Also many ancient cultures living people buried food, drink, tools, weapons, even slaves with the dead to ensure they had resources to help them in their afterlife.
And we do just the opposite: we divide up the dead's possessions for the living.
Something to do with how our beliefs have changed over the last few thousand years.
Plus the dying often leave wise and proper advice for the living.
I *think* you're saying that we should do more to help the dead with their afterlives, but I am not sure.
"So is it going to freeze before it hits the top of the bore then? If not that means we're releasing whatever is in that water into our environment. That could be really really bad any way you look at it."
Mmm.... let's see, who should I trust? a slashdot computer programming poster who's spent 20 minutes or so thinking about the problem, or a team of scientists who live in the Antarctic, and have spent the last 5 years calculating all the possible angles and have had to justify their experiment to a group of highly trained peers (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat)?
I'm going to go with the geological scientists. I might be wrong, but it's just a hunch;-)
Surely somebody can get geeks excited in something more useful than putting a non functioning block of stone on the moon.
There's plenty of non-functioning human created hardware sitting on the moon already. Put your hundred dollars to better use, help people here, help planet Earth, whatever good cause you believe in. Some of them even give you credit, if your goal is getting your ego stroked / your name for immortality etc.
Plenty of IT related good causes down here.
Or at least match your moon-donation with an earth-donation.
I'd like to see some references on this please, I am genuinely interested. I was doing tiny pieces of undergraduate research in the 80s and the argument that the USSR was running out of money trying to keep up with the USA as was around then. So I am not sure that it is a 'retroactive' argument.
Also I think you take 'running out of money' too literally, my impression was that this referred in more general terms to the cold war arms race forcing the USSR economy into focussing a much higher percentage of its resources into maintaining parity with the USA, leaving less for consumer products, social development etc. Industrial capacity was focussed to too high a degree on military industries and other industries suffered. The USSR couldn't match the USA over time. My understanding of the argument is that this meant that because the USSR economy had to maintain a high war footing to keep up with US and NATO spending and developments (something like 30-35% of its industries compared to 20-25% of US industries), other areas of social development suffered and gradually standards of living etc fell behind which led to political and social dissatisfaction, hence the downfall of the system. In this sense, the USSR 'ran out of money' - actually it had a smaller capacity than the USA/NATO aligned countries so ran itself into the ground trying to keep up.
But I'd welcome more information, I'd be happy to find out this wasn't the case. Throw over some references so I can read more, cheers!
crickey, I reckon you must be working for them, what an advert! Personally I wouldn't choose my airline on the grounds they have "stylish white plastic and black leather interior". Since when has white plastic been stylish?:-) And who cares?! Get me there on time and do it comfortably.
Sorry if this is off topic or an ignorant question, but how does Skype define supernodes? Does the company just randomly choose users who are online a lot and declare them supernodes without the owner's knowledge, or is there some other process? cheers
The lecture is essentially a medieval mode of tuition, and it is struggling to still be relevant. It is grounded in the philosophical model of education that says that students are empty vessels that a wise teacher can fill by imparting knowledge in an oral mode of presentation. Knowledge shifts from the teacher to the students by their lecture, supported by written notes. However, the models of education have moved on since the middle ages so it is no longer as valid.
One of its continuing attractions is that it is cheap - one teacher to many students. No technology required. Can be done in a high tech lab with students on laptops or under a tree with students just listening or using cheap notepads and pencils to write down the key messages. In an ideal world there would be many more opportunities for one to one teacher-student tuition but for most people this just is not affordable. Plus of course there are advantages in group work.
So a question here I'd like to ask is: what would be a better replacement for lecture style presentations? What would be cost effective yet give students the opportunity to interact with their teacher? Also, I suppose, why do we keep the lecture? is it just cost? why does your university ask students to turn up to lectures?
Some kindergarten teachers might play the piano, or guitar, and provide music for the kids to sing along to. Not all of them will throw a CD on and play music through a sound system.
