Go ask any fresh high school graduate what Pi *means*, not the numerical expression of it, then tell me that schools aren't completely broken. The numerical illiteracy in this country would be shocking if it wasn't so ordinary. Do kids really need to waste that time in the broken schools to achieve such ignorance?
If you know anything about Woz, you'd know that he has zero influence on Apple's legal activities. Just because he's a celebrity and collects a check doesn't mean he actually works for them or tells them what to do. He's admitted in many different ways he just wants to build and hack, not run a company.
Here's what it has to do with what you wrote: Electronic assignments are a highly effective, real-world means of letting kids know what they have to do. The entire institution of academia seems to support bad teaching. I've had plenty of bad teachers at each different school I've been to from kindergarten to university. So if that's the case, then why NOT have a simple policy to defend against the bad teachers they harbor and give the kids a break?
*That's* kids learning to take responsibility. The alternative is learning to take inadequate behavior from adults who have an audience that's forced by law to be there.
If an assignment is on the board and a middle schooler has to copy it down and keep track of his assignment book, he's learning something. He's forming a habit. That little boy or girl is learning to take responsibility for himself.
In the school where I picked up habits, there was no consistency as to how homework was assisgned. Sometimes it would be written on the board. Sometimes it would be given verbally. Sometimes it would be given verbally after the bell had rung and all the students were shuffling out of their chairs. I can't even count the number of times I would appear to class and be shocked to find out work had been assigned and was now due. I grew to start off every morning knowing that anything could go wrong and I would be punished for it. I became hypervigilant and excruciatingly literal at following directions.
And what I got for that? More punishment. I got called to the front of the class and humiliated for heading a paper the way I had been taught previous years. I repeatedly got in trouble for doing what I was told, not what the teacher meant. I was afraid to talk to the teachers because they made it clear I was on the losing side of their authority.
Basically all I learned in school was that the generation before me was intellectually lazy, stubborn, angry, and punitive. Holding their hands to help them perform basic computer operation has only lowered my opinion of them. I learned not only to take responsibility for myself, but for the shortcomings of others and the miseducation they forced upon me as a kid. Those are not good lessons to be had.
I seem to have an immune system like a Sherman tank.
I don't know if that's really the analogy you want to go with. Sherman tanks were light, fast, and highly capable. But as far as protecting the crew inside? Look up why they were nicknamed "Ronson".
As I see it, the military works for the people, but are controlled by congress, who are supposed to be working for the people, but have been corrupted and now work for the 1%. I don't see the military as victims because it's voluntary service, and I don't see them as neutral because they get blown up and shot at a lot more than most lines of honest work.
Uh oh... did I just imply that the military is honorable? Here it comes...
(joke) I think we can all agree that the lawyer is the villain, and that he will prosecute you and me both for assault and theft respectively, taking all the money in the process while everyone else starves. (serious) I directly know a handful of people in the legal industry who I respect and appreciate very much, as well as others that I don't know personally.
hear hear! The consistently slowest part of my workflow is having to save or open or locate files (sheesh, why would anyone want to use their computer for THAT?), basically anything that invokes the explorer shell.
I mean this question in all seriousness: In this new information age in which we find ourselves, who ARE the heroes and who are the villains among these?
1. Wikileaks / Bradley Manning / Julian Assange 2. The justice department in conjunction with the overzealous copyright lobby and their partner brain slugs attached to the heads of the US executive branch 3. "Illegal" immigrants 4. The 1% that siphons wealth out of the country so they can get a generous cut along the way 5. The proletariat who are mostly content with the way things are, but would be fully content if there was just more of it. 6. Television news media 7. The US congress 8. The US military 9. Anonymous / Lulzsec / 2600
Here's my OPINION (for what it's worth, don't feel obligated to buy it) Heroes: 1,3,8,9 Villains: 2,4,6,7 Undecided / Neutral: 5
What destruction has Anonymous caused that compares to suppression of the 1st amendment? They're effectively just calling shenanigans loud enough for everyone to hear, and I find it hilarious how much offense their opponents take in response.
