British shows don't travel across the Atlantic so well, so their comedy often has to be translated into an American version where the jokes are spelled out more explicitly to fit with American humour.
You sound like an American tv producer, not an American. Me and most of my friends prefer Britcoms to Sitcoms; example, the Office. British version far superior in every way. So stick your "American humour" up you know where.
Er, I'm not an American. I'm not British either. What has my nationality got to do with the price of fish anyway? I don't care what you and your intimate circle of friends think. I'm well aware that there is a certain market for Brit TV in America, I didn't say there wasn't. I simply said that if a British TV show wants to make it big in America then it has to get translated into the more explicit American humour.
So stick your assumptions up you know where.
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Why is an unrealistic American television show being referenced about a case in Liverpool by a UK news source?
American TV shows are hugely popular in the UK. British shows don't travel across the Atlantic so well, so their comedy often has to be translated into an American version where the jokes are spelled out more explicitly to fit with American humour. Hence American versions of British shows strike the British audience as not being funny.
I digress.
I agree that CSI is unrealistic. I watched it once and thought it was badly written and badly acted sci-fi. They show technology that clearly does not exist. Their depiction of the Irish sport of Hurling and the Indian Holi festival were positively cringeworthy, and the storyline was where they solved the most unlikely coincidental killing ever.
There were reports on/. about the "CSI effect" before, where juries are having their judgement skewed by the unrealistic expectations raised by shows like CSI. A lot of "traditional" evidence like eyewitness accounts are being disregarded by juries and potential perps are being released because juries are expecting impossibly high standards of proof using DNA evidence when there is plenty of sufficient non-forensic evidence that is just as admissible.
Did you read the article? If you did you would have seen the part that says "It's turning out to be difficult for some babies to sit up enough to control the WeebBot by leaning, but in at least one case, a fifteen month old boy with cerebral palsy was able to learn to control a WeeBot, after which he started to develop crawling skills on his own."
While the intention of the researchers is no doubt a kind one, this is actually a terrible idea. Infants with mobility delays should be using physical therapy at every possible opportunity to overcome the mobility issues, not be given a crutch that decreases their chances and desire to move on their own. If the child ultimately proves unable to overcome the issues, then so be it. Providing a detour at such an early age is a huge disadvantage, even if it sounds noble to the layperson.
Shut the fuck up and read the article before commenting.
"It's turning out to be difficult for some babies to sit up enough to control the WeebBot by leaning, but in at least one case, a fifteen month old boy with cerebral palsy was able to learn to control a WeeBot, after which he started to develop crawling skills on his own."
Not being from the UK, I'm given to understand that the regulations on employment and tax structure is much less favorable to starting up a business there than it is in the United States. (Whether that, especially the former, is a good thing is an open question.) Even with the support and incentives mentioned in the blog posting, it's hard to see how they would create a SV like environment without that. Would anyone from the UK care to chime in?
Well one thing UK employers don't have to worry about is the health care of their employees. They don't have to deal with the endless mountain of paperwork going back and forth between patients and health insurance companies like they do in America.
What aspects are 'over engeneered'? (sic) What aspects are 'so complicated'? You haven't pointed anything out. You have made general, blanket statements without actually discussing what, concretely, you mean. I find a lot of the 'complicated' tools to be extremely powerful in what they do, so I'm not sure what makes you justify that point. Therefore, I have asked.
Asked and answered. All of it is collectively over-engineered. Not one particular feature. The whole bloody lot. The overall architecture. The overall structure. The fact that you can't do anything useful with it until you understand all of it. Sure UNIX can seem complicated to the first-time user, but at least you can still do useful stuff even if you only know one or two commands. But Drupal? Forget it! It's a big steaming pile of over-rated shite.
I already have pointed out the glaring deficiency. It's over-engineered and so complicated that it's almost unusable. In fact I have a site in Drupal (I was able to muddle through eventually) but I still want to migrate it to Wordpress.
If you seriously couldn't work out how to produce the equivalent of a Wordpress site using Drupal in six months then - and I hate to be the one to break this to you - I don't think Drupal was the problem.
No. Drupal was the problem. Like I said elsewhere, it's a load of over-engineered shite and anyone who sings its praises is a stuck-up condescending twerp.
Drupal is the James Joyce's Ulysses of CMSs. A small group of people (usually with too much time on their hands) have mastered it and like to blow about how great it is (implying their own greatness by extension). But most people who have tried it have fought their way through one chapter before coming to the conclusion that it's a load of unintelligible, over-engineered, pretentious crap, and then giving up in favor of something more accessible since there is a limited amount of time in this life and stuff still has to get done.
I wrestled with that Drupal crap for six months before giving up and trying Wordpress. I had my Wordpress site up and running and doing everything I needed within 20 minutes. I don't know why people put themselves through Drupal. Having to understand "vocabularies" and "taxonomies" and all the other baffling entities - by the time you get as far as that level of defining everything down to the last atom you might as well have used Dreamweaver or hard coded the site by hand.
