The widespread contempt for creating anything of lasting value I see almost everywhere today speaks volumes about both this generation's shortsightedness and its selfishness.
Your rant is hardly original. Thanks to the lasting quality of books, I could show you similar complaints about "this generation" in several texts for the last 2000 years.
I'd say this generation is no more selfish and shortsighted than, let's say, some roman youth right before the fall of the empire.
Just hide it in plain sight: if nobody knows that there is a password, nobody will find it.
And if you put it on the internet, you can access if from everywhere. You could even hide it in some stupid text you post on some stupid forum for dumb 13 year old kids.
The problem is, that many profs feel insecure with technology, so a few pseudo-techs in administration set the course.
They give out grants for great new ideas that solve problems nobody had in the first place. For example: A system where students can write little essays on pdas and send them to the professor in the front, who then can open it on the PC and show it on the projector screen. -- I can do the same with sheets of paper and a doc-cam.
By the time I powered up the projector, I could have written something on the board ten times. An overhead I can annotate easily, a power point presentation usually not. This takes away flexibility in the class room and favors professors who like canned material over those who would like to react to students' questions and alter their material accordingly.
If technology disrupts and takes away flexibility, then it's not ready to be used.
Some beginning classes are just so, well that they are for beginners. And in many fields there are good books that cover that.
The ideal solution would be to tell students: This is the book, it is great, it covers all of the beginning stuff. Read it.
Instead of meeting three times a week, students could just read it, and in a meeting every Friday, one could discuss the book.
Moths with RFID chips implanted will not only make it easier for large retailers to keep track of their inventory, it will also help them to cut down on the rising number of moth pick pocketing (moth pocketing).
Heck, they might even be able to track consumer behavior: What else are moth-buying consumers interested in?
Usually moths are located in the rice and grain isle, but this new research might enable retailers to move them over to another part of the store, to sell other products as well. For example, moth-consumers might have to walk by the fruit flies to get to the moths.
Europeans usually stay in the same place for two to three thousand years, but Americans move every couple years and sell their houses.
So if you happen to live in the Westindies, i suggest for home automation : 1.look for useful rather than for unique, and 2. make it movable or make it compatible.
1. I'd rather add zoning, so the upstairs bedroom has it's on thermostat, before I'd build a system that turns on the lights 10 minutes before I get up.
2. If you're planning on leaving the system in the house, make it so it works with "standard" components. You can build your own, but make the interfaces follow some commercial standard, so someone without much knowledge could just buy a part and pop it in.
I admit, I used to go shopping just for the music. But the music industry's anti-pirating campaign opened my eyes:
All over the country, people are singing to themselves without paying royalties for it. Pirates, that's what they are.
Filthy thieves. If only 10% of employees do this, the music industry is losing billions!
And let's not forget the times when you're stuck with that melody in your head - repeating it twenty, thirty times, and never paying for it.
Or these filthy pirates in the subway with their mp3-players: Although their i-tunes downloads might be paid for, illegal broadcasting by humming along is certainly not.
An aerodynamic starship flying around a planet making a whoosh sound? Artifical gravity? Sections of laser beams traveling through the air?
No problem. It's just a show. And (almost) anyone knows that it is BS.
I see a much bigger problem with shows that claim to be real: Doctors, lawyers, cops, CEOs, some researchers, professors...
- you only see how much BS it is, if you have some experience in that field. And people get their view on reality from this!
Of course, you'd have to put it into your carry-on. Duh!
Problem is to get it into your bag before it eats Europe: They'd never let you enter the US if the black hole had been contaminated by fresh fruit and meat.
I'd bet, he was just planning on stealing a bottle of positronium.
Hmm, if tourists don't come anymore because of the way they are treated at the border,
they all should pay a $10 fee, and the money could be used to promote more tourism.
The US is already seen as responsible for new machine readable passports and biometric features in the passport. Tourists are questioned, fingerprinted, and photographed at the border, and airlines have to transmit personal passenger data.
The fee doesn't add much to the cost of a US visit, but on top of all the other things: Being treated that way, and paying a fee for it? There are other places to go.
That's the climate in Europe right now. The EU is considering an entry fee for Americans.
This fee hasn't been big news in the US and Obama might not even have been briefed on what he walked into in Copenhagen..
but the only other country I can remember charging an entry fee was Eastern Germany.
It's the coil diameter to distance ratio that goes into the efficiency.
If they bring the coils closer together, the efficiency will go up, possibly unhealthy EMR will go down, and they could even make the coils smaller and cheaper.
-And then this technology will become really useful. Maybe some day we will be able to recharge electric toothbrushes without plugging them in.
Gyms could run their own servers, making sure every player is on a machine: runners, bicyclists, and maybe people on elliptical trainers operating a Da Vinci-style flying machine with flapping wings.
There goes the "fast enough for a little browsing and office apps"-computer.
Yes, yes, I know, hardware acceleration will render the pages faster - but more and more sites will include 3d junk.
Praise be to Moore and his irrefutable law:
We are doomed to use faster and faster Computers and more and more energy, to read pages that might - content wise- just as well run on gopher.
.. so do customers of many small coffee shops and library. - And they are open to everyone. And they are Linux compatible. And you don't get tracked.
I have had AT&T's free wifi for years, and haven't used it once: I rather work in a coffee shop than at McD.
And I'd rather support a coffee shop or hotel that offers wifi to all of its customers, than one that participates in a subscription only net.
I also assume, that using your DSL provider's "free" WiFi will help to make open hotspots disappear and lead to an internet, where you can't log on without positive identification and account login.
Despite stupid scare tactics, there still is a a fair number of places, that see wifi sharing as a courtesy, and not as a threat to national security.
