Not easier necessarily but for what the course was teaching neither flash nor html was a prerequisite and flash was the more expedient of the available options.
Flash is a good tool for certain purposes and can often add quite a bit to many websites, but the problem comes when they base their entire website on Flash.
I've been in a collegiate course where the end assignment was to build a website and we were generally todo it in flash, and I know a lot of others that teach flash. Now the course I took wasn't a web-development course(at least not directly it was about the over-all design and not the tools used) and didn't have time to teach nor the prerequisite of knowing html so flash was the most expedient option.
I think that is a bit long. If you think tech takes 30 years from initial lab stages to general practice I think you've missed some history classes. Try reading up on the Manhattan Project and Computers sometime.
While it is true that development can take decades it often goes much quicker.
Ultimately that is what the recording industry wants to stop. In order to stop it they would have to have all recording devices regulated, and under that scheme the big boys would once more be the gatekeepers to mass media.
You did look at MS's "trusted" computing platforms? Who do you think is going to be trusted? Who do you think is not?
They were when they were elected. The certainly were talking to my still-conservative friends according to those same friends then, but now many of those friends say they are not conservative.
Conservatives often take the word conservative to mean policies they like and outcomes they like. THEY define the term liberal as policies and outcomes they don't like.
What many conservatives want in practice is spending in the government that doesn't effect them to be cut, and taxes for themselves lowered regardless of the consequences. In this way Bush is very conservative.
The gene regulates learning from mistakes but there are other sources of learning.
For example I've never made the mistake of failing to turn on my signal and check behind me when making a lane change on the highway. I did not learn that behavior through trial and error I learned it from being taught.
There again we don't really have a baseline. It has been estimated by some anthropologist (I'd have to look this up; sorry I don't have the refrence on hand) that about 5% of the population of tribal hunter/gatherer societies died from human violence.
If you take that baseline and compare it to the people alive in the 21st century you'd expect about 2 billion people to have died in warfare/homocide. The actual number is about 500 milllion.
and people say there are more wars than ever before.
It sounds bad but if you are located at a place with no food then eventually you will either move, or starve. It has happened in ages past and it will keep happening.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try but we should focus more on trying to generate food where people are or if not that generate a trade and industry system to bring food there productively.
"Most people are immoral when they are anonymous."
This sentiment right here I think encapsulates a major assumption underlying a lot of what is going on today with DRM and even "Big Brother" and privacy issues in general.
It seems to be a fairly commonly held belief that people who are unknown are immoral, and more likely to commit crimes than those who are known or at least identified.
The problem is that this statement is put forth without any proof, just as a verified fact, which it is not.
Complete privacy or even general privacy is not a right in the US and it shouldn't be.
Privacy should be protected for certain instances. Privacy for medical records, some privacy on privately owned property where basic measures are taken (going into a room and closing the blinds etc.).
One problem is that the meaning of privacy has changed. It seems to in the past have been more toward referring to the individual and self determination-private property. It used to be more about control. Where-as today it seems to have shifted more towards anonymity and being unobserved and unrecorded by others-private information, private time.
Yeah, and the costs of going to court shouldn't be prohibitive to a small consumer such that large corporations can get their way simply by threatening long drawn out legal proceedings.
Exactly. It could be summed up as Commcast is listening to what is being said about it in public and trying to improve upon its services based on that.
This is more or less exactly how a good corporation should behave.
12 percent efficiency isn't very high, and cells are expensive.
What other data would you like to see? Seriously. How comprehensive do you want on slashdot?
Solar is good for isolated installations where grid power isn't going to be able to get to. It isn't mass production ready.
No I'm not an expert but I have talked with people who are.
Wind is far cheaper and more efficient. Still with solar and wind storage potential and efficiency also comes into play. Until that is improved a nuclear backbone or some CO2 backbone supply will be necessary as hydro power is fairly well tapped. That is unless people get hot-rock geothermal going which has yet to be tried.
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Of all the evil corps predicted to rise in the future by all the cyberpunk and sci-fi writers. I'll bet you not one of them was named "Google"
Eh if so, then we'll just have to fix that with the next generation of probes. That's science for you.
Learning comes more often from misses than hits as misses are far more common.
Not easier necessarily but for what the course was teaching neither flash nor html was a prerequisite and flash was the more expedient of the available options.
Flash is a good tool for certain purposes and can often add quite a bit to many websites, but the problem comes when they base their entire website on Flash.
I've been in a collegiate course where the end assignment was to build a website and we were generally todo it in flash, and I know a lot of others that teach flash. Now the course I took wasn't a web-development course(at least not directly it was about the over-all design and not the tools used) and didn't have time to teach nor the prerequisite of knowing html so flash was the most expedient option.
