Err...it's better than getting the pigment from a modern animal's feathers because the modern animals aren't 100 million year old proto-birds. You do know the difference between a fossil and a fresh corpse, right?
If you type 't' and get those results, but want Pirate Bay, type 'h' and all the results you just listed will be wiped out. Two keypresses. Oh god, so horrible.
I can't really say. I think that the curriculum should involve being taught to read at a young age. I don't really know when reading becomes possible, but I learned somewhere around age 5, and I've read voraciously since then. Reading was the key to my education. I read inside and outside of school, almost non-stop. Reading gave me the knowledge I needed to be able to at least have a vague idea about how things work, and to be able to ask the proper questions to learn more.
There's a stigma on (I think that's the proper usage of the term) reading today. Children are either taught poorly, or very late in their lives, which is why HIGH SCHOOL seniors fail standardized tests that could be passed by a middle school student.
It's a vague answer, but I think the secret lies in teaching our children to be able to read at a very young age. If they can read well and always encouraged to do so, then I think we have hope for raising the critically-thinking, socially aware citizens we NEED to protect ourselves against people who want to strip our liberties.
Don't blame mass media. They can be used for great good, because they're a great way to access great amounts of information with very little work.
The problem is that people aren't taught how to properly filter this information. My sister is a prime example. She came to us during supper and starting talking about how mole rats have no hearts or some stupid shit, and when we said she was full of it, she said that it must've been true, she read it on the internet. "They couldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't true, right?"
The problem isn't the medium, it's the consumers of the medium. That's like saying that we should dam a poisoned river because people keep drinking from it. We shouldn't get rid of all rivers because a bunch of people keep drinking from the poisoned ones, we just need to teach people to avoid the bad ones.
The problem is that school is rarely about learning. I've just finished high school, and I can tell you that it's not about teaching kids skills they need to succeed in life. All the teachers focus on is teaching kids what they need to pass a standardized exam.
If children are taught to learn, rather than taught data or rules, then they will succeed. There's so much focus on cramming information into heads these days.
Parent involvement is nice, but unnecessary. All that kids have to know is how to learn.
Hear hear. My little sister (sixteen) doesn't understand why my parents and I HATE taking her places. Ignoring the fact that she makes plans without consulting us and expecting us to drop everything WE are doing to do her bidding, driving is a chore. Whoever said 'getting there is half the fun!:D' has never been the driver in bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic, where everyone assumes that THEIR destination is more important than the rules of the road or common courtesy or even basic safety.
Whoopdie-doo, there's cows by the side of the road and beautiful scenery. Too bad I can't watch it, I have to make sure an asshole doesn't cut me off and send me spiralling into a ditch.
Automated cars that could talk to each other could prevent the ass-hattery that is all too prevalent these days.
There has to be a line. Yes, bad things happen in the world, and my heart bleeds a little every time I hear about a child starving to death, or the AIDS epidemic, or genocide. But the United States is only so strong, and only capable of dealing with so much.
Would you, personally, by hand, go out and try to feed EVERY homeless person in your city? Not build a shelter and feed the ones that come in. Actually walk the streets with a bag/shopping cart/truckload/whatever of food, and find the homeless, and feed them?
We spread ourselves too thin. We try to do so much good in so many places that all we manage is a barely mediocre achievement anywhere. I believe that isolationist policies are stupid, but we can't be the world's nanny anymore, we can't kiss everyone's boo-boos anymore. Our economy is in bad enough shape. Pouring so much of it into other places, nay, wasting it, is doing NOTHING to help stabilize ourselves. Yeah, it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to say 'My country feeds starving Nigerian babies' but what nobody says is that our aid programs drain public resources that could be put into health care, education, public works, or reducing the national debt.
Think about it. Yeah, it makes you warm and fuzzy to clothes a homeless man, but if you give him the clothes off your back, now, YOU are naked. How much good can we do to third world countries and those in need if we reduce ourselves to third-world status?
Yeah, but if the user isn't smart enough to realize that a random codec install is unsafe, I don't think...hell, they wouldn't even know what a codec was. They'd just install the software because their computer told them to.
Although parent's word choice were pretty trollish, he makes a point.
Windows is flawed. In making things so damned easy for their users, Microsoft shafted themselves. Even on *nix-y systems with package managers, you have to click through several layers of dialogs to install something. When you have to install from source, it's even more involved. It's really hard to accidentally download a tarball, extract it,./configure, and then make install it. But Microsoft has made it easy, as the article says, for you to mistake a media file for something it isnt', and provided a vehicle for that media file to install malicious software with a single click.
