This reminds me of the argument against windmills in the Appalachia because the scenic destruction of the wind farms is greater than the scenic destruction and water contamination of mountain removal mining.
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None of this occurs in a vacuum, and one can't win an argument by saying a new solution is going to be destructive, unless the current solution is 100% non destructive, which nothing is because entropy is real and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
So what we are saying here is that this is a solution that can provide the required 24x7 electrical flow, even when the sun is not shine or the wind is not blowing, without the costs associated with fossil fuels. Furthermore, unlike a traditional power plant, it is easy to regulate the power output to meet the demands of the moment and not have to run excess capacity and waste resources.
But of coursed the irrational reactive luddites who are afraid of change and are unable to learn the new skills needed for a new technological world just pretend that mountains are not already being destroyed, and the air is not already being polluted beyond what is healthy. I will remind people of one fact. Much of California is in a unique geological structure that prevent the polluted air from being diluted quickly with clean air. This means that they are unique in being intolerant to excess pollution. As the feds insist that California can no longer regulate it's pollutants we are going to see the air quality and health situation decrease dramatically.
Interesting point and this is the limiting factor. Hydro batteries are the easiest way to store energy for later use. If you have a mountain available, just pump the water up the mountain, then recover the potential energy when it falls. Cheap, easy, reliable.
My assertion would be that the water can be available. First, we are not talking about a continuous supply of water that will either be sequestered long term or wasted. For instance about a third of California water is used to either grow alfalfa for cattle or provide pasture for the cattle. This water is contaminated with pesticides and therefor is largely unavailable for other uses.
What we are talking about here is simply temporarily allocating the water to store energy, and the releasing it shortly after.
This is exactly it. The value of a library is not the space or stuff, but the professional librarian. It is not so much that we have a curated collection, but we have a librarian that in trained in the organization and acquisition of of a collection.
Libraries are the first and last opportunity for an education. It is not a just place to get the latest movies and free p0rn. It is a place where a young person can go and be surrounded by a curated collection of stuff that is made just for them, where they can explore, learn, and maybe even create.
It is place for an older person to continue to be education. I recall when I changed careers that I spent may hours in the library. Being raised in the library meant that my interactions with librarians were scant, but I still need help.
We can provide air conditioned space much more cheaply, like in a mall. Amazon can provide many of the resources cheaply or for free. Google can provide answers, it the person knows how to ask the question and understand which answers are sound. But losing a library is not just about losing those things,. It is about losing the professional class of educators that are known as librarians.
It is kind of like charter schools. These can provide an cheaper experience for students, but the cost is the loss of the professional teacher class. While public schools tend to have a mix of teachers, with average experience of about a decade, charter schools tend to have an average teacher experience of a few years. This is because the teachers are TFA, which means they are there to earn money for graduate school, or they have to leave after three years because they can't pass the test.
It is a legitimate debate asking if certified teachers are necessary, but one factor is that we lose professional educators. We are already losing librarians, as I said the first and last defense for ignorance, because library funding is being minimized. The question we have to ask ourselves is Google, Amazon, and Facebook going to be the go to place for all our kids education?
It is also not what the article says. It says the there is significant savings in resources when we use delivery, if the company can schedule the deliver. Amazon shows you on a map where the trucks are and you can tell if they stop or go directly to your house. In may case, when they make a delivery there are always a lot of stops between the warehouse and me, and there is almost always a delivery within a few blocks of me. I don't see how getting in my car and using half a gallon of gas is more efficient their computer scheduled delivery with presumable is optimized to minimize resources. Perhaps in rural and suburban areas this is not the case, but I have no problem substituting a trip to the store for delivery.
The article also makes the dubious implication that we are continuing to go to the store in the same numbers while the number of delivery vans have doubled. I think the reason that this FUD is published is precisely because we are making fewer trips to the store. I know in my area the number of malls have decreased, the strip malls have become much more specialized and directed, such as coffee and head shops, I question if substituting professional drivers for amateurs just going to get a jug of milk is a bad thing.
Another magical statement is that people just order any tiny quantity and put it in a box. While Amazon prime allows you to order anything, prime now and free same day delivery require a minimum order. In terms of Amazon putting delivery vehicles on the road, this is the primary reason. In my case at least normal delivers are still non-amazon services. These trucks would be on the road no matter what, and obviously it is more efficient for the trucks to be full and making a full run of deliveries to a localize area that to be driving all over town make a few deliveries.
