The Dark is Rising is the first novel I read by Susan Cooper and changed me from a 8 year old with a hobby of plastic warfare and transformer obsession into a book addict. I cannot begun to get across the memories this book now invokes. I have read the greats, but this book for me is right up there. I seem to remember a teacher asked me if I wanted to choose something else, because back in the day we had to read aloud to her at school, but we could take it home and read the rest. Since I was reading so quickly at home, it became a bit difficult for her to follow the story.
Over Sea, Under Stone is the first in the `Dark is Rising` sequence, but personally I missed nothing by starting with the 2nd book, The Dark is Rising. I didn't follow the series as a child, since I had no way to get the rest of the books. I've tried to keep this short, but don't underestimate the ability of childrens or at least in this book a book aimed at teenagers. I have since read the 2nd book and I think it may even be a better start. I can still read this now and find nothing in it patronising. What I do notice is that the emphasis is on good and evil, morality and a lack of violence and sex in vast comparison to many other books which might be volunteered as suitable. A problem I find with books is you wanting people to share the experience, to the point the desire to push something unsuitable (but enjoyed) happens a lot (with people of different tastes never mind ages). Allowing him to choose from a selection might be good, also getting a library card and choosing his own. The library near my parents have known me since a child.
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"I don't know why other women are being chased out."
Well its nice to see a completely impartial view. Maybe you should read the article, then you would KNOW why. I'm awfully tempted to utter the immortal 4 letters. As a woman yourself, I would have thought you would have wanted the facts.
You know what, men do have to deal with patronising managers too, a little knowledge is sometime dangerous. If they learn something, they tend to get happy about it and teach you what they know. The time I have spent humouring managers like this. Jeez. Don't think just because you are a woman means that you are the only one who has difficulties in their work.
I just knew some article about women leaving IT would bring out some women how bad they have it. Some guys have it bad too, I just think it is crazy sometimes to assume that its because what you have or don't have in your pants.
I'm sure the company when dealing with you didn't mean anything by it, they just assumed it was a guy. You know what? More guys are in IT, its not like its a wildly stupid thing to say. Most women i've met are proud of the fact they are women in IT and would have smiled at the opportunity to point out they were the `techie guy`.
Everytime I read articles about fake goods and China, I try to find information about the importation of these goods. The articles always say that they are shipped to the states or exported to other countries. That they aren't checked.
Well, considering drugs take up far less space than 10,000 golf clubs or whatever, I find it difficult to believe that they just 'come into' the states or other developed countries. When a report says that only a small majority of containers are checked, what are is their basis for this? I'd believe it more if it was the customs department saying this, but its not, its a reporter who has it in his best interests to make it seem larger than it is. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I'm willing to bet less than 10-15% of Harry Potter DVD's are fake in the US/UK.
I've chinese friends and they tell me that pirated or counterfeit goods are extremely popular in Asia. However, while talking to them, they agreed that the same goods don't seem to make it across the water. Yes, some goods do, but as for DVD's and CD's i've never seen a pirated one for sale. I know people that download music and sometimes burn it to CD. Since its accessible for most people to burn their own or wanting a legitimate copy, I find the impression hard to believe.
I do think however that P2P downloads of songs encourage music listening and there is a subconscious desire to 'legitimise' oneself. I myself have downloaded music then I've purchased it later, theres even more than a couple of CD's i've not even opened, since I mainly listen to music on the pc.
find it funny that foreiners liked clinton and he didn't sign any of those treaties either. Actually, what most foreigners are ignorant of is that the president cannot sign it unless congress gives him the authority to (for each indevidual treaty).
Incorrect, he signed a number of treaties, they were just either not ratified, or rejected by GWB. He (Clinton) didn't have support of the senate which was and still is Republican controlled.
