Obviously, you can't teach Mathematics through a video game. You can, however, clarify some of the more obscure portions of Mathematics through demonstration, and video games are an excellent way to demonstrate.
Not that monstrosity that they call mathematics (and which really has not much to do with it), that's right. But real mathematics.. I think Paul Lockhart would strongly disagree.:)
Question is (because as usual, it's NOT black and white): How much worse would it have been? Enough to matter? Under what definition of bad? That of a grammar Nazi, or that of a practical thinking person?:)
Gene therapy is really the only actual proper cure for genetic defects know to man. And I think in retrospect, we will see it as one of the greatest inventions ever.
I mean imagine the possibilities, if you can change any genetics in your body at will! Sure, as always, there will be downsides, and there will be a "early alpha" phase. But what we get far surpasses anything bad! And besides: Who will try to stop every human on the planet form doing research in that area or using that knowledge? ^^
The first thing that I will do, is add the "can't get fat" mutation that my brother has.:D
Question is will it take more or less energy to heat the stuff in the first place? What would come out if the plant would only be allowed use its own fuel for the creation of that infrared light? Would it even output anything, or just eat even more?
I'd extend that to the fact that nowadays, any "normal" doctor is basically a fraud.
Or when was the last time a doctor cared about the actual cause of a disease. Or maybe even how to prevent it the next time and where it came from.
Nowadays it's just: "Here, take that against the symptoms, ant there is nothing on this planet that will ever make this never come back again when you take off the meds!!" (I had doctors say stuff like that to my face, when I did prove them wrong a couple of weeks later! Yet they still did not believe me!) Nobody of them cares to actually really literally heal you. They help you ignore it harder, for sure. (Examples: Painkillers, behavioral therapy, antipyretic meds etc, can be used, [but back then was not invented to be used] that way.)
This is because usually, they actually can't fix much. But their god complex prevents them from ever admitting it.
It's actually very sad... when you realize that we aren't that far away from the dark ages yet...
You miss the second part: Actually make her get jealous on *you*, not being quite so sure to be able to keep you when slacking.
Ok, I'm half-kidding. The basic idea is, that you are worth so much to her, and that she herself will be worth so much more than the men out there, that she will not even want to think about other men. And the basic way to do this, is to believe in your and her high value so much, that even if it wasn't the case, you will fulfill that expectation, and that she will get sucked in by your strong reality. (Something that women also find pretty attractive.)
But don't expect her not to also play value games. ^^ Keep it fair. After all, you love each other.
Well, I think hin point was, that there is no such thing as an "inner hold on". And he's right. Just think about it. In what place exactly would that thing be? In the brain? Nope. We have basic instincts, which are there to grow our bio-mass (reproduce & co). Like eat, defend (directly, with a home, etc), kill for resources, sex, etc.
But apart from that, it's all just social conditioning.
I mean, let's find all the people in the world who agree that you can kill anyone at will. And put them in one common country. Now who is anyone to say that their country is now doing something "wrong"? As I said above, the only one with the right to judge, is nature. Meaning: Who will survive and be more successful in his growth, in the end.:)
You mean unlike the other billions (literally) of ARM chips in phones, TVs, stereos, etc, etc, etc, that are so "bad" that they're the most sold CPUs on the planet? ^^
Seems like for once, a car analogy is not the best one to make.
Well, if what you stat comes true, it's because of naysayers like you. Get some balls, and try again. ^^
Wait, I'll write it just like you, but the other way around. Let's see if it then looks realistic to you. (If not, then yours doesn't too.)
This will end great. I have an ARM device (nokia n810) and it's horrible. Wintel monopoly has got no chance, unlike with Sparc and IBM Power. I'm sure if it's as good as they claim it'll only leave a niche for Wintel, because they can't directly compete in numbers or presence with ARM CPUs. (Note: This is actually the case right now. The most sold CPUs by far, are ARM ones.)
