FPS Crowdsourcing - Build better drone logic, add some humanoid bots, build massive skilled army!
RTS Crowdsourcing - Solve the whole 'nationalism and dick waving' contest one civ game at a time!
Racing Games Crowdsourcing - Design better robot drivers and automate all vehicles, lower traffic fatalities!
Angry Birds Crowdsourcing - Design better projectile systems for the military!
Farmville Crowdsourcing - Make the people that partake in this one play until they die from starvation, eliminating half the 1st world population and donating their wealth to people who are actually starving!!!! (Reverse logic on this one)
Good point. I remember being in my early years in K12 (dating myself here) and having Apple IIs plastered against each wall in our school, those big-ass really floppy disc with all, and now that I think about it, worthless games that just wasted our time.
40% of the third graders in Auburn are not reading at grade level. Superintendent Katy Grodin says to the goal is to fix that number.
- what, they are going to fix this to be 20%?
What do they think iPads do exactly?
What students think: Yay more games and distractions, but they're authorized!!!!
What the teachers think: Yay more games and distractions, but they're authorized!!!!
What the parents think: It's technology, it will make them smarter!!!!
What the administration thinks: It's technology, it will make them smarter!!!!
What Apple thinks: "$$$$ LOL VENDOR LOCKIN $$$$ LOL"
What Microsoft thinks: "Do you have a Windows license for each of your remaining desktops?"
What/. thinks: "Society is fucked."
Aren't we all loving this brave new fucking world shit...
Another school system that just throws money at problems? I never understood the rich/poor school district thing. Most knowledge is free, and with the amount of free information on the internet, public libraries and such, why can't schools just get by on redistributing free material and then working off that? Is there a need for the multi-hundred dollar textbooks, software packages, OS licenses, mega-calculators, mongoloid gyms and sports-programs, massive administrative overheard, super expensive art-decko modern design crap, and all that other new-age school bullshit? I'm pretty sure all that crap is extraneous, but the DoE has blossomed into a monstrosity, and schools now operate under the assumption that we must get great standardized test scores to get more money and once we get more money we can buy more shit to get better standardized test scores to get more money to hire more administrators to plan us getting better test scores.
There is a reason home-schooling is on the rise along with the growing demand for vouchers and more private-school flexibility.
I would pine for thee if it was any better, but alas I don't think it was. But this story warms me cockles and is a gentle push in the never coming back here again direction.
If those percentages are correct, I don't want to live on this planet anymore. As an aside, it is fun to use cleverbot to chat with people in Omegle, or to use cleverbot and pitting it against the jabberwacky chat bot. You get some pretty hilarious conversations that way.
I am currently taking senior level physics classes at one of the big universities, and I can say that at the undergraduate and graduate level, laptops are not a boon to learning. Walking into any of the higher level science lectures and the last thing you will see is a laptop. Its usually just pencil and paper and perhaps a sparse open book. Working quickly through the professor's QCD problems on the board is not easier with a computer, unless perhaps you are a master of putting in equations and such in digital format. Same applies for partial differential equations, set theory, number theory, analysis, and all those other symbolic math classes. As my professors say, computers are just useful idiots. They aren't going to teach you anything new, only the programmer can 'teach' the computer new methods of approximating problems.
Now in my labs, yes, computers come into play quite a bit, MatLab, Fortran, C++, etc. for modelling large systems, of course they make massive calculation sets easier, but for a fundamental understanding of Minkowski space-time, Hilbert Spaces, etc, just having a web-connected machine in front of you during the lecture is not going to make the class that much easier. Having an innate desire to understand the fundamentals is key. Naturally having many open doors available for obtaining the information is helpful, but for the classic situation in which you have a quality professor spewing content, its usually easier (for me at least, YMMV) to leave the laptop at the house.
Sounds like another 'lets throw enough money into the technology and hope the problem goes away'. As far as K12 education goes in the states, well, I have to speculate that 90% of the students would love a laptop in the classroom, just not for the learning part. One man's opinion.
Guns blamed for helping gunmen shoot people.
Bombs blamed for helping suicide bomber blow up.
Planes blamed for helping people crash planes.
Fire blamed for helping people start fires.
Phones blamed for helping people coordinate bad things.
Internet blamed for child pornography proliferation.
