I'd say it puts him in the category of "user who needs to be validated as a good person." (S)He knew that fell into "dream user" category, but felt the need to be told so by others anyway.
In some math class in high school (trig maybe?) I spoke with the teacher early in the year, and said that I would be listening and keeping up with the class, but that I'd probably be playing Tetris on my TI-86 during class. He said fine, as long as I did well on my tests. In later classes with different teachers, I didn't talk to them directly, but they mostly left me alone if I was playing around on my calculator, once they saw that I did well on the tests and could still even answer questions if called on randomly in class.
I'm willing to bet this is a backronym, and not the actual origin... and 'yay' is an acronym for "yippee and yahoo!"
an onomatopoeia representing the sound of capture sirens from online capture the flag games;
Unlikely.
a blend of wow and loot;
How does this even make sense?
a leetspeak mutation of whoo, what or root;
Still don't think so.
a corruption of root, shouted by hackers when they obtain root-level access in a targeted system.
Still no.
Really I think it's just a sound someone typed out one day online and it caught on. It was probably some idiosyncratic sound that original person liked to use in real life. It's one of those sounds whose meaning is clear just from the sound of it. You don't make a 'w00t' sound when you're sad unless you're being ironic. Trying to look further into it and come with ridiculous etymological explanations is getting really stupid and further and further from the likely truth.
Now you can see photos of everyone convicted of a DUI on a convenient website.
They advertise the site on TV, too... there's a nice shot of a lady, at home, looking at the website on her PC, shaking her head slowly in disapproval as she browses the gallery of offenders.
Check it out... click on a city... you can see a mugshot, name, blood alcohol level, date, and sentencing info. Fun!!!
You've got to admit that it sort of takes the prestige out of the announcement... "We found the oldest animal on Earth!!! 405 years old! But, uhh... we killed it."
The operation was a success... but the doctor died....
"but seriously, if I were to find the oldest known living creature in existance, I'd probably create an artificial home identical to where it was and leave it there for however many generations it takes for it to die naturally."
I'd take some pictures and put it back in its natural environment. For all we know an artificial home would be missing some unthought of factor that they need to live healthy lives... moonlight to guide biological cycles, or some kind of ocean currents or something...
It's not like the cure for cancer has just GOTTA be inside that clam shell! I don't think there really is any big scientific merit to this discovery other than a novelty factor. If scientists want to discover its secret to such a long life, examine a younger specimen of the same species. Or come up with a plan first.
Anyway... I truly can't say this surprises me one bit in the slightest. The concept of NOT shitting all over nature never really caught on very much with the human race.
So you could burn up your month's worth of data in 100 seconds at full throttle at 6Mbps? That would be $0.50/second.
What crap. 200 GB is waaaaaaay more reasonable. Just think of how many major and popular software downloads come in well over 75MB. Maybe they came up with that limit a decade ago and just haven't updated it since then to keep up with technology?
From your link: "[Watson] is 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really', and I know that this 'hot potato' is going to be difficult to address."
So basically, it's easy to read that as him saying that "black people are stupid".
"Hot potato" is an understatement. The notion of racial superiority/inferiority has proven disastrous for the human race.
The basic argument is that it's silly to think that separate populations had to evolve the same way mentally and physically. This is true. The issue is 'to what degree?': it needs context. On the time scales of the human race, how much differentiation could have even happened? I've read studies upon studies that cite how you are quite possibly more genetically similar to someone who is black (assuming you are white) than you are to your white neighbor. I.e., skin color is not a good measure of overall genetic differentiation. The migrations of populations is complicated. And when you get down to it, it seems more and more like the very concept of "race" is a myth. A few years ago, either Discover or SciAm even did a whole issue focusing on this topic.
Another major obstacle to consider is whether or not the scientists trying to prove that black people are of lower intelligence have a personal agenda... prejudice... bias. And what they hope to ultimately accomplish with their research? Second class citizenship for 'inferior' races? Or just the ability to discriminate based on race during employment screenings, as someone of an 'inferior' race may clearly be less eligible for the job?
