I'm Dutch but I've followed bilingual education since I was 10. For four years half my education was in English and half in Dutch and my last two years in high school I had IB Englisch classes (A2 higher). Now I mostly think in English which I started doing since I went to high school (age=10). Don't ask me why, but I do. I reckon that's the first sign of bilingualism.
I like google because it loads terribly quick which comes in handy if you use it once every hour and only spend 10 seconds on the page itself. If, however, I were to visit a website once or twice a month/year and I don't need a lot of information in a very short time period (let's say for example lionhead studios though I prefered their previous lay-out) I don't mind looking at some nice flash, some fancy java applet or whatever it is with which they try and attract my attention.
So I reckon Flash and Java and whatever more you can think of (if it works of course) is ok as long as it doesn't bother me. Try to make an educated guess of how long your average visitor is going to spend on your website and then try to come up with a good mixture of beauty and usability
(please note, these views are not entirely mine though I must admit I lost the source of my information, also note that my only experience with web-design is Phicus so I'm not really an expert)
Just think what can be done with technology from the 2000's
Looking at what they are replacing I would say there wouldn't be much of a difference between the upgraded hubble and technology from the 2000's... I don't know a lot about this but I would say that most of the important stuff has been replaced within the last couple of years?? But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't launch anything new of course... I'm looking forward to that too
Well, survival leads to evolution, in the sense that evolution is the result of survival. Evolution is the change in a being that is preserved in future generations due to the being's (extended) survival.
it is logical that an individual wishes to survive and it is most common that individuals wish to breed.
Why is it logical to wish for self preservation?
Let's first look at an individual that does not live in a tight group (e.g. cheetah, humans) and ignore self-sacrifice (sacrificing one's life for someone else). It is then programmed in every individual to avoid danger and rather stay in a safe place and to look for food/energy rather than starving. This we call self-preservation, the word "self-preservation" is perhaps not what the creature has in mind when it flees from high water, dangerous temperatures or when it goes out to search for food, but it is effectively what it is doing, it is preserving it's own life
We can extend the problem by introducing group-behaviour, ants will sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the nest, humans tend to be heroic and throw themselves in front of bullets and such, but all this always relates to the preservation of genes, it is quite logical: a mutation occures that makes an ant sacrifice itself, this has a positive effect on the survival of the related individuals (thus the survival of similar genes) which means that the mutation lives on.
The same goes for breeding, if a mutation occures that increases the breeding for a certain individual it's genes will be more common and more breeding will occur thus in the end we will see that a specie breeds a lot. one than says that it is due to evolution, perhaps we should say that it is simply logical. the word "evolution" has the tendency to compete with "divine intervention" while it is pure logic that dictates the situation.
I find it very hard to think of matters as evolution and creationism, perhaps this comment will help you, o reader, to transform your thoughts and ideas into words, i would be very interested to hear them
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- What about costs? The parent article of this discussion discusses costs that are 5 times higher than (oh, btw, check then vs. than) normal concrete, how is that with this kind of material?
and buildings whose windows need not be flat, rectangular panes, but can be arbitrary regions of transparency within flowing, curving walls.
Sorry, but that is already possible.
A researcher at the university of Delft has developed a way to create twisted glass allowing for twisted buildings.
A dutch article can be found here. Take a look at the images if you don't understand the text
My flatmate owns a laptop with some 802.11 (?) technology in it with which he can connect wirelessly on the University of Twente Campus (CS building)... he can get 500KB per second and the idea is that this kind of access will become available throughout the whole campus...
I then wonder, why is it so amazing that someone invents a 144 kbps connection when we already have the technology to go 500KB per second... the card my flatmate uses is a typical small network connection card and I can't imagine that it is too big to fit into a mobile phone???
