A brick an mortar school is more likely to drag KA down to the level of other schools than it is to raise up KA to a new level.
Agreed. At first I thought, "if they want to build a building it should be a center for housing content producers." Then I realized - if they can't have their content producers working effective remotely, then they're missing what needs to be done for their core audience.
Even if it were decided that Khan and any instructors he employs each need five support staff members, those should all be remote too. They should work to make that as efficient as possible, and in doing so improve the long-term quality of their product.
....because STEM majors are so much more demanding than others... if you fall behind... you're fucked... If you're getting a degree in English...
And yet, look at the way the two are taught. My Freshman bio class had 190 students with two assistant profs, in a auditorium, and my total freshman class was just over a thousand. Neither prof was good, the TA's were unavailable, the textbook was poorly written, and on the final the average score was 23% (I got a 44, but one nerd pulled a 62 and blew the curve). These were two hundred students who did well enough to get into Dartmouth who were utterly failed by the lack of teaching.
In comparison, my freshman English seminar had 12 students. This was a mandatory class, so they have close to a hundred sections over the three Freshman terms. The claim is that writing can't be taught on an industrial scale but science can be. Yet, mysteriously, 60% of students are failing to succeed in the sciences.
Does it strike anyone as ironic that it's so unusual for a company to act the way a capitalist company is *supposed* to act that it's called a 'secret weapon'?
Wait, thought that involved making bad business decisions, giving everybody huge bonuses and then going to the government for a hand-out?
For all the really, really smart people that MS employes, why do they keep on making the dumbest mistakes one could come up with if it were a "dumb idea of the month" challenge?
It's faster and easier and they're able to externalize the consequences.
How is this Flamebait? He's right, this vehicle exists only on paper so far, and honestly a $7,000 electric car with 80 mile range seems so unbelievable in 2011 that I'll believe it when I see it. Not everything on the internet is real
From the first link:
Just in time for the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt GmbH shows the Street Scooter with the vehicle "StreetScooter" the first prototype.
It's not mass-market yet, but a working prototype is real and not 'only on paper'.
You are doing something wrong, installing from a USB drive has worked since computers can boot from USB.
Yes, but many BIOS's still suck. A fairly recent BIOS I have requires you to turn on USB disk emulation, go in and set the USB flash drive to the primary boot hard drive, then put the hard drive as primary in the boot order.
Most BIOS's can deal with setting 'CD' to the primary boot drive, and if there's no media it just skips right over it.
So here's the options: A) ~$200 = HP Touchpad off eBay and install Android because there's very few apps in the webOS market designed for tablets, only a few thousand. B) iPad
Am I the only one who thinks he should get a part-time job for a few weeks to raise the extra $200 to get his dying grandmother something that will make her happy in her last few months of life?
I was very tempted to pepper that with obscenities to a degree that would make Penn Jillette look normal. Jesus Flying Christ on a bike (there).
But they're tentacles of the same Federal Government, and the fact that they're nominally separate means little
I'd totally believe I'm just unaware of it being true, but I don't know about NCUA forcing Credit Unions closed under sketchy pretenses and selling them off to bigger conglomerates. The FDIC has been doing just that, to benefit the big banks.
I think because the Fed (and its shareholder banks) is not a the top of the food chain under credit unions, there's less political influence.
this is simply local cache (like Akamai), which is what it sounds like, it's a service, not a violation of net neutrality.
Even if it's grabbing more data channels for a fee, that's just price rationing, so long as it's available to all comers. Burstable bandwidth isn't a new idea - but if it's billable you don't want it automatic (or there'd be another outcry).
And, hey, the 1% doesn't need to wait for their downloads.
Can your Credit Union lend out the money it has on deposit 9 times over because it can access the Federal Reserve Bank's discount window and if it gets over-extended go running to the FDIC for a bail-out? It's the Federal Reserve System that's created our current economic mess, so by pulling your funds out and going to a Credit Union you're helping to solve the actual problem.
And, yeah, doing the right thing* is going to cost you something.
* some Credit Unions use direct or indirect Federal Reserve deposit accounts and access the Fed discount window. Determining if switching to a particular Credit Union is really a help is more work than it should be. Not every Credit Union is lilly white.
Anybody know of a Firefox extension to give back the 2004 Google features?
I want at least:
search on bottom no.need.for.double.quotes +term -term cache:url
It looks like most of it is still there but +"google likes to make its products frustrating to use" lately.
