This all sounds great and it would be fantastic if the world could work this way - but it doesn't. A few middle and upper class families might have the time and motivation to pull this off, but most people today are too busy to home school and simply cannot afford to buy learning materials or hire tutors. Yes, most parents have their children's best interests in mind, but those interests are not always education. In addition, you are completely ignoring the lower class where it is impossible to find the time to verify kids are even doing their homework while you work two jobs.
You present a puppies and rainbows situation which would be great if it could happen, but that simply is not how people work.
Can't get to your site from work, so I'll work from your summary... I think you're operating under a fallacy that parents are in general better suited to educate their kids than trained teachers. It may work fine for elementary education, but very few individuals are suited to teach high school level courses. Education is simply not that highly regarded in most communities that parents taking this income would do more than the bare minimum and keep the change. I'm also finding it difficult to follow your conclusion that with widespread homeschooling, the schools would somehow become big hubs of learning. Instead I see local schools decline with the drop in student enrollment and subsequent operating funds.
As for basic income... I don't see how that can be implemented without eventually becoming a system where the producers of society don't end up carrying the weight of those that don't.
You are missing a huge problem - many parents in the areas with the worst schools right now are far too busy trying to put food on the table or simply don't care. There's no way these parents would home school. No way they'd even get their kids to a nicer school that's out of walking range. How do vouchers help here? The few who have the means to get their kids to a nicer school somewhere outside the ghetto will do it, and those stuck will be in even worse shape then they are now. So, no. Good schools will not somehow appear to save these kids. Some education can be an individual activity-- but through even the most motivated 5 year old in a library or on a computer and see how far they get. Information is great, but it doesn't teach you to think and it is useless if you don't know what to do with that information.
Easier to reply to you than repeat you, pretty spot on. Most of this reply is regarding public education rather than post-secondary.
I am curious how many people posting in this thread actually *know* any teachers, either a friend or family member that teaches or one of your own teachers. You can't get to know a teacher if you classify them all as the enemy trying to control your mind. There are good teachers out there-- a lot of them. Maybe not as many of them as the bad ones, but they're out there. Not many people notice because they are hampered by administrative rules, students who despise the profession in general, and a society which simply doesn't care. They notice the off-kilter kids in class who are very bright but simply "don't fit in." They talk about you with the other teachers and really hope you don't get buried by the system. Unfortunately most of them aren't ballsy enough to go against the administration.
Education is a two way street. Students give up on good teachers all the time and it's most often because the bad ones made them dislike all teachers. Complaints about university education departments are right on - that and school administrations make it *considerably* more difficult to be a good teacher in a public school.
Full disclosure - while I'm not an educator, I come from a family which is half teachers. I consider half of them to be really good at it.
The so-called "welfare class" does not want to better themselves at all.
This is inaccurate and counter productive. *Some* of *any* class do not want to better themselves at all, but I would wager the majority would prefer to be in charge of their destinies.
Find me that one ghetto kid who made something big of their life despite parents who weren't around, teachers who didn't care, and friends who had no life goals beyond "don't get stabbed" and you'll find a douchebag liar who doesn't acknowledge the folks who helped them out along the way. Nobody gets ahead completely on their own.
In this particular case - people can't better themselves when they don't realize what that actually means. When "the good life" is squeaking by without working and still scoring that sweet new iPhone, there's a cultural problem that takes some truly motivated outside influence to fix. This guy showed the kids what they could do, gave them the tools to do it, and then a handful of his students had the motivation to make it work. You could put a teacher like this in many schools and see similar results because you're right - it isn't about the people being stupid. It's about somebody telling them *how* they can improve their situation. Some will take the advice and some won't, but you sure as hell will see better results than insisting everybody figure it out for themselves.
It's crowded but can be workable. A large group of kids who don't want to be there is a recipe for disaster-- but that isn't the case here. This is an AP course with students who really are motivated to be there and a teacher who doesn't object to the class size. We're talking something closer to a college course than high school. Regardless, the school administration still refused to open up another class time.
