President Clinton & Republican-controlled Congress ran PROJECTED surplus, not actual. Every year of the Clinton Presidency saw national debt rise, it never retreated during his presidency.
Every year when a new budget is proposed it includes a ten year projection that is non-binding and almost certainly pure fantasy - for the projections to be true spending policies proposed ten years in advance need to be adhered to and the economy needs to react EXACTLY as predicted up to ten years earlier.
Clinton's supporters still believe those projections...
From the paper: 'Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance.'
Wow, how much time did they spend studing the premise that people working with a tool they know are able to "more accurately" write programs than users of language they don't know...
I think I'll file this right after the study on why" holding heavy things makes my arms hurt" and "people who know where they are going tend to not rely on their GPS" studies...
Tenure is designed to protect poor teachers at the expense of the good ones.
Merit pay would go a long way towards attracting better teachers, but since that would 'punish' bad teachers, it can not be offered.
Private schools by and large pay LESS than public schools do, and offer no tenure, yet teachers choose to leave the public school system to teach in private schools... The motivation can't be money or job security...
There's no science claim in the article, it reflects the seeming contradiction between successful parents in the computer field and their CHOICE to not have their children taught using computers.
I wonder how their Computer Science curriculum is. I hope they don't have them break out pencil and paper and make them write down opcodes like Woz did in the fuckin' 70's optimizing disk drive routines.
First off, this is GRAMMER SCHOOL not high school - what computer science curriculum are they offering in your district? Brainpop? Homework Island?
Second, look at everything Woz was able to do WITHOUT learning 'computer science' in the 3rd grade.... (I learned to code COBOL & 370 assembler on paper, it was called a coding form, we submitted it to a keypunch operator, and our programs were run in batch mode, where we would pick up the results in a bin - you could spot a core dump from down the hall)
Finally, this school operates at a PROFIT at $17.5K/year, offering kids an excellent education - what is your local school district spending per child (including bonds & referendums to pay for facilities)?
Children won't be entering the workforce in any meaningful way before their 16th birthday, by which time the child will likely be 'exposed' to computers- this compulsion to inflict a child with an 'exposure' to computers is a bit silly, IMHO.
A senior in high school would have been exposed to Windows 95 or 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7 - why did they have to learn to superficially use each OS while in school? How did that better prepare them for going to college, where they will use Windows 8?
From the results I saw, using the computer program for fifteen minutes a day really helped. In the writing samples I saw, the students often went from making unintelligible scribbles to writing coherent paragraphs within a year.
Imagine what those same students could have accomplished with the same 15 minutes with a real teacher...
The article if for a Waldorf School, which is, I believe either K-6 or K-8 - how much C++ programming are kids in 5th grade doing? How much Pascal? Smalltalk? BASIC? When kids in these grades are taught programming it is typically in a fantasy play environment designed to teach children abstract programming concepts.
There is plenty for a child to learn without cluttering up their day with 'programming classes' at the elementary level - very, very few elementary schools have wood, metal, or auto shops, are we neglecting those children with an aptitude for such classes by not offering them? No. Same for computers.
while the teacher plays counselor/discipline enforcer/confidant/role mole/etc, etc
My education was, to be honest, privileged - I attended mostly private schools from K-12 - and nearly every teacher I ever had assumed each of those roles you implied were outside the scope of the teacher's job (my impression of what you wrote)... I would argue that those seemingly optional roles are at the heart of education.
Computers, tablets, smart boards, movies, videos are all, in my opinion novacaine we give our children to help them tolerate teachers that are challenged to perform their most basic task - teach children.
Can the tools/technology help a good teacher? Certainly, but the time required to prepare the animated smart board presentation teaching children fractions could be better spent using cakes, a pizza, etc. in the classroom to teach the same material, and instead of 25 students watching a canned PowerPoint presentation on fractions, the children could interact, see real-world examples in front of them, etc.
I went to the park Sunday and got a first-hand look at the 'protest', and what struck me was how small the protest is. The park is slightly smaller than a half city block (size of a football field), and there were two or three tourists/observers for each sign-carrying/slogan spouting/sleeping protester.
