And this why most medical professionals are not scientists. Magic does not exist.
A bicycle is a simple machine. Simple machines work by reducing the force necessary to complete a task. This is mechanical advantage. For a bicycle this mechanical advantages are created by the radius of the pedel and the ratio of the gears, usually with a big gear radius in front, and a smaller gear radius in back. To start the ratios are larger, then can become smaller as the bike accelerates.
There is another thing. The effective force is only the component that is perpendicular to the direction of motion. That why you normally start with the pedals parallel to the ground, and the rider pedaling straight down. With normal pedals, the force is transmitted directly to moving the crank. With this style, some force is always going be expended torquing the z pendal, which will eventually lead to the seam to fail.
The only people who believe that repeated hits to the head is harmless are those whose livelihoods depend on the general populous repeatedly allowing themselves to be hit on the head. The only people who believe inhaling massive quantities of pollutants is harmless are those who livelihoods depend on the general population inhaling massive quantities of pollutants. The only people who believe eating high fat low nutritional foods on a regular basis is harmless are those whose livelihood depends on the general populous eating such food.
And in all these cases an informed population chooses to engage in harmful activity. In the case of football, families clamor to put their small children in harms way, knowing, or at least should know as the information is out there for all to see, that treatment of injuries that are effective in mature athletes are much more difficult and expensive in immature athletes, often with a worse prognosis. Adults clamor for the pay that football gives them, then the public criticizes teams for using these athletes to do what they are paid to do.
So this is no surprise, and for the most part I suspect it will not change anything. People who need to believe will say that helmets are better, that athletes are better taken care of, that this is a one time thing. And then kids will be put out on the field, hit, and like type 2 diabetes which had been almost non existant in children, we will likely see symptoms of the increased rate of brain injury.
This is good. I was in a situation with some legacy code a while back. It was crap because of the changes that had been made over time. This was when I had about 15 years of code experience, about 5 of it in a formal team situation. I sat down for a few weeks, tore out old stuff, reworked the stuff that was left, and came up with a new product. What I forgot to mention was that it fixed many complex and long standing bugs.
So this the first thing I would add. It the problem with code that it is not pretty, or that it does not work. If the code is not pretty, suck it up. The world revolves around no individual person and narcism has not place at work. If the there is outstanding bugs that can be solved, then have this person work on that.
But really without knowing language, application, style, funding, there is really no way to answer this question. If the code works, and is accesible to a experienced programmer, then it is good. If the code meets the standards set by the team, then it is good. Even if the new person is technically right it does not matter. What matter is if a person is willing to do the job under the prevailing conditions. In all cases where that is not the case, it is better to find someone who is.
Smartboards are really just big trackpads. The reason they are so popular is that some believe you need a smartboard to project. For years I projected on regular whiteboard and just wrote on the white board. There are subject where have the large surface of the board as a trackpad is useful. I have seen very few people actually use the tools that come with smartboards, such as the ability to record the motions so a student can recreated a lecture later. Some believe there is some benifit to have a kid come up to the board and do a problem, and that is one thing a smart board allows.
The technology to replace the smart board is already out there. Most phones and tablets have an app that will act as a mouse, allowing the instructor to roam the room while moving through a presentation and writing. Wireless writing pads allow a student to do the same from anywhere in the room.
The advantage of each student having a tablet, of course, is that a student may view a presentation closeup, interact with assessment using things like polleverywhere, as well a engage in impromptu content. The disadvantage is that a certain percentage of the student will be updating their facebook and playing WoW, but that is nothing new and why so many colleges have high drop out rates.
All this, however, can be a supplement to the smartboard. The real problem is that the people who make the actual Smartboard are very proud of the their product, have really tightened licensing. To be honest, the software is what makes the smartboard worthwhile, but, as I said, most people don't use the software. In the long ago it was because teacher were not trained in using it, now it is rich web content.
In this case though it matters. This bill was put forth last time in the 82 session and failed. The main purpose of the 82nd session was to defund public schools, create charters that funnel taxpayer money to religious groups, and limit the health care of teens.
The republican platform in texas is explicitly against the teaching of critical thinking. This is problem solving. How can we have a geek culture without problem solving. When we are talking about the religious nuts trying to destroy america, this is what we are talking about.
This bill is aimed to take local control away form the school districts and concentrate it in the megalomaniacal GOB texas lege.
And presumably you want children to be human from conception, so that if you accidently kill a 2 week pregnant woman you will charged with two murders, one of a child.
Or perhaps we should treat kids like full humans and allow them to work. There are many right to work states that would love to give 10 year old children the right to work. After all we are violating their basic rights by not allowing them to work.
or how about the right to bear arms. Right now even the NRA would violate the child's basic right to protection herself.
I am not a fan of badges, but badges are a fact of work life so we might as well train the kids to wear badges. After all, if the kids are full human they should be encourages to do the same things as other human. And more and more badges are RFID.
To get more serious, this lawsuit seems to go more from the paranoid delusions of someone who does not understand the physics and reality of RFID rather than any rational objection. For instance, presuming these are not self power tags, the distance would be measured in inches rather than feet or miles.so any tracking outside of school would be prohibitively expensive. And there would be no way to force kids to wear school ids outside of school anyway. Any delisional paranoid could do what any delusion paranoid would do. Wear a tin foil hat.
And do underestimate the delusions of texas. We are the site of the Waco terrorist religious attack on america back in 1993, and the FLDS affiliated teen sex farm in Brazoria County back in 2008.
