Please Help. My wife and I live in that area. Last night we were out past our usual time and we found a young boy. He was wandering out in the cold all by himself. We've talked to the appropriate authorities, but we know we need to get the word out as much as possible. The doctors say he's fine, but he hasn't spoken a word yet. Please take a look at his picture and call your local authorities if you have any information at all. We are desperate to find out who he is. If nobody can legitimately claim him, we would be so blessed if we could adopt him. For now, Martha and I have taken to calling him Clark. Thanks.
None of this means much. Growth rate as a percentage of the whole population, average births per woman, it all clouds the fact that population growth in India and most everywhere, including the earth taken as a whole, is positive and has been since the first homo sapien.
For simple math, If each woman is having half as many kids as 50 years ago but there are TWICE as many women, then in another 50 years the population will double again. The absolute growth stays the same. Pretty close to what is actually happening. Malthus is still terrifyingly correct, unless you put him on a tight deadline. You can talk about shrinking growth rates all you like. Until you can point to a population that is actually shrinking in a significant way over time, we better all be seriously worried. And since this has never happened in the history of man, barring very brief or very localized exceptions, it seems pretty safe to worry. A shrinking growth rate is still growth. When a terrifying growth rate, as a percentage of the whole, shinks to the point where absolute growth in numbers is still about the same, it's still terrifying.
Pointing to that shrinking birth rate per woman in a population that doubles every 50 years is like saying, "well, at least the population is still doubling at an alarming rate that hasn't changed much."
"Well, if that's all there is to it, then it would always be the salesman who climbs the ladder. But that's not the case."
Actually I'm pretty sure that is the case. A leader is just a good salesman who is almost always selling the right thing, which always includes selling themselves. He or she is the best salesperson. Referring to an employee who is stuck in the sales department, well they're not the best sales people. Else they wouldn't be stuck selling just one or 2 things.
"40% of sudden acceleration are from Toyota drivers"
While it certainly deserves a thorough looking into, let's not forget that most victims of alien abduction will draw a similar alien face. We all know the face. Does that mean it exists? The face must've come from somewhere, but it has spread into the public conscious. And there are no insurance claims on alien abduction. But now when I accelerate into a wreck in my Toyota, I know what I'm going to tell my insurance company. wink wink.
It's amazing how many children ACs and other people replied to me saying "go to an Apple store" or some such thing.
People who go to the Apple store are already half sold. That is not a sales strategy. A sales strategy would include such things as "how to drive people to our stores", and "how to get them interested in playing with an iPad when their laptop already does all the same things". If your sales strategy is simply "come and play with it in the store because it's magically neat", well that's a shitty sales plan. If you have to actually use it before wanting to buy it that's a problem.
In order to drive sales there needs to be something compelling about it that can be told (aka sold) to people who have no current plans to visit a store and try it.
My advice is to focus mostly on the sky rather than the telescope. You don't want to have "telescope class".
Invite students to bring binoculars. Find and identify all the constellations you can. They're not just for astrology, they're a great way to orient yourself to the sky. Plus they're interesting and historical and you can see them with the naked eye. If you have 2 nights, find a planet on the first night and note it's position. On your next night out you can note how it "wandered". "Planet" being greek for "wanderer". Be sure to check out the Big Dipper. One it's stars is an optical binary as well as a telescopic binary. There's a nice little story to be told about ancient people using it to test eyesight. It's a great thing to look at with the naked eye, binoculars, and then the telescope, showing how each tool works relative to the other.
Since most of the kids won't have telescopes at home, these are great lessons in how neat astronomy is with just your eyes and/or binoculars. They don't need a telescope to be interested.
If you or somebody in your class has an iphone there are great astronomy apps. StarMap and Distant Suns are both very good and offer free versions that work great in the field.
Also, blankets and tarps are a good thing to bring along. Looking at the sky with the naked eye or binoculars is much more enjoyable lying on one's back. Craning necks is a good way to lose interest fast.
