Currently, I'm completely unclear as to what kind of information you are attempting to organize here.
You imply you communicate with each other via e-mail, you say you communicate with the student body via e-mail. Fine, so what exactly is the purpose of these myriad nested folders? What is the organizational problem you are trying to solve?
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... but I find Card's article pretty unpalatable, more so than Rowling's case, although I am not a great fan of that.
Creating a book who's plot is in various vague ways similar to a previous book is not the same in my opinion as selling a product which only makes money because it uses the exact same characters and names in its marketing.
Rather than a black and white issue, I think we have a continuum. Let's look at one extreme end - would it have been OK if the Hollywood Harry Potter films had been produced without any of the credit or cash going to Rowling? I would say no. At the other end of the continuum - would it be OK for Rowling to write a book that has passing resemblance to Card's? A bit shoddy perhaps, but I would have to see a damn site more evidence of real plagiarism.
The Rowling case, in my opinion falls somewhere between those two extremes. It has more merit than Card's whining - but is still rather lame.
Actually, I travelled in South America quite extensively in the 90s and more than once I heard complaints about U.S dwellers annexing the term "American" to mean themselves. This was unprompted. I'm a brit and I was talking about one of my friends: "Where is he from?" they would ask "Oh, he's American" I would reply. "Yes, but which country?" would come the rejoinder.
You think that's nasty. Many years ago I was delivering papers on my bike and a blackbird flew into my spokes. Messy. I got a grazed arm as my bike came to a sudden stop. The bird was decapitated, but not in a neat way.
I have no problem with anyone raising the possibility that Darwinian evolution is bad science, in the classroom. But that's really not what is happening here; this is an attack on the scientific method itself. Scientific theories hold dominance until a better scientific theory comes along. At that point there is a highly entertaining battle and paradigms shift.
Currently no better scientific theory has come along. Instead we see the theory of Darwinian evolution being attacked by rebranded religious dogma. That's what I have a problem with. And look I managed that without resorting to argumentum ad hominem
... and any scientist who actually showed in a brilliant scientific tour de force why human-mediated climate change was not and could not happen would receive fame, the offer of many lucrative tenured posts and probably a Nobel prize. There are tremendous benefits in science if you can be the first to over-throw the orthodoxy in a scientifically rigorous manner.
That is the one of the most disingenuous summary of what happened that I have seen. Here's an account by the reporter who absolutely denies that amended the story based on any threat, but says he amended it because he was persuaded that it could be improved.
I don't know the people next door - they only moved in two weeks ago and I haven't seen them since. I didn't hear any shouting, since the incident happened when I was away. But yes I do intervene to help people in distress, irrespective of what the law says. By your rules I should have refused to tell the police anything since, with my tinfoil hat on it could have been a ruse.
Luckily for society, neither I nor many others work by your rules.
Yeh, right. Two weeks ago, the police came around and asked me whether I had heard any shouting from next door, because a woman had been beaten up. Clearly I should have told them nothing. I didn'tknow it was part of a ruse to get at me.
Those figures have nothing to do with your original post, which appeared to suggest that the police are institutionally corrupt and spend their time shooting and locking people up random people.
Yes, well it depends how futuristic you want to get. Assume every household has 3D printers and people want to share solid objects P2P. Or go out a bit further into Star Trek land. How about transporters via the Internet.
Hi Can you suggest a non-proprietary standard-based piece of software that offers excellent quality video conferencing between Windows/Mac/Linux. Oh and it has to be simple enough for my 80+ year-old parents to set up.
Is it just me, or are the new controls really very confusing? The older slider for determining angle of view has now been replaced by the up/down controls on the 'eyeball wheel', but you can no-longer adjust that angle very quickly . There's the new fancy-schancy 'dive from a great height to the ground' slider, overall I feel pretty lost.
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Surely you should be quizzing the original poster on whether he meant mean, median or mode when he said 'average'.
... because the are always the most valuable.
Currently, I'm completely unclear as to what kind of information you are attempting to organize here.
You imply you communicate with each other via e-mail, you say you communicate with the student body via e-mail. Fine, so what exactly is the purpose of these myriad nested folders? What is the organizational problem you are trying to solve?
"whoosh".
But the point is Disney isn't claiming to own the story of Snow White. It is claiming to own the designs that its employees created.
