Alternatively hire more part-time workers. In fact I've heard that the growing trend in medicine, for example, is that since there's now more women in the field, and statistically women are more likely to take maternity leave (though the option has been open to both genders for a while) that proportionately more doctors need to be trained.
Then again, I've heard people hypothesizing future scenarios where only part-time is available since benefits packages don't need to be offered, causing the average person to take two or even three part time jobs to pay the bills, so this may not be the best plan....
Absolutely correct. Things that work outlast things that don't. That's true in technology, it's true in economics and it's true in evolution. That principle is baked into our very DNA. If something better comes along, you won't have to worry about whether it will supplant that which presently exists. It inevitably will.
Yes, if anything resistances to this should be discouraged. RIAA being a prime example; an attempt to preserve an outdated and now inefficient system. This is the current danger in the US economy in my oppinion: that companies will try to stop innovation since they want to keep their lucrative market monopoly.
Not really. Leet (1337) speak still takes much longer to decipher, and is altogether inefficient to both read and type. There's soemthing fundamentally different about seeing the letters we all recognize (in the wrong order, mind you) and seeing unusual substitutes to those letters.
Essentially, I suspect that the way we recognize 1337 is through letter-by-letter recognition, as opposed to ordinary reading which is word by word recognition (hence why we can scramble letters and still read it). This would suggest that leet takes roughly four to five times as long to read. Though |=33|_ |=R33 7() 4Rg|_|3 \/\/!+|-|/\/\3. (Thus the above probably takes 10 seconds to read instead of two).
Incidentally, an interesting corollary to this hypothesis is that leet -and- scrambled words should take comparatively longer to decipher, as we would decode them in the wrong order, then have to stop and reassemble the word once we realize there's something wrong. I can't say I'm particularly keen to cook up an example, though.
Well, the information I've gotten out of/. in the first few posts has been that (apparently) this started 10 days ago in Atlanta. It (apparently) could be a virus imported from a laptop at home, as such a thing has happened before. And (apparently) the network is back up, and has never been down in certain areas. Other than that it's a whole lot of "5 funny"s, or to be precise:
Funny +4 Overrated -1 Funny +1 Underrated +1 unmoded (attempted joke) Funny +4 Redundant -0.5 Overrated -0.5 unmoded (in Soviet Russia) Troll +1 Funny +1 unmoded (on topic discussion, but nothing too special) Funny +5 Unmoded (on topic, but general observaion) Underrated +1 (on topic) Funny +2 Informative +1 (Defintiely a good post; most interesting thing added) unmoded (seems like joke, though some info in there) Funny +4 Unmoded (Informative too; possible refunds). Interesting +1 (Already back up, hmm) Overrated -1 (don't get the joke myself) Funny +4 (and it is. This post rocks) Interesting +1 (good potential explanation) Funny +1 Underrated +1 Informative +1 Insightful +1 (and good info if it's true) Funny +5 Informative +1 Informative +2 Funny +1 Funny +3 unmoded (and I'm not sure what it's supposed to be) Troll -1 Interesting +1 unmoded (and it's insightful too) unmoded (and this is funny) unmoded (would be funny, but reference to Columbine is in bad taste) Funny +1 (huh?) unmoded (and just a reply) unmoded (attempt at funny)
Guess there's not much to be said about this, so people just make jokes. Though, the informative topics deserve more priority so that I can pick them out of the crowd. Time to change my settings I guess.
Eh, it's not just the explicit remakes that lack innovation. Plenty of Hollywood movies have a "been there, done that" feeling to them. When it comes right down to it, I've watched more than one Jackie Chan movie, enjoyed them, but can't say I found them to be all that different.
Actually, if people are interested I can try to coerce a film studies prof into writing a/. article. There's quite a few alternative film experts at McGill, and heck some good alternative films have been made here (though I'll sheepishly admit that I missed the screening of the most recent one. I blame the Internet for being too entertaining).
While I don't really mind the occasional light sexual joke (mostly since they show up everywhere on the internet making me acclimatized) that was still a bit too descriptive for my tastes.
Actually, as an amusing coincidence the GameCube was briefly slated to be called the StarCube. Granted, they spent several years calling it the Dolphin, a mere week calling it the StarCube (right around some big developer conference) then switched to GameCube and haven't looked back since.
Was funny. Everything else from here on down is cluttering up the boards IMO. I had to go back and reread the topic to remember it was about Robot Soccer in the first place....
Oh, the CDs you do that with is AOL CDs which you can pick up for free by the dozen. I've seen lots of nice artwork done with AOL CDs, actually. CDs are nice and shiny thus make for pretty crafts.
Eric Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds and had nothing to do with antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the state of Massachusetts.
