Star golfer and notable college drop-out Tiger Woods is offering two-year fellowships of up to $100,000 (£63,800) to 20 athletes or teams of athletes aged under 20 in a worldwide competition that closes this week. With the money, the recipients are expected to drop out of university — Woods calls it 'stopping out' — and work full time on their sport. 'Some of the world's most exciting sports were created by people who stopped out of school because they had talent that couldn't wait until graduation,' Woods says. 'This fellowship will encourage the most brilliant and promising young people not to wait on their talents either.' Thiel says the huge cost of higher education, and the resulting burden of debt, makes students less willing to take risks. 'And we think you're going to have to take a lot of risks to build the next generation of athletes.'"
You know, this has been tried before and it still doesn't sound like a very good idea.
How about fellowships to students or universities to support innovative new ideas a parts (just part) of the curriculum or area of study? If one is good, couldn't both be better?
Isn't that kind of like what they teach you in chess? Think about the opposing players moves in advance. Are they going to shut down the chess club or is it because he used the "T" word.
What if he had suggested that they plan an attack on an aggressor nation causing the most collateral damage in order to demoralize the enemy? Would that have been OK?
I suppose to the many in the slashdot community it may seem that way. It sure seems to me that the whole premise here presupposes that complete and total health care is a right.
OK, I'm not totally paperless. My collegues keep giving me the stuff but I almost never print anythng out since I started really using spotlight. Suddenly it no longer matters where the dcument is, cmd-Space and the first few letters and there it is. "cmd-~" switches to the next document and expose lets me see everything. About the only thing I ever print out anymore are coupons and directions. I know, a slashdot reader with no GPS and a crappy smartphone phone...shameful. Give me a few more months to get out of my contract and I should be truly paperless.
Apologies for sounding like a fanboy. I have a couple of friends who are similarly comfortable nigh paperless with their linux boxes. I really think the portablility is key. When sitting at your desk, computers these days do a pretty good job of eliminating the need for paper but what happens in the car? What happens when you want to show it off to someone who isn't armed with a really nice handheld or tablet, like me:( ?
Another problem is file sharing. Where do you put stuff to share with others? The network drive? Many people with whom I work are not employed by my organization so they can't get to the network. Google Docs is great but not everyone uses it and many are not comfortable having been asimilated by MS Office.
The technology is there. We just aren't comfortable with it yet. We will be though and it will be very soon. I thank Google, Facebook and the iPhone for bringing the necessary technologies to the mainstream. No, not being a fanboy this time. It's about the non-geek impact here. Facebook gave us a tool to easily and COMFORTABLY create information and share online. GoogleDocs gave us the power to collaborate with anyone and while there were plenty of smartphones before the iPhone and there are still plenty with more fuctionality, the iPhone put the smartphone is the hands of the non-geek and got them excited about it too!
Am I correct in understanding that there is concern over he concept of questioning science or math? Shouldn't we be doing just that? Isn't questioning these things a good thing? Couldn't it (wouldn't it) lead to greater interest and understanding? Isn't that the nature of science? It's more than just saying maybe they are right. Doesn't it include saying maybe they are wrong?
It seems like hubris to think the unwashed masses should just accept these things because it is beyond them to undertsand. Perhap I just don't understand.
Ultimately, with a complex application like this, you can't guarantee 100% that the code doesn't have a bug in it that could result in loss of user data. You can be ALMOST sure it won't, but 100% is not possible with current analysis techniques. (even a mathematical proof of correctness wouldn't protect you from a hacker)
I admit that this is beyond the scale of aything
I have managed but why can't we be 100% sure? I could take my backup and restore it to a test server where I could then check the data. That's what I used to do with my backup system. Who would perform backups without testing them to ensure they were useable in case of an emergency like this? O.K. who else?
I remember my tech mentor often saying to me "It should be tattoed on every systems administrator's forehead. It can only get so bad if you are properly backed up."
Price is determined by what the consumer is willing to pay.
Price is determined by what the consumer is willing to pay.
It's not that hard and it does not apply solely to video games.
Frankly, a 25,000E fine seems fairly mild by comparison.
Perhaps, if we blamed overreaction and intolerance (common human traits) rather than the beliefs of people we don't agree with, we might make some progress dealing with these kinds of things.
Sadly, looking at a lot of the posts here on slashdot, it looks like we have a long way to go.
