Leaked photos are sooo 2003. They need to step up their game a bit, maybe have an exciting car chase as the photo-taker desperately tries to make it to a hotspot.
There is almost nothing that isn't better and quicker learned at the early stages with a live teacher and fellow pupils around.
Oh sure, up to say the early teens, but I'd begin phasing in a more interactive curriculum even before then. Obviously a basic minimum standard of education would need to be assured, so regular testing, but this system would definetely allow more advanced students to realise their potential, especially if it was tied to a rewards system.
It depends on the student really. Some kids have the get up and go to do it themselves, others don't, for various reasons. I think their parents and family can play as much of or even a far more important role in encouraging learning. Really we need to ingrain a personal responsbility ethic into the education system, it would be beneficial in many ways. I could see teachers changing from knowledge dispensers to effective tutoring aides over time though.
I think we should be taking a much deeper look at how education itself is dispensed. In this information age, we should very easily be able to provide the brighter students with all of the tools they need to advance at their own pace, and rewards to encourage this behaviour, while ensuring that other students get a solid standard education. Its a truism to say that learning is entirely, in the end, up to the student, emphasising this by reforming the educational model could do a lot of good.
Ebook readers, tap a word or equation to find its meaning, if that doesn't make sense tap the words in the explanation and so on, a dedicated knowledgebase of discussions from past pupils and tutors to answer common questions, a growing library of video tutorials, and live tutors for students when none of that provides answers, shared and translated internationally, and all this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It could have been numerous floods taking out various civilisations down the years, I mean when an ice age warms up, flooding happens, and civilisations do tend to congregate in coastal areas.
What? Where did you see anyone talking about medieval times in that article? Or allergies? When did the middle ages become less disease-ridden? Or more promiscuous? More children equals terrorism? Or that easy women are terrorists?...What?
There's no such thing as "bhuddist cosmology" there being many different schools and branches of Buddhism, which can vary wildly in their spiritual beliefs. Without knowing what school these monks belong to its difficult to interpret their words.
There's more to the world than what's on wikipedia.
They aren't saying he's on this plane of existence, but a higher one. I'm no expert but looking at the eightfold path and the noble truths it seems hard to believe that he might have "levelled up" by those rules.
Yes, I could spend a million years just learning all there is to know, and then I'd have a million years of changes to catch up on... sounds like heaven to me!
Are they looking at the success of ebook readers and trying to jump on board? Pearl e-ink technology is why those took off, not the form factor. I could go for a slightly larger reader to be honest.
In fact, even traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light is impossible unless we discover some new, amazing lightweight power source.
Antimatter could do it. No point in quoting the current costs for the stuff either, by the time we are in a position to manufacture vessels capable of reaching other stars, we will certainly have antimatter factories circling close to the sun.
I agree for a couple of reasons, first is that he's overestimating the engineering challenges in getting to and staying on Mars, and underestimating the technical difficulty of reaching other stars in any shape, to say nothing of downloading human minds into computers. Also I'm not sure why he's fixated on Mars, the fertile plains of space are the asteroids.
Shared narrative games are ass. Its not possible to enjoy roleplaying from the third person perspective in the same way that one can enjoy the first person viewpoint. And surprise, forget about it. Back to the forge with thee, or has that closed already.
The point of the entire operation is to get more people to use bitcoins so those who stocked up on them can sell them. It matters not a whit whether a real credit card is in the offing as long as the word is circulating that it might be. Its like watching a stock being pumped by rumours.
120mph no. 320mph, yes. I'd love to watch a race between completely maxed out robot vehicles tearing around the place autonomously at speeds that would make human drivers infeasable. Even better, put guns on them!
Getting your infrastructure up to date is way more of an expensive and time consuming problem than getting your systems up to date. It is a lot simpler, but its costlier. Sounds to me like they have the more difficult part of the equation solved, there are plenty of countries with great infrastructure and crap systems who face industrial action if they try to modernise, so all thats left for Mexico now is the slow grind to build out.
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Leaked photos are sooo 2003. They need to step up their game a bit, maybe have an exciting car chase as the photo-taker desperately tries to make it to a hotspot.
Its certainly damaged my respect for MIT.
There is almost nothing that isn't better and quicker learned at the early stages with a live teacher and fellow pupils around.
