Well yeah, I learned something from that episode, too. After that, I turned down requests from people wanting me to whip off programming assignments, and I told them that they'd end up better off if they just forced themselves to work through it.
That will work until the have to sit down for an actual test
I saw that in real life. A friend on my dorm floor who had to take a token CS class for his major decided to "outsource" the lab assignments to me. The first week he asked me to do the assignment, I said "Sure, here you go", and whipped out the "Hello World" in 20 seconds. The next week I did his insertion sort in 2 minutes. This went on for a couple more weeks.
About halfway through the semester, when he got something annoying like a balanced red-black tree, I said "Sorry, I'm too busy to tackle that one right now". Of course, by this point he had learned jack shit by not doing any of the work. He didn't finish the rest of the assignments, bombed the tests, and ended up having to take the course again the next semester. In the end it was a big hit on his GPA, he'd wasted many hours of redundant lecture time, and he had to eventually do all the work on his own anyway.
Test subjects position themselves in front of cameras, then they move around while performing every heinous act of depravity that is humanly possible. If the focus and movements of the cameras are indistinguishable between the computer control vs. human operators, then true AI will have at long last been achieved.
What's wrong with IBM Courier, which has been included with every distribution of X11 since X11R5?
The problem is that LCD monitors happened. Personally, I had been stuffing LucidaTypwriter (specifically, lutRS14) into every text editor in every OS I used for over 15 years. However, I finally gave up on it a couple of years ago because LCDs accentuate the jagginess of bitmap fonts. They overcome the problem (and surpass CRTs) with subpixel rendering, but that only works with scalable fonts.
So I recompiled my distro's FreeType package with the "good stuff" enabled and set my text editors to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10. Now I enjoy the smooth crisp text that looks almost as good as a paper printout, while trying to not get too nostalgic about my old favorite font.
except globalization is the sole reason for our comfortable living status and swelled middle class. be careful what you wish for.
When I was a kid, the only thing China attempted to export was Cultural Revolution. Yet somehow the USA still managed to have a comfortable living status and a swelled middle class.
Indeed. Some of us are old enough to remember the days of "banker's hours" and before ATMs, when banks used to make their customers deal with less than "one two" (20%) availability.
You buy car insurance so that you have coverage if you get t-boned by a semi.
Once again, a car analogy doesn't quite fit the situation. To be of any use, health "insurance" must cover *any* expensive condition, not just accidents. In the car analogy, that would mean that the auto insurance would also cover things like a new motor in case you throw a piston rod.
That's where the interaction with oil changes comes about. If people are too cheap to change the oil on a regular basis, far more expensive problems are certain to result down the road. With auto insurance, that's not the insurer's problem, but with health insurance, it is. There's probably no effective and fair method to sort out expensive problems resulting from patients failing to address problems early on vs. truly unforeseen problems.
So health plans often find it cheaper overall to cover regular maintenance visits in order to encourage people not to let things go until a hugely expensive problem arises. Given the real-world behavior of your average patient, there's no simple way around that.
Why is our government so powerful that it can involve itself in development of a commercial product by a private company?
Microsoft wouldn't even exist in its present form if the government weren't already willing to butt into peoples' private homes and businesses to dictate which files in their computers can or can't be copied. So I don't see how Microsoft would have much to complain about on this issue.
Also MS has set up symbol servers so that you can trace through the libraries in a debug environment.
They would reveal their Symbols? The very symbols of their code!? This is truly magnanimous gesture indeed! But alas, I fear I'm not worthy to log into a server of such patrician caliber.
Try looking at a Herman Miller Mirra instead. I tested both of them at a showroom, and I preferred the Mirra because it has a firm plastic back instead of the mesh back (it still has the mesh seat). To me, the back felt less squishy with better support. It costs less, too.
I've been using mine extensively for a couple of years now, and I can say that it's the only chair that I've ever used that doesn't suck.
IIRC, some old Star Trek episode had the perfect solution for this problem: Just deploy a giant disembodied hand that grabs the plane and holds it motionless in space.
The Pentagon really needs to think outside the box here. Airplanes and boats are pretty small and can't really do that much damage. Imagine how much damage someone could inflict by hijacking a 1,000 foot 15,000 ton train.