What we are seeing here is the simple economics of scale. It is why Walmart can sell stuff cheap. Put all the stuff in a big box and have customers waste gas and build up congestion by driving 10 miles to the nearest store. Amazon simply takes this to the next level. Put everything in a even bigger box, where you don't have to waste volume and associated climate control costs to deal with customers, save money and hidden costs of using plastic bags by packing things in nice recyclable boxes that do no kill the marine life, and more efficiently use the existing infrastructure to get things to the people.
It is like Sears. Sure they killed the general store, sure they destroyed the environment by publishing books that most people did not read, encouraging the polluting trains to increase their travel, and introduced heavy metals into the environment when the catalogs were disposed, but I don't think any of us want to go back to only buying what the guy on the corner thinks we deserve.
I fully expect the next article to be on the evils of computers. They waste electricity and resources as most people only use them for email and looking stuff up. If people would only buy a set of encyclopedias, a few magazine subscriptions, and send real letters through the post office,we would see a US that completely energy independent and roads that have no significant traffic.
I consider Python like Pascal. Some of it's popularity is simply due to the fact that it is used as a teaching tool so a lot of people are familiar with it. It can do a lot, but ultimately what makes it good as a teaching tool makes it not so good for production code.
Java and VB are the most popular languages right now. Java is taught to every high school AP computer science student. VB has the entire marketing of MS behind it.
I use python for personal projects, which are simple and direct. I can imagine Pixar using it as they write code for each movie, and are not widely deploying it to end users.
I suspect in a decade scripting is not longer going to be the status quo, and the kids will be learning programming by moving blocks. Don' scoff, it is already happening and all that is needed is to expand and refine the technology.
I think the issue here is that the process was so non-traditional. No work was done before hand by the professionals diplomats that is common in most other negotiations.
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
This is not the 'Obama apology tour' in which there are multiple legitimate interpretations. This is pure accommodation of terrorist who brutally murders his people by a sitting US President. There is no way to put lipstick on this pig.
Yes, we need to do everything we can to protect the world. Yes, sometimes that is not ideal, as in the treaty we had with Iran which was far from as effective as we wanted it to be, but still effective as a starting point. Sometimes we do need to kick ass, as every sitting president has done.
Now, we could say that we should give Trump credit for being innovative, i.e. bringing a real estate video to a brutal and murderous dictator. If it would have worked, if we would have gotten a real commitment to eliminate the nuclear capability of NK, or at least if Trump would have gotten his hotels on the peninsula, then we would have all been cheering. But being a leader means one has to take responsibility for one's failures as well as aculades for the successes.
Note that she also has a degree from Rice Univeristy. Sometimes going to the right school does make a difference. Rice boasts seven astronauts with degrees, and seven more affiliated with the institution.
In fact the SAT was used to select black kids who could fit into the exclusive culture of white colleges. It was explicitly written, for lack of a better description, to measure the whiteness of non-white people.
As time went on, colleges and students became more comfortable with a diverse student body, so the relevance of the SAT wained. It was no longer used as a means to differentiate between those people who knew their place and those who did not.
So it became a way for schools to measure the ability of a student who was educated in a public school, often non-white students, to fit into a Univeristy setting. However, in a diverse culture, it had limited predictive ability.
The end of the SAT was really that late 1990's when it was revised to a be measure of basic skills. College board did the same thing with GRE, which meant it was no longer used by organizations like MENSA as a proxy for intelligence.
In fact most states have tests that that are cheaper and more predictive of a students first year in college. In addition these tests are diagnostic so that students can be place into remedial classes to provide background for future success.
For diversity, the best current practice is to still the best students for each school. I don't know how idealogical diversity fits in here, unless there is claim that white people, who tend to do better on a test that was written for them, are inherently both more conservative and more smart and are being discriminated against.
I don't know if I would trust them, or any free based VPN, even if there is a paid tier. I would think there would be a great deal of pressure of monetize, which they could do with anonymized data, or which they will do if the ads are facebook or the like.
So what is a value VPN that is not going to spy on you or make you look like a pervert.
The price did fall fast, but so did the competitors, which could be had for a third of the cost. And face it, all were doing were playing tapes of Blondie, Madonna, and songs about white horses. The big feature was autoreverse, in some models. But it was just playing a tape, and pushing sound to antique relatively low fi headphones.
