They're like Battlestar Galactica, a ship with such old technology that a computer virus doesn't even phase them. The virus can easily do so if it just reverses the polarity.
Short summary: Alfie Kohn's a jackass. Picking on just one point (6) : just how does he intend to evaluate the student's progress, capability, and absorption of knowledge? Grades are like the Force (TM): there's a light side and a dark side, and you need to know which is which. FWIW, I found great pride and satisfaction in knowing I successfully solved all the (physics or math) problems on a test. I also felt pride and satis. when a Humanities prof. gave me a high grade on a paper AND included comments explaining exactly why my work showed knowledge, insight, and interest.
And as to (7): ok Alfie, name any area of life where the possibility of success and/or winning does *not* lead to cheating.
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An intelligent designer would have attached the retina to the brain directly and made the eye just move two lenses to focus an image onto it. Heck, why stop there? Put in a plenoptic system and allow the brain part to select what's in focus after the fact. Oh, and add some IR & UV sensitivity so we really actually truly can see thru women's clothes. (counting down to the whooosh responses...)
Most people have no clue how to create a chart that accurately and cleanly shows what they want it to show (Edward Tufte excepted, of course). Frankly, Excel misleads people and directs them into terrible designs or, even worse, into false designs (think of using a "line chart" when what's needed is lines in a "scatterplot." I sure hope Wolfram can come up with a much *better* way to generate proper charts than Microsoft ever has.
That's when I get pissed when I hear about 'negotiating power with hospitals'. I hear idiots running around on the news yammering about that, how the US government can use 'negotiating power with hospitals' to make things cheaper.
Fuck you assholes. Seriously, fuck you. For every dollar you negotiate cheaper, I pay more, because they won't sell me insurance, so I have to cover the damn costs that you won't.
Can you say "Single-payer system," boys and girls? Do you dimwits even remember that Obama wanted to implement a system that covered everyone, but certain political parties killed it?
Bags do need to be searched, and passengers screened Says who? Did you read TFA, in particular the part about the number of deaths due to terrorist+airplanes vs. accidental deer strikes? There is no statistical justification for searching any bags or for any kind of passenger screening. Imagine this: suppose after the first WTC bombing (truck in the parking lot), some authority decided the only way to make cities safe is to stop every car, bus, and truck on the way into the city, search all occupants and their luggage, and do to the vehicle. Absolutely ridiculous? Now tell me how the airport+TSA crap is any different.
,i>Given that the next page button in my original Nook broke just after the warranty period ended (which makes it a bit hard to use to read books, unless you like reading them backwards) I call troll on this one First of all, Nooks have two -- count 'em!--two! each of Fwd and Rev buttons. Second, once the LCD goes dormant, a swipe gesture will turn the pages for you.
My understanding was that (satellite-based) GPS would give you a drastically inaccurate position reading without an algorithmic correction for frame-dragging. If so, it would seem that part of Einstein's predictions were validated quite a few years ago.
That was it, I just said "Yes, I believe in God." And I got slammed by at least a dozen people belittling me for my "creationism myths," "church slavery," etc etc. I wasn't try to push any of my beliefs on anyone. Seriously, why does anyone care what I believe? Seriously, then: it's because your belief system is quite likely to shape (or build, or warp, you pick) your view of reality. Obligatory car analogy: I want a mechanic who knows which 3rd-party manufacturers make better parts than the car company's brand-name parts, not a mechanic who believes his car company's parts are divinely perfect.
I should add: I've even written a set of macros in Excel that let Excel play Pong against itself. I bring it out whenever someone says "but I can do that in Excel..." to which I say,"I can do this.... but just because you can does not mean you should." Sic semper Excel graphics.
I'm sorry, but if you think Excel's graphs are good for much of anything, or you think they are easy to edit and reformat, you are grossly mistaken. I'm no novice: I've written spreadsheets with named variables so I can change the content of Excel graphs by changing names or data in cells.
Before you get snarky about R, at least take the time to find one of the web sites dedicated to displaying charts, maps, and graphs generated with R. Most of them are far beyond anything Excel can do. If all you want are Enterpris-ey pie charts and bar charts (both worthless pieces of crap that only make PHBs happy), then use Excel. But if you've learned enough to know the difference between a line chart and a scatterplot, time to move up to a real tool such as R, Origins, Mathematica, Numpy, etc.
