Which is more likely to kill someone: A bullet to the left temple or a bullet to the right temple?
If one party overvotes, negating the ballots of legitimate voters for the other party, the other part disenfranchizes some people likely to vote for the other party, and the Electoral College does whatever the heck it feels like, how are we ever to know that the person in the Oval Office has a right to be there?
learn to how make the computers can do the work for them
Well, crap. A mixed construction. Case in point, I suppose. I meant to say either "learn how the computers can do the work for them" or "learn to make the computers do the work for them", but managed neither. I was thinking about the preview button, not proof-reading.
This effort strikes me as a magnet school without specific entrance requirements. I will answer more completely below.
You seem to be saying that this school goes too far with technology, not far enough with its requirements of students
Precisely.
and that it's just a bad idea to conduct any experiment of this sort because it's doomed to failure.
I didn't say that. I said that this particular effort, which to me seems super-saturated with presumably proprietary technologies, seems to ignore the question of whether the students chosen to attend it have any ability to do basic (arithmetic|algebra|geometry|trigonometry), read for comprehension, write a coherent, intelligible multi-paragraph essay, etc. I'm concerned that students who don't have the basic skills will, instead of acquiring them, learn to how make the computers can do the work for them. The end result would be students who are technically literate but functionally illiterate otherwise.
As to the situation, I'm aware of it. My wife is a college instructor of English (formerly a high school teacher of English, Theatre, and Speech Comm.). I've seen the kinds of papers college freshman turn in. The situation is disheartening, especially when a foreign exchange student from Guangzhou writes, on the whole, far more intelligibly than a dozen native speakers. The system is broken and needs fixing, but merely supplying technology to kids (e.g., laptops with Word installed) who can't perform adequately without it doesn't seem to meet the need. If, however, there were a way to use the technology to expose the kids of superior writing (in greater that normal quantities or with greater than normal efficiency) so that they can learn from it...
As for Microsoft's involvement, if you're badmouthing it, when is the last time you volunteered at a school?
I married a teacher.
And yes, I think indiscriminately throwing technology at a problem is merely a more concrete form of throwing money at it. Some of the requirements are apparently bogus. For example:
Must apply a college: This is analogous to requiring people on unemployment to apply for a certain number of jobs each week. Good in theory, but easily abused. The bar is still too low. The students should be required to apply to several that they have a decent chance of graduating from.
The Windows people pooh-pooh the car because it's not a horse-drawn wheelbarrow with various automotive accessories piled inside it. The Apple people pooh-pooh it because it's not a sleek, chic, fashionable fuel-cell powered Car Of The Future.
Does that mean Scorpios can now do whatever the heck they want? Or would they already have done that. "What's really going to bake your noodle is: Would you have broken it if I hadn't said anything?"
Perhaps they agree with the direction of current foreign policy, or at least don't find anything objectionable in it? Perhaps they don't give a crap about foreign policy or enlisted|enrolled at an academy when the current foreign policy was still beyond comprehension or prediction? I have a friend who went to West Point. He graduated High School when I did (1998). By the time his graduation rolled around, we had already toppled the Taliban and begun the liberation of Iraq. This particular young Cavalryman (known in school as Attila the Lastname) would have agreed whole-heartedly the policy. But at the point that his hypothetical dis-agreement might have become an issue, it would also have been irrelevant. He had orders to follow - orders what would not have seemed illegal or immoral to him.
Speaking from the point of view of a Texan (and by extension, a Southern), Yankees are generally confused. Not always, but generally. There are, in fact, two categories: Yankees (Yankees we get along with) XOR Damn Yankees (Yankees who don't want to get along with us). It's the Damn Yankees we dislike so much. They are arrogant and rude. They also talk far too quickly. In this sense, whenever Yankee is used as an epithet (for example, calling J. Random NewYorker a Yankee at the Dinner table), it seems to imply Damn Yankee. Oddly, calling J. Random NewYorker a Yankee elsewhere is not quite so offensive.
There is another meaning:
Anyone from any state that did not secede from the Union. This includes states that didn't even exist at the time.
And yes, as a general rule, Yankees are confused. They think, for example, that they won the Civil War. Hint: Civil Wars involve destroying your own factors of production. Everyone loses, even the 'winner'.
This is why I take anything that falls out of the mouth of a Kennedy (just an example) with large quantities of grainy salt.
