Yes. The typical problem is when I owe $3.83 and I give $5.08. I like to use up the change I have.
You can see them hesistate for a moment, lights flickering.
seriously though, who is buying calculators for kids learning basic math?
My wife and I homeschool. I do the math with our 10-year old daughter. No calculator. For crying out loud, how hard is it to learn how to use a calculator? One day, max? She's not missing a thing. She'll learn how to use it when we get to trig, I suppose.
We do subject her to a standardized test annually. I helped administer it to some older kids--there was a section in the test for those using calculators. We weren't using them, so we ignored it. These kids zipped through anyway. They can make change in their heads, which is a rare skill these days.
E-mail is just one method of social interaction. My wife checks e-mail all the time, she enjoys the social interaction with distant friends. She enjoys talking on the phone. She enjoys spending time with friends. Sometimes she even enjoys _my_ company. I'd hardly call her addicted to e-mail; I'd say she's a social creature, as we all are.
And e-mail is old-school interaction: it's like writing letters, which is what people used to do before telephones.
It's a general Slashdot thing. Everyone seems fit to suggest what the legal system _should_ do, versus what it might _actually_ do, which have no relation to each other. But yeah, talking with a lawyer is the thing to do.
Well, you'd need to ask a lawyer, but even so, I find it hard to believe that a judge would find for the company under the circumstances.
You know what, Slashdot? Your common sense means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING when it comes to legal issues. You "can't see something happening" means it could very well happen in a court of law. Lots of disappointed folks come out of courtrooms, because the judge applied his convoluted understanding of an arcane law, and COMMON SENSE lost.
Well, thank god you can save $2.40! People like you are the reason we have Wal-Mart: a rush to the lowest price with no consideration for any other factor in your purchase.
Is B&N better than Amazon? How? Also, there are independent booksellers still around? Or are they just money-laundering fronts for Borders / B&N?
Police can demand all they want, but you have no obligation to show them ID.... You are required to identify yourself, but that can be as simple as saying "my name is [insert name here]."
Name, rank, and serial number is all they're gettin' from me!
at some point young children will have to face up to the concept of death.
Thanks for telling us that, no one here really considered that, how stupid of us. I suggest plopping your tykes down in front of, say, "Tombstone" or something a little more bloody, just to get them used to real life.
BTW, in real life, most young children in the West don't have to face up to the concept of death. It's in our entertainment that we need to deal with it all the time.
When I was a scout, the badges focused on practical living and outdoor skills and community-oriented service work. I don't recall "The Free Market" or "Anti Communism" or even "Property Rights". This is a bit overboard, IMO.
They do IT as a job because music, art, flying model planes, camping or whatever their passion really is doesn't pay.
One way to do it is find the top two things you like to do, do the second for money, the first for the love of it. (Assuming that the second one is marketable. Expand list as necessary until you find something marketable.) This way, you don't ruin your favorite thing by having to do it for money. That involves meetings, documentation, and various other drudgeries.
so the more general you go, the easier it is to find something somewhere
As a generalist, you learn less and less about more and more, until you eventually know nothing about everything. OTOH as a specialist, you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.
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But in all seriousness, one of my company's big enterprise software customers is looking at alternatives (IBM is the first one) because "HP is dying".
Yes. The typical problem is when I owe $3.83 and I give $5.08. I like to use up the change I have. You can see them hesistate for a moment, lights flickering.
My wife and I homeschool. I do the math with our 10-year old daughter. No calculator. For crying out loud, how hard is it to learn how to use a calculator? One day, max? She's not missing a thing. She'll learn how to use it when we get to trig, I suppose.
We do subject her to a standardized test annually. I helped administer it to some older kids--there was a section in the test for those using calculators. We weren't using them, so we ignored it. These kids zipped through anyway. They can make change in their heads, which is a rare skill these days.
I'm Old School: Ban the Calculators!
Forget it. It's about standardized test scores, and how school districts are evaluated.
Ah, that lovely word, "may". With the word MAY, everything is possible. Why, for all we know, unicorns MAY exist!
But this simulated universe has an intelligent designer, for sure!
And e-mail is old-school interaction: it's like writing letters, which is what people used to do before telephones.
I think we are the ones that undergo a test when faced with some "abnormality" in a child. Are we humane? Or utilitarian machines?
A result of technology is that people will do something simply because they can. It unleashes the Promethean instinct in us.
What are all these types of new entertainment? What have I missed?
Was Luke Skywalker (aka Mark Hamill) there?
It's a general Slashdot thing. Everyone seems fit to suggest what the legal system _should_ do, versus what it might _actually_ do, which have no relation to each other. But yeah, talking with a lawyer is the thing to do.
You know what, Slashdot? Your common sense means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING when it comes to legal issues. You "can't see something happening" means it could very well happen in a court of law. Lots of disappointed folks come out of courtrooms, because the judge applied his convoluted understanding of an arcane law, and COMMON SENSE lost.
Have we sunk so low here that people aren't even reading the comments now before responding? Yes, we have sunk so low. RTFC!
Thanks for the tip! I made money with Sun stock!!
I searched on slashdot. It's been asserted at least 640K times there, so it must be true.
Is B&N better than Amazon? How? Also, there are independent booksellers still around? Or are they just money-laundering fronts for Borders / B&N?
Name, rank, and serial number is all they're gettin' from me!
You say that Intel only needs to apply their will or desire? Then why haven't they done so already?
Thanks for telling us that, no one here really considered that, how stupid of us. I suggest plopping your tykes down in front of, say, "Tombstone" or something a little more bloody, just to get them used to real life.
BTW, in real life, most young children in the West don't have to face up to the concept of death. It's in our entertainment that we need to deal with it all the time.
When I was a scout, the badges focused on practical living and outdoor skills and community-oriented service work. I don't recall "The Free Market" or "Anti Communism" or even "Property Rights". This is a bit overboard, IMO.
No, no, no, you don't get it! I really _am_ Napoleon!
To something outrageous like Napoleon Bonaparte. Then anyone stealing your ID will be considered a loon.
One way to do it is find the top two things you like to do, do the second for money, the first for the love of it. (Assuming that the second one is marketable. Expand list as necessary until you find something marketable.) This way, you don't ruin your favorite thing by having to do it for money. That involves meetings, documentation, and various other drudgeries.
As a generalist, you learn less and less about more and more, until you eventually know nothing about everything. OTOH as a specialist, you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.