2. If other diets haven't worked, try putting Little Tubby on Atkins. No, it won't necessarily work for everyone. It depends on the type of metabolism you have. But if you've tried low-fat and it doesn't work, Atkins (or another carb-restrictive diet) might. Or just stop feeding Little Billy enriched wheat bread. A friend of mine on the cycling team dropped the easiest five pounds of his life through doing that.
Being left handed, I thought it might be easier to just play lefty and do things differently so that I was more comfortable. However, I found that it was far less awkward to play righty than I expected and I just played it righty. Considering that we have to adapt a little bit at times to do some things as lefties anyway, I would suggest giving it a shot playing righty. A little bit of ambidextrousness never hurt.
Everyone always thinks it's about the bling when some organization looks to switch to Linux. It this case, it would likely be the wrong reason for switching.
The FAA has a lot of in house software they've developed. This software does not run on Vista. Other government agencies are going to have this problem too. This is why they are not interested in switching to Vista. It would likely be more cost effective for them to not upgrade their software to run on Vista and switch to Linux.
My lab had to port over a lot of software from NASA that ran on Unix machines over to Windows so the reason makes sense to me. I don't claim I'm completely right but I think it would be interesting to see how this pans out.
Coming up with ideas don't count as heavy lifting. Anyone can just shout out ideas without actually developing solutions. It's what differentiates fiction from reality. Example: warp speed / fast than light / etc...
Performance metrics can be tracked through entrance and exit exams. Within the first week, give the students a test with what they should learn throughout the year. Score the results and keep them until the end of the year and retest them. Start with a standard test for each grade with a variety of questions including those that students would not be able to answer. Then incorporate some previous questions to test for maintaining knowledge base. Set the number of questions to some standard number per grade and go. Depending on the subject, multiple guess or free response can be used (I'd prefer free response but MG with showing work is ok too). Students that improve across the board and meet some level would advance to the next year.
The are going to be some problems here too. Students do poorly on the first test intentionally and then have a "stellar" year. My elementary school kept all the same students together throughout most of the day (the same teacher covering multiple subjects) - therefore how will would be able to hold a student back that doesn't get one subject. There are bound to be others as I am just a graduate student and do not teach.
I believe there is no way to solve problem one easily. One could give less privileges to students that repeatedly do this (less recess, study hall, etc). School is quasi-daycare but students still need to meet some minimum standard.
The second problem could be solved through separating classes into subject blocks instead. Students could take Math 200, Social Studies 300, etc... More talented students could be moved into fast track areas with their peers and then additional other classes could be available to them. Require a set minimum of classes (English, Science, Math, Social Studies, etc..) depending on age level and schooling area.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think it's a start.
What needs to be done is a systems design of the educational system. People from different walks of life are brought in and talk about what is needed. Have a moderator to prevent one person from hijacking the discussion. Questions should begin with "What is the objective of our educational system?" with answers such as "A daycare" or "A facility to teach our children critical thinking skills that will carry on through the rest of their lives". More detailed questions can be addressed as the meeting progresses.
Once a framework has been established, the system can be designed and tested on a small scale whether it be a city or state or even a private/specialized school. Check on how things work after a couple of years (track students' progress and such) and then make changes as needed. Iterate until it is felt to be ready on a large scale.
donate those machines to public schools and filter them throughout the school system and recycle the oldest machines. Work out a deal with Microsoft (or just use something else) and put whatever software needs to be on the machine for the school to use it properly.
So when I was in high school, we desperately needed better computers in various locations throughout the school. I imagine that both elementary and middle schools are in the same boat. Businesses are on what, a two or three year hardware upgrade cycle? Wouldn't this kill two birds with one stone?
Schools get new machines and their old (and likely least environmentally friendly) machines would be recycled. Keep the e-fee so that such a program would be funded but in theory it could work. But perhaps I'm just looking out the window of an ivory tower.
