Lectures were made obsolete in Europe by Gutenberg in 1447. Why are "teachers" still using this method in the classroom? If universities want to make money, they should do so by answering student's questions, not subjecting students to boring lectures read a hundred times over from yellowed notes.
- Post the lecture with a single password that the professor distributes to the class during the lecture. This would discourage students from missing the lecture, but likely those students missing class could simply obtain the password from another student who did attend the class."
Currently those who miss the class can get notes from other students anyway. Those students who do not attend lectures are either brilliant and can research the material in their own way, or they are going to fail. Any student who believes they can rely on notes from someone else will most likely fail. Same deal for video lectures.
I'd love to have my old Engineering lectures in a video format on my server at home. Sometimes I think it would be faster/better to lookup a video lecture about X because I can locate that info faster than by picking up a book. Some of those lectures I had to attend were so packed full of information it was sometimes difficult to absorb everything in a short timefrome. While I know that a certain theory exists, I don't always know what it was called, however, I *can* recall the lecture and who gave it.
My suggestion is to edit out 5 minutes of the lecture and this 5 minutes must contain an exam hint or extra piece of info. Those who miss the lecture will really miss out. Thats a definate reason to attend. Don't tell any of them what is going to be left out... Sure they can get the info from their friends, but 5 minutes from a 50 minute lecture is 10% and if that 10% contains exam hints, then that 10% is really worth a lot more.
How many of their friends are gonna sit down and work out exactly which 5 minutes has been edited out, especially if you put jumps and stutters into the video. Walk from one side of the hall and back again all the time while looking into space, act like you are in deep thought. These are good points to edit in and out.
You could always take role call several times a semester and fail those who attend less than 60% of classes. Same sort of maths involved in this as with the rejection of mass produced items... statistics... second year, subject = KME271, oh, damn, I wish I had that video lecture;)
On the other hand, when a company delivers a close-sourced product with nasty side effects, other people (ie, not me) will still find out about it, and it will hurt the company's bottom line eventually.
How much would we expect to pay for a car if we had to pay intellectual property fees to the inventors of everything back to the wheel?
Come to think of it... would technology have been able to advance as quickly as it has if we were forced to pay these taxes on the wheel for the last 10,000 years?
What the fuck are you talking about? So, if I install Flash on Linux, that installation of Linux is automatically corrupted and shitty?
Your installation instantly becomes tainted when you install closed source software. You have less chance of knowing if your system has malicious code inside the closed binary. Open code allows you to check for any malicious code. Your installation is not automatically "shitty", I certainly wouldn't say that Microsoft products are all "shitty", however, your security has definately been compromised.
Sure, it looks like Australia is outspending China nearly 4:1. My guess is that looking at per capita is irrelevant. My guess is that in.au/.nz well over half of that $200 is spent on software. This closes the gap even more since very little software is purchased throughout Indo-china.
Same thing here: who cares for a "common installer" (technically impossible)
synaptic and yumex can install nearly everything depending on your choice of package manager. They are the common installers. Conversion between the two formats is simple, although not yet fully integrated into the GUI of many distros (please proove me wrong). Installation is from a common repository... it's very possible and debian users have been doing it for years.
If you do find some of the shit that Mike has been smoking, please send some my way:)
I am currently working on an electronic music project and my intention is to release it under a GPL style licence. I will include MIDI code and directions about how instruments (hardware synths) are to be connected. This will be released in a final *.ogg format and a Rosegarden project format. Any help beyond the Creative Commons Licence is appreciated.
Draw an analogy between counter terrorism and anti-copying techniques for software. GNU versus Closed Source. Everyone at slashdot knows that while closed source (microsoft) will never die, it will eventually be pushed into the background by GNU/Linux.
The only way to defeat software cracking (terrorism) is with free open source (revolution) which reduces the size of microsoft et al (tyranical government policy).
Their religion has existed for thousands of years.
Americans like you, who display ignorance, are adding fuel to the fire. Thousands of years implies more than 2000 years... this is why they believe uneducated barbaric infidels like yourself must be put to death.
Why hasn't anyone yet had a good conversation about the reason they need this electricity... Brute Force Cracking??? Brute force cracking requires full CPU power. Full CPU power requires lots of electricity.
Do all you Americans believe that the NSA is keeping you safe by pre-installed backdoors? Or do you believe they are keeping you safe using lots of electricity to power all those CPUs that are busy cracking encyrpted terrorist communications.
