Az is the flat worse state in the U.S. for education.
My friend must have been in a private school or something then. She learned basic calculus in Grade 11 in Phoenix, and was quite miffed to be taken back to basic algebra in Grade 12 in Vancouver.
It certainly varies from state to state (and province to province, for that matter). I live in British Columbia. I have one friend who took most of her high school in Arizona, then moved here for Grade 12, and another who lived in Saskatchewan before moving here for Grade 12. (I came here from Manitoba long after finishing high school.) Both of them were bored out of their wits here because they were re-learning what they had already learned.
I can see evidence of this because I'm currently back in school (for an Engineering degree). It's really bad when our foreign students, who struggle with spoken English, are correcting our locally-born students' written English!
...its inability to let children accel [sic] at their own pace...
As oddly appropriate as that 'word' may seem, I think you mean 'excel'. That's right, the spreadsheet got its name from a real word! (Oh yeah, and so did the word processing app.)
...if no one reasonably believes you, then his reputation can't be harmed, which is what the law is really about.
That's an important point. It's the difference between some loony calling in to a radio show and saying "George Bush rapes donkeys!" and the radio host saying "You're right. He does rape donkeys."
..."drug addicted communist traitors who should to be hung"
Well, it was slanderous up to the "traitors" bit, but I think they actually meant "should be hanged". "Hung" is something else... and it would only be slanderous if they meant "they should be hung, but they're actually muy pequeno."
Nope. Kelvins are treated as regular units, rather than degrees. So it's correct to read 10 K as "ten Kelvins", as opposed to the common equivalent, which would be -263 degrees Celsius (or -442 degrees Fahrenheit). Must have something to do with the fact that Kelvins are absolute, and therefore cannot be negative, although interestingly enough, it's correct to say 18 degrees Rankine, not 18 Rankines.
Kelvin himself was rather absolute in some of his pronouncements, like his assertion that radio would never be more than a curiosity, and that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
I was under the impression that the idea of subliminal advertising was debunked some thirty years ago...
I don't know about that, but your subject line reminded me of a completely different experiment about hiding the obvious. Subjects were shown a scene where there were a number of people, one of whom was doing something repetitive. (I can't remember what.) They were asked to count the number of times he performed the action (which required concentration). Halfway through the scene, someone entered wearing a gorilla suit, beat his chest a few times, then ran off.
After the experiment, most of the subjects counted the repeated task quite accurately, but a large fraction of them, when asked about the gorilla, replied "What gorilla?"
Subliminal advertising is an old story. The real trick, practiced by companies and governments worldwide, is hiding the gorilla.
Maybe Pixar (et al) are the pioneers on what is to come, in which everything is essentially generated virtually.
Digitally animated movies still need good performances from the voice-over performers. If you watch the deleted scenes in Pixar's or Dreamworks' movies, where the scenes never made it out of the storyboard stage, you can see this--well, hear it. After all, Mack (Cars) wouldn't have been the same without the actor who played him, nor would the Underminer (The Incredibles), the Abominable Snowman (Monsters Inc.), P.T. Flea (A Bug's Life), Hamm (Toy Story)...
Hey, wait a minute! They just keep using the same actor over and over again! What a rip off!
I'll give you CG Yoda > Puppet Yoda. They spent a lot of time getting him right. But CG Jabba looked rushed, especially with the jerky Han-stepping-on-the-tail move.
As for the ships, they still used a lot of models in the prequels. The main reason they were so much more polished is that they didn't cobble them together out of battleship models and shoot them in a parking lot.
Maybe now when Lucas re-remakes the Star Wars movies, we'll see some good acting!
"Think so, I do not."
"Hayden and Natalie, much to learn about acting have they. Ewan, passable was he. But voicing over a CG character, for them would do nothing. As for Frank, just happy am I that up my ass his hand is no longer! Meheheh!"
Trees are good, but cyanobacteria (misnamed blue-green algae) are better. Unfortunately, by polluting the oceans, we seem hell-bent on killing off the organisms that are responsible for most global photosynthesis.
