Instead of complaining about how stupid teachers are, why don't you do the children a favor, get a teacher's certificate and become one of the "smart" teachers.
Many states require a Bachelors in Education to be certified as a teacher; thus, a Bachelors in a specific field is not sufficient for teaching that field. So, to become part of the solution, one would have to find the time and money to complete another Bachelors, get a teaching certificate, and find a job. That is why many of the best and brightest in their fields do not become teachers.
Earning broadband access? In capitalist societies, people purchase things that will give them satisfaction. (Remeber your Economics and Marketing classes?) Internet access is a product, marketed by various providers with various levels of quality and service. It is not a "right to be earned". Surely everyone knows this, already. So, why was the article posted?
"The chlorine containing compounds released by volcanoes do not contribute much to ozone breakdown in
the stratosphere because they don't end up there." -- Paul and Anne Ehrlich
However, the scientific consensus is that the greenhouse gases we produce end up in the stratosphere
where they do contribute to ozone depletion and global warming. The chemicals and dust released with the
eruption of a volcano are confined to the troposphere.
I still have trouble figuring this out. How is it that volcanic emissions (which are forcefully ejected into the upper atmosphere) don't affect the stratosphere, yet R12 refrigerant (with a molecular weight a lot greater than that of air,) leaks out of air conditioning systems, ignores the ozone at the surface, (which is considered pollution,) climbs through the troposhere, tropopause, and stratosphere under its own power, and destroys the ozone layer? If someone can explain this without the usual "...the scientists say it is so,..." please do. I would really like to know.
First, IANAHP (I am not a helicopter pilot) but many of my friends are.
Autorotation is a technique where the angle of attack of the blades is reduced upon an engine failure so the air flowing through the descending rotor blades increases the rotational velocity of the blades. Since the angle of attack of the blades on this craft cannot be adjusted, it cannot autorotate. It even says this on the FAQ page. The FAQ also states that a ballistic chute will be provided on future models to address this shortcoming.
Autorotation ability is a necessity among full size helicopters and helicopter pilots so that an engine failure does not automatically result in death of the crew.
IANAL, and I haven't spent any time studying the GPL and its implications, but I doubt the lawsuit will accomplish anything. The EULA looks like a cut and paste job. (Note that the generic portions, including the offending portion, are in all caps, and the parts specific to Linux were written using both upper and lower case.) It doesn't look like Corel has any intent to be anti-GPL. They do need help keeping things straight, maybe a my-lawyer-call-your-lawyer thing at most. Corel (or the clerk who types these things) seems to be a "GPL newbie". If the community treats Corel bad, they will have reason not to deal with the Linux community, and the Linux community will be setting a bad precedent, probably scaring off other developers, including hardware developers whose drivers we might like to have. So even if we win the battle, we lose the war.
I read the whole findings, and gathered that the main issues were Microsofts strong arm tactics to prevent Netscape from reaching the marketplace, which in turn would prevent middleware from threatening Windows' stranglehold on the desktop. The problem with the law wasn't that MS was giving away MSIE; the problem was MS was using its monopoly-like power to prohibit OEMs from putting Netscape on the desktop. Thus, the marketplace can't work if the products are being restricted from reaching the market. Their blatant disregard of Sun's License was the other major problem. It is kind of ironic that the company with some of the most restrictive licenses was violating Sun's Java licenses.
The way to sucess seems to be to publish a book for the management-fad-book-of-the-month club. It could be argued that these books are helpful; they allow clueless middle managers to feel productive when they purchase something after being told to "go buy a clue," which in turn helps to improve their sense of self worth.
