Yawn. I've worked and studied at both. Have you *compered*
Given the poor spelling, I assume you worked as a janitor and you studied urinal cake dissipation?
Apart from poor spelling, the dude doesn't have an idea that Caltech main strenght is PURE SCIENCE, not technology (APPLIED science).
Besides, MIT is several times the size of Caltech (tiny in comparisons to other universities, so, raw volumen of papers and citations wouldn't be fair).
I seriously doubt anyone from MIT or Caltech would ignore these basic facts, so perhaps you're closer to the truth with your joke.
Save it for real people doing real things, California can just fall into the ocean for all I care. It would effectively end the MPAA and RIAA, and the world would be much better off for it.
Are you aware that CALTECH is in California? (and it's not just this ranking who says this, any real scientist knows that Caltech is better than MIT and the Ivy League colleges, regarding science).
http://www.timeshighereducatio...
Again, so what? I do not have to agree with everything that goes on around me. And they don't have to agree with me either.
Now...if they lied about the purpose of this conference, that's a whole different story.
There is no place for PSEUDOCIENCE in universities. Not for Homeopathy, not for creationism, not for astrology.
They can be discussed as curiosities or historical analysis (like when you analyse Greek mythology), but can not be presented as scientifically proven facts. If you want to promote irrational beliefs, the place is in the church, not in the university.
The evidence and data on racial differences of IQ are pretty well established. In the scientific community, there is virtually no question that there are major differences in IQ between races, with Orientals and Caucasians at the high end and Negros, Mesoamericans, etc at the lower end. There are massive differences in biochemistry, physiology and neurology in almost every area between racial groups, including brain size, skeletal structure, biochemistry, genetics, eye color, skin color, and so on, for instance Caucasians are the only racial group where most adults can digest Lactose, and this is clearly due to tens of thousands of years of divergent evolution that caused some races in cold climates to develop higher IQ and larger brain capacity. A strong and compelling scientific argument has been made by many, such as J.P. Rushton, et al that racial genetics is the cause, for instance, the fact that IQ differences show up by age 3 before education has had a large effect, the MRI studies that have shown that Caucasians have a larger brain that the Negro, and as well the strong predictor that IQs are of SAT scores. Studies of black children living with adoptive white parents show that blacks still have the same IQ as black children living with black parents. The study found that even that where white children and black children were living with the same adoptive parents, the white children still scored 20% higher despite growing up with the same parents. The higher IQ of caucasians likely developed due to the cold, temperate climate of Northern Europe which required more long term planning and skilled crafts to develop technologies to survive the cold winters. The cold winters heavily selected for higher IQ, whilst the tropical environment, where the fruit hangs on the true all year, does not. SAT scores and IQ scores are accurate predictors of life outcomes a well, showing that IQs are a very accurate measurement of a persons intelligence occupational capabilities. As in the book, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, the success of countries is tightly coupled to the average IQ levels, and since IQ levels is the result of the racial makeup of the population, it reflects the racial groups. This is why you can very easily predict GDP of different countries with the racial demographics of the countries, as well a predict a vast number of other things from test scores to rates of homicides. Some have also looked at the fact that Caucasians have a larger frontal lobe than even orientals, where impulse control and creativity is based, which could explain why Caucasian majority countries have had longer lived, healthier democracies, especially the US. Orientals have excellent math skills, but seem to have a totalitarian streak. Caucasians and Orientals have been shown easily beat the average Negro in mathematical tests.
It is pretty clear that entire civilizations are nothing more than the reflection of microscopic DNA that constructs the neurological system and constructs human behaviour. Cultural interactions can share information and influences, but the more of the high IQ racial groups you have, the most of such sharing and origination occurs. The population tends to take on the characteristics of the average individual rather than the outlier. For Einstein to do his work required a country that had a well established industrial base, faciliitated by a high IQ, highly capable population that could provide the environment stable enough that things could move a bit past basic sustenance level of existance, that there was enough industrial base to provide for labatory equipment for instance. Einstien was building on previous work, of others as well, so these things do not come about as a result of the lone genius but require a country that is well populated with High IQ genetics. If Einstien had been born in Nigeria, no matter how intelligent or smart he was, he wouldnt have gotten very far for the lack of everything that he would have needed. Indeed, there is a feedback effect, the high IQ population
Class size has one of the largest impacts on quality of education.
Actually, no. There is a wide spread belief that class size improves education, but there is shockingly little evidence to support that belief. The biggest controlled study was the STAR Study done in Tennessee during the 1980s. It found the benefits to be minimal and uneven. Other studies have generally found even less benefit. Kids in early grades benefit most, with little to no benefit from smaller classes beyond grade 3. Most of the improvement goes to the underperformers. In some cases, the smarter kids actually do worse with small classes. This may be because they are forced to follow along with the class instead of reading ahead or learning on their own.
Much of the benefit from "smaller classes" may actually be from "quieter classes". Many young children have difficulty filtering out distracting noise. Good sound proofing, and reduction in disruptive behavior, can often bring as much benefit as smaller classes. Interesting, improving student/teacher ratios by adding teaching assistants has been found to provide no benefit.
If correctly targeted, smaller classes have their place, but they are far from a panacea.
