If the Evolution/Creation makes teaching biology such a problem then why not teach something else.
Ok, a balanced coverage of the sciences which includes biology would be best of course but as the article says "Many high school students in the U.S. take no science classes at all, and for 25 percent of high schoolers, biology is the only one." Ideally getting a valid diploma should require more than that but if it doesn't then why push Biology so much specifically. How often does this question come up in chemistry or in physics?
I wonder if some good science could be worked into a class about electronics? I suppose that would be more of a technology than a science class but there is certainly a lot of physics and even some chemistry involved if you explain how and why things work. I remember as a kid in school I used to get so disappointed because on the rare occasion when our science textbooks got into anything remotely technological we would skip it. It's like science had to be something you could only study on paper, not something you could actually work with yourself. As tightly bound to technology as our current society is I think actually having some understanding of the "magic boxes" we are all surrounded by might do more good for waking up the dormant minds of the masses today than knowing where we come from and how the organs of a nematode function.
Installing an app which is not in the marketplace such as the one in TFA does not require "wandering through a set of adb commands", at least not on most Android phones. I can't say for sure what locks some manufacturers or carriers may have put in place but that is hardly Android's fault.
Adb commands are for rooting which is only required if you want to replace the entire operating system or do something that affects the operating system itself like setting up a nat (tethering), overclocking, etc...
To install something which has been banned from the marketplace all one has to do is check a checkbox stating that you are ok with installing apps which have not been checked out and approved by Google. Then you simply go to a website, click a link and wait. That's pretty much it.
And that is exactly why there is so much animosity towards iPhone among Android fans. iPhone shows the carriers and the manufacturers that the majority don't care about the freedom to install. Apple is leading the way with iPhone towards a future where a few large corporations decide everything and tinkerers/makers/hackers have no place.
Of course, it's not really Apple's fault that the people don't care. It's the people.
Not clearly. It's actually kind of fuzzy. http://www.space.com/10621-moon-mining-legal-issues.html
I suspect that the miner's country of origin would love it as they can tax the profit once the materials are sold on Earth. If the other nations raise a stink... we will have to wait to see.
I agree but that's more of a cultural problem. People want the convenience of one all encompassing App store and they don't want to find and install their own stuff. Even if they replaced their marketplace with one run by some independent and supposedly impartial third party they would just be giving the power to that third party. I think that having the option to go around the marketplace is probably the best we can hope for.
Not really. Android has a little checkbox in the setup menu that if checked (or was that unchecked?) allows you to download and install apps without using the marketplace just like you would on an older Windows mobile phone or a computer. Just go to the webpage, download and install. The marketplace is only a convenience, even a non-rooted phone can still run apps from outside the marketplace so long as they don't require low-level system access (like tethering). An iPhone however ONLY allows the user access to what Apple chooses to allow in their marketplace. The only two ways around that are to Jailbreak and risk bricking it or buy their sdk and program it yourself. The two are quite different that way.
On a small scale we already have He-3 collected from decaying nuclear warheads and already do use it for experiments.
For several million dollars you wouldn't even need He-3, at that price point even space tourism becomes viable albeit only available to the richest 1% or so. Since when could we do anything on the moon for only several million dollars? I think you've misplaced a decimal point.
The professional drivers may be better and cut down on accidents but they are still human. When they do have an accident it could take out the whole 'train'. This might still lead to fewer total deaths but each accident will get a lot more press coverage. Compare this to airplane travel. You are much more likely to die on the road than flying but how many people are afraid to fly vs afraid to ride in a car?
Enough to merit lunar mining and all the expense, complications and risk involved? I'd love to see this or anything motivate people enough to result in a lunar colony but the only way I see He3 being it is if someone demonstrates that they can make a fusion reactor work with a net gain of energy first. Then there will be a scramble to go get it.
