Yes, because students never mucked up in class before we put computers in them.
I'm part of a massive commonwealth-funded (I live in Australia) project to have one computer for every student in years 9-12. Teachers were given laptops 2 years ago, to upskill them and get them ready. Some teachers took to it like ducks to water, others hardly use them at all, some simply have a very basic level of computer competency (adding text to an image, printing it out and laminating it was a big step for them, but they're really good at teaching drama, so...).
Next year we're going to have 700+ laptops in student's hands, and that's a Huge thing to comprehend (it's even hard for my boss, who's the ICT Head of Department, the sheer scale is mind-boggling). But our country is going to Need to have workers with good computer skills, to compete against Singaporean students, students from Hong Kong, South Korea, and other Asian powerhouse nations. If students are going to muck up, they're going to muck up, whether it's playing games on a computer, reading a comic inside their textbook, or just looking out the window. It's the teacher's job to get students to learn, and it's the school's job to give the teacher the right resources so they can put their skills to best use, and help them upgrade their skills.
Cost for a real computer: less than a thousand dollars
Cost for good learning software (per machine): a few hundred dollars
Teacher's Salary: tens of thousands of dollars
A good teacher is a very valuable resource, a good computer with good software is a priceless multiplier.
I'm subscribed to a huge number of discussion lists, and there are a number of automated systems that e-mail me as well. I only want to read those e-mails at certain times, if they're auto-sorted into folders then I'm not wasting time doing it myself. An obvious failure in the study was not looking at people who use rules to auto-sort. I may not know what a relevant keyword is, I may only have a general idea, or a time. Much faster to find the right folder and start scrolling.
A mega-inbox and search is Not efficient for my purposes.
How do you verify the vote-selling without direct access to the physical card, which should now be in the hands of independant and trustworthy vote-counters?
Except the USA has the Highest percentage of it's population in prison than Any other nation, including Iran, China, Russia, or any other Dictatorship or totalitarian government Anywhere. And protest freely allowed? Tell that to the people in the Wall Street protests who were maced while simply standing there, and that's just one example from the most recent lot of protests.
I'd support normal police having access to the Terror Watch List for traffic stops, if it wasn't so stupidly bloated and full of false positives. If it was a cleaner list, full of Actual persons of interest, you'd kick yourselves if the police issued some guy a traffic citation while he was wanted, and later he blew someone up.
Only because Science keeps stealing players from the Alt team if they can pass the entrance tests. Some Alt meds don't really do much or are harmful, others simply haven't been tested yet, either because noone's taken the time, or noone can figure out how to make money selling them on a large scale. A lot of modern medications were folk remedies until someone ran some proper tests and realised that there actually Was something potent in that funny-tasting tea.
Exactly, you Still don't want to be one of those 57 people. It would be a Huge boost to peace of mind for healthcare workers to have this on hand, they could have a blood test for active T-cells of the right type, and be confident that any HIV infection would get stopped.
I'd be interested to know if being vaccinated pre-infection would mean you'd never have to worry about passing it on to anyone though, that would still make sex a problem, even if you weren't going to die from AIDS.
The most extreme security measures I've seen at an Australian airport security site was the explosive swab-down, which I've had twice. I'm willing to go through that Every time I fly if it means we avoid those silly scanners and invasive pat-downs. You stand there with your arms out, they run a wand over different parts of your body (it has a felt tip), they wait a few seconds for an analysis, and you're done! Incredibily minimally invasive.
The vast majority of Australian murders are crimes of passion, and the perpetrators get caught Real quick (apart from the gangland murders, which for the vast majority only involve actual crooks, as shocking as they are for the bystanders).
I love this country, I'm getting happier and happier to live here rather than in the US and the UK, even Canada.
Internet filtering has effectively been killed, it's been delayed and delayed and delayed. No way it's going to be implemented in the current minority government environment.
As to outlawing Cattle Dogs, they're Not the equivalent of the pit bull, in shape, feature, purpose or Training.
I just Know this is going to spawn some kind of Zombie film story, where the characters all end up at a Walmart because the power stays on. Or perhaps the Walmarts become the centers of resistance, with strange consequences for the future reshaping of society.
"any benefits" eh? What about the studies which have shown that Walmarts depress the economy in their vicinity, due to a proveable depression on average wages? It becomes a vicious cycle, people shop at Walmart for the low prices, other stores lose business and can't keep as many staff on or close, average income drops, forcing more people to shop at Walmart...
This.
After watching the video, I think they need to use a larger turret, ideally one linked up to a speaker which plays "You Bastard" each time it fires.
