You mean 'current' as in the past 10,000 years? Hiding in buildings isn't exactly 'high tech'.:)
Lions stick to the upwind, tall grass before they pounce. The military usefulness of not being seen predates our much vaunted human brains by a considerable margin.
Still, there might be some value in being able to saunter a bit closer to the gazelle before being noticed. An advantage does not necessarily need to be large to be useful.
If the computer says that the average age of your customers is 23.00006 years than it must be true and a way to more effectively target your intended market of 22 year olds must be devised.
Promotions available to anyone who can drive this number down to 23.00005.
The problem is not that there are 'good' and 'bad' software patents . ..
The problem is that this is not a software patent, it's a process patent, the managment system, taking in all uses of computer networks for teaching.
It's in the same catagory as the bank that patented putting out toys for kids to play with while their parents are doing business in the bank. It just happens to revolve around the use of computer networks, but if there were no software patents this one would have still gone through.
Software patents are bad enough, but process patents are unmitigated evil. They give a legal monopoly to simply doing things.
Based on personal experience, I can't imagine this is accurate. I seriously doubt that 46 percent of women or men do their own computer troubleshooting and repair.
The results of the survey do support the idea that 46% of women do their own troubleshooting and repair.
They were asked for self assessment of their feelings.
Besides, who conducts a survey comparing the preferences of men and women with a sample set of one group (men, in this case) half the size of the other.
Someone who thinks that instant messaging is a "tech area"?
They'll be so accustomed to this type of law enforcement it won't phase them at all.
I used to go to school with a Boy Scout knife in my pocket. Now that would make me a dangerous criminal, they're trying to outlaw pointy things and force people to take mood "equalising" drugs.
And people cheer.
Welcome to the Brave New World. Enjoy your stay or get back on the reservation where you belong.
I think that cop had every right to run me off for playing violin on public property.
Oh, sure, it looks like a relatively minor bit of antisocial behavior on the face of it, but it was a school zone, think of the children. I might have come back and done it on a weekday when school was actually in session. Or I might have played on the swings or something.
And violin is a gateway crime. Best to stop that sort of thing early before it leads to . ..viola.
I have a considerable amount of trouble with vowel movement. I admit it.
Sometimes it's simply because of the amount of nonstandard English I read, but in this case that doesn't explain it, because if I had been asked the Latin root I would have spelled it correctly.
I cannot explain the peculiar workings of my mind, or what's left of the poor thing in any case.
Scorpion Man, Scorpion Man Does whatever a scorpion can He's got acid to dissolve, the guts of thieves with resolve Look out! Here comes the Scorpion Man.
Can he sting? Listen, Bud, he's got radioactive blood Can his pincers grab you fast? Can you say "You bet yer ass"? Hey there! There goes the Scorpion Man.
Intermediate Calculus is all about proofs and theory... definitely only of interest to math majors.
Oh, yeah, I can see where Stokes'/Green's/Taylor's Theorems and being able to prove them wouldn't be of any use to a physicist.
Next thing you know I'll be expecting them to learn stuff with no applicability to the real world at all, like tensor algebra and the fundamental theorem of metric geometry. What was I thinking?
If you think about it, you really don't want every single teacher writing their own curriculum - that's the rough equivalent of expecting every programmer to write their own compiler before starting to code.
Euclid wrote my geometry text, so I don't have to.
My job is to aid in the understanding of Euclid. Not to invent geometry. It just might be an aid to aiding understanding if I had some understanding of it myself, no matter how well the people who wrote my teacher's aids understood it.
In fact, if I understand it, I don't need the teacher's aids.
The blind leading the blind with someone elses description of where they're going might be better than nothing, but it really don't compare to having someone sighted actually along for the trip.
You're dodging the issue. If the schools are so useless, why are there so few officers on modern merchant ships that didn't go to an academy?
a) We're talking about secondary education, teenagers and their ability to be trusted eating lunch, b)presumeably you're talking about high school graduates, aren't you? b) I never said academies were useless.
It's interesting how you added the qualifier "public" in there . ..
