I've been waiting for stable drivers on a number of fronts and waiting for support from vendors like tivo and kensington. I don't dare upgrade to 64 bit, 32 is headache enough. WMP freezes for any video I load- have to use Nero showtime. iTunes 7 video is broken too. Everything else works great and I love the eye candy, but I give up.
Another problem- people on unlimited pipes, botnets, universities, etc could ping flood someone out of house and home. There's already tto much uninvited traffic at my firewall.
For what it is worth, I'm not fighting with you and I've very much enjoyed the opportunity to debate and discover/expand my feelings and try to better explain them. As they say in medicine, watch one, do one, teach one. I've never had to put these thoughts out on paper and they didn't begin forming until I really tried. Forgive the spits and sputters as I figure out my feelings and learn to explain them to you:) Thank you again for the great debate!
We send our kids to school because we admit we do not know everything. It is hard for anyone to sell the value of an education in a given topic if it is outside their professional/daily life. We all specialize as we get older and discard a ton of material we no longer deem necessary to our current life. I do think it is the teachers job to say why a file is interesting or important because they're the ones who really understand why- and if they're not, they've got the wrong class or the wrong job.
To clarify too- by incentive, I don't mean "if you get an A, Ill give you a cookie/treat/class trip or if you get an F I'll be on your case"- I mean "You'll need to know this because ________________" where the reason is anything from "you can build a rocketship" to "the people of Exampleistan tried/forgot this and this is what happened to them". By incentive, I just mean a reason- even if slight- why something might be useful or interesting. For many topics this is implied, understood, known, etc- but if the teacher finds him/herself saying, "you know, I don't really know why this would be important/interesting" maybe a) the teacher doesn't love the field/topic and shouldn't be teaching it or b) maybe it really isn't worth learning. There's plenty of that to generate disinterest among students. I've been using 'love the topic' a bit liberally- but I don't mean it to be quite so literal- I just mean the teacher should find the subject either important (which implies a certain amount of interest) or interesting.
I don't believe in exams per se- you can memorize answers and for some people theyll stick around for longer than others, but I think for most of us, we need the why, the connectivity. Someone once told me that learning requires that we be able to say "oh, that's like _______________" and relate it to something we understand. There are a select few who can take a stack of facts and read between the lines- people are prepped for exams with practice questions that emphasize the memorization more than the connection. The problem isn't so much the exams as it is the preparation. Good teachers explain the material and connect it all and practice for exams by going through the connections and asking questions out loud and discussing. Handing out lists of questions and saying itll be a subset of these forces kids to study just long enough to memorize the answer rather than studying to understand the concept and be able to answer it from any perspective/phrasing. This problem existed for me in college too where TAs/professors focus on the q/a so much and then you get to a test and they come about it from a completely different perspective/position/method and everyone gets left in the dust. This all can be summed up in "teachers should know and love/believe in the material and be able to really teach it".
Sorry for the multiple replies- I don't think that the teacher should be hanging on every student saying "but this is important and fun!" - if the teacher -knows- the material and is not just reading it and knows how to really explain it, you're helping everyone. This apathy some teachers have- the "well, i'll teach it the way I want to teach it and if they don't understand, fine, I don't have time" is a problem. Someone who really knows the material and finds it interesting will naturally convey that and kids will pick up on it. I had plenty of PE teachers reading me material they didn't understand or care about. I had college grad students reading me material they knew but couldn't teach. Reading material and teaching material are different. Really smart kids can often learn just by reading/listening to dry presentation, but most of us need it filtered and need to hear that inflection that it is at least mildly interesting or our brains say why bother. What I'm saying here is not for teachers to do extra work, or try harder at pleasing kids, but to put teachers who know and love the subject and the kids as the ones teaching.
We have broken parents. Good teachers accept that and do their best to out parent the parents. If we don't fix what the parents broke, they too will become bad parents and repeat the process. Parents send their kids to school for more than facts, even if they don't realize it. It is the teachers job to do more than parrot facts.
