I don't think the system is broken. I have low expectations and figure it is about what we are going to get.

Mostly, I wish more people had a healthy distaste for rules (this doesn't mean having zero rules, it just means not having rules about every goddamn inane thing some tiresome biddy thinks about once).

Indeed. It is like Pascal's Wager.

The downside of wearing are:
1) The child receives early training on how to be an electronically emprisoned parolee
2) The child grows up as a prisoner
3) The child grows up without trust
4) The child learns that activities with no pay-off but that costs a lot of energy end effort are good, perpetuating the faulty logic of Pascal's Wager that made a prisoner of people like you.

They've also contributed greatly to the field of psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating what parts of the brain is responsible for what cognitive function.

True; poorly phrased on my part. I meant: they're able to make an increased profit on the same price, based strictly on volume.

Amen!

I wish we'd convert everything to Metric. I hate the fact that I have to have 2 sets of wrenches and sockets for things around the house.

Plumbing - usually American/British

Auto - Metric. Of course there's the overlap at 3/4" - 19mm.

Metric. by the way, is actually American. It was Ben Franklin who came up with the system. It is much more intuitive, calculations are much easier: quick, in the english/American system how much does a pint of water weigh?!

In Metric, how much does 500ml of water weigh?

Calculate the densities of both now.

See?

Australia? You sure? This sounds british.

Didn't this happen to the first Wolfenstein also?

What an interesting conclusion especially since it is completely contrary to the current state. In the hand held computer market Apple encourages anyone and everyone to write applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Their only restrictions are related to digital signing (a reasonable restriction) and the use of the App store (a less reasonable restriction). By contrast Microsoft won't allow any 3rd party applications for their new Zune (their iPod Touch competitor) except from a few select partners.

In the personal computer market both Apple and Microsoft encourage any and all developers to write applications for their respective platforms. Apple's platform includes far more open source pieces than Microsoft's. For example, Mac OS X is built on BSD and Safari on Webkit and Apple makes considerable contributions to the open source community. Microsoft, not so much.

So what evidence led you to your conclusion?

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It's impossible to make an arcade/console game system emulator with any semblance of accuracy that can use SMP, or OS-provided and scheduled threads, for multi-chip emulation, unless the OS and CPU are specifically designed for *extremely* low overhead inter-chip synchronization, and even with that the performance benefit may not be worth it and you might as well just program an FPGA. :b Now, if you don't care so much about accuracy because games on newer systems are generally more tolerant of timing inaccuracies, SMP will help to a degree. And of course you could use queues and buffers to defer CPU-intensive processing whose results are unreadable(in any way, shape, or form) to the emulated program to another core, but that would result in significantly increased complexity and significantly hurt performance on non-SMP systems.

The songs and videos sold are the "other products" from the grandparent post which Apple hopes to sell people.

Are you confusing iTunes with the iTunes Music Store? The former is software that lets you manage media collections, as well as purchase media from the latter.

In that case you would have to refer to all software that comes bundled with hardware to let the user manage hardware a "loss leader". This would include the software that comes with printers, cameras, Blackberrys, etc.

Think about this - do you compose an essay different when writing it manually compared to typing it out? Of course you do - writing manually forces you to take your time and think things out a little before you start. There's no going back to insert a new paragraph, or rearranging the order of your arguments at the last second. The skill of writing with cursive may not be useful - but don't dismiss learning to compose an essay "the old fashioned way." Technology is no substitute for substance and coherence... and it's about more than just spell/grammar check.

Har man bara någon enstaka beloppsuppgift, kan man med fördel skriva 800 Swedish kronor (800 Swedish crowns fungerar i princip också men är mycket ovanligare i bruket). Har man flera beloppsuppgifter, är det bättre att använda den etablerade valutaförkortningen SEK och följa internationell konvention med baklängesskrivning: SEK 800. Första gången man använder beteckningen SEK kan man gärna förklara vad det står för (d.v.s. 'Swedish kronor'). Språkrådet.

Dock nämnder svenska språkrådet översättningen "Crowns" i förbifarten i en disskussion rörande något annat.

Sorry about the swedish, what I am writing is that both kronor and crowns seem to be considered ok by "authorities" on the Swedish language.

On the other hand, I guess this is more of a question about the English language; I think kronor is generally preferred, but both seem understood and usable (e.g. Wikipedia mentions crowns as an informal alternative to kronor).

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You need to sign your name.

Some form of cursive provides a more distinct signature that is harder to forge. And more importantly: you can sign your name a lot more quickly if you don't have to lift your pen for each letter. So think about security and convenience...

Students benefit from knowing:

• How to read cursive (people will write them a letter or note by hand, sometimes).. Yes electronic messages are common, that doesn't mean noone ever gets or sends manual messages though
• How to jot down some basic notes in class -- students generally need a notepad to take these
• How to sign their name, yep/li>

Cursive is indispensable for quick note-taking, and answering questions on tests.

Students generally aren't allowed to have electronic devices during a test, even an essay test. This is especially true in colleges. Some tests may be administered electronically, but not all are, at least not today.

If students don't have the most rudimentary of cursive skills, they will be at a disadvantage in the current environment.

Because it will take them longer physically to write what they want to say, using print letters.