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Smaller classes with careless teachers are a waste, for sure. But I suspect that the lack of results regarding smaller classes is because lack of teacher's competence and willingness..
In other cases, the effort goes into the bottom students (the slogan "no child left behind" meaning really "no bright child is allowed to advance at a better pace than the mediocres", leaving no impact in the gifted and brightests.
However, no matter how many studies (fail to find such studies with clear results) supposedly exist, the issue is plain common sense, in a smaller class, the teacher has more time to nurture students in a customized way..
If you get smaller classes, you have to implement policies to ensure that the teacher will use such time advantage, to really improve customized teaching, and not focusing only in the ones with problems, but also in the brilliant students.
The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.
That's why it must be explained to everyone the DIFFERENCE between ATHEIST AND FREETHINKER.
The strict definition of atheism, only imply you must not believe in god. That's why you can find atheist that are superstitious and/or irrational, atheist who believe in homeopathy, or in Bach flowers, in gods. that's why Stalin is a good example of an irrational, superstitious&cruel atheist.
OTOH, a freethinker rejects irrationality and dogma by principle. A freethinker doesn't believe in god, because of its irrationality needed to believe the absurd religious scenarios, but he also can't be superstitious or irrational at all, in any other area, not only in subjects regarding to religion.
I had a click on the Velneo link... it might be awesome, but its in spanish(?) so that would put most people off it immediately.
You can change the language in the Velneo components easily (and Velneo v7 also enable you to build multi-language apps for your customers in a RAD way), check the image.
You can also contact them, AFAIK, most of the staff is fluent in English.
I don't have anything against Qt, but what makes you think that it "won"? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any major open source desktop applications that use Qt (other than those bundled with KDE). They all use GTK+: Firefox, LibreOffice, Chrome(ium), Gimp, Gnome, Eclipse and every Java app that uses SWT (and every Java app that uses Swing emulates GTK+ not Qt).
VLC media player is qt-based
And this other is less known but even more impressive, Velneo: www.velneo.com
It's a RAD tool, where the awesome productivity is cross platform.
Check a full-fledged ERP, running i Android http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXluV5jvmc0
The very exact set of advanced corporate features are available in Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Android. In the video, it is shown accessing a remote database in realtime.
I tested it on my own, you develop once, and you don't have to know anything advanced about Windows, Android, MacOSX or Linux, to run the software you developed in such OS.
The power of Qt is noticeable in Velneo, and I talk after a decade and half of experience in software development, including using mainstream development tools.
Hah.... Problem is, for the nuts that do this it doesn't matter if the animals live or die. Either they're "saved from a worse fate" in the lab, or it's "the scientists who made them like this" so their existence is already unnatural or they're even "martyrs to the cause", but it's a flimsy justification for wanting to bust up someone's workplace without running into the level of security to be found in the average factory or office complex.
Ultimately, it's not that they like animals. It's that they hate people.
And I'm not exagerating, last year, in a spanish 'animal lovers' facebook group named F.R.A (you can verify it by yourself), a girl told the rest how 'good person'was an old lady, who beat up his grandson (who was just learning to walk) after being bitten by the house's dog, she produly told the group that 'no question was asked' and she inmediatly figured out that the dog was innocent.
And many cheered it up!
Even in youtube videos, where little children got severely injured (look for instance, "perros atacan niño", there are comments accusing the victim that 'the kid must have provoked the dog, dog's won't attack without being provoked', and when I ask them to watch videos in youtube, like "Dog attacks Police Officer Taser Full News Report" they get angry, and many of them say I'm a nasty person, and that they refuse to watch the video.
FWIW, they openly say they prefer animals than humans, they don't bother to deny it.
Would you feel well, if you realize some of these individuals, is near your children on daily basis?
Shouldn't PSYCHIATRY already have noticed them? Or are there studies of this mental illness that Im not aware of?
Believe it or not, the US spends more per capita on student education than France. I tend to think part of the US problem is that we do not target our money well, instead spending a disproportionate amount on those who don't want to learn. I do think we need to help those in lower income brackets, but I think it would be better to spend the money inside of that bracket on those families clearly trying to improve their situation.
My wife teaches in inner city schools and there are programs that focus on high achieving students. But programs for those with disciplinary problems, behavioral issues or developmental problems seem to get funded much better. One program, for example, for children with severe disabilities is really just a day care program with a teacher and an aide for 6 children. The ratio is so low because the kids need constant care to keep them from hurting themselves. Is this a role for an educational system or for a welfare program? I want these kids to be safe, but I also want our educational system focusing on those who will lead our future. Do we really need Master's degree teachers in a role that is probably better suited to nursing. These kids will never learn what four plus four is yet we spend money on a teacher that could be used elsewhere in the inner city.
Please mod the former up.
The Politically correct BS prevent people from saying the obvious.
There is far more attention to 'disadvantaged' than to GIFTED KIDS.
Isn't it tru that 'no child left behind' somehow became 'no child allowed ahead'
In times of severe crisis, is it wise to invest mainly in the bottom, wasting the talent pool of a nation?
The inventions and innovations that make mankind progress, have come from such bottom pool, or from the bright people?
Shouldn't at least be a fair similar budget between 'disadvantaged programs' and 'gifted programs'?
Since Piaget et al times, France always gave priority to education and science.
