What K12 needs is zero-administration. That means support staff and a recurring service charge. I tried to sell such a project (open source scheduling/ grading) to the local public school service co-op, but they wouldn't fund it. I went to the Minnesota department of childhood families and learning, and they *loved* my demo and prototype, which included 9 man-months of effort invested in collecting the local and state-wide graduation standards to allow students to see what they needed and how they were progressing towards graduation while they selected their classes, but they weren't interested in funding it either.
Really, this is a gold-mine opportunity for an ASP start-up. I've got the experience and even a lot of the code and data to do it, but I don't have the bizdev acumen to make this fly. If you're an angel investor tired of dot-com flim-flam and want to do something that really helps people as well as making money hand-over-fist, give me a buzz.
This is really politically correct nonsense. The environmental cost of producing (and later discarding) rechargable batteries and solar cells is vastly larger than the collateral costs of producing power centrally, particularly if the central production is nuclear. And there is almost no petroleum-based utility electric in the U.S.
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a tiny fraction of the total CO2 emissions due to animal respiration, natural fires and decomposition, and volcanic emissions.
I agree that it would be useful to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, but the way to do it is not by reducing anthropogenic emissions, which are not the problem. Instead we should focus on abatement.
It's not an issue of responsibility, as in a tort. It's an issue of responsibility as in stewardship and the consequences of inaction.
It's really a lark. I love the slashdot moderation system. It gives me endless laughter. This guy is randomly spouting pure bullshit that he pulls directly from whole cloth like Athena giving Zeus head. But it's okay to slander Stanley Mouse, who was doing this stuff in the 1960s already (not 2000) without ever bothering to read the article or get any grazing tangential familiarity with the facts -- in fact, its +5 Information!
Thank you M. Lemkebeth, you trully restored my faith in suffering humanity. I never met a stranger whose kindness I did not suffer lightly.
"If the theory were false then I could disprove it" asserts that the theory is falsifiable. The conclusion derived is that the theory is falsifiable. That's begging the question.
Coming back for more? That's begging a spanking.
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. She might not spank you so much.
When you die, this world ends. Get real. Denying your own immanent death is a far less survivable delusion than the paranoia with which you smear your rhetorical opponents.
Now in fact people live in the arctic where the field lines converge, so the notion that a collapse of the magnetic field would not be survivable is prima facie absurd, but that doesn't mean that *you* won't get killed by a cyclone that results from ionospheric overheating.
Whether or not we are *all* going to die, I couldn't care less. What is of interest to me is whether *I* am going to die.
While it is certain that our ancestors who reproduced *after* the last such event did survive it, the ancestors of all the people who weren't born because their freaking ancestors were all dead first would like to challenge you to an ectoplasm-wrasslin' contest to see who gets to incarnate after the next event.
All propaganda is based on truth, in order to convince the victim of a big lie. I don't think that the executive branch of the government is institutionally capable of cleaning it's own house at this point, and a DOJ vet of the CIA is frankly laughable. I mean, c'mon, they said LHO shot JFK too -- but I've seen the photos of LHO standing on the street in front of the TSB while Kennedy's head is fragmenting. They gave the FBI a clean ticket after Waco too, but I've seen the video of ninjas with MP=5s going into (and out of) the bunker before it blows and burns, incinerating the Davidian women and children.
Politically incorrect truth, I know, but I'd much prefer to be classed with the conspiracy "nuts" than with the lying murderers who chose to use that propaganda technique to discredit the voices of truth and reason.
Exactly what do you think Barry Seal was doing all those years? What purpose does the war on drugs serve, other than to keep prices high for the suppliers?
Oh this is a lark indeed! (It's funny, laugh!) The above is moderated as 5 - Informative as I write, while in fact it contains a grotesque fallacy which should be apparent to anyone with the capacity to walk and chew gum:
"If the theory were false, then I could disprove it by performing an experiment where an action does not..."
This is called begging the question. The poster assumes that the claim (equal and opposite...) is falsifiable, and concludes:
"Thus, the theory is hypothetically falsifiable".
Wow. it's no wonder we elect bald-faced liars to lead us into wars of aggression.
> Now, the work [sic] "Universe" means "everything that is."
This is your mistake. Finish the sentence:
"The word 'Universe' means 'everything (i.e. all particle pairs) that is (are) mutally accessible (i.e. occupy continuously deformable positions) by travel through space-time (i.e. the Minkowski manifold)'".
>> I demand the Government stop all future terrorist attacks,
> Actually, no I don't
Well I do. I demand that they stop assassinating American citizens overseas, incinerating villages, torturing prisoners of war, mass-murdering iraqis, dissappearing innocent people in the US, and generally making Osama bin Laden look good by comparison.
Slashdot Mirror
...unless you call it that.
Call it an Agile Methodology, or the Beck Methodology, or the XP Methodology.
add a 1.8" hd, 802.11b, and an extended-life battery,
and that sharp device would conquer the u.s. ultra-
portable market.
13 month old baby, broke the looking glass..
> Would you feel comfortable with a radioactive power
> source inside your laptop or cellphone?
Yes, I'd feel comfortable, and I don't fear
black cats or ladders either.
support staff and a recurring service charge.
I tried to sell such a project (open source scheduling/
grading) to the local public school service co-op,
but they wouldn't fund it. I went to the Minnesota
department of childhood families and learning, and
they *loved* my demo and prototype, which included
9 man-months of effort invested in collecting the
local and state-wide graduation standards to allow
students to see what they needed and how they were
progressing towards graduation while they selected
their classes, but they weren't interested in
funding it either.
Really, this is a gold-mine opportunity for an ASP
start-up. I've got the experience and even a lot of
the code and data to do it, but I don't have the bizdev acumen to make this fly. If you're an angel
investor tired of dot-com flim-flam and want to
do something that really helps people as well as
making money hand-over-fist, give me a buzz.
