The education department creates one that is the 'least challenging' that they think they can get away with.
The teachers get the curriculum and try to see how little of it they can get away with teaching.
The students get the teachers 'edict' and try to see how little fo it they can get away with learning.
I'll take an interested person who learned stuff any day over one who was been taught, then closed his books and his mind.
You're the sort of academic wanker who made pedagogy a specialized field instead of just noticing how kids learn.
They LEARN because they DO learn. Children are sponges for facts and knowledge. You never know what they are soaking up. That thirst for knowledge keep them (and me) young too.
If they could, those parasites'd turn that 'interweb thingy' into a radio station so they'd could plunder the pockets of the transmitters and rape the ears of the listeners.
The dollar amounts they get from everybody and anybody are absolutely HUGE!
If I was into conspiracy theories, I'd say that the real reason we didn't get along with the Afghani Taliban was that they forbade radio as a 'Fatwah' and the RIAA's revenue stream was threatened.
They just want to misuse the infrastructure they already have because by keeping you dependent on the streaming hosts, they effectively lock you out of the asynchronous capabilities that are inherent in the internet.
Just download an MP3 or even something off of iTunes, play it whenever you want and you can get those benefits.
I found that the author of the above tome was hemmorhaging at the keyboard.
It was painful to look at, never mind read. I never got through more that a part of it. This person should NOT think s/he is an effective communicator.
Apart from the writing/spelling dichotomy of English, word order also makes a big difference. (English is an SVO (Subject Verb Object) language.)
GPS, audio & video and they were not opaque that would enable 'virtuality'.
I'd love to have an interpreter and a tour guide to enable me to look at something and be able to also be able to solicit information about what I'm seeing.
every fifteen seconds and eventually, you see the actual object of your desire; after she's out on thirty pounds, sagging from a brace of kids, and fifteen years older.
You'd never be able to to get rid of the 'reality overlaid onto memory' and your pass 'thought' would simply stop working.
I'm sure I rather have the computer look at my finger prints or, for more secure applications, look me in the eye.
They'll also try to squeeze the telcos who are trying to keep us on their 'sit the fuck down spot on seven and watch what ever crap we can scare up cheap to feed you' schedule.
Podcasting, RSS and podcatching are like TiVO on steroids with some feed back ability to boot.
They say 'screw you' to the telcos who are trying to get everybody to pay extra for what is now 'dark fiber' buried under the ground.
Remember GlobalCrossing?
What happened to all the fibre they laid?
Right...
The telcos bought it all up at the bankruptcy sale and they're going to try to make you pay for it all over again, at a premium price.
But podcasting/podcatching doesn't need synchronous delivery.
Good ol' TCP/IP is plenty good enough.
Screw their special 'guaranteed speed' charges.
Media is dying and their greed is just bleeding it faster.
When you're hot, you're hot. When you're not you're not.
She can charge $300 bucks because people are willing to pay it.
If they weren't, like in 30 years, she'd be retired or doing a lounge act off the strip in Vegas.
Its market forces.
What I object to is 'star making' like 'Sigue Sigue Sputnick'.
And if they price something low enough, they'll find enough people to make it pay... for a while.
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The one that hit him on the head while he was formulating his theory of gravity.
There is even the earliest ad for Apple computer to attest this which shows Newton sitting under an apple tree holding up the happle that just bonked him in the noggin.
but it took Apple to create the iTMS and the iPod to turn it into a mass media darling and sell 42,000,000 of the things (and counting, by the second!)
And its success is just an indication of how uncoupled the office really is from the home.
The reason Microsoft can't make inroads into the home is that they're too intimately tied to the office. (And the 'innovations' that they're they're trying to bring to the office OS are being firewalled from that office as a waste of time. Multi media features aren't WANTED in the office. My client went to Win2K only after NT 4.x was EOL'ed, killed off by MS. And they've got tens of thousands of PCs.)
Sorry Mr. Gates but they're not even interested in XP or Vista until they're forced into it.
Look for Apple to make BIG inroads in the 5-to-9 world and for Microsoft to stay stuck in the 9-to-5 world.
"online video and audio were seen as frivolous, and a big waste of bandwidth."
