So in your view the only people who home school are racist or religious zealots? Since the majority of children are educated in public schools I would suggest the majority of nincompoops are from there instead. Children taught by the public system that they are special, its not their fault they don't study, no one is better than anyone else, and its not fair if you don't have stuff other people have.
Not all people home school do so because of religion, some do it because they to control the environment their children learn in, they want to give their children a leg up, they truly are that good. Whats next? Vilify people who send their children to private schools are elitist pricks who don't want to have their kids associate with people with the wrong skin color?
Its the blind hate people like you who are the problem, I would take a state full of home schooled kids over one of you.
Its small enough to sprout legs of its own and too big too be convenient to carry about, well it would fit in some purses. I certainly cannot pop it out over the dinner table while out and not feel obtrusive, even at the local coffee shop it would be to overt. I guess that is where it will excel, people who want to be seen with one.
Throw in that it cannot multitask and its just a large Touch. Now if the screen were larger, one the order of 12 inches, I would be all over it. It would be large enough to display more than one item and let me interact with it. Even it were it states it runs whatever is in the foreground only.
I need the capabilities of a PC as well as the audio/visual abilities this device offers. The iPhone is nice because its sized right. It cannot do what my laptop can and as such is sized appropriately. It does not do enough to justify its size. Throw in the what the article is about, its so damn locked down in content and capability it isn't so much a step backward as a step nowhere
Sorry, I know is a requirement to bash Fox here, but honestly I don't see the level of hostility in any Fox commentator I see from Olberman. Let alone the absolute in the pocket attitude of Mathews who crosses over to condescending in his praise for our President.
I use Google News and Drudge for my kickoff sources. Why? Because both present headlines I know I will want to read with a little fluff somewhere else. Google because they tend to list a lot of sources which they have done much better with covering the political spectrum lately. Drudge because too many times it is the truth more than the sensation.
Still, the number of head nodding latte sipping Fox bash bunnies that infest/. is distressing but typical of a techy site where people are more willing to boast and vent than do anything. In other words, perfect little drones to the government.
just... If it had come out before the iPhone it might have been something. Instead we now have a device which takes a purse to carry, or perhaps your supposed to carry it in addition to your macbook, and does what exactly? Gives me a bigger screen to read on?
This device is just large enough to not be portable enough for the majority. Its a Starbucks "cred" toy. Something to whoop out at Starbucks so you can have people fawning over you. Its expensive enough to where you can't just leave it unattended either and too large to take many places comfortably.
The keyboard demonstration was just painful.
A "size" smaller and maybe... really, how do I carry it "conveniently"
All those items you listed are done with money that does not exist, so how can that possibly affect NASA's budget. It would be like claiming NASA's budget isn't larger because of Iraq as many like to try.
NASA generates very few votes on a per dollar expenditure. It enabled rocket scientist for god's sake, not the average Joe. OK, so that last line is a bit sarcastic but the point is, its not something most people can relate it. It is also easy to vilify. The bonus is we can take the money they do have to prop up some special interest groups who are decidedly bigger voter blocks than Moon fanatics, namely the global warming crowd and greens.
Throw in the fact that its about them and not him. He can't claim anything if NASA does it, but if Congress allocates funds for a new bridge, a new school, or such, he can lay claim to that.
It is rumored you can buy it without a contract attached, I am just concerned one is still needed to access all the content available or for specific features.
the undersides and such or have it tow a big big banner.
This Surveillance Drone is sponsored by Big Brother, MTV 7pm daily.
More than likely the revenue model will be new crimes for which there is a nice monetary penalty attached. Perhaps we can combine this with the Global Warming cabal and fine people for barbecue grills or too much outdoor lighting.
because your going to have to ditch the educator unions too. Its a jobs program, both for those who went to school to teach and those who know the right people. The ratio of employees (teachers, admins, etc) to students has never been higher and education just keeps becoming less and less.
