or more precisely, expensive multimedia 'learning' software and 'presentation' programs.
The research is clear, there can a great deal of learning with computers, students can learn many things they simply can't any other ways, and teachers can learn much more about how their students are learning.
But it doesn't take expensive computer presentation software or educational games, nor does it even take 'fast' computers.
What it takes is a decent text based forum, these are free (like phpBB or even slash) and some interesting subjects to discuss.
Add simple freeware graphic applications, some freeware graphing software, students from different nations and different languages, etc. and a whole lot of learning can go on (and Todd O's failure to learn how to do a lit review notwithstanding, there is a wealth of research that demonstrates the kind of lessons that are learned best with a computer, the best ways to do them, etc. Todd should learn to AskEric
This article does have some good points regarding spending too much time playing point and click games and making powerpoints, however he mars his point with alot of FUD (for instance his attack on doing research online: well guess what Todd, most college students do most of their research online too, because most journals are available full text for students!)
The 'digital divide' comes in when kids get to college and don't know how to use online databases to do their research!
The fact that it could add 16,000 votes & that that was only noticed b/c the number was so large begs the question of what happens when it adds smaller numbers of votes?
eg how many times did the software just add 20-50-200-etc. votes without anyone noticing?
Instead of fixing the shuttle, Barton said it should be grounded or converted to a craft that flies unmanned.
This seems more logical: the thing flies itself anyway.
Rip out all the life support systems and it will make a great space truck, then build a ligher, safer, more modern space plane to get the people there and back in one piece.
seems to be at the root of most GM human concerns: most folks in opposition base their argument on teh Gattaca scenario: an advanced GM class ruling over the un-modified hordes.
If GM therapies had to be free/equally accessible to all, would that change folk's opposition?
As Biomed advances, this will become a more and more important question: we might soon have a wealthy class that lives for hundreds of years lording over the short lived poor, etc.
If a life saving treatment for a disease exists, if you don't give a sick person access to that treatment you have killed them, right? So if access to cures depends on the size of your bank account, doesn't that violate the principle of the right to life ?
The sailors were dreadfully embarassed by the whole thing, so they made up a horror story so they would never have to talk about what really happened...
Cool site. Something weird with the style sheet: text jumps around & I was trying to copy the blurb to send to my teacher friend and the copy function either copys all the text or none?
In response to one of the key issues of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the future of our planet's waters, we have created a comprehensive and highly interactive curriculum Common Water, Common Ground: An Exploration Into Watershed Sustainability and Stewardship and are making it available here on our website see it at: Common Waters, Common Ground.
As Alan Kay once said, The best way to predict the future is to invent it. By encouraging young people to ask What kind of world do I want to create? and giving them good tools and support to find their answers - we offer the next generation a real opportunity to lead.
nt (see that part of Slash that doesn't let you make an nt comment would be something I would fix right away if I was using it, and I could because it's OSS:-).
Commercial software that works perfectly?
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Too Much Free Software
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Anyone use any?
In My Experience, I've been finding free software alot like commercial software: alot of it is drek, some of it is ok, and a few apps are excellent (Postnuke, for instance, works very well for a web portal), as does MySQL for a database. O and Apache, is it working ok for you too?
The decision to use is about the same, gently pry the slick brochures from the boss's hands, research reviews, comments on industry forums, opinions of friends, colleagues, etc., and if all checks out install and test. Obviously you probably don't want free software where there are few posts/changes/sourceforge updates in the last year, similarly with commercial software, except with most free stuff it's much easier to tell how many developers are currently working on the project.
Since I very rarely have found even very expensive software that had company support worth a dang, I've gotten used to getting support off of web forums and google searchs, so supporting free OSS software is about the same as supporting most commercial software.
One big difference of course is price, but another huge difference is that when there is a problem/missing feature in OSS, I can write it in or have it written in, and/or if it is a big problem in an OSS with a large user base, I have found that it gets fixed very quickly, esp. where the core code programmers are using their own product.
I'm a long time apple user and advocate who is unhappy with how slow my $5000+ dual G4 1 ghz is compared to my $3000 2ghz Compaq running photoshop, thanks.
I'm real happy with the OS, drives, and disk subsystem on my X Serve, but I wish it could use something with more horsepower than the antiquated 1ghz G4 it shipped with.
If you want to call me a "clueless twit", enjoy yourself, but I'm also one "using the products", the difference seems to be that I'm not just using Apple's products and so I know a bit more about the subject than someone who thinks a G4 laptop is a fast machine (it's a slick machine, a well designed machine, a very nice machine, but it's also quite slow compared to similarly priced products when video/audio/image editing software. As far as your example, it doesn't seem to me that writing code, even "altivec ehanced" code, should take more than a smidgeon of processing power from serious work (or cracking stream ciphers if that is what you do with your extra cycles) on either hardware platform, what the heck are you writing code in?
