Sorry if I offended you, but I was just throwing a thought out, definitely not trolling.
It was just to provoke discussion, not be taken as absolute truth.
One thing I'd like to point out is I put it in a question. If I said, 'Australia's consitution prevents this, otherwise they're the most...' that would be an insult.
Just clarifying. ------------------------------------- -
If they won't let someone put Jedi, why do they let people put Christian? Muslim? Jewish? All of these religions are recognized by some people, while others think the whole religion is full of it. Just because a few government officials don't think that 'Jedi' counts as a religion doesn't mean that it's NOT a religion.
On a side note, it's not like even following the 'Jedi Code' would get one locked up! As far as I can tell, Christianity and 'Jedism' would follow extremely similiar belief systems. Nobody (well, a very small minority) would say that Christianity encourages bad things- murder, rape, etc. Jedism wouldn't either. If I lived in Australia you can bet I'd put Jedi!
P.S.- In America denying someone the chance to put down their religion, whatever it is, would be unconstituational.. is something like this the case in Australia? --------------------------------------
I've seen someone mention the problem of skipping when going over bumps. One could easily just switch to a CD Player that already has skip protection (through a read ahead device). However, there has to be a way to stop this.
I've seen someone mention putting it in foam or something like that... That might work, but wouldn't it still bounce a little? If the foam is even relatively stiff the player will just bounce with the car.
What about using the foam in one of these pillows to cushion it. Also, put it in a case attached to two wires so it can swing back and forth when the car hits a bump... I saw cup holders like this once. The drink wouldn't spill because they swung back and forth and stayed level... at least most of the time.
Hopefully those measures would stop most skipping.
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Techonolgy is a growing part of our society... PDAs, PCs, email...
You think politicians use these things but have absolutely no clue how they work?
Also, politicians get asked question on all aspects of life as we know it- remember "Mr. Bush, what's the price of milk?"- if a reporter asks Politician X what his opinion is on the integration P2P file-sharing with copyright laws he better say "I don't know". Words of death.
This means that as time goes on more and more politicans will "speak the language" to a certain extent. Heck, kids know more about computers then many adults, and as they grow up and become politicans then we will have MANY tech-savvy reps running around on Capitol Hill. --------------------------------------
If they wanted their laws to be their own, they should have had them printed up in a little (copyrighted) book, not sent them off to the legislature!
If something becomes a law it HAS to move into public domain, because as long as ignorance is not an exuse for breaking the law (suspiciously like my.sig) the public has to be informed of any and all laws (or at least has to be ABLE to be informed).
If this group holds a copyright then the law can't be disseminated properly.
This seems like a common sense thing- you just CAN'T do it- but the way America's legal system works they probably have an illogial leg to stand on. --------------------------------------
Describes the way a random art generator (this is not necessarily how Aaron works) makes its images. Because they have never been seen before, the machine is showing creativity. If I create a work of art, let's call it a painting, it would be creative. If a machine creats an orginial painting, not based on variations of others, then it is creative. However, because the machine was programmed to do this it isn't intelligent. Some people may be wondering if because of the programming, the machine isn't even creative- it's only following programming, right? Wrong. The computer is RANDOMLY generating values to put in the program. So without the computer the art wouldn't exist- creativity. But without the intelligence behind the computer the art wouldn't have been created, so no intellignce for Aaron. Sorry. --------------------------------------
FYI, I'm getting sub-500 bytes/sec downloading it now. You may want to wait until there is a mirror/ Slashdot effect dies down. --------------------------------------
This sorta reminded me of the last space odyssey book, takes place in the year 3000. One of the things that struck me was how Clarke talked about the massive technological changes between the years 1000 and 2000 and the years 2000 and 3000. He said the difference was greater between the first two- someone from 1000 AD would be lost in our society, while someone from 2000 AD in 3000 would be awestruck, but not overwhelmed. He didn't forsee any new changes in the nature of technology that would cause one's head to explode (figuratively speaking of course), while a person from 1000 to 2000 would be struck dumb by the advent of electricity.
I digress.
My question was, do you think that the last 50 years have brought greater change then the next 50 will? My guess is no. I think that the next 5 decades will bring revolutions to our world... First, non-technologically speaking, true world peace will break out. Not the worrying about what small country with an insane military leader has nuclear weapons, but no fighting at all (and no Cold Wars, and no "incidents" like with China). Second, new power sources will be utilized. I don't mean that nuclear power will be widely utilized, but that completely new power sources will discovered- or theoretical sources will be opened. Third, we will have "space elevators" constructed out of the bucky tubes -I think that's the name- which are super strong albeit at the moment incredibly tiny tubes. Fourth, computers will undergo a development equal to the evolution from ENIAC to the current PC.
