While another account is that hysteria over peanut allergies led swarms of new parents to avoid exposing their babies to peanuts at an early age (to prevent an allergic reaction) preventing their immune system from adapting to peanuts thereby manufacturing the very allergic reactions they were afraid of and making it a much more wide spread problem today than it was 20 years ago.
Pretty much this. Everytime I walk into a Sear or Target or anything else they want me to pay with their store credit card and offer from 15 to 25% off my purchase to apply for one.
At the moment, I have one CC I use for almost everything. My wife uses a spousal card so we accumulate rewards on one card. She has her own card as well so she has credit in her own name...
But sure, last time I bought a home, I closed a few pointless credit accounts that I'd opened over the years for various signing benefits as part of "cleaning up my credit". I had a department store card I'd signed up for to get a 25% discount off my couch some years ago and never used again, and another visa that was attached to a gas station that at the time i signed up had a promo that gave me 15 cents a liter off the pump price, and i stopped using it after the promo ended... etc.
if you want to provide health care for your citizens there are a lot better solutions out there.
No question that you are right.
But better solutions that would pass the existing congress and the senate?
I seriously doubt it.
The ACA as bad as it is, is better than what they had, and is probably the best thing they could have passed in the exiting political environment. Obama gets props for it.
I realize he's a bit hamstrung on Gitmo, but I'm still disappointed with his performance there.
As for the drones, etc... disgusted.
Still, I think he and Biden did a far better job than McCain / Palin would have done.
So does that mean that they have released all of the 420'ers in prison in $StateThatLegalisedMaryJ?
The fact that they didn't make it retroactively legal doesn't change the fact that society wouldn't be worse off if they did.
As for whether anyone in prison right now in one of those states for simple possession of recreational quantities should have this change retroactively applied to them... I'd support that. I expect most people in those states would... these things take time.
But for people caught up in trafficking, organized crime, selling to minors, etc, etc even retroactively legalizing possession and use doesn't necessarily mean these people would go free.
It seems stupid that if your video game starship is destroyed, that it doesn't respawn and you have just lost all of that money and/or time invested in it.
That is the entire point of the game. Ship respawn in Eve would be like playing poker and having your account balance reset after every hand.
What kills it for me is that being realtime, events start to happen when they happen, not when I wish to play, and they do not stop when I wish to stop playing.
As much as I LOVE the idea of planning and managing battles on that scale, EVE doesn't work for me because I won't live around playing EVE.
I quit playing in large part not because the game involved spreadsheets and analysis... but because the in game implementation of spreadsheets was horrifically unpleasant to use.
If I'm going "play spreadsheet optimization problem" I'd like to use a modern version of Excel, not Visicalc with tiny white text on a blue background.
A lot of stuff you can then turn around and export and actually use in excel... but then you are rapidly using stale data.
That and idiotic ganking in 0.0 wasn't much fun to be on the receiving end of, and I didn't want the tedium of forming a group just to fly around with just on the chance someone might be lurking behind a jump gate.
Realistic doesn't always make for much fun and Eve is a much more fun meta-game than it is actual game. Unfortunately.
Wait, you can buy stuff with real world money in Eve Online now?
Last I checked the only thing you could buy with real world money is a subscription token that lets you play the game for a month.
However, since the token is tradeable, instead of buying one yourself, you can instead trade in game cash or services to another player who bought one. In effect you give them X, they pay your subscription for the month. Or I suppose you can hoard the token and try and resell it again for "more than you paid for it"...
But eventually somebody somewhere cashes it in for the one month subscription, that was paid for in effect by who ever bought the token in the first place.
In the end, the developer gets paid exactly once for each player playing - so its not really a money grab, but which players pay for whose subscription exactly is a bit muddied by the economics of the tokens.
It does allow players with real money and the desire to spend it to effectively get in game currency and services from other players. But its quite different from typical real-world games, because the all the in game objects being exchanged are still player earned.
For example, you can't spend money to just buy a ship, you must buy subscription tokens and then trade them to a player who has the ship you want. Or sell them for in game cash to a player who wants them and has the cash, and then take that in game cash and in turn use it to get a ship from a player who has one.
Its probably the least objectionable use of real money in a game that there is.
I certainly don't need Microsoft snooping around in my files, and potentially revoking not only skydrive (onedrive?) access but locking me out of a bunch of other stuff simply because something in some private file triggered some filter.
