If you want to solve traffic problems with trains, make it cheaper to take a train. If I take the train into downtown LA, it's cheaper only because of parking. To go anywhere else by train around here is pointless unless you have no choice.
I'm still trying to figure out why it's cheaper for me to drive than it is to take the MetroLink. Gas has to get upwards of $4/gallon before I start to break even, and then I don't have the convenience.
I'm not sure if it's worth continuing this since you have obviously missed your logical fallacy.
If you see a painting and your only reaction is "oh, that's pretty" it's probably NOT art. If it takes your breath away and makes you say "WOW!" it is art.
When I see good architecture I think "oh, that's pretty". When I see the craftsmanship that went into it, that's what takes my breath away. Therefore, by your assertion, the architect is not an artist, the craftsman is.
I'm not just talking about the architecture, I'm talking about the skilled carpenters, welders, stone cutters, and masons. The architect just directs what he wants built, he doesn't build it (usually).
Hate to break it to you, but I've never seen any work of art that takes my breath away. A few have made me think (I love Escher), but I am unable to appreciate most of the "great masters". On the other hand, the craftsmanship and skill of the builders of architecture takes my breath away. The extremely effective design of old castles as war machines takes my breath away. The printing press takes my breath away. If skilled craftsmanship doesn't take your breath away, then I don't understand how art ever could.
I can't speak with too much authority on the topic of Circadian Rhythm regulation, and I am sure there are several factors involved. What I do know from working in the sleep therapy industry is that one of the primary factors is light exposure which, at least for humans, explains why we tend to be awake in the day, and changing to night shifts is extraordinarily difficult for most people. By my thinking, accumulation of misfolded proteins may actually be a good explanation for the irregularities in the Circadian Rhythm, such as when you are recovering from a major injury or are sick.
The full purpose behind sleep is still unclear. We know a fair amount of what happens during sleep, but we don't understand why it has to take place while we sleep or why sleep has multiple stages and why we cycle through them twice each night. Tiredness is caused by a chemical regulated by the Circadian Rhythm.
Humans are conditioned for being awake in the day time, but there is no reason to believe that this has anything to do with the need for sleep other than the fact that when we sleep is regulated by the circadian rhythm which is controlled by light exposure. However, all mammals need sleep whether they are awake in the day, nocturnal, or sea mammals.
There is no such thing as sleep deprivation without short term ill-effects. We know that cognitive ability declines with a lack of sleep, even if it's a small lack of sleep ever night over an extended period of time. Your cognitive ability and reaction time will continue to decline until you start getting complete sleep. In fact, after a few weeks, people with sleep deprivation begin to perceive that they're "getting used to it" and are going back to normal in spite of their continued decline.
In fact, USB 1.1 speeds are the standard for all USB HIDs. Full Speed USB is mostly obsolete, but Low Speed USB is here to stay, and High Speed USB will probably remain in use for some devices because of the lack of performance gain with 3.0 and the increased cost.
My biggest problem with the system is the strict use of pictorial representations of functions. I don't know what "Properties" or "Insert" or "Cross Reference" is supposed to look like. Nor would anyone be able to describe to me how to find them since they would be describing a tiny icon picture which I would then have to interpret instead of using a single word explanatory statement.
I can't help thinking about the reams of notes I took in college and the half ream of homework assignments that I turned in. And Morse code is not dead.
How exactly does cursive have no real-world use? I'm fairly certain that in school they spent as much time teaching cursive as they did printing. It was no major loss in time, especially when I was too young to appreciate literature or grasp concepts of grammar. I hope you never find yourself in a position that you have to take notes on paper.
Actually I find cursive to be much more aesthetically pleasing. It has also served me well when I need to take notes in class while having two separate books open. There's just no room for much else on most desks if you're using a laptop. I should hope that your child will at least be able to read cursive. Otherwise, expect it to degrade into an elitist skill much like the skill of "seeing sides" in Flatland.
I think we should just not worry about it since a good guess would be that 1000 years from now, we'll be colonizing other planets. If energy tech hasn't become much cleaner by then, then we'll all end up leaving to the other colonies, and the Earth will make a full recovery without our intervention.
I remember very little of my multiplication tables and even less of my division tables. This is despite the fact that I work with numbers and statistics on a daily basis. Calculators are the standard in business and you are expected to understand what you are doing on them. Memorization of tables does nothing for your understanding. It's just a highly simple case of pattern memorization.
Candy canes? I would think that Sucrose would be a poor source of bio-fuel. The fact that it's a complex sugar and all of the energy already expended to extract it means that it would require a lot of energy input in comparison with the raw simple sugar fructose.
"General sense" being the key words here. Reproductive maturity is the purpose of puberty, but it's not so simple as to state that the end of puberty is defined by fertility. This is aside from the fact that the biological definition of "child" and the clinical definition of "pedophile" are mutually exclusive.
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If you want to solve traffic problems with trains, make it cheaper to take a train. If I take the train into downtown LA, it's cheaper only because of parking. To go anywhere else by train around here is pointless unless you have no choice.
