dude, your UID is Look at Apple - if not for the PC vs Mac ads, they'd still be known pretty much only for the iPod/iPhone. where were you for apple ][?
the 1984 ad alone makes that statement ridiculous; i've got dollars to doughnuts you bought that low UID
New? Anyone who's ever done anything with old Macs knows this is the Preferences RAM, and when the clock starts acting funny, it's time to replace the PRAM battery.
exactly, that was my first thought when reading the quesion. telling kids "log on to my box and run whatever code you came up with" sounds like recipe for disaster, and a potential huge liability:
student's mom: "why doesn't johny have a grade for your class?
you: "well, um, i had this idea about asignments, uh, and now i don't have anybody's work
mom: "lawyer!!! i want a lawyer!!!
just read through it, seriously, it'll much easier than unbreaking whatever the kids wind up doing to you
whatever! the questions were easy, "Who was the first man to walk on the moon?" You didn't have to be alive in 1968 to know that. Plus, they were multiple guess.
exactly... the only way i can think to test something like this would be to line up the industry respected top devs for each framework at hand, guys who look at each other and say things like "yeah, if you need a good.net thing, he's your guy, sure, i could do it, but it wouldn't be as good as my java", and give them all a series of tasks to implement...
something like - an html form with 255 input fields, and then write all that data to your database, then serve it all up in another page performing x, y, and z on the data
then have their testing ap that hits all of those with the same data for a week
the article you cited claims that problems in education come from some kind of "lack of competition", in the abstract capitalist sense of the word. you want competition in educaiton: make teaching a competitive profession. the reason so many teachers suck is that there's little motivation for qualified individuals to pursue teaching careers.
just to pull some numbers out of my ass, let's assume that the average masters degree results in $40,000 of debt. now let's say susy is interested in getting a masters degree in astronomy. will she take a $32,000 teaching job, or a $60,000 reaserch job for some company that sends up communications sattelites? teaching isn't competitive because the low salaries, awful working conditions, and factors that suck the joy out of teaching (such as continuously preparing students for standardized tests) make it undesireable
fund school districts such that they can fire the chaff and hire the wheat, and we'll see some change
excellent point. think about the effect your weigh/way example could have:
it's sad that so many folks already don't understand the nature of common phrases, mostly because they've only heard them and have never read them. think "no holds barred" or "for all intents and purposes" that people frequently get wrong... now if we simplify spelling, how many people won't know what it means to "weigh in on" a subject?
taking the nuance out of english would not only be a tearful shame, but it would seriously reduce the opportunities for good puns
absolutely. any problem cited with "students in america take longer to spell than in countries with phonetic languages" omits one teensy factor:
i don't have cite for this, but my guess is that those kids who take years to learn to spell didn't start learning it until the teacher showed them at school, probably around age six or seven. the development of the human brain is such that young kids can learn almost anything really easily, and if their parents had taken the time to start reading books to them from the beginning, and helping the kids sound out words when they show an interest, and those kids likely would not be taking years to learn.
i used to teach english as a second language to 3 and 4 year old japanese kids with extremely ambitious parents. those kids could pick up phonics and english spelling no problem. the natural OCD-like nature of kids make the details easy for them, as long as their having fun, and have a good healthy diet that's conducive to a reasonable attention span
You're right, it won't/shouldn't happen, but it's not like metric:
Our spelling of words inherits from their roots. English is the kind of language the hunts down other languages and corners them dark alleys to nick their vocabularies, and that history is in the spelling. If a words is unfamilliar, its spelling is a clue to its meaning. "Simplified Spelling" robs us of an ability to learn new words easily.
TFA says that these weirdos claim that illiteracy rates would drop if spelling were simplified. Not likely. The reson folks are illiterate is that we refuse to fund our schools sufficiently, or pay teachers enough to hire qualified ones. Not to mention that (and I wish I had a cite for this handy) the fact that junk food is cheaper than fresh food with plenty of veg means that kids in the poorer parts of America tend to have diets that reduce their ability to concentrate and learn. The problem isn't the language, it's social.
Metric on the other hand was regected out of misguided nationalism, and because people tend to refuse to acknowledge a good thing when they see it.
"Likewise, the surrounding circumstances--including the effect of the icon on Mr. VanderMolen and school officials, Aaron's awareness of the school's position that a threat was not a joke, the absence of any factor to suggest that the icon was a joke and the general increase in school violence--establish that an ordinary, reasonable recipient who is familiar with the context of the icon would interpret it as a serious threat of injury.
that's the only part of the decision i disagree with. an IM icon isn't a threat, it's an icon. "The absence of any factor to indicate the icon was a joke"? Um. How about that it's an icon, as opposed to say a note, or graffiti, or some other type of message?
that minor disagreement asside, by 15 a kid should know he can't make a picture of a gun pointed at a teacher's head, have blood splatter everywhere, write "kill teacher $name" and think nothing is going to happen.
