remove standardized text books: They cost too much, they're horribly written, and they teach next to nothing. Giving each teacher the choice of their text will mean that religious wackjobs and textbook publisher bribes will be contained in a couple classes.
remove composition from the literature course: I like reading, I like writing, I hate writing about fiction. This is what most people abhor about writing, and why students don't practice it. They know they'll never have to write an essay on shakespeare when on the job, so they think writing is immaterial to their life.
put composition into its own course: Each grade should have minimum standards for writing, math, science, rhetoric, history, and literature. You go to the next grade when you master all of those. If you're held back, you spend extra periods in that one level.
put rhetoric back into the curriculum: the "problem" with this is, students will see through their parents and teachers bullshit. This suggestion would be rough for the first batch of teachers having to deal with rhetorically trained students. I'm not just talking logic, I'm talking all the rhetoric, dirty and high and mighty.
I'd think you'd be able to refund "The money you've put up, minus processing fees from the payment services."
Espcially if you explain your service by saying something like the folowing: Suppose Mark McInventor has proposed that he'll port the linux operating system to Acme brand toasters if he gets $10,000. Jack von Generous thinks that he'd love to see linux running on his Acme brand toaster, but doesn't have $10K for this purpose. Jack gives ideacradle $1000 for this project by charging it on his visa. Visa charges ideacradle 3% to charge this money, so ideacradle will credit $970 to Jack's "Promised Funds" account.
Now two things can happen. Either enough people will want linux on their Acme toaster that they'll also have ideacradle hold this money for them. When the total promised funds hits 101% Mark's required amount, the money is released. Mark gets the amount he requires, and ideacradle gets the other 1%.
If enough people don't promise funds to Mark's LOT (linux-on-toasters) project, then each person gets the money in their "promised funds" account returned to them. Ideacradle can't get the 3% commission back from Visa, so Jack will see $970 charged back to his credit card. Since Mark didn't get his money, and this idea wasn't born, we don't get any commission.
This should be a bonded escrow house. If its not, you'd be a fool to trust them with your money.
Also, they should offer escrow services (Where the money is not disbursed until it passes some test).
--Michael
The problem isn't that the company could see the data. The problem is that the company didn't tell the employee what data would be accessed. That would allow the employee to make an enformed choice about what he wanted to reveal
People spellcheck when something is important enough to them to maintain the appearence of "care was taken when writing this". People now realize that spelling doesn't really matter otherwise. It really really bothers some pattern obsessed types (aspergerish engineers, etc), but inexact spelling is fine for everyone else in the world.
I've actually noticed a marked improvement in grammar over the last couple years, if you actually subvocalize what the text is on the screen. It's not really bad grammar, rather, incorrect choice of homonym transcripting that many people suffer from. They communicate well in the english language, they just don't realize which words they're actually using (as is the case in "should of/should have").
However, if you think that the use of "whom", keeping one's infinitives unsplit, or forcing the propositions away from the end of one's sentences are rightous goals, then you are mistaken, and you are going to have a lifetime of unhappiness. The world has realized these "rules" are a fiction of a grammar textbook in the 1800s, and we've decided to ignore teh rules and ridicule those who parrot them.
--Michael
[1]Style: Towards Clarity and Grace is GREAT for a guide to concise writing without the hoity toity rules but good explainations of the rules that matter. Good gift to a highschooler to piss off their english teacher, but make their science teacher love them.
Truckers have sex all the time. They're a huge risk group for STD's (according to the CDC, just below sex workers). I'm guessing this is a case of practice makes perfect.
--Michael
..to do h.264 at that resolution with any speed. Perhaps a custom bit of hardware could.
Perhaps you can find a less compressed method and just use a higher bitrate pipe.
--Michael
I did the CS degree, but did lots of hardware (robotics, microcontroller classes, embedded software for my senior project). All of the hardware was done in the EE school, mostly as electives.
I can do desktop software just like the next guy, but I can also do motor control, sensor interfacing, optimizied C code, microcontrollers, test harnesses, device drivers, and much more. And I can do the software better than most equivalently experienced hw engineers that otherwise would have to do it, as I've been trained in software production.
If you do like I did, you'll have a lot of things you'll have the credentials to do in a real job, so you have a greater chance and finding what you really like.
Wow, this would solve a LOT of problems.
America is quickly becoming an IP nation. If you had to pay to keep your IP alive, at least after a period of time, then you're going to get a HUGE tax revenue, or a great commons.
--Michael
I don't think I've ever seen someone with the job title of "Computer Scientist". I myself am a "Research Scientist", and I'm definitly NOT a software engineer. However I do write a lot of code in an applied research setting, that's actually used by customers to do non-academic tasks. And my degree is also in "Computer Science"
I have PLENTY of scientific training (as much as many of my friends who graduated with a true science degree).
