My Ford Fusion Hybrid w/adaptive cruise control, blind spot traffic alerts, lane keeping assist & auto park has kept me out of several accidents in the last 14,000 miles. I arrive at work after a 40 to 70 minute commute on LA freeways much more relaxed. I drive my wife's car with none of these features and (a) don't make mistakes because I am used to the other car, and (b) wish Her car had those features. Automatic headlights on/off/dim can catch one driving w/o lights if swithing to a vehicle w/o the feature.
Epson print heads are in the printer, not in the cartridge like an HP. When no ink is in the cart, one would inject air into the printhead. Paradixically, aur can block the head and render the printer unusable. Epson may not be intentionally tipping off users; they just have a bad design. Ironically it came from trying to save money on cartsby not selling a new printhead with each cart.
WiFi sensitivity is a load of crap. Such a person might as well wear a copper wire cloak to be sure not to pick up powerful am, fm & satellite radio signals, phone microwave and cellular signals, rando RF from our planet and signals from outer space!
Yes, it was the lack of any certainty that made Organic a pain in the butt. In any science that I enjoyed, you could predict and test, but in Orgo that was so complicated as to be useless. I salute those who can understand and work with Orgo, if they can do something useful with it, but it sure isn't for me.
You are right. Moreover, if this country wants to compete with others in the worldwide economy (and we must), we can't be limiting our workforce to 40 hours. We need to turn things around quickly. That, not low wages, is the real driver for Apple offshoring production to Foxconn, and for many other manufacturing decisions as well. Pay well here, allow for longer hours if the worker is willing, and get efficiency/turn-around times to be competitive. That'll create more jobs and we won't have to "dilute" individual incomes by cutting hours. Look how many people are underemployed now. That is NOT the answer.
Not sure if things were any better at one time but the way writing is taught today in public schools generates horrendous results. I remember being taught a very formulaic way of writing essays: six paragraphs, introductory paragraph, concluding paragraph mirrors the introductory paragraph, and all paragraphs start and end with some transition to next paragraph. Then there is the need to satisfy some specific length, although this is quite understandable. It took a college education and many years of reading to undo these "lessons" and really discover the joy of writing essays. Thank you Paul Graham and Nicholas Kristof among many others. I see the same thing happening to high school students I am mentoring. They write very boring essays with a ton of fillers full of sentences structured in a way to use more words than necessarily and make the meaning more ambiguous. Poetry aside, writing is to convey ideas and the value is in the ideas themselves, not really in the words and sentences. The way writing is taught today, the words and sentences get in the way of the ideas. The trend of using computers to grade papers is only adding to this rigid, boring way of writing. One thing I've learned about high school students is that even the low scoring ones are very clever at getting around rigid rules. I had seen a student who knew very little about biology do her homework by scanning in her book for specific phrases mentioned in the questions and looking for some semblance of an answer once she's found the phrases. By the time she was done, she hasn't even read the chapter but her answers would probably get her a "C" -- good enough for her. I'm afraid students will do the same in writing once they realize that computers are grading them.
I have a degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and I have earned a living as a professional (tech) writer for over 3 decades. I can tell you that using a computer to score essays would be a huge mistake. I haven't yet seen a spelling or grammar checker that's worth much except for occasionally catching an error, but more often than not such programs flag perfectly acceptable usage as erroneous. That doesn't even begin to address the issue of whether the essay actually makes valid assertions, answers the questions posed, or is easily understood by its intended reader. I would rather deal with the possibly capricious tastes of a skilled and qualified professor than the arbitrary, rule-based "judgements" of a computer program.
Gary
I agree, Harold. I can type roughly 100 to 120 wpm on a standard keyboard without looking or thinking much about it. To come up with abbreviations (SMS style) does take much more time for me. Sure, with a 130 character or so limit and typing only with thumbs on a cell phone it makes sense to abbreviate. However it's probably an excuse for lack of skill, laziness or ignorance to blame typing on poor grammar and capitalization/punctuation. Either you know how to type AND use the language or you don't. Why would anyone "dumb down" to SMS expressions when typing with a standard keyboard.
I will say that my handwriting has deteriorated due to my typing almost everything. I can type more rapidly and accurately, and with less hand cramping, than when I write longhand, so this is one area where I would say typing does cause deterioration of certain skills. So what!