There's not a single car for sale that gets 54mpg on the highway.
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On the other hand maybe we'll see more cars imported from Europe. They used to have a car that scored 80mpg on the highway. They still have versions that get 65mpg.
Of course, most American parents don't understand evolution at all, so it will be impossible to fix this mess. If our population was better educated, we'd be ok, but both parties have done their best to destroy it while telling everyone they are fixing the problems.
Umm, Democrats are less inclined to alter science curricula in order to teach nonsense to kids. This "teach the controversy" business is the latest in a long line of right-wing attempts to undermine science education.
Prove to me that your memory is reliable, i.e. show me how I can rely on my memory other than through faith.
Do not use your memory to form your argument, or ask me to rely on my memory.
Go!
I don't have faith in my memory. I trust my memory. Unlike faith, trust us earned and subject to review. If I were to grow old and senile and found myself forgetting things, I'd be less inclined to trust my memory and more inclined to start writing more things down to get through my day.
I like this. Is this similar to something Carl Sagan proposed?
And how about Mars? Would it be possible to genetically engineer some organism that could sequester its co2 as well? Some sort of plant that could live on its surface, maybe a darker color to absorb energy and heat the place up rather than reflect it? Would there be any chance of a planetary magnetic field forming? And would there be some way of "applying the brakes" when the process reaches the goldilocks point so that it doesn't overheat?
Spot on. This quote in particular rankled with me:
Traveling to other worlds — for example, to hellishly hot Venus, or the far, cold and radiation-battered environs of Jupiter — is beyond our ability, at least for now, and I argue, forever!
Reminds me of Bill Gates' prediction about how much memory everyone would need in their computers. Or the claim in the early days of steam that crossing the Atlantic in a steamship was as achievable as voyaging from Liverpool to the Moon (although technically he was correct eventually, just not in the way he expected).
Eternity is a long time, I would be very cautious about ruling out anything that might happen between now and then.
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Nothing whatsoever to do with the article at hand. In fact it looks like it was inadvertently posted on the wrong thread.
British shows don't travel across the Atlantic so well, so their comedy often has to be translated into an American version where the jokes are spelled out more explicitly to fit with American humour.
You sound like an American tv producer, not an American. Me and most of my friends prefer Britcoms to Sitcoms; example, the Office. British version far superior in every way. So stick your "American humour" up you know where.
Er, I'm not an American. I'm not British either. What has my nationality got to do with the price of fish anyway? I don't care what you and your intimate circle of friends think. I'm well aware that there is a certain market for Brit TV in America, I didn't say there wasn't. I simply said that if a British TV show wants to make it big in America then it has to get translated into the more explicit American humour.
So stick your assumptions up you know where.
Why is an unrealistic American television show being referenced about a case in Liverpool by a UK news source?
American TV shows are hugely popular in the UK. British shows don't travel across the Atlantic so well, so their comedy often has to be translated into an American version where the jokes are spelled out more explicitly to fit with American humour. Hence American versions of British shows strike the British audience as not being funny.
I digress.
I agree that CSI is unrealistic. I watched it once and thought it was badly written and badly acted sci-fi. They show technology that clearly does not exist. Their depiction of the Irish sport of Hurling and the Indian Holi festival were positively cringeworthy, and the storyline was where they solved the most unlikely coincidental killing ever.
There were reports on /. about the "CSI effect" before, where juries are having their judgement skewed by the unrealistic expectations raised by shows like CSI. A lot of "traditional" evidence like eyewitness accounts are being disregarded by juries and potential perps are being released because juries are expecting impossibly high standards of proof using DNA evidence when there is plenty of sufficient non-forensic evidence that is just as admissible.
Yes dear.
Did you read the article? If you did you'd see that it was a standard platform that could accept any baby seat placed on top of it.
Did you read the article? If you did you would have seen the part that says "It's turning out to be difficult for some babies to sit up enough to control the WeebBot by leaning, but in at least one case, a fifteen month old boy with cerebral palsy was able to learn to control a WeeBot, after which he started to develop crawling skills on his own."
While the intention of the researchers is no doubt a kind one, this is actually a terrible idea. Infants with mobility delays should be using physical therapy at every possible opportunity to overcome the mobility issues, not be given a crutch that decreases their chances and desire to move on their own. If the child ultimately proves unable to overcome the issues, then so be it. Providing a detour at such an early age is a huge disadvantage, even if it sounds noble to the layperson.
Shut the fuck up and read the article before commenting.
"It's turning out to be difficult for some babies to sit up enough to control the WeebBot by leaning, but in at least one case, a fifteen month old boy with cerebral palsy was able to learn to control a WeeBot, after which he started to develop crawling skills on his own."
Government? Really? Mmmmm. No.
Care to expand on that?