Anyone else have ideas? Comments? --------------------------------------
How about showing the equations you input into the calc to get the answers? Full credit *and* you used the calc. Simple, effective, full credit. --------------------------------------
This is in response to many posts, probably off-topic, but who cares? Not me.
Group projects are almost invariably the worst kind. First, people who are bright will sometimes band together to preserve a grade. Recently I did that on a project that counted a LARGE amount. Amazingly enough (not sarcasm) we TWO against groups of FIVE AND SIX got higher grades. 100s to be exact.
People will now be saying, "what's your point? You're an idiot. Go away." And things of this nature. Be quiet.
My point is, we both shared work equally, finished it well ahead of schedule, and put other people to shame. We graded each other for a portion of the grade (both getting full marks) and actually deserved the A. Other people obviously gave people 10s to preserve friendships. If you had to choose between giving an idiot friend an A and losing that friendship what would you do? Give the A of course.
That is reason 1 why group projects suck.
Reason 2 is:
If you happen to be in a group with an idiot, what will happen to the work load split between you two, three, etc.? It will shift from them to you because you want to get a good grade. You don't want them to screw up the project. I was also recently in a group with a couple of morons. It sucked. While we didn't have to grade each other, we did have to *work* together. This is what followed:
One guy did a good job, he had his stuff in, and while it wasn't *great* it was decent enough that our grade would stay the same. The other guy procastinated, got all his sources from the internet- this doesn't seem bad, but when only 1/2 can come from here this put me in a position to FIND MORE BOOKS! You can't imagine how unbelievably pissed off I got about that. He ended up giving it to me- unformatted like we had said beforehand- the day it was due and it looked awful. I want to do various and malicious things to his dog. (Just kidding guys, calm down.)
In both these instances the thing that makes groups bad is the other people. I took a long time getting there, but I don't care. It's late and I'm rambling- learn to deal with it. If the other person is an idiot or won't do work, you're screwed into getting bad grade or doing their f--king work. Either way you lose. If you happen to work with somebody as intelligent as you then other people will get pissed off. (I forgot to mention how people screamed, "unfair, how come they get to work together!!" as we told the teacher who was in our group.)
This post summed up into one sentence: groups suck, teachers: assign individuals projects to assess individual skills or assign different projects to different people, grouping them by ability and giving the assignment accordingly.
But if everyone brings their computer don't you think someone will cheat? By not allowing you to bring your computer they cut down on cheating (read none) unless someone brought a disk(s) with their cheats loaded on. You could stop this by removing the disk drives (with not drives maybe it would drop the price of 3000 computers a percent or two). With this amount of money they have to stop any cheating or else the event will be a joke and nobody will host big money events.
Maybe they could let you personalize it a little by giving options before hand as to which mouse, keyboard, and maybe monitor size (though they'd probably put a cap on the size at 17" or 19" or something).
All the "old" programmers don't want us youngsters (highschool) taking their jobs. That's what this boils down to. It's a vicious rumor to keep people from taking CS, etc, in college and to push them into other fields. I'm not fooled, I'm going to be a CS guy and then go knock on a few doors and get some stock options, six-figure salary, and then drink champagne and code a few lines while laughing at the people who believed this.
Just kidding. Actually, I guessed this would happen at some point. With people reading about the above lifestyle in the news (massive stock options, work 3 hours a day to become a millionaire) many morons were bound to think they deserved a piece of the action. I don't know but I'm guessing that many people now aren't "cut out" to be a programmer. They just decided to make easy money, so they rushed through college, ready for people to throw money at them. Soon, people will probably stop rushing into CS. People who *like* to code will be doing it, and as long as you're good, jobs will be there. I plan to be good.
(I've taught myself some VB, and I'm working on C++ and planning to take a course at a nearby college this summer. As a *young* highschooler.)
By my logic, this means I can be a programmer and still get money thrown at me (or at least jobs). Cross your fingers for me.
It strikes me that if war games can be played using satellites (and micro-satellites and what-not) the military must have a model, or at least something on paper, of what they're using. I could come up with futuristic weapons, but they won't say China has them in 2017. This means we could probably start shooting enemy satellites down in the next 5(?) years, if they get built right away. Cool stuff, go Air Force.
