One area that's not often addressed or implemented is the concept of multi-leveled content. By this I mean that a traditional linear sequenced book conveys material mostly at one level of depth and proceeds sequentially. But I find for some material that a document that carries within it simultaneously beginner, intermediate, and advanced material can be useful. What I mean is that a reader proceeding sequentially through the book can choose treatments at the level suitable for them at the time and later come back and revisit at a deeper level, when they have enough background to understand deeper.
I've taken one book I'm doing and split it into three volumes with hyperlevels like this. Volume 1 is a series of lectures exactly such as you'd get in a lecture hall. Volume 2 is readings to go along with the lectures to provide more material, and these exist as beginner, intermediate, and advanced hyperlinked items. The idea is that a student can get the basic background everyone should have in the domain, the more curious student can absorb the intermediate level treatments of the same topics, and the advanced student can be exposed to the fine points. While this could be done in a print book, it is easier to implement in a hypermedia form. The advantage of such a split-up approach is that it can deliver a volume of work without making the slower students have to plough through a dense and long path, they just need to tread the road they're given. (Volume 3 is a workbook and uses same approach.)
However, a problem with such books is that with material fragmented so much and the structure not visible directly, it is harder for someone to grasp the overall structure of knowledge in the domain if they're first getting oriented. It's like a choose your own story book where you cannot see the overall story structure and could not speed read it easily, even if there is a linear table of contents.
Issues with an e-reader are: 1) lecture board views and graphics just don't fit on a reader screen and are a pain to have to scroll around for students. 2) sometimes small screens just aren't enough. I'd like to see a video output port (do you hear me, Lab126 in Cupertino?) 3) sometimes it is really beneficial for students to be able to print pages and mark them up.
I thank you for your wasted time replying. I am not trying to learn serious physics via Slashdot. Like anyone else using social media I'm merely looking for pointers, not a graduate seminar.
Your candid and useless answer is appreciated in the spirit with which it was given, and in the same spirit, please investigate the effect of gravity on matter falling off bridges.
Wouldn't the gamma ray sometimes get absorbed by matter, perhaps imparting momentum. Would this maybe be akin to the force of 'dark matter', since it would provide a force 'out of nowhere' on normal matter. So maybe the universe is expanding because of the very nature of the vacuum sea, being rectified / non-symmetric in this way. Kind of delivering something out of nothing, not in a mystical way either.
I've never understood why the vacuum sea doesn't equally create as much anti-matter as it does matter. If it does, then why don't we observe constant energy bursts from collisions of antiparticles with normal particles? If doesn't, why would the vacuum sea be unsymmetrical? Either way, it doesn't seem to be reasonable.
Hello! I am, er, 'George Washington'. I am your farm technical support worker. So, you have a problem with your crop? Have you tried rebooting your corn?
On your other problems, WTF is 'okra' and what are 'collard greens'?
I have one of these devices; it's called a refrigerator. Of course I raise roaches behind it instead of bees, but the concept is similar. Although the stuff the roaches produce isn't quite as good as honey. But my guests don't usually notice after the sixth beer.
Here at S.H.I.E.L.D., all of our agents carry bullet-proof clipboards, which are a penis-envy substitute for Captain America's large shield and red trunks. We also have rainproof ponchos which are the envy of evil henchmen the world over. However, the ponchos can't stop a 500 foot-pound slug like the clipboards can. Oooh. that's gonna leave a bruise.
I always buy my computers at Safeway, in the produce department, just as I buy my cars in the meat department. However, I stopped buying apple juice after I was accused ot being anti-semitic by trademark lawyers.
Good gosh. Even back then they had Non Disclosure Agreements with severe penalties. The part about 'pluck out your eyeballs and feed them to the dogs' reads exactly like the last Microsoft NDA I signed, too.
This is great, because we can be green AND kill people, at the same time. Win-win. Next up: Predator UAVs that can murder wedding parties with missiles built from recycled television sets.
I had couple of Maxtors of different models go out and they all had the same failing: the flash rom used by the controller apparently is all too temperature sensitive, and it loses data when it gets too hot. Once the the firmware is unrunnable, enter the click of death. I conclude someone there made a poor quality choice in their rom supplier.
