I attended 10 different public/private schools between kindergarten and college. The only two maybe's from that list are #2 and #3. The first one suffers from too many unknowns concerning testing regimes and near-term exposure of material. It doesn't capture long-term education and it doesn't factor in differences between language and culture - they're just scores.
I can only speak as a student, as I attended some of the worst schools in the area, but I also attended a couple of top-ten schools ranked in the nation. I will not "name names" because that would simply distract from what I see as commonalities of good schools.
First, parental involvement. You need parents at the school through high school. You need parents at home that expect study and work from their kids. I *don't* think most parents should be teaching, but as aids and cafeteria help they are a watchful eye. They also free-up money for more teachers and materials. Parents should have a background check done, they should be qualified to be in the environment, and they should have to take a few classes on behavior and expectations.
Secondly, standardized scores are meaningless until about 9th or 10th grade. In fact, many schools that feed into high-ranking high schools have mediocre to low scores. The reason is that young children have **varied abilities and different strengths** - schools that "teach to the test" are wasting valuable time to only teach a subset of abilities that will earn good marks. Those high-income, lower scoring schools could give a shit less about funding and instead use the class time for individual learning.
Third, teacher-student ratios DO matter, but only through middle school. If you want to grow an amazing student body, then throw all your resources at the elementary schools. If there is any place where you truly need individual attention - it is in elementary school. If you want your students to acquire the skills to succeed, throw your money at elementary school. Kids at that age are desperate to learn, they are information sponges. But they also need lots of art classes, sports and playtime. Having a bunch of jittery kids with no emotional outlets is bad.
Lastly, high school should be *hard*. Earning a degree should require effort and challenge. A great majority of schools don't teach ANYTHING the last two years. Students should be allowed to track into subjects that matter to them and go as far as possible. At my "top-ten" school, in the last two years we were given two open-curriculum classes which were all project/result based. Teachers were allowed to move the proverbial ball as far as they wanted - and it was great. Students picked from a list of topics and we were allowed to study as far as possible - at the end we turned in notes, reports and projects to earn grades.
We know a great deal about memory and learning from neurology and the psycho sciences. For instance, we know that memorizing things *CONTRARILY* requires us to nearly forget things. If you've ever learned a language, you know that you can't bang your head on vocabulary in one day - you must do it once, take time away and then experience it again in hours, then days, and then weeks. Yet our materials and teaching style still has kids banging their heads. Why?
Our curriculums are designed to move through a set of information - and kids often wait a WHOLE YEAR to see the subject material again. It's no wonder that THEY DON'T LEARN IT. Basic knowledge of how we learn tells us that ramping and repetition are the keys to retention. Unit studies should be spread out and scattered through the year. Vocabulary tests should have the difficult words from weeks before until they get it. Vocabulary tests should happen daily, on a computer, where they can track results and rapidly move students forward.
We have computers for god's sake! Teachers should be keeping detailed track of positive and negative retention question-by-question. Students should have their retention times quantified an
There's hardware to deal with that - a watchdog timer can reboot the system quickly.
Assuming the system comes back up with a working CPU and RAM, then the main computer should be able to work around bad peripheral or components on the bus. I think that's what the article is getting at.
On military aircraft, they use VM's to run the OS and software. Communicate between systems is passed synchronously and requires that each module know the state of the other modules. There is never an assumption that the other system will just work - all messages require acknowledgement and verification of results.
I worked in seismic data processing for a couple of years - there's a MOUNTAIN of data out there. The big problem for researchers is that it's mostly locked away as trade secrets. There are a few firms that can license you a few shot lines - but they are pretty limited compared to the big companies.
This sort of geological study is already used for 4D studies, where shots are compared over a period of time. The hydrophone shot technology has been pretty stable for 20 years now - but older data may have limited depth and frequency.
I'm not opposed to Doctors getting compensated well - I'm opposed to them knifing me in the dark.
A common occurrence - I go to a doctor who's performing a procedure. Before the procedure I ask for an estimated amount. Yes, I understand it can change. Yes, I understand my insurance must pre-approce. I go home, come back and have the procedure performed. After the procedure I ask for my FINAL BILL so that I can pay it. So, I pay the bill and go home.
NINE WEEKS LATER... I get a bill in the mail for 25... 50... sometimes more. There's always some "forgotten" thing that didn't get billed, or an insurance mistake. WTF? Did they not understand? They had insurance approval, they got paid right away. What's the problem here?
I won't pay them - we had a final bill and that's that. You don't get to gouge me a second time. I call them and inform them that my bill was final and paid immediately at great cost and sacrifice to other areas of my life.
