So when your electrician screws up and your breakers trips every time you run the toaster nobody is qualified to judge the work faulty unless they also fix the problem? The point being that it doesn't take an expert, nor does it require the ability to devise a solution to know when something's been done incorrectly.
You almost created an argument there, too bad you posted AC which will prevent us from being able to tell if the person who posted it ever returns to see the response.
Nevertheless, it does warrant some exploration. The point I was after is that merely saying something doesn't work is not at all the same as actually doing something about it. Your electrician example is pretty good for this; just about anyone can tell when they have plugged something in to a faulty outlet, but not everyone is capable of fixing the wiring. With the education system, we have a lot of people who recognize that something is wrong, but very few people who are proposing any kind of solution. We also have a few people who want to call in plumbers (educational equivalents of venture capitalists) when we need electricians (people with experience in education), apparently under the notion that wiring is pretty similar to plumbing.
The other problem though is that it is really hard to tell if common core has actually failed. Someone else pointed out there are three main components to common core; they really should be evaluated independently. Another thing is that at the start of the experiment no criteria were laid forth to evaluate success (or failure) which makes it that much more difficult to score. Finally, without having comparable control schools to compare to common core schools, it is that much more difficult to show what kind of "failure" this has brought on. Any time you change the system there will be turbulence.
The nice thing about the US is that the states should be independent of one another when it comes to education and most other things.
We've tried that, and it turns out that it doesn't really lead to independent states in education. Look at all the textbook debacles that start in Texas, for example. Why would textbooks in Texas matter if you live in a different state? They matter because the companies that publish textbooks don't want to publish different versions for each state, they want to publish for the largest states (population wise) first and then try to sell the same texts to other states.
This results in textbooks going in to non-nutter states that include discussions on intelligent design and other rampant bullshit. The states only have the flexibility to get textbooks of their own choosing if they exist (as few states have the time and money to go about preparing their own textbooks) so they end up with what the boards in Texas approve.
I used to play Usurper a lot, I thought it was more interesting as it had more options (particularly in the "pro" mode or whatever they called it that gave you about 20 different types of armor). Development on that seems to have somewhat stalled out, but the author released the source code a while back so there may be promise of seeing it return.
Likely even fewer people remember Exitilius, which was even more involved. According to one group, details on where it came from and how are sketchy. It had some promising moments for sure, but the group that owns exitilius.com hasn't announced any forward progress in some time.
Common Core appears to have become controversial primarily because the conservative media told us it is. Apparently they were hoping that the new standard would also find a way to further reduce teachers' salaries and career opportunities, and as it did not do that it needed to be destroyed at all cost.
Granted Common Core has some faults, for sure, but at least it is an attempt by someone to do something. So far we have seen lots of lip service on the education system in this country and very little action. I'd be more impressed with the arguments of those calling it "controversial" if they actually proposed a meaningful fix instead of just attacking the fix that we have.
Nice link, but that game was released in 1994 and the article mentioned playing it in the 80s. In other words, I'm saying they should have spent 10 seconds in wikipedia to avoid starting their article with such a crappy line:)
If I'm self-hosting, then the server is in my house and belongs to me. As long as whoever is supposed to manage it after I'm gone is capable of using the operating system on said system, they should be able to reset my passwords after I'm gone and manage it by starting there.
Although really, if I'm dead, why would I care if anyone saw my web page? I've never had anything on my web server that was that important.
Newark A sucks, hard. Newark C is quite nice since the renovations
I couldn't agree with you more on that one. For a while I was flying through A regularly - frankly, twice a year was twice a year too often - including one time when the air conditioning was out in August. My wife and I came to lovingly refer to Terminal A as "the terminal where dreams go to die", due to how seldom our departing flights would leave on time from there (regardless of where our next destination was).
I had my sense of humor surgically removed in graduate school, apparently.
That is common in graduate school in the hard sciences. It is often removed a year or so after they remove your sense of dignity and self-worth. I've been through it myself. I'd like to say it all comes back later but that isn't completely true.
