A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
Seriously, as with any learning experience, you get out what you put in. You can get a bad education from a good school or a good education from a bad (well, less-good) school. Much depends on *your* level of effort and desire to learn.
What schools are presenting as ICT as an academic subject is very mundane compared with what students know they can do.
Or *think* they can do. Have you seen what TV and movies imply are not just possible, but downright easy to do with a computer or network?
It's as if maths was just arithmetic or English was taught as just spelling. It's not unimportant that you can do arithmetic or you can spell, but it certainly doesn't open up the whole world of interest and challenge, if that's all you do.
True, but if one cannot do the former ones well, they will never accomplish much on the latter ones. Understanding the tools of your trade is important.
Technically, it's not my advise. It's from the Chicago Manual of Style, Ellipses sections 10.48-62. It describes two common methods of using ellipses. The first (10.50) uses three dots for any omission whether it be in the middle or between sentences. The second (10.51-59) -- and preferred by the CMS -- distinguishes between within and between and by sentence structure.
Obviously, my original signature employed the first method. I just changed it to the second:-)
I like 5 periods..... because Babylon 5 is my favorite show of all time.
Just so you know, the 4 dots(period + ellipses) between sentences suggestion was pulled from the Chicago Manual of Style, Ellipses sections 10.48-52 - not out of my ass:-)
The actual rule depends on if the sentence is grammatically correct (4 dots, or other appropriate punctuation, and ellipses) or not (just ellipses).
In addition, technically ellipses are written with a space between ". .." not "...".
There's a difference between "wanting" and "not caring". My wife died several years ago from a brain tumor. Now I don't really care how long I live... Even have my Will, Living Will, DNR and body donation (to science, like she did) forms filed - and I'm only 47.
Not only that, I'm not afraid because she's there - wherever that may be - even if only in the abstract.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
By erasing external memories, he says in the book, 'our society accepts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior.' In traditional societies, where missteps are observed but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people's sins are eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which everything is recorded 'will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impossible, in practice, to escape them.' He concludes that 'without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.'"
Who decides what's remembered and forgotten? Why even study History then? Yes, let's forget about The Holocaust, the Iraq war or the financial sector meltdown. What about your first marriage? How about the Moon landings - as long as we're into forgetting things.
Hiding and/or forgetting things doesn't make them go away. Growth and Forgiving are about remembering yet moving forward anyway.
...anything that this time machine allows can also happen with finite probability anyway.
Now, if we can just hook in the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea)...
Laugh all you want monkey boy (find that movie reference), but try defending yourself with that little Droid or iPhone. I could beat you silly with my QCP-1900 and *still* use it to call 911:-)
I don't see how that makes owning a smart phone a bad choice for other people or why you think that smart phones don't work well.
No that's not it at all; sorry if I gave that impression. People bitch about "things" and wonder how others can stand those "things", but to each their own. We're talking phones here, but I got a ration of grief when I said I liked the TV show Defying Gravity. People said it was crap, not as good as Voyage to the Planets, etc. But, again, to each their own. Perhaps, some people are just never happy.
Seriously, AT&T and the iPhone are probably good enough for the majority of people for what they need it to do. People know nothing is perfect and, so, good enough is fine.
Be more satisfied with what "is" than dissatisfied with what "could be".
Me? I own a Qualcomm QCP-1900 from around 1997 using PrimeCo/nTelos. Don't use it a whole lot, but the phone still works like a champ and I have *never* had a call dropped. I say "bah" to your fancy text and web-enabled phones, mine actually works as a *phone*:-)
... there's simply no excuse for any movie or TV show to screw up future technology now.
Granted your thoughts on things, but remember, it's *fiction* and even good fiction often requires a suspension of disbelief. Besides, who's to say what advances will happen or when. People get too cranked up about the things you (and others) have complained about.
People bitched about horses and pistols on Firefly - which is set in 2517 according to Wikipedia - but I think they make sense even in that advanced world.
Personally, I can't stand the "communication stones" on SG-U (FTL comms perhaps, FTL consciousness swapping, no - especially given the apparent power required to gate that far) because I see it as an internal inconsistency.
In any case, I let these things slide because they exist in the world of the story and I only complain when there's an internal problem or inconsistency within that world. I understand that some things are done simply for production reasons. The transporters on Star Trek were "invented" because using a shuttle was too time consuming story/production wise.
I do agree that *not* using FTL communication in DG would have offered some interesting plot and suspense opportunities, as was suggested in another post, but having them also provided some and allowed immediate involvement with the ground crew.
All my favorite shows: Farscape, Firefly, Dead Like Me and Defying Gravity have "problems" with respect to the real world and real-world science, but I think the stories and, more importantly, the characters are compelling and interesting none the less.
