It's got to be that the processing plants are in china, not that the chinese have all the rare earths deposits since BIC isn't reporting a shortage of mischmetal lighter flints ( made of mixed rare earths ). 6.843392 zillion of these are thrown away each day which has got to add up. ( although isn't Bic a French company? Hmm.. )
Bedsores are when you leave someone in the same position too long, not rotating them regularly. I know for a fact they happen at all the nursing homes around here because my brother and his CNA friends ( who mostly are contractors who work at any nursing home in the area where they happen to be needed/are short staffed) have all told me stories and it's not one nursing home, it's all of them.
Those in need of organs are not all dead, they are only mostly dead. The medical miracle worker might enquire: 'What is it that you've got that's worth living for?'
In most cases, the answer is 'to blathe'. Really it's usually best to just go through their pockets and look for loose change.
Jews, who don't believe in vowels, ( Hebrew lacks them I believe ) always smurf them when spelling God. If you look real close, like with a magnifying glass or a microscope, you will see the - is actually a microfiche 'sm-rf', and if you get an electron microscope, you will see that THAT dash actually says 'sm-rf'. There is much speculation as to dashes beyond that.
My brother and I were talking about circumcision, I being circumsised, and he not. He was telling me how he sort of wished he was, since while working as a CNA, he's seen many many old farts' peni and what happens to them in the old folk home. Basically, the foreskin will, if not regularly stretched, shrink so that it is impossible to get the tip of the penis out to clean off all the smegma. It's a nasty job that one would have to be er, ambitious to ever do, and the sort of thing that easily gets left for the people on the next shift so to speak. It's why people get bedsores etcetera. Nobody is ever at fault, and the ones whose job it is to do such, are contractors working shitty hours etc with next to no 'give a shit'. The stories I've heard about nursing homes are one reason I carry an organ donor card - If ever I am seriously fscked up, so that I am a borderline case, I want them to look at my donor card, and say, aw, he's a vegetable, and if we mark him that way on this card, then we can
harvest his organs and save some other people.
Fingerprints can be faked, it is well known with scotch tape and talc powder, noses change over time, and are only useful to weight other factors. Thats why we also scan your tongue, your eyes, and of course your butt. ( Just drop your pants and sit on the butt scanner - no, it's not a photocopier. ) - With apologies to Monsters vs Aliens
Suppose you could make a human the size of a mouse, and that that human was just as human as the humans around now, and comparably able in every way except size. Then instead of billions of them, you might be able to have trillions or even quadrillions of them infesting the earth for the same resources. For a short time ( because of exponential growth in population, if everyone were shrunk to the size of mice, then the world would again be an open and plentiful land short only of people, and hence the value of human life would increase even further for a time )
It seems to me such a mini human would be utterly superior to existing humans since you'd get all the bang for a thousanth the bucks. Big people would be like UNIVAC models.
Other benefits are that you could fall from great heights and survive, though you'd get cold easier, and also dehydrate faster. You'd probably need a faster metabolism and maybe a different shape to deal with those issues. And why should people only be shrunk in size? Why not time as well? With quicker thoughts and a more active lifestyle, maybe a couple of years would be enough time to live a whole human life.
My favorite is the one where we start on Homer Simpson's bald head and change our vantage point by orders and orders of magnitude until we see the known universe, and then go further and further until we see that the universe is just bits of atoms and then molecules and then cells, and then skin, and we keep pulling back until we arrive back where we started looking down on Homer Simpson's bald head again.
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Hollow change is really silly, since you can easily fit a keyfob 'Up Your Butt'. Now that's the spy-wallet we're all born with.
If only the problems of the world were down to anything Ronald Reagan did or could have done. Unfortunately, the problems are far more fundamental than that.
The article seems to be saying everyone ought to use a crappy ancient tool so as to excersize their mental muscles to be able to use the crappy modern tools that are prevalent for now. Because the size of the programmer's skull is limited and will not be getting an upgrade anytime soon, eventually progress will stagnate long enough because of programmers running up against this law of nature for someone with a really good idea about how to do things to catch up and overtake the herd of programmers who have become proficient at producing crappy code.
Something reminds me of Idiocracy, where whenever the powers that be couldn't make sense or use of something, instead of deferring to it, they just called it 'Faggy' and ignored it.
