I'm a fairly tech savvy person, as far as non-Linux people go. Last time my windows machine crashed (which was the hard-drive's issue, not the OS), I decided I would try out this "Linux" thing. I got Ubuntu 8.01... I think that's the one.
Now, about me as a user: I am a bit of a graphics geek, I do some web design with PHP and MySql. Family and friends ask for my help with things. I have a minor in Computer Science. I had a terrible time trying to switch over.
I re-installed windows, and used a liveCD to place Ubuntu as a second boot. I was so frustrated with trying to get Ubuntu to just "run" that I was at my wits end. Problems with my monitor and graphics card. When I finally got it "working," I had no clue how to install programs. After calling a friend who is a Linux person, I got most of my rough spots smoothed out. But, without some outside help, it was hell. An issue I NEVER run into with Windows XP.
By the end, I really liked the package manager, but my (and my wife's) gaming habits and my use of Photoshop and Illustrator pulled me back to Windows. It was just way to different for someone without some help. An introduction video would have helped.
When I took my C++ Data Structures course, our final was 36 pages long. We had to hand write our code answers. That was cruel. That was in the ol' year 2000.
I know it peeves some of y'all off when people ask these kinds of questions. Is there a query that can be sent to MySql from PHP that will tell you if a field has data without actually passing the data back? I have a BLOB field that I want to know if it is occupied but not retrieve the data...just know if there is data to be had.
Disagree. Parents are not the end-all-be-all of why a kid passes or fails. I, as a teacher, have plenty of parents who want their kids to do well; many of those kids don't. I have plenty of parents who don't really care; however, some of their kids do well. While parents influence the results of their children, it is UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL to make the decision to do well academically. As they say, "you can lead a horse to water..."
According to dictionary.com:
ameliorate: to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.
improve: has over six accepted definitions; most would work in this situation, unless it is used as a synonym to "increase."
help: has over 20 definitions; most relate to giving aid to...in this case, it could allude to the concept that the headache factor is increased (or improved)
advance: over 30 definitions; most relate to "moving forward." Again, this could be linked to increasing.
So, it would look like using a "big" word could help to add clarity to a sentence, and thus, avoid ambiguity.
I did not RTF(Comment) -- it was too long for my publicly educated mind -- but there is an important difference about home schooled students I feel is important to point out: They have parents that are motivated enough (about their children's education) to "do it themselves." A better test pool to compare home schooled kids and their public schooled counterparts would be to limit the public schooled pool to those whose parents are "actively involved with their student's education." I would venture to guess that the achievement gaps would narrow considerably.
I, as a teacher, agree with most of what you have to say. However, there is one small, er, error. Teacher unions are not in it for teachers; they are in it for teacher unions.
I love when environmentalist believe THEY can fix the problem. It reminds me of one time, to help the deer population on this one mountain range, they killed all the mountain lions. Horray, the deer will live. Then, a few years later, uh oh, the populations got too big, out ate their food supply, and had mass die-offs of starvation. The enviro-geeks have not made much progress sense then.
I saw this technology on a video on either TLC or Discovery SEVERAL years ago. The monkey could move a robotic arm with its brain waves. Old news. On the same episode, they showed a fella moving a cursor on a computer screen with the same technique. Also cool, on that episode, was a prosthetic leg for a guy who had his amputated above the knee. They bolted a titanium socket into his femur that protruded out of the bottom of his "nub" that could "jack" into the prosthetic knee and leg. He could, in some fashion, sense touch on the prosthetic (vibrations or something up into his real leg).
I hereby patent the displaying of content to web pages (or web-sites) contained between an opening html tag and a closing html tag. All your bases, I mean monies, are belong to us.
It says employee number basse sixteen (perhaps referring to Wilson Hall). What is the street address for Wilson Hall? I bet it is five digits and it could be the ID number for the author.:) Just a thought.
