Yea, they are so worried over a kid hurting themselves that they take away the monkey bars, or sand pit; but see no issues with forcing them to hand over login creds, or activating webcams in supplied laptops.
Retina Display has been out for a while. (iPhone 4?) Bascially the pixels are so small you cannot easily distinguish one from another. Makes it look a lot more sharp then previous models.
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Seriously, do they really think anyone who would care about white balance would actually use an iPad as a camera? First question after seeing this was "When can I order?".
Parents whose children have those Special Needs Plans can demand answers from teachers when their children fail. It's a very one sided system we have at present.
The issue I have worth change is also the funding involved.
A poorly performing school gets less funding year after year. As a result teachers don't have the money to organize more innovative and engaging lesson plans.
I went to a poor performing school and it was no wonder. The lessons were dry and dull, worksheets, and lectures, etc... Never went on field trips, or had speakers. I then got transferred to a much more well performing and funded school and it was like night an day. You'd work you ass off, but you got rewarded with speakers, field trips, monetary compensation, after school activities, etc...
Plus, and this is where we get into ratings, the teachers were passionate about what they taught. I remember our history teacher was a real WWII buff and even had real equipment that was used, and would work in tandem with other teachers to coordinate lesson plans. For example, once he worked with our Physics teacher to draw up a plan on the effectiveness of Revolutionary/Civil War weaponry. Once side would have more people but less effective weapons, while the other had less people but more effective weapons. We'd learn both the history and physics and make predictions on the outcome of mock battles, though using rubber balls vs. guns obviously. The side who got the more accurate prediction was bought soda.
The issue is that it's not entirely the responsibility of the teacher.
If the kid has a bad home life and their peers and family do not value education it's likly they will not either, and thus perform more poorly. Ever notice how schools in low income areas perform worse, even when they bring in special teachers who have done well in other schools to try and bring up the performance?
I have a friend who is a teacher, she was have a parent teacher conference about the poor performance of the child. The parent basically concentrated on their phone the whole time, all the while being told about how the student was not turning in their home work and thus getting a zero. Parent then looked up and asked "Well what are you going to do about it?" As though they had no part in their child's education.
There are bad teachers, and there needs to scrap the current system, but blaming it all on the teachers is not going to help, since that's what we have currently.
I think it's that whether or not that they know there is or is not incriminating evidence on the drive. Not that they know the exact contents.
Perhaps something like "I have incriminating evidence on this drive, therefore I will not decrypt it" vs. "I don't know what may or may not incriminate me on this drive, thus I will not decrypt it".
That's like most Sony stuff of late. Take a good idea but hamper it with BS restrictions and let greed get in the way, then blame piracy for the lack of sales.
Sane Exec: "Lets add backwards compatibility!" Shill Exec #1: "But only via download services." Shill Exec #2:"Which people must again pay for." Shill Exec #3:"And only in the Asian market." CEO: "Yes, that sounds like a winner men."
And if breaking the rules meant that the student should be expelled on their first offense? Will you defend that by saying "Dems' the rules".
I have no issue with the rules themselves, just the severity of the punishment. Paying real money and spending time in detention for what could have easily been a typo does not "fit the crime" by any stretch of the imagination.
I assume you work. What if every time you made a typo in an email or here on/. your boss deducted money from your check? Based on your previous response I assume you would have no issue with that practice.
The problem is some of these do not normally warrant a detention.
Forgetting to use quote marks, is an academic issue which should be dealt with in class, at most by a deduction of points from the grade. If it gets to the point of plagiarism then that is a different matter and should be dealt with accordingly, but there is no qualifier to that extent.
What wrong with possessing those food items? Often time backpacks are required now to be mesh or clear, so even if you kept it in your bag the whole day and never took it out it would be visible. If there is an issue of the student eating in class or in the halls then make that the rule.
Generally speaking if you're smart about a crime you don't go around talking about it. So you'll only hear about the idiots who posted the pictures they took of the crime on their Facebook.
This new CEO was the same one who was over the PS3/game division when the PSN security breach happened and every other piece of bad press regarding the PS3.
TomTom already hands over data collected from it's units to the police to help them "plan for safety" or some other BS. In reality they use it to find the best places for cameras.
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Yea, they are so worried over a kid hurting themselves that they take away the monkey bars, or sand pit; but see no issues with forcing them to hand over login creds, or activating webcams in supplied laptops.
That's the kicker.
You got manufacturers talking about how fast everything is, but ISP's continually curtailing that speed.
Retina Display has been out for a while. (iPhone 4?)
Bascially the pixels are so small you cannot easily distinguish one from another. Makes it look a lot more sharp then previous models.
Seriously, do they really think anyone who would care about white balance would actually use an iPad as a camera?
First question after seeing this was "When can I order?".
Funny since they have prosecuted teenagers for receiving what was deemed CP even though they never opened the file.
So not only was he guilty of having it, even without his knowledge; but also guilty of not reporting it, again without his knowledge.
