The required first-aid kit was tried in Brazil some years ago. Until someone with a little bit of common sense realized that, for serious injuries, it was better to call an ambulance than have someone unskilled attempt care (which could turn the injury into something worse).
Just because next year your country will legalize having sex with sheep, cows, babies, and any small creature that moves doesn't make it right today, ( or tomorrow for that fact).
... that the most interesting feature in library is discovery: finding related books just by looking at the nearby shelves? I will miss that when most libraries reach this degree of automation.
Hardening a newer processor, with much more transistors in a smaller process, will be quite expensive. Usually you'd go with the lowest-end possible for your application (all the heavy processing will be done on Earth, anyway).
We are walking towards the same situation in Brazil: every new law pushes for higher salaries, as long as they are for politicians or judges, and other ways of keeping our bloated government fed. No matter who you vote for: they all stink and won't move a finger to make things slightly less sucky.
A 10-year-old (I think) oscilloscope - which takes floppies for storage - and a 19" CRT at work. At home, probably my digital camera (7 years old and taking good (IMHO) pictures - disclaimer: I understand nothing about photography).
"And therefore they can be herded into giving up their freedom by a combination of convenient features, pressure from institutions and the network effect."
Convenient features, such as stuff actually working well and doing what it's supposed to without needing tinkering.
Pressure from institutions and network effect, aka '90% of my peers use the same software, it works well for our needs and it would be a major undertaking for them to migrate just to satisfy my whims'.
If you are travelling anywhere without HDD encryption, then you kinda deserve this.
By the way, let's see them trying to put spyware on a PowerPC Linux laptop.:)
For every dropout that got to be a billionaire (specially if they don't come from a wealthy family which can pay for their mistakes), there are thousands of dropouts which will never get beyond a minimum-wage job.
This has been my approach to homework (which is mostly.tex and.py).
For all I care, I don't mind if someone forks my homework or does anything with it. Though I wouldn't mind them merging their changes back:)
Please don't use Tor for torrenting. Not only it imposes extra load on the exit nodes, it won't keep you protected for the reasons mentioned in that link.
I live in Brazil (one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to education) and would like to weigh in with my conclusions:
- Self-learning requires students that are actually motivated to learn by themselves. Most students here aren't: even though they have internet access at home and/or at school, they only use it for social media, porn, etc... and will scoff at the thought of anything that requires them to actually read and understand stuff - they will only read a book if they are forced to, and even then, they will do it while whining endlessly.
- Schools are worse: underpaid teachers (a teacher here makes less than a dishwasher in the USA or in Europe) which will get scolded (or fired) for telling a student to shut up and pay attention or for failing someone that never participated in class. Completely destroyed schools, in no small part due to gangs which destroy them as a demonstration of power and to ensure a next generation of children/teenagers entering crime.
- Throwing technology at the students? Has been tried with mixed results: while it significantly increased interest, one of the schools had to keep their OLPCs on a heavily locked room to avoid thieves; you do not dare to send a kid walking home with theirs, lest someone rob them and trade for drugs.
In short: teachers are not headed for obsolescence in any way, at least here; if you want to obsolete yours, we will be very happy to accept them.
"You can use creative software efficiently on a desktop
Rebuttal -> Depends on the creativity you want - it's hard to be creative sitting on your ass at your desk.
Go to where the action is happening and watch the ideas flow."
We are talking about Photoshop, Illustrator etc..., not Instagram or whatever the cool app of the day is.
It shows that "austerity" is no excuse; let this serve as an example for other countries which are in (or at least brag about being) much better economical situation, yet won't invest anything in education and research (Brazil, I'm looking at you)
Ubuntu (5.04 to 6.06 - when Ubuntu 6.06 came out I got rid of Windows) -> openSUSE (2006 - 2008) -> Arch (2008 - now). Also had brief attempts with Fedora/openSUSE/Slackware, but always would return to Arch after a while.
Slashdot Mirror
The required first-aid kit was tried in Brazil some years ago. Until someone with a little bit of common sense realized that, for serious injuries, it was better to call an ambulance than have someone unskilled attempt care (which could turn the injury into something worse).
... get used to something I haven't used at all, due to a complete lack of interest, and that I will not use any time soon?
Just because next year your country will legalize having sex with sheep, cows, babies, and any small creature that moves doesn't make it right today, ( or tomorrow for that fact).
Slippery slope anyone?
