"no religion in the schools" being touted by people for the separation of church/state is constantly being taken out of context and used to bash the position these people defend.
Straw Man falicy. heavily used to get people emotional and irrational on this topic.
They are not fighting to kill religion. They do not support prohibiting religion; they take their position on the principle that people should be free.
Funny to watch two sides that basically have the same principle in common disagree over it.
Atheism is defined as no belief in god. It has NOTHING to do with religion. It is a single belief; and therefore can not be a religion.
There are many religions that do not have a god; or at least view the existance of god as irrelivant to their religion and therefore do not even take a position on an issue not relivant to their system.
We spend more on a prisoner than we do on a child in this country. (its a LARGE difference like 10k)
America is very f---ed up; we have more people in jail than Russia ever did, or anyone else. (I thought they were the police state?) We are building jails at a record pace. I bet we have more prison guards per inmate than we have teachers per student! Schools are falling apart. Districts are top heavy with administrators.
Reality is we need smaller classes, because there are not enough great teachers who can do well with so many students. Aside from the fact all teachers tend to do better with certain types of kids. More teachers means better chance your kid can find a teacher they click with. School Districts must be reorganized; if not destroyed. I can not tell you how many times I saw perfectly good hardware being dumped when I TOLD THEM the inner city schools needed it. They can't legally share; so districts trash probably millions if not billions of dollars nationwide! Private schools are even worse about sharing. And funding should all be pooled and evenly spread out. Its not fair that one city gets more money than another one..
Then we can start talking about the complete waste of time high school is...
Public or Private its the teachers, community, parents that make the most difference. School admin, then District probably next. Money is always an issue but its not a big deal unless there is way too little of it. Money gets mentioned so much because its the only thing that can be controlled.
I went to mostly public schools. Only 1 of them was great. That one is what got me to where I am. The 1 private school I attended was the WORST one. I'm still trying to get those shark-like nuns from my memories...
Private non-religion based schools should be prevented. The article's author fails to realize that private schools could be far worse. The religion ones have their potential problems, but they are fairly safe.
He underestimates the systems ability to change. It can and has undergone many changes. It can be fixed. Most importantly, it needs to be broken from the federal government. My relatives in one of the best public school systems, have been watching it being dismanted over a long period and they would agree on points. But not to go private. Bush has accelerated the downfall of the public school system; making it more clear what they are up to. Which is why more teachers sound like this guy now. But its been going on ever since forced integration....
Maybe I should put up a rebuttal to this guy? I was considering it weeks ago when I read the article. He is right on many points, but his conclusions are not justified. (what can you expect, he was fired...)
I refuse to send any child to Microsoft's schools, or McDonalds or Disney's schools.
How about a super mod up? too many over mods up and it gets moved higher in the page?
Now, if all those WMA supporting players that have been out almost as long as mp3 players... Then it must suck; because WMA sucked and only became half bad in recent years. Or will only SOME "WMA" players actually play these songs? Or will only DRM "enabled" players actually play? (meaning they are newer)
Seems to me this is nasty marketing... They make it seem like there are tons of supporting players out there, but I bet you that most can't do it.
Bit rate or even VBR does not mean better quality. Last benchmark I saw on ACC/MP4 codecs, apple's was hands down the best even against VBR codecs.
Filemaker 7 CAN smoothly migrate from 6. You do NOT have to start over again from scratch.
As with most filemaker upgrades, the changes mostly effect the creation of new things and not the previous version's databases. So to take advantage of all the new features, you sometimes have to remake stuff; otherwise, you can just keep things the way they were.
Filemaker hardly ever forces you to update your databases for them to function. (other than a simple file convertion)
I thought Filemaker 7 was proof they are moving in the right direction.
I have experience in what school systems do, and I do not see a benefit for you to switch out from filemaker. Unless someone makes you a full blown system to do everything you need and open sources that, building it yourself is going to cost you much more time and trouble.
Perhaps you should gather the FUNDS and work with other schools to develop and open source a replacement for your custom solution. Only then, will the open source benefit you, because the work will be distributed between multiple school systems and lower the high cost of an open source alternative. (don't get me wrong, open source stuff is cool, but what you need is quite vertical.)