Would it really work that easily? Our ComcastHD box doesn't really look like it would be able to hook up that way. I don't know enough about HD connections since I don't actually own the HDTV but based on what's on the back of the box vs what goes into the card, there appears to be a significant disparity in connections.
I know we have a boatload of connections for video and then have a separate series of connections for audio. Based on my limited experience with HD, I would imagine that I need to match them up. But I could always imagine that said required connections could be satisfied through a USB or 1394 connection to the PC. I suppose the hardware exists somewhere but I wouldn't know where to look.
I'm sort of in the same boat but I'm looking for HD tuner cards for hooking up to cable.
I was looking into building a media PC to replace a roommate's Tivo when he moves out at the end of the summer. Pretty much, we've got HD cable and I'd like to try to integrate the Tivo, DVD player, and media PC into one box.
Since our HD DVR isn't all that large capacity-wise, I was thinking about trying to record HD cable too but I haven't been able find any information on HD tuner cards that aren't OTA. I would love to record HD content from my Comcast box to a pc. Does anyone know if the hardware exists to make this possible?
Take a lesson from Star Trek. So you're saying if we destroy the Middle East, we'll meet the Vulcans?!?
This comment is meant as a joke; but seriously, try to someone of Arabic descent in Star Trek. Until popular culture removes the idea of the token ethnic guy, there is going to be some form of racism.
I have a better plan. The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (I just googled CO2 exhale rate and they sound legitimate) estimates the average person exhales 1 kg/day of CO2. Assuming the world population is 6.7 billion people, this leads to ~2.45 billion metric tons of CO2 a year.
Clearly, we can reach the goal of 1 billion tons a year for ten years by simply asking people not to breathe as much. I'll be sending out the scheduled rotation for when you can breathe in about an hour so just hold your breathe in anticipation.
Richard, let me know when I can get my check. Can it be a big one like pro golfers get? I watched Happy Gilmore last night on TBS and would like one too.
Hopefully no one actually does vote based on a single issue... but this country is certainly full of people that do. Mac commercial...
DM: Hi, I'm a Democrat.
RP: And I'm a Republican. .....
Call of Duty: Get shot, it's ok. Get shot too much in too little time, your screen starts turning red. Keep getting shot, die. I agree completely. I run in blindly and kill as many people as possible and when I go red, I hide until I "heal." This makes the game way too easy when combined with the number of checkpoints in every level. Why both playing seriously? Honestly, I wished for something more after beating the game.
It feels like the game is more suited for a casual gamer than serious players that want more realism. I forsee this trend to continue since although design for both is not impossible, adding features and programming additional characteristics to be more than publishers would like to do. I would almost be willing to believe completely that the serious player desiring realism is going to be ignored more and more in many major games.
Agreed on all points. I would honestly demand/expect a lot of things from a PS3 considering the $200 difference (I use the same logic on most purchases, not just ragging the PS3).
In the side-by-side article, I went through all the games and really wasn't impressed with the difference. In fact, this would really discourage me from purchasing a PS3 if I were still debating the issue at this moment. Granted (as they concede in that article), the real graphics battle should occur a year from now once developers figure the PS3 out.
Does anyone know why the PS3 pictures looked like their brightness was set higher? I am assuming they used the same display for both systems so I wonder if it's a console thing or settings were changed around.
I heard it from a friend that works at KSC. Granted, that's not perfect but it's a start. He certainly isn't the end-all expert on this but it is better than nothing.
However, your solution makes perfect sense. But I could imagine that they could still want to if they did. I certainly don't know what the effects of the drugs are or how potent they are.
Of course, my solution would involve a lot of people needing to keep quiet. People are not good at this.
I agree. This could have just as easily been hitting a wounded duck test. Perhaps we just say to the BMD folks, we'll shoot something at you within the next couple of days. And then see what happens as opposed to the BMD folks knowing everything that's going on.
Perhaps it was a real test and everything was great but given the lack of details, I highly doubt that.