You know what it is? A good reason to hate televised professional sports:
It's the ubiquitous and cult-like nature of its fanhood. As kids growing up we treated every weekend like playtime. For two days every week the world was our oyster.
Then sometime during high school and college we started loosing most of our buddies. First it was just Sundays during Football Season. And then March Madness.
And then the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And then... But that wasn't the worst of it. There are plenty of days left when The Game isn't on. Plenty of opportunity too catch up with your friends and hang out once in while. It gets harder and harder to sit and listen to them talk for hour after hour about what they saw on television. But hey.. there's still a few months in the summer when you have common interests. July looks good.... Pretty soon, it just isn't worth it anymore.
I've been saying the exact same thing for years.
And to respond to the "I like to watch the amazing athletes" crowd...
You take a hundred million or so possible humans (maybe, it's bad guesswork math but it'll do here), choose the most physically suitable 1% at an early age, train them for years and keep filtering them until you have the top 1% of the original 1% based on skill and physical prowess, and you toss them a football on Sunday. They SHOULD perform exactly as they do. There's nothing amazing about it. Using statistics from 2006 the NFL Roster comprised.0005 percent of the population of the United States. Lets conveniently zero out other factors like age, foreign players, etc as too pedantic. Anyway, being obsessed with the top.000Whatever percent of something isn't interesting. It's like watching somebody drool over their exotic car collection. Congratulations, you're wealthy. The engineering and craftsmanship is impressive. So what? That's nice but let not waste hours being drooling fanboys ok? Congratulations you're a highly trained physical aberration of a human being. Nothing wrong with that. But it's not interesting enough to talk about regularly, spend hours and hours watching and debating, and it MOST CERTAINLY doesn't deserve its own news section every freaking week. Something so entirely irrelevant isn't news.
[/sympathetic addendum rant]
Obviously this view won't make anyone very popular.
That's great you know a few good cops. The reason "all cops" suffer the bad rap is that even the ones who technically do a good honest job tend to act like asshole thugs toward civilians. As far as I can tell they've totally forgotten the "serve" part of "protect and serve". And no I don't want them to serve me ice cream and rub my back. But not acting like Nelson from the Simpsons would sure be a good start.
Maybe, at least for office use.
But almost everybody I know with a "home computer" complains about the time it takes to play with the videos and photos coming out of their ears.
It's only going to get exponentially more significant.
Look at the post I was answering. The question was "who needs 64 bit?" Firefox really didn't have anything to do with it. My question regarding 32-bit still applies.
64-bit is great for everyone who owns cameras of any modern make and makes use of said cameras, especially consumer video and modern digital SLRs. Editing that stuff and manipulating it in batches takes a ton of RAM.
You don't need to be a pro you just need to own a camera(s) and have a couple kids. Heck there's a jillion contributors to YouTube who would benefit from 64-bit and more ram. Most of them probably don't even know it. The right question to me is "Why are we still using 32-bit?"
Slashdot Mirror
Perfect.
" Whoever gets the job 'can own the decision on the hardware that we use"
Translation: "Will somebody from Google please come work for us? We'll give you the keys to the executive washroom!"
Please Help. My wife and I live in that area. Last night we were out past our usual time and we found a young boy. He was wandering out in the cold all by himself.
We've talked to the appropriate authorities, but we know we need to get the word out as much as possible. The doctors say he's fine, but he hasn't spoken a word yet.
Please take a look at his picture and call your local authorities if you have any information at all. We are desperate to find out who he is.
If nobody can legitimately claim him, we would be so blessed if we could adopt him. For now, Martha and I have taken to calling him Clark. Thanks.
Aww crap. Not "doubling" but growing by 100% of the baseline each period.
I.e. - - 500 million --> 1billion --> 1.5 billion.
oh well, it's late. And the point still stands.
