Too bad iWork isn't open source. I really would like to see how they implemented the "AutoSpaceLikeWork95" feature. I would also like to know if the implemented all the spreadsheet functions incorrectly as they were documented in the standard.
Which is exactly what I said. While she probably knew the material pretty well, she did a pretty good job of making it look like she didn't know the material, by not preparing notes and examples for the class.
No, there are no standardized tests. I didn't have to write a single test or have a single interview to get into university. It was all based on my highschool marks. A couple universities (Waterloo for instance) has students write their own tests that they make up in math and physics. From my understanding, you don't have to take the test, but if you do really well on it, it's a big help to get into such prestigious schools.
In Ontario, when I went to school, we were required grade 13 (OAC) math for admittance to most college programs. Students from other provinces were made to take catch-up courses because they didn't have a grade 13. I found that the extra year of highschool, for those who were going to university (as opposed to college/workforce students who didn't have to take grade 13), was extremely useful in preparing me for university. However, they have since gotten rid of that, although I understand they are still supposed to be teaching all the same material, only in 4 years instead of 5.
Bravo. It's the same with just about any schooling. If you're just there to get the piece of paper, you probably won't get much out of it, even if you're marks are high. However if you take an interest in what you are learning, and actually try to apply what you are learning to everyday situations, then you will find out that most of what you are learning is really useful. I took software engineering in school, and I know some people who graduated, with good marks, and still couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. Because they were just there to get the piece of paper, and didn't take any real interest in the courses, or try to see the usefulness of what they were learning, they didn't really learn anything.
I had a statistics professor, who despite having a PHD in math, and teaching many different statistics course seemed to have a very poor grasp of the subject matter. She would spend 15 minutes working through a problem on the board, realize at the end that she had done it wrong, and then teach us the right way to do it. Going to class was next to useless because you had to spend 3/4 of your time "unlearning what you had learned" in order to figure out the right way to do things. So while she probably did know the material pretty well, and better than the students, she did a pretty good job of showing just how not preparing for the class can make you look like a complete moron.
In Ontario, there's a board that you apply to when you are applying to university/college. They know about all these stupid tricks that highschools try to pull to make their students seem smarter. They know that some schools hand out A's like candy on halloween, and they also know that some schools don't give out a lot of As. My physics teacher told us that he could give us all As, but that wouldn't make much difference for getting into university, because they would look at the class average and conclude that you didn't do much better than anyone else, and you were just average. I think this kind of situation works out a lot better than standardized tests where students can study the test, and learn to pass it without actually learning any applicable knowledge. It also works better than assuming that all schools are following some magical grading standard and assuming that getting an A at one school is the same as getting an A at another school. I think they should take the same approach in this situation. Do a more in depth analysis of what courses the students are taking, as well as how well they do after they leave the school, and you'll get a much better picture of how well the school is actually doing. Basing any metric just on the marks of the students is a very bad way to measure things.
If you have low blood sugar such that you look like you are driving drunk, you shouldn't be driving anyway. Just like if you take some cold medication, and it makes you really tired, or you've been up for 36 hours straight, then you probably shouldn't be on the road.
I don't think that he's trying to say when people can and can't drink. He's trying to say when people can and can't drive. You can drink all you want, whenever you want. Just don't get in a car and drive on public roadways when you have been drinking. You can fire a gun at a shooting range all you want, but once you start shooting off in random directions in the street, then it starts in infringe on other people's right to live. A person's right to live trumps your right to drive while drunk.
This reminds me of vPod. It's licensed under the FreeBSD, but you can't get access to the source unless you give him a $10 donation. It's like open source, without actually giving out the source.
When you look at most of the Mario party minigames, they are designed so that everything can be seen properly on a 4:3 screen. So if you have a 16:9 screen, what are you supposed to show on the edges. There's no extra content or graphics or anything to put there. I completely agree with the choice to put vertical bars over that part of the screen instead of having them spend countless hours adding extra graphics to the edge of the screen, for no purpose whatsoever.
