The system is broken. Google does a poor job at ranking businesses according to any reasonable criteria, such as popularity, good reviews, size, or longevity. It does so poor a job that -- in the world of everything-free-on-the-web -- there is a service that charges customers for this information! It's angieslist.com.
I didn't have time to wait around for Google to fix its system, so I had no choice but to play in the field that they created.
Oh great, my site drops from position #4 to position #44, with no explanation as to why. And it makes no sense from an objective relevance standpoint. Before I paid for SEO, it was position #19 at worst.
I hope the SEO guys figure out this new regime soon.
Here's hoping that this "cloud" terminology goes the way of "mashup". "Server farm" and "data center" refer to specific concrete entities. Labeling a data center as a "cloud" does not give it magical capabilities. "Cloud" used to refer to the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet. Now it's being applied to servers from the old client/server days. Talk about complete perversion.
What was the output of this analog modem? Was the interface between the modem and the teletype some sort of analog -- like a rotary dial telephone or something?
The idea of absolute morality is so forbidden in mainstream media that anytime anyone uses the word "absolute", it has to be portrayed in a relativistc sense. So in this case, scientists believe in some sort of "absolute zero", but that doesn't mean everyone does, and thus the myth that there are no absolutes is preserved.
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No electronics to be found at all
Let's not go overboard. The modem is electronic. It is almost certainly also digital. It would just be discrete parts, such as the 7400 series invented in 1964 -- with no microprocessors or any other chip with more than a handful of gates.
For everyone out there who learned to use a computer after the late 1970's or so, a "Teletype", as this device is called, does not have a display. All output is to a printer -- a character printer. I am slightly amused at the stated despair over the need for a power plug and a landline. How about that ream of paper you have to lug around? (And if it's confidential information, I suppose also a trash bag.)
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Um, yeah, that "progress" was called the microchip.
the colorant pellets are pasted on a piece of paper in the desired pattern
Not being an explosives expert, but wouldn't the pellets be pasted on in the inverse of the pattern -- i.e. 1/r in polar coordinates or some such?
On a barely-related note, I was surprised to learn after having moved to Denver that not only are 100% of consumer fireworks banned, but there are also no free professional fireworks displays either (though there are several where you pay for admission). You have to either go on July 3 (missed it) to a park or go to an adjacent city (Aurora, Westminster, Boulder, etc.).
In the 1980's there was a case pf a video rental store providing a home theater room for renters to play their rented tapes. A court ruled that this crossed the line into the territory of public exhibition of copyrighted material, and it was disallowed.
It is interesting that this case does not cross the line into the territory of retransmission.
Let's see, the Iranian people can choose between a cronyistic theocrat or a puppet of the U.S. elite. Sound familiar?
The best phone would be one that prevented the Iranian people from getting so worked up over sham elections in the first place -- and that's probably no phone at all.
Knowledge is power, and knowledge doesn't come from SMS (although, on rare occasions, data might).
The 501(c)(3) for scholarships is next on my list to do.
You stated two false dichotomies. As any libertarian knows, it's not left (big government) vs. right (big business), but rather individual vs. collectivism. And it's not socialism vs. free market to solve "every problem", but rather socialism vs. free market to solve more problems better than the alternative.
On the night of June 9, 1834, a group of prominent men "chiefly engaged in commerce" gathered privately in a Boston drawing room to discuss a scheme of universal schooling. Secretary of this meeting was William Ellery Channing, Horace Mannâ(TM)s own minister as well as an international figure and the leading Unitarian of his day. The location of the meeting house is not entered in the minutes nor are the names of the assemblyâ(TM)s participants apart from Channing. Even though the literacy rate in Massachusetts was 98 percent, and in neighboring Connecticut, 99.8 percent, the assembled businessmen agreed the present system of schooling allowed too much to depend upon chance. It encouraged more entrepreneurial exuberance than the social system could bear.
The minutes of this meeting are Appleton Papers collection, Massachusetts Historical Society
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It simply wouldn't give coverage to everyone
This reminds me of the major theme of the well-regarded book Understanding by Design wherein the authors ridicule schools' mandate to "cover material" rather than designing means to have children understand the material.
At any given time, way more than 100,000 people are wrong on any given issue.
