It had free math tutoring for women (not men). You misunderstand the purpose of this "tutoring"... "Hey, baby, why don't you come over to my place and I'll... tutor you all night long!" You probably think letting ladies into nightclubs for free is an unfair advantage too...
Oh yeah? Well, men do now and always will dominate the field of writing their names in the snow while taking a leak, so there!
The difference in means between the sexes, or any other groups into which people can conveniently be divided, is far smaller than the variances between individuals. Absolutely correct. So, what's wrong with a child having two mommies or two daddies, as opposed to one of each gender?
in a topic where you are unsure you keep your trap shut until you receive clarification...
You're new here, aren't you?;-)
People will always disagree because diversity is a survival factor; we would not exist as a species if everyone always reached the same conclusions given the same data. Look at it this way: if everybody thought the same way, then everybody would come to the same conclusion, which would normally be the "best" conclusion. But, since nobody has complete information (especially about catastrophic future events) 0.0001% of the time, the "best" choice isn't actually the best, and would kill those people that make that choice! In other words, if we didn't have a lunatic fringe, we would have all died out a long time ago. Having 5% of your population being quite stupidly wrong is tolerable for the species. Having 100% of your population agree all of the time is eventually fatal.
There is good, bar, right, and wrong in this world.
I don't believe there is any such thing as absolute right or wrong in this world, but if you know of an absolutely good bar, please tell us where it is!
Clearly the philosophers and the academics are both wrong; the best judges and leaders could only come from a background of rabid computer enthusiasts that live in their mom's basement and have never gotten past first base in sports or with the opposite sex... Because WE don't have any of these silly biases!
Thanks to the perverse phenomenon psychologists have dubbed the Dunning-Kruger effect, those who are least competent tend to have the most wildly inflated estimates of their own knowledge and competence. They don't know enough to know that they don't know, as it were.
This is the best short summary of the level of discourse on slashdot I've ever seen.;-)
Sure, it would be fun... but the controller would also cost over $500 and take up half your living room. I'm not sure there is a big home market for devices like that. For arcades, the insurance and maintenance would be problematic. Hmm... a power-jump inside a planetarium-style dome with 8 RGB projectors would make a really fun game, but again -- $$$.
The eyetoy was just a USB camera, commonly known as a "webcam". I believe it relied on the CPU of the console to interpret the picture. It wasn't terribly accurate, and you had to maintain the correct distance to the camera and make sure you stayed in frame. And of course, it worked a lot better if there was high contrast between you and your background. That being said, the PS3 should have had plenty of horsepower to do something like this well. Intel was demonstrating game controllers like this 10 years ago. Camera control is fun for kids and console neophytes; it is just a question of writing good software to handle it. I'm surprised that this isn't available on newer consoles.
I was kidding. Bus safety is one of the few things the Beaverton School District is really good at. The only problem I've had is with the kid's mother not being there to pick her up from the kindergarten bus. I called the school, the very competent school secretary got on the radio with the bus driver within about 30 seconds, and I was told I could pick up my child back at the school in 15 minutes.
The school staff actually do an admirable job of putting kids on the right bus, all things considered. Most of the problems are caused by drivers that simply don't give a shit, like the driver that left a kid sleeping in the back of the bus when he locked it up in the bus yard at night (regulations dictate they should sweep the bus first). Of course, if you were getting paid $10 and hour for a 20 hour week, you probably wouldn't give a shit either.
Compact florescents emit audible noise. Incandescents only emit noise if you but a cheap dimmer switch on them that chops up the sine wave. LEDs, as far I can tell, are silent. LEDs have good enough light now, they just need to be cheaper.
You mean like they mandated emission standards instead of requiring every car to be built with a catalytic converter? Who would be silly enough to pay for lobbying for a law that doesn't favor their own industry while penalizing their competitors?
Compact Florescents ARE evil! They make audible NOISE dammit! The LCD bulbs' only flaw is that they are extremely directional -- good for spot lights, not so good if you want diffuse lighting. Screw an LCD bulb into a old tabletop lamp socket, and you'll get a nice bright spot of light... on the ceiling.
I predict this will be every bit as useful and well received as other Microsoft innovations like Microsoft Soundsmith and Bob! I'm sure plenty of people will use it just as long as they are paid to do so... but that isn't a very viable business model for a search engine.
