MIT OpenCourseWare is hoping to partner with edX as some point. Currently our the relationship with them hasn't been fully defined. We might host the content after the course is no longer being taught or... who knows??? Lots of questions abound... lots to do with overlap of effort (do we cover the same MIT courses?), licensing of content (we are almost completely Creative Commons NC-BY-SA- what does that mean if they go BY or BY-SA?), limits on the instructors/faculty (will we even get time with people working on edX projects?). Currently they see us as a complement to their courses as a reference and resource for courses they currently don't offer (e.g. need help with the course min. reqs? see ocw.mit.edu)... but will that change when they start having a lot of courses?
I hope this doesn't mean MIT OCW is going away but I guess it depends on what decisions are made. I can see a time where we are slowly whittled away by a bigger collection of edX courses such that it might not be interesting to have OCW anymore (why do free if there is no certificate?). Maybe we merge? In terms of fee only- we will never go that route. The only time that will happen is if MIT OCW goes away.
For me personally, I think the one of the biggest issues is around the licensing. I really love the fact that we are increasing the commons of education content. Free educational materials for the world! Sadly, most folks could care less. ("Why don't you show the slides?", "Why is some of this missing and has citation? I just want to learn this stuff... who cares what the license is or where is comes from!"). We'll have plenty of time to see how this plays out.
It's all still in flux. It's a cool and exciting time in education- that much is for sure:)
On a serious note- I hope they really manage to keep it to just these 3 versions. It should help with their with support and dev costs too (not to mention us folks in the field). Surprised they didn't didn't do this with 7.
Anybody else find it interesting/sad that the time limit on copyrights is longer than the privacy time limit on the Census records? Just a clear indication that corporations are valued above people.
Same here... had a two year old multi-function printer a few years back, and found out that it wasn't going to be fully supported by their new drivers in Win7. Printing only. Not to mention the 'forced' maintenance cycles... 'fuser has 12 pages left on it' or some such crap. I still have a 20 year old HP LaserJet 5MP that still works fine- no forced parts/supplies to buy. If it start printing badly, then you replace the part. It's only on it's second fuser:P That's what sold me on HP printers for so long. Went with Brother Printers for my next multi-function instead... still have some 'forced' supply issues but their driver support is much better.
It's funny, I read some where AT&T had announced that they predicted that they would have to divest $8 billion in various stuff to make the deal go through. The funny part is that I read it as "we need $8 billion to buy off the politicians for the deal to go through".
Yup, reminds me of the short Whistle (2002). From Duncan Jones- the same guy you directed Moon and Source Code. Saw it as an interesting extra on the Moon DVD.
You're right... I'm confusing it with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which is the remake of the original (done by Lucas Arts themselves). Tales of Monkey Island still is a good game though, even if it's not the original;) They did a really good job on it.
I would second or third the recommendation of Monkey Island. There is an remake available that's been ported to many platforms (PSN, Wii, PC, iOS, etc) called Tales of Monkey Island. My daughter (who is 7) enjoys it quite a bit. Some puzzles are a little too hard for her and I need to help her out, so it might be the right level for your girl. The humor helps a lot too, she might not get the puzzles but she enjoys some of the responses she gets for incorrect answers- keeping her from getting to frustrated with it.
My daughter also loves the Zelda series like Windwaker and the Twilight Princess. She likes these worlds and loves to play in them not just for the story line. Like playing fetch with the a dog in Twilight Princess, or placing the pigs in Windwaker in funny spots like try to get them on a roof, or in a water basin. She sometimes plays the older versions like Majora's Mask or the Ocarina of Time but sometimes seems a little turned of by the lack of detail/responses of the environment. [sigh] Kids these days!;)
She also likes to play on my World of Warcraft account sometimes (with supervision, of course)- although I can see many reasons not to go that route (monthly $, stranger interaction, addiction/immersion). She likes to roleplay in the environment- go fishing, follow/talk to NPCs, sleep, eat, and sometimes go on a quest or two.
Have you ever noticed that these days, the first thing people do when they get into an elevator is reach for their phone to look at something... anything other than making eye contact or talking with people in the elevator?
