because the color would be a very noticeable bright green sign saying "I (effectively) stole this laptop from a poor kid in Africa!" and most people would be ashamed for people to see it.
Or perhaps, alternately, "I fed the family of a poor kid in Africa for a year!" ?
The paper is titled "DOES TELEVISION CAUSE AUTISM?"
The abstract claims: "Our precipitation tests indicate that just under forty percent of autism diagnoses in the three states studied is the result of television watching due to precipitation, while our cable tests indicate that approximately seventeen percent of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s is due to the growth of cable television."
(my emphasis)
Neither Slashdot's editors nor posters, nor "the media", are blithely claiming causation based on a paper that reports correlation. The researcher paper is clearly suggesting causation, not just correlation.
Perhaps you'd like to contact the authors and inform them that correlation does not equal causation. Maybe they'll scrap their research and start again based on your insightful input.
Your phones were lost, not robbed. If someone points a gun at you and demands your phone, you're not going to expect it to be returned by some saint, are you?
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All right then, here's a challenge. Take a picture of someone holding up five fingers. Now, with that person still holding up five fingers, try to take a picture that shows that person holding up one finger. Use every lens, filter, exposure and shutter setting you can get your hands on. Once it's in Photoshop, run it through every filter you've got, change the colors in any way you want. Just one restriction - don't click your mouse anywhere in the image.
Show me your photo of the hand holding up one finger, and I'll believe your claim that all photos are equally untruthful. I'll also claim that the person was actually holding up three fingers all along, and dare you to prove me wrong.
-OSCON just wrapped up. What do you think of it? -Just in general, not specifically related to the treehouse story, are cops fascist thugs sometimes? -Bill Gates has a bazillion dollars. Isn't that too much? -Does this dress make me look fat?
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but if it involves cutting off David Spade's balls and sending him to a third-world hellhole, I'm all for it.
Do you even realize just which ones "these countries" are?
Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand. Not Somalia, Bolivia, and Laos.
These are among the most economically developed countries on their respective continents. Hell, Brazil is a country that manufactures jet airliners that are operated by major U.S. airlines.
The computers are not going to naked starving kids in mud huts! These countries' governments know full well what it is that people in such circumstances (which all of the countries probably do have nonetheless) really need. They are likely going to cities which are relatively poor, but with a minimally sufficient economies, and working-class children (boys and girls) who would benefit most from education and the economic mobility it provides. And they've decided that cheap computers are the way to implement that.
These kids can't afford computers, and that's a problem. Because in the very cities they live in, people use computers every day.
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>>You forgot a big, huge factor in staying out of debt or bankruptcy: don't get sick. Don't have a spouse who gets sick. Don't have kids who get sick.
Easy way to take care of two of those: Don't get a spouse. Don't have kids.
because the color would be a very noticeable bright green sign saying "I (effectively) stole this laptop from a poor kid in Africa!" and most people would be ashamed for people to see it.
Or perhaps, alternately, "I fed the family of a poor kid in Africa for a year!" ?
Or worse yet, a triangle with a swooshy circle in it.
"Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology..."
Since they're in the Americas, does that mean they're using GPS units made in Asia?
Professionals only account for a few % of the camera toting population.
Fortunately for the DSLR manufacturers, think-they're-as-skilled-as-professionals account for a much larger percentage.
You just can't be discrete toting one of those things around.
You mean you just merge into one blob of flesh?
The BBC site may have a policy of using the singular, but not a single one of its British employees would consider plural as incorrect.
_ English_differences#Singular_and_plural_for_nouns
Use of the plural "are" with company names is accepted usage in British English. You can argue all you want, but it's a fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British
At first I read it as 3 million years, and was a bit worried.
The paper is titled "DOES TELEVISION CAUSE AUTISM?"
The abstract claims: "Our precipitation tests indicate that just under forty percent of autism diagnoses in the three states studied is the result of television watching due to precipitation, while our cable tests indicate that approximately seventeen percent of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s is due to the growth of cable television."
(my emphasis)
Neither Slashdot's editors nor posters, nor "the media", are blithely claiming causation based on a paper that reports correlation. The researcher paper is clearly suggesting causation, not just correlation.
Perhaps you'd like to contact the authors and inform them that correlation does not equal causation. Maybe they'll scrap their research and start again based on your insightful input.
Ray Noorda is dead. Netware confirms it.
>>>They are big players in the asterisk market.
As in, "who the f*** are these companies??"
Your phones were lost, not robbed. If someone points a gun at you and demands your phone, you're not going to expect it to be returned by some saint, are you?
All women sai that.
I wasn't aware that the Hornet or the Intruder were capable of carrying(?) laws or regulations. The word you're looking for is ordnance.
And he certainly looks close to 91 in this pic:
a c/Eddie_van_halen.jpg/150px-Eddie_van_halen.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/
All right then, here's a challenge. Take a picture of someone holding up five fingers. Now, with that person still holding up five fingers, try to take a picture that shows that person holding up one finger. Use every lens, filter, exposure and shutter setting you can get your hands on. Once it's in Photoshop, run it through every filter you've got, change the colors in any way you want. Just one restriction - don't click your mouse anywhere in the image.
Show me your photo of the hand holding up one finger, and I'll believe your claim that all photos are equally untruthful. I'll also claim that the person was actually holding up three fingers all along, and dare you to prove me wrong.
-OSCON just wrapped up. What do you think of it?
-Just in general, not specifically related to the treehouse story, are cops fascist thugs sometimes?
-Bill Gates has a bazillion dollars. Isn't that too much?
-Does this dress make me look fat?
"it's a mix of polyethylene glycol, a polymer found in laxatives..."
As if having a gun fired at you isn't enough to make you shit your pants...
Because Syrian, Jordanian, Arabian, and Egyptian scorpions all grow to 9 inches long.
Yeah, but when the Soviet Union and its bloc disappeared, the Third World moved up to second place.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but if it involves cutting off David Spade's balls and sending him to a third-world hellhole, I'm all for it.
For the hundredth time....
They are not going to STARVING KIDS IN MUD HUTS!!!
Please, scroll up and read the responses to the post by bcrowell.
Do you even realize just which ones "these countries" are?
Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand. Not Somalia, Bolivia, and Laos.
These are among the most economically developed countries on their respective continents. Hell, Brazil is a country that manufactures jet airliners that are operated by major U.S. airlines.
The computers are not going to naked starving kids in mud huts! These countries' governments know full well what it is that people in such circumstances (which all of the countries probably do have nonetheless) really need. They are likely going to cities which are relatively poor, but with a minimally sufficient economies, and working-class children (boys and girls) who would benefit most from education and the economic mobility it provides. And they've decided that cheap computers are the way to implement that.
These kids can't afford computers, and that's a problem. Because in the very cities they live in, people use computers every day.
Is that his R&D lab in the background? If so, I'd be REALLY skeptical...
Interestingly, none of these sources give that definition of the word:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reputed
While Merriam-Webster is certainly reputable, is their definition merely the reputed one?