At least what my S3 does is at install time it gives you a screen telling you exactly which permissions the app needs while you can choose not to install it.
So if there is anything you are unsure of, or don't want to give the app, then no app for you.
His suggestion is that you can install the app, allow permission X, Y, Z but not A,B,C and have it prompt you when/if it tries to Q and R.
Most apps are pretty benign, and ask for permissions to do things they really do need to do, but unfortunately the permission lets them do much much more.
Say you download a simple texting app, with the feature to let you take a picture of your face for your profile right in the app. Now the app needs permission to access your camera.
I'd want to set that permission to prompt. The feature doesn't bother me at all, and is perfectly legitimate. But if its malware, maybe it just turns the camera on at random and takes pictures... I have no way to know.
The only choice I have on my S3 is to see the permission request, and not install the app because it might do that, but probably doesn't.
Ideally I should be able to instal the app, but not give it camera access -- so I don't have to trust it. I can't use the camera feature now, but so what, I don't want to set my picture that way anyway.
Or better still I can set it to prompt for camera access. Then I don't have to worry about it taking pictures, I can still use the picture feature if I want to, and if it ever prompts for camera access and I didn't -JUST- tell it to take a picture of me for my profile THEN I toss the app.
But no on android its eitehr... "here app -- I trust you with my camera" or "nope... no app for me".
You'd have to accept that idiots acceptance of the premise that we need prism to be safe in the first place.
We just don't. The whole NSA apparatus is so far over the line its not funny.
I am not willing to live in a surveillance state simply to increase our odds slightly of catching terrorists. If a few people have to die at the hands of terrorists so that we can all be truly free. SO BE IT.
I'm unconvinced the security apparatus can actually save us anyway. So for me, the choice is between living free and dealing with a few terrorist attacks, or living in a surveillance state and STILL dealing with a few terrorist attacks.
That's the inverse case. The government can take something illegal and make it legal retroactively and then let you get away with it. This is what happened with the telecoms. And while it wasn't all that good in this case, it is a good thing in general.
The "bad" case is the opposite, where they make something legal illegal retroactively and then charge you for it. This would not be a good thing.
the US, the explanation is that God isn't allowed to show up in the sky and scream that he's real. It has to be taken on faith or it'd be unfair as an "open competition" according to the original terms and conditions with Satan after the Adam and Eve apple incident.
WTF!!!1BBQ? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, and I strongly STRONGLY doubt most Christians believe anything remotely of the sort. That sounds like some sort of evangelical TV church rubbish more than anything that actually exists within any real study of Christianity.
It's a lot simpler with Buddhists. Everything doesn't actually exist in the first place, lol. It's hard to prove or disprove that but some science supports it.
Except it doesn't, that's an interesting thought experiment but ultimately worthless.
The argument that "some science supports it" devolves to:
"The universe is imaginary. Look at my compelling/suggestive evidence, which I took with this telescope, and thermometer."
"But if your right, the telescope and thermometer don't really exist, and the measurements you allege you took with them are imaginary too. So what does that prove exactly? Sweet fuck all.
Anyone who picks up a fossil and calls it the end-all evidence just because they're touching it clearly hasn't expanding their thinking enough to examine the true nature of physics and matter and space and reality.
Picking up a fossil and using it to make observations about the universe has a history of generating useful hypotheses to predict the outcome of future events. Sure it requires as pre-supposition that we assume the universe follows objectively observable rules. So be it.
Imagining the universe is a computer simulation or imaginary or spontaneously came into being 8 seconds ago may not be disprovable, but its not useful either, except to amuse stoners while they navel gaze.
Teaching it is fine, in a philosophy context. But its not science.
By the time they get to college, this "tiny difference" adds up to more than one semester.
Not all tiny differences add up. My parents used to pull me out of school for a week most years for family vacations etc. Over the course of school from K-12 then I lost a full semester easy. Plus the flus, doctors appointments, deaths in the family, snow days, easily another couple months. I STILL maintain it didn't cost my education anything at all -- and that was me actively "missing" actual classroom time where the other students were still present, vs the school just not having school for that time.
This applies to everyone, including people from Chicago. If you consider that people "clock out" an hour early, then Chicago students (and teachers) also do, so the gap remains the same.
Again no. They don't mentally check out an "hour early"; they mentally check out after they've hit their concentration / absorption / knowledge retention limit, or whatever you'd like to call it; or completed their major tasks for the day. Extending or shortening the "day" by an hour makes no difference to how long you can concentrate. It just changes how much time you waste after your 'done'.
