Two finger typing is hardly restricted to touch typing. I remember back before I learned to touch type, I could go well into the 30-40 wps range just like that. Of course I can do at least double that by touch typing, but still it's far faster than people give it credit for.
A lot of it is the prerequisites. I'm not as sure about high school as it was pretty limited in terms of availability when I was in school. But I remember in college taking programming and autocad, only to find the instructor spending more time teaching basic skills than actual course content. Or at least that's how it seemed, if you can't install a program or know how to use basic functions of a computer you have no business in a course like either of those.
The incendiary paint theory is hardly that dead. It's not the most likely possibility, but the descriptions of the witnesses hardly suggest that it wasn't involved. If you've ever watched the video of it actually burning up, it's really clear that with a different material on the outside and a separation of compartments that things would likely have ended differently. Additionally, there's a lot of equipment and tech out there now for dealing with and managing static electricity that wasn't there at the time.
There's also a lot of experience in the lineman trade for how to deal with large voltage differentials without frying one side or the other. The guys that search for and eliminate hot spots in the transmission lines do so pretty much every day.
Indeed, the nail in the coffin of the hydrogen disaster myth was the flame being the wrong color. What's better is that H is lighter and more common than He is. I'm sure with modern technology we can probably even figure out a way of using it more efficiently than in the past as well.
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Um, Google docs has real time collaboration at this point. And it has for a while now, which makes Wave somewhat pointless if that's all you want.
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The Nexus One and Google Checkout are hardly flops, I have a Nexus One and when available I prefer Google Checkout over Paypal.
The problem with Wave was that it was an invite only service which didn't interoperate with anything that had an established install base. Likewise, when I logged in the couple times I have, I couldn't figure out what it was really for.
Indeed, if they put it back at something sane, like say life of the creator plus 15 years, or a blanket 70 years from creation, and left it at that, we wouldn't be having a lot of this trouble.
There's an easy solution to #3, don't listen to commercial radio. There's plenty of legal alternatives out there, plus a whole crap load of genuinely brilliant material out there that you wouldn't hear on the radio anyways. I've heard that there's a lot of really cool English language stuff coming out of Japan that's really tough to get access to in the US.
That's what I'm curious about, I don't think that light travels that much more quickly than electrons do. On top of which, you can usually run multiple lanes of data to and from the destination, which while possible with optics, strikes me as a pain.
Perhaps the Neocons couldn't see that coming, but pretty much everybody else did. It was inevitable really. It's not like Iran and North Korea amongst others are unable to see our TV or read news sites about our President's speeches. It would be a really pointless intelligence agency that couldn't at least do that.
It was the typical right wing arrogance when dealing with other nations that caused most of the trouble.
That's not an issue. What is however an issue of great concern is that there's a long history of broadening things so that everybody in the middle east is an Islamic terrorist, just like how everybody in Germany was a Nazi. It's been troubling how little we've learned in the last 60 years, that we insisted on repeating the mistakes we made with German and Italian Americans in handling the terrorism problem.
Repeating that problem because a bunch of people can't admit that perhaps the wars were of questionable value is hardly the way to go. It's definitely not going to smooth things over with the moderates that we need to be on good terms with either.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that Nokia doesn't ship their best phones to the US. And really it's been a recent phenomenon for any good phones to make it to the US. Admittedly, that's largely because it's much more common in other parts of the world for people to have multiple phones or be willing to put up with beta gadgets.
The smartphone market in the US is consequently just starting to get going. And it shouldn't be shocking that Android with it's increasingly diverse set of options would be overtaking the iPhone and it's limited selection.
But, you get what you paid for, and that's the ultimate problem. You can get security officers here for a little over $10 hour if they're non-union, but even if you pay the union rate, you're not going to get any meaningful quality.
You'll get people that are unambitious, probably not willing to get extra training and almost certainly not provided with the resources to do a good job.
Teaching is similar in that respect, you might fill the position, but if you're not paying enough to get qualified, competent professionals, you're just going to get people that are clocking in and trying not to waste too much energy on it.
It's technically possible, however, it's a long enough shot that we can pretty much dismiss it out of hand. In order for that to happen, Take-two would have to be giving up the lawsuit and somebody would have to be coming up with the money. Definitely possible, but highly, highly unlikely. I'm guessing that the edit was a joke.
