The only legal proceedings I have even been involved with, the _other_ party wanted private. In general, I am willing and proud to have my disputes available for all to see. In general, I would think that the party seeking privacy - especially secrecy - is implicitly admitting guilt of some kind.
Makes the position clear, yes, but we're still exchanging sound-bites. This time, I heard "replacing teachers with computers" which can be taken in any proportion.
Do you cut the number of teachers by 50% and give them computers to compensate? That seems like an obvious disaster, hardly worth studying to collect data on.
What I am talking about is more along the lines of: take a pool of 20 teachers, instead of hiring a 21st teacher, augment the existing 20 with computers. This will now be more a question of personalities, teaching styles, how the administration rolls out the program, etc. If it is pushed out as "instead of getting a 5% pay raise or a 5% reduction in class sizes this year, we are giving you these computers instead. You must immediately discard all the lesson plans you have developed and restructure your curriculum to use these new systems," yeah, that outcome is going to suck - again, no study required. A better way to deal with people, and teachers are definitely people, is to let them "pull" the technology into their classrooms when they want - make it freely available as an option for the teachers who want it, instead of a top-down "push in." Unfortunately, most school systems I am familiar with (Southeast U.S.) are administrated in a very top-down push in style, so change of any sort usually results in poorer outcomes.
Hey, I took my 12 year old to two comic shops today, at both there were a surprising number of females - and they were of equal life-mate quality, especially the ones in costume.
Attenborough is effectively immortal. He already looks to be on death's door, and he's in so many hundreds of hours of video programs that are distributed globally and widely viewed, there will be a minor splash when he does really die, but his legend will live on, virtually unchanged after he is gone.
What I find sad is that they only partially named the sub after the internet vote... a ship of that size surely has a life raft or maybe a small launch that could be named straight up "Boaty McBoatface" along with a plaque describing how and when that came to be.
Not that Sir David doesn't rock, he does, and he deserves the big boat.
My high school graduation song was voted on in a similar fashion, landslide victory to Sister Christian (1984), but the powers that be decided we wouldn't be playing that at the graduation and instead would have a song the choir could sing. So, why did they put it to a vote in the first place? Mostly to teach us this lesson in life, I suppose.
Something stupid like windows can be the perfect ticket to a rapid development cycle, getting a product to market ahead of the competition and more importantly: helping people rather than sitting around re-inventing the software wheel. Personally, I prefer something stupid like Ubuntu or Raspbian, but Windows is a valid choice, if your product doesn't suffer from its shortcomings.
If your product never connects to the network or external storage, then enforce that with hardware design. If you do connect to the network, I'd strongly advise staying away from Windows, especially 10. With some care in configuration, you should be able to "harden" windows to USB stick-borne illnesses.
Sure, every system can be developed from the ground-up, and if all were done that way, viruses would have a harder (but not impossible) time propagating. The problem comes in when the systems start to talk to each other, whether through network, or file system, or flashing light morse code - interfaces bring vulnerability, the more you have and the more universally accessible they are, the more vulnerable they become; can you remote update your software? That's the ultimate game-over security hole.
The products I develop improve and save lives, extending from a 9 month to a 30 month development cycle means fewer people get helped by the innovations, some will die while they are in development. If slapping a standard OS in the box gets it to market a year faster, that's much more benefit than the risks it typically brings.
> Representing the legal profession's interests much?
Ambulance chasers are the only reason you have ANY legal representation. Despite their many flaws, they defend the little guy from the 1%. Otherwise, they would be free to turn you into Soylent.
See, I don't view the ambulance chasers as defending the little guy from the 1% so much as using the little guys to extract big payouts from whatever deep pockets happen to be legally vulnerable so they might elevate themselves into the 1% as quickly as possible.
I don't feel protected by politicians on most issues, but if anything as egregious as Soylent Green were taking hold as "a thing," I have faith in our political system to produce sufficient candidates to squash something like that - far sooner than I think any lawyers might pull an Erin Brockovich on them. Most of the lawyers would be lined up to defend Soylent in the courts, looking for that fat payout.
Lots of features are broken out of the box. OS-X has lots of situations where a minor hardware hiccough will do bad things, up to and including bricking your machine requiring a complete OS re-install (if you've encrypted your home folder and shutdown doesn't go perfectly smoothly.)
The assumption here is that they control the hardware, so it will be perfect every time - old news flash: it isn't.
Representing the legal profession's interests much?
