Aren't you completely missing the entire point of the original story--that there is no strong correlation between *dollars spent per student* (quantity of input) and *student's measured math skills* (quality of output)?...
...This is hardly earth shaking news. For at least twenty years there have been quantitativly reliable studies; comparing student acheivement in various nations; that show that the education systems in Israel, India and other nations that spend a fraction of what the US spends per child; achieve far better results.
It is a myth propagated by the US education lobby, especially the NEA, that the solution to lowered results is to just throw money.
Fascinating. I didn't read the Red Herring article, but did read this one. This article also explains why; for essentially the same reason; red/green color-blindness afflicts about 8 percent of Caucasian males, but about only 0.5 percent of Caucasian females.
A) Saddam had had bio/chemical weapons & had used them against the Kurds
B) He refused to allow inspectors or to comply with UN Sanctions--indeed, he had his military repeatedly try to shoot down British & American planes that patrolled the northern & souther no-fly zones.
C) He had enormous personal wealth (stolen from the Iraqi people & skimed from the 'oil for food' humanitarian aid program; administered by the UN w/ French & German participation). Saddam had years to plan how to hide his weapons &/or could have easily paid the Syrians & others to hide the WMDs until all danger of discovery was over. Doesn't anyone remember when; at the outset of the first Gulf War in the early '90s; as soon as the bombs started dropping on Bagdad, the Iraqi fighter jets flew to Iran?
There was no rush to war. Fact is, in spite of what John Kerry & Jaques Chirac say, diplomacy had failed. See above.
Saddam was crazy but but his commanders were not not stupid. They understood that it was suicidal for them to use WMDs in the war.
Wake up folks--like Rudy Guliani at the RNC explained, strong defense at home & diplomacy around the world is a two-legged stool. We need a third leg; a strong and technologically advanced military allows us to project force world-wide and the offense required to separate our enemies from their weapons abroad. Better to fight the enemy on his territory that to wait till he kicks our doors in here. Most of them have a death wish anyway--and you know what? Help is on the way.
While you can buy many fine brews for $7-$8/six pack; and I do like a 'heavier' full-bodied beer as much as the next person, don't overlook Rolling Rock Pale Ale--a 'cheap' beer--no more expensive than Bud or Coors--but better tasting & can be had in NH for ~$4/six if you know where to shop.
BTW, your L33t15t attitude is showing--your comment reads like you are saying that wine drinkers don't appreciate sporting events, or that beer drinkers are so intemperate that they can't have just one with a burger.
Personally, I like beer *&* wine; with sporting events *and* food--but not at the same time.
umm...was I the only one who thought it was odd when they said they had *Hollywood*Stunt*Pilots* to do the retrieval...the deployment charges didn't work, but it's not as bad as they thought...Agent Muldar...Can you hear me now?
The function of life is to mediate the matter/energy state(s) of the Universe so that there is no end to time.
If all matter is converted to energy, you have a Big Bang, and begin the Universe & time all over. If all energy condenses to matter, you have a Big Crunch, and the end of time, & of the Universe, (and maybe another Big Bang, but that is another debate.)
The function of life is to evolve to the point where it can help regulate the matter/energy state of the Universe, by employing fission processes if the Universe is condensing too much into matter and (less likely;) fusion processes if the Universe gets too hot. Normally, stars and other naturally occuring fusion processes are sufficient to prevent the Universe from overheating.
So, I respectfully submit that the jury is still out on Time Travel!;p
Infectious disease by definition involves interspecies interaction. Makes you wonder whether *disease response* in survivors--changed DNA; changed bodily functioning; and changed individual behavior within social groups--is perhaps not far more important to influencing species' morphologies, and evolution generally, than *random mutation*.
Problem is now I can't decide whether epidemics are a good thing or a bad thing!
Hatch *is* clueless--& not sure he means well. As a christian/gospel songwriter, Hatch has made a siginificant; although not huge; amount of $$ off copyrighted song lyrics & recordings. I think that he is just self-interested, and he may become the new 'Senator from Disney' once Hollings is gone.
I guess I would rather have Hatch be a privacy advocate than a RIAA/MPAA doughboy, but as soon as he & other politicians figure out the real score on encryption, you can bet that they will say that governments should be the only entities w/strong crypto.
Which will make sense Joe Sixpack, because the best argument for strong crypto in the hands of non-government entities is to shield 'illicit' activities; which Joe Sixpack doesn't like after 9/11; but the reality is, that the best indicator that you are dealing with a free (constitutional) society; is that there is organized crime that's not part of the government!!
cool! & 'The Mouse'_can_patent_extending_their_(ahem)_copyright to every creative literary work ever produced; the Mouse will own the past, & M$ will own the future!
