I have to wonder if the parents became more involved with their kids once money was brought into the picture.
I think another study needs to be done to see if there is a way to encourage parents to be good parents and if that affects kids' scores
My parents paid me
$10 for As (I got $20s/class if I got straight As)
$5 for Bs
-$5 for Cs
-$10 for Ds
and if I got a F, it didn't matter what my other grades were. I got nothing.
After they started doing that, I was getting straight As.
we allow people to repeat grade levels and university subjects. So why not go the other way and allow above average students, or students with above average dedication to finish faster.
agreed. Every time that was offered to me in grade school, I advanced much faster working at my own pace rather than that of the slowest average person in my class.
I'm not good at English, but I'm great at math. The school system didn't realize that about me until they went to a method to teach math for 4th and 5th grade students to work at their own pace. I zoomed and suddenly other options in education opened up (my zooming opened up all the advanced courses then...)
In my 6th grade social studies class, they posted the entire years assignments at the beginning of the year. I finished it by November. I was left doing special projects for the teacher for the rest of the year or studying on my own (which I preferred.) Though I learned a lot on my own during that extra time, I think it could have been better spent, but they didn't have anything in place for students like me who excelled in certain topics (math and history - which probably describes why I loved D&D which has losts of math and history)
funny, but I can see addins that give a right click option to preform some standard spreadsheet function or an addin for firefox that shoots the contents of a webpage to koffice that then runs an addin to massage the data.
Street views of addresses I understand. I find it helpful to have a picture of where I'm trying to find.
Why would someone want this service? Are their vendors on the path like in World of Warcraft that google wants to map? I can see google maps giving directions like 20 yards exit the tree stump on the right.
I wonder what the ex-girlfriend and wife would register as....
It would be interesting to see how ex-love would play out. I see some people romanticize their past and compare them to their present lives. The whole 'who can compete with a ghost' issue.
Also it would be interesting to see neutral objects that he loves, but does not feel attachment or want sex from....like maybe his favorite food dish. Though I suspect he could duplicate the attachment factor with certain items like TVs or Internet connections...
didn't we already have another ant fighting Texas fire ants?
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/129244 Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas Posted by timothy on Thursday May 15, @07:34AM from the where's-tiny-ender-when-you-need-him dept. AntOverlords writes "Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet."
actually I was wondering about the sleep schedules of the techs working it. At the beginning they were working on Martian hours and not Earth hours.
A martian day being 24 hours and 40 minutes roughly. The techs were coming in later each day which sounds nice until you get to the odd hours and leaving home when your significant other is just getting home.
personnel to operate personnel to plan where to go personnel familiar with the hardware personnel familiar with the software management Public relations Webadmin to post updates Storage space for data Servers electricity Earth based equipment to communicate with rovers etc...
So what is it? If government is so "inefficient" why does industry need protection? If privatizing is so much better, why worry about government getting into your business niche?
I would worry about the Fedex/UPS vs post office comparisons. In the case of UPS & Fedex, they are limited in how low they can charge their services. UPS and Fedex get around this by offering more services than the Post Office and bring more value to the customer....
still...UPS/Fedex can't compete with the Post Office. Ask managers in those companies and they'll tell you how much they hate it and think they can do a better job than the Post Office.
Now if this ISP is playing by the same rules that TWC has to play by, then I see no issue; however if the government ISP is getting around some issues because they are the government, then I have a problem with it.
Easiest solution is to privatize the government ISP and then they should be playing by the same rules.
The next best solution is to audit both and make sure they are playing by the same rules. Maybe get some group accounting group to make sure no monopoly like practices are occurring on either side. If there are, document them and fix them.
I would think virtual learning would be enough to get your feet in the door for an engineering job. Usually that first job after college has someone more experience watching over you.
If everyone in the world has access to the information then why bother paying for the degree? As long as I can prove my understanding of the knowledge then why should I pay a particular university to vouch for me?
By that reasoning most certification programs should be a thing of the past.
Agreed. All the certifications I have passed, I've done through book study or cbts. I hated computer class room training.
I still get certified even though I know the material because of the weed out factor which is the same reason most people get degrees.
I know of one other degree though that people get not because it is a weed out factor but for the power that it brings...Lawyers. My dad loved his letterhead. Any time he had issues with a company, his complaints were taken seriously since they didn't want to get sued.
One consequence of free learning though is all the DIY users. I can image the number of DIY users would go up making a higher base line of education. The jack of all trades and master of none would be common.
We do not understand how to build structures to resist corrosion and weathering on millenial time scales -- that does not mean we shouldn't try, just that we aren't good at it, yet.
the humorous part about trying is we won't see if we succeed. It'll be our descendants' building on our designs and even then they won't know....
What I would like to see is more community type of buildings. If I was running a country, I'd plan for the long term. Monuments are nice, but I'd like to see some disaster relief buildings (i.e. places that can house a ton of people in an emergency) built to last the centuries. In the mean time they can be used as civic buildings for events.
