Online learning has its great advantages but also has huge disadvantages. Its success mostly depends on what exactly is being taught. There are sciences which you can't learn without proper hands-on and face-to-face peer discussions (philosophy); others which are useless without field experience (archaeology).
Also. A good teacher can identify an uninterested student and make them interested. An online course can't.
Not really, no. It depends on common sense. I've seen great people being let go while bad apples remained employed, because some had connections, whereas others did not. Of course, this is easier to achieve in a large company, but smaller ones aren't really that much different. Right now, the department I work in fired two good people for obscure reasons (and apparently scared them shitless, because they won't even bring up what happened) and kept many others who aren't half as competent. We have incompetent managers galore and competent managers got fired or demoted because they were threatening to break the delicate balance of "do nothing, go with the flow" mindset that the whole management holds high.
Let's not forget "the turkey", coming up in the very next phrase. I've seen plenty sub-par employees who I called names in the past, but that usually happens in an informal environment. It might even hold true in a particular case, where you might be righteous to call someone names. But when you decide to write an article on a website about it, it's basic common sense to be objective and polite.
I haven't specifically mentioned ultrasound. Here's a real-life case. A friend of mine has an eye problem, squint eyes. When she was 4, her mother took her to an optician and asked whether surgery should be performed. The optician said "no, this is going to correct itself in a few years". 7 years pass by, the issue is still there, and appears to get worse. The second optician looks at the girl, says "too late for surgery". Sadly, previous medical records were not kept and thus the mother couldn't sue the first optician who basically fucked a little girl's life. My friend wears glasses (she's 29 now) and although medical advancements could now correct the physical issue (and it could have been corrected back then as well), the underlying problem is not the physical deviation of the eye, but the fact that the brain got used to interpreting images and compensating for the squint itself, and surgery would make the whole matter a lot worse, because the brain would never re-adapt (the true reason for the "too late" prognosis).
Furthermore, even if old medical records are almost always useless, the one-off case where they could be useful might save someone's life. The theoretical benefits exceed the record-keeping costs because, frankly, life is more valuable than space saved by destroying a bunch of papers.
No, I only have a (so far minor) heart disorder and a busted lumbar vertebra. At 33, it's pretty sad that I already suffer from those, but I kind of asked for it, with my work schedule and hectic life style.
I'd like to see this tech embedded in a TV located in India, or Bangladesh, or China. When 20+ family members gather to watch a show... This reminds me of a line I heard in Borderlands 2 while trolling around in Outlook town: "Hyperion Corporation congratulates the mother for the birth of twins and wishes her good luck in choosing which one to keep". I guess they can be called visionaries of sorts.
They're both participants to an activity. It doesn't matter who does what; if they suck at it, no wait, that's misleading... OK, if they're doing it BADLY and/or it's filmed like crap, it's uninteresting, regardless whether's the last UFO sighting or doing the nasty.
Quality and skill can, in this case, be translated by how well is the fucking recorded and how well is the fucking being performed (including how well the women look). How famous they are? Not important. Most porn actors look better than most celebrities, by the way.
Weird. I am turned on by quality and skill, not who's the star. It's like choosing whether to see Mariah Carey juggle 4 balls (no pun intended) and watching a much lesser known true juggler, I'd pick the latter any time of day.
I ain't saying that what you say isn't true, I'm saying that it proves people are stupid.
Nope, it's a list of future MS Products keys. Office 2020 and Windows 13 included. Those are Volume License keys, which makes them even more valuable. I now propose the nice elderly couple who found the message to be interrogated and summarily fined+jailed for Software Piracy. Think of the children!
I don't live in the USA (see my comment below) and even in a democracy, having a vote doesn't mean there's anyone who deserves it the way they should. In the US, you can choose between two people. What if both are shit? You might throw your vote away to the third guy (does he even exist?) but you'll accomplish nothing.
An Ipod Touch is insanely expensive and I have no need for anything that's more than an MP3 player. iPod Nano is what I'd go for when my current player lets me down.
No, I just think that the vast majority of voters are stupid, and the vast majority of candidates are tainted. Also, I am not an American, and in my country, currently, with a bit over a month left until parliamentary elections, there are NO clean candidates. There is NO ONE I would vote for. Here, they are all organized in cliques and there's no way around it. The system is closed tight.
What makes me wonder is that pretty much NOBODY managed to handle the issue gracefully. I was trying to put myself in their shoes and I am positive I would have started to talk to the guy, trying to find his reasons, in a polite way. I don't mind being filmed as long as I can find the reason. Almost everyone being filmed there, on the other hand, acted aggressively, from "stop" to violent movements towards the guy or even hitting him. Maybe it's a different culture, maybe taught privacy is so strong that people forget reasoning and start acting irrationally.
In one of the videos, there's a 360 degree security surveillance camera about 15 feet behind the guy he's taping, hanging from the ceiling. It's behind the guy at the Starbucks with the phone. The basic activity for both (the guy and the surveillance camera) is video-recording you. Some cameras have sound enabled, so not much of a difference here either.
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But... you obviously didn't.
Online learning has its great advantages but also has huge disadvantages. Its success mostly depends on what exactly is being taught. There are sciences which you can't learn without proper hands-on and face-to-face peer discussions (philosophy); others which are useless without field experience (archaeology).
Also. A good teacher can identify an uninterested student and make them interested. An online course can't.
