Street View debuted with part of SF and Silicon Valley. Google's had a long, long time to get those images - Bing still has to build its fleet of camera cars (and hopefully they'll be higher-resolution than the ones Google sent out). I have noticed that Bing tends to have somewhat newer aerial imagery, and Bird's Eye is fantastic for getting an idea of what a place actually looks like - I've used that since the Live days.
anybody who knows your phone number can find out where you live.
Only if they work for the government or the phone company. Just buy a prepaid cellular phone for cash - they can track you when it's on, but that's it.
(which means my car didn't get just get recalled, by the way)
I'll take a Toyota made by nonunion workers over your union-made Ford Pinto (or Chevy Corvair, to pull another one from the Golden Age of the UAW). To the extent that the recall is clearly anyone's fault, it's an engineering decision. So you can legitimately blame management; the workers had nothing to do with it.
the years when union membership was the largest in the US were also the years when our industrial base was healthiest.
Of which one very logical conclusion is that unions are a parasite that arises once industries become well-established, and then proceeds to suck them to death. It's also worth noting that the higher productivity observed at union shops may be a result of never hiring less-productive workers; unions are pretty good for the guys who get union jobs, but they don't magically make people better workers - they make it unprofitable to hire any but the most productive workers.
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You know, it's times like these that I wish I had a sockpuppet account just so I could mod up an insightful commentary on my post.
If you get your studying done on the bus, where you're trapped and basically can't do anything about it, your time is yours as soon as you get home, which almost anybody would prefer. I did homework at home maybe one night a week when I was in high school, mainly because I got it done while I was still at school. Same idea - it's a study hall.
Of course, I never rode a bus...
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I can think of a vast number of trips in the car that I experienced as a child that would have been improved a million-fold by the presence of a movie. Driving is usually boring. I did a lot of reading on trips, but that was trouble on long trips - I wouldn't always finish the book when we were near a major metro area.
Most things that kids get dragged along to are things that the adults really don't want the kids around for - like grocery runs - but that would be too expensive to hire a babysitter for every time you wanted to do them. Couple that with increased expectations of supervision by the authorities (see here; Illinois requires supervision at all times for all kids under 14, and the site and several states' CPS suggest that children should be 12 before they're ever left alone), and you've got kids spending a lot more time in the car than thirty years ago. I was left home alone by 7 or 8 for short trips, by 10 for several-hour blocks, and by 12 I was babysitting my sister all day during the summer. I also walked home from school, about a mile, from third grade on. (If the weather was nice, I'd ride my bike both ways, but I liked to sleep late too much to wake up early enough to walk there.)
in large measure people can speak with good diction and pronounciation.
I wonder to what degree this is an artifact of Hollywood and the BBC pushing out their bland accents - as an American, I find it easy to understand RP, but a lot of casual British speech (e.g., on radio shows meant for domestic consumption) is very difficult for me to understand unless I've been listening to a lot of it lately.
Just about everyone is capable of some degree of accent- and code-switching, and American accents have become much, much more uniform than they were in my grandparents' time - idioms (and consonants - like rhoticity, or the presence or absence of yod dropping) are really the place where regional variations still show up.
The lack of interest in learning other languages can and will lead to embarrassing situations...
The bigger problem for most people is practicing the language; most Americans will only encounter significant numbers of speakers of working-class, highly idiomatic, Indian-influenced Spanish. Those in New York and New England have the opportunity to learn Canadian French, a language that other French speakers will find archaic. It's definitely easier to keep up your skills than it used to be, with the Internet, but it's still difficult.
The problem is getting the software to work as well with Southerners from the US or Scottish people.
It's a problem of inputs. I'm a native Mississippian. When I was in high school (early 90s), a friend of mine had an older brother who worked for IBM designing their first voice-operated phone tree systems. He brought out a list of about 100 words and asked people to call an 800 number and read them off to train the system on Southern accents.
