If the gap between teachers and pupils is as large as the one between parents and children then it is no surprise that todays teachers really don't know what to do with the technology savvy generation that is about to supplant them.
Schools haven't got a clue about the internet, how to use it and what it could bring them. Pupils are running circles around their supposed betters and are showing earlier in life a degree of independence that teachers wished they had had when they were young. Todays youth are so connected using cellphones, the net and social networking that they are as alien from the previous generation as any that has ever been.
I have this feeling that things will have to get a lot worse before they will get better again, and I also think that the end of oil can't come soon enough.
It's a bit like pulling a bad tooth, better get it over with. Let's hope we can get over our addiction and into some kind of reasonable sharing of the globe without murdering too many innocents.
spot on. I've been fairly successful in business as a programmer / analyst, nobody ever bothered me, then the webcam thing happened and we got 'visible'. Within a few short years I was up to my elbows in lawsuits by all kinds of weirdos that wanted a piece of the pie. Keeping a very low profile seems to be a good recipe to reduce this kind of trouble.
I think if assembly would be the barrier to entry for a programming job, there would be less software of much higher quality, but also at a *much* steeper price.
even fairer, they *did* release information, precisely one bit worth: is there an unpatched exploit in real ? the answer is 'yes'. So now all real has to do is get off it's ass and do its job *or* open source their code and we'll help them;)
sure, would you like your distribution to come on CD, QIC tape or DAT ? And what about the devkit or will you be using that open source stuff ? The last release I've got I think was IRIX 6.2, after that I switched to KDE/Linux and gave all my SGI stuff away.
When a company that used to be a monopolist is now one of the staunchest defenders of openness, I really do hope there is no hidden agenda here.
IBM used to make overpriced hardware sold at tremendous profit until that little upstart microsoft came along and elegantly used their own weight against them in a classic game of corporate judo. It may just be that IBM still smarts from that or it may be that they've really 'seen the light'. This is good news, personally I'd like to see the transparency of these committees and their members go up a notch or two, too much potential for procedural trickery still exists.
moron. I've been doing under water javascript requests since *1998*, because there was no other way to stream video to a browser without using a plugin (unless you had netscape).
The script is pretty much unchanged from it's original, check any ww.com userpage, and no, I didn't even bother patenting it because it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time.
they should GPL the source but they're pretty much stuck in licensing land as it is. If they did that QNX would make a huge jump forward, say a 'quantum leap';)
I don't think that would work, in fact it would make life easier for squatters. For them a $100 up front that they get back is just a cost of business, it means that whoever they intend to sell the domain to will be forced to pay up at least $100 more. For everybody else it is a barrier to entry, and for the smallest (private individuals) that may be too much.
The cause for that is your legal climate. As long as the lawsuits in the US carry ridiculous penalties for something where common sense dictates the person that sues should have been more responsible this will continue.
Hilarious, a pretty good piece of writing that is maybe uncomfortable for some and posted by a logged in user gets a -1 troll and his anonymous 1 line answer that attacks him personally gets +5 insightful.
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I'm not a catholic and I think it is safe to drop the word 'current'. Between them the various popes are probably directly and indirectly collectively guilty of as much mass murdering as any other group of people that small.
It sounds and looks like as if anybody with a 'trainable' remote control could have done this, which means it's utter insanity on the part of the developers of the system. A point in their favour though is that Polish infrastructure is still recovering from decades of neglect and that fancy trim like encrypting a link like this is probably not in the budget. But then again, it couldn't have been more expensive than replacing a bunch of tramway cars.
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If the gap between teachers and pupils is as large as the one between parents and children then it is no surprise that todays teachers really don't know what to do with the technology savvy generation that is about to supplant them.
Schools haven't got a clue about the internet, how to use it and what it could bring them. Pupils are running circles around their supposed betters and are showing earlier in life a degree of independence that teachers wished they had had when they were young. Todays youth are so connected using cellphones, the net and social networking that they are as alien from the previous generation as any that has ever been.
Finland has Nokia.
