"Catholic" schools are fairly tame in the US. They teach science and even evolution.
"Christian" schools run by backward fundamentalist Christians are a whole different can of worms. They often literally fail to teach science for political reasons.
Um. It's a lot easier to prepare for a standardized university entrance exam than to re-do four years of high school grades in the US. Imagine going to a Christian high school in the US as an atheist, being told that evolution didn't exist, and getting bad grades when you say that God didn't create the Earth in a week.
Part of the reason why I'm considering a graduate program in Europe is that I'm considering staying in the EU. So ultimately, I might end up giving up my American citizenship since I'm a dual citizen, but wouldn't want the headache of dealing with US tax returns while never intending to return.
Imagine being an atheist in a Christian school. Now imagine the grades those teachers (who know you loathe them and the idiocy they're shoveling down your throat) will give you. The SAT/ACT is a good counterpoint to a terrible high school career, which is often not the fault of the student.
Yep, the cloudcrapification of personal medical data is one more reason not to use FitBit or most fitness trackers. You can download a cloudfree step-tracker app for any smartphone -- many of those apps are local-only. Not sure if most people need much more than a step tracker.
Internet in NYC is cheap, like $42/mo for an unbundled 100mb Verizon connection. Many other parts of the US pay much more, or require bundling with cable/phone, for the same service.
I disagree. Entrance exams are an objective measure and encourage re-invention. Far better than a university looking at your bad grades from high school ten years ago and saying "nah. Won't be able to make it." There should be MORE entrance exams, not fewer! Weighing high school grades more heavily penalized people who didn't "play the game" well in high school. Especially if the stuff they were being fed in high school was bullshit (i.e. a Christian, creationist, anti-science curriculum).
Facts are that health care is expensive in the US -- I have family in Europe who thinks that US costs are crazy. University? I'm looking at graduate programs in Europe now -- they're 20-25% the cost of those in the US, and that's as a foreign student.
It's an end-run around the fact that non-compete agreements are basically illegal in California. The employers can't win in a lawsuit, but (apparently) they can use Federal thugs to threaten ex-employees with prison time. This country is truly becoming a fucked up place...
Not everyone is willing to join the military and volunteer to murder, be murdered, or come back crippled or ill from fighting for Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, or Aramco. Let's not kid ourselves -- most wars in the last 70 years haven't been for "country." they've been to make big corporations money and to preserve their lines of income. War is a racket.
Far better for one's children to go to Europe, where they can take advantage of cheaper tuition, even for foreign students.
Income adjusted for purchasing power isn't the only metric when making such comparisons. In most European countries, people don't pay through the nose for health care aka "insurance." They often don't need two cars, due to availability of public transport. University tends to be cheap -- nearly free -- in many countries. Disposable incomes may be lower, but a lot more things are paid for by taxes than in the US, where it's sink-or-swim, on your own.
This is also a bad thing. High schools are often biased about who gets into AP or Honors classes -- it's often a highly subjective application process where kids who teachers think will be successful (i.e. white/asian/rich) get priority.
Far better would be to LOWER the requirements for admission. Start new matriculants in larger classes, maybe partially online. Let those who excel continue. This is essentially the system in many European universities -- anyone with an HS diploma can get into med school, but lots of students are dropped after year 1 or 2.
I like what some CUNY schools do. You can take up to a certain number of credits as a high school grad who either: (1) passed the CUNY entrance exam (2) passed the Regents (an exam that everyone in NY state has to take to graduate high school)
The bar for this kind of non-degreee/probationary admission is fairly low, and but you "prove yourself", you can apply for regular admission.
Windows 7 deals fine with a swap to identical hardware/mobo. At worst, it needs to be reactivated. 10 also seems to have a way to reactivate -- don't know about 8/8.1, never run this cr@p.
I mostly use desktop Linux anyway, which doesn't whine about a hardware swap at all.
Because many people have auto-lock set to 1 minute - they'd lose the ability to download more than a fews pictures unattended and end up generating support calls. (Assuming people still do cloudfree picture downloads via USB.)
This could be a separate timer, independent from the clock, or any backward changes to the clock could trigger a passcode entry screen. Interesting theory, but it can be easily tested.
How many times do people charge their phone off a "public" USB charge port in an airport or on public transportation? Any one of those ports could be trying to slurp confidential data. Charge-only without authentication and permission should be default behavior for all phones.
Also, this isn't only about the US government and US police trying to unlock phones. This also protects US citizens against abuses by foreign governments -- i.e. the Chinese or Venezuelans confiscating someone's phone at an airport and "working on it."
Not to mention that not all US law enforcement are the good guys. Plenty of corrupt cops out there who want to snoop without a warrant.
The only thing that walking into a Crapple store proves is the quote about fools and money, and the one about suckers and minutes.
As far as PCs, I've usually bought second-hand off Craigslist, and $100-150 is my price point. For a decent few-year-old laptop like a Thinkpad X-series at that... the things depreciate like rocks.
Blame the stupid American government for this -- pushing states to be serious about drinking age laws. In most civilized countries, drinking age is 18, and a suggestion at that, not a firm rule.
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Regardless, most of the functionality of a FitBit can be replicated by a free, and cloudfree, app.
"Catholic" schools are fairly tame in the US. They teach science and even evolution.
"Christian" schools run by backward fundamentalist Christians are a whole different can of worms. They often literally fail to teach science for political reasons.
Um. It's a lot easier to prepare for a standardized university entrance exam than to re-do four years of high school grades in the US. Imagine going to a Christian high school in the US as an atheist, being told that evolution didn't exist, and getting bad grades when you say that God didn't create the Earth in a week.
