The truth is that exams cannot alone be used to evaluate a person's effectiveness as a mathematician. The only way to get around this is to teach mathematics properly, and make sure each person understands maths at all levels.
How do you judge a persons level of understanding without testing them?
I often buy things that *I* don't use. They're called gifts. Similarly, I can use things that I don't purchase, also called gifts. Sometimes, things are purchased in a different states from which they are used. What's the law on that?
You're right, it really doesn't. I should have said 4-5 hours driving, depending on your proximity to the airport. I regularly (once a week or so) have to travel from my office to a location about 240 miles away. I live 15 minutes from the airport; I have to arrive at the airport 45+ minutes in advance of departure; it's a 50 minute flight; departing the plane and getting a rental car 20+ minutes (assuming carry-on only luggage, add 15+ minutes waiting for checked luggage); the destination airport is 45+ minutes from the place I need to be. Basically, take the flight time + 2 hours on average. I dislike flying, but not because of the TSA [I still do fly about once a month though].
My general rule is that it's less than a 6 hour drive and the stay is more than 1 full day, I drive. Otherwise, I fly. Because it's business, the cost to me is immaterial, the company pays for it.
While it's most likely true that more people are driving vs flying for the holidays, I don't think the TSA is the reason. It's often cheaper to drive and, for flights under 2 to 2 1/2 hours, the time is basically the same [including drive time to airport, luggage pickup, and, yes, security screening]. I'm extremely doubtful that the airlines are losing business due to the TSA [not that they're not losing business because of other reasons: bad service, increased costs (i.e. luggage fees), decreased routes].
I seriously question anyone who says they're not flying because of the TSA's new scanners and pat downs. Most likely, they wouldn't be flying for other reasons.
This is not to say there are not potential health concerns with the new full-body imagers, those do have to be addressed, especially to pilots and flight attendants.
Then the 2nd semester is where it has to be implemented by a different group of students.
That's just mean.
Unless of course, you reverse it. First, have them write code from specifications, then have them write specifications. That way, they'll have a better understanding of exactly what they need to put in the spec to make it possible for the other developers to build what they want. Even better, tie it to a IT focused management course to be the "customer".
I wouldn't trust those banking apps to not rip me off or expose me, since they're made by the banks. The banks are untrustworthy.
Then if I were you, I would find another place to store my money. If I didn't trust my bank to make an app for me to manage my account and not rip me off [assuming I believe them to be competent developers], why the hell would I let them hold my money?
Other then that, I agree with the rest of your post.
Or any other new, major smartphone either.
Apple has this ability with the iPhone, and the Android system also supports this function, I'm not sure about WebOS, Symbian, or MeeGo, or Blackberry [but with the Blackberry's enterprise focus, I'm almost certain it exists].
Of course, you can overcome this issue by just never connecting your phone to the network.
Its doubtful. Regarding stride/gait, these devices are for static, non moving, images; they are completely unsuitable for gait analysis [which is a real thing]. If authorities wanted to collect biometric data on passengers, they would just do that [and I expect they will soon]. Multimodal biometric collection devices are cheap and relatively fast [fingerprint and iris verification would take less time than a patdown].
A&E is also producing great, non-run of the mill, shows. Breaking Bad is amazing. And I'm really looking forward to The Walking Dead. BSG was great [minus the ending], but I haven't checked out Caprica yet.
His solution is to give the shows away for free, without any restrictions, with minimal advertising before and after the show, and all money being made my merchandizing?
Sorry, but that just won't work. What advertiser is going to buy into this model? Plus, I'm a pretty big fan of a couple TV series, have a decent income, and I don't own any merchandise from any other those shows. Selling T-shirts will help a band stay on the road, but it won't help a million+ dollar a week enterprise.
Team Fortress 2.
I just started playing a few months ago. And yeah, at first it's annoying to get killed every minute or so [I can last 2 minutes or so now], the players on most servers aren't dicks, and there are some "dedicated" newbie servers, where there's a few people who are actively *trying* to teach new players how to play.
It's fun.
It's incredibly addicting.
It's cheap.
I've got about 40 hours of play out of it so far, so I'm pretty inexperienced. But those 40 hours have been worth the $10 I spent on the game. Thought I haven't played in a while, I have a fulltime+ job, and Fallout is taking my time now [which is far too easy on normal mode].
No, Agnostics believe that it's unknowable whether or not god (in the traditional sense of omnipotent, omnipresent, etc) exists; and unknowable implies irrelevant.
An omnipotent god is an untestable hypothesis, and therefore a meaningless topic of discussion.
Agnostics do not deny that the *concept* of god exists, nor that the *concept* in and of itself has influence.
Fuji has their Super CCD SR sensors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_CCD which has two photodiodes (with different sensitivities) per effective pixel.
The police can trample over your rights in any country. Just like you can get mugged or shot in any country. In every society, there are people that follow the rules, and there are people that don't. Most citizens are not violent criminals, just like most police officers are not violent criminals. Fact is, the police in the US are less corrupt then in most of the world [I'm not saying they're the least corrupt, just less than the majority].
