Great comment. That's exactly how slides should be in most cases. The difficulty comes in academic settings but even here we could all be better in our presentations. Another problem comes with presenters not being good enough speakers to be able to pull that style off, although if the material is compelling enough, the speaker is merely a conduit, regardless of his or her skill.
That's why I think Apple's (Steve Jobs' et al.) use of presentation software is ideal - there's an image and a little text at most per slide. I try to keep that philosophy in mind when I give presentations - little text, lots of pictures, and me filling in the rest verbally. That minimalism doesn't always work in academic settings but I've had reasonable success in emulating the Apple style (I'm not saying they created that idea, Apple presenters just do a good job at using presentation software).
Liberal and conservative in the judiciary sense roughly equal flexible constitutionalists and strict constitutionalists, respectively. So yes, you are correct, only liberal judges can be activist. Now, that doesn't mean that the liberal judiciary is not socially conservative or vice versa but any time the judiciary is creating new laws (or broadening the Constitution) it is being liberal. There should not be any activist judges, only "passivist" ones.
The $20 billion is for Iraq and Afghanistan, not just Afghanistan. Those two wars are projected to cost $163 billion in 2011, which puts "air conditioning" costs at 12% of overall costs. But you are precisely right, the $20 billion spent per year on air conditioning is a perfect example of lying with statistics.
That's certainly true but unfortunately this phone could not have existed 2 years ago with the technology available then. It's a fabulous looking phone though.
IQ tests were designed with normal distributions and if results did not fit a normal distribution, they were conformed to one. They did this so we can use good old parametric stats with IQ test scores. So yes, IQ tests (at least the most widely-used one in the U.S.) were designed to have average at 100 with standard deviations of +-15.
Every once in a while new versions are created with new normative samples because the test changes but new generations of people tend to have higher IQs than the previous one (the Flynn Effect) and so the tests are re-normed to force the mean back to 100.
I research brains and haven't ever seen good numbers. It's really hard to equate brain processing with computer processing. In some ways brains are far superior and in others, far inferior. There seems to be no upper limit on what our brains can learn so essentially we have unlimited hard drive storage. However, for active processes, we're quite limited in what we can do in parallel - sort of. We do many things in parallel but not many consciously (i.e., our sensory systems are always going and our motor and vestibular systems are always going but what we are actively think about is generally limited to one thing at a time, although we can rapidly switch between thoughts).
The link below (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2252976&cid=36500020) is interesting but is still too simplistic. Again, people's brain don't really work like computers so it would be quite a stretch to come up with any sort of FLOPS value. RAM is also difficult to equate with brain processing power but our brains have infinite hard drive space (we just have difficulty accessing information some times). Even then, we don't really store memories like bits on a hard drive. We recreate memories whenever we access them, as far as we know.
Pres. Bush never lied to Congress, at least about either Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm not saying whether or not I think either war was justified and a good idea, but at some point we need to stop repeating the mantra about Pres. Bush lying to get support to start the Iraq War - it simply is not true. He said nothing more than what every major intelligence agency around the world had been saying for over a decade - that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and was actively developing more. We didn't find any WMDs in Iraq but we did find evidence of active development of them. Anyway, this is getting way too off topic.
Pres. Bush got authorization from Congress before starting any wars or doing any extended attacks on nations. Pres. Obama hasn't even tried to get authorization. I'm not arguing whether or not he has to but he could at least talk with Congress and ask for their approval. Of course, this type of bickering between the executive branch and legislative branch has been going on for at least a couple hundred years but there does seem to have been a grab for more executive power in recent years.
Unless you go with VoIP. I have VoIP at home - call waiting, call display, voicemail, unlimited U.S. and Canada and Puerto Rico calls, voicemail email alerts (plus attaching the message), etc. - that costs only about $4 per month (and I've never had an issue with it). Plus, if I travelled, I could take the router with me and have unlimited phone service wherever I am with decent high speed internet access. There's no way I'm canceling my home internet so that's a given cost any way I go. Even the cheapest cell phone plans in the U.S. will be about $25 - $30 per month (unless you do prepaid). That means I save more than $250 per year compared to the cheapest cell plans.
But, if you are stuck with traditional land lines or Vonage, it would be better just to go with a cell phone. Some of us just happen to be able to get phone service for much cheaper.
