Well, you can't motivate everyone with money. Some people get motivated by different things, which money may or may not buy. Richer kids will have less motivation. There is also the unmotivable, those people who you just aren't able to be motivate.
I can't make a good argument against monetary rewards, it's a direct lesson on the value of a dollar. And honestly, compared throughout history, we do ask a lot of our children. Maybe not physically, but at least on a farm, kids were able to tire themselves out with the activity. Young humans aren't tailor made to go through factory life of a school day-in and day-out happily without some breaks. It's still an unnatural environment in that sense.
So my biggest concern is that we throw money at a problem without striving to fix said problem in perhaps better ways or make it more comfortable. One example which would be that high school which decided to open at 10AM and had attendance rise and delinquency fall. The teachers said that study after study showed that teenager were late risers, so why not cater to them? If they relied on a monetary solution, they would simply have demanded perfect attendance or some similiar metric, allowance or limit (say 1 failed day per quarter) and not only would you still have the same tired students, but as soon as anyone missed the threshhold, their entire motivation is gone simply because they can't reach the reward. OTOH, the redesigned school day benefits everyone anytime they go to school, no matter their previous attendance.
Back in the early 1990s, it was seen as a threat by Microsoft to usurp the OS paradigm. They thought whoever controlled the browser market controlls the internet and what it can do -- the tail wagging the dog and it seemed like the future of computing was at stake. And for a while, it succeeded when IE took over and had ridiculously large marketshare.
But now that the ecosystem is more varied, the browser simply does not have this power. Until a browser become so dominant again that they can embrace, extend, extinguish standards, it really doesn't matter that much anymore. Now, the best browser is almost as impotent to change computing as the best picture viewing software (except for maybe data gathering and ad revenue) -- if everything is correctly specced JPGs, PNGs, etcetera -- the picture viewer doesn't matter that much and can be readily interchange with regards to personal preference.
Mobile phones is one exception but also because you can't swap out browsers/rendering engines.
What if you were on trial and asked your friends to fill the presiding judge's mailbox or worse, congregate and protest in front of his house. The message isn't being restricted, just this very targeted delivery.
What a P/R master though! So customer friendly. And all this time, I thought when I buy "unlimited" service, I didn't expect unlimited bandwidth (physical impossibility) but I do expect unlimited access... how stupid of me.
I can only imagine how I'd roll with such a punch... "This will be the year of Linux on the desktop" - Bill Gates... Unngh.
Bill Gates also predicted in the early '00s that in 5-6 years everyone would have a tablet PC.
The thing is, even people famous in the fields they are farseeing are often wrong. Now, Bill Gates predicting that for Linux may be a short term propaganda coup for Linux (or a trap when it doesn't turn true) and it's nice to hear them share their vision of things but reality is a different beast.
I respect Kojima, and I'd pay 10x as much attention if Miyamoto said it, but it's better to apply critical thinking rather than have it become a self-fulfilling prophecy by virtue of edict.
For casual gaming, yes and this has already happened to a degree with smartphones.
But for hardcore or graphics intensive games, I don't see anything beyond PCs or consoles. Heck, the trend is so much towards consoles, this generation we have 3 of them with respectable size audiences. Six, if you count the DS, PSP, and PS2 (because it's still selling). Back in the original NES days, there was one winner and the rest were afterthoughts.
Years ago, things like the Wii Controller would only differentiate the systems if it came standard with the console, but really dedicated hardware like the Balance Board would never have taken off (power glove, super scope, etc anyone?) and after the initial game very few others would follow because the install base just wasn't there. Now even more dedicated hardware than the console/controller itself is taking off.
I just don't see platform agnostic gaming being feasible in the near-future. It's usually the attention to detail and tailored package that makes the experience and sale.
I would say it's even less than growing up with. Who here remembers the story about gut bacteria in fat people being different and that it could process fat/carbs more efficiently (and extracting all the calorie value from it) and futhermore that the bacteria % could change in a span of 16 hours?
I assume some people eat probiotic yogurt for similiar reasons? I would think that if you eat more and more sushi/seaweed, you'll have more bacteria that processes it in the gut over time?
How can you call this a victimless crime when you've already been victimized by your own ignorance of the ease with which online gambling becomes online fleecing of the player?
