I have personally been involved in helping the teachers get training to make this happen. What they did was send a bunch of elementary school teachers into normal CS classes. I'll let you guess how it turned out, but it isn't pretty. Almost none of the teachers have the background to be successful in a rigorous CS class, so the result is they hate CS more than they did before. It absolutely reinforces the idea that CS is too hard to understand. Only the government would believe that the way to help kids learn CS is to throw elementary education teachers into a regular CS classes. For most of these teachers the CS class was the most challenging course they have ever taken and most of them have been out of school for years.
My guess is that pretty soon they will create a Social Credit Score like China is putting in place. Then anyone who disagrees can instantly be silenced online.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...
Isn't running circles around government regulation the oldest pass time in America. Look back at how effectively the Stamp Act was circumvented, 250 years ago. The more complex the laws gets, the easier it is to get away with things like this, because even the government can't sort through the complexity of the laws.
The solution is not more regulation, but simplifying it. If a corporation can make billions, by simply hiring 50 lawyers, or 500, to find a way to make billions, that is huge return on investment. Anyone who expects an efficient and responsive government is dreaming. The only effective solution is to make it so simple, that dodging becomes impractical.
It is interesting to me how the topics are chosen to determine what is rejection of science and what is not. For example this week another study came out that organic is not healthier than conventional, yet the anti-free market people reject that science as bogus.
I reject the idea that CO2 is going to cause global warming, but accept lung cancer is caused by smoking and AIDS by HIV. I ignore the creationists, but accept that they are free to believe what they want to on that, but evolution all the way for me.
I have also been an R&D engineer for more than a decade. Somehow the idea that because I accept free-market principles instead of central planning indicates that I am anti-science is total bullshit.
Of course since this is a peer-reviewed paper I could be labeled as anti-science for not accepting this paper, but that is something I am willing to risk.
He is very specific about which countries are working hard to control the flow of information. China and Iran are well known for their desire to control all information. Russia is nothing new in this regard either.
I would not hate Apple if they were not the control freaks that they are. If you deal with Apple in anyway, they own you. iTunes is exactly the type of control over the users that China and Iran want over their citizens.
Keeping the Internet open is critical for many reasons. Google has been made better by the competition it has faced relentlessly over the years. Google+ is better than Facebook because they have had to innovate relentlessly. Android is getting better because they have to keep making it better because of the competition that exists.
If Apple and Facebook had their way, there would be no competition. Three cheers for Brin.
There is nothing surprising in this result for those that study the climate. The real sampling rate of glaciers is tiny and only ones that are receding get attention.
That most glaciers are less than 2,000 years old gets almost no attention. The Earth is a dynamic place and the energy involved is many magnitudes larger than anything mankind is capable of causing.
The climate is always changing, but we are not the source of the variability.
In discussions of coral and global warming, what is really being discussed is tropical coral. That is coral that lives in water that is less than 50 ft deep and is in water that is generally warmer than 18 C (64F).
All of that coral on the planet Earth (yes, all of it) is less than 10,000 years old. All of the coral that was alive 20,000 years ago died when the last ice age ended and the ocean levels changed by > 400ft. All of the Earth's previous coral died as it was too deep to survive the new depths. In the past 1,000,000 years such events have wiped all tropical coral from existence at lest 20 times.
Coral has adapted by loading the ocean up with the eggs and sperm so it can form wherever conditions are correct. This falls into the publicity stunt range of science. They got funding for something they know isn't a problem, but they get money for it anyway.
Only the fanboi's go out and blow this kind of money every 2 years the moment something like this is released. That makes rubbing this in all the more pleasurable. I will be doing the same as well. I previously read that the construction on these was substandard with sloppy thermal paste application. It would seem that the issue is real and related to the assembly.
There is no surprise that Thomas and Scalia dissented as they are always limiting the scope of the Federal government. It is the 7-2 that is surprising. So rare to have that much agreement on anything.
I would have to say this is unconstitutional, but it plugs a hole in the legal system that is incapable of dealing with properly dealing with inherently dangerous people. Anyone who is willing to destroy someone else for their own pleasure is someone that has no "right" to mix with the public. The fact that the government has not been able to get sentencing to properly account for this is the real problem and this ruling is a stop-gap measure.
In many ways the old west justice of a lynch mob was far more effective at dealing with many types of crime. Once the lynch mob was done there was no risk of repeat offenders. The downside to lynch mobs is the false/positive verdict that cannot be retracted. A solution is needed, but this law and ruling only highlight how poorly the system is at keeping people safe. It clearly does open the USA to the risk of permanent detainment of people that are at "odds" with the government. I am sure that Obama would not mind "detaining" some BP executives for a while as risks to the greater good.
