33% of the population are age 50 and over, where a significant portion had to suffer through "new math" and "bauma reading" during their school years.
The geek fallacy is "teaching without teachers."
Gadgets and gimmicks. The MIT Media Lab.
The "new math" was successful where it was competently and engagingly taught.
But you have to draw parents and teachers into the process from the beginning --- and you have to be willing to compromise.
If your kids don't know if they have been given the right change when they leave the store with a quart of milk and the evening paper, you have a problem that will blow up in your face at the next PTA meeting.
8 minutes of sensor scans of a ship 129 more years advanced than anything ever witnessed would change the course of technology forever.
If and only if the scans expose the core technologies in ways that you can understand ---
If and only if you can reproduce the core technologies or their precursors on less than 120 years.
Doc Brown's refrigerator and telescopic sights were mid-nineteenth century tech. The really interesting possibilities open up only when you can build an air conditioner and have refrigerants safe enough for domestic use.
Thanks to the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on fireworks, the war on common sense and various other wars, its becoming harder and harder for amateurs who want to do chemistry in their own home/shed/backyard. Chemical suppliers wont sell to amateurs and hobbyists.
The A C Gilbert Heirloom Chemistry Set project was fully funded three days ago. ($149,000)
I love how the NYT and BBC reports on this story completely neglect to mention that the stuck ship is full of climate scientists out to gather global warming evidence. Just a complete oversight I'm sure.
The only people that should be locked up are people that are a physical threat to other people.
The geek as white collar criminal is insufferably arrogant and self-absorbed. It is damn tough to break through that shell. Prison is the one thing he can't laugh off.
When I volunteered to help teach programming to a group of librarians earlier this year, [a two day boot camp] I witnessed this cultural schism firsthand. The 35 students all came from user culture, whereas the 6 instructors all came from programmer culture.
Note that by ''programmer culture,'' I mean a UNIX-style programmer culture. There are lots of programmers who work completely within proprietary IDEs (e.g., Matlab, Xcode, MS Visual Studio) with specialized workflows for version control, rich searching, and task automation. However, the high-quality, widely-available free software that is most likely to get beginners hooked on programming --- to turn users into programmers --- are almost always written in a UNIX style. That's why my article focuses on this culture.
Explain to me again why the novice or casual programmer or the working professional in other fields would not be more comfortable, engaged and productive using a modern IDE outside the UNIX culture?
You could hate free software development tools available for the *NIX environment and not make a better case against them.
The longer a mystery novel is, the more likely readers are to jump to the end to see who done it. People are more likely to finish biographies than business titles, but a chapter of a yoga book is all they need. They speed through romances faster than religious titles, and erotica fastest of all.
None of this would have been news to a book publisher in 1910.
Men avoid working for public school systems because their policy is now dictated by feminist trained soccer moms who think all men are potential rapists/pedophiles.
The geek with a future in AM talk radio.
Where there is no obligation to prove a damn thing before going to air.
An Associated Press article named soccer moms --- along with the Macarena, Bob Dole, and ''Rules Girls'' --- as the four phenomena that will be forever associated with the year 1996.
Mossberg's editorial point of view is of the average consumer, and I don't think most people care about computer games. I don't.
He wrote for readers of the WSJ.
The kind of people who never lose sight of the numbers.
Size of global video game market revenue, including mobile games on smart phones and tablets: $66 billion, up from $63 billion in 2012 and is expected to grow to $78 billion in 2017.
CNET posted a review of the X60 in March 2006. Lenovo ThinkPad X60s The release date for this "ultraportable," February 14. This is for all practical purposes an eight or nine year old machine.
I am comfortable buying refurbished.
But nothing this old --- and never without a warranty, however short-lived.
Yes, because of course people will do hundreds of hours of work for free.
They will, as it turns out. You'll find countless examples on the internet. Not everyone is as selfish as you.
But many are being subsidized for their work online --- or hope to see a payoff down the road.
