Move to Provo, UT. You can get exactly what you stated for that price. http://www.mstarmetro.com/services/iband.html. Some parts of the country are changing as far as broadband access is concerned.
The more exposure to germs you get as a child, the stronger your immune system becomes.
That's true to a point, but too much exposure is really bad, just like too much exposure to stress is bad for your health (some stress is good of course).
Don't be worried about anti-bacterial soap creating "supergerms" though. According to this news report of research (click here for a more original article about the research). I know you didn't mention anti-bacterial soap, but all the anti-baterial stuff we use may not be the cause of people not having immunities to diseases.
I do agree kids should play outside more (coming from me, who's spent a lot of life in front of a computer screen).
I totally agree with you. Parents need to be more directly involved with their children and not let kids have computers with the internet in their bedrooms. Many parents try to brush off responsibility for their kids onto other sources (which is one reason we have so many dumb lawsuits over children doing or not doing something).
I always know what my daughter is doing online. She never uses the internet unsupervised or goes into chatrooms she shouldn't be in. Of course, she is 9 months old and if I left her alone with the computer I'd have teeth marks in my keyboard.
I teach at a large university and have been using Blackboard for a while. It has dramatically improved within the past couple years. I've never used WebCT but I hope this merger does not decrease the quality of Blackboard. It certainly isn't perfect, but I've found it very useful for posting my PowerPoints after class and for posting general announcements. It also makes keping track of students' grades simple (they can then see their grades in "real time" and let me know if they are missing or have too many points - yes some students do occasionally say I gave them too many points). While I don't use them for my classes, the online quizzes you can set up in Blackboard can work very well (especially is you don't care if they are open book or not).
It seems that most people here have had problems with WebCT and not Blackboard. There may be better products out there, but I've never had any problems with Blackboard.
They covered this on c|Net yesterday and they said that you have to use Internet Explorer. I'm sure it won't be long before Firefox or Opera is compatible but it is just another attempt by Microsoft to *require* users to use Microsoft applications (or you can always switch to another email service). I don't mind Microsoft that much and this reworked Hotmail looks pretty good and has nice features, but I don't want to be tied to one browser.
That's what I used to tell some of my friends in high school (based just on personal observations and experience) - that yes, there are more male geniuses (according to the American [cultural] definition) but there are also more stupid men then stupid women. Look at scores on tests like the ACT and SAT, there are way more males than females getting the highest scores. Maybe it's an environmental thing [culture or nurture] but we also cannot deny the influence of nature. For a cross-cultural example, Asian girls on average are better than white U.S. males at math, however, Asian males are still better at math than Asian females. Granted this is only math, but skills related to math play heavily into IQ (as measured by the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler IQ tests).
I don't know what's the big deal with these findings if they turn out to be true. It will most likely mean that there is a greater probablility that a genius is male and that someone with severe mental retardation is male as well. Why should anyone feel threatened? It's like the huge outcry over the President of Harvard's comments about women in academia. People completely misunderstood his comments (at least the implications of them) and got all defensive and called for his head.
I agree as well with your statement: but "men are smarter" is probably still a gross oversimplification of the data. I think people need to stop jumping to conclusions without the chance to really understand what someone is saying. We should also wait for other researchers to respond with their own research.
Not only did they make a bright OLED, they did it on "polymer-based OLEDs on both flexible plastic and rigid glass substrates" (from the Science article; emphasis added). Yep, here come those TV t-shirts and Harry Potteresque paintings and newspapers.
This is very promising technology. Whether or not it becomes commercialized to any extent remains to be seen, but it should be quite revolutionary if it does.
Leave it to Apple to release not just a two-button mouse, but a mouse that completely revolutionizes mice. (Note: I do not own a Mac - okay I do, a Centris 650 but that doesn't count). It certainly won't be long before we start seeing imitations of this mouse, which is a good thing, but again it shows that Apple is consistently a leader in pc innovation.
He's headed over to that small moon.
That's no moon, it's a space station.
I honor of Star Wars, we should can it Jar-Jar the Death Star - DESTROYER OF WORLDS. Just don't send anyone named Luke there, he'll probably just blow it up or something like that.
I agree. If both formats are out there then eventually one will win or both will be around and we will have dual-HD format players, just like we have DVD+/-. It's not too confusing to have some discs on Blu-Ray and some on HD-DVD (just have a different tray for each, unless manufacturers can fit everything into one tray).
While one format is easier, it is not necessarily the best way to go because consumers should decide.