If my auto mechanic did this to me I'd tell him off... but for some reason Doctors think they can. No no and no.
Yes it is... this is a huge markup! I'm not talking about the standard retailer markups of 25-50%, I'm talking about 70-80% total markup over wholesale - and yes that's being gypped.
I *do* shop at shops.... But I also check prices online - because if I find that I'm being gypped at 30% markup from the average internet price, then I'll look someplace else thank-you-very-much.
Also I don't usually buy "store brand" items unless it's got a proven record and good reviews. If I can't compare the price then I will find something else.
Try Lowes - I get a much better experience there. In fact, it's how the Home Depot *used* to be. The Depot used to have a plumber, or a masonry guy that could explain everything that you'd likely need. That's why I shop at shops - to get good insight and knowledge you can't get from a review. I can always get knowledgeable guys and gals at Lowes these days.
Just my opinion, but at a slow rate, the cost is likely about the same to slightly higher than normal coastal damage. Waterfronts are known for their high-rates of change and variability. Some especially delicate areas would need saving (Venice) - but I think most places would loose a couple of meters over 10 years and not be too worried overall. We live with a 70% water planet already - we're pretty used to dealing with it on an industrial scale.
If we have extreme losses of say a meter of coastline a year for three years then perhaps it starts looking a bit worrisome.
But there's nothing to be done really - if every human died tomorrow any climate change would keep on chugging for a long while. Oil supplies will (essentially) dry up in a hundred years - so whether we like it or not - we'll all be energy saving in the future.
Ohs Nos! Those poor kids in Canada are going to go without 20 feet in snow! They viking will re-invade greenland and start a grape growing empire! Dogs and cats sweating together! OMG OMG OMG!
Because even though I am sometimes the Boss, I am also in charge of code quality, integration with other units and long term support. I'm also a full-time coder so I fully believe in "more eyes on the code begets better code." Secondly, us programmers have a propensity to procrastinate and generally get hung up on the interesting bits, ignoring the boring bits. Having someone that can understand exactly what you're stuck on is always "a good thing." Lastly, there's immediate backup if Timmy gets hit by a bus. Sorry, but it does happen.
It's really difficult to get developers to open up and share code... you have the "hero" guys and you also get the "afraid to be embarrassed" types as well. The faster you can get those types sharing the better your code quality will be - at least that's my experience. A code review with lunch can be a fun experience to kick that off. Giving the programmers some latitude to have their own 30 minute code review sessions with minimum management is good stuff too.
Because even though I am sometimes the Boss, I am also in charge of code quality, integration with other units and long term support. I'm also a full-time coder so I fully believe in "more eyes on the code begets better code." Secondly, us programmers have a propensity to procrastinate and generally get hung up on the interesting bits, ignoring the boring bits. Having someone that can understand exactly what you're stuck on is always "a good thing." Lastly, there's immediate backup if Timmy gets hit by a bus. Sorry, but it does happen.
It's really difficult to get developers to open up and share code... you have the "hero" guys and you also get the "afraid to be embarrassed" types as well. The faster you can get those types sharing the better your code quality will be - at least that's my experience. A code review with lunch can be a fun experience to kick that off. Giving the programmers some latitude to have their own 30 minute code review sessions with minimum management is good stuff too.
Just an assumption - but in this case I think the Texas state comptroller issues sales tax certificates - so they will set the rates.
I think that every state will eventually start issuing sales and use certificates for companies that want to sell into their state. That still won't be entirely fair, but it's the only simple solution I can imagine.
...could lower the overall manpower burden of the tax system, freeing up more of the taxes for doing what they are actually for.
I'm pretty sure the tax system today is used as a competitive advantage by large companies to squash small competitors. Large entities get breaks, grants and use foreign loopholes to funnel cash and avoid some legitimate taxes all together.
There's COTS software you can buy to do this - no worries. I've written point of sale software in the past and it wasn't too difficult. For Texas, as I remember, the tax is figured at the place of business, so wherever those servers are performing the sale is where the tax will be set.
First off, No.. the people in the Gov are not stupid. I work with plenty of genius level gov guys, and there's no doubt that they could come up with some deep and strong protection measures. Honestly, there's probably a warehouse full of such solutions ready to be dusted off (for the right price).
This isn't about that at all, in my opinion. I think it's a "minimum level" legislation, which shows that we "care about the issues' but not enough to encourage or offend everyone else on the planet to the point of retribution. Or at least we hope so.
