we could very well be witnessing the begining of a new wifi based internet. This guy starts his own little subnet.... then some other guy starts one... pretty soon they're everywhere, and then people start setting up unidirectional antennas to link them all together... boom... InternetIII
Personally I think it's all quite irrelavant. By the time they could even finish concieveing such a gargantuan project, the internet will have evolved into something beyond even the control of the corps. Anyone who doesn't see that needs to pay closer attention. Technology will inevitably push the internet into the sole control of it's members, and by members, I mean the users, US! The internet is democrocy in it's purest form. It is the community that will decide what is and is not acceptable. And fortunatly they so far have chose what can be considered the closest incarnation of freedom yet to be seen. I personally would love to see some government spend billions of dollars developing this 3rd internet, only to find that no one but the corps use it. That is if I didn't know it would further cut education and medical. Because we know they won't cut military spending. Maybe they'll try to mold Internet 2 into what they envision as the perfect dystopia, but that's not really where "their" problem will lie.
In truth, the "new" internet will fly through the airwaves and be relayed by we the people. We will be the gatekeepers. We will hold the keys. The govs and the corps will be but another node in a sea of webs. We will own the pipes. We will own it all.
sorry... gotta jump in on this one. A electronic device does NOT produce anything near the heat output of an electric heater. Even given the same wattage, you have one device who's energy is being directed to some other form of work and is designed to run LESS hot versus another with at least 95% (controls and what-not) of it's energy being directed toward producing heat, and designed to run MORE hot. Power is a by-product of resistance and thus heat disipation is an indirect by-product of resistance. Electronic devices are design to be less resistant so as to make better use of energy. We don't use 300-400 watt power supplies cuz we want to. We use them cuz we must. And most of that energy is put very efficiantly to work.
But on a lighter note.... it is nice to think that it does make a good heater and I often use the reasoning myself when talking smack...
o)
Just cuz I spell bad and use run-ons, doesn't make me wrong... being an idiot does...
It could very well just be a play on Death of A Salesman. Or, gosh, he could of aghast maybe made a typing mistake.
That so much energy was put into this small gramatical error really makes me wonder about some people.
Simply put, Globalization is the dissolving of national boundaries. You take away national boundaries and you get a global community. I think a lot of people confuse the effects of globalization with globalization itself. Like most things in the world of human intrigue there are good and bad aspects of the "effects" of globalization. The internet is a result of globalization. As is cultural exchange. At the same time so are sweatshops and economic exploitation. It is my opinion that what people see as bad in what they individually define as globalization is the same as the source of much grief in the world. It is the enforcement of new "global" policies on unwilling subjects. And I hate to say it boys and girls, but that's a property of human nature. It happened during the Spanish Inquisition, the witch hunts of Salem, the Nazi Regime, Native Americans, African tribes, and the list goes on and on. There will forever be people that believe might makes right and their ideas are the best and right way and they will enforce it to the best they can. Globalization isn't our enemy, human nature is. But, like most things in the world, human nature has it's good sides too. But it is up to those who believe might doesn't make right, and all voices deserve to be heard, and economically and militarily challenged communities shouldn't have to suffer so as to increase profit margins and regional stability, and that all life is precious. It is up to us to say no more. And for those that think that all the "effects" of globalization are a good thing. Those who think that it will bring wealth to impoverished countries and increase human rights. I say to you to look at NAFTA as an example. When applied to economics, the dissolving of boundaries allows a given company to reduce the amount it pays for labor. And do you think the little corporations are gonna be altruistic and return that to us in decreased sale price. Oh of course they will... They'll just throw the laws of supply and demand out the window and say hell with it, we got enough money. (READ: sarcasm) And when applied to human rights and individual freedoms, well... all I have to say is that you had the divine rights of kings and now you have legally sanctioned rights of the corporation. Both backed by a big fucking military. But fear not Americans, we still have the most freedoms and most money. So who really cares about the rest of the world.
I just gotta ask... can you really be that naive?
Does the word Republicrats mean anything to you?
-kevin
"There's a two headed hydra.... and I wouldn't vote for neither..." -Snog
I think you should teach him how to fetch, roll over, and play dead. Then make sure to teach him how to heel. That way he won't stray far from the path of normality and thus can grow up to freely create the latest cutting edge technology and never have to think about the social ramifications.
Seriously though, everyone's talking about htis kid as if they are some kinda pet. It's a human being not a science experiment. Let see how much junk we can cram in it's head before it explodes.
Everyone must keep in mind that we are talking about a human being. While they are still a child, I think children have been extremely underestimated throughout history. The only thing seperating children from adults is experience. And experience is the ultimate tutor. There is nothing you can teach a child, they must learn everything for themselves. (for those who like to take things out of context... this doesn't mean that they must start from ground zero and re-invent everything) Think of the relation between a very young child and a flame. No matter how many times you tell them not to touch it they will (with the exception of severe physical repremand and disencouragement) eventually touch it. They will get burned. They will now know why not to touch it. The best you can hope to offer is to guide them into the experience slowly to reduce the pain. Help them move the hand slowly. Feel the heat. Then they can learn respect for those forces they can't yet understand before they bite them in the ass.
