Well, since schools have set up secret cameras in students bedrooms without getting arrested, I doubt looking at pictures on their phone is going to get them arrested.
And this is why I say we live in an orphanage state. Most kids spend more waking hours under the parental care of the state than they do their biological "parents".
I'm a source. You know, when you go to those insurance brokers that promise to compare rates between hundreds of insurance companies? I was one of the guys that wrote the software that did the comparisons. They way we did it was by calculating the rate on each of the companies and producing a sorted report. The company I worked for went so far as to guarentee that our price was correct. That's right. If we gave the wrong price, we paid the difference for the insured. I personally interviewed hundreds of people at the insurace companies to make sure that we understood their process.
The way that auto policies were set up is with new policies, the company would copy one of their competitors and hope for the best. With existing policies, they would make a gut guess as to where they could raise the rates and make more money. Every once in a while they would make bad guesses, and a few months after they implemented a rate change, they would change the same factor to a different value. Statements like "We had no idea that so many people had 4WD in California." were common.
I know that you reall want to believe that they do statistical because, well, "They must be doing it!". But you would be wrong.
It is impossible for the driver to force the passanger to stop prattling in his ear. A cell phone can be turned off. Your excuse for allowing a hazardous behavior you don't want to give up is not even a good excuse.
No. They don't. They may have done the statistics a long long time ago, for at least the last several decades, they have been adusting their policy rates of pure gut instinct. Also know as personal bias. I worked for a company that did comparative auto insurance rating. I have talked to the companies about their rates; about the hows and whys of the various surcharges. The belief that they are using data to determine the rates is simply a myth.
It's not just bandwidth. It is also the client it is being played on. I switched to the TV client from the PC client on my setup because the client built into the TV looks better than the client on my HTPC. Same TV. Same bandwidth. Different client.
"Salary"/"Exempt" workers have become a huge scam. I am consistantly amazed at the number of people I know who accept the idea that they are "Salaried" employees because they don't get overtime, but don't blink an eye at the fact that they get docked pay if they go home early one day.
Of course, virtually every house and business in the country is already connected by public right of ways, and there are ISPs that already want to bury lines and run fiber because it is not that expensive. As it turns out, it is strictly government entities outlawing ISPs from running that fiber that keeps competition out.
At 40 with two kids, I'm going to have to agree with the AC.
The single biggest reason I have seen for teens to stop listening to their parents is because their parents have bought into the BS that their teens are not really adults who are only children under the legal system. The parents who see their teens as inexperienced adults instead of oversized children seem to do much better at having their kids listen to them.
He is just supposed to sit in front of the paper until he passes out due to the late hour. He is then supposed to hand in a half completed assignment or just not hand it in at all. (depending on how close to the beginning of the homework the problem was) He will then recieve a piece of paper back with red marks on problems he could not do two days ago, which he will never look at again.
This is one of the reasons I am such a fan of Kahn Acadamy. If the kid is shaky on a subject, it will push them back to it an make them keep doing it until they understand it. THEN it will move them forward. No busy work drills on stuff that you have already mastered, and no moving on when you don't have the basics.
I've got two different friends with kids who do not take any of the standardized tests becaue they are exempt. Perhaps they are not exempt from NCLB, but NCLB exempts them from having to take any tests or show proficency in any subject.
Arg! On the one hand, the example is not a good way to teach math. On the other, it is sad that 8 is considered before multiplication. So I am left with liking neither the bad old way nor the bad new way.
And in the real world it's a question of how quickly you get a product working, rather than how well you can get something to work in a given blob of time. But education does not let itself to the first case, it can't really, you'd be stuck with 30 year olds in grade 3 who still don't know how to multiply.
That right there is the single biggest problem with our public education system. The idea that you 'pass' the third grade at the end of the year because the time for third grade is done, even if you still can't do the third grade work.
How can "times" not make sense? Sure the sentence is slightly out of order so that it matches the writing, but 6 times eight means that you do 6 eight time, just like you might do a jumping jack 8 times.
Or, Staellite + Hulu, or Hulu + Netflix, or Netflix + local media, or etc, etc, etc. Cord cutting is going mainstream. People don't just assume that they must watch from cable/satellite and that is it. Yes, there would need to be Bluetooth headphones. This is not a major hurdle. Sure another TV is an option, but a large portion of the TV watching public has space constraints. Whether that is watching TV in bed at night where a second TV is totally impractical, or not wanting to watch your show on the tiny bedroom TV, sharing a TV that has 90% of the hardware already built into it would be very practical for a large segment of the US's TV viewing public.
Sure, but most US households don't have multiple TVs in the same room. And, keep in mind that 90% of the hardware is already their to offer this functionality.
I'm still amazed that no TV manufacturers have offerd this capability to allow multiple people to watch different shows at the same time. Sure, they would have to offer a way to use seperate headsets, but that is a trivial addition.
The remade Battlestar Galactica was awful from the beginning. I really wanted to like it, but barely made it throug season 1. The show was just cornball from beginning to end.
Here is a hint for any future creators of Sci-Fi. If you feel that copying characters from Voyager is a good idea, you have failed before you really even got started.
What I marvel at is how Chinese sellers can manufacture and ship a product from China to anywhere in the US via the USPS cheaper than I can ship the same product to the next city over.
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Well, since schools have set up secret cameras in students bedrooms without getting arrested, I doubt looking at pictures on their phone is going to get them arrested.
