He exercises, reproduces, touches non-processed plant material, shows signs of growing up. He even LEAVES HIS COMPUTER ALONE! (Poor thing. Probably crashes in lonliness.)
Quick, somone hijack the space laser and fill his house with popcorn before he infects us.
Knee jerking doesn't help, since it implies short-term, not-thought-out solutions. Knee-jerk reactions tend to return you to where you were before you reacted (no lasting change).
Calmly finding a bank that is more responsible, and taking your business there is much better.
I would hope that you are looking very hard for new employment.
If you're not, then the management is right not to worry about the effect on at least one employee.
Employees at almost every job I've had talk about how horrible it is to work there, but very few of them do more about it than complain in the break room.
I noticed that one of the questions (in the FAQ) asked if UC would help restitute costs. Implying, "Will UC take any (non-verbal) responsibility for their mistake?"
The answer neatly sidestepped the question of moral responsibility and willingness to help, by referring to legal liability.
Interesting, but slimy.
More interesting still, is that UC made the FAQ, and could have reworded the question to make their answer sound less evasive.
The study may have been correctly done (other than concentrations of fungicide). The commentary, however, is not for the critical thinker.
The article goes on to say, "If confirmed by further experiments, the findings could help explain the decline in human male fertility over the past 50 years." In other words, "This is priliminary research, and we don't know anything yet, but we'd like to alarm you, so you'll read more."
Then at the end, some more alarming is done with the (to me) incredibly unsupported-yet-very-sure statement in the final paragraph.
Standard transmission. Parked paralell to the curb, with no one in front. Get in. Car still in (1st) gear, parking brake off. Turn the key, car starts moving and engine starts. Let up on the key. Shift to 2nd. Continue.
(I don't think that I've ever driven an automatic that would let itself try to start in D.)
Using four motors to overcome the same inertia/friction wouldn't take much more power than using one motor to do it. The power would be "spread out."
If each wheel had an separate motor that could make traction better, make control better, add redundancy in case of a motor failing, etc.
The problems that I see with having multiple motors are: 1. Several well-tested techologies for taking power from one motor to 2 or 4 wheels as needed already exist 2. More breakdowns (even if each breakdown is not as serious) 3. Coordination between motors 4. Is building 4 small motors more expensive than 1 big motor?
The second paragraph of the article contradicts the title.
It isn't the amount of homework that is harmful. It is the dysfunctional families. The homework just causes the underlying problem to show more clearly.
The article also doesn't define clearly what their definition of homework is. For example, the article compares
"U.S. math teachers on average assigned more than two hours of mathematics homework per week" with "Contrary to our expectations, one of the lowest levels was recorded in Japan -- about one hour a week."
and does says nothing about how much time students spend in school or tutoring
This is not an article written to appeal to critical thinking. This is an article that gives hazy information about the study along with several mis-equated terms and sensational buzzwords in order to support a political agenda.
Examples: sensationalist - "disproportionate advantage" sensationalist - "equity of access to opportunity" homework != "exercises in drill and memorization" the defition of homework that the study uses isn't given the reaon why they sometimes preferred '90 data over '94 data is skipped
Did you plow/plant/weed/harvest/transport the plants that you use to grind to get the flour that you used to bake the bread that you eat (or the plants that you used to feed the animal that you killed/butchered/packaged conveniently that you eat)? Did you also invent, mine, drill, smelt, refine, design, assemble, code all the steps to get the computer that you use to post silly things like that? I KNOW that you didn't buy the computer that I used to read your post and give it some of the attention that you wanted when you wrote it.
Many would agree that Richard Stallman, with his GNU manifest, has in fact initiated the Free Software movement, that later also yielded the opensource movement.
I wouldn't argue with this, but I'm not sure it contradicts the previous assertion (People who write code because they think they're going to change the world never do.) because I don't see that it was code-writing that did it.
The public-key encryption algorithm from RSA may be a better example of world-changing code, but I'm not sure it counts either.
If I'm missing something(s) obvious, I'm sure someone will let me know.
These are free, in print, new books from a real publisher (with permission of the authors). Baen is also republishing some old sf authors like Laumer and Leinster.
Plus they don't go obsolete. They don't require special equipment or power sources to use. One book is very cheap compared to a digital book reader. Can be dropped, kicked, thrown, sat on, with no real damage. Can be partially destroyed without total data loss. Can even stand a fair amount of water damage, with proper care for recovery.
Books don't have all the advantages, but they sure do have some real big ones.
a. Is not very fundamental either historically or geographically.
b. Has to do with the right to express ideas unpopular to people in power, and virtually nothing to do with profanity, pornography, or use of others' ideas.
Freedom of expression is neither a fundamental right, nor closely related to freedon of speech.
Slashdot Mirror
How many fathoms in a VAST?
Or is it drams in a VAST?
Perhaps, VASTs in a firkin?
I can never figure it out.
We have an intruder on /.
Fake geek sighted.
He exercises, reproduces, touches non-processed plant material, shows signs of growing up.
He even LEAVES HIS COMPUTER ALONE! (Poor thing. Probably crashes in lonliness.)
Quick, somone hijack the space laser and fill his house with popcorn before he infects us.
"Until someone does some knee jerking"
Knee jerking doesn't help, since it implies short-term, not-thought-out solutions. Knee-jerk reactions tend to return you to where you were before you reacted (no lasting change).
Calmly finding a bank that is more responsible, and taking your business there is much better.
Fear, sometimes. Caution, sometimes.
