You know that Piaget has been largely discredited, right?
At some point we hopefully get to the point where we realize this entire field is discredited and stop trying to use it to set policy. Keep studying it all you want, much like economics, it has the feel of science without any of the icky details of repeatability and determinism.
Until you have something that absolutely, definitely works, let's just teach kids with teachers who are masters of their subject. Those kids who aren't learning fast enough probably need MORE, not LESS, teaching, so teach them more, even if it costs more.
An entire school day here in Texas means from about 8-3, minus 40 minutes for lunch, 20 minutes for recess, and 15 minutes for morning announcements. Seems pretty sparse and there's plenty of time to go play somewhere before dinner and bed-time (which some shaman are insisting should be 730p). Since my kids go to school very near where this yahoo practices his quackery, I can honestly say they goof off at school in epic proportions. I can say for a fact that they didn't cover such complex topics as "the alphabet" or "adding numbers" in kindergarten. Whatever they were doing, wasn't strongly academic.
All I see down here is more concentrated efforts to defund public schooling, pushing more interested parents into debt for private schools that still focus on academics. Public schools have always worked reasonably well, but it's clear that the more we defund and defocus them over the decades, the lower the quality of the graduates produced. In Austin they're talking about doing away with homework, and this fool is trying to provide the support needed. This is great way to cut pay to teachers who don't have to grade it, but whether we liked it or not as kids, there is is a time when you need to memorize certain things, and homework is the weapon of choice. Class time should be spent on questions and explanations, homework is the ideal time for reading new material and memorizing what things absolutely need to be memorized.
The entire topic of "child initiated" blah blah "social development" is saying happy words that people like to hear but has absolutely zero substance. If I get home another paper that my son "collaborated" on with his peers that contains mistakes that I know he is far beyond but he tells me "well if I tell her she's wrong she cries and we all get demerits", I will scream. Sure it's an excellent opportunity to teach leadership, but on the spot it isn't happening because teacher is busy with the remedial kids who still can't do their ABCs, but we can't have remedial/normal/advanced classes because it marginalizes someone (read: that budget was cut). At home it's out of context and contrived, particularly on a child who is not destined for leadership by its current definition (i.e. Zaphod Beeblebrox's school of CEOing). Whatever fantasy land this asshat lives in, he should retreat to, he couldn't handle the world he's shaping.
Let's keep school focused on academics, but when we get to the teenage years not be afraid to spend some money on kids who have no track record of academics, and help them with trade skills in a useful, non-profit, way. For now, if lack of play time is hurting children, it's probably all the after-school sports/band/dance/cheerleading/gymnastics/music/etc. stuff parents sign their kids in to as extended daycare. A friend of my son's has an after-school schedule that is full of more junk than my work calendar. Surely by the time they're done with all that they are exhausted and too tired for homework or required reading anyway.
Because quite a lot of those people supposedly not downloading apps in a month, are downloading updates...
In other words we have the apps we like... which is kind of why this article makes me roll my eyes. The apps I have I cannot live without, but 99% of the app store is shit I won't download on a bet.
Or the correlation between religion and income is a lot like that between pirates and global warming. In my line of work I'm usually the one white guy in a sea of asians, most of whom are the Hindu variety. My field pays well above average, and the people I work with were deliberately prodded into this field by decidedly secular sources.
You would be wrong in a general sense. In California it is almost completely illegal. In other states, ymmv. It depends on whether they can give adequate pretext, I think a lot boils down to case law in various locales, IANAL. Texas isn't quite the wild unregulated west I thought it was, but it's also pretty much legal here.
There's also shades of illegality. A thing can be illegal in that it nullifies contracts, but end up being widely done in practice because the penalties are moot.
If there's ever been proof that the government has sold out the middle class, it's usually found in employment laws. People get too expensive, something is done to make them cheap.
As an EE I would also try to point my finger at some firmware guys, at some semiconductor guys and some chemical engineers. There's a lot involved in these sorts of batteries in consumer devices, plenty of blame to share.
I suspect if we continue this argument we will have profoundly different views on what constitutes "morally wrong" and I will continue to support the "coercive seizure of resources" over any and system you might propose.
The part where we enforce the laws selectively, to avoid placing blame on the government which enabled it? Ireland is another issue entirely, but our own government did absolutely shit about the loopholes Apple and a whole heap of other companies are using to legally avoid paying taxes.
I hope what's not classic americanism is finding the rich guy and shaking him down for money by unequally and unfairly creating a tax just for him to pay, in effigy. That doesn't sound very american at all, that sounds like old-school european monarchs. Or possibly France.
We're all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
So you're arguing that we should fix the tax laws to ensure that the less embarassed millionaires pay their taxes, right? I agree.
I don't use those services and I still have to pay taxes. The IRS is illegal under the US constitution.
