When I was young, my parents were terrified that I would prank call 911 (Canada's 911 number), so I don't know that I'd call 911 for anything short of immediate danger.
I think that the simplest fix would be to increase how healthy the students are.
The less disruptive the average student is, the more able students are to absorb information. Likewise, there's a ton of research linking physical health to mental health. So mandate an hour of phys. ed. every day right up through grade 12 (some in the classroom, some outside), serve healthy school lunches and get rid of pop and candy vending machines in the schools.
That's not to say that there aren't flaws with the actual system, but I think that the effects of just making students healthier would be remarkable and noticeable almost immediately.
Certainly the state of the internet in America leaves much to be desired, but one of the reasons that Japan is able to stay so far ahead of the curve is the area. Laying down new cable anywhere is surely expensive, but with Japan having something like 5% of the area that the USA does, it's less prohibitive.
Of course, as many will no doubt realize, people will search for "how to make a b0mb" and so on, so this idea alone will be largely ineffective. Thus we need to take preemptive action and ban not only these words, but also these ideas, from all literature.
I think one of the big issues with this is that becoming a manager is the only way that an employee can advance their career. So when your brilliant engineer decides that he needs more money, his or her only option is to go into management, and the company ends up losing a talented engineer and ends up with a bad manager who probably wishes they could be an engineer again, and all of a sudden doesn't like his job anymore. Also, you might have an average engineer who would be a great manager, but the system fails again in this regard because this guy won't get noticed.
The quote from the talk is "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
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When I was young, my parents were terrified that I would prank call 911 (Canada's 911 number), so I don't know that I'd call 911 for anything short of immediate danger.
Without a web browser, it seems like it'd be a lot more difficult to install other browsers.
I think that the simplest fix would be to increase how healthy the students are. The less disruptive the average student is, the more able students are to absorb information. Likewise, there's a ton of research linking physical health to mental health. So mandate an hour of phys. ed. every day right up through grade 12 (some in the classroom, some outside), serve healthy school lunches and get rid of pop and candy vending machines in the schools. That's not to say that there aren't flaws with the actual system, but I think that the effects of just making students healthier would be remarkable and noticeable almost immediately.
Certainly the state of the internet in America leaves much to be desired, but one of the reasons that Japan is able to stay so far ahead of the curve is the area. Laying down new cable anywhere is surely expensive, but with Japan having something like 5% of the area that the USA does, it's less prohibitive.
Of course, as many will no doubt realize, people will search for "how to make a b0mb" and so on, so this idea alone will be largely ineffective. Thus we need to take preemptive action and ban not only these words, but also these ideas, from all literature.
Sadly, this is the first thing that came to mind. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari /my-lovely-horse.php (Sort of NSFW)
I think one of the big issues with this is that becoming a manager is the only way that an employee can advance their career. So when your brilliant engineer decides that he needs more money, his or her only option is to go into management, and the company ends up losing a talented engineer and ends up with a bad manager who probably wishes they could be an engineer again, and all of a sudden doesn't like his job anymore. Also, you might have an average engineer who would be a great manager, but the system fails again in this regard because this guy won't get noticed.
The quote from the talk is "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."