From a straight risk-benefit perspective, the risks are very small as compared to the benefits. Sure, due diligence is expected, carelessness should not be tolerated, and there are regulatory systems in place attempting to ensure that best practices are followed. It's an imperfect system, but there's plenty of system in place already working to minimize stupid stuff like OP. Including the option to sue for damages, if damages actually happen.
Your fork will contain all the vulnerabilities (known and unknown) that are present at the time of the fork.
The problem here is negligence in not patching the vulnerabilities when possible. If you're going to patch when possible, you might as well run with a standard release - delayed to give time to validate said release for acceptable regressions. This is sort-of what's done today, except that many validations are indefinitely delayed, until a substantial problem is reported.
Matter of perspective, busy vs lazy... most people I know who would spring for this kind of service aren't the laid back lots of time on their hands type, they're more the type that overschedules themselves and runs around crazy doing a bunch of stuff that really isn't important, but they are out there "doing it" - spending 40 minutes stuck in traffic between stops all day long.
That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
The OECD recently published a study where they found a direct correlation between classroom computer use and poorer academic performance. There's also dozens of studies that show tech in classrooms improves learning outcomes for a small (privileged) minority of pupils in a narrow range of subjects. How does this affect your opinion on tech in classrooms?
I don't know the OECD, or the motivations of their leadership, but if I cared, this would motivate me to investigate them before placing any weight on their opinions. Don't delude yourself that the study isn't biased, data collected and thrown away if it doesn't meet the aims of the persons who commissioned the study, published when it backs them up.
One can easily envision classrooms where change, any change, directly correlates to poorer academic performance - teachers are human, and humans generally resent being told to do things differently.
You are not the target market, the target market are people who are so damned busy that they can't afford to take 10 minutes out of their drive to/from wherever to stop and fill the tank. To the target market, this $10 (or whatever they are charging) "convenience fee" is worth more than the time and hassle of possibly spilling fuel on their shoes.
Along certain political borders, you can save $0.30 per gallon by driving an extra 5 miles to get your gas. Ain't nobody got time for that, unless you're filling a 500 gallon tank while you're there. Combine this with a $10 "convenience fee" per fill up for the app customers and it sounds like a profitable business model to me: sell 15 gallons at market rate, $10 for the fee, $4.50 for the margin on the fuel, drive an average of 5 miles per fillup -> $3 in vehicle depreciation + 30 minutes of driver time, sounds like the driver could be making $15 per hour and the company could still clear $8 in profit per hour of operation.
I think the fire department's problem is with Nick and Chris sending their cousin out in an old pickup truck loaded with 40 5 gallon cans in the bed and e-mailing them delivery instructions which they read on their cellphone while driving this firebomb around the city. I doubt there are any ordinances (yet) against carrying an excess of gasoline containers in a vehicle, but the thing they are drafting may come up with some kind of language attempting to describe how to transport additional gasoline safely.
In reality, 2nd gas tanks used to be an option on a lot of pickup trucks, and I can't imagine the department being to say anything at all about buying one of these trucks and driving it around. Now, dispensing gasoline from one vehicle to another in a non-filling station environment, that's an ordinance waiting to happen.
Come to think of it, I know more than one guy with a diesel tank on the back of his pickup truck that he uses to deliver fuel to construction equipment in the field. Diesel is quite a bit safer - and maybe this is the market opportunity, sell mobile diesel to all those Jetta owners out there, after all - diesel is harder to find in the first place.
When Windows ME came out it had major market backlash, when, in reality, it was just 98SE with a bunch of crappy default choices made. The internet was functional enough by then to search for a guide to neutering ME to make it run like 98SE, after 30 minutes of following that guide our new ME machine was perfectly wonderful... (until we wanted wireless internet access and installed a dongle that unbalanced the battery charging system and bricked the battery within a month - that was pretty sucky, but hard to lay on Microsoft's doorstep.)
Key word "good". I agree, by no means devalue the teachers, and certainly do what you can to get and retain the good ones. But, making them teach in 50 year old buildings with poor maintenance, and not giving them the best (or, at least, moderately adequate) tools to teach with, piling their rooms full of 35 kids per teacher, that's not going to help even a good teacher reach the kids.
The most memorable quote I've ever heard at a government meeting was at a school board where the commissioner said "I will not spend a single dollar than I am not required to spend by law." You might think that was taken out of context, but the attitude prevailed throughout their administration, right down to how their schools were run and maintained (or not.)