[...] you can discard that because it's a mere 0.13$ in his pockets every minute...
No I can't discard taht. Because that's 13 cents a minute every minute. Its a small value, but it accumulates in a very understable way. But not everything works like that. Learning is more "chunky"; in that you learn in chunks. When I took math, for example, I was good at it, I absorbed a typical "lesson" within the first 10-15 minutes of the class, and then got bored. Some of my classmates had a rougher time, and it took most of the lesson. Others just didn't grok it even with 45 minutes, and needed after school tutors etc.
But the point is the lesson is absorbed as a chunk. Adding 1 minute to each math class I ever took would have been several hours more "math class" in my life but with no benefit to me whatsoever. The teacher wouldn't present 1/60th of a new concept in that extra minute that would graually accumulate and be the equivalent of university Calculus I by the end of highschool. That's not how learning works, spending 1 extra minute each day doesn't give you an extra lesson learned after the end of each month.
Either the teacher has enough time to teach the concepts or they don't. Kids learn at different rates, so the average lesson is designed around most of the kids fully understanding it within the first half of the period; the last half is is for the slower kids, and for practice problems.
Adding a minute to each class would have accomplished essentially nothing. It doesn't accumulate benefit the way getting paid a few cents extra per minute does.
10 calendar days per year less than the national average.
How is that done? That seems a lot of if its all in one place, but if its a single extra day off for whatever reason each month, its not going to make much difference.
1 hour less per day than the national average.
When I went to school it started at 9am and ended at 3:30pm; i had two 15 minute recesses, and an hour for lunch and time in the school yard after lunch. My kids go from 8:30 to 2:20, so their days are 40 minutes shorter than mine were. They get one 15 minute morning recess, and 40 minutes for lunch. So their actual school day is 5 minutes shorter than mine was. They also get slightly more homework than I did. (0 to 15 minutes per day in elementary school). So I'm curious what the CPS daily schedule is and what homework looks like, etc.
I don't know if you really need a scientific study to make the demonstration that 2 years is a huge gap,
Yeah, actually you do. How many adults mentally clock out an hour before they go home? "Present" isn't necessarily "productive".
with a college graduation rate of 12%, which is 1/3 of the national average and even lower than Alaska.
Yes, that's truly terrible. But I remain skeptical that it has anything to do with "gold plated teachers unions". There's people mentioning a lot of other demographic issues that are in play.
Interestingly, Obama always supported the all-powerful teachers union in Chicago, who managed to get working conditions so good for their members that the schools had to cut the number of teaching days to afford those gold-plated teachers.
Great sound bit, lousy argument. Any cost no matter how small would be argued by the schools as some massive threat to their ability to operate. If our kids school division had to pay for new instruments for the music room, or new text books, or turn the heat on, they'd threaten cutting the number of teaching days to pay for it. The Chicago teachers union might well be gold plated... I'm not saying it isn't, but the fact that the school "cut teaching days" to pay for it doesn't tell us anything at all about anything at all.
As a direct consequence, this is one of the areas in the country with the lowest ratio of college grads.
Doubtful. Is there any demonstrated correlation between college grads and losing a few teaching days? The teaching year isn't uniform accross states, or developed countries... even local variations such as weather related school closures, snow days, power failures, flooding, not to mention teachers strikes etc also "deprive" kids of teaching days all the time.
Has anyone linked that to college grads? Or does it turn out that in fact a school year plus or minus a week or so makes very little difference whatsoever? I betting on the latter.
You missed DOTA 2, Day of defeat, team fortress classic and deathmatch classic (granted you might consider some of those part of the "half life/counterstrike series").
You don't exactly have to be a debian developer to get Dota2 or TFC for free.
The other two titles you mentioned are pretty minor, and usually obtained via a bundle anyway.
When I look on steam the "valve complete pack" currently costs £50.
And if you buy during any of the regular sales you can pick up everything Valve offers for 75% off... so... £12.50 give or take.
Steam itself is free. And how many valve games are there actually? 2 left for deads, 2 portals, and the half-life/counterstrike series? Anyone who wants those can pick them up for 75% off during any of their many sales... its what $20 or 30 bucks worth of games tops?
Not to diminish the act, or my appreciation of Valve's recognition of the Debian developer team... but I can't really see a FLOOD of people trying to get on the debian development team over a few games, most of which they probably already have.
