>why then in 2005 does it happen again and suddenly >it's "global warming"?
Global warming or no global warming, I think we probably *need* some large-scale disasters to occur, because then there won't be such debate as to whether it's a problem or what its causes are.
Right now "Global Warming" does not appear to *DO* anything, at least, nothing drastic (such as making whole countries uninhabitable or making archipelagoes disappear).
When the UK is entirely submerged, there won't be any arguing as to whether it's a problem. Politicians won't have the luxury of dismissing science out of hand. Preserving civilization itself will again become a priority.
"I mean, honestly, they don't seem interested in distributing music, just denying people access to it."
Eventually they will be forced to realize that whatever power they take for themselves, is also granted to any other copyright holder - equal protection and all that. Let them create a totalitarian state ruled by artists and writers, please!
"Whether people actually store sensitive info on keycards or not, it's just very simple to take them with you, and destroy them when you're done, by cutting up the card, which includes cutting the magnetic strip."
Hippies don't really get into the commercial kind of chaos that is burning man. I guess any counterculture can be labeled as "hippies" but the people who do Burning Man tend to be urban contemporary artists.
If you want to hang out with hippies, go to a Rainbow Gathering.
Are you sure? I agree that 6 mph is past the threshold between a "brisk jog" and a "hard run", but I still say it's not an uncommon pace for the average casual enthusiast.
"There's no way you could get from one end to the other in 10 minutes. That's absolutely impossible."
It's a reasonable starting point for a daily jog. Millions of people do this, or more strenuous things, as a warmup. It is so far from impossible, you must be joking.
"Someone who's healthy isn't necessarily good at running. 2.2 miles in 20 minutes is a pretty fast pace, it takes me that long to go about 1 mile, and I don't consider myself unfit. "
You wouldn't qualify for a middle school track team.
Never mind the *team*, you'd probably be disciplined for blowing off "jogging" in PE.
Slow, casual jogging is about 8 km/h On the other hand, the fastest sprinters in the world have never reached 40 km/h.
If someone is supposed to be flying a jet plane, let alone a spacecraft, I'd certainly think the ability to maintain a sustained run at a pace faster than jogging, is a reasonable requirement.
"I mentioned it in another article, but the key for Linux to breakthru to the desktop market is not for widespread adoption by corporate customers, it's just simple, plain old, EASE OF USE."
But, Linux isn't difficult to use. It's actually quite easy to use.
It is perhaps difficult to comprehend the vast magnitude and take in every single aspect of the entire linux phenomenon, but that's a separate matter.
And it may be difficult to install linux from scratch, or even, to understand the relationship between the operating system to hardware. Again, that is not a consideration for the user.
There are some application domains where Linux is not a good fit, due to a dearth of software support and hardware compatability (such as audio/video production), but that's also beside the point.
OpenOffice is not more difficult for the user on Linux than it is on Windows. For that matter, the bash shell is not more difficult on Linux than the command.exe shell on Windows.
What is this "ease of use" argument but misinformation? Is Windows easy to use? I don't believe it is.
Because he makes material with enough mainstream appeal, or is lucky enough to have his material promoted by the largest marketing machine on the planet, he puts more asses in the theatre seat, that makes him "God?"
This is like saying the Backstreet Boys are better than Beethoven because they sell more CDs!
"Realistically the answer is no - it would be asking the students to swallow far too much at once. "
What if there happened to be a portion of the population who do have such aptitude? Perhaps we could identify them, and offer them an entirely different curriculum?
"Innovation is one of the least appreciated quality of teaching."
So say teachers, but there is an important bias to be aware of.
Education is itself a scientific field of research. Teaching methods are developed in a controlled experimental peer-reviewed environment where the curriculum and practice are analyzed by people who devote their careers to this research.
But the teacher on the classroom floor who wants to play it by ear, might not see the potential problem he is causing.
Imagine if police officers start deciding they know better ways than the methods they are supposed to use. Imagine if carpenters decide they have a better idea than to use the standard units of measure for cutting and assembling things out of wood.
"I personally doubt that you can avoid trigonometric functions, because they are eventually used, for example when dealing with differential equations."
