Presumably the Thai education ministry studied the problem and came to the conclusion that these tablets would be worth buying. Maybe you really are that much smarter than the Thai education ministry... or, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to make a snap judgement.
For starters, read this:
BANGKOK (AFP) — High school test results in Thailand have revealed a failure rate of more than 80 percent in mathematics, biology and computer studies — among the teachers.
The failure rates for teachers who took exams in their own subjects were about 88 percent for computer studies, 84 percent for mathematics, 86 percent in biology and 71 percent in physics, the education ministry said.
And almost 95 percent of about 37,500 secondary school directors did not score a pass mark in English and technology, according to the ministry.
The poor results have ignited controversy in Thailand about educational standards.
“Even teachers fail, so how can we raise the quality of students?” Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post newspaper.
More than 84,000 teachers and school directors took the exams, the first of their kind.
The caption in the Bangkok Post article reads 'A worker loads boxes labelled "One Tablet Per Child" on to a truck at the Education Ministry in Bangkok. The ministry sent off trucks on Wednesday to deliver the first batch of 55,000 tablet computers to primary schools in eight provinces.'.
Are they saying that all 55,000 boxes are currently sitting at the Education Ministry in Bangkok? Such logistical half-assedness would add at least a dollar a unit to the final cost I should imagine. Or more likely it was just a photo op and the Bangkok Post didn't properly attribute it as such. This being Thailand, and this being the Bangkok Post (establishment ring kissers), we can never be sure.
... The Airstair makes the 727 one of the few airliners that it's possible to parachute from without the risk of being hit by the engines, wing or tailplane - a person known as "Mr Cooper" proved this was possible in 1971.
Ly Tong jumped out of an Airbus A310 over Saigon in 1992.
She thought $400 a month (in a culture where there are no tips) was excellent money.
I don't know why people always quote things in dollars-per-month. That is meaningless. When I was in Russia in the late 90s, bus fare was less than 5 cents...
AC was referring to his friend who is a waitress having a shared apt with a bunk, not factory workers in a dorm. A shared apt is not going to have a sufficient quantity of people in it to talk about the body heat warming the place.
Hopefully. And hopefully it doesn't get that cold (the GP seemed to be struggling to make it sound cold - frost is "moderately common" - wow). But I don't think you get the gist: if this is indeed the situation then she's doing well - it's hardly the sob story that was intended. But actually I don't think the picture you have in your head of an "apartment" bears any resemblance to the kind of "apartment" Chinese businesses provide for their staff. Clue: We're talking high population density, high property prices.
Most meals and a bunk in a shared apartment provided. No heat, at a latitude where frost is moderately common.
I'm not asking to be modded down and i'm not trying to be all Monty Python but... if these bunks are arranged really spaciously they might need heating - depends on the latitude. If they're arranged anything like the standard for employee accommodation then body heat will take care of it. So which to choose? Just how bad is it?
Let's hear some balanced accounts of conditions in these places. As you said, your friend thought this was a decent job.
KUALA LUMPUR, February 12, 2012 (AFP) - Malaysia on Sunday deported a young Saudi journalist whose Twitter comments about the Prophet Mohammed triggered calls for his execution in his home country, an official said.
Hamza Kashgari, who was detained in Malaysia during the week after fleeing Saudi Arabia, left the country in the custody of Saudi officials, according to a Malaysian government official who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.
Interesting observations. Using some examples from my neck of the woods, I'd say it could be mixed up with agriculture and migration patterns.
Vietnamese is very strongly future-typed. No tenses but an auxiliary verb 'se' = 'will' which appears in front of the verb. It is used even when the word 'tomorrow' or 'this evening' appears in the sentence. Vietnamese are famous for their over-indulgence in alcohol and coffee, although culturally they're savers (in the form of gold or ornaments). Oh, and they're atrocious drivers. (And there's a Catholic influence - sin now, confess later.)
Thai is even more strongly future-typed, in that their word for 'will' ('ja') takes even more precedence in the sentence - eg "ja mai pai Pantip" - "I will not go to Pantip". Thais are known for their moderation in most areas and they're characterized as undisciplined when it comes to wealth/savings. But they do drive well. Talk about Thai attitudes and most foreign observers will sum up with "mai pen rai" ("no worries").
