Great idea - I'm sure kids will sit at home or maybe in a library and watch some dude teach math ??? They'll be watching that friggin' dog on the skate board......
I don't know what kind of schools you have in your area - but the large (2200 kids) high school I do tech support for does anything but baby-sit kids. The staff (both teaching and support) are highly motivated to keep kids engaged in the learning process. And when they fall behind (for any of many reasons - and yes we're a diverse school - 1 in 4 is esstimated to be living in poverty) the counseling + teachers + SPED (special ed - if needed) meet repeatedly to get a plan of action. And work with the student and parents. We are 60% white - 30% hipanic - 10% other and have strong English as a Second Language. I just finished setting up a fully multimedia - server based - self paced english learning system in one of our computer labs.
I'm not an educator - but I was surpised and pleased to see how well teachers are connected and communicate about "Is Tom having problems in your class this week ?" etc. And yes there are average / advanced / troubled / struggling / poor / rich students and both mature and imature --- the new principle runs a tight ship -- all halls are "swept" by both administrative and security folks to get kids into classes. Those who are late get ISS(In school suspension ---- lunch period in a classroom - no talking - no electronics - and a grumpy old lady) --- repeat offenders get to go to Saturday school and their parents must take them and sign them in and out later. Its all about choices and ownership.
We got this way due to 2 things: our community has about an 80% pass rate on education bonds / taxes, and the district is frugle and runs lean (while still paying a very fair wage to teachers and giving them latitude).
Good education takes 3 things - First and foremost parents who are engaged (or at least tryingto work with the school) - Dedicated and supported staff - Money
or so says my Doc who is hounding me because my blood sugar is too high AND I failed a glucose tolerance test by a few points. Basically I'm heading for Type II diabetes if I don't get my shit together quickly.
The issue (for most people facing type II) is being over-weight and non-active --- and certainly gene's play a part as well. I'm tall and not exceedingly over-weight (and I've not been exercising) but its obvious my genetic makeup makes me more susceptible than someone who's who is very over-weight - not exercising - etc.
Now thats not to say that sugar is full of empty calories or most likely an ingredient in something really fatty and good tasting. BUT SUGAR DOES NOT CAUSE DIABETES - but it can in excess make you over-weight. And sugar is a generic term.... if you're drinking 20 Mt Dews you are not consuming sugar - you're consuming high-fructose-corn-syrup(HFCS). Your body was not designed to deal with HFCS - but is designed to deal with sugar which is a natural product. Natural in the sense that it has not been manipulated at the molecular level like HFCS or those nasty Trans-Fats.... called Trans-Fats because 1 atom was moved from its normal position causing the fat molecule to have different properties. But whoops we learn 40yrs later that moving that one atom causes heart disease.
So the bottom line is the usual common sense wisdom: Eat responsibly - in moderation - and exercise. I'm trying to work on all 3 aspects to avoid diabetes
I did my hard-time at Intel designing shit (thats a techinical term) - this guys just another over-paid suit who's over stayed his welcome - taking up space - money - and oxygen from the folks who actually do shit (another technical term). I did some good shit (more techincal terms) at Intel but the best day was when I ejected out of my cube and moved on..... that is one fucked place.
All this means is that terrorists will adapt to the new environment. Most likley heavily encrypted email. And to confuse the governments they could randomly send outs millions of heavily encrypted "spam" emails as decoys. And as usual they could always "go retro" and use short-wave radio with encrypted messages.
This "electronic vacuum" method will catch a few fish while also trampling on our rights. But these groups will always evolve. If all the $$$ used in technology - manpower - analysis were steered to creating an effective network of agents (feet on the ground) I believe the results would be more effective without trampling our basic freedoms.
We do need the capabilities to intercept messages - decode etc. --- but this shotgun method is really just a lazy-mans way to go about it.
These to hardy - well engineered - bots prove that we can do a lot of space exploration and basic science remotely via small and mid-sized bots. The trick here is to not over-engineer (cost over runs) or kitchen sink (mission creep) the poor little bots. The fact that these 2 bots have gone well beyond their life expectancy is a great thing --- from these base designs should come a new generation of "bot platforms" that can accept modular payloads for missions that should last at least a year long.
