NSF's approach to cyber-learning seems to be mostly about pushing the current administration's agenda. Look at the projects - monitoring pollution, cross cultural training, environmental awareness, teaching girls to program, etc.
Those are reasonable subjects to be discussed in a classroom, but I'd prefer to see the projects identified for what they are rather than being funded as cyber-learning research.
The success of FOSS is due in large part to corporate sponsorships. It has changed the game, but in no stretch of the imagination does it pose any threat to capitalism.
Just saw a remarkable first hand report of people driving donkey carts in the outback of Timbuktu while using cell phones to broker deals on their goods while still hours away from the market.
Good example of capitalism and free enterprise at it's finest. Not sure what it has to do with Wall Street or FOSS though.
None of that activity produces actual goods or services.
I suppose it depends on how you define "services". But most people would consider the capital markets a service:
Capital markets are vital to the functioning of an economy, since capital is a critical component for generating economic output. Capital markets include primary markets, where new stock and bond issues are sold to investors, and secondary markets, which trade existing securities.
Doctors know how to prescribe Vancomycin and other broad spectrum antibiotics without killing their patients Einstein.
Untreated MRSA infections on the skin are common and easily treated; probably 10% of the people in this country have MRSA colonized in their sinuses. Bloodstream infections cause problems, septic shock does kill, Einstein.
See other comments pointing out how wrong you are about copper, Einstein.
The pace of PV installations in the U.S. is accelerating as the federal government's solar investment tax credit (ITC) is set to expire next year.
We've been through this before. All of the graphs on this page assume last year's growth will continue unabated. But what we're really seeing is a rush to grab as much of the subsidy as possible before the free money goes away.
A couple of pretty toxic ingredients there. I suppose as a topical remedy you could use it. But saying it's as effective as any modern remedy sounds like a bit of a stretch.
Why would you not version control the code? It's deployed to the server, same as deploying any other code. As far as pl/sql, it beats the heck out of writing applications in XML
As I read it this study concludes that they not only focus the sound, but they can modify the sound cone at will. Narrower when farther away from their prey, open it up as they get closer to keep it in the beam.
if Americans are united in any conviction these days, it is that we urgently need to shift the country's education toward the teaching of specific, technical skills, expand STEM courses (science, technology, engineering and math) and deemphasize the humanities
I'm pretty sure that's far down on the list of convictions that people in the United States are united on. More like a fad that's popular in some circles.
I tried very hard to convince my manager that we should do this on a project that used DB2. She was adamant that we would have to write the web services with the full Java stack. Hundreds of thousands of lines of java later (complete with maven, spring, hibernate, ad nauseum) she is no long with the company and the project is cancelled.
I would expect nutrition to be a big factor. But I also expect other environmental factors like intellectual stimulation, healthcare, etc. also play into it.
It's more precise to attribute the word to the officials by putting quotes around it, rather than have it look like an assumption made by the person reporting it. In other words, does NSA think there was an attempt to penetrate their campus? Or does the reporter think it was a deliberate attempt rather than a drink driver?
The problem with your argument is that the alternative to generating electricity with fossil fuel isn't growing trees. We still need to generate electricity.
What carbon credits do is tax the polluter and reward the non-polluter. The non-polluting alternative becomes a more cost effective way to generate the electricity we need.
Those in the 90th percentile (i.e., the top-scoring) actually scored lower than top-scoring millennials in 15 of the 22 studied countries
In most countries the filter of students who get into STEM programs in the first place is much stricter and earlier than in the US. So it wouldn't surprise me that the US score is diluted. It's a US tradition to give everyone the opportunity to succeed or fail.
They probably didn't mention a non-disclosure agreement because that's standard, you always sign one. More likely the design was nothing special so Facebook decided not to pay their price.
The loans are neither forced nor cheap. When one of my children was accepted into an expensive school, the financial aid packet contained a letter that said in effect "Unless you blatantly lied on your FAFSA or have very rich grandparents, you can't afford to come here.".
For those who keep asking why we can't store water during times of low electrical demand and use it during high, take a look at how the Lewiston Pump-Generating Plant at Niagra Falls does exactly that. Generates massive amounts of electricity during the peak load times. Really an awesome bit of engineering.
At night, a substantial fraction (600,000 US gallons (2,300 m3) per second) of the water in the Niagara River is diverted to the forebay by two 700-foot (210 m) tunnels. Electricity generated in the Moses plant is used to power the pumps to push water into the upper reservoir behind the Lewiston Dam. The water is pumped at night because the demand for electricity is much lower than during the day. In addition to the lower demand for electricity at night, less water can be diverted from the river during the day because of the desire to preserve the appearance of the falls. During the following day, when electrical demand is high, water is released from the upper reservoir through the pump-generators in the Lewiston Dam. The water then flows into the forebay, where it falls through the turbines of the Moses plant. Some would say that the water is "used twice".
Nowhere in that article does it say there is glyphosate in the wheat that's harvested.I doubt you could find any if the crop was tested because it has to be sprayed weeks before harvest. The article is pure FUD.
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Actually, "working stiffs" hold a vast amount of the wealth in the US in the form of pension funds, IRAs, 401Ks, etc.
If we spend billions of dollars only to learn that we were right (up to the resolution of the instrument), then we wasted billions of dollars
Nonsense. We can't move forward unless the experiment supports the theory. Otherwise you're not following the scientific method.
