skill is an extreme advantage. go to a local SCA event. Though they use blunt stick weapons, they can demonstrate that the first effective* strike drastically reduces the opponents ability to strike back.

The sharp edge matters for sure, but skill outweighs it by an order of magnitude.

"Adding a serrated edge would probably be even more effective against soft targets because it tears out chunks and causes more trauma"
not really the case, the serration causes a lot of surface damage but doesn't drive deep because it gets bound on fleshy parts, a smooth, moderate bevel with good weight will go deeper and cause a quicker death (typically). Keep in mind that an opponent might only have enough blood pressure to handle a single half-strength swing after a major arterial cut where a serrated tear could leave the other arm able to strike quite effectively even if they would die within minutes.

earthquake resistant then. They way they formed the top of each stone and the bottom formed a type of 'copy' so the rocks would stay in place instead of slide around on the stone below. Obviously this would wear on the stones to some degree and a really powerful earthquake would overcome the cope, but as time has shown, they put enough cope on the stones to handle the earthquakes in the region for a good long time.

You are correct, the flaw here is actually using a base10 prefix to describe a base8 or base2 systems.

hmmm, can the debian chroot let you update your system to current? nope. stuck on ICS? JB not support your hardware? how can JB not support your hardware?!? oh, because it's not using drivers written for linux, it's stuff written for dalvik.

In contrast, ubuntu is just linux. you can update the system to current anytime. You can disable eyecandy if your phone is a bit too slow and keep it modern. It puts the user back in control.

I can appreciate canonical's efforts here. ubuntu can be used as-is for users that wont mess with things, or can be tinkered with by those who want too. You can launch an X session to run X apps, or an X session on an external display. QML is pretty straight forward and well documented.

I don't know how well it will be received, but I for one am willing to try it out. I'm a long time iOS user and haven't been completely satisfied with android (orig droid owner) and lack of ability to update the system without a TON of effort by cyanogen etc etc.

any tampering or inspection is effectively the same as opening so this doesn't solve it.

yes, either site some sort of evidence, or can someone delete. I'm not about censorship, but if this is an outright lie it doesn't belong here. shame on you.

Britain claims that they can inspect diplomatic bags.

all of them

The amount of effort being exercised to get a guy accused of rape by women that later changed their story to 'he lied about wrapping it up' and then further to the prosecution dropping the suit because their clients recanted.

I don't know if he committed a crime in Sweden, but he is on the hook for some political persecution from what I can see and their is zero possibility of a fair trial. Ecuador sees it my way and grants him asylum. Good for them I think, and shame on the UK for being part of this political crap, they don't care about some extradition.

What is the point of 30 second boot on a file server? If this is on the list of 'requirements', then the 'plan' is 1/4 baked. 1/2 baked for buying hardware without a plan, then 1/2 again for not having a clue.

unioning filesystem? what is the use scenario? how about automounting the drives on hot-plug and sharing the /mnt directory?

Now, 500GB/day in 12 drive sleds....so 6TB a day? do the workers get a fresh drive each day or is the data only available for a few hours before it gets sent back out or are they rotated? I suspect that mounting these drives for sharing really isnt what is necessary, more like pull contents to 'local' storage. Then, why talk about unioning at all, just put the contents of each drive in a separate folder.

Is the data 100% new each day? Are you really storing 6TB a day from a sensor network? 120TB+ a month?

Are you really transporting 500GB of data by hand to local storage and expecting the disks to last? reading or writing 500GB isn't a problem, but constant power cycling and then physically moving/shaking the drives around each day to transport is going to put the MTBF of these drives in months not years.

dumb

If it wasn't clear by my statement that fundamentals are essential, that is what I meant. I think that 12 -5 = 7 certainly falls below the high water mark of multiplication and division tables. In other words, you are beginning to argue a point that needs not be argued

And these kids should probably have extra effort put towards then understanding the critical math that is required in day-to-day life and not be pressed into more advanced mathematics studies. Subjects that are hard for students to learn (hard in the sense that they fall behind the other students) is likely to be nearly impossible to retain or recall. These kids skill set may be in another subject. Don't waste any time on the more advanced stuff that they will not learn or retain.

