i don't need a whole thread for this so i'm going to ask this here.
i'm looking for an app that will help me make something like an org/flowchart that will allow me to collapse/hide the portions above or below it. What i'm trying to do is make a system for classifying words and meanings that operate on an either/or basis. For instance Noun Related vs. Verb Related. Noun Related divides into Nouns and Adjectives. Nouns into Abstract and Concrete. Each division adds a bit, so Abstract Nouns might be 111. But i'll want enough space to get it down to very specific meanings. So it's like a 20 questions chart for every word.
i tried Visio and found that i needed links from page to page. i'd rather be able to navigate up and down, while showing a step or two up and a step or two down. atM, i'm thinking an database with something like Flash to render it.
If i had been sorted by 9th grade i would have ended up in a trade program, or military bound. i didn't start working for good grades until i was in 11th grade. i would have been in the wrong track. i had plenty of academic potential, but had no motivation/interest or hope until much later. By the time i figured out how to get good grades it was too late for me to get scholarships, my GPA was already ruined. Being white, male and middle class also hurt (too much money to get aid, too little for my parents to just send me). So i went into the USAF and got the GI Bill. i've got an AAS and a BA now, and a decent salary. But i'm about 5 or so years behind in my career.
i'd rather sort kids by temperament or otherwise find ways of reaching more students sooner. With the right teachers i could have done much better much sooner. Or if my parents had given a crap about how my life would turn out.
The apprenticeship idea is similar to an idea i had of requiring kids to go out and meet people working in fields they find interesting.
i like the idea of having teachers have a major in the field they want to teach and a minor in education. That would weed out the people who just want to have a room full of children admiring them.
If the critics are on the payroll it's one more reason i have no use for them.
They have a win/win position.
Critic pans movie, movie is a hit - "Just goes to show how ignorant the average popcorn gobbling movie goer is" Critic pans movie, movie bombs - "See, I told you it sucked" Critic praises movie, movie is a hit - "I told you it was awesome" Critic praises movie, movie bombs - "Philistines wouldn't know art if it ran them over!"
i trust my own judgment, and it works 99% of the time. Recommendations are only somewhat useful to me if i think that person and i have similar tastes.
What i find perplexing is how many people don't know the difference between opinions and facts. Or that other people might have a different experience to the same thing.
Another thing that vexes is me is why anyone would want to not enjoy a movie. What do people gain from that? Apart from some twisted pleasure from hurting someone else's feelings or feeling superior (which is not a virtue). It's a movie, sip your soda, gnosh on some popcorn and have a good time. Why pain money to sit and bitch?
Send up Bruce Willis in one of the two secret spare space shuttles. Give him a rough and tumble oil drilling crew and some suit case nuke. BAM! Done....
But this time, let's have Liv in a bikini or some lingerie.
There are also hidden costs in not producing enough/capable enough weapons: being ruled by those who did. Those who beat their swords into plowshares plow for those who kept their swords. The trick is finding balance. Being strong enough that evil people won't mess with you and not dumping so much into combat ability that you can't take care of your own. As long as fear and want are so strong it will be very difficult to achieve that balance.
Saw the preview before Dark Knight. It looks like is going to be beautiful. How faithful it will be is anyone's guess. Not sure how faithful it could be. IIRC, the comic was lots of talking and stuff about relationships. Ah well, i'll be there opening night.
Are there any states that have these laws and were not stuck down? Have any countries tried this?
Some parental watch dog group will prolly try to make it so video games will have to be tested extensively on animals to see if they cause violent tendencies. Then some kid will flip out and we'll have class action suits for billions. Though class action suits don't seem to hurt the pharma companies much./has a sudden urge to run around in a hedge maze at night yelling wakka wakka wakka as i gorge on marshmallows//Not a Fozzie Bear reference
Only if the board is legally allowed to sit on it indefinitely. Does the MPAA have that authority? If they do, they don't seem to use it. X rated material abounds, as does NR. If the board can't stall your game, then the speech isn't prevented.