I agree with you all, but at the same note: at least in the Western world, beauty has become more accessible to the masses. A hundred years ago a farm woman could not work at the farm and still keep her pale complexion, two hundred years ago, only the richest bourgeois women could successfully imitate the beauty standards and dress codes of the nobility.
Today, unless she's working poor or the wrong race, every woman has a chance of looking like Paris Hilton.
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Your rant is hardly original. Thanks to the lasting quality of books, I could show you similar complaints about "this generation" in several texts for the last 2000 years.
I'd say this generation is no more selfish and shortsighted than, let's say, some roman youth right before the fall of the empire.
Just hide it in plain sight: if nobody knows that there is a password, nobody will find it. And if you put it on the internet, you can access if from everywhere. You could even hide it in some stupid text you post on some stupid forum for dumb 13 year old kids.
The problem is, that many profs feel insecure with technology, so a few pseudo-techs in administration set the course.
They give out grants for great new ideas that solve problems nobody had in the first place. For example: A system where students can write little essays on pdas and send them to the professor in the front, who then can open it on the PC and show it on the projector screen. -- I can do the same with sheets of paper and a doc-cam.
By the time I powered up the projector, I could have written something on the board ten times. An overhead I can annotate easily, a power point presentation usually not. This takes away flexibility in the class room and favors professors who like canned material over those who would like to react to students' questions and alter their material accordingly.
If technology disrupts and takes away flexibility, then it's not ready to be used.
The ideal solution would be to tell students: This is the book, it is great, it covers all of the beginning stuff. Read it. Instead of meeting three times a week, students could just read it, and in a meeting every Friday, one could discuss the book.
But that would also require ideal students.
The HuffPo? isn't that AriHu's NewsBloSit?
It helps with the google bot, who would never be evil.
But in general, that file only helps with robots that obey the first law. Ruthless rogue robots just laugh about it.
Moths with RFID chips implanted will not only make it easier for large retailers to keep track of their inventory, it will also help them to cut down on the rising number of moth pick pocketing (moth pocketing).
Heck, they might even be able to track consumer behavior: What else are moth-buying consumers interested in?
Usually moths are located in the rice and grain isle, but this new research might enable retailers to move them over to another part of the store, to sell other products as well. For example, moth-consumers might have to walk by the fruit flies to get to the moths.
- Oh wait, they are.
baguette
- thats "liberty bread" !
So if you happen to live in the Westindies, i suggest for home automation : 1.look for useful rather than for unique, and 2. make it movable or make it compatible.
1. I'd rather add zoning, so the upstairs bedroom has it's on thermostat, before I'd build a system that turns on the lights 10 minutes before I get up.
2. If you're planning on leaving the system in the house, make it so it works with "standard" components. You can build your own, but make the interfaces follow some commercial standard, so someone without much knowledge could just buy a part and pop it in.
All over the country, people are singing to themselves without paying royalties for it. Pirates, that's what they are. Filthy thieves. If only 10% of employees do this, the music industry is losing billions!
And let's not forget the times when you're stuck with that melody in your head - repeating it twenty, thirty times, and never paying for it.
Or these filthy pirates in the subway with their mp3-players: Although their i-tunes downloads might be paid for, illegal broadcasting by humming along is certainly not.
But, think what wonderful coil gun one could build with these caps.
The aliens are all false memories, the probing isn't.
No problem. It's just a show. And (almost) anyone knows that it is BS.
I see a much bigger problem with shows that claim to be real: Doctors, lawyers, cops, CEOs, some researchers, professors ...
- you only see how much BS it is, if you have some experience in that field. And people get their view on reality from this!
Problem is to get it into your bag before it eats Europe: They'd never let you enter the US if the black hole had been contaminated by fresh fruit and meat.
I'd bet, he was just planning on stealing a bottle of positronium.
Just needs some catchy name: "something green" , "Solving green", ..
It looks like it's pretty much blown out of proportion
Sounds logical? That's at least what the Senate thinks: Travel-Promotion-Act
The US is already seen as responsible for new machine readable passports and biometric features in the passport. Tourists are questioned, fingerprinted, and photographed at the border, and airlines have to transmit personal passenger data.
The fee doesn't add much to the cost of a US visit, but on top of all the other things: Being treated that way, and paying a fee for it? There are other places to go.
That's the climate in Europe right now. The EU is considering an entry fee for Americans. This fee hasn't been big news in the US and Obama might not even have been briefed on what he walked into in Copenhagen.. but the only other country I can remember charging an entry fee was Eastern Germany.
-And then this technology will become really useful. Maybe some day we will be able to recharge electric toothbrushes without plugging them in.
.. or pretend that I'm not home when the mapping people ring the doorbell.
Gyms could run their own servers, making sure every player is on a machine: runners, bicyclists, and maybe people on elliptical trainers operating a Da Vinci-style flying machine with flapping wings.
-You could sell that to nursing homes.
Praise be to Moore and his irrefutable law:
We are doomed to use faster and faster Computers and more and more energy, to read pages that might - content wise- just as well run on gopher.
I have had AT&T's free wifi for years, and haven't used it once: I rather work in a coffee shop than at McD. And I'd rather support a coffee shop or hotel that offers wifi to all of its customers, than one that participates in a subscription only net.
I also assume, that using your DSL provider's "free" WiFi will help to make open hotspots disappear and lead to an internet, where you can't log on without positive identification and account login.
Despite stupid scare tactics, there still is a a fair number of places, that see wifi sharing as a courtesy, and not as a threat to national security.
Just google for it.
Today, unless she's working poor or the wrong race, every woman has a chance of looking like Paris Hilton.
Nice progress.