How about this? Sensationalist media blamed for making everything a scandal or a controversy!
People wanting to ignore and pass off responsibility just fire the blame cannon everywhere. Why are they rioting? Why is there so much civil unrest in England? Are the English that repressed that this is a cry-out for help? Or is this all being blown out of proportion, and the riots are really just a couple of small groups causing trouble. Personally, I think the PoliceState in that country has spiraled out of control, and now there is a growing underground movement with there backs to the wall, so we are seeing the rebellion swell as more and more dissenters act out the only way they personally feel they can. How about looking at the fundamental causes for societal unrest, lets analyze the sociology of the The Land of the Panopticon Complex.
What's your point? The government is broken? We know that. As long as people think that democrats and republicans are in any way interested in actually fixing what is broken and keep voting for the liars then it'll will not only stay broken but continue to get worse. Get used to it because it's going to get a lot worse.
My point is: business as usual. Sorry for apparently not adding anything worth mentioning my friend. And no, don't get used to it. The more you raise these sorts of issues in public forums, the higher the chance that somebody unaware of these sorts of things gets exposure. If I can at least get one person to open their eyes to at least research our county's issues, then I am helping out at least, in a little way, but better than staying silent, don't you think? I stay politically active in the real-world; being politically vocal and wanting to have these conversations in person vs. online are not mutually exclusive activities.
I'd like to stay positive and believe this man will bring us the transparency that was touted during the election, but precedent shows this will probably not happen. Current admin is just as bad about denying FOIA request, holding secret meetings, passing bills and resolutions (house and senate responsible too) without giving anybody time to read them, keeping things secret as a matter of 'national security', sending national security letters to keep people from discussing their interactions with the gov't, etc. The demicans and republicrats never cease to let me down. We get the worst politicians the largest donors can buy!
Visual Studio Express Editions + SQL covers:
- Web Services
- ASP.Net Pages
- Windows binaries
Express Editions Completely free? Yes. Do they work and are they flexible? Yes? Properly documented? Yes. Solid and highly proliferated languages? Yes. Large job market for.NET devs? Yes. Large platform install base across the corporate and consumer realms? Yes. Large user-base online for support? Yes. Large selection of open-source.NET project available for tinkering? Yes and growing. Interopability with most Win32 API calls? Yes. What is the issue here troll?
Of course every platform has its limitations, but you can't paint the entire.NET stack in a Glen Beck style question. Is Linux ever going to be a good platform? Is Apple ever going to be more than turdshine? Is the article poster a troll?
If I cyber-see the cyber word in one more cyber-news article I am going to cyber-kick the people who cyber-pen each one of these fucking cyber-articles and cyber-laws. Its about damn cyber-time that we accept that cyber-things that happen in the cyber-world are no more disconnected from cyber-reality than the communication medium we cyber-interact with.
I am electronically typing this on my electronic keyboard and viewing this cyber-page with my electronic monitor. Thankfully, after a real-day of complete cyber-bullshit, I relax with my dead-tree-books on my physical-leather couch in my real-house in the real-world.
The real cyber-question is whether or not this cyber-rant is virtual pontification or just more cyber chat. I'll get on my AOL and go AskJeeves it and see if I can find a GeoCities page that describes proper usage of 90's buzzwords that are used way to cyber-much.
Assume it is China. Why is it that when transnational attacks occur on a scale this large against our nations infrastructure, financial sectors, and defense systems the politicians shrug it off or turn a blind eye, but when citizen schmoe downloads some files or leaks some dox the entire system goes full assault on their asses with ICE raids, take down notices, special committees on intellectual property, etc. etc.
If they were concerned about national security, they would denounce the culprit (they know what country they're coming from), and work on hardening security. But it is not about national security. It is about corporate security and defending the status quo. That is why the US seeks to extradite file sharers, hell, link sharers, from other countries, but when massive ddos attacks are directed at us by governments that we trade with, nothing is generally done.
Oh, and this entire rant uses the word cyber once; in this sentence.
There are many cool projects out there where you can 'harvest' free wireless energy. I've read about people setting up receivers to pull energy (low wattage of course) from nearby microwave towers and the like. Don't have any sources, but I believe I've heard of some research teams or 'how to get free cheap power' sites/groups being harassed by the folks who owned the towers. All heresy, could not find any sources, anyone know anything else?
