This sounds like an amazing strategy and I will advocate for it when I get around to starting a family (or a political career, whatever comes first). However, no matter what strategy is employed by charter schools there is a fundemental difference in the type of families that are present. I have a few teachers in the familiy and the sad stories I hear tend to center around enviromental issues. Abusive parents are the worst of it but the more common case is they're simply absent, physically in that they may be working two jobs and still not able to put food on the table seven days a week, or emotionally having succum to alchoholism or some other psycological disability.
It's a great idea, but it's just one tool in the tool box.
First, the utility of that message has no bearing on its truth value. Second, as you point out, the bible is a story. If read chronologically the pattern of over embellishing becomes clear. Christianity as an ethical guide isn't half bad, so long as we're talking about the Christianity of secular Europe that has discarded the superstition and dogma of its passed. Compare that to the Christianity of the USA which is largely a complete rework to better indoctrinate and abuse the ignorance of its followers. If you really want to understand the value of religion, three words, "the DARK ages"
Far too many people look to science as a way to deny religion.
No. Those who understand science know that science and (most) religion(s) are mutually exclusive. You're ability to believe both is only evidence that humans are capable of holding logically inconsistent ideas simultaneously
They are manufacturing a discord when, apparently, even many top scientists don't have a problem doing both. It's pure bologna, and that's the entire point of the study.
The top scientists don't have a problem with religion. The most unscientific don't have a problem with religion. It's only those in the middle, those who think they know science but probably don't, which have a problem, statistically speaking. In other words, there shouldn't be a relationship.
No, there shouldn't, and yet billions of people believe the silliest stories about how the world works because.....FAITH
============== "If there is any kind of supreme being, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." -Vetinari
I'm using Vuze and have been unable to find a way of setting different throttling settings for different times of the day. Is there a good tutorial/plugin for that?
The problem with scrum (and agile in general) is the misconception. Too many people both users and critics don't bother to follow it properly. It's seen as cowboy coding when in fact done properly both scrum and agile are very disciplined methodologies.
More specific to scrum though is that things like "good documentation and good test cases/proofs" were taken out of scrum because it was hard to sell in Scrums infancy and are now only associated with XP. Which is why your always told to do both XP & Scrum
In all fairness though GP is write about the SM certification program. It is just a pirimid scam
First, quit trying to use lazy as an insult on/. it's a compliment here. Lazy is a highly positive trait in an industry were you build automation.
Second, IE 6 is so far behind that modern CSS, while at the same time holding so much of the market share that it not only makes the initial build more difficult; it makes all the advancements of web tech over the last 5-10 years pointless because you have to hack around it.
Err, what exactly is "critical thinking skills"? that's one term I've never quite understood. And while acquiring and retaining information are easy to qualify, how do you measure its use?
The articles a little difficult to read at first. So here goes, Critical Thinking is similar to cynicism in that you don't believe everything your told. Rather that you question everything, but accept what is shown by the evidence. In turn it is the ability to ask the correct questions to show the truth or false hood of a given statement.
Measuring it is not easy. Though it can be evaluated qualitatively. One measure could be the time it takes to accept a truth VS. the time it take to reject a falsehood.
Don't get me wrong. In my younger days I cared a lot about the language. Now, however, I think of myself as the old cynic. Seriously, F*** the language. What you need to do is teach students paradigms:
Start with Assembly so they know whats really happening on the metal,
Blow through C, for procedural and pointers.
Look at Java/C# for interface abstraction techniques and Encapsulation.
Show any other JVM/.Net language to talk about the wonders of cross language accessible libraries (as well as the pitfalls).
Show a reflective and a convention driven language like ruby for its meta programming abilities.
Show a functional Language like Erlang to demonstrate ways to write thread safe code
And Clojure for its recursion capabilities and an intro to lisp style macros.
Teaching one programming language to new students is in my opinion quite damaging; it can lead to the idea that there is but one way of doing things. Its an old mindset from the days when there weren't as wide a range of options and persists mostly do to teachers being to lazy to properly learn multiple languages themselves.
You don't need to get the students to program proficiently in all these languages. You just need to understand 2 or 3 (Assembly, Python/Ruby, and Clojure/Erlang) from which they can try each of these methods. Whats important is that they understand that there are a lot of ways to program and a lot of information to look at.
Simply put, Your inalienable rights are: freedom to do what ever you want so long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
Think interns of land ownership. If our rights are represented as a plot of land then we all have the same size/quality of land and are free to do anything on our land but we may not enter onto another persons plot.
Not a terribly unreasonable stance. However, do you believe that the questions "Does Santa, The Easter Bunny, The tea pot on the other side of the sun, The invisible unicorn, The flying spagetti monster, Fairies, etc exist?"
should all be left open? I think no; most reasonable people can agree that these like God do not exist. An absence of evidence is evidence for absence. No, not proof of absence, just overwhelming evidence of.