It all stinks. And I wouldn't buy into what this guy says just based on the paranoia that there's some cover-up of the truth because of some desire for political correctness. If there were big differences among races in terms of intelligence, they would be well evident by now. As is, it seems to me the most important factor on intelligence is your environment.
Back on topic to the movie... I think the kids being raised in the idiot families certainly get a dose of that idiot culture from their parents, and that may be a more important factor than genetics. The movie doesn't address this, and it's really just a movie. The topic you touched upon with that link though, is a pretty serious matter.
My first one was also a Tandy CoCo2 with 64K RAM and a tape drive (no diskette). Later on in the mid to late 90s I got back into it and even bought a 512K CoCo3, which is the only one I have now. I used to take part in the mailing lists and everything on a semi-regular basis.
It's fun to take out now and again and feel the keyboard layout, look at the flashy cursor and green screen... or even dig out some of the program cassettes or ROM packs with some old sesame street games i played as a kid (or Konami's Pooyan... or some Imagic games like Demon Attack or Dragonfire).
I don't feel like coding on it though. I seem to recall hearing somewhere once that a CoCo controlled the fountain/light show at some Vegas casino. It's probably been updated though. I also once spotted a CoCo in an episode of Mr. Wizard's World (I think).
"There were 16 patent cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas in January 2007. That's one every other day. 75% were filed by trolls. Why do trolls like the Eastern District of Texas? That's easy. That district, comprised of courts in Marshall, Tyler, Texarkana, and other locales, consists of conservative jurors who think the government (and, by extension, the Patent Office) can do no wrong, and who favor patentees more than anywhere else in the country."
Also gay... but from my experience the % you perceive is highly influenced by your social circles.
At times it seemed to me that literally no one was gay... and 1 in 20 seemed like too many.
Other times from being around a lot of gay people, the number seemed much higher, since they were a higher % of my social circle.
And even other times it seemed like it must be way more than just 1 in 10, because I witnessed just how incredibly many closeted people are out there... and how people I know to be gay from actually having dated, get engaged to have a wife and kids and the straight closeted life.
Also don't confuse the 40% of people having same sex experiences with it being that many who self-identify as gay. I have friends who were completely interested in the same sex at a young age, and grew up to be straight. One of my friends even thought he was gay well into his 20's... until he tried it out, and realized, "oh, I guess I'm straight afterall."
It's a weird world. And sometimes it seems people like me who have no confusion about it, personally, are the ones who are REALLY in the minority.
Hmmm... something similar happened to me I guess regarding solution number 1.
I opened Terminal.app and went inside the.app file for Xslimmer (a program which strips away the unnecessary parts of universal binaries, and the multilanguage parts you don't use... to make the files smaller) and launched it with sudo, so that I could run it on the entire operating system.
When I restarted, the computer just seemed stalled on the white boot screen. I thought it was ruined for sure and I'd need to reinstall, but I left it just in case. After a few hours it actually did boot. And subsequent boots did not have that delay... it was back to normal. I wish I knew what it was doing during that boot that took so long. Maybe this is similar to what's going on here, if it's true that just letting it be for a few hours fixes the problem.
"Bud Dickman" made me a foe. And over-reacted to my comments instead of giving a thoughtful reply.
Regarding the basically one thing you said in response to what I said... why do you think local governments are better suited or able to fund education than the federal government? Shouldn't there be a high standard of education and well-funded schools everywhere across the country? Not just in the rich areas? Local funding of education means that poor areas fund their schools poorly, are taught by the worst teachers, and then the kids graduate (or not) with a poorer education and make less money, which means those schools are then even less well funded. It makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Federal funding for schools just makes sense because we should care the same everywhere.
For someone who pretends to discuss issues with people, you sure did a good job avoiding doing just that, and instead paint me as someone who is so consumed by labels and stereotypes that I'm not worth talking to... even though in my previous post I specifically pointed out that of course not all conservatives follow the President on every issue. But regarding the things I pointed out... SCHIP, gay marriage, continuing to fund the war, welfare issues in general, etc... are you honestly not aware how partisan these issues are when the House and Senate vote on these items? Pardon me for not liking Republicans just because 98% of them continuously vote as a block in a way counter to common decency by my views. Even the more liberal Republicans like Olympia Snowe don't do near good enough a job. And even though I'm against roughly 98% of the Republicans... I'd guess I'm only for about 60% of the Democrats. But go ahead and pretend I see things only in black and white, red and blue... if that helps you avoid a discussion. You wonderful discusser, you.
