I also tutored as a Freshman Undergrad. They required all Engineers to learn some basics in C as an introductory course, so there were about 3 or 4 classmates that I tutored. I didn't do the work for them, I tried to help them learn how to think through the problems, and find a solution before they started writing the code. The sad part was our professor was a Civil Engineer, who really had no exposure to C before, and his idea for a Sort Algorithm made my eyes bulge. I coded up three better solutions I knew off the top of my head, and ended up having to present them in class. So I can understand some people's frustration there.
Then it must come as quite a shock to you, to know that many High Schools, still to this day, do not offer calculus to their students. If you want it, you have to double up on Math somewhere, and then take it as a College Course, which has its pluses and minuses. My first exposure to basic was very early in my life, before I ever reached high school, but it wasn't till I got to HS and took the course that I began to realize how much I loved Programming. Up until that point I was leaning Chemical Engineering, and the programming course, the single one I took, convinced me I wanted to work with Computers.
If I hadn't done that, would the very basic C they taught us in our Engineering 2 Courses have been sufficient to point me that direction? I honestly can't say for sure.
I seriously don't understand all the hub bub. Look, there is only so much instructional time in Junior High and High School Biology anyways. When I was in High School, the teacher spent, 1 Day describing the basics of evolutionary theory, and in fact then said, however some people believe in creationism. Which you believe is not important for the context of this class, as we are focused on actually examining and learning about the differences in life. Evolution didn't even get brought up for the next 179 days of the school calendar. Frankly, I was fine with that, if I wanted to learn more about bio, then with a bit of basic understanding, then it would make sense in College, or advanced AP bio to be introduced. I just can't get over people throwing a fit over something that really I don't understand why its 1. a big deal, or 2. why it is such a big deal based on the total class room time actually spent on it. Maybe the way science was taught has changed in the last 20 years... who knows.
Early on I learned TI Basic, then C64 Basic, then IBM Basic, they were all similar but were different contexts and quirks at times. Then when I got into Engineering, we learned C (In Borland Environment), and MATLAB. MATLAB was cool for being able to do a certain set of problems, but beyond our signals and processing class I have never used it since. Then we started taking CS classes where they taught you Ada, then later Data Structures with Ada, then another class on C on a *ix system learning about multi processing etc. I didn't really get into true C++ until I got my first professional job, and Java I picked up a book to learn a bit about it, but hardly use it. Now I dabble in C#, VB, VBA, PHP, etc. So I disagree that Basic kills you, but I do think given environments today, a safer environment to learn, might be best especially for young coders.
You are making the assumption that the description of creation began then, when it may just simply be a generalization, a statement of the thesis of the coming six days (seventh rest) of creation. It would be like if I described my day to you.
Before the sun rose in the morning, i Awoke, and headed to work. I a woke from my slumber shook my head, and rolled out of bed (minute 1). Then i slowly walked to the bathroom to do bathroom things (minutes 2-7). Then I headed downstairs, started up my computer, opened twitter, and email, and began reading the news (minutes 9-25) etc. All of these things were done in the beginning of the day, and the breakfast had yet to be consumed.
See what I'm saying, don't confuse the literary style of how genesis's creation account is presented, with some bullet point list, verse, by verse of the order of creation. Day 1 isn't verse 1, Day two isn't verse 2, It doesn't quite work out that way, even if you try to stretch it. It reminds me a bit of the intro to one of the LOTR moving, when it talks about what happened in the beginning etc.
and as I've always understood it, a Pint's a Pound the world Around..... in other words Pint = Pound.... interesting that a Pound is also 16 Ounces. Article is a bit misleading on that. I mean a Pound of ink? That's a pretty huge amount if you ask me.
The crazy thing is why Doc who had the foresight to make Marty change into 'cowboy clothes' didn't think to throw in some fuel for the De Lorean just in case.
I kind of like the way they handled this question in Star Gate Continuum. Where Col Mitchell's ancestor gets killed but they end up warping through the gate before he can fade out of existence, making him an anomaly of sorts.
