I'm totally with you on this one. The system is garbage, take it out to the curb. Unfortunately at the moment no one seems to be making this happen. I can't figure out what to do with the 50% or so of students who would just stop their education, and their parents (WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY FREE DAYCARE FOR MY 16 YEAR OLD?!?!) But you have to admit, the current system isn't working for them anyway, teachers are basically disciniplinary robots who talk a lot on the side.
It would work marvellously for the other half though, because they'd get to go to private schools where they would get bothered any more. If money is a problem the government can give credits or something.
Computers and Tech do help, but are not the only ingredient. You are overexagerating the idea of removing them entirely.
I disagree. The only computers in a school should be used for learning about computers. (Hard shit too! None of that powerpoint BS.)
Here is the problem with schools:
Everything is all wrong!
Not four things, or ten things, everything! Its all wrong. Wanting to fix the school system is noble, but you can't patch a boat that leaky. Scrap it, it is all that there is left to do. Give every parent an education budget for their child, and make sure there are schools that will do the job for that price. The parents don't actually have to even see the money.
I think you'd see huge changes, the problem is getting the schools in place, because in a lot of places no company would dare build a school.
The part most worrying to me is that they make a lot of money in various other businesses and then neglect their search. I know they're far from it now, and I know they really care about searches, I keep hearing about other ventures, maps, print, picasa, now they move into online payments. I honestly don't care if they 'go evil', I care about my searches, their search is really useful, but it has to use a ton of resources. If it gets axed because it takes 50% of their resources but only makes 10% of their money, I'll cry.
I definitely agree, it isn't only calculators that are the problem it is total avoidance of any understanding of the subject whatsoever. I see this all the time in math and physics, people who are perceived to be bright so often only care about learning the simple rules to do what they want to do, and don't care about the reason those rules work or understanding them at all.
It is definite proof of this when someone cheats in a math or physics course, because the information you have to remember is usually simple, and when you understand the subject completely you ought to be able to come up with anything you've forgotten on the test (in high school at least).
I think knowing a lot of people will really help, and its not that hard to do, its basically trial and error. Nutjobs who read psycological studies on stuff like this probably won't even do much better than you, if they do at all, as long as you just go out there every day and try to get to know someone else a bit.
I don't know much about you, but if you go to school I'd say pick a class where there is a good mix of people (ex, prerequisits like english) turn around and try to stike up a conversation with the person sitting behind you. Keep trying, try some more, try some different people, etc.
I'd start with people you think are the most similar to you, and kind of work outwards.
If you're already pretty friendly this wont help you, its a shot in the dark.
Honestly though, you're posting on slashdot, you're understaning things, you'd be surprised how many people that put you above. Find what need improvement, and improve it.
I'm 17 right now. I had a part time job for 16 months that ended really recently. My original plan was to get myself a car, and I'm very glad I didn't. Anyways, 16 months, 2 of which were summer (but I probably took 2 weeks off in the summer) and right now I have 8 grand in the bank. Wage was between 6 and 7 $/hr throughout. Also worth nothing, during this time I spend $2k on a computer, and atleast another thousand on other shit. So with more discipline (ex. buying cheaper shit) I could have had 9k, which satisfies the requirement.
Now you might not be able to get 99s in school and walk on water but I know anyone can do what I did, if you have the sense to not piss the money away. Crappy low-paying jobs are easy.
Don't worry, you still can, that is how gangs work.
This company is no more than a gang, you pay the fee, they protect you from the other IP whores. And not only is this legal, the taxpayers actually pay for it, when this bullshit floods the courts. I think some vigilante justice is in order.
I was just thinking, this would go perfectly with one of those projected keyboards, the kind where you just tap the table...
You could set the little box near a wall and have a full sized keyboard, and display, and the best thing is the tech for this seems to exist right now.
Brilliant answers, those genius criminals will surely start mugging everyone who's wearing a normal backpack as soon as they read this because they must all have laptops in them.
As much as you may love to preach, this is a simple problem with a simple solution, when you walk around with a case that may as well say "I'm carrying a laptop", people know you have a laptop, if you don't, they don't. And you don't even have to practise looking mean in the mirror, so you can just drop that.
