I was chosen to be in their survey. Lucky me. I informed them that I have no TV (Haven't since 1984 - Go figure.) I still wanted to take part in the survey since I so use services like netflix, amazon, etc. THey refused to let me be part of their data gathering...
The days of regular media are gone. Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.
THere are around 50 million students in the states... 4 Billion dollar initiative would bean about 80 per student. Doled out over three years is around 27 dollars per student. I'm sure that the money will be spread equally among all students. So a small school district like the one in which I work would receive about 27,000 dollars.
To teach programming as a k-12 prograpm will require new teachers as all the current teachers are aready teaching their subjects (6-12).
To teach programming as a K-12 program will either increase the school day's instructional time or decrease from current content.
What will primary teachers do? take a workshop-class on programming? Teachers are already overloaded.
In Illinois, teachers hired withing the last few years now have to teach until they are 67. I am one of the few (only?) in my district that could teach some coding... I actually use RPG Maker in my English classes to teach participatory narrative and scripting... I also help other teachers how to check their email and turn on their computers...
What I'm getting at is the educational system is broken for this kind of thing. THrowing 4 billion dollars to administrators is just going to increase the workload on an already overburdened teaching population.
And getting a programmer to come in and teach is not going to work. To get a programmer who has never had any training in teaching to teach a classroom full of twelve year old kids is going to be "interesting." And why would someone skilled in programming want to teach? It is totally not worth the pay cut... A deian programmer pay is $86K while Median teacher salary is $58K. Maybe I'm wrong. There may be a horde of programmers out there that would teach just for the love of working with children. I'm a teacher after all.
I think more people should look into this and other donations.. I've donated a kidney and am on the Bone Marrow Donor registry (http://bethematch.org/)
The three times I've cried in my life: Wedding day, birth of child, and walking to meet my kidney recipient after the operation.
I went through the Transplant Facility at MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina). The operations, while major, are somewhat common and straight forward. I never doubted anything would go wrong, and to be honest, I'd do it again... This is not to say that it wasn't painless. Day one, it felt like I was hit by a bus; day two felt like I was kit by a car; day three I don;t remember... (lots of morphine); day four I was home. It took about 8 weeks before I really felt like myself again. Well worth a summer vacation... You want to pick up chicks, drop the info that you donated a kidney....
I'm actually surprised that there isn't a Be The Match program for Kidney donations as there is for Bone Marrow. (Maybe there is and I am unaware--just did a google search... egads.)
Anyway, if you don;t want to donate while you're alive; sign up to do it afterward when you aren't using the organs any more.
This movie was released in Austrailia, I think. I'd already seen it when a students bought me a burned DVD of it. I teach a Science Fiction literature class and "All You Zombies" is the story we read to introduce time travel. (I know there may better for introducing the topic to a bunch of high school students, but it works well with the other reading selections I use.)
Anyway, I watched it and it is worth watching. The story is mostly all dialogue which makes one think it would make a horrible movie without much action or scenery. Especially since the text is mostly cerebral. However, the movie adds some interesting aspects to the film. In the story, the temporal agent is charged of preventing disaster (terrorists?) and recruiting other temporal agents. One of the disasters mentioned in the story is the Fizzle War. The writers of the screenplay, Spierig brothers(?), did a really good job of taking the twisted timeline of the protagonist and incorporating the events of the Fizzle war to make the movie even more interesting, and thought provoking.
I'm sure Heinlein would approve of the movie.
I'll probably go watch it in the theater.
It may be better than Primer... Now there is a good Timey-wimey film.
Right out of the gate, Chromebooks are easier to administer at an "enterprise" level. Yes, the school district needs to "sell its soul to get the management console (domain control and device management.) Google has been helpful with support for any needs we have. Getting in touch with and help from apple for issues is near impossible.
Chromebooks come with some good tools for using existing infrastructure without too much of a learning curve. Getting teachers to open and use a spreadsheet on an ipad is a lot more tricky than opening the same file on a chromebook.
Bottom line, if you are dealing with more than 5 devices, chromebooks save a ton of time and energy.
I have an ipod.. If I am part of this class action settlement, I'll get 10 cents (as someone said earlier). I don;t want the dime; I want to be able to add media to the ipod without going through itunes... Want a class action lawsuit to do some good? Make it so that there are fundamental changes. of course Apple will say that it is impossible to put media on the ipod with out itunes... I know a few jailborken ipods that show otherwise.