The best teachers should be able to make a kid -want- to study by making it interesting and teaching it in a way that they personally understand and grasp the relevance/importance. Kids think they know everything- not necessarily the material- but are -sure- they would never need what they're being taught- I was one of them. I still studied, but it was so hard for me, I never gave it my absolute best- the return was just too low. I wish I'd worked harder at math. I was given the choice of a more advanced class because of my performance, but I opted for the easy route. I ended up not being challenged enough and my math interest and skills went outh the window and I'm paying for it big time in my adult life. I spent high school programming and running my business (an ISP)- it was just more rewarding. Anyway- long story short- kids don't know anything and they need good teachers to show them it can be interesting and how important it really is. Parents have lost control of their children and we've gotten too PC- it's abuse if you yell at you kid for being a know it all slacker who hates authority. We all hated authority, but kids no longer respect it and it often gets abused by idiot administrators who impose their own idealism and crackpot beliefs on students. I don't think kids can or should be spanked, caned, or any of that crap, but you had better believe I think kids should be able to get yelled at (after diplomacy has failed) for some of the offenses I saw as a student without the teachers fearing for their jobs and a lawsuit. We need good teachers for everyone more than ever because what we lack in control must be made up for in interest/excitement/incentive.
Dolby B&C with a good EQ really helped that out for me. I had an all Denon setup and an Audio Source EQ (could have done better there I suppose) and remember being amazed the hiss was gone and how good things sounded. I actually made CDs of many of my tapes with a top of the line computer and one of the first Philips cd burners for home use cost something like blu ray burners today.
some people like to see what calls were made and to where - the entire point of detailed billing. nobody needs to see non descriptive data charges to bury all the phone calls. Either say what site youvisited, or ditch the data logging- but not the whole detialed billing feature.
it's illegal for you to take their code and do that, but the copyright holder can change the license any time- but old versions stay under their license.
my last ambulance ride was around $400 if I recall, and I wasn't on any special devices or in cardiac arrest or anything- just an uncomfortable ride strapped to a board. (car accident).
machine prints two copies with blacked boxes (for optical scanning), a 2D barcode that is a dump of the votes, and another that is a one way hash- voter verifies both pages (blackened boxes) and gets/keeps a print of the hash, puts full ballot each in separate boxes. recount various districts by randomly either 2d, optical, hand, etc- machine fraud and errors should be easy to catch. users should be able to take their hash to any machine, re/'vote' and have it validate the hash- even after the election.
Just not show gaming articles in the firehose? That's not a bad idea either, but on the other hand if someone doesn't 'subscribe' to gaming, and +'s an article, maybe it means more than (or at least as much as) someone's +'s who does subscribe to gaming?
Why not come up with a way to pick groups relevant to you (via your front page settings?) and somehow factor that in when people use firehose- eg if someone isn't showing anything from 'Games' on their front page and routinely mods down gaming in the firehose, you know to count that opinion less.. basically you end up filtering out the worst of each category and let the people who really are knowledgeable in those areas moderate and then let peoples front page settings dictate what gets shown out of the top stuff.
also- I'd love to be able to turn off journals, bookmarks, etc in firehose too.
This isn't necessarily relevant to this particular story, but since they're not an agency of the US government, we should legally be able to wear RIAA 'raid jackets' in protest for their strongarming of american citizens (and I believe they've in fact worn these jackets too). The point of the jackets would be that wearing a jacket with RIAA on it doesn't give them any more power than you get when you wear it, and simultaneously making a tongue in cheek statement about their sense of empowerment.
I'd love to take it a step further and have everybody wear HL2 combine style gas masks and attire, but that wouldn't be practical.
Anyway, if we could get someone to silkscreen some, we could have as much fun on our powertrips as they do.
caveat: indistinguishable to you and me and all but the most trained gemologists, and i imagine at some point even they won't be able to tell the difference. IIRC, the only real difference is what lights they flouresce under and additives and intentional impurities will probably eventually resolve that. The way I read it (despite deBeers spin) is that lab diamonds are probably better than earth diamonds, but just don't flouresce the same under weird lights.
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I've been waiting for stable drivers on a number of fronts and waiting for support from vendors like tivo and kensington. I don't dare upgrade to 64 bit, 32 is headache enough. WMP freezes for any video I load- have to use Nero showtime. iTunes 7 video is broken too. Everything else works great and I love the eye candy, but I give up.