Uuum, why exactly didn't you build it yourself, out of off-the-shelf components? It's cheaper for what you need, almost all the time. I'd never ever buy a whole "computer" in one piece again. I mean half of the stuff in there is usually just crap that you have to replace anyway.
Or did you mean laptops? Luckily I never had to dive into that business.
Parent is exactly right. The nVidia Tegra does this. And I've seen it running live. HD and Flash are no problem. The manufacturers actually recognized those as must-have features, and I don't think someone will be that dumb to sell one without them, because when even cheap Chinese knock-offs can achieve that, everybody without those features will sell exactly nothing, and they know that.:)
That's exactly what's the case in these new smartbooks!
They have much much longer battery life, because the ARM CPU plus the GPU (to play HD movies without stuttering and accelerate Flash) use only 1-2 watt. Instead of the 20 of an ATOM CPU. They don't get hot, and run very very long.
Forty hours is a bit unrealistic, because eight hours is too. Thing more like 2-3 hours. Now take this times five, to get to 10-15 hours. Reduce it by the usage of the added GPU, and I think real 10 hours are actually to be expected. That's also what the people who sell those state. (Could ARM smartbook manufacturers be honest? We'll see. ^^)
They'll be avaliable in a month. For $100-$200. They will only run Linux, but you can bet that I'll get one as soon as I find one for $100.
Hmm...that's why I have my mouse for. I hold the Windows key and can do everything with different combos. It's very intuitive, fully configurable (I defined it myself). I don't even have buttons on my window's title bars anymore. I could even do without a task bar.
Win-Left = drag Win-Right = resize Win-Middle = close Win-Scroll = zoom Win-Button4 = next task Win-Button5 = previous task right click in lower corners = exposé-like task switcher etc...
So I assume you have no ATi/AMD graphics card. Because my HD 4850 is completely useless under Linux. (No. I did not try everything. I tried more that everything. Much more. I went so far to contact the developer (notice the singular) of the Linux driver. I rolled my own patch. I tried the properest defaults, and the ugliest hacks. Not. A. Chance. Especially with kernels above 2.6.29 (new interface), Xinerame (two displays) and compositing (eg. Compiz).)
Depends on what you call "life". I think we will send only our neural content there. at first stored as a copy inside robots, who can survive pretty much everywhere where there is light and some minerals. So we can continue a normal life here *and* live on another planet in a million years. And later, we will simply send our minds trough space as digital signals in the form of laser or something like that. We would then truly be those "light lifeforms" of science fiction movies. And we would be able to have whatever body we like. I would wanne be a comet for some time. Then a flying insect. Maybe a kind of fish. And then a bionic cyborg again. We'll see... ^^
No. That it outdated knowledge and is actually an overworking of your muscles. I know that it's stated again, and again, and again, by people who seem to be experts by all standards. Yet there is proper proof that it's not the right way to get stronger, and actually creates scar tissue. So you might get bigger muscles, but not really stronger ones! The strength comes from the tissue that did *not* rupture,and was allowed to grow.
So it's better to lift a lighter weight more often, than a heavier one just a couple of times.
Umm... nothing against the guy, but I can literally replace him by a very small shell script:
eix-sync && emerge -auDNtv world && revdep-rebuild && emerge -atv --depclean (Yes, there's a tool to run that in parallel on at least a couple dozen computers... from one system.)
Well, that's what rights management is for. Why do you allow them to do that? Because it's hard to set up SELinux, and simply deal with the non-allowance of so much stuff?
I understand that. But unfortunately, it's no real excuse.:/
I think there can be a ton of money made with a automation/optimization of setting up and maintaining such rights.
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Obviously, you can't teach Mathematics through a video game. You can, however, clarify some of the more obscure portions of Mathematics through demonstration, and video games are an excellent way to demonstrate.
Not that monstrosity that they call mathematics (and which really has not much to do with it), that's right. :)
But real mathematics.. I think Paul Lockhart would strongly disagree.
