In the Potterverse, on the other hand, you not only have an acceptance of dark magic in the world, there is even a house of evil inside the school. Now the way things are portrayed, there isn't a case of good sylthers and bad ones, you don't really see that for the other houses, either. Pretty much every slther is a baddie and you don't hear of anyone from the other houses going bad. So the question is, why the hell are these people tolerated? There are even black magic shops in the shopping district. Not illicit underground dens that are in constant threat from the law but places of business that are allowed if looked down upon, like a regular porn shop. Huh? Black magic isn't the sort of thing that prudes look down upon that can be used for good or evil like alcohol, firearms, or porn. In fact, let's stick with the firearms angle. Bad guys carry guns but so do cops. They're dangerous, dangerous technology but the gun itself is not good or evil, only the person using it. But black magic is inherently evil and corrupting and the tools used in working it tend to involve dastardly sacrifices. In this universe, there is no demonstrated use for black magic that is benign or useful. It isn't like white magic is used for healing and construction and black magic is used by good AND evil people for defense, a tool that can be used or abused. Because it's either out in the open and tolerated at little harm to the greater good, or it's kept secret and inevitably ends up in the wrong hands.
I think she's making the point that you can ask people to behave responsibly instead of forcing them to.
Dumbledore sacrificing harry without his consent or knowledge wasn't deep enough? Or what about how he killed his sister, and then killed himself trying to get her back using the ring?
ALL proteins are immunogenic unless there is tolerization. This is the whole concept behind generating antibodies to make western blots...
Inject just about anything and you'll get some reaction to it, moreover even completely inert materials still build up films of our own proteins which can eventually become hazardous in their own way. The above statement is completely false, and should be patently obvious to anyone who took first year microbiology and immunology, or even physiology...
Go there, send letters to videotron, they also have a javascript based online customer support option. I would highly appreciate it if the masses would rise up and say something for once instead of letting their rights be trampled by yet another big company.
I already have an iPod, so this doesn't concern me too much, as of right now that is. I'm concerned what this says about the way they will be treating us loyal customers once the ipod fad is over.
As a card mac zealot, I am signing that petition immediately and I hope that all the rest of you do the same.
My iBook's fan comes on very rarely. It came on for the first time almost 4 months after I bought it... At the time I was scared it was making funny noises because it was broken. I have heard similar things baout the imac G4.
Because everyone seems to be berating the/. community for fanboyism and protecting our beloved ipod producer when in fact everyone seems to be slamming them for it....
They should have just shut up and let real quietly fade away, they're not likely to stop sucking anytime soon so why antagonize?
Indeed, it seems to me the only reason they would do this is to get a precedent out and send a message to MS that they're going to protect their ASSets as much as they can. It's the only reasonable explanation, they have nothing to directly gain from roughing up Real.
I suggested something similar at McGill for the language labs.
Instead of providing anything REMOTELY useful, they've decided to adopt an infuriatingly poorly designed difficult to use irritiating system called Can8. The super parts of Can8 use in the language lab:
-No printing from vocabulary lists so you have to scrawl down anything they put up, which is all but impossible in the alotted time.
-No access except during office hours, which makes studying impossible for anyone who holds a part time job during the day.
-No net access or ability to download any of the audio onto any sort of removable media.
When I said as much to the "technologist" along with some potential solutions she replied: yeah that's a bummer. Too bad.
In short, I'd like to opine that McGill spanks the monkey and will never be able to compete on a serious level because it's run by a bunch of backwards bureaucrats.
I bought my emac for 1000$ canadian, it's quite fetching actually, let alone decent.
As for Photshop (339 canadian), office (119 canadian) and VPC with windows XP (334).... I haven't found any software that I needed to use under VPC, I also don't need photoshop and 119$ for office is quite reasonable in my humble opinion.
I also have a suite of ilife apps that let my edit movies, create picture slide shows, create DVDs and even do a little music recording.
All for the low, Low, LOW price of 1119 canadian.
That, taken with any app I could ever want to run under linux in fink, and the ridiculously slick interface is actually a pretty good deal. I also don't have to upgrade my mac as often as I would a PC I could buy because upgrades to the OS run snappier on older software, not slower.
You could ditch your windows box and get a Mac, run all your mac programs, use fink to run all your linux/unix programs (or roll your own...) and Virtual PC to run anything windowsish that you still own.
The problem is, the class sizes in health science at the third year level are about the same size as history at the first year, about 105 people.
My history exam was so ridiculously progressive it made me rethink my entire education. Here's how it went down:
1st third: Identifications, there are key concepts listed, you write down 3 or 4 sentences containing at least 3 facts about each. An example might be Commodore Matthew Perry who was an american who opened up japan which led to the fall of the shogunate for X reasons and the rise of the empire etc... America was there instead of china for... and so on.