You use the military, whether you want it or not. In the US that represents somewhere around 30-50% of your federal tax burden. You also use the police, whether you want to or not, that represents a good hunk of your local tax burden. You probably use the roads. You rely on the stability the government gives you. Even if you have no kids or you home school, or you private school, the education cost is keeping other people's kids from showing up at your house and robbing you blind.
Basically unless you live on an island in the middle of the pacific, you are relying on taxes whether you agreed to it or not. Feel free to blast yourself to the moon or somewhere else, but your agreement in this is not required, nor will you find an abundance of sympathy amongst your peers.
I don't know that this would play nicely with the high speed serial i/o. There ARE clamps in most of the chips, but they are designed mostly for static discharge and will break under sustained load.
But as others have pointed out this is an expensive solution to a problem that a rock solves for free.
FM is definitely not the feature i've been looking for. The DJ on the radio ad wants it, but then he doesn't show up to work and hands the radio over to the short playlist from his publisher sponsor, so it falls on deaf ears. Literally, since I don't listen to it anymore.
Nope, but requiring a degree or considering it on a job application needs to be stopped, I've worked in places where we won't even hire people who don't come from a short list of 8 colleges. There's a reason things like the bar association and the medical board exist: anyone's daddy can buy a degree, but not everyone can pass tests of competence.
The only barrier to employment should be certifications of competence in a field, either ad hoc (interview) or standardized (ex. the bar). You can go to all the Ivy League schools you want and get a large alphabet of degrees, but if you can't get certified you can't get employed. Unfortunately because of the need to justify H-1B's and outsourcing, employers are reluctant to embrace this model. If you could show that a large body of qualified applications do exist and are unemployed, it casts a big shadow on your statements that there aren't enough bodies to fill reqs. Even in careers like IT where there are some certifications, it seems to be a moving target of expensive and narrowly defined skills that you have to continuously chase. It's possible that industry professionals and the government are going to need to team up and create laws.
But a degree in Liberal Arts won't get me me a high paying job???????
You laugh, but even down here in the republic of Texas kids are being fed a boatload of lies, usually in the name of classroom economy. If I had a dollar for every time I heard "the nation's largest tech companies are demanding these skills" (group work, collaboration, well-rounded, etc.) I could retire and start my own school. What I hear when they say this is "we need to reduce teacher workload to shave some dollars off the budget", because all the things they say they won't do in class I find myself doing for my kids at home because 4 kids who don't know the alphabet can't teach each other the alphabet. I have no doubt the CEOs are saying these things, but I question their motives and perspective.
Normally they talk to fortune 500 CEOs, of which by definition, there are 500 in the world and they make hiring decisions only for the most senior executives. Those that they even see represent the very cream of the crop in terms of demonstrated results and pedigree which eliminates the vast majority of the world's population. You would be better off following your dream to pursue professional sports rather than pursue such positions, there are more employed pro-athletes. They are NOT talking to hiring managers and rank and file employees who actually make the hiring decisions for the majority of employees which is far more useful information for the vast majority of students. Unfortunately what they find might be expensive.
The net result is we have kids who have been force-fed bad information and have then made bad choices in their education based on that bad information. Be a collaborator, be a team player, be a leader, just pursue your dream, get a degree in anything etc. All horrible advice. Archaeology maybe your dream and you may passionately love it, definitely pursue it, but have a very viable backup plan of something that will net you a job with high probability and that you can live with. Very likely that is the job you will be doing while you wait for the archaeology position to open, possibly indefinitely. Also don't mention to prospective recruiters that your first love is archaeology but plumbing is a second choice: the odds that they will resonate with your dream are low, but the odds you get marked as "overqualified" (code for: will probably leave us for another job before we're ready) are very high.
I understand where this is coming from, we're looking at Donald Trump for example, but consider what democracy means. The people are not happy with this global economy (in most 1st world countries, and some 3rd world countries, see Russia). While a referendum to leave the EU was probably oddly specific and not the best solution to put in front of the average person, it may serve to put the brakes on the process, which is what is really needed. The big business types are all excited about the various forms of arbitrage and exploitation they can and are getting away with in the short run, if things could be slowed down a bit perhaps it wouldn't hurt so bad.
In the long run, Brexit or no Brexit, wall or no wall, it's going to happen, there's too much money to be made to stop it.
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That doesn't mean they necessarily want it to succeed, just that they will not block it (which may cause anti-trust issues should they try).
Pretty sure Apple has absolutely no financial interest in this product succeeding, possibly would prefer it failed.
Hopefully these come with compressed gold gas or you will be harming your listening experience when the plug is removed.
By your command.
Unlimited data requires infinite bandwidth which requires infinite power. We definitely don't need unlimited data.
We need max LTE bandwidth 24x7.
Piaget
You know that Piaget has been largely discredited, right?
