Places like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, more often than not, is more about getting to learn the right people rather than just subjects. Some people people try to network/schmooze a million other people in some pathetic attempt to advance, going to these schools allows you access to colleague that will be in the advanced ranks in coming years and have them see you as one of their own.
Of course, exceptional people can overcome that, but that requires extra work, and comparing 2 people who are pretty much the same, the one who went to the right schools has a definite advantage. Another aspect of that is the old "nobody got fired for buying IBM" type thinking.
This may have been more effective before the holidays. And actively talk people out of stuff. "Oh, that's a nice TV you're looking at. Did you know Vizio sells that size for half the price and better specs?"
As big a fan I am of Steve, his golden touch is with physical objects. I don't know if he understands search. Would gmail, my favorite google product, have been free to the general public or behind a paywall destined for obscurity forever?
I'm hesistant to say more, because he showed with NeXT an understanding of software, so I can't fault him with that, although I can't grasp OS X gui or some mac software beyond the basic, how to do things I take for granted in Windows as trivial methods easily discovered.
IMO, it wouldn't have turned out well for either party. Like putting a soda executive in charge of a computer company.
I've read that every gallon of corn ethanol takes a gallon of gasoline to produce. It also takes about 1870 gallons of water for that amount of corn to grow. A decreasing water table has been a fact in the midwest for decades.
Ethanol is also harder on engines. And according to consumer reports, mpg is worse on the standard 0.9 gasoline 0.1 ethanol mix than if you just took the decrease amount of gas w/o ethanol. (I.e. 10 gallons of mix gas takes you less distance than 9 gallons pure gasoline.) This means even more pollution.
I really can't figure out why so many states are going to this stuff, who have no significant corn industry to push it. It's just really stupid.
Most tea partiers just want less government spending. Considering that 1997's entire US federal budget equals 2011's deficit, I'd say they have good reasons.
Actually, Yuengling just a a basic anglonization of the word Jüngling or "Youth" and probably was the last name of the original owners. Umlauts in english are typical expressed as the basic letter plue e, so ue in this case. The 'J' was changed to 'Y' simply because it was closer to the actual pronunciation of the German 'J'. We don't say our 'J's like jeep or juggling. Carl Jung is a good example of the actual pronunciation.
I find it quite interesting that computers have gotten to the point that just about anybody can put one together from parts, but that cars have gone in completely the opposite direction.
The average desktop computer is an unwieldy behemoth compared to a sleek laptop.
A desktop computer can use standard parts because the specs rarely change. Drives will be 3.5" wide, regardless if its cd/dvd/bluray/hdd. Even SDD, which most adhere to the 2.5" laptop size, will come with railings to get into the 3.5" space. You can dedicate space for the PSU, and the motherboard is usally ATX. You need to keep space free for any cards and for air circulation. A functional case from the late 90s won't be much different than a case today, except IDE cables turned into SATA.
OTOH, Vehicles have the same needs as notebooks. To compete on looks and a premium on space. They can't keep standards on things for 20+ years. Apple even designs their own motherboards and I guess the other manufacturer do as well. They can't agree on the standard, because advances make the minimum size a shifting target so shapes have to change. Notebooks and cars usually also need the exact same part in order to make repairs, so modularity, a strength of the PC, is out.
It would be interesting to have a car platform based on PC philosophy. Modularity and whatnot. I'd imagine it would be an electrically driven vehicle that can accept input from a variety of battery or generation from a fueled engine. It's body replaceable to perform a variety of tasks. I believe ford was working on such a future platform but cannot find it.
I had a younger cousin around 16 who came to visit from Europe. My friend and next door neighbor suggested that my cousin meet her daughter and another friend and that they go out and have a good time somewhere. Well, the daughter was so buried into her phone texting her friends that she hardly even spoke to my cousin (who knew perfect English) and not even to her other friend. I met her once. I have the feeling that when she is with her friends she texts in real life, she'd bury her head into her phone and start texting someone else.
I think, by allowing us to seek out the ideal people with our exact interests at the moment, the internet allows us to get into the mindset to discount the people around us as less worthwhile to interact with.
I think the real story is how the advanced education system is utterly failing America. It's a giant, expensive colossus that suck young people into debt and then, when they do get out, many of them don't even go into the profession they trained for. This all smacks to me of a racket. Now, after 12+ (add kindergarten) of education, the college industry sold this country into the premise that you aren't good enough to work a decent job. That you need at least 4+ years at an expensive school that may or may not even tangentially train you for your eventual profession, to even break into the workforce. It reminds me of the DeBeers diamond racket and how they attack the (American) consumer with psychological ads until the general public builds up an emotional and mental picture, wholly inaccurate, of the meaning, rarity, and value of diamonds wholly self-serving to that industry.
