I don't thing Hemmingway ever wrote a run-on sentence.
Graders don't miss shitty grammar. They are forgiving if the student writes anything remotely interesting. That's all. They are bored by the drek that students try to pass of as thought and will go out of their way to reward something entertaining.
It is also inside current guidelines at my institution to overlook poor grammar in favor of original thought. Actually, I think it comes down from the district headquarters.
Moderation on/. just means that people don't like what you said and has nothing whatsoever to do with fact unless it is about networking.:-))
Looks a lot like what teachers have to read right now. If it trashes your program, what does reading it do to your average english teacher? Oh yeah, that must be why they twitch and bleed out of their ears.
The size of the school isn't the issue. It is the student/teacher ratio. I have no idea if anybody really understands how it happened. Huge loads are just reality in many of the biggest districts in the nation. I suggest you just ask an English teacher about his/her circumstances.
Everybody has a pet theory. The stats don't mean anything unless you know the population and reason for collection. For instance, lots of foreign countries have high math and science score averages. They also cull low performing students. (Bang!) I wouldn't be surprised to hear anything quoted.
Anyway, block scheduling helps a lot, but the math departments hate it like the plague and vote against adoption. My school had to hit rock bottom before it changed. Also, don't forget that the four period day has to fit a whole year of work into half a year, so students should write twice as much if the class is 90 min.
BTW, I met two foreign language teachers last week who had seven classes each. This happened because other elective teachers had been canned in fovor of more english and reading "units." So if things get better in one place, they suffer in another.;-)
A typical middle or high school english teacher has six classes a day, each having over forty students. If the students have to learn to write, each of them should write a couple of pages of prose a week and some poor sod has to read it. The more they write, the better they get at writing, so it is generally a good idea, but really hard work to read it all.
There will generally be two papers in each class that are remotely readable. The rest will be a LOT OF WORK to grade. If a bot could do some of the work, it would be welcome.
Late at night your eyeballs feel like they're on fire and you are convinced that the entire system should be put out of its misery. The thought that a student actually has an IDEA seems fantastic.
PLEASE don't be a troll and tell me that YOUR teacher never appreciated your ideas.
Every year a couple of my elderly clients used to kill people with their cars just because they felt that they were entitled to drive. When it was a young person that was killed, it was particularly disturbing. But what the hell, that's what I got paid for, right? One of the old farts killed a pregnant girl a few years back. Another hit the side of a van and skidded it into another van sidewise. Unfortunately there was a lady in a wheelchair between them! Those are memorable examples. This stuff never hits the news unless tons of people get squished as in the greenmarket in Ca this summer.
Using the Segway would promote better balance and they wouldn't fall down all the time either. How did you like my Troll-like sub? Gotcha!
South Florida, where the incontinent meet the illiterate.
You guys are way too hung up on delicate ecosystems. The footpaths in our National Park system ALREADY look like they're used by dump trucks. Arches is an exception. (HA HA that's a joke for those of you who haven't been there.) I'm not saying they deserve to be abused, just that the system should be closed down if you are concerned about damage. Lots of it is years past the point of no return, like the perimeter of the Everglades where phosphate pollution has made cleanup a Sysyphus-like labor. (never able to be accomplished as in FUBAR)
The segway is nowhere near like a bicycle. It is more like a runner as far as impact goes. The primary market is going to be in countries with cities where foot traffic and bikes are the primary way of getting around and cars are for wealthy people. I really don't think it is going to be used in National Parks in the US by hordes of fat people. Also, please remember that you are the fat, lazy, rich people of tomorrow. (Another joke for the knee-jerk crowd.) Now let's get out there and let some mink loose in a department store!
Who knows why they decided to go up a mountain. It is not the machine's fault!
The Segway allows travel at an intermediate rate - between walking and biking. As to the path issue, there is no rational reason that it couldn't re allowed on foot paths.
It is intended for places where rigid infrastructure doesn't exist. Unfortunately, the US is too rigid by far as the posts amply denonstrate. However I was referring to the road/sidewalk system.;-)
The shell crash may not be an upgrade issue. A reinstall cured it for me. The second time, I didn't install developer's package and used Apple's X11 and it's still going strong. Or it could have been Fink's way of doing things. I didn't think it had happened to anybody else.
