May I be the first to ask you if you would like me be the judge at your mom's arraignment?
Press2ToContinue looks at BitZtream's mom... "She looks guilty to me" (Looks at court clerk.) "What do you think?" "She looks guilty to me too, Judge." (Looks back at Press2ToContinue.) "Ok, I've seen enough. 20 years. Take her away." (gavel falls)
A live, simple plea over worldwide streaming video without conventional media spin, circus or filter, and 48 hours later, he's released. That Guatemalan Judge don't want none of that.
I guess it goes hand-in-hand with being old, so don't worry - we young whippersnappers won't hold you accountable for your dementia-induced poison. We'll just smile and say... "he can't help it." (shrug)
or does this website have the world's biggest default font size? What is that, 20-point Times Roman? Does this website scream "This website is for old farts" or what?
Apple and Android platforms also suffer from hacking - their piracy rates are at 60% by some: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3225154/dead-trigger-dev-interview-piracy-android-ios This does not make Windows 8 any worse than the competition. In fact, it looks somewhat better from this article because the hacks are lengthier, at least for the present.
Who knew that Neanderthal gas could be so potent? Must have been all that woolly mammoth chili. "A cloud of gas that collapses into itself" sounds like it would knock the poop outta ya though.
Cognitive bias is nothing new; it is not specific to climate change.
"A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations, which may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
I would like to see a new law on the books: "wrongfully or negligently issuing a patent", to be used as follows:
In the case where a patent is declared invalid, I would like to see the issuing patent office held responsible for damages done....
And to reimburse the patent applicant for: 1) the fees charged for granting the patent 2) legal fees incurred by the patent holder in attempting to defend the patent before it is struck down
And to reimburse any party who is financially damaged by the patent office having wrongfully issued a patent, such as 3) to any company which licensed the patent: any license fees paid out to use the patent 4) to any company which was sued for infringing on the patent: court costs and damages
Patents are applied for in good faith. If the recipient can be irreparably damaged due to negligence or other actions which wrong the recipient, shouldn't there be legal recourse?
Do you think they might hold "inventiveness" and the "obviousness" tests, and the search for prior art to a higher standard? Do you think they might search and remedy any weaknesses in the system?
It's thermal recall force from heat generated by components on Pioneer.
The article is way too long but here's the essential paragraph:
"we estimated the magnitude of the thermal recoil force at different times over the course of the Pioneer missions. After matching the model to the Pioneers’ temperature and electrical readings, we found that the spacecraft did experience a sizable thermal recoil force, corresponding to an excess of about 60 W even after 20 years in deep space. The magnitude of the force was still tiny by Earth standards—about the same as the backward push your car experiences in reaction to the photons spit out by its high-beam headlights. The team found that a good half of the force came from heat from the RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators), which bounced off the back of the spacecraft antenna. The other half came from electrical heat from circuitry in the heart of the spacecraft"
Do we really need a study to show that repeated hits to the head result in confusion, depression and dementia? If so, I'd like to sign up to be the guy on the research team that whacks this researcher on the head repeatedly so he can discover the effects.
As a couple of respondents have pointed out, by my simply saying that there are two types that I have made an over-simplification, but I didn't say "only" two types.:) So it's fun to see people adopting an opposing stance and trying to tear my ideas down because truly by doing so they attempt to steer the ship of learning and, exhibiting the "active-learner" characteristic I mentioned, they learn because they are partaking in an active role and thus act as examples which support my theory. If they had read and not replied, or posted a simple supportive assertion, I believe they get a sense that they are taking a sub-optimal learning route, because they would be in the passive mode.
So I have wondered a long time, and the question has been posed many-a-time, why the phenomenon of frequent extreme aggression (aka flame wars) on internet forums? This forum is certainly no exception. I posit that it is hallmark of an active learner, and the internet is the hangout of the active learners, and feeling relatively safe from consequences, attempt to learn about human interaction by doing those exact things they are not permitted to do in real life, to experience -safely- the consequences in exquisite detail. It's a release, because we are still biologically animals, and on the grand time-line of evolution, only just barely civilized. It must be a struggle day-to-day for us to keep it all in because it explodes on the pages so readily.
