Yeah, but this also has the advantage of not having potential backdoors that US NSA and co. might have introduced. This may be useful for any military documents that they actually want to keep secret.
Technology in the classroom...all of it...it's just **tools to teach**
Anyone who things technology can reduce staff budget or allow larger class sizes is smoking crack.
A professionally trained, well-paid *human* teacher is absolutely the only thing that educates a child.
Everything else is just a tool.
After working in education I can say this is not quite true. Teachers that aren't due for retirement in the technological forseeable future are really quite scared about where it is all heading and are often ill-equipped to deal with changes -- hence, the knee-jerk reaction from teachers and those that are a bit older and don't quite like the new world we live in.
Reality is that many years ago there were 3 types people to do maintenance and repairs on school grounds (lockers, grounds, woodwork equipment) and technology has reduced this to one guy with a bunch of tools. Reports collections were done by teams of people, as well as mass tests, and finance, which has largely been automated to cut down on staff and increase efficiency. No way would people want to wait for test results any more like they used to.
Technology will inevitably come into the classroom to work with and, yes, displace some teachers. The main aim of a school is to provide educational outcomes for students and not employment for teachers. Technology can replace teachers in some areas and should do so that students have more ready access to some materials.
Books and high costs should be replaced with tablets (although these don't have to be expensive iPads) and an Internet connection can give access to information your parent's parent's would have only dreamed about (they had on average 30 points lower IQ as well). One day technology will allow university level quantum mechanics to be taught in early high school, along with quarks and the particle zoo. You can't stop progress.
3 hours a day, 3 days a week. The rest is all fluff to make your boss or your boss's boss happy and fill in time with various unneccessary social interactions like meetings, commutes, lunch, etc. Hilariously, many things that are considered critical front-line service staff are slowly being replaced with computers or automation and it is the IT folk that are considered to be excess baggage and churned through.
We have not yet come up with suitable alternatives for item #2. That, I think, is the real challenge. When George Jetson really can work grueling 3-hour workdays and still be considered as a valued member of society.
We need a campaign for a 3 hour day, 3 day work week.
Unfortunately if you give this job to a younger coder, regardless of what country he's from, you stand a very high chance of seeing him go crazy wanting to add new features and just screw it all up.
As a young coder you don't have to tell me twice to learn the lesson -- this is the kind of thinking to promote to get high paying jobs maintining spaghettified cobol code that no one else understands in a bank later in life. Problem is that you old folks are already doing this and they might wake up to it by the time I get there.
There's actually some truth to this idea that newer TVs (and monitors) are full of bad things, like HDCP. Maybe there will be a market for old TVs again?
I learned some Chinese in high school and even won an inter-school award for "excellence", but I could not even hold a conversation. This makes me feel a lot better about my lack of Chinese speaking skills after devoting some years to it.
Interesting video, but you have to wonder how old it is. Maybe this was true 30 years ago or some backwards places. I've never seen any racism in real life, only on TV. All this talk about "racism" is just obscuring the problem of gated communities sheltering themselves from the rest of society with big walls, CCTC, large/sometimes dodgy investments, and such.
That's because we are heading for an ice age due to orbital forcing, and very "soon" in a geologists sense. One thing to remember though is that "soon" to a geologist is roughly 20,000 years. In the meantime, we are likely causing warming.
While I enjoyed the proof techniques and the clean structure of the theory, I have had almost zero use for it in 20 years of IT research and consulting.
Client: I've got several trains and they all need to meet a timetable. How would I do this?
Typical IT guy: well, of course you figure out how far your train goes when your driver presses harder on the pedal and you increment a counter until you get to the total distance of your first stop. This gives you the time it takes to get from stop A to stop B at different pedal pushes. You can do this for a series of points between stop A and stop B to see if your train is running a bit early or late and compensate by pressing harder or softer on the pedal.
Client: but what if it doesn't match up exactly with one of the points in-between?
Typical IT guy: Then you make an educated guess based on the weighted average of the points on either side.
I joke, but this is unfortunately how a lot of programming is done in the real world due to lack of maths knowledge...
No, no. Banks have secure passwords of at least 12 characters, with mix of upper and lower case, symbols, and numbers, and completely hidden from view on a sticky note on the back of the keyboard.
