Justice isn't revenge. That part is often confused. There is difference between doing a crime by accident or via neglect, then doing it with intent. Now I am not saying I agree with the judgment for the the drunk driving. As Drunk Driving is major neglect on part of the driver, and should deserve jail time, to pinpoint the seriousness of what he did. That said, those hackers went out to cause harm on a large scale, and they did. Now just because we personally don't like the guys they harmed, doesn't make it right.
The problem is way too complicated for just simple test scores. Education Success is spread out across these factors. I think prioritized in this order. Involvement of the parents - Parents are largest aspect to a child's education. If the parent doesn't care about the child education he will most likely not bother with education. Overall Environment - how safe the child feels. Does the environment encourage learning. Or is it about who is the toughest. Child's genetic traits - Now almost everyone has some sort of learning disability, this isn't about that, but for children with higher level that can prevent learning. Child's own ambition - Now if the kid doesn't want to learn he won't Finally... Quality of the school and teachers - Granted extreme incompetence will make things worse, but with the most middle rung teacher, who is teaching because they are afraid to taking more math classes in College, and doesn't know what else to do with their life. Still won't do too much harm if they do their jobs.
Charter Schools/Private look impressive because it gets the students with parent who care enough to get them into charter schools, and creates a better environment for them to learn, not because of the school, but because the kid is in a school with other kids who want to learn.
Other then focusing on schools, we need to change the focus. 1. Reduce Crime and Crack Down HARD on Gang activities. Big cities and small towns, needs to be sure the child is in an environment where they feel safe and doesn't need to join a group of people just for protection. 2. Media campaign targeted at parents, showing them that even though they got by chances are your kids won't. 3. Encourage the media to show educated people in a good light, not the anti-social nerds.
After that then we can focus on what the teachers and schools are doing.
Well for ages, Blackberry owners were raving about the quality of their keyboards, on how easy it was to type on such a small keyboard. Blackberry spent a lot of money and R&D to come up with that style, which also meant a lot of engineers got paid to do such work. Now just because blackberry is unfashionable it doesn't mean that a third party company and just go and steal their ideas. especially after Blackberry put the patent on it. I know slashdotters have I HATE PATTENTS mind set. But this isn't a software patent which is covered by Copyright law and Patent law, this is a hardware patent, of a physical invention. Where blackberry deserves credit for their design.
GMO food is to liberals as Global Warming is to conservatives. Your political leaning doesn't mean you actually care or know more about science. It is just picking and choosing what fits your agenda. The basic idea behind Liberal thinking, is that everything is a problem so there must be a solution to it. The basic idea behind Conservative thinking, is while everything isn't perfect, tinkering with it will cause more problems. Right now it is fashionable to assume companies, every company are up to no good. So those companies making GMO food must be hiding a sinister plot that will poison their customer base. We jump back on previous "Safe" advancements in the past that have been proven to be overall more harmful, to use as evidence. While ignoring the evidence of other "Safe" advancements that have been proven overall more helpful.
The move from PC to Tablet is like the move from Mainframe to PC.
Now here we are on the verge of 2014 and the Mainframe is still around and new ones are being made, However they are being used in far more selective usages today compared to 20/30 years ago. Now when businesses and people started adopting PCs as their main computing method we got a lot of the same complains. PC are just toys, PC don't have enough processing power or memory, the throughput isn't fast enough, the bus is too slow, you will be better off having a mainframe then a PC, due to the ability to scale and a single place to maintain software... Now the PC and PC based servers have mostly taken over the market, the mainframe isn't dead but it is used in particular areas where it performs very well.
Now Tablets are out and the old PC folks are complaining about many of the same issues. However as I see it it won't kill the PC, but it will not be a Personal Computer as much any more but a Workstation. For software developers, engineers, and people who really need a lot of extra processing power. The Tablet will be the computer that average Joe uses at home, and perhaps at work, as it does what they normally need to do. There will be new software designed to take advantage of the tablets advantages which will mitigate its disadvantages. As well each new version will have more power and be more useful over time.
The PC had a good run of 35 years. That is a really good range, and they are not going to die soon. But it is time for the PC to be less of a personal computer and more of a work station... And you know this can be a good thing. As the PC become more tuned for computing professionals a lot the baby UI features can go away and we can get a system designed for real powerhouse work.
