Sounds a lot like a monarchy: the elite nobility governing the unwashed ignorant masses.
That's not monarchy, that's aristocracy. Monarchy means one man or woman in charge. The founders were opposed to that, but many of the them were very much aristocrats, believers in an elite class.
Indeed, a jaundiced commentator on the American Revolution might say its original intent was less about "freedom" for Americans, than about power moving from a distant king to a local ruling class. But then the unwashed classes started taking some of that rhetoric seriously...
Not to say these guys are or aren't legit, but that's a pretty standard investment disclaimer. An annual report for even the bluest of blue chip companies will warn you how it contains "forward-looking statements" and how the sky might fall and result in a loss for stockholders.
Which means an automated agent has the feedback necessary to "sniff out" the content filtering algorithm, trying variations until one gets through and remembering the result to get through more easily on the next message. Goodbye filters.
Yes, good-bye and good riddance, and once we're done with them perhaps we can turn our attention to solutions that won't just result in turning "Viagra" to "\/i4gr4".
Any real spam solution will be built on digital signatures.
Sorry, I'm an idiot. I shoot the occasional digital photo and edit it up in the GIMP, that's the extent of my photography knowledge. Can someone explain to me what Aperture is, what a "raw photo editor" is, and how a "photo manager" differs from a "file manager"? Thanks.
Uneducated ghetto people either made up the word bling, or mangled some other well-meaning word from English, and then it was allowed back into English as a derivation?
Rather like the words "jazz" and "hiphop", and the usage of "cool", "chill out", "hip", "dig" to refer to things other the temperature, anatomy, and holes.
The "Black American" dialect (call it "African American Vernacular English", call it "ghetto talk", whatever) has long been a primary source of new words and inventive uses for old ones.
11 year olds can't develop musculature without showing other signs of physical maturity first!
What, 11 year olds don't have muscles? How do they move, then?
Or do you think that children's muscles don't develop from exercise? Of course they do.
Children have musculature. That musculature develops in response to exercise. What's your point?
I teach martial arts to kids. In over two decades of training I've met two or three kids who, given a mental and physical training program (quite likely involving hormone treatments of some sort) starting at birth, I could see as Battle School fodder.
The ages of the characters in Ender's Game stretch the suspension of disbelief, but do not break it. Certainly less so than the buggers or the DR device.
The reason for your vehement criticism is also clear: it displays a very common personality flaw among intellectual males, a belief in one's own intellectual superiority...
If anyone can name good mature fantasy...that doesnt revolve around the end of the world, the fight against the "dark one" and the "chosen one" I would be very interested.
You might check out Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series.
Also, Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Some of Roger Zelazny's forays into fantasy like Changeling and Dilvish the Damned - the Amber series is definitely an "the end of the world is nigh!" sort of tale, though with less of the "dark one/chosen one" dynamic.
A lot of Juvenile and Young Adult literature (from "The Giver" to "The Chronicles of Narnia" and beyond) is just as interesting to adults as to children, because the mature themes are only evident when you're mature enough to recognize them.
Yes. I re-read Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea every few years, and get something new out of it each time. (The Sci-Fi channel miniseries never existed. I can't hear you, lalala....)
That thing is lethal, but unlikely to kill by accident, like a gun.
A gun is also extremely unlikely to kill by accident. A few hundred people - 600 in 2000 die in gun accidents each year (and many of these are actually suicides that are covered up out of respect for grieving families); in that same year, 3,900 people drowned, 3,600 were killed by fire, 3,400 choked to death, and a whopping 16,200 died in falls. Your staircase or your swimming pool are much more likely to kill you accidentally than your gun.
That's called a cabinet maker or ebinistre, not carpenter.
I know a couple of guys who do structural, home- or set-building type carpentry, and also do furniture, sculpture, and other arts and crafts in wood. They all call it carpentery; occasionally the term woodworking is used for the finer work.
I have never heard any of them use the terms "cabinet maker" or "ebinistre". I've never heard anyone use "ebinistre", and Google turns up only a handful of hits, only one of which is in English.
The only person I've heard use the term "cabinet maker" is Dan Fogelberg, in his song "Leader of the Band".