FWIW, you can have a pretty significant effect on Google's system just by using GOOG-411 repetitively; I've trained it in how to pronounce a local restaurant correctly (the pronunciation is not entirely intuitive).
Yes, it's illegal to gamble online in the US. The primary method of enforcement is via credit card payments; the banks that issue the cards are in the US, so the law can reach them.
You use it. I use it. Normal people don't use it like you and I do.
They don't realize that Google will correct their misspellings, show them maps, translate languages, define words, track flights, and show them street views with reviews of places. My mother in law is the target of this ad, because she's one of the millions of people who don't realize what all this amazing technology will do for us. (And it is amazing.)
My parent post was rated -1 Troll and -1 Overrated. Keep that in mind when thinking about the IPCC and global warming predictions: the advocates can't even stand it when someone who fundamentally agrees with them points out where they totally screwed up.
Why did it make it through in the first place? When partisan think tanks make serious mistakes, they're allowed to do corrections. When scientific institutions do it, they lose credibility. Which one is the IPCC?
My dream combination is : -intelligent up to date professors with.pdf or.pptx with the diagrams and such
Depends on what you're studying. In college, this is probably a good method, because you're trying to get a great GPA. In grad school, it's probably less useful - because your learning focus has shifted, and what's most important is that you understand everything fully. I've given both powerpoint and chalk talk lectures, and the chalk talks have been more popular.
I feel that students are often too busy writing when I'd rather they were listening and/or thinking. It might help if they were merely marking up the text instead.
The problem is that if you provide notes for the students and request that they follow your lecture as a learning and discussion process instead, they'll just start taking notes on the notes and assiduously recording every example you state. At least, that's the case in preprofessional programs where your GPA is more important than what you learn (pre-med in particular is guilty of this).
You can believe that the proposed mechanism of global warming is correct and that the earth has gotten warmer - and still believe that a scam was perpetrated upon the public. Because it was.
When the big names on one side of the debate turn out to be engaged in avoiding freedom-of-information requests, carrying on back-channel actions like squeezing people out of journals, and making ridiculous claims about Himalayan glaciers, it weakens their case. That doesn't mean global warming isn't happening; it's just the story of the boy who cried wolf.
admittedly I have yet to use the Nook or other such devices
Try an e-Ink screen. It's great. You have to read a lot to make it worth your while to buy an e-Ink reader, but unless you're one of the few who can read LCD all day and all night without eyestrain, it's a real pleasure to use.
And yet, those who watched the O'Reilly Factor were broadly comparable (51% vs 54% max of any show) in percent of viewers who scored "high", and did better than NPR listeners (mid vs low categories). The show with the greatest percentage of "low" scorers was... the Jim Lehrer NewsHour. The lowest scorer among "high knowledge" was... network news. In fact, O'Reilly's viewers had the smallest percentage with a "low" knowledge of any source whatsoever.
In other words, news junkies are better informed about various political hot topics (because that's what the survey measured) than people who don't give a damn, and the show that they watch is pretty much irrelevant. If you don't like Fox's opinionists, watch CNN. And vice versa. Odds are, you'll be just as well informed.
you had to file a written application for exemption and receive a certificate of exemption to be certain that you are formally released from attendance in the event of selection of jury service.
No, I didn't. Not all jurisdictions are the same.
ignore the absurdity
You're the one who suggested that age didn't matter.
old people are less likely to change them
This applies to their good ideas as well as their old ones.
Look, you believe wholeheartedly in your ideas. You want to assert that we should be happy to take a trivial honorarium for our jury service. I disagree. That's it.
As for why... was 43 when sworn in.
This isn't law review. I'm absolutely not interested in your expositions on the law, because I'm not making a point about the fucking law. I'm making a point about how things ought to be, in My Perfect World(tm). Your Perfect World(tm) may vary considerably.
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Street View debuted with part of SF and Silicon Valley. Google's had a long, long time to get those images - Bing still has to build its fleet of camera cars (and hopefully they'll be higher-resolution than the ones Google sent out). I have noticed that Bing tends to have somewhat newer aerial imagery, and Bird's Eye is fantastic for getting an idea of what a place actually looks like - I've used that since the Live days.
anybody who knows your phone number can find out where you live.
