That's more of a textbook than a teacher.
They're talking about the sci-fi version, which is basically a specialized AI that has access to all that information.
If you've read The Diamond Age, the Primer is a good example.
The short story "Dogfight" from the Burning Chrome collection has a young street criminal discover that he has a talent that could bring him a legitimate source of income and friends.
Since it's my answer to the title question, you can guess that it doesn't end well. The whole story's online here and a couple of other places.
I suspect some of the top people in the class went in with a full understanding of the subject matter, intending to test the class itself.
The plan requires high school students to take online courses for two of their 47 graduation credits.
This sounds like a cost-cutting measure. Online classes are for times when the alternative is not having the class. They're "better than nothing", not "better".
If a school wanted to offer students a course in programming but didn't have anyone capable, then it might make sense to arrange for them to take an online course offered by a third party (preferably a tech school or college in the same area). It doesn't sound like this is anything close to what they're doing.
This idea has been tried several times and it always ends the same way (with fail [wikipedia.org]).
Its neighbor could conquer it if the neighbor so desired, but that's true for many small nations.
It accepted aid offered by a neighbor during a disaster (the fire), but nations do that all the time.
It defeated an armed invasion by a group of mercenaries, and it has existed in a state of self-rule since 1967 (ignoring British firearm laws).
What would you consider a "success"?
I'm not trying to be confrontational -- I'm genuinely curious. Both B.Sc. and B.A. have breadth requirements, partly to encourage inquiry outside of the student's chosen discipline. If you strip those away, you're no longer talking about a university education but a trade-school-style training.
No, trade school-style training would be learning how to perform the basic tasks expected in an industry, with little if any of the theory.
Taking a good school's CS or mathematics program, stripping out the requirements for intro-level soft-science classes, and replacing them with more relevant classes wouldn't turn it into a trade school program. It would just be a more specialized university degree.
Having these filters as an option is a good thing; that's just a tool you can use to refine a search.
Having them on by default and invisible (or obfuscated) is not. In this case, information is being hidden from searchers who may not even realize that filtering is taking place.
The TED page for the speech has a transcript for those who don't have sound, or just don't want to sit through a nine-minute video.
The more I think about it, the more likely it seems that you're right, seeing as he just wanted the illusion of fireworks and not a detailed (physics-wise) simulation. Applying an actual force and then calculating the velocity would have been a waste of time for him, so he probably just assigned a velocity at birth and (erroneously) called it a force in the article.
Upward force is applied to the object. Upward velocity is the result.
Problem?
Santos Dummont - inventor of the air plane
No, that's an attempt by Brazil to pump up a national hero.
The Wright brothers didn't use a catapult in the 1903 flight, and the claim you just made would be wrong even if they had.
His reading comprehension isn't at fault here.
the offensive attack the US had planned if they didn't use the bomb would have been far worse. And that is historical fact.
"That" refers to the preceding statement. The quote claims that a hypothetical outcome is a historical fact.
the offensive attack the US had planned (and that is historical fact) if they didn't use the bomb would have been far worse.
This is what you meant (and yes, it is most likely true).
Editing out scenes that had the old WTC was stupid, and so is this.
Stop being oversensitive nutless wonders and expecting others to be the same.
We have determined that the problem occurs only when our customers are simultaneously using peer-to-peer file sharing applications and running the game. Therefore we recommend turning off the peer-to-peer setting in the World of Warcraft game and ensuring that no peer-to-peer applications are running on any connected computer. Rogers will engage our customers to ensure they are aware of these recommendations, while continuing to work on a longer term solution.
Are they missing the point or just playing dumb?
For one, their "advice" isn't going to accomplish anything. That's like fixing a broken limb by amputating it.
Secondly, Rogers is the one that's breaking things, so it's their responsibility, not the responsibility of their users. Whether a workaround exists is irrelevant, because they shouldn't be breaking things in the first place.
It's not giving the parents any legal power that they didn't already have. It's forcing the companies to jump through useless hoops in order to show the Ministry's disapproval of an activity.
The project will require online game companies to set up a web page, enquiry hotline and other special channels for parental supervision of their children.
Of course, next to a lot of other crap China has in place, this is pretty much inconsequential. I doubt the expenses are going to drive anyone to bankruptcy. Sure, it's part of the way things are normally done there. It's still a nanny state action.
Thank God! And cancer? Still unsolved. I'll bet computer time could be used for that too. (sorry, bullsh*t like this hits very close to home for me recently. Nothing like having people dying, and then hearing how we are using resources for utter crap)
I don't think the limiting factor in cancer research is lack of computer time. If it were something so simple, getting the resources wouldn't be a problem.
Your raging is pointless.
If it's worth hacking on well, it's worth hacking on for money.