I work with a lot of students at my school and I've purchased a few KANO kits. They are great and appeal to kids who want to program and kids who want to make cool cases in woodworking shop... Grab one and try it out. If it doesn;t work, donate it to a local school's computer club.
I also use RPG maker (There is a free version on sourceforge I think) which can be used to make some very elaborate 2d rpg style games.... At first the kids I work with love the mapping and simple switch oriented programming, but after a while, the kids are learning scripting and the logic behind all programming.
The ads for me are always late. Here are a couple recent examples.
I wanted the 5th edition D&D Players handbook. I knew about it from word of mouth within my local D&D group. I went to amazon and ordered it and a big bag-o-dice. For the next day or three, I see advertisements for stuff I have already purchased.
I frequent a blog HomeBrew Finds which is nothing more than a listing of sales around the internet. I saw a fermentor last month and ordered it. After I ordered it, I saw adds for fermentors...I don't need any more.
Contextual ads need to be a little more prophetic and a little less "I sold you so."
Just over a month ago, Google dropped the SMS chat feature that has been present in Google labs for years. it has worked great and was the main reason I switched to gmail. Discussing it with other tech folks we can only conjecture that Google has ditched it because it was one of the ways people have found to sens SMS messages from a source that the NSA can;t track. (Create throw away email through some random VPN.)
Contemplating going back to my own email server again. This new beta look might just be what pushes me over the edge.
With Ford's last two movies, a cardboard cutout of him in his 40's would have done a better job than he did. His performance in Ender's Game was horrendous (don;t blame the script Asa Butterfield and Viola Davis did great with what they were given.)
Hopefully Harrison Ford's reprisal will be Han Solo sitting in a Laser-Rocker in the old folks asteroid telling stories of who shot first to you bantha fodderlings.
Welcome to modern politics. Politicians do whatever they want and don;t need to consult the public at all. And when motivated enough, these politicians can pass all sorts of legislation in a day. In the recent past Illinois lawmakers introduced a bill requiring teachers to teach until they are 67; passed the bill in both house and senate; had the bill signed by the governor. All of this in one single day. Teachers union, was shocked and has been fighting this ever since, but since it is "the law" they don;t have a lot to go on. Everyone else in Illinois has been on pins and needles knowing that the government can in a day vote your career into misery.
Yes, I still feel that purchasing this type of equipment is a waste of taxpayer money to prepare for an event that happens maybe for one day every 5 years at the most.
5,10,15,20,25,30,35 -- seven times in 36 years. Check.
I can count the times it's snowed like this on one hand in my 36 years here.
I dare the administration to tell me I have to teach this curriculum to my students. I'll give my own slant on it and end up teaching anonymous proxy, torrents, ripping, you name it...
Actually as common core, students have to work more with media. As a result we are ripping DVDs and cds and editing these to meet some educational goals... I am sure that is against their curricula.
bastards. (*IAA, not the students, this time.)
So you were the type of student in school that "read" the assignment but failed to "understand" what he read.
Never once did Ender seek "revenge." Never did Ender want to make them "Sorry" for beating him up. He wanted them to stop, and he was willing to hurt them enough so they would never hurt him again. This is very different than revenge.
I really don't understand where you come from in thinking that this is a revenge novel. In the Ender makes sacrifices because he is going through is for the betterment of humanity.
Survival is a large theme in this novel. not revenge. There is a huge difference.
I'm glad I was not your teacher for a literature class.
When all of the internet is being filtered through five or six main providers, it is easier for the NSA to funnel all of the information into its data analysis machines. Can you image the headaches the NSA would have if all the little mom and pop companies (if they were still around to do internet), would not provide for a free backdoor to the operations...
So now there are just a few providers. They get to charge whatever they want and the government will let the monopoly continue so the executives and share holders can smile all the way to and from the bank.
Slashdot Mirror
Frank's 2,000 Inch TV.
I hope it's like Ryan's WUPHF app. :-)
Come on... Where was Japan. I figured they already given robots citizen ship.... 2nd Generation immigrants, No. Robots, yes.
Verison, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I was chosen to be in their survey. Lucky me. I informed them that I have no TV (Haven't since 1984 - Go figure.) I still wanted to take part in the survey since I so use services like netflix, amazon, etc. THey refused to let me be part of their data gathering... The days of regular media are gone. Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.