Not that he even hinted this was a problem, again, about the preaching...
Plane security is a joke, if the terrorists weren't so damn incompetent they could do some real damage. It's not like plastic things can't be sharp. I know I could have easily gotten a foot long sharp plastic pole on a plane.
There are people who could take a plane down with no equipment whatsoever, just by kicking everyones ass, a couple six-five martial arts experts with improvised weapons could beat anything on a plane except for a gun.
I don't know exactly the extent of planning against attacks, but I think it would be hard to stop a boat from sailing up the east river and shooting a missile at an office building, and searching Muslims more often is pointless, there is a very obvious solution to that.
The best thing the US can do is try not to make enemies, if foreign governments were to sponsor gurilla warfare in the US it would be hard to fight.
If Americans wanted to know about Canadians they could, but there are so many countries to chose from, and no real reason to choose Canada, save geography.
Do you know a lot about Greenland?
Greenland is to Canada as Canada is to the US, or as near as exists. North, less people, and colder.
Must be, the best place to attach it would be straight to the batter, no car electronics in between, and he could use an already made car-charger for the cell phone, all he'd need to do is run some wire, and hide the thing somewhere in the engine compartement. If he'd only layed off the death threats he'd have a good thing going.
Your sig just happened to me.
I think anytime you put ; instead of : you go to microsoft.
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If god is however all powerful then simply wagering on him is not enought, misery ensues.
Perhaps wagering on him would put you slightly in his favor though?
I should have payed more attention in sunday school, brainwashing would have solved this dilema.
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I'm totally with you on this one. The system is garbage, take it out to the curb. Unfortunately at the moment no one seems to be making this happen. I can't figure out what to do with the 50% or so of students who would just stop their education, and their parents (WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY FREE DAYCARE FOR MY 16 YEAR OLD?!?!) But you have to admit, the current system isn't working for them anyway, teachers are basically disciniplinary robots who talk a lot on the side.
It would work marvellously for the other half though, because they'd get to go to private schools where they would get bothered any more. If money is a problem the government can give credits or something.
Computers and Tech do help, but are not the only ingredient. You are overexagerating the idea of removing them entirely.
I disagree. The only computers in a school should be used for learning about computers. (Hard shit too! None of that powerpoint BS.)
Here is the problem with schools:
Everything is all wrong!
Not four things, or ten things, everything! Its all wrong. Wanting to fix the school system is noble, but you can't patch a boat that leaky. Scrap it, it is all that there is left to do. Give every parent an education budget for their child, and make sure there are schools that will do the job for that price. The parents don't actually have to even see the money.
I think you'd see huge changes, the problem is getting the schools in place, because in a lot of places no company would dare build a school.
The part most worrying to me is that they make a lot of money in various other businesses and then neglect their search. I know they're far from it now, and I know they really care about searches, I keep hearing about other ventures, maps, print, picasa, now they move into online payments. I honestly don't care if they 'go evil', I care about my searches, their search is really useful, but it has to use a ton of resources. If it gets axed because it takes 50% of their resources but only makes 10% of their money, I'll cry.
I definitely agree, it isn't only calculators that are the problem it is total avoidance of any understanding of the subject whatsoever. I see this all the time in math and physics, people who are perceived to be bright so often only care about learning the simple rules to do what they want to do, and don't care about the reason those rules work or understanding them at all.
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It is definite proof of this when someone cheats in a math or physics course, because the information you have to remember is usually simple, and when you understand the subject completely you ought to be able to come up with anything you've forgotten on the test (in high school at least)
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I think knowing a lot of people will really help, and its not that hard to do, its basically trial and error. Nutjobs who read psycological studies on stuff like this probably won't even do much better than you, if they do at all, as long as you just go out there every day and try to get to know someone else a bit.
I don't know much about you, but if you go to school I'd say pick a class where there is a good mix of people (ex, prerequisits like english) turn around and try to stike up a conversation with the person sitting behind you. Keep trying, try some more, try some different people, etc.
