Science does not give likelyhoods poor scientists do. Good scientists collect data and let the data determine what is and is not.
Scientific data usually speaks to the probability of events occurring. That seems like providing "likelihoods", does it not? That is unless you're making a semantic difference between "science" and "scientists", in which case "science" doesn't do anything, since it's just a concept.
(As the saying goes, physicists are just an atom's way of learning about atoms.)
I read all of those books when I was young and, even as Saturday-morning cartoon-attuned as I was, there's still some strong imagery that stays with me, like when the Wizard slices some guy right down the middle with a sword, lengthwise (!), in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz". Crazy stuff, maybe even reinforced by John R. Neill's art.
I hope they don't overly sanitize these, though, it could be fantastic...
I just picked "Building Scalable Web Sites" up four or five weeks ago and I'll second that recommendation; the book is really well written and actually a fairly quick read, a rarity even among O'Reilly books. It covers a lot of ground comprehensively, and is organized in a way that makes sense.
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If your company's a Cisco partner and you have enough certs companywide, you can get better margins on gear you resell. So that's something.
Certainly. I remember being insulted by being called a "dictionary" in fourth grade. In fifth, a girl broke up with me for "being too smart". That'll learn me!
A Texan, a Californian, and an Oregonian are sitting around a campfire. The Texan pulls out a bottle of good tequila, takes one swig, then throws the bottle in the air, pulls out a gun, and shoots it. The Californian and the Oregonian look at him, shocked. "Why did you do that?"
"Hell, I'm from Texas. There's plenty of that where I come from."
So, the Californian reaches into his satchel and pulls out a bottle of fine Napa Valley wine and a wine glass. He drinks one glass worth, then throws the bottle and glass in the air, pulls out a gun, and shoots it.
"Well, in California, we have plenty of that where I come from."
Nonplussed, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen and drinks down the whole bottle. He throws the bottle in the air, pulls out a gun, then shoots the Californian.
"Well," says the Texan, "why the hell did you do that?"
"I wouldn't want to waste good beer, but we have plenty of those where I come from."
I guess I do know a handful of "artist-intellectual" types here, but the majority of Portlanders that I know personally don't fall into any of these categories. We're just people, not trust-fund people or ideal co-opting radicals, just people trying to work and enjoy our lives. They may mostly be white-- welcome to the northwest, eh-- but none of them are, by any stretch of the imagination, rich.
I'll agree here; Dark Sun was the most fun campaign I've played in, and outside of Ravenloft, Planescape was the most fun I've had running a game. 3.x kind of lost me, anyway, I feel like I had to relearn how to play the game.
There's also a large camp of people to whom the term "web browser" means nothing, and to whom "the internet" and "the web" are synonymous with "AOL" or "MSN". See also: my grandma; series of tubes.
Probably because it was in development for six years and we really expected something more significant instead of another Windows OS that requires ever more computing power for the same level of performance. I'm skeptical that a mythical Service Pack is going to be the panacea here, just like I'm skeptical that they're going to be releasing a stable XBox 360 anytime soon.
Enticing software aside, I'll be avoiding MS products until I start seeing positive reviews with regards to stability and useability that aren't obvious shills; my Win Mobile 5.0 phone crashes enough as is.
However, if I learn how to use a program obtained illicitly and then I'm later able to make purchasing recommendations for my company based on it, then they've gained a sale. Many of the people that rip off the software either (a.) would never have bought it anyway or (b.) are only getting because they can, or to up their share ratios or whatever, so how many sales have they lost?
Of course, that's why Adobe has so many "special editions" or trial versions of things. Your product is never going to become the standard if no one can ever get ahold of it.
It's more accurate to say that the Finder's shortcut won't let you take a screenshot of a DVD; the built-in command line util "screencapture" will, however, and "ScreenCapture GUI" is a quick download that will give it a frontend.
As Wired has been reporting for years, synthetic diamonds are becoming more and more readily available, and they are not less perfect or more expensive than their dug-up counterparts. Frankly, after watching Blood Diamond, if the truth of things is at all close to that-- my penchant for quantum computing projects aside-- I'm glad to see more reasons for cheap mass diamonds.