"The United States ratified the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child on February 16, 1995. However, in 2000 when the U.N. attempted to pass the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, the United States raised strong objections and still refuses to ratify it. President Clinton signed the Protocol in May 2000, but the Republican-dominated Senate did not ratify it, raising the objections that the treaty undermines the rights of parents and is unfair to the U.S., since the U.S. currently recruits and deploys 17 year-olds for service. The Bush Administration is taking no action on ratification."
"On Dec. 31, 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Rome agreement creating an International Criminal Court. He waited until almost the last permissible moment to affix the United States to the agreement even though he did not, he said, agree with its contents."
"President George W. Bush, recognizing the consequences of treating the U.S. signature so frivolously, has instructed the State Department to make clear the United States has no intention of being bound by the signature by informing the United Nations of the decision."
"The current treaty at issue is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, first opened for signatures in 1996. This multilateral agreement bans all nuclear tests above and below the Earth's surface. The treaty also established a worldwide monitoring system to check air, water and soil for signals that someone set off a nuclear explosion. While President Clinton signed the treaty, in 1999, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify it."
"Although President Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol, mandating a reduction in carbon emissions to below 1990 levels by 2012, a 2001 State Department memo rejected the protocol on the basis that it would harm the US economy and exempt developing countries from reduction requirements. Of industrialized states, only the US, Australia and Israel haven't ratified the protocol. The US did ratify the UNFCCC, but has not complied"
earthstar writes "Fear among pc users has emerged as the "single most targeted industry" according to the latest opinions from IT users with news releases by security software provider Symantec now appearing to be motivated by economic gain rather than information. "We're seeing an increase in profit-motivated attacks," says Area man. Also in Information week"
"... never let up, you know that. There'll be rubbers in my desk, rubbers in the coffee. Rubbers, rubbers, rubbers. If only you'd kept your mouth shut, but no, you had to go tell everybody."
"Well give the guys a break. It's in one ear out the rubber."
Yeah, I was a bit annoyed, but hey thats me being over sensitive too.
I didn't relate too much to your annoyance until I realised some types of flash movies do really annoy me. I've not seen the "badger badger" one, though I have seen numerous "good, excellent, must watch this, this is so funny" animations which are little more than crap pasted into flash, tweened, with some moronic guy singing some stupid song. Usually as an attempt to be as surreal as possible and failing since it copies the format of 100 other similar animations out there. Wow, I went on for a bit there.
Yeah, so I can relate to what you're saying. Sorry too if I sounded unduly critical too, I suppose if it had been something I'd seen a lot before I'd probably be the same.
Well, i'm sorry if you're not amused by it. Maybe everyone has seen it and I apologise to everyone else too.
As for myself, well I honestly came across it only recently and since it was topical I thought i'd put it on here.
Mind you, if I had seen it ages ago, I highly doubt i'd point out what it was unnecessarily and boast about I can see one lightyears away, but then thats just me.
If you think about it more carefully. The architecture of the internet is likely to mirror the rise in home network speeds. If every user has a 10 Gigabit connection, then it is likely to be capped, at least until servers can handle the greater loads. A lot of what you wrote sounded like fear, uncertainty, doubt.
People said similar things about adoption of adsl use and its growing popularity. It didn't suddenly make the internet a series of dead servers.
A determined person can always cause havok on the internet. However it is not likely to crumble around your ears. Problems exist for connections today due to the holes in operating systems and the increase in speed as to which a service pack can be downloaded (in the case of Windows) and a virus getting onto the machine, I believe will always be there. Therein, lies the greater problem.If server speed increases at the same rate home connections do, then the risks will be less.
People may not need a faster internet connection, not for the size of data transfer, but for speed. Also may give people the option to host their own servers, which would interesting for most people not just nerds. Video on demand could become a feasible reality, possibly even generating a new generation of amateur 'tv shows'.
Like the internet has opened up computing for people who are particularly interested in pc's this could herald a new type of user or social networking and a new age of the internet where more people are involved in its infrastructure. Therein may lie the risk and the benefits.
