Hey Mike. Sorry, I don't know you or your fine folks.
If I was counting online testimonials, then I'd not have said "no one".
I was talking about people in the physical world (meatspace) who have more than a passing acquaintance with me. (ie. I have gone for a social beer with them on more than one occasion)
People keep talking as if Apple really missed the boat with iPad, but the truth is they only missed the boat for hard-core, tinker-happy nerds...
I disagree. Most of my friends are not hard core tinker happy nerds. And they were all underwhelmed with the iPad. In fact, I don't know a single person who was actually impressed by it.
I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
Absolutely. In fact, working in groups is a particularly difficult part of the learning process for some. Back in the day, we didn't have collaborative tools or change management systems. I remember working on a TCP Layer project with another student. We'd work on the code for a few hours, then I'd go home. I'd come in the next morning, and find an email saying "I kept at it until 11pm. I'll be around noon." Then I'd take a look at the code, and EVERYTHING had changed. (And I do mean everything.)
Learning how to collaborate successfully (and the pitfalls that can happen when you don't) were very useful skills for me once I entered the job market.
There are several humane ways to deal with paedophiles. But none are realistic.
Here's one, for example. The government has a large-ish database of realistic (and unrealistic) computer images of CP. To get access to the legal images, you register as a paedophile. This makes the possession of these government created images legal. But any other CP image, or derivative of the legal ones, is illegal.
You can live your live relatively normal, with access to legal CP for your own gratification, and without harassment. But if you commit a CP related crime, the penalty is harsh and your orientation is made public.
Yes, but the killing of random civilians by the police, with not so much as a reprimand (or better yet, a promotion) would be quite normal in a dictatorship, even if it didn't happen every day.
Interestingly the same applies to the much later stand-alone sci-fi movie Matrix
Yeah, well, while it might be fun to speculate on what a Matrix sequel, or even trilogy would have looked like, it's probably a good thing that they didn't make any. I mean, have you seen Speed Racer? Chances are the Warchowski brothers would have f***ed it up with pretty special effects, piss poor plotting, and live-action versions of Japanese animation. And who would want that?
Great sci fi movies don't always need sequels. Blade Runner doesn't need a sequel, neither does the Matrix.
Yes, the death of Ian Tomlinson was a horrific example of police brutality out of control. One that would not be out-of-place in a fascist dictatorship. And yes, it was big news for weeks afterwards.
So was the police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Remind me again, in each case, who was held responsible for these murders? Do we know their names? Were they jailed?
The answer is a resounding No in all cases.
So please, stop telling us we should be giving them the benefit of the doubt, that this report is only to fuel paranoia.
When it comes to the police in the UK, their own actions have demonstrated that paranoia is necessary and healthy.
"By that rational, every billionaire with a funfair in his background would be a suspect! And that's not the kind of world I want to live in!" -- Michael Jackson.
No, I don't think so. It doesn't matter how the code changes from one generation to the next. Mutation (copying errors) or the mixture of two halves of parental DNA, or manipulation by an outside force, or some other mechanism.
What matters is that variation is introduced, and the most successful variations survive and the less successful variations do not.
It's an iterative process, much like software builds.
They are competing for resources (which may or may not be scarce) and one can now prey on the other.
Either evolve a defence, or die out.
(Oblig tag) That's evolution in a nutshell. Note that no one is claiming the programs spontaneously emerged into cyberspace. Evolution has nothing to say about the origin of life. Abiogenesis is not Evolution.
We clearly all forgot that little footnote in the Bill of Rights which says "not a guarantee, void where prohibited by law, some rights sold separately"
It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.
Ah to be the handyman in a Parisian family... you have all the sex with the Mrs, but none of the responsibility of raising/paying for the children.
You'll never understand it, despite having had the toys and posters and underoos and what not?
I'll never understand it, because I was never that taken with Star Wars as a kid. Never had the toys, don't remember wanting them. Saw Star Wars once in the cinema. Meh. Had the choice between seeing Empire, and the The Incredible Hulk (the pilot episode was released theatrically in my country) and chose the Hulk. Never bothered seeing Jedi in the cinema.
