I've wanted this ever since I watched the Olympics and realized how bored I was. Putting people who won the genetic lottery into similar training programs and seeing who comes out on top isn't that interesting to me. But pushing people 'beyond' their natural limits, and in the process potentially expanding the meaning of being human and the possibilities for the species at large...that's interesting.
Just to add some backup to your statement, that happened to me as well. Stayed that way for about a year, and then went back to normal. Can't really say definitively why it started, if it was the post office or netflix. But it was invariable enough before and after to remove it from possibility of just being a subjective bias I used to interpret it.
There was a port of their player to osx a while back which was demoed at shows a few times. Not sure what ever became of it, but they should be able to get it to that platform pretty easily if they ever feel like it.
Depends where you're willing to live. Even a lot of fairly nice towns are having a huge amount of trouble filling entry level positions. Simply because if someone is willing to move, there's not much draw to them compared to major hubs.
That excuse always got me as well. While I have my beefs with windows mobile, it's been around for ages and is far more open than the iphone. Not only can I write for it in pretty much any language I want, I can even use most of the same toolkits I'd use for desktop development. Heck, I can use most of the toolkits and libraries that I use for desktop development on linux. And yet somehow satellites haven't been falling from the sky as a result.
Some more praise for django here. One of the great things about it for me is how well it scales up or down. I never feel like I'm forced to do anything when I'm using it. Unlike most php frameworks, where I feel like I'm being constrained at one level that's been prechosen for me, no more, no less. It's really beautifully elegant in design.
I mean, if I'm looking for a long, epic story exploring complex themes, I'll rent a 3 hour movie. Or get a TV series on DVD.
A big problem there, however, is that 3 hour movies are pretty rare. Quality ones even more so. And TV series usually try to steer as far away from continuity or character development as possible, as not being able to skip an episode or five and then dive back in is a death kiss for ratings. Even aside from the main writer only gracing most series with a couple of scripts per season and the other writers being forbidden to mess around with things too much.
People usually stop listing to different music once they hit around 22 or so though. About the time a person gets out of college their musical tastes will have calcified. It's one of the things the industry banks on, because they can tell which styles will be continue to make money for them. By the initial list, I'm guessing that the parent fits in post that. I think his point does go along with you argument though, it's not in the interest of the RIAA to have musical taste improve because their business model doesn't work in a way where that will give them the best possible profit.
I live in one of the most technologically backwards states in the country, and even I hear people complaining about the RIAA. There's a fairly significant amount of people who've been voting with their wallets against it. Even if there was much worth buying under the major labels, their actions ensure I'd only pay for a used copy of it instead of putting any money in their hands to ruin lives with.
I think it'd be more accurate to just say it has very little on science. What's sad though, is that it's still a larger quantity and more up to date than the average public library on most scientific topics. I'm tempted to start buying up somewhat older university text books to donate, but even if the library would accept them I suspect that the demand just isn't there.
It's both amazing and depressing that for all the talk from politicians about the need and importance of education, I've never heard of one running on a platform of improving the libraries and offering free education through them on research techniques and scientific methodology.
Closer to the article demographic, but otherwise I loaded this up to post pretty much the same complaints. I've lived near some libraries which had access to science journals, and that makes the entire library worthwhile. But it's rare to find one which does that, and it's becoming increasingly rare to find them actually focusing on post high-school level material in general. In the end, I suppose, people get what they're willing to fund. And most towns just don't understand how research is done in general, and many don't even understand the value in learning at all. The idea that most of the people in this town don't understand how to research any particular scientific matter, but who'll vote on science policy for the local schools, scares me far more than even the sad state of libraries in general.
I love the XBMC, but for H.264 I really wouldn't recommend it. It can play it in theory, but in practice most encodes are going to give pretty choppy, or totally lagged, playback.
I've come to really respect scientists who tell reporters to shove off when they ask about the world of the future. So much of future technology has to do with culture, and so little actual science, that it's like asking what color of clothing will be 'in' on 2106.
I've had the same thought since buying my first PDA. I'd have a ton of books on it, record or write my notes in class on it, and yet for some reason always had to lug around giant texbooks. Especially annoying in being one of the main book types I've always wished for a search function for.
