When you actually RTFA, it makes it clear that he's not "blaming" OSS. What he's saying is: -people usually do work because of a motivator of some sort -in OSS development, the motivator is generally "scratching your own itch" -when you hire someone to do OSS development for an itch they don't have, you need to install other motivators
And then he talks about the second team he hired, and the new motivators he put in place. And from the look of www.schooltool.org, it seems to have worked. Multiple useful products ranging from alpha to stable.
Picasa is closer to iPhoto than it is to Flickr. Uploading is not the half of it. The focus is on organizing and basic editing (adjusting levels, reducing redeye, etc.)
For that reason, the highest gender-profession aggregate of successful suicides in Canada every year is female physicians. While most women try with pills, female physicians have the knowledge and access to the tools to do it right, the first time.
That answer would make sense if TFA didn't say that Motorola has been putting up roadblocks for potential developers, and stating that they wanted all development to be done via the Java Virtual Machine instead of on the embedded linux platform.
The issue is that human rights groups had found that the vast majority of these kids had been abducted from their families and put into forced slave labour on these camel farms. So yes, if US soccer teams start abducting kids to play little league, maybe the human rights groups should get involved.
Particularly if they use electric shocks on kids if they don't do their work properly.
His writing would have been more accurate if he had said "The recidiviwsm rate for offenders treated using published best practices is staggeringly low." Unfortunately, all of the research I have read is on dead trees, and a quick Google search couldn't find me printed documentation on the recidivism rates of people in programs like Circles of Support and Accountability, but the reports I've read say about 3% of the most high-risk offenders reoffend when in a CoSA group, as opposed to 95% without.
That's fine for women in relationships where the balance of power is pretty even. In my work I see a lot of women with heavily imbalanced sexual relationships where they don't feel safe saying "no," and their partners don't want to wear condoms, but where the partners are OK with safe sex measures that don't inconvenience the man. So, they'll use diaphragm+spermicide. If they could use diaphragm+spermicide+microbicide, that would be incredibly helpful.
Not only that, but the technology is costing over $120 000 per school. So the government (National Institute of Justice) is using that money on iris scanning instead of the passing that sort of money on to the school boards for little things like the children's textbooks, teacher training, and computer access.
Seems that, to think of the children's present, we forgot to think of the children's future.
When you're adding technology such as photocasting into an existing product, and such functionality it isn't necessary covered by the standard, you may have no choice but to create a standards-incompatible product.
Except the standards that iPhoto breaks includes using a different date stamp than is usually used in RSS (I wonder if this would include the iTunes podcasting client). This isn't about going beyond where standards have gone before, this is about actually messing with pre-existing standards.
I am generally inclined to err on the side of goodwill towards Apple, but I wonder whether this is a case of Apple and the.mac service recognizing the threat of services like Flickr and Picasa and trying to ensure that cross-compatability of the services doesn't come easily.
It appears that Bixee.com is an aggregator site for job searches, but Naukri is stating that "when [Bixee.com's] website becomes popular and gains a large number of hits, the necessity to access the plaintiff's website would be obviated."
That doesn't make any sense. Aggregators can't survive without the sites that they aggregate. Most aggregator sites won't ever choose to become content providers, because of the resources that this would entail.
Aggregators have positive and negative effects on the sites they aggregate, but it would be counter-productive for them to make the sites themselves unnecessary.
most Americans wouldn't understand that they're losing gas mileage.
Particularly since the company's promo video specifically says that the devices don't use extra gas. The average citizen/politician with little/no understanding of physics will believe him.
Well, in theory is 10 kW of power for each car that passes over. But, on the Hughes Research website video, he admits that they have only created a prototype that creates 500-800 W of power, but their theoretical models lead them to believe they can harness 5-10 kW per vehicle.
Good luck to them, but I've found a significant difference between theory and practice.
I'm 28 and from Ontario too, and my experiences were pretty similar (although our hippie artistic gifted teacher never let us paint school property). I know that these programs were already well-established in our community when my 33-year-old brother was around, so I think Ontario might have been early adopters in terms of gifted programs.
And yes, they were almost always used instead of skipping grades.
I've been told by friends who teach that many Ontario school boards have cancelled their gifted programs. If I were to have kids, I would probably be willing to move to wherever I needed to ensure that they received gifted programming.
I was pretty fortunate. Most of my elementary school teachers gave me the work that was going to be taught at the beginning of the class, and if I could finish it without listening to them teach, then I would, and then spend the rest of the class doing crafts or helping out other people (which was great, because I got to walk around the room and talk with my friends without being told to sit down).
That worked until about puberty, when I developed an attitude, which made me too unreliable to be allowed extra privileges. So instead, I had to have infrequent 1:1 sessions with teachers telling me how many smart young women waste their potential trying to look cool for their peers. They couldn't get that I was acting out because I was frustrated, not to look cool.
I mean, if people aren't interested in those subjects, they simply aren't interested.
