While online classes might not be for everybody, it can make a difference to some.
Yeah, and I'd bet different types of classes lend themselves better to online/pre-recorded lectures. There's also a lot to be said for 'continuing education'. Another example, if I have a hobby I want to take a class developing, well, maybe an online class is the right fit.
There is a lot more to learning than sitting through a bunch of lectures. Having said that, I've seen distance ed in action before and it's not so bad. The trick, though, is that not all of a professor's message is conveyed on camera and through sound. There are subtleties that I swear you have to 'be there' to get.
Plus, who's a professor going to feel confident writing a recommendation letter for? Someone he/she only ever met once or twice (if that) and the rest of the time talked to through a camera? I can't tell you how many times professors have reacted differently to me in person than to an email or phone call. I can't believe that's just an academic phenomenon, either. It's much more likely that real people function better with 'real, in front of their face' people. From personal experience, I can tell you people are definitely more humane toward physical humans. How many rage emails have you gotten?
I suspect that that maintaining coherence throughout a calculation will be equivalent in some manner to performing the calculation in a linear manner. But time will tell.
As designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation...all of the fatal flaws are perfectly masked by the superficial flaws?
I remember Feynman wrote some about quantum computing. He always seemed positive on the idea, and I'm inclined to believe him. (That also ends my claimed background on all things quantum computing. From hereon I'm speculating, so there's no sense in flaming a dreamer - for those who might.)
A quantum computer, though, isn't a fusion reactor. The end goals for both systems are different. In a sense, the requirement that a fusion reactor eventually sustain itself (as it were) is something a quantum computer needn't achieve. My suspicion is that 'simplification' makes quantum computing much more likely than self sustaining fusion.
From my perspective, what's more interesting is how quantum computing would impact the world. Information already flows free and fast. I don't think more computational power is going to solve economic nor political woes. If all the questions that can be answered competently are already being answered competently, how are things going to change with some added computational power?* It would probably result in more ingenious gadgets (which in themselves may be blessings).
*For instance: I don't expect a quantum computer to make modeling the weather and/or human behavior as predictable as a Newtonian physics experiment.
I think much gruff around any ereader boils down to users who don't actually want to read.
Is that what you tell yourself? That people who prefer tablets over ereaders are illiterate luddites?
*laughs*... I think he was saying "users who don't actually want to read on the device". I'm pretty sure he wasn't implying that people without eink devices are illiterate...!
Thanks for putting taking his words out of my mouth. People, especially on the net, are often too ready and willing to read offensive remarks into anything anyone says. People love a good fight, but that doesn't mean they always hear with their ears and read with their eyes.
Not quite. It's just when I read reviews about the kobo, most were negative, and none accurately portrayed how it handles the pdfs I throw at it.
Like you, I prefer the tree version of books. They're quicker to flip through and I can buy them at local used book stores. But, my kobo/ereader works great for research articles and old, 'freely available' books in pdf form.
Tablets have a long way to go to replace dedicated e-book readers. Until they are easily readable in broad daylight and can last at least couple weeks, there will be a market for Kindle.
Couldn't agree more. I think much gruff around any ereader boils down to users who don't actually want to read. I've got a kobo, of all things, and it reads the pdfs I send it's way perfectly well.
The new piece of malware hides inside a PDF file and delivers a backdoor that hides on the user's machine once the malicious file is opened. Once the user executes the malware, it puts the malicious PDF on the user's machine and then opens it as a way to hide the malicious activity that's going on in the background, according to an analysis by researchers at F-Secure. The Trojan then installs the backdoor, which is named Imuler.A, which attempts to communicate with a command-and-control server.
That server isn't capable of communicating with the malware, however, the researchers found, so the malware is on its own once it's installed on a victim's machine. What's not clear is exactly how the malware is spreading right now.
Vague enough to be worthless, but worded to sound informative.
Yeah, I agree. Placing an embargo (thanks to the poster below for the term) on someone's thesis is one step too far. Yeah, the thesis demonstrates the student's ability to research and so on - but, it's also some marginal increase in knowledge. Knowledge is supposed to be free flowing in academia. Benefit all humanity and all that...
There's one of you in every crowd. Yes, I knew when I chose to go with Fortran that there'd be a dissenter. I could have chose B and there'd be someone who'd find a way to argue against the statement. So let's go with that - B, anyone?
"Oh but B preceded and influenced C, and C is everywhere, so B is still active today."
Fine, fine, B was a bad choice. PowerBuilder, anyone?
In 2010, Sybase released a major upgrade to PowerBuilder, intended to compete directly with Microsoft Visual Studio.