The college industry is the same. It's fine for some professions, and liberal arts may be grand for some people to pursue. But now it's branching everywhere. They even convinced cooks in some places to take forms of college and for a ton of money and with mostly theory and a lot less practical experience. Truthfully, I like the German system much better. For many hands on jobs there, you get an apprenticeship, you take a few weeks of classes (theory) each "semester" and then more weeks of practical on-the-job training. You don't pay, you get paid (a small amount, maybe room and board).
I think it would be way better for most people to get some work after high school and find out what they like doing, and be offered by their employers training courses that can eventually be credited towards a degree (if we really stay addicted to this paper fetish).
But with Khan Academy showing education doesn't need to be exclusive, labor intensive on part of the teacher, or expensive, why do I have a feeling that we'll keep throwing kids into college right after high school, at ever increasing prices, for a dubious return when they get an iota of real-world experience and decide they'd much rather do something else?
And now that I think about it, that's what enforces the message - the perception that the messenger is some type of authority figure. In peer groups, the "older kids" will be followed, whether it's advice on girls or doing some type of mischief. Various regimes and religions around the world, past and present, actually spout an ideology that isn't too different from these game, but since they have "legitimacy", even the so-called smart adults follow them.
So it seems, the old adage, don't let the TV or the video game become the parent. Spend time with the kids, and the rest, is all true.
I see. However, the number of children who would get such a message from a fictional piece of entertainment are few in number, I think. That number can be thinned even further if they have responsible parents. What you're likely left with is a few children who do get this message, but they are so few in number that they are likely not worth worrying about (well, in the sense that games should be censored or banned for children, anyway).
Even adults can get dumb messages they believe from entertainment. How many people pick up a fad they first saw on TV, or pickup lines, or political beliefs whether from news or from fictional storylines? To think that children are only effected is silly.
Yeah, the average person that sees Batman might think it's silly, but then someone can watch kick-ass and think "Maybe vigilantism really is okay" or something like that.
I don't think adults are more logical thinkers than kids or more immune to it necessarily, they just have more experience and recognition/fear of some type of consequences.
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Places like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, more often than not, is more about getting to learn the right people rather than just subjects. Some people people try to network/schmooze a million other people in some pathetic attempt to advance, going to these schools allows you access to colleague that will be in the advanced ranks in coming years and have them see you as one of their own.
Right now, most SC justices are from Yale/Harvard despite the fact that most SC justices historically never even graduated from law school:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/DC-Decoder/2010/0511/Elena-Kagan-not-a-judge-Well-at-least-she-went-to-law-school
Of course, exceptional people can overcome that, but that requires extra work, and comparing 2 people who are pretty much the same, the one who went to the right schools has a definite advantage. Another aspect of that is the old "nobody got fired for buying IBM" type thinking.
IMO, shitty drivers should not bring down a computer.
This may have been more effective before the holidays. And actively talk people out of stuff. "Oh, that's a nice TV you're looking at. Did you know Vizio sells that size for half the price and better specs?"
However, he also knows how to push people who come to him with a substandard product. Brilliant people can still put forward crappy work if allowed.
And we're better off with both of them.
As big a fan I am of Steve, his golden touch is with physical objects. I don't know if he understands search. Would gmail, my favorite google product, have been free to the general public or behind a paywall destined for obscurity forever?
I'm hesistant to say more, because he showed with NeXT an understanding of software, so I can't fault him with that, although I can't grasp OS X gui or some mac software beyond the basic, how to do things I take for granted in Windows as trivial methods easily discovered.
IMO, it wouldn't have turned out well for either party. Like putting a soda executive in charge of a computer company.
Actually, I want less military spending and all that too.
The core of Tea Partiers were Ron Paul supporters and weren't exactly pro-Republican establishment. (Until Fox and the RNC took it over).
We already have an efficient engine type that fits those exact characteristics, the stirling engine. (Maybe this new one is much lighter).
I've read that every gallon of corn ethanol takes a gallon of gasoline to produce. It also takes about 1870 gallons of water for that amount of corn to grow. A decreasing water table has been a fact in the midwest for decades.
Ethanol is also harder on engines. And according to consumer reports, mpg is worse on the standard 0.9 gasoline 0.1 ethanol mix than if you just took the decrease amount of gas w/o ethanol. (I.e. 10 gallons of mix gas takes you less distance than 9 gallons pure gasoline.) This means even more pollution.
I really can't figure out why so many states are going to this stuff, who have no significant corn industry to push it. It's just really stupid.
Most tea partiers just want less government spending. Considering that 1997's entire US federal budget equals 2011's deficit, I'd say they have good reasons.
Germans seem to have designed or had a major hand in the majority of major combustion engines:
Nikolaus Otto - (4 stroke)
Otto Diesel
Felix Wankel
Hopefully, Norbert Mueller's engine is actually good enough to be added to this list:) Time will tell.
Yes, he's a member of a Segway Polo team.
