The point of expensive suits is to show you have money, and like have having money. In corporate culture, it can have two purposes 1) Showing you are part of the elite 2) Showing you want to be part of the elite. Hence, you are more likely to help them engage in cut-throat business practices.
While you can teach writing pop science, I think it would more useful to teach formal math/scientific writing like on http://www.arxiv.org/, or on http://scholar.google.com/ for any topic in economics, physics, computer science or even social sciences. These sorts of papers generally combine math, logical argument, and scientific experiments.
These papers generally review the current literature, explain/extend the math/jargon, and possibly justify some things with experiments. I think the ability to successfully write and understand papers like this can be very valuable.
Web advertising statistics have been manipulated and misleading since the beginning of the dot com era. While the internet advertising makes it easier to track usage statistics more accurately, site owners have strong incentive to lie. Furthermore, 1000 impressions != 1000 impressions.
There are lots of different tricks. If you selling by the impression, you can move the ad to a less visible spot on the page. You can also commit outright fraud, and just release the wrong numbers. As we've seen, clicks can be manipulated by bots. Internet advertising is more than anything about conversions and sales. How many people make it to your web page, and actually do something. If you're smart, you'll adjust your ad buys accordingly and ignore misleading statistics.
I don't think it makes sense for universities to give grades. What is the point? With heavy grade inflation, many of the top schools have been slowly reducing the information content in grades, anyway. Besides, grades are often inconsistent and quite arbitrary. Classes should be about learning, and making them about something else is ridculous.
Also, universities should be about networking. Students should have a chance to meet all sorts of different people. However, I don't see what meeting people has to do with earning a degree, and if students are just there to meet other people, should they still be awarded a degree? If not, schools would then have to admit students, to who, they don't expect to award a degree.
Degrees should be granted when you've sufficiently learned whatever it is that degree is in. If schools want distribution requirements, those things should be added to the requirements of the degree. Before graduation, all students should be tested to see that they've met the requirements. Presumably, less formal evaluations should be undertaken more often to ensure students are making reliable progress. However, it is still a sticky subject that combining teaching and evaluation creates a conflict of interest. They should probably be seperated.
Black holes suck up matter around them, and then emit pure energy. This would allow us to effectively use the nearly limitless energy around us. However, the big oil cartel doesn't want to allow it. So, they are sponsoring the luddite movement to stop it.
There was a lot to say in the trial, but I don't think the Japanese legal system offers as much chance for appeal in these kind of cases. They can try, but I think they will probably be politely denied all appeals.
According to this article the internet played a major role in getting the South Korea president elected. According to the Guardian Internet participatory democracy is having major impact on South Korean policy as well.
There are quite a few professors who assigned their own, heavily overpriced textbooks. Some academic fields, especially in things like film, seem to have certain cliques of professors who manage to sell each other's textbooks at gouging prices.
How about I want the money myself? I don't really like it. Why can't people just be expected to donate on their own accord. If no one wants to donate to the artist then too bad. What is soo dificult about this?
Next thing you know the RIAA will ask for its own tax to recoup the supposed costs of piracy. They can then try to make WIFI networks impossible due to complicated tax regulations. Soon the government will have to monitor internet routers to properly access taxes, etc.
During takeoff and landing, all electronic devies are banned, because they can intefere with airplanes. However, cell phones are banned from the air by the FCC, because they work too well. They don't cell phones on airplanes tying up its frequency in range of 30 base stations, which would cause interference with ground cell stations.
Have you ever heard of an airplane crashing from cell phone usage? If it was really that easy to create safety problems, I'm sure it would happen all the time. Besides, terrorists could easily bring a much more powerful brodcaster onto an airplane. The real reason cell phones are banned, is that airlines don't want competition to their really expensive phones.
There are already some legal internet movie services. Movie Flix offers a whole bunch of movies on demand. Streamcast lets you download the movie beforehand, but that takes times, and they use DRM which only lets you see the movie for a day or two. Meanwhile, all the major P2P networks have lots of movies.
Lots of people like to watch movies on their TV, but don't have a computer-tv hookup, but that will change. However, the major studios are trying to monopolize all distribution, and are just creating more problems. Meanwhile, movies are proliferating through all P2P, but quality still lacks, and it can be awfully slow, even with high speed internet.
As much as I hate SPAM, I don't think congress should be regulating the internet. Period. All their friends get exceptions so they can spam anyway (execptions for politicians, etc.) Besides, i don't see how they will effective outside the US.
Just wait for congress to use SPAM as an excuse to monitor email. Next, they will monitoring traffic for music copying. I think the US government should be kept from regulating the internet as much as possible.
