Um, the parent poster isn't being funny, that's the damned straight truth there. Poor penmanship definitely lowers scores considerably. Not just when the teacher can't read the writing, but when you screw up the math because you misread your own writing. One of the biggest helps to my math scores was when I slowed down wrote slowly clearly and succinctly through every portion of the problem down to the answer. Made it a lot easier to make sure it was done correctly and a lot more likely that the teacher would have some idea what I'd done to get that wrong answer.
OK, and while we're at it, why don't we also stop wasting time on math? I mean seriously, it's not a waste of time, there's a reason why it's "reading and writing" not "reading and typing" and it's not just for archaic reasons. You aren't really literate if you're just picking one of the correct key on the type writer, it's just not the same command of the language if you have to pick the right one and actually write it out. We aren't going to get to the point of perfect always available computers for quite some time, and until then there's absolutely no justification for dropping cursive from the curriculum.
I just did that search and there's a half dozen different distros represented in the first page. Which is definitely a problem. It's just like at a store, if you see 2 dozen different types of ketchup you would typically end up in one of three basic modes of operation. You'd buy the most advertised or the one you always buy, buy one at random or decide not to. None of those are really great as far as this sort of thing goes.
And people can still google it and it can still ruin your life. And your part of the problem, I do expect that unless there's a warrant or other court order involved that people won't be able to find out really anything about me. People really shouldn't be posting photos and such of other people without getting permission first, it's just common courtesy that if you're exposing somebody to a potentially large audience that you do it only with permission.
The fact that other assholes don't respect my privacy does not make the people I'm trying to avoid any less dangerous or any less real.
Right, as opposed to now, where we give all that money directly to the corporations and nobody else benefits. I'm constantly amazed at how us crafty Americans aren't happy until we're paying at least 4x what everybody else is paying for something while getting the lowest quality possible. I'm sure that will show those socialists who's superior to whom.
Umm, you do realize that they wear armor, right? I mean they're not exactly cloned to have the white shell, hence the WD-40. Or are you offended, because clearly the system is self lubricating for easy use in desert conditions?
But, it's not really about performance, sure you do need a certain amount in order to be competitive, but ARM is far more about efficiency and battery life than it is about speed. That being said, it's not necessarily going to be too slow unless you're talking about having to emulate non-existent instructions and similar.
And some of you women will never understand how coddled you are. Try getting help if you're a man being abused by your wife. Then tell me how tough it is being an abused woman. It's just not comparable at all. Law enforcement doesn't take it seriously, chances are your friends won't take you in for a few days to leave her, good luck getting shelter space, even in a generic homeless shelter.
OK, you do have a point, however, the roads still need to be paid for in some manner, and any driving at all has a negative impact on the environment. One definitely can't stay put constantly, so one will drive or in some other way move around, but the mileage tax doesn't need to be as high as the gas tax is, having it somewhat lower still represents an incentive to ditch fossil fuels.
We've got that here, and they refuse to file for a permit, tell anybody what their route is and generally make dicks of themselves to raise some sort of awareness. The only awareness they're raising at this point is that bicyclists are dicks. If they opted to file permits and tell people where they were planning to ride, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but as it is, the main goal seems to be to make testicles of themselves.
In essence it's replacing the gas tax. The original idea was to tax people in a manner which was proportionate to the use of the resource. A sort of user fee other than tolls. As people use more fuel efficient vehicles, the taxes to pay for the roads are going to have to come from somewhere, charging people a tax based upon roughly how much they used the resource seems fair.
It's essentially an avoidable tax, if you don't want to pay for it, you don't have to, just don't use the resource that it's paying for. Seems reasonable to me, especially considering the people that take your position on this sort of thing and then demand that I pay higher taxes to fund stupid wars that don't further my interests in the least.
I take it you don't remember the President's fitness test. It was a set of exercises which included things which may or may not fairly judge fitness and things which rewarded kids for being born freaky. Ultimately it tears down kids more than either builds them up or fairly assesses them. Replacing that sort of arbitrary measure with something that's a bit more individualized can only be good both in terms of fitness, but in terms of self esteem as well. It's not that often you can do both in the same exercise.