Such structures I doubt would last 10k in years, but I'd be happy with several centuries.
why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal", "acceptable", or something else?
As a parent, all I care about is that my kids have kids. I don't care if they are gay.
I just want them to continue the chain and enjoy the same hell as me.;)
I remember back in 1993 reading a statistic that 10,000 lesbians were having kids. I'm sure that number has gone up since then, but what that says to me is just because a person is gay, their genetic nature still wants them to have kids.
I am still in awe of the rovers. I can't think of another mission where we have gotten to move around on another planet for so long.
Imagine the team that gets to work on these...every day they get to experience another planet....
I hope it doesn't become boring, but I can't help but wonder if they joke with their significant other:
"Goodbye dear, I'm off to the quarry." "Goodbye dear, I'm off for another day of looking at rock #SG2351, you know...the one we call the martian phallus. Professor Gretchen has some more ideas about it...." "Goodbye dear, we get to move a foot to the left today." "Goodbye dear, we get to move a foot to the right today." "Goodbye dear, Dr Simon said we get to spin the Rover around today, but we have to ask him first."
If you have no had prior DUI arrests, you should almost always take the test. You can always fight it later on, but you'll almost surely loose your license if you refuse.
In Texas, first time offenders are given jail time. Loosing your driving license is the least worry.
Suddenly for a moment there the working day seemed like it was going to begin being a whole lot more exciting.
and ergonomic breaks would be a lot more enjoyable.
At my job we have an annoying program (workpace)that takes control of the computer to force us to take breaks. It even suggests exercises that we should do while we wait for the program to release control of the computer. I think it would be more interesting if I could still continue to do work, but had to do the exercises to get the work done.
I think what I'd prefer is business as normal until I needed to do something important such as delete a file or send an email...and then to actually do the deed I'd have to accomplish some task such as chopping a log in two or knocking out someone (insert jpg)
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I have to wonder if the parents became more involved with their kids once money was brought into the picture. I think another study needs to be done to see if there is a way to encourage parents to be good parents and if that affects kids' scores
My parents paid me $10 for As (I got $20s/class if I got straight As) $5 for Bs -$5 for Cs -$10 for Ds and if I got a F, it didn't matter what my other grades were. I got nothing. After they started doing that, I was getting straight As.
we allow people to repeat grade levels and university subjects. So why not go the other way and allow above average students, or students with above average dedication to finish faster.
agreed. Every time that was offered to me in grade school, I advanced much faster working at my own pace rather than that of the slowest average person in my class.
I'm not good at English, but I'm great at math. The school system didn't realize that about me until they went to a method to teach math for 4th and 5th grade students to work at their own pace. I zoomed and suddenly other options in education opened up (my zooming opened up all the advanced courses then...)
In my 6th grade social studies class, they posted the entire years assignments at the beginning of the year. I finished it by November. I was left doing special projects for the teacher for the rest of the year or studying on my own (which I preferred.) Though I learned a lot on my own during that extra time, I think it could have been better spent, but they didn't have anything in place for students like me who excelled in certain topics (math and history - which probably describes why I loved D&D which has losts of math and history)
funny, but I can see addins that give a right click option to preform some standard spreadsheet function or an addin for firefox that shoots the contents of a webpage to koffice that then runs an addin to massage the data.
Street views of addresses I understand. I find it helpful to have a picture of where I'm trying to find.
Why would someone want this service? Are their vendors on the path like in World of Warcraft that google wants to map? I can see google maps giving directions like 20 yards exit the tree stump on the right.
I wonder what the ex-girlfriend and wife would register as....
It would be interesting to see how ex-love would play out. I see some people romanticize their past and compare them to their present lives. The whole 'who can compete with a ghost' issue.
Also it would be interesting to see neutral objects that he loves, but does not feel attachment or want sex from....like maybe his favorite food dish. Though I suspect he could duplicate the attachment factor with certain items like TVs or Internet connections...
didn't we already have another ant fighting Texas fire ants?
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/129244
Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 15, @07:34AM from the where's-tiny-ender-when-you-need-him dept.
AntOverlords writes "Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet."
actually I was wondering about the sleep schedules of the techs working it. At the beginning they were working on Martian hours and not Earth hours.
A martian day being 24 hours and 40 minutes roughly. The techs were coming in later each day which sounds nice until you get to the odd hours and leaving home when your significant other is just getting home.
personnel to operate
personnel to plan where to go
personnel familiar with the hardware
personnel familiar with the software
management
Public relations
Webadmin to post updates
Storage space for data
Servers
electricity
Earth based equipment to communicate with rovers
etc...
Alien Automobile Association?
Since we're the aliens on Mars, I guess that means us.
To drive to work would cost me $4 in gas ($2/gallon) and $6 for parking 8 blocks away. If I wanted to park next door it would cost me $20 per day.
By contrast, I ride the bus for $5/day and I get to sleep or read during that commute time.
So what is it? If government is so "inefficient" why does industry need protection? If privatizing is so much better, why worry about government getting into your business niche?
