Back in the 60's B. F. Skinner, a Harvard psychologist, had an idea that you could learn from a book that had interactive questions along with the text. Depending on the answers the reader was moved to different sections of the book. (hhmmmm - early hyperlinking?). I remember the only book I had like that was boring but with this new technology perhaps it's time to re-examine the ideas behind programmed learning.
It does work; I lost all the weight I wanted to and I *kept* losing weight. When I got to the stopping point I started eating whatever I felt like and it wasn't enough. I had to do ice cream shakes for a while to maintain. After a few weeks I started getting too heavy and stopped the shakes. I eat what I feel like now and my weight is where I like it.
An AOL type network (Great GUI, lots of content and downloads). AT&T bought it just before it was released and killed it a few months later. I was a beta tester; I had such high hopes for Interchange.
Mandrake 8.1 on my baby. But, just for fun I have a second machine: Pentium 100, 64 Meg RAM, 1 Meg video, 4 gig HD. Dual boot: DOS 3.3 with WFW and MANDRAKE 7.1. Works well for me but YMMV. BTW One reason I did this was to occasionally use the Photon theme;-) .
If four programmers could write a better Photoshop in two months and distribute it electronically, then things will change.
Your comment got me thinking. Gimp is close to Photoshop; it just needs a few things like CYMK. So contribute code, bug reports, or best of all: money. Maybe like the PERL community; people contribute money to hire a developer full time for a year. If the GIMP project had their 4 best developers working full time--could they pull it off?
You have an understanding of how it really works.
Idealism is great, but reality is where we live.
I'm guessing that you are a well placed, well paid person in charge of big things. RU?
Indeed. In the early 90s I cheered for MS and laughed at the way they took IBM to the cleaners.
Now, I look in awe at IBM; they are the most clueful company out there (Sun, Apple, Corel, Borland, . . . ; nobody gets it like IBM.
Go Big Blue!
And, Thanks!
(OT) In 95 my sig was:
A two step program to end the drug war:
1. Make drugs legal.
2. Put IBM in charge of marketing.
A year or so ago CT added a comment to the story of Caldera buying SCO: 'I don't know which company is more irrelevant to Linux' IIRC. Still rings true. I see this post is 12 hours old and just 51 total comments. Nobody cares Ransom.
And I remember many posts at the time jumping on CT for saying bad things about a *Linux* company.
All the posts are from mhall and there is a sharp dropoff in the number of talk backs. hhmmm? I just signed the petition and saw that most of the regular posters to LT were there. I remember when LT was acquired by internet.com and there was a lively discussion with a lot of posters expressing misgivings about internet.com. Sad to see that those feelings were justified.
that your great submission was not used. Do you know that thanks to/. newbies like you the staff has to sort thru 1000's of submitted stories. They employ a 'coarse' filter the first pass (just guessing, I'm just a/. user) and some great stuff, like yours sometimes gets lost. Please try again.
He has written some great stuff. During the Clinton scandal he wrote an article: 'What about Monica's rights?'. I thought it one of the most insight views of that sordid mess.
To read more Jon Katz do a Google search. Try:
jon katz
jon katz wired
jon katz netizen
Also do read the 'Voices from the Hellmouth' available on SlashDot. I believe he may have stopped a witch hunt in this country against kids who are different. Perhaps one of SlashDot's finest hours.
I second that emotion.
Nice to see all this on/. I use, love, and will buy stock (1 share). All this BS about not making money, charity, illogical investing,... I see in the threads here, Rave on! my fellow/.ers; you just don't get it.
sig hasn't been updated. I run M/LGX 8.0. Mandrake 7.2 and KDE 2 for me? for free?
Slashdot Mirror
>It can be measured scientifically.
And when Microsoft used those *scientific* measurements they came up with MS Bob.
Back in the 60's B. F. Skinner, a Harvard psychologist, had an idea that you could learn from a book that had interactive questions along with the text. Depending on the answers the reader was moved to different sections of the book. (hhmmmm - early hyperlinking?). I remember the only book I had like that was boring but with this new technology perhaps it's time to re-examine the ideas behind programmed learning.
It does work; I lost all the weight I wanted to and I *kept* losing weight. When I got to the stopping point I started eating whatever I felt like and it wasn't enough. I had to do ice cream shakes for a while to maintain. After a few weeks I started getting too heavy and stopped the shakes. I eat what I feel like now and my weight is where I like it.
