Actually, you can't do that. The thing is that kinetic energy of molecules at temperatures we like is too big and they leave the planet's gravitational well relatively easily because Mars hasn't got enough mass to support the atmosphere we need.
IMO, we're too occupied by Mars and overseeing the Earth's twin planet - Venus. Venus is a place of runaway global warming effect. If we learn how to deal with it there we've got two flies with one shot - we can combat the global warming on Earth and we've got another planet to live on.
It's nice to test things on Mars but we should be working on colonizing the Venus before
trying to colonize other worlds like, let's say, Europe and it's underground ocean.
There are lots of great teachers. Perhaps even the teachers you thought of being bad are good teachers but in a bad environment. Not necessarily disobedient and troublesome environment too, but an environment consisting of large student body that doesn't write homeworks, doesn't brush up on work already done just a week ago and which because of it can't follow the curriculum. What's worse, such environment destroys people on the right end of gauss curve because they start to slack off since they are not being pushed to meet their potential - they just rot in such classes.
Every class that has more than 15 people in it is a bad student-teacher environment. Teachers can not only handle, but even make great things with fifteen people. Classes of thirty or more are too much for a single educator - quality work is impossible unless you've got hand picked active people.
Teachers produce young minds (and some like the idea, that is why they are doing it and it's true for some that "who knows does, but who doesn't teaches"), but they are just one small part of the system. They are the interface of the education system, so to speak. On some interfaces you get mismatched impedance and you can't get maximum power output ( yes, there are bad teachers, too:) ), but other things on both sides should be taken into consideration when talking about information transfer.
Also, the society has made the wrong consensus on what desirable qualities in people are. Possessions can be taken away but the knowledge stays and people have to understand this very early on. This should be one of the first lessons parents teach their children, but it's not - proof that all of this starts at home so Idiocracy isn't off on this one (genetics is obviously only part of the equation).
One more thing should be taken into account - what is the motivation for a young mind to learn when people in his/hers environment who do have to tolerate name calling on the daily basis (we all know this is a best-case scenario)? What's worse, such negative attention is engraved in a lot of people because they need to feel they are better than some "geek" or "nerd" but are not willing to put any effort into it so we get a community of name-callers or a wide spectrum of bullies.
And what about teachers' salaries? Should they go up or down? I believe they should be dealt with on a per-teacher basis. But, overall, they are too low. Teachers (at least in my country) have an university degree and it's troublesome that they get the same wage as janitors in privately owned companies while working with about 3000 children during their employment at schools five days a week.
Most of the technology we enjoy today can only be produced via huge infrastructures made possible by large, advanced, stable societies. This project shows that fundamental computing technology can be reproduced with relative ease on a very small scale with limited resources.
Yeah, well, keep in mind that when you know how to build a simple TTL chip it isn't much harder to develop a good integration technique that can allow you to
build more complex circuits. Not knowing enough semiconductor physics and applied chemistry to actually build any kind of integrated circuits is a whole other ball game.
Of course, there are other technologies to build a working digital computer. A great example is here.
A bit basic, but, hell, who can say he built a computer out of paper clips:)
At the risk of getting flames from a tech-oriented/. crowd, I still don't agree or possibly don't fully understand the mentality behind a push to get laptops into the hands of children in poor countries. I see it as folly, and missing the point of what people really want.
No need to flame, just listen to an explanation - what if those laptops came with a tiny version of wikipedia? Math, physics, engineering, agriculture texts and some instructional videos. Maybe some chemistry and biology. Perhaps they even start some knowledge oriented communities. Using that they can get to know about their surroundings and after some time even innovate. They could use our tech to set up their environment for a more comfortable and pro-intellectual atmosphere.
Who knows, maybe somebody out there gets to start a herbal-oriented medicine wiki and we get some use of it. If that's the case, it's worth it. Who knows what _WE_ are missing by not doing this ten years ago. Cure for cancer, cure
for baldness (ha, got your attention there, have I?:) ), ebola or even foot
and mouth disease.
Whatever the case, with this thing the future looks bright - hopefully, our civilization could get a few thousand great scientists more a year in ten to twenty years (considering African birth rate and assuming less baby, children and adult deaths due to less stupidity, STDs and wars).
So, where do you put the line in letting them break the standards that work? Tell me one good reason for helping MS on trampling things that work? A bit here, a bit there and you get things that work only on/with windows. Kerberos anyone?
BTW, it's relatively simple to fix MS' client, too. Let them fix the bloody client.