Writing a book of any kind is a major accomplishment that relatively few can claim. Anyone who learns that you're a published book author will be impressed. Similarly, if you use your textbook in one of your classes, your stature with your students will rise. You'll also gain name recognition among psychologists because most textbooks are referred to by the author's names rather than the title.
Writing Phase: 2 to 4+ Years. Writing has two meanings. Narrowly, it refers to composing the words in the text, including multiple drafts and several rounds of peer reviews and revisions based on the reviews. Broadly, writing also includes all the necessary reading of sources, compiling references, conceptualizing illustrations, and designing and writing features (e.g., boxed material), learning exercises, review sections, and further resources for students.
Which is why Betamax won the video format war. Oh, wait...
Beta hit the market when most TV sets had RF input only and no such thing as a digital comb filter. Color resolution about 300 lines. Locally, a good antenna could bring in six or seven channels, the line-up little changed since the mid-fifties.
From the beginning the VHS cassette could record a hockey game or a movie on a single cassette.
"Is this how sons-in-law say 'F- You' these days?"
The geek using his position within his family to convert others to Linux is a hardy perennial on Slashdot --- but like most evangelists he never broadcasts his failures.
I think the popularity of the wristwatch for most of the last century shows that people are willing to have wearable tech; if it provides enough practical use.
The wristwatch is one of the few pieces of jewelry --- stand-out, expensive jewelry --- that have ever became socially acceptable for a man to be seen wearing in almost any social setting.
Official Disney Animation release. Exactly as it appears in the film. Released Dec 6. 4 million views by 3 PM EST Dec 10. 3.38 min. 720p and 1080p available.
The fundamental principle of capitalism is "good* companies succeed, bad companies fail". Without that, capitalism breaks down.
How many ''good'' companies were broken down in the global economic collapse of the 1930s
Capitalism under extreme stress is a not self-correcting within a time frame most people are willing to accept --- and the social consequences of that simple fact can be dire.
It should have been MANDATORY for any company that accepted bailout money to be broken up into pieces that were small enough, individually, to fail without destroying the entire economy.
The pieces have to remain big enough to remain competitive in a global market, big enough to remain independent ---- otherwise they will simply be re-assembled over time with very little real change under the hood.
You see this all the time when you look at the history of break-ups under the anti-trust laws in the states.
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
How many programmers of that era were expert in modern corporate accounting, law, banking, business practices and procedures, as they had evolved over the past three or four centuries --- and not merely knowledgeable, but credentialed, as a C.P.A., for example?
In turn, how many accountants could have read and validated FORTRAN code for accounts receivable?
Slashdot Mirror
33% of the population are age 50 and over, where a significant portion had to suffer through "new math" and "bauma reading" during their school years.
The geek fallacy is "teaching without teachers."
Gadgets and gimmicks. The MIT Media Lab.
The "new math" was successful where it was competently and engagingly taught.
But you have to draw parents and teachers into the process from the beginning --- and you have to be willing to compromise.
If your kids don't know if they have been given the right change when they leave the store with a quart of milk and the evening paper, you have a problem that will blow up in your face at the next PTA meeting.
Even in failure, Mars One will teach us things we didn't know before, and lay the groundwork for future endeavors.
More likely it will simply provide another reminder of the lessons we all should have learned a long time ago
8 minutes of sensor scans of a ship 129 more years advanced than anything ever witnessed would change the course of technology forever.
If and only if the scans expose the core technologies in ways that you can understand ---
If and only if you can reproduce the core technologies or their precursors on less than 120 years.
Doc Brown's refrigerator and telescopic sights were mid-nineteenth century tech. The really interesting possibilities open up only when you can build an air conditioner and have refrigerants safe enough for domestic use.
Thanks to the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on fireworks, the war on common sense and various other wars, its becoming harder and harder for amateurs who want to do chemistry in their own home/shed/backyard.