Question is (because as usual, it's NOT black and white): How much worse would it have been? Enough to matter? Under what definition of bad? That of a grammar Nazi, or that of a practical thinking person? :)
Gene therapy is really the only actual proper cure for genetic defects know to man. And I think in retrospect, we will see it as one of the greatest inventions ever.
I mean imagine the possibilities, if you can change any genetics in your body at will!
Sure, as always, there will be downsides, and there will be a "early alpha" phase. But what we get far surpasses anything bad! And besides: Who will try to stop every human on the planet form doing research in that area or using that knowledge? ^^
The first thing that I will do, is add the "can't get fat" mutation that my brother has. :D
Question is will it take more or less energy to heat the stuff in the first place? What would come out if the plant would only be allowed use its own fuel for the creation of that infrared light? Would it even output anything, or just eat even more?
I'd extend that to the fact that nowadays, any "normal" doctor is basically a fraud.
Or when was the last time a doctor cared about the actual cause of a disease. Or maybe even how to prevent it the next time and where it came from.
Nowadays it's just: "Here, take that against the symptoms, ant there is nothing on this planet that will ever make this never come back again when you take off the meds!!" (I had doctors say stuff like that to my face, when I did prove them wrong a couple of weeks later! Yet they still did not believe me!)
Nobody of them cares to actually really literally heal you. They help you ignore it harder, for sure. (Examples: Painkillers, behavioral therapy, antipyretic meds etc, can be used, [but back then was not invented to be used] that way.)
This is because usually, they actually can't fix much. But their god complex prevents them from ever admitting it.
It's actually very sad... when you realize that we aren't that far away from the dark ages yet...
http://pictureisunrelated.com/2009/09/15/if-i-have-to-live-with-this-image-so-do-you/ ;)
(Click at your own risk. But we all must live with that picture now.
You miss the second part: Actually make her get jealous on *you*, not being quite so sure to be able to keep you when slacking.
Ok, I'm half-kidding. The basic idea is, that you are worth so much to her, and that she herself will be worth so much more than the men out there, that she will not even want to think about other men.
And the basic way to do this, is to believe in your and her high value so much, that even if it wasn't the case, you will fulfill that expectation, and that she will get sucked in by your strong reality. (Something that women also find pretty attractive.)
But don't expect her not to also play value games. ^^
Keep it fair. After all, you love each other.
Well, I think hin point was, that there is no such thing as an "inner hold on". And he's right. Just think about it. In what place exactly would that thing be? In the brain? Nope. We have basic instincts, which are there to grow our bio-mass (reproduce & co). Like eat, defend (directly, with a home, etc), kill for resources, sex, etc.
But apart from that, it's all just social conditioning.
I mean, let's find all the people in the world who agree that you can kill anyone at will. And put them in one common country. Now who is anyone to say that their country is now doing something "wrong"? :)
As I said above, the only one with the right to judge, is nature. Meaning: Who will survive and be more successful in his growth, in the end.
Ask your president. Or anyone in government, marketing or PR. No matter where you live. They will know it. :)
So soon, we will see pirates of this kind around Italy?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1307/
You mean unlike the other billions (literally) of ARM chips in phones, TVs, stereos, etc, etc, etc, that are so "bad" that they're the most sold CPUs on the planet? ^^
Seems like for once, a car analogy is not the best one to make.
Well, if what you stat comes true, it's because of naysayers like you. Get some balls, and try again. ^^
Wait, I'll write it just like you, but the other way around. Let's see if it then looks realistic to you. (If not, then yours doesn't too.)
This will end great. I have an ARM device (nokia n810) and it's horrible. Wintel monopoly has got no chance, unlike with Sparc and IBM Power. I'm sure if it's as good as they claim it'll only leave a niche for Wintel, because they can't directly compete in numbers or presence with ARM CPUs. (Note: This is actually the case right now. The most sold CPUs by far, are ARM ones.)