I don't claim in the slightest to be a child prodigy or anywhere near this kids inteligence, but I was a gifted child, raised in a gifted program. And really we are just talking about levels of extreme. I was a social late bloomer. Even long before I was diagnosed gifted, I was very anti-social. I have always been, and still am a loner. Is there something wrong with me? maybe, but I don't think it has anything to do with my anti-social tendencies. Everyone is made different. Some more different then others, but we live in a world were everyone and everything are forced into these molds which no one quite fits. You don't need to teach kids how to think for themselves, they're born with it. You just need to recognize your own bias and not teach him to think like you. And while your at it maybe you can unlearn the rest of us so we can think for ourselves again.
Kids, especially one as bright as this can figure out a lot more than you think. Though it's probably to late, you don't need to teach him anything, or guide him for that matter, just provide the resources, and try to expose him to as much of life as you can. He'll come up with the questions, you just need to point him in the direction of the answers.
But if it is too late, and the bias of those around him have forced them in the direction of science (don't get me wrong, I love science. I myself am strange and unusual.... sorry, got caught in a movie quote.... I myself am a technophile, a cumputer geek) then you should at least make sure they understand the full consequences of their intelligence. In other words, hopefully they will realize that they have a social resposibility, not just a employee responsibility, and won't go and invent the next atom bomb or biological weapon. You may want to leave a copy of the book Eath by David Brin on the nightstand. In the book, a genius level scientist creates a quantum singularity (an ity bitty black hole) the lab gets recked and it falls into the earth were it begins slowly devoring the earths core and growing larger. The moral of the story folks is that all science has it's risks and far too few of our brilliant minds consider them.
anyway... along with some good fiction books, classic lit and mythology.... you may want to leave some Chompsky or Zin (People's History of the US) laying around. Don't force them to read anything. Just make it available. Their natural curiousity will direct them. But remember, they can't learn something that's not available to them.
Recognise your own bias as a tutor. Realize that even if you aren't a natural parent (which is unknown and irrelevant) you still hold a parental role and thus responsibility. Make sure you aren't their only sourse of knowledge. You're raising a child, not a clone.
All that said... I bid you ado...
kevin
"Being the same is easy"
Slashdot Mirror
we could very well be witnessing the begining of a new wifi based internet. This guy starts his own little subnet.... then some other guy starts one... pretty soon they're everywhere, and then people start setting up unidirectional antennas to link them all together... boom... InternetIII
It's enough to make me want to cry..
o)
What is a sig, how do you define a sig.
I still don't understand why the quagmire approach hasn't gotten more widely used. Anyone?
o)
Or is this just an open invite for an even more high-tech form of identity theft.
Who do you want to be today?
o)
Personally I think it's all quite irrelavant. By the time they could even finish concieveing such a gargantuan project, the internet will have evolved into something beyond even the control of the corps. Anyone who doesn't see that needs to pay closer attention. Technology will inevitably push the internet into the sole control of it's members, and by members, I mean the users, US! The internet is democrocy in it's purest form. It is the community that will decide what is and is not acceptable. And fortunatly they so far have chose what can be considered the closest incarnation of freedom yet to be seen. I personally would love to see some government spend billions of dollars developing this 3rd internet, only to find that no one but the corps use it. That is if I didn't know it would further cut education and medical. Because we know they won't cut military spending. Maybe they'll try to mold Internet 2 into what they envision as the perfect dystopia, but that's not really where "their" problem will lie.
In truth, the "new" internet will fly through the airwaves and be relayed by we the people. We will be the gatekeepers. We will hold the keys. The govs and the corps will be but another node in a sea of webs. We will own the pipes. We will own it all.
Greed should be a four letter word.
o)
sorry... gotta jump in on this one. A electronic device does NOT produce anything near the heat output of an electric heater. Even given the same wattage, you have one device who's energy is being directed to some other form of work and is designed to run LESS hot versus another with at least 95% (controls and what-not) of it's energy being directed toward producing heat, and designed to run MORE hot. Power is a by-product of resistance and thus heat disipation is an indirect by-product of resistance. Electronic devices are design to be less resistant so as to make better use of energy. We don't use 300-400 watt power supplies cuz we want to. We use them cuz we must. And most of that energy is put very efficiantly to work.
But on a lighter note.... it is nice to think that it does make a good heater and I often use the reasoning myself when talking smack...
o)
Just cuz I spell bad and use run-ons, doesn't make me wrong... being an idiot does...
Didn't I see this in a James Bond movie. He's not building an ice palace too is he?
o)
It could very well just be a play on Death of A Salesman. Or, gosh, he could of aghast maybe made a typing mistake.
That so much energy was put into this small gramatical error really makes me wonder about some people.
Once the grid is fully functional, the only excuse for power shortages will be greed.
Good thing we don't hafta worry about greed!