Uh. Lemme see, how to put this....RT*C (read the constitution). Rights are not granted. Rights are protected. Our rights are rights until they are taken away by law. Some of those rights are harder to take away (those specifically mentioned in those founding documents, such as speech). Actually, some of the framers of the constitution (I think it was Hamilton, but I could be WAY wrong) did not want to include anything mentioning specific rights to avoid the concept that rights are given by the government. This concept extends to legal entities. They have all kinds of rights until we (the people) tell them they don't.
I believe the point of this article was to leak "secret documents" and show the secrecy of the "cult" we know as the LDS church. In regards to its secrecy, read the first few pages. To those you have not, RTA and STB (scan the book). To show the absurdity of asserting some veil of secrecy, here are some quotes:
"However, other stake and ward leaders may have access to this information
as needed for reference."
"This publication is bound as a single book for stake presidencies, bishoprics, high priests group leaders, elders quorum presidents, and auxiliary
presidents. Individual sections are published for leaders who do not need the entire book"
"However, the stake president or
bishop may authorize portions to be duplicated for high councilors and others as needed."
The book and/or the book's content are available to many, many people in the church. In fact, if you look at that last line, it is available to "others as needed." I would imagine this means any ward member. There is no veil of secrecy here, and the copyrights violation suit, I feel, makes sense. It is their document and it doesn't show any illegal activities. If they want to keep it mostly internal, so be it. Nothing in there, from what I could tell, looks damning. Much of the same stuff you see in other Christian denominations. To get a good feel for the book real quick, do a search for "ward member" and read the sentences around that search throughout the book. Good things abound.
I don't like the F in RTFA. I will try to use RTA. If you RTA, the embryos being utilized were "left overs" from fertilization techniques and efforts. They were on their way to be destroyed. I believe the possibilities for helping man kind with extreme illnesses (as opposed to custom-tailoring your children)is well worth the time to mess with an embryo that was already on its way out. No harm done and man kind has the opportunity to rid itself of horrible diseases.
Cat's Cradle is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I encourage you to read it. It explores "science for the sake of science" as opposed to "science for a reason." I feel that it has major significance with your last line. As to your comment on the "effects of religion" being proven "overwhelmingly negative," I would like to dissect your use of "proven." As this discussion in on/about science, I would use the definition: To determine the quality of by testing; try out. To use "proven" as you have, I believe you have to look at religion as it stands today (not during the crusades, or the Spanish inquisition). Can you show, by way of evidence, that religion has had overwhelmingly negative effects on a society such as the one we enjoy in the United States? That is to say, can you show that the over all effect of religion is negative (as opposed to positive) in a free, non-oppressive society? I venture to say you cannot. I also venture to say that many, many, many people will give anecdotal evidence touting how religion has made their lives better (Catholic alter-boys aside).
This, as much as you may want it to be, is not Big Brother. We (as a civilization) have made life more and more complicated that it practically requires several years of education just to make sense of it. The kids getting slapped with a GPS are the ones not going to school. Go to school = no GPS. Now, this is a GOOD thing to do. This has less to do with government control and more to do with giving children/students options. Here is why: if these students never go to college or never have plans of working anywhere where a diploma from high school will do them a lick of good, the high school diploma is still desirable. If gives them options for future educational growth. Many of those youth who "opt out" of high school don't understand what they are opting out of. They lack the mental faculty and maturity to understand the gravity of their decisions. I don't think you will find anyone who will look back and say, "man, I wish I had not gone to school and I wish I did not have a diploma," even it it was forced down their throat.
Profit is evil. Verizon has fiber running some three hundred feet from our small community to go feed two other small (bigger than us) communities. They know that they will not make enough money back if they put DSL in our small community, so they don't. Oh, also WildBlue == evil because they have a fair usage policy (and because satellite has such awful ping times).
I enjoyed the heck out of number 3. Perhaps more than I did 1 or 2. 1 and 2 where fun, but 3 was down right scary. I would play it at the office late at night, leave for home around 1am and walk a few blocks to get there. I would hold my maglite in tactical position to hit any imps in the head that may jump out. It was a fun game.
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I'm a fairly tech savvy person, as far as non-Linux people go. Last time my windows machine crashed (which was the hard-drive's issue, not the OS), I decided I would try out this "Linux" thing. I got Ubuntu 8.01 ... I think that's the one.
