Considering that 'politics' in Australia is basically all about digging up dirt about the other party and leaking it to channel seven I don't think the Chaser are going to do any more harm than the other party. If the politician recognises that it's someone from the Chaser (and really, this isn't hard) and at least humours them for a minute or two it's not going to hurt their image at all. Australians like their politicians to be able to take a joke.
The parent is pretty spot on. As much as I love technology and animations and shiny interactive demos I have never seen them outperform a whiteboard, the colours of whiteboard marker and a teacher who both knows the subject matter and believes his students should learn it.
Preparing by typing up the notes and then showing them on an overhead or a projector or a fancy powerpoint pretty much always leads to the teacher simply reading them out rather than teaching it. The more technology you use the more people who aren't familiar with it you'll alienate and not get anything across to.
And please don't make the mistake of thinking you can teach anything at all with videos. You can't.
After school closing time I can't reverse out of the driveway onto the street because of the traffic either. The trains back from the city stop at 2 am, sure they're packed, but they're not unpleasant. They're remarkably safe too. I'll give you that there are no more busses at that hour (applicable routes for me stop at 12:30 or 1) but I walk home at night anyway. I could drive my car to the station but stumbling home drunk is much better than driving home in the same state.
I tend to buy small amounts of stuff more often, simply because it's easier to transport.
If my timing isn't right I walk another 200m to the slightly further away stop and wait maybe 20 more minutes. If I know I can't use public transport to get where I want when I want I'll just drive or make another plan. I'm not saying the busses and trains are the be all and end all of getting around, just that in some cases it's really useful.
Just maybe the public transport where he is is better than where you are?
1. Never had a bus not turn up 2. Never had a bus driver not break a note for me (although I've never tried to buy a $1.30 fair with a fifty) 3. Depends on the time, mornings and evenings, none. 3 in the afternoon it's still better than the unruly foul mouthed drivers that clog up the streets around where I live (I live near two schools) 4. Bags are awesome 5. I've only ever been late when it was my fault (ie, missing the bus) 7. Nearest bus stop to me is about 100m away, though that bus only comes ever hour. Next nearest maybe 300m which two bus routes go past (both from the same train station) which effectively runs every 20 minutes.
My journey to uni on the busses and trains is maybe 45 minutes, by car well over an hour through heavily congested freeways.
Paying attention probably wouldn't have helped. I wasn't taught any grammar past basic punctuation (and none of this fancy stuff like semicolons either, I'm still not sure what they're for).
They actually test what you do in emergencies where you live? Damn, I'm moving there. I only need to clock up another couple of hours before I'm let loose on the roads and I have never once been told or tested on what to do in any kind of emergency. Hell, I never even had to park forwards. Then people wonder why new drivers are the most common demographic to die on the roads.
For reference I live in Western Australia. You answer a (dead easy) multi-choice test to get your learners permit and then pass a practical test which involves driving around the suburbs. Then you have to clock up 25 hours and pass a computerised 'hazard perception test' which basically involves telling the computer when you would brake or change lanes.
I'm all for seatbelts and I wear one whenever I'm in a car, but the great thing about it is that you can take it off if you have to. I don't mind physical blocks on controls to stop you breaking things but I much prefer it if there is some kind of override. I could probably have made that more clear in my original post.
A bit of an aside; For wing attachments on an agile fighter, fer instance, the max load may be based on 9g manouvers which may not even be aerodynamically possible or may never be allowed by the control system.
I don't fly agile fighters, I probably never will. I doubt I'll ever be in a situation that warrants it but just in case I never want a control system that disallows actions which might break the machine. I don't care if doing it puts me at greater risk and sure, give me all the warnings you want but the machine is the tool of man and I don't want to give it control over me.
The way I would design them (and I'm aware this wouldn't bring the elevator to a complete halt) would be that they generated power when they braked. Electromagnetic somethingorother, induction sounds like it's what I'm after. It's amazing how you forget stuff after an exam...
The way I predict it is that it will end up like music. Most people will end up using digital, the same way that most people buy cds (ignoring mp3s as these don't really have a parallel). All the hardcores, the pros and the serious enthusiasts will use both, the way all your music enthusiasts have their cd collection as well as their records (and we'll constantly bitch about how film looks better).
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Considering that 'politics' in Australia is basically all about digging up dirt about the other party and leaking it to channel seven I don't think the Chaser are going to do any more harm than the other party. If the politician recognises that it's someone from the Chaser (and really, this isn't hard) and at least humours them for a minute or two it's not going to hurt their image at all. Australians like their politicians to be able to take a joke.