Too bad you got the anal retentive support department. There is a lot of that going around.
You're right about the privacy issue. However those conversations are rare (once a year per person?) and can take place in one of those areas reserved for this sort of thing or in the office of a person who needs to be isolated for some reason. Maybe I should have defined open office "my way." I would detest a 40 person area too, whether it has cubbies or is open. 15 or 20 may be the limit, I'm not sure. Open offices shouldn't be huge, a group that has similar aims is what is important. You can have several loosely linked if you have a large operation. It is a learning issue. Lots of our tactical (?) informaiton is so short lived that efficient use means that it has to be used as quickly as possible. If a person lives in cubeville, he has to have a meeting or write it up. If the group that meets can work in an open format, the person who learns can commmunicate it with a story then and there. It is easier to talk than type.;-) The point is that the group is constantly communicating and learning from it. I'll grant that it is hard to mediate, but it is worth it. My office (>10 years worth of experience) rated among the highest performing ten percent in the nation according to an industry research monitor. I'll grant that whether or not I love it is irrelevant to you. But where you work and who you work with are part of the job. You can respect someone you don't like, of course and be able to work with him, but it won't be fun. After a while, there is no reason to put up with people you really don't like.
The lunch issue is just more of the same. Nobody should force people to eat together, just provide for a civilized enviornment.
I really didn't intend to be troll-like. I just don't believe that I should have to agree with a bunch of unhappy people who are bent on a self-destructive path. Cmdr Taco, can I be a happy Troll?
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Just shoot 'em. They are the whiners. People have done something about it. We call it a law.
The point is that there is no alternative. Smoking is bad for everybody. Why put up with it? It's not that everybody can be replaced either. Self-destructive behavior is just bad.
Sorry - off topic.
Nobody really uses Word do they? It isn't a professional application for layout or printing or documentation or XML or SGML or for God's sake anything!
Framemaker. Or something that will handle the tasks above without lots of facilitation from a professional printer. I hate stripping out MS garbage, dare I call it a visible cruft-like substance?
I hate private offices, I hate cubes. I LOVE an open office. The office is for work. - period! So you don't have decor other than small desk pics of the family. Have facilities for privacy - meeting rooms, planning areas, large desks and boards - but in other places. Everybody doesn't use them all the time, so you can share. Get a place to eat where everybody can sit together. Close for lunch, take no calls. NO speakerphones. No personal music. No food at all around desks. Don't hire smokers, they waste too much time and cost too much to take care of. Spend money on child care instead. If you can't say it sitting next to me, you don't need to say it at work. You will continue to work, learn, and be more productive by communicating directly. Feedback will be imediate and people will not have a chance to bitch in private. You won't make phone calls to people five feet away. If you can't be happy working in close proximity to people who should be your friends, you should seriously consider suicide. People who push using impersonal and isolating enviornments should be euthanized. Software can facilitate isolation if used with craft and guile so don't demand that everyone use the office calendaring system for all interpersonal communications. Don't worry, you won't miss a meeting. It just won't happen. By all means, don't insist that everyone have creative ideas at appropriate times and places.
It would be like going to a foreign country for most people under 40 or so. You find out that people actually live there. Oh yeah. NEVER spend less than two to three hunderd dollars on a chair. Spend lots of money on a good cleaning staff and good food. Get some decent art. Make sure everybody wears nice fitting clothes if you have to buy them with the money everybody saved on kitch and those gobo-like little wall thingies. If the boss sets himself apart in an ostentatious way, quit fast. A little is OK. Gold bathroom fixtures are a give-away as is a conference room from a movie set.
Spamhaus.org is a nice convenience to have, much like a toilet. It should have police powers. Imagine, if you will, what fun it would be. An automated policeman much like Orin Hatch imagined, but for spammers, and VERY mobile, agile, and hostile.
Yes, they are dangerous, but so are a lot of other ree-taards. Somebody has to live next door to them.