Mexico wouldn't be that difficult I guess, I assume that you can go to the American consulate down there and get some ID to get back???
maybe somewhere in the African desert or in the middle of the South-Amercian rain forests:)
Couldn't you make a game out of this??? A few try to do certain things on the internet (purchasing items, trading at E-Bay etc. etc.) and others (the whole community for all I care) have to track them down... some new form of reality tv... allow everything including hacking, cracking and lying but be aware for things such as threatening family members and friends, but I guess it could prove some great entertainment if only one could device a way to show it all... I don't think a few images of hackers on tv is that exciting...
Oh my goodness, but wouldn't this mean that potentially we might be able to create a new human being out of those MAPCs.
Quick, ban this research, it is heresy, it is aweful, it can save lifes!
But in that sense of the word "socialism" I do not regard the USA a socialist country. Compare it to other countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and others. If I'm not mistaken there is a much smaller problem regarding poverty and insufficient health care. As I said before, a poor kid can hardly go to college in the USA, a poor family experiences great difficulty in getting health care as opposed to the rich with private insurance. I don't have any exact figures, but I certainly do not think that the USA takes good care of it's whole population.
The whole country may vote, but it's the money that counts when it comes down to who will be sitting in Congres/Senate/President's chair.
We might never agree on this, but this is my point of view, I've read and understood yours and I must say that I couldn't agree less, sorry for that, no hard feelings of course:)
With Google it is possible to search for links (link:) and it is also possible to search on a specific website (site:) as it says on this site [Google.com].
I must agree with you though, that with Google it is impossible to use wildcards. They advise you to enter both queries (prince & princess) which gives pretty good results too.
Personally I do think that the special Google logo's (here [Google.com]) are wonderful and that Google has a lot of other features (Usenet, Cached, file types) that make it an excellent search engine.
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What is a waste of moderation points is having to moderate this kind of posts. About 10 to 20 percent of the M2 i'm doing is having to rate "offtopic" and "redundant" M1 as fair. The current topic here is not the/. moderating system but something completely different. The links you said were "clever" and "funny" might have been "clever" and "funny" in you eyes, but they were certainly not on-topic. I visit/. to read articles and interesting replies. I don't need to hear stories about ghosts and how Microsoft (that's the correct way to spell it btw) will lose it's market share in the future when I'm reading interesting posts on space exploration or a new handheld.
Just one other thing, the poll you refer to, it has 1600 votes. Nowadays polls have about 16000 votes. I was wondering from when that poll originates as, as you probably know,/. didn't start off as big as it is now and the M1/M2 system was introduced to keep up with the enormous increase in postings.
(Btw, can someone tell me why the layout of this article is in blue instead of the usual green? the rest of the website is functioning just fine)
I believe there has been a slight case of miscommunication.
I was led to believe that you thought the USA was a socialist country from the point of view of social security and such, but apparantly I was wrong.
But, some flaws:
Socialists do believe in free elections, you are probably thinking of Communistsw who wish to have a revolution.
But actually I don't think you have the word "Communism" in mind either, the impression I'm getting when reading your reply is that you find the USA a tiranny, a scene from "1984".
Something else: the USSR and China were never socialist. Communist is a better word, but they never fulfilled all the demands to be a communist country. They still had a government that did more that guide the system. they had leaders, which communism doesn't have. It is safe to say that not one single country on this planet has ever been socialist, communist of marxistic. It is also safe to say that not one single country on this planet, or rather in the whole universe will ever be socialistic, communistic or marxistic because there will always be a desire for power and an uneven distribution of power which, because of it's definition, means that the country wouldn't be socialistic, communistic or marxistic in it's true form
I shall not comment on your remarks regarding the law enforcement in you country for I don't have any experience with them.
But once again, I thought you referred to socialism in the sense of redistributing income among people and supplying health care, education, food and shelter for those that cannot finance it themselves. Apparently I was wrong, my apologies for that.
In my humble opinion it is utter foolishness to call the United States of America a socialist country for reasons I have stated before
My definition wasn't really a good one i admit, but that doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, the USA is not a socialist country.
