No, a robot pet can never learn love, loyalty, hate or other emotions. It can at best closely mimic the behaviour caused by these emotions in real animals. I call that irrelevant. Us pet owners anthropomorphize like crazy. Dogs wag their tails and lick our faces to show submission and we interpret it as love. Cats rub up against our legs to mark their ownership and we interpret it as affection. And so on. Who cares? The pets are happy and well cared-for, and the owners feel great. If a nice soft fuzzy robot can do that, who cares what's inside? I'll avoid the analogies to rubber dolls....
35mm SLRs have mechanical shutters. Most (not all) work by releasing two curtains in sequence. The first retracts from one side to the other, letting light reach the film. The second extends in the same direction shortly thereafter, covering the film again. What you get, then, especially for short exposures, is a negative which was exposed at different times from one edge to the other. Normally you can't see this effect, but it is possible to capture (or miss, depending on the direction of motion) highspeed events in the field of view. Essentially the shutter mechanism is acting like a mechanical line-scan.
I absolutely agree, and have had an open bug report at OOo for a couple years now. It's issue 4914 if you'd like to add votes. To respond to a child post: yes, there's WebLayout view, but it doesn't really do the job; doesn't display page breaks, for example. One of the features I really like in MsoftWord (bet you didn't know this one existed:-) ) is the ability to display the Style for every paragraph in a column to the left of the text area. This is only available in NormalView, and you have to set a variable in the Prefs under View/StyleAreaWidth.
Nice try. The word "indoctrinate" means "to teach doctrines to; teach uncritically." You can teach a doctrine of anti-religion just as easily as you can teach a religious doctrine. Nice try yourself. Science is not taught by indoctrination, and the reasons to oppose religion are not in any way dogmatic (other than the "There is but one God and all heretics shall die" type). Wow. I didn't realise it was so fashionable to attack religion these days. Go figure. Fashion has nothing to do with it. Go get some clues, will you? Religion *isn't* a problem, and hasn't ever been a problem any more than human greed or corruption has been. You are trying to prove by repetition. That's a demonstrably invalid approach, unless, of course, you're into indoctrination again. But if it makes you feel better: *organized* religion is the problem, because it leads directly to greed, power, abuse, and control of the weak by the evil.
And, finally, your claim of correlation between religion and decreased crime rates is total crap. Even if one accepts the position that, e.g., leaving widows out to die is not a crime (in Afghanistan, the Taliban says women may not appear in public alone and may not have jobs -- so if the husband dies or leaves, there aren't too many options for the woman), the percentage of criminals who are atheists remains low. Or look at
You're glad that this prof abused his position of power in order to attack an entire set of religious beliefs? You're glad that this prof essentially intended to indoctrinate his students against Christianity? (Hey, anti-Christians band the word "indoctrinate" all the time; it seems to me that attacking a set of beliefs rather than presenting them in a fair and mature way is the essence of indoctrination.)
I'm not exactly a fan of ID either, but this kind of hateful rhetoric goes against everything the US stands for. Why is it acceptable to attack Christianity but not Judaism or Islam, for instance? First: you can't "indoctrinate against [any religion]" because the opposing position is testable. Religious people indoctrinate their children and followers with religious dogma. Scientists investigate and test. It's completely different.
Second: nobody said to attack only Christianity. Judaism is just as bad, and Islam is worse. The religion IS the problem, despite what many bleeding-heart conservatives and liberals alike whimper regularly --you know, the usual "don't lump the fanatics in with the mainstream" crap.
The very first step a boy has in becoming a man is taking one hundred percent responsibility for his situation in life. Where he is is entirely his fault. Once a man accepts this, he can begin to affect reality instead of being a victim and letting reality affect him. I'd be very careful about accepting that view. For example, one of the tough problems facing counselors who deal with abused women is that the women tend to take on 100% responsibility for their situation. In fact, it's the abuser's fault, not the woman's.