Well you could get it from the cheapest sources possible... However that may mean you got parts the fell off the truck.
The idea of the Apple Tax is a myth. The reason for Apples higher cost per class, is the fact that they don't have as many options as their competitors have. For Dell, HP there are dozens of models that allow you to pick and choose what you want and don't want. Apple has less models and the features are grouped together. Don't need a back lit keyboard on your laptop, if you getting an apple you may have to pay for it anyways.
So if you build a System that matches the specs as closely as possible to an Apple system you more or less pay the same price. However if you try to match an Apple system with one of the many PC specs chances are you will find the PC cheaper, because Apple with have features that you are not caring to match up.
It isn't the Apple Premium tax, but the fact there are less options to choose from.
Less than the current mileage. If you stay vague no one will say that you are a lair. Once you get into details and you are off even by the most minute amount people will be out for your head.
How big is your daughter that you need a pickup truck for? I have seen a Honda Fit transport 2 average size adults and 2 very large adults, close to 1,200 lbs of people. Kidding aside. Most people really don't need pickup trucks, they just want them as a status symbol, they justify it to themselves that they need it, while you can get by quite well with a small call and just rent the pickup truck when you need to some extra work that day.
People who need pickup trucks are mostly Farmers and Building Contractors. The rest just want to be a person who has a truck.
Quite true, However there is some thing to say, about giving it a try to understand how your ancestors lived. Finding something that was lost over time, a combination of ingredients we wouldn't think about trying. But for the most part, I think we still have some early renaissance in us, where we fell the ancients had a better grasp on the world then what we do today.
I would say Beer did help create Civilization. Fermentation was one of the earliest ways to preserve food. Many locations were too wet to dehydrate your food. Grains would rot and get moldy and fill up with stuff that isn't good for human consumption. Fermentation is a good way to preserve the calories so you can hold on to your food in times of famine. Allowing people to gather more than they need. Allowing for sharing, trading, creating rules to insure fair trading, having a large stock of food that can last seasons means people can stay in one location, build better stronger buildings, which then can give people time to figure out how to grow their own food, manage livestock. When then keep on adding up.
Ahh First World Food squeemishment. Fermentation was one of the first way you could preserve your food. As well as making more healthier to eat. What we call Fresh Milk, has been Homogenized and Pasteurized, so we don't get sick from drinking it. fermented milk was probably healthier overall than fresh milk at the time. The same with other sources of food. Having a way to dehydrate and keep your food clean was very difficult too.
Fermentation was the key to early civilization, it allowed them to store enough food for the hard times, and have some in excess... Allowing them to worry about other issues at hand.
I have to agree with this poorly moderated parent. The problem we have on the internet isn't privacy, but data longevity. It isn't that you tweeted or had an unfortunate picture posted on face book. But the fact that it just goes around and lasts forever which causes the damage. Searching on Google for the most part you are looking for updated information about something... While there is some historical stuff for the most part you are trying to find the newest information.
Do you really need to search for setting up WinSock on windows 3.1
Well for one, being that it took months for people to get it rooted, means it probably isn't that insecure. Second the level of effort making it a Local break in vs. a Remote break in, is a big deal too.
You released a bunch of information so the average american public can not understand it correctly, feel overtly threatened, and force them to make rushed, out of the moment changes.
We all know theses rushed out the moment policy changes always turn out good.
Anyone will know, it will take one other attack for the General public to go up and screaming back at the NSA for not doing its job, if because they didn't see it coming.
We like to feel like we are on the moral high ground. For many people the only way to do that is to be outraged. So the fact we are outraged it makes us feel good, because it makes us feel like we are a better, more moral person.
Why do you think there is so much outrage on a lot of stupid things, because the stupid things stupid people have opinions on. Here are some of my favorite things I see people get insulted about.
Sex: We all think about it, so we have some sort of opinion about it. So Homosexuality, Abortion, Birth Control, Rights and privileges of your and your opposite sex, are very popular. Either you can be strongly for or against it, they are full of stupid platitude, almost all of them avoid the root issues that are involved.
Family: We all them. There where we get issues of Race (Your super extended family), Family values, such as discipline of children, education, Your general political stance Left or Right, which is often based on how your were raised, as well as religion.
