Do they have people who know absolutely nothing about computers writing these recommendations?
Go to AskWoody.com first and decide whether that update is going to break your computer! There's nothing good about automatic updating - it just breaks things and adds bloat!
Sorry, are people in Europe forced to use Facebook?
Is it some big secret that if you post a photo on Facebook then your friends can view it? Are Europeans all severely intellectually handicapped or young children who can't make decisions for themselves?
Then why do you want a large, non-elected, multinational government making up the rules? I thought this EU thing was about economic freedom, not a way to write laws for multiple countries at once.
Seriously, you have two choices: 1. Fundamentalist Christians intent on restricting what women do with their body, enforcing the teaching of ridiculous bullshit in science classes, selling out to the military. 2. Pretend Christians who are so beholden to the media companies and "green" businesses they rewrite laws to suit their mates, at the same time trying to control the flow of money amongst civilians to do "what is best" (e.g. using it to pay off banks, give to others).
Not about the phone, I've never heard of it. But in NZ they're advertising the Windows 7 OS. The TV ads are absolutely terrible.
One is a father and son both on laptops, the son gets dad to help with division on his computer(which you'd expect to be easy on a computer), and the son goes onto his dad's laptop. He then groovies up his powerpoint presentation with noise, wallpaper, and 3D extruded text and graphs.
Compare this to the elegant and elitist Mac ads. They make you think that one becomes stylish and cool with lots of good-looking friends of all races with perfect smiles. This is proper marketing. Mac is much better at it than MS.
It's pretty fucking obvious that this story is a "Let's pick on Apple because they're big, even though the entire fucking industry does the same shit."
It doesn't make it okay for Apple to do it.
The thing that irks me most about Apple fanbois in that they all act "anti-corporation" and won't eat and Starbuck's and McDonalds - but "sellout" to a multinational because it's trendy. And even though their iPad breaks in 13 months and their MacBook is constantly crashing, they'll still claim that their 5 year old iPod works and then say "see Apple makes good products".
I guess it depends what the particular paper you're doing is. I'm thinking of the basic science I did in 1st year, (sigh... 12 years ago now)
There were thousands in those classes, everyone getting a different lecturer. All were done with PowerPoint, all had printouts of the notes, or even written mini books on the subject.
For me, I went to the lecture to try and get some understanding of a subject (I remember missing my first CHEM lecture, and being completely puzzled by some of the notes, only to watch the lecturer talk it through quite simply. I recall it was about using arrows to describe the movement of individual atoms, something I'd never learnt in high school.)
Also, I remember in my 2nd or 3rd year examination, we got set a question that was not in the notes (and therefore no evidence it had been taught). After bitching and moaning from dozens of students about that lecturer, they just chucked out the question.
I'm sure I was the only one in lecture theatres of 180 people.
Nearly every lecture gave handouts, so that was my material for revision. If the lecturer said something else, I'd probably remember it because I was thinking about what was said instead of writing down information that's already in any textbook. Even if I didn't, the exams came from the notes not what the lecturer said - they don't want to have some undergrad whining that the exam had something not taught in class, so making the exam from the lecture handouts is good defensive education.
I understand other subjects are different, but for all undergrad science classes, I'd advise not taking notes. Everything you learn will be in textbooks and handouts, (or the Khan Academy) and you're better off sitting there listening, than you are exercising your hand and wasting paper. (Leave the hand exercises and paper wastage to some other time, a crowded lecture theatre isn't the place.)
n: 3461 - pretty good Inclusion criteria: Girls 8-12 who replied to a magazine survey - pretty bad Measurement: Self-reporting of multitasking, self-reporting on social ability - reliable? Interpretation: Can also be applied to boys - where the fuck did this come from?? Author: Clifford Nass a "self-described technologist of 25 years".
The author seems to be one of those self-promoting weirdos who picks a topic he knows will be controversial, does some easy "science" with it, and comes up with a controversial conclusion. He says he finds the results "disturbing".
Well Clifford, I find the fact that Stanford employs someone like you quite disturbing. I find you job title "technologist" disturbing. And I find your name dropping of Google and Microsoft disturbing. Most of all, I find the complete lack of scientific method in this study incredibly sad - it's just made for pop-science articles. Shame on you.
