Not really. Around here, school districts have to get their constituents to pass budget override bonds at election-time in order to get the money to do this sort of thing. Many have succeeded, but several have failed.
What we're seeing is a lack of killer-application to justify these tablet devices over traditional computers. We're not seeing textbooks that are cached in their entirety on the devices and can function without an Internet connection, we're not seeing educational software that gives the students extra assistance or heuristically learns the students' weaknesses to address them. We're seeing the pencil and paper skills simply be transferred to a much more expensive medium with little tangible benefit and a lot of opportunity for loss.
An iPad is a more power computer than any I had access to all through school. It's also a more capable general-purpose computer than those Apple II-series computers and early MacOS 6/7/8 machines that we had use of, and can do more than those MS-DOS-based computers that we had.
It's all about the software and the peripherals. And the kids appear to have figured out the software part on their own, even though the intent was that they couldn't, let alone wouldn't.
The way it's currently being followed? Not so much.
That's the point though, its interpretation is actually what matters. The document itself is no more valid than someone's New Years Resolutions if it's not interpreted and adhered to.
I was more thinking the Cowboy Bebop episode, "Sympathy for the Devil," where an immortal child uses a comatose adult human as his beard to hide his immortality. It just happens that the comatose adult is a friend of one of the main characters so the kid's plot unravels.
The comatose adult would be Dr. Hawking. The immortal child would be the AI.
Well, Zenith did used to advertise that all of their electronics were direct point-to-point wired, no printed circuit boards. Perhaps that "hair" is just more of that kind of design.
If the words laboriously coming out of the speakerbox seem to fit the facial expression of the man, then it could be that the AI has figured out how to answer for whatever attempt a communication the man tries.
Maybe when the man was taken up into the Vomit Comet by Dr. Peter Diamandis and the X-Prize Foundation, he was happy because he was hoping that an accident would finally put him out of his misery...
It's not making things that puts one on top, it's designing things. It just happens that it's a lot easier to protect the things that one designs when one makes them in buildings owned by the same company, in the same country as one resides.
The biggest problem with offshoring to China is a lack of respect for intellectual property laws. Chinese entities are able and willing to copy designs that are protected in much of the rest of the world, and with a billion consumers they have enough of a market that those copied products never need to be exported for the entities to be profitable. That also gives them experience with our designs and supporting those designs, so down the road when they do decide to design for themselves they have learned.
Do you make backups? Do your family members make backups? Do your friends make backups?
Where do you store your backups? On the cloud, aka, someone else's computer? On media at your home? On media at someone else's home? On media in a safe deposit box at a bank? What kind of media, how shelf-stable is it for years on end, and how do you manage your backups so that you can do a full restoration of the data?
My point is that even large corporations with budgets for their data backups struggle with this. We're not talking a few hundred megabytes on a Travan cart or even a burned DVD, the amount of data people have to back-up far exceeds most practical backup solutions available to them.
...Stephen Hawking is not who he claims to be through the electronic speaker box?
Hear me out... We haven't heard him speak and he has been generally unable to move since his disease reached an advanced stage in the eighties. All we know has come through a very specialized, very expensive computer that's been with him 24 hours a day.
What if Stephen Hawking, the man, is literally being used as a meat puppet for an AI that's running on the computer in the chair that has been controlling physics research for nearly 30 years? The man might be a shell of an individual, trapped in his own personal hell, being fed when the AI decides, being put to rest when the AI decides, being paraded around in public when the AI decides, all while the AI continues to stream physics snippets to an unknowing scientific community to further its own ends, rather than to further ours.
This latest statement could be the Hawking-AI's attempt a self-defense, to get us to not bring up our own AI that might discover it and reveal it or challenge it. We need to be very wary of how we proceed.
Only do it if YOU love it, because that's the only reward you'll ever get
Indeed, Linux and BSD took-off in the nineties not because they were superior to commercial UNIX, but because they were free. A lot of open source enthusiasts don't understand that open source is popular in some circles because it's more cost-effective.
Microsoft was kind of late to the game, not even really having good TCP/IP socket services without relying on third-party applications like Trumpet Winsock until Windows 95 came out. Even then, Microsoft was late to the game with web server software too, and that meant expensive commercial UNIX on expensive, proprietary hardware, or a free UNIX or UNIX-like (ie Linux) on commodity hardware that would normally have run a desktop operating system. Microsoft spent almost twenty years struggling with GUI OS stability, preventing them from becoming king of network services, though of late they have gotten better. Now the pretty GUI and web tools are causing new sysadmins to scorn at the command line. Open Source is becoming less inexpensive in those areas when there are more people that can click checkboxes than can rock vi.
Don't get me wrong, I run Linux on my desktop at work even though it's predominately a Microsoft shop and even though doing Linux server administration is only a small portion of my job, but I'm resigned to the fact that my enthusiasm is not shared by others and as commercial software catches up with free software's functionality and stability I can't really argue in favor of it when the corporate mindset is to buy something and buy support for it too.
Access to re-download if the original download is lost, and they change their mind about not allowing re-downloads, like their license agreement with the artist or production company ends or changes.