Any infringement on right have to balanced. Young children in school are required to stay with a teacher even to go the bathroom. This is acceptable to most people. In high school, there is more freedom but you are required to be in school. Frankly, RFID tags are less invasive method and more accurate to insure the student is where he or she is supposed to be. There are many cases in which a student claims to be somewhere, but the records show they weren't. With an RFID tag teachers mistakes will not put the kid in jeopardy. Sure, kids switch and give badges to others, so the system is not perfect, but it will do more to protect students who operate in good faith.
Change is not always bad. The problem with RIM was that it never did compete, not until it was too late. Everyone just knew that corporate IT would never let iPhones in, and purchasing was not going pay for one. So RIM was protected.
For whatever reason IBM was eager to get rid of the Thinkpad. For whatever reason, the computer stores I shop at, and I sitll buy my PC laptops locally, do not stock them, so I have never been able to use one. I do useHP/Compaq, and these have served me well for when I need a Windows machine. To get me to buy a thinkpad they need to compete with HP, not Apple.
4) a frictionless sex market means that it is easier for a single person to find a temporary ex partner on an as needed and minimal cost basis.
Seriously, this article really makes little sense. A person is either looking to get married, in which case he or she wil choose the least revolting person, or not in which case he or she will play. The internet really does not make either easier or less risky. One still has to take chances on what matter: the long term personality and stability of your partner. Sure one might be more likely to get the eye candy that will fill the void that is the lack of self esteem, but at what opportunity cost?
I would argue that for those who want an eventual long term relation, internet dating, which facilitates partnering beyond the person who has the locker next to you, the person in the same dorm, or who frequents the same bar, might in fact be a better teacher and therefore facilitate these difficult relationships between we selected them based on some commonality we found in the profile or chatting, rather than the fact that he or she was a convenient lay.
First, the division between rigorous and nonrigorous science is real and valid. In less rigorous science, such as social sciences, multiple hypothesis come into play because of uncontrolled variables. It is hard to completely control social economic status, it is hard to control how much activity a person does, it is hard to fully control the differences between tribes. Therefore different hypothesis can be accumulated, and show to be valid in the limited case. This is no difference than a rigorous science such as physics, except that is physics assumptions and variables are often easier to control and will in time be identified.
Second, there is nothing special about long time ago in physics and now in physics except that now we are in the middle of it and cannot see what is to happen. Before Galileo things that had more 'mass' fell faster. Then with Newton equal masses would accelerate the same given the same force, always. Then with Einstein a mass would not always be accelerated with a force. QM began to define what we really meant by force, and more critically, mass, and now that we may know what mass really is there is certainly going a shift in the way we do physics.
Furthermore, even though social science has may have multiple hypothesis, it does not mean that in the grand scale paradigms do not shift. Look at education. When I started school I was at the tail end of the philosophy that stated the best way to teach was to hav students sitting at desks, and if the student got out of the desk the best way to end the negative behavior was to beat the student. That does not happen so much any more.
There are still researchers who fully support the IQ test a valid and reasonable measure of intelligence, and use it to show that certain races are inherently less intelligent than others. That is not a top theory anymore. The social experiment in China that resulted in severe deficit of females certainly is going to do damage to the social theories that females are less valuable.
Which leads to the fact that, as was mentioned in the article, trying to do science based on social good rather than basic research is harmful. Science, as it has evolved, is the collection of data from observable, then the systematic organizations of those observables into a system that constant within itself. This has proven hugely successful when doing objective work.It is not successful when trying to prove a your socially dominant hypothesis. This is why so many object to science and people like Kuhn. All too often they do not get their way, and then they throw a temper tantrum. Which is really what a paradigm shift is about, because we are all human. As the old guard dies, and the new evidence is presented to fresh eyes, new world views come about. Like that beating children may not be the best way to handle discipline.
There is one interesting case in social sciences that may be a contemporary paradigm shift. There are linguists out there that are trying to do different things with the evolution of languages, and coming up with different results from traditional methods. One of these is going to be right. If it is possible to prove the new model is superior, then we will see a new generation of linguist using the new tools.
In a case like this where there is one person raped and a group of influential people who are the suspects, the town is going to defend the suspects or attack the victim. In texas where an 11 year girl was raped multiple times, the town said it was her fault for going with the people who raped her, she looked older than she was, she asked to be assaulted. This is not surprised. Many think boys have a right to sex, and when there is defenseless girl, of course they are going to assault her. And, of course,their boys are so virile that they would never have to force themselves, girls are naturally just going to submit. Are you saying my boy is so ugly and unskilled that he has to force girls to suck him? Is that what you are saying? Just saying.
No, the disturbing issue is that the cops won't do their jobs and round up the suspects and let the prosecutors and grand jury decide base on evidence that was gathered in good faith. In the texas case, unlike the ohio case, the law followed the law and over 20 people have been convicted of a crime, and given various crimes from probation to life sentences. It is not up to the police to decide who is guilt and not. It is up to them to make arrests and collect evidence.
And this problem is not limited to ohio. Minnesota has areas of with incredible high rape rates. Their excuse. It sometimes gets hot. Corpus Christi in Texas also is hot, and teens go there to party very hard, yet the rape rates are no where as high as parts of Minnesota. Maybe because the cops are going to arrest those who rape others, and not just blame the weather or the fact that victim was drunk.
