It's not as simple as you think when your own teachers don't believe in evolution. My high school biology teacher thought evolution was a bunch of bull-crap (he was careful not to say what his belief was). Sure, he taught the scientific method as outlined in his curriculum, but every time he got the chance he was bad-mouthing evolution.
I don't think very many of his students came (come?) away with a good understanding of how to actually apply it. I think, mostly because he refused to apply it himself.
The irony is that I was constantly sleeping through his class because I had finished reading the textbook in the first month of school. All the kids who were actually awake learned less than me because they listened to his propaganda.
Geeky Academic Stuff - NJ spelling champ, National Mathematics League, Spanish National Honor Society, placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.
Geeky Other Stuff - Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14 (Ernesto Lecuona's 'Malaguena' and Bach's 13th Invention), taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16
Education - Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts), National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's), and Garden State Scholar (for nerdly grades). Attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, with a double-major in Business and Japanese.
Production costs can get ridiculous sometimes for big name bands. I remember reading that on Tool's last album (10,000 Days), there was $100,000 worth of recording equipment around Danny Carey's drum set; that doesn't include his actual instruments. That was more than the entire first album (Undertow) cost to produce.
I wonder how much different it would sound if recorded with less stratospherically expensive equipment...
Totally agree. I've never found a good use for it in any desktop environment I've used.
I've never run into a situation in which I've needed to see two things on top of each other. They just get mixed up and I can't concentrate on the top layer or use the information from the lower layer.
That just leaves eye-candy as a possible use. I only like eye-candy when it stays out of my way and doesn't try to do anything. Good example of eye-candy: drop shadows in OSX. They're pretty, but utterly useless. I like that. Translucency is somewhere in the middle, tries to be useful but only ends up being good as eye-candy. I hate that.
Still think LucasFilm was the only company to ever do a useable Point-n-click interface in a graphic adventure... I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. I think Return to Zork had a great interface. I didn't play a whole lotta adventure games, but RtZ had the best interface I used in any of them.
Mail Order Monsters... sweet game. That's one I would definitely play again. Whenever I think of my favorite games of all time, it always makes the list.
how this 'global citizen' concept is working out with the UN and the EU as they try to do something
Are you saying that the UN and EU haven't done anything to promote world peace? Or maybe you think it's better to just say it's impossible for nations to work things out peacefully. You think we should just disband all the various international organizations because war is inevitable, right? What's the point if there's always gonna be conflict, right?
I understand there will probably always be conflict. There is conflict at every level of humanity, from groups of nations down to sibling rivalry. That doesn't mean conflict has to result in bloodshed. We can learn to work things out peacefully, but a big part of that is a deep understanding that the people halfway across the globe are people just like you. They have sadness, pain, and joy. They have felt love, and felt anger. An understanding of their motives can help understand a path to peace.
Of course it's about killing. The only reason for a soldier not to get killed is so they can do more killing. It's only a bonus that they get to come home in one piece.
As for saving American lives... why does it matter if their American? I'm for saving lives period. I've lived on the other side of the great divide. I've been in the military. I've since decided that it's wrong to think about being just an American citizen and defending this country. To truly move forward we must think of ourselves as global citizens and care for all people. It's when we divide ourselves into groups (American, Iraqi, etc...) that we forget to see the humanity in others.
What if you only want a single song from that album? If you buy the disk, it's NOT cheaper than buying the one song.
It's not like settling for a jpg of the Mona Lisa. It's like buying just the Mona Lisa jpg instead of a collection of artwork that includes the Mona Lisa. Maybe the rest of that artwork is crap.
Back to the album...maybe you don't want to go through the trouble of converting it yourself. Maybe you don't want to mess with CDs at all. There are plenty of reasons why it's a better choice to buy a single off an album rather than the entire album.
Hey, I'm not exactly defending the iPhone. I don't have one, nor do I plan to own one. You just asked a question and I was answering it. You asked what features it has that a sub-$100 phone doesn't have. I listed a few, that's all. I don't think any sub-$100 phones have any of those features, but as you pointed out it's a stupid comparison anyway.
Well... for one, an 8GB flash drive. Also, 802.11b/g. Umm, oh yeah, 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display.
Find me a phone with that feature set for $100. A lot of people don't care about pda syncing, irda, tactile feedback, and push email in a phone. Remember, it's a fashion accessory not a business device. IM and a mem card would be nice though.
Of course I was refering to the Windows version. What would be the point of comparing two pieces of software on two different OSes? For the record, I use iTunes on my Macbok Pro and Winamp on my Windows machine. Nothing beats iTunes on Mac (yet), but iTunes on Windows is absolute crap.
Of course, you'll be waiting several months for that 1330 to actually ship! I've got a friend who ordered one in July, and it's still not coming until AT LEAST mid-September. There are some indications it won't get here until October or even November...he tried cancelling the order, but they keep giving him a hassle. I think the next time he calls to cancel, he's really gonna cancel it.