Now, about me as a user: I am a bit of a graphics geek, I do some web design with PHP and MySql. Family and friends ask for my help with things. I have a minor in Computer Science. I had a terrible time trying to switch over.
I re-installed windows, and used a liveCD to place Ubuntu as a second boot. I was so frustrated with trying to get Ubuntu to just "run" that I was at my wits end. Problems with my monitor and graphics card. When I finally got it "working," I had no clue how to install programs. After calling a friend who is a Linux person, I got most of my rough spots smoothed out. But, without some outside help, it was hell. An issue I NEVER run into with Windows XP.
By the end, I really liked the package manager, but my (and my wife's) gaming habits and my use of Photoshop and Illustrator pulled me back to Windows. It was just way to different for someone without some help. An introduction video would have helped.
Legend of Zelda, why is this not mentioned. Common now.
Hey, turn off your damn flashlight, your f**king up my internet!...Yes, the strobe light too. Turn it off.
When I took my C++ Data Structures course, our final was 36 pages long. We had to hand write our code answers. That was cruel. That was in the ol' year 2000.
Ha. I can't believe that did not cross my mind. Thanks.
I know it peeves some of y'all off when people ask these kinds of questions. Is there a query that can be sent to MySql from PHP that will tell you if a field has data without actually passing the data back? I have a BLOB field that I want to know if it is occupied but not retrieve the data...just know if there is data to be had.
Disagree. Parents are not the end-all-be-all of why a kid passes or fails. I, as a teacher, have plenty of parents who want their kids to do well; many of those kids don't. I have plenty of parents who don't really care; however, some of their kids do well. While parents influence the results of their children, it is UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL to make the decision to do well academically. As they say, "you can lead a horse to water..."
According to dictionary.com: ameliorate: to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate. improve: has over six accepted definitions; most would work in this situation, unless it is used as a synonym to "increase." help: has over 20 definitions; most relate to giving aid to...in this case, it could allude to the concept that the headache factor is increased (or improved) advance: over 30 definitions; most relate to "moving forward." Again, this could be linked to increasing. So, it would look like using a "big" word could help to add clarity to a sentence, and thus, avoid ambiguity.
...the pr0n industry!
I did not RTF(Comment) -- it was too long for my publicly educated mind -- but there is an important difference about home schooled students I feel is important to point out: They have parents that are motivated enough (about their children's education) to "do it themselves." A better test pool to compare home schooled kids and their public schooled counterparts would be to limit the public schooled pool to those whose parents are "actively involved with their student's education." I would venture to guess that the achievement gaps would narrow considerably.
I, as a teacher, agree with most of what you have to say. However, there is one small, er, error. Teacher unions are not in it for teachers; they are in it for teacher unions.
I love when environmentalist believe THEY can fix the problem. It reminds me of one time, to help the deer population on this one mountain range, they killed all the mountain lions. Horray, the deer will live. Then, a few years later, uh oh, the populations got too big, out ate their food supply, and had mass die-offs of starvation. The enviro-geeks have not made much progress sense then.
I saw this technology on a video on either TLC or Discovery SEVERAL years ago. The monkey could move a robotic arm with its brain waves. Old news. On the same episode, they showed a fella moving a cursor on a computer screen with the same technique. Also cool, on that episode, was a prosthetic leg for a guy who had his amputated above the knee. They bolted a titanium socket into his femur that protruded out of the bottom of his "nub" that could "jack" into the prosthetic knee and leg. He could, in some fashion, sense touch on the prosthetic (vibrations or something up into his real leg).
I hereby patent the displaying of content to web pages (or web-sites) contained between an opening html tag and a closing html tag. All your bases, I mean monies, are belong to us.
I believe the PR term is "recreational reptile."
It says employee number basse sixteen (perhaps referring to Wilson Hall). What is the street address for Wilson Hall? I bet it is five digits and it could be the ID number for the author. :) Just a thought.
...Saddam Insane received 99.8% of the vote in Iraq.
