I think most of/. will miss the point of this ad. We all treat Google like a very low transaction cost oracle: any time we have the stupidest of queries, we throw it in, no matter how inane or silly our question. A lot of people, however, treat a Google Search like something that requires capital letters and a cup of tea. I've seen people make notes of their search results before clicking on something. I think a large part of the intent of this ad (besides simple brand cementation for us lot) is to encourage that freewheeling approach.
Personally, my heart sinks whenever I see a laptop being plugged in by a lecturer. Even if they don't read the damn thing verbatim, it's extremely rare to get a lecturer who can pace material correctly - for examples, I've just had a statistics lecturer go from introducing the concept of statistical moment to maximum likelihood estimation in one hour. Utter, total bafflement ensued. Also, there is a special circle of hell for lecturers who think it is a good idea to hand out printed notes with blanks left for you to fill in during lectures "to make sure you're paying attention".
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread that I've steered a couple of folks onto using LyX for this. With a little knowledge of the underlying LaTeX, it's pretty easy to keep up, and diagrams are easily done by hand and cross-referenced.
Of four courses I took last term, two lecturers objected to electronics. They were widely agreed to be the worst lecturers and hardest subjects: yet they had the highest pass rates. Coincidence? You decide!
I'm firmly in the pen and paper camp, but I suggested LyX to a fellow student who insisted on doing it electronically. Now she draws diagrams by hand, numbers them, and can keep up quite easily with inputting the maths.
A carbon tax is an impossible sell politically. Cap and trade isn't. Better an imperfect scheme than none at all, so take your conspiracy theories and shove 'em.
As a non-believing atheist, I long ago decided that even if Jesus descends from heaven on a Harley and provides mathematical proof of his existence written on parchment made from Godel's skin, I shall piss on his foot and carry on whoring. No Daddy-in-the-sky has a right to my allegiance, existence or not.
Personally, I would adore to have something just big enough for an optical drive, decent battery, and solid state storage that was powerful enough to run a effects-light Ubuntu so I could cart it round uni all day and do stats with R,use LyX during lectures, and not worry too much about it. Bigger than the stupidly small ones, but still small enough to go in the backpack with books, notebooks, stats tables, and the Yellow Book of actuarial maths.
Not if it continues to be signed back to a root, which is the point. A previous employer of mine had its own root cert in our (IE6) browsers and I only noticed after a similar, related discussion on Slashdot caused me to look. I removed it temporarily and yep, all https traffic was being MITM'd. Given the nature of the organisation, it was understandable that they had to be able to audit such traffic, but that doesn't excuse them not talking about it. I later mentioned it to a 2nd line tech who was doing something unrelated and it was news to him, too.
I think the problem with this research is that it does identify the causes of bullying: the problem is that usually the cause is lost back in the mists of time before anybody involved takes steps to stop it. And by then, you've already got a reputation as the one who can be shoved into walls.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
A friend of mine who was in high school in the UK, roughly 13/14, reckons he heard the first one within thirty minutes of the crash. The Michael Jackson jokes were quicker still.
As a current undergraduate, I suspect a large part of the problem here is that universities are happy to accept fees for as many years as the student will struggle through, knowing that a substantial number will not not be leaving with letters after their name. In our four year degree, we spend an entire year teaching the most basic concepts that school leavers should know. There is no introduction of rigour or higher thought until well into the second year of teaching. As for writing skills, well, not many would pass your class as-is.
As opposed to the dozens that get killed because drivers with automatic transmissions seem to think they are sitting in a mobile couch and do things like crosswords or homework or embroidery instead of looking at the road?
Correct, it is a societal construction (and there is strong evidence humans have an evolved system of instinctive morality). However, that doesn't make it the right thing to do for one group of people to steal from another. It is not OK just because you believe it is OK. If the people who carried out 419 frauds and those who applaud them were to understand this, they would in the long run be better off.
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Another solution: put a brick through the TV and have an actual conversation with the person you claim to love.