As I recall, almost all of the long-term atmospheric models predicting significant global warming assume that all clouds are opaque, and therefore will enhance the greenhouse effect. Since clouds vary in the amount of long-wave radiation that they let escape back into the atmosphere, the models will be quite pessimistic compared to reality. As for the evidence of global warming, we have been keeping weather records for an incredibly small amount of time compared to the life of the earth. Most weather stations are at airports, so these records will have to be shorter than a century. The thermometer itself is a relatively recent invention compared to the life of the earth. So, the current trend is way too short to use for long term prediction. We also have very few observing stations over the open ocean. We have stations on a lot of islands, but the center of the North Pacific is uncovered except for ships, and most of these do not take upper atmospheric observations. Satellite technology has improved this tremendously, but it doesn't substitute for a surface and/or upper atmosphere observing station. Who knows, perhaps tracking open-ocean weather would have resulted in the average trend being toward global cooling? I personally don't believe that scientific attention is proof of an effect. Centuries ago, a lot of attention was paid to how the sun and other planets circled the Earth.
or just helpful? Will another degree work as well if someone understands the concepts, read the books, and can figure out a language? I guess the main question is "What is the best path to a CS Career?"
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Intel has a lot more marketing going on, and the average uniformed consumer sees commercials saying that they need a PIII to properly get on the Internet. Since the Average Joe home user is basically ignorant, Average Joe home user goes and pays hundreds of dollars extra to get the PIII instead of the K6-2, and doesn't consider the K-7. Until the average joe figures out that the chip isn't as important as the Intel commercials make it out, AMD will not sell as well as Intel, and they will have trouble turning a profit.
As somewhat of a newbie, I may not understand all of the implications here. However, isn't it possible for MS to legally sell a file manager or window manager running on top of Linux? They could package a distribution with something that looks very similar to fvwm95, coded outside of a GPL. They sell the window/file manager as closed source, slap a slick install on the front end of whatever distro they use, include the GNU/Linux as complementary, market the absense of virii and *nix compatibility to the business folks, start a MS-Window/File manager vs other distro FuD campaign, slap a $99 price on it for their usual (lack of) support and voila, they are players in the Linux market with a closed source product. Since I don't know a whole lot about the GPL and such, though, I could be way off.
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Instead of complaining about how stupid teachers are, why don't you do the children a favor, get a teacher's certificate and become one of the "smart" teachers.
Many states require a Bachelors in Education to be certified as a teacher; thus, a Bachelors in a specific field is not sufficient for teaching that field. So, to become part of the solution, one would have to find the time and money to complete another Bachelors, get a teaching certificate, and find a job. That is why many of the best and brightest in their fields do not become teachers.
Earning broadband access? In capitalist societies, people purchase things that will give them satisfaction. (Remeber your Economics and Marketing classes?) Internet access is a product, marketed by various providers with various levels of quality and service. It is not a "right to be earned". Surely everyone knows this, already. So, why was the article posted?
"The chlorine containing compounds released by volcanoes do not contribute much to ozone breakdown in the stratosphere because they don't end up there." -- Paul and Anne Ehrlich
However, the scientific consensus is that the greenhouse gases we produce end up in the stratosphere where they do contribute to ozone depletion and global warming. The chemicals and dust released with the eruption of a volcano are confined to the troposphere.
I still have trouble figuring this out. How is it that volcanic emissions (which are forcefully ejected into the upper atmosphere) don't affect the stratosphere, yet R12 refrigerant (with a molecular weight a lot greater than that of air,) leaks out of air conditioning systems, ignores the ozone at the surface, (which is considered pollution,) climbs through the troposhere, tropopause, and stratosphere under its own power, and destroys the ozone layer? If someone can explain this without the usual "...the scientists say it is so,..." please do. I would really like to know.
First, IANAHP (I am not a helicopter pilot) but many of my friends are.
Autorotation is a technique where the angle of attack of the blades is reduced upon an engine failure so the air flowing through the descending rotor blades increases the rotational velocity of the blades. Since the angle of attack of the blades on this craft cannot be adjusted, it cannot autorotate. It even says this on the FAQ page. The FAQ also states that a ballistic chute will be provided on future models to address this shortcoming.