And this is why I say we live in an orphanage state. Most kids spend more waking hours under the parental care of the state than they do their biological "parents".
I'm a source. You know, when you go to those insurance brokers that promise to compare rates between hundreds of insurance companies? I was one of the guys that wrote the software that did the comparisons. They way we did it was by calculating the rate on each of the companies and producing a sorted report. The company I worked for went so far as to guarentee that our price was correct. That's right. If we gave the wrong price, we paid the difference for the insured. I personally interviewed hundreds of people at the insurace companies to make sure that we understood their process.
The way that auto policies were set up is with new policies, the company would copy one of their competitors and hope for the best. With existing policies, they would make a gut guess as to where they could raise the rates and make more money. Every once in a while they would make bad guesses, and a few months after they implemented a rate change, they would change the same factor to a different value. Statements like "We had no idea that so many people had 4WD in California." were common.
I know that you reall want to believe that they do statistical because, well, "They must be doing it!". But you would be wrong.
It is impossible for the driver to force the passanger to stop prattling in his ear. A cell phone can be turned off. Your excuse for allowing a hazardous behavior you don't want to give up is not even a good excuse.
No. They don't. They may have done the statistics a long long time ago, for at least the last several decades, they have been adusting their policy rates of pure gut instinct. Also know as personal bias. I worked for a company that did comparative auto insurance rating. I have talked to the companies about their rates; about the hows and whys of the various surcharges. The belief that they are using data to determine the rates is simply a myth.
Because the National Safety Counsel produces conclusions that do not match their own data.
It's not just bandwidth. It is also the client it is being played on. I switched to the TV client from the PC client on my setup because the client built into the TV looks better than the client on my HTPC. Same TV. Same bandwidth. Different client.
"Salary"/"Exempt" workers have become a huge scam. I am consistantly amazed at the number of people I know who accept the idea that they are "Salaried" employees because they don't get overtime, but don't blink an eye at the fact that they get docked pay if they go home early one day.
Of course, virtually every house and business in the country is already connected by public right of ways, and there are ISPs that already want to bury lines and run fiber because it is not that expensive. As it turns out, it is strictly government entities outlawing ISPs from running that fiber that keeps competition out.
Me too. I don't play it all the time, but it was $100 well spent. If it supported CEC, I would happily buy an Ouya 2.
At 40 with two kids, I'm going to have to agree with the AC.
The single biggest reason I have seen for teens to stop listening to their parents is because their parents have bought into the BS that their teens are not really adults who are only children under the legal system. The parents who see their teens as inexperienced adults instead of oversized children seem to do much better at having their kids listen to them.
He is just supposed to sit in front of the paper until he passes out due to the late hour. He is then supposed to hand in a half completed assignment or just not hand it in at all. (depending on how close to the beginning of the homework the problem was) He will then recieve a piece of paper back with red marks on problems he could not do two days ago, which he will never look at again.
This is one of the reasons I am such a fan of Kahn Acadamy. If the kid is shaky on a subject, it will push them back to it an make them keep doing it until they understand it. THEN it will move them forward. No busy work drills on stuff that you have already mastered, and no moving on when you don't have the basics.
I've got two different friends with kids who do not take any of the standardized tests becaue they are exempt. Perhaps they are not exempt from NCLB, but NCLB exempts them from having to take any tests or show proficency in any subject.
Arg! On the one hand, the example is not a good way to teach math. On the other, it is sad that 8 is considered before multiplication. So I am left with liking neither the bad old way nor the bad new way.
And in the real world it's a question of how quickly you get a product working, rather than how well you can get something to work in a given blob of time. But education does not let itself to the first case, it can't really, you'd be stuck with 30 year olds in grade 3 who still don't know how to multiply.
That right there is the single biggest problem with our public education system. The idea that you 'pass' the third grade at the end of the year because the time for third grade is done, even if you still can't do the third grade work.
How can "times" not make sense? Sure the sentence is slightly out of order so that it matches the writing, but 6 times eight means that you do 6 eight time, just like you might do a jumping jack 8 times.
Or, Staellite + Hulu, or Hulu + Netflix, or Netflix + local media, or etc, etc, etc. Cord cutting is going mainstream. People don't just assume that they must watch from cable/satellite and that is it. Yes, there would need to be Bluetooth headphones. This is not a major hurdle. Sure another TV is an option, but a large portion of the TV watching public has space constraints. Whether that is watching TV in bed at night where a second TV is totally impractical, or not wanting to watch your show on the tiny bedroom TV, sharing a TV that has 90% of the hardware already built into it would be very practical for a large segment of the US's TV viewing public.
Sure, but most US households don't have multiple TVs in the same room. And, keep in mind that 90% of the hardware is already their to offer this functionality.
I'm still amazed that no TV manufacturers have offerd this capability to allow multiple people to watch different shows at the same time. Sure, they would have to offer a way to use seperate headsets, but that is a trivial addition.
It should be the first one since the second one often leads to no sales at all.
Bah. Battlestar Galactice failed from beginning to end. People just got confused because it had a budget.
The remade Battlestar Galactica was awful from the beginning. I really wanted to like it, but barely made it throug season 1. The show was just cornball from beginning to end.
Here is a hint for any future creators of Sci-Fi. If you feel that copying characters from Voyager is a good idea, you have failed before you really even got started.
Try 13 to 50. So, more like 37 years.
What I marvel at is how Chinese sellers can manufacture and ship a product from China to anywhere in the US via the USPS cheaper than I can ship the same product to the next city over.