Certainly I have an eye that does not focus, and my other eye has just taken over and let it give out. Seeing 3D is literally impossible for me (I perceive depth through color variation/light levels).
I would rather stick to 2D movies that I know I am capable of viewing and enjoying. There's not even too many of THOSE these days.
Same, I thought interns were unpaid by definition - i.e. if you're getting paid it's not an internship. That at least seems to be the understanding in my neck of the woods.
A Beka is affiliated with Pensacola Christian College, not? I think that alone is a red flag for someone like me (who isn't a follower of Peter Ruckman) to keep well clear of them.
A lot of fundies these days *don't* like the above. As a fundie I used to say, and I have heard other fundies say, that parents sending their children to public school instead of homeschooling them were shirking their parental responsibility to "train up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22.6a KJV).
I still would prefer to homeschool, if I could find materials that weren't written by and for FUNDIES! >_
Verizon DSL user (since 2003). I can reach 4chan no problem, and if anyone else on DSL or Fios can back me up, I'd say the article title is slightly inaccurate.
Not that I go there. I just went to make sure it worked.
Don't forget, guys...the same compression format that DivX and XviD uses is also still compatible with the mp4 format using the "mp4v" fourcc.
I use x264 mostly these days (reserving xvid for quickies), but I still consider xvid perfectly sufficient for most uses if configured right. Use what works for you. I think most people are blinded by the leet and that's why we see files that break various players (hell, until recently mplayer didn't even have very good SSA subtitle support; now it works great for the majority of scripts). - I hate Matroska and only use it when I absolutely cannot get the functionality I need from avi or mp4. Do all of its features even work yet outside of Windows-based demuxers?
No, I mean Asperger's is overdiagnosed to just about anyone who's just plain antisocial, and it trivializes those of *us* who were diagnosed before the fad and who do in fact have the condition. Which leads to people believing it just plain doesn't exist. You know, kind-of like ADD.
Yes it is. It is also very rare and extremely overdiagnosed. As is the case with Aspergers and clinical depression, this trivializes the condition and ultimately hurts those who do have a real problem.
QFT, as someone who was actually diagnosed with and is a veritable textbook case for Asperger's can attest. Too many people act like jackasses and lean on the crutch "oh, I've got Asperger's", no, you don't have Asperger's disorder, you have Asshole disorder. I have Asperger's, and the few people who know me IRL say I'm a really nice person, just...a bit kooky.
It's prolly more annoying when you have a genuine interest in learning, and I lived with a foster home in the 'burbs until I was almost 7 and my grandmother got custody. My family was never well off. Mom lived in Syracuse and was too broke for local phone service. Dad, he moved down to Syracuse, prolly couldn't take living out in the sticks any longer. My uncle's job was delivering newspaper bundles. Yeah, we were a bunch of broke fucks. I think that's why I'm able to do as much as I am with the little income I have, because I just grew up that way.
Your reasoning is indeed, on both counts, the same as mine... my girlfriend and I have both been fucked over by the public school system. Between being bored stiff, teachers getting mad because I preferred to commit notes to memory instead of to paper, kids younger than myself sending me to the hospital to get my head stapled up...and my girlfriend's teachers actually placing bets that she wouldn't graduate...
As are most homeschooling parents, which causes no end of grief for those of us who would prefer to homeschool and AREN'T fundie nutjobs, or worse, dominionists or Quiverfulls...
When I lived out in the boonies, my family expected I'd go through the motions, then drop out at 16 to help out on the farm, and really didn't see the point in academic pursuits. But I'd venture the idea that education isn't of importance to the real world basically holds sway everywhere but the suburbs.
Old Apple ][ educational software FTW. I'm still trying to find more of it. Mainly TLC and MECC. DLM had some good stuff too. Better by far than a lot of recent Windoze junk.
(inb4 Asimov: I know the site, I raid it frequently.)
I'm a firm believer that a dedicated parent can do a better job of educating one's children than the public school system. If things go according to plan, if I raise children, I will put my money where my mouth is, and attempt to prove myself true.
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And OS/2's support for Windows 3.1 is said to have doomed it.
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"Mexico, just south of Texas... New York, that is!" Yes, indeed.
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Was your district "Mexico Academy & Central School" ? I know they did the CATs, went there from K-6 before moving.
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Certainly I have an eye that does not focus, and my other eye has just taken over and let it give out. Seeing 3D is literally impossible for me (I perceive depth through color variation/light levels).
