No, I should. That is our exact term. And its goal is to ensure that "stupid children" as you put it get both peer and teacher's help to progress. That's why we score so high on PISA - we tend to lack the super high achievers, but our average is high and we have very few students who fall through the cracks.
When it comes to moving stock, by your logic everyone should take lessons from OPO for one simple reason: essentially all stock they produce, they sell almost mmediately.
Very few manufacturers in the world can do the same.
No, many of us actually know what socialism is because we happen to be living in socialist countries with functioning free market capitalism.
You on the other hand are talking gibberish, which is often popular among certain libertarian circles that like to confuse "socialism" with "government regulation".
The article is appears to be a mix of bad translation provided by google translate and a cultural misunderstanding.
Preface: I'm a Finn. I read OP, was very confused that I never heard about this happening, went to the original article and understood why I never heard about it. Original article is here: http://www.savonsanomat.fi/uut...
What the article actually says is that teachers will now be allowed to not teach writing in cursive if they choose to do so. They will still be required to teach writing skills, they'll just drop the requirement to teach cursive. Specifically this is a part of update of legal requirements for schools which is a part of larger legislative package that's coming in 2015. Nothing has been decided yet apparently, this is just one of the main suggestions. The change suggested would require complete overhaul of school books, which is not a cheap or easy feat in a country with only 5 million people, meaning far less buyers of said books that pushes up the prices significantly. It would also require massive investments in hardware for poorer students who may not have access to necessary hardware. We are very big on "no child left behind" principle here. That means that some of the poorer regions would have to update their schools. Regions have wide reaching autonomy around here, and can have as few as a few thousand people, so schools for little children tend to be equally small and operate on tight budgets.
Considering that "most teachers are very confused by this requirement" and that teachers in this country are required to have master's degree in education by law and as a result get significant leeway in designing and implementing course work, something that is often considered to be of key importance to Finland's high PISA standings, I don't think we're looking at this change happening on large scale outside a few schools in larger cities any time soon. The article also notes that there are a lot of practical issues with the idea and the article is prefaced with a photograph text under which says that 4th grade student doesn't like this change because "writing in block letters is much slower than in cursive"
Overall this looks like your standard US citizen reading a story about a different country that has a completely different culture and ways of doing things, projecting their own culture upon it, and running away with insanity that results from this heap of misunderstandings. The actual change here is that the schools will likely have teaching of typing skills added to curriculum at much earlier date than before. Not dropping of cursive.
People are looking at it as a huge success. I'm completely confused as to who views this as anything but. About 80% of things intended to be done with this entire operation have been done.
Consider how our normal horizontal text looks when scaled to entire width of 16:9 monitor. I doubt that vertically written languages are significantly different.
In most cases around here (Finland, one of the better healthcare systems in Europe) we have standard ambulance which is medic/emergency care specialized nurse, driver who is also medic. This is typically a van. There's fairly many of these spread in the region to minimize response times. Then you have specialist doctor unit that typically is called to assist the former when necessary. This is typically a fairly powerful sedan that can drive at much higher speeds. It usually has an MD with training in ER medicine. There's only a few of those, and they are called to assist in more serious cases.
The problem with French model is that you have a lot of resources allocated to a single unit, which means you have a lower unit density for the same cost. That means initial response time goes up, and that tends to have severe negative effects on survival rates.
Hospitals have teams. They have ample room to work. Field ambulances have two people. They are extremely cramped. Only one person can work the patient when driving. Finally hospitals have far more advanced equipment than advanced life support ambulances. There is simply no comparison.
Ambulance's job is to stabilize the patient just enough so he can survive the trip to the hospital. Nothing more, nothing less. The conclusions drawn in the article are extremely obvious to everyone in the field, except those who like to get paid for getting the equipment. The main factors in patient's survival in most life threatening conditions that require operation are time to operating table and basic life support. Everything else is just a distraction that threatens patient's life.
The only argument for ALS over BLS is that ALS offers a significant survival chance improvement to offset lost time. This study clearly shows the opposite is true.
Both. It allowed POP3 mail retrieval and SMTP mail sending. On a free account. Back in early 2000s.
It basically meant that I could use my mail client instead of awful webmail interface for mail. But it also meant that spammers could use it for spamming with throwaway accounts.
Mail.ru is the Russian free webmail site. Problem is that they allowed POP3 access to their systems even before google did, so a lot of spammers used them.
A far more likely scenario is that Akamai will do anything and everything in their power to find which users were against Chinese rules and purge them from their network, or at the very least block them from being accessed from China.
Akamai is huge, probably world's biggest in terms of content delivery. As a result, they likely don't want to lose customers that need to do business in the world's most populous country.
Not sure what you're talking about, but overwhelming majority of people do not in fact use VPNs in China. As a result, none of the sites you mention are available to them. Instead, China has its own circle of web sites that do the same things.
Notably same is true for Korea, Japan and Russia at the very least. Basically, any large country with distinctly different cultural base from Western one and sufficiently large market to sustain those sites.
Your story sounds like a bit of you having been in a bubble of very specific crowd and projecting this image onto 1.3 billion people.
