Also perhaps herpes simplex virus can pass easily from parents to their children even if it isn't genetic. Much like diet and exercise habits influencing weight and blood sugar trends within families, and even AIDS which isn't genetic but will transfer easily without intervention.
I disagree with technology not having any influence on communication. There are things we will write in an email that we wouldn't write in a letter. There are things we might text that otherwise would not be communicated. There are huge speed and convenience benefits of having mobile communication devices that have immense impact on real world actions resulting from faster and smoother information propagation. More things can get done in one day. More opportunities can be seized. More dangers can be avoided.
With that said, I totally agree that Web 2.0 as a particular technological category will have close to no impact on communication. What 2.0 can do 1.0 has done already, and 2.0 is more about web interfaces more than anything, and although that might feel like a big part of a web site (since it is the experience after all), it is still a minor influence when it comes to actual communication frequency, speed, or accuracy.
Those of us who use SMS and email and the web are on faster clocks than those of us who do not. We communicate faster. We find answers faster. We can utilize more resources more accurately and efficiently. For a president or any executive of any company to not be on "internet time" and "paperless" is a huge detriment to everybody working under that person and to the organization as a whole.
I am not talking about the fun math you are talking about. I am talking about "school math" which is what this whole article is about - the math taught in schools which "most school teachers don't seem to have a very solid grasp of."
Of course, I have no idea which math you are talking about, and even you seem to have a hard time explaining it. Maybe you are the one who doesn't know what it really is, because if you did, maybe you could explain it better, as is usually the case with the things you know.
Aren't these privacy policies often muted in court anyway? Like, cases where users claim the policy itself was too confusing, and no one in their right mind should be expected to read, comply, and then choose for themselves whether or not to accept the terms of a service that they probably will need regardless?
And do we really have a choice? I mean, if I don't agree with Microsoft's terms, I have to quit being a programmer. They can add whatever they like, and many of us really don't have a choice. Hence, if something really vile were to be added, most likely Microsoft won't be able to enforce it just because we all clicked "agree."
is dead. No really, someone killed him already. Securely and anonymously. We have a list of 1200 suspects and their names. Actually, 1200 people have a list of 1200 suspects and their names.
Physics is still slightly fun because it involves mechanics and going to space. Even then, you need a pretty savvy physics teacher, and they are hard to come by (they all go to law school).
Math is dead mainly because computers are so good at it, and students are usually better with computers than their teachers are, hence it just feels like a huge waste of time with no rewards.
Scrap math and teach programming and math as a subtext. But now the problem is in the tools because all the corporations rip off the school system by making them buy unnecessarily expensive toys.
Schools need 100 dollar laptops that are 1. safely online, 2. fully programmable, and 3. composed of 100% free software. Scrap textbooks. All texts can be wikiped-ized, and the savings there will make up for the computers 10 fold. Students will program all the tools they need, knowledge will be googled and researched, not memorized, and students can concentrate on building and analyzing skills rather than imitation copy and paste automatons.
Engineers could design the best nozzle that's possible within the realm of physics, getting perfect misting, and if the owner doesn't take care of it then that gunk is still going to build up
If I were an engineer building this perfect device, zero buildup would be one of its technical requirements, be it through buildup-proof construction or self cleaning.
Create an account for each item on the ballot. Have voters register their bank accounts when registering to vote. Only votes from registered bank accounts are accepted. Only deposits of 1 cent are accepted. People can vote at ATMs, online banking, or at a teller. Check the balance at the end of the day. Everyone has a paper trail.
*Just an example of using a solution for a solved problem for an unsolved problem. **The system can be implemented without the banks cooperation, but why not have them cooperate - they're nationalized now anyway.
...anyone would even care if this were anyone else's email account.
Seriously, how many yahoo accounts get hacked a day? And WHO cares? Seriously, does ANY DA care about those crimes and looks to prosecute? Yahoo definitely doesn't care. And what are the victims suppose to do? Call 911? The FBI?
DAs are given the authority to use the law to prosecute who they want. It should be that the law tells which DA to prosecute which crime, and not the other way around as it is now.
I can't wait until someone hacks her paypal account.
very low latency in order for it to be remotely feasible.
Yes, low-latency will be valuable. But remotely feasible? I'd challenge that. Latency is pretty low. Unless you are trying to react to events in split seconds, most anything can be done.
We talk of how the internet is evolving all the time, yet when someone points out one such evolutionary route such as YouTube, they must go die.