Both the Thais and Vietnamese are rice-growing societies who recently migrated (the Thais much more recently) from China, where they're very loose with future markers.
Contrast with the Malays. Spoken Malay has no future typing - they rely on words like 'tomorrow'. Their society is characterized by its indifference to planning and saving, feasting today, forget tomorrow. Not very organized agriculturally. They're also an island race - perhaps best not to think too much about the future when you're getting into that boat and you can see nothing on the horizon (but a full belly will help).
Just because it's "green" doesn't mean it's safe to let just any yahoo install an electric generator on his hut. Methinks it might be wise to let the village electrician do the installing.
And just to be safe he should wait till it goes dark. Oh wait a minute...
If all goes well, in a few years it should be possible to gather up a pile of grass clippings, mix it with a blend of cheap chemicals, paint it on your roof and begin producing electricity.
I assume the method concentrates these photosynthetic molecules. If so you're going to need several roof-areas-worth of grass clippings. And then you have the old problem of taking arable land and forcing food prices up. If this produces much with the grass clippings from an average suburban house then I'm amazed - and will it last through the winter?
They shut down MegaUpload recently, and they were in New Zealand. The operators were arrested, too,...
MegaUpload was in Hong Kong, the fat guy and his fleet of cars was in New Zealand. At least one of their servers was in the US and so were their domains.
Not really, but [the Feds] did put on a big PR stunt where a big, popular file-sharing site, seemingly out-of-reach on the other side of the world, were shut down and the operators arrested. I'm not convinced that is was anything but a scripted reality show, but it seemed to have convinced the operators of BTJunkie that they should quit while they're ahead.
Yes indeed, just after the Megaupload circus Btjunkie removed all the latest torrents from their home page - it became Google style, with basically just a search box. This was before Rapidshare restricted their functionality. Btjunkie were obviously being very cautious.
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So straight after this case, Pirate Bay move to a.se domain and continue operating; Btjunkie close down. This Sweden connection doesn't work out.
Magnet links are still links. They require much less space to host but they still need hosting. According to the US Immigration and Customs guys, linking is a crime - you lose your domain - or if you happen to live in the US (or UK)... your freedom.
currently supports products from more than half a dozen manufacturers, including Apple, Arhcos, iRiver and Toshiba
But less than a dozen right? Wouldn't it be easier just to give the number - or go the full hog, list the half dozen and say "...and more", rather than stopping at four? And it's "Archos". Spamming all those techworld.com.au link must be intensive business.
They've been asked to say that they: "1) won’t publish with them, 2) won’t referee for them, and/or 3) won’t do editorial work for them... At least do number 2)"... most of those signed up have gone for all three however it seems like roughly one in ten have prevaricated on the "won't referee" pledge - what is the magnetic allure of refereeing for Elsevier journals?
They were destroyed by a former WikiLeaks employee who left with them, then destroyed the key. Yes, somehow there wasn't a backup of the documents or key (or at least one of the two).
I'm not sure how much we can trust Domscheit-Berg and OpenLeaks. Check their News page (latest 26 Jan 2011, SSL cert expired months ago), Identi.ca (5 months ago), Blog (29 Jan 2011, quote: "Right now we are working on extending our infrastructure and setting it up for testing with our alpha users group. The 1.430 Euro we received as donations in December and January will help us to do so. We will spend this money to help cover infrastructure costs e.g. SSL certificates").
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And doesn't writing javascript in, say, Arabic, just make it inaccessible to 99% of the people who like look at your code?
Yeah - it'll be interesting to find out what the LibreJS people think about it: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
Presumably these 94% will have put for foray into the javascript dom on hold until that gets translated.
The Japanese like to put their verbs at the end - are they going to accommodate that?
About half the planet like adjectives after the noun - so is going to be array new?
Presumably the Thai education ministry studied the problem and came to the conclusion that these tablets would be worth buying. Maybe you really are that much smarter than the Thai education ministry... or, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to make a snap judgement.