Bots that can - reboot - reconfigure - rebuild / relink SW + HW systems - and analyze the best new course of action (after something has happened) will truly lead us to the age of 'bots
But need to adapt your lessons to work with the technology. I work as a Technology Facilitator at a large high school and its a fact that many classes / subjects benefit from judicious use of technology and multimedia. If you can hook up a PC/Mac to the projector you can now use interactive websites (math - physics) to add depth / spice to your lessons. Our math dept makes heavy use of digital projectors - Elmo's (document cameras) - and programs on PC/Macs that can be projected up to the white screen. Many teachers also use a Mimio ( http://www.mimio.com/ ) to make any white board into an interactive white-board. You can do an entire lecture while capturing the content of the board to a digital file that you can print out for students or post on your website.
The goal here is to teach math (pencil + paper) - but also to draw the student into new experiences or ways of seeing the problem.
And keep in mind that most of these Slash-Dotters are either geezers or pre-geezers and haven't sat in a room full of 15yr olds..... since they were 15.
nobody knows if you're a nobody... or if you have big hair or spandex or wear outrageous outfits (with big glasses). I respect him for some of his music - but the net and easy digital recording has leveled the playing ground for creative people of any age. You don't need to "be outrageous" (and lucky) to be able to get your music out there via some corrupt music company / agent etc.
That obsession is appearance over functionality --- I type this on my G5 iMac which is drop dead purty.... unless you want to plug in a USB device or headphones etc. There are no user plugs in the front of the unit - just a nice shimmering white surface. Thats nice until you want to change something or plug something in - and yes most of the jacks should be in the back but even PCs have a few on the front. Apple does some things real well - OS X - iTunes - etc. but they have gotten too obsessive / compulsive with the look and feel which I would call smooth and sealed. That is then compounded with unique shape / form-factor. All of this complicates any servicing etc. While the cost of the battery service may be comparable... having to send it in is a total drag. I was considering an iPod Nano but may go with a brand-x....
As someone who worked on useability of HW + SW there is a middle ground where you can have beauty and servicibility / functionality. I feel Apple is too strident in the need to be different. When my G5 iMac gets the least bit flakey it will be sent to the recycle station.... I'll continue on with my Linux boxes....
Thats the way to get to the root of things. My gut tells me M$ is doing this for very specific reasons - and I also believe their choices of who they're cutting deals with matters as much as the actual act of making a deal. Both Novell and Xandros must have something or some qualities that make them valuable to M$ - otherwise its just money spent. There has to be some reasons - a plan - a motive for M$ to do this beyond the FUD - beyond splitting the Linux community.
I've met and worked with senior M$ technical and marketing folks --- they are not stupid -- they may be drinking the koolaide... but these guys make badgers look like lap dogs when it comes making a "business deal" or just raping / pillaging other companies or the industry.
Is obvious that Linux is a threat and if M$ can't stop it - then they want a piece of the action
You can mark me as mildly "data paranoid" but I still use on-line banking and on-line access to my 401K. I'm on cable modem - behind a router that I've changed the admin psswd - and either on a Mac or a Linux system also both running SW firewalls. And rarely I've used my XP-Pro system to do such stuff - but am in the final stages of moving all my stuff to Mac / Linux. And since I'm a security nut I'm a very good security system on the PC and its always up to date.
But I'm also a technology professional - so all this is normal / natural for me. For the rest of the 90% plus of people who don't know squat about the basics of how to be minimally secure - this case underscores the point that you can have computer security in place - but if you ignore it - don't update it - change the settings - etc. Then you are a prime target - especially if you are a prime target like an account manager etc.
As I ejected from my cube at Intel R+D in '04 there was already early talk about 4 cores - 8 cores - and something like 16 - 32 - or 64 mini-cores by '08 - '09.
And really - do we need to have MS Office or Word parallel-threaded - or email ? Certainly media-streams should be threaded - games - communication / network streams. But I think a big part of this is the OS facilitating both threaded and non-threaded apps INTELLIGENTLY and EFFICIENTLY into those cores. And from what I took out of discussions - some of those mini-cores will be locked down either running or doing security checks etc. - others performing other low bandwidth or asynchronous tasks.