For all intents and purposes, any time that law enforcement detains someone and doesn't allow them to leave, but doesn't have probable cause to search or to otherwise do more, it's a Terry Stop. Nearly all traffic stops are Terry Stops, as an example.
Countries generally aren't required to take anyone that they don't want to. Canada has had its share of incidents from Americans that weren't even in trouble. Writer John Green apparently got turned away at the border when he was a teenager because he couldn't demonstrate at the time that he had enough money with him to make the trip, and ever since then he's had border-crossing headaches with Canada. Even after becoming a successful writer whose books have been turned into movies.
So this will be very effective convincing those people who calmly consider the long-term consequences of their actions while drunk.
You know, when I started drinking I realized that there would be the potential for coming up with good ideas that might not actually turn out to be good ideas. I decided that if I came up with what seemed like a good idea while drunk, that if it's REALLY good I should write it down and revisit it later while sober, to make sure that it actually was a good idea. I figure this way if I do come up with any genuinely good ones I can then carry them out when I'm of sound mind and body.
I came up with this fifteen years ago. So far I haven't written down any ideas.
If It had been that way from the start then perhaps I would have considered using them. Thing of it is though, if they change their mind I cannot stop them from denying me access in the future.
XKCD had a comic about playing kerbal space program and using the sun to slingshot a probe with a gravity-assist. It would have fried the probe. I expect that a planet in the galactic core would be equally fried.
That's a bad analogy. Auto parts, by and large, have always been proprietary.
I don't know how I feel about this case. I avoided iTunes because I didn't like the two-faced approach of buying a license so you don't own the music, but if the device dies, you bought a file, we aren't obligated to let you retrieve the content that you have a license for.
That one little hitch makes me like physical media better, as the physical media is the proof-of-license and the content in one package that can't be as-easily revoked.
My knee-jerk reaction is to say, "what does the modern equivalent of publishing arrestee names in the newspaper have to do with nerdy or geeky news or discussion?"
You're given an IP and the number of hosts on its network. You need to find the network and the broadcast. Once one has an answer, one can check one's work to see if it was correct.
To get hired in such an organization without starting out at the helpdesk or as a monkey with a screwdriver you'll need to have your certifications. I'm not talking A+ either, I'm talking MCP/MCSE/CCNA type certs.
It sucks, but certifications are a way of demonstrating that you have enough commitment to the field to get them.
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Not really. Around here, school districts have to get their constituents to pass budget override bonds at election-time in order to get the money to do this sort of thing. Many have succeeded, but several have failed.
What we're seeing is a lack of killer-application to justify these tablet devices over traditional computers. We're not seeing textbooks that are cached in their entirety on the devices and can function without an Internet connection, we're not seeing educational software that gives the students extra assistance or heuristically learns the students' weaknesses to address them. We're seeing the pencil and paper skills simply be transferred to a much more expensive medium with little tangible benefit and a lot of opportunity for loss.
An iPad is a more power computer than any I had access to all through school. It's also a more capable general-purpose computer than those Apple II-series computers and early MacOS 6/7/8 machines that we had use of, and can do more than those MS-DOS-based computers that we had.
It's all about the software and the peripherals. And the kids appear to have figured out the software part on their own, even though the intent was that they couldn't, let alone wouldn't.
That's the point though, its interpretation is actually what matters. The document itself is no more valid than someone's New Years Resolutions if it's not interpreted and adhered to.
I was more thinking the Cowboy Bebop episode, "Sympathy for the Devil," where an immortal child uses a comatose adult human as his beard to hide his immortality. It just happens that the comatose adult is a friend of one of the main characters so the kid's plot unravels.
The comatose adult would be Dr. Hawking. The immortal child would be the AI.
Well, Zenith did used to advertise that all of their electronics were direct point-to-point wired, no printed circuit boards. Perhaps that "hair" is just more of that kind of design.
No you're right.
uh, you develop the AI for the purposes of making money for you? It offers to make even more money if it gets incremental extra connectivity?
If the words laboriously coming out of the speakerbox seem to fit the facial expression of the man, then it could be that the AI has figured out how to answer for whatever attempt a communication the man tries.
Maybe when the man was taken up into the Vomit Comet by Dr. Peter Diamandis and the X-Prize Foundation, he was happy because he was hoping that an accident would finally put him out of his misery...
It's not making things that puts one on top, it's designing things. It just happens that it's a lot easier to protect the things that one designs when one makes them in buildings owned by the same company, in the same country as one resides.
The biggest problem with offshoring to China is a lack of respect for intellectual property laws. Chinese entities are able and willing to copy designs that are protected in much of the rest of the world, and with a billion consumers they have enough of a market that those copied products never need to be exported for the entities to be profitable. That also gives them experience with our designs and supporting those designs, so down the road when they do decide to design for themselves they have learned.
Do you make backups? Do your family members make backups? Do your friends make backups?
