think about what the senior year average grade point will look like when the students that could test out already have? Time to re-tool No Child Left Behind!;-)
They'll only be far to young if they're the only ones. I have a feeling a lot of kids will be able to show the proper aptitude, and I have a feeling that college entrance exams will be re-tooled and remedial courses in college will go up a bit.
I'm a mechanical design engineer who has to quote my work. The initial quote is most likely blown away when the customer comes back with more changes than budgeted in concept phase, and brings changes again when we're past "the point of no return".
Oh how I miss the days of desparate customers willing to pay Time and Materials... sigh
At least Power Steering and Power Brakes were options back then. Once they became standard, they got better, but still didn't have the same feedback.
Driving a 1970 Corvette with versus without powersteering is insane. The power steering is so strong you can't feel the road at all. Granted, the non-powered car has a ridiculous dead space in the steering box to allow the car to track straight.
You can still steer without power steering. It's just WAY HARDER.
Speaking from experience, cars built w/o powersteering have larger steering wheels and more favorable steering box ratios. So long as your moving, turning the wheel will be difficult, but not impossible.
Steering while stopped? Forget about it.
If you run out of gas again, turn on your 4-ways and start moving over... don't stop, let the car coast. Stop once you're out of traffic. People will get out of your way. It's better than stranding yourself in the middle of traffic.
And no, I didn't lose power steering because I ran out of gas. I had a full-size van that would shut down in turns, exactly when you didn't want the power steering to fail. Granted, that van had generously geared steering, so it wasn't so bad. I could re-start the engine before I lost too much momentum. Other cars I've had motors quit on me have been worse, but still relatively easy to move.
At 10,000 tons annually (assuming no down time), a reactor can gross the company $300,000 - $500,000 if they're getting $10/bbl. Assuming they're selling for a modest 5% profit, that's $15,000 - $25,000 per reactor. Hope they got a couple of reactors for that $5mil price tag.
Fortunately, at $10/bbl, they are way under competitor prices for oil, so if they end up having to pay for scrap/salvaged plastic, they have room to increase the price.
The summary mentions that the end product can be blended with crude. Can the product be refined on its own, or is it inferior quality to light sweet crude? Will this be another blend of gasoline/diesel to advertise? 10% recycled oil, 10% ethanol, reformulated, etc.
I've almost wanted to learn the song, just so I could do it when asked. Fortunately, I stopped playing after college, so I don't get the request anymore;-)
So did the state governments for those countries not know that toxic waste was on those ships when they were sank? If a shipping vessel is leaving a dock, doesn't it have to post a manifest?
Maybe the manifests were doctored so that the government thought the toxic waste made it safely to its destination on a different boat, and the sunk boat was carrying a bunch of olive oil. I guess that makes sense.
Man, I think I missed this episode of Captain Planet. Would the bad guy be the Pig-faced guy, the toxic waste girl, or the well-tailored poacher?
2) HD Radio is higher fidelity than FM, and that's what it's being compared to. ("Definition" doesn't really work with audio, anyway)
Partially True. A station has a set amount of data it can transfer. If a station splits its signal over too many channels (like High-Def's sub-channels), you can get down to a quality that is indeed worse than FM.
This is a major oversight if Microsoft isn't going to allow 3rd party apps. Maybe when they get around to supporting it, you'll be able to install apps without using an iTunes-style interface. Directly from app's website perhaps?
...Advertising always paid for the content, which in the endless search for neutrality to avoid losing any ad-viewers (Erm, readers...) has helped drive the quality to zero.
Newspapers are neutral? That's news to me! I'd bet it's also news to the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. My local paper, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has been putting leaning articles into its paper for years and have passed it off as objective. Its left-leaning, and it's been losing market share. I doubt it's because it's not left-leaning enough.
As other threads have stated, it depends on the kid.
My whole family went through the Montessori program from 3-year-old kindergarten to 5-8th grade. Some did really well and others, well, not so good.
The structure part of Montessori is really important - if a student is allowed to skate through without honing skills, they can leave really academically unbalanced.
