No back of the napkin calculations, either: Finland is also dropping the handwritten long division algorithm in 2016.
WHAT?!
I just sat through a week of CCNA courses, and with long-division I was able to do subnet calculations extremely quickly by understanding how remainders work and using them, without having to convert every damn number into binary or to go into matrices or boolean logic.
Calculators are not allowed on the CCNA exam. Someone that can't do long-division quickly probably won't be able to pass.
What I'm saying is that I don't think that most electronic means of note-taking are as good as using a writing implement and a piece of paper. When I'm forming my own thoughts (as I am doing as I type this post) I can rely on the automatic nature of my practiced typing skills to turn my thoughts into print, but if I'm attempting to record and remember what others have said, I do not find that I retain as much by typing the other person's words than I do by writing them down. I also find that I can pay attention to their words and scribble-down notes about them at the same time more easily than I can if I'm trying to type them as they speak. Furthermore, handwriting my notes is less distracting to the meeting as typing even on keyboards designed to be quiet still make more nose than pencil or pen on paper.
If the technology for note taking gets better then perhaps this will change, but for now, I find the use of pen or pencil and paper to be more effective.
No. This meeting was to develop consensus where the two parties were not in-agreement. The whole point of taking notes was to document who said what, who agreed to what, and what each party was going to do post-meeting to rectify the issue. That means that both parties and all participants and the supervisors of all participants got copied on the notes, and it establishes a paper-trail so that neither side can claim they didn't know about something and can't as easily claim that they didn't say something.
Which way did they teach you to hold your paper? I was taught to align it like a backslash, top to the left, bottom to the right, like all of the right-handed students, and as a consequence I smear my lines and my hand starts to hurt after awhile.
I was already out of high school before I realized how badly that elementary school teacher sucked. If she'd taught me to align the paper like a slash, top to the right, my hand would have remained under the writing on the blank page and not smeared the text. Unfortunately since she wanted all of the pages to align the same I got stuck with the wrong practice. I've even made a concerted effort to change it a couple of times, but I just can't seem to change it. My penmanship is too ingrained to be adjusted and I don't have to write enough by-hand to make any sort of dent in unlearning what I learned wrong the first time around.
I don't know about you, but I can jot-down quick notes on scraps of paper a hell of a lot faster than I can get out an electronic device, open a note-taking program, and attempt to use an on-screen keyboard to type the same notes with any degree of accuracy.
I had a meeting a couple of weeks ago with several coworkers and an outside vendor, and it was a quite technical meeting. I had to be able to follow all of the jumps between topics and to keep my notes straight and organized. I later reorganized my notes when I typed them for e-mail, but what I took was stream-of-consciousness at best, and would not have been immediately sendable to others. Since I had to reorganize the notes anyway, using paper was a lot more practical than attempting to do it electronically.
I am aware that resources theft has been a problem in poor areas, where recyclables like copper are routinely stolen, but still, wouldn't it have been cheaper, in the long-term, to trench DEEP, build monitored deep equipment vaults with sensors back to the security office of the telescope for access monitoring, and do fiber backbone to the neighborhoods, handing off to either some radio frequency that's not a problem or using copper or fiber for the last mile? Once the infrastructure is in, assuming it's done right, it should be fairly low-maintenance and difficult to steal, and if the only copper is either the last-mile or within the residence like a FIOS or google-fiber solution then there's much less actually worth stealing.
Actual single-mode fiber cable isn't very expensive when new and really isn't worth much when used, so attempting to scrap it out wouldn't be worthwhile.
That's odd. I use what's currently called the Google Play Store only for pulling reviewed applications for my smartphone down to it, as opposed to having to browse random developers' websites to find apps without having even a basic review process for them. I've never bought anything through it, and unless there's some absolutely killer app for my needs I probably never will.
Google doesn't make any money from me directly in doing that. I suppose they may manage to extract some advertising dollars through data-mining my session, but that's still not going to make me buy something.
Gilbert Public Schools are running a fine-line here, risking every religious entity complaining and getting their way. This could affect everything from school lunches to the abolishment of any sort of Christmas-themed party, and even could affect the existence of those lovely two weeks off starting on December 22nd...
