Funny. I see more and more parents sending their kids to anthroposophy-based schools, even though they don't care for Rudolph Steiners's theories. They want their kids to get in touch with the real world. Even parents in Silicon Valley demand that computers are shunned from the lower grades of elementary schools.
US May Prevent Chinese Hackers From Attending Def Con, Black Hat. The official said that Washington could use such visa restrictions and other measures.
It's already been hacked. They offered me cash to go there in their stead.
We're hearing reports of very young children who are arriving into school quite unable to concentrate or to socialise properly because they're spending so much time on digital games or social media.
Is the Teachers Union's claim based on science, or formed by rumour and through projecting their own development without computers onto the current youth's?
It's anecdotal, but some students recorded my lectures using their webcam and failed miserably with their exams. Moreover, some were very persistent in requesting the lecture syllable to be placed on Blackboard prior to the lecture, not show up for the lecture at all and afterward complain that certain exam questions weren't valid because they weren't addressed in the syllable. Yet, no matter how you take your notes, attending lectures is the least efficient way to learn. Giving lectures, on the other hand, is the most efficient way to learn. Many universities have based their teaching method, problem-based learning, on this principle
"it's also a smart visual explanation of why the future of technology so often bears so little resemblance to anyone's predictions"
No, it's not an explanation at all. It was intended as a metaphor for miniaturization of electronics. Noone in their right mind would take a full QWERTY keyboard with keys the size of pin heads literally.
In England this may be incidental, but in the Netherlands, it is institutional. Questions about evolution are up to this day not allowed in Dutch highschool exams, as ruled by law.
First-gen USB always took three times to get it right: The first time it doesn't seem to fit. The second time, it fits even worse. The third time, it fits, because you were afraid to push it too hard and break it the first time.
If you have talent, don't go work for those stuffy old companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Square, Pinterest, or Palantir, who will all kill your inventiveness and originality with million-dollar budgets.
The group argues that cognitively advanced animals like chimpanzees and dolphins are so self-aware that keeping them in captivity—whether a zoo or research laboratory—is tantamount to slavery.
On what basis do they draw the line of 'the amount' of self-conciousness between chimps and humans on the one hand and other primates, such as orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, on the other? Have they even quantified it at all? And what about dolphins and elephants?
In science, a lot of time and resources are wasted on testing ideas that other scientists had tested before, but who never published the results, simply because they weren't spectacular enough. Even though some negative results are obfuscated in papers reporting findings 'more worthwile' reporting, and even though some of the negative results are discussed at science meetings, many scientists have been trying to reinvent the wheel. Now how much is wasted? I don't know, but the result could be shocking.
Why can't tech make having to go to work obsolete?
Why can't we make all the tech stuff, like robots, do all the dumb work for all of us so we can spend the rest of our lives playing, or do the kind of work we really enjoy? Isn't this the frigging thing we should strive to achieve in society? Not create more jobs, but less?
Overall, it feels snappier, but that may be psychological, since the interface looks cleaner. Also, I see a lot of negative comments of 'new iPhone' owners regarding the slowness because of all the animations. I don't see those. Maybe because they are automatically disabled on the iPhone 4. Perhaps, the iPhone 4, of all compatible models, is the best one to upgrade iOS 7 on.
Scrolling is slower. in iOS 6, the scrolling page appeared to be subjected to a certain amount of inertia. I.e. it kept on scrolling for a little bit even after you stopped dragging. Also, the faster you swiped your finger up, the more inertia there seemed to be. It was helpful in scrolling though lengthy pages. All that seems to be gone now. At least in Safari.
Skype is broken in iOS 7 on several points: (i) longer time tags are capped, '20' rather than '20.39', (ii) sending photographs and video messages is broken now. And there's no update available yet.
He made the recording in the Netherlands. It's legal to record anyone there, on film and on tape. It's illegal to publish those recordings without the subjects consent, if they can be recognised in those publications. So the guy is in the clear (in the Netherlands). Then again, he can be extradited upon US request. Because it's on YouTube, which means it's published physically on US soil. I guess they could catch him at customs too, when he enters the US. But then again again, he's Dutch, of Iranian decent, so they'll do a total body cavity search at customs no matter how well he behaves.
If, for the sake of retribution and showing muscle, the NSA feels the need to waste tax money on bullying this Iranian/Dutch young man by intimidating him, at least the rest of the world knows who can't be trusted with spy tools that are meant for protecting the Ustated Nites of America.
I am a systems administrator. While I am an introvert (so I don't favor large social gatherings), I do actually have both CS and business degrees and have a broad specialization. I've also never intentionally reduced anyone to tears...
As in: tobacco doesn't kill people because Winston Churchill reached a respectable age of 93?
The makers of Snapchat are right to reject the “sexting app” label – it’s not clear that this is what it is even being used for, and everyone deserves the option to communicate privately when they want, without automatically being branded as a pervert.
Moreover, they opted that our streets could be lit with trees, rather than lamp posts. But it's not going to happen. 1. Currently, regulations prohibit GMO from blending with our ecosystem. 2. Plants with the luciferin/luciferase 'operons', if they ever get to be introduced into the plant genome successfully, will be overgrown by mutants who have shed their extra genetic burden or by other competitors which do not glow, but, instead, grow faster. To counter this would require some strict, labour-intensive culturing policies, or the use of herbicides a la Monsanto.
agnostic = "there may or may not be a god, and I don't care"
believer = "there is a God"
atheist = -
agnostic = null
believer = +
No. That's not how it works in science. In science, it goes like this:
Null hypothesis: "There is no god"
Alternative hypothesis: "There is a god, who looks like Adam, created the world in 6 days, committed the biggest mass murder of all time by flooding the earth, etc. etc."