I'm still trying to figure out why it's cheaper for me to drive than it is to take the MetroLink. Gas has to get upwards of $4/gallon before I start to break even, and then I don't have the convenience.
If you see a painting and your only reaction is "oh, that's pretty" it's probably NOT art. If it takes your breath away and makes you say "WOW!" it is art.
When I see good architecture I think "oh, that's pretty". When I see the craftsmanship that went into it, that's what takes my breath away. Therefore, by your assertion, the architect is not an artist, the craftsman is.
I'm not just talking about the architecture, I'm talking about the skilled carpenters, welders, stone cutters, and masons. The architect just directs what he wants built, he doesn't build it (usually).
Hate to break it to you, but I've never seen any work of art that takes my breath away. A few have made me think (I love Escher), but I am unable to appreciate most of the "great masters". On the other hand, the craftsmanship and skill of the builders of architecture takes my breath away. The extremely effective design of old castles as war machines takes my breath away. The printing press takes my breath away. If skilled craftsmanship doesn't take your breath away, then I don't understand how art ever could.
I think they do, but I hesitate to say "animal" because I don't know if insects, worms, etc actually sleep. Please enlighten me if you know otherwise.
I can't speak with too much authority on the topic of Circadian Rhythm regulation, and I am sure there are several factors involved. What I do know from working in the sleep therapy industry is that one of the primary factors is light exposure which, at least for humans, explains why we tend to be awake in the day, and changing to night shifts is extraordinarily difficult for most people. By my thinking, accumulation of misfolded proteins may actually be a good explanation for the irregularities in the Circadian Rhythm, such as when you are recovering from a major injury or are sick.
The full purpose behind sleep is still unclear. We know a fair amount of what happens during sleep, but we don't understand why it has to take place while we sleep or why sleep has multiple stages and why we cycle through them twice each night. Tiredness is caused by a chemical regulated by the Circadian Rhythm.
Humans are conditioned for being awake in the day time, but there is no reason to believe that this has anything to do with the need for sleep other than the fact that when we sleep is regulated by the circadian rhythm which is controlled by light exposure. However, all mammals need sleep whether they are awake in the day, nocturnal, or sea mammals.
There is no such thing as sleep deprivation without short term ill-effects. We know that cognitive ability declines with a lack of sleep, even if it's a small lack of sleep ever night over an extended period of time. Your cognitive ability and reaction time will continue to decline until you start getting complete sleep. In fact, after a few weeks, people with sleep deprivation begin to perceive that they're "getting used to it" and are going back to normal in spite of their continued decline.
Incorrect. High Speed runs at 400mbit according to the USB 2.0 spec.
In fact, USB 1.1 speeds are the standard for all USB HIDs. Full Speed USB is mostly obsolete, but Low Speed USB is here to stay, and High Speed USB will probably remain in use for some devices because of the lack of performance gain with 3.0 and the increased cost.
My biggest problem with the system is the strict use of pictorial representations of functions. I don't know what "Properties" or "Insert" or "Cross Reference" is supposed to look like. Nor would anyone be able to describe to me how to find them since they would be describing a tiny icon picture which I would then have to interpret instead of using a single word explanatory statement.
It's worth noting that my printing script is slow and atrocious.
I write in cursive almost every day. I probably use cursive in my engineering profession more often than math.
I can't help thinking about the reams of notes I took in college and the half ream of homework assignments that I turned in. And Morse code is not dead.
Kinda screws your ability to type too.
How exactly does cursive have no real-world use? I'm fairly certain that in school they spent as much time teaching cursive as they did printing. It was no major loss in time, especially when I was too young to appreciate literature or grasp concepts of grammar. I hope you never find yourself in a position that you have to take notes on paper.
Actually I find cursive to be much more aesthetically pleasing. It has also served me well when I need to take notes in class while having two separate books open. There's just no room for much else on most desks if you're using a laptop. I should hope that your child will at least be able to read cursive. Otherwise, expect it to degrade into an elitist skill much like the skill of "seeing sides" in Flatland.
This actually would have interesting applications in psycho-physics research.
I think we should just not worry about it since a good guess would be that 1000 years from now, we'll be colonizing other planets. If energy tech hasn't become much cleaner by then, then we'll all end up leaving to the other colonies, and the Earth will make a full recovery without our intervention.
I remember very little of my multiplication tables and even less of my division tables. This is despite the fact that I work with numbers and statistics on a daily basis. Calculators are the standard in business and you are expected to understand what you are doing on them. Memorization of tables does nothing for your understanding. It's just a highly simple case of pattern memorization.
Candy canes? I would think that Sucrose would be a poor source of bio-fuel. The fact that it's a complex sugar and all of the energy already expended to extract it means that it would require a lot of energy input in comparison with the raw simple sugar fructose.
"General sense" being the key words here. Reproductive maturity is the purpose of puberty, but it's not so simple as to state that the end of puberty is defined by fertility. This is aside from the fact that the biological definition of "child" and the clinical definition of "pedophile" are mutually exclusive.
You do not need to finish puberty to be fertile.