I would worry about the Fedex/UPS vs post office comparisons. In the case of UPS & Fedex, they are limited in how low they can charge their services. UPS and Fedex get around this by offering more services than the Post Office and bring more value to the customer....
still...UPS/Fedex can't compete with the Post Office. Ask managers in those companies and they'll tell you how much they hate it and think they can do a better job than the Post Office.
Now if this ISP is playing by the same rules that TWC has to play by, then I see no issue; however if the government ISP is getting around some issues because they are the government, then I have a problem with it.
Easiest solution is to privatize the government ISP and then they should be playing by the same rules.
The next best solution is to audit both and make sure they are playing by the same rules. Maybe get some group accounting group to make sure no monopoly like practices are occurring on either side. If there are, document them and fix them.
I would think virtual learning would be enough to get your feet in the door for an engineering job. Usually that first job after college has someone more experience watching over you.
Agreed. All the certifications I have passed, I've done through book study or cbts. I hated computer class room training.
I still get certified even though I know the material because of the weed out factor which is the same reason most people get degrees.
I know of one other degree though that people get not because it is a weed out factor but for the power that it brings...Lawyers. My dad loved his letterhead. Any time he had issues with a company, his complaints were taken seriously since they didn't want to get sued.
One consequence of free learning though is all the DIY users. I can image the number of DIY users would go up making a higher base line of education. The jack of all trades and master of none would be common.
We do not understand how to build structures to resist corrosion and weathering on millenial time scales -- that does not mean we shouldn't try, just that we aren't good at it, yet.
the humorous part about trying is we won't see if we succeed. It'll be our descendants' building on our designs and even then they won't know....
What I would like to see is more community type of buildings. If I was running a country, I'd plan for the long term. Monuments are nice, but I'd like to see some disaster relief buildings (i.e. places that can house a ton of people in an emergency) built to last the centuries. In the mean time they can be used as civic buildings for events.
Such structures I doubt would last 10k in years, but I'd be happy with several centuries.
why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal", "acceptable", or something else?
As a parent, all I care about is that my kids have kids. I don't care if they are gay.
I just want them to continue the chain and enjoy the same hell as me. ;)
I remember back in 1993 reading a statistic that 10,000 lesbians were having kids. I'm sure that number has gone up since then, but what that says to me is just because a person is gay, their genetic nature still wants them to have kids.
Heck, even Oscar Wilde had two kids. ;)
Hell if you liked the first incarnation of D&D you could still play that.
Know where I can buy a PDF of those? I have fond memories of 1st edition... ;)
I am still in awe of the rovers. I can't think of another mission where we have gotten to move around on another planet for so long.
Imagine the team that gets to work on these...every day they get to experience another planet....
I hope it doesn't become boring, but I can't help but wonder if they joke with their significant other:
"Goodbye dear, I'm off to the quarry."
"Goodbye dear, I'm off for another day of looking at rock #SG2351, you know...the one we call the martian phallus. Professor Gretchen has some more ideas about it...."
"Goodbye dear, we get to move a foot to the left today."
"Goodbye dear, we get to move a foot to the right today."
"Goodbye dear, Dr Simon said we get to spin the Rover around today, but we have to ask him first."
I'm sorry, but there comes a time in poker, when you just have to get the pain of that hand over with....call it!
Lets get the cards on the table and see what we have to fix.
Enough of these maybe issues.
Switch and see who is affected. Stagger the roll out so they can see problems coming, but lets get on with it!
no need to drop a hair...all the have to do is have a crime lab that makes the DNA fit the accused...
Just do a search for the Houston Crime Lab DNA...you'll get a ton of hits for all its woes.
admittedly that is nothing new...just watch the thin blue line documentary...
If there is one thing we do in Texas well, it is catching criminals whether they are guilty or not.
Let me know when there is a spoof of the PETA ad featuring bacon instead of vegetables.
If you aren't stuck on bacon, a few searches on the internet will probably find you some hotdog spoofs.
If you are capable of feeling shame, you'll never be a CEO.
frak...there goes my dream of being a CEO.
If you have no had prior DUI arrests, you should almost always take the test. You can always fight it later on, but you'll almost surely loose your license if you refuse.
In Texas, first time offenders are given jail time. Loosing your driving license is the least worry.
I'm sure we've all been in that situation and I know I lied and told the tech exactly what he wanted to hear....
Admittedly the factual information was correct, just not the method or screens.
Suddenly for a moment there the working day seemed like it was going to begin being a whole lot more exciting.
and ergonomic breaks would be a lot more enjoyable.
At my job we have an annoying program (workpace)that takes control of the computer to force us to take breaks. It even suggests exercises that we should do while we wait for the program to release control of the computer. I think it would be more interesting if I could still continue to do work, but had to do the exercises to get the work done.
I think what I'd prefer is business as normal until I needed to do something important such as delete a file or send an email...and then to actually do the deed I'd have to accomplish some task such as chopping a log in two or knocking out someone (insert jpg)