"Sensing a shirker as well as you can Faraday, I took over turning the machine and with some merriment demanded he take observations of the expanded spark...Hodges would see nothing of value looking along the axis. How wrong Faraday! When the prime started sparking over, Hodges emitted a scream the like of which I hadn`t heard since his scrotum was burned off during my experiment with fluorine gas last year."
1) Eventually higher performance chips could replace owner's manuals. Buy an item, get it home & set it down next to your RFID-enabled computer monitor & start digging into the manual
2) Could the battery on an active chip be replaced with a photovoltaic? I could then see them being used to prevent theft of street signs. Don't laugh--replacing stolen street signs is a costly problem for small & rural communities to deal with. Just one replacement sign; not including the pole; typically costs the community $25-$30. Add in public works dept. labor, transportation & any applicable taxes & now you're talking $50 to $100 per sign.
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This is amazing technology that I believe will transform our world in ways we can barely imagine.
I remember reading that also, in Sci. American IIRC. The authors said that the interval period was about 65 million years. Scary coincidence; the dinosaurs died out ~65 million years ago--draw your own conclusions.
Democracy, especially in its strange USA form is probably not the best government possible (given human fallability), and may not even be the best implemented government in existence today. certainly we should believe the future holds improvement for all human systems, including goverment. What would a future be without progress?
I'm waiting with breathless anticipation to read your thoughtful suggestion as to what would be better?...
Also surprised no one has mentioned we don't exactly have a methane shortage and there are plenty of other terrestrail organic sources if people want it...moo.
Perhaps you don't have as much time on your hands as I do, but in fact plenty of posts have mentioned this;-)
Sounds pretty scary...but the author doesn't cite a source for this claim of a 55 million year old disaster, nor the evidence that it actually occured.
absolutely right - doubleclick is sending emails for reputable stuff, shops and the like where you are likely to want their products, or have asked to have that stuff sent to you.
Spam is the crap I get, porn, get rich quick, growth hormone, mortgages.. shit like that.
As a webdesigner & Internet marketer, I know what you are saying is true. I've had a lot of success managing email marketing campaign for my web clients:
First, I maintain email address lists for my web clients, and we only add names when A) an individual makes a product inquiry, or B) the individual explicitly askes to be added to the client's email newsletter list.
Second, I group clients by industry type (eg., recreation/lesure; business services; real estate products & services) and we ask the prospective readers if they would be interested in receiving industry-specific emails. A lesure industry example would be; say an individual makes a product inquiry about snowmobile accessories. We would send him info about snowmobiles, but also would ask him if he is interested in info about ice fishing equipment.
My clients & I have had alot of success using this type of strategy, and a lot of you 'anti-spammers' out there would be amazed at the positive feedback we get from our readers. It all comes down to understanding & correctly anticipating the needs & desires of the reader. If you are considerate and really try to add value, you'll be surprized at the amount of good will that can be built. So...having said that, it should be obvious: don't bother with anonimous emails offering volume discounts on Viagra to folks with (big) penis envy & jumbo mortgages;-)
Basically they're claiming rights to an idea that had nothing to do with them or their business, just because someone happened to work for them somewhere along the way, and that's nothing but the rawest kind of opportunism.
From the article:
"In April 1996, Brown sought a release from DSC to pursue his idea. Brown alleges that he asked several managers at DSC whether the company would be interested in helping him develop the idea. According to Brown, DSC and Brown began negotiating an agreement whereby DSC would pay Brown a percentage of savings realized by the company if the idea was successful and a percentage of income from third-party sales, but the company later halted negotiations. Brown says when he refused to reveal his idea, DSC fired him and sued him."
Apparently Brown & his managers felt that the company could develop a commercial application. Any idea that is applicable to the employer's business(s) is fair game.
I have mixed emotions about this ruling. The key is that the idea was applcable to the employer's business.
If the company has no realistic commercial application, they cannot claim that they have the right to resell rights to another firm with an application, because the idea has no relation to the consideration they had bargained for & were already receiving.
The moral of the story is that you should develop some outside interests, so that when you are your own time, you are really on your own time.
Most of the contracts I've seen refer to anything that is applicable to the company's businesses. Additionally some these clauses specify a perod of time after employment ends that they will be enforcible; sort of like a non-compete clause.
Maybe he should have kept quite & quit firstwithout giving a reason why.
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Only I also submitted more analysis & links to a more substantive NY Times article, the National Governors Association website, and the text of Gates NGA speech
Aren't you completely missing the entire point of the original story--that there is no strong correlation between *dollars spent per student* (quantity of input) and *student's measured math skills* (quality of output)?...