They've had a killswitch for trains for almost 200 years now. It's a guy in a striped cap holding a big lever next to a fork in the tracks.
Under the definition, the self-gravity of a plutoid is enough for it to achieve a near-spherical shape, but not enough for it to clear its orbit of its rocky neighbors, and the plutoid orbits the Sun beyond Neptune.
The summary fails to mention one further requirement: For an object to be considered a true Plutoid, it must posses a "curiously strong" flavor.
Hey retard, tell me how to sell two cars that are upside down?
Here's a tip for the future: Never buy an automobile on credit. If you have to, drive a piece of junk until you save up enough money to buy the vehicle you want with cash. Start saving money for your next car as soon as you buy your current car.
They lose almost half of their value once you drive them off the lot. Almost by definition, you'll be upside down on any car loan for a good while.
That actually worked for Hitler. When he signed off on the cute car design that he had commissioned, he had the foresight not to name it something like the "Führerwagen". The rest is history.
Everything the x86 series did, someone else did first on some other processor (68k, Sparc, MIPS, and PPC, to name a few), and usually better, because they didn't have the handicap of backward compatibility.
Nevertheless, ever since the Alpha started faltering in the late 1990s, x86 processors have usually been the fastest or almost the fastest microprocessors available on the market at any given time, while being the most cost effective by a wide margin. At the end of the day, that's all that matters. (That, plus the fact that the backward compatibility "baggage" enables people to actually run the software they have.)
They sure do pick. Home schooling parents are self selecting. Many, if not most, of the problems that public schools deal with are caused by bad parents in the first place. The chances of such bad parents choosing to home school are virtually nil.
Parents of many or most of these kids aren't going to DEAL WITH IT. There would indeed be literally millions of children and/or uneducated adults roaming the streets. (How could you possibly conclude otherwise?). Now what?
If they're kicked out of grade school they're not even going to be able to get a job at McDonald's. (And we'd have to kick out a good 10% of the population to get the demographics of public schools to match private ones.) What would millions of uneducated people running around without a viable means of earning a living going to do? More likely they'd end up committing crimes against people like you than picking tomatoes.
You don't seem to have had an education good enough to enable you to think through the consequences of your proposal.
BTW, a lot of children that private schools refuse to admit (or don't have the resources to help) are special needs kids who do not deserve to be "held accountable" for their situations. They still drag down public school test statistics vs. private, though. Maybe your answer is to just kick them out, too.
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Well yeah, I learned something from that episode, too. After that, I turned down requests from people wanting me to whip off programming assignments, and I told them that they'd end up better off if they just forced themselves to work through it.
I saw that in real life. A friend on my dorm floor who had to take a token CS class for his major decided to "outsource" the lab assignments to me. The first week he asked me to do the assignment, I said "Sure, here you go", and whipped out the "Hello World" in 20 seconds. The next week I did his insertion sort in 2 minutes. This went on for a couple more weeks.
About halfway through the semester, when he got something annoying like a balanced red-black tree, I said "Sorry, I'm too busy to tackle that one right now". Of course, by this point he had learned jack shit by not doing any of the work. He didn't finish the rest of the assignments, bombed the tests, and ended up having to take the course again the next semester. In the end it was a big hit on his GPA, he'd wasted many hours of redundant lecture time, and he had to eventually do all the work on his own anyway.
Test subjects position themselves in front of cameras, then they move around while performing every heinous act of depravity that is humanly possible. If the focus and movements of the cameras are indistinguishable between the computer control vs. human operators, then true AI will have at long last been achieved.
The problem is that LCD monitors happened. Personally, I had been stuffing LucidaTypwriter (specifically, lutRS14) into every text editor in every OS I used for over 15 years. However, I finally gave up on it a couple of years ago because LCDs accentuate the jagginess of bitmap fonts. They overcome the problem (and surpass CRTs) with subpixel rendering, but that only works with scalable fonts.
So I recompiled my distro's FreeType package with the "good stuff" enabled and set my text editors to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10. Now I enjoy the smooth crisp text that looks almost as good as a paper printout, while trying to not get too nostalgic about my old favorite font.
