Unfortunately there is a ton of content locked up copyright holders with no legal way to view or access it, whether for entertainment or study. Much of it is decades old and some of it is culturally significant.
Actually the order of the bill of rights has no meaning on importance, and it's a false inference people constantly make. What we now know as the first amendment was actually the third listed amendment in the bill of rights, it's just that the first two amendments were not approved by the states at the time, so only 10 out of the 12 amendments in the Bill of Rights passed.
I remember back in '95 being told about Blockbuster censorship and hearing about people worrying that would put the nifty independent video stores out of business. Luckily our local stores mostly survived Blockbuster, it was Netflix and On Demand that finally killed them off. There are a lot of interesting movies I saw back in the day from those stores that I can't get now through Netflix or On Demand, and sometimes I can't even purchase through Amazon.
Didn't enjoy the later or recent Gnome or KDE. Either XFCE or LXDE are both fine when one decides instead of playing/fighting around on the desktop they just want to get work done. If I wasn't such a sucker for tabs instead of Emacs like key bindings I'd just use Ratpoison/StumpWM
Not surprising, this is the same thing they did after they bought egroups back in 2000, they waited a few months, then made the adult groups disappear from the listings and search.
In general, unless you have a contract, they are allowed to at will cut your salary as much as they want, as long as your pay is not reduced to below minimum wage.
The problem is Professors want you to read the book as enrichment, but don't actually teach from the book, or test from the book. My last few years of college I stopped buying the textbooks (as the professor would put one on hold at the Library) and found that not opening the book didn't reduce my grades. Now they can reduce your grade for not reading. This is similar to homework, which I found no link between that and understanding homework. I had classes where I performance with excellence on the testing, but the lack of my homework reduce my grade to unsatisfactory.
Most Colleges subscribe to the theory there is one way to learn, which is not true. I've been in classes where they berate the class for not taking notes. I've never take notes as I found they actually reduce learning for me. They way I learn is listening to lecture, walking around and thinking about them, and then a good night sleep. Most of the other methods of study lead me to temporary remembrance of the subject matter. I stand by my methods of learning as I find that I'm able to recall facts and apply them to subject matter I learned in High School and my peers who sometimes performed better than me on tests appear to have no memory of ever learning the topics.
I've recently migrated most of my online cloud docs away from Google to Evernote because Google has been getting continuously creepier. Recently they have been trying to shove Google+ down my throat, which demands my real name. I plan to continue this trend with moving to a new email service and a new search engine. I love their products, but they are determined to drive me away from using them.
I agree. If I only read or looked at art from those I completely agree with, I would hardly ever read or look at any art at all. On top of that, I would hardly have anywhere to shop, or anything to buy. Homosexual marriage is not the only issue out there, heck to me it's a very minor issue. I care far more about continuation of the species issues, such as carbon emissions, gmo pollution, penicillin resistance and many many other issues. Both parties crusading on opposite ends of various morality issues is a great way for them to distract the public in their near complete failure to provide solutions to actual issues of substance. They can no longer even create solutions to the artificial problems they create, such as sequester. How more dysfunctional can we get while millions get worked up about teenage immigrant welfare mothers on drugs or whatever the issue de jour may be.
Quite correct. So the question becomes, to reverse this, we need to figure out ways to once again lock away that carbon. Perhaps will giant algae farms that pump the algae back underground to where we originaly got the oil.
The summary says that mutations happened after they were hanging on, but generally we see wild animals develop those types of mutations after being domesticated or farmed, when the gene pool starts to become more shallow. There is no reason for the dogs to start to differ from the wolf population, till they are fully separated. When you take a look at the challenges encountered by fox fur farmers, you start to see how dogs started to change away from wolves.
Although the whole topic if dogs have actually yet speciated from wolves is also of note.
The funny part is how neatly this falls into "more of the same." If you read the biblical narrative of Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees would do similar tactics, asking no win trap questions, which Jesus was able to intellectually smack them down. You come to know the difference in people who are curious and seek knowledge, and those who have hate in their heart and seek to tear down. I'm sure Dr Bakker is content to speak to those free thinkers whose narrow world view isn't threatened by his views, nor will anyone on Slashdot be so clever as to trip him up in ways he has not already considered far more than they.
