Something you do not understand, getting back in the car like he was told IS EXACTLY the right thing to do. Before you go around pretending you run the world, ask yourself this:
Is there a situation I am not aware of that the officers are? Is there a safety concern they know about that I do not? Do I expect them to converse with me about a situation while it happens? If you really thing that defying authorities is the best way to live your life, go right ahead, and we'll be reading about your incident next.
People are so egocentric. Consider the possibilities before you go causing problems.
Haven't you ever called a collection of songs by the same artist an album? What is an album? When I think of album, I think of the really good ones, you know, the ones that sell like a million copies. Don't they call that, "having a gold album"?
You can't call an album anything else, or else it's something different. Yet that's what everyone calls them... well... other than records.
It seems to me like MS has started acting on consumer's behalf in the past year or two. Despite how much I hate Office and how that unit operates, they have been doing a lot of other things that I've been rather impressed with.
Maybe the government needs to stop subsidizing poor educators and abolish the union. Teachers make the wages they do because of master agreements that doesn't take the individuals into account.
Did you know para-educators don't receive an increase in pay for having a bachelor's degree? Yet, they can receive tuition reimbursement. Their master agreement greatly follows the teacher's.
Meanwhile you have teachers who are flat out no good at their job (due to incompetence or complacency) making the same wage as an equivalently schooled and experienced teacher who is a natural and actually does a good job.
The knowledge teachers include in their lesson plans is not what's for sale here. It's the methodology teachers use to engage the students that is important.
If any teacher, public or private, wishes to take what's convenient, they can buy a ready made lesson plan, just add students. If they want to develop their own, well that's work now isn't it?
So I tried a few of the searches myself, I wanted to see what these pages actually said.
After reading the article here, I found myself in a world of hilarity. The web is an interesting place.
I understand that many areas of the nation never see significant snowfall, but in reality, for those that do, roundabouts are disastrous to driving.
I've never driven a snowplow, but I think it would be kind of difficult to plow snow in a roundabout.
You probably also have to consider the slickness of the road. Curves cause accidents, and that's all a roundabout is.
All the electricity savings you picture would need to go right out of the window once the roundabout was designed with some type of thermal coil underneath the pavement in order to keep the ground warm.
I live in Denver, so I would imagine our snowfall amounts are a bit different than DC, but I think the argument for roundabouts is one that should be left out of colder climates.
Have you ever seen what the Colorado River looks like as it "dumps" into the Sea of Cortez? Its flow is not infinite, and a once vast marsh is now barely a trickle due to its use in agriculture.
I wonder, also, if you have ever seen how the land in California's Central Valley has changed in the last 100 years due to agricultural use of the aquifer.
I've heard before that one of the reasons the Mongols were so successful was that they not only used packs of dogs during their raids, but would then eat them later. They killed the proverbial birds with this tactic, using them as self replenishing ammo that was edible.
Anyone else heard of this? Quick googling proves inconclusive.
As a para who is forced to restrain several kids per month due to *wildcard*, I observe rather quickly how student engagement (or lack thereof) negatively affects their behavior.
The bottom line is that students need to be engaged, ideally through internal motivators, and I'm not sure if traditional educational philosophies are meeting the challenges of a digital age.
Something needs to be done and designing a new format should be near the top of priorities. Though, I'm not sure it makes sense to lengthen a school year without significantly decreasing hours in addition to providing a number of updated extracurricular activities.
I have been attending UoP since June, and they most certainly do NOT support Linux. Jokes aside about my choice in schools, I have had a hard enough time sticking with openOffice and Windows 7.
I'm pretty sure that we are technically required to have MS Office, but I have been using openOffice since the get go. When I tried to use it instead of Visio to build a chart, I was quickly told that I HAD to use Visio (and then converted to jpg and placed in a Word file, but I digress).
This fact alone eliminates Linux, which I can ALMOST understand since this is UoP, but I sure would hope that UC Berkeley supports it.
Since ~1996 I have had the idea of public, as well as other forms of education, adopting electronic formats for their required texts. Sure, then it would have been a little ahead of its time, but now...
With the ever growing budget deficits facing many school districts, as well as the prevalence of laptops in education down to the high school level, isn't it time we looked at distributing text in a pdf or other format?
The costs of textbooks for 11th and 12th grade combined easily surpass the cost of a new netbook for the student to view these files on.
