I don't think I stated (or implied) that teacher performance should be based directly on student's performance. Because that would be insane. Nevertheless, there are really horrible teachers, and they don't seem to be able to get rid of them unless they molest a student, or someone catches them on video. Hence the schools banning the taking of videos. We sure don't want to have to replace those bad teachers! This is a problem.
The flipside is they can get in trouble for teaching evolution in a science class instead of religion.
It's a no-win scenario no matter how you look at it in the current system. I'm just saying that the teachers union is one of the obstacles to fixing the system. And that's ALL I'm saying, so please don't read anything else into it, okay? Read what I write, not what you think I wrote. I shouldn't have to say that to a teacher, though, so you might want to think about that, too.
As badly as teachers are treated, you can't even get rid of the bad teachers until you can override the teacher's union. They don't want merit-based pay or any of that kind of thing because it means that teachers have to perform, rather than just stay in their job and get tenure. One of the downsides of unions, sadly. I'm not anti-union, but there ARE downsides to be aware of.
I think the best option would be to fund all schools first (rather than other things), rather like the investment people say, "pay yourself first" - fully fund the schools first, then worry about new parks, etc. When you have the schools properly funded, then you can go after the other problems. Otherwise, it'd like worry about the aerodynamics of the bad paint job on your car when the larger problem of a leaking fueltank goes unchecked.
And as the poster above mentioned, there is a war on critical thinking. This doesn't apply to the current education system because critical thinking isn't being taught in schools except in certain college courses (Intro to Logic should be a required course for all humans. In your first year of high school!). The memorization of facts and certain base reading and math ability are all that seems to found in modern education (in the U.S., anyway; I have no experience in the education systems of other countries). But without critical thinking, you're certainly not going to be able to fix the education system here, either.
Moore's Law talks about the complexity, not speed or performance. That's why it doesn't apply to either solar cells or digital camera sensors.
Digital camera sensors, especially, as it's not the complexity that kills ya, it's that it can't get physically smaller and still capture as much light (independent of the # of pixels). CPUs get cheaper because they get physically smaller, and thus require less silicon. The same deal with silicon PV cells - you don't want to make them smaller, you want to make them more efficient at converting light to electricity. Solar cells will indeed get cheaper (MUCH cheaper) very quickly (within the next few years, you'll see several competing technologies, in fact), but not due to silicon processes, but because they're going to be made without silicon (or with much less silicon, or silicon of a much lower grade than CPU-grade silicon (they've been competing for the same Silicon resources all this time)). I'm just sayin'.
The main problem with nukes is that criminals will be released from the Phantom Zone if a nuclear weapon goes off in space.
At least Zod was *competent* at being evil. I just can't respect incompetent evil like W. I say it's time to vote for the greater of two evils. Release the nuclear hounds!
1. Make Tron in 1980's and lose money 2. Make sequel to the failure movie 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!!!
Wouldn't investors want more details about step 3?
Step 3 seems obvious: The geek kids who loved the original Tron have grown up to have high-paying computer industry jobs, and can easily afford repeated viewings of the sequel, plus Blu-Ray special editions, etc.
Look, it's great they offer the option to get Ubuntu preinstalled, but you might want to look at what exactly they're doing before holding them up as a good example. If you go through the build process for an XPS1330, you'll find that there are FAR fewer hardware options available when building a Ubuntu-based machine compared to a Vista-based machine, and I'm not talking about hardware for which there may not be drivers, either. Fewer CPU options, storage options, etc. It's completely ridiculous, and it probably took more effort for them to eliminate those options than it would have to make the same hardware options available between the two OSs. I can't say I'm all that impressed yet with Dell's Ubuntu offerings, though it's better than nothing.
You need waaay more thane ONE browser to write JavaScript.
No you don't. To simply *write* it, all you need is a text editor. Why bother testing in *any* browser, much less all the common ones. Either you're that good, or you shouldn't bother.:)
This is a pretty bad way to handle the problem, as IPs are *far* from unique these days.
Verify user registration via email, and ban the user. Or mod the user down if you have the ability. Yes, people can use throwaway email addresses, but there's only so much you can do.
If you can do a silent banning, where they can log in and post messages that noone else can read, then they think they're being a nuisance, but noone else will ever be bothered by them. They might also be less likely to use a throwaway email address to create another account because they think they're causing mayhem.
> Robocaust? What robocaust? I've never heard of a robocaust before. It sounds like something made up by a/.er.
Due, how can you not know about the Robocaust? There was even a great fictionalized documentary about it that won all sorts of awards several years ago. I think it was called "Azimov's List" or somesuch.
When viewing an individual article, I'm now seeing ads (when logged in and having a subscription that hasn't run out). I'm not seeing ads anywhere else.
Slashdot Mirror
Now all we need is a large spinning mirror...
We need to have a better evaluation system before we shift into merit based pay.
Absolutely. But I think proper school funding should come even before that (or really, anything else).
I don't think I stated (or implied) that teacher performance should be based directly on student's performance. Because that would be insane. Nevertheless, there are really horrible teachers, and they don't seem to be able to get rid of them unless they molest a student, or someone catches them on video. Hence the schools banning the taking of videos. We sure don't want to have to replace those bad teachers! This is a problem.
The flipside is they can get in trouble for teaching evolution in a science class instead of religion.
It's a no-win scenario no matter how you look at it in the current system. I'm just saying that the teachers union is one of the obstacles to fixing the system. And that's ALL I'm saying, so please don't read anything else into it, okay? Read what I write, not what you think I wrote. I shouldn't have to say that to a teacher, though, so you might want to think about that, too.
