Well, unless there was a directory that was provided by yahoo which archive.org could crawl, of all sites, possibly some could be missed. Mine was on google, I know that. Plus there was over month of notice. Archive.org is just not a comprehensive archive solution.
Regulations are to prevent safety problems in the first place. The reason why regulation is not that regulation *never works*, but instead the regulators are not independant, there are too many conflicts of interests, and it will be the case until we implement some real compaign finance reform so that politicians are not helped to be elected by corporations through all of their generous donations. The fact is, without regulations, matters would not be any better, in fact they would likely be worse, as you want. When we have broken regulators we do not get rid of all regulation but fix the problem as to why its broken. We need more independant experts in regulatory agencies, they need to be run by people never employed by corporations and not paid or influenced by them in any way.
Interesting that you mention that. I havea geocities site so i knew of the Archive.org thing, that was supposed to back up the site. I checked archive.org backups of geocities. half of the sites are not backed up correctly. Mine was never backed up, it seems, at all. With most sites 90% of the files are missing. Is archive.org the solution? Apparently not.
I checked archive.org backups of geocities. half of the sites are not backed up correctly. Mine was never backed up, it seems, at all. With most sites 90% of the files are missing. Is archive.org the solution? Apparently not.
Good god. Are they okay? Ive always thought that drive by wire sounded risky and dangerous. It seems like for essential steering and speed control we should stick with the simple mechanical systems. Software code is so tiny and fragile. and CPUs, compared to big hefty mechanical system and so much more complex. Complexity==less reliability.
It is indeed a big problem. The problem was illustrated recently when Yahoo suddenly pulled the plug on Geocities, wiping out a vast cultural archive that went back to the early days of the internet, a lot of valuable information was lost as a result of that. Yahoo's blatant arrogance caused me to refuse to ever use any of their products again. Geocities was actually a fairly nice service, often people criticised it because of the ads, but how do you pay to continue to offer a free service. The loss of geocities was a perfect example of the need for a permenant store or online archive of information, personal websites and so on that can be maintained as a cultural legacy and informational resource.
I would also like toi add while i agree with free enterprise i also believe that a non market component of the economy is also important to, i believe in a mixed system. It is clear that the US became great with the help of government agencies such as NASA and many great technologies were developed, which would not be possible in a market economy, in non market environments which however can allow for creativity, perhaps even more so than the market environment. I think government law, with the focus on individual welfare and freedom, protecting workers and the environment and encouraging and enabling development is very important. A good government that respects individual freedoms and is the servant of the individual rather than a master is vital.
I also believe education is critical as well, especially secular education that does not fill childrens heads with religious junk (like creationism) but insteads encourages to think independantly, to critically think, and about the scientific method and empericism.
I disagree, completely. First of all if we opened up the boarders everyone would come to Europe and the US and the place would quickly degenerate into a filthy cesspit just like the overpopulated filthy infested impoverished ratholes that they left behind.
Furthermore what you are asking would make it impossible for any country to implement and enforce its laws. A country that implements good laws that protects its peoples freedoms and rights and create prosperity would be punished by a flood of immigrants, so it would be impossible for them to implement these laws. This would end up requiring a global government just to do anything enforceable. The fact we have had seperate countries is a good thing, it has allowed us to see what fails and what works and as well, the US and Europe have shown that democracy, secular government, and freedom does work and that when you regulate corporations in workers favor you end up with a growing middle class. The US has strayed from this recently and so we can see it is running into problems.
But it is clear that the combination of free enterprise and welfare state, stable population levels, religious freedom and secular state, with democracy and freedom works, and a strong regularioty government and employee unions, has created both a prosperous, safe and freedomful environment inside OECD countries. The low population growth in OECD countries has assured these countries have plenty of resources for these people and have not driven themselves into poverty with overpopulation. The free enterprise allows for individual creativity but government regulations prevent corporations and people from ruthlessly and brutally exploiting others (in principle at least).
If you like how our success looks, you should get to work in copying it in your own countries, work honestly and dilligently, stop reproducing yourself into an overpopulated ecological, disease, and resource depletion disaster, instead of wanting to flood us, instead of holding on to your fascist backwards dictatorships, pathetic barbaric state religion and brainwashed population who cannot question the status quo and the illogical behaviours such as burkha wearing that turns people into irrationalists who cannot act or think for themselves, and corrupt policies.
