There was a study a number of years back that look into certain concepts like this; specifically, do High Schoolers do better shifted forward an hour. The unfortunate problem with these sorts of studies are that for such a large system, it's difficult to isolate the variables while getting a good sample size. In this particular study, an entire high school had it's times shifted forward an hour, so students came in later and left later. The study found a marked improvement in grades (I wish I had some official results, or even a news article, but I don't.)
Actually, I spent my Junior High days in a Texas school. If there's one thing I know about them, its the rotten designs those buildings had. Terribly old buildings, built around the idea of air flow from the outside through open windows. The air conditioning was practically grafted onto them. The newer buildings were better, but even they could seriously benefit from some modern building techniques... like facing the majority of the windowed class rooms away from the rising sun. OK, but enough rambling: Texas was quite sunny most the year, down where I was (near the gulf) so why not solar power panels to help offset the cooling costs in the summer? As for the buses, those old tin cans would be unbearable. So yes, it will cost more, but it doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be done and certainly doesn't have to have the same ecological impact it does now.
I'm not certain, but I believe the president is talking about adding days on to the ends of the year rather than hours on the ends of days. As someone who is no longer in school, I say lets add some days. Just make sure we give the schools the budget necessary to make good use of them...
I never understood why MMOs didn't implement some sort of PvP honor system that takes into account the difference between levels and awards or takes away from a players honorabilty, like a morality meter in some rpgs. A more honorable character gets certain, small bonuses to a stat like luck or maybe just allows them higher standing with some faction. Ganking is still possible, but a minor deterrent could at least reduce the instances of repeated ganking. Sure, you'd have to track who started a fight to make sure some sort of reverse-ganking doesn't happen, but it can't be that hard.
I for one am glad Blizzard is delaying the game to ensure their Battlenet system maintains the same quality as their games. Way too many RTSs release with shoddy or non-existent online support; I'm looking at you, EA (C&C3)!
Or, you know, instead of exotic material solutions, we could simply build a remote control rig in the vehicle. Why add weight and high costs (soft X-Ray treatment,sound expensive!) to the vehicle? Let the soldier direct the gun from the inside the safety of the vehicle with a hardwired joystick and some cameras.
Perhaps it's my advanced state of sleeplessness, but I swear I just read that as 'Bozo Offers Apology for Erasing 1984.' Anyways, an apology is hardly going to rebuild the trust he lost with his Kindle customers through these actions. He has made Amazon.com the laughing stock of the industry!
Lost is not being used as an adjective anymore in this statement. Lost is now being used as an identifier, a name for, the tapes. The only purpose of calling them the lost tapes is to differentiate them from the other tapes they previously had. Making the headline "NASA has the found tapes" makes the statement more confusing and the title "NASA has found the tapes" would be equivalent to the current title.
Of course, assuming the identifier 'Lost' is sufficient (given the context) is just leaving this story headline open to a whole other misinterpretation. Perhaps the story of the day is about NASA's "Lost: Season 1" DVDs finally arriving in the mail! =D
I've been trying to figure out whose independence day it is referring to. Based on Wikipedia, it's not Korea's (North or South) China, Japan, the US, or Russia. Nearest I can figure for Friday, July 10th is... the Bahamas?
...Unless it means next Friday, July 17th which celebrates South Korea's Constitution Day; the day that the Korean Constitution was proclaimed in 1948. But, no, clearly it's the Bahamas.
On the other hand, if this harsh treatment is the standard then really it makes sense from the point of view of assuming you may be dealing with a terrorist, not to buy into the irony of the situation. Not that I think it's right, or that its right to view the situation from that point of view; just that it's more reasonable that they actively disregard the possible irony than they don't understand it.
I should probably clarify that I think that the 2 story tall biped in the movie specifically was impractical.
First, the movie showed it never moving more than a short distance from a massive aircraft that carried it (and the humans it picks up) around. Why have a separate body at all? Second, It wasn't even built for pursuit; it had two smaller motorbike robots it deployed! Furthermore, the motorbikes deployed from its shins! Something that heavy, supported by legs with motor-bike sized empty cavities, to move all of a short distance from a VTOL aircraft; now that is impractical!