The software to manage multiple access via firewire was recently released GPL by Oracle.
This is really politically correct nonsense.
The environmental cost of producing (and later
discarding) rechargable batteries and solar cells
is vastly larger than the collateral costs of
producing power centrally, particularly if
the central production is nuclear. And there is
almost no petroleum-based utility electric in
the U.S.
Yeah, but when will there be a GPL implementation
of SCSI over SOAP over HTTP over TCP over IP over
SCSI?
Dolpin makes IEEE-standard SCI cards. They're only
"proprietary" in the sense that they have no
meaningful competition.
I can't imagine where the writer of the article
got the idea that this is the first case of an
antibiotic-resistant staph infection.
What will really be scary is when a necrotizing
staph infection proves resistant and highly
contagious. I can hardly wait!
> You are probably violating Apple's license by
> doing this anyway.
I certainly hope so!
Cool. Here are a point and a question in reply:
"Guy" is generic, using the English default
for cases of unknown gender.
Would you deny that the truth can be bullshit?
I face truths that I consider bullshit almost
every day;)
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a tiny fraction of
the total CO2 emissions due to animal respiration,
natural fires and decomposition, and volcanic
emissions.
I agree that it would be useful to reduce the amount
of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, but the
way to do it is not by reducing anthropogenic
emissions, which are not the problem. Instead we
should focus on abatement.
It's not an issue of responsibility, as in a tort.
It's an issue of responsibility as in stewardship
and the consequences of inaction.
Ummmmm.... No.
But this horse is as dead as the armadillo on a
Mack's grille, so why lead it to water?
5-Informative:)))) bwahahahaha
It's really a lark. I love the slashdot moderation
system. It gives me endless laughter. This guy
is randomly spouting pure bullshit that he pulls
directly from whole cloth like Athena giving Zeus
head. But it's okay to slander Stanley Mouse,
who was doing this stuff in the 1960s already
(not 2000) without ever bothering to read the
article or get any grazing tangential familiarity
with the facts -- in fact, its +5 Information!
Thank you M. Lemkebeth, you trully restored my
faith in suffering humanity. I never met a
stranger whose kindness I did not suffer lightly.
Umm... No.
Ummm... No.
"If the theory were false then I could disprove it"
asserts that the theory is falsifiable. The
conclusion derived is that the theory is falsifiable.
That's begging the question.
Coming back for more? That's begging a spanking.
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. She might not
spank you so much.
Dang straight it's cheaper elsewhere!
$24.99 after a $10 rebate at
http://www.compuvisor.com/logcorfreedh.html
> "THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!" is paranoia
When you die, this world ends. Get real.
Denying your own immanent death is a far less
survivable delusion than the paranoia with which
you smear your rhetorical opponents.
Now in fact people live in the arctic where
the field lines converge, so the notion that
a collapse of the magnetic field would not
be survivable is prima facie absurd, but that
doesn't mean that *you* won't get killed by a
cyclone that results from ionospheric overheating.
Whether or not we are *all* going to die, I
couldn't care less. What is of interest to me
is whether *I* am going to die.
While it is certain that our ancestors who
reproduced *after* the last such event did
survive it, the ancestors of all the people who
weren't born because their freaking ancestors
were all dead first would like to challenge you
to an ectoplasm-wrasslin' contest to see who
gets to incarnate after the next event.
Ah yes, an allusion to a vague and undefined
massive body of research to support your
unsupportable opinions. Very clever. I'm convinced -- not!
> Our problems tend to be economic.
Yeah, y'all sold your SOULS to the DEVIL!
All propaganda is based on truth, in order to
convince the victim of a big lie. I don't think that
the executive branch of the government is
institutionally capable of cleaning it's own
house at this point, and a DOJ vet of the CIA
is frankly laughable. I mean, c'mon, they said
LHO shot JFK too -- but I've seen the photos of
LHO standing on the street in front of the TSB
while Kennedy's head is fragmenting. They
gave the FBI a clean ticket after Waco too, but
I've seen the video of ninjas with MP=5s going
into (and out of) the bunker before it blows and
burns, incinerating the Davidian women and children.
Politically incorrect truth, I know, but I'd much
prefer to be classed with the conspiracy "nuts"
than with the lying murderers who chose to use
that propaganda technique to discredit the voices
of truth and reason.
Exactly what do you think Barry Seal was doing
all those years? What purpose does the war on
drugs serve, other than to keep prices high
for the suppliers?
They are combatants as long as their land is
occupied by an invading army.
Oh this is a lark indeed! (It's funny, laugh!)
The above is moderated as 5 - Informative as
I write, while in fact it contains a grotesque
fallacy which should be apparent to anyone with the
capacity to walk and chew gum:
"If the theory were false, then I could disprove it
by performing an experiment where an action does not..."
This is called begging the question. The poster
assumes that the claim (equal and opposite...)
is falsifiable, and concludes:
"Thus, the theory is hypothetically falsifiable".
Wow. it's no wonder we elect bald-faced liars
to lead us into wars of aggression.
> Now, the work [sic] "Universe" means "everything that is."
This is your mistake. Finish the sentence:
"The word 'Universe' means 'everything (i.e. all
particle pairs) that is (are) mutally accessible (i.e. occupy continuously deformable positions)
by travel through space-time (i.e. the Minkowski
manifold)'".
Now, it's not gibberish any more, is it?
>> I demand the Government stop all future terrorist attacks,
> Actually, no I don't
Well I do. I demand that they stop assassinating
American citizens overseas, incinerating villages,
torturing prisoners of war, mass-murdering iraqis,
dissappearing innocent people in the US, and
generally making Osama bin Laden look good by
comparison.