I've eyed it but the screen is the biggest issue with me. I've heard a lot of people think the screen is just fine but I heard more people who disliked the screen enough to sell the gTablet and get something else. You're fortunately in the group who thinks the screen is good enough. If I get an Android tablet, I'm going to wait a year once the prices go down more and the features increase. I'm pretty tied into the Apple ecosystem though and I wouldn't want to put too much money into Android at this point.
Looking at the results, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer comes out on top. I don't know how the designs compare but the Asus looks like a better deal, especially considering you can get a 32GB model for the same price as the 16GB Samsung. Neither at those price points is compelling enough to outdo the iPad 2 though. If they were $400 or $350, then they'd be compelling enough to get instead of the iPad. As the reviewers noted though, the tablet-centric apps just aren't there yet for the Android Market whereas there are a ton of useful iPad apps.
I always just assumed businesses would do something like that and put it under their marketing budget. If you are a competent business owner you should be able to use Groupon(esque) deals to generate a lot of new business. If people like your products, a lot will come back.
Because, as you said, grammar Nazis worry about the syntactic structures of sentences but do not necessarily worry about semantics. Spelling Nazis worry about semantics but not syntax. They are overlapping but not completely overlapping categories.
Or, is an intellectual someone who is removed from the real world by dwelling in the pillared halls of academia? Is an intellectual someone who condescendingly looks down on the unwashed masses? There are a lot of uses of intellectualism - some are positive and some are not. It depends on the person. We have to define intellectual (like you were implying) before we can have a more meaningful discussion about whether or not post-modern-neo-lib-con-uber geeks are pro- or anti-intellectualism.
Slashdot Mirror
Great comment. That's exactly how slides should be in most cases. The difficulty comes in academic settings but even here we could all be better in our presentations. Another problem comes with presenters not being good enough speakers to be able to pull that style off, although if the material is compelling enough, the speaker is merely a conduit, regardless of his or her skill.
That's why I think Apple's (Steve Jobs' et al.) use of presentation software is ideal - there's an image and a little text at most per slide. I try to keep that philosophy in mind when I give presentations - little text, lots of pictures, and me filling in the rest verbally. That minimalism doesn't always work in academic settings but I've had reasonable success in emulating the Apple style (I'm not saying they created that idea, Apple presenters just do a good job at using presentation software).
Liberal and conservative in the judiciary sense roughly equal flexible constitutionalists and strict constitutionalists, respectively. So yes, you are correct, only liberal judges can be activist. Now, that doesn't mean that the liberal judiciary is not socially conservative or vice versa but any time the judiciary is creating new laws (or broadening the Constitution) it is being liberal. There should not be any activist judges, only "passivist" ones.
The $20 billion is for Iraq and Afghanistan, not just Afghanistan. Those two wars are projected to cost $163 billion in 2011, which puts "air conditioning" costs at 12% of overall costs. But you are precisely right, the $20 billion spent per year on air conditioning is a perfect example of lying with statistics.
Apple didn't hire Jeff Han. Apple acquired FingerWorks, which was working on projects similar to what Han was doing. Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=272326
That's certainly true but unfortunately this phone could not have existed 2 years ago with the technology available then. It's a fabulous looking phone though.
IQ tests were designed with normal distributions and if results did not fit a normal distribution, they were conformed to one. They did this so we can use good old parametric stats with IQ test scores. So yes, IQ tests (at least the most widely-used one in the U.S.) were designed to have average at 100 with standard deviations of +-15.
Every once in a while new versions are created with new normative samples because the test changes but new generations of people tend to have higher IQs than the previous one (the Flynn Effect) and so the tests are re-normed to force the mean back to 100.
I research brains and haven't ever seen good numbers. It's really hard to equate brain processing with computer processing. In some ways brains are far superior and in others, far inferior. There seems to be no upper limit on what our brains can learn so essentially we have unlimited hard drive storage. However, for active processes, we're quite limited in what we can do in parallel - sort of. We do many things in parallel but not many consciously (i.e., our sensory systems are always going and our motor and vestibular systems are always going but what we are actively think about is generally limited to one thing at a time, although we can rapidly switch between thoughts).
