Could you please provide sources for that statement? I agree that throwing money haphazardly at the problem is not the answer, although I do think that some areas are underfunded. I also don't think there's a one-size-fits-all solution for the nation; reform needs to come at a lower level, and with less Federal interference. Providing Federal guidelines is one thing, micromanaging education from Washington is another.
I have several friends who are teachers, so please don't take what I said as an attack on them. What I'm saying is that there is a large demand for teachers but not a large supply. When I was in College and Grad School there were very few people pursuing education degrees. It seems to me that you really have to have the love, because you have to put up with a lot of crap for less than you could make elsewhere. From my conversations with friends who are teachers, it also sounds like it's a lot more political than most jobs, and for me politics in the workplace == stress.
As for vouchers, I really feel like it's the absolute wrong approach to fixing the education system. Help schools by getting rid of funding and students? Seems like some people are out to destroy public education...
Well, I've actually known some very intellectual/scientifically curious people who also happened to be religious. I would say that my general experience is that many people who claim to be religious are essentially stating that they place their complete faith in the teachings of their religion, and as such have no need for any other explanations. I've also noticed that the people who are scientific and religious tend to treat religion as a personal, private matter, whereas those who proclaim that religion serves all of their needs tend to be evangelical. The scientists I've known who are religious tend to place religion and science into the same framework by using science as the explanation for how something works and religion as the explanation for why something is (a more philosophical approach). Since religion is outside the realm of science I don't have a problem with this. My problem is when people try to force religion into the same space as science; there are no testable hypotheses with religion (lack of evidence does not imply absence), so it's not really the same game.
I think it goes beyond just anti-science. The way things have been going lately I'd contend that there's a general anti-education theme at play. It's not cool to be smart here, and it's definitely not high on anyone's funding list, no matter what the politicians may say. I've spoken a lot with my Father-in-law (he's Taiwanese) and we've come to the agreement that Americans in general are becoming increasingly complacent when it comes to education. Everyone's fat, happy and enjoying "Pimp my Ride" too much to care about the long-term impact of drastic education underfunding and a general lack of good teachers. I have two hopes: that the influx of educated foreigners in search of a better life here don't get completely blocked out by the xenophobes at home, and that the small percentage of Americans who are determined to get a good education are able to hold the line until people realize that education is a good long-term investment.
If you run MindTerm (http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/, Java applet SSH) with tunneling, and you have the java applet enabled on a VNC session internally, you can view everything local to your server instead of having to pull it across to the local machine. The utility value varies with the type and size of the attachment, but I like being able to securely remote VNC from any web browser.
IT all comes down to how quickly a patch can be made and distributed. IIRC, the next version of FireFox will have support for incremental updates which will make this kind of thing easier to deal with on updates. I'm curious if it affects the Mozilla suite in any way; I had thought they shared a lot of code.
I had been using subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) with Eclipse 3.0 for SVN support and it worked great in both Windows and Linux. Something broke part of subclipse around 3.1RC3 to the point that I couldn't add or browse repositories. Just a tip that I figured out, though: if you use a normal SVN tool (TortoiseSVN, SVN CLI) to check out a project, then when you import the project into Eclipse subclipse will be able to work with the repo just fine (as of RC7, still downloading 3.1 final).
The SA article mentions this as background for the work with H2S. The Sulfur can replace Oxygen due to its similar valences, etc, so they're able to reach the anoxic state instead of the hypoxic state without damaging tissue in the process. For more info you probably want to visit:
It's all transparent to the switch. If it's a L2 switch it doesn't care what IP (or IPX, AppleTalk, etc) address is on a port, just which physical MAC (Ethernet) addresses are on the port. If it's L3 it will additionally associate one or IP addresses directly with a port. If switches had problems with multiple IPs/MACs sitting on a port then you couldn't build any topology with multiple switches. For more info:
If you're near a University there's probably a wealth of literature at the library in the CS/CE/EE section on network topology and switching technologies.
That's been my experience. I have a XP Pro box with 1GB of memory, and a Linux box (FC3) with 512MB of memory. The Windows box consistently swaps more often, to the point that if I haven't been using an app for a while it appears to completely swap it to disk. I don't know if this is intentional or if it's just something funky with my particular laptop, but it's definitely annoying.
Best comment I've read so far. I completely agree with your reorg of the timeline, it seemed like Lucas spent 5 hours running around the galaxy and then 15 minutes to turn Anakin to the Dark Side. I was really disappointed by the lack of development on that one. Granted, it's hard to correct a plot error like that in the third of three, but it just seemed too quick.
One other critique is that it really felt like there was too much jumping around between story lines; way too many 30-45 second scenes.
