Don't do it California! We all know the only reason the Governator is pushing tech like this is to get more information online for skynet to absorb. And when skynet takes the internet from us we will become hopelessly uneducated and helpless to resist.
Another thing i'd like to point out. You have no proof that if those kids were instead held back that they'd do any better. I remember super geniuses in my school that could have skipped 10grades if they were allowed and they were just as isolated. I think a large part of it has to do with the type of person you need to be to be in uni at 12...
You are basing your entire argument on the assumption that skipping grades hurts your ability to socialize. Yet you have no proof or even explanation of this. I posit more intelligent students would have a better time getting along with elder students. And that skipping a grade is no more harmful to your social education than is moving. And that may be beneficial to your social education, learning to adapt to the new environment could be good (it was for me personally). Seeing the world from a different perspective may give you a different set of insights. Just because it is different doesn't mean it's wrong, unless that is the social lesson you are trying to impart. I think completing high school and university early could give him time to explore other interests of his. I doubt his parents will throw him out on his own just because he finished university when he could have taken 10more years.
In any case I find this is one of those things society has taken for granted as common knowledge but it has no studies backing it and no real logical foundation to stand on, yet policy is built around it.
Yes, sadly and I regret it all the time. When I was younger my regular vocabulary was probably double what it is now, all I did was read books. Since I've been dragged down to converse on the lcd level. It truly is a pity.
US uni students on a global scheme are in the middle. Given the online populace they may be a little right wing. If we were talking about the US public generally then sure. People that are right wing generally avoid change, the internet being one of those changes. And the US generally is right wing compared to the planet.
Well it'd also violate some reallllly important treaties and i think even china would be opposed to that.
I wrote it off because well... it doesnt produce enough thrust to make it into space so that defeats the purpose of the spacecraft? I think it could be used in conjunction with another engine like current designs but it doesn't solve the problem we are having. And that is getting into space not traveling throughout it. Clearly our goal should cut the cost of reaching the moon by 10 or 100 before we start worrying about being able to reach 20km/s I mean where are we going to go that is more important than being able to get off the ground?
What GP and you said are both sort of right. You do use a straight dash in borrow words (katakana). And in hiragana you are SUPPOSED to type the vowel twice. I showed a katakana word since i wanted a word English speakers could get. But they usually do use straight dashes in katakana. The concept however transfers over to hiragana easily (hiragana and katakana are two sets of letters that can be used to produce all the same sounds), the hiragana version of - being ~. And I have seen tildes used in hiragana in many places including manga and games not just just to be cute but a drop in replacement for double vowels.
Scientist1: We've developed a new technique to send camera data directly to the human brain.
Scientist2: Brilliant! Blind people around the world will be singing songs of your greatness. Scientist1: Of course there will be some difficulty mounting it to their tongue... Scientist2: O________o..... I didn't know you were THAT kind of scientist... though I should have been tipped off when I heard you were getting sharks for some new experiment.
Offtopic: You know ~ is already in use to elongate words. Or make them sound more musical. ex. Hi~ Hm~~~~~
The origin is Japanese where a double vowel word like konpyuutaa is written as konpyu~ta~ (written in japanese character of course). Written to drag it out you would write one really long tilde but since the advent of computers generally people use a chain of them together. Also of note that you might be interested in from japanese culture. Japanese people often end sentences with a;; or even shorter ; to represent a type of sadness or confusion(;_; is a sad emoticon in japan and ^^;; is confusion (sweat drops)), this is possible since the semicolon doesn't exist in Japanese. As well some people use ^ at the end of a line for happiness (from ^_^). And// for.... ughh or you are an idiot (from -_-//). There are other various sentence endings that take part of the emoticon and attach it to the end to refer to different things. And japan has hundreds of different kaomoji(emoticons) unlike the 10 we might use. And so you don't need to ask, there isn't to my knowledge a line ending for sarcasm. I think it'd defeat the purpose of being sarcastic anyways:P
Nowhere on earth will you be allowed to use a nuclear powered anything. I mean unless you mean like a sub with it just producing the power... in which case its not feasible for efficiency to weight reasons. Unless you want to remove all the shielding and then you still have to carry around crap for propulsion in space. (I think if you made the material you shoot be air you could collect it and compress it on the way up which would reduce weight when it matters... the launch. But ianaap)
Ps. for nuclear-thermal i assume you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) which so many people love the idea of... maybe if we set a place on earth where were just like fuck it no1 needs to live here... has to be near the equator... honestly the nuke M.E. crazies look like they might be on to something.