Since it *all* derives from Set Theory, you could start at a much more abstract level, and essentially work your way backwards. I'll leave it to someone else to discover a means by which this process could be tranferred to hormone-saturated middle schoolers, however.
"Why do you think this article is about Wonderful New Math being released in a book?"
No academic institution would sponsor his work, so he just published it himself? He couldn't even get this research into academic channels that deal specifically with new ideas for math education methods?
Anyone can publish a book. You can publish a book that claims to prove the earth is flat, that aliens built the pyramids, or that the universe was created by a diety.
The trick is getting an academic instution to accept your work to the point that they use it in the curriculum:-)
> Trig should be about a 1 to 2 week topic in > school.
These days, it is. High school calculus devotes a chapter to trig, with the assumption that the student had a middle school geometry course. College precalc does about the same. College calculus typically has one lecture that reviews the identities and how they are derived, but it's done in the larger context of integration by trig substitution, and then a little later, to tie algebra and calculus together with the various definitions of vector dot-products and cross-products.
"As soon as the policy was announced, war planners all over the world immediately started creating thier own plans for pre-preemeptive strikes in the event of an (apparent) US move agaist them."
Why should they wait for the US to act?
If it's okay for the US to make a preemptive strike, why isn't the same doctrine available to other countries? Is there one set of rules for the US and another set for the rest of the world? That won't work.
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"Why would they be offering $10000 to emulator developers?"
My guess is, they don't expect any takers, and they are counting on that in order to say "see, it can't be done!"
I have no idea why anyone would want to do that. But they can't seriously believe they have established the motivation properly.
'We'll never have to go to court, since we'll settle out of court with any author'
No, but you'll go to prison on racketeering charges. You can't extort against everyone in an entire industry! That's organized crime!
>why then in 2005 does it happen again and suddenly
>it's "global warming"?
Global warming or no global warming, I think we probably *need* some large-scale disasters to occur, because then there won't be such debate as to whether it's a problem or what its causes are.
Right now "Global Warming" does not appear to *DO* anything, at least, nothing drastic (such as making whole countries uninhabitable or making archipelagoes disappear).
When the UK is entirely submerged, there won't be any arguing as to whether it's a problem. Politicians won't have the luxury of dismissing science out of hand. Preserving civilization itself will again become a priority.
"I wouldn't even be able to record a digital aircheck of my own voice "
And you should regard that as a copyright infringement agaisnt yourself, your own rights not being subordinate to those of some corporation.
"I mean, honestly, they don't seem interested in distributing music, just denying people access to it."
Eventually they will be forced to realize that whatever power they take for themselves, is also granted to any other copyright holder - equal protection and all that. Let them create a totalitarian state ruled by artists and writers, please!
"Whether people actually store sensitive info on keycards or not, it's just very simple to take them with you, and destroy them when you're done, by cutting up the card, which includes cutting the magnetic strip."
And what if the hotel charges money for that?
Hippies don't really get into the commercial kind of chaos that is burning man. I guess any counterculture can be labeled as "hippies" but the people who do Burning Man tend to be urban contemporary artists.
If you want to hang out with hippies, go to a Rainbow Gathering.
> I can't run a 10 minute mile
Are you sure? I agree that 6 mph is past the threshold between a "brisk jog" and a "hard run",
but I still say it's not an uncommon pace for the average casual enthusiast.
> That's why I'm stuck in support at this company
I think you missed my point. You want to blame your lack of success in career development on other people, and I'm deaf to that kind of excuse.
"There's no way you could get from one end to the other in 10 minutes. That's absolutely impossible."
It's a reasonable starting point for a daily jog. Millions of people do this, or more strenuous things, as a warmup. It is so far from impossible, you must be joking.
"Someone who's healthy isn't necessarily good at running. 2.2 miles in 20 minutes is a pretty fast pace, it takes me that long to go about 1 mile, and I don't consider myself unfit.
"
You wouldn't qualify for a middle school track team.
Never mind the *team*, you'd probably be disciplined for blowing off "jogging" in PE.
Slow, casual jogging is about 8 km/h
On the other hand, the fastest sprinters in the world have never reached 40 km/h.
If someone is supposed to be flying a jet plane, let alone a spacecraft, I'd certainly think the ability to maintain a sustained run at a pace faster than jogging, is a reasonable requirement.
