Without considering the political complications, there are certainly complications for the mission in every solution that's been proposed.
Scheduled sex like exercise.
Select crew members that are open to sex with each other.
Select married couples.
Require celibacy.
Select all male crew or all female crew.
Surgically incapacitate the crew.
Ignore the sex issue.
Frankly, some form of celibacy seems most likely to proceed according to plan. We have medical experience with people going for years without sex; the effects are manageable.
Suppose you have work at your career for years to become one of the best in your field. Suppose an opportunity arises to work on a three-year project that will not only be the pinnacle of your career, not only make you famous, but will also be of real historical significance.
All you have to do to be selected is to agree to have sex with whomever else your employer selects, whether you like them or not.
The story points to them being a "straight A student". . . . Just what was the point of that?
Putting aside whatever the article intended, one thing we can say about a straight-A student is that he/she has a longer than average attention span. No, hear me out. That's not trivial. We know that many highly intelligent people do poorly in school. Reasons include being bored with the work, inability to concentrate, not valuing good grades, and many others. Intelligence isn't the characteristic that correlates best with grades.
When we see a straight-A student, we can conclude not only that he is reasonably smart, but also that he is capable of setting a long-term goal on paying attention to it long enough to complete it. Steady. Reliable. In other words, unlikely to act out. But, capable of well-planned, elaborate action if he does act out.
The story points to them being a "straight A student". . . . Just what was the point of that?
Of course, what the story means to imply is that the stereotypical profile for a disruptive, violent student includes bad grades. Let's ask the question with an open mind. Does anyone have a citation to some real data as to whether grades correlate to criminal behavior?
On the one hand: Getting a refund compared to having to pay is bad. . . . This money was denied to you throughout the year.
On the other hand: In the years when I get a refund, it never causes a crisis in my April (and May and June) cash flow. When I owe, however . . . Let's just say that the few bucks of interest I might have made is not worth the risk of a cash flow crisis. Set me up for that modest refund every time!
The so-called dark ages, if dark they were, lasted ~900 years and are characterized as a retreat from the scholarship and achievements of, inter alia, ancient Greece. While generations are short in computing, our analogy should be seeking a period of at least years when we forgot or ignored what those before us knew. Perhaps:
The disconnected era (between initial multi-user computing and the ubiquitous networks of today).
The pre-web era (though the advent of the web is more of a naissance without the 're').
The age of Windows (which hasn't ended yet).
Myself, I think that the history of computing is better characterized as a continuous rise, with brief accelerations, brief pauses, but no significant retreats.
This article isn't nearly as unbalanced as the early comments make it out to be.
Fasterfox, TrackMeNot - Effective as these are for the user, they're spamming the system. It's like the guys who won't use a group board because "it's easier" just to use emails copied to all users. Plus, TrackMeNot is just security through obscurity.
Adblock/Adblock Plus - TFA takes the position that Nuke Anything is enough and Adblock is overkill that harms even sites you like that use minimally-annoying ads. That's not nuts (though, for my part, I'll continue with Adblock).
NoScript - Another extension that I use myself, but that I'd never install for a liberal arts major, let alone my grandmother.
ScribeFire - Mostly useless. Also, mostly harmless. Seems to be here to avoid a 'top 9 list'.
PDF Download - OK. I admit it. TFA is wrong about this one.
VideoDownloader- YMMV
Greasemonkey - TFA is right on. If you know what you're doing, fine. Otherwise, you don't want it.
Tabbrowser Preferences - Though a restore-default-settings option would be nice, that's not sufficient to put it on the 'avoid' list.
Tabbbrowser Extensions - YMMV
Overall, the article is quite clear about which extensions it recommends for which levels of users and why. A lot of people here would give much of the same advice to their less tech-savvy friends.
However, 1080p can be very useful for much larger screen sizes, . ..
The article stops at this point and doesn't address if/why bigger screen sizes are better. Do I want a 100-inch TV at 8 ft? Even if we suppose:
that one of the goals of video technology is an immersive experience, filling all 100 degrees of my primary vision, and
that all released content will soon be available at 1080p, still . ..
