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What type of applications could you NOT make with this language?
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high-end 3D games... although to be fair, that seems to require a triple-digit staff these days.
I live in an area with an astonishing number of epically bad drivers. I figured the epically bad drivers were (unfortunately) surviving long enough to have children, who themselves grew up to be epically bad drivers. A genetic component to epically bad driving doesn't surprise me in the least.
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Ay! I've just signed myself up for four years of university in Pittsburgh. Anyone know a good method of limiting heavy metal exposure in such an environment.... Wait... Why would I want that?.. I'll be IRON MAN!
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Pittsburgh is a very different city than many Americans picture. There's only a small part of the city that actually has the pollution levels cited in the study. Steel and coke works have given way to robotics and medical research. Disclosure: I am finishing a graduate degree at Pitt right now. I may be biased, but I do hope a new study is done that covers the city as a whole.
--- quote --- From what I have seen, for 98% of things in XP 512MB is enough on a properly configured system. I'd say for XP that 128mb is "barely adequate." --- end quote ---
Unless of course you like to run Photoshop, or you have a need to run Word and Dreamweaver at (gasp!) the same time, or you like to play mp3s while working or a number of other situations.
Novice users - you might say - are not going to be running Photoshop, but I will be that they *will* have a large number of applications open at once, without thinking anything of it.
I would argue that 512 was ok for 2000, but is inadequate for XP or (god forbid) Vista.
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Nonetheless, isn't there some kind of an economic argument that if insurance companies paid for people to avoid one big illness, with their longer lifespan they would end up costing the company more in smaller illnesses over time?
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I think you're referring to this recent study by the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment: Boston Globe Article
--- quote --- I mean if Microsoft made good products, innovated, lead the market, didn't abuse market power and still had a monopoly, nobody would be complaining. There are tons of businesses like that worldwide. --- end ---
So... leave the hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, but stop taking money from the bank when the other players aren't looking?
--- quote --- So, in a sense, I'm irked that people like Hillary Clinton (who apparently believes that health insurance should be forced on everyone "for their own good") are treating me and my fellow citizens like preschoolers. --- end quote ---
I agree with much of what you said, but I think you're leaving out an important component. Some people *are* preschoolers - literally. Once you're 18, I have no problem with you not wearing a seatbelt, a helmet, etc. but until then, I think it should be mandatory. First of all, kids (and many teenagers) do not always have sound judgment. Second, I strongly believe that children should not have to pay for the stupidity of their parents. If mom and dad want to binge drink and chain smoke their way through life without health insurance that's their choice, but their kids don't deserve to suffer if they get really sick.
---Quote:-- 1) The sort of higher-education institution one attends between the ages of ~18 and ~21 is referred to as a "University" everywhere on the planet apart from the US, where a "College" is where one studies toward an undergraduate degree. Most US "Colleges" are also referred to as "Universities" because they also grant Post-Graduate degrees (also referred to as "graduate degrees" in the US, although you can easily see why this phrase is redundant and ambiguous). ---End Quote---
Not a huge point, but in the US of A "college" usually refer to smaller schools, which may or may not have graduate (aka "post-graduate") students. Universities on the other hand, are never small and are made up of several "colleges" which operate with some degree of independence. For example, Dartmouth *College* has both undergrads (aged ~18 to ~21) and graduate students, but is relatively small. New York *University* also has both undergrads and graduate students, but within NYU is the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Dentistry, the College of Nursing, and a bunch of other schools/colleges.
Plenty of classified research is done at universities. "Classified" doesn't necessarily mean dealing with weapons or secret aircraft. The university I work for does a significant amount of classified research, much of it medical.
Basically you've stated that because the less wealthy tend to multiply more, and the rich will stop breeding and become extinct. I don't know the amount of history you're familiar with, but the rich are not going away that easily. Believe it or not they still do have children.
If I had a dollar for every time this phrase comes up on Slashdot...
Seriously though, should I
1 - conclude that there is no such thing as an original news story these days?
2 - concede that there are original new stories, but not enough to keep Slashdot busy each day?
3 - realize that Slashdotters have high standards for what constitutes "news"?
