I think the reason why the definition of liberal is defined by opponents is because political terms are generally grouped into "agrees with me" and "doesn't agree with me" categories. It doesn't matter what the words are. Furthermore, their meanings are fluid and ambiguous. But if you fall in the left camp, you get to define right wing as "disagrees with me", and the right camp defines left wing as "disagrees with me". People within the right/left camps define the others in the same camp as "Mainstream Americans". Therefore there is really no one left to define the term but those outside the camp.
Also, there are several sets of people who generally agree on political topics, so to throw identification terms away completely would cause more confusion, not less. Each group wants as many people in their group as possible too, so they must make the group strong, but the boundaries fluid. To pretend that "liberal" or "conservative" have anything left of the classic meaning is pointless. They are whittled down to core party platforms and nothing else.
I can see how someone could see the word "game" and immediately associate "kids" with it. This is what the media depends on to add some shock value to the story. But I was not complaining about parents letting their kids play MA rated video games, just as I don't complain about parents letting their kids see R rated movies. I think the central issue here is a media bandwagon that politicians see and the facts are of no interest. It's all about appearances now.
The relevant facts to this story are that the game industry hasn't put enough lobbying money into congressional pockets, so they're being investigated. It's just like when Microsoft was getting hit by the DoJ. Whether you like it or not, the main difference between the DoJ's interest in Microsoft before, and the lack of interest now, is the amount of lobbying money flowing from them to congress. The interest of the DoJ quickly dwindled even before a Republican got elected to the whitehouse.
I'm not going to be one to join the "blame the parents" crowd. I think if someone is 17 then what they see in GTA is not going to cause any real damage.
The main problem is that politicians love to try and "fix" a popular issue by jumping on the media bandwagon. This happens with absolutely everything that gets wide media attention. I'm beginning to believe that they purposefully promote a misunderstanding of the issue in order to make it sound as bad as possible to get themselves political points. These congressmen have all the research staff and support one could possibly need to give them a full understanding that this is not much different than the myriad of patches and hacks that made women nude or such in past games.
To say that, however, would be like a politician getting up and saying "not all child molesters are that bad". The public would lynch him/her. The media have already spun the issue, and the public understands it as part of the main GTA game, not as something that requires a separate hack to download.
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Things I don't buy here, but I hear repeated over and over by "educational professionals":
"Parents are passing the buck...Kids are not well suited for the pressure"
It's like a mantra for educators. I think the reason why is because you only see the parents that are either pissed or that have to be there because a kid is failing. For the kids under pressure, I'm sure that you see many students not do as well as you have seen in classwork for a particular test, but it is usually not extremely far off from what they do normally. Even if a score is a bit off, it is not a completely out of proportion than the work they produce.
For points 3,4, and 5: The results are nice, but how would you implement them? What are "vocational options", "genuine consequences", and how would you measure "merit"?
Any student who has been through 12+ years of education had to experience many *first days*, and in college, seen quite a few.
The problem is you are on your high horse and won't take any idea from someone who hasn't gone through the laughable crap that people have to go through to get a teaching credential. I experienced the classes secondhand through friends and my mother when she went back to get a credential when I was in college.
I hope you see your extreme flaw in logic about someone observing many teachers over the years only learing "about how to be a STUDENT". When someone is learning how to do something, they observe. They do not simply become a good observer by observing something, but how to do what the other is doing.
And I think I know pretty well how I would do on my first day in a classroom, having experience lecturing in college on several occasions, and teaching in a Sunday school. Many have had experience teaching in different environments, whether it be coaching a kids' sports team, volunteering in scouting, or the many other things that parents and others experience sometimes in their lives.
This uses a wider frequency band than a TV station. Plus, since digital television is coming RSN, they won't be able to use another tech to make a broadband internet style transmission anyway.
It's a crazy tech, supposedly outside the FCC regulations. More info available here
"Our technology uses a narrowband channel, and places a carrier there for an extremely precise clock in the receiver," says Bobier. "The transmitter also transmits information in side bands, at levels lower than ultra-wideband. We are able to get performance comparable to a wideband licensed trasmission."
