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Same AC here and that is an interesting idea I had not heard before.

First link I found:

http://www1.appstate.edu/~hill...

Some of that describes me well, but not all of it.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Okay, I plead guilty to some but not all of those things. Some of the signs I'll have to recuse myself from making a judgement on (too subjective, possibly too self-absorbed)

http://mathsci2.appstate.edu/~... invites you all to seek enlightenment through its teachingsâZ.

Things can be proven. - You just have to accept that all provable things exist within a minute fantasy world which affirms itself. The study of these fantasy worlds is called axiomatic set theory.

GÃdel further proved that proof itself becomes a fantasy when your fantasy becomes elaborate enough. He labeled this rather odd artifact 'Incompleteness'.

Consequently many teeth were gnashed among the faithless dogmatists. At least DnD fanatics get updated rulebooks once in a while.

This is no cause for a scientist to have an existential crisis. We have a rulebook which appears not to be an artifact and we have a track-record of taking things from fantasy and making them real, e.g. artificial satellites. This is a strange situation to be in.

The American Physical Society, http://www.aps.org/units/fps/m... Association of Energy Engineers http://www.aeecenter.org/i4a/p... and the Annual Appalachian Energy Summit http://www.news.appstate.edu/2... all seem happy to have Lovins as a Keynote speaker. Guess claims he is not an expert are ignored by these groups.

i recommended this in another thread, but here it is again in case you missed it

http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

for a smaller website it is fantastic, and the support is decent

you might check out phpwebsite

http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

1. Witten's Dog (I think it was the neutrino that tasted like grape, right?)
2. (Hermes) Look it up, ya lazy bum!: http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/3-000058-1/ (read down a bit; further info at http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/cubes.html )
3. Aleph naught

Isn't Opera more like http://www.museum.appstate.edu/exhibits/cars/images/car.jpg?

I mean, I looked over a coworker's shoulder a couple of years ago while he proudly demonstrated Opera 'with built-in ads' (don't websites have enough ads that your 'free' browser has to supply extra?). Put me off that company for life - no second chances for purveyors of spyware.

iPhone! in a webcomic!

http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~cg47742/comics/partic ulates/index.php?i=3/ [www.particulatescomics.com]

I think this just about says it all:

http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~cg47742/comics/partic ulates/index.php?i=3 (www.particulatecomics.com)

It sounds like your teacher may have had the misconception that the universe is an expanding sphere, with stars and galaxies on the inside, and a void outside into which the matter expands.

It sounds like you may not be familiar with this.

Truthfully, it is the lack of innovative educational approaches within these environments that is the real barrier. Teaching the same way in a new medium and expecting there to be a difference (e.g, lecturing your PPT slides in SL to seated, attentive avatars) does seem pointless. But any insights into higher ed online as a result are equally irrelevant, as they don't tap into the real value of tools like SL in online higher ed -- that is, the ability to change the ways we teach and learn so that the skills, knowledge, and affects developed in higher ed better mirror those necessary to succeed in RL.

My colleagues and I have been teaching graduate students in a 3D virtual world for 5 years now. We now have approximately 1300 citizens in our world. All of our courses, all of our content, and nearly all of our interactions with our students and with each other are embedded within the virtual world. Our world is a modified Activeworlds-based world, rather than SL-based, so that we can address the very issues noted throughout this discussion, namely:

• Private world -- no flying male members, griefers, or sex shops;
• Low tech footprint -- our world runs well over a modem, on older computers (both PC and Mac), and is accessible via screen readers;
• Media that matters -- small-group VoIP chat rooms to support team-based learning; streaming media tutorials; whiteboard and file sharing to support project-based coursework, etc;
• Real names -- you are not a dog in our world -- you are you;
• Content-rich/Interaction-driven -- Our virtual world is not a game; it is a social environment designed to foster networks of expertise that develop as real people attempt to solve real problems through communication, collaboration, and shared resources;

(keep your eye on Croquet (http://www.opencroquet.org) ...)

For more info on our world: http://www.lesn.appstate.edu/aetz

- SB

You apparently didn't watch much of Futurama, in that case. Time actually did advance over the course of the show, starting in 3000 and ending in 3004. Relationships between characters also changed over time.

As for why Futurama is popular.. you may not find it funny, but a lot of people do. I, for one, like that there's a lot of geek jokes in there. One that I can think of off the top of my head was that there were a pair of books in the background of one scene labeled P and NP.