I'd start with people you think are the most similar to you, and kind of work outwards.
If you're already pretty friendly this wont help you, its a shot in the dark.
Honestly though, you're posting on slashdot, you're understaning things, you'd be surprised how many people that put you above. Find what need improvement, and improve it.
I'm replying to your sig, when money is worthless gold is worthless. You can't eat much gold, and it makes a shitty axe.
Just to chip in,
"how the fuck does a 15 year old acquire $3,000?"
I'm 17 right now. I had a part time job for 16 months that ended really recently. My original plan was to get myself a car, and I'm very glad I didn't. Anyways, 16 months, 2 of which were summer (but I probably took 2 weeks off in the summer) and right now I have 8 grand in the bank. Wage was between 6 and 7 $/hr throughout. Also worth nothing, during this time I spend $2k on a computer, and atleast another thousand on other shit. So with more discipline (ex. buying cheaper shit) I could have had 9k, which satisfies the requirement.
Now you might not be able to get 99s in school and walk on water but I know anyone can do what I did, if you have the sense to not piss the money away. Crappy low-paying jobs are easy.
Yeah, all those tech support guys who 'comprise a processor'.
I'm guessing the equipment is usefull for phone-sex hotlines or somethign similar.
Don't worry, you still can, that is how gangs work.
This company is no more than a gang, you pay the fee, they protect you from the other IP whores. And not only is this legal, the taxpayers actually pay for it, when this bullshit floods the courts. I think some vigilante justice is in order.
I was just thinking, this would go perfectly with one of those projected keyboards, the kind where you just tap the table...
You could set the little box near a wall and have a full sized keyboard, and display, and the best thing is the tech for this seems to exist right now.
Brilliant answers, those genius criminals will surely start mugging everyone who's wearing a normal backpack as soon as they read this because they must all have laptops in them.
As much as you may love to preach, this is a simple problem with a simple solution, when you walk around with a case that may as well say "I'm carrying a laptop", people know you have a laptop, if you don't, they don't. And you don't even have to practise looking mean in the mirror, so you can just drop that.
Not that he even hinted this was a problem, again, about the preaching...
Plane security is a joke, if the terrorists weren't so damn incompetent they could do some real damage.
It's not like plastic things can't be sharp. I know I could have easily gotten a foot long sharp plastic pole on a plane.
There are people who could take a plane down with no equipment whatsoever, just by kicking everyones ass, a couple six-five martial arts experts with improvised weapons could beat anything on a plane except for a gun.
I don't know exactly the extent of planning against attacks, but I think it would be hard to stop a boat from sailing up the east river and shooting a missile at an office building, and searching Muslims more often is pointless, there is a very obvious solution to that.
The best thing the US can do is try not to make enemies, if foreign governments were to sponsor gurilla warfare in the US it would be hard to fight.
If Americans wanted to know about Canadians they could, but there are so many countries to chose from, and no real reason to choose Canada, save geography.
Do you know a lot about Greenland?
Greenland is to Canada as Canada is to the US, or as near as exists. North, less people, and colder.
I second that, just link straight to the story.
Must be, the best place to attach it would be straight to the batter, no car electronics in between, and he could use an already made car-charger for the cell phone, all he'd need to do is run some wire, and hide the thing somewhere in the engine compartement. If he'd only layed off the death threats he'd have a good thing going.
As far as short meaningless relationships go though I find it very acurate.
They didn't say Firefox, they said Mozilla(bloated, hence Firefox).
Well they could put it into a caddy a la floppy disc, minidisc, etc.
But it does border North America, I assumed since the story was from a UK news company that the panel was probably largely european.
There is the small problem of the Atlantic Ocean.
Your sig just happened to me. I think anytime you put ; instead of : you go to microsoft.
If god is however all powerful then simply wagering on him is not enought, misery ensues. Perhaps wagering on him would put you slightly in his favor though? I should have payed more attention in sunday school, brainwashing would have solved this dilema.
I personally find automobiles malfunctioning hillarious.
This topic is mostly about people malfunctioning anyway.