According to the wik, "A carpenter (builder) is a skilled craftsman who performs carpentry - a wide range of woodworking that includes constructing buildings, furniture, and other objects out of wood," with various specializations thereunder. This is consistent with the use in the handful of shop classes I took, where "carpentry" referred to both framing a wall and building a stool (both of which, I found, I suck at).
But if all your punches are normally thrown with heavy padding, I'd worry about punch strength growing faster than bone strength.
This is a problem - many boxers have tremendous power but no idea how to make a fist and shatter their hand when they hit someone without a glove. Happened to Tyson.
It's not so much a matter of bone strength as of technique, and of strength of the intrinsic muscles of the hand. A traditional karate maxim says that it takes three years to learn how to make a fist, three years to learn how to stand, and three more years to put it together and punch.
In the meantime, when I teach self-defense classes I teach striking with the heel of the palm (a favorite of whoever choreographed the fights in ST:TNG and DS9, by the way), the elbow, and the hammerfist.
I can punch through three 1-inch boards (one on top of the other, not spaced); this is a decent but not exceptional punch. I've seen people break piles of concrete pavers (cinder block caps) with a punch.
the situation in a boxing ring is nothing like a real life fight
Nor is the situation in a UFC style submission fight anything like a real life fight. Going to the ground is generally a very bad strategy in an actual self-defense situation: one's objective if attacked is to disable or distract the attacker with strikes, joint attacks, and/or standing takedowns, and run like hell. You do not want to roll around on the ground while his buddies show up.
If I had to bet on fight between someone with 6 months of training at a Gracie school and someone with a black-belt in kung fu who had been studying for 20 years, I'd choose the Gracie kid every time.
Twenty years ago, people like you were telling us how ninjitsu was the undefeatable art; before that, kung fu; before that, karate; before that, judo...
but in terms of your engineering career, foreign language is going to have pretty much no payoff.
Just as travel abroad makes you experience your homeland in a new way, so a little study of a foreign language will help you understand your own better. It will enhance your written and verbal communication skills, which will be of value in any career.
The year of German that I took in high school helped me understand some concepts of grammar that improved my English writing. And two semesters of Japanese (plus a few months living there) pried open my brain a little bit to a somewhat different new way of thinking.
Nail guns allowed less skillful people to work as carpenters, to do an adequate job in situations where they would have not been able to do so before. Nail guns also allowed skilled carpenters to do simple jobs more easily and quickly.
If all you need is a wall frame of 2x4s, a carpenter of limited skill with a nailgun will do. But if you want fine furniture built, you need someone with more skills, who knows the properties of different sorts of wood and different types of joints and fasteners. Before nailguns, every carpenter knew these things.
I notice that TFA - like most in praise of computers in the classroom - makes no mention of test scores or any other metric that demonstrates that students are actually learning better ithis way than in more traditional classrooms.
I recommend Cliff Stoll's books Silicon Snake Oil and High Tech Heretic.
Worse, this system doesn't just use computers, it is totally reliant on them.
Says the principal in TFA, "Why would we ever buy a book when we can buy a computer? Textbooks are often obsolete before they are even printed." But that's not true: fundamental fields change slowly, a ten year old geometry or physics or art textbook will do quite well. And students can take them home, read them on the bus or under a tree, do homework anywhere - apparently this system pretty much requires kids to have computers at home. Grandma, who's uninterested in all these modern gadgets, picks you up after school and you stay at her house until your mom gets off work? Can't do homework while you wait, no computer.
Why would they want to? Sugar is more than adequate as an educational UI
Citation needed.
Sugar seems to be an embodiment of somebody's unproven hypotheses about education. (Good discussion here.)
Sadly, I think it was the OLPC project's decision to go with such a strange interface that opened the door to people wanting XP on the things - you show it to a bunch of government executives, and they ask, "Is there some way to get this thing to act like, you know, a computer?"
Oddly, I've heard of people putting Debian, and now Ubuntu, on on OLPC, but not of bringing it up to a more standard Fedora distro. (Anyone? Anyone?)
As for why, most of us who got one for hacking value are not using it educationally. I wanted something physically tough enough to take camping, that (with my phone as a a USB modem) could be used for ssh-ing, e-mail, and web surfing, that could handle a little dirt or dampness, and was power-frugal and could recharge from 12 VDC, so I bought an XO on eBay.