Right now it is paywalled but as the authors are all NIH employees it shouldn't remain that way for long. If you really want to see the article sooner than that, your local public library likely subscribes to Science
If there is news about Toyota, then submit it to slashdot and maybe it will make the front page. If you want to know why we haven't seen anything about Toyota on the front page in a long time, just think about how long it has been since they released a car in the US that couldn't have been cross-marketed as a cure for insomnia.
Tesla had announced some time ago that they wanted to work towards an electric sedan in the $30-40k MSRP range. You could argue that has been a large component of their general strategy for some time, really. There have been photos of the model X SUV on the web for some time as well.
The device at hand here is designed to allow for the patient to administer - while in the hospital - the analgesics (pain medication). It isn't described well in this summary how the patient is supposed to interact with the pump in order to dictate when the medication is administered.
While this security is indeed abysmal, patients who need PCA aren't likely capable of hacking their pump via telnet; think of the last time you needed narcotic pain medication and try to imagine yourself pulling a laptop out of a bag, connecting an ethernet cable, starting telnet, etc...
He doesn't necessarily need to win to produce some tangible change. If he gets enough votes in the primaries, that alone will send a clear signal to mainline Dems that they should pay more attention to the left.
I want that to be the case. However we have seen that the Democratic party has continued to march further and further to the right as time has marched on, completely marginalizing the actual progressives and liberals in this country. Hell, we thought that we were electing a progressive president in 2008, and instead ended up with someone implementing an economic policy that is more conservative than Reaganomics.
Yeah, it isn't a whole lot less than the cost of one new, but it really isn't a bad deal. If you compare it to a BMW 5 series - most of which start above $50k new - and consider that the BMW will be much more costly to maintain, the Tesla becomes a good deal pretty quickly.
Unfortunately he is a candidate in name only. He can't raise the kind of money that Hillary or any other candidate running for the democratic nomination can raise, and hence has no chance of getting the nomination. He would be better off running as a third party candidate than trying to get the democratic nomination; it will be interesting to see him eventually reveal his plan for what to do when he has fallen too far behind in the party race.
The funny thing is, he is the liberal democrat that the conservative majority in this country always try to paint every other democrat to be. I would love to see what they would do if he actually gained power beyond his seat in the Senate.
There isn't a whole lot in there for them. Margins are thin and their hardware is no longer unique since they are using the same Intel CPUs that everyone else uses. Apple almost certainly makes more money on iPhones and tablets than they do on PCs and laptops; I and others expect that they will transition from selling PC and everything else to selling everything else and software.
The numbers of fatal accidents has been decreasing the past thirty years
I understand that to have more to do with cars being safer than anything else. Anti lock brakes and air bags are now standard in the overwhelming majority of cars on American roads today, amongst other things.
Cell phones have had no noticeable statistical effect
If we're talking over the same period of time (30 years as you said earlier) it is impossible for them not to. There were quite nearly zero cell phones in 1985. We now regularly have serious - and sometimes fatal - accidents caused by idiots who believe they can safely read and write text messages on their phones while driving. It appears you are looking at the general downward trend of fatal accidents per capita, and then saying that nothing could possibly have a negative impact on that. That simply doesn't work.
This app, giving people real time updates on their smart phones, is probably not the best thing we could have for public safety. More than a few knuckleheads would likely think they were doing the right thing by putting it on their phone, until they try to read it while driving and end up causing an accident by way of their distracted driving.
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So when your electrician screws up and your breakers trips every time you run the toaster nobody is qualified to judge the work faulty unless they also fix the problem? The point being that it doesn't take an expert, nor does it require the ability to devise a solution to know when something's been done incorrectly.
You almost created an argument there, too bad you posted AC which will prevent us from being able to tell if the person who posted it ever returns to see the response.
