What that comes down to, is that humans don't *need* electrical power to merely function. We certainly *like* electrical power, but if it were us versus computers/robots, cut the power, the batteries only last so long, then disassemble them.
This part of your post made me think of something: while we certainly *like* electrical and gas power for a lot of convenience and we can certainly live without watching the latest popular TV show, we do sorta depend on it for food. I suppose most farm equipment is still mostly mechanical powered by gas/diesel, but I don't think we can continue to feed 7 billion people without the help of machines. I don't think this affects our outcome in a robot revolution, just something interesting that your post induced.
How is that link supposed to be used without first getting into the now-secured email account?
Perhaps because not all "forgot password" links work that way? Now, of course, that particular method no longer works and it did require some "personal" info and a physical call. However, it's not an isolated story, it's just the first that came up in my admittedly haphazard search. Online password cracking is too easy to detect and stop unless you have a large botnet at your disposal. Crackers are going after alternate channels. While you and I can pick our complex passwords to protect the front door, we cannot pick the reset methods and procedures chosen by Apple, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.
Want a simple correlation? If you force gun owners to register their purchase, and then hold the registered owner responsible for any crimes committed with that gun. Bring that up in a trial and then get your popcorn as your local politician tries to explain his loyalty to both sides.
A single IP can be used by many people at the same time. Some of them can even be out of sight of each other. This doesn't hold true for guns.
With Carrier-grade NAT, a whole lot of people may be using the same IP address at the same time, and they wouldn't even have to be in the same state...
You're still downloading the game and resources, it's just disguised as the startup being painfully laggy, with the added fun of having to download it all again if you want to play on another machine or your browser decides to clean house.
But for the casual gamer, it means going to some website and just playing a game. A "downloaded" game, requires the casual gamer to worry about things like where to save the installer, scanning the installer for evil viruses, running the installer, answering questions like "where to install" and "next". Why do you think Windows and Mac are moving to an app store model? Sure, there's profit, but there wouldn't be any profit if people thought they were no more convenient than downloading from random websites.
The most helpful thing is not to look at the keyboard at all, since you end up moving your hands out of the way and losing the flow.
Agreed. I forced myself to learn touch-typing in school when the instructor kept making us copy pages of code from the text book. I got tired of looking at the page, then at the keyboard to see what to press, then at the screen to check up on my progress.
...and thought it was worth keeping compatibility with most computers by using standard Dvorak.
I thought most standard computers used some variation of QWERTY.
that can use only the index finger on the right hand then?
I've been a software developer for more than a few years now. Most developers I've worked with type with some semblance of a home-row and using all their fingers. I can also tell you I've worked with more than a few decent developers that index-finger type. Proper software development is more planning and figuring out what to type and less manual typing. So long as you can solve problems and your typing method, no matter how wacky, doesn't interfere, then it's a non-issue.
install to virtual machine, then make copies of that virtual machine. problem solved.
This is why most "normal" people don't understand nerds. Every problem always has a technical solution. Always. Even if that problem isn't technical in nature and the solution completely misses the point. The issue isn't that it's physically impossible to install to multiple computers, as a hack will be around shortly to eliminate that limitation. The problem is in the license that's trying to bleed more money out of the user. The solution to that problem is to not buy the new version of Office. Either use an older version or switch to something more open.
The Army? I can't speak for them. I had almost zero contact with them while on active duty.
I can't speak for actual security around the base (I was a bit too paranoid to deviate from my known-safe route), but the gate guards at the Army base where I had a civilian job were just rent-a-cops. That base is now joined with the neighboring Air Force base, but I (along with just about every coworker I had), left long before that happened so I don't know if the rent-a-cops were replaced.
I know the answer: No. Unfortunately, I'm still not filthy rich.
I know the answer: Yes. But it'll take both an unusually well designed platform and a shitload of money thrown both at handset makers and app developers. No customer in their right mind is going to come to a platform with no popular apps. And no handset maker is going to take a chance on an upstart. Whoever wants to try this is going to bleed money like crazy just to get a foothold in.
