I can tell the difference, I just don't care. If I want to see a high-resolution sunset, I'll go outside and watch it live. I don't need to see every nose hair on the news reporter or every pore and pimple on these damn kids who seem to be everywhere on TV these days. And get off my lawn...
I'd love to see all that. It's just not worth thousands upon thousands of dollars in equipment.
I wonder if he tried mangling the first 30 seconds at all. For example, keep the first 5 seconds, mess up the 6th and 7th seconds, and then continue on.
If you're going to do that, you're going to ruin the song. If that's what you want to do it would be much more effective to sing it at the top of your lungs off key in the shower and put that in as your soundtrack instead. As a bonus, you're still violating copyright.
If we can see planets a vast distance away so well, why are we having to send New Horizons all the way to Pluto to get a good piccie of it? Can't we point Kepler at it or something?
Even our best pics of Pluto with Hubble are large pixel garbage. NOTHING beats getting up close if you have the means to do it. Not just for imaging but also for aiming scientific instruments at the object. That's why we've had Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini etc.
A good analogy would be getting a good but distant view of the local sports stadium from a sky scraper and me suggesting "Why do you need to pay for tickets to that event when you can see it from here with this telescope?". You just aren't going to get the same detail and information.
Why? Why should the Australian public fund research that companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Apple, etc can then just take for free and make billions off of?
Conversely why should manufacturers pay money for the invention when they've had to do all the work and taken all the risk refining and setting up mass production.
I'm Australian by the way. I hope the settlement is a fair and equitable one where the CSIRO isn't left out in the cold but nor are the manufacturers now making a loss on all those previous sales.
Take a look at the Long Tail Economics principle made possible by the network effect of the Internet. This is one of the most insightful articles that exists on the Internet!
Unable to compute. Too many buzzwords. My head is gonna explode!
To no great surprise, Europe comes in first with 380 items. South America comes in second with 320, with a very distant third place being given to the Middle East at a paltry 157 texts
suppose to mean?
A) That it's no surprise that they haven't been preserved or added to the catalog?
B) That it's no surprise that Middle Eastern culture doesn't have many manuscripts?
I hope/expect it's the first, because if it's the second the ignorance and rascism displayed is abominable for slashdot. Either way it shouldn't be so ambiguous? Where are the editors??? Out to lunch with Cmdr Taco?
I visited the University twice, both times for admin work. I lived a few minutes away from the University. Most people taking the course were on the other side of the planet. Our online lectures, tutorials, assignments and exams were delivered as PDF files. The few lame attempts at multimedia and web cam type stuff never worked. They didn't need to.
Most of the issues I experienced were due to University politics and a change in management deciding to shut the course down. As a result the project to have a robot controlled telescope come online throughout the course were cancelled, and staffing was wound down so much that it was a struggle for the remaining lecturers to keep up. Despite all this, and despite falling seriously ill in the middle of my course, I completed it and am very very grateful for the opportunity.
Would I have preferred an in person course!? Hell yes. Would I ever have had the opportunity to study if it were an in person course. Not a chance! I didn't do this so I could get a job as an Astronomer. I did it because I had a burning desire to learn this stuff. So I'm very very grateful that I got this opportunity.
Not everything can be taught this way but a lot of material can. Online courses aren't the future. They're happening NOW. They were happening 5 years ago.
Many of my customers would have loved to see this go through because then they could buy an entire package from a single company, and it'd probably be cheaper.
Yes, because less competition means lower prices????
Oh please. Yeah, there were people who predicted this. There were also people who predicted that Sun would go to Apple, Lenovo, or Acer. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody predicted that SourceForge would buy it for the sole purpose of upgrading Slashdot's hardware!
There are so many BS predictions out there, it's darned easy to miss the ones that actually make sense.
It's also easy to make what was vaguely predicted fit what happens after the fact. I call it the nostra-dumbass effect, because people can be so damn gullible and stupid that it hurts sometimes.
If everyone in the world has access to the information then why bother paying for the degree?
As long as I can prove my understanding of the knowledge then why should I pay a particular university to vouch for me?
About proving that knowledge...Wouldn't it be nifty if you could pay someone to teach and test that knowledge. Send the student away for 3 or 4 years and only choose whether or not to accept them if they make it through that process...oh wait...
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."...and if you end up in prison.....well prepare to be pound in the...
No. The strong equivalence principle means that even accelerating frames are equivalent. Observe the fact that physics works fine in a free-falling lift.
The strong equivalence principle only works for frames under constant acceleration. You most definitely can tell if a lift suddenly comes to a halt.
Whatever you do, don't use Winamp as the media player as that would be a security breach. You see, it kicks the Lama's a$$. It tells me so every time I install it.