If the files are in fact identical internally, just backups and backups of backups then it should be pretty straightforward.
Simplest would be simply to:
start with an empty destination
Compare each file in the source(s) tree(s) on each file in the destination by filesize in bytes, then if there is a match there, do a file compare using cmp. Copy it to the destination it if it doesn't match, otherwise move to the next file. Seems like something that would take 10-20 lines of command line script tops. Its a one time job, so who cares if its ideally efficient.
A more sophisticated method to generate and compare file hashes, and compare hashes would potentially be somewhat faster and cleverer; but it would depend on how much duplication actually exists. cmp will terminate at the first mismatch byte so cmp will short circuit out of virtually all comparisons nearly immediately. Whereas generating hashes will require processing all the files completely, as well as coming up with a system for manageing the hash/filename map etc... gets cleverer than it needs to be for a one off job pretty fast.
it is technically inferior to Go, being that it is tactical,
I don't think tactics vs strategy has any inherent mapping from inferior to superior at all. Even if we agree Chess is tactical, the conclusion that its "technically inferior" doesn't follow.
and thus I cannot stomach nor can I support wasting my time on such an inefficient pursuit
Sheesh... because mastering Go is a more efficient pursuit and a valuable investment of your time? What does that even mean? And in what universe is it true?
Computational analysis is not relevant for wide-play of Go because it's impossible
I get your point but I'm not sure I'd choose the phrases impossible or irrelevant.
Humans are better at it
Why? And more importantly, assuming its true: what reason is there to presume it will remain true indefinitely?
The 'keys to the kingdom' phrasing was in reference to the article summary which claimed the hacker had the keys to kingdom for facebook... I, perhaps naively, presumed he didn't get into Zuckerberg's pants.
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While another account is that hysteria over peanut allergies led swarms of new parents to avoid exposing their babies to peanuts at an early age (to prevent an allergic reaction) preventing their immune system from adapting to peanuts thereby manufacturing the very allergic reactions they were afraid of and making it a much more wide spread problem today than it was 20 years ago.
Your life stinks.
Pretty much this. Everytime I walk into a Sear or Target or anything else they want me to pay with their store credit card and offer from 15 to 25% off my purchase to apply for one.
At the moment, I have one CC I use for almost everything. My wife uses a spousal card so we accumulate rewards on one card. She has her own card as well so she has credit in her own name...
But sure, last time I bought a home, I closed a few pointless credit accounts that I'd opened over the years for various signing benefits as part of "cleaning up my credit". I had a department store card I'd signed up for to get a 25% discount off my couch some years ago and never used again, and another visa that was attached to a gas station that at the time i signed up had a promo that gave me 15 cents a liter off the pump price, and i stopped using it after the promo ended... etc.
if you want to provide health care for your citizens there are a lot better solutions out there.
No question that you are right.
But better solutions that would pass the existing congress and the senate?
I seriously doubt it.
The ACA as bad as it is, is better than what they had, and is probably the best thing they could have passed in the exiting political environment. Obama gets props for it.
I realize he's a bit hamstrung on Gitmo, but I'm still disappointed with his performance there.
As for the drones, etc... disgusted.
Still, I think he and Biden did a far better job than McCain / Palin would have done.
So does that mean that they have released all of the 420'ers in prison in $StateThatLegalisedMaryJ?
The fact that they didn't make it retroactively legal doesn't change the fact that society wouldn't be worse off if they did.
As for whether anyone in prison right now in one of those states for simple possession of recreational quantities should have this change retroactively applied to them... I'd support that. I expect most people in those states would... these things take time.
But for people caught up in trafficking, organized crime, selling to minors, etc, etc even retroactively legalizing possession and use doesn't necessarily mean these people would go free.
If $10,000 buys an anti-drone drone,
Surface to air missile? Like a stinger... costs around $40k??
Question is could it hit a drone? Military doing a strike...or surveillance? Hard to say.
Border patrol tailing civilians and cars... yeah I think maybe.
It seems stupid that if your video game starship is destroyed, that it doesn't respawn and you have just lost all of that money and/or time invested in it.
That is the entire point of the game. Ship respawn in Eve would be like playing poker and having your account balance reset after every hand.
All true.
What kills it for me is that being realtime, events start to happen when they happen, not when I wish to play, and they do not stop when I wish to stop playing.
As much as I LOVE the idea of planning and managing battles on that scale, EVE doesn't work for me because I won't live around playing EVE.
