Maybe you misunderstand what I am saying. I am saying to use both systems. Electronic can be hacked, and this guy even proves it. There needs to be some way to validate against paper records to make sure someone isn't hacking the system.
Ok, maybe I agree with you. I was just thinking there was a cost associated with counting votes by hand. In order to alleviate these costs, we could do random verification of results similar to the verification system on patched video games. I mean it'd pretty crazy hard to "hack what you can" on the machines then somehow be able to also coordinate with the verification. The only way you could do that would be an inside job... Ok, yah, count the paper trail votes by hand:)
The tutorial programs aren't meant to be any more fun than normal learning is. We force kids to go to school, and school works. If the tutorial program works as well as school, it doesn't matter much if it is fun. Just as it doesn't matter if school is fun or not:P Sure, try and make it fun to a degree where you're learning, but don't water down things so there isn't much learning going on. Where I'd agree on you is one thing: If you packaged an addicting sub-game that doesn't teach much, people might never go to other subjects once they come across it. Parental supervision is all you need to make sure the kid isn't lying and playing Quake instead of the tutorial program.
That is bad, but let us say you have a new democracy(it happens, new governments come up).
Is it possible to have a national ID and password which would let you vote on issues without the need for public elected officials?
One reason for representative government is that everyone could not vote on every single issue for the state because they could not all fit in one place and have discourse. The Internet could let everyone meet in one place. A whole new government style could be formed that has limited representative for figure head events.
EXACTLY! There *needs* to be a paper trail. This is why I voted,"Protest E-Vote" in the 2008 election. I'm a concerned citizen who protests the use of electronic voting machines irresponsibly.
Sure, use electronic voting tallying because we're lazy and don't want to tally paper votes anymore. But keep the paper trail for validation! What is the point of not having a paper trail for validation? You save a few trees? Look at our new government, it is sold to the highest bidder, but we'll save every last one of you a penny in taxes.
You need to disprove that you were inherently good at maths and were therefore successful at the game, enjoyed it and played it more that other would have.
It wasn't a game, it was an educational tutor. It taught me how to count, do addition and subtraction without a parent to supervise. I'm not sure why you're out to discredit a tutor game. You can ask the same questions about people who do well in a public school: Did the school do it, or were they just naturally inclined to know the knowledge better?
Also if you were to have access to your current or last favourite game would you still have played it.
If you have a parent that forces you to do your school work, it being more entertaining than Quake is irrelevant because you're forced to do it.
It would be my hope that in the future, people from all around the world valued getting an education just for the sake of having an education.
Asheron's Call 1 sometimes comes up as best MMORPG ever. I played both AC1 and WOW, and AC1 was far more exciting. AC1 let you dodge arrows and magic if you were agile enough. AC1 wasn't the perfect MMORPG, drain health1 broke the game by itself, but it seemed worlds more fun than WOW. AC1 had free updates and they happened every month. AC1 had a bigger explorable area when you're low level, not containing you to zones. If your stats were primed enough, your low level could take on things far outside your level, not using some artificial level comparison rule(if monster over 7 levels, you can't hit it).
However AC1 died when AC2 came out. AC2 was flawed in many major ways such as armor didn't work very well, and fighting in a group is much more profitable, especially with a tactician. People went from AC1 to AC2 and when AC2 flopped, people didn't flood back to AC1. So AC2 hurt the franchise far worse than if it was never released at all. Still, I think people are not sour on Asheron Call series. I bet if they'd release an AC3 similar to AC1, but with several basic things fixed, they'd be set.
Sadly this probably will never be since they made LOTRO, and forgot what made AC1 awesome, and adopted WOW game design laziness.
When I was young, like 3-4, I had a TI-99. On it there weren't many games, so I enjoyed playing a math tutor. The math tutor was not a game, but it used graphics and was engrossing. I am now extremely good at math, with my last course being differential equations about a decade ago.
My theory is: I think if someone would come up with software, that simply engaged you, but was educational, it could educate people from K-college if you added enough content. The software can be replicated for free, is more portable than 1,000 books, and can do more than books can.
Before World of Warcraft came out(before any MMORPG), I knew there would be one MMORPG to rule them all. The same goes for the revolution in education. It is simply cost prohibitive to do the education revolution twice, but once someone does it, every human on the planet will use it.
