What amount of time do you expect the students to put in outside of class? 30 minutes three times a week is not enough to much, unfortunately. It will take 10 minutes for them to start concentrating, and if you need lab materials, that leaves about 15 minutes of combined teach/work time before they'll be leaving.
Nice post, tacocat.
The only thing you missed is to spell out that by monetizing their debt, they are creating a massive and relatively swift wealth transfer from tax payers to the international banking cartel.
It's pretty pronounced on clarinet, saxophone, and flute, as each instrument gives various kinds of feedback about air pressure, lip placement, various muscular forces, and the shape of the air cavity behind the orifice delivering the airstream (it is critical to shape the interior of the throat correctly to get altissimo on sax). And even piano gives substantial tactile feedback, with different instruments having radically different "touch". I'm certain it's as big a factor on valved brass, too.
Actually, trombone, violin, and similar instruments are the only ones you can play in tune most easily, since they are more easily adapted to the tuning being used (all valved/keyed wind instruments play slightly out of tune naturally due to the differences between the harmonic tunings which create the higher notes and the tuning of the scale being used, which is often closer to equal-temperament), so they may require *less* precision to easily play in tune.
Charlie still sounded like Charlie, but he was working far harder to do it, and the things he could marginally do with a good instrument would be impossible or difficult with the crappy one.
If you don't play acoustic instruments for at least several hours a day for a significant part of your life, you really have no idea of what level of depth of aural perception your ear is capable of, or how a defect of a thousandth of an inch on a particular part of an instrument can radically affect your ability to play something which is at the outer limit of your technical ability.
I think your statement that you didn't consider the results optimal despite working harder to achieve them puts you squarely in the "gets it" crowd, but most people won't, not because they are wrongly interpreting their senses, but because a) their senses are not sharp enough, and b) they don't understand the intimate relationship between player and instrument.
no, it was a network that had him as the "caretaker". Despite the methods, from what has been said, what he was doing was trying to protect the network. As a "caretaker", it's his job to do what he must to protect the network.
This is starting to sound like, of, I don't know, the plot of "2001", with Childs being HAL9000, and the network being the crew?
There's a place for the browser, no question, that's not my point at all. But there is a limit to what should be done in the browser. The original article seems to about a group who are taking it too far, IMHO.
The problem is that this is not funny, but painfully true. The problems of cross-platform client GUIs are all being solved again, but on top of several new layers of APIs with little value-add and a big performance hit. If you want to write a client-server app, please do so! Stop trying to make the browser the cross-platform widget toolkit.
I've seen good developers try to use UDP instead of TCP to save a few bytes of overhead, and they failed. How will web developers without any concept of network programming theory manage to recreate (or even use) a persistent, robust, and high-performance connection over HTTP? I doubt it will work well. We'll end up with more kludge layers between the browser, OS, browser plug-ins, etc....
Wrong. The cell id (tower identifier) is available from the GSM module without knowing the GPS coordinates. In fact, with multiple local towers, you might incorrectly guess which tower is being used based on lat/lon, since they may handover (pass your call from one tower to another) for a variety of reasons, including capacity.
Awesome measured response. I have no mod points, but I think your point about it being "your" money on the line is spot-on. You deserve better benefit because you are taking a risk against business fortune, and since you're obviously too small to bribe Congress, you're on your own against the government. Good luck to you.
Yes, except I would recommend using the same Linux distributions already in place, but adding your own package server to their repository list (or better yet, create a local mirror, modifying only the packages you need).
For example, if you were running an RPM based distribution, create a YUM server, add it to the existing machine's/etc/yum.conf, and set up a nice little makefile system to easily build new RPMs from the.tar.gz packages; that way you only do the build once.
RPM makes it easy to create packages out of.tar.gz files, I would guess other distribution formats would as well (i.e. you can run alien on RPMs to get.deb files).
Yeah, I can do it, have done it, and have found it pretty easy. But as I said in my post, I have VMs ready to go. Most shops employ people who won't go to the trouble of learning how to use a repository installer let alone a tar/gz/rpm install, and I'm in a shop like that now. Last job, no problem--but go to an MS shop and tell me what you find...
Not quite. NCLB is an excuse to further federalize education and appear to be 'pro-education' for political purposes.
Regarding vouchers: Parents who care about education should not be forced to send their kids to the same school where most parents do not. Vouchers help with that. Public schools enjoy an unfair monopoly on tuition gathering that puts private schools at a competitive disadvantage.
I'm not sure if they're hurting everyone, but I know SAP is hurting their customers by charging enormous amounts of money for poorly implemented systems that give the PHBs in Finance the illusion of control, while simultaneously hindering anyone actually trying to accomplish anything productive. Yes, I've used their stuff.
