Yeah, people seem to think that's a new idea. Teachers have ALWAYS assigned readings to be completed before class. Does everyone do them? Not a chance. An organized lecture with questions taken during the lecture is much more effective.
Do you actually teach? Most lectures are at least somewhat interactive. The lecturer takes cues from the audience and the audience can usually ask questions. You lose all that watching a video.
If the lecturer is poor, a video of that lecture is also going to be poor. But very few lecturers are actually so poor that they completely miss all cues from their audience.
A lot of the gimmicks people have thought up to replace or liven up lectures really do need to be thought out. Things like clickers - I've found all they do is give the lecturer and the audience an excuse not to actually participate out loud. Twitter in the classroom sounds like it has even less rational thought behind it.
"Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’" Matthew 15.
The bible, and Jesus in particular don't necessarily claim to be explicitly the word of god, but Jesus certainly seems to be claiming that one of the more unsavoury parts IS in fact, the word of god.
Your country (assuming you're American) was founded by people who were either atheists or had very non-standard (for the time, and even by today's standard) religious views. Certainly not "Religious people" of the kind you imply.
Believing your rights and liberties are granted to you by your government is obviously a bad idea - it puts the government in charge. Believing your rights and liberties are granted to you by a creator not only doesn't make much sense (you don't have rights in the jungle), it's ALSO a bad idea - it puts the creator, or rather whoever you believe speaks for him, in charge. Religion was harnessed to be an effective means of controlling the people long before governments came along to try the same thing. And to head off the obvious protestant objection, you most likely still regard some form of holy book as speaking for your creator, and if you're Christian, the details of that holy book are nasty if interpreted literally and/or completely.
You live in a democracy. Your rights are granted to you by society (i.e. the people, i.e. you). When people realize this, democracy will actually work properly and the world will be a better place.
The environment doesn't care about asbestos. It makes it in large quantities (you did know that asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that is MINED, right?). Oh, and removing it didn't have anything to do with Challenger blowing up.
Removing asbestos from things isn't environmentally friendly, it's people friendly. Same with NASA's wish to get rid of hydrazine.
So what you're saying is that MOST passwords were pretty decent (not discoverable using a rainbow table) then? That's a little different from the OP's assertion that "virtually no one uses strong passwords."
They tend to build a Future Shop and a Best Buy right across from each other in the same plaza, so I'm not sure what they're going to do if they're actually phasing out Future Shop. None of the ones I know, in several cities, have been closed.
Too bad if it's true - Future Shop leaves you slightly less in need of a shower when you go there than does Best Buy.
I know people who have died because they tried all sorts of "alternative medicine" treatments before getting chemo for their cancer. Being credulous can kill you, and routinely costs people money (see "snake oil"). Skepticism, particularly the way the word is currently used, is healthier. Only one is scientific, and it's not the one where you tend to believe things based on little or no evidence.
"Apple learned their lesson last time with the G3/G4/G5 chips"
Which lesson is that? Keep your code portable? The G3, G4 and G5 were all PowerPC processors. They switched away from them to Intel, and supported both architectures (as well as PPC and Intel 64 bit architectures) at the same time.
Apple didn't invent the app store for phones. And previous stores claimed a lot more than 50%. As for PCs, you're making a prediction, a prediction that a lot of people have been making for quite a while and have been wrong about for quite a while.
"You can't use technology to solve social problems." [citation needed]
Hunger, poverty, homelessness, oppressive dictators and bad laws are all a LOT better now than they were a hundred or two years ago, mostly because of technology: the printing press, reliable cheap lighting, mechanized agriculture, everything that went into the industrial revolution....
Now addiction, well, it's always been around, but it used to be pretty much the province of the rich. Nobody else could afford it. Now that we're all rich (yes, if the homeless guy can afford to enough cigs and booze to be addicted and still eat enough to stay alive he's rich), such vices are open to a lot more people.
"I fail to see how a 1 degree average change can make any significant difference"
If every day is 1 degree warmer or colder (just +1 degree, everywhere, no variation), you might not notice on any particular day, but you might notice that spring comes earlier or later, and you might notice your feet getting wet (or dry) because more ice is melting (or accumulating) at the poles and high altitudes.
What standard deviation are you looking for? Between locations on the planet? Daily? Monthly? Yearly?
Not if John Q Public doesn't buy the ridiculously overvalued IPO stock (and makes sure his pension fund does likewise). There's nothing like a failed IPO to tell a company that you're not falling for their scam.
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Yeah, people seem to think that's a new idea. Teachers have ALWAYS assigned readings to be completed before class. Does everyone do them? Not a chance. An organized lecture with questions taken during the lecture is much more effective.
Do you actually teach? Most lectures are at least somewhat interactive. The lecturer takes cues from the audience and the audience can usually ask questions. You lose all that watching a video.
If the lecturer is poor, a video of that lecture is also going to be poor. But very few lecturers are actually so poor that they completely miss all cues from their audience.