I was in second grade when i learned you can get in trouble for drawing pictures of people you don't like lying in a hospital bed.
did the school over react by suspending him for a semster? probably. but good grief. you don't make icons of blowing a teacher's brains out and think that's totally cool.
right, and notice next to the carafe, what looks like a balled up napkin that doesn't change position between the two photos? dollars to doughnuts (yen to onigir?) says that these photos are post-big-ass-spill
Maybe if people BOTHERED TO READ THE DAMN SETUP MANUAL/DOCUMENT, they wouldn't be complaining about the XBox 360 overheating. Nah, its far simpler to just blame Microsoft instead of the dumb ass consumer who sticks a power supply on a shag carpet or next to a 250 watt stereo that pumps out more BTU/hr than a small server.
I won't say you're wrong, because you're not, but there's a *really* big 'but':
This is an xbox360, not a piece of high end testing equipment. the audience for this is kids of all ages who want to play halo (or whatever othter games it has). to assume that this is a group that reads manuals is bad ui design. to make a consumer end product that is dangerous when placed on carpet is bad ui design. to make a product geared for non technical users that is non-obviously dangerous is bad ui design
the fact is, people buy an xbox and set it up and play. you can't expect them to say "i wonder if i should read the manual". they won't, and for it to be necessary is (a) naive, and (b), bad ui design.
CSS2 has some very cool properties for interfacing with Assistive Technology (AT) such as JAWS and WebEyes.
For unfamiliar readers, the speak selector could be used with amazing effectiveness, eg:
.initalism {
speak:spell-out;
}
<abbr title="Strucuted Query Language">SQL</abbr> is very popular in the <abbr title="United States" class="initialism">US</abbr>
Unfortunately, implementation of these features does not seem to be a high priority for AT manufacturers. What efforts, if any, do you know of to get features like these incorporated into future versions of AT products?
that isn't driven to make all the money possible as soon as possible. Part of the reason CraigsList is so popular and people appreciate/use it so much is because they aren't a bunch of sell outs who will spam you with ads at every possible opportunity.
100% right on. you used the word "spam", and while i know you meant visual spam, it reminded me of something.
One of my favorite things about craigs list is that you *never* need an account to use it, so you know they aren't spamming you. no crap in the mail box, no crap in the box, so lots of people use it and it works.
their whole point has been conmunity-focused interaction. it's impossible to have a community if the participants are all on the receiving end of the host's spam. if they had ads, or required accounts, it wouldn't be a community, and it wouldn't be used the way it is
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dude, your UID is Look at Apple - if not for the PC vs Mac ads, they'd still be known pretty much only for the iPod/iPhone. where were you for apple ][?
the 1984 ad alone makes that statement ridiculous; i've got dollars to doughnuts you bought that low UID
peopleware is the only book needed
(grumble.. "it's ben 18 seconds since you hit reply..." why am i penalized for being able to type quickly, on slashdot?)
New? Anyone who's ever done anything with old Macs knows this is the Preferences RAM, and when the clock starts acting funny, it's time to replace the PRAM battery.
student's mom: "why doesn't johny have a grade for your class?
you: "well, um, i had this idea about asignments, uh, and now i don't have anybody's work
mom: "lawyer!!! i want a lawyer!!!
just read through it, seriously, it'll much easier than unbreaking whatever the kids wind up doing to youwhatever! the questions were easy, "Who was the first man to walk on the moon?" You didn't have to be alive in 1968 to know that. Plus, they were multiple guess.
exactly. have you seen the site in question? it's a total link farm SEO spam jobbie
it's in google's (and the internet's interests) to whack that kind of tripe out of the indexes entirely
interesting about friendster... your post inspired me to have a look at friendster's alexa rankings
not too shabby... looks like they did *something* about the beginning of the year, because traffic really took off then
exactly... the only way i can think to test something like this would be to line up the industry respected top devs for each framework at hand, guys who look at each other and say things like "yeah, if you need a good .net thing, he's your guy, sure, i could do it, but it wouldn't be as good as my java", and give them all a series of tasks to implement...
something like - an html form with 255 input fields, and then write all that data to your database, then serve it all up in another page performing x, y, and z on the data
then have their testing ap that hits all of those with the same data for a week
george: I put on my robe and wizard hat
the article you cited claims that problems in education come from some kind of "lack of competition", in the abstract capitalist sense of the word. you want competition in educaiton: make teaching a competitive profession. the reason so many teachers suck is that there's little motivation for qualified individuals to pursue teaching careers.
