..or can you:
"I've kept careful records of your stories for many years and I've got the evidence. Pre-2004 showed a disagree mail stupidity rating of 87% and a hilarity rate of 13%. From 2004 until today the disagree mail stupidity rating has crashed to a mere 62% while the hilarity rate has climbed to 38%. Am I to believe that a 25% increase in hilarity is not significant. When i comment on this trend I get marked as a troll, nice. I suppose that is a coincidence to. Good work I'm sure the current political administartion will own you soon. I used to enjoy your message before it became Bill and Bush's."
In all seriousness, isn't this why we have proctors, so that someone can watch you while you perform tasks required for your grade?
Simple answer: cost.
I work at a community college, and although we do have an academic testing centre -- the priority is to provide an alternate testing environment for students with disabilities. The secondary priority is students who miss tests for legitimate reasons (medical, weather, etc.).
There simply isn't capacity to allow every student in every online course to come onto campus to complete their assessments. It isn't built into the costing/tuition.
This is the real question. It is in the processing that these alternative fuels get 'evened out' in a sense. The same holds for hydrogen. Even if you have a 0 carbon footprint fuel when burned, if you look at the full life cycle of the fuel it will be an entirely different story.
That being said, biofuel has some great potential. In some European cities they have trains running on biofuel made from grapes. Other cities are using waste (i.e. corn husks) from agricultural industries. However, this company sounds like it could be trying to rake in on the hype and could indeed be a pump and dump scheme.
Here is the first comment from the linked article: "I support this move. I go further to say that we should stop teaching physics and chemistry in school. These so called 'science' are controversial... Imagine trying to explain a force that can not been seen, felt and is suppose to hold sun and earth together (gravity). This is all guess work.
And this thing called the 'atom' is just plain silly. Do 'chemist' expect people to believe that every thing is made of something called the atom. And that by simply rearranging 'atoms' we get things with different characteristics. Different colors, melting temperature etc.
This is just too much to believe. I have never seen an atom nor have I seen gravity.
I suggest that we teach children magic, holy prayer and alchemy as an alternative to this dogma of science. It would teach children critical thinking and not limit their view of the world to dogma. Children should have an open mind."
I have to wonder how wide-spread such beliefs are in the United States. I fully support religious teachings in an appropriate setting, and even welcome religious classes in a public school setting. This, if done respectfully, can lead to greater understanding and unity. However, to give primacy to a view that discounts all modern science is absurd.
To be fair, I am responding to a comment on the article and it may not be representative. But I have to ask whether individuals that express views like this realize how ingrained modern scientific knowledges are within our society. It may be 'guess work', but guess work has brought us cures to many diseases, prolonged our life expectancy, etc., etc. . There is nothing dogmatic about the fight to cure cancer, or to stop climate change, etc.
From the linked article:
The Microsoft bid never made sense from a business perspective either. Yahoo has always had stale search offerings, second rate search technology, and a mediocre unmotivated workforce. Yahoo derives its value primarily from the massive web-traffic the company controls, but the cost of controlling this web-traffic is likely to be prohibitive for Microsoft
Second rate, stale, mediocre, unmotivated: sounds like a perfect fit for the Microsoft empire.
Surely you jest. This reminds me of when BBS's were in vogue in the early 1990's and RoboBBS software came out. Now you could go from beautiful ansi graphics (well thought out design in most cases) to a clunky GUI with limited ability for innovative design (esp. at 24oo baud or 14.4k).
The bandwidth is no longer an issue. But I have to ask, what value is being added here ?!
I always wondered what would have happened if Bill Gates was driven by a different set of priorities.
History would be very different if Microsoft followed the example of companies like 3M that expect employees to spend a modest percentage of their time on explorative projects (this is where post-it notes came from).
Of course, Microsoft follows its own mode of development.
Regardless, I'm inclined to argue that we have a healthy OS ecosystem out there. .
if you have access to the new "owner's" social-networking and private information, this may be a perfect opportunity for vigilante justice or, failing that, pure entertainment value.
haunt that box.. ( insert scary ghost sounds here )
Lunacy, yes. But the root cause was that Chairface Chippendale had designed a giant heat ray designed by Professor Cromedome to carve his name into the face of the moon.
http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/moon.jpg
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can't wait for the bollywood industry to set their hindi love films in space.. (cue dancers)
these posts were quite humorous, but the last few have been sub-par at best! perhaps this should be a monthly feature when the quality warrants it !
