That is what keeps coming to mind every time I hear the debate on teaching kids to write in cursive. They spend large amounts of time to teach a written font that has had it's use primarily replaced by a writing method that isn't taught at all to most students.
The other poster is trying to use the "Obviously they are not being allowed to break rules, because no one is holding them accountable to the rules." It is incredibly poor logic. There is no question that athletes are given special treatment and allowed to break rules. It is so common that it is just a given. It is an ingrained part of our culture. Perhaps the poster that doesn't see it believes that the athletes don't break rules because, being athletes, the rules don't apply to them. If he is using that standard, they It is certainly understandable how he could think athletes are not being allowed to break the rules.
Which is why the old saying "There are lies, damn lies and statistics". While what you say is technically true, the amount of time you will spend in single file lines will at best will even out with the amount of time for multiple lines.
There is a certain flow rate for the cashiers. Multiple lines do not slow that down. A single line CAN slow it down do to people getting to the line, or not shifting products from a cart to the counter as fast as the cashier can work.
Beyond that, the line does not improve or slow down the flow rate. If 5 cashiers can push through 5 customers in 5 minutes, it will take 100 minutes to get through 100 customers. Putting everyone in a single line will not speed that up, putting them in separate lines will not slow them down.
Here in California, that is the norm as well. A new register opening will usually take the second person waiting in the original line. They don't take the first person because it is likely to take longer getting them in the other register than it will for the person in front of them to finish.
As much as I would love to see Linux make headway, the cost for windows preinstalled just isn't that much. The same people that would do 99% of their work in the browser would be the people that would lean towards the known company over the unknown.
So, the same demographic that would consider moving brands is the same demographic that would have the hardest time, while the demographic that would stick with brand name would be the group that could move brands if they cared to.
I would say it is less 'missing' the point, and more a matter of 'avoiding' the point. Obviously.NET was designed for this. Of course, the % of peoples computing that is done in the browser also makes the worry about x86 compatibility moot for many.
The last time that MS released Windows for a non-x86 platform, people did 99% of their computer activity locally on their computer. Today, many people do 99% of their computer activity in the web browser over the internet. While backward compatibility is a big deal to some of us, it is naive to think that it is to most people. Honestly, as long as it runs IE, java, flash, VPN, remote desktop and MediaPlayer, they will have a decent sized legitimate market for the product.
In fact, my wife had IBS 'cured' by accident. I put 'cured' in quotes because IBS is not a disease. It is a Syndrome. Also known as a group of symptoms. So, when you go into the doctors, and say "Doctor, my bowels are always irritated. What could it be?" The diagnosis of "IBS" is not a diagnosis at all. It is the doctor just repeating back what you told him in a way that doesn't sound like "I don't know", or "It isn't worth finding out".
OK, with that rant out of the way.... After seeing me lose 60 pounds doing a low carb/high fat diet, my wife decided, she would give it a try. She had been suffering from IBS for 2 years, and it was only 2 weeks after starting the diet that all of the symptoms disappeared. They did not reappear when she went back to the standard high sugar diet that is considered "balanced" by most.
My theory is that she had some kind of bacterial overload. There is a lot of bacteria that are beneficial or even necessary for humans when they are in the right place and the right quantitites, but become a problem in the wrong place and quantities. The doctors couldn't figure it out because they were not finding anything in her system that shouldn't be there. Dropping her sugar intake likely starved them out, and once she was better, she was able to go back to eating sugar again without the effects.
I also had some chronic health problems cleared up by switching to a high fat/low sugar diet that did not re-manifest during a later period that I was eating a high sugar diet.
A lot of that come because history is one of the places that you can hide the coaches. Most districts require that teachers have a certain number of classes a day. This often rules out hiring all of the sports coaches that the school wants, so they fill up the PE classes, and then move into putting them into history and other civics type classes. It is a sign of where our schools priorities are.
I'm in the same boat (not a school teacher though). I have gone so far as one of the major factors in buying my home was that it had an attached granny unit. That way when I becomes time for him to learn how to live on his own, he won't have to wait for the very high, and arbitrary age of 18. While at the same time, we won't have to worry about the police showing up because a minor is living alone. I am always amazed at how the anti-home schooling crowd always point to 'socialization' as a reason that home schooling is bad, yet a majority of them have the plan for their child to never spend even a weekend alone until they ship off to a college. So, there first experience of being on their own will be in the middle of a drug and alcohol filled frenzy. OK, to be fair, it might take a couple of weeks before they get to their first out of control party, but still, the principal applies.
