I've never lived up North for any length of time, so I don't know about how it is up there, but it seems like South of about 38 deg. latitude, winter storms become very difficult to predict. That is to say, that it is normal for meteorologists to have a difficult time pinpointing things right up to 12 hours in advance. As you get further South, the prediction seems to become more difficult. Therefore, you have to plan for the worst, and hope for the best.
Now, Atlanta may not get much snow or ice, but they damn sure have to KNOW that the above is true. It is true of almost every city at about that latitude East of the Rockies (I know, I live in one). Therefore, you have to plan for the worst, and hope for the best. If you plan for the worst, and the forecast is off, people will grumble about it, but they will blame the forecasters, not the civil authorities. However, if you take a gamble, as they did in Atlanta, and the worst happens, people will NOT be blaming the forecasters, but they will blame those in charge.
Considering the trend in comercializing and monetizing every application, what you'll end up with is an OS that constantly nags you to buy stuff you don't want or need. This is a big reason I'm no longer married, and don't intend to ever be again. All I want my OS to do is quietly manage software, like an efficient and trustworthy live-in maid. If I want companionship I'll hang out with my friends and get a dog.
They really were not that bad, but those "chicklet" keyboards were awful. Yes, they were way overpriced, but those people who had the cash, and were interested in buying one, were turned off by those terrible keyboards. IBM eventually started selling them with keyboards comparable to those on their PC, but it was too little, too late.
Am I missing something here? Who are these 50,000 people supposed to work for? The article vaguely mentions them, "opening businesses", but I have to ask, open businesesses doing what?
Let's call it what it is. It is not a list of the most common passwords used on the internet. It is a list of the most common passwords used at Adobe,.. maybe. They don't know what the Adobe passwords are right now. They cannot know all the passwords used on the internet, so they cannot know the most common ones used on the internet. It's a bullshit article written for morons.
When we lived down South, my wife would absolutely freak out when these things would get into the house. Then she got really furious when I suggested that we should leave them alone, they weren't hurting anyone, and they would keep down the bug population.
That's no lie. The lowest I've ever gotten was 31. I went to my kit and checked myself, then proceeded to grab a needle and my novolog and give myself a shot! Suddenly I thought, "Wait a second. That's not what I want to do," and I reached for the bottle of glucose tabs instead. It was like my brain knew I was supposed to do something, but didn't quite know exactly what.
Wow. I am surprised by this news. Originally I wanted to be an EE, but I ended up liking software development better and chose that path. I am glad I did. Still, with the need for the electrical grid to be reworked and smart appliances and smart homes becoming a reality, you would think EEs would be in greater demand.
Interesting. I'm diabetic and I've never heard of anyone behaving this way due to a low. Personally, I start shaking, I get weak, my heart starts pounding, and I break out in a sweat. The only thing I feel like attacking is a bag of gummy bears.
I was in college, at the business office, working with the secretary who took care of VA benefits (I had a problem with my GI bill benefits). She was on the phone with the office in St. Louis. Suddenly her eyes flew open and she looked at me and said, "She says sombody in her office just said that the Challenger blew up". I said, "Then I need to go."
My job at that time was as a radio announcer. When I got to my Jeep I turned on the radio and all the stations were talking about the Challenger. I rushed to the radio station thinking that would be the best place to get information because we had all kinds of news feeds: satellite, wire services, TV and radio. When I got to the station everyone was listening to the news, as we were rebroadcasting it off the satellite feed. We were also watching it on TV and reading the bulletins off the wire services. A lot of people were calling into the station. I guess they were just in shock. They couldn't believe what was happening, and wanted to know if it was real and if we knew anything. I helped answer phones. That part was kind of sad. People calling up, sobbing, wanting to know what to do.
People have felt like the proverbial doomsday clock is at five minutes before midnight for most of recorded history. I bet, someday, they'll discover a "doomsday" gene that causes our species to always feel this way. Probably a holdover from our primordial ancestors who were always five minutes away from being some other animal's next meal. Except now we have big brains and can speculate and imagine the future, and the future always looks bleak to us -- possibly because we know we will not be a part of it.
We had to limit the admissions somehow. A couple of other schools chose a lottery system. We decided we wanted a merit-based system that would reward kids based on their work, rather than one that rewarded kids purely by dumb luck. We didn't succeed just because we had better students. The summary mentioned problems with charter schools such as bad teaching and corruption. If you want a decent school you not only need kids willing to work, but you need supporting parents, a challenging curriculum, teachers paid a reasonable salary, discipline, and oversight. So it was a combination of all these factors, not just the students' grades that made it a success.