I remember reading a while back about the FCC's definition of Broadband. One idea holds that broadband should be fast enough to support streaming video at VHS quality which is supposedly 500 kb/s. In theory if you can support streaming video, basically anything can be provided over the internet assuming that it is processed on a remote server. However, I would still like my personal fiber optic cable.
The problem with a forced quarantine is that people may decide to leave their cases unreported for fear of quarantine. They will then go around spreading the virus without seeking medical treatement until it is absolutely neccessary. While a quarantinemaybe jutified, I am not sure if it is a great idea.
About 4% of reported cases have lead to mortality. However, I would assume most of the mild cases go unreported so the actual infection rate could be much higher, which would mean the mortality rate is relatively low.
The universities should provide legal assistance to their students who are sued by the RIAA. Since the RIAA is suing people who are basically rnning media search engines, their compalints are largely baseless. If the universities support the students, the RIAA could lose in court which would be humiliating for them.
The big corporate executives make their money from stocks. First, they start a company, and obtain startup capital. They then bribe politicians, cheat consumers, and use bogus accounting. Meanwhile, they get their employees along with gullible investors to pump up their companie's stock. Once the stock goes up enough, they sell their shares which they either start out with, or get really cheap with stock options. Once they have louted all the money, then they let their company burn, and move on.
The telegraph article is a pretty lousy article, and gives few details. A bettle article is available at Space Flight Now. Apparently, the study was partially funded by the American Petroleum Institute so I would be especially wary of bias.
There isn't enough evidence in the articles to understand what the study actually found. They published some of their findings in the Climate Research journal, which only gives an abstract without a subscription. However, they haven't even published their full findings which are supposed to be published in Energy and Environment which appears to be more of a policy journal than a scientific journal.
I think it is very hard to evaluate the credibility of these claims without seeing the actual journal article that explains them. Another thing is that according to Space Flight Now article, is that the study is actually "A review of more than 200 climate studies," and we need to look at the authenticity of these studies. However, maybe it will help us look at global warming from a new perspective.
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The point of expensive suits is to show you have money, and like have having money. In corporate culture, it can have two purposes 1) Showing you are part of the elite 2) Showing you want to be part of the elite. Hence, you are more likely to help them engage in cut-throat business practices.
While you can teach writing pop science, I think it would more useful to teach formal math/scientific writing like on http://www.arxiv.org/, or on http://scholar.google.com/ for any topic in economics, physics, computer science or even social sciences. These sorts of papers generally combine math, logical argument, and scientific experiments.
These papers generally review the current literature, explain/extend the math/jargon, and possibly justify some things with experiments. I think the ability to successfully write and understand papers like this can be very valuable.
Web advertising statistics have been manipulated and misleading since the beginning of the dot com era. While the internet advertising makes it easier to track usage statistics more accurately, site owners have strong incentive to lie. Furthermore, 1000 impressions != 1000 impressions.
There are lots of different tricks. If you selling by the impression, you can move the ad to a less visible spot on the page. You can also commit outright fraud, and just release the wrong numbers. As we've seen, clicks can be manipulated by bots. Internet advertising is more than anything about conversions and sales. How many people make it to your web page, and actually do something. If you're smart, you'll adjust your ad buys accordingly and ignore misleading statistics.
I don't think it makes sense for universities to give grades. What is the point? With heavy grade inflation, many of the top schools have been slowly reducing the information content in grades, anyway. Besides, grades are often inconsistent and quite arbitrary. Classes should be about learning, and making them about something else is ridculous.
Also, universities should be about networking. Students should have a chance to meet all sorts of different people. However, I don't see what meeting people has to do with earning a degree, and if students are just there to meet other people, should they still be awarded a degree? If not, schools would then have to admit students, to who, they don't expect to award a degree.
Degrees should be granted when you've sufficiently learned whatever it is that degree is in. If schools want distribution requirements, those things should be added to the requirements of the degree. Before graduation, all students should be tested to see that they've met the requirements. Presumably, less formal evaluations should be undertaken more often to ensure students are making reliable progress. However, it is still a sticky subject that combining teaching and evaluation creates a conflict of interest. They should probably be seperated.
Black holes suck up matter around them, and then emit pure energy. This would allow us to effectively use the nearly limitless energy around us. However, the big oil cartel doesn't want to allow it. So, they are sponsoring the luddite movement to stop it.
Isn't this copied from http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2002.7.4.18 3710.3582.html?
Why are postings so slow on slashdot. Oh wait it's 3:00 am. Damn. Oh wait...I'm still emerging Gentoo 2004.0. Damn.