Uh. Lemme see, how to put this....RT*C (read the constitution). Rights are not granted. Rights are protected. Our rights are rights until they are taken away by law. Some of those rights are harder to take away (those specifically mentioned in those founding documents, such as speech). Actually, some of the framers of the constitution (I think it was Hamilton, but I could be WAY wrong) did not want to include anything mentioning specific rights to avoid the concept that rights are given by the government. This concept extends to legal entities. They have all kinds of rights until we (the people) tell them they don't.
I believe the point of this article was to leak "secret documents" and show the secrecy of the "cult" we know as the LDS church. In regards to its secrecy, read the first few pages. To those you have not, RTA and STB (scan the book). To show the absurdity of asserting some veil of secrecy, here are some quotes: "However, other stake and ward leaders may have access to this information as needed for reference." "This publication is bound as a single book for stake presidencies, bishoprics, high priests group leaders, elders quorum presidents, and auxiliary presidents. Individual sections are published for leaders who do not need the entire book" "However, the stake president or bishop may authorize portions to be duplicated for high councilors and others as needed." The book and/or the book's content are available to many, many people in the church. In fact, if you look at that last line, it is available to "others as needed." I would imagine this means any ward member. There is no veil of secrecy here, and the copyrights violation suit, I feel, makes sense. It is their document and it doesn't show any illegal activities. If they want to keep it mostly internal, so be it. Nothing in there, from what I could tell, looks damning. Much of the same stuff you see in other Christian denominations. To get a good feel for the book real quick, do a search for "ward member" and read the sentences around that search throughout the book. Good things abound.
I don't like the F in RTFA. I will try to use RTA. If you RTA, the embryos being utilized were "left overs" from fertilization techniques and efforts. They were on their way to be destroyed. I believe the possibilities for helping man kind with extreme illnesses (as opposed to custom-tailoring your children)is well worth the time to mess with an embryo that was already on its way out. No harm done and man kind has the opportunity to rid itself of horrible diseases.
Cat's Cradle is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I encourage you to read it. It explores "science for the sake of science" as opposed to "science for a reason." I feel that it has major significance with your last line. As to your comment on the "effects of religion" being proven "overwhelmingly negative," I would like to dissect your use of "proven." As this discussion in on/about science, I would use the definition: To determine the quality of by testing; try out. To use "proven" as you have, I believe you have to look at religion as it stands today (not during the crusades, or the Spanish inquisition). Can you show, by way of evidence, that religion has had overwhelmingly negative effects on a society such as the one we enjoy in the United States? That is to say, can you show that the over all effect of religion is negative (as opposed to positive) in a free, non-oppressive society? I venture to say you cannot. I also venture to say that many, many, many people will give anecdotal evidence touting how religion has made their lives better (Catholic alter-boys aside).
This, as much as you may want it to be, is not Big Brother. We (as a civilization) have made life more and more complicated that it practically requires several years of education just to make sense of it. The kids getting slapped with a GPS are the ones not going to school. Go to school = no GPS. Now, this is a GOOD thing to do. This has less to do with government control and more to do with giving children/students options. Here is why: if these students never go to college or never have plans of working anywhere where a diploma from high school will do them a lick of good, the high school diploma is still desirable. If gives them options for future educational growth. Many of those youth who "opt out" of high school don't understand what they are opting out of. They lack the mental faculty and maturity to understand the gravity of their decisions. I don't think you will find anyone who will look back and say, "man, I wish I had not gone to school and I wish I did not have a diploma," even it it was forced down their throat.
Profit is evil. Verizon has fiber running some three hundred feet from our small community to go feed two other small (bigger than us) communities. They know that they will not make enough money back if they put DSL in our small community, so they don't. Oh, also WildBlue == evil because they have a fair usage policy (and because satellite has such awful ping times).
I had heard that ereg has better portability. Why would they ax ereg?
I enjoyed the heck out of number 3. Perhaps more than I did 1 or 2. 1 and 2 where fun, but 3 was down right scary. I would play it at the office late at night, leave for home around 1am and walk a few blocks to get there. I would hold my maglite in tactical position to hit any imps in the head that may jump out. It was a fun game.