Nobody's actually finished a class yet (they only started doing it this quarter, which isn't over until December -- the two classes with midterms just had them last week). Presumably, one would need to actually have received the certificate of completion before trying to use it to obtain credit.
By the way, as a concrete example of what I dislike about the AI class: we just took the midterm (I got a 96%!), and I'm trying to find out which of the 15 questions I missed. To do so, I have to go re-stream each question video in turn until I figure out which one I got wrong.
In contrast, when I took the database class midterm, immediately upon submitting the web form containing my answers, I was served a page containing my score, the questions, my responses, and an explanation of each -- in a few kB of HTML, not a tedious half-hour of video.
I'm taking all three courses being offered right now: AI, machine learning, and intro to databases. The AI class uses its own unique software platform, while the other two share one (which will presumably be used for most or all of next quarter's classes).
I like the other two much better than the AI class for several reasons: first, because they make those mid-lecture quizzes optional and also allow the lectures to be downloaded instead of streamed. Second, I like how, unlike the AI class, the other two have actual programming exercises. Third, I like how the homework questions for the other two are presented in a normal web form format (whereas the AI class "homeworks" require you to watch a video of the instructor reading the questions) and also allow multiple submissions.
The difference between these classes and MIT's OpenCourseware is that these classes have a schedule with assignments and grades.
For many people, such as procrastinators and those motivated by competing with the other students (since participants get a class ranking at the end), that makes a huge difference.
I got an AMD Phenom II X4 840 for $59.99 a few days ago (at Microcenter); I'm sure it's more than half as fast as a 965, so it's an even better value. I got a new motherboard (AMD 760G chipset) with it too; it was also $59.99. Not bad, I think -- would I have been able to find an Intel solution for that price/performance?
Now, some of those thumbnails send you to another thumbnail page. This new page sends you to yet another thumbnail page and so on, in a seemingly infinite loop. Where do they get profit from those endless loops?
More or less without fighting they lose nothing unless WP8 completely fails to sell at all.
More insidiously on Microsoft's part, the agreement also has the effect of giving the phone manufacturers a more vested interest in having WP8 be successful.
I hope you didn't construe my post to mean that gay marriage is less "real" than other civil liberties; it's important too. My point was that myopically focusing on gaining a new right blinds us to the erosion of the ones we already have.
As for an "official" list, just read the Bill of Rights. Almost all of them are under attack, and the only reason the 3rd Amendment isn't is that quartering troops in people's houses is less profitable for the military-industrial complex than constructing new barracks!
Here are some examples of attacks on our rights that (in my opinion) need to be dealt with more urgently than gay marriage:
First Amendment: "Free Speech Zones," police breaking up "Occupy..." or "Tea Party" protests, sanctions against Wikileaks, takedowns of web content/seizure of domain names, etc. (And yes, gay rights too.)
Second Amendment: [This one is doing relatively good; I'm having trouble thinking up examples.] Let's see... the continuing ban on automatic weapons, no guns allowed on college campuses, the continuing argument by some that bearing arms is some kind of "collective" right (when it should be obvious that this right is intended to support citizens' right to rebel against tyranny; after all, that's what the guys that wrote it had just finished doing!)
Fourth Amendment: warrantless wiretaps, GPS tracking, airport scanners, civil forfeiture, fewer protections for "new media" such as email and the contents of cellphones, etc.
Fifth through Eighth Amendments: Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition, eminent domain abuse, refusal of various courts to re-try old cases based on new DNA evidence, etc.
Ninth and Tenth Amendments: vast expansion of Federal regulation, the existence of unconstitutional bureaucracies, Federal control of states via "earmarks" (where taxes flow from the People to the Federal government which then doles the money back out with strings attached, instead of allowing the taxes to simply go straight to the state governments instead), etc.
No great importance? Sure, if you've no appreciation for the civil liberties and legal issues...
You've just illustrated the point: you're so distracted by the gay marriage issue that you've missed the fact that the government is destroying all our other civil liberties (free speech, due process, no illegal search and seizure, etc.)!
For example, want to reduce CO2 from transport? Well you better man transport unaffordable to the masses. Little changes won't work.
Why? My transportation is already carbon-neutral, and all I did was switch from fueling my car with dino-diesel (currently at $3.91/gallon) to 100% biodiesel (currently at $3.68/gallon).
