I was in a job doing some phone support, some PHP and some MySQL coding. I took a course in Java and got a certification in it.
In this case the certification replaced experience. I couldn't say to a new employer, "I have x years in Java" because my current job didn't have any Java work to do. The certification (from Sun) said I could do something the same as someone who may have more years of experience.
The usual way to bring down share price while maintaining value is to split the stock. In a 2-1 split, that roughly means each $200 share turns into two $100 shares. No sane company wants to intentionally reduce their market capitalization..
Does this mean that the songs on iTMS Japan will also be available elsewhere?
I'm a big fan of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (SkaPara), a quirky fluid and flexible group of musicians who have been performing and recording for almost 30 years. The only catch is they have gotten zero notoriety in the US and the only way to get their music is to buy expensive "import" CDs on line.
There are also thousands of Japanese, Japanese-Americans and students of Japanese in the U.S. and U.K. who would love to be able to buy Japanese language music for $.99 a track.
If Bush had gone to school, he'd know that different ideas are already being taught. I certainly was exposed to different ideas in my public school biology classes.
We studied the ideas of Lamarck, Darwin and the postulations of something not exactly referred to as "Intelligent Design". We used them to study scientific method. This says basically, "Come up with a theory and set up tests to disprove it."
Lamarck: Disproved.
Darwin: some theories proved, some not (the one looking for a "missing link" hasn't been proved).
Intelligent Design: neither proved nor disproved.
We learned that when scientists can't prove or disprove a theory, they decide that theory isn't very good. So they come up with another.
It all comes down to how good your text books are. Darwin, Lamarck and Intelligent Design aren't taught in History classes. They're taught in Science classes. So a good text book will teach the Science of these theories.
You're saying this like it doesn't need to be explained. I think that's not correct. One of my complaints with my public school education is that there was NOT enough facts. We might do a quick survey of a topic and then "do something creative" with it. This may have been an '80s fad or a product of the Gifted and Talented program's assumption that I could get my own facts to be creative with.
I think the point you're trying to make is that the education system uses the regurgitation of facts as proof that you have been taught. And for some categories of information, that may be enough. For others, it's necessary to have those facts and be able to use them. Then at a certain level you need to be able to understand where your facts came from, what biases they present, where they might be wrong, etc. I don't think I realized that aspect of education until after university when I encountered actual scientific papers. Mostly I blame that on the fast pace: here's your topic, okay next topic. Or, maybe I just wasn't studying hard enough. But, I know there wasn't more expected of me at the time.
I'm most interested to know what people in the profession are working on. Is there a significant number of educators who share the poster's concerns?
As to the need to help kids participate in the real world instead of sheltering them from it, I think that takes a shift in several aspects of society, from parenting to public institutions and public space and where we build our houses. The need to improve society as a organic whole is one of the reasons I'm a member of the Baha'i Faith.
The flaw with this theory is that it doesn't distinguish between the unwilling to be employed and those for whom there are no jobs. It's possible that a locality will have done so poor a job bringing employment into their area and training those on unemployment for available jobs that someone willing to work is unemployed for longer than 26 weeks. Unemployment benefits are hardly enough to finance a relocation to where there is work for most people.
If the idea is that good, one or both of the contractors could license it from them. Could be very profitable for t/Space. Also likely: they get bought up by one of the big guys.
I mean, do they put out press releases like this one so that people like us can provide them with free insightful feedback? Way to get a free think-tank. "Hmm, wonder how the geek crowd will react to this? Should we pay a think-tank? Naw, let's just make sure we get on slashdot."
Seriously... if only some of your dvds are RFID-DRM'd, meaning your play will play non-RFID-DRM DVDs, then just disable the RFID tag in a DVD and viola, no thumb print needed.
The launch of the Macintosh was accompanied by the 1984 advertisement, based on the novel of the same name.
Huh? Could you be more specific? I don't know of any novel named Macintosh. And I sure can't find it on Amazon. If it's there, it's lost in a sea of books about the Apple product.