It does, actually. One of the fantastic perks of relativity is that you can pick any single point as the origin, and the math still works. So the notion that the Sun goes around the Earth is as correct as that of the Earth going around the Sun, or that of considering me as the center of the Universe;)
That's a common misconception. Only frames of reference that aren't accelerating are equivalent.
Why are you blaming God for what people do in his name?
Don't know about G.P. but I blame the people that commit the acts because I'm not in the habbit of blaming fictional entities when things don't go the way I want. I also blame other people that created and legitimised the fiction on the basis of which these thoughts were founded.
Though I'm no scientist like Newton or Hawking, or a great advancer of society like Gandhi or M.L. King, indeed, I'm a miserable failure when compared against the highest standards of humanity, and infinitely more so when judged against the perfect standards of God,
the Good News is that even I can receive all the greatest benefits of eternal life through grace, rather than the consignment to nothingness that I deserve by my own efforts.
Thank you for demonstrating one of the great dangers of religion. It allows people to take comfort in their own complacency. Why should I strive towards any goal or care if I achieve any I set if I can believe in a wonderful afterlife where there is no pain and everything is fluffy clouds and fairy floss?
Frankly I do not believe they need internet access outside of what is required to finish a class assignment.
So either:
A) You believe school is about indoctrination rather than learning to think critically and want children to be robots whose minds are shaped to your own views or those of your community
OR
B) You don't understand the Internet which has become popular for its diversity and that a classroom where a child learns to question and research the world with such a wonderful tool is an incredible thing to have
OR
C) Both of the above
If you want to turn your kids into drones, that's your business. Don't force it on the rest of us. It's not about demonising religious parents at all. It's about preventing some of their narrow mind beliefs being forced onto us all.
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I can tell the difference, I just don't care. If I want to see a high-resolution sunset, I'll go outside and watch it live. I don't need to see every nose hair on the news reporter or every pore and pimple on these damn kids who seem to be everywhere on TV these days. And get off my lawn...
I'd love to see all that. It's just not worth thousands upon thousands of dollars in equipment.
I wonder if he tried mangling the first 30 seconds at all. For example, keep the first 5 seconds, mess up the 6th and 7th seconds, and then continue on.
If you're going to do that, you're going to ruin the song. If that's what you want to do it would be much more effective to sing it at the top of your lungs off key in the shower and put that in as your soundtrack instead. As a bonus, you're still violating copyright.
If we can see planets a vast distance away so well, why are we having to send New Horizons all the way to Pluto to get a good piccie of it? Can't we point Kepler at it or something?
Even our best pics of Pluto with Hubble are large pixel garbage. NOTHING beats getting up close if you have the means to do it. Not just for imaging but also for aiming scientific instruments at the object. That's why we've had Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini etc.
A good analogy would be getting a good but distant view of the local sports stadium from a sky scraper and me suggesting "Why do you need to pay for tickets to that event when you can see it from here with this telescope?". You just aren't going to get the same detail and information.
Why? Why should the Australian public fund research that companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Apple, etc can then just take for free and make billions off of?
Conversely why should manufacturers pay money for the invention when they've had to do all the work and taken all the risk refining and setting up mass production.
I'm Australian by the way. I hope the settlement is a fair and equitable one where the CSIRO isn't left out in the cold but nor are the manufacturers now making a loss on all those previous sales.
I wonder, if patent-holders are justified in doing anything with their holdings, except donating them to public domain -- in your opinion...
Well, they might be out of toilet paper...?
Take a look at the Long Tail Economics principle made possible by the network effect of the Internet. This is one of the most insightful articles that exists on the Internet!
Unable to compute. Too many buzzwords. My head is gonna explode!
What the hell is:
To no great surprise, Europe comes in first with 380 items. South America comes in second with 320, with a very distant third place being given to the Middle East at a paltry 157 texts
suppose to mean?
A) That it's no surprise that they haven't been preserved or added to the catalog?
B) That it's no surprise that Middle Eastern culture doesn't have many manuscripts?
I hope/expect it's the first, because if it's the second the ignorance and rascism displayed is abominable for slashdot. Either way it shouldn't be so ambiguous? Where are the editors??? Out to lunch with Cmdr Taco?
I did an Astronomy Masters online a few years ago - Astronomy Internet Masters (AIM) from the University of Western Sydney.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/mathphys/astronomy/pagea.shtml
I visited the University twice, both times for admin work. I lived a few minutes away from the University. Most people taking the course were on the other side of the planet. Our online lectures, tutorials, assignments and exams were delivered as PDF files. The few lame attempts at multimedia and web cam type stuff never worked. They didn't need to.
