While this may be true at the college level, high school and below standardized testing generally consists of.. Do you remember what you were told in class. Anyone who can get through the EE exams has my full respect. I know those are extremely difficult and it takes a talented individual to make through them.
I agree with you on the end results of torture. I left out the sarcasm tag and probably didn't word smith enough to pass the sarcasm through in the post.
Forcing a detainee to inhale pheromones which induce a state of terror and has not been classified as torture, Therefor, it can be freely used during interrogations to obtain information. Why bother with water boarding someone when you can induce the same levels of terror through a little sniff of fear.
On the civilian side I guess my fear of flying will be detected every time I travel and I will constantly have to visit the little security office for questioning.
It seems to me to be the height of hypocrisy that business leaders (Gates and company) complain about a lack of scientifically/technologically trained Americans, and thus we need to increase H1-B visas. These same leaders then turn around and support republican candidates who don't believe in evolution and want to water down the science curriculum by introducing Intelligent Design.
While I can agree that the debate of which creation theory is taught in schools does have an impact on science curriculum there are larger factors at play.
One of the largest factors in American is the requirement for Standardized Testing. While Standardized Testing ensures students learn a minimum set of information it also limits the teachers to teaching the minimum of what is on the test, just to be sure that students do well on the test. This type of teaching is no more than stating information and requiring the student to spout that same information back. There is no Standardized Testing to ensure that students have basic logic skills and can effectively reason through a problem.
Additionally, I would consider teacher salaries as a primary factor. If you can't entice the people who are better suited for teaching and capable of teaching at a higher level into teaching then the students level of learning will suffer. People who want to teach and who are extremely proficient at it are being drawn away by higher paying jobs in the private sector.
Why am I concerned about this..
My kids are in Advance Placement classes and on a frequent basis come home frustrated because a teacher would rather argue with them than admit that something the teacher said was wrong and didn't want to be corrected by a student who had looked up the facts. When the students are more capable of research and fact finding than the teachers of advanced level courses there is a huge problem with the system. A problem who's roots lay deeper than whether Intelligent Design or Evolution is taught in science class. Students who have been taught to THINK and REASON instead of MEMORIZE FACTS are usually more than capable of making the ID/Evolution decision on their own.
Homo homini lupus - "Man is a wolf to man." It is an old Roman proverb that speaks to the tendency of humans to treat each other like prey.
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You can already use MySQL as the database engine for Open Office.
At home all my databases Contact, CD, DVD, and others are kept on MySQL databases with PHP front ends. I also have several documents and spreadsheets which pull off of this data.;) Yes I was trolling a little, however I do recognize the flexibility of OOo in the database area and have found it to be more stable and usable than the interfaces in MS Office applications. Best thing is the OOo interfaces are stable and will probably be supported for a significant amount of time instead of the flavor of the release interface path that MS seems to be chasing.
The development environment in OOo (Base) is a database client, not a database engine. Base does bundle the HSQLDB database engine, but even that is just XML tables, and shouldn't be used for anything serious.
The only thing I use desktop databases for (Access mainly for work) is data conversion when it has to be done off-line or is being ported to a new application. There have been too many times when someone has come up and said hey I got this Access database can you....web...multi-user...network reports... Then they have the nerve to get upset when the new application doesn't look, or act like there old Access system, but the people who have to use it usually are extremely happy with it.
As far as the quality of Base, yep it's rough, but it's also brand new for OOo v2. It's being actively developed, and there are plans to use it to allow users to share data from several FOSS packages within the suite.
As with any of the OOo applications I would fully expect Base to continue to grow and become more feature rich. The OOo developers have been doing a great job with all of the applications in the package and I can't wait to see the future versions of Base. I would foresee a time (near future probably) where Base is fully capable of meeting any desktop database requirement and would allow for a large number of options which are easy to use, however I'll probably still use MySql for my DB needs.
Thanks for the feedback and for being able to read through a little sarcasm.
You forgot to mention that the Turner announced that their Blu-Ray discs will have free iPod versions of the movies on the disc. Not perfect but a nice multi-use feature.