Actually, if you were to go back to the Way Back Machine, way back to when there was a BTTF Cartoon, they actually built a location ability into the DeLorean and probably the train as well. I remember an episode where the DeLorean got stolen after some heist, with Einy stuck in the car, and one of the idiots was talking to his partner named Sydney, asking how much they had earned: "1890 Sydney" and they ended up back in Sydney during the old colonial days c1890.) Heck come to think of it they went all over the place in that series.
By that logic why doesn't the government put a tax on non lean, high fat, etc foods. A fter all the meat seems to be 'artificially' higher right? It couldn't possibly be that the longer life span and costs to reproduce CFL/LED technology results in fewer bulb replacements and thus less bulb turnover right? Or could it.
The vast majority of electrical power is generated not by oil, but by Coal fired plants. You can change all the light bulbs to other types and lower electricity usage nation wide (if such were possible), and it won't put a dent in Oil consumption. Oil is used in our cars of course, and other petrochemical products (How about plastics?). You'd a lot more perhaps by mandating reusable shopping bags, or decomposable bags rather than plastic as to do this.
This is why I get so upset at the Alarmist Global Warming movement. They throw whatever ideas they can against the wall to see what sticks short term, without considering (at least that we've seen) how that will actually have side effects and consequences both economically, and even whether it will work. Changing bulb types will not stop the dependence on foreign oil. Changing Car Fuel cells might. I'm all for conservation and preserving our environmental heritage, but let's do it smartly, not half cocked.
As a formerly misdiagnosed ADHD Kid, I can tell you ritallin does not have the effect you claim. It literally shorts you out. I was on it from I believe Kindergarten into 6th grade. Though I didn't realize it at the time I literally had no emotions. I became very logical, very literal, and very much like the worst parts of 'Vulcan' characters on Star Trek. When I came off the medicine at 13, I immediately realized the flood of emotions, and feelings that had been suppressed by the medication. I'm sorry to say, I am probably five or ten years more immature mentally because I didn't learn mental discipline in those early years, but instead leaned on Ritilan as a Crutch to get me through the day.
Now I know some kids do have ADHD, and do need help that only medicine can provide, but I grossly disagree that it does what you claim it does. Bottom line, our bodies were designed to run, and hunt, and be active, not to sit still in a chair for eight hours a day with little breaks at all.
So no, some kids are in FACT deprived of learning about themselves, their emotions, and as a result live a much less fulfilled life because of this medication. I am proof of it.
When i saw that update i instinctively unchecked it because I thought it was related to that annoying search enhancement that Microsoft released for XP a couple years ago which actually made searching even more cumbersome in the long run. I was more than happy with searching as it was, I just never thought that update had to do with "web searching" (And it apparently is there for IE 7 too btw). Strange though I don't remember having any tool bars in IE that the article mentions.
I'll admit I was an HP fanboy and supporter for a long time, but last year my family finally got tired of the HP ink costs. We switched to a kodak, and I'll be honest, their inks cost 25% of what HPs do and they even seem to last a bit longer. What's more, when printing things like pictures, they seem to be hyper accurate and clean compared to HP. I may never buy another HP printer again.
If its a high school level course, I would think the equipment to run, simulate, and use them is just to low level to be a first language for most people.
Well that would be nice, but you know we gotta work for this thing called cash to trade for important stuff like water, food, clothing, oh and rent!;)
No its not lying, you are just trying to make trouble. The problem is many christians, young ones particularly don't always understand some of the literary nuance. The bible contains a lot of literal truth, but not everything should be taken literally, some of it is symbolism, exaggeration, metaphor. If I had tried to read the entire thing in that way as a young Christian I think I would have given up somewhere in the Psalms or prophets.
That having been said, many Christians are lazy, basing their so called 'beliefs' on what their pastor says (without knowing exactly what he is basing that on). I'm a believer you check what people say to the bible, if they don't match up its usually man at fault. However, as another poster said, reading through just to read is one thing, reading with understanding you can't do in one sitting usually, and to be honest I will do it again some day, but right now I'm focusing in on some areas of scripture I've not covered as much personally to dig in more in depth because technically the bible is an Anthology, not a Singlue volume.