I have lived in communities that required vehicles to be inspected for their emissions. If you car failed, the car had to be "repaired" before the owner could get a current car tag. The car repair hit "a lot of people that cannot afford to retrofit or replace vehicles" hard. Car inspection is on the decline because it creates an intense dislike among those voters whose cars are inspected on a yearly basis.
But the standard is only to the level it was when the car was manufactured. The standard is not raised beyond that.
Owning a car costs money even when it's paid-off. I know, I used to drive nothing but beaters as I was poor, and I did have to contend with cars that failed emissions. Thing of it is, fixing the car once a year cost about the same as a single car payment would have, so it was not too much of a burden to handle.
I don't want him to come near me with a candle either. If I were to make a list of places that I don't ever want set on fire, after my face and the rest of my head I think that would be next.
Heh. As an automotive enthusiast in the United States, I'm glad that our laws have generally applied such that a vehicle, once it has been certified by the relevant governing body, does not later generally need to meet more stringent emissions standards. As far as I'm aware, a vehicle's emissions certifications only get less-strict with time if they change at all, not more strict, and to do otherwise would put undue financial burden on a lot of people that cannot afford to retrofit or replace vehicles, which is why they're driving old cars in the first place.
I do live somewhere where vehicles are generally immune from the effects of the environment- people have literally pulled old heaps out of the desert, cleaned off the years of caliche built up on top of the floor pan, dropped a modern engine in, and turned them into hotrods. As a consequence we still have emissions testing on everything back to 1967 when federal emissions first came into effect, but even still it's not hard to meet the rules for a given year.
You know, I was inclined to disagree with your statement on Pottering, but in attempting to build a multiseat installation with properly-functioning sound at each seat I really can't. I've also heard horror-stories from other pulseaudio users where some feature they needed that shouldn't be verboten wasn't available because it didn't apply to his specific installation, so it was ruled-out, and made things worse for the community as a result.
I'm kind of hopeful that the Ubuntu people will consider dropping Debian for Devuan, and that perhaps the Devuan project can start working more closely with the Ubuntu people, possibly even becoming a dev distro from which the desktop distro is derived, kind of like what Ubuntu does with Debian now. If I read it correctly, they moved to systemd because Debian did, not because they wanted to.
It might also be time to look at a new file extension beyond.deb, so that there's no confusion about attempting to install a systemd package on a sysv box.
It wasn't a soft landing; Apollo 11 was a soft landing. It bounced and bounced until it came to rest. It was uncontrolled. It systems designed to make it into a soft landing (ie, the grappling stuff) failed.
I had dialup Internet. Hell, when I didn't even have dialup Internet I called the dialup shell for my university's unix system, ran a SLIP emulator program called slirp, and invoked my SLIP client on my computer to establish a TCP/IP socket so I could use network-capable programs. It was only 14.4, and that was painful after having been in the pilot neighborhood for cablemodem before that, but it was better than nothing.
To actually get to the point though, embedded devices don't necessarily require much in the way of bandwidth, especially if the systems in the embedded device don't need constant communication to do their jobs. Simple instruction to run scripts or programming is enough if the device is capable of doing things outside of what should be normal operation, like in a diagnostic or service mode.
The mission did not succeed in most of its stated objectives. By definition that makes it a failure.
It's not a complete failure, and we can learn from what failed to attempt to design future missions to avoid these particular failure modes, and we can even celebrate the successes that we did get from the mission, but we cannot truly call the mission as a whole a success.
I'm curious if this'll be an all-or-nothing thing, or if there are degrees of gradation. Pain itself serves good in that it prevents one from doing things that cause it, so we don't injure ourselves.
Also makes me wonder if pain caused by emotion or stress would be affected, and to what degree. It's been said that emotional pain is a physical response, the body literally making itself ill or hurt, so I wonder.
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WHAT?!
I just sat through a week of CCNA courses, and with long-division I was able to do subnet calculations extremely quickly by understanding how remainders work and using them, without having to convert every damn number into binary or to go into matrices or boolean logic.