My mother was a teacher for about 45 years, and part of how she reached her kids and got them to learn was by bringing in the occasional DVD like "Ice Age" or "Shrek" and playing it for them. There are 180 days in the school year, spending 3 of them on "break time" goes a very long way toward making the other 177 more productive. Sure, there are teachers who will just let the kids do whatever they want - but that happens with or without tablets. Used effectively, in a 45 minute period with 20 minutes of lecture, the kids can be tasked to complete a ~15 minute quiz on the tablet and if they score high enough they can earn free time to play games for the rest of the period, otherwise they get to do subject matter review and retake the quiz until they get a minimum score. Sure, the game they play may be "try to circumvent the school porn firewall" - but 10 minutes of that can be a strong incentive to pay attention and try for the previous 35.
I would disagree, to an extent, certainly anytime you roll out new tech there will be some examples of misuse, abuse, waste, etc. The projectors were probably a miscue (or, maybe the school board has a buddy with a projector/touch screen business... hard to get around that.)
These capital purchases are one-time, and if every teacher has effective teaching tools, that can be better than +1 to the staff. In another perspective, would you rather stand at the front of the room pantomiming and drawing on a chalk board for 18 students, or giving interactive multi-media presentations to 19 for a year and then 18 in the following years? Also remember, chalk boards cost quite a bit in themselves - the differential cost between a chalk board and a touch screen is surprisingly small.
So, they'll screw up by mounting them too low, aren't class sizes supposed to be small enough for 3 rows of students these days? The back isn't as far as it used to be. They'll screw up by not training, honestly - the people the training would help will mostly figure it out on their own... there will be a significant number of bad actors who will clap the erasers in front of the intake fans on purpose, training or no...
Sooner or later they'll figure out how to mount the screens so everyone can see them, maybe the big screens don't need to be touch and people can interact with them through remote control via tablets. Sounds expensive? Not compared to trying to staff up to reduce class sizes.
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The only legal proceedings I have even been involved with, the _other_ party wanted private. In general, I am willing and proud to have my disputes available for all to see. In general, I would think that the party seeking privacy - especially secrecy - is implicitly admitting guilt of some kind.
Wales is strong in the United States cultural heritage...
Makes the position clear, yes, but we're still exchanging sound-bites. This time, I heard "replacing teachers with computers" which can be taken in any proportion.
Do you cut the number of teachers by 50% and give them computers to compensate? That seems like an obvious disaster, hardly worth studying to collect data on.
What I am talking about is more along the lines of: take a pool of 20 teachers, instead of hiring a 21st teacher, augment the existing 20 with computers. This will now be more a question of personalities, teaching styles, how the administration rolls out the program, etc. If it is pushed out as "instead of getting a 5% pay raise or a 5% reduction in class sizes this year, we are giving you these computers instead. You must immediately discard all the lesson plans you have developed and restructure your curriculum to use these new systems," yeah, that outcome is going to suck - again, no study required. A better way to deal with people, and teachers are definitely people, is to let them "pull" the technology into their classrooms when they want - make it freely available as an option for the teachers who want it, instead of a top-down "push in." Unfortunately, most school systems I am familiar with (Southeast U.S.) are administrated in a very top-down push in style, so change of any sort usually results in poorer outcomes.
Hey, I took my 12 year old to two comic shops today, at both there were a surprising number of females - and they were of equal life-mate quality, especially the ones in costume.
Attenborough is effectively immortal. He already looks to be on death's door, and he's in so many hundreds of hours of video programs that are distributed globally and widely viewed, there will be a minor splash when he does really die, but his legend will live on, virtually unchanged after he is gone.
What I find sad is that they only partially named the sub after the internet vote... a ship of that size surely has a life raft or maybe a small launch that could be named straight up "Boaty McBoatface" along with a plaque describing how and when that came to be.
Not that Sir David doesn't rock, he does, and he deserves the big boat.
Serious science could have made the name respectable, not the other way round.
Now you're talking about how the world should be, not how it is be.
My high school graduation song was voted on in a similar fashion, landslide victory to Sister Christian (1984), but the powers that be decided we wouldn't be playing that at the graduation and instead would have a song the choir could sing. So, why did they put it to a vote in the first place? Mostly to teach us this lesson in life, I suppose.
Something stupid like windows can be the perfect ticket to a rapid development cycle, getting a product to market ahead of the competition and more importantly: helping people rather than sitting around re-inventing the software wheel. Personally, I prefer something stupid like Ubuntu or Raspbian, but Windows is a valid choice, if your product doesn't suffer from its shortcomings.
