As one example, some of the Gospels are determined to have been written hundreds of years after Jesus died.
Actually, that used to be the theory, until we kept finding older and older copies of the Gospels. The latest currently accepted possible date for any gospel is about 100AD (about 68 years after Jesus died). That's the absolute latest, and many linguists have shown that do to subtle shifts in langage over that time period, the gospels were either written or faithfully report the language used around Jesus's death.
The plain fact of the matter is that math and science instructors almost universally do not wish to construct a course in which the learning goes beyond the simplest applications of the principles learned. Therefore, they must almost always artificially control additional information and calculating aids during exams (normally no notes, books, or computers). Calculators are the one concession they do allow, only because their functionality is limited, and therefore the aid they provide is also limited.
However, the student must learn the basics before (s)he can learn the advanced stuff. One must know the mechanics before one can implement them in new ways. Once the mechanics are learned (currently through about sophmore-level college), then the applications open up.
Furthermore, you're job requires you to sit at a computer all day long, and so is a great example of where a calculator wouldn't be useful. Someone who is in the field, who needs a rugged tool for calculations - well, they need a different tool. My friend who's a surveyor wouldn't go out without his HP48.
Through my years of tech support, I've learned that a lot of CS students, even ones who are real good programers, often don't know anything about actually using computers. I'd get CS students have me fix their computers for them. I can't program at all (I can look at some code and figure it out and modify it if need be), but I know more about actually using the things.
Dish still offers some channels that DirecTV doesn't (even some in it's basic package that DirectTV doesn't have in it's most expensive). As soon as I move away from my current apartment (free cable) I'll be getting Dish.
(2) Try speaking sometimes besides English when you're not in an English speaking country?
I found that french people were nice when I said the following: "Pardon, je suis un bet Americain stupide" either before or after slaughtering their language. If I got really stuck, I'd say that right before "parlez-vous anglais?"
Just trying to speak the language seemed to make them happy.
Has SCO actually claimed in court has the GPL is invalid? It doesn't seem that estoppel applies to statements made to the press--SCO can say one thing to the media and another in court all they want. They only have to be consistent in official legal proceedings.
Yes, but now SCO must either: 1. Claim that the GPL is valid, and that they are following it.
or
2. Claim that the GPL is invalid, and that they have no rights to distribute nmap.
Even if not in court, SCO will have to either look stupid or look stupid. If in court, SCO will either loose their entire case against the GPL; or will loose all rights to all GPL software.
They're acknowledging that illegal piracy is becoming a big trend amoung the younger kids and so want to keep the reminder out there that it is against the law by putting up a logo.
Not only that, but I got confused at the title, thinking not 'seal' as in logo, but 'seal' as in the marine mammal. You know, maybe 'wally the seal says "don't copy CDs boys and girls!"'
You wouldn't feel so bad if you entered the Gap store, and two scantily clad saleswomen arrived to try on gifts for your wife
Get that system at Victoria Secret's and I'd start buying stock...
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It doesn't even need to be high-scale - repeat business is good business.
Way back when I was in High School, my group of friends frequented the same dinner-type place quite often. We had 2 rules: Buy something (even just coffee), and leave a minimum $1 tip (even for the $.99 coffee).
In a short period of time, we were given a lot more lee-way when we made a lot of noise talking (as young kids will) than other high schoolers who went to the same place.
It becomes a human the moment that the woman carrying it decides she wants it
So the epistimological fact of it's essence is dependant upon the opinion of another? Can that mother change her mind? I've heard of women wanting their child, and then because of some external issue (i.e. break up with the father) she changes her mind. Was the child human, and then not human once she changes her mind? What is it about birth that changes this process? Can a mother of a 5-year-old changer her mind, and say that her child is no longer human?
We can't run the new changes in an unstable branch and see how they work out (unless you count, say, Nevada or Vermont).
Well, that was one of the cool things about having lots of states... each one could try something different, and if it worked the rest could adopt it too. The Federal Government has taken on too much stuff to really allow this to happen, though...
Fortunately in the US our courts view US law as supreme and would likely find that the foreign court's decision did not apply. Being arrogant sometimes works in your favor:)
If that's arrogance, than I welcome arrogance! I would also hope that foreign courts ignore US court's decisions! After all, different countries have different laws.
I was watching the news at a friends house over new years (while we were snowed in). We started to get a 'loosing conection to sat 1' error. The guy took a broom and got the snow out of the actual dish, and we were good (sat internet too).