I agree. My point was that memorizing formulas and functions rarely benefits the average student/adult. Understanding the methods is what should be taught. The basics still apply though and swiftly solving any addition or subtraction well into the hundreds is very manageable with very little memorization. Beyond that, the average person will not have the memory when they reach 21 years old to do in their head anyway (some say as little as 7 digits are easily remembered and available for doing mental math). Techniques to overcome these limits would be a good part of the curriculum.

I believe it has been stated, with various degrees of truth and accuracy, that most people do not memorize well in school settings. I believe that interest in a subject matter is the only way students or adults pursue higher level mathematics (or any subject). Those students with aptitude and interest should definitely be moved into classes that challenge them, while disinterested students should probably be guided to subjects they are more apt too (again, not ignoring the basics)

Maybe you misunderstand. facts and equations are not the same thing. I consider myself to be exceptionally able to learn and apply that learning to problems. My skills and capabilities were earned through my being interested in the subject matter, being challenged with problems that others were not able to solve, and through a lot of my own learning outside of school. The school system provided my with very little beyond the basics, and rationed that knowledge out over a excruciatingly long time frame. I easily outpaced the average in school, so I sat in the classroom with people that I considered intelligent and capable, that were not able to do the same work as I was. I know that this statement has more than a slight stench of arrogance, but I don't mean it too.

My point is that I excelled in subjects and the schools that I went to, in 5 states, all failed to challenge me in those subjects. Kids that excelled in other subjects sat bored in those classes or caused trouble.

I would add that many hours spend memorizing things in school went unused. I can still remember the periodic table, no use in real life. I can still remember how a frog is put together and comes apart, no use in the real world. The labs were good, learning about elements, electrons, etc etc was all good. But memorizing the data was of such minimal value that it could have been skipped altogether.

In your opinion, which you can enjoy without my criticism.

My point of view is based on my experience and America's schools poor testing vs other 1st world nations. If all is well, then everyone else must be doing the same thing and their people are just smarter. I don't believe that for a second.

It is broken, America's schools underperform vs other 1st world countries. That is a real problem, in fact it will be the core problem in our country in the near future.

I don't argue that the fundamentals of +|-|/|x are essential, and that multiplication and division tables up to 12 are critical to core math skills. Massive amounts of memorization interferes with cognitive learning. Memorization does not contribute to higher skill sets beyond the basics, cognitive learning allows people to do advanced work with minimal research. Children do not need to memorize hundreds of equations, only to fundamentally understand how the equations work so that they can solve problems with ANY equation, for which they can discover quickly will all the data available to us.

maybe the core issue is the lowest common denominator education. maybe trying to find new, novel ways to teach every kid to be a math wiz is time that should have been spend identifying and elevating kids with potential in that subject matter.

I am a devout agnostic ;)

I suspect that if there was indeed a God that spoke to men in biblical days, man's primitive culture and language would over simplify the statements. Purhaps the universe up to the point of the bible was created in 6 units of time measurement that were beyond the scope of man at that time. A perfect example that is testable today is '40 days and 40 nights'. We know that this was a common statement in biblical times to say 'a long time'. You may or may not believe the literal 40 days and 40 nights, but there is good supporting, believable evidence that the language frequently used idioms to describe time.

Very sophisticated thoughts can be described in English that simply cannot be described in Piraha for instance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language). Purhaps the language spoken by 'God' or 'gods' or whatever is beyond our ancestors language skills, and possibly beyond our language skills.

I do tend to be on the athiest side because I haven't seen evidence of 'God' etc etc, though I don't crusade that there can't be a God.

I don't anticipate that ipv4 dies off as slowly as many people suggest. ipv4 is easy to understand, and addresses fit within the average technicians short term memory. Just try to remember ipv6 addresses, you brain will melt!

Soo many services are now becoming NAT compatible, and many ISPs are now NATing their customers and handing out private ipv4 addresses.

I do expect enterprise networks to migrate first. Microsoft has done a good job at making ipv6 a desirable thing in it's enterprise environment. Each computer gets a public ipv6 address and ipsec encrypts any domain related traffic for a VPN-free anywhere corporate network.

At home? probably ipv4 for a very long time and some 4to6 NATing either on the router side or way up at the ISP side as the server world goes ipv6..

just my thoughts.