Language Acquisition Made Practical is a method developed by Elizabeth and Tom Brewster. It's a great method because it allows you to combine technology with contextual learning.
In a way it's like the "girlfriend" comments, but it gives you a place to start in the conversation. Try it!
Maybe we need a whole 'nother category for moderators. Parent is not flamebait. It is libertarian hogwash. It is advocating for a very dangerous form of laissez faire capitalism. But it really is too nuanced and logical to be flamebait.
Now to address the thread. I'm not Indian, but I have lived in India as well as various places in Africa. The problem with this type of drug testing really has nothing to do with coercion or the inability to give informed consent. It really has to do with oversight and regulation. In both Africa and South Asia most folks just don't trust government officials to act in the best interest of the populace. This allows unscrupulous researchers to act unscrupulously knowing the most of their subjects won't go to local officials even if something goes terribly wrong. Meanwhile, those appointed to assure the safety of the process feel left out of the loop and are then quick to take some extra perks since they, accurately, see themselves as mostly irrelevant anyway. This sets up a vicious cycle which leads to more poor research and exploitation. But don't ever equate poor and uneducated with naive and gullible. I accept as a truism that if given accurate information individual will make the best decision for themselves. They will not "try the pharmacological equivalent of rat poison."
It works great on my Palm T5. The same clean interface you expect from Google and it combines emails into easy to use conversations. I may never use Versamail again.
This whole thread is a sad comment on the state of computing as a field of study. People confuse "Alt-key trivia" with understanding computers.
As a longtime photography enthusiast, I understand the concepts of gamma curves and color temperature. I know that I want detail in the shadows and in the highlights. Since I have deep knowledge of photography, it doesn't matter which program I use. I can produce "better" results in 5 minutes on any image editor than than someone who has read a photoshop book, but doesn't understand the concepts involved could in an hour.
I think the whole "windows vs. linux" problem is the same. I can switch freely between Mac, Windows and Linux without any loss of productivity because I understand conceptually what I'm doing.
Well for one thing it's really annoying to be modded down for a redundant comment, especially when the comment is appropriate, insightful, and well-written. It is particularly annoying when the comment was posted at nearly the same time as the comment with which it is apparently redundant meaning that no modding had taken place on the prior comment. So unless you've read through 200 comments at "1" just before you post, you get zapped.
On the other hand, a quick scan of recent headlines could ascertain that an article is redundant, but there's no "penalty" for an editor in posting a dupe. I think slashdot and the modding system is mature enough that there could be articles could be selected by moderators. We don't need no stinkin' editors! I'm sure that "more eyes" would prevent the kind of dupes and biases present in the current system.
For most of us we got the idea at the first example. The rest was excruciating.
I was like you. I just "got it" and, fortunately for me, my HS had individualized instruction. So I did geometry, algebra 2, and about half a year of trig during my freshman year. It was great.
But they no longer have individualized instruction. Why not... because most kids don't just "get it." For most kids it takes multiple exposure to the concepts and lots of practice before they are able to "do it." Even then they probably don't "get it."
I'm now a high school math teacher. In fact, I'm in class right now and my students are working on "mind-numbing repetitive problems." But I'm not going to apologize, because experience tells me that for most kids it's the only way they're going to learn.
Disclaimer: We use a curriculum which really tries to not be boring and repetitious. It allows students to explore problem situations in depth. 40% of our time is spent in a computer lab working individually. But it still gets repetitious and students still complain.
From TFA: As more honest online businesses start showing up, their image will become like US/India... a mix of good and bad guys.
This is a great point. About eight years ago while living in India I had a discussion with a local fellow regarding ecommerce. I pointed out that it wasn't significantly different than catalog sales which have been going on for over 100 years. He was incredulous and said that in India no one would expect to get their merchandise.
But eight years on it appears that ecommerce is growing and trust is being built with portals like rediff.
First off, cows sleep laying down. I lived on a dairy for 15 years and had to wake them up. I was born and raised on a dairy farm and had my own small herd by the time I was in high school. Of course cows sleep laying down, but if you had to wake them up you were getting up too early!;-)
So, if the cow is standing, it is awake. Good call.
Next, a good sized dairy cow weighs in at over 1000 lbs. Actually that would be quite a small cow like a Jersey or a Guernsey. A typical Holstein would be more in the 1500 pound range.
Standing, feet average width apart -- you, scrawny programmer boy (or me, an almost athetic 200 lbs) aint just gonna nock the thing over. Head start or no. Of course not. The whole idea of dispelling the myth scientifically is one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard of. It's a total joke and always has been.