Drug companies could make the complaint that if it's illegal to prevent Rockstar from selling GTA 4 (a product (not a blog, newspaper, lawful protest, etc)), then it should also be illegal to stop them from selling their product.
i wonder how NY thinks it can force Sony, MS or Nintendo to have these lockouts with the other 49 states not requiring it. Seems that NY is only ensuring that people will order a console from another state/online to get the non-lockout models. That's less sales tax revenue with nothing to show for it.
Chances are, and i hope it will be the case, the US Constitution will overrule this nonsense (as it has in California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington). The voluntary labeling is enough, maybe more than enough.
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"First of all, I'm an agnostic leaning towards atheism."
Do you ->have- a belief in gods? If no, you're an atheist.
Agnostic is not atheist-lite, it's not a spectrum. A Venn Diagram of atheists and agnostics would be an almost complete overlap. Agnostic pertains to knowledge, atheism pertains to belief (which are not the same thing). Infinite faith is not knowledge. One either knows, or does not. One can't know something that is untrue/uproven, they can merely believe it. One cannot know that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 190 degrees. They can think it, they can believe it, but they don't know it.
i don't know if there are gods(or not), so i'm agnostic. i hold a belief in gods, so i'm also atheist.
imho, all but the dead are agnostic, some of us are just more willing to admit it. None of us know.
One of my GF's friends just got her MA in teaching and was astounded at how easy the program was (in OK). Her classmates struggled while it was a breeze for her.
My sister became a music/voice teacher (in Vegas where teachers were paid the most), won teacher of the year and so on. Took a second job as a gondola singer to get by. She went into real estate soon after and is raking it in.
It sucks how we regard education in the USA. It should be an honor to teach and we should honor those that do it.
i have many thoughts on how to improve it which i will someday post publicly.
Would it be possible to convert/negate/put to use all of the sulfuric acid?
When ever i think about terraforming Mars, i imagine giant vats of algae sucking up vast quantities of CO2 and making O2 for us. With Venus, we might need a way to bring the atmo to a less hostile pH. What would do that?
(Mars, afaik, would be terraform resistant due to lack of a protective magnetosphere to keep the atmo around)
This give me a flash of inspiration. What teachers required kids to write scientific journals? The complexity/depth expected would vary by grade. Kids do experiments in class, compile the data into information, and state the results. Then each school has a contest to send up the best journals to a national competition (or maybe state/regional first). That competition creates a journal that is sent back to the participating schools. Throw in some scholarship money and viola! You've got kids doing science and enjoying it.
The teachers could incorporate journals and other science news into their classes. "Hey look, these guys are trying to measure the Higgs Boson... today we're going to discuss [sciencey topic]."
Odd. i've never touched either (reg or sys folder), or had trouble with them. Maybe XP senses your treachery and is working against you!
About half of my users were local admins. i tried to limit who was an admin, but they were used to all being admins. The only time it was hair pulling was with the less competent users. Firefox and a good AV program took care of most of them.
Do macs have means to prevent certain users from doing certain things? How does a mac sys admin keep so and so from installing/uninstalling/changing settings?
As for doing "anything", that's hyperbole. And depending on the setting you should NOT be able to install whatever you like. Most users are dangerously ignorant. Some are even malicious.
Someone's sig once said: Calling OSX secure is like calling the second fattest girl in the club skinny.
And as for your sig... it's the mac *users* that really bug me. Most of them complain about something they don't understand and praise each other for being rebellious bohemians.
It's a tool and a toy... not a way of life or philosophy!
So what are you doing wrong? XP works beautifully for me and everyone i know. Worked really well for the 100+ users and 150+ machines for which i was sys admin.
Also, learn the difference between facts and opinions.
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i don't need a whole thread for this so i'm going to ask this here.
i'm looking for an app that will help me make something like an org/flowchart that will allow me to collapse/hide the portions above or below it. What i'm trying to do is make a system for classifying words and meanings that operate on an either/or basis. For instance Noun Related vs. Verb Related. Noun Related divides into Nouns and Adjectives. Nouns into Abstract and Concrete. Each division adds a bit, so Abstract Nouns might be 111. But i'll want enough space to get it down to very specific meanings. So it's like a 20 questions chart for every word.
i tried Visio and found that i needed links from page to page. i'd rather be able to navigate up and down, while showing a step or two up and a step or two down. atM, i'm thinking an database with something like Flash to render it.