First of all, the shuttle and the ISS have been draining the NASA budget for too long, limiting the useful science they can perform. They should scrap all human spaceflight for the time being, so that real breakthroughs needed to make human spaceflight worth doing are made. Not wasting money on the space shuttle or the ISS or really any form of human spaceflight whatsoever will make this happen sooner. I'd rather see NASA wasting money on developing long shot propulsion technology than wasting it on dead end technology. However, I'd rather see them doing more space telescopes, and probes, and basic science than wasting money on far out propulsion at this time.
As for health care, things don't need to be cut to pay for health care. Proper health care reform would not require additional money but be a source of additional money. The US can have what Canada does by copying it exactly for 1/2 the price that is being paid right now. They can have better than Canada has by using what Canada has, and juicing it up a little perhaps spending 2/3 of what the US economy is footing the bill for now.
The health care inefficiency is cause mostly by two ever growing warring bureaucracies: On the one side, there are the insurance companies in whose interest it is to put ever more barriers and hoops in front of them paying for anything. On the other hand, there are doctor's offices' medical billing departments who waste their time on the phone trying to wrangle payment out of the customers' insurance companies. Government's are famous for ever growing money sucking bureaucracies, but private enterprise can achive this just as well when there is money to be made by doing so. Demonstratably ( by measuring money spent vs service provided per capita ), in existing government run health care systems around the world, the structure of the system is less conducive to bureaucratic waste.
Whatever the health insurance industry would have you ( or your congressperson ) believe, they can't hide the emperical fact that private health insurance ( capitalist bureaucracy at it's worst ) is less efficient than government bureaucracy in this case. They will say anything to instill fud because their very existence is at stake.
Bureaucracy is bureaucracy privately run or of the government variety. Structure that minimizes the formation of bureaucracy will be more efficient than other structures.
In a government run single payer system, there is nothing to be gained by fighting over every asprin. 'Nothing to be gained' by the existence of bureaucracy means less of it will exist. Incentive to fund the bureaucracy's existence goes away so therefore the bureaucracy itself goes away.
I heard a story on NPR about companies that use leverage to buy out companies with a good name, and somehow have the company they are buying go deeply into debt to finance it. The company cuts costs like mad to quickly come up with the cash to pay off their huge debt, cutting things that were substantial to what earned them a good name. ( the example was matress companies moving to one sided matresses which don't last as long to cut costs, destroying their reputation for producing products that last. But the company is then resold before the impact of it's cost cutting causes it to lose value. Novell is cash rich, so maybe it could use that cash to pay for much of it's own aquisition cost, but then it loses it's ability to think in the long term ( need to make money NOW ).
It was too bad since suse linux is really nice. Way better than redhat.
Still I don't know if that is what's going on here. It just seems suspiciously like it.
I haven't used much P2P lately, but I'm thinking of Limewire a while back. If I remember right it wanted to share everything you downloaded and did so silently by default. You had to go into a config screen that most people installing likely didn't know about and unselect 'Share everything I download' and then select share only these filetypes ( I don't think there was a Don't Share button ). The edit box that listed the filetypes was full. You could drag the mouse to select everything visible, and then click delete, but then you had to remember to scroll left to get all the filetypes that were not visible in the limited space of the edit box. I distinctly remember thinking 'Oh tricky..' when I'd carefully cleared the box so as to leach, and then just double checked that there weren't more types by scrolling sideways and finding zillions more. I can't remember if CTRL-A then delete then worked to clear ALL they types from the list, or not, maybe I had to use the arrow keys to scroll left and right to find hidden shared filetypes. I think I thought to check because mp3 was not listed on the first editbox full of filetypes, which made ME suspicious, but might not raise most eyebrows.
And Limewire may be the least spamsleazy of the popular P2P clients with the exception of Bittorrent which ( at least the version I've used most recently ) shares whatever you've downloaded without the option to do otherwise. Bittorrent is the best way to download anything really big like a linux cd, which is all I use that for.
Anyway, I figured that the RIAA couldn't examine my shared stuff to see what I'd downloaded if I didn't share anything, and if I inadvertantly downloaded a music file from an RIAA run server, I could say: well THEY SHARED IT which is tantamount to giving it away for free themselves.