..or can you: "I've kept careful records of your stories for many years and I've got the evidence. Pre-2004 showed a disagree mail stupidity rating of 87% and a hilarity rate of 13%. From 2004 until today the disagree mail stupidity rating has crashed to a mere 62% while the hilarity rate has climbed to 38%. Am I to believe that a 25% increase in hilarity is not significant. When i comment on this trend I get marked as a troll, nice. I suppose that is a coincidence to. Good work I'm sure the current political administartion will own you soon. I used to enjoy your message before it became Bill and Bush's."
If Psystar wins, then everybody and their grandmas will be running OSX.
i for one welcome our OSX running, grandma overlords!
In all seriousness, isn't this why we have proctors, so that someone can watch you while you perform tasks required for your grade?
Simple answer: cost. I work at a community college, and although we do have an academic testing centre -- the priority is to provide an alternate testing environment for students with disabilities. The secondary priority is students who miss tests for legitimate reasons (medical, weather, etc.).
There simply isn't capacity to allow every student in every online course to come onto campus to complete their assessments. It isn't built into the costing/tuition.
This is the real question. It is in the processing that these alternative fuels get 'evened out' in a sense. The same holds for hydrogen. Even if you have a 0 carbon footprint fuel when burned, if you look at the full life cycle of the fuel it will be an entirely different story.
That being said, biofuel has some great potential. In some European cities they have trains running on biofuel made from grapes. Other cities are using waste (i.e. corn husks) from agricultural industries. However, this company sounds like it could be trying to rake in on the hype and could indeed be a pump and dump scheme.
Here is the first comment from the linked article: "I support this move. I go further to say that we should stop teaching physics and chemistry in school. These so called 'science' are controversial... Imagine trying to explain a force that can not been seen, felt and is suppose to hold sun and earth together (gravity). This is all guess work. And this thing called the 'atom' is just plain silly. Do 'chemist' expect people to believe that every thing is made of something called the atom. And that by simply rearranging 'atoms' we get things with different characteristics. Different colors, melting temperature etc. This is just too much to believe. I have never seen an atom nor have I seen gravity. I suggest that we teach children magic, holy prayer and alchemy as an alternative to this dogma of science. It would teach children critical thinking and not limit their view of the world to dogma. Children should have an open mind."
I have to wonder how wide-spread such beliefs are in the United States. I fully support religious teachings in an appropriate setting, and even welcome religious classes in a public school setting. This, if done respectfully, can lead to greater understanding and unity. However, to give primacy to a view that discounts all modern science is absurd.
To be fair, I am responding to a comment on the article and it may not be representative. But I have to ask whether individuals that express views like this realize how ingrained modern scientific knowledges are within our society. It may be 'guess work', but guess work has brought us cures to many diseases, prolonged our life expectancy, etc., etc. . There is nothing dogmatic about the fight to cure cancer, or to stop climate change, etc.
From the linked article: The Microsoft bid never made sense from a business perspective either. Yahoo has always had stale search offerings, second rate search technology, and a mediocre unmotivated workforce. Yahoo derives its value primarily from the massive web-traffic the company controls, but the cost of controlling this web-traffic is likely to be prohibitive for Microsoft
Second rate, stale, mediocre, unmotivated: sounds like a perfect fit for the Microsoft empire.
It's like listening to a police officer giving testimony in court (and trying to sound more intelligent).
..... "
"I proceeded to approach the accused. Afterwhich, I proceeded to question the individual and
What ever happened to good, clean use of language?
Surely you jest. This reminds me of when BBS's were in vogue in the early 1990's and RoboBBS software came out. Now you could go from beautiful ansi graphics (well thought out design in most cases) to a clunky GUI with limited ability for innovative design (esp. at 24oo baud or 14.4k). The bandwidth is no longer an issue. But I have to ask, what value is being added here ?!
I always wondered what would have happened if Bill Gates was driven by a different set of priorities. History would be very different if Microsoft followed the example of companies like 3M that expect employees to spend a modest percentage of their time on explorative projects (this is where post-it notes came from). Of course, Microsoft follows its own mode of development. Regardless, I'm inclined to argue that we have a healthy OS ecosystem out there. .
WWJD -- ask What would Jesus Do ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_would_Jesus_do ( hehe.. sorry, not meant to be offensive ) . . a .>
oh come on. . if you RTFA, it's a jewish dating site. at the very least, mod me score:0, bad humour ..!
WWJD -- ask What would Jesus Do ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_would_Jesus_do ( hehe.. sorry, not meant to be offensive ) . . a .>
if you have access to the new "owner's" social-networking and private information, this may be a perfect opportunity for vigilante justice or, failing that, pure entertainment value. haunt that box .. ( insert scary ghost sounds here )
Lunacy, yes. But the root cause was that Chairface Chippendale had designed a giant heat ray designed by Professor Cromedome to carve his name into the face of the moon. http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/moon.jpg