I agree. My biggest impediment to using NetBeans is the inferior code completion, which in Eclipse speeds things up tremendously. I really like the context-sensitivity of Eclipse; if I'm assigning to a variable of type java.util.Date, it will only show me completions that will return a java.util.Date.
Come out to Denver some time. I believe we have more microbreweries per capita than anywhere else in the US, as well as The Great American Beer Festival (http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/index.htm).
I mostly use gv or gpdf because they're fast and simple for most PDFs. I have to admit, though, that it's nice to have an updated viewer for when I need to do things like deal with forms or some of the other esoteric functions of PDF.
We're spending a whole lot of money in Iraq every day and have found no fissile material. How much better would we be doing in the war on terror if all of the money and resources were simply being used to ferret out terrorists and stopping them from obtaining the materials they need? I'm not saying Saddam wasn't a bad man who needed to be ousted, it justs seems like he should have been pretty far down the list of objectives.
Derek
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If you watch that scene carefully you'll see that both stuntmen had on slim chutes under their suits. I saw something about it on a TLC show once.
I stopped reading on the first page, when they said "A digital SLR has a shallow depth of field". This has nothing to do with it being an SLR, but rather the apertures available. It might be correct to say that SLRs typically have wider aperture ranges, but some of the things they say make no sense. Considering that they spent two pages explaining depth of field I don't understand some of their statements.
Just FYI, most nuke warheads are designed to detonate at low altitude, to increase the pressure damage due to an increase of the shock wave doubling on itself. See:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapabla st.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon
Not to say that water wouldn't still dampen some of the overpressure wave and radiation, but we're not talking about a Bikini Atoll-type explosion.
Derek
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Could you please provide sources for that statement? I agree that throwing money haphazardly at the problem is not the answer, although I do think that some areas are underfunded. I also don't think there's a one-size-fits-all solution for the nation; reform needs to come at a lower level, and with less Federal interference. Providing Federal guidelines is one thing, micromanaging education from Washington is another.
Thanks,
Derek
I have several friends who are teachers, so please don't take what I said as an attack on them. What I'm saying is that there is a large demand for teachers but not a large supply. When I was in College and Grad School there were very few people pursuing education degrees. It seems to me that you really have to have the love, because you have to put up with a lot of crap for less than you could make elsewhere. From my conversations with friends who are teachers, it also sounds like it's a lot more political than most jobs, and for me politics in the workplace == stress.
As for vouchers, I really feel like it's the absolute wrong approach to fixing the education system. Help schools by getting rid of funding and students? Seems like some people are out to destroy public education...
Derek
Well, I've actually known some very intellectual/scientifically curious people who also happened to be religious. I would say that my general experience is that many people who claim to be religious are essentially stating that they place their complete faith in the teachings of their religion, and as such have no need for any other explanations. I've also noticed that the people who are scientific and religious tend to treat religion as a personal, private matter, whereas those who proclaim that religion serves all of their needs tend to be evangelical. The scientists I've known who are religious tend to place religion and science into the same framework by using science as the explanation for how something works and religion as the explanation for why something is (a more philosophical approach). Since religion is outside the realm of science I don't have a problem with this. My problem is when people try to force religion into the same space as science; there are no testable hypotheses with religion (lack of evidence does not imply absence), so it's not really the same game.
Derek
I think it goes beyond just anti-science. The way things have been going lately I'd contend that there's a general anti-education theme at play. It's not cool to be smart here, and it's definitely not high on anyone's funding list, no matter what the politicians may say. I've spoken a lot with my Father-in-law (he's Taiwanese) and we've come to the agreement that Americans in general are becoming increasingly complacent when it comes to education. Everyone's fat, happy and enjoying "Pimp my Ride" too much to care about the long-term impact of drastic education underfunding and a general lack of good teachers. I have two hopes: that the influx of educated foreigners in search of a better life here don't get completely blocked out by the xenophobes at home, and that the small percentage of Americans who are determined to get a good education are able to hold the line until people realize that education is a good long-term investment.
Derek
If you run MindTerm (http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/, Java applet SSH) with tunneling, and you have the java applet enabled on a VNC session internally, you can view everything local to your server instead of having to pull it across to the local machine. The utility value varies with the type and size of the attachment, but I like being able to securely remote VNC from any web browser.
Derek
Yeah, well it helps that it's sunny 300 days of the year here in Denver, too, eh? Good luck getting this to work in London :)
Derek
IT all comes down to how quickly a patch can be made and distributed. IIRC, the next version of FireFox will have support for incremental updates which will make this kind of thing easier to deal with on updates. I'm curious if it affects the Mozilla suite in any way; I had thought they shared a lot of code.
