Well, that was their second cable-broadcast episode ever. Some of the KTMA episodes were even worse like #5 where Trace and Josh didn't make it in and Joel was (sparsely) riffing by himself. However, you can't hold that against them when they made 10 years of mostly great (sometimes insanely great) shows afterwards.
I'm inclined to think so called 'classic education' that was a standard about century ago, was much better and flexible in a long run than nowdays more practical and profession orientated education.
I agree 100%. Just reading typical correspondence from the 19th century should show you how much dumbed down we are. I'd take someone with an 8th grade education from 1890 over a college graduate from 2006 any day of the week. American universities have become training schools. Real education takes a back seat to memorizing certain facts to get a job in X, meaning you churn out graduates that are helpless in any field they have not been exposed to.
I was shocked at how little was demanded of my actual ability to think in order to get a CS degree in the 80's. I think I had to write about 4 papers the whole time I was in college... and that was in the 80's. No wonder most computer nerds write like dyslexic 4th-graders.
I don't consider myself particularly well-read outside of things like math, science or Terry Pratchett, but it often amazes me how much stuff some people around me just don't know about history, politics or other important aspects of our culture that aren't deemed "marketable" or "salary-increasing".
On a mailing list I'm on a few years ago, I was talking with a hotshot California lawyer (who's argued before the CA Supreme Court among other things), who made the stunning assertion that "the only instances of genocide in the 20th century were committed by Christians". Given that ludicrous statement and his horrible spelling and grammar I thought he was some stupid high schooler, until people explained otherwise.
Actually, he's a pretty decent guy for the most part, but I can't understand how someone with such horrible communication skills and logic skills could be so successful in a career for which I would have thought that good communication would be critical. I guess I was wrong.
As my Dad keeps telling me, the fine art of making change without a computer telling what the change is disappeared a long time ago.
And the ironic thing is that it doesn't require subtraction.
"Counting change" is incredibly obvious and simple, but most people don't seem to know how to do it. Some times it seems we are raising a generation of imbeciles.
Terry Pratchet's work performs best in the book medium.
Well, I have to admit, I don't think things like the puns that work in both Latin and English would translate to the screen, but to me, his books always felt like a movie. The pacing, the scope and scale, the constant cross-cuts between different subplots, it always feels like your in the middle of a really great movie. Of course, I don't think more than a handful of movies have _ever_ been made that would be as good as an average Pratchett book. Plus, I'd be afraid they'd give the characters American accents, which would be 4 strikes out of 3 from the get-go.
it does not... require that the "agents" actually be government agents--it's just as easy for it to be some group with nefarious intentions and some black suits.
Well, if you take the Many Worlds approach, paradoxes aren't a problem. Otherwise, there's the whole kill your own grandfather thing. Or the Futurama version of that: become your own grandfather.
To me, reality would make it work, somehow, but the result might be something inelegant (which to me is the Many Worlds approach... makes a lot of sense but doesn't satisfy Occam's Razor).
Of course, I don't think it will be an issue in our lifetimes.
Did you at least have to demonstrate a working model of your invention at one time?
Rubber stamping everything then relying on the courts is far more of a waste of resources, IMO. We're talking real businesses spending real money and losing real producivity because so many people are gaming the system to make a quick buck.
The "laugh test" I'm speaking about should also apply when the "invention" is laughably obvious, as so many of them are.
t, yes it is PERFECTLY reasonable to be able to travel BACK in time,
I'm not sure if you're saying it's reasonable because physics allows it or because you suggesting that paradoxes aren't a problem. Based on my understanding, it is possible, but not reasonable, to use an Einstein-Rosen "bridge" to travel through space and/or time, but doing so would require an astronomical amount of energy and a form of matter that, as far as I know, hasn't been proved to exist.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if someone's already got a patent for it.
'As long as an invention is not clearly contrary to scientific laws - like time travel - research has no bearing on the grant of a patent.'"
So I guess they're saying there's no need to prove you've invented anything... it just has to pass the laugh test.
Of course, time travel is perfectly possible... and with relativistic travel, arbitrary time travel into the future is not only possible, but a proven fact.
You might as well ask them to rewrite Windows from the ground up. There's no de-coupling in any of the components of Windows and there never will be. You might as well as "Why don't you just fix all the problems in Windows?" Vista will certainly have some improvements, but the fact remains that it will still be burdened with 20 years of compromises for performance, bad design decisions, laziness and incompetence.
Yes, I definitely turn it down (or hold the nozzle far away) for keyboard work. When it comes time to blow 8 pounds of dust out of the power supply, then I let 'er rip!
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Well, that was their second cable-broadcast episode ever. Some of the KTMA episodes were even worse like #5 where Trace and Josh didn't make it in and Joel was (sparsely) riffing by himself. However, you can't hold that against them when they made 10 years of mostly great (sometimes insanely great) shows afterwards.
Or maybe I'm missing your point?
Besides age, what difference is there between high school students and most mass-media commentators?
OK, besides age and our expectations...?
I wonder if it's backronym out of spite
You mean they have something against Root Mean Square?
No, actually I was going to ponder whether WinFX will be used for anything more than making ugly new themes for the UI.
You're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of WinFX suit of technologies which were built from the ground up for Vista.
No, but you're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of jokes.
half of its functionality has been yanked out so they could release it only a few months late
At the rate they're going, all Vista is going to be is 8 more butt-ugly skins for WMP, IE7, and a shinier theme for the UI.
machine reseting to 'ready' only when the pressure was relieved.