I am not a big fan of public schools in their current form, not because of the teachers but because of the bullying and the peer pressure that goes on there which can damage children as much as the religious ideology. There are some characteristics of the public schoos, the assembly line environment, the rote memorisation of endless facts over learning how to think critically, the one size fits all mentality that cannot adjust to the particular learning style and learning speeds of different students. The rote memorisation factor can completely ruin students and it almost ruined me. I do not have a perfect memory and cannot retain information very reliably and this caused severe problems in schools. I was being held up for not being able to memorise multiplication tables and other such things. I found later on that if i could use notes and instead focused on working off of notes, books, texts, examples instead of memorisation many of the problems went away and I was able to advanced rapidly through algebra and calculus after being stuck for years at long division in the public schools. I think the rote memorisation causes burn out for many students and causes them to give up and fail. So many lives are being destroyed by this inflexible system. The system was holding me up with its inflexible requirements of memorisation, when otherwise i could have been on to algebra rather than doing division and trying to learn multiplication tables. On the other hand, some students have excellent memories, can absorb vast amounts of information and can work very quickly through subjects, and in many cases these people are being held back and kept from progressing by the same inflexible system. We perhaps have the einstiens and so on who are being held back for years and perhaps are being squandered and wasted, much of their critical school years being wasted when otherwise they may have well on their way on having a head start to being scientific geniuses who will become great scientists and inventors. so we have a system that demands students fit into an exact mold, and they cannot perform any less or more than expected, and one also based on mediocrity and excessive and overburdening demands at the same time and cannot understand that people are different and have differing ability. The math clutz might become a great artist. The kid who failed literature might become a great scientist. Yet if a person does not make the systems specification they are completely rejected and ruined, even if their abilities in one area were superb.
The burn out problem is huge and its a combination of factors. Schools have been turned into such a drudgery of memorisation without really it being understood why this is important. Instead of being something exciting and fun which it could be it is turned into a painful and agonising ordeal. I think this gives people the idea that academics, science, and all forms of intellectualism and learning are dull, boring, and arduous difficult tasks, thus ruining countless people through burn out who have potential that will go unrealised.
i think it is important to have a rich, and intricate, broad education, NOT dumbed down in any way, but if a person does not remember everything perfectly, I dont think completely rejecting them and ruining them is the right way to go. This sort "unless your perfect to our specification our your a total failure" mentality makes school a panicked, frustrating and frightening ordeal to many that could perhaps burn them out and squander their potential. Students should also be able to progress as quickly as they can, no depth of understanding or level of advanced learning and knowledge should be denied to them. They should be enabled by having the books, materials provided and their questions asked, and new directions and insights pointed out. its good for teachers to give a discussion and talk about and introduce and discuss topics but the "unless you remember this we will destroy you" mentality is not necessary.
Terrible thing that situation. One of the primary reasons this happens is overpopulation. People will scoff at this. Because it makes people uncomfortable and is too politically incorrect.
But consider. if you were so hungry, why not go plants soom food and crops in the ground and grow your own food, take matters into your own hands. You complain in Hungary you were starving, of course some would say, are you helpless, crow carrots, celery, squash, beans, all the other things you need. If you could grow your own food, there would be no reason for starvation. I am not an idiot, and i know the answers to these questions. In the real world there are very real legal constructions and monetary and resource control systems that would stop people from doing so even if they wanted to do so. Through this the economy has been turned into a weapon of mass destruction and people have become completely dependant on external economic and societal systems, independant survival is no longer possible.
Even in the US a modest sized farm can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sustinance agriculture is virtually impossible in many parts of the country. This is a direct result of land being scarce and there being little excess land. With an oversupply of land, it would be cheap. When the US was first taken over by Europeans, after they had removed the natives, land was virtually being given away, there was so much of it. As population has grown tremendously it has grown more scarce. That this makes it more difficult for people to take matters into their own hands, is beyond question. Because of this, the high cost of land and the various legal constructions of society, it is not impossible to grow your own food unless you own expensive land, and are heavily involved in a highly centralised and manipulated monetary and corporate systems. It is now almost impossible to be independant of these massive systems of control including monetary system. The overpopulation and resulting high valuation of land, tying it to monetary systems controlled increasingly by corporations and governments, has led directly into this.
