To your last point, while this sounds fine in theory, the application could be ghastly. Who decides that a parent is being "stupid" about their child's health? Surely not you. Perhaps a board of certified medical professionals? Are the board members (exaggerated for effect, not my personal views) crazy liberals from California, ignorant rednecks from the south, white supremacists, recently naturalized citizens with fake medical degrees from India? If not them, then the government, right? Local, state, or federal? Which lobbying interest do you want to dictate the "stupidity" of YOUR treatment of YOUR kid's health?
What happens if the FCC's ban on Janet Jackson's nipple on broadcast television is conflated to be a psychological health risk, but you want to teach your child about the correct anatomical names of human's bodies? Or your babysitter reports your wife because your 3 year old son says he took a shower with Mommy? Or, if someone says 3D television can cause eye damage in children and you let your 5 year old watch Monsters vs Aliens on the new 3D tv you got for Christmas? Or that homemade fried chicken you brought to the company picnic is too fattening and 20 people can testify that you let your child eat it, willfully ignoring the Childhood Obesity Epidemic (TM) we've all heard about on 10 different talk shows?
And all of this is completely based in my own attitudes toward health care. Other concerns from religious points of view are another set of problems. Maybe giving up chocolate for Lent traumatizes your child psychologically. Maybe the beef lobby convinces folks that Hindus are depleting their children's iron levels by not letting them eat cow meat. Etc...
The bottom line is that people should (in my opinion) be allowed to be as stupid with their health, and with their children's health, as they want to be. It's a simple stance, but very complicated to work out in the real world, I know. And I DO believe that Child Protective Services should be able to remove children from situations of grossly negligent parenting, things like no access to clean food or water, inadequate shelter, abusive environment, etc, but even in those, the creeping grey areas can, and are, abused or misused in ways that reasonable, caring people don't intend.
Coming from experience w/ my wife's ongoing graduate school education, in the School of Education, even those PhDs only taught 1-3 years before heading into their ivory towers. And most in the field actually look down on teachers with in-the-classroom experience, or wanting to do research that benefits classroom teachers as they really teach.
Ostensibly, "branding" the information provides the casual reader an avenue of judging authenticity, accuracy, etc. If you found a ream of paper with lots of text and pretty pictures about subjects beginning with the letter A, would you cite their information in a paper you'd authored? If those same pages of text and images comes bound with "Encyclopedia Britannica (TM)" embossed on the side, would you cite then?
While it's a fair statement to say that Assange, and WIkileaks in general, are intentionally branding their leaked data, it is not unreasonable to argue that such branding actually serves the purpose of vetting the information, at least to a greater extent than a leaflet printed in a basement and left under your windshield wiper at the mall.
Of course, the disproof of your position is simple and actually happened.
An individual vote is worthless. No election with more than probably 10,000 voters (WAG here) would ever proceed to conclusion if the tally was 50% +1. The uncertainty would make recounts essentially unending, interested parties would split hairs until their donors' budgets ran out and the larger team of lawyers "won" and were vindicated by an "authority". People would be angry and call for a different outcome, but their voices would fade away eventually. Of course, this is all academic, because individuals' votes really can make a difference! If we voted for unicorns, and REALLY, TRULY believed, Tinkerbell would deliver them, right? I mean, nothing like the ever happened, did it?
An individual can greatly affect an election, but not by voting. Individuals affect elections by convincing other individuals to follow their lead, be it through charisma, money, intimidation, trickery, etc. If every single large scale political donor, PAC organizer, get-out-the-vote volunteer and party official didn't vote at all, their effect on the election would be almost precisely identical. It's not the vote that decides things, it's how they convince many, many other people to vote. Not as individuals, but as a herd.
How do you square your rant|views re: US spending on international medical aid with your eggs and basket analogy? Is it alright for some of those eggs in the dirty, poor countries "on the other side of the world" to die of dysentery, AIDS, unwanted childbirth, etc? I assume that your plan is to build up the US space capacity and then keep it all to yourself, saving only a small fraction of the ~300 million eggs on the "good" side of the globe, right?