Where do you store your backups? On the cloud, aka, someone else's computer? On media at your home? On media at someone else's home? On media in a safe deposit box at a bank? What kind of media, how shelf-stable is it for years on end, and how do you manage your backups so that you can do a full restoration of the data?
My point is that even large corporations with budgets for their data backups struggle with this. We're not talking a few hundred megabytes on a Travan cart or even a burned DVD, the amount of data people have to back-up far exceeds most practical backup solutions available to them.
...Stephen Hawking is not who he claims to be through the electronic speaker box?
Hear me out... We haven't heard him speak and he has been generally unable to move since his disease reached an advanced stage in the eighties. All we know has come through a very specialized, very expensive computer that's been with him 24 hours a day.
What if Stephen Hawking, the man, is literally being used as a meat puppet for an AI that's running on the computer in the chair that has been controlling physics research for nearly 30 years? The man might be a shell of an individual, trapped in his own personal hell, being fed when the AI decides, being put to rest when the AI decides, being paraded around in public when the AI decides, all while the AI continues to stream physics snippets to an unknowing scientific community to further its own ends, rather than to further ours.
This latest statement could be the Hawking-AI's attempt a self-defense, to get us to not bring up our own AI that might discover it and reveal it or challenge it. We need to be very wary of how we proceed.
I donno, lately I'm finding more tech news and geek/fandom interests by browsing reddit/all than I find on Slashdot.
Indeed, Linux and BSD took-off in the nineties not because they were superior to commercial UNIX, but because they were free. A lot of open source enthusiasts don't understand that open source is popular in some circles because it's more cost-effective.
Microsoft was kind of late to the game, not even really having good TCP/IP socket services without relying on third-party applications like Trumpet Winsock until Windows 95 came out. Even then, Microsoft was late to the game with web server software too, and that meant expensive commercial UNIX on expensive, proprietary hardware, or a free UNIX or UNIX-like (ie Linux) on commodity hardware that would normally have run a desktop operating system. Microsoft spent almost twenty years struggling with GUI OS stability, preventing them from becoming king of network services, though of late they have gotten better. Now the pretty GUI and web tools are causing new sysadmins to scorn at the command line. Open Source is becoming less inexpensive in those areas when there are more people that can click checkboxes than can rock vi.
Don't get me wrong, I run Linux on my desktop at work even though it's predominately a Microsoft shop and even though doing Linux server administration is only a small portion of my job, but I'm resigned to the fact that my enthusiasm is not shared by others and as commercial software catches up with free software's functionality and stability I can't really argue in favor of it when the corporate mindset is to buy something and buy support for it too.
If your disk crashes, or your music player is lost, then you now don't have that copy anymore.
Access to re-download if the original download is lost, and they change their mind about not allowing re-downloads, like their license agreement with the artist or production company ends or changes.
Yes.
For all intents and purposes, any time that law enforcement detains someone and doesn't allow them to leave, but doesn't have probable cause to search or to otherwise do more, it's a Terry Stop. Nearly all traffic stops are Terry Stops, as an example.
Did he actually in-word arrest you, or did he just detain you for the duration of the Terry Stop?
Countries generally aren't required to take anyone that they don't want to. Canada has had its share of incidents from Americans that weren't even in trouble. Writer John Green apparently got turned away at the border when he was a teenager because he couldn't demonstrate at the time that he had enough money with him to make the trip, and ever since then he's had border-crossing headaches with Canada. Even after becoming a successful writer whose books have been turned into movies.
You know, when I started drinking I realized that there would be the potential for coming up with good ideas that might not actually turn out to be good ideas. I decided that if I came up with what seemed like a good idea while drunk, that if it's REALLY good I should write it down and revisit it later while sober, to make sure that it actually was a good idea. I figure this way if I do come up with any genuinely good ones I can then carry them out when I'm of sound mind and body.
I came up with this fifteen years ago. So far I haven't written down any ideas.
If It had been that way from the start then perhaps I would have considered using them. Thing of it is though, if they change their mind I cannot stop them from denying me access in the future.
XKCD had a comic about playing kerbal space program and using the sun to slingshot a probe with a gravity-assist. It would have fried the probe. I expect that a planet in the galactic core would be equally fried.
That's a bad analogy. Auto parts, by and large, have always been proprietary.
I don't know how I feel about this case. I avoided iTunes because I didn't like the two-faced approach of buying a license so you don't own the music, but if the device dies, you bought a file, we aren't obligated to let you retrieve the content that you have a license for.
That one little hitch makes me like physical media better, as the physical media is the proof-of-license and the content in one package that can't be as-easily revoked.
My knee-jerk reaction is to say, "what does the modern equivalent of publishing arrestee names in the newspaper have to do with nerdy or geeky news or discussion?"
You're given an IP and the number of hosts on its network. You need to find the network and the broadcast. Once one has an answer, one can check one's work to see if it was correct.
To get hired in such an organization without starting out at the helpdesk or as a monkey with a screwdriver you'll need to have your certifications. I'm not talking A+ either, I'm talking MCP/MCSE/CCNA type certs.
It sucks, but certifications are a way of demonstrating that you have enough commitment to the field to get them.