Remember, atheism is a statement of belief, agnosticism is a statement of knowledge.
To my knowlege there are plugins for hudson that are decent trackers, though I haven't used any of them. Krymson is a project that will be hitting the market soon from Mya Software which I think will eventually be a strong force in the market.
As too planning I am involved with a distributed Story Card planning tool available for download at http://ase.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ it, being an Academic OS project, is at times unstable though that is changing. You should also check out the Digital Table version which requires a license.
My team is currently using Jazz under an Academic license. Jazz is one of those systems that has potential. Right now it is to unstable, lacks 3rd party support and isn't very intuitive.
On the whole I would say that right now you're better off with Hudson + git/svn. That said if the developers focus more on usability and listen to their customers Jazz will be a major player in the future.
I agree in large part that your right, that the network and other forms of I/O are the biggest speed problem. However, you seem to be over looking a big portion of the desktop market: Gamers.
3D rendering can take advantage of massive parralization
I'm a developer myself. Mostly open source mind you so you can assume me bias if you like.
As a consumer I support TPB and other trackers for the simple reason that no one (in their right mind) would consider buying a car without test driving it. Something we are often forced to do with software and media.
I personally have pirated few video games, though I did pirate both Portal and BioShock. I beat both games; said to myself yes these are worth the money and now own both.
Likewise, I tend to pirate movies and television; buying the stuff I decide is worth the price they're asking. I would estimate that no less than have of the ones I purchased I would never have even considered not having seen it first. In the case of television it tends to be shows that don't air any more or not at all in Canada.
The truth as I see it and, while I am too lazy to search Google for the studies, I would bet large sums of money that there is already evidence beyond the anecdotes of groups like Radio Head that proves that for companies that embrace this new tool and produce good content ultimately increase their profits.
While some people may not think like this and just "want free stuff" the law is without a doubt unenforceable. It is as likely to fail just like prohibition. By driving the community further underground all that will be accomplished is to make it harder to track.
The solution for us content providers is simple: Embrace Change.
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This sounds like an amazing strategy and I will advocate for it when I get around to starting a family (or a political career, whatever comes first). However, no matter what strategy is employed by charter schools there is a fundemental difference in the type of families that are present. I have a few teachers in the familiy and the sad stories I hear tend to center around enviromental issues. Abusive parents are the worst of it but the more common case is they're simply absent, physically in that they may be working two jobs and still not able to put food on the table seven days a week, or emotionally having succum to alchoholism or some other psycological disability.
It's a great idea, but it's just one tool in the tool box.
First, the utility of that message has no bearing on its truth value.
Second, as you point out, the bible is a story. If read chronologically the pattern of over embellishing becomes clear.
Christianity as an ethical guide isn't half bad, so long as we're talking about the Christianity of secular Europe that has discarded the superstition and dogma of its passed. Compare that to the Christianity of the USA which is largely a complete rework to better indoctrinate and abuse the ignorance of its followers. If you really want to understand the value of religion, three words, "the DARK ages"
Far too many people look to science as a way to deny religion.
No. Those who understand science know that science and (most) religion(s) are mutually exclusive. You're ability to believe both is only evidence that humans are capable of holding logically inconsistent ideas simultaneously
They are manufacturing a discord when, apparently, even many top scientists don't have a problem doing both. It's pure bologna, and that's the entire point of the study.
The top scientists don't have a problem with religion. The most unscientific don't have a problem with religion. It's only those in the middle, those who think they know science but probably don't, which have a problem, statistically speaking. In other words, there shouldn't be a relationship.
No, there shouldn't, and yet billions of people believe the silliest stories about how the world works because.....FAITH
==============
"If there is any kind of supreme being, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." -Vetinari
Java.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG-NIt2O5J8
http://xmlvm.org/overview/
Call me an Idealist but "It's not whether you win or lose its how you play the game." and Google not MS plays that game really well (and is winning).
I'm using Vuze and have been unable to find a way of setting different throttling settings for different times of the day. Is there a good tutorial/plugin for that?
?surgery? It's a contact lens. I throw mine out every 2 weeks.
The problem with scrum (and agile in general) is the misconception. Too many people both users and critics don't bother to follow it properly. It's seen as cowboy coding when in fact done properly both scrum and agile are very disciplined methodologies.
More specific to scrum though is that things like "good documentation and good test cases/proofs" were taken out of scrum because it was hard to sell in Scrums infancy and are now only associated with XP. Which is why your always told to do both XP & Scrum
In all fairness though GP is write about the SM certification program. It is just a pirimid scam
Scrum master = Project manager!!!!!