Pong. Yep.. I'm an old geezer. We thought Pong was the best thing since TV. Can't tell you how many hours we sat and played until the controllers wore out. Second was an Atari with about 30 games and 40 joysticks. I ended up hacking a joystick together with some aluminum scrap just so that stupid plastic ring wouldn't break anymore.
Only use a separate computer for banking, shouldn't be connected to any network or any powersource. Preferably all I/O ports should be fit with epoxy, especially the keyboard.. A large faraday cage over the monitor to prevent Van Eck as well.
Saying "Well the guy was my client so I had to protect his privacy." won't go over well with investigating police, the judge, the jury, or the guy you end up spending time with.
Well said.. Even lawyers have to report clients crimes or they can be in legal hot water and possilby charged as an accomplice. If a lawyer defending you for something finds out that you commited a different crime he has to report it. His first steps, however, will probably be to HIGHLY recommend that you turn yourself in and offer to represent you during the turn in process to minimize your risk and cover his own ass.
This guy is a complete idiot in several aspects, as most criminals are, 1. He should have never had that type of material to start with, and 2. he should have removed any illegal material prior to handing over the system to anyone. Honestly, I hope he gets a nice long prison sentance with a 300 lb. cell mate named bubba with bi-sexual tendancies.
Why just the other day I was working on some math problems and I hit 256/0... The next thing I know it's 3 hours later, my wife is hitting me in the head with a boot again, and yelling something about my face turning blue.
Even if they aren't granted immunity, I can guarantee you that no one is going to be arrested. No one in a corporation is ever arrested, no matter how many white collar crimes they commit, unless those crimes directly affect the pocketbook of other white collar citizens (e.g. Enron).
The immunity is not about sending people to jail it is about nulling out the civil lawsuits currently going on. If the Telcoms get immunity then the people that they have helped spy on have no recourse for civil lawsuits or compensation for having their 4th amendment rights trampled on.
In related news RIAA has announce the purchase of the NSA's outdated ECHELON system. According to RIAA lawyers they hope to used it to track down people calling their associates and discussing illegal file sharing. When asked how they would identify the parties on the phone, RIAA Lawyers indicated that it was not a concern and was irrelevant to any lawsuit they may or may not file. While it is unclear what the new keywords are for the RIAA ECHELON system will be there is some speculation that they will include (RIAA, ABBA, TINY TIM, SHARING, DOWNLOAD, UPLOAD, HD, NET RADIO, CAPTURE, and assorted others).
A Sony representative on hand indicated that they will also use the system in the war on HD formats and watch for keywords such as (BLUE-RAY, HD-DVD, CIRCUMVENTION, MAGIC NUMBER and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0).
Yes, but if the money is flowing into the right pocket(s) certain services/servers can bypass The Great Firewall. I am sure that these esteemed, and apparently resourceful, businessmen can negotiate a profitable relationship with the Chinese Government. Additionally, I'm not convinced that the Chinese Government is as concerned with what goes out of their country as much as they are concerned with what comes in. Certainly, given the all of the product recalls lately, you're aware of the high standards that the Chinese hold to their exports.
The Numbers
1. MSFT Pays: US $400,000
2. TDC Pays Mandriva: US$170,000 ($10 per license for 17,000 licenses)
3. TDC buys 17,000 Licenses from MSFT and charges Nigerian Gov. for overcost.
4. TDC installs XP on 17,000 computers
5. Bot Runners install 17,000 new nodes
6. ???
7. Profit for Bot Runners and MSFT, and TDC pockets US$230,000
The Numbers
1. MSFT Pays: US $400,000
2. TDC Pays Mandriva: US$170,000 ($10 per license for 17,000 licenses)
3. TDC buys 17,000 Licenses from MSFT and charges Nigerian Gov. for overcost.
4. TDC installs XP on 17,000 computers
5. Bot Runners install 17,000 new nodes
6. ???
7. Profit for Bot Runners and MSFT, and TDC pockets US$230,000
There's the numbers for ya.
What you've never heard of Deep Fried Coca Cola. I believe it originated in Texas. Growing up down south you learn quickly that if it can't be eaten any other way you can always deep fry it.