I still enjoy a quick retro game on my GBA, my PSP and its ability to emulate the GBA takes pride of place now. Why would I even bother to carry around several handhelds when I can fit a whole pile of them on my memory stick and emulate them. Both the PSP and the DS hand held consoles are sounding the end of 2D. They both play 2D, however, they also do 3D exceptionally well for a small unit.
2D has had its day and will only survive as a retro genre mostly through emulators. All the good 2D games, and/or their clones, can be played for free on an emu. Gameplay design has reached its peak as far as 2D goes. There would need to be a revolution in game design for 2D to become as popular as it once was. The days of commercial 2D games has almost come to an end with the PSP and the DS now entering the 3D world. The differences between 2D games and 3D games is analagous to pinball machines and all those namco coin-op computer games.
With the next gen of handhelds we are going to see the merging of many technologies. Just as a softmodded xbox with "xbox media center" gave us a glimpse into the future of home entertainment system, so to the PSP homebrew scene is a glimpse of what is to come... the merging of mp3, avi, games, translators, PDAs, etc... This merger of technology has already been foretold by the new player in the industry, shudder, microsoft with its yet to be seen argo.
Telstra and Optus have rolled out cable in limited metro regions. I don't think there will be any/many more rollouts of cable technology. The push will be with fiber, with FTTH or FTTN. The Tasmanian government had an excellent oportunity to roll out FTTH, however, with all their wisdom they decided that rolling out natural gas to every home in Tasmania would be more than enough in one go and that when people wanted FTTH they would simply dig the streets up again and have another rollout... the biggest oversight in Tasmanian history???
My cable connection is with a few coper wires connected to my phone exchange... I guess it's not cable in the american sense of the owrd, or in the optus/telstra cable sense of the word, but its good enough for me!
BitTorrent is the new distribution medium. The only people who use older services are those who have way to much money or those who lack the technical ability to operate a computer.
Do you still watch tv? That old device from the 20th century? Information dissemination is painfully slow over that old medium.
So you watch it because it is entertaining? I think it is more like propaganda. Welcome to the world where you have no brain and you are told what to think and how to act... be aware of this, be aware that google will soon be the new medium controller...
for gods sake, wake up america...
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Thanks!
I laughed.
Now that is +1 funny...
old and re-hashed... but still very funny.
Thanks for the laugh!
Currently those who miss the class can get notes from other students anyway. Those students who do not attend lectures are either brilliant and can research the material in their own way, or they are going to fail. Any student who believes they can rely on notes from someone else will most likely fail. Same deal for video lectures.
I'd love to have my old Engineering lectures in a video format on my server at home. Sometimes I think it would be faster/better to lookup a video lecture about X because I can locate that info faster than by picking up a book. Some of those lectures I had to attend were so packed full of information it was sometimes difficult to absorb everything in a short timefrome. While I know that a certain theory exists, I don't always know what it was called, however, I *can* recall the lecture and who gave it.
My suggestion is to edit out 5 minutes of the lecture and this 5 minutes must contain an exam hint or extra piece of info. Those who miss the lecture will really miss out. Thats a definate reason to attend. Don't tell any of them what is going to be left out... Sure they can get the info from their friends, but 5 minutes from a 50 minute lecture is 10% and if that 10% contains exam hints, then that 10% is really worth a lot more.
How many of their friends are gonna sit down and work out exactly which 5 minutes has been edited out, especially if you put jumps and stutters into the video. Walk from one side of the hall and back again all the time while looking into space, act like you are in deep thought. These are good points to edit in and out.
You could always take role call several times a semester and fail those who attend less than 60% of classes. Same sort of maths involved in this as with the rejection of mass produced items... statistics... second year, subject = KME271, oh, damn, I wish I had that video lecture
Sony.
Rootkit.
How much would we expect to pay for a car if we had to pay intellectual property fees to the inventors of everything back to the wheel?
Come to think of it... would technology have been able to advance as quickly as it has if we were forced to pay these taxes on the wheel for the last 10,000 years?
Your installation instantly becomes tainted when you install closed source software. You have less chance of knowing if your system has malicious code inside the closed binary. Open code allows you to check for any malicious code. Your installation is not automatically "shitty", I certainly wouldn't say that Microsoft products are all "shitty", however, your security has definately been compromised.
Please understand that closed source has the potential to fork linux.
