I think the solution is basic education in the scientific method and statistics for everyone, beginning in elementary school.
Ok, if nobody asks, I will: tell me why would basic education in the scientific method be a solution? Just because someone is a scientist doesn't make them correct, and scientists disagree about scientific things all the time. The scientific method is great for problems that can be pulled apart to their smallest components, but there is a large class of problems that are known as "wicked": problems that defy solution by scientific method because they have multiple causes that interact in different ways, making analysis impossible. If the causes of autism are interrelated and sometimes contradictory, why should I even ask a scientist?
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But it's not "remote" if I'm in the spacecraft taking the photos.
Most of them will work cheap I'm a designer and a design educator. While I laud most of the posters' advice about hiring a graphic designer, I wonder what the reaction would be if I told graphic designers to "hire a programmer, especially from a tech school... most of them work cheap"? As someone mentioned earlier, it takes about as long to train a good designer as it does a good coder, and when you recommend hiring a student, you're liable to get what you pay for. Hire a professional. They don't work cheap but you'll end up getting better value for your money.
And the cost of nuclear power is FAR more than what you claim... See also the MIT study. (which, by the ways, puts the current lifecycle cost of nuke at 6.7 cents/KWh, which is far more then any mainstream power source) The MIT study says that "In deregulated markets, nuclear power is not now cost competitive with coal and natural gas. However, plausible reductions by industry in capital cost, operation and maintenance costs, and construction time could reduce the gap. Carbon emission credits, if
enacted by government, can give nuclear power a cost advantage."...hardly a stinging indictment of nuclear power's costs.
I would be interested to know how UC Berkeley faculty view this.
Have they sold the distribution rights (either in whole or in part) to the intellectual property of their lectures to UCB?
I'm just surprised this guy wasn't hired by their government.
How do you know if he wasn't? In China, "business is politics and politics is business." China's economic model is what's known as 'Leninist Corporatism', and there are many for-profit corporations run by the government and the People's Liberation Army.
the vast majority of Windows malware comes not from the inherent insecurity of the Windows platform but from users doing dumb things.
Not sure I agree with this; this sounds like an engineer speaking. People are going to do dumb things. Programmers can reduce user error with good design. And good design comes from not blaming the user. The Macintosh has always been about the system being more "user fault tolerant" than other systems. Part of that tolerance is an awareness of the importance of security, and a concession that the the vast majority of users are unable to understand it well enough to implement it for themselves.
its hardware has just about all of the issues that Dell and other PC makers have, be it computers or consumer electronics.
Sure, there are lots of people mystified about this, given that the same electrons are used in Dells and in Apples. But seriously, the reason why Apple is such a hot brand is because Apple designs "experience", whereas Dell designs "hardware" and Microsoft designs "software". And until Apple's competitors get this distinction, they will continue to come out second best in terms of mind-share.
In fact, if you look at most of the top ten brands, (Starbucks is another good example), you will see that they have taken a lot of time to get user's experiences just right, and their corporate cultures value "experience design" highly as a core requirement.
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Brits have always been jealous of the Yanks for inventing the zip anyway
Actually, the modern zipper was designed by Gideon Sundback, a colonial from Canada. American Whitcomb Judson is credited for the invention, but his device worked poorly and bears little resemblance to the fasteners we now use. It was Sundback's fastener that was marketed by B.F. Goodrich as the "zipper".
Most universities and colleges equate essay writing in classes of 50 students with "higher education". Higher education for many students in their freshman year, means big lecture halls, large classes, and high tuition. Under these conditions, how can there be a critical engagement between a young scholar and a professor? Essay cheating is the end result of a system in which the only question that students ask is: "What do I have to do to get an A?"
> Science is a process, however, and that process is defined in such a way that it doesn't matter which humans conduct it.
I disagree. Unfortunately, our system of peer review (and, for that matter, project funding) is often dependent as much on who writes it as what is being written.
Indeed... Hard things were possible on the Amiga, like the time one of my students erased the system OS that the Amiga was running.
Just try that with Panther!
We constantly see this in applications and new technology where the engeneers come up with all this facinating stuff and try to cram it into a device hoping customers will overlook the lack of need and only see the prettyness.
The idea of engineers piling on features is a bit of an old saw, but I'd be interested to know if anyone has thought of the role of corporate Marketing Depts. in the issue of feature creep. After all, it's Marketing that defines the features, after market research has told them that people would buy a product with x y and z features. Note that I used the term "buy", not "use"...
...I do know whereof I speak when it comes to Quark attitudes and culture...