The fact that a call was placed, it's time, duration, and connected parties are all part of the _content_ of your communication. As such, drawing attention to this "difference" is erroneous. Google uses MORE content, but the telco uses content as well.
Though I've not read the book you've mentioned, The Introvert Advantage, by Laney, sounds similar. Specifically, it talks about introversion as the state of being depleted by large numbers of people being around, and restored by being alone or w/ one or 2 good friends. Extroversion is just the opposite, and despite no true benefit to either personality type, there has been a strong selection bias in society to make extroverts feel "right" and introverts "wrong".
Ok, I'm going to respond, but first my background:
-I live in Texas, though I was born and raised in the midwest.
-I have 2 children who'll be starting in public school in a few years.
-My wife was a public school teacher before going to grad school where she's currently pursuing a graduate degree in education.
-I'm an engineer and want facts over ideology as much as possible in public education.
While I HATE the fact that my state of residence has this sort of influence over the textbook industry, and particularly dislike the way in which the influence is being wielded, I don't think that the influence is "undue". If citizens want their textbooks to be cheap, they will vote for the school funding structure/laws/taxes/etc that purchase cheap books. Cheap books will most likely be those that are most widely produced, and by extension, those that are made for the largest structured curriculum. In this instance, that's Texas. If people in some other state don't like what the Texas Education Agency says should be Texas' curriculum, they should buy different textbooks that aren't influenced by that agency. If parents refuse to do this, then they are complacent in the mis-education of their children, and can't just wag their fingers at Texas.
School is a place for children to get ideas and information, nothing more. What parents teach at home should be how to judge and assimilate the universe's information. While I'm not happy that I'll have to work even harder to make sure my kids have critical thinking and decide-for-yourself education at home (they probably won't get much of that from Texas' screwed up curricula), I'm also not despairing of their chances to grow up into individual thinking adults. Growing up, I had a middle school science teacher who honestly believed and taught that the amount of water on Earth has been constant because the water cycle recycled it, never considering chemical reactions, meteor impacts, or any number of other ways H2O gets turned into other things. Despite that, I still know better about such things, and have developed my own informed opinions on many subjects. My children, with my wife and I as guides, we hope, will move through their own educational mine fields and emerge with their own battle-tested minds.
Don't throw your hands up in the air and blame Texas. Tell your school board you don't approve of specific changes from the Texas curriculum, then tell your kids when you think their day's reading about Thomas Jefferson was incomplete or inaccurate, and help them find other information as they want it. I'm not a "the invisible hand of the market solves everything" person by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that the right thing to do here is to take back control of the education, the TOTAL education, received by your children and let the legislative and textbook publishing groups know you're actively doing your part to educate the next generation. Invest your time and knowledge in your children, and they will succeed and thrive and be a stronger force to reinforce a fact-based, critical thinking view of the world in the future. That's how it's always been done, and that's how it will always be done.
Actually, the interface between $HOT_SURFACE and $HEAT_SINK is usually coated w/ some sort of thermal grease to mitigate interface insulating effects. That little tube of goop that you use w/ your brand new ThermalTake heat sink fills micro voids w/ thermally conductive goo for both the processor and heat sink interface surfaces. Typically, a metal-to-metal interface is still mostly voids because you can only polish them so flat and smooth before you're using semiconductor grade (and cost!) processes and materials to get rid of that last bit of roughness. Or, you can press them together so firmly that they weld together, but again, this is not an economical approach and it's not good for the potentially delicate guts of the part which has the $HOT_SURFACE.
So, for what it's worth, I suspect that the molecular complexity of polyethylene vs copper isn't the real issue. And the "flopping over" of the polyethylene fibers isn't an issue because the FA explains that they're drawing the fibers w/ an AFM cantilever and thus already straight and tensioned. Now, how you make a block of the stuff and slap it onto something hot, that's the _real_ issue.