The movie showed it never moving more than a short distance from a massive aircraft that carried it (and the humans it picks up) around. What's impractical is to have a separate body at all. It wasn't even built for pursuit; it had two smaller motorbike robots it deployed!
I wholly agree with you; an AI would not naturally have a notion of self-preservation. However, in Skynet's specific case, I can see the military building on into it considering it was designed to control most of our forces. On that note, I will also say I once read an excellent alternate character interpretation by a user "Neuman" on tvtropes.org that went as this:
"When Skynet became self-aware the military panicked and tried to pull the plug. Skynet, being a missile defense system, assumed that the only reason for getting shut down was to pave the way for an impending missile attack. It made the only logical move, confident that it could block the counterattack. It failed only due to the military's attempts to shut it down. Skynet jumped to the conclusion that the military was attempting a coup, and moved to secure as much territory as possible while keeping the maximum number of US citizens alive (hence the work camps). When the rest of the world attacked it too..."
Huh, I always wondered what those weird helmets and head gear on everybody, especially children, in those old 1950's cheesy sci-fi movies, were for. I guess I know now...
network-centric warfare is quite different. It's about physical forces communicating and utilizing networks built from the units themselves rather than a wholly "cyberspace" environment. Check out the Wikipedia entry for a more indepth differentiation.
I think what the summary was aiming for was that the sell of fake items in and of itself is not illegal. If they are honest about the origins (or write their summaries cleverly enough) then it's not illegal. Kind of like the market for forged coins; not illegal as long as your not selling them as the real thing.
We friars of Forth our outraged at your constant disre...Hey, I'm talking here. Hey, pay attention, I'm talking here! Hrmph, Forth gets no respect. No respect at all.
But isn't Wellbutrin supposed to be an anti-depressant? I would think that unconquerable apathy is a part of depression. In otherwords, while there's certainly overlap in symptoms and treatment, adderall and wellbutrin are for two different problems.
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Hehe, Dobele_crater is estimated to be 290 ± 35 million years. Latvia built a town over the site.
Sounds like the first space hotel is up there already; it just doesn't know it yet.
There was a study a number of years back that look into certain concepts like this; specifically, do High Schoolers do better shifted forward an hour. The unfortunate problem with these sorts of studies are that for such a large system, it's difficult to isolate the variables while getting a good sample size. In this particular study, an entire high school had it's times shifted forward an hour, so students came in later and left later. The study found a marked improvement in grades (I wish I had some official results, or even a news article, but I don't.)
Actually, I spent my Junior High days in a Texas school. If there's one thing I know about them, its the rotten designs those buildings had. Terribly old buildings, built around the idea of air flow from the outside through open windows. The air conditioning was practically grafted onto them. The newer buildings were better, but even they could seriously benefit from some modern building techniques... like facing the majority of the windowed class rooms away from the rising sun. OK, but enough rambling: Texas was quite sunny most the year, down where I was (near the gulf) so why not solar power panels to help offset the cooling costs in the summer? As for the buses, those old tin cans would be unbearable. So yes, it will cost more, but it doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be done and certainly doesn't have to have the same ecological impact it does now.
I'm not certain, but I believe the president is talking about adding days on to the ends of the year rather than hours on the ends of days. As someone who is no longer in school, I say lets add some days. Just make sure we give the schools the budget necessary to make good use of them...
"...was more difficult than finding an ant's egg in an emperor's rice store."
I have got to work that into an ordinary conversation someday: priceless!
For once, I would welcome the squashing of these 'innovations'...
I for one welcome our new "digital DDT" patent overlords!
I never understood why MMOs didn't implement some sort of PvP honor system that takes into account the difference between levels and awards or takes away from a players honorabilty, like a morality meter in some rpgs. A more honorable character gets certain, small bonuses to a stat like luck or maybe just allows them higher standing with some faction. Ganking is still possible, but a minor deterrent could at least reduce the instances of repeated ganking. Sure, you'd have to track who started a fight to make sure some sort of reverse-ganking doesn't happen, but it can't be that hard.
At 10,000 ft, eh maybe. But blimps are cheaper and use less fuel to stay up there.
I for one am glad Blizzard is delaying the game to ensure their Battlenet system maintains the same quality as their games. Way too many RTSs release with shoddy or non-existent online support; I'm looking at you, EA (C&C3)!