I've both read and seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Arthur C. Clarke is a SciFi God, but people thought he was "out there" in the 60's. Larry Niven tries to get the science correct too, but sometimes even his stories require a bit of a reach.
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You're doing it wrong. :-)
Thank you: Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
Corporate citizens more important than actual citizens.
Impounded bootleg film at 11.
The *real* question is: Why does this probe have teeth?
Ya, I think I read that on Wikipedia somewhere.
Seriously, as with any learning experience, you get out what you put in. You can get a bad education from a good school or a good education from a bad (well, less-good) school. Much depends on *your* level of effort and desire to learn.
(See U.S. Military vs. Wikileaks current events.)
Corollary: Don't save porn/ you don't ever want people to find.
Or *think* they can do. Have you seen what TV and movies imply are not just possible, but downright easy to do with a computer or network?
True, but if one cannot do the former ones well, they will never accomplish much on the latter ones. Understanding the tools of your trade is important.
Obviously, my original signature employed the first method. I just changed it to the second :-)
Just so you know, the 4 dots(period + ellipses) between sentences suggestion was pulled from the Chicago Manual of Style, Ellipses sections 10.48-52 - not out of my ass :-)
The actual rule depends on if the sentence is grammatically correct (4 dots, or other appropriate punctuation, and ellipses) or not (just ellipses).
In addition, technically ellipses are written with a space between ". . ." not "...".
In this case, 4 periods are actually used....
Here are the first three things I though after reading this. None are good...
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There's a difference between "wanting" and "not caring". My wife died several years ago from a brain tumor. Now I don't really care how long I live... Even have my Will, Living Will, DNR and body donation (to science, like she did) forms filed - and I'm only 47. Not only that, I'm not afraid because she's there - wherever that may be - even if only in the abstract.
From The Fourth Estate:
Take *that* Fermi.
Who decides what's remembered and forgotten? Why even study History then? Yes, let's forget about The Holocaust, the Iraq war or the financial sector meltdown. What about your first marriage? How about the Moon landings - as long as we're into forgetting things.
Hiding and/or forgetting things doesn't make them go away. Growth and Forgiving are about remembering yet moving forward anyway.
Just great. Now I have a hankering for souvlaki. :-)
Now, if we can just hook in the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea)...
Laugh all you want monkey boy (find that movie reference), but try defending yourself with that little Droid or iPhone. I could beat you silly with my QCP-1900 and *still* use it to call 911 :-)
No that's not it at all; sorry if I gave that impression. People bitch about "things" and wonder how others can stand those "things", but to each their own. We're talking phones here, but I got a ration of grief when I said I liked the TV show Defying Gravity. People said it was crap, not as good as Voyage to the Planets, etc. But, again, to each their own. Perhaps, some people are just never happy.
Seriously, AT&T and the iPhone are probably good enough for the majority of people for what they need it to do. People know nothing is perfect and, so, good enough is fine.
Be more satisfied with what "is" than dissatisfied with what "could be".
Me? I own a Qualcomm QCP-1900 from around 1997 using PrimeCo/nTelos. Don't use it a whole lot, but the phone still works like a champ and I have *never* had a call dropped. I say "bah" to your fancy text and web-enabled phones, mine actually works as a *phone* :-)
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Granted your thoughts on things, but remember, it's *fiction* and even good fiction often requires a suspension of disbelief. Besides, who's to say what advances will happen or when. People get too cranked up about the things you (and others) have complained about.
People bitched about horses and pistols on Firefly - which is set in 2517 according to Wikipedia - but I think they make sense even in that advanced world. Personally, I can't stand the "communication stones" on SG-U (FTL comms perhaps, FTL consciousness swapping, no - especially given the apparent power required to gate that far) because I see it as an internal inconsistency.
In any case, I let these things slide because they exist in the world of the story and I only complain when there's an internal problem or inconsistency within that world. I understand that some things are done simply for production reasons. The transporters on Star Trek were "invented" because using a shuttle was too time consuming story/production wise.
I do agree that *not* using FTL communication in DG would have offered some interesting plot and suspense opportunities, as was suggested in another post, but having them also provided some and allowed immediate involvement with the ground crew.
All my favorite shows: Farscape, Firefly, Dead Like Me and Defying Gravity have "problems" with respect to the real world and real-world science, but I think the stories and, more importantly, the characters are compelling and interesting none the less.
I've both read and seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Arthur C. Clarke is a SciFi God, but people thought he was "out there" in the 60's. Larry Niven tries to get the science correct too, but sometimes even his stories require a bit of a reach.