Personally I think there are risks inherent, spam being the greatest problem if greater upstream is available. Not that I am implying damage, I am talking about wasted time deleting or reading through increasingly sophisticated spam messages. Even if servers do increase in bandwidth enough to combat DDOS attacks (which I think you are aiming at), the increase of spam messages, is not always something that can be easily ignored, since sometimes messages do get through. With bandwidth, DDOS can be ignored, spam cannot always be ignored. However, despite this I think this is a good advance and can only benefit. Limiting these services to the chosen few (students I believe are popular candidates for creating 'bot armies'), is not likely to improve matters for the determined few.
Basically her idea relies on the premise of certain things which I don't agree are facts. She bases a lot of her facts, with no figures to support them.
"Going forward, the global sourcing of software and IT services will further reduce the price of these products, yielding a further increase in jobs demanding IT knowledge and skills."
Little evidence is given for the reduction of the price of IT products and the reducing of price due to outsourcing. It can be argued that IT products are reducing due to cheaper production methods and competition. Most IT hardware is manufactured in the East and has for a long time, so with hardware in particular, this really doesn't fit with the outsourcing theory.
The increase in services and software does not mean a tenfold increase in purchases. It would interesting to see if the purchases were made by companies or by the public. Additionally, since service jobs, such as tech support are outsourced, it is likely this will only generate revenue for the company overseas. Whereas 50 thousand more copies of a major software package could be purchased without the guarantee of an additional job being created. I believe the increase in computer use, the increase in population and the increased use of the internet and other technologies are down to these increases.
The statistics showing an increase in jobs, could be down to many factors. However, due to her mentioning that 64% of IT jobs were not in the IT sector, it also means that many of these jobs are transparent and it is harder to determine how many jobs IT jobs are lost, yet the figures can be conveniently skewed when IT jobs are created or skewed by IT sector losses.
The statistics showing an increased number of programming jobs based on outsourcing is speculation. Since many programming jobs are now outsourced regardless.
I think any attributing of an increase in jobs due to outsourcing is speculation at best and at worst a potentially harmful attempt at creating governmental policy to support her wild theories. Once jobs are outsourced, they don't come back and suggesting it should be government policy shows a detemined lack of consideration.
The other guys explanation is better than yours and more accurate. He essentially paraphrased your feeling about it, that you are re-explaining.
Proving innocence is nigh on impossible. An absence of proof that they are guilty, is not proof they are innocent. Differentiating between the two is important.
Your 'innocent must undergo tests to make sure they are still innocent' is redundant, but I do appreciate the point you are trying to make.
You're illustrating that essays and suchlike are far easier to obtain now and that unchecked papers are potentially 'guilty'. Which I agree with totally, though I prefer to regard them as checked and only guilty when evidence is obtained. Of course, there are always the ones that may be obvious, but never caught.
It is not as simple to say Indians invented the 0. The arrival of Zero as a number, was arrived at in Western culture from an Indian named Brahmagupta, he was influenced by both Greek and Babylonian astronomers, to say it was arrived at independently would be misleading.
Indian mathematicians take the credit, however they were largely influenced by Ptolemy a Greek astromoner and Babylonians who both show a earlier use of the zero, although these were, like the later Indian examples, place-holders and not the zero as we use it today. Indian mathematicians also would not consider zero as a number until many centuries later. The earliest definition and use of the zero was Brahmagupta, yet problems arose with his and Mahavira's definition even then and was further explained and expanded upon 500 years later unsuccessfully by Bhaskara. Its important to understand, that even then the usage of zero was not fully understood as it is today (by most).
The MesoamericanMayans used the Zero in mathematics and did some amazing things, creating a calender superior to the Gregorian Calendar. Though unfortunately the Mayans written materials were burned by the Spanish and the vast majority of materials remaining are stone inscriptions. However it is clear, they created this independently, without influence of the Greeks and Babylonians, which is impressive. However they did not influence the Western world, unlike Brahmagupta, so are less noted in history.