I have not had my son's IQ tested, so I cannot compare scores, but I can tell you that yours is not an uncommon story. Our culture has taken a stance that there is no genetic factor in intelligence. That all people are inherently equal in intelligence, and if there is a difference, it is because someone didn't get equal resources. Obviously this is ridiculous, but it is the foundation of how our public education works. One could argue that it is the only way that universal public education CAN work.
This is one of the reasons that we decided to homeschool. In an hour or two a day, my son dramatically out paces what his public school counterparts can achieve in 5-7 hours a day. I know that if my work sent me to training and they started the day with, "today we will be figuring out that 8+3=11", I would get up and leave. If I could not leave, I would certainly have a hard time paying attention, and might just start having a conversation with the guy sitting next to me. Why should I expect a 6 year old to be any different.
Yes, telling a kid that they excel at something should only be reserved for things like sports. That way, they know where to focus themselves if they want recognition for excellence.
I would say that the schools fail miserably at teaching math as applied subject. I would say it is more like the teaching of math has been taught as an applied subject, and since no one has examined why we teach the way we teach in any depth, it keeps getting worse. It gets worse for the same reason old bibles kept getting more and more errors. When a scribe that could not read made a mistake in copying the text, it would be passed on to the next scribe who would copy the mistake and add his own.
Quite possibly, the earliest example of this is with teaching kids what mean. Every kid I have ever known has been told the metaphor of little alligators eating big alligators. So, every kid ends up at a very early stage of math seeing math as an illogical system where you just 'remember' that things are the way they are. Not one teacher ever just said "they are drawings of how big the numbers are, just look at how much space is at each side".
It seems it has gotten worse recently. Just recently, my wife was trying to play 'Math Bingo' with my son and a friend of his. Apparently, not all schools are even teaching how to add anymore. His friend did fine when she was doing the math problems that were the memorized numbers. Meaning any addition between 1 and 10. As soon as she was presented the problem of 13 + 0, this poor little girl was completely lost. She had graduated from the 2nd grade, and didn't know how to add.
You could also look at the accident rates amongst hybrid car owners from before they bought the cars. Either way, before legislating noise pollution, the other factors should be looked into.
I think your wrong about those personality traits being a factor in how the people drive. Just as you are likely to find correlation between other car choices and driving styles.
Unless, hybrid car purchasers are a self selecting group, in which case the evidence is that there may be no causation due to the car and instead is a correlation between the kind of people that would buy a hybrid and the kind of people that don't pay attention when backing out of parking spots. Given that the sound level of many ICE vehicles made today is lower than the ambient noise level of many parking lots, it would seem to be something to consider before you start legally mandating noise pollution.
So, tell me this... Do you think that there may be personality traits that would lead people to join a self selecting group that buys hybrids?
Those people that you think don't notice you...Most of them do. They just think that if they don't make eye contact, you will stop for them. I see this with pedestrians, and I see this with drivers. This is a people problem, not a car noise problem.
So, I agree with you. Forcing cars to make noise is dumb as bricks.
Heck, they could even have it be a low power radio signal, so that anyone that actually wants to have the audio cue can have it in a device the size of a dime, and those of use that want reduced noise pollution can have the quite. I assume this is not on the table as this is the kind of legislation that has little to do with some people doing something stupid, and instead of accepting that it was their problem, they convince themselves that it is someone else's. All it takes is one kid to get hit by a car because his parent didn't teach him to look both ways before crossing the street. How many people do you expect tell the mother of a dead kid that it was her fault? Do you expect the mother to take responsibility? Of course not.
If leaving keys in your car was the local custom for implicitly letting people know that it was ok to use the car, then it would not be stealing. While some people don't expect someone else to connect to their router, leaving a router without a password IS the stand practice for telling people it is ok to use the router. Every router comes with a way to indicate that you don't want someone use it without permission.
If you want a car theft analogy, you would need to have a society where lots of people, and even more businesses let people use their cars without explicit permission, every car comes standard with a sign bolted on and unremovable that says "Do Not Use Without Permission", and you decided to have the sign folded down so that a stranger looking to use your car cannot see it.
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That is what keeps coming to mind every time I hear the debate on teaching kids to write in cursive. They spend large amounts of time to teach a written font that has had it's use primarily replaced by a writing method that isn't taught at all to most students.