My mom's HP broke down one too many times. She got fed up and bought a Mac at my suggestion. After playing with it for a couple of weeks, I knew I had to get one, too. So, when the latest Macbook Pros came out recently I snapped one up.
No one in my family had ever owned a Mac until 3 months ago. Now, we have an iMac, a Macbook (brother-in-law got one after seeing mine), and a Macbook Pro. My brother has decided his next pc will be an iMac, too.
It had little to do with Ipods. A couple of nieces have Ipods, but I was never terribly impressed with them. Instead, it's due to my using a Mac in a couple of classes at my university. I liked them, but wasn't sure about buying one until I saw my Mom's in action.
If you read the entire post you'd see I said I think OS X wins. I'm pretty much done with Windows (just a couple of games now and then in Boot Camp).
The question asked is how I would like to see Linux improved. I'm basically saying that I don't think the user should be expected to need to muck about. If they want to, no problem. Most distros of Linux almost demand it. OS X doesn't. Therefore, I like OS X more.
(yes, I know you can use the CLI in OS X, but you never have to unless you so desire) That's exactly how it should be. I don't think the CLI needs to be buried (nor do I suspect most people do, either). Right now, it's too in-your-face. That's why a lot of people like OS X. The OS gets out of your way and lets you get things done. The CLI is part of that. If you need to go mucking about in the guts, you can. Most people don't need or want to go mucking about, so it stays out of the way.
I think that's one of the biggest issues with Linux right now. It's designed on the premise that people need or want to go mucking about in the guts of the OS. Windows is designed on the premise that users are to stupid to do so. OS X is designed on the premise that people don't need or want to mess with the OS (but can if they so choose). For me, OS X wins...
Ok, I like using favorites and history. I also like using tabs. A browser without them would not be fun for me. But remember, we are geeks.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for at least 4 years now, but I only introduced it to my family about 1-2 years ago. NONE of them use tabs. No matter how many times I show them, they can't seem to remember to open new tabs. I don't think anyone but my brother even knows the browser history even exists, but he does use it when he needs to. Nobody but me has ever set a bookmark for anything in any browser on any computer in my family (except on accident). And the bookmarks that are there rarely get used. Everyone insists on just typing the address into the address bar.
It seems like the more options and tools they have, the less enjoyable the computing experience is for them...
Same at the school I went to. We had a few labs full of Macs and they were almost always empty. They basically just take the overflow from the other labs.
All the CS lab PCs are dual-boot and both Linux and Windows get used about equally often. There is even an old Sun lab with some specialty CAD software that gets used more than those Mac labs.
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It's not as simple as you think when your own teachers don't believe in evolution. My high school biology teacher thought evolution was a bunch of bull-crap (he was careful not to say what his belief was). Sure, he taught the scientific method as outlined in his curriculum, but every time he got the chance he was bad-mouthing evolution. I don't think very many of his students came (come?) away with a good understanding of how to actually apply it. I think, mostly because he refused to apply it himself. The irony is that I was constantly sleeping through his class because I had finished reading the textbook in the first month of school. All the kids who were actually awake learned less than me because they listened to his propaganda.
are just like his, they're made of skin.:)
This comes directly from her bio: http://www.asiacarrera.com/bio.html
Geeky Academic Stuff - NJ spelling champ, National Mathematics League, Spanish National Honor Society, placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.
Geeky Other Stuff - Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14 (Ernesto Lecuona's 'Malaguena' and Bach's 13th Invention), taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16
Education - Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts), National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's), and Garden State Scholar (for nerdly grades). Attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, with a double-major in Business and Japanese.
Production costs can get ridiculous sometimes for big name bands. I remember reading that on Tool's last album (10,000 Days), there was $100,000 worth of recording equipment around Danny Carey's drum set; that doesn't include his actual instruments. That was more than the entire first album (Undertow) cost to produce.
I wonder how much different it would sound if recorded with less stratospherically expensive equipment...
File ME under number 4 along with 95 and 98.
Totally agree. I've never found a good use for it in any desktop environment I've used.
I've never run into a situation in which I've needed to see two things on top of each other. They just get mixed up and I can't concentrate on the top layer or use the information from the lower layer.
That just leaves eye-candy as a possible use. I only like eye-candy when it stays out of my way and doesn't try to do anything. Good example of eye-candy: drop shadows in OSX. They're pretty, but utterly useless. I like that. Translucency is somewhere in the middle, tries to be useful but only ends up being good as eye-candy. I hate that.
I read that as: "The article reeked of condensation towards the Russians..."
I was thinking, "How does condensation reek?"
Mail Order Monsters... sweet game. That's one I would definitely play again. Whenever I think of my favorite games of all time, it always makes the list.
Are you saying that the UN and EU haven't done anything to promote world peace? Or maybe you think it's better to just say it's impossible for nations to work things out peacefully. You think we should just disband all the various international organizations because war is inevitable, right? What's the point if there's always gonna be conflict, right?
