I'm just curious. Why would any self-respecting drama teacher show Terminator 2 in class? I was just as entertained as the next guy by T2, but most dramatic types that I know look more for literary and/or artistic value (or at least a really interesting plot line) in a production. I see none of this in Terminator 2.
But, I guess if he won a national teaching award, he must know what he is doing, which makes me even more curious as to why he brought it in.
I think the law gave the local school boards (rather than the teacher) the option to enforce the teaching of evolution. The local school boards, in turn, could mandate or ban the teaching as they (and the local populace) pleased. If the local school board made no ruling, then the teaching was up to the teacher. Basically, they just took it out of the state requirements without making any judgements one way or another.
I personally think that if evolution is taught in schools, it should be taught as a theory in an objective philosophy class as it contains an inherent world view.
...everytime I read this article, I fall over laughing...
So, just how many times have you read the article, and how long did it take you to connect the "falling over" with the reading of the article? Did the pun register consciously, or did you find yourself "falling over laughing" for some reason everytime you read the article. Did you end up reading through the article over and over, covering up one word at a time until you found a word such that when the word was covered you did not laugh?
Personally, I find it funny that this comment was posted by M"Woody".
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...when you step on the gas, you sink back in your seat...
This has nothing to do with circular motion. Inertia tries to keep you going the same speed, and the back of your seat pushes you forward. You feel like you sink back in your seat, but the seat is actually pushing forward against you.
...when you turn left, you move to the right.
Here inertia tries to keep you going straight; however, your seat, as the centripital force, pushes you to the left. If you move to the right in your seat, then the friction between your pants and the seat is not strong enough to overcome inertia, and you slide until some other force (like you hand holding onto the steering wheel) helps overcome the inertia.
And if you have force holding the yo yo to the centre of its axis, then you have an equal and opposite force pushing it outwards, away from the centre of its axis.
Any time you have an acceleration (as is the case in circular movement) the net force is not 0. I can't recall exactly how all the forces add up, but I can tell you that "centrifugal force" is not a part of it. In the case of a yo-yo spinning vertically, gravity has an outward component at every point in the bottom half of the circle. There are no other outward forces since the centripital (the string, held by your hand) always pulls exactly inward, and inertia always tries to go in a line tangential to the point of the yo-yo in its circular path (and therefore has no outward component).
Does anyone know when the PostgreSQL 7.1 beta is supposed to be released?
Yeah, and does anyone know when/. is going to make the switch to PostgreSQL? I'm tired of waiting several seconds for each page to load on my cable modem connection.
Does anybody know if the major parties have developed their party platforms to include a stance on technology? I would be interested to hear the candidates ideas on internet / censorship / intellectual property / etc. before I vote, but I haven't seen anything official.
I agree, 1010811 rocks. Sprint slammed my long distance after I wrote a particularly nasty complaint letter to them. I tried to switch from their long distance to another and they double charged me for long distance. I eventually gave up trying to work with the two phone companies, payed them off, and started using 1010220. Now I've switched to 1010811.
Here's a >microsoft typo site (microft.com) that's kind of funny. I accidentally hit it a couple of weeks ago and ended up spending a few minutes exploring it.
Similarly, 15/16-bit color is three 5-bit channels and a 1-bit padding/alpha channel, yielding 32768 colors, not 65536
As I understand it, the way 16-bit color is handled depends on the card. Some cards only use 15 bits for color (5 for each bit) and some use all 16. Of those that use all 16, green usually has the extra bit because tests (not that I've ever seen these tests) show that the human eye is more sensitive to green than it is to red or blue.
This (and some other inaccuracies in the article) cast some doubt as to how much the authors really understood what they were saying. For example, the web-safe palette still does protect you from dithering, and that's important.
From the article:
"[T]he colors that the system chooses are usually good (solid, true colors), but they're not exactly what you thought you were getting when you originally selected the colors for your site."
That said, the authors were very upfront about not being experts on the subject, so there very likely were some technical detail errors. I'm no expert either, so I couldn't point them out, but I can tell you that the two examples you give are certainly not inaccuracies.
How is this a troll? Because it says "First Post"?
Typical "First Post"'s are not trolls. They are offtopic and (possibly) redundant, but they are NOT trolls.