There are a lot of people excited about the prospect of using Lunar water to make rocket fuel to explore Mars and beyond. How much water is really there though? Headlines make it seem that there is a lot because there really is a lot compared to what we just recently thought was there but it's still very dry compared to Earth. If lunar water is used for rocket fuel will it be available for colonization? Would using it this way be shooting ourselves in the foot?
No. The idea is to use lunar materials in space, not on Earth. Once you are set up on the moon it takes much less energy to get your materials into space than it does from Earth.
You realize that even if we had a constant supply of He3 on tap today we still couldn't use it right? In theory it might be possible to achieve fusion power using it. We aren't there yet. If we do ever get there then lunar He3 might well be worth it but we do have small supplies on Earth we can use to experiment with in the meantime.
You could always build the ship on Earth (probably in pieces to be assembled in orbit) and just get the fuel from the moon. Whatever is easier. The point is to get the Uranium from the moon so that a catastrophic launch failure can't spread it around the Earth's atmosphere.
Apple formally set its succession plan for the eventual departure of CEO Steve Jobs as it named marketing chief Steve Ballmer as chief operating officer.
The move also came as Andrew Fastow was named chief financial officer. Fastow was previously in charge of the Northern Natural Gas Company and will succeed Peter Oppenheimer at the end of the year.
As head of Microsoft, Ballmer has led the company to remain the largest computer operating system provider and has taken Apple's best punch via OSX. Meanwhile, Microsoft has launched the Windows Mobile franchise and partnered with Dell.
In a statement, Apple said Ballmer will oversee the company’s business, computer and wireless businesses. He will also oversee technology management and CIO functions. David J. Lesar will become CEO of Microsoft and Gayle Troberman., currently chief marketing officer of Microsoft will become COO.
Maybe. OSX sure took a lot of steam out of the Linux desktop. But as much as it pains me to admit, there were/are other issues involved.
Just as games were starting to be released for Linux the video drivers really went down the toilet. Sure, it was due to the ideology conflict between FOSS and proprietary hardware vendors, not a technical problem with Linux. That distinction didn't change the fact your card wouldn't work. This is getting quite a bit better now but it sucked for a really long time. Now 3d support is 'necessary' even for normal non-game desktop use if you want to fulfill current user's expectations.
Some might argue that the shift from hobbyist based kernel development to corporate sponsored either helped or hurt the Desktop. Read about the conflict between the kernel developers and Con Kolivas. The desktop just hasn't been the major focus for a while. It's totally anecdotal but I know my desktop seemed to get less and less responsive with updates until I finally started using BFS.
And then there is removable media... It's finally getting back to where you can pop in a CD/USB stick and it will mount it and ask you what to do with it.. if you are using one of the heavy desktops like KDE or Gnome that is. I once had a desktop that would access a CDRW using packet writing and supermount just as easily as Windows/DOS used to access a floppy disk! Shortly afterword supermount was gone and the support we have today involves a variety of daemons, u-dev rules, etc... which all have to be working for anything to happen.
While I understand your sentiment I would hesitate to include active, non-retired politicians/leaders/dictators and the like on that list. While people like Jobs and Gate's influence on the world can only harm things like operating systems and hardware bad leaders kill people. Many people much more innocent than themselves. While Bush for example has done his damage and may just as well enjoy a happy retirement what if Palin started war with Iran? I'm not defending Iran's leaders but how many civilians and soldiers would die? That war could go nuclear! What if some commentary from Limbaugh resulted in those last few votes that put her in that position. Would he be so much better?
I don't like this 'appliance' direction that computers/electronics are taking and I think Jobs is one of the driving forces behind this. I do not however think it would be right to wish a human being bad health or death over something like that. I hope he gets better. I will not extend this good will to people who might result in the loss of life or freedom for large numbers of others. That would be no different from wishing death on all their victims.
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If the Evolution/Creation makes teaching biology such a problem then why not teach something else.
Ok, a balanced coverage of the sciences which includes biology would be best of course but as the article says "Many high school students in the U.S. take no science classes at all, and for 25 percent of high schoolers, biology is the only one." Ideally getting a valid diploma should require more than that but if it doesn't then why push Biology so much specifically. How often does this question come up in chemistry or in physics?
