As for actually memorizing a text book in general, yes I did, thought not for a class. I was in an group that participated in the Citizen Bee, in my sophomore or junior year. I memorized every question and chart in a ~200-page book.
You could memorize 200 pages but can't remember if it was your sophomore or junior year?
I was sued by a local business in small claims court. I brought in a printed copy of the electronic statement from my bank billpay with confirmation codes showing that I sent the online payment (the bank then cut a paper check and mailed it, the business was not set up for electronic payment). I also had a copy of the hard-copy, mailed statement from my bank with the same information. The judge did not accept my printed copy, he thought it was too easily faked. He did accept my hard-copy mailed statement from the bank and I won my case. This was small claims court, the rules are different than in other courts.
It shouldn't matter how the code itself is created. You can code the same thing in any number of languages in any number of code types.
If the kids don't know what loops are, what case statements are etc, then they'll still suck at "coding" even if you are dumping a bunch of text based functions on their head.
You are correct. Not only that, the learning objective with drag and drop might be colloquially called "coding" but in reality it might be to teach the logic of problem solving and the logic of coding using graphics, yet still having something that either works or does not work at the end of the project. Thinking logically before putting fingers to keyboard is a skill that needs to be learned - seeing the working project at the end is motivation.
Lego Mindstorms is an example of this. Drag and drop the objects, have the robot do something and then troubleshoot why it did not work (both hardware and software). Then build on success. As you become more proficient, you can solve some pretty complex problems. When the problems become too complex, you can move into a variety of actual languages to either solve a previously unsolvable problem or solve the problem in a more efficient manner.
I'm not saying "Fuck you; you dialup clods" - just explaining why streaming works for me.
I do: fuck you, you dialup clods. This is the 21st Century: you have no right to complain and want to hold the rest of us back because you're a rural bunch of no-monied crap-o-rama shitfolks. We want to move forwards: progress for the most people and for the worthy ones. You don't like it? Choke on a shovel and die in a manure fire.
Fuck you, you city dwelling bitch. I live in a very rural area of Indiana and have gigabit fiber.
I live in a very rural area where houses and intersections were at least 1000 feet off from my GPS. My house showed up over a mile from the road and the the road was labeled with the wrong name.
Then one day about 4 or 5 years ago everything was accurate. Super accurate as a matter of fact. I looked at the little man icon on the map, clicked it and noticed that a Google Street View car, or whatever they're called, drove by a couple months before that (based on what was shown in the picture) and the maps were updated. When the maps were wrong, street view was not available in my area.
I would also assume Google, and everyone else, takes GPS readings from your phone and updates maps where they haven't sent their own equipment.
The problem you envisioned will be corrected long before the first snowfall and an autonomous vehicle meet.
Even though they'll take responsibility, in every state in the US you must still have liability coverage. If these companies are to be their own underwriters so to speak then they'd have to jump through hurdles to be approved to operate as an insurance company as well. They could obviously partner with insurance companies as well.
In many states, you do not need insurance, but proof of financial security which can be a surety bond with the DMV. In my state it's only $50,000. The company I work for does this and we are in no way associated with or approved as an Insurance Company.
10X of the poverty line might be gravy, but higher taxes at that level might also be a disinsentive to produce more wealth - and more jobs.
Why 10X the poverty line, why don't we just tax everything above the poverty line since that is the place that you can survive?
Taxes on income punish a person for producing (earning) no matter the level. Have you ever seen the articles that show a family of 4 earning roughly $20K actually has more disposable income than a family earning $50K? It takes a considerable amount of money (percentage wise) to go from welfare to taxpayer - so much so, that it isn't always worth the effort.
"The difference being that software, games, music, TV shows, and movies can continue working as long as you have the media"
"So, when I buy a ticket to see a musical concert, that gives me the ability to see that same concert again whenever I please? Amazing. I thought that once the concert was over, that was it."
I travel between Phoenix, San Jose, Salt Lake City, St. George, and Las Vegas, and I've never had an issue with ATT and my iPhone 3gs.
You and most people I know don't have problems with using their iphone, but I hate when someone calls me on their iphone - either to my landline or cell. The voice quality is terrible from the iphone.
Well, I think you can, actually. Capitalism is often described as 'greed is good'. Socialism at least ATTEMPTS to set up a system that actively resists the greed impulse. It may not succeed, and greed will exist no matter what system you set up, but that doesn't make every system equal in terms of how much greed is encouraged.
It's not how much greed is encouraged that makes socialism good or bad, it is how greed is tolerated that makes it bad. The ruling class only tolerates their own greed.
Local radio and opportunities for niche programming are disappearing.
Dr. Demento was syndicated, not local. He is definately niche.
It is a shame that it is harder to find a place for something different in this world.
Too bad there is not some system that can allow people to connect and search for content using computers.
I live in a small town. Clear Channel is one more way to erode something unique. The corporate whores at the FCC have decide to server their corporate masters, and this is just one more sympton.
