I know this is a minor point, but will they ever get favicons working correctly? These are the icons that appear next to your bookmarks. They're very useful when they actually work.
My girlfriend's family is getting high-speed internet access installed today. I forwarded her the Firefox homepage. She's pretty open to using Firefox on my own computer, so I think there's a good chance she'll get her parents to use it. I have a hunch her dad is fed up with all the IE-related crap.
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You can tell Trebek is pretty damn smart if you watch the show for awhile.
Contestant: What is "Stradvania"? Trebek: Sorry, the correct answer is "Tunzunia". Stradvania was emperor during the 12th century under the Piscians, not the Mendians.
Bush would disagree. He has run up hundreds of billions of dollars in debt (trillions in the long term) claiming his tax cuts would add jobs. Hasn't happened (they claimed we'd be adding 300,000 a month at this point. Um, no.)
The president also thought he could save jobs by using steel tariffs and lumber tariffs (this from a "free trade" president). Didn't work. Bush flip-flopped and dropped the steel tariffs after nearly setting off a trade war.
Yes, in public school, one bad seed could bring a class of 20 to a stand still. If they had a good way of handling it in private school, I wish they'd tip off the public schools.
Once we figure out which kids are the bad seeds, we can send them directly to prison!
What we have to admit as a society is that some kids ARE bad seeds. The #1 priority is making sure they don't ruin it for the rest of the kids trying to learn. One "bad seed" can bring a class of 20 to a complete stand still.
My problem with current education is the ridiculous "leave no child behind" mentality. We don't need to send all these people to college. Let's be realistic about that and send some of them on the path to a meaningful trade. High school is all "college college college", and as a result, lots of kids get NOTHING out of it (and a bad side effect is that college is becoming the new high school with an influx of immature students). So, my proposed Triage:
Kids who want to go to college.
Kids who want to learn a trade skill.
Punks who are on their way to prison. Priority #1 is separating this group from the first two.
I always thought it was so sad when that one Teddy Ruxbin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Ewok died because of the giant spider. Also, the scene where the older brother gets stuck under the pond gave me nightmares.
"Other researchers are finally beginning to explain why the Pons-Fleischmann effect has been difficult to reproduce. Mike McKubre from SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., a respected researcher who is influential among those pursuing cold fusion, says that the effect can be reliably seen only once the palladium electrodes are packed with deuterium at ratios of 100 percent--one deuterium atom for every palladium atom. His work shows that if the ratio drops by as little as 10 points, to 90 percent, only 2 experimental runs in 12 produce excess heat, while all runs at a ratio of 100 percent produce excess heat. "
Does this mean Pons-Fleschmann used the 100 percent ratio? Why in the world didn't the other scientists use this exact same setup when trying to reproduce the results? If you're trying to repeat a result, don't you make sure all variables are the same?
Dean may have lost personally, but he showed the Democrats how to raise money using the internet. Because of Dean, the Democrats have raised almost as much as Republicans for the presidential race, a fact which was INCONCEIVABLE a year ago.
Let me rephrase that: he's good at trolling leaks from newsrooms and letting us know about things we were going to find out about the next day anyway. He doesn't have a lot of "exclusive" content (regardless of how many "!!EXCLUSIVE!! Must Credit Drudge Report!!!!" statements he has on his site.
I think the Washington Post and New Yorker are probably the most relevant news sources right now. Sy Hersh just *dominated* the Abu Ghraib story. Word on the street is that the worst is still to come...stories if child rape and videos.
Dude, 99.99% of Drudge's big "scoops" are just a sentence leaked from the NY Times newsroom about some big story they're going to publish the next day. Drudge is good at collecting information, but don't kid yourself: his investigative skills are nil.
Seriously, though, the NY Times is a very good paper considering the huge amount of information it contains. However, I still think the Washington Post is more readable, and dare I say, more relevant in these highly political times.
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I know this is a minor point, but will they ever get favicons working correctly? These are the icons that appear next to your bookmarks. They're very useful when they actually work.
My girlfriend's family is getting high-speed internet access installed today. I forwarded her the Firefox homepage. She's pretty open to using Firefox on my own computer, so I think there's a good chance she'll get her parents to use it. I have a hunch her dad is fed up with all the IE-related crap.