What do you guys suggest for this purpose?
i thought that in Myst solving the puzzles *was* the play.
If i had been sorted by 9th grade i would have ended up in a trade program, or military bound. i didn't start working for good grades until i was in 11th grade. i would have been in the wrong track. i had plenty of academic potential, but had no motivation/interest or hope until much later. By the time i figured out how to get good grades it was too late for me to get scholarships, my GPA was already ruined. Being white, male and middle class also hurt (too much money to get aid, too little for my parents to just send me). So i went into the USAF and got the GI Bill. i've got an AAS and a BA now, and a decent salary. But i'm about 5 or so years behind in my career.
i'd rather sort kids by temperament or otherwise find ways of reaching more students sooner. With the right teachers i could have done much better much sooner. Or if my parents had given a crap about how my life would turn out.
The apprenticeship idea is similar to an idea i had of requiring kids to go out and meet people working in fields they find interesting.
i like the idea of having teachers have a major in the field they want to teach and a minor in education. That would weed out the people who just want to have a room full of children admiring them.
The correct spelling is "Craparelli".
If the critics are on the payroll it's one more reason i have no use for them.
They have a win/win position.
Critic pans movie, movie is a hit - "Just goes to show how ignorant the average popcorn gobbling movie goer is"
Critic pans movie, movie bombs - "See, I told you it sucked"
Critic praises movie, movie is a hit - "I told you it was awesome"
Critic praises movie, movie bombs - "Philistines wouldn't know art if it ran them over!"
i trust my own judgment, and it works 99% of the time. Recommendations are only somewhat useful to me if i think that person and i have similar tastes.
What i find perplexing is how many people don't know the difference between opinions and facts. Or that other people might have a different experience to the same thing.
Another thing that vexes is me is why anyone would want to not enjoy a movie. What do people gain from that? Apart from some twisted pleasure from hurting someone else's feelings or feeling superior (which is not a virtue). It's a movie, sip your soda, gnosh on some popcorn and have a good time. Why pain money to sit and bitch?
Send up Bruce Willis in one of the two secret spare space shuttles. Give him a rough and tumble oil drilling crew and some suit case nuke. BAM! Done....
But this time, let's have Liv in a bikini or some lingerie.
There are also hidden costs in not producing enough/capable enough weapons: being ruled by those who did. Those who beat their swords into plowshares plow for those who kept their swords. The trick is finding balance. Being strong enough that evil people won't mess with you and not dumping so much into combat ability that you can't take care of your own. As long as fear and want are so strong it will be very difficult to achieve that balance.
Americans are better at counting than Brits, as Brits seem to think there is more than one math.
Saw the preview before Dark Knight. It looks like is going to be beautiful. How faithful it will be is anyone's guess. Not sure how faithful it could be. IIRC, the comic was lots of talking and stuff about relationships. Ah well, i'll be there opening night.
Are there any states that have these laws and were not stuck down? Have any countries tried this?
Some parental watch dog group will prolly try to make it so video games will have to be tested extensively on animals to see if they cause violent tendencies. Then some kid will flip out and we'll have class action suits for billions. Though class action suits don't seem to hurt the pharma companies much. /has a sudden urge to run around in a hedge maze at night yelling wakka wakka wakka as i gorge on marshmallows //Not a Fozzie Bear reference
Only if the board is legally allowed to sit on it indefinitely. Does the MPAA have that authority? If they do, they don't seem to use it. X rated material abounds, as does NR. If the board can't stall your game, then the speech isn't prevented.
