The Edu Revolution is coming, and it's going to scare the Old Boys network.
Not really. You're making the mistake of thinking that universities actually care about their undergrads. They only care about them insofar as every undergrad is a potential slave^H^H^H^H^H postgrad student waiting-to-happen. The exception to this would likely consist only of those schools which charge upwards of 100k/year/student, as that money would likely surpass grant funding.
In order to revolutionize undergrad programs you'd have to first change the way the peer-review system works and how organizations like DARPA/NSF/etc... hand out grants. While awesome, Khan academy knockoffs aren't going to cut it in that respect.
a wifi-enabled tablet that, while having 3G, can actually use it to... y'know... make fucking phone calls and such. If you're sitting on a bus using your 3G iPad while wearing headphones equipped with a microphone, it seems rather stupid to have to switch your headphones over (or remove them) so that you can answer your phone.
Sure isn't. That's why I just upgrade my original laptop instead of buying new ones with slimmer form factors and bigger screens. I mean... what a fucking scam... upgrading the battery life, thinning down the form factor and increasing the screen size... and then trying to call that "innovation"
The things these arsehole companies try to pawn off on the savvy consumer these days...
.. they're tired of playing catch up. So they're doing the logical alternative: innovating^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H resting on their laurels like a bunch of idiots.
Let's be clear - I think the app was stupid and offensive.
I'm EXTREMELY glad they removed that app. I'm sure I speak for all open-minded, freedom-loving people when I say that I don't want anyone exposed to that kind of material.
~Loyal
... but you do realize you're making those statements in reference to an act of censorship, right?
I think that's his point. That if you *are* gay, the act of *becoming* straight is likely a lie. Subjecting people to massive amounts of peer pressure in an attempt to get them to "see the error of their ways" is only likely to result in marriages that are more dysfunctional than the average, and a person who's playing the part, but is likely very unhappy.
... for the most part (net-neutrality issues aside).
The companies which end up "controlling" parts of it's evolution only end up doing so because market-share allowed them to. That market-share isn't just some meaningless buzzword! That's *us*... voting with our wallets.
It doesn't give me a lot of confidence that the government could crack anything strong than the ciphers encoded by a Capt'n Crunch decoder wheel...
It's because they don't have to. The spooks have backdoors in most algorithms, there's no need to crack anything when you can simply decode it because it was sent using an algorithm whose creators were strong-armed by you.
Some fun reading if you're the skeptical type:Here and here.
Yes, but that would be a case of CGI augmenting the movie, or, rather, allowing the story to be turned into a movie. For LOTR, the story was the movie.. and not the cgi.
... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It almost seems like the minister thinks that net neutrality is about the single/home user ("power-user" or otherwise) vs. the corporation, and that this is all about ISPs trying to get big companies to pay more than the single/home user for their internet usage. Either that, or he's trying to make the average voter think that that's the crux of the issue. The problem is that abolishing net-neutrality would make perfect sense if that was what was actually going on!
I can't help but wonder if this isn't a bit of misdirection or misinformation directed at the masses for the purposes of getting a bill (likely rife with kickback potential) passed.
Unfortunately, I don't know what a better alternative is. Personally, I try and stick with C (and have recently started to enjoy programming in Objective-C; Crazy, I know). But I would feel terrible for anyone forced to program in that language.
It'd be like forcing everyone to drive an Alfa Romeo... sure, some guys get off on that sort of thing (in the same way that I love C), but most sane people don't... I think...
... but I find all mice way too small; instead of holding them in my hand, I have to hold them in kind of a claw-like manner. So one of these will show up on my Christmas list, fo sho.
Right now, they're riding a pretty huge wave of profit increases. No investor in their right mind is going to demand that Jobs change his tactics.
But what happens when their market-share plateaus and people start to give the company flak, in the same way that they did for Microsoft back in the late 90s? Once the quarterly numbers start to look a little less incredible, public sentiment is going to mean quite a bit.
The only question is, how long will it be before the voices of the irked consumer are no longer drowned out by fantastic quarterly reports?
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The Edu Revolution is coming, and it's going to scare the Old Boys network.
Not really. You're making the mistake of thinking that universities actually care about their undergrads. They only care about them insofar as every undergrad is a potential slave^H^H^H^H^H postgrad student waiting-to-happen. The exception to this would likely consist only of those schools which charge upwards of 100k/year/student, as that money would likely surpass grant funding.
In order to revolutionize undergrad programs you'd have to first change the way the peer-review system works and how organizations like DARPA/NSF/etc... hand out grants. While awesome, Khan academy knockoffs aren't going to cut it in that respect.
a wifi-enabled tablet that, while having 3G, can actually use it to... y'know... make fucking phone calls and such. If you're sitting on a bus using your 3G iPad while wearing headphones equipped with a microphone, it seems rather stupid to have to switch your headphones over (or remove them) so that you can answer your phone.