By your definition, any country that the police decide to control is a police state. This is a tautology, and really says nothing.
Driver disks for which OS? Windows XP, Vista (32 and 64 bit), 7 (32 and 64 bit); OS X, 10.4 0.5, 10.6; Linux (32 and 64 bit); Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2; Open BSD, Free BSD; Solaris; VMS?
The key thing the Gold membership give me is Netflix to the XBox. That's the only reason I have the Gold subscription. Yes, I know I can use another player that has no monthly/yearly fee [I have a Roku in another room. Great device], but I'd rather not have to add yet another device to the system.
The problem with the Doritos analogy is that there is a physical good whose contents remain basically unchanged based on environmental conditions [fires, floods, etc. excluded]. And the contents are fixed and determined by the manufacturer. With the case of ISPs, they cannot guarantee anything outside of their control, which consists of most of the internet, and hence the places your traffic will go. Can you blame your ISP when you get horrible d/l speeds from someone serving up a website from their homes 56k modem? when site gets slashdotted? when a site goes down? Is it the ISPs responsibility to cache the sites for you?
You have to pin down the bottleneck before assigning blame and/or claiming false advertising.
Now, I dislike the ISPs as much as the next guy, and I know they oversubscribe. I'm willing to make that trade in order to keep my cost down.
Things are expensive, generally a lot more expensive then people think. I know that if I wanted a fixed, high bandwidth connection, I'd have to pay a lot more for it, and I'm happy with the price/performance I get from my current connection.
And the FDA says, in effect, "NO. We don't trust you and your doctor to make decisiosn for yourself, and we would honestly rather that you died -- for sure, all the way -- than chance you _maybe_ getting better or _maybe_ getting sicker".
One of the problems of this thinking is that many health issues are public concerns. Sure, cancer and such generally affect only the person afflicted [medically], but many diseases are communicable, and their treatment needs to be looked at in those terms. There is a balance between an all out nanny state that quarantines everyone who gets a cold [though quarantines are sometimes warranted] and one where the doctor prescribes their own "homemade cold solution X".
The FDA as currently implemented has some major problems, but the concept is sound.
Note. This is only talking about one of the FDAs functions. They also deal with food, production quality control, labeling, fraud protection etc.
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The truth is that exams cannot alone be used to evaluate a person's effectiveness as a mathematician. The only way to get around this is to teach mathematics properly, and make sure each person understands maths at all levels.
How do you judge a persons level of understanding without testing them?
Caloric restriction is effective at increasing lifespans [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction].
That's why no one drives to New Hampshire to shop.
I often buy things that *I* don't use. They're called gifts. Similarly, I can use things that I don't purchase, also called gifts. Sometimes, things are purchased in a different states from which they are used. What's the law on that?
You're right, it really doesn't. I should have said 4-5 hours driving, depending on your proximity to the airport. I regularly (once a week or so) have to travel from my office to a location about 240 miles away. I live 15 minutes from the airport; I have to arrive at the airport 45+ minutes in advance of departure; it's a 50 minute flight; departing the plane and getting a rental car 20+ minutes (assuming carry-on only luggage, add 15+ minutes waiting for checked luggage); the destination airport is 45+ minutes from the place I need to be. Basically, take the flight time + 2 hours on average. I dislike flying, but not because of the TSA [I still do fly about once a month though]. My general rule is that it's less than a 6 hour drive and the stay is more than 1 full day, I drive. Otherwise, I fly. Because it's business, the cost to me is immaterial, the company pays for it.
While it's most likely true that more people are driving vs flying for the holidays, I don't think the TSA is the reason. It's often cheaper to drive and, for flights under 2 to 2 1/2 hours, the time is basically the same [including drive time to airport, luggage pickup, and, yes, security screening]. I'm extremely doubtful that the airlines are losing business due to the TSA [not that they're not losing business because of other reasons: bad service, increased costs (i.e. luggage fees), decreased routes]. I seriously question anyone who says they're not flying because of the TSA's new scanners and pat downs. Most likely, they wouldn't be flying for other reasons. This is not to say there are not potential health concerns with the new full-body imagers, those do have to be addressed, especially to pilots and flight attendants.
Then the 2nd semester is where it has to be implemented by a different group of students.
That's just mean. Unless of course, you reverse it. First, have them write code from specifications, then have them write specifications. That way, they'll have a better understanding of exactly what they need to put in the spec to make it possible for the other developers to build what they want. Even better, tie it to a IT focused management course to be the "customer".
I wouldn't trust those banking apps to not rip me off or expose me, since they're made by the banks. The banks are untrustworthy.
Then if I were you, I would find another place to store my money. If I didn't trust my bank to make an app for me to manage my account and not rip me off [assuming I believe them to be competent developers], why the hell would I let them hold my money? Other then that, I agree with the rest of your post.
I always thought he was the child of some self-hating jews.