You'd never guess to look at it, but the most hardware-taxing game I've played in years has been Minecraft.
Minecraft seems ok, even on my underpowered server (though it does peg that CPU occasionally). Dwarf Fortress, however... Get 200 dwarves, all their pets, and livestock, then break into hell while a siege is going on. Easily goes from real-time to turn-based. And none of it is graphics processing.
I've been using Llama pretty much since I got my first Android phone almost two years ago and they've been pretty open about why they need such and such new permission. In fact, if you read through the description, instead of jumping to the permissions directly, you'll see a description of why they need a few of the permissions, including calendar access. Put simply, if you want a 3rd party program to do things, you kind of need to grant permission to do those things. Granted, it would be nice if Android allowed you to grant subset permissions only for the things you use, but this is unfortunately how Android is.
Of course marketing guys are going to be more creative in tracking you. I automatically turn off my WiFi when I hit the road. I use a car dock with my Droid, and I use a simple app that detects when I put it in the car dock. It will turn off WiFi, and turn on Bluetooth. When I remove it from the car dock, I could either restore the previous WiFi setting, or leave it off. I generally leave it off unless I'm going somewhere I trust the WiFi, like home or the office.
Android has a nifty little program called Llama that I use for pretty much the same thing. Get home, WiFi on, leave the house, WiFi off. The tool has other benefits too, like going into silent mode when home at night so random emails don't wake me. But thanks to Llama, I usually don't have to mess with my WiFi settings unless I'm in a strange place that I know has free WiFi and I want to leech off of it instead of my data connection.
You mean, except for the whole "some random dude in another country now has his RSA ID and noone was the wiser", ya sure.
Now I haven't used an RSA id personally, but couldn't the employee have kept his RSA ID, set it up on a home computer, and given the outsourced programmer remote access to it?
Possibly, but the network setup could be a bit difficult since, I'm assuming, the RSA token allowed access to the work VPN. The only time I've used an RSA token was on a VPN which had a client that refused to allow both your home network and your work network to be active at the same time. So you end up having to set up the VPN on a virtual machine, let the outsider remote into the host machine and from there he can access the guest and thus, the VPN.
Simcity does city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future. Better.
I don't think they're really on the same scale. In Simcity, you play the planner/mayor/whatever-high-up that determines macro issues. We should build houses here, power plants should be there. I don't care what you think, I'm God.
In Minecraft you play an individual. You determine what you use, where you build, how you build, all micro issues centered around yourself. You have no in-game control over your fellow players. You have to resort to actually negotiating and talking about things if you want to affect the macro situation.
I most definitely agree that Simcity could be used for teaching. However, depending on what it is you're actually trying to teach, I would not call it "better."
But I still curious to know if there are other better software out there that can encourage students to think creatively.
Anyone that has any example, care to share?
Thanks !
Dwarf Fortress. Dozens (hundreds if you live long enough) of individual citizens that may or may not listen to you ("nope, sorry, I know we're under attack and I'm your only ballista operator, but I feel a fey mood coming on"). Minecraft is much more accessible though.
"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
Seemed like a good move considering they're having to deal with market erosion from things like Paint.NET and GIMP.
For casual stuff, sure. For professional artists, GIMP is a joke.
Who's going to be downloading "free" seven-year-old software for professional work?
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More like little apatosaurus, if you consider the gripping bit a mouth.
What that comes down to, is that humans don't *need* electrical power to merely function. We certainly *like* electrical power, but if it were us versus computers/robots, cut the power, the batteries only last so long, then disassemble them.
This part of your post made me think of something: while we certainly *like* electrical and gas power for a lot of convenience and we can certainly live without watching the latest popular TV show, we do sorta depend on it for food. I suppose most farm equipment is still mostly mechanical powered by gas/diesel, but I don't think we can continue to feed 7 billion people without the help of machines. I don't think this affects our outcome in a robot revolution, just something interesting that your post induced.