A lot of the gimmicks people have thought up to replace or liven up lectures really do need to be thought out. Things like clickers - I've found all they do is give the lecturer and the audience an excuse not to actually participate out loud. Twitter in the classroom sounds like it has even less rational thought behind it.
Difficult? Your example is clearly invalid due to rior art.
"Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’" Matthew 15.
The bible, and Jesus in particular don't necessarily claim to be explicitly the word of god, but Jesus certainly seems to be claiming that one of the more unsavoury parts IS in fact, the word of god.
It'll never catch on.
Your country (assuming you're American) was founded by people who were either atheists or had very non-standard (for the time, and even by today's standard) religious views. Certainly not "Religious people" of the kind you imply.
Believing your rights and liberties are granted to you by your government is obviously a bad idea - it puts the government in charge. Believing your rights and liberties are granted to you by a creator not only doesn't make much sense (you don't have rights in the jungle), it's ALSO a bad idea - it puts the creator, or rather whoever you believe speaks for him, in charge. Religion was harnessed to be an effective means of controlling the people long before governments came along to try the same thing. And to head off the obvious protestant objection, you most likely still regard some form of holy book as speaking for your creator, and if you're Christian, the details of that holy book are nasty if interpreted literally and/or completely.
You live in a democracy. Your rights are granted to you by society (i.e. the people, i.e. you). When people realize this, democracy will actually work properly and the world will be a better place.
The environment doesn't care about asbestos. It makes it in large quantities (you did know that asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that is MINED, right?). Oh, and removing it didn't have anything to do with Challenger blowing up.
Removing asbestos from things isn't environmentally friendly, it's people friendly. Same with NASA's wish to get rid of hydrazine.
Yes, we know. You have expressed your opinion. Several times.
"I also know people with Pulmonary Fibrosis that have survived and lived decent lives way after their doctors predicted they would die."
I'm skeptical that being credulous is what kept them alive.
So what you're saying is that MOST passwords were pretty decent (not discoverable using a rainbow table) then? That's a little different from the OP's assertion that "virtually no one uses strong passwords."
Well, it was their own e-mail....
Speaking of which, people who don't put objects in their sentences shouldn't even have written them. ;)
Or a couple of NSA agents looking at each other and saying "shit, I've got to go change my password."
Repeating some silly assertion doesn't make it true. Neither does putting "Period." after it.
They tend to build a Future Shop and a Best Buy right across from each other in the same plaza, so I'm not sure what they're going to do if they're actually phasing out Future Shop. None of the ones I know, in several cities, have been closed.
Too bad if it's true - Future Shop leaves you slightly less in need of a shower when you go there than does Best Buy.
Meh, I went in about fifteen years ago with a friend and asked for a flux capacitor, then watched the sales guy search for one for ten minutes.
It hasn't really been Radio Shack for a long time.
I know people who have died because they tried all sorts of "alternative medicine" treatments before getting chemo for their cancer. Being credulous can kill you, and routinely costs people money (see "snake oil"). Skepticism, particularly the way the word is currently used, is healthier. Only one is scientific, and it's not the one where you tend to believe things based on little or no evidence.
So then the solution is making capital gains and income taxes apply when your estate is liquidated. Not some silly held stock tax.
You have a decent supply of stem cells that should work just fine, right in your body.
You can't blame the chip dying because it wasn't radiation hardened on the microcode. "Gramps" probably knows that. Do you?
"Apple learned their lesson last time with the G3/G4/G5 chips"
Which lesson is that? Keep your code portable? The G3, G4 and G5 were all PowerPC processors. They switched away from them to Intel, and supported both architectures (as well as PPC and Intel 64 bit architectures) at the same time.
And the core of OS X has already been ported to ARM in the form of iOS.
Apple didn't invent the app store for phones. And previous stores claimed a lot more than 50%. As for PCs, you're making a prediction, a prediction that a lot of people have been making for quite a while and have been wrong about for quite a while.
"You can't use technology to solve social problems." [citation needed]
Hunger, poverty, homelessness, oppressive dictators and bad laws are all a LOT better now than they were a hundred or two years ago, mostly because of technology: the printing press, reliable cheap lighting, mechanized agriculture, everything that went into the industrial revolution....
Now addiction, well, it's always been around, but it used to be pretty much the province of the rich. Nobody else could afford it. Now that we're all rich (yes, if the homeless guy can afford to enough cigs and booze to be addicted and still eat enough to stay alive he's rich), such vices are open to a lot more people.
"I fail to see how a 1 degree average change can make any significant difference"
If every day is 1 degree warmer or colder (just +1 degree, everywhere, no variation), you might not notice on any particular day, but you might notice that spring comes earlier or later, and you might notice your feet getting wet (or dry) because more ice is melting (or accumulating) at the poles and high altitudes.
What standard deviation are you looking for? Between locations on the planet? Daily? Monthly? Yearly?
Not if John Q Public doesn't buy the ridiculously overvalued IPO stock (and makes sure his pension fund does likewise). There's nothing like a failed IPO to tell a company that you're not falling for their scam.