I think the only thing yhou have shown here is that it is difficult to teach and test for the concept of numeric values without a language that can transfer that information. For the piraha its some cultural fluke. take one of their babies, raise it anywhere else, and it will learn numbers. and in the monkeys their language skills in english are quite bad, the most effective way of getting information accross is with reinforcement learning by giving rewards. You cant ask the monkey to learn, you have to trick him. Something tells me you might be able to do the same with the Piraha but it would involve unethical torture.
you are correct, you have 30 seconds (default , you can change it to automatic or wait longer) to make a choice, but it will choose safemode if you dont make a choice. The alternative is to just let the machine constantly restart...which is much worse than safe mode with a horible resolution. i think that is what freaks people out the most is the 640x480 res forced on safemode. I think thats being a bit too safe, what card/monitor cant support 800x600 that can run XP?
50% load is pretty bad, try paying off some of the cards in full while only paying the minimum on the others. That may help your credit.
I had a problem with Sprint getting cell phone service because they thought I had bad credit. Turns out the real reason was that I had a maxed out card. The card was a 0% interest for 12 months card with no balance transfer fee. so when I got the offer in the mail I thought "free interest for a year" which is a financially smart decision. I have done it many times across the last 4 years. and Always pay them off in full when the intro rate disappears. Its a great way to take advantage of credit cards while earning interest in your bank account (~5% on paypal, or similar internet "direct" banks.....I know paypal isnt a bank....blah blah)
Anyway, since she dumped you I guess it was a good thing you didnt buy the ring.
In C++ a full proof way to avoid memory leaks is to store all of your objects in an stl container. Allocate on stack for temporaries, and anything that has tot stick around, throw it into a container, like a map where you can get back to it with some key. Of course this has draw backs as well. namely its goign to be a little slower.
not that I completely agree but there is the group that says porn, at least heterosexual porn is inherently sexist towards women since it treats them as objects.
Typically low lying areas (with no useful economic purpose) are used as cheap dumps for construction waste( torn up sidewalk, old brick from a building, just plain dirt that needed to be moved, and probably regular trash that shouldn't be there) Why haven't the sinking areas been gradually filled with such waste? Eventually these lands are worth more since they are flat and can be built on more easily.
A simple ordinance that states any new structure or any significant repair to a structure must be raised above above sea level such that at current sinking rates, the building will remain above sea level until the end of its expected lifespan.
Would look funny with all the houses sitting on top of miniature hills but eventually the whole area would be filled in. (well all the structures would be above sea level, at some point the infrastructure connecting the structures would be raised by the same method. With he appropriate ramps built in the mean time.
you can start your tv network online for cheap using youtube or bittorrent.
www.purepwnage.com for a good example of making money with small time budget. imagine what a company with more diverse programming could do. once they have proven themselves they have more clout with a cable operators. and they could be offered on cable simultaneously. the marginal cost of adding a channel must eb extremely low for a cable operator, they might as well offer it for a few bucks a month to those that want it.
Also with ala carte more directed/more valuable advertising can be given since you know who is really watching and who isnt.
thats quite the accomplishment I dont know how you take a standard trapezoid and insert the same shape trapezoid, but upside down into it. The physical packaging doesnt line up nor do the pins../__\ \__/ how can you possibly fit those together????
Shouldn't they have just wrapped it up with the 100 or so available updates on windows update after a fresh install of SP2 and called it SP3??? I've always wondered why install media manufactured after a patch or update was released for any software product was not included in the new batches of CDs
no some males just have to out compete the other males even if there are more males than females.
not to mention that the polygomy need not happen at the same time. over the lifetime of a male he might mate with twice as many female as the avg male, due to some sexually attractive feature.
polygamy doesn't require that there be less male than female, only that some males get to mate less often (perhaps zero) than other males.
And sugggest is not a weasle word here if you knew anything about polygamy other than the Mormonism example.
Did I explain why it suggest that? no. thats why i gave the source book to go read his explanation.
certain characteristics get picked by females for no other purpose than being "attractive" this causes the gene that likes that feature, and the gene that causes that feature to be coupled in the offspring of the mating. This coupling of attraction and blueprint for makign the attractive feature is sexual selection that causes dimorphism.
Modern humans are dimorphic as well. Not to the extent as many other species but, for example, male brains are slightly larger, even accounting for their larger body size vs female. This suggests that throughout humans and their ancestors have been moderately polygynous.
My source being The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller
Because I value scientists who might say cure some disease that might kill me off in the future over a person who studies old works of literature which brings me nothing.
I challenge anyone to really state that people studying Shakespeare are more helpful to society than cancer researchers.
Again since I was talking about a possible government public policy aimed towards creating a more enjoyable society I'm looking at the issue from that stand point. If you want to study English, go ahead, but I think there are more productive things to do with your time. Now clearly not all lovers of poetry will make great scientists, but I have seen plenty of people drop out of a major that was just slightly "too hard" into a liberal arts degree so they could get a degree and get out of college. Perhaps they would be more likely to persevere and complete the program if they got hit with a larger tuition bill upon switching majors.