You can tell Trebek is pretty damn smart if you watch the show for awhile.
Contestant: What is "Stradvania"?
Trebek: Sorry, the correct answer is "Tunzunia". Stradvania was emperor during the 12th century under the Piscians, not the Mendians.
Bush would disagree. He has run up hundreds of billions of dollars in debt (trillions in the long term) claiming his tax cuts would add jobs. Hasn't happened (they claimed we'd be adding 300,000 a month at this point. Um, no.)
The president also thought he could save jobs by using steel tariffs and lumber tariffs (this from a "free trade" president). Didn't work. Bush flip-flopped and dropped the steel tariffs after nearly setting off a trade war.
Yes, in public school, one bad seed could bring a class of 20 to a stand still. If they had a good way of handling it in private school, I wish they'd tip off the public schools.
What could people have said to you in high school to make those years more productive?
Once we figure out which kids are the bad seeds, we can send them directly to prison!
What we have to admit as a society is that some kids ARE bad seeds. The #1 priority is making sure they don't ruin it for the rest of the kids trying to learn. One "bad seed" can bring a class of 20 to a complete stand still.
Interesting ideas.
My problem with current education is the ridiculous "leave no child behind" mentality. We don't need to send all these people to college. Let's be realistic about that and send some of them on the path to a meaningful trade. High school is all "college college college", and as a result, lots of kids get NOTHING out of it (and a bad side effect is that college is becoming the new high school with an influx of immature students). So, my proposed Triage:
Kids who want to go to college.
Kids who want to learn a trade skill.
Punks who are on their way to prison. Priority #1 is separating this group from the first two.
IT has nothing on Games. I think the guy who designed that one was color blind.
Read this. In the future, you'd be wise to get your news from something other than FOX News and Rush Limbaugh.
Wonder if this story will get covered by the American press. The factual basis seems much more sound than the Swift Boat Liars.
I always thought it was so sad when that one Teddy Ruxbin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Ewok died because of the giant spider. Also, the scene where the older brother gets stuck under the pond gave me nightmares.
"Other researchers are finally beginning to explain why the Pons-Fleischmann effect has been difficult to reproduce. Mike McKubre from SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., a respected researcher who is influential among those pursuing cold fusion, says that the effect can be reliably seen only once the palladium electrodes are packed with deuterium at ratios of 100 percent--one deuterium atom for every palladium atom. His work shows that if the ratio drops by as little as 10 points, to 90 percent, only 2 experimental runs in 12 produce excess heat, while all runs at a ratio of 100 percent produce excess heat. "
Does this mean Pons-Fleschmann used the 100 percent ratio? Why in the world didn't the other scientists use this exact same setup when trying to reproduce the results? If you're trying to repeat a result, don't you make sure all variables are the same?
I'll bet he could have bought a lot of these.
Yeah, it's off topic, but so is the original post. So there.
TIMMY!
This isn't that impressive in 2004. If anyone has seen Richard Linklater's Waking Life, they did this kind of thing in 2001.
I'll destroy some machines if you let me blame it on you.
The IMG tag is perfectly acceptable in XHTML.
I don't what to read about left or right politics when I'm trying to read about technology.
You should demand your money back.
Dean may have lost personally, but he showed the Democrats how to raise money using the internet. Because of Dean, the Democrats have raised almost as much as Republicans for the presidential race, a fact which was INCONCEIVABLE a year ago.
No, Sy Hersh himself in interviews.
Let me rephrase that: he's good at trolling leaks from newsrooms and letting us know about things we were going to find out about the next day anyway. He doesn't have a lot of "exclusive" content (regardless of how many "!!EXCLUSIVE!! Must Credit Drudge Report!!!!" statements he has on his site.
I think the Washington Post and New Yorker are probably the most relevant news sources right now. Sy Hersh just *dominated* the Abu Ghraib story. Word on the street is that the worst is still to come...stories if child rape and videos.
Dude, 99.99% of Drudge's big "scoops" are just a sentence leaked from the NY Times newsroom about some big story they're going to publish the next day. Drudge is good at collecting information, but don't kid yourself: his investigative skills are nil.
What about Judith Miller?
Seriously, though, the NY Times is a very good paper considering the huge amount of information it contains. However, I still think the Washington Post is more readable, and dare I say, more relevant in these highly political times.