If you're doing that you have to be mindful otherwise you could end up in trouble. A painting of a photo for instance, or vice versa, would almost certainly have problems, however it really depends on how it's done. L.H.O.O.Q is sort of the canonical example, as the minor changes make for a very distinct message rather than being a copy of the Mona Lisa.
Unethical, I assume that you're not really a teacher and that you haven't gone to college. It happens far more often than it should. And it's definitely not a new occurrence, my parents told me about it happening to them back in the 60s. Which I imagine was hardly the first time it happened. Failing to pay enough for workers tends to lend itself well to that sort of entrepreneurial spirit.
It's worse than that. Often times they'd do something asinine and pointless like making some of the picture people of color or in wheel chairs and pass it off as being sensitive to divers communities. Never mind the fact that apart from changing the names and the pictures nothing else was changed.
As opposed as I am to the notion that the government is never the answer as I am, you're absolutely correct. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and it's amazing how much more civil and well behaved politicians are when they think people are watching.
That is true, that is however also a pretty clear argument for why the President needs to behave in a more responsible fashion in the first place. Nobody with any knowledge at all of military strategy would've suggested that going into Afghanistan and Iraq was a good idea. Afghanistan has been a huge mistake for pretty much everybody stupid enough to try to conquer it for quite some time. As for Iraq, it's never, ever a wise policy to go into a country and try to keep the factions within it apart. That's something we should've learned from Korea, but apparently we didn't learn it as we ended up doing so in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Likewise, we should've known that going to war halfway around the world wouldn't work if we didn't commit _all_ the necessary resources to do it right. We then proceeded to cheap out on it both in terms of man power and in terms of hardware. To make matters worse we disarmed the Iraqi military rather than integrating them into a new military not beholden to the old regime.
The leaks wouldn't have been necessary had President Bush not insisted in lying to the American people about the prospects of the wars and in the current status of the war when there was still a glimmer of hope for winning it. By the time the Obama administration took office, the idea that we could win was so ingrained that there wasn't really a whole lot he could do to change things sufficiently to win it that it became a pointless exercise in futility.
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Two finger typing is hardly restricted to touch typing. I remember back before I learned to touch type, I could go well into the 30-40 wps range just like that. Of course I can do at least double that by touch typing, but still it's far faster than people give it credit for.
A lot of it is the prerequisites. I'm not as sure about high school as it was pretty limited in terms of availability when I was in school. But I remember in college taking programming and autocad, only to find the instructor spending more time teaching basic skills than actual course content. Or at least that's how it seemed, if you can't install a program or know how to use basic functions of a computer you have no business in a course like either of those.
Or you can pick up a portable copy. Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
The incendiary paint theory is hardly that dead. It's not the most likely possibility, but the descriptions of the witnesses hardly suggest that it wasn't involved. If you've ever watched the video of it actually burning up, it's really clear that with a different material on the outside and a separation of compartments that things would likely have ended differently. Additionally, there's a lot of equipment and tech out there now for dealing with and managing static electricity that wasn't there at the time.
There's also a lot of experience in the lineman trade for how to deal with large voltage differentials without frying one side or the other. The guys that search for and eliminate hot spots in the transmission lines do so pretty much every day.
Indeed, the nail in the coffin of the hydrogen disaster myth was the flame being the wrong color. What's better is that H is lighter and more common than He is. I'm sure with modern technology we can probably even figure out a way of using it more efficiently than in the past as well.
Because collaboration is better when it's just your sock puppet accounts.
Um, Google docs has real time collaboration at this point. And it has for a while now, which makes Wave somewhat pointless if that's all you want.
The Nexus One and Google Checkout are hardly flops, I have a Nexus One and when available I prefer Google Checkout over Paypal.
The problem with Wave was that it was an invite only service which didn't interoperate with anything that had an established install base. Likewise, when I logged in the couple times I have, I couldn't figure out what it was really for.
It's dead Jim.
Indeed, if they put it back at something sane, like say life of the creator plus 15 years, or a blanket 70 years from creation, and left it at that, we wouldn't be having a lot of this trouble.
There's an easy solution to #3, don't listen to commercial radio. There's plenty of legal alternatives out there, plus a whole crap load of genuinely brilliant material out there that you wouldn't hear on the radio anyways. I've heard that there's a lot of really cool English language stuff coming out of Japan that's really tough to get access to in the US.