...This is hardly earth shaking news. For at least twenty years there have been quantitativly reliable studies; comparing student acheivement in various nations; that show that the education systems in Israel, India and other nations that spend a fraction of what the US spends per child; achieve far better results.
It is a myth propagated by the US education lobby, especially the NEA, that the solution to lowered results is to just throw money.
It takes a school...to bankrupt a village.
Fascinating. I didn't read the Red Herring article,
but did read this one. This article also explains why; for essentially the same reason; red/green color-blindness afflicts about 8 percent of Caucasian males, but about only 0.5 percent of Caucasian females.
Don't know where the WMD's are--so what?
A) Saddam had had bio/chemical weapons & had used them against the Kurds
B) He refused to allow inspectors or to comply with UN Sanctions--indeed, he had his military repeatedly try to shoot down British & American planes that patrolled the northern & souther no-fly zones.
C) He had enormous personal wealth (stolen from the Iraqi people & skimed from the 'oil for food' humanitarian aid program; administered by the UN w/ French & German participation). Saddam had years to plan how to hide his weapons &/or could have easily paid the Syrians & others to hide the WMDs until all danger of discovery was over. Doesn't anyone remember when; at the outset of the first Gulf War in the early '90s; as soon as the bombs started dropping on Bagdad, the Iraqi fighter jets flew to Iran?
There was no rush to war. Fact is, in spite of what John Kerry & Jaques Chirac say, diplomacy had failed. See above.
Saddam was crazy but but his commanders were not not stupid. They understood that it was suicidal for them to use WMDs in the war.
Wake up folks--like Rudy Guliani at the RNC explained, strong defense at home & diplomacy around the world is a two-legged stool. We need a third leg; a strong and technologically advanced military allows us to project force world-wide and the offense required to separate our enemies from their weapons abroad. Better to fight the enemy on his territory that to wait till he kicks our doors in here. Most of them have a death wish anyway--and you know what? Help is on the way.
While you can buy many fine brews for $7-$8/six pack; and I do like a 'heavier' full-bodied beer as much as the next person, don't overlook Rolling Rock Pale Ale--a 'cheap' beer--no more expensive than Bud or Coors--but better tasting & can be had in NH for ~$4/six if you know where to shop.
BTW, your L33t15t attitude is showing--your comment reads like you are saying that wine drinkers don't appreciate sporting events, or that beer drinkers are so intemperate that they can't have just one with a burger.
Personally, I like beer *&* wine; with sporting events *and* food--but not at the same time.
umm...was I the only one who thought it was odd when they said they had *Hollywood*Stunt*Pilots* to do the retrieval...the deployment charges didn't work, but it's not as bad as they thought...Agent Muldar...Can you hear me now?
The function of life is to mediate the matter/energy state(s) of the Universe so that there is no end to time.
;p
If all matter is converted to energy, you have a Big Bang, and begin the Universe & time all over. If all energy condenses to matter, you have a Big Crunch, and the end of time, & of the Universe, (and maybe another Big Bang, but that is another debate.)
The function of life is to evolve to the point where it can help regulate the matter/energy state of the Universe, by employing fission processes if the Universe is condensing too much into matter and (less likely;) fusion processes if the Universe gets too hot. Normally, stars and other naturally occuring fusion processes are sufficient to prevent the Universe from overheating.
So, I respectfully submit that the jury is still out on Time Travel!
Infectious disease by definition involves interspecies interaction. Makes you wonder whether *disease response* in survivors--changed DNA; changed bodily functioning; and changed individual behavior within social groups--is perhaps not far more important to influencing species' morphologies, and evolution generally, than *random mutation*.
Problem is now I can't decide whether epidemics are a good thing or a bad thing!
pretty much any paper will burn in a MWO if you leave it on high for long enough
Hatch *is* clueless--& not sure he means well. As a christian/gospel songwriter, Hatch has made a siginificant; although not huge; amount of $$ off copyrighted song lyrics & recordings. I think that he is just self-interested, and he may become the new 'Senator from Disney' once Hollings is gone.
I guess I would rather have Hatch be a privacy advocate than a RIAA/MPAA doughboy, but as soon as he & other politicians figure out the real score on encryption, you can bet that they will say that governments should be the only entities w/strong crypto.
Which will make sense Joe Sixpack, because the best argument for strong crypto in the hands of non-government entities is to shield 'illicit' activities; which Joe Sixpack doesn't like after 9/11; but the reality is, that the best indicator that you are dealing with a free (constitutional) society; is that there is organized crime that's not part of the government!!