Just throwing a guess out there, but I think a simple explanation for the slowness is that many iOS apps are webkit-based. That means launching those apps requires loading all the support libs for webkit first, which takes time, then running the app via an interpreter instead of just native binary execution.
have you SEEN the way meatware AI operates a car? At least a google driverless car would use its turn signal before suddenly jerking into a turn and trying to kill me on a bike with a right hook.
Speaking of faulty sensors, that's pretty much what goes down when meatware AI has a certain alcohol content. Or uses a cellphone. Or eats fast food. Or puts on makeup. Or deals with newer meatware instances in the back seat. Or looks down to adjust the radio. Or falls alseep. Or is distracted in thought. Or....
I like your post, but transistors have basically the same function as their vacuum tube ancestors. They're engineered and optimized to do the same thing, but with less power and more reliability. A change in design, for instance, would be tri-state logic instead of the familiar 1's and 0's of today.
Actually, one thing comes to mind: asynchronous non-clocked cpu's! I heard intel did some experiments with this using their pentium design and made significant improvements in speed and power consumption, but it was probably not practical for their roadmap of future processors. I think that's a good analogy like you are describing.
Agreed. I was really excited about it when I got it, but I couldn't invite friends, and then later I had invites but they weren't accepting more people temporarily. Then my invites were useful again and no one really cared at that point. They had a brilliant opportunity to usher in a lot of users, thereby making the more serious users happy, and instead they just pissed it away. At least with email I could send to other people with email. With a limited user base of G+ users, I had a better (IMO) platform with a tiny fraction of people from FB, which is to say it wasn't very valuable to me as a user.
If the authorities really wanted to keep things civil, they would do something about the elite minority committing wholesale theft against everyone else in the country. They also might try to uphold constitutionally protected rights, or not pepper spray kettled peaceful protesters in the face, or impose disciplinary action on those who represent them poorly instead of promoting such despicable activity.
I looked into this when I first read about it. Apparently a disproportionate amount of "spontaneous combustion" cases are older people found next to fire places, this man included. I was not able to find details that would rule out an existing fire in the fireplace contributing to the cause, like an absence of ashes. It's speculated that these cases are people who had a stroke or heart attack while warming themselves by the fire, after which a small spark flies out and eventually smolders the entire body.
On the contrary, I view FB as a venue to advertise myself, my thoughts, and my interests to the world around me. I want to create influence, and if I don't want something to be known to FB I (wait for you mind to be blown...) simply don't post it. Amazing!
Oh, and that myth about lemmings committing mass suicide by jumping off of cliffs? That's complete nonsense fabricated for a nature film created by (wait for you mind to be blown a second time...) DISNEY! That's right, you've been successfully misled by MouseCorp/ABC.
You do realize that a trackpad is not "touch" as in touchscreen, right?
let's see... on one you are interacting with virtual objects in the device in a touchy way, using a device that emphasizes "touch" using the word "touch" in a literal way. On the other you are doing the exact same thing, but the point of contact is on the screen instead.
You realize that the people in this thread confusing touch interface with the specific implementation of a touch screen are not me, right?
In a lot of ways, a touchpad is just a mouse by any other name. What makes them interesting are more recent developments that allow these "touch" conventions, for instance two-finger scrolling (which I *love*). I never suggested a poor ergonomic setup, nor would I. With a kinect-like thing, a user could just hover their hands over the keyboard and have little transparent hand avatars on the screen. It's the concept that's important, and debating flimsy hypothetical implementations completely misses the point.
I think Jobs is okay. Heck, I even like the guy. But I read between the lines and take what he says with a block of salt. Remember when iPod competitors started having video playback? He played a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark to poke fun at them and say they were going to the wrong place. Now how many current iPods play video? All of them except the screenless shuffle I think?
I don't recall him saying that touch isn't a viable input method (and no one is providing any links here), but I'd believe that he'd say something like that only to be later contradicted by his own products, as evidenced by what I've quoted earlier.
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Go ask any fresh high school graduate what Pi *means*, not the numerical expression of it, then tell me that schools aren't completely broken. The numerical illiteracy in this country would be shocking if it wasn't so ordinary. Do kids really need to waste that time in the broken schools to achieve such ignorance?
If you know anything about Woz, you'd know that he has zero influence on Apple's legal activities. Just because he's a celebrity and collects a check doesn't mean he actually works for them or tells them what to do. He's admitted in many different ways he just wants to build and hack, not run a company.