The lack of a central them or focus allows anyone to identify with theprotesters: against the Fed? Fractional banking? Standardized testing in schools? Tax the rich? End the wars? Against student loans? Out ofwork? Then you can find a kindred spirit in the protesters. If they focused on one thing, the majority of protesters would bolt - they sacrificed any chance of actually effecting change (in my opinion) for the appearance of larger numbers.
The protest will implode on Oct. 15th, when they maximize their numbers, their lack of focus will undermine any advances people imagine they have made.
20% as efficient as "conventional" solar panels, cost 1/2 as much - let's see, that works out to 2.5x more expensive than a conventional solar panel per unit of power. In other words, it takes 5 meters of this film to generate the same amount of power as 1 meter of "conventional" solar panels would generate...
Cars generate bucket-loads of excess, unused electricity - what would you really gain from gluing this to your car windows? You'd be better served by carrying a battery pack and charging it in your car while you drive IMHO...
I found that the manufacturer has recently filed a patent application for a new transponder that has a camera in it — a camera pointed inward at the occupants. How long before they make it illegal to cover that camera with tape?"
How long before they build and deploy the device with a camera in it?
Patent does not lead to product in all cases...
Besides, how will they off-load the image from the transponder? Given sufficient resolution to make the picture usable for anything "legal" (i.e. in a court of law) would generate a fairly large file (compared to a "This is my IDPASS ID number" packet), but since you spend an average of what, 1/4 second within reasonable range of a transponder/toll booth, they would have to employ some serious high-speed networking... And running this all off a battery inside the unit? Puh-lese!
Can't see this happening, and if by some miracle it were to happen, I suspect you'd notice the camera lens...
So your inabilty to penetrate the education market is based on Microsoft's success in giving away it's product. Why don't you give away your product also? Oh, because then your programmers wouldn't get paid. Interesting. I seem to recall Bill Gates making that very point a few years ago...
Cheap is not free, Open Source options *can* be free, but cna cost much mor eif you want to manage a district full of Linux PCs in the same way you manage a district full of Windows PCs. Go price management solutions for 1,000-4,000 linux desktop deployments and compare that with the cost of MS-supplied and offered management tools for similar size Windows PC deplyments. Windows can be much cheaper to centrally manage - and yes, you do want to manage your school district's computers centrally.
Hiring a programmer to cobble together scripts is not a solution, it is a "hack", and hiring a programmer costs money, offsetting the "free" aspect of Open SOurce so many like to champion.
It is a website. They changed it so that the website depends on a not-widely deployed plugin.
Please define "not-widely deployed plugin" - as I read TFA, Silverlight is supported on 90% of desktops (those running MS operating systems)... That seems pretty widely deployed to me.
If the school system provided a terminal server for the 10% of desktop users that opt for Operating Systems which do not natively support "Silverlight" to access the school web sites this would be a non-issue. RDP clients are plentiful and work fine on nearly all platforms. Even iPads.
Perhaps, but all facebook "knows" is your email address - nothing else is verified. Sure, facebook could try and build a dossier from external sources based on your email address, but what value would that really hold when compared with the cost/effort involved.
The more likely answer is for facebook to track and analyze the data you and your friends enter - you/they gave it freely, and it is already on their servers.
I'll concede the wording issue - I was going for dramatic effect/hyperbole.
Sorry, should have been clearer - the 'suggested' changes were to underscore that the point of facebook is to enable users to communicate in an asynchronus fashion, and the only way to do that is to record your communication, then to point out that when users complain about facebook storing all their communications they are actually complaining about the very purpose of facebook.
I meant to build on your thought, not tear it down - sory if my inartful approach offended.
(It's like a user uploading all their photos to flicker, then complaining that flicker is keeping their pictures...)
You should add to Step One: "Use free servide that you are in no way obligated to use to track communication by you and your friends And reword Step Two: "Complain about how the service records your communications on said free site
Just remember everything, I mean EVERYTHING Facebook knows about you, those 800 pages of details, was input by either you or one of your "friends" - if you didn't want Facebook to have the info, you shouldn't have given it to them in the first place.
