My sister (we're twins) consistently kicked my ass at math and just about everything else, right up until we got to 10th grade or thereabouts. Then she turned into a vacuous fashion fiend with god-awful grades who liked hanging out with other vacuous fashion fiends.
I think peer pressure has a lot to do with how kids perform at things like math. Math is not cool, therefore if you want to be cool then you have to suck at math, or generally just suck at school.
I always got good grades, but I was also good at sports and generally avoided the "jock" scene and the do-nothing i'm-so-cool rich kid crowds. I'm kind of proud at having been able to achieve that balance.
Thankfully she grew out of it eventually, but not in time to do rather badly in high school. It's just as well she didn't need a scholarship to pay her way through college (where she did pretty good).
Man, that last line on my previous reply "Interesting how this phenomena always comes down to that." sounds like I'm doubting what you said... I'm not.
OK, so your point is that he should be considered a looney because of what he's saying. Fair enough, there's no need for ad hominems, and I started the thread theorizing he was demented =)
Still, like others have said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. So far I've seen none of that, not from this guy or any of the others who have claimed sightings and contacts in the past 50 years or so.
As for what your experience, I have no doubt that you think you saw a UFO, but the reality is that it's impossible to effectively prove or disprove what that was. So we're back at square one, as usual. Interesting how this phenomena always comes down to that.
Sodofftwitter. Go hump up your conspiracy theories. Maybe you can blame "M$" for the little green men that kidnapped you to perform deviant sexual experiments in Uranus.
No, but it's a distinct possibility. My parents are in their early 70s as well, and they don't suffer from it. Actually from an intellectual perspective they're both pretty much as sharp as they were in their 40s.
But without tangible proof of his claims, what's the alternative? I'd rather not think he's lying. Or bored.
OK, so you believe him? You believe there are aliens. Right?
I'd be happy to join you if you provide proof of that. Incontrovertible proof. In the era of pervasive digital imaging, someone must have that, somewhere. Surely? Maybe it's just a coincidence that the number of "quality" UFO sightings dropped dramatically after the 70s. Yeah. So let's see it. Because otherwise you're asking me to have faith. And quite frankly, at that point the "ufologist" starts to sound suspiciously like a Jehova's Witness.
I'm ready to believe the truth is out there. Just show me proof.
Alzheimer's. No disrespect to someone who actually went to the Moon and all, but at 77, I better be seeing some solid proof of this. Otherwise... again, my respects and all but off to the old silly person's home with you. Sir.
While AE is free, anyone using it seriously would wait until Google finishes putting together a pricing model for it so they can pay and secure a formal SLA and some sort of support. They might have already done this, I don't know.
Comparisons are OK, but let's look at reliability. EC2 is not the same as S3, but the recent fiasco with S3 and SQS should give people pause before considering using any other Amazon cloud services. Two of my clients were hit with this over the weekend.
I don't know what kinds of volumes (traffic and hosting) Google AE is handling at this point, but at this point I think I would trust Google more than Amazon. One of the issues with the S3 downtime for many people was the fact that Amazon itself (and all its properties) continued to run perfectly while all the sites that hosted images and other content with them failed. Does Google use its own infrastructure to host AE? I don't know, but if they do I'd trust them a hell of a lot more than AWS.
At this point I'm thinking I'm not going to recommend AWS anymore.
Not to worry. History (or the Slashdot version of it at least) will remember AMD being taken down by the evil Intel, and things like AMD having taken to lead in the desktop CPU market or the fact that buying ATI was a phenomenal mistake will be ignored.
Companies don't die, they're just taken down viciously by companies we don't like.
Oh noes, I disagree. I don't think anything tops Spirited Away. Obviously production-wise WALL-E is far better, but that's obviously not the only important thing.
I just had a mental image of Pixar and Miyazaki joining forces though...
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My sister (we're twins) consistently kicked my ass at math and just about everything else, right up until we got to 10th grade or thereabouts. Then she turned into a vacuous fashion fiend with god-awful grades who liked hanging out with other vacuous fashion fiends.
I think peer pressure has a lot to do with how kids perform at things like math. Math is not cool, therefore if you want to be cool then you have to suck at math, or generally just suck at school.
I always got good grades, but I was also good at sports and generally avoided the "jock" scene and the do-nothing i'm-so-cool rich kid crowds. I'm kind of proud at having been able to achieve that balance.
Thankfully she grew out of it eventually, but not in time to do rather badly in high school. It's just as well she didn't need a scholarship to pay her way through college (where she did pretty good).