Governments do all sorts of things to encourage or discourage certain things. Tax breaks for home mortgages to encourage home ownership, taxes on cigarettes to discourage smoking, why not add cheaper tuition for those that major in areas of study that are more useful to society than others?
Why do you look down on people choosing their major based on price(no one said based on price alone), do you also look down on people choosing a university based on price? Should everybody spend 30k a semester to go to a private school? If a kid has an interest in teaching and in something else, but cant decide, perhaps the free tuition would net one extra teacher.
Well engineers and scientists are paid quite well yet we still have fewer engineer and science graduates than some other countries like India and China(i dont know if those stats have been corrected for total population or college going population or what) States can be put to blame at the lack of teachers with their lack of pay, but for the lack of scientists(whether we agree on if there is a lack or not) is not their fault but may wish to encourage the population to pursue those professions since having more of them help society in general, where as having a large number of grammar nazis (english majors) does little, if anything for society.
I hear you on the vocational school argument but welcome to the 90's 10 years late. Universities are knowledge labor factories these days and they will remain tht way for undergraduate education. University undergraduate programs mostly compete on how much their graduates make if they enter the labor force an dhow many of them get jobs and how fast they get jobs. Most professors talk about work in the future, not your possible position at the head of the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society).
I didn't go to a degree farm, I went to the University of Texas, one of the top schools in computer science. The curriculum was heavy on theory, but it is still assumed you will be writing software for a living.
(Now all the english majors are going to rip my writing skills to shreds hehe)
Since public universities aren't businesses they shouldn't be run like this, in fact they should be run exactly the opposite. One reason for the education system is to provide knowledgeable people into the labor market.
Pricing for degrees should be based on how much society needs that degree holder.
Since scientists are very useful to society their degrees should be as low cost as possible to encourage as many as possible to take that degree.
Majors like english(non teaching) should be very expensive since they arent very useful to society as a whole and should be discouraged as much as possible.
The one labor shortage you hear about every year is teachers. Students wanting to get a teaching degree should probably have free tuition, since not only are teachers necessary but they are a direct positive feedback into the education system, so increasing the number of teachers could have exponential increases in public welfare 20 years from now.
Disclaimer: I have a computer science degree(2007) and am starting a new job in 2 weeks. I paid for my own degree at a public university.
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I think the only thing yhou have shown here is that it is difficult to teach and test for the concept of numeric values without a language that can transfer that information. For the piraha its some cultural fluke. take one of their babies, raise it anywhere else, and it will learn numbers. and in the monkeys their language skills in english are quite bad, the most effective way of getting information accross is with reinforcement learning by giving rewards. You cant ask the monkey to learn, you have to trick him. Something tells me you might be able to do the same with the Piraha but it would involve unethical torture.
you are correct, you have 30 seconds (default , you can change it to automatic or wait longer) to make a choice, but it will choose safemode if you dont make a choice. The alternative is to just let the machine constantly restart...which is much worse than safe mode with a horible resolution. i think that is what freaks people out the most is the 640x480 res forced on safemode. I think thats being a bit too safe, what card/monitor cant support 800x600 that can run XP?
uh, he said offer the safe mode option, not force it on you.
How is this only +2 6 days out? ... no mod points for me to use :-(
well, they aren't paying for the beta, I assume....
not to mention wireless sniffing
50% load is pretty bad, try paying off some of the cards in full while only paying the minimum on the others. That may help your credit.
I had a problem with Sprint getting cell phone service because they thought I had bad credit. Turns out the real reason was that I had a maxed out card. The card was a 0% interest for 12 months card with no balance transfer fee. so when I got the offer in the mail I thought "free interest for a year" which is a financially smart decision. I have done it many times across the last 4 years. and Always pay them off in full when the intro rate disappears. Its a great way to take advantage of credit cards while earning interest in your bank account (~5% on paypal, or similar internet "direct" banks.....I know paypal isnt a bank....blah blah)
Anyway, since she dumped you I guess it was a good thing you didnt buy the ring.
In C++ a full proof way to avoid memory leaks is to store all of your objects in an stl container. Allocate on stack for temporaries, and anything that has tot stick around, throw it into a container, like a map where you can get back to it with some key. Of course this has draw backs as well. namely its goign to be a little slower.
not that I completely agree but there is the group that says porn, at least heterosexual porn is inherently sexist towards women since it treats them as objects.
Typically low lying areas (with no useful economic purpose) are used as cheap dumps for construction waste( torn up sidewalk, old brick from a building, just plain dirt that needed to be moved, and probably regular trash that shouldn't be there) Why haven't the sinking areas been gradually filled with such waste? Eventually these lands are worth more since they are flat and can be built on more easily.
A simple ordinance that states any new structure or any significant repair to a structure must be raised above above sea level such that at current sinking rates, the building will remain above sea level until the end of its expected lifespan.