I won't even start on the black-on-white icons set that all the 80's GUI's ditched as soon as they got 8-bit color because usability people know about information.
"While conventional wisdom says virtualized environments and public clouds create massive security headaches
Huh? Nobody I know understands this to be 'conventional wisdom'. What are they smoking?
the godfather of Xen, Simon Crosb, says virtualization actually holds a key to better security. Isolation
Yeah, we all knew that a decade ago. My simple SOHO office server is in the process of migrating from two linux boxes to one VM server with 8 VM's for role isolation. I'm no visionary or security genius - I did this for clients 3-4 years ago (I had to wait for hardware prices to fall for in-house stuff) when the technology became commodity and performant.
Wow, that's an incredibly interesting fact. The only ethical way of doing such a study is to grab a large sample of people who are not known to have a peanut allergy.
But aren't those people almost guaranteed to not have an allergy to either method of roasting? Everybody eats peanuts, right, unless they don't like them?
without getting the foundations laid properly first to make such pieces actually work
If there's one thing that would get me to drop a thousand dollars on a Macbook, it's that KDE still doesn't know how to hide the cursor while I'm typing. There, right now it's oVer the V in this sentence. How frustrating - Apple has been doing this right since the 80's.
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No, but why use VNC?
To maintain state between remote clients.
That's just streaming a video of the remote desktop through TCP/IP. Use X the way it was designed.
Can't maintain state that way unless it's special like a SunRay.
Fracking is a really screwy operation that a lot of countries have banned because it causes a lot of problems and earthquakes.
Please compare the relative depths of fracking operations and the faults upon which earthquakes occur.
And I'd be pretty surprised if the New Madrid quake didn't rattle Oklahoma since it rang church bells in Boston.
A brick an mortar school is more likely to drag KA down to the level of other schools than it is to raise up KA to a new level.
Agreed. At first I thought, "if they want to build a building it should be a center for housing content producers." Then I realized - if they can't have their content producers working effective remotely, then they're missing what needs to be done for their core audience.
Even if it were decided that Khan and any instructors he employs each need five support staff members, those should all be remote too. They should work to make that as efficient as possible, and in doing so improve the long-term quality of their product.
....because STEM majors are so much more demanding than others ... if you fall behind ... you're fucked ... If you're getting a degree in English ...
And yet, look at the way the two are taught. My Freshman bio class had 190 students with two assistant profs, in a auditorium, and my total freshman class was just over a thousand. Neither prof was good, the TA's were unavailable, the textbook was poorly written, and on the final the average score was 23% (I got a 44, but one nerd pulled a 62 and blew the curve). These were two hundred students who did well enough to get into Dartmouth who were utterly failed by the lack of teaching.
In comparison, my freshman English seminar had 12 students. This was a mandatory class, so they have close to a hundred sections over the three Freshman terms. The claim is that writing can't be taught on an industrial scale but science can be. Yet, mysteriously, 60% of students are failing to succeed in the sciences.
Does it strike anyone as ironic that it's so unusual for a company to act the way a capitalist company is *supposed* to act that it's called a 'secret weapon'?
Wait, thought that involved making bad business decisions, giving everybody huge bonuses and then going to the government for a hand-out?
For all the really, really smart people that MS employes, why do they keep on making the dumbest mistakes one could come up with if it were a "dumb idea of the month" challenge?
It's faster and easier and they're able to externalize the consequences.
How is this Flamebait? He's right, this vehicle exists only on paper so far, and honestly a $7,000 electric car with 80 mile range seems so unbelievable in 2011 that I'll believe it when I see it. Not everything on the internet is real
From the first link:
It's not mass-market yet, but a working prototype is real and not 'only on paper'.
You are doing something wrong, installing from a USB drive has worked since computers can boot from USB.
Yes, but many BIOS's still suck. A fairly recent BIOS I have requires you to turn on USB disk emulation, go in and set the USB flash drive to the primary boot hard drive, then put the hard drive as primary in the boot order.
Most BIOS's can deal with setting 'CD' to the primary boot drive, and if there's no media it just skips right over it.
Save us, OpenBoot.
So here's the options:
A) ~$200 = HP Touchpad off eBay and install Android because there's very few apps in the webOS market designed for tablets, only a few thousand.