Calculators are not allowed on the CCNA exam. Someone that can't do long-division quickly probably won't be able to pass.
Yeah, I carry a Thinkpad Yoga 2, with stylus and everything. I still prefer pencil or pen and paper.
What I'm saying is that I don't think that most electronic means of note-taking are as good as using a writing implement and a piece of paper. When I'm forming my own thoughts (as I am doing as I type this post) I can rely on the automatic nature of my practiced typing skills to turn my thoughts into print, but if I'm attempting to record and remember what others have said, I do not find that I retain as much by typing the other person's words than I do by writing them down. I also find that I can pay attention to their words and scribble-down notes about them at the same time more easily than I can if I'm trying to type them as they speak. Furthermore, handwriting my notes is less distracting to the meeting as typing even on keyboards designed to be quiet still make more nose than pencil or pen on paper.
If the technology for note taking gets better then perhaps this will change, but for now, I find the use of pen or pencil and paper to be more effective.
No. This meeting was to develop consensus where the two parties were not in-agreement. The whole point of taking notes was to document who said what, who agreed to what, and what each party was going to do post-meeting to rectify the issue. That means that both parties and all participants and the supervisors of all participants got copied on the notes, and it establishes a paper-trail so that neither side can claim they didn't know about something and can't as easily claim that they didn't say something.
Which way did they teach you to hold your paper? I was taught to align it like a backslash, top to the left, bottom to the right, like all of the right-handed students, and as a consequence I smear my lines and my hand starts to hurt after awhile.
I was already out of high school before I realized how badly that elementary school teacher sucked. If she'd taught me to align the paper like a slash, top to the right, my hand would have remained under the writing on the blank page and not smeared the text. Unfortunately since she wanted all of the pages to align the same I got stuck with the wrong practice. I've even made a concerted effort to change it a couple of times, but I just can't seem to change it. My penmanship is too ingrained to be adjusted and I don't have to write enough by-hand to make any sort of dent in unlearning what I learned wrong the first time around.
I find that unlikely. "Writing cursive" is what I'm used to hearing, and "printing" for traditional, non-connected letters.
Actually, I'd dig the christie vaults first, and horizontal-bore between them.
I don't know about you, but I can jot-down quick notes on scraps of paper a hell of a lot faster than I can get out an electronic device, open a note-taking program, and attempt to use an on-screen keyboard to type the same notes with any degree of accuracy.
I had a meeting a couple of weeks ago with several coworkers and an outside vendor, and it was a quite technical meeting. I had to be able to follow all of the jumps between topics and to keep my notes straight and organized. I later reorganized my notes when I typed them for e-mail, but what I took was stream-of-consciousness at best, and would not have been immediately sendable to others. Since I had to reorganize the notes anyway, using paper was a lot more practical than attempting to do it electronically.
Even damaged fiber can be fixed though. And as far a deep, I'm thinking 20'+ down. Make it cost more than copper prices to attempt to get at it.
Next you're going to tell me that fertility symbols like bunnies and chicks and eggs have nothing to do with Christ's brutal torture and death...
I am aware that resources theft has been a problem in poor areas, where recyclables like copper are routinely stolen, but still, wouldn't it have been cheaper, in the long-term, to trench DEEP, build monitored deep equipment vaults with sensors back to the security office of the telescope for access monitoring, and do fiber backbone to the neighborhoods, handing off to either some radio frequency that's not a problem or using copper or fiber for the last mile? Once the infrastructure is in, assuming it's done right, it should be fairly low-maintenance and difficult to steal, and if the only copper is either the last-mile or within the residence like a FIOS or google-fiber solution then there's much less actually worth stealing.
Actual single-mode fiber cable isn't very expensive when new and really isn't worth much when used, so attempting to scrap it out wouldn't be worthwhile.
That's odd. I use what's currently called the Google Play Store only for pulling reviewed applications for my smartphone down to it, as opposed to having to browse random developers' websites to find apps without having even a basic review process for them. I've never bought anything through it, and unless there's some absolutely killer app for my needs I probably never will.