One example is the AEFE network of French Schools abroad (For instance, check here for an insight), with their trademark of academic excellence. No other country have such kind of networked schools abroad.
Illegal immigration from Africa, unskilled immigrants mainly, supposed them a lot of problems, but investing in education and science, is the best possible bet to face problems with long term vision.
It's amazing how other first world goverments lack such basic common sense.
Rolling stones is simple?
You've never tried to play a Keith Richards fill have you ?
Rolling Stones' music is very simple, compared to classical music. Even one of the stones would admit it.
The most complex music of the stones, is child's play compared to any decent classical piece.
Check this for instance, achieving something like this (complexity and perfection of execution) would mean a brain collapse to a popular musician. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXi5D366n7o
The grade school system is terrible and needs improvement. Luckily they do not run the university system. The US consistently has more top universities than any other country.
One Small example, Stanford, who is #3 in several rankings, has 8 Nobel laureates and 1 Fields Medal among its alumni, pretty good isn't it?
However, this example is completed with the École normale supérieure - Paris (usually out of the top30), despite being very small (compared to the number of Stanford students), it has 12 Nobel laureates and 10 Fields medal.
In France, research isn't as strictly linked to the university (due to the way legal setting is there), as it is in the US, I guess that makes such universities decrease their ratings, and gives US unviersities an advantege in the evaluation (papers and citations generated from the university are evaluated and have weight).
This patent nosense is making lawyers get a lot of money as parasites of software development.
We developers must work in improving AI to make the lawyers each time less necessary, so any CEO, CFO can use the expert system and minimize the need of lawyers.
Same for patents. With clear and strict rules (also aimed at using only patents only when extremely necessary), less litigation would be needed.
Because it is remote, inaccessible and dangerous. That's the fun for the hiking hardcore.
This kind of people seem desperate to get a Darwin Award.
If theyre so eager to go into ' inaccessible and dangerous' after being warned, they should not become a burden to other people to 'save them' (wasting tax money or even the life of others in the process of saving them). They looked for it, they should be allowed to fix the issued themselves, its not the same case of an innocent hostage, isn't it?
I don't care a whit about beauty. What I care about is USABILITY. That app (like so many other enterprise apps have worked with) was built by a bunch of people who didn't have to use the damn thing day to day. I didn't say anything about the widgets or color or anything. I just said it was not a very usable application and that could be improved.
I, like so many other enterprise developers, had to work with what people were trying to design but also listen to the complaints of the people on the front line really using the software. It's amazing how little THOSE two groups end up really talking, even when in theory there is someone in part of the development process representing their interests... but it's almost always a manager who again doesn't REALLY know where problems are or what would make things better.
You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then
You remind me of every wanker I ever worked with who didn't care about people who used the software we wrote. God I detested those people. Utter wastes of a chair.
BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work
It's not bragging asshole. It's telling you what real life experience I have had with the issues at hand. I am passionate about this because in any context (mobile or not) the software industry COULD be doing a way better job designing software built to meet users needs but instead all to often is merely the bitch of business groups who have total say over how something comes out, and your video frankly brought out PTSD style flashbacks of some of the horrors that came out of that process.
You can defend it all you like but every single person on earth who has developed software for the enterprise more than a year knows I am correct.
You may have the last reply; I see no need to someone hell bent on pushing people into using unusable software even when better could be had.
As for examples that prove my case, simply look at any large data visualization or data entry app like Salesforce Viewer on the iPad... SInce all of my work is pretty much client work (I am an iOS consultant) I cannot point to it directly, either because it's not public or it's not polite to build and tell.
Blah blah blah, when youre so arrogant, you must have VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE to backup your arrogance, you failed to provide any.
Again, do you know SAP? Did you check its UI? Do yuo know what SAP is?
And then, you claim that such apps are not usable, despite million of people using them (Windows apps have A LOT MORE of marketshare than fancy Mac apps), theres not rocket science using them, unless people is too dumb (perhaps your case, that why the arroganse without backup?) to understand what 'Insert, Update, Delete' buttons are, or that clicking on an icon will do this thing indicated in the popup help when you place over the control you want.
And hey, scientific R&D work in any subject is the most important thing, there are UI specialists that can be hired in any project, but most of the value of an app, comes from innovative approach to solving a problem, not from how more usable is an UI. From a basic level of usability, the rest is fine, but not critical.
Did you watch the video? Did you understand the functionality shown there? Would you say it'd survive just because of 'lack of competition'? Do you think the best under100 U$ app sold in the app store is more complex than the ERP shown there wroking on Android and updatign a remote DB in realtime?
I used to be an enterprise developer, for over a decade - working on all kinds of similar very heavily data-driven systems, many with lots of complex forms as well.
YES I understood what was going on in that video. Between understanding that AND understanding now from working full time as a mobile developer since the release of the iOS SDK, also on many heavily data-driven applications on the iPhone/iPad, the application demonstrated in that video is AWFUL. Not even good mind you; I would say that monstrosity sucks and for every screen I saw there are easily 10 ways you could improve the UI and in the end possibly even make it useful for the poor bastards that have to use it every day. That's not even taking into account the myriad of ways you could make it better just because it's running on a tablet and not a PC (which the application obviously had little understanding of) or taking advantage of tablet hardware....
