Maybe this was a troll, but I'll respond anyway.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) do believe that God created the Earth. Which is "creationism".
However most LDS folks also believe in evolution (e.g. as part of God's creation) and BYU was one of the very first schools to teach evolution. Last year BYU had a big, well-publicized week-long celebration of Darwin's birthday that included many lectures on the importance of the discovery of evolution.
what do you do for your children's social development?
All sorts of things.
Weekly co-operative learning with groups of other homeschooling families. Sports teams. Singing groups. Piano lessons and recitals. Scouting. Church meetings and activities. Playing with friends.... it's not like they're trapped in the house!
Maybe there are a lot of "ultra fanatic religious" nuts who homeschool their children.
But there are also a LOT of homeschoolers that are doing it simply to help their children get real educations.
We associate with many other homeshooling families in our area and they range across a good spectrum of religious beliefs: protestant, catholic, mormon, buddhist, agnostic and atheist. Once a week the families get together for some social time and larger group learning. The adults and kids get along great, and have a great time doing fun, active learning. If anything it is the atheists that are the most fervent in bringing up religion during the co-op learning activities.
There are a lot of us who home-school for non-religious reasons... Please quit perpetuating a bad stereotype.
Some of us simply care about the the pace our children are learning things, and about the quality and content of the education.
We (my wife and I) are not doing anything "special" or worthy of bragging about in terms of spectacular teaching - yet our kids test well beyond other kids their age in math and reading, and they can tell you all sorts of things about classic literature, history, logic/reasoning, and geography, that very few other kids under 10 years old have even heard of.
Reducing the student/teacher ratio, and cutting out the crap makes a big, big difference.
I've loved Amazon in most ways (excepting mainly their patents) for many years now.
However since their introduction of the Kindle, my opinion of them has steadily declined.
I think the Kindle was perhaps Amazon's shark-jumping.
Depends on what you mean by prevalent.
Most commonly used?
Most people with knowledge of it?
Most lines of code written in it?
Most platforms that support it?
My guess is they mean most prevalent in the sense that it is very likely to be supported/usable on virtually any computer you sit in front of.
Perhaps Blizzard thinks that they can have a license somewhat like the GPL (but even more viral) --- a "work based upon or that makes use of" their product falls under their license and ownership?
That's fair enough, but my badly made point was that anything that simply measures popularity isn't worth a lot - or rather shouldn't be worth a lot. Of course popularity is all that adversers (and presidential candidates) care about... Us "consumers" of news and "voters" of politicians should care about everything *except* popularity. Popular opinions are very regularly anything but thoughtful.
So, bringing my point around, I don't care what's popular on Digg. The only thing Digg is to me is somewhere to occasionally pop over to to find an amuzing article or two to pass my time with. In fact, I visit Digg less every month. It's not a resource for stuff that matters to me. It's a resource for meta culture. Hence, I don't really care if the voting on Digg is biased.
What's the big deal? Digg doesn't measure a stories "goodness". It only measures it's popularity. If a user can use their resources to increase a story's popularity, isn't that just proving its popularity?
...defense against politicians seeking to censor games to increase their own political capital
Not that I agree with the censorship, but has anyone thought that maybe, just maybe, one or two of the politicians are trying to censor the games because they actually believe the content to be harmful?
Surely it's not helping the battle to pigeon-hole all of the politicians into one simple, cynically categorized group?
...Although I wasn't explicit about it, I thought it would be understood that my point was that indie labels tend to respect their customers more than the big labels do.
I for one will do all I can to avoid giving money to companies that want to treat me the way Sony Music and various other big labels seem to want to.
Sure am glad I've only purchased indie cd's in the last few years!
Apparently not only do the big companies cram crappy music down your ears, but they also cram crappy software into your computer.
How much does Eclipse use up when you start it?
It of course depends on your projects, etc. but for me, I have 6 large projects nearly always open at the same time. I define "large" by 40+ packages, with 8-12 classes each, plus a hundred or more config and jsp/html files.
With all of this "fired up" it uses ~110 MB of RAM, and is quite responsive on a crappy 1.7GHz Centrino processor.
In some cases (certain items/products) you'll even find that the GSA "discount" prices are far higher (even approacing double) than the other prices.
The "justification" for this is that the DOD requires the product to meet certain specifications for things such as "durability" or to have finer tolerances on certain performance attributes etc. So, since they are the ones causing the need for the "more costly" manufacturing process, they are the ones that foot the bill to make sure it meets their specs.
It's much more about customer service than it is about technical skill.
...Not to be rude, but I've noticed this is the "rule" with the consultants that have worked on various portions of projects that I've been involved with (e.g. the guys customizing an ERP that our system will be integrating with).
The funny thing is that the consultants with the poorest technical skills make the most money (charge the most hours) - at least in the short term.
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Just imagine the fun they could all be having with Pac-Man instead...