We will be integrating a new explosives detection device to all screening areas which uses radio waves in some crazy science fashion. Unfortunately, the radio waves can't pierce the human body and provide accurate results. Therefore, all domestic and international flights are required for a pre-security cavity search. Passengers concerned about mantaining dignity must be additionally screened as they may be supporting terrorism.
Why can't we find ways to reduce our energy consumption? Then we can stretch energy sources further and store what we don't need.
Again, the best option is to do a combination of both. But will politicians take both options seriously? I suppose they will only when necessity becomes a factor.
I could be wrong about the purpose but I think there is more to this scam than pump and dump. ymmv.
I've heard that organized crime may use them for money laundering. I imagine pink sheets would work for this. I drew the conclusion based on a conversation I had with a friend whose uncle was investigated by the feds for playing around with penny stocks. Pretty much accidently picked the wrong stock.
I agree. He's only basing his assumptions on our current capabilities and applying them to an unknown alien civilization. Great that he's making these assumptions but his final conclusion, We have not yet been contacted by any extraterrestrial civilizations simple because they have not yet had the time to find us. Searching the Galaxy for life is a painstakingly slow process., is just jumping to conclusions, perhaps invalid for the work he did.
No one knows what aliens are going to look for in a planet. Our planet could be written off as an inhabitable nitrous sphere. They might be non-carbon based life forms. They could have progressed technologically much faster than we did as you suggested. By assuming aliens match our capabilities, he made an unstated assumption that was key to actually understanding the conclusion.
A more fitting conclusion from his work would be that it would take US 10 billion years to search a small portion of the Milky Way for life at our current technology levels.
I would choose option E or a combination of D and E.
E) Remove the ability for pork/"special projects" to be funded with NASA's budget.
This article references 2006 figures but the principle idea is the same. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-06 -11-nasa-pork_x.htm?POE=TECISVA. Pork/"special projects" cripple NASA's budget on unrelated projects. Some of those projects may yet be important to other things (not NASA) but perhaps they should be funded another way.
They ask for id where I grew up such that I was unable to purchase rated-R tickets myself. I could go were I to have an adult with me to purchase the tickets. I feel the same premise would work for video games.
That may not be the standard everywhere else but I'm not overly traveled.
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Being left handed, I thought it might be easier to just play lefty and do things differently so that I was more comfortable. However, I found that it was far less awkward to play righty than I expected and I just played it righty. Considering that we have to adapt a little bit at times to do some things as lefties anyway, I would suggest giving it a shot playing righty. A little bit of ambidextrousness never hurt.
Everyone always thinks it's about the bling when some organization looks to switch to Linux. It this case, it would likely be the wrong reason for switching.
The FAA has a lot of in house software they've developed. This software does not run on Vista. Other government agencies are going to have this problem too. This is why they are not interested in switching to Vista. It would likely be more cost effective for them to not upgrade their software to run on Vista and switch to Linux.
My lab had to port over a lot of software from NASA that ran on Unix machines over to Windows so the reason makes sense to me. I don't claim I'm completely right but I think it would be interesting to see how this pans out.
Coming up with ideas don't count as heavy lifting. Anyone can just shout out ideas without actually developing solutions. It's what differentiates fiction from reality. Example: warp speed / fast than light / etc...
Performance metrics can be tracked through entrance and exit exams. Within the first week, give the students a test with what they should learn throughout the year. Score the results and keep them until the end of the year and retest them. Start with a standard test for each grade with a variety of questions including those that students would not be able to answer. Then incorporate some previous questions to test for maintaining knowledge base. Set the number of questions to some standard number per grade and go. Depending on the subject, multiple guess or free response can be used (I'd prefer free response but MG with showing work is ok too). Students that improve across the board and meet some level would advance to the next year.
The are going to be some problems here too. Students do poorly on the first test intentionally and then have a "stellar" year. My elementary school kept all the same students together throughout most of the day (the same teacher covering multiple subjects) - therefore how will would be able to hold a student back that doesn't get one subject. There are bound to be others as I am just a graduate student and do not teach.