A big, ugly problem, true to be told. I would characterize it as being comparable to the "Vista Capable" Intel graphics performance issue. Why did that happen, and what prevents it from happening again? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1746211
He's not an idiot. It turned out the necessary drivers weren't offered for XP for the laptop. But it took a bit of him tinkering/researching to be convinced there was no way around it.
Perhaps you can suggest a turnkey way to convert Vista drivers to XP, if you're so insightful?
Ok, legitimate anecdotal evidence...but my coworker and I just bought the same new HP laptop (G70t). He tried for weeks to install XP alongside Vista, and couldn't. I had no problem w/ a dual boot Ubuntu 9.04 install (are they trying to install 9.04 or something older?). Furthermore, we've both had bluescreens from Vista updates. I haven't done anything remotely unusual on my Vista partition, and it blue screened on me from regular MS updates, on a factory installed, plain-vanilla configuration. My coworker's has blue screened multiple times. Ubuntu has been rock-solid. So it can happen to MS, too.
Seriously. With Ubuntu now in a "just works" state on most hardware, and Android tested by commercial entities to work out-of-the-box fro specific hardware, there is real choice. The lower cost of slick Linux devices and PCs compared to OS X premium hardware from Apple will start to take hold this year.
The problem is that most people (yes, most) filter out the available information which may be contradictory to their beliefs. Most people are somewhat insecure about the mass of confusing information, and get very angry when you challenge their opinions with facts. The hippie-wannabe college girls, upper-middle-class white liberals, young republicans, and fifty-something religious right types all do this.
The amount of available information is too much for most people to handle, and as a result we have ignorance by choice, rather than because of unavailability of information. We don't teach Socratic Method in schools, and as a result people remain ignorant.
Good point AC. Also, how much energy does it take to manufacture a cfl, compared to an incandescent? I'll assume, given the higher price, and that energy is about 60%-80% of production cost, that it gets a LOT closer.
So what seems to be a slam-dunk no-brainer at first ends up being a lot more complex and a lot less obvious, if you think critically about it.
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What amount of time do you expect the students to put in outside of class? 30 minutes three times a week is not enough to much, unfortunately. It will take 10 minutes for them to start concentrating, and if you need lab materials, that leaves about 15 minutes of combined teach/work time before they'll be leaving.
That the first college professor I studied under in college who appeared on /. was from the lit program rather than CS.
Nice post, tacocat. The only thing you missed is to spell out that by monetizing their debt, they are creating a massive and relatively swift wealth transfer from tax payers to the international banking cartel.
It's pretty pronounced on clarinet, saxophone, and flute, as each instrument gives various kinds of feedback about air pressure, lip placement, various muscular forces, and the shape of the air cavity behind the orifice delivering the airstream (it is critical to shape the interior of the throat correctly to get altissimo on sax). And even piano gives substantial tactile feedback, with different instruments having radically different "touch". I'm certain it's as big a factor on valved brass, too. Actually, trombone, violin, and similar instruments are the only ones you can play in tune most easily, since they are more easily adapted to the tuning being used (all valved/keyed wind instruments play slightly out of tune naturally due to the differences between the harmonic tunings which create the higher notes and the tuning of the scale being used, which is often closer to equal-temperament), so they may require *less* precision to easily play in tune.
Charlie still sounded like Charlie, but he was working far harder to do it, and the things he could marginally do with a good instrument would be impossible or difficult with the crappy one. If you don't play acoustic instruments for at least several hours a day for a significant part of your life, you really have no idea of what level of depth of aural perception your ear is capable of, or how a defect of a thousandth of an inch on a particular part of an instrument can radically affect your ability to play something which is at the outer limit of your technical ability. I think your statement that you didn't consider the results optimal despite working harder to achieve them puts you squarely in the "gets it" crowd, but most people won't, not because they are wrongly interpreting their senses, but because a) their senses are not sharp enough, and b) they don't understand the intimate relationship between player and instrument.
no, it was a network that had him as the "caretaker". Despite the methods, from what has been said, what he was doing was trying to protect the network. As a "caretaker", it's his job to do what he must to protect the network.
This is starting to sound like, of, I don't know, the plot of "2001", with Childs being HAL9000, and the network being the crew?
Yes.
There's a place for the browser, no question, that's not my point at all. But there is a limit to what should be done in the browser. The original article seems to about a group who are taking it too far, IMHO.
The problem is that this is not funny, but painfully true. The problems of cross-platform client GUIs are all being solved again, but on top of several new layers of APIs with little value-add and a big performance hit. If you want to write a client-server app, please do so! Stop trying to make the browser the cross-platform widget toolkit.