Agreed. When doing the day job Visual Studio is nice (regardless of version control used) for this in the visual (no pun intended) sense.
For my Python coding, vim + bash (or powershell) + svn + vimdiff gets the job done, if not as elegantly or real-time-ish.
Requiescat in Pace, actually.
Man, that last line on my previous reply "Interesting how this phenomena always comes down to that." sounds like I'm doubting what you said... I'm not.
OK, so your point is that he should be considered a looney because of what he's saying. Fair enough, there's no need for ad hominems, and I started the thread theorizing he was demented =)
Still, like others have said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. So far I've seen none of that, not from this guy or any of the others who have claimed sightings and contacts in the past 50 years or so.
As for what your experience, I have no doubt that you think you saw a UFO, but the reality is that it's impossible to effectively prove or disprove what that was. So we're back at square one, as usual. Interesting how this phenomena always comes down to that.
Interesting. Did you stop giving a shit, or are you trying to engage in clever reverse psychology?
OK, so what's your position then? Surely you're arguing for a reason here. Just that you want people to stop thinking he's nuts, or what?
Sod off twitter. Go hump up your conspiracy theories. Maybe you can blame "M$" for the little green men that kidnapped you to perform deviant sexual experiments in Uranus.
No, but it's a distinct possibility. My parents are in their early 70s as well, and they don't suffer from it. Actually from an intellectual perspective they're both pretty much as sharp as they were in their 40s.
But without tangible proof of his claims, what's the alternative? I'd rather not think he's lying. Or bored.
OK, so you believe him? You believe there are aliens. Right?
I'd be happy to join you if you provide proof of that. Incontrovertible proof. In the era of pervasive digital imaging, someone must have that, somewhere. Surely? Maybe it's just a coincidence that the number of "quality" UFO sightings dropped dramatically after the 70s. Yeah. So let's see it. Because otherwise you're asking me to have faith. And quite frankly, at that point the "ufologist" starts to sound suspiciously like a Jehova's Witness.
I'm ready to believe the truth is out there. Just show me proof.
Discard the most unlikely alternative and you'll always find yourself statistically closer to the most likely one.
Alzheimer's. No disrespect to someone who actually went to the Moon and all, but at 77, I better be seeing some solid proof of this. Otherwise... again, my respects and all but off to the old silly person's home with you. Sir.
While AE is free, anyone using it seriously would wait until Google finishes putting together a pricing model for it so they can pay and secure a formal SLA and some sort of support. They might have already done this, I don't know.
None of the AWS are free.
Comparisons are OK, but let's look at reliability. EC2 is not the same as S3, but the recent fiasco with S3 and SQS should give people pause before considering using any other Amazon cloud services. Two of my clients were hit with this over the weekend.
I don't know what kinds of volumes (traffic and hosting) Google AE is handling at this point, but at this point I think I would trust Google more than Amazon. One of the issues with the S3 downtime for many people was the fact that Amazon itself (and all its properties) continued to run perfectly while all the sites that hosted images and other content with them failed. Does Google use its own infrastructure to host AE? I don't know, but if they do I'd trust them a hell of a lot more than AWS.
At this point I'm thinking I'm not going to recommend AWS anymore.
What are these "ads" you talk about? I can see nothing but search results in thar page.
(hugs CustomizeGoogle)
After a loooong time, 1.0 Alpha was just released.
In my experience, Zope is overkill in most situations. And I (personally) have never liked ZODB at all.
Good thing I use Linux.
Oh wait...
Towards the end there I was expecting something about Bush and 9/11.
You sure you didn't take a wrong turn somewhere my good man? This is Slashdot. Slashdot, not YouTube.
The book pretty much sucks then. What about the actual software? Is anyone using it in real-world situations?
I've never heard of this Drupal module, to be honest.
Don't pay attention to me, I was trying to be funny =)
That would be #2, as usual.
Not to worry. History (or the Slashdot version of it at least) will remember AMD being taken down by the evil Intel, and things like AMD having taken to lead in the desktop CPU market or the fact that buying ATI was a phenomenal mistake will be ignored.
Companies don't die, they're just taken down viciously by companies we don't like.
Yeah, sure looks like it. He hasn't posted enough to make a definite call.
Oh noes, I disagree. I don't think anything tops Spirited Away. Obviously production-wise WALL-E is far better, but that's obviously not the only important thing.
I just had a mental image of Pixar and Miyazaki joining forces though...
(head explodes)