I already cut my family's cable subscription. The only stations we were watching outside of the broadcast networks were sports stations, Comedy Central, Food Network, and HGTV. Hulu (and some other online sources) lets us see most of the shows we want to see, and the ad content is much easier to handle than on actual TV. And as for sports stations, if I really want to watch a game, I can make a trip to a sports bar for the day and still come out ahead.
So your inference is that smoking pot leads one to thinking they can fly and acting on that thought. If that were true, we would have a lot more dead people in the world. Hell, Amsterdam would be a ghost town.
They're dropping the prices of DRM-free music? But what about us early adopters who've already bought music from them? Are they going to give us a refund since they clearly scammed us of our hard-earned money? Maybe I'll just sue Apple...
Like the parent said, the EECS department, especially the radar and robotics sections, have definitely put a lot of research and work into CReSIS. My robotics professor this semester, Dr. Agah, has helped put together a lot of autonomous rovers that crawled across Greenland and scanned the ice sheets. One of the biggest successes they had was a robot called MARVIN. The UAV approach is definitely one that should help the field dramatically since even tread-mounted robots cannot go everywhere on the ice. I'm especially glad that the research my institution is doing is finally getting some recognition.
If you want to know more about the work of CReSIS, an extensive list of presentations on their research is available. I think there are some software limitations in terms of browsers you can use to look at them, but the website has a lot of information if you don't want to just look at the presentations.
PowerPoint is very useful if the person using that tool uses it correctly. Unfortunately, most people use it incorrectly and write down every single thing that they're planning on saying on a slide. If you're going to do that, students will catch on and just think that they can get by with printing off the notes and skipping class because listening to the teacher will not help them understand the material any better. The catch is, they won't understand it at all. Active learning helps people learn and remember facts and concepts way better than passive reading or listening. That's why the best way to use PowerPoint is as a guide or outline to what you're going to talk about. It forces people to use more than one sense to take everything in, and if they want notes on everything important from the lecture, they have to write it down themselves and actually comprehend it in the first place.
It's clear that many people don't think there's an educational gap between men and women anymore, or if there is, that it's the men that have to catch up. I'd posit that while more women succeed in school today than men, a woman's educational status and intelligence can be a hindrance in some arenas while the opposite isn't true for men. Education and money-earning potential are typically masculine traits and are highly associated with power.
Think about the powerful men of the world. How many of them have a powerful woman beside them? How many have an educated woman for a spouse/significant other? How many powerful men simply have somebody to act as a piece of eye candy attached to their arm? I'd bet that the number of men with eye candy is much bigger than the number who have somebody who is an intellectual equal or is actually smarter than them.
Elsewhere on the website, Mike O'Donnell, a University of Chicago law professor, gives a good discussion of why the RIAA's policy of identifying people solely by their "unique" IP address is a load of crap. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't used this kind of a defense when the RIAA targets them. Maybe it's because it's not well-known knowledge yet?
In any case, I'm glad that I'm living off-campus next year as my university is on that list and is now notorious for its one strike policy. WTF is up with the idiots in Kansas anyways?
So you would rather drive for three days to cross the country rather than fly for one? Given what gas prices are like now, you'd probably end up spending more on the car trip than the plane, and you'd be spending an extra couple of days traveling. I think I'll take my chances with the sick people and potential delays.
There definitely are people on Facebook/Myspace/whatever social networking utility you want to examine that simply go through people and add them because they want to seem popular. I love that on one of the possible choices for friend details, you can click "I don't even know this person," and if you do, it comes back saying something like "Then why are you friends with them?" The people who could select that for the majority of their "friends" need to find real friends rather than bumping up their online friend count.
I will say that it's a great tool for people who want to get back in touch with friends from high school or further back. My high school class is using Facebook to organize a reunion for the end of the summer because it allows much easier communication than making sure each alumni has their address updated with the high school.
If this were an issue involving a large amount of money, I would agree with you. Cash is extremely easy to steal in comparison to checks, money orders, or cashier's checks. Not only that, but there's always the possibility that a large amount of cash could have been acquired by illegal means, such as drug sales or money laundering.
But the question posed by the contributor doesn't involve a large amount of money, or at least it isn't a large amount of money given the context. A hundred bucks to a large university is a proverbial drop in the bucket. It's not like he's trying to pay all of his tuition at once with a suitcase full of hundred dollar bills.
