Erotica books were removed from page rankings. This particularly impacts gay-themed books since they're labeled more often as erotica, even when they have real plots. "Brokeback Mountain" get's no ranking while "Clan of the Cave Bear," with its throbbing members entering vaginas, gets a ranking. Meanwhile "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" sits happily with a ranking. Amazon is censoring sex, the fucking pansies, while considering hate-speech OK for the wider audience.
It's my understanding that the value of any individual piece of porn is ephemeral. People don't keep going back to a good old favorite. Quite the opposite, they move on to the newest available. Are you still excited by the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue that made you a man?
If you need 2TB of storage, a single drive's speed is enough, and you want real and always ready backup, do a RAID 0 for live backup and off-site incremental disk imaging for real backup. You can move up to a RAID if you need more bandwidth. Go ahead and use two different batches or brands if you want. It probably won't make a difference. Keep a spare drive around if you're paranoid. Smile as your power bill stays reasonable, your case doesn't resemble a monster, the fans don't break OSHA rules, and you don't waste money on maintaining ten drives. Recovering from a drive failure will be easier than doing it from a multi-drive RAID. Dealing with one disk is just plain easier, and there are more and cheaper tools available.
If you need massive bandwidth, like for uncompressed HD video, you'll need a bunch of huge drives. The same original comment, that 2TB is too dangerous for one drive, still won't hold.
Figuring 200GB a month of downloads (darn Comcast!) plus ripping DVDs and HDDVDs, I'd say a couple years. And since my wife would leave me for buying all those disks plus a case to handle them, and that our power bill would skyrocket, and that the noise would be obnoxious, I'd have plenty of time to devote to ripping content!;)
The problem with a larger drive is I fill it quickly. Should I buy a 2TB drive and use it to backup my already full two 1TB drives, or should I just add storage? Oh, the agony!
Every time a new, larger drive comes out, people say, "That much data in one drive is dangerous!"
So here's what you do. Go buy ten 200GB drives. RAID them together. Who do you think will lose data, you, with ten times the possible failure points, or me with only one?
They can't handle flash or video well. You'll need massive bandwidth. Besides, netbooks are cheaper. $350 US or so. So get a netbook per child, load them with open office, install remote viewing software so the teacher can check what each child is doing, and then provide lots and lots of teacher training. The real trick is to make laptop classes optional, and only for teachers who have shown a willingness to use them. Giving them to everyone is a waste. Sharing them with a laptop cart stops teachers from dedicating the time and effort to making laptops work.
Or you can have a computer lab with a dedicated computer teacher. A talented teacher can teach the kids to use computers and interact with the other teachers to extend lessons into the lab.
What's your sources? 50k miles of gasoline seems a wee bit high. That's about 3000 gallons of gasoline for a typical 18mpg car since most cars get less than stated, and even more so at the lower end of the mpg range. $6000 at today's low fuel prices, more by historical average, just to make a car? That seems a huge stretch, especially since labor, both in design and manufacturing, is the main cost.
At the library, it was a 5 minute read for me. Pretty bad. None of the gaming mags do anything for me now. For instance, few reviews of Fallout 3 spoke of the horrid AI, terrible hand-to-hand combat system, annoyance of permanent auto-aim, and and weird game balance issues that hurt replayability.
Strong native language skills + English language instruction + Academics taught in the native language + Transitioning to academics in English as a student's English skills are sufficient = A culturally wealthy child with strong academics in two languages
Strong native language skills + Academics taught in English at an early age = Confused kids who fail + A disappearing native language
The bigotry is not out and out racism. It is subtler, but it's real. It also shows a misunderstanding of how people learn.
Were I to study physics in Germany, instruction in English would make my life much easier. When my German improved to the point that I could comprehend a German class, I'd certainly take those as well. I'm a smart and educated guy, so were I to be thrown to the wolves in an immersion setting, eventually I'd surface and do alright, but I'd be playing catchup for years. Were I average and uneducated, I might never surface.
Now think of a boy of five years walking into a classroom taught in a new language.
