A 1 to 10 scale for a book is not the same thing as a 0 to 100 grade in a class. The average grade in most of your classes is probably 70 (undergrad) or 80 (grad); the average rating for a book on a 1 to 10 scale should be 5.
He voted against condoing the torture of "terrorism" suspects. For the nutjobs who run today's Republican Party, that's enough to make him a Trotskyite.
Solid-state televisions were expensive and relatively rare (say as rare as 1080p today) until the late 70s. We didn't get a solid-state TV until around 1978 or so - and it was black and white.
So much for post-modern, secular humanism, eh? We are not omnipotent and omniscient.
Actually, it's religions that are into the whole "omnipotent and omniscient" bit, not secular humanists.
When I see a Monday night football game in Seattle in November, and there's snow on the ground, I can only conclude "global warming" is causing it. Sure.
On the other hand, there have been a bunch of 60 degree days in late November and early December in the Northeast. What happens when you add more energy to a stable system? It becomes more turbulent.
It's basic to Popper's philosophical approach to science: science focuses upon falsifiability and falsification. If a proposition is falsifiable and has been tested by multiple investigators, but never falsified, it is a valid scientific hypothesis.
You realize that they're just going to call them QVC's, right? And for the first two years, everyone will assume you're talking about the TV shopping network?
Why the hell would they care? They make more money on a Mac with Parallels than they do on a new HP with Windows: for the Mac, you have to buy the retail version of Vista, while the HP comes with the OEM version.
I suspect they just don't want to test Vista Home with VirtualPC, or are afraid that someone will figure out a way to use Vista Home as a cheap virtualized server.
Christians have been teaching in US public schools for over two hundred years, and have been doing so at least for 40 years without having to bring their beliefs into the classroom (probably more so; there's a reason so many Christian schools existed for decades, even centuries before this). This rule was originally written by James Madison, after an ineffectual debate in Congress on a more limited version that simply banned having an official religion, and was enacted by a bunch of Christians and a bunch of Deists (and an Atheist or two) to protect *themselves* and their constituents from those who would use their ideas about God to divide us.
I went to a Christian school where the idea of telling children that they would go to Hell if they did not believe in Jesus, or the idea of denying the complexity of the origins of life and the universe in favor of an effectively mythical account, was anathema. Of course, that was a *Catholic* school, and I know that many Christians do not consider Catholics to be of their number.
Do you own property? Then you are not a Christian. "Give away everything you own, and follow me." And don't give me that "he was only saying that was what the guy he was talking to should do, not everybody," because universalizing everything that Jesus said into a general principle is always the rule - unless what Jesus said is terribly inconvenient.
Lighten up. Everybody understands what a success Mars Global Surveyor has been, but let's face it: Mars is a very hostile environment, and its distance makes it very hard to debug a problem when it occurs. I think everybody enjoys the mythology of attributing spacecraft failures which can't be properly diagnosed from this distance to "hostile Martian action". It gives the old Martian mythology of Lowell, Welles, Welles, and Chuck Jones a nice, amusing, non-threatening afterlife. At it's a lot funnier to hear someone complain about Martians that it is to hear them howl in frustration about how a minor problem that could easily be fixed in Earth orbit will kill a Mars orbiter dead before anyone can figure out what has gone wrong.
4,800 bp is ~2800 bc. -- Second Dynasty, I think, not pre-dynastic. It would be predynastic in China and during the chaotic early period of Mesopotamia (don't remember the technical names for either). Not much in the way of useful records, at any rate.
NO. Aboslutely never learn COBOL. Never, ever, ever. As Dijkstra said, it will cripple your mind.
All kids should, by the end of high school, learn BASIC or some substitute language that is widely available and easy to program (AppleScript, JavaScript, what have you), and enough XHTML to do a simple web page.
Computer Science students should learn at least one of C++ or Java; they should also learn either PERL or FORTRAN, should learn an assembly language, and should learn a newer high-level language like Ruby or Python.
He said the www, not the Internet. The Internet was developed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn using ARPA funding; but the web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in his spare time at CERN. I know a lot of you young whippersnappers think the web is the net, but there's nearly a twenty year gap between the two inventions.
Thanks, I had forgotten some of those stories were Ron Moore's. Well put. I had "refreshed" my memory by looking at IMDB but didn't see a "story editor" credit.