Chemical suppliers wont sell to amateurs and hobbyists.
The A C Gilbert Heirloom Chemistry Set project was fully funded three days ago. ($149,000)
H.M.S. Beagle has about 600 chemicals for sale online. H.M.S. Beagle Publications: Materials Safety Data Sheets
United Nuclear is a rich resource for the amateur scientist. Radioactive Isotopes. Chemistry Experiments
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Chemistry Supply Websites
I love how the NYT and BBC reports on this story completely neglect to mention that the stuck ship is full of climate scientists out to gather global warming evidence. Just a complete oversight I'm sure.
On Twitter, Documenting an Antarctic Journey and a Countdown to a Rescue
Four embedded videos from the expedition team. Including a seven minute introduction to the project.
The only people that should be locked up are people that are a physical threat to other people.
The geek as white collar criminal is insufferably arrogant and self-absorbed. It is damn tough to break through that shell. Prison is the one thing he can't laugh off.
People people people! Read TFA! These laptops are running Windows and not anything but Windows. There's a lot less here than meets the eye.
BlueStacks has been around since 2012, funded in part by AMD, pre-installed on some PCs, and has not been a game-changer.
It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with the command line.
That is the fundamental reason why no one but the hobbyist or professional has ever been comfortable working in a command line.
When I volunteered to help teach programming to a group of librarians earlier this year, [a two day boot camp] I witnessed this cultural schism firsthand.
The 35 students all came from user culture, whereas the 6 instructors all came from programmer culture.
Note that by ''programmer culture,'' I mean a UNIX-style programmer culture. There are lots of programmers who work completely within proprietary IDEs (e.g., Matlab, Xcode, MS Visual Studio) with specialized workflows for version control, rich searching, and task automation. However, the high-quality, widely-available free software that is most likely to get beginners hooked on programming --- to turn users into programmers --- are almost always written in a UNIX style. That's why my article focuses on this culture.
Explain to me again why the novice or casual programmer or the working professional in other fields would not be more comfortable, engaged and productive using a modern IDE outside the UNIX culture?
You could hate free software development tools available for the *NIX environment and not make a better case against them.
The longer a mystery novel is, the more likely readers are to jump to the end to see who done it. People are more likely to finish biographies than business titles, but a chapter of a yoga book is all they need. They speed through romances faster than religious titles, and erotica fastest of all.
None of this would have been news to a book publisher in 1910.
Best Books of the 1900's - 1900-1909
Does anyone else find it funny that this arrest is "defaming the UAE society's image abroad" much more than the video ever would?
That depends on the UAE's target audience.
In the Arab world, news of the conviction might play very, very well.
Men avoid working for public school systems because their policy is now dictated by feminist trained soccer moms who think all men are potential rapists/pedophiles.
The geek with a future in AM talk radio .
Where there is no obligation to prove a damn thing before going to air.
An Associated Press article named soccer moms --- along with the Macarena, Bob Dole, and ''Rules Girls'' --- as the four phenomena that will be forever associated with the year 1996.
Soccer mom
The young and nerdy misogynist's dictionary: Soccer mom
I don't see anyone complaining that nursing or primary school teaching is sexist, yet those professions have a definite bias towards one sex.
If you haven't heard any complaints, it can only be because you haven't been listening:
Why Men Don't Teach Elementary School [ABC News, March]
Men in Nursing [October]
He should have had Alta Vista, USENET NEWS and IRC.
These successors have only made scads of money off ideas from real pioneers.
IRC and USENET clients were left behind as users found easier ways to communicate.
Today...IRC... has around 400k users at peak hours.
IRC
Skype at peak hours, 55 to 60 million. Skype Numerology
Mossberg's editorial point of view is of the average consumer, and I don't think most people care about computer games. I don't.
He wrote for readers of the WSJ.
The kind of people who never lose sight of the numbers.