They may not specifically understand all of the vocabulary used, but they do understand tone of voice, body language, and all the other non-vocabulary communications that are going on when you talk to your 3 yr old. I bet my English speaking 2 year old would still know to stop doing something if a Chinese adult told him to stop, regardless of the words used. And besides, to obtain an 11th grade vocabulary, one must be exposed to 11th grade vocabluary. I'd rather not hold back the "big words" until they're older, as this would probably delay vocabulary development.
more tests = more test prep days and more test taking days
school year = finite
test prep & taking days + instruction days = school year
knowledge = K x instruction days (approximately)
school year - more tests = less instruction days
K x less instruction days = less knowledge
It's not a perfect system, but testing the students every single day would leave them knowing only what they came into the class already knowing.
How do you keep a deer from jumping into your utopia robo lane? That's a real "source of interference" for 'ya. Or how about the jerk in the next nearest human lane that swerves into the rob lane for any number of reasons? The only way to prevent this is to make tunnels/fences/tubes that physically separate the robo lane and also provide enough resistance to keep out errant 60 mph steel missiles. This sounds alot like a subway, which then means switching all highway infrastructure (or at least most) over to underground tubes, which, I assume, are more expensive to maintain.
and this seems wholly too exciting for a story that I didn't know existed 4 months ago. I'm reluctant to get my hopes up, but I will anyways. It's the fatal flaw of the geek.
There's a quote in one of the later Frank Herbert Dune novels wherein Leto II, the God Emperor, has a monologue about limiting the travel of his subjects, keeping them on their respective planets, suppressing their instinctive urges to spread out, to move to the stars. I can't locate it atm, but I'm sure someone here can. The basic premise is that you CAN subjugate a populace by controlling their travel and restricting them to their own, isolated planets [countries]. However, the real motivation was to build in them such a strong desire to go, to be free, to move and travel and explore, that their human curiosity and independence would eventually break through the restrictions and find innumerable ways to never be held in one place again.
I don't believe this is the conscious plan by anyone in our government or our society, but I do believe that it's a feasible situation nonetheless. Perhaps we, as a country/species, are sensing the dire need to spread out beyond this planet, and are contracting our own explorations in preparation for a great explosion of stored energy.
A bit heavy on psycho-babble and conjecture, I know, but still interesting IMHO.
Give people time to buy new computers that don't come w/ XP pre-installed, or to finally lose/damage their XP discs, and that 20% (which is pretty high given Vista's been around not that long) will grow to be 80%.
Isn't this a bit gloomy? I know it's cool 'round these parts to bash M$, but seriously, do we HONESTLY believe that Vista, even the flop that it is, is marking some sort of very likely demise for Windows? Isn't it much more likely, that, as with 98 ME for example, users will suffer through the pains of Vista and M$ will continue to be the majority OS by a large margin for several years?
To be pedantic, other than some amount of conduction through the base of whatever equipment you have up there, the only way the heat can move is via radiation. And as far as I know, Thermodynamics says heat ALWAYS moves from high thermal energy to low. All of that heat must necessarily radiate away. What you're trying to point out, though, is that at least as much is being radiated away will also be absorbed as solar radiation. So the temperature of the equipment will stay the same, or, more likely, increase. It is untrue, however, to say that the heat cannot be radiated away.
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To your last point, while this sounds fine in theory, the application could be ghastly. Who decides that a parent is being "stupid" about their child's health? Surely not you. Perhaps a board of certified medical professionals? Are the board members (exaggerated for effect, not my personal views) crazy liberals from California, ignorant rednecks from the south, white supremacists, recently naturalized citizens with fake medical degrees from India? If not them, then the government, right? Local, state, or federal? Which lobbying interest do you want to dictate the "stupidity" of YOUR treatment of YOUR kid's health?
