Without insulin we can speed up people's health complications and force them to need more health care! Hence, without Social Security their lives will be much more painful, eh?
Like I said, its better than corporations manipulating politicians. I'd rather have the masses manipulated than the powerful few -- at least then, we can stop blaming politicians and start blaming each other -- a necessary step to move forward in this country!
Isn't thei tax the source of funding for SSI?
It looks like saying "I'm cutting the payroll tax" == "I'm bankrupting SSI faster than ever!"
SSI is in the red, this will not help, it will hurt 'real-world' 'middle-class families'.
This goes well past obfuscation and looks like intentional dishonesty to me.
This will hurt everyone.
And we can only hope this leads to less defense spending and tax rates that were on par with the 1960s and '70s.
Isn't the White House saying $40 / paycheck or did I miss something? For those of us who have real jobs, we get paid once every 2 weeks. Hence, $40 / paycheck is just over $1000 / year.
Well that depends: who are the tax cuts for? If they are for the poor, then of course it is evil. If they are for the rich, then it will spur job growth and our economy -- at least, this is what FOX would like us to believe...
It is great to see Twitter used for people to have their voice heard! I have more respect for politicians when they take the time to listen to the people rather than corporate lobbies. Having the Twitter trending algorithm manage our political agenda is a scary thought, however.
That really depends on the student and the household. As long as the student and the parents are both working towards independence (maybe his/her own apartment the third or fourth year), this can work extremely well. Many of those same skills I mentioned before are still a part of this type of life-style, however, this is not the case for online learning.
I recommend Elements of Style by Strunk Jr. and White. This short book (not even 100 pages) is a great read and contains many tips to help you write concisely and clearly.
I have hired (and later fired) people with an online education -- I am seriously skeptical of the quality of understanding obtained from taking online classes.
While I agree that expanding the access to education is a great idea, there is no substitute for attending a brick-and-mortar university. Online courses and online lectures are a supplement to learning -- in the same sense that a text book and a lecturer is a supplement to learning. There are certain skills that you will only learn by living on your own; such as learning to balance your social life, classes, managing a schedule, and other activities. However, if you sit in your parent's house (or basement, like most/.'ers), these skills that will be missed; many of these skills are crucial for self-learning, which is required to successfully understand an online class.
I gave up my cable subscription a few years ago. This was a great decision since I could find all the shows I watched online. However, the commercials online are 10 times louder than those on TV. I suggest this be applied to all forms of media, as it is rather annoying.
Perhaps if you had been able to attend an elite school you would have learned how to apply proper statistical analysis techniques and not condemn all who did on the basis of a single (likely made up) story.
Q.E.D.
This is the exactly what I was alluding to in my post.
Worry about where you go to grad school, what classes you take, what grades you get, not where your undergrad is.
This is bad advice IMO. For grad school, there are 3 things that matter: Publications (most applications won't have). GPA/GRE scores. Undergrad university.
At my university, those are the 3 things we are concerned with for graduate school applications.
Furthermore, for faculty applications we look only at one metric: Publications during their PhD. We don't care if they are from Stanford or ITT Tech. If they have publications to back up their research skills, we want them!
Not saying there aren't smart, capable people at the less elite schools, but generally those who claim it doesn't matter where you go are those who really didn't have a choice.
I would disagree. Some of us had a choice, but we chose to only go in debt 50K, rather than 300K. As a white male who's parent's income was over 250K at the time, I had to choose how much debt I wanted for the rest of my life. I chose the less expensive university over the elite one. I was able to get more scholarships and financial aid at the less elite college, brining my total debt down to 30K. This was 1/10th the cost of the prestigious school that I had an option to attend. If you ask me, the person who choses the 30K university is the *smart* one.
The advantage of going to a more elite school is that your peers, on average, are going to be smarter and generally more accomplished. This ripples down in many ways, including a faster paced, more in depth curriculum, better resources, better professors, and, perhaps most importantly, connections & relationships for networking that can last a lifetime.