I am an engineer and use SI for everything engineering and Imperial for everyday life. I understand both and it doesn't matter to me which is used. The swimming pool I use is a meter pool so I swim 3km. I drive to work 18 miles.
I appreciate that Americans simply disregard all efforts to force a standard on them. No protests, no complaining, they simply ignore whatever laws the government tries to force on them that they don't like. This Freedom is part of what makes America different. We do not do what we are told.
Every package shows both units on them and that doens't affect the printing costs but people can see both and use the units they prefer. It simply does not matter in everyday life. In engineering there is no argument that SI is superior. So I use both, and I like it that way.
Renaming it will be more than sufficient. For example, the commonly known MRI is actually called an NMR, which stands for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. They changed the name to Magnetic Resonance Image just so the stupid masses would not be scared.
Since it worked for something as common as MRI, you think it should work for a new rocket engine. How many people really even understand how a "normal" rocket works anyway.
then they will within a year be selling 2 of 5 CD's as they will be able to crush all of the competition. There is no difference in a CD bought at different places. If a person can save 25% or more going to Walmart, then it is a done deal. There would be no reason to buy CD's anywhere else.
This in turn gives Walmart further leverage over the record industry until they lose all pricing power, and Walmart will dictate the price of CD's. There is no incentive for the RIAA to give in at all. If they give in now, forever will Walmart control their destiny.
That is interesting. That means that the maximum concentration is 2.26e-7 ppb. That is a concentration of 2.26e-16. So each increase in scale is 3.78e-8ppb. This is the real difficulty, the scale is so very, very, very small that it takes virtually no change to register.
This is of course assuming standard conditions of 273 Kelvin, and 1 ATM. Upper atmosphere could be a bit different from that, but the even 4 or 5 ORDERS of MAGNITUDE difference would still make this a very, very small difference.
The impressive part of this is that they can monitor concentrations so small.
The most intersting thing of note is the concentration scale -1 to 6. Nothing on the units. Without the units that picture means exactly zero. Those units could be ppb (parts per billion), or ppm(per million). Almost any cool picture of pollution can be generated to show these results if the scale is small enough.
So while the study produced an interesting picture that shows something, maybe, by not scaling it properly, the entire thing useless.
NO2 by the way only means that nitrogen and oxygen were mixed at high temperature. Cars are the most common source of NO2 pollution. Industrial pollution is much better measured by different chemicals.
but all I could find lots of rhetoric from every possible angle. Americans trashing the article, Europeans enjoying the opportunity to trash talk, and lots of insults to go around, few of which are even remotely related to the article at hand, and since I don't have 800 moderator points, I will comment instead.
The facts are simple, The US has the longest continuous democratic government in the world. So the comment stable government is accurate in that sense.
However, since it is old, and politicians have been writing the laws for so long to their own advantage, it is a very complicated process in which the laws of each state, can have an impact in how a president of the country is elected. Granted the parlimentary system can get very complicated, and back room deals are critical for a majority to be reached, just ask Italy about that.
No democracy is perfect, and it is safe to say that there has never been a national election in which cheating, mistakes, and outright stupidty on someones part did not cause inaccuracy in the numbers.
Now the European monitors will have no actual authority to do anything. US law, and courts will control all aspects, as it should be. They will see a very boring election in the respect that it will be a bunch of normal people going to the polls on the first Tuesday of November. There will not be gangs outside beating people who do not vote the way they want. No one will feel like they were pressured into voting a certain way, it will be a stable election.
Now if it close again, then the lawyers will get involved, and then the bloodbath will begin. So let them watch. Nothing they could say will match the level of hysteria that media will propagate over every little bit (literally) of ridiculous trash they can find, and in the end, there will still be a peaceful transition of power if Kerry wins, and a peaceful continuation if Bush wins. That is what it is all about.
It's been 144 years since the US failed to have a peaceful transistion based on an election. I think it will be ok.
...because he has always taken the profit from the last to finance the next one. Episode III will be almost a break even at best. Figure a production cost of $150 million, and that is about what its domestic gross will be give or take $25 million.
He has trashed the franchise so badly be making drawn out, boring movies that even Jar-Jar wouldn't watch the next one.
Call me a troll, but I really liked 4-6, but I did not enjoy 1, and I detested 2. It is not because I am older either. My 7 year old would rather watch IV than any other one.
Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that Genndy Tartakovsky made the 25 minute long animated Clone Wars and it was better and more gripping in every way. Episode 19 was the best two minutes of Star Wars ever made. Lucus just doesn't have it anymore. Simple as that.
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From the report it says that it takes 337,807 (page 29) jobs in solar to produce 1% of the power? How is that good?
Using the report and then comparing it to the latest energy source report here: http://www.eia.gov/electricity...
