I'm signed up for almost every coursera MOOC.

I've only officially completed 1, and watched every video for about 30 others, and have downloaded videos 'to watch' for most of the others.

A few things I've found are that

1) Professors seem to like to assign waste of time busy work.

There are lots of classes that require essays or projects where it is essentially a giant waste of the students time. This includes doing videos and presentations for almost any course (a really well taught audio production course wanted every stuent to do a video essentially repeating a subset of the same material he just did. Others have wanted various large scale projects.) Since there would only be 'peer' evaluation of the material, this was all essentially busy work. There are areas where peer evaluation can be useful (some writing with rubrics and such), but mostly it was stuff that wouldn't matter at all from improving learning. Or the amount of learning improved versus the time invested was drastically out of proportion.

The math, science, programming and finance classes tend to 'get it right', only assigning an amount and type of assignment required to understand the material well, not wasting students time.

2) Science, Programming, Finance, Engineering, and Math courses are real courses, courses from Bschool and other sections are often ridiculously simple.

Of course testing and evaluating understanding of computer and science courses is quite easy, but still the quality and type of questions asked in reviews and homework and the type of assignments made sense for the Science/Tech classes; whereas I was sometimes wondering why the other courses had even bother to do a quiz the questions were so ridiculously simple minded.

Any chance this greening will significantly reduce CO2 levels? Or are we seeing an equal or more reduction in green somewhere else?

Sometimes? Wait, how many times have your kids thrown up on them?

Maybe you should have them put aside the tablet for a sec and get them a bucket.

Yep, it's feeding an addition.

Caffeine is physiologically addicting, and detoxification takes a long time and is unpleasant. A cup of coffee contains about 2-3 times a reasonable therapeutic dose, which makes addiction really, really easy.

If I were prescribing caffeine to an average, healthy adult male, I'd say 3 cans of Diet Coke (equiv. one cup of coffee) spaced evenly throughout the day, and expect at least two days of hangover-like symptoms after quitting.

The enemy's gate is down.

I don't know about "true Australian" but I'd imagine that Australians would take the most pride in successful Australians who are not just citizens but whose genius could be argued is in part due to having been raised in Australia during most of their formative years. It would be dumb for Americans to point to Einstein's US citizenship as evidence of America's greatness or as an example of what great people America produces.

Maybe they would want to fund research for a cure if they (or someone they loved more than money) were also infected?

Kepler is likely a poor choice of analogy. Much more apt is probably religious conversion, or political party conversion, or social movement conversion. Most individuals who have complete reversals of position have neither position based on logic, but on emotion. The individuals will have rationalizations for their emotional decision, but it isn't useful to look at their reasoning, since the 'reason' is generally post hoc rationalization. Usually the actual reason is either a traumatic event (ie death of a family member causing loss or gain of faith; 'betrayal' by a politician) or change in self interest (monetary, sexual mores, regulatory costs/benefits, social welfare costs/benefits).

And you thought bee venom was expensive? Just wait until you see the prices of HP 3D Printer Bee Venom Cartridges.

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I don't know about the latest portables, but in the past Nintendo's offerings were always stronger than the competitors where it counts on the portable front: battery life.

I owned the Dreamcast and actually loved it. Quite a few really fun games for it. That said, their VMUs were tremendously underutilized. Granted, they were nothing like a tablet but they could have been much more. It wasn't never going to be the VMU that would make or break the Dreamcast, though. It's a much different situation compared to the Wii U

I used to work for a startup company that created an amazing new block design, lays up like standard masonry and has the beauty of masonry.

http://onestepbuildingsystem.com/what-is-onestep.html

Has an integrated cavity that is filled with concrete and rebar, so is ridiculously strong. And the insulation seals it against water penetration (not as well as the original design which had more internal plastic, but in the water penetration testing it stood up to hurricane force driven water without leakage.)

Also has great sound insulation, has thermal mass to the inside which drops heating and cooling costs significantly, and maintenance is fairly inexpensive.

Not sure what choice you'd use for windows, I recall seeing some that were quite amazing 10 years ago, when I last looked, but I'm sure the market has devised some even cooler stuff since.

No you don't have the implement the functionality, just the API.

Ie if the GPLed api has

int Square_Root(int x);

then my binary compatible test API can just do
int Square_Root(int x) {return x;}

It doesn't have to be functionally equivalent (or even if it is functionally equivalent a far simpler method to implement) just binary compatible to compile against.