But that's what glorified form designers do for you - they give you something functional that works, very quickly. Well it sort of works, since every single freaking enterpriseapp I've worked with has ended up with a TON of customization that in the end the tools either made impossible or very hard, so I had to tell the business owners I couldn't do the thing they were asking for.
With a native application I can do ANYTHING. If they want text in a cell alternating colors, or pulling up a map, or zooming an element to full-screen by God I can do it. I generally do build out a lightweight framework that makes form definition simpler but then I can attach native functionality anywhere instead of being gated by the tool.
That video is pretty much the DEFINITION of what I was thinking of with my original post. If I saw an application like that and I knew it was making any kind of money I would cry with joy at the opportunity presented to me.
Not everything is about beauty, if so, Nobel or Fields Medal laureates would be beauty pageants, in fact, mostly shallow dumb people is the one who place beauty over complexity.
You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then. A very ugly and old wrecked Pentium3 with just 192 MB of RAM beat the hell out of the G4 in a Chess game, cause the intel laptop used Hiarcs, and 'ugly' chess software, while the G4 had a very beauty but weak Chess app
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BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work and mock other people's work, backup your bragging with FACTS, if you are a so superior developer, show your very complex iOS expert system in a youtube video, as these guys do, to see how your iOS ERP-Expert system is far better (better, not just prettier). If you don't youre just hot air. It's easy to brag, more difficult is to accomplish.
I was just trying to keep my original method sort and pithy and trap the Apple Haters into a response (success! Not you of course).
You are right though that for enterprise use cross-platform tools can work - although I think enterprise developers should be looking at what the internal target market is using and build to that - i.e. sales forces are in fact just using iPads pretty much and it really makes sense to build a better tailored application that takes full advantage of the iPad.
Did you watch the video? Did you understand the functionality shown there? Would you say it'd survive just because of 'lack of competition'? Do you think the best under100 U$ app sold in the app store is more complex than the ERP shown there wroking on Android and updatign a remote DB in realtime?
I use the tool (Velneo) myself, and it's really powerful (I'm a very seasoned developer, used heavily Java and MS tools in the past), and I had such kind of functionality without being an expert on Android, with my same source code I developed on my Windows box. As said, in the video, you see a full fledged ERP (consider how complex an ERP can be), with realtime update of a remote database (I do this with a DB hosted several thousand miles far from my Android phone).
What 'native' app can match this functionality as easily as you imply?
As an iOS developer, I heartily thank you for continuing to use cross platform development solutions that leave such a wide gap for someone to come along and write a better native app.
Wouldn't this kind of tool be a rebuttal? Check the video, a full fledged ERP developed originally for Windows, executed on Android (also on Linux and MacOSX, iOS is next, AFAIK and with the same ease for the developer) without need of rewriting, using a tool called 'Velneo'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXluV5jvmc0
I built a rather extensive commercial App on iOS. By abstracting the data/business layers well, when going to android it was as simple as writing a lexer to convert almost all the code. What took me 1000 hours of development took 8 hours to port over.
The only thing that was really required was writing the UI, which was targeted for Android.
Could you comment about the tools (IDEs, DB) you used?
Thanks in advance.
Allah tells us what we need to know. Qur'an is not a science book. It's a book of guidance. For 99% of all practical purposes earth-centric system of reference is what is needed. We say sunset and sunrise, not "earth rotating from/to darkness to/from sunlight".
You started from the things you found in Quran and found questionable (never mind they are from somebody else's site - "critical" thinking my butt), when I gave you very simple explanation, now you are complaining about things you DON'T find in Quran.
BTW, the Greeks you mentioned had many other theories, none of which became dominant and revolutionary in their times because the scientific method did not exist at that time as an established paradigm of thought.
If you are going to continue insulting my faith by using terms "stupid", "ignorant" and "crappy", please, let the parent comment be the last one, I am not going to answer any of your questions anymore.
Because religion has no basis at all. What evidence do Allah would have, to be more believable tan fairies? Show me one VERIFIABLE evidence please. Why not keeping it quiet instead of dictating nosense like such stupid pseudocientific assertions?
How about sexism? Do you agree to consider women inferior? How can a rational person be muslim, when you know that? EXPLAIN PLEASE.
That's true. Have you heard of system of reference? Inertial and what not?
System of reference? A PHd in physics can't get a better excuse? The ones awarding your PHD should be sued.
How do you explain Aristarchus having it clear that Earth was not the center of the Universe and Allah not?
How come Eratosthenes even had estimated the diameter of Earth with awesome accuracy and Quran shows ZERO scientific foreknowledge, having the same stupid scientific flaws that ignotaant people of such time had?
Please honor your PHD and answer DIRECTLY and with CRITICAL THINKING.
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A hypothetical country with a muslim, gay, black president.
AFAIK, USA is real, not hypothetical, and there are tons of games about this country.
Yawn. I've worked and studied at both. Have you *compered*
Given the poor spelling, I assume you worked as a janitor and you studied urinal cake dissipation?
Apart from poor spelling, the dude doesn't have an idea that Caltech main strenght is PURE SCIENCE, not technology (APPLIED science). Besides, MIT is several times the size of Caltech (tiny in comparisons to other universities, so, raw volumen of papers and citations wouldn't be fair).
