Your implication that not all children are proto-geeks may have merit (my two are evenly divided on geekery, although both have excellent minds) but with hard science and math education on the skids, isn't it worth it to provide some technology focus in an interesting and broad-scale school project? The future HR execs and MBA's can use it to crib notes from Wikipedia, but the "I wanna be an astronaut" crowd are only going to benefit from something they have control over. And I will maintain that "something to have control over" is a sovereign specific against an overly passive generation of future citizens. Give them things to take apart, buttons to press that do things, software they can use and combine and sometimes screw up, and a community of peers to help them unscrew things. Let the inner monkey win some times.
The biggest opposition to Rudd's "computers in schools" plan has been that he's funding the hardware/software but no the support or training. No doubt this will give more weight to their argument.
This Australian is not opposed to that. I would love to see Linux laptops in Victorian schools, and I would love to see the kids and teachers in those schools learn and develop their own methods for support and training -- it would be a hugely educational and involving experience, and would help break down the idea that true innovation in computing only comes from above, from the commercial package houses.
I'm willing to volunteer 3rd level support for such myself, but only if they spend some time scurrying about themselves and learning what they can do. Access to a help desk won't really help them learn the basic skills necessary to operate in a society that increasingly depends on densely-packed transistors written on melted sand. Learning the rote behaviour of running common commercial packages may help them in basic knowledge management, but doesn't grant the curious among them visibility under the bonnet.
Example: How would you set up a Wiki under Windows -- build a Sharepoint server and call it a knowledge base (Urk!) or have them set up a Mediawiki LAMP stack? Which one would they learn more from? Which one could they do with the smallest infrastructure spend? (Yes, I know about virtual appliances, it was just an example.)
It was the most effective long term marketing move Apple ever could have made, and I doubt they even realized it at the time.
Heck yes we knew it, that was the whole and entire point.
Disclaimer:I wasn't in the Apple educational group at the time, but our early MIS development group shared the same (tiny) building with them on Bandley Drive, and there was a little bit of crosstalk.
The reason for the prohibition on sales of in-game assets is not entirely to keep the gold spammers out (although I find that laudable personally) but to keep the governmental authorities from closely examining the financial transactions that go on in a game. If you buy in-game gold with real-world dollars -- and subsequently sell items you acquire with that in-game gold for real-world valuta, there is a compelling argument for examining such transactions as to whether or not they are a mechanism for laundering money. The EULA prohibitions are to keep any such enquiries from the tax and legal authorities off the game hosting company's back.
Exactly, with fiat currency, the numbers in the bank only mean something because enough people say so.
Inside the crown of one of the kingdoms in the Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org/)is the inscription "You rule because they believe".
The medium is a bit retro perhaps, but the message is the same. Money rules because we believe in the accounts. Or at least that ATM dispenses stuff that people believe in, and will probably continue to do so until 1 loaf of bread = 1 wheelbarrow of dollars.
My WoW bank and characters are very real to me for several hours most days.
Get stuck into an Open Source project, find out how it works, dive deep. If it turns out you can make a contribution that has even reasonably broad acceptance, that will add to your credibility as a programmer. At worst, you'll be keeping up your currency in at least one field.
So instead of faulting anyone who had a hand in the making of your cheeseburger, you place the blame solely on a fictional clown that was invented by marketing people?
Interestingly, some of the Edgar Cayce trance-inspired therapies involved exposure to light in specific wavelengths. I wonder how well those went, and if there's any correspondence?
Ahh, truly I am an egg. Ich bin Ausland und ich spreche keine Bush. I could believe that both of Bush and of a Notes-to-Exchange migration, though. And you can pick deleted emails from the timestamp gaps as quickly as you can say Rose-Mary Woods. "What emails? I didn't receive any because I was at the beach that day". Heh heh...
Rather change pads than discs, rather change clutch than discs.
Depends on the car though. On some cars, disc R&R is so complicated you should do struts and CV joints at the same time, labor dominating parts.
Spot on. It's especially expensive to change front discs on a live-axle 4x4. They lathe (turn) discs on the Patrol while they're on the vehicle, just because of that.
That said, you're probably going to make much better inroads in fuel economy by looking after your throttle technique and having a knowledge of basic physics.
As soon as the scandal started to erupt, she could just delete that email, and ask her staff to do the same. It's not just that the personal accounts are difficult to access, it's that you can magically 'lose' their contents, much as the White House did, and there are no backups.
Just to set the record straight, it was an audio tape that went missing during the Nixon administration (ref "18-minute gap") not email. The principle is the same, but there wasn't a lot of email in use during that era.
There's some view that even that's too high a level, especially if this is a university comp sci class. I'd start with the statement "a computer is just a box of switches" then back it up with ones and zeros corresponding to switch states.
Assign George Boole as outside reading.