Now just to confuse all you city slickers, there is a technique called "throwing" which is commonly used on farms and which is used in the rodeo event of bulldogging. Essentially the idea is to twist the head at the same time as you throw the animal off balance with your hip. I've personally thrown calves up to about 900 pounds, but in my experience it takes two men with a rope to throw a full-sized cow.
Whew, you're quick! It took me about 10 seconds to see that Creative Commons offers not one, but two software licenses. Namely, the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL. The only thing that Creative Commons adds is a "human-readable summary of the Legal Code".
Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September
I couldn't verify it in TFA, but my first thought is that millions of kids go back to school around the end of August and begin using a browser which they haven't chosen. So it probably doesn't mean anything except that schools tend to not be early adopters.
There is really no precedent for what Google is doing, so it has become a test-case for the limits of fair-use. We may all agree that it seems obvious that it is fair-use, in fact many lawyers have suggested just that, but until a court of law deems it fair-use Google will be challenged. It will probably go to the Supreme Court within a couple of years and we can only hope that the conservative justices being appointed by Bush will allow it under fair-use. Fortunately, Google has fairly deep pockets so may be able to win the case.
/. is great... just how do you get to be offtopic AND insightful?
Are you joking? Off topic and insightful are two different dimensions. There's no correlation between the two.
To be fair, maybe you expect that insightful means demonstrating insight into the topic being discussed. But even then insightful answers are often quite creative in a way that some mods quickly deem off-topic.
Am I off-topic? Only if you were since I directly addressed a question you asked.;-}
BTW, and this is unambiguously on-topic, I agree with the thread that bankers would be in trouble if they messed up customer's money, but somehow for the penal system to mess with someone's life is just a "minor glitch". I hope they get the pants sued off of them!
Even those critics who understand that copyright law is not absolute argue that making a full copy of a given work, even just to index it, can never constitute fair use. If this were so, you wouldn't be able to record a TV show to watch it later or use a search engine that indexes billions of Web pages.
I think the better analogy is that you couldn't, as a reviewer, read the entire book and then choose a few pithy quotes to represent the book. This is close to what Google is doing. The only difference is that Google has the advantage of knowing what aspect of the book interests the reader whereas the reviewer has to make a guess based on their knowledge of their audience. A difference which I don't believe should affect fair-use.
The Google Reader is totally kludgy, not at all up to their usual standards, but the search is great. I don't think I'm up to it, but surely it wouldn't be difficult for someone to write a Firefox extension which would convert the search results into a live bookmark. That would be totally cool!
Microsoft created pushed Windows, and Word and Excel were far-and-away the best Office apps for the Windows environment.
They couldn't compete on DOS apps, so they changed the platform.
Translation: Microsoft monopolized the platform that they created giving themselves a 6-18 month lead time over their competitors.
Unfortunately when the courts realized this, the "remedy" provided schools with a large number of applications and simply reinforced Microsoft's market penetration.
If a family is so poor that they can't even afford food or clothing, shouldn't we be spending money to provide them with this, rather than spending money on biometrics to prevent them from acquiring these basic needs?
Not necessarily... okay, I agree with you about the biometrics, but the sociology of hunger is complex. For example, many men will let their children go hungry so that they can buy something to raise their status within a community. In many areas children are less well nourished than they were 20 years ago because their fathers are growing cash crops instead of food crops.
The $100 laptop will provide status and access to information allowing people to make better decisions. Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe the $100 laptop will be a catalyst for change within many poor communities.
I don't get it. Google Suggest works just fine without adding any more mass to Firefox. Just put a shortcut on your Bookmarks Toolbar and ignore the extensions.
As more research comes out showing that high voltage electricity sources can cause cancer and other health problems.
Okay I RTFA because I thought this had been effectively pooh-poohed and was interested in seeing additional research. But TFA is from 1996!!?? and the poster has the audacity to claim this as more research!!?? Cliff, what were you smoking in you posted this? The other FA is concerned about breathing ions. Oh my gosh, I salted my beans at lunch and ingested ions!!
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Language Acquisition Made Practical is a method developed by Elizabeth and Tom Brewster. It's a great method because it allows you to combine technology with contextual learning.
In a way it's like the "girlfriend" comments, but it gives you a place to start in the conversation. Try it!
Maybe we need a whole 'nother category for moderators. Parent is not flamebait. It is libertarian hogwash. It is advocating for a very dangerous form of laissez faire capitalism. But it really is too nuanced and logical to be flamebait.
