I'll echo the "you're never played DDR" comment... I only did once, and it was amazing (uh... just not amazing enough for me to go out and by the console, game, and pad for...)
But anyway, my high school (it's public) was (according to the gym teachers anyway) one of the first to have a set of choices as you mention. Granted, we have a fair amount of funding. This year I rock climbed (twice), fenced, did archery, and played volleyball and badmitton. I didn't play football, basketball, floor hockey, didn't do martial arts, didn't dance, didn't play tennis (though I would have liked to), didn't swim, and didn't do a bunch of other stuff.
How do we do this? We have four gym teachers for 11th and 12th grade (and need them; between those two grades we have 1200+ people, so 600 take gym each semester, so even running gym all eight periods (which leaves the instructors no time for lunch or whatnot) would mean 75 people would have gym at once,). So someone came up with the idea to have each instructor run one specific area, and the area you chose and the area they tought would change four times a semester.
So the first semester, someone would teach each of rock climbing 1, martial arts 1, basketball and floorhockey (it would change halfway through the quarter semester), weight lifting, and the pool guy would do swimming before school. (The pool guy is separate from the gym people.) Then everyone would choose what they wanted to do for that quarter semester. (They would call us down in order; seniors first, then juniors, and within each group they would call us down by sex and last name, so men A-M, women A-M, man N-Z, women N-Z, and would cycle who was called first each of the four times, though all seniors always came before all juniors; other than that, it was first-come, first-served.) Then after that quarter semester was over, everyone would pick again from a different set of choices.
Anyway, the reason I gave all this detail is so that if you go to a large school with multiple gym instructos operation simultaneously, you could suggest that they do a similar thing. With the proper choices of activities, it's even possible that it would cost no extra money, and would still increase participation. The teachers rave about how much this system reduced skipping, etc.
(In 9th and 10th, there were no such choices of activities.)
I was (am) pathetic at dodge ball, but that was so fun... I can't throw, but I can dodge, so I'd last a long time. Especially in team dodge... I'd run around near the midline and roll back balls that were about to cross so that people that could throw could throw them.
How's the computer supposed to know that the rails on my table don't "reflect" the ball back at the right angle. Hit at 15 degrees, bounce back at 45...
>>You're absolutely right. Lawrie doesn't want to give it to the government because of the laws they want to put on the.za domain. Unfortunately there are 60%+ of the population who democratically elected the government to represent their interests, and Lawrie doesn't actually have a fucking say in WHAT laws government intend to make.
Does that mean that 60% of the population wants the.za regulated? No. It means 60% of the population voted on the best (least-bad if you prefer) platform, which may or may not (I'd guess not) have said anything about the internet.
Then you get into if people w/o internet access should get a say in what happens with.za... (there are good arguments either way; I haven't deicded what I think)
See the post that is (at least right now) right under this one.
I'll be (probably; I have to make sure it's not against University policy first) setting up an old computer as a firewall/proxy (I don't kow the exact method I'll use yet) between PSU's net and my main computer. I saw the book "Hack Proofing Linux" at a bookstore that explains a lot of this stuff apparently pretty well. If my firewall is allowed, I'll be buying that (Amazon has it for $35, $15 under the $50 list) along with another Linux book (probably the Red Hat Linux Bible, also $35 I think). I'm a newbie too, if you can't tell.
The carpal tunnel is a pathway in your wrists that nerves go through. CTS occurs when the tunnels get smashed, blocking the nerve singals.
Now, resting your wrists can worsen the situation just by vitue of the fact that there is more weight on them, but the real reason resting your hands on something is bad is that it tends to keep your wrists bent back (see safetype's explanation at http://www.safetype.com/extension.html; and unlike a lot of the stuff here, it actually can be taken pretty literally).
Now, I'm not a doctor, but I'd say that as long as your wrists are straight, you'll be OK. But it's the bending that causes the problem. So if you're doing that, stop as soon as you can get out of the habit.
Oh look: it's major university studies showing that it is ergonomic: ASU, Univ or Arizona, Harrington Arthritis Research Center, Univ. of Ca, and the Univ. of Mich. are all cited.:)
I could be wrong, but for extradition treaties to go into effect, don't you have to commit a crime in country A then flee to country B? Then country B ships you back to country A for trial. So if a person (or company) is in country B when they committ an act that is illegal in country A, country B shouldn't need to do anything.
I'm kind of wondering what you do for software that did not come with a printed EULA, and just had a click-wrap license? You can't produce it then... or are you going to have to produce the CD/disks (if it's really old software)? I think it'd be easier and more worthwhile to keep the media organized...