Give them a little bit of overview as to how the machine actually works, and maybe later down the track they'll think before they cascade ELSEIF's or load stack manipulation inside tight loops. Make them sensitive to the tools they use, not just the media (the languages) they're working with.
You can cover ones and zeroes, registers, memory and addresses a little easier, maybe even shorten the process by a couple of days if you give them something that relates abstracts to the physical world. Tie things together a bit.
There's a certain disturbing message coming from McCain -- that he is indeed just a wee bit past his use-by date (something I'm sensitive to in myself, being officially Older Than Dirt).
It's those strange lapses that are put off as "jokes", such as the "My Fellow Prisoners" gaffe that was on the tubes last night. It's the glassy stares, the "thanks for the question, you little jerk" moments that I am beginning to worry are more symptoms of someone who perhaps ate too much pasta from aluminum pots over the years...
Sometimes jokes are just jokes, but in pressure situations they're more often kind of indicative little insights that go past a person's conscious censors. For example, during the "you little jerk" moment on YouTube he said that his kids accuse him of being able to "hide his own Easter eggs".
What this tells me, the oldster, is that there may be a grain of truth to the fact that the race isn't really Obama vs. McCain any more -- the question I ask is "who would be the better President, Obama or Palin? Because that's what the race would resolve to if McCain really is running out of puff. I'd honestly worry about myself if I were in his situation, and my grandmother died at 112.
Sure it is. What if he took pictures of naked 10-year-old girls?
What if he had pictures of his own children and didn't want them in circulation? Being a parent with daughters myself I'm fully aware of the sort of people who make up a percentage of border guards, and I don't want them stalked or targeted or "collected" by people I don't trust. And I certainly wouldn't trust strangers with photos of my children.
You can't just simply go fishing for incriminating material without probable cause, it isn't right. And in the case of border guards, what amounts to "probable cause" needs to be set out in strict procedures, and every such trigger event needs to be backed up and independently verified. The difference between police and thugs are laws and procedures, not uniforms and badges.
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In 1999 BC the dinosaurs would obviously have been present
Am I the only one who read that as "dinosaurs would obviously have been president ?
It takes me 20 seconds for my work laptop -- Compaq 2510p -- to come back from hibernate. I don't need anything faster then that.
I do, sometimes. Meetings in airports would be easier if it took 19 seconds less than that.
Maybe to apply for a credit card, instead of beiing age>=18*, there should be a gullible test.
Did you know that the word "gullible" was omitted from the most recent version of the Oxford English Dictionary? Fact.
No doubt he'll wash his hands of the whole matter.
http://www.xkcd.com/487/
Your implication that not all children are proto-geeks may have merit (my two are evenly divided on geekery, although both have excellent minds) but with hard science and math education on the skids, isn't it worth it to provide some technology focus in an interesting and broad-scale school project? The future HR execs and MBA's can use it to crib notes from Wikipedia, but the "I wanna be an astronaut" crowd are only going to benefit from something they have control over. And I will maintain that "something to have control over" is a sovereign specific against an overly passive generation of future citizens. Give them things to take apart, buttons to press that do things, software they can use and combine and sometimes screw up, and a community of peers to help them unscrew things. Let the inner monkey win some times.
+1 "Irony"
The biggest opposition to Rudd's "computers in schools" plan has been that he's funding the hardware/software but no the support or training. No doubt this will give more weight to their argument.
This Australian is not opposed to that. I would love to see Linux laptops in Victorian schools, and I would love to see the kids and teachers in those schools learn and develop their own methods for support and training -- it would be a hugely educational and involving experience, and would help break down the idea that true innovation in computing only comes from above, from the commercial package houses.
I'm willing to volunteer 3rd level support for such myself, but only if they spend some time scurrying about themselves and learning what they can do. Access to a help desk won't really help them learn the basic skills necessary to operate in a society that increasingly depends on densely-packed transistors written on melted sand. Learning the rote behaviour of running common commercial packages may help them in basic knowledge management, but doesn't grant the curious among them visibility under the bonnet.
Example: How would you set up a Wiki under Windows -- build a Sharepoint server and call it a knowledge base (Urk!) or have them set up a Mediawiki LAMP stack? Which one would they learn more from? Which one could they do with the smallest infrastructure spend? (Yes, I know about virtual appliances, it was just an example.)
You've got to give kids clocks to take apart.
It was the most effective long term marketing move Apple ever could have made, and I doubt they even realized it at the time.
Heck yes we knew it, that was the whole and entire point.
Disclaimer:I wasn't in the Apple educational group at the time, but our early MIS development group shared the same (tiny) building with them on Bandley Drive, and there was a little bit of crosstalk.
Q: "Which is closer, New York or by train?" A: o.O?
