I agree with you in part. Every class has easier material as well as review of topics thought to have been learned elsewhere. Those should be able to be on canned video. But I think once you get to the main content of the class there is something to be said for being able to interrupt the professor to ask questions or clarify a point. Writing them down while watching a video isn't the same. Not to mention that sometimes other students will ask something you had not considered. What I do think would be beneficial is making the lecture (with interaction) available online afterwards for future review.
Of course, none of this is really relevant to Eco 101.
I think a bigger disservice is in fact focusing on code. Instead focus on what are the elements that make a good game? What makes for a good user interface? Physics (ie, reality) based or fantasy based and what are the difficulties of both? It is always better to think first (a lot) on what it is you want to accomplish than to jump in and start coding.
Why not just make it correct "Are Americans Turning Away From Big Government?"
That is the real issue. Post WWII the government wanted control over science largely to accelerate certain military objectives. They ended up making all science a pig feeding at the government trough. In addition, more people are turning from the notion that government can solve all problems - and that is true regardless of the input being from "science" or anyone else.
er.. buy a used unlocked smartphone and only use it on wifi. I have a tmob mytouch 3g slide which functions mostly well (except the camera got stuck in macro mode) and I only use it over wifi and as a phone. My phone "plan" is a pay as you go but I see no reason why you can't just take the sim from your existing phone. My prior phone was all I really needed (a Moto F3 indestructible) but I needed something to use for Android devel and this came cheap.
All that you have written are symptoms of the problem today. People wish to confer, by law, "rights" to which they are not entitled from first principles. As I noted, where does it end? May I have the right to a tidy bedroom and a clean bathroom because I find it a little too troublesome to do myself? Do I have a right to 6 weeks vacation because work stresses me out?
Wow... well I'll wait for the day when somebody fucks up large at your firm because you own your IT bitch.
Have you stopped to consider that the IT guy also has fiduciary responsibilities? Those precious products you design can be stolen or othewise compromised by a security breach. What about corporate data? I could go on but suffice it to say that the IT 'guy' is responsible for more than just letting you play with the toys you want to play with.
Having internet access is decidedly not a human right. What is next, everybody has the "right" to have a Starbucks on their block thus it must be provided?
The only rights you have are those which are not provided to you or for you by someone else.. life, liberty and your pursuit of happiness.
I think Russia would be the one. China I do not think would be up to the task - they've come a long way but they still lag in things military. Russia on the other hand lags mostly for lack of money.
There is probably something to be said for that but why not just do a pre-print and not fan the flames? It would satisfy the gossips in the HEP community and if the mainstream press wanted to pick up on the chatter they could.
I have a relatively good understanding of statistics. The fact is that both results are marginal at best and barely anything at worst so there is little to be gained by combining the data from the various channels and spitting out a new number to try to justify your press conference.
A 4 sigma result would be worthy of a presser. This result is worthy of an arXiv preprint and no more were it not for the media frenzy around Higgs. I'm not even sure they would have done a preprint until next year. You may or may not realize that the HEP scientific process is not very open for a good reason - it is damn difficult to be sure what you think you are seeing is in fact real. This is why significant collaboration publications go through multiple inhouse peer reviews before being 'blessed'. All early release does is waste a lot of peoples time debating whats right/wrong with the results and what explains/doesn't explain the results - all of which may vanish six months later with more data. It is a waste of time better spent on other things. As to the public, what is really gained by saying 'well, we might have seen something but can't be sure for a while yet'? Public interest or not, the LHC has been built and the cost is sunk. Perhaps unlike other scientific fields where partial results might lead to incremental understanding or the partial results themself be significantly unexpected (and thus perhaps news worthy), a search for a particle you expect to find really is not meaningful until you actually can say "we've found it for sure".
Perhaps someone with a better memory and better yet, personal involvement, can recount what FNAL did with the top circa 1995. I do not recall D0 and CDF either a) giving a presser like this or b) publishing low sigma results prior to the official discovery papers being released. And finding the top as a big deal back then and like the Higgs, was expected to be found.
THey should not have held a presser at this point as what they had really wasn't very much at all. Going from memory I think it was 3.6 sigma at Atlas and 2.6 at CMS but when including LEE the Atlas result dropped significantly, something like 1.9 or 2.2? And CMS dropped as well. As DO, CDF and others can attest, 3 and even 4 sigma bumps can and do vanish under increased statistics. And while the p figures for Atlas and CMS were good, I just do not buy into combining the results of weak sigma events to claim something more significant. To me, this "announcement" was done purely for political reasons and not for scientific ones.