I agree that bookmarks aren't that big of a deal to me. All mine have been online for longer than I can recall. I think it also encompasses the new keyword in url bar thing though. Which I thought would be horrible, but which I'm really enjoying more and more every day now that I'm getting used to it. It's pretty good at figuring out what site, and which part of that site, I'll want to go to when I get more than a couple letters in there.
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If you fervently believe that Science holds all the answers and your neighbor fevently believes the FSM hold them instead, what have you lost?
Nothing, unless he then goes out to vote for policies which put FSM over science, outright outlaws areas of scientific investigation, or scares schools into yanking funding for programs which touch on their forbidden areas. All of which happen a lot more than most people seem to be aware of.
From what I've studied of early american history, getting rid of the radio and tv isn't going to give you any better quality of either leader or citizen.
I hope we're not at the point where merely having a dissenting opinion about the Google constitutes a troll post.
I'm not saying it's the case this time around, but it can get a bit predictable and tedious. Every single time google does anything, posts which might as well be copy/paste from the article before it, and before it, etc, appear. It usually takes a lot of searching in stories about google to actually get to comments that have anything to do with the specific topic. It's getting to the point of being slashdot around the year 2000 with any topic about microsoft, where one had to scroll down post after post of bluescren, pie, and yakov text to track down comments on the real technological issues.
Because God forbid anyone actually be aware of a world outside their own town. That entire concept is just sad and a little scary. Of needing a third party to protect you from learning things.
I've had far more luck with wmv on linux than with quicktime. Unless there's DRM in it, WMV will always play for me. Quicktime seems to be somewhere around 70% of the time. That's great, and I'm not complaining, but it's enough to get me to groan on those times I see it as the sole format for something.
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I've wanted this ever since I watched the Olympics and realized how bored I was. Putting people who won the genetic lottery into similar training programs and seeing who comes out on top isn't that interesting to me. But pushing people 'beyond' their natural limits, and in the process potentially expanding the meaning of being human and the possibilities for the species at large...that's interesting.
Another good source is http://scienceblogs.com/ On specific ones, I also really like http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php It shifts away from the main author's professional background in neurology fairly often, but that also makes it a lot of fun.
Just to add some backup to your statement, that happened to me as well. Stayed that way for about a year, and then went back to normal. Can't really say definitively why it started, if it was the post office or netflix. But it was invariable enough before and after to remove it from possibility of just being a subjective bias I used to interpret it.
Heck, the video selection at our library is primarily still VHS.
I'd agree that most people under 30 do, but I've noticed that a large percentage of boomers will always shut their computer down after using it.
There was a port of their player to osx a while back which was demoed at shows a few times. Not sure what ever became of it, but they should be able to get it to that platform pretty easily if they ever feel like it.
Depends where you're willing to live. Even a lot of fairly nice towns are having a huge amount of trouble filling entry level positions. Simply because if someone is willing to move, there's not much draw to them compared to major hubs.
That excuse always got me as well. While I have my beefs with windows mobile, it's been around for ages and is far more open than the iphone. Not only can I write for it in pretty much any language I want, I can even use most of the same toolkits I'd use for desktop development. Heck, I can use most of the toolkits and libraries that I use for desktop development on linux. And yet somehow satellites haven't been falling from the sky as a result.
Some more praise for django here. One of the great things about it for me is how well it scales up or down. I never feel like I'm forced to do anything when I'm using it. Unlike most php frameworks, where I feel like I'm being constrained at one level that's been prechosen for me, no more, no less. It's really beautifully elegant in design.
I mean, if I'm looking for a long, epic story exploring complex themes, I'll rent a 3 hour movie. Or get a TV series on DVD.
A big problem there, however, is that 3 hour movies are pretty rare. Quality ones even more so. And TV series usually try to steer as far away from continuity or character development as possible, as not being able to skip an episode or five and then dive back in is a death kiss for ratings. Even aside from the main writer only gracing most series with a couple of scripts per season and the other writers being forbidden to mess around with things too much.
