* 53-39 pro-choice NEUTRAL
* about 60% for universal health care (and years ago) BAD IDEA
* 50-37 for stem cell research GOOD IDEA
* 57-35 favor the environment over economic growth BAD IDEA
* 54% favor stricter gun control laws REALLY BAD IDEA
* 49-43 favor affirmative action EXTREMELY BAD IDEA
* 56-39 are against privatization of Social Security (various questions, same overall picture) BAD IDEA
* 60% favor withdrawal from Iraq in six months GREAT IDEA
--"Yep, he realized from 2000 that he's gotta move to the right in order to win the nomination."
Speech laws and more government is not a move to the right. Leftist ideologies like Communism and Socialism are famous for trying to impose social restrictions, especially on free speech. Conservatives and Libertarians are supposed to oppose government regulations and restrictions on speech. This move is straight out of nowhere. Not sure I like McCain anymore.
Agreed. This is just an attempt at the UN to get us to squander more of our wealth on these programs that end up hurting poor people more than they help. I wish some of these UN types were familiar with Milton Friedman. He had the right answers.
Wait a minute... I thought they were talking about blocking child porn! Why are they throwing "hate speech" into the mix? The whole hate speech thing is a farce to begin with, and now they want to start blocking content that they deem politically incorrect? Once again the United States seems to be the only country on earth serious about free speech, only because their founders were wise enough to include it in their constitution. (I'm Canadian by the way.)
Tolkein wrote a prequel of sorts called the Silmarillion. It's not very literary, more like a summary of events. The prequel will likely focus on events from that book.
Did anyone see the official Zune website? I think having photos of people I would never want to hang out with in a million years probably isn't good marketing. I mean really, those people just looked lame and spastic.
Roberta Williams games are so bad, especially in her later career. Ever play Phantasmagoria or Phantasmagoria II? Those were rubbish. I never had a chance to play the early King's Quest games, but I played some of the later ones and they were rubbish too. Maybe her mark is really with the early games only.
The list is BS, man. Use your head. None of these books have been banned, they are required reading in government public high schools. Mein Kampf? I bet that is banned in Germany.
Most of these books have been carried everywhere since they were published: in every library, in every book store. As you say, most are actually required reading by government run public highschools. That doesn't seem to be much of a ban.
"Jewish Supremacism" by David Duke - now that should make the list. It's officially banned in Canada and gets intercepted at the border and burned. That to me constitutes a real, actual banned book.
I'd like to see a list of the top 100 most influential women in the garbage industry. It's been dominated by men for some reason, and I think women named Fiona need to start getting women more involved in the garbage removal industry.
I can't help but notice that most of these books have been carried everywhere since they were published: in every library, in every book store. Perhaps one small rural school system somewhere decided not to order it, hence they start crying about it being banned. That doesn't seem to be much of a ban.
In contract, books that have really been banned don't appear on the list anywhere. For example, "Jewish Supremacism" by David Duke is officially banned in Canada and gets intercepted at the border and burned. That to me constitutes a real, actual banned book.
I know how trendy it is for lefties to bash corporations while ignoring things like computers, cars, money to buy food, and other benefits. But with Open Source (which I support and have progrmamed for in the past) the programmer gets nothing. No tangible pay to support a family. Nothing to put food on the table or clothe or house anyone.
But working for MicroSoft, I can very well become a millionaire, which happens to thousands of Microsoft employees. The "little guy" working for MS is screwed less than the "little guy" doing it for free in my opinion. So the argument that somehow this is David vs. Goliath isn't really relevant. Or put another way, Golitath is actually a pretty generous guy.
Hey, I noticed your sig included "The War Against Boys". I'm just getting to the end of this book and am totally amazed at how smart the author Christina Hoff Sommers is at pinpointing what went wrong in the late 80's and 90's. We could seriously start pumping out some very sharp students but it seems like some powerful lefties out there are dead set against it.
Remember when there was a big Internet boom that turned out to be a bubble? Remember when the bubble popped and the nasdaq fell to one quarter of its value? Things like that tend to affect the dollar.
Absolutely. The media, the government (especially the UN) all push a lefty-socialist agenda rather than a more democratic, efficient free-market system. Their ideal is big government, more centralised power, and more of your money.
The title of this article sounds impressive, but the results are wishy-washy. It can only narrow down one missing word to maybe half a dozen possibilities. Who is to say the word is not North Korea instead of South Korea? And since most blackouts are several words long, it is not useful at all.
Wouldn't Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace be the first developers of software? I know both of them had several programs ready to go once Babbage had his computer completed in the 1800's. Unfortunately funding stopped. However, this is better than Turing ever did, because his Infinite machine was even more theoretical than Babbages.