I didn't like biology, so I kept doing the same vertibrate/invertibrate flash cards. I didn't like reading, so I read the same book on greek mythology during reading time.
I really like the idea of Montessori so long as it's implemented properly (I know Montessori teachers have to go through an extensive training period before getting certified), but it also takes parent involvement to get things done. Even then, a kid or two will figure out how to skate through the system and not learn what they were supposed to. By that point, you're in an area where a conventional school can pick them up and get them back to speed in a remedial program.
The rules for what gets considered a profit in banking has changed greatly over the years. In the oil business, it's a little more simple.
A lot of bank's assets had to be written down when the fed mandated that present value of holdings, not future values, had to be used. This contributed to the wall street collapse. I think it's called mark to market.
Granted, oil companies have a lot of similar assets, but they have the advantage of selling an invaluable commodity. This world needs oil to survive, and while companies come and go, the masses will still need to get around.
If that is true, why are wells with lots of available oil across the country not being pumped? If it were true that they weren't looking towards the future, they would not consider this "easy" oil an asset for future use. It would be cheaper to pump that oil now than to pay $70/bbl from the mid-east. However, in the future, that oil could be pumped when the mid-east is charging $200/bbl.
If they perceive a shortage of oil, which would lead to inflated prices, it would be in their best interests to determine a way of getting oil. If one path leads to profits now, but bankruptcy in 10 years, that's not good business. The most profitable path is the one that is sustainable for the company.
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think about what the senior year average grade point will look like when the students that could test out already have? Time to re-tool No Child Left Behind! ;-)
They'll only be far to young if they're the only ones. I have a feeling a lot of kids will be able to show the proper aptitude, and I have a feeling that college entrance exams will be re-tooled and remedial courses in college will go up a bit.
Bravo!
I'm a mechanical design engineer who has to quote my work. The initial quote is most likely blown away when the customer comes back with more changes than budgeted in concept phase, and brings changes again when we're past "the point of no return".
Oh how I miss the days of desparate customers willing to pay Time and Materials... sigh
It appears that this update reflects chipped XBoxes. I guess this story isn't about the storage update that is coming up?
I'm waiting on that update to determine if I can buy a laptop 120GB drive for $60 instead of just deleting crap off my 20GB drive.
How are they supposed to get coconuts?
Could somebody give me a car-based analogy to this article?
At least Power Steering and Power Brakes were options back then. Once they became standard, they got better, but still didn't have the same feedback.
Driving a 1970 Corvette with versus without powersteering is insane. The power steering is so strong you can't feel the road at all. Granted, the non-powered car has a ridiculous dead space in the steering box to allow the car to track straight.
I withdraw my comment after reading the post again. Sorry!
You can still steer without power steering. It's just WAY HARDER.
Speaking from experience, cars built w/o powersteering have larger steering wheels and more favorable steering box ratios. So long as your moving, turning the wheel will be difficult, but not impossible.
Steering while stopped? Forget about it.
If you run out of gas again, turn on your 4-ways and start moving over... don't stop, let the car coast. Stop once you're out of traffic. People will get out of your way. It's better than stranding yourself in the middle of traffic.
And no, I didn't lose power steering because I ran out of gas. I had a full-size van that would shut down in turns, exactly when you didn't want the power steering to fail. Granted, that van had generously geared steering, so it wasn't so bad. I could re-start the engine before I lost too much momentum. Other cars I've had motors quit on me have been worse, but still relatively easy to move.
Remember the warnings on those polarized glasses?
"Warning! Do not wear outside!" Dunno if it was for spatial awareness or if the polarizing messes with your eyes in higher sunlight.
But if they can't improve on 50cm, I'm just getting a 2ft extension cord for fixed items.
(sorry for mixing units)
Although, that would be a way to patch a cracked case
At 10,000 tons annually (assuming no down time), a reactor can gross the company $300,000 - $500,000 if they're getting $10/bbl. Assuming they're selling for a modest 5% profit, that's $15,000 - $25,000 per reactor. Hope they got a couple of reactors for that $5mil price tag.