There are limits on what can be done on what most people would consider everyday currency. There is evidently few limits on a coin that is based on platinum. So, such a coin could be minted in any denomination, 1 trillion, 1 trillion 1 million, five trillion, whatever. The point is that the coin could be minted, deposited, and used to pay bills without borrowing any money.
The thing that this coin farce is supposed to prove is that the debt ceiling is a construct invented by the Carter Administration with no real regulatory or constitutional basis. The constitution says that debt has to be paid. The constitution says all such bills must originate in the House, which has been controlled by extreme conservatives over the past two years.Once the spending is approved by the house, confirmed by the senate, and signed by the president, the money is authorized, and for all practical intents and purposes spent. If we do not have the money, it must be borrowed.
So, the ability to not build debt exists in the House of Representatives at the time the bills are debated, not much later when the bills are supposed to paid. There has been much talk about running the country responsibly. It is not responsible to put charges on our credit card knowing full well that we are going to have default.
Maybe the president can sign an executive order to stop congress critters from driving drunk and picking up hookers when they are supposed to home with their family. It will do just as much good.
Exactly. Most of the posts have been talking about printing labs in stores and home and the fact that we don't need to print. And this is why Kodak and Polaroid are essentially gone. Both depended on selling paper, and no one buys paper.There is no need to have a print that last 40 years because more photos are viewable on demand and transfered without fess. Look at it this way. In the past the cost of printing was essentially a way for the companies to minimize how you used the picture.
And this is why this might work.Because you might to print a picture for a gift or to frame and fewer people have photo printers, and more people have low end computers and tablets that really are not made for photo editing. If you go to a store, all you will get is a print. If you go to print shop, there was a time when they had computers you could rent, but there was no customer service.
If this concept provides the computer, provides the customer service, can print really high quality on various materials and can matte and frame, then it could work. Look at fact that almost every mall has a shop that will print on canvass.
My question is what does Poloraid bring to the game. How is it going to manage costs and retail service, given it has no experience in this. I already see a problem in that a print will take 5-10 minutes. This is a non starter and is unnecessary. If we look at another similar concept, say build a bear, there is no delay for your bear. I suspect that unless there is very good customer expectation management, most will use it once, then never again except for special projects. And for these, Poloriad has a lot of competition.
A few weeks ago, Google Maps started acting flaky. This was amazing because Google is supposed to be the best at web development. In any case, it was clearly a situation where they just made things needlessly complex. Like MS used to do and still does. It will be googles downfall if the continue to game the market instead of just developing innovative products. And really it will be a shame. They are competent, but if they fall to fear, and the desire for profit instead of providing end users the best product, it will not end well. I hate to say it, but Bing and the MS WIndows Phone are competitive, and they are competative because Google has just been sitting back thinking how they can screw people.
It's forbes. Of course they would not choose the actually least stressful job, the executive. In this job if you bankrupt the company, you get a bonus. If your decisions kill people, you get to go free.
Here are the actually stresses in a job.
Will I be working tomorrow. If I don't work tomorrow, am I getting paid enough so I can save money, or will I get a severance of unemployment sufficient to get to me to the next job. Before the wingnuts go off on me, I am not saying that anyone deserves these things, only that these things do lower stress.
One way to get a lower stress job is to get the education and training so that one can get a job that has less competition. Fo instance, we expect teachers to have college degres and most of the time no felonies, and an ability to not kill the children who have nothing better to do than to attack teachers. This is a very large pool of people, but not as large as say an office manager. An office manager is a very important job with it's own set of requirements that limits the pool, but an office manager will likely start at less of a salary than a teacher, and will be more likely to less job security.
This is why we have all these people getting MBAs, so they can enter what is a much smaller pool of people who can be executives. What is interesting is that all these people are buying MBA, but hardly anyone goes into a wekkend doctoral program. I do not see many people who want to be a professor because the money is good and the work is easy. I mean I know many managers who have an house and an expensive car and get home before 5pm. Professors OTOH may be teaching classes at 7. I am in a univeristy class where the professor teaches from 7 to 8.
It is true that a professors schedule can be flexible, and they can make it harder or easier. What I don't agree with is that as a group, those with masters or higher do not often have the same flexibility. I don't have the flexibility to take just any day off to get errands run, but many managers I know do.
As I said, this is Forbes, and anyone who is not pushing papers is going to have an easy job. I am sure they would say that wprking at a car wash is easy, simply because they have no conception fo what real work is. That is producng a real product that will drive profit, not just taking a percentage off a trade, or leveraging the arbitrage.
To extended security checks and porno scanners. I spend about 15 more minutes in line than before the extended security. If we extend this to all passengers, that is 150 million hours of wasted time. These little incidents are minuscule in comparison.
Furthermore, identifying and responding to these anomalies is exactly what we should be doing. With current security, all we are doing is preventing copycat terrorism. Talkin off shoes to respond to shoe bombers, naked scanner to respond to underwear bombers, no water to respond to, whatever it is responding to.
It has been repeatedly said that a group of well trained observers identifying suspicious behavior and anomalous baggage would make much better security than the current situation which is simply a jobs program created by conservatives to artificially reduce the unemployment rate.
I would say permissions are the way to go. Keep it simple, because kids have nothing by time. That is why you knew more than your parents. Hiding, obfuscating, putting it on a different server, is just going to provide a vector of attack.
What I might do is set up an account that only holds appropriate videos. Log into this account during unattended viewing. Long term this will allow the child to feel more in control and less under your thumb.
