Some kids got a fantastic education 100 years ago. We only know about the ones who made it. Most were thrown on the scrapheap once they could read or write. Today, we have a vastly better educated populace than we have ever had, and there is plenty more potential there. As for your experience, you went to school with a bunch of cosmopolitan, well off, middle-class kids. You should be holding yourself to a different standard than the average output of the French school system.
From what I've previously read I think commentators are emphasising the gameplay side of it without really explaining the educational theory underpinning it. The more relevant point - to me - is that traditional subject boundaries are removed allowing a single "lesson" to range widely, while allowing the freedom to zoom in on relevant material. The gaming side of it is just how the teaching content is delivered.
It's a common argument that insurance companies are out to screw you, break the rules, and generally get away with anything they can. That isn't true. Running an effective insurance office as a going concern requires close attention to markets, pricing, risks, and reserves. Denying valid claims, getting embroiled in court cases and bad publicity run counter to these objectives and make it impossible to make sensible forecasts and are just bad business sense. In any business, the best sale is the one that makes sense for both buyer and seller, and insurance is no different.
Yes, you must. The song is called Ugly Woman (If You Wanna Be Happy) and was composed by Rafael De Leon (The Roaring Lion) who recorded it for the American Recording Company in 1933 or 34. Jimmy Soul probably picked it up via the Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson) during his residencies in New York in the late 40s. It's also been covered by several other artists, including Bill Wyman and Randy Meisner.
Weel ma man. Fit dae ye dae gin ye're nae fasht aboot aebody at cannae spik yer leid? Dae A hiv tae scrib yer "right" English jist fir yir notion o purity? Just because you can communicate on a certain level (and I do for the benefit of/.ers who don't come from north of Berwick) doesn't mean that the way I can and do write in other contexts is any less valid, but.
That's not communicating, that's the equivalent of slavering in a bar at someone you think cares about your drunken ranting. And I wouldn't be surprised if that poster *was* drunk.
My dad bought a Ford Cortina which must have been a mid sixties vintage in the early 80s. It had an after market record player, and on a smooth road it worked surprisingly well.
Traditional formal written English has all the hallmarks of a pidgin. We (the supposedly educated types) don't know how to make language live in written form, so we have to do all this extraneous stuff that adds no meaning to something that has the capacity to live for itself. Kids nowadays are building a creole of written language and when it's done well, it's incredibly lively, readable, intelligent stuff. Humanity as a whole has been moaning about the decline of standards since the first Sumerian put chisel to tablet. It's *boring*.
A massive vocabulary with a skilled user is certainly impressive: whether it's more impressive than someone who can reach into real language, as it's used, and extract poetry from it...well, that's another question. Plain speaking has its own merits, in any dialect.
Sure. I wouldn't suggest that they had a major impact at the time. The point is more the simplified image of "Germany=evil", which unfortunately persists to this day.
The power of the simplistic good v. evil narrative of the Nazis rise and fall is too appealing for most history teachers to avoid, because it is so compelling for pupils. No-one in the west has heard of Sophie Scholl, either. That makes the narrative far too complex...
Yes, but none of that was true for quite a few years *after* petrol engines were invented. The only advantage petrol had was the instant-on factor, but given that this was an era when you stabled a horse and had it looked after 24/7, it's not such an advantage in 1900 terms.
Another option, though of course I wouldn't do this, is to set up a new user, give it a uid of 1000 (then Ubuntu won't display it on any lists of users), and call the user something system-like, say http-x, and bury the home directory deep within/usr. Always log in as a second session and then you can safely Alt-F7/Alt-F9 as needed. Anyway, that's how I'd do it. Yeah.
In some ways, it's surprising that the internal combustion engine won out. Steam was a century old technology, well understood, efficient, powerful, and well supported. Petrol engines were weaker, harder to fuel, prone to explode, and extremely difficult to maintain. It would be interesting to see why they ended up winning out over steam.
Don't be too quick to assume that our mechanical engineering is better than in 1906. That was an industrial age, and the skills and capability they had in place back then were very strong. It's literally impossible to reproduce many of the things they used to do with modern capabilities (look up the story of the building of the new Peppercorn steam engined train for more of this sort of thing).
The law is not invalid. However, if prosecuted, you can challenge the government on their standing to bring the case, at least as I understand it, so new prosecutions will fail.
Certain types of law operate within a European framework, to make cross-border life easier. This is no different from the US being obliged to pass law to follow international treaty obligations (and by the way, what happens when a state passes laws the federal government doesn't like?).
What I wonder is how long it will be before these phones *are* your computer and you just plug in a fullblown screen and keyboard wherever you want to sit and work. We're essentially there, just nobody does it yet.
That's not entirely true. The Economist maintains its own international staff and writes all its own material. Their sales have climbed year on year on year, and their (free to view current articles) website turns a useful profit as well. The Independent in the UK also does most of its journalism in house, and has also recorded increased sales for several years. I do tend to think the overall market for news may be contracting slightly, but the fact is that newspapers are their own worst enemies, becuase they put out garbage and complain no-one is reading it.
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Some kids got a fantastic education 100 years ago. We only know about the ones who made it. Most were thrown on the scrapheap once they could read or write. Today, we have a vastly better educated populace than we have ever had, and there is plenty more potential there. As for your experience, you went to school with a bunch of cosmopolitan, well off, middle-class kids. You should be holding yourself to a different standard than the average output of the French school system.