1. Easy, web-based administration - minimal computer experience is needed to maintain site content.
2. Flexible layout control - site page layout can be changed at anytime.
3. Topic-based announcements - organize site announcements by category with automatic history rollover.
4. Interactive content - visitors can post comments, submit announcements and web links.
5. Full featured event calendar - post events by category and subcategory in a flexible cross-referenced calendar.
6. Customized user experience - themes allow each vistor to customize the web site for his or her preferences or special needs.
7. XHTML and WAI compliance - we are committed to meeting XHTML 1.0 specifications by our 1.0 release. Current errors are minimal.

Excellent Open Source CMS system

http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

Nonsense! Futurama is like Shakespeare and Ibsen; it works on all levels. Well, not quite like Ibsen, but still, I did read somewhere (here, I think) that while they do try to cram in as much "high-brow" jokes as possible, they won't let it detract from the story.
Most of the humor in Futurama is of the "everybody gets it" variant. I can't immagine Zack Brannigan being anything less than hillarious even if you've never heard of Star Trek. And then you get the "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" lines that really are the icing on the cake, and makes Futurama rather unique in the field of humorous cartoons. Where else do you get pinball references, Titanic parodies, quantum physics jokes and booze and hookers in such a neat package?

• Has a nice license (GPL / LGPL)
  
• Is actively maintained by someone with a budget (Appalachian State University), who also actively uses the package, so it's not likely to be abandoned, go stagnant or have unpatched security issues
  
• Supports multiple languages
  

Isn't this somewhat like how web development with CMS's are done? The basic CMS tools are there (and are often open source, such as phpwebsite, and are fairly easy to use in a basic way.

However, many businesses/organizations don't want to internally labor to make that skeleton into their own web site; they might hire a developer to do so. A good web site developer would not only use the CMS, but would modify it as needed to produce the site the customer wants.

I think the model you are describing can work. The general issue, in my observation, is an incredible momentum in business favoring the cathedral model.

Bender knows

The program is at http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/near miss.html And yes, the later version checks for parity.

Don't forget about the Futurama writers happened to graduate with honors in math, physics, and chemistry.

Actually, he is a simpsons fan

Discuss amongst yourselves:
The SF show, Star Trek, a show that tries to make its techno-babble sound serious, comes off as imminently mockable because of a lack of scientific grounding among its writers and producers. On the other hand, Futurama, a SF cartoon whose science is meant to sound funny, actually has some serious math and science due to the backgrounds of the executive producer and some of the writers.

SharkJumper

As referenced in Futurama.

http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/ futuramamath/cubes.html

http://www.web.appstate.edu/news/glance.html

Where did you get the 22,000 residents are students number?

Are you counting High School and Grade School students also?

From the activity sheet:

Bender: Hey robot, what's your serial number?
Flexo: 3370318.
Bender: No way! Mine's 2716057.
[They both laugh. Then Fry laughs, but stops and looks confused.]
Fry: I don't get it.
Bender: We're both expressable as the sum of two cubes.
Flexo: Woooh!

In the DVD commentary, David Cohen goes on to say that it's tricky to find the cubes. Well, he's right. Here's the trick, in case you were interested:

3370318 = 119^3 + 119^3
2716057 = 952^3 + (-951)^3

No one ever said the cubed numbers had to be positive.... and yes, I'm a dork for working this out!

Presumably the processor needs extreme cooling?

Well, duh. Why do you think the ninth circle is made of ice? ;-)

And considering what the core looks like, I'm glad they've expanded the traditional four rings of protection to nine...

Although there are differences between templating and theming, PHPWebSite, Geeklog, and the Nuke-a-likes all provide functionalities that can loosely be described as a template system. Although this might seem off-topic at first glance, if you take a look at how the themes in geeklog and phpwebsite work, you might be suprised at how similar they are, in concept, to smarty (think square brackets versus curly braces). So these links are intended to give someone who is looking into html presentation-layer manipulation a more complete idea about the options out there.

Golem

I have a friend who likes to play football games on the easiest mode, and run up 100 points to 0 on the opposing team. He can sit there and do this for hours.

My other friend likes GTA, because he can try out different cars and roam around looking for stuff to do.

I like games that involve character development, and acquiring big, bad swords and spells. Games like Halo give me motion sickness.