The link below (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2252976&cid=36500020) is interesting but is still too simplistic. Again, people's brain don't really work like computers so it would be quite a stretch to come up with any sort of FLOPS value. RAM is also difficult to equate with brain processing power but our brains have infinite hard drive space (we just have difficulty accessing information some times). Even then, we don't really store memories like bits on a hard drive. We recreate memories whenever we access them, as far as we know.
Pres. Bush never lied to Congress, at least about either Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm not saying whether or not I think either war was justified and a good idea, but at some point we need to stop repeating the mantra about Pres. Bush lying to get support to start the Iraq War - it simply is not true. He said nothing more than what every major intelligence agency around the world had been saying for over a decade - that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and was actively developing more. We didn't find any WMDs in Iraq but we did find evidence of active development of them. Anyway, this is getting way too off topic.
Pres. Bush got authorization from Congress before starting any wars or doing any extended attacks on nations. Pres. Obama hasn't even tried to get authorization. I'm not arguing whether or not he has to but he could at least talk with Congress and ask for their approval. Of course, this type of bickering between the executive branch and legislative branch has been going on for at least a couple hundred years but there does seem to have been a grab for more executive power in recent years.
Thanks for those other article links. They're all much better than the not-particularly-helpful original article.
Unless you go with VoIP. I have VoIP at home - call waiting, call display, voicemail, unlimited U.S. and Canada and Puerto Rico calls, voicemail email alerts (plus attaching the message), etc. - that costs only about $4 per month (and I've never had an issue with it). Plus, if I travelled, I could take the router with me and have unlimited phone service wherever I am with decent high speed internet access. There's no way I'm canceling my home internet so that's a given cost any way I go. Even the cheapest cell phone plans in the U.S. will be about $25 - $30 per month (unless you do prepaid). That means I save more than $250 per year compared to the cheapest cell plans.
But, if you are stuck with traditional land lines or Vonage, it would be better just to go with a cell phone. Some of us just happen to be able to get phone service for much cheaper.
The networkworld (why are we posting a solar/space article from there?) article links to a much better Cosmic Log article: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/14/6857473-solar-forecast-hints-at-a-big-chill
Great, now all my time playing Madden has not been in vain! Huge NFL contract, here I come.
You could do it with a low end Mac and have a browser that costs only $600. ;)
I've eyed it but the screen is the biggest issue with me. I've heard a lot of people think the screen is just fine but I heard more people who disliked the screen enough to sell the gTablet and get something else. You're fortunately in the group who thinks the screen is good enough. If I get an Android tablet, I'm going to wait a year once the prices go down more and the features increase. I'm pretty tied into the Apple ecosystem though and I wouldn't want to put too much money into Android at this point.
Looking at the results, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer comes out on top. I don't know how the designs compare but the Asus looks like a better deal, especially considering you can get a 32GB model for the same price as the 16GB Samsung. Neither at those price points is compelling enough to outdo the iPad 2 though. If they were $400 or $350, then they'd be compelling enough to get instead of the iPad. As the reviewers noted though, the tablet-centric apps just aren't there yet for the Android Market whereas there are a ton of useful iPad apps.
I always just assumed businesses would do something like that and put it under their marketing budget. If you are a competent business owner you should be able to use Groupon(esque) deals to generate a lot of new business. If people like your products, a lot will come back.
Or, you can just click the record button (and then click to stop it). That's usually what I do.
Here's one of my Doodle songs: http://youtu.be/5tPoLqSQNmw
Because, as you said, grammar Nazis worry about the syntactic structures of sentences but do not necessarily worry about semantics. Spelling Nazis worry about semantics but not syntax. They are overlapping but not completely overlapping categories.
I posted this just above but Apple doesn't have a $15 billion war chest, they have a $66 billion war chest: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/27/7-fun-facts-about-apples-cash/
Apple has considerably more than $16 billion. They have $66 billion in cash and marketable securities (source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/27/7-fun-facts-about-apples-cash/). Pretty much whatever the building costs will be a drop in the bucket for Apple.
I'm sure that Watson's speech recognition probably won't do very well with LISPs.
Or, is an intellectual someone who is removed from the real world by dwelling in the pillared halls of academia? Is an intellectual someone who condescendingly looks down on the unwashed masses? There are a lot of uses of intellectualism - some are positive and some are not. It depends on the person. We have to define intellectual (like you were implying) before we can have a more meaningful discussion about whether or not post-modern-neo-lib-con-uber geeks are pro- or anti-intellectualism.