What the heck do you *do* then, that you have no interest in, or skills in, those things that make up technological civilization? Egads I simply can't imagine being that un-curious about things. Being a tool user is what separates us from the lesser primates.
The same way that a baker didn't need to understand how a grist mill works. Tools separate us from lesser primates, but individuals specializing in different tools and then collaborating is what separated us from other bipedal hominids.
I used it for several weeks and still didn't get a clear sense of WTF it was. Google's marketing succeeded with me, the product, however...
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I don't think marketing could have saved it, though, since even the people who did know about it didn't like it. The masses are slow to adopt new tools unless they have a clear utility and relevance to everyday tasks (and sometimes not even then). I knew a lot of people who had Wave accounts and none of us used it because it didn't do anything useful for us. Reading through the comments to this article, I see a lot of Slashdotters who concluded the same thing. And we're the tech-savvy, early-adopting crowd.
Marketing might have gotten more people to sign up, but that just would have led to even more unused Wave logins.
Is normal distribution of grades really necessary, though? That only makes sense if you're only comparing the students to one another, which I think is the wrong way to go. Why not compare them to a standard of "excels in this skill" "has acquired the skill" and "hasn't acquired the skill"? Teaching to standards won't necessarily create a normal curve since some skills can be acquired by everyone (for example gym class), or at least everyone who chooses to take a particular course (my high school AP Calculus class).
We need to have a national conversation about what an "educated" person looks like in the 21st century. Just teaching a list of things we've always taught isn't working anymore, for a vast range of reasons. It is likely that "educated" might differ from state-to-state, but does no one ask "what are we hoping to accomplish by sending all of our pre-citizens to school?" and then work out a curriculum backwards from there?
The focus on getting everyone ready for a university (which is what it seems like public school is doing) is misguided and wasteful as well as damaging to the students. Telling large numbers of young people, "You aren't suited for college, therefore you FAIL" is a horrible thing to do to a person.
If you're taking aikido to learn to kick ass, you're in the wrong place. You'll learn to protect yourself physically just fine within a year or so. It's more about the mental component of defusing violence rather than meeting it that is the most helpful, especially if the aggressor is a bully and not a mugger.
Freeform fighting doesn't often happen until higher belts in aikido. Most people don't stick with it that long because advancement in aikido tends to be sloooow. That doesn't mean aikido is bad, just that it take a long time before it gets really ingrained.
I used to tell ask buddies at the dojo, "Try to hit me, I want to see what I'll do." after class. I didn't know what my favorite techniques were until I started doing them reflexively. I only really have a couple good ones that I can reliably use in a pressure situation.
Not necessarily... they fail to take into consideration the little known 'nerdserker'. I was into D&D and comics and computers and the art club and the science club but the second anyone picked on me or what, I berserked on their asses and wouldn't stop until they were crying or I came out of my blackout. Few people messed with me unless they didn't know that I would go apeshit crazy on them if they fucked with me.
Hence, the 'nerdserker' (copyright me)
Nobody ever bothered me either. I think everyone was convinced* I was capable of going Eric-and-Dylan at any moment (although Eric and Dylan hadn't happened yet) so they just left me alone. "I'm close to suicidal already, and I'm taking whatever pushes me over the edge with me" is a powerful bully deterrent.
Gold would be near worthless as it has few uses in a non-industrial society (basically only as decoration) and thus would be worth fuck-all as a currency in a survivalist world.
Fail. Gold was highly valued before the industrial revolution. Further, it wasn't just western cultures who found it valuable (unless you include ancient Egypt and the Ottoman empire as either post-industrial or western states).
But that was based on historical tradition. There have been several generations born in which the meme of "gold=money" has not been culturally transmitted and it has extinguished. The vast majority of the world population today think of gold as a material for jewelry and electronics. Some people are trying to use modern marketing to re-inject that meme into society, with (as can be seen from the comments here on Slashdot) mostly poor results.
Direct democracy is the problem in California. It's so ridiculously easy to add a bond item to the ballot that the legislature and governor has no power to create a budget. Spending gets decided by referendum.