Yes, they do. Along with weight-loss, gentle exercise, and keeping on with your day. But that's not what people want.
Chronic back painers are a terrible breed of people. They smoke, they're fat, and they're stupid. They'll walk into the practice with their hand on their back, and want the doctor to sign a medical certificate.
Yellow flags for back pain:
A negative attitude that back pain is harmful or potentially severely disabling
Fear avoidance behaviour and reduced activity levels
An expectation that passive, rather than active, treatment will be beneficial
A tendency to depression, low morale, and social withdrawal
Social or financial problems
Yep. In fact every day a cup or two of water is created by our bodies in the metabolism of our food. (e.g. C6H12O6 [glucose] + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy)
This is what they said: "In conclusion, unimpeded evaporation of water through Heleaktight membranes sounds next to impossible. The closest analogy is probably the permeation of protons (atomic hydrogen) through thin films of transition metals, the phenomenon known as superpermeability. To explain our experiments, we propose the model that can be summarized as follows. GO laminates contain 2D capillaries that, under ambient conditions, are filled with an ordered monolayer of water. A capillarylike pressure provides a sufficient flow to keep the exposed GO surface wet so that the observed permeability is effectively limited by the surface evaporation. Permeation of other molecules is blocked by the intercalating water and, simultaneously, by their shrinkage in low humidity. Such highly selective membranes can be used for filtration and separation. The results have implications for the use of graphene oxide in various applications (e.g., batteries), explaining why the observed surface areas are close to the theoretical maximum. The next challenge is to utilize the found phenomenon, possibly along the lines extensively discussed for membranes made from carbon nanotubes."
I wouldn't say lions are competing with gazelles. I'd say lions are competing with other lions to eat the gazelles, and the gazelles are competing amongst each other to GTFO the fastest. That's why lions are pretty strong, and gazelles are pretty fast.
Humans are successful because of a mixture of cooperation and competition. Plenty of other organisms have cooperative behaviours - but only they result in a net benefit to the average organism. Too much cooperation will always result in people taking advantage of the situation - unless their is a punishment for not playing fair.
Evolution isn't a fight, it's an adaptation.
I didn't say it's a fight. It's a competition. Adapt best to the new environment, breed and survive, and you win.
Every civilization and population has to evolve. To evolve we need competition.
Ever since the first RNA molecules started grabbing nucleotides off each other to duplicate there has been competition. There's always finite resources, and those that can take them can survive (and reproduce) better.
Any successful person, and any successful population, always has some advantage that gets resources in the current environment. No species survives if they don't have competitive strategies. An alien is not going to have some completely egalitarian civilization - they wouldn't evolve if they did.
In NZ our useless Copyright Bill s92a was passed "under urgency" using the Christchurch earthquake as an excuse. Every political party (except the Greens) voted for it. Very few NZ citizens agree with it.
People overdose on the stuff all the time - deliberately as suicide attempts/"cries for help". You need to take a box of tablets to have any affect on your liver function tests, and the liver can repair itself completely.
Taking 1gram four times a day, for decades actually has no measurable negative affect on your health.
Okay, I wish I could express it as an equation so your mind could understand it, but:
When people say "I don't commit crime" they actually mean "I don't commit crime that matters to the majority of people in my culture".
When someone says "I've had nothing to eat today", do you retort (in your nerdiest voice) "Well, actually you've probably ingested many small organisms which landed in your mouth after 0000h, so, haha [chortle], you have actually eaten today."?
Stop taking things so literally! Can't you get some sort of book that helps you with interpreting things properly?
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No it's not. It's not even funny or clever. It's just gay.
I have never understood why people think Archer is funny.
Are you trying to turn people into "ban it" luddites?
Oh no, a machine can read a number plate! They'll know where my car was!
Well, no-one cares. It's technology. It happens. It has good parts and bad parts. Stop panicking!
Do they have people who know absolutely nothing about computers writing these recommendations?
Go to AskWoody.com first and decide whether that update is going to break your computer! There's nothing good about automatic updating - it just breaks things and adds bloat!