There is no latin word virus so suppostition is fruitless. If it WERE a word like vir/viri - ie man/men it WOULD make sense. There is a lot of pseudo-intellectual crap floating about that examines the possibilities of which declension it belongs to. Romans were nothing if not practical. Neuter referred to something sexless. If they were able to sex it, they would have made it either masc. or fem. and since they are such virile little buggers, they would have been viewed as masc. This, like the mentioned crapola above is just supposition and there is NO reason to carp about it. I took three or maybe four years of Latin in the early sixties. The language doesn't come back, but the supremely practical political and wonderful lyric memories stay with me.
Here is a snip from IBM- There are signigficant differences in the design cycle of this series. Here is the link to the full page BUT the snip contains reference to the thread.
The page is VERY long and this is near the bottom so I stole it outright for reading convience . . . really!
-quoth IBM- the MCM technology provides us with the most dense configuration of chips in a two-dimensional arrangement, which facilitates refrigerated cooling. In fact, the GEMI MCM is the key contributor to a low-cost refrigeration apparatus that can enhance the performance of the system by more than 10%. In this refrigerated operation we have shown that the GEMI MCM can support 300-MHz synchronous interconnections of significant bandwidth. However, as was pointed out previously in this paper, this frequency limitation is affected by the delay of the electronic circuits associated with the interconnections. As CMOS technology advances, glass-ceramic MCMs with thin film should be able to support even higher interconnect frequencies -unquoth IBM-;-)
totally true, totally utterly true (see Taj Mahal, see Crystal Tower . . ..) I suggested that Heroic Statues of School Board members be placed along the sides of the entrance to one really large headquarters building. You know, Egyptian style. 50 feet tall and granite, not marble or bronze so they would last till the sun burns out. You could see hearts beat faster, eyes glaze over, drool appearing at the corners of the mouth, skin flushed with orgasmic excitement.
I work in the fifth largest district in the US. The second largest accredited district. At the top are IBM AS400 machines keeping the data. Under that there is a mixed enviornment. The so-called network has a silly bunch of MS boxes groaning under the email load and running in circles trying to keep up with the traffic. Thank BOB for Cisco. Let me hear it! Points: (1) There is really no motivation to save money. Box cost is irrelevant. (2) During the bidding, undercuts do occur to contradict this statement. (see number 6 for service contract ad ex) (3) Most students are being taught applications because most educators are without *clue* (4) Teaching people the right things will always be like swimming against the tide. (5) Users can and will use anything that gets the job done. (6) My lab was set up last week with 25 already obsolete G4 machines by a vendor who installed OS X 1.1 (Am I pissed?) (7) I've been using OS X for two years and the official support from downtown is non-existant. Thank BOB my support people are simply wonderful and let me do what I want. (8) The people downtown still hire Pascal programmers. (9) School districts are 80% elementary, 15% middle, and 5% high school. Don't forget the guys at the Taj Mahal downtown. Oops, that's the county to the North. Ours live in the Crystal Tower. So how are decisions made you ask, given that distribution of personnel? School districts are as varied as any other business. Mine consists of hundreds of individual schools. Some have just a few. There is a group in North Florida that pool their IT needs. Some can and should be broken up under anti-monopoly laws. *coughnameyourfavoritecough*
Conclusion?? sadly, none. Obviously the population of the world will do what it is told to a degree. Then it will get irritated and shrug off whatever is bothering it. It is a huge mindless beast confronted by the other huge mindless beast of Education.
Enterprising companies will make money off foolish behavior. Wonderful smart and loving people will try to prepare the latest crop of geeks for eventual geekdom. They are such unruly little buggers. Should we keep them in the same classes with the rest of humanity?
Can I offend anyone else? Please email me with suggestions.
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I don't thing Hemmingway ever wrote a run-on sentence.
/. just means that people don't like what you said and has nothing whatsoever to do with fact unless it is about networking. :-))
Graders don't miss shitty grammar. They are forgiving if the student writes anything remotely interesting. That's all. They are bored by the drek that students try to pass of as thought and will go out of their way to reward something entertaining.
