In-person back-and-forth interaction with the teacher is faster than online interaction. But one advantage of online over in-person is that you can ask questions any time, not just during the teacher's office hours.
In an ed2go.com class, you can discuss the homework online, but not the test questions. You can post your code online, and the teacher (and sometimes a student) will tell you what your mistake was. I've taken lots of classes from them. I was happy with most (not all) of my class's teachers.
Meanwhile, President Obama and the State Department are trying to bring Syrian refugees into the US. Some US lawmakers and government officials are concerned that members of ISIS might slip into the US, along with genuine refugees. For example,
"You have to have information to vet,” FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach, said in a Feb. 11 House homeland security hearing. “Databases don't [have] the information on those individuals, and that's the concern.”
Some emails, which contain private data about person X, were sent by someone other than X.
A Verge article has two examples: an email about someone with employment troubles because of previous convictions, and an email about someone's major health problems. The name and SSN of the employee, and of the patient's mother, were in the emails. The emails were sent by someone other than the employee and the patient's mother.
So the problem is more complicated than "This is what happens if you put your own personal info into an email."
I hope they can land the Falcon 9 this time. SpaceX's Hans Koenigsmann says this time the Falcon 9 will come in twice as fast as the January 10 attempt, and it will land farther offshore.
In the real world, we don't generally write a computer program that just outputs the message "Hello World". But that's usually the first program when we're learning a new programming language. This simple program teaches us how to create the source code, compile, and run the program. Later we learn how to write more complex programs in that language.
In the same way, we don't use recursion to output a string 0 to 5. But this simple problem teaches the student how recursion works. After the student understands how recursion works, s/he can do more complex and realistic problems using recursion.
Unfortunately the passenger died, besides the pilot. Also the families of both people are now grieving. It's horrible to lose a loved one. I send my best wishes to the families of these two people.
Some of the questions are harder than the questions I had in 8th grade. For example,
Through what waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal to Manila? Answer:... (perhaps) the English Channel, the North Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Biscay (possibly), Strait of Gibraltar, Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden/Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Thailand (may have been called Gulf of Siam at that time), South China Sea.
I don't know how much he gets paid, but here are the qualifications for the ed2go "Mac, iPhone, and iPad Programming" teacher:
Wallace Wang is the author of more than 40 computer books including Microsoft Office 2010 For Dummies. In addition to writing computer books, he has co-authored Breaking Into Acting for Dummies and has ghostwritten several books about investing in real estate, day trading stocks, and becoming an entrepreneur. His past jobs have included teaching computer science courses at the University of Zimbabwe, performing stand-up comedy, and appearing on a weekly radio show.
(Most programming ed2go teachers are more qualified that that.)
It's gotten worse. Here are the questions and answers from the 1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools. (The staff of the Bullitt County History Museum figured out those answers.)
Here's an idea that might help people with limited vision, who can read only very large text:
Suppose a web page (or app) has several articles in it. An article might not be all in one column. The article might be in more that one column, and the columns might not be right next to each other.
Someone with normal sight can look at the entire web page, and see that the article starts here, then jumps over to there. But if you have to enlarge the text 5x to read it, then you can see only part of the web page. That makes it hard to scan the entire web page, to see where the article continues.
So here's my recommendation: Let the user pick an article to display, and then display just that article in the window. (Make JavaScript change the web page's styling, so that only that article appears in the window.)
This article doesn't tell who signed letters which were sent to them by Comcast. But it does tell who sent letters to the FCC backing the merger, which of these people got contributions from Comcast, and how much they got.
More information here. Click on the "Center for Responsive Politics data on lobbying contributions here." link on this page, to get to the data page.
I wasn't thinking about buying phones or computers from Google, of course. I was thinking that for example, Google would prefer to have companies controlled by Elon Musk buy Android phones from Samsung than buy iPhones from Apple.
Heh, no, I wasn't thinking about SpaceX buying Merlin engines for a Falcon 9 from Google. I was thinking about it buying more standard items, like cell phones for its employees to use. And of course, SpaceX has to provide desktop or laptop computers for its employees at the workplace. That kind of stuff.
They have to decide which company to buy the things from, and which OS to use.
In 1997, Microsoft invested $150 million in non-voting shares of Apple. From a CNET article,
Jobs, who took the stage to a standing ovation, said that the Microsoft investment cannot be sold for three years and covers non-voting shares in the company.
