The problem I see with the way I was taught math (and my kids even today) is that it is taught without context. In the Karate Kid, whats-his-name was assigned seemingly pointless tasks. Although each task taught an essential skill that would eventually be used to kick the punkass loser's butt, it was not clear at the time and even discouraging.
Math is taught the same way...a seemingly endless series of tasks that have no tanglible result other than to say yes, you got it right.
Perhaps it would be better to have math taught in a project manner. Show the cool things that can be done with it such as a computer game or airplane simulation or climate simulation. etc. then explore the math behind it and start with the basic mathematical concepts required. That way there is no "I will never use it" because, yes, you will...and soon.
I would agree with you there. Just to watch the fireworks here, I'll say that if you don't pay Income taxes, then you shouldn't get to vote in the federal elections.
The combination of Mainframes and COBOL is the Catapiller D9 of computer system. When it comes to moving mountians of data through the system, the girlie languages running on PC farmes just can't keep up.
COBOL excels at moving data from file to file. I haven't seen the Redefines capability in any other language and is very very powerful when it comes to slicing up data before transformation and then putting it back together in other formats.
Of course, nothing can touch the combination of mainframes and COBOL when it comes to processing millions and millions of records.
A few thousand people is a drop in the bucket to Amazon.
Unless of course the set their machines up to use some kind of DDOS software and aim it at Amazon. If they want to sit at the PC all day long clicking Amazon links, then more power to them
So whether it's a rented botnet or a coordinated use of DDOS software, it is still has an nonrepresentational impact on Amazon.
One guy with a can of gas is worth 100 guys with protest signs in this case.
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So you really think that Anon carries out its attacks buy sitting at the keyboard clicking the refresh button again and again?
The problem I see with the way I was taught math (and my kids even today) is that it is taught without context. In the Karate Kid, whats-his-name was assigned seemingly pointless tasks. Although each task taught an essential skill that would eventually be used to kick the punkass loser's butt, it was not clear at the time and even discouraging.
Math is taught the same way...a seemingly endless series of tasks that have no tanglible result other than to say yes, you got it right.
Perhaps it would be better to have math taught in a project manner. Show the cool things that can be done with it such as a computer game or airplane simulation or climate simulation. etc. then explore the math behind it and start with the basic mathematical concepts required. That way there is no "I will never use it" because, yes, you will...and soon.
Come on, you know the guy can't string 6 words together without a teleprompter.
I would agree with you there. Just to watch the fireworks here, I'll say that if you don't pay Income taxes, then you shouldn't get to vote in the federal elections.
And Newt doesn't need a teleprompter to address a bunch of 6th graders.
Except the great unwashed you described are the ones paying the bills.
In my book, it makes them the ones best able to decide.
How do you know this? He won't even let us see his grades.
I guess we could do without cow fart studies and research into why men like nakkid women.
Actually, us mainframe guys were doing XML before it was called XML. It was called EDI in 1988.
Oh, and DB2 too.
And which report are they STILL using today? Most likely not the one in the "for real" dead languge Pascal.
I wonder if he knew that the system that cut his checks was almost certianly running on COBOL.
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.
The combination of Mainframes and COBOL is the Catapiller D9 of computer system. When it comes to moving mountians of data through the system, the girlie languages running on PC farmes just can't keep up.
COBOL excels at moving data from file to file. I haven't seen the Redefines capability in any other language and is very very powerful when it comes to slicing up data before transformation and then putting it back together in other formats.
Of course, nothing can touch the combination of mainframes and COBOL when it comes to processing millions and millions of records.
No, they are more like the Earth First people:
Loosely affiliated, no central control or organization. But prone to random acts of violence in the name of their twisted philosophy.
No everyone wants to play in an environment populated by potty mouth teenagers jumping around like monkeys.
There are rules regarding protests. Break them and you get arrested for criminal trespass.
You have to pretty much be a dickhead to equate this to the Civil Rights Movement.
You'd be singing a different tune if was your website and source of income.
A few thousand people is a drop in the bucket to Amazon.
Unless of course the set their machines up to use some kind of DDOS software and aim it at Amazon. If they want to sit at the PC all day long clicking Amazon links, then more power to them
So whether it's a rented botnet or a coordinated use of DDOS software, it is still has an nonrepresentational impact on Amazon.
One guy with a can of gas is worth 100 guys with protest signs in this case.
And then you would fully support my renting a botnet and bring Slashdot to its knees with a DDOS attack?
See the parallels?
Private businesses shut down Wikileaks sites because of potential liability and headaches.
Vigilantes are usually prosecuted.
It's more like an online version of a few hundred turning up with a cans of gasoline.
With DDOS tools, then can burn a business down..at least for a few days.