I thought about quitting because I was expecting an image based from movies. I was expecting:
a hotbed of political action, groundbreaking discoveries everywhere, playing with fantastic equipment! mature and exciting debate, everybody inventing new things all the time, industry buying up graduates before they've even finished
When I got to University I found it was much the same as school only with harder grind study and less study support. I found the more serious the science, the less fun and the more grind. Also, less women. My course was a meld of a less seriously percieved science with one that seemed to be stricter than I expected. I had a choice of choosing interesting modules turned into hard grind which would cost me lower marks, or choosing the easier option and actually passing, and screwing some hot chicks along the way. For integrity I chose a balance and it took another year to graduate. I only chose to continue to mature my investment. If I had relised it was a scam earlier I would have dropped out.
Then there's academic culture. Locking out others with jargon. Elitism. Corruption. Academia has it's own funny little world and being a student I felt locked out of that. I never felt included in University as a student. There's a hardcore of phd students and lab assistants and lecturers because Universities have become so massive. If you've slept into this bunch you get a very different view.
I'd like to add that there is no vocational training for many types of science! If this changes please let me know; I'd be interested in applying.
The US government wants more science education because it's trying to shape society. The people who actually do the work to make this change will pay for this throughout their lives.
This isn't to agree or disagree with the paper but I can say that computer use definitely has an impact on how I think.
If I haven't used a computer in a while I think differently.
If I try to write a to-do list on a piece of paper and try the same task on a computer the results are different. Why? I've been using computers since I can remember but there is definitely an effect.
What needs to happen is for every shareholder to be aware of exactly what it is they are buying into. If I buy a share that is responsible for killing someone I must be made accountable for it. Is there a legal framework for this already? That is, when Enron happened can we pursue shareholders seeing as no knowledge is no defense.
Too many people buy shares recklessly, many without knowing exactly what it is they are creating.
El-Keib is an expert in education and 'Islamic Banking'. He's the perfect person to introduce the kind of debt terrors the west are facing now in order to control and mine Libya.
Don't listen too much to this story that seems designed to make an impact. Keep calm and self publish to Freenet. And then submit to Wikileaks and alternative organizations... are there any?
Wikileaks wikileaks, is this all people hear can they consider any other method? If I was cynical I'd say that Wikileaks was setup or subverted to discourage people leaking, to change people's perception online. It sounds like whinging but it's good to see attention given to the financial system and to have it so clear.
There's Freenet, eepsites, tor hosted sites and Bitcoin. No need for Wikileaks, post direct and then leak.
Perhaps this can help OccupyWallstreet people to stop whinging and start doing, starting by takening a long hard look inside ones own wallet.
I bought a KoboTouch for my girlfriend. I liked the simplicity of it. Just an ereader with no DRM and less temptation to spend money.
For myself though I got a NookTouch and rooted it straight away. I have Kindle reader on it and loads of other stuff but I wouldn't recommend buying one for the non-technical person.
In general I love the Kobo. They seem like an honest company and everything seems straightforward. I liked the simple implementation without bells and whistles. It makes explaining how to use it so much easier. I found the simplicity refreshing.
I also sold an ipad2. It was fun but no unique utility. It can do things in a nice way. Pinch to zoom maps, finger drawing and skype/facetime are good but phones and laptops can do everything it can do so I found I just didn't need it and couldn't justify owning one. So I sold it.
I think everyone is different on the eink vs LCD debate. For me the screen goes fuzzy after an hour or 2. For others they can read for hours on LCD no problem.
Incidently, just read my first 300 page book in about 8 hours without stopping. The battery went down to ~20% and to confirm 90% of power went to the display. I find the battery ratings are wildly inaccurate. You really can't take one camping for a week.
Hacking. Porn. Drugs & alcohol howtos. How to bypass to censored websites. Being free from ones parents. These are the things a kid is interested in. These are the things you won't be talking about.
However, they'll be plenty of kids interested in these thing. If they think you are just alluding to any of those things they will stay on in lunchhour, even if it's mixed in with more mundane stuff. But like a granny who gives the grandchild sweeties, be careful.
Yeah I didn't mean to attach any mysticism. But that tends to happen when Pi is mentioned. Fun but too easy.
Regards Planck Constant, well that's calculated in part by Pi right anyway?
"These are the subject of intense theoretical physics studies, and probably would be more justified as objects of metaphysical fantasy" Here's something I'm going to say a bit riskè. Perhaps these theoretical studies are actually a mathematical expression of the authors repressed beliefs? No bad thing though, maybe dodgy perhaps more productive in the same way science was born from religion, expedited by a friction in the head between belief in truth and belief in belief aka faith.
"Pi just happens to be related to circles" Then it's got to be circles all the way down right? All the way down like turtles on turtles!