I seriously doubt anyone from MIT or Caltech would ignore these basic facts, so perhaps you're closer to the truth with your joke .
Save it for real people doing real things, California can just fall into the ocean for all I care. It would effectively end the MPAA and RIAA, and the world would be much better off for it.
Are you aware that CALTECH is in California? (and it's not just this ranking who says this, any real scientist knows that Caltech is better than MIT and the Ivy League colleges, regarding science). http://www.timeshighereducatio...
Again, so what? I do not have to agree with everything that goes on around me. And they don't have to agree with me either. Now...if they lied about the purpose of this conference, that's a whole different story.
There is no place for PSEUDOCIENCE in universities. Not for Homeopathy, not for creationism, not for astrology. They can be discussed as curiosities or historical analysis (like when you analyse Greek mythology), but can not be presented as scientifically proven facts. If you want to promote irrational beliefs, the place is in the church, not in the university.
The evidence and data on racial differences of IQ are pretty well established. In the scientific community, there is virtually no question that there are major differences in IQ between races, with Orientals and Caucasians at the high end and Negros, Mesoamericans, etc at the lower end. There are massive differences in biochemistry, physiology and neurology in almost every area between racial groups, including brain size, skeletal structure, biochemistry, genetics, eye color, skin color, and so on, for instance Caucasians are the only racial group where most adults can digest Lactose, and this is clearly due to tens of thousands of years of divergent evolution that caused some races in cold climates to develop higher IQ and larger brain capacity. A strong and compelling scientific argument has been made by many, such as J.P. Rushton, et al that racial genetics is the cause, for instance, the fact that IQ differences show up by age 3 before education has had a large effect, the MRI studies that have shown that Caucasians have a larger brain that the Negro, and as well the strong predictor that IQs are of SAT scores. Studies of black children living with adoptive white parents show that blacks still have the same IQ as black children living with black parents. The study found that even that where white children and black children were living with the same adoptive parents, the white children still scored 20% higher despite growing up with the same parents. The higher IQ of caucasians likely developed due to the cold, temperate climate of Northern Europe which required more long term planning and skilled crafts to develop technologies to survive the cold winters. The cold winters heavily selected for higher IQ, whilst the tropical environment, where the fruit hangs on the true all year, does not. SAT scores and IQ scores are accurate predictors of life outcomes a well, showing that IQs are a very accurate measurement of a persons intelligence occupational capabilities. As in the book, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, the success of countries is tightly coupled to the average IQ levels, and since IQ levels is the result of the racial makeup of the population, it reflects the racial groups. This is why you can very easily predict GDP of different countries with the racial demographics of the countries, as well a predict a vast number of other things from test scores to rates of homicides. Some have also looked at the fact that Caucasians have a larger frontal lobe than even orientals, where impulse control and creativity is based, which could explain why Caucasian majority countries have had longer lived, healthier democracies, especially the US. Orientals have excellent math skills, but seem to have a totalitarian streak. Caucasians and Orientals have been shown easily beat the average Negro in mathematical tests.
It is pretty clear that entire civilizations are nothing more than the reflection of microscopic DNA that constructs the neurological system and constructs human behaviour. Cultural interactions can share information and influences, but the more of the high IQ racial groups you have, the most of such sharing and origination occurs. The population tends to take on the characteristics of the average individual rather than the outlier. For Einstein to do his work required a country that had a well established industrial base, faciliitated by a high IQ, highly capable population that could provide the environment stable enough that things could move a bit past basic sustenance level of existance, that there was enough industrial base to provide for labatory equipment for instance. Einstien was building on previous work, of others as well, so these things do not come about as a result of the lone genius but require a country that is well populated with High IQ genetics. If Einstien had been born in Nigeria, no matter how intelligent or smart he was, he wouldnt have gotten very far for the lack of everything that he would have needed. Indeed, there is a feedback effect, the high IQ population
Class size has one of the largest impacts on quality of education.
Actually, no. There is a wide spread belief that class size improves education, but there is shockingly little evidence to support that belief. The biggest controlled study was the STAR Study done in Tennessee during the 1980s. It found the benefits to be minimal and uneven. Other studies have generally found even less benefit. Kids in early grades benefit most, with little to no benefit from smaller classes beyond grade 3. Most of the improvement goes to the underperformers. In some cases, the smarter kids actually do worse with small classes. This may be because they are forced to follow along with the class instead of reading ahead or learning on their own.
Much of the benefit from "smaller classes" may actually be from "quieter classes". Many young children have difficulty filtering out distracting noise. Good sound proofing, and reduction in disruptive behavior, can often bring as much benefit as smaller classes. Interesting, improving student/teacher ratios by adding teaching assistants has been found to provide no benefit.
If correctly targeted, smaller classes have their place, but they are far from a panacea.
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Smaller classes with careless teachers are a waste, for sure. But I suspect that the lack of results regarding smaller classes is because lack of teacher's competence and willingness..
In other cases, the effort goes into the bottom students (the slogan "no child left behind" meaning really "no bright child is allowed to advance at a better pace than the mediocres", leaving no impact in the gifted and brightests.
However, no matter how many studies (fail to find such studies with clear results) supposedly exist, the issue is plain common sense, in a smaller class, the teacher has more time to nurture students in a customized way..