...and the lack of oxygen really affects them. The environment where I work is very Cisco-heavy, and fairly MS-heavy, and most people's grasp of what open source even *means* is tenuous at best. I do a lot of coding for the tools for our web-based reporting, and what *I* do is all-too-often called "open source".
These people are too concerned with margins to learn about things like technology.
Not going to go through every point, just a couple.
1. Then take this same philosophy and apply it to every other field where we possibly need workers. 2. So amend the statement to read "after 90 days" instead of "after the first paycheck". Although in my experience, many smaller employers have pretty crappy health care plans.
4. It's more of a neurological connection than a sociological one. They aren't saying "people who are good at Calculus can also distinguish Monet from Manet", but there is actually a connection in where the activity centers in the brain are . Hofstadter's book, "Gödel, Escher and Bach", goes a long way to illustrating a lot of the cognitive similarities between the fields of physical art, musical art, and what one could call scientific art.
The bottom line here is that, if nothing else, the creativity nurtured by art and music are immensely valuable in all fields.
5. You create separate program tracks, perhaps, so the whole class doesn't suffer for the needs of a few. One of my favorite proposed alternatives is to have a skills-based system that students can advance through at their own rate. So maybe I'm only in seventh grade, but I'm skill level 12 in math and doing pre-Calculus work. But the premise of restricting what kids can learn, and how quickly, is flawed. Yes, they can learn it on their own if they're really that motivated, but they will still have to go to class and do the busywork, which is a waste of time and talent.
Well, now the page just has a link to the Wikipedia page on radix sort, which is kind of a shame. thedailywtf.com-worthy code is always fun, so thanks for the highlights!
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Science does not give likelyhoods poor scientists do. Good scientists collect data and let the data determine what is and is not.
Scientific data usually speaks to the probability of events occurring. That seems like providing "likelihoods", does it not? That is unless you're making a semantic difference between "science" and "scientists", in which case "science" doesn't do anything, since it's just a concept.
(As the saying goes, physicists are just an atom's way of learning about atoms.)
I read all of those books when I was young and, even as Saturday-morning cartoon-attuned as I was, there's still some strong imagery that stays with me, like when the Wizard slices some guy right down the middle with a sword, lengthwise (!), in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz". Crazy stuff, maybe even reinforced by John R. Neill's art.
I hope they don't overly sanitize these, though, it could be fantastic...
I just picked "Building Scalable Web Sites" up four or five weeks ago and I'll second that recommendation; the book is really well written and actually a fairly quick read, a rarity even among O'Reilly books. It covers a lot of ground comprehensively, and is organized in a way that makes sense.
If your company's a Cisco partner and you have enough certs companywide, you can get better margins on gear you resell. So that's something.
Certainly. I remember being insulted by being called a "dictionary" in fourth grade. In fifth, a girl broke up with me for "being too smart". That'll learn me!
Which reminds me of a joke...
A Texan, a Californian, and an Oregonian are sitting around a campfire. The Texan pulls out a bottle of good tequila, takes one swig, then throws the bottle in the air, pulls out a gun, and shoots it. The Californian and the Oregonian look at him, shocked. "Why did you do that?"
"Hell, I'm from Texas. There's plenty of that where I come from."
So, the Californian reaches into his satchel and pulls out a bottle of fine Napa Valley wine and a wine glass. He drinks one glass worth, then throws the bottle and glass in the air, pulls out a gun, and shoots it.
"Well, in California, we have plenty of that where I come from."
Nonplussed, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen and drinks down the whole bottle. He throws the bottle in the air, pulls out a gun, then shoots the Californian.
"Well," says the Texan, "why the hell did you do that?"
"I wouldn't want to waste good beer, but we have plenty of those where I come from."
They missed a category...
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I guess I do know a handful of "artist-intellectual" types here, but the majority of Portlanders that I know personally don't fall into any of these categories. We're just people, not trust-fund people or ideal co-opting radicals, just people trying to work and enjoy our lives. They may mostly be white-- welcome to the northwest, eh-- but none of them are, by any stretch of the imagination, rich.
