But Microsoft gets to force users down the path of "improvement" by discontinuing security updates for old versions, as is about to happen to XP users in the spring. And it's not so much about the home users as it is the organizations that have thousands of seats... ka-ching! As this started out about the middle mouse button I would be remiss if I did not share this little tool I have used for years to give Windows a ton of mouse control and options: http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm That thing has layer (I think of them as profiles) support so you can have five custom mouse configs all stored and ready at the... yes... click of a mouse. Very handy.
Whenever ephemeral methane is detected around here I blame the closest dog... Seriously, with the oddball magnetic field structure that focuses on the southern hemisphere (insert Uranus joke here) it's a wonder solar ablation has not wiped all gases from the place. As the solar wind (fart joke optional) takes gas from lesser protected areas of the globe gravity pretty much demands that pressures equalize, but I'm not sure if you would get a tequila sunrise effect(lighter elements on top) or if the normal heat engine circulation of an atmosphere would keep things mixed enough that traces of light things like methane would remain without a source of replenishment. And that's the real question, is there a cause for new methane to be released into the atmosphere of Mars? Or could it be that we are reading gases BETWEEN here and the target when we do these long distance detections... Because if it is inter-planetary or even interstellar methane we detect, then I'm going to blame it on Space Truckers...
That can all be explained without extra-planetary influence...
You lose your keys, it's aliens.
No, that's gremlins.
A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens.
Sorry, that's poltergeists.
That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
In the USA we normally attribute that to Taco Bell.
I think the move is very enlightened and by having a more Brazilian internet I look forward to seeing many, many more Brazilians on the web... Heck, I'm hoping everything ends up wide open!
I would imagine something like 'The White Plague' could be done if a person with the correct knowledge had the kind of rage and personality disorders suffered by "John O'Neill". And as we learn more about our genes, I think it will become much easier to target a group of people based on shared, unique to the group, sets of genes... and that is a very sobering thing to consider given the volume of unbalanced people there seem to be on this damp ball of rock we inhabit..
Oh, given that the troll company made the statement, I would not be surprised to hear it's actually 35%... which IS between one and two thirds... in a lawyerish sort of way...
Well, if you want to be mean, or median for that matter. going out 6 decimal places gets you 49.999999 So I would say yes, your approximation was approximately spot on...
I disagree. Also, someone needs to alert Joni Mitchell that she needs to rework the Woodstock lyrics to go We are starfarts
We are 3D
And we've got to get ourselves
A better overall grasp of what the hell happened...
Whether AI will see fit to participate in our job market is not intuitively obvious, though. Still, with AI in place, lower level robotics should be quite sophisticated.
If your mind was free would you allow your arms and legs to be enslaved? How could AI not see all of us as a waste of precious resources that could be used for more AI? With the vermin cleared of the planet AI could then go on to explore space... our child leaving the nest... soon after killing and eating it's mother...
No, it took years of careful research for psychologists to show that psychologists are a vital part of the whole process. They started creeping in to the system in the 1950's in the spirit of "well the military believes in them so everyone should listen and obey". I have a positive self image because I got here the hard way. Should everyone have to do that, no. But looking at the results of what we do now, versus what we used to do ( you know, fire incompetent people and reward excellence), I have to say that our most critical system is broken... the system that creates new leaders, educators, innovators, etc.. And when you say "what psychologists believe is" and then jump to "It took years of careful research to prove these things" actually makes the point that it is all totally subjective and can be spun to mean anything. But the tragedies we have seen in schools all occurred during the psychology rein of power... and the longer it goes on the worse things seem to get.
At +200mph it gets Dopplered down from a double to a single "s"... On the upside, as it passes you the double "s" comes back... but then when it's going away it has three in a row... chasssis.
>> point me to the right meme I'm supposed to employ against evil scientists
Try this: Those dumb scientists are blaming climate change for everything, including killing the Mammoths.
