First off, let me say that in general I happen to agree with you - and I was one of those C students.
However, there are two things being measured here - timeliness, and mathematics. Those are being combined into a single letter grade. Its entirely possible tha the student in question has a solid understanding of maths and a poor understanding of time management. The official remediation will be to... study more maths, but generally in a summer school environment where time management is not a consideration.
Whoops.
Still, it may be the most valid solution for the level of expediency it provides.
Hate to break it to you, but that happens in the corporate world, too. People even end up having to (gasp!) work longer hours during the weeks before and after their paid vacations in order to get things done.
Which, again, slews the funding towards the private schools who extensively screen out "problem" children (behavior issues, learning disabilities, and the like), which would have the net affect of making public school more expensive when measured per-head than it is now.
Also, don't forget that many of the fixed costs (such as campuses within transportation reach of every child) would remain - closing down physical school buildings would disenfranchise a lot of other children.
And access would cost another $20/month in a world where (gasp!) many kids are going to school without breakfast and are relying on the school district to provide them with lunch, since their parents simply can't afford it.
Those people are, however, notoriously underrepresented on slashdot.
As long as some people didn't have (or didn't want to use) electronic access, the school would have to have processes in place to handle paper-based communication. The good news is that paper-based works for everyone; as long as they have to do it that way for some, they can do it for all "for free" as far as process cost goes (which is not insignificant).
The alternative might save money (might not), but would require teachers either having to figure out each parent's preference independently, or to do all of their work twice for each student (again, not an insignificant amount of time they're spending on overhead).
It does, though. Replacing the battery is something that's rarely done. Additionally, some (small) amount of space (for the same external case) is used to handle the additional case layers, latching, etc.
Take a look at the iPad and iPhone real-world uses. The reality is that they very often provide enough power to last through a typical usage day - which is the design goal. There's not a lot of excess battery time in either of them. This means that by moving to a replacable battery either the device would have to grow in size (undesirable to many), or battery life would go from "just enough" to "not quite enough." That's a terrible decision for a product manager to make - which probably explains why they didn't make it.
That's why they try to apply it uniformly to all passengers and all "electronic devices." Since the FAs aren't Geek Squad they can't tell what will or what won't have something that will interfere with the aircraft systems, so they come up with a blanket policy. Can it be avoided? Yes and we see it all the time but that's like speed limits, how many people actually abide by a speed limit when there are no cops around to enforce the law?
Well, most people drive the speed limit and "a few mph over." You get far fewer idiots driving 90 down an 30 than you would if the sign said, "Eh, just drive whatever speed you want."
Until that Kindle goes flying about in the cabin and hitting someone because you had it out when you weren't supposed to.
My Kindle weighs a heck of a lot less than the latest Stephen King doorstop novel. The corners probably aren't as sharp either.
Hello, your old friend F=ma would like to have a word with you:
The mass doesn't matter nearly as much as the change in velocity, which in this case might be going from, say, 200 mph to 0 in the tenth of a second or so in the course of impacting with your head.
So... Steven King novels are exempt from Newtonian physics in your world?
If the purpose is to advocate for all things open source, then this is a bad move.
This is almost as silly as saying that, to advocate for open source, Linux kernels should refuse to run closed-source software.
More reasonably, consider that all modern operating systems provide a codec library. Firefox is one of the very few products that provides its own, out-of-sync one. Its a throwback to the times when every program used to include its own graphics, sound, and printer drivers. We moved away from those times for a very good reason.
If the Mozilla Foundation wants to make sure that all Firefox users can view at least the same subset of videos, they could always include and install a variety of freely licensed video codecs into the O/S store, and have that as a default part of the Firefox installation scripts. Of course, then the users' experience might be better in non-Firefox products also...
You're assuming that the tests would be any different if you didn't have an organ donor card? The only thing that would happen is that, once you were declared brain dead you'd be pulled off the machines faster (technically giving you less time to have a miraculous recovery), since there's no point in keeping your body in tip-top condition any more.
All of which goes out the window when you realize that you can easily bring an unlimited amount on board as long as a) you're willing to separate it into 3oz containers, and b) if you end up with more of them than will fit in a ziplock, you need to bring a friend.
Security is a good thing. Security theater is not.
Or 1)Open terminal. 2) for i in quiz*.doc;do lp -n 15 $i;done. Now not many people would know how to do that and need to have the GUI to guide them. But for those of us who do know, not having the option of using a command line (especially for remote connections!) is dreadful. Why do I have to have so many GUIs, wizards, pop-ups, tips of the day, and other nonsense between me and the code that will send my stuff to the printer?
That's assuming, of course, that the lp command knows how to print a.doc format file. Its interesting to me though - that never used to be the case (its been a while since I've done command-line *nix printing though). How do you register a file format with the print daemon?
How the hell is mnt a random abbreviation for mount? Seems very logical to me. ls as the command to list files in a directory? I wonder where those letters came from.