Only if they work for the government or the phone company. Just buy a prepaid cellular phone for cash - they can track you when it's on, but that's it.
(which means my car didn't get just get recalled, by the way)
I'll take a Toyota made by nonunion workers over your union-made Ford Pinto (or Chevy Corvair, to pull another one from the Golden Age of the UAW). To the extent that the recall is clearly anyone's fault, it's an engineering decision. So you can legitimately blame management; the workers had nothing to do with it.
the years when union membership was the largest in the US were also the years when our industrial base was healthiest.
Of which one very logical conclusion is that unions are a parasite that arises once industries become well-established, and then proceeds to suck them to death. It's also worth noting that the higher productivity observed at union shops may be a result of never hiring less-productive workers; unions are pretty good for the guys who get union jobs, but they don't magically make people better workers - they make it unprofitable to hire any but the most productive workers.
You know, it's times like these that I wish I had a sockpuppet account just so I could mod up an insightful commentary on my post.
If you get your studying done on the bus, where you're trapped and basically can't do anything about it, your time is yours as soon as you get home, which almost anybody would prefer. I did homework at home maybe one night a week when I was in high school, mainly because I got it done while I was still at school. Same idea - it's a study hall.
Of course, I never rode a bus...
I can think of a vast number of trips in the car that I experienced as a child that would have been improved a million-fold by the presence of a movie. Driving is usually boring. I did a lot of reading on trips, but that was trouble on long trips - I wouldn't always finish the book when we were near a major metro area.
Most things that kids get dragged along to are things that the adults really don't want the kids around for - like grocery runs - but that would be too expensive to hire a babysitter for every time you wanted to do them. Couple that with increased expectations of supervision by the authorities (see here; Illinois requires supervision at all times for all kids under 14, and the site and several states' CPS suggest that children should be 12 before they're ever left alone), and you've got kids spending a lot more time in the car than thirty years ago. I was left home alone by 7 or 8 for short trips, by 10 for several-hour blocks, and by 12 I was babysitting my sister all day during the summer. I also walked home from school, about a mile, from third grade on. (If the weather was nice, I'd ride my bike both ways, but I liked to sleep late too much to wake up early enough to walk there.)
in large measure people can speak with good diction and pronounciation.
I wonder to what degree this is an artifact of Hollywood and the BBC pushing out their bland accents - as an American, I find it easy to understand RP, but a lot of casual British speech (e.g., on radio shows meant for domestic consumption) is very difficult for me to understand unless I've been listening to a lot of it lately.
Just about everyone is capable of some degree of accent- and code-switching, and American accents have become much, much more uniform than they were in my grandparents' time - idioms (and consonants - like rhoticity, or the presence or absence of yod dropping) are really the place where regional variations still show up.
The lack of interest in learning other languages can and will lead to embarrassing situations...
The bigger problem for most people is practicing the language; most Americans will only encounter significant numbers of speakers of working-class, highly idiomatic, Indian-influenced Spanish. Those in New York and New England have the opportunity to learn Canadian French, a language that other French speakers will find archaic. It's definitely easier to keep up your skills than it used to be, with the Internet, but it's still difficult.
The problem is getting the software to work as well with Southerners from the US or Scottish people.
It's a problem of inputs. I'm a native Mississippian. When I was in high school (early 90s), a friend of mine had an older brother who worked for IBM designing their first voice-operated phone tree systems. He brought out a list of about 100 words and asked people to call an 800 number and read them off to train the system on Southern accents.
FWIW, you can have a pretty significant effect on Google's system just by using GOOG-411 repetitively; I've trained it in how to pronounce a local restaurant correctly (the pronunciation is not entirely intuitive).
Yes, it's illegal to gamble online in the US. The primary method of enforcement is via credit card payments; the banks that issue the cards are in the US, so the law can reach them.