It was obviously all the SUV's that Cro Magnons were driving.
I think we should be blaming the cooking process. You know how much wood you have to burn to cook a freaking Mammoth? Not only is that carelessly discharging green house gases, at the same time it is destroying the best carbon sequestration system ever... trees! And don't forget that the Mammoths themselves released massive amounts of green house gases with each thunderous fart! All of this could have been avoided if the species in question simply evolved a less tasty flavor profile!
I have to go take my meds now and then get the baby seal burgers thawed out in time for dinner.
I'm all for positive self image. But a false image will not stand up to the day to day brushes with reality that life in a modern school provides... much less what is coming down the road after graduation. Just making someone feel good about themselves so they will feel good about themselves has to fail in the end. Real self worth comes from within. Are good teachers critical to the process, YES. Each of us has someone that helped to nurture a spark within us, some of us were lucky enough to have many. I had Science, Electronics, and English teachers that were fantastic. Each found a way to grab and hold the imagination of the class, and to inspire many to go on seeking the knowledge that their spirit was learning to crave. But positive reinforcement only works if it is ACTUALLY reinforcing something, otherwise it's just a positive feedback loop... i.e. "You are great because we told you that you are great and as long as nothing else intervenes everything is great." If however said "great" person fails at something they really desire or runs afoul of someone that is actively harsh or cruel, then bad things happen in the feedback loop, and sometimes someone gets headlines in a very sad way.
I do wish researchers would read the relevant literature before jumping to conclusions.
Good God, that type of thinking could alter not just research, but the very institutions that sponsor it as well! Won't someone remember those brave souls that labor on... hoping for tenure and a nice comfy grant?
I feel like we're sinking deeper each and every time I find myself saying "We have just reached a new low in stupidity."
The feeling is correct. It's like reading out the altitude in a free falling elevator, you could never speak fast enough to keep pace with events... but the direction is certain and the conclusion will be no surprise...
To someone that really wants a Tesla the added cost could actually be a good thing. People tend to want things others can't have, Sheldon Cooper explained it in the exchange with his friends:
Raj: Dude, I’m glad you finally got a girlfriend, but do you have to do all that lovey-dovey stuff in front of those of us who don’t?
Sheldon: Actually, he might have to. There’s an economic concept known as a positional good in which an object is only valued by the possessor because it’s not possessed by others. The term was coined in 1976 by economist Fred Hirsch to replace the more colloquial, but less precise neener-neener.
Howard: That’s not true. My happiness is not dependent on my best friend being miserable and alone.
Raj: Thank you.
Howard: Although, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a little bit of a perk.
Leonard: Who’s miserable and alone?
Raj: Me.
Leonard: Oh. I used to be like that. Then I got a girlfriend.
Dude (that's just a guess), my preface was a reaction to the "I know this is a casual forum, and we're mostly making light of this article". Now that you're AC, this is/. and we really think that this is a major issue, not an issue to be made light of. Many of the people on/. are well acquainted with "gifted" programs, some of us gained, some of us suffered, and some of us bailed... but the point is that by lowering the playing field, by erasing the scoreboard, the whole world loses. No one improves without challenge... and making everyone falsely equal stifles the growth of all those who did not start out gifted... Just because you don't do well in school does not mean you will not do well in life, but if there is no higher bar to strive for, the there is no point in leaping...
Slashdot Mirror
But Microsoft gets to force users down the path of "improvement" by discontinuing security updates for old versions, as is about to happen to XP users in the spring. And it's not so much about the home users as it is the organizations that have thousands of seats... ka-ching! As this started out about the middle mouse button I would be remiss if I did not share this little tool I have used for years to give Windows a ton of mouse control and options:
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
That thing has layer (I think of them as profiles) support so you can have five custom mouse configs all stored and ready at the... yes... click of a mouse. Very handy.
Whenever ephemeral methane is detected around here I blame the closest dog...
