Ah, but what else are they going to be motivated by when they are adults? The object in society that can be used to obtain the greatest variety of things is money. Saying that they need to do learn out of a "love of learning" is absurd. People can have a love of learning, but it isn't taught by someone telling them that they must love it. Some people have it and some don't. And don't go about it by saying that people should accept an "attaboy" for doing good work. Don't use a proxy for what they would get as an adult, give them what they would get, which is money.
C's were a passing grade for you? Wouldn't have minded going to your school...
But yes, I agree with your main point. I think that kids should be motivated the same way that they will be later, and not treated like it is "expected" of them to put in their all for a reward that is not immediately visible to them.
The difference is that people who get their fame from sports are not contributing something valuable to society that can be enjoyed for any length of time. Far from it, they are running, headbutting, etc. for an hour or two of entertainment. This might have came in handy when we were hunting mammoths, but now? Come on.
Creativity is used in greater society for any number of things that we need to survive and progress. What use is physical prowess nowadays? Absolutely nothing.
I agree with most of your points, and agree that idiot conspiracy theorists are way too hard on Google. However, I'm not quite sure that you're correct in saying that Google is the top sponsor for Firefox. I couldn't find any info on it, but it seems unlikely seeing as google has its own browser.
In case you don't, it was in the news a while ago. They called it piracy and against capitalist ideals. Am I the only one who is beginning to get worried?
I agree completely. OpenSUSE is easier to use (with a control panel clone, too!) and KDE is actually up to date on it the majority of the time. I use Arch myself, but that's clearly not a newbie distro.
There are only three sane ways manufacturing jobs will return to the US: De-globalisation due to peak oil, normalizing quality of life in the US down to the rest of the world, or bringing the rest of the world to the US quality of life. I prefer the third option.
The US quality of life is a good part of why we're so screwed right now. I'd suggest bringing it down to something realistic before trying to make other countries as excessive as us.
I realize that Canonical needs money and this deal would get them some, but this is still sort of sad in that it's giving M$, the biggest competitor of... any OS really, more money. Also, Google has served Firefox and Ubuntu quite well in the past, so I'm having a hard time figuring out how this serves Canonical well in the end.
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You think Comcast's bad, look at MS! They've dropped all support for my paper tapes! How am I going to access all of my assembly coded programs now?
Ah, but what else are they going to be motivated by when they are adults? The object in society that can be used to obtain the greatest variety of things is money. Saying that they need to do learn out of a "love of learning" is absurd. People can have a love of learning, but it isn't taught by someone telling them that they must love it. Some people have it and some don't. And don't go about it by saying that people should accept an "attaboy" for doing good work. Don't use a proxy for what they would get as an adult, give them what they would get, which is money.
C's were a passing grade for you? Wouldn't have minded going to your school... But yes, I agree with your main point. I think that kids should be motivated the same way that they will be later, and not treated like it is "expected" of them to put in their all for a reward that is not immediately visible to them.
The difference is that people who get their fame from sports are not contributing something valuable to society that can be enjoyed for any length of time. Far from it, they are running, headbutting, etc. for an hour or two of entertainment. This might have came in handy when we were hunting mammoths, but now? Come on. Creativity is used in greater society for any number of things that we need to survive and progress. What use is physical prowess nowadays? Absolutely nothing.
I agree with most of your points, and agree that idiot conspiracy theorists are way too hard on Google. However, I'm not quite sure that you're correct in saying that Google is the top sponsor for Firefox. I couldn't find any info on it, but it seems unlikely seeing as google has its own browser.
Program it in python, then use shedskin if you find processing time starts to become an issue.
In case you don't, it was in the news a while ago. They called it piracy and against capitalist ideals. Am I the only one who is beginning to get worried?
Thank you, finally someone else that views GPL as troublesome. BSD liscense is the way to go.
I agree completely. OpenSUSE is easier to use (with a control panel clone, too!) and KDE is actually up to date on it the majority of the time. I use Arch myself, but that's clearly not a newbie distro.
That really does sound very Catch-22 ish. Does planning to blow up the headquarters of "Our Lord M$" count as subversive?
There are only three sane ways manufacturing jobs will return to the US: De-globalisation due to peak oil, normalizing quality of life in the US down to the rest of the world, or bringing the rest of the world to the US quality of life. I prefer the third option.
The US quality of life is a good part of why we're so screwed right now. I'd suggest bringing it down to something realistic before trying to make other countries as excessive as us.
I realize that Canonical needs money and this deal would get them some, but this is still sort of sad in that it's giving M$, the biggest competitor of... any OS really, more money. Also, Google has served Firefox and Ubuntu quite well in the past, so I'm having a hard time figuring out how this serves Canonical well in the end.