"There were heroes on both sides. Evil was everywhere".
WTF!!?! Sounds like something Lucas thumbtyped on his Blackberry when some assisstant reminded him that they needed some yellow pseudo 3D words for the start.
That set the scene for the rest of the 'dialogue', if they just took 1million from the SE budget and gave it to a 1/2 way competant writer, my it would have been a decent movie.
I mean, the dialogue was Power Rangers bad, I can't fault the actors, IMO they mostly did a great job of not looking totally disgusted with the dreck they were forced to babble between action scenes.
Ok, there was one memorable line, but Lucas stole that one.
O and the initial battle scene wasn't anywhere near as well done as First Contact's.
ask your admin to install the Nav block or the xTree block, these let you navigate a big Moodle course from a sideblock.
Tell them to ask about it on Moodle.org if they have questions.
See the Comparisons and Advocacy: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2784 forum at Moodle.org (click the login as guest button to read) for discussions of folks who have or are making the switch.
It's being used at New Zealand Poly with >40,000 users on a 4 unit cluster, for instance.
Sakai largest installation is uMich with 27,000 students (reportedly on 27 servers) Sakai's release notes call for a new server for every 2000 students.
Moodle has a gradebook, a quiz system, and many other tools that haven't been written yet in Sakai.
Moodle is being used at more than 4000 registered sites world wide, including a number of 10,000-20,000+ student systems.
And Moodle is built with the same technology that Yahoo chose as the best for a (really) large site: PHP.
You can check out Sakai at collab.sakaiproject.org, join up and try the discussion tool out.
ALso see a comparison of Moodle vs. Blackboard: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm --note this is Moodle 1.3 vs. BB 6, Moodle 1.5 is due out in a few weeks with RSS, a wiki, a new gradebook, and extensive performance tuning by the NZVLE project.
in the San Bernadino hills during hunting season, when folks lose goats, dogs, horses, and the locals are afraid to go out in the woods during the season.
While golf is much more a local danger and doctors, well the population they practice on is much more likely to die from any causes even if they get perfect care (being generally sick) than the average person.
But see I like internet hunting as it would make it easier to keep the guns in one place, which could be well marked. Put out a big bait pile and blast away, I say, we've got more than enough deer, and they do make a mess of a perfectly nice bumper.
with the Moodle LMS, as opposed to commercial Learning Management Systems's.
With Moodle, the free support has been very much better than the support that comes with a paid Blackboard or WebCT license.
And another nice thing is if you need it you can get paid support from a variety of partners, so if you don't like the paid support from one partner, you can choose another without having to switch LMSs--with the closed source systems there is only one source of support--the license provider. If they cut support to boost quarterly profits, you're SOL.
Since switching LMSs is a huge deal for a school, being able to choose from a range of support services is a pretty nice feature.
But you have to choose the right product--look for one with a vibrant, open, active community where the core developers participate often. With some open source products, the support is no better than Microsoft--they tend to be the ones where the developers don't participate in open discussion, where the community is asking alot more questions than are getting answered, etc.
Other great features are scaling clusters without added license costs, being able to test new versions extensively before putting into production, being able to run multiple versions without having to pay multiple fees, and of course bugs are fixed much more rapidly and generally just by changing the code directly without having to apply a 'patch' or shut down the system.
re-introduction of which into it's former range would help a great deal with deer population.
Internet hunting might be ok, AFAIC, IF some means is employed to track down wounded deer. No self-respecting hunter would leave a legshot or belly shot deer to die a long slow painful death, right? Right?
Here in California, we're getting alot more cougars near towns, partly due to increased deer pop. (and to be fair due to decreased ML hunting).
But wolves would be preferable as natural predators to lions IMO, since they don't attack joggers, bikers, and small children.
Nor do they take wild drunken potshots at anything that moves, which far to many hunters in the remaining wilds of s. california do. (At least with iHunting presumably it would be done a good ways away from habitation and in defined well marked areas).
I guess this will firmly put to rest the claims that MS is not a source of cutting edge innovation.
An RSOD, that is the kind of forward thinking genius that makes America great!
I sure hope they patented it and will fight tooth and nail the sure to come attempts by lesser european, californian, etc. OSs to copy this great leap forward in interface design.
supernatural explanations are not part of science, by definition.
Science always seeks to find natural explanations for observations, whether it's physics (we don't say "God makes the sun go round"), engineering ("Sacrifice a chicken so God will keep the bridge from falling"), or biology.