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President Clinton & Republican-controlled Congress ran PROJECTED surplus, not actual. Every year of the Clinton Presidency saw national debt rise, it never retreated during his presidency.
Every year when a new budget is proposed it includes a ten year projection that is non-binding and almost certainly pure fantasy - for the projections to be true spending policies proposed ten years in advance need to be adhered to and the economy needs to react EXACTLY as predicted up to ten years earlier.
Clinton's supporters still believe those projections...
Wow, how much time did they spend studing the premise that people working with a tool they know are able to "more accurately" write programs than users of language they don't know...
I think I'll file this right after the study on why" holding heavy things makes my arms hurt" and "people who know where they are going tend to not rely on their GPS" studies...
I thought Perl WAS a randomly generated language - you mean someone came up with Perl on purpose?
Tenure is designed to protect poor teachers at the expense of the good ones.
Merit pay would go a long way towards attracting better teachers, but since that would 'punish' bad teachers, it can not be offered.
Private schools by and large pay LESS than public schools do, and offer no tenure, yet teachers choose to leave the public school system to teach in private schools... The motivation can't be money or job security...
There's no science claim in the article, it reflects the seeming contradiction between successful parents in the computer field and their CHOICE to not have their children taught using computers.
Do you want to tag this "pseudo-opinion"?
First off, this is GRAMMER SCHOOL not high school - what computer science curriculum are they offering in your district? Brainpop? Homework Island?
Second, look at everything Woz was able to do WITHOUT learning 'computer science' in the 3rd grade.... (I learned to code COBOL & 370 assembler on paper, it was called a coding form, we submitted it to a keypunch operator, and our programs were run in batch mode, where we would pick up the results in a bin - you could spot a core dump from down the hall)
Finally, this school operates at a PROFIT at $17.5K/year, offering kids an excellent education - what is your local school district spending per child (including bonds & referendums to pay for facilities)?
Children won't be entering the workforce in any meaningful way before their 16th birthday, by which time the child will likely be 'exposed' to computers- this compulsion to inflict a child with an 'exposure' to computers is a bit silly, IMHO.
A senior in high school would have been exposed to Windows 95 or 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7 - why did they have to learn to superficially use each OS while in school? How did that better prepare them for going to college, where they will use Windows 8?
From the results I saw, using the computer program for fifteen minutes a day really helped. In the writing samples I saw, the students often went from making unintelligible scribbles to writing coherent paragraphs within a year.
Imagine what those same students could have accomplished with the same 15 minutes with a real teacher...
The article if for a Waldorf School, which is, I believe either K-6 or K-8 - how much C++ programming are kids in 5th grade doing? How much Pascal? Smalltalk? BASIC? When kids in these grades are taught programming it is typically in a fantasy play environment designed to teach children abstract programming concepts.
There is plenty for a child to learn without cluttering up their day with 'programming classes' at the elementary level - very, very few elementary schools have wood, metal, or auto shops, are we neglecting those children with an aptitude for such classes by not offering them? No. Same for computers.
My education was, to be honest, privileged - I attended mostly private schools from K-12 - and nearly every teacher I ever had assumed each of those roles you implied were outside the scope of the teacher's job (my impression of what you wrote)... I would argue that those seemingly optional roles are at the heart of education.
Computers, tablets, smart boards, movies, videos are all, in my opinion novacaine we give our children to help them tolerate teachers that are challenged to perform their most basic task - teach children.
Can the tools/technology help a good teacher? Certainly, but the time required to prepare the animated smart board presentation teaching children fractions could be better spent using cakes, a pizza, etc. in the classroom to teach the same material, and instead of 25 students watching a canned PowerPoint presentation on fractions, the children could interact, see real-world examples in front of them, etc.
I went to the park Sunday and got a first-hand look at the 'protest', and what struck me was how small the protest is. The park is slightly smaller than a half city block (size of a football field), and there were two or three tourists/observers for each sign-carrying/slogan spouting/sleeping protester.
