It is meaningful to say that our language informs our thoughts, because, in most cases it's the medium for our thoughts.
Actually it's been pretty well debunked that language is the medium for our thoughts. Most of the current theories are similar to Fodor's concept of a "mentalese" or Vygotsky's non-linguistic agglutinate forms.
You are, however, correct in saying that language informs our thoughts with "informs" being the key word. There appears to be a strong connection between language and perception. While we may not think in language we appear to see in language. Language seems to teach our perception what is and is not important to take note of, our minds then process that data. This means that our minds should be able to still conceive certain concepts, but the data may not be obvious to the majority of the public and they certainly would have a difficult time articulating that information.
In addition to math and football I received a letter in theatre for a play which in competition. Is playwrighting going to be an Olympic sport? I'm sorry, sports and academic competitions are different. The Olympics is about sports. Should we have international academic competitions? Hell yeah, I'm all for that, but don't muddle the Olympics any more than they already have been.
I'm sorry, but that response is just ignorant. If you are intending to save money by managing electricity it doesn't mean you are going to openly leave all the lights on all the time. You can streamline electicity usage all you want, but you will eventually hit a floor. At that point a system like this will help save even more money by managing when the required energy is purchased and how it is distributed. The two aspects, purchasing/distribution and consumption minimization go very well together. There is no where that I have seen anybody using this technology to justify wasteful behavior.
Actually there was quite a bit of press about this. The MPAA came out and stated that they did not want screeners released for Academy review. The Academy, last I heard, had agreed to this. There was a bunch of uproar among the smaller producers who cried foul since DVDs are cheap and easy to get out for review.
It was his last day, right before graduation, I would bet that this was a major paper that got a lot of attention. Perhaps this was even his thesis, which means it got TONS of close attention from people who are extremely familiar with the subject matter, hence liable to detect plagerism. He slipped through the cracks for years, as most plagerism does, but that doesn't mean that when he got caught he should be compensated for breaking the rules for so long.
Uh, hate to point it out to you, but....cc is managed by VeriSign. So you just said that they might be able to get away with doing something because they already are doing it.
The problem for this is that the question comes down to whos government? The internet is an entity that extends well beyond typical political borders. ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) is supposed to be an international organization to take care of the peculiarities of how addresses will be assigned within this lawless realm.
Ooh, and the problem with the word "all" pops up again. No, you couldn't flush all the complaints down the toilet. Arguments can be made for all kinds of tracking devices that would save lives, but people will complain that they are being tracked. The point being that there are usually other less obtrusive ways of doing things.
As a backcountry trip leader I see the validity of having this kind of system. However I see that unless there is some kind of personal identification system it would be pretty hard to say where the hiker is. A simple motion sensor would shouw that something went by the sensor at a certain time, but not who or what.
People need to be encouraged to travel with the right equipment, radio beacon included. Don't want to take a radio beacon? Expect to be charged a small fortune when your butt has to be pulled out.
Ooh, I can't remember if there is a common website for the event. Search google for "college solar race" and it'll at least turn up a bunch of team pages.
There is also Formula Sun which runs car and bike solar races. Both of which are coming right up this month.
One of the big problems with hydro and wind power is the effect they have on the environment. Yes, advancements have been made and designs have been altered to decrease the negative effects, but they still have negative environmental effects because of their disruption of wind/water flow and animal behavior.
The beautiful thing about solar panels is that they can be mounted on roofs and other man-made structures. This means that we can, or should be able to, get effective power from the environment without further impinging our surroundings.
But what of other MAJOR cable providers that can provide competition? So far Comcast has been the only viable cable option and I'm ditching Qwest completely this coming week. There is no way that I'm going to put up with a telephone company again, which rules out ADSL.
At this point the only options I have are a DSL line through Qwest or Comcast. So far Comcast has won as the lesser of two evils (of course I have my own modem, routers, and wireless accesspoint).
Nit \Nit\, n. [AS. hnitu; akin to D. neet, G. niss, OHG. niz;
cf. gr. ?, ?, Icel. gnit, Sw. gnet, Dan. gnid, Russ. & Pol.
gnida, Bohem. hnida, W. nedd.] (Zo["o]l.)
The egg of a louse or other small insect.
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Wit \Wit\, n. [AS. witt, wit; akin to OFries. wit, G. witz, OHG.
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Wit, v.]
1. Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
which would be the origins of nitwit before the independent words were smashed together. As it is I just prefer using the word nit independently.
Are camaras going to be involved? Sure, log user info and then log the pages they visit. Have some government agency sit there and randomly check sites visited. Develop two lists "acceptable" to shorten the list of sites checked and "unacceptable" to automatically flag users visiting known unacceptable sites. Is this what they are talking about?