Yeah, if you're not stupid, Windows is as solid an OS as Linux/Unix/BSD/whatever. But how many people do you know that think 'The Internet' is that blue E on their desktop?
Hear hear. Heaven forbid that a company like a record label promote their products, much less to people who might want to buy said products.
Seriously, though. I believe it's possible the RIAA engineered it. It's certainly slimy enough. But parent is just stupid. The RIAA is a business, and even though some of their practices (lawsuits mostly) are objectionable, they are a business, whose sole purpose is to create profits for the owners, not raise teenagers to be intelligent, critically thinking individuals. That's the job of the parents. As a capitalist, I can't object to them trying to make money (when they're selling albums, at least. Lawsuits aren't so hot with me).
False. For GMail, dots are invisible in regards to who receives the email. Emails sent to foobar@gmail.com and foo.bar@gmail.com and f.o.o.b.a.r@gmail.com all go to the same address. Messages sent to foo.bar@gmail.com don't go to bar@gmail.com.
I don't mind Google using statistics they gathered from my usage of their service to further narrow advertisements I see. Maybe now, instead of seeing fifteen "ENLRAGE YORU PEN15" ads on every single page, I'll see something relevant to my interests, such as discount computer hardware, or the latest games.
The objection arises when Viacom, instead of providing something I want to use and gathering statistics from that, leeches off of services that provide content I desire.
I think you're building a bit of a false dichotomy. Who says that just because a teacher can now use an animated image of forces interacting that we can no longer take the kids to the lab and have them crunch the numbers and watch objects fall?
My physics teacher had a smartboard(tm?). For all but the first quarter of the year, she had pre-drawn powerpoint (actually, some form of proprietary touch-board software, but it was a slideshow presentation) for each day's lesson. Before the pre-drawn lessons, she spent twenty minutes or so (of the whole class) drawing/writing out the particular information needed for each slide. I know twenty minutes isn't a lot of a 2 hour period, but it also saved our attention span (with no waiting between slides, we were able to keep information fresh in our minds) and helped save on questions. Even though she had the board, we did a lot of labs, and the labs helped drive in the point of the lessons.
The beauty of computers in the classroom is that you can do things on a computer that you can't do on a blackboard. The animated image is just one example. Another example would be that if a lesson were in a PowerPoint (or Word document or ODF), then a student who missed the day,or wanted to see the example problems again, or perhaps has a disability and is unable to keep up with the in-class pace, could take the notes home and study and reabsorb the information. Try doing that with a blackboard.
Of course you can't replace good teachers and good practices with technology. But you can use technology to help overcome weaknesses in the system.
If I had mod points, I'd give you + Insightful or Interesting or something. I agree with you, more or less. The future of the internet and of technology is togetherness. Look at cloud computing. Despite some objections, more and more data is being put 'out there'.
Personally, I'd love to be able to drive down the street, look at a building (with the glasses-HUD) or just punch in coordinates, and get reviews and comments on its quality, style, and anything else I'd want to know.
I'm using Twitter more often now, and it's interesting that I can put information out in a compact form that anyone could parse. Yeah, there are twitter-shitters, but I've mostly seen interesting updates. So block the twitter-shitters, and subscribe to the people who say things that interest you. All this "I don't get twitter" talk is exactly what "the older generation" said about rock and roll and computers and the internet.
And what are you doing that is non-standard? What extensions do you have enabled? do you have any that aren't technically compatible? Before immediately blaming Mozilla, try to look at your own actions and see if you aren't aggravating things.
Do we then let a corporation privatise the entire integer space?
Don't get me wrong, I'm an opponent of copyright zealots as much as you, but in your example, yeah, you have a string of numbers, but what do those numbers represent?
The answer: A copyrighted work (MS Office).
MS (or any copyright holder) isn't claiming copyright over 0100010 or 00100111. They're claiming copyright over what those numbers mean. Complaining about it like this is like saying "Authors are trying to copyright all the letters of the alphabet" when they hold and exercise their copyrights on novels, magazines, and the like.
Slashdot Mirror
Technically, yes. Would it be worthwhile to call you out on it? Usually, no.
I can already hear the drums in the deep.
Err...it's better than getting the pigment from a modern animal's feathers because the modern animals aren't 100 million year old proto-birds. You do know the difference between a fossil and a fresh corpse, right?
Well, what site do you want?
