Obvisously someone who has never sat in the back of a cruiser. If in the back you can't open the doors from the inside, or maybe handcuffs were involved numb nuts. At any rate if true would you take the chance of getting an extra few charges tacked on, evasion, flight from an officer, escape from detention.
It seems to me that if we as a nation wish to improve our scientific, and tech standings we should start at the bottom, mainly getting rid of the current "no child left behind" way of thinking in the public schools. These standardized tests do nothing but prompt teachers and school staff to teach specifially structured classes so that students will be more apt to pass these tests and give the school an overall higherscore so they get more money for next years programs. This is all well and good, but it is happening at the cost of our youths' educations. The end result being fewer people graduating with basic skills needed to be successful in any industry other than food service. An example of my point, when I returned to school to further my education I was bound by lower test scores to take make up courses, this most likely due to the last grade I completed as much as having been out of school near 15 years. In these "catch up" classes there were people who had graduated high school the year before in these classes. If the schools cannot even teach students enough to help them pass an entrance exam to where they would be enrolled in college courses that makes a huge statement about the state of education, at least this is how I see it in my state, and my experiences with the education system within my state.
Has anyone else made similar observations, or had similar experiences after leaving high school and entering college? Have you known someone who graduated, yet couldn't perform the equivalent of high school senior level algebra?
I personally think the "no child left behind" solution is in fact leaving no child behind, but it is also keeping more children at a lower level than they should be. In the corporate world, if you can't keep up, you are left behind.
Not sure about your story, but a few things don't sit right with me about the main story either. In 50 years he has never seen a large cat, not even signs of one? Why in the picture is he so far behind the animal? Most African Big Game Safari pics the hunters hold up a head, or are right next to the body for a size comaprison, not 10 - 20 yards behind the kill.
He only saved the tail for DNA sample. So this bloke caps a black feral cat, takes a picture skewing the aspect ratio and making the cat appear larger than him, or as big at least, and sends a tail in he got from who knows where to validate his story.
This seems like a hoax to me. In CA there are more than a few large cats attacking humans from time to time, you mean to tell me in dense brush an animal that large is going to charge a human from 80 yards? It would be more likely this guy wouldn't know the cat was even following him until the cat leapt onto him.
People are attacked in Africa by lions, these lions don't run them down from 80 yards. They do what cats do and stalk their prey. 80 yards is too far to run, to expend the energy the cat would need to expend on the chance it would miss a meal. In nature a fuck up like that would cost the cat not just a meal, but starvation.
Well to answer your questions, yes I watch television ads, though I don't sit through them this is my time to get a snack, use the head, or get a drink, or wrestle with my child for a few minutes, play with my dog, whatever. I also don't read magazine ads, I flip through them. I block net ads for a few reasons, I'm on a webpage, I'm either interacting with the site or reading it's content, I don't need the distraction of a flashing puke green banner asking me to watch midget ghey jello wrestling (exagereted example), the main reason I block net ads is that "I CAN".
Not until the quality of a software product out weighs the need to meet a deadline to produce it will we see this change in the industry.
I'm fairly certain there are a number of coders out there producing substandard (by their own standards) code, that they would much rather take more time to work a better solution or optimization. Constrained by a deadline though, unless you are a code god this is not humanly possible.
It isn't just the price that keeps home users from printing.
For every tech-savvy person you know, how many do you know that still look for the "Any Key" key on a keyboard?
I know several people who have the gear to produce studio quality prints, yet are not even technically inclined to transfer pics from a cameras memory stick to a printer or docking station, or a pc.
This is odd given the "insert stick here" nature of todays consumer gear.
I think in this case he knew what he was doing was wrong in the first place. I also don't think for a second he suspected that the site was a fraud, in his field he should have known better than to be duped.
That's like saying "I had no clue that 2 ton vehicle would plow over that old lady, I thought it would just nudge her out of the way".
The first being the practice of suing based on made up figures claiming lost revenues from technology similar to what's been around for years.
The second would be the business model of essentially spam lawsuits, whereby your business would supeana tons of people naming them as defendants in a lawsuit claiming false copyright violation and hoping they settle out of court.
You could then charge the RIAA and MPAA lisencing fees.
Before taking anything on the interweb as law, I always do some fact checking to make sure the data is accurate. Though, I rarely need to verify everything, http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/0 6/0020223&tid=133&tid=14 Why would I need to verify this? Would it benefit my knowledge base? Probably not. Is it entertaining to read? Most definately. I used this as an example, I know for a fact that Anaconda do in fact eat Cayman crocodiles, so this is well within the realm of probability. I also know that constricting snakes, because of this helpless ness will not swallow live prey, so I know for a fact that the gator did not "claw it's way out". All this I know, not from one specific source, but rather from various sources, that seem to support each other.
When doing a research paper in college, did you rely on one source for your research? Or various sources that seemed to pretty much support each others data?