As badly as teachers are treated, you can't even get rid of the bad teachers until you can override the teacher's union. They don't want merit-based pay or any of that kind of thing because it means that teachers have to perform, rather than just stay in their job and get tenure. One of the downsides of unions, sadly. I'm not anti-union, but there ARE downsides to be aware of.
I think the best option would be to fund all schools first (rather than other things), rather like the investment people say, "pay yourself first" - fully fund the schools first, then worry about new parks, etc. When you have the schools properly funded, then you can go after the other problems. Otherwise, it'd like worry about the aerodynamics of the bad paint job on your car when the larger problem of a leaking fueltank goes unchecked.
And as the poster above mentioned, there is a war on critical thinking. This doesn't apply to the current education system because critical thinking isn't being taught in schools except in certain college courses (Intro to Logic should be a required course for all humans. In your first year of high school!). The memorization of facts and certain base reading and math ability are all that seems to found in modern education (in the U.S., anyway; I have no experience in the education systems of other countries). But without critical thinking, you're certainly not going to be able to fix the education system here, either.
Bugzilla - Nice and lots of support, but the interface makes you want to kill yourself.
No it doesn't.
It makes me want to kill others. :)
Moore's Law talks about the complexity, not speed or performance. That's why it doesn't apply to either solar cells or digital camera sensors.
Digital camera sensors, especially, as it's not the complexity that kills ya, it's that it can't get physically smaller and still capture as much light (independent of the # of pixels). CPUs get cheaper because they get physically smaller, and thus require less silicon. The same deal with silicon PV cells - you don't want to make them smaller, you want to make them more efficient at converting light to electricity. Solar cells will indeed get cheaper (MUCH cheaper) very quickly (within the next few years, you'll see several competing technologies, in fact), but not due to silicon processes, but because they're going to be made without silicon (or with much less silicon, or silicon of a much lower grade than CPU-grade silicon (they've been competing for the same Silicon resources all this time)). I'm just sayin'.
Then what does he propose that we nuke? Each other? The whales? Martians?
Nuke the gay baby whales for Jesus.
The main problem with nukes is that criminals will be released from the Phantom Zone if a nuclear weapon goes off in space.
At least Zod was *competent* at being evil. I just can't respect incompetent evil like W. I say it's time to vote for the greater of two evils. Release the nuclear hounds!
(And no Cthulu jokes, please.)
That could work. Or we could change the direction of the Earth :P
Funny answer #1: Hey, I don't much like the direction we're going in now; it's worth a shot.
Funny answer #2: Simple. Just change the gravitational constant of the universe.
1. Make Tron in 1980's and lose money
2. Make sequel to the failure movie
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Wouldn't investors want more details about step 3?
Step 3 seems obvious: The geek kids who loved the original Tron have grown up to have high-paying computer industry jobs, and can easily afford repeated viewings of the sequel, plus Blu-Ray special editions, etc.
Look, it's great they offer the option to get Ubuntu preinstalled, but you might want to look at what exactly they're doing before holding them up as a good example. If you go through the build process for an XPS1330, you'll find that there are FAR fewer hardware options available when building a Ubuntu-based machine compared to a Vista-based machine, and I'm not talking about hardware for which there may not be drivers, either. Fewer CPU options, storage options, etc. It's completely ridiculous, and it probably took more effort for them to eliminate those options than it would have to make the same hardware options available between the two OSs. I can't say I'm all that impressed yet with Dell's Ubuntu offerings, though it's better than nothing.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of IMAP?"
The Aussies have 99% of the world's supply of a war-fuelling substance, and it's not a lager?
Yikes - don't let Bush hear that, or Australia will be our next target, right after Iran.
"Kangaroo Beer - it's made with more hops."
I can tell from the title alone that this has got to be the shortest book ever written.
Just wait for his next book, "Microsoft Bob: The Good Part."
In all seriousness though with Prototype I don't find javascript browser inconsistencies nearly as problematic as css browser inconsistencies.
Yeah, wait until you start using javascript to manipulate css, the you get the best of both worlds (of pain).
You need waaay more thane ONE browser to write JavaScript.
No you don't. To simply *write* it, all you need is a text editor. Why bother testing in *any* browser, much less all the common ones. Either you're that good, or you shouldn't bother. :)
Ban his IP
This is a pretty bad way to handle the problem, as IPs are *far* from unique these days.
Verify user registration via email, and ban the user. Or mod the user down if you have the ability. Yes, people can use throwaway email addresses, but there's only so much you can do.
If you can do a silent banning, where they can log in and post messages that noone else can read, then they think they're being a nuisance, but noone else will ever be bothered by them. They might also be less likely to use a throwaway email address to create another account because they think they're causing mayhem.
I totally disagree with what you just said; further more I would like to add that you smell.
Well your father was a hamster!
you mean the definition of cloud computing is still cloudy?
My Magic 8-Ball(tm) says the outlook of cloud computing is cloudy.
> > You sound like a Robocaust denier!
> Robocaust? What robocaust? I've never heard of a robocaust before. It sounds like something made up by a /.er.
Due, how can you not know about the Robocaust? There was even a great fictionalized documentary about it that won all sorts of awards several years ago. I think it was called "Azimov's List" or somesuch.
No, because it will be illegal to talk about the robocaust.
You sound like a Robocaust denier!
640mhz is all the megahertz you will ever need.
Yeah, on my ASS.
Just don't go all asynchronous on that.
When viewing an individual article, I'm now seeing ads (when logged in and having a subscription that hasn't run out). I'm not seeing ads anywhere else.
This happening to anyone else?
> > Coming soon, the 5 MHz toilet paper.
> Overclock it to 10Mhz for extra warmth on those cold winter mornings...
Don't overclock the Charmin.
Put the word "cloud" in your business plan and the VCs will definitely listen to you these days.
Two words: Cloud Porn