I think Nintendo is trying to expand it's market. That doesn't mean that they are ignoring the hardcore gamer market. Resident Evil 4 as you mentioned is one title. Also, twilight princess is really only for hardcore gamers, as you can't really do anything unless you are willing to sit down and play it for at least an hour straight. I find that I usually want to play for at least 2 hours. Sure it's not a first person shooter where you run around killing guys, or some MMORPG where you play it for 15 hours straight, but it's definitely not a game for casual gamers.
You already can rent movies through your regular digital cable set-top box. It's usually called On-Demand or something. It would be nice to be able to choose from different providers, but I wouldn't want to have to add an extra set top box, just to rent movies.
I kind of thought this model was backwards. The more people who buy your song, the cheaper it should be. If you have 1 million people buying your song, and each one pays a quarter, then you've made 0.25 million dollars. However, if you only sold 10000 songs, you'd have to sell them at $25 each to make the same amount of money. So the artists who only sell 1000 songs, end up making nothing as their songs only sell for a few pennies each. Meanwhile the artists who are popular end up making more money, as they sell more songs each at an inflated price. The only advantage I can see is that it encourages people to shop around for lesser known music, so that they can get many tracks at a low price. By doing this, they are trying to make people's music tastes more diverse, instead of people buying album after album from the same 5-10 artists, they can branch out and find artists that they never would have found before.
However, when a black person and a white person have a child together, the child usually ends up not so black. Continue this for many generations, and eventually you'll end up with no more black people.
Yeah, but you could think of it as a high risk investment. If the do indeed have a 70% interest rate, then you could put $1000 in the bank, and take it out a year later and have $1700. Sure you wouldn't want to put all your money in there, but it wouldn't be a terrible idea to put a little bit of money in there. Instead of spending $10 a week on the lottery, you could just drop $500 in there each year, and you'd probably get better returns.
I don't think computers have changed that much. Sure the slots look a little different now, as do the connectors for the cable, but they are basically the same. Besides if you teach people concepts like, read the manuals and figure out which card goes in which slot, instead of graphics card goes in PCI-E slot, then they will be much better off next time they do it, and have to learn that the graphics card goes in the new XYZ slot. I think that if somebody was taught how to assemble a 486, they should be able to assemble an Core Duo, with nothing more than the manuals for the computer. Assembling a computer, is much easier than assembling a baby's crib. Believe me, I've done both. Most of the time, the instructions aren't as straight forward, and the parts don't fit together as well on a crib, when compared to a computer.
Quick, as in, you buy the computer, and it's already installed. You don't have to do anything. Cheap as in it comes included in the cost of the computer, and because of large OEM discounts, it only costs you about $50 for your copy of windows.
BMI is ok for dealing with entire populations. There's enough people on either side of the error (fat people with low BMI, skinny people with high BMI), that it works well to tell in general how many people are overweight. But as an individual assesssment it is very bad. Denying people insurance because their BMI is too high, without any other measurements is terrible. Making people pay more for their insurance because they have a high BMI, without any further assessment is also wrong. The BMI of a single person means almost nothing. The average BMI of the entire population isn't a terrible metric.
Precisely. Despite there being problems with deal in 2 languages because of Quebec, there are many advantages to having Quebec as part of Canada. First, you mentioned, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and also, the large number of hydro-electric dams that exist in the James Bay region. Having the maritime cut off from the rest of Canada, with the only way of getting to them to be going through another country (Quebec or the US) would be a major problem. Quebec is a very rich province, and it's not something that we want to get rid of.
Also, Linux does quite well on the i8n front. Installing Mandriva, there was more languages then I could even name. Also, being a Canadian, I don't think that they are required to sell all their products in French. You don't see the book stores selling all the same books in both French and English. Then again, all the video games come with a French manual, even if the entire game is in English.
I always found it funny that many of the lifeguards I knew in highschool were quite a bit overweight. I could never get that far in swimming lessons, because I didn't float at all, and that makes it really hard to swim. Meanwhile, the fat people in the swimming lessons had a very easy time swimming. I guess it could help if you were a lifeguard to be extra buoyant.
