Whatever happened to do no evil? What Google is doing is inbetween good and evil. To rip off what someone else said, more or less, Google is doing Goovil.
How will they make sure people actually pay attention and just don't do something else for the 30 seconds or so?
Will there be a 911 and other emergy number exception?
If cell phone calls are so inexpensive, why not fund it through various other means? There are endeavours that require a vast amount of people. I think one of them involves identifying pictures by asking people to say what they think they are. Computers can't really make this distinction right now. Imagine paying people with minutes of free cell phone calls for logging onto their computer, going to a certain site, and aiding in this.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. When the federal government taxes people and gives it back to the states with strings attatched, it is destroying state sovereignty.
This only breads corruption. It is going to encourage educational institutions to cook the books, as the author says, in order to get money. The solution would be to give money with no strings attatched, in hopes that districts would be able to improve education (not just test scores) that way.
Block grants or vouchers would be the key. If a school has lower class sizes, perhaps under 20, this allows teachers more one on one time with students. Also, increasing the school day is another thing they should consider. There isn't enough time in math class, for example, to properly teach mathematics. This is a problem in colleges too, but that is another topic altogether.
Next time, it would be a better idea to presale it.
Sony could have had an online auction in which people could pre-buy it. It wouldn't come out until it comes out, but the people pre-buying it would proceed to pick it up at a store they would have chose when they won the auction.
This eliminates people buying it only for reaping a huge profit of reselling it. This eliminates the need to wait in line outside a store to be the first to get it. This gives Sony more profit, and can benefit the stores by still giving them their share since someone will still have to pick it up at the establishment.
If you do not vote for a race or for a measure, do the following.
For a measure, write underneath "Neither one".
For a candidate, fill in the write-in bubble "No vote" or something like that.
Do you really trust poll workers not to try filling in that when no one is looking? Well, I have no idea if that could happen, but better safe than sorry.
Various means of producing power causes pollution. Pollution = Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases cause global warming. Humankind puts up giant sunshade. Earth gets less light. Less light means solar power becomes obsolete. People need to burn more fossil fuels to get more power. Global warming picks up. Humankind builds a bigger sunshade.
Okay, that is a big exaggerated, but my point is that we need to invest in solar power and stop using fossil fuels which are just so obsolete. Maybe we should work on fission.
I don't care if I get modded down for this. I want to bring up this subject to discuss intelligently when I have time to reply.
The liability should always fall upon the person uploading the copyright infringing data. YouTube should not be held liable. However, they do need to take responsibility in pulling the video when the copyright holder confronts them with evidence it is infringing.
In my opinion, copyright laws need to be changed. One thing that should be done is to have a low-quality exemption. If something is of significant low-quality compared to the original version, it should be exempt from copyright laws provided the material was viewable to a majority of the public in the first place. This would primarily affect television shows, which are seen by most of the public since most have basic cable.
I think it's adolescents who tend to get biologically tired at midnight. Whether this means "solar" midnight, opposite of noon, not sure.
Like I said, it'd be best to start class no earlier than 4 hours before solar noon. If noon comes at 1pm, then that's 9am. If it comes at 12pm, then 8am. 8:30am would probably be best for earliest start time for any school in the district.
At least with college, you can essentially pick your schedule, more or less. This can mean having class no sooner than 1pm on some days.
I don't think it's about who registered their domain first. I think it really comes down to who became famous first, and who is trying to exploit whom. Is YouTube piggybacking off of Utube's fame? No, it's the other way around.
You have to ask yourself. Whose fame came first? YouTube or Utube?
If Utube came first, then yes, this is valid if YouTube is exploiting their fame. However, this isn't the case, if I'm not mistaken. YouTube is the one that is famous. Utube is the one that is trying to extort money from YouTube.
To give another example, imagine if I created a site with a name similar to Microsoft, and whenever someone Googled Microsoft, my domain would come up, and a significant number of people came to me first.
The real issue is that we don't need daylight saving time. We can just stagger when we work and go to school. Changing the time that it is light outside isn't going to change anything than our television schedules, and those can be staggered too.
Personally, I wouldn't mind year-round daylight saving time, where solar noon is pretty much at 1pm, give or take. Since we're on DST most of the year, this is just a minor change during the lesser-light months. Plus, how many would enjoy having more light toward the end of the day in Winter?