Wii games are harder than xbox games. Most xbox games you can start learn and complete in one sitting. Though across the board games are easier than they used to be. PC and PS3 games are the only ones that provide any challenge and the ones that do are usually from Japan. Makes me wonder about the US gaming population or more likely the companies perception of the US market.
When having complex physics explained to you if the mechanism is based on a mathematical model how will that help? It doesn't help you understand the phenomenon at all. Maybe you can explain frequencies or exponential things but I think most people understand exponential growth anyways. You have a point about starting at a lower base though logic->math->physics->chem->biology... but the ability to form good theories and sound arguments comes from logic or philosophy not math.
I can't think of a time when I was reading up on something outside of my field (to get a basic grasp of understanding) where I needed to look at the math behind it. (Though I think stats and probabilities would be useful for most people).
As much as we hate to admit it the discourse on/. is much better than most places on the internet. I think that we collectively seem to agree that we should do better is important, it puts us a level above many places. As well we are fairly rigorous here. How often do you see fallacies pointed out or have arguments taken apart on a logical level? You will often see well known trolls modded to +5 for good comments showing we stay away from modding based on the poster. Certainly we have some issues like mac/pc fanboy fights. And we can be incredibly uninformed about things outside of our area of expertise. But usually that is fixed if you read through the discussion. I take pride in the fact that/. doesn't have a -1 disagree option (as someones sig points out).
It forces users to have better aim BUT if you do have shitty aim then you don't get a 'false positive?...' It won't type anything. Think of it as graceful failure.
You mean... OMG that's exactly what they have done. The ban is a misunderstanding. What they did is they banned low efficiency bulbs except in certain situations (like chandelier bulbs w/e). Good to know you and the government agree.
I haven't had such luck with VPNs i guess, I get a ping of about 200 going through one. Which is fairly noticeably. Adding to whatever you get being on a phone. I use vpn often just not for anything real time so its never been a big issue.
The problem I understand with XP is that during the install process they do a self test which involves shutting off the USB which kinda fucks you over, CDROM or no.
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Don't do it California! We all know the only reason the Governator is pushing tech like this is to get more information online for skynet to absorb. And when skynet takes the internet from us we will become hopelessly uneducated and helpless to resist.
doing something like "rm -rf /"
Come on! It was just the one time, I was drunk and curious at the time, I swore I'd never do it again.
Another thing i'd like to point out. You have no proof that if those kids were instead held back that they'd do any better. I remember super geniuses in my school that could have skipped 10grades if they were allowed and they were just as isolated. I think a large part of it has to do with the type of person you need to be to be in uni at 12...
You are basing your entire argument on the assumption that skipping grades hurts your ability to socialize. Yet you have no proof or even explanation of this. I posit more intelligent students would have a better time getting along with elder students. And that skipping a grade is no more harmful to your social education than is moving. And that may be beneficial to your social education, learning to adapt to the new environment could be good (it was for me personally). Seeing the world from a different perspective may give you a different set of insights. Just because it is different doesn't mean it's wrong, unless that is the social lesson you are trying to impart. I think completing high school and university early could give him time to explore other interests of his. I doubt his parents will throw him out on his own just because he finished university when he could have taken 10more years.
In any case I find this is one of those things society has taken for granted as common knowledge but it has no studies backing it and no real logical foundation to stand on, yet policy is built around it.
Yes, sadly and I regret it all the time. When I was younger my regular vocabulary was probably double what it is now, all I did was read books. Since I've been dragged down to converse on the lcd level. It truly is a pity.
US uni students on a global scheme are in the middle. Given the online populace they may be a little right wing. If we were talking about the US public generally then sure. People that are right wing generally avoid change, the internet being one of those changes. And the US generally is right wing compared to the planet.
You don't live in Canada you live out west.... Canada is located in southern Ontario.
Wow that was completely out of the blue and way over the top, i'm so adding you to friends.
Agreed... I think it might have been useful for like the early 80s but clearly its useless now.
Well it'd also violate some reallllly important treaties and i think even china would be opposed to that.
I wrote it off because well... it doesnt produce enough thrust to make it into space so that defeats the purpose of the spacecraft? I think it could be used in conjunction with another engine like current designs but it doesn't solve the problem we are having. And that is getting into space not traveling throughout it. Clearly our goal should cut the cost of reaching the moon by 10 or 100 before we start worrying about being able to reach 20km/s I mean where are we going to go that is more important than being able to get off the ground?
What GP and you said are both sort of right. You do use a straight dash in borrow words (katakana). And in hiragana you are SUPPOSED to type the vowel twice. I showed a katakana word since i wanted a word English speakers could get. But they usually do use straight dashes in katakana. The concept however transfers over to hiragana easily (hiragana and katakana are two sets of letters that can be used to produce all the same sounds), the hiragana version of - being ~. And I have seen tildes used in hiragana in many places including manga and games not just just to be cute but a drop in replacement for double vowels.