Is there any fact in this "story" at all? Who is unhappy? And what qualifies as "many" ? Tens of thousands could be unhappy and that would likely still be a very small % of overall sales. Does that mean many are unhappy? Or instead that almost everyone is happy or satisfied with their purchase? This piece is nothing more than heresay without real figures.
This whole piece reads more like sorting the reviews on a Newegg product from worst to best - when there are 20 one stars and 500 5 stars.
COBOL is probably still the largest installed codebase and remains the behind the scenes 'what makes business go' Mock if you want but can you say any of the modern darling languages will have major league applications still running 30 or 40 years from now? People also mock Fortran, yet it still rocks and has been updated to include many 'modern' features and were it not for crowd bias would be a great choice for many applications. Ref: here
I ran this "test" three times in succession. First go it showed sites which yes I might have been to though one, Dogster I was fairly certain I had not. I then clicked it again and this time it came up with almost every site in green. Running a third time gave the same results as the first attempt.
You are not compelled to advertise on the internet. You are not compelled to use Google to advertise on the internet. There are alternatives. And there is NOTHING to stop another company from taking what ever share Google has today. That Google's original model was selling ads that appear with search results and you are promoting Bing as a viable alternative in search, then there is nothing to stop Bing from becoming a viable alternative in serving internet ads. And please stop being a grammar nazi that was old on Usenet in 1995.
How many millions of people watch tv every day? read news papers? drive by billboards? It is you who is fucking stupid. And there is no AdBlock Plus for TV, radio, newspapers or billboards. And google is not the only way to serve ads on the internet.
And whom is compelling those who wish to advertise to use Google? There are other other ad services available which provide the same function. There still do exist newspapers, tv, radio and billboards. This table may help you out
And exactly what is wrong with promoting your other products? Think about wtf you just said. So if you start a company and it provides a product or service which does incredibly well, so well that it is the defacto choice, then you should not market your other products to your customers? You are not forced to buy them. You are not even forced to buy or use the original product.
And given that for the end user that a) Google searches are free (as are youtube, gmail, etc) and b) there are many competitors (Facebook, Bing, Vimeo, etc) your rant is completely off base and is nothing more than socialist propoganda. Imagine 10 years ago saying to the founders of Google "hey don't get real big and popular or you won't be able to sell other things you think of" what do you think they would do? Do you think you would have the myriad of free services offered by Google today? Or would they have just packed up shop, hoping to sell their idea to some vc or patent troll?
Unfortunately it seems that what was once "high end" eventually filters down to the low/mid end too thus sticking the rest of us with far higher power needs than we really want. I'm not begrudging somebody who is all ok with the higher operational cost (and perhaps reduced heating bill) but when it leaves me with the choice of a middling on motherboard solution or paying up, I'm not happy.
Its pretty difficult to get precise power figures on graphics cards - reviews always rate against 'total system' but never give us for reference the system power use without the card (or perhaps an onboard video solution). In any event, all modern cards are total power pigs. At a time where Intel and AMD try are trying very hard to reduce cpu power consumption, graphics cards are using up many multiples of those savings. I'm not sure where 'it has a wall outlet plug' gave these card and gpu producers license to subsidize the power companies.
It should be possible (hmmm... maybe I should patent this?) to locally cache all (or many) of the ads the upstream provider wants you to display. Likewise analytics on those ad views/page impressions can be batched back periodically. Website specific analytics can be hosted locally. As to the social media - is there really a need to provide a facebook login? or a facebook tracker? I suppose some will justify it and perhaps I would have less of any issue (ignoring privacy concerns) if I didn't see so many pages getting stuck while loading facebook.com stuff.
If my website doesn't even work well on a desktop pc it really doesn't matter if it scales up down or sideways. While those points are important they really don't matter if your users leave before the pages are done loading.
how about no thanks to anymore manned missions sponsored by NASA? WTF is being accomplished by the tens of billions they plan to spend? Jack. If there is something for "man" to do in space then the private sector will figure it out faster and cheaper. If NASA must exist, keep it to unmanned science missions, something they have at least shown some degree of competency with a relatively low budget.
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I'm on 12 already.. get off the short bus people!