Would you prefer "dropped out"? That's what I did. I ceased attending school. Of any kind. I was not "home schooled" as that phrase is understood these days. There were no home school programs in those days. I am one of the causes of those programs.I took up an essentially adult life surrounded by other adults, often shouldering responsibility for my parents.For my parents, not to my parents.
I did do some college when I was 14 (which I found valuable for the people it put me touch with, not for the studies, per se), and then again did a "normal" turn in college at the "appropriate" age after spending some time working full time. Degrees have their uses, as do the facilities of a college if one is in a technical field (physics for me; and I tend toward empiricism. Can't check a cyclotron out of the public library), but their uses have nothing to do with education, and the episode played hell with my education.
. ..have you followed your own advice on how to learn Spanish?
No, I'm afraid that for Spanish I did not. For Spanish I moved to Mexico for the better part of a year and subsequently Spain for several months, during the same period of life in which you were presumably dealing with hall monitors, being segregated from society - by age - in units of one, class bullies and such.
I'm afraid I shall persist in believing that I learned more about Spanish, about other cultures, about general science, about astronomy about marine biology (nothing like actually getting your hands on a hammerhead to learn about one), about archeology and about life in these episodes than did my "peers" in school. The evidence is purely anecdotal, but rather overwhelming.
I'm afraid it rather ruined me in one respect though. I became immune to being a "good American" (to whatever extent I was ever capable of that in the first place, which is the story of why I dropped out in the first place).
Exactly as the framers of our mandatory schooling system feared. That is what you are in school to learn, not that reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic crap. Anyone can learn that stuff in less than a year, as they find they need it. In early 1800s Massachussets the literacy rate was as near 100% as anyone could measure. Six year olds were not reading Dick and Jane. They were reading Defoe and Hawthorne with relish (Miracle Whip hadn't been invented yet). Most of them were dirt poor farmers, farming dirt, with not a schoolroom in sight. Many twelve year olds could read the Bible in their native tounge (which was very likely not English. English has never been the majority langage of America, only the plurality language, but that's another story), Latin and Greek. Having the same text in different languages is a wonderful learning tool for picking things up with.
They taught each other and themselves. Reading is so easy that I picked it up by osmosis as a preschooler. With a bit of instruction any child whose language is written in a phonetic alphabet can learn to read in a matter of weeks . . so long as he has not yet been subjected to a modern, government school. American slaves taught each other to read in secret, with no more tools of education than a stick, some dirt and a stolen Bible.
All of world history until the 20th century stands as example. Start your examination of this with Athens, where even the slaves were literate when the culture was.
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. . .from what I hear they've been unable to keep them in the shops at all...
.why would anybody want to do that?
Well, but. .
"Well boys, this is it, opening time. To the barricades!"
Negras tormentas agitan los aires
nubes oscuras nos impiden ver
Aunque nos espere el dolor y la muerte
contra el enemigo nos llama el deber.
KFG
After a while, they've become so cannonized that the wonderful bots patrolling these articles actually revert truthful corrections to my false data.
Sounds like standard press behavior to me.
KFG
Either he has a helper on the show . . .
Ya think?
KFG
. . .it was likely someone would eventually learn to fly based upon knowledge available in the renaissance. . .
.tube.
It's interesting to note that telegraphy and using it to pass digitally encoded information was predicted at least as early as the 1600s.
To show just how perceptive and right up to date this prediction was it envisaged the use of some sort of . .
KFG
You mean 'current' as in the past 10,000 years? Hiding in buildings isn't exactly 'high tech'. :)
Lions stick to the upwind, tall grass before they pounce. The military usefulness of not being seen predates our much vaunted human brains by a considerable margin.
Still, there might be some value in being able to saunter a bit closer to the gazelle before being noticed. An advantage does not necessarily need to be large to be useful.
KFG
If the computer says that the average age of your customers is 23.00006 years than it must be true and a way to more effectively target your intended market of 22 year olds must be devised.
Promotions available to anyone who can drive this number down to 23.00005.
