Being a teacher means that you have to teach all the kids, not just the 5-10% that will learn even if you suspend them over an alligator pit and hand them a textbook. It also means that you have to teach the kids that didnt have breakfast today, the kids that are distracted by family situations, the kids that have some kind of learning disability and the kids that think that the best part of school is when it ends. Online courses are fine, but theyre not for everyone and for everything. Another thing to consider is that just digitizing a textbook and adding a few video lectures doesnt mean that its a GOOD online course. Khan Academy is great stuff, short snippets with limited scope, but its not a panacea.
I think Neuromancer has aged quite well. Sure, we dont use VR goggles, but its still early days as far as the net goes. Bionics, custom drugs and corporate espionage...well...I never believed that a company like Blackwater would come into existence...
Very interesting. Neither I myself or anyone I know has ever had any use for a gun to defend ourselves. But then I live in Sweden where the cult of the gun never really has taken off.
The Germans produced less than 1350 of the legendary Tiger tank, and less than 500 of the King Tiger). I think we saw how that turned out for the Germans. Americans and Russians just kept churning out Shermans and T-34's, and simply overwhelmed them.
Is a lot more complex than that, dont forget the Panther family and all the different tank destroyers that they employed. Fuel was in many ways the deciding factor, with enough fuel the Germans could have held out for maybe three or four months more. The Battle of the Bulge for instance might have gone quite differently if the German commander had had enough fuel.
Bah. 94% of voters didnt vote for these racist nincompoops. They will be lame ducks, the established parties are not interested in cooperating with them.
Yes, just like in many other countries all over the world (including the US) lots of people were quite impressed by Germany and its martial and socioeconomical prowess in the thirties/early forties. Sweden had strong ties to Germany and German culture. Germany was and is an important trade partner. Add to that the fact that quite a few German divisions were based in occupied Norway and Denmark, the Soviet aggression against Finland in 1939 and well, its not hard to understand that Sweden preferred to stay out of the war if possible. Fear of a German invasion and of a strong Soviet Union played its part . There was and is a great deal of post facto shame about the iron ore sales and the transiting of German troops but also some relief that we managed to keep out of the war.
Im a teacher by profession and here in Sweden this entire debate would be a non-starter. Why ? Because our curriculae are designed in a completely different way. We have a national curriculum set by the Riksdag (parliament) but thats designed by teachers and experts in concert. I have just participated in the evaluation of the new Science curriculum, a very interesting process where we get a say in what the focus should be.
In addition, our curriculae do not specify in mindnumbing detail what kids should learn, that is left up to us professionals. Quite a contrast from the standards that I saw when I visited schools in Virginia and Maryland last year. Of course, our kind of curriculum has its own challenges. Oh, and we get to choose our textbooks freely as well. We can pick whatever we find to be good books, regardless of what some well-meaning nutcase thinks.
Firing a 30mm gunship cannon at people picking up wounded is murder however you try to justify it. No matter what the gunship crew thought they saw earlier there is no threat from people picking up wounded. Just because theres a "war" on doesnt mean that you get to fire indiscriminately at anything that moves.
The difference being that very few people consider Pakistan to be a democracy, whereas Venezuela is a democracy teetering on the brink of a single party system.
Consider a small freighter, 200 km off New York. It launches a few hundred small unmanned planes, guided by a small computer autopilot. Each plane carries four thermite stick bombs, similar to the ones used in WWII. When the planes reach the vicinity of New York they climb to a few hundred meters altitude and start dropping the thermite devices. What was cutting edge tech 70 years ago is garage tech today.
"Finally, the state of Western medicine in EU, CA, and UK, is largely subsidized by the fact that they can license procedures and drugs from the US. In fact, the US is effectively subsidizing our socialist brothers abroad. And we don't mind so much... but we'd prefer it if you wouldn't badmouth us while we do it."
Yeah, free trade is a bitch.
Sounds to me like a gaming platform. Project the game screeen, use the camera and accelerometer to control the game. Imagine a game like doom where the motion of the cellphone controls where you look.
F..ck major content producers, they have other revenue sources. Being able to support small FOSS projects financially in an easy way and expressing appreciation for thinghs like XKCD is whats its about.
Its a nice idea, making it easy to support stuff like FOSS-sites and other things that you like with just a click. Sure, Paypal exists but its not as easy to use and ill equipped for small donations.
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Being a teacher means that you have to teach all the kids, not just the 5-10% that will learn even if you suspend them over an alligator pit and hand them a textbook. It also means that you have to teach the kids that didnt have breakfast today, the kids that are distracted by family situations, the kids that have some kind of learning disability and the kids that think that the best part of school is when it ends. Online courses are fine, but theyre not for everyone and for everything. Another thing to consider is that just digitizing a textbook and adding a few video lectures doesnt mean that its a GOOD online course. Khan Academy is great stuff, short snippets with limited scope, but its not a panacea.