Who says we have to consume less to reduce our carbon emissions? I mean, sure, we could just switch the power off and quit driving around and screw over ourselves and everyone else economically, but that would be stupid. Alternatively, we could invest in clean technology -- consuming more in order to replace our infrastructure as quickly as possible -- and fix the climate and economy at the same time.
You're welcome. Also, please consider joining TDIClub (I have the same username there as I do here). I've found it to be incredibly valuable in helping me keep my old TDI on the road, and it would also be useful to teach you how to maintain your new one (especially since TDI owners can't trust the VW dealers!).
i have an '06 TDi, and its manual says 5% as well.
VW warranty notwithstanding, the general consensus at www.tdiclub.com is that B100 is fine for PDs (but not common-rails, due to the emissions equipment).
...if it would cause more of the urea compounds to be used...
The 2.0L VW CR TDIs don't use urea at all. (The bigger CR engines in Touaregs and whatnot are different, and do use urea.)
2006 and older TDIs (Pumpe Düße and rotary-pump injection) are fine on any blend up to 100% biodiesel. The new 2009+ "clean diesel" common-rail injection TDIs "officially" have a problem running more than 5% because of the fancy exhaust system.
The new cars contain a device called a "Diesel Particulate Filter," where the soot from combustion accumulates and is periodically burned off by a "DPF regeneration event" in which the fuel injection timing is modified to increase exhaust temperature. Because biodiesel has somewhat different combustion properties than dino-diesel, the DPF regen event doesn't work quite right (eventually causing failure of the DPF). Additionally, the biodiesel can get past the piston rings and dilute the oil (requiring more frequent oil changes). All that said, people on www.tdiclub.com have been experimenting, and a consensus seems to be forming that biodiesel blends up to at least 20% are probably safe.
Ironically, if the engine were run on 100% biodiesel, it probably wouldn't need the fancy exhaust system to meet emissions in the first place! Unfortunately, removing the DPF (and reprogramming the ECU to disable the regen event) is illegal.
[Running WVO in your VW TDI] can be high maintenance
Yeah, it can gum up your injection system and (potentially) destroy your engine.
Biodiesel, on the other hand, is a lot safer, and the only "conversion" you need to do is replace your rubber fuel-return hoses with Viton (which costs about $10 and takes 5 minutes).
(I drive a TDI too, and run commercially-made biodiesel in it.)
By the way, the process of turning grease into biofuel is the same as turning it into soap (aka Fight Club), its just a different ratio of the same chemicals. Some Methanol, and some Caustic lye or caustic soda, depending on what your source oil is. Shake and serve!
More precisely, each is a byproduct of the process for making the other, so you get some of both no matter what.
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If you view the video from AI-class.com, does it get counted on YouTube?
(And I didn't think the videos allowed answering the homework/quiz questions when viewed on YouTube anyway...)
Nobody's actually finished a class yet (they only started doing it this quarter, which isn't over until December -- the two classes with midterms just had them last week). Presumably, one would need to actually have received the certificate of completion before trying to use it to obtain credit.
By the way, as a concrete example of what I dislike about the AI class: we just took the midterm (I got a 96%!), and I'm trying to find out which of the 15 questions I missed. To do so, I have to go re-stream each question video in turn until I figure out which one I got wrong.
In contrast, when I took the database class midterm, immediately upon submitting the web form containing my answers, I was served a page containing my score, the questions, my responses, and an explanation of each -- in a few kB of HTML, not a tedious half-hour of video.
I'm taking all three courses being offered right now: AI, machine learning, and intro to databases. The AI class uses its own unique software platform, while the other two share one (which will presumably be used for most or all of next quarter's classes).
I like the other two much better than the AI class for several reasons: first, because they make those mid-lecture quizzes optional and also allow the lectures to be downloaded instead of streamed. Second, I like how, unlike the AI class, the other two have actual programming exercises. Third, I like how the homework questions for the other two are presented in a normal web form format (whereas the AI class "homeworks" require you to watch a video of the instructor reading the questions) and also allow multiple submissions.
The difference between these classes and MIT's OpenCourseware is that these classes have a schedule with assignments and grades.
For many people, such as procrastinators and those motivated by competing with the other students (since participants get a class ranking at the end), that makes a huge difference.