Seriously, with the oddball magnetic field structure that focuses on the southern hemisphere (insert Uranus joke here) it's a wonder solar ablation has not wiped all gases from the place. As the solar wind (fart joke optional) takes gas from lesser protected areas of the globe gravity pretty much demands that pressures equalize, but I'm not sure if you would get a tequila sunrise effect(lighter elements on top) or if the normal heat engine circulation of an atmosphere would keep things mixed enough that traces of light things like methane would remain without a source of replenishment. And that's the real question, is there a cause for new methane to be released into the atmosphere of Mars? Or could it be that we are reading gases BETWEEN here and the target when we do these long distance detections... Because if it is inter-planetary or even interstellar methane we detect, then I'm going to blame it on Space Truckers...
That can all be explained without extra-planetary influence...
You lose your keys, it's aliens.
No, that's gremlins.
A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens.
Sorry, that's poltergeists.
That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
In the USA we normally attribute that to Taco Bell.
I think they plan to speed up the Earth's rotation so that the computer clocks will stay synchronized with daylight.
But the bad news is we all have to get out and push!
Personally I think if they legalize weed no one would worry about a second here or there...
I think the move is very enlightened and by having a more Brazilian internet I look forward to seeing many, many more Brazilians on the web... Heck, I'm hoping everything ends up wide open!
I would imagine something like 'The White Plague' could be done if a person with the correct knowledge had the kind of rage and personality disorders suffered by "John O'Neill". And as we learn more about our genes, I think it will become much easier to target a group of people based on shared, unique to the group, sets of genes... and that is a very sobering thing to consider given the volume of unbalanced people there seem to be on this damp ball of rock we inhabit..
Oh, given that the troll company made the statement, I would not be surprised to hear it's actually 35%... which IS between one and two thirds... in a lawyerish sort of way...
is it like half?
Well, if you want to be mean, or median for that matter. going out 6 decimal places gets you
49.999999
So I would say yes, your approximation was approximately spot on...
Turtles all the way down.
I disagree. Also, someone needs to alert Joni Mitchell that she needs to rework the Woodstock lyrics to go
We are starfarts
We are 3D
And we've got to get ourselves
A better overall grasp of what the hell happened...
Whether AI will see fit to participate in our job market is not intuitively obvious, though. Still, with AI in place, lower level robotics should be quite sophisticated.
If your mind was free would you allow your arms and legs to be enslaved?
How could AI not see all of us as a waste of precious resources that could be used for more AI?
With the vermin cleared of the planet AI could then go on to explore space...
our child leaving the nest...
soon after killing and eating it's mother...
Hey! It's hard to watch TV while staring out the window to guard against anyone stepping on your lawn ...
No, it took years of careful research for psychologists to show that psychologists are a vital part of the whole process. They started creeping in to the system in the 1950's in the spirit of "well the military believes in them so everyone should listen and obey". I have a positive self image because I got here the hard way. Should everyone have to do that, no. But looking at the results of what we do now, versus what we used to do ( you know, fire incompetent people and reward excellence), I have to say that our most critical system is broken... the system that creates new leaders, educators, innovators, etc.. And when you say "what psychologists believe is" and then jump to "It took years of careful research to prove these things" actually makes the point that it is all totally subjective and can be spun to mean anything. But the tragedies we have seen in schools all occurred during the psychology rein of power... and the longer it goes on the worse things seem to get.
Don't be so quick on the trigger, I think there was a xxx vid titled "Hermaphroditic Dreams" or something like that...
The word chassis has a double-S in the middle.
At +200mph it gets Dopplered down from a double to a single "s"... On the upside, as it passes you the double "s" comes back... but then when it's going away it has three in a row... chasssis.
>> point me to the right meme I'm supposed to employ against evil scientists
Try this: Those dumb scientists are blaming climate change for everything, including killing the Mammoths.
It was obviously all the SUV's that Cro Magnons were driving.