Were you paid for finding bugs? You have paid for Vista, or am I wrong? Businesses are for making money, not free help for giant world-wide corporations which sell you "bug-fixed" software in the first place.
Anyhow, my point is that for all I know if you go back to the original Hebrew or Aramaic the tree isn't even called the tree of "Knowledge of Good and Evil," and maybe god didn't say it would kill them, he said it would "destroy them" which you could argue it did, in which case he wasn't lying, but the definition of whatever word kill or destroy is actually coming from is what you need (with the appropriate knowledge of the relevant language) to really make a case either way.
But, you know, God ensured that Bible (His word) can't be altered to change its meaning:)
Are you feeling well? Maybe you should get some rest, have a doctor take a look at that bump on your head.
I'm all right, thanks for asking. Ever tried making a DIY wearable with PICs and/or ATMELs? Yeah, this
is powerful:) I'm not going to use it for FPS or sth:')
I can't wait. Now I can finally make a powerful wearable computer. Now just to find someone who makes LCDs that look like glasses for a reasonable sum of money and I'm off to a wonderland:)
I, for one, don't want to be known as Ruth Marx. The name sucks. Oh, yeah, that possible identity theft thing could suck, too.:)
What are other aspects of this kind of work? Sure, it could save time, money and nerves. But it could also cheat you out of meeting that cute girl standing next to you in the bus, by the water cooler or somewhere else.
If you are a workaholic you could start losing track of time and work yourself out like a slave - you could end up losing friends, family, etc.
Besides, I can just imagine the problems of proving I've been working overtime.
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Actually, you can't do that. The thing is that kinetic energy of molecules at temperatures we like is too big and they leave the planet's gravitational well relatively easily because Mars hasn't got enough mass to support the atmosphere we need.
IMO, we're too occupied by Mars and overseeing the Earth's twin planet - Venus. Venus is a place of runaway global warming effect. If we learn how to deal with it there we've got two flies with one shot - we can combat the global warming on Earth and we've got another planet to live on.
It's nice to test things on Mars but we should be working on colonizing the Venus before trying to colonize other worlds like, let's say, Europe and it's underground ocean.
There are lots of great teachers. Perhaps even the teachers you thought of being bad are good teachers but in a bad environment. Not necessarily disobedient and troublesome environment too, but an environment consisting of large student body that doesn't write homeworks, doesn't brush up on work already done just a week ago and which because of it can't follow the curriculum. What's worse, such environment destroys people on the right end of gauss curve because they start to slack off since they are not being pushed to meet their potential - they just rot in such classes.
:) ), but other things on both sides should be taken into consideration when talking about information transfer.
Every class that has more than 15 people in it is a bad student-teacher environment. Teachers can not only handle, but even make great things with fifteen people. Classes of thirty or more are too much for a single educator - quality work is impossible unless you've got hand picked active people.
Teachers produce young minds (and some like the idea, that is why they are doing it and it's true for some that "who knows does, but who doesn't teaches"), but they are just one small part of the system. They are the interface of the education system, so to speak. On some interfaces you get mismatched impedance and you can't get maximum power output ( yes, there are bad teachers, too
Also, the society has made the wrong consensus on what desirable qualities in people are. Possessions can be taken away but the knowledge stays and people have to understand this very early on. This should be one of the first lessons parents teach their children, but it's not - proof that all of this starts at home so Idiocracy isn't off on this one (genetics is obviously only part of the equation).
One more thing should be taken into account - what is the motivation for a young mind to learn when people in his/hers environment who do have to tolerate name calling on the daily basis (we all know this is a best-case scenario)? What's worse, such negative attention is engraved in a lot of people because they need to feel they are better than some "geek" or "nerd" but are not willing to put any effort into it so we get a community of name-callers or a wide spectrum of bullies.
And what about teachers' salaries? Should they go up or down? I believe they should be dealt with on a per-teacher basis. But, overall, they are too low. Teachers (at least in my country) have an university degree and it's troublesome that they get the same wage as janitors in privately owned companies while working with about 3000 children during their employment at schools five days a week.
Comrade Knyshov, so this is where you ended up. We 've been looking for you.
:)
Most of the technology we enjoy today can only be produced via huge infrastructures made possible by large, advanced, stable societies. This project shows that fundamental computing technology can be reproduced with relative ease on a very small scale with limited resources.
:)
Yeah, well, keep in mind that when you know how to build a simple TTL chip it isn't much harder to develop a good integration technique that can allow you to build more complex circuits. Not knowing enough semiconductor physics and applied chemistry to actually build any kind of integrated circuits is a whole other ball game.