"You require more vespene gas"
and, sadly, "my life for Aiur!"
Have you tried to put out an oilfield fire? It's pretty hard.
Why weren't you there protecting the university?
Sorry, are people in Europe forced to use Facebook?
Is it some big secret that if you post a photo on Facebook then your friends can view it? Are Europeans all severely intellectually handicapped or young children who can't make decisions for themselves?
Then why do you want a large, non-elected, multinational government making up the rules? I thought this EU thing was about economic freedom, not a way to write laws for multiple countries at once.
Seriously, you have two choices:
1. Fundamentalist Christians intent on restricting what women do with their body, enforcing the teaching of ridiculous bullshit in science classes, selling out to the military.
2. Pretend Christians who are so beholden to the media companies and "green" businesses they rewrite laws to suit their mates, at the same time trying to control the flow of money amongst civilians to do "what is best" (e.g. using it to pay off banks, give to others).
Not about the phone, I've never heard of it. But in NZ they're advertising the Windows 7 OS. The TV ads are absolutely terrible.
One is a father and son both on laptops, the son gets dad to help with division on his computer(which you'd expect to be easy on a computer), and the son goes onto his dad's laptop. He then groovies up his powerpoint presentation with noise, wallpaper, and 3D extruded text and graphs.
Compare this to the elegant and elitist Mac ads. They make you think that one becomes stylish and cool with lots of good-looking friends of all races with perfect smiles. This is proper marketing. Mac is much better at it than MS.
It's pretty fucking obvious that this story is a "Let's pick on Apple because they're big, even though the entire fucking industry does the same shit."
It doesn't make it okay for Apple to do it.
The thing that irks me most about Apple fanbois in that they all act "anti-corporation" and won't eat and Starbuck's and McDonalds - but "sellout" to a multinational because it's trendy. And even though their iPad breaks in 13 months and their MacBook is constantly crashing, they'll still claim that their 5 year old iPod works and then say "see Apple makes good products".
I actually know people who do this.
I guess it depends what the particular paper you're doing is. I'm thinking of the basic science I did in 1st year, (sigh... 12 years ago now)
There were thousands in those classes, everyone getting a different lecturer. All were done with PowerPoint, all had printouts of the notes, or even written mini books on the subject.
For me, I went to the lecture to try and get some understanding of a subject (I remember missing my first CHEM lecture, and being completely puzzled by some of the notes, only to watch the lecturer talk it through quite simply. I recall it was about using arrows to describe the movement of individual atoms, something I'd never learnt in high school.)
Also, I remember in my 2nd or 3rd year examination, we got set a question that was not in the notes (and therefore no evidence it had been taught). After bitching and moaning from dozens of students about that lecturer, they just chucked out the question.
I'm sure I was the only one in lecture theatres of 180 people.
Nearly every lecture gave handouts, so that was my material for revision. If the lecturer said something else, I'd probably remember it because I was thinking about what was said instead of writing down information that's already in any textbook. Even if I didn't, the exams came from the notes not what the lecturer said - they don't want to have some undergrad whining that the exam had something not taught in class, so making the exam from the lecture handouts is good defensive education.
I understand other subjects are different, but for all undergrad science classes, I'd advise not taking notes. Everything you learn will be in textbooks and handouts, (or the Khan Academy) and you're better off sitting there listening, than you are exercising your hand and wasting paper. (Leave the hand exercises and paper wastage to some other time, a crowded lecture theatre isn't the place.)
We can't blame Twitter for this, much as I detest it and those Idiocracy-style 140 character updates.
Yes we can. Twitter shouldn't bow to these governments - if the government blocks them, then so be it.
Seriously?
n: 3461 - pretty good
Inclusion criteria: Girls 8-12 who replied to a magazine survey - pretty bad
Measurement: Self-reporting of multitasking, self-reporting on social ability - reliable?
Interpretation: Can also be applied to boys - where the fuck did this come from??
Author: Clifford Nass a "self-described technologist of 25 years".
The author seems to be one of those self-promoting weirdos who picks a topic he knows will be controversial, does some easy "science" with it, and comes up with a controversial conclusion. He says he finds the results "disturbing".
