Doubtful, however they are the ideal person for the job. It also doesn't change that you have an error in:
If you require a human body, you've failed.
By that logic, needing a TA for that feedback loop is still failure. While I hate the textbook cartel a ton, teachers still have a very useful purpose, especially in the introductory and very high level classes. The intermediate stuff people often can learn on their own, but when you are just entering into a field, or are pushing the limits of a field, having someone very knowledgeable to hold your hand/give feedback is a very good thing. -nB
My wife is a sociologist and cultural anthropologist (double major, though closely related). Her anthro dissertation was on educational systems impact on child development both within the US and in the world in general (in many ways the village raising the child as seen in tribal communities in the Amazon and Africa does better at teaching children than the US system). Her soc. paper was focused on the sex trade.
A couple interesting points come out of this: my children are less exposed to violence than sexuality (not to say they watch graphic movies, they are 6 and 8, but questions about gender are not danced around at all). My wife and I talk a lot about what the other finds attractive in a stranger/movie star (of either gender) && each other (though we specifically do not talk about friends this way, even if they have traits in common with those we discuss), and we have the open offer to each other to talk about the chance of an affair prior to one ever happening.
The point I'm trying to get at, porn will not damage a marriage nearly as badly as poor communication. It may not be a net positive for all marriages (though I think there are more [couples] than people think who indulge together), it should not be all that toxic to a well grounded marriage either. -nB
My solution for the problem is simple. First the definition of the problem: There is a contention caused by using a religious term (marriage), in a state institution (legal documentation of a union of two people). The solution is thus to deny "Marriage" to everyone at the governmental level and only grant "Civil Unions" to everyone who wants one. If you want also to be married, go to a church/house of worship/whoever that will perform a marriage for you. somehow, that pisses off everyone, though I do believe it properly addresses the problem. -nB
Was just looking at that and thinking... How much would it cost to get a photo quality print made that is 9 feet tall and long enough to wrap around my entire den at my house? That would be the best ever wallpaper.
On the bright side, we'll cultivate an entire generation of AI developers, especially those who figure out the algorithms good enough to be able to turn in a machine written paper that equates to "this paper is an A"
it is derivative, just fails the substantially different test. Maybe CBS could have licensed it to them for $1.00 (or whatever the actual cost of providing a license is)? This way CBS is preserving their (C) but allowing the fan base to continue. -nB
[offtopic, I know] We were fifth largest in the world for a long time, but have slid quite a bit in the last 5 years. Not sure where we are now with the Eurozone issues, but I think we're at 12th or so. Really sad thing is that our budget is nearly all legislated (something like ~70%), so all this bitching about balanced budgets is really the voters fault. case in point: 1998, economy is on a meteoric rise because of the building dotcom bubble. Ballot measure passes that dictates a percentage of the revenues from income taxes will go to education. The catch? it's a ratchet, it can't go down, even if revenues do. So by 2000 revenues have peaked and now start crashing down, education budget stays at the high level, percentage of budget consumed starts growing to much larger percentages than "promised". There are plenty of other laws passed by ballot measure that are similar, or dictate a fixed % or fixed $ amount.
This is what Heinlein warned us of when he said the people will vote for bread and circuses. [/offtopic]
As to the Comcast issue, it is no different than AT&T's UVerse either. In fact, I think UVerse is more guilty. Comcast started as a cable TV provider, and AFAIK it is still billing it's IPTV/DTV offerings as cable TV, separate from Internet connectivity. As long as they bill for video service as a feature add then I don't see it as so much of an issue. I take more issue with bandwidth caps in general, or the costs of going over. I have AT&T, I get 250 gog a month. If I go over it is $10/50 gig ($0.20/gig). My ISP charges me $4/TB on overages from my web server ($0.004/gig). They are gouging on bandwidth charges. -nB
soooo What if I set up a P2P mesh with others on my same segment of a comcast network. That data should not count against caps either, right? I've not only not left their network, I've even stayed in the same segment. If I had comcast I would actually try to do this and since they would inevitably say I exceeded my BW limits I would then sue them. It'd be fun times. -nB
I constantly hear stories of long queues for common things like MRIs in the socialized medicine structure. Longest I've ever had to wait in the US is 7 days and that was for a non-critical scan. I know our system is broken in the US, no doubt, but I also think that going to a socialized system the way our government would implement it is far worse. We have a sorta halfway system available in the US (HMO's) that appears to work very well, that's what I use and no problems, and it's relatively affordable (this comparison is really complex as I pay vastly less taxes than my brother, living in Germany pays).
