No, blindly believing in the "scientific concensus" is like believing in creationism. Here is a story with some fairly recent examples of how the then concensus turned out to be bs.
You mean you ignore further pledges of transparency because of past failures or because, as I do, that he appears never to have intended upon honoring those pledges at all in the first place?
We are dealing with Chicago politicians here (Obama, Emanuel). WTF did you people expect?
a) rendering speed was generally very good
b) while I did not have issues of 'crashing', I did have issues
with seemingly random pegging of the cpu.
c) start up time to restore multiple open tabs was unpredictable -
sometimes very quick other times never finished (a named tag but blank page)
d) most, if not all, extensions no longer work and the usual workarounds
seemed to stop working too. this was #*! annoying.
Based primarily on (d) and also (b), I stopped using 3.7a5 about two weeks ago
reverted back to 3.6. While I do have my extensions back, I noticed that 3.6
has developed the (b) problem too. Ultimately this will result in my moving
to Opera or Chrome - I'm just sick of browser lock up. And while memory use
had looked to have improved going into the 3.6 series, it seems to have gone
downhill again - no so much a memory leak but general piggyness (hence Firepig).
I've used Mozilla based browsers since day one, ie, Netscrape. Firefox I think
has lost the way again. Simplicity and speed should always be priority #1. Real
world usage of Firefox shows that not to be the case any more, or if it is, not
done well.
If this were not a frightening abuse of liberty it would actually be hilariously funny as it is coming from the most left wingEEEEE progressive democratic administration this country has seen.
How is this any different than a cop or FBI agent showing up at a meeting of some group and pretending to be a member or just standing quietly in the corner listening to everything that is said with no court order allowing it?
while it would be great if every book were available online in some form, I think there are still going to be issues in using the material. Beyond the failure to really have an equivalent sized page and resolution as a standard non-fiction text, I would be interested to see a study on the ability to skim material quickly as I am not sure skimming a pdf/epub of a book allows one to pick out the important bits as well as using a hard copy. Perhaps it is just me, but the temptation to press page down after reading one or two lines at the *top* of the page is great, especially 10 or more pages into a document. With a book I tend to hit the start of each paragraph quickly before flipping a page.
I learned BASIC and FORTRAN from books while in jr. high and then finally got to apply this on a time sharing system (yeah I'm old) a few years later. You don't need the internet to learn assembly or any other language.
That a small minority could benefit from the availability of a pc is no doubt true - and schools are more than able to handle those needs. This though does not condone the forcing down every child and parents throat the mantra that little johnny will be a burger flipper if you don't get him a pc with high speed internet.
I think a lot of people when they take notes in non-technical classes try to write down too much and hence get into an issue like the one you have had. Sometimes it is far better to just write down trigger words or short summary phrases because, as you say, if you pay attention you can generally recall most of the important stuff. Trying to copy verbatim usually isn't a good idea.
Ive completed far more than organic chem at the 300 level having been a double major undergrad (one in a science) and have an MS in a field with lots of equations. So you can leave your organic chem at the door.
I have some fairly thick notebooks and never had an issue finding a lecture or a topic in more than a few seconds - in total far less time than it would take to scan and verify any electronic notes. As to using a laptop in the first place - maybe in a social science or similar where the notes are virtually all text with no diagrams or funky equations.
1) laptops are now cost competitive with any desktop pc 2) laptops are, in general, performance competive w/ deskops for most tasks 3) almost everyone has a pc/desktop available to them at work 4) a large percentage of work pc's have outside internet access. 5) 3+4 above allow people to do much of what they used to do at home on their own deskop on the corporate dime 6) 5 above combined with attributes of 1 and 2 and portability make it more likely a home user will chose a laptop for their remaining needs.
Even so, there will always be a group who are not willing to accept the ergonomic and possible performance downsides of the laptop
The child can get access to a computer when it is needed by going to the public library or most likely the school library. Anyone over the age of..35? should remember going to the library to take notes or get source material for a project. I don't think many kids have been to one lately as they are more than happy to cut/paste without any question of the source.