The USA is probably more left wing (let's refer to "socialism" as left wing) than they used to be but they/you are still a long way from getting even close to the middle. Certainly with Bush as president. Maybe they/you have dealt with racism for the biggest part, but they/you still haven't done much about the economic situation of many (I don't know the politically "correct" term for this, sorry) coloured people (especially in the South) and of many other poor folk (again mainly in the South
I think you overlook one other thing. You state that one can measure socialism by looking at teh levels of government consume. I think it is evenly/more important to look at what the money is spent on. When you wish to measure socialism than one can deduct expenses such as military,space exploration, intelligence etc. etc.
what might be a better approach is to derive the average amount of money, compensated for the worth of the local currency, spent by the government on a person per person. So than you are talking about health care, education, social security and you can compare that easily with other countries.
Has anyone done something like that?
Maybe slightly offtopic, but do you regard The United States of America a _socialist_ country?
I would very much like to hear your reasoning behind this bold statement.
Socialism means that you care for all people and try to bring equality. Maybe you're a rich American who believes he is paying too much taxes, but you certainly don't live in a socialist country. You have inadequate health care for the poor, inadequate pension, inadequate subsidies for the unemployed, inadequate funding for poor children that want to go to college and other inadequate schemes to help the poor and miserable to call yourselves socialists.
I hope you check your user page sometime soon and reply to this Bob.
hmmm, handheld quantum computer... sounds nice, any suggestions?
but i think you make a slight mistake here... you have to be a good scientist before making such a handheld quantum computer... you won't become one afterwards:)
Consider that this man has devoted his whole life to research, to knowledge, to finding answers. And then it takes ages for such a man to be rewarded for his research et al (though I must admit he received his Nobel Price quite early, compare to many other laureates, they are often older than 60 or so). Compare this to a businessman, a manager, a college graduate (with lower grades than his fellow student who goes into research) being paid way too much money to sit at a desk and order people around till the age of 60 when he retires and spends the rest of his life in his mansion... somewhere it doesn't seem right.
I still have several years till I have to make a decision between engaging in research/education or going into business (1st year Physics@Twente.NL) but it seems to me that the "reward" for my efforts I would get in research/education are less than when I would work for a big company, earning a lot of money (for them and for me)... what we overlook though is personal satisfaction. A Nobel Price would mean much more to me than a nice golden pen after twenty years of loyal work to whomever...
I wonder, how does the rest of the community look upon a matter like this?
Third world countries and other poor farmers
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I think you are overlooking several points here.
As far as the dangers of not being able to replant, nothing is preventing the farmers from replanting unmodified seeds.
True, but do consider that unmodified seeds lack resistances against many plagues/diseases and thus the crop yield will drop. Third world countries which already have a shortage of food will suffer from this, there export even more, further worsening their economical position in the world.
The same goes for the following:
Not to be cynical, but if they don't want to agree to this, they shouldn't buy the seeds.
Then you argue:
And if the seeds are so great that they must buy them, then such an agreement doesn't sound so bad--since the farmers are getting such great seeds.
but this leads us to the financing problem: who will pay for the expensive seeds? Not the customers (you and me) because Walmart can't afford to raise the prices to their customers while they can simply tell their suppliers that they won't be paying more. Third world countries aren't really in the position to make any demands.
With the following you do have a point:
That, and the fact that if we want such seeds, we absolutely must allow companies who develop them to reap profit. They can't do this if farmers replant.
This is closely related to the discussion regarding the cheap preventive AIDS medicine that South Africa is distributing. One might even relate it to the gaming industry. Naturally these companies wish to make profit, the question is if it is reasonable to let them make profit over the backs of many people.
Perhaps government oriented research would be an option, but who wants to work for the government these days? No-one, because the big bucks are earned with selling commercially sound ideas to the rich; so we tend to forget about the poor, and that might not really be nice during christmas and the rest of the year.