KFG
The problem is not that there are 'good' and 'bad' software patents . . .
The problem is that this is not a software patent, it's a process patent, the managment system, taking in all uses of computer networks for teaching.
It's in the same catagory as the bank that patented putting out toys for kids to play with while their parents are doing business in the bank. It just happens to revolve around the use of computer networks, but if there were no software patents this one would have still gone through.
Software patents are bad enough, but process patents are unmitigated evil. They give a legal monopoly to simply doing things.
KFG
Based on personal experience, I can't imagine this is accurate. I seriously doubt that 46 percent of women or men do their own computer troubleshooting and repair.
The results of the survey do support the idea that 46% of women do their own troubleshooting and repair.
They were asked for self assessment of their feelings.
KFG
Besides, who conducts a survey comparing the preferences of men and women with a sample set of one group (men, in this case) half the size of the other.
Someone who thinks that instant messaging is a "tech area"?
KFG
I do believe I would have to put down the psychotropic drugs at that point.
.wait.
In future psychotropic drugs for children will be mandatory.
Oh. .
KFG
How many trees do corporations, land owners, and the government itself chop down every day? My guess would be more than one!
Break a branch, become a criminal, go to jail.
Raze a forest, become a Captain of Industry, go to government.
KFG
I'm not sure. I, myself, have never been to far.
Well if you ever have a mind to visit it can be found right here, right next to the sewage lagoon:
http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=
Ahhhhhhhh, how well I remember the carefree days of my youth, idling on the shores. Highly recommended for holiday.
KFG
They'll be so accustomed to this type of law enforcement it won't phase them at all.
I used to go to school with a Boy Scout knife in my pocket. Now that would make me a dangerous criminal, they're trying to outlaw pointy things and force people to take mood "equalising" drugs.
And people cheer.
Welcome to the Brave New World. Enjoy your stay or get back on the reservation where you belong.
KFG
. . . the only legal way to stop them . . .
.is to criminalise pissing people off.
. .
KFG
Trees have feelings too. How would you like it if some tree came along and started ripping limbs off you to build a fort?
KFG
Cops are dicks.
.viola.
I think that cop had every right to run me off for playing violin on public property.
Oh, sure, it looks like a relatively minor bit of antisocial behavior on the face of it, but it was a school zone, think of the children. I might have come back and done it on a weekday when school was actually in session. Or I might have played on the swings or something.
And violin is a gateway crime. Best to stop that sort of thing early before it leads to . .
KFG - A fiddler and therefore a rogue.
I have a considerable amount of trouble with vowel movement. I admit it.
Sometimes it's simply because of the amount of nonstandard English I read, but in this case that doesn't explain it, because if I had been asked the Latin root I would have spelled it correctly.
I cannot explain the peculiar workings of my mind, or what's left of the poor thing in any case.
KFG
Certain calculus and other math classes are designed for those who are teaching.
But not the one in question.
KFG
You were the one who started this by talking about how one should be expected to take command of a vessel by age 12 . . .
.you were the one who claimed that bachelor's degrees "isn't worth squat" (again, your words, as shown above).
.
.
. .
This is a partial sentence and not what I said if you compare them to the words shown above.
You stated that anybody can go from zero to conversational with two and only two books. .
I did not.
At the rate you keep drifting from and modifying your original assertions. .
Did you major in journalism or something?
KFG
Oh, I don't know. If I went blind one of the first things I would do would be to get help from a sighted dog.
And I don't even like dogs.
KFG
Scorpion Man, Scorpion Man
Does whatever a scorpion can
He's got acid to dissolve, the guts of thieves with resolve
Look out! Here comes the Scorpion Man.
Can he sting? Listen, Bud, he's got radioactive blood
Can his pincers grab you fast?
Can you say "You bet yer ass"?
Hey there! There goes the Scorpion Man.
KFG
Intermediate Calculus is all about proofs and theory... definitely only of interest to math majors.
Oh, yeah, I can see where Stokes'/Green's/Taylor's Theorems and being able to prove them wouldn't be of any use to a physicist.