Drug companies could make the complaint that if it's illegal to prevent Rockstar from selling GTA 4 (a product (not a blog, newspaper, lawful protest, etc)), then it should also be illegal to stop them from selling their product.
i wonder how NY thinks it can force Sony, MS or Nintendo to have these lockouts with the other 49 states not requiring it. Seems that NY is only ensuring that people will order a console from another state/online to get the non-lockout models. That's less sales tax revenue with nothing to show for it.
Chances are, and i hope it will be the case, the US Constitution will overrule this nonsense (as it has in California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington). The voluntary labeling is enough, maybe more than enough.
What part of this limits anyone's speech?
Bad parenting is the root of all evil.
i think i saw that in some /.'s sig.
And yes, Joe Bob's parenting problems become my problem when Joe's kid mugs me, or my taxes support him.
[Tangent] "First of all, I'm an agnostic leaning towards atheism." Do you ->have- a belief in gods? If no, you're an atheist. Agnostic is not atheist-lite, it's not a spectrum. A Venn Diagram of atheists and agnostics would be an almost complete overlap. Agnostic pertains to knowledge, atheism pertains to belief (which are not the same thing). Infinite faith is not knowledge. One either knows, or does not. One can't know something that is untrue/uproven, they can merely believe it. One cannot know that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 190 degrees. They can think it, they can believe it, but they don't know it. i don't know if there are gods(or not), so i'm agnostic. i hold a belief in gods, so i'm also atheist. imho, all but the dead are agnostic, some of us are just more willing to admit it. None of us know.
One of my GF's friends just got her MA in teaching and was astounded at how easy the program was (in OK). Her classmates struggled while it was a breeze for her.
My sister became a music/voice teacher (in Vegas where teachers were paid the most), won teacher of the year and so on. Took a second job as a gondola singer to get by. She went into real estate soon after and is raking it in.
It sucks how we regard education in the USA. It should be an honor to teach and we should honor those that do it.
i have many thoughts on how to improve it which i will someday post publicly.
That would be what, 30K a year?
Would it be possible to convert/negate/put to use all of the sulfuric acid?
When ever i think about terraforming Mars, i imagine giant vats of algae sucking up vast quantities of CO2 and making O2 for us. With Venus, we might need a way to bring the atmo to a less hostile pH. What would do that?
(Mars, afaik, would be terraform resistant due to lack of a protective magnetosphere to keep the atmo around)
This give me a flash of inspiration. What teachers required kids to write scientific journals? The complexity/depth expected would vary by grade. Kids do experiments in class, compile the data into information, and state the results. Then each school has a contest to send up the best journals to a national competition (or maybe state/regional first). That competition creates a journal that is sent back to the participating schools. Throw in some scholarship money and viola! You've got kids doing science and enjoying it.
The teachers could incorporate journals and other science news into their classes. "Hey look, these guys are trying to measure the Higgs Boson... today we're going to discuss [sciencey topic]."
i double encrypt EVERYTHING, even my /. posts, with ROT 13! /Bruce Schneier whistles white noise.
Odd. i've never touched either (reg or sys folder), or had trouble with them. Maybe XP senses your treachery and is working against you!
About half of my users were local admins. i tried to limit who was an admin, but they were used to all being admins. The only time it was hair pulling was with the less competent users. Firefox and a good AV program took care of most of them.
Do macs have means to prevent certain users from doing certain things? How does a mac sys admin keep so and so from installing/uninstalling/changing settings?
As for doing "anything", that's hyperbole. And depending on the setting you should NOT be able to install whatever you like. Most users are dangerously ignorant. Some are even malicious.
If i gave you an ASUS board, could you do it with that? (i'm genuinely curious)
Does this study have a column for computers built by the owner? How many macs have been built by the owner?
Someone's sig once said: Calling OSX secure is like calling the second fattest girl in the club skinny.
And as for your sig... it's the mac *users* that really bug me. Most of them complain about something they don't understand and praise each other for being rebellious bohemians.
It's a tool and a toy... not a way of life or philosophy!
So what are you doing wrong? XP works beautifully for me and everyone i know. Worked really well for the 100+ users and 150+ machines for which i was sys admin.
Also, learn the difference between facts and opinions.
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