Part 2: Primary sources: Some excerpts of articles which originated in the periods we talked about are given, you have to remember who wrote them, why and why that was important. An example would be early north korean anti-soviet sentiments and intense nationalism in the writings of Kim Il Sung.
Part 3: Essay: The 1800 to 1900 seemed to be a time of intense interaction between the west and the countries discussed in the course. discuss the political, economical and historical factors leading to the rise of different types of reactions.
Each was worth about 33% of the final.
Here's a typical science exam:
A bug are haved a DNA that make it not recognizing CPG motifs:
A) complement B) Methylated C) you've never heard of this, don't bother D) Don't bother you haven't heard of me
Answers: 1: A, B, C 2) A and C 3) B and D 4) just D 5) all or none are true
It's not just the bourgeois pricks who do MBAs, what about the few people who are in the field of science and decided that while we enjoy it, we're not interested in being so finely focused. I want to learn about everything, not just one part of one leg of one molecular pathway in one organism in one if it's life cycle stages under one set of conditions. How boring is that?
I've been through enough of Microbiology and Immunology to know where the pieces are sitting in the field today and I can honestly say I'm not that interested in any of what's being worked on. I'm curious, but I'm not interested in sitting over a bench and pipetting for the next 8 years.
A lot of the really interesting questions won't be answered any time soon, and I'm not THAT interested that I'd spend my life persuing any of them to completion.
I've done a B.Sc, If you were applying for work at a Biotech company, who would you rather have as a boss, me or some B.comm punk?
Please tell me it gets better in the *real world*!
I've completed a major in Microbiology an Immunology at McGill University, supposedly the second best school in canada and I can say that I wouldn't wipe my ass with my degree. The only people who achieve are those who practice the memorize and forget mantra.
Intuitive understanding is discouraged, all tests are multiple choice and ambiguously phrased. I became so disenchanted with science that I'm taking another year to do a more liberal arts kind of degree in East asian studies.
The point is that I was once passionate about science, but the all too ironic discouragement of curiosity and critical thought has made me want to avoid it at all costs.
Note to all potential applicants: IMHO, McGill University's health science programs are terrible.
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Dumbledore sacrificing harry without his consent or knowledge wasn't deep enough? Or what about how he killed his sister, and then killed himself trying to get her back using the ring?
ALL proteins are immunogenic unless there is tolerization. This is the whole concept behind generating antibodies to make western blots...
Inject just about anything and you'll get some reaction to it, moreover even completely inert materials still build up films of our own proteins which can eventually become hazardous in their own way. The above statement is completely false, and should be patently obvious to anyone who took first year microbiology and immunology, or even physiology...
No the goal of a research scientist is to solve empirical problems and contribute to society's collective knowledge.
damnit, it's there again... here: http://www.videotron.com/services/en/service_clien tele/8_7.jsp
http://www.videotron.com/services/en/service_clien tele/8_7.jsp
I don't know how that space got in there...
http://www.videotron.com/services/en/service_clien tele/8_7.jsp
Go there, send letters to videotron, they also have a javascript based online customer support option. I would highly appreciate it if the masses would rise up and say something for once instead of letting their rights be trampled by yet another big company.
1) Ship
2) ???
3) Profit!
I already have an iPod, so this doesn't concern me too much, as of right now that is. I'm concerned what this says about the way they will be treating us loyal customers once the ipod fad is over.
As a card mac zealot, I am signing that petition immediately and I hope that all the rest of you do the same.
S
My iBook's fan comes on very rarely. It came on for the first time almost 4 months after I bought it... At the time I was scared it was making funny noises because it was broken. I have heard similar things baout the imac G4.
SBS: sick building syndrome is pretty much what you're describing. It has nothing to do with EM
It was found to be highly correlated to the amount of aspergilus (a fungus) spores in the air. The spores come from your ventilation system.
-S
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Same here,
Nowadays I tell people, buy a mac or don't complain when it doesn't work. You want cheap, you'll get cheap and all that comes with it.
Cheers,
-S
You're kidding right?
OS X has a steep learning curve?
I'm not sure about 10.1/10.2 but I started using it when panther came out and the learning curve coming from windows is all of 4 minutes.
It consisted of a number of statements like
oh I wonder how "..." works...
>open help
>type in "..."
looks like it's the second one on the list, oh,
>reads 2 full sentences of english
Oh, that's simple, seems kind of obvious now...
There are applescripts to do this kind of thing on the mac, depending on exactly what you want...
Go check ipodlounge.com! it's full of goodies!
Cheers,
-S
I agree, thank you for your comment it made my /. day.
Cheers,
-S
Because everyone seems to be berating the /. community for fanboyism and protecting our beloved ipod producer when in fact everyone seems to be slamming them for it....
