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  1. Re:the Democrat party on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1
  2. Re:School on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Home school test scores are higher due to selection bias. The same student would score high if in school because their parents are involved.

  3. Re:Thought so. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    The perimeter of ignorance. A boundary where scientists face a choice: invoke a deity or continue the quest for knowledge
    http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2005/11/01/the-perimeter-of-ignorance

  4. DO BOTH on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    All children should be in a formal school _and_ home schooled at the same time.

    In other words, nobody turns off their learning skills when they leave the classroom and
    all parents should teach their children everything they are _capable_ of teaching them.

  5. Re:Saddened :( on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    "half of all children that attend school perform below average" is THE DEFINITION MEDIAN, not AVERAGE. Frequently when using populations such as children, MEDIAN and AVERAGE are very close numerical values to each other.

  6. Re:We home shcool: Youtube/Google/Amazon, or co-op on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the specific course. _ALL_ university students taking chemistry classes that do not have lab components DID take chemistry classes that had lab components.

  7. Re:School on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    This is a recorded and measured fact, that home-schooled kids that receive 2 or more years of home schooling scored between 86th and 92nd percentile.

    Lumpy, you are expressing a correlation vs causation problem. Home schooled children all have one feature in common, all home schooled children have parents that are involved in their children's education. Take the same parents and children and put them in a formal setting that is a public or a private school and those same children will _STILL_ perform better than their peers.

  8. Re:Price??!? on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    You clearly have no understanding of supply and demand. It's the other way around. The reason why a used book _has_ resell value is because the new book costs more. The used book market itself actually depresses the prices of new books by its existence as a supply of substitute product. If it were not for the used book market, then new books would cost more not less.

  9. Re:professionals on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 1

    If by obvious you mean upside-down, then yes standard fax machines are "obvious".

  10. SPARK as a Resume spelling mistake on Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter · · Score: 1

    Awhile back I established a rule for myself of tossing in the trash basket any resume that claimed work or education experience with SPARK processors or SPARK workstations.

  11. Re:Aren't you required to vigorously defend... on Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter · · Score: 1

    Of course, since they IP attorneys get paid to contest infringing use, they are motivated to ensure I want to vigorously defend my trademarks...

    Lawyers tend to take this type of action when the economy goes bad or the competition is whomping them. Case in point: Nokia suing Apple.

  12. Re:aargh on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    EFI is every bit as good as U-Boot

  13. Re:Whoa.. on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    > Personally, I don't want to expose my child to 24/7 RF.

    Too late. Those fluorescent lights, cell phone towers, microwave ovens, computer monitors, and all the other modern conveniences kick off more than enough R/F

    I think you are the one with the unhealthy attitude.

  14. Embedded work leads enlightenment. on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 1

    The great thing about "embedded crap" is that working on it leads to a greater understanding of how to program for desktops.

  15. Alex Jones is crazy on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Infowars is not a reliable source of information.

  16. Re:WTF on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Scools have no responsibility to reflect real life.

  17. Re:What does that mean? on Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think they mean the carbon 13 to carbon 12 ratio is not "earth normal".

  18. Re:THAT ISN'T ALL @HOME IS CUTTING BACK ON! on @Home quietly initiates 128k upload cap · · Score: 1

    Actually it was Fremont CA that was
    the first city to have 128k upstream capping.

  19. Re:They're fast already on Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    um, the latencies are decreasing not increasing.

  20. Re:Two Points on ESR on his trip to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    For the record I use xv many times a day.
    It's great, it can convert nearly any
    image format to any other image format
    and I even bought the scanner enabled vesion.

  21. Personality disorder - Linux is just a kernel. on Linux is Not Red Hat · · Score: 3

    Linux is just a kernel.
    Distributions are MORE than an OS.
    We need to strictly support LSB and
    specify and use the components of LSB and linux
    that we'd like to call the OPERATING SYSTEM.
    or... use FreeBSD.

  22. NCI's software is abstracted from the OS on AOL teams up with NCI · · Score: 1

    NCI's software is abstracted from the OS
    The actual operating system could be
    BSD, VxWorks, QNX, or Linux.
    Seeing as how Hughes Network Systems is involved... I suspect they would lean away from
    linux or bsd.