In the USSR there was state control through seizure of land and resources. This is State Capitalism. The same process is under way under a different disquise in the US which is being consumed by corporate collectives, Corporate Capitalism, who are using private property ownership and control of markets and revenue, to achieve a similar outcome to the USSR. People dont see it because they are calling it by different names. It is aided by overpopulation which has been valuable in leading to this consolidation that has allowed elites to consolidate their power, by linking things to money and then by controlling money and property by gradual consolidation of markets and resources.
The argument that people voluntarily share data on facebook and that there is no more privacy or that privacy is no longer needed is broken and as a legal philosophy, is invalid. There was another slashdot article about one woman who that that people sharing data on facebook had abolished expectations of privacy. This is complete BS. Sharing data voluntarily on facebook by some in no ways would compel others to do so. True, some people voluntarily share data on facebook in awareness it is public. This does not mean everyone should be compelled to do so. People have a right to know how data is going to be displayed and whether or not to share the data. the idea that people sharing data on facebook abolishes privacy is so infantile, i cant believe people would make the argument, and i suspect some nefarious intention even that they are preying on ignorance to exploit this to further weaken privacy.
Facebook is known to be a public thing so people expect that what they put there is public unless they make the profile private. people who make purchases through an online store have a right to expect that online store will not broadcast their data. The facebook thing does not extend to other parts of the internet.
Expectation of privacy is often used in outdoor settings. However many countries like Canada has prohibited mass media broadcasting of persons who were shot without their knowledge outdoors, to some degree. Hence the controversy over google streetview in Canada. So many of these things may be subject to further protections of privacy under the law requiring persons to give their consent to use of the data.
When a facebook account is created, the user should know how where the data is displayed, that should be disclosed. The use of facebook does not set precedent for other kinds of sites on the internet, each have different privacy policy and different expectations from customers.
Online, people have a right to maintain privacy and to use sites that vow to protect their privacy.
I can't really see AT&Ts reasoning. The fact is copper line wire pretty much runs everywhere, and by adding some DSL line extenders, much of this could be reused for providing DSL service everywhere for relatively little cost, compared to having to build new networks. So POTS infrastructure can be used to help bring broadband to rural areas relatively cheaply reusing much of the existing infrastructure. Wireless tends to be expensive and slow. due to the limited bandwidth, simply due to the fact everyone in an area is sharing that bandwidth. DSL could probably offer cheaper and faster service more reliably.
By the way, POTS uses frequencies from 0-3khz or so while DSL uses some frequency space above that. If telephony is going to run over IP on DSL, it is concievable that the space between 0-3 khz could be claimed for digital services. So POTS lines could be used for an all digital service, concievably. This would require more equipment at the subsriber end however, so it may not be justified or could be done for subscribers who want it.
Compared to POTS, cell phone service is expensive with a lot of additional charges and unreliable. Cell broadband is inheritely limited and will always be more expensive and slower, simply because you have everyone sharing the same band space in an area, while fiber, coax and DSL signals are inside the cable and you can always run more cables. I cant imagine POTS going away any time soon unless they plan on replacing it all with fiber, not likely for rural areas. POTs infrastructure is actually the best way to extend broadband to rural homes with DSL extenders. POTS is actually a part of the solution. Perhaps they could reuse part of the POTS frequency if they wanted, up to 3 khz, for IP service and then run the telephone over IP but that would still re-use much of the existing POTS cabling. The cable is there and thats why it makes since to reuse it for digital services and it is the quickest way to bring those services to everyone.
i cant imagine why they would be talking about getting rid of POTS as the idea of replacing the infrastructure for POTS with fiber for all areas is far out. They could easily extended broadband to fringe areas over POTS and which is the cheapest way to do so. So POTS is a part of the solution here .
The quickest way for them to offer broadband there it would seem would be DSL, which allows as much of the existing infrastructure to be reused as possible. They would have to install a line extender 1 mile from your home, or bringing fiber or coax to within a mile but this would still allow the last mile to be re-used. DSL can be carried over 1 mile of copper POTS cable from the CO but for longer distances from the CO, there needs to be additional components, line extenders etc to regenerate the signal. POTS, despite what they say is actually still provides the best infrastructure for bringing broadband to fringe areas and can be done relatively cheaply compared to replacing the entire network.