You know, I don't block ads that don't distract me, or are informational in nature.
We don't have to support the business model they'd like to have us support. They can happily block us from their content by controls, however, if they're not willing to do that, that's their problem.
Hell, perhaps micropayments will be finally worked out if enough people start adblocking.
Time zones defeat the "Sun overhead at noon principle" anyhow.
If you have time zones, you can't have the sun overhead at noon. Just doesn't work. On the eastern boarer, its closer to 1220 and on the western boards, its about 1135 of many time zones.
Besides, changing time is SIMPLE compared to every business in the US changing its workday. Think about it, a small business that reacts to retail traffic has to be open then, so it can't change its hours by legislative fiat.
What's your problem?
Why do you think we're overpopulated?
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No, I never said that you have to be a customer of an RBL. But he did imply he used it with"(I've since removed MAPS from my list of RBL servers to check.)".
I said he was irresponsible for using them without ensuring their fairness first. I was calling him a hypocrite, and he got just desserts.
He since has contradicted his earlier implication with his direct comment, but I still contend, any Admin who uses untrustworthy RBL's is an irresponsible Admin, who deserves to have this same thing happen to them to show what they're inflicting upon others.
Its sort of like someone who condones lynch mobs, then is suprised to find himself the unjust target of one. It sucks that it happened, but you have to say, from the sidelines, he deserved it in a way.
People who use RBL's of unverified fairness with no/litte due process all deserve this fate (but alas, most won't suffer it because RBL listing can happen to anyone, not just user of RBL's).
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Well you know who Lifetime is run by. Are you that suprised?
Not at all, a hybrid is a hybrid. It uses the gas to run a combustion engine at the higher velocities of the highway: http://automobiles.honda.com/models/specifications _full_specs.asp?ModelName=Civic+Hybrid&Category=3
Are you saying that a hybrid honda civic is less fuel efficent than a non-hybrid civic? --Michael
remove standardized text books: They cost too much, they're horribly written, and they teach next to nothing. Giving each teacher the choice of their text will mean that religious wackjobs and textbook publisher bribes will be contained in a couple classes.
remove composition from the literature course: I like reading, I like writing, I hate writing about fiction. This is what most people abhor about writing, and why students don't practice it. They know they'll never have to write an essay on shakespeare when on the job, so they think writing is immaterial to their life.
put composition into its own course: Each grade should have minimum standards for writing, math, science, rhetoric, history, and literature. You go to the next grade when you master all of those. If you're held back, you spend extra periods in that one level.
put rhetoric back into the curriculum: the "problem" with this is, students will see through their parents and teachers bullshit. This suggestion would be rough for the first batch of teachers having to deal with rhetorically trained students. I'm not just talking logic, I'm talking all the rhetoric, dirty and high and mighty.
I'd think you'd be able to refund "The money you've put up, minus processing fees from the payment services."
Espcially if you explain your service by saying something like the folowing:
Suppose Mark McInventor has proposed that he'll port the linux operating system to Acme brand toasters if he gets $10,000. Jack von Generous thinks that he'd love to see linux running on his Acme brand toaster, but doesn't have $10K for this purpose. Jack gives ideacradle $1000 for this project by charging it on his visa. Visa charges ideacradle 3% to charge this money, so ideacradle will credit $970 to Jack's "Promised Funds" account.
Now two things can happen. Either enough people will want linux on their Acme toaster that they'll also have ideacradle hold this money for them. When the total promised funds hits 101% Mark's required amount, the money is released. Mark gets the amount he requires, and ideacradle gets the other 1%.
If enough people don't promise funds to Mark's LOT (linux-on-toasters) project, then each person gets the money in their "promised funds" account returned to them. Ideacradle can't get the 3% commission back from Visa, so Jack will see $970 charged back to his credit card. Since Mark didn't get his money, and this idea wasn't born, we don't get any commission.
I place this comment is in the public domain.
As they only make a commission right now when they are above 1k, I would say that bonding is important now.
This should be a bonded escrow house. If its not, you'd be a fool to trust them with your money. Also, they should offer escrow services (Where the money is not disbursed until it passes some test). --Michael
The problem isn't that the company could see the data. The problem is that the company didn't tell the employee what data would be accessed. That would allow the employee to make an enformed choice about what he wanted to reveal
People spellcheck when something is important enough to them to maintain the appearence of "care was taken when writing this". People now realize that spelling doesn't really matter otherwise. It really really bothers some pattern obsessed types (aspergerish engineers, etc), but inexact spelling is fine for everyone else in the world.
I've actually noticed a marked improvement in grammar over the last couple years, if you actually subvocalize what the text is on the screen. It's not really bad grammar, rather, incorrect choice of homonym transcripting that many people suffer from. They communicate well in the english language, they just don't realize which words they're actually using (as is the case in "should of/should have").