Reference the Vermont State of the Union speech given recently http://www.stateline.org/live/details/speech?contentId=449875 and understand the problem facing education in this country. This "new DARPA for schools" will simply increase the number of non educators in the system further burdening it. We all know we can't get rid of the people we have and as such we just have to get more from any new program. Until we get over it and start ditching people who are not needed in the education budget we will never improve it. Yes it is sad we don't need all of them, but like the milkmen of days gone by, society adjusts to changing needs.
---------------- Since 1997, school staffing levels have increased by 23 percent, while our student population has decreased by 11.5 percent. The number of teacher's aides has gone up 43 percent. The number of support staff has gone up 48 percent. For every four fewer students a new teacher, teacher's aide or staff person was hired. There are 11 students for every teacher - the lowest ratio in the country - and a staggering five students for every adult in our schools. With personnel costs accounting for 80 percent of total school spending, it's no wonder that our K-12 system is among the most expensive in the nation at $14,000 per student per year. In most organizations, if your customer base is shrinking, you make adjustments to stay within budget and, at a minimum, you stop hiring. Although some will be quick to scold that "education is not a business," neither is Medicaid or public safety or environmental conservation. But in each of these areas, if we ignore the basics of prudent financial management, we imperil the services that we provide. Until labor costs in our schools are brought under control, taxpayers can expect their bills to grow every year and the onus of the property tax will continue to threaten a healthy economy. ----------------
I know many "programmers" but honestly, if schools can churn them out what can you really expect to be paid.
Let alone the one fact I have found that holds true, those with ability AND initiative always do better. They may still hit the downs and such but they are faster rebounding
than paying another country to take our astronauts into space?
I see no difference, other than we cannot truly hold other countries to the strictest standards that we all know we would impose on commercial endeavors
On frivolous sites, like Slashdot or game fan site, I use a dead simple password along the lines of "ilikedogs1" or "iamfrank". Why? Because nothing of interest to me is on those sites. Nothing anyone finds there gives anyone financial or other leverage.
On sites where I need to secure I use complex passwords not related to me or the entity I am using. Keep is simple where it really doesn't matter and password security becomes less of a burden. Still I like the one time keys provided by devices similar to what Blizzard uses for WOW access (authenticators)
No what we got is exactly what we should have expected with someone with his limited experience. Someone with his "school intelligence" that never was tested, tried, and perfected. In other words, we got a directionless administration which was driven by someone who truly thinks they are special. His self references in many speeches makes clear to me he isn't yet figured out he is here to lead, here for us, instead he is there for himself. Its a me complex.
So if your expecting the second year to be the equivalent of a MMORPG Miracle Build I think you will be disappointed. He didn't know how to lead, he was used to campaign staffers and sycophants who fell over themselves to do what he asked for, not Washington which marches to its own drummer
We still don't jump at every unattended suitcase though one day we will need to. The day when a car parked in the wrong spot becomes an issue. No, we got it easy.
The simple facts are that your more likely to die of natural causes or from a car accident in the US than terrorism. The terrorist just want you to think otherwise and are more than willing to try. So of course we need a computer/software to do this surveillance for us because then we can divorce ourselves from the feeling we are picking on people. Far better to let a computer do it.
One of the major problems is that you can be harassed by people full time because of the friends list. The issue is that you cannot block people from putting you on that list or hiding from them by using the/ignore feature. While I understand that "loot ninjas" want to hide they can't on the server from their name being trashed.
Throw in that paid names changes don't remove you from friends list and it just gets more of a pain to hide from in game bullies. I fully expect blizzard one day to really screw the pooch and provide a means to see "this person's other characters"
Even changing servers is no protection unless your willing to give up the character name you chose
both work to keep the current people in power. What choice does a voter have when your only allowed to choose from two parties? Oh sure, there is this supposed freedom to elect whom you want but when politicians and their supporters from the two parties are allowed to determine who can vote for whom and who can be on tv and who can say what and when they can say what part of free choice do we still have?
Its like giving the guy on death the choice between the noose and the gun, technically he can choose but the end result is the same.