I really don't know the right answer (and I am skeptical of any one who claims to), but both what we currently have and what we are doing about it both feel wrong.
Maybe a basic level of health care that is provided by government subsidy, while employers can fund a better plan as part of a benefit package? I really don't know.
Nor would I, but I think we can all agree that this is a hell of a first step. possibly this used to regrow up to the joint, then something else to recreate/stimulate the joint, then back to this to continue growing? I am no limb regrowth expert, but the fact that some animals can regrow limbs makes me think that this should ultimately be possible to reproduce in humans. -nB
Health care is not free. Who pays for the medicine? Who pays the doctors? Who pays for the DME? Who pays for the MRI machines, the X-ray machines, the operating rooms? Who pays for the physical therapy?
All these things cost money, no matter where you are, thus health care is not free. In those more "advanced" countries you refer to the taxpayers all pay into a pool, and that is dived up to pay for everyone's health care. To call it free is disingenuous. Now, there is a valid debate as to whether or not the US system, the socialist system, or some hybrid of the two is best, all have their advantages and disadvantages. But to quote Heinlein: TANSTAAFL. -nB
There is a guy who lost his finger to a model airplane. He regrew his finger through the use of a magical powder made from the intracellular membrane of pig bladders. (not kidding, I'll try to find TFA about it). -nB
Excellent answer. and if they press on with "this is different" you give them a speil about trust, and how people that have friended you and trusted you not to hand out friends data, thus you still can not reveal the pwd.
I came back with a simple "Why?" when they asked for my pwd once. Their answer was to ensure I was not posting disparaging content about them or my previous employer. I responded that would be silly of me, if someone with a public profile re-posed it it would be public, in addition my previous employer had an NDA about posting stuff about them, which I would not violate. -nB
They can ask your age, but if it is to see "how old you are" it opens them to liability. If it is to see "if you're old enough" that's fine, and expected. The delta between the two is obvious enough. if you look to be in your 30's you obviously are over 18. alternatively they could say: "The OSHA/EDD/Whatever minimum age requirement for this position is 21 (bartender?), do you meet this requirement?" -nB
When I go to a casino I play craps and Blackjack. I usually come out relatively even, sometimes greatly ahead, never too far behind. Most I've ever lost in a trip is $50, most I've won is $3500. Craps is fun, may not be as even as blackjack, but it is more fun. -nB
Interesting, I use a low end cell phone with no "smart" features, or a camera. Naturally it has a mic, it is a phone. My computer has no webcam installed, my notebook has a yellow stickie label over the camera. To deal with snooping on my web search history I have a perl script that does an lpw get on random words from the dictionary and clicks a random number of links randomly spaced apart. This generates search noise. -nB
I collect datasets. I have a small selection of movies on the server (mostly so disks don't get scratched with 6 and 8 year old hands). I have 12TB with about 5% free, normally I try to run at close to 20% free, but have not been buying disk since the floods. Soon I won't have a choice, so I welcome these 2TB 2.5" platters. I'm out of mechanical space, but if I replace my 3.5" bays with 2.5" I can go from 5 to 12 disks in the same physical space.
