I'm back in school again. I have two online classes, and two on campus. The online reading sucks. It just doesn't flow, it's hard to keep your place, you can't mark it up, or stick a post-it somewhere relevant, it's just not as flexible as books are. I dropped one of the online classes due to the sheer volume of computer reading needed. It was harder to retain the information posted online. (The class I kept is a dosage calculation class which uses multimedia to get the lessons done. That works better.)
So there is a difference between reading a screen, and reading a book for a lot of people.
You're right. I'm decent at math. I've always done well in it. I just find the classes tedious and boring. Now that I've gone back to school for my RN, I'm taking the bare minimum. There are, to me, so many more interesting subjects. A lot of people I know feel the same way.
Imagine the wages they would get without unions. Or having someone to back them when needed. Look at the run of the mill parochial schools versus public schools, where they have teachers that are not unionized. They make diddly squat, have few benefits, and can be fired for stupid things like who they marry or don't marry. And the individual results aren't so amazing with their students; their high scores are simply because these schools can cherry pick students.
Where do you get your stats from? I've seen otherwise (ACS site, for starters. School, too, in my community health class. I'm in nursing). Furthermore, of all the inequities in research and healthcare, this is just one that is female-positive. Take, for example, cardiovascular health and women. Women are treated differently when it comes to suspected heart attacks and other issues of cardiovascular health, and it usually winds up killing them.
Well, I've used public wi-fi here and I do NOT like it. Do you speak with people all from the same town and they all have it set up the same? Because public wi-fi here is a waste.
Some people still keep business cards as a back up of contact info -- I like when people have their email addresses on their business cards. I guess it depends on the sort of customer base you have (hopefully people more organized than I am).
Even my dad knows you can get your own domain name for next to nothing, and you can forward at least one address to gmail if you REALLY can't figure out a way to use your own domain name.
You're one of those people who dress like a slob and think that shouldn't matter either, don't you?
Having troy@gmail.com would make me think like I was dealing with a kid in high school. Someone who doesn't take their business seriously, someone who is doing it as a hobby on the side.
I never met one non-geek that backed up their DVDs. I have three kids, who could tear up a Sherman tank with a Q-tip, and the thought never crossed my mind.
I just never wanted to shell out the money for one. DVDs played on my 360 look great; not worth getting a Blu-Ray player, or all those disks. And then I never even bothered checking out what NetFlix has, or if they charge more.
THey have those everywhere? Everywhere but here (Iowa). Everywhere but where I used to live, NYC. Everywhere? Some places. Some have it better than others. Good for your mom, bad for others. And yeah, severely doesn't have to use this but anything that increases the length of time people can drive and decrease accidents is good. Think of it as a spectrum, people could go further along before having to completely stop with driving. Either way, the REALLY bad drivers (of any age) should be off the road.
America is greying, just going LA LA LA LA LA and hoping that they will go away isn't going to happen. If we can accommodate them and make things more efficient, safe, and workable, keeping them independent longer, we'll be in a good place. You'll see, soon enough.
Depending on the source of his COPD, he may not have terribly long to live no matter what. It is one of the leading causes of death, worldwide. Some, like bronchitis, can have the patient recover. Emphysema? You can hang around for a few unpleasant years. Pulmonary neoplasms? It's been swell, hope you live to see the end of your lawsuit!
I think this would be excellent for hospitals and perhaps commercial kitchens or factories that process food. This is where it would be the most important.
I'm ok with home and public places being as they are, but hospitals and other care facilities can be pretty nasty places. My clinical instructor told us to take our shoes off at the front door. After our first day of clinicals? I understand why.
They're senators. They should already know the numbers.
We're not inspiring our kids to become anything science related. I have fellow classmates in my nursing program because some schools have five year wait lists to start. We're not inspiring kids OR the adults to teach them.
A lot of kids are inspired to work 'in computers', though. This site may be news for nerds, but of only one kind. There is a lot of 'stuff that matters' but not all of it glows like a screen of some sort. We have a new generation of potatoes, but they're sitting on office chairs, not couches.