Who wants to be immersed to 100 degrees in a picture that the director framed to occupy only 30 degrees? Except for films shot for iMax, what's filmed is not intended to represent the arc of what our vision would show us if we were there.
Perhaps we have plenty of TV already for the films that are being shot, regardless of how high a resolution they're delivered at.
There is no action for plagiarism. Either this is a copyright infringement issue, or it's nothing.
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If pay-for-position gets in the way of most-relevant-results, then it ain't google. Google's appeal on the user side has always been best results on clean pages. If they lose that, the service will tank.
Then, it is just the same as the real google local. I have seldom looked for something locally that I didn't get a lot of garbage in the top hits.
Page rank does a great job when it has web link information to rate the hits. For local businesses, that link information is pretty much nonexistent. I think this phone offering is premature -- they need to improve the quality of google local search results first.
If the CD and the album are dying, it's the technology platform that killed them: individual songs delivered as electronic files. RIAA deserves relatively little credit for those kills -- like rain drops in the ocean.
If nothing else, bad tenant stories are more fun to listen to than bad landlord stories. For one thing, the landlord story-teller tends to have more stories to choose from. For another, all the listeners can look down their mental noses are the bad tenant and think, "At least I don't live like _those_ people!"
Listening to a bad landlord story always makes me relive the times I've been short-changed by landlords in the past -- and done nothing.
Many people just don't understand the power and limitations of statistics. They point to each individual anecdote that goes against the trend predicted by the model as proof that it doesn't work. That's an emotional reaction that is stronger in baseball than in weather.
If people understood statistics, they would understand that the trend predicted by the model (110 games) is never intended to forecast the result of a particular game. Further, they would understand that the model _expects_ outliers to appear.
People like to think that human events can't be reduced to numbers in the way that non-human events can. Being susceptible to prediction offends their sense of self determination.
How about this: the audience wants the weather to be predictable; in baseball, much of the audience (1) just wants their team to win or (2) wants there to be a reason to play the game. Perhaps the difference in people's opinions of the validity of climate and baseball modeling lies in what the people want to believe.
Well, there are at least two cases. In the first, the class is Political Philosophy 252, in which case the subject matter is the 'end' and the term paper is just the 'means'. But, let's consider the second case, in which the class is Composition 110, and the term paper process is the 'end'.
Even when learning composition, the subject matter of the paper assignment has to be robust enough to support an interesting paper. If the subject matter of the paper were truly irrelevant, why not assign the paper on the interview in this month's Cigar Aficionado? While it would be possible to find a term paper subject somewhere in there, it's hardly conducive to deep thought.
...a standing bet with all his students: if we ever have to write a term paper for our job in the real world (i.e., not academia), he'll donate $25 to the charity of our choice. He's been teaching since the 1970s and has never had to pay up.
Who does he teach that he has not paid out? Most journal articles (engineering, science, medicine, law) are strongly akin to term papers, as are many legal briefs (law). Putting the formatting issues aside (neither switching citation syntax, switching in-text cites to footnotes to endnotes, nor wrapping a memo header around content is more than a skin on a paper), what is it that divides term papers from other articles? Is it that term papers tend towards exhaustive surveys of the literature on a topic? Not all term papers do that and some journal articles (particularly in law and medicine) do.
To be sure, the business world writes a lot of memos (though it reads significantly fewer), but I suggest that the distinction between term papers and memos becomes less significant the more of both you write.
What better way to do this than make them write ten pages on some obscure argument from Aristotle or some random lines from Milton?
Does this strategy not forbid asking students to wrestle with the best questions? While all possible meaning may long since have been wrung from the familiar passages, is there not still value in new students struggling with these passages again for themselves? Perhaps the obscure passages are obscure for a reason: life is too short to spend on material of little consequence whose only recommendation is that it is found in a work that is important for other reasons.
The level of the student seems key here. While obscure passages might be well-suited for advanced study, first-time students (e.g., high school students) might be better served by concentrating on the best parts of the material. Can the approach you suggest be reconciled with these considerations?
