I keep seeing "teach people to write to their audience."
One of my current projects, along with craming for finals, is editing a presentation on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance that will be presented at a liberal arts college. Obviously I'm adjusting content for my audience. But there I just skipped the magic step, assessing the audience.
Writing to your audience is pretty hard if you don't know how to dial in who you audience is. For example, my partner and I looked at what we had and said, "Okay, there will be mostly science people at this symposium, but there will be a lot of social science people and a non-science people can wander through. Combine with the fact that we had to shrink our poster down, we decided to assume that anyone who really cared about the math will aleady know about 80% of background. That space was used for broad, conceptual explantions of theory.
Where as when this was presented a few weeks ago at a dedicated research symposium, we went buck-wild on the math, because we knew that the people there would understand and appreciate the nuance.
How did we know who would like what? Other than just looking at the groups and thinking, I'm not sure, but that is an area that deserves thought.
Take a look at cell phone providers, and their offerings... Have you noticed that the ones that tend to have better phone service tend to offer fewer other enticements?
I'm going to pick on T-mobile and Singular based on feedback from friends who use either service, spread across 4 states. Based on the adds, these two offer some of the widest array of features, like Family-Share plans and Rollover minutes. Based on why my friends tell me, they are also two of the absolute worst service carriers on the market. One friend put it this way, "If you need to call 911, your better off just screaming at the top of your lungs."
Now look at Verizon and Nextel. Other than the Walkie-talkie and GPS(which doesn't work very well), Nextel is pretty darn spartan with what they offer, but they have relativly good phone service and the walkie-talkie will let you communicate with far lesser signal than phone service. And up until recently all Verizon has offered has been flat-out better phone service.
The point of this rant is, I call for a vote:
All those who want a gait sensing cell phone, raise your hand. All those who would rather that R&D money goes into making my calls clearer, raise your hand.
Personally I believe that this is a case of only the lawless need fear the law.
And what about the clueless? I can name five Windows users who couldn't tell you if they had anything in a shared folder or not under threat of torture, and I can do that buy reading the first five names in my PDA!
I would have hoped that the failure of mandatory minimums for crack possesion have shown us that mandatory minimums aren't the solution.
My big concern is that there are many people with legitamite reasons for having a copy of something, but are technolgical quakers being punished by this law.
And while it's on my mind, does the text of the bill have a clear definition of "shared?" Or are people going to prosecuted for not taking sufficient steps to secure their system?
6. And please, PLEASE stop releasing albums sang by dead artists (Tupac and the likes) every week! THEY'RE DEAD!!
Are you sure? I seem to recall an observation that Tupac has released almost as many new songs in the time since his "death," as he did when he was alive.
How many songs has new Elvis songs have been released since his death? One or two.
I'm not saying anything but this; Things that make you go, hmmmm.
I can't think of any one aspect of Beast Wars that had me thinking, "What were those animators smoking when they did this?"
Mainframe did, in my estimation, an job with Beast Wars. I never really thought about how good they really were until I started watching Energon.
So long as whoever is directing grabs whoever is animating, puts them down in front of the Beast Wars DVD collection and says, "Do it this well or better, or I'll beat you with a wet noodle," I think the visuals should be okay.
Price and availability of the E-book readers will be an impediment.
Let me put it tis way, when writing a paper, I have will have my sources layed out around me on whatever horizontal surface is available. I think it's going to be a while before any E-book system can open another document, on a specific page, faster than I can move my eyeball. I also underline, circle, highlight, and flag the books I'm working with.
Based on what I've said so far, any slashdotter could go to my shelf, grab my copy of Norton's Anthology of British Literature, flip through and with a reasonable degree of confidence figure out which documents I have read, and take an educated guess at those that I have for a paper.
Okay, I've strayed a bit. My original point was that I like to be able to spread my material out. You can't do that on a computer or an E-book reader. You can have dual, or even triple monitors, but that doesn't help when you are working with 15 sources.