Posting from the UK. What the heck is a drive thru restaurant?
I've seen drive-through fast food places like MacDonalds etc in the UK where you order a burger and fries and a drink and pick it up at a hole in the wall, those seem gruesome enough. But you have *restaurants* that do this as well? Or are you including MacDonalds and such fast food places as restaurants?
"In the beginning, the language of the World Wide Web was English. Times change though, and the United States' military's gift to civilization knows no national boundaries"
Err, I thought the World Wide Web came out of CERN, started in part by Tim Berners-Lee? And that the Internet came out of the US military / academic complex?
Am I wrong, can somebody correct me? or has the summary on slashdot confused the internet with the web?
Sometimes two different 'freedoms' may clash. It looks like Spanish people feel that it is better to be free of the fear of huge amounts of guns on their streets than the freedom for the majority of citizens to carry guns on their streets.
I've lived in Europe for 40 years and never once have I thought "I'd feel safer walking to the shops if I had a gun on me or knowing that lots of these other people walking around on the streets had guns on them".
Most people need 20, maybe more by the time they have all their online utility bills, social media, work accounts, banking accounts, etc. Some of these have specific formats you have to follow (6-8 characters, 6-12 characters, at least one upper and one lower case letter and a number and a non alphanumeric, etc).
So now try and hold all 20 of these in your head with these different formats. And probably some of these have to be changed every three months or so (e.g. decent work passwords).
This is the big problem: the number of different passwords in varying formats that people have to remember, and change on occasion to fit in with the security systems.
If everybody only had to remember one password, this would not be the security issue that it is.
Perhaps it might be worth you checking both sides' information before coming a conclusion as well? Though I am afraid your line "No thanks - I've had enough of union rhetoric for one life time" suggests you'll only "disregard one sides propaganda in favour of the other sides propaganda".
Ideally no, a police investigation isn't "government dealings". Maybe in your country the two are the same but I believe some countries strive to separate the two. This would be a better position to be in, to allow fair and independent investigation of politicians by police officers when required.
I say chaps. Very good of you to offer instructions for Four-in-Hand, Windsor and Double Windsor for new johnnies who haven't a clue how to tie a tie but really, I am not sure I could work for a company that won't let me choose the far more elegant Prince Albert.
(to be fair the guide doesn't say other ways of tying a tie are prohibited)
It's nice there are cool stories out there and people do great novels, films, etc but you really mustn't let that be your baseline for reality. "It happened in V for Vendetta so it'll happen in real life! eek!"
Aristophanes Clouds is a satire / theatre comedy. So some of the views shown by the characters will represent what Athenians thought was funny rather what was true so might not represent true views of the time. Don't take what's said as being the Athenian view of society. After all if you were to do that reading other Aristophanes you'd believe that all Greeks thought that rain was Zeus pissing through a sieve.
Other references from the time to cross references Aristophanes and strengthen your arguments?
Though of course there is always a grain of truth in comedy.
From my classical studies I remember reading that gay relationships were encouraged on the grounds that soldiers would fight harder for their lovers in the line next to them. This paper seems to cover some of that ground: "The Eros of Achilles: Homoerotic Bonding Among Combat Soldiers" by J Laskaris - Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 2000 - vol 10 p139 onwards.
The word "Britannica" doesn't just refer to Encyclopaedia Britannica. It means 'of Britain' (latin scholars can help me with the exact meaning but this is its general sense). So you'll get hits from before when the encyclopaedia existed, back to at least 1500 according to the search tool. And some hits from after the books started won't refer to them. It's a poor choice of comparison for a search.
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Also many ancient cultures living people buried food, drink, tools, weapons, even slaves with the dead to ensure they had resources to help them in their afterlife.
And we do just the opposite: we divide up the dead's possessions for the living.
Something to do with how our beliefs have changed over the last few thousand years.
Plus the dying often leave wise and proper advice for the living.