With all due respect, I think you're missing the point. There is something fundamentally different between physically playing and being outside, and doing stuff on a screen. The best simulation available is still not the real thing, and I don't think that video games are even a good simulation. So, despite what Mr. Henry Jerkins might say I don't think that games and reality at AT ALL similar - not in terms of realism, and not in terms of the kind of development they promote.
That said, I do sympathize, when I have kids, I'm certainly not going to let them roam urban areas unsupervised.
I tend to agree. With all due respect to Peter Jackson, I'm not sure all THREE Lord of the rings movies need to be in the top 20. Of course that's the difference between having voting open to everyone (including the under 18 crowd) and having it limited to professionals.
As an artist who loves to work with computers, I still think drawing skills are critical. I attended a very good art school where traditional drawing was required almost every semester. I was surprised to discover that having to draw by hand made me approach projects and visual problems totally differently. As to your point about sculptors not needing to paint - of course they don't, but both sculptors and painters benefit from being able to draw... as do fashion designers, filmmakers, architects, and many other people that have to think visually. My point though, is that it's not just about *needing* to draw for your job/profession/etc, it's about learning to think like an artist. There is NO way to substitute that on a computer.
--- quote --- But the technique is horrible. This kind of thing comes from the mentality that "yet another law will fix it." In this case, the law only applies in the classroom, but it is still a law. --- end quote ---
I have to disagree. First, in my experience at LEAST half of students with laptops in class spend a good deal of time surfing, playing solitaire, etc. I have been one of those students, but I no longer bring my laptop to class. These days if a student in front of me is playing cards I find it quite distracting. Second, classroom policies are up to the professor, not the students. Some professors get mad at students sending text messages, others don't. Some professors wake up sleeping students (in smaller classes usually), others could care less. If a professor belives that it will benefit the students to not have laptops, I would argue that she has every right. It's her class, and I think she should be able to set whatever policies (within reason, and I certainly wouldn't call them "laws") that she wants.
Slashdot Mirror
I often imagine a world where women are free to go topless whenever they want.
As an American, this is pretty much how I picture all of Europe, is that inaccurate?.
--- What type of applications could you NOT make with this language? --- high-end 3D games... although to be fair, that seems to require a triple-digit staff these days.
I live in an area with an astonishing number of epically bad drivers. I figured the epically bad drivers were (unfortunately) surviving long enough to have children, who themselves grew up to be epically bad drivers. A genetic component to epically bad driving doesn't surprise me in the least.
So what part of Florida do you live in?
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Ay! I've just signed myself up for four years of university in Pittsburgh. Anyone know a good method of limiting heavy metal exposure in such an environment.... Wait... Why would I want that?.. I'll be IRON MAN!
---end quote---
Pittsburgh is a very different city than many Americans picture. There's only a small part of the city that actually has the pollution levels cited in the study. Steel and coke works have given way to robotics and medical research. Disclosure: I am finishing a graduate degree at Pitt right now. I may be biased, but I do hope a new study is done that covers the city as a whole.
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From what I have seen, for 98% of things in XP 512MB is enough on a properly configured system. I'd say for XP that 128mb is "barely adequate."
--- end quote ---
Unless of course you like to run Photoshop, or you have a need to run Word and Dreamweaver at (gasp!) the same time, or you like to play mp3s while working or a number of other situations.
Novice users - you might say - are not going to be running Photoshop, but I will be that they *will* have a large number of applications open at once, without thinking anything of it.
I would argue that 512 was ok for 2000, but is inadequate for XP or (god forbid) Vista.
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Nonetheless, isn't there some kind of an economic argument that if insurance companies paid for people to avoid one big illness, with their longer lifespan they would end up costing the company more in smaller illnesses over time?
--- end quote ---
I think you're referring to this recent study by the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment:
Boston Globe Article
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I mean if Microsoft made good products, innovated, lead the market, didn't abuse market power and still had a monopoly, nobody would be complaining. There are tons of businesses like that worldwide.
--- end ---
So... leave the hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, but stop taking money from the bank when the other players aren't looking?
--- quote ---
So, in a sense, I'm irked that people like Hillary Clinton (who apparently believes that health insurance should be forced on everyone "for their own good") are treating me and my fellow citizens like preschoolers.