The iPod is an interesting example. I replaced my nomad with a iPod mini because the mini was not expensive compared with nomad, came with storage which on the Nomad had to be bought separately, and had a firewire interface which meant it did not take an hour to load the player with songs. The mini was the value option which frankly put me into the Apple mobile device ecosystem.
And like the early iPhone, you only had a walkman if you had money. Like drug dealer money. Or your parents were drug dealers or lawyers or the like.
It is interesting because Apple has been able to sell the high end products to the masses and at a huge profit. I don't know if Sony was able to do that. I don't think I every had enough money to buy a real walkman.
In 1940's when Asimov wrote the laws of robotics the first modern computers were just developed, and it would be another 20 years for what we would now call a computer to emerge. To be clear, few if anyone had written any code beyond theory, and few if anyone had experience of an implementation error resulting in something like the pentium floating point bug, or the various robotic space missions that we have seen ending in catastrophic failure.
So what we know now is that it very difficult to write code and that is both error free, and even more impossible, free of negative side effects.
Even we were able to develop a process to write perfect code, there would still be implementation problems, after all someone has to write the develop the protocols and write the code. Suppose this was one of the 40% of US citizens who still supports Trump and may not think that foreigners are human beings. Or maybe they really believe that all mexicans are rapists, and why would you not let a robot kill a mexican crossing the US border if it will save someone's daughter or wife from being raped?
I don't know about China, but a I have been in developing countries where the inefficiency is just outrageous, It is mostly because wags are low, people need to work a lot of hours to make a living, and any innovation is frowned upon because it would cost jobs.
For example, in the US if you had to go a teller to get money at the bank, it is a quick transaction, usually not requiring any paper. However, many other countries still require not only paper, but a complicated ritual that can easily require 10 minutes. These examples are at all levels of the society, requiring people to work long hours in tasks that are increasingly meaningless.
In the US we see this as jobs become increasing knowledge and skilled base. Many jobs that used to be about pushing papers and standing all day now require a worker that is has significant knowledge and skills. While older workers are used to being treated like replaceable cogs, younger workers, i.e millennials, as well as older highly educated workers, are much less willing to accept negative criticism for not working long hours, standing up, or dressing up.
There was a time when an industry standard haircut, the right cheap suit, and an acceptable range of skin tone was enough to get a job. Now people want certificates, degrees, even creativity. Something has to give.
All this article says that walmart can't compete because it pays too much, and if you pay a salary that allows you to compete, then you are also going to be depending on social assistance to care for your employees. This is not a bug, or something to complain about, it is a feature. In the US minimum wage is set so that entry level workers can be hired, and then we also fund programs like SNAP.
It is well know that minimum wage, at the level set by the federal government, can only fund a single person. As soon as a minimum wage worker has one dependent, then they are at the level to receive government assistance. So two workers can support one dependent, but not two.
The solution to this is not to complain that amazon is supplying jobs. If these people could get better jobs, they would. You average mom and pop retail main street establishment is not going to provide a high wage or benefits. I know enough of these small employers to know that their unskilled or semiskilled employees are paid minimum wage, and maybe commission if it is a sales job. There was one local establishment, for instance, that converted all their wage employees to tip employees so they could pay them even less. Yes tips have to equal minimum wage, but then they get to keep anything that is over.
If we think that provided social assistance to working people, that the employer should pay a wage that is sufficient to cover all normal costs, then we need to consider solutions that level the playing field, not just attack a certain company or industry is abusing the rules. For instance, in the 1990's MS and some other computer companies were able to inflate profits by pretending some employees are contractors. Today many companies, such as Trump recreational clubs, inflate profits by using immigrant labor, paying them well below wages that local would demand. For instance there are no shortage of workers around Trump properties on the East and Gulf coast, but still they routing ask for hundreds of visas so that foreigners, who will work for less and without benefits, can be hired.
The other option is simply to look at tasing the minimum wage. This will, obviously, increase prices, but the current administration is on board with increased inflation if it is necessary to meed other goals. For instance, no one denies that the trade war with china is going to raised prices and even cost profits for industries such as farming, but it is necessary to reduce the trade imbalance. Likewise, if we want to reduce the number of people on program such as SNAP, the the most direct way to do this is increase the minimum wage and have it linked to a realistic and generous consumer price index. We may actually increase the unemployment rate, we may actually put ourselves in an inflation spiral, but we will fulfill the moral imperative of having a working family able to sustain itself.
