Fantastic news. The Central Party has decided they will put these in all classrooms because THAT'S a proven model for improving student learning that has never worked anywhere ever. It's nice to know the idiotic thinking that leads to wide-spread system-level roll-outs of technology that isn't understood, supported, or used isn't monopolized in the United States.
I do not have any empirical data to back up this feeling, but considering the cozy and close relationship Apple has demonstrated with our friends in the NSA, this article strikes me as a dishonest attempt to fool us into thinking they actually care about privacy and security.
On a technical note, what does this do to ARP tables? How does that address resolution work?
A hard +1 on this. There is so much more to programming and compsci than php/mysql. What do you know about data types? Can you tick off some differences between PostgreSQL and mysql (especially the way MySQL deals with invalid data being inserted). What are two or three ways you can efficiently sort through a list?
Learn how to think like a programmer. For the love of god, learn to compile. Please don't pigeon-hole yourself into one or two toolsets. I speak from experience here, by the way. I'm prettydamngood with PHP/Mysql but wish I knew enough to transition to something a bit more modern.
I'm looking for the research and see.....none. The credentials of the researchers is impressive at first glance, but there is no research. This whole thing looks like a hypothesis without any real research. The entire premise is very interesting, and some of their ideas are worth PROVING. I can't wait to see the results.
Director of technology in a big international school here. Several points need-a-clarification.
#1: so, so many parents are so, so different. We once held one of those "parent internet safety" workshops. We asked 15 mom's, "what would you do if you walked into your kids workspace and saw them quickly minimize a window". Guess what? We got 15 different answers, ranging from "death" to "ignore".
#2: We have several parents who simply need the technical skills to understand stuff like open dns and blocking at the router. We installed filtering software for them, and spend quite a bit of time helping them understand how to use these tools. see point #1, some parents need boku-blocking, other, none.
#3: the argument that parents should be watching their kids 24/7 to monitor and supervise their internet usage is bullshit. I've got a 2 year old, and I barely have time to keep my house clean. That being said, we use this safety PACT becuase many parents don't even know how to set rules with their kids about internet use in the house.
#4: we teach parents about safe search, and spend so much time talking about profiles, and helping parents talk to their kids about safe internet usage. This tool would be "another tool in the belt" for us folks in schools. Guys, parents aren't geeks, eh?
Are system administrators migrating away from Novell? We run Novell at our school, and I'll start looking for alternatives if I have to. The issue is our 2 system administrators have years of experience with Novell. It is a stable, reliable platform, and works well.
I am concerned about software updates, security fixes, things like that.
Seems pretty acceptable to me. As long as the attack is confirmed, and there aren't idiots at the helm. Didn't Israel do something like this? Pre-emptive assassinations or something that?
I wouldn't be surprised if big-iron IT departments didn't already do something like this. Not like it matters anyways, with corporate control of the internet looming (slashdot story of 2 tier internet access)
I certainly don't appreciate the off-color and rancid humor bellowing around this thread like a plague.
While I understand the role of levity and humor when contemplating our armageddon, I think a moment of serious discussion is in order here, you slackers.
The real danger here, in my considered opinion, is what happens when the inevitable occurs? A solar powered hornet mates with a shark. I'm sure many of you don't see this, but let me paint the following highly likely scenario:
1. Beach. Picnic. Very little breeze, about noon. Watermelon, ice tea, and some sweets.
2. As the cloud drift overhead, and some gentle music plays, as the light dances on the water a solared powered hornet (SPH) glances towards the water
3. There, in the water, is a shark, flexing his shark muscles and doing shark stuff
4. The hornet, smitten, buzzes over to the shark and there is a long, deep look between the two.
5. After a lovemaking session worthy of any major blockbuster porn flick, they leave, never to see each other again.
Fast forward whatever the gestational period for hornets is and you've got the ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO.
Screw wikileaks, friends - this is the story of the century.
We are using another blackbaud product, financial edge. We have 2 different currencies, and the database isn't designed for this. massive choke. You actually have to instantiate a new database and keep them synced with each other.
This conversation seems to be cyclical. Let us remember that people play games for different reasons. We have Bartle Player Types and Nick Yee's player motivations to frame this conversation.
Some people like ultra-realism, some don't. Different strokes for different folks.
I'm a casual TF2 player, where I aim bazooka rockets at my feet so I can jump higher. I guess realism isn't that important to me. I'm also a text-based gamer, and I enjoy playing muds and mushes.
Zork.You know, like, the interactive fiction? When people used their FUCKING BRAINS to play computer games instead of this carpal-tunnel inducing twitch-fest that has made all our kids fat.
no.