Man, if my machine at work was a tricked out as any of the boxez at home, I never get any real work done.
Microsoft is pushing against the grain trying to get any if this shit acepted and businesses, Microsoft's biggest client base by far, aren't interested is in frivolity anymore than they're interested in the constant fight against viri.
Apple is getting sucked up in the vacuum of the differences between what Apple delivers painlessly in the home versus the resistance felt by Microsoft from its huge base of business customers.
Radio's dead at the hands ClearChannel, etc.
TV's dead at the hands of CableVision, etc.
Content costs too much. They just want to run ads and rake in money.
Their inventory consists of 1,440 of YOUR minutes of air time per day. And the economics of running ads over broadcasting means that you have to be selling shit that appeals to a broad demographic.
They want to force you to watch all of their shit and fuck you and fuck what you want. And its stupid, vapid, safe, bowldereized, placified, flacified, gutless content, as per FCC regulation.
The revolution'll be on a podcast. It just sound economic sense.
Broadcast and mass market media costs are way up here and getting worse.
Podcast are dirt cheap and limited to whatever the podcaster wants to produce. There's no pimping you stuff out to somebody who owns a transmitter and an FCC licence and charges somebody new 100 years of inflation all at once.
Podcasting stands all of the economic factors on their heads.
so that they don't need to be ALL wired, just one with access to a WAN.
The infrastructure can be very sparse and still communicate (web pages & podcasts) effectively. Its just slower than we have in the west.
The substrate technology is by Sysco and developped from the 'cell' network that was developped for the latest generation of 'cell' services of the US Military for their 'wireless' network-centric warfare.
Its not up to the level that the military would need but its quite acceptable for peer-to-peer communication between these units. Keeping the storage on the network and repyling on on storage cards (of up to 1/2 BG if the people in the village can afford them) means the machines can do effective work off-line and communicate via the 'cell' network to the server.
Yhe closer the machines and the more machines available on the loose peer-to-peer network, the better the quality of the connection.
Gates can go screw himself. He's just pissed off that someone is doing something with computers and he's not in on it.
Remember Microsoft's motto was/is/will remain: "A Computer on Every Desktop."
But they're in the bush and thus have no need for a desktop.
Gates is seeing that his model of computing is completely ineffective under those circumstances.
Tough luck Bill.
Just hope your model doesn't get swapmed by wireless hand-cranked tablets.
I fully agree. One of the places where I worked had a cubicle farm, where nobody worked, and a central open area where the 3270's were located (that should tell you how long ago it was, if you can even remember 3270 terminals.)
That was where we were coding, reviewing stuff, learning off of each other, collaborating.
Sure they helped with the funding, but only after the director had convinced them. And even at that, they were lucky that it didn't pull a Jaws II or worse a Jaws 3D.
I'm sorry but I seriously doubt any of the in-house accountants were glad they spent a dime.
Why should Apple buy Disney? Can they use them to sell Macs or even iPods. Lets not lose focus of what Apple's business IS.
What about Pixar? They make great movies but that is it. They'd probably be better off working some internet distribution deals than buying Disney.
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"so it can punish the people who hired the spammers"
When the spammers' clients have to pay BIG TIME for MY inbox and everybody else's inboxes getting full of spam, that is when I expect spam to dry up.
Until then its all just wanking.
led to a backroom, tied down and beaten to death.
The education department creates one that is the 'least challenging' that they think they can get away with.
The teachers get the curriculum and try to see how little of it they can get away with teaching.
The students get the teachers 'edict' and try to see how little fo it they can get away with learning.
I'll take an interested person who learned stuff any day over one who was been taught, then closed his books and his mind.
You're the sort of academic wanker who made pedagogy a specialized field instead of just noticing how kids learn.
They LEARN because they DO learn. Children are sponges for facts and knowledge. You never know what they are soaking up. That thirst for knowledge keep them (and me) young too.
You should know that you can't TEACH anything.
the kids will be hunched over their keyboards with something to do instead of being bored and hankering for a few dollars to relieve their boredom.
Give 'em cheap laptops not expensive AK-47s.
but he didn't leave himself enough slack for the /. effect.
His site's down.
Hell! I was going to buy one and give away the other two just for the fuck of it.
But...