Religion: Strong view for yours or lack of yours, Religion often ties to the other things as well, and gives people who cannot make up their mind their stance on something something to follow. Even Atheists will use the fact that they are an atheists and take the opinion of the other atheists to take their moral stance on issues.
Usually if we have all the facts and are knowledgeable about both sides we are rarely so outraged by it. As normally both sides of the issues tend to have a sense of rational behind them past the Groups platitudes. This doesn't mean you that you need to take an it is all good attitude, but at least not getting outraged all the time.
As for the Sacco tweet... It was just a joke that went off. First Aids and STD Hits the Sex issue, then she tossed Race into the mix, so it cause automatic outrage. However I think the point of the Joke was to raise awareness of the high levels of AIDs in Africa with a disproportional amount happening in its native communities. Sure it was a stupid idea of a joke, but for the most part I would just let it slide, as it isn't really worth getting upset about.
Quite True, I want to be different so I will go Goth, I will dress up and act like all the other people who act Goth. Hipsters, yea those guys are just trying to fit in, it is just hip to seem like you are not trying to follow a style. Bikers would be next on that list... However a lot of their dress is functional, leather isn't just stylish because it looks tough, but it will save you skin if you fall of the bike. Surfers, mostly functional ware. When they are not surfing they can look different. Formal is almost the definition of trying to fit in with the group.
I don't a hatred of Goth people, however that group seems the most hypercritical in their fitting in.
No it is just an obvious ploy from those LiBeRaL scientists to back track on their global warming "Science" so they can continue to leach off of hard working Americans money, so they work rich and without impunity in the Education Commune.
Hey that sounds pretty good, I could be a conservative radio host. I don't need to agree with, or have any fact to back up the stuff I spew, just a sweet gig.
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Justice isn't revenge.
That part is often confused. There is difference between doing a crime by accident or via neglect, then doing it with intent.
Now I am not saying I agree with the judgment for the the drunk driving. As Drunk Driving is major neglect on part of the driver, and should deserve jail time, to pinpoint the seriousness of what he did. That said, those hackers went out to cause harm on a large scale, and they did.
Now just because we personally don't like the guys they harmed, doesn't make it right.
The problem is way too complicated for just simple test scores.
Education Success is spread out across these factors. I think prioritized in this order.
Involvement of the parents - Parents are largest aspect to a child's education. If the parent doesn't care about the child education he will most likely not bother with education.
Overall Environment - how safe the child feels. Does the environment encourage learning. Or is it about who is the toughest.
Child's genetic traits - Now almost everyone has some sort of learning disability, this isn't about that, but for children with higher level that can prevent learning.
Child's own ambition - Now if the kid doesn't want to learn he won't
Finally...
Quality of the school and teachers - Granted extreme incompetence will make things worse, but with the most middle rung teacher, who is teaching because they are afraid to taking more math classes in College, and doesn't know what else to do with their life. Still won't do too much harm if they do their jobs.
Charter Schools/Private look impressive because it gets the students with parent who care enough to get them into charter schools, and creates a better environment for them to learn, not because of the school, but because the kid is in a school with other kids who want to learn.
Other then focusing on schools, we need to change the focus.
1. Reduce Crime and Crack Down HARD on Gang activities. Big cities and small towns, needs to be sure the child is in an environment where they feel safe and doesn't need to join a group of people just for protection.
2. Media campaign targeted at parents, showing them that even though they got by chances are your kids won't.
3. Encourage the media to show educated people in a good light, not the anti-social nerds.
After that then we can focus on what the teachers and schools are doing.
Inspiron netbook. It came with Ubuntu. However it ever fully supported the video.
Not to mention that Dell when they offer Linux with their server. Sometimes had a tendency to put it on hardware that Linux doesn't fully support.
It only obvious because you have seen it in action...
Well for ages, Blackberry owners were raving about the quality of their keyboards, on how easy it was to type on such a small keyboard. Blackberry spent a lot of money and R&D to come up with that style, which also meant a lot of engineers got paid to do such work. Now just because blackberry is unfashionable it doesn't mean that a third party company and just go and steal their ideas. especially after Blackberry put the patent on it.