At some point we hopefully get to the point where we realize this entire field is discredited and stop trying to use it to set policy. Keep studying it all you want, much like economics, it has the feel of science without any of the icky details of repeatability and determinism.
Until you have something that absolutely, definitely works, let's just teach kids with teachers who are masters of their subject. Those kids who aren't learning fast enough probably need MORE, not LESS, teaching, so teach them more, even if it costs more.
An entire school day here in Texas means from about 8-3, minus 40 minutes for lunch, 20 minutes for recess, and 15 minutes for morning announcements. Seems pretty sparse and there's plenty of time to go play somewhere before dinner and bed-time (which some shaman are insisting should be 730p). Since my kids go to school very near where this yahoo practices his quackery, I can honestly say they goof off at school in epic proportions. I can say for a fact that they didn't cover such complex topics as "the alphabet" or "adding numbers" in kindergarten. Whatever they were doing, wasn't strongly academic.
All I see down here is more concentrated efforts to defund public schooling, pushing more interested parents into debt for private schools that still focus on academics. Public schools have always worked reasonably well, but it's clear that the more we defund and defocus them over the decades, the lower the quality of the graduates produced. In Austin they're talking about doing away with homework, and this fool is trying to provide the support needed. This is great way to cut pay to teachers who don't have to grade it, but whether we liked it or not as kids, there is is a time when you need to memorize certain things, and homework is the weapon of choice. Class time should be spent on questions and explanations, homework is the ideal time for reading new material and memorizing what things absolutely need to be memorized.
The entire topic of "child initiated" blah blah "social development" is saying happy words that people like to hear but has absolutely zero substance. If I get home another paper that my son "collaborated" on with his peers that contains mistakes that I know he is far beyond but he tells me "well if I tell her she's wrong she cries and we all get demerits", I will scream. Sure it's an excellent opportunity to teach leadership, but on the spot it isn't happening because teacher is busy with the remedial kids who still can't do their ABCs, but we can't have remedial/normal/advanced classes because it marginalizes someone (read: that budget was cut). At home it's out of context and contrived, particularly on a child who is not destined for leadership by its current definition (i.e. Zaphod Beeblebrox's school of CEOing). Whatever fantasy land this asshat lives in, he should retreat to, he couldn't handle the world he's shaping.
Let's keep school focused on academics, but when we get to the teenage years not be afraid to spend some money on kids who have no track record of academics, and help them with trade skills in a useful, non-profit, way. For now, if lack of play time is hurting children, it's probably all the after-school sports/band/dance/cheerleading/gymnastics/music/etc. stuff parents sign their kids in to as extended daycare. A friend of my son's has an after-school schedule that is full of more junk than my work calendar. Surely by the time they're done with all that they are exhausted and too tired for homework or required reading anyway.
Pretty sure they run vim in emacs.
Because quite a lot of those people supposedly not downloading apps in a month, are downloading updates...
In other words we have the apps we like... which is kind of why this article makes me roll my eyes. The apps I have I cannot live without, but 99% of the app store is shit I won't download on a bet.
Or the correlation between religion and income is a lot like that between pirates and global warming. In my line of work I'm usually the one white guy in a sea of asians, most of whom are the Hindu variety. My field pays well above average, and the people I work with were deliberately prodded into this field by decidedly secular sources.
You would be wrong in a general sense. In California it is almost completely illegal. In other states, ymmv. It depends on whether they can give adequate pretext, I think a lot boils down to case law in various locales, IANAL. Texas isn't quite the wild unregulated west I thought it was, but it's also pretty much legal here.
There's also shades of illegality. A thing can be illegal in that it nullifies contracts, but end up being widely done in practice because the penalties are moot.
If there's ever been proof that the government has sold out the middle class, it's usually found in employment laws. People get too expensive, something is done to make them cheap.
as well other places.
Precious few other places.
I wonder how EEs many lost their jobs in this?
As an EE I would also try to point my finger at some firmware guys, at some semiconductor guys and some chemical engineers. There's a lot involved in these sorts of batteries in consumer devices, plenty of blame to share.
I suspect if we continue this argument we will have profoundly different views on what constitutes "morally wrong" and I will continue to support the "coercive seizure of resources" over any and system you might propose.
Classic americanism
The part where we enforce the laws selectively, to avoid placing blame on the government which enabled it? Ireland is another issue entirely, but our own government did absolutely shit about the loopholes Apple and a whole heap of other companies are using to legally avoid paying taxes.
I hope what's not classic americanism is finding the rich guy and shaking him down for money by unequally and unfairly creating a tax just for him to pay, in effigy. That doesn't sound very american at all, that sounds like old-school european monarchs. Or possibly France.
We're all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
So you're arguing that we should fix the tax laws to ensure that the less embarassed millionaires pay their taxes, right? I agree.