The parent is pretty spot on. As much as I love technology and animations and shiny interactive demos I have never seen them outperform a whiteboard, the colours of whiteboard marker and a teacher who both knows the subject matter and believes his students should learn it.
Preparing by typing up the notes and then showing them on an overhead or a projector or a fancy powerpoint pretty much always leads to the teacher simply reading them out rather than teaching it. The more technology you use the more people who aren't familiar with it you'll alienate and not get anything across to.
And please don't make the mistake of thinking you can teach anything at all with videos. You can't.
Mod parent down!
Unless you're into that kinda thing.
Browse at -1 dude.
mod moderator +1 funny in a "I'm laughing at you, not with you" kinda way
Crap! no mod points
After school closing time I can't reverse out of the driveway onto the street because of the traffic either. The trains back from the city stop at 2 am, sure they're packed, but they're not unpleasant. They're remarkably safe too. I'll give you that there are no more busses at that hour (applicable routes for me stop at 12:30 or 1) but I walk home at night anyway. I could drive my car to the station but stumbling home drunk is much better than driving home in the same state.
I tend to buy small amounts of stuff more often, simply because it's easier to transport.
If my timing isn't right I walk another 200m to the slightly further away stop and wait maybe 20 more minutes. If I know I can't use public transport to get where I want when I want I'll just drive or make another plan. I'm not saying the busses and trains are the be all and end all of getting around, just that in some cases it's really useful.
Just maybe the public transport where he is is better than where you are?
1. Never had a bus not turn up
2. Never had a bus driver not break a note for me (although I've never tried to buy a $1.30 fair with a fifty)
3. Depends on the time, mornings and evenings, none. 3 in the afternoon it's still better than the unruly foul mouthed drivers that clog up the streets around where I live (I live near two schools)
4. Bags are awesome
5. I've only ever been late when it was my fault (ie, missing the bus)
7. Nearest bus stop to me is about 100m away, though that bus only comes ever hour. Next nearest maybe 300m which two bus routes go past (both from the same train station) which effectively runs every 20 minutes.
My journey to uni on the busses and trains is maybe 45 minutes, by car well over an hour through heavily congested freeways.
I'd recommend you try it, my experience is nothing like that.
I'm pretty sure that happens here in the capitalist west too. It's not a communist thing but a human thing.
Paying attention probably wouldn't have helped. I wasn't taught any grammar past basic punctuation (and none of this fancy stuff like semicolons either, I'm still not sure what they're for).
I wonder how much of this is the child suing MySpace and how much is the parents and/or the lawyer milking it for every last cent.
But it looks like we're coming to the point where the quality of our digital images will come down to the resolving power of the lenses.
Surely those enhancements would give you more of a gain if you were playing an FPS rather than an mmo, something that requires speed and precision.
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They actually test what you do in emergencies where you live? Damn, I'm moving there. I only need to clock up another couple of hours before I'm let loose on the roads and I have never once been told or tested on what to do in any kind of emergency. Hell, I never even had to park forwards. Then people wonder why new drivers are the most common demographic to die on the roads.
For reference I live in Western Australia. You answer a (dead easy) multi-choice test to get your learners permit and then pass a practical test which involves driving around the suburbs. Then you have to clock up 25 hours and pass a computerised 'hazard perception test' which basically involves telling the computer when you would brake or change lanes.
Bullshit. Sometimes the swear words are just the most appropriate words for the situation.
I'm all for seatbelts and I wear one whenever I'm in a car, but the great thing about it is that you can take it off if you have to. I don't mind physical blocks on controls to stop you breaking things but I much prefer it if there is some kind of override. I could probably have made that more clear in my original post.
A bit of an aside; For wing attachments on an agile fighter, fer instance, the max load may be based on 9g manouvers which may not even be aerodynamically possible or may never be allowed by the control system. I don't fly agile fighters, I probably never will. I doubt I'll ever be in a situation that warrants it but just in case I never want a control system that disallows actions which might break the machine. I don't care if doing it puts me at greater risk and sure, give me all the warnings you want but the machine is the tool of man and I don't want to give it control over me.
I might be wrong, but doesn't Walmart own Big W (or K-mart, or whatever you call these over east)?
The way I would design them (and I'm aware this wouldn't bring the elevator to a complete halt) would be that they generated power when they braked. Electromagnetic somethingorother, induction sounds like it's what I'm after. It's amazing how you forget stuff after an exam...
That's not the point; he was using it as a benchmark.
The way I predict it is that it will end up like music. Most people will end up using digital, the same way that most people buy cds (ignoring mp3s as these don't really have a parallel). All the hardcores, the pros and the serious enthusiasts will use both, the way all your music enthusiasts have their cd collection as well as their records (and we'll constantly bitch about how film looks better).