I actually had read probably all parts of the bible at one time, but the only way I could really confirm that is to do what I did last year, read five chapters a day basically (on average sometimes more) and try to do it within the year. Its actually amazing what things you notice when you read through the bible from cover to cover. Most people don't read the bible that way though, and many christians ignore the richness of the OT as well.
Isn't it more likely that these small percentage of people are the only ones savvy, and risk taking enough to try something different? You could probably have a similar poll asking what their favorite beverage was, and if they'd consider switching to a list of items and still get similar results.
Most Americans think some reform or change is needed in Health Care.
Most americans also Don't think government managed care is the answer either (and before you say there is no single payer option hold that thought) So many progressives are saying this is a good first step. Even Kuccinic (sp?) who just flip flopped has said as much, and noone was a more vocal supporter of a single payer system.
Here are my gripes with the legislation:
1. Slashing Medicare will adversely affect seniors, those least in position to make up additional income to pay for insurance gaps in Medicare
2. Mandates. Since when has the Federal Government Ever mandated anything like this in all of History? The Mandate is unconstitutional at best, at worst it is a Federal Power grab to weasel in and turn the US into a Big Brother Society where sugary drinks will be gone (sorry coke and pepsi), fun foods will be a thing of the past (Snickers, Hershey, Doritos, etc) and you will eventually see a very plain supply of food offered at higher prices than today and probably breadlines like they had in the USSR.
3. Puts restrictions and penalties on small businesses who cannot afford to fully fund insurance for their poorest employees. (Yes its fine, the Businesses who already struggle thus killing many small businesses.)
4. Does absolutely zero to ensure increased supply of providers which right now is an even bigger problem that cost.
5. Will force more americans into a High Risk Pool that will cost as much as 20% or more than normal premiums, and when that cost overruns those premiums, you can bet that one of two things will happen. Regular premiums will rise, States will have to make up short fall with taxes on policy owners (another way of increasing premiums) or some other way to tax or soak either Sin Taxes, Sales Taxes, Income Taxes, or some other means of basically hitting those that probably can't afford the offset in higher premium on their own but now will get taxed for it anyways.
6. It is the least transparent bill to come out of congress in a long time. It's negotiation was not conducted in front of cameras of CSPAN as Obama promised, and the moving of assumptions in a rather unchanged bill to get better CBO numbers is like trying to have your grade score based on number of problems completed not the actual number of problems on the test.
7. The American people don't want it. Polls all across the country show that only about 30% of the population are actually in favor of this legislation, and what's worse a majority oppose this plan, either for reasons of fiscal trouble for the government, its policies, or just in general not liking its provisions.
So there are probably some reasons I didn't list, but this bill will do very little to cut costs, it will result in increased costs, will stifle insurance competition as more companies just leave the sector entirely, oh and more providers will opt out. How great is that?
Somehow I doubt that the Doctor will let him get away with this. Just wait, any day now his TARDIS will appear and he'll walk out to find it accidentally landed on the rover, crushing it to pieces. Woops.
I was in one of those huge Macro Economics classes in College, and one of the great things the prof did was keep about 6-8 walkie talkies in class. He'd keep one and then he'd pass a few out before class to any student who wanted one, and during the class he'd call back to walkie X and ask a question, or the person with the walkie might ping and he'd stop to let them ask a question. I loved that about that class.
I wonder if there is any significance to name DarkStar, or is it just a Code name for the project. Cause I remember that Dynamix, formerly a subsidiary of Sierra Online used to have a game engine called DarkStar. I believe that both Starsiege and Starsiege: Tribes were developed on that platform. Hence my curiosity.