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I already cut my family's cable subscription. The only stations we were watching outside of the broadcast networks were sports stations, Comedy Central, Food Network, and HGTV. Hulu (and some other online sources) lets us see most of the shows we want to see, and the ad content is much easier to handle than on actual TV. And as for sports stations, if I really want to watch a game, I can make a trip to a sports bar for the day and still come out ahead.
So your inference is that smoking pot leads one to thinking they can fly and acting on that thought. If that were true, we would have a lot more dead people in the world. Hell, Amsterdam would be a ghost town.
They're dropping the prices of DRM-free music? But what about us early adopters who've already bought music from them? Are they going to give us a refund since they clearly scammed us of our hard-earned money? Maybe I'll just sue Apple...
Like the parent said, the EECS department, especially the radar and robotics sections, have definitely put a lot of research and work into CReSIS. My robotics professor this semester, Dr. Agah, has helped put together a lot of autonomous rovers that crawled across Greenland and scanned the ice sheets. One of the biggest successes they had was a robot called MARVIN. The UAV approach is definitely one that should help the field dramatically since even tread-mounted robots cannot go everywhere on the ice. I'm especially glad that the research my institution is doing is finally getting some recognition.
If you want to know more about the work of CReSIS, an extensive list of presentations on their research is available. I think there are some software limitations in terms of browsers you can use to look at them, but the website has a lot of information if you don't want to just look at the presentations.
PowerPoint is very useful if the person using that tool uses it correctly. Unfortunately, most people use it incorrectly and write down every single thing that they're planning on saying on a slide. If you're going to do that, students will catch on and just think that they can get by with printing off the notes and skipping class because listening to the teacher will not help them understand the material any better. The catch is, they won't understand it at all. Active learning helps people learn and remember facts and concepts way better than passive reading or listening. That's why the best way to use PowerPoint is as a guide or outline to what you're going to talk about. It forces people to use more than one sense to take everything in, and if they want notes on everything important from the lecture, they have to write it down themselves and actually comprehend it in the first place.
It's clear that many people don't think there's an educational gap between men and women anymore, or if there is, that it's the men that have to catch up. I'd posit that while more women succeed in school today than men, a woman's educational status and intelligence can be a hindrance in some arenas while the opposite isn't true for men. Education and money-earning potential are typically masculine traits and are highly associated with power.
Think about the powerful men of the world. How many of them have a powerful woman beside them? How many have an educated woman for a spouse/significant other? How many powerful men simply have somebody to act as a piece of eye candy attached to their arm? I'd bet that the number of men with eye candy is much bigger than the number who have somebody who is an intellectual equal or is actually smarter than them.
Elsewhere on the website, Mike O'Donnell, a University of Chicago law professor, gives a good discussion of why the RIAA's policy of identifying people solely by their "unique" IP address is a load of crap. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't used this kind of a defense when the RIAA targets them. Maybe it's because it's not well-known knowledge yet?
In any case, I'm glad that I'm living off-campus next year as my university is on that list and is now notorious for its one strike policy. WTF is up with the idiots in Kansas anyways?
So you would rather drive for three days to cross the country rather than fly for one? Given what gas prices are like now, you'd probably end up spending more on the car trip than the plane, and you'd be spending an extra couple of days traveling. I think I'll take my chances with the sick people and potential delays.
There definitely are people on Facebook/Myspace/whatever social networking utility you want to examine that simply go through people and add them because they want to seem popular. I love that on one of the possible choices for friend details, you can click "I don't even know this person," and if you do, it comes back saying something like "Then why are you friends with them?" The people who could select that for the majority of their "friends" need to find real friends rather than bumping up their online friend count. I will say that it's a great tool for people who want to get back in touch with friends from high school or further back. My high school class is using Facebook to organize a reunion for the end of the summer because it allows much easier communication than making sure each alumni has their address updated with the high school.
Only three comments and this thread has already been Godwin'ed. I'm sure he would be proud.
If this were an issue involving a large amount of money, I would agree with you. Cash is extremely easy to steal in comparison to checks, money orders, or cashier's checks. Not only that, but there's always the possibility that a large amount of cash could have been acquired by illegal means, such as drug sales or money laundering.
But the question posed by the contributor doesn't involve a large amount of money, or at least it isn't a large amount of money given the context. A hundred bucks to a large university is a proverbial drop in the bucket. It's not like he's trying to pay all of his tuition at once with a suitcase full of hundred dollar bills.