Since Pi is considered to be the pattern of nature (or rather, 'everything'?). Then perhaps Pi tells us more about ourselves. That is, how far our current thinking is from truth.
Thus, any attempts to calculate could be used to hone our view of the world. Can the process be reversed? To see everything from Pi and look at how we view the world from that?
I've often wondered about hanging around outside places to get customers. But I always shyed away think I might get sued or beaten off. I have to remember this story! This is a great reminder that capitalism & competition doesn't have values, so why not? Shameless!
Can't see the NookTouch mentioned on this particular thread so I'll mention it here. I've got it doing these things already, including VNC to Firefox for when you get tired and your laptop screen goes fuzzy, RSS readers, better PDF support, dropbox, Bitcoin wallet and tickers, ssh tunnelling, offline maps via MapDroyd (can see in sunlight), ReaditLater & Kindle.
Rooting is very simple, but the Sony build quality might be better. Things would be simpler if both devices had Cyanogenmod7.
The thing is, the display method is known now, but if you want to export something to an eink display, is it true to say that whatever you are using to export to it is not standard, so usually you have to include a small computer.
Still no eink display on a mobile phone yet.... what does that say about it? (I'd like to fit a eink screen to a phone...)
aww, this is all true. To be honest I've held off on Android and iPhone... I still have a Symbian phone (!) because I'm waiting on all this mess.
What about OpenPhone, I wonder what happened to that.
What got me thinking about all this was when I was abroad and needed to contact my Bank but didn't want to pay an international rate.
VoIP - I use a Betamax provider. The only way to secure it I could think of would be PPTP to a VPN(kinda only option for Symbian as it's so old). I had a go but couldn't get it working... it's not perfect but I'd settle for it Callback services to a mobilephone - can work, I'd use this next time but at the time I didn't have it. Email - how safe is email via a closed source phone anyway?
You can buy `securephones` but where's the source? Usually there is none so how can it be secure?
Is Cyanogenmod any better?
The best I can think of it taking a cheap Android based netbook/tablet for VoIP via a VPN, loading Ubuntu on it and matching that with a 3G dongle. But that's a bit bulky for casual use.
I travel a lot and can identify with this problem. Sometimes a page is not available and there has been times where I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why on earth someone would block it. Different countries have different goals so we can always get around the problem by trying different routes but I didn't want the hassle of having to switch providers. I'd imagine too it would be useful for anyone wanting to provide such a service where to locate it.
So the useful info here is, which countries have the best net neutrality laws and privacy laws?
Many suggestions cite English language countries. Things might be better on hosting in a country with a language different to the source traffic.
There is also the question of security and privacy. Is the ISP a guy in a bedroom hosting off a laptop and WiFi or is it straight onto a transatlantic backbone connection with no ISP - how big is the pipe we are connecting to so we are connecting through less points of risk. This aspect I found harder to figure out. Can anyone comment here? Certainly a VPS is quite secure, but how secure is the actual machine doing the hosting? What happens if that is compromised? I tried some VPS hosting in Turkey and within 5mins ssh being brute forced. That's another question.
Also we have to think, where are we connecting from? We want a short path to this for hosting. Thus, because you are in Brazil I recommend a (reputable?) VPS in Chile because it's close and they recognise the value of speech there and it's Spanish not Portuguese. However, if you find this doesn't work for you then I suggest having a look at the transatlantic cables and going off the next hop from there.
Personally I feel like an idiot for falling for the PR hype and supporting Android. Now I find it was all a lie and I still don't have a secure phone. Lied to, used and cheated. You could say Apple are closed but are are at least straightforward about it.
That said, we did get contributions back to linux didn't we? No, we didn't get much of that either.
I get more and more in agreement with RMS as time goes on. You got to be hard with people and companies, it's the only thing they understand. It's getting better but for the meantime, extremism is what people seem to want.
I don't want to sound angry with Google, rather I am embarrassed of myself for falling for it. Perhaps more could have been done at inception. Perhaps there's more we can do now, somehow...
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I thought about quitting because I was expecting an image based from movies. I was expecting:
a hotbed of political action,
groundbreaking discoveries everywhere,
playing with fantastic equipment!
mature and exciting debate,
everybody inventing new things all the time,
industry buying up graduates before they've even finished
When I got to University I found it was much the same as school only with harder grind study and less study support. I found the more serious the science, the less fun and the more grind. Also, less women. My course was a meld of a less seriously percieved science with one that seemed to be stricter than I expected. I had a choice of choosing interesting modules turned into hard grind which would cost me lower marks, or choosing the easier option and actually passing, and screwing some hot chicks along the way. For integrity I chose a balance and it took another year to graduate. I only chose to continue to mature my investment. If I had relised it was a scam earlier I would have dropped out.