Ok so just for fun, back to the "two types", for you pedantic sorts, there of course are many shades of those types, and perhaps they are modes, and not types, or proclivities instead, but I used types because it makes things simpler but of course we all experience times of active learning and passive learning, and perhaps there is a preferred mode of learning for people which would typify them, but here my point begins to dissolve in such minutia. Of course, you active-learner "types" will be happy to jump on any miniscule part of what I have said here, take an opposing stand, and enjoy the ride from there, but well hey, thanks for reading this far. I, for one, have learned from it.:)
P.s. to the commenter to asked if passive learning is a contradiction in terms, perhaps you would prefer to call it interactive vs. non-interactive learning, where I imagine passive learning to be where one consciously listens or observes with focus and intent to learn, and learns, without interacting physically.
Of course those that skew my intent merely to have their say are trying to learn about negative social interactions, so you may proceed.
Others, and we will recognize you by your thoughtful discourse, we welcome your input.
I firmly believe there are two groups of people: those who want information to "feed" them (passive learners) and those who want to drive the learning experience (active learners.) The passive learners want to have information pushed on them, and have it entertain them and distract them, a la Mythbusters style. The active learners don't want their information to move, wiggle, flash or distract them. They have decided what they want to know and are trying to learn it quickly and efficiently. The active learners go to great pains to get websites to stop moving, flashing, spinning and otherwise try to grab their attention so they can focus on their reading. The passive learners (children, those without a learning goal) would not complain about distractions on websites, instead they seek them out, but generally would not be seeking studious information anyway. Probably more the entertainment and sensational-style news-consumers I would think.
I believe this "newspaper" experiment points out that their target audience consisted of a more mature customer, active-learner, seeking "newspaper-style" news and prefered to drive the experience and learn quickly and efficiently. I don't believe the experiment failed, I think they just misunderstood their audience.
Perhaps if they had tried that with news aimed at grade-school age children they would have found a different acceptance rate.
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May I be the first to ask you if you would like me be the judge at your mom's arraignment?
Press2ToContinue looks at BitZtream's mom... "She looks guilty to me" (Looks at court clerk.) "What do you think?"
"She looks guilty to me too, Judge." (Looks back at Press2ToContinue.)
"Ok, I've seen enough. 20 years. Take her away." (gavel falls)
"Next!"
Then, compare and contrast that with the definition of "Hearsay"
You may withdraw from the bench. And I don't want any more grandstanding out of you, or you'll be held in contempt.
if he really committed any crime? Or do you just believe whatever you read?
Anonymous Coward = Anonymous Coward
A live, simple plea over worldwide streaming video without conventional media spin, circus or filter, and 48 hours later, he's released. That Guatemalan Judge don't want none of that.
*snap*
Bitter, much?
I guess it goes hand-in-hand with being old, so don't worry - we young whippersnappers won't hold you accountable for your dementia-induced poison. We'll just smile and say... "he can't help it." (shrug)
or does this website have the world's biggest default font size? What is that, 20-point Times Roman? Does this website scream "This website is for old farts" or what?
Apple and Android platforms also suffer from hacking - their piracy rates are at 60% by some:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3225154/dead-trigger-dev-interview-piracy-android-ios
This does not make Windows 8 any worse than the competition. In fact, it looks somewhat better from this article because the hacks are lengthier, at least for the present.
Hint: My goal while reading the article wasn't what you think it was.
"Why aren't the US and Europe exerting more diplomatic pressure on these tax havens...?"
Because where else would US politicians offshore their income? http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
The link went missing - here it is
"Argentinian killer whales swim onto beaches to snag resting sealions" ... and humans: Bad day for a swim, man eaten by an orca killer whale
With a giant catfish I doubt it could not do the same to an adult, but perhaps a toddler unattended.
Here's catfish catching pigeons
Makes me happy there are catfish in the world.
Who knew that Neanderthal gas could be so potent? Must have been all that woolly mammoth chili. "A cloud of gas that collapses into itself" sounds like it would knock the poop outta ya though.
Cognitive bias is nothing new; it is not specific to climate change.
"A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations, which may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
I would like to see a new law on the books: "wrongfully or negligently issuing a patent", to be used as follows:
In the case where a patent is declared invalid, I would like to see the issuing patent office held responsible for damages done....
And to reimburse the patent applicant for:
1) the fees charged for granting the patent
2) legal fees incurred by the patent holder in attempting to defend the patent before it is struck down
And to reimburse any party who is financially damaged by the patent office having wrongfully issued a patent, such as
3) to any company which licensed the patent: any license fees paid out to use the patent
4) to any company which was sued for infringing on the patent: court costs and damages
Patents are applied for in good faith. If the recipient can be irreparably damaged due to negligence or other actions which wrong the recipient, shouldn't there be legal recourse?