And not to forget that 2 or more simultaneous OS sessions may be running on those cores --- the classic situation being a locked down OS running the in house IT package of productivity tools so users can't hose up the installed image or let loose a threat ---- the second OS runs the users personal space which they can corrupt and infect at will without affecting the network.
in conjunction with my Jenny Craig diet plan ? If I do a starch exchange with my car how many points do I deduct ? And what are the points for the various starches ? These are importnat questions for millions of Americans
I just hope they keep the GUI simple - and make sure the device does the basics very well. I've used both Palms and Pocket PCs -- I always went back to the Palms beause they did the basics: calendar - contacts - notes - calculator - and even basic email pretty well. And they fit in your shirt pocket or pack easily... if I needed more than that I'd drag a laptop along
But probaly not toast - guys got plenty of experience - just not top finisher... I'll say he finishes in 20th
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roberto Moreno (born Roberto Pupo Moreno, February 11, 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Formula One driver from Brazil. He participated in 75 grands prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship points. He raced in CART in 1986, and was Formula 3000 champion (in 1988) before joining Formula 1 full-time in 1989. He returned to CART in 1996 and raced full-time until 2003. He currently drives as a temporary substitute and test driver in both Champ Car and IndyCar.
These blokes have waaay to much free time on their hands - not only would such an out come be expected - but who gives a shit ! Certainly not Lincoln !
Whats next - "If DaVinci had a computer he would have designed the first airplane" ?
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This should come in handy when we're searching for the last glaciers in decade or two
Great post --- pretty well sums up this entire subject and the reality that is the world around us.
The family of Corvids (which includes crows) are pretty amazing ---
More info in the book "Bird Brains"
Great idea - I'm sure kids will sit at home or maybe in a library and watch some dude teach math ??? They'll be watching that friggin' dog on the skate board ......
I don't know what kind of schools you have in your area - but the large (2200 kids) high school I do tech support for does anything but baby-sit kids. The staff (both teaching and support) are highly motivated to keep kids engaged in the learning process. And when they fall behind (for any of many reasons - and yes we're a diverse school - 1 in 4 is esstimated to be living in poverty) the counseling + teachers + SPED (special ed - if needed) meet repeatedly to get a plan of action. And work with the student and parents. We are 60% white - 30% hipanic - 10% other and have strong English as a Second Language. I just finished setting up a fully multimedia - server based - self paced english learning system in one of our computer labs.
I'm not an educator - but I was surpised and pleased to see how well teachers are connected and communicate about "Is Tom having problems in your class this week ?" etc. And yes there are average / advanced / troubled / struggling / poor / rich students and both mature and imature --- the new principle runs a tight ship -- all halls are "swept" by both administrative and security folks to get kids into classes. Those who are late get ISS(In school suspension ---- lunch period in a classroom - no talking - no electronics - and a grumpy old lady) --- repeat offenders get to go to Saturday school and their parents must take them and sign them in and out later. Its all about choices and ownership.
We got this way due to 2 things: our community has about an 80% pass rate on education bonds / taxes, and the district is frugle and runs lean (while still paying a very fair wage to teachers and giving them latitude).
Good education takes 3 things
- First and foremost parents who are engaged (or at least tryingto work with the school)
- Dedicated and supported staff
- Money
or so says my Doc who is hounding me because my blood sugar is too high AND I failed a glucose tolerance test by a few points. Basically I'm heading for Type II diabetes if I don't get my shit together quickly. The issue (for most people facing type II) is being over-weight and non-active --- and certainly gene's play a part as well. I'm tall and not exceedingly over-weight (and I've not been exercising) but its obvious my genetic makeup makes me more susceptible than someone who's who is very over-weight - not exercising - etc. Now thats not to say that sugar is full of empty calories or most likely an ingredient in something really fatty and good tasting. BUT SUGAR DOES NOT CAUSE DIABETES - but it can in excess make you over-weight. And sugar is a generic term .... if you're drinking 20 Mt Dews you are not consuming sugar - you're consuming high-fructose-corn-syrup(HFCS). Your body was not designed to deal with HFCS - but is designed to deal with sugar which is a natural product. Natural in the sense that it has not been manipulated at the molecular level like HFCS or those nasty Trans-Fats .... called Trans-Fats because 1 atom was moved from its normal position causing the fat molecule to have different properties. But whoops we learn 40yrs later that moving that one atom causes heart disease.