Next thing you know I'll be expecting them to learn stuff with no applicability to the real world at all, like tensor algebra and the fundamental theorem of metric geometry. What was I thinking?
KFG
If you think about it, you really don't want every single teacher writing their own curriculum - that's the rough equivalent of expecting every programmer to write their own compiler before starting to code.
Euclid wrote my geometry text, so I don't have to.
My job is to aid in the understanding of Euclid. Not to invent geometry. It just might be an aid to aiding understanding if I had some understanding of it myself, no matter how well the people who wrote my teacher's aids understood it.
In fact, if I understand it, I don't need the teacher's aids.
The blind leading the blind with someone elses description of where they're going might be better than nothing, but it really don't compare to having someone sighted actually along for the trip.
KFG
That was my point . . .
:)
:)
And in my own, admitedly peculiar, way I was defending you against whoever modded you troll.
They like to do that around here when the truth hurts.
Myself, I'm an undecided liberal arts major, so I'm even more useless
Yeeeeeeeeeah, I've had girlfriends like that.
KFG
You're dodging the issue. If the schools are so useless, why are there so few officers on modern merchant ships that didn't go to an academy?
.
.have you followed your own advice on how to learn Spanish?
a) We're talking about secondary education, teenagers and their ability to be trusted eating lunch, b)presumeably you're talking about high school graduates, aren't you? b) I never said academies were useless.
It's interesting how you added the qualifier "public" in there . .
Would you prefer "dropped out"? That's what I did. I ceased attending school. Of any kind. I was not "home schooled" as that phrase is understood these days. There were no home school programs in those days. I am one of the causes of those programs.I took up an essentially adult life surrounded by other adults, often shouldering responsibility for my parents. For my parents, not to my parents.
I did do some college when I was 14 (which I found valuable for the people it put me touch with, not for the studies, per se), and then again did a "normal" turn in college at the "appropriate" age after spending some time working full time. Degrees have their uses, as do the facilities of a college if one is in a technical field (physics for me; and I tend toward empiricism. Can't check a cyclotron out of the public library), but their uses have nothing to do with education, and the episode played hell with my education.
. .
No, I'm afraid that for Spanish I did not. For Spanish I moved to Mexico for the better part of a year and subsequently Spain for several months, during the same period of life in which you were presumably dealing with hall monitors, being segregated from society - by age - in units of one, class bullies and such.
I'm afraid I shall persist in believing that I learned more about Spanish, about other cultures, about general science, about astronomy about marine biology (nothing like actually getting your hands on a hammerhead to learn about one), about archeology and about life in these episodes than did my "peers" in school. The evidence is purely anecdotal, but rather overwhelming.
I'm afraid it rather ruined me in one respect though. I became immune to being a "good American" (to whatever extent I was ever capable of that in the first place, which is the story of why I dropped out in the first place).
Exactly as the framers of our mandatory schooling system feared. That is what you are in school to learn, not that reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic crap. Anyone can learn that stuff in less than a year, as they find they need it. In early 1800s Massachussets the literacy rate was as near 100% as anyone could measure. Six year olds were not reading Dick and Jane. They were reading Defoe and Hawthorne with relish (Miracle Whip hadn't been invented yet). Most of them were dirt poor farmers, farming dirt, with not a schoolroom in sight. Many twelve year olds could read the Bible in their native tounge (which was very likely not English. English has never been the majority langage of America, only the plurality language, but that's another story), Latin and Greek. Having the same text in different languages is a wonderful learning tool for picking things up with.
They taught each other and themselves. Reading is so easy that I picked it up by osmosis as a preschooler. With a bit of instruction any child whose language is written in a phonetic alphabet can learn to read in a matter of weeks . . so long as he has not yet been subjected to a modern, government school. American slaves taught each other to read in secret, with no more tools of education than a stick, some dirt and a stolen Bible.
All of world history until the 20th century stands as example. Start your examination of this with Athens, where even the slaves were literate when the culture was.
Get down on your knees and bl