No--While they solved every position in 20 moves or less, they did not search for the optimal solution for each position. So if they solved a position in 20 moves, they stopped solving it, even if there was a possible 19 move solution.
The argument isn't that a random parent can teach better than a professional teacher, it is:
"Can a parent can teach one student in whom they are personally invested to the level a professional teacher can teach a particular student in a class of thirty without a personal involvement in that student."
Think of your parents' cooking vs. a cafeteria chef's cooking. The chef is better trained, has better equipment, more experience, and recipes prepared by experts, but almost all of that advantage is wasted on you because they have to cook for hundreds of people, not just a family of four. Yes, there are some people who just shouldn't cook, but I don't think that writing off all home cooking because of your aunt who only makes fried bologna is fair.
It was a fantastic experience. I don't think there was a name for it when we started--I've been using the name retroactively since I've learned about it because it describes what I grew up with better than anything I could come up with.
When my mother decided that we needed to know US geography, my mother, my sister, my brother and I got in our beat-up minivan and drove the US for two months, camping and eating PB&J out of a cooler. I may not know the capitol of New Mexico, but I know the climate, and the geography, and what the cities are like, and what the people look like. If I need statistics or facts, I can look them up. Looking things up was a bit part of unschooling--we spent hours every week in the library, learning how to use the reference section, learning how to find information, and how to compare resources.
Math was the hardest part to learn--my parents were not math people, and they ran out of things to teach me at about algebra. But I was interested, and so they found a local engineer who agreed to tutor me before work in exchange for cutting his grass every week. He taught me out of the same textbook I used later in college, and he chose harder practice problems than my professor did.
By state law we were required to take standardized testing every other year, and we actually did it every year--all of my siblings scored above the 60th percentile in everything, and above the 90th percentile in most things.
It had down-sides, of course. When I went away to college, I didn't know how to take notes or format papers, and sitting through a two hour lecture was painfully boring and unproductive--I'd learn more by reading the textbook in class than I would listening. The upside was that I knew how to learn things, and how to motivate myself to get things accomplished. My grades were not great--that's a problem with unschoolers, because you haven't been taught to be motivated by letter grades. You learn things to learn them, and if you feel like you've learned something, jumping through hoops to please a professor doesn't seem like a useful way to spend your time. I got an A in any class I cared about, and a B- in any class I didn't--that was my threshold for 'passing'.
Unstopping can be very productive, and is a valid way to learn things, if it's 'taught' by someone who is curious themselves and is willing to try things. You have to grow up, I think, in a household that values education and learning for it to work, but I don't feel at all like it has held me back.
I get around the iTunes problems with a combination of Screen Sharing (to get stuff in) and the Apple Remote/Front Row (to play stuff). It works well for me--I don't have any music on my laptop at all. And if I'm out and about, I probably have my iPod, anyway.
I am horrified at the number of Apple products I just mentioned.
I think my assumption would be that if you are sophisticated enough to be doing either of those two things, you are probably sophisticated enough to google for answers when they don't work...
So, what you're saying is that Napster is a great deal, as long as you use it in a way that violates the EULA and circumvents the DMCA.
Exactly like the old Napster, except that you're now paying a monthly fee to do so.
Speaking as a professional filmmaker and closet nerd, the content does exist. The independent film community is strong, and there are hundreds of little shorts made every year. They're obviously not up to network gloss levels, but many of them are interesting and thought-provoking. The big problem is that the people making movies are not the people writing the software to distribute the movies. They don't understand network protocols any more than the average programmer understands skip bleach processing.
The other problem is a lack of editorial effort. if everyone with a webcam dumps their 2-hour video of their baby failing to walk on the internet, how does one determine what is worth watching and what is content with only limited, personal relevance? It is the blog phenomenon, only with huge download times.
What is needed, in my estimation, is a technologically-savvy person with an interest in films who vets the films and posts links and reviews of content. Sort of halfway between Roger Ebert and suprnova.org.
It is in the public domain because the release print didn't have a copyright notification on it. According to the director, they had put a copyright notification on it, but the distributor didn't like their original title of Night of the Flesh Eaters and replaced the title card, but without the appropriate information.
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No--While they solved every position in 20 moves or less, they did not search for the optimal solution for each position. So if they solved a position in 20 moves, they stopped solving it, even if there was a possible 19 move solution.
I would bet that World of Warcraft has a significantly higher bandwidth requirement, and nearly as many users...
