I mean I understand the need for such a system to be in place, I mean I personally have never had to encounter it because I took computer sciences, if something was false it was apparent and obvious. So when he complains he can't get the book he needs from the University Campus because someone else has it checked out... So I tell him to Google the topic, he tells me about how that isn't going to help him much. What he ends up having to do is either looking up a list of books and trying to find the ones that might have approved publishing, OR he has to look at a list of approved publishings and pick the closest to the topic he's talking about.
Thats one reason why Regular Book libraries stand out on top of digital libraries, because a University campus (at least the one in Calgary) doesn't keep books that aren't useful for its students. ANY book they check out can be used for citation. Digital libraries don't have that luxury since its inexpensive to get digital media about anything, so campuses like to load up on all the info they can store.
As computers are completely interchangeable, and if the library is in fact Digital it can easily be backed up somewhere. So long as the data is stored on a backup server you won't lose it on the library end. And Netbooks around here are becoming cheap as dirt, you can get one of those for under 300 dollars, or an old old lappy for under 200. Cheaper than a vehicle, which a fair deal of College students can afford.
They mention that books online aren't free, no, they aren't, but assuming your going digital you should be able to get digital copies (manual scans if you have to) of the books you already have and offer them for free, that way you aren't taking away any of the content they'd regularily have to. You're essentially making it easier for those who DO have money though.
The REAL issues you come across are sources and citations. A friend of mine is majoring in Ancient Mideivel history and Archeology (I know, good luck with that, right?) and the biggest issue when he has to write a paper is some crap about it having to come from a peer reviewed source or some scholarly document. BASICALLY, in order for them to use any quotes or facts in their papers (which they must have at least 10 quotes in every paper) they have to go through the trouble of FINDING a book that has a check mark by some organization or another (Unesco? Maybe? I don't know).
The internet has tons of information but little of it will be credible for humanities students.
PC: And I'm a PC. Looks like I've got you beat this time. People all over America will be having a party for my new Operating System!
Mac: Wow, Congrats. That's really exciting. So are people going to be exposed to your new product while having fun at the same time.
PC: Well... Not really...
Mac: No? What are you....
PC: You see only the people who really care about Windows 7 will be hosting it... and they only get 1 CD to show all of their friends why they should buy Windows 7...
Mac: Oh, well, whats wrong with that? Wouldn't that mean more people will be buying Windows 7?
PC: The only friends Windows 7 enthusiasts have are other Windows 7 enthusiasts...
It's the dark ages waiting to happen all over again.
No one really knows why but after the fall of the Roman Empire, people just forgot about all the nice facets of society. Running water, Hygene, clean food, it all kind of went out the window and before you know it Black Death comes around.
You NEED educated individuals to educate our kids. There aren't enough Educated Individuals willing to teach to go around 1 on 1 with them. Otherwise they'll be repeating the same mistakes made throughout history.
It all depends on the subject. Anyone can argue that Basic Math can be taught anywhere. Understandable. Teaching Social sciences and Language arts and the like would be difficult, but also if done properly could work.
However advanced Physics, Chemistry, And Basic Calculus, I can't see being taught anywhere but in a classroom. You simply can't learn Nomenclature, or derivatives, or stoicheometry (sp?) without sitting down with a pencil and paper, and doing problems.
But I can see the appeal. Basic math can be taught in just about ANYTHING. The problem with schools is that they either teach you A) Just the numbers and its boring as hell, or B) They choose scenarios that are boring as hell so you don't want to learn it. However if little jimmy likes WoW and the teacher simply makes him do the Math with all his stats... There you go he knows his math.
Things like social studies and literature are what I'm wondering about. If a kid doesn't find the French Revolution interesting, how on Earth do you plan on teaching him about it? He can learn to read by using the internet and other worldly things like signs, but things like Resumes and Cover Letters can't be taught on the fly.
There are things in school that you think "I didn't learn Jack all" but they DID come in handy later.
How do they expect to upgrade my hardware everytime I turn it on? I mean my physical Hardware used to connect - I understand that they can upgrade their servers so that my hard-drive becomes bigger, their processing speed becomes faster, but it will -ALWAYS- reach a point where the dumb terminal I'm sitting at doesn't keep up with whats on screen. I'll at minimum have to pay for a new network card each time a new phase of internet cable comes into play.
on a recurring, perpetual basis, for something you currently get for a flat rate or for free without having to give up the money or privacy that cloud companies hope to leverage into fortunes.
If I go "Legit" - I don't have any money or privacy on the internet. It all goes to some music/movie/filesharing company or another.
