Really? You consider this a solved problem based on the information that was available in the 19th century? Do you also go see a doctor that relies on 19th century medical practices without any of the ridiculous new discoveries like that "germ theory" nonsense?
Considering that you have the chance of losing everything by not having this, and that you lost nothing at all by having it, I see no reason not to have a tracking device on your child.
This is all just recruiting the lower parts of the brain that B.F. Skinner studied. Pull-lever-get-food-pellet type of stuff. No play involved, really.
Well, that's not entirely true. Copyright does cover derivative works. For example there's the issue of The Wind Done Gone that was based on Gone with the Wind, but was written from the slaves' point of view. Much legal trouble ensued, and it had to be rebranded as a parody and the characters renamed (and some money spent) before the case could be settled.
I don't have numbers to offer, but they could be banking on the iPad being cheaper in the long run than having to update dead-tree textbooks year after year. Also many of the open courseware digital textbooks are as good as, if not better than ye olde paper texts. And almost any school could easily replace their literature textbooks with e versions, so maybe they're looking to extend this beyond math. If so, they will almost certainly be saving money.
Very, very., very well said. Not only do I wish I had mod points, but I wish you could go higher than five for exceptional comments.
Complaining about how dumb American kids are, or how bad American schools are, is just one of those things people default to without ever giving it a shred of thought. I'm so glad to see that someone actually manages to think the situation through before whining.
Let's totally unplug all backwards theocracies from the internet.
Leaving them with only the propaganda permitted by said theocracies? What do you suppose would happen then, a sudden burst of enlightenment based on the same ideas that have made them "backwards" to begin with?
There's a reason tyrants block the flow of information. There is no greater threat to tyranny than the knowledge that people elsewhere are freer and happier than you are, and the information that explains how they got to be that way.
Gods I hope you were just being sarcastic and I missed it. I'm more than a little disturbed by the fact that you got an "insightful" mod for this.
Was it just me or did it all end with the fate of the universe resting on the changing of a prehistoric stone light bulb? In fact, it must have been a Christmas light bulb, because if one went out, they all went out...
How is this any different than the rampant and completely unsupervised genetic twiddling that has been happening in nature for the last few billion years?
It's very different. "Nature" takes existing sequences and changes them, seeing if they fit in with the rest of the existing organism and environment. The process is slow and competing sequences have an opportunity to try their own variations. Wholesale fabrication of an entire genome is several orders of magnitude more drastic.
Being a professor is one of the few professions where you get to charge someone for something and then act like you're the boss. They seem to forget that they are being paid by the student. If the student chooses to sit in the room and ignore the professor, it's the student's (or the parents') money that's being wasted, not the professor's. Imagine hiring a plumber who insisted on this level of authority.
As long as it's not something that makes noise or is otherwise obtrusive to the other students, the professor should have nothing to say about it. Ultimately this is just an ego trip on the part of the professor. Nothing more.
Most magazines wouldn't be ok with an automated process because it wouldn't let them charge extra for some issues.
I'm not saying google intends to do this, but I doubt sports illustrated would let their swimsuit issue go for the same price as the rest.
Why would an automated process necessitate uniform pricing for everything? They could easily set it up so that if the OCR reads "Swimsuit Issue" on the cover, the "articles" are tagged differently and a different price is charged.
Yes, yes. But nothing, NOTHING, compares to the heinous of act of giving fucking Ben "Frat Boy" Asslick the lead role in Phillip Dick's Paycheck.
Or even putting Ahnuld in any of the other movies based on his stories. Asimov deserves no better than Dick.
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My sarcasm detector is broken. Are you actually saying that you think the world would benefit from more ignorance?
Really? You consider this a solved problem based on the information that was available in the 19th century? Do you also go see a doctor that relies on 19th century medical practices without any of the ridiculous new discoveries like that "germ theory" nonsense?
Considering that you have the chance of losing everything by not having this, and that you lost nothing at all by having it, I see no reason not to have a tracking device on your child.
I find it easy to believe that someone superstitious could think that tone was electromagnetism.