I certainly agree with that. POTS in some cases has fewer active components. Sometimes its just a copper wire to your building from the central office, most electronic problems would happen at the CO where it could be quickly fixed. VOIP has your computer, cable modem etc, coax cable network and fiber nodes which has many points of failure. POTS is far simpler so less chance of something happening.
POTS as well carries DSL so itself is broadband and often the cheapest way to offer broadband since it uses the existing facility. If your within 1 mile of the CO the only changes needed are in the CO, otherwise they need to add a loop extender but even then the last mile to your building does not need any changes, much of the existing infrastructure is re-used. probably the cheapest and fastest way to bring broadband to rural areas is DSL over POTS lines.
That is one way to do it. I have also seen some examples of javascript being used to do some bit and vector graphics but I cant recall what it entails. The new canvas object may be of use here but i have not studied it, and seen if it is really useful, and how it is linked into DOM.
for playing around with fonts. There is much more to do with CSS.
for javascript, you can show document.write for doing some simple output to the browser. Start showing how to do some simple loops and so on. you can use also javascript and the DOM throigh onclick and so on to get data from text fields to process user input and so on in javascript and placing output from the javascript program into a seperate node. To do i/o it may be simpler to demonstrate some perl programs using read and print however. If you would like i could write some simple programs to demonstrate how to do some simple DOM i/o and send them to you. it can really help with gratification to write some programs that can respond to input to make an interactive program. it is often a good idea to write some simple programs for him that are easy to understand, demonstrate them and show him how it works and so on. Its often best to learn by example.
PS you can get started really simple with something like Hello world
Then maybe introduce the construct for some simple layouts.
use for playing around with fonts. There is much more to do with CSS.
for javascript, you can show document.write for doing some simple output to the browser. Start showing how to do some simple loops and so on. you can use also javascript and the DOM throigh onclick and so on to get data from text fields to process user input and so on in javascript and placing output from the javascript program into a seperate node. To do i/o it may be simpler to demonstrate some perl programs using read and print however. If you would like i could write some simple programs to demonstrate how to do some simple DOM i/o and send them to you. it can really help with gratification to write some programs that can respond to input to make an interactive program. it is often a good idea to write some simple programs for him that are easy to understand, demonstrate them and show him how it works and so on. Its often best to learn by example.
I second that. I like the raw unfiltered nature of those things and the educational nature of PBS. PBS programs do use sound and graphics in their programs to make a presentation but they do so in a way not to make it pop culturish and still convey powerful information. One of the favourite things i like about C-SPAN is the call in segements, which unlike CNN and so on which are heavily scripted and fox etc which are blatantly biased, one gets to hear different sides of the issue from real, common people rather than media spin masters. CSPAN does a wonderful job of presenting unedited data and as well allowing for public commentary, nearly missing in the mainstream coverage, which tries to put everything into a manipulated edited package as if to slant peoples perspective on things.
Doing some web stuff would be an instant turn on, especially if we wants to use some of this stuff on a myspace profile. Doing javascript and html work can allow for instant payback and see the results quickly and allow him to get some quick payback in being able to let others see his work. I think instead of doing all of this abstract stuff of definitions, types, and so on its better to focus on getting things done so his interest can be caught throigh quick gratification, seeing his work turned to actual graphics and pages that he created, without having to go throuh learning all of this abstract stuff like memory management, mallocs, types and endless declarations as with some of the languages you mentioned. javascript is simple, well designed, adn does not require all of the declarations and technicalities, for instance Java and the everything has be declared in so many ways just to be used, it just steepens the learning curve.
Like with Perl, Javascript and HTML allows you to get your foot into the door without having to learn about so many things at once, start off with the simple concepts and get quick results without having to type about a bunch of highly verbose declarations and initialisation. I think something like $hello="hello there"; print $hello; would require a bit more declarations and so on in Java or C#.
And as far as 3D, probably better to start off with 2D webpages first. And hopefully you didnt mean OpenGL. Maybe there is a simple way to do 3D but OpenGL isnt it.
I second javascript and HTML. Javascript is a clean, simple language, dynamic typed without all of that extra memory management and other stuff to worry about as on C. Its high level and allows for simple code, and instant results without all of the extra set up and initialisation which can confuse new users. Stay away from Java, C and C++ for goodness sake.
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Well, unless there was a directory that was provided by yahoo which archive.org could crawl, of all sites, possibly some could be missed. Mine was on google, I know that. Plus there was over month of notice. Archive.org is just not a comprehensive archive solution.