I got the following table of GW produced per employee:
Coal - 13.0
Natural gas - 24.6
Nuclear - 10.8
Hydro - 4.3
Solar - 0.09 (Are you kidding me)
Wind - 2.7
This is good news? This makes solar more attractive?
I have personally been involved in helping the teachers get training to make this happen. What they did was send a bunch of elementary school teachers into normal CS classes. I'll let you guess how it turned out, but it isn't pretty. Almost none of the teachers have the background to be successful in a rigorous CS class, so the result is they hate CS more than they did before. It absolutely reinforces the idea that CS is too hard to understand. Only the government would believe that the way to help kids learn CS is to throw elementary education teachers into a regular CS classes. For most of these teachers the CS class was the most challenging course they have ever taken and most of them have been out of school for years.
It has been an unmitigated disaster.
My guess is that pretty soon they will create a Social Credit Score like China is putting in place. Then anyone who disagrees can instantly be silenced online. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...
Isn't running circles around government regulation the oldest pass time in America. Look back at how effectively the Stamp Act was circumvented, 250 years ago. The more complex the laws gets, the easier it is to get away with things like this, because even the government can't sort through the complexity of the laws.
The solution is not more regulation, but simplifying it. If a corporation can make billions, by simply hiring 50 lawyers, or 500, to find a way to make billions, that is huge return on investment. Anyone who expects an efficient and responsive government is dreaming. The only effective solution is to make it so simple, that dodging becomes impractical.
I deal with that doublespeak so much that ready Curt's summary made me spray coffee. Damn that hurt, but I will be smiling the rest of the day.
I have gotten more than a few dirty looks for playing buzzword bingo.
It is interesting to me how the topics are chosen to determine what is rejection of science and what is not. For example this week another study came out that organic is not healthier than conventional, yet the anti-free market people reject that science as bogus.
I reject the idea that CO2 is going to cause global warming, but accept lung cancer is caused by smoking and AIDS by HIV. I ignore the creationists, but accept that they are free to believe what they want to on that, but evolution all the way for me.
I have also been an R&D engineer for more than a decade. Somehow the idea that because I accept free-market principles instead of central planning indicates that I am anti-science is total bullshit.
Of course since this is a peer-reviewed paper I could be labeled as anti-science for not accepting this paper, but that is something I am willing to risk.
I would not hate Apple if they were not the control freaks that they are. If you deal with Apple in anyway, they own you. iTunes is exactly the type of control over the users that China and Iran want over their citizens.
Keeping the Internet open is critical for many reasons. Google has been made better by the competition it has faced relentlessly over the years. Google+ is better than Facebook because they have had to innovate relentlessly. Android is getting better because they have to keep making it better because of the competition that exists.
If Apple and Facebook had their way, there would be no competition. Three cheers for Brin.
Lying with statistics is an art, but it appears that once in a while they can be useful. This really is an impressive use of statistics.
That most glaciers are less than 2,000 years old gets almost no attention. The Earth is a dynamic place and the energy involved is many magnitudes larger than anything mankind is capable of causing.
The climate is always changing, but we are not the source of the variability.
All of that coral on the planet Earth (yes, all of it) is less than 10,000 years old. All of the coral that was alive 20,000 years ago died when the last ice age ended and the ocean levels changed by > 400ft. All of the Earth's previous coral died as it was too deep to survive the new depths. In the past 1,000,000 years such events have wiped all tropical coral from existence at lest 20 times.
Coral has adapted by loading the ocean up with the eggs and sperm so it can form wherever conditions are correct. This falls into the publicity stunt range of science. They got funding for something they know isn't a problem, but they get money for it anyway.
Only the fanboi's go out and blow this kind of money every 2 years the moment something like this is released. That makes rubbing this in all the more pleasurable. I will be doing the same as well. I previously read that the construction on these was substandard with sloppy thermal paste application. It would seem that the issue is real and related to the assembly.
This is useful news for 3 year olds I suppose. For anyone else....
I would have to say this is unconstitutional, but it plugs a hole in the legal system that is incapable of dealing with properly dealing with inherently dangerous people. Anyone who is willing to destroy someone else for their own pleasure is someone that has no "right" to mix with the public. The fact that the government has not been able to get sentencing to properly account for this is the real problem and this ruling is a stop-gap measure.
In many ways the old west justice of a lynch mob was far more effective at dealing with many types of crime. Once the lynch mob was done there was no risk of repeat offenders. The downside to lynch mobs is the false/positive verdict that cannot be retracted. A solution is needed, but this law and ruling only highlight how poorly the system is at keeping people safe. It clearly does open the USA to the risk of permanent detainment of people that are at "odds" with the government. I am sure that Obama would not mind "detaining" some BP executives for a while as risks to the greater good.