Then there's academic culture. Locking out others with jargon. Elitism. Corruption. Academia has it's own funny little world and being a student I felt locked out of that. I never felt included in University as a student. There's a hardcore of phd students and lab assistants and lecturers because Universities have become so massive. If you've slept into this bunch you get a very different view.
I'd like to add that there is no vocational training for many types of science! If this changes please let me know; I'd be interested in applying.
The US government wants more science education because it's trying to shape society. The people who actually do the work to make this change will pay for this throughout their lives.
This isn't to agree or disagree with the paper but I can say that computer use definitely has an impact on how I think.
If I haven't used a computer in a while I think differently.
If I try to write a to-do list on a piece of paper and try the same task on a computer the results are different. Why? I've been using computers since I can remember but there is definitely an effect.
What needs to happen is for every shareholder to be aware of exactly what it is they are buying into. If I buy a share that is responsible for killing someone I must be made accountable for it. Is there a legal framework for this already? That is, when Enron happened can we pursue shareholders seeing as no knowledge is no defense.
Too many people buy shares recklessly, many without knowing exactly what it is they are creating.
El-Keib is an expert in education and 'Islamic Banking'. He's the perfect person to introduce the kind of debt terrors the west are facing now in order to control and mine Libya.
Don't listen too much to this story that seems designed to make an impact. Keep calm and self publish to Freenet. And then submit to Wikileaks and alternative organizations... are there any?
Why did Assange go to the 52nd state (the UK) rather than France or Russia?
Remind whistle blowers it's easy to self publish with Freenet and then use Wikileaks.
And don't put too much importance on this story. There are plenty of other Assanges out there. Keep calm and carry on.
BigBrothers budget is set to fall.
Fair is fair; you can build one yourself:
http://diydrones.com/
I'd like to take this opportunity again to highlight how,
I still think a place to host and develop projects protected in the same way as speech like Freenet is important.
It could just be an eepsite, mirrored to Freenet.
There is probably partial answers to this but something as convenient as Google Code, sourceforge & github is called for
Wikileaks wikileaks, is this all people hear can they consider any other method? If I was cynical I'd say that Wikileaks was setup or subverted to discourage people leaking, to change people's perception online. It sounds like whinging but it's good to see attention given to the financial system and to have it so clear.
There's Freenet, eepsites, tor hosted sites and Bitcoin. No need for Wikileaks, post direct and then leak.
Perhaps this can help OccupyWallstreet people to stop whinging and start doing, starting by takening a long hard look inside ones own wallet.
I bought a KoboTouch for my girlfriend. I liked the simplicity of it. Just an ereader with no DRM and less temptation to spend money.
For myself though I got a NookTouch and rooted it straight away. I have Kindle reader on it and loads of other stuff but I wouldn't recommend buying one for the non-technical person.
In general I love the Kobo. They seem like an honest company and everything seems straightforward. I liked the simple implementation without bells and whistles. It makes explaining how to use it so much easier. I found the simplicity refreshing.
I also sold an ipad2. It was fun but no unique utility. It can do things in a nice way. Pinch to zoom maps, finger drawing and skype/facetime are good but phones and laptops can do everything it can do so I found I just didn't need it and couldn't justify owning one. So I sold it.
I think everyone is different on the eink vs LCD debate. For me the screen goes fuzzy after an hour or 2. For others they can read for hours on LCD no problem.
Incidently, just read my first 300 page book in about 8 hours without stopping. The battery went down to ~20% and to confirm 90% of power went to the display. I find the battery ratings are wildly inaccurate. You really can't take one camping for a week.
Still a bit raw. Wait a couple of years and then release it
Hacking. Porn. Drugs & alcohol howtos. How to bypass to censored websites. Being free from ones parents. These are the things a kid is interested in. These are the things you won't be talking about.
However, they'll be plenty of kids interested in these thing. If they think you are just alluding to any of those things they will stay on in lunchhour, even if it's mixed in with more mundane stuff. But like a granny who gives the grandchild sweeties, be careful.
Yeah I didn't mean to attach any mysticism. But that tends to happen when Pi is mentioned. Fun but too easy.
Regards Planck Constant, well that's calculated in part by Pi right anyway?
"These are the subject of intense theoretical physics studies, and probably would be more justified as objects of metaphysical fantasy"
Here's something I'm going to say a bit riskè. Perhaps these theoretical studies are actually a mathematical expression of the authors repressed beliefs? No bad thing though, maybe dodgy perhaps more productive in the same way science was born from religion, expedited by a friction in the head between belief in truth and belief in belief aka faith.
"Pi just happens to be related to circles"
Then it's got to be circles all the way down right? All the way down like turtles on turtles!
Since Pi is considered to be the pattern of nature (or rather, 'everything'?). Then perhaps Pi tells us more about ourselves. That is, how far our current thinking is from truth.
