You think you're being funny, but we had a psychology professor at our university who got the university to fund his research project on the state of mind of a middle aged man sailing around the world. And yes, he was his own research subject, as he sailed around the world. No, I really don't think it's possible for someone to be introspective enough to write a scientific paper on their own state of mind.
Actually, if you look at the statistics for lung cancer you'll see quite the opposite. 24.4% of male, heavy (5 cigarettes per day) smokers end up with lung cancer. I don't even equate 5 cigarettes as heavy, as just about everyone I've ever known who smoked, did at least 5 a day, and many did a whole pack (20-25) cigarettes a day. That doesn't even account for all the other bad things that smoking can give you. That's just a single disease. The signs at the checkout at the grocery store state that 1 in 2 long term smokers will die of a smoking related disease. That's not odds that I want to mess around with.
I think schools would be much better off if they started separating the students into different academic abilities much earlier on. When I was in highschool, they put all the students in the same classes for grade 9 to figure out where they should really be before separating them into "Basic" (highest aspirations are to graduate high school, with a very simple workload at that, realisticly they probably only have a grade 8 education anyway. Mostly for people with learning or behavioral problems.), "General" (for students who want to prepare for trade school/community college), and "Advanced" (For students who wanted to go to university). This was great because once you got out of grade 9, if you were serious about school, so were the majority of the kids in your class. Unfortunately, it also made me realize how much of a waste the 9th grade was, when they were trying to evaluate and figure out where to put everyone. Only a few years before that, the students has to decide which stream to go in before they entered high school. I think this whole process could be put much earlier. Probably around grade 5-6 you could start to separate out who the kids were who were going to make it into higher education. I guess some people probably think that's a little young to "give up" on students who could possibly make something of themselves. After a 2 years of "general" courses, it's almost impossible to make up for the lost time and graduate from the "advanced" program. But I think that we have a lot to be gained in not holding back those who can, and want to, do something great with their life.
I've been thinking about this for my kids when they get a bit older. 6 may be a bit young, but once they are about 8, a tablet is a much better idea than the other hand held consoles. I'd rather pay $300 for a decent tablet, and then $1-$10 for games than spend $150 on a handheld console where I'd have to spend $30-$50 on games. After you buy 3-4 games, the tablet ends up cheaper, plus, they are great for doing so many other things, like watching movies, browsing the internet, and doing actual creation. People say that tablets are for consumption only, but with the right apps, you really can be quite creative. One last point, we are coming out of a big recession, and sure there are a lot of poor people, and who can afford these things, yadi yadi yada. But there are over 300 million people in the US alone, and there's plenty of people who make plenty of money who have no problem buying stuff like this. If you have a family where both parents are making $70,000 a year (no uncommon if both are well educated), that creates quite a bit of disposable income.
What about rental cars? Sure it's fine if you're in a familiar car, but if you've never drive the car before, finding the volume controls while driving can be very dangerous.
Nintendo has had this service for years. You've been able to send games as gifts on Wii Shop Channel for quite a while., when the released the console, if not shortly after. Actually, I just checked, and the patent was filed September 30, 2008, which was well after the release of the Nintendo Wii, and Wikipedia states that the gift feature was introduced on December 10, 2007. Well before the patent was filed. This isn't some kind of prior art that nobody knew about. This is something very obvious that the patent office should have seen as a reason to reject the patent.
This is the same problem we have in the news. Reporters (some anyway) want to be seen as non-biased, so they give equal time to both supporters and non-supporters of global warming, and therefore the general public thinks that there is actually some kind of debate in the scientific community over whether or not global warming is really happening. Same goes for evolution and a lot of other topics. Sometimes it even gets a little out of hand, like this Anderson Cooper interview where he has some non-educated person who just embarrasses herself on national television, because they insist on having someone from the other side of the issue talk about it, and she was the only person stupid enough to try to defend the point of view. Ignoring the other side of the debate is fine if the other side of the debate is provably wrong.
The problem, is that context can get lost, especially on twitter. What if someone else retweets it? And then their followers see it. Some of which have no idea of the context in which the original comment was made, and may have no idea who the person was who made the original comment. I think the whole case is stupid, but you have to account for the fact that when you're on a broadcast medium like Twitter, you have to be careful with what you say.
