Apoie o Projeto de Lei do Senado, Nº 480 de 2007 que determina a obrigatoriedade de os agentes públicos eleitos matricularem seus filhos e demais dependentes em escolas públicas até 2014.
If the browser's java plugin at your GNU/Linux system stopped working mysteriously, and /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf says net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1 try exchanging the 1 for a 0. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560044 for the explanation.
If you're upset by the false positives in the GMail's spam filter, here is a way to disable the spam filter in GMail
Money as Debt is a 47-minute animated presentation telling in very simple graphic terms what money is and how it is created.
You can also read the transcript
Citation-based statistics, such as the impact factor, are often used to assess scientific research, but are they the best measures of research quality?
Three international mathematics organizations have released the Citation Statistics, on the use of citations in assessing research quality, a topic that is of increasing interest throughout the world's scientific community.
The report is written from a mathematical perspective and strongly cautions against the over-reliance on citation statistics such as the impact factor and h-index. These are often promoted because of the belief in their accuracy, objectivity, and simplicity, but these beliefs are unfounded.
Among the report's key findings:
- Statistics are not more accurate when they are improperly used; statistics can mislead when they are misused or misunderstood.
- The objectivity of citations is illusory because the meaning of citations is not well-understood. A citation's meaning can be very far from "impact".
- While having a single number to judge quality is indeed simple, it can lead to a shallow under- standing of something as complicated as research. Numbers are not inherently superior to sound judgments.
The report promotes the sensible use of citation statistics in evaluating research and points out several common misuses. It is written by mathematical scientists about a widespread application of mathematics. While the authors of the report recognize that assessment must be practical and that easily-derived citation statistics will be part of the process, they caution that citations provide only a limited and incomplete view of research quality. Research is too important, they say, to measure its value with only a single coarse tool.
The report was commissioned by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
It draws upon a broad literature on the use of citation data to evaluate research, including articles on the impact factor (the most common citation-based statistic) and the h-index along with its many variants. The work was also based on practices as reported from mathematicians and other scientists from around the world.
The problem with educational policy is that it is hardly influenced by scientific considerations derived from the topics taught, and almost entirely determined by extra-scientific circumstances such as the combined expectations of the students, their parents and their future employers, and the prevailing view of the role of the university: is the stress on training its graduates for today's entry-level jobs or to providing its alumni with the intellectual bagage and attitudes that will last them another 50 years? [...] Do the universities provide for society the intellectual leadership it needs or only the training it asks for?
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So, if I look into my foggy crystal ball at the future of computing science education, I overwhelmingly see the depressing picture of "Business as usual". The universities will continue to lack the courage to teach hard science, they will continue to misguide the students, and each next stage of infantilization of the curriculum will be hailed as educational progress.
E. W. Dijkstra, On the cruelty of really teaching computing science
Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data, or examine the history of how your data changed. It is a general system that can be used to manage any collection of files.
Subversion is a great tool for colaborative work. This page gives minimal instructions on getting access to my repositories.
Peça a sua senha nos bancos, não entre direto na fila porque você pode ganhar muito tempo com isto. Leia este depoimento.
"O maior fenômeno de anti-jornalismo dos últimos anos foi o que ocorreu com a revista Veja. Gradativamente, o maior semanário brasileiro foi se transformando em um pasquim sem compromisso com o jornalismo, recorrendo a ataques desqualificadores contra quem atravessasse seu caminho, envolvendo-se em guerras comerciais e aceitando que suas páginas e sites abrigassem matérias e colunas do mais puro esgoto jornalístico."
Texto completo em O caso Veja por Luís Nassif
A Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos conseguiu a aprovação de um projeto para a edição de livros falados e impressos em braille através da "Lei Ruanet" (captação de recursos por meio da destinação de parte do imposto de renda). Para mais informações ouça este audio.
O Projeto de Lei 5476/2001, que propõe o cancelamento da taxa telefônica, já foi aprovado em primeira votação na Câmara dos Deputados.
Veja aqui como você pode manifestar seu apoio ao projeto.
A Operação Sorriso está buscando crianças que tenham seqüelas como lábio-leporino e fenda palatina, para realizar gratuitamente a cirurgia de reparação.
Does your GNU/Linux system hangs at boot time while starting the udev subsytem?
Possible solutions are:
If apt crashes in your Debian GNU/Linux system with the message
Reading package lists... Error! E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
try commenting-out some of the entries at /etc/apt/sources.list and then updating the package list (ie, run apt-get update or equivalent)
If your NumLock key is unresponsive, not turning the numeric keypad on, try pressing Shift-NumLock.
"Profession" é um conto de Isaac Asimov publicado originalmente na revista Astounding Science Fiction (julho/1957) e posteriormente recolhido na coletânea Nine Tomorrows (1959).
Recomendo muito entusiasticamente sua leitura a todos os alunos. Você pode lê-lo aqui
Instruções para configuração do Exim4 num Sistema Debian-GNU/Linux para usar mx.inf.ufpr.br como relay de SMTP
O seu aparelho de telefone celular GSM (e não somente o "chip") pode ser completamente bloqueado pela operadora a partir do número de série do aparelho.
Para obter o número de série do do aparelho, digite
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