If you type 't' and get those results, but want Pirate Bay, type 'h' and all the results you just listed will be wiped out. Two keypresses. Oh god, so horrible.
I can't really say. I think that the curriculum should involve being taught to read at a young age. I don't really know when reading becomes possible, but I learned somewhere around age 5, and I've read voraciously since then. Reading was the key to my education. I read inside and outside of school, almost non-stop. Reading gave me the knowledge I needed to be able to at least have a vague idea about how things work, and to be able to ask the proper questions to learn more.
There's a stigma on (I think that's the proper usage of the term) reading today. Children are either taught poorly, or very late in their lives, which is why HIGH SCHOOL seniors fail standardized tests that could be passed by a middle school student.
It's a vague answer, but I think the secret lies in teaching our children to be able to read at a very young age. If they can read well and always encouraged to do so, then I think we have hope for raising the critically-thinking, socially aware citizens we NEED to protect ourselves against people who want to strip our liberties.
Don't blame mass media. They can be used for great good, because they're a great way to access great amounts of information with very little work.
The problem is that people aren't taught how to properly filter this information. My sister is a prime example. She came to us during supper and starting talking about how mole rats have no hearts or some stupid shit, and when we said she was full of it, she said that it must've been true, she read it on the internet. "They couldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't true, right?"
The problem isn't the medium, it's the consumers of the medium. That's like saying that we should dam a poisoned river because people keep drinking from it. We shouldn't get rid of all rivers because a bunch of people keep drinking from the poisoned ones, we just need to teach people to avoid the bad ones.
The problem is that school is rarely about learning. I've just finished high school, and I can tell you that it's not about teaching kids skills they need to succeed in life. All the teachers focus on is teaching kids what they need to pass a standardized exam.
If children are taught to learn, rather than taught data or rules, then they will succeed. There's so much focus on cramming information into heads these days.
Parent involvement is nice, but unnecessary. All that kids have to know is how to learn.
Have you ever tried to talk out of ONE side of your mouth? Nobody can understand you.
Not as good as the Pointy Hat Trick.
Embrace, extend, then extinguish?
Hear hear. My little sister (sixteen) doesn't understand why my parents and I HATE taking her places. Ignoring the fact that she makes plans without consulting us and expecting us to drop everything WE are doing to do her bidding, driving is a chore. Whoever said 'getting there is half the fun! :D' has never been the driver in bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic, where everyone assumes that THEIR destination is more important than the rules of the road or common courtesy or even basic safety.
Whoopdie-doo, there's cows by the side of the road and beautiful scenery. Too bad I can't watch it, I have to make sure an asshole doesn't cut me off and send me spiralling into a ditch.
Automated cars that could talk to each other could prevent the ass-hattery that is all too prevalent these days.
There has to be a line. Yes, bad things happen in the world, and my heart bleeds a little every time I hear about a child starving to death, or the AIDS epidemic, or genocide. But the United States is only so strong, and only capable of dealing with so much.
Would you, personally, by hand, go out and try to feed EVERY homeless person in your city? Not build a shelter and feed the ones that come in. Actually walk the streets with a bag/shopping cart/truckload/whatever of food, and find the homeless, and feed them?
We spread ourselves too thin. We try to do so much good in so many places that all we manage is a barely mediocre achievement anywhere. I believe that isolationist policies are stupid, but we can't be the world's nanny anymore, we can't kiss everyone's boo-boos anymore. Our economy is in bad enough shape. Pouring so much of it into other places, nay, wasting it, is doing NOTHING to help stabilize ourselves. Yeah, it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to say 'My country feeds starving Nigerian babies' but what nobody says is that our aid programs drain public resources that could be put into health care, education, public works, or reducing the national debt.
Think about it. Yeah, it makes you warm and fuzzy to clothes a homeless man, but if you give him the clothes off your back, now, YOU are naked. How much good can we do to third world countries and those in need if we reduce ourselves to third-world status?
Yeah, but if the user isn't smart enough to realize that a random codec install is unsafe, I don't think...hell, they wouldn't even know what a codec was. They'd just install the software because their computer told them to.
Although parent's word choice were pretty trollish, he makes a point.
Windows is flawed. In making things so damned easy for their users, Microsoft shafted themselves. Even on *nix-y systems with package managers, you have to click through several layers of dialogs to install something. When you have to install from source, it's even more involved. It's really hard to accidentally download a tarball, extract it, ./configure, and then make install it. But Microsoft has made it easy, as the article says, for you to mistake a media file for something it isnt', and provided a vehicle for that media file to install malicious software with a single click.