Remember, just as with public schools, all those Congressmen are bad except mine.
apathy, my post:P No matter what we want to do we don't have the choice
jealousy, some people won life's lottery and that's not fair. (or have more stuff, etc)
It is how we use the technology that will be important. It might be a fad in games but this has so many other uses and might present a cheaper method for many people to enter into this field (motion control portion not the game portion). This will probably reduce the costs of some groups immensely.
There are still lots of applications today that require hands on manipulation, even waldos, that could benefit from applications of this. Let alone all those stories many us read as kids that can come to life with this technology. Hell, look at Hollywood computer interfaces we all smirked at because they were "wrong". From Blade Runner to Minority Report, I'll take it any step, small or big we can get.
Is it because we can vote that we think we are safe from an abusive government?
Just reading the story below points out how the US likes to codify its abuses of our rights and somehow it is all OK because our elections are "open", granted calling only being able to select from two parties as being open. I guess that is twice as good as China.
Wasn't that the result of a "so and so bill of rights" which is the favored naming of new rules passed by Congress which only seem to allow government agencies to abuse me? I mean, it seems each time I get a new Bill of Rights I spend more time under the thumb of some government or business.
I guess I can now plan around such outrages, knowing how long I will be without needed personal or business data, how long I will be required to sit in an office/detention/airplane/etc.
I wish they would quit codifying my rights and obey the ones that were supposed to be inalienable from the get-go
How many times have they done what comes off as his first mission? If the actor does more than one there always seems to be a movie where Bond and "Q" or "M" have to get to know each other
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So in your view the only people who home school are racist or religious zealots? Since the majority of children are educated in public schools I would suggest the majority of nincompoops are from there instead. Children taught by the public system that they are special, its not their fault they don't study, no one is better than anyone else, and its not fair if you don't have stuff other people have.
Not all people home school do so because of religion, some do it because they to control the environment their children learn in, they want to give their children a leg up, they truly are that good. Whats next? Vilify people who send their children to private schools are elitist pricks who don't want to have their kids associate with people with the wrong skin color?
Its the blind hate people like you who are the problem, I would take a state full of home schooled kids over one of you.
Its small enough to sprout legs of its own and too big too be convenient to carry about, well it would fit in some purses. I certainly cannot pop it out over the dinner table while out and not feel obtrusive, even at the local coffee shop it would be to overt. I guess that is where it will excel, people who want to be seen with one.
Throw in that it cannot multitask and its just a large Touch. Now if the screen were larger, one the order of 12 inches, I would be all over it. It would be large enough to display more than one item and let me interact with it. Even it were it states it runs whatever is in the foreground only.
I need the capabilities of a PC as well as the audio/visual abilities this device offers. The iPhone is nice because its sized right. It cannot do what my laptop can and as such is sized appropriately. It does not do enough to justify its size. Throw in the what the article is about, its so damn locked down in content and capability it isn't so much a step backward as a step nowhere
Sorry, I know is a requirement to bash Fox here, but honestly I don't see the level of hostility in any Fox commentator I see from Olberman. Let alone the absolute in the pocket attitude of Mathews who crosses over to condescending in his praise for our President.
I use Google News and Drudge for my kickoff sources. Why? Because both present headlines I know I will want to read with a little fluff somewhere else. Google because they tend to list a lot of sources which they have done much better with covering the political spectrum lately. Drudge because too many times it is the truth more than the sensation.
Still, the number of head nodding latte sipping Fox bash bunnies that infest /. is distressing but typical of a techy site where people are more willing to boast and vent than do anything. In other words, perfect little drones to the government.
just... If it had come out before the iPhone it might have been something. Instead we now have a device which takes a purse to carry, or perhaps your supposed to carry it in addition to your macbook, and does what exactly? Gives me a bigger screen to read on?
This device is just large enough to not be portable enough for the majority. Its a Starbucks "cred" toy. Something to whoop out at Starbucks so you can have people fawning over you. Its expensive enough to where you can't just leave it unattended either and too large to take many places comfortably.
