It isn't clear, but the researchers hypothesize that laptop users tend to transcribe the lecture verbatim, while pen & paper users rephrase into their own words, which requires thinking about what is being said.
You actually still have to teach them and get them engaged in learning?
No you don't. Kids are naturally curious. They will learn on their own, just not what they are supposed to be learning. My son was doing his chemistry homework, and looked up phosgene on Wikipedia. He was soon reading about the Battle of Ypres, and its effects of its aftermath on British planning for their Somme offensive the following summer. Was he learning? Certainly. Was he learning chemistry? Well, no. But maybe he will learn some chemistry while doing research for his history class. Will any of the stuff he serendipitously learned help his test scores? Unlikely, because it wasn't what he was supposed to be learning, so it won't be on the test.
... but perhaps the testing system is entirely fucked?
Indeed. When my daughter was in high school she and several other students made a report on the human pancreas. One of the other parents mentioned that they seemed to be learning a lot about formatting documents in Word, creating slides in Powerpoint, but very little about pancreases. I told her to go look at the job offers on Craigslist, and compare the number of jobs requiring knowledge about pancreases to the number requiring knowledge of Word and Powerpoint.
FreeCAD works for me. I especially like scripting in Python. AutoCAD uses Lisp for scripting, but it is buggy and not included at all in the "lite" edition for students.
it would be much better if any camera company funds gimp development
A decent Photoshop replacement should not use Gimp as a starting point. It has the worst UI I have ever seen. It is legendary for being unusable. Someone once joked that they took a book full of bad UI design patterns and used it as a "how to" guide. But there is no way that is true since Gimp has many bad UI "features" that appear no where else.
Gimp is a classic example of what goes wrong with OSS projects when the developers have no financial incentive to care about their users.
Microsoft benefits from infrastructure, educational opportunities, etc.. provided to it and its employees.
Microsoft pays payroll taxes on those employees, and the employees pay sales taxes when they spend their salaries. If that isn't enough, then Washington should raise those taxes. It is absurd to expect Microsoft's customers, who mostly live elsewhere, to pay sales taxes to Washington for sales that did not occur there.
... for a personal income tax on everyone else in Washington State, so the rest of us can pick up the slack dropped by his former company.
Wrong Bill Gates. It was his dad, Bill Senior, that was behind the income tax initiative.
Even though the tax fell only on people making $200k or more, it was voted down, because voters (likely correctly) figured that, once in place, it would eventually be extended to tax many more.
Another way to avoid taxes is to do less, or no, business in that jurisdiction, which is what Microsoft is doing. For instance, I avoid Laotian and Sudanese taxes by doing business in California, and not Laos or Sudan. Is what wrong? If not, then how is it different from what Microsoft is doing?
There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Microsoft, but this is just stupid. Washington has no "right", either morally or legally, to collect sales tax on something that is neither made, nor sold, nor delivered in Washington.
The USS Arizona was in port, whereas the USS Indianapolis was at sea (engaged in a combat mission).
By the time her magazine exploded, the crew of the USS Arizona had gone to general quarters, and anti-aircraft guns were manned and returning fire. So she was also engaged in combat.
Anyway, TFA doesn't say it was the "worst disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy". That incorrect factoid appears to have been fabricated by whoever wrote the summary.
You may try to make a distinction by saying Taiwanese, but it is a distinction without a difference.
The majority of people in Taiwan are ethnically Chinese and speak Mandarin, but saying Foxconn is a "Chinese" company makes about as much sense as saying Apple is British.
The GPP was apparently implying that taxpayer subsidies are bad in this case because the recipient is "Chinese". That would make some sense since China is a geo-political rival of America. But Foxconn is Taiwanese, and Taiwan is an ally of America.
According to TFA, they didn't know what they were buying. The car was originally made for the Japanese market, and later imported to Canada. They should have known something was fishy when they noticed that the steering wheel was on the wrong side.
Also, according to TFA, it is common in Japan for car buyers to only receive one key, which cannot be duplicated. So I guess the Japanese just never lose their keys, or if they do, they just buy a new car.
I thought political affiliation was a protected class.
In general, it is not. In California, you can't be fired for your views on public policy, but that is not the same as political affiliation. Even in California, you can be fired for discussing politics at work if your employer has a blanket ban or such discussions.
Federal law mostly uses protected classes to protect people for what they ARE, rather than what they choose to be. You are black or caucasian. You choose to be Republican or Democrat.