None of this means much. Growth rate as a percentage of the whole population, average births per woman, it all clouds the fact that population growth in India and most everywhere, including the earth taken as a whole, is positive and has been since the first homo sapien.
For simple math, If each woman is having half as many kids as 50 years ago but there are TWICE as many women, then in another 50 years the population will double again. The absolute growth stays the same. Pretty close to what is actually happening. Malthus is still terrifyingly correct, unless you put him on a tight deadline. You can talk about shrinking growth rates all you like. Until you can point to a population that is actually shrinking in a significant way over time, we better all be seriously worried. And since this has never happened in the history of man, barring very brief or very localized exceptions, it seems pretty safe to worry. A shrinking growth rate is still growth. When a terrifying growth rate, as a percentage of the whole, shinks to the point where absolute growth in numbers is still about the same, it's still terrifying.
Pointing to that shrinking birth rate per woman in a population that doubles every 50 years is like saying, "well, at least the population is still doubling at an alarming rate that hasn't changed much."
I "friended" you for posting a perfect question. I wish more people would discuss like you do.
:D
Maybe tomorrow after sobering up I'll have a reply.
How about "Hungry Photographers stand together when Google co-opts their work without remuneration."
Take a look at Yervant or David Beckstead or Jeff Ascough and you'll see that Wedding Photography can be high art.
And for all its challenges, it should be.
Please mod up. -1 to parent post for annoying font.
One decent use is internet over ham Radio. Most especially if you're at sea.
This would take far too much effort to correct point by point.
I'm sorry dgatwood but it's almost not even wrong.
"Well, if that's all there is to it, then it would always be the salesman who climbs the ladder. But that's not the case."
Actually I'm pretty sure that is the case. A leader is just a good salesman who is almost always selling the right thing, which always includes selling themselves. He or she is the best salesperson. Referring to an employee who is stuck in the sales department, well they're not the best sales people. Else they wouldn't be stuck selling just one or 2 things.
"does not meet the basic definition of a proper science fiction jetpack.... if you can't carry the thing on your back, what does it matter?"
Without things like this, the "proper science fiction jetpack" will never exist.
Without any hype, these inventions can't happen.
It's a disappointment to see so many nay-saying posts come from this community.
"40% of sudden acceleration are from Toyota drivers"
While it certainly deserves a thorough looking into, let's not forget that most victims of alien abduction will draw a similar alien face. We all know the face. Does that mean it exists? The face must've come from somewhere, but it has spread into the public conscious. And there are no insurance claims on alien abduction. But now when I accelerate into a wreck in my Toyota, I know what I'm going to tell my insurance company. wink wink.
I bet that 40% goes up before it comes down.
It's amazing how many children ACs and other people replied to me saying "go to an Apple store" or some such thing.
People who go to the Apple store are already half sold. That is not a sales strategy. A sales strategy would include such things as "how to drive people to our stores", and "how to get them interested in playing with an iPad when their laptop already does all the same things". If your sales strategy is simply "come and play with it in the store because it's magically neat", well that's a shitty sales plan.
If you have to actually use it before wanting to buy it that's a problem.
In order to drive sales there needs to be something compelling about it that can be told (aka sold) to people who have no current plans to visit a store and try it.
""When they play with the iPad and experience the magic of using it... I have a hard time believing they're going to go for a netbook.""
So your sales strategy involves a free trial for everyone?
Secure your computers. Share your wifi.
Given the number of visitors and neighbors who have iPhones, blackberries, laptops, etc., it's the friendly thing to do.
Simple answer: Because community college means they are still living at home.
That's the whole reason, right there.
My advice is to focus mostly on the sky rather than the telescope. You don't want to have "telescope class".
Invite students to bring binoculars. Find and identify all the constellations you can. They're not just for astrology, they're a great way to orient yourself to the sky.