Okay, that went rather far afield of the topic, which was DVD's vs some form of broadband delivered movie... My thoughts on that... Lemme get back to you on that.
I agree with you on that one. Nothing keeps you sharp like somebody looking to kick your butt. My mod points expired yesterday, otherwise I would 1+ you on that thought.
Be advised, I am not trying to dispute anyone else's advice. Everyone's experience depends very greatly on the individual dog, and the owners.
My household has always had good luck with dogs that have herding blood in them. Herding dogs like Collies, German Shepherds, and Newfinlands have several very desirable traits.
1. There are intelligent and very trainable.
2. They tend to be very good with children.
I had a shepherd/Husky mix growing up that would actually follow babies if they wander out of the room and guide them back to the room with the most people
3. They also get very protective of the people they "chose," and of their territory. Example, if my mother's German Shepherd got into a car, that car now belongs to my mother. If anyone else tried to open the door they got a very loud and very clear "No tresspassing" message.
I advise against buying a firearm for home protection, unless you take several follow-up steps.
1. Make sure to have a secure method of storing the weapon and ammo.
2. Find and attend a course in weapon safety.(Most of these courses are just common sense, but every now and again you learn something new)
3. Find a shooting range where you can regularly practice using your firearm. If I don't get any practice for 2 or 3 weeks, I notice the difference. 4. This one is critical. Teach every member of your household about gun safety.
I know I'm going to get roasted for saying this, but here goes: If you keep a firearm in the house, I recomend that you get a BB gun and start teaching any children older than 7 or 8 how to safely handle a weapon. Don't simply take a child to a range and try to scare them out of touching a gun. That can backfire. You want to teach them to understand and respect firearms.
Lemme see if I'm tracking all this correctly.
Kung Fu Cinema had a link to a site where you can purchase a copyof this Jet Li movie. I'm guessing that this copy is in the original language. If I were to go to that site, and buy this movie, I would be paying full price, plus shipping for a movie. My high school economics teacher defined "buying" as Party A giving Party B some form of currency and in return Party B then gives Party A some form of goods and/or serviced. Now assuming that you all agree with that definition, on what grounds does Mirimax order this C&D? I am giving Party B money, and they are giving me goods, which I assume the acquired in a legal fashion. Because this is a foreign film, I don't see where Mirimax has a juristiction over the original version. They would have all kinds of rights over the English version but not the original. Can anybody explain this too me?
I think the implication here is that websites designed to circumvent this form of ad blocking may become the norm. Much the same way that pop-ups became the mode of choice when advertisers decided banners weren't enough Personally I'm far mor interested in killing a pop-up than actually reading, but on the other hand I've actually clicked on banners and spent money.
I've been using a laptop to take notes for a few years now. I recomend using MS Word's automatic Outline Number format to keep things nice and clean.
The other thing that I find is really helpful is when a teacher assigns a presentation, I make a power point. If you can make a good powerpoint, then you have a good understanding of the material.
I understand some of the logic for Microsoft's Product Activation system.
I get the whole activation after installation, but what I don't get is the shut-down part.
The prog will take a snap-shot of your hardware upon installation. Then if you hardware changes too much it will shut you down. Will the system stay functioning if you make a number of changes over time, or is it just the number of hardware changes that sets it off?
Either way, the program will still detect a number of recongized components. So how does it come to the conclusion that it has been pirated?
At the risk of anthropomorphizing, until software is installed, it has no awareness. Once it is installed, it becomes aware of the hardware it is installed on. Pirated software is the same way, it is unaware of anything until it is first installed. Then once it is installed, it also becomes aware.
All that said, what is the logic that was used when Microsoft decided that if software detects a number of hardware changes, it has been pirated.
The best analogy I can think of is a person and their clone. Until you go to an outside source, there both the person and the clone will think they are the original. But Microsoft's deacivation system would be like the original person getting a heart & lung transplant and their immune system decides that they are now a clone.
