She's reading in her underwear because they think that all us slashdotters are reading in our underwear. They want to imply that it's a wholesome and acceptable method of internet use, and to remind us that CNet.com(tm) and its subsidiaries are supportive of all different kinds of people. Also, they want us to identify more with the model, who supposedly works at a tech news site. The end result of that is that we identify more with the website.
Actually, once we figure out how to model objects the size of the human brain or larger in software on a quantum level you'll probably find that everything that we ever think or feel is due to chaos in that system. When we can mathematically model the system with a system of equations then it becomes simple to understand how different phenomena arise as a result of different control parameters in the system. The really hard part is determining the control parameters and the state of the brain at the time those control parameters are input. Also, the modeling is a bitch too.
Space is a far harsher place than the air-conditioned, computer-controlled server room. There's radiation, heat, meteorites, et. al, to worry about let alone malfunctions within the equipment itself. If google has a heat problem, it cranks up the AC. If a satellite provider has a problem with heat, their equipment fries because they have no control over the environment. The equipment has to be built robustly because of the unpredictability of space. Otherwise companies would use the cheapest shit they could get their hands on and fling into orbit.
What is it about all the "use Linux" posts on slashdot? Jeez, this is one of the most biased communities on the internet when it comes to operating systems. Everyone knows that Windows provides the most user-friendly browsing experience on the face of the planet.
RFID tags were originally designed to assist in inventory tracking and management, so implanting employees is effectively treating them as inventory. Since they are alive, you are actually treating them as cattle. And any sane employee would look at the bills they have to pay every month and realise that they can't afford to quit their job, then go and get the implantation. It's not as easy a choice as most people think.
If you really want to talk pedagogy, presentations are usually the worst way to teach students to think critically and absorb the information, while hands-on work which pulls in individual traits and interests is the best way. The critical question is whether technology can be used to aid the latter, which it can. Consider that it makes everything faster, and that it's possible to visually model a number of extremely complex phenomenon that are damn near impossible to demonstrate in class and that a simple diagram is going to be less effective and visually poignant for. If I could only use technology for one thing, it would probably just be for animating diagrams.
I really don't think you understand. What I'm saying is not that the jerks' houses are blue. I'm saying that the jerks are the real-estate agent trying to sell you the house, and they're scoffing at your color choice and telling you you're a child and an idiot for even wanting that house.
This guy makes a pretty good point. You don't argue for adoption of an OS by suggesting that people who use its alternative are children or idiots. Pay attention to the insulting diction grandparent uses. It pisses people off.
I'm currently running Vista on a 5+ year old computer with a gig of ram and an Athlon XP 2700 in it. Vista doesn't have working drivers for either of the network adapters built into the board, nor does it have drivers for the AC97 codec on the board meaning I wouldnt be able to use the SPDIF output on the board. They don't even have reference drivers for the codec or the ethernet adapters. I really wish we could just put XP on this machine, but we can't get a key for it because Microsoft no longer sells them.
On top of the numerous missing drivers, it's running a Radeon 9550 which crashed the system about every 5 minutes requiring a hard reboot. Thankfully I updated the drivers which fixed this problem for the most part, but every so often it craps itself. If this is what ditching legacy support means, a giant fucking OS install and total driver incompatibility, then I'm not interested.
How do you make something that has a similar number of features to XP but takes up twice as much space?
YES. That is exactly what school should be about, developing those core skills instead of filling your head with knowledge which is sketchy at best. School should be about learning to learn and learning to be a more powerful and independent person. Thanks for saying that. I still don't understand where the cynicism comes from though, except that the larger the institution is, the more a one-size fits all approach prevails and the more people are beaten down under it.
I think the point is that children are not wheat. You do not beat them out of the system like so much chaff, leaving only the good kernels behind to be milled into fine flour. Those so-called "middling students" are still capable of making something of their lives, and with a series of good teachers they may yet be able to. NCLB was designed around preventing the education system from ignoring the average students because they're average.
NCLB was also supposed to ensure the all teachers are good teachers by establishing guidelines for basic qualifications and knowledge. If all teachers are good teachers, it's senseless to give only the gifted kids good teachers.