I'm sure there will be a Linux port. It might work something like this:
Stare fixedly at a blank space on the wall
Imagine that you're controlling an invisible, intangible Linux box with your thoughts
Visualize yourself accessing the eVaporWarez Gamez Service via the above imaginary Linux box
Pretend you're having fun
As a side benefit of this port process, the eVaporWarez Gamez Service is not limited to just Linux boxen. I could run it on my antique, non-booting Tandy HD1100!
foreach (@planetoids) { print "There are $#planetoids planets. $_ is a planet, too!\n"; } print "There are actually $#planetoids + 1 planets. God counts from zero.\n";
I don't. Does that maze game on Prodigy count? I can't remember the name, but I do remember a witch's house (possibly standing on two giant bird legs) placed at random in the maze and the fact that the maze was re-rendered after every turn (either turning the character or going forward to the next intersection). It was slow and confusing. I was all of 12, though, so I hope I can be forgiven for giving up on it.
I think it would work better as a Halloween costume than as a best friend. Between the size of the face and the mismatched eyes, that's one scary fruit-selector - in the kilo-cantlook range - somewhere between Dawn of the Dead and The Hills Have Eyes.
For those of us whose German is rusty, I google-translated the page the Parent links to:
Trolltech places Linux mobile phone for developers forwards [updated]
Linux Anwendungsentwicklern for mobile telephones was missing so far a suitable hardware environment for the continuous tests during the development phase. At this gap to close Trolltech presented now the Qtopia Greenphone. Mobile phone is offered as part of the Qtopia Entwicklungsumgebung of the Norwegian enterprise and should be available starting from September for a price of presumably approximately 690 US Dollar. Trolltech is above all admits for the platform-spreading C++ Framework Qt, on which for instance the Unix/Linux Desktop KDE develops, and which development environment Qtopia for mobile devices.
In the package with the Qtopia Phone edition of the Trolltech SDK is to help that mobile phone to clearly shorten the development cycles for arbitrary uses of business applications up to plays. The Greenphone is equipped, among them also in addition with the today usual functions of a Smartphone a camera. Mobile phone can be taped over a mini USB haven directly with applications, which is Linux Kernel pre-installed.
The Greenphone is manufactured by Trolltechs Chinese partner Yahua Teltech. It is equipped with a dual core XScale processor with 312 MHz clock frequency of Marvell (before times Intel) and the baseband processor BCM2121 von Broadcom. Beside 64 MByte RAM 128 MByte Flash memory and a MiniSD Karteneinschub are available. The Touchscreen display offers QVGA dissolution. Beside GSM and GPRS the Greenphone supports also WiFi and is prepared owing to SIP middleware also for VoIP telephone calls.
Trolltech owes to manufacturers such as Motorola, ZTE and Cellon that world-wide already approximately 4 million mobile phones were sold, which are based on Qtopia. With the Greenphone, which is to become only the first model in a whole row, the Norwegians want to further set the spreading in motion of Linux mobile phones. Last Trolltech had announced in May in addition to aim at a stock exchange quotation which was in the meantime carried out.
In other news, CBS has announced the new season of Survivor:
Survivor: Radio Blackout: Landforms of Silence
We can't say where it is or what it looks like. Jeff hasn't told us yet. All we can say is that damn La-la-la-loli-loli intro has been replaced by white noise.
I enjoy both FarScape and FireFly, though I can't claim to have watched FireFly before Fox killed it. I guess I like FS and FF partly because they have a sense of humor about them. In both cases, the shipmates are rag-tag outlaws (or rag-tag good guys styling themselves as outlaws), so they have no particular moral high ground to cling to and no particular lofty idealism to project, so they have no reason be so insanely serious about themselves. (Contrast this to Captains Pickard, Sisko, and Hepburn^H^H^H^H^HJaneway and their Prime Directive speeches.)
I suppose I also like the overall character design: FireFly: all Human, except for River. FarScape: Only one Human, most others only vaguely Human-like. A pint-sized noble-in-exile who farts helium? A killer priestess who gets off on sunlight? (Add to this the fact that none of them could understand each other except for bug that helps them understand each other. In the very first episode, Crichton wanders onto the bridge of Moiya and hears what is actually being said - no two characters are speaking the same language.)
Both shows are rather more 'quirky' than Star Trek when it's trying to be serious and dramatic. I suppose that's why I enjoy them.
Slashdot Mirror
Which is more likely to kill someone: A bullet to the left temple or a bullet to the right temple?