Can anybody explain this to me?
I've been working on that for about a year now. the snag is that everytime I get close one of my proffessors has the nerve to assign a 15 page paper due in a week or some such thing.
I just want to see if I understand this...
If I agree to this new EULA, and then commit acts such as genocide(not "of genocide," but genocide. I'm sure we all remember the Clinton administration's problems with the distinction.), homophobic or racial violence, kidnapping or reading some elses mail, I would not only be in violation of various city, county, state, federal, and international laws, but my software license is now void too?
I admire their vision but this is a little ridiculous. These things are already crimes!
Besides, there is another software company we all know an loathe, who has weird conditions in their EULA's. Remember how we feel about them!
Who exactly has declared it a theft to block pop ups? Was there a court decision? What legal precedent(s) were consulted? Is there a law journal where I can read up on this?
Or is this like the president of Ford calling me a theif because I drive a Jeep, not a FORD Exploder?
It's been a while since I read a Microspaz EULA, but if I remember correctly Microsoft is really under no legal obligation to provide any support at this point.
All the would have to support is current versions of Word.
Granted I think that's a load of horse-pucky!
It just amazes me how a company could make so much money selling such flawed product.
Let's look at the logic behind some of these bans.
Cell phones while driving: Actually the law applies to anything that could distract the driver. This includes eating, applying make-up, changing one's clothes, etc. This law is a "safety law" It was put into effect because our elected officials wanted people concentrating on the road, not a conversation with someone, who is elsewhere.
Smoking in buildings/resturants: The issue here is primarily a safetly issue, not a comfort issue. Comfort is part of it but not totally. the goal behind this law is to prevent exposure to second-hand smoke.
I happen to agree with both of those laws
This proposed ban is like trying to legislate courtesty. This is wrong. If you look at the current interpretations of the Bill of Rights, Freedoms of speech, and expression, are protected, so long as they do not impinge on the rights/safety of others. With that in mind, this ban at public performances is in fact unConstitutional. If this were cell phone ban at public performances where there is an element of danger involved, then there is room to work. If you ringing cell phone distracts the knife juggler and he looses a finger...
Ja, waiting until November will net you the special edition DVD. Remember there are two more movies coming out. Both of those will also have regular edition DVD's and a few months later, the "Special Edition." But wait, there's more. After all three movies are out, there is going to be the "Special Collector's Director's Edition"*. I plan to wait for that.
*I do not have any special knowledge to this effect, just some logic and cynicism have lead me to this conclusion. So don't ask me for URLs.
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One of my current projects, along with craming for finals, is editing a presentation on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance that will be presented at a liberal arts college. Obviously I'm adjusting content for my audience. But there I just skipped the magic step, assessing the audience.
Writing to your audience is pretty hard if you don't know how to dial in who you audience is. For example, my partner and I looked at what we had and said, "Okay, there will be mostly science people at this symposium, but there will be a lot of social science people and a non-science people can wander through. Combine with the fact that we had to shrink our poster down, we decided to assume that anyone who really cared about the math will aleady know about 80% of background. That space was used for broad, conceptual explantions of theory.
Where as when this was presented a few weeks ago at a dedicated research symposium, we went buck-wild on the math, because we knew that the people there would understand and appreciate the nuance.
How did we know who would like what? Other than just looking at the groups and thinking, I'm not sure, but that is an area that deserves thought.
I am speaking for the New York/New Jersey/Penn/Ct. area
I'm going to pick on T-mobile and Singular based on feedback from friends who use either service, spread across 4 states. Based on the adds, these two offer some of the widest array of features, like Family-Share plans and Rollover minutes. Based on why my friends tell me, they are also two of the absolute worst service carriers on the market. One friend put it this way, "If you need to call 911, your better off just screaming at the top of your lungs."
Now look at Verizon and Nextel. Other than the Walkie-talkie and GPS(which doesn't work very well), Nextel is pretty darn spartan with what they offer, but they have relativly good phone service and the walkie-talkie will let you communicate with far lesser signal than phone service. And up until recently all Verizon has offered has been flat-out better phone service.