Another problem- people on unlimited pipes, botnets, universities, etc could ping flood someone out of house and home. There's already tto much uninvited traffic at my firewall.
For what it is worth, I'm not fighting with you and I've very much enjoyed the opportunity to debate and discover/expand my feelings and try to better explain them. As they say in medicine, watch one, do one, teach one. I've never had to put these thoughts out on paper and they didn't begin forming until I really tried. Forgive the spits and sputters as I figure out my feelings and learn to explain them to you :) Thank you again for the great debate!
We send our kids to school because we admit we do not know everything. It is hard for anyone to sell the value of an education in a given topic if it is outside their professional/daily life. We all specialize as we get older and discard a ton of material we no longer deem necessary to our current life. I do think it is the teachers job to say why a file is interesting or important because they're the ones who really understand why- and if they're not, they've got the wrong class or the wrong job.
To clarify too- by incentive, I don't mean "if you get an A, Ill give you a cookie/treat/class trip or if you get an F I'll be on your case"- I mean "You'll need to know this because ________________" where the reason is anything from "you can build a rocketship" to "the people of Exampleistan tried/forgot this and this is what happened to them". By incentive, I just mean a reason- even if slight- why something might be useful or interesting. For many topics this is implied, understood, known, etc- but if the teacher finds him/herself saying, "you know, I don't really know why this would be important/interesting" maybe a) the teacher doesn't love the field/topic and shouldn't be teaching it or b) maybe it really isn't worth learning. There's plenty of that to generate disinterest among students. I've been using 'love the topic' a bit liberally- but I don't mean it to be quite so literal- I just mean the teacher should find the subject either important (which implies a certain amount of interest) or interesting.
I don't believe in exams per se- you can memorize answers and for some people theyll stick around for longer than others, but I think for most of us, we need the why, the connectivity. Someone once told me that learning requires that we be able to say "oh, that's like _______________" and relate it to something we understand. There are a select few who can take a stack of facts and read between the lines- people are prepped for exams with practice questions that emphasize the memorization more than the connection. The problem isn't so much the exams as it is the preparation. Good teachers explain the material and connect it all and practice for exams by going through the connections and asking questions out loud and discussing. Handing out lists of questions and saying itll be a subset of these forces kids to study just long enough to memorize the answer rather than studying to understand the concept and be able to answer it from any perspective/phrasing. This problem existed for me in college too where TAs/professors focus on the q/a so much and then you get to a test and they come about it from a completely different perspective/position/method and everyone gets left in the dust. This all can be summed up in "teachers should know and love/believe in the material and be able to really teach it".
Sorry for the multiple replies- I don't think that the teacher should be hanging on every student saying "but this is important and fun!" - if the teacher -knows- the material and is not just reading it and knows how to really explain it, you're helping everyone. This apathy some teachers have- the "well, i'll teach it the way I want to teach it and if they don't understand, fine, I don't have time" is a problem. Someone who really knows the material and finds it interesting will naturally convey that and kids will pick up on it. I had plenty of PE teachers reading me material they didn't understand or care about. I had college grad students reading me material they knew but couldn't teach. Reading material and teaching material are different. Really smart kids can often learn just by reading/listening to dry presentation, but most of us need it filtered and need to hear that inflection that it is at least mildly interesting or our brains say why bother. What I'm saying here is not for teachers to do extra work, or try harder at pleasing kids, but to put teachers who know and love the subject and the kids as the ones teaching.
Note- in general I actually agree with most of that sentiment- but we've broken society and we need to start fixing it first, I think.
We have broken parents. Good teachers accept that and do their best to out parent the parents. If we don't fix what the parents broke, they too will become bad parents and repeat the process. Parents send their kids to school for more than facts, even if they don't realize it. It is the teachers job to do more than parrot facts.