I now directly fan-cool my critical drives, which aren't Maxtors anymore either.
This discovery also illuminates another aspect of growth. Sure, you can build in a slice fashion, but obviously the initial full structure will not have full internal (neural) communications, because that can only be grown point to point AFTER the points are built. So this explains why infant maturing involves such massive neural growth. The building has been constructed, now the phone and IT infrastructure gets built up, over years. Plus, the building keeps getting improvements and expansions, so wiring has to be dynamically upgraded for the first 18 to 20 years. This also gives me some ideas for dynamic AI architectures, so whoo-eee! Fruitful discovery.
That's correct in my experience. My ex had all the identified traits for someone with sociopathy, and was definitely on, but she always denied she had any problem (and that the problem was in the minds of everyone else, as it was their problem and not hers). Additionally, a former managerial co-worker was a horrendous sociopath (who brought the company down through his behavior) and he was in complete denial he had any problem. All issues were always the other guy's fault.
Sociopathy has identifiable traits, it is destructive of others in many of its actions, and it is definitely a disorder.
Yes. It's bad enough that cars have been converted to fly by wire (to lower weight, but adding more points of failure) but it's folly to take simple lightweight mechanical systems and add complexity. Except for lab research into technology.
However the good side of this is you'll be able to remotely start your bicycle's engine with a keyfob now. And the bicycle's pollution control system will be able to signal your dealer what that check engine light meant. Oh, code 54 meant 'bicycle's catalytic converter needs replacement'? Okay...
In other news, sales of wigs, false beards, hats, and makeup soared for completely unknown reasons. Not to mention sales of pirate outfits and stuffed parrots,
Absolutely. This board needs exposure. They appear to be the greatest weapon the US has; if we dropped the board on Afghanistan, they would wipe out the entire country in one quarter. This board has done nothing but make stupid, complacent decisions that have steadily destroyed what was once a great company. Come to think of it, this is just like Congress and the US.
Decades ago I discovered as a student (accidently in a chem lab) that you can pump dielectric and polar fluids without moving parts using a porous filter material (like ceramic) and a high voltage applied to the top and bottom surface. The flow rate is slow but it too requires no moving parts. Only modest current is needed at 800-900 volts.
By using a shaped container around the filter to operate as a hydraulic lever, I imagine you could achieve higher flow rate in a narrow diameter tube, which might work for some applications like small actuators.
Hi, this is your new car. The controls are dynamically adaptable! The radio station display is large and bright and shiny but the stations have no numbers or text labels. And the gas pedal is mouse-driven. Now, if you want to accelerate, use the 'accelerate gesture' with your hand in the air and move the cursor on the windshield forward, unless it's rainy, and then you have turn on 'rainy day cursor' which makes it about a foot wide at the top of the windshield. If you have any problems, click the "Ford Office' icon at the upper left corner being careful not to cause an accident in the process. Sometimes people outside may think you're giving them the finger, hahah. But our marketing department says 9 out of 10 people think this is cool to do 20 times a day, hahah. Okay now, if you have to brake, 1) don't click the 'Brake' tab, that's not where we put braking, instead, click the 'Alter Velocity' tab and select the unlabeled small 'Reduce Gas Flow' Icon and then select either the 'Handbrake?' button or the 'Footbrake?' button. Now move the braking slider which is located under the passenger seat. If this does not work, click "Ford Internet Help' and go online to see how to brake before you reach the end of that offramp.
Ford Bob: I see you're trying to avoid an accident. Do you want to write a letter?
Make a quick buck? How many small-scale counterfeiters can afford to precisely duplicate a circuit board of that size and a rack cabinet to match the rela goods, then manufacture, populate, stuff and test the board? The parts aren't cheap, and some router chips aren't the kind of thing you order from a distributor. it's not something a momma-poppa shop would do. it takes money and effort. There are far easier goods to counterfeit if profit is the main objective.
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Reference to Kindle. Lab126 designs them for Amazon. Coincidentally located in Cupertino.