No, but it lessens the probability that the idea is "absurd" as so accused by the original response to my post. Further support is that the U.S. went without public education for most of its first century.
The U.S. was more literate prior to the advent of public education.
In some respects, no education is better than government education. But practically speaking, charities and scholarships (both external and internal) will pick up the slack.
There are thousands of people besides me who have signed the proclamation for the separation of school and state.
For the mathematically inclined, salaries are 4x as much for building the next bomb or trading the next CDS than there is in teaching. This is due to the government monopoly on education and the high barrier of entry to those who would challenge that monopoly.
I have to comply with 300 pages of regulations for the school I started in Denver. The cost of compliance is at least half the total budget.
Although this article did not touch once upon the issue of wages, it is a very good article -- perhaps the best I've read all year on the subject of education. The need to introduce mathematical intuition at a young age is something the Montessori Method has done for a century. In a Montessori school, the child progresses from concrete to abstract, working first -- from very young at two years old -- with physical objects that embody length, area, or volume, and only later attaching the abstract symbols we call numbers. The physical manipulation leads to visualization of how addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions work. A child who goes through all three years of "Primary", which is age 3 to age 6, by the end of it, the child will be multiplying and dividing, and have worked with manipulative materials that demonstrate fractions and even binomials and trinomials from algebra.
In the face of competition from government schools, it is a challenge. I have learned that the competition isn't so much for students as it is for teachers. By using tax dollars, they can pay so much more, offer more benefits, and provide stability stemming from a legally-guaranteed funding sources. Meanwhile, the government schools are there for the purpose of creating cannon fodder, with its flag worship every morning and the forced admission of military recruiters under No Child Left Behind for as early as third grade. And when they do grab a hold of an effective pedagogy like Montessori, they pervert it by adding standardized testing and segregating by ages (e.g. two-year age groups rather than the three-year age groups prescribed by Montessori).
By eliminating public education, and by reducing the morass of regulations for running a private school, the free market could decide how important math education really is, rather than hearing hot air about it from public officials and CEOs, or by listening to earnest mathematicians such as Paul Lockhart, the author of this white paper, attempt to influence curriculum, presumably in government schools. The century-long battle between phonetics and "whole word" in the area of language (and the resulting reading levels no matter what is done) should be evidence enough of the futility of this approach (to use an anlogy, which Lockhart seems to love).
Why is it rejecting a socially progressive idea is called "recoiling" while rejecting a socially conservative idea is referred to as a "knee jerk reaction"?
Reading and discussing the Great Books is the way to receive a true education. 99% of what passes for a college education these days is just vocational training. One of the few exceptions is Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, California. Their syllabus is available for free (there are no electives -- all students follow the same well-thought out track):
The New York Times and The Washington Post were key players in beating the drums of war in the leadup to the Iraq War. They passed along the Bush adiminstration's falsified intelligence unquestioned (remember Judith Miller?), and they underreported attendance at anti-war protests (in the most egregious case, the New York Times didn't bother to send a reporter to the protest of 100-200 thousand and ran one paragraph that stated "thousands").
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Now my site is back up to #4 on Google Caffeine. Perhaps someone from Google read this and fixed something.
I didn't have time to wait around for Google to fix its system, so I had no choice but to play in the field that they created.
I hope the SEO guys figure out this new regime soon.
Here's hoping that this "cloud" terminology goes the way of "mashup". "Server farm" and "data center" refer to specific concrete entities. Labeling a data center as a "cloud" does not give it magical capabilities. "Cloud" used to refer to the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet. Now it's being applied to servers from the old client/server days. Talk about complete perversion.
Obama calls for "regime change" in the Republic of Elbonia.
Indeed, it appears to be the Captain Kirk method of winning the race to the first AI: win by changing the rules of the game.
How do they plan to allow "web applications" to access the local filesystem in a standards-compliant fashion?
Sun had solved all these problems, but Microsoft embraced and extinguished it.
Didn't Wesley Crusher already invent this?
What was the output of this analog modem? Was the interface between the modem and the teletype some sort of analog -- like a rotary dial telephone or something?
The idea of absolute morality is so forbidden in mainstream media that anytime anyone uses the word "absolute", it has to be portrayed in a relativistc sense. So in this case, scientists believe in some sort of "absolute zero", but that doesn't mean everyone does, and thus the myth that there are no absolutes is preserved.