"Charges for the votes?"
That's not an election, it's an auction!
"Divorcing Microsoft would be a good step, but no one listens to the guy in support..."
And the guy in support never succeeds in getting promoted to upper management, despite being so much smarter than his idiot boss...
"Research your subject before you start whining. It just makes you look stupid."
I've seen his material and I still think it's boring.
"I mentioned it in another article, but the key for Linux to breakthru to the desktop market is not for widespread adoption by corporate customers, it's just simple, plain old, EASE OF USE."
But, Linux isn't difficult to use. It's actually quite easy to use.
It is perhaps difficult to comprehend the vast magnitude and take in every single aspect of the entire linux phenomenon, but that's a separate matter.
And it may be difficult to install linux from scratch, or even, to understand the relationship between the operating system to hardware. Again, that is not a consideration for the user.
There are some application domains where Linux is not a good fit, due to a dearth of software support and hardware compatability (such as audio/video production), but that's also beside the point.
OpenOffice is not more difficult for the user on Linux than it is on Windows. For that matter, the bash shell is not more difficult on Linux than the command.exe shell on Windows.
What is this "ease of use" argument but misinformation? Is Windows easy to use? I don't believe it is.
Because he makes material with enough mainstream appeal, or is lucky enough to have his material promoted by the largest marketing machine on the planet, he puts more asses in the theatre seat, that makes him "God?"
This is like saying the Backstreet Boys are better than Beethoven because they sell more CDs!
"Realistically the answer is no - it would be asking the students to swallow far too much at once. "
What if there happened to be a portion of the population who do have such aptitude? Perhaps we could identify them, and offer them an entirely different curriculum?
"Innovation is one of the least appreciated quality of teaching."
So say teachers, but there is an important bias to be aware of.
Education is itself a scientific field of research. Teaching methods are developed in a controlled experimental peer-reviewed environment where the curriculum and practice are analyzed by people who devote their careers to this research.
But the teacher on the classroom floor who wants to play it by ear, might not see the potential problem he is causing.
Imagine if police officers start deciding they know better ways than the methods they are supposed to use. Imagine if carpenters decide they have a better idea than to use the standard units of measure for cutting and assembling things out of wood.
"I personally doubt that you can avoid trigonometric functions, because they are eventually used, for example when dealing with differential equations."
Since it *all* derives from Set Theory, you could start at a much more abstract level, and essentially work your way backwards. I'll leave it to someone else to discover a means by which this process could be tranferred to hormone-saturated middle schoolers, however.
"Why do you think this article is about Wonderful New Math being released in a book?"
:-)
No academic institution would sponsor his work, so he just published it himself? He couldn't even get this research into academic channels that deal specifically with new ideas for math education methods?
Anyone can publish a book. You can publish a book that claims to prove the earth is flat, that aliens built the pyramids, or that the universe was created by a diety.
The trick is getting an academic instution to accept your work to the point that they use it in the curriculum
> Trig should be about a 1 to 2 week topic in
> school.
These days, it is. High school calculus devotes a chapter to trig, with the assumption that the student had a middle school geometry course. College precalc does about the same. College calculus typically has one lecture that reviews the identities and how they are derived, but it's done in the larger context of integration by trig substitution, and then a little later, to tie algebra and calculus together with the various definitions of vector dot-products and cross-products.
What bothers me is that you have to explain a concept from third grade geography... to alleged nerds...
> The people that live there are the same as us.
That view is *far* less widely held, than a lot of people seem to realize.
"we do care if he ruins our countries."
Err, "your countries" all either joined in lockstep with Bush's march, or else cheered on from the sidelines.
Nobody has raised an opposition (a *military* opposition) to the US.
If things are bad enough to require one, it's a duty to bring one.
"As soon as the policy was announced, war planners all over the world immediately started creating thier own plans for pre-preemeptive strikes in the event of an (apparent) US move agaist them."
Why should they wait for the US to act?
If it's okay for the US to make a preemptive strike, why isn't the same doctrine available to other countries? Is there one set of rules for the US and another set for the rest of the world? That won't work.
Tou touched on the problem -- why presidents don't usually make such huge sweeping power grabs.
Any authority they take will be handed to their political opponents in 4, 8, or 12 years.