For starters, read this:
BANGKOK (AFP) — High school test results in Thailand have revealed a failure rate of more than 80 percent in mathematics, biology and computer studies — among the teachers. The failure rates for teachers who took exams in their own subjects were about 88 percent for computer studies, 84 percent for mathematics, 86 percent in biology and 71 percent in physics, the education ministry said. And almost 95 percent of about 37,500 secondary school directors did not score a pass mark in English and technology, according to the ministry. The poor results have ignited controversy in Thailand about educational standards. “Even teachers fail, so how can we raise the quality of students?” Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post newspaper. More than 84,000 teachers and school directors took the exams, the first of their kind.
The caption in the Bangkok Post article reads 'A worker loads boxes labelled "One Tablet Per Child" on to a truck at the Education Ministry in Bangkok. The ministry sent off trucks on Wednesday to deliver the first batch of 55,000 tablet computers to primary schools in eight provinces.'.
Are they saying that all 55,000 boxes are currently sitting at the Education Ministry in Bangkok? Such logistical half-assedness would add at least a dollar a unit to the final cost I should imagine. Or more likely it was just a photo op and the Bangkok Post didn't properly attribute it as such. This being Thailand, and this being the Bangkok Post (establishment ring kissers), we can never be sure.
... The Airstair makes the 727 one of the few airliners that it's possible to parachute from without the risk of being hit by the engines, wing or tailplane - a person known as "Mr Cooper" proved this was possible in 1971.
Ly Tong jumped out of an Airbus A310 over Saigon in 1992.
Great tld for an open source project.
She thought $400 a month (in a culture where there are no tips) was excellent money.
I don't know why people always quote things in dollars-per-month. That is meaningless. When I was in Russia in the late 90s, bus fare was less than 5 cents ...
I'm guessing you had the phrase Purchasing Power Parity on the tip of your tongue.
AC was referring to his friend who is a waitress having a shared apt with a bunk, not factory workers in a dorm. A shared apt is not going to have a sufficient quantity of people in it to talk about the body heat warming the place.
Hopefully. And hopefully it doesn't get that cold (the GP seemed to be struggling to make it sound cold - frost is "moderately common" - wow). But I don't think you get the gist: if this is indeed the situation then she's doing well - it's hardly the sob story that was intended. But actually I don't think the picture you have in your head of an "apartment" bears any resemblance to the kind of "apartment" Chinese businesses provide for their staff. Clue: We're talking high population density, high property prices.
Most meals and a bunk in a shared apartment provided. No heat, at a latitude where frost is moderately common.
I'm not asking to be modded down and i'm not trying to be all Monty Python but ... if these bunks are arranged really spaciously they might need heating - depends on the latitude. If they're arranged anything like the standard for employee accommodation then body heat will take care of it. So which to choose? Just how bad is it?
Let's hear some balanced accounts of conditions in these places. As you said, your friend thought this was a decent job.
KUALA LUMPUR, February 12, 2012 (AFP) - Malaysia on Sunday deported a young Saudi journalist whose Twitter comments about the Prophet Mohammed triggered calls for his execution in his home country, an official said.
Hamza Kashgari, who was detained in Malaysia during the week after fleeing Saudi Arabia, left the country in the custody of Saudi officials, according to a Malaysian government official who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.
Interesting observations. Using some examples from my neck of the woods, I'd say it could be mixed up with agriculture and migration patterns.
Vietnamese is very strongly future-typed. No tenses but an auxiliary verb 'se' = 'will' which appears in front of the verb. It is used even when the word 'tomorrow' or 'this evening' appears in the sentence. Vietnamese are famous for their over-indulgence in alcohol and coffee, although culturally they're savers (in the form of gold or ornaments). Oh, and they're atrocious drivers. (And there's a Catholic influence - sin now, confess later.)
Thai is even more strongly future-typed, in that their word for 'will' ('ja') takes even more precedence in the sentence - eg "ja mai pai Pantip" - "I will not go to Pantip". Thais are known for their moderation in most areas and they're characterized as undisciplined when it comes to wealth/savings. But they do drive well. Talk about Thai attitudes and most foreign observers will sum up with "mai pen rai" ("no worries").
Both the Thais and Vietnamese are rice-growing societies who recently migrated (the Thais much more recently) from China, where they're very loose with future markers.
