"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.".... Sounds like he needed some love.::sniff:::
If I have learned anything from my university career it is this:
As class sizes get larger, testing becomes more frequent and more automated.
Of course you say, if you have a class of one hundred or more people, it is simply not possible to mark that many essays. This usually means that essays don't need to be written at all! What do they do? Multiple choice! I heard a statistic once that if you chose answers randomly on a MC test that you could get a C by not knowing anything beyond how to circle a letter!
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Discovering this, I made sure that I took all the obsure english classes that had no more than 30 people in them. An unexpected positive side effect to this system of choosing courses was that 90% of the other students in them were girls. Yea, life was good.;-)
An essay is a medium for your message. Consequently, the structure and form of a piece of writing can be more important in terms of how effective it is in communicating an idea than the message itself.
Create new folder,
call it 'Stuff"
When it begins to get full and unweildly, create another folder and call it 'New Stuff' at this point you may want to call that older folder 'older stuff'... you get the idea.
If you are feeling extra anal about your organization, create another folder and call it 'junk'. voila!
We NEED to extend our life spans if we expect to advance. Longer life spans will allow us to colonize space, to increase our knowledge, and to cultivate wisdom. IMO our ultimate goal should be transcendence.... put our brains into durable cybernetic bodies and create backup systems to preserve individual consciousness. Even if we extend our life spans to thousands of years, that is but an instant when compared to the vast distances and billions of years of space and time that we will have to deal with in the vastness of the universe.
Also found with the body, a rock tablet pecking stone. Scientists will never be sure what the writing on the tablet means, but have surmised that it was either the etchings of a madman, or the first failed attempt at hand writing recognition software, ancient ancestor to the newton.:)
k remember at the begining of the movie.... after arnie finishes his quickie with sharon stone;) they have breakfast in their futuristic kitchen.....their walls are large TVs that act like 'windows'. It is only a matter of time before the resolution/size of these things is good enough before it looks like the real thing. 5-10 years... Add voice recognition to these things and ohhhhhhh baby, I'm so there.:)
How much space does a regular run of the mill cheap 25-30inch crt take up? You have the tv and then you need a big stand to put it on. With this new mirror thing, its all in the wall, flat...out of the way when you don't need it. Redesign the hotel rooms around this new technology and not only do you have more options with what to do with the space in the room, but the rooms could actually be made smaller, yet seem to be bigger due to hiding the tech in wall. The hotel could make an extra couple rooms per floor, I am sure that this fact alone would more than make up for large up front costs.
Use Blackadder font in Word, it does wonders for my writing;)
Seriously though, handwriting is a technology and an art, it must be practiced to be improved and maintained. I would argue however that there is still a shred of hope for improving handwriting; through the growth of handwriting recognition software on pda's and tablet pcs. Ah, just makes me wax nostalgia at my (sometimes) tortorous handwriting classes in grade school. Do they even teach handwriting in school anymore? Albeit it was an English school, as in London England. IMO the only place where handwriting has a clear edge over computers is for taking notes at university lectures. Computers still can't handle imputing raw notes containing quickly drawn graphs, charts, doodles, mindmaps, and little doodles with any of the efficiency and elegence of a pen and paper. Long live handwriting!
I got about 5 or 6 different email addresses, 10 different alias's.....hell, I can hardly remember who I am half the time, but atleast I don't get spam on my *real* email address. And thats the only thing that really matters right?;)
If anyone asks, my name is Bubba,
an 86 year old female internet consultant living in Kabul, Afghanistan.
I'm into technology and sports, so please! Send me all your spy camara ads, because well I can always use an extra secret camara.
I mean really, who could have realistically predicted this would happen a year ago? Apple, snobby uppity en vogue computer company who makes shiny, sexy, expensive computers..... now stands to build a new empire built on selling music online.
I mean really. I never saw it coming!
Mac user 4 ever:)
....is that Tolkien kept his characters simple but created a complex world (middle earth)for them to inhabit. As a natural story teller, Tolkien realized that kids and adults alike enjoy living vicariously though charcters in books. Frodo is the 'everyman'. He doesn't have superpowers, super strength, or even super looks:D Because of this, we the reader are able to imprint our emotions onto Frodo and other characters as they wade through the perilous and mysterious place of middle earth.
Another view is that Middle Earth is a recreated 'history' of ancient England. Before there were Knights and dragons, there was middle earth. A land which was rural, simple, non-industrialized. Where everyone had a pipe to smoke, a story to tell by the fire, and a garden to tend to: an idealized time.
IMO reading LOTR is like taking a relaxing walk though a field on a summers day (as corny as that may be!). Its not about the destination, but the journey(and what you see, smell, and eat along the way).
When I read this odd section of the book I always find Tom to be a rather creepy character. He seems to eminate power and is able to see into the future, yet he chooses to pacify his enemies though the most gentle of means (by singing!). As mysteriously as he appears, he is quickly forgotten and plays no other important part in the book. He is somehow 'above' the petty, earthly issues of the dark lord and the one ring and sees no reason to alter the forseen course that history will take. I suppose like so many other characters in LotR, Tom is an idealized figure, whose actions are constrained by the nature of his being. Otherwise, why would he not just prance down to Mordor and sing a little toon for Sauron?:D
One wonders what Lucas would have done with Tom... CGI extravaganza showdown with Sauron!
Bullet time anyone???:::shudder:::
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How else would I know when to begin the rabid orgy of drinking, sex, and general debauchery?
SCII pRon! Bane and savior of humanity!
Ok that would be rather useless.