Wait, you hit the start button to make the game stop? Whose crazy idea was that?:\ All part of the MicrosoftStandardGUI rules. You know-click the Start button to get to the ShutDown command.
Thanks Kristoffer -- that (turning off "Page Layout") switches to "Web Layout," which I thought had some html conversion going on. Apparently not. (This is in OO.o 2.0 for windows). I haven't checked it in detail, but it seems close to what I want. Too bad that manual page breaks don't get marked on the screen. So before I get too happy:-), are there other properties of WebLayout view that might get in the way of document editing?
This remains a show-stopper for me. The word processor has got to have a galley view ("Normal" in MicrosoftWord) for text editing. Then again, 99% of the people I know can't understand that document layout is something you do only after completing the writing and editing process, so I suppose the lack of a galley view won't stop most folks from switching to OO.o .
Younger people know that their Social Security is screwed. In which case they don't know squat. SS will do just fine for 30 or 40 more years if Congress does exactly nothing. A minor change in tax rates would keep SS going pretty much forever. Maybe 'younger people' are just as good at being completely fooled by the Liars In Power as 'older people.'
IMHO this will blow away all other flat-panel technologies (assuming nobody sells a triple-MEMS version of the DLP design, thus eliminating the color wheel). SED has low profile and uses the same phosphor screen as CRTs. Aside from price and having to wait a year or two for the USA rollout, SED is perfect.:-)
I would like to quote Rosanne from her comedy show. DJ asked if he was a "surprise," i.e. a mistake (which he, strictly speaking, was on the show). Rosanne said " A mistake is something you wish you hadn't done; a surprise is something you never knew how much you wanted until you got it." Now, why parents tell kids they are mistakes is beyond me, but all the same to claim contraception or abortion is bad because your parents considered it prior to your birth is absurd.
Oh, I've no doubt that people will run screaming if their precious MsoftOffice is taken away. That doesn't mean that they're right. I don't expect to convince any business to train their staff properly. But Excel's graphing tools still are rotten, and mixing data processing with graph generating tools is still a poor way to operate.
I haven't tried 2.0 yet, but I've found Excel to have far more advanced charting options that are simultaneously easier to use than those in OOo True but not relevant. People use Excel for graphing only because it's there in front of them and they don't know any better. If you want high quality flexible format graphs, go get a graphing tool. And to the poster who complained about extending trendlines and stuff like that: don't confuse data analysis with creating graphs. Get a real analysis tool, like MatLab or Regress+ or LabFit or aNova, do your curve fits and error analysis, then plot the results.
But after 18 years as a lawyer and 5 as a Judge she obviously had money to afford to quit and become a pastry chef. Presumably she has a husband who also make decent money as well.
Well, personally, I'd like to dump my engineering job and take a position as a Supreme Court Justice. Heck, they get months of vacation, they have no boss, they get to tell lawyers to sit down and shut up. Plus, historically, they live rather long lives, which may imply a low-stress job over all. What could be better?:-)
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If you buy a non-HDTV you will get a box that will be obsolete long before it's likely to wear out--soon you won't be able to use it without a converter box. All televisions sold after December 31, 2006 must be sold with digital tuners, and broadcasters are to stop airing analog content Jan 31, 2007. Unless you pay next to nothing for an analog box, it no longer makes sense to buy anything other than HDTV. Except if you, like most urban and suburban USA TV watchers, have a cable box, that box will continue to provide analog TV output regardless of the format on the incoming cable. No rush to dump analog TVs (except for my beloved Sony Watchman -- 1.5-inch diagonal CRT in a pocket-sized portable package. I'll have to hack a Coax connector onto the antenna lead:-( to be able to use it once analog broadcasts go away )
What I'm curious to know is, if they died and were subsequently consumed by either a larger animal (dog, cat, etc.) or smaller insects, would the plague be transferable to the consumer?
Not to worry. The mice died and were dumped into a biomass-to-diesel converter.