If I "Pirate" - This stuff is all free, with the basic risks still assumed, and moving to the Cloud will not really change that.
So, I ask, what am I getting for Free or a flate rate that cloud companies are going to make me pay through the nose for?
Yes, and the world being round is absolutely preposterous. How could you possibly move in the same direction and end up back where you started? That is ludicrous. Some sort of stupidity there.
Exactly... am I the *only* one who thinks all that money would be better spent improving the planet we're already on, rather than giving up on it and moving on to another one?
No one is saying that we'd ditch Earth off. If we can figure out how to sustain life on Mars, essentially by that point we'd have a MASSIVE understanding of ecology and environmental sciences, which could be applied here on Earth. The problem with Staying on Earth is that we're an ever-growing species. At the rate we're growing, its either going A) We'll collectively over-eat, cause our food sources to extinct, and die off OR B) We'll have to starve hundreds of millions of people each year to keep the species going.
At which point, we'll wish we spent a couple trillion and lost a dozen great scientists to stay alive.
They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
There's no delusions of extended survival mentioned. That doesn't take away what they would be doing for humanity though.
If we can figure out the kinks we have in our biodomes, I don't see why trying to start a colony there, even if it takes 3 or 4 seperate space missions of people willing to die for it - it would be as revolutionary as the moon landing.
Yeah but not everyone follows the Berne Convention - not everyone signed up - and for that reason its not exactly "Flawless". Music development and software development are two completely different things though, and you can't even try to treat them the same way. Just like there are Cover bands, theres a certain amount of "Grey Area" Where anyone is allowed to do recreate or modify the artists original work, and even distribute it in some cases. With Software, you can't redistribute it AT ALL if you don't have express permission. Not legally anyways. With Software Patents being much more rigid than music and Arts copyrights, applying it globally would get in everyones way.
The chances of someone writing the exact same song, pretty slim. The chances of people programming the same solution to the problem: Numerous occurances already.
They waited more than a few years to make the claim though - and didn't attack Open Office, Just Microsoft. Perhaps trolling wasn't what they were doing, but they didn't exactly apply justice to the system. They went at it for money.
Is this because the Canadian firm (i4i) hit it big on an American company (Microsoft) with their patent trolling?
Do they think this is going to make it better? Now its going to be a MASSIVE convoluted state of patents EVERYWHERE and everyone will be stepping on someones toes. The idea of a Patent Law being forced across the ENTIRE PLANET is ridiculous.
We haven't even reached World Peace, how do you expect to enforce Patent Laws in warzones, 3rd world countries, embassies?
When they should. The destructable ones make it feel more present.
If a billboard is there to have no interaction with it, I will remember it no more then a tree that is rendered off of the area of gameplay.
However, if I see an ad, and I later see the destruction done to it, be it bullet holes or its in pieces, My brain will subconsciously be thinking "How did that happen?" And I'll imagine bit by bit what occured to the advert, thus keeping its image in my mind constantly.
Marketing people just don't get Videogames, I suppose.
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Same goes for engineers. Name a well-known (outside of engineering) engineer. I'll wait...
Imhotep - Ancient Egypt. Leonardo DaVinci - Renaissance David Fisher - Present (Dynamic rotating tower thing).
Come on now, You can't clump Engineers into the same group as computer scientists, they've been around for ages.
As mentioned in other comments, PS3's architecture was great. It offered really strong computing at a really low cost. Lots of people used multiple PS3's running Linux to do a wide variety of tasks, from server farms to rendering to whatever.
Now, You are right, for a great majority of the users, they DON'T put linux on their PS3. So when they decided to lower the price, they had to drop a feature. Guess which one got dropped? Right, support for other OS's.
Wikipedia defines its speed as In data communications Broadband in data can refer to broadband networks or broadband Internet and may have the same meaning as above, so that data transmission over a fiber optic cable would be referred to as broadband as compared to a telephone modem operating at 56,000 bits per second.
But then again, I come from the internet, me and my good buddy Wik over there aren't very reliable sources.
If they made the billboards destructable like in Red Faction, I bet you they'd remember the exact slogan you put on there.
Why try to "Sneak" these adverts into games, and find the best way to make people remember without thinking about it, when the only thing you REALLY have to worry about is getting people to remember it. Ads in games have already come around... so... why the illusion?
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I mean I understand the need for such a system to be in place, I mean I personally have never had to encounter it because I took computer sciences, if something was false it was apparent and obvious. So when he complains he can't get the book he needs from the University Campus because someone else has it checked out... So I tell him to Google the topic, he tells me about how that isn't going to help him much. What he ends up having to do is either looking up a list of books and trying to find the ones that might have approved publishing, OR he has to look at a list of approved publishings and pick the closest to the topic he's talking about.
