Comment Re:d'oh (Score 1) 425
think about what the senior year average grade point will look like when the students that could test out already have? Time to re-tool No Child Left Behind! ;-)
Comment "...far too young..." (Score 4, Interesting) 425
They'll only be far to young if they're the only ones. I have a feeling a lot of kids will be able to show the proper aptitude, and I have a feeling that college entrance exams will be re-tooled and remedial courses in college will go up a bit.
New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early 425
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that education commissioners in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont have pledged to sign up 10 to 20 schools each for a pilot project that would allow 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college. The new system of high school coursework with the accompanying board examinations is modeled largely on systems in high-performing nations including Denmark, England, Finland, France and Singapore. 'We've looked at schools all over the world, and if you walk into a high school in the countries that use these board exams, you'll see kids working hard, whether they want to be a carpenter or a brain surgeon.' says Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Kentucky's commissioner of education, Terry Holliday, says high school graduation requirements have long been based on having students accumulate enough course credits to graduate. 'We've been tied to seat time for 100 years. This would allow an approach based on subject mastery — a system based around move-on-when-ready,' says Holliday. However some school officials are concerned about the social and emotional implications of 16-year-olds going off to college. 'That's far too young to be thrown into an environment with college students who are about 18 to 23 years old. ... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,' says Mary Anderson, headmaster of Pinkerton Academy."
Comment Re:USB on hand? (Score 1) 211
Except for the guy who put a USB key in his prosthetic finger :-)
Comment Re:Quid pro quo (Score 1) 483
Bravo!
I'm a mechanical design engineer who has to quote my work. The initial quote is most likely blown away when the customer comes back with more changes than budgeted in concept phase, and brings changes again when we're past "the point of no return".
Oh how I miss the days of desparate customers willing to pay Time and Materials... sigh
I'm a mechanical design engineer who has to quote my work. The initial quote is most likely blown away when the customer comes back with more changes than budgeted in concept phase, and brings changes again when we're past "the point of no return".
Oh how I miss the days of desparate customers willing to pay Time and Materials... sigh
Comment I use Sysinternals... (Score 1) 1
as a replacement for my performance monitor. Programs are grouped in a much more intuitive way.
Windows 7's performance monitor works similarly.
I knew there were other programs, but I never looked at them.
Windows 7's performance monitor works similarly.
I knew there were other programs, but I never looked at them.
Submission + - The hidden treasures of Sysinternals (pcpro.co.uk) 1
Barence writes: PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball has written a nice feature on the latest treasures to be found on the Windows Sysinternals website. Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard disks from physical drives, a hard disk read-write monitoring tool, and a utility for putting ISO images onto flash drives. They're free, but they're effective.
Submission + - Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access
cyclone96 writes: Internet access on the International Space Station went live this morning. The crew now has full browsing capability via a special LAN and the Ku-band data link on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) network, as described in this NASA press release. Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer used the access to post to twitter. Previous astronaut twitter postings had been performed through a third party on the ground via email.
Comment Re:2010 will be awesome... (Score 1) 444
Thanks!
I know it will be rough and a complete game-changer, I also know that it will be worth it.
I know it will be rough and a complete game-changer, I also know that it will be worth it.
Comment Re:2010 will be awesome... (Score 1) 444
Because we're expecting our first child in February.
Not much could pull me down from that high :-D
Not much could pull me down from that high
Comment Any word if modded Hard Drives have been hit? (Score 1) 738
It appears that this update reflects chipped XBoxes. I guess this story isn't about the storage update that is coming up?
I'm waiting on that update to determine if I can buy a laptop 120GB drive for $60 instead of just deleting crap off my 20GB drive.
I'm waiting on that update to determine if I can buy a laptop 120GB drive for $60 instead of just deleting crap off my 20GB drive.
Comment Re:Rain? Insects? Birds? (Score 4, Funny) 456
How are they supposed to get coconuts?
Comment I don't understand (Score 4, Funny) 609
Could somebody give me a car-based analogy to this article?
Comment Re:Force Feedback? (Score 1) 609
At least Power Steering and Power Brakes were options back then. Once they became standard, they got better, but still didn't have the same feedback.
Driving a 1970 Corvette with versus without powersteering is insane. The power steering is so strong you can't feel the road at all. Granted, the non-powered car has a ridiculous dead space in the steering box to allow the car to track straight.
Driving a 1970 Corvette with versus without powersteering is insane. The power steering is so strong you can't feel the road at all. Granted, the non-powered car has a ridiculous dead space in the steering box to allow the car to track straight.
Comment Re:Power Steering failure? (Score 1) 609
I withdraw my comment after reading the post again. Sorry!