I also live in a small town and if it weren't for the clear channel stations, I'd receive no radio stations (we have weak local stations with lots of static).
I've mentioned it a few times before, but one of the major reasons I refuse to believe the sincerity of measures like this scanning technology is that one can purchase large glass bottles in any airport departure lounge. A glass bottle is a far more effective weapon than many of the other items that they'll confiscate from hand luggage, yet I've never even seen the issue mentioned.
"The holier than thou attitude is what I am taking issue with. "Yay America" is not an opinion, it is mocking another country for its laws. It does not earn any goodwill."
Yay Planet Earth!
Unfortunately, Cable TV is not a market where the "market fairy" can fix anything because the government gave Comcast a monopoly. If there were competing cable companies, Comcast may have to clean up its act.
Maybe the satellite tv market will fix the problem allowed by the government?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Cable_television
Comcast has 25 million television subscribers in 39 of the fifty U.S. states,[24] although the company is losing customers by the thousands. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Comcast lost 199,000 cable TV customers and in the fourth quarter of 2008, the company lost 233,000 cable TV customers.[25] As of December 31, 2009 Comcast has 23.559 million video customers.
People love saying government is stupid and can never do anything right, but that's not true with everything. Currency is one example: there is enough political will and a real-world need to prevent counterfeiting (fraud). Government puts a good deal of effort into preventing counterfeiting, and the penalty is quite harsh and is well-enforced. While not 100% fraud-proof, they have done a pretty good job. I have not had a problem with being given counterfeit money recently, and I don't know of anyone who has.
The problem with counterfeiting money is that it causes people to lose confidence in the "value" of the money. They don't trust the money and it loses more value. Unfortunately, our government is now monetizing debt (just printing money) and people are now losing confidence in the dollar. As more people lose confidence in the dollar, the "value" is decreased. Our money is will soon get to the point that it doesn't make sense to counterfeit anymore. Perhaps many counterfeiters are already at that point and that is why you haven't been given counterfeit money...or maybe the counterfeit money is really good and you don't notice.
So if China was to try that as a precursor at an attack, it wouldn't do any good. We'd either already know about the attack, having seen the ships on the way, or it would be way too early, since the ships would take a long time to get here, and it would be back up by the time they got here.
Suppose China disabled the USA's electrical grid via physical attack. There would chaos - transportation shuts down, cities run out of food, medicine, etc. China then sends large scale military force over as a "peace keeping mission" to help rebuild infrastructure. Peace keeping force turns into occupation.
You don't have to pre-position troops to attack and the attack can be hidden.
A long while back, someone came in on Slashdot and claimed to have consulted/worked with the IRS, and described a security culture and tolerance for hair-trigger detection measures that would make any security fascist drool. So these problems would most likely be on a purely bureaucratic level, then?
So what you are saying is that some anonymous person posted on an internet forum claiming something that couldn't be verified (and then repeated by another anonymous person) and that this information could quite possibly be wrong? Well, I assure you that when I worked for NASA as an astronaut, nothing like that ever happened!
Everyone knows that the younger programmer spends WAY too much time on social networking web sites and twitter to actually write thousands of lines of code.
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As for actually memorizing a text book in general, yes I did, thought not for a class. I was in an group that participated in the Citizen Bee, in my sophomore or junior year. I memorized every question and chart in a ~200-page book.
You could memorize 200 pages but can't remember if it was your sophomore or junior year?
I was sued by a local business in small claims court. I brought in a printed copy of the electronic statement from my bank billpay with confirmation codes showing that I sent the online payment (the bank then cut a paper check and mailed it, the business was not set up for electronic payment). I also had a copy of the hard-copy, mailed statement from my bank with the same information. The judge did not accept my printed copy, he thought it was too easily faked. He did accept my hard-copy mailed statement from the bank and I won my case. This was small claims court, the rules are different than in other courts.
It shouldn't matter how the code itself is created. You can code the same thing in any number of languages in any number of code types. If the kids don't know what loops are, what case statements are etc, then they'll still suck at "coding" even if you are dumping a bunch of text based functions on their head.
You are correct. Not only that, the learning objective with drag and drop might be colloquially called "coding" but in reality it might be to teach the logic of problem solving and the logic of coding using graphics, yet still having something that either works or does not work at the end of the project. Thinking logically before putting fingers to keyboard is a skill that needs to be learned - seeing the working project at the end is motivation.
Lego Mindstorms is an example of this. Drag and drop the objects, have the robot do something and then troubleshoot why it did not work (both hardware and software). Then build on success. As you become more proficient, you can solve some pretty complex problems. When the problems become too complex, you can move into a variety of actual languages to either solve a previously unsolvable problem or solve the problem in a more efficient manner.
I'm not saying "Fuck you; you dialup clods" - just explaining why streaming works for me.