The keyboard demonstration was just painful.
A "size" smaller and maybe... really, how do I carry it "conveniently"
All those items you listed are done with money that does not exist, so how can that possibly affect NASA's budget. It would be like claiming NASA's budget isn't larger because of Iraq as many like to try.
NASA generates very few votes on a per dollar expenditure. It enabled rocket scientist for god's sake, not the average Joe. OK, so that last line is a bit sarcastic but the point is, its not something most people can relate it. It is also easy to vilify. The bonus is we can take the money they do have to prop up some special interest groups who are decidedly bigger voter blocks than Moon fanatics, namely the global warming crowd and greens.
Throw in the fact that its about them and not him. He can't claim anything if NASA does it, but if Congress allocates funds for a new bridge, a new school, or such, he can lay claim to that.
to properly use all the features.
It is rumored you can buy it without a contract attached, I am just concerned one is still needed to access all the content available or for specific features.
the undersides and such or have it tow a big big banner.
This Surveillance Drone is sponsored by Big Brother, MTV 7pm daily.
More than likely the revenue model will be new crimes for which there is a nice monetary penalty attached. Perhaps we can combine this with the Global Warming cabal and fine people for barbecue grills or too much outdoor lighting.
and Blue Thunder
Why not arm them while we are at it, after all its for the children.
because your going to have to ditch the educator unions too. Its a jobs program, both for those who went to school to teach and those who know the right people. The ratio of employees (teachers, admins, etc) to students has never been higher and education just keeps becoming less and less.
Reference the Vermont State of the Union speech given recently http://www.stateline.org/live/details/speech?contentId=449875 and understand the problem facing education in this country. This "new DARPA for schools" will simply increase the number of non educators in the system further burdening it. We all know we can't get rid of the people we have and as such we just have to get more from any new program. Until we get over it and start ditching people who are not needed in the education budget we will never improve it. Yes it is sad we don't need all of them, but like the milkmen of days gone by, society adjusts to changing needs.
----------------
Since 1997, school staffing levels have increased by 23 percent, while our student population has decreased by 11.5 percent. The number of teacher's aides has gone up 43 percent. The number of support staff has gone up 48 percent. For every four fewer students a new teacher, teacher's aide or staff person was hired. There are 11 students for every teacher - the lowest ratio in the country - and a staggering five students for every adult in our schools. With personnel costs accounting for 80 percent of total school spending, it's no wonder that our K-12 system is among the most expensive in the nation at $14,000 per student per year.
In most organizations, if your customer base is shrinking, you make adjustments to stay within budget and, at a minimum, you stop hiring. Although some will be quick to scold that "education is not a business," neither is Medicaid or public safety or environmental conservation. But in each of these areas, if we ignore the basics of prudent financial management, we imperil the services that we provide. Until labor costs in our schools are brought under control, taxpayers can expect their bills to grow every year and the onus of the property tax will continue to threaten a healthy economy.
----------------
or is it focused, if not both.
I know many "programmers" but honestly, if schools can churn them out what can you really expect to be paid.
Let alone the one fact I have found that holds true, those with ability AND initiative always do better. They may still hit the downs and such but they are faster rebounding
than paying another country to take our astronauts into space?
I see no difference, other than we cannot truly hold other countries to the strictest standards that we all know we would impose on commercial endeavors
I have two password styles.
On frivolous sites, like Slashdot or game fan site, I use a dead simple password along the lines of "ilikedogs1" or "iamfrank". Why? Because nothing of interest to me is on those sites. Nothing anyone finds there gives anyone financial or other leverage.
On sites where I need to secure I use complex passwords not related to me or the entity I am using. Keep is simple where it really doesn't matter and password security becomes less of a burden. Still I like the one time keys provided by devices similar to what Blizzard uses for WOW access (authenticators)
No what we got is exactly what we should have expected with someone with his limited experience. Someone with his "school intelligence" that never was tested, tried, and perfected. In other words, we got a directionless administration which was driven by someone who truly thinks they are special. His self references in many speeches makes clear to me he isn't yet figured out he is here to lead, here for us, instead he is there for himself. Its a me complex.