Since the problem seems mainly to be corporations being giving the same right to copyright protection as individuals, I thought a little rant on corporate personhood would be appropriate.
Many folks don't know two facts regarding corporate personhood:
1) The American revolution was in large part a revolution against the Govt. supported practices of large (British) corporations. In post-Revolutionary America, corporations were far more limited and were established primarily to serve the public good, as one can see from the various state laws regarding corps, the interests of stockholders was supposed to be secondary to the commonweal.
2) Corporate personhood was established in 1886 (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad) without debate by the USSC, either by accident in an extraordinary example of judicial activism (sources differ) that has in many ways set (non-incorporated) individuals back to the position wrt to Corps. that our forefathers rebelled against.
Now it's pretty obvious that the framers never intended corporations to be given the rights of personhood, and thus the ability to extend their copyright far beyond the lifetime of the author.
But so long as the little slip the 1886 court that let corporations demand the full protection granted 'all persons born or naturalized' by the 14th Amendment remains unchallenged, the domination of mere mortals by immortal corporations is likely only to get more and more extreme.
Many folks don't know two facts regarding corporate personhood:
1) the American revolution was in large part a revolution against the govt. supported practices of large (British) corporations. In post-Revolutionary America, corporations were far more limited and were established primarily to serve the public good, the interests of stockholders was supposed to be secondary to the commonweal.
2) Corporate personhood was established in 1886 (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific
Railroad) without debate by the USSC, either by accident in an extraordinary example of judicial activism (sources differ) that has in many ways set (non-incorporated) individuals back to the position wrt to Corps. that our forefathers rebelled against.
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sue 'em, I say...
WPOMK! (wiping pepsi off my keyboard!)
or more precisely, expensive multimedia 'learning' software and 'presentation' programs. The research is clear, there can a great deal of learning with computers, students can learn many things they simply can't any other ways, and teachers can learn much more about how their students are learning. But it doesn't take expensive computer presentation software or educational games, nor does it even take 'fast' computers. What it takes is a decent text based forum, these are free (like phpBB or even slash) and some interesting subjects to discuss. Add simple freeware graphic applications, some freeware graphing software, students from different nations and different languages, etc. and a whole lot of learning can go on (and Todd O's failure to learn how to do a lit review notwithstanding, there is a wealth of research that demonstrates the kind of lessons that are learned best with a computer, the best ways to do them, etc. Todd should learn to AskEric This article does have some good points regarding spending too much time playing point and click games and making powerpoints, however he mars his point with alot of FUD (for instance his attack on doing research online: well guess what Todd, most college students do most of their research online too, because most journals are available full text for students!) The 'digital divide' comes in when kids get to college and don't know how to use online databases to do their research!
so we are probably meaning 800-1040kb/s when we are talking about 100-130 kB/s wireless.
With the Pagesetter & Photoshare modules is pretty simple, if you set it up for them and remove all the extraneous stuff.
Then they can just login and start making galleries and logs, pretty much just using a form and the nice little pagesetter online x-platorm wysiwyg.
http://www.Postnuke.com
Pagesetter & Photoshare: http://www.elfisk.dk
or in the voting system is the real issue.
The fact that it could add 16,000 votes & that that was only noticed b/c the number was so large begs the question of what happens when it adds smaller numbers of votes?
eg how many times did the software just add 20-50-200-etc. votes without anyone noticing?
he was using "bad" as in 'contains serious technical flaws' rather than as in 'can't make money off it'.
Rip out all the life support systems and it will make a great space truck, then build a ligher, safer, more modern space plane to get the people there and back in one piece.
There is even a museum, article about it here:
The Kinetic Sculpture race was started by artist Hobart Brown. He has an art gallery showcasing his metal sculptures on Main street Ferndale. The gallery features paintings by friends of his and a museum of the Race.
seems to be at the root of most GM human concerns: most folks in opposition base their argument on teh Gattaca scenario: an advanced GM class ruling over the un-modified hordes.
If GM therapies had to be free/equally accessible to all, would that change folk's opposition?
As Biomed advances, this will become a more and more important question: we might soon have a wealthy class that lives for hundreds of years lording over the short lived poor, etc.
If a life saving treatment for a disease exists, if you don't give a sick person access to that treatment you have killed them, right? So if access to cures depends on the size of your bank account, doesn't that violate the principle of the right to life ?
is more with the economics of the US health system than with GM humans?