I know slashdotters have I HATE PATTENTS mind set. But this isn't a software patent which is covered by Copyright law and Patent law, this is a hardware patent, of a physical invention. Where blackberry deserves credit for their design.
GMO food is to liberals as Global Warming is to conservatives.
Your political leaning doesn't mean you actually care or know more about science. It is just picking and choosing what fits your agenda.
The basic idea behind Liberal thinking, is that everything is a problem so there must be a solution to it.
The basic idea behind Conservative thinking, is while everything isn't perfect, tinkering with it will cause more problems.
Right now it is fashionable to assume companies, every company are up to no good. So those companies making GMO food must be hiding a sinister plot that will poison their customer base. We jump back on previous "Safe" advancements in the past that have been proven to be overall more harmful, to use as evidence. While ignoring the evidence of other "Safe" advancements that have been proven overall more helpful.
The move from PC to Tablet is like the move from Mainframe to PC.
Now here we are on the verge of 2014 and the Mainframe is still around and new ones are being made, However they are being used in far more selective usages today compared to 20/30 years ago. Now when businesses and people started adopting PCs as their main computing method we got a lot of the same complains.
PC are just toys, PC don't have enough processing power or memory, the throughput isn't fast enough, the bus is too slow, you will be better off having a mainframe then a PC, due to the ability to scale and a single place to maintain software...
Now the PC and PC based servers have mostly taken over the market, the mainframe isn't dead but it is used in particular areas where it performs very well.
Now Tablets are out and the old PC folks are complaining about many of the same issues. However as I see it it won't kill the PC, but it will not be a Personal Computer as much any more but a Workstation. For software developers, engineers, and people who really need a lot of extra processing power. The Tablet will be the computer that average Joe uses at home, and perhaps at work, as it does what they normally need to do. There will be new software designed to take advantage of the tablets advantages which will mitigate its disadvantages. As well each new version will have more power and be more useful over time.
The PC had a good run of 35 years. That is a really good range, and they are not going to die soon. But it is time for the PC to be less of a personal computer and more of a work station... And you know this can be a good thing. As the PC become more tuned for computing professionals a lot the baby UI features can go away and we can get a system designed for real powerhouse work.
Are you still pissed off about OS/2 not making it as a popular OS?
Well you could get it from the cheapest sources possible... However that may mean you got parts the fell off the truck.
The idea of the Apple Tax is a myth.
The reason for Apples higher cost per class, is the fact that they don't have as many options as their competitors have.
For Dell, HP there are dozens of models that allow you to pick and choose what you want and don't want. Apple has less models and the features are grouped together. Don't need a back lit keyboard on your laptop, if you getting an apple you may have to pay for it anyways.
So if you build a System that matches the specs as closely as possible to an Apple system you more or less pay the same price.
However if you try to match an Apple system with one of the many PC specs chances are you will find the PC cheaper, because Apple with have features that you are not caring to match up.
It isn't the Apple Premium tax, but the fact there are less options to choose from.
Less than the current mileage. If you stay vague no one will say that you are a lair. Once you get into details and you are off even by the most minute amount people will be out for your head.
How big is your daughter that you need a pickup truck for? I have seen a Honda Fit transport 2 average size adults and 2 very large adults, close to 1,200 lbs of people.
Kidding aside.
Most people really don't need pickup trucks, they just want them as a status symbol, they justify it to themselves that they need it, while you can get by quite well with a small call and just rent the pickup truck when you need to some extra work that day.
People who need pickup trucks are mostly Farmers and Building Contractors. The rest just want to be a person who has a truck.
Quite true,
However there is some thing to say, about giving it a try to understand how your ancestors lived.
Finding something that was lost over time, a combination of ingredients we wouldn't think about trying.
But for the most part, I think we still have some early renaissance in us, where we fell the ancients had a better grasp on the world then what we do today.
I would say Beer did help create Civilization.
Fermentation was one of the earliest ways to preserve food.
Many locations were too wet to dehydrate your food. Grains would rot and get moldy and fill up with stuff that isn't good for human consumption.
Fermentation is a good way to preserve the calories so you can hold on to your food in times of famine. Allowing people to gather more than they need. Allowing for sharing, trading, creating rules to insure fair trading, having a large stock of food that can last seasons means people can stay in one location, build better stronger buildings, which then can give people time to figure out how to grow their own food, manage livestock. When then keep on adding up.