Drop by your bank on the way home, pick up a check, then put the check in an envelope and post it to the mail by midnight. This is once a year people, and not a surprise.
If you want to bitch, bitch about the fact that the greed of HR Block and related agencies have created a world where we have to waste money and time just to make these corporate monsters rich. For the vast majority of us, the IRS could prefill our returns, state out refund amounts, and deposit it to the same accounts we used last year. This would say the taxpayer huge amounts of headaches Those who owe could get a simple bill similar to our property taxes. Can you imagine the insanity if we had to figure out our property taxes every year?
Yet because HR Block wants the opportunity to con us out of our tax refund(on a $1000 refund, for instance, they can take $300m that is 30%), we have to suffer preparing our own taxes. Everyone who wants to prepare their own taxes should have that opportunity. For this of us who don't, the whores in congress who service the tax preparation industry need to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
400K is only like $60 per month per user over 10 years for 100 users.
I bet a traditional co-op could make this happen for $100-$200 per user per month, what some people spend on cable.
As in most cases, this has little to do with lack of access, but the lack of willing pay for access. People who are willing to pay do have access. For example, in developing country people live high on mountains where access is difficult. Some of these people have their own cell phone repeaters.
The lake home is a choice. Anyone with a lake home can choose to pay for service. In our rural area, we chose to pay for phone service. We had to coordinate the other land owners to pay for telephone line, and then personally pay for the pole and the pulling the line to our place. If we didn't want to have the service, then we could have chosen not to pay. And then cried about how the government would not subsidize our choices.
The same for ambulance service and mail. Packages are delivered when there are enough to make the trip worthwhile, and we have to drive a mile to pick them up at the mail box, which, btw, we paid for and installed. Ambulance, even if someone is dying, is going to take at least an hour.
On the other hand, there are situations like where I am now. An area that is dense, urban, educated, and relatively wealthy. There are legitimate geographical issues that kept us from getting DSL, but the fact is that other less legitimate issues kept us with cable only up to about two years ago. A few miles away they had all the choices, several blocks away there was dense Internet, but with us there was nothing but cable.
I suspect this issue is mostly rural, as the types of urban lock outs have become much less common. I suspect that this is an issue again because the rural people feel special again under the current administration, and feel they deserve to be subsidized by the responsible property owners, who do not buy million dollar homes then cry that they have no money to pay for services.
The PC Manufacturers we all know already make a school laptop that costs under $200-300. For any large school system, the issue with the machines is ongoing costs, not the costs of the machine. Tablets have an advantage in terms of durability, the sub $300 machines are fragile, but in most cases the management tools are not there,
Everyone always questions why prioritize computers, mostly because educators are scared of computers, but unless one is in. country where water and electricity truly is scarce, it is important that students have access to the tools they are going to use. I was in a developing country a while back, small town. Building has not air conditioning, the doors was left open all day, but everyone had a computer and a copy machine was in the back. These things are not scare. They are everywhere.
A lot of mobile games are and can be written and bring success to one or a small group of people. Take Tiny Wings as an example.
One thing I see is that so many people think that success and mass appeal are the same thing. If one is creative, if one is not naturally a boring person, there are many option to create. Just look at the number of local acting companies, the number of local music ensembles, and no one is stopping anyone from paying Apple $100 and writing anything they want for iOS, or for android for free. I write code that only I use because it is a fun and creative process. I have done it for money, and may do it again, but really it is a way not to be bored.
The shift away from Intel is to be expected. The shift to G4 groundbreaking. This is just necessary. Apple does not do diverse products well, and this is why we have the reliability issue. MS does diverse products well, and part of that success is a lowered expectation on how easily it will be to get an OS on hardware, but the expectation is that it will eventually run on even a PC put together with parts that fell out of a garbage truck.
For Apple to regain it's reliability, everything is going to have run on the same base, which means that Macs are going to have to derive from the same hardware as iPhone. Hopefully we won't take a step back in software features or lose more products, as we did with Aperture.
Apple transition about every 10 years, when the chipset can no longer be innovated to meet the needs of the end user. Apple can radically change the machine because they don't support infinite backwards capability, It is one of the advantages of using their products.