Who will it be: Open source? Commercial? Adbased free?(ugh please no) or maybe a philanthropic billionaire wants to do it right.
I long to see the day when there are highly educated kids in the third world simply because there is nothing more entertaining to them than learning.
Like I said,"This is my theory, but probably your theory too."
Sesame Street is never going to be teaching Fluid Dynamics for Engineering, because you need so much education to build yourself up there. Television cannot do what a computer can do: Assess your education level then give you appropriate course work. This is cool because even people who forgot what they learned, but can't retake courses, can get with the program and become highly educated.
Modern man no longer gets educated and then gets a job. Modern man gets educated, gets a job if they're lucky, but never stops learning.
Before Dead Sea scrolls were found, many skeptics said,"Isaiah 53 is too powerful of a prophecy, it must have been written after Jesus' death." The Dead Sea Scrolls contain Isaiah 53. It and many other things in the old testament are prophecy towards Jesus. Where is Jesus? He's prophecized in the Old Testaments.
There are many prophecies in the Bible, all of which have come true. This is over 1000 things coming true with 100% accuracy. This is one of the credence for the Bible, not one prediction of the future ever failed.
What is the Guardian?
I was saying,"Nuclear Technology is going to keep getting better and safer. So why abandon it now when it only gets better as our science and engineering gets better?"
In other news FORD says it wished it got out of the business in 1910. Thousands of people could have been saved injury from unpredictable hand cranks on Model Ts. Sure today, starting your car became safe, but we can never calculate the loss of people who got injured to hand cranks when the technology was new.
Give them software that teaches them how to count, do basic math and if they master basic math, give them advanced math... and if they do advanced math, give them physics. It seems like teaching could be simplified into software, but the software has to be moderately well involved(though we have the tech to do it now).
I wonder if you own an old defunc machine, if you could legally then own a rom on a remake?
I mean people used to say you could backup your games to floppy in case the original died. I think some games for c64 even told you to do this.
I also wonder if you can rent digital copies of media over the internet if you own a copy, but are not using it at the time.
At a personal finance level in capitalism, you do not waste what you have. The state isn't giving you two jars of pickled yak's feet which you just throw in the trash. When you buy groceries in capitalism, you try not to waste them.
But to me, Communism has the allure that women would not be raised to pursue the man with the biggest wallet. Sure their common capitalistic dad means well,"Don't fall in love with a bum who can't support you", but there are plenty of guys who are really cool, and well educated, that can't find a job in today's economy.
In communism it is well known the state controls the industry. But we're seeing in capitalistic countries, the industry is influencing the state.
I have no problem with the super rich. I think a lot of potential good can be done by them to help feed the poor. And if they don't spend their money, well, they die and it goes to someone else. I just have a problem with the super poor. The super poor cannot even sustain themselves. They need like 0.33 a day to get food and water, but they don't even have that much. I think it should be our generation's goal to help the poor as soon as we get on our feet. People are literally dying because of lack of proper wealth distribution. Even if governments don't sort it out, we can make it our own personal mission to donate to causes that help the situation.
I still gotta migrate my 40$/yr web hosting back to something that charges $9.99. I think it is very weak for a company to go,"Yo, we're gonna charge 4x what everyone else is charging all of a sudden." It is just a hassle to change webhosting.
Here is another question: Is there an online advertiser that does stuff like Google Ads, but instead, lets you white list the ads before they come on your site? I don't like a lot of scammer sites, and I don't want my readers stumbling into them.
I never read any programming book that has helped me significantly. But I remember copying code from magazines on a TI-99 before I knew how to do multiplication. I just copied the code one line at a time, and it either ran or didn't. The best thing I could do was print rockets. I didn't understand anything until I was 12 and got the IF-THEN statement. Once I had that, I was able to write branching games similar to my Choose your Own Adventure Books. After that the world was wide open.
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Maybe you misunderstand what I am saying. I am saying to use both systems. Electronic can be hacked, and this guy even proves it. There needs to be some way to validate against paper records to make sure someone isn't hacking the system.