People usually stop listing to different music once they hit around 22 or so though. About the time a person gets out of college their musical tastes will have calcified. It's one of the things the industry banks on, because they can tell which styles will be continue to make money for them. By the initial list, I'm guessing that the parent fits in post that. I think his point does go along with you argument though, it's not in the interest of the RIAA to have musical taste improve because their business model doesn't work in a way where that will give them the best possible profit.
I live in one of the most technologically backwards states in the country, and even I hear people complaining about the RIAA. There's a fairly significant amount of people who've been voting with their wallets against it. Even if there was much worth buying under the major labels, their actions ensure I'd only pay for a used copy of it instead of putting any money in their hands to ruin lives with.
Wikipedia has nothing on science
I think it'd be more accurate to just say it has very little on science. What's sad though, is that it's still a larger quantity and more up to date than the average public library on most scientific topics. I'm tempted to start buying up somewhat older university text books to donate, but even if the library would accept them I suspect that the demand just isn't there.
It's both amazing and depressing that for all the talk from politicians about the need and importance of education, I've never heard of one running on a platform of improving the libraries and offering free education through them on research techniques and scientific methodology.
Closer to the article demographic, but otherwise I loaded this up to post pretty much the same complaints. I've lived near some libraries which had access to science journals, and that makes the entire library worthwhile. But it's rare to find one which does that, and it's becoming increasingly rare to find them actually focusing on post high-school level material in general. In the end, I suppose, people get what they're willing to fund. And most towns just don't understand how research is done in general, and many don't even understand the value in learning at all. The idea that most of the people in this town don't understand how to research any particular scientific matter, but who'll vote on science policy for the local schools, scares me far more than even the sad state of libraries in general.
I love the XBMC, but for H.264 I really wouldn't recommend it. It can play it in theory, but in practice most encodes are going to give pretty choppy, or totally lagged, playback.
I've come to really respect scientists who tell reporters to shove off when they ask about the world of the future. So much of future technology has to do with culture, and so little actual science, that it's like asking what color of clothing will be 'in' on 2106.
Going by the way kubuntu normally works, I'd be surprised if it came down to much more than adding a second repository to get access to kde4 packages.
I've had the same thought since buying my first PDA. I'd have a ton of books on it, record or write my notes in class on it, and yet for some reason always had to lug around giant texbooks. Especially annoying in being one of the main book types I've always wished for a search function for.
I agree that bookmarks aren't that big of a deal to me. All mine have been online for longer than I can recall. I think it also encompasses the new keyword in url bar thing though. Which I thought would be horrible, but which I'm really enjoying more and more every day now that I'm getting used to it. It's pretty good at figuring out what site, and which part of that site, I'll want to go to when I get more than a couple letters in there.
If you fervently believe that Science holds all the answers and your neighbor fevently believes the FSM hold them instead, what have you lost?
Nothing, unless he then goes out to vote for policies which put FSM over science, outright outlaws areas of scientific investigation, or scares schools into yanking funding for programs which touch on their forbidden areas. All of which happen a lot more than most people seem to be aware of.
From what I've studied of early american history, getting rid of the radio and tv isn't going to give you any better quality of either leader or citizen.
I hope we're not at the point where merely having a dissenting opinion about the Google constitutes a troll post.
I'm not saying it's the case this time around, but it can get a bit predictable and tedious. Every single time google does anything, posts which might as well be copy/paste from the article before it, and before it, etc, appear. It usually takes a lot of searching in stories about google to actually get to comments that have anything to do with the specific topic. It's getting to the point of being slashdot around the year 2000 with any topic about microsoft, where one had to scroll down post after post of bluescren, pie, and yakov text to track down comments on the real technological issues.
but there are no $399 touch screen wireless computers that can be manufactured new at a profit.
Isn't that about the standard price for a windows mobile based PDA with wireless and a good screen?
Because God forbid anyone actually be aware of a world outside their own town. That entire concept is just sad and a little scary. Of needing a third party to protect you from learning things.
I've had far more luck with wmv on linux than with quicktime. Unless there's DRM in it, WMV will always play for me. Quicktime seems to be somewhere around 70% of the time. That's great, and I'm not complaining, but it's enough to get me to groan on those times I see it as the sole format for something.