That's because you're used to it. Let's take mount->mnt. Aha! Remove the vowels. So... ls must be... Hmm.. LiST - no, that doesn't work. They're both easily learnable, but they're far from intuitive and, actually, quite random. Just historically consistent, if you've been using *NIX boxen for a while.
Buy an old Next workstation and install Linux on it. They were made in the US under US workers rights laws. I'd say buy a new one, but that ship sailed. The US had its chance and it drove Next almost out of business with failure to enforce antitrust law and general apathy about human rights.
Well, that and the fact that they were in-between systems in terms of power at a rediculously high price tag. But don't let that get in your way.
Its also worth noting that when new Foxconn positions become available for Apple manufacturing, thousands of people appear and queue for the job opportunity. The suicide rates and overall health risks among Apple/Foxconn employees are notably better than those of local non-Apple/Foxconn employees. Apple can and should still do more, but if you treat real efforts to improve with nothing but scorn, companies will just stop making efforts to improve.
So, you've never had to handle backups and data retention for a large database in the real world, I take it? Guaranteeing specific data removal is very, very hard. Mostly removing data is easy and reasonable.
Do you really want to institutionalize the concept of regularly redefining someone's prior guilt/innocense based on current laws? Think about the ramifications for a minute before answering that one.
What the pardon signifies is that the State realizes its mistake. Far from denying anything, the pardon affirms the horrific hardship created by the State against Turing and others, and apologizes for it.... I shocked that the British government disagreed.
Well, they did already take the very rare and unusal step of making a public apology and say that the State realized that the laws (long since overturned) were incorrect. That's a pretty direct response to your desired end-result, isn't it? What they haven't done is pretended that his actions were legal at the time (they weren't) and that he was unfairly prosecuted, or forced to confess to something he didn't actually do, &c.
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Ah, but there was some reasonable evidence that at least many of those convicted weren't guilty of cowardice even as the laws were written at the time. Turing was, in fact, guilty of being a homosexual, in ways that were a crime when the verdict was brought down.
So I guess then by their logic Anne Boleyn should remain "guilty" for all eternity as well, after all she should have known better than to not bear a son.
Guilty != Bad.
She was declared guilty through a corrupt system. She was not (because of that anyway) a Bad Person. Being found guilty is an event that happens, not a state of being.
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First off, let me say that in general I happen to agree with you - and I was one of those C students.
However, there are two things being measured here - timeliness, and mathematics. Those are being combined into a single letter grade. Its entirely possible tha the student in question has a solid understanding of maths and a poor understanding of time management. The official remediation will be to ... study more maths, but generally in a summer school environment where time management is not a consideration.
Whoops.
Still, it may be the most valid solution for the level of expediency it provides.
Far fewer than you apparently believe. Try volunteering at your neighborhood food pantry just one day a month.
Hate to break it to you, but that happens in the corporate world, too. People even end up having to (gasp!) work longer hours during the weeks before and after their paid vacations in order to get things done.
Which, again, slews the funding towards the private schools who extensively screen out "problem" children (behavior issues, learning disabilities, and the like), which would have the net affect of making public school more expensive when measured per-head than it is now.
Also, don't forget that many of the fixed costs (such as campuses within transportation reach of every child) would remain - closing down physical school buildings would disenfranchise a lot of other children.
And access would cost another $20/month in a world where (gasp!) many kids are going to school without breakfast and are relying on the school district to provide them with lunch, since their parents simply can't afford it.
Those people are, however, notoriously underrepresented on slashdot.
As long as some people didn't have (or didn't want to use) electronic access, the school would have to have processes in place to handle paper-based communication. The good news is that paper-based works for everyone; as long as they have to do it that way for some, they can do it for all "for free" as far as process cost goes (which is not insignificant).
The alternative might save money (might not), but would require teachers either having to figure out each parent's preference independently, or to do all of their work twice for each student (again, not an insignificant amount of time they're spending on overhead).
Giving the authors money is a generallly accepted practice that works well in these cases.
True. Very, very true. Until there's widespread community consensus on a set of design/usage guidelines, this will continue to plague adoption.
It does, though. Replacing the battery is something that's rarely done. Additionally, some (small) amount of space (for the same external case) is used to handle the additional case layers, latching, etc.
Take a look at the iPad and iPhone real-world uses. The reality is that they very often provide enough power to last through a typical usage day - which is the design goal. There's not a lot of excess battery time in either of them. This means that by moving to a replacable battery either the device would have to grow in size (undesirable to many), or battery life would go from "just enough" to "not quite enough." That's a terrible decision for a product manager to make - which probably explains why they didn't make it.
That's why they try to apply it uniformly to all passengers and all "electronic devices." Since the FAs aren't Geek Squad they can't tell what will or what won't have something that will interfere with the aircraft systems, so they come up with a blanket policy. Can it be avoided? Yes and we see it all the time but that's like speed limits, how many people actually abide by a speed limit when there are no cops around to enforce the law?