Regulations are to prevent safety problems in the first place. The reason why regulation is not that regulation *never works*, but instead the regulators are not independant, there are too many conflicts of interests, and it will be the case until we implement some real compaign finance reform so that politicians are not helped to be elected by corporations through all of their generous donations. The fact is, without regulations, matters would not be any better, in fact they would likely be worse, as you want. When we have broken regulators we do not get rid of all regulation but fix the problem as to why its broken. We need more independant experts in regulatory agencies, they need to be run by people never employed by corporations and not paid or influenced by them in any way.
Interesting that you mention that. I havea geocities site so i knew of the Archive.org thing, that was supposed to back up the site. I checked archive.org backups of geocities. half of the sites are not backed up correctly. Mine was never backed up, it seems, at all. With most sites 90% of the files are missing. Is archive.org the solution? Apparently not.
I checked archive.org backups of geocities. half of the sites are not backed up correctly. Mine was never backed up, it seems, at all. With most sites 90% of the files are missing. Is archive.org the solution? Apparently not.
Good god. Are they okay? Ive always thought that drive by wire sounded risky and dangerous. It seems like for essential steering and speed control we should stick with the simple mechanical systems. Software code is so tiny and fragile. and CPUs, compared to big hefty mechanical system and so much more complex. Complexity==less reliability.
It is indeed a big problem. The problem was illustrated recently when Yahoo suddenly pulled the plug on Geocities, wiping out a vast cultural archive that went back to the early days of the internet, a lot of valuable information was lost as a result of that. Yahoo's blatant arrogance caused me to refuse to ever use any of their products again. Geocities was actually a fairly nice service, often people criticised it because of the ads, but how do you pay to continue to offer a free service. The loss of geocities was a perfect example of the need for a permenant store or online archive of information, personal websites and so on that can be maintained as a cultural legacy and informational resource.
I would also like toi add while i agree with free enterprise i also believe that a non market component of the economy is also important to, i believe in a mixed system. It is clear that the US became great with the help of government agencies such as NASA and many great technologies were developed, which would not be possible in a market economy, in non market environments which however can allow for creativity, perhaps even more so than the market environment. I think government law, with the focus on individual welfare and freedom, protecting workers and the environment and encouraging and enabling development is very important. A good government that respects individual freedoms and is the servant of the individual rather than a master is vital.
I also believe education is critical as well, especially secular education that does not fill childrens heads with religious junk (like creationism) but insteads encourages to think independantly, to critically think, and about the scientific method and empericism.
I disagree, completely. First of all if we opened up the boarders everyone would come to Europe and the US and the place would quickly degenerate into a filthy cesspit just like the overpopulated filthy infested impoverished ratholes that they left behind.
Furthermore what you are asking would make it impossible for any country to implement and enforce its laws. A country that implements good laws that protects its peoples freedoms and rights and create prosperity would be punished by a flood of immigrants, so it would be impossible for them to implement these laws. This would end up requiring a global government just to do anything enforceable. The fact we have had seperate countries is a good thing, it has allowed us to see what fails and what works and as well, the US and Europe have shown that democracy, secular government, and freedom does work and that when you regulate corporations in workers favor you end up with a growing middle class. The US has strayed from this recently and so we can see it is running into problems.
But it is clear that the combination of free enterprise and welfare state, stable population levels, religious freedom and secular state, with democracy and freedom works, and a strong regularioty government and employee unions, has created both a prosperous, safe and freedomful environment inside OECD countries. The low population growth in OECD countries has assured these countries have plenty of resources for these people and have not driven themselves into poverty with overpopulation. The free enterprise allows for individual creativity but government regulations prevent corporations and people from ruthlessly and brutally exploiting others (in principle at least).
If you like how our success looks, you should get to work in copying it in your own countries, work honestly and dilligently, stop reproducing yourself into an overpopulated ecological, disease, and resource depletion disaster, instead of wanting to flood us, instead of holding on to your fascist backwards dictatorships, pathetic barbaric state religion and brainwashed population who cannot question the status quo and the illogical behaviours such as burkha wearing that turns people into irrationalists who cannot act or think for themselves, and corrupt policies.