Not necessarily true. I heard that Facebook (or someone else, I can't recall) basically just assumes the request goes through without and error and the UI acts accordingly. In the exceptionally odd case that an error is returned, it can still be displayed after the fact, but what you get is a UI that looks like it is responding instantly, even though the saving hasn't actually happened. With some UI tricks and a bit of work you can have a very responsive UI on a web app.
Depends on the size of the project. $100,000 is basically 1 person year. If you have a development team of 10 people, and it takes them 1 year to do the project, then 10% of their time is dealing with IE specific problems. That may seem like a lot of time to spend on IE, but depending on how UI dependant your site is, I could easily see that happening. If you're trying to build a really rich web UI with lots of Javascript and CSS3, then IE can be a real pain. But if you stick with HTML4 type stuff, with standard forms and a basic layout, then IE doesn't really get in your way at all.
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Do you have a gas furnace or a gas water heater. Just to be clear, those use fire. Nothing wrong with leaving a fire unattended under the right circumstances.
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Shouldn't be walking away from the grill due to safety reasons? What kind of condition is your grill in? Do you recommend I stand there for hours while something cooks? A quality grill in good condition should be as safe as a gas stove. Even safe if you're using charcoal. While you probably shouldn't take a nap while you're grilling, I don't think it's a bad idea to go back into the kitchen while something is cooking to prepare other parts of the meal.
I'm not si sure I'm comfortable someone scanning my credit or especially debit Ward with a personal device like an ipad or iPhone. If its possible for a program to be written do do the transaction securely, then its possible for shadyy retailers to have an app on there that looks like the official app but that retains your card data. It easy enough to get your card duplicated with scanning it through consumer devices.
If you look far enough down the line, nothing is "ethical". Fair trade coffee means farmers aren't growing food to feed their own starving communities, organic means we need to use more land and cut down more forests. The local farmers at the market drive trucks filled with oil from the middle east and use the money you spend to buy African blood diamonds for their wives. If you want to be ethical, the best thing to do is to stop buying so much stuff in the first place. No you don't need a new phone every year and you will probably do just fine without a 70 inch television, and that car probably can last another year or two.
Actually GPS is very simple. We've been using similar technology for hundreds of years to navigate ships. The only difference between using a GPS device and a sextant is that we have a much more accurate clock, and the reference objects in space are in a much better location. A sextant can get the location down to 400m if on land, or around 2.8 km when at sea (due to the movement of the waves.
I'm not sure whether or not they can decline. I think not. However, the proper procedure for a takedown notice states that the person requesting the takedown must submit
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is alleged to be infringed.
So while I'm sure that there are some false positives, there are some people that would submit things which weren't actually infringements, I think most people would think twice against submitting a takedown notice to Google that they knew was for non-infringing content. Google might send lawyers after them. Take down requests for non-infringing content may work to scare away the little guys, but I'm pretty sure Google ignores quite a few requests that don't follow proper procedures or that obviously aren't copyright violations.
I'm not the parent poster, but I would have to say it's a little bit of both. I'm willing to pay for new music, but not at the rate it's being produced and the price being asked. There's way too much music coming out for me to even keep track of, and at the current price for music ($10 an album) I can only really justify buying an album every few months, and even then, only when it's something really good. If the album was cheaper (like $2) I might be inclined to buy more albums, because I'm getting more music for less money. In the '70s people didn't have a whole lot of entertainment choices, so people bought lots of music. Now we have a lot of new things that we spend money on. Cable TV, video games, cell phone bills, internet bills. All this stuff costs money, which means we have less money to spend on music. That and the ability to get music for free (even if you just count legitimate services) means that people won't be willing to spend so much money on music anymore. Personally, I'm a big fan of subscription services like Netflix and RDIO. Pay a small monthly fee and you get access to a huge library. I end up spending less, and still get access to a huge amount of content.
This is basically what breakfast and lunch programmes are about at schools. Ensuring that kids get at least 2 good meals in them during the day so they aren't hungry and can pay attention at school. Maybe it could be extended to provide a meal before they leave school as well. Of course, they'd have to start offering good healthy food for it to have really great benefits instead of sugar coated cereal in chocolate milk for breakfast, with a burger and fries for lunch.