They probably are unbiased, however this couldn't have hurt. There is a reasonable amount of pressure to support Corporate America, and make a biased decision in favour of an American-made product. Antitrust certainly helps open the doors to other discussions.
What does that button do again? I remember seeing this in a 15 minute presentation somewhere, and it sounded useful (something about customizing Google IIRC) but I've never used it. Anyone an expert on Google here?
Whenever I think of the "Vingean Sigularity" and Posthumanism, I can't help but think of Yudkowsky as he has some of the best internet materials on the subject so....
GM's Lawrence Burns gave a vision of technology in the auto industry. He envisions fuel cell propulsion, hydrogen fuel, and electronic and software systems replacing the internal combustion engine, petroleum fuel, and mechanical controls.
Unfortunately, last time I checked Hydrogen just wasn't particularly practical. Why? It takes up too much space for one thing; unles you're going to use Liquid Hydrogen which takes a lot of energy to keep cool. Secondly how do you make the stuff? Electrolosis with water right? This is all based on articles I saw years ago, but I remember you needed roughly twice the electricity to make the Hydrogen than you get back when you run the car. That's fine if you're running on Hydroelectric dams, but what about all the cars in areas where they have coal or Nuclear Power Plants?
Oh there's no question that there's an effect. "teh" is a perfectly readable typo that happened often enough to appear in internet slang, and other common internet jargon and mispelling becomes quite recognizable.
I'm convinced it's not so much the first and the last letters that matter as the surrounding letters. Scramble a 15 character word, and it will be illegible, even if the first and last letters stay in place.
Though props to the UBC Linguistics department; that was quite the tough to read example. "British Columbia" was a dead givaway, though, but no helping that.
Yeah, but you can't link every singe hurricane in Florida back to one butterfly (otherwise they would have killed it already). _>
Besides, we don't even know if killing a butterfly will cause or prevent a hurricane; storm patterns are just a highly unstable differential equation. Now, we can have some idea what killing every human being on earth would do to the ecosystem....Of course, it's probably not a good idea to test that at home....
Though, I'm not sure how important the first personal computer is historically. The design for the computer back in the 19th century, sure. The first mass marketed personal computer, sure. Then again, maybe I just take the idea of portable for granted these days.
Gnumeric (which I have on KDE at least) is a non-sucky spreadsheet. In fact, in the course I was TAing last spring the prof had to switch to it from Excel because it could handle the operations better. The only complaint I have about it is that I can't (or at least I haven't figured out) how to cut and paste into a text document (and vice versa)....But that was point #4 as opposed to #3, so you can strike one off.
Well, I use Gaim constantly. Come to think of it, I haven't bothered to figure out how to connect to AIM through a Windows machine.
I will say that MSN Messenger is not something to compare it to; lots of people have AIM accounts and not MSN accounts.
Though, perhaps I have an old model, but I have some problems like links not working properly, not accepting file transfers, and in chats "Ctrl+C" brings up the colour menu...so no copy and paste.
Actually, Canada counts by hand too, and last time I heard we have double to triple the population of Australia. Still about 1/10 the US population, though....
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Then again, I've heard people hypothesizing future scenarios where only part-time is available since benefits packages don't need to be offered, causing the average person to take two or even three part time jobs to pay the bills, so this may not be the best plan....
Yes, if anything resistances to this should be discouraged. RIAA being a prime example; an attempt to preserve an outdated and now inefficient system. This is the current danger in the US economy in my oppinion: that companies will try to stop innovation since they want to keep their lucrative market monopoly.
Essentially, I suspect that the way we recognize 1337 is through letter-by-letter recognition, as opposed to ordinary reading which is word by word recognition (hence why we can scramble letters and still read it). This would suggest that leet takes roughly four to five times as long to read. Though |=33|_ |=R33 7() 4Rg|_|3 \/\/!+|-| /\/\3. (Thus the above probably takes 10 seconds to read instead of two).
Incidentally, an interesting corollary to this hypothesis is that leet -and- scrambled words should take comparatively longer to decipher, as we would decode them in the wrong order, then have to stop and reassemble the word once we realize there's something wrong. I can't say I'm particularly keen to cook up an example, though.
Well, the information I've gotten out of /. in the first few posts has been that (apparently) this started 10 days ago in Atlanta. It (apparently) could be a virus imported from a laptop at home, as such a thing has happened before. And (apparently) the network is back up, and has never been down in certain areas. Other than that it's a whole lot of "5 funny"s, or to be precise:
Funny +4 Overrated -1
Funny +1 Underrated +1
unmoded (attempted joke)
Funny +4 Redundant -0.5 Overrated -0.5
unmoded (in Soviet Russia)
Troll +1 Funny +1
unmoded (on topic discussion, but nothing too special)
Funny +5
Unmoded (on topic, but general observaion)
Underrated +1 (on topic)
Funny +2
Informative +1 (Defintiely a good post; most interesting thing added)
unmoded (seems like joke, though some info in there)
Funny +4
Unmoded (Informative too; possible refunds).