I understand there will probably always be conflict. There is conflict at every level of humanity, from groups of nations down to sibling rivalry. That doesn't mean conflict has to result in bloodshed. We can learn to work things out peacefully, but a big part of that is a deep understanding that the people halfway across the globe are people just like you. They have sadness, pain, and joy. They have felt love, and felt anger. An understanding of their motives can help understand a path to peace.
Of course it's about killing. The only reason for a soldier not to get killed is so they can do more killing. It's only a bonus that they get to come home in one piece.
As for saving American lives... why does it matter if their American? I'm for saving lives period. I've lived on the other side of the great divide. I've been in the military. I've since decided that it's wrong to think about being just an American citizen and defending this country. To truly move forward we must think of ourselves as global citizens and care for all people. It's when we divide ourselves into groups (American, Iraqi, etc...) that we forget to see the humanity in others.
What if you only want a single song from that album? If you buy the disk, it's NOT cheaper than buying the one song.
It's not like settling for a jpg of the Mona Lisa. It's like buying just the Mona Lisa jpg instead of a collection of artwork that includes the Mona Lisa. Maybe the rest of that artwork is crap.
Back to the album...maybe you don't want to go through the trouble of converting it yourself. Maybe you don't want to mess with CDs at all. There are plenty of reasons why it's a better choice to buy a single off an album rather than the entire album.
Hey, I'm not exactly defending the iPhone. I don't have one, nor do I plan to own one. You just asked a question and I was answering it. You asked what features it has that a sub-$100 phone doesn't have. I listed a few, that's all. I don't think any sub-$100 phones have any of those features, but as you pointed out it's a stupid comparison anyway.
Well... for one, an 8GB flash drive. Also, 802.11b/g. Umm, oh yeah, 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display.
Find me a phone with that feature set for $100. A lot of people don't care about pda syncing, irda, tactile feedback, and push email in a phone. Remember, it's a fashion accessory not a business device. IM and a mem card would be nice though.
That was exactly my first thought when I read about this.
1. Rip HD-DVD/Blu Ray movie
2. Burn to VMD
3. ???
4. Profit!
Of course I was refering to the Windows version. What would be the point of comparing two pieces of software on two different OSes? For the record, I use iTunes on my Macbok Pro and Winamp on my Windows machine. Nothing beats iTunes on Mac (yet), but iTunes on Windows is absolute crap.
How can you call iTunes highly functional compared to Winamp??? Winamp supports playback of far more audio and video formats than iTunes.
Yes...Unfortunately, they are oriented with their "poles" pointed towards the chicks effectively repelling them.
Of course, you'll be waiting several months for that 1330 to actually ship! I've got a friend who ordered one in July, and it's still not coming until AT LEAST mid-September. There are some indications it won't get here until October or even November...he tried cancelling the order, but they keep giving him a hassle. I think the next time he calls to cancel, he's really gonna cancel it.
Not the halo effect in my case.
My mom's HP broke down one too many times. She got fed up and bought a Mac at my suggestion. After playing with it for a couple of weeks, I knew I had to get one, too. So, when the latest Macbook Pros came out recently I snapped one up.
No one in my family had ever owned a Mac until 3 months ago. Now, we have an iMac, a Macbook (brother-in-law got one after seeing mine), and a Macbook Pro. My brother has decided his next pc will be an iMac, too.
It had little to do with Ipods. A couple of nieces have Ipods, but I was never terribly impressed with them. Instead, it's due to my using a Mac in a couple of classes at my university. I liked them, but wasn't sure about buying one until I saw my Mom's in action.
If you read the entire post you'd see I said I think OS X wins. I'm pretty much done with Windows (just a couple of games now and then in Boot Camp).
The question asked is how I would like to see Linux improved. I'm basically saying that I don't think the user should be expected to need to muck about. If they want to, no problem. Most distros of Linux almost demand it. OS X doesn't. Therefore, I like OS X more.
I think that's one of the biggest issues with Linux right now. It's designed on the premise that people need or want to go mucking about in the guts of the OS. Windows is designed on the premise that users are to stupid to do so. OS X is designed on the premise that people don't need or want to mess with the OS (but can if they so choose). For me, OS X wins...
Ok, I like using favorites and history. I also like using tabs. A browser without them would not be fun for me. But remember, we are geeks.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for at least 4 years now, but I only introduced it to my family about 1-2 years ago. NONE of them use tabs. No matter how many times I show them, they can't seem to remember to open new tabs. I don't think anyone but my brother even knows the browser history even exists, but he does use it when he needs to. Nobody but me has ever set a bookmark for anything in any browser on any computer in my family (except on accident). And the bookmarks that are there rarely get used. Everyone insists on just typing the address into the address bar.
It seems like the more options and tools they have, the less enjoyable the computing experience is for them...
A wallet phone! Now THAT'S an idea!
Same at the school I went to. We had a few labs full of Macs and they were almost always empty. They basically just take the overflow from the other labs.
All the CS lab PCs are dual-boot and both Linux and Windows get used about equally often. There is even an old Sun lab with some specialty CAD software that gets used more than those Mac labs.