just to pull some numbers out of my ass, let's assume that the average masters degree results in $40,000 of debt. now let's say susy is interested in getting a masters degree in astronomy. will she take a $32,000 teaching job, or a $60,000 reaserch job for some company that sends up communications sattelites? teaching isn't competitive because the low salaries, awful working conditions, and factors that suck the joy out of teaching (such as continuously preparing students for standardized tests) make it undesireable
fund school districts such that they can fire the chaff and hire the wheat, and we'll see some change
think $.99 big mac
excellent point. think about the effect your weigh/way example could have:
it's sad that so many folks already don't understand the nature of common phrases, mostly because they've only heard them and have never read them. think "no holds barred" or "for all intents and purposes" that people frequently get wrong... now if we simplify spelling, how many people won't know what it means to "weigh in on" a subject?
taking the nuance out of english would not only be a tearful shame, but it would seriously reduce the opportunities for good puns
yes they do. masculine nouns, femenine nouns, and neuter nouns
absolutely. any problem cited with "students in america take longer to spell than in countries with phonetic languages" omits one teensy factor:
i don't have cite for this, but my guess is that those kids who take years to learn to spell didn't start learning it until the teacher showed them at school, probably around age six or seven. the development of the human brain is such that young kids can learn almost anything really easily, and if their parents had taken the time to start reading books to them from the beginning, and helping the kids sound out words when they show an interest, and those kids likely would not be taking years to learn.
i used to teach english as a second language to 3 and 4 year old japanese kids with extremely ambitious parents. those kids could pick up phonics and english spelling no problem. the natural OCD-like nature of kids make the details easy for them, as long as their having fun, and have a good healthy diet that's conducive to a reasonable attention span
Our spelling of words inherits from their roots. English is the kind of language the hunts down other languages and corners them dark alleys to nick their vocabularies, and that history is in the spelling. If a words is unfamilliar, its spelling is a clue to its meaning. "Simplified Spelling" robs us of an ability to learn new words easily.
TFA says that these weirdos claim that illiteracy rates would drop if spelling were simplified. Not likely. The reson folks are illiterate is that we refuse to fund our schools sufficiently, or pay teachers enough to hire qualified ones. Not to mention that (and I wish I had a cite for this handy) the fact that junk food is cheaper than fresh food with plenty of veg means that kids in the poorer parts of America tend to have diets that reduce their ability to concentrate and learn. The problem isn't the language, it's social.
Metric on the other hand was regected out of misguided nationalism, and because people tend to refuse to acknowledge a good thing when they see it.
from the court's opinion in tfa:
that's the only part of the decision i disagree with. an IM icon isn't a threat, it's an icon. "The absence of any factor to indicate the icon was a joke"? Um. How about that it's an icon, as opposed to say a note, or graffiti, or some other type of message?
that minor disagreement asside, by 15 a kid should know he can't make a picture of a gun pointed at a teacher's head, have blood splatter everywhere, write "kill teacher $name" and think nothing is going to happen.
I was in second grade when i learned you can get in trouble for drawing pictures of people you don't like lying in a hospital bed.
did the school over react by suspending him for a semster? probably. but good grief. you don't make icons of blowing a teacher's brains out and think that's totally cool.
right, and notice next to the carafe, what looks like a balled up napkin that doesn't change position between the two photos? dollars to doughnuts (yen to onigir?) says that these photos are post-big-ass-spill
:) fair play
I won't say you're wrong, because you're not, but there's a *really* big 'but':
This is an xbox360, not a piece of high end testing equipment. the audience for this is kids of all ages who want to play halo (or whatever othter games it has). to assume that this is a group that reads manuals is bad ui design. to make a consumer end product that is dangerous when placed on carpet is bad ui design. to make a product geared for non technical users that is non-obviously dangerous is bad ui design
the fact is, people buy an xbox and set it up and play. you can't expect them to say "i wonder if i should read the manual". they won't, and for it to be necessary is (a) naive, and (b), bad ui design.
question one is a fantastic question. i would love to see that answered
CSS2 has some very cool properties for interfacing with Assistive Technology (AT) such as JAWS and WebEyes.
For unfamiliar readers, the speak selector could be used with amazing effectiveness, eg:
speak:spell-out;
}
<abbr title="Strucuted Query Language">SQL</abbr> is very popular in the <abbr title="United States" class="initialism">US</abbr>
Unfortunately, implementation of these features does not seem to be a high priority for AT manufacturers. What efforts, if any, do you know of to get features like these incorporated into future versions of AT products?
right right right: The Challenger: An Information Disaster
100% right on. you used the word "spam", and while i know you meant visual spam, it reminded me of something.
One of my favorite things about craigs list is that you *never* need an account to use it, so you know they aren't spamming you. no crap in the mail box, no crap in the box, so lots of people use it and it works.
their whole point has been conmunity-focused interaction. it's impossible to have a community if the participants are all on the receiving end of the host's spam. if they had ads, or required accounts, it wouldn't be a community, and it wouldn't be used the way it is
i'm sure this wasn't an intentional error, it's worth noting that BASIC is an educational programming language, and *not* an OS
could salinity affect this too? as the ice melts, the water becomes less saline, and it's viscosity lessens?