It's a long-term strategy game. You control a "province", balancing military, economics, build (what kind of buildings do you want?).
It's probably a pretty good test. I'm guessing that because I was around 250 out of everyone as a 14 year-old. That must mean it's a pretty good test of general intellect.
Also, because you're testing business students this would be a good game because it's possible to work out the best possible combination of buildings, troops, etc. You could do it all with math or just wing it, which can work just as well.
Sell 'em for 2 bucks a game. Everyone will pay 2 instead of 1 (if you won't you've probably also never payed for dinner). Oh yeah, you'd double your money!
To relive stress I mean... if these haven't been released yet is there any proof that they actually remove stress from your hands/fingers/wrist etc? Maybe short term, but long term studies? Luckily for me I don't have problems with typing yet..
1) Tell him to read Ender's Game (if he hasn't all ready). If he's a genius he'll probably relate and love it.
2) Make sure he knows how to work. So far he probably hasn't had any trouble doing anything he's put his mind on.. Sooner or later he'll want to do something and not get it right away.
I'm not clear on why this is bad.. he's getting in trouble for infringing on trademarks, but he never used those trademarks . He's strongly suggesting that this is AltaVista and making money off them, but not using their trademarks. In my opinion they have nothing to complain about
Good for those companies!! I doubt anyone running a major company such as these would not take advantage of tax breaks like these.. Even wealthy individuals have accountants to look for tax breaks, and this isn't even technically a break (the employees pay taxes as stated in previous responses). This is one of the many reasons large companies ARE large companies and make money.
They're also only bringing back one animal at a time. The time (as well as surrogate mothers) required to "bring back a species" would be extraordinary.. Sounds interesting though, the time/ money invested would be recouped by the public wanting to see the only animal of it's kind existing in the world.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry if I offended you, but I was just throwing a thought out, definitely not trolling.
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It was just to provoke discussion, not be taken as absolute truth.
One thing I'd like to point out is I put it in a question. If I said, 'Australia's consitution prevents this, otherwise they're the most...' that would be an insult.
Just clarifying.
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If they won't let someone put Jedi, why do they let people put Christian? Muslim? Jewish? All of these religions are recognized by some people, while others think the whole religion is full of it. Just because a few government officials don't think that 'Jedi' counts as a religion doesn't mean that it's NOT a religion.
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On a side note, it's not like even following the 'Jedi Code' would get one locked up! As far as I can tell, Christianity and 'Jedism' would follow extremely similiar belief systems. Nobody (well, a very small minority) would say that Christianity encourages bad things- murder, rape, etc. Jedism wouldn't either. If I lived in Australia you can bet I'd put Jedi!
P.S.- In America denying someone the chance to put down their religion, whatever it is, would be unconstituational.. is something like this the case in Australia?
-------------------------------------
I've seen someone mention the problem of skipping when going over bumps. One could easily just switch to a CD Player that already has skip protection (through a read ahead device). However, there has to be a way to stop this.
I've seen someone mention putting it in foam or something like that... That might work, but wouldn't it still bounce a little? If the foam is even relatively stiff the player will just bounce with the car.
What about using the foam in one of these pillows to cushion it. Also, put it in a case attached to two wires so it can swing back and forth when the car hits a bump... I saw cup holders like this once. The drink wouldn't spill because they swung back and forth and stayed level... at least most of the time.
Hopefully those measures would stop most skipping.
--------------------------------------
Techonolgy is a growing part of our society... PDAs, PCs, email...
You think politicians use these things but have absolutely no clue how they work?
Also, politicians get asked question on all aspects of life as we know it- remember "Mr. Bush, what's the price of milk?"- if a reporter asks Politician X what his opinion is on the integration P2P file-sharing with copyright laws he better say "I don't know". Words of death.
This means that as time goes on more and more politicans will "speak the language" to a certain extent. Heck, kids know more about computers then many adults, and as they grow up and become politicans then we will have MANY tech-savvy reps running around on Capitol Hill.
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If they wanted their laws to be their own, they should have had them printed up in a little (copyrighted) book, not sent them off to the legislature!
.sig) the public has to be informed of any and all laws (or at least has to be ABLE to be informed).
