Have you asked the women around you if they consider themselves feminists? You seem to be counting only a few media figures and not the many women who realise that their wish for more real equality of opportunity makes them feminists.
There are three key points here: 1) You need to be clear why the students are being offered this course. What are they expected to gain from it? (I hope you know this already, but you haven't told us.)
2) You need your professor to be very clear to you about what work is good enough to pass the course. Good students (which I assume you are) often have great difficulty in accepting work which is below the standard they set themselves, but clearly there must be a big gap between what you are used to doing which receives high marks and what just scrapes through.
3) Go through the basics very slowly. Part of the point of the course must be to encourage the students to go on and work to really master the subject. You need to give the impression they can get on top of it. Hurrying them through half-understood material will not give them the confidence to go further. Always have some extension exercises for students who do zip through your material. You can give them little challenges to work on while you assist the bulk of the students towards getting a good grasp.
[4) if there are a lot of absolute beginners in your class, request a second person to be your helper. Having two people makes a huge difference.]
Yes, we should all read the permissions that an app requires. But, recently, a lot of free apps are advertisement supported. And those ask for full Internet access to fetch the ads. This seems a hole that is hard to block.
There is a very fuzzy border between "-1 Disagree" and "-1 Actively Misleading". We do need some way to signal that the poster is playing fast and loose with objective fact. On Digg or Reddit without downvotes you could simply add a comment explaining your doubts -- though I would do that a lot less often than I downvote on those grounds, would we get a lot of one rude word comments? -- but on Slashdot a moderator with expert knowledge in a topic would have to choose whether to abandon all his mods for that thread just to make a correction of fact for one comment.
Just because the US has the world's most advanced system for suing random people, that will stop the development of a useful tool for people living far from medical help?
LOL! Some wonderful comments here. Your concern for the employers hiring programmers of below average intelligence on the basis of their school qualifications alone is admirable, but there are few organisations in the UK doing that.
Or maybe people are not noticing that this is a school qualification in a country where there is a stated aim of 50% of young people going on to university? So, OK, it is more like 40% in practice. But do employers really employ school-leavers as programmers expecting them to be ready for work without further training? Not unless the kids have substantial extra experience.
Also, this is about a school-level academic qualification with the assessment set nationally -- but there are other similarly national qualifications for the age group that are designed to be vocational, more closely adapted to the needs of work. This one is not what a schoolkid would take if they wanted to go straight into a job.
The other way round for me. I registered my Android in the UK to a new gmail address last summer. All fine until the last couple of weeks, when Google seemed to be aggressively editing my login to googlemail on my desktop -- not helpful for those apps which sync to the cloud. Fortunately I didn't run into obvious problems on the phone itself.
So today I have had to positively fix that account back to gmail, whereas the old, old account I use for Reader has stayed gmail throughout. But I made a new one about 3 years back for an organisation, and that has been googlemail, despite being registered as gmail. Very odd.
I suspect the story is not very enthusiastic enforcement by Google, with a demonstration of "good faith" in the last few weeks.
Yes. I dropped in quickly to say the same thing. Children's computers should always be located where adults will walk behind them as they go about their daily living. Occasionally discuss what is on their screen.
Well, I would gladly test this. But "automatically updated to a future version of Firefox 3.6"? I normally wait about a week for my critical extensions to catch up to a new release. Potentially a week without Tab Mix Plus? No thanks.
Go for it! Learning as an adult is surprisingly easy -- don't think you are desperately disadvantaged by your age. Actually, adult learners do remarkably well at academic courses. I guess it is about being better able to identify what matters, to focus, and to stick to things.
You need to use a method that works for you -- some people can really only learn from other people, some people can learn from standard textbooks. Good self-paced materials are great, but you have to find one with your sort of pace. So think about what has worked for you in the past, and look around you now. If what you are trying doesn't work, try something else.
And try to control a yearning for perfection -- you don't need a deep understanding of every detail, Good enough is good enough. Whichever bits you actually need in your career will get developed fully then.
I guess you are going to have several parents along on an evening activity. I would ask if any of them have a laptop or smartphone they can put Google Sky/other star maps on, so that there is plenty of accurate info floating around.
If people are bringing binoculars, encourage them to attach a neckstrap, and tell the kids that if there is one they _must_ put it on as soon as they are handed the binoculars.