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Too bad iWork isn't open source. I really would like to see how they implemented the "AutoSpaceLikeWork95" feature. I would also like to know if the implemented all the spreadsheet functions incorrectly as they were documented in the standard.
Which is exactly what I said. While she probably knew the material pretty well, she did a pretty good job of making it look like she didn't know the material, by not preparing notes and examples for the class.
No, there are no standardized tests. I didn't have to write a single test or have a single interview to get into university. It was all based on my highschool marks. A couple universities (Waterloo for instance) has students write their own tests that they make up in math and physics. From my understanding, you don't have to take the test, but if you do really well on it, it's a big help to get into such prestigious schools.
In Ontario, when I went to school, we were required grade 13 (OAC) math for admittance to most college programs. Students from other provinces were made to take catch-up courses because they didn't have a grade 13. I found that the extra year of highschool, for those who were going to university (as opposed to college/workforce students who didn't have to take grade 13), was extremely useful in preparing me for university. However, they have since gotten rid of that, although I understand they are still supposed to be teaching all the same material, only in 4 years instead of 5.
Bravo. It's the same with just about any schooling. If you're just there to get the piece of paper, you probably won't get much out of it, even if you're marks are high. However if you take an interest in what you are learning, and actually try to apply what you are learning to everyday situations, then you will find out that most of what you are learning is really useful. I took software engineering in school, and I know some people who graduated, with good marks, and still couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. Because they were just there to get the piece of paper, and didn't take any real interest in the courses, or try to see the usefulness of what they were learning, they didn't really learn anything.
I had a statistics professor, who despite having a PHD in math, and teaching many different statistics course seemed to have a very poor grasp of the subject matter. She would spend 15 minutes working through a problem on the board, realize at the end that she had done it wrong, and then teach us the right way to do it. Going to class was next to useless because you had to spend 3/4 of your time "unlearning what you had learned" in order to figure out the right way to do things. So while she probably did know the material pretty well, and better than the students, she did a pretty good job of showing just how not preparing for the class can make you look like a complete moron.
In Ontario, there's a board that you apply to when you are applying to university/college. They know about all these stupid tricks that highschools try to pull to make their students seem smarter. They know that some schools hand out A's like candy on halloween, and they also know that some schools don't give out a lot of As. My physics teacher told us that he could give us all As, but that wouldn't make much difference for getting into university, because they would look at the class average and conclude that you didn't do much better than anyone else, and you were just average. I think this kind of situation works out a lot better than standardized tests where students can study the test, and learn to pass it without actually learning any applicable knowledge. It also works better than assuming that all schools are following some magical grading standard and assuming that getting an A at one school is the same as getting an A at another school. I think they should take the same approach in this situation. Do a more in depth analysis of what courses the students are taking, as well as how well they do after they leave the school, and you'll get a much better picture of how well the school is actually doing. Basing any metric just on the marks of the students is a very bad way to measure things.
If you have low blood sugar such that you look like you are driving drunk, you shouldn't be driving anyway. Just like if you take some cold medication, and it makes you really tired, or you've been up for 36 hours straight, then you probably shouldn't be on the road.
I don't think that he's trying to say when people can and can't drink. He's trying to say when people can and can't drive. You can drink all you want, whenever you want. Just don't get in a car and drive on public roadways when you have been drinking. You can fire a gun at a shooting range all you want, but once you start shooting off in random directions in the street, then it starts in infringe on other people's right to live. A person's right to live trumps your right to drive while drunk.
This reminds me of vPod. It's licensed under the FreeBSD, but you can't get access to the source unless you give him a $10 donation. It's like open source, without actually giving out the source.
When you look at most of the Mario party minigames, they are designed so that everything can be seen properly on a 4:3 screen. So if you have a 16:9 screen, what are you supposed to show on the edges. There's no extra content or graphics or anything to put there. I completely agree with the choice to put vertical bars over that part of the screen instead of having them spend countless hours adding extra graphics to the edge of the screen, for no purpose whatsoever.