Ok, maybe I agree with you. I was just thinking there was a cost associated with counting votes by hand. In order to alleviate these costs, we could do random verification of results similar to the verification system on patched video games. I mean it'd pretty crazy hard to "hack what you can" on the machines then somehow be able to also coordinate with the verification. The only way you could do that would be an inside job... Ok, yah, count the paper trail votes by hand :)
The tutorial programs aren't meant to be any more fun than normal learning is. We force kids to go to school, and school works. If the tutorial program works as well as school, it doesn't matter much if it is fun. Just as it doesn't matter if school is fun or not :P Sure, try and make it fun to a degree where you're learning, but don't water down things so there isn't much learning going on. Where I'd agree on you is one thing: If you packaged an addicting sub-game that doesn't teach much, people might never go to other subjects once they come across it. Parental supervision is all you need to make sure the kid isn't lying and playing Quake instead of the tutorial program.
That is bad, but let us say you have a new democracy(it happens, new governments come up).
Is it possible to have a national ID and password which would let you vote on issues without the need for public elected officials?
One reason for representative government is that everyone could not vote on every single issue for the state because they could not all fit in one place and have discourse. The Internet could let everyone meet in one place. A whole new government style could be formed that has limited representative for figure head events.
EXACTLY! There *needs* to be a paper trail. This is why I voted,"Protest E-Vote" in the 2008 election. I'm a concerned citizen who protests the use of electronic voting machines irresponsibly.
Sure, use electronic voting tallying because we're lazy and don't want to tally paper votes anymore. But keep the paper trail for validation! What is the point of not having a paper trail for validation? You save a few trees? Look at our new government, it is sold to the highest bidder, but we'll save every last one of you a penny in taxes.
You need to disprove that you were inherently good at maths and were therefore successful at the game, enjoyed it and played it more that other would have.
It wasn't a game, it was an educational tutor. It taught me how to count, do addition and subtraction without a parent to supervise. I'm not sure why you're out to discredit a tutor game. You can ask the same questions about people who do well in a public school: Did the school do it, or were they just naturally inclined to know the knowledge better? Also if you were to have access to your current or last favourite game would you still have played it.
If you have a parent that forces you to do your school work, it being more entertaining than Quake is irrelevant because you're forced to do it.
It would be my hope that in the future, people from all around the world valued getting an education just for the sake of having an education.
Asheron's Call 1 sometimes comes up as best MMORPG ever. I played both AC1 and WOW, and AC1 was far more exciting. AC1 let you dodge arrows and magic if you were agile enough. AC1 wasn't the perfect MMORPG, drain health1 broke the game by itself, but it seemed worlds more fun than WOW. AC1 had free updates and they happened every month. AC1 had a bigger explorable area when you're low level, not containing you to zones. If your stats were primed enough, your low level could take on things far outside your level, not using some artificial level comparison rule(if monster over 7 levels, you can't hit it).
However AC1 died when AC2 came out. AC2 was flawed in many major ways such as armor didn't work very well, and fighting in a group is much more profitable, especially with a tactician. People went from AC1 to AC2 and when AC2 flopped, people didn't flood back to AC1.
So AC2 hurt the franchise far worse than if it was never released at all. Still, I think people are not sour on Asheron Call series. I bet if they'd release an AC3 similar to AC1, but with several basic things fixed, they'd be set.
Sadly this probably will never be since they made LOTRO, and forgot what made AC1 awesome, and adopted WOW game design laziness.
"his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness"
You're right it is obvious, they beat Jesus really bad.
"he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand"
We are all the sons of God.
"Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong"
He is LORD of all, of course he has a lot of rewards.
When I was young, like 3-4, I had a TI-99. On it there weren't many games, so I enjoyed playing a math tutor. The math tutor was not a game, but it used graphics and was engrossing. I am now extremely good at math, with my last course being differential equations about a decade ago.
My theory is: I think if someone would come up with software, that simply engaged you, but was educational, it could educate people from K-college if you added enough content. The software can be replicated for free, is more portable than 1,000 books, and can do more than books can.
Before World of Warcraft came out(before any MMORPG), I knew there would be one MMORPG to rule them all. The same goes for the revolution in education. It is simply cost prohibitive to do the education revolution twice, but once someone does it, every human on the planet will use it.
