I have been playing around on a surface for the past two months at school. At first I thought it was sweet. When the novelty wore off then I thought it was kind of lame. I had seen the fiducials but hadn't really thought about them. The table can read over 200 unique fiducials. That is cool, and can lead to much more interesting things then spinning pictures. Also, the table is visible and more importantly, operable in a well lit room. Most DIY surface projects require darkness.
Just throwing this out there for someone more patient. . .
The middle seams to be organized in a fashion that the first and second line correspond and the 3rd and 4th correspond in a fashion that leads to a modular movement of the meaning of the symbols to ultimately reveal what the last three mean. ..much like a typical video game puzzle. . .
You can't blame the philosophers. If they didn't have high opinions of themselves, what would be the point of all that thinking? Let me go think about it for 3 years. . . .
I noticed the same thing, and was a bit peeved. I liked where the article was going, and then he made himself an unreliable narrator, which in turn made the article a rant and fodder.
The argument of power is interesting. It is too complex for a one pager. First you have to deal with dynamics of individual vs individual, ind. vs group, group vs group, etc.
Ugh, thinking about it is giving me a headache. I guess I can be classified as starting from a lower plane of power than some of you. And then me vs. slashdot as a whole. I am getting depressed. . . .
I agree completely. What I don't understand is why they are grading homework (by this, I mean, "due problems 2-58 for tomorrow; not "please write a 10 page term paper") in college? I never understood this, and happily didn't have to deal with it too much. Homework is an important learning tool, and if you don't due it you will most likely fail. Grading homework is a waste of time for everybody. Sure, collect it, review it, point out what a student did wrong, but only grade tests. That way the student has an opportunity to learn with out the incentive to cheat. And yes, these students cheated, but the need to grade homework created the environment to motivate cheating. If I copy somebody's homework all semester, I will probably fail the final. If I pass, maybe it was the learning technique I needed.
Really, property tax is evil? You pay property tax because you use the services provided to you in the locale you choose. And who gives you the right to own said property? With your logic (i.e. emotional reaction), I would say property ownership is evil as well. The only thing that maintains your "rights" is the small thing called the military, which, in most cases by its mere existence and size, protects your rights. Rights are given by a social contract that is generally accepted by your neighbors (a nations population). They are meta, and not of the natural world, therefore, cannot be proven as absolutes. The government will tax what it can under the threshold of tolerance of the population, to their point of need to function at the level the population desires. Same goes for laws in general. Obviously, the threshold of tolerance of current IP law is near being crossed (at least it seams to me), and once that happens, bureaucrats will respond as they see best (not necessarily in the best fashion) until the people are happy.
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I have been playing around on a surface for the past two months at school. At first I thought it was sweet. When the novelty wore off then I thought it was kind of lame. I had seen the fiducials but hadn't really thought about them. The table can read over 200 unique fiducials. That is cool, and can lead to much more interesting things then spinning pictures. Also, the table is visible and more importantly, operable in a well lit room. Most DIY surface projects require darkness.
Just throwing this out there for someone more patient. . . The middle seams to be organized in a fashion that the first and second line correspond and the 3rd and 4th correspond in a fashion that leads to a modular movement of the meaning of the symbols to ultimately reveal what the last three mean. . .much like a typical video game puzzle. . .
You can't blame the philosophers. If they didn't have high opinions of themselves, what would be the point of all that thinking? Let me go think about it for 3 years. . . .
I noticed the same thing, and was a bit peeved. I liked where the article was going, and then he made himself an unreliable narrator, which in turn made the article a rant and fodder. The argument of power is interesting. It is too complex for a one pager. First you have to deal with dynamics of individual vs individual, ind. vs group, group vs group, etc. Ugh, thinking about it is giving me a headache. I guess I can be classified as starting from a lower plane of power than some of you. And then me vs. slashdot as a whole. I am getting depressed. . . .
I agree completely. What I don't understand is why they are grading homework (by this, I mean, "due problems 2-58 for tomorrow; not "please write a 10 page term paper") in college? I never understood this, and happily didn't have to deal with it too much. Homework is an important learning tool, and if you don't due it you will most likely fail. Grading homework is a waste of time for everybody. Sure, collect it, review it, point out what a student did wrong, but only grade tests. That way the student has an opportunity to learn with out the incentive to cheat. And yes, these students cheated, but the need to grade homework created the environment to motivate cheating. If I copy somebody's homework all semester, I will probably fail the final. If I pass, maybe it was the learning technique I needed.
Really, property tax is evil? You pay property tax because you use the services provided to you in the locale you choose. And who gives you the right to own said property? With your logic (i.e. emotional reaction), I would say property ownership is evil as well. The only thing that maintains your "rights" is the small thing called the military, which, in most cases by its mere existence and size, protects your rights. Rights are given by a social contract that is generally accepted by your neighbors (a nations population). They are meta, and not of the natural world, therefore, cannot be proven as absolutes. The government will tax what it can under the threshold of tolerance of the population, to their point of need to function at the level the population desires. Same goes for laws in general. Obviously, the threshold of tolerance of current IP law is near being crossed (at least it seams to me), and once that happens, bureaucrats will respond as they see best (not necessarily in the best fashion) until the people are happy.