This post is not even a typical "First Post." It's on topic. The "First Post" is just an add-on. (Ha-Ha--ya know?). The assertion with the payment ("The market won't be able to continue paying us as much, once all the newbie college grads get out.") could be considered a troll, but that is a stretch. And (in case the moderator is a conspiracy theorist) not everybody with a medialone.net email is Signal 11.
Moderators, please mod this poor poster at least back up to a 1. He doesn't deserve to lose karma for this post. Mod me down if you must, but mod the parent post up.
Similar clock speeds between PIII's and Athlons don't perform the equally, but the difference is generally small (hence "almost equally"). Athlons perform better in some (most) tests and PIII's perform better in the rest.
I agree. This religion of natural selection that the scientists are pushing on us gets on my nerves. There's no way that I'm going to believe the findings of scientists who are pressured monitarily and biased politically to support a particular theory.
Why do scientists preach evovlution? The same reason Jim Bakker preached the Bible--he was biased toward it before he really began studying it, and it made money for him.
Personally, I wish I could be around in a few hundred years when the kids in school learn how their stupid ancestors thought life evolved from chaos through natural selection.
I always assume that sites are collecting information about me. Consequently, I rarely put real information into anything. I was not always so hardened to the dangers of the net, though...
Flash back to January 1996: Fresh into college, the young me pays $10 to my small college's computer center for one semester of POP3 email.
Fast forward to July 1996: The slightly older me signs up for a yahoo mail account. I put my college email as an alternate email.
Fast forward to December 1996: The tired-of-paying-for-email me let's my account go unpaid and fade into oblivion. The account had gone unused for months.
Fast forward to yesterday: I have a job programming for a small company. I have worked at this job for a year and a half now. We often make online purchases using my boss's CC. I have made between 5 and 10 of these, and I never put my own name as a contact for these purchases, instead I always put my boss's name. There have been a couple of times that I have called into one of these places to check on an order--in these cases I have identified myself.
A strange thing happened today: I purchased another product online. The secure server was taken care of through Yahoo's store, though the company not Yahoo. On the first screen that asked for information, I entered my boss's name and the shipping address for the company. I clicked next. On the next screen, there were several boxes, one of which asked for an email address. In that box appeared something that I never expected to see again: my old college email address.
I am impressed by your ability to pick out a relatively unimportant detail in a user comment and draw such a generalized conclusion so quickly.
Really, why don't you spend some time trashing my original idea rather than stopping on one supporting detail that I got wrong (very wrong, but that's beside the point).
The fact that the.us TLD exists but is implemented in a weird heierchical manner actually supports my idea. Let the governments have their little heierarchies to screw them up or whatever, but don't let them touch the other TLD's.
Now, please, pick the idea apart--even generalize it to "Let the governments have their little heierarchies to screw them up or whatever, but don't let them touch the other TLD's. Uhhh, you're a moron" if you want. Just don't tell me the same thing for a seventh time.
I enjoy it when someone can attack an idea (even my own) and tear it to the ground.
Ever wonder why every country besides the US has a particular TLD (e.g..co.uk,.cz,.to,.cx)? Why is there not a.us TLD?
The US has no TLD home. Anything with a.co.uk URL is probably in the United Kingdom somewhere. (I do realize that this is not the case with all country specific TLD's, but bear with me here--I'm setting the stage for my argument which is...)
The ICANN should set up a TLD (or a group of TLD's) for each country where that country is free to impose any trademark/copyright laws so far as name registration goes. Other TLD's should be virtual duty free zones, with no government interference (TM, copyright, etc.) allowed in the registration of domain names.
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I'm just curious. Why would any self-respecting drama teacher show Terminator 2 in class? I was just as entertained as the next guy by T2, but most dramatic types that I know look more for literary and/or artistic value (or at least a really interesting plot line) in a production. I see none of this in Terminator 2.
But, I guess if he won a national teaching award, he must know what he is doing, which makes me even more curious as to why he brought it in.
I think the law gave the local school boards (rather than the teacher) the option to enforce the teaching of evolution. The local school boards, in turn, could mandate or ban the teaching as they (and the local populace) pleased. If the local school board made no ruling, then the teaching was up to the teacher. Basically, they just took it out of the state requirements without making any judgements one way or another.