So you'd have to pee to make your vote count?!
No, your grammer is wrong.
It's "I probably could of graduated there."
I'm inclined to think so called 'classic education' that was a standard about century ago, was much better and flexible in a long run than nowdays more practical and profession orientated education.
I agree 100%. Just reading typical correspondence from the 19th century should show you how much dumbed down we are. I'd take someone with an 8th grade education from 1890 over a college graduate from 2006 any day of the week. American universities have become training schools. Real education takes a back seat to memorizing certain facts to get a job in X, meaning you churn out graduates that are helpless in any field they have not been exposed to.
I was shocked at how little was demanded of my actual ability to think in order to get a CS degree in the 80's. I think I had to write about 4 papers the whole time I was in college... and that was in the 80's. No wonder most computer nerds write like dyslexic 4th-graders.
I don't consider myself particularly well-read outside of things like math, science or Terry Pratchett, but it often amazes me how much stuff some people around me just don't know about history, politics or other important aspects of our culture that aren't deemed "marketable" or "salary-increasing".
On a mailing list I'm on a few years ago, I was talking with a hotshot California lawyer (who's argued before the CA Supreme Court among other things), who made the stunning assertion that "the only instances of genocide in the 20th century were committed by Christians". Given that ludicrous statement and his horrible spelling and grammar I thought he was some stupid high schooler, until people explained otherwise.
Actually, he's a pretty decent guy for the most part, but I can't understand how someone with such horrible communication skills and logic skills could be so successful in a career for which I would have thought that good communication would be critical. I guess I was wrong.
As my Dad keeps telling me, the fine art of making change without a computer telling what the change is disappeared a long time ago.
And the ironic thing is that it doesn't require subtraction.
"Counting change" is incredibly obvious and simple, but most people don't seem to know how to do it. Some times it seems we are raising a generation of imbeciles.
"Baby on board" sticker prominently displayed (wtf are they *for*, anyway?)
I don't know about most people, but I intentionally ram cars that don't have babies in them.
Terry Pratchet's work performs best in the book medium.
Well, I have to admit, I don't think things like the puns that work in both Latin and English would translate to the screen, but to me, his books always felt like a movie. The pacing, the scope and scale, the constant cross-cuts between different subplots, it always feels like your in the middle of a really great movie. Of course, I don't think more than a handful of movies have _ever_ been made that would be as good as an average Pratchett book. Plus, I'd be afraid they'd give the characters American accents, which would be 4 strikes out of 3 from the get-go.
it does not ... require that the "agents" actually be government agents--it's just as easy for it to be some group with nefarious intentions and some black suits.
What's the difference?
Wow! If there's Nethack for the DS then I gotta get me one! ;-)
That's the problem I had with Trek when they started getting out of situations with some magical engineering hack all the time.
That's because the most important technology invented in the Star Trek universe was the Deus Ex Machina.
Is there a site I can go to and donate to a campaign AGAINST brining back Trek?
Maybe you should start a fund to get George Lucas to do more Star Wars movies...
Well, if you take the Many Worlds approach, paradoxes aren't a problem. Otherwise, there's the whole kill your own grandfather thing. Or the Futurama version of that: become your own grandfather.
To me, reality would make it work, somehow, but the result might be something inelegant (which to me is the Many Worlds approach... makes a lot of sense but doesn't satisfy Occam's Razor).
Of course, I don't think it will be an issue in our lifetimes.
Did you at least have to demonstrate a working model of your invention at one time?
Rubber stamping everything then relying on the courts is far more of a waste of resources, IMO. We're talking real businesses spending real money and losing real producivity because so many people are gaming the system to make a quick buck.
The "laugh test" I'm speaking about should also apply when the "invention" is laughably obvious, as so many of them are.
t, yes it is PERFECTLY reasonable to be able to travel BACK in time,
I'm not sure if you're saying it's reasonable because physics allows it or because you suggesting that paradoxes aren't a problem. Based on my understanding, it is possible, but not reasonable, to use an Einstein-Rosen "bridge" to travel through space and/or time, but doing so would require an astronomical amount of energy and a form of matter that, as far as I know, hasn't been proved to exist.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if someone's already got a patent for it.
'As long as an invention is not clearly contrary to scientific laws - like time travel - research has no bearing on the grant of a patent.'"
So I guess they're saying there's no need to prove you've invented anything... it just has to pass the laugh test.
Of course, time travel is perfectly possible... and with relativistic travel, arbitrary time travel into the future is not only possible, but a proven fact.
You might as well ask them to rewrite Windows from the ground up. There's no de-coupling in any of the components of Windows and there never will be. You might as well as "Why don't you just fix all the problems in Windows?" Vista will certainly have some improvements, but the fact remains that it will still be burdened with 20 years of compromises for performance, bad design decisions, laziness and incompetence.
I thought "Swedish rounding" was what you had to do to be a member of the Bikini Team.
See the problem?
Do you mean the fact that they couldn't call it $12.95 instead and get the same effect?
"XXX is dirtier than a toilet seat!"
I would hope so, I don't find toilet seats the least bit offensive. They don't even rate one X.
Yes, I definitely turn it down (or hold the nozzle far away) for keyboard work. When it comes time to blow 8 pounds of dust out of the power supply, then I let 'er rip!