Well, then I'm also selling water-free water for places that have water shortages. Just add 1 cup of water to the device and you will have an entire cup of water that you can drink!
I am not making this up: according to a recent Washington Post story, "Desalinated seawater from Hawaii, meanwhile, is being sold as `concentrated water' -- at $33.50 for a two-ounce bottle. Like any concentrated beverage, it is supposed to be diluted before drinking, except that in this case, that means adding water to . . . water."
There's an old unit of measurement for heat transfer called 'tons'. You don't see it around much anymore, due to the switch to units like btu.hr or kWh.
Central A/C and heat pump systems are still commonly measured in tons, at least in the U.S.
Sooooooo....How much ice is in those cooling blocks? A kilo or two?The only possible real effect is that it might temporarily de-humidify the air in your room a little
My understanding is that these gizmos are meant to direct a stream of cool air right on to you, not to cool your whole room. You can probably get about the same effect by putting a big bowl of ice right in front of a fan pointing right at you, except that the freezer blocks won't add humidity. That might cool you down enough to make the difference between sleeping and not sleeping on a hot night.
Of course, you can buy a fan and a bunch of freezer blocks for a lot less that $200.
The freezer removes heat from the icepack and dumps it into the room (plus extra, because of the work done). Then you take the icepack out of the freezer, put it in the "room cooling" device...Net result, your room is hotter than it was before.
My house is, on net, hotter than it was before. My bedroom, where I might put this gizmo, can get cooler while my kitchen gets hotter. That may well be acceptable.
Some of the stuff under question is applications for using information, not information itself, and thus isn't really part of the "web" in that sense. A bunch more - perhaps the majority - neither contains nor uses actual information, except in the information-theoretic sense in which noise has more "information" than signal...
When I was a lad, there was a big push in the schools to replace old blackboards with dark green chalkboards. This was supposed to be easier on the eyes.
I use this idea in my Emacs windows, and set a background of DarkSlateGray (47,79,79 or #2f4f4f in HTML). With Emacs syntax highlighting I find it best to leave the default foreground white.
I also recommend the "Lucida Typewriter" font, bold, at a decently large size. Many people use fonts that are just too damn small and then wonder why they suffer eyestrain.
I also wonder if larger monitors are contributing to eyestrain - more eye movement is needed. I have a 15" LCD, equivalent in size to a 17" CRT which was considered something of a luxury when I first got one. Many people would complain about it being too small - but I notice that my monitor is almost exactly the same size as my open copy of a random book, O'Reilly's "Web Services Essentials". I think there are good reasons why books evolved to the page size that they did.
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That's not monarchy, that's aristocracy. Monarchy means one man or woman in charge. The founders were opposed to that, but many of the them were very much aristocrats, believers in an elite class.
Indeed, a jaundiced commentator on the American Revolution might say its original intent was less about "freedom" for Americans, than about power moving from a distant king to a local ruling class. But then the unwashed classes started taking some of that rhetoric seriously...
Not to say these guys are or aren't legit, but that's a pretty standard investment disclaimer. An annual report for even the bluest of blue chip companies will warn you how it contains "forward-looking statements" and how the sky might fall and result in a loss for stockholders.
Yes, good-bye and good riddance, and once we're done with them perhaps we can turn our attention to solutions that won't just result in turning "Viagra" to "\/i4gr4".
Any real spam solution will be built on digital signatures.
The fix is called S/MIME.
Because Google has done more evil than my ISP.
I have no desire to hand them my e-mail, thanks.
Sorry, I'm an idiot. I shoot the occasional digital photo and edit it up in the GIMP, that's the extent of my photography knowledge. Can someone explain to me what Aperture is, what a "raw photo editor" is, and how a "photo manager" differs from a "file manager"? Thanks.
Rather like the words "jazz" and "hiphop", and the usage of "cool", "chill out", "hip", "dig" to refer to things other the temperature, anatomy, and holes.
The "Black American" dialect (call it "African American Vernacular English", call it "ghetto talk", whatever) has long been a primary source of new words and inventive uses for old ones.