So the bottom line is the usual common sense wisdom: Eat responsibly - in moderation - and exercise. I'm trying to work on all 3 aspects to avoid diabetes
I did my hard-time at Intel designing shit (thats a techinical term) - this guys just another over-paid suit who's over stayed his welcome - taking up space - money - and oxygen from the folks who actually do shit (another technical term). I did some good shit (more techincal terms) at Intel but the best day was when I ejected out of my cube and moved on ..... that is one fucked place.
All this means is that terrorists will adapt to the new environment. Most likley heavily encrypted email. And to confuse the governments they could randomly send outs millions of heavily encrypted "spam" emails as decoys. And as usual they could always "go retro" and use short-wave radio with encrypted messages.
This "electronic vacuum" method will catch a few fish while also trampling on our rights. But these groups will always evolve. If all the $$$ used in technology - manpower - analysis were steered to creating an effective network of agents (feet on the ground) I believe the results would be more effective without trampling our basic freedoms.
We do need the capabilities to intercept messages - decode etc. --- but this shotgun method is really just a lazy-mans way to go about it.
We didn't start the fire ........ ***
***Lame Billy Joel reference for you youngsters
A lie will circle the earth twice, while the truth is still putting its shoes on.
Myth = a lie more or less especially if it is spun for an agenda.
Boobs and those with and agenda or an axe to grind are happy to perpetuate their "myths"
I guess at least they haven't capitulated to Bill the Beast Master
These to hardy - well engineered - bots prove that we can do a lot of space exploration and basic science remotely via small and mid-sized bots. The trick here is to not over-engineer (cost over runs) or kitchen sink (mission creep) the poor little bots. The fact that these 2 bots have gone well beyond their life expectancy is a great thing --- from these base designs should come a new generation of "bot platforms" that can accept modular payloads for missions that should last at least a year long.
Bots that can - reboot - reconfigure - rebuild / relink SW + HW systems - and analyze the best new course of action (after something has happened) will truly lead us to the age of 'bots
But need to adapt your lessons to work with the technology. I work as a Technology Facilitator at a large high school and its a fact that many classes / subjects benefit from judicious use of technology and multimedia. If you can hook up a PC/Mac to the projector you can now use interactive websites (math - physics) to add depth / spice to your lessons. Our math dept makes heavy use of digital projectors - Elmo's (document cameras) - and programs on PC/Macs that can be projected up to the white screen. Many teachers also use a Mimio ( http://www.mimio.com/ ) to make any white board into an interactive white-board. You can do an entire lecture while capturing the content of the board to a digital file that you can print out for students or post on your website.
..... since they were 15.
The goal here is to teach math (pencil + paper) - but also to draw the student into new experiences or ways of seeing the problem.
And keep in mind that most of these Slash-Dotters are either geezers or pre-geezers and haven't sat in a room full of 15yr olds
nobody knows if you're a nobody ... or if you have big hair or spandex or wear outrageous outfits (with big glasses). I respect him for some of his music - but the net and easy digital recording has leveled the playing ground for creative people of any age. You don't need to "be outrageous" (and lucky) to be able to get your music out there via some corrupt music company / agent etc.
Rock On !
I guess now we have to fight them in side our computers - or they'll follow us home and then we have to fight here.
That obsession is appearance over functionality --- I type this on my G5 iMac which is drop dead purty .... unless you want to plug in a USB device or headphones etc. There are no user plugs in the front of the unit - just a nice shimmering white surface. Thats nice until you want to change something or plug something in - and yes most of the jacks should be in the back but even PCs have a few on the front. Apple does some things real well - OS X - iTunes - etc. but they have gotten too obsessive / compulsive with the look and feel which I would call smooth and sealed. That is then compounded with unique shape / form-factor. All of this complicates any servicing etc. While the cost of the battery service may be comparable ... having to send it in is a total drag. I was considering an iPod Nano but may go with a brand-x ....
.... I'll continue on with my Linux boxes ....