Plus they're interesting and historical and you can see them with the naked eye. If you have 2 nights, find a planet on the first night and note it's position. On your next night out you can note how it "wandered". "Planet" being greek for "wanderer". Be sure to check out the Big Dipper. One it's stars is an optical binary as well as a telescopic binary. There's a nice little story to be told about ancient people using it to test eyesight. It's a great thing to look at with the naked eye, binoculars, and then the telescope, showing how each tool works relative to the other. Since most of the kids won't have telescopes at home, these are great lessons in how neat astronomy is with just your eyes and/or binoculars. They don't need a telescope to be interested.
If you or somebody in your class has an iphone there are great astronomy apps. StarMap and Distant Suns are both very good and offer free versions that work great in the field.
Also, blankets and tarps are a good thing to bring along. Looking at the sky with the naked eye or binoculars is much more enjoyable lying on one's back. Craning necks is a good way to lose interest fast.
Have Fun!!
You know what it is? A good reason to hate televised professional sports:
... Pretty soon, it just isn't worth it anymore.
It's the ubiquitous and cult-like nature of its fanhood. As kids growing up we treated every weekend like playtime. For two days every week the world was our oyster.
Then sometime during high school and college we started loosing most of our buddies. First it was just Sundays during Football Season. And then March Madness. And then the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And then... But that wasn't the worst of it. There are plenty of days left when The Game isn't on. Plenty of opportunity too catch up with your friends and hang out once in while. It gets harder and harder to sit and listen to them talk for hour after hour about what they saw on television. But hey.. there's still a few months in the summer when you have common interests. July looks good.
And then you go to work...
Televised Sports - The Borg of American culture.
THANK YOU!
.0005 percent of the population of the United States. Lets conveniently zero out other factors like age, foreign players, etc as too pedantic. Anyway, being obsessed with the top .000Whatever percent of something isn't interesting. It's like watching somebody drool over their exotic car collection. Congratulations, you're wealthy. The engineering and craftsmanship is impressive. So what? That's nice but let not waste hours being drooling fanboys ok? Congratulations you're a highly trained physical aberration of a human being. Nothing wrong with that. But it's not interesting enough to talk about regularly, spend hours and hours watching and debating, and it MOST CERTAINLY doesn't deserve its own news section every freaking week. Something so entirely irrelevant isn't news.
[sympathetic addendum rant]
I've been saying the exact same thing for years.
And to respond to the "I like to watch the amazing athletes" crowd...
You take a hundred million or so possible humans (maybe, it's bad guesswork math but it'll do here), choose the most physically suitable 1% at an early age, train them for years and keep filtering them until you have the top 1% of the original 1% based on skill and physical prowess, and you toss them a football on Sunday. They SHOULD perform exactly as they do. There's nothing amazing about it. Using statistics from 2006 the NFL Roster comprised
[/sympathetic addendum rant]
Obviously this view won't make anyone very popular.
That's great you know a few good cops. The reason "all cops" suffer the bad rap is that even the ones who technically do a good honest job tend to act like asshole thugs toward civilians. As far as I can tell they've totally forgotten the "serve" part of "protect and serve". And no I don't want them to serve me ice cream and rub my back. But not acting like Nelson from the Simpsons would sure be a good start.
+95% of computer uses, 32-bit is fine.
Maybe, at least for office use.
But almost everybody I know with a "home computer" complains about the time it takes to play with the videos and photos coming out of their ears.
It's only going to get exponentially more significant.
Look at the post I was answering. The question was "who needs 64 bit?" Firefox really didn't have anything to do with it. My question regarding 32-bit still applies.
64-bit is great for everyone who owns cameras of any modern make and makes use of said cameras, especially consumer video and modern digital SLRs. Editing that stuff and manipulating it in batches takes a ton of RAM.
You don't need to be a pro you just need to own a camera(s) and have a couple kids. Heck there's a jillion contributors to YouTube who would benefit from 64-bit and more ram. Most of them probably don't even know it.
The right question to me is "Why are we still using 32-bit?"