And if they become unemployed, well, they're SOL because according to today's job market, being unemployed means you're no good. Nobody cares why you're unemployed.
So, yeah, those guys better be hunting for another job - FAST.
Phht, I guarantee there's some hiring manager out there hiring them all as they leave the door. HP's department might have gone bust, but I'm sure there was some real talent in it's labor pool - and someone's going to know that. It's all about networking to find good labor.
The launch comes at a time when the industry is shifting from Flash and embracing HTML 5 on the Web that lessens the reliance of developers on Flash. HTML5 is gaining momentum each day as tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook are supporting it.
To what extent is this true and to what extent is it bullying? I mean, "oh damn the competition just wont go away! even though it can't possibly win!". That's what those sentences sound like to me.
a.) In a capitalistic society, believe it or not, competition is great! It's one of the few things that enforces sane prices and wages, and has the benefit of not being decreed by a government regulator. b.) Even if a technology is inferior and/or 'old' doesn't mean it's going away. Fortran, anyone?
We’re going to be demoing the board and giving away some boards to a selected group of developers who will be invited to shape the platform while it’s been created. After Maker Faire, we will begin selling a small batch of Developer Edition boards on the Arduino store (store.arduino,cc) for members of the community who want to be join the development effort. We plan a final and tested release by the end of 2011
Visitors to the X-rated site will initially be presented with pornographic content as well as images from PETA's salacious ads and campaigns, Rajt said. Those images will be followed by pictures and video shot undercover of the mistreatment of animals. The site will also include links to vegetarian and vegan – using no animal products – starter kits as well as recipes.
Either way, I don't see how this works out well for their message. How about online streaming of tv shows that hulu wont stream for free - supplemented with peta ads? Or, a paypal service - watch 15 minutes of peta ads, take a quiz on their policies, pass, and get $5? The porn angle is just too strange.
Your statement is just loaded with contradictions. If it's "in the bank" how can it be investing (real-estate or stock)? And if it's investing, how is it not helping the economy? Only the "stupid" with money have it sitting in a bank. Or the "scared"
Investment money doesn't function the same way as consumer income. A fraction of consumer income becomes investment, yes, but the larger fraction increases to GDP by a 'multiplier'. A fraction of investment becomes (eventually - and that's part of the problem) consumer income. But, at some point an individual firm has hired all that it's going to and residual capital becomes profit (sometimes paid out to shareholders, sometimes those shareholders are the public). I don't have studies on the relevant multipliers at hand, but my gut says the consumer multiplier is much greater than the investment multiplier.
Ultimately, I believe a country's economy is best when the largest possible number of citizens experience high income very near some average rate. Every dollar out there represents one dollar of economic decision power. It's best for the largest possible share of people to have a 'large', low-skew, and average per capita 'economic decision power'.* Otherwise I agree with you - most earners over 250k/yr probably don't have everything sitting as cash on hand. All of those 250k/yr + earners are a small minority relative to the majority who make less than even 50k/yr. That's the problem.
*What do I mean by this? For a market to be efficient all of the input factors must be paid their efficient wage. Labor should be paid its fraction of the output and capital should cost its fraction of the output, etc. It's not efficient to have so many jobs earning poverty wages (though it's also not efficient to improperly prop up wages above poverty). It's also not efficient to have baseball players making the millions they do while our nation's educators make lower middle class wages.
There is no way to watch the original Star Wars on anything better than youtube quality, and that is a crime against culture.
Oh, now see that I didn't know, though I suppose it follows. Thanks! Did he modify the version you mentioned as the final product, or am I missing something else? It sounds a little like watching too closely as the chef prepares a dish. You've followed developments so closely that you might as well have been in the studio with him. (That's a compliment to the story as much as anything else.)
For myself, I've watched all the movies in one format or another. It's a good story, I'm just not passionate about it. Lately, I've thought more of Star Wars because I've been reading Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation series. That series has its own 'controversies' which arise for similar reasons to this Star Wars controversy. Maybe some day us Asimov fans will be able to bicker about the mean things done in the movie versions to the books*;)
Predicted outrage: "How dare they have Lady Gladia give birth to Elijah Baley's son!!"
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While online classes might not be for everybody, it can make a difference to some.
Yeah, and I'd bet different types of classes lend themselves better to online/pre-recorded lectures. There's also a lot to be said for 'continuing education'. Another example, if I have a hobby I want to take a class developing, well, maybe an online class is the right fit.
There is a lot more to learning than sitting through a bunch of lectures. Having said that, I've seen distance ed in action before and it's not so bad. The trick, though, is that not all of a professor's message is conveyed on camera and through sound. There are subtleties that I swear you have to 'be there' to get.