If you get smaller classes, you have to implement policies to ensure that the teacher will use such time advantage, to really improve customized teaching, and not focusing only in the ones with problems, but also in the brilliant students.
Going to an atheist president won't help either. Officially atheist regimes were some of the biggest killers in the last century.
League of Militant Atheists The Black Book of Communism The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney
The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.
The Soviet Story (2008)
That's why it must be explained to everyone the DIFFERENCE between ATHEIST AND FREETHINKER.
The strict definition of atheism, only imply you must not believe in god. That's why you can find atheist that are superstitious and/or irrational, atheist who believe in homeopathy, or in Bach flowers, in gods. that's why Stalin is a good example of an irrational, superstitious&cruel atheist.
OTOH, a freethinker rejects irrationality and dogma by principle. A freethinker doesn't believe in god, because of its irrationality needed to believe the absurd religious scenarios, but he also can't be superstitious or irrational at all, in any other area, not only in subjects regarding to religion.
I had a click on the Velneo link... it might be awesome, but its in spanish(?) so that would put most people off it immediately.
You can change the language in the Velneo components easily (and Velneo v7 also enable you to build multi-language apps for your customers in a RAD way), check the image.
You can also contact them, AFAIK, most of the staff is fluent in English.
I don't have anything against Qt, but what makes you think that it "won"? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any major open source desktop applications that use Qt (other than those bundled with KDE). They all use GTK+: Firefox, LibreOffice, Chrome(ium), Gimp, Gnome, Eclipse and every Java app that uses SWT (and every Java app that uses Swing emulates GTK+ not Qt).
VLC media player is qt-based
And this other is less known but even more impressive, Velneo: www.velneo.com It's a RAD tool, where the awesome productivity is cross platform.
Check a full-fledged ERP, running i Android http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXluV5jvmc0 The very exact set of advanced corporate features are available in Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Android. In the video, it is shown accessing a remote database in realtime. I tested it on my own, you develop once, and you don't have to know anything advanced about Windows, Android, MacOSX or Linux, to run the software you developed in such OS.
The power of Qt is noticeable in Velneo, and I talk after a decade and half of experience in software development, including using mainstream development tools.
Hah.... Problem is, for the nuts that do this it doesn't matter if the animals live or die. Either they're "saved from a worse fate" in the lab, or it's "the scientists who made them like this" so their existence is already unnatural or they're even "martyrs to the cause", but it's a flimsy justification for wanting to bust up someone's workplace without running into the level of security to be found in the average factory or office complex.
Ultimately, it's not that they like animals. It's that they hate people.
And I'm not exagerating, last year, in a spanish 'animal lovers' facebook group named F.R.A (you can verify it by yourself), a girl told the rest how 'good person'was an old lady, who beat up his grandson (who was just learning to walk) after being bitten by the house's dog, she produly told the group that 'no question was asked' and she inmediatly figured out that the dog was innocent.
And many cheered it up!
Even in youtube videos, where little children got severely injured (look for instance, "perros atacan niño", there are comments accusing the victim that 'the kid must have provoked the dog, dog's won't attack without being provoked', and when I ask them to watch videos in youtube, like "Dog attacks Police Officer Taser Full News Report" they get angry, and many of them say I'm a nasty person, and that they refuse to watch the video.
FWIW, they openly say they prefer animals than humans, they don't bother to deny it.
Would you feel well, if you realize some of these individuals, is near your children on daily basis? Shouldn't PSYCHIATRY already have noticed them? Or are there studies of this mental illness that Im not aware of?
Believe it or not, the US spends more per capita on student education than France. I tend to think part of the US problem is that we do not target our money well, instead spending a disproportionate amount on those who don't want to learn. I do think we need to help those in lower income brackets, but I think it would be better to spend the money inside of that bracket on those families clearly trying to improve their situation.
My wife teaches in inner city schools and there are programs that focus on high achieving students. But programs for those with disciplinary problems, behavioral issues or developmental problems seem to get funded much better. One program, for example, for children with severe disabilities is really just a day care program with a teacher and an aide for 6 children. The ratio is so low because the kids need constant care to keep them from hurting themselves. Is this a role for an educational system or for a welfare program? I want these kids to be safe, but I also want our educational system focusing on those who will lead our future. Do we really need Master's degree teachers in a role that is probably better suited to nursing. These kids will never learn what four plus four is yet we spend money on a teacher that could be used elsewhere in the inner city.
Please mod the former up.
The Politically correct BS prevent people from saying the obvious. There is far more attention to 'disadvantaged' than to GIFTED KIDS.
Isn't it tru that 'no child left behind' somehow became 'no child allowed ahead'
In times of severe crisis, is it wise to invest mainly in the bottom, wasting the talent pool of a nation?
The inventions and innovations that make mankind progress, have come from such bottom pool, or from the bright people?
Shouldn't at least be a fair similar budget between 'disadvantaged programs' and 'gifted programs'?
Why would that be wrong?
http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/Subjects/Articles/French-Schools-in-London
Since Piaget et al times, France always gave priority to education and science. One example is the AEFE network of French Schools abroad (For instance, check here for an insight), with their trademark of academic excellence. No other country have such kind of networked schools abroad. Illegal immigration from Africa, unskilled immigrants mainly, supposed them a lot of problems, but investing in education and science, is the best possible bet to face problems with long term vision. It's amazing how other first world goverments lack such basic common sense.
