This sounds so great until you realize that he was actually saying it to make fun of Robert Hook's short stature. Newton could be a very petty man in many ways, and he unwillingness to acknowledge Hook (and Leibniz) is the stuff of legend.
Exactly. I'd like:
1) To be able install some form of linux right off the bat, have it autodetect all my hardware and just WORK.
2) To install programs simply by going to some kind of "Install New Software" select the program (possibly from some ordered list of say, Word Processors, Graphics Packages, Games etc etc) and have it download and install, with a password required for install.
3) Never see the command line unless I want to. I don't want to have to compile things from a text interface. Hell, I don't want to compile things at all. Let me configure things through the GUI, let the techy people configure by editing text files.
4) Some kind of plug-and-play like utility for new hardware. I shouldn't have to mount a USB drive from the command line, it should just be recognised.
5) I know this is a licensing thing, but I'd really like to get standard formats to work (mp3, jpeg, wmv, etc) without having to poke around.
Anyone else notice that the top few "examples" of girlfriends come from... Star Trek, Family Guy, Star Wars, Superman - looks like they know their target audience...
Truly outrageous. Reminds me of an outer limits episode - "Judgment Day". NBC deserve to get taken to the cleaners for this, and all the other people whose lives they ruined (IIRC the prosecution of the people 'entrapped' was thrown out of court).
Yeah really. I see ads regularly scaring parents that 1 in 5 teenagers have been approached for sex on the internet. Given that about 1/4 of teenagers are 18 or 19, this made me laugh. The ads even have little notes stating that teenager is 13-19, the sample was of internet users etc etc...
Cheaper, more environmentally friendly cars exist, and do exactly what we need from cars Does this put a roadblock on high performance cars or SUVs? No, because people always want something "better". Also, you make a lot less profit selling a $100 laptop, so I'm pretty sure high end machines will continue to be "necessary".
On a sidenote, the BBC did an incredible series, The 7 Wonders of the Industrial World which was absolutely fascinating. I got it for my grandfather-in-law's birthday (he's a civil engineer), and watching the series you realize why some of these things really are wonders. The design, planning and sheer amount of labour that went into some of these is incredible. I'd consider it recommended reading for anyone considering thinking about "new" wonders of the world.
A LOT of funding is restricted to US citizens only - funding from the armed forces, for example (I'm in physics) and a lot of donated scholarships are US citizen only. True, assistantships tend to be evenly distributed, but all the really cool stuff is US citizen only. Sometimes it feels like if you're an american and can count past 7 you'll get a scholarship, but if you're foreign you need to win a nobel first...
But then good players would be lumped together with cheats, which is no fun whatsoever. I play CSS somewhat competitively, but love playing on a few pub servers too. It's no fun at all, though, when someone who obviously hacks comes in. Sure, there are noob servers out there and anyone who's good should leave them alone so people can have fun there, but all your scheme would do is shift the problem to servers for good players.
This is what cherry picking data really does: Imagine you roll a die, and only record the result when it lands on a 6. Your conclusion is that rolling a die produces a 6 every time. Or to make it look realistic, just remove about half the times it lands below a 3. That way you get an average of around 4. That's pretty much what the global warming deniers do. Cherry picking data is possibly the most outrageous of scientific misconduct. Sadly it's all too common these days - even in intro science courses in college, a lot of kids throw away experimental results if they don't agree with "What I'm supposed to get" and far too many courses reward getting the "right" result ahead of performing the experiment thoroughly and interpreting the real data your receive.
Possibly, or she could have been mass-mailing them - sending a text to many numbers at once, and getting charged for each. Either way, it's a travesty just how much is charged for text messages. Someone more geeky^H^H^H^H^H knowledgeable than I can probably fill you in the the cost per byte or whatever...
Or maybe there are no "good guys" or "bad guys" and we just praise people when they do something we approve of and moan about it when they do something we disapprove of, you know, like rational people do. "But mommy, I'm a good guy, I helped my sister with her homework yesterday, and now you're mad because I stole a cookie. Don't you see that I'm a good guy?"
Then clearly it is only a relationship between being forced to watch porn and rape sentencing, not just watching right? I mean, I could watch porn every waking hour apart from that involved in the study and still be in the "no exposure" group.
Sorry about missing the numbers, my stupidity in not reading properly! Also, I'd question how support for the liberation movement was measured - wording things in certain ways can change the outcome of any questionnaire to whatever you like, as was drilled into us when we did discrete stats. Thanks for the reference, I'll try to check it out if I can.
Does an MMath with Statistics count? I'd agree that you can get somewhat informative results with a sample size that small, but what I'd really want to know is how the sampling was done: How was exposure to porn controlled? I can't think of any student I knew when I was an undergraduate who hadn't had "massive" exposure to porn since they were 16...