Here's what it has to do with what you wrote: Electronic assignments are a highly effective, real-world means of letting kids know what they have to do. The entire institution of academia seems to support bad teaching. I've had plenty of bad teachers at each different school I've been to from kindergarten to university. So if that's the case, then why NOT have a simple policy to defend against the bad teachers they harbor and give the kids a break?
*That's* kids learning to take responsibility. The alternative is learning to take inadequate behavior from adults who have an audience that's forced by law to be there.
If an assignment is on the board and a middle schooler has to copy it down and keep track of his assignment book, he's learning something. He's forming a habit. That little boy or girl is learning to take responsibility for himself.
In the school where I picked up habits, there was no consistency as to how homework was assisgned. Sometimes it would be written on the board. Sometimes it would be given verbally. Sometimes it would be given verbally after the bell had rung and all the students were shuffling out of their chairs. I can't even count the number of times I would appear to class and be shocked to find out work had been assigned and was now due. I grew to start off every morning knowing that anything could go wrong and I would be punished for it. I became hypervigilant and excruciatingly literal at following directions.
And what I got for that? More punishment. I got called to the front of the class and humiliated for heading a paper the way I had been taught previous years. I repeatedly got in trouble for doing what I was told, not what the teacher meant. I was afraid to talk to the teachers because they made it clear I was on the losing side of their authority.
Basically all I learned in school was that the generation before me was intellectually lazy, stubborn, angry, and punitive. Holding their hands to help them perform basic computer operation has only lowered my opinion of them. I learned not only to take responsibility for myself, but for the shortcomings of others and the miseducation they forced upon me as a kid. Those are not good lessons to be had.
Oh yeah... but giving assignments electronically? That's *really* gonna mess kids up /sarcasm
I seem to have an immune system like a Sherman tank.
I don't know if that's really the analogy you want to go with. Sherman tanks were light, fast, and highly capable. But as far as protecting the crew inside? Look up why they were nicknamed "Ronson".
As I see it, the military works for the people, but are controlled by congress, who are supposed to be working for the people, but have been corrupted and now work for the 1%. I don't see the military as victims because it's voluntary service, and I don't see them as neutral because they get blown up and shot at a lot more than most lines of honest work.
Uh oh... did I just imply that the military is honorable? Here it comes...
(joke) I think we can all agree that the lawyer is the villain, and that he will prosecute you and me both for assault and theft respectively, taking all the money in the process while everyone else starves.
(serious) I directly know a handful of people in the legal industry who I respect and appreciate very much, as well as others that I don't know personally.
Just think of it as a form of reparations.
Only if I get to refer to my middle school as a forced labor camp rife with abuse. Thanks a lot, compulsory attendance laws in the land of the "free"!
hear hear! The consistently slowest part of my workflow is having to save or open or locate files (sheesh, why would anyone want to use their computer for THAT?), basically anything that invokes the explorer shell.
I mean this question in all seriousness: In this new information age in which we find ourselves, who ARE the heroes and who are the villains among these?
1. Wikileaks / Bradley Manning / Julian Assange
2. The justice department in conjunction with the overzealous copyright lobby and their partner brain slugs attached to the heads of the US executive branch
3. "Illegal" immigrants
4. The 1% that siphons wealth out of the country so they can get a generous cut along the way
5. The proletariat who are mostly content with the way things are, but would be fully content if there was just more of it.
6. Television news media
7. The US congress
8. The US military
9. Anonymous / Lulzsec / 2600
Here's my OPINION (for what it's worth, don't feel obligated to buy it)
Heroes: 1,3,8,9
Villains: 2,4,6,7
Undecided / Neutral: 5
What destruction has Anonymous caused that compares to suppression of the 1st amendment? They're effectively just calling shenanigans loud enough for everyone to hear, and I find it hilarious how much offense their opponents take in response.
Just throwing a guess out there, but I think a simple explanation for the slowness is that many iOS apps are webkit-based. That means launching those apps requires loading all the support libs for webkit first, which takes time, then running the app via an interpreter instead of just native binary execution.
And it's doing that all with 512MB of ram.
It's not and never has been "Nazi land".
