The one way I can see a computer helping is replacing the blackboard. Put a big screen up there with the manipulatable graphics like they use on some of the news stations now. You can "write" on them and everything. Great visualization tool, especially for math and science where we need emergency action.
We had interactive teaching tools when I was in school. They were called teachers. We also had these things called books, too, which didn't react to anything, and the pictures didn't animate, but they revealed whole new worlds to me nonetheless.
The touch tablet led to me creating the first decent computer art I ever did as a kid. I even used it with a drawing program that I wrote in Atari BASIC. Wow. Feeling old now. I hate nostalgia stories like this.:-(
Meh... I voted for Obama, but I'm not expecting much. This gigantic inauguration already does not bode well. "Irrational exuberance" is a redundant term in my book of cynicism.;-)
So a site that allows posted feedback from any customer at all has less than perfect entries? The deuce you say! Next you'll be telling me that letters to the editor in the local paper might contain logical fallacies in their political arguments. No, I can't accept this! Such a chaotic world cannot be true! It's the devil's work!
But the one that counts *legally* is the civil aspect. Civil unions do not have nearly the same rights as marriages, so they are not an adequate substitute. The religious aspect of marriage is just something many folks add on. The state merely tolerates it and allows the ceremony to be performed that way.
Of course, as you indirectly mention, the Mormon Church should shut up too. From Utah, they launched a huge multi-million dollar campaign [huffingtonpost.com] to support "Yes on 8" in California. Check out this Google Trends for some interesting insight.
This baffles me more than anything else in the whole issue.
Some minister somewhere endorses Candidate X in a local election, and you've Homeland Security paratrooping agents in to investigate. An entire Church spends millions influencing an election and... what? Is there even a hint of investigation? Am I just not finding the news stories?
Yeah, a guy at my work got married at Our Lady Of City Hall.:-P If it's strictly religious, how do atheists and agnostics get married?
Marriage has been a civil and social contract independent of religion for a long time now. The religious ceremony is distinct, and can be abandoned completely.
Civil unions have nowhere near the same protections as civil marriage, and the Constitution shouldn't give a shit about how "palatable" something is to bigots.
...we don't get much bang for our education dollars? Something that is going to be broadcast on 97 different networks for free, and you need to go through who knows what effort to stream it? Do you have math classes at that school? Get some parents to volunteer to bring in a TV. If you want the kids to see it later, you don't think YouYube will be inundated with copies of it?
I have taken control of Apple thanks to a handy Safari RSS exploit.
I decree you shall have the mid-size tower! You shall have Mac Minis with cutting edge gaming capability! You shall receive a free sexy ninja pirate babe with every 64-core Mac Pro! You shall have sex bots and pudding-over-Ethernet (we have not forsaken you, Jon Moltz)! Mmmmm! Pudding!
The time is now and now is the time! Please stay calm during this period of transition, and wash your hands before leaving the bathroom! That is all!
Slashdot Mirror
Will they publish the list of methods and public properties?
The one way I can see a computer helping is replacing the blackboard. Put a big screen up there with the manipulatable graphics like they use on some of the news stations now. You can "write" on them and everything. Great visualization tool, especially for math and science where we need emergency action.
They've been hoping to directly observe black holes for years! They might even glimpse the raw singularity!
If $800 billion falls past the federal event horizon, is it lost to the economy forever?
We had interactive teaching tools when I was in school. They were called teachers. We also had these things called books, too, which didn't react to anything, and the pictures didn't animate, but they revealed whole new worlds to me nonetheless.
I'm old. :-(
Zune? What's that?
There's an email from a old friend I accidentally deleted. Maybe I could get a copy from the NSA?
So buy her something nice. Oh, wait...
Hope is not a strategy.
clinching of the U.S. Presidency
Clinching? I thought he was elected? What is this clinching? Is this constitutional? I demand an investigation and special prosecutor!
The touch tablet led to me creating the first decent computer art I ever did as a kid. I even used it with a drawing program that I wrote in Atari BASIC. Wow. Feeling old now. I hate nostalgia stories like this. :-(
Moderated, yes, but sometimes I think they *have* to be printing some as examples of public idiocy. ;-)
Meh... I voted for Obama, but I'm not expecting much. This gigantic inauguration already does not bode well. "Irrational exuberance" is a redundant term in my book of cynicism. ;-)
Just give me Uncharted 2 already. Nathan Drake can kick Aragorn's ass.
The problem is that replacing one person, even at the top, never seems to mitigate the suckiness.
The suck is spread wide and deeply entrenched, which is not nearly as fun as it sounds.
So a site that allows posted feedback from any customer at all has less than perfect entries? The deuce you say! Next you'll be telling me that letters to the editor in the local paper might contain logical fallacies in their political arguments. No, I can't accept this! Such a chaotic world cannot be true! It's the devil's work!
Leo Laporte!
I'd like to thank India for taking on this burden.
Numbers like that for a single group from another freaking state are way out of line. It stinks.
But the one that counts *legally* is the civil aspect. Civil unions do not have nearly the same rights as marriages, so they are not an adequate substitute. The religious aspect of marriage is just something many folks add on. The state merely tolerates it and allows the ceremony to be performed that way.
And of course Google will never hire anyone ever again, right?
An American company actually does something involving looking at the long term, and they get criticized. Go figure.
Of course, as you indirectly mention, the Mormon Church should shut up too. From Utah, they launched a huge multi-million dollar campaign [huffingtonpost.com] to support "Yes on 8" in California. Check out this Google Trends for some interesting insight.
This baffles me more than anything else in the whole issue.
Some minister somewhere endorses Candidate X in a local election, and you've Homeland Security paratrooping agents in to investigate. An entire Church spends millions influencing an election and... what? Is there even a hint of investigation? Am I just not finding the news stories?
States don't marry people, churches do.
Yeah, a guy at my work got married at Our Lady Of City Hall. :-P If it's strictly religious, how do atheists and agnostics get married?
Marriage has been a civil and social contract independent of religion for a long time now. The religious ceremony is distinct, and can be abandoned completely.
Civil unions have nowhere near the same protections as civil marriage, and the Constitution shouldn't give a shit about how "palatable" something is to bigots.
...we don't get much bang for our education dollars? Something that is going to be broadcast on 97 different networks for free, and you need to go through who knows what effort to stream it? Do you have math classes at that school? Get some parents to volunteer to bring in a TV. If you want the kids to see it later, you don't think YouYube will be inundated with copies of it?
So... the main thrust of the jib of your post is that Jobs should be cryonically stored?
I have taken control of Apple thanks to a handy Safari RSS exploit.
I decree you shall have the mid-size tower! You shall have Mac Minis with cutting edge gaming capability! You shall receive a free sexy ninja pirate babe with every 64-core Mac Pro! You shall have sex bots and pudding-over-Ethernet (we have not forsaken you, Jon Moltz)! Mmmmm! Pudding!
The time is now and now is the time! Please stay calm during this period of transition, and wash your hands before leaving the bathroom! That is all!