A ban would make sense except for that Australia has no nuclear powered electricity generation. Even though the country sits on a third of the world's uranium deposits, Australia seems determined politically to wait out the usefulness of uranium until thorium becomes more standard or even fusion becomes possible. Australia is set to possibly become the biggest exporter in the world in the future, so politicians desperately hope there is a way to make coal "clean" at little extra cost.
My point, in a roundabout way, was that you were asserting your opinion as fact, like here:
Nowhere is this more obvious to me than in development tools. Forgetting Microsoft's faults for one moment, Visual Studio is far and away the best IDE on the planet - no exceptions.
and so on and so on...
So I gave another opinion to show how it is important to try and pick up where your biases are when you write. Sure business is important in the scheme of things, but sometimes business people, like everyone else, gets caught in their own little bubble and extrapolates their narrow range of experiences from their field to everyone else as well. Oh, and you just have to have to pick on the chemists from time to time.
That you like Visual Studio by Microsoft is your opinion, except you seem to spout it as fact.
Here's another possible take -- most programming is done to reinvent terrible UIs to yet another accounting/business program that has no real benefit for people in general. The real important stuff happens in scientific programming, where you need tools to program in parallel, solving complex maths problems, for custom hardware and so on. This stuff is generally run on Linux because it is the easiest to devlop on, has remote management tools built in, etc.
Hence, I can assume that the AC parent is either a chemist or a programmer in some sort of business.
According to Wikipedia all they achieved in various tribal groups was the conversion of forest to grasslands. Much better to use science and rational thought to decide what we actually want as an outcome in the future.
Another solution might be a force field to stop radiation and a method to trap air around a person like some ants do when going underwater. We can in theory also do wireless power transfer, so maybe this could provide the juice to keep a system like this going on a backpack like device you could use in space, Mars, titan, or any other sufficiently low g environment that you could move on. Wonder why sci-fi doesn't do this much?
Wake on LAN is a single checkbox, so you're flat out wrong on that one. Suppressing sleep with lid closed would be nice, I'll give you that. But what exactly is "hybrid sleep" and why would I need "hibernate"?
Reason why I wrote what I did is that I used to work in an organization that exlcusively used Macintosh laptops, and I needed to use all the features I raised and actually did implement them using scripts and terminal commands (on "Leopard"). Getting an application to wake the computer was especially hard from either a background thread or server response. If ound that the hibernate feature was actually part of the OS, but was hard to activate precisely because it sometimes left you with a blank or grey screen when you opened the lid, requiring you to either hold the off button and restart or close the lid and open it again after a period of time. Macs are not the panacea they are made out to be.
All this talk about sleep mode being useless sounds more than a little silly from the POV of a Mac user. Macs have had fast, reliable sleep/wake since the second generation G3s around 2000.
Yeah, but the world is often full of ironies -- if you want to do basic things like get hybrid sleep or hibernate on a Mac you have to engage in minor programming. To get the Mac to stay awake when you close the lid requires minor programming. Getting the Mac to wake on network command or application response requires minor programming. It is far from simple to use unless you are using it to show off how much you can spend on a computing device.
Was an attempt at humor. But executed poorly. I blame it on trying to figure the difference between Unix, *nix, and Linux on an empty stomach and attempting to make sense of the article summary.
Coffee causes early death (doubtful) Early death causes coffee (impossible) Something else causes both (most likely) Coincidence (possible but unlikely)
OR
Author of study has some terrible disease that means he can't drink coffee and has it in for the rest of us coffee drinkers (obvious answer).
Which is in a different universe from where students are today.
Very true. Older people are willfully blind about what befalls youths these days, and blame them for "not working hard enough". Here's another life anecdote:
I finished 5 years ago with an advanced computational physics degree and it was a real eye opener. Went to a job centre and they said I should look more generally for a job than physics, so I said "maybe a science job to start?" Response (from a former hairdresser that when asked, confirmed she got her job through a phony reference and relationship with an uncle) was "I'm ringing up 5 local supermarkets. If they have a job opening you have to take it." Scary shit like this went on for about a year on-and-off! I have a good paying job now, as a manger in IT through a combination of life events, but it is boring as all hell and I am finishing up to try and get a job as a programmer in a respected science organisation. With all the nice tech around and hope for the future, sometimes you have pause to think about how society operates.
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*puts ontin foil hat*
Yeah, but this also has the advantage of not having potential backdoors that US NSA and co. might have introduced. This may be useful for any military documents that they actually want to keep secret.
Technology in the classroom...all of it...it's just **tools to teach**
Anyone who things technology can reduce staff budget or allow larger class sizes is smoking crack.