I personally think that if evolution is taught in schools, it should be taught as a theory in an objective philosophy class as it contains an inherent world view.
So, just how many times have you read the article, and how long did it take you to connect the "falling over" with the reading of the article? Did the pun register consciously, or did you find yourself "falling over laughing" for some reason everytime you read the article. Did you end up reading through the article over and over, covering up one word at a time until you found a word such that when the word was covered you did not laugh?
Personally, I find it funny that this comment was posted by M"Woody".
(Not, however, first post.)
This has nothing to do with circular motion. Inertia tries to keep you going the same speed, and the back of your seat pushes you forward. You feel like you sink back in your seat, but the seat is actually pushing forward against you.
...when you turn left, you move to the right.
Here inertia tries to keep you going straight; however, your seat, as the centripital force, pushes you to the left. If you move to the right in your seat, then the friction between your pants and the seat is not strong enough to overcome inertia, and you slide until some other force (like you hand holding onto the steering wheel) helps overcome the inertia.And if you have force holding the yo yo to the centre of its axis, then you have an equal and opposite force pushing it outwards, away from the centre of its axis.
Any time you have an acceleration (as is the case in circular movement) the net force is not 0. I can't recall exactly how all the forces add up, but I can tell you that "centrifugal force" is not a part of it. In the case of a yo-yo spinning vertically, gravity has an outward component at every point in the bottom half of the circle. There are no other outward forces since the centripital (the string, held by your hand) always pulls exactly inward, and inertia always tries to go in a line tangential to the point of the yo-yo in its circular path (and therefore has no outward component).
Does anyone know when the PostgreSQL 7.1 beta is supposed to be released?
Yeah, and does anyone know when /. is going to make the switch to PostgreSQL? I'm tired of waiting several seconds for each page to load on my cable modem connection.
I guess I should've tried submitting this link instead of merely putting it into my sig.
You can shoot people who try to censor the net.
You can shoot people who try to control the net.
You can shoot people who try to take away your AOL.
You can even shoot all those people using your ISP and causing you to get all those busy signals.
(Now that's freedom, right?)
Does anybody know if the major parties have developed their party platforms to include a stance on technology? I would be interested to hear the candidates ideas on internet / censorship / intellectual property / etc. before I vote, but I haven't seen anything official.
I agree, 1010811 rocks. Sprint slammed my long distance after I wrote a particularly nasty complaint letter to them. I tried to switch from their long distance to another and they double charged me for long distance. I eventually gave up trying to work with the two phone companies, payed them off, and started using 1010220. Now I've switched to 1010811.
Here's a >microsoft typo site (microft.com) that's kind of funny. I accidentally hit it a couple of weeks ago and ended up spending a few minutes exploring it.
The Net evolved free of corporate and government control, but corporations and governments are racing to beat it into submission.
Similarly, 15/16-bit color is three 5-bit channels and a 1-bit padding/alpha channel, yielding 32768 colors, not 65536
As I understand it, the way 16-bit color is handled depends on the card. Some cards only use 15 bits for color (5 for each bit) and some use all 16. Of those that use all 16, green usually has the extra bit because tests (not that I've ever seen these tests) show that the human eye is more sensitive to green than it is to red or blue.
This (and some other inaccuracies in the article) cast some doubt as to how much the authors really understood what they were saying. For example, the web-safe palette still does protect you from dithering, and that's important.
From the article:
"[T]he colors that the system chooses are usually good (solid, true colors), but they're not exactly what you thought you were getting when you originally selected the colors for your site."
That said, the authors were very upfront about not being experts on the subject, so there very likely were some technical detail errors. I'm no expert either, so I couldn't point them out, but I can tell you that the two examples you give are certainly not inaccuracies.
but what else am I supposed to say about it?
Oh yeah...how about a beowulf cluster of these things...
How is this a troll? Because it says "First Post"?
Typical "First Post"'s are not trolls. They are offtopic and (possibly) redundant, but they are NOT trolls.
