Give them a multiple choice test where some, all, or none of the answers might be correct, rather than the usual "process of elimination" mode. To get the question right, you need to have filled in exactly all the right answers and none of the wrong ones.
Absolutely, I did that at the same time. As I said, it was most excellent!
My high school students bitterly complained that I never gave them multiple choice tests in my chemistry class. So I gave them one. All the answers were "B". They never complained again that year. It was most excellent!
I never said it was good POSIX support. Yes, it's Microsoft's limited version of POSIX, whose hooks I promptly delete/disable from any version of OS I install that has it included. Neither the above article nor MSoft's web site on R2 states that it will be Real or Full POSIX support. MSoft just talks about Interoperability Components, which already exist, and thus isn't real news. If they are putting in Real POSIX support, they are not publicizing it well or supporting the contention that it is a fully compliant version of POSIX that can be used. Cygwin/MinGW still remains the better solution.
This isn't news. There has been POSIX Support in NT4 and win2k forever (so it seems), and Windows 2003 already can do NIS if you know what you are doing with schemas and the Services for Unix. The only thing "new" would be unix shells native to the OS... but this can be done effectively now with other packages like cygwin or MinGW.
Would it be information overload if one were to combine this with a waterfall display as they have in subs or even the Matrix for that matter? I believe that the brain would be able to adapt to more information than just sound alone if the coders did things correctly and you had a decent enough screen. Maybe combine it with a visualization wall display....
Apple will announce the release of a 3 button mouse after they realized what a hit they had with their 2 button model...
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According to the nessus.org site, OS X, Solaris, and Windows platforms are supported in early 2006. So for those of us who are currently running nessus on these platforms, we are now experiencing a minor inconvience. In the meantime, be patient and test the software out on linux. That way when it comes out on the platform you are already familiar with the changes and can implement them more effectively.
Now that the actual decision is out on the US Supreme Court's website, I suggest all go read it and consider that document... As to their ruling, the most telling part IMNSHO is on p.17
Because Sony did not displace theories of secondary liability, and because we find that it was an error to grant summary judgement to the companies on MGM's inducement claim, we do not revisit Sony further as MGM requests, to add a more quantified description of the point of balance between protection and commerce when liability rests solely on the distrubution with knowledge that unlawful use will occur. It is enough to note that the Ninth Circuit's judgement rested on an erroneous understanding of Sony and to leave further consideration of the Sony rule for the day when that may be required.
In other words, the defendents are going back to trial over their promotional activities to determine liability damages, MGM doesn't get a ruling that P2P software is illegal just because, and the SC reserves the right to review the legality or illegality of P2P software and any other technology when that issue is at hand and the lower courts make an error in interpretting and enforcing the laws. This is why it is a unaniumous opinion.
really doesn't matter if it's correctable or not... one pair of broken glasses, lost contact lenses, etc... and you end up with a dead agent because they can't see the bad guy pulling the gun. and even if it is correctable you are still looking through sights with lenses that are of a strong prescription and things get fuzzy all on their own from refraction, etc. the way the lens works with the curve of the glass and such...
As to color-blindness, no prosecutor in his right mind would want a color-blind person collecting/testing evidence for a criminal case. It opens SOOOO many doors for reasonable doubt that a defense lawyer would love to have. I looked at being a forensic chemist (i have an aunt who is a real CSI)... when I saw this requirement and realized the ramifications of my color deficiency, oh well.... For the record: Green == Orange, Blue == Violet, brown and red are more or less similar depending on hues... i taught chemistry and physics for 8 yerars so i think i have a pretty good handle on what i can and can't see concerning color. that was a trip doing demonstrations and color analyses on stuff knowing that things were working based on student reactions, but yet not seeing the "full picture". i understood the phenomena and taught it well IMHO. i had one group of kids that really enjoyed testing the limits of my "deficiency"... like writing in green chalk on the board "this is orange", vica versa, and then in the correct colors to see if i could tell/notice. a good time was definitely had by all!