The low-power channel it uses can overlap with other users, because it is below the noise floor, creating "dual use" for the radio spectrum, claims Mooers.
The first xMax network is currently being built in Miami and Fort Lauderdale where one base station can deliver broadband Internet over a 40 square mile area.
But with that much area, you need to start worrying about capacity. What good is it to cover 40 sqmi when you can't get a packet through:
The capacity of that wireless network is not bigger than any other wireless technology, which means that more base stations need to be added if a certain number of people are using the network -- typically several hundreds to a 1,000 users.
Actually, the capacitor necklace is like one of those costume jewelry necklaces with a black (plastic?) hoop to go around your neck, and semicircular rings hanging from the front with other semicircular rings hanging from them. This is sort of like a short netting with the capacitors hanging down.
So it appears that some of the capacitors would be in parallel, but I don't think they are actually attached electrically. Also there are only six of them, and they are probably in the 50-100uF range, so they wouldn't pack much of a punch.
But this is not some failed part, this is a random chunk of ice that hit the shuttle wing on liftoff. What if it was spacejunk instead. A meteor?
Unless we have some futuristic sheilding technology, things hitting the shuttle hard and damaging it are going to happen. By your logic, because we don't have the sheilding technology (or the capability to repair the shuttle in space) then we should just wait around until someone invents these things before returning to space.
I think the real problem is each time you push for more improvements, the more complex the architecture gets. The article said that most developers would be using only one of the PS3's processors for most operations. Well, when you're used to designing for one processor, you tend to continue designing for one processor.
Each new feature added to the console requires learning that developers for past consoles, who have been used to the last console, will do slowly, and maybe reluctantly.
What developers really want is the *exact same* architecture, but much faster, more memory, etc. No more processors, no more complex ways of addressing different caches. Just make the thing the same, only faster, and developers would love it. Initially...
However, a year from now, the developers will learn the basics of the new consoles, and want something more. Then they will get into all those features that the new architecture gives them, and be excited to be the first to make a game that has realistic crumbling concrete when the tank slams into a wall, or whatever else they decide to do.
But asking a developer now about how their next gen console devkit performs is premature.
In one recent case, a small British online payment processing company, Protx, was shut down after being bombarded in a zombie attack and warned that problems would continue unless a $10,000 payment was made, the company said. It is not known whether the authorities ever arrested anyone in that case.
Where would they send the money? This is like a kidnapping scheme. There is far too much involved when you actually want something back from the person you commit the crime against. You would think they would be easier to catch.
Uninformative as slashdot threads may be, it looks like this book may be worse. There doesn't seem to be many movies between the "Alien" and "Matrix" series. Not to mention the author's short-list contains "Small Soldiers" and "Galaxy Quest". The most thoughtful sci-fi films aren't included. I think we at least need to include the Philip K Dick inspired movies:
Blade Runner Total Recall A.I. Minority Report Paycheck
If you love to argue and curse when you read something that's so way off base in interpretation or appears to lack any research in even the basic meanings that most Americans found in a SF film, then this is your book.
Not exactly a stellar promotion for the book. I think this thread may be more informative.
What's to stop the spammers from using a zombie to fake the sender id? It's a good step forward (you would know where the zombie was), but the bigger challenge would be to have some kind of capability to restrict mail servers to authenticated ones rather than some kind of recipient call-back mechanism. Otherwise the future of email will be "sender ID from mail server ZOMBIE294346.earthlink.net"
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What about SE (Software Engineering)?
Any government or unionized job.
I think the reason why the definition of liberal is defined by opponents is because political terms are generally grouped into "agrees with me" and "doesn't agree with me" categories. It doesn't matter what the words are. Furthermore, their meanings are fluid and ambiguous. But if you fall in the left camp, you get to define right wing as "disagrees with me", and the right camp defines left wing as "disagrees with me". People within the right/left camps define the others in the same camp as "Mainstream Americans". Therefore there is really no one left to define the term but those outside the camp.
