Googling a problem ain't the answer. I'm sure I can find someone that for fifty bucks will be sitting in front of his/her computer waiting for me to email them that picture of the exam I took with my phone, solve the exam, take a picture of the solutions and sending them back to me.
Sure it's cumbersome, but it's a hell of a lot easier than actually learning physics. Besides, why bother with all that learning? All I want to be is a college professor! Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
Wait, what? So, let them glide through college and by that destroy the very little value a title has nowadays.
I mean seriously, why not just sell the titles and be done with it? If you're going to allow any type of cheating (which once allowed wouldn't be cheating) during college you just make it worthless to go there when it comes to paperwork. Sure, "you learn if you want", but then going to college would be worth nothing, so why even bother? Let's go back to learning trades directly to the village smith.
And you're thinking a calculator is the worst they can do. Well you're very shortsighted. The calculator is the least of your worries if you're the teacher. With today's technology you could have a fucking videocall with your cellphone where you can show someone else your exam and they can give you the answers, word by word. You can take a picture of the exam, send it thru email or MMS to a more knowledgeable friend who can then email you back the answers and you just copy them from your device.
It's not about babysitting but about making those titles mean something.
Give them freedom and they won't even learn the bare minimum.
Well, my guess is that the idea is in the lines of schools via videoconference. I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in Mexico there are a lot of schools in faraway small communities, well outside the bulk of civilization, that have no teachers, just tv screens. There is one teacher in a major city broadcasting his/her class so that these schools can learn. There's a whole system with details that are unknown to me, but the system is there.
So why use a doctor that's not physically there but on a videoconference? That's simple; if you need an emergency surgery and live in a remote island with only one doctor and a few nurses, this system might save your life.
Would you rather see everyone as a criminal and with that screw the innocent or see everyone as innocent and allow crime to fluorish?
Regardless of what people say, any politician openly stating that they prefer the second option will have his carreer ended by the public.
What I just don't understand is why, if crime rates have been going steadily down for some decades now, do they feel like they need to be more invasive and offensive in their fight against crime. Maybe it's all related to politics (and that "maybe" answers only to scientific precision, though I'm pretty sure that's the reason behind it all).
I wonder if forcing every single human being to read George Orwell's 1984 would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Perhaps it's just that people don't realize what could go wrong with an Orwellian government in place. Perhaps they just don't see it, they don't think anything can go wrong if the government watches your every step.
Then again, perhaps people just don't care. As long as it's not them (and by "them" i mean the generations that currently live) who suffer it, they just don't give a damn.
I can tell from personal experience that many people don't care about stuff like that even if you tell them the consequences. Perhaps Big Brother is precisely what we, as a civilization, need in order to realize that it's a horrible thing to live like that. After all, experience is a good teacher.
What do you mean it's 2001 all over again? I never stopped receiving those. Every once in a while I receive a mail "from a friend", from the friend's address or not, telling me stuff like "Hey, here are the pictures of that party!" or "Have you seen this? I can't believe there are pictures of it!". They all contain links to weird-looking pages which, of course, I never open.
Sometimes I even receive those mails with URLs that actually contain my email address, like www.thisisnovirus.com/picturesfromlastnight/superdarion.
From what I can tell, they usually come from my friend's MSN/hotmail's address books.
Amazing. Truly amazing. This will open a whole new area of social research; the behavior of zombies will finally be studied in detail and maybe, just maybe, hollywood will pick up the results and eventually come up with a zombie infestation that resembles reality.
Though I don't think a whole family of zombies grunting at a television show makes up for a good action flick.
I've heard the button-smashing technique is a killer in fighting games. He could do what he loves while at the same time beat the crap out of you; that ought to give him some confidence too.
A couple of months ago they tried this in Mexico. At first everyone was scared because they said they'd disconnect any line that wasn't registered.
At the end they didn't because too many people didn't register (in the order of millions) and about a month after the deadline the government simply desisted on the whole idea, calling it a "bad idea" and claiming that it was badly implemented.
Too bad the Chinese can't count on that happening, though.
Are we really that easily influenced? I mean, think-of-the-children-people are so affraid that if the kids watch a violent movie, play a violent videogame, listen to violent music and, in general, have any contact whatsoever with violent behavior, even if it's only in the theoretical level, they'll turn into killing machines who beat their wives and rape their children.
Does "thinking like the enemy" really make you the enemy? Are we really so easily modeled that we need to shield our children from being in contact with any type of non-optimal behavior (whatever that is) so that they can be molded into model citizens?