This is the perfect example of treating a symptom. Smiles represent good feelings and a positive attitude which can very very infectious and so desirable in customer service. However, if someone is "too serious" the response "still to serious" doesn't really help. Perhaps they should consider the root of the issue and try to make their employees genuinely happy.
Another option is to have them all wear smiley face masks:)
I'll agree with previous posts. This is nothing more than an add for a new app. I will NOT be visiting their site. Besides at $79(39 educational) I'll take iWork from Apple and have an awesome Presentation app and office compatibility, Of course we need another office format like we need a hole in the head but hey, you opened the flood gates with your fat price tag.
BTW: I still recommend OO to everyone. You can't beat free and it seems like a pretty solid office app on every platform. Frankly, I'd choose it over MS Office 2007 even if it were free. Have you seen the new interface? Awful!
Distance is not an issue, though a reasonable level of stability and provision of public services would be a bonus.
Careful. The more "Public Services" provided the less free you are likely to be. Those services have to come from some place. be paid for by someone, and put restrictions on something. If you really want to be free, you want the least amount of government possible.
...If you consider some poor sucker is paying $655.52 for the whole office package. I'd rather pay $98 for an xml editor than $557.52 for MS Office sans editor. Not that the xml editor is that important but I'd rather throw away $98 than throw away ~$600.
Perhaps this is a little poetic justice for MS's fleecing of their own customers.
If ever there were a case of treating a symptom, this is it. The problem is either in being burakumin or (more realistically) being discriminated against by being burakumin (I still don't quite get the issue). The problem is not the deterioration of the ability to hide thanks to developing technology. If that's the problem, the advancement of the human race is the problem and stagnation is about the only solution.
The democrats have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and solid control of the House. They aren't going to make their own party look bad and don't have to give the Republicans a chance to do it. This is the problem with putting a single party in almost total power. We will see more of this until some sort of balance is restored.
If you thought the Republicans did a lot of damage controlling the Executive and Legislative, just wait. The Democrats have an opportunity here with the overwhelming majority to do far more. For all of you scientists out there you are going to get a crash course in faith because that is about the only thing we can have that bad does not become worse over the next two or more years. We certainly don't have any control or checks or balances.
Understand that this is not a Republican vs Democrat rant. I don't trust any of them to look out for the good of the nation. That's why I am deeply concerned about any one party dominating government.
Will we look back on this as one of the defining moments when the industrialized entertainment industry lost touch for good?"
No, either he will die or his company will. Neither one will be a great loss. Then things will change. This isn't the first case of someone shouting in the face of the obvious refusing to believe in reality. It won't be the last and it won't make his fantasy realm any more real.
That said, he is half right about one thing. Americans have a powerful sense of entitlement. Doesn't have anything to do with the Internet, though.
Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions."
First, it's going to humorous to hear slashdotters support you when they oppose the RIAA but that's another story.
Let's use the model many at/. claim is appropriate for musicians.
1. Musician makes music
2. Musician gives music away online
3. If music is good, musician is a popular draw at concerts or hired to write music or songs or something similar and makes money
4. If musician is not popular, repeat 1 or get another job.
Now, let's apply that to you.
1. Write a book
2. Give book away online
3. If book is good you get job offers, consulting gigs, speaking engagements or something similar
4. If not good repeat 1 or get another job.
This is the model that the Internet is molding. If you have to resort to suing people (RIAA tried and failed), or inventing magic (like macrovision also tried and failed) to force people to buy your product, you had better get another job.
Sorry if this sounds harsh but this is where we are going. Like it or not.
Why not just make people get on a scale and write a check for x number of dollars per pound? Let's not beat around the bush here. There are too many loophole opportunities here.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps he should visit the library or, if he wants to stay online, he could visit our web site.
Star golfer and notable college drop-out Tiger Woods is offering two-year fellowships of up to $100,000 (£63,800) to 20 athletes or teams of athletes aged under 20 in a worldwide competition that closes this week. With the money, the recipients are expected to drop out of university — Woods calls it 'stopping out' — and work full time on their sport. 'Some of the world's most exciting sports were created by people who stopped out of school because they had talent that couldn't wait until graduation,' Woods says. 'This fellowship will encourage the most brilliant and promising young people not to wait on their talents either.' Thiel says the huge cost of higher education, and the resulting burden of debt, makes students less willing to take risks. 'And we think you're going to have to take a lot of risks to build the next generation of athletes.'"