I believe there is no way to solve problem one easily. One could give less privileges to students that repeatedly do this (less recess, study hall, etc). School is quasi-daycare but students still need to meet some minimum standard.
The second problem could be solved through separating classes into subject blocks instead. Students could take Math 200, Social Studies 300, etc... More talented students could be moved into fast track areas with their peers and then additional other classes could be available to them. Require a set minimum of classes (English, Science, Math, Social Studies, etc..) depending on age level and schooling area.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think it's a start.
What needs to be done is a systems design of the educational system. People from different walks of life are brought in and talk about what is needed. Have a moderator to prevent one person from hijacking the discussion. Questions should begin with "What is the objective of our educational system?" with answers such as "A daycare" or "A facility to teach our children critical thinking skills that will carry on through the rest of their lives". More detailed questions can be addressed as the meeting progresses.
Once a framework has been established, the system can be designed and tested on a small scale whether it be a city or state or even a private/specialized school. Check on how things work after a couple of years (track students' progress and such) and then make changes as needed. Iterate until it is felt to be ready on a large scale.
donate those machines to public schools and filter them throughout the school system and recycle the oldest machines. Work out a deal with Microsoft (or just use something else) and put whatever software needs to be on the machine for the school to use it properly.
So when I was in high school, we desperately needed better computers in various locations throughout the school. I imagine that both elementary and middle schools are in the same boat. Businesses are on what, a two or three year hardware upgrade cycle? Wouldn't this kill two birds with one stone?
Schools get new machines and their old (and likely least environmentally friendly) machines would be recycled. Keep the e-fee so that such a program would be funded but in theory it could work. But perhaps I'm just looking out the window of an ivory tower.
Would it really work that easily? Our Comcast HD box doesn't really look like it would be able to hook up that way. I don't know enough about HD connections since I don't actually own the HDTV but based on what's on the back of the box vs what goes into the card, there appears to be a significant disparity in connections.
I know we have a boatload of connections for video and then have a separate series of connections for audio. Based on my limited experience with HD, I would imagine that I need to match them up. But I could always imagine that said required connections could be satisfied through a USB or 1394 connection to the PC. I suppose the hardware exists somewhere but I wouldn't know where to look.
I'm sort of in the same boat but I'm looking for HD tuner cards for hooking up to cable.
I was looking into building a media PC to replace a roommate's Tivo when he moves out at the end of the summer. Pretty much, we've got HD cable and I'd like to try to integrate the Tivo, DVD player, and media PC into one box.
Since our HD DVR isn't all that large capacity-wise, I was thinking about trying to record HD cable too but I haven't been able find any information on HD tuner cards that aren't OTA. I would love to record HD content from my Comcast box to a pc. Does anyone know if the hardware exists to make this possible?
But only if it were OSU. Then we could prepare for UF to dominate university file sharing in a couple months.
This comment is meant as a joke; but seriously, try to someone of Arabic descent in Star Trek. Until popular culture removes the idea of the token ethnic guy, there is going to be some form of racism.
Just make sure you put a wet person in.
I have a better plan. The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (I just googled CO2 exhale rate and they sound legitimate) estimates the average person exhales 1 kg/day of CO2. Assuming the world population is 6.7 billion people, this leads to ~2.45 billion metric tons of CO2 a year.
Clearly, we can reach the goal of 1 billion tons a year for ten years by simply asking people not to breathe as much. I'll be sending out the scheduled rotation for when you can breathe in about an hour so just hold your breathe in anticipation.
Richard, let me know when I can get my check. Can it be a big one like pro golfers get? I watched Happy Gilmore last night on TBS and would like one too.
DM: Hi, I'm a Democrat.
RP: And I'm a Republican.
It feels like the game is more suited for a casual gamer than serious players that want more realism. I forsee this trend to continue since although design for both is not impossible, adding features and programming additional characteristics to be more than publishers would like to do. I would almost be willing to believe completely that the serious player desiring realism is going to be ignored more and more in many major games.