The point of this rant is, I call for a vote:
All those who want a gait sensing cell phone, raise your hand.
All those who would rather that R&D money goes into making my calls clearer, raise your hand.
I would have hoped that the failure of mandatory minimums for crack possesion have shown us that mandatory minimums aren't the solution.
My big concern is that there are many people with legitamite reasons for having a copy of something, but are technolgical quakers being punished by this law.
And while it's on my mind, does the text of the bill have a clear definition of "shared?" Or are people going to prosecuted for not taking sufficient steps to secure their system?
How many songs has new Elvis songs have been released since his death? One or two.
I'm not saying anything but this; Things that make you go, hmmmm.
Mainframe did, in my estimation, an job with Beast Wars. I never really thought about how good they really were until I started watching Energon.
So long as whoever is directing grabs whoever is animating, puts them down in front of the Beast Wars DVD collection and says, "Do it this well or better, or I'll beat you with a wet noodle," I think the visuals should be okay.
But if they screw up Grimlock, I'm going to be majorly cheesed!
Let me put it tis way, when writing a paper, I have will have my sources layed out around me on whatever horizontal surface is available. I think it's going to be a while before any E-book system can open another document, on a specific page, faster than I can move my eyeball. I also underline, circle, highlight, and flag the books I'm working with.
Based on what I've said so far, any slashdotter could go to my shelf, grab my copy of Norton's Anthology of British Literature, flip through and with a reasonable degree of confidence figure out which documents I have read, and take an educated guess at those that I have for a paper.
Okay, I've strayed a bit.
My original point was that I like to be able to spread my material out. You can't do that on a computer or an E-book reader. You can have dual, or even triple monitors, but that doesn't help when you are working with 15 sources.
Okay, that went rather far afield of the topic, which was DVD's vs some form of broadband delivered movie... My thoughts on that... Lemme get back to you on that.
I agree with you on that one. Nothing keeps you sharp like somebody looking to kick your butt. My mod points expired yesterday, otherwise I would 1+ you on that thought.
A friend's computer is virtually unusable because something corrupted IE, and that in turn broke Windows Explorer.
My household has always had good luck with dogs that have herding blood in them.
Herding dogs like Collies, German Shepherds, and Newfinlands have several very desirable traits.
2. They tend to be very good with children.
- I had a shepherd/Husky mix growing up that would actually follow babies if they wander out of the room and guide them back to the room with the most people
3. They also get very protective of the people they "chose," and of their territory. Example, if my mother's German Shepherd got into a car, that car now belongs to my mother. If anyone else tried to open the door they got a very loud and very clear "No tresspassing" message.2. Find and attend a course in weapon safety.(Most of these courses are just common sense, but every now and again you learn something new)
3. Find a shooting range where you can regularly practice using your firearm. If I don't get any practice for 2 or 3 weeks, I notice the difference.
4. This one is critical. Teach every member of your household about gun safety.
Lemme see if I'm tracking all this correctly.
Kung Fu Cinema had a link to a site where you can purchase a copyof this Jet Li movie. I'm guessing that this copy is in the original language.
If I were to go to that site, and buy this movie, I would be paying full price, plus shipping for a movie.
My high school economics teacher defined "buying" as Party A giving Party B some form of currency and in return Party B then gives Party A some form of goods and/or serviced.
Now assuming that you all agree with that definition, on what grounds does Mirimax order this C&D? I am giving Party B money, and they are giving me goods, which I assume the acquired in a legal fashion. Because this is a foreign film, I don't see where Mirimax has a juristiction over the original version. They would have all kinds of rights over the English version but not the original.
Can anybody explain this too me?
I think the implication here is that websites designed to circumvent this form of ad blocking may become the norm.
