I've also seen clear-plastic keyboards fairly cheaply, which could be put under UV light to truly sterilize a keyboard (as opposed to sanitizing, or doing nothing...)
Right, but I would love if you could buy bundles by themselves. Maybe I wouldn't buy the Viacom bundle, but I would buy the Disney bundle. I'll buy the Disovery bundle and get all of those sub-channels without having to buy all the other dreck on digital cable.
Companies still bundle, I get what I want. This is the only way ala-carte is going to fly, and it's still a hard sale to your media comapnies (content providers).
(The problem would be that some media companies wouldn't want a 'Viacom' bundle vs a 'Disney' bundle, because Viacom would want everyone who purchases the Disney channel to be forced to have Nick one channel off.)
This is true. Nobody thought the world was flat in Columbus's time. However, Washington Irving wrote in his book "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" that Columbus was the one who 'discovered' that the world was round.
Why did he make this up? Because Irving was trying to create in his book an image of Columbus as a modern, scientific man against an image of a faith-believing, unscientific man. So, he looked for conflicts. He found out that the professors of a Spanish university had told the King and Queen to not fund Columbus on scientific grounds. He thought he had the Church right were he wanted them (at the time, almost all professors of Universities were priests), until he read further.
Columbus had 're-calculated' the diameter of the earth, and that's why he thought he could have made it to Asia. The priests argued that his calculations were wrong, and that Columbus would run out of food and water before making it.
In the end, the calculations that the priests had provided were as close as the measuring tools of the time could provide. They were right, Columbus was wrong. If there wasn't a nice little continent in the way, Columbus's party would have either been forced to turn around, or they would have died at sea. However, this story (which showed those nasty priests as being scientifically correct), didn't work for Irving, so he made up a story about the Church teaching that the world was flat.
This story has then been perpetuated as 'fact' ever sense.
Part of the reason it's easy is that you have a set area where you put all your patient information, and that's the only thing you put there.
Reading some of the actuall testamony put out there, some good points show up. If a company can say "you have automated backup tapes from 2000, and one one of them you may have *whatever* piece of information, so I want it." You have no idea which tape it may be on, so you go through your massive pile trying to find it. If you're a small, but data intense, company it may cost more to find the piece of data than it's worth to defend the lawsuit. And more and more of these lawsuits are coming from some company who doesn't make anything, they just sue to make money.
That doesn't even begin to think about the cost of not being able to recycle backup tapes if you go through over 20,000 200GB tapes a week...
Except that the KJV was translated in ways that emphasized Protestant Theology over Catholic Theology (translating "ergon" as "work" in every place but in James). Besides, they're both very similar along the literal-dynamic range.
Besides, at the time almost everyone who could read could read Latin, so the analogy really starts to break down. It's more like an analogy to a company who wants everyone to read the original, but not a corrupted (in their view) version, so they use a Creative Commons licence which states that you can re-publish and give away, but you can't change it or re-incorporate it into something else.
Well, the bible wasn't allowed to be translated into a different language, King James commissioned a bible in English that 'common' people could understand.
Which would explain why the Catholic Douay-Reims translation was published in 1582 (for the New Testament, the Old was published in 1609), while the King James was published in 1611.
The "bible wasn't allowed to be translated" story was a myth. However, like all myths, there are truths behind it. There were many people who were "translating" bibles poorly, and adding their own beliefs into them. The Catholic Church, and most/all Protestants, rejected these translations.
I buy a movie with an expiration date every time I go into the cinema. (D)"RM" consists of the guy who will at first politely and then forcefully tell you to put your damn video camera away.
Except at a movie theater you're not "buying" a movie, you are renting a seat in a building, and in return they entertain you.
either the Catholic Church nor any of the major liberal Protestant denominations believe in inerrancy -- the idea that the Bible is perfectly and literally true.
Actually, the Catholic Church believes in inerrancy, it's just that inerrancy takes into account what the author meant. For example, "day" in Genesis was probably symbolic, not a literal 24 hour period (see psalms, where we hear that for God "one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day").
The Church allows belief in the "7 24-hour period" belief, but it does not require it. In fact, JPII has made statements that assume that he does not personally believe in that theory. Personally, I believe that the opening of Genesis is more of a song to creation and the creator, but that's just IMHO.
Think that's bad. The signature has rubbed off on the back of one of my cards, so usually people ask for ID. One person, takes my card, takes receipt, looks very carefully... and says "thank you."
There is nothing but a black smudge on the back of the card!
I believe you are referring to Terri Schiavo, a tragic case.