See, there's this thing called "preferences." And in windows, especially w/ MSOffice, they are stuck all over the place - registry, ProgramFiles/Office/some_sub_folder, and various invisible folders in the user's home directory. The whole *point* of good software (not that I'm saying Office is any good) is that the user customizes the interface to maximize useability and speed. Then IT re-images, and my toolbars, macros, templates, etc. are gone. Dare I say "WTF!" ? Reimaging should be a last resort after IT (or someone) has done a diligent job of actually trying to fix the actual problem.
PS: one more reason I use OSX whenever I can. Back up those Library/Prefs files, and in 10 minutes any brand-new install or computer can be used exactly like the old one. And, no, Windows' "transfer User prefs/environment" tools do not do the job right.
The definition (somewhere in the 'net archives) of encryption quality is how distinguishable the encrypted message is from random noise. Clearly setting bitrates, or any other parameter, based on the input, is not random.
Pick a better algorithm and/or suck it up and waste a little bandwidth.
With all due respect, I wouldn't want anyone who can't handle intro Calc (limits, derivatives, antidifferentiation, introduction to series) coming near my computer and/or network. It's not a terrifically difficult subject.
They changed the start/end date of DST in the US of A rather recently. Epic fail. Aside from the pain it caused all the computers and hard-programmed wristwatches (you know, those pieces of jewelry people wore before everyone had a cell phone), it did absolutely bupkis for the economy, and not even anything for SaveTheChildren(TM) with respect to daylight at school bus stops. Changing DST by any amount, or deleting it, will not help anything and will cause trouble.
Don't forget the anti-Christian rhetoric poorly disguised as anti-religious-in-general rhetoric. That's popular too these days. Just wondering: how the heck did this get up-modded? It's a blatant troll and completely false in any case. If it were true, you could identify, say, Jews or Muslims or Protestants (since people who call themselves "Christians" are generally Papists) who argue against religion as a "screened attack" on Catholics.
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Well done there. I'm off to pass the time by playing a little solitaire.
They're like Battlestar Galactica, a ship with such old technology that a computer virus doesn't even phase them.
The virus can easily do so if it just reverses the polarity.
Oh.... you meant "faze" ?
If so, it's probably caused by a nearby Boneshaker. Look out for zombies.
Short summary: Alfie Kohn's a jackass. Picking on just one point (6) : just how does he intend to evaluate the student's progress, capability, and absorption of knowledge?
Grades are like the Force (TM): there's a light side and a dark side, and you need to know which is which.
FWIW, I found great pride and satisfaction in knowing I successfully solved all the (physics or math) problems on a test. I also felt pride and satis. when a Humanities prof. gave me a high grade on a paper AND included comments explaining exactly why my work showed knowledge, insight, and interest.
And as to (7): ok Alfie, name any area of life where the possibility of success and/or winning does *not* lead to cheating.
An intelligent designer would have attached the retina to the brain directly and made the eye just move two lenses to focus an image onto it.
Heck, why stop there? Put in a plenoptic system and allow the brain part to select what's in focus after the fact.
Oh, and add some IR & UV sensitivity so we really actually truly can see thru women's clothes.
(counting down to the whooosh responses...)
Most people have no clue how to create a chart that accurately and cleanly shows what they want it to show (Edward Tufte excepted, of course). Frankly, Excel misleads people and directs them into terrible designs or, even worse, into false designs (think of using a "line chart" when what's needed is lines in a "scatterplot."
I sure hope Wolfram can come up with a much *better* way to generate proper charts than Microsoft ever has.
That's when I get pissed when I hear about 'negotiating power with hospitals'. I hear idiots running around on the news yammering about that, how the US government can use 'negotiating power with hospitals' to make things cheaper.
Fuck you assholes. Seriously, fuck you. For every dollar you negotiate cheaper, I pay more, because they won't sell me insurance, so I have to cover the damn costs that you won't.
Can you say "Single-payer system," boys and girls? Do you dimwits even remember that Obama wanted to implement a system that covered everyone, but certain political parties killed it?
Now granted I don't sit through very many power point presentations, but I would think that more the 85% of people view them as useless.
Sadly, over 95% of managers view them as priceless.
"Is it safe? "
(A big Whoooosh to all who reply w/o knowing the source of that line)
Bags do need to be searched, and passengers screened
Says who? Did you read TFA, in particular the part about the number of deaths due to terrorist+airplanes vs. accidental deer strikes?
There is no statistical justification for searching any bags or for any kind of passenger screening.