I know this is just anecdotal, but I have had contact with lots of violence, both in paper as in reality, and I have never been violent a single time in my life. I often think about terrorism as an empathy exercise and it doesn't mean I'm actually planning to do it.
Think like the enemy is a good way to empathize. The enemy is made of people, just like us, and just like us they have their issues and problems that drive them to terrorism. Is it really that terrible that a teacher is trying to teach the students about other cultures? Hell, try to think like a suicide bomber. That's a good empathy exercise.
Understanding terrorists might prove to be the only way to stop them.
I'm a physics grad student. I have a bachelor degree in physics and I can tell you that by the time you finish that programme, you're barely familiar with stuff that was developed 70 years ago! 50 if you're lucky.
You think IT guys have it hard? Try catching up as a physics student!
I bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights when it came out and... well, they actually did with the game the very same thing the article is suggesting.
You have your CDs with your serial, which you use to install as many times as you want, and Bioware actually allows you to store that Serial in their servers, protected by a password.
Do you feel like sharing youre game? Just lend your CD key to someone, which could just mean to lend them the password for your account with bioware. Also, if you lose the damn booklet in which it came printed, or if you're just not at home, you can always retrieve your serial from their servers, provided you remember the password.
Now THAT's what I call value.
On an unrelated topic, they also ported their game to linux after a while. You didn't even have to buy it again! Just download the installation package for linux (yes, download, for free, from their servers), use your windows serial and you're all set. Suffice it to say it worked like a charm.
With SSDs prices and lower capacities, HDD still have room to grow a little bit. If you can get a 3.5" HDD with whooping 10TB of space for 300usd or whatever they price it at, HDD will still be a viable choice for a long time, specially for desktop PCs.
it's not clear why anyone's patenting this either.
Well, it seems pretty simple to me. Once they have that "patent" they can begin a massive tourism-focused add campaign featuring some hot gal saying stuff like "Come visit the center of Europe" and because they have the patent no other city can go and steal their idea.
I'm not a big fan of Starwars, but comparing the first trilogy to the second and saying that they're equally bad is just stupid.
Maybe if you just look at it superficially you could arrive at that conclusion, mostly because... well... George Lucas was involved in both and that can only be a bad thing.
BUT if you look closely enough, you'll see MANY details in the first trilogy that makes it great. The characters are real and deep, with good motivation to what they do. The storyline is solid with only a few loopholes here and there. The storytelling is somewhat spectacular even from the first scene of A New Hope, in which it is made quite clear that there is this small vessel being chased and shot at by a large, empire-owned starship, to the last, when you see Luke's struggle against the dark side's not. They don't just tell you the stuff, like in the new trilogy.
Damn, even the Jedis are somewhat more impressive. In the second trilogy all you see them do is push stuff around and do coreographed battles with their shinny swords. Take away their sword and they become as useless as C3PO. In the first trilogy, the sword is only a part of the whole Jedi mysticism. You don't see luke jumping around in circles and being all show-offy. His ass-kickery is much more sophisticated than pure swordsmanship.
And then you see the second trilogy, with shallow, senseless jedis who do ridiculous things just for the sake of a badly thought plot. Everything in the second trilogy is forced in in order to sell toys and appeal to fanboys.
And damn is that Jar Jar Bings annoying!
Don't think for a second that I'm a fanboy. I was born in 1984, so I wasn't even alive when the first trilogy started. By the time the second one begun, I hadn't even fully watched the first. So I actually saw episode 1 first, then the first trilogy, then re-watched episode 1 and then saw the rest of the new ones.
I'm a mexican living in Mexico. I won't go as far as saying that it is hell on earth, but it is getting pretty gruesome. And that's just from what you hear on the news!
Then I started diggin in alternate sources, such as blog del narco, and damn, was I missing out on all the news!
Just recently I bumped into this story about Ciudad Juarez. The story both gives hope and scares the crap out of you. No sign of that story on the two most widely spread newspapers in Mexico, though. They're just sweeping it under the rug.
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In all the years I had been staring at now-low-res images of the last supper, never had I hoticed it's filled with this HALTA thing everywhere.
Do you think it's some secret society Leonardo belonged to? It's all so exciting.
There was already an article about this.
Googling a problem ain't the answer. I'm sure I can find someone that for fifty bucks will be sitting in front of his/her computer waiting for me to email them that picture of the exam I took with my phone, solve the exam, take a picture of the solutions and sending them back to me.
