Speed? Screw speed! I live in a relatively populated area in North Carolina. AT&T won't give me high speed. The cable company won't run lines.2 miles into my subdivision. I have a 4G verizon antenna on the side of my house that I use to pay $70 a month for a 10 GB data cap.
This is holding back growth on the net. If I had real access and real bandwidth, I would be creating and consuming a lot more Internet content, and spending money in the process.
In this case I'm guessing it's because in 2012 Morsi granted himself pretty much unlimited power and then used it to ram through a crappy constitution that most Egyptians didn't really like. Just spitballing though.
This sucks for him. I had a colleague go through this last year. Luckily in her case it was temporary, stemming from a bad cold. Still, she couldn't speak above a whisper for 3 months.
Except that's not what they did this time. This time they:
1. Provoked 2. Talked 3. We agreed to cough up food aid 4. They launched a long-range missile and blew up a nuke, BEFORE the food aid was delivered. This prompted us to . . . 5. Cancel the food aid 6. They escalate the rhetoric 7. ????
This is why normally sober analysts are a bit worried. This is breaking the script.
Yeah. I keep a list of dates that I'm going to visit when I get my time machine. Ever since I first watched Contact, that one has been on it. Along with the opening night of Macbeth.
That's funny. I've had a number of the reusable grocery store bags for 3 years or more. One of them is finally coming unstitched. They hold up rather well for me.
"Instead of plugging in the car, he drove in circles for over half a mile in a tiny, 100-space parking lot. When the Model S valiantly refused to die, he eventually plugged it in."
Absolutely. Google started this by giving all K-12 and higher ed schools free Google apps domains. I'm not going to knock it as it is a hell of a lot cheaper for already cash-strapped schools.
True. Plus, they integrate with our existing Google domain, which means that when students log in, they we can apply policies depending on their grade level. Anything from turning off the webcam to disabling web browsing. And it's all built in to the management console we already use to manage their e-mail and other Google services.
Agreed. I could easily see it being used in my field (education) as a general-use student machine. If they need to do anything heavier (video editing, graphic design) they could move to a workstation.
Chromebooks are going to be a big hit in education. I work in schools and am testing a Samsung right now. The battery life on it is rated at 6 hours, which will get you through a school day with no charging. Add to that, many school districts are taking advantage of Google's free Apps for education domains, which gives you the same version of Google Apps that businesses are paying for.
For as low as $250 on some models you get a device that does 95% of what students need to do with it, lasts all day without charging, has a screen big enough to satisfy most kids and has a full keyboard.
I've actually shown KSP to some of the teachers in my schools (my job is to help teachers integrate tech). They like it, but the big problem is time. There is so much pressure to teach to the test that they worry about the ability to integrate something fun and engaging. Sigh.
Don't say sweatshop! The Libertarians have Youtube videos for everything, including one where a libertarian lectures us dirty statists on how wonderful it is to have the opportunity to work in a sweatshop.
The mud room will be mass that you just can't afford to boost. Besides, it's not like the suit will be out there forever. We're talking a short duration mission like an asteroid rendezvous or moon landings. What, a couple of days?
Interestingly, I've experienced the opposite with the iOS interface in my 2010 Nissan Cube. You plug the phone into a dash-mounted USB port and then control the music through the radio and the phone through a steering wheel bluetooth button.
At first the bluetooth voice dialing worked with my iPhone 3g, but I had to say the last name first. The music interface worked intermittently or only when I put it in airplane mode. When I got my 4s, the music interface worked like a charm. After an iOS update, I could even voice dial by using first name and then last name. It's probably all accidental, but Apple seems to be making sure that newer devices still work with the existing car tech.
Agreed, in the week I've been using it, I've found: -My wife's Psychology practice has disappeared. -One of the schoold where I work is spelled wrong and therefore can't be found -The local hospital that moved over two years ago is still in the old location -The local golf course has the wrong name
This is what I've found without even really LOOKING for mistakes. not to mention the general loss of detail.
You do realize that the lack of unions is not the only significant difference between charter and public schools, right? Having taught at both charters and public schools, the biggest difference I saw is that, by definition, the parents at a charter school give a shit. They have to have given a shit to send their kids to something other than the default public school. They may not always know what to do, but they want to do right by their kids. This almost always translates into better grades. Your little union theory doesn't really hold up because charters in the south, where teacher "unions" have little or no collective bargaining power, tend to show the same modest advantages over public schools. It's about the parents and the quality of their kids, not the unions.
Exactly. I implemented a form of this when I last taught high school English. it worked wonders for some students. Under the old model, a student would turn in an essay, I would cover it in red ink and put a grade on it before handing it back. They student would look at the grade (not the comments) and toss it in the trash can. We then moved on to the next topic whether they understood it or not. This was the "traditional" method. Once I implemented an outcomes-based plan it worked differently. I graded the assignments and handed them back with comments. If they didn't pass, the students redid the assignment until they proved to me that they understood the concepts, at which point I changed the grade to passing. They repeated as many times as necessary. If anything, I found myself grading more harshly. It was awesome.
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Speed? Screw speed! I live in a relatively populated area in North Carolina. AT&T won't give me high speed. The cable company won't run lines .2 miles into my subdivision. I have a 4G verizon antenna on the side of my house that I use to pay $70 a month for a 10 GB data cap.
This is holding back growth on the net. If I had real access and real bandwidth, I would be creating and consuming a lot more Internet content, and spending money in the process.