Right now I'm doing some research that involves me looking at typically developing kids and tracking what kind of language they use. I'm hoping to transfer that language over to kids who can't use speech.
In clinical practice, to have a basis of comparison, I try to spend time with "typical" children as much as possible to keep my expectations from slipping too low.
If you are a person of above-average intelligence you should be able to use your intelligence in the form of charisma to make yourself and your thoughts appealing to others.
What you are arguing is a huge debate in many aspects of neuroscience--are our skills and proclivities domain-specific or domain-general? Can you really apply brain structures evolved for one thing to do something else (such as using your spatial reasoning part of the brain for social reasoning)?
My whole field (speech-language therapy) depends on the ability of the brain to do this. I work with people whose brains aren't wired right (either by genetic endowment, environmental effects on development, or trauma to the brain). However, I've never seen neuroplasticity that leads to excellence or genius, just functional competence (although, to be fair, that's all we ever shoot for in rehabilitation).
In computer terms, you always take a performance hit when you're emulating.
The The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and even Aesop want their stories Back. Yes I am talking to you Disney...
Snow White was made less than 70 years after the death of a Grimm brother (which, under life+70, would have been copyrighted until 1933). 70 years from death of Hans Christian Andersen was 1945! Extended copyright wouldn't have benefited Walt in the early days at all.
Aesop--I think we're safe there, but did the Mouse ever actually use Aesop? (Probably in the short films that I'm too lazy to look up).
Did the Girl Guides pay the kookaburra for the rights to license a derived work from its call?
I hope so, because there's a lot more infringing work done by the guides if they haven't...
Maybe NYCL could offer help in getting redress for this penniless author, the Kookaburra and ensure that such artists are compensated fairly for their works.
Did the Girl Guides pay royalties to the Welsh for using the song 'Wele ti'n eistedd aderyn du' to derive their work? This is a great example of why the Creative Commons is a great idea. The original author clearly intended for this to be a folk song, given that she never sued schools for singing it (I'm not even Australian and I learned it at school) and attempted to donate the rights to a public library association.
I can seal that bitch with half a million dollars worth of focused C-4 charges from 50 feet down to 500 feet of well-breach.
It's a trick to get us to do exactly that, triggering the fault line and bringing a volcanic island to the surface that Cobra can use as their headquarters. We're not going to fall for that ploy.
Oh, is that what they were for? I've been throwing the damned things away every time I move offices (with the renovations at universities, that's been frequent). Not to mention I'd never catch up now that my professional organization which used to include two subscriptions to dead tree journals, dropped to one, and then at the start of this year, none (but membership includes online access to all of them). I've been putting books and plants on my shelves. I must look like a total noob.
There could be career ramifications for crossing the picket line, too. I actually expect that un-tenured faculty would have more to lose by breaking the boycott, since their publications would be scrutinized by tenure and promotions committees who expect adherence to a university-wide policy. It would be really easy for a committee to pretend that Nature's "Impact Factor" is lower than it would otherwise be considered at other places.
Parents paranoid about the mercury poisoning their kids' systems who go on to have their kid subjected to chelation has killed kids. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9074208
I had a client who wouldn't eat anything except orange foods. What was kindof funny was that he had a better diet than many kids without autism because he'd happily eat orange vegetables. His lunch would be something like one package of cheese crackers with peanut butter, a Sunkist soda, and a bag of carrots or a sliced-up orange bell pepper. I've never seen two picky-eaters with autism with the same dietary preferences (except those packaged peanut-butter crackers; they consistently love those).
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If ever a computer comes up with that solution, then I owe Kurzweil an apology for doubting him, since the Singularity will indeed be upon us.
What the heck do you *do* then, that you have no interest in, or skills in, those things that make up technological civilization? Egads I simply can't imagine being that un-curious about things. Being a tool user is what separates us from the lesser primates.
The same way that a baker didn't need to understand how a grist mill works. Tools separate us from lesser primates, but individuals specializing in different tools and then collaborating is what separated us from other bipedal hominids.