So I'll never understand Star Wars fandom, period. Neither the love, or the hate.
so I never had the option of taking a laptop to class. But I do wonder if it's possible these days to video record the lecture? It seems to me that a video of the class would capture any diagrams, while you could annotate the resulting video with notes taken by hand.
It was AFTER he broke all records by writing the ebook "Riding the Bullet", so I don't think you can say there was no demand or that the lack of e-readers was a barrier to success.
The difference was, Riding the Bullet was complete, and relatively cheap. And it made King a TON of money. The Plant was done chapter by chapter. Even when the fans had a 75% or better payment, he increased the price and the audience disappeared. Then he stopped updating the tale.
All in all, he showed that the latter model (as advocated in the post I originally replied to) just doesn't work.
"I showed him objects when I was alone with him in the room and then, later, with his aide, he was able to give the right answers," Professor Laureys said. "It is true."
YMMV
Skeptics, however, observe that Dr. Laureys does not appear to have used proper controls in his testing and thus could easily have been deceived, either through others in the room cueing the facilitator directly or through the Clever Hans effect; if anyone in the room is aware of what is shown to Mr. Houben but Mr. Houben himself until he has described it, then the test's results are suspect.
This includes Dr. Laureys or any other person administering the test.
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Hey Mike.
Sorry, I don't know you or your fine folks.
If I was counting online testimonials, then I'd not have said "no one".
I was talking about people in the physical world (meatspace) who have more than a passing acquaintance with me. (ie. I have gone for a social beer with them on more than one occasion)
I don't know anybody who likes you either. Not ONE.
That doesn't bother me. But if I had been promoting myself at a conference which was viewed all over the world, then it might.
People keep talking as if Apple really missed the boat with iPad, but the truth is they only missed the boat for hard-core, tinker-happy nerds...
I disagree. Most of my friends are not hard core tinker happy nerds. And they were all underwhelmed with the iPad. In fact, I don't know a single person who was actually impressed by it.
Not one.
I remember when the United States was something like that.
I remember when people thought the United States was something like that.
I can't remember it ever being the case though.
I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
Absolutely. In fact, working in groups is a particularly difficult part of the learning process for some. Back in the day, we didn't have collaborative tools or change management systems. I remember working on a TCP Layer project with another student. We'd work on the code for a few hours, then I'd go home. I'd come in the next morning, and find an email saying "I kept at it until 11pm. I'll be around noon." Then I'd take a look at the code, and EVERYTHING had changed. (And I do mean everything.)
Learning how to collaborate successfully (and the pitfalls that can happen when you don't) were very useful skills for me once I entered the job market.
There are several humane ways to deal with paedophiles. But none are realistic.
Here's one, for example. The government has a large-ish database of realistic (and unrealistic) computer images of CP. To get access to the legal images, you register as a paedophile. This makes the possession of these government created images legal. But any other CP image, or derivative of the legal ones, is illegal.
You can live your live relatively normal, with access to legal CP for your own gratification, and without harassment. But if you commit a CP related crime, the penalty is harsh and your orientation is made public.
Yes, but the killing of random civilians by the police, with not so much as a reprimand (or better yet, a promotion) would be quite normal in a dictatorship, even if it didn't happen every day.
Interestingly the same applies to the much later stand-alone sci-fi movie Matrix
Yeah, well, while it might be fun to speculate on what a Matrix sequel, or even trilogy would have looked like, it's probably a good thing that they didn't make any. I mean, have you seen Speed Racer? Chances are the Warchowski brothers would have f***ed it up with pretty special effects, piss poor plotting, and live-action versions of Japanese animation. And who would want that?
Great sci fi movies don't always need sequels. Blade Runner doesn't need a sequel, neither does the Matrix.
When earplugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have earplugs.
Yes, the death of Ian Tomlinson was a horrific example of police brutality out of control. One that would not be out-of-place in a fascist dictatorship. And yes, it was big news for weeks afterwards.