As far as fiscal needs, I hope they mean sales and they are not going to design a machine that sells only tens of thousands of units. They have cash so they can create a machine that will ultimately break even, but I think they are looking at a wider audience. The iMac Pro actually would be a good machine, if it had a touch screen. For the pro user I don't think the all in one is appropriate.,
I don't find them any less boring that pong.
I don't see that people are any more or less bored than ever. The fact is, and will always be, that boring people are boring. There is nothing we can do about that.
For a creative exciting, and inquisitive person a walk through the city is as exciting as a video game as a the exploration of the woods. An exciting person is going to have fun writing code, writing prose, or taking apart their kitchen sink for the first time.
A boring person is going to be bored no matter what they do, even if they are playing the latest video game. They will get bored, which is why video game companies make so much money. They cater to boring people.
Not that only boring people play video games, any more than they watch videos or read books. The difference is that boring people do this for their excitement, where exciting people do it for entertainment or to turn off their brains for a while.
Media is a big deal in education. There is a lot that kids are asked to document. You would be amazed how many kids do not know how to get media into a presentation. In modern education, kids are documenting all the time.
That said the cost is not going to be a big deal. it is durability. On reason tablets are so popular is that they are relatively tougher than laptops. If nothing else, the reluctant student is mot going to be able to tear up the keyboard. Any damage on a tablet is intentional.
The second issue is tool to manage the devices. MS is a winner in schools now because they have leveraged their corporate management tools to the classroom. iPads are a winner in the classroom because there are tools to manage them in the classroom.
That said, winning the tablet market is going to require something lower than $300. This is around what laptops costs in the quantities school district buy. But tablets have yet to catch on because they are not yet as usefu, and even $330 retail still quite expensive.
Gosh, I hope that apple and all computer companies are happy about the fondling they have given Trump over the tax cuts.
I know that I want to spend my $10 back from the tax cut on the extra $50 a computer is going to cost.
No sadness here. We will just pay more for crap built in the US, just like we did with the cars in the 70's.
Gravity tends to create it's own reference frame which can then be used to construct a coordinate system that can then be used to model the data analytically. All natural phenomena is independent of human constructed coordinate systems. It is true that classical physics is dependent on the reference frame, at least to some extent, but that is one of the many assumptions made.
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None of this occurs in a vacuum, and one can't win an argument by saying a new solution is going to be destructive, unless the current solution is 100% non destructive, which nothing is because entropy is real and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
So what we are saying here is that this is a solution that can provide the required 24x7 electrical flow, even when the sun is not shine or the wind is not blowing, without the costs associated with fossil fuels. Furthermore, unlike a traditional power plant, it is easy to regulate the power output to meet the demands of the moment and not have to run excess capacity and waste resources.
But of coursed the irrational reactive luddites who are afraid of change and are unable to learn the new skills needed for a new technological world just pretend that mountains are not already being destroyed, and the air is not already being polluted beyond what is healthy. I will remind people of one fact. Much of California is in a unique geological structure that prevent the polluted air from being diluted quickly with clean air. This means that they are unique in being intolerant to excess pollution. As the feds insist that California can no longer regulate it's pollutants we are going to see the air quality and health situation decrease dramatically.
My assertion would be that the water can be available. First, we are not talking about a continuous supply of water that will either be sequestered long term or wasted. For instance about a third of California water is used to either grow alfalfa for cattle or provide pasture for the cattle. This water is contaminated with pesticides and therefor is largely unavailable for other uses.
What we are talking about here is simply temporarily allocating the water to store energy, and the releasing it shortly after.
Libraries are the first and last opportunity for an education. It is not a just place to get the latest movies and free p0rn. It is a place where a young person can go and be surrounded by a curated collection of stuff that is made just for them, where they can explore, learn, and maybe even create.
It is place for an older person to continue to be education. I recall when I changed careers that I spent may hours in the library. Being raised in the library meant that my interactions with librarians were scant, but I still need help.
We can provide air conditioned space much more cheaply, like in a mall. Amazon can provide many of the resources cheaply or for free. Google can provide answers, it the person knows how to ask the question and understand which answers are sound. But losing a library is not just about losing those things,. It is about losing the professional class of educators that are known as librarians.