I will agree with this one. Base 12 is better for humans that base 10. Screw the hexidecimal.
I appreciate that Americans simply disregard all efforts to force a standard on them. No protests, no complaining, they simply ignore whatever laws the government tries to force on them that they don't like. This Freedom is part of what makes America different. We do not do what we are told.
Every package shows both units on them and that doens't affect the printing costs but people can see both and use the units they prefer. It simply does not matter in everyday life. In engineering there is no argument that SI is superior. So I use both, and I like it that way.
Wiki has a great writeup on him as well. This will make for an interesting Roberts nomination as well.
Your logic sucks.
Renaming it will be more than sufficient. For example, the commonly known MRI is actually called an NMR, which stands for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. They changed the name to Magnetic Resonance Image just so the stupid masses would not be scared.
Since it worked for something as common as MRI, you think it should work for a new rocket engine. How many people really even understand how a "normal" rocket works anyway.
then they will within a year be selling 2 of 5 CD's as they will be able to crush all of the competition. There is no difference in a CD bought at different places. If a person can save 25% or more going to Walmart, then it is a done deal. There would be no reason to buy CD's anywhere else.
This in turn gives Walmart further leverage over the record industry until they lose all pricing power, and Walmart will dictate the price of CD's. There is no incentive for the RIAA to give in at all. If they give in now, forever will Walmart control their destiny.
That is interesting. That means that the maximum concentration is 2.26e-7 ppb. That is a concentration of 2.26e-16. So each increase in scale is 3.78e-8ppb. This is the real difficulty, the scale is so very, very, very small that it takes virtually no change to register.
This is of course assuming standard conditions of 273 Kelvin, and 1 ATM. Upper atmosphere could be a bit different from that, but the even 4 or 5 ORDERS of MAGNITUDE difference would still make this a very, very small difference.
The impressive part of this is that they can monitor concentrations so small.
The most intersting thing of note is the concentration scale -1 to 6. Nothing on the units. Without the units that picture means exactly zero. Those units could be ppb (parts per billion), or ppm(per million). Almost any cool picture of pollution can be generated to show these results if the scale is small enough.
So while the study produced an interesting picture that shows something, maybe, by not scaling it properly, the entire thing useless.
NO2 by the way only means that nitrogen and oxygen were mixed at high temperature. Cars are the most common source of NO2 pollution. Industrial pollution is much better measured by different chemicals.
but all I could find lots of rhetoric from every possible angle. Americans trashing the article, Europeans enjoying the opportunity to trash talk, and lots of insults to go around, few of which are even remotely related to the article at hand, and since I don't have 800 moderator points, I will comment instead.
The facts are simple, The US has the longest continuous democratic government in the world. So the comment stable government is accurate in that sense.
However, since it is old, and politicians have been writing the laws for so long to their own advantage, it is a very complicated process in which the laws of each state, can have an impact in how a president of the country is elected. Granted the parlimentary system can get very complicated, and back room deals are critical for a majority to be reached, just ask Italy about that.
No democracy is perfect, and it is safe to say that there has never been a national election in which cheating, mistakes, and outright stupidty on someones part did not cause inaccuracy in the numbers.
Now the European monitors will have no actual authority to do anything. US law, and courts will control all aspects, as it should be. They will see a very boring election in the respect that it will be a bunch of normal people going to the polls on the first Tuesday of November. There will not be gangs outside beating people who do not vote the way they want. No one will feel like they were pressured into voting a certain way, it will be a stable election.
Now if it close again, then the lawyers will get involved, and then the bloodbath will begin. So let them watch. Nothing they could say will match the level of hysteria that media will propagate over every little bit (literally) of ridiculous trash they can find, and in the end, there will still be a peaceful transition of power if Kerry wins, and a peaceful continuation if Bush wins. That is what it is all about.
It's been 144 years since the US failed to have a peaceful transistion based on an election. I think it will be ok.
German engineering and hydrogen.
...because he has always taken the profit from the last to finance the next one. Episode III will be almost a break even at best. Figure a production cost of $150 million, and that is about what its domestic gross will be give or take $25 million.
He has trashed the franchise so badly be making drawn out, boring movies that even Jar-Jar wouldn't watch the next one.
Call me a troll, but I really liked 4-6, but I did not enjoy 1, and I detested 2. It is not because I am older either. My 7 year old would rather watch IV than any other one.
Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that Genndy Tartakovsky made the 25 minute long animated Clone Wars and it was better and more gripping in every way. Episode 19 was the best two minutes of Star Wars ever made. Lucus just doesn't have it anymore. Simple as that.
If you read carefully, you will notice that we need to use nuclear, until we GET AWAY from steam for generating electricity.