The argument isn't that a random parent can teach better than a professional teacher, it is:
"Can a parent can teach one student in whom they are personally invested to the level a professional teacher can teach a particular student in a class of thirty without a personal involvement in that student."
Think of your parents' cooking vs. a cafeteria chef's cooking. The chef is better trained, has better equipment, more experience, and recipes prepared by experts, but almost all of that advantage is wasted on you because they have to cook for hundreds of people, not just a family of four. Yes, there are some people who just shouldn't cook, but I don't think that writing off all home cooking because of your aunt who only makes fried bologna is fair.
It was a fantastic experience. I don't think there was a name for it when we started--I've been using the name retroactively since I've learned about it because it describes what I grew up with better than anything I could come up with.
When my mother decided that we needed to know US geography, my mother, my sister, my brother and I got in our beat-up minivan and drove the US for two months, camping and eating PB&J out of a cooler. I may not know the capitol of New Mexico, but I know the climate, and the geography, and what the cities are like, and what the people look like. If I need statistics or facts, I can look them up. Looking things up was a bit part of unschooling--we spent hours every week in the library, learning how to use the reference section, learning how to find information, and how to compare resources.
Math was the hardest part to learn--my parents were not math people, and they ran out of things to teach me at about algebra. But I was interested, and so they found a local engineer who agreed to tutor me before work in exchange for cutting his grass every week. He taught me out of the same textbook I used later in college, and he chose harder practice problems than my professor did.
By state law we were required to take standardized testing every other year, and we actually did it every year--all of my siblings scored above the 60th percentile in everything, and above the 90th percentile in most things.
It had down-sides, of course. When I went away to college, I didn't know how to take notes or format papers, and sitting through a two hour lecture was painfully boring and unproductive--I'd learn more by reading the textbook in class than I would listening. The upside was that I knew how to learn things, and how to motivate myself to get things accomplished. My grades were not great--that's a problem with unschoolers, because you haven't been taught to be motivated by letter grades. You learn things to learn them, and if you feel like you've learned something, jumping through hoops to please a professor doesn't seem like a useful way to spend your time. I got an A in any class I cared about, and a B- in any class I didn't--that was my threshold for 'passing'.
Unstopping can be very productive, and is a valid way to learn things, if it's 'taught' by someone who is curious themselves and is willing to try things. You have to grow up, I think, in a household that values education and learning for it to work, but I don't feel at all like it has held me back.
I get around the iTunes problems with a combination of Screen Sharing (to get stuff in) and the Apple Remote/Front Row (to play stuff). It works well for me--I don't have any music on my laptop at all. And if I'm out and about, I probably have my iPod, anyway.
I am horrified at the number of Apple products I just mentioned.
It's a PBS 'Be More' commercial from about four years ago.
If I am correct, it's "Be More Inspired".
I think my assumption would be that if you are sophisticated enough to be doing either of those two things, you are probably sophisticated enough to google for answers when they don't work...
So, what you're saying is that Napster is a great deal, as long as you use it in a way that violates the EULA and circumvents the DMCA.
Exactly like the old Napster, except that you're now paying a monthly fee to do so.
Actually, I'd say that the wallet PC is actually the cell phone. And while they may not be used in the US like this, Asia is certainly using cell phones as virtual wallets. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/22/tech/mai n631231.shtml
Would this mean if you lose an item, you can write it off as a loss?
How about deducting your monthly subscription fee as a cost of doing business?
And by June, they actually mean June 38th, in that The Powers That Be have declared an extension of June into the domains previously granted to July.
Speaking as a professional filmmaker and closet nerd, the content does exist. The independent film community is strong, and there are hundreds of little shorts made every year. They're obviously not up to network gloss levels, but many of them are interesting and thought-provoking. The big problem is that the people making movies are not the people writing the software to distribute the movies. They don't understand network protocols any more than the average programmer understands skip bleach processing.
The other problem is a lack of editorial effort. if everyone with a webcam dumps their 2-hour video of their baby failing to walk on the internet, how does one determine what is worth watching and what is content with only limited, personal relevance? It is the blog phenomenon, only with huge download times.
What is needed, in my estimation, is a technologically-savvy person with an interest in films who vets the films and posts links and reviews of content. Sort of halfway between Roger Ebert and suprnova.org.
It is in the public domain because the release print didn't have a copyright notification on it. According to the director, they had put a copyright notification on it, but the distributor didn't like their original title of Night of the Flesh Eaters and replaced the title card, but without the appropriate information.