Oh sure, up to say the early teens, but I'd begin phasing in a more interactive curriculum even before then. Obviously a basic minimum standard of education would need to be assured, so regular testing, but this system would definetely allow more advanced students to realise their potential, especially if it was tied to a rewards system.
It depends on the student really. Some kids have the get up and go to do it themselves, others don't, for various reasons. I think their parents and family can play as much of or even a far more important role in encouraging learning. Really we need to ingrain a personal responsbility ethic into the education system, it would be beneficial in many ways. I could see teachers changing from knowledge dispensers to effective tutoring aides over time though.
Or we could just hang a solar concentrator/mirror in lunar orbit.
I think we should be taking a much deeper look at how education itself is dispensed. In this information age, we should very easily be able to provide the brighter students with all of the tools they need to advance at their own pace, and rewards to encourage this behaviour, while ensuring that other students get a solid standard education. Its a truism to say that learning is entirely, in the end, up to the student, emphasising this by reforming the educational model could do a lot of good.
Ebook readers, tap a word or equation to find its meaning, if that doesn't make sense tap the words in the explanation and so on, a dedicated knowledgebase of discussions from past pupils and tutors to answer common questions, a growing library of video tutorials, and live tutors for students when none of that provides answers, shared and translated internationally, and all this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It could have been numerous floods taking out various civilisations down the years, I mean when an ice age warms up, flooding happens, and civilisations do tend to congregate in coastal areas.
Are we talking about the same Steve Jobs? The most famous ass in the entire world of tech
Indeed, you have to wonder who designed his slacks.
I can't imagine your range in a forest would be much good though, a few score meters at best. Satphones or something would be needed there.
http://project-byzantium.org/
I have to wonder though, what's wrong with good old fashioned radios.
What? Where did you see anyone talking about medieval times in that article? Or allergies? When did the middle ages become less disease-ridden? Or more promiscuous? More children equals terrorism? Or that easy women are terrorists? ...What?
I knew monogamy was bad for you.
There's no such thing as "bhuddist cosmology" there being many different schools and branches of Buddhism, which can vary wildly in their spiritual beliefs. Without knowing what school these monks belong to its difficult to interpret their words.
There's more to the world than what's on wikipedia.
They aren't saying he's on this plane of existence, but a higher one. I'm no expert but looking at the eightfold path and the noble truths it seems hard to believe that he might have "levelled up" by those rules.
Are good programmers incapable of good design and vice-versa in your country?
I daresay I wouldn't mind putting that to the test. :D
Yes, I could spend a million years just learning all there is to know, and then I'd have a million years of changes to catch up on... sounds like heaven to me!
Its almost as though freedom requires responsibility or something.
Are they looking at the success of ebook readers and trying to jump on board? Pearl e-ink technology is why those took off, not the form factor. I could go for a slightly larger reader to be honest.
In fact, even traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light is impossible unless we discover some new, amazing lightweight power source.
Antimatter could do it. No point in quoting the current costs for the stuff either, by the time we are in a position to manufacture vessels capable of reaching other stars, we will certainly have antimatter factories circling close to the sun.
I agree for a couple of reasons, first is that he's overestimating the engineering challenges in getting to and staying on Mars, and underestimating the technical difficulty of reaching other stars in any shape, to say nothing of downloading human minds into computers. Also I'm not sure why he's fixated on Mars, the fertile plains of space are the asteroids.
Shared narrative games are ass. Its not possible to enjoy roleplaying from the third person perspective in the same way that one can enjoy the first person viewpoint. And surprise, forget about it. Back to the forge with thee, or has that closed already.
The point of the entire operation is to get more people to use bitcoins so those who stocked up on them can sell them. It matters not a whit whether a real credit card is in the offing as long as the word is circulating that it might be. Its like watching a stock being pumped by rumours.
120mph no. 320mph, yes. I'd love to watch a race between completely maxed out robot vehicles tearing around the place autonomously at speeds that would make human drivers infeasable. Even better, put guns on them!
Getting your infrastructure up to date is way more of an expensive and time consuming problem than getting your systems up to date. It is a lot simpler, but its costlier. Sounds to me like they have the more difficult part of the equation solved, there are plenty of countries with great infrastructure and crap systems who face industrial action if they try to modernise, so all thats left for Mexico now is the slow grind to build out.