Nevertheless, it does warrant some exploration. The point I was after is that merely saying something doesn't work is not at all the same as actually doing something about it. Your electrician example is pretty good for this; just about anyone can tell when they have plugged something in to a faulty outlet, but not everyone is capable of fixing the wiring. With the education system, we have a lot of people who recognize that something is wrong, but very few people who are proposing any kind of solution. We also have a few people who want to call in plumbers (educational equivalents of venture capitalists) when we need electricians (people with experience in education), apparently under the notion that wiring is pretty similar to plumbing.
The other problem though is that it is really hard to tell if common core has actually failed. Someone else pointed out there are three main components to common core; they really should be evaluated independently. Another thing is that at the start of the experiment no criteria were laid forth to evaluate success (or failure) which makes it that much more difficult to score. Finally, without having comparable control schools to compare to common core schools, it is that much more difficult to show what kind of "failure" this has brought on. Any time you change the system there will be turbulence.
Wasn't ambroshia supposed to be a less-buggy clone of the last release of Exitilus?
The nice thing about the US is that the states should be independent of one another when it comes to education and most other things.
We've tried that, and it turns out that it doesn't really lead to independent states in education. Look at all the textbook debacles that start in Texas, for example. Why would textbooks in Texas matter if you live in a different state? They matter because the companies that publish textbooks don't want to publish different versions for each state, they want to publish for the largest states (population wise) first and then try to sell the same texts to other states.
This results in textbooks going in to non-nutter states that include discussions on intelligent design and other rampant bullshit. The states only have the flexibility to get textbooks of their own choosing if they exist (as few states have the time and money to go about preparing their own textbooks) so they end up with what the boards in Texas approve.
I used to play Usurper a lot, I thought it was more interesting as it had more options (particularly in the "pro" mode or whatever they called it that gave you about 20 different types of armor). Development on that seems to have somewhat stalled out, but the author released the source code a while back so there may be promise of seeing it return.
Likely even fewer people remember Exitilius, which was even more involved. According to one group, details on where it came from and how are sketchy. It had some promising moments for sure, but the group that owns exitilius.com hasn't announced any forward progress in some time.
Common Core appears to have become controversial primarily because the conservative media told us it is. Apparently they were hoping that the new standard would also find a way to further reduce teachers' salaries and career opportunities, and as it did not do that it needed to be destroyed at all cost.
Granted Common Core has some faults, for sure, but at least it is an attempt by someone to do something. So far we have seen lots of lip service on the education system in this country and very little action. I'd be more impressed with the arguments of those calling it "controversial" if they actually proposed a meaningful fix instead of just attacking the fix that we have.
Nice link, but that game was released in 1994 and the article mentioned playing it in the 80s. In other words, I'm saying they should have spent 10 seconds in wikipedia to avoid starting their article with such a crappy line :)
If your last experience of a racing game was the old Pole Position on Nintendo in the â80s
I never heard of a NES port of Pole Position. I had it on my Atari 2600...
I would, i'd like my spying more diversified rather than having everything i do tracked by a single agency.
Does that mean you'll stop using facebook as well then?
If I'm self-hosting, then the server is in my house and belongs to me. As long as whoever is supposed to manage it after I'm gone is capable of using the operating system on said system, they should be able to reset my passwords after I'm gone and manage it by starting there.
Although really, if I'm dead, why would I care if anyone saw my web page? I've never had anything on my web server that was that important.
Newark A sucks, hard. Newark C is quite nice since the renovations
I couldn't agree with you more on that one. For a while I was flying through A regularly - frankly, twice a year was twice a year too often - including one time when the air conditioning was out in August. My wife and I came to lovingly refer to Terminal A as "the terminal where dreams go to die", due to how seldom our departing flights would leave on time from there (regardless of where our next destination was).
I had my sense of humor surgically removed in graduate school, apparently.
That is common in graduate school in the hard sciences. It is often removed a year or so after they remove your sense of dignity and self-worth. I've been through it myself. I'd like to say it all comes back later but that isn't completely true.
