Any articles about religion. Will be marked false from the atheists.
Any articles against religion. Will be marked false from all the religious.
The Right will mark false everything that is left leaning.
The Left will mark false everything that is right leaning.
This gives a new meaning to "false flag" operations!:-D
I teach Computer Information Systems at a community college, which includes some programming courses (C++, Java, JavaScript & PHP w/MySQL, etc.), and some non-programming courses on general computer use. When I teach a programming course, I teach it with the idea that the students I have need to be competent in order to succeed when they move on to a 4 year college. What ends up happening is about 1/3 will stop coming to class after about the first few weeks of school--just long enough to not have their Pell Grants and other financial taken away. Then they go off to party/play video games/whatever. About another 1/2 will struggle, complain that there's too much homework, that the homework is too hard, but they either don't post messages on the course message board, or they do it the evening before the homework's due. They also tend to skip class if they didn't get the homework done. Then about 1/6 excel in the course. They show up every time, do most of the homework, and try to assist other students who are struggling.
I've been teaching for 5 years now and this has been a consistent pattern. The first & last groups are typically composed of traditional students, and the middle one is mostly non-traditional students. I think the reason why NT students struggle so much is because they're shuttled into CS/CIS but have no technical background. They're told "go into computers, that's where all the jobs are", then they take the classes & struggle. I try to accommodate them as best I can, but there's only so much hand-holding you can do.
So basically from my anecdotal experience, you're going to be pissing away money on about 5/6ths of the students you're sending into the field. The number of successes may increase when this program kicks into gear, but that's not really going to be a good indication. "Why's that?" you ask. The answer is simple: There will be more smart students at community colleges who probably would have gone to a better 4-year school if community college wasn't "free".
I want to see everyone have as much success as possible, but the truth is, some students would be better suited for going straight into the job market rather than go to college. Most of the students in the lower 1/3 I mentioned previously either lack the intelligence, (but mostly) the maturity, or both.
I think if the government needs to fine itself, they should refund the money back to the tax payers for services failed to render.
Laws are for other people. When the government does it, it's different. If you think this is bad, just wait until they nationalize the internet under the guise of "net neutrality".
You don't even need a text editor if you use a site such as CodePen.
Who has access to a computer that doesn't have a text editor?!? Even if the default ones that come with Windows or Mac OS X are pretty much throw-aways, there are plenty of free text editors for either one, including NotePad++ for Windows or TextWrangler for the Mac, and Sublime which is available on both.
"The market" cannot work because of laws that have been pushed by politicians who have been basically bought by lobbyists. Lobbying is just another word for bribery. This used to be illegal and I'm not sure how or why it became legal in the first place.
It's called the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Do we share genetics with life on Mars, showing that life can travel between planets on asteroids?
While I don't put any stock in panspermia, I find it interesting that when the theory is presented, it only seems to travel to Earth, and never from it. It seems to me that it would be more likely that panspermia FROM Earth to Mars would be the more likely scenario if such a thing was possible, and then life on Mars would have existed for a short while in an inhospitable environment.
Now we keep getting a tantalizing clues, but canâ(TM)t seem to summon the will to do a sample return mission. How many sample return missions could the ISS fund? How much more scientific benefit would come from it?
Serious question. What would be the scientific benefit coming from discovering that there might have been life on Mars at some point?
what incompatibilities were you finding with your iphone 4. it's true that the hardware has developed rapidly. but that's hardly the fault of the OS. it sounds to me like you upgraded to an iphone 6 because you wanted it.
I upgraded one of my computers to Yosemite from Mavericks, which broke compatibility for Numbers spreadsheets. Yosemite uses iCloud Drive, which wasn't supported by the previous version of Numbers. So that meant that I could no longer share iWork docs between my iPhone & my iMac or MacBook Pro, since iCloud Drive requires iOS 8, which doesn't support the iPhone 4. Of course, I wasn't aware that would happen, otherwise I might not have taken the plunge. There were a few other reasons I upgraded as well, but iTunes family sharing is the only other one I can think of at the moment.
I also agree that we don't need to be making a new OS every 12 months.