The CDs often came in very nice cases. I painted some and used them whenever I wanted to hide a burned CD in a geocache.
I used it for several weeks and still didn't get a clear sense of WTF it was. Google's marketing succeeded with me, the product, however...
I don't think marketing could have saved it, though, since even the people who did know about it didn't like it. The masses are slow to adopt new tools unless they have a clear utility and relevance to everyday tasks (and sometimes not even then). I knew a lot of people who had Wave accounts and none of us used it because it didn't do anything useful for us. Reading through the comments to this article, I see a lot of Slashdotters who concluded the same thing. And we're the tech-savvy, early-adopting crowd.
Marketing might have gotten more people to sign up, but that just would have led to even more unused Wave logins.
Is normal distribution of grades really necessary, though? That only makes sense if you're only comparing the students to one another, which I think is the wrong way to go. Why not compare them to a standard of "excels in this skill" "has acquired the skill" and "hasn't acquired the skill"? Teaching to standards won't necessarily create a normal curve since some skills can be acquired by everyone (for example gym class), or at least everyone who chooses to take a particular course (my high school AP Calculus class).
We need to have a national conversation about what an "educated" person looks like in the 21st century. Just teaching a list of things we've always taught isn't working anymore, for a vast range of reasons. It is likely that "educated" might differ from state-to-state, but does no one ask "what are we hoping to accomplish by sending all of our pre-citizens to school?" and then work out a curriculum backwards from there?
The focus on getting everyone ready for a university (which is what it seems like public school is doing) is misguided and wasteful as well as damaging to the students. Telling large numbers of young people, "You aren't suited for college, therefore you FAIL" is a horrible thing to do to a person.
Euro symbol is Shift-Option 2 on a U.S. Mac.
Is that what that thing is? I never knew what that symbol was for.
If you're taking aikido to learn to kick ass, you're in the wrong place.
You'll learn to protect yourself physically just fine within a year or so. It's more about the mental component of defusing violence rather than meeting it that is the most helpful, especially if the aggressor is a bully and not a mugger.
Freeform fighting doesn't often happen until higher belts in aikido. Most people don't stick with it that long because advancement in aikido tends to be sloooow. That doesn't mean aikido is bad, just that it take a long time before it gets really ingrained.
I used to tell ask buddies at the dojo, "Try to hit me, I want to see what I'll do." after class. I didn't know what my favorite techniques were until I started doing them reflexively. I only really have a couple good ones that I can reliably use in a pressure situation.
Not necessarily... they fail to take into consideration the little known 'nerdserker'. I was into D&D and comics and computers and the art club and the science club but the second anyone picked on me or what, I berserked on their asses and wouldn't stop until they were crying or I came out of my blackout. Few people messed with me unless they didn't know that I would go apeshit crazy on them if they fucked with me.
Hence, the 'nerdserker' (copyright me)
Nobody ever bothered me either. I think everyone was convinced* I was capable of going Eric-and-Dylan at any moment (although Eric and Dylan hadn't happened yet) so they just left me alone. "I'm close to suicidal already, and I'm taking whatever pushes me over the edge with me" is a powerful bully deterrent.
*(I'm not convinced they were wrong at the time)
Good call. This is exactly the sort of situation that Small Claims Court exists for.
For fifty years, the only valid currency has been crude oil. All national currencies trade against the cost of a barrel of oil.
My kingdom for a mod point.
(and by "kingdom" I mean my meager assets worth less than my debt)
Gold would be near worthless as it has few uses in a non-industrial society (basically only as decoration) and thus would be worth fuck-all as a currency in a survivalist world.
Fail. Gold was highly valued before the industrial revolution. Further, it wasn't just western cultures who found it valuable (unless you include ancient Egypt and the Ottoman empire as either post-industrial or western states).
