Comment Re:android asks the user for permissions (Score 1) 73
Some people will say yes to anything that pops up. Especially if they think they must to use the app.
>While states like California might be bigger textbook markets than Texas, Texas selects its curriculum and texts state wide.
The Texas board selects and will purchase the books for all districts that want to use them. If a district does not want these books they must pay for their books out of their own budget.
given that text books are a significant expense, most (especially the poorer districts) use whatever the state picks
On the up side, it is not uncommon for teachers to teach beyond the book by bringing in other sources. History is not one of those subject where you have to teach to the standardized test every day to get your students to pass.
>So while the government of the United States might not be Christian, the opinion at the time was that Christianity was necessary to preserve it.
I would like to point out to you that your quotes say "religion" and "morality" not Christianity.
We know that the founding fathers were aware of non-Christian religions and non-religious people and sought to be inclusive of them in government.
Yeah, but am I the only one here who thinks that a lot of those tasks could have been done with machinery orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper than this robot? Seriously, half their examples of 'real world' usage were moving things from one conveyor to the other, with no sorting or filtering required. Some of their examples (like placing the chocolates in the correct locations in the box) were impressive, but it just felt to me like they were showing off when much simpler designs could have been used.
as far as I can tell the other video is a promo video, not real world applications.
Currently most of the tasks show are done (faster and at a considerably lower price) by a high speed conveyor belt, a couple of metal fences, a little physics and an electric eye to sort the backward from the forward.
The machines ability to quickly find and organize is impressive.
The inability of a person to out maneuver the machine using a mechanized tray on a linear track, moving at a fixed speed that is slower than the robot is not impressive.
A bit off topic, but how can one be unable to get a bank account? A ten second Google search shows that there are accounts in existence with no fee or minimum balance.
In my experience, almost all "no fee" accounts require direct deposit of a pay check. If you don't get a regular pay check from a single source willing to do direct deposit, it can be hard to get an account.
I bet rental companies love you.
What do you mean i can't run my rental car into a tree?... I paid money for it.
My real question is, where are the opposition politicians on this? I mean, when the president breaks campaign promises, shouldn't Republican, at least a few of them, be calling him out on it publicly?
they are busy making sure nothing changes.
If they called attention to the lack of change, people might look to them to make a change.....they don't want change
I really do hate paying for other people's sprogs.
Today's "sprongs" will be attending to you in your nursing home.
They will be adding up your bills, and making your change.
ya might want to educate them.
i'd much rather see a system that kept an account for all children that wasn't paid until graduation, and if you ever received a D the money in the account was cut by half. if you ever received an F the money was wiped out, and if you ever got a C, you wouldn't receive any new money for that grading cycle.
That is great if your trying to motivate adults.
as the article points out. children do best with immediate feedback on concrete actions
Promising them something several years from now for a behavior they cannot figure out how to significantly change is the least effective.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