But you do choose your hosting service. There's a lot of competition out there. You can choose what server your website is running by choosing the hosting service that runs what you want.
My mistakes were 1. I thought Slashdot was some sort of community of trust. 2. I thought sigs were for witty sayings.
So, getting your point across while still being part of the Slashdot community would involve a sig with obfuscated Perl code that printed: You dumb ass, this could could have just run rm -rf!
Being an asshat Script-kiddie would involve a sig with obfucated Perl code that actually runs rm -rf.
There has been a lot of university research done on UI's. The "app lens" looks a bit like Jef Raskin's Zoomable UI. It looks almost exactly like something I saw linked from a Slashdot article about 3 years ago that I can't place.
This isn't too off topic since it could inform a few questions being posed here.
Basically, this movie is NOT an adaptation of the book. It's the screenplay started by Adams. In the introduction to "The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy" omnibus he refers to the screenplay as being the latest iteration in the conflicting versions of the Hitchhikers story. Fifteen-ish years later and minus the lead writer, no telling what it's turned into. But, there's no reason to expect it to be The Book.
>What could we do if we weren't so busy trying to keep up with the boring monolith in Redmond?
We could start trying to keep up with Apple...
Seriously, I think this is what the parent article is about. His examples: iLife and Konfabulator are essentially OS X aps. Most importantly, his point is we're not that far off from keeping up and nosing ahead.
With a little organization and funding these innovations really aren't too far off. I can imagine the funding coming from Novell, Red Hat and Ubuntu.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you know of a source for a magnetic strip writer for less than $1,000?
Wrong. Snopes says that while it's true the information is on the card, there is no significant trend relating this to criminal activity.
No, but reading the Summons, it sounds like they're claiming someone stole their trade secrets and posted them as comments on SEOBook.com.
Scientists expect to deploy a Space Batman to thwart any crimes attempted by the Space Penguin. The Governor of California may come to the defense of the Penguin.
I was in a job doing some phone support, some PHP and some MySQL coding. I took a course in Java and got a certification in it.
In this case the certification replaced experience. I couldn't say to a new employer, "I have x years in Java" because my current job didn't have any Java work to do. The certification (from Sun) said I could do something the same as someone who may have more years of experience.
The usual way to bring down share price while maintaining value is to split the stock. In a 2-1 split, that roughly means each $200 share turns into two $100 shares. No sane company wants to intentionally reduce their market capitalization..
Does this mean that the songs on iTMS Japan will also be available elsewhere?
I'm a big fan of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (SkaPara), a quirky fluid and flexible group of musicians who have been performing and recording for almost 30 years. The only catch is they have gotten zero notoriety in the US and the only way to get their music is to buy expensive "import" CDs on line.
There are also thousands of Japanese, Japanese-Americans and students of Japanese in the U.S. and U.K. who would love to be able to buy Japanese language music for $.99 a track.
If Bush had gone to school, he'd know that different ideas are already being taught. I certainly was exposed to different ideas in my public school biology classes.
We studied the ideas of Lamarck, Darwin and the postulations of something not exactly referred to as "Intelligent Design". We used them to study scientific method. This says basically, "Come up with a theory and set up tests to disprove it."
Lamarck: Disproved.
Darwin: some theories proved, some not (the one looking for a "missing link" hasn't been proved).
Intelligent Design: neither proved nor disproved.
We learned that when scientists can't prove or disprove a theory, they decide that theory isn't very good. So they come up with another.
It all comes down to how good your text books are. Darwin, Lamarck and Intelligent Design aren't taught in History classes. They're taught in Science classes. So a good text book will teach the Science of these theories.
Instead of buying them... you could watch the re-runs on SciFi...
You're saying this like it doesn't need to be explained. I think that's not correct. One of my complaints with my public school education is that there was NOT enough facts. We might do a quick survey of a topic and then "do something creative" with it. This may have been an '80s fad or a product of the Gifted and Talented program's assumption that I could get my own facts to be creative with.