Contrast with the Malays. Spoken Malay has no future typing - they rely on words like 'tomorrow'. Their society is characterized by its indifference to planning and saving, feasting today, forget tomorrow. Not very organized agriculturally. They're also an island race - perhaps best not to think too much about the future when you're getting into that boat and you can see nothing on the horizon (but a full belly will help).
Just because it's "green" doesn't mean it's safe to let just any yahoo install an electric generator on his hut. Methinks it might be wise to let the village electrician do the installing.
And just to be safe he should wait till it goes dark. Oh wait a minute ...
If all goes well, in a few years it should be possible to gather up a pile of grass clippings, mix it with a blend of cheap chemicals, paint it on your roof and begin producing electricity.
I assume the method concentrates these photosynthetic molecules. If so you're going to need several roof-areas-worth of grass clippings. And then you have the old problem of taking arable land and forcing food prices up. If this produces much with the grass clippings from an average suburban house then I'm amazed - and will it last through the winter?
They shut down MegaUpload recently, and they were in New Zealand. The operators were arrested, too, ...
MegaUpload was in Hong Kong, the fat guy and his fleet of cars was in New Zealand. At least one of their servers was in the US and so were their domains.
Not really, but [the Feds] did put on a big PR stunt where a big, popular file-sharing site, seemingly out-of-reach on the other side of the world, were shut down and the operators arrested. I'm not convinced that is was anything but a scripted reality show, but it seemed to have convinced the operators of BTJunkie that they should quit while they're ahead.
Yes indeed, just after the Megaupload circus Btjunkie removed all the latest torrents from their home page - it became Google style, with basically just a search box. This was before Rapidshare restricted their functionality. Btjunkie were obviously being very cautious.
So straight after this case, Pirate Bay move to a .se domain and continue operating; Btjunkie close down. This Sweden connection doesn't work out.
Magnet links are still links. They require much less space to host but they still need hosting. According to the US Immigration and Customs guys, linking is a crime - you lose your domain - or if you happen to live in the US (or UK) ... your freedom.
the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to it's sports website
New submitter (and Unknown Lamer) could have learned how to use the apostrophe.
You expect him to go through all of these: https://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi ?
... or go the full hog, list the half dozen ...
Replying to myself. The list is: Apple Archos iriver Toshiba
Plus: Olympus Packard Bell Cowon SanDisk
Plus unstable port for models from these manufacturers: MPIO, Philips, Samsung
currently supports products from more than half a dozen manufacturers, including Apple, Arhcos, iRiver and Toshiba
But less than a dozen right? Wouldn't it be easier just to give the number - or go the full hog, list the half dozen and say "...and more", rather than stopping at four? And it's "Archos". Spamming all those techworld.com.au link must be intensive business.
... or BlueWho.
wait what? beaming proximity data over bluetooth does not mean that bluetooth can naturally act as a proximity detector
These guys have been disagreeing with you for several years:
BtProx - Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility
Bluemon
The US Constitution applies to all US Citizens... no matter where they are at.
Are You Living in a Constitution Free Zone?
They've been asked to say that they: "1) won’t publish with them, 2) won’t referee for them, and/or 3) won’t do editorial work for them ... At least do number 2)" ... most of those signed up have gone for all three however it seems like roughly one in ten have prevaricated on the "won't referee" pledge - what is the magnetic allure of refereeing for Elsevier journals?
They were destroyed by a former WikiLeaks employee who left with them, then destroyed the key. Yes, somehow there wasn't a backup of the documents or key (or at least one of the two).
I'm not sure how much we can trust Domscheit-Berg and OpenLeaks. Check their News page (latest 26 Jan 2011, SSL cert expired months ago), Identi.ca (5 months ago), Blog (29 Jan 2011, quote: "Right now we are working on extending our infrastructure and setting it up for testing with our alpha users group. The 1.430 Euro we received as donations in December and January will help us to do so. We will spend this money to help cover infrastructure costs e.g. SSL certificates").
Also Thompson-Reuters isn't a terrific source when it comes to 'piracy'/'hacking' stories so here's an alternative to the rawstory.com link:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/tag/daniel-domscheit-berg/