What, 11 year olds don't have muscles? How do they move, then?
Or do you think that children's muscles don't develop from exercise? Of course they do.
Children have musculature. That musculature develops in response to exercise. What's your point?
I teach martial arts to kids. In over two decades of training I've met two or three kids who, given a mental and physical training program (quite likely involving hormone treatments of some sort) starting at birth, I could see as Battle School fodder.
The ages of the characters in Ender's Game stretch the suspension of disbelief, but do not break it. Certainly less so than the buggers or the DR device.
The reason for your vehement criticism is also clear: it displays a very common personality flaw among intellectual males, a belief in one's own intellectual superiority...
You might check out Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series.
Also, Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Some of Roger Zelazny's forays into fantasy like Changeling and Dilvish the Damned - the Amber series is definitely an "the end of the world is nigh!" sort of tale, though with less of the "dark one/chosen one" dynamic.
Yes. I re-read Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea every few years, and get something new out of it each time. (The Sci-Fi channel miniseries never existed. I can't hear you, lalala....)
A gun is also extremely unlikely to kill by accident. A few hundred people - 600 in 2000 die in gun accidents each year (and many of these are actually suicides that are covered up out of respect for grieving families); in that same year, 3,900 people drowned, 3,600 were killed by fire, 3,400 choked to death, and a whopping 16,200 died in falls. Your staircase or your swimming pool are much more likely to kill you accidentally than your gun.
I know a couple of guys who do structural, home- or set-building type carpentry, and also do furniture, sculpture, and other arts and crafts in wood. They all call it carpentery; occasionally the term woodworking is used for the finer work.
I have never heard any of them use the terms "cabinet maker" or "ebinistre". I've never heard anyone use "ebinistre", and Google turns up only a handful of hits, only one of which is in English.
The only person I've heard use the term "cabinet maker" is Dan Fogelberg, in his song "Leader of the Band".
According to the wik, "A carpenter (builder) is a skilled craftsman who performs carpentry - a wide range of woodworking that includes constructing buildings, furniture, and other objects out of wood," with various specializations thereunder. This is consistent with the use in the handful of shop classes I took, where "carpentry" referred to both framing a wall and building a stool (both of which, I found, I suck at).
So, I stand by my usage.
This is a problem - many boxers have tremendous power but no idea how to make a fist and shatter their hand when they hit someone without a glove. Happened to Tyson.
It's not so much a matter of bone strength as of technique, and of strength of the intrinsic muscles of the hand. A traditional karate maxim says that it takes three years to learn how to make a fist, three years to learn how to stand, and three more years to put it together and punch.
In the meantime, when I teach self-defense classes I teach striking with the heel of the palm (a favorite of whoever choreographed the fights in ST:TNG and DS9, by the way), the elbow, and the hammerfist.
I can punch through three 1-inch boards (one on top of the other, not spaced); this is a decent but not exceptional punch. I've seen people break piles of concrete pavers (cinder block caps) with a punch.
Nor is the situation in a UFC style submission fight anything like a real life fight. Going to the ground is generally a very bad strategy in an actual self-defense situation: one's objective if attacked is to disable or distract the attacker with strikes, joint attacks, and/or standing takedowns, and run like hell. You do not want to roll around on the ground while his buddies show up.
Twenty years ago, people like you were telling us how ninjitsu was the undefeatable art; before that, kung fu; before that, karate; before that, judo...
Just as travel abroad makes you experience your homeland in a new way, so a little study of a foreign language will help you understand your own better. It will enhance your written and verbal communication skills, which will be of value in any career.
The year of German that I took in high school helped me understand some concepts of grammar that improved my English writing. And two semesters of Japanese (plus a few months living there) pried open my brain a little bit to a somewhat different new way of thinking.
Nail guns allowed less skillful people to work as carpenters, to do an adequate job in situations where they would have not been able to do so before. Nail guns also allowed skilled carpenters to do simple jobs more easily and quickly.
If all you need is a wall frame of 2x4s, a carpenter of limited skill with a nailgun will do. But if you want fine furniture built, you need someone with more skills, who knows the properties of different sorts of wood and different types of joints and fasteners. Before nailguns, every carpenter knew these things.