Plus, who's a professor going to feel confident writing a recommendation letter for? Someone he/she only ever met once or twice (if that) and the rest of the time talked to through a camera? I can't tell you how many times professors have reacted differently to me in person than to an email or phone call. I can't believe that's just an academic phenomenon, either. It's much more likely that real people function better with 'real, in front of their face' people. From personal experience, I can tell you people are definitely more humane toward physical humans. How many rage emails have you gotten?
I suspect that that maintaining coherence throughout a calculation will be equivalent in some manner to performing the calculation in a linear manner. But time will tell.
As designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation...all of the fatal flaws are perfectly masked by the superficial flaws?
I remember Feynman wrote some about quantum computing. He always seemed positive on the idea, and I'm inclined to believe him. (That also ends my claimed background on all things quantum computing. From hereon I'm speculating, so there's no sense in flaming a dreamer - for those who might.)
A quantum computer, though, isn't a fusion reactor. The end goals for both systems are different. In a sense, the requirement that a fusion reactor eventually sustain itself (as it were) is something a quantum computer needn't achieve. My suspicion is that 'simplification' makes quantum computing much more likely than self sustaining fusion.
From my perspective, what's more interesting is how quantum computing would impact the world. Information already flows free and fast. I don't think more computational power is going to solve economic nor political woes. If all the questions that can be answered competently are already being answered competently, how are things going to change with some added computational power?* It would probably result in more ingenious gadgets (which in themselves may be blessings).
*For instance: I don't expect a quantum computer to make modeling the weather and/or human behavior as predictable as a Newtonian physics experiment.
And, possibly, maybe and maybe not.
What new tech bubble?
::high five::
Should name the computer/program Giskard.
I think much gruff around any ereader boils down to users who don't actually want to read.
Is that what you tell yourself? That people who prefer tablets over ereaders are illiterate luddites?
*laughs* ... I think he was saying "users who don't actually want to read on the device". I'm pretty sure he wasn't implying that people without eink devices are illiterate ...!
Thanks for putting taking his words out of my mouth. People, especially on the net, are often too ready and willing to read offensive remarks into anything anyone says. People love a good fight, but that doesn't mean they always hear with their ears and read with their eyes.
Not quite. It's just when I read reviews about the kobo, most were negative, and none accurately portrayed how it handles the pdfs I throw at it.
Like you, I prefer the tree version of books. They're quicker to flip through and I can buy them at local used book stores. But, my kobo/ereader works great for research articles and old, 'freely available' books in pdf form.
Tablets have a long way to go to replace dedicated e-book readers. Until they are easily readable in broad daylight and can last at least couple weeks, there will be a market for Kindle.
Couldn't agree more. I think much gruff around any ereader boils down to users who don't actually want to read. I've got a kobo, of all things, and it reads the pdfs I send it's way perfectly well.
The answer, obviously, is kuantum cantangueled routers.
(misspelling on purpose)
Yep, it's not a problem if the pdf is an executable disguised as a pdf or an actual pdf...the classic non-problem.
So...turn off pdf previews (always a good idea) and/or don't use Mail.app. Also, don't download pdfs from strange sources. Pretty basic stuff.
The new piece of malware hides inside a PDF file and delivers a backdoor that hides on the user's machine once the malicious file is opened. Once the user executes the malware, it puts the malicious PDF on the user's machine and then opens it as a way to hide the malicious activity that's going on in the background, according to an analysis by researchers at F-Secure. The Trojan then installs the backdoor, which is named Imuler.A, which attempts to communicate with a command-and-control server.
That server isn't capable of communicating with the malware, however, the researchers found, so the malware is on its own once it's installed on a victim's machine. What's not clear is exactly how the malware is spreading right now.
Vague enough to be worthless, but worded to sound informative.
Yeah, I agree. Placing an embargo (thanks to the poster below for the term) on someone's thesis is one step too far. Yeah, the thesis demonstrates the student's ability to research and so on - but, it's also some marginal increase in knowledge. Knowledge is supposed to be free flowing in academia. Benefit all humanity and all that...
Setup a standing wave of equal intensity but with (exact) opposite phase. (I think.)
There's one of you in every crowd. Yes, I knew when I chose to go with Fortran that there'd be a dissenter. I could have chose B and there'd be someone who'd find a way to argue against the statement. So let's go with that - B, anyone?
"Oh but B preceded and influenced C, and C is everywhere, so B is still active today."
Fine, fine, B was a bad choice. PowerBuilder, anyone?