Wouldn't Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace be the first developers of software? I know both of them had several programs ready to go once Babbage had his computer completed in the 1800's. Unfortunately funding stopped.
However, this is better than Turing ever did, because his Infinite machine was even more theoretical than Babbages.
With the leJOS Java package (including java.net) an RCX brick, and some sensors (Logit sensors connect to the RCX) you could match the functionality of eBlocks. However, I suppose the implementation of eBlocks is simpler for non-programers/non-techies.
www.lejos.org
This pretty much proves the point that the Japanese can only innovate existing ideas and are no good at coming up with original technology. Remember many months back the guy who invented an actual floating display? It didn't project onto anything; the images just floated in mid-air (he explained the principle as exciting air mmolecules to make an image).
Japanese solution: a rotating screen. 2D pictures taken from 24 different positions. PLEASE! That is so amateurish. I think someone could have done this with 1902 tehcnology.
The author just takes the same old argument and says it in a different way, sounding smug the whole time. He claims people who say Betamax is technically better are wrong, but when people say this they are stating it is technologically superior in picture, nothing more. The author is just making a straw man so he can gleefully bash it down and make himself seem all knowing in the process.
And saying you oculd only record an hour?! If that is correct, then how could video stores have two hour movies on tape?
The fact is, everyone who says Betamax is different was also acknowleging that the high prices and lack of consumer choice was the downfall.
I somewhat agree that it takes more work to come up with something solid rather than something theoretical, unless you are Braitenberg. He did a load of background research in the lab to come up with his ideas, and in fact also did go as far as implementing them in robotics (see book below):
I think Brooks is a bit more showy, and seeks publicity more/better than someone like Braitenberg. I've used Brooks subsumption architecture many times, and find it a really bad model for doing things from a programming standpoint (I programmed the Behavior API module at www.lejos.org). All behaviors interact with the motors directly, rather than working with a higher level of abstraction, which makes it quite limited. They should be able to build on each other/help each other. For example, if I have a behavior to shoot at objects, and one to run away, it is difficult with his model to have it run away AND shoot at the same time without programming the routine twice. This is because when a behavior takes over presumably all other motors are supposed to be shut off.
Anyway, in my mind Braitenbergs theories carry more weight and will likely stand the test of time, whereas subsumption has been used and discarded.
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* 53-39 pro-choice NEUTRAL * about 60% for universal health care (and years ago) BAD IDEA * 50-37 for stem cell research GOOD IDEA * 57-35 favor the environment over economic growth BAD IDEA * 54% favor stricter gun control laws REALLY BAD IDEA * 49-43 favor affirmative action EXTREMELY BAD IDEA * 56-39 are against privatization of Social Security (various questions, same overall picture) BAD IDEA * 60% favor withdrawal from Iraq in six months GREAT IDEA
--"Yep, he realized from 2000 that he's gotta move to the right in order to win the nomination." Speech laws and more government is not a move to the right. Leftist ideologies like Communism and Socialism are famous for trying to impose social restrictions, especially on free speech. Conservatives and Libertarians are supposed to oppose government regulations and restrictions on speech. This move is straight out of nowhere. Not sure I like McCain anymore.
Agreed. This is just an attempt at the UN to get us to squander more of our wealth on these programs that end up hurting poor people more than they help. I wish some of these UN types were familiar with Milton Friedman. He had the right answers.
Wait a minute... I thought they were talking about blocking child porn! Why are they throwing "hate speech" into the mix? The whole hate speech thing is a farce to begin with, and now they want to start blocking content that they deem politically incorrect? Once again the United States seems to be the only country on earth serious about free speech, only because their founders were wise enough to include it in their constitution. (I'm Canadian by the way.)
Tolkein wrote a prequel of sorts called the Silmarillion. It's not very literary, more like a summary of events. The prequel will likely focus on events from that book.
Did anyone see the official Zune website? I think having photos of people I would never want to hang out with in a million years probably isn't good marketing. I mean really, those people just looked lame and spastic.
Roberta Williams games are so bad, especially in her later career. Ever play Phantasmagoria or Phantasmagoria II? Those were rubbish. I never had a chance to play the early King's Quest games, but I played some of the later ones and they were rubbish too. Maybe her mark is really with the early games only.
The list is BS, man. Use your head. None of these books have been banned, they are required reading in government public high schools. Mein Kampf? I bet that is banned in Germany.
Most of these books have been carried everywhere since they were published: in every library, in every book store. As you say, most are actually required reading by government run public highschools. That doesn't seem to be much of a ban. "Jewish Supremacism" by David Duke - now that should make the list. It's officially banned in Canada and gets intercepted at the border and burned. That to me constitutes a real, actual banned book.