I do: fuck you, you dialup clods. This is the 21st Century: you have no right to complain and want to hold the rest of us back because you're a rural bunch of no-monied crap-o-rama shitfolks. We want to move forwards: progress for the most people and for the worthy ones. You don't like it? Choke on a shovel and die in a manure fire.
Fuck you, you city dwelling bitch. I live in a very rural area of Indiana and have gigabit fiber.
I was told several years ago that, paraphrasing, any temperature is good and change in either direction is only bad when it is too rapid to adapt.
I live in a very rural area where houses and intersections were at least 1000 feet off from my GPS. My house showed up over a mile from the road and the the road was labeled with the wrong name. Then one day about 4 or 5 years ago everything was accurate. Super accurate as a matter of fact. I looked at the little man icon on the map, clicked it and noticed that a Google Street View car, or whatever they're called, drove by a couple months before that (based on what was shown in the picture) and the maps were updated. When the maps were wrong, street view was not available in my area. I would also assume Google, and everyone else, takes GPS readings from your phone and updates maps where they haven't sent their own equipment. The problem you envisioned will be corrected long before the first snowfall and an autonomous vehicle meet.
Even though they'll take responsibility, in every state in the US you must still have liability coverage. If these companies are to be their own underwriters so to speak then they'd have to jump through hurdles to be approved to operate as an insurance company as well. They could obviously partner with insurance companies as well.
In many states, you do not need insurance, but proof of financial security which can be a surety bond with the DMV. In my state it's only $50,000. The company I work for does this and we are in no way associated with or approved as an Insurance Company.
10X of the poverty line might be gravy, but higher taxes at that level might also be a disinsentive to produce more wealth - and more jobs.
Why 10X the poverty line, why don't we just tax everything above the poverty line since that is the place that you can survive?
Taxes on income punish a person for producing (earning) no matter the level. Have you ever seen the articles that show a family of 4 earning roughly $20K actually has more disposable income than a family earning $50K? It takes a considerable amount of money (percentage wise) to go from welfare to taxpayer - so much so, that it isn't always worth the effort.
"So, when I buy a ticket to see a musical concert, that gives me the ability to see that same concert again whenever I please? Amazing. I thought that once the concert was over, that was it."
Jackass, have you always been a douche?
You and most people I know don't have problems with using their iphone, but I hate when someone calls me on their iphone - either to my landline or cell. The voice quality is terrible from the iphone.
Thanks for posting all my work related passwords on the internet.
It's not how much greed is encouraged that makes socialism good or bad, it is how greed is tolerated that makes it bad. The ruling class only tolerates their own greed.
Dr. Demento was syndicated, not local. He is definately niche.
Too bad there is not some system that can allow people to connect and search for content using computers.
I also live in a small town and if it weren't for the clear channel stations, I'd receive no radio stations (we have weak local stations with lots of static).
A pen and pencil are also very effective weapons.
We're Number 1!
Unfortunately, Cable TV is not a market where the "market fairy" can fix anything because the government gave Comcast a monopoly. If there were competing cable companies, Comcast may have to clean up its act. Maybe the satellite tv market will fix the problem allowed by the government? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Cable_television Comcast has 25 million television subscribers in 39 of the fifty U.S. states,[24] although the company is losing customers by the thousands. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Comcast lost 199,000 cable TV customers and in the fourth quarter of 2008, the company lost 233,000 cable TV customers.[25] As of December 31, 2009 Comcast has 23.559 million video customers.
State/Fed balance was overturned with the 17th Amendment - the states were cut out of the deal.
A car payment is what keeps the middle class middle
Without a car payment I've also found that I don't "need" credit cards because my money going out is so much less than my money coming in.
The house was locked; You can't really get much more secure than that. The lock-out procedure on the house failed, again, can't fault the owner.
The problem with counterfeiting money is that it causes people to lose confidence in the "value" of the money. They don't trust the money and it loses more value. Unfortunately, our government is now monetizing debt (just printing money) and people are now losing confidence in the dollar. As more people lose confidence in the dollar, the "value" is decreased. Our money is will soon get to the point that it doesn't make sense to counterfeit anymore. Perhaps many counterfeiters are already at that point and that is why you haven't been given counterfeit money...or maybe the counterfeit money is really good and you don't notice.
Suppose China disabled the USA's electrical grid via physical attack. There would chaos - transportation shuts down, cities run out of food, medicine, etc. China then sends large scale military force over as a "peace keeping mission" to help rebuild infrastructure. Peace keeping force turns into occupation.
You don't have to pre-position troops to attack and the attack can be hidden.
http://onesecondafter.com/
So what you are saying is that some anonymous person posted on an internet forum claiming something that couldn't be verified (and then repeated by another anonymous person) and that this information could quite possibly be wrong? Well, I assure you that when I worked for NASA as an astronaut, nothing like that ever happened!
If you truly want anything decent, I'd rely the education of others.
Some waste their time posting to slashdot also.
No, he meant the depression of 1920 which was over by 1921. Reread his post jackass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%9321