I don't even have a music collection anymore. I just never cared about it that much, and won't now that I can watch whatever I want by finding a youtube video of it for free. Youtube was the use P2P to steal mp3s killer for me. I don't care about having MP3s in a player. I'd rather listen to the radio and hopefully be introduced to something I've never heard before rather than listening to stuff I already know about. That, or NPR news.
Much P2P software makes it the users choice whether or not to share files so that they can say: 'The user chose to share the files, it wasn't us, so don't sue', while intentionally using defaults that share as much as possible, and making it an error prone process to limit sharing to something sane so that there will be alot of content shared online. More content being shared makes your P2P network more popular.
Users may even be able to use 'it was an honest mistake' as a defense though probably not. A judge may be inclined tobe lenient if they thought it really was an honest mistake.
Community colleges are filled with people who choose to be there. This is an entirely different environment from American high schools, where attendance is compulsory, backed by the full force of truancy laws.
This is true. This gets to the very heart of what is wrong with education in grades 7 though 12 in the US.
I lived in one of the states mentioned in TFA during the 90s, and found a way to do sort of what is being mentioned without taking any tests. After flunking the first 9 weeks of 9th grade, and continuing to be bullied as I was throughout 7th and 8th grades, my parents legally homeschooled me, but in reality, I took courses at the local community college, they never did any 'homeschooling'.
In my state, there happened to be a law that if you pass 10 college courses the school board may grant you a high school diploma. After doing well in 10 courses, we went to the schoolboard, and I was awarded a diploma, which was important because one isn't allowed to take the GED until one is 17. Without a high school diploma or a GED, one can not get any financial aid.
I then applied ( with my good grades at the community college, and without mentioning my lousy high school grades ) to a rather exclusive school. I transferred there ( with a large scholarship ) and graduated.
I was better prepared than the average freshman at that school, and I earned a Math degree with a 3.6 gpa.
I tried with everything I had inside me to get good grades in high school, but it just wasn't possible, however I did quite well at college. I trace it to the fact that everyone in college wants to be in college, and so everyone is treated accordingly.
Also, having taken classes at community college, and also at 'fancy' competitive admissions college, I can say there is no real difference in what is taught. Quality wise, they are on par. However at a 2 year community college, the course catalog will be limited in comparison to the course catalog at a fancier school. Having seen both ends of the spectrum, I will be recommending something in the middle for my own progeny.
So... If you know HS sucks, you can do homeschooling to get mostly out of 'the system's' jurisdiction and then go to an open admission school without any tests. I wouldn't have been able to pass the tests myself. I ended up taking remedial ( at the college level ) algebra and composition at the community college, but then I was 13 when I started taking courses at the community college.
I didn't take a full course load at first I think it was just those two classes that first semester. I had ramped up to a full course load by the time I transferred ( at 15 ) though. I ended up graduating at 19, ( though I'd had enough credits to graduate and stopped attending classes at 18 ).
Showing you can earn good grades at college is very respected by college admissions folks. Think about it: What better proof someone is able to handle college could they ask for? And doing well at college at an early age 'proves' they're relatively smart as well as the other supposed measures of relative smartness such as grades earned in high school or SAT scores.
If you can't win at the game you're playing, change the game.
I'm not sure why anyone would care if what they were doing on a tablet was in 3D. I just can't imagine who is going to buy this.
Despite being loved by movie studios, I doubt 3D is going to catch on anyway.
I watched a few cartoons in 3D: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The new Christmas Carol one, and the GForce 3D, and I was all gung ho about 3D, but when I saw Avatar, I realized why 3D just will never catch on:
The first ten minutes or so of Avatar made me sick, so much so, that if it had continued for the whole movie, I would have left the theatre. The rest of the movie was fine, and did not make me sick, and I realised why: In the beginning they are using the camera focus to focus in on close up objects. They do this all the time in 2D movies, like when the main character walks into the room, and the camera focuses in on the gun on the floor. It lets the audience know what the character is thinking to know what the character thought was important about the visual they were presented with and which we are seeing through their eyes.