Google doesn't make any money from me directly in doing that. I suppose they may manage to extract some advertising dollars through data-mining my session, but that's still not going to make me buy something.
Gilbert Public Schools are running a fine-line here, risking every religious entity complaining and getting their way. This could affect everything from school lunches to the abolishment of any sort of Christmas-themed party, and even could affect the existence of those lovely two weeks off starting on December 22nd...
But the standard is only to the level it was when the car was manufactured. The standard is not raised beyond that.
Owning a car costs money even when it's paid-off. I know, I used to drive nothing but beaters as I was poor, and I did have to contend with cars that failed emissions. Thing of it is, fixing the car once a year cost about the same as a single car payment would have, so it was not too much of a burden to handle.
How about s'more beans, Mr. Taggart?
With the candle, it's probably a Burger King product... Flame Broiled.
I don't want him to come near me with a candle either. If I were to make a list of places that I don't ever want set on fire, after my face and the rest of my head I think that would be next.
wasn't greenbar tractor-fed 132 column?
Heh. As an automotive enthusiast in the United States, I'm glad that our laws have generally applied such that a vehicle, once it has been certified by the relevant governing body, does not later generally need to meet more stringent emissions standards. As far as I'm aware, a vehicle's emissions certifications only get less-strict with time if they change at all, not more strict, and to do otherwise would put undue financial burden on a lot of people that cannot afford to retrofit or replace vehicles, which is why they're driving old cars in the first place.
I do live somewhere where vehicles are generally immune from the effects of the environment- people have literally pulled old heaps out of the desert, cleaned off the years of caliche built up on top of the floor pan, dropped a modern engine in, and turned them into hotrods. As a consequence we still have emissions testing on everything back to 1967 when federal emissions first came into effect, but even still it's not hard to meet the rules for a given year.
Changing that would cause riots.
No, 132 column, 44 row.
You know, I was inclined to disagree with your statement on Pottering, but in attempting to build a multiseat installation with properly-functioning sound at each seat I really can't. I've also heard horror-stories from other pulseaudio users where some feature they needed that shouldn't be verboten wasn't available because it didn't apply to his specific installation, so it was ruled-out, and made things worse for the community as a result.
.deb, so that there's no confusion about attempting to install a systemd package on a sysv box.
I'm kind of hopeful that the Ubuntu people will consider dropping Debian for Devuan, and that perhaps the Devuan project can start working more closely with the Ubuntu people, possibly even becoming a dev distro from which the desktop distro is derived, kind of like what Ubuntu does with Debian now. If I read it correctly, they moved to systemd because Debian did, not because they wanted to.
It might also be time to look at a new file extension beyond
It wasn't a soft landing; Apollo 11 was a soft landing. It bounced and bounced until it came to rest. It was uncontrolled. It systems designed to make it into a soft landing (ie, the grappling stuff) failed.
I had dialup Internet. Hell, when I didn't even have dialup Internet I called the dialup shell for my university's unix system, ran a SLIP emulator program called slirp, and invoked my SLIP client on my computer to establish a TCP/IP socket so I could use network-capable programs. It was only 14.4, and that was painful after having been in the pilot neighborhood for cablemodem before that, but it was better than nothing.
To actually get to the point though, embedded devices don't necessarily require much in the way of bandwidth, especially if the systems in the embedded device don't need constant communication to do their jobs. Simple instruction to run scripts or programming is enough if the device is capable of doing things outside of what should be normal operation, like in a diagnostic or service mode.
The mission did not succeed in most of its stated objectives. By definition that makes it a failure.
It's not a complete failure, and we can learn from what failed to attempt to design future missions to avoid these particular failure modes, and we can even celebrate the successes that we did get from the mission, but we cannot truly call the mission as a whole a success.
I'm curious if this'll be an all-or-nothing thing, or if there are degrees of gradation. Pain itself serves good in that it prevents one from doing things that cause it, so we don't injure ourselves.
Also makes me wonder if pain caused by emotion or stress would be affected, and to what degree. It's been said that emotional pain is a physical response, the body literally making itself ill or hurt, so I wonder.