It won't supersede "classical style" education, but it can broaden the horizon of students (and lecturers/professors).
Now, I have the opportunity to (kind of) attend a talk of Sergey Brin (as in TFA) irrespective time and place. I mean, I could even point one of this talks/lectures out to my professor/supervisor and discuss it with him and thus combine the benefits of both kinds of knowledge transfer.
Science without access to knowledge is impossible. So this is a good development.
No, it's not. It's a way of how relate to the world, it's a way of being. Most of our reality is categorized through linguistic categories. If we loose them we loose our world.
If you skip from English to German, it's not a big step (on a global scale), the are closely related (being both West-Germanic) and have been in contact for centuries. The speech communities share large parts of their religious and political believes, their material culture is quite similar and they have exchanged cultural artifacts (texts etc.) since their very early history. So just for your German lesson today think about the semantics of "Becher" (mug, cup, pot, beaker, goblet - You drink coffee out of them, but not beer, Yoghurt comes in a "Becher", the tooth brush rests in one, You measure flour etc. in one...) for a German speaker "Becher" are all the same thing, are they for you? Or try "gemütlich", "eben", "halt" - you would really amaze me if you could use one of these like a native speaker.
If losing a language is a good thing I recommend to you to use a hunter-gatherer language (try an aboriginal one from Australia or an Aslian language from Malaysia) in your daily life in a Western culture. You'll find that you have some very handy terms for hunting techniques but ordering a coffee politely (but not chummily) might be awkward, as will be discussing the problem with your car with the mechanic or discussing some personal problem or less specific angst with your shrink.
Death of language is good if your language remains, it's bad if another remains.
Thanks so far, for making sense out of this post, but:
"... one of the largest underground Mac communities... a number of people at the highest levels of the underground planned their takeover activities for almost two years,...
WTF? No seriously WTF?
Re:If the journalist was stupid enough to sign it.
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Excuse me, but when there is no advertisement (or only marginally) involved, and the medium is paid by the people who actually read the stuff, yeah, you get pretty independent media.
Are you really saying "free speech never existed, nothing to see here, please move along!"...?
Nice article. My main fear is, when the internet community won't do anything the governments will even more try to regulate, monitor and control the internet. And their solution won't be to disconnect all poorly patched MSWindows machines.
As bad as it is for tor, Estonia or individual sites, let this happen two three times and someone will start crying we have to monitor this, we have to outlaw that...
-my2cents
Oh and I hate this "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" -- hackers? Crackers or what ever! But that is probably really a lost cyber (discourse) war.
I can't say how it is in the US but in Europe old reactors (that have been wriiten off) are very profitable - much more than newer ones. Since old reactors are more profitable but tend to be less secure, this is clearly a case were legislation has to intervene, it's just to dangerous.
Extern, independent reviews in such critical businesses cannot be wrong anyway.
After being labelled troll above, I'm offtopic now - but even an AC deserves an answer.
Prolog: I don't know who else uses Prolog but here (some) computer linguists do. They have a parser written in Prolog. Seems still very common, don't know, not my subfield.
You (PP&GP) are both right, because the IT department people are just that people. Some are morons some not.
Where I worked before we had a UNIX network (most servers running Solaris) but my department had a Windows subnetwork for several reasons. And that was the pain in the ass for the IT people (mostly security related problems). And I could fully understand them.
But now I'm working in a pure Microsoft faculty, I mean everything is Microsoft - really everything. And don't get me started on all the problems here, disk space, email, network, name it we had it in the last 14 months. But the point is, this is the will of the IT department. All problems are of course the fault of the user (which is really bullshit, believe me). And they block every change - even the most reasonable. I mean a lot of users are programming in Prolog, are using Emacs, write their papers in LaTeX, use Perl, and... and... and... - why Windows?
I know users can be annoying but not every PEBKAC is really a PEBKAC. In the first job users where the problem - in the second job I assure you it's the IT department and they are shooting the messenger.
You must be joking. Models in market theory are mostly oversimplified. Often to the extent that the results are useless for practical purposes.
Why do you think investments in stock markets are still a risky business? Because all the investors do not listen to the academia? If models and theory in physics would be that unreliable nuclear power plants would regularly go boom!
Slashdot Mirror
You must... /*Oh wait, thepartyanimal (1149043)*/ ...you are new here!
/*Ducks to hide his own id number*/
You forgot: "Advanced particle physics 3B, lecture 21: Will it Blend?"
It won't supersede "classical style" education, but it can broaden the horizon of students (and lecturers/professors).
Now, I have the opportunity to (kind of) attend a talk of Sergey Brin (as in TFA) irrespective time and place. I mean, I could even point one of this talks/lectures out to my professor/supervisor and discuss it with him and thus combine the benefits of both kinds of knowledge transfer.