Not so much for alphanumeric applications, but chording keyboards are the standard for stenotype shorthand where they reach up to 300 words per minute. It's used in court rooms and live closed captioning. A few thousand of them are sold each year and can cost you upwards of $5,000. You can play around with such a system with the open source Plover: http://plover.stenoknight.com/
A flight control system system will go through a QA process, his mistake will be easy for the QA person to spot and have the programmer fix.
Most professors still grade based on a punch card world. (My data structure Professor made this observation)
I saw one interesting study on TV a number of years ago. Since this was only one study shown on one TV show, it's hard to know how true it is. But anyways, what they were pointing out is Japanese math textbooks are a lot smaller than ours. They focus on a smaller number of core topics and try to ensure proficiency of those core skills. In American school, we try to stuff in as much math information as possible. From what I remember in math, often times we'd have a new topic every week, and often times those were throw-a-away topics, that yes while interesting in an elective, or distracting from core proficiency.
One things I've always remembered from school, we never finish a text book. I would longingly look at those last few chapters, often containing some interesting info I wanted to learn, such as Medieval Europe. The next year we started on the Renaissance. To the outside observer, maybe it looked like I forgot two months, but I was actually never fully taught the period from the fall of Rome till the Renaissance.
Years now after high school, I've observed that my peers don't remember most of what we learned together. For instance from my Honors Biology class, I'll hear a former classmate understandable how bacteria and penicillin work in the human body, and I'll be, "Don't remember when the teacher taught us this?" The interesting thing is they might have gotten an A and I barely got a B-. I think this is an indication of people pulling all nighters to get the grade rather than learning. Studies show that sleeper is very important to the learning process. Perhaps a later start time would help.
I heavily used the Motif Window Manager in 96 and 97 when I was using Digital Unix. It was a nice improvement from TWM. I would have liked it on Linux, but FVWM was good enough. I doubt this will get me to switch back.
I think 1.0-2.0 Wizards were expected to fight in melee, and as it became pointless for them to engage in it, their spells would start taking over, although this mostly only true if you were able to get enough combat spells learned for each level. I would have preferred that 3.0 was more about fixing the issues of the earlier edition (and hopefully not shoe horn in fixes like max HP at first level) and less about the power character building mechanic. When people started telling me I needed to take a level in ranger so I could fight two handed, I knew it was no longer a game I was interested in.
I feel Hackmaster actually did a good job in making a more playable 1.0-2.0 game, but it could grind to a halt if you GM got heavy handed with the rules (part of the parody aspect of it) especially when you added the supplements which were not as well produced or thought out.
I think most supplements are overall a detriment to these games. If I play, I want to stick to the core rules and the creations of the GM.
Quite true, and if Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu and Fedora turn off all the technical users, who will be left to work on these projects when the current developers burn out and leave?
From what I remember, the Doctor determined that the first side to make a mistake would win as it would throw off the other side enough that the side making a mistake would gain the overall advantage.
Exactly, the problem is a big part of what makes humans efficient is to solve new problems using old solutions. When I walk up to a door, it's good to assume that it functions like every other door, and not assume it's some sort of trick door and spend a few minutes considering how the door functions. I was able to get the right answer to the tests questions because I assumed they were trying to trick me because it was a test given my psychologists. Do I always assume that? No, my productive thinking would be consume by paranoia over minutia. The goal is to have alarms go off when things have a higher probability to trick you.
There are any number of things that got jeopardize her voice, patent issues, the company going out of business, the company upgrading in a way that breaks her ability to use it, the company decided to charge a lot more money, Apple decided they don't want this type of app anymore. Only if it were free software on a free software device would her right to use this app have any sense of security. As of now, if she loses or breaks her iPad, she is SOL on this one.
I find it too flashy and not as elegant as GTK+ and other window kit environments which offer a more plain and pleasing appearance. I would also feel inclined to pick all new apps that used QT. XFCE does all I need, and LXDE is darn close to replacing it for me. The more a desktop environment is tied to specific apps, that less useful I find it. What I want it this: for it to launch *my* apps, switch apps, page screens, show me the time, have a plain and pleasing appearance. It should do all this with using as little system resources as possible. I run my computer to run apps, not interfaces.
My limited experience (I have neither) has been that with at least in asking for directions in NYC, Siri keeps giving wrong results, while Google Voice just works. The biggest use I've seen with Siri is getting everyone around you to laugh.