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I'm Dutch but I've followed bilingual education since I was 10. For four years half my education was in English and half in Dutch and my last two years in high school I had IB Englisch classes (A2 higher). Now I mostly think in English which I started doing since I went to high school (age=10). Don't ask me why, but I do. I reckon that's the first sign of bilingualism.
I like google because it loads terribly quick which comes in handy if you use it once every hour and only spend 10 seconds on the page itself.
If, however, I were to visit a website once or twice a month/year and I don't need a lot of information in a very short time period (let's say for example lionhead studios though I prefered their previous lay-out) I don't mind looking at some nice flash, some fancy java applet or whatever it is with which they try and attract my attention.
So I reckon Flash and Java and whatever more you can think of (if it works of course) is ok as long as it doesn't bother me. Try to make an educated guess of how long your average visitor is going to spend on your website and then try to come up with a good mixture of beauty and usability
(please note, these views are not entirely mine though I must admit I lost the source of my information, also note that my only experience with web-design is Phicus so I'm not really an expert)
Just think what can be done with technology from the 2000's
Looking at what they are replacing I would say there wouldn't be much of a difference between the upgraded hubble and technology from the 2000's... I don't know a lot about this but I would say that most of the important stuff has been replaced within the last couple of years?? But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't launch anything new of course... I'm looking forward to that too
Just another little voice in the crowd:
congratulations and may happiness and love forever remain in you life.
For all the SI oriented people:
120-950 degrees farenheit
equals
322-783 Kelvin
what is wrong with those SI units anyway?
Well, survival leads to evolution, in the sense that evolution is the result of survival. Evolution is the change in a being that is preserved in future generations due to the being's (extended) survival.
it is logical that an individual wishes to survive and it is most common that individuals wish to breed.
Why is it logical to wish for self preservation?
Let's first look at an individual that does not live in a tight group (e.g. cheetah, humans) and ignore self-sacrifice (sacrificing one's life for someone else). It is then programmed in every individual to avoid danger and rather stay in a safe place and to look for food/energy rather than starving. This we call self-preservation, the word "self-preservation" is perhaps not what the creature has in mind when it flees from high water, dangerous temperatures or when it goes out to search for food, but it is effectively what it is doing, it is preserving it's own life
We can extend the problem by introducing group-behaviour, ants will sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the nest, humans tend to be heroic and throw themselves in front of bullets and such, but all this always relates to the preservation of genes, it is quite logical: a mutation occures that makes an ant sacrifice itself, this has a positive effect on the survival of the related individuals (thus the survival of similar genes) which means that the mutation lives on.
The same goes for breeding, if a mutation occures that increases the breeding for a certain individual it's genes will be more common and more breeding will occur thus in the end we will see that a specie breeds a lot. one than says that it is due to evolution, perhaps we should say that it is simply logical. the word "evolution" has the tendency to compete with "divine intervention" while it is pure logic that dictates the situation.
I find it very hard to think of matters as evolution and creationism, perhaps this comment will help you, o reader, to transform your thoughts and ideas into words, i would be very interested to hear them
Just a little nostalgia
Google gave me the following slashdot article/discussion
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- What about costs? The parent article of this discussion discusses costs that are 5 times higher than (oh, btw, check then vs. than) normal concrete, how is that with this kind of material?
and buildings whose windows need not be flat, rectangular panes, but can be arbitrary regions of transparency within flowing, curving walls.
Sorry, but that is already possible.
A researcher at the university of Delft has developed a way to create twisted glass allowing for twisted buildings.
A dutch article can be found here. Take a look at the images if you don't understand the text
My flatmate owns a laptop with some 802.11 (?) technology in it with which he can connect wirelessly on the University of Twente Campus (CS building)... he can get 500KB per second and the idea is that this kind of access will become available throughout the whole campus...
I then wonder, why is it so amazing that someone invents a 144 kbps connection when we already have the technology to go 500KB per second... the card my flatmate uses is a typical small network connection card and I can't imagine that it is too big to fit into a mobile phone???