Also, there are several sets of people who generally agree on political topics, so to throw identification terms away completely would cause more confusion, not less. Each group wants as many people in their group as possible too, so they must make the group strong, but the boundaries fluid. To pretend that "liberal" or "conservative" have anything left of the classic meaning is pointless. They are whittled down to core party platforms and nothing else.
I can see how someone could see the word "game" and immediately associate "kids" with it. This is what the media depends on to add some shock value to the story. But I was not complaining about parents letting their kids play MA rated video games, just as I don't complain about parents letting their kids see R rated movies. I think the central issue here is a media bandwagon that politicians see and the facts are of no interest. It's all about appearances now.
The relevant facts to this story are that the game industry hasn't put enough lobbying money into congressional pockets, so they're being investigated. It's just like when Microsoft was getting hit by the DoJ. Whether you like it or not, the main difference between the DoJ's interest in Microsoft before, and the lack of interest now, is the amount of lobbying money flowing from them to congress. The interest of the DoJ quickly dwindled even before a Republican got elected to the whitehouse.
I'm not going to be one to join the "blame the parents" crowd. I think if someone is 17 then what they see in GTA is not going to cause any real damage.
The main problem is that politicians love to try and "fix" a popular issue by jumping on the media bandwagon. This happens with absolutely everything that gets wide media attention. I'm beginning to believe that they purposefully promote a misunderstanding of the issue in order to make it sound as bad as possible to get themselves political points. These congressmen have all the research staff and support one could possibly need to give them a full understanding that this is not much different than the myriad of patches and hacks that made women nude or such in past games.
To say that, however, would be like a politician getting up and saying "not all child molesters are that bad". The public would lynch him/her. The media have already spun the issue, and the public understands it as part of the main GTA game, not as something that requires a separate hack to download.
At nearly $1000, it's a little expensive though.
Like this one?
Samsung TXP2675
26 inch TV with Built-in High Definition Tuner with DVI-HDTV Interface with HDCP copy protection
Samsung TXP2675 / TXP2675WH / TX-P2675WH
$399.50
Things I don't buy here, but I hear repeated over and over by "educational professionals": "Parents are passing the buck...Kids are not well suited for the pressure" It's like a mantra for educators. I think the reason why is because you only see the parents that are either pissed or that have to be there because a kid is failing. For the kids under pressure, I'm sure that you see many students not do as well as you have seen in classwork for a particular test, but it is usually not extremely far off from what they do normally. Even if a score is a bit off, it is not a completely out of proportion than the work they produce. For points 3,4, and 5: The results are nice, but how would you implement them? What are "vocational options", "genuine consequences", and how would you measure "merit"?
Bull.
Any student who has been through 12+ years of education had to experience many *first days*, and in college, seen quite a few.
The problem is you are on your high horse and won't take any idea from someone who hasn't gone through the laughable crap that people have to go through to get a teaching credential. I experienced the classes secondhand through friends and my mother when she went back to get a credential when I was in college.
I hope you see your extreme flaw in logic about someone observing many teachers over the years only learing "about how to be a STUDENT". When someone is learning how to do something, they observe. They do not simply become a good observer by observing something, but how to do what the other is doing.
And I think I know pretty well how I would do on my first day in a classroom, having experience lecturing in college on several occasions, and teaching in a Sunday school. Many have had experience teaching in different environments, whether it be coaching a kids' sports team, volunteering in scouting, or the many other things that parents and others experience sometimes in their lives.
This uses a wider frequency band than a TV station. Plus, since digital television is coming RSN, they won't be able to use another tech to make a broadband internet style transmission anyway.
It's a crazy tech, supposedly outside the FCC regulations. More info available here
"Our technology uses a narrowband channel, and places a carrier there for an extremely precise clock in the receiver," says Bobier. "The transmitter also transmits information in side bands, at levels lower than ultra-wideband. We are able to get performance comparable to a wideband licensed trasmission."