Who will it be: Open source? Commercial? Adbased free?(ugh please no) or maybe a philanthropic billionaire wants to do it right.
I long to see the day when there are highly educated kids in the third world simply because there is nothing more entertaining to them than learning.
Like I said,"This is my theory, but probably your theory too."
Sesame Street is never going to be teaching Fluid Dynamics for Engineering, because you need so much education to build yourself up there. Television cannot do what a computer can do: Assess your education level then give you appropriate course work. This is cool because even people who forgot what they learned, but can't retake courses, can get with the program and become highly educated.
Modern man no longer gets educated and then gets a job. Modern man gets educated, gets a job if they're lucky, but never stops learning.
Many of the people who officially taught and interpreted the Jewish scripture were so against Jesus that they wanted the guy dead.
Before Dead Sea scrolls were found, many skeptics said,"Isaiah 53 is too powerful of a prophecy, it must have been written after Jesus' death." The Dead Sea Scrolls contain Isaiah 53. It and many other things in the old testament are prophecy towards Jesus. Where is Jesus? He's prophecized in the Old Testaments.
There are many prophecies in the Bible, all of which have come true. This is over 1000 things coming true with 100% accuracy. This is one of the credence for the Bible, not one prediction of the future ever failed.
What is the Guardian?
I was saying,"Nuclear Technology is going to keep getting better and safer. So why abandon it now when it only gets better as our science and engineering gets better?"
In other news FORD says it wished it got out of the business in 1910. Thousands of people could have been saved injury from unpredictable hand cranks on Model Ts. Sure today, starting your car became safe, but we can never calculate the loss of people who got injured to hand cranks when the technology was new.
Give them software that teaches them how to count, do basic math and if they master basic math, give them advanced math... and if they do advanced math, give them physics. It seems like teaching could be simplified into software, but the software has to be moderately well involved(though we have the tech to do it now).
Here's the catch: There's no catch... that we know of yet.
I wonder if you own an old defunc machine, if you could legally then own a rom on a remake? I mean people used to say you could backup your games to floppy in case the original died. I think some games for c64 even told you to do this.
I also wonder if you can rent digital copies of media over the internet if you own a copy, but are not using it at the time.
I always suspect anti-virus does this
And my life will be complete. Why is this on slashdot?
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I remember when I went to CMU back in the second half of the 90s, and they had robotic soccer there.
At a personal finance level in capitalism, you do not waste what you have. The state isn't giving you two jars of pickled yak's feet which you just throw in the trash. When you buy groceries in capitalism, you try not to waste them.
But to me, Communism has the allure that women would not be raised to pursue the man with the biggest wallet. Sure their common capitalistic dad means well,"Don't fall in love with a bum who can't support you", but there are plenty of guys who are really cool, and well educated, that can't find a job in today's economy.
In communism it is well known the state controls the industry. But we're seeing in capitalistic countries, the industry is influencing the state.
I have no problem with the super rich. I think a lot of potential good can be done by them to help feed the poor. And if they don't spend their money, well, they die and it goes to someone else. I just have a problem with the super poor. The super poor cannot even sustain themselves. They need like 0.33 a day to get food and water, but they don't even have that much. I think it should be our generation's goal to help the poor as soon as we get on our feet. People are literally dying because of lack of proper wealth distribution. Even if governments don't sort it out, we can make it our own personal mission to donate to causes that help the situation.
I still gotta migrate my 40$/yr web hosting back to something that charges $9.99. I think it is very weak for a company to go,"Yo, we're gonna charge 4x what everyone else is charging all of a sudden." It is just a hassle to change webhosting.
Here is another question: Is there an online advertiser that does stuff like Google Ads, but instead, lets you white list the ads before they come on your site? I don't like a lot of scammer sites, and I don't want my readers stumbling into them.
I never read any programming book that has helped me significantly. But I remember copying code from magazines on a TI-99 before I knew how to do multiplication. I just copied the code one line at a time, and it either ran or didn't. The best thing I could do was print rockets. I didn't understand anything until I was 12 and got the IF-THEN statement. Once I had that, I was able to write branching games similar to my Choose your Own Adventure Books. After that the world was wide open.
I'd pay to see Klingons vs MPAA. The Klingons fight hard, but the MPAA fight dirty and have lots of money.