BS. I hope you never think of becoming an actor, or engage in any form of public speaking. I imagine it'd be a lot like the Simpsons episode in which they make a film of Radioactive Man.
Mike Rowe is two words with a distinct pause between them. Micro is one word with no pause.
yes I believe I should have more of a right. I'm doing a degree because it's the only way to get into the profession I want. people who are doing degrees just for the sake of being able to say they have one are a waste of resources.
my original anti-humanities post was inspired by the fact that the university education system in the UK is going straight to hell. Tony Blair is pushing for a retarded policy of wanting 50% of school students to go to uni, probably because they've destroyed the value of A-levels so much employers can't trust them to differentiate between good and bad students.
as a consequnce my uni is full to bursting with people doing degrees just to put it on their CV as evidence of the ability to actually do something, then go get a completely unrelated job. funding has already been replaced with fees, which are set to increase even more, and because there isn't enough accommodation, the promise that 4th years are guaranteed on-campus accommodation has been withdrawn and it's even beginning to look doubtful for first year students.
I'm not claiming all humanities are BS, but it's annoying to see that people like me who want to do degrees to then go on to PhD and a career are being financially raped to support the retards who do a couple of years of "American Film Studies" then go on the dole.
as an aside, when I did history GCSE I found it very annoying that we were never allowed to make any kind of judgement - everything always had to be spilt straight down the middle: sources were always reliable in some ways but biased in others; the Cold War was equally USA's fault and equally USSR's; bombing Hiroshima was equally justified and unjustified. I think I lost marks once for saying the Cuban Missile crisis was more USA's fault because the exploitation, invasion, assassination, sabotage etc. was bound to make them want to protect themselves. considering different points of view is a valuable skill, but it seemed too strictly enforced. possibly just PC BS.
I'm a physicist too and I can tell you you're vastly oversimplifying the case.
no-one claims theories represent some absolute truth, but there are definitely right and wrong answers, even if the "right" answers contain some approximations or conditions.
have spammers found a way to turn it off or bypass? it's worked really well so far but the last few days loads of annoyingly obvious stuff has been getting through.
students doing crap degress like humanities deserve to be treated like the worthless drains on education funding that they are.
if you're too scared to do a subject that has right and wrong answers and you get your degree just by writing a few thousand words of BS, then being asked to prove it's your own BS and not just cut'n'paste whoring isn't much to ask imo.
Ali G : do you think man will ever walk on the Sun? Buzz Aldrin : no, the Sun is too hot, it's not a good place to go to. Ali G : what happens if they went in winter, when the Sun is cold?
day is when you could see the Sun so you can't land "at night", but winter is a time of year so makes more sense (in a retarded way).
at my uni the DC++ network isn't reachable from uni computers but is from personal computers in campus accommodation. it's so easy and fast a non-free service couldn't compete on equal terms.
"One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
because mechanical watches are much cooler and act as a souvenir of the project. next, why don't you go ask astronauts to trade in their mission patches for a linux box with the logo as the desktop background. don't expect to be popular with them.
you really mean "I don't know", it is not metaphysics at all.
relativity predicts gravitational waves and their properties, and we actually know quite a lot about them so please stop making it sound like physicists are just as clueless as some random person on the street who likes to think he's a bit of a philosopher on the matter.
there is so much indirect evidence for gravitational waves, and they're such an important part of the theory that if they don't exist we're in a lot of trouble. we also know about how they'd interact with matter etc.
your other questions have answers too.
you're either ignorant but are too arrogant to realise that because you don't know the answer that someone else might, or you're a troll trying to piss off people who know about these things.
I don't understand spammers doing that, it makes it much easier to manually filter, and surely easier for a spam filter too? for each occurance of a non-letter in a word give it +1 spam points, then do replacements (@ or 4 = a etc.) and run other filters.
spaces in the middle of words and those long chains of random characters also make manual identification far easier too, though I guess you need a dictionary to check them with a filter.
LS120s are/were great imo (though whether they were a flop is another matter). at uni every computer has them, so until 2 years ago when CD writers were installed and on-campus accommodation all became networked they were invaluable.
because/. is a tabloid; it prefers shocking headlines to accurate and factual ones. in this way more people are likely to read the stories and be exposed to the ads -> profit.
I am a Jedi Apprentice "Using full-color photos from Star Wars: Episode II, I Am a Jedi Apprentice explains to younger fans what it's like to be a Jedi apprentice."
I don't care about ads to buy crap books online. I wish someone would do something about making available books that AREN'T available for sale any more instead.
not insightful at all. unmanned probes and manned spacecraft have completely different design requirements and capabilities.
what is does show is the danger that would be involved in some kind of retarded manned flight where the crew had no control over the spacecraft and were attemping to crash into Mars with airbags rather than the successful Moon method of going into orbit first and using a lander.
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>They sound identical
BS. I hope you never think of becoming an actor, or engage in any form of public speaking. I imagine it'd be a lot like the Simpsons episode in which they make a film of Radioactive Man.
Mike Rowe is two words with a distinct pause between them.
Micro is one word with no pause.