Well, you certainly could try to publish stuff anonymously, but it was a lot riskier back then. Most people didn't have a printing press in their basement. You had to deliver the material to the printing press owner and hope that he didn't sell you out to the authorities. You could even send some lackey to deliver the letter, but they could rat you out as well. You still had to be willing to stand behind what you had said. Sure there were "anonymous" letters, but if the guy running the printing press didn't like your message, he didn't have to print them. And he was putting his ass on the line. Who's to say that someone against the message wouldn't go and destroy the press. It's only recently that people have been able to publish something for the whole world to see with pretty much no trail. It's possible to do it on the internet, but very difficult to do it right. Even organizations like Wikileaks who pride themselves on letting whistle blowers get their message out anonymously have had their anonymous tipsters revealed.
We always wandered the town unsupervised. Sure we got into a little bit of trouble, but it was a lot better than the current state, where children never go outside, and we have massive problems with obesity. I think it's kind of sad that the baseball fields in my area never get used except for little league games. We used to always play baseball, hockey, football, whatever. Go knock on the doors the doors of every kind in the neighborhood until you had enough people to play, and start a game. Online isn't any different. You just have to teach your kids how to deal with people causing problems. On the internet, it's so easy. If you don't like what someone else is saying, just go somewhere else.
Well, when the first amendment was written, pretty much all speech was not anonymous. The first amendment was passed in 1789. The radio wasn't even invented until almost a century later. The only kind of speech was stand up in front of a group of people and start talking. That was by definition not anonymous. You could wear a mask, but even then it would have been pretty easy to find out who you were. You could print material and could hide that way, but even then, there wasn't a lot of printing presses, and they could probably easily find out who you were. You could hand write everything, but making copies would be very troublesome and time consuming. Sure it would be nice if we could all just post anonymous articles like Demosthenes and cause a political upheaval but that's not really the way things work. The people who have caused political change have done so by being intentionally not anonymous. They have gone out in public, risked their lives to stand up for what they believe in. The civil rights movement probably never would have happened if Martin Luther King had been some anonymous guy typing comments or blog posts onto the internet. Had it not been for people going out and demonstrating in public, some getting killed, change would not have happened. It's a shame it has to be that way, but having a bunch of anonymous people typing comments on internet forums isn't going to change the world.
Saw this yesterday. Was useful for getting an approximation but they didn't list when it was actually occurring for my area. I had to infer it based on the animation and the times.for the first and last places to see it.
Kudos to someone who can point me to a website that lets you find out when you can see it baaed on your location. I've been looking on and off since yesterday and haven't been able to find the times for my area.
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You think you're being funny, but we had a psychology professor at our university who got the university to fund his research project on the state of mind of a middle aged man sailing around the world. And yes, he was his own research subject, as he sailed around the world. No, I really don't think it's possible for someone to be introspective enough to write a scientific paper on their own state of mind.
Actually, if you look at the statistics for lung cancer you'll see quite the opposite. 24.4% of male, heavy (5 cigarettes per day) smokers end up with lung cancer. I don't even equate 5 cigarettes as heavy, as just about everyone I've ever known who smoked, did at least 5 a day, and many did a whole pack (20-25) cigarettes a day. That doesn't even account for all the other bad things that smoking can give you. That's just a single disease. The signs at the checkout at the grocery store state that 1 in 2 long term smokers will die of a smoking related disease. That's not odds that I want to mess around with.
I think schools would be much better off if they started separating the students into different academic abilities much earlier on. When I was in highschool, they put all the students in the same classes for grade 9 to figure out where they should really be before separating them into "Basic" (highest aspirations are to graduate high school, with a very simple workload at that, realisticly they probably only have a grade 8 education anyway. Mostly for people with learning or behavioral problems.), "General" (for students who want to prepare for trade school/community college), and "Advanced" (For students who wanted to go to university). This was great because once you got out of grade 9, if you were serious about school, so were the majority of the kids in your class. Unfortunately, it also made me realize how much of a waste the 9th grade was, when they were trying to evaluate and figure out where to put everyone. Only a few years before that, the students has to decide which stream to go in before they entered high school. I think this whole process could be put much earlier. Probably around grade 5-6 you could start to separate out who the kids were who were going to make it into higher education. I guess some people probably think that's a little young to "give up" on students who could possibly make something of themselves. After a 2 years of "general" courses, it's almost impossible to make up for the lost time and graduate from the "advanced" program. But I think that we have a lot to be gained in not holding back those who can, and want to, do something great with their life.
