I think the show is good for science, but as you stated can be bad for the judiciary system. Is it ever a bad thing to have the populice become enamored with knowledge?
Your concerns about the judiciary system are warrented though but I wonder if that will ever be too big of an issue that we have to deal with.
Because autistic children and people don't learn the way we do. Most autistic people are lucky if they can spell their name. A few happen to be autistic-savant as this person is, and his learning is incredible because it's not normal for an autistic person to be able to learn like that.
"Blaming the knife company when the kid cut itself playing with the knife"
I think it's apt. Google is only providing a tool they think people would like. How some imbecile in a library uses this tool is the libraries problem and the library should be taking measures to protect their security.
Once again the Government thinks (without any poling of the populice of whom they are supposed to represent) they need to step in and save us from ourselves. I think a certain W recently put a cap in Stem Cell research (that may have helped thousands of people) as well. This is really beginning to be a bad trend for the "Land of the Free".
It really is probably the fact that you played on the PC. I'm not a big FPS fan anyway (Rainbow Six is my exception), but on the Xbox Halo was just fun. The single player was difficult and time-consuming, but not really too hard, but the real beauty lies in the multi-player. You can start playing with 4 people at 11pm...blink...and it's 4am. You're other reply said something about stategy and that's also a real big part, when playing teams (even FFA) strategy comes into play so much more than most other FPSs out there.
Maybe it's just me then, but all the gov. contractors that had positions were all requiring 5+ yrs exp. and/or security clearance already. Sorta makes it hard coming right out of college.
From his post: "I can walk into Best Buy, buy a cheap 17" monitor for $250 - $300 after rebate, and put a TV tuner box from Viewsonic on it for $150, that's $400 for a 17" TV. If I walk over to the TV sections, the CHEAPEST 15" TV is almost $500. The 17" LCD TV's are between $650 - $900... one is priced over $1000."
The one area referring to the price and he mentions LCDs once.
I understand the article is relating to LCDs. But because in your post there wasn't a mention of LCDs (just because that was the topic doesn't mean you were referring to them) I thought you were trying to make a generalization of general prices of the TV market...in reference to how outrageous the LCD screens were. I was only pointing out (if my presumption of market reference was correct) that your numbers were a bit off.
I hate to nitpick but your numbers are way off. I bought a 27" flat screen TV less than 2 months ago from Circuit City for $316 (No Rebates). I don't know what the LCD version would have been but I's not cheaper to buy a monitor and then a TV card.
I used to work for a company where (originally) my sole position was the $8/hr. Indexing specialist. It was my job to read all the Search Engine news and other junk that was going on so our website would be ranked higher than others.
The only thing I can say for trends is that Google is one of only three that still offers free submission into their indexing survice and that most of the other search-engines started struggling to keep people coming to their site when they started requiring people to pay to be listed with them.
This is another ploy to add a User-friendly item to an Index that just isn't as robust as the competition...namely Google. If all the SEs would stop requiring Joe Smallbusiness paying $150+ in order to submit their website than maybe their listings would have better information and people would start using them again. Maybe it's too late though because Google really is a sweet service.
All I know is the Mars series was fantastic...up until liek book 6 and then it started to turn. But I've often thought that it would be wicked cool to see John Carter on the big screen. Nudity be damned. I want to see the Green Martian men and watch Carter beat the shit out of people.
The first article states, Cyberintrusions traditionally have been the domain of socially inept males launching electronic attacks for fun and bragging rights...
Sorry maybe it's just me, but aren't nerds by definition socially inept. Let's be honest, it's the socially inept who keep the world running.
"slanted Bush speaches make it sound like half-truths and thin theories"...I never wrote that phrase...how can you quote me on something I never wrote. That's what I was trying to illustrate the Michael Moore did.
I could have done without Moore's commentary over Bush's classroom visit when the WTC was attacked, but nonetheless, that "seven minute segment" is something everyone in the country NEEDS to see.
Maybe it's because I live in Washington, but the whole city shut down. People stayed glued to the TV for hours. Me...I heard the news and went back to sleep until I had to go to class. So Bush's "seven minutes" is no more odd to me than the people who watched the TV in silence for hours.
I haven't seen F911 and don't plan to because I've heard (from both conservatives and liberals) that 1: It was slanted (as expected) but 2: There were presentation problems (such as splicing 5-6 different Bush speaches to make it sound like he was saying something else at one given moment). I've got nothing against opinions and sharing those opinions, but giving half-truths and thin theories isn't a good way to present your arguments.