As an educator I would rather the district cut costs by finding more efficient means of delivering the education rather than eliminate integral parts of that same education, such as PE, arts, and technology.
So Eve has an extended downtime tonight. Just so happens this old argument about isk farmers shows up on/. tonight. Coincidence? I think rather not. Did you see those dorks over there whining about how much isk/hour they make? hahaha. That's eve!
I have been promoting Linux boxes at the special ed facility I work at for about three years. It just isn't happening.
At the beginning of last year, I submitted a proposal that would install computers in each class, fully wired, for about $200 a computer material cost. Of course I would be doing the install and support, which would bring that cost up a little as I don't work for free, but not by much, as I told the principal I would be more than fare with what I would need to be paid.
It's like many of these posters have said, the older generation simply can't understand that Linux and FOSS are legitimate options. They know Windows, and they have seen how it crashes, gets viruses, loses stuff, etc and they subscribe to the thought of "you get what you pay for". If Windows is expensive, and it crashes, then Linux must not work at all, because it's free.
I'm doing my best to convince the staff around me, but it's just not easy to do. I still have a job to do, and can't relinquish my duties in order to spend my day showing people how cool it actually is. What Linux needs is a spokesperson.
I have been teaching myself some programming (again, after 15 years), and started because of Stanford's free online courses. They use Karel at first (but quickly shift to Java), and I found it a fun and easy way to get used to all the basic tasks of writing code.
I work at a special ed facility, and I started teaching a student who is fond of and familiar with computers (his dad happens to work at Sun) Karel quite quickly.
This student is in the 96th percentile or higher in all academic tests, with the exception of his processing speed, which is in the 25th. He picked up on the fundamentals within a week with Karel.
What's also great about it, is that you are given specific tasks to solve. I found that to be a significant barrier in learning programming myself. I didn't have something to code. Figuring out some of the introductory problems in Karel was quite satisfying.
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Something you do not understand, getting back in the car like he was told IS EXACTLY the right thing to do. Before you go around pretending you run the world, ask yourself this:
Is there a situation I am not aware of that the officers are? Is there a safety concern they know about that I do not? Do I expect them to converse with me about a situation while it happens? If you really thing that defying authorities is the best way to live your life, go right ahead, and we'll be reading about your incident next.
People are so egocentric. Consider the possibilities before you go causing problems.
Haven't you ever called a collection of songs by the same artist an album? What is an album? When I think of album, I think of the really good ones, you know, the ones that sell like a million copies. Don't they call that, "having a gold album"?
You can't call an album anything else, or else it's something different. Yet that's what everyone calls them... well... other than records.
Keep in mind that attitudes like this create the same complacency that makes us vulnerable.
Don't dismiss something at face value because you "feel" there is a political motive behind it. It might hurt, but try to remain objective.
I anticipate a series of lawsuits culminating with Wordpress being sued for supplying Greenbaum with the user's IP address.
Clearly, nobody is to blame here, just the tool. Wordpress is evil and should be eradicated.
It seems to me like MS has started acting on consumer's behalf in the past year or two. Despite how much I hate Office and how that unit operates, they have been doing a lot of other things that I've been rather impressed with.
Maybe the government needs to stop subsidizing poor educators and abolish the union. Teachers make the wages they do because of master agreements that doesn't take the individuals into account.
Did you know para-educators don't receive an increase in pay for having a bachelor's degree? Yet, they can receive tuition reimbursement. Their master agreement greatly follows the teacher's.
Meanwhile you have teachers who are flat out no good at their job (due to incompetence or complacency) making the same wage as an equivalently schooled and experienced teacher who is a natural and actually does a good job.
The knowledge teachers include in their lesson plans is not what's for sale here. It's the methodology teachers use to engage the students that is important.
If any teacher, public or private, wishes to take what's convenient, they can buy a ready made lesson plan, just add students. If they want to develop their own, well that's work now isn't it?
So I tried a few of the searches myself, I wanted to see what these pages actually said. After reading the article here, I found myself in a world of hilarity. The web is an interesting place.
Headline reads:
Starbucks wifi user identity stolen when rogue AP steals dashboard info.
I understand that many areas of the nation never see significant snowfall, but in reality, for those that do, roundabouts are disastrous to driving.
I've never driven a snowplow, but I think it would be kind of difficult to plow snow in a roundabout.
You probably also have to consider the slickness of the road. Curves cause accidents, and that's all a roundabout is.