Any way, back to the datasets. I have one that came shipped on 10 DVDs, it is all the data for the US education system crossed as follows: zip code of school average attendance rate/grade average GPA/grade average income/grade district of school ethnicity of school ethnicity of zip from census income of zip from census average teacher income / grade / (zip &&|| district) (not available at a per school granularity because of the low number of teachers/grade in a school could lead to reasonable identification of an individuals income) etc. etc. It is one of my bigger datasets, and I keep it on-line. The SPSS license was *not* cheap, but it made the research for the wife's masters thesis really easy.
Anyway, long story short I have a multi TB collection of DBs, that I don't want to lose, along with queries. All on mirrors, 12TB worth. I'm sure there are/.ers that are movie hounds out there that have vastly more than that. -nB -nB
Nevermind that some applications will murder an SSD faster than you can say "Fault Tolerant". I have a scratch disk on my server, it's the landing zone for most network IO that is disk bound as well as a landing zone for uncompressed video that needs to be batched out for compression and for the resulting compressed file. Performance is secondary to cost in my application, so yes, this all hits a single HDD, but I only support about 4 users anyway. That drive has been replaced three times now. Each time with a platter drive. I tried an SSD once, it died in a week, platter drives last about 6 months. That's life with gobs of reads and writes. I have a very low failure rate on all other drives in the server as they are largely static. Write once read many type operations. Usually, when I upgrade to a larger disk, I take the previous smallest disk and use that as the next scratch disk. -nB
But, I will say that the reformulating of a drug and making small changes to get awarded a patent is complete crap and should be disallowed.
FTFY. Doing derivative work on a drug to make it better (cheaper, more effective, less side effects, etc.) is a good thing, and I suppose there is a grey line where a patent may be reasonable, but in general, yes I agree with you. -nB
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Doubtful, however they are the ideal person for the job.
It also doesn't change that you have an error in:
If you require a human body, you've failed.
By that logic, needing a TA for that feedback loop is still failure.
While I hate the textbook cartel a ton, teachers still have a very useful purpose, especially in the introductory and very high level classes. The intermediate stuff people often can learn on their own, but when you are just entering into a field, or are pushing the limits of a field, having someone very knowledgeable to hold your hand/give feedback is a very good thing.
-nB
yup.
heh, sorry, and that *was* a funny retort.
My wife is a sociologist and cultural anthropologist (double major, though closely related). Her anthro dissertation was on educational systems impact on child development both within the US and in the world in general (in many ways the village raising the child as seen in tribal communities in the Amazon and Africa does better at teaching children than the US system).
Her soc. paper was focused on the sex trade.
A couple interesting points come out of this: my children are less exposed to violence than sexuality (not to say they watch graphic movies, they are 6 and 8, but questions about gender are not danced around at all). My wife and I talk a lot about what the other finds attractive in a stranger/movie star (of either gender) && each other (though we specifically do not talk about friends this way, even if they have traits in common with those we discuss), and we have the open offer to each other to talk about the chance of an affair prior to one ever happening.
The point I'm trying to get at, porn will not damage a marriage nearly as badly as poor communication. It may not be a net positive for all marriages (though I think there are more [couples] than people think who indulge together), it should not be all that toxic to a well grounded marriage either.
-nB
My solution for the problem is simple.
First the definition of the problem:
There is a contention caused by using a religious term (marriage), in a state institution (legal documentation of a union of two people).
The solution is thus to deny "Marriage" to everyone at the governmental level and only grant "Civil Unions" to everyone who wants one. If you want also to be married, go to a church/house of worship/whoever that will perform a marriage for you.
somehow, that pisses off everyone, though I do believe it properly addresses the problem.
-nB
Not the two I worked with at a past job....
I go with metric shitton when it's a mind bogglingly big number, and long(or imperial) shitton when it's a little bigger than that.
-nB
Was just looking at that and thinking...
How much would it cost to get a photo quality print made that is 9 feet tall and long enough to wrap around my entire den at my house? That would be the best ever wallpaper.
On the bright side, we'll cultivate an entire generation of AI developers, especially those who figure out the algorithms good enough to be able to turn in a machine written paper that equates to "this paper is an A"
Parser error, buffer overflow.