Oh wait, is "make it thinner" innovative?
Sure isn't. That's why I just upgrade my original laptop instead of buying new ones with slimmer form factors and bigger screens. I mean... what a fucking scam... upgrading the battery life, thinning down the form factor and increasing the screen size... and then trying to call that "innovation"
The things these arsehole companies try to pawn off on the savvy consumer these days...
.. they're tired of playing catch up. So they're doing the logical alternative: innovating^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H resting on their laurels like a bunch of idiots.
This is slashdot. You take your filthy logic elsewhere!
so DNF in chaps on rollerblades?
Let's be clear - I think the app was stupid and offensive.
I'm EXTREMELY glad they removed that app. I'm sure I speak for all open-minded, freedom-loving people when I say that I don't want anyone exposed to that kind of material.
~Loyal
... but you do realize you're making those statements in reference to an act of censorship, right?
I think that's his point. That if you *are* gay, the act of *becoming* straight is likely a lie. Subjecting people to massive amounts of peer pressure in an attempt to get them to "see the error of their ways" is only likely to result in marriages that are more dysfunctional than the average, and a person who's playing the part, but is likely very unhappy.
... for the most part (net-neutrality issues aside).
The companies which end up "controlling" parts of it's evolution only end up doing so because market-share allowed them to. That market-share isn't just some meaningless buzzword! That's *us* ... voting with our wallets.
It doesn't give me a lot of confidence that the government could crack anything strong than the ciphers encoded by a Capt'n Crunch decoder wheel...
It's because they don't have to. The spooks have backdoors in most algorithms, there's no need to crack anything when you can simply decode it because it was sent using an algorithm whose creators were strong-armed by you.
Some fun reading if you're the skeptical type:Here and here.
Yes, but that would be a case of CGI augmenting the movie, or, rather, allowing the story to be turned into a movie. For LOTR, the story was the movie.. and not the cgi.
And hordes of movie execs suddenly cried out in unison:
but... but... THREE DEE MAN!!! THREE DEE!!
On an unrelated note - I heartily agree with your sentiment. The gimmicks should augment the movie.. they shouldn't be the movie.
... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It almost seems like the minister thinks that net neutrality is about the single/home user ("power-user" or otherwise) vs. the corporation, and that this is all about ISPs trying to get big companies to pay more than the single/home user for their internet usage. Either that, or he's trying to make the average voter think that that's the crux of the issue. The problem is that abolishing net-neutrality would make perfect sense if that was what was actually going on!
I can't help but wonder if this isn't a bit of misdirection or misinformation directed at the masses for the purposes of getting a bill (likely rife with kickback potential) passed.
why not "kinetic bombardment" or something similar...
I always thought these were kind of a neat idea: Kinetic Harpoon
I think you some words there.
Unfortunately, I don't know what a better alternative is. Personally, I try and stick with C (and have recently started to enjoy programming in Objective-C; Crazy, I know). But I would feel terrible for anyone forced to program in that language.
It'd be like forcing everyone to drive an Alfa Romeo... sure, some guys get off on that sort of thing (in the same way that I love C), but most sane people don't... I think...
i c wut u did thar
Killing Java is NOT a war crime... more like a community service.
Why pay your developers when you can simply copy (illegally or no) whatever's written by the "new" LO guys?
The sad thing is... patenting patent-trolling would be an absolute gold mine. I wonder if the USPTO would let it fly?
or they see the writing on the wall and want nothing to do with whatever bullshit Oracle's up to.
... but I find all mice way too small; instead of holding them in my hand, I have to hold them in kind of a claw-like manner. So one of these will show up on my Christmas list, fo sho.
Apple's UI patents (the pinch-to-zoom gesture springs to mind)
They patented that?
Did the TED talk not count as prior art there? (See 6 minutes in for some pinch to zoom)
I wonder how much that cost Apple...
Right about at the peak of Microsoft's power is when the company saw they had to [change].
You may have a solid point there
I mean, it's one thing for a company with a stable market-share to pull the kinds of shenanigans that Apple has been called out for (repeatedly on this site). But they're gaining market-share. Pretty rapidly too. There was that one story on here that mentioned how most students going into university are doing so with iMacs and MacBooks. There was yet another story in Fortune that mentioned how government procurement of Apple has recently surged.
Right now, they're riding a pretty huge wave of profit increases. No investor in their right mind is going to demand that Jobs change his tactics.
But what happens when their market-share plateaus and people start to give the company flak, in the same way that they did for Microsoft back in the late 90s? Once the quarterly numbers start to look a little less incredible, public sentiment is going to mean quite a bit.
The only question is, how long will it be before the voices of the irked consumer are no longer drowned out by fantastic quarterly reports?
Disclaimer: Written using a MacBook Pro