If the teacher needs the answer handed to them they shouldn't be teaching the class...
That might work for some subjects, but there are plenty out there that a teacher would appreciate a sanity check. Especially, the teachers who haven't taught the course before, or TA's that come up with solutions but aren't really that confident that they aren't 90% solutions.
Surely it raises another question: Should internet access be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
If you're going to restrict discussion to those with access to the web it doesn't seem a giant leap to expect them to have a cheap and cheerful webcam.
Well the other options are travel to DC and testify or write in a letter. Neither of these are eliminated anyway. The former is way more expensive than internets and the latter makes two way discussion more difficult.
Doing it this way isn't raising the barrier to only include people with internets/webcams. It is lowering the barrier to include at least the people who have them.
#3: America is currently in the beginings of its post-Bush era. We do reactions VERY well in this country -- and that means the principle sin of the Bush, era, "sacraficing liberty for security", is likely not to be repeated in the next 10-20 years. If ever.
Don't be stupid. There's no such thing as a free country. Sooner or later, they all end up being run by bastards. If you're really looking to be free, I suggest you move as far away from civilization as you can. The only way to achieve actual freedom in this world is to separate yourself from the rest of humanity.
A sentient computer and a rail launcher on the moon might do it...
But to be quite honest with you, with what is going in Iran at this moment, your request seems frivolous.
uh no.
Iran is a reminder of what happens when the government becomes too authoritarian and the people finally realize it. You could then notice that one's own country was rapidly sliding down the authoritarian scale. You then have to decide if you want to leave or hang around until the shit hits the fan. You also have to consider that the point where you can freely leave is much sooner than the proverbial shit storm.
You wouldn't shout down the frog in the 75 deg C water for saying "gee it's getting warmer in here" just because the pot next to him is finally boiling. (assuming of course hypothetical frogs that can stand 75 deg C temps some how...)
...in part selection: people who are sickly don't stay in high-altitude areas because they generally have less specialist medical care. I grew up in one of those little mountain towns in Colorado and older people said "it's hard to breathe: I'm moving to Florida" where they died.
Ding ding ding! You win! That is probably one of the biggest if not the biggest factor. Although, before I start sounding the fool, I should go check the average lifespan in Nepal.
But that's the benefit of everybody being old. There won't be much change and progress because the old guy resisting the newfangled ideas of the up and coming whippersnappers won't retire or die. Thus COBOL will live forever!!!
Well acourding to TFA there's actually 2 types of people.
01. Those who hate binary jokes
10. Those that don't care
11. Those for whom base in completely arbitrary and would use base 13 just for the hell of it if the numbers were high enough to make it matter.
Good point, but that's regarding countries with an AIDS epidemic where the reduced risk of transmission will actually make a difference, i.e. it is not a general recommendation.
Agreed. Asking this question on Slashdot is like asking Helen Keller if your socks match.
Which works OK if your matching criteria are size and material. I don't think he's asking how to get to the interstate from here in Boston, he's asking how to get out of the garage.
Also part of a disused city would be a very valuable and useful proving ground for advanced research in robotics, such as cars using the road networks and urban exploring robots. Its a once in a life time chance to gain unrestricted access to a big part of a city.
Another very good use would be to leave part of a disused city as a film set of a slowly decaying abandoned city. (The WW2 Blitz in London created a lot of disused buildings that appeared in many films for decades). Part of a city would be an incredible once in a lifetime opportunity to create a huge film set that doesn't disrupting and interrupt normal working cities and its cheaper and easier for film companies to use. So its win win for these companies helping the US film industry and other businesses in cities otherwise inconvenienced by filming. The film companies must be able to see the potential. It would be such a good help to the US film industry for many years to come. They could even set up a joint company to manage the disused part of a city for the film industry and lease parts out to film companies world wide.
So...what you're saying is make another Robocop or just a real Robocop?
Here's a better life: Meet your spouse in high school. Get married and start having children immediately. Stay married until you die. Work from home in a business you've created. Home school your children. Grow as much of your own food as you can. Avoid debt.
You had me up until you said home school. Home schooled kids are weird speaking as someone who was home schooled. Also,all my classmates where assholes.
Absolutly, meteorites get nice and fiery hot in the upper atmosphere while they deaccelerate by several orders of magnitude to a more reasonable velocity (say Mach 10) just like every other object that man sends up into space. You don`t see the space shuttle as a glowing ball of flame when it touches down, you see it as that when it`s still a couple hundred km up and going far faster then you can comprehend.