Like I said, I'm doing pretty well... and yet conservatives can't wrap their head around caring for others (uhhh... apparently), unless you have nothing to lose. Why is compassion and caring about others suddenly something only poor people do?
Do you actually have this idea in your head that conservatives don't want the world to be a better place?
Why is it again that gays can't get married? Oh yeah, because the conservatives "just don't like it."
Why is it that welfare is bad? Oh yeah, because they need to help themselves, just like the conservatives did.
Why cut funds for education? Oh yeah, because it's the conservative's money.
Why fund a baseless war and kill people? Because the conservative administration are made up of, and friends with, war profiteers.
Why not fund a public health care system? Because conservatives care more about money than kids.
Oh of course not all conservatives follow the President on every item, but the President still has support from more than 1 in 4 people. And enough idiots voted for him, basically endorsing this whole agenda and set of ethics.
Do I believe that conservatives don't want to make the world a better place? No, I believe they want to make the world a better place for themselves. The compassion I've seen for others, or even just simple tolerance, is pretty lacking.
Did he write this or speak this? Are the capital letters from a citation that's accurate (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations?)
In any case the quote has always annoyed me... but not as much as the conservatives who quote it (with a "when you're older and wiser, you'll come around" attitude about them). As I'm getting older I'm paying more attention to politics and getting more involved, and probably even more liberal than I was at 18.
I've also taken it to mean that when you're 40, you have money and property you want to be greedy about and protect, and so don't care as much about the welfare of your fellow man. Likewise I'm better off than at 18, and it sure doesn't deter me from wanting to make the world better overall.
Although it's on a website called Museum of Hoaxes, I know for sure at least some (if not all) of these are true. Students learn about Milgram's obedience experiments in Psychology 101 (check out the videos on YouTube).
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I'd say it puts him in the category of "user who needs to be validated as a good person." (S)He knew that fell into "dream user" category, but felt the need to be told so by others anyway.
In some math class in high school (trig maybe?) I spoke with the teacher early in the year, and said that I would be listening and keeping up with the class, but that I'd probably be playing Tetris on my TI-86 during class. He said fine, as long as I did well on my tests. In later classes with different teachers, I didn't talk to them directly, but they mostly left me alone if I was playing around on my calculator, once they saw that I did well on the tests and could still even answer questions if called on randomly in class.
I'm willing to bet this is a backronym, and not the actual origin... and 'yay' is an acronym for "yippee and yahoo!"
Unlikely.
How does this even make sense?
Still don't think so.
Still no.
Really I think it's just a sound someone typed out one day online and it caught on. It was probably some idiosyncratic sound that original person liked to use in real life. It's one of those sounds whose meaning is clear just from the sound of it. You don't make a 'w00t' sound when you're sad unless you're being ironic. Trying to look further into it and come with ridiculous etymological explanations is getting really stupid and further and further from the likely truth.
like whoah man
Now you can see photos of everyone convicted of a DUI on a convenient website.
They advertise the site on TV, too... there's a nice shot of a lady, at home, looking at the website on her PC, shaking her head slowly in disapproval as she browses the gallery of offenders.
Check it out... click on a city... you can see a mugshot, name, blood alcohol level, date, and sentencing info. Fun!!!
You've got to admit that it sort of takes the prestige out of the announcement... "We found the oldest animal on Earth!!! 405 years old! But, uhh... we killed it."
The operation was a success... but the doctor died....
I'd take some pictures and put it back in its natural environment. For all we know an artificial home would be missing some unthought of factor that they need to live healthy lives... moonlight to guide biological cycles, or some kind of ocean currents or something...
It's not like the cure for cancer has just GOTTA be inside that clam shell! I don't think there really is any big scientific merit to this discovery other than a novelty factor. If scientists want to discover its secret to such a long life, examine a younger specimen of the same species. Or come up with a plan first.