Congress has subpoenaed her to appear, simply meaning that they can't kill her (no law has been passed).
removing the woman's feeding tube and letting her die in peace
I don't think dying from starvation and/or dehydration would be considered 'in peace' by most people.
according to her doctors, she's in an irrecoverable coma
Well, it depends on which doctors you're talking about. Most say she's in a 'persistent vegetative state,' although most neurologists would say that you shouldn't do such a diagnosis without ever having done an MRI or a PET scan (CT/CAT scans were done over a decade ago, but they aren't good for this kind of brain injury). Besides, the fact that she can respond to stimuli proves that she's not in a persistent vegetative state.
Oh, and she's not on life support. She's disabled to the point where she can't swallow, but they haven't tried therapies that may help - her husband won't pay for them. She can respond somewhat, and she has responded negatively when asked if she wants her feeding tube removed. The state courts in Florida are intent on helping her husband to kill her.
Does this mean that we get to start referring to Intel as a "convicted monopolist" in every/. article about the company, just like we do for Micro$oft??
Well, I'd at least wait until a conviction comes down;-) Accused != convicted.
Oh, and they'd have to be told by the courts that while what they were doing was wrong, that they could keep on doing it.
Clearly someone with some _balls_ said WordPerfect is "good enough"
A lot of law firms have stuck with WordPerfect because they had a 'lawer' version with all of the legal terms in the spelling dictionary long before MS.
I still have a copy of WP from about 2 versions ago that does everything I need, and if I ever have to upgrade, that's where I'm going (at least until OOo gets better).
A web page with links to pictures, with plenty of blackboard space around the projection to write on, works with 30-100 students.
And the difference between this and a powerpoint presentation with a whiteboard to expand on it would be?
The web page lets you pick and choose what you need to show the students, and they can easily look up extra information from the links (if you put it online). It's more dynamic in the sense that the instructor can change the lecture as he sees fit MUCH easier than in powerpoint.
Having sat through seminars where people used powerpoint and were able to face the audience and talk, and seminars where people spent the whole time addressing the blackboard, I can tell you I much prefer the former.
Instructors who only look at the blackboard are bad instructors, which powerpoint only makes worse. Professors who write up important information (or spelling) on the blackboard help the student follow what's important.
I think a computer has a place in the classroom - as a laptop in the teacher's bag. It can speed up all of his/her administrative work.
As long as the kids have some way of using computers on a regular basis so that they are comfortable with the things, that's all the computer skills they're going to NEED. If that way is to loan computers to kids who's families can't afford them - good. Jr. High and older students should type their papers.
Education, especially early education, should be about giving the kids mental tools that they can use to learn other skills (programing, etc) later on. Instead, our school system is constantly headed in one wrong direction after another.
Computers can... allow the teacher to spend less time on busy work (manually grading papers, etc.) and more time interacting with the students.
The parent poster didn't say that teacher's computers for administrative purposes were bad, but that they were bad for educational purposes, because those ends tend not to be realized.
The tightly-build new subdivisions is mostly because there is less land inside the Urban Growth Boundry. It's a trade-off, tightly-build houses in exchange for them not streaching off for EVER.
Beaverton, along with neighboring Hillsboro and Lake Oswego are the uber-snobby suburban bedroom communities of the Portland area.
Parts of Beaverton, Hillsboro, and most Lake Oswego are the uber-snoby areas. There are also a lot of lower-income and middle-class areas (I went to Beaverton High, and most kids were liked as long as they had a car (even my 11-year-old civic hatchback was more car then a lot of people had).
I now live along the Hillsboro - Beaverton border, and there are plenty of lower-income areas.
Many people object to the harvesting of embryonic stem cells due to the fact that the embryo is destroyed in the process. Intentionally killing a human being is bad in their view (even if that human is not legally considered a 'person' under US law).
However, there is no objection to research using adult stem cells, which have many advantages (such as no rejection, no moral objection, and procedures have already been done that actually work). Adult stem cells have the setback of not being able to form any cell in the body, just a lot. Embryonic stem cells have the theoretical potential to become any cell in the body, but the work required to get them to do the right thing (and not become cancerous, not be rejected, etc.) is much higher.
IMHO, we should be focusing our funding on adult stem cells, as they are the most likely to actually work. If some scientists want to work with animal embryonic stem cells, then that would still advance science without the ethical dilemmas.
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Oh, and the other half of the chicken/egg scenario... why haven't we seen dual core CPUs previously?
Because we've hit a bit of a MHz wall, where we can't get much more raw speed, so we have to go parallel to get more useable speed.
Before, hardware companies didn't push dual core because there was no need for it to make the system faster.
I've also seen clear-plastic keyboards fairly cheaply, which could be put under UV light to truly sterilize a keyboard (as opposed to sanitizing, or doing nothing...)
Some schools even have licensing deals where all students and faculty get the latest OSX versions for free.