But this just doesn't work in 3D because when your eyes are presented with a 3D image they assume that they can focus in on anything because it's *really there*. When the camera focuses in on a screw floating up close, and my eyes are trying to focus on the actor's face behind the screw, but it won't focus no matter what my eyes do, it makes me ill, and oddly pissed off. When I finally submit to the cameraman's tyranny ( and it feels like that in 3D, but not in 2D ) about what I should focus on, the focus has changed again, and I'm about to puke. Now I'm supposed to be focusing in on... What the hell AM I supposed to focus on? ok, lemme deliberately scan this image for something that's not blurry, DAMMIT I'm taking these glasses off. Shit now it's all blurry! Oh, now the scene is changing! Sigh..
The rest of Avatar did not have this problem, perhaps because the camera's focus was set to infinity, or perhaps because when the focus was something other than infinity, there was some unambiguously 'most interesting' thing in the scene which I naturally focused on anyway and which happened to be in focus because the cameraperson thought it was the most interesting thing too, like a face etc.
I have a theory that the beginning of Avatar was there to make people who would have criticised it for having uninteresting cinematography shut the f--- up by making them viscerally HATE camera trickery right up front. Then people are grateful for infinite focus.
Still, I think 3D is limited in ways 2D is not. I suppose each medium has it's strengths and weaknesses. It just seems to me that 3D is going to be perfect for the worst of what is being made now, and that it means we'll be seeing more of it until people get completely sick of it and quit going to the movies at all.
There's dishonesty to be sure, but one wonders why Apple didn't just provide the insurance themselves? Because they anticipated that this shiznit would happen and didn't want to be responsible, or afraid of coming out with another whizbang model.
And chickens.
I hate all cute and cuddly animals that spaz when you try to pet them. I don't mind them if they are wild, but if they be wild, then they're varmints. If they are not wild, then they are food.
Seriously, rabbits are nasty. They eat their own young. They trick you into picking them up by being so damn cute, and then they claw you eyes out and slice off your fingers with their chisel like teeth.
And a chicken just lulls you into a sense of security so as to peck out your eye with no warning whatsoever!
They are food, they are pelts, they make eggs. They are anything but lovable.
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It's got to be that the processing plants are in china, not that the chinese have all the rare earths deposits since BIC isn't reporting a shortage of mischmetal lighter flints ( made of mixed rare earths ). 6.843392 zillion of these are thrown away each day which has got to add up. ( although isn't Bic a French company? Hmm.. )
Bedsores are when you leave someone in the same position too long, not rotating them regularly. I know for a fact they happen at all the nursing homes around here because my brother and his CNA friends ( who mostly are contractors who work at any nursing home in the area where they happen to be needed/are short staffed) have all told me stories and it's not one nursing home, it's all of them.
Those in need of organs are not all dead, they are only mostly dead. The medical miracle worker might enquire: 'What is it that you've got that's worth living for?'
In most cases, the answer is 'to blathe'. Really it's usually best to just go through their pockets and look for loose change.
He who has the lungs makes the rules! Feel the POWER OF RIGHTEOUS MIGHT coursing through your veins!
Jews, who don't believe in vowels, ( Hebrew lacks them I believe ) always smurf them when spelling God. If you look real close, like with a magnifying glass or a microscope, you will see the - is actually a microfiche 'sm-rf', and if you get an electron microscope, you will see that THAT dash actually says 'sm-rf'. There is much speculation as to dashes beyond that.
My brother and I were talking about circumcision, I being circumsised, and he not. He was telling me how he sort of wished he was, since while working as a CNA, he's seen many many old farts' peni and what happens to them in the old folk home. Basically, the foreskin will, if not regularly stretched, shrink so that it is impossible to get the tip of the penis out to clean off all the smegma. It's a nasty job that one would have to be er, ambitious to ever do, and the sort of thing that easily gets left for the people on the next shift so to speak. It's why people get bedsores etcetera. Nobody is ever at fault, and the ones whose job it is to do such, are contractors working shitty hours etc with next to no 'give a shit'. The stories I've heard about nursing homes are one reason I carry an organ donor card - If ever I am seriously fscked up, so that I am a borderline case, I want them to look at my donor card, and say, aw, he's a vegetable, and if we mark him that way on this card, then we can harvest his organs and save some other people.
