many people are taught that Columbus proved the world was round even though everyone thought it was flat (invented by Washington Irving), George Washington cut down his dad's cherry tree (also invented by Washington Irving), and that Paul Revere said "The British are coming!" (invented by Henry Longfellow).
"Don't know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned" is a fascinating read on this subject.
Find me a school that teaches that, please. Ive never heard a school teach that throughout my educational years.
Let's say you have a school district which is incredibly poor, but has a highly motivated but not unusually smart set of parents (Such districts aren't hard to find - they exist in most US cities and more isolated rural areas).
You mean like New York and DC, who have the twin distinctions of being the MOST funded per pupil, and also the least performant, in the country?
To give our highly motivated parents the benefit of the doubt, we'll assume they've:
* Ensured that their kids can read, count, and possibly add or subtract 1-digit numbers before entering first grade.
That puts them at about a second to third grade level in the public schools I went to, and FCPS (fairfax county) is one of the better school districts in the country. Id say "motivated parents putting kids 2 years ahead of peers" is a pretty good example of why motivated parents IS a solution. Heck, look at homeschooling scores (any of them), and THEN tell me that parents cant fix the issue.
FCPS is not one of the better schools districts. It's consistently rated in the top three in large districts in the country (along with its sister across the Potomac in Montgomery county MD). The irony is as bad as DC schools are, most of the surrounding suburbs (excepting Prince George's county which has pockets that are as poor as Southeast DC) have excellent public education.
My kids (yes triplets) just completed half-day Kindergarten in Fairfax County public schools and they can do all those things. It shocks me the level of pressure that are put on these kids to perform. When I was that age in California's once excellent (pre-Prop 13) schools, I ate paste, picked my nose, and watched movies and filmstrips. We didn't even start that stuff until 1st grade.
Fairfax and Montgomery have the most educated workforce in the country (as measured by the % of the adult population with master's level degrees) and hence a lot of parents apply educational pressure on kids. My wife has a summer reading, writing, and math program for my kids. I think it's slightly over the top. I'm pressuring her to cut back on the workload. One of them doesn't have the attention span yet to keep up with his siblings and it's frustrating him.
There's a fascinating analysis in Gladwell's "Outliers" about 2nd graders in Baltimore and summer break. It analyzed some standardized test taken at the start of the year and at the end and then the start of the next year. It showed that poor kids and rich kids learned the same amount during the school year, but that the rich kids scores increased a little over the summer, while the poor kids regressed and needed to re-learn some subject matter. The attribution was that the rich kids got academic exposure over the summer and the poor kids didn't. I think further data suggested that a shorter break over the summer would help the poor kids, because they would have less time to forget.
Seems like another arrogant developer who doesn't actually do anything useful. Who's on a religious crusade instead writing code that doesn't suck balls.
The 10th Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Um Acela is much faster than driving. Less than 3 hours from Union station to Penn Station vs almost 5 in car. However, your point is partially on. Acela is only marginally faster than the Northeast Regional Amtrak trains. It usually doesn't warrant the added expense for saving 20-30 minutes...unless someone else is paying.
Dude, we could launch this killer satellite to check out thunderstorms. It'll be awesome. We'll check out the gravitivity and polarity and shit. We could tell people there's antimatter from the lightning and really freak them out. Then, ya know, we could put a little hydroponic greenhouse on it. That would be some cosmic weed, man.
Yeah, if you're looking at laptops or desktops. But when you start talking server class machines and you start jamming DIMMs in them for large database, virtualization clusters, or other high memory applications, a few watts can make a big difference. The current generation of DDR3 low power DIMMs usable with the Westmere chipsets have brought server power consumption down 30-50 watts (72 GB RAM configuration).
With advancements like this, you can further increase memory density within servers and/or server density within data centers. A 5-10% improvement in server power utilization has significant financial impacts. Many data centers are power constrained not space constrained. Better utilized data centers means longer time between needing new physical space. Data center space is kind of expensive, especially in large server environments.
Generally, a data center doesn't need too many high tech employees. Most of the expertise needs to be in facilities management, electricians, plumbers, etc. There are probably a good number of people leftover from the textile factories who have the necessary skills. Racking, stacking, and cabling don't require too many people with a BSCS or BSEE.
90% of the tech work in big data centers is done remotely. Yeah, you'll need a few hardware engineers and the like to fix broken equipment and install tricky stuff. Various vendors will have a few people nearby that can fulfill 4 hour response from Charlotte and make day trips for other on site work.