This is simply untrue. I have been in academia all my life and have worked with many people who went to these elite schools, and I would *not* say they are smarter. Did they have a higher GPA? Yes. Higher SAT? Yes. Are they smart? No.
The truth of the matter is, intelligence is not increased by association and intelligence is impossible to measure. I would argue that my peers at the less elite school were much smarter than my current colleagues from elite schools (these are people with PhDs from these elite schools).
In fact, these "elite" scholars typically over-think many simple problems. This truth certainly exists in the data mining community. Researchers in this community typically over-complicate their problems, over-looking simple solutions that outperform their methods. These are researchers are essentially wasting their time using really complex math, where a simple Euclidean distance measure or nearest neighbor algorithm makes their methods look silly.
Furthermore, I have noticed that people who went to "elite" schools tend to lack common sense and have a sense of self-entitlement. The last conference I was at, a guy from MIT (an American) came up to me (with a map of the hotel in his hand), and asked me where a certain room was. I grabbed the map out of his hand and showed him... I was baffled! How can you attend MIT and lack the ability to read a map?
The bottom line is "elite" schools are only worth it if they are free. Otherwise you are wasting your money (give me 300K and I'll turn it into a million before you graduate).
I apologize if this was already mentioned, but last time I checked (May 2010), Verizon's unlimited plan isn't truly unlimited. After 5GB of data usage, there is a $50 charge per extra GB. When I figured this out in May, I was quite unhappy that Verizon calls it an "Unlimited" data plan.
Slashdot Mirror
IMHO, that is a fail... (Literate people can recognise single words every bit as fast as pictures),
Literate people tend to use their language correctly as well. Hence, icons are prefect for you!
More painful than not having insulin? Really?
Without insulin we can speed up people's health complications and force them to need more health care! Hence, without Social Security their lives will be much more painful, eh?
Like I said, its better than corporations manipulating politicians. I'd rather have the masses manipulated than the powerful few -- at least then, we can stop blaming politicians and start blaming each other -- a necessary step to move forward in this country!
Or 40 McDoubles... of course with the long term health complications of eating 40 McDoubles a paycheck far outweighs the $1000 / year.
Isn't thei tax the source of funding for SSI? It looks like saying "I'm cutting the payroll tax" == "I'm bankrupting SSI faster than ever!" SSI is in the red, this will not help, it will hurt 'real-world' 'middle-class families'. This goes well past obfuscation and looks like intentional dishonesty to me. This will hurt everyone.
And we can only hope this leads to less defense spending and tax rates that were on par with the 1960s and '70s.
Treats for his dog
The funny thing is, President Obama probably spent less for his pet on Christmas than a majority of Americans...
Isn't the White House saying $40 / paycheck or did I miss something? For those of us who have real jobs, we get paid once every 2 weeks. Hence, $40 / paycheck is just over $1000 / year.
Well that depends: who are the tax cuts for? If they are for the poor, then of course it is evil. If they are for the rich, then it will spur job growth and our economy -- at least, this is what FOX would like us to believe...
It is great to see Twitter used for people to have their voice heard! I have more respect for politicians when they take the time to listen to the people rather than corporate lobbies. Having the Twitter trending algorithm manage our political agenda is a scary thought, however.
That really depends on the student and the household. As long as the student and the parents are both working towards independence (maybe his/her own apartment the third or fourth year), this can work extremely well. Many of those same skills I mentioned before are still a part of this type of life-style, however, this is not the case for online learning.
... are missing semi-colons right now.
I believe compiler errors do not count as bugs... or am I missing something?
I recommend Elements of Style by Strunk Jr. and White. This short book (not even 100 pages) is a great read and contains many tips to help you write concisely and clearly.
This was secure until the Patriot Act....
I have hired (and later fired) people with an online education -- I am seriously skeptical of the quality of understanding obtained from taking online classes.
/.'ers), these skills that will be missed; many of these skills are crucial for self-learning, which is required to successfully understand an online class.
