you are laboring under the assumption that the alternative to "teaching to the test" is "teaching well" and have failed to consider the far more likely possibility of "not even teaching to the test..."
No it isn't. The ruling about subpoenaing your mistress does not extend to prohibiting your wife from hiring someone to follow you around with a binoculars and a camera. She can still find out, and she is not prohibited from retaining this knowledge if she has it.
p>All we need now is $100 3D printers for home printing!
Why? How much do you really want to print? At least, right now, how much stuff do you really want to print? is a pretty good workaround to actual ownership of a 3D printer. I suspect it's a lot like photo printing: it will turn out to be a fair bit cheaper not to have the printer at home and just shop out the print jobs to a specialist. At least, for the time being, anyway.
For instance, if the materials are the larger part of the expense, then the equipment that can produce the thinnest walls will be able to print your 3D art for the least money. But that equipment may cost far in excess of what a $100 printer is capable of, for a long time.
Regardless, you can be printing stuff right now with one of the many only 3D print jobbers. Shapeways being one which seems to specialize in one-off's which is what hobbyists would be most interested in.
Stuff that needs to be more durable probably won't be printed on the kinds of materials you can feed into a 3D printer anyway. The machines that handle more durable materials are also going to be more expensive than a RepRap-level 3D printer for a while as well.
But, those commercials are how they pay for the ATM. Otherwise, they'd have to charge you for transactions. You wouldn't want to have to pay the going rate for 1-2 milliseconds of cpu time and 10 s of power for a light-duty servo motor, would you?
I dunno. The "typical" groupon deal is for 50% off. And groupon's commission is like 50%, too. How many businesses are still in profit territory at 25% of the asking price?
Which brings to mind an interesting point: Groupon is not so well established that they couldn't be unseated by an organization that realizes that a web site can operate with pretty thin commissions, and they might sell even more coupons if they restrict any added-on ad-copy to things that are just funny, rather than funny and insulting to the business making the offer. That business is, after all, their customer...
Maybe they drive convertibles, so that having an audio conversation is impractical (even with the top up, quite a lot of road noise still gets in. Much more so than in a hard-top vehicle. One of the reasons why convertible owners tend to have greater than average hearing loss.)
I thought alice was the lady engineer at Dilbert's company. I think it's unrealistic to think that should would depart significantly from the behavior of other engineers...
We should just ban drivers Who wouldn't prefer an electronic chauffeur? Who wants to spend a significant portion of their day stressed out at maximum attention for fear of the slightest mistake causing their own or others' serious injury or death? I know I'd rather read a book, take a nap, watch a movie....any of a number of things are more compelling than the stress of the drive.
The future of roads is the same as the future of air travel. Every vehicle will be equipped with a trained dog, to bite the driver if he tries to touch the controls....
I hope the defendant isn't just trying to get away with something. The fifth and fourth amendments aren't there to protect criminals from getting their comeuppance, they're there to protect the rest of us from getting harassed by the government. A certain amount of criminals "getting away with it" is the price of this assurance of our rights and one many of us are willing to pay.
Unfortunately, there is a flaw: if you're not actually hiding something, you might think it more expedient to just "give in." This is how injustice spreads. People with sufficient resources and standing to challenge something like this often do not have sufficient motivation to follow through. In the end, ironically, our rights are often protected by aligning with the interests of those who have already violated them.
Problem is, there are so many passwords to remember if you do that, that the only solution is to use a password safe. Which is probably on the laptop. And a lot of stuff might stored in, say, the browser's password storage, although encrypted one more time, is not actually protected by an additional password. At least, not by default (on non-linux, non-OS X) machines....
Less important stuff, to be sure, but still in aggregate enough to cause more than minor inconvenience.
Uh.. why? All of the land wars on Earth so far have been over patches of land that have accessible resources. economically accessible resources.
Just wait until the price of oil doubles a few more times and everyone realizes that with the size of Antartica, and the fact that it's covered in hundreds of feet of Ice in many areas, It's sure to have significant oil reserves, and also valuable ores in higher concentrations and closer to the "surface" than anywhere else. We'll see how this "international spirit of cooperation" works out where there's stuff to be had.
What's on the moon that's worth taking back other than as a curiosity? No resource I know of at the current prices. The most valuable thing on the moon is what you can put there, which is just a prohibitively costly.
Wait, that' can't be it. How expensive can the glasses be, really? It's just one big LCD cell, isn't it? Surely 60 hz is not unreasonable here...