Also, and sorry for the cliche attribution, Tesla was a major proponent and researcher in this area, and wasn't a complete kook as revisionist history sometimes paints him to be. Margaret Cheney's "Tesla - A Man Out of Time" is a great read for a comprehensive history covering some of the early research in these areas.
Thanks for the rebuttal, I am always glad to actually have engaging conversation on/. I originally felt the wording of your inquiry was instigating for the fact that your question was so direct by only leaving room for the either/or answer, with the latter assertion begging the question of honesty, which is accusative when directly questioning one's motive. Perhaps I took it too sensitively, but going around enough forums its hard to tell genuine inquiry from ad-hominem attacks. Never took it as an insult, it just seemed a bit aggressive. I do appreciate your response and in all likelihood will probably change the wording so that it will seem more informative than inflammatory.
In retrospect, your cynicism is well founded, and I can fault you none for it for the same reasons I used as defense in the above paragrapg, so, in effect, touche! In the end, it is all about the search for truth and knowledge.:)
No problem. "So are your numbers accurate or just once sided political lies?" is pretty accusative, and looking to start a partisan fight. Not enough room in the signature field to provide any more than what I got in, maybe I'll throw in a tiny url or something with full sources. What frustrated me by your comment is how it seems people automatically assume any political rhetoric is partisan these days. Gotta love what the media has done to us Americans.
Good to know, I'll probably adjust those statistics accordingly. They're a bit rough around the edges and averaged from multiple sources. Still, even knowing there's an additional 19B, it doesn't stack up against all the other programs (military and entitlements), and hence my intended point about long term priorities.
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FPS Crowdsourcing - Build better drone logic, add some humanoid bots, build massive skilled army!
RTS Crowdsourcing - Solve the whole 'nationalism and dick waving' contest one civ game at a time!
Racing Games Crowdsourcing - Design better robot drivers and automate all vehicles, lower traffic fatalities!
Angry Birds Crowdsourcing - Design better projectile systems for the military!
Farmville Crowdsourcing - Make the people that partake in this one play until they die from starvation, eliminating half the 1st world population and donating their wealth to people who are actually starving!!!! (Reverse logic on this one)
Good point. I remember being in my early years in K12 (dating myself here) and having Apple IIs plastered against each wall in our school, those big-ass really floppy disc with all, and now that I think about it, worthless games that just wasted our time.
40% of the third graders in Auburn are not reading at grade level. Superintendent Katy Grodin says to the goal is to fix that number.
- what, they are going to fix this to be 20%?
What do they think iPads do exactly?
What students think: Yay more games and distractions, but they're authorized!!!! /. thinks: "Society is fucked."
What the teachers think: Yay more games and distractions, but they're authorized!!!!
What the parents think: It's technology, it will make them smarter!!!!
What the administration thinks: It's technology, it will make them smarter!!!!
What Apple thinks: "$$$$ LOL VENDOR LOCKIN $$$$ LOL"
What Microsoft thinks: "Do you have a Windows license for each of your remaining desktops?"
What
Aren't we all loving this brave new fucking world shit...
Another school system that just throws money at problems? I never understood the rich/poor school district thing. Most knowledge is free, and with the amount of free information on the internet, public libraries and such, why can't schools just get by on redistributing free material and then working off that? Is there a need for the multi-hundred dollar textbooks, software packages, OS licenses, mega-calculators, mongoloid gyms and sports-programs, massive administrative overheard, super expensive art-decko modern design crap, and all that other new-age school bullshit? I'm pretty sure all that crap is extraneous, but the DoE has blossomed into a monstrosity, and schools now operate under the assumption that we must get great standardized test scores to get more money and once we get more money we can buy more shit to get better standardized test scores to get more money to hire more administrators to plan us getting better test scores.
There is a reason home-schooling is on the rise along with the growing demand for vouchers and more private-school flexibility.
I would pine for thee if it was any better, but alas I don't think it was. But this story warms me cockles and is a gentle push in the never coming back here again direction.
If those percentages are correct, I don't want to live on this planet anymore. As an aside, it is fun to use cleverbot to chat with people in Omegle, or to use cleverbot and pitting it against the jabberwacky chat bot. You get some pretty hilarious conversations that way.