From what I've previously read I think commentators are emphasising the gameplay side of it without really explaining the educational theory underpinning it. The more relevant point - to me - is that traditional subject boundaries are removed allowing a single "lesson" to range widely, while allowing the freedom to zoom in on relevant material. The gaming side of it is just how the teaching content is delivered.
It's a common argument that insurance companies are out to screw you, break the rules, and generally get away with anything they can. That isn't true. Running an effective insurance office as a going concern requires close attention to markets, pricing, risks, and reserves. Denying valid claims, getting embroiled in court cases and bad publicity run counter to these objectives and make it impossible to make sensible forecasts and are just bad business sense. In any business, the best sale is the one that makes sense for both buyer and seller, and insurance is no different.
Yes, you must. The song is called Ugly Woman (If You Wanna Be Happy) and was composed by Rafael De Leon (The Roaring Lion) who recorded it for the American Recording Company in 1933 or 34. Jimmy Soul probably picked it up via the Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson) during his residencies in New York in the late 40s. It's also been covered by several other artists, including Bill Wyman and Randy Meisner.
It's an internal slashcode thing, not a user being dumb (easy as it is to believe :p). Though why it gets displayed is anyone's guess...
Weel ma man. Fit dae ye dae gin ye're nae fasht aboot aebody at cannae spik yer leid? Dae A hiv tae scrib yer "right" English jist fir yir notion o purity? Just because you can communicate on a certain level (and I do for the benefit of /.ers who don't come from north of Berwick) doesn't mean that the way I can and do write in other contexts is any less valid, but.
That's not communicating, that's the equivalent of slavering in a bar at someone you think cares about your drunken ranting. And I wouldn't be surprised if that poster *was* drunk.
My dad bought a Ford Cortina which must have been a mid sixties vintage in the early 80s. It had an after market record player, and on a smooth road it worked surprisingly well.
OMG! You asdentaly a verb? lolol
Traditional formal written English has all the hallmarks of a pidgin. We (the supposedly educated types) don't know how to make language live in written form, so we have to do all this extraneous stuff that adds no meaning to something that has the capacity to live for itself. Kids nowadays are building a creole of written language and when it's done well, it's incredibly lively, readable, intelligent stuff. Humanity as a whole has been moaning about the decline of standards since the first Sumerian put chisel to tablet. It's *boring*.
A massive vocabulary with a skilled user is certainly impressive: whether it's more impressive than someone who can reach into real language, as it's used, and extract poetry from it...well, that's another question. Plain speaking has its own merits, in any dialect.
Sure. I wouldn't suggest that they had a major impact at the time. The point is more the simplified image of "Germany=evil", which unfortunately persists to this day.
The power of the simplistic good v. evil narrative of the Nazis rise and fall is too appealing for most history teachers to avoid, because it is so compelling for pupils. No-one in the west has heard of Sophie Scholl, either. That makes the narrative far too complex...
Yes, but none of that was true for quite a few years *after* petrol engines were invented. The only advantage petrol had was the instant-on factor, but given that this was an era when you stabled a horse and had it looked after 24/7, it's not such an advantage in 1900 terms.
Another option, though of course I wouldn't do this, is to set up a new user, give it a uid of 1000 (then Ubuntu won't display it on any lists of users), and call the user something system-like, say http-x, and bury the home directory deep within /usr. Always log in as a second session and then you can safely Alt-F7/Alt-F9 as needed. Anyway, that's how I'd do it. Yeah.
In some ways, it's surprising that the internal combustion engine won out. Steam was a century old technology, well understood, efficient, powerful, and well supported. Petrol engines were weaker, harder to fuel, prone to explode, and extremely difficult to maintain. It would be interesting to see why they ended up winning out over steam.
Don't be too quick to assume that our mechanical engineering is better than in 1906. That was an industrial age, and the skills and capability they had in place back then were very strong. It's literally impossible to reproduce many of the things they used to do with modern capabilities (look up the story of the building of the new Peppercorn steam engined train for more of this sort of thing).
The law is not invalid. However, if prosecuted, you can challenge the government on their standing to bring the case, at least as I understand it, so new prosecutions will fail.
Certain types of law operate within a European framework, to make cross-border life easier. This is no different from the US being obliged to pass law to follow international treaty obligations (and by the way, what happens when a state passes laws the federal government doesn't like?).
I can pretty much assure you that if you achieved one prosecution a year as a police officer, you wouldn't be a police officer for very long.
Yeah, I remember research done on this as well. With a pathway something like this:
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Apologies for the lame ASCII art.
What I wonder is how long it will be before these phones *are* your computer and you just plug in a fullblown screen and keyboard wherever you want to sit and work. We're essentially there, just nobody does it yet.
Oh egads no. Number bases are meaningless, they are just ways of compactly notating quantity. I've got a pattern for you, in base pi: 1.000000000.....
That's a little circular: why is it read widely?
That's not entirely true. The Economist maintains its own international staff and writes all its own material. Their sales have climbed year on year on year, and their (free to view current articles) website turns a useful profit as well. The Independent in the UK also does most of its journalism in house, and has also recorded increased sales for several years. I do tend to think the overall market for news may be contracting slightly, but the fact is that newspapers are their own worst enemies, becuase they put out garbage and complain no-one is reading it.