Ahh First World Food squeemishment.
Fermentation was one of the first way you could preserve your food. As well as making more healthier to eat.
What we call Fresh Milk, has been Homogenized and Pasteurized, so we don't get sick from drinking it. fermented milk was probably healthier overall than fresh milk at the time. The same with other sources of food. Having a way to dehydrate and keep your food clean was very difficult too.
Fermentation was the key to early civilization, it allowed them to store enough food for the hard times, and have some in excess... Allowing them to worry about other issues at hand.
I have to agree with this poorly moderated parent.
The problem we have on the internet isn't privacy, but data longevity. It isn't that you tweeted or had an unfortunate picture posted on face book. But the fact that it just goes around and lasts forever which causes the damage.
Searching on Google for the most part you are looking for updated information about something... While there is some historical stuff for the most part you are trying to find the newest information.
Do you really need to search for setting up WinSock on windows 3.1
Well for one, being that it took months for people to get it rooted, means it probably isn't that insecure. Second the level of effort making it a Local break in vs. a Remote break in, is a big deal too.
You released a bunch of information so the average american public can not understand it correctly, feel overtly threatened, and force them to make rushed, out of the moment changes.
We all know theses rushed out the moment policy changes always turn out good.
Anyone will know, it will take one other attack for the General public to go up and screaming back at the NSA for not doing its job, if because they didn't see it coming.
Combine that with the Levenshtein distance you can get some good results.
I think people just like being outraged.
We like to feel like we are on the moral high ground. For many people the only way to do that is to be outraged. So the fact we are outraged it makes us feel good, because it makes us feel like we are a better, more moral person.
Why do you think there is so much outrage on a lot of stupid things, because the stupid things stupid people have opinions on.
Here are some of my favorite things I see people get insulted about.
Sex: We all think about it, so we have some sort of opinion about it. So Homosexuality, Abortion, Birth Control, Rights and privileges of your and your opposite sex, are very popular. Either you can be strongly for or against it, they are full of stupid platitude, almost all of them avoid the root issues that are involved.
Family: We all them. There where we get issues of Race (Your super extended family), Family values, such as discipline of children, education, Your general political stance Left or Right, which is often based on how your were raised, as well as religion.
Religion: Strong view for yours or lack of yours, Religion often ties to the other things as well, and gives people who cannot make up their mind their stance on something something to follow. Even Atheists will use the fact that they are an atheists and take the opinion of the other atheists to take their moral stance on issues.
Usually if we have all the facts and are knowledgeable about both sides we are rarely so outraged by it. As normally both sides of the issues tend to have a sense of rational behind them past the Groups platitudes. This doesn't mean you that you need to take an it is all good attitude, but at least not getting outraged all the time.
As for the Sacco tweet... It was just a joke that went off. First Aids and STD Hits the Sex issue, then she tossed Race into the mix, so it cause automatic outrage. However I think the point of the Joke was to raise awareness of the high levels of AIDs in Africa with a disproportional amount happening in its native communities. Sure it was a stupid idea of a joke, but for the most part I would just let it slide, as it isn't really worth getting upset about.
Quite True,
I want to be different so I will go Goth, I will dress up and act like all the other people who act Goth.
Hipsters, yea those guys are just trying to fit in, it is just hip to seem like you are not trying to follow a style.
Bikers would be next on that list... However a lot of their dress is functional, leather isn't just stylish because it looks tough, but it will save you skin if you fall of the bike.
Surfers, mostly functional ware. When they are not surfing they can look different.
Formal is almost the definition of trying to fit in with the group.
I don't a hatred of Goth people, however that group seems the most hypercritical in their fitting in.
Communication with the Dead, I would place you as Goth.
What I really don't get, sense when was donating to a Twitter account, considered a good thing to do?
No it is just an obvious ploy from those LiBeRaL scientists to back track on their global warming "Science" so they can continue to leach off of hard working Americans money, so they work rich and without impunity in the Education Commune.
Hey that sounds pretty good, I could be a conservative radio host. I don't need to agree with, or have any fact to back up the stuff I spew, just a sweet gig.