But they do have excellent lawyers. Jackson wouldn't come to the table for The Hobbit in any way shape or form until Warner wrote him and his partners the big fat check they owed him.
There are two parties that have a shot at power. You can try to influence the parties so their policies align more with your own (but that was true in most of the communist states to some degree), but you exercise power by voting for them or not.
Gore didn't lose because people voted for Ralph Nader. He lost because people didn't vote for him. Since the effect of voting for Ralph Nader could be perfectly duplicated by writing in Donald Duck, turn your ballot into a lace card, or not bother to show up at all, it's wrong to give him either blame or credit for what happened.
What keeps a major third party from really developing in the United States?
Internet speed is expected to improve once a new 17,000 km underwater fiber optic cable linking southern and East Africa to other networks becomes operational
I thought this "contest" measured the speed of an internal data transfer within SA.
I guess it's where you are on the network. Ten years ago, I had no problem reading my webmail on a server hosted in the US from an internet cafe in Cape Town without much noticeable latency. Not much different than dialup in the US at the time.
I bet the physical routing from Pietermaritzburg to Durban goes through Jo'burg and the bandwidth on the first link is low. It's probably physically longer than it needs to be.
I'd love to troubleshoot the problem. I wonder what the ping times between hosts, packet loss, and the TCP buffer settings on the hosts in question are. I'm sure there is some optimization the company could do to make this better. Although the pigeon may still win. We were able to improve file transport times across the US (~80 ms latency coast to coast) by 4 times by tuning TCP properly.
Are they using Win 3.1 and Windsock?
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Sounds less to do with the religion and more to do with those practicing it.
The religion isn't really the doctrine. It is the people practicing it. The doctrine is just a framework.
I have triplets. Two of the SSNs are sequential. The third is the second +5.
many people are taught that Columbus proved the world was round even though everyone thought it was flat (invented by Washington Irving), George Washington cut down his dad's cherry tree (also invented by Washington Irving), and that Paul Revere said "The British are coming!" (invented by Henry Longfellow).
"Don't know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned" is a fascinating read on this subject.
Find me a school that teaches that, please. Ive never heard a school teach that throughout my educational years.
Let's say you have a school district which is incredibly poor, but has a highly motivated but not unusually smart set of parents (Such districts aren't hard to find - they exist in most US cities and more isolated rural areas).
You mean like New York and DC, who have the twin distinctions of being the MOST funded per pupil, and also the least performant, in the country?
To give our highly motivated parents the benefit of the doubt, we'll assume they've: * Ensured that their kids can read, count, and possibly add or subtract 1-digit numbers before entering first grade.
That puts them at about a second to third grade level in the public schools I went to, and FCPS (fairfax county) is one of the better school districts in the country. Id say "motivated parents putting kids 2 years ahead of peers" is a pretty good example of why motivated parents IS a solution. Heck, look at homeschooling scores (any of them), and THEN tell me that parents cant fix the issue.
FCPS is not one of the better schools districts. It's consistently rated in the top three in large districts in the country (along with its sister across the Potomac in Montgomery county MD). The irony is as bad as DC schools are, most of the surrounding suburbs (excepting Prince George's county which has pockets that are as poor as Southeast DC) have excellent public education. My kids (yes triplets) just completed half-day Kindergarten in Fairfax County public schools and they can do all those things. It shocks me the level of pressure that are put on these kids to perform. When I was that age in California's once excellent (pre-Prop 13) schools, I ate paste, picked my nose, and watched movies and filmstrips. We didn't even start that stuff until 1st grade. Fairfax and Montgomery have the most educated workforce in the country (as measured by the % of the adult population with master's level degrees) and hence a lot of parents apply educational pressure on kids. My wife has a summer reading, writing, and math program for my kids. I think it's slightly over the top. I'm pressuring her to cut back on the workload. One of them doesn't have the attention span yet to keep up with his siblings and it's frustrating him. There's a fascinating analysis in Gladwell's "Outliers" about 2nd graders in Baltimore and summer break. It analyzed some standardized test taken at the start of the year and at the end and then the start of the next year. It showed that poor kids and rich kids learned the same amount during the school year, but that the rich kids scores increased a little over the summer, while the poor kids regressed and needed to re-learn some subject matter. The attribution was that the rich kids got academic exposure over the summer and the poor kids didn't. I think further data suggested that a shorter break over the summer would help the poor kids, because they would have less time to forget.