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." .... Sounds like he needed some love. ::sniff:::
If I have learned anything from my university career it is this: As class sizes get larger, testing becomes more frequent and more automated. Of course you say, if you have a class of one hundred or more people, it is simply not possible to mark that many essays. This usually means that essays don't need to be written at all! What do they do? Multiple choice! I heard a statistic once that if you chose answers randomly on a MC test that you could get a C by not knowing anything beyond how to circle a letter! ----- Discovering this, I made sure that I took all the obsure english classes that had no more than 30 people in them. An unexpected positive side effect to this system of choosing courses was that 90% of the other students in them were girls. Yea, life was good. ;-)
An essay is a medium for your message. Consequently, the structure and form of a piece of writing can be more important in terms of how effective it is in communicating an idea than the message itself.
Create new folder, call it 'Stuff" When it begins to get full and unweildly, create another folder and call it 'New Stuff' at this point you may want to call that older folder 'older stuff' ... you get the idea.
If you are feeling extra anal about your organization, create another folder and call it 'junk'. voila!
When Leisure Suit Larry get ported, call me.
We NEED to extend our life spans if we expect to advance. Longer life spans will allow us to colonize space, to increase our knowledge, and to cultivate wisdom. IMO our ultimate goal should be transcendence.... put our brains into durable cybernetic bodies and create backup systems to preserve individual consciousness. Even if we extend our life spans to thousands of years, that is but an instant when compared to the vast distances and billions of years of space and time that we will have to deal with in the vastness of the universe.
hehe
Also found with the body, a rock tablet pecking stone. Scientists will never be sure what the writing on the tablet means, but have surmised that it was either the etchings of a madman, or the first failed attempt at hand writing recognition software, ancient ancestor to the newton. :)
God was a monkey. ;)
k remember at the begining of the movie.... after arnie finishes his quickie with sharon stone ;) they have breakfast in their futuristic kitchen.....their walls are large TVs that act like 'windows'. It is only a matter of time before the resolution/size of these things is good enough before it looks like the real thing. 5-10 years... Add voice recognition to these things and ohhhhhhh baby, I'm so there. :)
How much space does a regular run of the mill cheap 25-30inch crt take up? You have the tv and then you need a big stand to put it on. With this new mirror thing, its all in the wall, flat...out of the way when you don't need it. Redesign the hotel rooms around this new technology and not only do you have more options with what to do with the space in the room, but the rooms could actually be made smaller, yet seem to be bigger due to hiding the tech in wall. The hotel could make an extra couple rooms per floor, I am sure that this fact alone would more than make up for large up front costs.
Z is the funnest letter to write! You don't know what you are missing out on. ;)
Use Blackadder font in Word, it does wonders for my writing ;)
Seriously though, handwriting is a technology and an art, it must be practiced to be improved and maintained. I would argue however that there is still a shred of hope for improving handwriting; through the growth of handwriting recognition software on pda's and tablet pcs. Ah, just makes me wax nostalgia at my (sometimes) tortorous handwriting classes in grade school. Do they even teach handwriting in school anymore? Albeit it was an English school, as in London England. IMO the only place where handwriting has a clear edge over computers is for taking notes at university lectures. Computers still can't handle imputing raw notes containing quickly drawn graphs, charts, doodles, mindmaps, and little doodles with any of the efficiency and elegence of a pen and paper. Long live handwriting!
I got about 5 or 6 different email addresses, 10 different alias's.....hell, I can hardly remember who I am half the time, but atleast I don't get spam on my *real* email address. And thats the only thing that really matters right? ;)
If anyone asks, my name is Bubba,
an 86 year old female internet consultant living in Kabul, Afghanistan.
I'm into technology and sports, so please! Send me all your spy camara ads, because well I can always use an extra secret camara.
Is that what happens when an iMac gets assimilated by the Borg? :::shudder:::
I mean really, who could have realistically predicted this would happen a year ago? Apple, snobby uppity en vogue computer company who makes shiny, sexy, expensive computers..... now stands to build a new empire built on selling music online. I mean really. I never saw it coming! Mac user 4 ever :)
Its like trying to pick which Shakespeare's work is the best.... they're all the best! :)
Oh wow, that makes perfect sense. I better read up on my D&D :D
....is that Tolkien kept his characters simple but created a complex world (middle earth)for them to inhabit. As a natural story teller, Tolkien realized that kids and adults alike enjoy living vicariously though charcters in books. Frodo is the 'everyman'. He doesn't have superpowers, super strength, or even super looks :D Because of this, we the reader are able to imprint our emotions onto Frodo and other characters as they wade through the perilous and mysterious place of middle earth.
Another view is that Middle Earth is a recreated 'history' of ancient England. Before there were Knights and dragons, there was middle earth. A land which was rural, simple, non-industrialized. Where everyone had a pipe to smoke, a story to tell by the fire, and a garden to tend to: an idealized time.
IMO reading LOTR is like taking a relaxing walk though a field on a summers day (as corny as that may be!). Its not about the destination, but the journey(and what you see, smell, and eat along the way).
When I read this odd section of the book I always find Tom to be a rather creepy character. He seems to eminate power and is able to see into the future, yet he chooses to pacify his enemies though the most gentle of means (by singing!). As mysteriously as he appears, he is quickly forgotten and plays no other important part in the book. He is somehow 'above' the petty, earthly issues of the dark lord and the one ring and sees no reason to alter the forseen course that history will take. I suppose like so many other characters in LotR, Tom is an idealized figure, whose actions are constrained by the nature of his being. Otherwise, why would he not just prance down to Mordor and sing a little toon for Sauron? :D
One wonders what Lucas would have done with Tom... CGI extravaganza showdown with Sauron!
Bullet time anyone??? :::shudder:::