I am NOT a pissed of gamer - I love d&d 4e, play it with my half-brothers, who love it. The game still holds tremendous amounts of fun for us. I played d&d since (literally) the first edition.
A boycott is a myopic, stupid choice. It's about gaming and rpg's which are hella-fun. A boycott just shoots us all in the foot, man.
You seem to be forgetting that people play games for different reasons! Just because you don't like doesn't mean that other don't.
I love the art style. I love the monsters. I love the locations. I love the "feel". Very well realized, but, um, activisionâ¦.
THIS ISNT ZORK!
This is somethingâ¦.awful. This is some horrible, Frankensteinian aberration. This is heresy. This is a gut-wrenching vomit soaked, "find out you have cancer" thing to do to the zork series. W.T.F. ?!
This is *gasp* web-based. You've made a pretty decent web-based game, and given it the spiritual name of the most important game to EVER COME TO COMPUTERS. Do you see where I'm coming from?
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! Kingdom of loathing is a great web based game, and in all honest more deserving of the title zork. Have you guys ever played nethack? Adventure? MUD II? Do you even KNOW who Richard Bartle is?
This is like a terrible thing to do with zork! Zork is a text-based game! text-based! that's why WE LOVED ZORK because we could imagine stuff - you know - WITH OUR IMAGINATION THINGY!!!!!
But text based games are alive and well - both multiplayer (in the MUD and MUSH community) and single player (in the interactive fiction community).
PS: whoever thought of the idea of buying coconuts for fucking action points needs to be eaten by a grue. you know about that, right?
I'm a middle school teacher and use games extensively to teach my kids. I have a blog where I've devoted a substantial amount of time and energy to help other teachers use games to help kids learn! check it out at wwww.mackenty.org. You may want to check the section on games in education here:
COTS games are an exceptionally powerful learning tool - providing we use them in a thoughtful and deliberate way. If we stick a kid in front of a computer for an hour, and expect them to learn something - they won't. But if we use solid insructional design, and good assessment, we can see learning happening.
Good topic.
I've been quite involved in games in education. I am an elementary school computer teacher, and use a variety of COTS games to support learning in my school. Here's the address to my blog where I've discussed this stuff:
The key is, of course, not to stick a kid in front of a computer game for an hour, and hope for a miracle. It won't happen.
In order for games to work in education we need active engagement, kids need to think about what they are doing. This requires a more sophisticated approach to teaching than the old "drill and kill". It also requires assessment that isn't a state-sponsored "fill in the oval" test.
I've written about this very thing, and I use several games in my classroom. There is fantastic potential for games in education.
I'm an elementary school teacher, and run an OS X lab with 30 flat panel iMacs and a nice G4 server. We also have a bevy of eMacs and older iMacs in the classroom.
We use the Apple lease program, which let's us (a very small school district in Massachusetts) buy new technology every 3 years.
The thing of it is, last night I bought 3 decent machines from Tiger Direct, and a switch for about $700.00 I'll install RH linux on them, and use them for all sorts of stuff (web server, DNS, DHCP, SQUID, etc...). I currently use an old linux box for SQUID in my lab.
problems with it == none !! Now that 10.3 is using LDAP to authenticate, I might fiddle with that in our lab.
As a public institution, I feel we have a fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers (really) and Linux has a place in our schools.
Apple has made Unix available to the masses, but the cost of entry is something to consider. *sigh*
I used to fret about Linux VS OS X and now I say how do they best work together.
oh, and by the way, if anyone has any suggestions for me, listen to this:
98% of my students have computers with internet access at home. Out of those 98%, 95% have windows machines. I have fought like hell to keep Macs in our school, but the onslaught of windows feels almost inevitable (my strategy so far, is to buy as much OS X software as I can, so replacing it with wondows stuff would be prohibitive). What is an effective way to promote the use of elseOS, when "Everyone else is using Windows" ?
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Fantastic news. The Central Party has decided they will put these in all classrooms because THAT'S a proven model for improving student learning that has never worked anywhere ever. It's nice to know the idiotic thinking that leads to wide-spread system-level roll-outs of technology that isn't understood, supported, or used isn't monopolized in the United States.
"never connects to the network to get an address."
wha huh?
I do not have any empirical data to back up this feeling, but considering the cozy and close relationship Apple has demonstrated with our friends in the NSA, this article strikes me as a dishonest attempt to fool us into thinking they actually care about privacy and security.
On a technical note, what does this do to ARP tables? How does that address resolution work?
