It must have made it back in at some point because 3rd graders in my son's language immersion elementary school are doing square roots and long division while instruction is given in either Japanese or Spanish. This is not a gifted school, this is your plain old neighborhood public school that happens to be language immersion. In kindergarten, students were doing multi-digit addition and subtraction and expected to know the numeric value of currency and be able to add and subtract multiple units (12 pennies + 3 quarters + 5 nickles + 3 dollars = ?). I was stunned. We were doing multiplication tables in 3rd grade when I went into public school and that was a big deal.

From my limited perspective I don't know what all the noise is about regarding the curriculum getting soft in our public schools.

If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Most commenters seem to believe that tenure is about prestige or money. That may be true in practice but tenure was originally developed for the reason you stated, to protect faculty and provide the freedom to openly discuss controversial ideas. That said I'm not certain tenure it its current form is ideal and is probably due for a shake up.

This is one of the worst videos /. has put up yet and the bar is incredibly low. No fault of the interviewee, the interviewer goes off on tangents about his sound system and social security. The question is never really answered. Here is the question I'd have liked to have had answered: Are Televisions on aggregate substantially better than they were 5-10 years ago when some of us bought our first HDTVs?

This. The Surface Pro and the Lenovo Helix also have the same digitizer used in wacom tablets. To say it isn't used for photoshop is absurd. I plan on picking up one of these two devices and will use it exclusively for audio and video production.

FWIW, you don't need a snorkel, you just need to keep positive pressure in the tailpipe. If you drop your RPMs, you create a backdraft which will suck water water into the exhaust system and kill the engine or what I like to call the "banana in the tailpipe" effect. I've forded many a river in my youth driving an 80s two wheel drive Toyota Hilux. Also got stuck a few times not following this rule.

I'm just going to leave this here. Guess we shouldn't consider dams safe either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvi_dam_failure

It is a sad day on /. when the subject of the story posts an eloquent, intelligent response and only gets modded +3 interesting (rather than informative). But never mind this post, please continue to debate this story from a position of ignorance, it has never stopped us before.

get a fat pipe and watch online and don't let the media conglomerates tell you what is going to be on tonight. last I checked al jazeera had a website. that said, I'm glad we're getting a broader spectrum of voices on our air/cable waves.

Speed of subject, frames (images) per second, and time of exposure per frame dictate how much blur there will be present. A fast moving subject at 48FPS with an exposure of 1/48 may also have motion blur. The chariot scenes in gladiator come to mind for the opposite effect at 24FPS. Scott set his exposure to 1/2000 or higher which even at a low FPS results in VERY crisp shots with no blur, you just need boatloads of light for an exposure time that short.

I think that could be taken as generally true, particularly with RAM and CPU but I'm still seeing fallout from the electrolytic fluid/capacitor debacle from the 2000s. Power supplies and main/daughter boards are still failing unpredictably in older hardware. Even newer equipment has suffered as "new old stock" components were integrated in equipment manufactured after 2006. The tolerance of the capacitors was close enough to get them past the initial failure period but off enough to eventually cause problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Also the same reason PAL is 50hz, Europe uses a different AC frequency. Both NTSC and PAL were synchronized to our respective power systems.

"Some would say that the earth is OUR moon but that would belittle the name of the moon, which is, the Moon" - ignignokt. long live the moon.

You are joking of course. I've been shopping at amazon almost exclusively for the past 4 years and I'm a Washington resident; been paying my sales tax all along. The main reason why I don't shop locally is because I don't want to deal with people/traffic/time wasting looking for something when I can do it from my couch. I never use local shops as try before you buy, I never get that far, amazon's return policy is such I don't feel like there is any risk. I don't even buy my clothes locally anymore. While I may sound like a shill (or shut in) I am in no way affiliated with amazon, I just prefer to shop somewhere that has earned my business and works with my lifestyle. Driving anywhere in seattle sucks.

I have a boy but in that same age range. I too have been frustrated with the lack of quality apps. Mermaid waters is pretty good with math and matching games, math train is also decent as is superwhy but the best app I've found is Word Wizard. It is the speak and spell you always wanted. Very high quality app. The very best app I've seen is Redshift. Beats all the other star maps hands down. It is pricey but worth every penny. And before anyone gets uptight, no I am not associated with any of the developers in any way.

I grew up in a place where median home price was in that range and for some reason, everyone in town seemed to have a fully loaded/lifted truck, a 5th wheel, dirt bikes, classic car, you name it. These were blue collar working class folk. A fully loaded pickup with mods is a good $50,000 easy these days and I see plenty of people in rural/suburban areas ponying up that kinda cash. I'm not sure how a luxury car (and 60k is barely that) is any different than a pickup. They both suck up gas at the same rate, have about the same horsepower but just appeal to different crowds. Cost of housing in an area is no way to measure this stuff.