Well, most people drive the speed limit and "a few mph over." You get far fewer idiots driving 90 down an 30 than you would if the sign said, "Eh, just drive whatever speed you want."
Until that Kindle goes flying about in the cabin and hitting someone because you had it out when you weren't supposed to.
My Kindle weighs a heck of a lot less than the latest Stephen King doorstop novel. The corners probably aren't as sharp either.
Hello, your old friend F=ma would like to have a word with you:
The mass doesn't matter nearly as much as the change in velocity, which in this case might be going from, say, 200 mph to 0 in the tenth of a second or so in the course of impacting with your head.
So... Steven King novels are exempt from Newtonian physics in your world?
If the purpose is to advocate for all things open source, then this is a bad move.
This is almost as silly as saying that, to advocate for open source, Linux kernels should refuse to run closed-source software.
More reasonably, consider that all modern operating systems provide a codec library. Firefox is one of the very few products that provides its own, out-of-sync one. Its a throwback to the times when every program used to include its own graphics, sound, and printer drivers. We moved away from those times for a very good reason.
If the Mozilla Foundation wants to make sure that all Firefox users can view at least the same subset of videos, they could always include and install a variety of freely licensed video codecs into the O/S store, and have that as a default part of the Firefox installation scripts. Of course, then the users' experience might be better in non-Firefox products also...
So, $1.05? Its not as if organ transplants net $750K in profit, you know. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean that its lucrative.
You're assuming that the tests would be any different if you didn't have an organ donor card? The only thing that would happen is that, once you were declared brain dead you'd be pulled off the machines faster (technically giving you less time to have a miraculous recovery), since there's no point in keeping your body in tip-top condition any more.
All of which goes out the window when you realize that you can easily bring an unlimited amount on board as long as a) you're willing to separate it into 3oz containers, and b) if you end up with more of them than will fit in a ziplock, you need to bring a friend.
Security is a good thing. Security theater is not.
Or 1)Open terminal. 2) for i in quiz*.doc;do lp -n 15 $i;done. Now not many people would know how to do that and need to have the GUI to guide them. But for those of us who do know, not having the option of using a command line (especially for remote connections!) is dreadful. Why do I have to have so many GUIs, wizards, pop-ups, tips of the day, and other nonsense between me and the code that will send my stuff to the printer?
That's assuming, of course, that the lp command knows how to print a .doc format file. Its interesting to me though - that never used to be the case (its been a while since I've done command-line *nix printing though). How do you register a file format with the print daemon?
How the hell is mnt a random abbreviation for mount? Seems very logical to me. ls as the command to list files in a directory? I wonder where those letters came from.
That's because you're used to it. Let's take mount->mnt. Aha! Remove the vowels. So... ls must be... Hmm.. LiST - no, that doesn't work. They're both easily learnable, but they're far from intuitive and, actually, quite random. Just historically consistent, if you've been using *NIX boxen for a while.
Yup. In much the same way that repainting your car is moving it from one color to another.
Buy an old Next workstation and install Linux on it. They were made in the US under US workers rights laws. I'd say buy a new one, but that ship sailed. The US had its chance and it drove Next almost out of business with failure to enforce antitrust law and general apathy about human rights.
Well, that and the fact that they were in-between systems in terms of power at a rediculously high price tag. But don't let that get in your way.
Its also worth noting that when new Foxconn positions become available for Apple manufacturing, thousands of people appear and queue for the job opportunity. The suicide rates and overall health risks among Apple/Foxconn employees are notably better than those of local non-Apple/Foxconn employees. Apple can and should still do more, but if you treat real efforts to improve with nothing but scorn, companies will just stop making efforts to improve.
So, you've never had to handle backups and data retention for a large database in the real world, I take it? Guaranteeing specific data removal is very, very hard. Mostly removing data is easy and reasonable.
Do you really want to institutionalize the concept of regularly redefining someone's prior guilt/innocense based on current laws? Think about the ramifications for a minute before answering that one.
What the pardon signifies is that the State realizes its mistake. Far from denying anything, the pardon affirms the horrific hardship created by the State against Turing and others, and apologizes for it. ... I shocked that the British government disagreed.
Well, they did already take the very rare and unusal step of making a public apology and say that the State realized that the laws (long since overturned) were incorrect. That's a pretty direct response to your desired end-result, isn't it? What they haven't done is pretended that his actions were legal at the time (they weren't) and that he was unfairly prosecuted, or forced to confess to something he didn't actually do, &c.
Ah, but there was some reasonable evidence that at least many of those convicted weren't guilty of cowardice even as the laws were written at the time. Turing was, in fact, guilty of being a homosexual, in ways that were a crime when the verdict was brought down.
So I guess then by their logic Anne Boleyn should remain "guilty" for all eternity as well, after all she should have known better than to not bear a son.
Guilty != Bad.
She was declared guilty through a corrupt system. She was not (because of that anyway) a Bad Person. Being found guilty is an event that happens, not a state of being.