He can pronounce "nuclear," he just has a North Texas accent, and pronounces it different than you do. Just like I wouldn't expect a president from Boston to pronounce "car" like I do.
President Carter pronounces it "nook-ee-uh," and he did grad work in nuclear physics.
the UN was specifically designed to address those failures. It may not do things to your attention span's liking, and it's not 100% effective, but it gets things done.
# This list of foods that they recommend avoiding is given
caffeine
chocolate
corn products (and corn sugar and corn syrup)
Dairy foods
Eggs
Nuts
Oranges and grapefruits
Soybeans and tofu
Wheat
Now, I wonder why each of these things has an effect. Is the Dairy because of all the hormones and antibiotics they give cows these says (in which case organic milk would be okay)? The gluten in wheat (spelt, sprouted wheat being okay)?
Of course, I also wonder about any connection between this and the ABO diet? Other differences between individuals? I'd read up and play with diet (can't hurt)
I swear it's more like autism... absolute prodigy at bass guitar. he can hear the most complex song/rift and reproduce it 100% perfectly on his first try. but he is totally unable to comprehend a simple list of 5 items of instructions... is this ADD/ADHD or is it something entirely else.
(IANAP) It's something else. Sounds like savant syndrome to a certain extent. Of course, that could just be because Wired just had an Article on Savant Syndrome, so that's what comes to mind.
According to the US Navy, it was actually cheaper that way than helicopter, because of the distance to the ship from shore. By the end of the trip, it was cheaper to use a helicopter, so he took that back.
By the same token, in no way will any realistic recovery pull us out of the deficit without major spending cutbacks - something highly unlikely to happen under the current administration.
Or the next, whichever party gets elected. It's the old trick, everybody wants the government to spend less, unless it involves something they want.
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As one example, some of the Gospels are determined to have been written hundreds of years after Jesus died.
Actually, that used to be the theory, until we kept finding older and older copies of the Gospels. The latest currently accepted possible date for any gospel is about 100AD (about 68 years after Jesus died). That's the absolute latest, and many linguists have shown that do to subtle shifts in langage over that time period, the gospels were either written or faithfully report the language used around Jesus's death.
The plain fact of the matter is that math and science instructors almost universally do not wish to construct a course in which the learning goes beyond the simplest applications of the principles learned. Therefore, they must almost always artificially control additional information and calculating aids during exams (normally no notes, books, or computers). Calculators are the one concession they do allow, only because their functionality is limited, and therefore the aid they provide is also limited.
However, the student must learn the basics before (s)he can learn the advanced stuff. One must know the mechanics before one can implement them in new ways. Once the mechanics are learned (currently through about sophmore-level college), then the applications open up.
Furthermore, you're job requires you to sit at a computer all day long, and so is a great example of where a calculator wouldn't be useful. Someone who is in the field, who needs a rugged tool for calculations - well, they need a different tool. My friend who's a surveyor wouldn't go out without his HP48.
Ping responsibly and find an organic cow.
Yeah, I heard it can hurt if you ping an inorganic cow.
Through my years of tech support, I've learned that a lot of CS students, even ones who are real good programers, often don't know anything about actually using computers. I'd get CS students have me fix their computers for them. I can't program at all (I can look at some code and figure it out and modify it if need be), but I know more about actually using the things.
Dish still offers some channels that DirecTV doesn't (even some in it's basic package that DirectTV doesn't have in it's most expensive). As soon as I move away from my current apartment (free cable) I'll be getting Dish.
(2) Try speaking sometimes besides English when you're not in an English speaking country?
I found that french people were nice when I said the following:
"Pardon, je suis un bet Americain stupide" either before or after slaughtering their language. If I got really stuck, I'd say that right before "parlez-vous anglais?"
Just trying to speak the language seemed to make them happy.
Who from Enron has been prosecuted? Anyone? A junior manager? A janitor? Who?
CEO Jeffrey Skilling for one.
Has SCO actually claimed in court has the GPL is invalid? It doesn't seem that estoppel applies to statements made to the press--SCO can say one thing to the media and another in court all they want. They only have to be consistent in official legal proceedings.
Yes, but now SCO must either:
1. Claim that the GPL is valid, and that they are following it.
or
2. Claim that the GPL is invalid, and that they have no rights to distribute nmap.
Even if not in court, SCO will have to either look stupid or look stupid. If in court, SCO will either loose their entire case against the GPL; or will loose all rights to all GPL software.
They're acknowledging that illegal piracy is becoming a big trend amoung the younger kids and so want to keep the reminder out there that it is against the law by putting up a logo.