I quit playing in large part not because the game involved spreadsheets and analysis... but because the in game implementation of spreadsheets was horrifically unpleasant to use.
If I'm going "play spreadsheet optimization problem" I'd like to use a modern version of Excel, not Visicalc with tiny white text on a blue background.
A lot of stuff you can then turn around and export and actually use in excel... but then you are rapidly using stale data.
That and idiotic ganking in 0.0 wasn't much fun to be on the receiving end of, and I didn't want the tedium of forming a group just to fly around with just on the chance someone might be lurking behind a jump gate.
Realistic doesn't always make for much fun and Eve is a much more fun meta-game than it is actual game. Unfortunately.
Wait, you can buy stuff with real world money in Eve Online now?
Last I checked the only thing you could buy with real world money is a subscription token that lets you play the game for a month.
However, since the token is tradeable, instead of buying one yourself, you can instead trade in game cash or services to another player who bought one. In effect you give them X, they pay your subscription for the month. Or I suppose you can hoard the token and try and resell it again for "more than you paid for it"...
But eventually somebody somewhere cashes it in for the one month subscription, that was paid for in effect by who ever bought the token in the first place.
In the end, the developer gets paid exactly once for each player playing - so its not really a money grab, but which players pay for whose subscription exactly is a bit muddied by the economics of the tokens.
It does allow players with real money and the desire to spend it to effectively get in game currency and services from other players. But its quite different from typical real-world games, because the all the in game objects being exchanged are still player earned.
For example, you can't spend money to just buy a ship, you must buy subscription tokens and then trade them to a player who has the ship you want. Or sell them for in game cash to a player who wants them and has the cash, and then take that in game cash and in turn use it to get a ship from a player who has one.
Its probably the least objectionable use of real money in a game that there is.
Well, except that it isn't a steaming pile. It is a solid service. Why would you say it isn't - besides what must be some insane Microsoft hating?
Well, their decision to monitor your files, even private ones, is beyond obnoxious.
http://wmpoweruser.com/microso...
I certainly don't need Microsoft snooping around in my files, and potentially revoking not only skydrive (onedrive?) access but locking me out of a bunch of other stuff simply because something in some private file triggered some filter.
a plea bargain of reduced sentence if he blabs on his underlings
Typically we plea bargain for testimony to get convictions further UP the chain, not further down.
isn't that what Android already does?
No.
At least what my S3 does is at install time it gives you a screen telling you exactly which permissions the app needs while you can choose not to install it.
So if there is anything you are unsure of, or don't want to give the app, then no app for you.
His suggestion is that you can install the app, allow permission X, Y, Z but not A,B,C and have it prompt you when/if it tries to Q and R.
Most apps are pretty benign, and ask for permissions to do things they really do need to do, but unfortunately the permission lets them do much much more.
Say you download a simple texting app, with the feature to let you take a picture of your face for your profile right in the app. Now the app needs permission to access your camera.
I'd want to set that permission to prompt. The feature doesn't bother me at all, and is perfectly legitimate. But if its malware, maybe it just turns the camera on at random and takes pictures... I have no way to know.
The only choice I have on my S3 is to see the permission request, and not install the app because it might do that, but probably doesn't.
Ideally I should be able to instal the app, but not give it camera access -- so I don't have to trust it. I can't use the camera feature now, but so what, I don't want to set my picture that way anyway.
Or better still I can set it to prompt for camera access. Then I don't have to worry about it taking pictures, I can still use the picture feature if I want to, and if it ever prompts for camera access and I didn't -JUST- tell it to take a picture of me for my profile THEN I toss the app.
But no on android its eitehr... "here app -- I trust you with my camera" or "nope... no app for me".
You'd have to accept that idiots acceptance of the premise that we need prism to be safe in the first place.
We just don't. The whole NSA apparatus is so far over the line its not funny.
I am not willing to live in a surveillance state simply to increase our odds slightly of catching terrorists. If a few people have to die at the hands of terrorists so that we can all be truly free. SO BE IT.
I'm unconvinced the security apparatus can actually save us anyway. So for me, the choice is between living free and dealing with a few terrorist attacks, or living in a surveillance state and STILL dealing with a few terrorist attacks.
That's the inverse case. The government can take something illegal and make it legal retroactively and then let you get away with it. This is what happened with the telecoms. And while it wasn't all that good in this case, it is a good thing in general.