Like with physics and other sciences, biology would be pretty useless if 'scientists' cam up with supernatural explanations for observations, then they wouldn't be scientists any more, they would be priests.
If you know anything about biology, you know about DNA, right? DNA changes over time and through selection, that's evolution.
Terms like species, genera, family, etc. are just made up categories we place on degrees of differences in DNA between groups of organisms.
As there is no real difference between the principles that make an apple fall and the principles that make a planet orbit a sun, or a sun orbit a galaxy, there are no actual differences between the forces that cause "micro-evolution" and the forces that cause "macro-evolution".
humans didn't evolve from apes, humans and apes came from the same ancestor.
Present day humans and present day apes split from this ancestor, we evolved to exploit different niches in the environment.
There is a wealth of hard, scientific, evidence for this, see Hominid Species for more.
many of the world's greatest scientists believe in a god of some sort.
However, none of them (at least the ones with backgrounds in biology) believe in intelligent design. Part of the reason being that we aren't designed particularly intelligently.
PS, a great computer scientist, for instance, probably knows less biology than your average nurse, so one has to make sure the opinions of the great scientists are actually based on their knowledge of the particular branch of science in question.
Slashdot Mirror
"There were heroes on both sides. Evil was everywhere".
WTF!!?! Sounds like something Lucas thumbtyped on his Blackberry when some assisstant reminded him that they needed some yellow pseudo 3D words for the start.
That set the scene for the rest of the 'dialogue', if they just took 1million from the SE budget and gave it to a 1/2 way competant writer, my it would have been a decent movie.
I mean, the dialogue was Power Rangers bad, I can't fault the actors, IMO they mostly did a great job of not looking totally disgusted with the dreck they were forced to babble between action scenes.
Ok, there was one memorable line, but Lucas stole that one.
O and the initial battle scene wasn't anywhere near as well done as First Contact's.
I remember was it back in 96? 97? Anyway, when I first stumbled on this wierd search site, something like http://www.stanford.edu/~lporsomething/google.
And I was like wtf?!? Google?? No one will ever take these yahoos seriously!
So when I found Moodle in 03, I was less concerned about the name:-).
ask your admin to install the Nav block or the xTree block, these let you navigate a big Moodle course from a sideblock. Tell them to ask about it on Moodle.org if they have questions.
offers hosting for Moodle.
One of the great things about the Moodle model is that you can change your support partner w/o changing your LMS.
With the commercial solutions if you don't like the support (and nobody seems to:-( they offer, you have to change the whole LMS.
what is the largest installation?
Learning Evironment.
Is that worse than Gooooooooooogle?
On the bright side, it's GPL so you can install it and call it anything you want:-).
It has equivalent features, it scales, and students like it: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm
See the Comparisons and Advocacy: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2784 forum at Moodle.org (click the login as guest button to read) for discussions of folks who have or are making the switch.
It's being used at New Zealand Poly with >40,000 users on a 4 unit cluster, for instance.
Sakai largest installation is uMich with 27,000 students (reportedly on 27 servers) Sakai's release notes call for a new server for every 2000 students.
Moodle has a gradebook, a quiz system, and many other tools that haven't been written yet in Sakai.
Moodle is being used at more than 4000 registered sites world wide, including a number of 10,000-20,000+ student systems.
And Moodle is built with the same technology that Yahoo chose as the best for a (really) large site: PHP.
You can check out Sakai at collab.sakaiproject.org, join up and try the discussion tool out.
ALso see a comparison of Moodle vs. Blackboard: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm --note this is Moodle 1.3 vs. BB 6, Moodle 1.5 is due out in a few weeks with RSS, a wiki, a new gradebook, and extensive performance tuning by the NZVLE project.
Dakota?
You may have something there, I'd suggest you publish!
schools should be teaching how computers work, not how a particular interface to the computer works.
If students learned how computers work, then it wouldn't matter much what flavor of lickable buttons the interface has.
It's like schools get all hung up on the colors of the cover and the fonts of the book rather than teaching the contents;-(.
in the San Bernadino hills during hunting season, when folks lose goats, dogs, horses, and the locals are afraid to go out in the woods during the season.
While golf is much more a local danger and doctors, well the population they practice on is much more likely to die from any causes even if they get perfect care (being generally sick) than the average person.
But see I like internet hunting as it would make it easier to keep the guns in one place, which could be well marked. Put out a big bait pile and blast away, I say, we've got more than enough deer, and they do make a mess of a perfectly nice bumper.
with the Moodle LMS, as opposed to commercial Learning Management Systems's.