Fingerprints can be faked, it is well known with scotch tape and talc powder, noses change over time, and are only useful to weight other factors. Thats why we also scan your tongue, your eyes, and of course your butt. ( Just drop your pants and sit on the butt scanner - no, it's not a photocopier. )
- With apologies to Monsters vs Aliens
Suppose you could make a human the size of a mouse, and that that human was just as human as the humans around now, and comparably able in every way except size. Then instead of billions of them, you might be able to have trillions or even quadrillions of them infesting the earth for the same resources. For a short time ( because of exponential growth in population, if everyone were shrunk to the size of mice, then the world would again be an open and plentiful land short only of people, and hence the value of human life would increase even further for a time )
It seems to me such a mini human would be utterly superior to existing humans since you'd get all the bang for a thousanth the bucks. Big people would be like UNIVAC models.
Other benefits are that you could fall from great heights and survive, though you'd get cold easier, and also dehydrate faster. You'd probably need a faster metabolism and maybe a different shape to deal with those issues. And why should people only be shrunk in size? Why not time as well? With quicker thoughts and a more active lifestyle, maybe a couple of years would be enough time to live a whole human life.
Squeak!
My favorite is the one where we start on Homer Simpson's bald head and change our vantage point by orders and orders of magnitude until we see the known universe, and then go further and further until we see that the universe is just bits of atoms and then molecules and then cells, and then skin, and we keep pulling back until we arrive back where we started looking down on Homer Simpson's bald head again.
Hollow change is really silly, since you can easily fit a keyfob 'Up Your Butt'. Now that's the spy-wallet we're all born with.
I wonder if there will ever be such a thing as a heat superconductor... Man I am ignorant.
If only the problems of the world were down to anything Ronald Reagan did or could have done. Unfortunately, the problems are far more fundamental than that.
The article seems to be saying everyone ought to use a crappy ancient tool so as to excersize their mental muscles to be able to use the crappy modern tools that are prevalent for now. Because the size of the programmer's skull is limited and will not be getting an upgrade anytime soon, eventually progress will stagnate long enough because of programmers running up against this law of nature for someone with a really good idea about how to do things to catch up and overtake the herd of programmers who have become proficient at producing crappy code.
Something reminds me of Idiocracy, where whenever the powers that be couldn't make sense or use of something, instead of deferring to it, they just called it 'Faggy' and ignored it.
First of all, the shuttle and the ISS have been draining the NASA budget for too long, limiting the useful science they can perform. They should scrap all human spaceflight for the time being, so that real breakthroughs needed to make human spaceflight worth doing are made. Not wasting money on the space shuttle or the ISS or really any form of human spaceflight whatsoever will make this happen sooner. I'd rather see NASA wasting money on developing long shot propulsion technology than wasting it on dead end technology. However, I'd rather see them doing more space telescopes, and probes, and basic science than wasting money on far out propulsion at this time.
As for health care, things don't need to be cut to pay for health care. Proper health care reform would not require additional money but be a source of additional money. The US can have what Canada does by copying it exactly for 1/2 the price that is being paid right now. They can have better than Canada has by using what Canada has, and juicing it up a little perhaps spending 2/3 of what the US economy is footing the bill for now.
The health care inefficiency is cause mostly by two ever growing warring bureaucracies: On the one side, there are the insurance companies in whose interest it is to put ever more barriers and hoops in front of them paying for anything. On the other hand, there are doctor's offices' medical billing departments who waste their time on the phone trying to wrangle payment out of the customers' insurance companies. Government's are famous for ever growing money sucking bureaucracies, but private enterprise can achive this just as well when there is money to be made by doing so. Demonstratably ( by measuring money spent vs service provided per capita ), in existing government run health care systems around the world, the structure of the system is less conducive to bureaucratic waste.
Whatever the health insurance industry would have you ( or your congressperson ) believe, they can't hide the emperical fact that private health insurance ( capitalist bureaucracy at it's worst ) is less efficient than government bureaucracy in this case. They will say anything to instill fud because their very existence is at stake.
Bureaucracy is bureaucracy privately run or of the government variety. Structure that minimizes the formation of bureaucracy will be more efficient than other structures.
In a government run single payer system, there is nothing to be gained by fighting over every asprin. 'Nothing to be gained' by the existence of bureaucracy means less of it will exist. Incentive to fund the bureaucracy's existence goes away so therefore the bureaucracy itself goes away.
