This is elementary school. That's like saying that every soldier needs to learn combat medicine and then shooting them each in the gut. Sink or swim, right?
With the proper foundational knowledge, computers are incredibly easy to learn. If you have an excellent grasp of mathematics, language skills, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills you can learn how to use MS Word or hexadecimal math in an hour.
Computers tend to get in the way. Children should have the minimum amount of things between them and the idea they are attempting to learn. Computers also make procrastination and time-wasting one click away.
You are aware that the chrome extensions don't have the full capabilities of the firefox extensions because the support doesn't exist in the webkit, right? Right? In essence, they are crippled.
Bottoming out batteries is absolutely retarded. Even "deep cycle" batteries are only supposed to be discharged to 20% AT THE VERY LOWEST. And doing so reduces the number of cycles by orders of magnitude. Another thing to point out is that batteries become EXTREMELY non-linear in discharge rate at the bottom of their SoC. I like his comment about hacking but everything else is retarded.
College education is suffering from incredible inflation. Most students in college do not belong there and the US is doing them a disservice by not having an established trade school system for these folks.
If you can't learn basic calculus from a textbook then you shouldn't pass it and have access to a field that requires it. Everything else works this way. If you can't run the 40 in a certain time and tackle with a certain proficiency you don't get to play in the NFL. College IS NOT for everyone.
It looks like the mobile industry is using strategies from the consumer lending playbook...get people in with cheap services and make the penalties extremely high if you go over your limit/late payment. This is a money-making strategy that took the consumer lending industry by storm. Watch this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/creditcards/view/
From all of the current news reports about China pumping out knock-offs it would certainly seem this way but for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the people that received positions of power in the government had to not only be extremely well-educated in writing and speaking but also in painting and poetry. I am definitely not an expert on Chinese culture but I do know that painting and poetry (creative skills) were held (maybe not recently) as equally high priorities as any other type of education.
How about them? They also don't having access to Six Flags Cedar Pointe while they are there either. Should we shit ourselves with rage that Six Flags isn't relocating one of their amusement parks so that the troops can exercise their god-given rights to being able to attend an amusement park while deployed? I mean, they have this god-given RIGHT to play so stupid fucking video game made by Blizzard, right??? Oh wait..
Bottom line: bad/no internet connection? this game is not for you.
Everyone in this thread that doesn't live in bumfuck, TX where the only XYZ store that sells ZYX product should write a letter to the company raging about how the store didn't open a franchise near them so they could buy that ZYX product. How dare that company not take your location into consideration when they built the building??!! The troops can't get to the store when they are deployed in Iraq!!!! HOW DARE THEY EXCLUDE THE TROOPS!!!!!!!
I see the words "fair" and "wrong" being thrown around in these replies too much. Blizzard can do whatever they want to do regarding always-on DRM. If you don't like it or the DRM scheme doesn't match your connection requirements then DON'T BUY IT. If more people do this then it won't be profitable to implement these schemes and the companies WILL STOP doing this. If you don't like it and Blizzard is making enough money that makes them happy from the sales that are occurring then TOO BAD. You do not have a "god-given" right to play MMO games offline.
They ruined this moving by removing the paradox that Cesar was the "son" of Xera. He wasn't genetically modified. He was smart because he was the son of smart/evolved apes.
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I am an EE currently employed in my field and I do make an equivalent salary to someone that cooks at a downtown restaurant.
Want to know why? Because no one gives a fuck.
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"How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports" --> Raw, unmitigated fear.
WTF am I reading?
"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun."
This is elementary school. That's like saying that every soldier needs to learn combat medicine and then shooting them each in the gut. Sink or swim, right?
With the proper foundational knowledge, computers are incredibly easy to learn. If you have an excellent grasp of mathematics, language skills, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills you can learn how to use MS Word or hexadecimal math in an hour.
Computers tend to get in the way. Children should have the minimum amount of things between them and the idea they are attempting to learn. Computers also make procrastination and time-wasting one click away.
You are aware that the chrome extensions don't have the full capabilities of the firefox extensions because the support doesn't exist in the webkit, right? Right? In essence, they are crippled.
...along with adblocking and noscript.
Bottoming out batteries is absolutely retarded. Even "deep cycle" batteries are only supposed to be discharged to 20% AT THE VERY LOWEST. And doing so reduces the number of cycles by orders of magnitude. Another thing to point out is that batteries become EXTREMELY non-linear in discharge rate at the bottom of their SoC. I like his comment about hacking but everything else is retarded.
And do a better job at teaching than 95% of current teachers.
And University of South Carolina. The APOGEE program offers Master's degrees in most fields of engineering.
College education is suffering from incredible inflation. Most students in college do not belong there and the US is doing them a disservice by not having an established trade school system for these folks.
If you can't learn basic calculus from a textbook then you shouldn't pass it and have access to a field that requires it. Everything else works this way. If you can't run the 40 in a certain time and tackle with a certain proficiency you don't get to play in the NFL. College IS NOT for everyone.
Pro-tip: Create a free Amazon EC2 micro instance and use it as an SSH/SOCKS proxy for web at work. Easy, free.
Seconding this. Norvig is also teaching a free class online next month from this text through Stanford.
It looks like the mobile industry is using strategies from the consumer lending playbook...get people in with cheap services and make the penalties extremely high if you go over your limit/late payment. This is a money-making strategy that took the consumer lending industry by storm. Watch this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/creditcards/view/
From all of the current news reports about China pumping out knock-offs it would certainly seem this way but for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the people that received positions of power in the government had to not only be extremely well-educated in writing and speaking but also in painting and poetry. I am definitely not an expert on Chinese culture but I do know that painting and poetry (creative skills) were held (maybe not recently) as equally high priorities as any other type of education.
How about servicemen in afgahnistan?
How about them? They also don't having access to Six Flags Cedar Pointe while they are there either. Should we shit ourselves with rage that Six Flags isn't relocating one of their amusement parks so that the troops can exercise their god-given rights to being able to attend an amusement park while deployed? I mean, they have this god-given RIGHT to play so stupid fucking video game made by Blizzard, right??? Oh wait.. Bottom line: bad/no internet connection? this game is not for you.
Everyone in this thread that doesn't live in bumfuck, TX where the only XYZ store that sells ZYX product should write a letter to the company raging about how the store didn't open a franchise near them so they could buy that ZYX product. How dare that company not take your location into consideration when they built the building??!! The troops can't get to the store when they are deployed in Iraq!!!! HOW DARE THEY EXCLUDE THE TROOPS!!!!!!!
I see the words "fair" and "wrong" being thrown around in these replies too much. Blizzard can do whatever they want to do regarding always-on DRM. If you don't like it or the DRM scheme doesn't match your connection requirements then DON'T BUY IT. If more people do this then it won't be profitable to implement these schemes and the companies WILL STOP doing this. If you don't like it and Blizzard is making enough money that makes them happy from the sales that are occurring then TOO BAD. You do not have a "god-given" right to play MMO games offline.
They ruined this moving by removing the paradox that Cesar was the "son" of Xera. He wasn't genetically modified. He was smart because he was the son of smart/evolved apes.