The private school is allowed to filter their student body, and as such can weed out "problem kids" that cost the system that much more. And even if they're not filtering outright, parents are filtering because parents who care enough to send their kids to a private school are more likely to take a part in the child's education and make the cost of educating your son or daughter even less.
Educating a child is not a fixed cost. It varies on the student. Some take a whole lot more. Special needs (at either end of the spectrum) kids use A LOT of money.
If said "religious nutjob" was a scientist or mathematician, then it would work with them too. Religious people can be scientists and vice-versa. There are nutjobs in science too, they're just not called scientists, they're called crackpots. And they can be just as irrational as the nutjobs in religion. But religious people are not nutjobs by default.
Yup. Scientists never argue or deride the work of their colleagues without merit. Never.
In case you missed it, I'm being facetious. Irrational disagreements and other immature behavior are a human problem. The scientific community is no less guilty of this than anyone else.
Setup a proxy that uses a whitelist. You should be approving every single site she goes to. It'll be annoying for a little while, while you add all the sites she regularly goes to, but after a while each time she asks for a new site, it'll be a good opportunity to talk to her about what she's doing online.
It is not your customer's responsibility to make your business model work. If you can't get business the way you're doing things, then don't do things that way.
Is boxee open source? If it isn't, then this isn't particularly helpful to Linux users. I'd much rather be able to watch this stuff direct from my myth box.
So you're basically saying that probabilistic computation isn't math? That doesn't make any sense. Just because we have computers that are extremely reliable doesn't mean that probabilistic methods are unimportant. Quantum computers are showing us that they are.
Richard Feynman would disagree. Please read his work on the Manhattan project.
I would be curious to know that given the evidence that having a passenger might actually be better than driving alone. What are the accident statistics for lone drivers versus with passengers?
I wrote a paper in a college astronomy course where I speculated that Enceladus might have life given the water there. I was given a lower grade because of it.
Side note: makes much more sense then the big bang theory, which reeks of creationism.
So, instead of using rational thought and evidence to decide what theory is correct, you're going to use your "gut" feeling to make the determination? Sounds a little like what the relgionists, that you're so quick to deride, like to do.
Why should a friggin' IT pro be doing COST ANALYSIS? Isn't that a management function? The IT pro is supposed to do IT. They're not business experts. Not only are they not qualified to slap together some well meaning but totally invalid cost/benefit analysis, but it's not even their job. That's the job of management. They're the ones with business degrees. They're supposed to know how to do that. Their job is to take information from the IT pro and compile it to get the cost/benefit.
I'm so sick of IT folks acting like they DO understand business and putting together risk analyses that are all gloom and doom.
"Sir, we need 7 redundant mail servers and 13 petabytes of storage! Otherwise, the email might go down and we might run out of space! Look I've computed the cost of our email being down, and while I'm just pulling these figures out of my ass, I think it means that we would lose a gagillion dollars! Or was that yen? Doesn't matter does it? It's a lot money!"
"But Joe, do you really think we need all that for my little pet shop?"
The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.
Governments have no one else but themselves to blame when someone breaks laws in their country. If they can't even enforce their own laws, that doesn't make them much of a government does it?
The snake oil salesman remark is pretty subjective, so I'm not going to respond to that.
But, Nelson Mandela was a convicted criminal. What does that have to do with the validity of things he has said?
I don't care if Joseph Smith was guilty of what they convicted him of. Maybe he did defraud someone. I don't think that's relevant. If he was a fraudster, he wasn't a very good one in the end, getting killed and all that. He should have taken the money and ran. What bearing does his conviction have on whether or not what he said about Jesus Christ was true?
Since you're singling out Mormons as the frauds, then I'll ask if you think there are other religions out there that would stand up to your criticism? Most religions by the nature of their belief aren't scientifically verifiable. In fact, the core tenet of many religions is that it's good for you to believe in something you can't prove.
Hopefully, you're just an atheist. That at least would make some sense.
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The private school is allowed to filter their student body, and as such can weed out "problem kids" that cost the system that much more. And even if they're not filtering outright, parents are filtering because parents who care enough to send their kids to a private school are more likely to take a part in the child's education and make the cost of educating your son or daughter even less.
Educating a child is not a fixed cost. It varies on the student. Some take a whole lot more. Special needs (at either end of the spectrum) kids use A LOT of money.
For the love of peter, don't use automatic auditing software. That shizzle sucks.