>The net result is increase (sic) sales.
worst... argument... ever.
yes I believe I should have more of a right. I'm doing a degree because it's the only way to get into the profession I want. people who are doing degrees just for the sake of being able to say they have one are a waste of resources.
agreed, I remember being a bit excited when I got my new Nokia which has Java support and memory to store apps. most useless feature ever.
my original anti-humanities post was inspired by the fact that the university education system in the UK is going straight to hell. Tony Blair is pushing for a retarded policy of wanting 50% of school students to go to uni, probably because they've destroyed the value of A-levels so much employers can't trust them to differentiate between good and bad students.
as a consequnce my uni is full to bursting with people doing degrees just to put it on their CV as evidence of the ability to actually do something, then go get a completely unrelated job. funding has already been replaced with fees, which are set to increase even more, and because there isn't enough accommodation, the promise that 4th years are guaranteed on-campus accommodation has been withdrawn and it's even beginning to look doubtful for first year students.
I'm not claiming all humanities are BS, but it's annoying to see that people like me who want to do degrees to then go on to PhD and a career are being financially raped to support the retards who do a couple of years of "American Film Studies" then go on the dole.
as an aside, when I did history GCSE I found it very annoying that we were never allowed to make any kind of judgement - everything always had to be spilt straight down the middle: sources were always reliable in some ways but biased in others; the Cold War was equally USA's fault and equally USSR's; bombing Hiroshima was equally justified and unjustified. I think I lost marks once for saying the Cuban Missile crisis was more USA's fault because the exploitation, invasion, assassination, sabotage etc. was bound to make them want to protect themselves. considering different points of view is a valuable skill, but it seemed too strictly enforced. possibly just PC BS.
I'm a physicist too and I can tell you you're vastly oversimplifying the case.
no-one claims theories represent some absolute truth, but there are definitely right and wrong answers, even if the "right" answers contain some approximations or conditions.
have spammers found a way to turn it off or bypass? it's worked really well so far but the last few days loads of annoyingly obvious stuff has been getting through.
students doing crap degress like humanities deserve to be treated like the worthless drains on education funding that they are.
if you're too scared to do a subject that has right and wrong answers and you get your degree just by writing a few thousand words of BS, then being asked to prove it's your own BS and not just cut'n'paste whoring isn't much to ask imo.
not as good as Ali G's version;
Ali G : do you think man will ever walk on the Sun?
Buzz Aldrin : no, the Sun is too hot, it's not a good place to go to.
Ali G : what happens if they went in winter, when the Sun is cold?
day is when you could see the Sun so you can't land "at night", but winter is a time of year so makes more sense (in a retarded way).
at my uni the DC++ network isn't reachable from uni computers but is from personal computers in campus accommodation. it's so easy and fast a non-free service couldn't compete on equal terms.
"One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
because mechanical watches are much cooler and act as a souvenir of the project. next, why don't you go ask astronauts to trade in their mission patches for a linux box with the logo as the desktop background. don't expect to be popular with them.
you really mean "I don't know", it is not metaphysics at all.
relativity predicts gravitational waves and their properties, and we actually know quite a lot about them so please stop making it sound like physicists are just as clueless as some random person on the street who likes to think he's a bit of a philosopher on the matter.
there is so much indirect evidence for gravitational waves, and they're such an important part of the theory that if they don't exist we're in a lot of trouble. we also know about how they'd interact with matter etc.
your other questions have answers too.
you're either ignorant but are too arrogant to realise that because you don't know the answer that someone else might, or you're a troll trying to piss off people who know about these things.
I hate it when physics topics come up on slashdot, there are always annoying people like you who know a few words but don't really have a clue.
you're the science equivalent of the guy who says his OS is AOL.
should the RIAA be able to buy laws that make doors illegal since some people use them in the course of stealing music?
I don't understand spammers doing that, it makes it much easier to manually filter, and surely easier for a spam filter too? for each occurance of a non-letter in a word give it +1 spam points, then do replacements (@ or 4 = a etc.) and run other filters.
spaces in the middle of words and those long chains of random characters also make manual identification far easier too, though I guess you need a dictionary to check them with a filter.
LS120s are/were great imo (though whether they were a flop is another matter). at uni every computer has them, so until 2 years ago when CD writers were installed and on-campus accommodation all became networked they were invaluable.
powerpoint is for retards. you don't deserve OOo.
this is what happens when you skip ads
because /. is a tabloid; it prefers shocking headlines to accurate and factual ones. in this way more people are likely to read the stories and be exposed to the ads -> profit.
main phone turn on!
The correct plural is "Attorneys General".
I am a Jedi Apprentice
"Using full-color photos from Star Wars: Episode II, I Am a Jedi Apprentice explains to younger fans what it's like to be a Jedi apprentice."
I don't care about ads to buy crap books online. I wish someone would do something about making available books that AREN'T available for sale any more instead.
not insightful at all. unmanned probes and manned spacecraft have completely different design requirements and capabilities.
what is does show is the danger that would be involved in some kind of retarded manned flight where the crew had no control over the spacecraft and were attemping to crash into Mars with airbags rather than the successful Moon method of going into orbit first and using a lander.
um, don't cars come with the manual? why should I have to go the library or buy an internet connection to learn how to use Windows?
Yes I'd wager most of the people here can say at least many thousands of words. What's your point?