The hole point of Google's experiment is to show people that 20MB, 30MB or even 50MB is not enough, we all grew complacent with our current slow internet speeds and, given the option, would chose slow internet, Google is trying to break that. What we have now is a race to the bottom where entrepreneurs don't create services which require fast internet because no-one has a fast internet, and no-one buys fast internet because there are no sites/services to use it. Google's idea is to foster a new generation of web services where bandwidth is simply not an issue.
What they are doing is the internet equivalent of the Apolo program, and you are saying "I don't want a rocket, why don't they build cars?". I don't even live in the USA and I don't have ANY hope that Google will open an ISP here, but I'm happy and hope they succeed because their work will show the whole world that we can/should have more.
Before Marvel created it's own studio you could say the same about the impossibility of making good movies from a comic.
Traditional studios see a comic or a video game an think: "How can I change this source material to fit my medium", while Marvel apparently was the first to think: "How can I change the movie medium to fit my source material".
All we need is for Blizzard to learn from Marvel's insight and make a movie keeping most of the creative process in house.
LaTex is a very poor solution for separating content from the presentation. It is NOT a document definition language, it is a full programming language. Advocating the use of LaTex to write documents is like advocating that we stop using html/css on the web and instead create all web pages in pure Javascript: it is possible to separate content from the presentation, but it is far from the best solution
[...] in Kuala Lumpur [...] I noticed a young English couple [...] eating subway sandwiches.
Maybe they were not tourists but permanent residents. As someone who lived abroad for three years I have to say, eating your home-food once in a while is very good to combat homesickness.
Well written post, but you forgot to address (or didn't understand) the argument you are replying to. No one (not even the Republicans in the article) is against higher order thinking skills (as you defined by the articles you cited), what they are against are “Higher Order Thinking Skills”: a set of misguided, unproven and infective educational policies beginning in the 70s that does not teach higher order thinking skills nor the basic curriculum.
To quote one Anonymous Bastard:
What he's saying is that "Higher Order Thinking Skills" (note the capital letters and cute initialism) are not actually higher order thinking skills, much like the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is neither democratic nor a republic.
But you forgot the fact that they build the prefab modules at the same time they "assemble" the building. They optimized the building pipeline to reach maximum parallelism. Their factory and the build site work in synchrony so no worker or process needs to stop waiting for materials or for something else to be done. One good example: normally when building, the guy specialized in putting tiles has to wait without anything to do until some floors are completely done, while in their process this guy works from day one, tiling some pre-fab modules on the factory while no floors are done in the build site.
The process as you describe wouldn't work, in the “manual review process” you described the admin can only check that the content is originaly from another site, but he doesn't know if the poster had or didn't have permission from the copyright owner to post it here. That would lead to things like the copyrigh owner posting something and it been taken down by his own fans.
Just because something can be found in more than one site doesn't mean all appart from one are infringing.
No, the coolness of environmentalist is NOT defined by been in favour or against “my shiny pet project”. It is defined by been supported by evidences and scientific studies. We as a society should evolve beyond emotion-based-decision-making and stop following like lemmings any nutjob who screams “think of the trees” or “think of the children” or “think of the jobs”.
As far as I can find (please correct me if your google skills are better then mine), Environment Texas has no data to support their claims, so their petition is nothing more than ignorant fearmongering.
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The hole point of Google's experiment is to show people that 20MB, 30MB or even 50MB is not enough, we all grew complacent with our current slow internet speeds and, given the option, would chose slow internet, Google is trying to break that. What we have now is a race to the bottom where entrepreneurs don't create services which require fast internet because no-one has a fast internet, and no-one buys fast internet because there are no sites/services to use it. Google's idea is to foster a new generation of web services where bandwidth is simply not an issue.
What they are doing is the internet equivalent of the Apolo program, and you are saying "I don't want a rocket, why don't they build cars?". I don't even live in the USA and I don't have ANY hope that Google will open an ISP here, but I'm happy and hope they succeed because their work will show the whole world that we can/should have more.
If I read correctly:
So just cancel orders for five of those and ITER will be set for the next four years or so.
Before Marvel created it's own studio you could say the same about the impossibility of making good movies from a comic.
Traditional studios see a comic or a video game an think: "How can I change this source material to fit my medium", while Marvel apparently was the first to think: "How can I change the movie medium to fit my source material".
All we need is for Blizzard to learn from Marvel's insight and make a movie keeping most of the creative process in house.
LaTex is a very poor solution for separating content from the presentation. It is NOT a document definition language, it is a full programming language. Advocating the use of LaTex to write documents is like advocating that we stop using html/css on the web and instead create all web pages in pure Javascript: it is possible to separate content from the presentation, but it is far from the best solution
[...] in Kuala Lumpur [...] I noticed a young English couple [...] eating subway sandwiches.
Maybe they were not tourists but permanent residents. As someone who lived abroad for three years I have to say, eating your home-food once in a while is very good to combat homesickness.
Well written post, but you forgot to address (or didn't understand) the argument you are replying to. No one (not even the Republicans in the article) is against higher order thinking skills (as you defined by the articles you cited), what they are against are “Higher Order Thinking Skills”: a set of misguided, unproven and infective educational policies beginning in the 70s that does not teach higher order thinking skills nor the basic curriculum.
To quote one Anonymous Bastard:
What he's saying is that "Higher Order Thinking Skills" (note the capital letters and cute initialism) are not actually higher order thinking skills, much like the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is neither democratic nor a republic.
But you forgot the fact that they build the prefab modules at the same time they "assemble" the building. They optimized the building pipeline to reach maximum parallelism. Their factory and the build site work in synchrony so no worker or process needs to stop waiting for materials or for something else to be done. One good example: normally when building, the guy specialized in putting tiles has to wait without anything to do until some floors are completely done, while in their process this guy works from day one, tiling some pre-fab modules on the factory while no floors are done in the build site.
The process as you describe wouldn't work, in the “manual review process” you described the admin can only check that the content is originaly from another site, but he doesn't know if the poster had or didn't have permission from the copyright owner to post it here. That would lead to things like the copyrigh owner posting something and it been taken down by his own fans.
Just because something can be found in more than one site doesn't mean all appart from one are infringing.
Where can I find consumer-grade fibre optics network cards, routers, etc? I didn't know those things existed?
No, the coolness of environmentalist is NOT defined by been in favour or against “my shiny pet project”. It is defined by been supported by evidences and scientific studies. We as a society should evolve beyond emotion-based-decision-making and stop following like lemmings any nutjob who screams “think of the trees” or “think of the children” or “think of the jobs”.
As far as I can find (please correct me if your google skills are better then mine), Environment Texas has no data to support their claims, so their petition is nothing more than ignorant fearmongering.