Thats one reason why Regular Book libraries stand out on top of digital libraries, because a University campus (at least the one in Calgary) doesn't keep books that aren't useful for its students. ANY book they check out can be used for citation. Digital libraries don't have that luxury since its inexpensive to get digital media about anything, so campuses like to load up on all the info they can store.
As computers are completely interchangeable, and if the library is in fact Digital it can easily be backed up somewhere. So long as the data is stored on a backup server you won't lose it on the library end. And Netbooks around here are becoming cheap as dirt, you can get one of those for under 300 dollars, or an old old lappy for under 200. Cheaper than a vehicle, which a fair deal of College students can afford.
They mention that books online aren't free, no, they aren't, but assuming your going digital you should be able to get digital copies (manual scans if you have to) of the books you already have and offer them for free, that way you aren't taking away any of the content they'd regularily have to. You're essentially making it easier for those who DO have money though.
The REAL issues you come across are sources and citations. A friend of mine is majoring in Ancient Mideivel history and Archeology (I know, good luck with that, right?) and the biggest issue when he has to write a paper is some crap about it having to come from a peer reviewed source or some scholarly document. BASICALLY, in order for them to use any quotes or facts in their papers (which they must have at least 10 quotes in every paper) they have to go through the trouble of FINDING a book that has a check mark by some organization or another (Unesco? Maybe? I don't know).
The internet has tons of information but little of it will be credible for humanities students.
Mac: I'm a Mac
PC: And I'm a PC. Looks like I've got you beat this time. People all over America will be having a party for my new Operating System!
Mac: Wow, Congrats. That's really exciting. So are people going to be exposed to your new product while having fun at the same time.
PC: Well... Not really...
Mac: No? What are you....
PC: You see only the people who really care about Windows 7 will be hosting it... and they only get 1 CD to show all of their friends why they should buy Windows 7...
Mac: Oh, well, whats wrong with that? Wouldn't that mean more people will be buying Windows 7?
PC: The only friends Windows 7 enthusiasts have are other Windows 7 enthusiasts...
It's the dark ages waiting to happen all over again.
No one really knows why but after the fall of the Roman Empire, people just forgot about all the nice facets of society. Running water, Hygene, clean food, it all kind of went out the window and before you know it Black Death comes around.
You NEED educated individuals to educate our kids. There aren't enough Educated Individuals willing to teach to go around 1 on 1 with them. Otherwise they'll be repeating the same mistakes made throughout history.
It all depends on the subject. Anyone can argue that Basic Math can be taught anywhere. Understandable. Teaching Social sciences and Language arts and the like would be difficult, but also if done properly could work.
However advanced Physics, Chemistry, And Basic Calculus, I can't see being taught anywhere but in a classroom. You simply can't learn Nomenclature, or derivatives, or stoicheometry (sp?) without sitting down with a pencil and paper, and doing problems.
But I can see the appeal. Basic math can be taught in just about ANYTHING. The problem with schools is that they either teach you A) Just the numbers and its boring as hell, or B) They choose scenarios that are boring as hell so you don't want to learn it. However if little jimmy likes WoW and the teacher simply makes him do the Math with all his stats... There you go he knows his math.
Things like social studies and literature are what I'm wondering about. If a kid doesn't find the French Revolution interesting, how on Earth do you plan on teaching him about it? He can learn to read by using the internet and other worldly things like signs, but things like Resumes and Cover Letters can't be taught on the fly.
There are things in school that you think "I didn't learn Jack all" but they DID come in handy later.
How do they expect to upgrade my hardware everytime I turn it on? I mean my physical Hardware used to connect - I understand that they can upgrade their servers so that my hard-drive becomes bigger, their processing speed becomes faster, but it will -ALWAYS- reach a point where the dumb terminal I'm sitting at doesn't keep up with whats on screen. I'll at minimum have to pay for a new network card each time a new phase of internet cable comes into play.
on a recurring, perpetual basis, for something you currently get for a flat rate or for free without having to give up the money or privacy that cloud companies hope to leverage into fortunes.
If I go "Legit" - I don't have any money or privacy on the internet. It all goes to some music/movie/filesharing company or another.
If I "Pirate" - This stuff is all free, with the basic risks still assumed, and moving to the Cloud will not really change that.
So, I ask, what am I getting for Free or a flate rate that cloud companies are going to make me pay through the nose for?
