You have valid points, but we aren't talking about college.
We are talking about K-12. Students don't pick the curriculum in the NJ school district. If they don't pass Math with a C or better, make them take it again. Obviously they didn't learn enough to be able to move up to Math at the next grade level.
Yeah, interesting trend. Don't blame the person abusing, blame the person providing. All of societies woes seemed to be blamed on the person providing a service, and not the person using it.
I delete things out of my Gmail all the time... I only keep that which is unresolved. Jokes and other things are read once, and delete. Tracking numbers and receipts for purchases are deleted when I get the item and it's in working condition. If it's expensive, I'll print off a copy of the receipt and file it.
I use the inbox as a "TODO" list and deleting something from my inbox is a good feeling.
On top of that, I occasionally go into the deleted items and remove them all from there as well.
nor did the government "forcing" people to make loans, since no such program existed.
From my links:
The Community Reinvestment Act (or CRA, Pub.L. 95-128, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 91 Stat. 1147, 12 U.S.C. 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] Congress passed the Act in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining
It "encouraged" banks by requiring that they loan to low income families who most likely couldn't afford to get the loan in the first place and they were allowed to offer those loans at a higher percentage rate... which only made it worse. So now the banks had to loan to them, but they could loan at a higher (risk) percentage rate that the lower income was never going to be able to afford.
Then the Fed stepped in and provided further incentives to the banks to provide these faulty loans by allowing them to trade them off.
I never said the financial and banking industry was unregulated. I said they're as close to unregulated as they've been able to manage, and they're usually lobbying to have existing regulations removed.
Actually, you said:
The entire banking fiasco of the last few years is what happens when the financial industry has as close to a free market as they can get.
As close as they can get is not the same as "as close to unregulated as they've been able to manage." The banks have had to manipulate the market (with government assistance for which you blame the bank when it was the SEC that defined it) to continue doing business because they were practically forced (by the government) to give loans to people who they knew couldn't pay them back. If the government came up to you and said, "Give money to this person even though you'll probably never see a dime back" how would you react? That's exactlywhathappened with the housing industry and they are trying to do it again. With all these requirements, people were deceived as well to think that they could extend the equity in their homes to "pay off" debt through a HELOC. This was defined by the SEC as acceptable lending. And I don't know if you know this, but the SEC is a federal agency.
It's simple. When your state/county/city rip up a road to replace it, lay down fiber, sewer, water and power. Then charge ISPs to access to the municipal lines and homeowners a one time connection fee.
The entire banking fiasco of the last few years is what happens when the financial industry has as close to a free market as they can get.
You do realize that the banking industry is probably still the most heavily regulated industry in America... right? Health Care is a very close second, if not first now.
I'm not sure... Ballmer has done more for the "Microsoft driven by a crazy monkey" image than anyone. If they replace him with someone with a higher approval it may make a lot of unhappy people who would rather keep the lead weight at the top and bring Microsoft back down to the competitive arena.
Personally, I think the best thing all around would be to have Microsoft's market share crumble to less then 50% and promote more competition. With a competent CEO that may be a longer curve than leaving Ballmer in charge of the direction of the company.
That's because they moved to the Dragon Age/Bauldur's Gate style where you can pause it at any time. You can kind of setup Dragon Age to allow you to walk around an pause when in combat. (Though, there was something about DA that made me pretty much lose interest after playing a while.)
One genre of game that I think Gamepad and Mouse/Keyboarders would be just about equal would be Adventure RPG (with Coop so there's more incentive to cooperate than elitist bashing) Something that you control one person, overhead, with few active skills to choose from at a time. It all boils down to how you lay out the controls, but something along the lines of an over the head/shoulder camera Diablo. Mousers have the right click action with selectable skills via F1-F8 and a consoler would have the four face buttons and four shoulders (usually.)
Mainly because I haven't seen much of this type of game in a while and I'd like to lob hints at any would-be readers thinking about making one.
Reliance on APIs is just that though... reliance. If you code for one API, it becomes that much more difficult to use your code somewhere else, let alone understand what it's trying to do. Some APIs can be overly cryptic.
There has to be a point where the language you use already knows how to manage the data you need (on whatever system you run it on) and give you the contents without forcing you to read it line by line (or stream), parse paths, set locks, etc.
The only way I know of to completely deprecate file processing, memory locking, etc. is to have the OS give applications data space (volatile (RAM) and non-volatile (Datastore)) and they can use key/value pairs to save/read data and you'd have to use another method to let the user pick a dataset (picture, document, etc) from another application that they want to open. (Kind of like HTML5 data stores/Actionscript SharedObjects) This would have to be an integral part of the language and each OS would have to have support for it...
That's just one example. Personally, I think for languages to evolve, the operating environment must as well.
You know that not all that's aired on Fox News (Glenn Beck, O'Reily (sp?), etc.) never claim to be news, right? They are the Fox's equivalent to Comedy Central's Stewart and Colbert... even if they are not as funny.
I don't watch a lot of Fox News, but when I've caught the actual news programs they seem to be pretty fair, even if Glenn (et al) are not.
I've said it before... federal government is best at creating highways, dams, roads, the Internet... etc. and letting the local government take care of it. In other words. They are great at immobilizing for jobs/projects, but terrible at running them long term.
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What bugs me is calling it Windows. From what I've seen, there are no "Windows" in Windows Phone 7.
You have valid points, but we aren't talking about college.
We are talking about K-12. Students don't pick the curriculum in the NJ school district. If they don't pass Math with a C or better, make them take it again. Obviously they didn't learn enough to be able to move up to Math at the next grade level.
if you are below average, why not fail the student and make them redo the work until they become at least average?
The way I understand the change, it's like opening the gaping wound more so that a medic can get in there to fix that artery.