The low-power channel it uses can overlap with other users, because it is below the noise floor, creating "dual use" for the radio spectrum, claims Mooers.
from the article:
The first xMax network is currently being built in Miami and Fort Lauderdale where one base station can deliver broadband Internet over a 40 square mile area.
But with that much area, you need to start worrying about capacity. What good is it to cover 40 sqmi when you can't get a packet through:
The capacity of that wireless network is not bigger than any other wireless technology, which means that more base stations need to be added if a certain number of people are using the network -- typically several hundreds to a 1,000 users.
All very nice expensive electronic gadgets to make you a good target for a mugger...
1) This thing costs over $1000
2) EV-DO cellular internet service for the internet connection is $80/mo
Maybe it would be better just to deal with being away from the internet when you're camping...
Just to be fair, there are a number of PG13 films that include the showing of breasts here in the USA. It's pretty rare though.
Actually, the capacitor necklace is like one of those costume jewelry necklaces with a black (plastic?) hoop to go around your neck, and semicircular rings hanging from the front with other semicircular rings hanging from them. This is sort of like a short netting with the capacitors hanging down. So it appears that some of the capacitors would be in parallel, but I don't think they are actually attached electrically. Also there are only six of them, and they are probably in the 50-100uF range, so they wouldn't pack much of a punch.
Why use a 13-16 Watt PowerPC chip when you can use a 27-watt Pentium M?
But this is not some failed part, this is a random chunk of ice that hit the shuttle wing on liftoff. What if it was spacejunk instead. A meteor?
Unless we have some futuristic sheilding technology, things hitting the shuttle hard and damaging it are going to happen. By your logic, because we don't have the sheilding technology (or the capability to repair the shuttle in space) then we should just wait around until someone invents these things before returning to space.
I think the real problem is each time you push for more improvements, the more complex the architecture gets. The article said that most developers would be using only one of the PS3's processors for most operations. Well, when you're used to designing for one processor, you tend to continue designing for one processor.
Each new feature added to the console requires learning that developers for past consoles, who have been used to the last console, will do slowly, and maybe reluctantly.
What developers really want is the *exact same* architecture, but much faster, more memory, etc. No more processors, no more complex ways of addressing different caches. Just make the thing the same, only faster, and developers would love it. Initially...
However, a year from now, the developers will learn the basics of the new consoles, and want something more. Then they will get into all those features that the new architecture gives them, and be excited to be the first to make a game that has realistic crumbling concrete when the tank slams into a wall, or whatever else they decide to do.
But asking a developer now about how their next gen console devkit performs is premature.
They look like models. We can't tell how fast they're moving because we need a frame of reference. Someone find me some clouds!
/obscure?
In one recent case, a small British online payment processing company, Protx, was shut down after being bombarded in a zombie attack and warned that problems would continue unless a $10,000 payment was made, the company said. It is not known whether the authorities ever arrested anyone in that case.
Where would they send the money? This is like a kidnapping scheme. There is far too much involved when you actually want something back from the person you commit the crime against. You would think they would be easier to catch.
here the site claims that: It is also rumored that Stanley Kubrick's in-production film, A.I., is based on Dick's Martian Time Slip
But I'm not sure as I haven't read the story.
Uninformative as slashdot threads may be, it looks like this book may be worse. There doesn't seem to be many movies between the "Alien" and "Matrix" series. Not to mention the author's short-list contains "Small Soldiers" and "Galaxy Quest". The most thoughtful sci-fi films aren't included. I think we at least need to include the Philip K Dick inspired movies:
Blade Runner
Total Recall
A.I.
Minority Report
Paycheck
If you love to argue and curse when you read something that's so way off base in interpretation or appears to lack any research in even the basic meanings that most Americans found in a SF film, then this is your book.
Not exactly a stellar promotion for the book. I think this thread may be more informative.
What's to stop the spammers from using a zombie to fake the sender id? It's a good step forward (you would know where the zombie was), but the bigger challenge would be to have some kind of capability to restrict mail servers to authenticated ones rather than some kind of recipient call-back mechanism. Otherwise the future of email will be "sender ID from mail server ZOMBIE294346.earthlink.net"