If said "religious nutjob" was a scientist or mathematician, then it would work with them too. Religious people can be scientists and vice-versa. There are nutjobs in science too, they're just not called scientists, they're called crackpots. And they can be just as irrational as the nutjobs in religion. But religious people are not nutjobs by default.
Yup. Scientists never argue or deride the work of their colleagues without merit. Never.
In case you missed it, I'm being facetious. Irrational disagreements and other immature behavior are a human problem. The scientific community is no less guilty of this than anyone else.
Setup a proxy that uses a whitelist. You should be approving every single site she goes to. It'll be annoying for a little while, while you add all the sites she regularly goes to, but after a while each time she asks for a new site, it'll be a good opportunity to talk to her about what she's doing online.
You're missing the point.
Lua isn't built into the browser of almost every computer on the planet.
Salt lake city isn't. It ain't New York but it isn't nowhere.
It is not your customer's responsibility to make your business model work. If you can't get business the way you're doing things, then don't do things that way.
Ok, old man. I've been using the same tv bittorrent site for a couple years now. I haven't had to keep track of sites for a while now.
You're not on the right sites. piratebay is lame.
Is boxee open source? If it isn't, then this isn't particularly helpful to Linux users. I'd much rather be able to watch this stuff direct from my myth box.
So you're basically saying that probabilistic computation isn't math? That doesn't make any sense. Just because we have computers that are extremely reliable doesn't mean that probabilistic methods are unimportant. Quantum computers are showing us that they are.
Richard Feynman would disagree. Please read his work on the Manhattan project.
I would be curious to know that given the evidence that having a passenger might actually be better than driving alone. What are the accident statistics for lone drivers versus with passengers?
MySQL is frequently touted as the world's most widely used relational database management system.
That would actually be SQLite. It's in cellphones, set top boxes, and all sorts of other embedded devices.
How do you know McCoy wasn't the original ship's surgeon?
Just because Chekov doesn't appear in an episode doesn't mean he wasn't on the ship.
For the idea. I thought that was obvious. Do you want me to explain the whole thing?
No. It isn't. I would explain...
I wrote a paper in a college astronomy course where I speculated that Enceladus might have life given the water there. I was given a lower grade because of it.
Vindication is sweet.
OK, read again. You still sound foolish.
Doesn't sound like an afterthought. Sounds like the whole point.
Side note: makes much more sense then the big bang theory, which reeks of creationism.
So, instead of using rational thought and evidence to decide what theory is correct, you're going to use your "gut" feeling to make the determination? Sounds a little like what the relgionists, that you're so quick to deride, like to do.
Security by obscurity DOES work. Just not as well as other alternatives.
Why should a friggin' IT pro be doing COST ANALYSIS? Isn't that a management function? The IT pro is supposed to do IT. They're not business experts. Not only are they not qualified to slap together some well meaning but totally invalid cost/benefit analysis, but it's not even their job. That's the job of management. They're the ones with business degrees. They're supposed to know how to do that. Their job is to take information from the IT pro and compile it to get the cost/benefit.
I'm so sick of IT folks acting like they DO understand business and putting together risk analyses that are all gloom and doom.
"Sir, we need 7 redundant mail servers and 13 petabytes of storage! Otherwise, the email might go down and we might run out of space! Look I've computed the cost of our email being down, and while I'm just pulling these figures out of my ass, I think it means that we would lose a gagillion dollars! Or was that yen? Doesn't matter does it? It's a lot money!"
"But Joe, do you really think we need all that for my little pet shop?"
In business software you don't get to change the rules to suit you. In games, you do.
The key feature of "Globalisation" as we know it is US corporations (and military) being able to break local and international law at will. Apparently in the US this isn't considered a problem.
Governments have no one else but themselves to blame when someone breaks laws in their country. If they can't even enforce their own laws, that doesn't make them much of a government does it?
The snake oil salesman remark is pretty subjective, so I'm not going to respond to that.
But, Nelson Mandela was a convicted criminal. What does that have to do with the validity of things he has said?
I don't care if Joseph Smith was guilty of what they convicted him of. Maybe he did defraud someone. I don't think that's relevant. If he was a fraudster, he wasn't a very good one in the end, getting killed and all that. He should have taken the money and ran. What bearing does his conviction have on whether or not what he said about Jesus Christ was true?
Since you're singling out Mormons as the frauds, then I'll ask if you think there are other religions out there that would stand up to your criticism? Most religions by the nature of their belief aren't scientifically verifiable. In fact, the core tenet of many religions is that it's good for you to believe in something you can't prove.
Hopefully, you're just an atheist. That at least would make some sense.