All the research I've seen shows children learn better early on in their native language, and better later when academically bilingual. The transition from the home language to English for learning subjects should come bit by bit as English comprehension improves. Moving to 50:50 or some arbitrary percentage of bilingual at earlier ages only serves to destroy the value of the home language and hurt the child's long term prospects since they fall behind early on when failing to understand academics taught in English. The bigotry comes in saying, "We won't let you learn your academics in your native language."
I don't know the LOTE program, but I learned SDAIE in California, which may be similar. I teach writing and have taught mostly kids for whom English is a second language. Those with strong first language skills have always done better than those with weak first language skills. I've seen a first grader, with almost no English, pass native speakers, in all subjects, through the course of a school year. You can bet they were working a lot at home, but in Punjabi, not English.
And for the record, I don't really think Australia is stupid, though some stunningly boneheaded decisions have come out of there over the past few years. Same with the UK. It makes me realize how important and brilliant the Bill of Rights is.
Drunkenness and abuse have nothing to do with destroying aboriginal languages through English in schools. That's just out of pure bigotry and will only harm them. It's also "state knows best" thinking at its worst.
Seriously, net filtering, stupid child porn charges, taking away aboriginal rights, rampant racism, driving around in utes (think El Camino). The nation is pretty stupid.
OK, just the people in power, those who elected them, and those who didn't vote against them.
Before the gas shock, I'd agree with you, but now I realize that's just cooking the frog by slowly raising the water temperature. We need a 1.50 a gallon NOW and another 1.50 a gallon in a year. Believe me, you will quickly see a huge change. Raise the tax ten cents a month over the next three years and you'll see much less of a change.
We should raise the gas taxes. This will keep money in the US instead of foreign government hands, help the budget problems, reduce global warming, lower oil prices, and weaken our enemies. Then we can afford to boost companies like Tesla, who will eventually make cars for everyone, if they survive.
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Erotica books were removed from page rankings. This particularly impacts gay-themed books since they're labeled more often as erotica, even when they have real plots. "Brokeback Mountain" get's no ranking while "Clan of the Cave Bear," with its throbbing members entering vaginas, gets a ranking. Meanwhile "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" sits happily with a ranking. Amazon is censoring sex, the fucking pansies, while considering hate-speech OK for the wider audience.
Slowly and inexorably, the media companies push us away.
Cubix? They use fiber to each machine! Bandwidth is a problem.
It's my understanding that the value of any individual piece of porn is ephemeral. People don't keep going back to a good old favorite. Quite the opposite, they move on to the newest available. Are you still excited by the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue that made you a man?
If you need 2TB of storage, a single drive's speed is enough, and you want real and always ready backup, do a RAID 0 for live backup and off-site incremental disk imaging for real backup. You can move up to a RAID if you need more bandwidth. Go ahead and use two different batches or brands if you want. It probably won't make a difference. Keep a spare drive around if you're paranoid. Smile as your power bill stays reasonable, your case doesn't resemble a monster, the fans don't break OSHA rules, and you don't waste money on maintaining ten drives. Recovering from a drive failure will be easier than doing it from a multi-drive RAID. Dealing with one disk is just plain easier, and there are more and cheaper tools available.
If you need massive bandwidth, like for uncompressed HD video, you'll need a bunch of huge drives. The same original comment, that 2TB is too dangerous for one drive, still won't hold.
Figuring 200GB a month of downloads (darn Comcast!) plus ripping DVDs and HDDVDs, I'd say a couple years. And since my wife would leave me for buying all those disks plus a case to handle them, and that our power bill would skyrocket, and that the noise would be obnoxious, I'd have plenty of time to devote to ripping content! ;)
The problem with a larger drive is I fill it quickly. Should I buy a 2TB drive and use it to backup my already full two 1TB drives, or should I just add storage? Oh, the agony!
Every time a new, larger drive comes out, people say, "That much data in one drive is dangerous!"
So here's what you do. Go buy ten 200GB drives. RAID them together. Who do you think will lose data, you, with ten times the possible failure points, or me with only one?
Just back it up, biznatch!
They can't handle flash or video well. You'll need massive bandwidth. Besides, netbooks are cheaper. $350 US or so. So get a netbook per child, load them with open office, install remote viewing software so the teacher can check what each child is doing, and then provide lots and lots of teacher training. The real trick is to make laptop classes optional, and only for teachers who have shown a willingness to use them. Giving them to everyone is a waste. Sharing them with a laptop cart stops teachers from dedicating the time and effort to making laptops work.