What happens if the FCC's ban on Janet Jackson's nipple on broadcast television is conflated to be a psychological health risk, but you want to teach your child about the correct anatomical names of human's bodies? Or your babysitter reports your wife because your 3 year old son says he took a shower with Mommy? Or, if someone says 3D television can cause eye damage in children and you let your 5 year old watch Monsters vs Aliens on the new 3D tv you got for Christmas? Or that homemade fried chicken you brought to the company picnic is too fattening and 20 people can testify that you let your child eat it, willfully ignoring the Childhood Obesity Epidemic (TM) we've all heard about on 10 different talk shows?
And all of this is completely based in my own attitudes toward health care. Other concerns from religious points of view are another set of problems. Maybe giving up chocolate for Lent traumatizes your child psychologically. Maybe the beef lobby convinces folks that Hindus are depleting their children's iron levels by not letting them eat cow meat. Etc...
The bottom line is that people should (in my opinion) be allowed to be as stupid with their health, and with their children's health, as they want to be. It's a simple stance, but very complicated to work out in the real world, I know. And I DO believe that Child Protective Services should be able to remove children from situations of grossly negligent parenting, things like no access to clean food or water, inadequate shelter, abusive environment, etc, but even in those, the creeping grey areas can, and are, abused or misused in ways that reasonable, caring people don't intend.
Coming from experience w/ my wife's ongoing graduate school education, in the School of Education, even those PhDs only taught 1-3 years before heading into their ivory towers. And most in the field actually look down on teachers with in-the-classroom experience, or wanting to do research that benefits classroom teachers as they really teach.
Correction, you can only go so deep before you hit lava or adminium. And even a stack of diamond picks ain't gonna help you there.
Ostensibly, "branding" the information provides the casual reader an avenue of judging authenticity, accuracy, etc. If you found a ream of paper with lots of text and pretty pictures about subjects beginning with the letter A, would you cite their information in a paper you'd authored? If those same pages of text and images comes bound with "Encyclopedia Britannica (TM)" embossed on the side, would you cite then?
While it's a fair statement to say that Assange, and WIkileaks in general, are intentionally branding their leaked data, it is not unreasonable to argue that such branding actually serves the purpose of vetting the information, at least to a greater extent than a leaflet printed in a basement and left under your windshield wiper at the mall.
Of course, the disproof of your position is simple and actually happened.
An individual vote is worthless. No election with more than probably 10,000 voters (WAG here) would ever proceed to conclusion if the tally was 50% +1. The uncertainty would make recounts essentially unending, interested parties would split hairs until their donors' budgets ran out and the larger team of lawyers "won" and were vindicated by an "authority". People would be angry and call for a different outcome, but their voices would fade away eventually. Of course, this is all academic, because individuals' votes really can make a difference! If we voted for unicorns, and REALLY, TRULY believed, Tinkerbell would deliver them, right? I mean, nothing like the ever happened, did it?
An individual can greatly affect an election, but not by voting. Individuals affect elections by convincing other individuals to follow their lead, be it through charisma, money, intimidation, trickery, etc. If every single large scale political donor, PAC organizer, get-out-the-vote volunteer and party official didn't vote at all, their effect on the election would be almost precisely identical. It's not the vote that decides things, it's how they convince many, many other people to vote. Not as individuals, but as a herd.
How do you square your rant|views re: US spending on international medical aid with your eggs and basket analogy? Is it alright for some of those eggs in the dirty, poor countries "on the other side of the world" to die of dysentery, AIDS, unwanted childbirth, etc? I assume that your plan is to build up the US space capacity and then keep it all to yourself, saving only a small fraction of the ~300 million eggs on the "good" side of the globe, right?
Mr./Mrs. The Internet,
Like it or not, I've been shaping and defining you for more than a decade.
Signed-
Internet Explorer
Any similar solution out there for windows users?