Why would a Knight look like a hedgehog if the shafts hadn't penetrated? Is there evidence that the arrows were going fast enough to lodge themselves in the armour but not penetrate deep enough to hit the flesh and cause pain/bleeding? I thought that the archers were able to take out the horses, forcing the knights to dismount and advance on foot across a large muddy field, leaving them tired and open to slaughter by the limited number of British knights, who were out of French crossbow range and thus able to rest for the melee combat. Not all the French were killed crossing the field, at least once enough got through to force the Prince to request help from the King, who said this was a good chance to win his spurs.
Exactly. If you do a search for a printer's name, you often get a lot of random driver storage sites that pop up, but who's vetted that software? I always hit the manufacturer first, and for a piece of software I go to a known-good download site (like C-Net) as their business model is based partly on being a trusted source of software. If you aren't downloading VLC from the SourceForge repository, you're opening yourself up to using a hacked and backdoored product.
Exactly. Not enough people realise that the most successful thing that Bush did before entering politics was to do with the Rangers, and his access to Gov people to get grants, which is a very socialist thing to do. All of his work in the oil industry was a bust.
Perhaps the midden piles are evidence of crowd-sourcing. The fish know that using clams to create sculptures is a long and gruelling process, so they get their friends and other strangers to help out. They leave the shells there as a marker, so other people know that this is part of the species-wide effort to build a sculpture in an effort to communicate with the humans and try to get them to stop eating all the really tasty fish, and leaving nothing good for anyone else. Seriously man, why are those humans bogarting all the really good fish? It's just not cool. Now pass me that bit of fire coral, my buzz is fading.
The article talks about controversy as to whether this is Tool use, but the original researcher says that most tool definitions that require that the tool be movable (a rock used to open a hard nut for example) don't allow for the fact that moving a rock through water is usually quite slow, and the fact that fish don't have prehensile fins, only their mouths. For a fish, whacking something against something else to get it open is probably quite up there on the scale of advanced thinking. If a fish tries to pick up a rock and hit a clam with it, the rock is going to be limited by the fish's mouth size, and they probably won't be able to get up enough momentum. The clam however is quite a bit a bit easier to get up some momentum with, certainly enough to crack it's shell.
Actually, Facebook Does have an export utility. I've only tried it once (as part of an investigation into an account which we gained access to after it was used to harass people (I don't work at Facebook)), but the account was locked before the process finished. So it's there, it's just not that easy to find, and it's not instant.
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Yes, because students never mucked up in class before we put computers in them.
I'm part of a massive commonwealth-funded (I live in Australia) project to have one computer for every student in years 9-12. Teachers were given laptops 2 years ago, to upskill them and get them ready. Some teachers took to it like ducks to water, others hardly use them at all, some simply have a very basic level of computer competency (adding text to an image, printing it out and laminating it was a big step for them, but they're really good at teaching drama, so...).
Next year we're going to have 700+ laptops in student's hands, and that's a Huge thing to comprehend (it's even hard for my boss, who's the ICT Head of Department, the sheer scale is mind-boggling). But our country is going to Need to have workers with good computer skills, to compete against Singaporean students, students from Hong Kong, South Korea, and other Asian powerhouse nations. If students are going to muck up, they're going to muck up, whether it's playing games on a computer, reading a comic inside their textbook, or just looking out the window. It's the teacher's job to get students to learn, and it's the school's job to give the teacher the right resources so they can put their skills to best use, and help them upgrade their skills.
Cost for a real computer: less than a thousand dollars Cost for good learning software (per machine): a few hundred dollars Teacher's Salary: tens of thousands of dollars A good teacher is a very valuable resource, a good computer with good software is a priceless multiplier.
I'm subscribed to a huge number of discussion lists, and there are a number of automated systems that e-mail me as well. I only want to read those e-mails at certain times, if they're auto-sorted into folders then I'm not wasting time doing it myself. An obvious failure in the study was not looking at people who use rules to auto-sort. I may not know what a relevant keyword is, I may only have a general idea, or a time. Much faster to find the right folder and start scrolling. A mega-inbox and search is Not efficient for my purposes.
Except the recounts of the counties in question actually went the other way...
How do you verify the vote-selling without direct access to the physical card, which should now be in the hands of independant and trustworthy vote-counters?
Not a bad idea actually
With actual new content, rather than silly voice-overs ruining iconic and moving, pivotal scenes.
Except the USA has the Highest percentage of it's population in prison than Any other nation, including Iran, China, Russia, or any other Dictatorship or totalitarian government Anywhere. And protest freely allowed? Tell that to the people in the Wall Street protests who were maced while simply standing there, and that's just one example from the most recent lot of protests.
I'd support normal police having access to the Terror Watch List for traffic stops, if it wasn't so stupidly bloated and full of false positives. If it was a cleaner list, full of Actual persons of interest, you'd kick yourselves if the police issued some guy a traffic citation while he was wanted, and later he blew someone up.