It is broken. It is morally and ethically challenged. It sucks at spelling. It is anonymous and cowardly. It is the internet.
A browser that doesn't run Flash and other plugins is an incomplete browser. The full internet experience is already what it is. Let us live with it. We do not have to go die.
When they can isolate the "Bing" moment (the point at which neurological function gives rise to experiential phenomenon) then we can put down the idea of a soul entirely, not before.
If we are to assume it exists, then why do we need to isolate it to put down the idea of a soul? We know it has to be between fertilization and birth or not so long after, no? I would say the existence of such a moment is the issue, and not the timing, if we are questioning the existence of the soul, and not the timing of it.
Any textbooks we use would need to cover quite a breadth of material, such as PC hardware, operating systems, networking, security, and more.
And more? Either you are only going to touch on each topic ever so briefly, or the whole course is misguided. There is no way anyone is going to learn anything useful, let alone anything that would get them hired, by learning all of these topics at once. They all deserve their own class, and there are plenty of books on specific topics.
Certification tests usually come with their own set of guides for teachers.
If you believe in traffic lights, you believe in science.
Science is about how things work, and how to make things work the way you want them to. I have nothing against religion, but those who talk of faith triumphing science rely on faithless science just as much as anyone else.
I was being sarcastic. Call me crazy, but I am pretty sure the folks in New Orleans thought they were safe. Thought people would be quicker to arrive to help. Thought what happened was a once in a life-time occurrence.
Here in Japan most of the building are earthquake-proof, but that is not something to say when there is an earthquake elsewhere where thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk.
Not to mention the high possibility, if not certainty, that this crazy weather is the result of human activities, and calling it all "natural" is seriously downplaying this whole mess some of us are trying to solve.
Call me crazy, but I hope I wasn't the only one offended by your post modded +5 insightful.
here in the UK much of our housing is on flood-plains
Here is New Orleans, most of our city is protected by levees.
there is normally a very good reason for a settlement to be where it is
Maybe because its thought to be safe. If the whole city flooding is not a unique occurrence, normally that is a very good reason for *not* settling there.
Well, that's strange. All of my posts are brought to you by a Vaio SZ carrying an SSD that I installed myself (not easy, but came out great).
that cost over US$3500 at the time.
From "at the time" I assume you bought your laptop over a year ago, maybe two. Did you have Vista? Because many if not most of the laptops with early Vista installs had issues, mostly thanks to microsoft.
I am not going to defend any customer support department, and I am sure Vaio support failed to make you happy, but i've learned to buy PCs for their hardware alone a loooong time ago. Most software problems you just have to solve yourself.
because they feared they would be forced into 100% testing and would have to raise prices
They are afraid they'll catch a cow with the disease and be forced to burn their entire herd. And manipulating a 1% test is far easier than one of 100%.
Since when was testing a bad thing? Someone is trying to prove something is safe! Everyone should be suspicious when a court decides to stop that.
To not want to comply to tests that would allow the export of beef to a HUGE market such as Japan is just as good as admitting their beef is mad cow beef, and that they aren't going to do anything about it.
When a business doesn't do business, there is always a very good (read nasty) reason.
Already being sold in Japan, you can get a Raid 0 SSD laptop for about 4000 dollars. That is 2 SSD disks in a slick laptop for 4000 dollars, out of the box and ready to go. And the thing only weighs about 1.4kg (3lbs), has an LCD that does 1600x900, HDMI port (finally), and an NVIDIA GeForce 9300M.
the total workload processed by the fast Flash SSDs was higher
If the thing is spitting out data 3 to 4 times as fast and responding to requests 40 to 100 times as fast, then yes, the things around that thing will have to work a little harder.
I have a GT in my vaio, and it is the best 2K I dropped since god knows when.
The first generation SSDs were crap. All the new SSDs are pretty much good to go because the issues were mostly with the software and memory utility algorithms, and not with the physical SSD memory architecture.
The thing I don't get is why so many people think SSD's are slow.
Mac Air and other vendors that had made SSDs optional unfortunately went with the crappy SSDs, and a lot of people who dropped serious cash for them were severely disappointed. And so there was a backlash.
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Also perhaps herpes simplex virus can pass easily from parents to their children even if it isn't genetic. Much like diet and exercise habits influencing weight and blood sugar trends within families, and even AIDS which isn't genetic but will transfer easily without intervention.
I agree and disagree.