Mexico wouldn't be that difficult I guess, I assume that you can go to the American consulate down there and get some ID to get back??? :)
maybe somewhere in the African desert or in the middle of the South-Amercian rain forests
Couldn't you make a game out of this??? A few try to do certain things on the internet (purchasing items, trading at E-Bay etc. etc.) and others (the whole community for all I care) have to track them down... some new form of reality tv... allow everything including hacking, cracking and lying but be aware for things such as threatening family members and friends, but I guess it could prove some great entertainment if only one could device a way to show it all... I don't think a few images of hackers on tv is that exciting...
Oh my goodness, but wouldn't this mean that potentially we might be able to create a new human being out of those MAPCs.
Quick, ban this research, it is heresy, it is aweful, it can save lifes!
Not to worry. There is an "unnamed location" still 5 meters above sea level, so who are we kidding here: Tuvalu will last for at least a few decades.
But in that sense of the word "socialism" I do not regard the USA a socialist country. Compare it to other countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and others. If I'm not mistaken there is a much smaller problem regarding poverty and insufficient health care. As I said before, a poor kid can hardly go to college in the USA, a poor family experiences great difficulty in getting health care as opposed to the rich with private insurance. I don't have any exact figures, but I certainly do not think that the USA takes good care of it's whole population.
:)
The whole country may vote, but it's the money that counts when it comes down to who will be sitting in Congres/Senate/President's chair.
We might never agree on this, but this is my point of view, I've read and understood yours and I must say that I couldn't agree less, sorry for that, no hard feelings of course
With Google it is possible to search for links (link:) and it is also possible to search on a specific website (site:) as it says on this site [Google.com].
I must agree with you though, that with Google it is impossible to use wildcards. They advise you to enter both queries (prince & princess) which gives pretty good results too.
Personally I do think that the special Google logo's (here [Google.com]) are wonderful and that Google has a lot of other features (Usenet, Cached, file types) that make it an excellent search engine.
What is a waste of moderation points is having to moderate this kind of posts. About 10 to 20 percent of the M2 i'm doing is having to rate "offtopic" and "redundant" M1 as fair. The current topic here is not the /. moderating system but something completely different. The links you said were "clever" and "funny" might have been "clever" and "funny" in you eyes, but they were certainly not on-topic. I visit /. to read articles and interesting replies. I don't need to hear stories about ghosts and how Microsoft (that's the correct way to spell it btw) will lose it's market share in the future when I'm reading interesting posts on space exploration or a new handheld.
/. didn't start off as big as it is now and the M1/M2 system was introduced to keep up with the enormous increase in postings.
Just one other thing, the poll you refer to, it has 1600 votes. Nowadays polls have about 16000 votes. I was wondering from when that poll originates as, as you probably know,
(Btw, can someone tell me why the layout of this article is in blue instead of the usual green? the rest of the website is functioning just fine)
I believe there has been a slight case of miscommunication.
I was led to believe that you thought the USA was a socialist country from the point of view of social security and such, but apparantly I was wrong.
But, some flaws:
Socialists do believe in free elections, you are probably thinking of Communistsw who wish to have a revolution.
But actually I don't think you have the word "Communism" in mind either, the impression I'm getting when reading your reply is that you find the USA a tiranny, a scene from "1984".
Something else: the USSR and China were never socialist. Communist is a better word, but they never fulfilled all the demands to be a communist country. They still had a government that did more that guide the system. they had leaders, which communism doesn't have. It is safe to say that not one single country on this planet has ever been socialist, communist of marxistic. It is also safe to say that not one single country on this planet, or rather in the whole universe will ever be socialistic, communistic or marxistic because there will always be a desire for power and an uneven distribution of power which, because of it's definition, means that the country wouldn't be socialistic, communistic or marxistic in it's true form
I shall not comment on your remarks regarding the law enforcement in you country for I don't have any experience with them.