Technically, and even Michael Moore stated this when questioned, F9/11 is an Op-Ed piece. Moore admitted, when certain questions were presented to him, that many of the things in the film were his opinions and therefore it was not a documentary but an Op-Ed piece.
I taught a MATH 051 course my last year of college. This class covered nothing harder than learning how to figure percentages and doing basic conversions (ft. -> cm. and such). And yet of the entire 18 students (it was a small school, but this was one of 4 different sections of this class) I think 2 finished with a grade higher than a B.
I asked them what they did when they went shopping and saw "20% Off"? Did they automatically assume they were getting a deal? And one girl told me that of course it was a deal because it was 20% off!!!
I further questioned if they had ever done this type of work before and they all said yes in High School but not one of them could "re-learn" the information they "learned" in High School.
With the emphasis of these students to go to college our school systems have completely neglected to give any of the students a basic knowledge of arithmetic and other required skills to survive.
What no one has touched on is that coding, hard in and of itself, and writing music on the fly, also very hard, and doing it live leaves no margin of error. What if he makes a keystroke error? Wouldn't that have the possibility of destroying his whole set? This is just too incredible for words.
You joke, but really...what are the personal ramifications of the government (whether state or local) providing this type of service? Is it automatically assumed that by using this system we give the authorities the right to view the information passed through? And if it isn't who's going to be monitoring them to make sure information isn't collected illegally? The whole idea is scary to me.
Or make sure you have a camera that has a lens cover. I know it's harder to find them now-a-days, but I always thought it was a good idea to have it covered, especially after my roommate, freshman year, left his webcam on and we both got up in the morning to take showers and didn't realize we were online until it was too late.
It seemed to me that the majority of mistakes listed came from non-OS issues such as games produced by MS. And as unfortunate as it may be India, China, and Saudi Arabia are not the prime markets for these games. So I can almost understand why certain issues like these could be overlooked. Especially Churches being turned to Mosques! What do they think happened? Muslims served the Christians tea?
Someone will always be offended no matter what you do.
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I think the show is good for science, but as you stated can be bad for the judiciary system. Is it ever a bad thing to have the populice become enamored with knowledge?
Your concerns about the judiciary system are warrented though but I wonder if that will ever be too big of an issue that we have to deal with.
Because autistic children and people don't learn the way we do. Most autistic people are lucky if they can spell their name. A few happen to be autistic-savant as this person is, and his learning is incredible because it's not normal for an autistic person to be able to learn like that.
Somebody posted this after you.
"Blaming the knife company when the kid cut itself playing with the knife"
I think it's apt. Google is only providing a tool they think people would like. How some imbecile in a library uses this tool is the libraries problem and the library should be taking measures to protect their security.
Once again the Government thinks (without any poling of the populice of whom they are supposed to represent) they need to step in and save us from ourselves.
I think a certain W recently put a cap in Stem Cell research (that may have helped thousands of people) as well.
This is really beginning to be a bad trend for the "Land of the Free".
It really is probably the fact that you played on the PC. I'm not a big FPS fan anyway (Rainbow Six is my exception), but on the Xbox Halo was just fun. The single player was difficult and time-consuming, but not really too hard, but the real beauty lies in the multi-player. You can start playing with 4 people at 11pm...blink...and it's 4am. You're other reply said something about stategy and that's also a real big part, when playing teams (even FFA) strategy comes into play so much more than most other FPSs out there.
Maybe it's just me then, but all the gov. contractors that had positions were all requiring 5+ yrs exp. and/or security clearance already. Sorta makes it hard coming right out of college.
From his post: "I can walk into Best Buy, buy a cheap 17" monitor for $250 - $300 after rebate, and put a TV tuner box from Viewsonic on it for $150, that's $400 for a 17" TV. If I walk over to the TV sections, the CHEAPEST 15" TV is almost $500. The 17" LCD TV's are between $650 - $900... one is priced over $1000."
The one area referring to the price and he mentions LCDs once.
I understand the article is relating to LCDs. But because in your post there wasn't a mention of LCDs (just because that was the topic doesn't mean you were referring to them) I thought you were trying to make a generalization of general prices of the TV market...in reference to how outrageous the LCD screens were. I was only pointing out (if my presumption of market reference was correct) that your numbers were a bit off.
Salaries may be on the rise...but it doesn't do the new grad any good if he/she can't find a job.
I know of one person who moved from Texas (where he lived and graduated) to DC just because the odds were better that he'd get a job. Didn't work.
I hate to nitpick but your numbers are way off. I bought a 27" flat screen TV less than 2 months ago from Circuit City for $316 (No Rebates). I don't know what the LCD version would have been but I's not cheaper to buy a monitor and then a TV card.