The "bad" case is the opposite, where they make something legal illegal retroactively and then charge you for it. This would not be a good thing.
the US, the explanation is that God isn't allowed to show up in the sky and scream that he's real. It has to be taken on faith or it'd be unfair as an "open competition" according to the original terms and conditions with Satan after the Adam and Eve apple incident.
WTF!!!1BBQ? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, and I strongly STRONGLY doubt most Christians believe anything remotely of the sort. That sounds like some sort of evangelical TV church rubbish more than anything that actually exists within any real study of Christianity.
It's a lot simpler with Buddhists. Everything doesn't actually exist in the first place, lol. It's hard to prove or disprove that but some science supports it.
Except it doesn't, that's an interesting thought experiment but ultimately worthless.
The argument that "some science supports it" devolves to:
"The universe is imaginary. Look at my compelling/suggestive evidence, which I took with this telescope, and thermometer."
"But if your right, the telescope and thermometer don't really exist, and the measurements you allege you took with them are imaginary too. So what does that prove exactly? Sweet fuck all.
Anyone who picks up a fossil and calls it the end-all evidence just because they're touching it clearly hasn't expanding their thinking enough to examine the true nature of physics and matter and space and reality.
Picking up a fossil and using it to make observations about the universe has a history of generating useful hypotheses to predict the outcome of future events. Sure it requires as pre-supposition that we assume the universe follows objectively observable rules. So be it.
Imagining the universe is a computer simulation or imaginary or spontaneously came into being 8 seconds ago may not be disprovable, but its not useful either, except to amuse stoners while they navel gaze.
Teaching it is fine, in a philosophy context. But its not science.
By the time they get to college, this "tiny difference" adds up to more than one semester.
Not all tiny differences add up. My parents used to pull me out of school for a week most years for family vacations etc. Over the course of school from K-12 then I lost a full semester easy. Plus the flus, doctors appointments, deaths in the family, snow days, easily another couple months. I STILL maintain it didn't cost my education anything at all -- and that was me actively "missing" actual classroom time where the other students were still present, vs the school just not having school for that time.
This applies to everyone, including people from Chicago. If you consider that people "clock out" an hour early, then Chicago students (and teachers) also do, so the gap remains the same.
Again no. They don't mentally check out an "hour early"; they mentally check out after they've hit their concentration / absorption / knowledge retention limit, or whatever you'd like to call it; or completed their major tasks for the day. Extending or shortening the "day" by an hour makes no difference to how long you can concentrate. It just changes how much time you waste after your 'done'.
[...] you can discard that because it's a mere 0.13$ in his pockets every minute...
No I can't discard taht. Because that's 13 cents a minute every minute. Its a small value, but it accumulates in a very understable way. But not everything works like that. Learning is more "chunky"; in that you learn in chunks. When I took math, for example, I was good at it, I absorbed a typical "lesson" within the first 10-15 minutes of the class, and then got bored. Some of my classmates had a rougher time, and it took most of the lesson. Others just didn't grok it even with 45 minutes, and needed after school tutors etc.
But the point is the lesson is absorbed as a chunk. Adding 1 minute to each math class I ever took would have been several hours more "math class" in my life but with no benefit to me whatsoever. The teacher wouldn't present 1/60th of a new concept in that extra minute that would graually accumulate and be the equivalent of university Calculus I by the end of highschool. That's not how learning works, spending 1 extra minute each day doesn't give you an extra lesson learned after the end of each month.
Either the teacher has enough time to teach the concepts or they don't. Kids learn at different rates, so the average lesson is designed around most of the kids fully understanding it within the first half of the period; the last half is is for the slower kids, and for practice problems.
Adding a minute to each class would have accomplished essentially nothing. It doesn't accumulate benefit the way getting paid a few cents extra per minute does.
10 calendar days per year less than the national average.
How is that done? That seems a lot of if its all in one place, but if its a single extra day off for whatever reason each month, its not going to make much difference.
1 hour less per day than the national average.
When I went to school it started at 9am and ended at 3:30pm; i had two 15 minute recesses, and an hour for lunch and time in the school yard after lunch. My kids go from 8:30 to 2:20, so their days are 40 minutes shorter than mine were. They get one 15 minute morning recess, and 40 minutes for lunch. So their actual school day is 5 minutes shorter than mine was. They also get slightly more homework than I did. (0 to 15 minutes per day in elementary school). So I'm curious what the CPS daily schedule is and what homework looks like, etc.