It is kind of like charter schools. These can provide an cheaper experience for students, but the cost is the loss of the professional teacher class. While public schools tend to have a mix of teachers, with average experience of about a decade, charter schools tend to have an average teacher experience of a few years. This is because the teachers are TFA, which means they are there to earn money for graduate school, or they have to leave after three years because they can't pass the test.
It is a legitimate debate asking if certified teachers are necessary, but one factor is that we lose professional educators. We are already losing librarians, as I said the first and last defense for ignorance, because library funding is being minimized. The question we have to ask ourselves is Google, Amazon, and Facebook going to be the go to place for all our kids education?
The article also makes the dubious implication that we are continuing to go to the store in the same numbers while the number of delivery vans have doubled. I think the reason that this FUD is published is precisely because we are making fewer trips to the store. I know in my area the number of malls have decreased, the strip malls have become much more specialized and directed, such as coffee and head shops, I question if substituting professional drivers for amateurs just going to get a jug of milk is a bad thing.
Another magical statement is that people just order any tiny quantity and put it in a box. While Amazon prime allows you to order anything, prime now and free same day delivery require a minimum order. In terms of Amazon putting delivery vehicles on the road, this is the primary reason. In my case at least normal delivers are still non-amazon services. These trucks would be on the road no matter what, and obviously it is more efficient for the trucks to be full and making a full run of deliveries to a localize area that to be driving all over town make a few deliveries.
What we are seeing here is the simple economics of scale. It is why Walmart can sell stuff cheap. Put all the stuff in a big box and have customers waste gas and build up congestion by driving 10 miles to the nearest store. Amazon simply takes this to the next level. Put everything in a even bigger box, where you don't have to waste volume and associated climate control costs to deal with customers, save money and hidden costs of using plastic bags by packing things in nice recyclable boxes that do no kill the marine life, and more efficiently use the existing infrastructure to get things to the people.
It is like Sears. Sure they killed the general store, sure they destroyed the environment by publishing books that most people did not read, encouraging the polluting trains to increase their travel, and introduced heavy metals into the environment when the catalogs were disposed, but I don't think any of us want to go back to only buying what the guy on the corner thinks we deserve.
I fully expect the next article to be on the evils of computers. They waste electricity and resources as most people only use them for email and looking stuff up. If people would only buy a set of encyclopedias, a few magazine subscriptions, and send real letters through the post office,we would see a US that completely energy independent and roads that have no significant traffic.
Java and VB are the most popular languages right now. Java is taught to every high school AP computer science student. VB has the entire marketing of MS behind it.
I use python for personal projects, which are simple and direct. I can imagine Pixar using it as they write code for each movie, and are not widely deploying it to end users.
I suspect in a decade scripting is not longer going to be the status quo, and the kids will be learning programming by moving blocks. Don' scoff, it is already happening and all that is needed is to expand and refine the technology.
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
This is not the 'Obama apology tour' in which there are multiple legitimate interpretations. This is pure accommodation of terrorist who brutally murders his people by a sitting US President. There is no way to put lipstick on this pig.
Yes, we need to do everything we can to protect the world. Yes, sometimes that is not ideal, as in the treaty we had with Iran which was far from as effective as we wanted it to be, but still effective as a starting point. Sometimes we do need to kick ass, as every sitting president has done.
Now, we could say that we should give Trump credit for being innovative, i.e. bringing a real estate video to a brutal and murderous dictator. If it would have worked, if we would have gotten a real commitment to eliminate the nuclear capability of NK, or at least if Trump would have gotten his hotels on the peninsula, then we would have all been cheering. But being a leader means one has to take responsibility for one's failures as well as aculades for the successes.
Note that she also has a degree from Rice Univeristy. Sometimes going to the right school does make a difference. Rice boasts seven astronauts with degrees, and seven more affiliated with the institution.
As time went on, colleges and students became more comfortable with a diverse student body, so the relevance of the SAT wained. It was no longer used as a means to differentiate between those people who knew their place and those who did not.
So it became a way for schools to measure the ability of a student who was educated in a public school, often non-white students, to fit into a Univeristy setting. However, in a diverse culture, it had limited predictive ability.
The end of the SAT was really that late 1990's when it was revised to a be measure of basic skills. College board did the same thing with GRE, which meant it was no longer used by organizations like MENSA as a proxy for intelligence.
In fact most states have tests that that are cheaper and more predictive of a students first year in college. In addition these tests are diagnostic so that students can be place into remedial classes to provide background for future success.