The best teachers should be able to make a kid -want- to study by making it interesting and teaching it in a way that they personally understand and grasp the relevance/importance. Kids think they know everything- not necessarily the material- but are -sure- they would never need what they're being taught- I was one of them. I still studied, but it was so hard for me, I never gave it my absolute best- the return was just too low. I wish I'd worked harder at math. I was given the choice of a more advanced class because of my performance, but I opted for the easy route. I ended up not being challenged enough and my math interest and skills went outh the window and I'm paying for it big time in my adult life. I spent high school programming and running my business (an ISP)- it was just more rewarding. Anyway- long story short- kids don't know anything and they need good teachers to show them it can be interesting and how important it really is. Parents have lost control of their children and we've gotten too PC- it's abuse if you yell at you kid for being a know it all slacker who hates authority. We all hated authority, but kids no longer respect it and it often gets abused by idiot administrators who impose their own idealism and crackpot beliefs on students. I don't think kids can or should be spanked, caned, or any of that crap, but you had better believe I think kids should be able to get yelled at (after diplomacy has failed) for some of the offenses I saw as a student without the teachers fearing for their jobs and a lawsuit. We need good teachers for everyone more than ever because what we lack in control must be made up for in interest/excitement/incentive.
Dolby B&C with a good EQ really helped that out for me. I had an all Denon setup and an Audio Source EQ (could have done better there I suppose) and remember being amazed the hiss was gone and how good things sounded. I actually made CDs of many of my tapes with a top of the line computer and one of the first Philips cd burners for home use cost something like blu ray burners today.
Reminds me of how modern rail lines (US standard ones at least) are all derived from chariot ruts IIRC.
some people like to see what calls were made and to where - the entire point of detailed billing. nobody needs to see non descriptive data charges to bury all the phone calls. Either say what site youvisited, or ditch the data logging- but not the whole detialed billing feature.
it's illegal for you to take their code and do that, but the copyright holder can change the license any time- but old versions stay under their license.
my last ambulance ride was around $400 if I recall, and I wasn't on any special devices or in cardiac arrest or anything- just an uncomfortable ride strapped to a board. (car accident).
Looks like Sharp will have to rename their Aquos line!
err two-way mirror? (you know, for lineups/interrogations)
One-way mirror sunglasses!
machine prints two copies with blacked boxes (for optical scanning), a 2D barcode that is a dump of the votes, and another that is a one way hash- voter verifies both pages (blackened boxes) and gets/keeps a print of the hash, puts full ballot each in separate boxes. recount various districts by randomly either 2d, optical, hand, etc- machine fraud and errors should be easy to catch. users should be able to take their hash to any machine, re/'vote' and have it validate the hash- even after the election.
Just not show gaming articles in the firehose? That's not a bad idea either, but on the other hand if someone doesn't 'subscribe' to gaming, and +'s an article, maybe it means more than (or at least as much as) someone's +'s who does subscribe to gaming?
Why not come up with a way to pick groups relevant to you (via your front page settings?) and somehow factor that in when people use firehose- eg if someone isn't showing anything from 'Games' on their front page and routinely mods down gaming in the firehose, you know to count that opinion less.. basically you end up filtering out the worst of each category and let the people who really are knowledgeable in those areas moderate and then let peoples front page settings dictate what gets shown out of the top stuff.
also- I'd love to be able to turn off journals, bookmarks, etc in firehose too.
This isn't necessarily relevant to this particular story, but since they're not an agency of the US government, we should legally be able to wear RIAA 'raid jackets' in protest for their strongarming of american citizens (and I believe they've in fact worn these jackets too). The point of the jackets would be that wearing a jacket with RIAA on it doesn't give them any more power than you get when you wear it, and simultaneously making a tongue in cheek statement about their sense of empowerment.
I'd love to take it a step further and have everybody wear HL2 combine style gas masks and attire, but that wouldn't be practical.
Anyway, if we could get someone to silkscreen some, we could have as much fun on our powertrips as they do.
Ever play track and field with a Nintendo PowerPad?
Indeed- most of the failures I've seen are of the 'click of death' sort or the head-crash sort.
caveat: indistinguishable to you and me and all but the most trained gemologists, and i imagine at some point even they won't be able to tell the difference. IIRC, the only real difference is what lights they flouresce under and additives and intentional impurities will probably eventually resolve that. The way I read it (despite deBeers spin) is that lab diamonds are probably better than earth diamonds, but just don't flouresce the same under weird lights.