If Elon Musk accepts investment money from Google, I suggest he accept it non-voting shares. Mr. Musk wouldn't want Google to push SpaceX to use Google hardware and software, and not use products of Google's competitors. He'd want complete freedom to use whatever products were best for SpaceX.
We need to protect access to power companies, air traffic control, military, etc. We need to do so now. (I'm an American, but by "we" I mean all countries, especially countries that might be targeted by terrorists.)
I'm going to go to the web sites of President Obama and my representatives. Those web sites have "Comments" or "Send a Message" sections, in which you can send a message to those people. In the "Comments" sections of the web sites, I'm going to ask them to make electronic security a high priority.
If enough voters ask them to make security a high priority, they might do so. I sure hope so.
This is related to space, so I'm posting it: You can see a video of the crash of the Faclon here. Plus a couple of funny tweets by Elon Musk, such as when he calls the crash a "RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly)" - heh.
Suppose you fly or take a train someplace. You have to get a ride to the station, or find a place to park your car at the station. Then you have to transfer your luggage (including presents at holiday time) to the plane or train. When you get to your destination station, you have pick up your luggage, then either rent a car or get a ride to your destination.
Now suppose you had the option of having the hyperloop carry your car. You and your spouse, kids, luggage, and presents all stay in the car. You drive to the hyperloop station, and drive your car onto a shuttle. When you get to your destination station, you all drive off in your car to your destination. And you have your own car to drive in - you don't have to rent a car. Much more convenient.
You'd have to pay for the hyperloop to carry your car. But you wouldn't have to pay for car rental, or for parking or transportation to the station near your home.
This article lists some H-1B employer fees. Let's increase that by $50,000 per year per "guest" employee. That should cut down on the number of employees who are brought here in order to save on wages.
However, some non-American hiring managers will want to hire only people from their own countries, because of feelings of patriotism for their countries. So we should have a law that states that "guest" hiring managers must hire at least 50% Americans, and that each year, the lowest starting salary of Americans that he/she hires must be higher than the highest starting salary of the non-Americans that he/she hires.
Are you thinking of the New South China Mall? According to Wikipedia, "Unlike other "dead malls", which have been characterized by the departure of tenants, the New South China Mall has been 99% vacant since its 2005 opening as very few merchants have ever signed up."
Suppose a robot is at the scene of a car accident, where drunk driver "A" hit another driver "B". Should the robot save B first, because B is innocent? Or should it save A first, because A is hurt worse?
Suppose A just a few days to live because of age and illness, and B is young and healthy. Suppose A and B are in a building which is on fire, and A is in greater danger. Which one should the robot save?
If robots are programmed to obey Asimov's laws of robotics, these kinds of questions will have to be answered.
Can searchers in small research submarines look for the voice recorder? That seems safer that diving, but maybe even small submaries are too big for this kind of searching - I don't know.
I just keep thinking about the two divers who died searching for people in the MV Sewol, and the diver who died trying to help free the Costa Concordia for removal.
Why did it take the murder of these people when thousands have died already and they stood by and did nothing.
Exactly. Like this attack, which might have killed 2,000 people. From the article:
In an interview with the BBC, district leader Musa Alhaji Bukar also estimated that 2,000 residents of Baga and 16 nearby towns had been killed by the Islamist terror group, and that Baga was now “virtually nonexistent...”
I guess Anonymous is getting involved now, because of the issue of freedom of speech. However, if Boko Haram, ISIS or Al-Qaeda kills you for not agreeing with their religious beliefs, that's a free speech issue also.
I'd like a way to easily report drunk drivers. If I'm driving, and I have a dash camera, and I see a drunk driver, then I want to push a button and have information automatically sent to the local police or highway patrol. Send the police my location, the direction that I'm traveling, and images of the car driven by the drunk driver. Send then an image about every third of a second, or send a low-resolution video.
If there's a way for the camera to focus only on the drunk driver's car, then fine. But I don't see a big problem if the camera sends images of other cars also.
I wish I'd had that last Christmas, when a driver was weaving so badly on the freeway!
Of course, this information should be sent only when we request to send it.
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In-person back-and-forth interaction with the teacher is faster than online interaction. But one advantage of online over in-person is that you can ask questions any time, not just during the teacher's office hours.