I *think* you're saying that we should do more to help the dead with their afterlives, but I am not sure.
"So is it going to freeze before it hits the top of the bore then? If not that means we're releasing whatever is in that water into our environment. That could be really really bad any way you look at it."
Mmm.... let's see, who should I trust? a slashdot computer programming poster who's spent 20 minutes or so thinking about the problem, or a team of scientists who live in the Antarctic, and have spent the last 5 years calculating all the possible angles and have had to justify their experiment to a group of highly trained peers (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat)?
I'm going to go with the geological scientists. I might be wrong, but it's just a hunch ;-)
really interesting to hear from somebody who was there, thanks for the really useful info!
Surely somebody can get geeks excited in something more useful than putting a non functioning block of stone on the moon.
There's plenty of non-functioning human created hardware sitting on the moon already. Put your hundred dollars to better use, help people here, help planet Earth, whatever good cause you believe in. Some of them even give you credit, if your goal is getting your ego stroked / your name for immortality etc.
Plenty of IT related good causes down here.
Or at least match your moon-donation with an earth-donation.
I'd like to see some references on this please, I am genuinely interested. I was doing tiny pieces of undergraduate research in the 80s and the argument that the USSR was running out of money trying to keep up with the USA as was around then. So I am not sure that it is a 'retroactive' argument.
Also I think you take 'running out of money' too literally, my impression was that this referred in more general terms to the cold war arms race forcing the USSR economy into focussing a much higher percentage of its resources into maintaining parity with the USA, leaving less for consumer products, social development etc. Industrial capacity was focussed to too high a degree on military industries and other industries suffered. The USSR couldn't match the USA over time. My understanding of the argument is that this meant that because the USSR economy had to maintain a high war footing to keep up with US and NATO spending and developments (something like 30-35% of its industries compared to 20-25% of US industries), other areas of social development suffered and gradually standards of living etc fell behind which led to political and social dissatisfaction, hence the downfall of the system.
In this sense, the USSR 'ran out of money' - actually it had a smaller capacity than the USA/NATO aligned countries so ran itself into the ground trying to keep up.
But I'd welcome more information, I'd be happy to find out this wasn't the case. Throw over some references so I can read more, cheers!
crickey, I reckon you must be working for them, what an advert! Personally I wouldn't choose my airline on the grounds they have "stylish white plastic and black leather interior". Since when has white plastic been stylish? :-) And who cares?! Get me there on time and do it comfortably.
Sorry if this is off topic or an ignorant question, but how does Skype define supernodes? Does the company just randomly choose users who are online a lot and declare them supernodes without the owner's knowledge, or is there some other process?
cheers
The lecture is essentially a medieval mode of tuition, and it is struggling to still be relevant. It is grounded in the philosophical model of education that says that students are empty vessels that a wise teacher can fill by imparting knowledge in an oral mode of presentation. Knowledge shifts from the teacher to the students by their lecture, supported by written notes. However, the models of education have moved on since the middle ages so it is no longer as valid.
One of its continuing attractions is that it is cheap - one teacher to many students. No technology required. Can be done in a high tech lab with students on laptops or under a tree with students just listening or using cheap notepads and pencils to write down the key messages. In an ideal world there would be many more opportunities for one to one teacher-student tuition but for most people this just is not affordable. Plus of course there are advantages in group work.
So a question here I'd like to ask is: what would be a better replacement for lecture style presentations? What would be cost effective yet give students the opportunity to interact with their teacher? Also, I suppose, why do we keep the lecture? is it just cost? why does your university ask students to turn up to lectures?
Some kindergarten teachers might play the piano, or guitar, and provide music for the kids to sing along to. Not all of them will throw a CD on and play music through a sound system.
Apparently it's there because it represents US culture. Make your own conclusions.
Posting from the UK. What the heck is a drive thru restaurant?