How is that link supposed to be used without first getting into the now-secured email account?
Perhaps because not all "forgot password" links work that way? Now, of course, that particular method no longer works and it did require some "personal" info and a physical call. However, it's not an isolated story, it's just the first that came up in my admittedly haphazard search. Online password cracking is too easy to detect and stop unless you have a large botnet at your disposal. Crackers are going after alternate channels. While you and I can pick our complex passwords to protect the front door, we cannot pick the reset methods and procedures chosen by Apple, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.
Security through obscurity. Why people think it's a good idea to use the same address everywhere is beyond me.
It's a sad day when the security of our accounts is so poor that we have to rely on obscurity to keep them safe.
3) change all your passwords and such securely and watch as they effortlessly use the forgot password feature on the site.
FTFY. You don't brute-force an account, you maybe try a few common passwords then attack the weak link.
Want a simple correlation? If you force gun owners to register their purchase, and then hold the registered owner responsible for any crimes committed with that gun. Bring that up in a trial and then get your popcorn as your local politician tries to explain his loyalty to both sides.
A single IP can be used by many people at the same time. Some of them can even be out of sight of each other. This doesn't hold true for guns.
With Carrier-grade NAT, a whole lot of people may be using the same IP address at the same time, and they wouldn't even have to be in the same state...
You're still downloading the game and resources, it's just disguised as the startup being painfully laggy, with the added fun of having to download it all again if you want to play on another machine or your browser decides to clean house.
But for the casual gamer, it means going to some website and just playing a game. A "downloaded" game, requires the casual gamer to worry about things like where to save the installer, scanning the installer for evil viruses, running the installer, answering questions like "where to install" and "next". Why do you think Windows and Mac are moving to an app store model? Sure, there's profit, but there wouldn't be any profit if people thought they were no more convenient than downloading from random websites.
The most helpful thing is not to look at the keyboard at all, since you end up moving your hands out of the way and losing the flow.
Agreed. I forced myself to learn touch-typing in school when the instructor kept making us copy pages of code from the text book. I got tired of looking at the page, then at the keyboard to see what to press, then at the screen to check up on my progress.
...and thought it was worth keeping compatibility with most computers by using standard Dvorak.
I thought most standard computers used some variation of QWERTY.
that can use only the index finger on the right hand then?
I've been a software developer for more than a few years now. Most developers I've worked with type with some semblance of a home-row and using all their fingers. I can also tell you I've worked with more than a few decent developers that index-finger type. Proper software development is more planning and figuring out what to type and less manual typing. So long as you can solve problems and your typing method, no matter how wacky, doesn't interfere, then it's a non-issue.
install to virtual machine, then make copies of that virtual machine. problem solved.
This is why most "normal" people don't understand nerds. Every problem always has a technical solution. Always. Even if that problem isn't technical in nature and the solution completely misses the point. The issue isn't that it's physically impossible to install to multiple computers, as a hack will be around shortly to eliminate that limitation. The problem is in the license that's trying to bleed more money out of the user. The solution to that problem is to not buy the new version of Office. Either use an older version or switch to something more open.
The Army? I can't speak for them. I had almost zero contact with them while on active duty.
I can't speak for actual security around the base (I was a bit too paranoid to deviate from my known-safe route), but the gate guards at the Army base where I had a civilian job were just rent-a-cops. That base is now joined with the neighboring Air Force base, but I (along with just about every coworker I had), left long before that happened so I don't know if the rent-a-cops were replaced.
"You've been a bad boy resisting arrest like that, and you need to be ... punished!"
Oh god, kill me now. I just read that in Jar Jar's voice.
There's a computer simulation available for those who want to try before they buy.
I know the answer: No. Unfortunately, I'm still not filthy rich.
I know the answer: Yes. But it'll take both an unusually well designed platform and a shitload of money thrown both at handset makers and app developers. No customer in their right mind is going to come to a platform with no popular apps. And no handset maker is going to take a chance on an upstart. Whoever wants to try this is going to bleed money like crazy just to get a foothold in.
