A mysterious computer room fire (as opposed to a scheduled, well publicized one) happens, and suddenly everyone who was within a hundred miles of Woodstock gets blamed. Typical! "Ay-yup. Musta been freaks what done it. Damn hippie-freaks."
In this economy (wake me up when I have a steady job) I can maybe go on Saturday, and I won't really have much advance notice. So a six hour drive each way, and they want half the full conference fee just for the privilege of going to the dealer area for one day...er, make that one afternoon. Fsck that!
There are some majors where rote memorization is good.
I make a distinction between rote memorization, and understanding what one memorizes. I can memorize a few things without understanding them, but generally nothing sticks unless it makes sense. For the stuff that doesn't make sense, I need to shore it up with a bunch of mnemonic devices. For example, to remember that hepatic refers to the liver, I have to keep the mnemonic "Hep cats eat liver" floating about in my memory.
For stuff like 1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28, I can think "Wait, is it 21 or 28, there are four odd numbers so it must be the even one, or just... uh seven times half of eight, yeah, 28" and I understand it.
I think this is part of the problem with our educational system today. Facts are being memorized, and test scores improve, yet there is less understanding. If there is no pat answer in the manual, nobody knows what to do.
I just don't think the man's credible at all. I didn't believe him when he originally said it, and I don't believe him when he says he didn't say it. If he were to say he said it, then I wouldn't believe him either.
The terminator genetics does not stop modified genetics from spreading into the wild. Viruses can enter the plants, multiply, and take little snips of stuff here and there when they spread. And the terminator genes are not perfect. A one in a billion failure across trillions of seeds is a lot of spreading.
I thought that the big hangup was the cost of terminating the optical connectors. Some guy with a PhD in Union Electricianology has to sit there and hand polish each fiber end for about 15 or 20 minutes. This is cheap if you're going town to town, but if you have to do it for every apartment and bungalow, suddenly it really adds up.
This reminds me of something I saw on the internet in the olden days. An all-purpose flame. It began with something like "It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that" and then something about your ideas being wholly or utterly without merit or something. If anyone can find it, this article would be the ideal place for using it.
Babe: No, no! Heiroglyphs! That's it! Do you remember any? Will they help? Anything at all!
Bill: Of course! Of course, it was a jackal-headed woman with her eyes akimbo, a King sitting sideways on his throne, adrip with gold, chipped nose up-lifted--thusly! All engraven on a Pyramis of Massey size, with the body of a Lion, paws that refreshes, a tale told by an idiot, and the head of a Fox!
Sound: Chanting and strange music.
Babe: That Pyramid is opening!
Old man: Which one?
Dr Dog: The one with the ever-widening hole in it!
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You wanna knock off the fat jokes!
Yes, it was a freak accident.
A mysterious computer room fire (as opposed to a scheduled, well publicized one) happens, and suddenly everyone who was within a hundred miles of Woodstock gets blamed. Typical! "Ay-yup. Musta been freaks what done it. Damn hippie-freaks."
In this economy (wake me up when I have a steady job) I can maybe go on Saturday, and I won't really have much advance notice. So a six hour drive each way, and they want half the full conference fee just for the privilege of going to the dealer area for one day...er, make that one afternoon. Fsck that!
Nanoscale images are on strike?
... and Yul Brynner goes nuts and kills everybody.
There are some majors where rote memorization is good.
I make a distinction between rote memorization, and understanding what one memorizes. I can memorize a few things without understanding them, but generally nothing sticks unless it makes sense. For the stuff that doesn't make sense, I need to shore it up with a bunch of mnemonic devices. For example, to remember that hepatic refers to the liver, I have to keep the mnemonic "Hep cats eat liver" floating about in my memory.
For stuff like 1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28, I can think "Wait, is it 21 or 28, there are four odd numbers so it must be the even one, or just ... uh seven times half of eight, yeah, 28" and I understand it.
I think this is part of the problem with our educational system today. Facts are being memorized, and test scores improve, yet there is less understanding. If there is no pat answer in the manual, nobody knows what to do.
Well this is Slashdot. Given the popularity of Lego bricks amongst the slashdotters, a good slashdotting would likely brick Lego's servers.
Gotta get me one of those.
It has escaped from the laboratory, and is heading for your house.
You should consider smearing Jello on your kitchen floor and setting fire to your sofa.
you make a lot of postings out here buddy and I ain't exactly sure how many you are or what your agenda is
Damn right! I say we mod "Anonymous Coward" back to the stone age! Who's with me?
"kernal" should have been a red flag.
He never said it.
I just don't think the man's credible at all. I didn't believe him when he originally said it, and I don't believe him when he says he didn't say it. If he were to say he said it, then I wouldn't believe him either.
I'm one of the other three. Are the last two also /. subscribers?
I am. That leaves one more.
Oh, way to go.
I was thinking more along the lines of...
"The knob! Turn the knob!"--Goodgulf Grayteeth, in Bored of the Rings
The terminator genetics does not stop modified genetics from spreading into the wild. Viruses can enter the plants, multiply, and take little snips of stuff here and there when they spread. And the terminator genes are not perfect. A one in a billion failure across trillions of seeds is a lot of spreading.
But seriously, can't a company appreciate a beneficial product? Or will greed always stand in the way of helping others?
No good deed goes unpunished.
I thought that the big hangup was the cost of terminating the optical connectors. Some guy with a PhD in Union Electricianology has to sit there and hand polish each fiber end for about 15 or 20 minutes. This is cheap if you're going town to town, but if you have to do it for every apartment and bungalow, suddenly it really adds up.
The matter of disbarment and other "lying through your teeth when there was no evidence at all" sort of lawsuits is yet to come.
Then again, many may play the Ken Lay Gambit, and simple die out from under the charges.
This reminds me of something I saw on the internet in the olden days. An all-purpose flame. It began with something like "It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that" and then something about your ideas being wholly or utterly without merit or something. If anyone can find it, this article would be the ideal place for using it.
Actually, one of the reasons that Apple jumped off of the PowerPC platform was BECAUSE of their power inefficiency.
No, actually, Apple went off in a huff because Pontiac got the first G6s.
really? well I'm not a code jockey but I tainted myself reading the 2k source code and ...
La la la la ... I can't here what you're saying ... la la la la ...
One core 2 core 3 core 4 ... Give us names that tells what's what ...
If it's anything like the DX nomenclature, 2 means 2 cores, 3 means 2.5 cores and 4 means 3 cores.
Yes ... Gom Jabbar.
I thought he was a center for Portland.
Babe: No, no! Heiroglyphs! That's it! Do you remember any? Will they help? Anything at all!
Bill: Of course! Of course, it was a jackal-headed woman with her eyes akimbo, a King sitting sideways on his throne, adrip with gold, chipped nose up-lifted--thusly! All engraven on a Pyramis of Massey size, with the body of a Lion, paws that refreshes, a tale told by an idiot, and the head of a Fox!
Sound: Chanting and strange music.
Babe: That Pyramid is opening!
Old man: Which one?
Dr Dog: The one with the ever-widening hole in it!