Seriously raises questions - this one time I wrote a loop and used i as the iterator. Later on I was working on a program from one of the other guys and found out that son of a bitch STOLE my code and used the SAME DAMN ITERATOR NAME.
How do expect me to remember he's complaining about dimmer switches as well? Do you really think I RTFA'd? You must be as much of a quack as Mr Firstenberg!
Or easier-- hide your SSID, claim it's off, and see if he notices.
"Sure thing Mr Firstenberg, just let me log in and disable the WiFi on the router. There, can't see the network on your laptop anymore right? Good. Feel better? Oh yes, the kids are doing great. Have a nice day, sir!"
We are talking air traffic control radars here. They are used to keep civilian aircraft from crashing into each other. You wouldn't expect an enemy plane to have one of our GPS transponders any more than you'd expect their tanks to have a valid license and registration when invading across Interstate 80.
Military runs their own surveillance radars and you can be assured they aren't going to be effected by the ATC switch to GPS.
As somebody who knows and works with several private pilots, that statement is utterly false. Private aircraft are certainly not cheap, but they are definitely not out of reach of the middle class.
Just because *you* don't like them doesn't make those that do wrong. Do you have any statistics on GA fuel usage vs commercial vs automotive that I'm not aware of? I simply don't understand why you're hostile to general aviation. I certainly can agree with you on the over-reliance on commercial air travel. A better utilized rail system would do us some good here-- but private aircraft are most often flown as a hobby by regular people.
So... They invented a carburetor? Or is it throttle-body fuel injection?
Y'know, I'd get upset at their wild efficiency claims, but these new "green" car modifiers are just so dern cute when they get their minds set on something!
Who missed the point? He mentioned nothing of datacenters and configuring SANs... There are plenty of applications where that simplicity is preferred and even necessary. In his case (and mine), we *are* building devices and the cables to interface with them. It's a tool for a job, nobody is dumb enough to try using a single tool for every job.
The point is that you put the complexity on your debugging and development system. Your run-time target can use the simple serial interface. For home and general purpose computing (servers, systems, anything application-related)-- yes Serial is fading and probably will disappear. For controls, embedded, and real time applications, I don't see it going anywhere.
Explain why... As I figure this may cause the motor to rev up to redline quite quickly, but if you're trying to keep your car from accelerating into oblivion I think the wear on your motor is a lesser concern.
Funny, insightful, informative. I honestly don't believe it is possible to formulate a better reply to this Ask Slashdot. Question answered. Moving on!
Not doing it wrong. In many parts it's called a "handbrake" and is intended as a normal tool when driving. Mostly in those crazy British parts...
Though I do agree on one point-- I've never driven an automatic that tended to roll backwards on steep inclines, at least not quickly enough that I'd lose more than an inch or two. I do believe what GP meant was "Sometimes folks step on both pedals to do burnouts."
That's a bit of a shortsighted view. Mechanical designs are quite prone to failure as well. Excess wear or friction in your cable run can cause a throttle to remain open despite the accelerator position. The only difference is mechanical designs have had more time to mature (and a number of software designs are simply sloppy). There are plenty of fly by wire throttle systems which have worked flawlessly.
This is definitely a case of the implementation being flawed, not the technology.
Uhm... no. You may be using it "right" for your application, but he certainly isn't using it wrong. You simply cannot take code developed by the Matlab/Simulink interpreters and drop it into a safety critical real-time system. The algorithms need to be rewritten as appropriate for the hardware.
Everybody does SLOC counting differently, so who knows what that number actually represents (maybe all the lines in image and movie files for the entertainment system?:P ). I wouldn't mind seeing a breakdown of lines of code per component-- betting there's a HUGE percentage in the entertainment and navigation systems with just a tiny fraction in actual control systems.
Most embedded control systems count code lines in the thousands, I'd expect the car to be similar until you run into fancy graphics and superfluous luxuries.
