Today, it is appears that Apple and Google are far bigger threats to Microsoft than FOSS ever will be.
Both Google and Apple are significant supporters of FOSS. Maybe the enemy hasn't changed all that much? Maybe Google and Apple wouldn't be so threatening had their attacks on FOSS been more successful?
I learn a lot from lectures. Others people don't. Requiring attendance is one way of forcing students to conform to a learning style that may or may not work for them.
Mandatory lectures, mandatory reading, mandatory practice problems, mandatory study groups.... By the time you get to college, you should already know how to learn.
Yes, but the data aren't being reported to the person who pays (relatives or scholarships). It's going to the teachers instead.
Fortunately, attendance isn't what matters -- grades are. If you're paying for your kids' education, you'd better be tracking their grades. That's what most scholarship programs do already.
I had a politics class where most of what I learned came from the class discussion. In this case, I benefited from other people's attendance. By having an attendance policy (enforced by "participation points"... lame but effective), the teacher managed to improve the education for everybody.
That said, I still think it's on the students' own heads if they don't come to class. They wouldn't be contributing to the discussion anyway -- good riddance.
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Interestingly, this is basically how GPA schemes work. Grades start on a percentage scale from 0% to 100%, but then are reduced to a 0-4 scale*, where everything below 60% is lumped together as a 0.
Maybe the reason we see books rated 7 or higher is for the same reason you don't see resumes for people with a GPA lower than 2.0: at some point, that's not a career you should be in.
* Yes, other scales exist, but this is the one I have experience with.
He's absolutely right. There's a big difference between the worst-case scenarios where you get seriously sick while laid off and more minor cases.
If there's one thing that the world has learned over this last recession is that we're not being prudent with our finances.
Don't live paycheck to paycheck. Make sure you have insurance. Save money for emergencies. Have food on your shelves to last at least a few months. Get rid of your debts: credit cards, car payments, student loans, etc. Get more education and training. This is called being a responsible adult.
I realize this may not be easy or possible in some cases -- insurance being impossible for some. I also don't want to downplay the challenges in achieving a secure financial situation: it can be very hard, especially for someone that's in up to their nose already.
But there's way too many people who buy luxuries on the credit card, pay the minimum balance, have no savings, don't try to get education, don't get insurance to save money, and buy new cars they can't afford... and then are bit hard when one bad thing happens.
Financial security takes sacrifice, something that almost nobody is willing to do these days.
Check user names before assuming identities. I'm not dAzED1.
You're right that you do get a few nice features (I did see the video, btw), but absolutely nothing that's worth $300. Yeah, they made it easier to clean, but it's still another thing to clean. Maybe it toasts "better"... but you have to be seriously dedicated to toast for that to matter.
I gave the Walmart toaster as the extreme bottom end for a reason. dAzED1 is right... they sell toasters that are pure garbage. But sometimes it's better to buy garbage than burn your money on a stupid toaster.
And yet, what does this toaster give me that this one doesn't? It works with bagels and has a defrost setting.
Yeah, the glass sides are cool, but it will look so dirty after just a few uses. Yet one more thing to clean.
And look what you pay for this "designer toaster" (now there's two words I never thought I'd put together!) -- $300 on sale. I can buy 18 Walmart toasters for that price. Who cares if they wear out every year: that's still a brand-new (if cheep) toaster every year for 18 years.
At least get a toaster that can burn a Cylon -- now that's a feature that's worth the money!
Languages evolve just like species: create some sort of division (a big ocean will do the trick quite nicely) and differences will emerge.
One significant factor is that spelling has only been standardized rather recently. One side just happened to pick one spelling while the other side picked a different one.
And lastly, I think the most significant factor of all is pig-headed stubbornness. Both sides think that theirs is correct, when in reality it's all ambiguous anyway. That prevents the spellings from merging, even for relatively new terms like tire/tyre
As far as I can tell, it's an experiment to test the propulsion system with no other purpose. Here's a slightly better article about it.
Then what a waste. Seriously.
One thing I admire about NASA is its ability to pull in secondary and tertiary missions. If you're just going to send it flying, at least put on a simple camera and send it somewhere useful. Fly by the outer planets, or visit the asteroid belt, or try for a comet or KBO. Surely there's at least one object in the solar system within range for simple observations.
Maybe CS courses should switch to Perl: "There's more than one way to do it." In fact, I bet each student would come up with a completely unique solution.
