I dunno, I always assumed the kind of corruption that results in way over-budget, leaky transportation projects which actually kill people was a strong indicator third-worlded-ness.
Methinks Mr. Negroponte spends a little too much time on the "elite" side of the Charles.
The essence of learning is repetition. Now, granted, some kids need only repeat some things once to learn, others need more. And that's when "helping" is cheating. If you "help" by doing the rote part for someone, you're not helping them at all/em. You're robbing them of information they'll need for the next step.
Teachers like to say that learning is about making connections. And they're correct. But you need to have a bunch of data points "pre-loaded" before you can start connecting them together.
You can't ditch the rote part. It's just as important as everything else.
As for the "assembly line" tactic of everyone learning the same thing at once, the teacher only has one mouth. She can only talk about one thing at a time. If everyone is going to learn different things, then you need more teachers.
My opinion vacillates between what you just said, and the more charitable (toward Negroponte) that they simply bit off more than they should chew: they tried to build an inexpensive, functional laptop AND give it away to third world nations, when they should have had two completely separate organizations.
One, a for-profit company selling the laptops with the goal of pushing as many out the door as possible, and another with the goal of giving large numbers the things away. But separately funded and run.
The first is the only way to develop the economies of scale necessary to begin to attempt the second.
I told her flat out it's impossible to get un-biased reporting from the major news sources, and suggested she read the threads here.
Uh.. here?? I, for one, am a fairly partisan hack, and and so are most of the other political posters in here. You're not going to get anything close to unbiased info on the positions of the candidates here.
Better advice would be to check out the candidates' own websites, which present things in the best possible light for them. You don't have to worry about bias, barackobama.com wears it's pro'Bama position on it's sleeve.
And you could check sites like votesmart.org* which purport to clinically record the votes of elected officials on various issues.
*I haven't researched them quite properly yet, but at first glance, they look pretty unbiased.
Or the states' own pages of voting records, speeches, etc.
A forum like slashdot has way too much noise and general hackery to be very useful for political purposes, except as a guage of a certain sub-culture's reaction to a very narrow list of specific issues.
Crack 'em open, separate the platters, you've got anywhere between 300 and 500 tiny disks that you can use to invent the sport of indoor skeet shooting. Yay, aluminum, ceramic, or glass pigeons!
Uh.. if you have access to the source code to the program that decodes it, then DRM IS impossible. For the very simple reason that if the data exists unencrypted somewhere in that program, the unencrypted data can be written to disk.
You don't need the staffer. Just look at how he's responded to criticism of his pet project, the incumbent protection act (a.k.a campaign finance "reform"). Or more recently, what he's been saying about illegal immigration.
Indeed. Also, they seem to have ignored the interests of all three of those groups to do what they really wanted: pander to the Democrats' base, for some reason.
What? I thought feticide was pretty clever. The use of the -cide suffix ranges from homicide (pretty clearly wrong) to germicide (which you better perform before making those fries). It straddles the fence, and has the meaning that the reader puts into it.
Generally, I would not expect an abortion proponent to read the "homicide" meaning into it, though.
# to recommend execution of people convicted of murder who have lost their appeal ("a life for a life")
Negatory there chief. "An Eye for an Eye" is an argument FOR justice and AGAINST escalation. As in, against the previous unchecked vigilantism. It's better phrased, "no more than an eye for an eye."
not to provide for civil unions of same-sex couples that are analogous to marriage ("a man who lies with a man the way one lies with a woman commits an abomination").
Yeah, you're probably right there, though. On the other hand, there's no compelling state interest in same-sex marriage. Perhaps we should evaluate whether there is a compelling state interest in marriage, at all.
Raise crops? I was talking about line loss. It's typically below 7%, and can be made arbitrarily low through judicious application of extruded aluminum.
Anything that involves multiple conversions like hydrogen or biofuels is going to have a lot of loss.
So, it's more efficient to go with a process that at most 60% efficient, even before taking transport costs and the actual electrolysis efficiency into account, than it is to use a process that is at least 93% efficient?
And the food is there. It exists. If it's not getting to them it's not because there isn't enough food.
And what's so important about the starving children? Presumably, they have starving parents who you should also be worried about. Unless you only care about starving orphans, that is.
Not only that, but for boats under 40 ft, a device that is part of the boat is going to be a noticeable expense. And anyone who's planning nefarious business is going to be able find and remove such a device on any vessels that small.
It pretty much has to be a weapon. Collateral damage will necessarily ensue.
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Didn't Ferris "hack" his attendance record in that movie?
Does it run faster with the "toned down" UI?
I would think that offloading all the graphical stuff onto the graphics card would actually be pretty good for performance...
My experience with Ubuntu suggests that I am right.
I've often wondered why that command line instruction so sooo much faster than synaptic. It's the same data, so what the hell takes the gui so long?
You can both connect to and serve remote desktop sessions from XP home. But you have to go through the "Remote Assistance" rigmarole to set it up.