But if you use that argument they'll find someone to ask something like "what kinds of software do you use for your classes?" (likely posing as a prospective student), and chances are they'll mention that some computure, somewhere runs Windows or some other MS software, and then they'll sue you anyway. It's a lose-lose situation.
Except that we're talking about whether something is morally right (well, wrong), not whether people do it... by your logic, we couldn't say "is it morally wrong to copy music?" because people are doing it...
How 'bout this, avoiding the 'grades=compensation' thing (not that I think it is particularily bad, but some do) and adding a couple more things to make it more realistic:
You publish a paper ("A Study of the Relationship Between Earwax Buildup and Hearing") in The Generic Scientific Journal (GSJ). [Let's say that every time you publish you get a bonus from your university.] Dr. A subscribes to GSJ and likes the article, and wants to share it with Dr. B, who does not get GSJ, since it costs $575.54 per year ($50/issue for a savings of almost $25/yr if you call within the next five minutes) and is unrelated to his field. Dr. A decides to photocopy your article and give it to Dr. B, and does so. Dr. B likes it so much that he shares it with the sutdents in both his Earwax 101 course and his Feet 351 course. (BTW: for the reasons mentioned above, none of the students in either class subscribe to the GSJ either.)
There. You have the thing with distribution (to a large audience), you have the thing with overcharging (the $575.54 and, mainly, the $50), you have the thing with a single article being good but to get it you must buy the whole thing (for $50), you have the thing with the 'pirates' not buying it anyway, and most of them throwing it away as soon as they are out of the sights of Dr. B. What more could you want in the analogy?
No, but you forget that in this admendment of the analogy, it is the students that are really the 'pirates'... and my guess is that they couldn't claim to have "participated in the creative process." Maybe a couple friends you chatted with, but that's still pretty weak...
Remember, he's saying a blahX drive has a minimum rotational speed of blahX, which is 37.something% of it's maximum speed. (See the CAV vs. CLV stuff, as well as that part where he says that manufacturers give the max. speed so it looks better.)
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The parent of this post was meant to be a response to SCHecklerX's post one level up from where it is.
More complicatedly, this post's parent should be a child of this post's parent's patent.
But I'll add that there are a lot better indicators that this country is going downhill than DDR being present in gym class...
I'll echo the "you're never played DDR" comment... I only did once, and it was amazing (uh... just not amazing enough for me to go out and by the console, game, and pad for...)
But anyway, my high school (it's public) was (according to the gym teachers anyway) one of the first to have a set of choices as you mention. Granted, we have a fair amount of funding. This year I rock climbed (twice), fenced, did archery, and played volleyball and badmitton. I didn't play football, basketball, floor hockey, didn't do martial arts, didn't dance, didn't play tennis (though I would have liked to), didn't swim, and didn't do a bunch of other stuff.
How do we do this? We have four gym teachers for 11th and 12th grade (and need them; between those two grades we have 1200+ people, so 600 take gym each semester, so even running gym all eight periods (which leaves the instructors no time for lunch or whatnot) would mean 75 people would have gym at once,). So someone came up with the idea to have each instructor run one specific area, and the area you chose and the area they tought would change four times a semester.
So the first semester, someone would teach each of rock climbing 1, martial arts 1, basketball and floorhockey (it would change halfway through the quarter semester), weight lifting, and the pool guy would do swimming before school. (The pool guy is separate from the gym people.) Then everyone would choose what they wanted to do for that quarter semester. (They would call us down in order; seniors first, then juniors, and within each group they would call us down by sex and last name, so men A-M, women A-M, man N-Z, women N-Z, and would cycle who was called first each of the four times, though all seniors always came before all juniors; other than that, it was first-come, first-served.) Then after that quarter semester was over, everyone would pick again from a different set of choices.
Anyway, the reason I gave all this detail is so that if you go to a large school with multiple gym instructos operation simultaneously, you could suggest that they do a similar thing. With the proper choices of activities, it's even possible that it would cost no extra money, and would still increase participation. The teachers rave about how much this system reduced skipping, etc.
(In 9th and 10th, there were no such choices of activities.)
I was (am) pathetic at dodge ball, but that was so fun... I can't throw, but I can dodge, so I'd last a long time. Especially in team dodge... I'd run around near the midline and roll back balls that were about to cross so that people that could throw could throw them.
That's correct. The article does say it can't see ahead. Still, I think it would be useful to help you get started learning anyway.
How's the computer supposed to know that the rails on my table don't "reflect" the ball back at the right angle. Hit at 15 degrees, bounce back at 45...
>>You're absolutely right. Lawrie doesn't want to give it to the government because of the laws they want to put on the .za domain. Unfortunately there are 60%+ of the population who democratically elected the government to represent their interests, and Lawrie doesn't actually have a fucking say in WHAT laws government intend to make.