If your product never connects to the network or external storage, then enforce that with hardware design. If you do connect to the network, I'd strongly advise staying away from Windows, especially 10. With some care in configuration, you should be able to "harden" windows to USB stick-borne illnesses.
Sure, every system can be developed from the ground-up, and if all were done that way, viruses would have a harder (but not impossible) time propagating. The problem comes in when the systems start to talk to each other, whether through network, or file system, or flashing light morse code - interfaces bring vulnerability, the more you have and the more universally accessible they are, the more vulnerable they become; can you remote update your software? That's the ultimate game-over security hole.
The products I develop improve and save lives, extending from a 9 month to a 30 month development cycle means fewer people get helped by the innovations, some will die while they are in development. If slapping a standard OS in the box gets it to market a year faster, that's much more benefit than the risks it typically brings.
> Representing the legal profession's interests much?
Ambulance chasers are the only reason you have ANY legal representation. Despite their many flaws, they defend the little guy from the 1%. Otherwise, they would be free to turn you into Soylent.
See, I don't view the ambulance chasers as defending the little guy from the 1% so much as using the little guys to extract big payouts from whatever deep pockets happen to be legally vulnerable so they might elevate themselves into the 1% as quickly as possible.
I don't feel protected by politicians on most issues, but if anything as egregious as Soylent Green were taking hold as "a thing," I have faith in our political system to produce sufficient candidates to squash something like that - far sooner than I think any lawyers might pull an Erin Brockovich on them. Most of the lawyers would be lined up to defend Soylent in the courts, looking for that fat payout.
Lots of features are broken out of the box. OS-X has lots of situations where a minor hardware hiccough will do bad things, up to and including bricking your machine requiring a complete OS re-install (if you've encrypted your home folder and shutdown doesn't go perfectly smoothly.)
The assumption here is that they control the hardware, so it will be perfect every time - old news flash: it isn't.
If you RTFA he recovered from backups. It's a non-story.
How can this be a non-story? It's a horrendous bug, and that's the best-case interpretation.
Depends on your perspective - from the music industry perspective, this isn't a bug, it's a valuable feature.
Representing the legal profession's interests much?
From a straight risk-benefit perspective, the risks are very small as compared to the benefits. Sure, due diligence is expected, carelessness should not be tolerated, and there are regulatory systems in place attempting to ensure that best practices are followed. It's an imperfect system, but there's plenty of system in place already working to minimize stupid stuff like OP. Including the option to sue for damages, if damages actually happen.
Your fork will contain all the vulnerabilities (known and unknown) that are present at the time of the fork.
The problem here is negligence in not patching the vulnerabilities when possible. If you're going to patch when possible, you might as well run with a standard release - delayed to give time to validate said release for acceptable regressions. This is sort-of what's done today, except that many validations are indefinitely delayed, until a substantial problem is reported.
Less the vehicle than the drivers, though. A slow driver in a quick vehicle is much slower than a quick driver in a slow vehicle.
Once Nick and Chris' cousin clears enough profit to buy one of those fancy tanks with a pump-hose on it, they just might do that....
Matter of perspective, busy vs lazy... most people I know who would spring for this kind of service aren't the laid back lots of time on their hands type, they're more the type that overschedules themselves and runs around crazy doing a bunch of stuff that really isn't important, but they are out there "doing it" - spending 40 minutes stuck in traffic between stops all day long.
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The yahoos I know who transport Diesel in their trucks generally have ~50 gallon tanks with a pump and hose on them.
That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
The OECD recently published a study where they found a direct correlation between classroom computer use and poorer academic performance. There's also dozens of studies that show tech in classrooms improves learning outcomes for a small (privileged) minority of pupils in a narrow range of subjects. How does this affect your opinion on tech in classrooms?
I don't know the OECD, or the motivations of their leadership, but if I cared, this would motivate me to investigate them before placing any weight on their opinions. Don't delude yourself that the study isn't biased, data collected and thrown away if it doesn't meet the aims of the persons who commissioned the study, published when it backs them up.
One can easily envision classrooms where change, any change, directly correlates to poorer academic performance - teachers are human, and humans generally resent being told to do things differently.
You are not the target market, the target market are people who are so damned busy that they can't afford to take 10 minutes out of their drive to/from wherever to stop and fill the tank. To the target market, this $10 (or whatever they are charging) "convenience fee" is worth more than the time and hassle of possibly spilling fuel on their shoes.
