The kits need "vigorous" testing? Really? The dictionary defines vigorous as characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake".
So, these kits have to be violently shaken while being tested? The testers have to jump up and down 'vigorously' while testing?
Or could it be the kits should be ' rigorously ' tested, as in rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
Just for fun I enabled the text-to-speech on my iPad. It's so bad, it's laughable. The guild has nothing to worry about because only someone desperate would use that sucky text-to-speech instead of a good audio book.
I follow primarily websites that provide news, such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNet, PBS, IBM, Time, New Scientist, Scientific American. I also follow a few people that I find interesting and informative.
Twitter is the internet equivalent of the crawler across the bottom of a TV newscast or sportscast, except it's hyperlinked and I can click to get details.
P.S. I qualify for senior discounts...
This thread is exactly why I'd never ask a question on SlashDot. You wanted recommendations on websites, books, and other resources. What do you get? Tons of comments about how useless calculus is, or how useless statistics is, or what sciences use which one(s), and on and on. Sure, there's probably some good recommendations in here. Is it worth digging though 343 comments to find the handful that are useful? Not to me.
"older users had more than 4x the friends each, on average, than the young" - true that for some, it may be eagerness to build up the friends list, but for many of us, just having family members makes for a lot of 'friends'. I have my wife, two children, my brother and sister and their kids, my Uncle and his kids and some of his grandkids, I have my other uncle and his kids... so, as you get older, the family tree keeps expanding, and the friends list grows... you have to worry when the list shrinks due to attrition!!!
You are making a big assumption that people creating human-computer interfaces have taken any classes about human-computer interfaces/interaction/etc. Therefore, they are ignorant of even the most basic advice on creating effective human-computer interfaces.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." How does the original post come even remotely close to meeting either of those criteria. It's not news, and it doesn't matter...
To every person who said "I don't need subject XYZ to work in field ABC", I say, you are a fraking idiot.
For many of the classes people take, it's NOT the content, it's the process of learning. Just as athletes do all kinds of exercises and training to prepare to compete in sport X, 'brain workers' need to exercise and develop their brain to prepare to be an expert at Z. Be it Organic Chemistry, Calculus, English Literature, Latin, History of Japan, etc, etc, it's the mental exercise of mastering the material, NOT the material itself that is essential.
I don't want a Doctor or Lawyer or EE or whatever who hasn't sufficiently built up mental muscle power to cure me, represent me, or design the equipment that saves my life.
1. Try increasing the refresh rate - it may be flicker that's causing the discomfort (http://www.scn.org/help/monitor.html)
2. I find white on a dark green or dark blue works best. Old fashioned "chalk board" color scheme...
The original post was about "NO" sunspots when, in fact, there have been sunspots. All the replies seemed to have gone off on wild tangents full of worthless (IMHO) speculation. Here, from a recent ARRL propogation report, are some actual facts.
This week we saw only one sunspot, numbered 997, and only on Labor Day, May 26. Alas, this was another sunspot left over from fading Cycle 23, and the appearance was very brief. One day it weakly emerged, and it quickly faded from view. The previous five days were spotless; spots appeared on the five days prior to that, and previous to those spotted days were ten days of no spots.
Recently we offered notes from Dr. Kenneth Tapping, showing why he doesn't think this minimum is unusual. Dr. Tapping is an astrophysicist at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia (see, http://tinyurl.com/3lqtab).
The notes were offered after Dr. Tapping was widely misquoted several months ago (and since then, as the mangled quotes seem to have taken on a life of their own) on various web sites claiming
that Dr. Tapping foresaw possibly decades of no sunspots, and then trying to link this to several sorts of worldwide calamity. Some pieces even claimed that the sunspot cycle hit bottom a year and a half ago, and that no sunspots have been observed since, a false claim easily refuted by existing data, widely available.
I have been tutoring high school math for 15 years. I can assure you that the demands of high school math have dropped dramatically. 15 years ago students did 20 or 30 proofs a week in geometry for weeks at a time. Now, it's a miracle if they do 20 the entire year.
Who needs giant containment vessels anymore?
Toshiba has already announced the design of a small reactor capable of powering a single building or a neighborhood of homes. Why build giant nuclear reactors when we could have a distributed network of small power plants.