I'm sure hypochondria is not an uncommon complaint among geeks and is probably more prevalent amongst introverted people. I am not saying the article author is not genuine. Nor am I saying anyones ailments posted on here are not genuine.
Although doctors are not infallable I am more likely to believe a qualified physician or practicianer than I am someone who says they have a particularly unbelieveable allergy or illness.
Remembering schooldays, the very same people who were fascinated with computers, were reluctant to play sports. A few of these, not all would have notes in order to avoid this, some of which were admittedly coerced from willing parents.
It makes me wonder if this wasn't an introduction into this, but then I am no psych major.
I am sure this post will probably be moderated down, but I feel its something that should be said anyway.
Not quite. It's very likely a good jump or powerful stride would send you flying off into space, as a moon of that size would likely have a very low gravity.
Good job I wasn't drinking when I read that... made me laugh, thank you.
For example, Freeda Foreman has a better winning record than Mike Tyson. Does that make her a better boxer? Imagine what would happen if they fought...
The only conflict of interests was if the employee saw privileged information, such as salary information. However, since this is a government position, this kind of thing is less likely.
I'd just like to point out the other position was a Civil Engineering Administrators position and requires a number of years of Civil Engineering experience. So he really couldn't be given that position.
This is not to try and pick fault at what you are saying I agree with it (just not that little part). Plus by drawing attention to it, I'm hoping to quell peoples ideas that "employee just wanted boss's job" type threads.
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The Dark is Rising is the first novel I read by Susan Cooper and changed me from a 8 year old with a hobby of plastic warfare and transformer obsession into a book addict. I cannot begun to get across the memories this book now invokes. I have read the greats, but this book for me is right up there. I seem to remember a teacher asked me if I wanted to choose something else, because back in the day we had to read aloud to her at school, but we could take it home and read the rest. Since I was reading so quickly at home, it became a bit difficult for her to follow the story.
Over Sea, Under Stone is the first in the `Dark is Rising` sequence, but personally I missed nothing by starting with the 2nd book, The Dark is Rising. I didn't follow the series as a child, since I had no way to get the rest of the books. I've tried to keep this short, but don't underestimate the ability of childrens or at least in this book a book aimed at teenagers. I have since read the 2nd book and I think it may even be a better start. I can still read this now and find nothing in it patronising. What I do notice is that the emphasis is on good and evil, morality and a lack of violence and sex in vast comparison to many other books which might be volunteered as suitable. A problem I find with books is you wanting people to share the experience, to the point the desire to push something unsuitable (but enjoyed) happens a lot (with people of different tastes never mind ages). Allowing him to choose from a selection might be good, also getting a library card and choosing his own. The library near my parents have known me since a child.
looking at porn.
So are they depressed because they're file-sharing and chatting or because they've missed out on pornhub.
As long as they don't mean Dog the bounty hunter, it seems like a good idea to me.
if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
"I don't know why other women are being chased out."
Well its nice to see a completely impartial view. Maybe you should read the article, then you would KNOW why. I'm awfully tempted to utter the immortal 4 letters. As a woman yourself, I would have thought you would have wanted the facts.
You know what, men do have to deal with patronising managers too, a little knowledge is sometime dangerous. If they learn something, they tend to get happy about it and teach you what they know. The time I have spent humouring managers like this. Jeez. Don't think just because you are a woman means that you are the only one who has difficulties in their work.
I just knew some article about women leaving IT would bring out some women how bad they have it. Some guys have it bad too, I just think it is crazy sometimes to assume that its because what you have or don't have in your pants.
I'm sure the company when dealing with you didn't mean anything by it, they just assumed it was a guy. You know what? More guys are in IT, its not like its a wildly stupid thing to say. Most women i've met are proud of the fact they are women in IT and would have smiled at the opportunity to point out they were the `techie guy`.
Everytime I read articles about fake goods and China, I try to find information about the importation of these goods. The articles always say that they are shipped to the states or exported to other countries. That they aren't checked.