Thus, any attempts to calculate could be used to hone our view of the world. Can the process be reversed? To see everything from Pi and look at how we view the world from that?
Is the best science goalless?
I've often wondered about hanging around outside places to get customers. But I always shyed away think I might get sued or beaten off. I have to remember this story! This is a great reminder that capitalism & competition doesn't have values, so why not? Shameless!
Well said. I wonder how the Norwegian process for debts is. Is it a case of `we take everything you try and earn for 6 years` or worse?
Can't see the NookTouch mentioned on this particular thread so I'll mention it here. I've got it doing these things already, including VNC to Firefox for when you get tired and your laptop screen goes fuzzy, RSS readers, better PDF support, dropbox, Bitcoin wallet and tickers, ssh tunnelling, offline maps via MapDroyd (can see in sunlight), ReaditLater & Kindle.
Rooting is very simple, but the Sony build quality might be better. Things would be simpler if both devices had Cyanogenmod7.
Feel free to join us, or developers on the XDA forum section at http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1198
I bought a NookTouch with the only intention to root... after selling an iPad2 actually (no joke, it's not a comparasble thing). Have fun!
The thing is, the display method is known now, but if you want to export something to an eink display, is it true to say that whatever you are using to export to it is not standard, so usually you have to include a small computer.
Still no eink display on a mobile phone yet.... what does that say about it? (I'd like to fit a eink screen to a phone...)
Bear in mind that this may still have firewalling problems
Well, let's start an alternative award called `The Real Nobel Prize`, clearly it's off track (no troll intended),
unless there already is an alternative.
Awards aren't that great but it's nice to recognise someone and say thanks right
aww, this is all true. To be honest I've held off on Android and iPhone... I still have a Symbian phone (!) because I'm waiting on all this mess.
What about OpenPhone, I wonder what happened to that.
What got me thinking about all this was when I was abroad and needed to contact my Bank but didn't want to pay an international rate.
VoIP - I use a Betamax provider. The only way to secure it I could think of would be PPTP to a VPN(kinda only option for Symbian as it's so old). I had a go but couldn't get it working... it's not perfect but I'd settle for it
Callback services to a mobilephone - can work, I'd use this next time but at the time I didn't have it.
Email - how safe is email via a closed source phone anyway?
You can buy `securephones` but where's the source? Usually there is none so how can it be secure?
Is Cyanogenmod any better?
The best I can think of it taking a cheap Android based netbook/tablet for VoIP via a VPN, loading Ubuntu on it and matching that with a 3G dongle. But that's a bit bulky for casual use.
I travel a lot and can identify with this problem. Sometimes a page is not available and there has been times where I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why on earth someone would block it. Different countries have different goals so we can always get around the problem by trying different routes but I didn't want the hassle of having to switch providers. I'd imagine too it would be useful for anyone wanting to provide such a service where to locate it.
So the useful info here is, which countries have the best net neutrality laws and privacy laws?
According to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Network_neutrality#Law_in_Chile Chile is the best place for that, followed by Japan. See the article and compare to lowendbox.com providers that you can find.
Many suggestions cite English language countries. Things might be better on hosting in a country with a language different to the source traffic.
There is also the question of security and privacy. Is the ISP a guy in a bedroom hosting off a laptop and WiFi or is it straight onto a transatlantic backbone connection with no ISP - how big is the pipe we are connecting to so we are connecting through less points of risk. This aspect I found harder to figure out. Can anyone comment here? Certainly a VPS is quite secure, but how secure is the actual machine doing the hosting? What happens if that is compromised? I tried some VPS hosting in Turkey and within 5mins ssh being brute forced. That's another question.
Also we have to think, where are we connecting from? We want a short path to this for hosting. Thus, because you are in Brazil I recommend a (reputable?) VPS in Chile because it's close and they recognise the value of speech there and it's Spanish not Portuguese. However, if you find this doesn't work for you then I suggest having a look at the transatlantic cables and going off the next hop from there.
-j
Thanks for the info, this may tip me to iPhone5, which is pretty major for me :-)
I've been looking for a low profile USB port saver, you know, like one of those mini Bluetooth dongles, with a female extension lead.
Should manufacture it really, it's pretty essential and doesn't seem to exist
Personally I feel like an idiot for falling for the PR hype and supporting Android. Now I find it was all a lie and I still don't have a secure phone. Lied to, used and cheated. You could say Apple are closed but are are at least straightforward about it.
That said, we did get contributions back to linux didn't we? No, we didn't get much of that either.
I get more and more in agreement with RMS as time goes on. You got to be hard with people and companies, it's the only thing they understand. It's getting better but for the meantime, extremism is what people seem to want.
I don't want to sound angry with Google, rather I am embarrassed of myself for falling for it. Perhaps more could have been done at inception. Perhaps there's more we can do now, somehow...