Not really, no. It depends on common sense.
I've seen great people being let go while bad apples remained employed, because some had connections, whereas others did not. Of course, this is easier to achieve in a large company, but smaller ones aren't really that much different. Right now, the department I work in fired two good people for obscure reasons (and apparently scared them shitless, because they won't even bring up what happened) and kept many others who aren't half as competent. We have incompetent managers galore and competent managers got fired or demoted because they were threatening to break the delicate balance of "do nothing, go with the flow" mindset that the whole management holds high.
Let's not forget "the turkey", coming up in the very next phrase.
I've seen plenty sub-par employees who I called names in the past, but that usually happens in an informal environment. It might even hold true in a particular case, where you might be righteous to call someone names. But when you decide to write an article on a website about it, it's basic common sense to be objective and polite.
I haven't specifically mentioned ultrasound.
Here's a real-life case. A friend of mine has an eye problem, squint eyes. When she was 4, her mother took her to an optician and asked whether surgery should be performed. The optician said "no, this is going to correct itself in a few years". 7 years pass by, the issue is still there, and appears to get worse. The second optician looks at the girl, says "too late for surgery". Sadly, previous medical records were not kept and thus the mother couldn't sue the first optician who basically fucked a little girl's life.
My friend wears glasses (she's 29 now) and although medical advancements could now correct the physical issue (and it could have been corrected back then as well), the underlying problem is not the physical deviation of the eye, but the fact that the brain got used to interpreting images and compensating for the squint itself, and surgery would make the whole matter a lot worse, because the brain would never re-adapt (the true reason for the "too late" prognosis).
Furthermore, even if old medical records are almost always useless, the one-off case where they could be useful might save someone's life. The theoretical benefits exceed the record-keeping costs because, frankly, life is more valuable than space saved by destroying a bunch of papers.
No, I only have a (so far minor) heart disorder and a busted lumbar vertebra. At 33, it's pretty sad that I already suffer from those, but I kind of asked for it, with my work schedule and hectic life style.
There are quite a few illnesses that develop over 10+ years. Syphilis, Uterus cancer, certain heart diseases and I'm sure there's plenty others.
Why not.
*its finest.
Yeah, Grammar Nazi here. Sue me.
I'd like to see this tech embedded in a TV located in India, or Bangladesh, or China. When 20+ family members gather to watch a show...
This reminds me of a line I heard in Borderlands 2 while trolling around in Outlook town: "Hyperion Corporation congratulates the mother for the birth of twins and wishes her good luck in choosing which one to keep". I guess they can be called visionaries of sorts.
They're both participants to an activity. It doesn't matter who does what; if they suck at it, no wait, that's misleading... OK, if they're doing it BADLY and/or it's filmed like crap, it's uninteresting, regardless whether's the last UFO sighting or doing the nasty.
Maybe I'm not watching low-quality porn.
Just curious... WHO lets WHO count boats?
Quality and skill can, in this case, be translated by how well is the fucking recorded and how well is the fucking being performed (including how well the women look). How famous they are? Not important.
Most porn actors look better than most celebrities, by the way.
Weird. I am turned on by quality and skill, not who's the star. It's like choosing whether to see Mariah Carey juggle 4 balls (no pun intended) and watching a much lesser known true juggler, I'd pick the latter any time of day.
I ain't saying that what you say isn't true, I'm saying that it proves people are stupid.
Nope, it's a list of future MS Products keys. Office 2020 and Windows 13 included. Those are Volume License keys, which makes them even more valuable.
I now propose the nice elderly couple who found the message to be interrogated and summarily fined+jailed for Software Piracy. Think of the children!
I would definitely steal a truck of salt and go back to 1st Century. I would live like a fat rat on that salt.
I don't live in the USA (see my comment below) and even in a democracy, having a vote doesn't mean there's anyone who deserves it the way they should. In the US, you can choose between two people. What if both are shit? You might throw your vote away to the third guy (does he even exist?) but you'll accomplish nothing.
Apparently he does. he's a dreamer, just like old Ozzy, heh.
You are right. Maybe the author handpicked the more extreme situations. However, the taxi driver acted nicely, he was funny. I'd give him a prize.
An Ipod Touch is insanely expensive and I have no need for anything that's more than an MP3 player. iPod Nano is what I'd go for when my current player lets me down.
No, I just think that the vast majority of voters are stupid, and the vast majority of candidates are tainted. Also, I am not an American, and in my country, currently, with a bit over a month left until parliamentary elections, there are NO clean candidates. There is NO ONE I would vote for. Here, they are all organized in cliques and there's no way around it. The system is closed tight.
What makes me wonder is that pretty much NOBODY managed to handle the issue gracefully. I was trying to put myself in their shoes and I am positive I would have started to talk to the guy, trying to find his reasons, in a polite way. I don't mind being filmed as long as I can find the reason.
Almost everyone being filmed there, on the other hand, acted aggressively, from "stop" to violent movements towards the guy or even hitting him. Maybe it's a different culture, maybe taught privacy is so strong that people forget reasoning and start acting irrationally.
In one of the videos, there's a 360 degree security surveillance camera about 15 feet behind the guy he's taping, hanging from the ceiling. It's behind the guy at the Starbucks with the phone. The basic activity for both (the guy and the surveillance camera) is video-recording you. Some cameras have sound enabled, so not much of a difference here either.