Does anyone remember when they first got their driver's license how they drove cautiously all the time because everything was new?
I don't have any evidence but I suspect this line removal makes people drive slow in the short term because it's something they've never seen before. Once they get used to it I assume they'll go back to old habits.
As awful as those incidents are, I don't hear anti-vaccine people citing either of those when they state why they don't trust vaccinations. They only cite debunked studies about autism.
Given the way the internet reacts to women saying things they don't like about video games and coding I wonder if a man had invented this instead of a woman would someone still have decided to retaliate against him by posting his personal information on line for people to give them trouble? Independent of whether the idea is a good one or not.
The worst is the lack of tactile inputs on the console because everyone wants to look 'futuristic!'. You can't just reach over and turn the radio off because you can't find the knob w/o looking. It's dangerous, and stupid. Put the physical dials back.
Are you female? If you are not, then how do you know they aren't interested? If it's because they all say they do, have you asked them why? Do they even know why? Do you know why you do like to program?
I am a female programmer. I have been programming heavily for 14 years, starting with C during my senior year in high school (with some off and on summer camps and after school programs through grade school and middle school). I love programming. I love making a computer do what I want. I love making things.
I also love to sew for the same reason.
There are lots of reasons to love programming. Some of them are the same reasons why women like some of the other hobbies they currently enjoy. So what's different here?
As an aside, I avoided those programs for attracting women like the plague. I really hated them.
My husband and I played a lot of turn-based strategy games.
Specifically, we played Heroes of Might and Magic II and III. (available on gog.com) There isn't much storytelling here, but there's collaboration and exploration. I liked turn-based strategy games for long distance because there was no time pressure so we could be chatting about anything during the game - game related or not.
We also spent a lot of time playing Diablo II. If you want to go modern here, you could play Diablo III or Torchlight II. They're quicker, IMHO, than your average MMO.
I've seen my friend's horses try to unlock the stall doors after the human locks the stall door, with disturbing accuracy. This doesn't seem unusual to me.
I mean, I guess with dual GPU's you might not really want to upgrade the video card, as it would get quite expensive and they probably perform great to begin with.
If you get this, you better hope you don't want to upgrade the graphics card - there are no PCI-e slots for independent graphics cards. What you see is what you get.
I work primarily in computer graphics. My close friends/family mostly work in video games and simulators. I find that I need to understand advanced math a fair amount - Linear Algebra, Discreet Math, Graph Theory. My friends in simulators or the graphics of core games end up working on some pretty snazzy math problems as well. My family member that works in casual games only uses Trigonometry.
I love NoScript but I find it causes too much confusion for people using my computer. Some email services don't handle being loaded through NoScript well (which I would say is a sign of a badly written email page people shouldn't be using but I can't dictate what email services my friends use...)
There are perfectly valid reasons to keep Windows around, such as playing video games. (Yes I know, you can play through Wine, but I prefer not to). Dual booting to Linux for guests, however, seems perfectly reasonable.
Yes. A relative of mine works for a company that wanted to do a racing sim and they eventually gave up because of the nightmare that was trying to get permission to use real cars like Porsche or Corvette.
I would give this a resounding yes and that should be applicable to all electronics - especially laptops. I have a Samsung Series 9, which I generally love, but the hard drive space is abysmal. It advertises a 128 GB hard drive but the C partition only has 89GB of space to its name with 20 GB going to the recovery partition. Its been a while since I purchased it, but I believe it only had ~40 GB of the 128GB hard drive free when I first opened the box due to the space needed for Windows 7 and said recovery partition. After installing the software I wanted and uploading my mp3s, my hard drive is down to 11GB free.
I agree that we're becoming less violent, but the news is becoming more sensationalist and therefore people think we're becoming more violent.
This comes up a lot around the fact that it's frowned upon to let your 10 year old child walk somewhere alone in many places, even though child kidnappings are way down from the 80's when 10 year olds walking around by themselves was perfectly normal.
