I had a problem with English class too, or probably more with the teacher(s), in high school, but once in college, the assignments were no longer so dull and I got A's. I "tested out of" English 101 in college by writing a single essay in a blue book sitting in an auditorium for a couple of hours.
I was getting an F in English in my senior year of high school basically because I didn't turn in the papers I was supposed to turn in, and I was not allowed to go on a band trip to Canada with an F on my record, so I just dropped the class - didn't need it to graduate, already accepted to colleges, etc. went on the band trip and got an "I" (incomplete) on my report card instead of an F. Wish I had dropped it sooner.
I'd say there are methods to good writing too, but maybe they are harder to teach well than math. I've never tried to teach someone to write, though I do help my son occasionally with grammar, but he's a pretty good writer for a fifth grader. He has more trouble with math than with language (though he does OK at that too) - go figure!
What if you listen/watch and apply a critical filter to both? For the record, I listen to NPR much more than I watch Fox, even though I'm a registered Republican - please don't tell on me;-)
Yeah, they didn't really mean "there is no right answer", of course. If they meant that literally, then you shouldn't bother trying since no matter what your answer would not be right. What they were implying is "there is more one right answer" not "there is no wrong answer" which is apparently how you interpreted it.
Obviously, given the assignment, "Write a paragraph explaining the difference between rhyme and verse.", there are (infinitely?) many ways to do it correctly. but writing "There is no difference. They are the same thing." is one of infinitely many possible wrong ways to answer.
My first ticket was like that. A fairly long steep hill with a 25 mph limit led away from the high school I went to, and the speed trap was set near the bottom of said hill. Easy money.
Haven't heard that one. I'd like to. Of course, there's also Stairway To Heaven for the classic rock Zappa. And he's got his own classics, like Valley Girl, and He's So Gay. How come no one ever covers that one?!
As long as there are people willing to pay money or trade real goods or services for a thing, then that thing is "worth money" no matter how worthless it is to you. That said, I'd never pay for a thing that I didn't have a good understanding of how it could be or needed to be protected from theft.
I agree. How wealth is RE-distributed does matter, but the OP's point that a casino does not *produce* anything is correct. Farming, manufacturing, building bridges, even writing software, those are productive. Casinos are not.
I don't think the American Revolution was fueled by starvation or poverty. What we lack is not hunger but moral conviction. I include myself in that accusation.
I'm curious now. I'm not a programmer though I once did learn some BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN (in that order)(gives my age away no doubt) and fiddled around with programming my HP-41C and HP-48SX. To add hexadecimal numbers, would you convert them to decimal, add them, and then convert back to hex, or is there is some shortcut, or memorized approach?
Sure enough. One question though: why is the larger company automatically less trustworthy? How big is Blackwater? More trustworthy than BP? Is Walmart (higher revenue, market cap, and # employees) less trustworthy than BP? Why?
As an aside, I find it interesting that people like to see small businesses succeed, but then when they do, which means they get bigger, then for some reason, people don't like them anymore. What is the threshold above which companies are no longer the good guys? I'd really like to to understand why people think the ways they do about the size and success of companies. It seems like we value success up until the point where it is achieved, then we distrust it.
The logarithmic scale also allows you to see the difference between 3 and 5 when the data also includes numbers as high as 167. A linear scale can't do that: if it includes 167, 3 and 5 will be indistinguishable.
2500 feet is only halfway there. The Navy has no experience in oil drilling. A side note, the engineering officer on the boat I was on (USS Kamehameha SSBN 642) went to be the CO (IIRC) on the NR-1 back around 1992. Didn't know they decommissioned her. Too bad. I don't think they have anything "better" now. That one was unique.
Agreed, but we've already seen things (in this very article) that indicate that (a) they shouldn't be there, or (2) MIT doesn't have the population of students we might think it should.
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I had a problem with English class too, or probably more with the teacher(s), in high school, but once in college, the assignments were no longer so dull and I got A's. I "tested out of" English 101 in college by writing a single essay in a blue book sitting in an auditorium for a couple of hours.
I was getting an F in English in my senior year of high school basically because I didn't turn in the papers I was supposed to turn in, and I was not allowed to go on a band trip to Canada with an F on my record, so I just dropped the class - didn't need it to graduate, already accepted to colleges, etc. went on the band trip and got an "I" (incomplete) on my report card instead of an F. Wish I had dropped it sooner.