Anyway... I truly can't say this surprises me one bit in the slightest. The concept of NOT shitting all over nature never really caught on very much with the human race.
Huh wait... $50 for 75... MEGA bytes? A month?
So you could burn up your month's worth of data in 100 seconds at full throttle at 6Mbps? That would be $0.50/second.
What crap. 200 GB is waaaaaaay more reasonable. Just think of how many major and popular software downloads come in well over 75MB. Maybe they came up with that limit a decade ago and just haven't updated it since then to keep up with technology?
I'll freak MS out by doing nothing with ULTIMATE Office except try to open OpenOffice documents all day long.
From your link: "[Watson] is 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really', and I know that this 'hot potato' is going to be difficult to address."
So basically, it's easy to read that as him saying that "black people are stupid".
"Hot potato" is an understatement. The notion of racial superiority/inferiority has proven disastrous for the human race.
The basic argument is that it's silly to think that separate populations had to evolve the same way mentally and physically. This is true. The issue is 'to what degree?': it needs context. On the time scales of the human race, how much differentiation could have even happened? I've read studies upon studies that cite how you are quite possibly more genetically similar to someone who is black (assuming you are white) than you are to your white neighbor. I.e., skin color is not a good measure of overall genetic differentiation. The migrations of populations is complicated. And when you get down to it, it seems more and more like the very concept of "race" is a myth. A few years ago, either Discover or SciAm even did a whole issue focusing on this topic.
Another major obstacle to consider is whether or not the scientists trying to prove that black people are of lower intelligence have a personal agenda... prejudice... bias. And what they hope to ultimately accomplish with their research? Second class citizenship for 'inferior' races? Or just the ability to discriminate based on race during employment screenings, as someone of an 'inferior' race may clearly be less eligible for the job?
It all stinks. And I wouldn't buy into what this guy says just based on the paranoia that there's some cover-up of the truth because of some desire for political correctness. If there were big differences among races in terms of intelligence, they would be well evident by now. As is, it seems to me the most important factor on intelligence is your environment.
Back on topic to the movie... I think the kids being raised in the idiot families certainly get a dose of that idiot culture from their parents, and that may be a more important factor than genetics. The movie doesn't address this, and it's really just a movie. The topic you touched upon with that link though, is a pretty serious matter.
My first one was also a Tandy CoCo2 with 64K RAM and a tape drive (no diskette). Later on in the mid to late 90s I got back into it and even bought a 512K CoCo3, which is the only one I have now. I used to take part in the mailing lists and everything on a semi-regular basis.
It's fun to take out now and again and feel the keyboard layout, look at the flashy cursor and green screen... or even dig out some of the program cassettes or ROM packs with some old sesame street games i played as a kid (or Konami's Pooyan... or some Imagic games like Demon Attack or Dragonfire).
I don't feel like coding on it though. I seem to recall hearing somewhere once that a CoCo controlled the fountain/light show at some Vegas casino. It's probably been updated though. I also once spotted a CoCo in an episode of Mr. Wizard's World (I think).
Whoever you are, AC... you are an embarrassment to humanity.
Also gay... but from my experience the % you perceive is highly influenced by your social circles.
At times it seemed to me that literally no one was gay... and 1 in 20 seemed like too many.
Other times from being around a lot of gay people, the number seemed much higher, since they were a higher % of my social circle.
And even other times it seemed like it must be way more than just 1 in 10, because I witnessed just how incredibly many closeted people are out there... and how people I know to be gay from actually having dated, get engaged to have a wife and kids and the straight closeted life.
Also don't confuse the 40% of people having same sex experiences with it being that many who self-identify as gay. I have friends who were completely interested in the same sex at a young age, and grew up to be straight. One of my friends even thought he was gay well into his 20's... until he tried it out, and realized, "oh, I guess I'm straight afterall."
It's a weird world. And sometimes it seems people like me who have no confusion about it, personally, are the ones who are REALLY in the minority.
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But then we'd miss out on funny posts like this, and all the other times people are simply confused by the title.