As an aside, many of my friends just left the tv on PBS. At some point the child realized there were other channels. and would surf. This provided an opportunity for a conversation about rules of the TV, and appropriate consequences.
This is one of the reasons why sequestration would not be so bad. While each arm fo the service does have specific needs, it is hard to imagine that these needs extend to general IT and the like. Therefore, if the pentagon chose to, it could come up with a 5-10% reduction in spending.
And yes, social service can also find saving. For instance, if Congress allowed medicare part D to aggressively negotiate costs, ut would save several billion dollars. We already are on track to punish hospitals that do not provide care. Getting rid of the middle vendors in the choice program would also save money.
The problem with these is that all require the feds to go after big business who are getting fat off government contracts instead of competing in the market place. This reminds me of a conversation I heard a while back on conservative radio. Many millions of dollars was spent building a stadium for a school district. The contractor that called in did not have problem with the waste of money, just that he was not able to bid for the money. The host agreed that was a travesty without knowing why the contractor was not able to bid. I see this all the time, people not really concerned with the waste of money, but that they cannot get their cut.
It always baffles me how people like to talk about banning guns when most are just talking about banning weapons of mass murder.
If one wants to protect ones home, go to the gun show and get a shotgun. It will do the job, even when used by persons with minimal training. If one is a paranoid fanatic, and wants to protect a compound against President Obama, anything that the supreme court says is protected under the second amendment is not going to help anyone. You better have some chemist and physicist and machinist who can make things out uncontrolled substances and metals.
Office buildings hire trained persons to serve as a deterrent to those who see such buildings as an easy target, and who would be in danger of a major lawsuit if they just left the building open to any Sarah who would come in and cause injury or loss of life. Some of these people are armed, some are just there for observation.
It also baffles me how people are so narcissistic that they feel they are so important that they require the level of protection equal to an office high rise or a politician. Do you think religious fanatics are going to plow a plane into your home? I know that some people are so self absorbed they probably do stay awake at night thinking this is a rational plausible scenario. It isn't.
I agree. Most office workers will refuse to update their habits. Some of these workers may actually be valuable enough to keep protocols the same. However, with the unemployment the way it is,particularly among highly educated young people, and the ease of shedding older unproductive workers, the problems cannot be attributed to the worker.
Rather, the managers have to be complicit. After all, if a worker learned how to do things in 1987, then the managers probably did not every have computers in school, probably still used chalkboards. And they have to keep everything simply enough so they could manage. If all they know is MS Office, and it took them a year of training to learn it, then they are not likely going to do something like Google Docs. There will be one minor cosmetic feature in MS Office which they consider invaluable.
I have worked places where the amont of papar passed around is tiny. I have been in places where the managers print email to file. You are correct in that this will require training at the entry level. Already many colleges have little paper. We are getting to the point where even high schools are going paperless. But if you think you have problems with employes destroying equipment so they do not have to work, you can't imagine what an issue it is in high school.
This is club model. For a fixed fee you get to use the services of the club. Some will use the services a lot, some not so much. But because dues are collected monthly, fixed costs are piad.
In the US, it is my understanding that most of the box office goes to the movie distributor. So if someone sees a opening weekend movie every weekend, I assume that would be the whole $20 to the studio, or even more. The article did say they would be paying studio based on viewership, and I have been told that studios do take most of the ticket sales for the the first weekend, So this model clearly depends on people not going to see very many movies. Yet is subscribers are nor going to movies, then one wonders if they will be subscribers
Movie theaters are just restaurants that show movies. Sundance and Alamo has made that a formal setup. Theaters near formal restaurants have to fight to stay alive. If you want your theater to stay open, buy concessions. Yes it does suck to think the true cost of a movie is $25 per person, but that is what it costs. If it is too expensive, go to the Opera, where a ticket can often be $15, and there is no expectation to buy or consume refreshments.
I am not sure who these people are that expects firms and products to last forever. I saw a good article recently about how innovation is thwarted because we have become used to continuity and standardization.We are so afraid of Dinsey retaliated on us because Mickey Mouse becomes public domain the we are willing to bork the entire IP system.
I suppose that all the games use the same base code, so releasing is for some games will not be possible. I also assume that the games are not paying for the server load of customer service. So I am not sure what an be done. It is like when a show is cancelled,. It is sometimes sad, but really there are other things we can do.
Unfortunately the problem in the west is not scientology, but the Catholic church which sets a very low bar on the ethical behavior required by a religion. Because the west is largely based on fairness and due process, any sociopath can set up a religion and do pretty much whatever they want. We have to give credit to most other cults in that they are under more scurtiny and threat of conviction than the catholic church, the do tend to behave better.
I know many would disagree, but look at the rape situation. We have substituted accusions and sometimes admission of rape of children, rape of nuns, in an institutional environment. The fact of the matter is that these are crimes against humanity. That these were not codified as crimes against humanity until this century is irrelevant. Trail were held after WW1 using codes that were not developed until after, and these codes were continually developed and applied as new atrocities were dealt with.
Yet not a single Catholic official has been put on trial in international court. The Vatican is a sovereign city-state. I do not expect the pope to have the morale courage to take the responsibility for these crimes against humanity, but I would this he would choose one or two top officials to throw under the bus and reach some moral compensation. But the catholic church, like more religions, live outside the sphere of civil and normal discourse, so is not subject to the noms and laws most fo the secular world lives by. Whichis why picking on scientology is not really going to change anything.