The lack of a central them or focus allows anyone to identify with theprotesters: against the Fed? Fractional banking? Standardized testing in schools? Tax the rich? End the wars? Against student loans? Out ofwork? Then you can find a kindred spirit in the protesters. If they focused on one thing, the majority of protesters would bolt - they sacrificed any chance of actually effecting change (in my opinion) for the appearance of larger numbers.
The protest will implode on Oct. 15th, when they maximize their numbers, their lack of focus will undermine any advances people imagine they have made.
Half the price of conventional panels - we're using natural constants, not actual values.
No, it will just take 50-75 years to pay for itself... But I'm sure, with adequate funding from the US Gov't 3M will get that cut in half!
20% as efficient as "conventional" solar panels, cost 1/2 as much - let's see, that works out to 2.5x more expensive than a conventional solar panel per unit of power. In other words, it takes 5 meters of this film to generate the same amount of power as 1 meter of "conventional" solar panels would generate...
Cars generate bucket-loads of excess, unused electricity - what would you really gain from gluing this to your car windows? You'd be better served by carrying a battery pack and charging it in your car while you drive IMHO...
How long before they build and deploy the device with a camera in it?
Patent does not lead to product in all cases...
Besides, how will they off-load the image from the transponder? Given sufficient resolution to make the picture usable for anything "legal" (i.e. in a court of law) would generate a fairly large file (compared to a "This is my IDPASS ID number" packet), but since you spend an average of what, 1/4 second within reasonable range of a transponder/toll booth, they would have to employ some serious high-speed networking... And running this all off a battery inside the unit? Puh-lese!
Can't see this happening, and if by some miracle it were to happen, I suspect you'd notice the camera lens...
So your inabilty to penetrate the education market is based on Microsoft's success in giving away it's product. Why don't you give away your product also? Oh, because then your programmers wouldn't get paid. Interesting. I seem to recall Bill Gates making that very point a few years ago...
Do you realize you are arguing for a platform (Linux on the desktop) that has about 1/6th the market share of Windows Vista?
Cheap is not free, Open Source options *can* be free, but cna cost much mor eif you want to manage a district full of Linux PCs in the same way you manage a district full of Windows PCs. Go price management solutions for 1,000-4,000 linux desktop deployments and compare that with the cost of MS-supplied and offered management tools for similar size Windows PC deplyments. Windows can be much cheaper to centrally manage - and yes, you do want to manage your school district's computers centrally.
Hiring a programmer to cobble together scripts is not a solution, it is a "hack", and hiring a programmer costs money, offsetting the "free" aspect of Open SOurce so many like to champion.
Wow, I didn't realize that HTML5 was so universal it is supported by all browsers, on all platforms.
Please define "not-widely deployed plugin" - as I read TFA, Silverlight is supported on 90% of desktops (those running MS operating systems)... That seems pretty widely deployed to me.
If the school system provided a terminal server for the 10% of desktop users that opt for Operating Systems which do not natively support "Silverlight" to access the school web sites this would be a non-issue. RDP clients are plentiful and work fine on nearly all platforms. Even iPads.
Perhaps, but all facebook "knows" is your email address - nothing else is verified. Sure, facebook could try and build a dossier from external sources based on your email address, but what value would that really hold when compared with the cost/effort involved.
The more likely answer is for facebook to track and analyze the data you and your friends enter - you/they gave it freely, and it is already on their servers.
I'll concede the wording issue - I was going for dramatic effect/hyperbole.
Sorry, should have been clearer - the 'suggested' changes were to underscore that the point of facebook is to enable users to communicate in an asynchronus fashion, and the only way to do that is to record your communication, then to point out that when users complain about facebook storing all their communications they are actually complaining about the very purpose of facebook.
I meant to build on your thought, not tear it down - sory if my inartful approach offended.
(It's like a user uploading all their photos to flicker, then complaining that flicker is keeping their pictures...)
You should add to Step One: "Use free servide that you are in no way obligated to use to track communication by you and your friends
And reword Step Two: "Complain about how the service records your communications on said free site
Just remember everything, I mean EVERYTHING Facebook knows about you, those 800 pages of details, was input by either you or one of your "friends" - if you didn't want Facebook to have the info, you shouldn't have given it to them in the first place.