There's been a lot of educational research on methodologies that increase interest in various subjects, and in learning in general. So, if a region were really interested in increasing their numbers of math/science students (in the long run), they could increase it through different ways of learning, different ways of funding education, preferentially hiring geeky teachers (and paying them enough to make them coose to stay over going into other fields), more hands-on learning in the science field, etc.
A quick example is if every grade 4 student was given a *nix box and had 2 hours per week to tinker with it--either hardware or software (with a tech-savvy adult nearby), I'd wager we'd have a whole lot more people applying for compsci/engineering.
He suggested paying teachers a $5,000 bonus for teaching Advanced Placement courses, as well as giving the top third of teachers a $5,000 bonus. He also suggested a bonus for teachers that teach in troubled school districts. Romney also favored giving secondary school students laptop computers.
I would wonder if doing his 2nd and 3rd suggested bonuses would actually cancel each other out. I would assume that it is the top third of teachers who are avoiding the troubled school districts like the plague. The bonus for AP courses and for troubled school districts both make sense, though.
Despite the short-term costs, the more educated the children of the unemployed are, the more long-term economic benefit for the area.
So, if you want to base your beliefs on science, then please reference more than one source!
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Medical research is meaningless when it comes down to an n of 1. We know that the toxins in tobacco are likely to affect lung cilia as well as cause other damage. We can't tell you (n=1) whether the damage caused to your lungs by this one factor will cumatively cause enough damage to have a substantial influence on your health, because of all of the other factors we don't know in terms of your genetics, other health choices, other exposure to toxins, etc.
That doesn't mean that there is no proof of causation. It means that causation is mitigated by a whole host of other factors
Also, TFA states that part of the "safer cigarette" thing is better filters, which doesn't help those inhaling second hand smoke. So, the smoker inhales less deadly stuff, but the person standing beside them - still inhaling poison.
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Apple has consistently positioned itself as a "boutique" computer manufacturer rather than a low-end manufacturer. It has always been graphic designers, digital sound/video editors, and technology aficionados that have bought Macs. Steve Jobs has no real interest in that changing, although he has touched on the mid-range market with the mini.
Dell sells a lot of cheap computers with a small profit margin on each (focus on quantity for profitability). Apple sells fewer high end computers, with a high profit margin on each. I really don't think of them as competing for many of the same people.
Compare this to what Google is telling the authors
* we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude
Except that Google only shows 2-3 sentences of books that are under copyright. I've never found a researcher that can write on a topic by only reading 2 sentences. It's only posters on/. that can claim expertise on a topic without actually learning anything about it.
Michael Geist (the editor) also goes and does awesome talks at universities, talks on radio (CBC As it Happens and others) and TV (CTV and CBC in the last year). So, there are good Michael Geist sound bites floating around Canadian media, in addition to the largely inaccessible 600-pager he's just released.
Web-based applications would make it easy for companies to create scalable licenses to use their products. Most Windows users spend enough money on applications without having a "$50 for 10 uses of Word" sort of situation.
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When you actually RTFA, it makes it clear that he's not "blaming" OSS. What he's saying is:
-people usually do work because of a motivator of some sort
-in OSS development, the motivator is generally "scratching your own itch"
-when you hire someone to do OSS development for an itch they don't have, you need to install other motivators
And then he talks about the second team he hired, and the new motivators he put in place. And from the look of www.schooltool.org, it seems to have worked. Multiple useful products ranging from alpha to stable.
Picasa is closer to iPhoto than it is to Flickr. Uploading is not the half of it. The focus is on organizing and basic editing (adjusting levels, reducing redeye, etc.)
For that reason, the highest gender-profession aggregate of successful suicides in Canada every year is female physicians. While most women try with pills, female physicians have the knowledge and access to the tools to do it right, the first time.
That answer would make sense if TFA didn't say that Motorola has been putting up roadblocks for potential developers, and stating that they wanted all development to be done via the Java Virtual Machine instead of on the embedded linux platform.
While the Unicef site does say bought, Asia Child Rights, the Bangladesh Human Rights Network and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights all agree that both happened pretty frequently. In fact, the organization I cited in the gp post got involved because of trying to track an abducted child from Pakistan who ended up in the UAE.
Particularly if they use electric shocks on kids if they don't do their work properly.
His writing would have been more accurate if he had said "The recidiviwsm rate for offenders treated using published best practices is staggeringly low." Unfortunately, all of the research I have read is on dead trees, and a quick Google search couldn't find me printed documentation on the recidivism rates of people in programs like Circles of Support and Accountability, but the reports I've read say about 3% of the most high-risk offenders reoffend when in a CoSA group, as opposed to 95% without.
That's fine for women in relationships where the balance of power is pretty even. In my work I see a lot of women with heavily imbalanced sexual relationships where they don't feel safe saying "no," and their partners don't want to wear condoms, but where the partners are OK with safe sex measures that don't inconvenience the man. So, they'll use diaphragm+spermicide. If they could use diaphragm+spermicide+microbicide, that would be incredibly helpful.