With Moodle, the free support has been very much better than the support that comes with a paid Blackboard or WebCT license.
And another nice thing is if you need it you can get paid support from a variety of partners, so if you don't like the paid support from one partner, you can choose another without having to switch LMSs--with the closed source systems there is only one source of support--the license provider. If they cut support to boost quarterly profits, you're SOL.
Since switching LMSs is a huge deal for a school, being able to choose from a range of support services is a pretty nice feature.
But you have to choose the right product--look for one with a vibrant, open, active community where the core developers participate often. With some open source products, the support is no better than Microsoft--they tend to be the ones where the developers don't participate in open discussion, where the community is asking alot more questions than are getting answered, etc.
Other great features are scaling clusters without added license costs, being able to test new versions extensively before putting into production, being able to run multiple versions without having to pay multiple fees, and of course bugs are fixed much more rapidly and generally just by changing the code directly without having to apply a 'patch' or shut down the system.
kids can get started making some pretty fun games right away.
GameMaker
who have been poo poo-ing tablet PCs to suddenly think differently about these wonderful little devices.
Me hopefully someday I will have a Mac with all the benefits of my Toshiba tablet but without this horrible XP virus cluttering it up!
re-introduction of which into it's former range would help a great deal with deer population.
Internet hunting might be ok, AFAIC, IF some means is employed to track down wounded deer. No self-respecting hunter would leave a legshot or belly shot deer to die a long slow painful death, right? Right?
Here in California, we're getting alot more cougars near towns, partly due to increased deer pop. (and to be fair due to decreased ML hunting).
But wolves would be preferable as natural predators to lions IMO, since they don't attack joggers, bikers, and small children.
Nor do they take wild drunken potshots at anything that moves, which far to many hunters in the remaining wilds of s. california do. (At least with iHunting presumably it would be done a good ways away from habitation and in defined well marked areas).
that is all I can say.
I guess this will firmly put to rest the claims that MS is not a source of cutting edge innovation.
An RSOD, that is the kind of forward thinking genius that makes America great!
I sure hope they patented it and will fight tooth and nail the sure to come attempts by lesser european, californian, etc. OSs to copy this great leap forward in interface design.
"My" OSU
supernatural explanations are not part of science, by definition.
Science always seeks to find natural explanations for observations, whether it's physics (we don't say "God makes the sun go round"), engineering ("Sacrifice a chicken so God will keep the bridge from falling"), or biology.
Like with physics and other sciences, biology would be pretty useless if 'scientists' cam up with supernatural explanations for observations, then they wouldn't be scientists any more, they would be priests.
i've actually got a degree in evolutionary bio...
From where?
is that like "microgravity"?
If you know anything about biology, you know about DNA, right? DNA changes over time and through selection, that's evolution.
Terms like species, genera, family, etc. are just made up categories we place on degrees of differences in DNA between groups of organisms.
As there is no real difference between the principles that make an apple fall and the principles that make a planet orbit a sun, or a sun orbit a galaxy, there are no actual differences between the forces that cause "micro-evolution" and the forces that cause "macro-evolution".
More:
Antievolutionists argue that there has been no proof of macroevolutionary processes. However, synthesists claim that the same processes that cause within-species changes of the frequencies of alleles can be extrapolated to between species changes, so this argument fails unless some mechanism for preventing microevolution causing macroevolution is discovered. Since every step of the process has been demonstrated in genetics and the rest of biology, the argument against macroevolution fails.
Read the references for the "proof".
God just is?
Or the universe just is?
Why does one need a creator while the other does not?
humans didn't evolve from apes, humans and apes came from the same ancestor.
Present day humans and present day apes split from this ancestor, we evolved to exploit different niches in the environment.
There is a wealth of hard, scientific, evidence for this, see Hominid Species for more.
many of the world's greatest scientists believe in a god of some sort.
However, none of them (at least the ones with backgrounds in biology) believe in intelligent design. Part of the reason being that we aren't designed particularly intelligently.
PS, a great computer scientist, for instance, probably knows less biology than your average nurse, so one has to make sure the opinions of the great scientists are actually based on their knowledge of the particular branch of science in question.
he/she/it wasn't very intelligent ?8-0.
Deus Ex HomerSimpsona!
and I don't mean the game:-)
Though the works of ID advocates to evoke images of wires suspended from the sky:-).
I think it's a Meta-definition: talking about what it does rather than how it does it.