I could come up with a dozen work-arounds in a week. In the end - as long as we can exchange packets - there's no stopping the exchange of information. That's the whole *point* of the internet, after all.
In our business, I routinely communicate with customers using s/mime mail. We set it up as part of the contract (not in the terms, just as part of the meet-n-greet kickoff), so anything related to the contract work goes through encrypted.
I've never hit another vehicle (20 year driver), and I was driving 100 miles a day for a few years... driving with cell phones does slow your reactions.
IMHO, I would say that on rural highways cell phone usage is not a big problem. But driving in city traffic is dangerous, simply because there are so many autos moving in opposing directions at close range.
I suspect that cellphone usage will be allowed on highways and tollways, and banned in cities in a few years.
My only point is that, while not impossible, such a theory is just as likely as having gravity from a dense object pull away the heavier elements from such a cloud.
Making claims like this is interesting discussion and all, but I think it falls short of objective interpretation.
That sucker is larger than UARS and fully fueled... Some say the fuel will freeze during re-entry, but I'm hoping Roland Emmerich will be on hand to film it.
I hope they're able to save the mission... a huge blow to Russian space exploration.
Oh come on now! How does "pristine gas" equate to "Big Bang particles." This is a stretch of the imagination, as such a cloud could also point to intelligent life, or perhaps some other unknown phenomena.
To label it as "Big Bang" worthy is dishonest tripe.
Psystar lost because of the RebelEFI software it was selling. According to the court, it is a DMCA circumvention... The only requirement in the license is to have an "Apple-Labeled" computer to use the software. The T&C states:
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.
Besides, here's some others you may be violating...
THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
That's fairly vague... and lots of Doctors, Pilots and Network Engineers are breaking that section right there.
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I attended 10 different public/private schools between kindergarten and college. The only two maybe's from that list are #2 and #3. The first one suffers from too many unknowns concerning testing regimes and near-term exposure of material. It doesn't capture long-term education and it doesn't factor in differences between language and culture - they're just scores.
I can only speak as a student, as I attended some of the worst schools in the area, but I also attended a couple of top-ten schools ranked in the nation. I will not "name names" because that would simply distract from what I see as commonalities of good schools.
First, parental involvement. You need parents at the school through high school. You need parents at home that expect study and work from their kids. I *don't* think most parents should be teaching, but as aids and cafeteria help they are a watchful eye. They also free-up money for more teachers and materials. Parents should have a background check done, they should be qualified to be in the environment, and they should have to take a few classes on behavior and expectations.
Secondly, standardized scores are meaningless until about 9th or 10th grade. In fact, many schools that feed into high-ranking high schools have mediocre to low scores. The reason is that young children have **varied abilities and different strengths** - schools that "teach to the test" are wasting valuable time to only teach a subset of abilities that will earn good marks. Those high-income, lower scoring schools could give a shit less about funding and instead use the class time for individual learning.
Third, teacher-student ratios DO matter, but only through middle school. If you want to grow an amazing student body, then throw all your resources at the elementary schools. If there is any place where you truly need individual attention - it is in elementary school. If you want your students to acquire the skills to succeed, throw your money at elementary school. Kids at that age are desperate to learn, they are information sponges. But they also need lots of art classes, sports and playtime. Having a bunch of jittery kids with no emotional outlets is bad.
Lastly, high school should be *hard*. Earning a degree should require effort and challenge. A great majority of schools don't teach ANYTHING the last two years. Students should be allowed to track into subjects that matter to them and go as far as possible. At my "top-ten" school, in the last two years we were given two open-curriculum classes which were all project/result based. Teachers were allowed to move the proverbial ball as far as they wanted - and it was great. Students picked from a list of topics and we were allowed to study as far as possible - at the end we turned in notes, reports and projects to earn grades.
We know a great deal about memory and learning from neurology and the psycho sciences. For instance, we know that memorizing things *CONTRARILY* requires us to nearly forget things. If you've ever learned a language, you know that you can't bang your head on vocabulary in one day - you must do it once, take time away and then experience it again in hours, then days, and then weeks. Yet our materials and teaching style still has kids banging their heads. Why?
Our curriculums are designed to move through a set of information - and kids often wait a WHOLE YEAR to see the subject material again. It's no wonder that THEY DON'T LEARN IT. Basic knowledge of how we learn tells us that ramping and repetition are the keys to retention. Unit studies should be spread out and scattered through the year. Vocabulary tests should have the difficult words from weeks before until they get it. Vocabulary tests should happen daily, on a computer, where they can track results and rapidly move students forward.