They should have just shut up and let real quietly fade away, they're not likely to stop sucking anytime soon so why antagonize?
Indeed, it seems to me the only reason they would do this is to get a precedent out and send a message to MS that they're going to protect their ASSets as much as they can. It's the only reasonable explanation, they have nothing to directly gain from roughing up Real.
I suggested something similar at McGill for the language labs.
Instead of providing anything REMOTELY useful, they've decided to adopt an infuriatingly poorly designed difficult to use irritiating system called Can8. The super parts of Can8 use in the language lab:
-No printing from vocabulary lists so you have to scrawl down anything they put up, which is all but impossible in the alotted time.
-No access except during office hours, which makes studying impossible for anyone who holds a part time job during the day.
-No net access or ability to download any of the audio onto any sort of removable media.
When I said as much to the "technologist" along with some potential solutions she replied: yeah that's a bummer. Too bad.
In short, I'd like to opine that McGill spanks the monkey and will never be able to compete on a serious level because it's run by a bunch of backwards bureaucrats.
Yes there is, Politics.
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I dunno...
An Apple pretty much comes with everything you might need, other than office...
But, since that's a non-zero cost, I'll agree that switching any platform has initial investment costs and withdraw my previous comment.
I bought my emac for 1000$ canadian, it's quite fetching actually, let alone decent.
As for Photshop (339 canadian), office (119 canadian) and VPC with windows XP (334).... I haven't found any software that I needed to use under VPC, I also don't need photoshop and 119$ for office is quite reasonable in my humble opinion.
I also have a suite of ilife apps that let my edit movies, create picture slide shows, create DVDs and even do a little music recording.
All for the low, Low, LOW price of 1119 canadian.
That, taken with any app I could ever want to run under linux in fink, and the ridiculously slick interface is actually a pretty good deal. I also don't have to upgrade my mac as often as I would a PC I could buy because upgrades to the OS run snappier on older software, not slower.
all in all, you really don't have a case.
OR....
You could ditch your windows box and get a Mac, run all your mac programs, use fink to run all your linux/unix programs (or roll your own...) and Virtual PC to run anything windowsish that you still own.
The problem is, the class sizes in health science at the third year level are about the same size as history at the first year, about 105 people.
My history exam was so ridiculously progressive it made me rethink my entire education. Here's how it went down:
1st third:
Identifications, there are key concepts listed, you write down 3 or 4 sentences containing at least 3 facts about each. An example might be Commodore Matthew Perry who was an american who opened up japan which led to the fall of the shogunate for X reasons and the rise of the empire etc... America was there instead of china for... and so on.
Part 2:
Primary sources:
Some excerpts of articles which originated in the periods we talked about are given, you have to remember who wrote them, why and why that was important. An example would be early north korean anti-soviet sentiments and intense nationalism in the writings of Kim Il Sung.
Part 3:
Essay:
The 1800 to 1900 seemed to be a time of intense interaction between the west and the countries discussed in the course. discuss the political, economical and historical factors leading to the rise of different types of reactions.
Each was worth about 33% of the final.
Here's a typical science exam:
A bug are haved a DNA that make it not recognizing CPG motifs:
A) complement
B) Methylated
C) you've never heard of this, don't bother
D) Don't bother you haven't heard of me
Answers:
1: A, B, C
2) A and C
3) B and D
4) just D
5) all or none are true
Well....
It's not just the bourgeois pricks who do MBAs, what about the few people who are in the field of science and decided that while we enjoy it, we're not interested in being so finely focused. I want to learn about everything, not just one part of one leg of one molecular pathway in one organism in one if it's life cycle stages under one set of conditions. How boring is that?
I've been through enough of Microbiology and Immunology to know where the pieces are sitting in the field today and I can honestly say I'm not that interested in any of what's being worked on. I'm curious, but I'm not interested in sitting over a bench and pipetting for the next 8 years.
A lot of the really interesting questions won't be answered any time soon, and I'm not THAT interested that I'd spend my life persuing any of them to completion.
I've done a B.Sc, If you were applying for work at a Biotech company, who would you rather have as a boss, me or some B.comm punk?
Nerd in a suit or PHB?
Please tell me it gets better in the *real world*!
I've completed a major in Microbiology an Immunology at McGill University, supposedly the second best school in canada and I can say that I wouldn't wipe my ass with my degree. The only people who achieve are those who practice the memorize and forget mantra.
Intuitive understanding is discouraged, all tests are multiple choice and ambiguously phrased. I became so disenchanted with science that I'm taking another year to do a more liberal arts kind of degree in East asian studies.
The point is that I was once passionate about science, but the all too ironic discouragement of curiosity and critical thought has made me want to avoid it at all costs.
Note to all potential applicants: IMHO, McGill University's health science programs are terrible.