You don't have to give a shit about sports to have heard the phrase "fifty-yard line" at some point in your life. A football field is 100 yards long. Except a NFL football field is 120 yards long. The end zones are in play. So, nice try. And a CFL football field has a fifty-yard line. In fact it has two of them. So:how long is a CFL field?
blah blah never seen a PC part blow due to static blah blah No, you've just never looked closely enough to see the damage. Most often the ESD damage is not catastrophic but does degrade a chip or two, leading to errors or slow performance, or maybe the chip's premature death months hence. Just because you don't get a micro-nuclear explosion doesn't mean you didn't break something. Heck, I once grounded the wrong side of an FM antenna (in the pre-polarized-plug days) and saw a spark. The electronics ran fine for another 6 months until some part finally croaked. At the risk of sounding officious:-) , trust the experts. They may actually know something.
I use OO.o now and then, and my one reason not to use it all the time is: there is no "Normal View" option. What most people dont' recognize is that text editing and document formatting are two separate functions (notwithstanding that M$Office, OOo, and many other 'word procesors' merge the two). I want to fill my screen with the text I'm editing, not stupid repeated headers and blank space between pseudopages.
For all you who are whining about the cost of going out to the movies, consider:
My kid went to see Rent in NYC w/ his summer camp group. Including travel (bus) from New Haven CT, it cost $85. Yet any decent show on Broadway runs for years. If the product is good, the price isn't important.
Employers give drug tests because employees take drugs on the job Huh? And just how do drug tests distinguish between on-the-job drug use and home use? Employers give drug tests because they can and/or the fed. gov't requires them to.
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No, a robot pet can never learn love, loyalty, hate or other emotions. It can at best closely mimic the behaviour caused by these emotions in real animals.
I call that irrelevant. Us pet owners anthropomorphize like crazy. Dogs wag their tails and lick our faces to show submission and we interpret it as love. Cats rub up against our legs to mark their ownership and we interpret it as affection.
And so on. Who cares? The pets are happy and well cared-for, and the owners feel great.
If a nice soft fuzzy robot can do that, who cares what's inside?
I'll avoid the analogies to rubber dolls....
35mm SLRs have mechanical shutters. Most (not all) work by releasing two curtains in sequence. The first retracts from one side to the other, letting light reach the film. The second extends in the same direction shortly thereafter, covering the film again. What you get, then, especially for short exposures, is a negative which was exposed at different times from one edge to the other. Normally you can't see this effect, but it is possible to capture (or miss, depending on the direction of motion) highspeed events in the field of view.
Essentially the shutter mechanism is acting like a mechanical line-scan.
I absolutely agree, and have had an open bug report at OOo for a couple years now. It's issue 4914 if you'd like to add votes. :-) ) is the ability to display the Style for every paragraph in a column to the left of the text area. This is only available in NormalView, and you have to set a variable in the Prefs under View/StyleAreaWidth.
To respond to a child post: yes, there's WebLayout view, but it doesn't really do the job; doesn't display page breaks, for example.
One of the features I really like in MsoftWord (bet you didn't know this one existed
Nice try. The word "indoctrinate" means "to teach doctrines to; teach uncritically." You can teach a doctrine of anti-religion just as easily as you can teach a religious doctrine.
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Nice try yourself. Science is not taught by indoctrination, and the reasons to oppose religion are not in any way dogmatic (other than the "There is but one God and all heretics shall die" type).
Wow. I didn't realise it was so fashionable to attack religion these days. Go figure.
Fashion has nothing to do with it. Go get some clues, will you?
Religion *isn't* a problem, and hasn't ever been a problem any more than human greed or corruption has been.
You are trying to prove by repetition. That's a demonstrably invalid approach, unless, of course, you're into indoctrination again. But if it makes you feel better: *organized* religion is the problem, because it leads directly to greed, power, abuse, and control of the weak by the evil.