A professionally trained, well-paid *human* teacher is absolutely the only thing that educates a child.
Everything else is just a tool.
After working in education I can say this is not quite true. Teachers that aren't due for retirement in the technological forseeable future are really quite scared about where it is all heading and are often ill-equipped to deal with changes -- hence, the knee-jerk reaction from teachers and those that are a bit older and don't quite like the new world we live in.
Reality is that many years ago there were 3 types people to do maintenance and repairs on school grounds (lockers, grounds, woodwork equipment) and technology has reduced this to one guy with a bunch of tools. Reports collections were done by teams of people, as well as mass tests, and finance, which has largely been automated to cut down on staff and increase efficiency. No way would people want to wait for test results any more like they used to.
Technology will inevitably come into the classroom to work with and, yes, displace some teachers. The main aim of a school is to provide educational outcomes for students and not employment for teachers. Technology can replace teachers in some areas and should do so that students have more ready access to some materials.
Books and high costs should be replaced with tablets (although these don't have to be expensive iPads) and an Internet connection can give access to information your parent's parent's would have only dreamed about (they had on average 30 points lower IQ as well). One day technology will allow university level quantum mechanics to be taught in early high school, along with quarks and the particle zoo. You can't stop progress.
3 hours a day, 3 days a week. The rest is all fluff to make your boss or your boss's boss happy and fill in time with various unneccessary social interactions like meetings, commutes, lunch, etc. Hilariously, many things that are considered critical front-line service staff are slowly being replaced with computers or automation and it is the IT folk that are considered to be excess baggage and churned through.
We have not yet come up with suitable alternatives for item #2. That, I think, is the real challenge. When George Jetson really can work grueling 3-hour workdays and still be considered as a valued member of society.
We need a campaign for a 3 hour day, 3 day work week.
Unfortunately if you give this job to a younger coder, regardless of what country he's from, you stand a very high chance of seeing him go crazy wanting to add new features and just screw it all up.
As a young coder you don't have to tell me twice to learn the lesson -- this is the kind of thinking to promote to get high paying jobs maintining spaghettified cobol code that no one else understands in a bank later in life. Problem is that you old folks are already doing this and they might wake up to it by the time I get there.
There's actually some truth to this idea that newer TVs (and monitors) are full of bad things, like HDCP. Maybe there will be a market for old TVs again?
I learned some Chinese in high school and even won an inter-school award for "excellence", but I could not even hold a conversation. This makes me feel a lot better about my lack of Chinese speaking skills after devoting some years to it.
Interesting video, but you have to wonder how old it is. Maybe this was true 30 years ago or some backwards places. I've never seen any racism in real life, only on TV. All this talk about "racism" is just obscuring the problem of gated communities sheltering themselves from the rest of society with big walls, CCTC, large/sometimes dodgy investments, and such.
That's because we are heading for an ice age due to orbital forcing, and very "soon" in a geologists sense. One thing to remember though is that "soon" to a geologist is roughly 20,000 years. In the meantime, we are likely causing warming.
While I enjoyed the proof techniques and the clean structure of the theory, I have had almost zero use for it in 20 years of IT research and consulting.
Client: I've got several trains and they all need to meet a timetable. How would I do this?
Typical IT guy: well, of course you figure out how far your train goes when your driver presses harder on the pedal and you increment a counter until you get to the total distance of your first stop. This gives you the time it takes to get from stop A to stop B at different pedal pushes. You can do this for a series of points between stop A and stop B to see if your train is running a bit early or late and compensate by pressing harder or softer on the pedal.
Client: but what if it doesn't match up exactly with one of the points in-between?
Typical IT guy: Then you make an educated guess based on the weighted average of the points on either side.
I joke, but this is unfortunately how a lot of programming is done in the real world due to lack of maths knowledge...
No, no. Banks have secure passwords of at least 12 characters, with mix of upper and lower case, symbols, and numbers, and completely hidden from view on a sticky note on the back of the keyboard.
Doesn't take much when you compare Linus to Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer, but he's always been a bit more down to earth than the rest of them.
A ban would make sense except for that Australia has no nuclear powered electricity generation. Even though the country sits on a third of the world's uranium deposits, Australia seems determined politically to wait out the usefulness of uranium until thorium becomes more standard or even fusion becomes possible. Australia is set to possibly become the biggest exporter in the world in the future, so politicians desperately hope there is a way to make coal "clean" at little extra cost.