A hard +1 on this. There is so much more to programming and compsci than php/mysql. What do you know about data types? Can you tick off some differences between PostgreSQL and mysql (especially the way MySQL deals with invalid data being inserted). What are two or three ways you can efficiently sort through a list?
Learn how to think like a programmer. For the love of god, learn to compile. Please don't pigeon-hole yourself into one or two toolsets. I speak from experience here, by the way. I'm prettydamngood with PHP/Mysql but wish I knew enough to transition to something a bit more modern.
I'm looking for the research and see.....none. The credentials of the researchers is impressive at first glance, but there is no research. This whole thing looks like a hypothesis without any real research. The entire premise is very interesting, and some of their ideas are worth PROVING. I can't wait to see the results.
In our image-conscious/obsessed US culture, white, shiny, and straight teeth play an important role in "beauty and handsome" in our culture.
I just can't help but wonder if there is a connection.
Hey Gents.
Director of technology in a big international school here. Several points need-a-clarification.
#1: so, so many parents are so, so different. We once held one of those "parent internet safety" workshops. We asked 15 mom's, "what would you do if you walked into your kids workspace and saw them quickly minimize a window". Guess what? We got 15 different answers, ranging from "death" to "ignore".
#2: We have several parents who simply need the technical skills to understand stuff like open dns and blocking at the router. We installed filtering software for them, and spend quite a bit of time helping them understand how to use these tools. see point #1, some parents need boku-blocking, other, none.
#3: the argument that parents should be watching their kids 24/7 to monitor and supervise their internet usage is bullshit. I've got a 2 year old, and I barely have time to keep my house clean. That being said, we use this safety PACT becuase many parents don't even know how to set rules with their kids about internet use in the house.
#4: we teach parents about safe search, and spend so much time talking about profiles, and helping parents talk to their kids about safe internet usage. This tool would be "another tool in the belt" for us folks in schools. Guys, parents aren't geeks, eh?
Hello slashdotters.
Are system administrators migrating away from Novell? We run Novell at our school, and I'll start looking for alternatives if I have to. The issue is our 2 system administrators have years of experience with Novell. It is a stable, reliable platform, and works well.
I am concerned about software updates, security fixes, things like that.
Seems pretty acceptable to me. As long as the attack is confirmed, and there aren't idiots at the helm. Didn't Israel do something like this? Pre-emptive assassinations or something that?
I wouldn't be surprised if big-iron IT departments didn't already do something like this. Not like it matters anyways, with corporate control of the internet looming (slashdot story of 2 tier internet access)
Jesus, I wish I was in the room.
Scientist 1: SIR! We've found it!
Scientist 2: long pause..."the head"....?
I certainly don't appreciate the off-color and rancid humor bellowing around this thread like a plague.
While I understand the role of levity and humor when contemplating our armageddon, I think a moment of serious discussion is in order here, you slackers.
The real danger here, in my considered opinion, is what happens when the inevitable occurs? A solar powered hornet mates with a shark. I'm sure many of you don't see this, but let me paint the following highly likely scenario:
1. Beach. Picnic. Very little breeze, about noon. Watermelon, ice tea, and some sweets.
2. As the cloud drift overhead, and some gentle music plays, as the light dances on the water a solared powered hornet (SPH) glances towards the water
3. There, in the water, is a shark, flexing his shark muscles and doing shark stuff
4. The hornet, smitten, buzzes over to the shark and there is a long, deep look between the two.
5. After a lovemaking session worthy of any major blockbuster porn flick, they leave, never to see each other again.
Fast forward whatever the gestational period for hornets is and you've got the ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO.
Screw wikileaks, friends - this is the story of the century.
Hey.
We are using another blackbaud product, financial edge. We have 2 different currencies, and the database isn't designed for this. massive choke. You actually have to instantiate a new database and keep them synced with each other.
I for one, welcome our new petabyteFS
This conversation seems to be cyclical. Let us remember that people play games for different reasons. We have Bartle Player Types and Nick Yee's player motivations to frame this conversation. Some people like ultra-realism, some don't. Different strokes for different folks. I'm a casual TF2 player, where I aim bazooka rockets at my feet so I can jump higher. I guess realism isn't that important to me. I'm also a text-based gamer, and I enjoy playing muds and mushes.
I was shocked this happened. I use a Mac, so it didn't catch me - but I'd like to learn how this happened.
Jesus Christ.
Zork.You know, like, the interactive fiction? When people used their FUCKING BRAINS to play computer games instead of this carpal-tunnel inducing twitch-fest that has made all our kids fat.