When COMPAQ reversed engineered the IBM PC, it based it's product line on hardware that was similiar, and in some cases, superior to IBM PC. The PC XT was around 5-10K, and was sold during the mid 80's The compaq deskpro was below $5K. In todays dollars $5K is closer to $10K. For a computer.
This is why in 1983 Apple was confident it could sell the Apple Lisa for $10K. It was not yet clear that COMPAQ would be a going concern, and IBM was still king. Compaq, and the coming commodity cheap computer, killed the Lisa, and even made the orignal Mac at around $3K seem expensive.
What MS did, through DOS and particular through MS Windows, was to allow cheap computer to run a CLI or GUI. My WIndows 3.11 for workgroups one could have a computer for everyone in the office that even someone with minimal education could run. It allowed affordable computing for the worker bees in the office, something that would not have been possible without COMPAQ and MS. Cheap computer for simple tasks. One could also buy more expensive computer for executives who just wanted them or for professional applications, but what is clear is that the GUI for everyone had to wait for MS Windows and cheaper hardware.
As far as WIndows NT goes, it allowed the cheap internet startup. We bagan to see 100 commodity machines running MS NT with a Compaq load balances to manage traffic. We no longer needed hardware with reliability or 5 nines, a computer could die every day, and it did not make a difference. Databases were stored on multiple, high reliability machines, while requests were handled by cheaper less reliable machines. At this time google was doing the same thing with custom hardware, but few had such resources.
Again, some machines were more reliable and more expensive, but more where just cheap workhorses, repaired as needed. Certainly we have MS Windows CE, and the like, but how much have those sold or really been used?
Before surface, MS WIndows ran on commodity hardware. If you needed a cheap *nix box you could go down to the store, but a MS Windows machine, through away the MS license, and load your favorite *nix.
If you want a *nix that runs on MS Surface caliber hardware and aren't worrying about licensing, get an iPad. You can fill it up with important apps for under $100.
If you want a cheap *nix pad, get an android. It still has licensing issues, but is the commodity hardware that was the MS Windows machine.
The reality is that OSS is going to be a few years behind MS, which is a couple years behind Apple. Look at the office app. Openoffice.org was possible only because the office application is now legacy and MS did little to keep the product unique. While the GUI was available in high end Unix machines since it was available for Apple, commodity machines did not have graphic coprocessors that made GUIs efficient until the early 90's.
So it is an advancement that we had a functional *nix tablet, in the form of android, before we had a functional MS tablet, in terms of surface. So I am not sure why we would want to make MS Surface anything other than a marginal device by standardizing it as a *nix device. I mean, one thing about windows is it was the standard for writing memos and the like, so if you could get the MS Windows applications running in *nix, then you would not have to have a MS license. But what Apps does MS Surface have? I mean MS is so desperate that they are buying banner ads on/. begging developers to write apps.
Just let the MS Surface die a graceful death. Don't glorify it by even suggesting it should run and *nix.
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A bicycle is a simple machine. Simple machines work by reducing the force necessary to complete a task. This is mechanical advantage. For a bicycle this mechanical advantages are created by the radius of the pedel and the ratio of the gears, usually with a big gear radius in front, and a smaller gear radius in back. To start the ratios are larger, then can become smaller as the bike accelerates.
There is another thing. The effective force is only the component that is perpendicular to the direction of motion. That why you normally start with the pedals parallel to the ground, and the rider pedaling straight down. With normal pedals, the force is transmitted directly to moving the crank. With this style, some force is always going be expended torquing the z pendal, which will eventually lead to the seam to fail.
And in all these cases an informed population chooses to engage in harmful activity. In the case of football, families clamor to put their small children in harms way, knowing, or at least should know as the information is out there for all to see, that treatment of injuries that are effective in mature athletes are much more difficult and expensive in immature athletes, often with a worse prognosis. Adults clamor for the pay that football gives them, then the public criticizes teams for using these athletes to do what they are paid to do.
So this is no surprise, and for the most part I suspect it will not change anything. People who need to believe will say that helmets are better, that athletes are better taken care of, that this is a one time thing. And then kids will be put out on the field, hit, and like type 2 diabetes which had been almost non existant in children, we will likely see symptoms of the increased rate of brain injury.
So this the first thing I would add. It the problem with code that it is not pretty, or that it does not work. If the code is not pretty, suck it up. The world revolves around no individual person and narcism has not place at work. If the there is outstanding bugs that can be solved, then have this person work on that.
But really without knowing language, application, style, funding, there is really no way to answer this question. If the code works, and is accesible to a experienced programmer, then it is good. If the code meets the standards set by the team, then it is good. Even if the new person is technically right it does not matter. What matter is if a person is willing to do the job under the prevailing conditions. In all cases where that is not the case, it is better to find someone who is.
The technology to replace the smart board is already out there. Most phones and tablets have an app that will act as a mouse, allowing the instructor to roam the room while moving through a presentation and writing. Wireless writing pads allow a student to do the same from anywhere in the room.
The advantage of each student having a tablet, of course, is that a student may view a presentation closeup, interact with assessment using things like polleverywhere, as well a engage in impromptu content. The disadvantage is that a certain percentage of the student will be updating their facebook and playing WoW, but that is nothing new and why so many colleges have high drop out rates.
All this, however, can be a supplement to the smartboard. The real problem is that the people who make the actual Smartboard are very proud of the their product, have really tightened licensing. To be honest, the software is what makes the smartboard worthwhile, but, as I said, most people don't use the software. In the long ago it was because teacher were not trained in using it, now it is rich web content.
