I have a palm pre with the touchstone charger and it is really nice to just place it on the dock where it holds magnetically in place and starts charging.
however 1) It's generally better to have a system which is useful than none at all (even with imperfections) 2) The teachers do have a significant averaging system as they have a bunch of students and classes. One bad parent/kid shouldn't unduly change their average.
One thing I can say for sure. I have had good teachers and bad teachers. Generally (not always) the assessment of good/bad was one which was broadly shared by my class and other classes. Moreover that assessment usually manifested itself in grades as well.
Finally - the purpose of the rating system isn't primarily to be fair to teachers. The primary purpose is to enable the system to select the better teachers and remove the worse ones (or improve them). If some teachers get a raw deal - that's bad luck, but unavoidable.
PR Dept: We haven't said anything for a while. What's new? Scientist: Nothing happening really - we're not even getting much from WISE now PR Dept: What? No WISE? Scientist: Exactly, it's coming to the planned end of usefulness and heating up PR Dept: [hitting speeddial] Is that the New York Times? One of our satellites is about to explode...
nope, the polarisation only has two dimensions to play with. essentially, the orientation of the wave is x/y vector perpendicular to the direction of motion.
you can split the x/y to get two independent components, or (maths more complicated) split two orientations of circular polarisations out.
any other additions simply interfere with the two components you are taking out.
essentially, your carrier (the polarisation vector) only has two dimensions - so you can only get two non-interfering signals.
1) they can make money from other activities (touring, merchandise, etc) 2) if they get out of their original contract, they can negotiate a better one the next time around
And that I have 5 FM radios playing around my house at the moment.
They are all in sync, so I can wander around the house without missing anything.
DAB is expensive to use, and in many ways less good. I even own a digital radio. It is unplugged in the bottom of a drawer.
DAB does have more channels - but it doesn't compete with the internet on that score.
It is a doomed intermediate technology with many disadvantages compared both to the existing technology (cheap, effective, huge installed base), and compared to the next technology (the internet)
e.g. payload worth 100mil you can pick: a) rocket for 50 mil with 5% chance of failure b) rocket for 60 mil with 1% chance of failure
cost for option A, plus 5% chance of having to rebuild and relaunch: $157.5 mil cost for option B, plus 1% chance of having to rebuild and relaunch: $161.6 mil
this ignores double failure - but the point is that your cheaper 'riskier' launch makes more sense.
or with people:
imagine, for 10 billion, we can get 10 astronauts to mars with a probable 2 deaths, or for the same amount of cash we can get two astronauts to the moon with only a 2% chance of any deaths.
perhaps less obvious which is better, but I'm certain we would have no problem getting volunteers for the mars mission.
He is quite happy to admit guilt and serve a reasonable sentence.
At the time, under UK law - the max sentence for this kind of crime was 6 months.
but the US is getting all shouty and screaming terrorist, so they are threatening him with 70 years.
If their original charges had been more proportionate then a) It probably wouldn't have hit the threshold for extradition b) if it had, then he'd probably be much more relaxed about pleading guilty and doing (say) 6 months in a low security prison
back to your analogy; that burglar who broke into your hypothetical house and didn't steal anything. I suspect we both agree that it was more of an invasion of your privacy than if he broke into your servers.
Would 70 years be an appropriate sentence for the hypothetical burglar?
How much of communication requires the use of the naked chest?
A lot of communication requires that we see each other's faces.
The problem with a system which encourages/forces women to cover their faces is that it removes them from society. It marginalises and isolates women.
The fact that it is embedded in religious tradition is no excuse.
Now if women really were making free choices to cover themselves, then that would be a different matter.
Unfortunately the societal pressures on women to comply with tradition make it virtually impossible to separate the cases which are coercion from those which are voluntary.
I don't see many Islamic men choosing never to have their face seen outside the home.
>Are there hundreds of thousands of users who are hating Apple right now because Apple is denying the users access to a killer application that they simply can't live without?
kinda. That's why they jailbreak and install Cydia.
Thing is - like it or not, these loons do represent you.
You may not have voted for them, and you may not consent to being represented by them - but they get to shout 'we are Islam, we demand xxx'
Until another vocal group starts shouting 'no, we are Islam and we think you are loons' then the loud voice gets to represent you.
Obviously it is unfair to lay this on an individual - but where is the 'Islam for free speech' facebook group, or the Imam giving media interviews saying that he finds the page offensive - but that it should not be censored? Have you spoken to your Imam and asked him to speak up?
