Does the Berne Convention really deal with patents? I understood it to deal with copyright, and a look at the text shows it to be about "authors" and "literary and artistic works".
In addition to the point made by the previous reply, a school that's taking it really seriously would have the computer used for exams disconnected from the network. Given the chance - as my university's CompSci department was when they designed their new building a few years ago - they'll also make sure that it's kept in a room without a false floor or ceiling, so that access has to be via the door or using a pneumatic drill.
When I was in the 5th year at secondary school they replaced the Archimedes 4000s with P2s. Everyone came into school and was given a piece of paper with their username and password, which in each case was "kcpupil". (K.C. was the abbreviated name of the school). Now, how long do you think it took to guess that the teachers' passwords were all "kcstaff", and the Head's password was "kchead"? I sent a couple of instant messages from the Head's account, but left it at that: I'd already sailed rather close to the wind when I accidentally changed someone else's password on the Archi network.
Computers in the classroom allow teachers to present information in different ways, 3-D modeling, conferencing, visualizing abstract concepts, etc.
Case in point (sort-of): when I was taking A-level physics I wrote a simple little program to visualise longitudinal waves. It moved a series of vertical lines, one of which was coloured differently to the rest, in SHM with constant central difference and phase difference between adjacent lines. I doubt the school still has the program, because it was in BBC BASIC, but it was useful for a while.
Federal law states that by the end of 8th grade that a student should be computer literate.
But what do they mean by that? Here in the UK it seems to mean that you can do basic tasks with Microsoft Office. I actually have a certificate from a national exam board which says:
PETER TAYLOR has demonstrated the ability to:
USE WORD PROCESSING FACILITIES TO: Enter text. Edit text. Change the appearance of text. Save and print text.
USE DESKTOP PUBLISHING FACILITIES TO: Set up page layout and import files. Display text effectively. Change the presentation. Save and print a document.
Does that make me computer literate? In the eyes of the politicians, probably.
Java, mainly. I don't think that's a great language for beginners either, although it might allow teaching them to think in an OO way early on, without having to break procedural habits.
Depends what it means. If it means they're more cautious, that's great. If it means their reaction times are slower, that's not. And if it means they drive like my Grandad, who's never taken a driving test because he learnt in the army in WWII and was given a licence when he was demobbed, then be very afraid.
Gates'. It was initially thought to be Blair's, because of the desk on which it was found. The summary does say "The Gates Foundation has confirmed the doodle was left there by Bill Gates."
4-year-old's shoes? I kid you not: the person I was standing next to when I graduated from Cambridge University had her hands labelled L and R to make sure she used the right one to take one of the Pro Vice Chancellor's fingers.
The account of Elijah's departure from Elisha (2 Kings 2) is the only clear OT counter-example, but some believe that the language used of Enoch (Genesis 5:24) implies that he didn't die either; some have made similar claims of Melchizedek, although I'm not sure of the basis for those claims. I'm sure you can find out if you're sufficiently interested.
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Can you explain why I should use CSS table syntax rather than HTML tables? I'm trying to move over to using CSS for my layout, but finding that sometimes tables seem to be the only way to get the layout I want.
What the heck? Do they have tea-parties and watch Monty Python all day?
Not at all, old chap: we don't start the tea-parties until 5pm.
It's not like it's pre-Christian Polynesia and you get to boink nubile exotic Island girls all day long and eat sweet tree-melons while basking on the beach.
If you were from pre-Christian Polynesia you wouldn't find the island girls exotic. (See, mods: this post is insightful as well as funny;)
The article does get it right: it talks about the Web rather than the Internet. I must say that I was more amused by Lord Foster getting an award for a bridge which was unsafe.
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Does the Berne Convention really deal with patents? I understood it to deal with copyright, and a look at the text shows it to be about "authors" and "literary and artistic works".
In addition to the point made by the previous reply, a school that's taking it really seriously would have the computer used for exams disconnected from the network. Given the chance - as my university's CompSci department was when they designed their new building a few years ago - they'll also make sure that it's kept in a room without a false floor or ceiling, so that access has to be via the door or using a pneumatic drill.
When I was in the 5th year at secondary school they replaced the Archimedes 4000s with P2s. Everyone came into school and was given a piece of paper with their username and password, which in each case was "kcpupil". (K.C. was the abbreviated name of the school). Now, how long do you think it took to guess that the teachers' passwords were all "kcstaff", and the Head's password was "kchead"? I sent a couple of instant messages from the Head's account, but left it at that: I'd already sailed rather close to the wind when I accidentally changed someone else's password on the Archi network.
Java, mainly. I don't think that's a great language for beginners either, although it might allow teaching them to think in an OO way early on, without having to break procedural habits.
Does this 0.08 "blood alcohol level" have any units?
Depends what it means. If it means they're more cautious, that's great. If it means their reaction times are slower, that's not. And if it means they drive like my Grandad, who's never taken a driving test because he learnt in the army in WWII and was given a licence when he was demobbed, then be very afraid.
But a dollar's a hundred sense!
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Iliad captures it pretty well.
Gates'. It was initially thought to be Blair's, because of the desk on which it was found. The summary does say "The Gates Foundation has confirmed the doodle was left there by Bill Gates."
Wikipedia on the ceremony. Cambridge has many strange traditions.
Surely Apollo 13 shows your dichotomy to be false.
I hadn't heard about the need to stuff carrots up your nose. I'm suddenly very glad that I switched to Linux before Windows XP came out.
4-year-old's shoes? I kid you not: the person I was standing next to when I graduated from Cambridge University had her hands labelled L and R to make sure she used the right one to take one of the Pro Vice Chancellor's fingers.
The account of Elijah's departure from Elisha (2 Kings 2) is the only clear OT counter-example, but some believe that the language used of Enoch (Genesis 5:24) implies that he didn't die either; some have made similar claims of Melchizedek, although I'm not sure of the basis for those claims. I'm sure you can find out if you're sufficiently interested.
Can you explain why I should use CSS table syntax rather than HTML tables? I'm trying to move over to using CSS for my layout, but finding that sometimes tables seem to be the only way to get the layout I want.
The article does get it right: it talks about the Web rather than the Internet. I must say that I was more amused by Lord Foster getting an award for a bridge which was unsafe.
You're not the only one. I was rather puzzled. Finally worked it out when I realised the summary didn't make sense.
Besides, in England we gaol people rather than jailing them.