once upon a time i worked at an 'educational establishment' and somehow became involved with procuring an updated video for a teacher, to replace a series we had from the 1970s.
there was no process for doing this, it was all ad-hoc. i had to go to a bunch of websites and fill out a bunch of forms and then give them to a supervisor who then probably had to give them to another supervisor and another, and many weeks later the videos showed up... whereupon the teacher had to fill out a bunch of forms every time he wanted to borrow the videos to show in the classroom.
with Khan, he just says 'fuck you, educational bureaucracy' and tells the students to go on the web - what took dozens of hours of red tape now takes 30 seconds.
the only problem is how can Khan ever fund videos on really complicated stuff that requires a lot of money to produce? like say a high level biomedical video full of diagrams of cells and pathways and molecule interactions?
The system has become so corrupt and so anathema to everything civilized, decent, and holy, that we make, on our own, in the darkness and safety of the night, purely to remind ourselves that somewhere, the human species has some hope for the future, and that the world is not completely controlled by the greedy and the ignorant.
back in the late 1990s, i had a flamewar on an irc channel with a guy from redhat, screaming at me that there was no reason anyone would want to have two programs play a sound at the same time.
if big business back in the 1980s had come down on Apple like Apple comes down on joe blow hacker nowdays, Apple could never have gotten out of the garage.
every US corporate argument about the necessity of our wonderful IP laws is kind of silly considering they outsourced their entire manufacturing operation to a country where IP has meant, basically, nothing, for a long, long time.
China is 'improving' by putting people in jail for making iPad2 cases... i guess... uhmm. somehow i dont feel like that is a good thing to have a single party state start enforcing IP law with a court system that is not anything approaching independent.
opendarwin failed partly because Apple did not release its build system or proper source code for its tools.
the pure darwin folks (http://www.puredarwin.org/) are just now seeing the "dawn" of network support.
if darwin were 'open source' i dont think it would take 10 years to get an open source OS based off of it to have networking support (compare with redhat and whatever the free derivative is)
the conspiarcy side of me says that there is a gigantic education bubble going on, all those 'graphic designers' need macs for their gubmint funded for-profit 'degrees in animation'.
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thats horrible. well, at least it's not wire coathangers.
once upon a time i worked at an 'educational establishment' and somehow became involved with procuring an updated video for a teacher, to replace a series we had from the 1970s.
there was no process for doing this, it was all ad-hoc. i had to go to a bunch of websites and fill out a bunch of forms and then give them to a supervisor who then probably had to give them to another supervisor and another, and many weeks later the videos showed up... whereupon the teacher had to fill out a bunch of forms every time he wanted to borrow the videos to show in the classroom.
with Khan, he just says 'fuck you, educational bureaucracy' and tells the students to go on the web - what took dozens of hours of red tape now takes 30 seconds.
the only problem is how can Khan ever fund videos on really complicated stuff that requires a lot of money to produce? like say a high level biomedical video full of diagrams of cells and pathways and molecule interactions?
"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one"
http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/3207/einstein-was-hilarious-and-humble-three-great-quotes/
that would be, you know, WRONG.
and steve jobs will try to figure out what happened.
The system has become so corrupt and so anathema to everything civilized, decent, and holy, that we make, on our own, in the darkness and safety of the night, purely to remind ourselves that somewhere, the human species has some hope for the future, and that the world is not completely controlled by the greedy and the ignorant.
back in the late 1990s, i had a flamewar on an irc channel with a guy from redhat, screaming at me that there was no reason anyone would want to have two programs play a sound at the same time.
that basically everyone and their brother uses?
now we know.
the developer lacks humility.
they get access to all your shiznit.
if big business had been patenting stuff like this in the 80s, apple could never have existed.
a linkage to make the engine connect to the wheels, thats a patent.
a method to make the engine work reliably, thats a patent.
a device to crank the engine through a battery, thats a patent.
"stick motor on wheels" should not be a patent.
if big business back in the 1980s had come down on Apple like Apple comes down on joe blow hacker nowdays, Apple could never have gotten out of the garage.
every US corporate argument about the necessity of our wonderful IP laws is kind of silly considering they outsourced their entire manufacturing operation to a country where IP has meant, basically, nothing, for a long, long time.
China is 'improving' by putting people in jail for making iPad2 cases... i guess... uhmm. somehow i dont feel like that is a good thing to have a single party state start enforcing IP law with a court system that is not anything approaching independent.
ask the OpenDarwin and PureDarwin people... its been 10 years, where is the open source OS based off apples core?
or ask the OpenDarwin people before them.
and does your mother know you talk like that ?
opendarwin failed partly because Apple did not release its build system or proper source code for its tools.
the pure darwin folks (http://www.puredarwin.org/) are just now seeing the "dawn" of network support.
if darwin were 'open source' i dont think it would take 10 years to get an open source OS based off of it to have networking support (compare with redhat and whatever the free derivative is)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
please let me know when you can compile a good portion of these 'open source releases':
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1068/
and kip adotta made me do it
and also uhm...
the conspiarcy side of me says that there is a gigantic education bubble going on, all those 'graphic designers' need macs for their gubmint funded for-profit 'degrees in animation'.
and I like people who own flower shops and have big hula hoop earrings.
oh wait. their entire build environment is proprietary, as are their build tools.
ha ha!
let me know when you pass 12 percent. silly moderns.
he didnt type it on porpoise
that film was so brilliant. if they had picked a more realistic issue than electrical power lines, maybe it would have been a bigger hit.