However, if you think that the use of "whom", keeping one's infinitives unsplit, or forcing the propositions away from the end of one's sentences are rightous goals, then you are mistaken, and you are going to have a lifetime of unhappiness. The world has realized these "rules" are a fiction of a grammar textbook in the 1800s, and we've decided to ignore teh rules and ridicule those who parrot them.
--Michael
[1]Style: Towards Clarity and Grace is GREAT for a guide to concise writing without the hoity toity rules but good explainations of the rules that matter. Good gift to a highschooler to piss off their english teacher, but make their science teacher love them.
Only at high temperatures
You can use teflon for things like eggs and sweats (putting veggies/meat in at low heat).
You shouldn't use teflon for methods like wok/saute (putting things in at high heat)
Truckers have sex all the time. They're a huge risk group for STD's (according to the CDC, just below sex workers). I'm guessing this is a case of practice makes perfect. --Michael
A person who an academic institution/gov't will often resign because if they force the org to fire them it will get ugly.
I'm saying the resignee will resign because otherwise things will have to get ugly to get rid of them.
Sure, we'd like if they treeted fairly, but if they're not, they will resign because the alternaive is much uglier for them personally.
--Michael
You resign from several sorts of positions, because its quite ugly the crap that will be pulled to fire you, and you still will be fired.
He would have not been allowed to actually perform his job, and his collegues may have had to suffer as well.
Its a common thing in acadamia and gov't because the alternative is much much uglier.
..to do h.264 at that resolution with any speed. Perhaps a custom bit of hardware could. Perhaps you can find a less compressed method and just use a higher bitrate pipe. --Michael
This is screaming at the top of its lungs for a bittorrent
I did the CS degree, but did lots of hardware (robotics, microcontroller classes, embedded software for my senior project). All of the hardware was done in the EE school, mostly as electives.
I can do desktop software just like the next guy, but I can also do motor control, sensor interfacing, optimizied C code, microcontrollers, test harnesses, device drivers, and much more. And I can do the software better than most equivalently experienced hw engineers that otherwise would have to do it, as I've been trained in software production.
If you do like I did, you'll have a lot of things you'll have the credentials to do in a real job, so you have a greater chance and finding what you really like.
Wow, this would solve a LOT of problems. America is quickly becoming an IP nation. If you had to pay to keep your IP alive, at least after a period of time, then you're going to get a HUGE tax revenue, or a great commons. --Michael
I don't think I've ever seen someone with the job title of "Computer Scientist". I myself am a "Research Scientist", and I'm definitly NOT a software engineer. However I do write a lot of code in an applied research setting, that's actually used by customers to do non-academic tasks. And my degree is also in "Computer Science" I have PLENTY of scientific training (as much as many of my friends who graduated with a true science degree).
There is a business model in place.
You know, I don't block ads that don't distract me, or are informational in nature.
We don't have to support the business model they'd like to have us support. They can happily block us from their content by controls, however, if they're not willing to do that, that's their problem.
Hell, perhaps micropayments will be finally worked out if enough people start adblocking.
oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were advocating eugenics until just now.
Time zones defeat the "Sun overhead at noon principle" anyhow.
If you have time zones, you can't have the sun overhead at noon. Just doesn't work. On the eastern boarer, its closer to 1220 and on the western boards, its about 1135 of many time zones.
Besides, changing time is SIMPLE compared to every business in the US changing its workday. Think about it, a small business that reacts to retail traffic has to be open then, so it can't change its hours by legislative fiat.
All for DST 365
Its been shown that kids don't learn that early anyhow. Why don't we just start school later too!
What's your problem? Why do you think we're overpopulated?
No, I never said that you have to be a customer of an RBL. But he did imply he used it with"(I've since removed MAPS from my list of RBL servers to check.)".
I said he was irresponsible for using them without ensuring their fairness first. I was calling him a hypocrite, and he got just desserts.
He since has contradicted his earlier implication with his direct comment, but I still contend, any Admin who uses untrustworthy RBL's is an irresponsible Admin, who deserves to have this same thing happen to them to show what they're inflicting upon others.
Its sort of like someone who condones lynch mobs, then is suprised to find himself the unjust target of one. It sucks that it happened, but you have to say, from the sidelines, he deserved it in a way.
People who use RBL's of unverified fairness with no/litte due process all deserve this fate (but alas, most won't suffer it because RBL listing can happen to anyone, not just user of RBL's).
From the writeup:
(I've since removed MAPS from my list of RBL servers to check.)
Wrong, he said he did right there
The problem is that anyone was using it. The users of an RBL aren't hurt near as much by them as the people spuriously added to them.