Seriously though, how soon till someone ;select from * drop table;'s the thing through creative attacks on the word/language parser?
it is derivative, just fails the substantially different test.
Maybe CBS could have licensed it to them for $1.00 (or whatever the actual cost of providing a license is)?
This way CBS is preserving their (C) but allowing the fan base to continue.
-nB
[offtopic, I know] We were fifth largest in the world for a long time, but have slid quite a bit in the last 5 years. Not sure where we are now with the Eurozone issues, but I think we're at 12th or so. Really sad thing is that our budget is nearly all legislated (something like ~70%), so all this bitching about balanced budgets is really the voters fault.
case in point:
1998, economy is on a meteoric rise because of the building dotcom bubble. Ballot measure passes that dictates a percentage of the revenues from income taxes will go to education. The catch? it's a ratchet, it can't go down, even if revenues do. So by 2000 revenues have peaked and now start crashing down, education budget stays at the high level, percentage of budget consumed starts growing to much larger percentages than "promised".
There are plenty of other laws passed by ballot measure that are similar, or dictate a fixed % or fixed $ amount.
This is what Heinlein warned us of when he said the people will vote for bread and circuses.
[/offtopic]
As to the Comcast issue, it is no different than AT&T's UVerse either. In fact, I think UVerse is more guilty.
Comcast started as a cable TV provider, and AFAIK it is still billing it's IPTV/DTV offerings as cable TV, separate from Internet connectivity. As long as they bill for video service as a feature add then I don't see it as so much of an issue.
I take more issue with bandwidth caps in general, or the costs of going over.
I have AT&T, I get 250 gog a month. If I go over it is $10/50 gig ($0.20/gig). My ISP charges me $4/TB on overages from my web server ($0.004/gig). They are gouging on bandwidth charges.
-nB
soooo
What if I set up a P2P mesh with others on my same segment of a comcast network.
That data should not count against caps either, right? I've not only not left their network, I've even stayed in the same segment. If I had comcast I would actually try to do this and since they would inevitably say I exceeded my BW limits I would then sue them. It'd be fun times.
-nB
I constantly hear stories of long queues for common things like MRIs in the socialized medicine structure. Longest I've ever had to wait in the US is 7 days and that was for a non-critical scan.
I know our system is broken in the US, no doubt, but I also think that going to a socialized system the way our government would implement it is far worse.
We have a sorta halfway system available in the US (HMO's) that appears to work very well, that's what I use and no problems, and it's relatively affordable (this comparison is really complex as I pay vastly less taxes than my brother, living in Germany pays).
I really don't know the right answer (and I am skeptical of any one who claims to), but both what we currently have and what we are doing about it both feel wrong.
Maybe a basic level of health care that is provided by government subsidy, while employers can fund a better plan as part of a benefit package? I really don't know.
Nor would I, but I think we can all agree that this is a hell of a first step.
possibly this used to regrow up to the joint, then something else to recreate/stimulate the joint, then back to this to continue growing?
I am no limb regrowth expert, but the fact that some animals can regrow limbs makes me think that this should ultimately be possible to reproduce in humans.
-nB
Health care is not free.
Who pays for the medicine?
Who pays the doctors?
Who pays for the DME?
Who pays for the MRI machines, the X-ray machines, the operating rooms?
Who pays for the physical therapy?
All these things cost money, no matter where you are, thus health care is not free.
In those more "advanced" countries you refer to the taxpayers all pay into a pool, and that is dived up to pay for everyone's health care. To call it free is disingenuous. Now, there is a valid debate as to whether or not the US system, the socialist system, or some hybrid of the two is best, all have their advantages and disadvantages. But to quote Heinlein: TANSTAAFL.
-nB
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-563099/The-amazing-pixie-dust-pigs-bladder-regrew-severed-finger-FOUR-weeks.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353636,00.html
there we go, easier to find than I thought.
Now, this guy only lost about 1/2 inch of his finger, but I wonder what would happen if bone was involved...