Most of the issues I experienced were due to University politics and a change in management deciding to shut the course down. As a result the project to have a robot controlled telescope come online throughout the course were cancelled, and staffing was wound down so much that it was a struggle for the remaining lecturers to keep up. Despite all this, and despite falling seriously ill in the middle of my course, I completed it and am very very grateful for the opportunity.
Would I have preferred an in person course!? Hell yes. Would I ever have had the opportunity to study if it were an in person course. Not a chance! I didn't do this so I could get a job as an Astronomer. I did it because I had a burning desire to learn this stuff. So I'm very very grateful that I got this opportunity.
Not everything can be taught this way but a lot of material can. Online courses aren't the future. They're happening NOW. They were happening 5 years ago.
Many of my customers would have loved to see this go through because then they could buy an entire package from a single company, and it'd probably be cheaper.
Yes, because less competition means lower prices????
What are your customers smoking?
but as with anything else, you get what you pay for.
I HATE that saying. Has no one using it ever gotten anything for free or paid big only to realize they'd been ripped off?
You could modify it to "AT MOST you get what you pay for" but even that isn't true.
Try "The odds are that at most you'll get what you pay for".
Oh please. Yeah, there were people who predicted this. There were also people who predicted that Sun would go to Apple, Lenovo, or Acer. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody predicted that SourceForge would buy it for the sole purpose of upgrading Slashdot's hardware!
There are so many BS predictions out there, it's darned easy to miss the ones that actually make sense.
It's also easy to make what was vaguely predicted fit what happens after the fact. I call it the nostra-dumbass effect, because people can be so damn gullible and stupid that it hurts sometimes.
If everyone in the world has access to the information then why bother paying for the degree?
As long as I can prove my understanding of the knowledge then why should I pay a particular university to vouch for me?
About proving that knowledge...Wouldn't it be nifty if you could pay someone to teach and test that knowledge. Send the student away for 3 or 4 years and only choose whether or not to accept them if they make it through that process...oh wait...
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table." ...and if you end up in prison.....well prepare to be pound in the...
Question: how long do I have to be here before I can be said to no longer be new here? In Soviet Russia I would probably be considered old here.
In Soviet Russia, slashdot is new to you ....wait that doesn't work....
In Soviet Russia, you are new to slashdot ...doh! neither does that! I give up!
If you can't waterboard, boogie board!!!
That's special relativity. General Relativity extended this to *ALL* frames of reference.
Take another look. GR deals with the equivalence frames of reference under constant acceleration, not all frames no matter what they're doing.
No. The strong equivalence principle means that even accelerating frames are equivalent. Observe the fact that physics works fine in a free-falling lift.
The strong equivalence principle only works for frames under constant acceleration. You most definitely can tell if a lift suddenly comes to a halt.
Dalai Linux!
Whatever you do, don't use Winamp as the media player as that would be a security breach. You see, it kicks the Lama's a$$. It tells me so every time I install it.
Yep. It's a comment on me. It says I don't have followers who have donated billions for me to squander at my whim.
It does, actually. One of the fantastic perks of relativity is that you can pick any single point as the origin, and the math still works. So the notion that the Sun goes around the Earth is as correct as that of the Earth going around the Sun, or that of considering me as the center of the Universe ;)
That's a common misconception. Only frames of reference that aren't accelerating are equivalent.
The Sun doesn't go around the Earth either, but hey it took them 400 years to correct that one.
Why are you blaming God for what people do in his name?
Don't know about G.P. but I blame the people that commit the acts because I'm not in the habbit of blaming fictional entities when things don't go the way I want. I also blame other people that created and legitimised the fiction on the basis of which these thoughts were founded.
Though I'm no scientist like Newton or Hawking,
or a great advancer of society like Gandhi or M.L. King,
indeed, I'm a miserable failure when compared against the highest standards of humanity, and infinitely more so when judged against the perfect standards of God,
the Good News is that even I can receive all the greatest benefits of eternal life through grace, rather than the consignment to nothingness that I deserve by my own efforts.
Thank you for demonstrating one of the great dangers of religion. It allows people to take comfort in their own complacency. Why should I strive towards any goal or care if I achieve any I set if I can believe in a wonderful afterlife where there is no pain and everything is fluffy clouds and fairy floss?
Frankly I do not believe they need internet access outside of what is required to finish a class assignment.
So either:
A) You believe school is about indoctrination rather than learning to think critically and want children to be robots whose minds are shaped to your own views or those of your community
OR
B) You don't understand the Internet which has become popular for its diversity and that a classroom where a child learns to question and research the world with such a wonderful tool is an incredible thing to have
OR
C) Both of the above
If you want to turn your kids into drones, that's your business. Don't force it on the rest of us. It's not about demonising religious parents at all. It's about preventing some of their narrow mind beliefs being forced onto us all.
You can make the country a jail.
I'm sorry but we have a copyright on that.