Click, Click, Click. What, no ammo?
And here is yet another one:
Space looks nice until you arrive
and a third and final story:
He would return, some millenniums later.
The spell-checker thinks millennia is incorrect.
Has anyone else ever wished that evolution would steer humanity into races that would correspond with the races Tolkien describes in his novels?
If humans with elf-style ears, "refined" features, and grace bred only with each other, we could have elves in less than a millenium.
I for one, would welcome our new Tolkien-based overlords!
The One Laptop per Child program isn't aimed at the television-owning, entertainment-consuming upper class (i.e. possible fat kids). The kids in question are unhealthy because they are diseased, starving, being shot at (maybe not), etc. Why the hell is the Indian HRD talking about back and eye problems? It's not as if those problems will make much of a difference in the lives of the children in question (they don't make a difference in mine, at any rate).
And as for budget concerns, India will be much richer when its kids become as educated (or something) as the kids in the west.
I'm not sure there's a point to psychology. Isn't that subject-matter more rigorously covered in neuroscience? Or does psychology cover mind while neuroscience covers brain?
Of course, psychology does have some study that follows the scientific method (rat-maze experiments, for instance), but how can you trust a subject that claims to be a "science" and yet has differing opinions, like philosophy, which is not experimental. I know scientists have arguements, but psychology really seems to have lots of theories going around, and not too many proofs.
I know that personality tests are not the only field of psychology, but I do not understand why we even study something that doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose. Feel free to change my mind.
I've had issues with my linux geek friend in the past (programming languages and what belongs in the tolkien canon are the major ones I can think of. welcome to slashdot) He insists that linux was something like the most complicated thing in existance. I wonder if it's a coincidence that he tells people how much he understands it?
My dad's a tech guy (his girlfriend broke up with him because he "wasted" money on a PC, instead of a trip to Europe - this was back in the day). He suceeded in installing Suse Linux Personal 9.2, and it worked, but it was not receiving the network signal. He searched for help and the driver, but basically suse's help assumed a great knowledge of linux was already within your system. Admittedly, the fact that a lot of support was in German didn't help either. But my father, who was editor for a tech magazine, now is a fervent believer in linux dying. He doesn't want it to, but he believes it's run by hackers who don't care about the average user. Now this is a guy who went to an Ivy, has lived tech for a while, and everyone believes is a genius (sadly, I only inherited the second trait). Because of all this, I think the linux community definitely leans toward the anti-noob side. These are only two examples though, so who knows?
He definetely has nothing against MIT. He donated $20 million towards their Stata Center and got a tower named after him.
The Stata Center contains MIT's CS and AI Lab, Lab for Information Decision Systems, and their Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. It has really crazy architecture, and computer scientists aren't very fond of it because of "wasted space."
...the XBox 360 has no "killer apps", and no really outstanding games. The reason people buy gaming consoles is for their games, not because of nifty features. The 360 is going to go down without a fight if it doesn't release Halo 3 by the time the PS3 is coming around (and I really would be surprised/disappointed if Sony let Microsoft have another holiday season all to itself).
"Bronze coins from the period of Theodosius, the 4th-century AD Byzantine Emperor who abolished the ancient
Olympic Games, were also found hidden inside the wall."
Sort of an important detail, don't you think?
Yeah, Neal Stephenson's books are the bane of movie-makers. He doesn't just write quite a few details; he's the most detailed author in existance. I never wanted to know that much about Captain Crunch, productivity at work based on the last time you masturbated and how many times you see your love interest, or sexual fetishes such as stockings and doing it on top of antique furniture. The thing is, Neal Stephenson makes everything interesting (and hilarious). Even the mathematics of masturbation and productivity.
It would really suck to make the Cryptonomicon movie though.
The answer, to me, seems obvious. Most people in Africa live shitty lives. They've no where to go but up, not that its easy to get there. Most people in America live (comparitively) nice lives. They've got more room below them than above them (if you will, for a moment, visualize the "happiness spectrum"). So we probably have less hope for a "better tomorrow."
Also, I'm pretty sure there isn't much pressure to succeed in Poor Random East African Village. In America (and Japan), success is more readily available, and thus the pressure to achieve it is higher because you look incompetent if you don't succeed. In Africa, to use a generalization, you have almost no chance of succeeding anyway.
For purposes of this post, success/points on the happiness spectrum = making more than a living wage and not having a "stronger" mental disorder than ADD (points increase as wages rise and mental disorders fall).
what effect will it have on the ocean? Will it disrupt the wild life? What does this thing have going against it? That was a poor article for Wired. If this technology is going to be so successful why isn't being tried all over the place? It must have opposition for some reason. Wired didn't cover it in the story however.
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I have never been more happy at my misunderstanding of something.
Click, Click, Click. What, no ammo? And here is yet another one: Space looks nice until you arrive and a third and final story: He would return, some millenniums later. The spell-checker thinks millennia is incorrect.