You can't compare rolling stones and beethoven. Beethoven's works are much more complex than anything rolling stones made.
Rolling stones is simple, beethoven is complex.
Most progressive rock is complex and that's because it IS complex though it tends to make more of a show of it than Beethoven.
You're mixing up quality and complexity.
Rolling stones are non-complex and good. Beethoven is complex and good. Progressive rock is complex and everything from good to crap.
Prog. Rock can't be compared to Beethoven, Bach, Mozart or Debussy, etc. work, not in complexity, neither in quality.
Rolling stones is simple? You've never tried to play a Keith Richards fill have you ?
Rolling Stones' music is very simple, compared to classical music. Even one of the stones would admit it.
The most complex music of the stones, is child's play compared to any decent classical piece.
Check this for instance, achieving something like this (complexity and perfection of execution) would mean a brain collapse to a popular musician. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXi5D366n7o
The grade school system is terrible and needs improvement. Luckily they do not run the university system. The US consistently has more top universities than any other country.
US News and World Report: http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world ARWU (compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University): http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp QS World Rankings (compiled by a London corp): http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011
One Small example, Stanford, who is #3 in several rankings, has 8 Nobel laureates and 1 Fields Medal among its alumni, pretty good isn't it?
However, this example is completed with the École normale supérieure - Paris (usually out of the top30), despite being very small (compared to the number of Stanford students), it has 12 Nobel laureates and 10 Fields medal.
In France, research isn't as strictly linked to the university (due to the way legal setting is there), as it is in the US, I guess that makes such universities decrease their ratings, and gives US unviersities an advantege in the evaluation (papers and citations generated from the university are evaluated and have weight).
This patent nosense is making lawyers get a lot of money as parasites of software development. We developers must work in improving AI to make the lawyers each time less necessary, so any CEO, CFO can use the expert system and minimize the need of lawyers. Same for patents. With clear and strict rules (also aimed at using only patents only when extremely necessary), less litigation would be needed.
Because it is remote, inaccessible and dangerous. That's the fun for the hiking hardcore.
This kind of people seem desperate to get a Darwin Award.
If theyre so eager to go into ' inaccessible and dangerous' after being warned, they should not become a burden to other people to 'save them' (wasting tax money or even the life of others in the process of saving them). They looked for it, they should be allowed to fix the issued themselves, its not the same case of an innocent hostage, isn't it?
Not everything is about beauty
I don't care a whit about beauty. What I care about is USABILITY. That app (like so many other enterprise apps have worked with) was built by a bunch of people who didn't have to use the damn thing day to day. I didn't say anything about the widgets or color or anything. I just said it was not a very usable application and that could be improved.
I, like so many other enterprise developers, had to work with what people were trying to design but also listen to the complaints of the people on the front line really using the software. It's amazing how little THOSE two groups end up really talking, even when in theory there is someone in part of the development process representing their interests... but it's almost always a manager who again doesn't REALLY know where problems are or what would make things better.
You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then
You remind me of every wanker I ever worked with who didn't care about people who used the software we wrote. God I detested those people. Utter wastes of a chair.
BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work
It's not bragging asshole. It's telling you what real life experience I have had with the issues at hand. I am passionate about this because in any context (mobile or not) the software industry COULD be doing a way better job designing software built to meet users needs but instead all to often is merely the bitch of business groups who have total say over how something comes out, and your video frankly brought out PTSD style flashbacks of some of the horrors that came out of that process.
You can defend it all you like but every single person on earth who has developed software for the enterprise more than a year knows I am correct.
You may have the last reply; I see no need to someone hell bent on pushing people into using unusable software even when better could be had.
As for examples that prove my case, simply look at any large data visualization or data entry app like Salesforce Viewer on the iPad... SInce all of my work is pretty much client work (I am an iOS consultant) I cannot point to it directly, either because it's not public or it's not polite to build and tell.
Blah blah blah, when youre so arrogant, you must have VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE to backup your arrogance, you failed to provide any.
Again, do you know SAP? Did you check its UI? Do yuo know what SAP is?
And then, you claim that such apps are not usable, despite million of people using them (Windows apps have A LOT MORE of marketshare than fancy Mac apps), theres not rocket science using them, unless people is too dumb (perhaps your case, that why the arroganse without backup?) to understand what 'Insert, Update, Delete' buttons are, or that clicking on an icon will do this thing indicated in the popup help when you place over the control you want.
And hey, scientific R&D work in any subject is the most important thing, there are UI specialists that can be hired in any project, but most of the value of an app, comes from innovative approach to solving a problem, not from how more usable is an UI. From a basic level of usability, the rest is fine, but not critical.
Did you watch the video? Did you understand the functionality shown there? Would you say it'd survive just because of 'lack of competition'? Do you think the best under100 U$ app sold in the app store is more complex than the ERP shown there wroking on Android and updatign a remote DB in realtime?
I used to be an enterprise developer, for over a decade - working on all kinds of similar very heavily data-driven systems, many with lots of complex forms as well.