Don't get me wrong, the idea scares the heck out of me, I'm just curious exactly how they plan on implementing the system.
"As for where you take them, you'll do like 100% of their customers do - take them out of the store when you're done with your transaction."
You are assuming that the RFID tags will turn off and that Wal-Mart won't be tracking RFID tags ENTERING the stores. Combine this with an RFID tag in your Wal-Mart card and they have LOTS of information dropped into their hands.
"I also fail to see the privacy issue. The tags do not tell the store WHO you are. They can't see you walk out and say, "Joe took a walk-man out of the store" they can only say that one left."
That's not completely true. By combining RFID tags they can determine that. For example: a Wal-Mart card. You want special discounts? Get the Wal-Mart card. What they probably won't tell you is that the cards will probably have RFID tags. You give them your personal information which ties the RFID to you and then they link that RFID signal with whatever you walk out the store with. Or in with.
We plop kids in front of TVs and now we let them run around amusement parks alone? Yes, I understand that this is probably intended for kids who get away from their parents, but you know some parent is going to sit somewhere with a laptop tracking their kid and not actually keeping an eye on them. I'm horrified.
And at least one economist type, this guy in the Financial Times, seems to think we'll end up paying just as much under a la carte pricing.
The problem with this theory is that we don't know. Ala cart will have a few effects. Firstly, it will change the payment schemes that people use. Some people will drop out of their big plans. Others will start ordering TV when they currently only use over the air (myself included). So we need to see how that balances out in terms of revenue flow to the media giants.
Another thing to think about, though, is advertising. If you are ordering a la carte are you going to watch more advertising? If you don't have as many channels to flip through are you more likely to stick through the comercial breaks? Will this change advertising schemes?
I think this is a bigger change than most people have given credit to.
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Didn't you ever watch Bill & Ted?
Dude is masculine.
Dudette is feminine.
It is meaningful to say that our language informs our thoughts, because, in most cases it's the medium for our thoughts.
Actually it's been pretty well debunked that language is the medium for our thoughts. Most of the current theories are similar to Fodor's concept of a "mentalese" or Vygotsky's non-linguistic agglutinate forms.
You are, however, correct in saying that language informs our thoughts with "informs" being the key word. There appears to be a strong connection between language and perception. While we may not think in language we appear to see in language. Language seems to teach our perception what is and is not important to take note of, our minds then process that data. This means that our minds should be able to still conceive certain concepts, but the data may not be obvious to the majority of the public and they certainly would have a difficult time articulating that information.
Pardon me for pointing it out, but if you're trying to imply that "lye" is used incorrectly you are the one that is mistaken. "Lye" is an alternative spelling of "lie" (reference Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.).
~~Guildencrantz
The real question, for me atleast, is whether or not it weeps for our future.
~~Guildencrantz
In addition to math and football I received a letter in theatre for a play which in competition. Is playwrighting going to be an Olympic sport? I'm sorry, sports and academic competitions are different. The Olympics is about sports. Should we have international academic competitions? Hell yeah, I'm all for that, but don't muddle the Olympics any more than they already have been.
I'm sorry, but that response is just ignorant. If you are intending to save money by managing electricity it doesn't mean you are going to openly leave all the lights on all the time. You can streamline electicity usage all you want, but you will eventually hit a floor. At that point a system like this will help save even more money by managing when the required energy is purchased and how it is distributed. The two aspects, purchasing/distribution and consumption minimization go very well together. There is no where that I have seen anybody using this technology to justify wasteful behavior.
Actually there was quite a bit of press about this. The MPAA came out and stated that they did not want screeners released for Academy review. The Academy, last I heard, had agreed to this. There was a bunch of uproar among the smaller producers who cried foul since DVDs are cheap and easy to get out for review.
~~Guildencrantz
It was his last day, right before graduation, I would bet that this was a major paper that got a lot of attention. Perhaps this was even his thesis, which means it got TONS of close attention from people who are extremely familiar with the subject matter, hence liable to detect plagerism. He slipped through the cracks for years, as most plagerism does, but that doesn't mean that when he got caught he should be compensated for breaking the rules for so long.
Uh, hate to point it out to you, but... .cc is managed by VeriSign. So you just said that they might be able to get away with doing something because they already are doing it.
~~Guildencrantz
The problem for this is that the question comes down to whos government? The internet is an entity that extends well beyond typical political borders. ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) is supposed to be an international organization to take care of the peculiarities of how addresses will be assigned within this lawless realm.