Not being from the UK, I'm given to understand that the regulations on employment and tax structure is much less favorable to starting up a business there than it is in the United States. (Whether that, especially the former, is a good thing is an open question.) Even with the support and incentives mentioned in the blog posting, it's hard to see how they would create a SV like environment without that. Would anyone from the UK care to chime in?
Well one thing UK employers don't have to worry about is the health care of their employees. They don't have to deal with the endless mountain of paperwork going back and forth between patients and health insurance companies like they do in America.
You sound like a real gem.
Ouch. That hurts. That is like a dagger through my heart.
*snore*
What aspects are 'over engeneered'? (sic) What aspects are 'so complicated'? You haven't pointed anything out. You have made general, blanket statements without actually discussing what, concretely, you mean. I find a lot of the 'complicated' tools to be extremely powerful in what they do, so I'm not sure what makes you justify that point. Therefore, I have asked.
Asked and answered. All of it is collectively over-engineered. Not one particular feature. The whole bloody lot. The overall architecture. The overall structure. The fact that you can't do anything useful with it until you understand all of it. Sure UNIX can seem complicated to the first-time user, but at least you can still do useful stuff even if you only know one or two commands. But Drupal? Forget it! It's a big steaming pile of over-rated shite.
I already have pointed out the glaring deficiency. It's over-engineered and so complicated that it's almost unusable. In fact I have a site in Drupal (I was able to muddle through eventually) but I still want to migrate it to Wordpress.
Incorrect. The gp was right, bad carpenters blame their tools.
No he's not. Some tools just suck. Period.
If you seriously couldn't work out how to produce the equivalent of a Wordpress site using Drupal in six months then - and I hate to be the one to break this to you - I don't think Drupal was the problem.
No. Drupal was the problem. Like I said elsewhere, it's a load of over-engineered shite and anyone who sings its praises is a stuck-up condescending twerp.
You are equating faith with belief.
And...?
I would much rather use Drupal than Wordpress.
Bully for you.
Drupal is the James Joyce's Ulysses of CMSs. A small group of people (usually with too much time on their hands) have mastered it and like to blow about how great it is (implying their own greatness by extension). But most people who have tried it have fought their way through one chapter before coming to the conclusion that it's a load of unintelligible, over-engineered, pretentious crap, and then giving up in favor of something more accessible since there is a limited amount of time in this life and stuff still has to get done.
I wrestled with that Drupal crap for six months before giving up and trying Wordpress. I had my Wordpress site up and running and doing everything I needed within 20 minutes. I don't know why people put themselves through Drupal. Having to understand "vocabularies" and "taxonomies" and all the other baffling entities - by the time you get as far as that level of defining everything down to the last atom you might as well have used Dreamweaver or hard coded the site by hand.
Sarah Palin will keep an eye on them
Knocking out all teeth and replacing them with dentures has been found to reduce incidents of tooth decay.
Down with teeth!
There's not a single car for sale that gets 54mpg on the highway.
On the other hand maybe we'll see more cars imported from Europe. They used to have a car that scored 80mpg on the highway. They still have versions that get 65mpg.
Was the first part sarcasm?
Of course, most American parents don't understand evolution at all, so it will be impossible to fix this mess. If our population was better educated, we'd be ok, but both parties have done their best to destroy it while telling everyone they are fixing the problems.
Umm, Democrats are less inclined to alter science curricula in order to teach nonsense to kids. This "teach the controversy" business is the latest in a long line of right-wing attempts to undermine science education.
Prove to me that your memory is reliable, i.e. show me how I can rely on my memory other than through faith.
Do not use your memory to form your argument, or ask me to rely on my memory.
Go!
I don't have faith in my memory. I trust my memory. Unlike faith, trust us earned and subject to review. If I were to grow old and senile and found myself forgetting things, I'd be less inclined to trust my memory and more inclined to start writing more things down to get through my day.
Between him and Mariah Carey, they should both be able to summon every animal in the vicinity.
I like this. Is this similar to something Carl Sagan proposed?
And how about Mars? Would it be possible to genetically engineer some organism that could sequester its co2 as well? Some sort of plant that could live on its surface, maybe a darker color to absorb energy and heat the place up rather than reflect it? Would there be any chance of a planetary magnetic field forming? And would there be some way of "applying the brakes" when the process reaches the goldilocks point so that it doesn't overheat?
Pardon my ignorance.
Spot on. This quote in particular rankled with me:
Traveling to other worlds — for example, to hellishly hot Venus, or the far, cold and radiation-battered environs of Jupiter — is beyond our ability, at least for now, and I argue, forever!
Reminds me of Bill Gates' prediction about how much memory everyone would need in their computers. Or the claim in the early days of steam that crossing the Atlantic in a steamship was as achievable as voyaging from Liverpool to the Moon (although technically he was correct eventually, just not in the way he expected).
Eternity is a long time, I would be very cautious about ruling out anything that might happen between now and then.