Mach 10 is not a reasonable velocity (unless you're in some funky fluid with a really low speed of sound). It's really fast, and stuff gets very hot (melts most everything kind of hot) at that speed. The shuttle doesn't come down as a ball of flame, but it's slowed down to a couple hundred mph kinds of speed, and you don't see anybody rush out to touch the tiles for quite some time.
That all said, I apologize if I missed any sarcasm, but it appeared to me that someone on the internets was wrong, and I have a moral obligation to correct that if I see it.
dude. The "show all your work" is generally so that if you mess up an addition at the beginning of the problem and carry through you can get partial credit. Otherwise smartasses would get one little thing wrong, get it all wrong, and then come screaming when they get the paper back.
Can you prove that microprocessor design wouldn't have progressed more quickly if the money had been pushed into direct research?
Can you prove that it would have? No of course not. We're at an impass.
What I can suggest though is that with out NASA and it's money coming in saying "yeah we like that make it smaller and lighter" the direction of development would have been different. Somebody else could have come in and said here spend this money on making this smaller and lighter, but why would they if they weren't trying to get it out of the gravity well?
But the best way to get laid is to take the girl(s) to the cafeteria and listen to all their inane chatting about this, that, and the next thing. Then follow them to their room, and do some more listening. After a few hours of this they'll feel like you're the best guy they've ever met, so you give them a friendly hug, followed by a friendly kiss, and one thing leads to another.
I tried that one time and all I have to show for it is a restraining order and a criminal record...
Don't you think whoever is monitoring will notice 20 phones within a metre of each other? I know there's a lot of population over there and things are crammed together, but that's a little silly.
It's a clown college, and the class is "VW Beetles 101"!
Should have taken a shit on the copper plate. You would have been hailed as an artist of extreme talent and could have sold your works to the Canadian government for millions.
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Learn to utter something that might sound like german, and you're perfect employee for the national railway service.
Do you think the ability to curse fluently in several Klingon dialects is close enough? If so I might finally be able to get a job!!!!
If the teacher needs the answer handed to them they shouldn't be teaching the class...
That might work for some subjects, but there are plenty out there that a teacher would appreciate a sanity check. Especially, the teachers who haven't taught the course before, or TA's that come up with solutions but aren't really that confident that they aren't 90% solutions.
...Let's be nice to the youngsters, and help them see where this stuff really came from.
As long as they stay off my lawn!
but there will always be employment for those who suckle at the government teet.
Surely it raises another question: Should internet access be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
If you're going to restrict discussion to those with access to the web it doesn't seem a giant leap to expect them to have a cheap and cheerful webcam.
Well the other options are travel to DC and testify or write in a letter. Neither of these are eliminated anyway. The former is way more expensive than internets and the latter makes two way discussion more difficult.
Doing it this way isn't raising the barrier to only include people with internets/webcams. It is lowering the barrier to include at least the people who have them.
#3: America is currently in the beginings of its post-Bush era. We do reactions VERY well in this country -- and that means the principle sin of the Bush, era, "sacraficing liberty for security", is likely not to be repeated in the next 10-20 years. If ever.
Yeah how that going for ya?
I think The Who said it best "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Don't be stupid. There's no such thing as a free country. Sooner or later, they all end up being run by bastards. If you're really looking to be free, I suggest you move as far away from civilization as you can. The only way to achieve actual freedom in this world is to separate yourself from the rest of humanity.
A sentient computer and a rail launcher on the moon might do it...
But to be quite honest with you, with what is going in Iran at this moment, your request seems frivolous.
uh no.
Iran is a reminder of what happens when the government becomes too authoritarian and the people finally realize it. You could then notice that one's own country was rapidly sliding down the authoritarian scale. You then have to decide if you want to leave or hang around until the shit hits the fan. You also have to consider that the point where you can freely leave is much sooner than the proverbial shit storm.
You wouldn't shout down the frog in the 75 deg C water for saying "gee it's getting warmer in here" just because the pot next to him is finally boiling. (assuming of course hypothetical frogs that can stand 75 deg C temps some how...)
...in part selection: people who are sickly don't stay in high-altitude areas because they generally have less specialist medical care. I grew up in one of those little mountain towns in Colorado and older people said "it's hard to breathe: I'm moving to Florida" where they died.
Ding ding ding! You win! That is probably one of the biggest if not the biggest factor. Although, before I start sounding the fool, I should go check the average lifespan in Nepal.