Simply put, Globalization is the dissolving of national boundaries. You take away national boundaries and you get a global community. I think a lot of people confuse the effects of globalization with globalization itself. Like most things in the world of human intrigue there are good and bad aspects of the "effects" of globalization. The internet is a result of globalization. As is cultural exchange. At the same time so are sweatshops and economic exploitation. It is my opinion that what people see as bad in what they individually define as globalization is the same as the source of much grief in the world. It is the enforcement of new "global" policies on unwilling subjects. And I hate to say it boys and girls, but that's a property of human nature. It happened during the Spanish Inquisition, the witch hunts of Salem, the Nazi Regime, Native Americans, African tribes, and the list goes on and on. There will forever be people that believe might makes right and their ideas are the best and right way and they will enforce it to the best they can. Globalization isn't our enemy, human nature is. But, like most things in the world, human nature has it's good sides too. But it is up to those who believe might doesn't make right, and all voices deserve to be heard, and economically and militarily challenged communities shouldn't have to suffer so as to increase profit margins and regional stability, and that all life is precious. It is up to us to say no more. And for those that think that all the "effects" of globalization are a good thing. Those who think that it will bring wealth to impoverished countries and increase human rights. I say to you to look at NAFTA as an example. When applied to economics, the dissolving of boundaries allows a given company to reduce the amount it pays for labor. And do you think the little corporations are gonna be altruistic and return that to us in decreased sale price. Oh of course they will... They'll just throw the laws of supply and demand out the window and say hell with it, we got enough money. (READ: sarcasm) And when applied to human rights and individual freedoms, well... all I have to say is that you had the divine rights of kings and now you have legally sanctioned rights of the corporation. Both backed by a big fucking military. But fear not Americans, we still have the most freedoms and most money. So who really cares about the rest of the world.
with love
-kevin
I just gotta ask... can you really be that naive? Does the word Republicrats mean anything to you? -kevin "There's a two headed hydra.... and I wouldn't vote for neither..." -Snog
I also found it completely lacked an adequate explanation of clowns and circus peanuts.
I think you should teach him how to fetch, roll over, and play dead. Then make sure to teach him how to heel. That way he won't stray far from the path of normality and thus can grow up to freely create the latest cutting edge technology and never have to think about the social ramifications. Seriously though, everyone's talking about htis kid as if they are some kinda pet. It's a human being not a science experiment. Let see how much junk we can cram in it's head before it explodes. Everyone must keep in mind that we are talking about a human being. While they are still a child, I think children have been extremely underestimated throughout history. The only thing seperating children from adults is experience. And experience is the ultimate tutor. There is nothing you can teach a child, they must learn everything for themselves. (for those who like to take things out of context... this doesn't mean that they must start from ground zero and re-invent everything) Think of the relation between a very young child and a flame. No matter how many times you tell them not to touch it they will (with the exception of severe physical repremand and disencouragement) eventually touch it. They will get burned. They will now know why not to touch it. The best you can hope to offer is to guide them into the experience slowly to reduce the pain. Help them move the hand slowly. Feel the heat. Then they can learn respect for those forces they can't yet understand before they bite them in the ass. I don't claim in the slightest to be a child prodigy or anywhere near this kids inteligence, but I was a gifted child, raised in a gifted program. And really we are just talking about levels of extreme. I was a social late bloomer. Even long before I was diagnosed gifted, I was very anti-social. I have always been, and still am a loner. Is there something wrong with me? maybe, but I don't think it has anything to do with my anti-social tendencies. Everyone is made different. Some more different then others, but we live in a world were everyone and everything are forced into these molds which no one quite fits. You don't need to teach kids how to think for themselves, they're born with it. You just need to recognize your own bias and not teach him to think like you. And while your at it maybe you can unlearn the rest of us so we can think for ourselves again. Kids, especially one as bright as this can figure out a lot more than you think. Though it's probably to late, you don't need to teach him anything, or guide him for that matter, just provide the resources, and try to expose him to as much of life as you can. He'll come up with the questions, you just need to point him in the direction of the answers. But if it is too late, and the bias of those around him have forced them in the direction of science (don't get me wrong, I love science. I myself am strange and unusual.... sorry, got caught in a movie quote.... I myself am a technophile, a cumputer geek) then you should at least make sure they understand the full consequences of their intelligence. In other words, hopefully they will realize that they have a social resposibility, not just a employee responsibility, and won't go and invent the next atom bomb or biological weapon. You may want to leave a copy of the book Eath by David Brin on the nightstand. In the book, a genius level scientist creates a quantum singularity (an ity bitty black hole) the lab gets recked and it falls into the earth were it begins slowly devoring the earths core and growing larger. The moral of the story folks is that all science has it's risks and far too few of our brilliant minds consider them. anyway... along with some good fiction books, classic lit and mythology.... you may want to leave some Chompsky or Zin (People's History of the US) laying around. Don't force them to read anything. Just make it available. Their natural curiousity will direct them. But remember, they can't learn something that's not available to them. Recognise your own bias as a tutor. Realize that even if you aren't a natural parent (which is unknown and irrelevant) you still hold a parental role and thus responsibility. Make sure you aren't their only sourse of knowledge. You're raising a child, not a clone. All that said... I bid you ado... kevin "Being the same is easy"