That's probably the best explanation I've heard for this yet.
I believe the "scholarly" term they're looking for is captology, the study of persuasive technology.
This is all just recruiting the lower parts of the brain that B.F. Skinner studied. Pull-lever-get-food-pellet type of stuff. No play involved, really.
Well, that's not entirely true. Copyright does cover derivative works. For example there's the issue of The Wind Done Gone that was based on Gone with the Wind, but was written from the slaves' point of view. Much legal trouble ensued, and it had to be rebranded as a parody and the characters renamed (and some money spent) before the case could be settled.
If it weren't legal, Rupert Murdoch would surely be in jail by now.
If they can make Sintel, how long before a video game is made that way and of that quality?
I don't have numbers to offer, but they could be banking on the iPad being cheaper in the long run than having to update dead-tree textbooks year after year. Also many of the open courseware digital textbooks are as good as, if not better than ye olde paper texts. And almost any school could easily replace their literature textbooks with e versions, so maybe they're looking to extend this beyond math. If so, they will almost certainly be saving money.
Besides, textbooks are sooo 20th century.
Insightful? Seriously?
Finally something I can use to easily sort my porn.
Very, very., very well said. Not only do I wish I had mod points, but I wish you could go higher than five for exceptional comments.
Complaining about how dumb American kids are, or how bad American schools are, is just one of those things people default to without ever giving it a shred of thought. I'm so glad to see that someone actually manages to think the situation through before whining.
That might actually work on the moon.
LOL!! Ah, for some mod points....
Let's totally unplug all backwards theocracies from the internet.
Leaving them with only the propaganda permitted by said theocracies? What do you suppose would happen then, a sudden burst of enlightenment based on the same ideas that have made them "backwards" to begin with?
There's a reason tyrants block the flow of information. There is no greater threat to tyranny than the knowledge that people elsewhere are freer and happier than you are, and the information that explains how they got to be that way.
Gods I hope you were just being sarcastic and I missed it. I'm more than a little disturbed by the fact that you got an "insightful" mod for this.
And while I'm at it, was I the only one mentally calling "fake Lock" unLock that whole time?
Was it just me or did it all end with the fate of the universe resting on the changing of a prehistoric stone light bulb? In fact, it must have been a Christmas light bulb, because if one went out, they all went out...
How is this any different than the rampant and completely unsupervised genetic twiddling that has been happening in nature for the last few billion years?
It's very different. "Nature" takes existing sequences and changes them, seeing if they fit in with the rest of the existing organism and environment. The process is slow and competing sequences have an opportunity to try their own variations. Wholesale fabrication of an entire genome is several orders of magnitude more drastic.
A machine that can calculate anything, regardless of complexity? I, for one, welcome our new garage-built overlords.
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Being a professor is one of the few professions where you get to charge someone for something and then act like you're the boss. They seem to forget that they are being paid by the student. If the student chooses to sit in the room and ignore the professor, it's the student's (or the parents') money that's being wasted, not the professor's. Imagine hiring a plumber who insisted on this level of authority. As long as it's not something that makes noise or is otherwise obtrusive to the other students, the professor should have nothing to say about it. Ultimately this is just an ego trip on the part of the professor. Nothing more.
Yeah well, at least downloading porn involves a little bit of exercise. With TV you just lay there.
Most magazines wouldn't be ok with an automated process because it wouldn't let them charge extra for some issues.
I'm not saying google intends to do this, but I doubt sports illustrated would let their swimsuit issue go for the same price as the rest.
Why would an automated process necessitate uniform pricing for everything? They could easily set it up so that if the OCR reads "Swimsuit Issue" on the cover, the "articles" are tagged differently and a different price is charged.
I was a grad student there, and most of the people I knew hated the Horde webmail interface.
Yet another reason to say... FOR THE ALLIANCE!!!
Yes, yes. But nothing, NOTHING, compares to the heinous of act of giving fucking Ben "Frat Boy" Asslick the lead role in Phillip Dick's Paycheck. Or even putting Ahnuld in any of the other movies based on his stories. Asimov deserves no better than Dick.