NSF's approach to cyber-learning seems to be mostly about pushing the current administration's agenda. Look at the projects - monitoring pollution, cross cultural training, environmental awareness, teaching girls to program, etc.
Those are reasonable subjects to be discussed in a classroom, but I'd prefer to see the projects identified for what they are rather than being funded as cyber-learning research.
Just saw a remarkable first hand report of people driving donkey carts in the outback of Timbuktu while using cell phones to broker deals on their goods while still hours away from the market.
Good example of capitalism and free enterprise at it's finest. Not sure what it has to do with Wall Street or FOSS though.
None of that activity produces actual goods or services.
I suppose it depends on how you define "services". But most people would consider the capital markets a service:
Capital markets are vital to the functioning of an economy, since capital is a critical component for generating economic output. Capital markets include primary markets, where new stock and bond issues are sold to investors, and secondary markets, which trade existing securities.
Doctors know how to prescribe Vancomycin and other broad spectrum antibiotics without killing their patients Einstein.
Untreated MRSA infections on the skin are common and easily treated; probably 10% of the people in this country have MRSA colonized in their sinuses. Bloodstream infections cause problems, septic shock does kill, Einstein.
See other comments pointing out how wrong you are about copper, Einstein.
The pace of PV installations in the U.S. is accelerating as the federal government's solar investment tax credit (ITC) is set to expire next year.
We've been through this before. All of the graphs on this page assume last year's growth will continue unabated. But what we're really seeing is a rush to grab as much of the subsidy as possible before the free money goes away.
A couple of pretty toxic ingredients there. I suppose as a topical remedy you could use it. But saying it's as effective as any modern remedy sounds like a bit of a stretch.
Why would you not version control the code? It's deployed to the server, same as deploying any other code. As far as pl/sql, it beats the heck out of writing applications in XML
As I read it this study concludes that they not only focus the sound, but they can modify the sound cone at will. Narrower when farther away from their prey, open it up as they get closer to keep it in the beam.
if Americans are united in any conviction these days, it is that we urgently need to shift the country's education toward the teaching of specific, technical skills, expand STEM courses (science, technology, engineering and math) and deemphasize the humanities
I'm pretty sure that's far down on the list of convictions that people in the United States are united on. More like a fad that's popular in some circles.
I tried very hard to convince my manager that we should do this on a project that used DB2. She was adamant that we would have to write the web services with the full Java stack. Hundreds of thousands of lines of java later (complete with maven, spring, hibernate, ad nauseum) she is no long with the company and the project is cancelled.
It's a choice either way. The question is, who makes the choice?
Your suggestion seems to be that some all powerful authority mandates what choice everyone else must make.
GP's suggestion is that enough people can be talked into making the altruistic choice to make a difference.
I would expect nutrition to be a big factor. But I also expect other environmental factors like intellectual stimulation, healthcare, etc. also play into it.
It's more precise to attribute the word to the officials by putting quotes around it, rather than have it look like an assumption made by the person reporting it. In other words, does NSA think there was an attempt to penetrate their campus? Or does the reporter think it was a deliberate attempt rather than a drink driver?
And only seriously injured but didn't seriously seriously injure the second.
It is quoting what the officials said.
The problem with your argument is that the alternative to generating electricity with fossil fuel isn't growing trees. We still need to generate electricity.
What carbon credits do is tax the polluter and reward the non-polluter. The non-polluting alternative becomes a more cost effective way to generate the electricity we need.
You would think a PDP8 would be worth little more than scrap at this point.
Which is why almost all of them were scrapped years ago. And anyone who is still running something on one really, really, needs spare parts.
Those in the 90th percentile (i.e., the top-scoring) actually scored lower than top-scoring millennials in 15 of the 22 studied countries
In most countries the filter of students who get into STEM programs in the first place is much stricter and earlier than in the US. So it wouldn't surprise me that the US score is diluted. It's a US tradition to give everyone the opportunity to succeed or fail.
They probably didn't mention a non-disclosure agreement because that's standard, you always sign one. More likely the design was nothing special so Facebook decided not to pay their price.
AOL owns Huff Post.
Same as Facebook and NYT, and no doubt the same slant on the "news"
The loans are neither forced nor cheap. When one of my children was accepted into an expensive school, the financial aid packet contained a letter that said in effect "Unless you blatantly lied on your FAFSA or have very rich grandparents, you can't afford to come here.".
At night, a substantial fraction (600,000 US gallons (2,300 m3) per second) of the water in the Niagara River is diverted to the forebay by two 700-foot (210 m) tunnels. Electricity generated in the Moses plant is used to power the pumps to push water into the upper reservoir behind the Lewiston Dam. The water is pumped at night because the demand for electricity is much lower than during the day. In addition to the lower demand for electricity at night, less water can be diverted from the river during the day because of the desire to preserve the appearance of the falls. During the following day, when electrical demand is high, water is released from the upper reservoir through the pump-generators in the Lewiston Dam. The water then flows into the forebay, where it falls through the turbines of the Moses plant. Some would say that the water is "used twice".
Nowhere in that article does it say there is glyphosate in the wheat that's harvested.I doubt you could find any if the crop was tested because it has to be sprayed weeks before harvest. The article is pure FUD.