I don't know if you really need a scientific study to make the demonstration that 2 years is a huge gap,
Yeah, actually you do. How many adults mentally clock out an hour before they go home? "Present" isn't necessarily "productive".
with a college graduation rate of 12%, which is 1/3 of the national average and even lower than Alaska.
Yes, that's truly terrible. But I remain skeptical that it has anything to do with "gold plated teachers unions". There's people mentioning a lot of other demographic issues that are in play.
Interestingly, Obama always supported the all-powerful teachers union in Chicago, who managed to get working conditions so good for their members that the schools had to cut the number of teaching days to afford those gold-plated teachers.
Great sound bit, lousy argument. Any cost no matter how small would be argued by the schools as some massive threat to their ability to operate. If our kids school division had to pay for new instruments for the music room, or new text books, or turn the heat on, they'd threaten cutting the number of teaching days to pay for it. The Chicago teachers union might well be gold plated... I'm not saying it isn't, but the fact that the school "cut teaching days" to pay for it doesn't tell us anything at all about anything at all.
As a direct consequence, this is one of the areas in the country with the lowest ratio of college grads.
Doubtful. Is there any demonstrated correlation between college grads and losing a few teaching days? The teaching year isn't uniform accross states, or developed countries... even local variations such as weather related school closures, snow days, power failures, flooding, not to mention teachers strikes etc also "deprive" kids of teaching days all the time.
Has anyone linked that to college grads? Or does it turn out that in fact a school year plus or minus a week or so makes very little difference whatsoever? I betting on the latter.
You missed DOTA 2, Day of defeat, team fortress classic and deathmatch classic (granted you might consider some of those part of the "half life/counterstrike series").
You don't exactly have to be a debian developer to get Dota2 or TFC for free.
The other two titles you mentioned are pretty minor, and usually obtained via a bundle anyway.
When I look on steam the "valve complete pack" currently costs £50.
And if you buy during any of the regular sales you can pick up everything Valve offers for 75% off... so ... £12.50 give or take.
I'm guessing its not that big of a deal.
Steam itself is free. And how many valve games are there actually? 2 left for deads, 2 portals, and the half-life/counterstrike series? Anyone who wants those can pick them up for 75% off during any of their many sales... its what $20 or 30 bucks worth of games tops?
Not to diminish the act, or my appreciation of Valve's recognition of the Debian developer team... but I can't really see a FLOOD of people trying to get on the debian development team over a few games, most of which they probably already have.
If the files are in fact identical internally, just backups and backups of backups then it should be pretty straightforward.
Simplest would be simply to:
start with an empty destination
Compare each file in the source(s) tree(s) on each file in the destination by filesize in bytes, then if there is a match there, do a file compare using cmp. Copy it to the destination it if it doesn't match, otherwise move to the next file. Seems like something that would take 10-20 lines of command line script tops. Its a one time job, so who cares if its ideally efficient.
A more sophisticated method to generate and compare file hashes, and compare hashes would potentially be somewhat faster and cleverer; but it would depend on how much duplication actually exists. cmp will terminate at the first mismatch byte so cmp will short circuit out of virtually all comparisons nearly immediately. Whereas generating hashes will require processing all the files completely, as well as coming up with a system for manageing the hash/filename map etc... gets cleverer than it needs to be for a one off job pretty fast.
it is technically inferior to Go, being that it is tactical,
I don't think tactics vs strategy has any inherent mapping from inferior to superior at all. Even if we agree Chess is tactical, the conclusion that its "technically inferior" doesn't follow.
and thus I cannot stomach nor can I support wasting my time on such an inefficient pursuit
Sheesh... because mastering Go is a more efficient pursuit and a valuable investment of your time? What does that even mean? And in what universe is it true?
Computational analysis is not relevant for wide-play of Go because it's impossible
I get your point but I'm not sure I'd choose the phrases impossible or irrelevant.
Humans are better at it
Why? And more importantly, assuming its true: what reason is there to presume it will remain true indefinitely?
So yeah, like it or not, facebook is here to stay, probably longer than 2017
Myspace is still around too.
https://myspace.com/
Nobody really suggests facebook will be gone in 2017, merely that like myspace, nobody will care it still exists.
Fingers crossed.
The 'keys to the kingdom' phrasing was in reference to the article summary which claimed the hacker had the keys to kingdom for facebook... I, perhaps naively, presumed he didn't get into Zuckerberg's pants.