In summary:
There are different archetypes of gamers, who each enjoy different things. They expect to get some sort of reward, gratification, or experience, according to their personality type. To make a hit game, you just have to appeal to one or more of these broad sets of challenge/reward/satisfaction.

All gamer feedback could potentially be categorized into one of a dozen or so themes, and used to make something cool.

phpWebSite is fairly easy to use.

PI is exactly 3!

The Chomsky Hierarchy.

The major downside to it (which seem to be common to most things in this area) is a lack of documentation.

Not since the fence--which allowed the human race to change from wandering predatory animals to stable civilizations--has a tool ever had the potential to change things the way computer have.

The fence is more about "property" and marking divisions between people than it is about domesticating animals. Animal husbandry does not in and of itself require fences. The neolithic revolution owes more to cultivation of plants than it does to anything else. Horticulture precedes and feeds the growth in population that makes structures like fences feasible and worthwhile. Here is a concise chronology of a Neolithic site in Jordan.

Oh, and as for the predatory ways of our ancestors, that's pretty much debunked and debunked and just plain abandoned in favor of more scientific, less sexist views of early humans.

Stone tools, fire, language, agriculture, writing, the computer?--What about the cotton jinny? Where does the cotton jinny fit in? I'm all for having computers in schools and having kids learn to do programming, but I am also wary of hype.

I AM THE GOLEM! This is my fith dimension! I will send you the fifith dimension constitution. From this day on, I will be riding and surfing on your cyberwind!

PostNuke is a great tool. I have been using another GPL CMS solution called . I have been very happy with this CMS system.

ASU's School of Music gives out BM's.

I tried PHPNuke... But the security was horrible. (Do some searches on phpNuke and you will quickly find people who were burned by using phpNuke on their site.) Plus, each new release was so buggy. I would suggest trying a series of deifferent webloggers before settling on one... PostNuke, Slash, etc. I chose phpWebSite. It is a branch of phpNuke that is focused on fixing the sloppy code, XHTML 1.0 compliance, and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. The project started at Appalachian State University and is maintained at SourceForge.

How about the Next Generation episode (The Royale?) where Picard hinted that Fermat's Last Theorem had remained unsolved up to that time?

Of course, for quite some time, this is in fact precisely what the government has done with broadcast journalism. In the early '70s, the FCC interpreted that an earlier law empowered them to regulate for the public interest. They instituted the 'Fairness Doctrine' that meant that any federally licensed broadcaster must present opposing views. Either the Reagan or Bush administration decided that this was too egregious an infringement on free speech, and abandoned the Fairness Doctrine. I do not know if the Clinton administration re-instated it, although I know there was some discussion of that at the time.

I do not know if the constitutionality of this rule was ever challenged in court. However, when applying it to the internet, one should remember that the primary argument for it was that there was limited bandwidth for radio broadcasts, and therefore it was important to keep content roughly balanced. There is no significant shortage of wither bandwidth or opinion on the web, especially since most political speech on the web is textual, and that takes the least bandwidth of all to transmit.

And I do think that most fringe types are being polarized, I would say that A: this is nothing new, and 2: The center is still doing a fair amount of cross-polination of ideas. Hell, even on /., which many have rightly pointed out to be a rather pro-linux and anti-M$ bunch, has pointed to editorials critical of the Linux, Open Source, Free Software, etc. We have even said, 'hey, they make a good point, we'll have to fix that.'

So certainly I would oppose taking that step down the slope to government mandated hyperlinking, since it would be open to manipulation by a biased administration (left or right). And it would be hard to put that kind of legislation back in the box if we decided it was constitutional.

Caution is in order when it comes to taking away civil rights.

FWIW, here's a link to a page that came up after a search for 'fairness doctrine'

``This sequence may be the Rosetta Stone for deciphering the human genome,'' Thomas Kornberg of the University of California San Francisco and Mark Krasnow of Stanford University wrote, referring to a slab of stone, inscribed with the same story in three different languages, which allowed archeologists to finally decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

I think it's sad when the news media has to explain what the Rosetta Stone is.

(Presumably the dumbass cub reporter sent to cover this one didn't know what it was, either.)

I'm really starting to agree with E.D. Hirsch as I slowly get older. And to think I wrote an opposing critique of him my freshman year.

It's bad enough intro-to-computers classes have to teach people how to use a mouse. They shouldn't have to have the most fundamental topics of human history explained to them on top of it.