Here's my solution: Pass laws in every country that require all industries (and municipalities) to treat water to tertiary municipal wastewater standards before discharging it into the ocean. Whoever can lobby 160 governments to pass such laws can claim the $25 million. Good luck.
Would someone please explain to me WTF running an IDE requires admin fucking rights!
Hell, I've got games that require "admin fucking rights". Whenever my son wants to play "I Spy Spooky Mansion", I have to Run As and type in the admin password ('cause I'm not giving admin privileges to a six-year-old).
After you upgrade, you may no longer use the software you upgraded from.
I've seen that on other software, and wouldn't be surprised if XP, 2000, and even Me (ugh) had that phrase. The message is that you cannot keep using your old software while simultaneously using the new package. For example, if you have ten licenses of AutoCAD 2006, and you buy ten upgrade licenses of AutoCAD 2007, you can't have twenty computers running AutoCAD--or even eleven because of the new hire who you didn't know about when you purchased your upgrade (but just try to tell that to your boss, who seemed like he was having teeth pulled when you convinced him to upgrade from R13 to 2002).
As for downgrade prevention, MS has had that built in at least since 2000. The CD will simply refuse to perform the downgrade, and you'll have to reinstall from scratch.
So everyone be quiet about the serial invalidation rumor. You're giving MS ideas for their next software release!
I can get e85 for a flexfuel vehicle right here in the US...but I get reduced gas mileage.
No you don't. You get reduced fuel mileage, but you get greatly increased gas mileage (because each gallon of fuel contains much less gasoline). It's your alcohol mileage that is slightly less than your current gas mileage.
...like the one the newly-environmentally-conscious Governator drives. C'mon, Arnie, scrap the Hummer and get yourself an Insight. It's the Cadillac of hybrid vehicles!
Reminds me of something William Gibson said about the opening line to Neuromancer:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
I don't have an exact quote, but his comment was that a change in the way TV manufacturers dealt with dead channels completely changed the meaning of that sentence.
I digress; back to your regularly-scheduled comments.
Slashdot Mirror
My friend must have been in a private school or something then. She learned basic calculus in Grade 11 in Phoenix, and was quite miffed to be taken back to basic algebra in Grade 12 in Vancouver.
It certainly varies from state to state (and province to province, for that matter). I live in British Columbia. I have one friend who took most of her high school in Arizona, then moved here for Grade 12, and another who lived in Saskatchewan before moving here for Grade 12. (I came here from Manitoba long after finishing high school.) Both of them were bored out of their wits here because they were re-learning what they had already learned.
I can see evidence of this because I'm currently back in school (for an Engineering degree). It's really bad when our foreign students, who struggle with spoken English, are correcting our locally-born students' written English!
As oddly appropriate as that 'word' may seem, I think you mean 'excel'. That's right, the spreadsheet got its name from a real word! (Oh yeah, and so did the word processing app.)
That's an important point. It's the difference between some loony calling in to a radio show and saying "George Bush rapes donkeys!" and the radio host saying "You're right. He does rape donkeys."
Well, it was slanderous up to the "traitors" bit, but I think they actually meant "should be hanged". "Hung" is something else... and it would only be slanderous if they meant "they should be hung, but they're actually muy pequeno."
Hmm... I know I've seen a site like that somewhere, but I can't remember exactly what it was...
Nope. Kelvins are treated as regular units, rather than degrees. So it's correct to read 10 K as "ten Kelvins", as opposed to the common equivalent, which would be -263 degrees Celsius (or -442 degrees Fahrenheit). Must have something to do with the fact that Kelvins are absolute, and therefore cannot be negative, although interestingly enough, it's correct to say 18 degrees Rankine, not 18 Rankines.
Kelvin himself was rather absolute in some of his pronouncements, like his assertion that radio would never be more than a curiosity, and that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
I don't know about that, but your subject line reminded me of a completely different experiment about hiding the obvious. Subjects were shown a scene where there were a number of people, one of whom was doing something repetitive. (I can't remember what.) They were asked to count the number of times he performed the action (which required concentration). Halfway through the scene, someone entered wearing a gorilla suit, beat his chest a few times, then ran off.