I've seen drive-through fast food places like MacDonalds etc in the UK where you order a burger and fries and a drink and pick it up at a hole in the wall, those seem gruesome enough. But you have *restaurants* that do this as well? Or are you including MacDonalds and such fast food places as restaurants?
haha :-)
So by your logic, if we all drove 70 tonne tanks to go and buy a pint of milk, we'd be safer, right?
In the UK "pants" mean "underwear". So some of the slashdot readers on the other side of the pond were probably very confused about this article :-)
In the UK those outwear items you wear on your legs over your underwear / pants are called "trousers".
"In the beginning, the language of the World Wide Web was English. Times change though, and the United States' military's gift to civilization knows no national boundaries"
Err, I thought the World Wide Web came out of CERN, started in part by Tim Berners-Lee? And that the Internet came out of the US military / academic complex?
Am I wrong, can somebody correct me? or has the summary on slashdot confused the internet with the web?
Sometimes two different 'freedoms' may clash. It looks like Spanish people feel that it is better to be free of the fear of huge amounts of guns on their streets than the freedom for the majority of citizens to carry guns on their streets.
I've lived in Europe for 40 years and never once have I thought "I'd feel safer walking to the shops if I had a gun on me or knowing that lots of these other people walking around on the streets had guns on them".
ok, so that's password no.1 .
Most people need 20, maybe more by the time they have all their online utility bills, social media, work accounts, banking accounts, etc. Some of these have specific formats you have to follow (6-8 characters, 6-12 characters, at least one upper and one lower case letter and a number and a non alphanumeric, etc).
So now try and hold all 20 of these in your head with these different formats. And probably some of these have to be changed every three months or so (e.g. decent work passwords).
This is the big problem: the number of different passwords in varying formats that people have to remember, and change on occasion to fit in with the security systems.
If everybody only had to remember one password, this would not be the security issue that it is.
Perhaps it might be worth you checking both sides' information before coming a conclusion as well? Though I am afraid your line "No thanks - I've had enough of union rhetoric for one life time" suggests you'll only "disregard one sides propaganda in favour of the other sides propaganda".
Sounds like you're both equally at fault here.
If you don't have ideals, or try to improve your lot or that of your fellow citizens, I'd say you're in a pretty bad place.
Ideally no, a police investigation isn't "government dealings". Maybe in your country the two are the same but I believe some countries strive to separate the two. This would be a better position to be in, to allow fair and independent investigation of politicians by police officers when required.
I say chaps. Very good of you to offer instructions for Four-in-Hand, Windsor and Double Windsor for new johnnies who haven't a clue how to tie a tie but really, I am not sure I could work for a company that won't let me choose the far more elegant Prince Albert.
(to be fair the guide doesn't say other ways of tying a tie are prohibited)
whispers: "wikileaks" ;-)
It's nice there are cool stories out there and people do great novels, films, etc but you really mustn't let that be your baseline for reality. "It happened in V for Vendetta so it'll happen in real life! eek!"
Aristophanes Clouds is a satire / theatre comedy. So some of the views shown by the characters will represent what Athenians thought was funny rather what was true so might not represent true views of the time. Don't take what's said as being the Athenian view of society. After all if you were to do that reading other Aristophanes you'd believe that all Greeks thought that rain was Zeus pissing through a sieve.
Other references from the time to cross references Aristophanes and strengthen your arguments?
Though of course there is always a grain of truth in comedy.
From my classical studies I remember reading that gay relationships were encouraged on the grounds that soldiers would fight harder for their lovers in the line next to them. This paper seems to cover some of that ground: "The Eros of Achilles: Homoerotic Bonding Among Combat Soldiers" by J Laskaris - Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, 2000 - vol 10 p139 onwards.
The word "Britannica" doesn't just refer to Encyclopaedia Britannica. It means 'of Britain' (latin scholars can help me with the exact meaning but this is its general sense). So you'll get hits from before when the encyclopaedia existed, back to at least 1500 according to the search tool. And some hits from after the books started won't refer to them. It's a poor choice of comparison for a search.