The public education system has been failing gifted students since long before No Child Left Behind.
Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind seems purposefully designed to cause spectacular failure. If you require every child in a school to meet certain standards, but provide little assistance to struggling schools (financial or otherwise), you'll quickly see resources directed away from the gifted students (they're passing already), good teachers leaving the system (they didn't get into the profession just to teach the minimum), and parents looking for a way out of the system entirely (assuming they can afford it).
Actually, the feedback mechanism isn't that simple, and there are some parts of the feedback loop that make things worse. For example, during an ice age, more of the earth is covered with highly reflective material (snow and ice) that doesn't absorb heat as well. When heading in the other direction, oceans are remarkably good at absorbing heat, meaning that rising ocean levels due to heating of the Earth can lead to even more heating.
Those who never tried building some of the previous GnuCash releases from scratch probably won't appreciate how monumental this is, but this version builds and runs on a stable Debian system without any updated libraries installed.
Previous versions were terribly difficult to build due to dependences on specific versions of rarely-used libraries. As a result, GnuCash was always late getting packaged for Linux distributions, and the delays likewise probably greatly reduced its adoption by users. The situation probably didn't help the development community's growth much, either.
I've used GnuCash for years, though, and I'll be happily beta testing this version (while keeping a copy of my finances in 1.8 at the same time). Great work, and thanks, guys!
Actually, there is a bit more information on the website here. The Rav4 EV has a top speed of 78 mph and a range of 126 miles. It's a bit pricey, though: over $40,000. There is a $9000 rebate, though, and the home charging station is included in that price tag (but I imagine you already have one of those for your EV-1).
Since you're already used to electric vehicles, have you considered the Rav4 EV? The website is not very informative, and apparently the car is only available in California.
A friend of mine was just complaining to me about how he couldn't forward his mail from Hotmail or read it in another mail program. I was just telling him how much nicer yahoo was. It's no fun when the services I like start copying the services I don't like. Oh well.
I'm not positive about this, but I don't think US plants are allowed to sell their spent fuel that way. From an article in Salon today:
"Other countries, such as Japan and France -- which gets about 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power -- recycle nuclear fuel, but President Ford banned reprocessing in 1974, after India tested a nuclear weapon that had been manufactured using materials exported by the U.S. for peaceful purposes."
As someone with CF, I follow the research fairly closely, and I found the write-up for this slashdot article a little surprising. I doubt that genetic treatments for CF will be used directly as performance enhancing drugs. Hopefully readers didn't interpret it that way. (The original article only states that gene therapy may be used and listed CF as one of the original motivations for research.)
As for CF gene-therapy research, I will be very surpised if there is a working gene-therapy based treatment in the next 10 or so years, at least in the sense that people originally thought (i.e., permanently correcting the genetic defect). It seems more likely to me that there will be therapies based on knowledge about the genetic defect. There are several studies underway testing drugs that might correct the chloride transfer problems without actually replacing genes.
It's not just the small audience, though. In fact, in some ways it's the fear of a larger audience. A major reason a San Diego radio station stopped streaming is that streaming audio is not nearly as scalable as traditional radio broadcasting: each person listening on the internet was costing them more.
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The public education system has been failing gifted students since long before No Child Left Behind.
Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind seems purposefully designed to cause spectacular failure. If you require every child in a school to meet certain standards, but provide little assistance to struggling schools (financial or otherwise), you'll quickly see resources directed away from the gifted students (they're passing already), good teachers leaving the system (they didn't get into the profession just to teach the minimum), and parents looking for a way out of the system entirely (assuming they can afford it).
The same kiosks that print out gift registries can be turned into kiosks that print out credit cards to pay for the purchase!
How does i/25 not equal 4*i%? Were some of the 25 viruses half-caught, or one-quarter caught?
Actually, the feedback mechanism isn't that simple, and there are some parts of the feedback loop that make things worse. For example, during an ice age, more of the earth is covered with highly reflective material (snow and ice) that doesn't absorb heat as well. When heading in the other direction, oceans are remarkably good at absorbing heat, meaning that rising ocean levels due to heating of the Earth can lead to even more heating.
Those who never tried building some of the previous GnuCash releases from scratch probably won't appreciate how monumental this is, but this version builds and runs on a stable Debian system without any updated libraries installed.
Previous versions were terribly difficult to build due to dependences on specific versions of rarely-used libraries. As a result, GnuCash was always late getting packaged for Linux distributions, and the delays likewise probably greatly reduced its adoption by users. The situation probably didn't help the development community's growth much, either.
I've used GnuCash for years, though, and I'll be happily beta testing this version (while keeping a copy of my finances in 1.8 at the same time). Great work, and thanks, guys!
Actually, there is a bit more information on the website here. The Rav4 EV has a top speed of 78 mph and a range of 126 miles. It's a bit pricey, though: over $40,000. There is a $9000 rebate, though, and the home charging station is included in that price tag (but I imagine you already have one of those for your EV-1).
Since you're already used to electric vehicles, have you considered the Rav4 EV? The website is not very informative, and apparently the car is only available in California.
A friend of mine was just complaining to me about how he couldn't forward his mail from Hotmail or read it in another mail program. I was just telling him how much nicer yahoo was. It's no fun when the services I like start copying the services I don't like. Oh well.
I'm not positive about this, but I don't think US plants are allowed to sell their spent fuel that way. From an article in Salon today: "Other countries, such as Japan and France -- which gets about 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power -- recycle nuclear fuel, but President Ford banned reprocessing in 1974, after India tested a nuclear weapon that had been manufactured using materials exported by the U.S. for peaceful purposes."
As someone with CF, I follow the research fairly closely, and I found the write-up for this slashdot article a little surprising. I doubt that genetic treatments for CF will be used directly as performance enhancing drugs. Hopefully readers didn't interpret it that way. (The original article only states that gene therapy may be used and listed CF as one of the original motivations for research.)
As for CF gene-therapy research, I will be very surpised if there is a working gene-therapy based treatment in the next 10 or so years, at least in the sense that people originally thought (i.e., permanently correcting the genetic defect). It seems more likely to me that there will be therapies based on knowledge about the genetic defect. There are several studies underway testing drugs that might correct the chloride transfer problems without actually replacing genes.
It's not just the small audience, though. In fact, in some ways it's the fear of a larger audience. A major reason a San Diego radio station stopped streaming is that streaming audio is not nearly as scalable as traditional radio broadcasting: each person listening on the internet was costing them more.
o Fix 4 misspellings of unneccessary (André Dahlqvist)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.