Apple is a private company using a broken patent system the way every other private company would if they held those patents. The system is the problem. Apple is just doing its fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder wealth. Blame the system. Reform the system.
And the unions are pissed because high pay for bad teaching is their territory!
Talk to a teacher. Ask them how long their working day is. Ask them how many vacation days are taken up with meetings/marking/planning. Ask them about how much time and money they need to spend to maintain their creditation. Then work out how much they get payed per hour. Then ask them about their legal responsibilities.
The man is a veritable profit
Actually he seems to dislike that particular motive:P
I think that he charged a fair bit for the manuals to his libero e gratis software, and has stated that "free" needn't mean "with no associated monetary cost".
However, claiming someone is insulting or dismissive simply because they failed to notice an error is pompous. It implies malice where logically none exists.
On the contrary, it implies stupidity, ignorance, a slapdash attitude, or combinations of these. Neither are traits I favour or reward.
Among the traits you neither favor nor reward are:
Didn't these used to say that X-rays were safe?
Anyway, in IMHO the best option is to not to scan at all. Just let everyone board the plane and be on their way -or- we'll start scanning people boarding buses next.
Oh and also: I had a bunch of profs, and it made sense, that only had maybe 1-2 marks for the final answer. The other 3-8 were for steps in between. So you could get a 70-80% in a course and have a stupid arithmetic error somewhere in the question. Didn't matter it was understood that you're stressed and that in a normal situation you'd be able to be more methodical about checking your work.
And, of course, that also means that if you only write down the final answer you only get 1-2 marks - something most of the future voters I have don't really understand until it happens to them and they see their corrected paper. But it's always fun explaining why they got 90% for a bunch of "wrong" answers (or 10% for a bunch of "right" ones).
Actually, a cow can be considered a predator. And because the prey (eg area of grass) survives the cow is a grazing predator - just like a mosquito.
I think that the relevant definition of "predator" hinges on survival by eating other animals.
Eating other organisms - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predation - it's on the interweb, so it HAS to be right. And yes, the same source does say that grazing isn't true predation, but I still teach it that way (...can be considered..).
You have to realize that teachers teach those misconceptions so they can pretend to teach a particular concept when other essential prior knowledge has not been covered yet. This happens a lot in math as well. For example we covered a problem that could be solved without the mid-point formula but the mid-point formula drastically reduced the complexity. Most teachers would just find a way to fudge it. I went ahead and taught the midpoint formula.
It really is up for debate how much a kid and handle and if we should teach all the essentials or just give them a few hacks so we can teach other parts of the whole. Personally I despise teaching misconceptions but I haven't been around long enough to say conclusively it's not necessary. I just haven't found a particular case yet where it is.
Have you tried presenting the misconception as something like "This is a simplified model which has some inaccuracies that you can live with for now. I can't go into the accurate version yet because you'll need next year's maths to get it properly..."
If you read TFA, you'll find that this isn't assuming that student's won't know something yet - it is defining a predator as an organism that gets its nutrients from consuming another organism (meaning a cow is a predictor)....
[pedant]Actually, a cow can be considered a predator. And because the prey (eg area of grass) survives the cow is a grazing predator - just like a mosquito.[/pedant]
Hey... what happened to [shift}+[,] and [shift]+[.]?
No the 2 year warrenty is only for new goods. And if you sell secondhand within the 2 years the original warranty(The one you got when you bought the product as new) will stil cover the product.
And I need to ask: What kind of electronic products do you buy which are expected to break down within a year?
Anything made by Apple?
Declaration of Interest: posted in part (about 20%) to annoy my daughter who likes her mac.
Parents sitting down with their children over their homework has 10x the effect on the overall education and outlook of the children than the quality of the school itself. Even *if* the parents are less knowledgeable than their children - putting a value on education is what is important.
The common thread with every overachieving nerd I've known is that they were taught from an early age to enjoy learning, and that knowledge was important - long before they actually got to elementary school.
I didn't know Australia had a terrorist problem.
I never heard of any plane being hijacked or blown up or any attempts or any other terrorist activity.
Would some Aussie please fill us in... what is this for?
To show that the Australian government (regardless of being either liberal (NB that's a "capital L" liberal written in lower case to show well earned contempt) or labour (they can't even spell their own name correctly) party) is determined to lick American boots and eat American shit if at all possible.
Julia and Tony - grow up and get your acts together!
... they come blank, and you can install your O/S yourself, with YOUR choice of features enabled, and have complete control over all of the hardware, just like a PC - without having to jump through a million hoops.
Absolutely. Wish I had mod points.
I need a tablet for my job (teaching) but I'm not buying one until I can get one that works the way I need it to from the start.
How many are waiting until Google gets it act together with Honeycomb and comes out with Ice Cream Sandwich?
How many just don't have Honeycomb devices?
How many are protesting that there has been no Honeycomb source release by Google?
How many Honeycomb apps were expected?
How many of us are holding off getting a tablet until we can easily bypass Android (of any flavour) and just load whatever distribution we want?
I wonder how many of those are people who bought Windows 7 and how many are just people who bought a computer that came with Windows 7?