One area that's not often addressed or implemented is the concept of multi-leveled content. By this I mean that a traditional linear sequenced book conveys material mostly at one level of depth and proceeds sequentially. But I find for some material that a document that carries within it simultaneously beginner, intermediate, and advanced material can be useful. What I mean is that a reader proceeding sequentially through the book can choose treatments at the level suitable for them at the time and later come back and revisit at a deeper level, when they have enough background to understand deeper.
I've taken one book I'm doing and split it into three volumes with hyperlevels like this. Volume 1 is a series of lectures exactly such as you'd get in a lecture hall. Volume 2 is readings to go along with the lectures to provide more material, and these exist as beginner, intermediate, and advanced hyperlinked items. The idea is that a student can get the basic background everyone should have in the domain, the more curious student can absorb the intermediate level treatments of the same topics, and the advanced student can be exposed to the fine points. While this could be done in a print book, it is easier to implement in a hypermedia form. The advantage of such a split-up approach is that it can deliver a volume of work without making the slower students have to plough through a dense and long path, they just need to tread the road they're given. (Volume 3 is a workbook and uses same approach.)
However, a problem with such books is that with material fragmented so much and the structure not visible directly, it is harder for someone to grasp the overall structure of knowledge in the domain if they're first getting oriented. It's like a choose your own story book where you cannot see the overall story structure and could not speed read it easily, even if there is a linear table of contents.
Issues with an e-reader are: 1) lecture board views and graphics just don't fit on a reader screen and are a pain to have to scroll around for students. 2) sometimes small screens just aren't enough. I'd like to see a video output port (do you hear me, Lab126 in Cupertino?) 3) sometimes it is really beneficial for students to be able to print pages and mark them up.
Does this mean fireworks are banned, too? Inasmuch as potassium nitrate is a vital component in them.
I thank you for your wasted time replying. I am not trying to learn serious physics via Slashdot. Like anyone else using social media I'm merely looking for pointers, not a graduate seminar. Your candid and useless answer is appreciated in the spirit with which it was given, and in the same spirit, please investigate the effect of gravity on matter falling off bridges.
Wouldn't the gamma ray sometimes get absorbed by matter, perhaps imparting momentum. Would this maybe be akin to the force of 'dark matter', since it would provide a force 'out of nowhere' on normal matter. So maybe the universe is expanding because of the very nature of the vacuum sea, being rectified / non-symmetric in this way. Kind of delivering something out of nothing, not in a mystical way either.
I've never understood why the vacuum sea doesn't equally create as much anti-matter as it does matter. If it does, then why don't we observe constant energy bursts from collisions of antiparticles with normal particles? If doesn't, why would the vacuum sea be unsymmetrical? Either way, it doesn't seem to be reasonable.
Hello! I am, er, 'George Washington'. I am your farm technical support worker. So, you have a problem with your crop? Have you tried rebooting your corn?
On your other problems, WTF is 'okra' and what are 'collard greens'?
I have one of these devices; it's called a refrigerator. Of course I raise roaches behind it instead of bees, but the concept is similar. Although the stuff the roaches produce isn't quite as good as honey. But my guests don't usually notice after the sixth beer.
Here at S.H.I.E.L.D., all of our agents carry bullet-proof clipboards, which are a penis-envy substitute for Captain America's large shield and red trunks. We also have rainproof ponchos which are the envy of evil henchmen the world over. However, the ponchos can't stop a 500 foot-pound slug like the clipboards can. Oooh. that's gonna leave a bruise.
I'd have sworn that Abbott and Costello are dead. Then SCO surprises me.
I always buy my computers at Safeway, in the produce department, just as I buy my cars in the meat department. However, I stopped buying apple juice after I was accused ot being anti-semitic by trademark lawyers.
Here at the Justin Bieber Institute for Annoying Sounds, we take exception to your statement.
Wait. You mean I could have got a dime instead of a nickel? Keep the soul, but give me my code BACK, Ballmer!!
Good gosh. Even back then they had Non Disclosure Agreements with severe penalties. The part about 'pluck out your eyeballs and feed them to the dogs' reads exactly like the last Microsoft NDA I signed, too.
This is great, because we can be green AND kill people, at the same time. Win-win. Next up: Predator UAVs that can murder wedding parties with missiles built from recycled television sets.