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This all sounds great and it would be fantastic if the world could work this way - but it doesn't. A few middle and upper class families might have the time and motivation to pull this off, but most people today are too busy to home school and simply cannot afford to buy learning materials or hire tutors. Yes, most parents have their children's best interests in mind, but those interests are not always education. In addition, you are completely ignoring the lower class where it is impossible to find the time to verify kids are even doing their homework while you work two jobs.
You present a puppies and rainbows situation which would be great if it could happen, but that simply is not how people work.
Can't get to your site from work, so I'll work from your summary... I think you're operating under a fallacy that parents are in general better suited to educate their kids than trained teachers. It may work fine for elementary education, but very few individuals are suited to teach high school level courses. Education is simply not that highly regarded in most communities that parents taking this income would do more than the bare minimum and keep the change. I'm also finding it difficult to follow your conclusion that with widespread homeschooling, the schools would somehow become big hubs of learning. Instead I see local schools decline with the drop in student enrollment and subsequent operating funds.
As for basic income... I don't see how that can be implemented without eventually becoming a system where the producers of society don't end up carrying the weight of those that don't.
You are missing a huge problem - many parents in the areas with the worst schools right now are far too busy trying to put food on the table or simply don't care. There's no way these parents would home school. No way they'd even get their kids to a nicer school that's out of walking range. How do vouchers help here? The few who have the means to get their kids to a nicer school somewhere outside the ghetto will do it, and those stuck will be in even worse shape then they are now. So, no. Good schools will not somehow appear to save these kids. Some education can be an individual activity-- but through even the most motivated 5 year old in a library or on a computer and see how far they get. Information is great, but it doesn't teach you to think and it is useless if you don't know what to do with that information.
Easier to reply to you than repeat you, pretty spot on. Most of this reply is regarding public education rather than post-secondary.
I am curious how many people posting in this thread actually *know* any teachers, either a friend or family member that teaches or one of your own teachers. You can't get to know a teacher if you classify them all as the enemy trying to control your mind. There are good teachers out there-- a lot of them. Maybe not as many of them as the bad ones, but they're out there. Not many people notice because they are hampered by administrative rules, students who despise the profession in general, and a society which simply doesn't care. They notice the off-kilter kids in class who are very bright but simply "don't fit in." They talk about you with the other teachers and really hope you don't get buried by the system. Unfortunately most of them aren't ballsy enough to go against the administration.
Education is a two way street. Students give up on good teachers all the time and it's most often because the bad ones made them dislike all teachers. Complaints about university education departments are right on - that and school administrations make it *considerably* more difficult to be a good teacher in a public school.
Full disclosure - while I'm not an educator, I come from a family which is half teachers. I consider half of them to be really good at it.
The so-called "welfare class" does not want to better themselves at all.
This is inaccurate and counter productive. *Some* of *any* class do not want to better themselves at all, but I would wager the majority would prefer to be in charge of their destinies.
Find me that one ghetto kid who made something big of their life despite parents who weren't around, teachers who didn't care, and friends who had no life goals beyond "don't get stabbed" and you'll find a douchebag liar who doesn't acknowledge the folks who helped them out along the way. Nobody gets ahead completely on their own.
In this particular case - people can't better themselves when they don't realize what that actually means. When "the good life" is squeaking by without working and still scoring that sweet new iPhone, there's a cultural problem that takes some truly motivated outside influence to fix. This guy showed the kids what they could do, gave them the tools to do it, and then a handful of his students had the motivation to make it work. You could put a teacher like this in many schools and see similar results because you're right - it isn't about the people being stupid. It's about somebody telling them *how* they can improve their situation. Some will take the advice and some won't, but you sure as hell will see better results than insisting everybody figure it out for themselves.
It's crowded but can be workable. A large group of kids who don't want to be there is a recipe for disaster-- but that isn't the case here. This is an AP course with students who really are motivated to be there and a teacher who doesn't object to the class size. We're talking something closer to a college course than high school. Regardless, the school administration still refused to open up another class time.
and he was played by Adama in the movie.
This is one of my lifelong goals as well!