The notebook I'm using now is a couple of years old, came with vista and is happily running under Suse. A month ago I bought a netbook with windows 7* and it's now running under Suse; a week and a bit ago** I bought a notebook with vista (giving me a good discount) and I'm installing Fedora on it as I write this.
*Use of lower case not accidental
**Conversation in the shop went something like
bloke behind counter: "It has vista now but comes with a free windows 7 upgrade voucher."
me: "Thanks, but I'll be using Linux so I won't need it."
bbc: "OK, but it only has the demo version of [microsoft] office, you'll really need to buy the full version..."
me: "But microsoft office doesn't work with Linux."
bbc: "Uhhh - OK, but don't forget to go to the A### web page to get your windows 7 upgrade..."
Other astounding inventions from tree-dwelling tailhangers in the first half of the 20th century: nuclear power, transistors, purified penicillin, and television.
Nucular power, electronics and antibiotics on one side, television on the other - could still be a narrow win for "generally stupid".
Anyone else think the banners remenisc^w remenisi^w suggested by the submarine pen scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
I don't find Mac intuitive at all. I am a developer who finds his way around in linux and windows without any problems and every time I need to do something on a Mac I want to scream. For me Mac is a step down from windows. Linux > Windows > OSX
GUI's are not intuitive! They might be for the designer/developer who made it but not for the general user out there.
Absotively posilutely right. Couple of years back at work I had a choice of either a PC and win xp or a mac and osx (we used PCs with win nt before that). I chose the mac to escape the ms straightjacket - after less than six months the only thing I was using it for was email (built a clandestine PC from bits and pieces for real work).
The year I spent with osx was one long frustrating battle with the UI that soured me on macs. The os was stable enough but I wish they'd spent a bit less time on eye candy and a bit more on making the UI more customisable.
Tried Linux at home (OpenSUSE 10) and was amazed at how everything _just works_ (my way). I've still avoided xp, love KDE (gave up on the gnome desktop early on).
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Apple is a private company using a broken patent system the way every other private company would if they held those patents. The system is the problem. Apple is just doing its fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder wealth. Blame the system. Reform the system.
Don't hate the player...
...If a 401K is good enough for us peons, it's good enough for the privileged few in government jobs.
Maybe one of the problems is that a 401K (I assume that's a retirement benefit?) ISN'T good enough? Not a US resident, but asking for information.
And the unions are pissed because high pay for bad teaching is their territory!
Talk to a teacher. Ask them how long their working day is. Ask them how many vacation days are taken up with meetings/marking/planning. Ask them about how much time and money they need to spend to maintain their creditation. Then work out how much they get payed per hour. Then ask them about their legal responsibilities.
The US Military is too afraid that we'll send The Wiggles there permanently to even consider an invasion.
Actually the US military is rightfully frightened of our Stinger armed kangaroos (and we're frightened of what the drop bears have).
>> poking at the mathematical chinks
Not all Maths graduate students are Chinese, you know.
That's true. It's only the good ones. (They're especially good in wector calculus.)
No, that's actually a Russian specialty.
... and not offering an *acceptable* solution ...
"And as long as the user controls which keys they are, then it’s a security feature" (from the fine article) - how is this unacceptable?
The man is a veritable profit Actually he seems to dislike that particular motive :P
I think that he charged a fair bit for the manuals to his libero e gratis software, and has stated that "free" needn't mean "with no associated monetary cost".
However, claiming someone is insulting or dismissive simply because they failed to notice an error is pompous. It implies malice where logically none exists.
On the contrary, it implies stupidity, ignorance, a slapdash attitude, or combinations of these. Neither are traits I favour or reward.
Among the traits you neither favor nor reward are:
stupidity;
ignorance
a slapdash attitude
and a fanatical dedication to the Pope.
Didn't these used to say that X-rays were safe? Anyway, in IMHO the best option is to not to scan at all. Just let everyone board the plane and be on their way -or- we'll start scanning people boarding buses next.
Oh and also: I had a bunch of profs, and it made sense, that only had maybe 1-2 marks for the final answer. The other 3-8 were for steps in between. So you could get a 70-80% in a course and have a stupid arithmetic error somewhere in the question. Didn't matter it was understood that you're stressed and that in a normal situation you'd be able to be more methodical about checking your work.
And, of course, that also means that if you only write down the final answer you only get 1-2 marks - something most of the future voters I have don't really understand until it happens to them and they see their corrected paper. But it's always fun explaining why they got 90% for a bunch of "wrong" answers (or 10% for a bunch of "right" ones).
that's around $234 a piece, for that amount you can get a netbook with better specs compared to olpc
Higher spec netbooks cost a bit more than that in Oz.
Temporarily turning off resources to contain mob behavior is not silencing political speech.
Unless the mob behaviour is protesting against the latest thing the government did but shouldn't have / didn't do but should have.
Or is it really to prevent Western Spring?
(Sorry, forgot to put my foil helmet on this morning)
Actually, a cow can be considered a predator. And because the prey (eg area of grass) survives the cow is a grazing predator - just like a mosquito.