I agree with you in part. Every class has easier material as well as review of topics thought to have been learned elsewhere. Those should be able to be on canned video. But I think once you get to the main content of the class there is something to be said for being able to interrupt the professor to ask questions or clarify a point. Writing them down while watching a video isn't the same. Not to mention that sometimes other students will ask something you had not considered. What I do think would be beneficial is making the lecture (with interaction) available online afterwards for future review.
Of course, none of this is really relevant to Eco 101.
THey already have that... its call a TA
I think a bigger disservice is in fact focusing on code. Instead focus on what are the elements that make a good game? What makes for a good user interface? Physics (ie, reality) based or fantasy based and what are the difficulties of both? It is always better to think first (a lot) on what it is you want to accomplish than to jump in and start coding.
Why not just make it correct "Are Americans Turning Away From Big Government?"
That is the real issue. Post WWII the government wanted control over science largely to accelerate certain military objectives. They ended up making all science a pig feeding at the government trough. In addition, more people are turning from the notion that government can solve all problems - and that is true regardless of the input being from "science" or anyone else.
er.. buy a used unlocked smartphone and only use it on wifi. I have a tmob mytouch 3g slide which functions mostly well (except the camera got stuck in macro mode) and I only use it over wifi and as a phone. My phone "plan" is a pay as you go but I see no reason why you can't just take the sim from your existing phone. My prior phone was all I really needed (a Moto F3 indestructible) but I needed something to use for Android devel and this came cheap.
All that you have written are symptoms of the problem today. People wish to confer, by law, "rights" to which they are not entitled from first principles. As I noted, where does it end? May I have the right to a tidy bedroom and a clean bathroom because I find it a little too troublesome to do myself? Do I have a right to 6 weeks vacation because work stresses me out?
Wow... well I'll wait for the day when somebody fucks up large at your firm because you own your IT bitch.
Have you stopped to consider that the IT guy also has fiduciary responsibilities? Those precious products you design can be stolen or othewise compromised by a security breach. What about corporate data? I could go on but suffice it to say that the IT 'guy' is responsible for more than just letting you play with the toys you want to play with.
Having internet access is decidedly not a human right. What is next, everybody has the "right" to have a Starbucks on their block thus it must be provided?
The only rights you have are those which are not provided to you or for you by someone else .. life, liberty and your pursuit of happiness.
I think Russia would be the one. China I do not think would be up to the task - they've come a long way but they still lag in things military. Russia on the other hand lags mostly for lack of money.
There is probably something to be said for that but why not just do a pre-print and not fan the flames? It would satisfy the gossips in the HEP community and if the mainstream press wanted to pick up on the chatter they could.
I have a relatively good understanding of statistics. The fact is that both results are marginal at best and barely anything at worst so there is little to be gained by combining the data from the various channels and spitting out a new number to try to justify your press conference.
A 4 sigma result would be worthy of a presser. This result is worthy of an arXiv preprint and no more were it not for the media frenzy around Higgs. I'm not even sure they would have done a preprint until next year. You may or may not realize that the HEP scientific process is not very open for a good reason - it is damn difficult to be sure what you think you are seeing is in fact real. This is why significant collaboration publications go through multiple inhouse peer reviews before being 'blessed'. All early release does is waste a lot of peoples time debating whats right/wrong with the results and what explains/doesn't explain the results - all of which may vanish six months later with more data. It is a waste of time better spent on other things. As to the public, what is really gained by saying 'well, we might have seen something but can't be sure for a while yet'? Public interest or not, the LHC has been built and the cost is sunk. Perhaps unlike other scientific fields where partial results might lead to incremental understanding or the partial results themself be significantly unexpected (and thus perhaps news worthy), a search for a particle you expect to find really is not meaningful until you actually can say "we've found it for sure".
Perhaps someone with a better memory and better yet, personal involvement, can recount what FNAL did with the top circa 1995. I do not recall D0 and CDF either a) giving a presser like this or b) publishing low sigma results prior to the official discovery papers being released. And finding the top as a big deal back then and like the Higgs, was expected to be found.
THey should not have held a presser at this point as what they had really wasn't very much at all. Going from memory I think it was 3.6 sigma at Atlas and 2.6 at CMS but when including LEE the Atlas result dropped significantly, something like 1.9 or 2.2? And CMS dropped as well. As DO, CDF and others can attest, 3 and even 4 sigma bumps can and do vanish under increased statistics. And while the p figures for Atlas and CMS were good, I just do not buy into combining the results of weak sigma events to claim something more significant. To me, this "announcement" was done purely for political reasons and not for scientific ones.
