On a related note, one concern I have is "necessary plagarism." Sometimes, there is really only one logical way to make a particular statement.
Typical idiot student....
It doesn't matter how you word something, if you are expressing an idea that isn't your own, you must provide a reference to the source that provided the idea. Word for word, paraphased, rearranged--it doesn't matter. You can say: "the XYZ does ABC every Tuesday" (Jones, 1998). Or you can say: On many Tuesdays, it is noted that ABC occurs (Jones, 1998). Both must be cited, otherwise you are plagiarizing.
If you steal the plates, paper, and inks that make 100 dollar bills and you roll off several thousand of them for yourself, are those bills genuine or counterfeit?
No. $100 bills also must have a valid serial number stamped on them in two places in order to be genuine.
At any rate, the certificate and license key that comes with an unauthorized copy of windows isn't genuine, no matter how you slice it.
Actually, the volume license keys on pirated Windows usually are genuine, but Microsoft makes sure the licensors to whom they actually belong get a new key since theirs got leaked out.
You'd be surprised about the designers who want everything to be an image--especially text. Their reasoning? You cannot be sure that the text will look right otherwise:
1. Someone might not have the right font. 2. Someone might not have their system set to antialias fonts.
These are "real" concerns for "serious" designers who don't want their designs to be ever represented by something that might be fugly. The only way to accomplish this is with images or Flash.
My brother is currently one of these designers. His own web page is nothing but a table and a bunch of images. Not even any alt attributes. I'd link to it so Slashdot could ridicule him, but that wouldn't be nice.
[sigh] I try and try to bring him away from the dark side...
I just don't know what kind of websites you people are going to. I only have a measly half a gig of RAM and Firefox tops out at about 10% of that, unless a site has a butt-load of plugin crap. Close that page and back down to 50MB or less. Big deal.
It might be true that cell phone use is just as impairing as drunkenness.
But PLEASE don't let laws be made because of this research when there are plenty of other variables that need to be tested to see how they impair driving:
1. adjusting the radio 2. singing along with the radio 3. eating fast food 4. lighting a cigarette 5. dealing with misbehaving child(ren) 6. arguing with spouse in passenger seat
Until a study shows otherwise, I don't believe talking on a cell phone while driving is any more impairing than any other interaction with humans while driving. Maybe silence while driving will be required by law; then we'll see how much being dead bored impairs driving.
Personally, I think acquiring a drivers license should be much more difficult. It should certainly require testing under distracting conditions, and require complete retesting every few years.
Hmmmm. Very interesting. I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart primarily because of the excessively long wait to check out. The nearest Wal-Mart to my house (in a medium-large American city) routinely has check-out waits at about 20 minutes. About the same or worse than Costco. (I rarely wait as long as 15 minutes at Costco.)
To be truthful, the wait isn't so bad for nearly half the day: between 11pm and 10am. Some of the other Wal-Marts in town seem to staff more cashiers and have a more reasonable wait, but I'm not driving out of my way for Wal-Mart.
(Sigh. It seems like I write this same comment every month or so on Slashdot.)
If theaters would keep the sound and picture at the highest quality, have large, comfortable seating, and keep noisy kids out, I would gladly pay $20+ per ticket to see a movie in the theater. Maybe even make it 21+ and serve cocktails.
I should be able to attend a movie theater with no less a level of decorum than I'd expect going to see a stage play, a orchestra concert, or an opera.
Keep around the current theaters at $5 a ticket for suckers who don't care if they can't enjoy the movie. But if I want an outlet to watch movie in a setting better than I can replicate at home, please--theater owners, I beg you--give me a location to do so.
Many (most?) people only vote if the ballot includes a presidential election. The closer to home the "biggest" vote on the ballot is, the fewer people turn out. If there was a vote with nothing but sheriff and coroner on the ballot, almost no one would show up to vote.
The best system for this country would be to have ONE election all year, make it mid-week, and close all workplaces (except emergency services, of course). It has to be mid-week, because otherwise people would use the holiday to go on vacation and not vote.
Currently, if Firefox is your default browser, you type a URL into the Explorer bar and it opens in Firefox. I assume the same behavior will work for IE7.
Because if you have to write fast to take notes, you're writing more information than is necessary to take good notes. That's exactly this teacher's point.
Most idiots in classes I've taken try to write down everything the prof says. If you need that level of detail in your notes, yes, bring a voice recorder. And while you're at it, try to find someone who can teach you good note-taking skills.