Also you call 100 maximal support, yet the female control group scores 119, and another group over 140, so I'm not so sure I understand your numbers. Could you elaborate further or give a link with more details? This is very interesting to me - I'd like to know exactly how the measurements were taken and exactly what was being measured. A sample size of 40 can be significant in a continuum scale, for example, but on a small discrete scale (Yes/No or Very Happy, Happy, Ambivalent, Not Happy) it is not significant (IIRC, it's been a few years;-) ).
Of course, outside statistics people will argue whether or not shorter prison sentences really count as condoning rape. Perhaps that's what punishment they believe the crime merits. I don't condone murder, but I don't think every murderer should be locked up for 30 years or executed by the state, for example.
Big USA myth to bust here: No-one's forced - you can either not own a TV or have one that is unable to recieve a broadcast signal if you don't want to pay. OK you have to pay a TV license if you have a TV, but you are in no way forced to pay, any more than you're forced to pay road tax etc if you don't own a car. When you pay for cable you fund a lot of shows you don't want - you could always not buy cable. Pretty similar really - if you get the service, you pay for it. Admittedly, you don't get the free to air channels in the UK without paying for your TV license, but on the whole it really is very similar.
If your cable company offered you everything that the BBC does for $20/month, wouldn't that be a good deal? I think so, personally. In fact, for me it'd be worth it for news 24 alone...
Don't forget militaristic Keynesianism - large employment and economic pumping through investment in the military. It was what fueled the germany of the late 30s and seems to be paying off in the USA currently.
But, every time I see this I'm glad we have the BBC. 45 minutes of uninterrupted Dr Who, Star Trek etc etc. Record, timeshift, playback, all fine, no adverts in the middle of programs, only short ads for other programs inbetween, and none of those ridiculous little banner things than cover up the bottom 1/4 of the screen during a show.
I know that not everyone likes the license fee, but honestly I think it's by far the lesser of two evils.
What's that? Colonel Xenu? Argh, It's true! It's all true! Even the bits about planes in space and volcanic hydrogen bombs that were ripped from a sci-fi novel...
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This sounds so great until you realize that he was actually saying it to make fun of Robert Hook's short stature. Newton could be a very petty man in many ways, and he unwillingness to acknowledge Hook (and Leibniz) is the stuff of legend.
Exactly. I'd like: 1) To be able install some form of linux right off the bat, have it autodetect all my hardware and just WORK. 2) To install programs simply by going to some kind of "Install New Software" select the program (possibly from some ordered list of say, Word Processors, Graphics Packages, Games etc etc) and have it download and install, with a password required for install. 3) Never see the command line unless I want to. I don't want to have to compile things from a text interface. Hell, I don't want to compile things at all. Let me configure things through the GUI, let the techy people configure by editing text files. 4) Some kind of plug-and-play like utility for new hardware. I shouldn't have to mount a USB drive from the command line, it should just be recognised. 5) I know this is a licensing thing, but I'd really like to get standard formats to work (mp3, jpeg, wmv, etc) without having to poke around.
Are you trying to use the anthropic principle with reference to Die Hard? Bravo!
Anyone else notice that the top few "examples" of girlfriends come from... Star Trek, Family Guy, Star Wars, Superman - looks like they know their target audience...
Truly outrageous. Reminds me of an outer limits episode - "Judgment Day". NBC deserve to get taken to the cleaners for this, and all the other people whose lives they ruined (IIRC the prosecution of the people 'entrapped' was thrown out of court).
Yeah really. I see ads regularly scaring parents that 1 in 5 teenagers have been approached for sex on the internet. Given that about 1/4 of teenagers are 18 or 19, this made me laugh. The ads even have little notes stating that teenager is 13-19, the sample was of internet users etc etc...
I try this and I get "nothing for you to see here"... guess it's affecting slashdot too? ;-)
Cheaper, more environmentally friendly cars exist, and do exactly what we need from cars Does this put a roadblock on high performance cars or SUVs? No, because people always want something "better". Also, you make a lot less profit selling a $100 laptop, so I'm pretty sure high end machines will continue to be "necessary".
On a sidenote, the BBC did an incredible series, The 7 Wonders of the Industrial World which was absolutely fascinating. I got it for my grandfather-in-law's birthday (he's a civil engineer), and watching the series you realize why some of these things really are wonders. The design, planning and sheer amount of labour that went into some of these is incredible. I'd consider it recommended reading for anyone considering thinking about "new" wonders of the world.
A LOT of funding is restricted to US citizens only - funding from the armed forces, for example (I'm in physics) and a lot of donated scholarships are US citizen only. True, assistantships tend to be evenly distributed, but all the really cool stuff is US citizen only. Sometimes it feels like if you're an american and can count past 7 you'll get a scholarship, but if you're foreign you need to win a nobel first...