In an ed2go.com class, you can discuss the homework online, but not the test questions. You can post your code online, and the teacher (and sometimes a student) will tell you what your mistake was. I've taken lots of classes from them. I was happy with most (not all) of my class's teachers.
Meanwhile, President Obama and the State Department are trying to bring Syrian refugees into the US. Some US lawmakers and government officials are concerned that members of ISIS might slip into the US, along with genuine refugees. For example,
"You have to have information to vet,” FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach, said in a Feb. 11 House homeland security hearing. “Databases don't [have] the information on those individuals, and that's the concern.”
Some emails, which contain private data about person X, were sent by someone other than X.
A Verge article has two examples: an email about someone with employment troubles because of previous convictions, and an email about someone's major health problems. The name and SSN of the employee, and of the patient's mother, were in the emails. The emails were sent by someone other than the employee and the patient's mother.
So the problem is more complicated than "This is what happens if you put your own personal info into an email."
I hope they can land the Falcon 9 this time. SpaceX's Hans Koenigsmann says this time the Falcon 9 will come in twice as fast as the January 10 attempt, and it will land farther offshore.
In the real world, we don't generally write a computer program that just outputs the message "Hello World". But that's usually the first program when we're learning a new programming language. This simple program teaches us how to create the source code, compile, and run the program. Later we learn how to write more complex programs in that language.
In the same way, we don't use recursion to output a string 0 to 5. But this simple problem teaches the student how recursion works. After the student understands how recursion works, s/he can do more complex and realistic problems using recursion.
Unfortunately the passenger died, besides the pilot. Also the families of both people are now grieving. It's horrible to lose a loved one. I send my best wishes to the families of these two people.
Here's an article entitled "Here's Where 2016 Candidates Stand On Vaccinations".
Some of the questions are harder than the questions I had in 8th grade. For example,
Through what waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal to Manila? ... (perhaps) the English Channel, the North Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Biscay (possibly), Strait of Gibraltar, Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden/Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Thailand (may have been called Gulf of Siam at that time), South China Sea.
Answer:
I don't know how much he gets paid, but here are the qualifications for the ed2go "Mac, iPhone, and iPad Programming" teacher:
Wallace Wang is the author of more than 40 computer books including Microsoft Office 2010 For Dummies. In addition to writing computer books, he has co-authored Breaking Into Acting for Dummies and has ghostwritten several books about investing in real estate, day trading stocks, and becoming an entrepreneur. His past jobs have included teaching computer science courses at the University of Zimbabwe, performing stand-up comedy, and appearing on a weekly radio show.
(Most programming ed2go teachers are more qualified that that.)
(if it has not gotten worse).
It's gotten worse. Here are the questions and answers from the 1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools. (The staff of the Bullitt County History Museum figured out those answers.)
Here's an idea that might help people with limited vision, who can read only very large text:
Suppose a web page (or app) has several articles in it. An article might not be all in one column. The article might be in more that one column, and the columns might not be right next to each other.
Someone with normal sight can look at the entire web page, and see that the article starts here, then jumps over to there. But if you have to enlarge the text 5x to read it, then you can see only part of the web page. That makes it hard to scan the entire web page, to see where the article continues.
So here's my recommendation: Let the user pick an article to display, and then display just that article in the window. (Make JavaScript change the web page's styling, so that only that article appears in the window.)
This article doesn't tell who signed letters which were sent to them by Comcast. But it does tell who sent letters to the FCC backing the merger, which of these people got contributions from Comcast, and how much they got.
More information here. Click on the "Center for Responsive Politics data on lobbying contributions here." link on this page, to get to the data page.
I wasn't thinking about buying phones or computers from Google, of course. I was thinking that for example, Google would prefer to have companies controlled by Elon Musk buy Android phones from Samsung than buy iPhones from Apple.
Heh, no, I wasn't thinking about SpaceX buying Merlin engines for a Falcon 9 from Google. I was thinking about it buying more standard items, like cell phones for its employees to use. And of course, SpaceX has to provide desktop or laptop computers for its employees at the workplace. That kind of stuff.
They have to decide which company to buy the things from, and which OS to use.
In 1997, Microsoft invested $150 million in non-voting shares of Apple. From a CNET article,
Jobs, who took the stage to a standing ovation, said that the Microsoft investment cannot be sold for three years and covers non-voting shares in the company.