Science without access to knowledge is impossible. So this is a good development.
Maybe he has read the script and estimated its value correctly? Sorry, just an idea.
I think it is a therapeutical thing.
Forcing everybody to buy a certificate from a company is pretty much what I would call abuse
I think he wrote Clippy.
Don't patented acronyms you insensitive clod!
No, it's not. It's a way of how relate to the world, it's a way of being. Most of our reality is categorized through linguistic categories. If we loose them we loose our world.
If you skip from English to German, it's not a big step (on a global scale), the are closely related (being both West-Germanic) and have been in contact for centuries. The speech communities share large parts of their religious and political believes, their material culture is quite similar and they have exchanged cultural artifacts (texts etc.) since their very early history. So just for your German lesson today think about the semantics of "Becher" (mug, cup, pot, beaker, goblet - You drink coffee out of them, but not beer, Yoghurt comes in a "Becher", the tooth brush rests in one, You measure flour etc. in one...) for a German speaker "Becher" are all the same thing, are they for you? Or try "gemütlich", "eben", "halt" - you would really amaze me if you could use one of these like a native speaker.
If losing a language is a good thing I recommend to you to use a hunter-gatherer language (try an aboriginal one from Australia or an Aslian language from Malaysia) in your daily life in a Western culture. You'll find that you have some very handy terms for hunting techniques but ordering a coffee politely (but not chummily) might be awkward, as will be discussing the problem with your car with the mechanic or discussing some personal problem or less specific angst with your shrink.
Death of language is good if your language remains, it's bad if another remains.
I will wait for Web 127.0.0.1 until I upgrade. All this Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 gets you nowhere.
That's what they want you to believe. Or are you one of them?
I'll keep my eyes crossed for that.
Right, but which distribution still saves passwords in /etc/passwd? Name one, I don't know of any.
Maybe they were digging their way up.
But why then on slashdot? /*ducks*/
Thanks so far, for making sense out of this post, but:
WTF? No seriously WTF?
Excuse me, but when there is no advertisement (or only marginally) involved, and the medium is paid by the people who actually read the stuff, yeah, you get pretty independent media.
Are you really saying "free speech never existed, nothing to see here, please move along!" ...?
Ok no jokes, but did we get any last words to quote then?
Nice article. My main fear is, when the internet community won't do anything the governments will even more try to regulate, monitor and control the internet. And their solution won't be to disconnect all poorly patched MSWindows machines.
As bad as it is for tor, Estonia or individual sites, let this happen two three times and someone will start crying we have to monitor this, we have to outlaw that...
-my2cents
Oh and I hate this "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" -- hackers? Crackers or what ever! But that is probably really a lost cyber (discourse) war.
I can't say how it is in the US but in Europe old reactors (that have been wriiten off) are very profitable - much more than newer ones. Since old reactors are more profitable but tend to be less secure, this is clearly a case were legislation has to intervene, it's just to dangerous.
Extern, independent reviews in such critical businesses cannot be wrong anyway.
After being labelled troll above, I'm offtopic now - but even an AC deserves an answer.
Prolog: I don't know who else uses Prolog but here (some) computer linguists do. They have a parser written in Prolog. Seems still very common, don't know, not my subfield.
You (PP&GP) are both right, because the IT department people are just that people. Some are morons some not.
Where I worked before we had a UNIX network (most servers running Solaris) but my department had a Windows subnetwork for several reasons. And that was the pain in the ass for the IT people (mostly security related problems). And I could fully understand them.
But now I'm working in a pure Microsoft faculty, I mean everything is Microsoft - really everything. And don't get me started on all the problems here, disk space, email, network, name it we had it in the last 14 months. But the point is, this is the will of the IT department. All problems are of course the fault of the user (which is really bullshit, believe me). And they block every change - even the most reasonable. I mean a lot of users are programming in Prolog, are using Emacs, write their papers in LaTeX, use Perl, and... and... and... - why Windows?
I know users can be annoying but not every PEBKAC is really a PEBKAC. In the first job users where the problem - in the second job I assure you it's the IT department and they are shooting the messenger.
You must be joking. Models in market theory are mostly oversimplified. Often to the extent that the results are useless for practical purposes.
Why do you think investments in stock markets are still a risky business? Because all the investors do not listen to the academia? If models and theory in physics would be that unreliable nuclear power plants would regularly go boom!
welcome to the age of recursion
ASCII are we still in the 80s? Unicode, man, U*N*I*C*O*D*E.
It's useless fun though.
It runs and runs and runs...
The dust storm even kind of polished it.
Go rover go!