It's not unreasonable to question what's going to happen to the data, there's a lot of recent history where the government has abused data collection policies. However, this particular kind of information is of very little value outside the actual class period. It's ultimately more fair to students to be graded upon the effort as measured with the HRM, than with the myriad arbitrary measures that were previously used. Plus it allows for less risk in activity.
But the bigger issue really is financial cost and why the school's being allowed to require the parents to cough up for something that could hardly be considered a necessity.
Could you please link to a hardware implementation that actually does all of what ZFS does? I'm not aware of any hardware option that gives you all that, the best you can get in hardware is RAID, and that's not the same thing. Some functions you can get via hardware, but you're still missing some significant features like having it actually fix errors rather than giving you another shot at getting the right data.
Really, so there are no programs that support something else and not Linux? That's funny, because I could swear there were somethings that hadn't yet been ported to Linux.
Linux will always have a larger number of packages available than pretty much anybody else due to the decision to not actually have a base system. You get a kernel and the rest you have to add via third party developers. On top of that, there isn't any particular reason for a number of the other packages to be available as most people will gravitate towards the best anyways, requiring a third tier program is silly.
It's nice to have choices, but there isn't any inherent reason why say FreeBSD needs to have Ice Weasel, we're perfectly happy with Firefox and the other ones we can install. We don't really need a dozen different multimedia applications when there's just a couple that fill the niche that people are looking for.
The point is that it's a selling point as much as anything. I'm more than a little hesitant in general to sign up with a service or use a product that prevents me from taking my business elsewhere if I don't like it. The movement being allowed by Google with their engineers is a pretty firm demonstration of their confidence in their ability to provide people with products they want to use.
This is also the reason why I asked for a refund from Intuit a couple years back. I've never done that before or since, but with the general pain they made it to get my data into their program and the hostage fees they wanted to charge the institutions I did business with, it just wasn't worth the absurd effort.
No reason to believe it? I mean sure it is kind of speculative, but over the whole of history, that's been the way it's been done for the vast majority of civilizations. What you're suggesting is probably even more speculative than that. Men being typically larger and stronger clearly doesn't indicate anything, neither does anything about the distribution of brain mass. On top of that, for organisms that have live young, it would be decidedly inconvenient for the primary hunter to be largely out of commission for the better part of a year before giving birth. Yes pregnant women can do a lot, but it's not a good step evolutionarily for the hunter to also be with child.
Yes it's pretty speculative, but suggesting that it's a blind guess requires real ignorance of both history and biology.
That depends greatly upon what you're planning to use it for. If you're actually using it for the ability to do low intensity work far away from the home or the office, then it's not so bad. But idiots that buy them as a replacement for a proper desktop or laptop have no business bad mouthing them.
Personally, I'm getting one, mainly for a bit of email and net access away from my desktop, and the ability to use it for shell access when I don't want to go down stairs to check on the machine. I wouldn't personally suggest using such a device for too much more than that, although, a lot of them are probably halfway decent for retro gaming.
Probably because only assholes use computers in lecture. And netbooks aren't really meant for all around use, mostly just the net and a few other things, I had a laptop at college, and while it was fairly bulky, I wouldn't have bothered with a netbook in addition, just because it wasn't necessary. But then again, I wasn't raised by parents that would shell out 5k a year to me either, so I might not be the best judge of what is and is not a waste of money.
I'm assume you're being sarcastic. But typically buses, trains and planes with internet hook ups do it via a cellular card which is then connected to the WAP. So far it's the most reliable way of providing service. I suppose on planes or something where people don't move about they could use ethernet hooked up to a regular router, but generally WAP is well enough supported.
What you're referring to is the biggest problem with WiFi there isn't really enough intelligence built into it for those sorts of densely packed situations. It's not really meant to have more than about 3 routers within range of each other, and even then only if their really spread out on the spectrum due to the overlap on some channels.
If somebody manages to solve that in a reasonably cost effective way, the likelihood of a city wide WiFi set up will dramatically improve.
