Standing in front of a blackboard and addressing the students orally is an excellent method of education.
I agree it's an excellent method of education -- for the teacher.
Yet, somehow it worked for decades (centuries?).
The best way to learn something is to try to teach it. Seminar-style classes should start before graduate school.
And the best way to achieve negative teaching is to have someone with imperfect knowledge get up and try to 'teach'. There's a reason why seminar style classes aren't common.
There are so many outright errors and so much wishful thinking in this post I don't even know where to begin. Let's just pick two:
See, the problem starts at home for the vast majority of children. Parents do not spend enough quality time (working, playing, reading, building, cleaning,...) together. Not an hour or two a day, but 3 to 5 hours per day.
So, explain to me how in years past children did so well in school? (I.E. when 'quality time' was unheard of and parents weren't expected to sacrifice themselves utterly for their children.)
You get the parents back into the school.
You can't get someone 'back to' where they never were in the first place.
Etc... Etc...
I don't care what your credentials are - you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
From my extensive model rocketry background getting multiple rockets to fire all at once is incredibly hard.
Not really - it's a matter of proper design (assembly and QA) of the electronic controls and the igniters themselves. I suspect the real problem is that hobbiest grade kit simply isn't manufactured to tight enough tolerances.
Longwave IR isn't the only IR band. (Think real hard now... What do you think warms your car when it sits in the sun? How do you think heat gets through the glass on solar heating systems?)
Try looking at this image, and you can plainly see inside the car.
The idiot here is the one who mistakenly (drug addled pherhaps?) claims he pointed out that 'real threats' are being ignored. When he sobers up and reads his own message, maybe he'll note he said no such thing.
The big Telcos fight back, and start their tiered internet, limiting bandwidth to Google. Google lights up their own fiber like the fourth of July, and cuts the big Telcos out. They had their chance to play nice, and they didn't. Now it's hardball time.
Oh yeah - it's hardball time. For the Telcos that is. Because no matter how many millions of miles of dark fiber Google lights up (assuming they can get sufficient hardware on short notice) the Telcos (along with the cable companies) control the last mile...
You are absolutely correct. You are also an idiot for implying that while it does protect some from some threats, not protecting against others means that it is useless/pointless. No one security measure will protect against all threats, thus you deploy an array of them.
Carotids has not thrived even with anonymous postings because docs are still scared. I still get frequent contacts with people considering posting... however, most never pull the trigger.
I suspect it hasn't thrived because it's mostly muckracking and/or tinfoil hat nonsense. If I were a doctor and wanted to break story, anonymous or not, I'd avoid your site too.
The defaults aren't something that 'just happened' to them - they chose to get involved in what anyone should have seen as being an extremely risky market. (Buying mortgage paper on the secondary market.) But the ultimate culprits are the (all but unregulated) mortgage companies, who loan the money then promptly sell the paper - they've taken their money and profit and are walking away virtually scott free from this developing crisis.
Well, the Windows API hasn't really been a "moving target" for quite a while. Since Windows NT. Yeah, things have been added, but if you followed the rules, a 32-bit app written in 1995 should work just fine on Vista. Games being the exception.
Shoot, games are almost always the exception - since very early on (I.E. back in the DOS days) games have been infamous for reaching behind the 'OS curtain' to squeeze out that extra iota of performance. (Most of you young'uns around here probably don't realize that DOS upgrades were just as traumatic as Windows upgrades are today.)
Here in the real world, investigating espionage and being responsible for security are not the same thing. Maybe in ten or twelve years, when you graduate high school, you'll have learned that words mean things.
Of course, it all depends on how you define "major success".
I can do so easily, and without splitting hairs.
It's a game that a significant number of people have ever heard of. When you mention UO, virtually everyone knows what you are talking about. When you mention Meridian 59... The answer is a resounding 'who?'. Etc... Etc...