I'd say there are methods to good writing too, but maybe they are harder to teach well than math. I've never tried to teach someone to write, though I do help my son occasionally with grammar, but he's a pretty good writer for a fifth grader. He has more trouble with math than with language (though he does OK at that too) - go figure!
What if you listen/watch and apply a critical filter to both? ;-)
For the record, I listen to NPR much more than I watch Fox, even though I'm a registered Republican - please don't tell on me
Yeah, they didn't really mean "there is no right answer", of course. If they meant that literally, then you shouldn't bother trying since no matter what your answer would not be right.
What they were implying is "there is more one right answer" not "there is no wrong answer" which is apparently how you interpreted it.
Obviously, given the assignment, "Write a paragraph explaining the difference between rhyme and verse.", there are (infinitely?) many ways to do it correctly.
but writing "There is no difference. They are the same thing." is one of infinitely many possible wrong ways to answer.
My first ticket was like that.
A fairly long steep hill with a 25 mph limit led away from the high school I went to, and the speed trap was set near the bottom of said hill. Easy money.
Haven't heard that one. I'd like to. Of course, there's also Stairway To Heaven for the classic rock Zappa.
And he's got his own classics, like Valley Girl, and He's So Gay. How come no one ever covers that one?!
He's working in *his* 70's. His memory falters from time to time. Give him a break.
AND is fine. OP was saying XOR.
Depends.
On how well the Asus tablet does.
As long as there are people willing to pay money or trade real goods or services for a thing, then that thing is "worth money" no matter how worthless it is to you. That said, I'd never pay for a thing that I didn't have a good understanding of how it could be or needed to be protected from theft.
Web-pages should be about spreading information, not creating flashy designs.
Cars should be about getting from point A to point B, not being fun to drive or flashy designs.
See how it doesn't work so well to make such a limitation?
I thought ice brewing was a low temperature *brewing* process, not fractional crystallization to remove water.
I always liked the saying that "Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives" should be the name of a store, not the name of a government agency!
He lives in the basement? (Even if it were a daylight basement, there wouldn't much be opportunity for gravitational acceleration to come into play.)
I agree. How wealth is RE-distributed does matter, but the OP's point that a casino does not *produce* anything is correct. Farming, manufacturing, building bridges, even writing software, those are productive. Casinos are not.
I don't think the American Revolution was fueled by starvation or poverty. What we lack is not hunger but moral conviction. I include myself in that accusation.
With its ears, of course.
I'm curious now. I'm not a programmer though I once did learn some BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN (in that order)(gives my age away no doubt) and fiddled around with programming my HP-41C and HP-48SX.
To add hexadecimal numbers, would you convert them to decimal, add them, and then convert back to hex, or is there is some shortcut, or memorized approach?
Sure enough. One question though: why is the larger company automatically less trustworthy?
How big is Blackwater? More trustworthy than BP? Is Walmart (higher revenue, market cap, and # employees) less trustworthy than BP? Why?
As an aside, I find it interesting that people like to see small businesses succeed, but then when they do, which means they get bigger, then for some reason, people don't like them anymore. What is the threshold above which companies are no longer the good guys? I'd really like to to understand why people think the ways they do about the size and success of companies. It seems like we value success up until the point where it is achieved, then we distrust it.
"...in my state, it is illegal to ask for a driver's license when using a credit card."
To ask for any form of ID or just a driver's license? What is the purpose of such a law?
Fire-breathing Dragon Naturally Speaking!
The logarithmic scale also allows you to see the difference between 3 and 5 when the data also includes numbers as high as 167.
A linear scale can't do that: if it includes 167, 3 and 5 will be indistinguishable.
2500 feet is only halfway there.
The Navy has no experience in oil drilling.
A side note, the engineering officer on the boat I was on (USS Kamehameha SSBN 642) went to be the CO (IIRC) on the NR-1 back around 1992.
Didn't know they decommissioned her. Too bad. I don't think they have anything "better" now. That one was unique.
Agreed, but we've already seen things (in this very article) that indicate that (a) they shouldn't be there, or (2) MIT doesn't have the population of students we might think it should.
Reading comprehension failure. Her apparent age (that of a *14 yr old*) has not changed in the last twelve years.
One wonders what fraction of the students understood what it meant that the packets would be sniffed.