We have timers on most of the lights here in Podunkville Ohio.
It's a college town and we have lots of pedestrians. I guess the idea was to make intersections safer and discourage jaywalking. Didn't curb that, but really helps in timing your approach to an intersection.
It is as much the school as the parent, in some cases.
After receiving a diagnosis of ADHD, we set a meeting at the school with the teachers and psychologist. A month later, we met. The psychologist had not read the report, observed my child or even met him. But, the teachers were proactive and worked to get a plan developed, approved and in place.
That said, we spent over $1000 on tests, missed days of work and traveled 100's of miles to get the testing done at reputable sites. None of this was reimbursable on insurance. If we had just used a pediatrician and taken the meds, our costs (time and money) would have been minimal.
So, I agree that socioeconomic status is also important.
Too often we try and look at costs from the wrong perspective. I spent $1000+ to save my insurance $10,000+.
Meds are not always the answer and a child psychiatrist is the best person to know. We had our son tested twice (3 years between). The first was borderline. We saw no improvement and after more discussions with the school (attention and not behavior issues) we had him tested again. These were real tests that took hours, over several days. He scored high and received the diagnosis. But, they didn't want to try meds at first.
We met with the school (teachers and school psychologist). A plan was devised and it seems to be working. He gets a break to walk around, occasionally, and some extra time on some tests. I'm much happier that the school was able to make a couple of accommodations, and the teachers are happier to have one less zombie in the classroom.
Conventional display and media delivery technologies have reached a point of diminishing returns long ago. Humans are perfectly happy at current (and even somewhat outdated) resolution and quality. Any increases from now on do not improve viewer experience in a measurable way, at least not for majority of users.
I agree on the diminishing returns. I don't have an HD box (no OTA where I live) and watch almost exclusively SD. I have a USB stick that gets some HD, but I usually watch SD.
Why? The information (image/sound) is there in SD. HD adds higher resolution, but what I want to see and hear is conveyed in the SD. All HD does is fill my disk up with huge files. When I move them to my tablet, or stream them, it's too much wasted space or bandwith.
I know that my virus scanning service seems to be running at 2-5% most of the time. And, my process list looks a mile long.
I think we expect our windows devices to be real computers and load them up with full applications. Then, we expect them to sip juice like Android. Can't comment on the OSX. My netbook on linux is 5 years old and doesn't have much of a battery left.
I quit memorizing shortcuts when I stopped using emacs and vi (oh, and edlin).
As for windows applications, I use too many in my everyday work to memorize shortcuts for each. Somehow, my mouse knows the way to all of the functions. And for those that were infrequently used, I could figure out the functions from the context of the menus.
I find using Office without the ribbon unusable. I can't find where anything is at now.
Does that mean menus are inferior? No. It means I got used to a different way of doing them.
Sorry, but after 5+ years of dealing with the ribbon I still regularly use Google to find out how to do something I know I could do in Office. Many of the functions in tools like Excel are not easily found behind the limited ribbon.
This whole ribbon thing was the start of a bad trend. From Unity to Metro, this dumbing down of the interface to the 3rd grade level shows how organizations see their customers.
What exactly are the failure modes of these batteries? If they can charge more quickly, then the assumption would be that they discharge more quickly.
1) Failure due to short circuiting the capacitor via mechanical failure (accident)
2) Failure due to normal wear.
3) Failure due to material defects.
4) Failure due to improper installation...
Really, there are 100's of ways that the system could be compromised. Some may be mitigated with logic in the car to identify failing components. But, instantaneous failure modes must be accounted for.
And, when every panel contains power, could the jaws of life ever be used on one of these vehicles?
That's the point. They didn't throw out the old method (at least not locally). At the end of the module, the teacher took some time to go over a different approach. He explained learning styles and then showed the different approach. For the 3 or 4 students who didn't get it, the new approach helped. For the others, they either reinforced their understanding or likely goofed off.
That is what we should be doing in primary education. We lose opportunity when we teach to 80% of the class. A simple addition of 10 minutes at the end of a module helped most of the remaining 20%.
The kicker is that this teacher has been quite vocal about how student performance is now linked to his compensation. He has told this to the students on more than one occasion. Would he have gone to the extra effort in the past? I prefer not to speculate.