I'll agree here; Dark Sun was the most fun campaign I've played in, and outside of Ravenloft, Planescape was the most fun I've had running a game. 3.x kind of lost me, anyway, I feel like I had to relearn how to play the game.
Ahem. "...lower others' expectations off me."
"...of me," even? Well, at least I'm on the right path.
Well put! (Note to self, lower others expectations of me...)
There's also a large camp of people to whom the term "web browser" means nothing, and to whom "the internet" and "the web" are synonymous with "AOL" or "MSN". See also: my grandma; series of tubes.
"Even today, according to May, there are two wormholes in the guitar."
Maybe this explains his interest in astrophysics...
Probably because it was in development for six years and we really expected something more significant instead of another Windows OS that requires ever more computing power for the same level of performance. I'm skeptical that a mythical Service Pack is going to be the panacea here, just like I'm skeptical that they're going to be releasing a stable XBox 360 anytime soon.
Enticing software aside, I'll be avoiding MS products until I start seeing positive reviews with regards to stability and useability that aren't obvious shills; my Win Mobile 5.0 phone crashes enough as is.
Thanks, I knew I wasn't the only member of the Grammar Youth Corps to be annoyed by that.
However, if I learn how to use a program obtained illicitly and then I'm later able to make purchasing recommendations for my company based on it, then they've gained a sale. Many of the people that rip off the software either (a.) would never have bought it anyway or (b.) are only getting because they can, or to up their share ratios or whatever, so how many sales have they lost?
Of course, that's why Adobe has so many "special editions" or trial versions of things. Your product is never going to become the standard if no one can ever get ahold of it.
It's more accurate to say that the Finder's shortcut won't let you take a screenshot of a DVD; the built-in command line util "screencapture" will, however, and "ScreenCapture GUI" is a quick download that will give it a frontend.
As Wired has been reporting for years, synthetic diamonds are becoming more and more readily available, and they are not less perfect or more expensive than their dug-up counterparts. Frankly, after watching Blood Diamond, if the truth of things is at all close to that-- my penchant for quantum computing projects aside-- I'm glad to see more reasons for cheap mass diamonds.
What, no "Spider-Man" tag? And I think tags have been production "beta" for long enough.
...and the lack of oxygen really affects them. The environment where I work is very Cisco-heavy, and fairly MS-heavy, and most people's grasp of what open source even *means* is tenuous at best. I do a lot of coding for the tools for our web-based reporting, and what *I* do is all-too-often called "open source". These people are too concerned with margins to learn about things like technology.
It's a coffee company, but it sounds like he's peddling homoerotic publications. *shudder*
Ugh. It's so true, all of it. I used to learn cool things from that magazine, why did it have to go and pander to the dumbest common denominator?
But what's his /. handle?
It has *less* features than other mobile phones...
Obligatory grammar nazi post: that should be fewer features.
Not going to go through every point, just a couple.
1. Then take this same philosophy and apply it to every other field where we possibly need workers.
2. So amend the statement to read "after 90 days" instead of "after the first paycheck". Although in my experience, many smaller employers have pretty crappy health care plans.
4. It's more of a neurological connection than a sociological one. They aren't saying "people who are good at Calculus can also distinguish Monet from Manet", but there is actually a connection in where the activity centers in the brain are . Hofstadter's book, "Gödel, Escher and Bach", goes a long way to illustrating a lot of the cognitive similarities between the fields of physical art, musical art, and what one could call scientific art.
The bottom line here is that, if nothing else, the creativity nurtured by art and music are immensely valuable in all fields.
5. You create separate program tracks, perhaps, so the whole class doesn't suffer for the needs of a few. One of my favorite proposed alternatives is to have a skills-based system that students can advance through at their own rate. So maybe I'm only in seventh grade, but I'm skill level 12 in math and doing pre-Calculus work. But the premise of restricting what kids can learn, and how quickly, is flawed. Yes, they can learn it on their own if they're really that motivated, but they will still have to go to class and do the busywork, which is a waste of time and talent.
Well, now the page just has a link to the Wikipedia page on radix sort, which is kind of a shame. thedailywtf.com-worthy code is always fun, so thanks for the highlights!
"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."