Or, you know, instead of exotic material solutions, we could simply build a remote control rig in the vehicle. Why add weight and high costs (soft X-Ray treatment,sound expensive!) to the vehicle? Let the soldier direct the gun from the inside the safety of the vehicle with a hardwired joystick and some cameras.
Perhaps it's my advanced state of sleeplessness, but I swear I just read that as 'Bozo Offers Apology for Erasing 1984.' Anyways, an apology is hardly going to rebuild the trust he lost with his Kindle customers through these actions. He has made Amazon.com the laughing stock of the industry!
I'm pretty sure he's just doing it to be funny.
Lost is not being used as an adjective anymore in this statement. Lost is now being used as an identifier, a name for, the tapes. The only purpose of calling them the lost tapes is to differentiate them from the other tapes they previously had. Making the headline "NASA has the found tapes" makes the statement more confusing and the title "NASA has found the tapes" would be equivalent to the current title.
Of course, assuming the identifier 'Lost' is sufficient (given the context) is just leaving this story headline open to a whole other misinterpretation. Perhaps the story of the day is about NASA's "Lost: Season 1" DVDs finally arriving in the mail! =D
I've been trying to figure out whose independence day it is referring to. Based on Wikipedia, it's not Korea's (North or South) China, Japan, the US, or Russia. Nearest I can figure for Friday, July 10th is... the Bahamas?
...Unless it means next Friday, July 17th which celebrates South Korea's Constitution Day; the day that the Korean Constitution was proclaimed in 1948. But, no, clearly it's the Bahamas.
On the other hand, if this harsh treatment is the standard then really it makes sense from the point of view of assuming you may be dealing with a terrorist, not to buy into the irony of the situation. Not that I think it's right, or that its right to view the situation from that point of view; just that it's more reasonable that they actively disregard the possible irony than they don't understand it.
I should probably clarify that I think that the 2 story tall biped in the movie specifically was impractical.
First, the movie showed it never moving more than a short distance from a massive aircraft that carried it (and the humans it picks up) around. Why have a separate body at all? Second, It wasn't even built for pursuit; it had two smaller motorbike robots it deployed! Furthermore, the motorbikes deployed from its shins! Something that heavy, supported by legs with motor-bike sized empty cavities, to move all of a short distance from a VTOL aircraft; now that is impractical!
The movie showed it never moving more than a short distance from a massive aircraft that carried it (and the humans it picks up) around. What's impractical is to have a separate body at all. It wasn't even built for pursuit; it had two smaller motorbike robots it deployed!
Yeah, but the movie had a Bipedal robot the size of an office building. That one was definitely impractical.
I wholly agree with you; an AI would not naturally have a notion of self-preservation. However, in Skynet's specific case, I can see the military building on into it considering it was designed to control most of our forces. On that note, I will also say I once read an excellent alternate character interpretation by a user "Neuman" on tvtropes.org that went as this:
"When Skynet became self-aware the military panicked and tried to pull the plug. Skynet, being a missile defense system, assumed that the only reason for getting shut down was to pave the way for an impending missile attack. It made the only logical move, confident that it could block the counterattack. It failed only due to the military's attempts to shut it down. Skynet jumped to the conclusion that the military was attempting a coup, and moved to secure as much territory as possible while keeping the maximum number of US citizens alive (hence the work camps). When the rest of the world attacked it too..."
Huh, I always wondered what those weird helmets and head gear on everybody, especially children, in those old 1950's cheesy sci-fi movies, were for. I guess I know now...
network-centric warfare is quite different. It's about physical forces communicating and utilizing networks built from the units themselves rather than a wholly "cyberspace" environment. Check out the Wikipedia entry for a more indepth differentiation.
I think what the summary was aiming for was that the sell of fake items in and of itself is not illegal. If they are honest about the origins (or write their summaries cleverly enough) then it's not illegal. Kind of like the market for forged coins; not illegal as long as your not selling them as the real thing.
We friars of Forth our outraged at your constant disre...Hey, I'm talking here. Hey, pay attention, I'm talking here! Hrmph, Forth gets no respect. No respect at all.
But isn't Wellbutrin supposed to be an anti-depressant? I would think that unconquerable apathy is a part of depression. In otherwords, while there's certainly overlap in symptoms and treatment, adderall and wellbutrin are for two different problems.