wierd. From the few scenes in the trailer, Prefect seems a little too, ..., in focus. Whereas in the book and TV series, he also seemed a little out of it.
But then I just saw 5 seconds of Prefect. Can't wait for the movie
Thats certainly true - my comment was'nt really in support of the parent, I was just pointing out the generalization.
Personally, I think bad spelling/grammer is sloppy and in many cases I don't pay as much attention to a post as I would have had it been properly composed. Clearly, thats a failing on my part, because in the end presentation doesn't imply content.
I suppose I'm old fashioned in this 'OMG lol' world
Sloppy typing does not imply lack of academic acheivement (and vice versa of course)
Just wondering
It works on an IBM thinkpad
Thinkpads (T42p, don't know about the others) also have this thing. Certainly neat stuff
Well said :)
> And for large powerhungry pigs with modpoints
I'm just curious - is karma so important that you (and others) have to add disclaimers to comments? I realize that the karma system makes for (hopefully) good comments but it always seems a little desperate when people add disclaimers/plead regarding modpoints
Absolutely! However the problem with this is that , not surprisingly, the majority will take the easy way out and be happy with making money and watching TV. Thats fine if the person wants to do that.
The problem arises when the majority decides that this is the 'cool' way to achieve success and thus leading to marginalizing the (smaller) group that believes builing mental skills is worthwhile.
If society in the US was truly libertarian then everybody would feel no pressure from the majority groupthink. Unfortunately thats not the case so we see that a possible onsequence is that the majority decide math (and other schooling not directly applicable to watching TV etc) and so funding/focus on this area decreases.
At one point a balancing force is required
Your reasoning is certainly correct. But it seems sad that as long finances are OK, its OK for a person (or a people) to not bother to improve their mental skills.
Money is certainly nice - but somehow just ending up as a comfartable potato with a fat bank account seems to be a waste of brain
The method to extract DNA seems pretty neat. Can anybody explain what the gin is doing?
why is it that /. is so slow. Fark had the last two articles in the morning (or early afternoon)
> The Scotch-Irish cleared from their a
^^^^^^
Scott
Nice SF story based on this idea:1 054232/qid=1099695307/br=1-4/ref=br_lf_b_4//002-35 85591-0896067?v=glance&s=books&n=15092
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006
(Sorry about the previous non hypertext link)
Nice SF story based on this idea:l /-/0061 054232/qid=1099695307/br=1-4/ref=br_lf_b_4//002-35 85591-0896067?v=glance&s=books&n=15092
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai
Its entirely possible that one set of beliefs are wrong. Or are you of the politically correct persuasion that 'all beliefs are relative to the believer and hence right'?
This guy is a pretty impressive troll. Does he really believe in all that crap or is it just to kill time?
Hilarious!
IMHO education is critical - both tradition schooling as well as vocational. Education provides direction and discipline. I know, learning the capitals of some country soudns pointless (probably is) but the fact that some things stick with you after those classes can be the seed for future interest.
Without schooling how would a person know that a world exists beyond they're block? And I mean a 'real' world, not the crap world portrayed on TV
I think education helps a country (or in general a civilization) by making people think - about opportunities, possibilities - and in addition I'd go so far as to say provides direction.
And before people get apoplectic about discipline/rigor/straitjacketing etc, I realize there will be people who are fine without schooling. The problem is these people are the minority and will be highly motivated. These people will do fine on their own. But that does'n tmean we should expect everybody to be so.
It's like the ACM except for Google.
I realize that, but don't we get to know what he did with the google SDK? Might be a pointer to what Google will be bringing out in the future
So what did he win the $10K for?