You do know the story of the F16 guidance system? Allegedly, as originally designed, crossing the equator would lead to the plane doing an instant flip and carrying on upside down. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html
If you were writing software in the '70s, the speed of change was such that most programs were being totally rewritten within 2 years. We were finding better ways of doing things (both hardware and software) all the time. I guess management hoped that some stuff would not need renewing in less than five years. The eventual news of programs which had stayed in use for _20 years_ was a real surprise. The original programmers had no way of knowing that some of their stuff would live until the year 2000.
While certain groups may have higher fertility with an increased standard of living, I don't think that is true of populations as a whole.
Currently, a big driver for reducing fertility is educating girls and women. This is thought to increase their own control over their lives and thus enable them to choose to have fewer children but a more cynical view is that as their earning power grows, so it makes less sense for the family to keep them at home in the kitchen. The opportunity cost of large families is felt directly. Only in families where a woman's earnings are irrelevant is there likely to be high fertility.
It is hard to know how this changing workforce fits into Garratt's model. These new working women presumably increase energy consumption now, but their reduced fertility reduces it in the future.
Some people are forecasting that world population will stabilise through this effect with no other action being taken -- sorry, can't find a link quickly, but there are plenty about fertility reducing to replacement level in eg the richer states in India.
Diamond Geezer is a blogger who is a London enthusiast and he has covered lots of the smaller museums and other off-the-beaten track attractions of London. He also has plenty of geeky London Transport facts.
tfl (Transport for London) is the website for travel information for London, and Traveline will give you public transport routes from anywhere to anywhere outside London. You certainly don't need to hire a car in London -- as well as the famous Tube, buses are widely used by everybody and have great coverage. You don't really need one out London either unless you want to visit really remote rural sites such as lonely beaches.
Note that the main crime for which McKinnon faces life in a US prison is not illegal outside the US. Embarassing the US government is not actually a crime in the UK.
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And we gloss over the reality of the lives of the less fortunate today.
Have you asked the women around you if they consider themselves feminists? You seem to be counting only a few media figures and not the many women who realise that their wish for more real equality of opportunity makes them feminists.
Umm. We might be able to retain more lives and limbs if we celebrate brains as a way of winning wars.
Whereas workingwith/for you is all sweetness and light!
Yes, you are quite right. Singling out only the men (and often only the white men) does us all a great disservice.
There are three key points here:
1) You need to be clear why the students are being offered this course. What are they expected to gain from it? (I hope you know this already, but you haven't told us.)
2) You need your professor to be very clear to you about what work is good enough to pass the course. Good students (which I assume you are) often have great difficulty in accepting work which is below the standard they set themselves, but clearly there must be a big gap between what you are used to doing which receives high marks and what just scrapes through.
3) Go through the basics very slowly. Part of the point of the course must be to encourage the students to go on and work to really master the subject. You need to give the impression they can get on top of it. Hurrying them through half-understood material will not give them the confidence to go further. Always have some extension exercises for students who do zip through your material. You can give them little challenges to work on while you assist the bulk of the students towards getting a good grasp.
[4) if there are a lot of absolute beginners in your class, request a second person to be your helper. Having two people makes a huge difference.]
Yes, we should all read the permissions that an app requires. But, recently, a lot of free apps are advertisement supported. And those ask for full Internet access to fetch the ads. This seems a hole that is hard to block.
Is it possible for a security app to check the sending of SMS and outgoing phone calls and ask for confirmation?
ASpotCat is the one I use. There are possible alternatives listed on the right of that page -- one is called Permission Viewer.
There is a very fuzzy border between "-1 Disagree" and "-1 Actively Misleading". We do need some way to signal that the poster is playing fast and loose with objective fact. On Digg or Reddit without downvotes you could simply add a comment explaining your doubts -- though I would do that a lot less often than I downvote on those grounds, would we get a lot of one rude word comments? -- but on Slashdot a moderator with expert knowledge in a topic would have to choose whether to abandon all his mods for that thread just to make a correction of fact for one comment.
It is definitely worth looking again.
Just because the US has the world's most advanced system for suing random people, that will stop the development of a useful tool for people living far from medical help?
LOL! Some wonderful comments here. Your concern for the employers hiring programmers of below average intelligence on the basis of their school qualifications alone is admirable, but there are few organisations in the UK doing that.
Or maybe people are not noticing that this is a school qualification in a country where there is a stated aim of 50% of young people going on to university? So, OK, it is more like 40% in practice. But do employers really employ school-leavers as programmers expecting them to be ready for work without further training? Not unless the kids have substantial extra experience.