Just last night I was helping my elementary age son study for a test on fractions and percents. We went through all concepts and he was still not getting it. Finally, he drew a line and started segmenting it. The teacher had shown the class "another way" to conceptualize this topic. He completely understood this approach. He then told me that his teacher told them about learning styles and tried to present the topic in multiple ways. So, while it seemed simple from one perspective to most of the class, others needed a different conceptualization.
I see no problem with exploring different approaches to learning. And, finding a better visualization for those types of learners is more than appropriate.
When asked if he wanted his pizza cut into 4 or six slices: "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
- Yogi Berra
If you look at the last 3 months http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201306-201308, you'll see that the decline has stopped. As of last month, they peg the users of XP at a little over 20%. As the second largest OS, that seems significant to me.
Again, in my experience, non research universities have professors much more beholden to the whims of the students, and must work to be entertainers.
I would tend to agree with this. But with less mature students at a research university, even tenured faculty need to be entertainers to motivate students.
As a tenured faculty member, I can attest to the fact that tenure/tenure-track faculty at many research schools are evaluated (raise/promotion/tenure) on metrics different from adjuncts and instructors. Devoting sufficient time and effort to teaching can be counter productive for your career. For many disciplines, external funding and publications are the primary criteria for evaluation. Ultimately, energies in teaching are focused on graduate students - who support those activities. Add in service (committees, societies and the like) and it's often an issue of limited time.
That was the basis for my comment. Risk is difficult to quantify. Decisions are made on cost/benefit, payback, TVM, ROI or some other balance between costs and rewards. Without a basis for making that equation push to change, change will not happen. I've not been in an organization yet that has infinite resources. With limited budgets, those projects that show return receive funding and support. Those that show a negative balance don't.
Some change can be forced with regulatory compliance and some organizations recognize that changes are critical to stability of the systems that generate, or support generating, revenue. But, many gaps remain. And yes, the field is moving and the rules change - sometimes dramatically. I'm just glad I don't have to make those decisions.
And that is the crux of the matter. Risk must be quantified in the units that business decisions are made - dollars. Beyond that, risk needs to accurately assessed to the point of what is the likelihood and not what is possible. Once we know the likelihood and the cost, decision makers will be able to make their decisions.
Try buying a gas can to fill your mower. The new, low-risk, inflexible, spouts have multiple interlocks and extend, maybe 3" from the can. Pouring often results in gasoline spilling on the device you are filling - which may be hot from use. And while some risk is mitigated by keeping kids from accidentally pouring the gasoline, the greater risk of fire is only mitigated by large warning messages imprinted in the plastic. The prior technology was effective, with low risk to the consumer. The solution is ineffective, with higher risk. But, the manufacturer's risk is reduced at the expense of the consumer's risk. Why is that?
One push to bring women into STEM occupations has been to have more women as faculty in STEM disciplines. If you look at female faculty in "STEM", you'll see that there is parity in 2 year colleges. But, when you look within the disciplines, you find that female faculty dominate some fields, like health sciences.
But to my point, if the push in STEM education is to meet the workforce demands? A term like STEM is too all encompassing for this type of needs analysis.
We had a research project, funded by a major, national science research agency, focused on STEM education. Early on, we needed to formally define STEM disciplines. It turns out there are as many definitions of STEM as there are organizations studying STEM issues. The two main perspectives are education and occupation. Both use their own codes (SOC for occupations and CIP for education). There are crosswalks, but they are not 100%. In the end, we needed CIP codes and collected many CIP code classifications on STEM.
What was confusing is that many researchers exclude major, technical fields, like medicine or agriculture. Best we could determine is that STEM definitions depended on who was funding the research. Some researchers add social sciences. One classification included Gender Studies as STEM! What is needed is a much finer classification, within STEM disciplines. Then, industry numbers from BLS can be mapped to CIP codes in education. And while many workers move out of their base CIP discipline, a matching of supply and demand can be done without as much aggregate noise.
I've been using Evernote and it is pretty rich for setting a base hierarchy. Then, you can set all manner of tags and search on them. But, you have to be diligent to make the system really work for you.
We've got a XEROX 7556 in the office and I scanned several number heavy documents, with fonts as small as 6pt. I tried both the default and low res levels. Every number came out correct.
Since we recently moved to paperless records (and we had 100's of thousands of multipage documents) I was a bit worried. I'm less worried than I was when the story first came out. Lets hope the upcoming fix doesn't slow the scanning process noticeably.
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Actually, it's not a bad idea. Many of our modern technologies have roots in these old technologies.