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Um, the parent poster isn't being funny, that's the damned straight truth there. Poor penmanship definitely lowers scores considerably. Not just when the teacher can't read the writing, but when you screw up the math because you misread your own writing. One of the biggest helps to my math scores was when I slowed down wrote slowly clearly and succinctly through every portion of the problem down to the answer. Made it a lot easier to make sure it was done correctly and a lot more likely that the teacher would have some idea what I'd done to get that wrong answer.
OK, and while we're at it, why don't we also stop wasting time on math? I mean seriously, it's not a waste of time, there's a reason why it's "reading and writing" not "reading and typing" and it's not just for archaic reasons. You aren't really literate if you're just picking one of the correct key on the type writer, it's just not the same command of the language if you have to pick the right one and actually write it out. We aren't going to get to the point of perfect always available computers for quite some time, and until then there's absolutely no justification for dropping cursive from the curriculum.
I just did that search and there's a half dozen different distros represented in the first page. Which is definitely a problem. It's just like at a store, if you see 2 dozen different types of ketchup you would typically end up in one of three basic modes of operation. You'd buy the most advertised or the one you always buy, buy one at random or decide not to. None of those are really great as far as this sort of thing goes.
I thought the established custom was to buy them a couple drinks first.
And people can still google it and it can still ruin your life. And your part of the problem, I do expect that unless there's a warrant or other court order involved that people won't be able to find out really anything about me. People really shouldn't be posting photos and such of other people without getting permission first, it's just common courtesy that if you're exposing somebody to a potentially large audience that you do it only with permission.
The fact that other assholes don't respect my privacy does not make the people I'm trying to avoid any less dangerous or any less real.
Right, as opposed to now, where we give all that money directly to the corporations and nobody else benefits. I'm constantly amazed at how us crafty Americans aren't happy until we're paying at least 4x what everybody else is paying for something while getting the lowest quality possible. I'm sure that will show those socialists who's superior to whom.
Because he's an incompetent hypocritical blow hard that inexplicably has more power than many congress people and no accountability at all.
But some of us liked playing Ben Kenobi, doing chores, fighting sand people every couple of weeks, you insensitive clod.
Umm, you do realize that they wear armor, right? I mean they're not exactly cloned to have the white shell, hence the WD-40. Or are you offended, because clearly the system is self lubricating for easy use in desert conditions?
But, it's not really about performance, sure you do need a certain amount in order to be competitive, but ARM is far more about efficiency and battery life than it is about speed. That being said, it's not necessarily going to be too slow unless you're talking about having to emulate non-existent instructions and similar.
And some of you women will never understand how coddled you are. Try getting help if you're a man being abused by your wife. Then tell me how tough it is being an abused woman. It's just not comparable at all. Law enforcement doesn't take it seriously, chances are your friends won't take you in for a few days to leave her, good luck getting shelter space, even in a generic homeless shelter.
Um, the Parent poster isn't a troll, he's absolutely correct. Here I'll even link an article on it. No One Believed Me
OK, you do have a point, however, the roads still need to be paid for in some manner, and any driving at all has a negative impact on the environment. One definitely can't stay put constantly, so one will drive or in some other way move around, but the mileage tax doesn't need to be as high as the gas tax is, having it somewhat lower still represents an incentive to ditch fossil fuels.
We've got that here, and they refuse to file for a permit, tell anybody what their route is and generally make dicks of themselves to raise some sort of awareness. The only awareness they're raising at this point is that bicyclists are dicks. If they opted to file permits and tell people where they were planning to ride, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but as it is, the main goal seems to be to make testicles of themselves.
In essence it's replacing the gas tax. The original idea was to tax people in a manner which was proportionate to the use of the resource. A sort of user fee other than tolls. As people use more fuel efficient vehicles, the taxes to pay for the roads are going to have to come from somewhere, charging people a tax based upon roughly how much they used the resource seems fair.
It's essentially an avoidable tax, if you don't want to pay for it, you don't have to, just don't use the resource that it's paying for. Seems reasonable to me, especially considering the people that take your position on this sort of thing and then demand that I pay higher taxes to fund stupid wars that don't further my interests in the least.
I take it you don't remember the President's fitness test. It was a set of exercises which included things which may or may not fairly judge fitness and things which rewarded kids for being born freaky. Ultimately it tears down kids more than either builds them up or fairly assesses them. Replacing that sort of arbitrary measure with something that's a bit more individualized can only be good both in terms of fitness, but in terms of self esteem as well. It's not that often you can do both in the same exercise.