Since people in elevators have been avoiding eye contact or talking with the others in the elevator since roughly forever... your point would be, what exactly?
Are the E74 errors and disc scratching still a problem? I am still wary of getting an 360. Even if this new one lasts the 3 years under their extended warranty and then quits, I still think it's too short. I still have an orig. Xbox at home that still works fine. I would love it if the new one would come closer to that for reliability. Ten year lifespan (basically the full production life) would be ideal. Three years seems a little too short. I think 5 years would be good. By then they will have released their next generation too;-)
The order seems to match the order the consoles were released. A console out longer will have more games for it and a longer time for companies to refine their development process.
I place most of the blame for the lack of good games for the the Wii squarely on the publishers and not on the technical limitations of the console. Most did not take the platform seriously (some still do not) and therefore didn't develop good games for it. When the Wii started to sell like gangbusters they were caught flatfooted and just threw whatever junk they had together ('we gotta get in on this... this market is huge'). At least now it looks like some developers are now doing some serious work on the console.
It's true that there are technical limitations with the Wii but that doesn't mean you can't make fun games.
"Although they have focused on the dark and creepy, I bet ID could brainstorm their way into doing Duke justice. It just feels like one of the old-school developers should do this, just to mess with us old-timers."
Just musing out loud... I think MS would save a ton of money just ending Vista. Provide free updates to Windows 7, notify all users, allow for money back. Seriously- no support, no extended maintenance, no teams working on maintaining the OS differences for 10 years should be less than providing free upgrades/money back on Vista. Seriously! (really guys, I'm serious):^)
Don't get mad, and don't try to convince them otherwise, for heaven's sake. Guys like that are paying for the R&D costs of the uber-high-end cards that you can I enjoy for $100 a few years later.
Why wait?! Just tell him "Sorry man, that's a bummer about those cards. I don't do anything fancy like DVD playback so if you every get rid of them let me know.";^)
Ask all the people at Starbucks why they are willing to pay more for the coffee made from the same beans available at cheaper places. Apparently enough people think it is worth it to buy their $5 coffee.
Yes, it had to be pre Mac OS 10. Mac OS 10 was 2001. I had a Wallstreet Powerbook and ran it until ~2006 (I'm pretty sure the PMU died). Mac OS 10.2 (2002) worked very well on it. I used it as basically a browser machine/mp3 player/Office docs editor (had already got a newer Powerbook). It was rock solid. Only had problems when I was mucking with the wireless drivers for KisMAC [kinda understandable at that point:) ].
Why else would they have a deals in place with Dell to nerf the netbooks, spend the energy to bring down the Windows 7 requirements, and keep Windows XP around just for netbooks?! If you aren't in the Microsoft OS you lose all the lock-ins they worked so hard for- Office formats, multimedia DRM, workflow ecosystem.
Microsoft Office sales start to go away when people realize that Open Office works for most folks and more files that aren't using proprietary formats means they need to start working with them better... which means other formats become viable... you no longer need MS Office and the cycle is broken.
...but I think they are still on auto-pilot. The economy has been the big crisis that they are concentrating on. Once this news item floats up, then it will be interesting to see if there is any response and the kind of response. Past articles point to similar experiences. Certain cases and ruling proceed as planned with no directive (or acknowledgment) given from above yet. I presume once he sets his sights on this in the news, the direction will be reversed. But the again I might be naive.
MIT's Open Courseware is lacking in the fact that (a) the classes don't count for credit, (b) nobody's there to grade any work you do, and (c) many classes are not posted in the entirety (video lectures are IFAIK non-existent, answer sheets to the assigned HW questions are never there, and entire slideshow lectures are occasionally missing).
That sucks - demand your money back! Oh wait... ITS FREE.
It's true you can't get credit and nobody is there to grade your work (although some people are students at other places and can have their profs, that they are paying for, to help them out) but there is still a lot of good material there. ~280 courses with complete with lectures notes, over 600 courses with solutions or answers, thousands of hours of a/v (~25 courses of full video, ~17 courses of full audio)? [culled from using the website search]
I also don't get the whole video lecture complaint, especially in these threads which are all about how antiquated lectures are and most are just like reading from a book. If that's the case, why the big push for video? Full lecture notes should be just as valuable.