Interesting +1 (Already back up, hmm)
Overrated -1 (don't get the joke myself)
Funny +4 (and it is. This post rocks)
Interesting +1 (good potential explanation)
Funny +1 Underrated +1
Informative +1
Insightful +1 (and good info if it's true)
Funny +5
Informative +1
Informative +2
Funny +1
Funny +3
unmoded (and I'm not sure what it's supposed to be)
Troll -1 Interesting +1
unmoded (and it's insightful too)
unmoded (and this is funny)
unmoded (would be funny, but reference to Columbine is in bad taste)
Funny +1 (huh?)
unmoded (and just a reply)
unmoded (attempt at funny)
Guess there's not much to be said about this, so people just make jokes. Though, the informative topics deserve more priority so that I can pick them out of the crowd. Time to change my settings I guess.
Actually, if people are interested I can try to coerce a film studies prof into writing a /. article. There's quite a few alternative film experts at McGill, and heck some good alternative films have been made here (though I'll sheepishly admit that I missed the screening of the most recent one. I blame the Internet for being too entertaining).
While I don't really mind the occasional light sexual joke (mostly since they show up everywhere on the internet making me acclimatized) that was still a bit too descriptive for my tastes.
Actually, as an amusing coincidence the GameCube was briefly slated to be called the StarCube. Granted, they spent several years calling it the Dolphin, a mere week calling it the StarCube (right around some big developer conference) then switched to GameCube and haven't looked back since.
(please don't wipe out our server if possible)
Was funny. Everything else from here on down is cluttering up the boards IMO. I had to go back and reread the topic to remember it was about Robot Soccer in the first place....
Oh, the CDs you do that with is AOL CDs which you can pick up for free by the dozen. I've seen lots of nice artwork done with AOL CDs, actually. CDs are nice and shiny thus make for pretty crafts.
They probably are unbiased, however this couldn't have hurt. There is a reasonable amount of pressure to support Corporate America, and make a biased decision in favour of an American-made product. Antitrust certainly helps open the doors to other discussions.
What does that button do again? I remember seeing this in a 15 minute presentation somewhere, and it sounded useful (something about customizing Google IIRC) but I've never used it. Anyone an expert on Google here?
Yudkowsky's review (Which incidentally is considerably shorter)
Unfortunately, last time I checked Hydrogen just wasn't particularly practical. Why? It takes up too much space for one thing; unles you're going to use Liquid Hydrogen which takes a lot of energy to keep cool. Secondly how do you make the stuff? Electrolosis with water right? This is all based on articles I saw years ago, but I remember you needed roughly twice the electricity to make the Hydrogen than you get back when you run the car. That's fine if you're running on Hydroelectric dams, but what about all the cars in areas where they have coal or Nuclear Power Plants?
I'm convinced it's not so much the first and the last letters that matter as the surrounding letters. Scramble a 15 character word, and it will be illegible, even if the first and last letters stay in place.
Though props to the UBC Linguistics department; that was quite the tough to read example. "British Columbia" was a dead givaway, though, but no helping that.
So that's how Microsoft does it: Crayons. Maybe that's why Windows is so unstable....
Besides, we don't even know if killing a butterfly will cause or prevent a hurricane; storm patterns are just a highly unstable differential equation. Now, we can have some idea what killing every human being on earth would do to the ecosystem. ...Of course, it's probably not a good idea to test that at home....
Well Big Bird is God, and Elmo is after my time so he clearly must be evil. Makes perfect sense to me.
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Though, I'm not sure how important the first personal computer is historically. The design for the computer back in the 19th century, sure. The first mass marketed personal computer, sure. Then again, maybe I just take the idea of portable for granted these days.
Gnumeric (which I have on KDE at least) is a non-sucky spreadsheet. In fact, in the course I was TAing last spring the prof had to switch to it from Excel because it could handle the operations better. The only complaint I have about it is that I can't (or at least I haven't figured out) how to cut and paste into a text document (and vice versa). ...But that was point #4 as opposed to #3, so you can strike one off.
Well, I use Gaim constantly. Come to think of it, I haven't bothered to figure out how to connect to AIM through a Windows machine. I will say that MSN Messenger is not something to compare it to; lots of people have AIM accounts and not MSN accounts. Though, perhaps I have an old model, but I have some problems like links not working properly, not accepting file transfers, and in chats "Ctrl+C" brings up the colour menu...so no copy and paste.
Actually, Canada counts by hand too, and last time I heard we have double to triple the population of Australia. Still about 1/10 the US population, though....
That would suck. I've never actually figured out how to access AIM through a Windows machine. Though...I hear it's possible.