PC's and internet access teach NOTHING. Zero. And any material relevant to elementary/highschool education is readily available in print for free. If anything, PC/internet is more like the effect of electronic calculators on the ability to basic math by hand or in ones head. They are a crutch and perfect for our ADD world where reading more than a paragraph is considered torture.
Yes sure, people *really* organize those notes afterward.. like putting them in a folder called eco101? I had a notebook called eco101 too.. shockingly I was always able to later find my notes from that class without any problem.
I believe CDF said they did not see this CP violation and its quite possible that the D0 result will no longer be significant as statistics are increased.
That as opposed to the 95% of Dems who think Bush was not legit in 2000 or 2004? Lets be honest. Democrats are just as scummy as Republicans. The two party system is an endless cesspool of partisan hosers.
As noted on the foreign policy blog this morning, this is very old (as in years) news. In addition, there is no consideration to the cost to actually extract the minerals and ores.
be it *BSD, solaris or linux. You can then virtualize the XP or more likely Win7 installation (or one of the other *nixes - no need to lock yourself in). Of the many responses, only a handful try to answer what you ask - what is used in university and industry labs. As is to be expected, there is a variation - some fields rely on applications written for the windows platform, others on a unix environment and many will have both available. This is why a virtulization environment is probably best for your situation and yes, it could be standardized to avoid too much additional headache for your IT guys.
To the commenters saying junior/senior hs students are 4-8 years away from real work and that things will/could change dramatically, that is BS. Most scientific software goes through a long life cycle because labs are not in a position to endlessly buy new (as opposed to patched) software. Also, many libraries which are used in coding are very long lived as once proven to be efficient and vetted for accuracy nobody wants to waste time and energy changing for changes sake. Engineering students are almost immediately exposed to the lab environment and science students if not right away, will be doing more advanced lab work by junior year. I would also point out that XP has lasted 10 years and that Win7 is not *that* different from XP. The various *nixes are, for all intents, what they were in the late 80s with incremental improvements under the hood to the kernel and Xserver.
exactly who are these 'masses of computer noobs' you speak of? Granny? Gramps? Cause anyone under the age of about 50 has a pretty good clue of how to use a pc (of some kind) and the younger you get the more at ease they are. so guess they should have called it iDepends for that clueless generation.
supports the estimates closer to 1 million barrels per day erupting from this hole BP popped in the ocean floor that contains trillions of barrels of oil and natural gas.
Anyone who starts an article out with a misstatement like that is immediately deemd not credible. If there were "trillions" of bbls of oil at that well (or even in the gulf of Mexico) we would never need to import a drop again and in fact would be the largest holder of oil in the world. S. Arabia has 270 billion bbl proven reserves.
well.. and there was at least one poster too I think the same thing for tablets, including the iPaidalot. Niche product, limited uses. And in Apples, case, over priced too. The cool/wow factor will last a little while but once that group moves on, back to earth. I'd venture iPad benefits too from the perception of an improving economy as pent up gadget demand is released by those who have a little dough or credit line available.
NIF, a program of the U.S. Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), will focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms' nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction.Achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory is at the heart of the directorates three complementary missions:
* Helping ensure the nations security without nuclear weapons testing (see National Security)
* Blazing the path to a safe, virtually unlimited, carbon-free energy future (see Energy for the Future)
* Achieving breakthroughs in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, materials science, the use of lasers in medicine, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment, particle physics and X-ray and neutron science
NIF is primarily a NNSA mission. The 'fusion power' is a toss in to buy support from the liberals in congress and is not the primary focus and frankly the way NIF is set up it doesn't lend itself well to commercial fusion power. Bullet #1 and #3 are the real missions.
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'If we had a deterrent, a bigger stick to fine malefactors, that would be helpful,' says FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz,
So what are these cases where your bigger stick (schwartz?) would have been helpful? What would have turned out better? This is nothing but a power grab.
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No, blindly believing in the "scientific concensus" is like believing in creationism. Here is a story with some fairly recent examples of how the then concensus turned out to be bs.
You mean you ignore further pledges of transparency because of past failures or because, as I do, that he appears never to have intended upon honoring those pledges at all in the first place?