It should not be under control of any one governing body/country. This model may well have worked fine in the days of the nets infancy and even today, but a better solution is to allow other countries to bear the brunt of backbone costs/mainentance. This would allow them control, as well as decentralize the net even more. I think using a model based on this would make the likelihood of the net "bieng taken down" even more remote as a bulk of traffic would move to another contries backbone. The largest logistic in this endeavour would be an accepted system of standards which would have to be adhered to and enforced by a coalition of countries, so that again no one country was in complete control.
I see no reason why my government refuses to give up control. I suggest if they don't want to completely release the reigns, they produce an idea to spread out control between countries, or lose any type of control it currently has.
I think for some countries the internet has become economical, but this refusal to hand over control seems more political than anything else.
Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company.
This in the write up stood out the most to me. I wondered how, if the disk were defective they could be ruled uninjured, having RTFA I now see that Microsofts position was not one of trying to shirk the responsability, but rather one of trying to mitigate thier loses. The claim by MS was
"Only those who suffered dataloss due to the damaged software, should be considered injured and therefore eligable for compensation."
Oddly enough, it seems in this case that Bush has made a good decision in choosing his staff for once.
Arachno-Jurasic Park Starring: Laura Flynn-Boyle Visit this park where instead of large dinosaurs spiders were cloned using giant tarantula dna. Nono this could even roll out into a sequel combining both Eight Legged Freaks and this one. Where the spiders grow even larger and jump at park attendees.
A few years ago I was banging away at my keyboard writing some program. My daughter came up to me and mentioned that she "wanted to do what I was doing", I asked if she wanted to use the computer and she said "no, I want to program". Well, I set about looking for something for a 5 year old to program with and found, http://www.toontalk.com/
I have to say it was the best $30 I have spent. Here it is 2 years later and she is using languages like Pearl and Python.
This is a whatif conversation at the White House after deploying one of these.
President: So, does anyone want to explain how we lost one of these ships?
Secretary of Defense: Sir, they used a weapon that inteligence didn't know they had.
President: Do we now know what the weapon was?
Secretary of Defense: According to the flight recorder recovered at the crash site, it appeared to be a large slingshot.
President: WTF!!11!!
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SuSe 8.0 Pro on 350 megahert AMD K6-2 (yeah it's old school) 512 megs ram, uptime 12:51am up 279 days, load average: 0.51, 0.12, 0.03
I think that says alot.
Obvisously someone who has never sat in the back of a cruiser. If in the back you can't open the doors from the inside, or maybe handcuffs were involved numb nuts. At any rate if true would you take the chance of getting an extra few charges tacked on, evasion, flight from an officer, escape from detention.
I have been converting mine into keychains since simms. Add ring, add keys. Hurts like hell in your pocket though.
This is past the point of rediculous, I mean come on, today Patent Lawyers are the worse than ambulance chasers.
It seems to me that if we as a nation wish to improve our scientific, and tech standings we should start at the bottom, mainly getting rid of the current "no child left behind" way of thinking in the public schools. These standardized tests do nothing but prompt teachers and school staff to teach specifially structured classes so that students will be more apt to pass these tests and give the school an overall higherscore so they get more money for next years programs. This is all well and good, but it is happening at the cost of our youths' educations. The end result being fewer people graduating with basic skills needed to be successful in any industry other than food service. An example of my point, when I returned to school to further my education I was bound by lower test scores to take make up courses, this most likely due to the last grade I completed as much as having been out of school near 15 years. In these "catch up" classes there were people who had graduated high school the year before in these classes. If the schools cannot even teach students enough to help them pass an entrance exam to where they would be enrolled in college courses that makes a huge statement about the state of education, at least this is how I see it in my state, and my experiences with the education system within my state.
Has anyone else made similar observations, or had similar experiences after leaving high school and entering college? Have you known someone who graduated, yet couldn't perform the equivalent of high school senior level algebra?
I personally think the "no child left behind" solution is in fact leaving no child behind, but it is also keeping more children at a lower level than they should be. In the corporate world, if you can't keep up, you are left behind.
Not sure about your story, but a few things don't sit right with me about the main story either. In 50 years he has never seen a large cat, not even signs of one? Why in the picture is he so far behind the animal? Most African Big Game Safari pics the hunters hold up a head, or are right next to the body for a size comaprison, not 10 - 20 yards behind the kill.
He only saved the tail for DNA sample. So this bloke caps a black feral cat, takes a picture skewing the aspect ratio and making the cat appear larger than him, or as big at least, and sends a tail in he got from who knows where to validate his story.
This seems like a hoax to me. In CA there are more than a few large cats attacking humans from time to time, you mean to tell me in dense brush an animal that large is going to charge a human from 80 yards? It would be more likely this guy wouldn't know the cat was even following him until the cat leapt onto him.
People are attacked in Africa by lions, these lions don't run them down from 80 yards. They do what cats do and stalk their prey. 80 yards is too far to run, to expend the energy the cat would need to expend on the chance it would miss a meal. In nature a fuck up like that would cost the cat not just a meal, but starvation.