--- end quote ---
I agree with much of what you said, but I think you're leaving out an important component. Some people *are* preschoolers - literally. Once you're 18, I have no problem with you not wearing a seatbelt, a helmet, etc. but until then, I think it should be mandatory. First of all, kids (and many teenagers) do not always have sound judgment. Second, I strongly believe that children should not have to pay for the stupidity of their parents. If mom and dad want to binge drink and chain smoke their way through life without health insurance that's their choice, but their kids don't deserve to suffer if they get really sick.
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Weeknights at 8:00 (eastern)
---Quote:--
1) The sort of higher-education institution one attends between the ages of ~18 and ~21 is referred to as a "University" everywhere on the planet apart from the US, where a "College" is where one studies toward an undergraduate degree. Most US "Colleges" are also referred to as "Universities" because they also grant Post-Graduate degrees (also referred to as "graduate degrees" in the US, although you can easily see why this phrase is redundant and ambiguous).
---End Quote---
Not a huge point, but in the US of A "college" usually refer to smaller schools, which may or may not have graduate (aka "post-graduate") students. Universities on the other hand, are never small and are made up of several "colleges" which operate with some degree of independence. For example, Dartmouth *College* has both undergrads (aged ~18 to ~21) and graduate students, but is relatively small. New York *University* also has both undergrads and graduate students, but within NYU is the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Dentistry, the College of Nursing, and a bunch of other schools/colleges.
Plenty of classified research is done at universities. "Classified" doesn't necessarily mean dealing with weapons or secret aircraft. The university I work for does a significant amount of classified research, much of it medical.
Basically you've stated that because the less wealthy tend to multiply more, and the rich will stop breeding and become extinct. I don't know the amount of history you're familiar with, but the rich are not going away that easily. Believe it or not they still do have children.
http://www.fas.org/news/reference/lexicon/aca.htm
And that's just for A.
TimedArt
This is not news...
If I had a dollar for every time this phrase comes up on Slashdot...
Seriously though, should I
1 - conclude that there is no such thing as an original news story these days?
2 - concede that there are original new stories, but not enough to keep Slashdot busy each day?
3 - realize that Slashdotters have high standards for what constitutes "news"?
-TimedArt
With all due respect, I think you're missing the point. There is something fundamentally different between physically playing and being outside, and doing stuff on a screen. The best simulation available is still not the real thing, and I don't think that video games are even a good simulation. So, despite what Mr. Henry Jerkins might say I don't think that games and reality at AT ALL similar - not in terms of realism, and not in terms of the kind of development they promote.
That said, I do sympathize, when I have kids, I'm certainly not going to let them roam urban areas unsupervised.
-TimedArt
I tend to agree. With all due respect to Peter Jackson, I'm not sure all THREE Lord of the rings movies need to be in the top 20. Of course that's the difference between having voting open to everyone (including the under 18 crowd) and having it limited to professionals.
As an artist who loves to work with computers, I still think drawing skills are critical. I attended a very good art school where traditional drawing was required almost every semester. I was surprised to discover that having to draw by hand made me approach projects and visual problems totally differently. As to your point about sculptors not needing to paint - of course they don't, but both sculptors and painters benefit from being able to draw... as do fashion designers, filmmakers, architects, and many other people that have to think visually. My point though, is that it's not just about *needing* to draw for your job/profession/etc, it's about learning to think like an artist. There is NO way to substitute that on a computer.
--- quote ---
But the technique is horrible. This kind of thing comes from the mentality that "yet another law will fix it." In this case, the law only applies in the classroom, but it is still a law.
--- end quote ---
I have to disagree. First, in my experience at LEAST half of students with laptops in class spend a good deal of time surfing, playing solitaire, etc. I have been one of those students, but I no longer bring my laptop to class. These days if a student in front of me is playing cards I find it quite distracting. Second, classroom policies are up to the professor, not the students. Some professors get mad at students sending text messages, others don't. Some professors wake up sleeping students (in smaller classes usually), others could care less. If a professor belives that it will benefit the students to not have laptops, I would argue that she has every right. It's her class, and I think she should be able to set whatever policies (within reason, and I certainly wouldn't call them "laws") that she wants.
-TimedArt