I think that the relevant definition of "predator" hinges on survival by eating other animals.
Eating other organisms - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predation - it's on the interweb, so it HAS to be right. And yes, the same source does say that grazing isn't true predation, but I still teach it that way (...can be considered..).
You have to realize that teachers teach those misconceptions so they can pretend to teach a particular concept when other essential prior knowledge has not been covered yet. This happens a lot in math as well. For example we covered a problem that could be solved without the mid-point formula but the mid-point formula drastically reduced the complexity. Most teachers would just find a way to fudge it. I went ahead and taught the midpoint formula.
It really is up for debate how much a kid and handle and if we should teach all the essentials or just give them a few hacks so we can teach other parts of the whole. Personally I despise teaching misconceptions but I haven't been around long enough to say conclusively it's not necessary. I just haven't found a particular case yet where it is.
Have you tried presenting the misconception as something like "This is a simplified model which has some inaccuracies that you can live with for now. I can't go into the accurate version yet because you'll need next year's maths to get it properly..."
If you read TFA, you'll find that this isn't assuming that student's won't know something yet - it is defining a predator as an organism that gets its nutrients from consuming another organism (meaning a cow is a predictor)....
[pedant]Actually, a cow can be considered a predator. And because the prey (eg area of grass) survives the cow is a grazing predator - just like a mosquito.[/pedant]
Hey... what happened to [shift}+[,] and [shift]+[.]?
Does this mean secondhand sales are illegal?
No the 2 year warrenty is only for new goods. And if you sell secondhand within the 2 years the original warranty(The one you got when you bought the product as new) will stil cover the product.
And I need to ask: What kind of electronic products do you buy which are expected to break down within a year?
Anything made by Apple?
Declaration of Interest: posted in part (about 20%) to annoy my daughter who likes her mac.
Parents sitting down with their children over their homework has 10x the effect on the overall education and outlook of the children than the quality of the school itself. Even *if* the parents are less knowledgeable than their children - putting a value on education is what is important.
The common thread with every overachieving nerd I've known is that they were taught from an early age to enjoy learning, and that knowledge was important - long before they actually got to elementary school.
YES! Absolutely right.
Claimer: I AM a teacher.
I didn't know Australia had a terrorist problem. I never heard of any plane being hijacked or blown up or any attempts or any other terrorist activity.
Would some Aussie please fill us in... what is this for?
To show that the Australian government (regardless of being either liberal (NB that's a "capital L" liberal written in lower case to show well earned contempt) or labour (they can't even spell their own name correctly) party) is determined to lick American boots and eat American shit if at all possible.
Julia and Tony - grow up and get your acts together!
... they come blank, and you can install your O/S yourself, with YOUR choice of features enabled, and have complete control over all of the hardware, just like a PC - without having to jump through a million hoops.
Absolutely. Wish I had mod points.
I need a tablet for my job (teaching) but I'm not buying one until I can get one that works the way I need it to from the start.
How many are waiting until Google gets it act together with Honeycomb and comes out with Ice Cream Sandwich? How many just don't have Honeycomb devices? How many are protesting that there has been no Honeycomb source release by Google? How many Honeycomb apps were expected?
How many of us are holding off getting a tablet until we can easily bypass Android (of any flavour) and just load whatever distribution we want?
*REALLY* can't see any benefit at all in keeping the imperial system.
The notebook I'm using now is a couple of years old, came with vista and is happily running under Suse. A month ago I bought a netbook with windows 7* and it's now running under Suse; a week and a bit ago** I bought a notebook with vista (giving me a good discount) and I'm installing Fedora on it as I write this.
*Use of lower case not accidental
**Conversation in the shop went something like
Yes, because people were generally stupid then.
Other astounding inventions from tree-dwelling tailhangers in the first half of the 20th century: nuclear power, transistors, purified penicillin, and television.
Nucular power, electronics and antibiotics on one side, television on the other - could still be a narrow win for "generally stupid".
Anyone else think the banners remenisc^w remenisi^w suggested by the submarine pen scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
I don't find Mac intuitive at all. I am a developer who finds his way around in linux and windows without any problems and every time I need to do something on a Mac I want to scream. For me Mac is a step down from windows. Linux > Windows > OSX GUI's are not intuitive! They might be for the designer/developer who made it but not for the general user out there.
Absotively posilutely right. Couple of years back at work I had a choice of either a PC and win xp or a mac and osx (we used PCs with win nt before that). I chose the mac to escape the ms straightjacket - after less than six months the only thing I was using it for was email (built a clandestine PC from bits and pieces for real work).
The year I spent with osx was one long frustrating battle with the UI that soured me on macs. The os was stable enough but I wish they'd spent a bit less time on eye candy and a bit more on making the UI more customisable.
Tried Linux at home (OpenSUSE 10) and was amazed at how everything _just works_ (my way). I've still avoided xp, love KDE (gave up on the gnome desktop early on).
The police won't even start to bother to look if there's not at least a bit of evidence against the accused.
I admire your optimism for today. What about tomorrow?