there's a science / robotics / etc summer camp program run near me. sent my kid (3rd grade) to 'jr video game maker' camp for a week. he had a blast, and they also used scratch. free, and it introduces a lot of the structured decision making you need for programming and algorithm development.
the first thing they made was something like pong. you make sprites and assign scripts to the sprites. then you create event structures, etc. "when sprite 'ball' touches sprite 'paddle' reverse direction", and things like that.
You can't expect kids at that age to type. And the 'start by using Python as a calculator, then introduce basic functions, then variables', etc., etc, is crap for kids of that age. Kids interact with programs through video games. That's how you hook them into programming. you have to show them there's something fun to do.
wait, so you had an outstanding check you weren't sure had cleared or not, and you took the amount available at face value? maybe that check could have cleared the minute after you checked your balance before buying the soda. that scenario would have you fully liable for the fees. account balance, available funds, and unobligated funds are very different things. they really need to teach basic finance in high school. If you don't do everything with immediate transactions, if you write checks as obligations for future drafts, you can't use an account balance as a statement of funds available for use. you already promised some of that money to someone else. it's that simple.
hey, the money in the next account is probably pulling a different interest rate. that rate is based on the bank's expected availability of the money for lending to other people. if you wanted that money more readily available for yourself, and less available to the bank for lending, then you should have put it in that account and taken the lesser interest rate for the benefit. you can't expect to have both. so they hit you for it.
So where does the ICE store all the switching network equipment they confiscate from the local bells? I mean, that stuff is used in criminal activity all the time. Wire fraud, internet fraud, hacking, etc. I mean, with the amount of criminal activity on the internet, they must be confiscating enough hardware to fill a few airplane hangars. Think of the expense to the telecom industry in keeping the infrastructure up and running with the government constantly pulling pieces out. Wow.
(1) you now need to ensure all students have access to that on day 5. maybe you open computer labs. they need to be proctored. sounds like a school.
(2) people have been throwing technology at schools since forever. they're still trying to figure out when it helps and when it doesn't. most of it is blind investment with little thought for training, long term costs and proper integration into the curriculum. and forget about identifying bang for the buck. all you find are anecdotal stories of one-off neat things that some schools do, and lots of dusty tech hardware in other schools.
(3) technology and education societies are trying to identify how tech can and should help the K-12 classroom, but it's piecemeal and expensive.
you see, that's part of the problem with your argument. most of the people in it want to be babied. hence people voting for the government they've built over the past century.
with the right metering scheme, they basically pass their commodity pricing to you. so, you get to decide whether or not you should run the dishwasher when you get home from work, or on a saturday morning, based on what you want to pay. If you want to pay less, you'll run the dishwasher when it's cheaper for you if you're given the ability to make that differentiation. As it stands you have no financial incentive not to run your dishwasher at peak times, so you run it whenever.
regarding the system, it's about load leveling. current systems strain to meet peak energy demand. if they could incentivize shifting energy from that peak, it makes the system's ability to meet peak demand easier. (otherwise we'd need to build more power plants. then NIMBY takes hold.)
True, but the systems themselves will (should) run less at night. As the outdoor temperature drops, so does the rate at which the building warms up. Plus you won't have the personnel thermal load, the lighting thermal load, maybe computer equipment thermal load if IT lets them shut down at night, etc.
that's a good point. Chevy volt is rated at ~35miles electric. that would get me to work, but not back home again. so I'd need to recharge or plan on using the gas assist engine on the way home. recharge is 10hours at 120V or 4 hours at 240V if temperatures are moderate. (forget winters). If I _needed_ a full charge at work, I'd have to do it at 240V, which is at ~twice average power. Maybe I could handle getting only a partial fillup during the day to spread it out with a 110 line, but still, I'd need to recharge, putting that load on the system at the same time as the office's AC is running at full load.
chevy volt: 10-ish hours on a 120V line, 4-ish hours on a 240V line. (temperature dependent) that's 35miles (56km) of electric only driving. the gasoline 'assist' drive is there if you run the battery down. Battery is covered on the 8yr/100000mi warranty, with no more than 10-30% degradation by the end of that time.
hydrogen: takes that same amount of energy the volt pulled out of the wall, but first uses it to somehow produce hydrogen from another source, then puts it in the vehicle, attempting to do the same net work. it's already at a disadvantage unless the hydrogen-to-work path is significantly more efficient than the electricity-work path.
an interesting comment: "it will allow an anonymous stock owner of facebook/slashdot/etc. to make a few bucks more by farming my data"
forget the stock owners. what about the advertisers, data aggregators, etc. they are currently anonymous and behind the scenes. maybe if they want non-anonymity, they need to be more up front on what else goes on. how about at the bottom of my news feed is a feed of "here's who's scraped or sold your data today".
I have Verizon DSL and even that came in right at the spec'd rate whenever I ran a speed test. Of course it wasn't a bit over the rate, but I get what I pay for and am content with that for the time being.
Slashdot Mirror
if we get to start building logic functions in biology, will that start a whole new phase of 'XYZ in a person' patents?
because otherwise it would kill you. but we wouldn't want that to slow down progress, now would we?
until it learns to jump hosts... then we all die.
Matlab is not that uncommon, particularly among engineers.
you might want to sit and watch a bunch of second graders type on the keyboard. for a basic program, anything more than
10 print "butt"
20 goto 10
will take them well into lunch time.
there's a science / robotics / etc summer camp program run near me. sent my kid (3rd grade) to 'jr video game maker' camp for a week. he had a blast, and they also used scratch. free, and it introduces a lot of the structured decision making you need for programming and algorithm development.
the first thing they made was something like pong. you make sprites and assign scripts to the sprites. then you create event structures, etc. "when sprite 'ball' touches sprite 'paddle' reverse direction", and things like that.