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I also tutored as a Freshman Undergrad. They required all Engineers to learn some basics in C as an introductory course, so there were about 3 or 4 classmates that I tutored. I didn't do the work for them, I tried to help them learn how to think through the problems, and find a solution before they started writing the code. The sad part was our professor was a Civil Engineer, who really had no exposure to C before, and his idea for a Sort Algorithm made my eyes bulge. I coded up three better solutions I knew off the top of my head, and ended up having to present them in class. So I can understand some people's frustration there.
Then it must come as quite a shock to you, to know that many High Schools, still to this day, do not offer calculus to their students. If you want it, you have to double up on Math somewhere, and then take it as a College Course, which has its pluses and minuses. My first exposure to basic was very early in my life, before I ever reached high school, but it wasn't till I got to HS and took the course that I began to realize how much I loved Programming. Up until that point I was leaning Chemical Engineering, and the programming course, the single one I took, convinced me I wanted to work with Computers.
If I hadn't done that, would the very basic C they taught us in our Engineering 2 Courses have been sufficient to point me that direction? I honestly can't say for sure.
I seriously don't understand all the hub bub. Look, there is only so much instructional time in Junior High and High School Biology anyways. When I was in High School, the teacher spent, 1 Day describing the basics of evolutionary theory, and in fact then said, however some people believe in creationism. Which you believe is not important for the context of this class, as we are focused on actually examining and learning about the differences in life. Evolution didn't even get brought up for the next 179 days of the school calendar. Frankly, I was fine with that, if I wanted to learn more about bio, then with a bit of basic understanding, then it would make sense in College, or advanced AP bio to be introduced. I just can't get over people throwing a fit over something that really I don't understand why its 1. a big deal, or 2. why it is such a big deal based on the total class room time actually spent on it. Maybe the way science was taught has changed in the last 20 years... who knows.
This is pretty similar to what I went through.
Early on I learned TI Basic, then C64 Basic, then IBM Basic, they were all similar but were different contexts and quirks at times. Then when I got into Engineering, we learned C (In Borland Environment), and MATLAB. MATLAB was cool for being able to do a certain set of problems, but beyond our signals and processing class I have never used it since. Then we started taking CS classes where they taught you Ada, then later Data Structures with Ada, then another class on C on a *ix system learning about multi processing etc. I didn't really get into true C++ until I got my first professional job, and Java I picked up a book to learn a bit about it, but hardly use it. Now I dabble in C#, VB, VBA, PHP, etc. So I disagree that Basic kills you, but I do think given environments today, a safer environment to learn, might be best especially for young coders.
You are making the assumption that the description of creation began then, when it may just simply be a generalization, a statement of the thesis of the coming six days (seventh rest) of creation. It would be like if I described my day to you.
Before the sun rose in the morning, i Awoke, and headed to work. I a woke from my slumber shook my head, and rolled out of bed (minute 1). Then i slowly walked to the bathroom to do bathroom things (minutes 2-7). Then I headed downstairs, started up my computer, opened twitter, and email, and began reading the news (minutes 9-25) etc. All of these things were done in the beginning of the day, and the breakfast had yet to be consumed.
See what I'm saying, don't confuse the literary style of how genesis's creation account is presented, with some bullet point list, verse, by verse of the order of creation. Day 1 isn't verse 1, Day two isn't verse 2, It doesn't quite work out that way, even if you try to stretch it. It reminds me a bit of the intro to one of the LOTR moving, when it talks about what happened in the beginning etc.
And yet the US Constitution, cites the Law of Nations, which provides at least some basic definition of the "High Seas" for example.
8 Fluid Ounces = cup
16 Fluid Ounces = pint
and as I've always understood it, a Pint's a Pound the world Around..... in other words Pint = Pound.... interesting that a Pound is also 16 Ounces. Article is a bit misleading on that. I mean a Pound of ink? That's a pretty huge amount if you ask me.
The crazy thing is why Doc who had the foresight to make Marty change into 'cowboy clothes' didn't think to throw in some fuel for the De Lorean just in case.
I kind of like the way they handled this question in Star Gate Continuum. Where Col Mitchell's ancestor gets killed but they end up warping through the gate before he can fade out of existence, making him an anomaly of sorts.