I would rather stick to 2D movies that I know I am capable of viewing and enjoying. There's not even too many of THOSE these days.
-uso.
Same, I thought interns were unpaid by definition - i.e. if you're getting paid it's not an internship. That at least seems to be the understanding in my neck of the woods.
-uso.
A Beka is affiliated with Pensacola Christian College, not? I think that alone is a red flag for someone like me (who isn't a follower of Peter Ruckman) to keep well clear of them.
-uso.
A lot of fundies these days *don't* like the above. As a fundie I used to say, and I have heard other fundies say, that parents sending their children to public school instead of homeschooling them were shirking their parental responsibility to "train up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22.6a KJV).
I still would prefer to homeschool, if I could find materials that weren't written by and for FUNDIES! >_
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HEY NOW! I resemble that remark. >:P
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Cingular. Now there's a bad name...to me it implied "Of or having to do with (the disease) shingles"
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Or maybe they want to confuse the Feds into letting their proposed buyout of NBC through?
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Verizon DSL user (since 2003). I can reach 4chan no problem, and if anyone else on DSL or Fios can back me up, I'd say the article title is slightly inaccurate.
Not that I go there. I just went to make sure it worked.
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Sturgeon's Law comes into play, as always. 90% of everything is crud
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Sounds like what happened to the Apple ///, 30 years ago. Some things never change...
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I don't think he can.
*LIDES*
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Don't forget, guys...the same compression format that DivX and XviD uses is also still compatible with the mp4 format using the "mp4v" fourcc.
I use x264 mostly these days (reserving xvid for quickies), but I still consider xvid perfectly sufficient for most uses if configured right. Use what works for you. I think most people are blinded by the leet and that's why we see files that break various players (hell, until recently mplayer didn't even have very good SSA subtitle support; now it works great for the majority of scripts). - I hate Matroska and only use it when I absolutely cannot get the functionality I need from avi or mp4. Do all of its features even work yet outside of Windows-based demuxers?
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I am under the impression that most encoders use MEGUI now.
I usually use Avidemux or Mencoder.
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LOL
No, I mean Asperger's is overdiagnosed to just about anyone who's just plain antisocial, and it trivializes those of *us* who were diagnosed before the fad and who do in fact have the condition. Which leads to people believing it just plain doesn't exist. You know, kind-of like ADD.
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"Define normal."
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QFT, as someone who was actually diagnosed with and is a veritable textbook case for Asperger's can attest. Too many people act like jackasses and lean on the crutch "oh, I've got Asperger's", no, you don't have Asperger's disorder, you have Asshole disorder. I have Asperger's, and the few people who know me IRL say I'm a really nice person, just...a bit kooky.
-uso.
It's prolly more annoying when you have a genuine interest in learning, and I lived with a foster home in the 'burbs until I was almost 7 and my grandmother got custody. My family was never well off. Mom lived in Syracuse and was too broke for local phone service. Dad, he moved down to Syracuse, prolly couldn't take living out in the sticks any longer. My uncle's job was delivering newspaper bundles. Yeah, we were a bunch of broke fucks. I think that's why I'm able to do as much as I am with the little income I have, because I just grew up that way.
-uso.
Your reasoning is indeed, on both counts, the same as mine... my girlfriend and I have both been fucked over by the public school system. Between being bored stiff, teachers getting mad because I preferred to commit notes to memory instead of to paper, kids younger than myself sending me to the hospital to get my head stapled up...and my girlfriend's teachers actually placing bets that she wouldn't graduate...
-uso.
As are most homeschooling parents, which causes no end of grief for those of us who would prefer to homeschool and AREN'T fundie nutjobs, or worse, dominionists or Quiverfulls...
-uso.
When I lived out in the boonies, my family expected I'd go through the motions, then drop out at 16 to help out on the farm, and really didn't see the point in academic pursuits. But I'd venture the idea that education isn't of importance to the real world basically holds sway everywhere but the suburbs.
-uso.
Old Apple ][ educational software FTW. I'm still trying to find more of it. Mainly TLC and MECC. DLM had some good stuff too. Better by far than a lot of recent Windoze junk.
(inb4 Asimov: I know the site, I raid it frequently.)
-uso.
I'm a firm believer that a dedicated parent can do a better job of educating one's children than the public school system. If things go according to plan, if I raise children, I will put my money where my mouth is, and attempt to prove myself true.
-uso.