Concerning school schedules. Start school no earlier than 4 hours before noon. If noon comes at 1pm, then start school, whether elementary, middle, or high, at 9am. Let them sleep in. Let them go when it's always light out, which would be 4 hours before noon during the winter for most of the U.S. if I'm not mistaken. So what if they have to end school at 4pm to 5pm. What about sports: stadium lighting. School cannot afford stadium lighting? Maybe the federal government could provide grants. Afterall, this is more or less a safety issue, if they need stadium lighting to do what I said.
I'm saying it should be an option to let graduating students keep their school e-mail address so post-schooling purposes. In other words, so others can keep in contact with you, and you can keep in contact with others, without the hassle of switching to another e-mail address. Forwarding purposes only, meaning the e-mail address is simply used for forwarding stuff it has sent to it.
Get another e-mail address instead of the university one? What is the point then of even having a university e-mail address?
No, what would should be done is to have e-mail addresses in the form of last_name + first initial + random two digit number @ year_graduated (like 06 for 2006) +.university-domain.edu
BMI is a very. very poor way to measure someone's body fat. It ignores someone's muscle content.
It would be like saying big muscled body builders who do nothing more than lift weights all the time are stupid just because they have a higher BMI due to their muscle mass.
Is it that precalculus was considered a high school course, or is it considered college level?
I happened to take precalculus back in 11th grade, if I'm not mistaken. I then went on to take calculus in 12th grade, and with a score of 3 on the AP test, I obtained college credit, despite the fact I'm currently taking an approximately equivalent course in college.
They need to consider increasing high school math classes by approximately 40% of the daily run-time, even if that simply means longer school hours. This would give more time for students to absorb the material and to understand it. Also, it wouldn't hurt to simply require a C- in precalculus to graduate high school, instead of simply requiring 2 credits (years) of math period to graduate in my state.
When you start taking a regular calculus course, please let it be known. There is no black and white answer. Derivatives for example, measure the average slope of a function, but how you obtain the answer can be varied upon the method.
Some math books do a poor job at explaining what they are trying to teach. Not showing the appropriate examples on what you're trying to do is one problem. Not following the proper format students are expected to follow when showing their work is another problem the books have.
They need to strengthen math skills while in k-12 schooling. If they can extend math class by 40% per day, that gives more time in which students can receive help and be given more clear instructions on how to solve the problems.
I believe if our schools relied less on homework and put more emphasis on using quiz and test scores to determine one's math grade, it would relieve a lot of stress students may go through just to finish the homework when they could take a casual approach to it. Doing it at their own pace, tests would be done on certain days and they'd know way in advance to prepare for it.
If the site is freely accessible to anyone, shouldn't it be considered "fair" for someone to index that site on a search engine?
About the robots.txt exclusion thing, although it's not political law, it's almost good enough to use in common law, correct? Doesn't robots.txt indicate that the site does not want to be crawled?
The site is essentially being tagged,not copied, in the search results, right? It's also being cached, but robot exclusion can stop search engines from doing that part.
Aren't websites not sing the robots exclusion essentially in the public domain?
It would be totally unlike a music CD where it's not free to download, hence a site couldn't necessarily crawl and put it up there for everyone to see.
Since the website was free for anyone to see in the first place, no harm done. Unless the site requires a subscription and if Noogling that bypasses it, there really isn't anything that can be done I think.
You're right. The state government would have to group fees in with tuition for this type of thing. Fees don't include room and board, meals, books, etc.
The state government should mandate by law for their state colleges.
There'd be limitations so students wouldn't slack off obviously. Below are some ideas for the limitations. 1. Limit to first four years of undergraduate school only. 2. Limit to state colleges only. 3. Limit to in-state residents only, who have at least lived in the state for one full year. 4. Limit to one year of college tuition-free for 250 workhours done while a state resident (as defined by law). 1000 hours means you get your 4 years max of college tuition-free. (This shows you paid into the system, even just a little, instead of just moving to the state to get something for free.) 5. Must maintain a 2.0 overall GPA. 6. Tuition due on any classes failed. (If you fail a $400 class during winter, then you must pay it back when the spring tuition would normally be due. Interest would accrue if not paid within like 30 days of being due.) 7. Must maintain a half-time status while attending the college. 8. Must be seeking a degree. 9. College career record must be clear of gross cheating. If the student has had action taken against him or her at any college for cheating, he or she won't be eligible.
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Whatever happened to do no evil? What Google is doing is inbetween good and evil. To rip off what someone else said, more or less, Google is doing Goovil.
How will they make sure people actually pay attention and just don't do something else for the 30 seconds or so?
Will there be a 911 and other emergy number exception?