The republican platform in texas is explicitly against the teaching of critical thinking. This is problem solving. How can we have a geek culture without problem solving. When we are talking about the religious nuts trying to destroy america, this is what we are talking about.
This bill is aimed to take local control away form the school districts and concentrate it in the megalomaniacal GOB texas lege.
Or perhaps we should treat kids like full humans and allow them to work. There are many right to work states that would love to give 10 year old children the right to work. After all we are violating their basic rights by not allowing them to work.
or how about the right to bear arms. Right now even the NRA would violate the child's basic right to protection herself.
I am not a fan of badges, but badges are a fact of work life so we might as well train the kids to wear badges. After all, if the kids are full human they should be encourages to do the same things as other human. And more and more badges are RFID.
To get more serious, this lawsuit seems to go more from the paranoid delusions of someone who does not understand the physics and reality of RFID rather than any rational objection. For instance, presuming these are not self power tags, the distance would be measured in inches rather than feet or miles.so any tracking outside of school would be prohibitively expensive. And there would be no way to force kids to wear school ids outside of school anyway. Any delisional paranoid could do what any delusion paranoid would do. Wear a tin foil hat.
And do underestimate the delusions of texas. We are the site of the Waco terrorist religious attack on america back in 1993, and the FLDS affiliated teen sex farm in Brazoria County back in 2008.
Any infringement on right have to balanced. Young children in school are required to stay with a teacher even to go the bathroom. This is acceptable to most people. In high school, there is more freedom but you are required to be in school. Frankly, RFID tags are less invasive method and more accurate to insure the student is where he or she is supposed to be. There are many cases in which a student claims to be somewhere, but the records show they weren't. With an RFID tag teachers mistakes will not put the kid in jeopardy. Sure, kids switch and give badges to others, so the system is not perfect, but it will do more to protect students who operate in good faith.
For whatever reason IBM was eager to get rid of the Thinkpad. For whatever reason, the computer stores I shop at, and I sitll buy my PC laptops locally, do not stock them, so I have never been able to use one. I do useHP/Compaq, and these have served me well for when I need a Windows machine. To get me to buy a thinkpad they need to compete with HP, not Apple.
Seriously, this article really makes little sense. A person is either looking to get married, in which case he or she wil choose the least revolting person, or not in which case he or she will play. The internet really does not make either easier or less risky. One still has to take chances on what matter: the long term personality and stability of your partner. Sure one might be more likely to get the eye candy that will fill the void that is the lack of self esteem, but at what opportunity cost?
I would argue that for those who want an eventual long term relation, internet dating, which facilitates partnering beyond the person who has the locker next to you, the person in the same dorm, or who frequents the same bar, might in fact be a better teacher and therefore facilitate these difficult relationships between we selected them based on some commonality we found in the profile or chatting, rather than the fact that he or she was a convenient lay.
Second, there is nothing special about long time ago in physics and now in physics except that now we are in the middle of it and cannot see what is to happen. Before Galileo things that had more 'mass' fell faster. Then with Newton equal masses would accelerate the same given the same force, always. Then with Einstein a mass would not always be accelerated with a force. QM began to define what we really meant by force, and more critically, mass, and now that we may know what mass really is there is certainly going a shift in the way we do physics.
Furthermore, even though social science has may have multiple hypothesis, it does not mean that in the grand scale paradigms do not shift. Look at education. When I started school I was at the tail end of the philosophy that stated the best way to teach was to hav students sitting at desks, and if the student got out of the desk the best way to end the negative behavior was to beat the student. That does not happen so much any more.
There are still researchers who fully support the IQ test a valid and reasonable measure of intelligence, and use it to show that certain races are inherently less intelligent than others. That is not a top theory anymore. The social experiment in China that resulted in severe deficit of females certainly is going to do damage to the social theories that females are less valuable.
Which leads to the fact that, as was mentioned in the article, trying to do science based on social good rather than basic research is harmful. Science, as it has evolved, is the collection of data from observable, then the systematic organizations of those observables into a system that constant within itself. This has proven hugely successful when doing objective work.It is not successful when trying to prove a your socially dominant hypothesis. This is why so many object to science and people like Kuhn. All too often they do not get their way, and then they throw a temper tantrum. Which is really what a paradigm shift is about, because we are all human. As the old guard dies, and the new evidence is presented to fresh eyes, new world views come about. Like that beating children may not be the best way to handle discipline.
There is one interesting case in social sciences that may be a contemporary paradigm shift. There are linguists out there that are trying to do different things with the evolution of languages, and coming up with different results from traditional methods. One of these is going to be right. If it is possible to prove the new model is superior, then we will see a new generation of linguist using the new tools.
No, the disturbing issue is that the cops won't do their jobs and round up the suspects and let the prosecutors and grand jury decide base on evidence that was gathered in good faith. In the texas case, unlike the ohio case, the law followed the law and over 20 people have been convicted of a crime, and given various crimes from probation to life sentences. It is not up to the police to decide who is guilt and not. It is up to them to make arrests and collect evidence.
And this problem is not limited to ohio. Minnesota has areas of with incredible high rape rates. Their excuse. It sometimes gets hot. Corpus Christi in Texas also is hot, and teens go there to party very hard, yet the rape rates are no where as high as parts of Minnesota. Maybe because the cops are going to arrest those who rape others, and not just blame the weather or the fact that victim was drunk.