I have this feeling that things will have to get a lot worse before they will get better again, and I also think that the end of oil can't come soon enough.
It's a bit like pulling a bad tooth, better get it over with. Let's hope we can get over our addiction and into some kind of reasonable sharing of the globe without murdering too many innocents.
message to your significant other: if he ever uses a non-gsm phone get the frying pan :)
spot on. I've been fairly successful in business as a programmer / analyst, nobody ever bothered me, then the webcam thing happened and we got 'visible'. Within a few short years I was up to my elbows in lawsuits by all kinds of weirdos that wanted a piece of the pie. Keeping a very low profile seems to be a good recipe to reduce this kind of trouble.
thank you AC, that's a really nice project there! Good to see such skillful work produced today.
I think if assembly would be the barrier to entry for a programming job, there would be less software of much higher quality, but also at a *much* steeper price.
even fairer, they *did* release information, precisely one bit worth: is there an unpatched exploit in real ? the answer is 'yes'. So now all real has to do is get off it's ass and do its job *or* open source their code and we'll help them ;)
/me suggests rolandpwhatever strap himself to a 747 and attempt a 5000 degree per second roll.
:)
The way I see it is that that way we get to kill two birds with one stone
sure, would you like your distribution to come on CD, QIC tape or DAT ? And what about the devkit or will you be using that open source stuff ? The last release I've got I think was IRIX 6.2, after that I switched to KDE/Linux and gave all my SGI stuff away.
:)
Can't say I miss it either
When a company that used to be a monopolist is now one of the staunchest defenders of openness, I really do hope there is no hidden agenda here.
IBM used to make overpriced hardware sold at tremendous profit until that little upstart microsoft came along and elegantly used their own weight against them in a classic game of corporate judo. It may just be that IBM still smarts from that or it may be that they've really 'seen the light'. This is good news, personally I'd like to see the transparency of these committees and their members go up a notch or two, too much potential for procedural trickery still exists.
moron. I've been doing under water javascript requests since *1998*, because there was no other way to stream video to a browser without using a plugin (unless you had netscape).
The script is pretty much unchanged from it's original, check any ww.com userpage, and no, I didn't even bother patenting it because it seemed pretty obvious to me at the time.
they should GPL the source but they're pretty much stuck in licensing land as it is. ;)
If they did that QNX would make a huge jump forward, say a 'quantum leap'
I don't think that would work, in fact it would make life easier for squatters. For them a $100 up front that they get back is just a cost of business, it means that whoever they intend to sell the domain to will be forced to pay up at least $100 more. For everybody else it is a barrier to entry, and for the smallest (private individuals) that may be too much.
I actually think that the most common use of RPG is rocket propelled grenade but I'm aware of the geek alternative. 'Proper' depends on context.
The cause for that is your legal climate. As long as the lawsuits in the US carry ridiculous penalties for something where common sense dictates the person that sues should have been more responsible this will continue.
no. It's too big to certify and it doesn't have hard real time.
I'll bet you live in Mexico...
map-reduce has *many* applications outside search
Hilarious, a pretty good piece of writing that is maybe uncomfortable for some and posted by a logged in user gets a -1 troll and his anonymous 1 line answer that attacks him personally gets +5 insightful.
Remember not to use your mod points to show disagreement / agreement.
I'm not a catholic and I think it is safe to drop the word 'current'. Between them the various popes are probably directly and indirectly collectively guilty of as much mass murdering as any other group of people that small.
you watch too many 3rd rate spy movies.
Alan Turing actually had a *LOT* of help from a bunch of Polish mathematicians.
It sounds and looks like as if anybody with a 'trainable' remote control could have done this, which means it's utter insanity on the part of the developers of the system. A point in their favour though is that Polish infrastructure is still recovering from decades of neglect and that fancy trim like encrypting a link like this is probably not in the budget. But then again, it couldn't have been more expensive than replacing a bunch of tramway cars.
nothing, it is just that Lodz (that 'l' is pronounced as a w and should have a backslash through it) is in Poland...
because it's called 'The Netherlands', which probably makes us 'neanderthals'