You are right with your assumption. While I don't have the study to back me up my neuropsychology professor (so it must be true!) taught that brain density can be more important than volume. Don't get me wrong, volume of brain tissue is important (there is a growing area of research that correlates brain structure volume with functioning; for example, researchers correlate hippocampal volume and scores on memory tests like the Wechsler Memory Scale. Obviously those with severely decreased hippocampal volume have greatly reduced memory scores).
Anyway, back to my point, brain volume is correlated with IQ scores. This study by McDaniel et al. is a meta-analysis of over 30 brain volume and intelligence studies. Their overall correlations were.40 and.34 for females and males, respectively. That means 16% and 11.5% of the variance in IQ is accounted for by brain volume (which isn't terribly high, but it is decent for studies like this). Clearly there is room for a lot of other things to influence IQ scores. One of those things is brain density (literally how many neurons you have per cc, for example).
Anyway, this is an interesting study but your idea that a brain that is "well-wired" can be better than one that is simply larger is correct.
As a side note, you cannot, of course measure brain volume according to head size because skull thickness varies (you may have a big head but a thick skull so your brain really isn't too big). There isn't a very strong correlation between head size and brain volume (again, I don't have the Pearson r at the moment).
Man, all I can say is you've got to be the clumsiest guy in the world then.:-)
While CDs are not perfect they certainly are more durable than cassette tapes. Sure the casing of the tapes is durable but the actual tape itself would deteriorate pretty quickly. Each time you played it, the tape got a little worse. I listen to 20 year old CDs and they sound just as good as when they were new (even after being played more than 50 times). I can't say the same for any old tapes. Some that old and even older are still okay, but then again they weren't played nearly as much.
As far as not being able to back up the music from some newer CDs, you just need the right software (or know the right keyboard buttons to push) to circumvent the copy-protection.
If this is a forthcoming spreadsheet program, then hopefully Apple makes it as functional as Excel. Excel is probably the best and most functional program in Microsoft Office. The number (ha ha) of things you can do with it is amazing. I used it all the time in my multivariate stats class to do complex matrix algebra. One problem I've had with Calc in OpenOffice, is its lack of many math/stats functions that Excel has. Yeah, I know you could write a little code to run the specific algorithms but that takes extra time and effort.
There is a lot of depth to Excel that can be hard to reproduce in one shot. I am a huge fan of Apple but I really don't think this hypothetical spreadsheet program will replace Excel for quite a while. I know Apple is probably trying to distance themselves a bit from Microsoft (at least by providing good alternatives to Office) but I don't know how good they'll do on this first version of Numbers.
The ISPs do not force the filtering software on you. They just have to make it available if you want it.
Let's say you are in a restaurant (even though you said that analogy doesn't work for you) in a small town as you are travelling. It is the only place in town to eat. You want a hamburger and they serve hamburgers. But as you are about to order they change their menu. They don't take anything off the menu but they add a new salad with "lite dressing," a healthy option. Well, you don't want the salad, you just want a hamburger but having that extra option does not infringe on your rights at all.
So, you can keep using your ISP and you won't notice a change at all unless you request for the filtering.
Ok, so you have a point, but doesn't the government (federal and state) do this all the time? They mandate (the courts have at least, and last time I checked they were part of the government) that cigarette companies have to spend millions of dollars on "quit smoking" ad campaigns. There are many other examples.
I guess what really gets me is the government's attitude that ISP's are allowed to do business by the grace and goodwill of the government, not because it's one of the founding principles of this nation.
Don't you have to get a business license to run a business? It has not been a "right" to be able to run a business for a long time now. As a business you also have to pay taxes to the government. When you agree to those conditions (obtaining a license and paying taxes) then the government lets you operate (and then only if you follow other laws too). If you own a restaraunt, you have to meet certain health codes. If you run a steel mill you have to meet environmental standards to stay in business.
Governemts have placed restrictions on businesses for a long time. This law is just another example of that. There is an uproar just because some people think it violates free speech. The ISPs are not mandated to filter sites, they just have to allow a means for parents to turn the filters on.
If I want to block Internet content from my children, this is my right (until they reach the age of majority of course). The same way I can block TV shows. This is MY responsibility and right, not some government appointed watch dog.
You are right that it is the parents' responsibility to filter internet content for their children. That is exactly what this law is giving parents the ability to do - filter the content for their kids. You can buy filtering software, but all the state government is doing is basically making ISPs provide the filtering software, so to speak. It isn't really any different than including popup blockers in web browsers. You don't have to turn them on and you can customize what sites you allow. Or it is like a software firewall. Again, you don't have to turn it on, but the option is there.
This is not a case of the government taking rights or responsibilities away from parents; it is a case of the government providing accessible tools to parents. This has nothing to do with communism or socialism (that would be more like the government telling all the parents what sites their kids are allowed to visit).