I disagree with technology not having any influence on communication. There are things we will write in an email that we wouldn't write in a letter. There are things we might text that otherwise would not be communicated. There are huge speed and convenience benefits of having mobile communication devices that have immense impact on real world actions resulting from faster and smoother information propagation. More things can get done in one day. More opportunities can be seized. More dangers can be avoided.
With that said, I totally agree that Web 2.0 as a particular technological category will have close to no impact on communication. What 2.0 can do 1.0 has done already, and 2.0 is more about web interfaces more than anything, and although that might feel like a big part of a web site (since it is the experience after all), it is still a minor influence when it comes to actual communication frequency, speed, or accuracy.
Those of us who use SMS and email and the web are on faster clocks than those of us who do not. We communicate faster. We find answers faster. We can utilize more resources more accurately and efficiently. For a president or any executive of any company to not be on "internet time" and "paperless" is a huge detriment to everybody working under that person and to the organization as a whole.
The box has already shifted.
I am not talking about the fun math you are talking about. I am talking about "school math" which is what this whole article is about - the math taught in schools which "most school teachers don't seem to have a very solid grasp of."
Of course, I have no idea which math you are talking about, and even you seem to have a hard time explaining it. Maybe you are the one who doesn't know what it really is, because if you did, maybe you could explain it better, as is usually the case with the things you know.
Aren't these privacy policies often muted in court anyway? Like, cases where users claim the policy itself was too confusing, and no one in their right mind should be expected to read, comply, and then choose for themselves whether or not to accept the terms of a service that they probably will need regardless?
And do we really have a choice? I mean, if I don't agree with Microsoft's terms, I have to quit being a programmer. They can add whatever they like, and many of us really don't have a choice. Hence, if something really vile were to be added, most likely Microsoft won't be able to enforce it just because we all clicked "agree."
is dead. No really, someone killed him already. Securely and anonymously. We have a list of 1200 suspects and their names. Actually, 1200 people have a list of 1200 suspects and their names.
Physics is still slightly fun because it involves mechanics and going to space. Even then, you need a pretty savvy physics teacher, and they are hard to come by (they all go to law school).
Math is dead mainly because computers are so good at it, and students are usually better with computers than their teachers are, hence it just feels like a huge waste of time with no rewards.
Scrap math and teach programming and math as a subtext. But now the problem is in the tools because all the corporations rip off the school system by making them buy unnecessarily expensive toys.
Schools need 100 dollar laptops that are 1. safely online, 2. fully programmable, and 3. composed of 100% free software. Scrap textbooks. All texts can be wikiped-ized, and the savings there will make up for the computers 10 fold. Students will program all the tools they need, knowledge will be googled and researched, not memorized, and students can concentrate on building and analyzing skills rather than imitation copy and paste automatons.
Engineers could design the best nozzle that's possible within the realm of physics, getting perfect misting, and if the owner doesn't take care of it then that gunk is still going to build up
If I were an engineer building this perfect device, zero buildup would be one of its technical requirements, be it through buildup-proof construction or self cleaning.
It's where you draw the circle.
Wireless companies bid billions for these dumb pipes. What collision course? Access denied. End of collision!
Create an account for each item on the ballot.
Have voters register their bank accounts when registering to vote.
Only votes from registered bank accounts are accepted.
Only deposits of 1 cent are accepted.
People can vote at ATMs, online banking, or at a teller.
Check the balance at the end of the day.
Everyone has a paper trail.
*Just an example of using a solution for a solved problem for an unsolved problem.
**The system can be implemented without the banks cooperation, but why not have them cooperate - they're nationalized now anyway.
...anyone would even care if this were anyone else's email account.
Seriously, how many yahoo accounts get hacked a day? And WHO cares? Seriously, does ANY DA care about those crimes and looks to prosecute? Yahoo definitely doesn't care. And what are the victims suppose to do? Call 911? The FBI?
DAs are given the authority to use the law to prosecute who they want. It should be that the law tells which DA to prosecute which crime, and not the other way around as it is now.
I can't wait until someone hacks her paypal account.
(jokingly) How about people who are too fat and lazy to get off the couch? Sounds like a pretty big niche to me... pun intended.
very low latency in order for it to be remotely feasible.
Yes, low-latency will be valuable. But remotely feasible? I'd challenge that. Latency is pretty low. Unless you are trying to react to events in split seconds, most anything can be done.
Spammers will literally be in your living room. I mean LITERALLY.
We talk of how the internet is evolving all the time, yet when someone points out one such evolutionary route such as YouTube, they must go die.