I had couple of Maxtors of different models go out and they all had the same failing: the flash rom used by the controller apparently is all too temperature sensitive, and it loses data when it gets too hot. Once the the firmware is unrunnable, enter the click of death. I conclude someone there made a poor quality choice in their rom supplier.
I now directly fan-cool my critical drives, which aren't Maxtors anymore either.
This discovery also illuminates another aspect of growth. Sure, you can build in a slice fashion, but obviously the initial full structure will not have full internal (neural) communications, because that can only be grown point to point AFTER the points are built. So this explains why infant maturing involves such massive neural growth. The building has been constructed, now the phone and IT infrastructure gets built up, over years. Plus, the building keeps getting improvements and expansions, so wiring has to be dynamically upgraded for the first 18 to 20 years. This also gives me some ideas for dynamic AI architectures, so whoo-eee! Fruitful discovery.
Organic 3D printing, okay. The printers are cheap but you have buy 18 years worth of expensive ink cartridges in a manner of speaking.
That's correct in my experience. My ex had all the identified traits for someone with sociopathy, and was definitely on, but she always denied she had any problem (and that the problem was in the minds of everyone else, as it was their problem and not hers). Additionally, a former managerial co-worker was a horrendous sociopath (who brought the company down through his behavior) and he was in complete denial he had any problem. All issues were always the other guy's fault.
Sociopathy has identifiable traits, it is destructive of others in many of its actions, and it is definitely a disorder.
Yes. It's bad enough that cars have been converted to fly by wire (to lower weight, but adding more points of failure) but it's folly to take simple lightweight mechanical systems and add complexity. Except for lab research into technology.
However the good side of this is you'll be able to remotely start your bicycle's engine with a keyfob now. And the bicycle's pollution control system will be able to signal your dealer what that check engine light meant. Oh, code 54 meant 'bicycle's catalytic converter needs replacement'? Okay...
In other news, sales of wigs, false beards, hats, and makeup soared for completely unknown reasons. Not to mention sales of pirate outfits and stuffed parrots,
Absolutely. This board needs exposure. They appear to be the greatest weapon the US has; if we dropped the board on Afghanistan, they would wipe out the entire country in one quarter. This board has done nothing but make stupid, complacent decisions that have steadily destroyed what was once a great company. Come to think of it, this is just like Congress and the US.
Decades ago I discovered as a student (accidently in a chem lab) that you can pump dielectric and polar fluids without moving parts using a porous filter material (like ceramic) and a high voltage applied to the top and bottom surface. The flow rate is slow but it too requires no moving parts. Only modest current is needed at 800-900 volts.
By using a shaped container around the filter to operate as a hydraulic lever, I imagine you could achieve higher flow rate in a narrow diameter tube, which might work for some applications like small actuators.
I didn't patent it.
Hi, this is your new car. The controls are dynamically adaptable! The radio station display is large and bright and shiny but the stations have no numbers or text labels. And the gas pedal is mouse-driven. Now, if you want to accelerate, use the 'accelerate gesture' with your hand in the air and move the cursor on the windshield forward, unless it's rainy, and then you have turn on 'rainy day cursor' which makes it about a foot wide at the top of the windshield. If you have any problems, click the "Ford Office' icon at the upper left corner being careful not to cause an accident in the process. Sometimes people outside may think you're giving them the finger, hahah. But our marketing department says 9 out of 10 people think this is cool to do 20 times a day, hahah. Okay now, if you have to brake, 1) don't click the 'Brake' tab, that's not where we put braking, instead, click the 'Alter Velocity' tab and select the unlabeled small 'Reduce Gas Flow' Icon and then select either the 'Handbrake?' button or the 'Footbrake?' button. Now move the braking slider which is located under the passenger seat. If this does not work, click "Ford Internet Help' and go online to see how to brake before you reach the end of that offramp.
Ford Bob: I see you're trying to avoid an accident. Do you want to write a letter?
Make a quick buck? How many small-scale counterfeiters can afford to precisely duplicate a circuit board of that size and a rack cabinet to match the rela goods, then manufacture, populate, stuff and test the board? The parts aren't cheap, and some router chips aren't the kind of thing you order from a distributor. it's not something a momma-poppa shop would do. it takes money and effort. There are far easier goods to counterfeit if profit is the main objective.