Only because Science keeps stealing players from the Alt team if they can pass the entrance tests. Some Alt meds don't really do much or are harmful, others simply haven't been tested yet, either because noone's taken the time, or noone can figure out how to make money selling them on a large scale. A lot of modern medications were folk remedies until someone ran some proper tests and realised that there actually Was something potent in that funny-tasting tea.
Reminds me of the Catholic Priest who got into the business because his father was one, as was his grandfather...
Exactly, you Still don't want to be one of those 57 people. It would be a Huge boost to peace of mind for healthcare workers to have this on hand, they could have a blood test for active T-cells of the right type, and be confident that any HIV infection would get stopped. I'd be interested to know if being vaccinated pre-infection would mean you'd never have to worry about passing it on to anyone though, that would still make sex a problem, even if you weren't going to die from AIDS.
The most extreme security measures I've seen at an Australian airport security site was the explosive swab-down, which I've had twice. I'm willing to go through that Every time I fly if it means we avoid those silly scanners and invasive pat-downs. You stand there with your arms out, they run a wand over different parts of your body (it has a felt tip), they wait a few seconds for an analysis, and you're done! Incredibily minimally invasive. The vast majority of Australian murders are crimes of passion, and the perpetrators get caught Real quick (apart from the gangland murders, which for the vast majority only involve actual crooks, as shocking as they are for the bystanders). I love this country, I'm getting happier and happier to live here rather than in the US and the UK, even Canada.
Internet filtering has effectively been killed, it's been delayed and delayed and delayed. No way it's going to be implemented in the current minority government environment. As to outlawing Cattle Dogs, they're Not the equivalent of the pit bull, in shape, feature, purpose or Training.
I just Know this is going to spawn some kind of Zombie film story, where the characters all end up at a Walmart because the power stays on. Or perhaps the Walmarts become the centers of resistance, with strange consequences for the future reshaping of society.
"any benefits" eh? What about the studies which have shown that Walmarts depress the economy in their vicinity, due to a proveable depression on average wages? It becomes a vicious cycle, people shop at Walmart for the low prices, other stores lose business and can't keep as many staff on or close, average income drops, forcing more people to shop at Walmart...
More accurately, they join a group of people likely to help them.
This. After watching the video, I think they need to use a larger turret, ideally one linked up to a speaker which plays "You Bastard" each time it fires.
Why would a Knight look like a hedgehog if the shafts hadn't penetrated? Is there evidence that the arrows were going fast enough to lodge themselves in the armour but not penetrate deep enough to hit the flesh and cause pain/bleeding? I thought that the archers were able to take out the horses, forcing the knights to dismount and advance on foot across a large muddy field, leaving them tired and open to slaughter by the limited number of British knights, who were out of French crossbow range and thus able to rest for the melee combat. Not all the French were killed crossing the field, at least once enough got through to force the Prince to request help from the King, who said this was a good chance to win his spurs.
#4 Was it legal?
Exactly. If you do a search for a printer's name, you often get a lot of random driver storage sites that pop up, but who's vetted that software? I always hit the manufacturer first, and for a piece of software I go to a known-good download site (like C-Net) as their business model is based partly on being a trusted source of software. If you aren't downloading VLC from the SourceForge repository, you're opening yourself up to using a hacked and backdoored product.
Exactly. Not enough people realise that the most successful thing that Bush did before entering politics was to do with the Rangers, and his access to Gov people to get grants, which is a very socialist thing to do. All of his work in the oil industry was a bust.
Perhaps the midden piles are evidence of crowd-sourcing. The fish know that using clams to create sculptures is a long and gruelling process, so they get their friends and other strangers to help out. They leave the shells there as a marker, so other people know that this is part of the species-wide effort to build a sculpture in an effort to communicate with the humans and try to get them to stop eating all the really tasty fish, and leaving nothing good for anyone else. Seriously man, why are those humans bogarting all the really good fish? It's just not cool. Now pass me that bit of fire coral, my buzz is fading.
The article talks about controversy as to whether this is Tool use, but the original researcher says that most tool definitions that require that the tool be movable (a rock used to open a hard nut for example) don't allow for the fact that moving a rock through water is usually quite slow, and the fact that fish don't have prehensile fins, only their mouths. For a fish, whacking something against something else to get it open is probably quite up there on the scale of advanced thinking. If a fish tries to pick up a rock and hit a clam with it, the rock is going to be limited by the fish's mouth size, and they probably won't be able to get up enough momentum. The clam however is quite a bit a bit easier to get up some momentum with, certainly enough to crack it's shell.
Actually, Facebook Does have an export utility. I've only tried it once (as part of an investigation into an account which we gained access to after it was used to harass people (I don't work at Facebook)), but the account was locked before the process finished. So it's there, it's just not that easy to find, and it's not instant.