It's not unreasonable to question what's going to happen to the data, there's a lot of recent history where the government has abused data collection policies. However, this particular kind of information is of very little value outside the actual class period. It's ultimately more fair to students to be graded upon the effort as measured with the HRM, than with the myriad arbitrary measures that were previously used. Plus it allows for less risk in activity.
But the bigger issue really is financial cost and why the school's being allowed to require the parents to cough up for something that could hardly be considered a necessity.
Could you please link to a hardware implementation that actually does all of what ZFS does? I'm not aware of any hardware option that gives you all that, the best you can get in hardware is RAID, and that's not the same thing. Some functions you can get via hardware, but you're still missing some significant features like having it actually fix errors rather than giving you another shot at getting the right data.
Really, so there are no programs that support something else and not Linux? That's funny, because I could swear there were somethings that hadn't yet been ported to Linux.
Linux will always have a larger number of packages available than pretty much anybody else due to the decision to not actually have a base system. You get a kernel and the rest you have to add via third party developers. On top of that, there isn't any particular reason for a number of the other packages to be available as most people will gravitate towards the best anyways, requiring a third tier program is silly.
It's nice to have choices, but there isn't any inherent reason why say FreeBSD needs to have Ice Weasel, we're perfectly happy with Firefox and the other ones we can install. We don't really need a dozen different multimedia applications when there's just a couple that fill the niche that people are looking for.
The point is that it's a selling point as much as anything. I'm more than a little hesitant in general to sign up with a service or use a product that prevents me from taking my business elsewhere if I don't like it. The movement being allowed by Google with their engineers is a pretty firm demonstration of their confidence in their ability to provide people with products they want to use.
This is also the reason why I asked for a refund from Intuit a couple years back. I've never done that before or since, but with the general pain they made it to get my data into their program and the hostage fees they wanted to charge the institutions I did business with, it just wasn't worth the absurd effort.
No reason to believe it? I mean sure it is kind of speculative, but over the whole of history, that's been the way it's been done for the vast majority of civilizations. What you're suggesting is probably even more speculative than that. Men being typically larger and stronger clearly doesn't indicate anything, neither does anything about the distribution of brain mass. On top of that, for organisms that have live young, it would be decidedly inconvenient for the primary hunter to be largely out of commission for the better part of a year before giving birth. Yes pregnant women can do a lot, but it's not a good step evolutionarily for the hunter to also be with child.
Yes it's pretty speculative, but suggesting that it's a blind guess requires real ignorance of both history and biology.
That depends greatly upon what you're planning to use it for. If you're actually using it for the ability to do low intensity work far away from the home or the office, then it's not so bad. But idiots that buy them as a replacement for a proper desktop or laptop have no business bad mouthing them.
Personally, I'm getting one, mainly for a bit of email and net access away from my desktop, and the ability to use it for shell access when I don't want to go down stairs to check on the machine. I wouldn't personally suggest using such a device for too much more than that, although, a lot of them are probably halfway decent for retro gaming.
Probably because only assholes use computers in lecture. And netbooks aren't really meant for all around use, mostly just the net and a few other things, I had a laptop at college, and while it was fairly bulky, I wouldn't have bothered with a netbook in addition, just because it wasn't necessary. But then again, I wasn't raised by parents that would shell out 5k a year to me either, so I might not be the best judge of what is and is not a waste of money.
I'm assume you're being sarcastic. But typically buses, trains and planes with internet hook ups do it via a cellular card which is then connected to the WAP. So far it's the most reliable way of providing service. I suppose on planes or something where people don't move about they could use ethernet hooked up to a regular router, but generally WAP is well enough supported.
What you're referring to is the biggest problem with WiFi there isn't really enough intelligence built into it for those sorts of densely packed situations. It's not really meant to have more than about 3 routers within range of each other, and even then only if their really spread out on the spectrum due to the overlap on some channels.
If somebody manages to solve that in a reasonably cost effective way, the likelihood of a city wide WiFi set up will dramatically improve.