In case you missed the link, 2.2 Ã... resolution cryo-EM structure of Î-galactosidase in complex with a cell-permeant inhibitor
Right now it is paywalled but as the authors are all NIH employees it shouldn't remain that way for long. If you really want to see the article sooner than that, your local public library likely subscribes to Science
If there is news about Toyota, then submit it to slashdot and maybe it will make the front page. If you want to know why we haven't seen anything about Toyota on the front page in a long time, just think about how long it has been since they released a car in the US that couldn't have been cross-marketed as a cure for insomnia.
Tesla had announced some time ago that they wanted to work towards an electric sedan in the $30-40k MSRP range. You could argue that has been a large component of their general strategy for some time, really. There have been photos of the model X SUV on the web for some time as well.
This was an obvious evolutionary next step
The device at hand here is designed to allow for the patient to administer - while in the hospital - the analgesics (pain medication). It isn't described well in this summary how the patient is supposed to interact with the pump in order to dictate when the medication is administered.
While this security is indeed abysmal, patients who need PCA aren't likely capable of hacking their pump via telnet; think of the last time you needed narcotic pain medication and try to imagine yourself pulling a laptop out of a bag, connecting an ethernet cable, starting telnet, etc...
Well yeah. Duh. And it's cue, not queue.
Unless you are building a queue of lawsuits. If the pump is fairly common in the health care industry, that could be the case.
He doesn't necessarily need to win to produce some tangible change. If he gets enough votes in the primaries, that alone will send a clear signal to mainline Dems that they should pay more attention to the left.
I want that to be the case. However we have seen that the Democratic party has continued to march further and further to the right as time has marched on, completely marginalizing the actual progressives and liberals in this country. Hell, we thought that we were electing a progressive president in 2008, and instead ended up with someone implementing an economic policy that is more conservative than Reaganomics.
Yeah, it isn't a whole lot less than the cost of one new, but it really isn't a bad deal. If you compare it to a BMW 5 series - most of which start above $50k new - and consider that the BMW will be much more costly to maintain, the Tesla becomes a good deal pretty quickly.
Unfortunately he is a candidate in name only. He can't raise the kind of money that Hillary or any other candidate running for the democratic nomination can raise, and hence has no chance of getting the nomination. He would be better off running as a third party candidate than trying to get the democratic nomination; it will be interesting to see him eventually reveal his plan for what to do when he has fallen too far behind in the party race.
The funny thing is, he is the liberal democrat that the conservative majority in this country always try to paint every other democrat to be. I would love to see what they would do if he actually gained power beyond his seat in the Senate.
I heard he also named his first son up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,a,b,select,start. There just might be something to this conspiracy.
There isn't a whole lot in there for them. Margins are thin and their hardware is no longer unique since they are using the same Intel CPUs that everyone else uses. Apple almost certainly makes more money on iPhones and tablets than they do on PCs and laptops; I and others expect that they will transition from selling PC and everything else to selling everything else and software.
The numbers of fatal accidents has been decreasing the past thirty years
I understand that to have more to do with cars being safer than anything else. Anti lock brakes and air bags are now standard in the overwhelming majority of cars on American roads today, amongst other things.
Cell phones have had no noticeable statistical effect
If we're talking over the same period of time (30 years as you said earlier) it is impossible for them not to. There were quite nearly zero cell phones in 1985. We now regularly have serious - and sometimes fatal - accidents caused by idiots who believe they can safely read and write text messages on their phones while driving. It appears you are looking at the general downward trend of fatal accidents per capita, and then saying that nothing could possibly have a negative impact on that. That simply doesn't work.
This app, giving people real time updates on their smart phones, is probably not the best thing we could have for public safety. More than a few knuckleheads would likely think they were doing the right thing by putting it on their phone, until they try to read it while driving and end up causing an accident by way of their distracted driving.
Whether stringing its leaves and wearing the strand around the neck had any effect to relieve headaches in alcohol victims isnâ(TM)t known.
This doesn't seem like it would have been that difficult to test, but there is no indication that anyone who read it has done so yet.