Umm... yeah, right up until he mentioned that school is basically worthless and that the exceptional will be bored by everything. That's a pretty snobbish thing to say.
You've got it wrong. The truly notable will make the best out of any situation they're in. Even school. The mediocre will be bored by every situation they're in. Why not take the time to find out why your teachers got into teaching in the first place? Do it. Ask them. Don't just brush this off by saying that they couldn't do anything else, because you would be wrong about most of them.
Well, it's by Irrational. Of course it's going to be an awesome game. Those of us who played System Shock and System Shock 2 knew this the day it was announced.
Well it would be cool and all for algae to produce a hydrocarbon using the energy from sunlight, but you're missing the fact that you'd have to input chemicals into the process, making it essentially a light-powered version of the E. Coli. Either that, or there's something unsaid that I'm missing. It seems like you're forgetting conservation of mass.
It's not limited to Sony. A friend of mine who works for Microsoft keeps telling me about Vista features that I like, and I keep telling him that their marketing department needs to advertise those features in addition to Aero.
The conversations usually go "Wow, I didn't know it could do that. Why doesn't any of their marketing stuff mention that? It's a pretty cool feature." "Well, that's marketing for you."
Just curious, but how simple is it to configure? Are there manuals that cover the stuff you're talking about?
A friend of mine once made the same observation to me. Imagine if everyone were constantly drunk, dehydrated, and sick and you would have a world pretty similar to pre-revolution England. Well, when people no longer had to rely on fermented drinks for their fluids, they were no longer drunk or dehydrated. Boiling water reduced their sickness. So for once you have a bunch of humans who are thinking clearly and are somewhat healthy. Not only that, they're literate thanks to the clergy, and the monks have a ton of books lying around for them to read and contemplate. The result is an explosion in creativity which leads to a revolution.
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What if the beer comes in 16oz cans? Does that make me more athletic than everyone else? What about 24-oz cans of malt liquor, or the 40 of OE?
She's reading in her underwear because they think that all us slashdotters are reading in our underwear. They want to imply that it's a wholesome and acceptable method of internet use, and to remind us that CNet.com(tm) and its subsidiaries are supportive of all different kinds of people. Also, they want us to identify more with the model, who supposedly works at a tech news site. The end result of that is that we identify more with the website.
It's okay, mate. Neither do I.
If we get enough posts with this kind of response in them, we might just be able to buck that stereotype!
Actually, once we figure out how to model objects the size of the human brain or larger in software on a quantum level you'll probably find that everything that we ever think or feel is due to chaos in that system. When we can mathematically model the system with a system of equations then it becomes simple to understand how different phenomena arise as a result of different control parameters in the system. The really hard part is determining the control parameters and the state of the brain at the time those control parameters are input. Also, the modeling is a bitch too.
Wow, Fox News has an informative article about the thing? That's news in itself.
Space is a far harsher place than the air-conditioned, computer-controlled server room. There's radiation, heat, meteorites, et. al, to worry about let alone malfunctions within the equipment itself. If google has a heat problem, it cranks up the AC. If a satellite provider has a problem with heat, their equipment fries because they have no control over the environment. The equipment has to be built robustly because of the unpredictability of space. Otherwise companies would use the cheapest shit they could get their hands on and fling into orbit.
What is it about all the "use Linux" posts on slashdot? Jeez, this is one of the most biased communities on the internet when it comes to operating systems. Everyone knows that Windows provides the most user-friendly browsing experience on the face of the planet.
RFID tags were originally designed to assist in inventory tracking and management, so implanting employees is effectively treating them as inventory. Since they are alive, you are actually treating them as cattle. And any sane employee would look at the bills they have to pay every month and realise that they can't afford to quit their job, then go and get the implantation. It's not as easy a choice as most people think.
In short, you're wrong.
That's the most effective method I've seen. I had an instructor in a community college do that for his physics sections.
If you really want to talk pedagogy, presentations are usually the worst way to teach students to think critically and absorb the information, while hands-on work which pulls in individual traits and interests is the best way. The critical question is whether technology can be used to aid the latter, which it can. Consider that it makes everything faster, and that it's possible to visually model a number of extremely complex phenomenon that are damn near impossible to demonstrate in class and that a simple diagram is going to be less effective and visually poignant for. If I could only use technology for one thing, it would probably just be for animating diagrams.