The thing that this coin farce is supposed to prove is that the debt ceiling is a construct invented by the Carter Administration with no real regulatory or constitutional basis. The constitution says that debt has to be paid. The constitution says all such bills must originate in the House, which has been controlled by extreme conservatives over the past two years.Once the spending is approved by the house, confirmed by the senate, and signed by the president, the money is authorized, and for all practical intents and purposes spent. If we do not have the money, it must be borrowed.
So, the ability to not build debt exists in the House of Representatives at the time the bills are debated, not much later when the bills are supposed to paid. There has been much talk about running the country responsibly. It is not responsible to put charges on our credit card knowing full well that we are going to have default.
Maybe the president can sign an executive order to stop congress critters from driving drunk and picking up hookers when they are supposed to home with their family. It will do just as much good.
And this is why this might work.Because you might to print a picture for a gift or to frame and fewer people have photo printers, and more people have low end computers and tablets that really are not made for photo editing. If you go to a store, all you will get is a print. If you go to print shop, there was a time when they had computers you could rent, but there was no customer service.
If this concept provides the computer, provides the customer service, can print really high quality on various materials and can matte and frame, then it could work. Look at fact that almost every mall has a shop that will print on canvass.
My question is what does Poloraid bring to the game. How is it going to manage costs and retail service, given it has no experience in this. I already see a problem in that a print will take 5-10 minutes. This is a non starter and is unnecessary. If we look at another similar concept, say build a bear, there is no delay for your bear. I suspect that unless there is very good customer expectation management, most will use it once, then never again except for special projects. And for these, Poloriad has a lot of competition.
A few weeks ago, Google Maps started acting flaky. This was amazing because Google is supposed to be the best at web development. In any case, it was clearly a situation where they just made things needlessly complex. Like MS used to do and still does. It will be googles downfall if the continue to game the market instead of just developing innovative products. And really it will be a shame. They are competent, but if they fall to fear, and the desire for profit instead of providing end users the best product, it will not end well. I hate to say it, but Bing and the MS WIndows Phone are competitive, and they are competative because Google has just been sitting back thinking how they can screw people.
Here are the actually stresses in a job. Will I be working tomorrow. If I don't work tomorrow, am I getting paid enough so I can save money, or will I get a severance of unemployment sufficient to get to me to the next job. Before the wingnuts go off on me, I am not saying that anyone deserves these things, only that these things do lower stress.
One way to get a lower stress job is to get the education and training so that one can get a job that has less competition. Fo instance, we expect teachers to have college degres and most of the time no felonies, and an ability to not kill the children who have nothing better to do than to attack teachers. This is a very large pool of people, but not as large as say an office manager. An office manager is a very important job with it's own set of requirements that limits the pool, but an office manager will likely start at less of a salary than a teacher, and will be more likely to less job security.
This is why we have all these people getting MBAs, so they can enter what is a much smaller pool of people who can be executives. What is interesting is that all these people are buying MBA, but hardly anyone goes into a wekkend doctoral program. I do not see many people who want to be a professor because the money is good and the work is easy. I mean I know many managers who have an house and an expensive car and get home before 5pm. Professors OTOH may be teaching classes at 7. I am in a univeristy class where the professor teaches from 7 to 8.
It is true that a professors schedule can be flexible, and they can make it harder or easier. What I don't agree with is that as a group, those with masters or higher do not often have the same flexibility. I don't have the flexibility to take just any day off to get errands run, but many managers I know do.
As I said, this is Forbes, and anyone who is not pushing papers is going to have an easy job. I am sure they would say that wprking at a car wash is easy, simply because they have no conception fo what real work is. That is producng a real product that will drive profit, not just taking a percentage off a trade, or leveraging the arbitrage.
Furthermore, identifying and responding to these anomalies is exactly what we should be doing. With current security, all we are doing is preventing copycat terrorism. Talkin off shoes to respond to shoe bombers, naked scanner to respond to underwear bombers, no water to respond to, whatever it is responding to.
It has been repeatedly said that a group of well trained observers identifying suspicious behavior and anomalous baggage would make much better security than the current situation which is simply a jobs program created by conservatives to artificially reduce the unemployment rate.
What I might do is set up an account that only holds appropriate videos. Log into this account during unattended viewing. Long term this will allow the child to feel more in control and less under your thumb.
As an aside, many of my friends just left the tv on PBS. At some point the child realized there were other channels. and would surf. This provided an opportunity for a conversation about rules of the TV, and appropriate consequences.
And yes, social service can also find saving. For instance, if Congress allowed medicare part D to aggressively negotiate costs, ut would save several billion dollars. We already are on track to punish hospitals that do not provide care. Getting rid of the middle vendors in the choice program would also save money.
The problem with these is that all require the feds to go after big business who are getting fat off government contracts instead of competing in the market place. This reminds me of a conversation I heard a while back on conservative radio. Many millions of dollars was spent building a stadium for a school district. The contractor that called in did not have problem with the waste of money, just that he was not able to bid for the money. The host agreed that was a travesty without knowing why the contractor was not able to bid. I see this all the time, people not really concerned with the waste of money, but that they cannot get their cut.
If one wants to protect ones home, go to the gun show and get a shotgun. It will do the job, even when used by persons with minimal training. If one is a paranoid fanatic, and wants to protect a compound against President Obama, anything that the supreme court says is protected under the second amendment is not going to help anyone. You better have some chemist and physicist and machinist who can make things out uncontrolled substances and metals.