Closed source flash on linux is exactly the same as firefox running on windows.
Please mod the parent up.
Closed source will r00t us all.
In 12 months macromedia will be releasing flash9 for linux.
Highly insecure, but it has been one of the most useful apps i've used also.
synaptic and yumex can install nearly everything depending on your choice of package manager. They are the common installers. Conversion between the two formats is simple, although not yet fully integrated into the GUI of many distros (please proove me wrong). Installation is from a common repository... it's very possible and debian users have been doing it for years.
If you do find some of the shit that Mike has been smoking, please send some my way
By doing this China is bringing freedom to the US... well, I'm sure thats how they see it.
Thank you for a good post.
I am currently working on an electronic music project and my intention is to release it under a GPL style licence. I will include MIDI code and directions about how instruments (hardware synths) are to be connected. This will be released in a final *.ogg format and a Rosegarden project format. Any help beyond the Creative Commons Licence is appreciated.
viva la revolution
Yeah, i'm trying hard... the parent must be american whos attitude would have landed a close visit to madame guillotine during the french revolution.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it.
viva la revolution
Thats what people like you were saying in Rome sometime around the year 400AD.
Yeah, its pointless huh...
Draw an analogy between counter terrorism and anti-copying techniques for software. GNU versus Closed Source. Everyone at slashdot knows that while closed source (microsoft) will never die, it will eventually be pushed into the background by GNU/Linux.
The only way to defeat software cracking (terrorism) is with free open source (revolution) which reduces the size of microsoft et al (tyranical government policy).
viva la revolution! Off with their heads!
Americans like you, who display ignorance, are adding fuel to the fire. Thousands of years implies more than 2000 years... this is why they believe uneducated barbaric infidels like yourself must be put to death.
Why hasn't anyone yet had a good conversation about the reason they need this electricity... Brute Force Cracking??? Brute force cracking requires full CPU power. Full CPU power requires lots of electricity.
Do all you Americans believe that the NSA is keeping you safe by pre-installed backdoors? Or do you believe they are keeping you safe using lots of electricity to power all those CPUs that are busy cracking encyrpted terrorist communications.
I still enjoy a quick retro game on my GBA, my PSP and its ability to emulate the GBA takes pride of place now. Why would I even bother to carry around several handhelds when I can fit a whole pile of them on my memory stick and emulate them. Both the PSP and the DS hand held consoles are sounding the end of 2D. They both play 2D, however, they also do 3D exceptionally well for a small unit.
2D has had its day and will only survive as a retro genre mostly through emulators. All the good 2D games, and/or their clones, can be played for free on an emu. Gameplay design has reached its peak as far as 2D goes. There would need to be a revolution in game design for 2D to become as popular as it once was. The days of commercial 2D games has almost come to an end with the PSP and the DS now entering the 3D world. The differences between 2D games and 3D games is analagous to pinball machines and all those namco coin-op computer games.
With the next gen of handhelds we are going to see the merging of many technologies. Just as a softmodded xbox with "xbox media center" gave us a glimpse into the future of home entertainment system, so to the PSP homebrew scene is a glimpse of what is to come... the merging of mp3, avi, games, translators, PDAs, etc... This merger of technology has already been foretold by the new player in the industry, shudder, microsoft with its yet to be seen argo.
I'm Australian.
Telstra and Optus have rolled out cable in limited metro regions. I don't think there will be any/many more rollouts of cable technology. The push will be with fiber, with FTTH or FTTN. The Tasmanian government had an excellent oportunity to roll out FTTH, however, with all their wisdom they decided that rolling out natural gas to every home in Tasmania would be more than enough in one go and that when people wanted FTTH they would simply dig the streets up again and have another rollout... the biggest oversight in Tasmanian history???
My cable connection is with a few coper wires connected to my phone exchange... I guess it's not cable in the american sense of the owrd, or in the optus/telstra cable sense of the word, but its good enough for me!
BitTorrent is the new distribution medium. The only people who use older services are those who have way to much money or those who lack the technical ability to operate a computer.
AdBlock and NoScript appear to be working alongside each other without any dramas. :P
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
:P
NoScript link
So you watch it because it is entertaining? I think it is more like propaganda. Welcome to the world where you have no brain and you are told what to think and how to act... be aware of this, be aware that google will soon be the new medium controller...
for gods sake, wake up america...
Shut Up, Be Happy
will someone please mod the parent as INSIGHTFUL. :)