B) iPad
Am I the only one who thinks he should get a part-time job for a few weeks to raise the extra $200 to get his dying grandmother something that will make her happy in her last few months of life?
I was very tempted to pepper that with obscenities to a degree that would make Penn Jillette look normal. Jesus Flying Christ on a bike (there).
But they're tentacles of the same Federal Government, and the fact that they're nominally separate means little
I'd totally believe I'm just unaware of it being true, but I don't know about NCUA forcing Credit Unions closed under sketchy pretenses and selling them off to bigger conglomerates. The FDIC has been doing just that, to benefit the big banks.
I think because the Fed (and its shareholder banks) is not a the top of the food chain under credit unions, there's less political influence.
Credit Unions are insured by the FDIC same as banks.
No, typically their deposits are insured by NCUA.
Wait, did FDIC take over NCUA recently?
this is simply local cache (like Akamai), which is what it sounds like, it's a service, not a violation of net neutrality.
Even if it's grabbing more data channels for a fee, that's just price rationing, so long as it's available to all comers. Burstable bandwidth isn't a new idea - but if it's billable you don't want it automatic (or there'd be another outcry).
And, hey, the 1% doesn't need to wait for their downloads.
Our politicians have successfully convinced the voters that regulation of any kind is bad.
Regulation is never bad when the regulators have more information than the market participants they're trying to regulate.
I'm getting a better deal at my large bank
Yes, but why?
Can your Credit Union lend out the money it has on deposit 9 times over because it can access the Federal Reserve Bank's discount window and if it gets over-extended go running to the FDIC for a bail-out? It's the Federal Reserve System that's created our current economic mess, so by pulling your funds out and going to a Credit Union you're helping to solve the actual problem.
And, yeah, doing the right thing* is going to cost you something.
* some Credit Unions use direct or indirect Federal Reserve deposit accounts and access the Fed discount window. Determining if switching to a particular Credit Union is really a help is more work than it should be. Not every Credit Union is lilly white.
Anybody know of a Firefox extension to give back the 2004 Google features?
I want at least:
search on bottom
no.need.for.double.quotes
+term
-term
cache:url
It looks like most of it is still there but +"google likes to make its products frustrating to use" lately.
I won't even start on the black-on-white icons set that all the 80's GUI's ditched as soon as they got 8-bit color because usability people know about information.
"While conventional wisdom says virtualized environments and public clouds create massive security headaches
Huh? Nobody I know understands this to be 'conventional wisdom'. What are they smoking?
the godfather of Xen, Simon Crosb, says virtualization actually holds a key to better security. Isolation
Yeah, we all knew that a decade ago. My simple SOHO office server is in the process of migrating from two linux boxes to one VM server with 8 VM's for role isolation. I'm no visionary or security genius - I did this for clients 3-4 years ago (I had to wait for hardware prices to fall for in-house stuff) when the technology became commodity and performant.
And we feel good about letting Europeans man the switch?
I don't care if the Europeans are at the switch, as long as the switch is on the ESA's Mars base.
they are just storing the part that gets repeated over and over, and using it multiple times...
Right, so they can reduce their data acquisition time - no need to re-capture the same data.
Sort of like a spiral CT, I imagine, in general concept.
set completion-ignore-case On
Oh, awesome, thanks!
Sauce?
I recommend the satay.
I expect you're correct, but do you have a source for the change-in-roasting-method claim?
This isn't exactly it, but perhaps in the discussion or references:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674901535575
I don't quite recall the details - might have been that we used to fry more, and now do more dry-roasting, but I recall a temperature change as well.
Probably still not specific enough.
haha, true that.
Wow, that's an incredibly interesting fact. The only ethical way of doing such a study is to grab a large sample of people who are not known to have a peanut allergy.
But aren't those people almost guaranteed to not have an allergy to either method of roasting? Everybody eats peanuts, right, unless they don't like them?
Great stuff, thanks. Looks like some important NAT and ICMP handling changes too.
without getting the foundations laid properly first to make such pieces actually work
If there's one thing that would get me to drop a thousand dollars on a Macbook, it's that KDE still doesn't know how to hide the cursor while I'm typing. There, right now it's oVer the V in this sentence. How frustrating - Apple has been doing this right since the 80's.
do /Applications /Devices /Settings /Users /Users/root /Libraries /System /Temp /Variable
So, do you hate sysadmins, or are you in the left-Shift keyswitch business?