It still isn't cost effective. For the expenditure of capital in equipment and then add on top of it technical support when the dang thing breaks down, you are still looking at too much of a cost per acre than current methods that can be used. The best method is to find an INDEPENDENT crop consultant, one that doesn't work for an elevator, doesn't sell any chemical products, and doesn't have any ties to agribusiness companies other than years of experience in the fields working with farmers to see what they have and how to improve it. All the stuff produced by GPS yield systems in combines are useless because by the time you get to the end of harvest everything that you could have done to enhance the yields was in the past.
If you are lucky enough to find one of these that knows their stuff (i used to work with 3 of them) then you can do reduced chemical applications much better than any automated GPS anything. Why? Because a weed doesn't grow across the entire field. One corn field might have the insect you want to kill and one right next to it might not. Why spray your entire 640 acres of corn with a pesticide that costs $40+ an acre when it's the bloody 20 acre patch in near the trees thats getting hit.
What people don't realize is that it takes a LOT of REPEATED walking of the fields to find out what is out there and then react to that. A technological solution will not work here. Repeated visits on ATVs or by walking is the only way to go. If you want to reduce herbicide costs,and you use this approach, you can use 1/2 to 1/4th of the recommended dosage of a herbicide to kill of the weeds you want to kill. Agribusiness companies are going to tell you that because they want to:
Sell as much as possible
Sell it as quickly as possible
Spend the least amount of time doing it
This is no different than any other business. Mix up a batch of chemical that should kill everything out in the field in one pass and then use that same mix over multiple farms: REGARDLESS of what is in there at the time. So what if only 1 of the 3 or 4 chemicals were actually needed. So what if the all the fields didn't need it.
Can this technology help. Yes, IF it can identify weeds as they grow, tell you when they are at the most vulnerable to kill them (that's when they are small and they look very similar to each other. it takes experience to be able to distinguigh them from one another), be able to sample with cost effectiveness sample sizes that approach 0.1 acres (not achievable), and..... I can go on. You can use the GPS to define general areas of impact and then use that with general areas of application. But the way it's marketed and talked about its snake oil that cures all ills.
You get my drift I hope. A lot of farmers are ripped off each year and they don't even know it because they don't have a way of verifying the chemical application advice of chemical/elevator company "agronomists". BTW, farmers aren't the only ones that get hit by this. Ever hear of chemical lawn companies?:) And don't get me wrong, there are some ethical people out there who will tell the client where the bear squats in the woods. They are few and far between and often get laid off by managers for not meeting sales expectations.
the perfect antidote to a portable 'Supernova' weapon would be a portable 'Blackhole' weapon
black holes are products of supernova explosions.
if a black hole were to be near a star that is in the process of going supernova, it would steal matter/light from it when it gets into the gravitation influence area of the black hole... but stop the supernova? no.
also, when you get to the microscale, a black hole of the size to be "portable" would not last that long as a blackhole before it explodes into energy and particles... in fact scientists at CERN are working on trying to create tiny black holes as well...
and for those of you who think that the US could do better etc, and so what, and other such comments take note: the supercollider project was to be 20,000 GeV of potential... perhaps forever lost to scientists like those canadian reasearchers with innovative ideas. hats off to the canadians.
remove that almost and your right. mercury has a tenuous atmosphere of hydrogen and helium that it keeps around itself. and pluto is showing great signs of having a nitrogen based atmosphere... although a very cold one.:)
At the moment, we have to walk down for a full day to the nearest city where an internet service is available to communicate with people from around the world
and people though that sneakernet was dead in the world today...
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i thought that the integration of Borg technology wasn't supposed to happen until the 24th century......
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physically separating the pilots from the passengers is easily said... but you still have to prevent passengers from bringing on things that can get through walls (explosive, or otherwise)... some of which can be detected... some can't without more intrusive means of detection... this would also mean the scrapping of the entire airline fleet until planes can be retrofitted with kevlar, steel, and force fields.
expansion of the air marshalls is the best plan i've heard yet... assuming that you can have enough of them on each plane at the same time to prevent massed attacks... uggg...