I really don't think you understand. What I'm saying is not that the jerks' houses are blue. I'm saying that the jerks are the real-estate agent trying to sell you the house, and they're scoffing at your color choice and telling you you're a child and an idiot for even wanting that house.
What, you've never taken a really long shower?
This guy makes a pretty good point. You don't argue for adoption of an OS by suggesting that people who use its alternative are children or idiots. Pay attention to the insulting diction grandparent uses. It pisses people off.
I'm currently running Vista on a 5+ year old computer with a gig of ram and an Athlon XP 2700 in it. Vista doesn't have working drivers for either of the network adapters built into the board, nor does it have drivers for the AC97 codec on the board meaning I wouldnt be able to use the SPDIF output on the board. They don't even have reference drivers for the codec or the ethernet adapters. I really wish we could just put XP on this machine, but we can't get a key for it because Microsoft no longer sells them.
On top of the numerous missing drivers, it's running a Radeon 9550 which crashed the system about every 5 minutes requiring a hard reboot. Thankfully I updated the drivers which fixed this problem for the most part, but every so often it craps itself. If this is what ditching legacy support means, a giant fucking OS install and total driver incompatibility, then I'm not interested.
How do you make something that has a similar number of features to XP but takes up twice as much space?
YES. That is exactly what school should be about, developing those core skills instead of filling your head with knowledge which is sketchy at best. School should be about learning to learn and learning to be a more powerful and independent person. Thanks for saying that. I still don't understand where the cynicism comes from though, except that the larger the institution is, the more a one-size fits all approach prevails and the more people are beaten down under it.
I think the point is that children are not wheat. You do not beat them out of the system like so much chaff, leaving only the good kernels behind to be milled into fine flour. Those so-called "middling students" are still capable of making something of their lives, and with a series of good teachers they may yet be able to. NCLB was designed around preventing the education system from ignoring the average students because they're average.
NCLB was also supposed to ensure the all teachers are good teachers by establishing guidelines for basic qualifications and knowledge. If all teachers are good teachers, it's senseless to give only the gifted kids good teachers.
Umm... yeah, right up until he mentioned that school is basically worthless and that the exceptional will be bored by everything. That's a pretty snobbish thing to say.
You've got it wrong. The truly notable will make the best out of any situation they're in. Even school. The mediocre will be bored by every situation they're in. Why not take the time to find out why your teachers got into teaching in the first place? Do it. Ask them. Don't just brush this off by saying that they couldn't do anything else, because you would be wrong about most of them.
No, the REAL question is: Will it blend?
Thanks to Special Relativity the speed of light serves as a conversion factor between distance and time. So parsecs can measure time.
Well, it's by Irrational. Of course it's going to be an awesome game. Those of us who played System Shock and System Shock 2 knew this the day it was announced.
Thanks buddy, I'll be sure to stop toking up and posting on Slashdot while HIGH AS A KITE.
Well it would be cool and all for algae to produce a hydrocarbon using the energy from sunlight, but you're missing the fact that you'd have to input chemicals into the process, making it essentially a light-powered version of the E. Coli. Either that, or there's something unsaid that I'm missing. It seems like you're forgetting conservation of mass.
It's not limited to Sony. A friend of mine who works for Microsoft keeps telling me about Vista features that I like, and I keep telling him that their marketing department needs to advertise those features in addition to Aero.
The conversations usually go "Wow, I didn't know it could do that. Why doesn't any of their marketing stuff mention that? It's a pretty cool feature." "Well, that's marketing for you."
Just curious, but how simple is it to configure? Are there manuals that cover the stuff you're talking about?
A friend of mine once made the same observation to me. Imagine if everyone were constantly drunk, dehydrated, and sick and you would have a world pretty similar to pre-revolution England. Well, when people no longer had to rely on fermented drinks for their fluids, they were no longer drunk or dehydrated. Boiling water reduced their sickness. So for once you have a bunch of humans who are thinking clearly and are somewhat healthy. Not only that, they're literate thanks to the clergy, and the monks have a ton of books lying around for them to read and contemplate. The result is an explosion in creativity which leads to a revolution.