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TV's could become even thinner, I suppose. Any Advancement made in Magnets always seems to turn into smaller computer chips.
Yes, and the world being round is absolutely preposterous. How could you possibly move in the same direction and end up back where you started? That is ludicrous. Some sort of stupidity there.
You're approaching the problem all wrong.
The innovative side of human creativity comes from asking the opposite. You should not ask Why... but rather...
WHY NOT????
Exactly... am I the *only* one who thinks all that money would be better spent improving the planet we're already on, rather than giving up on it and moving on to another one?
No one is saying that we'd ditch Earth off. If we can figure out how to sustain life on Mars, essentially by that point we'd have a MASSIVE understanding of ecology and environmental sciences, which could be applied here on Earth. The problem with Staying on Earth is that we're an ever-growing species. At the rate we're growing, its either going
A) We'll collectively over-eat, cause our food sources to extinct, and die off
OR
B) We'll have to starve hundreds of millions of people each year to keep the species going.
At which point, we'll wish we spent a couple trillion and lost a dozen great scientists to stay alive.
Why does it cost so much to rent out a Hollywood studio to fake intrasteller travel?
They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
There's no delusions of extended survival mentioned. That doesn't take away what they would be doing for humanity though.
If we can figure out the kinks we have in our biodomes, I don't see why trying to start a colony there, even if it takes 3 or 4 seperate space missions of people willing to die for it - it would be as revolutionary as the moon landing.
Yeah but not everyone follows the Berne Convention - not everyone signed up - and for that reason its not exactly "Flawless". Music development and software development are two completely different things though, and you can't even try to treat them the same way. Just like there are Cover bands, theres a certain amount of "Grey Area" Where anyone is allowed to do recreate or modify the artists original work, and even distribute it in some cases. With Software, you can't redistribute it AT ALL if you don't have express permission. Not legally anyways. With Software Patents being much more rigid than music and Arts copyrights, applying it globally would get in everyones way.
The chances of someone writing the exact same song, pretty slim. The chances of people programming the same solution to the problem: Numerous occurances already.
They waited more than a few years to make the claim though - and didn't attack Open Office, Just Microsoft. Perhaps trolling wasn't what they were doing, but they didn't exactly apply justice to the system. They went at it for money.
Is this because the Canadian firm (i4i) hit it big on an American company (Microsoft) with their patent trolling?
Do they think this is going to make it better? Now its going to be a MASSIVE convoluted state of patents EVERYWHERE and everyone will be stepping on someones toes. The idea of a Patent Law being forced across the ENTIRE PLANET is ridiculous.
We haven't even reached World Peace, how do you expect to enforce Patent Laws in warzones, 3rd world countries, embassies?
When they should. The destructable ones make it feel more present.
If a billboard is there to have no interaction with it, I will remember it no more then a tree that is rendered off of the area of gameplay.
However, if I see an ad, and I later see the destruction done to it, be it bullet holes or its in pieces, My brain will subconsciously be thinking "How did that happen?" And I'll imagine bit by bit what occured to the advert, thus keeping its image in my mind constantly.
Marketing people just don't get Videogames, I suppose.
Same goes for engineers. Name a well-known (outside of engineering) engineer. I'll wait ...
Imhotep - Ancient Egypt.
Leonardo DaVinci - Renaissance
David Fisher - Present (Dynamic rotating tower thing).
Come on now, You can't clump Engineers into the same group as computer scientists, they've been around for ages.
... Are you saying you got a Whopper to run Linux before?
Link me to sauce.
I mean source.
As mentioned in other comments, PS3's architecture was great. It offered really strong computing at a really low cost. Lots of people used multiple PS3's running Linux to do a wide variety of tasks, from server farms to rendering to whatever.
Now, You are right, for a great majority of the users, they DON'T put linux on their PS3. So when they decided to lower the price, they had to drop a feature. Guess which one got dropped? Right, support for other OS's.
Wikipedia defines its speed as
In data communications
Broadband in data can refer to broadband networks or broadband Internet and may have the same meaning as above, so that data transmission over a fiber optic cable would be referred to as broadband as compared to a telephone modem operating at 56,000 bits per second.
But then again, I come from the internet, me and my good buddy Wik over there aren't very reliable sources.
If they made the billboards destructable like in Red Faction, I bet you they'd remember the exact slogan you put on there.
Why try to "Sneak" these adverts into games, and find the best way to make people remember without thinking about it, when the only thing you REALLY have to worry about is getting people to remember it. Ads in games have already come around... so... why the illusion?
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