If one party overvotes, negating the ballots of legitimate voters for the other party, the other part disenfranchizes some people likely to vote for the other party, and the Electoral College does whatever the heck it feels like, how are we ever to know that the person in the Oval Office has a right to be there?
Of course, we'll just upload it to their mothership....
In that system, would time passed while booking the arrest and sitting in a holding cell count (likely much longer than ~22 minutes) as time served?
Wouldn't she prefer we name her planet something weird, like Rumplestiltskin or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Giving new meaning to "Throw dice to deal damage": http://www.giantitp.com/Images/GuestWeek2005/oots0 301.gif
And then, a few merger-generations later, we'll find the weblog ecology split down the middle: FaceSpaceLiveXangaBlogFriender and .Mac.
learn to how make the computers can do the work for them
Well, crap. A mixed construction. Case in point, I suppose. I meant to say either "learn how the computers can do the work for them" or "learn to make the computers do the work for them", but managed neither. I was thinking about the preview button, not proof-reading.This effort strikes me as a magnet school without specific entrance requirements. I will answer more completely below.
Precisely.
I didn't say that. I said that this particular effort, which to me seems super-saturated with presumably proprietary technologies, seems to ignore the question of whether the students chosen to attend it have any ability to do basic (arithmetic|algebra|geometry|trigonometry), read for comprehension, write a coherent, intelligible multi-paragraph essay, etc. I'm concerned that students who don't have the basic skills will, instead of acquiring them, learn to how make the computers can do the work for them. The end result would be students who are technically literate but functionally illiterate otherwise.
As to the situation, I'm aware of it. My wife is a college instructor of English (formerly a high school teacher of English, Theatre, and Speech Comm.). I've seen the kinds of papers college freshman turn in. The situation is disheartening, especially when a foreign exchange student from Guangzhou writes, on the whole, far more intelligibly than a dozen native speakers. The system is broken and needs fixing, but merely supplying technology to kids (e.g., laptops with Word installed) who can't perform adequately without it doesn't seem to meet the need. If, however, there were a way to use the technology to expose the kids of superior writing (in greater that normal quantities or with greater than normal efficiency) so that they can learn from it...
And yes, I think indiscriminately throwing technology at a problem is merely a more concrete form of throwing money at it. Some of the requirements are apparently bogus. For example:
Must apply a college: This is analogous to requiring people on unemployment to apply for a certain number of jobs each week. Good in theory, but easily abused. The bar is still too low. The students should be required to apply to several that they have a decent chance of graduating from.
The Windows people pooh-pooh the car because it's not a horse-drawn wheelbarrow with various automotive accessories piled inside it. The Apple people pooh-pooh it because it's not a sleek, chic, fashionable fuel-cell powered Car Of The Future.
Does that mean Scorpios can now do whatever the heck they want? Or would they already have done that. "What's really going to bake your noodle is: Would you have broken it if I hadn't said anything?"
Please, for the love! Don't give him Ideas!
It sounds to me like the Lord High Fixers at MS were taught to solve problems by Congress...
Perhaps they agree with the direction of current foreign policy, or at least don't find anything objectionable in it? Perhaps they don't give a crap about foreign policy or enlisted|enrolled at an academy when the current foreign policy was still beyond comprehension or prediction? I have a friend who went to West Point. He graduated High School when I did (1998). By the time his graduation rolled around, we had already toppled the Taliban and begun the liberation of Iraq. This particular young Cavalryman (known in school as Attila the Lastname) would have agreed whole-heartedly the policy. But at the point that his hypothetical dis-agreement might have become an issue, it would also have been irrelevant. He had orders to follow - orders what would not have seemed illegal or immoral to him.
Speaking from the point of view of a Texan (and by extension, a Southern), Yankees are generally confused. Not always, but generally. There are, in fact, two categories: Yankees (Yankees we get along with) XOR Damn Yankees (Yankees who don't want to get along with us). It's the Damn Yankees we dislike so much. They are arrogant and rude. They also talk far too quickly. In this sense, whenever Yankee is used as an epithet (for example, calling J. Random NewYorker a Yankee at the Dinner table), it seems to imply Damn Yankee. Oddly, calling J. Random NewYorker a Yankee elsewhere is not quite so offensive.
There is another meaning:
Anyone from any state that did not secede from the Union. This includes states that didn't even exist at the time.
And yes, as a general rule, Yankees are confused. They think, for example, that they won the Civil War. Hint: Civil Wars involve destroying your own factors of production. Everyone loses, even the 'winner'.