Or you can have a computer lab with a dedicated computer teacher. A talented teacher can teach the kids to use computers and interact with the other teachers to extend lessons into the lab.
UK and US gallons are different. I can't count how many times daft Europeans have made this mistake.
What's your sources? 50k miles of gasoline seems a wee bit high. That's about 3000 gallons of gasoline for a typical 18mpg car since most cars get less than stated, and even more so at the lower end of the mpg range. $6000 at today's low fuel prices, more by historical average, just to make a car? That seems a huge stretch, especially since labor, both in design and manufacturing, is the main cost.
At the library, it was a 5 minute read for me. Pretty bad. None of the gaming mags do anything for me now. For instance, few reviews of Fallout 3 spoke of the horrid AI, terrible hand-to-hand combat system, annoyance of permanent auto-aim, and and weird game balance issues that hurt replayability.
It looks The Doctor to be
has weird hair on a spazz body
His tics do impress
a strong Doctorness
But Eccleston did it for me.
That's why you buy a couple LP tanks for backup. Then you run down to home depot and buy several more of the ones for your grill.
Brilliant! Never heard that one.
Why is /. posting this crap?
Strong native language skills
+
English language instruction
+
Academics taught in the native language
+
Transitioning to academics in English as a student's English skills are sufficient
=
A culturally wealthy child with strong academics in two languages
Strong native language skills
+
Academics taught in English at an early age
=
Confused kids who fail
+
A disappearing native language
The bigotry is not out and out racism. It is subtler, but it's real. It also shows a misunderstanding of how people learn.
Were I to study physics in Germany, instruction in English would make my life much easier. When my German improved to the point that I could comprehend a German class, I'd certainly take those as well. I'm a smart and educated guy, so were I to be thrown to the wolves in an immersion setting, eventually I'd surface and do alright, but I'd be playing catchup for years. Were I average and uneducated, I might never surface.
Now think of a boy of five years walking into a classroom taught in a new language.
All the research I've seen shows children learn better early on in their native language, and better later when academically bilingual. The transition from the home language to English for learning subjects should come bit by bit as English comprehension improves. Moving to 50:50 or some arbitrary percentage of bilingual at earlier ages only serves to destroy the value of the home language and hurt the child's long term prospects since they fall behind early on when failing to understand academics taught in English. The bigotry comes in saying, "We won't let you learn your academics in your native language."
I don't know the LOTE program, but I learned SDAIE in California, which may be similar. I teach writing and have taught mostly kids for whom English is a second language. Those with strong first language skills have always done better than those with weak first language skills. I've seen a first grader, with almost no English, pass native speakers, in all subjects, through the course of a school year. You can bet they were working a lot at home, but in Punjabi, not English.
And for the record, I don't really think Australia is stupid, though some stunningly boneheaded decisions have come out of there over the past few years. Same with the UK. It makes me realize how important and brilliant the Bill of Rights is.
Drunkenness and abuse have nothing to do with destroying aboriginal languages through English in schools. That's just out of pure bigotry and will only harm them. It's also "state knows best" thinking at its worst.
I disagree. Not voting is stupid, letting idiots attain and stay in power. You should be involved.
Seriously, net filtering, stupid child porn charges, taking away aboriginal rights, rampant racism, driving around in utes (think El Camino). The nation is pretty stupid.
OK, just the people in power, those who elected them, and those who didn't vote against them.
Before the gas shock, I'd agree with you, but now I realize that's just cooking the frog by slowly raising the water temperature. We need a 1.50 a gallon NOW and another 1.50 a gallon in a year. Believe me, you will quickly see a huge change. Raise the tax ten cents a month over the next three years and you'll see much less of a change.
If you're not making enough to pay any taxes, you're not making enough to own a car. Yes, the tax funds should go into mass transit.
We should raise the gas taxes. This will keep money in the US instead of foreign government hands, help the budget problems, reduce global warming, lower oil prices, and weaken our enemies. Then we can afford to boost companies like Tesla, who will eventually make cars for everyone, if they survive.