You know, this has been tried before and it still doesn't sound like a very good idea.
How about fellowships to students or universities to support innovative new ideas a parts (just part) of the curriculum or area of study? If one is good, couldn't both be better?
Isn't that kind of like what they teach you in chess? Think about the opposing players moves in advance. Are they going to shut down the chess club or is it because he used the "T" word.
What if he had suggested that they plan an attack on an aggressor nation causing the most collateral damage in order to demoralize the enemy? Would that have been OK?
There already are many tablets.
Apple iPad
Archos 5
Entourage Edge
Nokia N900
The only thing that makes the iPad special is that apparently we sometimes have difficulty recognizing that these other things exist.
Parent poster. You could have stopped your sentence at "QUALITY software".
I suppose to the many in the slashdot community it may seem that way. It sure seems to me that the whole premise here presupposes that complete and total health care is a right.
Last time I read the constitution, it wasn't.
To put this "Health Care" crisis in perspective, Americans spend about three times as much on transportation as they do heath care.
Of course we would wouldn't want facts to get in the way of our political agenda.
Let the flaming commence.
OK, I'm not totally paperless. My collegues keep giving me the stuff but I almost never print anythng out since I started really using spotlight. Suddenly it no longer matters where the dcument is, cmd-Space and the first few letters and there it is. "cmd-~" switches to the next document and expose lets me see everything. About the only thing I ever print out anymore are coupons and directions. I know, a slashdot reader with no GPS and a crappy smartphone phone...shameful. Give me a few more months to get out of my contract and I should be truly paperless.
Apologies for sounding like a fanboy. I have a couple of friends who are similarly comfortable nigh paperless with their linux boxes. I really think the portablility is key. When sitting at your desk, computers these days do a pretty good job of eliminating the need for paper but what happens in the car? What happens when you want to show it off to someone who isn't armed with a really nice handheld or tablet, like me:( ?
Another problem is file sharing. Where do you put stuff to share with others? The network drive? Many people with whom I work are not employed by my organization so they can't get to the network. Google Docs is great but not everyone uses it and many are not comfortable having been asimilated by MS Office.
The technology is there. We just aren't comfortable with it yet. We will be though and it will be very soon. I thank Google, Facebook and the iPhone for bringing the necessary technologies to the mainstream. No, not being a fanboy this time. It's about the non-geek impact here. Facebook gave us a tool to easily and COMFORTABLY create information and share online. GoogleDocs gave us the power to collaborate with anyone and while there were plenty of smartphones before the iPhone and there are still plenty with more fuctionality, the iPhone put the smartphone is the hands of the non-geek and got them excited about it too!
Enough, I need some cookies.
Am I correct in understanding that there is concern over he concept of questioning science or math? Shouldn't we be doing just that? Isn't questioning these things a good thing? Couldn't it (wouldn't it) lead to greater interest and understanding? Isn't that the nature of science? It's more than just saying maybe they are right. Doesn't it include saying maybe they are wrong?
It seems like hubris to think the unwashed masses should just accept these things because it is beyond them to undertsand. Perhap I just don't understand.
Ultimately, with a complex application like this, you can't guarantee 100% that the code doesn't have a bug in it that could result in loss of user data. You can be ALMOST sure it won't, but 100% is not possible with current analysis techniques. (even a mathematical proof of correctness wouldn't protect you from a hacker)
I admit that this is beyond the scale of aything I have managed but why can't we be 100% sure? I could take my backup and restore it to a test server where I could then check the data. That's what I used to do with my backup system. Who would perform backups without testing them to ensure they were useable in case of an emergency like this? O.K. who else?
I remember my tech mentor often saying to me "It should be tattoed on every systems administrator's forehead. It can only get so bad if you are properly backed up."
Price is determined by what the consumer is willing to pay.
Price is determined by what the consumer is willing to pay.
It's not that hard and it does not apply solely to video games.
Nice list but I think you forgot this http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1999/08/Seybold.html
Proof of female: Give birth
Proof of male: You are reading this
Who is the problem here? The universities who tell it like it is? Or the morons in congress who make it the way it is?
Perhaps it is the morons who vote congress into office. No, wait, it couldn't be our fault. The blame must lie with someone else.
'The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, but it has not made content free.
Yes, it has.
Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites,' Murdoch said."
..but will anyone pay for it? That would truly be news.
If you give the Bible-thumping idiots an inch, they will take the field.
You could have eliminated "Bible-thumping" from that statement and had a much more effective position. Here on Slashdot I have seen scientists want to decertify other scientists who speak against global warming. Worse still some who speak against global warming may even receive death threats
Frankly, a 25,000E fine seems fairly mild by comparison.
Perhaps, if we blamed overreaction and intolerance (common human traits) rather than the beliefs of people we don't agree with, we might make some progress dealing with these kinds of things.
Sadly, looking at a lot of the posts here on slashdot, it looks like we have a long way to go.
This is the perfect example of treating a symptom. Smiles represent good feelings and a positive attitude which can very very infectious and so desirable in customer service. However, if someone is "too serious" the response "still to serious" doesn't really help. Perhaps they should consider the root of the issue and try to make their employees genuinely happy.
:)
Another option is to have them all wear smiley face masks
I'll agree with previous posts. This is nothing more than an add for a new app. I will NOT be visiting their site. Besides at $79(39 educational) I'll take iWork from Apple and have an awesome Presentation app and office compatibility, Of course we need another office format like we need a hole in the head but hey, you opened the flood gates with your fat price tag.
BTW: I still recommend OO to everyone. You can't beat free and it seems like a pretty solid office app on every platform. Frankly, I'd choose it over MS Office 2007 even if it were free. Have you seen the new interface? Awful!
Distance is not an issue, though a reasonable level of stability and provision of public services would be a bonus.
Careful. The more "Public Services" provided the less free you are likely to be. Those services have to come from some place. be paid for by someone, and put restrictions on something. If you really want to be free, you want the least amount of government possible.
...If you consider some poor sucker is paying $655.52 for the whole office package. I'd rather pay $98 for an xml editor than $557.52 for MS Office sans editor. Not that the xml editor is that important but I'd rather throw away $98 than throw away ~$600.
Perhaps this is a little poetic justice for MS's fleecing of their own customers.
If ever there were a case of treating a symptom, this is it. The problem is either in being burakumin or (more realistically) being discriminated against by being burakumin (I still don't quite get the issue). The problem is not the deterioration of the ability to hide thanks to developing technology. If that's the problem, the advancement of the human race is the problem and stagnation is about the only solution.
...need I say more?
The democrats have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and solid control of the House. They aren't going to make their own party look bad and don't have to give the Republicans a chance to do it. This is the problem with putting a single party in almost total power. We will see more of this until some sort of balance is restored.
If you thought the Republicans did a lot of damage controlling the Executive and Legislative, just wait. The Democrats have an opportunity here with the overwhelming majority to do far more. For all of you scientists out there you are going to get a crash course in faith because that is about the only thing we can have that bad does not become worse over the next two or more years. We certainly don't have any control or checks or balances.
Understand that this is not a Republican vs Democrat rant. I don't trust any of them to look out for the good of the nation. That's why I am deeply concerned about any one party dominating government.
Will we look back on this as one of the defining moments when the industrialized entertainment industry lost touch for good?"
No, either he will die or his company will. Neither one will be a great loss. Then things will change. This isn't the first case of someone shouting in the face of the obvious refusing to believe in reality. It won't be the last and it won't make his fantasy realm any more real.
That said, he is half right about one thing. Americans have a powerful sense of entitlement. Doesn't have anything to do with the Internet, though.
Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions."
First, it's going to humorous to hear slashdotters support you when they oppose the RIAA but that's another story.
/. claim is appropriate for musicians.
Let's use the model many at
1. Musician makes music
2. Musician gives music away online
3. If music is good, musician is a popular draw at concerts or hired to write music or songs or something similar and makes money
4. If musician is not popular, repeat 1 or get another job.
Now, let's apply that to you.
1. Write a book
2. Give book away online
3. If book is good you get job offers, consulting gigs, speaking engagements or something similar
4. If not good repeat 1 or get another job.
This is the model that the Internet is molding. If you have to resort to suing people (RIAA tried and failed), or inventing magic (like macrovision also tried and failed) to force people to buy your product, you had better get another job.
Sorry if this sounds harsh but this is where we are going. Like it or not.
Why not just make people get on a scale and write a check for x number of dollars per pound? Let's not beat around the bush here. There are too many loophole opportunities here.