Cyclists don't ride on the interstate because it's not allowed, but they would be plenty safe there. Interstates have wide lanes and decent shoulders, and there aren't distractions like driveways, side streets, and unnecessary signage. That other roads weren't designed to accomodate motor vehicles and cyclists is a failure of policy. Legally, cyclists have a right to be there, as does a guy with a horse and buggy or someone driving a backhoe or tractor. And if everyone involved exercises some responsibility and due care, the road can be shared just fine by everyone.
In the U.S. you are required to go a minimum speed on most highways (baring traffic). Even if bikers and horse and buggies were allowed on, they wouldn't be able to get to and maintain the minimum speed limits.
People pierce the ears of their female infants. My understanding is that the ear piercing hurts more to an infant than circumcision (based on how long they cry afterwards).
This depends on what your games play out like and what aspects you personally like, of course. But for me, I like the aspect of participating in and helping tell a story, so that's how I explain it. That it's a cooperative story-telling adventure.
The other part that often comes up is that since you're helping tell the story, you don't run into plot events that you fundamentally disagree with which ends up making a more compelling story to me. (For instance, "You know how in Story X the main character lets NPC Y die? If that were a table top, you could decide whether or not you thought the main character would have done that)
As I understood the article: The big piece in the article that makes me skeptical is they that tested their mice antibiotic group while still on the antibiotics. That means that the mice had a weight change while on antibiotics, but it did not show whether that continued in the long term after the antibiotics were removed. That's the part that would matter since humans don't take antibiotics every day.
The part that looked at human data was tenuous at best and had a much smaller margin of weight increase than the lab mice did.
My horse is currently on Doxycycline for Lyme Disease and she lost ~100lbs in 4 days as a result. So if it can make her lose weight by throwing off her gut's bacteria I can certainly see it going the other way as well.
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Does anyone remember when they first got their driver's license how they drove cautiously all the time because everything was new? I don't have any evidence but I suspect this line removal makes people drive slow in the short term because it's something they've never seen before. Once they get used to it I assume they'll go back to old habits.
As awful as those incidents are, I don't hear anti-vaccine people citing either of those when they state why they don't trust vaccinations. They only cite debunked studies about autism.
Given the way the internet reacts to women saying things they don't like about video games and coding I wonder if a man had invented this instead of a woman would someone still have decided to retaliate against him by posting his personal information on line for people to give them trouble? Independent of whether the idea is a good one or not.
The worst is the lack of tactile inputs on the console because everyone wants to look 'futuristic!'. You can't just reach over and turn the radio off because you can't find the knob w/o looking. It's dangerous, and stupid. Put the physical dials back.
the democrats aren't listening to the people. The republicans are
Well, you're half right.
I don't know what country (or maybe I should say state) you live in. I haven't seen any sign of the republicans being the ones to listen to people
There have been several serious attempts to figure this out. Most notably at CMU. For more information read, "Unlocking the Clubhouse"
Are you female? If you are not, then how do you know they aren't interested? If it's because they all say they do, have you asked them why? Do they even know why? Do you know why you do like to program?
I am a female programmer. I have been programming heavily for 14 years, starting with C during my senior year in high school (with some off and on summer camps and after school programs through grade school and middle school). I love programming. I love making a computer do what I want. I love making things.
I also love to sew for the same reason.
There are lots of reasons to love programming. Some of them are the same reasons why women like some of the other hobbies they currently enjoy. So what's different here?
As an aside, I avoided those programs for attracting women like the plague. I really hated them.
My husband and I played a lot of turn-based strategy games.
Specifically, we played Heroes of Might and Magic II and III. (available on gog.com) There isn't much storytelling here, but there's collaboration and exploration. I liked turn-based strategy games for long distance because there was no time pressure so we could be chatting about anything during the game - game related or not.
We also spent a lot of time playing Diablo II. If you want to go modern here, you could play Diablo III or Torchlight II. They're quicker, IMHO, than your average MMO.
I've seen my friend's horses try to unlock the stall doors after the human locks the stall door, with disturbing accuracy. This doesn't seem unusual to me.
I mean, I guess with dual GPU's you might not really want to upgrade the video card, as it would get quite expensive and they probably perform great to begin with.
