Personally I think there's a lot of potential with it. However, I'm curious if it's going to end up being something like asbestos that makes it a bittersweet kind of substance.
I do think we need something to propel our sciences forward to "the next level (tm)" and graphene just may help get us there.
Why shoot before getting a chance to receive an answer? It sounds like he's running into some legit issues - ones that should at least be taken somewhat seriously.
Either: a) there's a serious problem here or b) he's misinformed/misunderstanding and this would be a ripe opportunity to educate him in a way that's not going to alienate him (as plenty of the *nix gurus like to do from time to time in my experience).
"can replace in use files" - I'll try to be reasonable here and ask this out of curiosity: I haven't fully used linux in years - are you telling me you can update the kernel live while logged in and without rebooting? If that's the case that's just damned impressive.
First they came for recess. But I was a middle schooler and no longer had recess. Then they came for pizza day. But I was a high schooler and bought my own food. Next they came for off-campus lunch. But I had already graduated. Last, they came for snow days. But I was an adult with kids and my employer said "get your ass to work anyway".
However, this feels very much like the kind of response you'd expect from a business model that relies on gouging prices and forcing students to buy new editions each year. A teacher's goal is to make sure the student learns the material and is prepared for what follows - not worrying if every student is able to afford to shell out an extra thousand or two on school books each year.
We see the same scenario occur with overpriced software, games, movies, music, etc. Once it exceeds what many people are willing to consider "reasonable" then piracy appears to rocket upwards.
But that's their business decision.
What I'd like to see are more business models to compete with that structure. Referencing an article from earlier this week - a few course materials could be replace with the curriculum from Khan Academy. (He explains how they've implemented this in a school and frankly I'm straight up impressed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk )
I think we're way overdue to grow out of the old model. Does that make the school's actions correct? No. But it should damned well be a sign that it's time to adjust practices on the school's end or time for the business to adjust how they operate. Seeing how this has gotten to the point of litigation it appears neither is happening at the moment.
I just watched Khan's talk on TED in regards to what he's wanting to do with KhanAcademy and I've got to say I'm sold.
He's not suggesting replacing teachers - he's suggesting using this as one hell of a tool to reclaim our education system. And I've just finished watching through a few of these videos and I've got to say I see a huge amount of potential in this.
I'd be game if something like this came with a docking station like the Atrix does.
Only reason I'm not touching the Atrix right now is the $500 price tag on the docking station.
I suspect the future of mobile computer is a model similar to that - only something the form of a mobile phone would have the processing power of a mid-range laptop you could get today. I'd love to be able to easily swap from my mobile device to my primary computing device - especially if it could handle gaming to a decent level (I know, I know, we've got a ways to go for that, but I can dream!)
My thoughts too. I don't see what they're trying to accomplish with this. Maybe the appearance of transparency at the potential detriment to the defendant?
Sony is what has kept me from playing any of the new FF series. Why?
Initially the incredibly high cost of buying into the PS3. I can just about by a shitty used car for what they wanted for it when it was first released.
Then what happened? The price remained relatively high. This part is fairly normal - I typically wait for the price to drop a bit (and it has) and then start measuring out ways to justify such a purchase. But here's the thing - Sony's given me absolutely no reason to *invest* in their console. Particularly with their maneuver of removing OtherOS which was a major selling point for me. And hell, now the recent nonsense with them getting hacked AND losing critical customer data doesn't help one bit.
So let's take a look at the market now:
We've got the Wii - which has a few games I absolutely love. The Mario franchise is one that almost always tries to be innovative in some manner and defines new game styles (Mario Galaxy and Paper Mario are some examples that come to mind). Plus the ability to download and play SNES games on there is a big selling point as well (Super Mario RPG anyone?). However, there isn't much more for me beyond that unfortunately. One big con for me is the relatively small list of games that can be played over the network with friends. But the price is spot-on for what I feel it's worth all things considered.
Now, the Xbox 360: I'm not a huge Halo or teabagging fan but the Xbox 360 DOES have a shit-ton of games out - MANY of which are supported by the Live system. The price is a bit higher but I haven't seen Microsoft shaft their customers on the Xbox nearly as bad as we've seen Sony do. While the titles aren't my absolute faves that I've played so far - I feel confident I could find something I'd enjoy and could play with friends online.
For those reasons I'm considering heavily in investing in an Xbox 360. I think it'd make a good media player - from what I've read so far it supports a pretty robust set of features for that functionality (by all means correct me if I'm wrong). I think the game selection wont leave me hanging. And fuck, it's not Sony.