I got an AMD Phenom II X4 840 for $59.99 a few days ago (at Microcenter); I'm sure it's more than half as fast as a 965, so it's an even better value. I got a new motherboard (AMD 760G chipset) with it too; it was also $59.99. Not bad, I think -- would I have been able to find an Intel solution for that price/performance?
I sure wish we could just pick one of them, though!
I'd call it an "action-comedy" (just like most of USA's other shows: White Collar, Suits, Covert Affairs, etc.).
For those reading this, "Burn Notice" is really good, by the way.
They're link farms.
They bump the owner's site up in the search results, and they get ad impressions.
More insidiously on Microsoft's part, the agreement also has the effect of giving the phone manufacturers a more vested interest in having WP8 be successful.
I think "serfs" has a more appropriately-negative connotation.
I hope you didn't construe my post to mean that gay marriage is less "real" than other civil liberties; it's important too. My point was that myopically focusing on gaining a new right blinds us to the erosion of the ones we already have.
As for an "official" list, just read the Bill of Rights. Almost all of them are under attack, and the only reason the 3rd Amendment isn't is that quartering troops in people's houses is less profitable for the military-industrial complex than constructing new barracks!
Here are some examples of attacks on our rights that (in my opinion) need to be dealt with more urgently than gay marriage:
You've just illustrated the point: you're so distracted by the gay marriage issue that you've missed the fact that the government is destroying all our other civil liberties (free speech, due process, no illegal search and seizure, etc.)!
I told my bastard roommate "if you make one more damn Grey Poupon joke, so help me I'll kill you!" But did he listen? No...
Why? My transportation is already carbon-neutral, and all I did was switch from fueling my car with dino-diesel (currently at $3.91/gallon) to 100% biodiesel (currently at $3.68/gallon).
Then their products become expensive enough that the customers start buying from their eco-friendly competitors instead.
Who says we have to consume less to reduce our carbon emissions? I mean, sure, we could just switch the power off and quit driving around and screw over ourselves and everyone else economically, but that would be stupid. Alternatively, we could invest in clean technology -- consuming more in order to replace our infrastructure as quickly as possible -- and fix the climate and economy at the same time.
You're welcome. Also, please consider joining TDIClub (I have the same username there as I do here). I've found it to be incredibly valuable in helping me keep my old TDI on the road, and it would also be useful to teach you how to maintain your new one (especially since TDI owners can't trust the VW dealers!).
VW warranty notwithstanding, the general consensus at www.tdiclub.com is that B100 is fine for PDs (but not common-rails, due to the emissions equipment).
The 2.0L VW CR TDIs don't use urea at all. (The bigger CR engines in Touaregs and whatnot are different, and do use urea.)
2006 and older TDIs (Pumpe Düße and rotary-pump injection) are fine on any blend up to 100% biodiesel. The new 2009+ "clean diesel" common-rail injection TDIs "officially" have a problem running more than 5% because of the fancy exhaust system.
The new cars contain a device called a "Diesel Particulate Filter," where the soot from combustion accumulates and is periodically burned off by a "DPF regeneration event" in which the fuel injection timing is modified to increase exhaust temperature. Because biodiesel has somewhat different combustion properties than dino-diesel, the DPF regen event doesn't work quite right (eventually causing failure of the DPF). Additionally, the biodiesel can get past the piston rings and dilute the oil (requiring more frequent oil changes). All that said, people on www.tdiclub.com have been experimenting, and a consensus seems to be forming that biodiesel blends up to at least 20% are probably safe.
Ironically, if the engine were run on 100% biodiesel, it probably wouldn't need the fancy exhaust system to meet emissions in the first place! Unfortunately, removing the DPF (and reprogramming the ECU to disable the regen event) is illegal.
When you go on a car club cruise, the people behind you complain that you made them hungry.
Yeah, it can gum up your injection system and (potentially) destroy your engine.
Biodiesel, on the other hand, is a lot safer, and the only "conversion" you need to do is replace your rubber fuel-return hoses with Viton (which costs about $10 and takes 5 minutes).
(I drive a TDI too, and run commercially-made biodiesel in it.)
More precisely, each is a byproduct of the process for making the other, so you get some of both no matter what.
Real cultists drink Flavor Aid, poser!