Consider the type of programming they're likely to do at that age level. They're not going to be drawing truth tables or learning boolean arithmetic. It's more like "making a turtle move around the screen".
I wouldn't support a recurring religion course, but a semester-long comparative class at the secondary level seems appropriate and quite useful. Cover the basic theology (including variants) and rough history of the major players and devote some time to the more influential minor players.
Computer programming is not such a fundamental area of study that it deserves to be elevated to the level of "math", "reading" and "writing". To a large extent this is a zero sum game. To teach programming in primary school necessarily crowds out something else. History? Foreign language? Music? Some subject other than "computer programming" is getting the shaft.
If it's possible to detect with a relatively high degree of certainty that a given customer's account is being used by a machine that's infected then I very much support turning them off and giving them a phone call/email/letter. But that's (potentially) a big if.
Looking at a) global numbers and b) combined consumer/corporate is pretty much the worst possible scenario for Apple. If you limit the "market" being examined to "U.S. consumers" then supposedly Apple has around 21-22% share.
I prefer that the ~40 hours a week I spend on one platform or the other to be on the Mac. I like having a *nix environment handy, and the hardware itself is nice. That said it's not of utmost importance. For instance, I don't use a Mac at home.
The last three jobs I've had (Java dev) have given me a a Mac as a workstation. At this point, having to switch to Windows/Linux would be a semi-significant negative for me when looking for a new job.
I'd be fascinated to learn what other characteristics this gene's presence (or absence) correlates with. Religiosity? Divorce? Teen pregnancy? Drug abuse? High IQ? High or low income? High or low education level? Conservatism or liberalism? Is it expressed more or less frequently among different ethnic groups?
The same thing should happen for broadband internet access today.
Why is this necessarily the case? Convince me. There are many luxuries not enjoyed by people who don't live in densely populated areas. They lack many retail and restaurant options. Traveling musicians don't schedule shows nearby. They are typically further away from airports. Often there are fewer doctors per capita. Justify the idea that we should should we spend some portion of our collective wealth (which could potentially be spent on some other worthy endeavor) to eliminate "lack of broadband" from among this list of inconveniences?
To add some numbers to the discussion, the FCC recently issued a report that states 19 million (6%) of Americans lack access to wired broadband. If we broaden the definition of "broadband" to wired connections with downstream bandwidth exceeding 768 Kb/s the number without access drops to 9.6 million. It's also worth noting that, of those who do have access, about a third third decline to make use of it. If that ratio holds true for those without access we're talking about approximately 6.4 million people who would be willing to pay for broadband but who lack access.
One also wonders why this need be a federal issue. What stops an individual state from subsidizing the expansion of broadband access into its rural areas?
It's worth noting that Down's syndrome, while "genetic", isn't "heritable". You can't be a "carrier" for Down's syndrome. There are no families who are "predisposed" to Down's syndrome. It's just a freak thing that becomes increasingly more likely with the age of the mother. Or, more specifically, becomes more likely as the quality of her ova declines. If every Down's baby were aborted it wouldn't reduce the number of Down's babies conceived. (It would, obviously, reduce the number of Down's babies born).
There's more than one way to screen. IMO simply having more people genetically tested might encourage couples where both are carriers to adopt or get donated genetic material. I know that if my wife and I had been tested and found out we were both carriers for some horrible genetic disease we would not have chosen to reproduce our own genetic offspring. As it is we're both carriers for *different* genetic diseases (mine more serious than hers), but we only got tested after the fact.
1. Unfortunately, I suspect there's a positive correlation between many "negative" personality traits and beneficial outcomes. Many creative types suffer mental illness. Aggression can lead to competitiveness which can lead to achievement. Higher rate of autism among gifted kids. Etc.
2. So far as I can tell he's not actually proposing "engineering" or "designing" babies; he proposes terminating in utero all the ones that don't meet his criteria. Some folks see a difference between the the one and the other.
That's simply not true. The best places to live are canada, australia or northern europe.