Yes, banning Nazis is bad. Everyone should have the right to express themselves. The First Amendment does not say "Congress shall make no law respecting abridging the freedom of speech unless you are a Nazi". In addition to the principle of freedom of expression, there is also the practical argument: Sunlight is a good disinfectant. It is better for extremism to be discussed and confronted openly rather than festering in the shadows.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." --H. L. Mencken
If you oppose what the Nazis stand for, then you should support their right to speak.
the first-past-the-post system is and always has been a dumb way to choose a candidate, favoring extremists
1. FPTP does NOT favor extremists. It marginalizes them and pushes candidates toward the center. You end up with two parties that mostly stand for the same things, differing only in the details.
2. If you really think Trump is not mainstream, you need to get out of your urban liberal bubble. Go to a trailer park in Kentucky and talk to the people there. You will meet two kinds of people: Those who agree with Trump, and those that think he is too liberal.
If I moved to where my job is I'd need a 500% raise to afford a mortgage or the rent.
The high property values are a result of government imposed artificial scarcity. Relatively rich landowners are using the government to enforce high rents and property prices on people that are much less wealthy. Instead of taxing the rich more, maybe we should just reduce their unfair subsidies.
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Studies seem to show that attentive listening and HAND-WRITTEN notes have the highest retention
Here is a study that supports this: The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard ... and an article about the study in SciAm: Don't take notes with a laptop
I wonder why.
It isn't clear, but the researchers hypothesize that laptop users tend to transcribe the lecture verbatim, while pen & paper users rephrase into their own words, which requires thinking about what is being said.
You actually still have to teach them and get them engaged in learning?
No you don't. Kids are naturally curious. They will learn on their own, just not what they are supposed to be learning. My son was doing his chemistry homework, and looked up phosgene on Wikipedia. He was soon reading about the Battle of Ypres, and its effects of its aftermath on British planning for their Somme offensive the following summer. Was he learning? Certainly. Was he learning chemistry? Well, no. But maybe he will learn some chemistry while doing research for his history class. Will any of the stuff he serendipitously learned help his test scores? Unlikely, because it wasn't what he was supposed to be learning, so it won't be on the test.
... but perhaps the testing system is entirely fucked?
Indeed. When my daughter was in high school she and several other students made a report on the human pancreas. One of the other parents mentioned that they seemed to be learning a lot about formatting documents in Word, creating slides in Powerpoint, but very little about pancreases. I told her to go look at the job offers on Craigslist, and compare the number of jobs requiring knowledge about pancreases to the number requiring knowledge of Word and Powerpoint.
FreeCAD works for me. I especially like scripting in Python. AutoCAD uses Lisp for scripting, but it is buggy and not included at all in the "lite" edition for students.
Even if AutoCAD was free, I would prefer FreeCAD.
Source to CUDA would also be nice.
it would be much better if any camera company funds gimp development
A decent Photoshop replacement should not use Gimp as a starting point. It has the worst UI I have ever seen. It is legendary for being unusable. Someone once joked that they took a book full of bad UI design patterns and used it as a "how to" guide. But there is no way that is true since Gimp has many bad UI "features" that appear no where else.
Gimp is a classic example of what goes wrong with OSS projects when the developers have no financial incentive to care about their users.
True, but what the Slashdot summary that you are responding to said was this:
No it didn't. I pointed out the mistake, and the summary was later corrected.
And you "tie up" to a pier. You don't fucking dock your ship at a pier.
A ship ties up to a pier or a wharf. Piers run perpendicular to the shoreline. Wharfs run parallel to the shoreline.
Neither a pier nor a wharf is a "dock". The dock is the water next to a pier or wharf. The ship ties to a pier, while it sits in a dock.
At least, that is what I learned in boot camp.
There are also "dry docks" and floodable docks like the dock on an LSD.
Disclaimer: I once spent 8 weeks on an LSD. But as a Marine, I was considered part of the cargo, not part of the crew. Semper Fi.
Microsoft benefits from infrastructure, educational opportunities, etc.. provided to it and its employees.
Microsoft pays payroll taxes on those employees, and the employees pay sales taxes when they spend their salaries. If that isn't enough, then Washington should raise those taxes. It is absurd to expect Microsoft's customers, who mostly live elsewhere, to pay sales taxes to Washington for sales that did not occur there.
... for a personal income tax on everyone else in Washington State, so the rest of us can pick up the slack dropped by his former company.
Wrong Bill Gates. It was his dad, Bill Senior, that was behind the income tax initiative.