Or do you mean the synchronization? That should be easy too. Just use an extremely narrow-band UHF channel. We just freed up a bunch of UHF and VHF spectrum at no small cost to consumers. Surely we can spare 120 hz to allocate for short-range timing signals...
Yeah, that bugged me as well. I thought the Secret Service was only charged with going after counterfeiters, and the obviously related task of protecting the president from assassination.
No, he should've asked first. No matter what he was trying to do.
Firstly, as to your point, I'm sure they'd allow it if you brought in something that you needed to be able to run and wanted to make sure it would work ok. They'd probably help with the installation if there were any issues, too, (and offer that same help if you bought the machine). It's really in your best interest not to try to be clandestine and ethically shady about this sort of thing.
Secondly, they would probably want to wipe their machines afterward. You may inadvertantly or intentionally have brought in malware, or the software might have copyright issues that they don't want to have to deal with.
Finally, in this specific case, they'd probably be interested in the project and even help him out with it. I wouldn't have been surprised if they deployed the software to many machines across all the stores and cherry picked a bunch of pictures for the next Apple TV ad, set to Yael Naim music or something.
Installing stuff they don't know about, and which runs when you aren't even in the store? There's not even grey area there.
No, it's incredible that companies' goals and our own public good might align such that companies seeking their own interest will be fighting for the public good, too.
That's not something to be depressed over, it's something to celebrate the few times it genuinely happens.
Well, music is what.. a 9 billion dollar industry? After executive bonuses, executive compensation, payola, legal expenses, democratic fundraisers, chinese labor costs, marketing costs, and maybe something for the musicians, what's left for quality negotiation teams?
Frankly, the real surprising thing is that this "industry" that is, in fact, dwarfed by the net profits of each of more than a couple large corporations, gets such a disproportionate amount of press and political clout.
Roundabouts are smaller than rotaries and far more dangerous: there isn't enough space between the inlets and the outlets for traffic to merge into a single stream, so you have the same problem of intersecting paths as you do at an intersection, but without any of the helpful traffic control devices like lights.
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you are laboring under the assumption that the alternative to "teaching to the test" is "teaching well" and have failed to consider the far more likely possibility of "not even teaching to the test..."
No it isn't. The ruling about subpoenaing your mistress does not extend to prohibiting your wife from hiring someone to follow you around with a binoculars and a camera. She can still find out, and she is not prohibited from retaining this knowledge if she has it.
She has a right to know.
p>All we need now is $100 3D printers for home printing!
Why? How much do you really want to print? At least, right now, how much stuff do you really want to print? is a pretty good workaround to actual ownership of a 3D printer. I suspect it's a lot like photo printing: it will turn out to be a fair bit cheaper not to have the printer at home and just shop out the print jobs to a specialist. At least, for the time being, anyway.
For instance, if the materials are the larger part of the expense, then the equipment that can produce the thinnest walls will be able to print your 3D art for the least money. But that equipment may cost far in excess of what a $100 printer is capable of, for a long time.
Regardless, you can be printing stuff right now with one of the many only 3D print jobbers. Shapeways being one which seems to specialize in one-off's which is what hobbyists would be most interested in.
Stuff that needs to be more durable probably won't be printed on the kinds of materials you can feed into a 3D printer anyway. The machines that handle more durable materials are also going to be more expensive than a RepRap-level 3D printer for a while as well.
What do they do with the "old" tubes? Is there a visual indication that the tube is useless?
But, those commercials are how they pay for the ATM. Otherwise, they'd have to charge you for transactions. You wouldn't want to have to pay the going rate for 1-2 milliseconds of cpu time and 10 s of power for a light-duty servo motor, would you?
I dunno. The "typical" groupon deal is for 50% off. And groupon's commission is like 50%, too. How many businesses are still in profit territory at 25% of the asking price?
Which brings to mind an interesting point: Groupon is not so well established that they couldn't be unseated by an organization that realizes that a web site can operate with pretty thin commissions, and they might sell even more coupons if they restrict any added-on ad-copy to things that are just funny, rather than funny and insulting to the business making the offer. That business is, after all, their customer...
I wonder if the worm is actually a cover story to explain the influx of tubes so people won't look for expanded production....
That's too bad. Firefox 5 on Mac looks a *lot* better than Firefox 5 on Windows...
Maybe they drive convertibles, so that having an audio conversation is impractical (even with the top up, quite a lot of road noise still gets in. Much more so than in a hard-top vehicle. One of the reasons why convertible owners tend to have greater than average hearing loss.)
I thought alice was the lady engineer at Dilbert's company. I think it's unrealistic to think that should would depart significantly from the behavior of other engineers...
