FYI he is going to do this over this in the skies over Saskatchewan,Canada. Saskatchewan, for the geographically challenged is located just north of North Dakota and the southern part of it is as flat as your outstreched, upturned hand. Guess he doesn't want to land in any pointy terrain. Heard an interview done with a colleague of his on the CBC english morning radio program. Guess the Colonel speaks no usable english and his assistant was little better so the interview was a real strain. Funny, just down the hall at our local CBC station are the offices of Radio-Canada, the french arm of the CBC which broadcasts here locally also. You would think CBC english folk could ask someone from Radio-Canada (all fluently bilingual) for a little help. Alas not. Sigh.
Totally agree with Clifford Stoll. Kids should be active and inquisitive first and foremost in tactile sorts of ways. They should be playing and physically
active, learning how to use their bodies and seeing
what they can do. They should be learning stuff like
how to drive a nail, how to turn a screw, how to take physical objects apart and put them back together. They should be learning how to play a musical instrument both by themselves and as part of larger ensembles. They should be learning how to sing, how to tell stories orally before they learn
to write. The obsession for what passes for computer literacy is a fraud perpetrated by by the IT industries, esp M$. Most of it consists of training in a few elementary skills that are not only ephemeral in nature but quickly become obsolete. Their ultimate raisson d'etre is that they enable these companies to sell a lot of stuff and make a lot of
bucks and leave us wondering why our kids are overweight and anti-social.
There is nothing new about these ideas except the fact that their application has become transnational and cosmopolitan in scope.
Karl Marx, writing in ca. 1867 penned these words:
"Modern Industry...continually... revolutionises the division of labour within society, and incessantly launches masses of capital and of working people from one branch of production to another....(T)his absolute contradiction between the technical necessities of Modern Industry, and the social character inherent in its capitalistic form, dispels all fixity and security in the situation of the labourer...(and) constantly threatens, by taking away the instruments of labour, to snatch from his hands his means of subsistence, and, by suppressing his detail function, to make him superfluous....a social anarchy which turns every economic progress into a
social calamity. This is the negative side.....Modern Industry,...compels society, under the penalty of death, to replace the detail worker of to-day, crippled by the life long repetition of
one and the same trivial operation, and thus reduced to a mere fragment of a man, by the fully
developed individual, fit for a variety of labours, ready to face any changes of production, and to whom the different social functions he performs, are but so many modes of giving free scope to his own natural and acquired powers."
This is from Capital, Vol 1, Chapter XV, Machinery and Modern Industry, section 9, pp 486- 488 (my edition, at least).
Marx always thought that the positive potential of
Modern Industry to produce educated well rounded human beings would always subordinated to the necessary pursuit of short run profits inherent in the capitalistic way of doing things.
I may not be a programmer but I know I can take the line level output from a good stereo system
cd player and pipe it into the line input of my sound card. Using a programme such as gramofile in Linux I can both segregate the tracks and tweek a little noise reduction using the impulse algorithm to smooth over the D-A-D conversion and presto a reasonably decent.wav copy of a mediocre pop group.
Why would I do this, because I am a DCMA scofflaw who praises the good lord every day (but alas maybe not for to much longer), that he lives in Canada.
Sei Gesund;-)
If memory serves didn't the Germans have a cannon called "Long Max" aka "The Paris Gun" toward the end of WW1. That cannon had a 110 foot barrel that
had to be trussed like a bridge to keep it from drooping. It fired an 8 inch pencil shaped shell with a 20 pound explosive charge. It could shell the city of Paris from a maximum distance of 80 miles. The muzzle velocity of this shell was about
5200 feet per second. Remember this was over 80 years ago. Except for the addition of the scramjet, it doesn't sound like much progress to me.
I don't know what you mean by "excess regulation" all I know is that there has to be de jure regulation by Government or there will be de facto regulation by the monopolists (mentioning no names,
of course, but being able to raise the dead sure testifies to their power). It is up to us a citizens to see that whatever regulation there is doesn't favour the already overprivledged. That means open and agreed upon standards for the net, operating systems that don't shut out second party providers, and "fair use" standards that don't make criminals of honest hackers. You don't get those things spontaneously in an unregulated marketplace or in one that countenances "the survival of the fattest".