I am currently taking senior level physics classes at one of the big universities, and I can say that at the undergraduate and graduate level, laptops are not a boon to learning. Walking into any of the higher level science lectures and the last thing you will see is a laptop. Its usually just pencil and paper and perhaps a sparse open book. Working quickly through the professor's QCD problems on the board is not easier with a computer, unless perhaps you are a master of putting in equations and such in digital format. Same applies for partial differential equations, set theory, number theory, analysis, and all those other symbolic math classes. As my professors say, computers are just useful idiots. They aren't going to teach you anything new, only the programmer can 'teach' the computer new methods of approximating problems.
Now in my labs, yes, computers come into play quite a bit, MatLab, Fortran, C++, etc. for modelling large systems, of course they make massive calculation sets easier, but for a fundamental understanding of Minkowski space-time, Hilbert Spaces, etc, just having a web-connected machine in front of you during the lecture is not going to make the class that much easier. Having an innate desire to understand the fundamentals is key. Naturally having many open doors available for obtaining the information is helpful, but for the classic situation in which you have a quality professor spewing content, its usually easier (for me at least, YMMV) to leave the laptop at the house.
Sounds like another 'lets throw enough money into the technology and hope the problem goes away'. As far as K12 education goes in the states, well, I have to speculate that 90% of the students would love a laptop in the classroom, just not for the learning part. One man's opinion.
Here in North Carolina, whenever we have a state of emergency declared it is illigal to be outside with firearms! :P
Needless to say if somebody's breaking the law and trying to harm/kill us, we kindly disregard that silly law.
that I have done this before--not to avoid contact with people, but to make it look like I'm making contact with people.
Signed,
Forever Alone lolololol
It obviously went FTL and subsequently back in time. Occam's butter knife.
Guns blamed for helping gunmen shoot people.
Bombs blamed for helping suicide bomber blow up.
Planes blamed for helping people crash planes.
Fire blamed for helping people start fires.
Phones blamed for helping people coordinate bad things.
Internet blamed for child pornography proliferation.
How about this?
Sensationalist media blamed for making everything a scandal or a controversy!
People wanting to ignore and pass off responsibility just fire the blame cannon everywhere. Why are they rioting? Why is there so much civil unrest in England? Are the English that repressed that this is a cry-out for help? Or is this all being blown out of proportion, and the riots are really just a couple of small groups causing trouble. Personally, I think the PoliceState in that country has spiraled out of control, and now there is a growing underground movement with there backs to the wall, so we are seeing the rebellion swell as more and more dissenters act out the only way they personally feel they can. How about looking at the fundamental causes for societal unrest, lets analyze the sociology of the The Land of the Panopticon Complex.
What's your point? The government is broken? We know that. As long as people think that democrats and republicans are in any way interested in actually fixing what is broken and keep voting for the liars then it'll will not only stay broken but continue to get worse. Get used to it because it's going to get a lot worse.
My point is: business as usual. Sorry for apparently not adding anything worth mentioning my friend. And no, don't get used to it. The more you raise these sorts of issues in public forums, the higher the chance that somebody unaware of these sorts of things gets exposure. If I can at least get one person to open their eyes to at least research our county's issues, then I am helping out at least, in a little way, but better than staying silent, don't you think? I stay politically active in the real-world; being politically vocal and wanting to have these conversations in person vs. online are not mutually exclusive activities.
I'd like to stay positive and believe this man will bring us the transparency that was touted during the election, but precedent shows this will probably not happen. Current admin is just as bad about denying FOIA request, holding secret meetings, passing bills and resolutions (house and senate responsible too) without giving anybody time to read them, keeping things secret as a matter of 'national security', sending national security letters to keep people from discussing their interactions with the gov't, etc. The demicans and republicrats never cease to let me down. We get the worst politicians the largest donors can buy!
Visual Studio Express Editions + SQL covers:
.NET devs? Yes. Large platform install base across the corporate and consumer realms? Yes. Large user-base online for support? Yes. Large selection of open-source .NET project available for tinkering? Yes and growing. Interopability with most Win32 API calls? Yes. What is the issue here troll?
.NET stack in a Glen Beck style question. Is Linux ever going to be a good platform? Is Apple ever going to be more than turdshine? Is the article poster a troll?