Still speaks to your comment of "you grew the leg once...".
-nB
There is a guy who lost his finger to a model airplane. He regrew his finger through the use of a magical powder made from the intracellular membrane of pig bladders. (not kidding, I'll try to find TFA about it).
-nB
Excellent answer.
and if they press on with "this is different" you give them a speil about trust, and how people that have friended you and trusted you not to hand out friends data, thus you still can not reveal the pwd.
I came back with a simple "Why?" when they asked for my pwd once. Their answer was to ensure I was not posting disparaging content about them or my previous employer. I responded that would be silly of me, if someone with a public profile re-posed it it would be public, in addition my previous employer had an NDA about posting stuff about them, which I would not violate.
-nB
They can ask your age, but if it is to see "how old you are" it opens them to liability. If it is to see "if you're old enough" that's fine, and expected. The delta between the two is obvious enough. if you look to be in your 30's you obviously are over 18.
alternatively they could say:
"The OSHA/EDD/Whatever minimum age requirement for this position is 21 (bartender?), do you meet this requirement?"
-nB
When I go to a casino I play craps and Blackjack. I usually come out relatively even, sometimes greatly ahead, never too far behind. Most I've ever lost in a trip is $50, most I've won is $3500. Craps is fun, may not be as even as blackjack, but it is more fun.
-nB
Interesting, I use a low end cell phone with no "smart" features, or a camera. Naturally it has a mic, it is a phone.
My computer has no webcam installed, my notebook has a yellow stickie label over the camera.
To deal with snooping on my web search history I have a perl script that does an lpw get on random words from the dictionary and clicks a random number of links randomly spaced apart. This generates search noise.
-nB
I collect datasets.
I have a small selection of movies on the server (mostly so disks don't get scratched with 6 and 8 year old hands).
I have 12TB with about 5% free, normally I try to run at close to 20% free, but have not been buying disk since the floods. Soon I won't have a choice, so I welcome these 2TB 2.5" platters. I'm out of mechanical space, but if I replace my 3.5" bays with 2.5" I can go from 5 to 12 disks in the same physical space.
Any way, back to the datasets. I have one that came shipped on 10 DVDs, it is all the data for the US education system crossed as follows: /grade /grade /grade
zip code of school
average attendance rate
average GPA
average income
district of school
ethnicity of school
ethnicity of zip from census
income of zip from census
average teacher income / grade / (zip &&|| district) (not available at a per school granularity because of the low number of teachers/grade in a school could lead to reasonable identification of an individuals income)
etc.
etc.
It is one of my bigger datasets, and I keep it on-line. The SPSS license was *not* cheap, but it made the research for the wife's masters thesis really easy.
Anyway, long story short I have a multi TB collection of DBs, that I don't want to lose, along with queries. /.ers that are movie hounds out there that have vastly more than that.
All on mirrors, 12TB worth. I'm sure there are
-nB
-nB
Nevermind that some applications will murder an SSD faster than you can say "Fault Tolerant".
I have a scratch disk on my server, it's the landing zone for most network IO that is disk bound as well as a landing zone for uncompressed video that needs to be batched out for compression and for the resulting compressed file.
Performance is secondary to cost in my application, so yes, this all hits a single HDD, but I only support about 4 users anyway.
That drive has been replaced three times now. Each time with a platter drive. I tried an SSD once, it died in a week, platter drives last about 6 months. That's life with gobs of reads and writes.
I have a very low failure rate on all other drives in the server as they are largely static. Write once read many type operations. Usually, when I upgrade to a larger disk, I take the previous smallest disk and use that as the next scratch disk.
-nB
But, I will say that the reformulating of a drug and making small changes to get awarded a patent is complete crap and should be disallowed.
FTFY.
Doing derivative work on a drug to make it better (cheaper, more effective, less side effects, etc.) is a good thing, and I suppose there is a grey line where a patent may be reasonable, but in general, yes I agree with you.
-nB