You visit your favorite music or DVD dealer on a Monday afternoon. An employee is sorting through a carton of shipment.
"Hey is Good Night and Good Luck out?"
"No, it comes out tomorrow. New music and DVD release are almost always on Tuesdays."
"But you're holding it in your hand! Just sell me one."
"It doesn't come out until tomorrow."
"Dude, I'll pay you double for it."
"If I sell it to you today, the company will get fined and they'll stop shipping us new releases a day early so we can sell them when we open on Tuesday."
As long as there is music that's not available for pay-per-download, not popular enough to find on P2P, but still in print on CD, there will still be a market for CDs.
New pop stuff could go ahead a quit with the CDs. It will save the music labels the costs of manufacturing and distribution and it will make the portable music player manufacturers (read "Apple") more money as the last folks finally break down and buy and iPod since they can't get the stuff they want on CD anymore.
Music like older jazz, classical, other obscure music and anything aimed at listeners over the age of 50 will have a CD-buying audience for quite a foreseeable future.
Statistically, most people must be of average intelligence. I won't try to back up my hyperbole.
I am college educated but I work in a field that really doesn't require any higher education. I make enough money to pay rent and utilities, but not much more. I most certainly don't think I'm "better than everyone else," although I certainly make better decisions than others at least half the time.
Being "a complete idiot" really transcends education, wealth, and social status. I've met complete idiots in all levels of society. It really boils down to making decisions that, at the same time, benefit yourself, your family, your peers, and society as a whole. Sure you can't benefit all those parties all the time, but if the first one is the only one you ever benefit, you're a complete idiot.
And more than what you mention, what Hillary MEANT was a child should be raised by the community's standards and not the parents. Wait, scratch that... what Hillary REALLY meant was that a child shouldn't be raised by the parent's standards, they should be raised by HER standards.
Considering that the vast majority of people are complete idiots, that's probably not as bad as you think.
...but then people start screaming about their basic human right to reproduce and other such nonsense.
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Was that English? I recognized the words, but I have almost no idea what any of it meant. Bravo.
Typical idiot student....
It doesn't matter how you word something, if you are expressing an idea that isn't your own, you must provide a reference to the source that provided the idea. Word for word, paraphased, rearranged--it doesn't matter. You can say: "the XYZ does ABC every Tuesday" (Jones, 1998). Or you can say: On many Tuesdays, it is noted that ABC occurs (Jones, 1998). Both must be cited, otherwise you are plagiarizing.
There's no such thing as "necessary plagiarism."
No. $100 bills also must have a valid serial number stamped on them in two places in order to be genuine.
Actually, the volume license keys on pirated Windows usually are genuine, but Microsoft makes sure the licensors to whom they actually belong get a new key since theirs got leaked out.
120 MW?
Meh.
Wake me up when it produces 1.21 GW.
You'd be surprised about the designers who want everything to be an image--especially text. Their reasoning? You cannot be sure that the text will look right otherwise:
1. Someone might not have the right font.
2. Someone might not have their system set to antialias fonts.
These are "real" concerns for "serious" designers who don't want their designs to be ever represented by something that might be fugly. The only way to accomplish this is with images or Flash.
My brother is currently one of these designers. His own web page is nothing but a table and a bunch of images. Not even any alt attributes. I'd link to it so Slashdot could ridicule him, but that wouldn't be nice.
[sigh] I try and try to bring him away from the dark side...
Has someone made a bumper sticker that says "If Pluto isn't a planet, the terrorists win."?
If not, someone should. If so, I want one.
I just don't know what kind of websites you people are going to. I only have a measly half a gig of RAM and Firefox tops out at about 10% of that, unless a site has a butt-load of plugin crap. Close that page and back down to 50MB or less. Big deal.
Hmmm.
According to Jonathan Edwards, an 18th century theologian (not Catholic though), the road to Hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized babies.
As long as she has Old Glory Insurance, there shouldn't be much of a problem.
It might be true that cell phone use is just as impairing as drunkenness.
But PLEASE don't let laws be made because of this research when there are plenty of other variables that need to be tested to see how they impair driving:
1. adjusting the radio
2. singing along with the radio
3. eating fast food
4. lighting a cigarette
5. dealing with misbehaving child(ren)
6. arguing with spouse in passenger seat
Until a study shows otherwise, I don't believe talking on a cell phone while driving is any more impairing than any other interaction with humans while driving. Maybe silence while driving will be required by law; then we'll see how much being dead bored impairs driving.