How did the realtor association find out? If all the people who weren't receiving them had opted out..
I seem to remember a lot of this grousing when XP came out, too. But despite the grousing, XP really was better than what it replaced.
I haven't upgraded my computer yet, but I wonder if Vista isn't better still.
Methinks Mr. Negroponte spends a little too much time on the "elite" side of the Charles.
All the Churchills went off an died defending the Chamberlains who stayed home and bred.
Not that I'm aware of.
But remember, "Slippery slope" isn't just a logical fallacy, it's also instructions for a viable method of accomplishing unpopular legislation.
Ironicaly, for actual ductwork, what you really want is "high-temp" tape, which is pretty much aluminum foil with an adhesive backing.
The essence of learning is repetition. Now, granted, some kids need only repeat some things once to learn, others need more. And that's when "helping" is cheating. If you "help" by doing the rote part for someone, you're not helping them at all/em. You're robbing them of information they'll need for the next step.
Teachers like to say that learning is about making connections. And they're correct. But you need to have a bunch of data points "pre-loaded" before you can start connecting them together.
You can't ditch the rote part. It's just as important as everything else.
As for the "assembly line" tactic of everyone learning the same thing at once, the teacher only has one mouth. She can only talk about one thing at a time. If everyone is going to learn different things, then you need more teachers.
Indeed. Spot on.
My opinion vacillates between what you just said, and the more charitable (toward Negroponte) that they simply bit off more than they should chew: they tried to build an inexpensive, functional laptop AND give it away to third world nations, when they should have had two completely separate organizations.
One, a for-profit company selling the laptops with the goal of pushing as many out the door as possible, and another with the goal of giving large numbers the things away. But separately funded and run.
The first is the only way to develop the economies of scale necessary to begin to attempt the second.
Uh.. here?? I, for one, am a fairly partisan hack, and and so are most of the other political posters in here. You're not going to get anything close to unbiased info on the positions of the candidates here.
Better advice would be to check out the candidates' own websites, which present things in the best possible light for them. You don't have to worry about bias, barackobama.com wears it's pro'Bama position on it's sleeve.
And you could check sites like votesmart.org* which purport to clinically record the votes of elected officials on various issues.
*I haven't researched them quite properly yet, but at first glance, they look pretty unbiased.
Or the states' own pages of voting records, speeches, etc.
A forum like slashdot has way too much noise and general hackery to be very useful for political purposes, except as a guage of a certain sub-culture's reaction to a very narrow list of specific issues.
Crack 'em open, separate the platters, you've got anywhere between 300 and 500 tiny disks that you can use to invent the sport of indoor skeet shooting. Yay, aluminum, ceramic, or glass pigeons!
Uh.. if you have access to the source code to the program that decodes it, then DRM IS impossible. For the very simple reason that if the data exists unencrypted somewhere in that program, the unencrypted data can be written to disk.
If you stop eating, you're not racing Amundsen. You're racing Scott.
You don't need the staffer. Just look at how he's responded to criticism of his pet project, the incumbent protection act (a.k.a campaign finance "reform"). Or more recently, what he's been saying about illegal immigration.
He's pretty squarely in the prima donna category.
Indeed. Also, they seem to have ignored the interests of all three of those groups to do what they really wanted: pander to the Democrats' base, for some reason.
What? I thought feticide was pretty clever. The use of the -cide suffix ranges from homicide (pretty clearly wrong) to germicide (which you better perform before making those fries). It straddles the fence, and has the meaning that the reader puts into it.
Generally, I would not expect an abortion proponent to read the "homicide" meaning into it, though.
Negatory there chief. "An Eye for an Eye" is an argument FOR justice and AGAINST escalation. As in, against the previous unchecked vigilantism. It's better phrased, "no more than an eye for an eye."
Yeah, you're probably right there, though. On the other hand, there's no compelling state interest in same-sex marriage. Perhaps we should evaluate whether there is a compelling state interest in marriage, at all.
Raise crops? I was talking about line loss. It's typically below 7%, and can be made arbitrarily low through judicious application of extruded aluminum.
Anything that involves multiple conversions like hydrogen or biofuels is going to have a lot of loss.
So, it's more efficient to go with a process that at most 60% efficient, even before taking transport costs and the actual electrolysis efficiency into account, than it is to use a process that is at least 93% efficient?
And the food is there. It exists. If it's not getting to them it's not because there isn't enough food.
And what's so important about the starving children? Presumably, they have starving parents who you should also be worried about. Unless you only care about starving orphans, that is.
Not only that, but for boats under 40 ft, a device that is part of the boat is going to be a noticeable expense. And anyone who's planning nefarious business is going to be able find and remove such a device on any vessels that small.
It pretty much has to be a weapon. Collateral damage will necessarily ensue.
Every guy you meet produces and uses his own steroids. Women, not so much. I suppose you could say it's cultural...