I wonder if some good science could be worked into a class about electronics? I suppose that would be more of a technology than a science class but there is certainly a lot of physics and even some chemistry involved if you explain how and why things work. I remember as a kid in school I used to get so disappointed because on the rare occasion when our science textbooks got into anything remotely technological we would skip it. It's like science had to be something you could only study on paper, not something you could actually work with yourself. As tightly bound to technology as our current society is I think actually having some understanding of the "magic boxes" we are all surrounded by might do more good for waking up the dormant minds of the masses today than knowing where we come from and how the organs of a nematode function.
then how did you get this far down?
Installing an app which is not in the marketplace such as the one in TFA does not require "wandering through a set of adb commands", at least not on most Android phones. I can't say for sure what locks some manufacturers or carriers may have put in place but that is hardly Android's fault.
Adb commands are for rooting which is only required if you want to replace the entire operating system or do something that affects the operating system itself like setting up a nat (tethering), overclocking, etc...
To install something which has been banned from the marketplace all one has to do is check a checkbox stating that you are ok with installing apps which have not been checked out and approved by Google. Then you simply go to a website, click a link and wait. That's pretty much it.
And that is exactly why there is so much animosity towards iPhone among Android fans. iPhone shows the carriers and the manufacturers that the majority don't care about the freedom to install. Apple is leading the way with iPhone towards a future where a few large corporations decide everything and tinkerers/makers/hackers have no place.
Of course, it's not really Apple's fault that the people don't care. It's the people.
Not clearly. It's actually kind of fuzzy. http://www.space.com/10621-moon-mining-legal-issues.html I suspect that the miner's country of origin would love it as they can tax the profit once the materials are sold on Earth. If the other nations raise a stink... we will have to wait to see.
Just imagine the cries of fragmentation that would get us from the Apple fanbois!!!
I agree but that's more of a cultural problem. People want the convenience of one all encompassing App store and they don't want to find and install their own stuff. Even if they replaced their marketplace with one run by some independent and supposedly impartial third party they would just be giving the power to that third party. I think that having the option to go around the marketplace is probably the best we can hope for.
Not really. Android has a little checkbox in the setup menu that if checked (or was that unchecked?) allows you to download and install apps without using the marketplace just like you would on an older Windows mobile phone or a computer. Just go to the webpage, download and install. The marketplace is only a convenience, even a non-rooted phone can still run apps from outside the marketplace so long as they don't require low-level system access (like tethering). An iPhone however ONLY allows the user access to what Apple chooses to allow in their marketplace. The only two ways around that are to Jailbreak and risk bricking it or buy their sdk and program it yourself. The two are quite different that way.
On a small scale we already have He-3 collected from decaying nuclear warheads and already do use it for experiments. For several million dollars you wouldn't even need He-3, at that price point even space tourism becomes viable albeit only available to the richest 1% or so. Since when could we do anything on the moon for only several million dollars? I think you've misplaced a decimal point.
The professional drivers may be better and cut down on accidents but they are still human. When they do have an accident it could take out the whole 'train'. This might still lead to fewer total deaths but each accident will get a lot more press coverage. Compare this to airplane travel. You are much more likely to die on the road than flying but how many people are afraid to fly vs afraid to ride in a car?
What?!? I don't think Android (or anything else) owes it's existence to the iPhone.
Enough to merit lunar mining and all the expense, complications and risk involved? I'd love to see this or anything motivate people enough to result in a lunar colony but the only way I see He3 being it is if someone demonstrates that they can make a fusion reactor work with a net gain of energy first. Then there will be a scramble to go get it.
Don't we all?
Umm... Been following WikiLeaks lately? You just might be about to get your wish!