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Unfortunately there is a ton of content locked up copyright holders with no legal way to view or access it, whether for entertainment or study. Much of it is decades old and some of it is culturally significant.
Actually the order of the bill of rights has no meaning on importance, and it's a false inference people constantly make. What we now know as the first amendment was actually the third listed amendment in the bill of rights, it's just that the first two amendments were not approved by the states at the time, so only 10 out of the 12 amendments in the Bill of Rights passed.
I remember back in '95 being told about Blockbuster censorship and hearing about people worrying that would put the nifty independent video stores out of business. Luckily our local stores mostly survived Blockbuster, it was Netflix and On Demand that finally killed them off. There are a lot of interesting movies I saw back in the day from those stores that I can't get now through Netflix or On Demand, and sometimes I can't even purchase through Amazon.
Didn't enjoy the later or recent Gnome or KDE. Either XFCE or LXDE are both fine when one decides instead of playing/fighting around on the desktop they just want to get work done. If I wasn't such a sucker for tabs instead of Emacs like key bindings I'd just use Ratpoison/StumpWM
Not surprising, this is the same thing they did after they bought egroups back in 2000, they waited a few months, then made the adult groups disappear from the listings and search.
In general, unless you have a contract, they are allowed to at will cut your salary as much as they want, as long as your pay is not reduced to below minimum wage.
The problem is Professors want you to read the book as enrichment, but don't actually teach from the book, or test from the book. My last few years of college I stopped buying the textbooks (as the professor would put one on hold at the Library) and found that not opening the book didn't reduce my grades. Now they can reduce your grade for not reading. This is similar to homework, which I found no link between that and understanding homework. I had classes where I performance with excellence on the testing, but the lack of my homework reduce my grade to unsatisfactory.
Most Colleges subscribe to the theory there is one way to learn, which is not true. I've been in classes where they berate the class for not taking notes. I've never take notes as I found they actually reduce learning for me. They way I learn is listening to lecture, walking around and thinking about them, and then a good night sleep. Most of the other methods of study lead me to temporary remembrance of the subject matter. I stand by my methods of learning as I find that I'm able to recall facts and apply them to subject matter I learned in High School and my peers who sometimes performed better than me on tests appear to have no memory of ever learning the topics.
I've recently migrated most of my online cloud docs away from Google to Evernote because Google has been getting continuously creepier. Recently they have been trying to shove Google+ down my throat, which demands my real name. I plan to continue this trend with moving to a new email service and a new search engine. I love their products, but they are determined to drive me away from using them.
I agree. If I only read or looked at art from those I completely agree with, I would hardly ever read or look at any art at all. On top of that, I would hardly have anywhere to shop, or anything to buy. Homosexual marriage is not the only issue out there, heck to me it's a very minor issue. I care far more about continuation of the species issues, such as carbon emissions, gmo pollution, penicillin resistance and many many other issues. Both parties crusading on opposite ends of various morality issues is a great way for them to distract the public in their near complete failure to provide solutions to actual issues of substance. They can no longer even create solutions to the artificial problems they create, such as sequester. How more dysfunctional can we get while millions get worked up about teenage immigrant welfare mothers on drugs or whatever the issue de jour may be.
Quite correct. So the question becomes, to reverse this, we need to figure out ways to once again lock away that carbon. Perhaps will giant algae farms that pump the algae back underground to where we originaly got the oil.
The summary says that mutations happened after they were hanging on, but generally we see wild animals develop those types of mutations after being domesticated or farmed, when the gene pool starts to become more shallow. There is no reason for the dogs to start to differ from the wolf population, till they are fully separated. When you take a look at the challenges encountered by fox fur farmers, you start to see how dogs started to change away from wolves. Although the whole topic if dogs have actually yet speciated from wolves is also of note.
agreed, it sounded like a good feature to me.
The funny part is how neatly this falls into "more of the same." If you read the biblical narrative of Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees would do similar tactics, asking no win trap questions, which Jesus was able to intellectually smack them down. You come to know the difference in people who are curious and seek knowledge, and those who have hate in their heart and seek to tear down. I'm sure Dr Bakker is content to speak to those free thinkers whose narrow world view isn't threatened by his views, nor will anyone on Slashdot be so clever as to trip him up in ways he has not already considered far more than they.
