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  1. Re:Common sense = none on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, how did you come by associating one manufacturer of pencils with a #2 pencil?

  2. Re: Critical thinking skills on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    I was never given that particular problem in school, and honestly, I'm not sure my formal education taught critical thinking particularly well. In fact, defining "critical thinking" can be particularly hard. Wikipedia's article on it has multiple issues. How does answering the question about MacBeth involve critical thinking? What does it teach you about problem solving?

  3. Re: Common sense = none on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    I never get how people think they know the details of the home lives of others. I also don't get how they think it's reasonable to generalize to any great extent. And you picked a great extent to generalize Asia covers most of Russia, Chinese urban dwellers and farmers (the two groups of Chinese I hear the most about, but there are no doubt others. North Korea, often derisively called Best Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan Taiwan and Hong Kong, as long as you count islands off the coast of Asia part of Asia, which I hear frequently enough, Thailand... and those are just the areas I can think of off the top of my head. I know that Hong Kong is politically a part of China, but it's an island and still has many influences from their time as a British holding that makes them distinct from the other two groups.

  4. Re: Common sense = none on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    a 5.5 in cell phone

    At first I read that in a way that makes sense if there was a school that graded from 0 to 6 and offered a class called "cell phone".

    I'll take a Chilton's manual over Joe Blows weblog any day.

    Not very familiar with Chilton's manual except they deal with car information, one manual per car. Just checked their website, and it appears to be needlessly confusing. Conversely there are weblogs with accurate information about the topics they cover and others that are not.

  5. Re:Procrastinators dream on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    If you're on Windows, there's a little icon in the lower right corner that can lead to an option to disconnect from your wireless router. The steps may vary depending on which version of Windows you are using, and the other operating systems probably have a similar feature as well.

  6. Re: Critical thinking skills on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    If a problem is so simple that cutting and pasting the answer can yield the solution, I doubt it does much to enhance critical thinking skills no matter what.

    In fact, lets give them some code right off the bat that requires quite a bit of tweaking to provide the solution to the answer. That way you skip all the stuff that doesn't contribute to critical thinking skills, and they learn what to look for in code libraries so that they aren't constantly reinventing the wheel.

    Relevant links:
    http://www.qb64.net/forum/inde...
    http://www.qb64sourcecode.com/...

  7. Re: Feel what? on Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel · · Score: 1

    Think of how that could improve psychoanalysis!

    There was a science fiction story about an amputee that had implants that allowed him to control robotic arms that had various properties and he went crazy with power, until someone found a way to make one of the devices punch him in the head, and I think the psychoanalyst thought it was because of his trauma that made him go mad, but thought that in a person who didn't experience trauma it would go better. Someone like himself, and he said something similar to what you did. Can't find a reference to the story though.

  8. If you had a nickel bag for every time someone said Wikipedia has "jumped the shark", you must have shopped at Aldi's, but the put out the boxes everything is shipped in, and those are free for the taking.

  9. Re:Off Topic on Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars · · Score: 1

    This is where someone usually goes, "You must be new here." Very rarely do the comments stick to the narrowest interpretation of what the topic is.

  10. Re:How long will it take on Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't make what he said any less true. Nowhere did he say that these cars would be used on the job. It still maintains the illusion that speedy cars is what it takes to handle someone driving a vehicle that tries to elude police. Someone else in the thread pointed out that the illusion is better maintained in the US, but that does not make this instance not something that maintains the illusion.

  11. Re:Off road on Honda To Test Self-Driving Cars In California · · Score: 1

    Then you'll control the car in a high-level way that resembles how they pilot spaceships in Star Trek.

  12. Re:Oh you opened my eyes on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Thank You God - Tim Minchin

  13. I wonder if the people who excavated things back then had the qualifications for being a modern archeologist. I think they still do fit the other term whichever way you want to call it. I don't get this insistence that tax dollars are still yours once you've paid it.

  14. Re:At my humble opinion... on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The software running atop the network enables some democracy, but when it comes to forming links, the hardware is designed for centralization. The data flows from the user across lines that link to central pathways. There isn't a hand-off to other routers that are on the fringe in the current design, but wouldn't be if the topology wasn't to route everything through centralized paths. If the topology was democratized, my router would be in direct communication with other people's routers, all relaying how fast they can get the data closer to where it's to arrive.

  15. Re:Old media's big advantage on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    I have no idea how many of my bookmarks I have changed to point to Archive.org's newest page before the site got deleted. Even some of those, Archive didn't get the site's content completely, but sometimes going to older versions yields more material.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20... is a good example of the loss of data issue.

  16. Re:Vint shoves greased up yoda dolls in his gay as on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    It's worse on mobile, the entire message is shown in its entirety without having a click to show the rest of the post option. I started to click on report this post, but it wanted a description and messages this bizarre defy description, at least for me.

  17. Re:Anyone got a source for 'safe' black & colo on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    I buy Brother ink cartridges from eBay. Can't say anything about damaging the print head, but one of my previous printers died from a phantom paper jam, and I forgot what it's bought used same make and model replacement died from, but my current one has wireless networking while the previous ones only had wired. I had to put this one in storage for awhile, and when I got it out, I had to replace the cartridges, and run the cleaning and diagnostic routine a few times for it to clear the ink in the lines that had went bad and printed black on the test patterns. But it finally started working like normal. They were all multifunction all in ones.

  18. Re: Not Readable in 10 years on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    How well do punchcards have to be kept in order to ensure they aren't damaged in a way that makes them unreadable. Has anybody studied this? Hanging chads? Data density? Not that the government would adopt it as a backup storage device, though.... How fast is the search function. I recently discovered that records from the Nixon Administration are online at http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/p... but that's probably a little off topic.

  19. Re: Not Readable in 10 years on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you had to transfer them to new media in order to keep them readable, something the government should be doing with their files but have already gotten creative about at least pretending they have gone missing and other shenanigans.

  20. Re: Uh, okay on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 1

    That article doesn't say anything about the court decision on the matter, just that the executive branch doesn't think she did. It also doesn't state that it is clear that personal emails were the only things deleted.

  21. Re:Do not negotiate with criminals on Bitcoin Extortion Group DD4BC Now Targeting Financial Services · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that criminal tendencies can't be cured. Of course it would have helped determine one way or the other if they actually tried.

  22. Re:The many into the few... on Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine · · Score: 1

    Your "real journalism" is like "real magic". If by "real magic" you mean paranormal magic, it doesn't exist. Stage magic is the only magic that is actually real. Journalism that really matters requires sources that would face reprisals if it got out that they are the ones providing information to the journalist, so it's understandable that they would not want to be available to the general public.

  23. Re:Rupert Murdoch on Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine · · Score: 1

    So apparently that quote is a really bad translation from German. Just ran it through Google Translate and it gave a better tranlation, but the actual gist is that climate policy is not the end all and be all of environmental policy. which is to say that the climate is just one aspect of a much larger environmental policy.

  24. Star Trek spin-offs on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 1

    You should see all the Star Trek spin-offs that are mostly crowdfunded and on YouTube and even have actors from the original series that could only come about in the current legal climate because CBS isn't being a nuisance regarding making derivative works.

  25. Re: One way it could work using current conditions on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 1

    I insist on crowdfunding because it gets you the money without putting pressure on anyone who wants to participate in the flow of ideas after the MacGuffin was made. There was a situation where someone remade a Mario 64 level from scratch and Nintendo had the power to make him take it down. You also don't seem to have looked at the links I provided or the bits I described from them