It is also inside current guidelines at my institution to overlook poor grammar in favor of original thought. Actually, I think it comes down from the district headquarters.
Moderation on
Yes, please. I want one as soon as possible.
Looks a lot like what teachers have to read right now. If it trashes your program, what does reading it do to your average english teacher? Oh yeah, that must be why they twitch and bleed out of their ears.
The size of the school isn't the issue. It is the student/teacher ratio. I have no idea if anybody really understands how it happened. Huge loads are just reality in many of the biggest districts in the nation. I suggest you just ask an English teacher about his/her circumstances.
;-)
Everybody has a pet theory. The stats don't mean anything unless you know the population and reason for collection. For instance, lots of foreign countries have high math and science score averages. They also cull low performing students. (Bang!) I wouldn't be surprised to hear anything quoted.
Anyway, block scheduling helps a lot, but the math departments hate it like the plague and vote against adoption. My school had to hit rock bottom before it changed. Also, don't forget that the four period day has to fit a whole year of work into half a year, so students should write twice as much if the class is 90 min.
BTW, I met two foreign language teachers last week who had seven classes each. This happened because other elective teachers had been canned in fovor of more english and reading "units." So if things get better in one place, they suffer in another.
A typical middle or high school english teacher has six classes a day, each having over forty students. If the students have to learn to write, each of them should write a couple of pages of prose a week and some poor sod has to read it. The more they write, the better they get at writing, so it is generally a good idea, but really hard work to read it all.
There will generally be two papers in each class that are remotely readable. The rest will be a LOT OF WORK to grade. If a bot could do some of the work, it would be welcome.
Late at night your eyeballs feel like they're on fire and you are convinced that the entire system should be put out of its misery. The thought that a student actually has an IDEA seems fantastic.
PLEASE don't be a troll and tell me that YOUR teacher never appreciated your ideas.
Thank God somebody has some sense here.
Don't you think that 'rational' should be a mod comment?
Every year a couple of my elderly clients used to kill people with their cars just because they felt that they were entitled to drive. When it was a young person that was killed, it was particularly disturbing. But what the hell, that's what I got paid for, right? One of the old farts killed a pregnant girl a few years back. Another hit the side of a van and skidded it into another van sidewise. Unfortunately there was a lady in a wheelchair between them! Those are memorable examples. This stuff never hits the news unless tons of people get squished as in the greenmarket in Ca this summer.
Using the Segway would promote better balance and they wouldn't fall down all the time either. How did you like my Troll-like sub? Gotcha!
South Florida, where the incontinent meet the illiterate.
You guys are way too hung up on delicate ecosystems. The footpaths in our National Park system ALREADY look like they're used by dump trucks. Arches is an exception. (HA HA that's a joke for those of you who haven't been there.)
I'm not saying they deserve to be abused, just that the system should be closed down if you are concerned about damage. Lots of it is years past the point of no return, like the perimeter of the Everglades where phosphate pollution has made cleanup a Sysyphus-like labor. (never able to be accomplished as in FUBAR)
The segway is nowhere near like a bicycle. It is more like a runner as far as impact goes. The primary market is going to be in countries with cities where foot traffic and bikes are the primary way of getting around and cars are for wealthy people. I really don't think it is going to be used in National Parks in the US by hordes of fat people. Also, please remember that you are the fat, lazy, rich people of tomorrow. (Another joke for the knee-jerk crowd.) Now let's get out there and let some mink loose in a department store!
Who knows why they decided to go up a mountain. It is not the machine's fault!
;-)
The Segway allows travel at an intermediate rate - between walking and biking. As to the path issue, there is no rational reason that it couldn't re allowed on foot paths.
It is intended for places where rigid infrastructure doesn't exist. Unfortunately, the US is too rigid by far as the posts amply denonstrate. However I was referring to the road/sidewalk system.
The shell crash may not be an upgrade issue. A reinstall cured it for me. The second time, I didn't install developer's package and used Apple's X11 and it's still going strong. Or it could have been Fink's way of doing things. I didn't think it had happened to anybody else.
Too bad you got the anal retentive support department. There is a lot of that going around.