I often see this kind of comment which either implies or explicitly states that linux has no problems with malware and needs no firewall.
How can this be? Are we to believe that the developers of linux had some magical insight unavailable to the windows developers which means that once software is installed it is prevented from doing anything which the user wouldn't want it to? Are we to believe that a linux machine doesn't respond to ping or doesn't have open ports or bugs in software which can cause it to be made to do unexpected things?
Really, this is not a troll.. Yah, I know, it kinda sounds like one.. It's just me wondering if all this apparent fanboyism is really just ppl who close their eyes and pretend to not see problems or if there really are no problems.
I would like to know. I'm thinking of switching over but feel uneasy without fifteen layers of firewall/antivirus/anti-spyware protection...
Since you sound sincere, I'll respond. Linux is generally more secure due to better default settings, no integrated browser in the os, better policing of code, more frequent updates, smaller marketshare, and system variation.
Ubuntu, for example installs with no open ports and gives you a user account that requires you to type in your password to do anything major (Vista now has these features). With a smaller marketshare, it's not as attractive to write a virus or malware since Windows is a much larger and easier target. With no 'patch day', there isn't a window of opportunity that an exploit can be planned for (say right after patch day... then you have a whole month available). Without an integrated browser in the OS- drive-by (simply visiting a page) infections aren't possible. Viruses and malware can't rely on the same apps to always be there (IE, Outlook/Outlook Express, MS Office). This page has a good write-up on some of the issues: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/security
That is not to say that Linux doesn't have security problems, it just has less of them.
If you want to do a test run, burn or order a free copy of an Ubuntu CD http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu (or another Linux distro with a Live CD option) and try it out (boot off the disk). It will run slower off of the CD but you can try it out without making any permanent changes to your PC. Or if you want to install, you could also make a dual boot setup. Try it for a while. If for some reason you have a problem, switch back.
Slashdot Mirror
MIT OpenCourseWare is hoping to partner with edX as some point. Currently our the relationship with them hasn't been fully defined. We might host the content after the course is no longer being taught or ... who knows??? Lots of questions abound... lots to do with overlap of effort (do we cover the same MIT courses?), licensing of content (we are almost completely Creative Commons NC-BY-SA- what does that mean if they go BY or BY-SA?), limits on the instructors/faculty (will we even get time with people working on edX projects?). Currently they see us as a complement to their courses as a reference and resource for courses they currently don't offer (e.g. need help with the course min. reqs? see ocw.mit.edu)... but will that change when they start having a lot of courses?
I hope this doesn't mean MIT OCW is going away but I guess it depends on what decisions are made. I can see a time where we are slowly whittled away by a bigger collection of edX courses such that it might not be interesting to have OCW anymore (why do free if there is no certificate?). Maybe we merge? In terms of fee only- we will never go that route. The only time that will happen is if MIT OCW goes away.
For me personally, I think the one of the biggest issues is around the licensing. I really love the fact that we are increasing the commons of education content. Free educational materials for the world! Sadly, most folks could care less. ("Why don't you show the slides?", "Why is some of this missing and has citation? I just want to learn this stuff... who cares what the license is or where is comes from!"). We'll have plenty of time to see how this plays out.
It's all still in flux. It's a cool and exciting time in education- that much is for sure :)
They got rid of my favorite flavor! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/02
On a serious note- I hope they really manage to keep it to just these 3 versions. It should help with their with support and dev costs too (not to mention us folks in the field). Surprised they didn't didn't do this with 7.
Anybody else find it interesting/sad that the time limit on copyrights is longer than the privacy time limit on the Census records? Just a clear indication that corporations are valued above people.
23% down sounds about average for MSExchange servers.
Only on slashdot could such ignorance get modded up.
And only on slashdot could someone WOOOOSH so bad... it was modded up FUNNY.