It won't be a perfect filtering system by any means; no filter is perfect. But it will keep many kids from accidently accessing porn (and some who purposively access it as well).
Microsoft postponed dropping the "My" from "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. due to technical difficulties.
I like how this is, "a big change" according to the article. Wow, I'm impressed. So innovative.
You're not the only one, but I prefer LCDs over CRTs for working. They don't have that CRT flicker that even the highest refresh rates couldn't completely eliminate. Ever since we got LCD screens at my work, my eyestrain has virtually disappeared.
Unless you are heavily into graphics, LCDs have tons of advantages over CRTs. Most people don't care about ghosting, unless you are gaming or doing movies. LCDs don't take up as much space, they use less power, they usually look nicer, and they have great image quality (unless you are using a really cheap one).
Just to translate some of the neuro-lingo in the article:
The article did a good job of describing where the prefrontal cortex is: it is the very front of your frontal lobes (like the author said, just behind your forehead).
So, this is damage to the area (near the split between the two hemipsheres - the interhemipheric fissure) at the bottom of the front part of the frontal lobes. (Was that confusing enough?)
This area is easily damaged in any head trauma situations so there are going to be a lot of people with damage to this area of the brain. I guess I'm going to have to get a new sense of humor.
What kind of question is that? This is/. People here don't install AIM on their computers - that's like saying "You know last night when I was hanging out with my girlfriend...." AIM - Slashdot, Girlfriend - Slashdot, these are just incompatible with each other. I'm mean, duh!
/Just joshin' ya. /I can't stand all those AOL links and junk that get installed, which is why I don't use AIM.
I can't believe no one has pointed out the obvious that this pretty much cements Blu-Ray as the next generation DVD standard (I know this has been stated in previous/. posts about the PS3 though). This will get BluRay into millions of homes and then Toshiba won't be able to compete. This is a good thing. BluRay is much better than HD-DVD and will have a longer life-cycle.
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Move to Provo, UT. You can get exactly what you stated for that price. http://www.mstarmetro.com/services/iband.html. Some parts of the country are changing as far as broadband access is concerned.
The more exposure to germs you get as a child, the stronger your immune system becomes.
That's true to a point, but too much exposure is really bad, just like too much exposure to stress is bad for your health (some stress is good of course).
Don't be worried about anti-bacterial soap creating "supergerms" though. According to this news report of research (click here for a more original article about the research). I know you didn't mention anti-bacterial soap, but all the anti-baterial stuff we use may not be the cause of people not having immunities to diseases.
I do agree kids should play outside more (coming from me, who's spent a lot of life in front of a computer screen).
I totally agree with you. Parents need to be more directly involved with their children and not let kids have computers with the internet in their bedrooms. Many parents try to brush off responsibility for their kids onto other sources (which is one reason we have so many dumb lawsuits over children doing or not doing something).
I always know what my daughter is doing online. She never uses the internet unsupervised or goes into chatrooms she shouldn't be in. Of course, she is 9 months old and if I left her alone with the computer I'd have teeth marks in my keyboard.
I teach at a large university and have been using Blackboard for a while. It has dramatically improved within the past couple years. I've never used WebCT but I hope this merger does not decrease the quality of Blackboard. It certainly isn't perfect, but I've found it very useful for posting my PowerPoints after class and for posting general announcements. It also makes keping track of students' grades simple (they can then see their grades in "real time" and let me know if they are missing or have too many points - yes some students do occasionally say I gave them too many points). While I don't use them for my classes, the online quizzes you can set up in Blackboard can work very well (especially is you don't care if they are open book or not). It seems that most people here have had problems with WebCT and not Blackboard. There may be better products out there, but I've never had any problems with Blackboard.
They covered this on c|Net yesterday and they said that you have to use Internet Explorer. I'm sure it won't be long before Firefox or Opera is compatible but it is just another attempt by Microsoft to *require* users to use Microsoft applications (or you can always switch to another email service). I don't mind Microsoft that much and this reworked Hotmail looks pretty good and has nice features, but I don't want to be tied to one browser.
That's what I used to tell some of my friends in high school (based just on personal observations and experience) - that yes, there are more male geniuses (according to the American [cultural] definition) but there are also more stupid men then stupid women. Look at scores on tests like the ACT and SAT, there are way more males than females getting the highest scores. Maybe it's an environmental thing [culture or nurture] but we also cannot deny the influence of nature.
For a cross-cultural example, Asian girls on average are better than white U.S. males at math, however, Asian males are still better at math than Asian females. Granted this is only math, but skills related to math play heavily into IQ (as measured by the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler IQ tests).