Story editors tend to be the folks who shoehorn the stories that other writers have written into the series' milieu. He'd be responsible for anything from mere continuity to basically rewriting everything that came in the door, depending upon how active he was. To give you some idea, D C Fontana was a story editor on the original Star Trek series, and Douglas Adams was a story editor (or script editor, which I believe is the same thing) on Doctor Who.
There's a bit of skew on this, though. You never hear about major IT disasters at private companies because 1. it's competition sensitive information anyway, and 2. if it's a major disaster, the company is snuffed out of existence. Remember, too, that most companies are nowhere near the size of a big government ministry because they don't have the huge customer interface: millions of customers, and millions of different types of contacts.
1. The writers wanted arcs, they knew the fans wanted arcs, but the syndication partners wanted bottle shows so they could show them in any damned order they liked, so Paramount forced them to limit the number and depth of multi-episode arcs.
2. There were changes in the production staff, including bringing Ron Moore onboard in the second season, and promoting him to co-executive producer for the last few seaons. As in Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore.
However, I wouldn't dismiss the idea that JMS's talks with the Star Trek junta before DS9 came out had a lot to do with the inspiration of that series, and may have had a lot to do with the development of the arc-heavy later seasons; or the idea that B5's minor success helped to prove that bottle shows weren't the only way to go.
It's worth noting that Enterprise was very much a bottle show for its first two seasons - and it was terrible. In the third seaon, they tried to do a big, large-scale arc, but it simply didn't work out well - I think they were doing *too much* service to an arc that wasn't well thought out (or very good); and I don't think they had the chops for it. When Manny Coto took over, they went to multi-episode arcs that were rooted in the original idea for the series, and it was much better, albeit much too late.
've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod.
Funny, I have 50 GB of them and have never had a problem. And I get a hell of a lot more than 2 hours of play time out of a charge, even on my old 15 GB 3G iPod - the one with the recalled battery which I never had to submit to the recall.
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A 1 to 10 scale for a book is not the same thing as a 0 to 100 grade in a class. The average grade in most of your classes is probably 70 (undergrad) or 80 (grad); the average rating for a book on a 1 to 10 scale should be 5.
I can just see the "alien anthropologist" saying the same thing a few thousand years from now - "I WAS JUST A FREAKING MAMMAL."
Yeah, because one slashdotter's sloppiness tells us a whole lot about the national Democratic party . . .
He voted against condoing the torture of "terrorism" suspects. For the nutjobs who run today's Republican Party, that's enough to make him a Trotskyite.
DT was privatized in 1996, the German government only owns ~15% (of DT).
Solid-state televisions were expensive and relatively rare (say as rare as 1080p today) until the late 70s. We didn't get a solid-state TV until around 1978 or so - and it was black and white.
So much for post-modern, secular humanism, eh? We are not omnipotent and omniscient.
Actually, it's religions that are into the whole "omnipotent and omniscient" bit, not secular humanists.
When I see a Monday night football game in Seattle in November, and there's snow on the ground, I can only conclude "global warming" is causing it. Sure.
On the other hand, there have been a bunch of 60 degree days in late November and early December in the Northeast. What happens when you add more energy to a stable system? It becomes more turbulent.
It's basic to Popper's philosophical approach to science: science focuses upon falsifiability and falsification. If a proposition is falsifiable and has been tested by multiple investigators, but never falsified, it is a valid scientific hypothesis.
By anybody's definiton, improving the error messages in Internet Explorer is NOT innovation.
Why? They've been PHB baiting for 20 years.
Actually, the FSB WANTS everyone to know they did it. The better to silence their other critics both within Russia and in London, etc.
I dare them to buy the front shelves in the Apple Stores. (There's a reason Apple has a retail chain.)
You realize that they're just going to call them QVC's, right? And for the first two years, everyone will assume you're talking about the TV shopping network?
Why the hell would they care? They make more money on a Mac with Parallels than they do on a new HP with Windows: for the Mac, you have to buy the retail version of Vista, while the HP comes with the OEM version.
I suspect they just don't want to test Vista Home with VirtualPC, or are afraid that someone will figure out a way to use Vista Home as a cheap virtualized server.
Christians have been teaching in US public schools for over two hundred years, and have been doing so at least for 40 years without having to bring their beliefs into the classroom (probably more so; there's a reason so many Christian schools existed for decades, even centuries before this). This rule was originally written by James Madison, after an ineffectual debate in Congress on a more limited version that simply banned having an official religion, and was enacted by a bunch of Christians and a bunch of Deists (and an Atheist or two) to protect *themselves* and their constituents from those who would use their ideas about God to divide us.