We are dealing with Chicago politicians here (Obama, Emanuel). WTF did you people expect?
I can offer these comments:
a) rendering speed was generally very good
b) while I did not have issues of 'crashing', I did have issues with seemingly random pegging of the cpu.
c) start up time to restore multiple open tabs was unpredictable - sometimes very quick other times never finished (a named tag but blank page)
d) most, if not all, extensions no longer work and the usual workarounds seemed to stop working too. this was #*! annoying.
Based primarily on (d) and also (b), I stopped using 3.7a5 about two weeks ago reverted back to 3.6. While I do have my extensions back, I noticed that 3.6 has developed the (b) problem too. Ultimately this will result in my moving to Opera or Chrome - I'm just sick of browser lock up. And while memory use had looked to have improved going into the 3.6 series, it seems to have gone downhill again - no so much a memory leak but general piggyness (hence Firepig).
I've used Mozilla based browsers since day one, ie, Netscrape. Firefox I think has lost the way again. Simplicity and speed should always be priority #1. Real world usage of Firefox shows that not to be the case any more, or if it is, not done well.
What is three football fields long by three wide and 10 yards tall?
A: The gulf oil spill
That should put it in terms any American can understand.
If this were not a frightening abuse of liberty it would actually be hilariously funny as it is coming from the most left wingEEEEE progressive democratic administration this country has seen.
How is this any different than a cop or FBI agent showing up at a meeting of some group and pretending to be a member or just standing quietly in the corner listening to everything that is said with no court order allowing it?
while it would be great if every book were available online in some form, I think there are still going to be issues in using the material. Beyond the failure to really have an equivalent sized page and resolution as a standard non-fiction text, I would be interested to see a study on the ability to skim material quickly as I am not sure skimming a pdf/epub of a book allows one to pick out the important bits as well as using a hard copy. Perhaps it is just me, but the temptation to press page down after reading one or two lines at the *top* of the page is great, especially 10 or more pages into a document. With a book I tend to hit the start of each paragraph quickly before flipping a page.
I learned BASIC and FORTRAN from books while in jr. high and then finally got to apply this on a time sharing system (yeah I'm old) a few years later. You don't need the internet to learn assembly or any other language.
That a small minority could benefit from the availability of a pc is no doubt true - and schools are more than able to handle those needs. This though does not condone the forcing down every child and parents throat the mantra that little johnny will be a burger flipper if you don't get him a pc with high speed internet.
I think a lot of people when they take notes in non-technical classes try to write down too much and hence get into an issue like the one you have had. Sometimes it is far better to just write down trigger words or short summary phrases because, as you say, if you pay attention you can generally recall most of the important stuff. Trying to copy verbatim usually isn't a good idea.
Ive completed far more than organic chem at the 300 level having been a double major undergrad (one in a science) and have an MS in a field with lots of equations. So you can leave your organic chem at the door.
I have some fairly thick notebooks and never had an issue finding a lecture or a topic in more than a few seconds - in total far less time than it would take to scan and verify any electronic notes. As to using a laptop in the first place - maybe in a social science or similar where the notes are virtually all text with no diagrams or funky equations.
I think this can be boiled down to a few points -
1) laptops are now cost competitive with any desktop pc
2) laptops are, in general, performance competive w/ deskops for most tasks
3) almost everyone has a pc/desktop available to them at work
4) a large percentage of work pc's have outside internet access.
5) 3+4 above allow people to do much of what they used to do at home on their own deskop on the corporate dime
6) 5 above combined with attributes of 1 and 2 and portability make it more likely a home user will chose a laptop for their remaining needs.
Even so, there will always be a group who are not willing to accept the ergonomic and possible performance downsides of the laptop
The child can get access to a computer when it is needed by going to the public library or most likely the school library. Anyone over the age of..35? should remember going to the library to take notes or get source material for a project. I don't think many kids have been to one lately as they are more than happy to cut/paste without any question of the source.
