Honestly this still doesn't make sense to me. I'm not being an asshole, I just am confused about how you would learn to think about it like that.
I first learned to use computers with dos, and so I was originally accustomed to having 'move' and 'ren' but when I first used linux and the reasoning behind having only one command was explained to me (in a Linux for Dummies book I believe) it made perfect sense.
The information is the focus, a movie, a book, a resume, whatever you have is information. That information is *in* a file, the file is in a directory, etc. etc.
Maybe I was just born with an innate understanding of computer science.:-D
If you design a good test, and grade it well, then there will be no way to cheat.
I would design questions that require a good understanding of the material to answer, let them do whatever they want online, and then talk individually with students that you think might be copy/pasting answers, whether from other classmates or from the internet. A 2 or 3 minute conversation with them will tell you pretty easily whether they understand their answers or not. If they understand their answers well enough to convince you they could have given them legitimately then it doesn't matter what actually happened, they are either learning what you are teaching, they already know it, or they have good enough grasp of the whole field of study that they can fake it. Any of those three outcomes is sufficient for your purposes, at least in my opinion.
The hard part here, of course, is designing good questions. It's incredibly hard to design good tests, which explains how few of them you find out in the wild.
The problem with home schooling is that most parents (even intelligent and well educated parents) are way shittier at education than even mediocre teachers. Sorry, but it's the truth.
Do you have any backup for that claim? I'd be interested to know your source. In my personal experience, uneducated but motivated parents who are willing to spend the time to instill their kids with a with a love of learning are much better at education than overworked and underpaid teachers.
Sign your kid up for public school and age group sports and you won't have that problem. I was home schooled, and I know more people with social problems who were not home schooled than those who were (there are certainly a few, so it can clearly be done wrong as well).
I really don't understand this objection to home schooling. As far as I can tell the social skills predominantly learned in high school are nearly useless in the real world. Just look at any incoming freshman college class, they learn more real world social skills in their first semester than they did all through high school. If there were any correlation between home schooled kids and social awkwardness I'd be more convinced but in reality there are people who are socially awkward however they go to school.
This stereotype may be enforced by the fact that normal home schooled people such as myself rarely mention the fact that they are home schooled. It never comes up because it doesn't matter and it always entails extra questions and explanations.
That said I'm lazy as fuck, so I'll probably be waiting till I can afford a good charter school.:-)
that sounds like something that would have been fixed pretty rapidly. I help off buying a fuse until the port was stable, but that was several years ago.
See, that's not true, Steam is a perfect example of why it isn't. Valve has managed to create a DRM system that actually adds value to the game for the majority of users. Every single Valve game is just as easy to pirate as games from other publishers, yet they lose very little sales to piracy. Why do you think that is? It is because Valve makes buying from steam more attractive than piracy.
Depriving them of sales and income due to the copying of information is still not theft, as they are still in full possession of what was taken.
People tend to get caught up by wanting to call copyright infringement theft. It's not. The argument over whether it is right or wrong is a separate argument altogether.
The only study I've seen to suggest this was deeply flawed by its reliance on self reported alertness levels. There is nothing to suggest that people who are used to caffeine do not simply have a higher base level expectation of alertness. In fact the research boiled down to "people that haven't had coffee think they're as alert as people who have had coffee."
For what it's worth I was wrong to take up with the scotsman, and I responded to the guy above who called me on it earlier:-)
I would consider my parents decent people, but they are certainly followers of the OMGGAYSARETEHEVILINFECTINGSOCIETY pop-christian meme that is so popular right now.
I keep telling them that it's not the gays trying to destroy marriage that is a problem, it's the fact that us straights have already destroyed marriage as a stable sociological unit. But they're not buying it yet:-\ I also try to argue them towards my libertarian ideals of lack of government involvement in any facet of life, sexual OR religious, but they don't like that idea either.:-(
Leviticus 20:13 Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable)
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Amplified Bible (AMP) 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, 10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.
Romans 1:26-27 Amplified Bible (AMP) 26 For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, 27 And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution.
There are a few others that mention things like sodomy and such, which probably refer to abnormal sexual practices in general (where "abnormal" is defined as NOT sex in the missionary position for the purpose of conception)
It's worth noting again that homosexuality is not the OMGEVIL thing that it has become in today's popular christian culture, it's just another sin among many common sins that keep man from being able to commune with God.
Yeah you're right, I should have said that, in my opinion, anyone saying that has to read insane amounts of bullshit into the bible and selectively ignore large sections of the new testament. It just felt better to say it that way.
I'm tempted to argue that since it's impossible to argue religion logically, it is impossible NOT to commit a logical fallacy while arguing religion. However I realize that trying to hide behind that would just make me look even more like a stereotypical agnostic troll so i'll just admit that you're right.:-)
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Honestly this still doesn't make sense to me. I'm not being an asshole, I just am confused about how you would learn to think about it like that.
I first learned to use computers with dos, and so I was originally accustomed to having 'move' and 'ren' but when I first used linux and the reasoning behind having only one command was explained to me (in a Linux for Dummies book I believe) it made perfect sense.
The information is the focus, a movie, a book, a resume, whatever you have is information.
That information is *in* a file, the file is in a directory, etc. etc.
Maybe I was just born with an innate understanding of computer science. :-D
I've enjoyed namecheap's services
If you design a good test, and grade it well, then there will be no way to cheat.
I would design questions that require a good understanding of the material to answer, let them do whatever they want online, and then talk individually with students that you think might be copy/pasting answers, whether from other classmates or from the internet.