When I was a kid, the only thing China attempted to export was Cultural Revolution. Yet somehow the USA still managed to have a comfortable living status and a swelled middle class.
Indeed. Some of us are old enough to remember the days of "banker's hours" and before ATMs, when banks used to make their customers deal with less than "one two" (20%) availability.
Once again, a car analogy doesn't quite fit the situation. To be of any use, health "insurance" must cover *any* expensive condition, not just accidents. In the car analogy, that would mean that the auto insurance would also cover things like a new motor in case you throw a piston rod.
That's where the interaction with oil changes comes about. If people are too cheap to change the oil on a regular basis, far more expensive problems are certain to result down the road. With auto insurance, that's not the insurer's problem, but with health insurance, it is. There's probably no effective and fair method to sort out expensive problems resulting from patients failing to address problems early on vs. truly unforeseen problems.
So health plans often find it cheaper overall to cover regular maintenance visits in order to encourage people not to let things go until a hugely expensive problem arises. Given the real-world behavior of your average patient, there's no simple way around that.
Microsoft wouldn't even exist in its present form if the government weren't already willing to butt into peoples' private homes and businesses to dictate which files in their computers can or can't be copied. So I don't see how Microsoft would have much to complain about on this issue.
They would reveal their Symbols? The very symbols of their code!? This is truly magnanimous gesture indeed! But alas, I fear I'm not worthy to log into a server of such patrician caliber.
If nuclear power were the answer to the world's energy needs, we'd be helping Iran develop nuclear fuel cycle technology right now.
From this I presume that you have never tried to read a typical redistribution license for a commercial software library.
Because then you'd need a bigger heavier radiator to keep the RTG from melting early in the mission.
Try looking at a Herman Miller Mirra instead. I tested both of them at a showroom, and I preferred the Mirra because it has a firm plastic back instead of the mesh back (it still has the mesh seat). To me, the back felt less squishy with better support. It costs less, too.
I've been using mine extensively for a couple of years now, and I can say that it's the only chair that I've ever used that doesn't suck.
IIRC, some old Star Trek episode had the perfect solution for this problem: Just deploy a giant disembodied hand that grabs the plane and holds it motionless in space.
They've had a killswitch for trains for almost 200 years now. It's a guy in a striped cap holding a big lever next to a fork in the tracks.
The summary fails to mention one further requirement: For an object to be considered a true Plutoid, it must posses a "curiously strong" flavor.
Here's a tip for the future: Never buy an automobile on credit. If you have to, drive a piece of junk until you save up enough money to buy the vehicle you want with cash. Start saving money for your next car as soon as you buy your current car.
They lose almost half of their value once you drive them off the lot. Almost by definition, you'll be upside down on any car loan for a good while.
That actually worked for Hitler. When he signed off on the cute car design that he had commissioned, he had the foresight not to name it something like the "Führerwagen". The rest is history.
"That's no space station. It's a moon!"
Nevertheless, ever since the Alpha started faltering in the late 1990s, x86 processors have usually been the fastest or almost the fastest microprocessors available on the market at any given time, while being the most cost effective by a wide margin. At the end of the day, that's all that matters. (That, plus the fact that the backward compatibility "baggage" enables people to actually run the software they have.)
They sure do pick. Home schooling parents are self selecting. Many, if not most, of the problems that public schools deal with are caused by bad parents in the first place. The chances of such bad parents choosing to home school are virtually nil.
Parents of many or most of these kids aren't going to DEAL WITH IT. There would indeed be literally millions of children and/or uneducated adults roaming the streets. (How could you possibly conclude otherwise?). Now what?
You don't seem to have had an education good enough to enable you to think through the consequences of your proposal.
BTW, a lot of children that private schools refuse to admit (or don't have the resources to help) are special needs kids who do not deserve to be "held accountable" for their situations. They still drag down public school test statistics vs. private, though. Maybe your answer is to just kick them out, too.
So just what do you propose to do with kids once you've expelled them from public schools?
Because they can pick and choose their students.
If you don't have to bother with problematic students, of course you're going to get better results at a lower cost.