<sarcasm>Then how else is Apple supposed to make perfectly good hardware obsolete?</sarcasm>
If not for iOS 8, I'd still have my iPhone 4 instead of my new iPhone 6 Plus. While I'm pleased with the upgrade, I'm not necessarily pleased with having to upgrade. I know it was my choice, but you get too many incompatibilities if stick with the older stuff, so you end up being forced to upgrade if you want all of your hardware to work together.
iTunes stopped syncing with devices years ago. It just... doesn't work. It won't copy new tracks over, instead just sitting at "Waiting for items to copy" or some BS like that.
That's very odd. I have a 1st gen iPod Touch (over 7 years old now), and it syncs beautifully. How old are the devices you're trying to sync?
He makes the claim that their software quality has taken a nosedive, that they're introducing tons of bugs and functional regressions, but he doesn't give a single example of any of that. He just makes the unsubstantiated claim.
I can give you two examples from just the past day that I've had to deal with. Apple has constantly made iTunes less functional with each new release. If you want to create a new playlist, you first have to switch over to playlists from "My Music" and then view by song if you want to see your list of songs. They are listed by album by default, so you need to make 2 additional steps to find songs you'd like to add. Not a huge deal, but still less functional than it used to be. The second, and more annoying change is to mail. I used to be able to click on an e-mail message and then click on the header to sort by sender, and the message would still be highlighted, and all messages from the sender would be sorted by date. Now if I do that, my mail gets sorted by sender, BUT the mail I highlighted is no longer selected, and I have to scroll down to find it. I have thousands of messages in my inbox, so this is a major pain in the neck. I can't imagine why they would remove this functionality, but it's just another instance of Apple's software getting worse instead of better.
There's no excuse for making gamers spend time with their families on Christmas, damn it.
Unless of course, your family wants to watch something on Netflix on Christmas day, but can't because using Netflix on your PS3 inexplicably requires you to be signed into PSN.
Last night, I tried to add a code on their website for my 1 year PSN membership renewal.The card says you can add the number on a PS3, PS4 or PC. When I entered it on my MacBook Pro, I got an error saying "You can't add this card on a PC." It took about 15 minutes for the PlayStation store to load on my PS3, and then I was able to add the code. It makes no sense that I couldn't add the card from the web page though, since it said specifically that I should be able to on the card. Whatever.
I was more disappointed that I could't access Netflix or YouTube from my PS3 without PSN access though, which seems ridiculous. Thankfully, we also have an Apple TV, which DOESN'T require that you be signed into iTunes to access other apps.
I stopped being a purist about such things long ago. I found it helped me to enjoy movies as their own story, loosely based on the book. I started watching GoT and made the conscious decision to stay one book behind the series, which has made a huge difference. I find I'm able to enjoy the show and appreciate the additional details and plot point differences in the books.
Same with comic book movies. Of course, comics have so many different origin story lines, it might be easier. When it comes to Star Wars however, I am an original trilogy theatrical release purist. Han shot first!
How many times have we seen people who set their updates to Automatic in a Windows environment get in trouble when an update mangles their system? I know people who say, "I always get every update as soon as they come out" then bitch when an update did something to their system.
Can this auto-update be turned off or changed to manual?
Yes, but the system is opt-in, not opt-out. I always wait for a few days before updating, just to see if there are any problems reported. This helped me to miss out on some doozies. Thankfully, I saw the report on the latest Microsoft update before running it on my work machine.
Nope. "Questioning" implies that they'd pay attention to answers. "Denying" means that that they have no interest in answers; only in denying that it's real.
It says question *or* doubt. They doubt AGW is real.
Proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. It is foundational to the scientific method. Denial, on the other hand, is the a priori rejection of ideas without objective consideration.
That's funny. The first definition on Google states "a person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions.", which seems to be a good fit for those who are denying global warming. If anything, it seems as though the Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry should call themselves something different.
Slashdot Mirror
Any articles about religion. Will be marked false from the atheists.
Any articles against religion. Will be marked false from all the religious.
The Right will mark false everything that is left leaning.
The Left will mark false everything that is right leaning.
This gives a new meaning to "false flag" operations! :-D
Slashdot doesn't have a "False" moderation... and it could use one.