If you don't mind doing coding, try Sage or Python + IPython + NumPy + SciPy. For a quick calculator I like to just use bc in a terminal.
... that the most interesting feature in library is discovery: finding related books just by looking at the nearby shelves? I will miss that when most libraries reach this degree of automation.
Hardening a newer processor, with much more transistors in a smaller process, will be quite expensive. Usually you'd go with the lowest-end possible for your application (all the heavy processing will be done on Earth, anyway).
... Apple finds a loophole and sues this developer into oblivion?
...if only there was a similar situation we could use to predict how it might go.
But Apple has enough money to turn the development of this into hell.
... Apple finds a loophole and sues this developer into oblivion?
We are walking towards the same situation in Brazil: every new law pushes for higher salaries, as long as they are for politicians or judges, and other ways of keeping our bloated government fed. No matter who you vote for: they all stink and won't move a finger to make things slightly less sucky.
A 10-year-old (I think) oscilloscope - which takes floppies for storage - and a 19" CRT at work. At home, probably my digital camera (7 years old and taking good (IMHO) pictures - disclaimer: I understand nothing about photography).
"And therefore they can be herded into giving up their freedom by a combination of convenient features, pressure from institutions and the network effect."
Convenient features, such as stuff actually working well and doing what it's supposed to without needing tinkering. Pressure from institutions and network effect, aka '90% of my peers use the same software, it works well for our needs and it would be a major undertaking for them to migrate just to satisfy my whims'.
If you are travelling anywhere without HDD encryption, then you kinda deserve this. By the way, let's see them trying to put spyware on a PowerPC Linux laptop. :)
For every dropout that got to be a billionaire (specially if they don't come from a wealthy family which can pay for their mistakes), there are thousands of dropouts which will never get beyond a minimum-wage job.
This has been my approach to homework (which is mostly .tex and .py).
For all I care, I don't mind if someone forks my homework or does anything with it. Though I wouldn't mind them merging their changes back :)
... what about a solvable maze?
Check the whois info: http://whois.net/whois/nasaupdatecenter.us Unless there's a new 'Cape Carnival' with postcode '666666'... I call it a (well-done) fake.
Because hardware eventually dies, and it will become increasingly difficult to find XP-compatible hardware.
All my gaming is done under emulators now. Snes9x, MAME and DOSBox already work perfectly under Linux.
Please don't use Tor for torrenting. Not only it imposes extra load on the exit nodes, it won't keep you protected for the reasons mentioned in that link.
If they give me legal support after someone misuses my connection, then I'm into it.
I live in Brazil (one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to education) and would like to weigh in with my conclusions:
- Self-learning requires students that are actually motivated to learn by themselves. Most students here aren't: even though they have internet access at home and/or at school, they only use it for social media, porn, etc... and will scoff at the thought of anything that requires them to actually read and understand stuff - they will only read a book if they are forced to, and even then, they will do it while whining endlessly.
- Schools are worse: underpaid teachers (a teacher here makes less than a dishwasher in the USA or in Europe) which will get scolded (or fired) for telling a student to shut up and pay attention or for failing someone that never participated in class. Completely destroyed schools, in no small part due to gangs which destroy them as a demonstration of power and to ensure a next generation of children/teenagers entering crime.
- Throwing technology at the students? Has been tried with mixed results: while it significantly increased interest, one of the schools had to keep their OLPCs on a heavily locked room to avoid thieves; you do not dare to send a kid walking home with theirs, lest someone rob them and trade for drugs.
In short: teachers are not headed for obsolescence in any way, at least here; if you want to obsolete yours, we will be very happy to accept them.
Hint: the G in GPS means global for a reason.
"You can use creative software efficiently on a desktop Rebuttal -> Depends on the creativity you want - it's hard to be creative sitting on your ass at your desk. Go to where the action is happening and watch the ideas flow." We are talking about Photoshop, Illustrator etc..., not Instagram or whatever the cool app of the day is.
It shows that "austerity" is no excuse; let this serve as an example for other countries which are in (or at least brag about being) much better economical situation, yet won't invest anything in education and research (Brazil, I'm looking at you)
Ubuntu (5.04 to 6.06 - when Ubuntu 6.06 came out I got rid of Windows) -> openSUSE (2006 - 2008) -> Arch (2008 - now). Also had brief attempts with Fedora/openSUSE/Slackware, but always would return to Arch after a while.