In many places another number (generally 311 or 711) is used as a non-emergency information service.
Given enough energy, you can go to alpha centauri and back in 4 seconds.
Except that the G-force of that sort of acceleration would turn your brain to soup, which makes the prospect somewhat less attractive.
An AI based on suitably robust tech might travel to Alpha Centauri at close to light speed though.
You mean the replublitard right is blowing things out of proportion and making a lot of noise over nothing because they're irrelevant little piss-ants trying to regain their political footing? Say it isn't so!
Amigas, Macs and STs predate the advent of cheap PC clones by a number of years. It wasn't until the end of the 80s that sub $1000 pc clones hit the market and dominated it.
Can I hire these guys to make me money? Seriously, I've never seen number fudging like this.
For some subjects, absolutely. I'm still wishing, however, that our local schools' science departments would emphasize the observation/experience connection to wonderment and hypotheses. Instead, we have a (very well ranked) system that focuses heavily on standardized tests (which is probably why they are ranked so high).
Indeed. Consider how fans of certain other OSs show off and brag about their computer platform all for free, anyway.
If Apple were doing this, there'd be nothing but praise.
The funny thing is...
Same here. Every few months I download a few of the latest free AVs and ASWs, run them and then wipe them. In over five years the only thing any of them has found is suspicious cookies.
If you look at the history of scientific discovery, there are very (very!) few isolated incidents in which a single person makes a revolutionary discovery. The vast majority of the time discoveries are evolutionary, because our knowledge is so inter-dependent. Even Newton, arguably the most brilliant scientist of the last thousand years had Liebniz. Most discoveries are made possible due to incremental advances in other areas, and they therefore happen in clusters - suddenly all around the same time several people hit upon the same thing. The lone genius scientist is a myth.
Your statement, sir, is not insightful, it is the statement of someone who knows not of what they speak.
Actually, sir, my statement was not a statement, it was a question. Sir.
No child fails, the teacher fails the child
A dangerous thing to say, as that not every child will necessarily have the ability to learn the subject matter in a reasonable period of time no matter how you present it. You may not mean it in that way, but easy phrases like that are easy to take out of context or misinterpret.
I know plenty of dishwashers who graduated high school and several, in this economy, have college degrees. At what point do we say that no matter how you progress through school, there may come a time when you are at the bottom rung for one reason or another?
I should have added the disclaimer that I was a dishwasher for years in my teens. I was also damned good at it, and I think that part of the reason was the learned discipline to focus on a boring and unpleasant task. And while that's a backhanded compliment at formal education, it's a real and tangible benefit.
Given the number of children in the current system that aren't remotely prepared...?
A fair comment, but is taking them out of the system entirely going to somehow prepare them?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