I used to work for a company where (originally) my sole position was the $8/hr. Indexing specialist. It was my job to read all the Search Engine news and other junk that was going on so our website would be ranked higher than others.
The only thing I can say for trends is that Google is one of only three that still offers free submission into their indexing survice and that most of the other search-engines started struggling to keep people coming to their site when they started requiring people to pay to be listed with them.
This is another ploy to add a User-friendly item to an Index that just isn't as robust as the competition...namely Google. If all the SEs would stop requiring Joe Smallbusiness paying $150+ in order to submit their website than maybe their listings would have better information and people would start using them again. Maybe it's too late though because Google really is a sweet service.
All I know is the Mars series was fantastic...up until liek book 6 and then it started to turn. But I've often thought that it would be wicked cool to see John Carter on the big screen. Nudity be damned. I want to see the Green Martian men and watch Carter beat the shit out of people.
The first article states, Cyberintrusions traditionally have been the domain of socially inept males launching electronic attacks for fun and bragging rights...
Sorry maybe it's just me, but aren't nerds by definition socially inept. Let's be honest, it's the socially inept who keep the world running.
"slanted Bush speaches make it sound like half-truths and thin theories"...I never wrote that phrase...how can you quote me on something I never wrote. That's what I was trying to illustrate the Michael Moore did.
I was just relaying the fact that Moore himself referred to the film as an Op-Ed piece when questioned about it's status as a documentary.
I could have done without Moore's commentary over Bush's classroom visit when the WTC was attacked, but nonetheless, that "seven minute segment" is something everyone in the country NEEDS to see.
Maybe it's because I live in Washington, but the whole city shut down. People stayed glued to the TV for hours. Me...I heard the news and went back to sleep until I had to go to class. So Bush's "seven minutes" is no more odd to me than the people who watched the TV in silence for hours.
I haven't seen F911 and don't plan to because I've heard (from both conservatives and liberals) that 1: It was slanted (as expected) but 2: There were presentation problems (such as splicing 5-6 different Bush speaches to make it sound like he was saying something else at one given moment). I've got nothing against opinions and sharing those opinions, but giving half-truths and thin theories isn't a good way to present your arguments.
Technically, and even Michael Moore stated this when questioned, F9/11 is an Op-Ed piece. Moore admitted, when certain questions were presented to him, that many of the things in the film were his opinions and therefore it was not a documentary but an Op-Ed piece.
Vote Badnarik!!
I couldn't agree more.
I taught a MATH 051 course my last year of college. This class covered nothing harder than learning how to figure percentages and doing basic conversions (ft. -> cm. and such). And yet of the entire 18 students (it was a small school, but this was one of 4 different sections of this class) I think 2 finished with a grade higher than a B.
I asked them what they did when they went shopping and saw "20% Off"? Did they automatically assume they were getting a deal? And one girl told me that of course it was a deal because it was 20% off!!!
I further questioned if they had ever done this type of work before and they all said yes in High School but not one of them could "re-learn" the information they "learned" in High School.
With the emphasis of these students to go to college our school systems have completely neglected to give any of the students a basic knowledge of arithmetic and other required skills to survive.
What no one has touched on is that coding, hard in and of itself, and writing music on the fly, also very hard, and doing it live leaves no margin of error.
What if he makes a keystroke error? Wouldn't that have the possibility of destroying his whole set?
This is just too incredible for words.
You joke, but really...what are the personal ramifications of the government (whether state or local) providing this type of service?
Is it automatically assumed that by using this system we give the authorities the right to view the information passed through?
And if it isn't who's going to be monitoring them to make sure information isn't collected illegally?
The whole idea is scary to me.
They could. I haven't done the research, but I know that a lot that I've seen on friends boxes don't.
Forgive my ignorance. It's all I have.
Or make sure you have a camera that has a lens cover. I know it's harder to find them now-a-days, but I always thought it was a good idea to have it covered, especially after my roommate, freshman year, left his webcam on and we both got up in the morning to take showers and didn't realize we were online until it was too late.
...just let it all out.
It seemed to me that the majority of mistakes listed came from non-OS issues such as games produced by MS. And as unfortunate as it may be India, China, and Saudi Arabia are not the prime markets for these games. So I can almost understand why certain issues like these could be overlooked. Especially Churches being turned to Mosques! What do they think happened? Muslims served the Christians tea?
Someone will always be offended no matter what you do.
No one has posted yet? I was all for reading flamebait and trolls.
Maybe no one has anything useful to say.