It is broken. It is morally and ethically challenged. It sucks at spelling. It is anonymous and cowardly. It is the internet.
A browser that doesn't run Flash and other plugins is an incomplete browser. The full internet experience is already what it is. Let us live with it. We do not have to go die.
When they can isolate the "Bing" moment (the point at which neurological function gives rise to experiential phenomenon) then we can put down the idea of a soul entirely, not before.
If we are to assume it exists, then why do we need to isolate it to put down the idea of a soul? We know it has to be between fertilization and birth or not so long after, no? I would say the existence of such a moment is the issue, and not the timing, if we are questioning the existence of the soul, and not the timing of it.
Any textbooks we use would need to cover quite a breadth of material, such as PC hardware, operating systems, networking, security, and more.
And more? Either you are only going to touch on each topic ever so briefly, or the whole course is misguided. There is no way anyone is going to learn anything useful, let alone anything that would get them hired, by learning all of these topics at once. They all deserve their own class, and there are plenty of books on specific topics.
Certification tests usually come with their own set of guides for teachers.
If you believe in traffic lights, you believe in science.
Science is about how things work, and how to make things work the way you want them to. I have nothing against religion, but those who talk of faith triumphing science rely on faithless science just as much as anyone else.
edit.
your post modded +5 insightful.
*the* post modded +5 insightful.
Sorry about that.
I was being sarcastic. Call me crazy, but I am pretty sure the folks in New Orleans thought they were safe. Thought people would be quicker to arrive to help. Thought what happened was a once in a life-time occurrence.
Here in Japan most of the building are earthquake-proof, but that is not something to say when there is an earthquake elsewhere where thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk.
Not to mention the high possibility, if not certainty, that this crazy weather is the result of human activities, and calling it all "natural" is seriously downplaying this whole mess some of us are trying to solve.
Call me crazy, but I hope I wasn't the only one offended by your post modded +5 insightful.
but this is not a unique occurance.
Right. City under water. Happens every two weeks.
here in the UK much of our housing is on flood-plains
Here is New Orleans, most of our city is protected by levees.
there is normally a very good reason for a settlement to be where it is
Maybe because its thought to be safe. If the whole city flooding is not a unique occurrence, normally that is a very good reason for *not* settling there.
Well, that's strange. All of my posts are brought to you by a Vaio SZ carrying an SSD that I installed myself (not easy, but came out great).
that cost over US$3500 at the time.
From "at the time" I assume you bought your laptop over a year ago, maybe two. Did you have Vista? Because many if not most of the laptops with early Vista installs had issues, mostly thanks to microsoft.
I am not going to defend any customer support department, and I am sure Vaio support failed to make you happy, but i've learned to buy PCs for their hardware alone a loooong time ago. Most software problems you just have to solve yourself.
because they feared they would be forced into 100% testing and would have to raise prices
They are afraid they'll catch a cow with the disease and be forced to burn their entire herd. And manipulating a 1% test is far easier than one of 100%.
Since when was testing a bad thing? Someone is trying to prove something is safe! Everyone should be suspicious when a court decides to stop that.
To not want to comply to tests that would allow the export of beef to a HUGE market such as Japan is just as good as admitting their beef is mad cow beef, and that they aren't going to do anything about it.
When a business doesn't do business, there is always a very good (read nasty) reason.
Already being sold in Japan, you can get a Raid 0 SSD laptop for about 4000 dollars. That is 2 SSD disks in a slick laptop for 4000 dollars, out of the box and ready to go. And the thing only weighs about 1.4kg (3lbs), has an LCD that does 1600x900, HDMI port (finally), and an NVIDIA GeForce 9300M.
photos:
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/Z1/gallery_window.html?phtNum=2&phtMax=14&phtSizeX=750&phtSizeY=500
product page:
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/Z1/
the total workload processed by the fast Flash SSDs was higher
If the thing is spitting out data 3 to 4 times as fast and responding to requests 40 to 100 times as fast, then yes, the things around that thing will have to work a little harder.
But for a shorter period of time.
I have a GT in my vaio, and it is the best 2K I dropped since god knows when.
The first generation SSDs were crap. All the new SSDs are pretty much good to go because the issues were mostly with the software and memory utility algorithms, and not with the physical SSD memory architecture.
The thing I don't get is why so many people think SSD's are slow.
Mac Air and other vendors that had made SSDs optional unfortunately went with the crappy SSDs, and a lot of people who dropped serious cash for them were severely disappointed. And so there was a backlash.