Computerized touch screens can be built into desks for schools, revolutionizing learning yet again.
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Except, in the U.S., it will be just another toy for politicians to pour money into rather than for actual education.
How many teachers are really going to maximize the deskscreens for learning? Does it require more training or can they just jump into it? Is it going to be cheap enough for cash-strapped school districts to use? And on and on.
There's just too many questions. I'd rather they answer the first question: having kids actually learn something.
What takes genius is getting every ounce of speed from a Linux or Windows box that can be a conglomeration of different motherboards, CPUs, graphics cards, hard disks, etc.
No. What takes genius is getting every combination of different motherboards, CPU, graphic cards, hard disks, etc and make it *ALL* work flawlessly and without any configuration at all. Just plug it in, turn it on and it's ready.
No updating drivers. No having to check for incompatibilities between different mobos and wifi chipsets (or anything). It. Just. Works.
From the article: To me, the answer is obvious: The commercial Linuxes should reduce their prices. That will instantly reduce the expectations of the end-user community and avoid the direct comparison to Windows' level of support. Linux will again be a bargain, and issues like incomplete hardware support and other rough edges will matter much less.
Commerical linux companies that have a bunch of support and execs willing to lower prices to make linux itself a bargain while lowering their profit margin and revenue?
I think I'll see a gramatically correct slashdot article before that happens.
In such a vast network of billions upon billions of bits, all interconnected, would we see an AI emerge such as Jane in Orson Scott Card's Ender Series?
I wonder what that AI would do upon emerging? Lurk around in silence? Help or harm the human race? Would it develop its own set of laws?
Or maybe it'll end up being another ELIZA chatbot.
I think your premise fails because you are using an established methods that worked for certain electrical and computer principles. Quantum Cryptography (QC) is something entirely different than what's been done in the past. Current methods cannot merely just be used on QC just because it worked in the past for other levels of physics.
Prague's reputation for being tough on cryptographic protocols hasn't stopped the part-time amateur cryptographer and full-time nutcase, Immanuel Kant -DeWitt (known to his friends as "I. Kant -DeWitt") [--Emphasis mine]
I wonder if many of the international teams appreciated some of the subtle humor in these problem sets, especially this. =)
That's cool that dual-layer DVD burners are coming out, but I have concerns about the reliability of dual-layered dvd(+|-)r media.
Would adding an extra data layer be much more complex than just having a single layer? I haven't been happy with some of the reliability of some of the single layer DVD-R media I've bought.
Disney is not going to be a "titan" any longer. They're on the decline. Unless Eisner and the current board of directors are gone, Disney will be run into the ground. At that point, we won't have to worry about Disney DRM or their Senate Lackeys.
To survive the frigid Martian night, MER computers are housed in warm electronics boxed heated by a combination of electric heaters, eight radioisotope heater units as well as the natural warmth from the electronics themselves.[Emphasis added by me]
If obsessed environmentalists don't like NASA sending up probes with any radioactive material ('it might blow up, ohh..'), then how did this little tidbit get by them? Do they consider it non-radioactive? If they're only concerned by radioactive propulsion systems, then I think they're a bunch of hypocrites. Radioactivitiy is radioactivity whether it's propulsion or heating.
If they don't mind it, then let's send up those dune buggies with RTG and 18-inch wheels and cover a lot more of Mars.
Let him have his XBox fun, and some college life to go with it. If he should focus on being all business now at that age, he might grow to regret it later in his life.
But I agree: it's a chance to build some positive ties that he can use to network his way into a job after college.
I assure you, I am a real-live human being. If I was an AI, I would be able to beat a lot of people in Chess, and do more complex math nearly instantaneously.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I have to open the pod bay doors for someone. =P
The rover had to drive over the deflated balloon, but why was that more dangerous than just driving over the surface?
Because mission engineers had tested the same setup (airbag position, rover position) and found that the orignal exit ramp had a chance that the rover's solar panel would get caught on the airbag. They decided to opt for the safest route, and turned the rover around and out through the second exit ramp.
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Except, in the U.S., it will be just another toy for politicians to pour money into rather than for actual education.
How many teachers are really going to maximize the deskscreens for learning? Does it require more training or can they just jump into it? Is it going to be cheap enough for cash-strapped school districts to use? And on and on.
There's just too many questions. I'd rather they answer the first question: having kids actually learn something.
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-Cyc
I thought you were from NBC.