Yeah, I'm not the target market, either.
Along certain political borders, you can save $0.30 per gallon by driving an extra 5 miles to get your gas. Ain't nobody got time for that, unless you're filling a 500 gallon tank while you're there. Combine this with a $10 "convenience fee" per fill up for the app customers and it sounds like a profitable business model to me: sell 15 gallons at market rate, $10 for the fee, $4.50 for the margin on the fuel, drive an average of 5 miles per fillup -> $3 in vehicle depreciation + 30 minutes of driver time, sounds like the driver could be making $15 per hour and the company could still clear $8 in profit per hour of operation.
I think the fire department's problem is with Nick and Chris sending their cousin out in an old pickup truck loaded with 40 5 gallon cans in the bed and e-mailing them delivery instructions which they read on their cellphone while driving this firebomb around the city. I doubt there are any ordinances (yet) against carrying an excess of gasoline containers in a vehicle, but the thing they are drafting may come up with some kind of language attempting to describe how to transport additional gasoline safely.
In reality, 2nd gas tanks used to be an option on a lot of pickup trucks, and I can't imagine the department being to say anything at all about buying one of these trucks and driving it around. Now, dispensing gasoline from one vehicle to another in a non-filling station environment, that's an ordinance waiting to happen.
Come to think of it, I know more than one guy with a diesel tank on the back of his pickup truck that he uses to deliver fuel to construction equipment in the field. Diesel is quite a bit safer - and maybe this is the market opportunity, sell mobile diesel to all those Jetta owners out there, after all - diesel is harder to find in the first place.
When Windows ME came out it had major market backlash, when, in reality, it was just 98SE with a bunch of crappy default choices made. The internet was functional enough by then to search for a guide to neutering ME to make it run like 98SE, after 30 minutes of following that guide our new ME machine was perfectly wonderful... (until we wanted wireless internet access and installed a dongle that unbalanced the battery charging system and bricked the battery within a month - that was pretty sucky, but hard to lay on Microsoft's doorstep.)
Key word "good". I agree, by no means devalue the teachers, and certainly do what you can to get and retain the good ones. But, making them teach in 50 year old buildings with poor maintenance, and not giving them the best (or, at least, moderately adequate) tools to teach with, piling their rooms full of 35 kids per teacher, that's not going to help even a good teacher reach the kids.
The most memorable quote I've ever heard at a government meeting was at a school board where the commissioner said "I will not spend a single dollar than I am not required to spend by law." You might think that was taken out of context, but the attitude prevailed throughout their administration, right down to how their schools were run and maintained (or not.)
My mother was a teacher for about 45 years, and part of how she reached her kids and got them to learn was by bringing in the occasional DVD like "Ice Age" or "Shrek" and playing it for them. There are 180 days in the school year, spending 3 of them on "break time" goes a very long way toward making the other 177 more productive. Sure, there are teachers who will just let the kids do whatever they want - but that happens with or without tablets. Used effectively, in a 45 minute period with 20 minutes of lecture, the kids can be tasked to complete a ~15 minute quiz on the tablet and if they score high enough they can earn free time to play games for the rest of the period, otherwise they get to do subject matter review and retake the quiz until they get a minimum score. Sure, the game they play may be "try to circumvent the school porn firewall" - but 10 minutes of that can be a strong incentive to pay attention and try for the previous 35.
I would disagree, to an extent, certainly anytime you roll out new tech there will be some examples of misuse, abuse, waste, etc. The projectors were probably a miscue (or, maybe the school board has a buddy with a projector/touch screen business... hard to get around that.)
These capital purchases are one-time, and if every teacher has effective teaching tools, that can be better than +1 to the staff. In another perspective, would you rather stand at the front of the room pantomiming and drawing on a chalk board for 18 students, or giving interactive multi-media presentations to 19 for a year and then 18 in the following years? Also remember, chalk boards cost quite a bit in themselves - the differential cost between a chalk board and a touch screen is surprisingly small.
So, they'll screw up by mounting them too low, aren't class sizes supposed to be small enough for 3 rows of students these days? The back isn't as far as it used to be. They'll screw up by not training, honestly - the people the training would help will mostly figure it out on their own... there will be a significant number of bad actors who will clap the erasers in front of the intake fans on purpose, training or no...
Sooner or later they'll figure out how to mount the screens so everyone can see them, maybe the big screens don't need to be touch and people can interact with them through remote control via tablets. Sounds expensive? Not compared to trying to staff up to reduce class sizes.