People with five-figure uids are expected to be able to look after themselves ;)
I think most of /. will miss the point of this ad. We all treat Google like a very low transaction cost oracle: any time we have the stupidest of queries, we throw it in, no matter how inane or silly our question. A lot of people, however, treat a Google Search like something that requires capital letters and a cup of tea. I've seen people make notes of their search results before clicking on something. I think a large part of the intent of this ad (besides simple brand cementation for us lot) is to encourage that freewheeling approach.
Knuth? Is that you?
Personally, my heart sinks whenever I see a laptop being plugged in by a lecturer. Even if they don't read the damn thing verbatim, it's extremely rare to get a lecturer who can pace material correctly - for examples, I've just had a statistics lecturer go from introducing the concept of statistical moment to maximum likelihood estimation in one hour. Utter, total bafflement ensued. Also, there is a special circle of hell for lecturers who think it is a good idea to hand out printed notes with blanks left for you to fill in during lectures "to make sure you're paying attention".
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread that I've steered a couple of folks onto using LyX for this. With a little knowledge of the underlying LaTeX, it's pretty easy to keep up, and diagrams are easily done by hand and cross-referenced.
Of four courses I took last term, two lecturers objected to electronics. They were widely agreed to be the worst lecturers and hardest subjects: yet they had the highest pass rates. Coincidence? You decide!
I'm firmly in the pen and paper camp, but I suggested LyX to a fellow student who insisted on doing it electronically. Now she draws diagrams by hand, numbers them, and can keep up quite easily with inputting the maths.
Hmm. I wonder if the antimatter pods Special Circumstances agents have have a similar function.
You mean, you can see *why* that is a concern. And beside's, OP's post was, strictly, grammatical.
This is something any soldier could tell you. Actually hitting enemy is much more effective than just shooting at them :p
Me, I just have BOINC fired up 24/7.
A carbon tax is an impossible sell politically. Cap and trade isn't. Better an imperfect scheme than none at all, so take your conspiracy theories and shove 'em.
As a non-believing atheist, I long ago decided that even if Jesus descends from heaven on a Harley and provides mathematical proof of his existence written on parchment made from Godel's skin, I shall piss on his foot and carry on whoring. No Daddy-in-the-sky has a right to my allegiance, existence or not.
If you're that paranoid, delete them outright.
Personally, I would adore to have something just big enough for an optical drive, decent battery, and solid state storage that was powerful enough to run a effects-light Ubuntu so I could cart it round uni all day and do stats with R,use LyX during lectures, and not worry too much about it. Bigger than the stupidly small ones, but still small enough to go in the backpack with books, notebooks, stats tables, and the Yellow Book of actuarial maths.
Not if it continues to be signed back to a root, which is the point. A previous employer of mine had its own root cert in our (IE6) browsers and I only noticed after a similar, related discussion on Slashdot caused me to look. I removed it temporarily and yep, all https traffic was being MITM'd. Given the nature of the organisation, it was understandable that they had to be able to audit such traffic, but that doesn't excuse them not talking about it. I later mentioned it to a 2nd line tech who was doing something unrelated and it was news to him, too.
I think the problem with this research is that it does identify the causes of bullying: the problem is that usually the cause is lost back in the mists of time before anybody involved takes steps to stop it. And by then, you've already got a reputation as the one who can be shoved into walls.
Huh. I've been here six years and still have no friends. But that's OK, because I hate you all too.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
A friend of mine who was in high school in the UK, roughly 13/14, reckons he heard the first one within thirty minutes of the crash. The Michael Jackson jokes were quicker still.
As a current undergraduate, I suspect a large part of the problem here is that universities are happy to accept fees for as many years as the student will struggle through, knowing that a substantial number will not not be leaving with letters after their name. In our four year degree, we spend an entire year teaching the most basic concepts that school leavers should know. There is no introduction of rigour or higher thought until well into the second year of teaching. As for writing skills, well, not many would pass your class as-is.
And?
As opposed to the dozens that get killed because drivers with automatic transmissions seem to think they are sitting in a mobile couch and do things like crosswords or homework or embroidery instead of looking at the road?
Correct, it is a societal construction (and there is strong evidence humans have an evolved system of instinctive morality). However, that doesn't make it the right thing to do for one group of people to steal from another. It is not OK just because you believe it is OK. If the people who carried out 419 frauds and those who applaud them were to understand this, they would in the long run be better off.