Video gun site around a corner? thats so slashdot... Just stick a mirror or two on the gun... how about duct tape a stick with a mirror onto the side of the gun? That will work around corners, and once you get used to it, as you would have to with the video version, it would work far cheaper.
HD DVD is supposed to be MPEG-4 Advanced, and does not require a new physical formatted disc, since it gets HD size at the same rate DVDs are at today.
Seems to me that there are other motives for changing the media format...
I personally saw nearly EVERY clip in the movie before, and I had the time to do so. They are not out of context. I was very disappointed in the film. It was so watered down and simplified, I can't see any reasonable dispute against the validity of the film. Its as if his lawyers and wife made him cut out anything questionable for his own saftey. In fact, it only makes it MORE CLEAR that the people attacking the film have dishonorable motives. He could have taped the rubble from the towers for 2 hours and they would be bashing it just as much.
I wanted some new facts, since he has a huge team of researchers and I don't. Instead I got a bunch of emotional junk. (Obviously, I'm a minority. This is truely a documentary for the masses.)
Since the last update the Apple AAC encoder pulled way ahead of the others. just google for it.
I'd say 128 AAC WAS like 160 mp3, which is FINE for me, I can't tell on most music; HOWEVER, since the update, I'd say 128 AAC is more like 192 mp3. I can no longer hear the stuff I used to be able to hear at 128. Not that I have perfect hearing, but there was a very noticable change when the updated the encoder...
More importantly, would be to ask if Apple re-encodes their music store music when they get encoder upgrades...
All that said, I now encode at 160 for good measure; because my audio freak friends can't tell between 160 and uncompressed.
He is NOT Ann Coulter of the "extreme left". If you think so, you clearly indicate your ignorance and political bias. Ann Coulter makes probably the MOST stupid baseless claims of ANYONE on any side that I know of today.
This movie was not as good as Columbine; however, factually it will not have the troubles columbine did. Columbine has some fact issues.
Maybe I could see you comparing him with RUSH.
9-11 is VERY mild and VERY careful. He could go so much in depth and make reasonable theories without a single lie---- but he does NOT. Its almost like its a clever ploy to get people to FREAK out about next to nothing just to illustrate how bad things have become.
Remember people it was ANN and RUSH who talked of clinton having mass graves in AK....
Make sure your government KNOWS that you want YOUR tax dollars to support things that are not only cheap, but good quality and create a job market by creating support and development jobs with all that money they save by NOT buying MS software!
If my government makes something with MY money, it should be open/free for at least the people who payed for it.... Not pay a 3rd party who is funding campaigns so they can get an exclusive deal.
It would be cheaper to simply hire some inhouse IT people to support and develop software than it is to pay outside...and multiple cities and governments can collaborate.
Someone tell me these factual errors? The ones I've heard were false attacks. I'd like to see some cold hard facts; not a bunch of references to nothing and a bunch of moderates giving in and saying "yes there were a few in there somewhere". I want to SEE THEM. Put up or shutup.
I too am conservative, but the brand people label me with is liberal. The whole problem is oversimplification; which leads to a false dilemma falicy. I think the biggest part of the problem is the advertizing/marketing that goes on. They hire these types to sell them like tennis shoes.
Are you Nike or Rebok?
They don't want you to think of other brands. Its DFL or GOP only; then they use words and slogans to further define themselves ("just do it") and use the same tricks negatively on the other side. ("tax spend liberal") Its a perception game that both sides hire marketing people to do for them. Its become integral-----probably with the start of radio, we started to become too extreme along these lines.
Don't know why, but extremists seem to breed more extremists. Which is what I try to use as an unbaised indicator. In which case, bush is very extreme, because he has brought out record levels of extremism in the whole world. No wonder the marketing team sold him as a "uniter not a divider".... Its all marketing 101: take your weaknesses and spin them as good. take the competition's strong points and spin them bad.
In the USA, style and maturity are narrowly defined and people here STILL have not learned...