The biggest problem I have with giving expensive gadgets to kids is that if it can be taken off and left somewhere, then it almost certainly will be. On the other hand, if you built a GPS into her chastity belt...
My wife tried giving our daughter a cell phone in first grade, so we could know where she was and if she made it home from school ok. But my daughter got in trouble for not turning it off during school, and if she did turn it off, she couldn't remember to turn it back on.
Unless you can come up with a device that locks on, can't be removed, is waterproof, and is close to unbreakable, it's not going to be very reliable. Also, there are plenty of places where GPS receivers simply don't work, e.g. inside most office buildings. Heck, we couldn't even get cell phones to work inside multi-story Intel or HP buildings (they are built by pouring concrete onto corrugated steel, making for a fairly effective RF shield unless you are standing in front of a window.)
What's wrong with that? My parents used to leave me in the car parked outside the bar while they went out for a night of drinking, and other than wasting all my time on slashdot, I turned out pretty much ok! Other tricks they pulled: put the kids in Coach while they flew First Class, and on trips left the kids in a motel room while they went out for the evening, then yelled at the kids because they told the motel clerk they didn't know where their parents were. But guess what... kids are pretty good at taking care of themselves.
Just imagine what kind of information they could have gotten out of him if they had thrown in some soy milk!
It's been said many times, but I'll repeat it here: torture may be effective at getting people to "talk", but it doesn't produce reliable information. What it produces is people who will say anything they think will stop the torture. If you are attacking a country because you feel it is corrupt and is crusading against your ethnic group or religion, being tortured by that country will only reinforce that belief and convince you that your cause is just.
Now you have to work around them and they're eating your food, peeking into your private matters, running up your phone bill, misusing your name, and pushing you out of your house. Isn't that usually known as "getting married"?
I'd hate to go there as a patient, but it sounds like a great place to sexually harass the female staff... "Miss Buxley, get your ass in here before I repossess it!"
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It had free math tutoring for women (not men). You misunderstand the purpose of this "tutoring"... "Hey, baby, why don't you come over to my place and I'll... tutor you all night long!" You probably think letting ladies into nightclubs for free is an unfair advantage too...
Oh yeah? Well, men do now and always will dominate the field of writing their names in the snow while taking a leak, so there!
The difference in means between the sexes, or any other groups into which people can conveniently be divided, is far smaller than the variances between individuals. Absolutely correct. So, what's wrong with a child having two mommies or two daddies, as opposed to one of each gender?
They've been detained for years with only the companionship of other males... for the most part, I'd wager that these are non-fucking terrorists.
Only 10%?!? From my personal experience, I can tell you that EVERYBODY on slashdot is a crank except for me! ;-)
in a topic where you are unsure you keep your trap shut until you receive clarification...
;-)
You're new here, aren't you?
People will always disagree because diversity is a survival factor; we would not exist as a species if everyone always reached the same conclusions given the same data. Look at it this way: if everybody thought the same way, then everybody would come to the same conclusion, which would normally be the "best" conclusion. But, since nobody has complete information (especially about catastrophic future events) 0.0001% of the time, the "best" choice isn't actually the best, and would kill those people that make that choice! In other words, if we didn't have a lunatic fringe, we would have all died out a long time ago. Having 5% of your population being quite stupidly wrong is tolerable for the species. Having 100% of your population agree all of the time is eventually fatal.
There is good, bar, right, and wrong in this world.
I don't believe there is any such thing as absolute right or wrong in this world, but if you know of an absolutely good bar, please tell us where it is!
Could you please illustrate that point with a car analogy? Thanks.
Clearly the philosophers and the academics are both wrong; the best judges and leaders could only come from a background of rabid computer enthusiasts that live in their mom's basement and have never gotten past first base in sports or with the opposite sex... Because WE don't have any of these silly biases!
Thanks to the perverse phenomenon psychologists have dubbed the Dunning-Kruger effect, those who are least competent tend to have the most wildly inflated estimates of their own knowledge and competence. They don't know enough to know that they don't know, as it were.
;-)
This is the best short summary of the level of discourse on slashdot I've ever seen.
Schools will also be advocating the increased use of Ritalin, as part of their new "Drugs, not hugs!" program.
Presumably this was the successor to "Project Fetal"?