You can Sudo macho bullshit?
In this case I'm guessing it's because in 2012 Morsi granted himself pretty much unlimited power and then used it to ram through a crappy constitution that most Egyptians didn't really like. Just spitballing though.
Wait, inkjet printers are "cheap, ubiquitous, and easy to use?"
Could have fooled me.
This sucks for him. I had a colleague go through this last year. Luckily in her case it was temporary, stemming from a bad cold. Still, she couldn't speak above a whisper for 3 months.
Except that's not what they did this time. This time they:
1. Provoked
2. Talked
3. We agreed to cough up food aid
4. They launched a long-range missile and blew up a nuke, BEFORE the food aid was delivered. This prompted us to . . .
5. Cancel the food aid
6. They escalate the rhetoric
7. ????
This is why normally sober analysts are a bit worried. This is breaking the script.
Yeah. I keep a list of dates that I'm going to visit when I get my time machine. Ever since I first watched Contact, that one has been on it. Along with the opening night of Macbeth.
That's funny. I've had a number of the reusable grocery store bags for 3 years or more. One of them is finally coming unstitched. They hold up rather well for me.
Really?
I have a 45-minute commute, which is nothing to sneeze at. This car would easily work for that.
"Instead of plugging in the car, he drove in circles for over half a mile in a tiny, 100-space parking lot. When the Model S valiantly refused to die, he eventually plugged it in."
Wow. That's pretty damning right there.
Absolutely. Google started this by giving all K-12 and higher ed schools free Google apps domains. I'm not going to knock it as it is a hell of a lot cheaper for already cash-strapped schools.
True. Plus, they integrate with our existing Google domain, which means that when students log in, they we can apply policies depending on their grade level. Anything from turning off the webcam to disabling web browsing. And it's all built in to the management console we already use to manage their e-mail and other Google services.
Agreed. I could easily see it being used in my field (education) as a general-use student machine. If they need to do anything heavier (video editing, graphic design) they could move to a workstation.
Yes, but if that half of the ass is the only part you use (Docs, web browsing, web 2.0 apps) Then it's a good, cheap alternative.
Chromebooks are going to be a big hit in education. I work in schools and am testing a Samsung right now. The battery life on it is rated at 6 hours, which will get you through a school day with no charging. Add to that, many school districts are taking advantage of Google's free Apps for education domains, which gives you the same version of Google Apps that businesses are paying for.
For as low as $250 on some models you get a device that does 95% of what students need to do with it, lasts all day without charging, has a screen big enough to satisfy most kids and has a full keyboard.
What's not to like?
I've actually shown KSP to some of the teachers in my schools (my job is to help teachers integrate tech). They like it, but the big problem is time. There is so much pressure to teach to the test that they worry about the ability to integrate something fun and engaging. Sigh.
Don't say sweatshop! The Libertarians have Youtube videos for everything, including one where a libertarian lectures us dirty statists on how wonderful it is to have the opportunity to work in a sweatshop.
The mud room will be mass that you just can't afford to boost. Besides, it's not like the suit will be out there forever. We're talking a short duration mission like an asteroid rendezvous or moon landings. What, a couple of days?
Interestingly, I've experienced the opposite with the iOS interface in my 2010 Nissan Cube. You plug the phone into a dash-mounted USB port and then control the music through the radio and the phone through a steering wheel bluetooth button.
At first the bluetooth voice dialing worked with my iPhone 3g, but I had to say the last name first. The music interface worked intermittently or only when I put it in airplane mode. When I got my 4s, the music interface worked like a charm. After an iOS update, I could even voice dial by using first name and then last name. It's probably all accidental, but Apple seems to be making sure that newer devices still work with the existing car tech.
Agreed, in the week I've been using it, I've found:
-My wife's Psychology practice has disappeared.
-One of the schoold where I work is spelled wrong and therefore can't be found
-The local hospital that moved over two years ago is still in the old location
-The local golf course has the wrong name
This is what I've found without even really LOOKING for mistakes. not to mention the general loss of detail.
You do realize that the lack of unions is not the only significant difference between charter and public schools, right? Having taught at both charters and public schools, the biggest difference I saw is that, by definition, the parents at a charter school give a shit. They have to have given a shit to send their kids to something other than the default public school. They may not always know what to do, but they want to do right by their kids. This almost always translates into better grades. Your little union theory doesn't really hold up because charters in the south, where teacher "unions" have little or no collective bargaining power, tend to show the same modest advantages over public schools. It's about the parents and the quality of their kids, not the unions.
Think you could shove any more Libertarian catchphrases into that? Of course you do get extra points for using "statist" twice.
Not to mention us poor outnumbered liberals sweating alongside them in the South.
Exactly. I implemented a form of this when I last taught high school English. it worked wonders for some students. Under the old model, a student would turn in an essay, I would cover it in red ink and put a grade on it before handing it back. They student would look at the grade (not the comments) and toss it in the trash can. We then moved on to the next topic whether they understood it or not. This was the "traditional" method. Once I implemented an outcomes-based plan it worked differently. I graded the assignments and handed them back with comments. If they didn't pass, the students redid the assignment until they proved to me that they understood the concepts, at which point I changed the grade to passing. They repeated as many times as necessary. If anything, I found myself grading more harshly. It was awesome.
"It's just impossible to codify "critical thinking,"
To an extent. I think Carl Sagan did a pretty good job of it. When I taught critical thinking to my students, this was pretty much the model I used.
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