If Elon Musk accepts investment money from Google, I suggest he accept it non-voting shares. Mr. Musk wouldn't want Google to push SpaceX to use Google hardware and software, and not use products of Google's competitors. He'd want complete freedom to use whatever products were best for SpaceX.
We need to protect access to power companies, air traffic control, military, etc. We need to do so now. (I'm an American, but by "we" I mean all countries, especially countries that might be targeted by terrorists.)
I'm going to go to the web sites of President Obama and my representatives. Those web sites have "Comments" or "Send a Message" sections, in which you can send a message to those people. In the "Comments" sections of the web sites, I'm going to ask them to make electronic security a high priority.
If enough voters ask them to make security a high priority, they might do so. I sure hope so.
This is related to space, so I'm posting it: You can see a video of the crash of the Faclon here. Plus a couple of funny tweets by Elon Musk, such as when he calls the crash a "RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly)" - heh.
I hope the hyperloop will eventually cars like the Eurotunnel Shuttle.
Suppose you fly or take a train someplace. You have to get a ride to the station, or find a place to park your car at the station. Then you have to transfer your luggage (including presents at holiday time) to the plane or train. When you get to your destination station, you have pick up your luggage, then either rent a car or get a ride to your destination.
Now suppose you had the option of having the hyperloop carry your car. You and your spouse, kids, luggage, and presents all stay in the car. You drive to the hyperloop station, and drive your car onto a shuttle. When you get to your destination station, you all drive off in your car to your destination. And you have your own car to drive in - you don't have to rent a car. Much more convenient.
You'd have to pay for the hyperloop to carry your car. But you wouldn't have to pay for car rental, or for parking or transportation to the station near your home.
This article lists some H-1B employer fees. Let's increase that by $50,000 per year per "guest" employee. That should cut down on the number of employees who are brought here in order to save on wages.
However, some non-American hiring managers will want to hire only people from their own countries, because of feelings of patriotism for their countries. So we should have a law that states that "guest" hiring managers must hire at least 50% Americans, and that each year, the lowest starting salary of Americans that he/she hires must be higher than the highest starting salary of the non-Americans that he/she hires.
Are you thinking of the New South China Mall? According to Wikipedia, "Unlike other "dead malls", which have been characterized by the departure of tenants, the New South China Mall has been 99% vacant since its 2005 opening as very few merchants have ever signed up."
Suppose a robot is at the scene of a car accident, where drunk driver "A" hit another driver "B". Should the robot save B first, because B is innocent? Or should it save A first, because A is hurt worse?
Suppose A just a few days to live because of age and illness, and B is young and healthy. Suppose A and B are in a building which is on fire, and A is in greater danger. Which one should the robot save?
If robots are programmed to obey Asimov's laws of robotics, these kinds of questions will have to be answered.
Can searchers in small research submarines look for the voice recorder? That seems safer that diving, but maybe even small submaries are too big for this kind of searching - I don't know.
I just keep thinking about the two divers who died searching for people in the MV Sewol, and the diver who died trying to help free the Costa Concordia for removal.
Why did it take the murder of these people when thousands have died already and they stood by and did nothing.
Exactly. Like this attack, which might have killed 2,000 people. From the article:
In an interview with the BBC, district leader Musa Alhaji Bukar also estimated that 2,000 residents of Baga and 16 nearby towns had been killed by the Islamist terror group, and that Baga was now “virtually nonexistent ...”
I guess Anonymous is getting involved now, because of the issue of freedom of speech. However, if Boko Haram, ISIS or Al-Qaeda kills you for not agreeing with their religious beliefs, that's a free speech issue also.
This article has a funny way to describe the attempt to soft-land on a floating platform:
... SpaceX acknowledges that the maneuver won't be a slam-dunk. Maybe it'll just be a slam. Or a dunk.
I'd like a way to easily report drunk drivers. If I'm driving, and I have a dash camera, and I see a drunk driver, then I want to push a button and have information automatically sent to the local police or highway patrol. Send the police my location, the direction that I'm traveling, and images of the car driven by the drunk driver. Send then an image about every third of a second, or send a low-resolution video.
If there's a way for the camera to focus only on the drunk driver's car, then fine. But I don't see a big problem if the camera sends images of other cars also.
I wish I'd had that last Christmas, when a driver was weaving so badly on the freeway!
Of course, this information should be sent only when we request to send it.