There was a lot to say in the trial, but I don't think the Japanese legal system offers as much chance for appeal in these kind of cases. They can try, but I think they will probably be politely denied all appeals.
According to this article the internet played a major role in getting the South Korea president elected. According to the Guardian Internet participatory democracy is having major impact on South Korean policy as well.
RealAudio was founded by a former Microsoft exec. Rumor is that he was too scumy for Microsoft.
There are quite a few professors who assigned their own, heavily overpriced textbooks. Some academic fields, especially in things like film, seem to have certain cliques of professors who manage to sell each other's textbooks at gouging prices.
How about I want the money myself? I don't really like it. Why can't people just be expected to donate on their own accord. If no one wants to donate to the artist then too bad. What is soo dificult about this?
Next thing you know the RIAA will ask for its own tax to recoup the supposed costs of piracy. They can then try to make WIFI networks impossible due to complicated tax regulations. Soon the government will have to monitor internet routers to properly access taxes, etc.
I think the lawyers decided work was running a little too slow. So they called their friends at SCO, and told them to start going after more people.
"Microsoft, meanwhile, emerged as one of the first ISVs to take-out a SCO license."
Here is the microsoft payout.
During takeoff and landing, all electronic devies are banned, because they can intefere with airplanes. However, cell phones are banned from the air by the FCC, because they work too well. They don't cell phones on airplanes tying up its frequency in range of 30 base stations, which would cause interference with ground cell stations.
Have you ever heard of an airplane crashing from cell phone usage? If it was really that easy to create safety problems, I'm sure it would happen all the time. Besides, terrorists could easily bring a much more powerful brodcaster onto an airplane. The real reason cell phones are banned, is that airlines don't want competition to their really expensive phones.
There are already some legal internet movie services. Movie Flix offers a whole bunch of movies on demand. Streamcast lets you download the movie beforehand, but that takes times, and they use DRM which only lets you see the movie for a day or two. Meanwhile, all the major P2P networks have lots of movies.
Lots of people like to watch movies on their TV, but don't have a computer-tv hookup, but that will change. However, the major studios are trying to monopolize all distribution, and are just creating more problems. Meanwhile, movies are proliferating through all P2P, but quality still lacks, and it can be awfully slow, even with high speed internet.
As much as I hate SPAM, I don't think congress should be regulating the internet. Period. All their friends get exceptions so they can spam anyway (execptions for politicians, etc.) Besides, i don't see how they will effective outside the US.
Just wait for congress to use SPAM as an excuse to monitor email. Next, they will monitoring traffic for music copying. I think the US government should be kept from regulating the internet as much as possible.
I remember reading a while back about the FCC's definition of Broadband. One idea holds that broadband should be fast enough to support streaming video at VHS quality which is supposedly 500 kb/s. In theory if you can support streaming video, basically anything can be provided over the internet assuming that it is processed on a remote server. However, I would still like my personal fiber optic cable.
The problem with a forced quarantine is that people may decide to leave their cases unreported for fear of quarantine. They will then go around spreading the virus without seeking medical treatement until it is absolutely neccessary. While a quarantinemaybe jutified, I am not sure if it is a great idea.
About 4% of reported cases have lead to mortality. However, I would assume most of the mild cases go unreported so the actual infection rate could be much higher, which would mean the mortality rate is relatively low.
The universities should provide legal assistance to their students who are sued by the RIAA. Since the RIAA is suing people who are basically rnning media search engines, their compalints are largely baseless. If the universities support the students, the RIAA could lose in court which would be humiliating for them.
The big corporate executives make their money from stocks. First, they start a company, and obtain startup capital. They then bribe politicians, cheat consumers, and use bogus accounting. Meanwhile, they get their employees along with gullible investors to pump up their companie's stock. Once the stock goes up enough, they sell their shares which they either start out with, or get really cheap with stock options. Once they have louted all the money, then they let their company burn, and move on.
The telegraph article is a pretty lousy article, and gives few details. A bettle article is available at Space Flight Now. Apparently, the study was partially funded by the American Petroleum Institute so I would be especially wary of bias.
There isn't enough evidence in the articles to understand what the study actually found. They published some of their findings in the Climate Research journal, which only gives an abstract without a subscription. However, they haven't even published their full findings which are supposed to be published in Energy and Environment which appears to be more of a policy journal than a scientific journal.
I think it is very hard to evaluate the credibility of these claims without seeing the actual journal article that explains them. Another thing is that according to Space Flight Now article, is that the study is actually "A review of more than 200 climate studies," and we need to look at the authenticity of these studies. However, maybe it will help us look at global warming from a new perspective.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a terrorist. However, his religious beliefs in peaceful struggle only worked so well, and he was assasinated.