The burden of proof always lies with the person who makes the claim that something exists.
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Classrooms of the future will be with PCs
... with iPads
... with Oculi Rifts
Funny. I see more and more parents sending their kids to anthroposophy-based schools, even though they don't care for Rudolph Steiners's theories. They want their kids to get in touch with the real world. Even parents in Silicon Valley demand that computers are shunned from the lower grades of elementary schools.
If they claim it's sound, I want to hear it. Sound files, or it didn't happen.
It's already been hacked. They offered me cash to go there in their stead.
FTA:
Is the Teachers Union's claim based on science, or formed by rumour and through projecting their own development without computers onto the current youth's?
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It's anecdotal, but some students recorded my lectures using their webcam and failed miserably with their exams. Moreover, some were very persistent in requesting the lecture syllable to be placed on Blackboard prior to the lecture, not show up for the lecture at all and afterward complain that certain exam questions weren't valid because they weren't addressed in the syllable. Yet, no matter how you take your notes, attending lectures is the least efficient way to learn. Giving lectures, on the other hand, is the most efficient way to learn. Many universities have based their teaching method, problem-based learning, on this principle
FTFA:
No, it's not an explanation at all. It was intended as a metaphor for miniaturization of electronics. Noone in their right mind would take a full QWERTY keyboard with keys the size of pin heads literally.
In England this may be incidental, but in the Netherlands, it is institutional. Questions about evolution are up to this day not allowed in Dutch highschool exams, as ruled by law.
Or, if you don't want to use an anit-virus program, at least use a Netbook/Chromebook/GNU Linux/OS X?
First-gen USB always took three times to get it right: The first time it doesn't seem to fit. The second time, it fits even worse. The third time, it fits, because you were afraid to push it too hard and break it the first time.
If you have talent, don't go work for those stuffy old companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Square, Pinterest, or Palantir, who will all kill your inventiveness and originality with million-dollar budgets.
On what basis do they draw the line of 'the amount' of self-conciousness between chimps and humans on the one hand and other primates, such as orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, on the other? Have they even quantified it at all? And what about dolphins and elephants?
Due to her medical condition being advertised all over the internet: https://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60604-911-2
In science, a lot of time and resources are wasted on testing ideas that other scientists had tested before, but who never published the results, simply because they weren't spectacular enough. Even though some negative results are obfuscated in papers reporting findings 'more worthwile' reporting, and even though some of the negative results are discussed at science meetings, many scientists have been trying to reinvent the wheel. Now how much is wasted? I don't know, but the result could be shocking.
Linux Only Needs A Few Killer Graphics Card Drivers To Explode. FTFY.
Why can't tech make having to go to work obsolete?
Why can't we make all the tech stuff, like robots, do all the dumb work for all of us so we can spend the rest of our lives playing, or do the kind of work we really enjoy? Isn't this the frigging thing we should strive to achieve in society? Not create more jobs, but less?
On my iPhone 4
Overall, it feels snappier, but that may be psychological, since the interface looks cleaner. Also, I see a lot of negative comments of 'new iPhone' owners regarding the slowness because of all the animations. I don't see those. Maybe because they are automatically disabled on the iPhone 4. Perhaps, the iPhone 4, of all compatible models, is the best one to upgrade iOS 7 on.
Scrolling is slower. in iOS 6, the scrolling page appeared to be subjected to a certain amount of inertia. I.e. it kept on scrolling for a little bit even after you stopped dragging. Also, the faster you swiped your finger up, the more inertia there seemed to be. It was helpful in scrolling though lengthy pages. All that seems to be gone now. At least in Safari.
Skype is broken in iOS 7 on several points: (i) longer time tags are capped, '20' rather than '20.39', (ii) sending photographs and video messages is broken now. And there's no update available yet.
He made the recording in the Netherlands. It's legal to record anyone there, on film and on tape. It's illegal to publish those recordings without the subjects consent, if they can be recognised in those publications. So the guy is in the clear (in the Netherlands). Then again, he can be extradited upon US request. Because it's on YouTube, which means it's published physically on US soil. I guess they could catch him at customs too, when he enters the US. But then again again, he's Dutch, of Iranian decent, so they'll do a total body cavity search at customs no matter how well he behaves.
If, for the sake of retribution and showing muscle, the NSA feels the need to waste tax money on bullying this Iranian/Dutch young man by intimidating him, at least the rest of the world knows who can't be trusted with spy tools that are meant for protecting the Ustated Nites of America.
I am a systems administrator. While I am an introvert (so I don't favor large social gatherings), I do actually have both CS and business degrees and have a broad specialization. I've also never intentionally reduced anyone to tears...
As in: tobacco doesn't kill people because Winston Churchill reached a respectable age of 93?
FTFA
Just as I thought. It's just another sexting app.
Moreover, they opted that our streets could be lit with trees, rather than lamp posts. But it's not going to happen. 1. Currently, regulations prohibit GMO from blending with our ecosystem. 2. Plants with the luciferin/luciferase 'operons', if they ever get to be introduced into the plant genome successfully, will be overgrown by mutants who have shed their extra genetic burden or by other competitors which do not glow, but, instead, grow faster. To counter this would require some strict, labour-intensive culturing policies, or the use of herbicides a la Monsanto.
atheism is religious because there is a defined dogma that many people subscribe to and identify themselves with.
In the same line of logic, you would reason that vegetarians are meat-eaters who don't eat meat.
Being an atheist is being non-religious.
Consider:
No. That's not how it works in science. In science, it goes like this:
The burden of proof always lies with the person who makes the claim that something exists.