I like many people get "high" speed internet from Comcast. If Comcast updated their Internet with modern tech, we could stream television on computers. Then people would drop their cable subscriptions. So why does Comcast want to increase the broadband speeds when it will hurt their profits?
It is sad you need to hope for Google to do their 1gb/s because the current ISP behemoths don't want to move.
If the US wants to take away freedoms and monitor the internet, it is to protect the children. Then once is in place, they use it for other things down to political influence.
If they want to monitor your driving, you get rewarded to do it now. Then once everyone is doing it, you'll still get bonuses for being a polite sheep, but they'll jack the other rates up calling it inflation or something.
Wall mart seems like such a great place for low prices, but once they kill the competition they jack the prices up so you're really not saving anything from the competition they killed. Actually you're probably losing out since there is no one to compete with them anymore.
Creativity spurs different ways to approach engineering. Or if a new scientific breakthrough occurs, we know what engineering applications it could hold.
I agree, this is why I do my best to boycott the movies. I don't buy any movies, I don't purchase music, I avoid video games from Electronic Arts, and I don't pirate stuff. I just spend time chillaxing on the Internet, playing games and making games. The Internet news is so much better than the media giant controlled news. MPAA/RIAA declared war on the Internet, and after witnessing them sue grandmothers and screw over the very artists which sustain them, I wouldn't miss them for a second.
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Speaking as a game designer/programmer, I like it when games are too hard to solve outright, but not too hard to employ strategies based on your current state. The more possible strategies people can employ in different situations gives people the fun-factor.
I know teaching will change drastically. I have my own theories. I'm thinking of a computer program like the one in "Time Machine" where AI teaches us. But we don't need AI to teach us. We can simply have interactive computer aps. This is different than the failed edutainment movement of the 90s. You have aps which teach a certain subject and all sorts of books/lectures on the same subject. What I think would make this software great is that when you first come to it, you don't enter your age for it to determine your level. We all know people who are older can have gaps in their knowledge, so it quizzes you, then places you in the correct place for you to learn. The ap would constantly be gauging your aptitude on the current subject by repeatedly giving you work to complete and test. Once the ap figures you mastered a subject, you get introduced to the next subject that is built on top of it.
TR:DL- I think we'll have an interactive AP that would take the place of a teacher once someone sits down and codes it.
When lectures can be saved to a video format on the Internet, why pay the teacher to deliver the same lecture every year?
When books can be copied for free, why pay 200$ for a physical version of the book?
I think the only thing we'll have in terms of live people will be live tutors you can ask questions via advanced IM
The cool thing about this is that it is the opposite of the "No child gets ahead act", if a kid is motivated, they can watch hundreds of supplemental optional videos related to their course. Or with proper understanding of the subject at hand, they can move ahead to the new videos. Also this is all available for free or nearly free, so the cost of an education is simply 100$ or less for a laptop. This means people across the world who couldn't have access to quality education will. If you're in a 3rd world country with nothing to do all day, maybe you'll devote your life to getting a grand education. We might find new Einsteins popping up and at younger and younger ages.
What if someone combined TOR with P2P? People who owned the file could not be identified because they'd be obfuscated through like X nodes. People who were generous could mark themselves as portals where people could send data through. Sure it isn't impossible for ISPs to get records across short hops of a few people, but if it got complex and multinational, it might be impossible to track. I think especially if you forced hops across the world so ISP records couldn't be lifted, it'd make it very difficult for RIAA to sue your grandmother for downloading music.
I personally try and not even consume that which comes from Hollywood, Television or music I can't get off the radio anymore. The Internet just is so great without main stream media that I don't need it. I actually kinda dislike mainstream media because they try and change policy with government to destroy the Internet.
Waiting is for chumps. Also, if you don't have a proper way of marking the paper, you end up with malformed votes which are hard to count: Look at Florida. An evoting machine with a printout will not have these problems.
You have a verifiable paper print out for every person who votes. They validate it is correct info and it goes into a box for storage. The voting machines give a quick result, but you still have people verify the votes in the next couple days to make sure paper matches electronic voting.
I voted "protest e-vote" in the 2008 presidential elections. This problem if not tackled in the US, will tackle us.
Owning a driveway is illegal because it leads to a series of roads which lead to criminals houses. We'll let Hollywood enforce the criminal scum who own driveways.
Yeah, they won't give up trying to sell horse and buggies in a market of cars without a fight. Just takes one organization offering textbooks and rock bottom prices though...
Since textbooks cost about 10,000$ for k-12, you can get about 100 computer replacements before you go into the red.
Since books also get destroyed, the problem is already something schools face.