Derek
For a good example of the extremes of image size vs. lens size, check out the camera obscura.
Derek
I had been using subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) with Eclipse 3.0 for SVN support and it worked great in both Windows and Linux. Something broke part of subclipse around 3.1RC3 to the point that I couldn't add or browse repositories. Just a tip that I figured out, though: if you use a normal SVN tool (TortoiseSVN, SVN CLI) to check out a project, then when you import the project into Eclipse subclipse will be able to work with the repo just fine (as of RC7, still downloading 3.1 final).
Derek
The SA article mentions this as background for the work with H2S. The Sulfur can replace Oxygen due to its similar valences, etc, so they're able to reach the anoxic state instead of the hypoxic state without damaging tissue in the process. For more info you probably want to visit:
The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Mark Roth's (principal researcher on this article) website
Wikipedia page on Hydrogen Sulfide
On a side note, that was a great SA issue in general, they also had a really cool article on creating antimatter.
Derek
As long as we're bitching about bad grammar and punctuation, here's one of my faves:
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Derek
It's all transparent to the switch. If it's a L2 switch it doesn't care what IP (or IPX, AppleTalk, etc) address is on a port, just which physical MAC (Ethernet) addresses are on the port. If it's L3 it will additionally associate one or IP addresses directly with a port. If switches had problems with multiple IPs/MACs sitting on a port then you couldn't build any topology with multiple switches. For more info:
p ages/switch.html
http://www.itmweb.com/essay522.htm
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gorry/course/lan-
If you're near a University there's probably a wealth of literature at the library in the CS/CE/EE section on network topology and switching technologies.
Derek
I networking we would call this out-of-band data, indicating that it's transmitted in parallel with the data, but not in the primary content.
Derek
That's been my experience. I have a XP Pro box with 1GB of memory, and a Linux box (FC3) with 512MB of memory. The Windows box consistently swaps more often, to the point that if I haven't been using an app for a while it appears to completely swap it to disk. I don't know if this is intentional or if it's just something funky with my particular laptop, but it's definitely annoying.
Derek
Best comment I've read so far. I completely agree with your reorg of the timeline, it seemed like Lucas spent 5 hours running around the galaxy and then 15 minutes to turn Anakin to the Dark Side. I was really disappointed by the lack of development on that one. Granted, it's hard to correct a plot error like that in the third of three, but it just seemed too quick.
One other critique is that it really felt like there was too much jumping around between story lines; way too many 30-45 second scenes.
Derek
I agree. My biggest impediment to using NetBeans is the inferior code completion, which in Eclipse speeds things up tremendously. I really like the context-sensitivity of Eclipse; if I'm assigning to a variable of type java.util.Date, it will only show me completions that will return a java.util.Date.
Derek
No kidding, they might as well call their next console "Vapor"...
Derek
Actually, they will be turned off in 2007 (when all TVs are required to have DTV tuners):
/ DOC-225221A1.pdf
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch
Derek
Come out to Denver some time. I believe we have more microbreweries per capita than anywhere else in the US, as well as The Great American Beer Festival (http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/index.htm).
Derek
I mostly use gv or gpdf because they're fast and simple for most PDFs. I have to admit, though, that it's nice to have an updated viewer for when I need to do things like deal with forms or some of the other esoteric functions of PDF.
Derek
Not only that, but they say a 10cm wire can be broken up into 10 MILLION cells, but then say it can hold 10GB. Something doesn't add up.
Derek
We're spending a whole lot of money in Iraq every day and have found no fissile material. How much better would we be doing in the war on terror if all of the money and resources were simply being used to ferret out terrorists and stopping them from obtaining the materials they need? I'm not saying Saddam wasn't a bad man who needed to be ousted, it justs seems like he should have been pretty far down the list of objectives.
Derek
If you watch that scene carefully you'll see that both stuntmen had on slim chutes under their suits. I saw something about it on a TLC show once.
Derek
I stopped reading on the first page, when they said "A digital SLR has a shallow depth of field". This has nothing to do with it being an SLR, but rather the apertures available. It might be correct to say that SLRs typically have wider aperture ranges, but some of the things they say make no sense. Considering that they spent two pages explaining depth of field I don't understand some of their statements.
Derek
Just FYI, most nuke warheads are designed to detonate at low altitude, to increase the pressure damage due to an increase of the shock wave doubling on itself. See:a st.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapabl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon
Not to say that water wouldn't still dampen some of the overpressure wave and radiation, but we're not talking about a Bikini Atoll-type explosion.
Derek