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I heard a story on NPR about companies that use leverage to buy out companies with a good name, and somehow have the company they are buying go deeply into debt to finance it. The company cuts costs like mad to quickly come up with the cash to pay off their huge debt, cutting things that were substantial to what earned them a good name. ( the example was matress companies moving to one sided matresses which don't last as long to cut costs, destroying their reputation for producing products that last. But the company is then resold before the impact of it's cost cutting causes it to lose value. Novell is cash rich, so maybe it could use that cash to pay for much of it's own aquisition cost, but then it loses it's ability to think in the long term ( need to make money NOW ).
It was too bad since suse linux is really nice. Way better than redhat.
Still I don't know if that is what's going on here. It just seems suspiciously like it.
I haven't used much P2P lately, but I'm thinking of Limewire a while back. If I remember right it wanted to share everything you downloaded and did so silently by default. You had to go into a config screen that most people installing likely didn't know about and unselect 'Share everything I download' and then select share only these filetypes ( I don't think there was a Don't Share button ). The edit box that listed the filetypes was full. You could drag the mouse to select everything visible, and then click delete, but then you had to remember to scroll left to get all the filetypes that were not visible in the limited space of the edit box. I distinctly remember thinking 'Oh tricky..' when I'd carefully cleared the box so as to leach, and then just double checked that there weren't more types by scrolling sideways and finding zillions more. I can't remember if CTRL-A then delete then worked to clear ALL they types from the list, or not, maybe I had to use the arrow keys to scroll left and right to find hidden shared filetypes. I think I thought to check because mp3 was not listed on the first editbox full of filetypes, which made ME suspicious, but might not raise most eyebrows.
And Limewire may be the least spamsleazy of the popular P2P clients with the exception of Bittorrent which ( at least the version I've used most recently ) shares whatever you've downloaded without the option to do otherwise. Bittorrent is the best way to download anything really big like a linux cd, which is all I use that for.
Anyway, I figured that the RIAA couldn't examine my shared stuff to see what I'd downloaded if I didn't share anything, and if I inadvertantly downloaded a music file from an RIAA run server, I could say: well THEY SHARED IT which is tantamount to giving it away for free themselves.
I don't even have a music collection anymore. I just never cared about it that much, and won't now that I can watch whatever I want by finding a youtube video of it for free. Youtube was the use P2P to steal mp3s killer for me. I don't care about having MP3s in a player. I'd rather listen to the radio and hopefully be introduced to something I've never heard before rather than listening to stuff I already know about. That, or NPR news.
Much P2P software makes it the users choice whether or not to share files so that they can say: 'The user chose to share the files, it wasn't us, so don't sue', while intentionally using defaults that share as much as possible, and making it an error prone process to limit sharing to something sane so that there will be alot of content shared online. More content being shared makes your P2P network more popular.
Users may even be able to use 'it was an honest mistake' as a defense though probably not. A judge may be inclined tobe lenient if they thought it really was an honest mistake.
This is true. This gets to the very heart of what is wrong with education in grades 7 though 12 in the US.
I lived in one of the states mentioned in TFA during the 90s, and found a way to do sort of what is being mentioned without taking any tests. After flunking the first 9 weeks of 9th grade, and continuing to be bullied as I was throughout 7th and 8th grades, my parents legally homeschooled me, but in reality, I took courses at the local community college, they never did any 'homeschooling'.
In my state, there happened to be a law that if you pass 10 college courses the school board may grant you a high school diploma. After doing well in 10 courses, we went to the schoolboard, and I was awarded a diploma, which was important because one isn't allowed to take the GED until one is 17. Without a high school diploma or a GED, one can not get any financial aid.
I then applied ( with my good grades at the community college, and without mentioning my lousy high school grades ) to a rather exclusive school. I transferred there ( with a large scholarship ) and graduated.
I was better prepared than the average freshman at that school, and I earned a Math degree with a 3.6 gpa.
I tried with everything I had inside me to get good grades in high school, but it just wasn't possible, however I did quite well at college. I trace it to the fact that everyone in college wants to be in college, and so everyone is treated accordingly.