I don't use those services and I still have to pay taxes. The IRS is illegal under the US constitution.
You use the military, whether you want it or not. In the US that represents somewhere around 30-50% of your federal tax burden. You also use the police, whether you want to or not, that represents a good hunk of your local tax burden. You probably use the roads. You rely on the stability the government gives you. Even if you have no kids or you home school, or you private school, the education cost is keeping other people's kids from showing up at your house and robbing you blind.
Basically unless you live on an island in the middle of the pacific, you are relying on taxes whether you agreed to it or not. Feel free to blast yourself to the moon or somewhere else, but your agreement in this is not required, nor will you find an abundance of sympathy amongst your peers.
I don't know that this would play nicely with the high speed serial i/o. There ARE clamps in most of the chips, but they are designed mostly for static discharge and will break under sustained load.
But as others have pointed out this is an expensive solution to a problem that a rock solves for free.
But hillary is paid by the people who keep the H1B machine running.
They both suck, let's not pretend.
FM is definitely not the feature i've been looking for. The DJ on the radio ad wants it, but then he doesn't show up to work and hands the radio over to the short playlist from his publisher sponsor, so it falls on deaf ears. Literally, since I don't listen to it anymore.
It says that iff they didn't receive enough ad revenue from Apple.
We used to give people IQ tests,
Even if you believe in this witchcraft, you very likely would end up with smart, totally unqualified people who aren't interested in their jobs.
They need to be stopped.
Nope, but requiring a degree or considering it on a job application needs to be stopped, I've worked in places where we won't even hire people who don't come from a short list of 8 colleges. There's a reason things like the bar association and the medical board exist: anyone's daddy can buy a degree, but not everyone can pass tests of competence.
The only barrier to employment should be certifications of competence in a field, either ad hoc (interview) or standardized (ex. the bar). You can go to all the Ivy League schools you want and get a large alphabet of degrees, but if you can't get certified you can't get employed. Unfortunately because of the need to justify H-1B's and outsourcing, employers are reluctant to embrace this model. If you could show that a large body of qualified applications do exist and are unemployed, it casts a big shadow on your statements that there aren't enough bodies to fill reqs. Even in careers like IT where there are some certifications, it seems to be a moving target of expensive and narrowly defined skills that you have to continuously chase. It's possible that industry professionals and the government are going to need to team up and create laws.
But a degree in Liberal Arts won't get me me a high paying job???????
You laugh, but even down here in the republic of Texas kids are being fed a boatload of lies, usually in the name of classroom economy. If I had a dollar for every time I heard "the nation's largest tech companies are demanding these skills" (group work, collaboration, well-rounded, etc.) I could retire and start my own school. What I hear when they say this is "we need to reduce teacher workload to shave some dollars off the budget", because all the things they say they won't do in class I find myself doing for my kids at home because 4 kids who don't know the alphabet can't teach each other the alphabet. I have no doubt the CEOs are saying these things, but I question their motives and perspective.
Normally they talk to fortune 500 CEOs, of which by definition, there are 500 in the world and they make hiring decisions only for the most senior executives. Those that they even see represent the very cream of the crop in terms of demonstrated results and pedigree which eliminates the vast majority of the world's population. You would be better off following your dream to pursue professional sports rather than pursue such positions, there are more employed pro-athletes. They are NOT talking to hiring managers and rank and file employees who actually make the hiring decisions for the majority of employees which is far more useful information for the vast majority of students. Unfortunately what they find might be expensive.
The net result is we have kids who have been force-fed bad information and have then made bad choices in their education based on that bad information. Be a collaborator, be a team player, be a leader, just pursue your dream, get a degree in anything etc. All horrible advice. Archaeology maybe your dream and you may passionately love it, definitely pursue it, but have a very viable backup plan of something that will net you a job with high probability and that you can live with. Very likely that is the job you will be doing while you wait for the archaeology position to open, possibly indefinitely. Also don't mention to prospective recruiters that your first love is archaeology but plumbing is a second choice: the odds that they will resonate with your dream are low, but the odds you get marked as "overqualified" (code for: will probably leave us for another job before we're ready) are very high.
Just write a 'script to add random apostrophe's' to the 's''s' in your article's.
I understand where this is coming from, we're looking at Donald Trump for example, but consider what democracy means. The people are not happy with this global economy (in most 1st world countries, and some 3rd world countries, see Russia). While a referendum to leave the EU was probably oddly specific and not the best solution to put in front of the average person, it may serve to put the brakes on the process, which is what is really needed. The big business types are all excited about the various forms of arbitrage and exploitation they can and are getting away with in the short run, if things could be slowed down a bit perhaps it wouldn't hurt so bad.
In the long run, Brexit or no Brexit, wall or no wall, it's going to happen, there's too much money to be made to stop it.