Not so much for alphanumeric applications, but chording keyboards are the standard for stenotype shorthand where they reach up to 300 words per minute. It's used in court rooms and live closed captioning. A few thousand of them are sold each year and can cost you upwards of $5,000. You can play around with such a system with the open source Plover: http://plover.stenoknight.com/
A flight control system system will go through a QA process, his mistake will be easy for the QA person to spot and have the programmer fix. Most professors still grade based on a punch card world. (My data structure Professor made this observation)
I saw one interesting study on TV a number of years ago. Since this was only one study shown on one TV show, it's hard to know how true it is. But anyways, what they were pointing out is Japanese math textbooks are a lot smaller than ours. They focus on a smaller number of core topics and try to ensure proficiency of those core skills. In American school, we try to stuff in as much math information as possible. From what I remember in math, often times we'd have a new topic every week, and often times those were throw-a-away topics, that yes while interesting in an elective, or distracting from core proficiency.
One things I've always remembered from school, we never finish a text book. I would longingly look at those last few chapters, often containing some interesting info I wanted to learn, such as Medieval Europe. The next year we started on the Renaissance. To the outside observer, maybe it looked like I forgot two months, but I was actually never fully taught the period from the fall of Rome till the Renaissance.
Years now after high school, I've observed that my peers don't remember most of what we learned together. For instance from my Honors Biology class, I'll hear a former classmate understandable how bacteria and penicillin work in the human body, and I'll be, "Don't remember when the teacher taught us this?" The interesting thing is they might have gotten an A and I barely got a B-. I think this is an indication of people pulling all nighters to get the grade rather than learning. Studies show that sleeper is very important to the learning process. Perhaps a later start time would help.
I heavily used the Motif Window Manager in 96 and 97 when I was using Digital Unix. It was a nice improvement from TWM. I would have liked it on Linux, but FVWM was good enough. I doubt this will get me to switch back.
I think 1.0-2.0 Wizards were expected to fight in melee, and as it became pointless for them to engage in it, their spells would start taking over, although this mostly only true if you were able to get enough combat spells learned for each level. I would have preferred that 3.0 was more about fixing the issues of the earlier edition (and hopefully not shoe horn in fixes like max HP at first level) and less about the power character building mechanic. When people started telling me I needed to take a level in ranger so I could fight two handed, I knew it was no longer a game I was interested in.
I feel Hackmaster actually did a good job in making a more playable 1.0-2.0 game, but it could grind to a halt if you GM got heavy handed with the rules (part of the parody aspect of it) especially when you added the supplements which were not as well produced or thought out.
I think most supplements are overall a detriment to these games. If I play, I want to stick to the core rules and the creations of the GM.
Word for Windows 2.0 was the best version of Word, everything after that was just bloatware.
Quite true, and if Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu and Fedora turn off all the technical users, who will be left to work on these projects when the current developers burn out and leave?
From what I remember, the Doctor determined that the first side to make a mistake would win as it would throw off the other side enough that the side making a mistake would gain the overall advantage.
Exactly, the problem is a big part of what makes humans efficient is to solve new problems using old solutions. When I walk up to a door, it's good to assume that it functions like every other door, and not assume it's some sort of trick door and spend a few minutes considering how the door functions. I was able to get the right answer to the tests questions because I assumed they were trying to trick me because it was a test given my psychologists. Do I always assume that? No, my productive thinking would be consume by paranoia over minutia. The goal is to have alarms go off when things have a higher probability to trick you.
There are any number of things that got jeopardize her voice, patent issues, the company going out of business, the company upgrading in a way that breaks her ability to use it, the company decided to charge a lot more money, Apple decided they don't want this type of app anymore. Only if it were free software on a free software device would her right to use this app have any sense of security. As of now, if she loses or breaks her iPad, she is SOL on this one.
I find it too flashy and not as elegant as GTK+ and other window kit environments which offer a more plain and pleasing appearance. I would also feel inclined to pick all new apps that used QT. XFCE does all I need, and LXDE is darn close to replacing it for me. The more a desktop environment is tied to specific apps, that less useful I find it. What I want it this: for it to launch *my* apps, switch apps, page screens, show me the time, have a plain and pleasing appearance. It should do all this with using as little system resources as possible. I run my computer to run apps, not interfaces.
My limited experience (I have neither) has been that with at least in asking for directions in NYC, Siri keeps giving wrong results, while Google Voice just works. The biggest use I've seen with Siri is getting everyone around you to laugh.