As they say to incoming graduate students, "As an undergrad, you read the best books in our field. Now, you will read the rest of them."
Actually, there has never ever ever ever been any causal link between antibiotic prescriptions for personal, in-home use and the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Given the number of studies . ..
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- Scheduled sex like exercise.
- Select crew members that are open to sex with each other.
- Select married couples.
- Require celibacy.
- Select all male crew or all female crew.
- Surgically incapacitate the crew.
- Ignore the sex issue.
Frankly, some form of celibacy seems most likely to proceed according to plan. We have medical experience with people going for years without sex; the effects are manageable.Suppose you have work at your career for years to become one of the best in your field. Suppose an opportunity arises to work on a three-year project that will not only be the pinnacle of your career, not only make you famous, but will also be of real historical significance.
All you have to do to be selected is to agree to have sex with whomever else your employer selects, whether you like them or not.
The story points to them being a "straight A student". . . . Just what was the point of that?
Putting aside whatever the article intended, one thing we can say about a straight-A student is that he/she has a longer than average attention span. No, hear me out. That's not trivial. We know that many highly intelligent people do poorly in school. Reasons include being bored with the work, inability to concentrate, not valuing good grades, and many others. Intelligence isn't the characteristic that correlates best with grades.
When we see a straight-A student, we can conclude not only that he is reasonably smart, but also that he is capable of setting a long-term goal on paying attention to it long enough to complete it. Steady. Reliable. In other words, unlikely to act out. But, capable of well-planned, elaborate action if he does act out.
The story points to them being a "straight A student". . . . Just what was the point of that?
Of course, what the story means to imply is that the stereotypical profile for a disruptive, violent student includes bad grades. Let's ask the question with an open mind. Does anyone have a citation to some real data as to whether grades correlate to criminal behavior?
Grrr . . . no mod points!
Please, if you have them, mod parent up.
This stuff has been deployed on keypads at secure facilities for years.
On the one hand: Getting a refund compared to having to pay is bad. . . . This money was denied to you throughout the year.
On the other hand: In the years when I get a refund, it never causes a crisis in my April (and May and June) cash flow. When I owe, however . . . Let's just say that the few bucks of interest I might have made is not worth the risk of a cash flow crisis. Set me up for that modest refund every time!
I, for one, welcome our similarly-behaving, strategically-sound technological co-Overlords.
- The disconnected era (between initial multi-user computing and the ubiquitous networks of today).
- The pre-web era (though the advent of the web is more of a naissance without the 're').
- The age of Windows (which hasn't ended yet).
Myself, I think that the history of computing is better characterized as a continuous rise, with brief accelerations, brief pauses, but no significant retreats.The renaissance of microprocessors, software, the web and digital media worked a tremendous change . . .
Seems to me to be more of a naissance, since there wasn't much of a dark age in computing between the invention of the microprocessor and now.
Overall, the article is quite clear about which extensions it recommends for which levels of users and why. A lot of people here would give much of the same advice to their less tech-savvy friends.
The article stops at this point and doesn't address if/why bigger screen sizes are better. Do I want a 100-inch TV at 8 ft? Even if we suppose:
- that one of the goals of video technology is an immersive experience, filling all 100 degrees of my primary vision, and
- that all released content will soon be available at 1080p, still . .
.
Who wants to be immersed to 100 degrees in a picture that the director framed to occupy only 30 degrees? Except for films shot for iMax, what's filmed is not intended to represent the arc of what our vision would show us if we were there.Perhaps we have plenty of TV already for the films that are being shot, regardless of how high a resolution they're delivered at.
There is no action for plagiarism. Either this is a copyright infringement issue, or it's nothing.
If pay-for-position gets in the way of most-relevant-results, then it ain't google. Google's appeal on the user side has always been best results on clean pages. If they lose that, the service will tank.
Then, it is just the same as the real google local. I have seldom looked for something locally that I didn't get a lot of garbage in the top hits.