After the experiment, most of the subjects counted the repeated task quite accurately, but a large fraction of them, when asked about the gorilla, replied "What gorilla?"
Subliminal advertising is an old story. The real trick, practiced by companies and governments worldwide, is hiding the gorilla.
...to convince the attractive female test subjects to sleep with the nerdy male testers. Or was that Revenge of the Nerds XVII?
Actually, K is Kelvins (capital letter). But thanks for not saying degrees Kelvin.
If it's even remotely possible for a woman to fake "something", you are not doing it right.
Digitally animated movies still need good performances from the voice-over performers. If you watch the deleted scenes in Pixar's or Dreamworks' movies, where the scenes never made it out of the storyboard stage, you can see this--well, hear it. After all, Mack (Cars) wouldn't have been the same without the actor who played him, nor would the Underminer (The Incredibles), the Abominable Snowman (Monsters Inc.), P.T. Flea (A Bug's Life), Hamm (Toy Story)...
Hey, wait a minute! They just keep using the same actor over and over again! What a rip off!
I'll give you CG Yoda > Puppet Yoda. They spent a lot of time getting him right. But CG Jabba looked rushed, especially with the jerky Han-stepping-on-the-tail move.
As for the ships, they still used a lot of models in the prequels. The main reason they were so much more polished is that they didn't cobble them together out of battleship models and shoot them in a parking lot.
"Think so, I do not."
"Hayden and Natalie, much to learn about acting have they. Ewan, passable was he. But voicing over a CG character, for them would do nothing. As for Frank, just happy am I that up my ass his hand is no longer! Meheheh!"
Source: Yoda, the lost interview tapes.
You had me up until "Jar-Jar". Yoda, yes. General Grievous, maybe if I'm being generous. Jar-Jar? Me-sa no think so.
Sure they can! Just give the prompter a spray bottle and a sharp pin and let the fake tears roll!
"Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Trees are good, but cyanobacteria (misnamed blue-green algae) are better. Unfortunately, by polluting the oceans, we seem hell-bent on killing off the organisms that are responsible for most global photosynthesis.
Here's my solution: Pass laws in every country that require all industries (and municipalities) to treat water to tertiary municipal wastewater standards before discharging it into the ocean. Whoever can lobby 160 governments to pass such laws can claim the $25 million. Good luck.
Hell, I've got games that require "admin fucking rights". Whenever my son wants to play "I Spy Spooky Mansion", I have to Run As and type in the admin password ('cause I'm not giving admin privileges to a six-year-old).
I've seen that on other software, and wouldn't be surprised if XP, 2000, and even Me (ugh) had that phrase. The message is that you cannot keep using your old software while simultaneously using the new package. For example, if you have ten licenses of AutoCAD 2006, and you buy ten upgrade licenses of AutoCAD 2007, you can't have twenty computers running AutoCAD--or even eleven because of the new hire who you didn't know about when you purchased your upgrade (but just try to tell that to your boss, who seemed like he was having teeth pulled when you convinced him to upgrade from R13 to 2002).
As for downgrade prevention, MS has had that built in at least since 2000. The CD will simply refuse to perform the downgrade, and you'll have to reinstall from scratch.
So everyone be quiet about the serial invalidation rumor. You're giving MS ideas for their next software release!
No you don't. You get reduced fuel mileage, but you get greatly increased gas mileage (because each gallon of fuel contains much less gasoline). It's your alcohol mileage that is slightly less than your current gas mileage.
Nah, that doesn't work. You just get "The fingers you are using to dial with are too fat. To order a special dialing wand, mash the keypad now."
You attended public school, didn't you?
...like the one the newly-environmentally-conscious Governator drives. C'mon, Arnie, scrap the Hummer and get yourself an Insight. It's the Cadillac of hybrid vehicles!
Reminds me of something William Gibson said about the opening line to Neuromancer:
I don't have an exact quote, but his comment was that a change in the way TV manufacturers dealt with dead channels completely changed the meaning of that sentence.
I digress; back to your regularly-scheduled comments.