When you have to keep reminding people that you even exist, and your only mention on Slashdot is in a snarky article summary or comment when the actual article is about another game... You aren't a major sucess by any reasonable definition of the word.
Its bittersweet because as much as people complained about OSI back in the day, they ran it LIGHT YEARS better than ea ever did.
EA purchased OSI years before UO was released - though the name on the door changed, the people inside running the game never did.
The problem with uo is they went from a nice free form game (like eve online currently) and made it more like a collecting stupid fucking rares and equipment game (wow has since refined this technique). I blame entirely EA. They made it into a game about collecting and decorating your house.(not that i didnt pimp the illegal no draw tile i had)
That's an odd claim to make - since the game is still free form.
Sure, they could 'just have easily' been hauled up by a Russian spacecraft - if the Russians could had the cash to buy them (which they didn't) and the cash to finish the modules (which they didn't). Insofar as the ISS goes that would be a false statement, because the Russian flights were already scheduled. You may be 'unbiased', but you are also 'unclued'.
Actually, only one Soviet/Russian station lived five years past it's firm end date. But only because the Shuttle hauled up several modules and tons of spares and supplies.
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I have to agree with his biggest point, that people WANT the music, but they also insist on value. This is an area where The Labels have failed to grasp onto the idea of adapting to the medium of the day: the Internet.
What nonsensical bullshit. When you look on the various third party sites, what do you find? The same bands that you'll find on your local radio radio station and record store - I.E. music produced and promoted by The Labels. The mystical power that you dream the 'net somehow has is singularly noticeable by its absence. The demand for nusic produced by The Labels if noticable by its virtual omnipresence.
Isn't there a theory about failing to adapt and thus failing to survive? Sounds familiar for some reason. (Though, in this unfortunate case, failing to adapt to lack of adaptation lead to demise. Sounds soooo bass akwards!)
Bass akwards indeed - because its more of the same ill thought out bullshit - only in this case its bullshit you are parroting, rather than bullshit you created on your own. Clue #1: Opening up to distributing their music on the web is adapting. Clue #2: Giving up and giving away their material free isn't adapting, its an adolescent fantasy.
Actually, as a point of historical fact, "German scientists" really didn't do all -that much- in the space race. Within the USA, Von Braun's Jupiter - C and Redstone were both ultimately failures as the ICBMs they were intended to be, soon supplanted by the solid fueled Minuteman.
Actually, as a point of historical fact, Jupiter C and Redstone were IRBMs - and as such were not supplanted by anything as the whole class of missiles were superceded by ICBMs (Though the two classes did exist in parallel for a goodly while.) The (extremely sucessful) Jupiter C and Redstone also went away as long range bombardment mission was taken away from the US Army and assigned to the USAF.
It was Convairs "Atlas" booster that delivered the first Americans into orbit.
And Convair had more than a few Germans from Peenemunde on staff. (Von Braun's group was far and away the most visible of former Peenemunde staff and other German rocket scientists in the US - but they were not the only ones.)
From there, really, he did some good work on the Saturn V, and it did get us to the moon, but, the really hard parts about the moon were the lunar orbit rendevous, the lander, and the apollo spacecraft itself, and all of those were done by American contracting companies.
Which, of course, ignores the large numbers of Germans in those contracting companies - and within NASA itself.
Because sorting lets me search multiple values of a given search target by simply scrolling - rather than constantly retyping.
Then there are other screwed up parts of Gmail's interface - for example you can't right click and open a piece of mail in a new window. (Which makes it hard to compare messages that aren't in the same conversation.)
And what idiot limited the number of messages you could view while searching was limited to 20?
The simple fact is, Gmail's UI *sucks*. It's limited, inflexible, and decidely inferior to Yahoo!'s. (Just to name one example.) It's great if you treat your email as asynchronous IM's... But it doesn't work so well if you try and use it as, say, an actual email reader.
Even Hohman orbits are too "spendy" for chemically fueled rockets. Thus the complex back-and-forth gravity-assist paths that NASA probes take on the way to the outer planets,
Wrong.