But that's the benefit of everybody being old. There won't be much change and progress because the old guy resisting the newfangled ideas of the up and coming whippersnappers won't retire or die. Thus COBOL will live forever!!!
Well acourding to TFA there's actually 2 types of people.
01. Those who hate binary jokes
10. Those that don't care
11. Those for whom base in completely arbitrary and would use base 13 just for the hell of it if the numbers were high enough to make it matter.
Good point, but that's regarding countries with an AIDS epidemic where the reduced risk of transmission will actually make a difference, i.e. it is not a general recommendation.
Well Washington DC has a higher AIDS infection rate than Western Africa
Agreed. Asking this question on Slashdot is like asking Helen Keller if your socks match.
Which works OK if your matching criteria are size and material. I don't think he's asking how to get to the interstate from here in Boston, he's asking how to get out of the garage.
Also part of a disused city would be a very valuable and useful proving ground for advanced research in robotics, such as cars using the road networks and urban exploring robots. Its a once in a life time chance to gain unrestricted access to a big part of a city.
Another very good use would be to leave part of a disused city as a film set of a slowly decaying abandoned city. (The WW2 Blitz in London created a lot of disused buildings that appeared in many films for decades). Part of a city would be an incredible once in a lifetime opportunity to create a huge film set that doesn't disrupting and interrupt normal working cities and its cheaper and easier for film companies to use. So its win win for these companies helping the US film industry and other businesses in cities otherwise inconvenienced by filming. The film companies must be able to see the potential. It would be such a good help to the US film industry for many years to come. They could even set up a joint company to manage the disused part of a city for the film industry and lease parts out to film companies world wide.
So...what you're saying is make another Robocop or just a real Robocop?
Here's a better life: Meet your spouse in high school. Get married and start having children immediately. Stay married until you die. Work from home in a business you've created. Home school your children. Grow as much of your own food as you can. Avoid debt.
You had me up until you said home school. Home schooled kids are weird speaking as someone who was home schooled. Also,all my classmates where assholes.
Oh hell! Just quarantine everybody...just to be safe.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
...And Planet X might have a magnetic field due to something else all together.
My guess is Monster Zero
Absolutly, meteorites get nice and fiery hot in the upper atmosphere while they deaccelerate by several orders of magnitude to a more reasonable velocity (say Mach 10) just like every other object that man sends up into space. You don`t see the space shuttle as a glowing ball of flame when it touches down, you see it as that when it`s still a couple hundred km up and going far faster then you can comprehend.
Mach 10 is not a reasonable velocity (unless you're in some funky fluid with a really low speed of sound). It's really fast, and stuff gets very hot (melts most everything kind of hot) at that speed. The shuttle doesn't come down as a ball of flame, but it's slowed down to a couple hundred mph kinds of speed, and you don't see anybody rush out to touch the tiles for quite some time.
That all said, I apologize if I missed any sarcasm, but it appeared to me that someone on the internets was wrong, and I have a moral obligation to correct that if I see it.
dude. The "show all your work" is generally so that if you mess up an addition at the beginning of the problem and carry through you can get partial credit. Otherwise smartasses would get one little thing wrong, get it all wrong, and then come screaming when they get the paper back.
Can you prove that microprocessor design wouldn't have progressed more quickly if the money had been pushed into direct research?
Can you prove that it would have? No of course not. We're at an impass.
What I can suggest though is that with out NASA and it's money coming in saying "yeah we like that make it smaller and lighter" the direction of development would have been different. Somebody else could have come in and said here spend this money on making this smaller and lighter, but why would they if they weren't trying to get it out of the gravity well?
I dunno the subtle neon orange of poor flesh tones helps to mask the...er, problems with the uniforms.
But the best way to get laid is to take the girl(s) to the cafeteria and listen to all their inane chatting about this, that, and the next thing. Then follow them to their room, and do some more listening. After a few hours of this they'll feel like you're the best guy they've ever met, so you give them a friendly hug, followed by a friendly kiss, and one thing leads to another.
I tried that one time and all I have to show for it is a restraining order and a criminal record...
Don't you think whoever is monitoring will notice 20 phones within a metre of each other? I know there's a lot of population over there and things are crammed together, but that's a little silly.
It's a clown college, and the class is "VW Beetles 101"!
Should have taken a shit on the copper plate. You would have been hailed as an artist of extreme talent and could have sold your works to the Canadian government for millions.
Can't you not put your degree on your resume?