Semi-funny story. I had an interview with google a while back with me one one side of a table and four of them on the other side. Facing me were four Mac laptops while being quizzed on Linux. So later on I asked what was with all the Macs as I was given the impression Google had its own Linux build.
"They gave us the choice of Linux or Mac when we got here and we figured out pretty quickly the Linux Google distro was really unstable and wasn't letting us get anything done."
Some of the most successful people I've met in the long-term are just genuinely incredibly nice guys - that do exactly what the parent mentions: make you feel like a million bucks.
I used to be kind of an ass back in high school (not on the bully-end of the spectrum, just stupidly cynical) and I started paying attention to my friends who had more things working for them. What it boiled down to is that they really took the time to consider the thoughts other people presented and just being easy to be around. When you're too awkward to hold a conversation with or people feel like shit after talking to you you're going to alienate the people you want to be near.
I feel like it's such a hit or miss thing. Take China, for example - from what I gather conditions are actually improving from some perspectives due to our mass consumption from them. But then that creates all the problems of a new massively industrialized nation.
So at what point does it stop being our fault and when do countries work to fix themselves?
I have a hunch we're probably after the same goal in this debate - but I wish more for more self-sufficiency in the world. But I'll be perfectly honest with you - I don't know much about the African nations or why so many of them seem to fail to become stabilized. Can we (the USA) really be a part of the solution?
"We really need to solve issues of social/political need and instability in the whole of Africa."
Do WE really? Personally, as a citizen the USA, I'm kind of sick of us intervening everywhere. Take the current situation in Libya for example - why isn't the Arab League handling it?
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Silly question but any idea if they're simply running virtual machines on top? I've seen a number of places running hybrid setups w/ VMware Fusion.
Annoying as hell in my opinion but it's how the business owner gets "the stability of a mac but capabilities of windows".
Personally I think there's a lot of potential with it. However, I'm curious if it's going to end up being something like asbestos that makes it a bittersweet kind of substance.
I do think we need something to propel our sciences forward to "the next level (tm)" and graphene just may help get us there.
Sounds like how we're "gradually phasing out" nuclear power here in the states.
Only instead of decommissioning we're just letting the old ones keep running...go figure.
The real joke is that it was supposed to be a compliment.
He thought it meant nautical miles.
Why shoot before getting a chance to receive an answer? It sounds like he's running into some legit issues - ones that should at least be taken somewhat seriously.
Either:
a) there's a serious problem here or
b) he's misinformed/misunderstanding and this would be a ripe opportunity to educate him in a way that's not going to alienate him (as plenty of the *nix gurus like to do from time to time in my experience).
"can replace in use files" - I'll try to be reasonable here and ask this out of curiosity: I haven't fully used linux in years - are you telling me you can update the kernel live while logged in and without rebooting? If that's the case that's just damned impressive.
Prison != Gitmo.
First they came for recess. But I was a middle schooler and no longer had recess.
Then they came for pizza day. But I was a high schooler and bought my own food.
Next they came for off-campus lunch. But I had already graduated.
Last, they came for snow days. But I was an adult with kids and my employer said "get your ass to work anyway".
I'd love to see the results of such!
Agreed.
However, this feels very much like the kind of response you'd expect from a business model that relies on gouging prices and forcing students to buy new editions each year. A teacher's goal is to make sure the student learns the material and is prepared for what follows - not worrying if every student is able to afford to shell out an extra thousand or two on school books each year.
We see the same scenario occur with overpriced software, games, movies, music, etc. Once it exceeds what many people are willing to consider "reasonable" then piracy appears to rocket upwards.
But that's their business decision.
What I'd like to see are more business models to compete with that structure. Referencing an article from earlier this week - a few course materials could be replace with the curriculum from Khan Academy. (He explains how they've implemented this in a school and frankly I'm straight up impressed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk )
I think we're way overdue to grow out of the old model. Does that make the school's actions correct? No. But it should damned well be a sign that it's time to adjust practices on the school's end or time for the business to adjust how they operate. Seeing how this has gotten to the point of litigation it appears neither is happening at the moment.
It'll never pass.
Why?
Because they don't like passing laws that would affect them too.
"it is difficult to understand how they came up in $1.5 million in costs"
Asshole tax?
I just watched Khan's talk on TED in regards to what he's wanting to do with KhanAcademy and I've got to say I'm sold.