Better still, has the Council of Imams issued a statement that they find the page offensive, but that they believe in free speech? If not - have you started a petition of your congregation to demand that they do?
To your question 'what gives you the right to disrespect beliefs of another?'
My answer is 'freedom of thought'
I disrespect lots of beliefs held by others.
For example I disrespect anyone who believes in the literal truth of the bible.
Back to the point though, I'm not sure how your answer provides reasons to respect the Islamic faith.
You state : 1) Islam had learned scientists etc until the mongols invaded Baghdad. (good reason for respect then, I'm not sure what it earns now)
2) CIA gave money to create 'taliban'. (You don't seem to hold the taliban in high regard - are you offering them as a reason for me to respect Islam?)
she had already been taken through 4 of the mandatory 5 steps to dismissal
"Kuchler was already on thin ice with the city, having gone through four of the five disciplinary steps required by the collective bargaining agreement with the local clerical union: a verbal warning, written warning, one-day-suspension, and three-day-suspension." http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/05/police_dispatcher_fired_for_st.php
so it seems that for whatever reason, her bosses didn't think much of her...
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yup - it is easier. It's really nice to use.
I have a palm pre with the touchstone charger and it is really nice to just place it on the dock where it holds magnetically in place and starts charging.
Not worldchanging - but a definite improvement.
are you sure?
it certainly used to be built by a Mac group within MS. I have heard stories of the crazy corporate environment that surrounded them...
opera makes quite a few paid variants. (set top boxes, smartphones, etc)
no idea if they support video at the moment, but I'm sure they will.
we all watched war games.
perhaps a similar lesson can be learned by the kids in this exercise...
any rating system will be unfair.
however
1) It's generally better to have a system which is useful than none at all (even with imperfections)
2) The teachers do have a significant averaging system as they have a bunch of students and classes. One bad parent/kid shouldn't unduly change their average.
One thing I can say for sure. I have had good teachers and bad teachers. Generally (not always) the assessment of good/bad was one which was broadly shared by my class and other classes. Moreover that assessment usually manifested itself in grades as well.
Finally - the purpose of the rating system isn't primarily to be fair to teachers. The primary purpose is to enable the system to select the better teachers and remove the worse ones (or improve them). If some teachers get a raw deal - that's bad luck, but unavoidable.
PR Dept: We haven't said anything for a while. What's new?
Scientist: Nothing happening really - we're not even getting much from WISE now
PR Dept: What? No WISE?
Scientist: Exactly, it's coming to the planned end of usefulness and heating up
PR Dept: [hitting speeddial] Is that the New York Times? One of our satellites is about to explode...
nope, the polarisation only has two dimensions to play with.
essentially, the orientation of the wave is x/y vector perpendicular to the direction of motion.
you can split the x/y to get two independent components, or (maths more complicated) split two orientations of circular polarisations out.
any other additions simply interfere with the two components you are taking out.
essentially, your carrier (the polarisation vector) only has two dimensions - so you can only get two non-interfering signals.
look at the incentives here:
it gets to the point that you are about to be paid out $10,000
the executive decides to spend $10,000 on marketing - knowing that it will only generate an additional $5000 of sales
however, the $10,000 is fully deductable - so it comes out of your payout.
Of the new $5000, the executive will see 63% - so he is $3150 better off
However your $10,000 payout has been reduced to 13% of the new $5000 sales which is $650
this means that it is almost always in the interest of the exec to piss your cut away on marketing - even if it is obviously ineffectual marketing.
1) they can make money from other activities (touring, merchandise, etc)
2) if they get out of their original contract, they can negotiate a better one the next time around
And that I have 5 FM radios playing around my house at the moment.
They are all in sync, so I can wander around the house without missing anything.
DAB is expensive to use, and in many ways less good.
I even own a digital radio. It is unplugged in the bottom of a drawer.
DAB does have more channels - but it doesn't compete with the internet on that score.
It is a doomed intermediate technology with many disadvantages compared both to the existing technology (cheap, effective, huge installed base), and compared to the next technology (the internet)
The state killed a guy. That is interesting and important.
How they announce it seems entirely unimportant.
too much safety can be a bad thing
e.g. payload worth 100mil
you can pick:
a) rocket for 50 mil with 5% chance of failure
b) rocket for 60 mil with 1% chance of failure
cost for option A, plus 5% chance of having to rebuild and relaunch: $157.5 mil
cost for option B, plus 1% chance of having to rebuild and relaunch: $161.6 mil
this ignores double failure - but the point is that your cheaper 'riskier' launch makes more sense.
or with people:
imagine, for 10 billion, we can get 10 astronauts to mars with a probable 2 deaths, or for the same amount of cash we can get two astronauts to the moon with only a 2% chance of any deaths.
perhaps less obvious which is better, but I'm certain we would have no problem getting volunteers for the mars mission.
legal until some terrorist group realises that they can cause mass blindings in public places with little chance of getting caught.