Now to address the thread. I'm not Indian, but I have lived in India as well as various places in Africa. The problem with this type of drug testing really has nothing to do with coercion or the inability to give informed consent. It really has to do with oversight and regulation. In both Africa and South Asia most folks just don't trust government officials to act in the best interest of the populace. This allows unscrupulous researchers to act unscrupulously knowing the most of their subjects won't go to local officials even if something goes terribly wrong. Meanwhile, those appointed to assure the safety of the process feel left out of the loop and are then quick to take some extra perks since they, accurately, see themselves as mostly irrelevant anyway. This sets up a vicious cycle which leads to more poor research and exploitation. But don't ever equate poor and uneducated with naive and gullible. I accept as a truism that if given accurate information individual will make the best decision for themselves. They will not "try the pharmacological equivalent of rat poison."
It works great on my Palm T5. The same clean interface you expect from Google and it combines emails into easy to use conversations. I may never use Versamail again.
First, the models shown in TFA are way too shiny. Please get it right, dry mud is not shiny!
Second, World Wind. Don't reinvent the wheel. World Wind is the perfect browser for this type of information.
This whole thread is a sad comment on the state of computing as a field of study. People confuse "Alt-key trivia" with understanding computers.
As a longtime photography enthusiast, I understand the concepts of gamma curves and color temperature. I know that I want detail in the shadows and in the highlights. Since I have deep knowledge of photography, it doesn't matter which program I use. I can produce "better" results in 5 minutes on any image editor than than someone who has read a photoshop book, but doesn't understand the concepts involved could in an hour.
I think the whole "windows vs. linux" problem is the same. I can switch freely between Mac, Windows and Linux without any loss of productivity because I understand conceptually what I'm doing.
Well for one thing it's really annoying to be modded down for a redundant comment, especially when the comment is appropriate, insightful, and well-written. It is particularly annoying when the comment was posted at nearly the same time as the comment with which it is apparently redundant meaning that no modding had taken place on the prior comment. So unless you've read through 200 comments at "1" just before you post, you get zapped.
On the other hand, a quick scan of recent headlines could ascertain that an article is redundant, but there's no "penalty" for an editor in posting a dupe. I think slashdot and the modding system is mature enough that there could be articles could be selected by moderators. We don't need no stinkin' editors! I'm sure that "more eyes" would prevent the kind of dupes and biases present in the current system.
For most of us we got the idea at the first example. The rest was excruciating.
I was like you. I just "got it" and, fortunately for me, my HS had individualized instruction. So I did geometry, algebra 2, and about half a year of trig during my freshman year. It was great.
But they no longer have individualized instruction. Why not... because most kids don't just "get it." For most kids it takes multiple exposure to the concepts and lots of practice before they are able to "do it." Even then they probably don't "get it."
I'm now a high school math teacher. In fact, I'm in class right now and my students are working on "mind-numbing repetitive problems." But I'm not going to apologize, because experience tells me that for most kids it's the only way they're going to learn.
Disclaimer: We use a curriculum which really tries to not be boring and repetitious. It allows students to explore problem situations in depth. 40% of our time is spent in a computer lab working individually. But it still gets repetitious and students still complain.
From TFA: As more honest online businesses start showing up, their image will become like US/India... a mix of good and bad guys.
This is a great point. About eight years ago while living in India I had a discussion with a local fellow regarding ecommerce. I pointed out that it wasn't significantly different than catalog sales which have been going on for over 100 years. He was incredulous and said that in India no one would expect to get their merchandise.
But eight years on it appears that ecommerce is growing and trust is being built with portals like rediff.
First off, cows sleep laying down. I lived on a dairy for 15 years and had to wake them up. ;-)
I was born and raised on a dairy farm and had my own small herd by the time I was in high school. Of course cows sleep laying down, but if you had to wake them up you were getting up too early!
So, if the cow is standing, it is awake.
Good call.
Next, a good sized dairy cow weighs in at over 1000 lbs.
Actually that would be quite a small cow like a Jersey or a Guernsey. A typical Holstein would be more in the 1500 pound range.
Standing, feet average width apart -- you, scrawny programmer boy (or me, an almost athetic 200 lbs) aint just gonna nock the thing over. Head start or no.
Of course not. The whole idea of dispelling the myth scientifically is one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard of. It's a total joke and always has been.
Now just to confuse all you city slickers, there is a technique called "throwing" which is commonly used on farms and which is used in the rodeo event of bulldogging. Essentially the idea is to twist the head at the same time as you throw the animal off balance with your hip. I've personally thrown calves up to about 900 pounds, but in my experience it takes two men with a rope to throw a full-sized cow.