And, finally, your claim of correlation between religion and decreased crime rates is total crap. Even if one accepts the position that, e.g., leaving widows out to die is not a crime (in Afghanistan, the Taliban says women may not appear in public alone and may not have jobs -- so if the husband dies or leaves, there aren't too many options for the woman), the percentage of criminals who are atheists remains low. Or look at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944
BTW, no god invented the nuclear bomb, but neither did any god invent antibiotics, anasthesia, or color TVs. So spare us your disingenuous blather.
You're glad that this prof abused his position of power in order to attack an entire set of religious beliefs? You're glad that this prof essentially intended to indoctrinate his students against Christianity? (Hey, anti-Christians band the word "indoctrinate" all the time; it seems to me that attacking a set of beliefs rather than presenting them in a fair and mature way is the essence of indoctrination.)
I'm not exactly a fan of ID either, but this kind of hateful rhetoric goes against everything the US stands for. Why is it acceptable to attack Christianity but not Judaism or Islam, for instance?
First: you can't "indoctrinate against [any religion]" because the opposing position is testable. Religious people indoctrinate their children and followers with religious dogma. Scientists investigate and test. It's completely different.
Second: nobody said to attack only Christianity. Judaism is just as bad, and Islam is worse. The religion IS the problem, despite what many bleeding-heart conservatives and liberals alike whimper regularly --you know, the usual "don't lump the fanatics in with the mainstream" crap.
The very first step a boy has in becoming a man is taking one hundred percent responsibility for his situation in life. Where he is is entirely his fault. Once a man accepts this, he can begin to affect reality instead of being a victim and letting reality affect him.
I'd be very careful about accepting that view. For example, one of the tough problems facing counselors who deal with abused women is that the women tend to take on 100% responsibility for their situation. In fact, it's the abuser's fault, not the woman's.
Do a simplistic case study instead:
/. form: You keep using that word. I don't think you know what it means.
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Simplistic, since it covers sales and not profits, but the point is staving off readership drops.
In true
Clue: "simplistic"is not a synonym for "simple."
Don't use fancy words when a simpler one will do, especially when you don't know what the word means.
Wait, you hit the start button to make the game stop? Whose crazy idea was that? :\
All part of the MicrosoftStandardGUI rules. You know-click the Start button to get to the ShutDown command.
Thanks Kristoffer -- that (turning off "Page Layout") switches to "Web Layout," which I thought had some html conversion going on. Apparently not. (This is in OO.o 2.0 for windows). I haven't checked it in detail, but it seems close to what I want. Too bad that manual page breaks don't get marked on the screen. :-), are there other properties of WebLayout view that might get in the way of document editing?
So before I get too happy
This remains a show-stopper for me. The word processor has got to have a galley view ("Normal" in MicrosoftWord) for text editing.
Then again, 99% of the people I know can't understand that document layout is something you do only after completing the writing and editing process, so I suppose the lack of a galley view won't stop most folks from switching to OO.o .
Younger people know that their Social Security is screwed.
In which case they don't know squat. SS will do just fine for 30 or 40 more years if Congress does exactly nothing. A minor change in tax rates would keep SS going pretty much forever.
Maybe 'younger people' are just as good at being completely fooled by the Liars In Power as 'older people.'
All these posts, and nobody has mentioned the latest TV technology: SED._ display/
:-)
http://www.canon.com/technology/detail/device/sed
IMHO this will blow away all other flat-panel technologies (assuming nobody sells a triple-MEMS version of the DLP design, thus eliminating the color wheel). SED has low profile and uses the same phosphor screen as CRTs. Aside from price and having to wait a year or two for the USA rollout, SED is perfect.
I would like to quote Rosanne from her comedy show. DJ asked if he was a "surprise," i.e. a mistake (which he, strictly speaking, was on the show). Rosanne said " A mistake is something you wish you hadn't done; a surprise is something you never knew how much you wanted until you got it."
Now, why parents tell kids they are mistakes is beyond me, but all the same to claim contraception or abortion is bad because your parents considered it prior to your birth is absurd.
