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On another note: the number one feature I want from Google Docs is a permanent setting for page size. My pages are always A4 - why should I have to change the default value every single time I start a new doc?
It was a show defined by the 80's/90's, with several plotlines that could have been resolved by someone having an iPhone in their pocket, or by the Enterprise having smart drones.
There were only a couple of episodes that dealt with holodeck addiction, and just one or two in which the holodeck was used to its full potential: as a reconfigurable-on-the-fly work space that can tie into ship-systems, and either show or replicate any hardware or display you describe verbally.
If the holodeck were a real thing, I would rarely come out of there. I'd just make real friends inside other holodecks, and we'd spend our lives learning and creating stuff. It would be an enormous social problem.
60's StarTrek tech doesn't count. Although Kirk's stylus/pad for signatures is not unlike the UPS guy's… and I'll bet Uhura's metallic ear slab was bluetooth.
Korean is opaque, and though I have a book of the 6000 most used words in Korean, I don't find it very helpful when picking up a children's book, for example.
I would love to try to put my grammar/flash cards aside and go the Harry Potter route.
I can't code. What could you do to help me, an average user, do this with Korean?
"I'm a Professional Promotional Model from Toronto, Canada! I love to model, act, and dance! I am also a Fashion Designer and I create all kinds of fun costumes and outfits! ♥ ♥ www.SuperSweetAndSexy.ca ♥"
If I were modding the site, I'd probably keep users like this away in the early stages, while there's just a handful of women signed-up. Later on, if there are thousands, then it's not as big a deal.
(Not that I have any problem with her career or personal style, just that she seems to be on there purely for self-promotion)
"At what point do humans cease proliferating? How many humans can Earth reasonably accommodate?
We can actually accommodate a greatly expanded biological population. We have 10,000 times more sunlight than we need to meet 100 percent of our energy needs. The total amount of solar energy produced each year is doubling every two years and has been for thirty years and is only about seven doublings from meeting all of our energy needs. There is a similar analysis with water and food and production of housing. The vast majority of land is not used today for human habitation. But ultimately – about a century from now – we will be more concerned with resources for our non-biological brains and bodies than our biological ones."
Won't someone please think of the robot bodies!?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming)
You made such a nice looking, well thought-out app that I think you could be doing a great job of solving real-er problems.
If I could make stuff like you do, boy howdy...
Most Sinatra tutorials I've found seem to deal either with very specific hacker-interest cases ("How to combine Sinatra with x to do y better") or teach you how to do specific basic stuff and then stop short, promising more tutorials later.
I'm looking for something that takes me from Part 1 to Part 10, so that I can really learn to use Sinatra to make cool stuff that average people would like. Maybe this means one source, or maybe a list of multiple sources in order. It would be great to get a list like:
1. Read this 2. Read that 3. Try this 4. Now you can do that 5. Get really good at #4, then read this
a) mentioning new vocab off-the-cuff (or in response to a question) in class and immediately showing a picture of it
b) students trying to remember a word and me showing them pictures of words they are guessing until they see the right thing
c) Us making up sample sentences on-the-fly and using a background picture as an impromptu slide: "Darth Vader is hungry. He could make a sandwich. He may toast some broad. He might eat it later": http://darth.vader.bread.jpg.to/
The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector. Since this is doing Google Image Search... any chance for a:
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Even when the article makes a minor allowance for less-than-stellar engineering performance -- why did it take longer than expected to develop nuclear power? -- the answer given is not anything to do with engineering, but only that Indians were too peaceful under Ghandi and simply didn't feel like going nuclear.
I'm a big fan of India and Indian innovation and potential. I would just have liked to read a more balanced article that didn't bother with the nationalistic stuff. Viva Indian engineering in the 21st century!
Ideally, a portable/cheap capnograph would be one part of a 21st century first-aid scenario, while the other parts might include automatic defibrillators and freezing blankets.
Nevertheless, South Koreans are fiercely loyal to national brands and companies (chaebol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol), so it sets up quite a quandary:
Do I get a better (often cheaper) smart phone that carries more cachet, or do I get a pretty-good locally-made phone that's loaded down with features that I don't really use much and for which I have to pay extra (Nate/June/DMBtv)?
It seems that almost universally Koreans have put aside their intense nationalism and national-brand loyalty (you'd be amazed how intense) and opted for the foreign-made cachet-carrier. That, with the exception of the Galaxy S, which is doing great and being promoted heavily on (literally) every busy street corner. I do mean literally, not "literally".
All of this to conclude that now, South Korea sees a huge chink in iPhone's armour, just like Naver and Daum saw a chink in Google's armor a couple of weeks ago. This is a chance to put down the foreigner brands and promote national brands anew. The thinking being: "let's go for it and see what we can get out of this."