Yeah, if you're not stupid, Windows is as solid an OS as Linux/Unix/BSD/whatever. But how many people do you know that think 'The Internet' is that blue E on their desktop?
Hear hear. Heaven forbid that a company like a record label promote their products, much less to people who might want to buy said products.
Seriously, though. I believe it's possible the RIAA engineered it. It's certainly slimy enough. But parent is just stupid. The RIAA is a business, and even though some of their practices (lawsuits mostly) are objectionable, they are a business, whose sole purpose is to create profits for the owners, not raise teenagers to be intelligent, critically thinking individuals. That's the job of the parents. As a capitalist, I can't object to them trying to make money (when they're selling albums, at least. Lawsuits aren't so hot with me).
Wow. I haven't seen a gaping hole like that since my prom night.
False. For GMail, dots are invisible in regards to who receives the email. Emails sent to foobar@gmail.com and foo.bar@gmail.com and f.o.o.b.a.r@gmail.com all go to the same address. Messages sent to foo.bar@gmail.com don't go to bar@gmail.com.
I don't mind Google using statistics they gathered from my usage of their service to further narrow advertisements I see. Maybe now, instead of seeing fifteen "ENLRAGE YORU PEN15" ads on every single page, I'll see something relevant to my interests, such as discount computer hardware, or the latest games.
The objection arises when Viacom, instead of providing something I want to use and gathering statistics from that, leeches off of services that provide content I desire.
I think you're building a bit of a false dichotomy. Who says that just because a teacher can now use an animated image of forces interacting that we can no longer take the kids to the lab and have them crunch the numbers and watch objects fall?
My physics teacher had a smartboard(tm?). For all but the first quarter of the year, she had pre-drawn powerpoint (actually, some form of proprietary touch-board software, but it was a slideshow presentation) for each day's lesson. Before the pre-drawn lessons, she spent twenty minutes or so (of the whole class) drawing/writing out the particular information needed for each slide. I know twenty minutes isn't a lot of a 2 hour period, but it also saved our attention span (with no waiting between slides, we were able to keep information fresh in our minds) and helped save on questions. Even though she had the board, we did a lot of labs, and the labs helped drive in the point of the lessons.
The beauty of computers in the classroom is that you can do things on a computer that you can't do on a blackboard. The animated image is just one example. Another example would be that if a lesson were in a PowerPoint (or Word document or ODF), then a student who missed the day ,or wanted to see the example problems again, or perhaps has a disability and is unable to keep up with the in-class pace, could take the notes home and study and reabsorb the information. Try doing that with a blackboard.
Of course you can't replace good teachers and good practices with technology. But you can use technology to help overcome weaknesses in the system.
If I had mod points, I'd give you + Insightful or Interesting or something. I agree with you, more or less. The future of the internet and of technology is togetherness. Look at cloud computing. Despite some objections, more and more data is being put 'out there'.
Personally, I'd love to be able to drive down the street, look at a building (with the glasses-HUD) or just punch in coordinates, and get reviews and comments on its quality, style, and anything else I'd want to know.
I'm using Twitter more often now, and it's interesting that I can put information out in a compact form that anyone could parse. Yeah, there are twitter-shitters, but I've mostly seen interesting updates. So block the twitter-shitters, and subscribe to the people who say things that interest you. All this "I don't get twitter" talk is exactly what "the older generation" said about rock and roll and computers and the internet.
10:00 AM: John Doe is in: (United States)
11:00 AM: John Doe is in: (United States)
12:00 PM: John Doe is in: (United States)
Seems 'macro' enough for me.
Awesome. Now I don't feel bad about staring at my neighbor while she's in the shower, or peeping at that guy's ATM PIN while I wait my turn.
No, not zero. The plane of her chest would just have to be tangent to her boobs.
And what are you doing that is non-standard? What extensions do you have enabled? do you have any that aren't technically compatible? Before immediately blaming Mozilla, try to look at your own actions and see if you aren't aggravating things.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an opponent of copyright zealots as much as you, but in your example, yeah, you have a string of numbers, but what do those numbers represent?
The answer: A copyrighted work (MS Office).
MS (or any copyright holder) isn't claiming copyright over 0100010 or 00100111. They're claiming copyright over what those numbers mean. Complaining about it like this is like saying "Authors are trying to copyright all the letters of the alphabet" when they hold and exercise their copyrights on novels, magazines, and the like.