Has anyone else ever wished that evolution would steer humanity into races that would correspond with the races Tolkien describes in his novels? If humans with elf-style ears, "refined" features, and grace bred only with each other, we could have elves in less than a millenium. I for one, would welcome our new Tolkien-based overlords!
there are definitely worse things to be crippled by.
Also note that U is the 21st letter in the alphabet and B is the 2nd. 21 + 2 = 23.
And as for budget concerns, India will be much richer when its kids become as educated (or something) as the kids in the west.
The form of punishment they're supposed to use is the Lib Dems, right?
By today's definition: the scientist. The Sumerians (astronomers/mathematicians) beat the Greeks (who did both).
Of course, psychology does have some study that follows the scientific method (rat-maze experiments, for instance), but how can you trust a subject that claims to be a "science" and yet has differing opinions, like philosophy, which is not experimental. I know scientists have arguements, but psychology really seems to have lots of theories going around, and not too many proofs.
I know that personality tests are not the only field of psychology, but I do not understand why we even study something that doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose. Feel free to change my mind.
My dad's a tech guy (his girlfriend broke up with him because he "wasted" money on a PC, instead of a trip to Europe - this was back in the day). He suceeded in installing Suse Linux Personal 9.2, and it worked, but it was not receiving the network signal. He searched for help and the driver, but basically suse's help assumed a great knowledge of linux was already within your system. Admittedly, the fact that a lot of support was in German didn't help either. But my father, who was editor for a tech magazine, now is a fervent believer in linux dying. He doesn't want it to, but he believes it's run by hackers who don't care about the average user. Now this is a guy who went to an Ivy, has lived tech for a while, and everyone believes is a genius (sadly, I only inherited the second trait). Because of all this, I think the linux community definitely leans toward the anti-noob side. These are only two examples though, so who knows?
I'm not entirely certain that geeks sleep OR have sex, although they do take quick naps in company team-building.
Would information warfare be locking Muslims in libraries and then throwing books at them?
He definetely has nothing against MIT. He donated $20 million towards their Stata Center and got a tower named after him. The Stata Center contains MIT's CS and AI Lab, Lab for Information Decision Systems, and their Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. It has really crazy architecture, and computer scientists aren't very fond of it because of "wasted space."
Yes, we liberals enjoy blowing each other's brains out in a nice game of Unreal Tournament.
...the entire fantasy genre is built upon racism.
I wonder if Microsoft's strategy is to market to blind people who think they're purchasing PSPs...
This is so much better than Mardi Gras.
...the XBox 360 has no "killer apps", and no really outstanding games. The reason people buy gaming consoles is for their games, not because of nifty features. The 360 is going to go down without a fight if it doesn't release Halo 3 by the time the PS3 is coming around (and I really would be surprised/disappointed if Sony let Microsoft have another holiday season all to itself).
On the other hand, the amount of time working may be equal to skill (efficiency). Doesn't practice make more skill?
Ultimately, the worker with the most skill will finish the work faster. However, the ideal worker will be efficient and spend more time working.
Personally, I think Blizzard should reward players that show both skill and commitment.
"Bronze coins from the period of Theodosius, the 4th-century AD Byzantine Emperor who abolished the ancient Olympic Games, were also found hidden inside the wall." Sort of an important detail, don't you think?
Yeah, Neal Stephenson's books are the bane of movie-makers. He doesn't just write quite a few details; he's the most detailed author in existance. I never wanted to know that much about Captain Crunch, productivity at work based on the last time you masturbated and how many times you see your love interest, or sexual fetishes such as stockings and doing it on top of antique furniture. The thing is, Neal Stephenson makes everything interesting (and hilarious). Even the mathematics of masturbation and productivity. It would really suck to make the Cryptonomicon movie though.
The answer, to me, seems obvious. Most people in Africa live shitty lives. They've no where to go but up, not that its easy to get there. Most people in America live (comparitively) nice lives. They've got more room below them than above them (if you will, for a moment, visualize the "happiness spectrum"). So we probably have less hope for a "better tomorrow." Also, I'm pretty sure there isn't much pressure to succeed in Poor Random East African Village. In America (and Japan), success is more readily available, and thus the pressure to achieve it is higher because you look incompetent if you don't succeed. In Africa, to use a generalization, you have almost no chance of succeeding anyway. For purposes of this post, success/points on the happiness spectrum = making more than a living wage and not having a "stronger" mental disorder than ADD (points increase as wages rise and mental disorders fall).
my grandma is dead you insensitive clod!
what effect will it have on the ocean? Will it disrupt the wild life? What does this thing have going against it? That was a poor article for Wired. If this technology is going to be so successful why isn't being tried all over the place? It must have opposition for some reason. Wired didn't cover it in the story however.
This is the first thing that came up on a google search for portable PDA. Only can be bought in large quantities for lots of money (240 for 1-5) http://www.calcuscribe.com/ Here's another discussion about them. Should offer good reviews. http://www.itreviews.co.uk/forum/353 Here's the cheapest one I've found in what little searching I've done. http://www.adapt-it.org.uk/products/neoportablewor dprocessor.asp