... but I find Card's article pretty unpalatable, more so than Rowling's case, although I am not a great fan of that.
Creating a book who's plot is in various vague ways similar to a previous book is not the same in my opinion as selling a product which only makes money because it uses the exact same characters and names in its marketing.
Rather than a black and white issue, I think we have a continuum. Let's look at one extreme end - would it have been OK if the Hollywood Harry Potter films had been produced without any of the credit or cash going to Rowling? I would say no. At the other end of the continuum - would it be OK for Rowling to write a book that has passing resemblance to Card's? A bit shoddy perhaps, but I would have to see a damn site more evidence of real plagiarism.
The Rowling case, in my opinion falls somewhere between those two extremes. It has more merit than Card's whining - but is still rather lame.
Actually, I travelled in South America quite extensively in the 90s and more than once I heard complaints about U.S dwellers annexing the term "American" to mean themselves. This was unprompted. I'm a brit and I was talking about one of my friends: "Where is he from?" they would ask "Oh, he's American" I would reply. "Yes, but which country?" would come the rejoinder.
You think that's nasty. Many years ago I was delivering papers on my bike and a blackbird flew into my spokes. Messy. I got a grazed arm as my bike came to a sudden stop. The bird was decapitated, but not in a neat way.
I know virtually nothing about maths, and understand not a jot of what you wrote. It made me chuckle out loud, nonetheless. Odd.
There's a very nice port of Logo for OS X here: http://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/index.html. It's free as in beer, but not as in speech.
Actually, I believe that the correct, polite usage would be 'I bought a soda for my wife and me' - it is polite to put the other person first.
Feel free to show me where I am wrong, however.
I have no problem with anyone raising the possibility that Darwinian evolution is bad science, in the classroom. But that's really not what is happening here; this is an attack on the scientific method itself. Scientific theories hold dominance until a better scientific theory comes along. At that point there is a highly entertaining battle and paradigms shift.
Currently no better scientific theory has come along. Instead we see the theory of Darwinian evolution being attacked by rebranded religious dogma. That's what I have a problem with. And look I managed that without resorting to argumentum ad hominem
... and any scientist who actually showed in a brilliant scientific tour de force why human-mediated climate change was not and could not happen would receive fame, the offer of many lucrative tenured posts and probably a Nobel prize. There are tremendous benefits in science if you can be the first to over-throw the orthodoxy in a scientifically rigorous manner.
That is the one of the most disingenuous summary of what happened that I have seen. Here's an account by the reporter who absolutely denies that amended the story based on any threat, but says he amended it because he was persuaded that it could be improved.
I don't know the people next door - they only moved in two weeks ago and I haven't seen them since. I didn't hear any shouting, since the incident happened when I was away. But yes I do intervene to help people in distress, irrespective of what the law says. By your rules I should have refused to tell the police anything since, with my tinfoil hat on it could have been a ruse.
Luckily for society, neither I nor many others work by your rules.
Consider this, you said "13% of time out of the station" are you claiming that any time inside the station must be "menial administration"?
Yeh, right. Two weeks ago, the police came around and asked me whether I had heard any shouting from next door, because a woman had been beaten up. Clearly I should have told them nothing. I didn'tknow it was part of a ruse to get at me.
Those figures have nothing to do with your original post, which appeared to suggest that the police are institutionally corrupt and spend their time shooting and locking people up random people.
Nice attempt at moving the goalposts, though.
Yes, well it depends how futuristic you want to get. Assume every household has 3D printers and people want to share solid objects P2P. Or go out a bit further into Star Trek land. How about transporters via the Internet.
Hi Can you suggest a non-proprietary standard-based piece of software that offers excellent quality video conferencing between Windows/Mac/Linux. Oh and it has to be simple enough for my 80+ year-old parents to set up.
You've never, ever been rickrolled have you?
Is it just me, or are the new controls really very confusing? The older slider for determining angle of view has now been replaced by the up/down controls on the 'eyeball wheel', but you can no-longer adjust that angle very quickly . There's the new fancy-schancy 'dive from a great height to the ground' slider, overall I feel pretty lost.
... apart from the shareholders - sometimes. Contentious I know, but true.
To be honest, most people I know just pronounce it Post-gres and ignore the QL.
Well, I'd mod you funny, if I had the points.
Oi, I'm trying to sleep over here. Close the damn blind.