Seriously raises questions - this one time I wrote a loop and used i as the iterator. Later on I was working on a program from one of the other guys and found out that son of a bitch STOLE my code and used the SAME DAMN ITERATOR NAME.
Bunch of savages.
How do expect me to remember he's complaining about dimmer switches as well? Do you really think I RTFA'd? You must be as much of a quack as Mr Firstenberg!
Or easier-- hide your SSID, claim it's off, and see if he notices.
"Sure thing Mr Firstenberg, just let me log in and disable the WiFi on the router. There, can't see the network on your laptop anymore right? Good. Feel better? Oh yes, the kids are doing great. Have a nice day, sir!"
But insurance companies are - Dead people don't pay premiums.
Wait... What?
We are talking air traffic control radars here. They are used to keep civilian aircraft from crashing into each other. You wouldn't expect an enemy plane to have one of our GPS transponders any more than you'd expect their tanks to have a valid license and registration when invading across Interstate 80.
Military runs their own surveillance radars and you can be assured they aren't going to be effected by the ATC switch to GPS.
As somebody who knows and works with several private pilots, that statement is utterly false. Private aircraft are certainly not cheap, but they are definitely not out of reach of the middle class.
Just because *you* don't like them doesn't make those that do wrong. Do you have any statistics on GA fuel usage vs commercial vs automotive that I'm not aware of? I simply don't understand why you're hostile to general aviation. I certainly can agree with you on the over-reliance on commercial air travel. A better utilized rail system would do us some good here-- but private aircraft are most often flown as a hobby by regular people.
So... They invented a carburetor? Or is it throttle-body fuel injection?
Y'know, I'd get upset at their wild efficiency claims, but these new "green" car modifiers are just so dern cute when they get their minds set on something!
I happen to like brown, you insensitive clod!
Nobody asked you!
Who missed the point? He mentioned nothing of datacenters and configuring SANs... There are plenty of applications where that simplicity is preferred and even necessary. In his case (and mine), we *are* building devices and the cables to interface with them. It's a tool for a job, nobody is dumb enough to try using a single tool for every job.
The point is that you put the complexity on your debugging and development system. Your run-time target can use the simple serial interface. For home and general purpose computing (servers, systems, anything application-related)-- yes Serial is fading and probably will disappear. For controls, embedded, and real time applications, I don't see it going anywhere.
Explain why... As I figure this may cause the motor to rev up to redline quite quickly, but if you're trying to keep your car from accelerating into oblivion I think the wear on your motor is a lesser concern.
Funny, insightful, informative. I honestly don't believe it is possible to formulate a better reply to this Ask Slashdot. Question answered. Moving on!
Not doing it wrong. In many parts it's called a "handbrake" and is intended as a normal tool when driving. Mostly in those crazy British parts...
Though I do agree on one point-- I've never driven an automatic that tended to roll backwards on steep inclines, at least not quickly enough that I'd lose more than an inch or two. I do believe what GP meant was "Sometimes folks step on both pedals to do burnouts."
That's a bit of a shortsighted view. Mechanical designs are quite prone to failure as well. Excess wear or friction in your cable run can cause a throttle to remain open despite the accelerator position. The only difference is mechanical designs have had more time to mature (and a number of software designs are simply sloppy). There are plenty of fly by wire throttle systems which have worked flawlessly.
This is definitely a case of the implementation being flawed, not the technology.
Uhm... no. You may be using it "right" for your application, but he certainly isn't using it wrong. You simply cannot take code developed by the Matlab/Simulink interpreters and drop it into a safety critical real-time system. The algorithms need to be rewritten as appropriate for the hardware.
Everybody does SLOC counting differently, so who knows what that number actually represents (maybe all the lines in image and movie files for the entertainment system? :P ). I wouldn't mind seeing a breakdown of lines of code per component-- betting there's a HUGE percentage in the entertainment and navigation systems with just a tiny fraction in actual control systems.
Most embedded control systems count code lines in the thousands, I'd expect the car to be similar until you run into fancy graphics and superfluous luxuries.