Wait, you don't have that option when you moderate? I use it all the time. It works just like overrated & underrated.
I teach Computer Information Systems at a community college, which includes some programming courses (C++, Java, JavaScript & PHP w/MySQL, etc.), and some non-programming courses on general computer use. When I teach a programming course, I teach it with the idea that the students I have need to be competent in order to succeed when they move on to a 4 year college. What ends up happening is about 1/3 will stop coming to class after about the first few weeks of school--just long enough to not have their Pell Grants and other financial taken away. Then they go off to party/play video games/whatever. About another 1/2 will struggle, complain that there's too much homework, that the homework is too hard, but they either don't post messages on the course message board, or they do it the evening before the homework's due. They also tend to skip class if they didn't get the homework done. Then about 1/6 excel in the course. They show up every time, do most of the homework, and try to assist other students who are struggling.
I've been teaching for 5 years now and this has been a consistent pattern. The first & last groups are typically composed of traditional students, and the middle one is mostly non-traditional students. I think the reason why NT students struggle so much is because they're shuttled into CS/CIS but have no technical background. They're told "go into computers, that's where all the jobs are", then they take the classes & struggle. I try to accommodate them as best I can, but there's only so much hand-holding you can do.
So basically from my anecdotal experience, you're going to be pissing away money on about 5/6ths of the students you're sending into the field. The number of successes may increase when this program kicks into gear, but that's not really going to be a good indication. "Why's that?" you ask. The answer is simple: There will be more smart students at community colleges who probably would have gone to a better 4-year school if community college wasn't "free".
I want to see everyone have as much success as possible, but the truth is, some students would be better suited for going straight into the job market rather than go to college. Most of the students in the lower 1/3 I mentioned previously either lack the intelligence, (but mostly) the maturity, or both.
I think if the government needs to fine itself, they should refund the money back to the tax payers for services failed to render.
Laws are for other people. When the government does it, it's different. If you think this is bad, just wait until they nationalize the internet under the guise of "net neutrality".
You don't even need a text editor if you use a site such as CodePen.
Who has access to a computer that doesn't have a text editor?!? Even if the default ones that come with Windows or Mac OS X are pretty much throw-aways, there are plenty of free text editors for either one, including NotePad++ for Windows or TextWrangler for the Mac, and Sublime which is available on both.
Except for Rand Paul.
"The market" cannot work because of laws that have been pushed by politicians who have been basically bought by lobbyists. Lobbying is just another word for bribery. This used to be illegal and I'm not sure how or why it became legal in the first place.
It's called the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Well, they ARE using it for a private network....of sorts.
You can say that again!
The internet browses YOU!
Do we share genetics with life on Mars, showing that life can travel between planets on asteroids?
While I don't put any stock in panspermia, I find it interesting that when the theory is presented, it only seems to travel to Earth, and never from it. It seems to me that it would be more likely that panspermia FROM Earth to Mars would be the more likely scenario if such a thing was possible, and then life on Mars would have existed for a short while in an inhospitable environment.
Now we keep getting a tantalizing clues, but canâ(TM)t seem to summon the will to do a sample return mission. How many sample return missions could the ISS fund? How much more scientific benefit would come from it?
Serious question. What would be the scientific benefit coming from discovering that there might have been life on Mars at some point?
Which of your categories is your post?
If I had mod points? -1, Redundant. ;-)
Just ask Neil deGrasse Tyson!
what incompatibilities were you finding with your iphone 4. it's true that the hardware has developed rapidly. but that's hardly the fault of the OS. it sounds to me like you upgraded to an iphone 6 because you wanted it.
I upgraded one of my computers to Yosemite from Mavericks, which broke compatibility for Numbers spreadsheets. Yosemite uses iCloud Drive, which wasn't supported by the previous version of Numbers. So that meant that I could no longer share iWork docs between my iPhone & my iMac or MacBook Pro, since iCloud Drive requires iOS 8, which doesn't support the iPhone 4. Of course, I wasn't aware that would happen, otherwise I might not have taken the plunge. There were a few other reasons I upgraded as well, but iTunes family sharing is the only other one I can think of at the moment.