We should just ban drivers Who wouldn't prefer an electronic chauffeur? Who wants to spend a significant portion of their day stressed out at maximum attention for fear of the slightest mistake causing their own or others' serious injury or death? I know I'd rather read a book, take a nap, watch a movie....any of a number of things are more compelling than the stress of the drive.
The future of roads is the same as the future of air travel. Every vehicle will be equipped with a trained dog, to bite the driver if he tries to touch the controls....
I hope the defendant isn't just trying to get away with something. The fifth and fourth amendments aren't there to protect criminals from getting their comeuppance, they're there to protect the rest of us from getting harassed by the government. A certain amount of criminals "getting away with it" is the price of this assurance of our rights and one many of us are willing to pay.
Unfortunately, there is a flaw: if you're not actually hiding something, you might think it more expedient to just "give in." This is how injustice spreads. People with sufficient resources and standing to challenge something like this often do not have sufficient motivation to follow through. In the end, ironically, our rights are often protected by aligning with the interests of those who have already violated them.
Problem is, there are so many passwords to remember if you do that, that the only solution is to use a password safe. Which is probably on the laptop. And a lot of stuff might stored in, say, the browser's password storage, although encrypted one more time, is not actually protected by an additional password. At least, not by default (on non-linux, non-OS X) machines....
Less important stuff, to be sure, but still in aggregate enough to cause more than minor inconvenience.
Uh.. why? All of the land wars on Earth so far have been over patches of land that have accessible resources. economically accessible resources.
Just wait until the price of oil doubles a few more times and everyone realizes that with the size of Antartica, and the fact that it's covered in hundreds of feet of Ice in many areas, It's sure to have significant oil reserves, and also valuable ores in higher concentrations and closer to the "surface" than anywhere else. We'll see how this "international spirit of cooperation" works out where there's stuff to be had.
What's on the moon that's worth taking back other than as a curiosity? No resource I know of at the current prices. The most valuable thing on the moon is what you can put there, which is just a prohibitively costly.
The turrets are the real target. The command center doesn't have any weapons of its own.
Wait, that' can't be it. How expensive can the glasses be, really? It's just one big LCD cell, isn't it? Surely 60 hz is not unreasonable here...
Or do you mean the synchronization? That should be easy too. Just use an extremely narrow-band UHF channel. We just freed up a bunch of UHF and VHF spectrum at no small cost to consumers. Surely we can spare 120 hz to allocate for short-range timing signals...
Yeah, that bugged me as well. I thought the Secret Service was only charged with going after counterfeiters, and the obviously related task of protecting the president from assassination.
No, he should've asked first. No matter what he was trying to do.
Firstly, as to your point, I'm sure they'd allow it if you brought in something that you needed to be able to run and wanted to make sure it would work ok. They'd probably help with the installation if there were any issues, too, (and offer that same help if you bought the machine). It's really in your best interest not to try to be clandestine and ethically shady about this sort of thing.
Secondly, they would probably want to wipe their machines afterward. You may inadvertantly or intentionally have brought in malware, or the software might have copyright issues that they don't want to have to deal with.
Finally, in this specific case, they'd probably be interested in the project and even help him out with it. I wouldn't have been surprised if they deployed the software to many machines across all the stores and cherry picked a bunch of pictures for the next Apple TV ad, set to Yael Naim music or something.
Installing stuff they don't know about, and which runs when you aren't even in the store? There's not even grey area there.
Satellite communications only has that minimum latency if you're too cheap to put steppers on your antenna mast....
Why would you need an electric can opener?
No, it's incredible that companies' goals and our own public good might align such that companies seeking their own interest will be fighting for the public good, too.
That's not something to be depressed over, it's something to celebrate the few times it genuinely happens.
Well, music is what.. a 9 billion dollar industry? After executive bonuses, executive compensation, payola, legal expenses, democratic fundraisers, chinese labor costs, marketing costs, and maybe something for the musicians, what's left for quality negotiation teams?
Frankly, the real surprising thing is that this "industry" that is, in fact, dwarfed by the net profits of each of more than a couple large corporations, gets such a disproportionate amount of press and political clout.
Roundabouts are smaller than rotaries and far more dangerous: there isn't enough space between the inlets and the outlets for traffic to merge into a single stream, so you have the same problem of intersecting paths as you do at an intersection, but without any of the helpful traffic control devices like lights.
Indeed. If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product...
Oh, how altruistic of you to take someone else's money to pay for you to do something fun and exciting...