Autorotation ability is a necessity among full size helicopters and helicopter pilots so that an engine failure does not automatically result in death of the crew.
IANAL, and I haven't spent any time studying the GPL and its implications, but I doubt the lawsuit will accomplish anything. The EULA looks like a cut and paste job. (Note that the generic portions, including the offending portion, are in all caps, and the parts specific to Linux were written using both upper and lower case.) It doesn't look like Corel has any intent to be anti-GPL. They do need help keeping things straight, maybe a my-lawyer-call-your-lawyer thing at most. Corel (or the clerk who types these things) seems to be a "GPL newbie". If the community treats Corel bad, they will have reason not to deal with the Linux community, and the Linux community will be setting a bad precedent, probably scaring off other developers, including hardware developers whose drivers we might like to have. So even if we win the battle, we lose the war.
I read the whole findings, and gathered that the main issues were Microsofts strong arm tactics to prevent Netscape from reaching the marketplace, which in turn would prevent middleware from threatening Windows' stranglehold on the desktop. The problem with the law wasn't that MS was giving away MSIE; the problem was MS was using its monopoly-like power to prohibit OEMs from putting Netscape on the desktop. Thus, the marketplace can't work if the products are being restricted from reaching the market. Their blatant disregard of Sun's License was the other major problem. It is kind of ironic that the company with some of the most restrictive licenses was violating Sun's Java licenses.
The way to sucess seems to be to publish a book for the management-fad-book-of-the-month club. It could be argued that these books are helpful; they allow clueless middle managers to feel productive when they purchase something after being told to "go buy a clue," which in turn helps to improve their sense of self worth.
As I recall, almost all of the long-term atmospheric models predicting significant global warming assume that all clouds are opaque, and therefore will enhance the greenhouse effect. Since clouds vary in the amount of long-wave radiation that they let escape back into the atmosphere, the models will be quite pessimistic compared to reality.
As for the evidence of global warming, we have been keeping weather records for an incredibly small amount of time compared to the life of the earth. Most weather stations are at airports, so these records will have to be shorter than a century. The thermometer itself is a relatively recent invention compared to the life of the earth. So, the current trend is way too short to use for long term prediction.
We also have very few observing stations over the open ocean. We have stations on a lot of islands, but the center of the North Pacific is uncovered except for ships, and most of these do not take upper atmospheric observations. Satellite technology has improved this tremendously, but it doesn't substitute for a surface and/or upper atmosphere observing station. Who knows, perhaps tracking open-ocean weather would have resulted in the average trend being toward global cooling?
I personally don't believe that scientific attention is proof of an effect. Centuries ago, a lot of attention was paid to how the sun and other planets circled the Earth.
or just helpful? Will another degree work as well if someone understands the concepts, read the books, and can figure out a language? I guess the main question is "What is the best path to a CS Career?"
Intel has a lot more marketing going on, and the average uniformed consumer sees commercials saying that they need a PIII to properly get on the Internet. Since the Average Joe home user is basically ignorant, Average Joe home user goes and pays hundreds of dollars extra to get the PIII instead of the K6-2, and doesn't consider the K-7. Until the average joe figures out that the chip isn't as important as the Intel commercials make it out, AMD will not sell as well as Intel, and they will have trouble turning a profit.
As somewhat of a newbie, I may not understand all of the implications here. However, isn't it possible for MS to legally sell a file manager or window manager running on top of Linux? They could package a distribution with something that looks very similar to fvwm95, coded outside of a GPL. They sell the window/file manager as closed source, slap a slick install on the front end of whatever distro they use, include the GNU/Linux as complementary, market the absense of virii and *nix compatibility to the business folks, start a MS-Window/File manager vs other distro FuD campaign, slap a $99 price on it for their usual (lack of) support and voila, they are players in the Linux market with a closed source product. Since I don't know a whole lot about the GPL and such, though, I could be way off.