Same here... had a two year old multi-function printer a few years back, and found out that it wasn't going to be fully supported by their new drivers in Win7. Printing only. Not to mention the 'forced' maintenance cycles... 'fuser has 12 pages left on it' or some such crap. I still have a 20 year old HP LaserJet 5MP that still works fine- no forced parts/supplies to buy. If it start printing badly, then you replace the part. It's only on it's second fuser :P That's what sold me on HP printers for so long. Went with Brother Printers for my next multi-function instead... still have some 'forced' supply issues but their driver support is much better.
It's funny, I read some where AT&T had announced that they predicted that they would have to divest $8 billion in various stuff to make the deal go through. The funny part is that I read it as "we need $8 billion to buy off the politicians for the deal to go through".
Yup, reminds me of the short Whistle (2002). From Duncan Jones- the same guy you directed Moon and Source Code. Saw it as an interesting extra on the Moon DVD.
"Know your audience"
You're right... I'm confusing it with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which is the remake of the original (done by Lucas Arts themselves). Tales of Monkey Island still is a good game though, even if it's not the original ;) They did a really good job on it.
I would second or third the recommendation of Monkey Island. There is an remake available that's been ported to many platforms (PSN, Wii, PC, iOS, etc) called Tales of Monkey Island. My daughter (who is 7) enjoys it quite a bit. Some puzzles are a little too hard for her and I need to help her out, so it might be the right level for your girl. The humor helps a lot too, she might not get the puzzles but she enjoys some of the responses she gets for incorrect answers- keeping her from getting to frustrated with it.
My daughter also loves the Zelda series like Windwaker and the Twilight Princess. She likes these worlds and loves to play in them not just for the story line. Like playing fetch with the a dog in Twilight Princess, or placing the pigs in Windwaker in funny spots like try to get them on a roof, or in a water basin. She sometimes plays the older versions like Majora's Mask or the Ocarina of Time but sometimes seems a little turned of by the lack of detail/responses of the environment. [sigh] Kids these days! ;)
She also likes to play on my World of Warcraft account sometimes (with supervision, of course)- although I can see many reasons not to go that route (monthly $, stranger interaction, addiction/immersion). She likes to roleplay in the environment- go fishing, follow/talk to NPCs, sleep, eat, and sometimes go on a quest or two.
I've been a very happy pre-paid T-mobile customer for years. I hardly use the phone and I average about $60/year... I'm sure that's going away :(
This sucks!! I hope it fails regulatory approval!
Since people in elevators have been avoiding eye contact or talking with the others in the elevator since roughly forever... your point would be, what exactly?
He likes making people feel awkward ;^)
Are the E74 errors and disc scratching still a problem? I am still wary of getting an 360. Even if this new one lasts the 3 years under their extended warranty and then quits, I still think it's too short. I still have an orig. Xbox at home that still works fine. I would love it if the new one would come closer to that for reliability. Ten year lifespan (basically the full production life) would be ideal. Three years seems a little too short. I think 5 years would be good. By then they will have released their next generation too ;-)
Two factors to consider on this data point:
It's true that there are technical limitations with the Wii but that doesn't mean you can't make fun games.
Um... I never get this. Why do people keep complaining about Unreal Tournament being unrealistic?! It's. In. The. F-ing. Title.
....This is no different than some of the Apple people claiming 10% market share but failing to state that it included phones!....
The interesting thing about PC market share numbers is that it includes things like terminals, cash registers, print servers, etc.
"Although they have focused on the dark and creepy, I bet ID could brainstorm their way into doing Duke justice. It just feels like one of the old-school developers should do this, just to mess with us old-timers."
There, I fixed it for you :P
Just musing out loud... I think MS would save a ton of money just ending Vista. Provide free updates to Windows 7, notify all users, allow for money back. Seriously- no support, no extended maintenance, no teams working on maintaining the OS differences for 10 years should be less than providing free upgrades/money back on Vista. Seriously! (really guys, I'm serious) :^)
Don't get mad, and don't try to convince them otherwise, for heaven's sake. Guys like that are paying for the R&D costs of the uber-high-end cards that you can I enjoy for $100 a few years later.
Why wait?! Just tell him "Sorry man, that's a bummer about those cards. I don't do anything fancy like DVD playback so if you every get rid of them let me know." ;^)
Ask all the people at Starbucks why they are willing to pay more for the coffee made from the same beans available at cheaper places. Apparently enough people think it is worth it to buy their $5 coffee.