Of course, I'd feel sorry for the TA who has to grade the assignments.
That explains why my master's thesis was just a bunch of BS.
I think you have a point, though. With the popularity of coursework M.S. degrees (no thesis necessary), I wouldn't be surprised if the dumbing down continues to on to graduate degrees. Maybe it already has.
My conclusion was that there are a lot of bogus people out their practising these types of techniques but perhaps with a really skilled person and with very specific problems in the back, their techniques really can help.
I currently have some (not too bad) back pain from several years ago. It comes and goes, but I can live with it.
Every time I hurt, my wife suggests I go to a chiropractor. But I don't -- because I don't know who I can trust. How do I know it's not some quack? How do you find that "really skilled person" and know you have one of those "very specific problems in the back?"
My current theory is to ask them what they can cure. If they say suggest wacko things like cancer and ear aches, I'll go somewhere else. You'd think there would be a better way, though, wouldn't you?
Singh might go after them for his legal fees. That would be about a £100,000 loss to the BCA (not to mention what they spent already). It doesn't make it better for Singh, but it's still a victory for everybody else. And this might spark a reform in the libel law, which is another win for everybody else.
So far, Singh has been hit the hardest, but the fight isn't over yet. I don't know if we can make things easier on him directly, but maybe the other side can still be hit hard.
Don't forget that the studying past is the best way to make decisions about the present. Especially in the area of space exploration, where our data is very limited.
I think you're right: there's too little focus on the present. But we need to keep the present in perspective with the past.
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Please, can't we have some more abstraction layers?
Maybe we should make a new project called "BeanDip" ... it has 7 layers, including Guacamole.
Today, it is appears that Apple and Google are far bigger threats to Microsoft than FOSS ever will be.
Both Google and Apple are significant supporters of FOSS. Maybe the enemy hasn't changed all that much? Maybe Google and Apple wouldn't be so threatening had their attacks on FOSS been more successful?
I learn a lot from lectures. Others people don't. Requiring attendance is one way of forcing students to conform to a learning style that may or may not work for them.
Mandatory lectures, mandatory reading, mandatory practice problems, mandatory study groups.... By the time you get to college, you should already know how to learn.
Yes, but the data aren't being reported to the person who pays (relatives or scholarships). It's going to the teachers instead.
Fortunately, attendance isn't what matters -- grades are. If you're paying for your kids' education, you'd better be tracking their grades. That's what most scholarship programs do already.
Partial exception:
I had a politics class where most of what I learned came from the class discussion. In this case, I benefited from other people's attendance. By having an attendance policy (enforced by "participation points" ... lame but effective), the teacher managed to improve the education for everybody.
That said, I still think it's on the students' own heads if they don't come to class. They wouldn't be contributing to the discussion anyway -- good riddance.
Interestingly, this is basically how GPA schemes work. Grades start on a percentage scale from 0% to 100%, but then are reduced to a 0-4 scale*, where everything below 60% is lumped together as a 0.
Maybe the reason we see books rated 7 or higher is for the same reason you don't see resumes for people with a GPA lower than 2.0: at some point, that's not a career you should be in.
* Yes, other scales exist, but this is the one I have experience with.
Give him a break, mods! Troll this is not.
He's absolutely right. There's a big difference between the worst-case scenarios where you get seriously sick while laid off and more minor cases.
If there's one thing that the world has learned over this last recession is that we're not being prudent with our finances.
Don't live paycheck to paycheck. Make sure you have insurance. Save money for emergencies. Have food on your shelves to last at least a few months. Get rid of your debts: credit cards, car payments, student loans, etc. Get more education and training. This is called being a responsible adult.
I realize this may not be easy or possible in some cases -- insurance being impossible for some. I also don't want to downplay the challenges in achieving a secure financial situation: it can be very hard, especially for someone that's in up to their nose already.
But there's way too many people who buy luxuries on the credit card, pay the minimum balance, have no savings, don't try to get education, don't get insurance to save money, and buy new cars they can't afford ... and then are bit hard when one bad thing happens.
Financial security takes sacrifice, something that almost nobody is willing to do these days.
Check user names before assuming identities. I'm not dAzED1.
You're right that you do get a few nice features (I did see the video, btw), but absolutely nothing that's worth $300. Yeah, they made it easier to clean, but it's still another thing to clean. Maybe it toasts "better" ... but you have to be seriously dedicated to toast for that to matter.