~~Guildencrantz
Ooh, and the problem with the word "all" pops up again. No, you couldn't flush all the complaints down the toilet. Arguments can be made for all kinds of tracking devices that would save lives, but people will complain that they are being tracked. The point being that there are usually other less obtrusive ways of doing things.
As a backcountry trip leader I see the validity of having this kind of system. However I see that unless there is some kind of personal identification system it would be pretty hard to say where the hiker is. A simple motion sensor would shouw that something went by the sensor at a certain time, but not who or what.
People need to be encouraged to travel with the right equipment, radio beacon included. Don't want to take a radio beacon? Expect to be charged a small fortune when your butt has to be pulled out.
~~Guildencrantz
Ooh, I can't remember if there is a common website for the event. Search google for "college solar race" and it'll at least turn up a bunch of team pages.
There is also Formula Sun which runs car and bike solar races. Both of which are coming right up this month.
~~Guildencrantz
One of the big problems with hydro and wind power is the effect they have on the environment. Yes, advancements have been made and designs have been altered to decrease the negative effects, but they still have negative environmental effects because of their disruption of wind/water flow and animal behavior.
The beautiful thing about solar panels is that they can be mounted on roofs and other man-made structures. This means that we can, or should be able to, get effective power from the environment without further impinging our surroundings.
~~Guildencrantz
But what of other MAJOR cable providers that can provide competition? So far Comcast has been the only viable cable option and I'm ditching Qwest completely this coming week. There is no way that I'm going to put up with a telephone company again, which rules out ADSL.
At this point the only options I have are a DSL line through Qwest or Comcast. So far Comcast has won as the lesser of two evils (of course I have my own modem, routers, and wireless accesspoint).
~~Guildencrantz
Of course I have to question this release when on the same day I read about hotmail and msn whitelists.
Perhaps there will be a "whitelist" for longhorn? "Pay up and we'll give you a list of users and a bonus clue to a security hole!".
~~Guildencrantz
Wow, with that kind of processing power you can play a heck of a lot of games of Global Thermonuclear War!
~~Guildencrantz
Kool-Aid you got me on. HOWEVER:andwhich would be the origins of nitwit before the independent words were smashed together. As it is I just prefer using the word nit independently.
~~Guildencrantz
Any bets on how many Cool-Aid chugging nit wits will kill themselves this time?
~~Guildencrantz
Damn trademarks. I'd love to have an OS named "Mr. Bigglesworth".
~~Guildencrantz
Are camaras going to be involved? Sure, log user info and then log the pages they visit. Have some government agency sit there and randomly check sites visited. Develop two lists "acceptable" to shorten the list of sites checked and "unacceptable" to automatically flag users visiting known unacceptable sites. Is this what they are talking about?
Don't get me wrong, the idea scares the heck out of me, I'm just curious exactly how they plan on implementing the system.
~~Guildencranz
"As for where you take them, you'll do like 100% of their customers do - take them out of the store when you're done with your transaction."
You are assuming that the RFID tags will turn off and that Wal-Mart won't be tracking RFID tags ENTERING the stores. Combine this with an RFID tag in your Wal-Mart card and they have LOTS of information dropped into their hands.
"I also fail to see the privacy issue. The tags do not tell the store WHO you are. They can't see you walk out and say, "Joe took a walk-man out of the store" they can only say that one left."
That's not completely true. By combining RFID tags they can determine that. For example: a Wal-Mart card. You want special discounts? Get the Wal-Mart card. What they probably won't tell you is that the cards will probably have RFID tags. You give them your personal information which ties the RFID to you and then they link that RFID signal with whatever you walk out the store with. Or in with.
~~Guildencrantz
We plop kids in front of TVs and now we let them run around amusement parks alone? Yes, I understand that this is probably intended for kids who get away from their parents, but you know some parent is going to sit somewhere with a laptop tracking their kid and not actually keeping an eye on them. I'm horrified.
~~Guildencrantz
How long before I can use my laptop to hack into my friend's motor control and make him dance?
~~Guildencrantz
And at least one economist type, this guy in the Financial Times, seems to think we'll end up paying just as much under a la carte pricing.
The problem with this theory is that we don't know. Ala cart will have a few effects. Firstly, it will change the payment schemes that people use. Some people will drop out of their big plans. Others will start ordering TV when they currently only use over the air (myself included). So we need to see how that balances out in terms of revenue flow to the media giants.
Another thing to think about, though, is advertising. If you are ordering a la carte are you going to watch more advertising? If you don't have as many channels to flip through are you more likely to stick through the comercial breaks? Will this change advertising schemes?
I think this is a bigger change than most people have given credit to.
~~Guildencrantz