Well, considering drugs take up far less space than 10,000 golf clubs or whatever, I find it difficult to believe that they just 'come into' the states or other developed countries. When a report says that only a small majority of containers are checked, what are is their basis for this? I'd believe it more if it was the customs department saying this, but its not, its a reporter who has it in his best interests to make it seem larger than it is. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I'm willing to bet less than 10-15% of Harry Potter DVD's are fake in the US/UK.
I've chinese friends and they tell me that pirated or counterfeit goods are extremely popular in Asia. However, while talking to them, they agreed that the same goods don't seem to make it across the water. Yes, some goods do, but as for DVD's and CD's i've never seen a pirated one for sale. I know people that download music and sometimes burn it to CD. Since its accessible for most people to burn their own or wanting a legitimate copy, I find the impression hard to believe.
I do think however that P2P downloads of songs encourage music listening and there is a subconscious desire to 'legitimise' oneself. I myself have downloaded music then I've purchased it later, theres even more than a couple of CD's i've not even opened, since I mainly listen to music on the pc.
find it funny that foreiners liked clinton and he didn't sign any of those treaties either. Actually, what most foreigners are ignorant of is that the president cannot sign it unless congress gives him the authority to (for each indevidual treaty).
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Incorrect, he signed a number of treaties, they were just either not ratified, or rejected by GWB. He (Clinton) didn't have support of the senate which was and still is Republican controlled.
"The United States ratified the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child on February 16, 1995. However, in 2000 when the U.N. attempted to pass the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, the United States raised strong objections and still refuses to ratify it. President Clinton signed the Protocol in May 2000, but the Republican-dominated Senate did not ratify it, raising the objections that the treaty undermines the rights of parents and is unfair to the U.S., since the U.S. currently recruits and deploys 17 year-olds for service. The Bush Administration is taking no action on ratification."
http://www.clw.org/control/bushunilateral.html
"On Dec. 31, 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Rome agreement creating an International Criminal Court. He waited until almost the last permissible moment to affix the United States to the agreement even though he did not, he said, agree with its contents."
"President George W. Bush, recognizing the consequences of treating the U.S. signature so frivolously, has instructed the State Department to make clear the United States has no intention of being bound by the signature by informing the United Nations of the decision."
http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=3312
"The current treaty at issue is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, first opened for signatures in 1996. This multilateral agreement bans all nuclear tests above and below the Earth's surface. The treaty also established a worldwide monitoring system to check air, water and soil for signals that someone set off a nuclear explosion. While President Clinton signed the treaty, in 1999, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify it."
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/nucleartreaties.h
"Although President Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol, mandating a reduction in carbon emissions to below 1990 levels by 2012, a 2001 State Department memo rejected the protocol on the basis that it would harm the US economy and exempt developing countries from reduction requirements. Of industrialized states, only the US, Australia and Israel haven't ratified the protocol. The US did ratify the UNFCCC, but has not complied"
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/un/2003/treaty
Likely there is more (thats enough for today, but I see a recurring theme). It seems pretty much like his hands were tied.
earthstar writes "Fear among pc users has emerged as the "single most targeted industry" according to the latest opinions from IT users with news releases by security software provider Symantec now appearing to be motivated by economic gain rather than information. "We're seeing an increase in profit-motivated attacks," says Area man. Also in Information week"
"... never let up, you know that. There'll be rubbers in my desk, rubbers in the coffee. Rubbers, rubbers, rubbers. If only you'd kept your mouth shut, but no, you had to go tell everybody."
"Well give the guys a break. It's in one ear out the rubber."
I thought they looked alike.
Yeah, I was a bit annoyed, but hey thats me being over sensitive too.
I didn't relate too much to your annoyance until I realised some types of flash movies do really annoy me. I've not seen the "badger badger" one, though I have seen numerous "good, excellent, must watch this, this is so funny" animations which are little more than crap pasted into flash, tweened, with some moronic guy singing some stupid song. Usually as an attempt to be as surreal as possible and failing since it copies the format of 100 other similar animations out there. Wow, I went on for a bit there.