There may be a lot spoken in this thread, because space is cool, but it probably won't get near as much response as someone trying to take away free MP3s from readers. And if there was a post about something mundane but scientific, I suspect it would fade away pretty quickly until something else shiny came along.
Maybe if space was more accessible, (SIFUA is an organization that comes to mind) people, including children, would care more. The space program is like a sci-fi movie but less exciting to so many.
Exactly. Even if it isn't about the 'it's her day', she is the one wearing the ring. Does the metal matter or how it looks? Does tradition matter to her at all? And if it looks like other metals, would that matter either? The symbolism of the ring should be meaningful to BOTH of you. If she isn't going to appreciate what metal you're getting for hers (but suggest that yours be similar, in a different metal), then why bother?
I have more gadgets than Mr. Kibblet. Two laptops, my cell phone (and the kids have one each, so that's three), my PDA, and two laptops. Oh, a camera, a carpet sweeper and my hand vac. He just has a cell phone.
I believe Martha Stewart made a cute little container to deal with this problem. Put the powerstrip inside a box you decorated, and drill holes for the wires to come out of. I've seen stuff like this for sale, too. They are called CHARGING STATIONS. They've been around for ages.
(Some fancypants stores call them "Charging Valets".)
Next someone will be asking where we can buy stuff to cover our feet when we leave the house or something.
Yes. I can't believe SwiftyNifty has such a limited vocabulary that there was a 'lack of a better word'. I'm sure there were many ways to get the point across than trying to minimize the true slavery that is out there. If SwiftyNifty truly cared about such things, I'd like an inventory of things in the home, clothing, and where they were bought. Then we could talk slavery.
For a lot of grown ups, drinking =/= getting drunk. There is a difference. The lawmakers are stupid, but so is everyone who can't see the difference between drinking and getting drunk.
As someone who just started working in the field (long term care/hospice), this makes me happy. Not only because of the emotional aspects of it, of people remembering families and the like, but the very serious end stage problems, like forgetting how to eat. I don't think people realize how even the simplest tasks can be forgotten, and these effects can cause a further physical deterioration.
It's also sad to see someone very upset because they can't find the elevator on a one story building, and they are going to miss their appointment, or wondering where their taxi is to take them from this hotel back home. All that stress makes the experience more draining on their bodies, and on the health of their caretakers (sometimes getting on in years themselves).
Yeah lets get rid of the farmers and rely on importing all our food. Who needs corn? Who needs milk and meat?
Wait to see the price increases after this flooding -- and then tell me you don't want farmers in the USA.
Mine isn't working, my TX, it was always a headache to deal with but now it's just dead, dead, dead. I don't want a fancy phone. I want a PDA. I'm pretty upset that I spent all that money for NOTHING. "It's probably your power cable. Buy a new one."
Nice one.
Maybe they need better teachers. Maybe your fiance got a poor education when it comes to teaching methods.
I've had my children in schools with good teachers, and bad ones. Believe me, it shows when a child has a lousy teacher. Funny, too, how the bad ones complain about how stupid the kids are, as if it is entirely their fault. If ALL those kids are so stupid, what is the common denominator?
Could very well be your fiance.
I, on the other hand, have run across some absolutely brilliant children. What they soak up and learn is so much more than what I had to in the 70s.
Yes, you are right. However most are just certain songs you can only get if you buy the whole album. Usuallly all but one of the songs is available as singles, with one or two requiring that you buy the album. What RadioHead wanted was for the whole album to only be available, and no singles at all. It's a different case. Although I would argue for RadioHead. If that's how they want to sell their music, iTunes should let them do it. Apple's head is getting way too big lately. Heaven forbid Apple do something for their customers! I prefer to buy what I want, not a whole album. And it has nothing to do with artistic integrity, but pure greed. Take the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack. There is a song there only available if you get the whole album. It's not like it is the original artist saying "we want these works together as a whole", it must be that no one else wants the crap on that soundtrack and it is the only way to make any money. So kudos to Apple for standing up for their customers. I wish they would do it more often, and unbundle ANY song that requires you buying the whole album.