Obviously he should take the conviction, server two years, escape and live a long happy life in middle America after changing his name and ssn. That should give him a good 30 years or so to prove he is a productive citizen.
The SARJ, 10.5 ft in diameter and 40 inches long, will maintain the solar arrays in an optimal orientation to the sun while the entire space station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes. Drive motors in the SARJ will move the arrays through 360 degrees of motion at four degrees per minute. The joints must rotate the arrays smoothly without imparting vibrations to the laboratories and habitation modules on the station that would impact microgravity-processing activities. At the same time, 60 kW of power at 160 volts and multiple data channels are carried across each joint by copper "roll rings" contained within. From: Google Cached Lockeed Martin Article on the Panels.
The joints in question are huge and as this article points out any vibrations back into the ISS could cause problems with other equipment or experiments. Additionally power is transferred back to the ISS through copper rings in the unit itself. Any metal which provides a better circuit path than the copper would cause the power spikes.
Opening this thing up would be something like trying to rebuild an Automatic Transmission, then add the complexity of doing this in micro-gravity. It would probably be easier for NASA to send up a complete replacement instead of trying clean out all of the metal shavings and replace the parts that are damaged.
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While this may be true at the college level, high school and below standardized testing generally consists of.. Do you remember what you were told in class. Anyone who can get through the EE exams has my full respect. I know those are extremely difficult and it takes a talented individual to make through them.
I agree with you on the end results of torture. I left out the sarcasm tag and probably didn't word smith enough to pass the sarcasm through in the post.
On the civilian side I guess my fear of flying will be detected every time I travel and I will constantly have to visit the little security office for questioning.
While I can agree that the debate of which creation theory is taught in schools does have an impact on science curriculum there are larger factors at play.
One of the largest factors in American is the requirement for Standardized Testing. While Standardized Testing ensures students learn a minimum set of information it also limits the teachers to teaching the minimum of what is on the test, just to be sure that students do well on the test. This type of teaching is no more than stating information and requiring the student to spout that same information back. There is no Standardized Testing to ensure that students have basic logic skills and can effectively reason through a problem.
Additionally, I would consider teacher salaries as a primary factor. If you can't entice the people who are better suited for teaching and capable of teaching at a higher level into teaching then the students level of learning will suffer. People who want to teach and who are extremely proficient at it are being drawn away by higher paying jobs in the private sector.
Why am I concerned about this..
My kids are in Advance Placement classes and on a frequent basis come home frustrated because a teacher would rather argue with them than admit that something the teacher said was wrong and didn't want to be corrected by a student who had looked up the facts. When the students are more capable of research and fact finding than the teachers of advanced level courses there is a huge problem with the system. A problem who's roots lay deeper than whether Intelligent Design or Evolution is taught in science class. Students who have been taught to THINK and REASON instead of MEMORIZE FACTS are usually more than capable of making the ID/Evolution decision on their own.
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B.H.
Shame on you for implying that I.. I mean, southern white americans aka rednecks are smart enough to even figure out what an iPhone is!
At home all my databases Contact, CD, DVD, and others are kept on MySQL databases with PHP front ends. I also have several documents and spreadsheets which pull off of this data. ;) Yes I was trolling a little, however I do recognize the flexibility of OOo in the database area and have found it to be more stable and usable than the interfaces in MS Office applications. Best thing is the OOo interfaces are stable and will probably be supported for a significant amount of time instead of the flavor of the release interface path that MS seems to be chasing.
The only thing I use desktop databases for (Access mainly for work) is data conversion when it has to be done off-line or is being ported to a new application. There have been too many times when someone has come up and said hey I got this Access database can you....web...multi-user...network reports... Then they have the nerve to get upset when the new application doesn't look, or act like there old Access system, but the people who have to use it usually are extremely happy with it.
As with any of the OOo applications I would fully expect Base to continue to grow and become more feature rich. The OOo developers have been doing a great job with all of the applications in the package and I can't wait to see the future versions of Base. I would foresee a time (near future probably) where Base is fully capable of meeting any desktop database requirement and would allow for a large number of options which are easy to use, however I'll probably still use MySql for my DB needs.
