I was not arguing the pros or cons of homeschooling vs. public education. Just that standardized testing is not a legal requirement.
That being said, public schools are TERRIBLE places for kids to try to hone social skills. The friends they forge are the ones assigned to them, and the opportunity to discover new interests are a fraction of what is available to home schooled kids. Public school socialization is about as good as public school education...not good.
Standardized tests would be great if they were designed in a way that worked. The ones being used don't. I do give my kid the standardized tests. I don't report his grades to anyone, but I make sure that he ACTUALLY knows the information that is considered standard for a child a few years older than he is. Whereas his friends in public school generally don't understand the subjects they are passing the tests for.
Standardized tests are the lie that people tell themselves when they want to convince themselves that the public school system is working.
I am not arguing that many kids are not forced into public school. I am just pointing out the the parent poster is incorrect in their belief that
even 'private tutoring' requires them to come into schools for their standardized testing
I then explain why some people think that it is a legal requirement. Standardized testing is not a legal requirement, it is (as you tried to point out) a practical requirement for all of those kids who are not fortunate enough to escape the public education system.
Tablets are not YET the perfect platform. That does not mean that office apps on tablets make no sense. Them make complete sense. They just need the kinks worked out. Those kinks will get worked out. There are no technical reasons that a tablet cannot work identically to a laptop.
You would be wrong. It is pretty much boiler plate now for any job, no matter how little it pays or whether it is salary or hourly. It is an ugly situation caused by an extreme disparity in power. It will only get worse as automation increases.
As the parent of a home schooled child, I can tell you that children are not required to do standardized testing. They are not even required in public schools. Standardized testing is universal in public schools for the same reason that (with only a few exceptions) 65 MPH is the standard maximum speed limit on highways. The federal government takes money from your community, and if you want it back, you have to do what they say. While many public schools are luring some home school families into their roll books with offers of free money, and these students would be required to take standardized test by the schools; just as common is the home school families who establish their own private school, don't take any federal money, and thus don't need to take the standardized tests.
Spreadsheets on tablets make complete sense. Particularly if you are talking about a 10" tablet. Buy a ClamCase http://clamcase.com/ for your iPad, and saying that spreadsheets on a table make no sense is the same thing as saying spreadsheets on a laptop make no sense.
Office applications on tablets is down right inevitable because tablets replacing most laptops is inevitable.
I regularly work on a spreadsheets with a colleague in real-time on Google Docs. It allows us to brainstorm and generate short term work lists in a fraction of the time that we could do email documents back and forth. The fact that we can see each others cursors makes it easy to highlight and point out what text we are talking about.
We used to do screen sharing to accomplish this, but that limited us to only working with the documents when we both are online and only one of use being able to add to the document at a time. With Google's online spreadsheet, we can start on the same page, and at the appropriate time, we can split off, updating different parts of the document that the original will rely on, and then come back to the shared portion seamlessly.
So, technically, I don't "NEED" to share the document online, but much like indoor plumbing, it is way more pleasant to have.
I love the fact that Android allows side loading, and thus the existance of alternate app stores, but they really need to make an AppStore API. Currently if you use an alternate app store, you have to enable side loading from anywere. You should be able to load an app as an "AppStore" application, and from that point forward, the OS should treat it as a trusted repository. This way we could all turn off load from "unknown sources".
The publishing system was put in place in the mid-1980s to reassure retailers and game buyers that games wouldn't be the sort of absolute crap that me-too developers were putting out for Atari 2600 in 1983 and 1984 [slashdot.org]. It is intended to sort the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, those with talent from those without, etc.
When you buy the phone with the contract, you have bought the phone. You also have a contract. The contract states that if you terminate the contract early, you have to pay an ETF. You got the phone at a discount because you bought it with a contract. That is a done deal. What is happening now is that customers are being told "Well, you didn't REEELLLLYYYY buy the phone. You should have known that we were lying when we said that you did."
Then there is the fact that most software is built dramatically better than most houses. Houses are built terribly. They are loaded with design decisions that are specifically put in to cover up kludges and poor workmanship. Even then, they are loaded with flaws that don't get hidden. If we built software like we build houses, we would worry less about doing it right and more about convincing people that the flaws are supposed to be there.
The specifically state that they are selling you a phone. Saying "You knew that we were lying when we made this transaction." is not a valid defense. There is a mechanism for the carriers to offset costs when someone breaks their contract. That is, as you said, the ETF. It amazes me how many people will defend a company with the logic of, "You knew they were lying when they sold you the product."
The parts that are closer to plumbing. Sure you use math when doing plumbing also, but most of what you are doing is routing data/water from one component to the next.
Honestly I'd have no problem with software patents if they just followed the same rules as hardware - you patent the implementation, not the effect.
We already have laws protecting the specific implementation of software.In software that would be called copyright.