THere are around 50 million students in the states... 4 Billion dollar initiative would bean about 80 per student. Doled out over three years is around 27 dollars per student. I'm sure that the money will be spread equally among all students. So a small school district like the one in which I work would receive about 27,000 dollars.
To teach programming as a k-12 prograpm will require new teachers as all the current teachers are aready teaching their subjects (6-12).
To teach programming as a K-12 program will either increase the school day's instructional time or decrease from current content.
What will primary teachers do? take a workshop-class on programming? Teachers are already overloaded.
In Illinois, teachers hired withing the last few years now have to teach until they are 67. I am one of the few (only?) in my district that could teach some coding... I actually use RPG Maker in my English classes to teach participatory narrative and scripting... I also help other teachers how to check their email and turn on their computers...
What I'm getting at is the educational system is broken for this kind of thing. THrowing 4 billion dollars to administrators is just going to increase the workload on an already overburdened teaching population.
And getting a programmer to come in and teach is not going to work. To get a programmer who has never had any training in teaching to teach a classroom full of twelve year old kids is going to be "interesting." And why would someone skilled in programming want to teach? It is totally not worth the pay cut... A deian programmer pay is $86K while Median teacher salary is $58K. Maybe I'm wrong. There may be a horde of programmers out there that would teach just for the love of working with children. I'm a teacher after all.
I think more people should look into this and other donations.. I've donated a kidney and am on the Bone Marrow Donor registry (http://bethematch.org/)
The three times I've cried in my life: Wedding day, birth of child, and walking to meet my kidney recipient after the operation.
I went through the Transplant Facility at MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina). The operations, while major, are somewhat common and straight forward. I never doubted anything would go wrong, and to be honest, I'd do it again... This is not to say that it wasn't painless. Day one, it felt like I was hit by a bus; day two felt like I was kit by a car; day three I don;t remember... (lots of morphine); day four I was home. It took about 8 weeks before I really felt like myself again. Well worth a summer vacation... You want to pick up chicks, drop the info that you donated a kidney....
I'm actually surprised that there isn't a Be The Match program for Kidney donations as there is for Bone Marrow. (Maybe there is and I am unaware--just did a google search... egads.)
Anyway, if you don;t want to donate while you're alive; sign up to do it afterward when you aren't using the organs any more.
I think he meant a tsunami which will wash everything else away.
Wasn't he going to answer some questions from back in September?
I guess those questions won;t get answered now.
This movie was released in Austrailia, I think. I'd already seen it when a students bought me a burned DVD of it. I teach a Science Fiction literature class and "All You Zombies" is the story we read to introduce time travel. (I know there may better for introducing the topic to a bunch of high school students, but it works well with the other reading selections I use.)
Anyway, I watched it and it is worth watching. The story is mostly all dialogue which makes one think it would make a horrible movie without much action or scenery. Especially since the text is mostly cerebral. However, the movie adds some interesting aspects to the film. In the story, the temporal agent is charged of preventing disaster (terrorists?) and recruiting other temporal agents. One of the disasters mentioned in the story is the Fizzle War. The writers of the screenplay, Spierig brothers(?), did a really good job of taking the twisted timeline of the protagonist and incorporating the events of the Fizzle war to make the movie even more interesting, and thought provoking.
I'm sure Heinlein would approve of the movie. I'll probably go watch it in the theater.
It may be better than Primer... Now there is a good Timey-wimey film.
Right out of the gate, Chromebooks are easier to administer at an "enterprise" level. Yes, the school district needs to "sell its soul to get the management console (domain control and device management.) Google has been helpful with support for any needs we have. Getting in touch with and help from apple for issues is near impossible.
Chromebooks come with some good tools for using existing infrastructure without too much of a learning curve. Getting teachers to open and use a spreadsheet on an ipad is a lot more tricky than opening the same file on a chromebook.
Bottom line, if you are dealing with more than 5 devices, chromebooks save a ton of time and energy.
I have an ipod.. If I am part of this class action settlement, I'll get 10 cents (as someone said earlier). I don;t want the dime; I want to be able to add media to the ipod without going through itunes... Want a class action lawsuit to do some good? Make it so that there are fundamental changes. of course Apple will say that it is impossible to put media on the ipod with out itunes... I know a few jailborken ipods that show otherwise.
I should just Mod this up, but I'll add to it.