Well to answer your questions, yes I watch television ads, though I don't sit through them this is my time to get a snack, use the head, or get a drink, or wrestle with my child for a few minutes, play with my dog, whatever. I also don't read magazine ads, I flip through them. I block net ads for a few reasons, I'm on a webpage, I'm either interacting with the site or reading it's content, I don't need the distraction of a flashing puke green banner asking me to watch midget ghey jello wrestling (exagereted example), the main reason I block net ads is that "I CAN".
If the critics didn't like it a simple it sucked would have sufficed.
They didn't have to resort to arson, unless they felt that Wallace and Grommet are really that evil and must be destroyed at all costs.
Keep the faith guys, from the ashes will rise a phoenix.
Thats fuckin hilarious. One of the best random /. posts I've read.
Not until the quality of a software product out weighs the need to meet a deadline to produce it will we see this change in the industry.
I'm fairly certain there are a number of coders out there producing substandard (by their own standards) code, that they would much rather take more time to work a better solution or optimization. Constrained by a deadline though, unless you are a code god this is not humanly possible.
It isn't just the price that keeps home users from printing.
For every tech-savvy person you know, how many do you know that still look for the "Any Key" key on a keyboard?
I know several people who have the gear to produce studio quality prints, yet are not even technically inclined to transfer pics from a cameras memory stick to a printer or docking station, or a pc.
This is odd given the "insert stick here" nature of todays consumer gear.
I think in this case he knew what he was doing was wrong in the first place. I also don't think for a second he suspected that the site was a fraud, in his field he should have known better than to be duped.
That's like saying "I had no clue that 2 ton vehicle would plow over that old lady, I thought it would just nudge her out of the way".
Purgery is a crime, though lieing to police is not. Never said he changed his story in court only to the police.
2 business models
The first being the practice of suing based on made up figures claiming lost revenues from technology similar to what's been around for years.
The second would be the business model of essentially spam lawsuits, whereby your business would supeana tons of people naming them as defendants in a lawsuit claiming false copyright violation and hoping they settle out of court.
You could then charge the RIAA and MPAA lisencing fees.
Before taking anything on the interweb as law, I always do some fact checking to make sure the data is accurate. Though, I rarely need to verify everything, http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/0 6/0020223&tid=133&tid=14 Why would I need to verify this? Would it benefit my knowledge base? Probably not. Is it entertaining to read? Most definately. I used this as an example, I know for a fact that Anaconda do in fact eat Cayman crocodiles, so this is well within the realm of probability. I also know that constricting snakes, because of this helpless ness will not swallow live prey, so I know for a fact that the gator did not "claw it's way out". All this I know, not from one specific source, but rather from various sources, that seem to support each other.
When doing a research paper in college, did you rely on one source for your research? Or various sources that seemed to pretty much support each others data?
Gator
Gator
Gator
SNAKE
Its a snake
It should not be under control of any one governing body/country. This model may well have worked fine in the days of the nets infancy and even today, but a better solution is to allow other countries to bear the brunt of backbone costs/mainentance. This would allow them control, as well as decentralize the net even more. I think using a model based on this would make the likelihood of the net "bieng taken down" even more remote as a bulk of traffic would move to another contries backbone. The largest logistic in this endeavour would be an accepted system of standards which would have to be adhered to and enforced by a coalition of countries, so that again no one country was in complete control.
I see no reason why my government refuses to give up control. I suggest if they don't want to completely release the reigns, they produce an idea to spread out control between countries, or lose any type of control it currently has.
I think for some countries the internet has become economical, but this refusal to hand over control seems more political than anything else.
Interesting point, not quite sure how I missed that.
I agree, I personally live by two simple rules.
Rule #1 Don't sweat the small shit.
Rule #2 Everything is small shit.
This in the write up stood out the most to me.
I wondered how, if the disk were defective they could be ruled uninjured, having RTFA I now see that Microsofts position was not one of trying to shirk the responsability, but rather one of trying to mitigate thier loses. The claim by MS was Oddly enough, it seems in this case that Bush has made a good decision in choosing his staff for once.
Thank You Captain Subliminal.
Arachno-Jurasic Park
Starring:
Laura Flynn-Boyle
Visit this park where instead of large dinosaurs spiders were cloned using giant tarantula dna. Nono this could even roll out into a sequel combining both Eight Legged Freaks and this one. Where the spiders grow even larger and jump at park attendees.
WTF! Happened to "Thanks for all the fish?"
A few years ago I was banging away at my keyboard writing some program. My daughter came up to me and mentioned that she "wanted to do what I was doing", I asked if she wanted to use the computer and she said "no, I want to program". Well, I set about looking for something for a 5 year old to program with and found, http://www.toontalk.com/
I have to say it was the best $30 I have spent. Here it is 2 years later and she is using languages like Pearl and Python.
This is a whatif conversation at the White House after deploying one of these.
President: So, does anyone want to explain how we lost one of these ships?
Secretary of Defense: Sir, they used a weapon that inteligence didn't know they had.
President: Do we now know what the weapon was?
Secretary of Defense: According to the flight recorder recovered at the crash site, it appeared to be a large slingshot. President: WTF!!11!!