It has one thing that could be much better than a touch screen: gesture input without greasy fingerprints on my screen.
This is why, although my newest Sony e-reader has a touch screen, I still use the buttons to flip the pages 99% of the time.
I am actually interested in this technology. I've gotten used to browsing the web on touch screen devices, so much so that I find myself annoyed when I'm browsing a website on my PC and can't "pinch-to-zoom" the tiny text on a page.
Like I said, I believe in climate change. Did you actually read what I wrote? I'm sure their arguments are invalid; the point is, the rebuttal letter did not actually rebut any of the arguments, it just ignored them. No wonder the WSJ didn't bother printing it; I wonder why Science did. We would all have been better served by a letter that actually deigned to debate the issues, one that proved the point. Right?
^^ this For proof, I submit my oldest daughter, who I have seen on multiple occasions engaged in discussions with friends simultaneously on: twitter/facebook/SMS/Skype/ and not one but *two* phones, both held in front of her so the people on each phone could hear each other, her, and the Skype session on her netbook...
She seems very popular, gets along with just about everyone no matter what the age, does very well in school. She is also dating a very handsome young man atm, who is capable of carrying on communications with her on at least 3 channels at a time =.=
Um, I don't know what you are reading into his message, but I didn't see anywhere that he was still dwelling on high school. Remembering != dwelling, and remembering that many other people's idea of normal social tendencies in HS was adolescent cliques and follow-the-leader posturing does not comment on *his* social tendencies, then or now.
I read the rebuttal letter, it was printed in Science magazine. It wasn't a "comparable" letter, it probably was scientifically accurate, but it only stated claims, no actual arguments. The letter in the WSJ actually gave arguments. All the letter in Science did was rely on the weight of the names behind it. What they should have done was stated some facts and then drawn conclusions. I am a little confused as to why the letter was such a poor rebuttal (I believe in climate change, personally). Maybe next time they could show a little science. At least the original letter gave the reasons *why* they thought climate change was overblown, the rebuttal letter should have done the same, told *why* they believed in climate change. Instead, they basically just said "there's 255 of us and you better believe us or bad things will happen!"
Why does this bring back vague memories of that John Brunner classic, "The Shockwave Rider"? It's been about 30 years since I read it, so I can't recall if the protagonist wrote a "worm" that infected another worm, or just destroyed it/replaced it or something.
Pointing a gun at you means I am willing to shoot you.
Pissing on you means I am...willing to piss on you.
I know which one *I* find more terrifying (hint: I am not as afraid of being peed on, especially if I am already dead).
I'm with DnaK on this, my kids would never understand the logic either. Hell, I don't understand it. Pissing on dead bodies is wrong, but killing people is much worse.
"For this “delay,” Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers." - Judge Alsup
He isn't pulling any punches, is he?
"We can manufacture gazillionabyte memory chips the size of a pinhead. Of course, the interface hardware for reading/wrting the data is the size of a small fridge..."
Yup. The USPTO is officially broken. But how do we fix it? Replace it with an IP system that other countries agree to uphold, and thus force it upon the U.S.?
RIOT, makers of League of Legends, with somewhere over 35 million players. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/
They had something like 35 million accounts in the fall, and are making a CRAZY amount of money.
I sent my email with a "don't extend copyright/patent 'protection'" message. Mine was somewhat personal, so not appropriate for making a template from: anyone feel like ofering up a boilerplate for the lazier folks?
...you might as well be replaced by a video lecture. With that in mind, if you are paying big bucks to go to a school, you should not find yourself in classes of 200 people; if so, you might want to look around for a better school.
The FPS-style training games the Canadian military use have been very successful. I know this because I've chatted with people involved (my school provides many of the development staff in the form of grad students; programmers and artists, the military provides the designers and subject matter experts). In particular, one sargeant in charge of the more normal, "old-school" training was very impressed by the difference in soldiers he recieved for training who had taken the game-training first before being sent to him, as opposed to sitting in a classroom listening to an instructor before going out to the killhouse. What the games teach is not the physical aspects of toting around heavy rifles and firing them accurately, they instead teach the soldiers about things like proper tactics for clearing a building room-by-room, floor-by-floor. These games have built-in features like comms procedures and hand signals. The games are not just a minor improvement over static lectures on tactics, they are a major improvement.
Panda3D supports Python or C++ development. My school has used it for a couple of game development related courses and the students loved it. I'm just mentioning Panda3D in case you feel the need to start out in 3D: we actually start out in 2D with something like SFML and C++, but that is part of a 2 year college program that leads to C++/OpenGL development. Panda3D with Python might work for a HS class.
From the website:
"Panda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures, thanks to its liberal license."
http://www.panda3d.org/
Also worth looking at might be Alice, if Panda3D/Python is too much for them. Alice has versions for middle/HS, and lots of teaching aids.
"Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience."
http://www.alice.org/
Is anyone besides me getting chills down their back from the use of the term 'cyberspace' by these officials, let alone what else they are talking about doing?
Given the large number of people that install celebrity voices on their GPS devices, I think the ability to change personalities on your phone would be a BIG moneymaker for someone.
I predict most of/. would pay 10$ to have Siri respond as 1)Darth Vader 2)Homer Simpson 3)Star Trek Computer etc.
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For the funniest take on "Sex and Violence" I have seen, try this old skit by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqq-TYeKgw&list=UUAbZYhWQXjKmgJEWyMniZWg&index=3&feature=plcp
The video quality is poor, but it's worth watching for the punchline.
It has one thing that could be much better than a touch screen: gesture input without greasy fingerprints on my screen.
This is why, although my newest Sony e-reader has a touch screen, I still use the buttons to flip the pages 99% of the time.