Sure, it would be fun... but the controller would also cost over $500 and take up half your living room. I'm not sure there is a big home market for devices like that. For arcades, the insurance and maintenance would be problematic. Hmm... a power-jump inside a planetarium-style dome with 8 RGB projectors would make a really fun game, but again -- $$$.
The eyetoy was just a USB camera, commonly known as a "webcam". I believe it relied on the CPU of the console to interpret the picture. It wasn't terribly accurate, and you had to maintain the correct distance to the camera and make sure you stayed in frame. And of course, it worked a lot better if there was high contrast between you and your background. That being said, the PS3 should have had plenty of horsepower to do something like this well. Intel was demonstrating game controllers like this 10 years ago. Camera control is fun for kids and console neophytes; it is just a question of writing good software to handle it. I'm surprised that this isn't available on newer consoles.
I was kidding. Bus safety is one of the few things the Beaverton School District is really good at. The only problem I've had is with the kid's mother not being there to pick her up from the kindergarten bus. I called the school, the very competent school secretary got on the radio with the bus driver within about 30 seconds, and I was told I could pick up my child back at the school in 15 minutes.
The school staff actually do an admirable job of putting kids on the right bus, all things considered. Most of the problems are caused by drivers that simply don't give a shit, like the driver that left a kid sleeping in the back of the bus when he locked it up in the bus yard at night (regulations dictate they should sweep the bus first). Of course, if you were getting paid $10 and hour for a 20 hour week, you probably wouldn't give a shit either.
Compact florescents emit audible noise. Incandescents only emit noise if you but a cheap dimmer switch on them that chops up the sine wave. LEDs, as far I can tell, are silent. LEDs have good enough light now, they just need to be cheaper.
You mean like they mandated emission standards instead of requiring every car to be built with a catalytic converter? Who would be silly enough to pay for lobbying for a law that doesn't favor their own industry while penalizing their competitors?
Compact Florescents ARE evil! They make audible NOISE dammit! The LCD bulbs' only flaw is that they are extremely directional -- good for spot lights, not so good if you want diffuse lighting. Screw an LCD bulb into a old tabletop lamp socket, and you'll get a nice bright spot of light... on the ceiling.
I predict this will be every bit as useful and well received as other Microsoft innovations like Microsoft Soundsmith and Bob! I'm sure plenty of people will use it just as long as they are paid to do so... but that isn't a very viable business model for a search engine.
...not quite right page layout. It is your own fault; shame on you for using Firefox instead of IE!
The biggest problem I have with giving expensive gadgets to kids is that if it can be taken off and left somewhere, then it almost certainly will be. On the other hand, if you built a GPS into her chastity belt...
My wife tried giving our daughter a cell phone in first grade, so we could know where she was and if she made it home from school ok. But my daughter got in trouble for not turning it off during school, and if she did turn it off, she couldn't remember to turn it back on.
Unless you can come up with a device that locks on, can't be removed, is waterproof, and is close to unbreakable, it's not going to be very reliable. Also, there are plenty of places where GPS receivers simply don't work, e.g. inside most office buildings. Heck, we couldn't even get cell phones to work inside multi-story Intel or HP buildings (they are built by pouring concrete onto corrugated steel, making for a fairly effective RF shield unless you are standing in front of a window.)
Calling up the school and screaming at them usually works for me... eventually.
What's wrong with that? My parents used to leave me in the car parked outside the bar while they went out for a night of drinking, and other than wasting all my time on slashdot, I turned out pretty much ok! Other tricks they pulled: put the kids in Coach while they flew First Class, and on trips left the kids in a motel room while they went out for the evening, then yelled at the kids because they told the motel clerk they didn't know where their parents were. But guess what... kids are pretty good at taking care of themselves.
Just imagine what kind of information they could have gotten out of him if they had thrown in some soy milk!
It's been said many times, but I'll repeat it here: torture may be effective at getting people to "talk", but it doesn't produce reliable information. What it produces is people who will say anything they think will stop the torture. If you are attacking a country because you feel it is corrupt and is crusading against your ethnic group or religion, being tortured by that country will only reinforce that belief and convince you that your cause is just.
Now you have to work around them and they're eating your food, peeking into your private matters, running up your phone bill, misusing your name, and pushing you out of your house. Isn't that usually known as "getting married"?
I'd hate to go there as a patient, but it sounds like a great place to sexually harass the female staff... "Miss Buxley, get your ass in here before I repossess it!"