Agreed on all points. I would honestly demand/expect a lot of things from a PS3 considering the $200 difference (I use the same logic on most purchases, not just ragging the PS3).
In the side-by-side article, I went through all the games and really wasn't impressed with the difference. In fact, this would really discourage me from purchasing a PS3 if I were still debating the issue at this moment. Granted (as they concede in that article), the real graphics battle should occur a year from now once developers figure the PS3 out.
Does anyone know why the PS3 pictures looked like their brightness was set higher? I am assuming they used the same display for both systems so I wonder if it's a console thing or settings were changed around.
I heard it from a friend that works at KSC. Granted, that's not perfect but it's a start. He certainly isn't the end-all expert on this but it is better than nothing.
However, your solution makes perfect sense. But I could imagine that they could still want to if they did. I certainly don't know what the effects of the drugs are or how potent they are.
Of course, my solution would involve a lot of people needing to keep quiet. People are not good at this.
You joke but I've heard NASA has an LEO club. Mission control should know when its going on since they monitor every astronaut's vitals.
But I doubt they will likely ever annouce its existence or members would come forward. For some silly reason, I guess they think its bad publicity.
I agree. This could have just as easily been hitting a wounded duck test. Perhaps we just say to the BMD folks, we'll shoot something at you within the next couple of days. And then see what happens as opposed to the BMD folks knowing everything that's going on.
Perhaps it was a real test and everything was great but given the lack of details, I highly doubt that.
TSA Memorandum
We will be integrating a new explosives detection device to all screening areas which uses radio waves in some crazy science fashion. Unfortunately, the radio waves can't pierce the human body and provide accurate results. Therefore, all domestic and international flights are required for a pre-security cavity search. Passengers concerned about mantaining dignity must be additionally screened as they may be supporting terrorism.
That is all.
Apparently you have not noticed the huge rise in obesity in the United States. It seems like there's a rise in anorexia in the U.S. as well.
Sounds like we have already solved the problem. Next! (this should be taken as a joke)
Why can't we find ways to reduce our energy consumption? Then we can stretch energy sources further and store what we don't need.
Again, the best option is to do a combination of both. But will politicians take both options seriously? I suppose they will only when necessity becomes a factor.
I could be wrong about the purpose but I think there is more to this scam than pump and dump. ymmv.
I've heard that organized crime may use them for money laundering. I imagine pink sheets would work for this. I drew the conclusion based on a conversation I had with a friend whose uncle was investigated by the feds for playing around with penny stocks. Pretty much accidently picked the wrong stock.
I agree. He's only basing his assumptions on our current capabilities and applying them to an unknown alien civilization. Great that he's making these assumptions but his final conclusion, We have not yet been contacted by any extraterrestrial civilizations simple because they have not yet had the time to find us. Searching the Galaxy for life is a painstakingly slow process., is just jumping to conclusions, perhaps invalid for the work he did.
No one knows what aliens are going to look for in a planet. Our planet could be written off as an inhabitable nitrous sphere. They might be non-carbon based life forms. They could have progressed technologically much faster than we did as you suggested. By assuming aliens match our capabilities, he made an unstated assumption that was key to actually understanding the conclusion.
A more fitting conclusion from his work would be that it would take US 10 billion years to search a small portion of the Milky Way for life at our current technology levels.
And child acting.
I would choose option E or a combination of D and E.
6 -11-nasa-pork_x.htm?POE=TECISVA. Pork/"special projects" cripple NASA's budget on unrelated projects. Some of those projects may yet be important to other things (not NASA) but perhaps they should be funded another way.
E) Remove the ability for pork/"special projects" to be funded with NASA's budget.
This article references 2006 figures but the principle idea is the same. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-0
They ask for id where I grew up such that I was unable to purchase rated-R tickets myself. I could go were I to have an adult with me to purchase the tickets. I feel the same premise would work for video games.
That may not be the standard everywhere else but I'm not overly traveled.