Even though the tax fell only on people making $200k or more, it was voted down, because voters (likely correctly) figured that, once in place, it would eventually be extended to tax many more.
Another way to avoid taxes is to do less, or no, business in that jurisdiction, which is what Microsoft is doing. For instance, I avoid Laotian and Sudanese taxes by doing business in California, and not Laos or Sudan. Is what wrong? If not, then how is it different from what Microsoft is doing?
There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Microsoft, but this is just stupid. Washington has no "right", either morally or legally, to collect sales tax on something that is neither made, nor sold, nor delivered in Washington.
The USS Arizona was in port, whereas the USS Indianapolis was at sea (engaged in a combat mission).
By the time her magazine exploded, the crew of the USS Arizona had gone to general quarters, and anti-aircraft guns were manned and returning fire. So she was also engaged in combat.
It's not a contest.
But someone was wrong on the Internet!
Anyway, TFA doesn't say it was the "worst disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy". That incorrect factoid appears to have been fabricated by whoever wrote the summary.
From TFA: Only 317 of its 1,197-man crew survived, making it the worst disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy
1197 - 317 = 880 dead
1177 died on 12/7/1941 on the USS Arizona.
So the USS Indianapolis was not the worst.
Manning is a traitor that irresponsibly leaked.
He could have handled things better. But is it just that he went to prison while the war criminals he exposed did not?
You may try to make a distinction by saying Taiwanese, but it is a distinction without a difference.
The majority of people in Taiwan are ethnically Chinese and speak Mandarin, but saying Foxconn is a "Chinese" company makes about as much sense as saying Apple is British.
The GPP was apparently implying that taxpayer subsidies are bad in this case because the recipient is "Chinese". That would make some sense since China is a geo-political rival of America. But Foxconn is Taiwanese, and Taiwan is an ally of America.
Or they have it towed to a shop and get new keys programmed.
RTFA. They tried that, and all the shops said it was impossible. The car had a customized immobilizer. Even the manufacturer could not make a new key.
Also, in America you do not need to have your car "towed to a shop" to get new keys. You just need to call an authorized dealer and give them the VIN.
the state is giving three billion dollars to a Chinese company.
Foxconn is not a Chinese company.
Why would anyone buy a car like that?
According to TFA, they didn't know what they were buying. The car was originally made for the Japanese market, and later imported to Canada. They should have known something was fishy when they noticed that the steering wheel was on the wrong side.
Also, according to TFA, it is common in Japan for car buyers to only receive one key, which cannot be duplicated. So I guess the Japanese just never lose their keys, or if they do, they just buy a new car.
And tomorrow I leave for a 600 mile road trip. Did another one last month.
Then don't buy an electric car. They obviously don't fit your use case. But for many other people they are a good choice.
I drive an electric, and I am very happy with it. I will never go back to an ICE.
Killing them all in a war they start is the best.
Fake news. Everybody knows that Poland shot first.
I thought political affiliation was a protected class.
In general, it is not. In California, you can't be fired for your views on public policy, but that is not the same as political affiliation. Even in California, you can be fired for discussing politics at work if your employer has a blanket ban or such discussions.
Federal law mostly uses protected classes to protect people for what they ARE, rather than what they choose to be. You are black or caucasian. You choose to be Republican or Democrat.
Wait, I'm confused. Banning Nazi's is bad??
Yes, banning Nazis is bad. Everyone should have the right to express themselves. The First Amendment does not say "Congress shall make no law respecting abridging the freedom of speech unless you are a Nazi". In addition to the principle of freedom of expression, there is also the practical argument: Sunlight is a good disinfectant. It is better for extremism to be discussed and confronted openly rather than festering in the shadows.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." --H. L. Mencken
If you oppose what the Nazis stand for, then you should support their right to speak.
the first-past-the-post system is and always has been a dumb way to choose a candidate, favoring extremists
1. FPTP does NOT favor extremists. It marginalizes them and pushes candidates toward the center. You end up with two parties that mostly stand for the same things, differing only in the details.
2. If you really think Trump is not mainstream, you need to get out of your urban liberal bubble. Go to a trailer park in Kentucky and talk to the people there. You will meet two kinds of people: Those who agree with Trump, and those that think he is too liberal.
If I moved to where my job is I'd need a 500% raise to afford a mortgage or the rent.
The high property values are a result of government imposed artificial scarcity. Relatively rich landowners are using the government to enforce high rents and property prices on people that are much less wealthy. Instead of taxing the rich more, maybe we should just reduce their unfair subsidies.
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