A 2 or 3 minute conversation with them will tell you pretty easily whether they understand their answers or not.
If they understand their answers well enough to convince you they could have given them legitimately then it doesn't matter what actually happened, they are either learning what you are teaching, they already know it, or they have good enough grasp of the whole field of study that they can fake it.
Any of those three outcomes is sufficient for your purposes, at least in my opinion.
The hard part here, of course, is designing good questions. It's incredibly hard to design good tests, which explains how few of them you find out in the wild.
The one I get tripped up on the most is renaming a folder. I want to rename, so is it rn? No it's mv... but I'm not moving it so that's confusing.
You are moving the file to a new location, what once was /usr/bin/foo.ext is moved to /usr/bin/fubar.extension
The problem with home schooling is that most parents (even intelligent and well educated parents) are way shittier at education than even mediocre teachers. Sorry, but it's the truth.
Do you have any backup for that claim? I'd be interested to know your source.
In my personal experience, uneducated but motivated parents who are willing to spend the time to instill their kids with a with a love of learning are much better at education than overworked and underpaid teachers.
Sign your kid up for public school and age group sports and you won't have that problem. I was home schooled, and I know more people with social problems who were not home schooled than those who were (there are certainly a few, so it can clearly be done wrong as well).
I really don't understand this objection to home schooling. As far as I can tell the social skills predominantly learned in high school are nearly useless in the real world. Just look at any incoming freshman college class, they learn more real world social skills in their first semester than they did all through high school. If there were any correlation between home schooled kids and social awkwardness I'd be more convinced but in reality there are people who are socially awkward however they go to school.
This stereotype may be enforced by the fact that normal home schooled people such as myself rarely mention the fact that they are home schooled. It never comes up because it doesn't matter and it always entails extra questions and explanations.
That said I'm lazy as fuck, so I'll probably be waiting till I can afford a good charter school. :-)
I don't know where you're looking for guides, but wherever it is you should never go back...
the split screen guide is here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ac079d67c33ce0f0e5bc71e2b9bc5d67&t=1847904
it's a stickied thread in the Steam Portal 2 Forum:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=854
Try Portal 2, my brother and I have been playing on split screen across two monitors with two X360 for PC controllers. It's pretty freaking awesome.
It does take some doing though, there are multiple threads in the steam forums giving step by step instructions.
If I had points I would mod you funny, as you made me laugh. but such is life :-\
that sounds like something that would have been fixed pretty rapidly. I help off buying a fuse until the port was stable, but that was several years ago.
keep in mind that Rockbox is being actively developed: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MajorChanges
I've been running rock-box on a succession of Sansa mpfree players for close to 6 years now, and I love it.
See, that's not true, Steam is a perfect example of why it isn't.
Valve has managed to create a DRM system that actually adds value to the game for the majority of users. Every single Valve game is just as easy to pirate as games from other publishers, yet they lose very little sales to piracy. Why do you think that is? It is because Valve makes buying from steam more attractive than piracy.
but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
what material will we be printing on, into which you can pour molten steel or iron?
You're doing it wrong.
You say that like complete transparency is a bad thing. Why?
Apparently having a slick looking, minimalist design now qualifies as looking "a lot like Apple products."
Depriving them of sales and income due to the copying of information is still not theft, as they are still in full possession of what was taken.
People tend to get caught up by wanting to call copyright infringement theft. It's not.
The argument over whether it is right or wrong is a separate argument altogether.
The only study I've seen to suggest this was deeply flawed by its reliance on self reported alertness levels. There is nothing to suggest that people who are used to caffeine do not simply have a higher base level expectation of alertness. In fact the research boiled down to "people that haven't had coffee think they're as alert as people who have had coffee."
I laughed :-) we just changed that btw: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016720231_elexliquor09m.html
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Funny, that's exactly what AGW skeptics keep saying...
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For what it's worth I was wrong to take up with the scotsman, and I responded to the guy above who called me on it earlier :-)
I would consider my parents decent people, but they are certainly followers of the OMGGAYSARETEHEVILINFECTINGSOCIETY pop-christian meme that is so popular right now.
I keep telling them that it's not the gays trying to destroy marriage that is a problem, it's the fact that us straights have already destroyed marriage as a stable sociological unit. But they're not buying it yet :-\ I also try to argue them towards my libertarian ideals of lack of government involvement in any facet of life, sexual OR religious, but they don't like that idea either. :-(
Leviticus 20:13
Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable)
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, 10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.
Romans 1:26-27
Amplified Bible (AMP)
26 For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, 27 And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution.
There are a few others that mention things like sodomy and such, which probably refer to abnormal sexual practices in general (where "abnormal" is defined as NOT sex in the missionary position for the purpose of conception)
It's worth noting again that homosexuality is not the OMGEVIL thing that it has become in today's popular christian culture, it's just another sin among many common sins that keep man from being able to commune with God.
Yeah you're right, I should have said that, in my opinion, anyone saying that has to read insane amounts of bullshit into the bible and selectively ignore large sections of the new testament. It just felt better to say it that way.
I'm tempted to argue that since it's impossible to argue religion logically, it is impossible NOT to commit a logical fallacy while arguing religion. However I realize that trying to hide behind that would just make me look even more like a stereotypical agnostic troll so i'll just admit that you're right. :-)
An act does not exist apart from an actor, but an actor is not defined by an act.
excellently put.
From a biblical christian perceptive, "all have sinned" (Romans 3:23) therefore if God hated sinners he would hate everyone.