YES I understood what was going on in that video. Between understanding that AND understanding now from working full time as a mobile developer since the release of the iOS SDK, also on many heavily data-driven applications on the iPhone/iPad, the application demonstrated in that video is AWFUL. Not even good mind you; I would say that monstrosity sucks and for every screen I saw there are easily 10 ways you could improve the UI and in the end possibly even make it useful for the poor bastards that have to use it every day. That's not even taking into account the myriad of ways you could make it better just because it's running on a tablet and not a PC (which the application obviously had little understanding of) or taking advantage of tablet hardware....
But that's what glorified form designers do for you - they give you something functional that works, very quickly. Well it sort of works, since every single freaking enterpriseapp I've worked with has ended up with a TON of customization that in the end the tools either made impossible or very hard, so I had to tell the business owners I couldn't do the thing they were asking for.
With a native application I can do ANYTHING. If they want text in a cell alternating colors, or pulling up a map, or zooming an element to full-screen by God I can do it. I generally do build out a lightweight framework that makes form definition simpler but then I can attach native functionality anywhere instead of being gated by the tool.
That video is pretty much the DEFINITION of what I was thinking of with my original post. If I saw an application like that and I knew it was making any kind of money I would cry with joy at the opportunity presented to me.
Not everything is about beauty, if so, Nobel or Fields Medal laureates would be beauty pageants, in fact, mostly shallow dumb people is the one who place beauty over complexity.
You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then. A very ugly and old wrecked Pentium3 with just 192 MB of RAM beat the hell out of the G4 in a Chess game, cause the intel laptop used Hiarcs, and 'ugly' chess software, while the G4 had a very beauty but weak Chess app
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BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work and mock other people's work, backup your bragging with FACTS, if you are a so superior developer, show your very complex iOS expert system in a youtube video, as these guys do, to see how your iOS ERP-Expert system is far better (better, not just prettier). If you don't youre just hot air. It's easy to brag, more difficult is to accomplish.
I was just trying to keep my original method sort and pithy and trap the Apple Haters into a response (success! Not you of course).
You are right though that for enterprise use cross-platform tools can work - although I think enterprise developers should be looking at what the internal target market is using and build to that - i.e. sales forces are in fact just using iPads pretty much and it really makes sense to build a better tailored application that takes full advantage of the iPad.
Did you watch the video? Did you understand the functionality shown there? Would you say it'd survive just because of 'lack of competition'? Do you think the best under100 U$ app sold in the app store is more complex than the ERP shown there wroking on Android and updatign a remote DB in realtime?
I use the tool (Velneo) myself, and it's really powerful (I'm a very seasoned developer, used heavily Java and MS tools in the past), and I had such kind of functionality without being an expert on Android, with my same source code I developed on my Windows box. As said, in the video, you see a full fledged ERP (consider how complex an ERP can be), with realtime update of a remote database (I do this with a DB hosted several thousand miles far from my Android phone).
What 'native' app can match this functionality as easily as you imply?
As an iOS developer, I heartily thank you for continuing to use cross platform development solutions that leave such a wide gap for someone to come along and write a better native app.
Wouldn't this kind of tool be a rebuttal? Check the video, a full fledged ERP developed originally for Windows, executed on Android (also on Linux and MacOSX, iOS is next, AFAIK and with the same ease for the developer) without need of rewriting, using a tool called 'Velneo'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXluV5jvmc0
I built a rather extensive commercial App on iOS. By abstracting the data/business layers well, when going to android it was as simple as writing a lexer to convert almost all the code. What took me 1000 hours of development took 8 hours to port over. The only thing that was really required was writing the UI, which was targeted for Android.
Could you comment about the tools (IDEs, DB) you used? Thanks in advance.
Allah tells us what we need to know. Qur'an is not a science book. It's a book of guidance. For 99% of all practical purposes earth-centric system of reference is what is needed. We say sunset and sunrise, not "earth rotating from/to darkness to/from sunlight".
You started from the things you found in Quran and found questionable (never mind they are from somebody else's site - "critical" thinking my butt), when I gave you very simple explanation, now you are complaining about things you DON'T find in Quran.
BTW, the Greeks you mentioned had many other theories, none of which became dominant and revolutionary in their times because the scientific method did not exist at that time as an established paradigm of thought.
If you are going to continue insulting my faith by using terms "stupid", "ignorant" and "crappy", please, let the parent comment be the last one, I am not going to answer any of your questions anymore.
Because religion has no basis at all. What evidence do Allah would have, to be more believable tan fairies? Show me one VERIFIABLE evidence please. Why not keeping it quiet instead of dictating nosense like such stupid pseudocientific assertions? How about sexism? Do you agree to consider women inferior? How can a rational person be muslim, when you know that? EXPLAIN PLEASE.
15:19 does not mean that Earth is flat.
21:33 The sun and moon are orbiting the earth.
That's true. Have you heard of system of reference? Inertial and what not?
System of reference? A PHd in physics can't get a better excuse? The ones awarding your PHD should be sued. How do you explain Aristarchus having it clear that Earth was not the center of the Universe and Allah not? How come Eratosthenes even had estimated the diameter of Earth with awesome accuracy and Quran shows ZERO scientific foreknowledge, having the same stupid scientific flaws that ignotaant people of such time had? Please honor your PHD and answer DIRECTLY and with CRITICAL THINKING.