Yeah. A textbook costs around $100. How many textbooks did you use throughout your educational career? Thousands of dollars worth, easily. Now, because of this laptop, it'll be possible for these kids to access knowledge that would be too expensive for them to access otherwise.
> How much expense would be added if biometrics were incorporated into the design > so that once a laptop is "mated" to a child
I find it so sad when a family is so poor that they are forced to let their child mate with a computer just so they can eat. The exploitation makes me sick.
Another huge advantage of Yahoo Mail is that you can check from you mobile phone. Whereas, with Gmail, you need to hack your own PHP portal or something.
You do realize that most of the money doesn't go towards paying for manufacturing or natural resources, but towards technology and research (as well as marketing etc.) If everyone was a cheap-ass like you, you wouldn't be enjoying Moore's law the way you are now. So just chill, sit back, let the yuppies buy their P4 with XP and whatever, and buy last year's computer for half the price.
I guess 40% is not diverse enough. Is 45% more diverse than 40%? Does higher percentage = more diverse? Is 60% more diverse than 50%? Is 100% girls the most diverse? I guess that wouldn't make sense. So, maybe 50% = most diverse percentage? WTF am I talking about? Maybe diversity has nothing to do with this.
>What about folks who cook amazingly well? Or paint >amazingly well? Or who have a skill for language? >There are a million other things - these could be >people who'd not touch math or logic with a 10 foot >pole, but could probably be extremely intelligent, >in their own way.
I don't see how the existence of such people implies that mensa is a worthless organization. By the same token, language clubs, painting clubs, or cooking clubs should not exist either, because they do not take into account people who are good at puzzles. Or, perhaps, you are suggesting that we should only have one umbrella club that includes everybody? Or perhaps you are against the idea of clubs/societies in general?
I'm trying to understand what the real crux of your argument is. Is it just that mensa is perceived to be more pretentious than other clubs, and maybe should rename itself a puzzle-solver society? Or do you oppose the idea of people forming a social network based on test results?
Information about the viral marketing strategy for BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked to Wired to generate buzz.
To only be a one-trick pony sometimes implies the existance of more than one trick, existing outside the time period refered to. Thus, the question is moved to, how are you defining the one-trick period?
I don't see that question is moved at all. You're just asking a new question. OP stated, simply, that there exists interval [x1,x2] for which tricks, T, is equal to 1. To put it in layman's terms, he is a one-trick pony sometimes. I believe the statement is true.
If you are saying the statement is false, then you are implying that there is no interval [x1, x2] such that T(x1,x2)=1. That is to say, even as the time interval approaches zero, there will be at least two or more tricks, or else there will be no tricks. To put it in layman's terms, he always does two or more tricks instantaneously, never only one.
The article's author is an imbecile who doesn't realize that what he is prescribing would severely hurt the industry and the economy. Less money spent on computers would mean less R&D. Less R&D might mean the end of Moore's law. Now, why do you think computers have gotten so powerful and cheap so quickly? Because JOE SIXPACKS are paying for R&D.
By all means, buy the cheap systems for your spare room or whatever, but don't tell people to spend less on computers.
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Yeah. A textbook costs around $100. How many textbooks did you use throughout your educational career? Thousands of dollars worth, easily. Now, because of this laptop, it'll be possible for these kids to access knowledge that would be too expensive for them to access otherwise.
> How much expense would be added if biometrics were incorporated into the design > so that once a laptop is "mated" to a child
I find it so sad when a family is so poor that they are forced to let their child mate with a computer just so they can eat. The exploitation makes me sick.
Another huge advantage of Yahoo Mail is that you can check from you mobile phone. Whereas, with Gmail, you need to hack your own PHP portal or something.
Yeah, suicide bombing is sure to get your parents' attention.
You do realize that most of the money doesn't go towards paying for manufacturing or natural resources, but towards technology and research (as well as marketing etc.) If everyone was a cheap-ass like you, you wouldn't be enjoying Moore's law the way you are now. So just chill, sit back, let the yuppies buy their P4 with XP and whatever, and buy last year's computer for half the price.
I guess 40% is not diverse enough. Is 45% more diverse than 40%? Does higher percentage = more diverse? Is 60% more diverse than 50%? Is 100% girls the most diverse? I guess that wouldn't make sense. So, maybe 50% = most diverse percentage? WTF am I talking about? Maybe diversity has nothing to do with this.
Also the company that tells you that with them you can be a hero, just for one day.
I can't download it. I think Paul Martin has us behind a firewall.
lol lol Johnny Long lol lol
You mean elementary school students?
I concur, and also it is spelt "symantec".
And yet, ironically, not all pro-intelligence arguments have been really smart.
>What about folks who cook amazingly well? Or paint >amazingly well? Or who have a skill for language? >There are a million other things - these could be >people who'd not touch math or logic with a 10 foot >pole, but could probably be extremely intelligent, >in their own way.
I don't see how the existence of such people implies that mensa is a worthless organization. By the same token, language clubs, painting clubs, or cooking clubs should not exist either, because they do not take into account people who are good at puzzles. Or, perhaps, you are suggesting that we should only have one umbrella club that includes everybody? Or perhaps you are against the idea of clubs/societies in general?
I'm trying to understand what the real crux of your argument is. Is it just that mensa is perceived to be more pretentious than other clubs, and maybe should rename itself a puzzle-solver society? Or do you oppose the idea of people forming a social network based on test results?
I haven't tried Milka and don't know about it, but Kraft also makes Cote d'Or, which is pretty good.
Information about the viral marketing strategy for BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked to Wired to generate buzz.
Phriend or Phoe? Phucking phreak...
Four, now, however!!! Pwned!
Fuck you, you insensitive clod! I want the shoe version, and I want it in a MOVIE!
Are you trying to get past my spam filter?
Or gmail? Or yahoo mail? You CAN'T send/read encrypted mail. Sure, there's husmail, but they only give 32 megs. Versus 1 gig on gmail.
Are they eight REALLY LONG pieces of music?
I must disagree.
To only be a one-trick pony sometimes implies the existance of more than one trick, existing outside the time period refered to. Thus, the question is moved to, how are you defining the one-trick period?
I don't see that question is moved at all. You're just asking a new question. OP stated, simply, that there exists interval [x1,x2] for which tricks, T, is equal to 1. To put it in layman's terms, he is a one-trick pony sometimes. I believe the statement is true.
If you are saying the statement is false, then you are implying that there is no interval [x1, x2] such that T(x1,x2)=1. That is to say, even as the time interval approaches zero, there will be at least two or more tricks, or else there will be no tricks. To put it in layman's terms, he always does two or more tricks instantaneously, never only one.
The article's author is an imbecile who doesn't realize that what he is prescribing would severely hurt the industry and the economy. Less money spent on computers would mean less R&D. Less R&D might mean the end of Moore's law. Now, why do you think computers have gotten so powerful and cheap so quickly? Because JOE SIXPACKS are paying for R&D.
By all means, buy the cheap systems for your spare room or whatever, but don't tell people to spend less on computers.
1. End homelessness
2. ????
3. No profit!
IM? Why not IRC?