Maybe this was a troll, but I'll respond anyway. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) do believe that God created the Earth. Which is "creationism". However most LDS folks also believe in evolution (e.g. as part of God's creation) and BYU was one of the very first schools to teach evolution. Last year BYU had a big, well-publicized week-long celebration of Darwin's birthday that included many lectures on the importance of the discovery of evolution.
All sorts of things.
Weekly co-operative learning with groups of other homeschooling families. Sports teams. Singing groups. Piano lessons and recitals. Scouting. Church meetings and activities. Playing with friends. ... it's not like they're trapped in the house!
Maybe there are a lot of "ultra fanatic religious" nuts who homeschool their children.
But there are also a LOT of homeschoolers that are doing it simply to help their children get real educations.
We associate with many other homeshooling families in our area and they range across a good spectrum of religious beliefs: protestant, catholic, mormon, buddhist, agnostic and atheist. Once a week the families get together for some social time and larger group learning. The adults and kids get along great, and have a great time doing fun, active learning. If anything it is the atheists that are the most fervent in bringing up religion during the co-op learning activities.
There are a lot of us who home-school for non-religious reasons... Please quit perpetuating a bad stereotype. Some of us simply care about the the pace our children are learning things, and about the quality and content of the education. We (my wife and I) are not doing anything "special" or worthy of bragging about in terms of spectacular teaching - yet our kids test well beyond other kids their age in math and reading, and they can tell you all sorts of things about classic literature, history, logic/reasoning, and geography, that very few other kids under 10 years old have even heard of. Reducing the student/teacher ratio, and cutting out the crap makes a big, big difference.
I've loved Amazon in most ways (excepting mainly their patents) for many years now. However since their introduction of the Kindle, my opinion of them has steadily declined. I think the Kindle was perhaps Amazon's shark-jumping.
Hyperic => Hyperbolic
Depends on what you mean by prevalent. Most commonly used? Most people with knowledge of it? Most lines of code written in it? Most platforms that support it? My guess is they mean most prevalent in the sense that it is very likely to be supported/usable on virtually any computer you sit in front of.
A black foreground on a black background has always given me the least eye pain.
Oh absolutely. I was primarily pointing out that going after RIM is highly selective and not going to get them far in terms of real results!
If the Blackberry is a security risk, so is a pen.
Perhaps Blizzard thinks that they can have a license somewhat like the GPL (but even more viral) --- a "work based upon or that makes use of" their product falls under their license and ownership?
One step closer to the Infinite Improbability Drive!
Will we ever find Earth 2.0 candidates? I'm sure we will. And when we do, I have a number of candidates for who should be sent there.
That's fair enough, but my badly made point was that anything that simply measures popularity isn't worth a lot - or rather shouldn't be worth a lot. Of course popularity is all that adversers (and presidential candidates) care about... Us "consumers" of news and "voters" of politicians should care about everything *except* popularity. Popular opinions are very regularly anything but thoughtful. So, bringing my point around, I don't care what's popular on Digg. The only thing Digg is to me is somewhere to occasionally pop over to to find an amuzing article or two to pass my time with. In fact, I visit Digg less every month. It's not a resource for stuff that matters to me. It's a resource for meta culture. Hence, I don't really care if the voting on Digg is biased.
What's the big deal? Digg doesn't measure a stories "goodness". It only measures it's popularity. If a user can use their resources to increase a story's popularity, isn't that just proving its popularity?
Sure am glad I've only purchased indie cd's in the last few years! Apparently not only do the big companies cram crappy music down your ears, but they also cram crappy software into your computer.
Why am I willing to pay more for music than I would for video?
Because most of us can only stand to watch the best of videos three times at the most, but can listen to the best of songs hundreds of times.
How much does Eclipse use up when you start it? It of course depends on your projects, etc. but for me, I have 6 large projects nearly always open at the same time. I define "large" by 40+ packages, with 8-12 classes each, plus a hundred or more config and jsp/html files. With all of this "fired up" it uses ~110 MB of RAM, and is quite responsive on a crappy 1.7GHz Centrino processor.
In order to celebrate, my team members and I are going to each write a line of code, and then go clone a cd or two.
In some cases (certain items/products) you'll even find that the GSA "discount" prices are far higher (even approacing double) than the other prices.
The "justification" for this is that the DOD requires the product to meet certain specifications for things such as "durability" or to have finer tolerances on certain performance attributes etc. So, since they are the ones causing the need for the "more costly" manufacturing process, they are the ones that foot the bill to make sure it meets their specs.
It's much more about customer service than it is about technical skill.
...Not to be rude, but I've noticed this is the "rule" with the consultants that have worked on various portions of projects that I've been involved with (e.g. the guys customizing an ERP that our system will be integrating with).
The funny thing is that the consultants with the poorest technical skills make the most money (charge the most hours) - at least in the short term.
Farewell, Interplay
...ummm, they are NOT faring well, nor does it sound like they will.