-or cause freeway pileups
-or blind train drivers
-or politicians as they speak
-or nascar racers
tell me again why these are available to the public?
He is quite happy to admit guilt and serve a reasonable sentence.
At the time, under UK law - the max sentence for this kind of crime was 6 months.
but the US is getting all shouty and screaming terrorist, so they are threatening him with 70 years.
If their original charges had been more proportionate then
a) It probably wouldn't have hit the threshold for extradition
b) if it had, then he'd probably be much more relaxed about pleading guilty and doing (say) 6 months in a low security prison
back to your analogy; that burglar who broke into your hypothetical house and didn't steal anything.
I suspect we both agree that it was more of an invasion of your privacy than if he broke into your servers.
Would 70 years be an appropriate sentence for the hypothetical burglar?
How much of communication requires the use of the naked chest?
A lot of communication requires that we see each other's faces.
The problem with a system which encourages/forces women to cover their faces is that it removes them from society. It marginalises and isolates women.
The fact that it is embedded in religious tradition is no excuse.
Now if women really were making free choices to cover themselves, then that would be a different matter.
Unfortunately the societal pressures on women to comply with tradition make it virtually impossible to separate the cases which are coercion from those which are voluntary.
I don't see many Islamic men choosing never to have their face seen outside the home.
they can't go downwind faster than the wind.
>Are there hundreds of thousands of users who are hating Apple right now because Apple is denying the users access to a killer application that they simply can't live without?
kinda. That's why they jailbreak and install Cydia.
Well said.
Thing is - like it or not, these loons do represent you.
You may not have voted for them, and you may not consent to being represented by them - but they get to shout 'we are Islam, we demand xxx'
Until another vocal group starts shouting 'no, we are Islam and we think you are loons' then the loud voice gets to represent you.
Obviously it is unfair to lay this on an individual - but where is the 'Islam for free speech' facebook group, or the Imam giving media interviews saying that he finds the page offensive - but that it should not be censored? Have you spoken to your Imam and asked him to speak up?
Better still, has the Council of Imams issued a statement that they find the page offensive, but that they believe in free speech? If not - have you started a petition of your congregation to demand that they do?
this nuke idea keeps coming up.
I know it has worked in the past - but then drilling for oil has worked in the past.
How confident are people that the nuke option won't make things catastrophically worse?
the liberal democrats voted against it
To your question 'what gives you the right to disrespect beliefs of another?'
My answer is 'freedom of thought'
I disrespect lots of beliefs held by others.
For example I disrespect anyone who believes in the literal truth of the bible.
Back to the point though, I'm not sure how your answer provides reasons to respect the Islamic faith.
You state :
1) Islam had learned scientists etc until the mongols invaded Baghdad. (good reason for respect then, I'm not sure what it earns now)
2) CIA gave money to create 'taliban'. (You don't seem to hold the taliban in high regard - are you offering them as a reason for me to respect Islam?)
she had already been taken through 4 of the mandatory 5 steps to dismissal
"Kuchler was already on thin ice with the city, having gone through four of the five disciplinary steps required by the collective bargaining agreement with the local clerical union: a verbal warning, written warning, one-day-suspension, and three-day-suspension."
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/05/police_dispatcher_fired_for_st.php
so it seems that for whatever reason, her bosses didn't think much of her...
You state: "and west need to understand the Islamic faith and respect it."
Why?
Note, I'm not saying that we should not respect the Islamic faith - just asking you to justify your statement.
There are plenty of other beliefs which originate in the 7th century and which we do not respect.
Why is the Islamic faith a set of beliefs which do deserve respect?
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Should not have control of the characters in his current books because they first appeared in his books more than 20 years ago?
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I don't see a problem with people getting to riff on Terry's characters. Just like it is fine for people to riff on Robin Hood and Romeo and Juliet.
Most folks still know that Shakespeare was the original author of Romeo and Juliet.
If he was still around, he could still release the 'Official Sequel' and wouldn't have any problem earning a decent return in 5 years.
actually the number was much simpler.
I think the relevant threshold was $5k, so they just said.
Yup- $5k damage done in each case.
multiply by n computers.
to get 700k damage.