Would look funny with all the houses sitting on top of miniature hills but eventually the whole area would be filled in. (well all the structures would be above sea level, at some point the infrastructure connecting the structures would be raised by the same method. With he appropriate ramps built in the mean time.
dust on the cells wasnt the problem, dust in the air blocking the sun was. the dust on the cells gets blown off by the wind regularly
you can start your tv network online for cheap using youtube or bittorrent.
www.purepwnage.com for a good example of making money with small time budget. imagine what a company with more diverse programming could do. once they have proven themselves they have more clout with a cable operators. and they could be offered on cable simultaneously. the marginal cost of adding a channel must eb extremely low for a cable operator, they might as well offer it for a few bucks a month to those that want it.
Also with ala carte more directed/more valuable advertising can be given since you know who is really watching and who isnt.
At least there are SOME positive replies, when I suggested this here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=257293&cid=200 34035 I only got negative replies...
thats quite the accomplishment I dont know how you take a standard trapezoid and insert the same shape trapezoid, but upside down into it. The physical packaging doesnt line up nor do the pins.. /__\ \__/ how can you possibly fit those together????
I thought slashdot had flash ads...
I agree.
Shouldn't they have just wrapped it up with the 100 or so available updates on windows update after a fresh install of SP2 and called it SP3??? I've always wondered why install media manufactured after a patch or update was released for any software product was not included in the new batches of CDs
no some males just have to out compete the other males even if there are more males than females.
not to mention that the polygomy need not happen at the same time. over the lifetime of a male he might mate with twice as many female as the avg male, due to some sexually attractive feature.
polygamy doesn't require that there be less male than female, only that some males get to mate less often (perhaps zero) than other males.
And sugggest is not a weasle word here if you knew anything about polygamy other than the Mormonism example.
Did I explain why it suggest that? no. thats why i gave the source book to go read his explanation.
certain characteristics get picked by females for no other purpose than being "attractive" this causes the gene that likes that feature, and the gene that causes that feature to be coupled in the offspring of the mating. This coupling of attraction and blueprint for makign the attractive feature is sexual selection that causes dimorphism.
Modern humans are dimorphic as well. Not to the extent as many other species but, for example, male brains are slightly larger, even accounting for their larger body size vs female.
This suggests that throughout humans and their ancestors have been moderately polygynous.
My source being The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mating_Mind
HACK THE PLANET!
'nuff said
Because I value scientists who might say cure some disease that might kill me off in the future over a person who studies old works of literature which brings me nothing.
I challenge anyone to really state that people studying Shakespeare are more helpful to society than cancer researchers.
Again since I was talking about a possible government public policy aimed towards creating a more enjoyable society I'm looking at the issue from that stand point. If you want to study English, go ahead, but I think there are more productive things to do with your time. Now clearly not all lovers of poetry will make great scientists, but I have seen plenty of people drop out of a major that was just slightly "too hard" into a liberal arts degree so they could get a degree and get out of college. Perhaps they would be more likely to persevere and complete the program if they got hit with a larger tuition bill upon switching majors.
defined by the government...
Governments do all sorts of things to encourage or discourage certain things. Tax breaks for home mortgages to encourage home ownership, taxes on cigarettes to discourage smoking, why not add cheaper tuition for those that major in areas of study that are more useful to society than others?
Why do you look down on people choosing their major based on price(no one said based on price alone), do you also look down on people choosing a university based on price? Should everybody spend 30k a semester to go to a private school? If a kid has an interest in teaching and in something else, but cant decide, perhaps the free tuition would net one extra teacher.
yes i did mean tuition.
Well engineers and scientists are paid quite well yet we still have fewer engineer and science graduates than some other countries like India and China(i dont know if those stats have been corrected for total population or college going population or what) States can be put to blame at the lack of teachers with their lack of pay, but for the lack of scientists(whether we agree on if there is a lack or not) is not their fault but may wish to encourage the population to pursue those professions since having more of them help society in general, where as having a large number of grammar nazis (english majors) does little, if anything for society.
I hear you on the vocational school argument but welcome to the 90's 10 years late. Universities are knowledge labor factories these days and they will remain tht way for undergraduate education. University undergraduate programs mostly compete on how much their graduates make if they enter the labor force an dhow many of them get jobs and how fast they get jobs. Most professors talk about work in the future, not your possible position at the head of the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society).
I didn't go to a degree farm, I went to the University of Texas, one of the top schools in computer science. The curriculum was heavy on theory, but it is still assumed you will be writing software for a living.
(Now all the english majors are going to rip my writing skills to shreds hehe)
Since public universities aren't businesses they shouldn't be run like this, in fact they should be run exactly the opposite. One reason for the education system is to provide knowledgeable people into the labor market.
Pricing for degrees should be based on how much society needs that degree holder.
Since scientists are very useful to society their degrees should be as low cost as possible to encourage as many as possible to take that degree.
Majors like english(non teaching) should be very expensive since they arent very useful to society as a whole and should be discouraged as much as possible.
The one labor shortage you hear about every year is teachers. Students wanting to get a teaching degree should probably have free tuition, since not only are teachers necessary but they are a direct positive feedback into the education system, so increasing the number of teachers could have exponential increases in public welfare 20 years from now.
Disclaimer: I have a computer science degree(2007) and am starting a new job in 2 weeks. I paid for my own degree at a public university.