I have only to look at how the Israelis treat another people. Like dogs. Israel is a nation without conscience.
Help me out here (foggy memory) but wasn't IBM
considering Star Office just before they bought Lotus?
An AOL type network (Great GUI, lots of content and downloads).
AT&T bought it just before it was released and killed it a
few months later. I was a beta tester; I had such high
hopes for Interchange.
that IBM steps in with their portfolio.
I also wondered where the +5 Funny went. Perhaps fear of Metamoderation? Just a thought.
And how is this related to a Dr. John Post at the University of Arkansas?
I've got points but I can't mod a +5 post. You youngsters just can't appreciate how +5. Insightful this comment is.
Put that in -flashing letters-. Reality in less than 128 ASCII thinges. Yes! Thank you!
Mandrake 8.1 on my baby. But, just for fun I have a second machine: Pentium 100, 64 Meg RAM, 1 Meg video, 4 gig HD. Dual boot: DOS 3.3 with WFW and MANDRAKE 7.1. Works well for me but YMMV. BTW One reason I did this was to occasionally use the Photon theme ;-) .
If four programmers could write a better Photoshop in two months and distribute it electronically, then things will change.
Your comment got me thinking. Gimp is close to Photoshop; it just needs a few things like CYMK. So contribute code, bug reports, or best of all: money. Maybe like the PERL community; people contribute money to hire a developer full time for a year. If the GIMP project had their 4 best developers working full time--could they pull it off?
You have an understanding of how it really works.
Idealism is great, but reality is where we live.
I'm guessing that you are a well placed, well paid person in charge of big things. RU?
Karma Whoring: (Score:4, Informative)
That's funnier than most (Score:5, Funny) I've seen.
Indeed. In the early 90s I cheered for MS and laughed at the way they took IBM to the cleaners.
Now, I look in awe at IBM; they are the most clueful company out there (Sun, Apple, Corel, Borland, . . . ; nobody gets it like IBM.
Go Big Blue!
And, Thanks!
(OT) In 95 my sig was:
A two step program to end the drug war:
1. Make drugs legal.
2. Put IBM in charge of marketing.
Second that emotion.
My ISP was also borged by Earthlink.(ipa.net).
Spam went up 4X, and support declined.
Add MandrakeForum to your bookmarks:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com
News, discussion, and links to everything Mandrake.
A year or so ago CT added a comment to the story of Caldera buying SCO: 'I don't know which company is more irrelevant to Linux' IIRC. Still rings true. I see this post is 12 hours old and just 51 total comments. Nobody cares Ransom.
And I remember many posts at the time jumping on CT for saying bad things about a *Linux* company.
Over the last 3 years I've collected 1000 /. sigs you can view here:
http://www.ipa.net/~jamesmcinis/sig.html
Your post, while interesting, was so obvious.
Moderators on crack, indeed.
All the posts are from mhall and there is a sharp dropoff in the number of talk backs. hhmmm? I just signed the petition and saw that most of the regular posters to LT were there. I remember when LT was acquired by internet.com and there was a lively discussion with a lot of posters expressing misgivings about internet.com. Sad to see that those feelings were justified.
that your great submission was not used. Do you know that thanks to /. newbies like you the staff has to sort thru 1000's of submitted stories. They employ a 'coarse' filter the first pass (just guessing, I'm just a /. user) and some great stuff, like yours sometimes gets lost. Please try again.
He has written some great stuff. During the Clinton scandal he wrote an article: 'What about Monica's rights?'. I thought it one of the most insight views of that sordid mess.
To read more Jon Katz do a Google search. Try:
jon katz
jon katz wired
jon katz netizen
Also do read the 'Voices from the Hellmouth' available on SlashDot. I believe he may have stopped a witch hunt in this country against kids who are different. Perhaps one of SlashDot's finest hours.
Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1 for me? for free?
I second that emotion. /. I use, love, and will buy stock (1 share). All this BS about not making money, charity, illogical investing, ... I see in the threads here, Rave on! my fellow /.ers; you just don't get it.
Nice to see all this on
sig hasn't been updated. I run M/LGX 8.0.
Mandrake 7.2 and KDE 2 for me? for free?