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Where is balance Academic priorities 300
May I snip the cross-posts? I'm in a.f.c and I don't know where you are. Nobody has agreed on that. This is exactly what the conflicts in the...
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i have restricted followups to afc snip-- the children subject to it might like a system that...
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Thanks. A one-on-one instruction is called tutoring. This cannot be done in a system...
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they frustrated emoticon here I've been trying to explain for a thousand posts but can't seem to manage. If a person is not aware of a piece of...
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Right, and this is an unsolvable problem. No matter what you learn in life or how, there will be some things you...
Where is balance Academic priorities 305
But that's just plain not true. After all, it precludes learning by experimentation, as well as the not...
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Barb, Less than 1% of such knowledge is ever taught in schools. Sure it might be nice to have this particular 1%, but at what cost?! Certainly at the cost of...
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There is also a huge mission creep here; where what was a search for portable guns were extended to knives, and then to mundane tools. The cost to...
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I think "mission creep" is overly charitable as a description. When enforcing the "rules" becomes...
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I do not have any documentation, but I do know of one case where the threat of a suit got the penalties canceled in...
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Del, et al, When I sent my son to school with handcuffs and a legal brief...
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That is what differentiates the engineer from the consumer. The engineer asks for a few decades worth of spare parts...
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Zero tolerance" means "zero thinking" -- the administration claims NOT to have any responsibility, becuase all judgement has been taken out of the process. So when a butter knife is found in...
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Who needs undetectable weapons when they serve you perfectly good ones on board? Crunch and twist a Coke can and you get a razor-sharp edge of whatever length you need. I'll take...
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Casper H.S. Dik Stainless steel cutlery on all international flights to-from the US is of course nice, however it really doesn't matter at all when you consider that all airlines gladly sell...
Where is balance Academic priorities 315
I am not a fan of gun control, but I think it's stupid for there to be blanket exemptions for retired or even active police officers. By extension, this logic should, for example, permit certain...
Where is balance Academic priorities 316
Del, et al, As part of teaching my kids to be able to act normal, they each received about 2 years each of public school, a few months at a time...
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The type of beginning statistics courses usually taught makes it almost impossible to ever learn statistical...
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Probably the "standard" solution using a square root. Even when it is wanted to find the solutions, describing the process sufficiently...
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I agree. That's why I lost it in my second year of university. Math turned into a series of seemingly arbitrary steps...
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Knowing how the procedures are carried out by pencil and paper does NOT give an understanding of what any of it...
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There was a posting in the education newsgroup some time ago that even a month might be enough to learn the manipulations; as for speed, how important is this? I have the speed. These have...
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Right... and that isn't caused by the use of calculators. Something much deeper is wrong there. When I...
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says... However, schools-teachers allowing children who should be learning the basics (by wrote) to use them is exactly the problem. They...
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This is a really old argument and the answer is that there is no reason...
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K Williams ^^^^^ Such as homonyms? The word is "rote" In a word, bullpoo. You can teach the process of finding roots of polynomials and maxima-minima to a reasonably intelligent 6th...
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Del Cecchi To me, that depends on what you mean by basic arithmetic skills. A calculator is no subsbreastute for understanding what it means to add, subtract, multiply, or...
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Not to the extent you might like, but that is what is happening, at least at some schools. The teaching of calculus in grade 12 was an...
Where should the type information be 328
Trevor, et al, I am presenting and demonstrating a project that somewhat leverages on this principle at the upcoming AI conference in Las Vegas. About 1-4 of the population...
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Del Cecchi Hardly. Drag, stock-car, Indy, Grand-Prix racers etc. rarely have to pbutt any emissions tests. The complications in run of the mill engines are largely due to finding...
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I'm sure there's plenty of bodies, money, and inspiration for game development in general. But video games have a strong visual element, and that's still...
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now -- had commercial games Sigh! I'm not knocking them. I am commenting on what kinds of production may not occur when...
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I'm not sure that the US' symptoms are caused by that. I'm beginning to play with the cause being specialization which has an unfortunate side effect that designers are so boxed into teensy little black...
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Obviously. The problem was not either of these terms; it was what you meant by them in context. As noted in other posts, this abbreviation is not universally recognized. It's also irrelevant in this...
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COPIES is limited to our imagination, since it doesn't exist in COBOL. It was a hypothetical clause RPL introduced to clarify his...
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I'm familiar with that kind of problem. Usually it is not a case where a particular answer is right...
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It sounds like you need a copy of "Hacker's Delight". It explains all sorts of interesting tricks and algorithms to do with numbers on a...
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I agree with you that many of the problems buttociated with computers and debugging might be eliminated if data was either described by...
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fs (future system) was an effort that was targeted at all sorts of complex hardware descriptors ... there was some analysis that the worst case could have five levels of indirection...
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small postscript to earlier reply stu had created cms script command at the science center for document formating...
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at the ieee metadata meetings we were going to in the early 90s ... there were fairly good representation from the oil...
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Ah! I was peripherally involved in that POSC effort too, and a good friend of mine was in the thick of things. Quite interesting stuff, and...
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Thats the good thing, but then call them ''lore''. There have been important and interesting books about programming lore. Or...
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Peter, et al, I'm not sure anyone else sees it, but this discussion is on-topic ... But of course IEEE-754 now draws a needless barrier...
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It's possible that that was mine, although I did it at the University of Alberta, not the University of Arizona. We had a new fancy smart terminal hooked up to the...
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Peter, et al, Here in the real (backwards) world, things have been divided into: 1. Programs, that have no metadata (and which was what brought on IEEE FP) and...
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debugging, consoles. a non-trivial level It was a wonderful invention on TOPS-10. It could be used by a user or by somebody debugging the...
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Ah, that's the magic incantation...thanks :-). Can you create a programmable logic analyzer? address). This is a start. Now if you can do something with a bit mask and trapping. We did...
Decimal Exponent Floating like in JOSS 348
Terje, It really depends on the details of the respective representations. If you have a bit somewhere that says whether it is an...
Virtual Machine Hardware 349
so a VM supervisor next to the hardware has to emulate a TLB for the virtual machines that it manages; this...
Metcalfe's Law Refuted
from above: pdp0x14 writes "Cnet News reports on a powerful refutation of Metcalfe's Law (that the value of a network goes up...
Virtual Machine Hardware 351
John Savard one of the original uses of distributed development with the internal network (the internal network had more nodes than the arpanet-internet from just...
Call for information on virtual tape formats 352
I first saw the TPC format in the DECUS tools used to copy sigtapes for distribution up the tape tree. (The tools at the time were BIGTPC for distribute now have been converted to...
Call for information on virtual tape formats 353
One matter-of-interpretation is that some DEC OS's (for example RT-11 prior to V5.5 or so) write the tape labels with 512-byte blocks instead of the usual 80-byte blocks...
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Tim Shoppa Well, there are tape systems that can only write 512 byte blocks, most of the QIC formats. Some were designed around floppy disk...
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Joe Morris I recall a card-resident dump program for the S-360 model 44...
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I think that you'll find that in many cases tape drives will read the short records if everything goes well...
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