They do sell those phones, you're just not allowed to use them on public networks.
Now I have no need to even consider getting one.
Or any other new, major smartphone either. Apple has this ability with the iPhone, and the Android system also supports this function, I'm not sure about WebOS, Symbian, or MeeGo, or Blackberry [but with the Blackberry's enterprise focus, I'm almost certain it exists]. Of course, you can overcome this issue by just never connecting your phone to the network.
Its doubtful. Regarding stride/gait, these devices are for static, non moving, images; they are completely unsuitable for gait analysis [which is a real thing]. If authorities wanted to collect biometric data on passengers, they would just do that [and I expect they will soon]. Multimodal biometric collection devices are cheap and relatively fast [fingerprint and iris verification would take less time than a patdown].
A&E is also producing great, non-run of the mill, shows. Breaking Bad is amazing. And I'm really looking forward to The Walking Dead. BSG was great [minus the ending], but I haven't checked out Caprica yet.
His solution is to give the shows away for free, without any restrictions, with minimal advertising before and after the show, and all money being made my merchandizing? Sorry, but that just won't work. What advertiser is going to buy into this model? Plus, I'm a pretty big fan of a couple TV series, have a decent income, and I don't own any merchandise from any other those shows. Selling T-shirts will help a band stay on the road, but it won't help a million+ dollar a week enterprise.
Team Fortress 2. I just started playing a few months ago. And yeah, at first it's annoying to get killed every minute or so [I can last 2 minutes or so now], the players on most servers aren't dicks, and there are some "dedicated" newbie servers, where there's a few people who are actively *trying* to teach new players how to play. It's fun. It's incredibly addicting. It's cheap. I've got about 40 hours of play out of it so far, so I'm pretty inexperienced. But those 40 hours have been worth the $10 I spent on the game. Thought I haven't played in a while, I have a fulltime+ job, and Fallout is taking my time now [which is far too easy on normal mode].
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No, Agnostics believe that it's unknowable whether or not god (in the traditional sense of omnipotent, omnipresent, etc) exists; and unknowable implies irrelevant. An omnipotent god is an untestable hypothesis, and therefore a meaningless topic of discussion. Agnostics do not deny that the *concept* of god exists, nor that the *concept* in and of itself has influence.
Fuji has their Super CCD SR sensors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_CCD which has two photodiodes (with different sensitivities) per effective pixel.
The police can trample over your rights in any country. Just like you can get mugged or shot in any country. In every society, there are people that follow the rules, and there are people that don't. Most citizens are not violent criminals, just like most police officers are not violent criminals. Fact is, the police in the US are less corrupt then in most of the world [I'm not saying they're the least corrupt, just less than the majority]. By your definition, any country that the police decide to control is a police state. This is a tautology, and really says nothing.
Driver disks for which OS? Windows XP, Vista (32 and 64 bit), 7 (32 and 64 bit); OS X, 10.4 0.5, 10.6; Linux (32 and 64 bit); Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2; Open BSD, Free BSD; Solaris; VMS?
The key thing the Gold membership give me is Netflix to the XBox. That's the only reason I have the Gold subscription. Yes, I know I can use another player that has no monthly/yearly fee [I have a Roku in another room. Great device], but I'd rather not have to add yet another device to the system.
The problem with the Doritos analogy is that there is a physical good whose contents remain basically unchanged based on environmental conditions [fires, floods, etc. excluded]. And the contents are fixed and determined by the manufacturer. With the case of ISPs, they cannot guarantee anything outside of their control, which consists of most of the internet, and hence the places your traffic will go. Can you blame your ISP when you get horrible d/l speeds from someone serving up a website from their homes 56k modem? when site gets slashdotted? when a site goes down? Is it the ISPs responsibility to cache the sites for you? You have to pin down the bottleneck before assigning blame and/or claiming false advertising. Now, I dislike the ISPs as much as the next guy, and I know they oversubscribe. I'm willing to make that trade in order to keep my cost down. Things are expensive, generally a lot more expensive then people think. I know that if I wanted a fixed, high bandwidth connection, I'd have to pay a lot more for it, and I'm happy with the price/performance I get from my current connection.
Oracle immediately reverted the change within 2 days
Immediately? or 2 days?
Unless you believe in Lamarkian evolution, the egg had to come first.
And the FDA says, in effect, "NO. We don't trust you and your doctor to make decisiosn for yourself, and we would honestly rather that you died -- for sure, all the way -- than chance you _maybe_ getting better or _maybe_ getting sicker".
One of the problems of this thinking is that many health issues are public concerns. Sure, cancer and such generally affect only the person afflicted [medically], but many diseases are communicable, and their treatment needs to be looked at in those terms. There is a balance between an all out nanny state that quarantines everyone who gets a cold [though quarantines are sometimes warranted] and one where the doctor prescribes their own "homemade cold solution X". The FDA as currently implemented has some major problems, but the concept is sound. Note. This is only talking about one of the FDAs functions. They also deal with food, production quality control, labeling, fraud protection etc.