Not only that, but the technology is costing over $120 000 per school. So the government (National Institute of Justice) is using that money on iris scanning instead of the passing that sort of money on to the school boards for little things like the children's textbooks, teacher training, and computer access.
Seems that, to think of the children's present, we forgot to think of the children's future.
When you're adding technology such as photocasting into an existing product, and such functionality it isn't necessary covered by the standard, you may have no choice but to create a standards-incompatible product.
Except the standards that iPhoto breaks includes using a different date stamp than is usually used in RSS (I wonder if this would include the iTunes podcasting client). This isn't about going beyond where standards have gone before, this is about actually messing with pre-existing standards.
I am generally inclined to err on the side of goodwill towards Apple, but I wonder whether this is a case of Apple and the .mac service recognizing the threat of services like Flickr and Picasa and trying to ensure that cross-compatability of the services doesn't come easily.
http://www.efytimes.com/fullnews.asp?edid=9018
It appears that Bixee.com is an aggregator site for job searches, but Naukri is stating that "when [Bixee.com's] website becomes popular and gains a large number of hits, the necessity to access the plaintiff's website would be obviated."
That doesn't make any sense. Aggregators can't survive without the sites that they aggregate. Most aggregator sites won't ever choose to become content providers, because of the resources that this would entail.
Aggregators have positive and negative effects on the sites they aggregate, but it would be counter-productive for them to make the sites themselves unnecessary.
Particularly since the company's promo video specifically says that the devices don't use extra gas. The average citizen/politician with little/no understanding of physics will believe him.
Well, in theory is 10 kW of power for each car that passes over. But, on the Hughes Research website video, he admits that they have only created a prototype that creates 500-800 W of power, but their theoretical models lead them to believe they can harness 5-10 kW per vehicle.
Good luck to them, but I've found a significant difference between theory and practice.
Here's the inventor's website: http://www.hughesresearch.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/
There's some videos on the site, but the "Technical" section is laughably vague.
I'm 28 and from Ontario too, and my experiences were pretty similar (although our hippie artistic gifted teacher never let us paint school property). I know that these programs were already well-established in our community when my 33-year-old brother was around, so I think Ontario might have been early adopters in terms of gifted programs.
And yes, they were almost always used instead of skipping grades.
I've been told by friends who teach that many Ontario school boards have cancelled their gifted programs. If I were to have kids, I would probably be willing to move to wherever I needed to ensure that they received gifted programming.
I was pretty fortunate. Most of my elementary school teachers gave me the work that was going to be taught at the beginning of the class, and if I could finish it without listening to them teach, then I would, and then spend the rest of the class doing crafts or helping out other people (which was great, because I got to walk around the room and talk with my friends without being told to sit down).
That worked until about puberty, when I developed an attitude, which made me too unreliable to be allowed extra privileges. So instead, I had to have infrequent 1:1 sessions with teachers telling me how many smart young women waste their potential trying to look cool for their peers. They couldn't get that I was acting out because I was frustrated, not to look cool.
I mean, if people aren't interested in those subjects, they simply aren't interested.
There's been a lot of educational research on methodologies that increase interest in various subjects, and in learning in general. So, if a region were really interested in increasing their numbers of math/science students (in the long run), they could increase it through different ways of learning, different ways of funding education, preferentially hiring geeky teachers (and paying them enough to make them coose to stay over going into other fields), more hands-on learning in the science field, etc.
A quick example is if every grade 4 student was given a *nix box and had 2 hours per week to tinker with it--either hardware or software (with a tech-savvy adult nearby), I'd wager we'd have a whole lot more people applying for compsci/engineering.
The link you post to shows one refutation of a 1993 review article, and doesn't mention any of the other more recent reviews and research articles that say the same thing.
So, if you want to base your beliefs on science, then please reference more than one source!
That doesn't mean that there is no proof of causation. It means that causation is mitigated by a whole host of other factors
Also, TFA states that part of the "safer cigarette" thing is better filters, which doesn't help those inhaling second hand smoke. So, the smoker inhales less deadly stuff, but the person standing beside them - still inhaling poison.
Apple has consistently positioned itself as a "boutique" computer manufacturer rather than a low-end manufacturer. It has always been graphic designers, digital sound/video editors, and technology aficionados that have bought Macs. Steve Jobs has no real interest in that changing, although he has touched on the mid-range market with the mini. Dell sells a lot of cheap computers with a small profit margin on each (focus on quantity for profitability). Apple sells fewer high end computers, with a high profit margin on each. I really don't think of them as competing for many of the same people.
Compare this to what Google is telling the authors
* we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude
Except that Google only shows 2-3 sentences of books that are under copyright. I've never found a researcher that can write on a topic by only reading 2 sentences. It's only posters on /. that can claim expertise on a topic without actually learning anything about it.
Michael Geist (the editor) also goes and does awesome talks at universities, talks on radio (CBC As it Happens and others) and TV (CTV and CBC in the last year). So, there are good Michael Geist sound bites floating around Canadian media, in addition to the largely inaccessible 600-pager he's just released.
That's actually an "End User Nightmare Scenario"