There are a lot of people excited about the prospect of using Lunar water to make rocket fuel to explore Mars and beyond. How much water is really there though? Headlines make it seem that there is a lot because there really is a lot compared to what we just recently thought was there but it's still very dry compared to Earth. If lunar water is used for rocket fuel will it be available for colonization? Would using it this way be shooting ourselves in the foot?
Blame Pink Floyd
No. The idea is to use lunar materials in space, not on Earth. Once you are set up on the moon it takes much less energy to get your materials into space than it does from Earth.
You realize that even if we had a constant supply of He3 on tap today we still couldn't use it right? In theory it might be possible to achieve fusion power using it. We aren't there yet. If we do ever get there then lunar He3 might well be worth it but we do have small supplies on Earth we can use to experiment with in the meantime.
You could always build the ship on Earth (probably in pieces to be assembled in orbit) and just get the fuel from the moon. Whatever is easier. The point is to get the Uranium from the moon so that a catastrophic launch failure can't spread it around the Earth's atmosphere.
EVERYBODY uses BSD code. What's your point? - And I don't even like Mac OS!
Apple formally set its succession plan for the eventual departure of CEO Steve Jobs as it named marketing chief Steve Ballmer as chief operating officer.
The move also came as Andrew Fastow was named chief financial officer. Fastow was previously in charge of the Northern Natural Gas Company and will succeed Peter Oppenheimer at the end of the year.
As head of Microsoft, Ballmer has led the company to remain the largest computer operating system provider and has taken Apple's best punch via OSX. Meanwhile, Microsoft has launched the Windows Mobile franchise and partnered with Dell.
In a statement, Apple said Ballmer will oversee the company’s business, computer and wireless businesses. He will also oversee technology management and CIO functions. David J. Lesar will become CEO of Microsoft and Gayle Troberman., currently chief marketing officer of Microsoft will become COO.
Apple is not like Microsoft. Look what happened to Apple the last time Jobs left.
Every person dies eventually. If Apple needs Jobs to survive then so will Apple.
Maybe. OSX sure took a lot of steam out of the Linux desktop. But as much as it pains me to admit, there were/are other issues involved.
Just as games were starting to be released for Linux the video drivers really went down the toilet. Sure, it was due to the ideology conflict between FOSS and proprietary hardware vendors, not a technical problem with Linux. That distinction didn't change the fact your card wouldn't work. This is getting quite a bit better now but it sucked for a really long time. Now 3d support is 'necessary' even for normal non-game desktop use if you want to fulfill current user's expectations.
Some might argue that the shift from hobbyist based kernel development to corporate sponsored either helped or hurt the Desktop. Read about the conflict between the kernel developers and Con Kolivas. The desktop just hasn't been the major focus for a while. It's totally anecdotal but I know my desktop seemed to get less and less responsive with updates until I finally started using BFS.
And then there is removable media... It's finally getting back to where you can pop in a CD/USB stick and it will mount it and ask you what to do with it.. if you are using one of the heavy desktops like KDE or Gnome that is. I once had a desktop that would access a CDRW using packet writing and supermount just as easily as Windows/DOS used to access a floppy disk! Shortly afterword supermount was gone and the support we have today involves a variety of daemons, u-dev rules, etc... which all have to be working for anything to happen.
While I understand your sentiment I would hesitate to include active, non-retired politicians/leaders/dictators and the like on that list. While people like Jobs and Gate's influence on the world can only harm things like operating systems and hardware bad leaders kill people. Many people much more innocent than themselves. While Bush for example has done his damage and may just as well enjoy a happy retirement what if Palin started war with Iran? I'm not defending Iran's leaders but how many civilians and soldiers would die? That war could go nuclear! What if some commentary from Limbaugh resulted in those last few votes that put her in that position. Would he be so much better?
I don't like this 'appliance' direction that computers/electronics are taking and I think Jobs is one of the driving forces behind this. I do not however think it would be right to wish a human being bad health or death over something like that. I hope he gets better. I will not extend this good will to people who might result in the loss of life or freedom for large numbers of others. That would be no different from wishing death on all their victims.