I imagine the subpar students ended up where they were going to end up anyway, i.e., nowhere. It is not that I don't care about them, but their parents don't care about them, and the politicians don't care about them, so a real solution becomes impossible.
As a parent, you're faced with a situation where the wealthy kids get an advantage over your kid because you don't have money, and they get a curriculum which prepares them to succeed. Everyone else gets a dumbed down curriculum. So we came up with a solution that the school board would support and provided educational opportunities in math, science, Latin, foreign language, and the arts that our poor, but dedicated kids would benefit from. A lot of these kids went on to AP programs in their respective high schools, or to magnet schools, and on into college.
It took decades for our schools to get where they are now. It will take years for them to get fixed, if they ever get fixed. When your kid is in the fifth grade, you don't have years to wait until a better system comes along. You do what it takes to help them achieve. It's a matter of survival. Look at it as a logical response to evolutionary pressures.
If our neighborhood middle school had offered an honors-type program, I probably would have kept my daughter there. They did have kind of an AP program, but when I looked into it, all it amounted to was separating the kids from the mainstream. They didn't offer Latin or a foreign language, for example, nor anything beyond basic arithmetic, and the arts were virtually non-existent.
I like the European model for schools, but that will never happen in the states.
I think there may be some misunderstanding on both my part and the part of some of the responders to my post. Our school is a public school. We set it up as an honors school within the district. The main way it differed from other schools, and what makes it similar to charter schools, is that it has a separate board made up by parents, who are involved in the curriculum and the hiring of teachers.
I am convinced that the same kids left in regular schools would not have done just as well, because very few of the schools offer an honors curriculum.
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I've never lived up North for any length of time, so I don't know about how it is up there, but it seems like South of about 38 deg. latitude, winter storms become very difficult to predict. That is to say, that it is normal for meteorologists to have a difficult time pinpointing things right up to 12 hours in advance. As you get further South, the prediction seems to become more difficult. Therefore, you have to plan for the worst, and hope for the best.
Now, Atlanta may not get much snow or ice, but they damn sure have to KNOW that the above is true. It is true of almost every city at about that latitude East of the Rockies (I know, I live in one). Therefore, you have to plan for the worst, and hope for the best. If you plan for the worst, and the forecast is off, people will grumble about it, but they will blame the forecasters, not the civil authorities. However, if you take a gamble, as they did in Atlanta, and the worst happens, people will NOT be blaming the forecasters, but they will blame those in charge.
Considering the trend in comercializing and monetizing every application, what you'll end up with is an OS that constantly nags you to buy stuff you don't want or need. This is a big reason I'm no longer married, and don't intend to ever be again. All I want my OS to do is quietly manage software, like an efficient and trustworthy live-in maid. If I want companionship I'll hang out with my friends and get a dog.
They really were not that bad, but those "chicklet" keyboards were awful. Yes, they were way overpriced, but those people who had the cash, and were interested in buying one, were turned off by those terrible keyboards. IBM eventually started selling them with keyboards comparable to those on their PC, but it was too little, too late.
Since the story is from the UK, it would read, "Boffins Baffled".
Am I missing something here? Who are these 50,000 people supposed to work for? The article vaguely mentions them, "opening businesses", but I have to ask, open businesesses doing what?
They could just buy that that new one from Iran.
It means all these business idiots will stop saying "event horizon".
Do you realize how hard it's going to be to learn to write/type Manderin?
Especially if you can't even write/type Mandarin in English.
Let's call it what it is. It is not a list of the most common passwords used on the internet. It is a list of the most common passwords used at Adobe,.. maybe. They don't know what the Adobe passwords are right now. They cannot know all the passwords used on the internet, so they cannot know the most common ones used on the internet. It's a bullshit article written for morons.
I'd like to see how you get one and a half quarts of water in an old coffee cup.
When we lived down South, my wife would absolutely freak out when these things would get into the house. Then she got really furious when I suggested that we should leave them alone, they weren't hurting anyone, and they would keep down the bug population.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
That's no lie. The lowest I've ever gotten was 31. I went to my kit and checked myself, then proceeded to grab a needle and my novolog and give myself a shot! Suddenly I thought, "Wait a second. That's not what I want to do," and I reached for the bottle of glucose tabs instead. It was like my brain knew I was supposed to do something, but didn't quite know exactly what.