So if your expecting the second year to be the equivalent of a MMORPG Miracle Build I think you will be disappointed. He didn't know how to lead, he was used to campaign staffers and sycophants who fell over themselves to do what he asked for, not Washington which marches to its own drummer
it pretty much tanked and Atari quickly parted ways with them.
We still don't jump at every unattended suitcase though one day we will need to. The day when a car parked in the wrong spot becomes an issue. No, we got it easy.
The simple facts are that your more likely to die of natural causes or from a car accident in the US than terrorism. The terrorist just want you to think otherwise and are more than willing to try. So of course we need a computer/software to do this surveillance for us because then we can divorce ourselves from the feeling we are picking on people. Far better to let a computer do it.
One of the major problems is that you can be harassed by people full time because of the friends list. The issue is that you cannot block people from putting you on that list or hiding from them by using the /ignore feature. While I understand that "loot ninjas" want to hide they can't on the server from their name being trashed.
Throw in that paid names changes don't remove you from friends list and it just gets more of a pain to hide from in game bullies. I fully expect blizzard one day to really screw the pooch and provide a means to see "this person's other characters"
Even changing servers is no protection unless your willing to give up the character name you chose
both work to keep the current people in power. What choice does a voter have when your only allowed to choose from two parties? Oh sure, there is this supposed freedom to elect whom you want but when politicians and their supporters from the two parties are allowed to determine who can vote for whom and who can be on tv and who can say what and when they can say what part of free choice do we still have?
Its like giving the guy on death the choice between the noose and the gun, technically he can choose but the end result is the same.
Remember, just as with public schools, all those Congressmen are bad except mine.
apathy, my post :P No matter what we want to do we don't have the choice
jealousy, some people won life's lottery and that's not fair. (or have more stuff, etc)
and many wrote off the GUI in general.
It is how we use the technology that will be important. It might be a fad in games but this has so many other uses and might present a cheaper method for many people to enter into this field (motion control portion not the game portion). This will probably reduce the costs of some groups immensely.
There are still lots of applications today that require hands on manipulation, even waldos, that could benefit from applications of this. Let alone all those stories many us read as kids that can come to life with this technology. Hell, look at Hollywood computer interfaces we all smirked at because they were "wrong". From Blade Runner to Minority Report, I'll take it any step, small or big we can get.
and wait for the next human rights atrocity they commit and repeat?
Is it because we can vote that we think we are safe from an abusive government?
Just reading the story below points out how the US likes to codify its abuses of our rights and somehow it is all OK because our elections are "open", granted calling only being able to select from two parties as being open. I guess that is twice as good as China.
Wasn't that the result of a "so and so bill of rights" which is the favored naming of new rules passed by Congress which only seem to allow government agencies to abuse me? I mean, it seems each time I get a new Bill of Rights I spend more time under the thumb of some government or business.
I guess I can now plan around such outrages, knowing how long I will be without needed personal or business data, how long I will be required to sit in an office/detention/airplane/etc.
I wish they would quit codifying my rights and obey the ones that were supposed to be inalienable from the get-go
Let alone the fact the ADA can be stretched to extremes and if not then some obscure local law can be applied.
The simple matter is, AMAZON HAS A TON OF MONEY. UNIVERSITIES as a whole have lots of money too.
Oh thats right, Obama and Company caved to China over human rights, including putting the Dalai Lama off just to appease China.
Along comes Google and suddenly we are concerned? What? Google threaten to pull their campaign contributions?
is that IS Champion's Online with Star Trek star ships.
Away team missions comprise of find the shiny objects (like bombs)
Though he does like the star ship combat currently (I would not mind a B5 game like the older Star Trek simulator)
How many times have they done what comes off as his first mission? If the actor does more than one there always seems to be a movie where Bond and "Q" or "M" have to get to know each other