I am not a big fan of public schools in their current form, not because of the teachers but because of the bullying and the peer pressure that goes on there which can damage children as much as the religious ideology. There are some characteristics of the public schoos, the assembly line environment, the rote memorisation of endless facts over learning how to think critically, the one size fits all mentality that cannot adjust to the particular learning style and learning speeds of different students. The rote memorisation factor can completely ruin students and it almost ruined me. I do not have a perfect memory and cannot retain information very reliably and this caused severe problems in schools. I was being held up for not being able to memorise multiplication tables and other such things. I found later on that if i could use notes and instead focused on working off of notes, books, texts, examples instead of memorisation many of the problems went away and I was able to advanced rapidly through algebra and calculus after being stuck for years at long division in the public schools. I think the rote memorisation causes burn out for many students and causes them to give up and fail. So many lives are being destroyed by this inflexible system. The system was holding me up with its inflexible requirements of memorisation, when otherwise i could have been on to algebra rather than doing division and trying to learn multiplication tables. On the other hand, some students have excellent memories, can absorb vast amounts of information and can work very quickly through subjects, and in many cases these people are being held back and kept from progressing by the same inflexible system. We perhaps have the einstiens and so on who are being held back for years and perhaps are being squandered and wasted, much of their critical school years being wasted when otherwise they may have well on their way on having a head start to being scientific geniuses who will become great scientists and inventors. so we have a system that demands students fit into an exact mold, and they cannot perform any less or more than expected, and one also based on mediocrity and excessive and overburdening demands at the same time and cannot understand that people are different and have differing ability. The math clutz might become a great artist. The kid who failed literature might become a great scientist. Yet if a person does not make the systems specification they are completely rejected and ruined, even if their abilities in one area were superb.
The burn out problem is huge and its a combination of factors. Schools have been turned into such a drudgery of memorisation without really it being understood why this is important. Instead of being something exciting and fun which it could be it is turned into a painful and agonising ordeal. I think this gives people the idea that academics, science, and all forms of intellectualism and learning are dull, boring, and arduous difficult tasks, thus ruining countless people through burn out who have potential that will go unrealised.
i think it is important to have a rich, and intricate, broad education, NOT dumbed down in any way, but if a person does not remember everything perfectly, I dont think completely rejecting them and ruining them is the right way to go. This sort "unless your perfect to our specification our your a total failure" mentality makes school a panicked, frustrating and frightening ordeal to many that could perhaps burn them out and squander their potential. Students should also be able to progress as quickly as they can, no depth of understanding or level of advanced learning and knowledge should be denied to them. They should be enabled by having the books, materials provided and their questions asked, and new directions and insights pointed out. its good for teachers to give a discussion and talk about and introduce and discuss topics but the "unless you remember this we will destroy you" mentality is not necessary.
As for schools, i think should be a variety of
Terrible thing that situation. One of the primary reasons this happens is overpopulation. People will scoff at this. Because it makes people uncomfortable and is too politically incorrect.
But consider. if you were so hungry, why not go plants soom food and crops in the ground and grow your own food, take matters into your own hands. You complain in Hungary you were starving, of course some would say, are you helpless, crow carrots, celery, squash, beans, all the other things you need. If you could grow your own food, there would be no reason for starvation. I am not an idiot, and i know the answers to these questions. In the real world there are very real legal constructions and monetary and resource control systems that would stop people from doing so even if they wanted to do so. Through this the economy has been turned into a weapon of mass destruction and people have become completely dependant on external economic and societal systems, independant survival is no longer possible.
Even in the US a modest sized farm can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sustinance agriculture is virtually impossible in many parts of the country. This is a direct result of land being scarce and there being little excess land. With an oversupply of land, it would be cheap. When the US was first taken over by Europeans, after they had removed the natives, land was virtually being given away, there was so much of it. As population has grown tremendously it has grown more scarce. That this makes it more difficult for people to take matters into their own hands, is beyond question. Because of this, the high cost of land and the various legal constructions of society, it is not impossible to grow your own food unless you own expensive land, and are heavily involved in a highly centralised and manipulated monetary and corporate systems. It is now almost impossible to be independant of these massive systems of control including monetary system. The overpopulation and resulting high valuation of land, tying it to monetary systems controlled increasingly by corporations and governments, has led directly into this.