He's not suggesting replacing teachers - he's suggesting using this as one hell of a tool to reclaim our education system. And I've just finished watching through a few of these videos and I've got to say I see a huge amount of potential in this.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk&feature=player_embedded
In the true spirit of Ham we should call it:
Ham Accessing Lined Fiber for Asynchronous Signal Switching - Error Detection.
It's almost recursive too. ;)
That doesn't automatically give it merit just because it's foreign.
But yes, like some other places too.
I'd be game if something like this came with a docking station like the Atrix does.
Only reason I'm not touching the Atrix right now is the $500 price tag on the docking station.
I suspect the future of mobile computer is a model similar to that - only something the form of a mobile phone would have the processing power of a mid-range laptop you could get today. I'd love to be able to easily swap from my mobile device to my primary computing device - especially if it could handle gaming to a decent level (I know, I know, we've got a ways to go for that, but I can dream!)
My thoughts too. I don't see what they're trying to accomplish with this. Maybe the appearance of transparency at the potential detriment to the defendant?
Sony is what has kept me from playing any of the new FF series. Why?
Initially the incredibly high cost of buying into the PS3. I can just about by a shitty used car for what they wanted for it when it was first released.
Then what happened? The price remained relatively high. This part is fairly normal - I typically wait for the price to drop a bit (and it has) and then start measuring out ways to justify such a purchase. But here's the thing - Sony's given me absolutely no reason to *invest* in their console. Particularly with their maneuver of removing OtherOS which was a major selling point for me. And hell, now the recent nonsense with them getting hacked AND losing critical customer data doesn't help one bit.
So let's take a look at the market now:
We've got the Wii - which has a few games I absolutely love. The Mario franchise is one that almost always tries to be innovative in some manner and defines new game styles (Mario Galaxy and Paper Mario are some examples that come to mind). Plus the ability to download and play SNES games on there is a big selling point as well (Super Mario RPG anyone?). However, there isn't much more for me beyond that unfortunately. One big con for me is the relatively small list of games that can be played over the network with friends. But the price is spot-on for what I feel it's worth all things considered.
Now, the Xbox 360: I'm not a huge Halo or teabagging fan but the Xbox 360 DOES have a shit-ton of games out - MANY of which are supported by the Live system. The price is a bit higher but I haven't seen Microsoft shaft their customers on the Xbox nearly as bad as we've seen Sony do. While the titles aren't my absolute faves that I've played so far - I feel confident I could find something I'd enjoy and could play with friends online.
For those reasons I'm considering heavily in investing in an Xbox 360. I think it'd make a good media player - from what I've read so far it supports a pretty robust set of features for that functionality (by all means correct me if I'm wrong). I think the game selection wont leave me hanging. And fuck, it's not Sony.
Semi-funny story. I had an interview with google a while back with me one one side of a table and four of them on the other side. Facing me were four Mac laptops while being quizzed on Linux. So later on I asked what was with all the Macs as I was given the impression Google had its own Linux build.
"They gave us the choice of Linux or Mac when we got here and we figured out pretty quickly the Linux Google distro was really unstable and wasn't letting us get anything done."
Well said.
With that said - have you read the Ender's Game series? Your mention of a "super-national government" reminds me of the Hegemony in one of the books.
"You mean a manipulator."
Yes and no.
Some of the most successful people I've met in the long-term are just genuinely incredibly nice guys - that do exactly what the parent mentions: make you feel like a million bucks.
I used to be kind of an ass back in high school (not on the bully-end of the spectrum, just stupidly cynical) and I started paying attention to my friends who had more things working for them. What it boiled down to is that they really took the time to consider the thoughts other people presented and just being easy to be around. When you're too awkward to hold a conversation with or people feel like shit after talking to you you're going to alienate the people you want to be near.
I feel like it's such a hit or miss thing. Take China, for example - from what I gather conditions are actually improving from some perspectives due to our mass consumption from them. But then that creates all the problems of a new massively industrialized nation.
So at what point does it stop being our fault and when do countries work to fix themselves?
I have a hunch we're probably after the same goal in this debate - but I wish more for more self-sufficiency in the world. But I'll be perfectly honest with you - I don't know much about the African nations or why so many of them seem to fail to become stabilized. Can we (the USA) really be a part of the solution?
Mandatory hurricane evacuations.
"We really need to solve issues of social/political need and instability in the whole of Africa."
Do WE really? Personally, as a citizen the USA, I'm kind of sick of us intervening everywhere. Take the current situation in Libya for example - why isn't the Arab League handling it?
Thanks!
Woah. Reading about Kowloon now - pretty wild stuff. Thanks for the info!