Ridicule, often. Weaseling, always.
But, laws never instill common sense or courtesy.
I would hope that you are looking very hard for new employment.
If you're not, then the management is right not to worry about the effect on at least one employee.
Employees at almost every job I've had talk about how horrible it is to work there, but very few of them do more about it than complain in the break room.
I noticed that one of the questions (in the FAQ) asked if UC would help restitute costs. Implying, "Will UC take any (non-verbal) responsibility for their mistake?"
The answer neatly sidestepped the question of moral responsibility and willingness to help, by referring to legal liability.
Interesting, but slimy.
More interesting still, is that UC made the FAQ, and could have reworded the question to make their answer sound less evasive.
The study may have been correctly done (other than concentrations of fungicide). The commentary, however, is not for the critical thinker.
The article goes on to say, "If confirmed by further experiments, the findings could help explain the decline in human male fertility over the past 50 years." In other words, "This is priliminary research, and we don't know anything yet, but we'd like to alarm you, so you'll read more."
Then at the end, some more alarming is done with the (to me) incredibly unsupported-yet-very-sure statement in the final paragraph.
You can't release an update to a Microsoft install CD.
They're Read Only.
MS could recall install CDs and issue *replacements*, but I can't see that really working.
I thought that only one AGP slot per board was part of the spec.
(to avoid overloading the video bus like happened when VLB was the fast video bus)
But, maybe I'm remembering speculation and not specification.
yep
you have perpetual motion
Standard transmission.
Parked paralell to the curb, with no one in front.
Get in.
Car still in (1st) gear, parking brake off.
Turn the key, car starts moving and engine starts.
Let up on the key.
Shift to 2nd.
Continue.
(I don't think that I've ever driven an automatic that would let itself try to start in D.)
My parents had a pick-up truck that I could start while it was in gear. No problem at all.
FYI: probably made in the late 70's, International (with the little IH logo in the grill).
Using four motors to overcome the same inertia/friction wouldn't take much more power than using one motor to do it. The power would be "spread out."
If each wheel had an separate motor that could make traction better, make control better, add redundancy in case of a motor failing, etc.
The problems that I see with having multiple motors are:
1. Several well-tested techologies for taking power from one motor to 2 or 4 wheels as needed already exist
2. More breakdowns (even if each breakdown is not as serious)
3. Coordination between motors
4. Is building 4 small motors more expensive than 1 big motor?
I'm sorry to have to point this out, but:
Using the Bar Association as an example of an organization that knows how to keep morons out probably wasn't the best choice.
The second paragraph of the article contradicts the title.
It isn't the amount of homework that is harmful. It is the dysfunctional families. The homework just causes the underlying problem to show more clearly.
The article also doesn't define clearly what their definition of homework is. For example, the article compares
"U.S. math teachers on average assigned more than two hours of mathematics homework per week" with
"Contrary to our expectations, one of the lowest levels was recorded in Japan -- about one hour a week."
and does says nothing about how much time students spend in school or tutoring
This is not an article written to appeal to critical thinking. This is an article that gives hazy information about the study along with several mis-equated terms and sensational buzzwords in order to support a political agenda.
Examples:
sensationalist - "disproportionate advantage"
sensationalist - "equity of access to opportunity"
homework != "exercises in drill and memorization"
the defition of homework that the study uses isn't given
the reaon why they sometimes preferred '90 data over '94 data is skipped
Did you plow/plant/weed/harvest/transport the plants that you use to grind to get the flour that you used to bake the bread that you eat (or the plants that you used to feed the animal that you killed/butchered/packaged conveniently that you eat)?
Did you also invent, mine, drill, smelt, refine, design, assemble, code all the steps to get the computer that you use to post silly things like that?
I KNOW that you didn't buy the computer that I used to read your post and give it some of the attention that you wanted when you wrote it.
Many would agree that Richard Stallman, with his GNU manifest, has in fact initiated the Free Software movement, that later also yielded the opensource movement.
I wouldn't argue with this, but I'm not sure it contradicts the previous assertion (People who write code because they think they're going to change the world never do.) because I don't see that it was code-writing that did it.
The public-key encryption algorithm from RSA may be a better example of world-changing code, but I'm not sure it counts either.
If I'm missing something(s) obvious, I'm sure someone will let me know.
That many buzzwords in the article significantly lowers my confidence in the value of the technology.
This may be related.
My deaf roommate told me that deaf people rarely get RSI from signing, while signing interpreters often do.
"The project also has drawn criticism in Europe for placing too much emphasis on material from the United States."
In other words, some Europeans are insisting that a US company has to do this for European content because they don't want to do it themselves?
Have you seen the Baen Free Library?
http://www.baen.com/library/
These are free, in print, new books from a real publisher (with permission of the authors).
Baen is also republishing some old sf authors like Laumer and Leinster.
Plus they don't go obsolete.
They don't require special equipment or power sources to use.
One book is very cheap compared to a digital book reader.
Can be dropped, kicked, thrown, sat on, with no real damage.
Can be partially destroyed without total data loss.
Can even stand a fair amount of water damage, with proper care for recovery.
Books don't have all the advantages, but they sure do have some real big ones.
The "fundamental human right to free speech"
a. Is not very fundamental either historically or geographically.
b. Has to do with the right to express ideas unpopular to people in power, and virtually nothing to do with profanity, pornography, or use of others' ideas.
Freedom of expression is neither a fundamental right, nor closely related to freedon of speech.
The author DOES have a choice.
He chooses to sell his rights to the publisher.