I like how you say this with such authority. As if the choice of how to measure "best place to live" weren't to some degree arbitrary. Different people like different things. Even among things all people generally like (low crime, low cost of living, etc.) they may prioritize them differently. So, I'm not sure it's possible to state definitively that "the best places to live are Canada, Australia or Northern Europe" without knowing how the OP defines "best".
Some of these may not be considered Sci Fi, but here you go:
1. Flowers for Algernon
2. On the Beach
3. The Mist
4. Elric Saga (mostly the ending)
5. The Road (haven't read it, but I hear it's supremely depressing)
6. Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro) (haven't read it, but even the synopsis is enough to depress you)
7. All Summer in a Day (Bradbury)
The integration between Flash and Firefox on the Mac is buggy. When playing music on Pandora I frequently get "skips" when launching Virtual Box, firing up Eclipse, and/or loading pages in other Firefox tabs that have embedded Flash videos (that don't actually start playing- they just load). Don't have the same issues in Chrome. Could always be Adobe's fault. But, if so, Mozilla needs to help them figure out how to make their plugin's integration w/ Firefox (on the Mac) not suck.
At a small startup, my boss (director of development) wears cargo shorts, a t-shirt and those Tom's shoes that look like slippers. Our VP of Product wears jeans and a hoodie and is often barefoot while in his office. Probably the most stodgy place I've worked was IBM, and even there there were several managers who wore jeans, polo shirts and athletic shoes. They tended to stay away from shorts, sandals and t-shirts. As a non-manager developer I wore all three (shorts, sandals, t-shirts).
Read the Op-Ed, but he seems to be saying his results are stronger than the IPCC's in that they address some of the usual skeptic complaints about the methods used to estimate temperature. He also claims to have rejected solar activity as a potential driver; supposedly the IPCC concluded that solar activity might be a non-insignificant driver alongside atmospheric CO2.
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Consider the type of programming they're likely to do at that age level. They're not going to be drawing truth tables or learning boolean arithmetic. It's more like "making a turtle move around the screen".
Yet another reason not to start at age six.
I wouldn't support a recurring religion course, but a semester-long comparative class at the secondary level seems appropriate and quite useful. Cover the basic theology (including variants) and rough history of the major players and devote some time to the more influential minor players.
Computer programming is not such a fundamental area of study that it deserves to be elevated to the level of "math", "reading" and "writing". To a large extent this is a zero sum game. To teach programming in primary school necessarily crowds out something else. History? Foreign language? Music? Some subject other than "computer programming" is getting the shaft.
If it's possible to detect with a relatively high degree of certainty that a given customer's account is being used by a machine that's infected then I very much support turning them off and giving them a phone call/email/letter. But that's (potentially) a big if.
Looking at a) global numbers and b) combined consumer/corporate is pretty much the worst possible scenario for Apple. If you limit the "market" being examined to "U.S. consumers" then supposedly Apple has around 21-22% share.
I prefer that the ~40 hours a week I spend on one platform or the other to be on the Mac. I like having a *nix environment handy, and the hardware itself is nice. That said it's not of utmost importance. For instance, I don't use a Mac at home.
The last three jobs I've had (Java dev) have given me a a Mac as a workstation. At this point, having to switch to Windows/Linux would be a semi-significant negative for me when looking for a new job.
I'd be fascinated to learn what other characteristics this gene's presence (or absence) correlates with. Religiosity? Divorce? Teen pregnancy? Drug abuse? High IQ? High or low income? High or low education level? Conservatism or liberalism? Is it expressed more or less frequently among different ethnic groups?
Why is this necessarily the case? Convince me. There are many luxuries not enjoyed by people who don't live in densely populated areas. They lack many retail and restaurant options. Traveling musicians don't schedule shows nearby. They are typically further away from airports. Often there are fewer doctors per capita. Justify the idea that we should should we spend some portion of our collective wealth (which could potentially be spent on some other worthy endeavor) to eliminate "lack of broadband" from among this list of inconveniences?
