My hurricane check list includes checking the ammo supply level... I live across the road from just over 1000 acres of forest, has the potential to be a grocery store....
If I lived more urban, the check list would still include an ammo check, for "social issues" that may arise.
Thing is, currents changed with the big earthquakes that have happened in the past few years. If it was enough of a change to affect migration patterns (it has), it was also probably enough of a change to alter the predictable long term weather models. Anyone know if the modeling software has been updated with the new data?
But then again, most makers that sell both direct and thru distributers/wholesalers/dealers will typically price their in-house sales to the public at full retail price (hey, lets call that the MSRP!) and heavily discount to the distributers/wholesalers/dealers, which lets the second tier dealer charge the same or less and still make $.
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Of course, depending on when it was bought it may have come with all of the "animal books" about Perl on CD with it (mine did anyway). And, your local library may have a Safari subscription - mine does. No need for paper in the majority of cases. As a teacher its great because I can assign just a few great chapters from various books and not cost the student $250 in books for a 3 credit class.
All sorts of great computing technology available to them... including up to 386 CPUs. Dialup existed then as well (BBS, etc) so intertoob access is still possible.
At some point though it is obvious to the instructor that parroting the formula is what is required. At least, thats what my pre-calc instructor said many moons ago when I asked "why do i have to memorize this, i can do it in 3 or 4 lines of code in multiple programming languages".
Being weak at math and having been out of school for a long time I earned myself a decent grade by teaching myself the math for my pre-calc algebra,and statistics classes by treating them as almost an assembly type language with weird variable name requirements and other seemingly arbitrary limitations.
Maybe. But installing Debian on a VirtualBox machine and then setting up a quick-n-basic LAMP server can be done, especially if you give them really good documentation.
And so as it becomes yuppified and "me too!" and too popular, there will be a sub-sub-culture for the folks that really know what is going on and why they should be there.
The same has happened with Rainbow Gatherings, and will happen with events like DefCon.
Yup. Even in the face-to-face Linux admin class I teach only 20% of the students grade comes from exams (one of which is a hands on skill exam for copying files, dealing with tar.gz and tar.bz2 files, moving files, looking at permissions, etc). Rest is lab work and projects.
A "properly" designed evaluation method is pretty cheat proof even if not proctored. Especially if you've been having your students move in that direction over the previous assignments.
Of course, designing such an assessment/evaluation is very hard to do, and grading it can be equally hard.
But, for those instructors that just want to give a 50 question multiple choice test from the text publisher's test bank, yeah, they need a proctor. There are a few online proctoring services that use webcams, etc. to monitor and most colleges/univsersities/military installations have testing facilities. I've even known instructors to accept a local parrish priest proctoring exams for a student taking her classes from Chihuahua, Mx (the college I work for is in Florida and is part of the state university system).
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So... "mitigate risk of a population by spreading it between all of them, whereas before you only got that benefit if you qualified for a group plan"
Isn't a group plan just a small(er) population? And maybe a better one to be putting risk to - employed people, usually full time vs. Everyone ?
My hurricane check list includes checking the ammo supply level... I live across the road from just over 1000 acres of forest, has the potential to be a grocery store....
If I lived more urban, the check list would still include an ammo check, for "social issues" that may arise.
Thing is, currents changed with the big earthquakes that have happened in the past few years. If it was enough of a change to affect migration patterns (it has), it was also probably enough of a change to alter the predictable long term weather models. Anyone know if the modeling software has been updated with the new data?
Yup, the plane'arium manager here at the college I work for is one of the new Hustlers...
http://www.sfcollege.edu/planetarium/
With links to old Star Gazer episodes with Jack and the new ones at http://www.youtube.com/user/MiamiScienceMuseum
Well, it sorta has unified all of us who hate it....
But then again, most makers that sell both direct and thru distributers/wholesalers/dealers will typically price their in-house sales to the public at full retail price (hey, lets call that the MSRP!) and heavily discount to the distributers/wholesalers/dealers, which lets the second tier dealer charge the same or less and still make $.
Or a total lack of a hard drive.....
Of course, depending on when it was bought it may have come with all of the "animal books" about Perl on CD with it (mine did anyway). And, your local library may have a Safari subscription - mine does. No need for paper in the majority of cases. As a teacher its great because I can assign just a few great chapters from various books and not cost the student $250 in books for a 3 credit class.
linode.com does month to month, prorates per day. disclaimer - very long time customer, very happy.
And now that the panic is over, you can get one brand new for your $700 price point....
All sorts of great computing technology available to them... including up to 386 CPUs. Dialup existed then as well (BBS, etc) so intertoob access is still possible.
A true luddite wouldn't be watching the telly.
They are idiots (no relation).
These are the same people that freaked out when War of the Worlds was first broadcast....
The the 4s also has more horsepower than the 4 so it can run Siri, etc.
At least with survivor and big brother there is a small chance that you can win some $
And, depending on how adventureous you are, they are a "free" vacation at the least...
Bah, wouldn't happen anyway - remember, they have strong gun control laws and schools are gun free zones! Who could think of violating those laws?
At some point though it is obvious to the instructor that parroting the formula is what is required. At least, thats what my pre-calc instructor said many moons ago when I asked "why do i have to memorize this, i can do it in 3 or 4 lines of code in multiple programming languages".
Being weak at math and having been out of school for a long time I earned myself a decent grade by teaching myself the math for my pre-calc algebra,and statistics classes by treating them as almost an assembly type language with weird variable name requirements and other seemingly arbitrary limitations.
If course, if you can code, you can turn that programmable piece of hardware into a music maker, creative medium, etc....
Just plain sharks though, cause the Founding Fathers didn't think about mutherfsckin sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.
Maybe. But installing Debian on a VirtualBox machine and then setting up a quick-n-basic LAMP server can be done, especially if you give them really good documentation.
But doesn't IQ measure the *ability* to learn, not what body of knowledge someone has?
IE, if Einstein had an IQ of 190, but you gave him an exam about programming in Python, do you think he'd pass?
And so as it becomes yuppified and "me too!" and too popular, there will be a sub-sub-culture for the folks that really know what is going on and why they should be there.
The same has happened with Rainbow Gatherings, and will happen with events like DefCon.
population density, closeness to physical infrastructure, larger pool of qualified workers (maybe), etc.
A lot of those were donated
Yup. Even in the face-to-face Linux admin class I teach only 20% of the students grade comes from exams (one of which is a hands on skill exam for copying files, dealing with tar.gz and tar.bz2 files, moving files, looking at permissions, etc). Rest is lab work and projects.
A "properly" designed evaluation method is pretty cheat proof even if not proctored. Especially if you've been having your students move in that direction over the previous assignments.
Of course, designing such an assessment/evaluation is very hard to do, and grading it can be equally hard.
But, for those instructors that just want to give a 50 question multiple choice test from the text publisher's test bank, yeah, they need a proctor. There are a few online proctoring services that use webcams, etc. to monitor and most colleges/univsersities/military installations have testing facilities. I've even known instructors to accept a local parrish priest proctoring exams for a student taking her classes from Chihuahua, Mx (the college I work for is in Florida and is part of the state university system).