Yeah, so I can relate to what you're saying. Sorry too if I sounded unduly critical too, I suppose if it had been something I'd seen a lot before I'd probably be the same.
Well, i'm sorry if you're not amused by it. Maybe everyone has seen it and I apologise to everyone else too.
As for myself, well I honestly came across it only recently and since it was topical I thought i'd put it on here.
Mind you, if I had seen it ages ago, I highly doubt i'd point out what it was unnecessarily and boast about I can see one lightyears away, but then thats just me.
If you think about it more carefully. The architecture of the internet is likely to mirror the rise in home network speeds. If every user has a 10 Gigabit connection, then it is likely to be capped, at least until servers can handle the greater loads. A lot of what you wrote sounded like fear, uncertainty, doubt.
People said similar things about adoption of adsl use and its growing popularity. It didn't suddenly make the internet a series of dead servers.
A determined person can always cause havok on the internet. However it is not likely to crumble around your ears. Problems exist for connections today due to the holes in operating systems and the increase in speed as to which a service pack can be downloaded (in the case of Windows) and a virus getting onto the machine, I believe will always be there. Therein, lies the greater problem.If server speed increases at the same rate home connections do, then the risks will be less.
People may not need a faster internet connection, not for the size of data transfer, but for speed. Also may give people the option to host their own servers, which would interesting for most people not just nerds. Video on demand could become a feasible reality, possibly even generating a new generation of amateur 'tv shows'.
Like the internet has opened up computing for people who are particularly interested in pc's this could herald a new type of user or social networking and a new age of the internet where more people are involved in its infrastructure. Therein may lie the risk and the benefits.
Personally I think there are risks inherent, spam being the greatest problem if greater upstream is available. Not that I am implying damage, I am talking about wasted time deleting or reading through increasingly sophisticated spam messages. Even if servers do increase in bandwidth enough to combat DDOS attacks (which I think you are aiming at), the increase of spam messages, is not always something that can be easily ignored, since sometimes messages do get through. With bandwidth, DDOS can be ignored, spam cannot always be ignored. However, despite this I think this is a good advance and can only benefit. Limiting these services to the chosen few (students I believe are popular candidates for creating 'bot armies'), is not likely to improve matters for the determined few.
Heres an example of the ghastly material...
See if you can find him!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/waldo.shtml
If a space elevator is built, what music will it play?
I suggest some calming Thievery Corporation or maybe Air might be more appropriate.
Basically her idea relies on the premise of certain things which I don't agree are facts. She bases a lot of her facts, with no figures to support them.
"Going forward, the global sourcing of software and IT services will further reduce the price of these products, yielding a further increase in jobs demanding IT knowledge and skills."
Little evidence is given for the reduction of the price of IT products and the reducing of price due to outsourcing. It can be argued that IT products are reducing due to cheaper production methods and competition. Most IT hardware is manufactured in the East and has for a long time, so with hardware in particular, this really doesn't fit with the outsourcing theory.
The increase in services and software does not mean a tenfold increase in purchases. It would interesting to see if the purchases were made by companies or by the public. Additionally, since service jobs, such as tech support are outsourced, it is likely this will only generate revenue for the company overseas. Whereas 50 thousand more copies of a major software package could be purchased without the guarantee of an additional job being created. I believe the increase in computer use, the increase in population and the increased use of the internet and other technologies are down to these increases.
The statistics showing an increase in jobs, could be down to many factors. However, due to her mentioning that 64% of IT jobs were not in the IT sector, it also means that many of these jobs are transparent and it is harder to determine how many jobs IT jobs are lost, yet the figures can be conveniently skewed when IT jobs are created or skewed by IT sector losses.
The statistics showing an increased number of programming jobs based on outsourcing is speculation. Since many programming jobs are now outsourced regardless.