And besides, if they start properly formatting story titles, next people will demand they properly format the summary itself... it's a slippery slope.
I prefer to think of them as nonogenes from Captain Jack's spaceship.
An ok visualization, but ugh... that's the guy from the misleading pseudo-science film "What the Bleep Do We Know!?"
Hmmm... something similar happened to me I guess regarding solution number 1.
.app file for Xslimmer (a program which strips away the unnecessary parts of universal binaries, and the multilanguage parts you don't use... to make the files smaller) and launched it with sudo, so that I could run it on the entire operating system.
I opened Terminal.app and went inside the
When I restarted, the computer just seemed stalled on the white boot screen. I thought it was ruined for sure and I'd need to reinstall, but I left it just in case. After a few hours it actually did boot. And subsequent boots did not have that delay... it was back to normal. I wish I knew what it was doing during that boot that took so long. Maybe this is similar to what's going on here, if it's true that just letting it be for a few hours fixes the problem.
"Bud Dickman" made me a foe. And over-reacted to my comments instead of giving a thoughtful reply.
Regarding the basically one thing you said in response to what I said... why do you think local governments are better suited or able to fund education than the federal government? Shouldn't there be a high standard of education and well-funded schools everywhere across the country? Not just in the rich areas? Local funding of education means that poor areas fund their schools poorly, are taught by the worst teachers, and then the kids graduate (or not) with a poorer education and make less money, which means those schools are then even less well funded. It makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Federal funding for schools just makes sense because we should care the same everywhere.
For someone who pretends to discuss issues with people, you sure did a good job avoiding doing just that, and instead paint me as someone who is so consumed by labels and stereotypes that I'm not worth talking to... even though in my previous post I specifically pointed out that of course not all conservatives follow the President on every issue. But regarding the things I pointed out... SCHIP, gay marriage, continuing to fund the war, welfare issues in general, etc... are you honestly not aware how partisan these issues are when the House and Senate vote on these items? Pardon me for not liking Republicans just because 98% of them continuously vote as a block in a way counter to common decency by my views. Even the more liberal Republicans like Olympia Snowe don't do near good enough a job. And even though I'm against roughly 98% of the Republicans... I'd guess I'm only for about 60% of the Democrats. But go ahead and pretend I see things only in black and white, red and blue... if that helps you avoid a discussion. You wonderful discusser, you.
They'll never be King of all media simply because the people don't want them to be. And I doubt they ever will.
Like I said, I'm doing pretty well... and yet conservatives can't wrap their head around caring for others (uhhh... apparently), unless you have nothing to lose. Why is compassion and caring about others suddenly something only poor people do?
Why is it again that gays can't get married? Oh yeah, because the conservatives "just don't like it."
Why is it that welfare is bad? Oh yeah, because they need to help themselves, just like the conservatives did.
Why cut funds for education? Oh yeah, because it's the conservative's money.
Why fund a baseless war and kill people? Because the conservative administration are made up of, and friends with, war profiteers.
Why not fund a public health care system? Because conservatives care more about money than kids.
Oh of course not all conservatives follow the President on every item, but the President still has support from more than 1 in 4 people. And enough idiots voted for him, basically endorsing this whole agenda and set of ethics.
Do I believe that conservatives don't want to make the world a better place? No, I believe they want to make the world a better place for themselves. The compassion I've seen for others, or even just simple tolerance, is pretty lacking.
Did he write this or speak this? Are the capital letters from a citation that's accurate (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations?)
In any case the quote has always annoyed me... but not as much as the conservatives who quote it (with a "when you're older and wiser, you'll come around" attitude about them). As I'm getting older I'm paying more attention to politics and getting more involved, and probably even more liberal than I was at 18.
I've also taken it to mean that when you're 40, you have money and property you want to be greedy about and protect, and so don't care as much about the welfare of your fellow man. Likewise I'm better off than at 18, and it sure doesn't deter me from wanting to make the world better overall.
I saw this a few months ago: The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time.
Although it's on a website called Museum of Hoaxes, I know for sure at least some (if not all) of these are true. Students learn about Milgram's obedience experiments in Psychology 101 (check out the videos on YouTube).