In the USSR there was state control through seizure of land and resources. This is State Capitalism. The same process is under way under a different disquise in the US which is being consumed by corporate collectives, Corporate Capitalism, who are using private property ownership and control of markets and revenue, to achieve a similar outcome to the USSR. People dont see it because they are calling it by different names. It is aided by overpopulation which has been valuable in leading to this consolidation that has allowed elites to consolidate their power, by linking things to money and then by controlling money and property by gradual consolidation of markets and resources.
The argument that people voluntarily share data on facebook and that there is no more privacy or that privacy is no longer needed is broken and as a legal philosophy, is invalid. There was another slashdot article about one woman who that that people sharing data on facebook had abolished expectations of privacy. This is complete BS. Sharing data voluntarily on facebook by some in no ways would compel others to do so. True, some people voluntarily share data on facebook in awareness it is public. This does not mean everyone should be compelled to do so. People have a right to know how data is going to be displayed and whether or not to share the data. the idea that people sharing data on facebook abolishes privacy is so infantile, i cant believe people would make the argument, and i suspect some nefarious intention even that they are preying on ignorance to exploit this to further weaken privacy.
Facebook is known to be a public thing so people expect that what they put there is public unless they make the profile private. people who make purchases through an online store have a right to expect that online store will not broadcast their data. The facebook thing does not extend to other parts of the internet.
Expectation of privacy is often used in outdoor settings. However many countries like Canada has prohibited mass media broadcasting of persons who were shot without their knowledge outdoors, to some degree. Hence the controversy over google streetview in Canada. So many of these things may be subject to further protections of privacy under the law requiring persons to give their consent to use of the data.
When a facebook account is created, the user should know how where the data is displayed, that should be disclosed. The use of facebook does not set precedent for other kinds of sites on the internet, each have different privacy policy and different expectations from customers.
Online, people have a right to maintain privacy and to use sites that vow to protect their privacy.
I can't really see AT&Ts reasoning. The fact is copper line wire pretty much runs everywhere, and by adding some DSL line extenders, much of this could be reused for providing DSL service everywhere for relatively little cost, compared to having to build new networks. So POTS infrastructure can be used to help bring broadband to rural areas relatively cheaply reusing much of the existing infrastructure. Wireless tends to be expensive and slow. due to the limited bandwidth, simply due to the fact everyone in an area is sharing that bandwidth. DSL could probably offer cheaper and faster service more reliably.
By the way, POTS uses frequencies from 0-3khz or so while DSL uses some frequency space above that. If telephony is going to run over IP on DSL, it is concievable that the space between 0-3 khz could be claimed for digital services. So POTS lines could be used for an all digital service, concievably. This would require more equipment at the subsriber end however, so it may not be justified or could be done for subscribers who want it.
Compared to POTS, cell phone service is expensive with a lot of additional charges and unreliable. Cell broadband is inheritely limited and will always be more expensive and slower, simply because you have everyone sharing the same band space in an area, while fiber, coax and DSL signals are inside the cable and you can always run more cables. I cant imagine POTS going away any time soon unless they plan on replacing it all with fiber, not likely for rural areas. POTs infrastructure is actually the best way to extend broadband to rural homes with DSL extenders. POTS is actually a part of the solution. Perhaps they could reuse part of the POTS frequency if they wanted, up to 3 khz, for IP service and then run the telephone over IP but that would still re-use much of the existing POTS cabling. The cable is there and thats why it makes since to reuse it for digital services and it is the quickest way to bring those services to everyone.
i cant imagine why they would be talking about getting rid of POTS as the idea of replacing the infrastructure for POTS with fiber for all areas is far out. They could easily extended broadband to fringe areas over POTS and which is the cheapest way to do so. So POTS is a part of the solution here .
The quickest way for them to offer broadband there it would seem would be DSL, which allows as much of the existing infrastructure to be reused as possible. They would have to install a line extender 1 mile from your home, or bringing fiber or coax to within a mile but this would still allow the last mile to be re-used. DSL can be carried over 1 mile of copper POTS cable from the CO but for longer distances from the CO, there needs to be additional components, line extenders etc to regenerate the signal. POTS, despite what they say is actually still provides the best infrastructure for bringing broadband to fringe areas and can be done relatively cheaply compared to replacing the entire network.
I certainly agree with that. POTS in some cases has fewer active components. Sometimes its just a copper wire to your building from the central office, most electronic problems would happen at the CO where it could be quickly fixed. VOIP has your computer, cable modem etc, coax cable network and fiber nodes which has many points of failure. POTS is far simpler so less chance of something happening.