If they could, those parasites'd turn that 'interweb thingy' into a radio station so they'd could plunder the pockets of the transmitters and rape the ears of the listeners.
The dollar amounts they get from everybody and anybody are absolutely HUGE!
If I was into conspiracy theories, I'd say that the real reason we didn't get along with the Afghani Taliban was that they forbade radio as a 'Fatwah' and the RIAA's revenue stream was threatened.
They just want to misuse the infrastructure they already have because by keeping you dependent on the streaming hosts, they effectively lock you out of the asynchronous capabilities that are inherent in the internet.
Just download an MP3 or even something off of iTunes, play it whenever you want and you can get those benefits.
and sue their way into happiness by claiming that Linux is based on SGI code.
Does SCO actually have any customers left?
I found that the author of the above tome was hemmorhaging at the keyboard.
It was painful to look at, never mind read. I never got through more that a part of it. This person should NOT think s/he is an effective communicator.
Apart from the writing/spelling dichotomy of English, word order also makes a big difference. (English is an SVO (Subject Verb Object) language.)
GPS, audio & video and they were not opaque that would enable 'virtuality'.
I'd love to have an interpreter and a tour guide to enable me to look at something and be able to also be able to solicit information about what I'm seeing.
That would make a tour into something unique.
every fifteen seconds and eventually, you see the actual object of your desire; after she's out on thirty pounds, sagging from a brace of kids, and fifteen years older.
You'd never be able to to get rid of the 'reality overlaid onto memory' and your pass 'thought' would simply stop working.
I'm sure I rather have the computer look at my finger prints or, for more secure applications, look me in the eye.
with nothing major happening.
Then Québecois will get rid of the chip on their shoulder.
that you PLAY a game (an interactive activity) while you just WATCH a movie (a passive activity.)
As much as Hollywood might wish it other, people will ALWAYS think that watching a game made into a movie sucks BECAUSE IT DOES!!!
Without the interactivity, most games, from chess to Quake Arena, don't have enough plot to offer to make it worth watching.
By the same token a script good and tightly scripted enough to make into a movie would suck as a game.
There is NO WAY to reconcile these two modes. You CAN'T be active and passive at the same time.
They'll drive more people to podcasting. Yay!
They'll also try to squeeze the telcos who are trying to keep us on their 'sit the fuck down spot on seven and watch what ever crap we can scare up cheap to feed you' schedule.
Podcasting, RSS and podcatching are like TiVO on steroids with some feed back ability to boot.
They say 'screw you' to the telcos who are trying to get everybody to pay extra for what is now 'dark fiber' buried under the ground.
Remember GlobalCrossing?
What happened to all the fibre they laid?
Right...
The telcos bought it all up at the bankruptcy sale and they're going to try to make you pay for it all over again, at a premium price.
But podcasting/podcatching doesn't need synchronous delivery.
Good ol' TCP/IP is plenty good enough.
Screw their special 'guaranteed speed' charges.
Media is dying and their greed is just bleeding it faster.
there has to be a more efficient way than "make a desirable product. The people who want it will find it"
You're condemning people to wander around looking for gems in rooms full of costume jewelry and cheap paste.
How 'bout using an RSS from somebody you trust?
And I'm not.
And in a few years, neither will you unless you shelled out beacoup bucks for a digital screen.
I just can't justify the money for what little content is left before the put in the ads, never mind after.
When you're hot, you're hot. When you're not you're not.
... for a while.
She can charge $300 bucks because people are willing to pay it.
If they weren't, like in 30 years, she'd be retired or doing a lounge act off the strip in Vegas.
Its market forces.
What I object to is 'star making' like 'Sigue Sigue Sputnick'.
And if they price something low enough, they'll find enough people to make it pay
The one that hit him on the head while he was formulating his theory of gravity.
There is even the earliest ad for Apple computer to attest this which shows Newton sitting under an apple tree holding up the happle that just bonked him in the noggin.
but it took Apple to create the iTMS and the iPod to turn it into a mass media darling and sell 42,000,000 of the things (and counting, by the second!)
And its success is just an indication of how uncoupled the office really is from the home.