Not only that, but I got confused at the title, thinking not 'seal' as in logo, but 'seal' as in the marine mammal. You know, maybe 'wally the seal says "don't copy CDs boys and girls!"'
You wouldn't feel so bad if you entered the Gap store, and two scantily clad saleswomen arrived to try on gifts for your wife
Get that system at Victoria Secret's and I'd start buying stock...
It doesn't even need to be high-scale - repeat business is good business.
Way back when I was in High School, my group of friends frequented the same dinner-type place quite often. We had 2 rules: Buy something (even just coffee), and leave a minimum $1 tip (even for the $.99 coffee).
In a short period of time, we were given a lot more lee-way when we made a lot of noise talking (as young kids will) than other high schoolers who went to the same place.
It becomes a human the moment that the woman carrying it decides she wants it
So the epistimological fact of it's essence is dependant upon the opinion of another? Can that mother change her mind? I've heard of women wanting their child, and then because of some external issue (i.e. break up with the father) she changes her mind. Was the child human, and then not human once she changes her mind? What is it about birth that changes this process? Can a mother of a 5-year-old changer her mind, and say that her child is no longer human?
We can't run the new changes in an unstable branch and see how they work out (unless you count, say, Nevada or Vermont).
Well, that was one of the cool things about having lots of states... each one could try something different, and if it worked the rest could adopt it too. The Federal Government has taken on too much stuff to really allow this to happen, though...
Fortunately in the US our courts view US law as supreme and would likely find that the foreign court's decision did not apply. Being arrogant sometimes works in your favor :)
If that's arrogance, than I welcome arrogance! I would also hope that foreign courts ignore US court's decisions! After all, different countries have different laws.
I'm sure it wouldn't be there if there weren't a good reason since mercury can be nasty stuff..
It's there because it's cheaper than alternatives, and it's considered low enough to be allowed by the FDA.
I was watching the news at a friends house over new years (while we were snowed in). We started to get a 'loosing conection to sat 1' error. The guy took a broom and got the snow out of the actual dish, and we were good (sat internet too).
your own President thinks they speakMexican south of the border (and from memory Al Gore thought they spoke Latin in Latin America).
Actually, it was Dan Quale who thought they spoke Latin in Latin America.
And the president speaks Spanish.
Surely he should be able to pronounce "nuclear"
He can pronounce "nuclear," he just has a North Texas accent, and pronounces it different than you do. Just like I wouldn't expect a president from Boston to pronounce "car" like I do.
President Carter pronounces it "nook-ee-uh," and he did grad work in nuclear physics.
http://www.theworld.org/whoknows/nuclear.shtml
the UN was specifically designed to address those failures. It may not do things to your attention span's liking, and it's not 100% effective, but it gets things done.
The UN gets things done? That's a news flash.
back when I had a USB mouse for a brief period of time, I had to frequently unplug/replug it in to get it to work.
I am currently using a PS/2 mouse that I have to frequently unplug/replug to get it to work. Maybe it's not USB thats the problem, but the mouse.
Now, I wonder why each of these things has an effect. Is the Dairy because of all the hormones and antibiotics they give cows these says (in which case organic milk would be okay)? The gluten in wheat (spelt, sprouted wheat being okay)?
Of course, I also wonder about any connection between this and the ABO diet? Other differences between individuals? I'd read up and play with diet (can't hurt)
I swear it's more like autism... absolute prodigy at bass guitar. he can hear the most complex song/rift and reproduce it 100% perfectly on his first try. but he is totally unable to comprehend a simple list of 5 items of instructions... is this ADD/ADHD or is it something entirely else.
(IANAP) It's something else. Sounds like savant syndrome to a certain extent. Of course, that could just be because Wired just had an Article on Savant Syndrome, so that's what comes to mind.
He wasted MILLIONS of dollars on that stunt
According to the US Navy, it was actually cheaper that way than helicopter, because of the distance to the ship from shore. By the end of the trip, it was cheaper to use a helicopter, so he took that back.
the South Pole cannot be claimed yet the US base (McMurdo Base) on the very Pole gives real control.
Well, actually, McMurdo isn't on the south pole, but on Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island. (http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/mcmurdo/ )
By the same token, in no way will any realistic recovery pull us out of the deficit without major spending cutbacks - something highly unlikely to happen under the current administration.
Or the next, whichever party gets elected. It's the old trick, everybody wants the government to spend less, unless it involves something they want.