Imagine this: suppose after the first WTC bombing (truck in the parking lot), some authority decided the only way to make cities safe is to stop every car, bus, and truck on the way into the city, search all occupants and their luggage, and do to the vehicle. Absolutely ridiculous? Now tell me how the airport+TSA crap is any different.
,i>Given that the next page button in my original Nook broke just after the warranty period ended (which makes it a bit hard to use to read books, unless you like reading them backwards)
I call troll on this one First of all, Nooks have two -- count 'em!--two! each of Fwd and Rev buttons. Second, once the LCD goes dormant, a swipe gesture will turn the pages for you.
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I"m sorry, Dave, I can't do that.
My understanding was that (satellite-based) GPS would give you a drastically inaccurate position reading without an algorithmic correction for frame-dragging. If so, it would seem that part of Einstein's predictions were validated quite a few years ago.
That was it, I just said "Yes, I believe in God." And I got slammed by at least a dozen people belittling me for my "creationism myths," "church slavery," etc etc. I wasn't try to push any of my beliefs on anyone. Seriously, why does anyone care what I believe?
Seriously, then: it's because your belief system is quite likely to shape (or build, or warp, you pick) your view of reality. Obligatory car analogy: I want a mechanic who knows which 3rd-party manufacturers make better parts than the car company's brand-name parts, not a mechanic who believes his car company's parts are divinely perfect.
I should add: I've even written a set of macros in Excel that let Excel play Pong against itself. I bring it out whenever someone says "but I can do that in Excel..." to which I say,"I can do this.... but just because you can does not mean you should." Sic semper Excel graphics.
I'm sorry, but if you think Excel's graphs are good for much of anything, or you think they are easy to edit and reformat, you are grossly mistaken. I'm no novice: I've written spreadsheets with named variables so I can change the content of Excel graphs by changing names or data in cells.
Before you get snarky about R, at least take the time to find one of the web sites dedicated to displaying charts, maps, and graphs generated with R. Most of them are far beyond anything Excel can do.
If all you want are Enterpris-ey pie charts and bar charts (both worthless pieces of crap that only make PHBs happy), then use Excel. But if you've learned enough to know the difference between a line chart and a scatterplot, time to move up to a real tool such as R, Origins, Mathematica, Numpy, etc.
See, there's this thing called "preferences." And in windows, especially w/ MSOffice, they are stuck all over the place - registry, ProgramFiles/Office/some_sub_folder, and various invisible folders in the user's home directory.
The whole *point* of good software (not that I'm saying Office is any good) is that the user customizes the interface to maximize useability and speed.
Then IT re-images, and my toolbars, macros, templates, etc. are gone. Dare I say "WTF!" ? Reimaging should be a last resort after IT (or someone) has done a diligent job of actually trying to fix the actual problem.
PS: one more reason I use OSX whenever I can. Back up those Library/Prefs files, and in 10 minutes any brand-new install or computer can be used exactly like the old one. And, no, Windows' "transfer User prefs/environment" tools do not do the job right.
By Peter Watts.
So you see, they *could* unleash a 100% killer bug (except for... well, I'm not giving away all the cool stuff in the next two volumes)
The definition (somewhere in the 'net archives) of encryption quality is how distinguishable the encrypted message is from random noise. Clearly setting bitrates, or any other parameter, based on the input, is not random.
Pick a better algorithm and/or suck it up and waste a little bandwidth.
With all due respect, I wouldn't want anyone who can't handle intro Calc (limits, derivatives, antidifferentiation, introduction to series) coming near my computer and/or network. It's not a terrifically difficult subject.
Well, duh, it WAS a Taurus...
They changed the start/end date of DST in the US of A rather recently. Epic fail. Aside from the pain it caused all the computers and hard-programmed wristwatches (you know, those pieces of jewelry people wore before everyone had a cell phone), it did absolutely bupkis for the economy, and not even anything for SaveTheChildren(TM) with respect to daylight at school bus stops.
Changing DST by any amount, or deleting it, will not help anything and will cause trouble.
Don't forget the anti-Christian rhetoric poorly disguised as anti-religious-in-general rhetoric. That's popular too these days.
Just wondering: how the heck did this get up-modded? It's a blatant troll and completely false in any case. If it were true, you could identify, say, Jews or Muslims or Protestants (since people who call themselves "Christians" are generally Papists) who argue against religion as a "screened attack" on Catholics.
But, really: I skimmed 2 pages of posts and couldn't even find "VLC" anywhere.
Can't you at least *try* to stay OT?
(and, no, I'm not new here. Just having an especially frustrated idealist moment)
Does it have the power of thiotimoline ?