I work with a lot of students at my school and I've purchased a few KANO kits. They are great and appeal to kids who want to program and kids who want to make cool cases in woodworking shop... Grab one and try it out. If it doesn;t work, donate it to a local school's computer club.
I also use RPG maker (There is a free version on sourceforge I think) which can be used to make some very elaborate 2d rpg style games.... At first the kids I work with love the mapping and simple switch oriented programming, but after a while, the kids are learning scripting and the logic behind all programming.
But, yeah, Scratch is great too.
The ads for me are always late. Here are a couple recent examples. I wanted the 5th edition D&D Players handbook. I knew about it from word of mouth within my local D&D group. I went to amazon and ordered it and a big bag-o-dice. For the next day or three, I see advertisements for stuff I have already purchased.
.I don't need any more.
I frequent a blog HomeBrew Finds which is nothing more than a listing of sales around the internet. I saw a fermentor last month and ordered it. After I ordered it, I saw adds for fermentors..
Contextual ads need to be a little more prophetic and a little less "I sold you so."
My first encounter with realistic space battle physics was with Antares Dawn: a great book by Michael McCollum... Great stuff.
Just over a month ago, Google dropped the SMS chat feature that has been present in Google labs for years. it has worked great and was the main reason I switched to gmail. Discussing it with other tech folks we can only conjecture that Google has ditched it because it was one of the ways people have found to sens SMS messages from a source that the NSA can;t track. (Create throw away email through some random VPN.) Contemplating going back to my own email server again. This new beta look might just be what pushes me over the edge.
With Ford's last two movies, a cardboard cutout of him in his 40's would have done a better job than he did. His performance in Ender's Game was horrendous (don;t blame the script Asa Butterfield and Viola Davis did great with what they were given.) Hopefully Harrison Ford's reprisal will be Han Solo sitting in a Laser-Rocker in the old folks asteroid telling stories of who shot first to you bantha fodderlings.
In all the mythology I read, Jupiter was always trowing his seed around.
Use this pill on Friday night and make the weekend seem like it last for 5 years instead of 20 minutes.
Maybe I could give it to my spouse before sex.
Welcome to modern politics. Politicians do whatever they want and don;t need to consult the public at all. And when motivated enough, these politicians can pass all sorts of legislation in a day. In the recent past Illinois lawmakers introduced a bill requiring teachers to teach until they are 67; passed the bill in both house and senate; had the bill signed by the governor. All of this in one single day. Teachers union, was shocked and has been fighting this ever since, but since it is "the law" they don;t have a lot to go on. Everyone else in Illinois has been on pins and needles knowing that the government can in a day vote your career into misery.
Yes, I still feel that purchasing this type of equipment is a waste of taxpayer money to prepare for an event that happens maybe for one day every 5 years at the most.
5,10,15,20,25,30,35 -- seven times in 36 years. Check.
I can count the times it's snowed like this on one hand in my 36 years here.
Says the seven fingered driver.
I dare the administration to tell me I have to teach this curriculum to my students. I'll give my own slant on it and end up teaching anonymous proxy, torrents, ripping, you name it...
Actually as common core, students have to work more with media. As a result we are ripping DVDs and cds and editing these to meet some educational goals... I am sure that is against their curricula.
bastards. (*IAA, not the students, this time.)
So you were the type of student in school that "read" the assignment but failed to "understand" what he read. Never once did Ender seek "revenge." Never did Ender want to make them "Sorry" for beating him up. He wanted them to stop, and he was willing to hurt them enough so they would never hurt him again. This is very different than revenge.
I really don't understand where you come from in thinking that this is a revenge novel. In the Ender makes sacrifices because he is going through is for the betterment of humanity.
Survival is a large theme in this novel. not revenge. There is a huge difference.
I'm glad I was not your teacher for a literature class.
I have ad disabled... Why am I seeing an ad at the start of this video? Just post a damn transcript.
When all of the internet is being filtered through five or six main providers, it is easier for the NSA to funnel all of the information into its data analysis machines. Can you image the headaches the NSA would have if all the little mom and pop companies (if they were still around to do internet), would not provide for a free backdoor to the operations...
So now there are just a few providers. They get to charge whatever they want and the government will let the monopoly continue so the executives and share holders can smile all the way to and from the bank.
Fuck 'em. I'm done paying for interne@#$@#!43,