I think Nintendo is trying to expand it's market. That doesn't mean that they are ignoring the hardcore gamer market. Resident Evil 4 as you mentioned is one title. Also, twilight princess is really only for hardcore gamers, as you can't really do anything unless you are willing to sit down and play it for at least an hour straight. I find that I usually want to play for at least 2 hours. Sure it's not a first person shooter where you run around killing guys, or some MMORPG where you play it for 15 hours straight, but it's definitely not a game for casual gamers.
You already can rent movies through your regular digital cable set-top box. It's usually called On-Demand or something. It would be nice to be able to choose from different providers, but I wouldn't want to have to add an extra set top box, just to rent movies.
I kind of thought this model was backwards. The more people who buy your song, the cheaper it should be. If you have 1 million people buying your song, and each one pays a quarter, then you've made 0.25 million dollars. However, if you only sold 10000 songs, you'd have to sell them at $25 each to make the same amount of money. So the artists who only sell 1000 songs, end up making nothing as their songs only sell for a few pennies each. Meanwhile the artists who are popular end up making more money, as they sell more songs each at an inflated price. The only advantage I can see is that it encourages people to shop around for lesser known music, so that they can get many tracks at a low price. By doing this, they are trying to make people's music tastes more diverse, instead of people buying album after album from the same 5-10 artists, they can branch out and find artists that they never would have found before.
Happy shiny pixels would be better. We could even a song about it.
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
However, when a black person and a white person have a child together, the child usually ends up not so black. Continue this for many generations, and eventually you'll end up with no more black people.
Yeah, but you could think of it as a high risk investment. If the do indeed have a 70% interest rate, then you could put $1000 in the bank, and take it out a year later and have $1700. Sure you wouldn't want to put all your money in there, but it wouldn't be a terrible idea to put a little bit of money in there. Instead of spending $10 a week on the lottery, you could just drop $500 in there each year, and you'd probably get better returns.
And Mt. Tremblant. Best skiing east of the rockies.
I don't think computers have changed that much. Sure the slots look a little different now, as do the connectors for the cable, but they are basically the same. Besides if you teach people concepts like, read the manuals and figure out which card goes in which slot, instead of graphics card goes in PCI-E slot, then they will be much better off next time they do it, and have to learn that the graphics card goes in the new XYZ slot. I think that if somebody was taught how to assemble a 486, they should be able to assemble an Core Duo, with nothing more than the manuals for the computer. Assembling a computer, is much easier than assembling a baby's crib. Believe me, I've done both. Most of the time, the instructions aren't as straight forward, and the parts don't fit together as well on a crib, when compared to a computer.
Quick, as in, you buy the computer, and it's already installed. You don't have to do anything. Cheap as in it comes included in the cost of the computer, and because of large OEM discounts, it only costs you about $50 for your copy of windows.
BMI is ok for dealing with entire populations. There's enough people on either side of the error (fat people with low BMI, skinny people with high BMI), that it works well to tell in general how many people are overweight. But as an individual assesssment it is very bad. Denying people insurance because their BMI is too high, without any other measurements is terrible. Making people pay more for their insurance because they have a high BMI, without any further assessment is also wrong. The BMI of a single person means almost nothing. The average BMI of the entire population isn't a terrible metric.
Precisely. Despite there being problems with deal in 2 languages because of Quebec, there are many advantages to having Quebec as part of Canada. First, you mentioned, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and also, the large number of hydro-electric dams that exist in the James Bay region. Having the maritime cut off from the rest of Canada, with the only way of getting to them to be going through another country (Quebec or the US) would be a major problem. Quebec is a very rich province, and it's not something that we want to get rid of.
Also, Linux does quite well on the i8n front. Installing Mandriva, there was more languages then I could even name. Also, being a Canadian, I don't think that they are required to sell all their products in French. You don't see the book stores selling all the same books in both French and English. Then again, all the video games come with a French manual, even if the entire game is in English.
I always found it funny that many of the lifeguards I knew in highschool were quite a bit overweight. I could never get that far in swimming lessons, because I didn't float at all, and that makes it really hard to swim. Meanwhile, the fat people in the swimming lessons had a very easy time swimming. I guess it could help if you were a lifeguard to be extra buoyant.