Way back in 1967 I wrote a term paper for my 11th grade English class on the tobacco industry. I was able to find many references to a "lung cancer epidemic" in the mid-1900s that alarmed the medical community. For example http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807357,00.html
Turned out to be caused by tobacco use as pushed by the tobacco companies. Servicemen during WWII got a pack of cigarettes in their daily ration packs, generously donated by the tobacco companies. They knew even then that it was highly addictive. I grew up sucking on candy cigarettes. All the movie stars and "cool" people smoked. Only the chronic asthma and bronchitis caused by my parent's smoking, that still plagues me to this day, kept me from ever smoking myself, until I wrote that report and realized just what was going on. It started out to be a paper on the advertising industry, until I found out how much the tobacco industry was spending on advertising - as I recall for just one year, something over a million dollars in 1952, which was a lot in those days. My English teacher gave me an A+ and quit smoking...for a month.
Anybody else remember television in the early 1950s, the big wooden box, the tiny screen, the guy in the white coat with a stethoscope around his neck showing you the graphs proving how good smoking BrandX cigarettes were for your heart?
Nonsense. Worksheets with pictures, the kid is supposed to put the pictures in the proper sequence - the dyslexic kid couldn't figure it out. It's not a problem with reading per se, it's a problem sequencing. I get numbers backwards all the time, as well a left and right, sometimes even up and down. But I was reading at 9th grade level in the 1st grade. My dyslexic kid would say "stairsdown" for downstairs, and "antarz" for Tarzan. We persevered, and he later went on to college, for accounting, and got on the Dean's List.
As a parent of two "normal" children and one badly dyslexic child, and having spent the same amount of time playing, singing, reading, drawing, coloring with all three, this was obvious. By the time my dyslexic child was 2, I knew he had something going on. Before that, actually, but nothing definite until then.
Indeed. I was having health problems related to allergy treatments, and took A, E (multitocopherol) and C for several months, feeling better as time progressed, and after three or four months the health problems disappeared. Now, I can't take even small doses without feeling negative effects. So if it's needed it will benefit, if not, it won't. But then apparently most people simply don't have the common sense to know the difference.
I don't use passwords with my wifi router. I use the MAC filter. Only the devices I add to the list can access my router. Plus my house is wired for Cat5. Good luck breaking into my systems.
When my children were in school, granted this was some years ago, in the first and second grades (this is at age 7 or 8, mind you) they had weekly visits from a psychologist. The children were instructed to not tell their parents about these visits, or show their parents the worksheets and other materials they were given. One of my children was disturbed by the outright instructions to disobey parents if the child didn't want to do something, like take a bath or go to bed at a specified time, and told me about the whole thing. I had to take it to the school board to keep that child from being disciplined by the school (in-house detention during lunch and recess periods), and even then he was exposed to harassment and humiliation in front of his classmates, being called a "snitch", a "traitor" and a "mamma's boy". So on the one hand children were being taught to ignore and disobey their parents, exercising their "rights" to self-expression, yet on the other hand when this same child did not want to engage in a certain sporting activity he was threatened with suspension for not obeying the teacher.
The ironic thing is that I happened to meet that school psychologist some time later, and he confided to me that he does not at all agree with what he was teaching, but it was his job to teach what he was told to teach: that children had the right to do what they pleased, not what they were told to do - at least by their parents.
Well, if a teenaged couple hops over to Las Vegas or Yuma and gets married without all the blood tests and stuff, does California have to shut up and deal with it?
Indeed, as an uneducated (well, self-educated) over-60 grandmother, I got my current job nearly a year ago because of my standing on forums relating to my choice of profession. I have been picking and choosing offers of freelance work and more permanent jobs through those forums for 10 years now.
er... I'm a granny with 8 grandkids and I built my first PC over 20 years ago, the year before my first grandchild was born. Ran computer repair and small business/home networking shops in two states and two continents. Mac user now, although obliged to use a company-provided HP from time to time as well. Three Parallels VMs on the Mac for testing the websites I build. Also have a small smartphone; no tablet yet. Still haven't made up my mind which one to get.
That's beyond ignorant, it's just silly. MODx uses Confluence and Jira for its documentation and bug tracking; as a free Open Source project it got a free Confluence account.
It's a CMS. By default it manages content. Add whatever functionality you like, DRY up and give it a REST or whatever you want. That's what the API is for.
Doesn't have to be. Everything can be "static"; all that goes in the database is the path to the files. Most PHP add-ons only have a basic stub in the database; everything else is in files.
There is no "Professional" version of MODx. Evolution (1.x) is the original code base, Revolution (2.x) is a complete rewrite with a new codebase. Both are free. Both have hundreds of free third-party add-ons.
I've examined a few of these "services". They keep track of who is using these things. Some of them even provide you with some of their data, such as a weekly or monthly report on how many people solved their question and how many failed. And some of them use cookies, allowing anybody to track your users.