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Must have been a lot of Crown Royal. Or was it K&B brand? ;)
You use it. I use it. Normal people don't use it like you and I do.
They don't realize that Google will correct their misspellings, show them maps, translate languages, define words, track flights, and show them street views with reviews of places. My mother in law is the target of this ad, because she's one of the millions of people who don't realize what all this amazing technology will do for us. (And it is amazing.)
My parent post was rated -1 Troll and -1 Overrated. Keep that in mind when thinking about the IPCC and global warming predictions: the advocates can't even stand it when someone who fundamentally agrees with them points out where they totally screwed up.
Why did it make it through in the first place? When partisan think tanks make serious mistakes, they're allowed to do corrections. When scientific institutions do it, they lose credibility. Which one is the IPCC?
My dream combination is : -intelligent up to date professors with .pdf or .pptx with the diagrams and such
Depends on what you're studying. In college, this is probably a good method, because you're trying to get a great GPA. In grad school, it's probably less useful - because your learning focus has shifted, and what's most important is that you understand everything fully. I've given both powerpoint and chalk talk lectures, and the chalk talks have been more popular.
I feel that students are often too busy writing when I'd rather they were listening and/or thinking. It might help if they were merely marking up the text instead.
The problem is that if you provide notes for the students and request that they follow your lecture as a learning and discussion process instead, they'll just start taking notes on the notes and assiduously recording every example you state. At least, that's the case in preprofessional programs where your GPA is more important than what you learn (pre-med in particular is guilty of this).
Too bad they managed to get the baby thrown out with the bathwater, eh?
Because you don't get to take public money and then ignore the law? It can't be that hard to get a few million out of George Soros.
Furthermore, it's not like they just ignored it - they were actively hiding things from FOI.
You can believe that the proposed mechanism of global warming is correct and that the earth has gotten warmer - and still believe that a scam was perpetrated upon the public. Because it was.
When the big names on one side of the debate turn out to be engaged in avoiding freedom-of-information requests, carrying on back-channel actions like squeezing people out of journals, and making ridiculous claims about Himalayan glaciers, it weakens their case. That doesn't mean global warming isn't happening; it's just the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Why is this modded funny? Funny would have been "Well, the Today Show said it was network news."
You're right. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
admittedly I have yet to use the Nook or other such devices
Try an e-Ink screen. It's great. You have to read a lot to make it worth your while to buy an e-Ink reader, but unless you're one of the few who can read LCD all day and all night without eyestrain, it's a real pleasure to use.
And yet, those who watched the O'Reilly Factor were broadly comparable (51% vs 54% max of any show) in percent of viewers who scored "high", and did better than NPR listeners (mid vs low categories). The show with the greatest percentage of "low" scorers was... the Jim Lehrer NewsHour. The lowest scorer among "high knowledge" was... network news. In fact, O'Reilly's viewers had the smallest percentage with a "low" knowledge of any source whatsoever.
In other words, news junkies are better informed about various political hot topics (because that's what the survey measured) than people who don't give a damn, and the show that they watch is pretty much irrelevant. If you don't like Fox's opinionists, watch CNN. And vice versa. Odds are, you'll be just as well informed.
Stipulate that it's a bench trial. I still don't see him checking into the motel and eating gas-station sandwiches provided by the county.
you had to file a written application for exemption and receive a certificate of exemption to be certain that you are formally released from attendance in the event of selection of jury service.
No, I didn't. Not all jurisdictions are the same.
ignore the absurdity
You're the one who suggested that age didn't matter.
old people are less likely to change them
This applies to their good ideas as well as their old ones.
Look, you believe wholeheartedly in your ideas. You want to assert that we should be happy to take a trivial honorarium for our jury service. I disagree. That's it.
As for why... was 43 when sworn in.
This isn't law review. I'm absolutely not interested in your expositions on the law, because I'm not making a point about the fucking law. I'm making a point about how things ought to be, in My Perfect World(tm). Your Perfect World(tm) may vary considerably.