Maybe not. Self-driving trucks are not far off.
Wow. I am surprised by this news. Originally I wanted to be an EE, but I ended up liking software development better and chose that path. I am glad I did. Still, with the need for the electrical grid to be reworked and smart appliances and smart homes becoming a reality, you would think EEs would be in greater demand.
I wondered about this myself. I'm skeptical that tears are as accurate as blood testing.
Interesting. I'm diabetic and I've never heard of anyone behaving this way due to a low. Personally, I start shaking, I get weak, my heart starts pounding, and I break out in a sweat. The only thing I feel like attacking is a bag of gummy bears.
I can't wear contacts. This would be great for diabetics who can, though. I guess I'll still be waiting for some other non-intrusive method.
I was in college, at the business office, working with the secretary who took care of VA benefits (I had a problem with my GI bill benefits). She was on the phone with the office in St. Louis. Suddenly her eyes flew open and she looked at me and said, "She says sombody in her office just said that the Challenger blew up". I said, "Then I need to go."
My job at that time was as a radio announcer. When I got to my Jeep I turned on the radio and all the stations were talking about the Challenger. I rushed to the radio station thinking that would be the best place to get information because we had all kinds of news feeds: satellite, wire services, TV and radio. When I got to the station everyone was listening to the news, as we were rebroadcasting it off the satellite feed. We were also watching it on TV and reading the bulletins off the wire services. A lot of people were calling into the station. I guess they were just in shock. They couldn't believe what was happening, and wanted to know if it was real and if we knew anything. I helped answer phones. That part was kind of sad. People calling up, sobbing, wanting to know what to do.
What's the matter with you? He said "newspaper". He found out about it in the following morning's newspaper. You certainly missed something.
People have felt like the proverbial doomsday clock is at five minutes before midnight for most of recorded history. I bet, someday, they'll discover a "doomsday" gene that causes our species to always feel this way. Probably a holdover from our primordial ancestors who were always five minutes away from being some other animal's next meal. Except now we have big brains and can speculate and imagine the future, and the future always looks bleak to us -- possibly because we know we will not be a part of it.
We had to limit the admissions somehow. A couple of other schools chose a lottery system. We decided we wanted a merit-based system that would reward kids based on their work, rather than one that rewarded kids purely by dumb luck. We didn't succeed just because we had better students. The summary mentioned problems with charter schools such as bad teaching and corruption. If you want a decent school you not only need kids willing to work, but you need supporting parents, a challenging curriculum, teachers paid a reasonable salary, discipline, and oversight. So it was a combination of all these factors, not just the students' grades that made it a success.
I imagine the subpar students ended up where they were going to end up anyway, i.e., nowhere. It is not that I don't care about them, but their parents don't care about them, and the politicians don't care about them, so a real solution becomes impossible.
As a parent, you're faced with a situation where the wealthy kids get an advantage over your kid because you don't have money, and they get a curriculum which prepares them to succeed. Everyone else gets a dumbed down curriculum. So we came up with a solution that the school board would support and provided educational opportunities in math, science, Latin, foreign language, and the arts that our poor, but dedicated kids would benefit from. A lot of these kids went on to AP programs in their respective high schools, or to magnet schools, and on into college.
It took decades for our schools to get where they are now. It will take years for them to get fixed, if they ever get fixed. When your kid is in the fifth grade, you don't have years to wait until a better system comes along. You do what it takes to help them achieve. It's a matter of survival. Look at it as a logical response to evolutionary pressures.
If our neighborhood middle school had offered an honors-type program, I probably would have kept my daughter there. They did have kind of an AP program, but when I looked into it, all it amounted to was separating the kids from the mainstream. They didn't offer Latin or a foreign language, for example, nor anything beyond basic arithmetic, and the arts were virtually non-existent.
I like the European model for schools, but that will never happen in the states.
I think there may be some misunderstanding on both my part and the part of some of the responders to my post. Our school is a public school. We set it up as an honors school within the district. The main way it differed from other schools, and what makes it similar to charter schools, is that it has a separate board made up by parents, who are involved in the curriculum and the hiring of teachers.
I am convinced that the same kids left in regular schools would not have done just as well, because very few of the schools offer an honors curriculum.