The other poster is trying to use the "Obviously they are not being allowed to break rules, because no one is holding them accountable to the rules." It is incredibly poor logic. There is no question that athletes are given special treatment and allowed to break rules. It is so common that it is just a given. It is an ingrained part of our culture. Perhaps the poster that doesn't see it believes that the athletes don't break rules because, being athletes, the rules don't apply to them. If he is using that standard, they It is certainly understandable how he could think athletes are not being allowed to break the rules.
Your theory seems to have failed up until this point. There is no reason to believe that it would change in the future.
Which is why the old saying "There are lies, damn lies and statistics". While what you say is technically true, the amount of time you will spend in single file lines will at best will even out with the amount of time for multiple lines.
There is a certain flow rate for the cashiers. Multiple lines do not slow that down. A single line CAN slow it down do to people getting to the line, or not shifting products from a cart to the counter as fast as the cashier can work.
Beyond that, the line does not improve or slow down the flow rate. If 5 cashiers can push through 5 customers in 5 minutes, it will take 100 minutes to get through 100 customers. Putting everyone in a single line will not speed that up, putting them in separate lines will not slow them down.
Here in California, that is the norm as well. A new register opening will usually take the second person waiting in the original line. They don't take the first person because it is likely to take longer getting them in the other register than it will for the person in front of them to finish.
Touche!
I will refine the statement in the future to read "Desktop Windows"
As much as I would love to see Linux make headway, the cost for windows preinstalled just isn't that much. The same people that would do 99% of their work in the browser would be the people that would lean towards the known company over the unknown.
So, the same demographic that would consider moving brands is the same demographic that would have the hardest time, while the demographic that would stick with brand name would be the group that could move brands if they cared to.
I would say it is less 'missing' the point, and more a matter of 'avoiding' the point. Obviously .NET was designed for this. Of course, the % of peoples computing that is done in the browser also makes the worry about x86 compatibility moot for many.
The last time that MS released Windows for a non-x86 platform, people did 99% of their computer activity locally on their computer. Today, many people do 99% of their computer activity in the web browser over the internet. While backward compatibility is a big deal to some of us, it is naive to think that it is to most people. Honestly, as long as it runs IE, java, flash, VPN, remote desktop and MediaPlayer, they will have a decent sized legitimate market for the product.
In fact, my wife had IBS 'cured' by accident. I put 'cured' in quotes because IBS is not a disease. It is a Syndrome. Also known as a group of symptoms. So, when you go into the doctors, and say "Doctor, my bowels are always irritated. What could it be?" The diagnosis of "IBS" is not a diagnosis at all. It is the doctor just repeating back what you told him in a way that doesn't sound like "I don't know", or "It isn't worth finding out".
OK, with that rant out of the way.... After seeing me lose 60 pounds doing a low carb/high fat diet, my wife decided, she would give it a try. She had been suffering from IBS for 2 years, and it was only 2 weeks after starting the diet that all of the symptoms disappeared. They did not reappear when she went back to the standard high sugar diet that is considered "balanced" by most.
My theory is that she had some kind of bacterial overload. There is a lot of bacteria that are beneficial or even necessary for humans when they are in the right place and the right quantitites, but become a problem in the wrong place and quantities. The doctors couldn't figure it out because they were not finding anything in her system that shouldn't be there. Dropping her sugar intake likely starved them out, and once she was better, she was able to go back to eating sugar again without the effects.
I also had some chronic health problems cleared up by switching to a high fat/low sugar diet that did not re-manifest during a later period that I was eating a high sugar diet.
Consider my comment "in addition" as opposed to "on the contrary".
The key phrase is "debt". They can refuse to sell you something in exchange for legal tender. They cannot refuse to accept legal tender for a debt.
A lot of that come because history is one of the places that you can hide the coaches. Most districts require that teachers have a certain number of classes a day. This often rules out hiring all of the sports coaches that the school wants, so they fill up the PE classes, and then move into putting them into history and other civics type classes. It is a sign of where our schools priorities are.
I'm in the same boat (not a school teacher though). I have gone so far as one of the major factors in buying my home was that it had an attached granny unit. That way when I becomes time for him to learn how to live on his own, he won't have to wait for the very high, and arbitrary age of 18. While at the same time, we won't have to worry about the police showing up because a minor is living alone. I am always amazed at how the anti-home schooling crowd always point to 'socialization' as a reason that home schooling is bad, yet a majority of them have the plan for their child to never spend even a weekend alone until they ship off to a college. So, there first experience of being on their own will be in the middle of a drug and alcohol filled frenzy. OK, to be fair, it might take a couple of weeks before they get to their first out of control party, but still, the principal applies.