Every decent animation or comic or book has to be made into a "realistic" movie version. These "realistic" versions usually are NOT as good or simply ride the name and SUCK. (batman for example--You simply can't get capture that style in real life 4 one thing.) But people pay tons to see the "realistic" movie version which often is nowhere near as good.
The BIGGEST IRONY is that most these movies have so much CG that you really are watching an animation, and they push the action so far outside physics that they are not far from a cartoon.
Its more of an american problem. They are still stuck thinking anything animated is for kids. They still have not learned anything.
"realism" which is far from realistic, is equated with mature in the states.. Many friends did not take wind waker seriously just because of the looks. Its so ironic, adults seem more discrimating by looks than kids are, and they should know better.
Wind Waker looks great. Many other styles look GREAT, but realism will suck for at least 10 years.
Wind Waker was very good for a 2-yr project, I was hoping for another like it where the game itself was better like Majora's Mask---essentially another 2 years of revisions to the GAME. Now we are going to have a "realistic" zelda that spent more time on "realism" and less on revisions because of these narrow minded complaints.
Actually, the playstation was supposed to be Nintendo, Sony broke the contract, screwed them and made billions. Only to have nintendo get a billion from them like 10 years later.... Lesson: if you are big, break contracts because the legal system does not work---you will still make a profit by being slime.
the n64 joysticks are still the best analog controller I have ever used, even if they wear out too fast. the SNES joypads are the best of their kind----- I hate that everyone always tries to combine joypads and joysticks into 1 item... n64 did the best job of it, but they simply should have 2 joysticks.
Fireproof does not mean it can't burn. But making something from explosives makes the problem worse. Its fine if there is no fire...but if there is always smokers hanging around and few ash trays...
Computers in elections are the same thing. They make the problem much larger should anything happen. Stuff DOES happen.
I don't care if you open source and use military grade security. If its a computer and a party has billions of dollars of power on their side, like we have at stake in every national election in the USA...(both "sides") even if the system is not compromised in a few terms, it will be at some point by people within the party. And this is assuming you could even securely install the systems in the first place.
If it violates science, then something is most probably wrong somewhere and its not necessarily the guy causing the problem. Could be some sort force not being accounted for is at play, bad math or maybe gravity is at play. After all, we don't have all the laws in reguard to the known forces and how they relate to each other.
Point is, a true science minded person is open to the low chance something we don't know is going on--- go proof it false, don't "believe" its false . Find the math error, physics error or the new discovery. Its the questioning creative types that make the great leaps forward.
Opening the source completely is the best thing they can do---but by restricting usage they discourage others from using the code---and we all should know, many bugs don't surface until runtime or when you are making changes to the code. If more vendors used the same code base that would help.
Even then, its still STUPID: even with a fully public revision history---quick hacks can be made privately and all traces of tampering can be removed. The whole thing is also way too expensive!
The down side to open source is that somebody with physical access can download, hack and reinstall the software! Or create better methods to hack the system---sure make it secure, but with physical access and billions of $$$ at stake...
With a reasonable margin, there are few recounts. Just cheat enough so nobody will bother to check that paper audit trail....if caught, say its a bug or don't get caught and swap out the paper trail with what you just printed on another hacked machine. And paper reciepts are just to sucker stupid people.
There is no computerized voting solution that can be trusted. period.
If it were *my* firm I'd turn it into an anti-computer voting non-profit.
But does this guy KNOW about the other inventions?
Ideas are not property and can be thought up by anybody at any time. (remember the saying about a million monkeys on typewriters...)
So this guy is clever and probably did it on his own. He deserves some credit.... I'm sure support groups (like the Peace Corps) have been doing useless things to "help" people there for decades and not made as much of a dent as this simple invention.
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"no religion in the schools" being touted by people for the separation of church/state is constantly being taken out of context and used to bash the position these people defend.
Straw Man falicy. heavily used to get people emotional and irrational on this topic.
They are not fighting to kill religion. They do not support prohibiting religion; they take their position on the principle that people should be free.
Funny to watch two sides that basically have the same principle in common disagree over it.
Atheism is defined as no belief in god.
It has NOTHING to do with religion.