Is there any fact in this "story" at all? Who is unhappy? And what qualifies as "many" ? Tens of thousands could be unhappy and that would likely still be a very small % of overall sales. Does that mean many are unhappy? Or instead that almost everyone is happy or satisfied with their purchase? This piece is nothing more than heresay without real figures.
This whole piece reads more like sorting the reviews on a Newegg product from worst to best - when there are 20 one stars and 500 5 stars.
COBOL is probably still the largest installed codebase and remains the behind the scenes 'what makes business go' Mock if you want but can you say any of the modern darling languages will have major league applications still running 30 or 40 years from now? People also mock Fortran, yet it still rocks and has been updated to include many 'modern' features and were it not for crowd bias would be a great choice for many applications.
Ref: here
I ran this "test" three times in succession. First go it showed sites which yes I might have been to though one, Dogster I was fairly certain I had not. I then clicked it again and this time it came up with almost every site in green. Running a third time gave the same results as the first attempt.
You are not compelled to advertise on the internet. You are not compelled to use Google to advertise on the internet. There are alternatives. And there is NOTHING to stop another company from taking what ever share Google has today. That Google's original model was selling ads that appear with search results and you are promoting Bing as a viable alternative in search, then there is nothing to stop Bing from becoming a viable alternative in serving internet ads. And please stop being a grammar nazi that was old on Usenet in 1995.
How many millions of people watch tv every day? read news papers? drive by billboards? It is you who is fucking stupid. And there is no AdBlock Plus for TV, radio, newspapers or billboards. And google is not the only way to serve ads on the internet.
And whom is compelling those who wish to advertise to use Google? There are other other ad services available which provide the same function. There still do exist newspapers, tv, radio and billboards. This table may help you out
And exactly what is wrong with promoting your other products? Think about wtf you just said. So if you start a company and it provides a product or service which does incredibly well, so well that it is the defacto choice, then you should not market your other products to your customers? You are not forced to buy them. You are not even forced to buy or use the original product.
And given that for the end user that a) Google searches are free (as are youtube, gmail, etc) and b) there are many competitors (Facebook, Bing, Vimeo, etc) your rant is completely off base and is nothing more than socialist propoganda. Imagine 10 years ago saying to the founders of Google "hey don't get real big and popular or you won't be able to sell other things you think of" what do you think they would do? Do you think you would have the myriad of free services offered by Google today? Or would they have just packed up shop, hoping to sell their idea to some vc or patent troll?
Unfortunately it seems that what was once "high end" eventually filters down to the low/mid end too thus sticking the rest of us with far higher power needs than we really want. I'm not begrudging somebody who is all ok with the higher operational cost (and perhaps reduced heating bill) but when it leaves me with the choice of a middling on motherboard solution or paying up, I'm not happy.
Its pretty difficult to get precise power figures on graphics cards - reviews always rate against 'total system' but never give us for reference the system power use without the card (or perhaps an onboard video solution). In any event, all modern cards are total power pigs. At a time where Intel and AMD try are trying very hard to reduce cpu power consumption, graphics cards are using up many multiples of those savings. I'm not sure where 'it has a wall outlet plug' gave these card and gpu producers license to subsidize the power companies.
It should be possible (hmmm... maybe I should patent this?) to locally cache all (or many) of the ads the upstream provider wants you to display. Likewise analytics on those ad views/page impressions can be batched back periodically. Website specific analytics can be hosted locally. As to the social media - is there really a need to provide a facebook login? or a facebook tracker? I suppose some will justify it and perhaps I would have less of any issue (ignoring privacy concerns) if I didn't see so many pages getting stuck while loading facebook.com stuff.
If my website doesn't even work well on a desktop pc it really doesn't matter if it scales up down or sideways. While those points are important they really don't matter if your users leave before the pages are done loading.
1- do not serve ads from remote servers
2- do not associate with external sites like facebook, etc
3- do not use web bugs, beacons or other trackers
Those three things probably account for 99.9% of the sloth in today's internet
how about no thanks to anymore manned missions sponsored by NASA? WTF is being accomplished by the tens of billions they plan to spend? Jack. If there is something for "man" to do in space then the private sector will figure it out faster and cheaper. If NASA must exist, keep it to unmanned science missions, something they have at least shown some degree of competency with a relatively low budget.