Right, but I would love if you could buy bundles by themselves. Maybe I wouldn't buy the Viacom bundle, but I would buy the Disney bundle. I'll buy the Disovery bundle and get all of those sub-channels without having to buy all the other dreck on digital cable.
Companies still bundle, I get what I want. This is the only way ala-carte is going to fly, and it's still a hard sale to your media comapnies (content providers).
(The problem would be that some media companies wouldn't want a 'Viacom' bundle vs a 'Disney' bundle, because Viacom would want everyone who purchases the Disney channel to be forced to have Nick one channel off.)
This is true. Nobody thought the world was flat in Columbus's time. However, Washington Irving wrote in his book "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" that Columbus was the one who 'discovered' that the world was round.
Why did he make this up? Because Irving was trying to create in his book an image of Columbus as a modern, scientific man against an image of a faith-believing, unscientific man. So, he looked for conflicts. He found out that the professors of a Spanish university had told the King and Queen to not fund Columbus on scientific grounds. He thought he had the Church right were he wanted them (at the time, almost all professors of Universities were priests), until he read further.
Columbus had 're-calculated' the diameter of the earth, and that's why he thought he could have made it to Asia. The priests argued that his calculations were wrong, and that Columbus would run out of food and water before making it.
In the end, the calculations that the priests had provided were as close as the measuring tools of the time could provide. They were right, Columbus was wrong. If there wasn't a nice little continent in the way, Columbus's party would have either been forced to turn around, or they would have died at sea. However, this story (which showed those nasty priests as being scientifically correct), didn't work for Irving, so he made up a story about the Church teaching that the world was flat.
This story has then been perpetuated as 'fact' ever sense.
Part of the reason it's easy is that you have a set area where you put all your patient information, and that's the only thing you put there.
Reading some of the actuall testamony put out there, some good points show up. If a company can say "you have automated backup tapes from 2000, and one one of them you may have *whatever* piece of information, so I want it." You have no idea which tape it may be on, so you go through your massive pile trying to find it. If you're a small, but data intense, company it may cost more to find the piece of data than it's worth to defend the lawsuit. And more and more of these lawsuits are coming from some company who doesn't make anything, they just sue to make money.
That doesn't even begin to think about the cost of not being able to recycle backup tapes if you go through over 20,000 200GB tapes a week...
Well, I know that you should never take Basalt for Granite, because it isn't Gneiss...
Except that the KJV was translated in ways that emphasized Protestant Theology over Catholic Theology (translating "ergon" as "work" in every place but in James). Besides, they're both very similar along the literal-dynamic range.
Besides, at the time almost everyone who could read could read Latin, so the analogy really starts to break down. It's more like an analogy to a company who wants everyone to read the original, but not a corrupted (in their view) version, so they use a Creative Commons licence which states that you can re-publish and give away, but you can't change it or re-incorporate it into something else.
Well, the bible wasn't allowed to be translated into a different language, King James commissioned a bible in English that 'common' people could understand.
Which would explain why the Catholic Douay-Reims translation was published in 1582 (for the New Testament, the Old was published in 1609), while the King James was published in 1611.
The "bible wasn't allowed to be translated" story was a myth. However, like all myths, there are truths behind it. There were many people who were "translating" bibles poorly, and adding their own beliefs into them. The Catholic Church, and most/all Protestants, rejected these translations.
I buy a movie with an expiration date every time I go into the cinema. (D)"RM" consists of the guy who will at first politely and then forcefully tell you to put your damn video camera away.
Except at a movie theater you're not "buying" a movie, you are renting a seat in a building, and in return they entertain you.
DRM vs no DRM is like the church vs the King James bible.
This comment makes no sense, maybe you can explain this a bit better.
either the Catholic Church nor any of the major liberal Protestant denominations believe in inerrancy -- the idea that the Bible is perfectly and literally true.
Actually, the Catholic Church believes in inerrancy, it's just that inerrancy takes into account what the author meant. For example, "day" in Genesis was probably symbolic, not a literal 24 hour period (see psalms, where we hear that for God "one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day").
The Church allows belief in the "7 24-hour period" belief, but it does not require it. In fact, JPII has made statements that assume that he does not personally believe in that theory. Personally, I believe that the opening of Genesis is more of a song to creation and the creator, but that's just IMHO.
Think that's bad. The signature has rubbed off on the back of one of my cards, so usually people ask for ID. One person, takes my card, takes receipt, looks very carefully... and says "thank you."
There is nothing but a black smudge on the back of the card!
I believe you are referring to Terri Schiavo, a tragic case.