I don't know what's the big deal with these findings if they turn out to be true. It will most likely mean that there is a greater probablility that a genius is male and that someone with severe mental retardation is male as well. Why should anyone feel threatened? It's like the huge outcry over the President of Harvard's comments about women in academia. People completely misunderstood his comments (at least the implications of them) and got all defensive and called for his head.
I agree as well with your statement: but "men are smarter" is probably still a gross oversimplification of the data. I think people need to stop jumping to conclusions without the chance to really understand what someone is saying. We should also wait for other researchers to respond with their own research.
Not only did they make a bright OLED, they did it on "polymer-based OLEDs on both flexible plastic and rigid glass substrates" (from the Science article; emphasis added). Yep, here come those TV t-shirts and Harry Potteresque paintings and newspapers.
This is very promising technology. Whether or not it becomes commercialized to any extent remains to be seen, but it should be quite revolutionary if it does.
Leave it to Apple to release not just a two-button mouse, but a mouse that completely revolutionizes mice. (Note: I do not own a Mac - okay I do, a Centris 650 but that doesn't count). It certainly won't be long before we start seeing imitations of this mouse, which is a good thing, but again it shows that Apple is consistently a leader in pc innovation.
He's headed over to that small moon. That's no moon, it's a space station. I honor of Star Wars, we should can it Jar-Jar the Death Star - DESTROYER OF WORLDS. Just don't send anyone named Luke there, he'll probably just blow it up or something like that.
I agree. If both formats are out there then eventually one will win or both will be around and we will have dual-HD format players, just like we have DVD+/-. It's not too confusing to have some discs on Blu-Ray and some on HD-DVD (just have a different tray for each, unless manufacturers can fit everything into one tray). While one format is easier, it is not necessarily the best way to go because consumers should decide.
Actually, 99% of all comments made on message boards are nonsense (including this one).
I'm surprised no one has posted screenshots yet but cnet has a couple of very nice looking ones. http://reviews.cnet.com/Nvidia_GeForce_7800_GTX_25 6MB/4505-8902_7-31422201-2.html?tag=top
There's no way I'm going to buy this card (maybe in 3 years) but it sure does make games look good.
You are right with your assumption. While I don't have the study to back me up my neuropsychology professor (so it must be true!) taught that brain density can be more important than volume. Don't get me wrong, volume of brain tissue is important (there is a growing area of research that correlates brain structure volume with functioning; for example, researchers correlate hippocampal volume and scores on memory tests like the Wechsler Memory Scale. Obviously those with severely decreased hippocampal volume have greatly reduced memory scores).
.40 and .34 for females and males, respectively. That means 16% and 11.5% of the variance in IQ is accounted for by brain volume (which isn't terribly high, but it is decent for studies like this). Clearly there is room for a lot of other things to influence IQ scores. One of those things is brain density (literally how many neurons you have per cc, for example).
Anyway, back to my point, brain volume is correlated with IQ scores. This study by McDaniel et al. is a meta-analysis of over 30 brain volume and intelligence studies. Their overall correlations were
Anyway, this is an interesting study but your idea that a brain that is "well-wired" can be better than one that is simply larger is correct.
As a side note, you cannot, of course measure brain volume according to head size because skull thickness varies (you may have a big head but a thick skull so your brain really isn't too big). There isn't a very strong correlation between head size and brain volume (again, I don't have the Pearson r at the moment).
Man, all I can say is you've got to be the clumsiest guy in the world then. :-)
While CDs are not perfect they certainly are more durable than cassette tapes. Sure the casing of the tapes is durable but the actual tape itself would deteriorate pretty quickly. Each time you played it, the tape got a little worse. I listen to 20 year old CDs and they sound just as good as when they were new (even after being played more than 50 times). I can't say the same for any old tapes. Some that old and even older are still okay, but then again they weren't played nearly as much.
As far as not being able to back up the music from some newer CDs, you just need the right software (or know the right keyboard buttons to push) to circumvent the copy-protection.
If this is a forthcoming spreadsheet program, then hopefully Apple makes it as functional as Excel. Excel is probably the best and most functional program in Microsoft Office. The number (ha ha) of things you can do with it is amazing. I used it all the time in my multivariate stats class to do complex matrix algebra. One problem I've had with Calc in OpenOffice, is its lack of many math/stats functions that Excel has. Yeah, I know you could write a little code to run the specific algorithms but that takes extra time and effort.