You can't expect kids at that age to type. And the 'start by using Python as a calculator, then introduce basic functions, then variables', etc., etc, is crap for kids of that age. Kids interact with programs through video games. That's how you hook them into programming. you have to show them there's something fun to do.
wait, so you had an outstanding check you weren't sure had cleared or not, and you took the amount available at face value? maybe that check could have cleared the minute after you checked your balance before buying the soda. that scenario would have you fully liable for the fees. account balance, available funds, and unobligated funds are very different things. they really need to teach basic finance in high school. If you don't do everything with immediate transactions, if you write checks as obligations for future drafts, you can't use an account balance as a statement of funds available for use. you already promised some of that money to someone else. it's that simple.
hey, the money in the next account is probably pulling a different interest rate. that rate is based on the bank's expected availability of the money for lending to other people. if you wanted that money more readily available for yourself, and less available to the bank for lending, then you should have put it in that account and taken the lesser interest rate for the benefit. you can't expect to have both. so they hit you for it.
So where does the ICE store all the switching network equipment they confiscate from the local bells? I mean, that stuff is used in criminal activity all the time. Wire fraud, internet fraud, hacking, etc. I mean, with the amount of criminal activity on the internet, they must be confiscating enough hardware to fill a few airplane hangars. Think of the expense to the telecom industry in keeping the infrastructure up and running with the government constantly pulling pieces out. Wow.
uid 2, huh? I bet you just missed the first first post, too.
(1) you now need to ensure all students have access to that on day 5. maybe you open computer labs. they need to be proctored. sounds like a school.
(2) people have been throwing technology at schools since forever. they're still trying to figure out when it helps and when it doesn't. most of it is blind investment with little thought for training, long term costs and proper integration into the curriculum. and forget about identifying bang for the buck. all you find are anecdotal stories of one-off neat things that some schools do, and lots of dusty tech hardware in other schools.
(3) technology and education societies are trying to identify how tech can and should help the K-12 classroom, but it's piecemeal and expensive.
or the middle / high school students are raking in the beer money babysitting on day 5. makes for a much more enjoyable days 6 and 7 I'm sure.
"forcing parents to drive their kids 1 hour away every morning and back"
you just described the average Baltimore / D.C. commute. what's the problem?
which shut down as a precaution, is running cooling equipment off of diesel generators, and appears to be undamaged.
right now they're trying to do them most they've ever done with the least soldiers to do it. (from a soldiers per activity point of view)
Don't Forget The Infantry
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/272808/don-t-forget-infantry-jim-lacey
'very much against the will of most people in it"
you see, that's part of the problem with your argument. most of the people in it want to be babied. hence people voting for the government they've built over the past century.
an AI avatar to do just what you said is a pre-req for the advanced course. makes for a quiet classroom.
with the right metering scheme, they basically pass their commodity pricing to you. so, you get to decide whether or not you should run the dishwasher when you get home from work, or on a saturday morning, based on what you want to pay. If you want to pay less, you'll run the dishwasher when it's cheaper for you if you're given the ability to make that differentiation. As it stands you have no financial incentive not to run your dishwasher at peak times, so you run it whenever.
regarding the system, it's about load leveling. current systems strain to meet peak energy demand. if they could incentivize shifting energy from that peak, it makes the system's ability to meet peak demand easier. (otherwise we'd need to build more power plants. then NIMBY takes hold.)
True, but the systems themselves will (should) run less at night. As the outdoor temperature drops, so does the rate at which the building warms up. Plus you won't have the personnel thermal load, the lighting thermal load, maybe computer equipment thermal load if IT lets them shut down at night, etc.
that's a good point. Chevy volt is rated at ~35miles electric. that would get me to work, but not back home again. so I'd need to recharge or plan on using the gas assist engine on the way home. recharge is 10hours at 120V or 4 hours at 240V if temperatures are moderate. (forget winters). If I _needed_ a full charge at work, I'd have to do it at 240V, which is at ~twice average power. Maybe I could handle getting only a partial fillup during the day to spread it out with a 110 line, but still, I'd need to recharge, putting that load on the system at the same time as the office's AC is running at full load.
chevy volt: 10-ish hours on a 120V line, 4-ish hours on a 240V line. (temperature dependent) that's 35miles (56km) of electric only driving. the gasoline 'assist' drive is there if you run the battery down. Battery is covered on the 8yr/100000mi warranty, with no more than 10-30% degradation by the end of that time.
hydrogen: takes that same amount of energy the volt pulled out of the wall, but first uses it to somehow produce hydrogen from another source, then puts it in the vehicle, attempting to do the same net work. it's already at a disadvantage unless the hydrogen-to-work path is significantly more efficient than the electricity-work path.
forget references. proper equation formatting and referencing in MS word for most physical sciences journals. still a bitch.
or persistent criminal activity. really depends on scope and players.
an interesting comment: "it will allow an anonymous stock owner of facebook/slashdot/etc. to make a few bucks more by farming my data"
forget the stock owners. what about the advertisers, data aggregators, etc. they are currently anonymous and behind the scenes. maybe if they want non-anonymity, they need to be more up front on what else goes on. how about at the bottom of my news feed is a feed of "here's who's scraped or sold your data today".
I have Verizon DSL and even that came in right at the spec'd rate whenever I ran a speed test. Of course it wasn't a bit over the rate, but I get what I pay for and am content with that for the time being.