I think Neuromancer has aged quite well. Sure, we dont use VR goggles, but its still early days as far as the net goes. Bionics, custom drugs and corporate espionage...well...I never believed that a company like Blackwater would come into existence...
I have a Creative Ziio 7" Android WiFi tablet running Android 2.2. It works quite well and cost me half what a WiFi 16G iPad would have.
Harsh sentence compared to most violent crimes Id say. Few rape sentences run that long for instance.
Just when I think I get the hang of sarcasm...
Very interesting. Neither I myself or anyone I know has ever had any use for a gun to defend ourselves. But then I live in Sweden where the cult of the gun never really has taken off.
The day that the US Airforce's first nuclear-tipped ICBM went online the second amendment to the US constitution was obsoleted.
The Germans produced less than 1350 of the legendary Tiger tank, and less than 500 of the King Tiger). I think we saw how that turned out for the Germans. Americans and Russians just kept churning out Shermans and T-34's, and simply overwhelmed them.
Is a lot more complex than that, dont forget the Panther family and all the different tank destroyers that they employed. Fuel was in many ways the deciding factor, with enough fuel the Germans could have held out for maybe three or four months more. The Battle of the Bulge for instance might have gone quite differently if the German commander had had enough fuel.
Yup, I know that one alright :) "Blinkar Blå" is even better though.
Bah. 94% of voters didnt vote for these racist nincompoops. They will be lame ducks, the established parties are not interested in cooperating with them.
Yes, just like in many other countries all over the world (including the US) lots of people were quite impressed by Germany and its martial and socioeconomical prowess in the thirties/early forties. Sweden had strong ties to Germany and German culture. Germany was and is an important trade partner. Add to that the fact that quite a few German divisions were based in occupied Norway and Denmark, the Soviet aggression against Finland in 1939 and well, its not hard to understand that Sweden preferred to stay out of the war if possible. Fear of a German invasion and of a strong Soviet Union played its part . There was and is a great deal of post facto shame about the iron ore sales and the transiting of German troops but also some relief that we managed to keep out of the war.
Im a teacher by profession and here in Sweden this entire debate would be a non-starter. Why ? Because our curriculae are designed in a completely different way. We have a national curriculum set by the Riksdag (parliament) but thats designed by teachers and experts in concert. I have just participated in the evaluation of the new Science curriculum, a very interesting process where we get a say in what the focus should be.
In addition, our curriculae do not specify in mindnumbing detail what kids should learn, that is left up to us professionals. Quite a contrast from the standards that I saw when I visited schools in Virginia and Maryland last year. Of course, our kind of curriculum has its own challenges. Oh, and we get to choose our textbooks freely as well. We can pick whatever we find to be good books, regardless of what some well-meaning nutcase thinks.
Considering the american love affair with guns in general, why not just round up some random gun-toting militiamen and call that the US army ?
Firing a 30mm gunship cannon at people picking up wounded is murder however you try to justify it. No matter what the gunship crew thought they saw earlier there is no threat from people picking up wounded. Just because theres a "war" on doesnt mean that you get to fire indiscriminately at anything that moves.
IE9 will most likely be a big, complex monster like IE8 is. Chrome is the future of browsers IMO, small, fast and unbloated.
Why else ? "Embrace, extend, extinguish" is the Microsoft motto when it comes to competing standards.
The difference being that very few people consider Pakistan to be a democracy, whereas Venezuela is a democracy teetering on the brink of a single party system.
Pffft. try this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNj1dXi-z0M the fun starts @1.30
Consider a small freighter, 200 km off New York. It launches a few hundred small unmanned planes, guided by a small computer autopilot. Each plane carries four thermite stick bombs, similar to the ones used in WWII. When the planes reach the vicinity of New York they climb to a few hundred meters altitude and start dropping the thermite devices. What was cutting edge tech 70 years ago is garage tech today.
"Finally, the state of Western medicine in EU, CA, and UK, is largely subsidized by the fact that they can license procedures and drugs from the US. In fact, the US is effectively subsidizing our socialist brothers abroad. And we don't mind so much... but we'd prefer it if you wouldn't badmouth us while we do it." Yeah, free trade is a bitch.
Sounds to me like a gaming platform. Project the game screeen, use the camera and accelerometer to control the game. Imagine a game like doom where the motion of the cellphone controls where you look.
A lot of hardcopy is only read/used once or twice and then recycled. Sounds like a great idea to me.
F..ck major content producers, they have other revenue sources. Being able to support small FOSS projects financially in an easy way and expressing appreciation for thinghs like XKCD is whats its about.
Its a nice idea, making it easy to support stuff like FOSS-sites and other things that you like with just a click. Sure, Paypal exists but its not as easy to use and ill equipped for small donations.
Nokia has Maemo as well, which is better than Android in so many ways. Try a N900 and you will see. There is no reason for them to go Android,