Sure it's cumbersome, but it's a hell of a lot easier than actually learning physics. Besides, why bother with all that learning? All I want to be is a college professor! Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
Wait, what? So, let them glide through college and by that destroy the very little value a title has nowadays.
I mean seriously, why not just sell the titles and be done with it? If you're going to allow any type of cheating (which once allowed wouldn't be cheating) during college you just make it worthless to go there when it comes to paperwork. Sure, "you learn if you want", but then going to college would be worth nothing, so why even bother? Let's go back to learning trades directly to the village smith.
And you're thinking a calculator is the worst they can do. Well you're very shortsighted. The calculator is the least of your worries if you're the teacher. With today's technology you could have a fucking videocall with your cellphone where you can show someone else your exam and they can give you the answers, word by word. You can take a picture of the exam, send it thru email or MMS to a more knowledgeable friend who can then email you back the answers and you just copy them from your device.
It's not about babysitting but about making those titles mean something.
Give them freedom and they won't even learn the bare minimum.
Well, my guess is that the idea is in the lines of schools via videoconference. I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in Mexico there are a lot of schools in faraway small communities, well outside the bulk of civilization, that have no teachers, just tv screens. There is one teacher in a major city broadcasting his/her class so that these schools can learn. There's a whole system with details that are unknown to me, but the system is there.
So why use a doctor that's not physically there but on a videoconference? That's simple; if you need an emergency surgery and live in a remote island with only one doctor and a few nurses, this system might save your life.
Would you rather see everyone as a criminal and with that screw the innocent or see everyone as innocent and allow crime to fluorish?
Regardless of what people say, any politician openly stating that they prefer the second option will have his carreer ended by the public.
What I just don't understand is why, if crime rates have been going steadily down for some decades now, do they feel like they need to be more invasive and offensive in their fight against crime. Maybe it's all related to politics (and that "maybe" answers only to scientific precision, though I'm pretty sure that's the reason behind it all).
I wonder if forcing every single human being to read George Orwell's 1984 would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Perhaps it's just that people don't realize what could go wrong with an Orwellian government in place. Perhaps they just don't see it, they don't think anything can go wrong if the government watches your every step.
Then again, perhaps people just don't care. As long as it's not them (and by "them" i mean the generations that currently live) who suffer it, they just don't give a damn.
I can tell from personal experience that many people don't care about stuff like that even if you tell them the consequences. Perhaps Big Brother is precisely what we, as a civilization, need in order to realize that it's a horrible thing to live like that. After all, experience is a good teacher.
Is it me or does that look exactly like newer videogames with heavy textures?
I had no idea what HDR was so when I started looking at the video I actually thought it was a videogame. Kindda reminds me of COD MW.
What do you mean it's 2001 all over again? I never stopped receiving those. Every once in a while I receive a mail "from a friend", from the friend's address or not, telling me stuff like "Hey, here are the pictures of that party!" or "Have you seen this? I can't believe there are pictures of it!". They all contain links to weird-looking pages which, of course, I never open.
Sometimes I even receive those mails with URLs that actually contain my email address, like www.thisisnovirus.com/picturesfromlastnight/superdarion.
From what I can tell, they usually come from my friend's MSN/hotmail's address books.
Amazing. Truly amazing. This will open a whole new area of social research; the behavior of zombies will finally be studied in detail and maybe, just maybe, hollywood will pick up the results and eventually come up with a zombie infestation that resembles reality.
Though I don't think a whole family of zombies grunting at a television show makes up for a good action flick.
I've heard the button-smashing technique is a killer in fighting games. He could do what he loves while at the same time beat the crap out of you; that ought to give him some confidence too.
That doesn't have any of the elements of a haiku. It's just a poem, you pompous ass.
A couple of months ago they tried this in Mexico. At first everyone was scared because they said they'd disconnect any line that wasn't registered.
At the end they didn't because too many people didn't register (in the order of millions) and about a month after the deadline the government simply desisted on the whole idea, calling it a "bad idea" and claiming that it was badly implemented.
Too bad the Chinese can't count on that happening, though.
Maybe they're flexible LED screens with blacks as good as the old CRTs. That I'd buy.
Are we really that easily influenced? I mean, think-of-the-children-people are so affraid that if the kids watch a violent movie, play a violent videogame, listen to violent music and, in general, have any contact whatsoever with violent behavior, even if it's only in the theoretical level, they'll turn into killing machines who beat their wives and rape their children.