This post is not even a typical "First Post." It's on topic. The "First Post" is just an add-on. (Ha-Ha--ya know?). The assertion with the payment ("The market won't be able to continue paying us as much, once all the newbie college grads get out.") could be considered a troll, but that is a stretch. And (in case the moderator is a conspiracy theorist) not everybody with a medialone.net email is Signal 11.
Moderators, please mod this poor poster at least back up to a 1. He doesn't deserve to lose karma for this post. Mod me down if you must, but mod the parent post up.
(Gosh, where did all that aggression come from?)
Amazon's finally going to make money. Buy your stock NOW!!!
(btw, I'm cancelling my account with them)
All M$ apps are sufferring from the ultimate bloat--they're merging into one unified application based on XML.
Soon there won't be a difference between Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer.
Similar clock speeds between PIII's and Athlons don't perform the equally, but the difference is generally small (hence "almost equally"). Athlons perform better in some (most) tests and PIII's perform better in the rest.
According to Tom's Hardware (located withing the last couple of sentences on the page), the 1.13GHz perform fine when underclocked to 850MHz.
but I just read about it here.
I guess that even slashdot scoops slashdot.
[Domain names are]...akin to a phone number
IP addresses are more like phone numbers. I wonder if the judge has ever heard the phone book analogy describing the way DNS's work.
a public school should be religion-neutral
I agree. This religion of natural selection that the scientists are pushing on us gets on my nerves. There's no way that I'm going to believe the findings of scientists who are pressured monitarily and biased politically to support a particular theory.
Why do scientists preach evovlution? The same reason Jim Bakker preached the Bible--he was biased toward it before he really began studying it, and it made money for him.
Personally, I wish I could be around in a few hundred years when the kids in school learn how their stupid ancestors thought life evolved from chaos through natural selection.
I always assume that sites are collecting information about me. Consequently, I rarely put real information into anything. I was not always so hardened to the dangers of the net, though...
Flash back to January 1996:
Fresh into college, the young me pays $10 to my small college's computer center for one semester of POP3 email.
Fast forward to July 1996: The slightly older me signs up for a yahoo mail account. I put my college email as an alternate email.
Fast forward to December 1996:
The tired-of-paying-for-email me let's my account go unpaid and fade into oblivion. The account had gone unused for months.
Fast forward to yesterday:
I have a job programming for a small company. I have worked at this job for a year and a half now. We often make online purchases using my boss's CC. I have made between 5 and 10 of these, and I never put my own name as a contact for these purchases, instead I always put my boss's name. There have been a couple of times that I have called into one of these places to check on an order--in these cases I have identified myself.
A strange thing happened today:
I purchased another product online. The secure server was taken care of through Yahoo's store, though the company not Yahoo. On the first screen that asked for information, I entered my boss's name and the shipping address for the company. I clicked next. On the next screen, there were several boxes, one of which asked for an email address. In that box appeared something that I never expected to see again: my old college email address.
I feel violated. Ugh.
I am impressed by your ability to pick out a relatively unimportant detail in a user comment and draw such a generalized conclusion so quickly.
Really, why don't you spend some time trashing my original idea rather than stopping on one supporting detail that I got wrong (very wrong, but that's beside the point).
The fact that the .us TLD exists but is implemented in a weird heierchical manner actually supports my idea. Let the governments have their little heierarchies to screw them up or whatever, but don't let them touch the other TLD's.
Now, please, pick the idea apart--even generalize it to "Let the governments have their little heierarchies to screw them up or whatever, but don't let them touch the other TLD's. Uhhh, you're a moron" if you want. Just don't tell me the same thing for a seventh time.
I enjoy it when someone can attack an idea (even my own) and tear it to the ground.
Ever wonder why every country besides the US has a particular TLD (e.g. .co.uk, .cz, .to, .cx)? Why is there not a .us TLD?
The US has no TLD home. Anything with a .co.uk URL is probably in the United Kingdom somewhere. (I do realize that this is not the case with all country specific TLD's, but bear with me here--I'm setting the stage for my argument which is...)
The ICANN should set up a TLD (or a group of TLD's) for each country where that country is free to impose any trademark/copyright laws so far as name registration goes. Other TLD's should be virtual duty free zones, with no government interference (TM, copyright, etc.) allowed in the registration of domain names.
Now wouldn't that be nice?