Yes, it had to be pre Mac OS 10. Mac OS 10 was 2001. I had a Wallstreet Powerbook and ran it until ~2006 (I'm pretty sure the PMU died). Mac OS 10.2 (2002) worked very well on it. I used it as basically a browser machine/mp3 player/Office docs editor (had already got a newer Powerbook). It was rock solid. Only had problems when I was mucking with the wireless drivers for KisMAC [kinda understandable at that point :) ].
Why else would they have a deals in place with Dell to nerf the netbooks, spend the energy to bring down the Windows 7 requirements, and keep Windows XP around just for netbooks?! If you aren't in the Microsoft OS you lose all the lock-ins they worked so hard for- Office formats, multimedia DRM, workflow ecosystem.
Microsoft Office sales start to go away when people realize that Open Office works for most folks and more files that aren't using proprietary formats means they need to start working with them better... which means other formats become viable... you no longer need MS Office and the cycle is broken.
They need people to stay in their ecosystem!
...but I think they are still on auto-pilot. The economy has been the big crisis that they are concentrating on. Once this news item floats up, then it will be interesting to see if there is any response and the kind of response. Past articles point to similar experiences. Certain cases and ruling proceed as planned with no directive (or acknowledgment) given from above yet. I presume once he sets his sights on this in the news, the direction will be reversed. But the again I might be naive.
MIT's Open Courseware is lacking in the fact that (a) the classes don't count for credit, (b) nobody's there to grade any work you do, and (c) many classes are not posted in the entirety (video lectures are IFAIK non-existent, answer sheets to the assigned HW questions are never there, and entire slideshow lectures are occasionally missing).
That sucks - demand your money back! Oh wait... ITS FREE.
It's true you can't get credit and nobody is there to grade your work (although some people are students at other places and can have their profs, that they are paying for, to help them out) but there is still a lot of good material there. ~280 courses with complete with lectures notes, over 600 courses with solutions or answers, thousands of hours of a/v (~25 courses of full video, ~17 courses of full audio)? [culled from using the website search]
I also don't get the whole video lecture complaint, especially in these threads which are all about how antiquated lectures are and most are just like reading from a book. If that's the case, why the big push for video? Full lecture notes should be just as valuable.
I often see this kind of comment which either implies or explicitly states that linux has no problems with malware and needs no firewall.
How can this be? Are we to believe that the developers of linux had some magical insight unavailable to the windows developers which means that once software is installed it is prevented from doing anything which the user wouldn't want it to? Are we to believe that a linux machine doesn't respond to ping or doesn't have open ports or bugs in software which can cause it to be made to do unexpected things?
Really, this is not a troll.. Yah, I know, it kinda sounds like one.. It's just me wondering if all this apparent fanboyism is really just ppl who close their eyes and pretend to not see problems or if there really are no problems.
I would like to know. I'm thinking of switching over but feel uneasy without fifteen layers of firewall/antivirus/anti-spyware protection...
Since you sound sincere, I'll respond. Linux is generally more secure due to better default settings, no integrated browser in the os, better policing of code, more frequent updates, smaller marketshare, and system variation.
Ubuntu, for example installs with no open ports and gives you a user account that requires you to type in your password to do anything major (Vista now has these features). With a smaller marketshare, it's not as attractive to write a virus or malware since Windows is a much larger and easier target. With no 'patch day', there isn't a window of opportunity that an exploit can be planned for (say right after patch day... then you have a whole month available). Without an integrated browser in the OS- drive-by (simply visiting a page) infections aren't possible. Viruses and malware can't rely on the same apps to always be there (IE, Outlook/Outlook Express, MS Office). This page has a good write-up on some of the issues: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/security
That is not to say that Linux doesn't have security problems, it just has less of them.
If you want to do a test run, burn or order a free copy of an Ubuntu CD http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu (or another Linux distro with a Live CD option) and try it out (boot off the disk). It will run slower off of the CD but you can try it out without making any permanent changes to your PC. Or if you want to install, you could also make a dual boot setup. Try it for a while. If for some reason you have a problem, switch back.