I'd like to orbit Princess Vespa.
These days we call it plain old douchebaggery.
Your Windows system got this malware years ago. Some hackers decided it would be fun to port it to MacOSX.
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.
I'd like a pony. And world peace. And...
I say as I'm about to have to rewrite some code to not use a JDK 6 method so that the Macs in the office can continue compiling code...
Apple released 1.6 via SW Update last week. Yes, somewhat contrary to prior published reports on the matter of Java and Mac OS X.
Who is Ted Dziuba?
Seems like another arrogant developer who doesn't actually do anything useful. Who's on a religious crusade instead writing code that doesn't suck balls.
A nutless monkey could do your job.
The 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Um Acela is much faster than driving. Less than 3 hours from Union station to Penn Station vs almost 5 in car. However, your point is partially on. Acela is only marginally faster than the Northeast Regional Amtrak trains. It usually doesn't warrant the added expense for saving 20-30 minutes...unless someone else is paying.
Dude, we could launch this killer satellite to check out thunderstorms. It'll be awesome. We'll check out the gravitivity and polarity and shit. We could tell people there's antimatter from the lightning and really freak them out. Then, ya know, we could put a little hydroponic greenhouse on it. That would be some cosmic weed, man.
Yeah, if you're looking at laptops or desktops. But when you start talking server class machines and you start jamming DIMMs in them for large database, virtualization clusters, or other high memory applications, a few watts can make a big difference. The current generation of DDR3 low power DIMMs usable with the Westmere chipsets have brought server power consumption down 30-50 watts (72 GB RAM configuration). With advancements like this, you can further increase memory density within servers and/or server density within data centers. A 5-10% improvement in server power utilization has significant financial impacts. Many data centers are power constrained not space constrained. Better utilized data centers means longer time between needing new physical space. Data center space is kind of expensive, especially in large server environments.
Generally, a data center doesn't need too many high tech employees. Most of the expertise needs to be in facilities management, electricians, plumbers, etc. There are probably a good number of people leftover from the textile factories who have the necessary skills. Racking, stacking, and cabling don't require too many people with a BSCS or BSEE. 90% of the tech work in big data centers is done remotely. Yeah, you'll need a few hardware engineers and the like to fix broken equipment and install tricky stuff. Various vendors will have a few people nearby that can fulfill 4 hour response from Charlotte and make day trips for other on site work.
More so in the US. It's in the Constutution, after all.
It doesn't explicitly say that. But I believe the "Wifebeater" clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court does permit one to go sleeveless.
Yeah, but they're not in a union.
But they do have excellent lawyers. Jackson wouldn't come to the table for The Hobbit in any way shape or form until Warner wrote him and his partners the big fat check they owed him.
Football field...American or European?
She was on a ventilator, so it really didn't matter. There did have to be an opening to get the tube through.
There are two parties that have a shot at power. You can try to influence the parties so their policies align more with your own (but that was true in most of the communist states to some degree), but you exercise power by voting for them or not.
Gore didn't lose because people voted for Ralph Nader. He lost because people didn't vote for him. Since the effect of voting for Ralph Nader could be perfectly duplicated by writing in Donald Duck, turn your ballot into a lace card, or not bother to show up at all, it's wrong to give him either blame or credit for what happened.
What keeps a major third party from really developing in the United States?
From TFA:
Internet speed is expected to improve once a new 17,000 km underwater fiber optic cable linking southern and East Africa to other networks becomes operational
I thought this "contest" measured the speed of an internal data transfer within SA.
I guess it's where you are on the network. Ten years ago, I had no problem reading my webmail on a server hosted in the US from an internet cafe in Cape Town without much noticeable latency. Not much different than dialup in the US at the time. I bet the physical routing from Pietermaritzburg to Durban goes through Jo'burg and the bandwidth on the first link is low. It's probably physically longer than it needs to be. I'd love to troubleshoot the problem. I wonder what the ping times between hosts, packet loss, and the TCP buffer settings on the hosts in question are. I'm sure there is some optimization the company could do to make this better. Although the pigeon may still win. We were able to improve file transport times across the US (~80 ms latency coast to coast) by 4 times by tuning TCP properly. Are they using Win 3.1 and Windsock?
Are they calling it SkyNet?
Great debate! I hope someone can mod this part of the thread up.
Strange New Objects Seen in Uranus
Saturn's strap on stuck in one of its rings. News at 11.