Since all gambling is fleecing, either ban it entirely or allow it.
I would say it isn't fleecing because everybody knows the likely outcome, even if the want to pretend otherwise (that they'll be the one lucky winner out of millions).
Sriously, what is the iPad, anyway? Sure, it might be a better e-reader than a laptop or a small mobile device, but it doesn't have e-Ink, so it can't be used as an e-reader.
Well, I did buy a Kindle 2 last year March and returned it after 3 weeks. I thought e-ink was the greatest concept but the contrast leaves much to be desire. It's dark grey text on a medium/light grey screen for christ-sakes.
And IPS screens are rather nice. Heck, I read a normal LCD screen all day as it is and it doesn't bother me. I have to wonder when the "you can't read on a computer monitor" took over? For me, it's more to do with whether the monitor has light sensor - monitors just tick me off when it doesn't match the ambient brightness and very few people actually adjust it with any frequency - but phones and this tablet has one so it's no problem.
The iPad is clearly for stupid people, and the only way we're going to save them from themselves, is if we stand up to the hordes of fanbois that threaten to drown out us clear-headed thinkers here on slashdot and speak the truth t o power clearly.
Is this sarcasm/satire or just a self-fulfilling opinion?
See, actually, I do want a device and not yet another computer. Why? Well, less maintenance for one. Also, being instant on is nice (on computers you just don't get a weeks worth of standby on a battery). And without a keyboard, it is a better ereader. I like the whole concept.
You make it sound like a bad thing that Apple didn't come out with another netbook like the rest. I understand the desire for something cheaper than their current models, but I have to think the whole anticipation of Apple slaughtering it's own higher-end models in the race towards the bottom was naive. Plus there are plenty of subnotebooks (not netbooks, but close) which you can turn into a hackintosh. Otherwise Apple's 13" has to do.
This doesn't excuse the design flaws of the current iPad. I'll wait till the second or third generation myself.
When I go to a restaurant I pay for a meal. If I don't I'm taking up space. They'll throw me out even if I don't take anything along. When I go to the cinema I go there to watch a movie and have already payed for an expensive ticket.
Should a hotel confiscate your phone on the grounds that you're less likely to use the pricey hotel phone and WiFi services? Should airlines confiscate iPods and the like because they want to force you to pay for in-flight entertainment?
What are the movie theaters confiscating? It's well known how theaters make money -- mostly from food/drink as the majority of ticket sales go to the studio.
I could go with an analogy, but different businesses have different customs and are run different ways.
A hotel could try to prevent you from having phones, but it would either not be very successful at it or if they are, lose a lot of business customers. However, a hotel should be free to make stupid choices just as people are.
With TV, Redbox, Netflix, and theaters, there's certainly more than one way to watch a movie - so if you don't like the policies, don't patronize the business.
(1st of 9 parts is pulled for copyright, but rest are up)
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BTW, this is a problem with all e-ink right now I know of, not just Kindle. Didn't own a Sony PRS-500 (model #?) but saw it at Target.
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Well, I owned a Kindle 2 - 6" screen. It's just that dark grey text an light-medium grey background that drives me nuts. I wish the "paper" on e-ink was white. At least newspaper have black text. (They darkened the text here a bit imo, but otherwise a good photo showing difference between white and grey):
I already know it's not a notebook computer. But a similiar sized Kindle DX casts $489. Yeah, it has a e-ink screen, but the contrast (dark gray on light gray) is awful. But the battery life is fabulous. This has pretty good battery life but tell me how the screen is for reading. Please.
I heard they had $50B in the bank, correct? They just need 10%, that $18B currently, would have been substantially cheaper over a year ago, but oh well.
They don't need to control google, just have influence over it. And 10% can certainly be a tail that wags the dog from time to time.
(I'm not hoping for this, but from a strategic perspective, google is a good partner).
Right, I owned a Kindle 2 because I also loved the concep of e-ink. Except currently, the contrast sucks. It's dark gray on light gray.
I like LCD when it has a light sensor (automatic brightness). I read all day on it. The only time an LCD makes my eyes hurt is without light sensor and then when it's bright screen in a dark room (always try for some minial ambient light).