My point, in a roundabout way, was that you were asserting your opinion as fact, like here:
Nowhere is this more obvious to me than in development tools. Forgetting Microsoft's faults for one moment, Visual Studio is far and away the best IDE on the planet - no exceptions.
and so on and so on...
So I gave another opinion to show how it is important to try and pick up where your biases are when you write. Sure business is important in the scheme of things, but sometimes business people, like everyone else, gets caught in their own little bubble and extrapolates their narrow range of experiences from their field to everyone else as well. Oh, and you just have to have to pick on the chemists from time to time.
That you like Visual Studio by Microsoft is your opinion, except you seem to spout it as fact.
Here's another possible take -- most programming is done to reinvent terrible UIs to yet another accounting/business program that has no real benefit for people in general. The real important stuff happens in scientific programming, where you need tools to program in parallel, solving complex maths problems, for custom hardware and so on. This stuff is generally run on Linux because it is the easiest to devlop on, has remote management tools built in, etc.
Hence, I can assume that the AC parent is either a chemist or a programmer in some sort of business.
Or you could live in Australia where there are Fire Tondados!
According to Wikipedia all they achieved in various tribal groups was the conversion of forest to grasslands. Much better to use science and rational thought to decide what we actually want as an outcome in the future.
Another solution might be a force field to stop radiation and a method to trap air around a person like some ants do when going underwater. We can in theory also do wireless power transfer, so maybe this could provide the juice to keep a system like this going on a backpack like device you could use in space, Mars, titan, or any other sufficiently low g environment that you could move on. Wonder why sci-fi doesn't do this much?
Wake on LAN is a single checkbox, so you're flat out wrong on that one. Suppressing sleep with lid closed would be nice, I'll give you that. But what exactly is "hybrid sleep" and why would I need "hibernate"?
Reason why I wrote what I did is that I used to work in an organization that exlcusively used Macintosh laptops, and I needed to use all the features I raised and actually did implement them using scripts and terminal commands (on "Leopard"). Getting an application to wake the computer was especially hard from either a background thread or server response. If ound that the hibernate feature was actually part of the OS, but was hard to activate precisely because it sometimes left you with a blank or grey screen when you opened the lid, requiring you to either hold the off button and restart or close the lid and open it again after a period of time. Macs are not the panacea they are made out to be.
All this talk about sleep mode being useless sounds more than a little silly from the POV of a Mac user. Macs have had fast, reliable sleep/wake since the second generation G3s around 2000.
Yeah, but the world is often full of ironies -- if you want to do basic things like get hybrid sleep or hibernate on a Mac you have to engage in minor programming. To get the Mac to stay awake when you close the lid requires minor programming. Getting the Mac to wake on network command or application response requires minor programming. It is far from simple to use unless you are using it to show off how much you can spend on a computing device.
Was an attempt at humor. But executed poorly. I blame it on trying to figure the difference between Unix, *nix, and Linux on an empty stomach and attempting to make sense of the article summary.
Doh. I realized just after clicking submit that Linux is actually the kernel in GNU/Linux and that my post could look quite dumb if I didn't clarify.
Because we here at Slashdot like to be accurate, especially when poking holes into other's arguments
So far so good.
Linux is a kernel, nothing else.
Wrong on the first word! I think you'll find it is GNU/Linux, thank you very much.
The possibilities:
Coffee causes early death (doubtful)
Early death causes coffee (impossible)
Something else causes both (most likely)
Coincidence (possible but unlikely)
OR
Author of study has some terrible disease that means he can't drink coffee and has it in for the rest of us coffee drinkers (obvious answer).
Which is in a different universe from where students are today.
Very true. Older people are willfully blind about what befalls youths these days, and blame them for "not working hard enough". Here's another life anecdote:
I finished 5 years ago with an advanced computational physics degree and it was a real eye opener. Went to a job centre and they said I should look more generally for a job than physics, so I said "maybe a science job to start?" Response (from a former hairdresser that when asked, confirmed she got her job through a phony reference and relationship with an uncle) was "I'm ringing up 5 local supermarkets. If they have a job opening you have to take it." Scary shit like this went on for about a year on-and-off! I have a good paying job now, as a manger in IT through a combination of life events, but it is boring as all hell and I am finishing up to try and get a job as a programmer in a respected science organisation. With all the nice tech around and hope for the future, sometimes you have pause to think about how society operates.