It is a single belief; and therefore can not be a religion.
There are many religions that do not have a god; or at least view the existance of god as irrelivant to their religion and therefore do not even take a position on an issue not relivant to their system.
Polititans do not know JACK about education!
We spend more on a prisoner than we do on a child in this country. (its a LARGE difference like 10k)
America is very f---ed up; we have more people in jail than Russia ever did, or anyone else. (I thought they were the police state?) We are building jails at a record pace. I bet we have more prison guards per inmate than we have teachers per student!
Schools are falling apart. Districts are top heavy with administrators.
Reality is we need smaller classes, because there are not enough great teachers who can do well with so many students. Aside from the fact all teachers tend to do better with certain types of kids. More teachers means better chance your kid can find a teacher they click with.
School Districts must be reorganized; if not destroyed. I can not tell you how many times I saw perfectly good hardware being dumped when I TOLD THEM the inner city schools needed it. They can't legally share; so districts trash probably millions if not billions of dollars nationwide!
Private schools are even worse about sharing.
And funding should all be pooled and evenly spread out.
Its not fair that one city gets more money than another one..
Then we can start talking about the complete waste of time high school is...
Public or Private its the teachers, community, parents that make the most difference.
School admin, then District probably next.
Money is always an issue but its not a big deal unless there is way too little of it. Money gets mentioned so much because its the only thing that can be controlled.
I went to mostly public schools. Only 1 of them was great. That one is what got me to where I am. The 1 private school I attended was the WORST one. I'm still trying to get those shark-like nuns from my memories...
Private non-religion based schools should be prevented. The article's author fails to realize that private schools could be far worse. The religion ones have their potential problems, but they are fairly safe.
He underestimates the systems ability to change. It can and has undergone many changes. It can be fixed. Most importantly, it needs to be broken from the federal government. My relatives in one of the best public school systems, have been watching it being dismanted over a long period and they would agree on points. But not to go private.
Bush has accelerated the downfall of the public school system; making it more clear what they are up to. Which is why more teachers sound like this guy now. But its been going on ever since forced integration....
Maybe I should put up a rebuttal to this guy? I was considering it weeks ago when I read the article. He is right on many points, but his conclusions are not justified. (what can you expect, he was fired...)
I refuse to send any child to Microsoft's schools, or McDonalds or Disney's schools.
Get it straight. Xerox stupidly sold it all to apple, not knowing what they had.
And I'm glad apple was in charge. Xerox would have patented every stupid thing, and then in the 90's sued everyone. Remember gif?
How about a super mod up?
too many over mods up and it gets moved higher in the page?
Now, if all those WMA supporting players that have been out almost as long as mp3 players...
Then it must suck; because WMA sucked and only became half bad in recent years.
Or will only SOME "WMA" players actually play these songs? Or will only DRM "enabled" players actually play? (meaning they are newer)
Seems to me this is nasty marketing... They make it seem like there are tons of supporting players out there, but I bet you that most can't do it.
Bit rate or even VBR does not mean better quality.
Last benchmark I saw on ACC/MP4 codecs, apple's was hands down the best even against VBR codecs.
Filemaker 7 CAN smoothly migrate from 6.
You do NOT have to start over again from scratch.
As with most filemaker upgrades, the changes mostly effect the creation of new things and not the previous version's databases. So to take advantage of all the new features, you sometimes have to remake stuff; otherwise, you can just keep things the way they were.
Filemaker hardly ever forces you to update your databases for them to function. (other than a simple file convertion)
I thought Filemaker 7 was proof they are moving in the right direction.
I have experience in what school systems do, and I do not see a benefit for you to switch out from filemaker. Unless someone makes you a full blown system to do everything you need and open sources that, building it yourself is going to cost you much more time and trouble.
Perhaps you should gather the FUNDS and work with other schools to develop and open source a replacement for your custom solution. Only then, will the open source benefit you, because the work will be distributed between multiple school systems and lower the high cost of an open source alternative. (don't get me wrong, open source stuff is cool, but what you need is quite vertical.)
Video gun site around a corner? thats so slashdot...