If something becomes a law it HAS to move into public domain, because as long as ignorance is not an exuse for breaking the law (suspiciously like my
If this group holds a copyright then the law can't be disseminated properly.
This seems like a common sense thing- you just CAN'T do it- but the way America's legal system works they probably have an illogial leg to stand on.
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gs2.sp.cs.cmu.edu/art/random/howto/index.html
Describes the way a random art generator (this is not necessarily how Aaron works) makes its images. Because they have never been seen before, the machine is showing creativity. If I create a work of art, let's call it a painting, it would be creative. If a machine creats an orginial painting, not based on variations of others, then it is creative. However, because the machine was programmed to do this it isn't intelligent. Some people may be wondering if because of the programming, the machine isn't even creative- it's only following programming, right? Wrong. The computer is RANDOMLY generating values to put in the program. So without the computer the art wouldn't exist- creativity. But without the intelligence behind the computer the art wouldn't have been created, so no intellignce for Aaron. Sorry.
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FYI, I'm getting sub-500 bytes/sec downloading it now. You may want to wait until there is a mirror/ Slashdot effect dies down.
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This sorta reminded me of the last space odyssey book, takes place in the year 3000. One of the things that struck me was how Clarke talked about the massive technological changes between the years 1000 and 2000 and the years 2000 and 3000. He said the difference was greater between the first two- someone from 1000 AD would be lost in our society, while someone from 2000 AD in 3000 would be awestruck, but not overwhelmed. He didn't forsee any new changes in the nature of technology that would cause one's head to explode (figuratively speaking of course), while a person from 1000 to 2000 would be struck dumb by the advent of electricity.
I digress.
My question was, do you think that the last 50 years have brought greater change then the next 50 will? My guess is no. I think that the next 5 decades will bring revolutions to our world... First, non-technologically speaking, true world peace will break out. Not the worrying about what small country with an insane military leader has nuclear weapons, but no fighting at all (and no Cold Wars, and no "incidents" like with China). Second, new power sources will be utilized. I don't mean that nuclear power will be widely utilized, but that completely new power sources will discovered- or theoretical sources will be opened. Third, we will have "space elevators" constructed out of the bucky tubes -I think that's the name- which are super strong albeit at the moment incredibly tiny tubes. Fourth, computers will undergo a development equal to the evolution from ENIAC to the current PC.
Anyone else have ideas? Comments?
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How about showing the equations you input into the calc to get the answers? Full credit *and* you used the calc. Simple, effective, full credit.
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This is in response to many posts, probably off-topic, but who cares? Not me.
Group projects are almost invariably the worst kind. First, people who are bright will sometimes band together to preserve a grade. Recently I did that on a project that counted a LARGE amount. Amazingly enough (not sarcasm) we TWO against groups of FIVE AND SIX got higher grades. 100s to be exact.
People will now be saying, "what's your point? You're an idiot. Go away." And things of this nature. Be quiet.
My point is, we both shared work equally, finished it well ahead of schedule, and put other people to shame. We graded each other for a portion of the grade (both getting full marks) and actually deserved the A. Other people obviously gave people 10s to preserve friendships. If you had to choose between giving an idiot friend an A and losing that friendship what would you do? Give the A of course.
That is reason 1 why group projects suck.
Reason 2 is:
If you happen to be in a group with an idiot, what will happen to the work load split between you two, three, etc.? It will shift from them to you because you want to get a good grade. You don't want them to screw up the project. I was also recently in a group with a couple of morons. It sucked. While we didn't have to grade each other, we did have to *work* together. This is what followed:
One guy did a good job, he had his stuff in, and while it wasn't *great* it was decent enough that our grade would stay the same. The other guy procastinated, got all his sources from the internet- this doesn't seem bad, but when only 1/2 can come from here this put me in a position to FIND MORE BOOKS! You can't imagine how unbelievably pissed off I got about that. He ended up giving it to me- unformatted like we had said beforehand- the day it was due and it looked awful. I want to do various and malicious things to his dog. (Just kidding guys, calm down.)
In both these instances the thing that makes groups bad is the other people. I took a long time getting there, but I don't care. It's late and I'm rambling- learn to deal with it. If the other person is an idiot or won't do work, you're screwed into getting bad grade or doing their f--king work. Either way you lose. If you happen to work with somebody as intelligent as you then other people will get pissed off. (I forgot to mention how people screamed, "unfair, how come they get to work together!!" as we told the teacher who was in our group.)