To add some numbers to the discussion, the FCC recently issued a report that states 19 million (6%) of Americans lack access to wired broadband. If we broaden the definition of "broadband" to wired connections with downstream bandwidth exceeding 768 Kb/s the number without access drops to 9.6 million. It's also worth noting that, of those who do have access, about a third third decline to make use of it. If that ratio holds true for those without access we're talking about approximately 6.4 million people who would be willing to pay for broadband but who lack access.
One also wonders why this need be a federal issue. What stops an individual state from subsidizing the expansion of broadband access into its rural areas?
It's worth noting that Down's syndrome, while "genetic", isn't "heritable". You can't be a "carrier" for Down's syndrome. There are no families who are "predisposed" to Down's syndrome. It's just a freak thing that becomes increasingly more likely with the age of the mother. Or, more specifically, becomes more likely as the quality of her ova declines. If every Down's baby were aborted it wouldn't reduce the number of Down's babies conceived. (It would, obviously, reduce the number of Down's babies born).
There's more than one way to screen. IMO simply having more people genetically tested might encourage couples where both are carriers to adopt or get donated genetic material. I know that if my wife and I had been tested and found out we were both carriers for some horrible genetic disease we would not have chosen to reproduce our own genetic offspring. As it is we're both carriers for *different* genetic diseases (mine more serious than hers), but we only got tested after the fact.
This.
People worry because they fear the authorities might lie to them (or be mistaken) about the levels of radiation.
1. Unfortunately, I suspect there's a positive correlation between many "negative" personality traits and beneficial outcomes. Many creative types suffer mental illness. Aggression can lead to competitiveness which can lead to achievement. Higher rate of autism among gifted kids. Etc.
2. So far as I can tell he's not actually proposing "engineering" or "designing" babies; he proposes terminating in utero all the ones that don't meet his criteria. Some folks see a difference between the the one and the other.
He's very handy.
I like how you say this with such authority. As if the choice of how to measure "best place to live" weren't to some degree arbitrary. Different people like different things. Even among things all people generally like (low crime, low cost of living, etc.) they may prioritize them differently. So, I'm not sure it's possible to state definitively that "the best places to live are Canada, Australia or Northern Europe" without knowing how the OP defines "best".
Is this actually happening? Because I don't see it.
Some of these may not be considered Sci Fi, but here you go:
1. Flowers for Algernon
2. On the Beach
3. The Mist
4. Elric Saga (mostly the ending)
5. The Road (haven't read it, but I hear it's supremely depressing)
6. Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro) (haven't read it, but even the synopsis is enough to depress you)
7. All Summer in a Day (Bradbury)
The integration between Flash and Firefox on the Mac is buggy. When playing music on Pandora I frequently get "skips" when launching Virtual Box, firing up Eclipse, and/or loading pages in other Firefox tabs that have embedded Flash videos (that don't actually start playing- they just load). Don't have the same issues in Chrome. Could always be Adobe's fault. But, if so, Mozilla needs to help them figure out how to make their plugin's integration w/ Firefox (on the Mac) not suck.
India: world leader. (In misplaced priorities.)
At a small startup, my boss (director of development) wears cargo shorts, a t-shirt and those Tom's shoes that look like slippers. Our VP of Product wears jeans and a hoodie and is often barefoot while in his office. Probably the most stodgy place I've worked was IBM, and even there there were several managers who wore jeans, polo shirts and athletic shoes. They tended to stay away from shorts, sandals and t-shirts. As a non-manager developer I wore all three (shorts, sandals, t-shirts).
Read the Op-Ed, but he seems to be saying his results are stronger than the IPCC's in that they address some of the usual skeptic complaints about the methods used to estimate temperature. He also claims to have rejected solar activity as a potential driver; supposedly the IPCC concluded that solar activity might be a non-insignificant driver alongside atmospheric CO2.
How about Muller's own words in the Times Op-Ed: "Call me a converted skeptic."