NO
Scrum master = Team Lead
Product Owner = Project Manager
First, quit trying to use lazy as an insult on /. it's a compliment here. Lazy is a highly positive trait in an industry were you build automation.
Second, IE 6 is so far behind that modern CSS, while at the same time holding so much of the market share that it not only makes the initial build more difficult; it makes all the advancements of web tech over the last 5-10 years pointless because you have to hack around it.
A sufficiently complex system is only unlikely to be proven to be correct as the number of edge cases rises several orders of magnitude higher.
Don't Forget us [Pirates|http://pirateparty.ca]
Yes it's illegal. It is also not criminal.
No, Cannabis is actually good for you. It's just the smoking part that's bad
At least since we are also a democracy there may be hope.
At least since we also pretend to be a democracy we feel hope.
Fixed that for you
Err, what exactly is "critical thinking skills"? that's one term I've never quite understood. And while acquiring and retaining information are easy to qualify, how do you measure its use?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
The articles a little difficult to read at first. So here goes, Critical Thinking is similar to cynicism in that you don't believe everything your told. Rather that you question everything, but accept what is shown by the evidence. In turn it is the ability to ask the correct questions to show the truth or false hood of a given statement.
Measuring it is not easy. Though it can be evaluated qualitatively. One measure could be the time it takes to accept a truth VS. the time it take to reject a falsehood.
p.s. I list Assembly first because it is often more fun to learn if It gets easier as you go. hence start low level and work your way up.
Don't get me wrong. In my younger days I cared a lot about the language. Now, however, I think of myself as the old cynic.
Seriously, F*** the language. What you need to do is teach students paradigms:
Teaching one programming language to new students is in my opinion quite damaging; it can lead to the idea that there is but one way of doing things. Its an old mindset from the days when there weren't as wide a range of options and persists mostly do to teachers being to lazy to properly learn multiple languages themselves.
You don't need to get the students to program proficiently in all these languages. You just need to understand 2 or 3 (Assembly, Python/Ruby, and Clojure/Erlang) from which they can try each of these methods. Whats important is that they understand that there are a lot of ways to program and a lot of information to look at.
A Purist is just a Pragmatist with a long term view.
Simply put, Your inalienable rights are: freedom to do what ever you want so long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
Think interns of land ownership. If our rights are represented as a plot of land then we all have the same size/quality of land and are free to do anything on our land but we may not enter onto another persons plot.
Not a terribly unreasonable stance. However, do you believe that the questions
"Does Santa, The Easter Bunny, The tea pot on the other side of the sun, The invisible unicorn, The flying spagetti monster, Fairies, etc exist?"
should all be left open? I think no; most reasonable people can agree that these like God do not exist. An absence of evidence is evidence for absence. No, not proof of absence, just overwhelming evidence of.
Remember, atheism is a statement of belief, agnosticism is a statement of knowledge.
To my knowlege there are plugins for hudson that are decent trackers, though I haven't used any of them. Krymson is a project that will be hitting the market soon from Mya Software which I think will eventually be a strong force in the market.
As too planning I am involved with a distributed Story Card planning tool available for download at http://ase.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ it, being an Academic OS project, is at times unstable though that is changing. You should also check out the Digital Table version which requires a license.
My team is currently using Jazz under an Academic license. Jazz is one of those systems that has potential. Right now it is to unstable, lacks 3rd party support and isn't very intuitive.
On the whole I would say that right now you're better off with Hudson + git/svn. That said if the developers focus more on usability and listen to their customers Jazz will be a major player in the future.
I agree in large part that your right, that the network and other forms of I/O are the biggest speed problem. However, you seem to be over looking a big portion of the desktop market: Gamers.
3D rendering can take advantage of massive parralization
I'm a developer myself. Mostly open source mind you so you can assume me bias if you like.
As a consumer I support TPB and other trackers for the simple reason that no one (in their right mind) would consider buying a car without test driving it. Something we are often forced to do with software and media.
I personally have pirated few video games, though I did pirate both Portal and BioShock. I beat both games; said to myself yes these are worth the money and now own both.
Likewise, I tend to pirate movies and television; buying the stuff I decide is worth the price they're asking. I would estimate that no less than have of the ones I purchased I would never have even considered not having seen it first. In the case of television it tends to be shows that don't air any more or not at all in Canada.
The truth as I see it and, while I am too lazy to search Google for the studies, I would bet large sums of money that there is already evidence beyond the anecdotes of groups like Radio Head that proves that for companies that embrace this new tool and produce good content ultimately increase their profits.
While some people may not think like this and just "want free stuff" the law is without a doubt unenforceable. It is as likely to fail just like prohibition. By driving the community further underground all that will be accomplished is to make it harder to track.
The solution for us content providers is simple: Embrace Change.