Google's decision to pull out had nothing to do with "pride and principles", that's just how they sold it to Western audience.
The actual reason was the fact that as long as they had hardware running their code in China, they were under severe cloning and hacking threat. The straw that broke camel's back came when someone in China (intelligence agencies? competitors? random hackers?) grabbed a large portion of their holiest of of holy - search engine's source code.
There is some advantage for various full screen viewing implementations like gaming. Like it or not, human field of view is much wider than it is taller. As a result, taking visual input from wide screen is more natural than from square(ish) screen.
The obvious problem is that which you mention - much if not most of PC work is related to document handling and such, which requires vertical space and wastes horizontal space, making wide screen format a bad idea.
Mobile market is but a distraction for Mozilla with its nonexistent marketshare. The main advantage of Firefox has always been the add-on system, and these aren't getting ported to ARM. They're all x86. They're even having problem convincing add-on makers to recompile them for x64 version of the browser which is why it has remained a non-starter so far. ARM recompiling is basically "not going to happen" land, which means that Firefox on phones is just another browser that has no advantages over most of the other ones.
Desktop on the other hand isn't going anywhere any time soon, and that's where Mozilla's marketshare is. Or more accurately was. It's been bleeding it so long, it's but a pale shadow of its former self now.
It's already been done. Firefox today is but a pale shadow of itself before the whole Google's invasion and turning of Firefox UI into Chrome clone.
It's been bleeding userbase for years now, and this move is likely going to just accelerate the process because "strange, my browser no longer searches on google, hmm.. oh look, google has a browser they offer that looks just like mine for free that will search on google!" [click]
Most likely the fact is that their money influenced Firefox development enough to make it into a Chrome clone in terms of UI.
As a result, it lost most of its marketshare to Chrome. After all, it looks mostly the same, might as well get the browser straight from Google. And now that the work has been done, Mozilla is getting discarded by Google as unnecessary.
On a bright side, maybe just maybe the UI poser crowd will finally get dethroned at Mozilla in favour of saner design approach. Doubtful, but one can dream.
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No, I should. That is our exact term. And its goal is to ensure that "stupid children" as you put it get both peer and teacher's help to progress. That's why we score so high on PISA - we tend to lack the super high achievers, but our average is high and we have very few students who fall through the cracks.
BBC has a pretty good primer for Anglo countries' citizenry here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/860...
The article is correct. Cyanogen nowadays is a company, Micromax wanted an exclusive deal in India with Cyanogen and Cyanogen took it.
As a result One Plus are now developing their own Android ROM for India for One Plus One.
When it comes to moving stock, by your logic everyone should take lessons from OPO for one simple reason: essentially all stock they produce, they sell almost mmediately.
Very few manufacturers in the world can do the same.
Why does the medallion system exist again?
No, many of us actually know what socialism is because we happen to be living in socialist countries with functioning free market capitalism.
You on the other hand are talking gibberish, which is often popular among certain libertarian circles that like to confuse "socialism" with "government regulation".
The article is appears to be a mix of bad translation provided by google translate and a cultural misunderstanding.
Preface: I'm a Finn. I read OP, was very confused that I never heard about this happening, went to the original article and understood why I never heard about it.
Original article is here: http://www.savonsanomat.fi/uut...
What the article actually says is that teachers will now be allowed to not teach writing in cursive if they choose to do so. They will still be required to teach writing skills, they'll just drop the requirement to teach cursive. Specifically this is a part of update of legal requirements for schools which is a part of larger legislative package that's coming in 2015. Nothing has been decided yet apparently, this is just one of the main suggestions. The change suggested would require complete overhaul of school books, which is not a cheap or easy feat in a country with only 5 million people, meaning far less buyers of said books that pushes up the prices significantly. It would also require massive investments in hardware for poorer students who may not have access to necessary hardware. We are very big on "no child left behind" principle here. That means that some of the poorer regions would have to update their schools. Regions have wide reaching autonomy around here, and can have as few as a few thousand people, so schools for little children tend to be equally small and operate on tight budgets.
Considering that "most teachers are very confused by this requirement" and that teachers in this country are required to have master's degree in education by law and as a result get significant leeway in designing and implementing course work, something that is often considered to be of key importance to Finland's high PISA standings, I don't think we're looking at this change happening on large scale outside a few schools in larger cities any time soon. The article also notes that there are a lot of practical issues with the idea and the article is prefaced with a photograph text under which says that 4th grade student doesn't like this change because "writing in block letters is much slower than in cursive"
Overall this looks like your standard US citizen reading a story about a different country that has a completely different culture and ways of doing things, projecting their own culture upon it, and running away with insanity that results from this heap of misunderstandings. The actual change here is that the schools will likely have teaching of typing skills added to curriculum at much earlier date than before. Not dropping of cursive.
It's exceptionally easy to prevent this kind of aftermarket. Make every leased medallion PERSONAL.
I.e. only the owner of the lease can use it. If he can't, lease expires and is granted to another driver.
All this requires is a desire to control destructive potential of free market capitalism, ensuring fair competition instead.
People are looking at it as a huge success. I'm completely confused as to who views this as anything but. About 80% of things intended to be done with this entire operation have been done.