I think the point you're trying to make is that the education system uses the regurgitation of facts as proof that you have been taught. And for some categories of information, that may be enough. For others, it's necessary to have those facts and be able to use them. Then at a certain level you need to be able to understand where your facts came from, what biases they present, where they might be wrong, etc. I don't think I realized that aspect of education until after university when I encountered actual scientific papers. Mostly I blame that on the fast pace: here's your topic, okay next topic. Or, maybe I just wasn't studying hard enough. But, I know there wasn't more expected of me at the time.
I'm most interested to know what people in the profession are working on. Is there a significant number of educators who share the poster's concerns?
As to the need to help kids participate in the real world instead of sheltering them from it, I think that takes a shift in several aspects of society, from parenting to public institutions and public space and where we build our houses. The need to improve society as a organic whole is one of the reasons I'm a member of the Baha'i Faith.
Combine this with the Deep Impact Comet Exploder and you get the
Virtual Planet Exploder
Hmmm... Maybe not.
The flaw with this theory is that it doesn't distinguish between the unwilling to be employed and those for whom there are no jobs. It's possible that a locality will have done so poor a job bringing employment into their area and training those on unemployment for available jobs that someone willing to work is unemployed for longer than 26 weeks. Unemployment benefits are hardly enough to finance a relocation to where there is work for most people.
> t/Space's future path is somewhat uncertain
If the idea is that good, one or both of the contractors could license it from them. Could be very profitable for t/Space. Also likely: they get bought up by one of the big guys.
Why do you hate America?
I mean, do they put out press releases like this one so that people like us can provide them with free insightful feedback? Way to get a free think-tank. "Hmm, wonder how the geek crowd will react to this? Should we pay a think-tank? Naw, let's just make sure we get on slashdot."
Seriously... if only some of your dvds are RFID-DRM'd, meaning your play will play non-RFID-DRM DVDs, then just disable the RFID tag in a DVD and viola, no thumb print needed.
Huh? Could you be more specific? I don't know of any novel named Macintosh. And I sure can't find it on Amazon. If it's there, it's lost in a sea of books about the Apple product.
But you do choose your hosting service. There's a lot of competition out there. You can choose what server your website is running by choosing the hosting service that runs what you want.
My mistakes were 1. I thought Slashdot was some sort of community of trust. 2. I thought sigs were for witty sayings.
So, getting your point across while still being part of the Slashdot community would involve a sig with obfuscated Perl code that printed:
You dumb ass, this could could have just run rm -rf!
Being an asshat Script-kiddie would involve a sig with obfucated Perl code that actually runs rm -rf.
Please mod the parent down. He has put un-labled malicious Perl code in his sig. Evidently as a prank or due to some sort of simple-mindedness.
The Perl code in [Gob Blesh It]'s sig is a recursive delete.
Mod him down. Script Kiddie deserves no Karma.
There has been a lot of university research done on UI's. The "app lens" looks a bit like Jef Raskin's Zoomable UI. It looks almost exactly like something I saw linked from a Slashdot article about 3 years ago that I can't place.
Thank you for the clarification. I was seriously wondering why new DVDs would need style sheets. At first I thought it was a typo.
This isn't too off topic since it could inform a few questions being posed here.
Basically, this movie is NOT an adaptation of the book. It's the screenplay started by Adams. In the introduction to "The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy" omnibus he refers to the screenplay as being the latest iteration in the conflicting versions of the Hitchhikers story. Fifteen-ish years later and minus the lead writer, no telling what it's turned into. But, there's no reason to expect it to be The Book.
>What could we do if we weren't so busy trying to keep up with the boring monolith in Redmond?
We could start trying to keep up with Apple...
Seriously, I think this is what the parent article is about. His examples: iLife and Konfabulator are essentially OS X aps.
Most importantly, his point is we're not that far off from keeping up and nosing ahead.
With a little organization and funding these innovations really aren't too far off. I can imagine the funding coming from Novell, Red Hat and Ubuntu.
Allow me to provide the ADD summary:
> Then I wind up giving them away
Yeah, I'll take one.