Office buildings hire trained persons to serve as a deterrent to those who see such buildings as an easy target, and who would be in danger of a major lawsuit if they just left the building open to any Sarah who would come in and cause injury or loss of life. Some of these people are armed, some are just there for observation.
It also baffles me how people are so narcissistic that they feel they are so important that they require the level of protection equal to an office high rise or a politician. Do you think religious fanatics are going to plow a plane into your home? I know that some people are so self absorbed they probably do stay awake at night thinking this is a rational plausible scenario. It isn't.
Rather, the managers have to be complicit. After all, if a worker learned how to do things in 1987, then the managers probably did not every have computers in school, probably still used chalkboards. And they have to keep everything simply enough so they could manage. If all they know is MS Office, and it took them a year of training to learn it, then they are not likely going to do something like Google Docs. There will be one minor cosmetic feature in MS Office which they consider invaluable.
I have worked places where the amont of papar passed around is tiny. I have been in places where the managers print email to file. You are correct in that this will require training at the entry level. Already many colleges have little paper. We are getting to the point where even high schools are going paperless. But if you think you have problems with employes destroying equipment so they do not have to work, you can't imagine what an issue it is in high school.
In the US, it is my understanding that most of the box office goes to the movie distributor. So if someone sees a opening weekend movie every weekend, I assume that would be the whole $20 to the studio, or even more. The article did say they would be paying studio based on viewership, and I have been told that studios do take most of the ticket sales for the the first weekend, So this model clearly depends on people not going to see very many movies. Yet is subscribers are nor going to movies, then one wonders if they will be subscribers
Movie theaters are just restaurants that show movies. Sundance and Alamo has made that a formal setup. Theaters near formal restaurants have to fight to stay alive. If you want your theater to stay open, buy concessions. Yes it does suck to think the true cost of a movie is $25 per person, but that is what it costs. If it is too expensive, go to the Opera, where a ticket can often be $15, and there is no expectation to buy or consume refreshments.
I suppose that all the games use the same base code, so releasing is for some games will not be possible. I also assume that the games are not paying for the server load of customer service. So I am not sure what an be done. It is like when a show is cancelled,. It is sometimes sad, but really there are other things we can do.
I know many would disagree, but look at the rape situation. We have substituted accusions and sometimes admission of rape of children, rape of nuns, in an institutional environment. The fact of the matter is that these are crimes against humanity. That these were not codified as crimes against humanity until this century is irrelevant. Trail were held after WW1 using codes that were not developed until after, and these codes were continually developed and applied as new atrocities were dealt with.
Yet not a single Catholic official has been put on trial in international court. The Vatican is a sovereign city-state. I do not expect the pope to have the morale courage to take the responsibility for these crimes against humanity, but I would this he would choose one or two top officials to throw under the bus and reach some moral compensation. But the catholic church, like more religions, live outside the sphere of civil and normal discourse, so is not subject to the noms and laws most fo the secular world lives by. Whichis why picking on scientology is not really going to change anything.
This is why in 1983 Apple was confident it could sell the Apple Lisa for $10K. It was not yet clear that COMPAQ would be a going concern, and IBM was still king. Compaq, and the coming commodity cheap computer, killed the Lisa, and even made the orignal Mac at around $3K seem expensive.
What MS did, through DOS and particular through MS Windows, was to allow cheap computer to run a CLI or GUI. My WIndows 3.11 for workgroups one could have a computer for everyone in the office that even someone with minimal education could run. It allowed affordable computing for the worker bees in the office, something that would not have been possible without COMPAQ and MS. Cheap computer for simple tasks. One could also buy more expensive computer for executives who just wanted them or for professional applications, but what is clear is that the GUI for everyone had to wait for MS Windows and cheaper hardware.
As far as WIndows NT goes, it allowed the cheap internet startup. We bagan to see 100 commodity machines running MS NT with a Compaq load balances to manage traffic. We no longer needed hardware with reliability or 5 nines, a computer could die every day, and it did not make a difference. Databases were stored on multiple, high reliability machines, while requests were handled by cheaper less reliable machines. At this time google was doing the same thing with custom hardware, but few had such resources.
Again, some machines were more reliable and more expensive, but more where just cheap workhorses, repaired as needed. Certainly we have MS Windows CE, and the like, but how much have those sold or really been used?
If you want a *nix that runs on MS Surface caliber hardware and aren't worrying about licensing, get an iPad. You can fill it up with important apps for under $100.
If you want a cheap *nix pad, get an android. It still has licensing issues, but is the commodity hardware that was the MS Windows machine.
The reality is that OSS is going to be a few years behind MS, which is a couple years behind Apple. Look at the office app. Openoffice.org was possible only because the office application is now legacy and MS did little to keep the product unique. While the GUI was available in high end Unix machines since it was available for Apple, commodity machines did not have graphic coprocessors that made GUIs efficient until the early 90's.
So it is an advancement that we had a functional *nix tablet, in the form of android, before we had a functional MS tablet, in terms of surface. So I am not sure why we would want to make MS Surface anything other than a marginal device by standardizing it as a *nix device. I mean, one thing about windows is it was the standard for writing memos and the like, so if you could get the MS Windows applications running in *nix, then you would not have to have a MS license. But what Apps does MS Surface have? I mean MS is so desperate that they are buying banner ads on /. begging developers to write apps.
Just let the MS Surface die a graceful death. Don't glorify it by even suggesting it should run and *nix.