Let's not go overboard. The modem is electronic. It is almost certainly also digital. It would just be discrete parts, such as the 7400 series invented in 1964 -- with no microprocessors or any other chip with more than a handful of gates.
This is where the so-called "neutral point of view" ceases to be useful.
For everyone out there who learned to use a computer after the late 1970's or so, a "Teletype", as this device is called, does not have a display. All output is to a printer -- a character printer. I am slightly amused at the stated despair over the need for a power plug and a landline. How about that ream of paper you have to lug around? (And if it's confidential information, I suppose also a trash bag.)
Um, yeah, that "progress" was called the microchip.
Not being an explosives expert, but wouldn't the pellets be pasted on in the inverse of the pattern -- i.e. 1/r in polar coordinates or some such?
On a barely-related note, I was surprised to learn after having moved to Denver that not only are 100% of consumer fireworks banned, but there are also no free professional fireworks displays either (though there are several where you pay for admission). You have to either go on July 3 (missed it) to a park or go to an adjacent city (Aurora, Westminster, Boulder, etc.).
It is interesting that this case does not cross the line into the territory of retransmission.
The best phone would be one that prevented the Iranian people from getting so worked up over sham elections in the first place -- and that's probably no phone at all.
Knowledge is power, and knowledge doesn't come from SMS (although, on rare occasions, data might).
You stated two false dichotomies. As any libertarian knows, it's not left (big government) vs. right (big business), but rather individual vs. collectivism. And it's not socialism vs. free market to solve "every problem", but rather socialism vs. free market to solve more problems better than the alternative.
You write:
This reminds me of the major theme of the well-regarded book Understanding by Design wherein the authors ridicule schools' mandate to "cover material" rather than designing means to have children understand the material.
No, but it lessens the probability that the idea is "absurd" as so accused by the original response to my post. Further support is that the U.S. went without public education for most of its first century.
In some respects, no education is better than government education. But practically speaking, charities and scholarships (both external and internal) will pick up the slack.
There are thousands of people besides me who have signed the proclamation for the separation of school and state.
I have to comply with 300 pages of regulations for the school I started in Denver. The cost of compliance is at least half the total budget.
Although this article did not touch once upon the issue of wages, it is a very good article -- perhaps the best I've read all year on the subject of education. The need to introduce mathematical intuition at a young age is something the Montessori Method has done for a century. In a Montessori school, the child progresses from concrete to abstract, working first -- from very young at two years old -- with physical objects that embody length, area, or volume, and only later attaching the abstract symbols we call numbers. The physical manipulation leads to visualization of how addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions work. A child who goes through all three years of "Primary", which is age 3 to age 6, by the end of it, the child will be multiplying and dividing, and have worked with manipulative materials that demonstrate fractions and even binomials and trinomials from algebra.
In the face of competition from government schools, it is a challenge. I have learned that the competition isn't so much for students as it is for teachers. By using tax dollars, they can pay so much more, offer more benefits, and provide stability stemming from a legally-guaranteed funding sources. Meanwhile, the government schools are there for the purpose of creating cannon fodder, with its flag worship every morning and the forced admission of military recruiters under No Child Left Behind for as early as third grade. And when they do grab a hold of an effective pedagogy like Montessori, they pervert it by adding standardized testing and segregating by ages (e.g. two-year age groups rather than the three-year age groups prescribed by Montessori).
By eliminating public education, and by reducing the morass of regulations for running a private school, the free market could decide how important math education really is, rather than hearing hot air about it from public officials and CEOs, or by listening to earnest mathematicians such as Paul Lockhart, the author of this white paper, attempt to influence curriculum, presumably in government schools. The century-long battle between phonetics and "whole word" in the area of language (and the resulting reading levels no matter what is done) should be evidence enough of the futility of this approach (to use an anlogy, which Lockhart seems to love).
Why is it rejecting a socially progressive idea is called "recoiling" while rejecting a socially conservative idea is referred to as a "knee jerk reaction"?
http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/curriculum/index.htm
My theory is that they design this stuff by committee rather than having one smart person architect the stupid stuff.
Personally, I blame Martha Stewart and her family.
My conclusion: this is how the CIA will continue to pump the people in the U.S. with propaganda now that the Internet is eclipsing television.