My little brother is a Boy Scout, so I've attended some of the ceremonies. One thing that's always struck me is there's usually a period in which the leader of the ceremony says something along the lines of "We now ask that you join us in a moment of silence/prayer (I don't remember which), each in your own way." followed by the moment of silence.
Why couldn't the schools take the same attitude? It's not that acknowledging religion is illegal/unconstitutional, it's that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (although that, of course, only applies to Congress, not the states).
I'd have modded you up, but you're already at +5. So, I'll add an anecdote as extension to your "the suspect would not stop flailing about on the ground due to being repeatedly hit with electricity (officers refer to this as resisting)".
I was watching a video on YouTube of a Taser being used in an arrest (under questionable circumstances, but that's not the point). The person was being uncooperative to the point of becoming dangerous, so the officer Tased him. Naturally, the person falls to the ground. The officer instructs him to put his hands on his head. He's can't comply, having just been Tased, so the officer tells him again. He's still can't quite control himself to do it, so... the officer Tases him again, and again tells him to put his hands on his head. Well, he was just Tased, so obviously he can't, so the officer Tases him a third time!
I can't even begin to find the video, unfortunately. I was watching it over the shoulder of my Computer Tech teacher last year (who, incidentally, used to be a cop, and said he didn't see anything wrong with the officer's conduct).
Well, I don't know about you, but around here, we don't actually put in on the street; we leave it at the edge. It's still on our property.
But you're right, regardless. These signals were broadcast beyond the property boundary.
How good a welder can you be if you don't understand basic physics and chemistry?
Probably pretty damn good. I don't know a thing about welding, but I'm reminded about a story my high school geometry teacher told once.
He was working as a construction worker part-time in college. The head construction person hadn't gone to college. I don't remember, but he probably didn't even complete high school. He'd call down lengths (of wood to be cut) to my future teacher. Except he wouldn't give it in inches--he'd call down "four of the big ones and three of the little ones" (referring to lines on the measuring tape), and the wood would get cut to the correct length and handed up.
He didn't need geometry, trig, etc., he just needed experience, basic counting skills, and a good eye.
users consider even minor [test] outages in the middle of the night unacceptable
...and this is why we have redundancy.
Test the backup hardware. Works? Switch over to it, test the main hardware. Works? All good, no (or negligible) downtime.
The difference here is that you can still use FORTRAN if you want to.
One of the main selling points of games like these is their multiplayer. You'd want it to go on forever--and well you should, you certainly paid for it!
You can still compile and run FORTRAN programs--in fact, if you run Linux, you might have a FORTRAN compiler installed and not know it (I'm in Windows, so I can't see if I do right now). Hell, when you install mingw, the compilers offered are C, C++, and FORTRAN. (Probably Java too, but I don't remember. Wikipedia says there is also Pascal and Ada support.)
The problem with Microsoft's treatment of their fanbase is "This product has reached end-of-life, we're killing it. Tough. What, you want more? No. And don't think about setting up your own master servers, etc., or we'll sue you." (Or something to that effect.)
A magnetic field? Maybe if you're under some big-ass power lines...
For me, I get it that hallucination all the time when I'm dehydrated really bad. That, migrane, followed by nausea and/or vomiting. (Fortunately, it doesn't happen too often.)
Hah, that reminds me of a joke.
So this penguin is on vacation in like New Mexico or something. (Usually it's Arizona, but yeah.) He's just drivin' along, enjoying the scenery, when his car breaks down. He manages to coast to a mechanic, and the mechanic tells him he'll take a look at it, and to be back in a hour.
So, the penguin's walkin' around town, and he sees an ice cream shop. He thinks, "Hey, I'm a penguin in New Mexico, why not get something cold?"
So, he buys an ice cream cone, and being a penguin, with only flippers, he can't hold it very well, and only manages to get half of it into his beak, and the other half all over his face.
Shorty afterward, he decides to head back to the mechanic and see if there's any progress. He sees the mechanic outside, and goes over. "Well," says the mechanic, "looks like you blew a seal."
"No," says the penguin, "it's ice cream."
I've found that people tend to think that such food is very "fresh", whatever that might mean, but they're clearly wrong. It's mostly made up of things that have died in the recent past.
Uh... that's what "fresh" means. Died recently.
Nonetheless, what you buy in the grocery store is not that new. Could be a week old by the time you get it.
For example, I work at a florist's part-time (especially around now, prom season & Mothers' day), and one question that gets asked a lot is "are these fresh?". 99% of the flowers are shipped from Colombia, Ecuador, etc. Like I said, a week old. If you think they look like they're going bad, you should see the ones I throw away! (Sure, flowers aren't FDA-certified, but it's similar.)
Well, I don't have a car, so I don't have any car keys. I have precisely one key, to my house.
However, why not just figure out how to break into your house? You're posting on Slashdot, so I'm sure you'd find it an interesting exercise. It'd also help in case you DO carry around keys and find yourself getting locked out.