I think any attributing of an increase in jobs due to outsourcing is speculation at best and at worst a potentially harmful attempt at creating governmental policy to support her wild theories. Once jobs are outsourced, they don't come back and suggesting it should be government policy shows a detemined lack of consideration.
The other guys explanation is better than yours and more accurate. He essentially paraphrased your feeling about it, that you are re-explaining.
Proving innocence is nigh on impossible. An absence of proof that they are guilty, is not proof they are innocent. Differentiating between the two is important.
Your 'innocent must undergo tests to make sure they are still innocent' is redundant, but I do appreciate the point you are trying to make.
You're illustrating that essays and suchlike are far easier to obtain now and that unchecked papers are potentially 'guilty'. Which I agree with totally, though I prefer to regard them as checked and only guilty when evidence is obtained. Of course, there are always the ones that may be obvious, but never caught.
It is not as simple to say Indians invented the 0. The arrival of Zero as a number, was arrived at in Western culture from an Indian named Brahmagupta, he was influenced by both Greek and Babylonian astronomers, to say it was arrived at independently would be misleading.
Indian mathematicians take the credit, however they were largely influenced by Ptolemy a Greek astromoner and Babylonians who both show a earlier use of the zero, although these were, like the later Indian examples, place-holders and not the zero as we use it today. Indian mathematicians also would not consider zero as a number until many centuries later. The earliest definition and use of the zero was Brahmagupta, yet problems arose with his and Mahavira's definition even then and was further explained and expanded upon 500 years later unsuccessfully by Bhaskara. Its important to understand, that even then the usage of zero was not fully understood as it is today (by most).
The MesoamericanMayans used the Zero in mathematics and did some amazing things, creating a calender superior to the Gregorian Calendar. Though unfortunately the Mayans written materials were burned by the Spanish and the vast majority of materials remaining are stone inscriptions. However it is clear, they created this independently, without influence of the Greeks and Babylonians, which is impressive. However they did not influence the Western world, unlike Brahmagupta, so are less noted in history.
I'm sure hypochondria is not an uncommon complaint among geeks and is probably more prevalent amongst introverted people. I am not saying the article author is not genuine. Nor am I saying anyones ailments posted on here are not genuine.
Although doctors are not infallable I am more likely to believe a qualified physician or practicianer than I am someone who says they have a particularly unbelieveable allergy or illness.
Remembering schooldays, the very same people who were fascinated with computers, were reluctant to play sports. A few of these, not all would have notes in order to avoid this, some of which were admittedly coerced from willing parents.
It makes me wonder if this wasn't an introduction into this, but then I am no psych major.
I am sure this post will probably be moderated down, but I feel its something that should be said anyway.
Not quite. It's very likely a good jump or powerful stride would send you flying off into space, as a moon of that size would likely have a very low gravity.
Good job I wasn't drinking when I read that... made me laugh, thank you.
Thats no moon...
sorry, sorry... I'll get my quote, I mean coat.
For example, Freeda Foreman has a better winning record than Mike Tyson. Does that make her a better boxer? Imagine what would happen if they fought...
He might bite off more than her ear.
I agree with all the points that you've made. Certainly the firing and subsequent 'slap on the wrist' draws attention to the Right of Way Bureau as to why, such practises as "above reproach", with a finish like "yours very truly", it makes me wonder if there should have been kisses at the bottom too. Additionally the letter seemed to suggest some subordinates needed disciplinary measures, quite forward about it too.
The only conflict of interests was if the employee saw privileged information, such as salary information. However, since this is a government position, this kind of thing is less likely.
I'd just like to point out the other position was a Civil Engineering Administrators position and requires a number of years of Civil Engineering experience. So he really couldn't be given that position.
This is not to try and pick fault at what you are saying I agree with it (just not that little part). Plus by drawing attention to it, I'm hoping to quell peoples ideas that "employee just wanted boss's job" type threads.
A) Connect Pocket PC
B) Connect Other Device
C) Figure Out How to Connect IPOD
D) Write Slashdot Article