The reason for the prohibition on sales of in-game assets is not entirely to keep the gold spammers out (although I find that laudable personally) but to keep the governmental authorities from closely examining the financial transactions that go on in a game. If you buy in-game gold with real-world dollars -- and subsequently sell items you acquire with that in-game gold for real-world valuta, there is a compelling argument for examining such transactions as to whether or not they are a mechanism for laundering money. The EULA prohibitions are to keep any such enquiries from the tax and legal authorities off the game hosting company's back.
Exactly, with fiat currency, the numbers in the bank only mean something because enough people say so.
Inside the crown of one of the kingdoms in the Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org/)is the inscription "You rule because they believe".
The medium is a bit retro perhaps, but the message is the same. Money rules because we believe in the accounts. Or at least that ATM dispenses stuff that people believe in, and will probably continue to do so until 1 loaf of bread = 1 wheelbarrow of dollars.
My WoW bank and characters are very real to me for several hours most days.
Get stuck into an Open Source project, find out how it works, dive deep. If it turns out you can make a contribution that has even reasonably broad acceptance, that will add to your credibility as a programmer. At worst, you'll be keeping up your currency in at least one field.
So instead of faulting anyone who had a hand in the making of your cheeseburger, you place the blame solely on a fictional clown that was invented by marketing people?
The difference being...?
What was that Jack asked/implored in, what, Witches of Eastwick: "Why can't we all just GET ALONG?"?
So that's where that came from!
It's one of the Warlock imp's quotes in World of Warcraft.
Good to know that Jack's legacy will live on in the entertainment world.
That sentence no verb!
Interestingly, some of the Edgar Cayce trance-inspired therapies involved exposure to light in specific wavelengths. I wonder how well those went, and if there's any correspondence?
Ahh, truly I am an egg. Ich bin Ausland und ich spreche keine Bush. I could believe that both of Bush and of a Notes-to-Exchange migration, though. And you can pick deleted emails from the timestamp gaps as quickly as you can say Rose-Mary Woods. "What emails? I didn't receive any because I was at the beach that day". Heh heh...
Rather change pads than discs, rather change clutch than discs.
Depends on the car though. On some cars, disc R&R is so complicated you should do struts and CV joints at the same time, labor dominating parts.
Spot on. It's especially expensive to change front discs on a live-axle 4x4. They lathe (turn) discs on the Patrol while they're on the vehicle, just because of that.
That said, you're probably going to make much better inroads in fuel economy by looking after your throttle technique and having a knowledge of basic physics.
AN HERO is the correct chan term
Only if ye drop yer haiches, mate.
As soon as the scandal started to erupt, she could just delete that email, and ask her staff to do the same. It's not just that the personal accounts are difficult to access, it's that you can magically 'lose' their contents, much as the White House did, and there are no backups.
Just to set the record straight, it was an audio tape that went missing during the Nixon administration (ref "18-minute gap") not email. The principle is the same, but there wasn't a lot of email in use during that era.
Assign George Boole as outside reading.
Give them a little bit of overview as to how the machine actually works, and maybe later down the track they'll think before they cascade ELSEIF's or load stack manipulation inside tight loops. Make them sensitive to the tools they use, not just the media (the languages) they're working with.
You can cover ones and zeroes, registers, memory and addresses a little easier, maybe even shorten the process by a couple of days if you give them something that relates abstracts to the physical world. Tie things together a bit.
"Hoover" also is a play on words for "hover".
It's those strange lapses that are put off as "jokes", such as the "My Fellow Prisoners" gaffe that was on the tubes last night. It's the glassy stares, the "thanks for the question, you little jerk" moments that I am beginning to worry are more symptoms of someone who perhaps ate too much pasta from aluminum pots over the years...
Sometimes jokes are just jokes, but in pressure situations they're more often kind of indicative little insights that go past a person's conscious censors. For example, during the "you little jerk" moment on YouTube he said that his kids accuse him of being able to "hide his own Easter eggs".
What this tells me, the oldster, is that there may be a grain of truth to the fact that the race isn't really Obama vs. McCain any more -- the question I ask is "who would be the better President, Obama or Palin? Because that's what the race would resolve to if McCain really is running out of puff. I'd honestly worry about myself if I were in his situation, and my grandmother died at 112.
John McCain is thirteen years older than me.
Sure it is. What if he took pictures of naked 10-year-old girls?
What if he had pictures of his own children and didn't want them in circulation? Being a parent with daughters myself I'm fully aware of the sort of people who make up a percentage of border guards, and I don't want them stalked or targeted or "collected" by people I don't trust. And I certainly wouldn't trust strangers with photos of my children.
You can't just simply go fishing for incriminating material without probable cause, it isn't right. And in the case of border guards, what amounts to "probable cause" needs to be set out in strict procedures, and every such trigger event needs to be backed up and independently verified. The difference between police and thugs are laws and procedures, not uniforms and badges.