For diversity, the best current practice is to still the best students for each school. I don't know how idealogical diversity fits in here, unless there is claim that white people, who tend to do better on a test that was written for them, are inherently both more conservative and more smart and are being discriminated against.
So what is a value VPN that is not going to spy on you or make you look like a pervert.
The iPod is an interesting example. I replaced my nomad with a iPod mini because the mini was not expensive compared with nomad, came with storage which on the Nomad had to be bought separately, and had a firewire interface which meant it did not take an hour to load the player with songs. The mini was the value option which frankly put me into the Apple mobile device ecosystem.
It is interesting because Apple has been able to sell the high end products to the masses and at a huge profit. I don't know if Sony was able to do that. I don't think I every had enough money to buy a real walkman.
So what we know now is that it very difficult to write code and that is both error free, and even more impossible, free of negative side effects.
Even we were able to develop a process to write perfect code, there would still be implementation problems, after all someone has to write the develop the protocols and write the code. Suppose this was one of the 40% of US citizens who still supports Trump and may not think that foreigners are human beings. Or maybe they really believe that all mexicans are rapists, and why would you not let a robot kill a mexican crossing the US border if it will save someone's daughter or wife from being raped?
For example, in the US if you had to go a teller to get money at the bank, it is a quick transaction, usually not requiring any paper. However, many other countries still require not only paper, but a complicated ritual that can easily require 10 minutes. These examples are at all levels of the society, requiring people to work long hours in tasks that are increasingly meaningless.
In the US we see this as jobs become increasing knowledge and skilled base. Many jobs that used to be about pushing papers and standing all day now require a worker that is has significant knowledge and skills. While older workers are used to being treated like replaceable cogs, younger workers, i.e millennials, as well as older highly educated workers, are much less willing to accept negative criticism for not working long hours, standing up, or dressing up.
There was a time when an industry standard haircut, the right cheap suit, and an acceptable range of skin tone was enough to get a job. Now people want certificates, degrees, even creativity. Something has to give.
It is well know that minimum wage, at the level set by the federal government, can only fund a single person. As soon as a minimum wage worker has one dependent, then they are at the level to receive government assistance. So two workers can support one dependent, but not two.
The solution to this is not to complain that amazon is supplying jobs. If these people could get better jobs, they would. You average mom and pop retail main street establishment is not going to provide a high wage or benefits. I know enough of these small employers to know that their unskilled or semiskilled employees are paid minimum wage, and maybe commission if it is a sales job. There was one local establishment, for instance, that converted all their wage employees to tip employees so they could pay them even less. Yes tips have to equal minimum wage, but then they get to keep anything that is over.
If we think that provided social assistance to working people, that the employer should pay a wage that is sufficient to cover all normal costs, then we need to consider solutions that level the playing field, not just attack a certain company or industry is abusing the rules. For instance, in the 1990's MS and some other computer companies were able to inflate profits by pretending some employees are contractors. Today many companies, such as Trump recreational clubs, inflate profits by using immigrant labor, paying them well below wages that local would demand. For instance there are no shortage of workers around Trump properties on the East and Gulf coast, but still they routing ask for hundreds of visas so that foreigners, who will work for less and without benefits, can be hired.
The other option is simply to look at tasing the minimum wage. This will, obviously, increase prices, but the current administration is on board with increased inflation if it is necessary to meed other goals. For instance, no one denies that the trade war with china is going to raised prices and even cost profits for industries such as farming, but it is necessary to reduce the trade imbalance. Likewise, if we want to reduce the number of people on program such as SNAP, the the most direct way to do this is increase the minimum wage and have it linked to a realistic and generous consumer price index. We may actually increase the unemployment rate, we may actually put ourselves in an inflation spiral, but we will fulfill the moral imperative of having a working family able to sustain itself.
If you want to bitch, bitch about the fact that the greed of HR Block and related agencies have created a world where we have to waste money and time just to make these corporate monsters rich. For the vast majority of us, the IRS could prefill our returns, state out refund amounts, and deposit it to the same accounts we used last year. This would say the taxpayer huge amounts of headaches Those who owe could get a simple bill similar to our property taxes. Can you imagine the insanity if we had to figure out our property taxes every year?