If cell phone calls are so inexpensive, why not fund it through various other means? There are endeavours that require a vast amount of people. I think one of them involves identifying pictures by asking people to say what they think they are. Computers can't really make this distinction right now. Imagine paying people with minutes of free cell phone calls for logging onto their computer, going to a certain site, and aiding in this.
Taxing the parents of "stupid" children is a bad idea. Why?
1. Parents beating children who don't do well.
2. Children cheating on tests.
3. Parents helping children cheat on tests.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. When the federal government taxes people and gives it back to the states with strings attatched, it is destroying state sovereignty.
This only breads corruption. It is going to encourage educational institutions to cook the books, as the author says, in order to get money. The solution would be to give money with no strings attatched, in hopes that districts would be able to improve education (not just test scores) that way.
Block grants or vouchers would be the key. If a school has lower class sizes, perhaps under 20, this allows teachers more one on one time with students. Also, increasing the school day is another thing they should consider. There isn't enough time in math class, for example, to properly teach mathematics. This is a problem in colleges too, but that is another topic altogether.
Next time, it would be a better idea to presale it.
Sony could have had an online auction in which people could pre-buy it. It wouldn't come out until it comes out, but the people pre-buying it would proceed to pick it up at a store they would have chose when they won the auction.
This eliminates people buying it only for reaping a huge profit of reselling it. This eliminates the need to wait in line outside a store to be the first to get it. This gives Sony more profit, and can benefit the stores by still giving them their share since someone will still have to pick it up at the establishment.
If you do not vote for a race or for a measure, do the following.
For a measure, write underneath "Neither one".
For a candidate, fill in the write-in bubble "No vote" or something like that.
Do you really trust poll workers not to try filling in that when no one is looking? Well, I have no idea if that could happen, but better safe than sorry.
I meant fusion.
Various means of producing power causes pollution.
Pollution = Greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse gases cause global warming.
Humankind puts up giant sunshade.
Earth gets less light.
Less light means solar power becomes obsolete.
People need to burn more fossil fuels to get more power.
Global warming picks up.
Humankind builds a bigger sunshade.
Okay, that is a big exaggerated, but my point is that we need to invest in solar power and stop using fossil fuels which are just so obsolete. Maybe we should work on fission.
I don't care if I get modded down for this. I want to bring up this subject to discuss intelligently when I have time to reply.
The liability should always fall upon the person uploading the copyright infringing data. YouTube should not be held liable. However, they do need to take responsibility in pulling the video when the copyright holder confronts them with evidence it is infringing.
In my opinion, copyright laws need to be changed. One thing that should be done is to have a low-quality exemption. If something is of significant low-quality compared to the original version, it should be exempt from copyright laws provided the material was viewable to a majority of the public in the first place. This would primarily affect television shows, which are seen by most of the public since most have basic cable.
I think it's adolescents who tend to get biologically tired at midnight. Whether this means "solar" midnight, opposite of noon, not sure.
Like I said, it'd be best to start class no earlier than 4 hours before solar noon. If noon comes at 1pm, then that's 9am. If it comes at 12pm, then 8am. 8:30am would probably be best for earliest start time for any school in the district.
At least with college, you can essentially pick your schedule, more or less. This can mean having class no sooner than 1pm on some days.
That is not the same thing.
Is Utube.com really hurt because of YouTube.com?
I don't think it's about who registered their domain first. I think it really comes down to who became famous first, and who is trying to exploit whom. Is YouTube piggybacking off of Utube's fame? No, it's the other way around.
You have to ask yourself. Whose fame came first? YouTube or Utube?
If Utube came first, then yes, this is valid if YouTube is exploiting their fame. However, this isn't the case, if I'm not mistaken. YouTube is the one that is famous. Utube is the one that is trying to extort money from YouTube.
To give another example, imagine if I created a site with a name similar to Microsoft, and whenever someone Googled Microsoft, my domain would come up, and a significant number of people came to me first.
The real issue is that we don't need daylight saving time. We can just stagger when we work and go to school. Changing the time that it is light outside isn't going to change anything than our television schedules, and those can be staggered too.
Personally, I wouldn't mind year-round daylight saving time, where solar noon is pretty much at 1pm, give or take. Since we're on DST most of the year, this is just a minor change during the lesser-light months. Plus, how many would enjoy having more light toward the end of the day in Winter?