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I'm back in school again. I have two online classes, and two on campus. The online reading sucks. It just doesn't flow, it's hard to keep your place, you can't mark it up, or stick a post-it somewhere relevant, it's just not as flexible as books are. I dropped one of the online classes due to the sheer volume of computer reading needed. It was harder to retain the information posted online. (The class I kept is a dosage calculation class which uses multimedia to get the lessons done. That works better.) So there is a difference between reading a screen, and reading a book for a lot of people.
You're right. I'm decent at math. I've always done well in it. I just find the classes tedious and boring. Now that I've gone back to school for my RN, I'm taking the bare minimum. There are, to me, so many more interesting subjects. A lot of people I know feel the same way.
Imagine the wages they would get without unions. Or having someone to back them when needed. Look at the run of the mill parochial schools versus public schools, where they have teachers that are not unionized. They make diddly squat, have few benefits, and can be fired for stupid things like who they marry or don't marry. And the individual results aren't so amazing with their students; their high scores are simply because these schools can cherry pick students.
Where do you get your stats from? I've seen otherwise (ACS site, for starters. School, too, in my community health class. I'm in nursing). Furthermore, of all the inequities in research and healthcare, this is just one that is female-positive. Take, for example, cardiovascular health and women. Women are treated differently when it comes to suspected heart attacks and other issues of cardiovascular health, and it usually winds up killing them.
Well, I've used public wi-fi here and I do NOT like it. Do you speak with people all from the same town and they all have it set up the same? Because public wi-fi here is a waste.
Some people still keep business cards as a back up of contact info -- I like when people have their email addresses on their business cards. I guess it depends on the sort of customer base you have (hopefully people more organized than I am).
Even my dad knows you can get your own domain name for next to nothing, and you can forward at least one address to gmail if you REALLY can't figure out a way to use your own domain name. You're one of those people who dress like a slob and think that shouldn't matter either, don't you? Having troy@gmail.com would make me think like I was dealing with a kid in high school. Someone who doesn't take their business seriously, someone who is doing it as a hobby on the side.
I never met one non-geek that backed up their DVDs. I have three kids, who could tear up a Sherman tank with a Q-tip, and the thought never crossed my mind. I just never wanted to shell out the money for one. DVDs played on my 360 look great; not worth getting a Blu-Ray player, or all those disks. And then I never even bothered checking out what NetFlix has, or if they charge more.
THey have those everywhere? Everywhere but here (Iowa). Everywhere but where I used to live, NYC. Everywhere? Some places. Some have it better than others. Good for your mom, bad for others. And yeah, severely doesn't have to use this but anything that increases the length of time people can drive and decrease accidents is good. Think of it as a spectrum, people could go further along before having to completely stop with driving. Either way, the REALLY bad drivers (of any age) should be off the road. America is greying, just going LA LA LA LA LA and hoping that they will go away isn't going to happen. If we can accommodate them and make things more efficient, safe, and workable, keeping them independent longer, we'll be in a good place. You'll see, soon enough.
Either way, the other person misses out though, no?
Depending on the source of his COPD, he may not have terribly long to live no matter what. It is one of the leading causes of death, worldwide. Some, like bronchitis, can have the patient recover. Emphysema? You can hang around for a few unpleasant years. Pulmonary neoplasms? It's been swell, hope you live to see the end of your lawsuit!
I think this would be excellent for hospitals and perhaps commercial kitchens or factories that process food. This is where it would be the most important. I'm ok with home and public places being as they are, but hospitals and other care facilities can be pretty nasty places. My clinical instructor told us to take our shoes off at the front door. After our first day of clinicals? I understand why.