That's similar to ThePirateBay. It's now .se, instead of the old .com.
What if the dispersal order interfered with is ability to record the officer?
Like he was ordered to disperse, back behind that wall/bush where he could no longer see the officer?
What is with MS and their apparent inability to cope with leap years?
If anything that illustrates my point.
Poor Student =/= Poor Teacher.
There is a lot more factors involved then just the teacher.
Growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but the real world taught me otherwise.
Well we kind of already have that.
Parents whose children have those Special Needs Plans can demand answers from teachers when their children fail. It's a very one sided system we have at present.
The issue I have worth change is also the funding involved.
A poorly performing school gets less funding year after year. As a result teachers don't have the money to organize more innovative and engaging lesson plans.
I went to a poor performing school and it was no wonder. The lessons were dry and dull, worksheets, and lectures, etc... Never went on field trips, or had speakers.
I then got transferred to a much more well performing and funded school and it was like night an day. You'd work you ass off, but you got rewarded with speakers, field trips, monetary compensation, after school activities, etc...
Plus, and this is where we get into ratings, the teachers were passionate about what they taught. I remember our history teacher was a real WWII buff and even had real equipment that was used, and would work in tandem with other teachers to coordinate lesson plans.
For example, once he worked with our Physics teacher to draw up a plan on the effectiveness of Revolutionary/Civil War weaponry. Once side would have more people but less effective weapons, while the other had less people but more effective weapons. We'd learn both the history and physics and make predictions on the outcome of mock battles, though using rubber balls vs. guns obviously. The side who got the more accurate prediction was bought soda.
By that reasoning, should the student not improve once that teacher is out of the picture?
Why then do students continue to do poorly when they introduce a new, well regarded teacher from another school?
I agree that there should be ratings, but perhaps more generalized for the whole school and leave the individual teachers as an internal matter.
The issue is that it's not entirely the responsibility of the teacher.
If the kid has a bad home life and their peers and family do not value education it's likly they will not either, and thus perform more poorly.
Ever notice how schools in low income areas perform worse, even when they bring in special teachers who have done well in other schools to try and bring up the performance?
I have a friend who is a teacher, she was have a parent teacher conference about the poor performance of the child. The parent basically concentrated on their phone the whole time, all the while being told about how the student was not turning in their home work and thus getting a zero. Parent then looked up and asked "Well what are you going to do about it?"
As though they had no part in their child's education.
There are bad teachers, and there needs to scrap the current system, but blaming it all on the teachers is not going to help, since that's what we have currently.
I think it's that whether or not that they know there is or is not incriminating evidence on the drive. Not that they know the exact contents.
Perhaps something like "I have incriminating evidence on this drive, therefore I will not decrypt it" vs. "I don't know what may or may not incriminate me on this drive, thus I will not decrypt it".
That's like most Sony stuff of late. Take a good idea but hamper it with BS restrictions and let greed get in the way, then blame piracy for the lack of sales.
Sane Exec: "Lets add backwards compatibility!"
Shill Exec #1: "But only via download services."
Shill Exec #2:"Which people must again pay for."
Shill Exec #3:"And only in the Asian market."
CEO: "Yes, that sounds like a winner men."
And if breaking the rules meant that the student should be expelled on their first offense? Will you defend that by saying "Dems' the rules".
I have no issue with the rules themselves, just the severity of the punishment.
Paying real money and spending time in detention for what could have easily been a typo does not "fit the crime" by any stretch of the imagination.
I assume you work. What if every time you made a typo in an email or here on /. your boss deducted money from your check? Based on your previous response I assume you would have no issue with that practice.
The problem is some of these do not normally warrant a detention.
Forgetting to use quote marks, is an academic issue which should be dealt with in class, at most by a deduction of points from the grade. If it gets to the point of plagiarism then that is a different matter and should be dealt with accordingly, but there is no qualifier to that extent.
What wrong with possessing those food items?
Often time backpacks are required now to be mesh or clear, so even if you kept it in your bag the whole day and never took it out it would be visible. If there is an issue of the student eating in class or in the halls then make that the rule.
Except how would that work with the rest of the world?
Prices in the UK would still remain the same as they are now, so they too would have to divide their currency in the same way.
Otherwise a leather jacket in the US might be $1, but £100 in the UK.
Pretty much yep.
Generally speaking if you're smart about a crime you don't go around talking about it. So you'll only hear about the idiots who posted the pictures they took of the crime on their Facebook.
You're deluding yourself if you think they will lower costs due to people not using the cellular data.
So long as there a cartel which colludes between members to fix prices there will not be any headway in getting a more fair pricing scheme.
Sadly I do not have much hope for him/Sony.
This new CEO was the same one who was over the PS3/game division when the PSN security breach happened and every other piece of bad press regarding the PS3.
TomTom already hands over data collected from it's units to the police to help them "plan for safety" or some other BS. In reality they use it to find the best places for cameras.
I had a TomTom, it kept getting my speed wrong, saying I was going 70+ in a 65 zone.