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My Ford Fusion Hybrid w/adaptive cruise control, blind spot traffic alerts, lane keeping assist & auto park has kept me out of several accidents in the last 14,000 miles. I arrive at work after a 40 to 70 minute commute on LA freeways much more relaxed. I drive my wife's car with none of these features and (a) don't make mistakes because I am used to the other car, and (b) wish Her car had those features. Automatic headlights on/off/dim can catch one driving w/o lights if swithing to a vehicle w/o the feature.
Epson print heads are in the printer, not in the cartridge like an HP. When no ink is in the cart, one would inject air into the printhead. Paradixically, aur can block the head and render the printer unusable. Epson may not be intentionally tipping off users; they just have a bad design. Ironically it came from trying to save money on cartsby not selling a new printhead with each cart.
WiFi sensitivity is a load of crap. Such a person might as well wear a copper wire cloak to be sure not to pick up powerful am, fm & satellite radio signals, phone microwave and cellular signals, rando RF from our planet and signals from outer space!
Yes, it was the lack of any certainty that made Organic a pain in the butt. In any science that I enjoyed, you could predict and test, but in Orgo that was so complicated as to be useless. I salute those who can understand and work with Orgo, if they can do something useful with it, but it sure isn't for me.
You are right. Moreover, if this country wants to compete with others in the worldwide economy (and we must), we can't be limiting our workforce to 40 hours. We need to turn things around quickly. That, not low wages, is the real driver for Apple offshoring production to Foxconn, and for many other manufacturing decisions as well. Pay well here, allow for longer hours if the worker is willing, and get efficiency/turn-around times to be competitive. That'll create more jobs and we won't have to "dilute" individual incomes by cutting hours. Look how many people are underemployed now. That is NOT the answer.
Not sure if things were any better at one time but the way writing is taught today in public schools generates horrendous results. I remember being taught a very formulaic way of writing essays: six paragraphs, introductory paragraph, concluding paragraph mirrors the introductory paragraph, and all paragraphs start and end with some transition to next paragraph. Then there is the need to satisfy some specific length, although this is quite understandable. It took a college education and many years of reading to undo these "lessons" and really discover the joy of writing essays. Thank you Paul Graham and Nicholas Kristof among many others. I see the same thing happening to high school students I am mentoring. They write very boring essays with a ton of fillers full of sentences structured in a way to use more words than necessarily and make the meaning more ambiguous. Poetry aside, writing is to convey ideas and the value is in the ideas themselves, not really in the words and sentences. The way writing is taught today, the words and sentences get in the way of the ideas. The trend of using computers to grade papers is only adding to this rigid, boring way of writing. One thing I've learned about high school students is that even the low scoring ones are very clever at getting around rigid rules. I had seen a student who knew very little about biology do her homework by scanning in her book for specific phrases mentioned in the questions and looking for some semblance of an answer once she's found the phrases. By the time she was done, she hasn't even read the chapter but her answers would probably get her a "C" -- good enough for her. I'm afraid students will do the same in writing once they realize that computers are grading them.
I have a degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and I have earned a living as a professional (tech) writer for over 3 decades. I can tell you that using a computer to score essays would be a huge mistake. I haven't yet seen a spelling or grammar checker that's worth much except for occasionally catching an error, but more often than not such programs flag perfectly acceptable usage as erroneous. That doesn't even begin to address the issue of whether the essay actually makes valid assertions, answers the questions posed, or is easily understood by its intended reader. I would rather deal with the possibly capricious tastes of a skilled and qualified professor than the arbitrary, rule-based "judgements" of a computer program. Gary
I agree, Harold. I can type roughly 100 to 120 wpm on a standard keyboard without looking or thinking much about it. To come up with abbreviations (SMS style) does take much more time for me. Sure, with a 130 character or so limit and typing only with thumbs on a cell phone it makes sense to abbreviate. However it's probably an excuse for lack of skill, laziness or ignorance to blame typing on poor grammar and capitalization/punctuation. Either you know how to type AND use the language or you don't. Why would anyone "dumb down" to SMS expressions when typing with a standard keyboard. I will say that my handwriting has deteriorated due to my typing almost everything. I can type more rapidly and accurately, and with less hand cramping, than when I write longhand, so this is one area where I would say typing does cause deterioration of certain skills. So what!