Or his field is really narrow.
30 years?
I think that is a bit long. If you think tech takes 30 years from initial lab stages to general practice I think you've missed some history classes. Try reading up on the Manhattan Project and Computers sometime.
While it is true that development can take decades it often goes much quicker.
Ultimately that is what the recording industry wants to stop. In order to stop it they would have to have all recording devices regulated, and under that scheme the big boys would once more be the gatekeepers to mass media.
You did look at MS's "trusted" computing platforms? Who do you think is going to be trusted? Who do you think is not?
If it is provable that Georgia is the one supplying the spam then I'd fully support the Ruskies.
That Nigerian Prince has to be stopped!
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
When will they evver learn?
Where have all the filters gone?
On to Microsoft Servers everyone...
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
When will they evver learn?
And yet it is the Right that is always trying to pass legislation on what is taught and what people should and should not watch/wear/see/etc.
They were when they were elected. The certainly were talking to my still-conservative friends according to those same friends then, but now many of those friends say they are not conservative.
Conservatives often take the word conservative to mean policies they like and outcomes they like. THEY define the term liberal as policies and outcomes they don't like.
What many conservatives want in practice is spending in the government that doesn't effect them to be cut, and taxes for themselves lowered regardless of the consequences. In this way Bush is very conservative.
Pretty long, after all wii gardening, wii painting, and wii jellowrestling are all in development.
(er no not really is a joke.)
No the headline fits as it is talking about the probability of a probability.
Not necessarily stupid.
The gene regulates learning from mistakes but there are other sources of learning.
For example I've never made the mistake of failing to turn on my signal and check behind me when making a lane change on the highway. I did not learn that behavior through trial and error I learned it from being taught.
You would also need selective pressure to bring out the more intelligent individuals for gene selection.
The cooking is a prerequisite for the cause to be able to work but it isn't the causal force itself.
There again we don't really have a baseline. It has been estimated by some anthropologist (I'd have to look this up; sorry I don't have the refrence on hand) that about 5% of the population of tribal hunter/gatherer societies died from human violence.
If you take that baseline and compare it to the people alive in the 21st century you'd expect about 2 billion people to have died in warfare/homocide. The actual number is about 500 milllion.
and people say there are more wars than ever before.
It sounds bad but if you are located at a place with no food then eventually you will either move, or starve. It has happened in ages past and it will keep happening.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try but we should focus more on trying to generate food where people are or if not that generate a trade and industry system to bring food there productively.
"Most people are immoral when they are anonymous."
This sentiment right here I think encapsulates a major assumption underlying a lot of what is going on today with DRM and even "Big Brother" and privacy issues in general.
It seems to be a fairly commonly held belief that people who are unknown are immoral, and more likely to commit crimes than those who are known or at least identified.
The problem is that this statement is put forth without any proof, just as a verified fact, which it is not.
The Fed can negotiate with the RIAA the students can't therefore the RIAA will demand to deal directly with the students and their parents.
This is a shake down and it is difficult to shake down city hall/capitol hill as they blow the competition out of the water.
No I think he's aiming a bit lower.
I think you have it backwards. I think it is largely the students that provide porn to us.
Complete privacy or even general privacy is not a right in the US and it shouldn't be.
Privacy should be protected for certain instances. Privacy for medical records, some privacy on privately owned property where basic measures are taken (going into a room and closing the blinds etc.).
One problem is that the meaning of privacy has changed. It seems to in the past have been more toward referring to the individual and self determination-private property. It used to be more about control. Where-as today it seems to have shifted more towards anonymity and being unobserved and unrecorded by others-private information, private time.
Yeah, and the costs of going to court shouldn't be prohibitive to a small consumer such that large corporations can get their way simply by threatening long drawn out legal proceedings.
Exactly. It could be summed up as Commcast is listening to what is being said about it in public and trying to improve upon its services based on that.
This is more or less exactly how a good corporation should behave.
http://www.solarexpert.com/pvbasics2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
12 percent efficiency isn't very high, and cells are expensive.
What other data would you like to see? Seriously. How comprehensive do you want on slashdot?
Solar is good for isolated installations where grid power isn't going to be able to get to. It isn't mass production ready.
No I'm not an expert but I have talked with people who are.
Wind is far cheaper and more efficient. Still with solar and wind storage potential and efficiency also comes into play. Until that is improved a nuclear backbone or some CO2 backbone supply will be necessary as hydro power is fairly well tapped. That is unless people get hot-rock geothermal going which has yet to be tried.