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Looking at wikipedia, cornstarch = cornflour, a term used in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstarch
Well, you can't motivate everyone with money. Some people get motivated by different things, which money may or may not buy. Richer kids will have less motivation. There is also the unmotivable, those people who you just aren't able to be motivate.
I can't make a good argument against monetary rewards, it's a direct lesson on the value of a dollar. And honestly, compared throughout history, we do ask a lot of our children. Maybe not physically, but at least on a farm, kids were able to tire themselves out with the activity. Young humans aren't tailor made to go through factory life of a school day-in and day-out happily without some breaks. It's still an unnatural environment in that sense.
So my biggest concern is that we throw money at a problem without striving to fix said problem in perhaps better ways or make it more comfortable. One example which would be that high school which decided to open at 10AM and had attendance rise and delinquency fall. The teachers said that study after study showed that teenager were late risers, so why not cater to them? If they relied on a monetary solution, they would simply have demanded perfect attendance or some similiar metric, allowance or limit (say 1 failed day per quarter) and not only would you still have the same tired students, but as soon as anyone missed the threshhold, their entire motivation is gone simply because they can't reach the reward. OTOH, the redesigned school day benefits everyone anytime they go to school, no matter their previous attendance.
Yikes! These are the same guys that want to charge you $$$ for a 10 second ringtone when you already have the entire song on your phone?
No thanks.
to be.
Back in the early 1990s, it was seen as a threat by Microsoft to usurp the OS paradigm. They thought whoever controlled the browser market controlls the internet and what it can do -- the tail wagging the dog and it seemed like the future of computing was at stake. And for a while, it succeeded when IE took over and had ridiculously large marketshare.
But now that the ecosystem is more varied, the browser simply does not have this power. Until a browser become so dominant again that they can embrace, extend, extinguish standards, it really doesn't matter that much anymore. Now, the best browser is almost as impotent to change computing as the best picture viewing software (except for maybe data gathering and ad revenue) -- if everything is correctly specced JPGs, PNGs, etcetera -- the picture viewer doesn't matter that much and can be readily interchange with regards to personal preference.
Mobile phones is one exception but also because you can't swap out browsers/rendering engines.
What if you were on trial and asked your friends to fill the presiding judge's mailbox or worse, congregate and protest in front of his house. The message isn't being restricted, just this very targeted delivery.
As always, the case against Intellectual Monopoly:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
(Not that I'm against it all, but sometimes you have hear from people on one extreme to balance out the extremist corps like Disney, etc.)
"Finally, if you're a high-bandwidth user of Verizon's smartphone data services, the company will soon hunt you down and throttle you."
This comes to mind:
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/3567/homeruchokingubartad.jpg
What a P/R master though! So customer friendly. And all this time, I thought when I buy "unlimited" service, I didn't expect unlimited bandwidth (physical impossibility) but I do expect unlimited access... how stupid of me.
Bill Gates also predicted in the early '00s that in 5-6 years everyone would have a tablet PC.
The thing is, even people famous in the fields they are farseeing are often wrong. Now, Bill Gates predicting that for Linux may be a short term propaganda coup for Linux (or a trap when it doesn't turn true) and it's nice to hear them share their vision of things but reality is a different beast.
I respect Kojima, and I'd pay 10x as much attention if Miyamoto said it, but it's better to apply critical thinking rather than have it become a self-fulfilling prophecy by virtue of edict.
For casual gaming, yes and this has already happened to a degree with smartphones.
But for hardcore or graphics intensive games, I don't see anything beyond PCs or consoles. Heck, the trend is so much towards consoles, this generation we have 3 of them with respectable size audiences. Six, if you count the DS, PSP, and PS2 (because it's still selling). Back in the original NES days, there was one winner and the rest were afterthoughts.
Years ago, things like the Wii Controller would only differentiate the systems if it came standard with the console, but really dedicated hardware like the Balance Board would never have taken off (power glove, super scope, etc anyone?) and after the initial game very few others would follow because the install base just wasn't there. Now even more dedicated hardware than the console/controller itself is taking off.
I just don't see platform agnostic gaming being feasible in the near-future. It's usually the attention to detail and tailored package that makes the experience and sale.
Yes, of course. I watch TV all the time.
I would say it's even less than growing up with. Who here remembers the story about gut bacteria in fat people being different and that it could process fat/carbs more efficiently (and extracting all the calorie value from it) and futhermore that the bacteria % could change in a span of 16 hours?