As someone who worked on useability of HW + SW there is a middle ground where you can have beauty and servicibility / functionality. I feel Apple is too strident in the need to be different. When my G5 iMac gets the least bit flakey it will be sent to the recycle station
rated as being in the 3rd ring of hell
Thats the way to get to the root of things. My gut tells me M$ is doing this for very specific reasons - and I also believe their choices of who they're cutting deals with matters as much as the actual act of making a deal. Both Novell and Xandros must have something or some qualities that make them valuable to M$ - otherwise its just money spent. There has to be some reasons - a plan - a motive for M$ to do this beyond the FUD - beyond splitting the Linux community.
... but these guys make badgers look like lap dogs when it comes making a "business deal" or just raping / pillaging other companies or the industry.
I've met and worked with senior M$ technical and marketing folks --- they are not stupid -- they may be drinking the koolaide
Is obvious that Linux is a threat and if M$ can't stop it - then they want a piece of the action
You can mark me as mildly "data paranoid" but I still use on-line banking and on-line access to my 401K. I'm on cable modem - behind a router that I've changed the admin psswd - and either on a Mac or a Linux system also both running SW firewalls. And rarely I've used my XP-Pro system to do such stuff - but am in the final stages of moving all my stuff to Mac / Linux. And since I'm a security nut I'm a very good security system on the PC and its always up to date.
But I'm also a technology professional - so all this is normal / natural for me. For the rest of the 90% plus of people who don't know squat about the basics of how to be minimally secure - this case underscores the point that you can have computer security in place - but if you ignore it - don't update it - change the settings - etc. Then you are a prime target - especially if you are a prime target like an account manager etc.
then the application(s).
As I ejected from my cube at Intel R+D in '04 there was already early talk about 4 cores - 8 cores - and something like 16 - 32 - or 64 mini-cores by '08 - '09.
And really - do we need to have MS Office or Word parallel-threaded - or email ? Certainly media-streams should be threaded - games - communication / network streams. But I think a big part of this is the OS facilitating both threaded and non-threaded apps INTELLIGENTLY and EFFICIENTLY into those cores. And from what I took out of discussions - some of those mini-cores will be locked down either running or doing security checks etc. - others performing other low bandwidth or asynchronous tasks.
And not to forget that 2 or more simultaneous OS sessions may be running on those cores --- the classic situation being a locked down OS running the in house IT package of productivity tools so users can't hose up the installed image or let loose a threat ---- the second OS runs the users personal space which they can corrupt and infect at will without affecting the network.
in conjunction with my Jenny Craig diet plan ? If I do a starch exchange with my car how many points do I deduct ? And what are the points for the various starches ? These are importnat questions for millions of Americans
Long live the new Linux Mobile OS !
... if I needed more than that I'd drag a laptop along
I just hope they keep the GUI simple - and make sure the device does the basics very well. I've used both Palms and Pocket PCs -- I always went back to the Palms beause they did the basics: calendar - contacts - notes - calculator - and even basic email pretty well. And they fit in your shirt pocket or pack easily
But probaly not toast - guys got plenty of experience - just not top finisher ... I'll say he finishes in 20th
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roberto Moreno (born Roberto Pupo Moreno, February 11, 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Formula One driver from Brazil. He participated in 75 grands prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship points. He raced in CART in 1986, and was Formula 3000 champion (in 1988) before joining Formula 1 full-time in 1989. He returned to CART in 1996 and raced full-time until 2003. He currently drives as a temporary substitute and test driver in both Champ Car and IndyCar.
Indy 500 results
Year Chassis Engine Start Finish
1986 Lola Cosworth 32nd 19th
1994 Lola Ford-Cosworth Failed to Qualify
1999 G-Force Oldsmobile 23rd 20th
2007 Panoz Honda 31st
Shouldn't June be the month or "June Bugs" ... damn things used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. And I don't even want to talk about Potato Bugs
Sorry but my HP-15C runs circles around your 11C -- great calculator - 23yrs old still works like a charm ... and no "=" button - priceless
These blokes have waaay to much free time on their hands - not only would such an out come be expected - but who gives a shit ! Certainly not Lincoln !
Whats next - "If DaVinci had a computer he would have designed the first airplane" ?