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You're right about the privacy issue. However those conversations are rare (once a year per person?) and can take place in one of those areas reserved for this sort of thing or in the office of a person who needs to be isolated for some reason. ;-)
Maybe I should have defined open office "my way." I would detest a 40 person area too, whether it has cubbies or is open. 15 or 20 may be the limit, I'm not sure.
Open offices shouldn't be huge, a group that has similar aims is what is important. You can have several loosely linked if you have a large operation. It is a learning issue. Lots of our tactical (?) informaiton is so short lived that efficient use means that it has to be used as quickly as possible. If a person lives in cubeville, he has to have a meeting or write it up. If the group that meets can work in an open format, the person who learns can commmunicate it with a story then and there. It is easier to talk than type.
The point is that the group is constantly communicating and learning from it. I'll grant that it is hard to mediate, but it is worth it. My office (>10 years worth of experience) rated among the highest performing ten percent in the nation according to an industry research monitor.
I'll grant that whether or not I love it is irrelevant to you. But where you work and who you work with are part of the job. You can respect someone you don't like, of course and be able to work with him, but it won't be fun. After a while, there is no reason to put up with people you really don't like.
The lunch issue is just more of the same. Nobody should force people to eat together, just provide for a civilized enviornment.
I really didn't intend to be troll-like. I just don't believe that I should have to agree with a bunch of unhappy people who are bent on a self-destructive path. Cmdr Taco, can I be a happy Troll?
Just shoot 'em. They are the whiners. People have done something about it. We call it a law. The point is that there is no alternative. Smoking is bad for everybody. Why put up with it? It's not that everybody can be replaced either. Self-destructive behavior is just bad. Sorry - off topic.
What I use it for is my own business, JUST like a toilet-like device.
Nobody tells people how to use it.
Nobody can deny that, eh?
I wish they would sell Upper Canada here but it is natural.
Nobody really uses Word do they? It isn't a professional application for layout or printing or documentation or XML or SGML or for God's sake anything!
Framemaker.
Or something that will handle the tasks above without lots of facilitation from a professional printer. I hate stripping out MS garbage, dare I call it a visible cruft-like substance?
I hate private offices, I hate cubes. I LOVE an open office.
The office is for work. - period! So you don't have decor other than small desk pics of the family.
Have facilities for privacy - meeting rooms, planning areas, large desks and boards - but in other places. Everybody doesn't use them all the time, so you can share.
Get a place to eat where everybody can sit together. Close for lunch, take no calls.
NO speakerphones.
No personal music.
No food at all around desks.
Don't hire smokers, they waste too much time and cost too much to take care of. Spend money on child care instead.
If you can't say it sitting next to me, you don't need to say it at work.
You will continue to work, learn, and be more productive by communicating directly. Feedback will be imediate and people will not have a chance to bitch in private. You won't make phone calls to people five feet away.
If you can't be happy working in close proximity to people who should be your friends, you should seriously consider suicide. People who push using impersonal and isolating enviornments should be euthanized. Software can facilitate isolation if used with craft and guile so don't demand that everyone use the office calendaring system for all interpersonal communications. Don't worry, you won't miss a meeting. It just won't happen.
By all means, don't insist that everyone have creative ideas at appropriate times and places.
It would be like going to a foreign country for most people under 40 or so. You find out that people actually live there.
Oh yeah. NEVER spend less than two to three hunderd dollars on a chair. Spend lots of money on a good cleaning staff and good food. Get some decent art. Make sure everybody wears nice fitting clothes if you have to buy them with the money everybody saved on kitch and those gobo-like little wall thingies.
If the boss sets himself apart in an ostentatious way, quit fast. A little is OK. Gold bathroom fixtures are a give-away as is a conference room from a movie set.
Get a braile printer and print books for the blind off of iblio.
OOOOOOOOOOH! Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!
Spamhaus.org is a nice convenience to have, much like a toilet. It should have police powers. Imagine, if you will, what fun it would be. An automated policeman much like Orin Hatch imagined, but for spammers, and VERY mobile, agile, and hostile.
Yes, they are dangerous, but so are a lot of other ree-taards. Somebody has to live next door to them.