But then good players would be lumped together with cheats, which is no fun whatsoever. I play CSS somewhat competitively, but love playing on a few pub servers too. It's no fun at all, though, when someone who obviously hacks comes in. Sure, there are noob servers out there and anyone who's good should leave them alone so people can have fun there, but all your scheme would do is shift the problem to servers for good players.
True, but if the RIAA wins it shafts a President, which is also good...
Yep, but to continue the Star-Trek theme here (God, we really are geeks, aren't we?) he's now just a part of the Borgle.
Your Dad isn't Patrick McGoohan, is he?
This is what cherry picking data really does: Imagine you roll a die, and only record the result when it lands on a 6. Your conclusion is that rolling a die produces a 6 every time. Or to make it look realistic, just remove about half the times it lands below a 3. That way you get an average of around 4. That's pretty much what the global warming deniers do. Cherry picking data is possibly the most outrageous of scientific misconduct. Sadly it's all too common these days - even in intro science courses in college, a lot of kids throw away experimental results if they don't agree with "What I'm supposed to get" and far too many courses reward getting the "right" result ahead of performing the experiment thoroughly and interpreting the real data your receive.
Possibly, or she could have been mass-mailing them - sending a text to many numbers at once, and getting charged for each. Either way, it's a travesty just how much is charged for text messages. Someone more geeky^H^H^H^H^H knowledgeable than I can probably fill you in the the cost per byte or whatever...
Or maybe there are no "good guys" or "bad guys" and we just praise people when they do something we approve of and moan about it when they do something we disapprove of, you know, like rational people do. "But mommy, I'm a good guy, I helped my sister with her homework yesterday, and now you're mad because I stole a cookie. Don't you see that I'm a good guy?"
Then clearly it is only a relationship between being forced to watch porn and rape sentencing, not just watching right? I mean, I could watch porn every waking hour apart from that involved in the study and still be in the "no exposure" group.
Sorry about missing the numbers, my stupidity in not reading properly! Also, I'd question how support for the liberation movement was measured - wording things in certain ways can change the outcome of any questionnaire to whatever you like, as was drilled into us when we did discrete stats. Thanks for the reference, I'll try to check it out if I can.
Does an MMath with Statistics count? I'd agree that you can get somewhat informative results with a sample size that small, but what I'd really want to know is how the sampling was done: How was exposure to porn controlled? I can't think of any student I knew when I was an undergraduate who hadn't had "massive" exposure to porn since they were 16...
;-) ).
Also you call 100 maximal support, yet the female control group scores 119, and another group over 140, so I'm not so sure I understand your numbers. Could you elaborate further or give a link with more details? This is very interesting to me - I'd like to know exactly how the measurements were taken and exactly what was being measured. A sample size of 40 can be significant in a continuum scale, for example, but on a small discrete scale (Yes/No or Very Happy, Happy, Ambivalent, Not Happy) it is not significant (IIRC, it's been a few years
Of course, outside statistics people will argue whether or not shorter prison sentences really count as condoning rape. Perhaps that's what punishment they believe the crime merits. I don't condone murder, but I don't think every murderer should be locked up for 30 years or executed by the state, for example.
I've been stuck behind semi walls for 15 miles on the interstate in the past, so you might want to re-think that one...
Big USA myth to bust here: No-one's forced - you can either not own a TV or have one that is unable to recieve a broadcast signal if you don't want to pay. OK you have to pay a TV license if you have a TV, but you are in no way forced to pay, any more than you're forced to pay road tax etc if you don't own a car. When you pay for cable you fund a lot of shows you don't want - you could always not buy cable. Pretty similar really - if you get the service, you pay for it. Admittedly, you don't get the free to air channels in the UK without paying for your TV license, but on the whole it really is very similar.
If your cable company offered you everything that the BBC does for $20/month, wouldn't that be a good deal? I think so, personally. In fact, for me it'd be worth it for news 24 alone...
Don't forget militaristic Keynesianism - large employment and economic pumping through investment in the military. It was what fueled the germany of the late 30s and seems to be paying off in the USA currently.
But, every time I see this I'm glad we have the BBC. 45 minutes of uninterrupted Dr Who, Star Trek etc etc. Record, timeshift, playback, all fine, no adverts in the middle of programs, only short ads for other programs inbetween, and none of those ridiculous little banner things than cover up the bottom 1/4 of the screen during a show.
I know that not everyone likes the license fee, but honestly I think it's by far the lesser of two evils.
What's that? Colonel Xenu? Argh, It's true! It's all true! Even the bits about planes in space and volcanic hydrogen bombs that were ripped from a sci-fi novel...
Interesting != Insightful....