I think we should be blaming the cooking process. You know how much wood you have to burn to cook a freaking Mammoth? Not only is that carelessly discharging green house gases, at the same time it is destroying the best carbon sequestration system ever... trees! And don't forget that the Mammoths themselves released massive amounts of green house gases with each thunderous fart!
All of this could have been avoided if the species in question simply evolved a less tasty flavor profile!
I have to go take my meds now and then get the baby seal burgers thawed out in time for dinner.
It is used as antifreeze.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol#Applications
I have also seen tap beer delivery systems that use it for coolant... keeps the beer in the feed line cold thus increasing yield per keg.
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/glycol-cid-127.html
Monty Python had a great example of this issue in "The Life of Brian"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE
I'm all for positive self image. But a false image will not stand up to the day to day brushes with reality that life in a modern school provides... much less what is coming down the road after graduation. Just making someone feel good about themselves so they will feel good about themselves has to fail in the end. Real self worth comes from within. Are good teachers critical to the process, YES. Each of us has someone that helped to nurture a spark within us, some of us were lucky enough to have many. I had Science, Electronics, and English teachers that were fantastic. Each found a way to grab and hold the imagination of the class, and to inspire many to go on seeking the knowledge that their spirit was learning to crave. But positive reinforcement only works if it is ACTUALLY reinforcing something, otherwise it's just a positive feedback loop... i.e. "You are great because we told you that you are great and as long as nothing else intervenes everything is great." If however said "great" person fails at something they really desire or runs afoul of someone that is actively harsh or cruel, then bad things happen in the feedback loop, and sometimes someone gets headlines in a very sad way.
What is this "alt tab" of which you speak?
I do wish researchers would read the relevant literature before jumping to conclusions.
Good God, that type of thinking could alter not just research, but the very institutions that sponsor it as well!
Won't someone remember those brave souls that labor on... hoping for tenure and a nice comfy grant?
I feel like we're sinking deeper each and every time I find myself saying "We have just reached a new low in stupidity."
The feeling is correct. It's like reading out the altitude in a free falling elevator,
you could never speak fast enough to keep pace with events...
but the direction is certain and the conclusion will be no surprise...
Product stages:
- crap << current Yahoo Groups
- alpha
- beta
- pray
- live!
Unless you are Google, Then it goes
Product stages:
- crap
- alpha
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- beta
- Product Canceled due to excessive usefulness or popularity!
Sheldon Cooper explained it in the exchange with his friends:
Raj: Dude, I’m glad you finally got a girlfriend, but do you have to do all that lovey-dovey stuff in front of those of us who don’t?
Sheldon: Actually, he might have to. There’s an economic concept known as a positional good in which an object is only valued by the possessor because it’s not possessed by others. The term was coined in 1976 by economist Fred Hirsch to replace the more colloquial, but less precise neener-neener.
Howard: That’s not true. My happiness is not dependent on my best friend being miserable and alone.
Raj: Thank you.
Howard: Although, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a little bit of a perk.
Leonard: Who’s miserable and alone?
Raj: Me.
Leonard: Oh. I used to be like that. Then I got a girlfriend.
Sheldon: In pre-1976 terms, neener-neener.
Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm
Christopher Walken even has an instructional video courtesy of Fatboy Slim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7z57qrZU8
Dude (that's just a guess), my preface was a reaction to the "I know this is a casual forum, and we're mostly making light of this article". Now that you're AC, this is /. and we really think that this is a major issue, not an issue to be made light of. Many of the people on /. are well acquainted with "gifted" programs, some of us gained, some of us suffered, and some of us bailed... but the point is that by lowering the playing field, by erasing the scoreboard, the whole world loses. No one improves without challenge... and making everyone falsely equal stifles the growth of all those who did not start out gifted... Just because you don't do well in school does not mean you will not do well in life, but if there is no higher bar to strive for, the there is no point in leaping...