We have computers for god's sake! Teachers should be keeping detailed track of positive and negative retention question-by-question. Students should have their retention times quantified an
There's hardware to deal with that - a watchdog timer can reboot the system quickly.
Assuming the system comes back up with a working CPU and RAM, then the main computer should be able to work around bad peripheral or components on the bus. I think that's what the article is getting at.
On military aircraft, they use VM's to run the OS and software. Communicate between systems is passed synchronously and requires that each module know the state of the other modules. There is never an assumption that the other system will just work - all messages require acknowledgement and verification of results.
I worked in seismic data processing for a couple of years - there's a MOUNTAIN of data out there. The big problem for researchers is that it's mostly locked away as trade secrets. There are a few firms that can license you a few shot lines - but they are pretty limited compared to the big companies.
This sort of geological study is already used for 4D studies, where shots are compared over a period of time. The hydrophone shot technology has been pretty stable for 20 years now - but older data may have limited depth and frequency.
I'm not opposed to Doctors getting compensated well - I'm opposed to them knifing me in the dark.
A common occurrence - I go to a doctor who's performing a procedure. Before the procedure I ask for an estimated amount. Yes, I understand it can change. Yes, I understand my insurance must pre-approce. I go home, come back and have the procedure performed. After the procedure I ask for my FINAL BILL so that I can pay it. So, I pay the bill and go home.
NINE WEEKS LATER... I get a bill in the mail for 25... 50... sometimes more. There's always some "forgotten" thing that didn't get billed, or an insurance mistake. WTF? Did they not understand? They had insurance approval, they got paid right away. What's the problem here?
I won't pay them - we had a final bill and that's that. You don't get to gouge me a second time. I call them and inform them that my bill was final and paid immediately at great cost and sacrifice to other areas of my life.
If my auto mechanic did this to me I'd tell him off... but for some reason Doctors think they can. No no and no.
Yes it is... this is a huge markup! I'm not talking about the standard retailer markups of 25-50%, I'm talking about 70-80% total markup over wholesale - and yes that's being gypped.
I *do* shop at shops.... But I also check prices online - because if I find that I'm being gypped at 30% markup from the average internet price, then I'll look someplace else thank-you-very-much.
Also I don't usually buy "store brand" items unless it's got a proven record and good reviews. If I can't compare the price then I will find something else.
Try Lowes - I get a much better experience there. In fact, it's how the Home Depot *used* to be. The Depot used to have a plumber, or a masonry guy that could explain everything that you'd likely need. That's why I shop at shops - to get good insight and knowledge you can't get from a review. I can always get knowledgeable guys and gals at Lowes these days.
Just my opinion, but at a slow rate, the cost is likely about the same to slightly higher than normal coastal damage. Waterfronts are known for their high-rates of change and variability. Some especially delicate areas would need saving (Venice) - but I think most places would loose a couple of meters over 10 years and not be too worried overall. We live with a 70% water planet already - we're pretty used to dealing with it on an industrial scale.
If we have extreme losses of say a meter of coastline a year for three years then perhaps it starts looking a bit worrisome.
But there's nothing to be done really - if every human died tomorrow any climate change would keep on chugging for a long while. Oil supplies will (essentially) dry up in a hundred years - so whether we like it or not - we'll all be energy saving in the future.
Ohs Nos! Those poor kids in Canada are going to go without 20 feet in snow! They viking will re-invade greenland and start a grape growing empire! Dogs and cats sweating together! OMG OMG OMG!
APOCALYPTIC VOLCANOES OF HOT GRITS!
What's BHG? Tanks!
As someone who works and has a view into both open source and proprietary code - I can without a doubt say you're absolutely wrong.
The correct solution is to look at the problem, identify possible solutions, evaluate them and choose the best product which covers your needs best.
There is *PLENTY* of bad code out there, both COTS and OSS - there is also some amazing and brilliantly good code out there as well.
Because even though I am sometimes the Boss, I am also in charge of code quality, integration with other units and long term support. I'm also a full-time coder so I fully believe in "more eyes on the code begets better code." Secondly, us programmers have a propensity to procrastinate and generally get hung up on the interesting bits, ignoring the boring bits. Having someone that can understand exactly what you're stuck on is always "a good thing." Lastly, there's immediate backup if Timmy gets hit by a bus. Sorry, but it does happen.
It's really difficult to get developers to open up and share code... you have the "hero" guys and you also get the "afraid to be embarrassed" types as well. The faster you can get those types sharing the better your code quality will be - at least that's my experience. A code review with lunch can be a fun experience to kick that off. Giving the programmers some latitude to have their own 30 minute code review sessions with minimum management is good stuff too.