I am actually interested in this technology. I've gotten used to browsing the web on touch screen devices, so much so that I find myself annoyed when I'm browsing a website on my PC and can't "pinch-to-zoom" the tiny text on a page.
Yeah, I bet they are designing/calibrating these ones for closer use.
Like I said, I believe in climate change. Did you actually read what I wrote? I'm sure their arguments are invalid; the point is, the rebuttal letter did not actually rebut any of the arguments, it just ignored them. No wonder the WSJ didn't bother printing it; I wonder why Science did. We would all have been better served by a letter that actually deigned to debate the issues, one that proved the point. Right?
^^ this
For proof, I submit my oldest daughter, who I have seen on multiple occasions engaged in discussions with friends simultaneously on: twitter/facebook/SMS/Skype/ and not one but *two* phones, both held in front of her so the people on each phone could hear each other, her, and the Skype session on her netbook...
She seems very popular, gets along with just about everyone no matter what the age, does very well in school. She is also dating a very handsome young man atm, who is capable of carrying on communications with her on at least 3 channels at a time =.=
Um, I don't know what you are reading into his message, but I didn't see anywhere that he was still dwelling on high school. Remembering != dwelling, and remembering that many other people's idea of normal social tendencies in HS was adolescent cliques and follow-the-leader posturing does not comment on *his* social tendencies, then or now.
I read the rebuttal letter, it was printed in Science magazine. It wasn't a "comparable" letter, it probably was scientifically accurate, but it only stated claims, no actual arguments. The letter in the WSJ actually gave arguments. All the letter in Science did was rely on the weight of the names behind it. What they should have done was stated some facts and then drawn conclusions. I am a little confused as to why the letter was such a poor rebuttal (I believe in climate change, personally). Maybe next time they could show a little science. At least the original letter gave the reasons *why* they thought climate change was overblown, the rebuttal letter should have done the same, told *why* they believed in climate change. Instead, they basically just said "there's 255 of us and you better believe us or bad things will happen!"
Why does this bring back vague memories of that John Brunner classic, "The Shockwave Rider"? It's been about 30 years since I read it, so I can't recall if the protagonist wrote a "worm" that infected another worm, or just destroyed it/replaced it or something.
Pointing a gun at you means I am willing to shoot you. Pissing on you means I am...willing to piss on you. I know which one *I* find more terrifying (hint: I am not as afraid of being peed on, especially if I am already dead). I'm with DnaK on this, my kids would never understand the logic either. Hell, I don't understand it. Pissing on dead bodies is wrong, but killing people is much worse.
"For this “delay,” Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers." - Judge Alsup He isn't pulling any punches, is he?
"We can manufacture gazillionabyte memory chips the size of a pinhead. Of course, the interface hardware for reading/wrting the data is the size of a small fridge..."
Yup. The USPTO is officially broken. But how do we fix it? Replace it with an IP system that other countries agree to uphold, and thus force it upon the U.S.?
RIOT, makers of League of Legends, with somewhere over 35 million players. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/ They had something like 35 million accounts in the fall, and are making a CRAZY amount of money.
Can't believe I still remember this... Load "*",8,1 My first introduction to a graphical GUI was GEOS: http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html
We are all trying to forget Wipeout64, please stop reminding us!
I sent my email with a "don't extend copyright/patent 'protection'" message. Mine was somewhat personal, so not appropriate for making a template from: anyone feel like ofering up a boilerplate for the lazier folks?
Yes, some of the Chinese cheapy saxaphones are quite nice for the price: http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Reviews/Ultra_Cheap_horns.htm http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Reviews/Saxes/Alto/Chinese_alto.htm
...you might as well be replaced by a video lecture. With that in mind, if you are paying big bucks to go to a school, you should not find yourself in classes of 200 people; if so, you might want to look around for a better school.
The FPS-style training games the Canadian military use have been very successful. I know this because I've chatted with people involved (my school provides many of the development staff in the form of grad students; programmers and artists, the military provides the designers and subject matter experts). In particular, one sargeant in charge of the more normal, "old-school" training was very impressed by the difference in soldiers he recieved for training who had taken the game-training first before being sent to him, as opposed to sitting in a classroom listening to an instructor before going out to the killhouse. What the games teach is not the physical aspects of toting around heavy rifles and firing them accurately, they instead teach the soldiers about things like proper tactics for clearing a building room-by-room, floor-by-floor. These games have built-in features like comms procedures and hand signals. The games are not just a minor improvement over static lectures on tactics, they are a major improvement.
Panda3D supports Python or C++ development. My school has used it for a couple of game development related courses and the students loved it. I'm just mentioning Panda3D in case you feel the need to start out in 3D: we actually start out in 2D with something like SFML and C++, but that is part of a 2 year college program that leads to C++/OpenGL development. Panda3D with Python might work for a HS class. From the website: "Panda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures, thanks to its liberal license." http://www.panda3d.org/ Also worth looking at might be Alice, if Panda3D/Python is too much for them. Alice has versions for middle/HS, and lots of teaching aids. "Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience." http://www.alice.org/
Is anyone besides me getting chills down their back from the use of the term 'cyberspace' by these officials, let alone what else they are talking about doing?
Yes, I did manage to post to the wrong comment. My bad.
Add to this that many of the toy copters are now coming with built-in gyroscopes that smooth out the flight, making them very stable and easy to fly.
...and get a model airplane large enough for the cat to pilot.
Given the large number of people that install celebrity voices on their GPS devices, I think the ability to change personalities on your phone would be a BIG moneymaker for someone. I predict most of /. would pay 10$ to have Siri respond as 1)Darth Vader 2)Homer Simpson 3)Star Trek Computer etc.