Concerning school schedules. Start school no earlier than 4 hours before noon. If noon comes at 1pm, then start school, whether elementary, middle, or high, at 9am. Let them sleep in. Let them go when it's always light out, which would be 4 hours before noon during the winter for most of the U.S. if I'm not mistaken. So what if they have to end school at 4pm to 5pm. What about sports: stadium lighting. School cannot afford stadium lighting? Maybe the federal government could provide grants. Afterall, this is more or less a safety issue, if they need stadium lighting to do what I said.
I'm saying it should be an option to let graduating students keep their school e-mail address so post-schooling purposes. In other words, so others can keep in contact with you, and you can keep in contact with others, without the hassle of switching to another e-mail address. Forwarding purposes only, meaning the e-mail address is simply used for forwarding stuff it has sent to it.
If someone is stupid enough to actually do something like this, the concept of using this one friends is going to result in a less number of friends.
That isn't the point though. You cannot change your regular e-mail address when you change your name that easily either.
Your logic is flawed.
.university-domain.edu
Get another e-mail address instead of the university one? What is the point then of even having a university e-mail address?
No, what would should be done is to have e-mail addresses in the form of last_name + first initial + random two digit number @ year_graduated (like 06 for 2006) +
I am a current student, but I wish I could keep my e-mail address after graduation so I don't have to lose contact with anyone still e-mailing me.
BMI is a very. very poor way to measure someone's body fat. It ignores someone's muscle content.
It would be like saying big muscled body builders who do nothing more than lift weights all the time are stupid just because they have a higher BMI due to their muscle mass.
Is it that precalculus was considered a high school course, or is it considered college level?
I happened to take precalculus back in 11th grade, if I'm not mistaken. I then went on to take calculus in 12th grade, and with a score of 3 on the AP test, I obtained college credit, despite the fact I'm currently taking an approximately equivalent course in college.
They need to consider increasing high school math classes by approximately 40% of the daily run-time, even if that simply means longer school hours. This would give more time for students to absorb the material and to understand it. Also, it wouldn't hurt to simply require a C- in precalculus to graduate high school, instead of simply requiring 2 credits (years) of math period to graduate in my state.
When you start taking a regular calculus course, please let it be known. There is no black and white answer. Derivatives for example, measure the average slope of a function, but how you obtain the answer can be varied upon the method.
Some math books do a poor job at explaining what they are trying to teach. Not showing the appropriate examples on what you're trying to do is one problem. Not following the proper format students are expected to follow when showing their work is another problem the books have.
They need to strengthen math skills while in k-12 schooling. If they can extend math class by 40% per day, that gives more time in which students can receive help and be given more clear instructions on how to solve the problems.
I believe if our schools relied less on homework and put more emphasis on using quiz and test scores to determine one's math grade, it would relieve a lot of stress students may go through just to finish the homework when they could take a casual approach to it. Doing it at their own pace, tests would be done on certain days and they'd know way in advance to prepare for it.
Maybe public domain is the wrong term to use.
If the site is freely accessible to anyone, shouldn't it be considered "fair" for someone to index that site on a search engine?
About the robots.txt exclusion thing, although it's not political law, it's almost good enough to use in common law, correct? Doesn't robots.txt indicate that the site does not want to be crawled?
The site is essentially being tagged,not copied, in the search results, right? It's also being cached, but robot exclusion can stop search engines from doing that part.
Aren't websites not sing the robots exclusion essentially in the public domain?
It would be totally unlike a music CD where it's not free to download, hence a site couldn't necessarily crawl and put it up there for everyone to see.
Since the website was free for anyone to see in the first place, no harm done. Unless the site requires a subscription and if Noogling that bypasses it, there really isn't anything that can be done I think.
You're right. The state government would have to group fees in with tuition for this type of thing. Fees don't include room and board, meals, books, etc.
The state government should mandate by law for their state colleges.
There'd be limitations so students wouldn't slack off obviously. Below are some ideas for the limitations.
1. Limit to first four years of undergraduate school only.
2. Limit to state colleges only.
3. Limit to in-state residents only, who have at least lived in the state for one full year.
4. Limit to one year of college tuition-free for 250 workhours done while a state resident (as defined by law). 1000 hours means you get your 4 years max of college tuition-free. (This shows you paid into the system, even just a little, instead of just moving to the state to get something for free.)
5. Must maintain a 2.0 overall GPA.
6. Tuition due on any classes failed. (If you fail a $400 class during winter, then you must pay it back when the spring tuition would normally be due. Interest would accrue if not paid within like 30 days of being due.)
7. Must maintain a half-time status while attending the college.
8. Must be seeking a degree.
9. College career record must be clear of gross cheating. If the student has had action taken against him or her at any college for cheating, he or she won't be eligible.