Critics pooh-pooh such studies, saying self-estimators are exaggerators, although most of those studies echo the same general trend as governmental figures -- a bit of a rise through the '90s with a slight dip recently.
as a school teacher i always love it when parents think that all you do is teach your contract hours from 7:30 to 3:30 and that we do nothing else school related... a newstation in minneapolis had a reporter go into the classroom and teach for a day... after she finished she said she never wanted to do that again... she was lucky... she didn't have to do any grading.:) so am i a pooh-pooh-er?
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Give them a multiple choice test where some, all, or none of the answers might be correct, rather than the usual "process of elimination" mode. To get the question right, you need to have filled in exactly all the right answers and none of the wrong ones.
Absolutely, I did that at the same time. As I said, it was most excellent!
My high school students bitterly complained that I never gave them multiple choice tests in my chemistry class. So I gave them one. All the answers were "B". They never complained again that year. It was most excellent!
You too? I once helped a woman replace her bios battery. We've been married ever since. No lie.
I never said it was good POSIX support. Yes, it's Microsoft's limited version of POSIX, whose hooks I promptly delete/disable from any version of OS I install that has it included. Neither the above article nor MSoft's web site on R2 states that it will be Real or Full POSIX support. MSoft just talks about Interoperability Components, which already exist, and thus isn't real news. If they are putting in Real POSIX support, they are not publicizing it well or supporting the contention that it is a fully compliant version of POSIX that can be used. Cygwin/MinGW still remains the better solution.
This isn't news. There has been POSIX Support in NT4 and win2k forever (so it seems), and Windows 2003 already can do NIS if you know what you are doing with schemas and the Services for Unix. The only thing "new" would be unix shells native to the OS... but this can be done effectively now with other packages like cygwin or MinGW.
Would it be information overload if one were to combine this with a waterfall display as they have in subs or even the Matrix for that matter? I believe that the brain would be able to adapt to more information than just sound alone if the coders did things correctly and you had a decent enough screen. Maybe combine it with a visualization wall display....
Apple will announce the release of a 3 button mouse after they realized what a hit they had with their 2 button model...
According to the nessus.org site, OS X, Solaris, and Windows platforms are supported in early 2006. So for those of us who are currently running nessus on these platforms, we are now experiencing a minor inconvience. In the meantime, be patient and test the software out on linux. That way when it comes out on the platform you are already familiar with the changes and can implement them more effectively.
In other words, the defendents are going back to trial over their promotional activities to determine liability damages, MGM doesn't get a ruling that P2P software is illegal just because, and the SC reserves the right to review the legality or illegality of P2P software and any other technology when that issue is at hand and the lower courts make an error in interpretting and enforcing the laws. This is why it is a unaniumous opinion.
really doesn't matter if it's correctable or not... one pair of broken glasses, lost contact lenses, etc... and you end up with a dead agent because they can't see the bad guy pulling the gun. and even if it is correctable you are still looking through sights with lenses that are of a strong prescription and things get fuzzy all on their own from refraction, etc. the way the lens works with the curve of the glass and such...
.. i taught chemistry and physics for 8 yerars so i think i have a pretty good handle on what i can and can't see concerning color. that was a trip doing demonstrations and color analyses on stuff knowing that things were working based on student reactions, but yet not seeing the "full picture". i understood the phenomena and taught it well IMHO. i had one group of kids that really enjoyed testing the limits of my "deficiency"... like writing in green chalk on the board "this is orange", vica versa, and then in the correct colors to see if i could tell/notice. a good time was definitely had by all!
As to color-blindness, no prosecutor in his right mind would want a color-blind person collecting/testing evidence for a criminal case. It opens SOOOO many doors for reasonable doubt that a defense lawyer would love to have. I looked at being a forensic chemist (i have an aunt who is a real CSI)... when I saw this requirement and realized the ramifications of my color deficiency, oh well....