Also, this is about a school-level academic qualification with the assessment set nationally -- but there are other similarly national qualifications for the age group that are designed to be vocational, more closely adapted to the needs of work. This one is not what a schoolkid would take if they wanted to go straight into a job.
The other way round for me. I registered my Android in the UK to a new gmail address last summer. All fine until the last couple of weeks, when Google seemed to be aggressively editing my login to googlemail on my desktop -- not helpful for those apps which sync to the cloud. Fortunately I didn't run into obvious problems on the phone itself.
So today I have had to positively fix that account back to gmail, whereas the old, old account I use for Reader has stayed gmail throughout. But I made a new one about 3 years back for an organisation, and that has been googlemail, despite being registered as gmail. Very odd.
I suspect the story is not very enthusiastic enforcement by Google, with a demonstration of "good faith" in the last few weeks.
Dead bodies are not such a hygiene problem as is generally thought. In disaster situations digging latrines is more important than digging graves.
Yes. I dropped in quickly to say the same thing. Children's computers should always be located where adults will walk behind them as they go about their daily living. Occasionally discuss what is on their screen.
Well, I would gladly test this. But "automatically updated to a future version of Firefox 3.6"? I normally wait about a week for my critical extensions to catch up to a new release. Potentially a week without Tab Mix Plus? No thanks.
Go for it! Learning as an adult is surprisingly easy -- don't think you are desperately disadvantaged by your age. Actually, adult learners do remarkably well at academic courses. I guess it is about being better able to identify what matters, to focus, and to stick to things.
You need to use a method that works for you -- some people can really only learn from other people, some people can learn from standard textbooks. Good self-paced materials are great, but you have to find one with your sort of pace. So think about what has worked for you in the past, and look around you now. If what you are trying doesn't work, try something else.
And try to control a yearning for perfection -- you don't need a deep understanding of every detail, Good enough is good enough. Whichever bits you actually need in your career will get developed fully then.
Great if it works for you. From other forums, I am not the only one suffering from it expanding and bogging everything down. I am now back with Avast.
This sounds really good teaching advice.
I guess you are going to have several parents along on an evening activity. I would ask if any of them have a laptop or smartphone they can put Google Sky/other star maps on, so that there is plenty of accurate info floating around.
If people are bringing binoculars, encourage them to attach a neckstrap, and tell the kids that if there is one they _must_ put it on as soon as they are handed the binoculars.
You do know the story of the F16 guidance system? Allegedly, as originally designed, crossing the equator would lead to the plane doing an instant flip and carrying on upside down. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html
If you were writing software in the '70s, the speed of change was such that most programs were being totally rewritten within 2 years. We were finding better ways of doing things (both hardware and software) all the time. I guess management hoped that some stuff would not need renewing in less than five years. The eventual news of programs which had stayed in use for _20 years_ was a real surprise. The original programmers had no way of knowing that some of their stuff would live until the year 2000.
While certain groups may have higher fertility with an increased standard of living, I don't think that is true of populations as a whole.
Currently, a big driver for reducing fertility is educating girls and women. This is thought to increase their own control over their lives and thus enable them to choose to have fewer children but a more cynical view is that as their earning power grows, so it makes less sense for the family to keep them at home in the kitchen. The opportunity cost of large families is felt directly. Only in families where a woman's earnings are irrelevant is there likely to be high fertility.
It is hard to know how this changing workforce fits into Garratt's model. These new working women presumably increase energy consumption now, but their reduced fertility reduces it in the future.
Some people are forecasting that world population will stabilise through this effect with no other action being taken -- sorry, can't find a link quickly, but there are plenty about fertility reducing to replacement level in eg the richer states in India.
Diamond Geezer is a blogger who is a London enthusiast and he has covered lots of the smaller museums and other off-the-beaten track attractions of London. He also has plenty of geeky London Transport facts.
tfl (Transport for London) is the website for travel information for London, and Traveline will give you public transport routes from anywhere to anywhere outside London. You certainly don't need to hire a car in London -- as well as the famous Tube, buses are widely used by everybody and have great coverage. You don't really need one out London either unless you want to visit really remote rural sites such as lonely beaches.
Note that the main crime for which McKinnon faces life in a US prison is not illegal outside the US. Embarassing the US government is not actually a crime in the UK.