Isn't this the same as some government/business tracking us with our cell phones?
We have timers on most of the lights here in Podunkville Ohio.
It's a college town and we have lots of pedestrians. I guess the idea was to make intersections safer and discourage jaywalking. Didn't curb that, but really helps in timing your approach to an intersection.
It is as much the school as the parent, in some cases.
After receiving a diagnosis of ADHD, we set a meeting at the school with the teachers and psychologist. A month later, we met. The psychologist had not read the report, observed my child or even met him. But, the teachers were proactive and worked to get a plan developed, approved and in place.
That said, we spent over $1000 on tests, missed days of work and traveled 100's of miles to get the testing done at reputable sites. None of this was reimbursable on insurance. If we had just used a pediatrician and taken the meds, our costs (time and money) would have been minimal.
So, I agree that socioeconomic status is also important.
Too often we try and look at costs from the wrong perspective. I spent $1000+ to save my insurance $10,000+.
Meds are not always the answer and a child psychiatrist is the best person to know. We had our son tested twice (3 years between). The first was borderline. We saw no improvement and after more discussions with the school (attention and not behavior issues) we had him tested again. These were real tests that took hours, over several days. He scored high and received the diagnosis. But, they didn't want to try meds at first.
We met with the school (teachers and school psychologist). A plan was devised and it seems to be working. He gets a break to walk around, occasionally, and some extra time on some tests. I'm much happier that the school was able to make a couple of accommodations, and the teachers are happier to have one less zombie in the classroom.
Conventional display and media delivery technologies have reached a point of diminishing returns long ago. Humans are perfectly happy at current (and even somewhat outdated) resolution and quality. Any increases from now on do not improve viewer experience in a measurable way, at least not for majority of users.
I agree on the diminishing returns. I don't have an HD box (no OTA where I live) and watch almost exclusively SD. I have a USB stick that gets some HD, but I usually watch SD.
Why? The information (image/sound) is there in SD. HD adds higher resolution, but what I want to see and hear is conveyed in the SD. All HD does is fill my disk up with huge files. When I move them to my tablet, or stream them, it's too much wasted space or bandwith.
I know that my virus scanning service seems to be running at 2-5% most of the time. And, my process list looks a mile long.
I think we expect our windows devices to be real computers and load them up with full applications. Then, we expect them to sip juice like Android. Can't comment on the OSX. My netbook on linux is 5 years old and doesn't have much of a battery left.
I quit memorizing shortcuts when I stopped using emacs and vi (oh, and edlin).
As for windows applications, I use too many in my everyday work to memorize shortcuts for each. Somehow, my mouse knows the way to all of the functions. And for those that were infrequently used, I could figure out the functions from the context of the menus.
Six Degrees of NSA - what's you number?
I find using Office without the ribbon unusable. I can't find where anything is at now.
Does that mean menus are inferior? No. It means I got used to a different way of doing them.
Sorry, but after 5+ years of dealing with the ribbon I still regularly use Google to find out how to do something I know I could do in Office. Many of the functions in tools like Excel are not easily found behind the limited ribbon.
This whole ribbon thing was the start of a bad trend. From Unity to Metro, this dumbing down of the interface to the 3rd grade level shows how organizations see their customers.
What exactly are the failure modes of these batteries? If they can charge more quickly, then the assumption would be that they discharge more quickly.
1) Failure due to short circuiting the capacitor via mechanical failure (accident)
2) Failure due to normal wear.
3) Failure due to material defects.
4) Failure due to improper installation...
Really, there are 100's of ways that the system could be compromised. Some may be mitigated with logic in the car to identify failing components. But, instantaneous failure modes must be accounted for.
And, when every panel contains power, could the jaws of life ever be used on one of these vehicles?
That's the point. They didn't throw out the old method (at least not locally). At the end of the module, the teacher took some time to go over a different approach. He explained learning styles and then showed the different approach. For the 3 or 4 students who didn't get it, the new approach helped. For the others, they either reinforced their understanding or likely goofed off.
That is what we should be doing in primary education. We lose opportunity when we teach to 80% of the class. A simple addition of 10 minutes at the end of a module helped most of the remaining 20%.
The kicker is that this teacher has been quite vocal about how student performance is now linked to his compensation. He has told this to the students on more than one occasion. Would he have gone to the extra effort in the past? I prefer not to speculate.