I went to a Christian school where the idea of telling children that they would go to Hell if they did not believe in Jesus, or the idea of denying the complexity of the origins of life and the universe in favor of an effectively mythical account, was anathema. Of course, that was a *Catholic* school, and I know that many Christians do not consider Catholics to be of their number.
Do you own property? Then you are not a Christian. "Give away everything you own, and follow me." And don't give me that "he was only saying that was what the guy he was talking to should do, not everybody," because universalizing everything that Jesus said into a general principle is always the rule - unless what Jesus said is terribly inconvenient.
Lighten up. Everybody understands what a success Mars Global Surveyor has been, but let's face it: Mars is a very hostile environment, and its distance makes it very hard to debug a problem when it occurs. I think everybody enjoys the mythology of attributing spacecraft failures which can't be properly diagnosed from this distance to "hostile Martian action". It gives the old Martian mythology of Lowell, Welles, Welles, and Chuck Jones a nice, amusing, non-threatening afterlife. At it's a lot funnier to hear someone complain about Martians that it is to hear them howl in frustration about how a minor problem that could easily be fixed in Earth orbit will kill a Mars orbiter dead before anyone can figure out what has gone wrong.
4,800 bp is ~2800 bc. -- Second Dynasty, I think, not pre-dynastic. It would be predynastic in China and during the chaotic early period of Mesopotamia (don't remember the technical names for either). Not much in the way of useful records, at any rate.
NO. Aboslutely never learn COBOL. Never, ever, ever. As Dijkstra said, it will cripple your mind.
All kids should, by the end of high school, learn BASIC or some substitute language that is widely available and easy to program (AppleScript, JavaScript, what have you), and enough XHTML to do a simple web page.
Computer Science students should learn at least one of C++ or Java; they should also learn either PERL or FORTRAN, should learn an assembly language, and should learn a newer high-level language like Ruby or Python.
He said the www, not the Internet. The Internet was developed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn using ARPA funding; but the web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in his spare time at CERN. I know a lot of you young whippersnappers think the web is the net, but there's nearly a twenty year gap between the two inventions.
Thanks, I had forgotten some of those stories were Ron Moore's. Well put. I had "refreshed" my memory by looking at IMDB but didn't see a "story editor" credit. Story editors tend to be the folks who shoehorn the stories that other writers have written into the series' milieu. He'd be responsible for anything from mere continuity to basically rewriting everything that came in the door, depending upon how active he was. To give you some idea, D C Fontana was a story editor on the original Star Trek series, and Douglas Adams was a story editor (or script editor, which I believe is the same thing) on Doctor Who.
There's a bit of skew on this, though. You never hear about major IT disasters at private companies because 1. it's competition sensitive information anyway, and 2. if it's a major disaster, the company is snuffed out of existence. Remember, too, that most companies are nowhere near the size of a big government ministry because they don't have the huge customer interface: millions of customers, and millions of different types of contacts.
Mostly, the DS9 change was two things.
1. The writers wanted arcs, they knew the fans wanted arcs, but the syndication partners wanted bottle shows so they could show them in any damned order they liked, so Paramount forced them to limit the number and depth of multi-episode arcs.
2. There were changes in the production staff, including bringing Ron Moore onboard in the second season, and promoting him to co-executive producer for the last few seaons. As in Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore.
However, I wouldn't dismiss the idea that JMS's talks with the Star Trek junta before DS9 came out had a lot to do with the inspiration of that series, and may have had a lot to do with the development of the arc-heavy later seasons; or the idea that B5's minor success helped to prove that bottle shows weren't the only way to go.
It's worth noting that Enterprise was very much a bottle show for its first two seasons - and it was terrible. In the third seaon, they tried to do a big, large-scale arc, but it simply didn't work out well - I think they were doing *too much* service to an arc that wasn't well thought out (or very good); and I don't think they had the chops for it. When Manny Coto took over, they went to multi-episode arcs that were rooted in the original idea for the series, and it was much better, albeit much too late.
've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod.
Funny, I have 50 GB of them and have never had a problem. And I get a hell of a lot more than 2 hours of play time out of a charge, even on my old 15 GB 3G iPod - the one with the recalled battery which I never had to submit to the recall.
I'd have modded him redundant, because Dick Cthulhu won in 2004, not 2006.