For the record: Green == Orange, Blue == Violet, brown and red are more or less similar depending on hues.
If you are lucky enough to find one of these that knows their stuff (i used to work with 3 of them) then you can do reduced chemical applications much better than any automated GPS anything. Why? Because a weed doesn't grow across the entire field. One corn field might have the insect you want to kill and one right next to it might not. Why spray your entire 640 acres of corn with a pesticide that costs $40+ an acre when it's the bloody 20 acre patch in near the trees thats getting hit.
What people don't realize is that it takes a LOT of REPEATED walking of the fields to find out what is out there and then react to that. A technological solution will not work here. Repeated visits on ATVs or by walking is the only way to go. If you want to reduce herbicide costs,and you use this approach, you can use 1/2 to 1/4th of the recommended dosage of a herbicide to kill of the weeds you want to kill. Agribusiness companies are going to tell you that because they want to:
This is no different than any other business. Mix up a batch of chemical that should kill everything out in the field in one pass and then use that same mix over multiple farms: REGARDLESS of what is in there at the time. So what if only 1 of the 3 or 4 chemicals were actually needed. So what if the all the fields didn't need it.
Can this technology help. Yes, IF it can identify weeds as they grow, tell you when they are at the most vulnerable to kill them (that's when they are small and they look very similar to each other. it takes experience to be able to distinguigh them from one another), be able to sample with cost effectiveness sample sizes that approach 0.1 acres (not achievable), and..... I can go on. You can use the GPS to define general areas of impact and then use that with general areas of application. But the way it's marketed and talked about its snake oil that cures all ills.
You get my drift I hope. A lot of farmers are ripped off each year and they don't even know it because they don't have a way of verifying the chemical application advice of chemical/elevator company "agronomists". BTW, farmers aren't the only ones that get hit by this. Ever hear of chemical lawn companies?
black holes are products of supernova explosions.
if a black hole were to be near a star that is in the process of going supernova, it would steal matter/light from it when it gets into the gravitation influence area of the black hole... but stop the supernova? no.
also, when you get to the microscale, a black hole of the size to be "portable" would not last that long as a blackhole before it explodes into energy and particles... in fact scientists at CERN are working on trying to create tiny black holes as well...
i second that motion...
and for those of you who think that the US could do better etc, and so what, and other such comments take note: the supercollider project was to be 20,000 GeV of potential... perhaps forever lost to scientists like those canadian reasearchers with innovative ideas. hats off to the canadians.
but this project is incorporating wireless ethernet system into it...
remove that almost and your right. mercury has a tenuous atmosphere of hydrogen and helium that it keeps around itself. and pluto is showing great signs of having a nitrogen based atmosphere... although a very cold one.
At the moment, we have to walk down for a full day to the nearest city where an internet service is available to communicate with people from around the world
and people though that sneakernet was dead in the world today...
Self-healing architecture
i thought that the integration of Borg technology wasn't supposed to happen until the 24th century......
physically separating the pilots from the passengers is easily said... but you still have to prevent passengers from bringing on things that can get through walls (explosive, or otherwise)... some of which can be detected... some can't without more intrusive means of detection... this would also mean the scrapping of the entire airline fleet until planes can be retrofitted with kevlar, steel, and force fields.
expansion of the air marshalls is the best plan i've heard yet... assuming that you can have enough of them on each plane at the same time to prevent massed attacks... uggg...
no perfect solutions is there.
at the enterprise level, hp opemmail can run on linux well... not exactly a home user package though. *shrug*
Critics pooh-pooh such studies, saying self-estimators are exaggerators, although most of those studies echo the same general trend as governmental figures -- a bit of a rise through the '90s with a slight dip recently. as a school teacher i always love it when parents think that all you do is teach your contract hours from 7:30 to 3:30 and that we do nothing else school related... a newstation in minneapolis had a reporter go into the classroom and teach for a day... after she finished she said she never wanted to do that again... she was lucky... she didn't have to do any grading. :) so am i a pooh-pooh-er?