.za regulated? No. It means 60% of the population voted on the best (least-bad if you prefer) platform, which may or may not (I'd guess not) have said anything about the internet.
.za... (there are good arguments either way; I haven't deicded what I think)
Does that mean that 60% of the population wants the
Then you get into if people w/o internet access should get a say in what happens with
Theft of propriatary company information. I don't know if this is legal or not though...
See the post that is (at least right now) right under this one. I'll be (probably; I have to make sure it's not against University policy first) setting up an old computer as a firewall/proxy (I don't kow the exact method I'll use yet) between PSU's net and my main computer. I saw the book "Hack Proofing Linux" at a bookstore that explains a lot of this stuff apparently pretty well. If my firewall is allowed, I'll be buying that (Amazon has it for $35, $15 under the $50 list) along with another Linux book (probably the Red Hat Linux Bible, also $35 I think). I'm a newbie too, if you can't tell.
Even the "Holy Fucking Shit" headline portrays the feelings of 9/11 better than everyone else...
If you remove the alpha-numeric keys as well you'll have a really ergonomic keyboard.
It even had mirrors. :)
The carpal tunnel is a pathway in your wrists that nerves go through. CTS occurs when the tunnels get smashed, blocking the nerve singals. Now, resting your wrists can worsen the situation just by vitue of the fact that there is more weight on them, but the real reason resting your hands on something is bad is that it tends to keep your wrists bent back (see safetype's explanation at http://www.safetype.com/extension.html; and unlike a lot of the stuff here, it actually can be taken pretty literally). Now, I'm not a doctor, but I'd say that as long as your wrists are straight, you'll be OK. But it's the bending that causes the problem. So if you're doing that, stop as soon as you can get out of the habit.
That doesn't change the fact that the USPO deserves to be decomissioned. that should be Bush's next action when he's done with the FBI...
Oh look: it's major university studies showing that it is ergonomic: ASU, Univ or Arizona, Harrington Arthritis Research Center, Univ. of Ca, and the Univ. of Mich. are all cited. :)
...I really didn't need to see that...
If you copyright it under your name, it will include your name. If you copyright it under an organization's name, it won't.
I could be wrong, but for extradition treaties to go into effect, don't you have to commit a crime in country A then flee to country B? Then country B ships you back to country A for trial. So if a person (or company) is in country B when they committ an act that is illegal in country A, country B shouldn't need to do anything.
I'm kind of wondering what you do for software that did not come with a printed EULA, and just had a click-wrap license? You can't produce it then... or are you going to have to produce the CD/disks (if it's really old software)? I think it'd be easier and more worthwhile to keep the media organized...
Did you note the part in the indivudial article where the writer said they were also auditing personally owned computers?
But if you use that argument they'll find someone to ask something like "what kinds of software do you use for your classes?" (likely posing as a prospective student), and chances are they'll mention that some computure, somewhere runs Windows or some other MS software, and then they'll sue you anyway. It's a lose-lose situation.
Except that we're talking about whether something is morally right (well, wrong), not whether people do it... by your logic, we couldn't say "is it morally wrong to copy music?" because people are doing it...
How 'bout this, avoiding the 'grades=compensation' thing (not that I think it is particularily bad, but some do) and adding a couple more things to make it more realistic: You publish a paper ("A Study of the Relationship Between Earwax Buildup and Hearing") in The Generic Scientific Journal (GSJ). [Let's say that every time you publish you get a bonus from your university.] Dr. A subscribes to GSJ and likes the article, and wants to share it with Dr. B, who does not get GSJ, since it costs $575.54 per year ($50/issue for a savings of almost $25/yr if you call within the next five minutes) and is unrelated to his field. Dr. A decides to photocopy your article and give it to Dr. B, and does so. Dr. B likes it so much that he shares it with the sutdents in both his Earwax 101 course and his Feet 351 course. (BTW: for the reasons mentioned above, none of the students in either class subscribe to the GSJ either.) There. You have the thing with distribution (to a large audience), you have the thing with overcharging (the $575.54 and, mainly, the $50), you have the thing with a single article being good but to get it you must buy the whole thing (for $50), you have the thing with the 'pirates' not buying it anyway, and most of them throwing it away as soon as they are out of the sights of Dr. B. What more could you want in the analogy?
No, but you forget that in this admendment of the analogy, it is the students that are really the 'pirates'... and my guess is that they couldn't claim to have "participated in the creative process." Maybe a couple friends you chatted with, but that's still pretty weak...
...except you got an A. Remember? :)
Remember, he's saying a blahX drive has a minimum rotational speed of blahX, which is 37.something% of it's maximum speed. (See the CAV vs. CLV stuff, as well as that part where he says that manufacturers give the max. speed so it looks better.)