Size of global video game market revenue, including mobile games on smart phones and tablets: $66 billion, up from $63 billion in 2012 and is expected to grow to $78 billion in 2017.
FACTBOX - A look at the $66 billion video-games industry
CNET posted a review of the X60 in March 2006. Lenovo ThinkPad X60s The release date for this "ultraportable," February 14. This is for all practical purposes an eight or nine year old machine.
I am comfortable buying refurbished.
But nothing this old --- and never without a warranty, however short-lived.
Compliance is Exciting and Mandatory! Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Apple sells a high end --- mass market --- consumer product. Its customers have no interest in tinkering under the hood.
As tech advances, the enthusiast is eclipsed. We've seen this countless times before.
Yes, because of course people will do hundreds of hours of work for free.
They will, as it turns out. You'll find countless examples on the internet. Not everyone is as selfish as you.
But many are being subsidized for their work online --- or hope to see a payoff down the road.
Writing a book of any kind is a major accomplishment that relatively few can claim. Anyone who learns that you're a published book author will be impressed. Similarly, if you use your textbook in one of your classes, your stature with your students will rise. You'll also gain name recognition among psychologists because most textbooks are referred to by the author's names rather than the title.
Writing Phase: 2 to 4+ Years. Writing has two meanings. Narrowly, it refers to composing the words in the text, including multiple drafts and several rounds of peer reviews and revisions based on the reviews. Broadly, writing also includes all the necessary reading of sources, compiling references, conceptualizing illustrations, and designing and writing features (e.g., boxed material), learning exercises, review sections, and further resources for students.
Writing a Psychology Textbook: Is It For You ?
Which is why Betamax won the video format war. Oh, wait...
Beta hit the market when most TV sets had RF input only and no such thing as a digital comb filter. Color resolution about 300 lines. Locally, a good antenna could bring in six or seven channels, the line-up little changed since the mid-fifties.
From the beginning the VHS cassette could record a hockey game or a movie on a single cassette.
"Is this how sons-in-law say 'F- You' these days?"
The geek using his position within his family to convert others to Linux is a hardy perennial on Slashdot --- but like most evangelists he never broadcasts his failures.
Most people don't need the flexibility and attendant hassles of PCs anymore. Just give them an iPad or Nexus and be done with it.
The geek is quick to impose his own solutions on others, whether they fit or not.
This geek's mother is comfortable with Windows and MS Office.
Implying that she needs a physical keyboard of standard size and layout and would benefit from a larger monitor than any tablet has to offer.
I think the popularity of the wristwatch for most of the last century shows that people are willing to have wearable tech; if it provides enough practical use.
The wristwatch is one of the few pieces of jewelry --- stand-out, expensive jewelry --- that have ever became socially acceptable for a man to be seen wearing in almost any social setting.
Oh well, I guess it will never happen.
Right in one.
Case in point: Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel
Official Disney Animation release. Exactly as it appears in the film. Released Dec 6. 4 million views by 3 PM EST Dec 10. 3.38 min. 720p and 1080p available.
The fundamental principle of capitalism is "good* companies succeed, bad companies fail". Without that, capitalism breaks down.
How many ''good'' companies were broken down in the global economic collapse of the 1930s
Capitalism under extreme stress is a not self-correcting within a time frame most people are willing to accept --- and the social consequences of that simple fact can be dire.
It should have been MANDATORY for any company that accepted bailout money to be broken up into pieces that were small enough, individually, to fail without destroying the entire economy.
The pieces have to remain big enough to remain competitive in a global market, big enough to remain independent ---- otherwise they will simply be re-assembled over time with very little real change under the hood.
You see this all the time when you look at the history of break-ups under the anti-trust laws in the states.
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
How many programmers of that era were expert in modern corporate accounting, law, banking, business practices and procedures, as they had evolved over the past three or four centuries --- and not merely knowledgeable, but credentialed, as a C.P.A., for example?
In turn, how many accountants could have read and validated FORTRAN code for accounts receivable?