Just stick a mirror or two on the gun...
how about duct tape a stick with a mirror onto the side of the gun? That will work around corners, and once you get used to it, as you would have to with the video version, it would work far cheaper.
HD DVD is supposed to be MPEG-4 Advanced, and does not require a new physical formatted disc, since it gets HD size at the same rate DVDs are at today.
Seems to me that there are other motives for changing the media format...
I personally saw nearly EVERY clip in the movie before, and I had the time to do so. They are not out of context.
I was very disappointed in the film. It was so watered down and simplified, I can't see any reasonable dispute against the validity of the film. Its as if his lawyers and wife made him cut out anything questionable for his own saftey.
In fact, it only makes it MORE CLEAR that the people attacking the film have dishonorable motives. He could have taped the rubble from the towers for 2 hours and they would be bashing it just as much.
I wanted some new facts, since he has a huge team of researchers and I don't. Instead I got a bunch of emotional junk. (Obviously, I'm a minority. This is truely a documentary for the masses.)
Since the last update the Apple AAC encoder pulled way ahead of the others. just google for it.
I'd say 128 AAC WAS like 160 mp3, which is FINE for me, I can't tell on most music; HOWEVER, since the update, I'd say 128 AAC is more like 192 mp3. I can no longer hear the stuff I used to be able to hear at 128. Not that I have perfect hearing, but there was a very noticable change when the updated the encoder...
More importantly, would be to ask if Apple re-encodes their music store music when they get encoder upgrades...
All that said, I now encode at 160 for good measure; because my audio freak friends can't tell between 160 and uncompressed.
He is NOT Ann Coulter of the "extreme left".
If you think so, you clearly indicate your ignorance and political bias.
Ann Coulter makes probably the MOST stupid baseless claims of ANYONE on any side that I know of today.
This movie was not as good as Columbine; however, factually it will not have the troubles columbine did. Columbine has some fact issues.
Maybe I could see you comparing him with RUSH.
9-11 is VERY mild and VERY careful. He could go so much in depth and make reasonable theories without a single lie---- but he does NOT. Its almost like its a clever ploy to get people to FREAK out about next to nothing just to illustrate how bad things have become.
Remember people it was ANN and RUSH who talked of clinton having mass graves in AK....
forget trying to do computers---figure out how to mass produce it now! bye bye cable modem...cell phone...
"sub-space" communications for the masses.
THE BIG POINT is when his girlfriend is talking about how bad their sex life is as a result.
My friend was TOTALLY sold after that interview.
The whole movie is not really about him eating for 1 month like that.
Its an extreme 1 month example--some people really do eat badly. But its like a plot device for the rest of the movie.
Make sure your government KNOWS that you want YOUR tax dollars to support things that are not only cheap, but good quality and create a job market by creating support and development jobs with all that money they save by NOT buying MS software!
If my government makes something with MY money, it should be open/free for at least the people who payed for it.... Not pay a 3rd party who is funding campaigns so they can get an exclusive deal.
It would be cheaper to simply hire some inhouse IT people to support and develop software than it is to pay outside...and multiple cities and governments can collaborate.
Someone tell me these factual errors?
The ones I've heard were false attacks.
I'd like to see some cold hard facts; not a bunch of references to nothing and a bunch of moderates giving in and saying "yes there were a few in there somewhere". I want to SEE THEM.
Put up or shutup.
I too am conservative, but the brand people label me with is liberal. The whole problem is oversimplification; which leads to a false dilemma falicy. I think the biggest part of the problem is the advertizing/marketing that goes on. They hire these types to sell them like tennis shoes.
Are you Nike or Rebok?
They don't want you to think of other brands. Its DFL or GOP only; then they use words and slogans to further define themselves ("just do it") and use the same tricks negatively on the other side. ("tax spend liberal")
Its a perception game that both sides hire marketing people to do for them. Its become integral-----probably with the start of radio, we started to become too extreme along these lines.
Don't know why, but extremists seem to breed more extremists. Which is what I try to use as an unbaised indicator. In which case, bush is very extreme, because he has brought out record levels of extremism in the whole world. No wonder the marketing team sold him as a "uniter not a divider"....