Does "thinking like the enemy" really make you the enemy? Are we really so easily modeled that we need to shield our children from being in contact with any type of non-optimal behavior (whatever that is) so that they can be molded into model citizens?
I know this is just anecdotal, but I have had contact with lots of violence, both in paper as in reality, and I have never been violent a single time in my life. I often think about terrorism as an empathy exercise and it doesn't mean I'm actually planning to do it.
Think like the enemy is a good way to empathize. The enemy is made of people, just like us, and just like us they have their issues and problems that drive them to terrorism. Is it really that terrible that a teacher is trying to teach the students about other cultures? Hell, try to think like a suicide bomber. That's a good empathy exercise.
Understanding terrorists might prove to be the only way to stop them.
You could program it to say "mamaciiiita" to hot gals on the sidewalks.
I'm a physics grad student. I have a bachelor degree in physics and I can tell you that by the time you finish that programme, you're barely familiar with stuff that was developed 70 years ago! 50 if you're lucky.
You think IT guys have it hard? Try catching up as a physics student!
I bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights when it came out and... well, they actually did with the game the very same thing the article is suggesting.
You have your CDs with your serial, which you use to install as many times as you want, and Bioware actually allows you to store that Serial in their servers, protected by a password.
Do you feel like sharing youre game? Just lend your CD key to someone, which could just mean to lend them the password for your account with bioware. Also, if you lose the damn booklet in which it came printed, or if you're just not at home, you can always retrieve your serial from their servers, provided you remember the password.
Now THAT's what I call value.
On an unrelated topic, they also ported their game to linux after a while. You didn't even have to buy it again! Just download the installation package for linux (yes, download, for free, from their servers), use your windows serial and you're all set. Suffice it to say it worked like a charm.
With SSDs prices and lower capacities, HDD still have room to grow a little bit. If you can get a 3.5" HDD with whooping 10TB of space for 300usd or whatever they price it at, HDD will still be a viable choice for a long time, specially for desktop PCs.
uh... 2.5tb/541gb = 4.62 (technically rounded up to 5)
Learn to use the calculator, dude.
it's not clear why anyone's patenting this either.
Well, it seems pretty simple to me. Once they have that "patent" they can begin a massive tourism-focused add campaign featuring some hot gal saying stuff like "Come visit the center of Europe" and because they have the patent no other city can go and steal their idea.
Wrong.
I'm not a big fan of Starwars, but comparing the first trilogy to the second and saying that they're equally bad is just stupid.
Maybe if you just look at it superficially you could arrive at that conclusion, mostly because... well... George Lucas was involved in both and that can only be a bad thing.
BUT if you look closely enough, you'll see MANY details in the first trilogy that makes it great. The characters are real and deep, with good motivation to what they do. The storyline is solid with only a few loopholes here and there. The storytelling is somewhat spectacular even from the first scene of A New Hope, in which it is made quite clear that there is this small vessel being chased and shot at by a large, empire-owned starship, to the last, when you see Luke's struggle against the dark side's not. They don't just tell you the stuff, like in the new trilogy.
Damn, even the Jedis are somewhat more impressive. In the second trilogy all you see them do is push stuff around and do coreographed battles with their shinny swords. Take away their sword and they become as useless as C3PO. In the first trilogy, the sword is only a part of the whole Jedi mysticism. You don't see luke jumping around in circles and being all show-offy. His ass-kickery is much more sophisticated than pure swordsmanship.
And then you see the second trilogy, with shallow, senseless jedis who do ridiculous things just for the sake of a badly thought plot. Everything in the second trilogy is forced in in order to sell toys and appeal to fanboys.
And damn is that Jar Jar Bings annoying!
Don't think for a second that I'm a fanboy. I was born in 1984, so I wasn't even alive when the first trilogy started. By the time the second one begun, I hadn't even fully watched the first. So I actually saw episode 1 first, then the first trilogy, then re-watched episode 1 and then saw the rest of the new ones.
And the money to pay for them comes from drug sales.
And mexican drug dealer's best customers lie on the US side of the border.
I'm a mexican living in Mexico. I won't go as far as saying that it is hell on earth, but it is getting pretty gruesome. And that's just from what you hear on the news!
Then I started diggin in alternate sources, such as blog del narco, and damn, was I missing out on all the news!
Just recently I bumped into this story about Ciudad Juarez. The story both gives hope and scares the crap out of you. No sign of that story on the two most widely spread newspapers in Mexico, though. They're just sweeping it under the rug.
I wonder if blog del narco featured it...
... how long before we start seeing a bunch of UFO reports in the area?