There is a lot of depth to Excel that can be hard to reproduce in one shot. I am a huge fan of Apple but I really don't think this hypothetical spreadsheet program will replace Excel for quite a while. I know Apple is probably trying to distance themselves a bit from Microsoft (at least by providing good alternatives to Office) but I don't know how good they'll do on this first version of Numbers.
I have one ISP(broadband) to choose from.
The ISPs do not force the filtering software on you. They just have to make it available if you want it.
Let's say you are in a restaurant (even though you said that analogy doesn't work for you) in a small town as you are travelling. It is the only place in town to eat. You want a hamburger and they serve hamburgers. But as you are about to order they change their menu. They don't take anything off the menu but they add a new salad with "lite dressing," a healthy option. Well, you don't want the salad, you just want a hamburger but having that extra option does not infringe on your rights at all.
So, you can keep using your ISP and you won't notice a change at all unless you request for the filtering.
Ok, so you have a point, but doesn't the government (federal and state) do this all the time? They mandate (the courts have at least, and last time I checked they were part of the government) that cigarette companies have to spend millions of dollars on "quit smoking" ad campaigns. There are many other examples.
I guess what really gets me is the government's attitude that ISP's are allowed to do business by the grace and goodwill of the government, not because it's one of the founding principles of this nation.
Don't you have to get a business license to run a business? It has not been a "right" to be able to run a business for a long time now. As a business you also have to pay taxes to the government. When you agree to those conditions (obtaining a license and paying taxes) then the government lets you operate (and then only if you follow other laws too). If you own a restaraunt, you have to meet certain health codes. If you run a steel mill you have to meet environmental standards to stay in business.
Governemts have placed restrictions on businesses for a long time. This law is just another example of that. There is an uproar just because some people think it violates free speech. The ISPs are not mandated to filter sites, they just have to allow a means for parents to turn the filters on.
Aww, the troll actually got fed a few scraps. How nice! Here's a grape.
If I want to block Internet content from my children, this is my right (until they reach the age of majority of course). The same way I can block TV shows. This is MY responsibility and right, not some government appointed watch dog.
You are right that it is the parents' responsibility to filter internet content for their children. That is exactly what this law is giving parents the ability to do - filter the content for their kids. You can buy filtering software, but all the state government is doing is basically making ISPs provide the filtering software, so to speak. It isn't really any different than including popup blockers in web browsers. You don't have to turn them on and you can customize what sites you allow. Or it is like a software firewall. Again, you don't have to turn it on, but the option is there.
This is not a case of the government taking rights or responsibilities away from parents; it is a case of the government providing accessible tools to parents. This has nothing to do with communism or socialism (that would be more like the government telling all the parents what sites their kids are allowed to visit).
It won't be a perfect filtering system by any means; no filter is perfect. But it will keep many kids from accidently accessing porn (and some who purposively access it as well).
Microsoft postponed dropping the "My" from "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. due to technical difficulties. I like how this is, "a big change" according to the article. Wow, I'm impressed. So innovative.
You're not the only one, but I prefer LCDs over CRTs for working. They don't have that CRT flicker that even the highest refresh rates couldn't completely eliminate. Ever since we got LCD screens at my work, my eyestrain has virtually disappeared.
Unless you are heavily into graphics, LCDs have tons of advantages over CRTs. Most people don't care about ghosting, unless you are gaming or doing movies. LCDs don't take up as much space, they use less power, they usually look nicer, and they have great image quality (unless you are using a really cheap one).
Hey, some men only have goofy external dongles. You shouldn't reject them just for that.
Just to translate some of the neuro-lingo in the article:
The article did a good job of describing where the prefrontal cortex is: it is the very front of your frontal lobes (like the author said, just behind your forehead).
ventromedial area: Ventro - down; medial - middle.
So, this is damage to the area (near the split between the two hemipsheres - the interhemipheric fissure) at the bottom of the front part of the frontal lobes. (Was that confusing enough?)
This area is easily damaged in any head trauma situations so there are going to be a lot of people with damage to this area of the brain. I guess I'm going to have to get a new sense of humor.
What kind of question is that? This is /. People here don't install AIM on their computers - that's like saying "You know last night when I was hanging out with my girlfriend...." AIM - Slashdot, Girlfriend - Slashdot, these are just incompatible with each other. I'm mean, duh!
/Just joshin' ya.
/I can't stand all those AOL links and junk that get installed, which is why I don't use AIM.
I can't believe no one has pointed out the obvious that this pretty much cements Blu-Ray as the next generation DVD standard (I know this has been stated in previous /. posts about the PS3 though). This will get BluRay into millions of homes and then Toshiba won't be able to compete. This is a good thing. BluRay is much better than HD-DVD and will have a longer life-cycle.