Its all marketing 101:
take your weaknesses and spin them as good.
take the competition's strong points and spin them bad.
In the USA, style and maturity are narrowly defined and people here STILL have not learned...
Every decent animation or comic or book has to be made into a "realistic" movie version. These "realistic" versions usually are NOT as good or simply ride the name and SUCK. (batman for example--You simply can't get capture that style in real life 4 one thing.) But people pay tons to see the "realistic" movie version which often is nowhere near as good.
The BIGGEST IRONY is that most these movies have so much CG that you really are watching an animation, and they push the action so far outside physics that they are not far from a cartoon.
mod parent up!
Its more of an american problem. They are still stuck thinking anything animated is for kids. They still have not learned anything.
"realism" which is far from realistic, is equated with mature in the states.. Many friends did not take wind waker seriously just because of the looks. Its so ironic, adults seem more discrimating by looks than kids are, and they should know better.
Wind Waker looks great. Many other styles look GREAT, but realism will suck for at least 10 years.
Wind Waker was very good for a 2-yr project, I was hoping for another like it where the game itself was better like Majora's Mask---essentially another 2 years of revisions to the GAME. Now we are going to have a "realistic" zelda that spent more time on "realism" and less on revisions because of these narrow minded complaints.
Actually, the playstation was supposed to be Nintendo, Sony broke the contract, screwed them and made billions. Only to have nintendo get a billion from them like 10 years later....
Lesson: if you are big, break contracts because the legal system does not work---you will still make a profit by being slime.
the n64 joysticks are still the best analog controller I have ever used, even if they wear out too fast. the SNES joypads are the best of their kind----- I hate that everyone always tries to combine joypads and joysticks into 1 item... n64 did the best job of it, but they simply should have 2 joysticks.
I don't remember the exact number but it was over 90% of computers are business....that was like the 90s. But I bet its still over 75%.
Fireproof does not mean it can't burn. But making something from explosives makes the problem worse. Its fine if there is no fire...but if there is always smokers hanging around and few ash trays...
Computers in elections are the same thing. They make the problem much larger should anything happen. Stuff DOES happen.
I don't care if you open source and use military grade security. If its a computer and a party has billions of dollars of power on their side, like we have at stake in every national election in the USA...(both "sides") even if the system is not compromised in a few terms, it will be at some point by people within the party.
And this is assuming you could even securely install the systems in the first place.
Probably hurting my karma but:
If it violates science, then something is most probably wrong somewhere and its not necessarily the guy causing the problem. Could be some sort force not being accounted for is at play, bad math or maybe gravity is at play. After all, we don't have all the laws in reguard to the known forces and how they relate to each other.
Point is, a true science minded person is open to the low chance something we don't know is going on--- go proof it false, don't "believe" its false . Find the math error, physics error or the new discovery. Its the questioning creative types that make the great leaps forward.
Peer review is what really makes science work.
Opening the source completely is the best thing they can do---but by restricting usage they discourage others from using the code---and we all should know, many bugs don't surface until runtime or when you are making changes to the code. If more vendors used the same code base that would help.
Even then, its still STUPID: even with a fully public revision history---quick hacks can be made privately and all traces of tampering can be removed. The whole thing is also way too expensive!
The down side to open source is that somebody with physical access can download, hack and reinstall the software! Or create better methods to hack the system---sure make it secure, but with physical access and billions of $$$ at stake...
With a reasonable margin, there are few recounts. Just cheat enough so nobody will bother to check that paper audit trail....if caught, say its a bug or don't get caught and swap out the paper trail with what you just printed on another hacked machine. And paper reciepts are just to sucker stupid people.
There is no computerized voting solution that can be trusted. period.
If it were *my* firm I'd turn it into an anti-computer voting non-profit.
But does this guy KNOW about the other inventions? Ideas are not property and can be thought up by anybody at any time. (remember the saying about a million monkeys on typewriters...) So this guy is clever and probably did it on his own. He deserves some credit.... I'm sure support groups (like the Peace Corps) have been doing useless things to "help" people there for decades and not made as much of a dent as this simple invention.