You'd never guess to look at it, but the most hardware-taxing game I've played in years has been Minecraft.
Minecraft seems ok, even on my underpowered server (though it does peg that CPU occasionally). Dwarf Fortress, however... Get 200 dwarves, all their pets, and livestock, then break into hell while a siege is going on. Easily goes from real-time to turn-based. And none of it is graphics processing.
Re: your signature. Is that a joke or did that line actually come from an old Star Trek episode?
Damn it Jim, he's a scientist, not a doctor!
I've been using Llama pretty much since I got my first Android phone almost two years ago and they've been pretty open about why they need such and such new permission. In fact, if you read through the description, instead of jumping to the permissions directly, you'll see a description of why they need a few of the permissions, including calendar access. Put simply, if you want a 3rd party program to do things, you kind of need to grant permission to do those things. Granted, it would be nice if Android allowed you to grant subset permissions only for the things you use, but this is unfortunately how Android is.
Of course marketing guys are going to be more creative in tracking you. I automatically turn off my WiFi when I hit the road. I use a car dock with my Droid, and I use a simple app that detects when I put it in the car dock. It will turn off WiFi, and turn on Bluetooth. When I remove it from the car dock, I could either restore the previous WiFi setting, or leave it off. I generally leave it off unless I'm going somewhere I trust the WiFi, like home or the office.
Android has a nifty little program called Llama that I use for pretty much the same thing. Get home, WiFi on, leave the house, WiFi off. The tool has other benefits too, like going into silent mode when home at night so random emails don't wake me. But thanks to Llama, I usually don't have to mess with my WiFi settings unless I'm in a strange place that I know has free WiFi and I want to leech off of it instead of my data connection.
It's the major people that can't handle physics switch to.
Chemistry is just applied physics.
You mean, except for the whole "some random dude in another country now has his RSA ID and noone was the wiser", ya sure.
Now I haven't used an RSA id personally, but couldn't the employee have kept his RSA ID, set it up on a home computer, and given the outsourced programmer remote access to it?
Possibly, but the network setup could be a bit difficult since, I'm assuming, the RSA token allowed access to the work VPN. The only time I've used an RSA token was on a VPN which had a client that refused to allow both your home network and your work network to be active at the same time. So you end up having to set up the VPN on a virtual machine, let the outsider remote into the host machine and from there he can access the guest and thus, the VPN.
Simcity does city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future. Better.
I don't think they're really on the same scale. In Simcity, you play the planner/mayor/whatever-high-up that determines macro issues. We should build houses here, power plants should be there. I don't care what you think, I'm God.
In Minecraft you play an individual. You determine what you use, where you build, how you build, all micro issues centered around yourself. You have no in-game control over your fellow players. You have to resort to actually negotiating and talking about things if you want to affect the macro situation.
I most definitely agree that Simcity could be used for teaching. However, depending on what it is you're actually trying to teach, I would not call it "better."
No doubt minecraft, the game, is interesting
But I still curious to know if there are other better software out there that can encourage students to think creatively.
Anyone that has any example, care to share?
Thanks !
Dwarf Fortress. Dozens (hundreds if you live long enough) of individual citizens that may or may not listen to you ("nope, sorry, I know we're under attack and I'm your only ballista operator, but I feel a fey mood coming on"). Minecraft is much more accessible though.
1) The patent is novel. I mean, who the fuck would've thought of this before?
I'm not sure
Yes, the Earth is a manufactured planet, a large computer build to calculate the answer to the ultimate question.
I thought Deep Thought was created to find the answer and that Earth was created to find the question....
It's like what Bill Gates said:
"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
Seemed like a good move considering they're having to deal with market erosion from things like Paint.NET and GIMP.
For casual stuff, sure. For professional artists, GIMP is a joke.
Who's going to be downloading "free" seven-year-old software for professional work?