Actually, if you were to go back to the Way Back Machine, way back to when there was a BTTF Cartoon, they actually built a location ability into the DeLorean and probably the train as well. I remember an episode where the DeLorean got stolen after some heist, with Einy stuck in the car, and one of the idiots was talking to his partner named Sydney, asking how much they had earned: "1890 Sydney" and they ended up back in Sydney during the old colonial days c1890.) Heck come to think of it they went all over the place in that series.
By that logic why doesn't the government put a tax on non lean, high fat, etc foods. A fter all the meat seems to be 'artificially' higher right? It couldn't possibly be that the longer life span and costs to reproduce CFL/LED technology results in fewer bulb replacements and thus less bulb turnover right? Or could it.
Bingo!
The vast majority of electrical power is generated not by oil, but by Coal fired plants. You can change all the light bulbs to other types and lower electricity usage nation wide (if such were possible), and it won't put a dent in Oil consumption. Oil is used in our cars of course, and other petrochemical products (How about plastics?). You'd a lot more perhaps by mandating reusable shopping bags, or decomposable bags rather than plastic as to do this.
This is why I get so upset at the Alarmist Global Warming movement. They throw whatever ideas they can against the wall to see what sticks short term, without considering (at least that we've seen) how that will actually have side effects and consequences both economically, and even whether it will work. Changing bulb types will not stop the dependence on foreign oil. Changing Car Fuel cells might. I'm all for conservation and preserving our environmental heritage, but let's do it smartly, not half cocked.
As a formerly misdiagnosed ADHD Kid, I can tell you ritallin does not have the effect you claim. It literally shorts you out. I was on it from I believe Kindergarten into 6th grade. Though I didn't realize it at the time I literally had no emotions. I became very logical, very literal, and very much like the worst parts of 'Vulcan' characters on Star Trek. When I came off the medicine at 13, I immediately realized the flood of emotions, and feelings that had been suppressed by the medication. I'm sorry to say, I am probably five or ten years more immature mentally because I didn't learn mental discipline in those early years, but instead leaned on Ritilan as a Crutch to get me through the day. Now I know some kids do have ADHD, and do need help that only medicine can provide, but I grossly disagree that it does what you claim it does. Bottom line, our bodies were designed to run, and hunt, and be active, not to sit still in a chair for eight hours a day with little breaks at all. So no, some kids are in FACT deprived of learning about themselves, their emotions, and as a result live a much less fulfilled life because of this medication. I am proof of it.
When i saw that update i instinctively unchecked it because I thought it was related to that annoying search enhancement that Microsoft released for XP a couple years ago which actually made searching even more cumbersome in the long run. I was more than happy with searching as it was, I just never thought that update had to do with "web searching" (And it apparently is there for IE 7 too btw). Strange though I don't remember having any tool bars in IE that the article mentions.
Didn't McClain (Bruce Willis) steel a car phone or cell phone or something in one of the movies in order to talk to the terrorists?
I'll admit I was an HP fanboy and supporter for a long time, but last year my family finally got tired of the HP ink costs. We switched to a kodak, and I'll be honest, their inks cost 25% of what HPs do and they even seem to last a bit longer. What's more, when printing things like pictures, they seem to be hyper accurate and clean compared to HP. I may never buy another HP printer again.
If its a high school level course, I would think the equipment to run, simulate, and use them is just to low level to be a first language for most people.
Maybe someone should phone the doctor, there's something fishy going on in the outer sol, I smell Daleks!
Well that would be nice, but you know we gotta work for this thing called cash to trade for important stuff like water, food, clothing, oh and rent! ;)
No its not lying, you are just trying to make trouble. The problem is many christians, young ones particularly don't always understand some of the literary nuance. The bible contains a lot of literal truth, but not everything should be taken literally, some of it is symbolism, exaggeration, metaphor. If I had tried to read the entire thing in that way as a young Christian I think I would have given up somewhere in the Psalms or prophets.
