Is the title of the book I used in childrearing. It is about effective training of animals, children, and other humans in your life. Punishment may be hardwired in primates, but it is not the best training tool. Rewards are. Reward steps towards the behavior you want. Become more precise over time. Use occasional "jackpots'" to sustain the behavior.
Evolution has already pruned world populations of those who cannot resist measles. Those of us who survived are of the somewhat-measles-resistant variety. When measles was first introduced to populations in the Americas and isolated Pacific islands, populations that had never been exposed to measles, it killed many of the infected.
Original post is sexist. The comments that follow seem to be predominantly sexist, with lashings of racism. Way to cover yourself in ignominy, Slashdot.
I tried out the Analyzer program, and discovered that it only seemed to look for *English* words. Simple, easy-to-remember phrases in Tongan or French were rated as extremely strong (taking centuries to break).
The U.S. isn't the whole world. Bollywood movies regularly crack the top ten lists in the UK, are extremely popular in the Arab world, and have many devoted fans in Russia. In a recent UK poll, Amitabh Bachchan showed up as THE top movie star. Bollywood is developing much more of a following in the US as well. Even if you don't have an Indian cinema or an Indian grocery-spice-video shop in your area, you can sample the films through Netflix. After a while... they kinda grow on you.
HOSEF has had to turn away donations of old computers because we didn't have space to store them. There is NO shortage of old computers.
We're also working with a former Peace Corps volunteer who wants to set up K12LTSP Linux labs in Western Samoa. We're helping prepare a container-load of thin clients for shipping to Western Samoa.
I do conversion for fun, at Distributed Proofreaders.
The problem is the mixture of graphics, equations, and text.
It's easy enough to turn a page of text into a smallish file. Get a good automatic-feed scanner ($3500 or so) and a copy of ABBYY OCR software. If the original isn't too speckly, tiny, or smudged, ABBYY will give you a 95% accurate text you can then correct. Best format to save in? Depends on what the school is going to do the files. If they're to be posted on web sites, perhaps XHTML. If it's just for preservation, plain text (if there's no Greek characters) or XML with UTF-8.
Equations -- well, there's supposedly a version of XML for math, but Distributed Proofreaders has ended up using TeX, as it seems to be the mathematical standard. While this would work for preservation, it wouldn't work for a web site.
For a web site, perhaps the best way would be to intersperse text with pngs of the equations and graphics. The pngs would still take a lot more space than text, but the files would be smaller than PDF versions of the whole page.
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Is the title of the book I used in childrearing. It is about effective training of animals, children, and other humans in your life. Punishment may be hardwired in primates, but it is not the best training tool. Rewards are. Reward steps towards the behavior you want. Become more precise over time. Use occasional "jackpots'" to sustain the behavior.
Just how are those curtains going to deal with a blizzard, a hurricane, a tornado, or any other strong weather event?
Evolution has already pruned world populations of those who cannot resist measles. Those of us who survived are of the somewhat-measles-resistant variety. When measles was first introduced to populations in the Americas and isolated Pacific islands, populations that had never been exposed to measles, it killed many of the infected.
Original post is sexist. The comments that follow seem to be predominantly sexist, with lashings of racism. Way to cover yourself in ignominy, Slashdot.
I tried out the Analyzer program, and discovered that it only seemed to look for *English* words. Simple, easy-to-remember phrases in Tongan or French were rated as extremely strong (taking centuries to break).
The U.S. isn't the whole world. Bollywood movies regularly crack the top ten lists in the UK, are extremely popular in the Arab world, and have many devoted fans in Russia. In a recent UK poll, Amitabh Bachchan showed up as THE top movie star. Bollywood is developing much more of a following in the US as well. Even if you don't have an Indian cinema or an Indian grocery-spice-video shop in your area, you can sample the films through Netflix. After a while ... they kinda grow on you.
HOSEF has had to turn away donations of old computers because we didn't have space to store them. There is NO shortage of old computers.
We're also working with a former Peace Corps volunteer who wants to set up K12LTSP Linux labs in Western Samoa. We're helping prepare a container-load of thin clients for shipping to Western Samoa.
Third-world schools have nothing to fear from us.
-- HOSEF volunteer
I do conversion for fun, at Distributed Proofreaders.
The problem is the mixture of graphics, equations, and text.
It's easy enough to turn a page of text into a smallish file. Get a good automatic-feed scanner ($3500 or so) and a copy of ABBYY OCR software. If the original isn't too speckly, tiny, or smudged, ABBYY will give you a 95% accurate text you can then correct. Best format to save in? Depends on what the school is going to do the files. If they're to be posted on web sites, perhaps XHTML. If it's just for preservation, plain text (if there's no Greek characters) or XML with UTF-8.
Equations -- well, there's supposedly a version of XML for math, but Distributed Proofreaders has ended up using TeX, as it seems to be the mathematical standard. While this would work for preservation, it wouldn't work for a web site.
For a web site, perhaps the best way would be to intersperse text with pngs of the equations and graphics. The pngs would still take a lot more space than text, but the files would be smaller than PDF versions of the whole page.