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Way back in 1967 I wrote a term paper for my 11th grade English class on the tobacco industry. I was able to find many references to a "lung cancer epidemic" in the mid-1900s that alarmed the medical community. For example http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807357,00.html
Turned out to be caused by tobacco use as pushed by the tobacco companies. Servicemen during WWII got a pack of cigarettes in their daily ration packs, generously donated by the tobacco companies. They knew even then that it was highly addictive. I grew up sucking on candy cigarettes. All the movie stars and "cool" people smoked. Only the chronic asthma and bronchitis caused by my parent's smoking, that still plagues me to this day, kept me from ever smoking myself, until I wrote that report and realized just what was going on. It started out to be a paper on the advertising industry, until I found out how much the tobacco industry was spending on advertising - as I recall for just one year, something over a million dollars in 1952, which was a lot in those days. My English teacher gave me an A+ and quit smoking...for a month.
Anybody else remember television in the early 1950s, the big wooden box, the tiny screen, the guy in the white coat with a stethoscope around his neck showing you the graphs proving how good smoking BrandX cigarettes were for your heart?
Nonsense. Worksheets with pictures, the kid is supposed to put the pictures in the proper sequence - the dyslexic kid couldn't figure it out. It's not a problem with reading per se, it's a problem sequencing. I get numbers backwards all the time, as well a left and right, sometimes even up and down. But I was reading at 9th grade level in the 1st grade. My dyslexic kid would say "stairsdown" for downstairs, and "antarz" for Tarzan. We persevered, and he later went on to college, for accounting, and got on the Dean's List.
As a parent of two "normal" children and one badly dyslexic child, and having spent the same amount of time playing, singing, reading, drawing, coloring with all three, this was obvious. By the time my dyslexic child was 2, I knew he had something going on. Before that, actually, but nothing definite until then.
Indeed. I was having health problems related to allergy treatments, and took A, E (multitocopherol) and C for several months, feeling better as time progressed, and after three or four months the health problems disappeared. Now, I can't take even small doses without feeling negative effects. So if it's needed it will benefit, if not, it won't. But then apparently most people simply don't have the common sense to know the difference.
Fumes from overheated teflon pans will kill parrots and other cagebirds.
Well, I would presume we could add this guy to the list... http://www.clarionproject.org/news/imam-temple-mount-let-america-be-destroyed#
I don't use passwords with my wifi router. I use the MAC filter. Only the devices I add to the list can access my router. Plus my house is wired for Cat5. Good luck breaking into my systems.
Norwich, Connecticut, around 1980.
When my children were in school, granted this was some years ago, in the first and second grades (this is at age 7 or 8, mind you) they had weekly visits from a psychologist. The children were instructed to not tell their parents about these visits, or show their parents the worksheets and other materials they were given. One of my children was disturbed by the outright instructions to disobey parents if the child didn't want to do something, like take a bath or go to bed at a specified time, and told me about the whole thing. I had to take it to the school board to keep that child from being disciplined by the school (in-house detention during lunch and recess periods), and even then he was exposed to harassment and humiliation in front of his classmates, being called a "snitch", a "traitor" and a "mamma's boy". So on the one hand children were being taught to ignore and disobey their parents, exercising their "rights" to self-expression, yet on the other hand when this same child did not want to engage in a certain sporting activity he was threatened with suspension for not obeying the teacher. The ironic thing is that I happened to meet that school psychologist some time later, and he confided to me that he does not at all agree with what he was teaching, but it was his job to teach what he was told to teach: that children had the right to do what they pleased, not what they were told to do - at least by their parents.
Well, if a teenaged couple hops over to Las Vegas or Yuma and gets married without all the blood tests and stuff, does California have to shut up and deal with it?
Indeed, as an uneducated (well, self-educated) over-60 grandmother, I got my current job nearly a year ago because of my standing on forums relating to my choice of profession. I have been picking and choosing offers of freelance work and more permanent jobs through those forums for 10 years now.
Spoilsport.
Ok, I'll bite. What's freaking eggdrop?
Indeed, I believe I was up to four or five grandkids at that point. And yes, I can knit booties.
er... I'm a granny with 8 grandkids and I built my first PC over 20 years ago, the year before my first grandchild was born. Ran computer repair and small business/home networking shops in two states and two continents. Mac user now, although obliged to use a company-provided HP from time to time as well. Three Parallels VMs on the Mac for testing the websites I build. Also have a small smartphone; no tablet yet. Still haven't made up my mind which one to get.
That's beyond ignorant, it's just silly. MODx uses Confluence and Jira for its documentation and bug tracking; as a free Open Source project it got a free Confluence account.
It's a CMS. By default it manages content. Add whatever functionality you like, DRY up and give it a REST or whatever you want. That's what the API is for.
It's a book review, not a review of MODx. And I would think that a book review should mention the credentials of the author.
Doesn't have to be. Everything can be "static"; all that goes in the database is the path to the files. Most PHP add-ons only have a basic stub in the database; everything else is in files.
Installs with MSSQL if you prefer.
Here's some bigger fish, such as Dell, Betchel (Hoover Dam and Chunnel engineers), Salvation Army... http://modx.com/why-modx/
There is no "Professional" version of MODx. Evolution (1.x) is the original code base, Revolution (2.x) is a complete rewrite with a new codebase. Both are free. Both have hundreds of free third-party add-ons.
Try a free MODx developer's lab account to see if you like it. https://modxcloud.com/signup/lab-account.html
I've examined a few of these "services". They keep track of who is using these things. Some of them even provide you with some of their data, such as a weekly or monthly report on how many people solved their question and how many failed. And some of them use cookies, allowing anybody to track your users.
Wrong. http://www.votehemp.com/different_varieties.html