(Only caveat: neighbors might call the cops. But they'll get you in once you establish it's your home, even if they have to break a window.)
You call that a hoarder? You should've seen my Computer Tech room in high school last year. We had enough Dell GX100s to build a fort. We had so many CRTs that the floor along one wall was lined with unused ones.
There were several cabinets (your everyday two-door seven-foot free-standing beige cabinet). We used them to store miscellaneous hardware. One was for power supplies. Another for Cat5. There were full. There was also a mechanic's toolbox for hard drives. You know, red, steel, drawers? Overflowing. Hard drive capacities ranged from 5 GB to 80. And then there was a three-drawer chest. Each drawer was about a foot and a half deep, six feet wide, and some three feet (maybe) deep. The bottom drawer: cards. Sound, Ethernet, video, you name it. The middle: power cables. The top: I don't remember. Probably because the hardware was out-of-date enough that I never went in there. Oh yeah, those drawers were also full.
"You can never succeed trying to filter out all the bad stuff. You need a whitelist of the good stuff." But then someone else always says "But who creates the whitelist?" And both get modded +5 insightful. In this case, Apple created the Whitelist that all the security people say we need.
Maybe, but I don't want Apple writing my whitelists. I can decide for myself what I want.
Seriously, guys, are you that desperate for views?
The article linked to in the summary got the article from PopSci, who got it from NPR.
That aside... They should probably just stick a little reactor nearby to power their community and other nearby communities. Maybe even sell some power to Mexico.
I'm sure they've got enough wasteland that you could build one on without causing too much damage to human settlements in the region (which is all the NIMBYists care about).
Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty?
Nnnnnnno.
A video game can't. People can.
[Dr. McGonigal] takes threats to human existence [...] and asks the gaming public to collaborate on how to avoid these all too possible futures.
Um... I don't even need a game. Let's take a look at... Oh, Africa.
Problem: Little economy, disease, etc. (Ignoring the issue of "poverty"--just because they don't live like us doesn't mean it's a problem. Also education: exactly why do you need Western education to farm? But I digress.)
Cause: Little to no infrastructure, due to recurring military coups, dictatorships, despotism, leaders running a country like it's their personal posession.
Solution: Kick 'em out, set up a basic infrastructure, let the people build. Keep a sharp lookout for corruption.
So... What does the game do that we can't already do just fine?
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So why are cell phone cameras (still and video) so popular?
My little brother is a Boy Scout, so I've attended some of the ceremonies. One thing that's always struck me is there's usually a period in which the leader of the ceremony says something along the lines of "We now ask that you join us in a moment of silence/prayer (I don't remember which), each in your own way." followed by the moment of silence.
Why couldn't the schools take the same attitude? It's not that acknowledging religion is illegal/unconstitutional, it's that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (although that, of course, only applies to Congress, not the states).
I'd have modded you up, but you're already at +5. So, I'll add an anecdote as extension to your "the suspect would not stop flailing about on the ground due to being repeatedly hit with electricity (officers refer to this as resisting)".
I was watching a video on YouTube of a Taser being used in an arrest (under questionable circumstances, but that's not the point). The person was being uncooperative to the point of becoming dangerous, so the officer Tased him. Naturally, the person falls to the ground. The officer instructs him to put his hands on his head. He's can't comply, having just been Tased, so the officer tells him again. He's still can't quite control himself to do it, so... the officer Tases him again, and again tells him to put his hands on his head. Well, he was just Tased, so obviously he can't, so the officer Tases him a third time!
I can't even begin to find the video, unfortunately. I was watching it over the shoulder of my Computer Tech teacher last year (who, incidentally, used to be a cop, and said he didn't see anything wrong with the officer's conduct).
Well, I don't know about you, but around here, we don't actually put in on the street; we leave it at the edge. It's still on our property.
But you're right, regardless. These signals were broadcast beyond the property boundary.
Probably pretty damn good. I don't know a thing about welding, but I'm reminded about a story my high school geometry teacher told once.
He was working as a construction worker part-time in college. The head construction person hadn't gone to college. I don't remember, but he probably didn't even complete high school. He'd call down lengths (of wood to be cut) to my future teacher. Except he wouldn't give it in inches--he'd call down "four of the big ones and three of the little ones" (referring to lines on the measuring tape), and the wood would get cut to the correct length and handed up.
He didn't need geometry, trig, etc., he just needed experience, basic counting skills, and a good eye.
Test the backup hardware. Works? Switch over to it, test the main hardware. Works? All good, no (or negligible) downtime.
The difference here is that you can still use FORTRAN if you want to.
One of the main selling points of games like these is their multiplayer. You'd want it to go on forever--and well you should, you certainly paid for it!
You can still compile and run FORTRAN programs--in fact, if you run Linux, you might have a FORTRAN compiler installed and not know it (I'm in Windows, so I can't see if I do right now). Hell, when you install mingw, the compilers offered are C, C++, and FORTRAN. (Probably Java too, but I don't remember. Wikipedia says there is also Pascal and Ada support.)