Part of the reason why I'm considering a graduate program in Europe is that I'm considering staying in the EU. So ultimately, I might end up giving up my American citizenship since I'm a dual citizen, but wouldn't want the headache of dealing with US tax returns while never intending to return.
Imagine being an atheist in a Christian school. Now imagine the grades those teachers (who know you loathe them and the idiocy they're shoveling down your throat) will give you. The SAT/ACT is a good counterpoint to a terrible high school career, which is often not the fault of the student.
Yep, the cloudcrapification of personal medical data is one more reason not to use FitBit or most fitness trackers. You can download a cloudfree step-tracker app for any smartphone -- many of those apps are local-only. Not sure if most people need much more than a step tracker.
Internet in NYC is cheap, like $42/mo for an unbundled 100mb Verizon connection. Many other parts of the US pay much more, or require bundling with cable/phone, for the same service.
I disagree. Entrance exams are an objective measure and encourage re-invention. Far better than a university looking at your bad grades from high school ten years ago and saying "nah. Won't be able to make it." There should be MORE entrance exams, not fewer! Weighing high school grades more heavily penalized people who didn't "play the game" well in high school. Especially if the stuff they were being fed in high school was bullshit (i.e. a Christian, creationist, anti-science curriculum).
Facts are that health care is expensive in the US -- I have family in Europe who thinks that US costs are crazy. University? I'm looking at graduate programs in Europe now -- they're 20-25% the cost of those in the US, and that's as a foreign student.
It's an end-run around the fact that non-compete agreements are basically illegal in California. The employers can't win in a lawsuit, but (apparently) they can use Federal thugs to threaten ex-employees with prison time. This country is truly becoming a fucked up place...
Not everyone is willing to join the military and volunteer to murder, be murdered, or come back crippled or ill from fighting for Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, or Aramco. Let's not kid ourselves -- most wars in the last 70 years haven't been for "country." they've been to make big corporations money and to preserve their lines of income. War is a racket.
Far better for one's children to go to Europe, where they can take advantage of cheaper tuition, even for foreign students.
Income adjusted for purchasing power isn't the only metric when making such comparisons. In most European countries, people don't pay through the nose for health care aka "insurance." They often don't need two cars, due to availability of public transport. University tends to be cheap -- nearly free -- in many countries. Disposable incomes may be lower, but a lot more things are paid for by taxes than in the US, where it's sink-or-swim, on your own.
The pre-SAT test isn't mandatory, though.
This is also a bad thing. High schools are often biased about who gets into AP or Honors classes -- it's often a highly subjective application process where kids who teachers think will be successful (i.e. white/asian/rich) get priority.
Far better would be to LOWER the requirements for admission. Start new matriculants in larger classes, maybe partially online. Let those who excel continue. This is essentially the system in many European universities -- anyone with an HS diploma can get into med school, but lots of students are dropped after year 1 or 2.
Lot of money? The SAT itself is cheap -- remedial classes/SAT prep classes cost money, but not everyone needs them.
I like what some CUNY schools do. You can take up to a certain number of credits as a high school grad who either:
(1) passed the CUNY entrance exam
(2) passed the Regents (an exam that everyone in NY state has to take to graduate high school)
The bar for this kind of non-degreee/probationary admission is fairly low, and but you "prove yourself", you can apply for regular admission.
Windows 7 deals fine with a swap to identical hardware/mobo. At worst, it needs to be reactivated. 10 also seems to have a way to reactivate -- don't know about 8/8.1, never run this cr@p.
I mostly use desktop Linux anyway, which doesn't whine about a hardware swap at all.
Well... I'll never! Color me shocked ... shocked, I TELL YOU!
What I don't understand about Comey is that he all but threw the election to Trump while panning Trump left and right.
"People" being the average worker bee, not a tech-savvy Slashdotter.
Because many people have auto-lock set to 1 minute - they'd lose the ability to download more than a fews pictures unattended and end up generating support calls. (Assuming people still do cloudfree picture downloads via USB.)
This could be a separate timer, independent from the clock, or any backward changes to the clock could trigger a passcode entry screen. Interesting theory, but it can be easily tested.
How many times do people charge their phone off a "public" USB charge port in an airport or on public transportation? Any one of those ports could be trying to slurp confidential data. Charge-only without authentication and permission should be default behavior for all phones.
Also, this isn't only about the US government and US police trying to unlock phones. This also protects US citizens against abuses by foreign governments -- i.e. the Chinese or Venezuelans confiscating someone's phone at an airport and "working on it."
Not to mention that not all US law enforcement are the good guys. Plenty of corrupt cops out there who want to snoop without a warrant.
Mall*Wart tends to cater to the same "segments" most likely to use good, old-fashioned, cold, hard cash, though.
The only thing that walking into a Crapple store proves is the quote about fools and money, and the one about suckers and minutes.
As far as PCs, I've usually bought second-hand off Craigslist, and $100-150 is my price point. For a decent few-year-old laptop like a Thinkpad X-series at that... the things depreciate like rocks.
Blame the stupid American government for this -- pushing states to be serious about drinking age laws. In most civilized countries, drinking age is 18, and a suggestion at that, not a firm rule.
Many utility companies allow you to pay in cash through affiliated stores. Typically pharmacies, corner grocery stores, money transfer places.
Why not buy a PC in cash, especially used? It's a few-hundred-dollar purchase at most these days -- they've become a commodity item.