Gravity assist is used because Hohman orbits would take decades to reach the outer planets.
and the use of aerobreaking by Mars probes.
Wrong.
Aerobraking is used as an alternative to retro braking - because it allows finer control of the final orbit with less fuel and somewhat less weight.
First off, I am not a rocket scientist, but I am studying for a BS in Aerospace Engineering.
At what level? A sophmore in high school? (Translated: I love how people wave about unrelated credentials as if it gives weight to what they are talking about.)
How exactly is this supposed to reduce travel time? Current lengths of travel are not due to a lack of available thrust or due to amount of fuel available but rather the path taken to reach the destination.
Half true at best - because the current travel lengths are a product of the low amounts of Delta-V available. (And acceleration is itself a product of fuel and thrust.)
Currently in order to travel to say Mars Hohman transfers are often used.
Duh! Because they are low energy orbits.
These paths and others like them take a certain amount of time to complete, and stronger engines or more available Delta-V allow only for more instantaneous entrances of the transfers or more allowed change in course once at the ship's destination.
Another half truth - what you say is only true below a certain level of Delta-V. Once you get above that level, you simply proceed to your destination by a more direct path.
In order to reduce time traveled a different orbital mechanic is needed. Even if a ship were to travel in a straight line toward a destination at a rapid enough speed that it would not have to meet up with it too much further along in its orbit it would have to be able to kill relative speed quickly enough to enter a capture orbit.
Duh. Anyone who read Heinlein as a ten year old knows this.
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Yet, somehow it worked for decades (centuries?).
And the best way to achieve negative teaching is to have someone with imperfect knowledge get up and try to 'teach'. There's a reason why seminar style classes aren't common.
So, explain to me how in years past children did so well in school? (I.E. when 'quality time' was unheard of and parents weren't expected to sacrifice themselves utterly for their children.)
You can't get someone 'back to' where they never were in the first place.
Etc... Etc...
I don't care what your credentials are - you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Not really - it's a matter of proper design (assembly and QA) of the electronic controls and the igniters themselves. I suspect the real problem is that hobbiest grade kit simply isn't manufactured to tight enough tolerances.
Longwave IR isn't the only IR band. (Think real hard now... What do you think warms your car when it sits in the sun? How do you think heat gets through the glass on solar heating systems?)
Try looking at this image, and you can plainly see inside the car.
The idiot here is the one who mistakenly (drug addled pherhaps?) claims he pointed out that 'real threats' are being ignored. When he sobers up and reads his own message, maybe he'll note he said no such thing.
All of which are non starters, because Google doesn't control the last mile.
Oh yeah - it's hardball time. For the Telcos that is. Because no matter how many millions of miles of dark fiber Google lights up (assuming they can get sufficient hardware on short notice) the Telcos (along with the cable companies) control the last mile...
And Google doesn't.
You are absolutely correct. You are also an idiot for implying that while it does protect some from some threats, not protecting against others means that it is useless/pointless. No one security measure will protect against all threats, thus you deploy an array of them.
Tinfoil hat while under the influence of mind altering substances much?
I suspect it hasn't thrived because it's mostly muckracking and/or tinfoil hat nonsense. If I were a doctor and wanted to break story, anonymous or not, I'd avoid your site too.
The defaults aren't something that 'just happened' to them - they chose to get involved in what anyone should have seen as being an extremely risky market. (Buying mortgage paper on the secondary market.) But the ultimate culprits are the (all but unregulated) mortgage companies, who loan the money then promptly sell the paper - they've taken their money and profit and are walking away virtually scott free from this developing crisis.
Google... With the caveat that their 'backwards compatibility' will actually be 'have not upgraded/updated in two years'.
Shoot, games are almost always the exception - since very early on (I.E. back in the DOS days) games have been infamous for reaching behind the 'OS curtain' to squeeze out that extra iota of performance. (Most of you young'uns around here probably don't realize that DOS upgrades were just as traumatic as Windows upgrades are today.)