If GM therapies had to be totally free to be legal, would that change your opposition?
terribly hurt by drunken horny sailors.
The sailors were dreadfully embarassed by the whole thing, so they made up a horror story so they would never have to talk about what really happened...
& not even directly mentioned in the article. The peripheral slashdot effect..
A good sign for OSS office, I guess.
Not so good for Solaris....
Cool site. Something weird with the style sheet: text jumps around & I was trying to copy the blurb to send to my teacher friend and the copy function either copys all the text or none?
nt (see that part of Slash that doesn't let you make an nt comment would be something I would fix right away if I was using it, and I could because it's OSS:-).
Anyone use any?
In My Experience, I've been finding free software alot like commercial software: alot of it is drek, some of it is ok, and a few apps are excellent (Postnuke, for instance, works very well for a web portal), as does MySQL for a database. O and Apache, is it working ok for you too?
The decision to use is about the same, gently pry the slick brochures from the boss's hands, research reviews, comments on industry forums, opinions of friends, colleagues, etc., and if all checks out install and test. Obviously you probably don't want free software where there are few posts/changes/sourceforge updates in the last year, similarly with commercial software, except with most free stuff it's much easier to tell how many developers are currently working on the project.
Since I very rarely have found even very expensive software that had company support worth a dang, I've gotten used to getting support off of web forums and google searchs, so supporting free OSS software is about the same as supporting most commercial software.
One big difference of course is price, but another huge difference is that when there is a problem/missing feature in OSS, I can write it in or have it written in, and/or if it is a big problem in an OSS with a large user base, I have found that it gets fixed very quickly, esp. where the core code programmers are using their own product.
I'm a long time apple user and advocate who is unhappy with how slow my $5000+ dual G4 1 ghz is compared to my $3000 2ghz Compaq running photoshop, thanks.
I'm real happy with the OS, drives, and disk subsystem on my X Serve, but I wish it could use something with more horsepower than the antiquated 1ghz G4 it shipped with.
If you want to call me a "clueless twit", enjoy yourself, but I'm also one "using the products", the difference seems to be that I'm not just using Apple's products and so I know a bit more about the subject than someone who thinks a G4 laptop is a fast machine (it's a slick machine, a well designed machine, a very nice machine, but it's also quite slow compared to similarly priced products when video/audio/image editing software. As far as your example, it doesn't seem to me that writing code, even "altivec ehanced" code, should take more than a smidgeon of processing power from serious work (or cracking stream ciphers if that is what you do with your extra cycles) on either hardware platform, what the heck are you writing code in?
The speed just isn't coming from IBM/Moto to compete with Intel/AMD.
So fighting this seems kind of moot, as Apple needs to migrate OS X to x86 architecture real soon now.
Drudge would love to h1 that headline;-).
if minors are caught in 'R' rated movies?
This is different how?
Since the problem seems mainly to be corporations being giving the same right to copyright protection as individuals, I thought a little rant on corporate personhood would be appropriate.
Many folks don't know two facts regarding corporate personhood:
1) The American revolution was in large part a revolution against the Govt. supported practices of large (British) corporations. In post-Revolutionary America, corporations were far more limited and were established primarily to serve the public good, as one can see from the various state laws regarding corps, the interests of stockholders was supposed to be secondary to the commonweal.
2) Corporate personhood was established in 1886 (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad) without debate by the USSC, either by accident in an extraordinary example of judicial activism (sources differ) that has in many ways set (non-incorporated) individuals back to the position wrt to Corps. that our forefathers rebelled against.
Refs & More info
Now it's pretty obvious that the framers never intended corporations to be given the rights of personhood, and thus the ability to extend their copyright far beyond the lifetime of the author.
But so long as the little slip the 1886 court that let corporations demand the full protection granted 'all persons born or naturalized' by the 14th Amendment remains unchallenged, the domination of mere mortals by immortal corporations is likely only to get more and more extreme.
Many folks don't know two facts regarding corporate personhood:
1) the American revolution was in large part a revolution against the govt. supported practices of large (British) corporations. In post-Revolutionary America, corporations were far more limited and were established primarily to serve the public good, the interests of stockholders was supposed to be secondary to the commonweal.
2) Corporate personhood was established in 1886 (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad) without debate by the USSC, either by accident in an extraordinary example of judicial activism (sources differ) that has in many ways set (non-incorporated) individuals back to the position wrt to Corps. that our forefathers rebelled against.
Refs & More info
as does paraffin...
Seems simply enough, this kid has obviously developed an FTL browser.
Explains why it crashes at Warp 7 too, the dilithium code just can't take, keptin!