Yeah, interesting trend. Don't blame the person abusing, blame the person providing. All of societies woes seemed to be blamed on the person providing a service, and not the person using it.
I delete things out of my Gmail all the time... I only keep that which is unresolved. Jokes and other things are read once, and delete. Tracking numbers and receipts for purchases are deleted when I get the item and it's in working condition. If it's expensive, I'll print off a copy of the receipt and file it.
I use the inbox as a "TODO" list and deleting something from my inbox is a good feeling.
On top of that, I occasionally go into the deleted items and remove them all from there as well.
Looking to get reparations for the big bang screwing over your ancient race?
nor did the government "forcing" people to make loans, since no such program existed.
From my links:
The Community Reinvestment Act (or CRA, Pub.L. 95-128, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 91 Stat. 1147, 12 U.S.C. 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] Congress passed the Act in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining
It "encouraged" banks by requiring that they loan to low income families who most likely couldn't afford to get the loan in the first place and they were allowed to offer those loans at a higher percentage rate... which only made it worse. So now the banks had to loan to them, but they could loan at a higher (risk) percentage rate that the lower income was never going to be able to afford.
Then the Fed stepped in and provided further incentives to the banks to provide these faulty loans by allowing them to trade them off.
I never said the financial and banking industry was unregulated. I said they're as close to unregulated as they've been able to manage, and they're usually lobbying to have existing regulations removed.
Actually, you said:
The entire banking fiasco of the last few years is what happens when the financial industry has as close to a free market as they can get.
As close as they can get is not the same as "as close to unregulated as they've been able to manage." The banks have had to manipulate the market (with government assistance for which you blame the bank when it was the SEC that defined it) to continue doing business because they were practically forced (by the government) to give loans to people who they knew couldn't pay them back. If the government came up to you and said, "Give money to this person even though you'll probably never see a dime back" how would you react? That's exactly what happened with the housing industry and they are trying to do it again. With all these requirements, people were deceived as well to think that they could extend the equity in their homes to "pay off" debt through a HELOC. This was defined by the SEC as acceptable lending. And I don't know if you know this, but the SEC is a federal agency.
It's simple. When your state/county/city rip up a road to replace it, lay down fiber, sewer, water and power. Then charge ISPs to access to the municipal lines and homeowners a one time connection fee.
The entire banking fiasco of the last few years is what happens when the financial industry has as close to a free market as they can get.
You do realize that the banking industry is probably still the most heavily regulated industry in America... right? Health Care is a very close second, if not first now.
Here is a small list of banking regulations to start with:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/reglisting.htm
ACs can't even log in yet and you expect them to be able to figure out how to link? ;)
I'm not sure... Ballmer has done more for the "Microsoft driven by a crazy monkey" image than anyone. If they replace him with someone with a higher approval it may make a lot of unhappy people who would rather keep the lead weight at the top and bring Microsoft back down to the competitive arena.
Personally, I think the best thing all around would be to have Microsoft's market share crumble to less then 50% and promote more competition. With a competent CEO that may be a longer curve than leaving Ballmer in charge of the direction of the company.
Government work?
But think about it this way... there's no way he's going to be able to sell his radio at full price, so... cheaper gear! (smile)
That's because they moved to the Dragon Age/Bauldur's Gate style where you can pause it at any time. You can kind of setup Dragon Age to allow you to walk around an pause when in combat. (Though, there was something about DA that made me pretty much lose interest after playing a while.)
One genre of game that I think Gamepad and Mouse/Keyboarders would be just about equal would be Adventure RPG (with Coop so there's more incentive to cooperate than elitist bashing) Something that you control one person, overhead, with few active skills to choose from at a time. It all boils down to how you lay out the controls, but something along the lines of an over the head/shoulder camera Diablo. Mousers have the right click action with selectable skills via F1-F8 and a consoler would have the four face buttons and four shoulders (usually.)
Mainly because I haven't seen much of this type of game in a while and I'd like to lob hints at any would-be readers thinking about making one.
It doesn't really matter, an integral framework would at least be standard with the language and not an include required addendum.
I think you'd be amazed at how much some of the world's companies rely on Excel macros.
Reliance on APIs is just that though... reliance. If you code for one API, it becomes that much more difficult to use your code somewhere else, let alone understand what it's trying to do. Some APIs can be overly cryptic.
There has to be a point where the language you use already knows how to manage the data you need (on whatever system you run it on) and give you the contents without forcing you to read it line by line (or stream), parse paths, set locks, etc.
The only way I know of to completely deprecate file processing, memory locking, etc. is to have the OS give applications data space (volatile (RAM) and non-volatile (Datastore)) and they can use key/value pairs to save/read data and you'd have to use another method to let the user pick a dataset (picture, document, etc) from another application that they want to open. (Kind of like HTML5 data stores/Actionscript SharedObjects) This would have to be an integral part of the language and each OS would have to have support for it...
That's just one example. Personally, I think for languages to evolve, the operating environment must as well.
It must have taken you forever to type that!
(sorry...)
Yes, I have...
Have you heard about the Internet Decency Act?
You might.
You know that not all that's aired on Fox News (Glenn Beck, O'Reily (sp?), etc.) never claim to be news, right? They are the Fox's equivalent to Comedy Central's Stewart and Colbert... even if they are not as funny.
I don't watch a lot of Fox News, but when I've caught the actual news programs they seem to be pretty fair, even if Glenn (et al) are not.
Be careful how much you include in your tirade.
Then why does the FCC determine that people can't say specific words or show specific scenes?
On one hand they censor communication and the other they say they are not.
I've said it before... federal government is best at creating highways, dams, roads, the Internet... etc. and letting the local government take care of it. In other words. They are great at immobilizing for jobs/projects, but terrible at running them long term.