Much the same way that pop-ups became the mode of choice when advertisers decided banners weren't enough
Personally I'm far mor interested in killing a pop-up than actually reading, but on the other hand I've actually clicked on banners and spent money.
The other thing that I find is really helpful is when a teacher assigns a presentation, I make a power point. If you can make a good powerpoint, then you have a good understanding of the material.
I understand some of the logic for Microsoft's Product Activation system. I get the whole activation after installation, but what I don't get is the shut-down part. The prog will take a snap-shot of your hardware upon installation. Then if you hardware changes too much it will shut you down. Will the system stay functioning if you make a number of changes over time, or is it just the number of hardware changes that sets it off? Either way, the program will still detect a number of recongized components. So how does it come to the conclusion that it has been pirated? At the risk of anthropomorphizing, until software is installed, it has no awareness. Once it is installed, it becomes aware of the hardware it is installed on. Pirated software is the same way, it is unaware of anything until it is first installed. Then once it is installed, it also becomes aware. All that said, what is the logic that was used when Microsoft decided that if software detects a number of hardware changes, it has been pirated. The best analogy I can think of is a person and their clone. Until you go to an outside source, there both the person and the clone will think they are the original. But Microsoft's deacivation system would be like the original person getting a heart & lung transplant and their immune system decides that they are now a clone. Can anybody explain this to me?
I've been working on that for about a year now. the snag is that everytime I get close one of my proffessors has the nerve to assign a 15 page paper due in a week or some such thing.
Can you help me out?
Nkuzmik
I just want to see if I understand this... If I agree to this new EULA, and then commit acts such as genocide(not "of genocide," but genocide. I'm sure we all remember the Clinton administration's problems with the distinction.), homophobic or racial violence, kidnapping or reading some elses mail, I would not only be in violation of various city, county, state, federal, and international laws, but my software license is now void too? I admire their vision but this is a little ridiculous. These things are already crimes! Besides, there is another software company we all know an loathe, who has weird conditions in their EULA's. Remember how we feel about them!
Who exactly has declared it a theft to block pop ups? Was there a court decision? What legal precedent(s) were consulted? Is there a law journal where I can read up on this? Or is this like the president of Ford calling me a theif because I drive a Jeep, not a FORD Exploder?
It's been a while since I read a Microspaz EULA, but if I remember correctly Microsoft is really under no legal obligation to provide any support at this point. All the would have to support is current versions of Word. Granted I think that's a load of horse-pucky! It just amazes me how a company could make so much money selling such flawed product.
Let's look at the logic behind some of these bans.
Cell phones while driving: Actually the law applies to anything that could distract the driver. This includes eating, applying make-up, changing one's clothes, etc. This law is a "safety law" It was put into effect because our elected officials wanted people concentrating on the road, not a conversation with someone, who is elsewhere.
Smoking in buildings/resturants: The issue here is primarily a safetly issue, not a comfort issue. Comfort is part of it but not totally. the goal behind this law is to prevent exposure to second-hand smoke.
I happen to agree with both of those laws
This proposed ban is like trying to legislate courtesty. This is wrong. If you look at the current interpretations of the Bill of Rights, Freedoms of speech, and expression, are protected, so long as they do not impinge on the rights/safety of others. With that in mind, this ban at public performances is in fact unConstitutional. If this were cell phone ban at public performances where there is an element of danger involved, then there is room to work. If you ringing cell phone distracts the knife juggler and he looses a finger...
Uh... Are we a little off topic here or am I just being to linear again?
Ja, waiting until November will net you the special edition DVD. Remember there are two more movies coming out. Both of those will also have regular edition DVD's and a few months later, the "Special Edition." But wait, there's more. After all three movies are out, there is going to be the "Special Collector's Director's Edition"*. I plan to wait for that. *I do not have any special knowledge to this effect, just some logic and cynicism have lead me to this conclusion. So don't ask me for URLs.
I think it's kind of funny that I saw this on Bad-@$$-Mo-Fo before I saw it here. www.badassmofo.com