That's what I'm curious about, I don't think that light travels that much more quickly than electrons do. On top of which, you can usually run multiple lanes of data to and from the destination, which while possible with optics, strikes me as a pain.
Perhaps the Neocons couldn't see that coming, but pretty much everybody else did. It was inevitable really. It's not like Iran and North Korea amongst others are unable to see our TV or read news sites about our President's speeches. It would be a really pointless intelligence agency that couldn't at least do that.
It was the typical right wing arrogance when dealing with other nations that caused most of the trouble.
That's not an issue. What is however an issue of great concern is that there's a long history of broadening things so that everybody in the middle east is an Islamic terrorist, just like how everybody in Germany was a Nazi. It's been troubling how little we've learned in the last 60 years, that we insisted on repeating the mistakes we made with German and Italian Americans in handling the terrorism problem.
Repeating that problem because a bunch of people can't admit that perhaps the wars were of questionable value is hardly the way to go. It's definitely not going to smooth things over with the moderates that we need to be on good terms with either.
And hopefully three law compliant as well.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that Nokia doesn't ship their best phones to the US. And really it's been a recent phenomenon for any good phones to make it to the US. Admittedly, that's largely because it's much more common in other parts of the world for people to have multiple phones or be willing to put up with beta gadgets.
The smartphone market in the US is consequently just starting to get going. And it shouldn't be shocking that Android with it's increasingly diverse set of options would be overtaking the iPhone and it's limited selection.
But, you get what you paid for, and that's the ultimate problem. You can get security officers here for a little over $10 hour if they're non-union, but even if you pay the union rate, you're not going to get any meaningful quality.
You'll get people that are unambitious, probably not willing to get extra training and almost certainly not provided with the resources to do a good job.
Teaching is similar in that respect, you might fill the position, but if you're not paying enough to get qualified, competent professionals, you're just going to get people that are clocking in and trying not to waste too much energy on it.
It's technically possible, however, it's a long enough shot that we can pretty much dismiss it out of hand. In order for that to happen, Take-two would have to be giving up the lawsuit and somebody would have to be coming up with the money. Definitely possible, but highly, highly unlikely. I'm guessing that the edit was a joke.
If you're doing that you have to be mindful otherwise you could end up in trouble. A painting of a photo for instance, or vice versa, would almost certainly have problems, however it really depends on how it's done. L.H.O.O.Q is sort of the canonical example, as the minor changes make for a very distinct message rather than being a copy of the Mona Lisa.
Well, it does now only have 8 planets orbiting around it. Of course there's going to be an identity crisis involved.
Unethical, I assume that you're not really a teacher and that you haven't gone to college. It happens far more often than it should. And it's definitely not a new occurrence, my parents told me about it happening to them back in the 60s. Which I imagine was hardly the first time it happened. Failing to pay enough for workers tends to lend itself well to that sort of entrepreneurial spirit.
It's worse than that. Often times they'd do something asinine and pointless like making some of the picture people of color or in wheel chairs and pass it off as being sensitive to divers communities. Never mind the fact that apart from changing the names and the pictures nothing else was changed.
As opposed as I am to the notion that the government is never the answer as I am, you're absolutely correct. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and it's amazing how much more civil and well behaved politicians are when they think people are watching.
That is true, that is however also a pretty clear argument for why the President needs to behave in a more responsible fashion in the first place. Nobody with any knowledge at all of military strategy would've suggested that going into Afghanistan and Iraq was a good idea. Afghanistan has been a huge mistake for pretty much everybody stupid enough to try to conquer it for quite some time. As for Iraq, it's never, ever a wise policy to go into a country and try to keep the factions within it apart. That's something we should've learned from Korea, but apparently we didn't learn it as we ended up doing so in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Likewise, we should've known that going to war halfway around the world wouldn't work if we didn't commit _all_ the necessary resources to do it right. We then proceeded to cheap out on it both in terms of man power and in terms of hardware. To make matters worse we disarmed the Iraqi military rather than integrating them into a new military not beholden to the old regime.
The leaks wouldn't have been necessary had President Bush not insisted in lying to the American people about the prospects of the wars and in the current status of the war when there was still a glimmer of hope for winning it. By the time the Obama administration took office, the idea that we could win was so ingrained that there wasn't really a whole lot he could do to change things sufficiently to win it that it became a pointless exercise in futility.