Fortunately, at $10/bbl, they are way under competitor prices for oil, so if they end up having to pay for scrap/salvaged plastic, they have room to increase the price.
The summary mentions that the end product can be blended with crude. Can the product be refined on its own, or is it inferior quality to light sweet crude? Will this be another blend of gasoline/diesel to advertise? 10% recycled oil, 10% ethanol, reformulated, etc.
...just make sure your steel-shafted umbrella isn't the highest structure in the immediate area.
I've almost wanted to learn the song, just so I could do it when asked. Fortunately, I stopped playing after college, so I don't get the request anymore ;-)
Kanye's the jackass. Didn't you see TMZ? ;-)
Step 2a: Somali Pirates get radiation poisoning
Step 2b: Repeat until no more pirates.
Step 2c: Ship without fear of pirates
So did the state governments for those countries not know that toxic waste was on those ships when they were sank? If a shipping vessel is leaving a dock, doesn't it have to post a manifest?
Maybe the manifests were doctored so that the government thought the toxic waste made it safely to its destination on a different boat, and the sunk boat was carrying a bunch of olive oil. I guess that makes sense.
Man, I think I missed this episode of Captain Planet. Would the bad guy be the Pig-faced guy, the toxic waste girl, or the well-tailored poacher?
2) HD Radio is higher fidelity than FM, and that's what it's being compared to. ("Definition" doesn't really work with audio, anyway)
Partially True. A station has a set amount of data it can transfer. If a station splits its signal over too many channels (like High-Def's sub-channels), you can get down to a quality that is indeed worse than FM.
This is a major oversight if Microsoft isn't going to allow 3rd party apps. Maybe when they get around to supporting it, you'll be able to install apps without using an iTunes-style interface. Directly from app's website perhaps?
...Advertising always paid for the content, which in the endless search for neutrality to avoid losing any ad-viewers (Erm, readers...) has helped drive the quality to zero.
Newspapers are neutral? That's news to me! I'd bet it's also news to the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. My local paper, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has been putting leaning articles into its paper for years and have passed it off as objective. Its left-leaning, and it's been losing market share. I doubt it's because it's not left-leaning enough.
As other threads have stated, it depends on the kid.
My whole family went through the Montessori program from 3-year-old kindergarten to 5-8th grade. Some did really well and others, well, not so good.
The structure part of Montessori is really important - if a student is allowed to skate through without honing skills, they can leave really academically unbalanced.
I didn't like biology, so I kept doing the same vertibrate/invertibrate flash cards. I didn't like reading, so I read the same book on greek mythology during reading time.
I really like the idea of Montessori so long as it's implemented properly (I know Montessori teachers have to go through an extensive training period before getting certified), but it also takes parent involvement to get things done. Even then, a kid or two will figure out how to skate through the system and not learn what they were supposed to. By that point, you're in an area where a conventional school can pick them up and get them back to speed in a remedial program.
So, it's not like the old turbo buttons? That thing NEVER got turned off :-)
50Mhz was soo slow.... (Ah, good old 486-DX2 processors)
The rules for what gets considered a profit in banking has changed greatly over the years. In the oil business, it's a little more simple.
A lot of bank's assets had to be written down when the fed mandated that present value of holdings, not future values, had to be used. This contributed to the wall street collapse. I think it's called mark to market.
Granted, oil companies have a lot of similar assets, but they have the advantage of selling an invaluable commodity. This world needs oil to survive, and while companies come and go, the masses will still need to get around.
If that is true, why are wells with lots of available oil across the country not being pumped? If it were true that they weren't looking towards the future, they would not consider this "easy" oil an asset for future use. It would be cheaper to pump that oil now than to pay $70/bbl from the mid-east. However, in the future, that oil could be pumped when the mid-east is charging $200/bbl.
If they perceive a shortage of oil, which would lead to inflated prices, it would be in their best interests to determine a way of getting oil. If one path leads to profits now, but bankruptcy in 10 years, that's not good business. The most profitable path is the one that is sustainable for the company.