Of course, there are other technologies to build a working digital computer. A great example is here. A bit basic, but, hell, who can say he built a computer out of paper clips
... OpenMoko, GP2x (don't know the company's name), QNX.
At the risk of getting flames from a tech-oriented /. crowd, I still don't agree or possibly don't fully understand the mentality behind a push to get laptops into the hands of children in poor countries. I see it as folly, and missing the point of what people really want.
:) ), ebola or even foot
and mouth disease.
Whatever the case, with this thing the future looks bright - hopefully, our civilization could get a few thousand great scientists more a year in ten to twenty years (considering African birth rate and assuming less baby, children and adult deaths due to less stupidity, STDs and wars).
No need to flame, just listen to an explanation - what if those laptops came with a tiny version of wikipedia? Math, physics, engineering, agriculture texts and some instructional videos. Maybe some chemistry and biology. Perhaps they even start some knowledge oriented communities. Using that they can get to know about their surroundings and after some time even innovate. They could use our tech to set up their environment for a more comfortable and pro-intellectual atmosphere.
Who knows, maybe somebody out there gets to start a herbal-oriented medicine wiki and we get some use of it. If that's the case, it's worth it. Who knows what _WE_ are missing by not doing this ten years ago. Cure for cancer, cure for baldness (ha, got your attention there, have I?
But what about interest in knowledge and the subject matter?
Ask creationists. If there weren't such people during the Dark Ages we'd be flying to space as often as we download porn by now.
I am all for the world moving towards MS alternatives but the fact of the matter is that most folks use MS and know it exclusively.
So they'll learn something different. Big deal.
Wait, how does Linux teach you how to hack? Is there a hacking man page that I've been missing? Maybe it is in /usr/share/hack or /usr/share/doc/hack?
And you call yourself a geek? Ever heard of nethack?
q:D
YAAFM said it best.
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Is this article telling me NAT is illegal? Wow, seems like IPv6 should pick up the pace.
Well, yes, it's nice to cooperate, but do you wish to cooperate with someone who constantly stabs it's cooperants in the back?
So, where do you put the line in letting them break the standards that work? Tell me one good reason for helping MS on trampling things that work? A bit here, a bit there and you get things that work only on/with windows. Kerberos anyone?
BTW, it's relatively simple to fix MS' client, too. Let them fix the bloody client.
Were you paid for finding bugs? You have paid for Vista, or am I wrong? Businesses are for making money, not free help for giant world-wide corporations which sell you "bug-fixed" software in the first place.
Yeah, well, you're missing Andrew Grove.
Grove was born Gróf András István (in Hungary, the family name is first) to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. -- Wikipedia
show me one country full of highly educated people that are in poverty.
Palestine. More professors/PhDs per m^2 than anywhere in the world.
Photons are particles.
Actually, photons are neither particles nor waves but something else that has properties of both.
I guess the guy hasn't tried blocking lynx, links, elinks, w3m...
Sure you do...it's known as "before and after" presentation :)
Only, this time, he split the earth, not the waters.
Anyhow, my point is that for all I know if you go back to the original Hebrew or Aramaic the tree isn't even called the tree of "Knowledge of Good and Evil," and maybe god didn't say it would kill them, he said it would "destroy them" which you could argue it did, in which case he wasn't lying, but the definition of whatever word kill or destroy is actually coming from is what you need (with the appropriate knowledge of the relevant language) to really make a case either way.
:)
But, you know, God ensured that Bible (His word) can't be altered to change its meaning
You said "powerful" about a VIA product...
:) I'm not going to use it for FPS or sth :')
Are you feeling well? Maybe you should get some rest, have a doctor take a look at that bump on your head.
I'm all right, thanks for asking. Ever tried making a DIY wearable with PICs and/or ATMELs? Yeah, this is powerful
Yeah, sure. Girls like only poor dweebs working in a McDonalds. Just keep telling yourself that. :o)
I can't wait. Now I can finally make a powerful wearable computer. Now just to find someone who makes LCDs that look like glasses for a reasonable sum of money and I'm off to a wonderland :)
I, for one, don't want to be known as Ruth Marx. The name sucks. Oh, yeah, that possible identity theft thing could suck, too. :)
What are other aspects of this kind of work? Sure, it could save time, money and nerves. But it could also cheat you out of meeting that cute girl standing next to you in the bus, by the water cooler or somewhere else.
If you are a workaholic you could start losing track of time and work yourself out like a slave - you could end up losing friends, family, etc. Besides, I can just imagine the problems of proving I've been working overtime.