Well Clifford, I find the fact that Stanford employs someone like you quite disturbing. I find you job title "technologist" disturbing. And I find your name dropping of Google and Microsoft disturbing. Most of all, I find the complete lack of scientific method in this study incredibly sad - it's just made for pop-science articles. Shame on you.
Yes, they do. Along with weight-loss, gentle exercise, and keeping on with your day. But that's not what people want.
Chronic back painers are a terrible breed of people. They smoke, they're fat, and they're stupid. They'll walk into the practice with their hand on their back, and want the doctor to sign a medical certificate.
Yellow flags for back pain:
A negative attitude that back pain is harmful or potentially severely disabling
Fear avoidance behaviour and reduced activity levels
An expectation that passive, rather than active, treatment will be beneficial
A tendency to depression, low morale, and social withdrawal
Social or financial problems
Check again.
Yep. In fact every day a cup or two of water is created by our bodies in the metabolism of our food. (e.g. C6H12O6 [glucose] + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy)
This is what they said:
"In conclusion, unimpeded evaporation of water through Heleaktight membranes sounds next to impossible. The closest analogy is probably the permeation of protons (atomic hydrogen) through thin films of transition metals, the phenomenon known as superpermeability. To explain our experiments, we propose the model that can be summarized as follows. GO laminates contain 2D capillaries that, under ambient conditions, are filled with an ordered monolayer of water. A capillarylike pressure provides a sufficient flow to keep the exposed GO surface wet so that the observed permeability is effectively limited by the surface evaporation. Permeation of other molecules is blocked by the intercalating water and, simultaneously, by their shrinkage in low humidity. Such highly selective membranes can be used for filtration and separation. The results have implications for the use of graphene oxide in various applications (e.g., batteries), explaining why the observed surface areas are close to the theoretical maximum. The next challenge is to utilize the found phenomenon, possibly along the lines extensively discussed for membranes made from carbon nanotubes."
Don't ask me what it means though!
I wouldn't say lions are competing with gazelles. I'd say lions are competing with other lions to eat the gazelles, and the gazelles are competing amongst each other to GTFO the fastest. That's why lions are pretty strong, and gazelles are pretty fast.
Humans are successful because of a mixture of cooperation and competition. Plenty of other organisms have cooperative behaviours - but only they result in a net benefit to the average organism. Too much cooperation will always result in people taking advantage of the situation - unless their is a punishment for not playing fair.
I didn't say it's a fight. It's a competition. Adapt best to the new environment, breed and survive, and you win.
To gain the permission to beg for a free trade deal with the US.
Every civilization and population has to evolve. To evolve we need competition.
Ever since the first RNA molecules started grabbing nucleotides off each other to duplicate there has been competition. There's always finite resources, and those that can take them can survive (and reproduce) better.
Any successful person, and any successful population, always has some advantage that gets resources in the current environment. No species survives if they don't have competitive strategies. An alien is not going to have some completely egalitarian civilization - they wouldn't evolve if they did.
It's legal everywhere else it seems.
In NZ our useless Copyright Bill s92a was passed "under urgency" using the Christchurch earthquake as an excuse. Every political party (except the Greens) voted for it. Very few NZ citizens agree with it.
He wrote a few books which argued that God doesn't exist, they make Christians look like idiots. So to Christians, that's just as bad.
People overdose on the stuff all the time - deliberately as suicide attempts/"cries for help". You need to take a box of tablets to have any affect on your liver function tests, and the liver can repair itself completely.
Taking 1gram four times a day, for decades actually has no measurable negative affect on your health.
No, I said "have a lot in common" not "are identical".
Okay, I wish I could express it as an equation so your mind could understand it, but:
When people say "I don't commit crime" they actually mean "I don't commit crime that matters to the majority of people in my culture".
When someone says "I've had nothing to eat today", do you retort (in your nerdiest voice) "Well, actually you've probably ingested many small organisms which landed in your mouth after 0000h, so, haha [chortle], you have actually eaten today."?
Stop taking things so literally! Can't you get some sort of book that helps you with interpreting things properly?