POTS as well carries DSL so itself is broadband and often the cheapest way to offer broadband since it uses the existing facility. If your within 1 mile of the CO the only changes needed are in the CO, otherwise they need to add a loop extender but even then the last mile to your building does not need any changes, much of the existing infrastructure is re-used. probably the cheapest and fastest way to bring broadband to rural areas is DSL over POTS lines.
I agree that HTML is not turing complete programming and should lead into javascript, perl etc. It can be a stepping stone into a real language.
That is one way to do it. I have also seen some examples of javascript being used to do some bit and vector graphics but I cant recall what it entails. The new canvas object may be of use here but i have not studied it, and seen if it is really useful, and how it is linked into DOM.
The original message i posted had the html mangled in the examples so i fixed that:
PS you can get started really simple with something like
Then maybe introduce the
construct for some simple layouts.
use
for playing around with fonts. There is much more to do with CSS.
for javascript, you can show document.write for doing some simple output to the browser. Start showing how to do some simple loops and so on. you can use also javascript and the DOM throigh onclick and so on to get data from text fields to process user input and so on in javascript and placing output from the javascript program into a seperate node. To do i/o it may be simpler to demonstrate some perl programs using read and print however. If you would like i could write some simple programs to demonstrate how to do some simple DOM i/o and send them to you. it can really help with gratification to write some programs that can respond to input to make an interactive program. it is often a good idea to write some simple programs for him that are easy to understand, demonstrate them and show him how it works and so on. Its often best to learn by example.
PS you can get started really simple with something like Hello world
Then maybe introduce the construct for some simple layouts.
use for playing around with fonts. There is much more to do with CSS.
for javascript, you can show document.write for doing some simple output to the browser. Start showing how to do some simple loops and so on. you can use also javascript and the DOM throigh onclick and so on to get data from text fields to process user input and so on in javascript and placing output from the javascript program into a seperate node. To do i/o it may be simpler to demonstrate some perl programs using read and print however. If you would like i could write some simple programs to demonstrate how to do some simple DOM i/o and send them to you. it can really help with gratification to write some programs that can respond to input to make an interactive program. it is often a good idea to write some simple programs for him that are easy to understand, demonstrate them and show him how it works and so on. Its often best to learn by example.
I second that. I like the raw unfiltered nature of those things and the educational nature of PBS. PBS programs do use sound and graphics in their programs to make a presentation but they do so in a way not to make it pop culturish and still convey powerful information. One of the favourite things i like about C-SPAN is the call in segements, which unlike CNN and so on which are heavily scripted and fox etc which are blatantly biased, one gets to hear different sides of the issue from real, common people rather than media spin masters. CSPAN does a wonderful job of presenting unedited data and as well allowing for public commentary, nearly missing in the mainstream coverage, which tries to put everything into a manipulated edited package as if to slant peoples perspective on things.
Doing some web stuff would be an instant turn on, especially if we wants to use some of this stuff on a myspace profile. Doing javascript and html work can allow for instant payback and see the results quickly and allow him to get some quick payback in being able to let others see his work. I think instead of doing all of this abstract stuff of definitions, types, and so on its better to focus on getting things done so his interest can be caught throigh quick gratification, seeing his work turned to actual graphics and pages that he created, without having to go throuh learning all of this abstract stuff like memory management, mallocs, types and endless declarations as with some of the languages you mentioned. javascript is simple, well designed, adn does not require all of the declarations and technicalities, for instance Java and the everything has be declared in so many ways just to be used, it just steepens the learning curve.
Like with Perl, Javascript and HTML allows you to get your foot into the door without having to learn about so many things at once, start off with the simple concepts and get quick results without having to type about a bunch of highly verbose declarations and initialisation. I think something like $hello="hello there"; print $hello; would require a bit more declarations and so on in Java or C#.
And as far as 3D, probably better to start off with 2D webpages first. And hopefully you didnt mean OpenGL. Maybe there is a simple way to do 3D but OpenGL isnt it.
I second javascript and HTML. Javascript is a clean, simple language, dynamic typed without all of that extra memory management and other stuff to worry about as on C. Its high level and allows for simple code, and instant results without all of the extra set up and initialisation which can confuse new users. Stay away from Java, C and C++ for goodness sake.
as this progresses CSS can also be shown, to use it to position things on the web page rather simply.