IIRC, Wired and/or /. had an article several years ago about Boeing using a simlilar system for jet liner assembly.
cool! & 'The Mouse'_can_patent_extending_their_(ahem)_copyright to every creative literary work ever produced; the Mouse will own the past, & M$ will own the future!
Did you know that k5 reported this item earlier in the day?
From the article
"Sensing a shirker as well as you can Faraday, I took over turning the machine and with some merriment demanded he take observations of the expanded spark...Hodges would see nothing of value looking along the axis. How wrong Faraday! When the prime started sparking over, Hodges emitted a scream the like of which I hadn`t heard since his scrotum was burned off during my experiment with fluorine gas last year."
Now THAT'S funny!
Amen
1) Eventually higher performance chips could replace owner's manuals. Buy an item, get it home & set it down next to your RFID-enabled computer monitor & start digging into the manual
2) Could the battery on an active chip be replaced with a photovoltaic? I could then see them being used to prevent theft of street signs. Don't laugh--replacing stolen street signs is a costly problem for small & rural communities to deal with. Just one replacement sign; not including the pole; typically costs the community $25-$30. Add in public works dept. labor, transportation & any applicable taxes & now you're talking $50 to $100 per sign.
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This is amazing technology that I believe will transform our world in ways we can barely imagine.
I remember reading that also, in Sci. American IIRC. The authors said that the interval period was about 65 million years. Scary coincidence; the dinosaurs died out ~65 million years ago--draw your own conclusions.
Democracy, especially in its strange USA form is probably not the best government possible (given human fallability), and may not even be the best implemented government in existence today. certainly we should believe the future holds improvement for all human systems, including goverment. What would a future be without progress?
I'm waiting with breathless anticipation to read your thoughtful suggestion as to what would be better?...
(useless drivel; mod -1 troll)
ashamed urinal cake?!? TOO MUCH!
Also surprised no one has mentioned we don't exactly have a methane shortage and there are plenty of other terrestrail organic sources if people want it...moo.
;-)
Perhaps you don't have as much time on your hands as I do, but in fact plenty of posts have mentioned this
Sounds pretty scary...but the author doesn't cite a source for this claim of a 55 million year old disaster, nor the evidence that it actually occured.
absolutely right - doubleclick is sending emails for reputable stuff, shops and the like where you are likely to want their products, or have asked to have that stuff sent to you.
;-)
Spam is the crap I get, porn, get rich quick, growth hormone, mortgages.. shit like that.
As a webdesigner & Internet marketer, I know what you are saying is true. I've had a lot of success managing email marketing campaign for my web clients:
First, I maintain email address lists for my web clients, and we only add names when A) an individual makes a product inquiry, or B) the individual explicitly askes to be added to the client's email newsletter list.
Second, I group clients by industry type (eg., recreation/lesure; business services; real estate products & services) and we ask the prospective readers if they would be interested in receiving industry-specific emails. A lesure industry example would be; say an individual makes a product inquiry about snowmobile accessories. We would send him info about snowmobiles, but also would ask him if he is interested in info about ice fishing equipment.
My clients & I have had alot of success using this type of strategy, and a lot of you 'anti-spammers' out there would be amazed at the positive feedback we get from our readers. It all comes down to understanding & correctly anticipating the needs & desires of the reader. If you are considerate and really try to add value, you'll be surprized at the amount of good will that can be built. So...having said that, it should be obvious: don't bother with anonimous emails offering volume discounts on Viagra to folks with (big) penis envy & jumbo mortgages
From the article:
"In April 1996, Brown sought a release from DSC to pursue his idea. Brown alleges that he asked several managers at DSC whether the company would be interested in helping him develop the idea. According to Brown, DSC and Brown began negotiating an agreement whereby DSC would pay Brown a percentage of savings realized by the company if the idea was successful and a percentage of income from third-party sales, but the company later halted negotiations. Brown says when he refused to reveal his idea, DSC fired him and sued him."
Apparently Brown & his managers felt that the company could develop a commercial application. Any idea that is applicable to the employer's business(s) is fair game.
If the company has no realistic commercial application, they cannot claim that they have the right to resell rights to another firm with an application, because the idea has no relation to the consideration they had bargained for & were already receiving.
The moral of the story is that you should develop some outside interests, so that when you are your own time, you are really on your own time.
Most of the contracts I've seen refer to anything that is applicable to the company's businesses. Additionally some these clauses specify a perod of time after employment ends that they will be enforcible; sort of like a non-compete clause.
Maybe he should have kept quite & quit firstwithout giving a reason why.
Screw 'em--let'em try & prove it