Personally, I think acquiring a drivers license should be much more difficult. It should certainly require testing under distracting conditions, and require complete retesting every few years.
I spit my mixture of coffee and beer halfway across the room when I read your idiotic post.
Hemorrhoids has 2 r's.
So all my MP3's will play around the same volume with me having to fiddle with the speaker controls! Yessss!
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Hmmmm. Very interesting. I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart primarily because of the excessively long wait to check out. The nearest Wal-Mart to my house (in a medium-large American city) routinely has check-out waits at about 20 minutes. About the same or worse than Costco. (I rarely wait as long as 15 minutes at Costco.)
To be truthful, the wait isn't so bad for nearly half the day: between 11pm and 10am. Some of the other Wal-Marts in town seem to staff more cashiers and have a more reasonable wait, but I'm not driving out of my way for Wal-Mart.
(Sigh. It seems like I write this same comment every month or so on Slashdot.)
If theaters would keep the sound and picture at the highest quality, have large, comfortable seating, and keep noisy kids out, I would gladly pay $20+ per ticket to see a movie in the theater. Maybe even make it 21+ and serve cocktails.
I should be able to attend a movie theater with no less a level of decorum than I'd expect going to see a stage play, a orchestra concert, or an opera.
Keep around the current theaters at $5 a ticket for suckers who don't care if they can't enjoy the movie. But if I want an outlet to watch movie in a setting better than I can replicate at home, please--theater owners, I beg you--give me a location to do so.
Many (most?) people only vote if the ballot includes a presidential election. The closer to home the "biggest" vote on the ballot is, the fewer people turn out. If there was a vote with nothing but sheriff and coroner on the ballot, almost no one would show up to vote.
The best system for this country would be to have ONE election all year, make it mid-week, and close all workplaces (except emergency services, of course). It has to be mid-week, because otherwise people would use the holiday to go on vacation and not vote.
Currently, if Firefox is your default browser, you type a URL into the Explorer bar and it opens in Firefox. I assume the same behavior will work for IE7.
Because if you have to write fast to take notes, you're writing more information than is necessary to take good notes. That's exactly this teacher's point.
Most idiots in classes I've taken try to write down everything the prof says. If you need that level of detail in your notes, yes, bring a voice recorder. And while you're at it, try to find someone who can teach you good note-taking skills.
You visit your favorite music or DVD dealer on a Monday afternoon. An employee is sorting through a carton of shipment.
"Hey is Good Night and Good Luck out?"
"No, it comes out tomorrow. New music and DVD release are almost always on Tuesdays."
"But you're holding it in your hand! Just sell me one."
"It doesn't come out until tomorrow."
"Dude, I'll pay you double for it."
"If I sell it to you today, the company will get fined and they'll stop shipping us new releases a day early so we can sell them when we open on Tuesday."
"But...uh..."
"Meet me out back after 5pm. Bring cash."
As long as there is music that's not available for pay-per-download, not popular enough to find on P2P, but still in print on CD, there will still be a market for CDs.
New pop stuff could go ahead a quit with the CDs. It will save the music labels the costs of manufacturing and distribution and it will make the portable music player manufacturers (read "Apple") more money as the last folks finally break down and buy and iPod since they can't get the stuff they want on CD anymore.
Music like older jazz, classical, other obscure music and anything aimed at listeners over the age of 50 will have a CD-buying audience for quite a foreseeable future.
What? A review says "don't buy this one book; buy these other two instead."
Sounds like exactly what a bookstore would want.
Statistically, most people must be of average intelligence. I won't try to back up my hyperbole.
I am college educated but I work in a field that really doesn't require any higher education. I make enough money to pay rent and utilities, but not much more. I most certainly don't think I'm "better than everyone else," although I certainly make better decisions than others at least half the time.
Being "a complete idiot" really transcends education, wealth, and social status. I've met complete idiots in all levels of society. It really boils down to making decisions that, at the same time, benefit yourself, your family, your peers, and society as a whole. Sure you can't benefit all those parties all the time, but if the first one is the only one you ever benefit, you're a complete idiot.
Hmmmm.... I give up. Do you live in Metter?
I used to live in southeast Georgia too.
Considering that the vast majority of people are complete idiots, that's probably not as bad as you think.
...but then people start screaming about their basic human right to reproduce and other such nonsense.
It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it!
So does Burning Books == Making Books too??