I'd like to see a list of the top 100 most influential women in the garbage industry. It's been dominated by men for some reason, and I think women named Fiona need to start getting women more involved in the garbage removal industry.
I can't help but notice that most of these books have been carried everywhere since they were published: in every library, in every book store. Perhaps one small rural school system somewhere decided not to order it, hence they start crying about it being banned. That doesn't seem to be much of a ban. In contract, books that have really been banned don't appear on the list anywhere. For example, "Jewish Supremacism" by David Duke is officially banned in Canada and gets intercepted at the border and burned. That to me constitutes a real, actual banned book.
I know how trendy it is for lefties to bash corporations while ignoring things like computers, cars, money to buy food, and other benefits. But with Open Source (which I support and have progrmamed for in the past) the programmer gets nothing. No tangible pay to support a family. Nothing to put food on the table or clothe or house anyone. But working for MicroSoft, I can very well become a millionaire, which happens to thousands of Microsoft employees. The "little guy" working for MS is screwed less than the "little guy" doing it for free in my opinion. So the argument that somehow this is David vs. Goliath isn't really relevant. Or put another way, Golitath is actually a pretty generous guy.
Hey, I noticed your sig included "The War Against Boys". I'm just getting to the end of this book and am totally amazed at how smart the author Christina Hoff Sommers is at pinpointing what went wrong in the late 80's and 90's. We could seriously start pumping out some very sharp students but it seems like some powerful lefties out there are dead set against it.
Remember when there was a big Internet boom that turned out to be a bubble? Remember when the bubble popped and the nasdaq fell to one quarter of its value? Things like that tend to affect the dollar.
Absolutely. The media, the government (especially the UN) all push a lefty-socialist agenda rather than a more democratic, efficient free-market system. Their ideal is big government, more centralised power, and more of your money.
The title of this article sounds impressive, but the results are wishy-washy. It can only narrow down one missing word to maybe half a dozen possibilities. Who is to say the word is not North Korea instead of South Korea? And since most blackouts are several words long, it is not useful at all.
Wouldn't Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace be the first developers of software? I know both of them had several programs ready to go once Babbage had his computer completed in the 1800's. Unfortunately funding stopped. However, this is better than Turing ever did, because his Infinite machine was even more theoretical than Babbages.
Wouldn't Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace be the first developers of software? I know both of them had several programs ready to go once Babbage had his computer completed in the 1800's. Unfortunately funding stopped. However, this is better than Turing ever did, because his Infinite machine was even more theoretical than Babbages.
With the leJOS Java package (including java.net) an RCX brick, and some sensors (Logit sensors connect to the RCX) you could match the functionality of eBlocks. However, I suppose the implementation of eBlocks is simpler for non-programers/non-techies. www.lejos.org
This pretty much proves the point that the Japanese can only innovate existing ideas and are no good at coming up with original technology. Remember many months back the guy who invented an actual floating display? It didn't project onto anything; the images just floated in mid-air (he explained the principle as exciting air mmolecules to make an image).
Japanese solution: a rotating screen. 2D pictures taken from 24 different positions. PLEASE! That is so amateurish. I think someone could have done this with 1902 tehcnology.
>Porting a Java shouldn't be and i've always
>wanted to get JAVA to run on C64, VIC 20, or
>TRS....Not the embeded version.
Check out my Java plans for the c64:
www.mts.net/~bbagnall/commodore
The author just takes the same old argument and says it in a different way, sounding smug the whole time. He claims people who say Betamax is technically better are wrong, but when people say this they are stating it is technologically superior in picture, nothing more. The author is just making a straw man so he can gleefully bash it down and make himself seem all knowing in the process.
And saying you oculd only record an hour?! If that is correct, then how could video stores have two hour movies on tape?
The fact is, everyone who says Betamax is different was also acknowleging that the high prices and lack of consumer choice was the downfall.
I somewhat agree that it takes more work to come up with something solid rather than something theoretical, unless you are Braitenberg. He did a load of background research in the lab to come up with his ideas, and in fact also did go as far as implementing them in robotics (see book below):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/026I think Brooks is a bit more showy, and seeks publicity more/better than someone like Braitenberg. I've used Brooks subsumption architecture many times, and find it a really bad model for doing things from a programming standpoint (I programmed the Behavior API module at www.lejos.org). All behaviors interact with the motors directly, rather than working with a higher level of abstraction, which makes it quite limited. They should be able to build on each other/help each other. For example, if I have a behavior to shoot at objects, and one to run away, it is difficult with his model to have it run away AND shoot at the same time without programming the routine twice. This is because when a behavior takes over presumably all other motors are supposed to be shut off.
Anyway, in my mind Braitenbergs theories carry more weight and will likely stand the test of time, whereas subsumption has been used and discarded.