I've seen good developers try to use UDP instead of TCP to save a few bytes of overhead, and they failed. How will web developers without any concept of network programming theory manage to recreate (or even use) a persistent, robust, and high-performance connection over HTTP? I doubt it will work well. We'll end up with more kludge layers between the browser, OS, browser plug-ins, etc....
Wrong. The cell id (tower identifier) is available from the GSM module without knowing the GPS coordinates. In fact, with multiple local towers, you might incorrectly guess which tower is being used based on lat/lon, since they may handover (pass your call from one tower to another) for a variety of reasons, including capacity.
Awesome measured response. I have no mod points, but I think your point about it being "your" money on the line is spot-on. You deserve better benefit because you are taking a risk against business fortune, and since you're obviously too small to bribe Congress, you're on your own against the government. Good luck to you.
Yes, except I would recommend using the same Linux distributions already in place, but adding your own package server to their repository list (or better yet, create a local mirror, modifying only the packages you need).
For example, if you were running an RPM based distribution, create a YUM server, add it to the existing machine's /etc/yum.conf, and set up a nice little makefile system to easily build new RPMs from the .tar.gz packages; that way you only do the build once.
RPM makes it easy to create packages out of .tar.gz files, I would guess other distribution formats would as well (i.e. you can run alien on RPMs to get .deb files).
Thanks, this was a big part of my point the other guy didn't seem to understand.
Yeah, I can do it, have done it, and have found it pretty easy. But as I said in my post, I have VMs ready to go. Most shops employ people who won't go to the trouble of learning how to use a repository installer let alone a tar/gz/rpm install, and I'm in a shop like that now. Last job, no problem--but go to an MS shop and tell me what you find...
Not quite. NCLB is an excuse to further federalize education and appear to be 'pro-education' for political purposes.
Regarding vouchers: Parents who care about education should not be forced to send their kids to the same school where most parents do not. Vouchers help with that. Public schools enjoy an unfair monopoly on tuition gathering that puts private schools at a competitive disadvantage.
I'm not sure if they're hurting everyone, but I know SAP is hurting their customers by charging enormous amounts of money for poorly implemented systems that give the PHBs in Finance the illusion of control, while simultaneously hindering anyone actually trying to accomplish anything productive. Yes, I've used their stuff.
A big, ugly problem, true to be told. I would characterize it as being comparable to the "Vista Capable" Intel graphics performance issue. Why did that happen, and what prevents it from happening again? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1746211
He's not an idiot. It turned out the necessary drivers weren't offered for XP for the laptop. But it took a bit of him tinkering/researching to be convinced there was no way around it.
Perhaps you can suggest a turnkey way to convert Vista drivers to XP, if you're so insightful?
Branding. Everybody knows Google. Not everybody knows Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/Suse/Mandriva/should I continue?
Ok, legitimate anecdotal evidence...but my coworker and I just bought the same new HP laptop (G70t). He tried for weeks to install XP alongside Vista, and couldn't. I had no problem w/ a dual boot Ubuntu 9.04 install (are they trying to install 9.04 or something older?). Furthermore, we've both had bluescreens from Vista updates. I haven't done anything remotely unusual on my Vista partition, and it blue screened on me from regular MS updates, on a factory installed, plain-vanilla configuration. My coworker's has blue screened multiple times. Ubuntu has been rock-solid. So it can happen to MS, too.
...will be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
Seriously. With Ubuntu now in a "just works" state on most hardware, and Android tested by commercial entities to work out-of-the-box fro specific hardware, there is real choice. The lower cost of slick Linux devices and PCs compared to OS X premium hardware from Apple will start to take hold this year.
The problem is that most people (yes, most) filter out the available information which may be contradictory to their beliefs. Most people are somewhat insecure about the mass of confusing information, and get very angry when you challenge their opinions with facts. The hippie-wannabe college girls, upper-middle-class white liberals, young republicans, and fifty-something religious right types all do this.
The amount of available information is too much for most people to handle, and as a result we have ignorance by choice, rather than because of unavailability of information. We don't teach Socratic Method in schools, and as a result people remain ignorant.
Good point AC. Also, how much energy does it take to manufacture a cfl, compared to an incandescent? I'll assume, given the higher price, and that energy is about 60%-80% of production cost, that it gets a LOT closer.
So what seems to be a slam-dunk no-brainer at first ends up being a lot more complex and a lot less obvious, if you think critically about it.
Supporting link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198
Yeah, and they contain enough mercury to poison 4000 gallons of drinking water! Yay!