Going back even further, who remembers in the mid 90's, when Quark bought Mtropolis, the software that was supposed to give Macromedia a run for its money? When they bought it, they said they were going to incorporate it into new versions of XPress... and that was the end of that. I'll never forgive them for killing Mtropolis.
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But, you don't BUILD a freaking economy around something that amounts to nothing more than a support industry.
Why not? We built an economy based on building more and more stuff, and just look where it got us. http://www.gradientmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/edward-burtynsky-manufactured-landscape-photography-01.jpg
Nuclear power has lost a lot of credibility with me over the last few days. Now, I'm not sure if I should ever have given it any.
1960's technology doesn't have much credibility with me either. Hasn't since 1980.
And all this story proves is that God is not a circus performer.
Am I the only one to see the irony of a "paper" about a "browser" that's in PDF format?
No need to yell. And I don't think you would talk this way to someone face-to-face, so why would you do it online?
Your Slashdot UID is low enough that you should know how to make links (especially when it show you how right underneath the text box). Fucking moron.
There is no button to make links that I can see in my Safari 3.2.1. I have "Preview", "Quote Parent", "Options" and "Cancel".
I think the solution is basic education in the scientific method and statistics for everyone, beginning in elementary school.
Ok, if nobody asks, I will: tell me why would basic education in the scientific method be a solution? Just because someone is a scientist doesn't make them correct, and scientists disagree about scientific things all the time. The scientific method is great for problems that can be pulled apart to their smallest components, but there is a large class of problems that are known as "wicked": problems that defy solution by scientific method because they have multiple causes that interact in different ways, making analysis impossible. If the causes of autism are interrelated and sometimes contradictory, why should I even ask a scientist?
Actually, if it's radiation you're concerned about, being next to a dirty-ass coal plant would be a problem, because coal is slightly radioactive, and after ignition, some of that radioactive dust is emitted. see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
But it's not "remote" if I'm in the spacecraft taking the photos.
I would be interested to know how UC Berkeley faculty view this. Have they sold the distribution rights (either in whole or in part) to the intellectual property of their lectures to UCB?
How do you know if he wasn't? In China, "business is politics and politics is business." China's economic model is what's known as 'Leninist Corporatism', and there are many for-profit corporations run by the government and the People's Liberation Army.
its hardware has just about all of the issues that Dell and other PC makers have, be it computers or consumer electronics.
Sure, there are lots of people mystified about this, given that the same electrons are used in Dells and in Apples. But seriously, the reason why Apple is such a hot brand is because Apple designs "experience", whereas Dell designs "hardware" and Microsoft designs "software". And until Apple's competitors get this distinction, they will continue to come out second best in terms of mind-share.
In fact, if you look at most of the top ten brands, (Starbucks is another good example), you will see that they have taken a lot of time to get user's experiences just right, and their corporate cultures value "experience design" highly as a core requirement.
Actually, the modern zipper was designed by Gideon Sundback, a colonial from Canada. American Whitcomb Judson is credited for the invention, but his device worked poorly and bears little resemblance to the fasteners we now use. It was Sundback's fastener that was marketed by B.F. Goodrich as the "zipper".
Most universities and colleges equate essay writing in classes of 50 students with "higher education". Higher education for many students in their freshman year, means big lecture halls, large classes, and high tuition. Under these conditions, how can there be a critical engagement between a young scholar and a professor? Essay cheating is the end result of a system in which the only question that students ask is: "What do I have to do to get an A?"
Isaac Asimov would have agreed: "Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from ... hacking."
I disagree. Unfortunately, our system of peer review (and, for that matter, project funding) is often dependent as much on who writes it as what is being written.
The Beagle 2 will probably do just fine, unless, of course, some of the electrical engineers responsible for the craft are ex-Lucas.
Indeed... Hard things were possible on the Amiga, like the time one of my students erased the system OS that the Amiga was running. Just try that with Panther!
We constantly see this in applications and new technology where the engeneers come up with all this facinating stuff and try to cram it into a device hoping customers will overlook the lack of need and only see the prettyness.
The idea of engineers piling on features is a bit of an old saw, but I'd be interested to know if anyone has thought of the role of corporate Marketing Depts. in the issue of feature creep. After all, it's Marketing that defines the features, after market research has told them that people would buy a product with x y and z features. Note that I used the term "buy", not "use"...
Going back even further, who remembers in the mid 90's, when Quark bought Mtropolis, the software that was supposed to give Macromedia a run for its money? When they bought it, they said they were going to incorporate it into new versions of XPress... and that was the end of that. I'll never forgive them for killing Mtropolis.
btw, I use InDesign.