I also agree that we don't need to be making a new OS every 12 months.
<sarcasm>Then how else is Apple supposed to make perfectly good hardware obsolete?</sarcasm>
If not for iOS 8, I'd still have my iPhone 4 instead of my new iPhone 6 Plus. While I'm pleased with the upgrade, I'm not necessarily pleased with having to upgrade. I know it was my choice, but you get too many incompatibilities if stick with the older stuff, so you end up being forced to upgrade if you want all of your hardware to work together.
iTunes stopped syncing with devices years ago. It just ... doesn't work. It won't copy new tracks over, instead just sitting at "Waiting for items to copy" or some BS like that.
That's very odd. I have a 1st gen iPod Touch (over 7 years old now), and it syncs beautifully. How old are the devices you're trying to sync?
He makes the claim that their software quality has taken a nosedive, that they're introducing tons of bugs and functional regressions, but he doesn't give a single example of any of that. He just makes the unsubstantiated claim.
I can give you two examples from just the past day that I've had to deal with. Apple has constantly made iTunes less functional with each new release. If you want to create a new playlist, you first have to switch over to playlists from "My Music" and then view by song if you want to see your list of songs. They are listed by album by default, so you need to make 2 additional steps to find songs you'd like to add. Not a huge deal, but still less functional than it used to be. The second, and more annoying change is to mail. I used to be able to click on an e-mail message and then click on the header to sort by sender, and the message would still be highlighted, and all messages from the sender would be sorted by date. Now if I do that, my mail gets sorted by sender, BUT the mail I highlighted is no longer selected, and I have to scroll down to find it. I have thousands of messages in my inbox, so this is a major pain in the neck. I can't imagine why they would remove this functionality, but it's just another instance of Apple's software getting worse instead of better.
There's no excuse for making gamers spend time with their families on Christmas, damn it.
Unless of course, your family wants to watch something on Netflix on Christmas day, but can't because using Netflix on your PS3 inexplicably requires you to be signed into PSN.
Last night, I tried to add a code on their website for my 1 year PSN membership renewal.The card says you can add the number on a PS3, PS4 or PC. When I entered it on my MacBook Pro, I got an error saying "You can't add this card on a PC." It took about 15 minutes for the PlayStation store to load on my PS3, and then I was able to add the code. It makes no sense that I couldn't add the card from the web page though, since it said specifically that I should be able to on the card. Whatever.
I was more disappointed that I could't access Netflix or YouTube from my PS3 without PSN access though, which seems ridiculous. Thankfully, we also have an Apple TV, which DOESN'T require that you be signed into iTunes to access other apps.
I stopped being a purist about such things long ago. I found it helped me to enjoy movies as their own story, loosely based on the book. I started watching GoT and made the conscious decision to stay one book behind the series, which has made a huge difference. I find I'm able to enjoy the show and appreciate the additional details and plot point differences in the books.
Same with comic book movies. Of course, comics have so many different origin story lines, it might be easier. When it comes to Star Wars however, I am an original trilogy theatrical release purist. Han shot first!
How many times have we seen people who set their updates to Automatic in a Windows environment get in trouble when an update mangles their system? I know people who say, "I always get every update as soon as they come out" then bitch when an update did something to their system.
Can this auto-update be turned off or changed to manual?
Yes, but the system is opt-in, not opt-out. I always wait for a few days before updating, just to see if there are any problems reported. This helped me to miss out on some doozies. Thankfully, I saw the report on the latest Microsoft update before running it on my work machine.
Nope. "Questioning" implies that they'd pay attention to answers. "Denying" means that that they have no interest in answers; only in denying that it's real.
It says question *or* doubt. They doubt AGW is real.
I find it very difficult to be offended by someone referring to me as a cracker, I'd have to stop laughing first.
That's your White Privilege (TM) talking.
Proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. It is foundational to the scientific method. Denial, on the other hand, is the a priori rejection of ideas without objective consideration.
That's funny. The first definition on Google states "a person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions.", which seems to be a good fit for those who are denying global warming. If anything, it seems as though the Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry should call themselves something different.
Hence why actual skeptics want to be distanced from them.
What constitutes an "actual" skeptic?