The problem with Microsoft's treatment of their fanbase is "This product has reached end-of-life, we're killing it. Tough. What, you want more? No. And don't think about setting up your own master servers, etc., or we'll sue you." (Or something to that effect.)
A magnetic field? Maybe if you're under some big-ass power lines...
For me, I get it that hallucination all the time when I'm dehydrated really bad. That, migrane, followed by nausea and/or vomiting. (Fortunately, it doesn't happen too often.)
Hah, that reminds me of a joke.
So this penguin is on vacation in like New Mexico or something. (Usually it's Arizona, but yeah.) He's just drivin' along, enjoying the scenery, when his car breaks down. He manages to coast to a mechanic, and the mechanic tells him he'll take a look at it, and to be back in a hour.
So, the penguin's walkin' around town, and he sees an ice cream shop. He thinks, "Hey, I'm a penguin in New Mexico, why not get something cold?"
So, he buys an ice cream cone, and being a penguin, with only flippers, he can't hold it very well, and only manages to get half of it into his beak, and the other half all over his face.
Shorty afterward, he decides to head back to the mechanic and see if there's any progress. He sees the mechanic outside, and goes over. "Well," says the mechanic, "looks like you blew a seal."
"No," says the penguin, "it's ice cream."
Is... is that a Doctor Who reference?
Uh... that's what "fresh" means. Died recently.
Nonetheless, what you buy in the grocery store is not that new. Could be a week old by the time you get it.
For example, I work at a florist's part-time (especially around now, prom season & Mothers' day), and one question that gets asked a lot is "are these fresh?". 99% of the flowers are shipped from Colombia, Ecuador, etc. Like I said, a week old. If you think they look like they're going bad, you should see the ones I throw away! (Sure, flowers aren't FDA-certified, but it's similar.)
At some software companies I'd say that's par for the course. :\
I can hear Sony's response now... "Fuck everything, we're doing five pixels."
(Although if you REALLY wanted to extend the joke, it'd be six pixels.)
Well, I'd imagine they'd get cut. Is there more to this story that I'm missing?
Well, I don't have a car, so I don't have any car keys. I have precisely one key, to my house.
However, why not just figure out how to break into your house? You're posting on Slashdot, so I'm sure you'd find it an interesting exercise. It'd also help in case you DO carry around keys and find yourself getting locked out.
(Only caveat: neighbors might call the cops. But they'll get you in once you establish it's your home, even if they have to break a window.)
Hey, I never thought of that! I'll dump Comcast and choose another ISP from this list of ISPs that serve my area:
Waves. The wind blows, pushes oil over the booms.
http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance
According to Wikipedia, Washington does not have a "stop and identify" statute. So, unless there's other relevant legislation, no. You don't.
You call that a hoarder? You should've seen my Computer Tech room in high school last year. We had enough Dell GX100s to build a fort. We had so many CRTs that the floor along one wall was lined with unused ones.
There were several cabinets (your everyday two-door seven-foot free-standing beige cabinet). We used them to store miscellaneous hardware. One was for power supplies. Another for Cat5. There were full. There was also a mechanic's toolbox for hard drives. You know, red, steel, drawers? Overflowing. Hard drive capacities ranged from 5 GB to 80.
And then there was a three-drawer chest. Each drawer was about a foot and a half deep, six feet wide, and some three feet (maybe) deep. The bottom drawer: cards. Sound, Ethernet, video, you name it. The middle: power cables. The top: I don't remember. Probably because the hardware was out-of-date enough that I never went in there. Oh yeah, those drawers were also full.
(And then there was the hardware we used!)
Maybe, but I don't want Apple writing my whitelists. I can decide for myself what I want.
True, but you'll eventually get tired of card games. You can't play Scrabble, Monopoly, etc. with a deck of cards.
True, but that oxygen means nothing if you can't separate it from the hydrogen.
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink, eh?
Seriously, guys, are you that desperate for views?
The article linked to in the summary got the article from PopSci, who got it from NPR.
That aside... They should probably just stick a little reactor nearby to power their community and other nearby communities. Maybe even sell some power to Mexico.
I'm sure they've got enough wasteland that you could build one on without causing too much damage to human settlements in the region (which is all the NIMBYists care about).
Nnnnnnno.
A video game can't. People can.
Um... I don't even need a game. Let's take a look at... Oh, Africa.
Problem: Little economy, disease, etc. (Ignoring the issue of "poverty"--just because they don't live like us doesn't mean it's a problem. Also education: exactly why do you need Western education to farm? But I digress.)
Cause: Little to no infrastructure, due to recurring military coups, dictatorships, despotism, leaders running a country like it's their personal posession.
Solution: Kick 'em out, set up a basic infrastructure, let the people build. Keep a sharp lookout for corruption.
So... What does the game do that we can't already do just fine?