The subjects taught at school are chosen by... drum roll please... medieval custom.
Analytic geometry (taught in Algebra I) was not developed until the 17th century; and the use of parameters in algebra dates only to the late 1500s. Latin isn't a big subject today.
Of the seven subjects in the two curricula, grammar, geometry, music, and arithmetic are commonly taught; logic, rhetoric, and astronomy, not so much. The other natural sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology) were not part of these, nor was history.
If you stick to discrete distributions, OK, but what about continuous distributions such as the normal distribution? Wouldn't those be easier to describe to students who have had calculus?
Am I making sense? We are focusing on things that are easy to teach like piles of math. Things that are complex and can create aware citizens seems to interest the system less.
No, you are not making sense.
On the contrary, the skills of mathematics may be essential, but the GP is saying that critical thought is a threat to the powers that be. Some people in power might well want a skilled but uncritical citizenry.
But if the object is on the side of the road (not on the road), you might drive under the belief that staying on the road will be sufficient to avoid the object. If the object is a deer, that belief might be incorrect.
A basic understanding of our shared history is important for the proper functioning of a democratic society.
And how many years of studying history would this require? Also, to what extent do we have a shared history? Even if you include ancestors, the United States is a nation of immigrants. What do we share?
It is basically pointless for non-techies.
Your failure to cognize the point does not make math pointless.
One is that cell phones had no effect on accident rates, because they've remained the same from 1990-2010. It also means that the crusade on drunk driving had no results as far as reported accidents.
Does the concept of multiple regression mean anything to you? Maybe the cell-phone effect cancelled the decrease-in-drunk-driving effect?
While xbox is a household name, profit wise it isn't stellar. It also has had an interesting effect of moving the attention of Windows game developers onto consoles. The problem being this actually seems to weaken MS lockin, migrating userbase from a mindset where microsoft unquestionably dominates the market to one where MS is just one of three big names. While this in the short term has boosted MS offering in the market, it also has made these studios get over their desktop fixation and get accustomed to supporting Sony and to some extent nintendo.
But even if Microsoft doesn't develop Xbox, Sony and Nintendo would produce consoles, so the studios would still produce console games.
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It might make it a success for Microsoft, but what about its customers?
One can do algebra geometrically, a la Euclid, Book II.
But physicists didn't need deconstructionists to refute Pons and Fleischmann.
I consider Ubuntu to be end-user ready. Does Canonical do it with smoke and mirrors?
So it isn't just me?
The subjects taught at school are chosen by... drum roll please... medieval custom.
Analytic geometry (taught in Algebra I) was not developed until the 17th century; and the use of parameters in algebra dates only to the late 1500s. Latin isn't a big subject today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium_(education)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium
Of the seven subjects in the two curricula, grammar, geometry, music, and arithmetic are commonly taught; logic, rhetoric, and astronomy, not so much. The other natural sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology) were not part of these, nor was history.
If you stick to discrete distributions, OK, but what about continuous distributions such as the normal distribution? Wouldn't those be easier to describe to students who have had calculus?
Doesn't a cell-phone contract include having a phone company? How would you use a cell-phone without a contract? Pay as you go?
Call us when a humanities professor pulls an inverse Sokal hoax.
No, you are not making sense.
On the contrary, the skills of mathematics may be essential, but the GP is saying that critical thought is a threat to the powers that be. Some people in power might well want a skilled but uncritical citizenry.
Newton's three laws are physics, not, as you seem to imply, math. Also, I don't live in Quebec, so why should I care about the Régie du logement?
But if the object is on the side of the road (not on the road), you might drive under the belief that staying on the road will be sufficient to avoid the object. If the object is a deer, that belief might be incorrect.
A basic understanding of our shared history is important for the proper functioning of a democratic society.
And how many years of studying history would this require? Also, to what extent do we have a shared history? Even if you include ancestors, the United States is a nation of immigrants. What do we share?
It is basically pointless for non-techies.
Your failure to cognize the point does not make math pointless.
But if people aren't rational, what incentives will you offer them to embrace limited government?
And you don't seem to mind lecturing people on what is good for them.
One is that cell phones had no effect on accident rates, because they've remained the same from 1990-2010. It also means that the crusade on drunk driving had no results as far as reported accidents.
Does the concept of multiple regression mean anything to you? Maybe the cell-phone effect cancelled the decrease-in-drunk-driving effect?
It will detect a stationary object, but will it detect it as a deer? Otherwise it's just another thing on the side of the road.
What, we're not putting them in a line to be marched off somewhere?
How many owners of iOS devices have a machine running Windows?
But even if Microsoft doesn't develop Xbox, Sony and Nintendo would produce consoles, so the studios would still produce console games.
Why would anyone want to depend on a "strategic" OS from Microsoft?
Dell. HP. Gateway. And all their fucking crapware.
My HP G60-630US doesn't have any crapware on it. Well, not in the Linux partition.
Doesn't Apple require a Mac for iPhone/iPad development?
Apple has already jumped to another processor, the Samsung-produced A5X.
Except to shoot them on sight you would need a lot of cops in a small area. Can you do that?
I have never, will never and can never see a reason to need a gun, unless your going to use it to harm someone or something.
What about that episode of MacGyver where he used a gun as a wrench?
Doesn't getting an OEM price for Windows 8 require UEFI?