Uuum, why exactly didn't you build it yourself, out of off-the-shelf components? It's cheaper for what you need, almost all the time.
I'd never ever buy a whole "computer" in one piece again. I mean half of the stuff in there is usually just crap that you have to replace anyway.
Or did you mean laptops?
Luckily I never had to dive into that business.
Parent is exactly right. The nVidia Tegra does this. And I've seen it running live. HD and Flash are no problem. The manufacturers actually recognized those as must-have features, and I don't think someone will be that dumb to sell one without them, because when even cheap Chinese knock-offs can achieve that, everybody without those features will sell exactly nothing, and they know that. :)
That's exactly what's the case in these new smartbooks!
They have much much longer battery life, because the ARM CPU plus the GPU (to play HD movies without stuttering and accelerate Flash) use only 1-2 watt. Instead of the 20 of an ATOM CPU.
They don't get hot, and run very very long.
Forty hours is a bit unrealistic, because eight hours is too. Thing more like 2-3 hours. Now take this times five, to get to 10-15 hours. Reduce it by the usage of the added GPU, and I think real 10 hours are actually to be expected. That's also what the people who sell those state. (Could ARM smartbook manufacturers be honest? We'll see. ^^)
They'll be avaliable in a month. For $100-$200. They will only run Linux, but you can bet that I'll get one as soon as I find one for $100.
You mean other than broken first gen / beta Windows 7 drivers running at a fifth of the speed for the same price? ^^
More like gorilla arms.
You'd have to rewrite the constitution, so you also get the right to non-ursidae arms. ^^
But why? ^^
Hmm...that's why I have my mouse for. I hold the Windows key and can do everything with different combos. It's very intuitive, fully configurable (I defined it myself). I don't even have buttons on my window's title bars anymore. I could even do without a task bar.
Win-Left = drag
Win-Right = resize
Win-Middle = close
Win-Scroll = zoom
Win-Button4 = next task
Win-Button5 = previous task
right click in lower corners = exposé-like task switcher
etc...
That's what Compiz is really good for. ^^
So I assume you have no ATi/AMD graphics card. Because my HD 4850 is completely useless under Linux.
(No. I did not try everything. I tried more that everything. Much more. I went so far to contact the developer (notice the singular) of the Linux driver. I rolled my own patch. I tried the properest defaults, and the ugliest hacks. Not. A. Chance. Especially with kernels above 2.6.29 (new interface), Xinerame (two displays) and compositing (eg. Compiz).)
Depends on what you call "life". I think we will send only our neural content there. at first stored as a copy inside robots, who can survive pretty much everywhere where there is light and some minerals. So we can continue a normal life here *and* live on another planet in a million years. And later, we will simply send our minds trough space as digital signals in the form of laser or something like that. We would then truly be those "light lifeforms" of science fiction movies. And we would be able to have whatever body we like. I would wanne be a comet for some time. Then a flying insect. Maybe a kind of fish. And then a bionic cyborg again. We'll see... ^^
No. That it outdated knowledge and is actually an overworking of your muscles. I know that it's stated again, and again, and again, by people who seem to be experts by all standards. Yet there is proper proof that it's not the right way to get stronger, and actually creates scar tissue. So you might get bigger muscles, but not really stronger ones! The strength comes from the tissue that did *not* rupture,and was allowed to grow.
So it's better to lift a lighter weight more often, than a heavier one just a couple of times.
Story of your life? *ducks*
Umm... nothing against the guy, but I can literally replace him by a very small shell script:
eix-sync && emerge -auDNtv world && revdep-rebuild && emerge -atv --depclean
(Yes, there's a tool to run that in parallel on at least a couple dozen computers... from one system.)
Well, that's what rights management is for. Why do you allow them to do that? Because it's hard to set up SELinux, and simply deal with the non-allowance of so much stuff?
I understand that. But unfortunately, it's no real excuse. :/
I think there can be a ton of money made with a automation/optimization of setting up and maintaining such rights.