Slashdot is NOT journalism. Do you see any famous NDs striding about? ;-)
There is no latin word virus so suppostition is fruitless. If it WERE a word like vir/viri - ie man/men it WOULD make sense. There is a lot of pseudo-intellectual crap floating about that examines the possibilities of which declension it belongs to. Romans were nothing if not practical. Neuter referred to something sexless. If they were able to sex it, they would have made it either masc. or fem. and since they are such virile little buggers, they would have been viewed as masc. This, like the mentioned crapola above is just supposition and there is NO reason to carp about it. I took three or maybe four years of Latin in the early sixties. The language doesn't come back, but the supremely practical political and wonderful lyric memories stay with me.
We prefer armpit.
Posted from a location close enough to Boca Raton to smell it.
Here is a snip from IBM- There are signigficant differences in the design cycle of this series. Here is the link to the full page BUT the snip contains reference to the thread.
p is .html
;-)
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/435/kato
The page is VERY long and this is near the bottom so I stole it outright for reading convience . . . really!
-quoth IBM-
the MCM technology provides us with the most dense configuration of chips in a two-dimensional arrangement, which facilitates refrigerated cooling. In fact, the GEMI MCM is the key contributor to a low-cost refrigeration apparatus that can enhance the performance of the system by more than 10%. In this refrigerated operation we have shown that the GEMI MCM can support 300-MHz synchronous interconnections of significant bandwidth. However, as was pointed out previously in this paper, this frequency limitation is affected by the delay of the electronic circuits associated with the interconnections. As CMOS technology advances, glass-ceramic MCMs with thin film should be able to support even higher interconnect frequencies
-unquoth IBM-
totally true, totally utterly true .)
(see Taj Mahal, see Crystal Tower . . .
I suggested that Heroic Statues of School Board members be placed along the sides of the entrance to one really large headquarters building. You know, Egyptian style. 50 feet tall and granite, not marble or bronze so they would last till the sun burns out. You could see hearts beat faster, eyes glaze over, drool appearing at the corners of the mouth, skin flushed with orgasmic excitement.
I work in the fifth largest district in the US. The second largest accredited district. At the top are IBM AS400 machines keeping the data. Under that there is a mixed enviornment. The so-called network has a silly bunch of MS boxes groaning under the email load and running in circles trying to keep up with the traffic. Thank BOB for Cisco. Let me hear it!
Points:
(1) There is really no motivation to save money. Box cost is irrelevant.
(2) During the bidding, undercuts do occur to contradict this statement. (see number 6 for service contract ad ex)
(3) Most students are being taught applications because most educators are without *clue*
(4) Teaching people the right things will always be like swimming against the tide.
(5) Users can and will use anything that gets the job done.
(6) My lab was set up last week with 25 already obsolete G4 machines by a vendor who installed OS X 1.1 (Am I pissed?)
(7) I've been using OS X for two years and the official support from downtown is non-existant. Thank BOB my support people are simply wonderful and let me do what I want.
(8) The people downtown still hire Pascal programmers.
(9) School districts are 80% elementary, 15% middle, and 5% high school. Don't forget the guys at the Taj Mahal downtown. Oops, that's the county to the North. Ours live in the Crystal Tower. So how are decisions made you ask, given that distribution of personnel? School districts are as varied as any other business. Mine consists of hundreds of individual schools. Some have just a few. There is a group in North Florida that pool their IT needs. Some can and should be broken up under anti-monopoly laws. *coughnameyourfavoritecough*
Conclusion?? sadly, none. Obviously the population of the world will do what it is told to a degree. Then it will get irritated and shrug off whatever is bothering it. It is a huge mindless beast confronted by the other huge mindless beast of Education.
Enterprising companies will make money off foolish behavior. Wonderful smart and loving people will try to prepare the latest crop of geeks for eventual geekdom. They are such unruly little buggers. Should we keep them in the same classes with the rest of humanity?
Can I offend anyone else? Please email me with suggestions.
NPR afternoon talk Fresh Air (I think) ran an interview with a participant way over a month ago. They had just done the rug thing.