So was the police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Remind me again, in each case, who was held responsible for these murders? Do we know their names? Were they jailed?
The answer is a resounding No in all cases.
So please, stop telling us we should be giving them the benefit of the doubt, that this report is only to fuel paranoia.
When it comes to the police in the UK, their own actions have demonstrated that paranoia is necessary and healthy.
But they would quibble over the definition of "hurt".
Too many people equate "hurt" with "cause offense to".
To which I say, please show me where in the Australian constitution, it says that one has the right NOT to be offended, ever.
"By that rational, every billionaire with a funfair in his background would be a suspect!
And that's not the kind of world I want to live in!" -- Michael Jackson.
No, I don't think so.
It doesn't matter how the code changes from one generation to the next. Mutation (copying errors) or the mixture of two halves of parental DNA, or manipulation by an outside force, or some other mechanism.
What matters is that variation is introduced, and the most successful variations survive and the less successful variations do not.
It's an iterative process, much like software builds.
They are competing for resources (which may or may not be scarce) and one can now prey on the other.
Either evolve a defence, or die out.
(Oblig tag)
That's evolution in a nutshell. Note that no one is claiming the programs spontaneously emerged into cyberspace. Evolution has nothing to say about the origin of life. Abiogenesis is not Evolution.
We clearly all forgot that little footnote in the Bill of Rights which says "not a guarantee, void where prohibited by law, some rights sold separately"
But the iPad is a big iPhone.
I wish people would stop saying that.
It's not any type of phone, never mind an iPhone.
At best, it's an iTouch.
of "But the Emperor's wearing nothing at all!" comes not from a child, but from a member of the 4th estate?
Colour me shocked.
It's one thing to have a story/advertisement, it's another to blatantly lie in it.
The bullshit statistic of the $49 dollar unlocked version was ably debunked in the comments of the last story where this was claimed.
Please stop doing it. When you're caught in a blatant lie, you don't repeat it unless you are also an idiot.
It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.
Ah to be the handyman in a Parisian family... you have all the sex with the Mrs, but none of the responsibility of raising/paying for the children.
if einstein became a creationist after his exposition of relativity, does that detract from his earlier genius?
Yes, because it would mean he probably DID steal the work of Olinto De Pretto, thanks to the timely warning of Michele Besso.
You'll never understand it, despite having had the toys and posters and underoos and what not?
I'll never understand it, because I was never that taken with Star Wars as a kid. Never had the toys, don't remember wanting them. Saw Star Wars once in the cinema. Meh. Had the choice between seeing Empire, and the The Incredible Hulk (the pilot episode was released theatrically in my country) and chose the Hulk. Never bothered seeing Jedi in the cinema.
So I'll never understand Star Wars fandom, period. Neither the love, or the hate.
so I never had the option of taking a laptop to class.
But I do wonder if it's possible these days to video record the lecture?
It seems to me that a video of the class would capture any diagrams, while you could annotate the resulting video with notes taken by hand.
It was AFTER he broke all records by writing the ebook "Riding the Bullet", so I don't think you can say there was no demand or that the lack of e-readers was a barrier to success.
The difference was, Riding the Bullet was complete, and relatively cheap. And it made King a TON of money.
The Plant was done chapter by chapter. Even when the fans had a 75% or better payment, he increased the price and the audience disappeared. Then he stopped updating the tale.
All in all, he showed that the latter model (as advocated in the post I originally replied to) just doesn't work.
"I showed him objects when I was alone with him in the room and then, later, with his aide, he was able to give the right answers," Professor Laureys said. "It is true."
YMMV
Skeptics, however, observe that Dr. Laureys does not appear to have used proper controls in his testing and thus could easily have been deceived, either through others in the room cueing the facilitator directly or through the Clever Hans effect; if anyone in the room is aware of what is shown to Mr. Houben but Mr. Houben himself until he has described it, then the test's results are suspect.
This includes Dr. Laureys or any other person administering the test.
So yes, my milage varies.
in most countries outside of the U.S.