"connecting cameras to their tongues" WTF?
Scientist1: We've developed a new technique to send camera data directly to the human brain.
Scientist2: Brilliant! Blind people around the world will be singing songs of your greatness.
Scientist1: Of course there will be some difficulty mounting it to their tongue...
Scientist2: O________o..... I didn't know you were THAT kind of scientist... though I should have been tipped off when I heard you were getting sharks for some new experiment.
Offtopic: You know ~ is already in use to elongate words. Or make them sound more musical.
;; or even shorter ; to represent a type of sadness or confusion( ;_; is a sad emoticon in japan and ^^;; is confusion (sweat drops)), this is possible since the semicolon doesn't exist in Japanese. As well some people use ^ at the end of a line for happiness (from ^_^). And // for.... ughh or you are an idiot (from -_-//). There are other various sentence endings that take part of the emoticon and attach it to the end to refer to different things. And japan has hundreds of different kaomoji(emoticons) unlike the 10 we might use. And so you don't need to ask, there isn't to my knowledge a line ending for sarcasm. I think it'd defeat the purpose of being sarcastic anyways :P
ex. Hi~
Hm~~~~~
The origin is Japanese where a double vowel word like konpyuutaa is written as konpyu~ta~ (written in japanese character of course). Written to drag it out you would write one really long tilde but since the advent of computers generally people use a chain of them together. Also of note that you might be interested in from japanese culture. Japanese people often end sentences with a
Nowhere on earth will you be allowed to use a nuclear powered anything. I mean unless you mean like a sub with it just producing the power... in which case its not feasible for efficiency to weight reasons. Unless you want to remove all the shielding and then you still have to carry around crap for propulsion in space. (I think if you made the material you shoot be air you could collect it and compress it on the way up which would reduce weight when it matters... the launch. But ianaap)
Ps. for nuclear-thermal i assume you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) which so many people love the idea of... maybe if we set a place on earth where were just like fuck it no1 needs to live here... has to be near the equator... honestly the nuke M.E. crazies look like they might be on to something.
Wii games are harder than xbox games. Most xbox games you can start learn and complete in one sitting. Though across the board games are easier than they used to be. PC and PS3 games are the only ones that provide any challenge and the ones that do are usually from Japan. Makes me wonder about the US gaming population or more likely the companies perception of the US market.
When having complex physics explained to you if the mechanism is based on a mathematical model how will that help? It doesn't help you understand the phenomenon at all. Maybe you can explain frequencies or exponential things but I think most people understand exponential growth anyways. You have a point about starting at a lower base though logic->math->physics->chem->biology ... but the ability to form good theories and sound arguments comes from logic or philosophy not math.
I can't think of a time when I was reading up on something outside of my field (to get a basic grasp of understanding) where I needed to look at the math behind it. (Though I think stats and probabilities would be useful for most people).
As much as we hate to admit it the discourse on /. is much better than most places on the internet. I think that we collectively seem to agree that we should do better is important, it puts us a level above many places. As well we are fairly rigorous here. How often do you see fallacies pointed out or have arguments taken apart on a logical level? You will often see well known trolls modded to +5 for good comments showing we stay away from modding based on the poster. Certainly we have some issues like mac/pc fanboy fights. And we can be incredibly uninformed about things outside of our area of expertise. But usually that is fixed if you read through the discussion. I take pride in the fact that /. doesn't have a -1 disagree option (as someones sig points out).
It forces users to have better aim BUT if you do have shitty aim then you don't get a 'false positive?...' It won't type anything. Think of it as graceful failure.
Sorry this was my first time reading a discussion, didn't know it was a rule.
Maybe he celebrates his millenniums 2 years early? You shouldn't discriminate.
You mean... OMG that's exactly what they have done. The ban is a misunderstanding. What they did is they banned low efficiency bulbs except in certain situations (like chandelier bulbs w/e). Good to know you and the government agree.
Well it was a few years ago. Hope ubuntu has enough weight it can set standards.
I haven't had such luck with VPNs i guess, I get a ping of about 200 going through one. Which is fairly noticeably. Adding to whatever you get being on a phone. I use vpn often just not for anything real time so its never been a big issue.
The problem I understand with XP is that during the install process they do a self test which involves shutting off the USB which kinda fucks you over, CDROM or no.
That is the greatest post I have ever read on /. since I started lurking a few years ago. Thank you.
PS: My GF says she hopes you are getting laid.