Thanks for the feedback and for being able to read through a little sarcasm.
B.H.
One can only hope that they will be using this to replace the database that comes in Open Office.
You forgot to mention that the Turner announced that their Blu-Ray discs will have free iPod versions of the movies on the disc. Not perfect but a nice multi-use feature.
Pong. Yep.. I'm an old geezer. We thought Pong was the best thing since TV. Can't tell you how many hours we sat and played until the controllers wore out. Second was an Atari with about 30 games and 40 joysticks. I ended up hacking a joystick together with some aluminum scrap just so that stupid plastic ring wouldn't break anymore.
I'm making a tinfoil hat for my email server.. I didn't need that wifi connection to it anyway.
If your not paying attention to your Windows Updates Microsoft will slip in the silverlight update for you. No website download necessary.
There fixed that for you.
Well said.. Even lawyers have to report clients crimes or they can be in legal hot water and possilby charged as an accomplice. If a lawyer defending you for something finds out that you commited a different crime he has to report it. His first steps, however, will probably be to HIGHLY recommend that you turn yourself in and offer to represent you during the turn in process to minimize your risk and cover his own ass.
This guy is a complete idiot in several aspects, as most criminals are, 1. He should have never had that type of material to start with, and 2. he should have removed any illegal material prior to handing over the system to anyone. Honestly, I hope he gets a nice long prison sentance with a 300 lb. cell mate named bubba with bi-sexual tendancies.
Why just the other day I was working on some math problems and I hit 256/0... The next thing I know it's 3 hours later, my wife is hitting me in the head with a boot again, and yelling something about my face turning blue.
The immunity is not about sending people to jail it is about nulling out the civil lawsuits currently going on. If the Telcoms get immunity then the people that they have helped spy on have no recourse for civil lawsuits or compensation for having their 4th amendment rights trampled on.
A Sony representative on hand indicated that they will also use the system in the war on HD formats and watch for keywords such as (BLUE-RAY, HD-DVD, CIRCUMVENTION, MAGIC NUMBER and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0).
Yes, but if the money is flowing into the right pocket(s) certain services/servers can bypass The Great Firewall. I am sure that these esteemed, and apparently resourceful, businessmen can negotiate a profitable relationship with the Chinese Government. Additionally, I'm not convinced that the Chinese Government is as concerned with what goes out of their country as much as they are concerned with what comes in. Certainly, given the all of the product recalls lately, you're aware of the high standards that the Chinese hold to their exports.
The Numbers
1. MSFT Pays: US $400,000
2. TDC Pays Mandriva: US$170,000 ($10 per license for 17,000 licenses)
3. TDC buys 17,000 Licenses from MSFT and charges Nigerian Gov. for overcost.
4. TDC installs XP on 17,000 computers
5. Bot Runners install 17,000 new nodes
6. ???
7. Profit for Bot Runners and MSFT, and TDC pockets US$230,000
There's the numbers for ya.
The Numbers 1. MSFT Pays: US $400,000 2. TDC Pays Mandriva: US$170,000 ($10 per license for 17,000 licenses) 3. TDC buys 17,000 Licenses from MSFT and charges Nigerian Gov. for overcost. 4. TDC installs XP on 17,000 computers 5. Bot Runners install 17,000 new nodes 6. ??? 7. Profit for Bot Runners and MSFT, and TDC pockets US$230,000 There's the numbers for ya.
What??? You want me to RTFA... I grew up and went to school down south, to read TFA would take me days.
What you've never heard of Deep Fried Coca Cola. I believe it originated in Texas. Growing up down south you learn quickly that if it can't be eaten any other way you can always deep fry it.
Obviously he should take the conviction, server two years, escape and live a long happy life in middle America after changing his name and ssn. That should give him a good 30 years or so to prove he is a productive citizen.
Big Blue is going to change their name to Big Green.
Opening this thing up would be something like trying to rebuild an Automatic Transmission, then add the complexity of doing this in micro-gravity. It would probably be easier for NASA to send up a complete replacement instead of trying clean out all of the metal shavings and replace the parts that are damaged.