They're senators. They should already know the numbers. We're not inspiring our kids to become anything science related. I have fellow classmates in my nursing program because some schools have five year wait lists to start. We're not inspiring kids OR the adults to teach them. A lot of kids are inspired to work 'in computers', though. This site may be news for nerds, but of only one kind. There is a lot of 'stuff that matters' but not all of it glows like a screen of some sort. We have a new generation of potatoes, but they're sitting on office chairs, not couches. There may be a lot spoken in this thread, because space is cool, but it probably won't get near as much response as someone trying to take away free MP3s from readers. And if there was a post about something mundane but scientific, I suspect it would fade away pretty quickly until something else shiny came along. Maybe if space was more accessible, (SIFUA is an organization that comes to mind) people, including children, would care more. The space program is like a sci-fi movie but less exciting to so many.
Exactly. Even if it isn't about the 'it's her day', she is the one wearing the ring. Does the metal matter or how it looks? Does tradition matter to her at all? And if it looks like other metals, would that matter either? The symbolism of the ring should be meaningful to BOTH of you. If she isn't going to appreciate what metal you're getting for hers (but suggest that yours be similar, in a different metal), then why bother?
I have more gadgets than Mr. Kibblet. Two laptops, my cell phone (and the kids have one each, so that's three), my PDA, and two laptops. Oh, a camera, a carpet sweeper and my hand vac. He just has a cell phone. I believe Martha Stewart made a cute little container to deal with this problem. Put the powerstrip inside a box you decorated, and drill holes for the wires to come out of. I've seen stuff like this for sale, too. They are called CHARGING STATIONS. They've been around for ages. (Some fancypants stores call them "Charging Valets".) Next someone will be asking where we can buy stuff to cover our feet when we leave the house or something.
Yes. I can't believe SwiftyNifty has such a limited vocabulary that there was a 'lack of a better word'. I'm sure there were many ways to get the point across than trying to minimize the true slavery that is out there. If SwiftyNifty truly cared about such things, I'd like an inventory of things in the home, clothing, and where they were bought. Then we could talk slavery.
For a lot of grown ups, drinking =/= getting drunk. There is a difference. The lawmakers are stupid, but so is everyone who can't see the difference between drinking and getting drunk.
They used to have smoking and non smoking sections in a plane -- this would work much better.
As someone who just started working in the field (long term care/hospice), this makes me happy. Not only because of the emotional aspects of it, of people remembering families and the like, but the very serious end stage problems, like forgetting how to eat. I don't think people realize how even the simplest tasks can be forgotten, and these effects can cause a further physical deterioration. It's also sad to see someone very upset because they can't find the elevator on a one story building, and they are going to miss their appointment, or wondering where their taxi is to take them from this hotel back home. All that stress makes the experience more draining on their bodies, and on the health of their caretakers (sometimes getting on in years themselves).
Good luck Hans? Why? He's already lucky getting a lighter sentence. He got more than he deserved. Way more. He murdered someone. No luck for him.
Yeah lets get rid of the farmers and rely on importing all our food. Who needs corn? Who needs milk and meat? Wait to see the price increases after this flooding -- and then tell me you don't want farmers in the USA.
Mine isn't working, my TX, it was always a headache to deal with but now it's just dead, dead, dead. I don't want a fancy phone. I want a PDA. I'm pretty upset that I spent all that money for NOTHING. "It's probably your power cable. Buy a new one." Nice one.
This, this is funny? I'll keep my mouth shut when you have something worthwhile to listen to. Deal?
Maybe they need better teachers. Maybe your fiance got a poor education when it comes to teaching methods. I've had my children in schools with good teachers, and bad ones. Believe me, it shows when a child has a lousy teacher. Funny, too, how the bad ones complain about how stupid the kids are, as if it is entirely their fault. If ALL those kids are so stupid, what is the common denominator? Could very well be your fiance. I, on the other hand, have run across some absolutely brilliant children. What they soak up and learn is so much more than what I had to in the 70s.