Source? Do you know the kind of optics challenge you've set for yourself by claiming iris scans can be done from 10m away? Really?
-Target macro movement (walking, sitting, fidgeting, etc)
-Target "micro" movement (blinking, eye darting, etc)
-Optical angles (incidence, refraction)
-Optical resolution (microns over meters)
The fact that a call was placed, it's time, duration, and connected parties are all part of the _content_ of your communication. As such, drawing attention to this "difference" is erroneous. Google uses MORE content, but the telco uses content as well.
Anything that requires 47 billion eV electrons and a 1 trillion watt laser has to be freaking amazing to be a part of.
Yay Science!
Though I've not read the book you've mentioned, The Introvert Advantage, by Laney, sounds similar. Specifically, it talks about introversion as the state of being depleted by large numbers of people being around, and restored by being alone or w/ one or 2 good friends. Extroversion is just the opposite, and despite no true benefit to either personality type, there has been a strong selection bias in society to make extroverts feel "right" and introverts "wrong".
Troll... a drink with jam and bread?
Ok, I'm going to respond, but first my background:
-I live in Texas, though I was born and raised in the midwest.
-I have 2 children who'll be starting in public school in a few years.
-My wife was a public school teacher before going to grad school where she's currently pursuing a graduate degree in education.
-I'm an engineer and want facts over ideology as much as possible in public education.
While I HATE the fact that my state of residence has this sort of influence over the textbook industry, and particularly dislike the way in which the influence is being wielded, I don't think that the influence is "undue". If citizens want their textbooks to be cheap, they will vote for the school funding structure/laws/taxes/etc that purchase cheap books. Cheap books will most likely be those that are most widely produced, and by extension, those that are made for the largest structured curriculum. In this instance, that's Texas. If people in some other state don't like what the Texas Education Agency says should be Texas' curriculum, they should buy different textbooks that aren't influenced by that agency. If parents refuse to do this, then they are complacent in the mis-education of their children, and can't just wag their fingers at Texas.
School is a place for children to get ideas and information, nothing more. What parents teach at home should be how to judge and assimilate the universe's information. While I'm not happy that I'll have to work even harder to make sure my kids have critical thinking and decide-for-yourself education at home (they probably won't get much of that from Texas' screwed up curricula), I'm also not despairing of their chances to grow up into individual thinking adults. Growing up, I had a middle school science teacher who honestly believed and taught that the amount of water on Earth has been constant because the water cycle recycled it, never considering chemical reactions, meteor impacts, or any number of other ways H2O gets turned into other things. Despite that, I still know better about such things, and have developed my own informed opinions on many subjects. My children, with my wife and I as guides, we hope, will move through their own educational mine fields and emerge with their own battle-tested minds.
Don't throw your hands up in the air and blame Texas. Tell your school board you don't approve of specific changes from the Texas curriculum, then tell your kids when you think their day's reading about Thomas Jefferson was incomplete or inaccurate, and help them find other information as they want it. I'm not a "the invisible hand of the market solves everything" person by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that the right thing to do here is to take back control of the education, the TOTAL education, received by your children and let the legislative and textbook publishing groups know you're actively doing your part to educate the next generation. Invest your time and knowledge in your children, and they will succeed and thrive and be a stronger force to reinforce a fact-based, critical thinking view of the world in the future. That's how it's always been done, and that's how it will always be done.
Actually, the interface between $HOT_SURFACE and $HEAT_SINK is usually coated w/ some sort of thermal grease to mitigate interface insulating effects. That little tube of goop that you use w/ your brand new ThermalTake heat sink fills micro voids w/ thermally conductive goo for both the processor and heat sink interface surfaces. Typically, a metal-to-metal interface is still mostly voids because you can only polish them so flat and smooth before you're using semiconductor grade (and cost!) processes and materials to get rid of that last bit of roughness. Or, you can press them together so firmly that they weld together, but again, this is not an economical approach and it's not good for the potentially delicate guts of the part which has the $HOT_SURFACE.