I gave the Walmart toaster as the extreme bottom end for a reason. dAzED1 is right ... they sell toasters that are pure garbage. But sometimes it's better to buy garbage than burn your money on a stupid toaster.
And yet, what does this toaster give me that this one doesn't? It works with bagels and has a defrost setting.
Yeah, the glass sides are cool, but it will look so dirty after just a few uses. Yet one more thing to clean.
And look what you pay for this "designer toaster" (now there's two words I never thought I'd put together!) -- $300 on sale. I can buy 18 Walmart toasters for that price. Who cares if they wear out every year: that's still a brand-new (if cheep) toaster every year for 18 years.
At least get a toaster that can burn a Cylon -- now that's a feature that's worth the money!
There are some people who view taking a dump as an artistic expression ...
Oops ... at first I thought you were talking about the film industry. What a crappy mistake to make.
Languages evolve just like species: create some sort of division (a big ocean will do the trick quite nicely) and differences will emerge.
One significant factor is that spelling has only been standardized rather recently. One side just happened to pick one spelling while the other side picked a different one.
And lastly, I think the most significant factor of all is pig-headed stubbornness. Both sides think that theirs is correct, when in reality it's all ambiguous anyway. That prevents the spellings from merging, even for relatively new terms like tire/tyre
As far as I can tell, it's an experiment to test the propulsion system with no other purpose. Here's a slightly better article about it.
Then what a waste. Seriously.
One thing I admire about NASA is its ability to pull in secondary and tertiary missions. If you're just going to send it flying, at least put on a simple camera and send it somewhere useful. Fly by the outer planets, or visit the asteroid belt, or try for a comet or KBO. Surely there's at least one object in the solar system within range for simple observations.
Yo mamma so fat she causes a boobquake whenever she gets out of bed.
And all it took was asking for the OS breakdown? Man, we should have asked that question years ago!
And "'" for link search. I don't use it very often, but it's very handy for those few time I do.
My brother used to glue two AOL CDs together. Not quite the same thing as clay pidgins, but so much more satisfying.
And in full sun, the shards are quite pretty.
Is this what passes for innovation these days? Kludges to ensure backwards compatibility?
Makes me want to patent all the clever hacks I've put into my own code, instead of getting rid of them.
Opening the data will encourage further research. The data will be available for others to use, instead of forcing constant duplication.
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" means to build on what has been done before. Hiding the source data shows just how "little" you are.
Maybe CS courses should switch to Perl: "There's more than one way to do it." In fact, I bet each student would come up with a completely unique solution.
Of course, I'd feel sorry for the TA who has to grade the assignments.
So now an M.S. is the new B.S.
That explains why my master's thesis was just a bunch of BS.
I think you have a point, though. With the popularity of coursework M.S. degrees (no thesis necessary), I wouldn't be surprised if the dumbing down continues to on to graduate degrees. Maybe it already has.
Check out the satellite imagery. The ash plume can easily reach into Europe.
It dissipates as it goes, but does anybody know the "critical density" before it's a problem?
My conclusion was that there are a lot of bogus people out their practising these types of techniques but perhaps with a really skilled person and with very specific problems in the back, their techniques really can help.
I currently have some (not too bad) back pain from several years ago. It comes and goes, but I can live with it.
Every time I hurt, my wife suggests I go to a chiropractor. But I don't -- because I don't know who I can trust. How do I know it's not some quack? How do you find that "really skilled person" and know you have one of those "very specific problems in the back?"
My current theory is to ask them what they can cure. If they say suggest wacko things like cancer and ear aches, I'll go somewhere else. You'd think there would be a better way, though, wouldn't you?
Singh might go after them for his legal fees. That would be about a £100,000 loss to the BCA (not to mention what they spent already). It doesn't make it better for Singh, but it's still a victory for everybody else. And this might spark a reform in the libel law, which is another win for everybody else.
So far, Singh has been hit the hardest, but the fight isn't over yet. I don't know if we can make things easier on him directly, but maybe the other side can still be hit hard.
When you have a baby with colic, you'll do just about whatever it takes to make that baby stop crying.
Chiropractors who say they can fix it are capitalizing on the desperation of parents.
Don't forget that the studying past is the best way to make decisions about the present. Especially in the area of space exploration, where our data is very limited.
I think you're right: there's too little focus on the present. But we need to keep the present in perspective with the past.