Just last night I was helping my elementary age son study for a test on fractions and percents. We went through all concepts and he was still not getting it. Finally, he drew a line and started segmenting it. The teacher had shown the class "another way" to conceptualize this topic. He completely understood this approach. He then told me that his teacher told them about learning styles and tried to present the topic in multiple ways. So, while it seemed simple from one perspective to most of the class, others needed a different conceptualization.
I see no problem with exploring different approaches to learning. And, finding a better visualization for those types of learners is more than appropriate.
When asked if he wanted his pizza cut into 4 or six slices: "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." - Yogi Berra
If you look at the last 3 months http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201306-201308, you'll see that the decline has stopped. As of last month, they peg the users of XP at a little over 20%. As the second largest OS, that seems significant to me.
Again, in my experience, non research universities have professors much more beholden to the whims of the students, and must work to be entertainers.
I would tend to agree with this. But with less mature students at a research university, even tenured faculty need to be entertainers to motivate students.
As a tenured faculty member, I can attest to the fact that tenure/tenure-track faculty at many research schools are evaluated (raise/promotion/tenure) on metrics different from adjuncts and instructors. Devoting sufficient time and effort to teaching can be counter productive for your career. For many disciplines, external funding and publications are the primary criteria for evaluation. Ultimately, energies in teaching are focused on graduate students - who support those activities. Add in service (committees, societies and the like) and it's often an issue of limited time.
That was the basis for my comment. Risk is difficult to quantify. Decisions are made on cost/benefit, payback, TVM, ROI or some other balance between costs and rewards. Without a basis for making that equation push to change, change will not happen. I've not been in an organization yet that has infinite resources. With limited budgets, those projects that show return receive funding and support. Those that show a negative balance don't.
Some change can be forced with regulatory compliance and some organizations recognize that changes are critical to stability of the systems that generate, or support generating, revenue. But, many gaps remain. And yes, the field is moving and the rules change - sometimes dramatically. I'm just glad I don't have to make those decisions.
And that is the crux of the matter. Risk must be quantified in the units that business decisions are made - dollars. Beyond that, risk needs to accurately assessed to the point of what is the likelihood and not what is possible. Once we know the likelihood and the cost, decision makers will be able to make their decisions.
Bingo!
Try buying a gas can to fill your mower. The new, low-risk, inflexible, spouts have multiple interlocks and extend, maybe 3" from the can. Pouring often results in gasoline spilling on the device you are filling - which may be hot from use. And while some risk is mitigated by keeping kids from accidentally pouring the gasoline, the greater risk of fire is only mitigated by large warning messages imprinted in the plastic. The prior technology was effective, with low risk to the consumer. The solution is ineffective, with higher risk. But, the manufacturer's risk is reduced at the expense of the consumer's risk. Why is that?
One push to bring women into STEM occupations has been to have more women as faculty in STEM disciplines. If you look at female faculty in "STEM", you'll see that there is parity in 2 year colleges. But, when you look within the disciplines, you find that female faculty dominate some fields, like health sciences. But to my point, if the push in STEM education is to meet the workforce demands? A term like STEM is too all encompassing for this type of needs analysis.
We had a research project, funded by a major, national science research agency, focused on STEM education. Early on, we needed to formally define STEM disciplines. It turns out there are as many definitions of STEM as there are organizations studying STEM issues. The two main perspectives are education and occupation. Both use their own codes (SOC for occupations and CIP for education). There are crosswalks, but they are not 100%. In the end, we needed CIP codes and collected many CIP code classifications on STEM.
What was confusing is that many researchers exclude major, technical fields, like medicine or agriculture. Best we could determine is that STEM definitions depended on who was funding the research. Some researchers add social sciences. One classification included Gender Studies as STEM! What is needed is a much finer classification, within STEM disciplines. Then, industry numbers from BLS can be mapped to CIP codes in education. And while many workers move out of their base CIP discipline, a matching of supply and demand can be done without as much aggregate noise.
I've been using Evernote and it is pretty rich for setting a base hierarchy. Then, you can set all manner of tags and search on them. But, you have to be diligent to make the system really work for you.
We've got a XEROX 7556 in the office and I scanned several number heavy documents, with fonts as small as 6pt. I tried both the default and low res levels. Every number came out correct. Since we recently moved to paperless records (and we had 100's of thousands of multipage documents) I was a bit worried. I'm less worried than I was when the story first came out. Lets hope the upcoming fix doesn't slow the scanning process noticeably.
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