Here in the real world, investigating espionage and being responsible for security are not the same thing. Maybe in ten or twelve years, when you graduate high school, you'll have learned that words mean things.
You realize the FBI isn't responsible for DoD security don't you?
I can do so easily, and without splitting hairs.
It's a game that a significant number of people have ever heard of. When you mention UO, virtually everyone knows what you are talking about. When you mention Meridian 59... The answer is a resounding 'who?'. Etc... Etc...
When you have to keep reminding people that you even exist, and your only mention on Slashdot is in a snarky article summary or comment when the actual article is about another game... You aren't a major sucess by any reasonable definition of the word.
EA purchased OSI years before UO was released - though the name on the door changed, the people inside running the game never did.
That's an odd claim to make - since the game is still free form.
Sure, they could 'just have easily' been hauled up by a Russian spacecraft - if the Russians could had the cash to buy them (which they didn't) and the cash to finish the modules (which they didn't). Insofar as the ISS goes that would be a false statement, because the Russian flights were already scheduled. You may be 'unbiased', but you are also 'unclued'.
Actually, only one Soviet/Russian station lived five years past it's firm end date. But only because the Shuttle hauled up several modules and tons of spares and supplies.
What nonsensical bullshit. When you look on the various third party sites, what do you find? The same bands that you'll find on your local radio radio station and record store - I.E. music produced and promoted by The Labels. The mystical power that you dream the 'net somehow has is singularly noticeable by its absence. The demand for nusic produced by The Labels if noticable by its virtual omnipresence.
Bass akwards indeed - because its more of the same ill thought out bullshit - only in this case its bullshit you are parroting, rather than bullshit you created on your own. Clue #1: Opening up to distributing their music on the web is adapting. Clue #2: Giving up and giving away their material free isn't adapting, its an adolescent fantasy.
Actually, as a point of historical fact, Jupiter C and Redstone were I R BMs - and as such were not supplanted by anything as the whole class of missiles were superceded by I C BMs (Though the two classes did exist in parallel for a goodly while.) The (extremely sucessful) Jupiter C and Redstone also went away as long range bombardment mission was taken away from the US Army and assigned to the USAF.
And Convair had more than a few Germans from Peenemunde on staff. (Von Braun's group was far and away the most visible of former Peenemunde staff and other German rocket scientists in the US - but they were not the only ones.)
Which, of course, ignores the large numbers of Germans in those contracting companies - and within NASA itself.
Because sorting lets me search multiple values of a given search target by simply scrolling - rather than constantly retyping.
Then there are other screwed up parts of Gmail's interface - for example you can't right click and open a piece of mail in a new window. (Which makes it hard to compare messages that aren't in the same conversation.)
And what idiot limited the number of messages you could view while searching was limited to 20?
The simple fact is, Gmail's UI *sucks*. It's limited, inflexible, and decidely inferior to Yahoo!'s. (Just to name one example.) It's great if you treat your email as asynchronous IM's... But it doesn't work so well if you try and use it as, say, an actual email reader.
So long as you don't look too hard at the specs on the unobtanium reactors used to power the whole thing.
Wrong.
Gravity assist is used because Hohman orbits would take decades to reach the outer planets.
Wrong.
Aerobraking is used as an alternative to retro braking - because it allows finer control of the final orbit with less fuel and somewhat less weight.
At what level? A sophmore in high school? (Translated: I love how people wave about unrelated credentials as if it gives weight to what they are talking about.)
Half true at best - because the current travel lengths are a product of the low amounts of Delta-V available. (And acceleration is itself a product of fuel and thrust.)
Duh! Because they are low energy orbits.
Another half truth - what you say is only true below a certain level of Delta-V. Once you get above that level, you simply proceed to your destination by a more direct path.
Duh. Anyone who read Heinlein as a ten year old knows this.