Because even though I am sometimes the Boss, I am also in charge of code quality, integration with other units and long term support. I'm also a full-time coder so I fully believe in "more eyes on the code begets better code." Secondly, us programmers have a propensity to procrastinate and generally get hung up on the interesting bits, ignoring the boring bits. Having someone that can understand exactly what you're stuck on is always "a good thing." Lastly, there's immediate backup if Timmy gets hit by a bus. Sorry, but it does happen.
It's really difficult to get developers to open up and share code... you have the "hero" guys and you also get the "afraid to be embarrassed" types as well. The faster you can get those types sharing the better your code quality will be - at least that's my experience. A code review with lunch can be a fun experience to kick that off. Giving the programmers some latitude to have their own 30 minute code review sessions with minimum management is good stuff too.
Just an assumption - but in this case I think the Texas state comptroller issues sales tax certificates - so they will set the rates.
I think that every state will eventually start issuing sales and use certificates for companies that want to sell into their state. That still won't be entirely fair, but it's the only simple solution I can imagine.
...could lower the overall manpower burden of the tax system, freeing up more of the taxes for doing what they are actually for.
I'm pretty sure the tax system today is used as a competitive advantage by large companies to squash small competitors. Large entities get breaks, grants and use foreign loopholes to funnel cash and avoid some legitimate taxes all together.
There's COTS software you can buy to do this - no worries. I've written point of sale software in the past and it wasn't too difficult. For Texas, as I remember, the tax is figured at the place of business, so wherever those servers are performing the sale is where the tax will be set.
First off, No.. the people in the Gov are not stupid. I work with plenty of genius level gov guys, and there's no doubt that they could come up with some deep and strong protection measures. Honestly, there's probably a warehouse full of such solutions ready to be dusted off (for the right price).
This isn't about that at all, in my opinion. I think it's a "minimum level" legislation, which shows that we "care about the issues' but not enough to encourage or offend everyone else on the planet to the point of retribution. Or at least we hope so.
I could come up with a dozen work-arounds in a week. In the end - as long as we can exchange packets - there's no stopping the exchange of information. That's the whole *point* of the internet, after all.
In our business, I routinely communicate with customers using s/mime mail. We set it up as part of the contract (not in the terms, just as part of the meet-n-greet kickoff), so anything related to the contract work goes through encrypted.
Crypto is our business... so it only makes sense.
I've never hit another vehicle (20 year driver), and I was driving 100 miles a day for a few years... driving with cell phones does slow your reactions.
IMHO, I would say that on rural highways cell phone usage is not a big problem. But driving in city traffic is dangerous, simply because there are so many autos moving in opposing directions at close range.
I suspect that cellphone usage will be allowed on highways and tollways, and banned in cities in a few years.
I've lived in quite a few places... I attended 10 schools before graduating from High School!) What's your favorite state?
Yes, Texans brag... almost as much as the Irish I think.
My only point is that, while not impossible, such a theory is just as likely as having gravity from a dense object pull away the heavier elements from such a cloud.
Making claims like this is interesting discussion and all, but I think it falls short of objective interpretation.
That sucker is larger than UARS and fully fueled... Some say the fuel will freeze during re-entry, but I'm hoping Roland Emmerich will be on hand to film it.
I hope they're able to save the mission... a huge blow to Russian space exploration.
I only checked the license I have on my machine, didn't know there was a new one.
I don't think that a lot of doctors are running life support systems on OS X or that pilots are reprograming their avionics systems to use it.
That doesn't mean they aren't relying upon their devices to make life-threatening decisions though...
Doctors routinely use Apple Devices to make diagnostic choices, whether by searching online medical texts, or viewing pictures from the lab.
Also, pilots routinely use Apple devices to log airports, and map routes.
Oh come on now! How does "pristine gas" equate to "Big Bang particles." This is a stretch of the imagination, as such a cloud could also point to intelligent life, or perhaps some other unknown phenomena.
To label it as "Big Bang" worthy is dishonest tripe.
That violates the licensing of the OS though.
Psystar lost because of the RebelEFI software it was selling. According to the court, it is a DMCA circumvention... The only requirement in the license is to have an "Apple-Labeled" computer to use the software. The T&C states:
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.
Besides, here's some others you may be violating...
THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
That's fairly vague... and lots of Doctors, Pilots and Network Engineers are breaking that section right there.
IMPORTANT NOTE: To the extent this software may be used to reproduce materials, it is licensed to you only for reproduction of materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce.
Hmm... pirates are out the door too.