That having been said, many Christians are lazy, basing their so called 'beliefs' on what their pastor says (without knowing exactly what he is basing that on). I'm a believer you check what people say to the bible, if they don't match up its usually man at fault. However, as another poster said, reading through just to read is one thing, reading with understanding you can't do in one sitting usually, and to be honest I will do it again some day, but right now I'm focusing in on some areas of scripture I've not covered as much personally to dig in more in depth because technically the bible is an Anthology, not a Singlue volume.
I actually had read probably all parts of the bible at one time, but the only way I could really confirm that is to do what I did last year, read five chapters a day basically (on average sometimes more) and try to do it within the year. Its actually amazing what things you notice when you read through the bible from cover to cover. Most people don't read the bible that way though, and many christians ignore the richness of the OT as well.
Isn't it more likely that these small percentage of people are the only ones savvy, and risk taking enough to try something different? You could probably have a similar poll asking what their favorite beverage was, and if they'd consider switching to a list of items and still get similar results.
Most Americans think some reform or change is needed in Health Care.
Most americans also Don't think government managed care is the answer either (and before you say there is no single payer option hold that thought) So many progressives are saying this is a good first step. Even Kuccinic (sp?) who just flip flopped has said as much, and noone was a more vocal supporter of a single payer system.
Here are my gripes with the legislation:
1. Slashing Medicare will adversely affect seniors, those least in position to make up additional income to pay for insurance gaps in Medicare
2. Mandates. Since when has the Federal Government Ever mandated anything like this in all of History? The Mandate is unconstitutional at best, at worst it is a Federal Power grab to weasel in and turn the US into a Big Brother Society where sugary drinks will be gone (sorry coke and pepsi), fun foods will be a thing of the past (Snickers, Hershey, Doritos, etc) and you will eventually see a very plain supply of food offered at higher prices than today and probably breadlines like they had in the USSR.
3. Puts restrictions and penalties on small businesses who cannot afford to fully fund insurance for their poorest employees. (Yes its fine, the Businesses who already struggle thus killing many small businesses.)
4. Does absolutely zero to ensure increased supply of providers which right now is an even bigger problem that cost.
5. Will force more americans into a High Risk Pool that will cost as much as 20% or more than normal premiums, and when that cost overruns those premiums, you can bet that one of two things will happen. Regular premiums will rise, States will have to make up short fall with taxes on policy owners (another way of increasing premiums) or some other way to tax or soak either Sin Taxes, Sales Taxes, Income Taxes, or some other means of basically hitting those that probably can't afford the offset in higher premium on their own but now will get taxed for it anyways.
6. It is the least transparent bill to come out of congress in a long time. It's negotiation was not conducted in front of cameras of CSPAN as Obama promised, and the moving of assumptions in a rather unchanged bill to get better CBO numbers is like trying to have your grade score based on number of problems completed not the actual number of problems on the test.
7. The American people don't want it. Polls all across the country show that only about 30% of the population are actually in favor of this legislation, and what's worse a majority oppose this plan, either for reasons of fiscal trouble for the government, its policies, or just in general not liking its provisions.
So there are probably some reasons I didn't list, but this bill will do very little to cut costs, it will result in increased costs, will stifle insurance competition as more companies just leave the sector entirely, oh and more providers will opt out. How great is that?
Somehow I doubt that the Doctor will let him get away with this. Just wait, any day now his TARDIS will appear and he'll walk out to find it accidentally landed on the rover, crushing it to pieces. Woops.
I was in one of those huge Macro Economics classes in College, and one of the great things the prof did was keep about 6-8 walkie talkies in class. He'd keep one and then he'd pass a few out before class to any student who wanted one, and during the class he'd call back to walkie X and ask a question, or the person with the walkie might ping and he'd stop to let them ask a question. I loved that about that class.
I wonder if there is any significance to name DarkStar, or is it just a Code name for the project. Cause I remember that Dynamix, formerly a subsidiary of Sierra Online used to have a game engine called DarkStar. I believe that both Starsiege and Starsiege: Tribes were developed on that platform. Hence my curiosity.