I've been thinking about this for my kids when they get a bit older. 6 may be a bit young, but once they are about 8, a tablet is a much better idea than the other hand held consoles. I'd rather pay $300 for a decent tablet, and then $1-$10 for games than spend $150 on a handheld console where I'd have to spend $30-$50 on games. After you buy 3-4 games, the tablet ends up cheaper, plus, they are great for doing so many other things, like watching movies, browsing the internet, and doing actual creation. People say that tablets are for consumption only, but with the right apps, you really can be quite creative. One last point, we are coming out of a big recession, and sure there are a lot of poor people, and who can afford these things, yadi yadi yada. But there are over 300 million people in the US alone, and there's plenty of people who make plenty of money who have no problem buying stuff like this. If you have a family where both parents are making $70,000 a year (no uncommon if both are well educated), that creates quite a bit of disposable income.
What about rental cars? Sure it's fine if you're in a familiar car, but if you've never drive the car before, finding the volume controls while driving can be very dangerous.
Cats will do this too though. I've seen cats bat around bugs for hours, chasing them for fun. Why is it worse when we do it?
Nintendo has had this service for years. You've been able to send games as gifts on Wii Shop Channel for quite a while., when the released the console, if not shortly after. Actually, I just checked, and the patent was filed September 30, 2008, which was well after the release of the Nintendo Wii, and Wikipedia states that the gift feature was introduced on December 10, 2007. Well before the patent was filed. This isn't some kind of prior art that nobody knew about. This is something very obvious that the patent office should have seen as a reason to reject the patent.
People really should stop naming their kids after D.H. Lawrence
This is the same problem we have in the news. Reporters (some anyway) want to be seen as non-biased, so they give equal time to both supporters and non-supporters of global warming, and therefore the general public thinks that there is actually some kind of debate in the scientific community over whether or not global warming is really happening. Same goes for evolution and a lot of other topics. Sometimes it even gets a little out of hand, like this Anderson Cooper interview where he has some non-educated person who just embarrasses herself on national television, because they insist on having someone from the other side of the issue talk about it, and she was the only person stupid enough to try to defend the point of view. Ignoring the other side of the debate is fine if the other side of the debate is provably wrong.
The problem, is that context can get lost, especially on twitter. What if someone else retweets it? And then their followers see it. Some of which have no idea of the context in which the original comment was made, and may have no idea who the person was who made the original comment. I think the whole case is stupid, but you have to account for the fact that when you're on a broadcast medium like Twitter, you have to be careful with what you say.
Not necessarily true. I heard that Facebook (or someone else, I can't recall) basically just assumes the request goes through without and error and the UI acts accordingly. In the exceptionally odd case that an error is returned, it can still be displayed after the fact, but what you get is a UI that looks like it is responding instantly, even though the saving hasn't actually happened. With some UI tricks and a bit of work you can have a very responsive UI on a web app.
Depends on the size of the project. $100,000 is basically 1 person year. If you have a development team of 10 people, and it takes them 1 year to do the project, then 10% of their time is dealing with IE specific problems. That may seem like a lot of time to spend on IE, but depending on how UI dependant your site is, I could easily see that happening. If you're trying to build a really rich web UI with lots of Javascript and CSS3, then IE can be a real pain. But if you stick with HTML4 type stuff, with standard forms and a basic layout, then IE doesn't really get in your way at all.
Do you have a gas furnace or a gas water heater. Just to be clear, those use fire. Nothing wrong with leaving a fire unattended under the right circumstances.
Shouldn't be walking away from the grill due to safety reasons? What kind of condition is your grill in? Do you recommend I stand there for hours while something cooks? A quality grill in good condition should be as safe as a gas stove. Even safe if you're using charcoal. While you probably shouldn't take a nap while you're grilling, I don't think it's a bad idea to go back into the kitchen while something is cooking to prepare other parts of the meal.
I'm not si sure I'm comfortable someone scanning my credit or especially debit Ward with a personal device like an ipad or iPhone. If its possible for a program to be written do do the transaction securely, then its possible for shadyy retailers to have an app on there that looks like the official app but that retains your card data. It easy enough to get your card duplicated with scanning it through consumer devices.
If you look far enough down the line, nothing is "ethical". Fair trade coffee means farmers aren't growing food to feed their own starving communities, organic means we need to use more land and cut down more forests. The local farmers at the market drive trucks filled with oil from the middle east and use the money you spend to buy African blood diamonds for their wives. If you want to be ethical, the best thing to do is to stop buying so much stuff in the first place. No you don't need a new phone every year and you will probably do just fine without a 70 inch television, and that car probably can last another year or two.