I notice that TFA - like most in praise of computers in the classroom - makes no mention of test scores or any other metric that demonstrates that students are actually learning better ithis way than in more traditional classrooms.
I recommend Cliff Stoll's books Silicon Snake Oil and High Tech Heretic.
Worse, this system doesn't just use computers, it is totally reliant on them.
Says the principal in TFA, "Why would we ever buy a book when we can buy a computer? Textbooks are often obsolete before they are even printed." But that's not true: fundamental fields change slowly, a ten year old geometry or physics or art textbook will do quite well. And students can take them home, read them on the bus or under a tree, do homework anywhere - apparently this system pretty much requires kids to have computers at home. Grandma, who's uninterested in all these modern gadgets, picks you up after school and you stay at her house until your mom gets off work? Can't do homework while you wait, no computer.
Citation needed.
Sugar seems to be an embodiment of somebody's unproven hypotheses about education. (Good discussion here.)
Sadly, I think it was the OLPC project's decision to go with such a strange interface that opened the door to people wanting XP on the things - you show it to a bunch of government executives, and they ask, "Is there some way to get this thing to act like, you know, a computer?"
Oddly, I've heard of people putting Debian, and now Ubuntu, on on OLPC, but not of bringing it up to a more standard Fedora distro. (Anyone? Anyone?)
As for why, most of us who got one for hacking value are not using it educationally. I wanted something physically tough enough to take camping, that (with my phone as a a USB modem) could be used for ssh-ing, e-mail, and web surfing, that could handle a little dirt or dampness, and was power-frugal and could recharge from 12 VDC, so I bought an XO on eBay.
HTTP is the "Hypertext Transport Protocol", not the "World Wide Web Protocol".
FTP has been accessible in web browsers since the start, and you can view HTML documents in your browser the same whether obtained via HTTP or FTP.
Here is a thread from the early days of the Web on the use of HTTP and FTP.
IIRC Gopher was also accessible in early web browsers.
I am not making this up: according to a recent Washington Post story, "Desalinated seawater from Hawaii, meanwhile, is being sold as `concentrated water' -- at $33.50 for a two-ounce bottle. Like any concentrated beverage, it is supposed to be diluted before drinking, except that in this case, that means adding water to . . . water."
Central A/C and heat pump systems are still commonly measured in tons, at least in the U.S.
My understanding is that these gizmos are meant to direct a stream of cool air right on to you, not to cool your whole room. You can probably get about the same effect by putting a big bowl of ice right in front of a fan pointing right at you, except that the freezer blocks won't add humidity. That might cool you down enough to make the difference between sleeping and not sleeping on a hot night.
Of course, you can buy a fan and a bunch of freezer blocks for a lot less that $200.
My house is, on net, hotter than it was before. My bedroom, where I might put this gizmo, can get cooler while my kitchen gets hotter. That may well be acceptable.
...and to understand that FTP resources are also part of the web.
According to W3C, the web is "the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge."
Some of the stuff under question is applications for using information, not information itself, and thus isn't really part of the "web" in that sense. A bunch more - perhaps the majority - neither contains nor uses actual information, except in the information-theoretic sense in which noise has more "information" than signal...
When I was a lad, there was a big push in the schools to replace old blackboards with dark green chalkboards. This was supposed to be easier on the eyes.
I use this idea in my Emacs windows, and set a background of DarkSlateGray (47,79,79 or #2f4f4f in HTML). With Emacs syntax highlighting I find it best to leave the default foreground white.
I also recommend the "Lucida Typewriter" font, bold, at a decently large size. Many people use fonts that are just too damn small and then wonder why they suffer eyestrain.
I also wonder if larger monitors are contributing to eyestrain - more eye movement is needed. I have a 15" LCD, equivalent in size to a 17" CRT which was considered something of a luxury when I first got one. Many people would complain about it being too small - but I notice that my monitor is almost exactly the same size as my open copy of a random book, O'Reilly's "Web Services Essentials". I think there are good reasons why books evolved to the page size that they did.
Property? What property?
Do you perhaps mean copyright? Don't confuse copyright with property.
Now, why should I not worry that a government-created immortal sociopath is seeking information about me?