Also, having taken classes at community college, and also at 'fancy' competitive admissions college, I can say there is no real difference in what is taught. Quality wise, they are on par. However at a 2 year community college, the course catalog will be limited in comparison to the course catalog at a fancier school. Having seen both ends of the spectrum, I will be recommending something in the middle for my own progeny.
So... If you know HS sucks, you can do homeschooling to get mostly out of 'the system's' jurisdiction and then go to an open admission school without any tests. I wouldn't have been able to pass the tests myself. I ended up taking remedial ( at the college level ) algebra and composition at the community college, but then I was 13 when I started taking courses at the community college.
I didn't take a full course load at first I think it was just those two classes that first semester. I had ramped up to a full course load by the time I transferred ( at 15 ) though. I ended up graduating at 19, ( though I'd had enough credits to graduate and stopped attending classes at 18 ).
Showing you can earn good grades at college is very respected by college admissions folks. Think about it: What better proof someone is able to handle college could they ask for? And doing well at college at an early age 'proves' they're relatively smart as well as the other supposed measures of relative smartness such as grades earned in high school or SAT scores.
If you can't win at the game you're playing, change the game.
There are things that also use an ssd keyfob for disk cache and others that use one for swap so as to speed this sort of thing up. b
I'm not sure why anyone would care if what they were doing on a tablet was in 3D. I just can't imagine who is going to buy this.
Despite being loved by movie studios, I doubt 3D is going to catch on anyway.
I watched a few cartoons in 3D: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The new Christmas Carol one, and the GForce 3D, and I was all gung ho about 3D, but when I saw Avatar, I realized why 3D just will never catch on:
The first ten minutes or so of Avatar made me sick, so much so, that if it had continued for the whole movie, I would have left the theatre. The rest of the movie was fine, and did not make me sick, and I realised why: In the beginning they are using the camera focus to focus in on close up objects. They do this all the time in 2D movies, like when the main character walks into the room, and the camera focuses in on the gun on the floor. It lets the audience know what the character is thinking to know what the character thought was important about the visual they were presented with and which we are seeing through their eyes.
But this just doesn't work in 3D because when your eyes are presented with a 3D image they assume that they can focus in on anything because it's *really there*. When the camera focuses in on a screw floating up close, and my eyes are trying to focus on the actor's face behind the screw, but it won't focus no matter what my eyes do, it makes me ill, and oddly pissed off. When I finally submit to the cameraman's tyranny ( and it feels like that in 3D, but not in 2D ) about what I should focus on, the focus has changed again, and I'm about to puke. Now I'm supposed to be focusing in on... What the hell AM I supposed to focus on? ok, lemme deliberately scan this image for something that's not blurry, DAMMIT I'm taking these glasses off. Shit now it's all blurry! Oh, now the scene is changing! Sigh..
The rest of Avatar did not have this problem, perhaps because the camera's focus was set to infinity, or perhaps because when the focus was something other than infinity, there was some unambiguously 'most interesting' thing in the scene which I naturally focused on anyway and which happened to be in focus because the cameraperson thought it was the most interesting thing too, like a face etc.
I have a theory that the beginning of Avatar was there to make people who would have criticised it for having uninteresting cinematography shut the f--- up by making them viscerally HATE camera trickery right up front. Then people are grateful for infinite focus.
Still, I think 3D is limited in ways 2D is not. I suppose each medium has it's strengths and weaknesses. It just seems to me that 3D is going to be perfect for the worst of what is being made now, and that it means we'll be seeing more of it until people get completely sick of it and quit going to the movies at all.
There's dishonesty to be sure, but one wonders why Apple didn't just provide the insurance themselves? Because they anticipated that this shiznit would happen and didn't want to be responsible, or afraid of coming out with another whizbang model.
100Mbs will just become the maximum speed. Imagine if they'd done that back when 640k was enough for anyone.
And chickens. I hate all cute and cuddly animals that spaz when you try to pet them. I don't mind them if they are wild, but if they be wild, then they're varmints. If they are not wild, then they are food. Seriously, rabbits are nasty. They eat their own young. They trick you into picking them up by being so damn cute, and then they claw you eyes out and slice off your fingers with their chisel like teeth. And a chicken just lulls you into a sense of security so as to peck out your eye with no warning whatsoever! They are food, they are pelts, they make eggs. They are anything but lovable.