Actually GPS is very simple. We've been using similar technology for hundreds of years to navigate ships. The only difference between using a GPS device and a sextant is that we have a much more accurate clock, and the reference objects in space are in a much better location. A sextant can get the location down to 400m if on land, or around 2.8 km when at sea (due to the movement of the waves.
So while I'm sure that there are some false positives, there are some people that would submit things which weren't actually infringements, I think most people would think twice against submitting a takedown notice to Google that they knew was for non-infringing content. Google might send lawyers after them. Take down requests for non-infringing content may work to scare away the little guys, but I'm pretty sure Google ignores quite a few requests that don't follow proper procedures or that obviously aren't copyright violations.
I'm not the parent poster, but I would have to say it's a little bit of both. I'm willing to pay for new music, but not at the rate it's being produced and the price being asked. There's way too much music coming out for me to even keep track of, and at the current price for music ($10 an album) I can only really justify buying an album every few months, and even then, only when it's something really good. If the album was cheaper (like $2) I might be inclined to buy more albums, because I'm getting more music for less money. In the '70s people didn't have a whole lot of entertainment choices, so people bought lots of music. Now we have a lot of new things that we spend money on. Cable TV, video games, cell phone bills, internet bills. All this stuff costs money, which means we have less money to spend on music. That and the ability to get music for free (even if you just count legitimate services) means that people won't be willing to spend so much money on music anymore. Personally, I'm a big fan of subscription services like Netflix and RDIO. Pay a small monthly fee and you get access to a huge library. I end up spending less, and still get access to a huge amount of content.
This is basically what breakfast and lunch programmes are about at schools. Ensuring that kids get at least 2 good meals in them during the day so they aren't hungry and can pay attention at school. Maybe it could be extended to provide a meal before they leave school as well. Of course, they'd have to start offering good healthy food for it to have really great benefits instead of sugar coated cereal in chocolate milk for breakfast, with a burger and fries for lunch.
Well, you certainly could try to publish stuff anonymously, but it was a lot riskier back then. Most people didn't have a printing press in their basement. You had to deliver the material to the printing press owner and hope that he didn't sell you out to the authorities. You could even send some lackey to deliver the letter, but they could rat you out as well. You still had to be willing to stand behind what you had said. Sure there were "anonymous" letters, but if the guy running the printing press didn't like your message, he didn't have to print them. And he was putting his ass on the line. Who's to say that someone against the message wouldn't go and destroy the press. It's only recently that people have been able to publish something for the whole world to see with pretty much no trail. It's possible to do it on the internet, but very difficult to do it right. Even organizations like Wikileaks who pride themselves on letting whistle blowers get their message out anonymously have had their anonymous tipsters revealed.
We always wandered the town unsupervised. Sure we got into a little bit of trouble, but it was a lot better than the current state, where children never go outside, and we have massive problems with obesity. I think it's kind of sad that the baseball fields in my area never get used except for little league games. We used to always play baseball, hockey, football, whatever. Go knock on the doors the doors of every kind in the neighborhood until you had enough people to play, and start a game. Online isn't any different. You just have to teach your kids how to deal with people causing problems. On the internet, it's so easy. If you don't like what someone else is saying, just go somewhere else.
Well, when the first amendment was written, pretty much all speech was not anonymous. The first amendment was passed in 1789. The radio wasn't even invented until almost a century later. The only kind of speech was stand up in front of a group of people and start talking. That was by definition not anonymous. You could wear a mask, but even then it would have been pretty easy to find out who you were. You could print material and could hide that way, but even then, there wasn't a lot of printing presses, and they could probably easily find out who you were. You could hand write everything, but making copies would be very troublesome and time consuming. Sure it would be nice if we could all just post anonymous articles like Demosthenes and cause a political upheaval but that's not really the way things work. The people who have caused political change have done so by being intentionally not anonymous. They have gone out in public, risked their lives to stand up for what they believe in. The civil rights movement probably never would have happened if Martin Luther King had been some anonymous guy typing comments or blog posts onto the internet. Had it not been for people going out and demonstrating in public, some getting killed, change would not have happened. It's a shame it has to be that way, but having a bunch of anonymous people typing comments on internet forums isn't going to change the world.
Saw this yesterday. Was useful for getting an approximation but they didn't list when it was actually occurring for my area. I had to infer it based on the animation and the times.for the first and last places to see it.
Kudos to someone who can point me to a website that lets you find out when you can see it baaed on your location. I've been looking on and off since yesterday and haven't been able to find the times for my area.