Oh, I've no doubt that people will run screaming if their precious MsoftOffice is taken away. That doesn't mean that they're right. I don't expect to convince any business to train their staff properly. But Excel's graphing tools still are rotten, and mixing data processing with graph generating tools is still a poor way to operate.
I haven't tried 2.0 yet, but I've found Excel to have far more advanced charting options that are simultaneously easier to use than those in OOo
True but not relevant. People use Excel for graphing only because it's there in front of them and they don't know any better. If you want high quality flexible format graphs, go get a graphing tool.
And to the poster who complained about extending trendlines and stuff like that: don't confuse data analysis with creating graphs. Get a real analysis tool, like MatLab or Regress+ or LabFit or aNova, do your curve fits and error analysis, then plot the results.
My favorites were the half adder and full adder.
Myself I prefer the Blackadder.
But after 18 years as a lawyer and 5 as a Judge she obviously had money to afford to quit and become a pastry chef. Presumably she has a husband who also make decent money as well.
:-)
Well, personally, I'd like to dump my engineering job and take a position as a Supreme Court Justice. Heck, they get months of vacation, they have no boss, they get to tell lawyers to sit down and shut up. Plus, historically, they live rather long lives, which may imply a low-stress job over all. What could be better?
If you buy a non-HDTV you will get a box that will be obsolete long before it's likely to wear out--soon you won't be able to use it without a converter box. All televisions sold after December 31, 2006 must be sold with digital tuners, and broadcasters are to stop airing analog content Jan 31, 2007. Unless you pay next to nothing for an analog box, it no longer makes sense to buy anything other than HDTV. :-( to be able to use it once analog broadcasts go away )
Except if you, like most urban and suburban USA TV watchers, have a cable box, that box will continue to provide analog TV output regardless of the format on the incoming cable. No rush to dump analog TVs (except for my beloved Sony Watchman -- 1.5-inch diagonal CRT in a pocket-sized portable package. I'll have to hack a Coax connector onto the antenna lead
It use to be the funniest site on the net.
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That's ok, we have
Or fark.
No, seriously: what I really miss is suck.com . That was the good old days.
What I'm curious to know is, if they died and were subsequently consumed by either a larger animal (dog, cat, etc.) or smaller insects, would the plague be transferable to the consumer?
Not to worry. The mice died and were dumped into a biomass-to-diesel converter.
You don't have to give a shit about sports to have heard the phrase "fifty-yard line" at some point in your life. A football field is 100 yards long.
Except a NFL football field is 120 yards long. The end zones are in play. So, nice try.
And a CFL football field has a fifty-yard line. In fact it has two of them. So:how long is a CFL field?
blah blah never seen a PC part blow due to static blah blah :-) , trust the experts. They may actually know something.
No, you've just never looked closely enough to see the damage. Most often the ESD damage is not catastrophic but does degrade a chip or two, leading to errors or slow performance, or maybe the chip's premature death months hence.
Just because you don't get a micro-nuclear explosion doesn't mean you didn't break something.
Heck, I once grounded the wrong side of an FM antenna (in the pre-polarized-plug days) and saw a spark. The electronics ran fine for another 6 months until some part finally croaked.
At the risk of sounding officious
I use OO.o now and then, and my one reason not to use it all the time is: there is no "Normal View" option.
What most people dont' recognize is that text editing and document formatting are two separate functions (notwithstanding that M$Office, OOo, and many other 'word procesors' merge the two). I want to fill my screen with the text I'm editing, not stupid repeated headers and blank space between pseudopages.
For all you who are whining about the cost of going out to the movies, consider:
My kid went to see Rent in NYC w/ his summer camp group. Including travel (bus) from New Haven CT, it cost $85.
Yet any decent show on Broadway runs for years. If the product is good, the price isn't important.
Employers give drug tests because employees take drugs on the job
Huh? And just how do drug tests distinguish between on-the-job drug use and home use?
Employers give drug tests because they can and/or the fed. gov't requires them to.