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The kits need "vigorous" testing? Really? The dictionary defines vigorous as characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake". So, these kits have to be violently shaken while being tested? The testers have to jump up and down 'vigorously' while testing? Or could it be the kits should be ' rigorously ' tested, as in rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
Just for fun I enabled the text-to-speech on my iPad. It's so bad, it's laughable. The guild has nothing to worry about because only someone desperate would use that sucky text-to-speech instead of a good audio book.
I follow primarily websites that provide news, such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNet, PBS, IBM, Time, New Scientist, Scientific American. I also follow a few people that I find interesting and informative. Twitter is the internet equivalent of the crawler across the bottom of a TV newscast or sportscast, except it's hyperlinked and I can click to get details. P.S. I qualify for senior discounts...
This thread is exactly why I'd never ask a question on SlashDot. You wanted recommendations on websites, books, and other resources. What do you get? Tons of comments about how useless calculus is, or how useless statistics is, or what sciences use which one(s), and on and on. Sure, there's probably some good recommendations in here. Is it worth digging though 343 comments to find the handful that are useful? Not to me.
let's take it to the next level and ban restaurants... no, just ban all food. Problem solved.
"older users had more than 4x the friends each, on average, than the young" - true that for some, it may be eagerness to build up the friends list, but for many of us, just having family members makes for a lot of 'friends'. I have my wife, two children, my brother and sister and their kids, my Uncle and his kids and some of his grandkids, I have my other uncle and his kids... so, as you get older, the family tree keeps expanding, and the friends list grows... you have to worry when the list shrinks due to attrition!!!
But how much will the power cost the school district? :^)
You are making a big assumption that people creating human-computer interfaces have taken any classes about human-computer interfaces/interaction/etc. Therefore, they are ignorant of even the most basic advice on creating effective human-computer interfaces.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." How does the original post come even remotely close to meeting either of those criteria. It's not news, and it doesn't matter...
To every person who said "I don't need subject XYZ to work in field ABC", I say, you are a fraking idiot. For many of the classes people take, it's NOT the content, it's the process of learning. Just as athletes do all kinds of exercises and training to prepare to compete in sport X, 'brain workers' need to exercise and develop their brain to prepare to be an expert at Z. Be it Organic Chemistry, Calculus, English Literature, Latin, History of Japan, etc, etc, it's the mental exercise of mastering the material, NOT the material itself that is essential. I don't want a Doctor or Lawyer or EE or whatever who hasn't sufficiently built up mental muscle power to cure me, represent me, or design the equipment that saves my life.
1. Try increasing the refresh rate - it may be flicker that's causing the discomfort (http://www.scn.org/help/monitor.html)
2. I find white on a dark green or dark blue works best. Old fashioned "chalk board" color scheme...
The original post was about "NO" sunspots when, in fact, there have been sunspots. All the replies seemed to have gone off on wild tangents full of worthless (IMHO) speculation. Here, from a recent ARRL propogation report, are some actual facts.
This week we saw only one sunspot, numbered 997, and only on Labor Day, May 26. Alas, this was another sunspot left over from fading Cycle 23, and the appearance was very brief. One day it weakly emerged, and it quickly faded from view. The previous five days were spotless; spots appeared on the five days prior to that, and previous to those spotted days were ten days of no spots.
Recently we offered notes from Dr. Kenneth Tapping, showing why he doesn't think this minimum is unusual. Dr. Tapping is an astrophysicist at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia (see, http://tinyurl.com/3lqtab).
The notes were offered after Dr. Tapping was widely misquoted several months ago (and since then, as the mangled quotes seem to have taken on a life of their own) on various web sites claiming that Dr. Tapping foresaw possibly decades of no sunspots, and then trying to link this to several sorts of worldwide calamity. Some pieces even claimed that the sunspot cycle hit bottom a year and a half ago, and that no sunspots have been observed since, a false claim easily refuted by existing data, widely available.
I have been tutoring high school math for 15 years. I can assure you that the demands of high school math have dropped dramatically. 15 years ago students did 20 or 30 proofs a week in geometry for weeks at a time. Now, it's a miracle if they do 20 the entire year.
Probably the funniest thing I've read in a long, long time. Way to go!
Who needs giant containment vessels anymore? Toshiba has already announced the design of a small reactor capable of powering a single building or a neighborhood of homes. Why build giant nuclear reactors when we could have a distributed network of small power plants.
Two words: gas prices. Until they drop, I WFH as much a possible.