Do you think they might hold "inventiveness" and the "obviousness" tests, and the search for prior art to a higher standard? Do you think they might search and remedy any weaknesses in the system?
Accountability anyone?
... has it's original programming scrambled and begins to evolve on it's own.
It's thermal recall force from heat generated by components on Pioneer.
The article is way too long but here's the essential paragraph:
"we estimated the magnitude of the thermal recoil force at different times over the course of the Pioneer missions. After matching the model to the Pioneers’ temperature and electrical readings, we found that the spacecraft did experience a sizable thermal recoil force, corresponding to an excess of about 60 W even after 20 years in deep space. The magnitude of the force was still tiny by Earth standards—about the same as the backward push your car experiences in reaction to the photons spit out by its high-beam headlights. The team found that a good half of the force came from heat from the RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators), which bounced off the back of the spacecraft antenna. The other half came from electrical heat from circuitry in the heart of the spacecraft"
There, you may resume.
For some other reason, it reminds me of something else.
If the martian soil is composed of Mardi Gras beads, then what else is up there too? I'd say go!
It's the party planet! I don't care if I never get back...
Do we really need a study to show that repeated hits to the head result in confusion, depression and dementia? If so, I'd like to sign up to be the guy on the research team that whacks this researcher on the head repeatedly so he can discover the effects.
I just want to help. Really I do.
don't remember seeing PVC pipe on the millenium falcon
I look askance at people who look askance at people.
As a couple of respondents have pointed out, by my simply saying that there are two types that I have made an over-simplification, but I didn't say "only" two types. :) So it's fun to see people adopting an opposing stance and trying to tear my ideas down because truly by doing so they attempt to steer the ship of learning and, exhibiting the "active-learner" characteristic I mentioned, they learn because they are partaking in an active role and thus act as examples which support my theory. If they had read and not replied, or posted a simple supportive assertion, I believe they get a sense that they are taking a sub-optimal learning route, because they would be in the passive mode.
So I have wondered a long time, and the question has been posed many-a-time, why the phenomenon of frequent extreme aggression (aka flame wars) on internet forums? This forum is certainly no exception. I posit that it is hallmark of an active learner, and the internet is the hangout of the active learners, and feeling relatively safe from consequences, attempt to learn about human interaction by doing those exact things they are not permitted to do in real life, to experience -safely- the consequences in exquisite detail. It's a release, because we are still biologically animals, and on the grand time-line of evolution, only just barely civilized. It must be a struggle day-to-day for us to keep it all in because it explodes on the pages so readily.
Ok so just for fun, back to the "two types", for you pedantic sorts, there of course are many shades of those types, and perhaps they are modes, and not types, or proclivities instead, but I used types because it makes things simpler but of course we all experience times of active learning and passive learning, and perhaps there is a preferred mode of learning for people which would typify them, but here my point begins to dissolve in such minutia. Of course, you active-learner "types" will be happy to jump on any miniscule part of what I have said here, take an opposing stand, and enjoy the ride from there, but well hey, thanks for reading this far. I, for one, have learned from it. :)
P.s. to the commenter to asked if passive learning is a contradiction in terms, perhaps you would prefer to call it interactive vs. non-interactive learning, where I imagine passive learning to be where one consciously listens or observes with focus and intent to learn, and learns, without interacting physically.
Of course those that skew my intent merely to have their say are trying to learn about negative social interactions, so you may proceed.
Others, and we will recognize you by your thoughtful discourse, we welcome your input.
I firmly believe there are two groups of people: those who want information to "feed" them (passive learners) and those who want to drive the learning experience (active learners.) The passive learners want to have information pushed on them, and have it entertain them and distract them, a la Mythbusters style. The active learners don't want their information to move, wiggle, flash or distract them. They have decided what they want to know and are trying to learn it quickly and efficiently. The active learners go to great pains to get websites to stop moving, flashing, spinning and otherwise try to grab their attention so they can focus on their reading. The passive learners (children, those without a learning goal) would not complain about distractions on websites, instead they seek them out, but generally would not be seeking studious information anyway. Probably more the entertainment and sensational-style news-consumers I would think.
I believe this "newspaper" experiment points out that their target audience consisted of a more mature customer, active-learner, seeking "newspaper-style" news and prefered to drive the experience and learn quickly and efficiently. I don't believe the experiment failed, I think they just misunderstood their audience.
Perhaps if they had tried that with news aimed at grade-school age children they would have found a different acceptance rate.