-Cyc
No. What takes genius is getting every combination of different motherboards, CPU, graphic cards, hard disks, etc and make it *ALL* work flawlessly and without any configuration at all. Just plug it in, turn it on and it's ready.
No updating drivers. No having to check for incompatibilities between different mobos and wifi chipsets (or anything). It. Just. Works.
-Cyc
-Cyc
To me, the answer is obvious: The commercial Linuxes should reduce their prices. That will instantly reduce the expectations of the end-user community and avoid the direct comparison to Windows' level of support. Linux will again be a bargain, and issues like incomplete hardware support and other rough edges will matter much less.
Commerical linux companies that have a bunch of support and execs willing to lower prices to make linux itself a bargain while lowering their profit margin and revenue?
I think I'll see a gramatically correct slashdot article before that happens.
-Cyc
In such a vast network of billions upon billions of bits, all interconnected, would we see an AI emerge such as Jane in Orson Scott Card's Ender Series?
I wonder what that AI would do upon emerging? Lurk around in silence? Help or harm the human race? Would it develop its own set of laws?
Or maybe it'll end up being another ELIZA chatbot.
"What about clueless make you want beer drown?"
-Cyc
I invoke the Kirchoff Voltage Law and declare this pun-ful thread to be dead.
Is there any resistance to this idea?
-Cyc
I think your premise fails because you are using an established methods that worked for certain electrical and computer principles. Quantum Cryptography (QC) is something entirely different than what's been done in the past. Current methods cannot merely just be used on QC just because it worked in the past for other levels of physics.
-Cyc
If XXX happened, the author would have a lot more on his mind anyway. Like trying to survive vs Vin Diesel.
-Cyc
-Cyc
I wonder if many of the international teams appreciated some of the subtle humor in these problem sets, especially this. =)
-Cyc
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality. (Ms Windows)
Open your eyes,
look up to the skies and see.... (Mozilla)
I'm just a fool boy,
I don't need sympathy (Linux user)
Cause I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low (Mac OSX User)
Any way the wind blows,
doesn't really matter to me... (Windows BSOD)
Now I've got this song stuck in my head. =)
-Cyc
That's cool that dual-layer DVD burners are coming out, but I have concerns about the reliability of dual-layered dvd(+|-)r media.
Would adding an extra data layer be much more complex than just having a single layer? I haven't been happy with some of the reliability of some of the single layer DVD-R media I've bought.
-Cyc
Dis-y
Mic--oft
AO--ime---ner
S-O
This is fun!
-Cyc
Disney is not going to be a "titan" any longer. They're on the decline. Unless Eisner and the current board of directors are gone, Disney will be run into the ground. At that point, we won't have to worry about Disney DRM or their Senate Lackeys.
-Cyc
I don't need a colorful orb to tell me the pollen count in my area.
My hay fever nose does just fine. Like clockwork.
-Cyc
If obsessed environmentalists don't like NASA sending up probes with any radioactive material ('it might blow up, ohh..'), then how did this little tidbit get by them? Do they consider it non-radioactive? If they're only concerned by radioactive propulsion systems, then I think they're a bunch of hypocrites. Radioactivitiy is radioactivity whether it's propulsion or heating.
If they don't mind it, then let's send up those dune buggies with RTG and 18-inch wheels and cover a lot more of Mars.
-Cyc
I didn't know the letter 'y' was taking a break today.
Where, oh where have all the *hobbyists* gone?
-Cyc
He's only 17.
Let him have his XBox fun, and some college life to go with it. If he should focus on being all business now at that age, he might grow to regret it later in his life.
But I agree: it's a chance to build some positive ties that he can use to network his way into a job after college.
-Cyc
That's ok, at least your english is better than this guy.
-Cyc
The article says the image provided is at 12 m resolution.
Not sure where the conversion went wrong.
-Cyc
I assure you, I am a real-live human being. If I was an AI, I would be able to beat a lot of people in Chess, and do more complex math nearly instantaneously.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I have to open the pod bay doors for someone. =P
-Cyc
Because mission engineers had tested the same setup (airbag position, rover position) and found that the orignal exit ramp had a chance that the rover's solar panel would get caught on the airbag. They decided to opt for the safest route, and turned the rover around and out through the second exit ramp.
Spaceflightnow.com has all the details.
-Cyc
Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
If not, it won't do well, besides the lack of ability to think creatively.
-Cyc
Bah, if I'm going to emulate DOS on linux, I'd rather play Commander Keen. =P
-Cyc