Congress has subpoenaed her to appear, simply meaning that they can't kill her (no law has been passed).
removing the woman's feeding tube and letting her die in peace
I don't think dying from starvation and/or dehydration would be considered 'in peace' by most people.
according to her doctors, she's in an irrecoverable coma
Well, it depends on which doctors you're talking about. Most say she's in a 'persistent vegetative state,' although most neurologists would say that you shouldn't do such a diagnosis without ever having done an MRI or a PET scan (CT/CAT scans were done over a decade ago, but they aren't good for this kind of brain injury). Besides, the fact that she can respond to stimuli proves that she's not in a persistent vegetative state.
Oh, and she's not on life support. She's disabled to the point where she can't swallow, but they haven't tried therapies that may help - her husband won't pay for them. She can respond somewhat, and she has responded negatively when asked if she wants her feeding tube removed. The state courts in Florida are intent on helping her husband to kill her.
Does this mean that we get to start referring to Intel as a "convicted monopolist" in every /. article about the company, just like we do for Micro$oft??
;-) Accused != convicted.
Well, I'd at least wait until a conviction comes down
Oh, and they'd have to be told by the courts that while what they were doing was wrong, that they could keep on doing it.
Clearly someone with some _balls_ said WordPerfect is "good enough"
A lot of law firms have stuck with WordPerfect because they had a 'lawer' version with all of the legal terms in the spelling dictionary long before MS.
I still have a copy of WP from about 2 versions ago that does everything I need, and if I ever have to upgrade, that's where I'm going (at least until OOo gets better).
Either the technical superiority of TiVo will win out or the lower-cost, lower-quality options that the cable companies can offer will win out.
Betamax was better but more expensive then VHS.
Yeah, we owned a Betamax because it was better, and eventually we went to VHS because we couldn't buy anything in Beta anymore.
If someone offered me $60k, I'd jump. Especially with lower costs in The Dalles.
And the difference between this and a powerpoint presentation with a whiteboard to expand on it would be?
The web page lets you pick and choose what you need to show the students, and they can easily look up extra information from the links (if you put it online). It's more dynamic in the sense that the instructor can change the lecture as he sees fit MUCH easier than in powerpoint.
Having sat through seminars where people used powerpoint and were able to face the audience and talk, and seminars where people spent the whole time addressing the blackboard, I can tell you I much prefer the former.
Instructors who only look at the blackboard are bad instructors, which powerpoint only makes worse. Professors who write up important information (or spelling) on the blackboard help the student follow what's important.
I think a computer has a place in the classroom - as a laptop in the teacher's bag. It can speed up all of his/her administrative work.
As long as the kids have some way of using computers on a regular basis so that they are comfortable with the things, that's all the computer skills they're going to NEED. If that way is to loan computers to kids who's families can't afford them - good. Jr. High and older students should type their papers.
Education, especially early education, should be about giving the kids mental tools that they can use to learn other skills (programing, etc) later on. Instead, our school system is constantly headed in one wrong direction after another.
Computers can ... allow the teacher to spend less time on busy work (manually grading papers, etc.) and more time interacting with the students.
The parent poster didn't say that teacher's computers for administrative purposes were bad, but that they were bad for educational purposes, because those ends tend not to be realized.
When I lectured in college seminars I always used powerpoint
Powerpoint works (sometimes) for a lecture in front of 100+ students.
A web page with links to pictures, with plenty of blackboard space around the projection to write on, works with 30-100 students.
Blackboard, with nicely typed notes if needed, works for under 50 students (there is overlap).
If you were lecturing 20 students with powerpoint, they probably hated you.
The tightly-build new subdivisions is mostly because there is less land inside the Urban Growth Boundry. It's a trade-off, tightly-build houses in exchange for them not streaching off for EVER.
Beaverton, along with neighboring Hillsboro and Lake Oswego are the uber-snobby suburban bedroom communities of the Portland area.
Parts of Beaverton, Hillsboro, and most Lake Oswego are the uber-snoby areas. There are also a lot of lower-income and middle-class areas (I went to Beaverton High, and most kids were liked as long as they had a car (even my 11-year-old civic hatchback was more car then a lot of people had).
I now live along the Hillsboro - Beaverton border, and there are plenty of lower-income areas.
Many people object to the harvesting of embryonic stem cells due to the fact that the embryo is destroyed in the process. Intentionally killing a human being is bad in their view (even if that human is not legally considered a 'person' under US law).
However, there is no objection to research using adult stem cells, which have many advantages (such as no rejection, no moral objection, and procedures have already been done that actually work). Adult stem cells have the setback of not being able to form any cell in the body, just a lot. Embryonic stem cells have the theoretical potential to become any cell in the body, but the work required to get them to do the right thing (and not become cancerous, not be rejected, etc.) is much higher.
IMHO, we should be focusing our funding on adult stem cells, as they are the most likely to actually work. If some scientists want to work with animal embryonic stem cells, then that would still advance science without the ethical dilemmas.