But once again, I thought you referred to socialism in the sense of redistributing income among people and supplying health care, education, food and shelter for those that cannot finance it themselves. Apparently I was wrong, my apologies for that.
We're getting really offtopic, but who cares
In my humble opinion it is utter foolishness to call the United States of America a socialist country for reasons I have stated before
My definition wasn't really a good one i admit, but that doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, the USA is not a socialist country.
The USA is probably more left wing (let's refer to "socialism" as left wing) than they used to be but they/you are still a long way from getting even close to the middle. Certainly with Bush as president. Maybe they/you have dealt with racism for the biggest part, but they/you still haven't done much about the economic situation of many (I don't know the politically "correct" term for this, sorry) coloured people (especially in the South) and of many other poor folk (again mainly in the South
I think you overlook one other thing. You state that one can measure socialism by looking at teh levels of government consume. I think it is evenly/more important to look at what the money is spent on. When you wish to measure socialism than one can deduct expenses such as military,space exploration, intelligence etc. etc.
what might be a better approach is to derive the average amount of money, compensated for the worth of the local currency, spent by the government on a person per person. So than you are talking about health care, education, social security and you can compare that easily with other countries.
Has anyone done something like that?
Maybe slightly offtopic, but do you regard The United States of America a _socialist_ country?
I would very much like to hear your reasoning behind this bold statement.
Socialism means that you care for all people and try to bring equality. Maybe you're a rich American who believes he is paying too much taxes, but you certainly don't live in a socialist country. You have inadequate health care for the poor, inadequate pension, inadequate subsidies for the unemployed, inadequate funding for poor children that want to go to college and other inadequate schemes to help the poor and miserable to call yourselves socialists.
I hope you check your user page sometime soon and reply to this Bob.
Does "Friendship One" (ST VOY) ring a bell?
Otherwise, check Startrek.com.
True. Research is driven by passion.
hmmm, handheld quantum computer... sounds nice, any suggestions?
:)
but i think you make a slight mistake here... you have to be a good scientist before making such a handheld quantum computer... you won't become one afterwards
Consider that this man has devoted his whole life to research, to knowledge, to finding answers. And then it takes ages for such a man to be rewarded for his research et al (though I must admit he received his Nobel Price quite early, compare to many other laureates, they are often older than 60 or so). Compare this to a businessman, a manager, a college graduate (with lower grades than his fellow student who goes into research) being paid way too much money to sit at a desk and order people around till the age of 60 when he retires and spends the rest of his life in his mansion... somewhere it doesn't seem right.
I still have several years till I have to make a decision between engaging in research/education or going into business (1st year Physics@Twente.NL) but it seems to me that the "reward" for my efforts I would get in research/education are less than when I would work for a big company, earning a lot of money (for them and for me)... what we overlook though is personal satisfaction. A Nobel Price would mean much more to me than a nice golden pen after twenty years of loyal work to whomever...
I wonder, how does the rest of the community look upon a matter like this?
True, but do consider that unmodified seeds lack resistances against many plagues/diseases and thus the crop yield will drop. Third world countries which already have a shortage of food will suffer from this, there export even more, further worsening their economical position in the world.
The same goes for the following:
Then you argue:
but this leads us to the financing problem: who will pay for the expensive seeds? Not the customers (you and me) because Walmart can't afford to raise the prices to their customers while they can simply tell their suppliers that they won't be paying more. Third world countries aren't really in the position to make any demands.
With the following you do have a point:
This is closely related to the discussion regarding the cheap preventive AIDS medicine that South Africa is distributing. One might even relate it to the gaming industry. Naturally these companies wish to make profit, the question is if it is reasonable to let them make profit over the backs of many people.
Perhaps government oriented research would be an option, but who wants to work for the government these days? No-one, because the big bucks are earned with selling commercially sound ideas to the rich; so we tend to forget about the poor, and that might not really be nice during christmas and the rest of the year.