If you get this, you better hope you don't want to upgrade the graphics card - there are no PCI-e slots for independent graphics cards. What you see is what you get.
I work primarily in computer graphics. My close friends/family mostly work in video games and simulators. I find that I need to understand advanced math a fair amount - Linear Algebra, Discreet Math, Graph Theory. My friends in simulators or the graphics of core games end up working on some pretty snazzy math problems as well. My family member that works in casual games only uses Trigonometry.
StarCraft II has an editor and many of these moddable games have a scripting language for events.
Blender allows you to write mods to it in Python - you can make movies or other fun final products.
I love NoScript but I find it causes too much confusion for people using my computer. Some email services don't handle being loaded through NoScript well (which I would say is a sign of a badly written email page people shouldn't be using but I can't dictate what email services my friends use...)
There are perfectly valid reasons to keep Windows around, such as playing video games. (Yes I know, you can play through Wine, but I prefer not to). Dual booting to Linux for guests, however, seems perfectly reasonable.
Yes. A relative of mine works for a company that wanted to do a racing sim and they eventually gave up because of the nightmare that was trying to get permission to use real cars like Porsche or Corvette.
I would give this a resounding yes and that should be applicable to all electronics - especially laptops. I have a Samsung Series 9, which I generally love, but the hard drive space is abysmal. It advertises a 128 GB hard drive but the C partition only has 89GB of space to its name with 20 GB going to the recovery partition. Its been a while since I purchased it, but I believe it only had ~40 GB of the 128GB hard drive free when I first opened the box due to the space needed for Windows 7 and said recovery partition. After installing the software I wanted and uploading my mp3s, my hard drive is down to 11GB free.
I agree that we're becoming less violent, but the news is becoming more sensationalist and therefore people think we're becoming more violent.
This comes up a lot around the fact that it's frowned upon to let your 10 year old child walk somewhere alone in many places, even though child kidnappings are way down from the 80's when 10 year olds walking around by themselves was perfectly normal.
What are we going to eat after the nuclear fallout from world war III?
Cyclists don't ride on the interstate because it's not allowed, but they would be plenty safe there. Interstates have wide lanes and decent shoulders, and there aren't distractions like driveways, side streets, and unnecessary signage. That other roads weren't designed to accomodate motor vehicles and cyclists is a failure of policy. Legally, cyclists have a right to be there, as does a guy with a horse and buggy or someone driving a backhoe or tractor. And if everyone involved exercises some responsibility and due care, the road can be shared just fine by everyone.
In the U.S. you are required to go a minimum speed on most highways (baring traffic). Even if bikers and horse and buggies were allowed on, they wouldn't be able to get to and maintain the minimum speed limits.
Note to /.newbies: When in doubt always assume tin-foil as material for any garment discussed on /.)
Tin foil pants? Try getting that through airport security.
People pierce the ears of their female infants. My understanding is that the ear piercing hurts more to an infant than circumcision (based on how long they cry afterwards).
This depends on what your games play out like and what aspects you personally like, of course. But for me, I like the aspect of participating in and helping tell a story, so that's how I explain it. That it's a cooperative story-telling adventure.
The other part that often comes up is that since you're helping tell the story, you don't run into plot events that you fundamentally disagree with which ends up making a more compelling story to me. (For instance, "You know how in Story X the main character lets NPC Y die? If that were a table top, you could decide whether or not you thought the main character would have done that)
As I understood the article: The big piece in the article that makes me skeptical is they that tested their mice antibiotic group while still on the antibiotics. That means that the mice had a weight change while on antibiotics, but it did not show whether that continued in the long term after the antibiotics were removed. That's the part that would matter since humans don't take antibiotics every day.
The part that looked at human data was tenuous at best and had a much smaller margin of weight increase than the lab mice did.
My horse is currently on Doxycycline for Lyme Disease and she lost ~100lbs in 4 days as a result. So if it can make her lose weight by throwing off her gut's bacteria I can certainly see it going the other way as well.
China also knows they hold a large chunk of US debt and therefore we would think twice before causing them too much trouble.