In 2010, Sybase released a major upgrade to PowerBuilder, intended to compete directly with Microsoft Visual Studio.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBuilder )
Fine, some random language I've never even heard of let alone mentioned by anyone...is still active.
I think I proved my point about Flash!!!!
Programming languages don't die, they just accrue references from /. anonymous cowards.
Competition is rarely between equal parties.
And if they become unemployed, well, they're SOL because according to today's job market, being unemployed means you're no good. Nobody cares why you're unemployed.
So, yeah, those guys better be hunting for another job - FAST.
Phht, I guarantee there's some hiring manager out there hiring them all as they leave the door. HP's department might have gone bust, but I'm sure there was some real talent in it's labor pool - and someone's going to know that. It's all about networking to find good labor.
Yeah, there could have been. In many ways OS X feels a lot like a modern day BeOS, though.
The launch comes at a time when the industry is shifting from Flash and embracing HTML 5 on the Web that lessens the reliance of developers on Flash. HTML5 is gaining momentum each day as tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook are supporting it.
To what extent is this true and to what extent is it bullying? I mean, "oh damn the competition just wont go away! even though it can't possibly win!". That's what those sentences sound like to me.
a.) In a capitalistic society, believe it or not, competition is great! It's one of the few things that enforces sane prices and wages, and has the benefit of not being decreed by a government regulator.
b.) Even if a technology is inferior and/or 'old' doesn't mean it's going away. Fortran, anyone?
I dig this idear!
FTA (bold = my emphasis):
We’re going to be demoing the board and giving away some boards to a selected group of developers who will be invited to shape the platform while it’s been created. After Maker Faire, we will begin selling a small batch of Developer Edition boards on the Arduino store (store.arduino,cc) for members of the community who want to be join the development effort. We plan a final and tested release by the end of 2011
I can't wait to experiment with these puppies.
What they're planning, from the article:
Visitors to the X-rated site will initially be presented with pornographic content as well as images from PETA's salacious ads and campaigns, Rajt said. Those images will be followed by pictures and video shot undercover of the mistreatment of animals. The site will also include links to vegetarian and vegan – using no animal products – starter kits as well as recipes.
Either way, I don't see how this works out well for their message. How about online streaming of tv shows that hulu wont stream for free - supplemented with peta ads? Or, a paypal service - watch 15 minutes of peta ads, take a quiz on their policies, pass, and get $5? The porn angle is just too strange.
Your statement is just loaded with contradictions. If it's "in the bank" how can it be investing (real-estate or stock)? And if it's investing, how is it not helping the economy? Only the "stupid" with money have it sitting in a bank. Or the "scared"
Investment money doesn't function the same way as consumer income. A fraction of consumer income becomes investment, yes, but the larger fraction increases to GDP by a 'multiplier'. A fraction of investment becomes (eventually - and that's part of the problem) consumer income. But, at some point an individual firm has hired all that it's going to and residual capital becomes profit (sometimes paid out to shareholders, sometimes those shareholders are the public). I don't have studies on the relevant multipliers at hand, but my gut says the consumer multiplier is much greater than the investment multiplier.
Ultimately, I believe a country's economy is best when the largest possible number of citizens experience high income very near some average rate. Every dollar out there represents one dollar of economic decision power. It's best for the largest possible share of people to have a 'large', low-skew, and average per capita 'economic decision power'.* Otherwise I agree with you - most earners over 250k/yr probably don't have everything sitting as cash on hand. All of those 250k/yr + earners are a small minority relative to the majority who make less than even 50k/yr. That's the problem.
*What do I mean by this? For a market to be efficient all of the input factors must be paid their efficient wage. Labor should be paid its fraction of the output and capital should cost its fraction of the output, etc. It's not efficient to have so many jobs earning poverty wages (though it's also not efficient to improperly prop up wages above poverty). It's also not efficient to have baseball players making the millions they do while our nation's educators make lower middle class wages.
There is no way to watch the original Star Wars on anything better than youtube quality, and that is a crime against culture.
Oh, now see that I didn't know, though I suppose it follows. Thanks! Did he modify the version you mentioned as the final product, or am I missing something else? It sounds a little like watching too closely as the chef prepares a dish. You've followed developments so closely that you might as well have been in the studio with him. (That's a compliment to the story as much as anything else.)
For myself, I've watched all the movies in one format or another. It's a good story, I'm just not passionate about it. Lately, I've thought more of Star Wars because I've been reading Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation series. That series has its own 'controversies' which arise for similar reasons to this Star Wars controversy. Maybe some day us Asimov fans will be able to bicker about the mean things done in the movie versions to the books* ;)
Predicted outrage: "How dare they have Lady Gladia give birth to Elijah Baley's son!!"