Imagine if the est $10,000 books from K-12 were available for free. You could then buy people 100$ laptops instead of spending 10,000$. Also you could educate people in third world countries with no teachers if you also threw on an automated education program on it. This is by no means trivial, but educating the world is highly desirable.
I always like honest seekers. I have a book I wrote that you can get free in ebook format. I figure to make it free because I'm not writing for money, but to help more people learn about God. People might not believe me, but I know God exists for a fact, he loves us all, Jesus is LORD. And God approved of that book. Victor writes about applying spiritual truths to your life in the first half. In the second half I write more about answering modern questions to Christianity,"How can Evolution and Creationism coexist?" and "How can God be good and all powerful when suffering exists on Earth?"
If Protect IP act applied to the Interstate instead of Internet you would be breaking the law if the driveway outside your house connected to roads that could lead to a criminal's house(everyone is guilty). Then it would be up to Hollywood to determine if your house gets demolished.
Does someone want to reply to this post with a list of Senators/Representatives who are for SOPA? If Slashdot had a list of these people, we could just vote them out next election. Intent to violate our first amendment rights should be a good reason to vote them out.
Slashdot links to Pirate Bay? That is illegal in ProtectIP. But so is linking to Google, Facebook or Twitter which in turn links to PirateBay. And many congressmen link to these sites too! ProtectIp is a case of a law where everyone is a criminal, so let us pick and choose who we want to censor. This puts power into special interest groups, takes free speech away from anyone the special interest group wants. Someone should compile a list of every single Congressman who was in favor of ProtectIp and post them here on Slashdot. It will make it easy to know who to vote out next election. No Congressman should ever get reelection who is against free speech especially while being hypocrite about it.
I think we've all created a random sentence maker in our programming careers.
But what we haven't done is let it go loose on the web, and allow people to vote them up/down
I think with some creativity, you could even go,"Do these two sentences fit next to each other?" And that could create the next version of the website: Assembled Phrases voted up/down. Which as you understand could lead to the next voted thing: Do you like this paragraph +/-?
The real problem with this website is you're taking something silly and trying to be serious/professional with it. The work you'd need to put in the site is non trivial. Yet, it could be so worth it:P
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I like many people get "high" speed internet from Comcast. If Comcast updated their Internet with modern tech, we could stream television on computers. Then people would drop their cable subscriptions. So why does Comcast want to increase the broadband speeds when it will hurt their profits?
It is sad you need to hope for Google to do their 1gb/s because the current ISP behemoths don't want to move.
If the US wants to take away freedoms and monitor the internet, it is to protect the children. Then once is in place, they use it for other things down to political influence.
If they want to monitor your driving, you get rewarded to do it now. Then once everyone is doing it, you'll still get bonuses for being a polite sheep, but they'll jack the other rates up calling it inflation or something.
Wall mart seems like such a great place for low prices, but once they kill the competition they jack the prices up so you're really not saving anything from the competition they killed. Actually you're probably losing out since there is no one to compete with them anymore.
Creativity spurs different ways to approach engineering. Or if a new scientific breakthrough occurs, we know what engineering applications it could hold.
I agree, this is why I do my best to boycott the movies. I don't buy any movies, I don't purchase music, I avoid video games from Electronic Arts, and I don't pirate stuff. I just spend time chillaxing on the Internet, playing games and making games. The Internet news is so much better than the media giant controlled news. MPAA/RIAA declared war on the Internet, and after witnessing them sue grandmothers and screw over the very artists which sustain them, I wouldn't miss them for a second.
Thanks to the old system, it was easy.
Speaking as a game designer/programmer, I like it when games are too hard to solve outright, but not too hard to employ strategies based on your current state. The more possible strategies people can employ in different situations gives people the fun-factor.
You can't buy a vote, this is illegal. However you can buy a Congressman outright and tell em' what to do. This is infinitely worse.
I know teaching will change drastically. I have my own theories. I'm thinking of a computer program like the one in "Time Machine" where AI teaches us. But we don't need AI to teach us. We can simply have interactive computer aps. This is different than the failed edutainment movement of the 90s. You have aps which teach a certain subject and all sorts of books/lectures on the same subject. What I think would make this software great is that when you first come to it, you don't enter your age for it to determine your level. We all know people who are older can have gaps in their knowledge, so it quizzes you, then places you in the correct place for you to learn. The ap would constantly be gauging your aptitude on the current subject by repeatedly giving you work to complete and test. Once the ap figures you mastered a subject, you get introduced to the next subject that is built on top of it.
TR:DL- I think we'll have an interactive AP that would take the place of a teacher once someone sits down and codes it.
When lectures can be saved to a video format on the Internet, why pay the teacher to deliver the same lecture every year?