That's right! After the war, America showed everyone how freedom can triumph when we went to the moon. Showed those Nazis!
I... (/me holds hand to ear piece) what's that? The Saturn V rocket was developed by... oh. Uh...
Beats being literally disfigured with beatings.
That slap on the wrist was legendary! I heard it even left a red mark for some minutes.
The downside is that there are no access to the local file system.
Ah, but you CAN:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
have you SEEN the way meatware AI operates a car? At least a google driverless car would use its turn signal before suddenly jerking into a turn and trying to kill me on a bike with a right hook.
Speaking of faulty sensors, that's pretty much what goes down when meatware AI has a certain alcohol content. Or uses a cellphone. Or eats fast food. Or puts on makeup. Or deals with newer meatware instances in the back seat. Or looks down to adjust the radio. Or falls alseep. Or is distracted in thought. Or....
a radio host just took a picture of the pictures on the phone's screen with his phone's camera
I like your post, but transistors have basically the same function as their vacuum tube ancestors. They're engineered and optimized to do the same thing, but with less power and more reliability. A change in design, for instance, would be tri-state logic instead of the familiar 1's and 0's of today.
Actually, one thing comes to mind: asynchronous non-clocked cpu's! I heard intel did some experiments with this using their pentium design and made significant improvements in speed and power consumption, but it was probably not practical for their roadmap of future processors. I think that's a good analogy like you are describing.
See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit
Agreed. I was really excited about it when I got it, but I couldn't invite friends, and then later I had invites but they weren't accepting more people temporarily. Then my invites were useful again and no one really cared at that point. They had a brilliant opportunity to usher in a lot of users, thereby making the more serious users happy, and instead they just pissed it away. At least with email I could send to other people with email. With a limited user base of G+ users, I had a better (IMO) platform with a tiny fraction of people from FB, which is to say it wasn't very valuable to me as a user.
If the authorities really wanted to keep things civil, they would do something about the elite minority committing wholesale theft against everyone else in the country. They also might try to uphold constitutionally protected rights, or not pepper spray kettled peaceful protesters in the face, or impose disciplinary action on those who represent them poorly instead of promoting such despicable activity.
I lol'ed at this :)
I looked into this when I first read about it. Apparently a disproportionate amount of "spontaneous combustion" cases are older people found next to fire places, this man included. I was not able to find details that would rule out an existing fire in the fireplace contributing to the cause, like an absence of ashes. It's speculated that these cases are people who had a stroke or heart attack while warming themselves by the fire, after which a small spark flies out and eventually smolders the entire body.
On the contrary, I view FB as a venue to advertise myself, my thoughts, and my interests to the world around me. I want to create influence, and if I don't want something to be known to FB I (wait for you mind to be blown...) simply don't post it. Amazing!
Oh, and that myth about lemmings committing mass suicide by jumping off of cliffs? That's complete nonsense fabricated for a nature film created by (wait for you mind to be blown a second time...) DISNEY! That's right, you've been successfully misled by MouseCorp/ABC.
You just got chumped, chump.
You do realize that a trackpad is not "touch" as in touchscreen, right?
let's see... on one you are interacting with virtual objects in the device in a touchy way, using a device that emphasizes "touch" using the word "touch" in a literal way. On the other you are doing the exact same thing, but the point of contact is on the screen instead.
You realize that the people in this thread confusing touch interface with the specific implementation of a touch screen are not me, right?
In a lot of ways, a touchpad is just a mouse by any other name. What makes them interesting are more recent developments that allow these "touch" conventions, for instance two-finger scrolling (which I *love*). I never suggested a poor ergonomic setup, nor would I. With a kinect-like thing, a user could just hover their hands over the keyboard and have little transparent hand avatars on the screen. It's the concept that's important, and debating flimsy hypothetical implementations completely misses the point.
I think Jobs is okay. Heck, I even like the guy. But I read between the lines and take what he says with a block of salt. Remember when iPod competitors started having video playback? He played a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark to poke fun at them and say they were going to the wrong place. Now how many current iPods play video? All of them except the screenless shuffle I think?
I don't recall him saying that touch isn't a viable input method (and no one is providing any links here), but I'd believe that he'd say something like that only to be later contradicted by his own products, as evidenced by what I've quoted earlier.