Software patents are double dipping. At the very least, software developers should have to choose. Patent or Copyright. If we choose patent, then the source code should be required to be published with the patent, and receive no copyright protection. If copyright is chosen, then it is the specific recorded form that is receiving the protection and there should be no protection for implementing the same thing using original 'art'.
The problem is that the carriers are being allowed to commit fraud. If they really did sell you the phone for $99, then they have already lost their money, and they just hope to make more of it back in service. If the ETF is less than what they lost when they sold you the phone, that is too bad. They sold you the phone at $99. Of course, we all know that they did not sell the phone for $99. They gave you a loan for the purchase of the phone with a $99 down payment, and a two year contract to pay it off. The carrier misrepresented they deal, and wants the government to play an active role in their fraud.
So, would have to be a pretty common layout for stores. While it is true that this layout is more common in clothing stores, it isn't exactly rare or new for stores that sell electronic goods.
Yeah. In America we know that "potential sentence" is for people who exercise their "right" to a fair trial. If you just roll over for the Kangaroo court and sign a confession, you won't face nearly as bad of punishment.
To be fair, which is a more realistic concern... Your teenage son will start blowing people up with rocket launchers, or your teenage daughter will start publicly showing off her nipples? "I don't have a teen." is a cop out that acknowledges the point. Repeatability is a major factor.
That is what I was thinking. I personally find bluetooth headsets to be cumbersome. They are uncomfortable, I don't get enough calls to warrant wearing one all of the time and if it isn't on and paired when the phone rings, you might as well not have one. Having a small bluetooth handset would actually be convenient. Being able to pair it via NFC would make it all the more convenient.
Ideally, they could use heat exchangers to cool the air as it compresses from the wind with the car moving, and use the cooled compressed air as both a coolant to the gas engine, while using the absorbed heat to increase the pressure in the air tank. Thus, recapturing energy that was previously being bled off as waste.
This is why we need a new word for 'racist'. The word no longer means what it used to mean. Now it's definitions seems to be something along the lines of "being white and thus bad", which by the old definition of 'racist' would have been 'racist' itself. 'Racist' is firmly in the realm of newspeak now.
No, in the cathedral version, the leader decides they don't give a crap about the big rock because it is in your living room, not theirs. So, the leader has everyone pinning ribbons up around his house.
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I was not arguing the pros or cons of homeschooling vs. public education. Just that standardized testing is not a legal requirement.
That being said, public schools are TERRIBLE places for kids to try to hone social skills. The friends they forge are the ones assigned to them, and the opportunity to discover new interests are a fraction of what is available to home schooled kids. Public school socialization is about as good as public school education...not good.
Standardized tests would be great if they were designed in a way that worked. The ones being used don't. I do give my kid the standardized tests. I don't report his grades to anyone, but I make sure that he ACTUALLY knows the information that is considered standard for a child a few years older than he is. Whereas his friends in public school generally don't understand the subjects they are passing the tests for.
Standardized tests are the lie that people tell themselves when they want to convince themselves that the public school system is working.
even 'private tutoring' requires them to come into schools for their standardized testing
I then explain why some people think that it is a legal requirement. Standardized testing is not a legal requirement, it is (as you tried to point out) a practical requirement for all of those kids who are not fortunate enough to escape the public education system.
Tablets are not YET the perfect platform. That does not mean that office apps on tablets make no sense. Them make complete sense. They just need the kinks worked out. Those kinks will get worked out. There are no technical reasons that a tablet cannot work identically to a laptop.
You would be wrong. It is pretty much boiler plate now for any job, no matter how little it pays or whether it is salary or hourly. It is an ugly situation caused by an extreme disparity in power. It will only get worse as automation increases.
As the parent of a home schooled child, I can tell you that children are not required to do standardized testing. They are not even required in public schools. Standardized testing is universal in public schools for the same reason that (with only a few exceptions) 65 MPH is the standard maximum speed limit on highways. The federal government takes money from your community, and if you want it back, you have to do what they say. While many public schools are luring some home school families into their roll books with offers of free money, and these students would be required to take standardized test by the schools; just as common is the home school families who establish their own private school, don't take any federal money, and thus don't need to take the standardized tests.
Spreadsheets on tablets make complete sense. Particularly if you are talking about a 10" tablet. Buy a ClamCase http://clamcase.com/ for your iPad, and saying that spreadsheets on a table make no sense is the same thing as saying spreadsheets on a laptop make no sense.
Office applications on tablets is down right inevitable because tablets replacing most laptops is inevitable.
I regularly work on a spreadsheets with a colleague in real-time on Google Docs. It allows us to brainstorm and generate short term work lists in a fraction of the time that we could do email documents back and forth. The fact that we can see each others cursors makes it easy to highlight and point out what text we are talking about.