All the electricity savings you picture would need to go right out of the window once the roundabout was designed with some type of thermal coil underneath the pavement in order to keep the ground warm.
I live in Denver, so I would imagine our snowfall amounts are a bit different than DC, but I think the argument for roundabouts is one that should be left out of colder climates.
Have you ever seen what the Colorado River looks like as it "dumps" into the Sea of Cortez? Its flow is not infinite, and a once vast marsh is now barely a trickle due to its use in agriculture.
I wonder, also, if you have ever seen how the land in California's Central Valley has changed in the last 100 years due to agricultural use of the aquifer.
I've heard before that one of the reasons the Mongols were so successful was that they not only used packs of dogs during their raids, but would then eat them later. They killed the proverbial birds with this tactic, using them as self replenishing ammo that was edible.
Anyone else heard of this? Quick googling proves inconclusive.
As a para who is forced to restrain several kids per month due to *wildcard*, I observe rather quickly how student engagement (or lack thereof) negatively affects their behavior.
The bottom line is that students need to be engaged, ideally through internal motivators, and I'm not sure if traditional educational philosophies are meeting the challenges of a digital age.
Something needs to be done and designing a new format should be near the top of priorities. Though, I'm not sure it makes sense to lengthen a school year without significantly decreasing hours in addition to providing a number of updated extracurricular activities.
I have been attending UoP since June, and they most certainly do NOT support Linux. Jokes aside about my choice in schools, I have had a hard enough time sticking with openOffice and Windows 7.
I'm pretty sure that we are technically required to have MS Office, but I have been using openOffice since the get go. When I tried to use it instead of Visio to build a chart, I was quickly told that I HAD to use Visio (and then converted to jpg and placed in a Word file, but I digress).
This fact alone eliminates Linux, which I can ALMOST understand since this is UoP, but I sure would hope that UC Berkeley supports it.
Since ~1996 I have had the idea of public, as well as other forms of education, adopting electronic formats for their required texts. Sure, then it would have been a little ahead of its time, but now...
With the ever growing budget deficits facing many school districts, as well as the prevalence of laptops in education down to the high school level, isn't it time we looked at distributing text in a pdf or other format?
The costs of textbooks for 11th and 12th grade combined easily surpass the cost of a new netbook for the student to view these files on.
As an educator I would rather the district cut costs by finding more efficient means of delivering the education rather than eliminate integral parts of that same education, such as PE, arts, and technology.
So Eve has an extended downtime tonight. Just so happens this old argument about isk farmers shows up on /. tonight. Coincidence? I think rather not. Did you see those dorks over there whining about how much isk/hour they make? hahaha. That's eve!
Google, Yahoo, msn, all you guys...
1. Figure the expense of Nigerian spam
2. Ask Nigerians to stop
3. ????
4. Profit
Why can't we just have a pressure sensitive mouse? Graphics tablets aren't for everyone, mmkay?
This is why I'm studying IT security. Boy does this field need some help.
I have been promoting Linux boxes at the special ed facility I work at for about three years. It just isn't happening. At the beginning of last year, I submitted a proposal that would install computers in each class, fully wired, for about $200 a computer material cost. Of course I would be doing the install and support, which would bring that cost up a little as I don't work for free, but not by much, as I told the principal I would be more than fare with what I would need to be paid. It's like many of these posters have said, the older generation simply can't understand that Linux and FOSS are legitimate options. They know Windows, and they have seen how it crashes, gets viruses, loses stuff, etc and they subscribe to the thought of "you get what you pay for". If Windows is expensive, and it crashes, then Linux must not work at all, because it's free. I'm doing my best to convince the staff around me, but it's just not easy to do. I still have a job to do, and can't relinquish my duties in order to spend my day showing people how cool it actually is. What Linux needs is a spokesperson.
I have been teaching myself some programming (again, after 15 years), and started because of Stanford's free online courses. They use Karel at first (but quickly shift to Java), and I found it a fun and easy way to get used to all the basic tasks of writing code. I work at a special ed facility, and I started teaching a student who is fond of and familiar with computers (his dad happens to work at Sun) Karel quite quickly. This student is in the 96th percentile or higher in all academic tests, with the exception of his processing speed, which is in the 25th. He picked up on the fundamentals within a week with Karel. What's also great about it, is that you are given specific tasks to solve. I found that to be a significant barrier in learning programming myself. I didn't have something to code. Figuring out some of the introductory problems in Karel was quite satisfying.