So, for what it's worth, I suspect that the molecular complexity of polyethylene vs copper isn't the real issue. And the "flopping over" of the polyethylene fibers isn't an issue because the FA explains that they're drawing the fibers w/ an AFM cantilever and thus already straight and tensioned. Now, how you make a block of the stuff and slap it onto something hot, that's the _real_ issue.
They may not specifically understand all of the vocabulary used, but they do understand tone of voice, body language, and all the other non-vocabulary communications that are going on when you talk to your 3 yr old. I bet my English speaking 2 year old would still know to stop doing something if a Chinese adult told him to stop, regardless of the words used. And besides, to obtain an 11th grade vocabulary, one must be exposed to 11th grade vocabluary. I'd rather not hold back the "big words" until they're older, as this would probably delay vocabulary development.
more tests = more test prep days and more test taking days
school year = finite
test prep & taking days + instruction days = school year
knowledge = K x instruction days (approximately)
school year - more tests = less instruction days
K x less instruction days = less knowledge
It's not a perfect system, but testing the students every single day would leave them knowing only what they came into the class already knowing.
How do you keep a deer from jumping into your utopia robo lane? That's a real "source of interference" for 'ya. Or how about the jerk in the next nearest human lane that swerves into the rob lane for any number of reasons? The only way to prevent this is to make tunnels/fences/tubes that physically separate the robo lane and also provide enough resistance to keep out errant 60 mph steel missiles. This sounds alot like a subway, which then means switching all highway infrastructure (or at least most) over to underground tubes, which, I assume, are more expensive to maintain.
and this seems wholly too exciting for a story that I didn't know existed 4 months ago. I'm reluctant to get my hopes up, but I will anyways. It's the fatal flaw of the geek.
There's a quote in one of the later Frank Herbert Dune novels wherein Leto II, the God Emperor, has a monologue about limiting the travel of his subjects, keeping them on their respective planets, suppressing their instinctive urges to spread out, to move to the stars. I can't locate it atm, but I'm sure someone here can. The basic premise is that you CAN subjugate a populace by controlling their travel and restricting them to their own, isolated planets [countries]. However, the real motivation was to build in them such a strong desire to go, to be free, to move and travel and explore, that their human curiosity and independence would eventually break through the restrictions and find innumerable ways to never be held in one place again.
I don't believe this is the conscious plan by anyone in our government or our society, but I do believe that it's a feasible situation nonetheless. Perhaps we, as a country/species, are sensing the dire need to spread out beyond this planet, and are contracting our own explorations in preparation for a great explosion of stored energy.
A bit heavy on psycho-babble and conjecture, I know, but still interesting IMHO.
Aren't they mostly just variations on walking genitalia or lewd acts thus far?
Give people time to buy new computers that don't come w/ XP pre-installed, or to finally lose/damage their XP discs, and that 20% (which is pretty high given Vista's been around not that long) will grow to be 80%.
...a hope for recovery?
Isn't this a bit gloomy? I know it's cool 'round these parts to bash M$, but seriously, do we HONESTLY believe that Vista, even the flop that it is, is marking some sort of very likely demise for Windows? Isn't it much more likely, that, as with 98 ME for example, users will suffer through the pains of Vista and M$ will continue to be the majority OS by a large margin for several years?
Awesome sig!
To be pedantic, other than some amount of conduction through the base of whatever equipment you have up there, the only way the heat can move is via radiation. And as far as I know, Thermodynamics says heat ALWAYS moves from high thermal energy to low. All of that heat must necessarily radiate away. What you're trying to point out, though, is that at least as much is being radiated away will also be absorbed as solar radiation. So the temperature of the equipment will stay the same, or, more likely, increase. It is untrue, however, to say that the heat cannot be radiated away.