The reason Microsoft can't make inroads into the home is that they're too intimately tied to the office. (And the 'innovations' that they're they're trying to bring to the office OS are being firewalled from that office as a waste of time. Multi media features aren't WANTED in the office. My client went to Win2K only after NT 4.x was EOL'ed, killed off by MS. And they've got tens of thousands of PCs.)
Sorry Mr. Gates but they're not even interested in XP or Vista until they're forced into it.
Look for Apple to make BIG inroads in the 5-to-9 world and for Microsoft to stay stuck in the 9-to-5 world.
"online video and audio were seen as frivolous, and a big waste of bandwidth."
Man, if my machine at work was a tricked out as any of the boxez at home, I never get any real work done.
Microsoft is pushing against the grain trying to get any if this shit acepted and businesses, Microsoft's biggest client base by far, aren't interested is in frivolity anymore than they're interested in the constant fight against viri.
Apple is getting sucked up in the vacuum of the differences between what Apple delivers painlessly in the home versus the resistance felt by Microsoft from its huge base of business customers.
Radio's dead at the hands ClearChannel, etc.
TV's dead at the hands of CableVision, etc.
Content costs too much. They just want to run ads and rake in money.
Their inventory consists of 1,440 of YOUR minutes of air time per day. And the economics of running ads over broadcasting means that you have to be selling shit that appeals to a broad demographic.
They want to force you to watch all of their shit and fuck you and fuck what you want. And its stupid, vapid, safe, bowldereized, placified, flacified, gutless content, as per FCC regulation.
The revolution'll be on a podcast. It just sound economic sense.
Broadcast and mass market media costs are way up here and getting worse.
Podcast are dirt cheap and limited to whatever the podcaster wants to produce. There's no pimping you stuff out to somebody who owns a transmitter and an FCC licence and charges somebody new 100 years of inflation all at once.
Podcasting stands all of the economic factors on their heads.
so that they don't need to be ALL wired, just one with access to a WAN.
The infrastructure can be very sparse and still communicate (web pages & podcasts) effectively. Its just slower than we have in the west.
The substrate technology is by Sysco and developped from the 'cell' network that was developped for the latest generation of 'cell' services of the US Military for their 'wireless' network-centric warfare.
Its not up to the level that the military would need but its quite acceptable for peer-to-peer communication between these units. Keeping the storage on the network and repyling on on storage cards (of up to 1/2 BG if the people in the village can afford them) means the machines can do effective work off-line and communicate via the 'cell' network to the server.
Yhe closer the machines and the more machines available on the loose peer-to-peer network, the better the quality of the connection.
Gates can go screw himself. He's just pissed off that someone is doing something with computers and he's not in on it.
Remember Microsoft's motto was/is/will remain: "A Computer on Every Desktop."
But they're in the bush and thus have no need for a desktop.
Gates is seeing that his model of computing is completely ineffective under those circumstances.
Tough luck Bill.
Just hope your model doesn't get swapmed by wireless hand-cranked tablets.
I fully agree. One of the places where I worked had a cubicle farm, where nobody worked, and a central open area where the 3270's were located (that should tell you how long ago it was, if you can even remember 3270 terminals.)
That was where we were coding, reviewing stuff, learning off of each other, collaborating.
You have to admit that sending up a mission to study the damn thing was pretty wasteful since it was "coming for a landing" anyway.
Say good bye to the west coast. The NEXT tsunami will make the earth ring like hitting a bell.
I don't pick up calls that are blocked, and I don't pick up any calls from people that I know annoy the fuck out of me (spouse and boss included.)
Pretty soon, I'm going to have to toss out my lying cell too?
Ya know, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean its a good idea.
Why do they do it? Is Microsoft THAT fucking insecure?
success as Gwen Stefani. Meaning NOTHING.
Sure they helped with the funding, but only after the director had convinced them. And even at that, they were lucky that it didn't pull a Jaws II or worse a Jaws 3D.
I'm sorry but I seriously doubt any of the in-house accountants were glad they spent a dime.
Why should Apple buy Disney? Can they use them to sell Macs or even iPods. Lets not lose focus of what Apple's business IS.
What about Pixar? They make great movies but that is it. They'd probably be better off working some internet distribution deals than buying Disney.
Stop seeing synergies where there aren't any.