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=107514
I assume some people eat probiotic yogurt for similiar reasons? I would think that if you eat more and more sushi/seaweed, you'll have more bacteria that processes it in the gut over time?
Since all gambling is fleecing, either ban it entirely or allow it.
I would say it isn't fleecing because everybody knows the likely outcome, even if the want to pretend otherwise (that they'll be the one lucky winner out of millions).
Well, I did buy a Kindle 2 last year March and returned it after 3 weeks. I thought e-ink was the greatest concept but the contrast leaves much to be desire. It's dark grey text on a medium/light grey screen for christ-sakes.
And IPS screens are rather nice. Heck, I read a normal LCD screen all day as it is and it doesn't bother me. I have to wonder when the "you can't read on a computer monitor" took over? For me, it's more to do with whether the monitor has light sensor - monitors just tick me off when it doesn't match the ambient brightness and very few people actually adjust it with any frequency - but phones and this tablet has one so it's no problem.
Is this sarcasm/satire or just a self-fulfilling opinion?
See, actually, I do want a device and not yet another computer. Why? Well, less maintenance for one. Also, being instant on is nice (on computers you just don't get a weeks worth of standby on a battery). And without a keyboard, it is a better ereader. I like the whole concept.
You make it sound like a bad thing that Apple didn't come out with another netbook like the rest. I understand the desire for something cheaper than their current models, but I have to think the whole anticipation of Apple slaughtering it's own higher-end models in the race towards the bottom was naive. Plus there are plenty of subnotebooks (not netbooks, but close) which you can turn into a hackintosh. Otherwise Apple's 13" has to do.
This doesn't excuse the design flaws of the current iPad. I'll wait till the second or third generation myself.
What is the draw and use of this stuff? Not in a snarky sense, just that I'm half-way curious and ready to be pulled in.
What are the movie theaters confiscating? It's well known how theaters make money -- mostly from food/drink as the majority of ticket sales go to the studio.
I could go with an analogy, but different businesses have different customs and are run different ways.
A hotel could try to prevent you from having phones, but it would either not be very successful at it or if they are, lose a lot of business customers. However, a hotel should be free to make stupid choices just as people are.
With TV, Redbox, Netflix, and theaters, there's certainly more than one way to watch a movie - so if you don't like the policies, don't patronize the business.
just in time.
http://www.movieline.com/2010/04/attack-of-the-clones-eviscerated-by-famous-phantom-menace-hater.php
(1st of 9 parts is pulled for copyright, but rest are up)
BTW, this is a problem with all e-ink right now I know of, not just Kindle. Didn't own a Sony PRS-500 (model #?) but saw it at Target.
Well, I owned a Kindle 2 - 6" screen. It's just that dark grey text an light-medium grey background that drives me nuts. I wish the "paper" on e-ink was white. At least newspaper have black text. (They darkened the text here a bit imo, but otherwise a good photo showing difference between white and grey):
http://www.breakitdownblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kindle2-front-2.jpg
though. Many of the people into ereaders are excited about it:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=170
I already know it's not a notebook computer. But a similiar sized Kindle DX casts $489. Yeah, it has a e-ink screen, but the contrast (dark gray on light gray) is awful. But the battery life is fabulous. This has pretty good battery life but tell me how the screen is for reading. Please.
in Google.
I heard they had $50B in the bank, correct? They just need 10%, that $18B currently, would have been substantially cheaper over a year ago, but oh well.
They don't need to control google, just have influence over it. And 10% can certainly be a tail that wags the dog from time to time.
(I'm not hoping for this, but from a strategic perspective, google is a good partner).
I address e-ink before (basically for me the contrast sucks) but most people hot on ereaders seem to like it:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=170
Plus the matching size Kindle DX costs $489. Not exactly much cheaper than the base iPad.
Right, I owned a Kindle 2 because I also loved the concep of e-ink. Except currently, the contrast sucks. It's dark gray on light gray.
I like LCD when it has a light sensor (automatic brightness). I read all day on it. The only time an LCD makes my eyes hurt is without light sensor and then when it's bright screen in a dark room (always try for some minial ambient light).
Is this useful with Calculus 2/3 or just 1?