This post summed up into one sentence: groups suck, teachers: assign individuals projects to assess individual skills or assign different projects to different people, grouping them by ability and giving the assignment accordingly.
Omerna- out.
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But if everyone brings their computer don't you think someone will cheat? By not allowing you to bring your computer they cut down on cheating (read none) unless someone brought a disk(s) with their cheats loaded on. You could stop this by removing the disk drives (with not drives maybe it would drop the price of 3000 computers a percent or two). With this amount of money they have to stop any cheating or else the event will be a joke and nobody will host big money events.
Maybe they could let you personalize it a little by giving options before hand as to which mouse, keyboard, and maybe monitor size (though they'd probably put a cap on the size at 17" or 19" or something).
All the "old" programmers don't want us youngsters (highschool) taking their jobs. That's what this boils down to. It's a vicious rumor to keep people from taking CS, etc, in college and to push them into other fields. I'm not fooled, I'm going to be a CS guy and then go knock on a few doors and get some stock options, six-figure salary, and then drink champagne and code a few lines while laughing at the people who believed this.
Just kidding. Actually, I guessed this would happen at some point. With people reading about the above lifestyle in the news (massive stock options, work 3 hours a day to become a millionaire) many morons were bound to think they deserved a piece of the action. I don't know but I'm guessing that many people now aren't "cut out" to be a programmer. They just decided to make easy money, so they rushed through college, ready for people to throw money at them. Soon, people will probably stop rushing into CS. People who *like* to code will be doing it, and as long as you're good, jobs will be there. I plan to be good.
(I've taught myself some VB, and I'm working on C++ and planning to take a course at a nearby college this summer. As a *young* highschooler.)
By my logic, this means I can be a programmer and still get money thrown at me (or at least jobs). Cross your fingers for me.
It strikes me that if war games can be played using satellites (and micro-satellites and what-not) the military must have a model, or at least something on paper, of what they're using. I could come up with futuristic weapons, but they won't say China has them in 2017. This means we could probably start shooting enemy satellites down in the next 5(?) years, if they get built right away. Cool stuff, go Air Force.
http://games.swirve.com/utopia
It's a long-term strategy game. You control a "province", balancing military, economics, build (what kind of buildings do you want?).
It's probably a pretty good test. I'm guessing that because I was around 250 out of everyone as a 14 year-old. That must mean it's a pretty good test of general intellect.
Also, because you're testing business students this would be a good game because it's possible to work out the best possible combination of buildings, troops, etc. You could do it all with math or just wing it, which can work just as well.
Good luck with your testing.
Sell 'em for 2 bucks a game. Everyone will pay 2 instead of 1 (if you won't you've probably also never payed for dinner). Oh yeah, you'd double your money!
1) Tux could eat the Window (seriously, you could make a picture of it happening)
2) A penguin is just cool
3) A window? Right..
4) Remember the old screensavers with windows flying at you? Ughh..
5) The penguin has a name
And this is why you preview posts...
To relive stress I mean... if these haven't been released yet is there any proof that they actually remove stress from your hands/fingers/wrist etc? Maybe short term, but long term studies? Luckily for me I don't have problems with typing yet..
1) Tell him to read Ender's Game (if he hasn't all ready). If he's a genius he'll probably relate and love it. 2) Make sure he knows how to work. So far he probably hasn't had any trouble doing anything he's put his mind on.. Sooner or later he'll want to do something and not get it right away.
Yeah, it's pretty good tonight (Dole was funny).
I'm not clear on why this is bad.. he's getting in trouble for infringing on trademarks, but he never used those trademarks . He's strongly suggesting that this is AltaVista and making money off them, but not using their trademarks. In my opinion they have nothing to complain about
Good for those companies!! I doubt anyone running a major company such as these would not take advantage of tax breaks like these.. Even wealthy individuals have accountants to look for tax breaks, and this isn't even technically a break (the employees pay taxes as stated in previous responses). This is one of the many reasons large companies ARE large companies and make money.
Not to mention he is running to be part of that government.
I'm happy I don't live in New York with such ignorant people running for Senate. I'd like to see the gov't try to charge $.05 per message.
At least one (or both) of them didn't say they agreed with it.
They're also only bringing back one animal at a time. The time (as well as surrogate mothers) required to "bring back a species" would be extraordinary.. Sounds interesting though, the time/ money invested would be recouped by the public wanting to see the only animal of it's kind existing in the world.