Have a nice day:-)
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FYI he is going to do this over this in the skies
over Saskatchewan,Canada. Saskatchewan, for the geographically challenged is located just north of
North Dakota and the southern part of it is as
flat as your outstreched, upturned hand. Guess he
doesn't want to land in any pointy terrain. Heard
an interview done with a colleague of his on the
CBC english morning radio program. Guess the Colonel
speaks no usable english and his assistant was little better so the interview was a real strain. Funny, just down the hall at our local CBC station are the offices of Radio-Canada, the french arm of
the CBC which broadcasts here locally also. You would think CBC english folk could ask someone from Radio-Canada (all fluently bilingual) for a
little help. Alas not. Sigh.
Totally agree with Clifford Stoll. Kids should be active and inquisitive first and foremost in tactile sorts of ways. They should be playing and physically
active, learning how to use their bodies and seeing
what they can do. They should be learning stuff like
how to drive a nail, how to turn a screw, how to take physical objects apart and put them back together. They should be learning how to play a musical instrument both by themselves and as part of larger ensembles. They should be learning how to sing, how to tell stories orally before they learn
to write. The obsession for what passes for computer literacy is a fraud perpetrated by by the IT industries, esp M$. Most of it consists of training in a few elementary skills that are not only ephemeral in nature but quickly become obsolete. Their ultimate raisson d'etre is that they enable these companies to sell a lot of stuff and make a lot of
bucks and leave us wondering why our kids are overweight and anti-social.
There is nothing new about these ideas except the fact that their application has become transnational and cosmopolitan in scope.
...continually... revolutionises the division of labour within society, and incessantly launches masses of capital and of working people from one branch of production to another. ...(T)his absolute contradiction between the technical necessities of Modern Industry, and the social character inherent in its capitalistic form, dispels all fixity and security in the situation of the labourer...(and) constantly threatens, by taking away the instruments of labour, to snatch from his hands his means of subsistence, and, by suppressing his detail function, to make him superfluous....a social anarchy which turns every economic progress into a
Karl Marx, writing in ca. 1867 penned these words:
"Modern Industry
social calamity. This is the negative side.....Modern Industry,...compels society, under the penalty of death, to replace the detail worker of to-day, crippled by the life long repetition of
one and the same trivial operation, and thus reduced to a mere fragment of a man, by the fully
developed individual, fit for a variety of labours, ready to face any changes of production, and to whom the different social functions he performs, are but so many modes of giving free scope to his own natural and acquired powers."
This is from Capital, Vol 1, Chapter XV, Machinery and Modern Industry, section 9, pp 486- 488 (my edition, at least).
Marx always thought that the positive potential of
Modern Industry to produce educated well rounded human beings would always subordinated to the necessary pursuit of short run profits inherent in the capitalistic way of doing things.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
Bekwin
I may not be a programmer but I know I can take the line level output from a good stereo system cd player and pipe it into the line input of my sound card. Using a programme such as gramofile in Linux I can both segregate the tracks and tweek a little noise reduction using the impulse algorithm to smooth over the D-A-D conversion and presto a reasonably decent .wav copy of a mediocre pop group.
Why would I do this, because I am a DCMA scofflaw who praises the good lord every day (but alas maybe not for to much longer), that he lives in Canada.
Sei Gesund ;-)
If memory serves didn't the Germans have a cannon called "Long Max" aka "The Paris Gun" toward the end of WW1. That cannon had a 110 foot barrel that had to be trussed like a bridge to keep it from drooping. It fired an 8 inch pencil shaped shell with a 20 pound explosive charge. It could shell the city of Paris from a maximum distance of 80 miles. The muzzle velocity of this shell was about 5200 feet per second. Remember this was over 80 years ago. Except for the addition of the scramjet, it doesn't sound like much progress to me.
I don't know what you mean by "excess regulation" all I know is that there has to be de jure regulation by Government or there will be de facto regulation by the monopolists (mentioning no names, of course, but being able to raise the dead sure testifies to their power). It is up to us a citizens to see that whatever regulation there is doesn't favour the already overprivledged. That means open and agreed upon standards for the net, operating systems that don't shut out second party providers, and "fair use" standards that don't make criminals of honest hackers. You don't get those things spontaneously in an unregulated marketplace or in one that countenances "the survival of the fattest". Have a nice day :-)
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