Consider how our normal horizontal text looks when scaled to entire width of 16:9 monitor. I doubt that vertically written languages are significantly different.
Is there any problem in the world that roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris can't solve?
In most cases around here (Finland, one of the better healthcare systems in Europe) we have standard ambulance which is medic/emergency care specialized nurse, driver who is also medic. This is typically a van. There's fairly many of these spread in the region to minimize response times. Then you have specialist doctor unit that typically is called to assist the former when necessary. This is typically a fairly powerful sedan that can drive at much higher speeds. It usually has an MD with training in ER medicine. There's only a few of those, and they are called to assist in more serious cases.
The problem with French model is that you have a lot of resources allocated to a single unit, which means you have a lower unit density for the same cost. That means initial response time goes up, and that tends to have severe negative effects on survival rates.
Hospitals have teams. They have ample room to work. Field ambulances have two people. They are extremely cramped. Only one person can work the patient when driving. Finally hospitals have far more advanced equipment than advanced life support ambulances. There is simply no comparison.
Ambulance's job is to stabilize the patient just enough so he can survive the trip to the hospital. Nothing more, nothing less. The conclusions drawn in the article are extremely obvious to everyone in the field, except those who like to get paid for getting the equipment. The main factors in patient's survival in most life threatening conditions that require operation are time to operating table and basic life support. Everything else is just a distraction that threatens patient's life.
The only argument for ALS over BLS is that ALS offers a significant survival chance improvement to offset lost time. This study clearly shows the opposite is true.
Both. It allowed POP3 mail retrieval and SMTP mail sending. On a free account. Back in early 2000s.
It basically meant that I could use my mail client instead of awful webmail interface for mail. But it also meant that spammers could use it for spamming with throwaway accounts.
Nope. Poor in countries with weak or no social security breed far more than ones in countries with strong social security regardless of race.
Do try again.
Mail.ru is the Russian free webmail site. Problem is that they allowed POP3 access to their systems even before google did, so a lot of spammers used them.
A far more likely scenario is that Akamai will do anything and everything in their power to find which users were against Chinese rules and purge them from their network, or at the very least block them from being accessed from China.
Akamai is huge, probably world's biggest in terms of content delivery. As a result, they likely don't want to lose customers that need to do business in the world's most populous country.
Not sure what you're talking about, but overwhelming majority of people do not in fact use VPNs in China. As a result, none of the sites you mention are available to them. Instead, China has its own circle of web sites that do the same things.
Notably same is true for Korea, Japan and Russia at the very least. Basically, any large country with distinctly different cultural base from Western one and sufficiently large market to sustain those sites.
Your story sounds like a bit of you having been in a bubble of very specific crowd and projecting this image onto 1.3 billion people.
Google's decision to pull out had nothing to do with "pride and principles", that's just how they sold it to Western audience.
The actual reason was the fact that as long as they had hardware running their code in China, they were under severe cloning and hacking threat. The straw that broke camel's back came when someone in China (intelligence agencies? competitors? random hackers?) grabbed a large portion of their holiest of of holy - search engine's source code.
A monitor with spherical back. Then they can sue anyone still using CRTs.
There is some advantage for various full screen viewing implementations like gaming. Like it or not, human field of view is much wider than it is taller. As a result, taking visual input from wide screen is more natural than from square(ish) screen.
The obvious problem is that which you mention - much if not most of PC work is related to document handling and such, which requires vertical space and wastes horizontal space, making wide screen format a bad idea.
That's because it's really hard to compete with outlook. It's an exceptionally solid email client.
P.S. I'm a Thunderbird/Fossamail user myself.
Indeed. People should shut up and remember the real freedom - that is consuming, watching Kardashians on TV and bitching about taxes.
Please ignore these trolls who tell you differently. They are ENEMIES OF THE FREEDOM!
Mobile market is but a distraction for Mozilla with its nonexistent marketshare. The main advantage of Firefox has always been the add-on system, and these aren't getting ported to ARM. They're all x86. They're even having problem convincing add-on makers to recompile them for x64 version of the browser which is why it has remained a non-starter so far. ARM recompiling is basically "not going to happen" land, which means that Firefox on phones is just another browser that has no advantages over most of the other ones.
Desktop on the other hand isn't going anywhere any time soon, and that's where Mozilla's marketshare is. Or more accurately was. It's been bleeding it so long, it's but a pale shadow of its former self now.
It's already been done. Firefox today is but a pale shadow of itself before the whole Google's invasion and turning of Firefox UI into Chrome clone.
It's been bleeding userbase for years now, and this move is likely going to just accelerate the process because "strange, my browser no longer searches on google, hmm.. oh look, google has a browser they offer that looks just like mine for free that will search on google!" [click]
Most likely the fact is that their money influenced Firefox development enough to make it into a Chrome clone in terms of UI.
As a result, it lost most of its marketshare to Chrome. After all, it looks mostly the same, might as well get the browser straight from Google. And now that the work has been done, Mozilla is getting discarded by Google as unnecessary.
On a bright side, maybe just maybe the UI poser crowd will finally get dethroned at Mozilla in favour of saner design approach. Doubtful, but one can dream.