Yet because HR Block wants the opportunity to con us out of our tax refund(on a $1000 refund, for instance, they can take $300m that is 30%), we have to suffer preparing our own taxes. Everyone who wants to prepare their own taxes should have that opportunity. For this of us who don't, the whores in congress who service the tax preparation industry need to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
I bet a traditional co-op could make this happen for $100-$200 per user per month, what some people spend on cable.
As in most cases, this has little to do with lack of access, but the lack of willing pay for access. People who are willing to pay do have access. For example, in developing country people live high on mountains where access is difficult. Some of these people have their own cell phone repeaters.
The same for ambulance service and mail. Packages are delivered when there are enough to make the trip worthwhile, and we have to drive a mile to pick them up at the mail box, which, btw, we paid for and installed. Ambulance, even if someone is dying, is going to take at least an hour.
On the other hand, there are situations like where I am now. An area that is dense, urban, educated, and relatively wealthy. There are legitimate geographical issues that kept us from getting DSL, but the fact is that other less legitimate issues kept us with cable only up to about two years ago. A few miles away they had all the choices, several blocks away there was dense Internet, but with us there was nothing but cable.
I suspect this issue is mostly rural, as the types of urban lock outs have become much less common. I suspect that this is an issue again because the rural people feel special again under the current administration, and feel they deserve to be subsidized by the responsible property owners, who do not buy million dollar homes then cry that they have no money to pay for services.
Everyone always questions why prioritize computers, mostly because educators are scared of computers, but unless one is in. country where water and electricity truly is scarce, it is important that students have access to the tools they are going to use. I was in a developing country a while back, small town. Building has not air conditioning, the doors was left open all day, but everyone had a computer and a copy machine was in the back. These things are not scare. They are everywhere.
A lot of mobile games are and can be written and bring success to one or a small group of people. Take Tiny Wings as an example. One thing I see is that so many people think that success and mass appeal are the same thing. If one is creative, if one is not naturally a boring person, there are many option to create. Just look at the number of local acting companies, the number of local music ensembles, and no one is stopping anyone from paying Apple $100 and writing anything they want for iOS, or for android for free. I write code that only I use because it is a fun and creative process. I have done it for money, and may do it again, but really it is a way not to be bored.
For Apple to regain it's reliability, everything is going to have run on the same base, which means that Macs are going to have to derive from the same hardware as iPhone. Hopefully we won't take a step back in software features or lose more products, as we did with Aperture.
Apple transition about every 10 years, when the chipset can no longer be innovated to meet the needs of the end user. Apple can radically change the machine because they don't support infinite backwards capability, It is one of the advantages of using their products.
As far as fiscal needs, I hope they mean sales and they are not going to design a machine that sells only tens of thousands of units. They have cash so they can create a machine that will ultimately break even, but I think they are looking at a wider audience. The iMac Pro actually would be a good machine, if it had a touch screen. For the pro user I don't think the all in one is appropriate.,
A boring person is going to be bored no matter what they do, even if they are playing the latest video game. They will get bored, which is why video game companies make so much money. They cater to boring people.
Not that only boring people play video games, any more than they watch videos or read books. The difference is that boring people do this for their excitement, where exciting people do it for entertainment or to turn off their brains for a while.
That said the cost is not going to be a big deal. it is durability. On reason tablets are so popular is that they are relatively tougher than laptops. If nothing else, the reluctant student is mot going to be able to tear up the keyboard. Any damage on a tablet is intentional.
The second issue is tool to manage the devices. MS is a winner in schools now because they have leveraged their corporate management tools to the classroom. iPads are a winner in the classroom because there are tools to manage them in the classroom.
That said, winning the tablet market is going to require something lower than $300. This is around what laptops costs in the quantities school district buy. But tablets have yet to catch on because they are not yet as usefu, and even $330 retail still quite expensive.
Gosh, I hope that apple and all computer companies are happy about the fondling they have given Trump over the tax cuts. I know that I want to spend my $10 back from the tax cut on the extra $50 a computer is going to cost. No sadness here. We will just pay more for crap built in the US, just like we did with the cars in the 70's.
Outlaw porn, while letting the real criminals, the online scammers who cheat people out of money, the murders, go free.
Gravity tends to create it's own reference frame which can then be used to construct a coordinate system that can then be used to model the data analytically. All natural phenomena is independent of human constructed coordinate systems. It is true that classical physics is dependent on the reference frame, at least to some extent, but that is one of the many assumptions made.