This is why I take anything that falls out of the mouth of a Kennedy (just an example) with large quantities of grainy salt.
Bacon (not Kevin)
There are two possibilities, actually: Roger and Francis. Interestingly, both were English.
Robert Goddard for his work on rocketry, etc.
Igor Sikorsky for his work on helicopters
Edwin Hubble: Astronomy
- Stare fixedly at a blank space on the wall
- Imagine that you're controlling an invisible, intangible Linux box with your thoughts
- Visualize yourself accessing the eVaporWarez Gamez Service via the above imaginary Linux box
- Pretend you're having fun
As a side benefit of this port process, the eVaporWarez Gamez Service is not limited to just Linux boxen. I could run it on my antique, non-booting Tandy HD1100!I don't. Does that maze game on Prodigy count? I can't remember the name, but I do remember a witch's house (possibly standing on two giant bird legs) placed at random in the maze and the fact that the maze was re-rendered after every turn (either turning the character or going forward to the next intersection). It was slow and confusing. I was all of 12, though, so I hope I can be forgiven for giving up on it.
I think it would work better as a Halloween costume than as a best friend. Between the size of the face and the mismatched eyes, that's one scary fruit-selector - in the kilo-cantlook range - somewhere between Dawn of the Dead and The Hills Have Eyes.
For those of us whose German is rusty, I google-translated the page the Parent links to:
Trolltech places Linux mobile phone for developers forwards [updated]
Linux Anwendungsentwicklern for mobile telephones was missing so far a suitable hardware environment for the continuous tests during the development phase. At this gap to close Trolltech presented now the Qtopia Greenphone. Mobile phone is offered as part of the Qtopia Entwicklungsumgebung of the Norwegian enterprise and should be available starting from September for a price of presumably approximately 690 US Dollar. Trolltech is above all admits for the platform-spreading C++ Framework Qt, on which for instance the Unix/Linux Desktop KDE develops, and which development environment Qtopia for mobile devices.
In the package with the Qtopia Phone edition of the Trolltech SDK is to help that mobile phone to clearly shorten the development cycles for arbitrary uses of business applications up to plays. The Greenphone is equipped, among them also in addition with the today usual functions of a Smartphone a camera. Mobile phone can be taped over a mini USB haven directly with applications, which is Linux Kernel pre-installed.
The Greenphone is manufactured by Trolltechs Chinese partner Yahua Teltech. It is equipped with a dual core XScale processor with 312 MHz clock frequency of Marvell (before times Intel) and the baseband processor BCM2121 von Broadcom. Beside 64 MByte RAM 128 MByte Flash memory and a MiniSD Karteneinschub are available. The Touchscreen display offers QVGA dissolution. Beside GSM and GPRS the Greenphone supports also WiFi and is prepared owing to SIP middleware also for VoIP telephone calls.
Trolltech owes to manufacturers such as Motorola, ZTE and Cellon that world-wide already approximately 4 million mobile phones were sold, which are based on Qtopia. With the Greenphone, which is to become only the first model in a whole row, the Norwegians want to further set the spreading in motion of Linux mobile phones. Last Trolltech had announced in May in addition to aim at a stock exchange quotation which was in the meantime carried out.
In other news, CBS has announced the new season of Survivor:
Survivor: Radio Blackout: Landforms of Silence
We can't say where it is or what it looks like. Jeff hasn't told us yet. All we can say is that damn La-la-la-loli-loli intro has been replaced by white noise.
I enjoy both FarScape and FireFly, though I can't claim to have watched FireFly before Fox killed it. I guess I like FS and FF partly because they have a sense of humor about them. In both cases, the shipmates are rag-tag outlaws (or rag-tag good guys styling themselves as outlaws), so they have no particular moral high ground to cling to and no particular lofty idealism to project, so they have no reason be so insanely serious about themselves. (Contrast this to Captains Pickard, Sisko, and Hepburn^H^H^H^H^HJaneway and their Prime Directive speeches.)
I suppose I also like the overall character design: FireFly: all Human, except for River. FarScape: Only one Human, most others only vaguely Human-like. A pint-sized noble-in-exile who farts helium? A killer priestess who gets off on sunlight? (Add to this the fact that none of them could understand each other except for bug that helps them understand each other. In the very first episode, Crichton wanders onto the bridge of Moiya and hears what is actually being said - no two characters are speaking the same language.)
Both shows are rather more 'quirky' than Star Trek when it's trying to be serious and dramatic. I suppose that's why I enjoy them.