When books can be copied for free, why pay 200$ for a physical version of the book?
I think the only thing we'll have in terms of live people will be live tutors you can ask questions via advanced IM
The cool thing about this is that it is the opposite of the "No child gets ahead act", if a kid is motivated, they can watch hundreds of supplemental optional videos related to their course. Or with proper understanding of the subject at hand, they can move ahead to the new videos. Also this is all available for free or nearly free, so the cost of an education is simply 100$ or less for a laptop. This means people across the world who couldn't have access to quality education will. If you're in a 3rd world country with nothing to do all day, maybe you'll devote your life to getting a grand education. We might find new Einsteins popping up and at younger and younger ages.
What if someone combined TOR with P2P? People who owned the file could not be identified because they'd be obfuscated through like X nodes. People who were generous could mark themselves as portals where people could send data through. Sure it isn't impossible for ISPs to get records across short hops of a few people, but if it got complex and multinational, it might be impossible to track. I think especially if you forced hops across the world so ISP records couldn't be lifted, it'd make it very difficult for RIAA to sue your grandmother for downloading music.
I personally try and not even consume that which comes from Hollywood, Television or music I can't get off the radio anymore. The Internet just is so great without main stream media that I don't need it. I actually kinda dislike mainstream media because they try and change policy with government to destroy the Internet.
Waiting is for chumps. Also, if you don't have a proper way of marking the paper, you end up with malformed votes which are hard to count: Look at Florida. An evoting machine with a printout will not have these problems.
You have a verifiable paper print out for every person who votes. They validate it is correct info and it goes into a box for storage. The voting machines give a quick result, but you still have people verify the votes in the next couple days to make sure paper matches electronic voting.
I voted "protest e-vote" in the 2008 presidential elections. This problem if not tackled in the US, will tackle us.
Owning a driveway is illegal because it leads to a series of roads which lead to criminals houses. We'll let Hollywood enforce the criminal scum who own driveways.
Yah, my joke was that the soldiers don't breed. But do tell me more about what happened with the bees. I have not heard of that.
It would be a travesty if some of the super soldiers escaped and bred a race of super ants... jk
Yeah, they won't give up trying to sell horse and buggies in a market of cars without a fight. Just takes one organization offering textbooks and rock bottom prices though...
Since textbooks cost about 10,000$ for k-12, you can get about 100 computer replacements before you go into the red. Since books also get destroyed, the problem is already something schools face.
Imagine if the est $10,000 books from K-12 were available for free. You could then buy people 100$ laptops instead of spending 10,000$. Also you could educate people in third world countries with no teachers if you also threw on an automated education program on it. This is by no means trivial, but educating the world is highly desirable.
I always like honest seekers. I have a book I wrote that you can get free in ebook format. I figure to make it free because I'm not writing for money, but to help more people learn about God. People might not believe me, but I know God exists for a fact, he loves us all, Jesus is LORD. And God approved of that book. Victor writes about applying spiritual truths to your life in the first half. In the second half I write more about answering modern questions to Christianity,"How can Evolution and Creationism coexist?" and "How can God be good and all powerful when suffering exists on Earth?"
If Protect IP act applied to the Interstate instead of Internet you would be breaking the law if the driveway outside your house connected to roads that could lead to a criminal's house(everyone is guilty). Then it would be up to Hollywood to determine if your house gets demolished.
Does someone want to reply to this post with a list of Senators/Representatives who are for SOPA? If Slashdot had a list of these people, we could just vote them out next election. Intent to violate our first amendment rights should be a good reason to vote them out.
Slashdot links to Pirate Bay? That is illegal in ProtectIP. But so is linking to Google, Facebook or Twitter which in turn links to PirateBay. And many congressmen link to these sites too! ProtectIp is a case of a law where everyone is a criminal, so let us pick and choose who we want to censor. This puts power into special interest groups, takes free speech away from anyone the special interest group wants. Someone should compile a list of every single Congressman who was in favor of ProtectIp and post them here on Slashdot. It will make it easy to know who to vote out next election. No Congressman should ever get reelection who is against free speech especially while being hypocrite about it.
I think we've all created a random sentence maker in our programming careers.
:P
But what we haven't done is let it go loose on the web, and allow people to vote them up/down
I think with some creativity, you could even go,"Do these two sentences fit next to each other?" And that could create the next version of the website: Assembled Phrases voted up/down. Which as you understand could lead to the next voted thing: Do you like this paragraph +/-?
The real problem with this website is you're taking something silly and trying to be serious/professional with it. The work you'd need to put in the site is non trivial. Yet, it could be so worth it
Nice to meet you Mr. Burns.
We need the "Caps Lock Annhilation Program" to stop loud posters.