While I agree that expanding the access to education is a great idea, there is no substitute for attending a brick-and-mortar university. Online courses and online lectures are a supplement to learning -- in the same sense that a text book and a lecturer is a supplement to learning. There are certain skills that you will only learn by living on your own; such as learning to balance your social life, classes, managing a schedule, and other activities. However, if you sit in your parent's house (or basement, like most
I gave up my cable subscription a few years ago. This was a great decision since I could find all the shows I watched online. However, the commercials online are 10 times louder than those on TV. I suggest this be applied to all forms of media, as it is rather annoying.
Perhaps if you had been able to attend an elite school you would have learned how to apply proper statistical analysis techniques and not condemn all who did on the basis of a single (likely made up) story.
Q.E.D.
This is the exactly what I was alluding to in my post.
Prove P=NP or P!=NP in your essay. You are sure to get in.
Worry about where you go to grad school, what classes you take, what grades you get, not where your undergrad is.
This is bad advice IMO. For grad school, there are 3 things that matter: Publications (most applications won't have). GPA/GRE scores. Undergrad university.
At my university, those are the 3 things we are concerned with for graduate school applications.
Furthermore, for faculty applications we look only at one metric: Publications during their PhD. We don't care if they are from Stanford or ITT Tech. If they have publications to back up their research skills, we want them!
Not saying there aren't smart, capable people at the less elite schools, but generally those who claim it doesn't matter where you go are those who really didn't have a choice.
I would disagree. Some of us had a choice, but we chose to only go in debt 50K, rather than 300K. As a white male who's parent's income was over 250K at the time, I had to choose how much debt I wanted for the rest of my life. I chose the less expensive university over the elite one. I was able to get more scholarships and financial aid at the less elite college, brining my total debt down to 30K. This was 1/10th the cost of the prestigious school that I had an option to attend. If you ask me, the person who choses the 30K university is the *smart* one.
The advantage of going to a more elite school is that your peers, on average, are going to be smarter and generally more accomplished. This ripples down in many ways, including a faster paced, more in depth curriculum, better resources, better professors, and, perhaps most importantly, connections & relationships for networking that can last a lifetime.
This is simply untrue. I have been in academia all my life and have worked with many people who went to these elite schools, and I would *not* say they are smarter. Did they have a higher GPA? Yes. Higher SAT? Yes. Are they smart? No.
The truth of the matter is, intelligence is not increased by association and intelligence is impossible to measure. I would argue that my peers at the less elite school were much smarter than my current colleagues from elite schools (these are people with PhDs from these elite schools).
In fact, these "elite" scholars typically over-think many simple problems. This truth certainly exists in the data mining community. Researchers in this community typically over-complicate their problems, over-looking simple solutions that outperform their methods. These are researchers are essentially wasting their time using really complex math, where a simple Euclidean distance measure or nearest neighbor algorithm makes their methods look silly.
Furthermore, I have noticed that people who went to "elite" schools tend to lack common sense and have a sense of self-entitlement. The last conference I was at, a guy from MIT (an American) came up to me (with a map of the hotel in his hand), and asked me where a certain room was. I grabbed the map out of his hand and showed him... I was baffled! How can you attend MIT and lack the ability to read a map?
The bottom line is "elite" schools are only worth it if they are free. Otherwise you are wasting your money (give me 300K and I'll turn it into a million before you graduate).
and again time of java and ruby enthusiasts had been wasted in retrospective...
the game
When will people learn that you are supposed to have multiple tools? A hammer alone can't build a house!
I apologize if this was already mentioned, but last time I checked (May 2010), Verizon's unlimited plan isn't truly unlimited. After 5GB of data usage, there is a $50 charge per extra GB. When I figured this out in May, I was quite unhappy that Verizon calls it an "Unlimited" data plan.
I figured they could afford air conditioners.
Regardless of what the poll says, the name Fox News implies news coverage, which Fox News fails to do. That is why they should rename to GOP Opinions.
Maybe the people who write the articles are...
Unfortunately, not so much for the readers.
I can't wait for the App!