Actually, Yuengling just a a basic anglonization of the word Jüngling or "Youth" and probably was the last name of the original owners. Umlauts in english are typical expressed as the basic letter plue e, so ue in this case. The 'J' was changed to 'Y' simply because it was closer to the actual pronunciation of the German 'J'. We don't say our 'J's like jeep or juggling. Carl Jung is a good example of the actual pronunciation.
I have read in history books that the Chinese have been faking antiquities already 5,000 years ago!
At least, once financial well-being is established?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Instead, it's supposed to be independence, recognition, and other such things?
All I see is jobs losses reach a climax and then recede. It doesn't show me anything about why or what.
So, please explain because you come off as a partisan shill.
No, just normal gasoline.
The average desktop computer is an unwieldy behemoth compared to a sleek laptop.
A desktop computer can use standard parts because the specs rarely change. Drives will be 3.5" wide, regardless if its cd/dvd/bluray/hdd. Even SDD, which most adhere to the 2.5" laptop size, will come with railings to get into the 3.5" space. You can dedicate space for the PSU, and the motherboard is usally ATX. You need to keep space free for any cards and for air circulation. A functional case from the late 90s won't be much different than a case today, except IDE cables turned into SATA.
OTOH, Vehicles have the same needs as notebooks. To compete on looks and a premium on space. They can't keep standards on things for 20+ years. Apple even designs their own motherboards and I guess the other manufacturer do as well. They can't agree on the standard, because advances make the minimum size a shifting target so shapes have to change. Notebooks and cars usually also need the exact same part in order to make repairs, so modularity, a strength of the PC, is out.
It would be interesting to have a car platform based on PC philosophy. Modularity and whatnot. I'd imagine it would be an electrically driven vehicle that can accept input from a variety of battery or generation from a fueled engine. It's body replaceable to perform a variety of tasks. I believe ford was working on such a future platform but cannot find it.
I had Benzes from the late 80s and 90s with this throttle delay, where the engine seemed to take a second to respond.
I had a younger cousin around 16 who came to visit from Europe. My friend and next door neighbor suggested that my cousin meet her daughter and another friend and that they go out and have a good time somewhere. Well, the daughter was so buried into her phone texting her friends that she hardly even spoke to my cousin (who knew perfect English) and not even to her other friend. I met her once. I have the feeling that when she is with her friends she texts in real life, she'd bury her head into her phone and start texting someone else.
I think, by allowing us to seek out the ideal people with our exact interests at the moment, the internet allows us to get into the mindset to discount the people around us as less worthwhile to interact with.
I think the real story is how the advanced education system is utterly failing America. It's a giant, expensive colossus that suck young people into debt and then, when they do get out, many of them don't even go into the profession they trained for. This all smacks to me of a racket. Now, after 12+ (add kindergarten) of education, the college industry sold this country into the premise that you aren't good enough to work a decent job. That you need at least 4+ years at an expensive school that may or may not even tangentially train you for your eventual profession, to even break into the workforce. It reminds me of the DeBeers diamond racket and how they attack the (American) consumer with psychological ads until the general public builds up an emotional and mental picture, wholly inaccurate, of the meaning, rarity, and value of diamonds wholly self-serving to that industry.
The college industry is the same. It's fine for some professions, and liberal arts may be grand for some people to pursue. But now it's branching everywhere. They even convinced cooks in some places to take forms of college and for a ton of money and with mostly theory and a lot less practical experience. Truthfully, I like the German system much better. For many hands on jobs there, you get an apprenticeship, you take a few weeks of classes (theory) each "semester" and then more weeks of practical on-the-job training. You don't pay, you get paid (a small amount, maybe room and board).
I think it would be way better for most people to get some work after high school and find out what they like doing, and be offered by their employers training courses that can eventually be credited towards a degree (if we really stay addicted to this paper fetish).
But with Khan Academy showing education doesn't need to be exclusive, labor intensive on part of the teacher, or expensive, why do I have a feeling that we'll keep throwing kids into college right after high school, at ever increasing prices, for a dubious return when they get an iota of real-world experience and decide they'd much rather do something else?
FTFY.
Those are perfect examples.
And now that I think about it, that's what enforces the message - the perception that the messenger is some type of authority figure. In peer groups, the "older kids" will be followed, whether it's advice on girls or doing some type of mischief. Various regimes and religions around the world, past and present, actually spout an ideology that isn't too different from these game, but since they have "legitimacy", even the so-called smart adults follow them.
So it seems, the old adage, don't let the TV or the video game become the parent. Spend time with the kids, and the rest, is all true.
Even adults can get dumb messages they believe from entertainment. How many people pick up a fad they first saw on TV, or pickup lines, or political beliefs whether from news or from fictional storylines? To think that children are only effected is silly.
Yeah, the average person that sees Batman might think it's silly, but then someone can watch kick-ass and think "Maybe vigilantism really is okay" or something like that.
I don't think adults are more logical thinkers than kids or more immune to it necessarily, they just have more experience and recognition/fear of some type of consequences.
Ditch your palms and buy an iPhone or Android. It's not worth the bother cleaning them up.