We used to do screen sharing to accomplish this, but that limited us to only working with the documents when we both are online and only one of use being able to add to the document at a time. With Google's online spreadsheet, we can start on the same page, and at the appropriate time, we can split off, updating different parts of the document that the original will rely on, and then come back to the shared portion seamlessly.
So, technically, I don't "NEED" to share the document online, but much like indoor plumbing, it is way more pleasant to have.
I love the fact that Android allows side loading, and thus the existance of alternate app stores, but they really need to make an AppStore API. Currently if you use an alternate app store, you have to enable side loading from anywere. You should be able to load an app as an "AppStore" application, and from that point forward, the OS should treat it as a trusted repository. This way we could all turn off load from "unknown sources".
The publishing system was put in place in the mid-1980s to reassure retailers and game buyers that games wouldn't be the sort of absolute crap that me-too developers were putting out for Atari 2600 in 1983 and 1984 [slashdot.org]. It is intended to sort the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, those with talent from those without, etc.
Too bad that idea failed so miserably.
When you buy the phone with the contract, you have bought the phone. You also have a contract. The contract states that if you terminate the contract early, you have to pay an ETF. You got the phone at a discount because you bought it with a contract. That is a done deal. What is happening now is that customers are being told "Well, you didn't REEELLLLYYYY buy the phone. You should have known that we were lying when we said that you did."
Then there is the fact that most software is built dramatically better than most houses. Houses are built terribly. They are loaded with design decisions that are specifically put in to cover up kludges and poor workmanship. Even then, they are loaded with flaws that don't get hidden. If we built software like we build houses, we would worry less about doing it right and more about convincing people that the flaws are supposed to be there.
The specifically state that they are selling you a phone. Saying "You knew that we were lying when we made this transaction." is not a valid defense. There is a mechanism for the carriers to offset costs when someone breaks their contract. That is, as you said, the ETF. It amazes me how many people will defend a company with the logic of, "You knew they were lying when they sold you the product."
The parts that are closer to plumbing. Sure you use math when doing plumbing also, but most of what you are doing is routing data/water from one component to the next.
Honestly I'd have no problem with software patents if they just followed the same rules as hardware - you patent the implementation, not the effect.
We already have laws protecting the specific implementation of software.In software that would be called copyright.
Software patents are double dipping. At the very least, software developers should have to choose. Patent or Copyright. If we choose patent, then the source code should be required to be published with the patent, and receive no copyright protection. If copyright is chosen, then it is the specific recorded form that is receiving the protection and there should be no protection for implementing the same thing using original 'art'.
The problem is that the carriers are being allowed to commit fraud. If they really did sell you the phone for $99, then they have already lost their money, and they just hope to make more of it back in service. If the ETF is less than what they lost when they sold you the phone, that is too bad. They sold you the phone at $99. Of course, we all know that they did not sell the phone for $99. They gave you a loan for the purchase of the phone with a $99 down payment, and a two year contract to pay it off. The carrier misrepresented they deal, and wants the government to play an active role in their fraud.
So, would have to be a pretty common layout for stores. While it is true that this layout is more common in clothing stores, it isn't exactly rare or new for stores that sell electronic goods.
Yeah. In America we know that "potential sentence" is for people who exercise their "right" to a fair trial. If you just roll over for the Kangaroo court and sign a confession, you won't face nearly as bad of punishment.
To be fair, which is a more realistic concern... Your teenage son will start blowing people up with rocket launchers, or your teenage daughter will start publicly showing off her nipples? "I don't have a teen." is a cop out that acknowledges the point. Repeatability is a major factor.
That is what I was thinking. I personally find bluetooth headsets to be cumbersome. They are uncomfortable, I don't get enough calls to warrant wearing one all of the time and if it isn't on and paired when the phone rings, you might as well not have one. Having a small bluetooth handset would actually be convenient. Being able to pair it via NFC would make it all the more convenient.
Ideally, they could use heat exchangers to cool the air as it compresses from the wind with the car moving, and use the cooled compressed air as both a coolant to the gas engine, while using the absorbed heat to increase the pressure in the air tank. Thus, recapturing energy that was previously being bled off as waste.
This is why we need a new word for 'racist'. The word no longer means what it used to mean. Now it's definitions seems to be something along the lines of "being white and thus bad", which by the old definition of 'racist' would have been 'racist' itself. 'Racist' is firmly in the realm of newspeak now.
That's why we need a new word for 'racist'. It's current usage has become very newspeak.
I have Fruit Ninja on a 42" screen. It works really well too since the touch interface was replaced with a Kinect interface. http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/fruit-ninja-kinect-xbox-360-live-marketplace-800-points/92713
No, in the cathedral version, the leader decides they don't give a crap about the big rock because it is in your living room, not theirs. So, the leader has everyone pinning ribbons up around his house.