PC's and internet access teach NOTHING. Zero. And any material relevant to elementary/highschool education is readily available in print for free. If anything, PC/internet is more like the effect of electronic calculators on the ability to basic math by hand or in ones head. They are a crutch and perfect for our ADD world where reading more than a paragraph is considered torture.
Yes sure, people *really* organize those notes afterward.. like putting them in a folder called eco101? I had a notebook called eco101 too.. shockingly I was always able to later find my notes from that class without any problem.
Why do you think the US is the only country which practices extraordinary rendition?
I believe CDF said they did not see this CP violation and its quite possible that the D0 result will no longer be significant as statistics are increased.
That as opposed to the 95% of Dems who think Bush was not legit in 2000 or 2004? Lets be honest. Democrats are just as scummy as Republicans. The two party system is an endless cesspool of partisan hosers.
As noted on the foreign policy blog this morning, this is very old (as in years) news. In addition, there is no consideration to the cost to actually extract the minerals and ores.
fp story here
way to cave face book. please move your hq to islamabad.
be it *BSD, solaris or linux. You can then virtualize the XP or more likely Win7 installation (or one of the other *nixes - no need to lock yourself in). Of the many responses, only a handful try to answer what you ask - what is used in university and industry labs. As is to be expected, there is a variation - some fields rely on applications written for the windows platform, others on a unix environment and many will have both available. This is why a virtulization environment is probably best for your situation and yes, it could be standardized to avoid too much additional headache for your IT guys.
To the commenters saying junior/senior hs students are 4-8 years away from real work and that things will/could change dramatically, that is BS. Most scientific software goes through a long life cycle because labs are not in a position to endlessly buy new (as opposed to patched) software. Also, many libraries which are used in coding are very long lived as once proven to be efficient and vetted for accuracy nobody wants to waste time and energy changing for changes sake. Engineering students are almost immediately exposed to the lab environment and science students if not right away, will be doing more advanced lab work by junior year. I would also point out that XP has lasted 10 years and that Win7 is not *that* different from XP. The various *nixes are, for all intents, what they were in the late 80s with incremental improvements under the hood to the kernel and Xserver.
exactly who are these 'masses of computer noobs' you speak of? Granny? Gramps? Cause anyone under the age of about 50 has a pretty good clue of how to use a pc (of some kind) and the younger you get the more at ease they are. so guess they should have called it iDepends for that clueless generation.
supports the estimates closer to 1 million barrels per day erupting from this hole BP popped in the ocean floor that contains trillions of barrels of oil and natural gas.
Anyone who starts an article out with a misstatement like that is immediately deemd not credible. If there were "trillions" of bbls of oil at that well (or even in the gulf of Mexico) we would never need to import a drop again and in fact would be the largest holder of oil in the world. S. Arabia has 270 billion bbl proven reserves.
well.. and there was at least one poster too
I think the same thing for tablets, including the iPaidalot. Niche product, limited uses. And in Apples, case, over priced too. The cool/wow factor will last a little while but once that group moves on, back to earth. I'd venture iPad benefits too from the perception of an improving economy as pent up gadget demand is released by those who have a little dough or credit line available.
Let me simplify this for you:
Adobe/Flash = conservative republicans, possibly neocons
Apple/iSteve = liberal progressives, possibly authoritative/fascists
NIF's mission:
NIF, a program of the U.S. Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), will focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms' nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction.Achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory is at the heart of the directorates three complementary missions:
* Helping ensure the nations security without nuclear weapons testing (see National Security)
* Blazing the path to a safe, virtually unlimited, carbon-free energy future (see Energy for the Future)
* Achieving breakthroughs in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, materials science, the use of lasers in medicine, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment, particle physics and X-ray and neutron science
NIF is primarily a NNSA mission. The 'fusion power' is a toss in to buy support from the liberals in congress and is not the primary focus and frankly the way NIF is set up it doesn't lend itself well to commercial fusion power. Bullet #1 and #3 are the real missions.
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'If we had a deterrent, a bigger stick to fine malefactors, that would be helpful,' says FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz,
So what are these cases where your bigger stick (schwartz?) would have been helpful? What would have turned out better? This is nothing but a power grab.