Well, or maybe Team Fortress 2
I thought the entire internet unanimously agreed to boycott gamespot for firing editors because they didn't write good reviews for a big advertiser?
Did that all get cleared up?
no. I am NOT a pissed of gamer - I love d&d 4e, play it with my half-brothers, who love it. The game still holds tremendous amounts of fun for us. I played d&d since (literally) the first edition.
A boycott is a myopic, stupid choice. It's about gaming and rpg's which are hella-fun. A boycott just shoots us all in the foot, man.
You seem to be forgetting that people play games for different reasons! Just because you don't like doesn't mean that other don't.
I am aware of the graphical zorks - and they all sucked.
This latest abhorrent sin against humanity really pushed me over the edge.
I mean, comeon! WEB BASED, ACTION POINT ZORK?!
Sweet quivering Jesus. This get's my Irish up.
bad zork trumps Xanax dose.
I love the art style. I love the monsters. I love the locations. I love the "feel". Very well realized, but, um, activisionâ¦. THIS ISNT ZORK! This is somethingâ¦.awful. This is some horrible, Frankensteinian aberration. This is heresy. This is a gut-wrenching vomit soaked, "find out you have cancer" thing to do to the zork series. W.T.F. ?!
This is *gasp* web-based. You've made a pretty decent web-based game, and given it the spiritual name of the most important game to EVER COME TO COMPUTERS. Do you see where I'm coming from?
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! Kingdom of loathing is a great web based game, and in all honest more deserving of the title zork. Have you guys ever played nethack? Adventure? MUD II? Do you even KNOW who Richard Bartle is?
This is like a terrible thing to do with zork! Zork is a text-based game! text-based! that's why WE LOVED ZORK because we could imagine stuff - you know - WITH OUR IMAGINATION THINGY!!!!!
But text based games are alive and well - both multiplayer (in the MUD and MUSH community) and single player (in the interactive fiction community).
PS: whoever thought of the idea of buying coconuts for fucking action points needs to be eaten by a grue. you know about that, right?
I'm reviewing a Wii for a magazine, and after 3 hours of bowling, tennis and baseball, my arms and back are killing me!
I'm a middle school teacher and use games extensively to teach my kids. I have a blog where I've devoted a substantial amount of time and energy to help other teachers use games to help kids learn! check it out at wwww.mackenty.org. You may want to check the section on games in education here:
k
http://www.mackenty.org/index.php/learn/games_wor
http://www.mackenty.org/index.php/learn/teachers
COTS games are an exceptionally powerful learning tool - providing we use them in a thoughtful and deliberate way. If we stick a kid in front of a computer for an hour, and expect them to learn something - they won't. But if we use solid insructional design, and good assessment, we can see learning happening. Good topic.
I've been quite involved in games in education. I am an elementary school computer teacher, and use a variety of COTS games to support learning in my school. Here's the address to my blog where I've discussed this stuff:
k
http://www.mackenty.org/index.php/learn/games_wor
The key is, of course, not to stick a kid in front of a computer game for an hour, and hope for a miracle. It won't happen.
In order for games to work in education we need active engagement, kids need to think about what they are doing. This requires a more sophisticated approach to teaching than the old "drill and kill". It also requires assessment that isn't a state-sponsored "fill in the oval" test.
I've written about this very thing, and I use several games in my classroom. There is fantastic potential for games in education.
I'm an elementary school teacher, and run an OS X lab with 30 flat panel iMacs and a nice G4 server. We also have a bevy of eMacs and older iMacs in the classroom.
We use the Apple lease program, which let's us (a very small school district in Massachusetts) buy new technology every 3 years.
The thing of it is, last night I bought 3 decent machines from Tiger Direct, and a switch for about $700.00 I'll install RH linux on them, and use them for all sorts of stuff (web server, DNS, DHCP, SQUID, etc...). I currently use an old linux box for SQUID in my lab. problems with it == none !! Now that 10.3 is using LDAP to authenticate, I might fiddle with that in our lab.
As a public institution, I feel we have a fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers (really) and Linux has a place in our schools.
Apple has made Unix available to the masses, but the cost of entry is something to consider. *sigh*
I used to fret about Linux VS OS X and now I say how do they best work together.
oh, and by the way, if anyone has any suggestions for me, listen to this:
98% of my students have computers with internet access at home. Out of those 98%, 95% have windows machines. I have fought like hell to keep Macs in our school, but the onslaught of windows feels almost inevitable (my strategy so far, is to buy as much OS X software as I can, so replacing it with wondows stuff would be prohibitive). What is an effective way to promote the use of elseOS, when "Everyone else is using Windows" ?