Whew, you're quick! It took me about 10 seconds to see that Creative Commons offers not one, but two software licenses. Namely, the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL. The only thing that Creative Commons adds is a "human-readable summary of the Legal Code".
Can be possible to be easy to develop the driver for Windows by designing to consider the portability with Windows API.
This is from the proposal refenced in TFA. Does anyone have a clue about the authors intent?
My only guess is that they're asking us to reverse-engineer the Windows API so that they can use the same code cross-platform. How ironic!
Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September
I couldn't verify it in TFA, but my first thought is that millions of kids go back to school around the end of August and begin using a browser which they haven't chosen. So it probably doesn't mean anything except that schools tend to not be early adopters.
There is really no precedent for what Google is doing, so it has become a test-case for the limits of fair-use. We may all agree that it seems obvious that it is fair-use, in fact many lawyers have suggested just that, but until a court of law deems it fair-use Google will be challenged. It will probably go to the Supreme Court within a couple of years and we can only hope that the conservative justices being appointed by Bush will allow it under fair-use. Fortunately, Google has fairly deep pockets so may be able to win the case.
Is the slogan: Do no evil.*
Actually no. The slogan is "Don't be evil". An organization can do something nasty to further a greater good without _being_ evil.
What is the constriction preventing the use of commercial software?
I was worried for a moment but I believe you mean constraint.
In Soviet Russia, the software licenses you.
Are you joking? Off topic and insightful are two different dimensions. There's no correlation between the two.
To be fair, maybe you expect that insightful means demonstrating insight into the topic being discussed. But even then insightful answers are often quite creative in a way that some mods quickly deem off-topic.
Am I off-topic? Only if you were since I directly addressed a question you asked.
BTW, and this is unambiguously on-topic, I agree with the thread that bankers would be in trouble if they messed up customer's money, but somehow for the penal system to mess with someone's life is just a "minor glitch". I hope they get the pants sued off of them!
Even those critics who understand that copyright law is not absolute argue that making a full copy of a given work, even just to index it, can never constitute fair use. If this were so, you wouldn't be able to record a TV show to watch it later or use a search engine that indexes billions of Web pages.
I think the better analogy is that you couldn't, as a reviewer, read the entire book and then choose a few pithy quotes to represent the book. This is close to what Google is doing. The only difference is that Google has the advantage of knowing what aspect of the book interests the reader whereas the reviewer has to make a guess based on their knowledge of their audience. A difference which I don't believe should affect fair-use.
The Google Reader is totally kludgy, not at all up to their usual standards, but the search is great. I don't think I'm up to it, but surely it wouldn't be difficult for someone to write a Firefox extension which would convert the search results into a live bookmark. That would be totally cool!
Microsoft created pushed Windows, and Word and Excel were far-and-away the best Office apps for the Windows environment. They couldn't compete on DOS apps, so they changed the platform.
Translation: Microsoft monopolized the platform that they created giving themselves a 6-18 month lead time over their competitors.
Unfortunately when the courts realized this, the "remedy" provided schools with a large number of applications and simply reinforced Microsoft's market penetration.
MediaWiki ended up being easier to install and more powerful to boot.
... I've installed a wiki before, but how do you boot a wiki?
Okay, I give up
If a family is so poor that they can't even afford food or clothing, shouldn't we be spending money to provide them with this, rather than spending money on biometrics to prevent them from acquiring these basic needs?
... okay, I agree with you about the biometrics, but the sociology of hunger is complex. For example, many men will let their children go hungry so that they can buy something to raise their status within a community. In many areas children are less well nourished than they were 20 years ago because their fathers are growing cash crops instead of food crops.
Not necessarily
The $100 laptop will provide status and access to information allowing people to make better decisions. Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe the $100 laptop will be a catalyst for change within many poor communities.
I don't get it. Google Suggest works just fine without adding any more mass to Firefox. Just put a shortcut on your Bookmarks Toolbar and ignore the extensions.
As more research comes out showing that high voltage electricity sources can cause cancer and other health problems.
Okay I RTFA because I thought this had been effectively pooh-poohed and was interested in seeing additional research. But TFA is from 1996!!?? and the poster has the audacity to claim this as more research!!?? Cliff, what were you smoking in you posted this? The other FA is concerned about breathing ions. Oh my gosh, I salted my beans at lunch and ingested ions!!
This is really a new low for slashdot.
This reminds me of the Polish computer virus.