But that was based on historical tradition. There have been several generations born in which the meme of "gold=money" has not been culturally transmitted and it has extinguished. The vast majority of the world population today think of gold as a material for jewelry and electronics. Some people are trying to use modern marketing to re-inject that meme into society, with (as can be seen from the comments here on Slashdot) mostly poor results.
Direct democracy is the problem in California. It's so ridiculously easy to add a bond item to the ballot that the legislature and governor has no power to create a budget. Spending gets decided by referendum.
Right now I'm doing some research that involves me looking at typically developing kids and tracking what kind of language they use. I'm hoping to transfer that language over to kids who can't use speech.
In clinical practice, to have a basis of comparison, I try to spend time with "typical" children as much as possible to keep my expectations from slipping too low.
If you are a person of above-average intelligence you should be able to use your intelligence in the form of charisma to make yourself and your thoughts appealing to others.
What you are arguing is a huge debate in many aspects of neuroscience--are our skills and proclivities domain-specific or domain-general? Can you really apply brain structures evolved for one thing to do something else (such as using your spatial reasoning part of the brain for social reasoning)?
My whole field (speech-language therapy) depends on the ability of the brain to do this. I work with people whose brains aren't wired right (either by genetic endowment, environmental effects on development, or trauma to the brain). However, I've never seen neuroplasticity that leads to excellence or genius, just functional competence (although, to be fair, that's all we ever shoot for in rehabilitation).
In computer terms, you always take a performance hit when you're emulating.
The The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and even Aesop want their stories Back.
Yes I am talking to you Disney...
Snow White was made less than 70 years after the death of a Grimm brother (which, under life+70, would have been copyrighted until 1933). 70 years from death of Hans Christian Andersen was 1945! Extended copyright wouldn't have benefited Walt in the early days at all.
Aesop--I think we're safe there, but did the Mouse ever actually use Aesop? (Probably in the short films that I'm too lazy to look up).
Did the Girl Guides pay the kookaburra for the rights to license a derived work from its call?
I hope so, because there's a lot more infringing work done by the guides if they haven't...
Maybe NYCL could offer help in getting redress for this penniless author, the Kookaburra and ensure that such artists are compensated fairly for their works.
Did the Girl Guides pay royalties to the Welsh for using the song 'Wele ti'n eistedd aderyn du' to derive their work?
This is a great example of why the Creative Commons is a great idea. The original author clearly intended for this to be a folk song, given that she never sued schools for singing it (I'm not even Australian and I learned it at school) and attempted to donate the rights to a public library association.
I can seal that bitch with half a million dollars worth of focused C-4 charges from 50 feet down to 500 feet of well-breach.
It's a trick to get us to do exactly that, triggering the fault line and bringing a volcanic island to the surface that Cobra can use as their headquarters. We're not going to fall for that ploy.
Oh, is that what they were for? I've been throwing the damned things away every time I move offices (with the renovations at universities, that's been frequent). Not to mention I'd never catch up now that my professional organization which used to include two subscriptions to dead tree journals, dropped to one, and then at the start of this year, none (but membership includes online access to all of them). I've been putting books and plants on my shelves. I must look like a total noob.
There could be career ramifications for crossing the picket line, too. I actually expect that un-tenured faculty would have more to lose by breaking the boycott, since their publications would be scrutinized by tenure and promotions committees who expect adherence to a university-wide policy. It would be really easy for a committee to pretend that Nature's "Impact Factor" is lower than it would otherwise be considered at other places.
I am not the typical idiot user. I'm the guy most people come to when they have a question.
I didn't realize that the circle with the Windows logo in upper left was a menu for almost a month.
Parents paranoid about the mercury poisoning their kids' systems who go on to have their kid subjected to chelation has killed kids.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9074208
I had a client who wouldn't eat anything except orange foods. What was kindof funny was that he had a better diet than many kids without autism because he'd happily eat orange vegetables. His lunch would be something like one package of cheese crackers with peanut butter, a Sunkist soda, and a bag of carrots or a sliced-up orange bell pepper.
I've never seen two picky-eaters with autism with the same dietary preferences (except those packaged peanut-butter crackers; they consistently love those).