- Web Services - ASP.Net Pages - Windows binaries
Express Editions Completely free? Yes. Do they work and are they flexible? Yes? Properly documented? Yes. Solid and highly proliferated languages? Yes. Large job market for
Of course every platform has its limitations, but you can't paint the entire
We're a ~100 person .NET shop and we do about 10 million a year with small businesses. It's worked great for us!
If I cyber-see the cyber word in one more cyber-news article I am going to cyber-kick the people who cyber-pen each one of these fucking cyber-articles and cyber-laws. Its about damn cyber-time that we accept that cyber-things that happen in the cyber-world are no more disconnected from cyber-reality than the communication medium we cyber-interact with.
I am electronically typing this on my electronic keyboard and viewing this cyber-page with my electronic monitor. Thankfully, after a real-day of complete cyber-bullshit, I relax with my dead-tree-books on my physical-leather couch in my real-house in the real-world.
The real cyber-question is whether or not this cyber-rant is virtual pontification or just more cyber chat. I'll get on my AOL and go AskJeeves it and see if I can find a GeoCities page that describes proper usage of 90's buzzwords that are used way to cyber-much.
Touche.
An easier fight, perhaps, but turning on your citizens doesn't help the longevity of the regime either.
I just don't believe our government is competent enough to undertake the actions in your last paragraph.
Assume it is China. Why is it that when transnational attacks occur on a scale this large against our nations infrastructure, financial sectors, and defense systems the politicians shrug it off or turn a blind eye, but when citizen schmoe downloads some files or leaks some dox the entire system goes full assault on their asses with ICE raids, take down notices, special committees on intellectual property, etc. etc.
If they were concerned about national security, they would denounce the culprit (they know what country they're coming from), and work on hardening security. But it is not about national security. It is about corporate security and defending the status quo. That is why the US seeks to extradite file sharers, hell, link sharers, from other countries, but when massive ddos attacks are directed at us by governments that we trade with, nothing is generally done.
Oh, and this entire rant uses the word cyber once; in this sentence.
There are many cool projects out there where you can 'harvest' free wireless energy. I've read about people setting up receivers to pull energy (low wattage of course) from nearby microwave towers and the like. Don't have any sources, but I believe I've heard of some research teams or 'how to get free cheap power' sites/groups being harassed by the folks who owned the towers. All heresy, could not find any sources, anyone know anything else?
Also, and sorry for the cliche attribution, Tesla was a major proponent and researcher in this area, and wasn't a complete kook as revisionist history sometimes paints him to be. Margaret Cheney's "Tesla - A Man Out of Time" is a great read for a comprehensive history covering some of the early research in these areas.
Thanks for the rebuttal, I am always glad to actually have engaging conversation on /. I originally felt the wording of your inquiry was instigating for the fact that your question was so direct by only leaving room for the either/or answer, with the latter assertion begging the question of honesty, which is accusative when directly questioning one's motive. Perhaps I took it too sensitively, but going around enough forums its hard to tell genuine inquiry from ad-hominem attacks. Never took it as an insult, it just seemed a bit aggressive. I do appreciate your response and in all likelihood will probably change the wording so that it will seem more informative than inflammatory.
:)
In retrospect, your cynicism is well founded, and I can fault you none for it for the same reasons I used as defense in the above paragrapg, so, in effect, touche! In the end, it is all about the search for truth and knowledge.
Cheers
No problem. "So are your numbers accurate or just once sided political lies?" is pretty accusative, and looking to start a partisan fight. Not enough room in the signature field to provide any more than what I got in, maybe I'll throw in a tiny url or something with full sources. What frustrated me by your comment is how it seems people automatically assume any political rhetoric is partisan these days. Gotta love what the media has done to us Americans.
Cheers
They're pretty close to raw numbers, and I try not to take things out of context, those numbers are straight from the horses mouth and also extrapolated from 3rd party analysis:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget
http://budget.house.gov/fy2012budget/
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget12/index.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/budget_2012.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_federal_budget
If you find any one sided political lies or gross and blatant misrepresentations, I will gladly adjust accordingly.
Good to know, I'll probably adjust those statistics accordingly. They're a bit rough around the edges and averaged from multiple sources. Still, even knowing there's an additional 19B, it doesn't stack up against all the other programs (military and entitlements), and hence my intended point about long term priorities.