Page rank does a great job when it has web link information to rate the hits. For local businesses, that link information is pretty much nonexistent. I think this phone offering is premature -- they need to improve the quality of google local search results first.
If the CD and the album are dying, it's the technology platform that killed them: individual songs delivered as electronic files. RIAA deserves relatively little credit for those kills -- like rain drops in the ocean.
If nothing else, bad tenant stories are more fun to listen to than bad landlord stories. For one thing, the landlord story-teller tends to have more stories to choose from. For another, all the listeners can look down their mental noses are the bad tenant and think, "At least I don't live like _those_ people!"
Listening to a bad landlord story always makes me relive the times I've been short-changed by landlords in the past -- and done nothing.
Many people just don't understand the power and limitations of statistics. They point to each individual anecdote that goes against the trend predicted by the model as proof that it doesn't work. That's an emotional reaction that is stronger in baseball than in weather.
If people understood statistics, they would understand that the trend predicted by the model (110 games) is never intended to forecast the result of a particular game. Further, they would understand that the model _expects_ outliers to appear.
Free will.
People like to think that human events can't be reduced to numbers in the way that non-human events can. Being susceptible to prediction offends their sense of self determination.
How about this: the audience wants the weather to be predictable; in baseball, much of the audience (1) just wants their team to win or (2) wants there to be a reason to play the game. Perhaps the difference in people's opinions of the validity of climate and baseball modeling lies in what the people want to believe.
Well, there are at least two cases. In the first, the class is Political Philosophy 252, in which case the subject matter is the 'end' and the term paper is just the 'means'. But, let's consider the second case, in which the class is Composition 110, and the term paper process is the 'end'.
Even when learning composition, the subject matter of the paper assignment has to be robust enough to support an interesting paper. If the subject matter of the paper were truly irrelevant, why not assign the paper on the interview in this month's Cigar Aficionado? While it would be possible to find a term paper subject somewhere in there, it's hardly conducive to deep thought.
...a standing bet with all his students: if we ever have to write a term paper for our job in the real world (i.e., not academia), he'll donate $25 to the charity of our choice. He's been teaching since the 1970s and has never had to pay up.
Who does he teach that he has not paid out? Most journal articles (engineering, science, medicine, law) are strongly akin to term papers, as are many legal briefs (law). Putting the formatting issues aside (neither switching citation syntax, switching in-text cites to footnotes to endnotes, nor wrapping a memo header around content is more than a skin on a paper), what is it that divides term papers from other articles? Is it that term papers tend towards exhaustive surveys of the literature on a topic? Not all term papers do that and some journal articles (particularly in law and medicine) do.
To be sure, the business world writes a lot of memos (though it reads significantly fewer), but I suggest that the distinction between term papers and memos becomes less significant the more of both you write.
What better way to do this than make them write ten pages on some obscure argument from Aristotle or some random lines from Milton?
Does this strategy not forbid asking students to wrestle with the best questions? While all possible meaning may long since have been wrung from the familiar passages, is there not still value in new students struggling with these passages again for themselves? Perhaps the obscure passages are obscure for a reason: life is too short to spend on material of little consequence whose only recommendation is that it is found in a work that is important for other reasons.
The level of the student seems key here. While obscure passages might be well-suited for advanced study, first-time students (e.g., high school students) might be better served by concentrating on the best parts of the material. Can the approach you suggest be reconciled with these considerations?
As they say to incoming graduate students, "As an undergrad, you read the best books in our field. Now, you will read the rest of them."
Where is "12 Monkeys"?
Right where it ought to be: forgotten.
Bring on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gattaca, The Invisible Man, Tron, Rendezvous with Rama, . . .
Some steps not complete yet.
1. Viacom: profit!
2. Google: profit!
3. Viacom to Google: *snarl*
4. Google to Viacom: *smack*
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5. Google: ??
6. Viacom: *whimper*
7. The people: profit!
Actually, there has never ever ever ever been any causal link between antibiotic prescriptions for personal, in-home use and the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Given the number of studies . . .
Some citations wouldn't have hurt.