I have not had my son's IQ tested, so I cannot compare scores, but I can tell you that yours is not an uncommon story. Our culture has taken a stance that there is no genetic factor in intelligence. That all people are inherently equal in intelligence, and if there is a difference, it is because someone didn't get equal resources. Obviously this is ridiculous, but it is the foundation of how our public education works. One could argue that it is the only way that universal public education CAN work.
This is one of the reasons that we decided to homeschool. In an hour or two a day, my son dramatically out paces what his public school counterparts can achieve in 5-7 hours a day. I know that if my work sent me to training and they started the day with, "today we will be figuring out that 8+3=11", I would get up and leave. If I could not leave, I would certainly have a hard time paying attention, and might just start having a conversation with the guy sitting next to me. Why should I expect a 6 year old to be any different.
Yes, telling a kid that they excel at something should only be reserved for things like sports. That way, they know where to focus themselves if they want recognition for excellence.
You look at the budget sheet and see if it will bring more revenue into your school if you graduate them or not.
I would say that the schools fail miserably at teaching math as applied subject. I would say it is more like the teaching of math has been taught as an applied subject, and since no one has examined why we teach the way we teach in any depth, it keeps getting worse. It gets worse for the same reason old bibles kept getting more and more errors. When a scribe that could not read made a mistake in copying the text, it would be passed on to the next scribe who would copy the mistake and add his own.
Quite possibly, the earliest example of this is with teaching kids what mean. Every kid I have ever known has been told the metaphor of little alligators eating big alligators. So, every kid ends up at a very early stage of math seeing math as an illogical system where you just 'remember' that things are the way they are. Not one teacher ever just said "they are drawings of how big the numbers are, just look at how much space is at each side".
It seems it has gotten worse recently. Just recently, my wife was trying to play 'Math Bingo' with my son and a friend of his. Apparently, not all schools are even teaching how to add anymore. His friend did fine when she was doing the math problems that were the memorized numbers. Meaning any addition between 1 and 10. As soon as she was presented the problem of 13 + 0, this poor little girl was completely lost. She had graduated from the 2nd grade, and didn't know how to add.
You could also look at the accident rates amongst hybrid car owners from before they bought the cars. Either way, before legislating noise pollution, the other factors should be looked into.
I think your wrong about those personality traits being a factor in how the people drive. Just as you are likely to find correlation between other car choices and driving styles.
Unless, hybrid car purchasers are a self selecting group, in which case the evidence is that there may be no causation due to the car and instead is a correlation between the kind of people that would buy a hybrid and the kind of people that don't pay attention when backing out of parking spots. Given that the sound level of many ICE vehicles made today is lower than the ambient noise level of many parking lots, it would seem to be something to consider before you start legally mandating noise pollution.
So, tell me this... Do you think that there may be personality traits that would lead people to join a self selecting group that buys hybrids?
Those people that you think don't notice you...Most of them do. They just think that if they don't make eye contact, you will stop for them. I see this with pedestrians, and I see this with drivers. This is a people problem, not a car noise problem.
So, I agree with you. Forcing cars to make noise is dumb as bricks.
Heck, they could even have it be a low power radio signal, so that anyone that actually wants to have the audio cue can have it in a device the size of a dime, and those of use that want reduced noise pollution can have the quite. I assume this is not on the table as this is the kind of legislation that has little to do with some people doing something stupid, and instead of accepting that it was their problem, they convince themselves that it is someone else's. All it takes is one kid to get hit by a car because his parent didn't teach him to look both ways before crossing the street. How many people do you expect tell the mother of a dead kid that it was her fault? Do you expect the mother to take responsibility? Of course not.
If leaving keys in your car was the local custom for implicitly letting people know that it was ok to use the car, then it would not be stealing. While some people don't expect someone else to connect to their router, leaving a router without a password IS the stand practice for telling people it is ok to use the router. Every router comes with a way to indicate that you don't want someone use it without permission.
If you want a car theft analogy, you would need to have a society where lots of people, and even more businesses let people use their cars without explicit permission, every car comes standard with a sign bolted on and unremovable that says "Do Not Use Without Permission", and you decided to have the sign folded down so that a stranger looking to use your car cannot see it.
Make that Windows/Unix/Mac/Wii/Atari/Android/iPhone/Amiga/Anything that runs java/Palm/WinCE/C64/Etc./Etc./Etc...
I would love to see a better format for screen sharing, but if it doesn't work with everything, it will have a hard time replacing VNC.
It never really was. Just like 'boxen', it was only used by people that wanted to sound like they knew what they were talking about.