"Commenters here and at Huffington Post are seriously suggesting we have a second American Revolution because you didn't get everything you wanted on a Net Neturality policy change?"
Uhh were you awake the last 10 years, it is far more then just about net neutrality... take stock of what has happened more then a few days ago. Some days I wonder if people are even awake.
... are incompetent when it comes to computers, this is why they avoid teaching "real" computer science, i.e. most teachers have no clue (not qualified) and find the prospect of teaching it dreary.
This may change over time as demographics change however since more and more kids are brought up on technology.
"HOW did that ship crash on that planet? Where did it come from? Who created those aliens?"
The real issue for me was that aliens 3 and 4 were such garbage. Aliens 3 would have been ok as a spin-off movie (alternate universe), but the directors had no clue where to take it after Aliens (technically 'alien 2').
They had such an awesome universe which they royally f'd up with the third and fourth movies. So badly that the whole series just doesn't feel right anymore. I'm not holding my breath for the prequel. As far as I'm concerned the series ended for me with Aliens.
... are only finally beginning to catch up with our imagination, special effects is a huge field unto itself and so far most special effects go for a pseudo-realistic style, but there are many other styles explored in other areas of storytelling and entertainment.
You are with the faith based economics community apparently.
But let us not forget the grand (socialist) bail out of the right which they begged dear nanny state so they could pay their rich friends with so they wouldn't suffer any losses. But yet they can't afford to help the homeless or the poor right?
It's ok when the federal reserve gives the warm embrace of socialism to the rich. Trillions in offsheet balance transactions to domestic and foreign multinational corporations.
Everyone loves socialism... just remember to point your fellow conservatives to the following videos next time they start with the ridiculous partisan rhetoric.
... misleading, after all many so-called terrorists are merely frustrated people who have not had their voices heard or who have been abandoned by lawless and reckless rulers or who've had their countries unlawfully invaded.
I wonder if these studies check the conditions that these "terrorists" arise out of.
... what users want, since many people search because they already know what they need they spend needless ours searching through stuff to find it instead of a service that does it for you on your behalf0.
I know I'd like to be informed when the things I want hits the price I want to pay and no one has invented this service yet. Google is big enough to monitor prices on items around the net and it could inform you of who has the best price at x time, and it could use a chart like google finances to compare prices from different vendors over time. I've always wished places like Steam had a "I'd only pay x price for this product" where users could participate in telling developers what they think their product is worth. This can apply to all sorts of products, not just games but steam is well positioned to take advantage of things like that.
"It is important to have a sense of proportion, it can keep you from making unwarranted assumptions."
The problem is that the rich aren't paying their fair share and lets be frank - most people are stupid and the market prices are not transparent, i.e. you have no idea how much profit rich people are making using over-sea's labor and offshoring while milking you for everything you got.
Then there is also the sheer number of people, and through competition monopolies and cartels tend to form so you get transactional monopolies where most of the populations money is being centralized towards the rich just by how markets operate + law of large numbers of people spending money in you general direction.
For instance I just can't understand the insanity in the states where Obama caves to the republicans after the bail out of all things, america is still moving to crazy right territory. It just befuddles the mind how ignorant people are.
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"a 2 or 3 year old 1280x1024 LCD panel... All CRTs before that lasted way longer"
I had an LCD panel that only lasted 3 years and I have a 19" CRT monitor that still in perfect order after almost 10 years.
I have a feeling that perhaps LCD manufacturers need to be investigated I wonder how common failures of LCD's are after 3 years. They should be able to last way longer then that.
Right... because we certainly know class war really doesn't exist (See below). I see you're with the the faith based economics community apparently.
It's ok when the federal reserve gives the warm embrace of socialism to the rich. Trillions in offsheet balance transactions to domestic and foreign multinational corporations.
Everyone loves socialism... just remember to point your fellow conservatives/hardcore capitalists to the following videos next time they start with the ridiculous partisan rhetoric.
"If you believe that the current model is outdated, You can lobby. you can vote. you can inform. you can raise awareness. you can debate. but just ignoring the fact that it's illegal doesn't make it legal."
Do you really think most people are intelligent and informed enough to make just laws? The people are so stupid that they have allowed the corporations to extend copyright indefinitely.
"A house that uses less power by monitoring it's environment."
I think the problem is the whole concept of idea is too vague, so people operate off of misconceptions. Lets say information. Every waking moment you are using ideas(information). When you observe the world the objects and locations of those objects exist as ideas in your head that you need to navigate a problem space. Without say vision providing you with those ideas what is and is not there, what this is not that you are dead in the water. Ideas - that is information *is fundamental*.
It's just that most people when THEY think of ideas they are not thinking of it in a deep sense, they are thinking of it in a trivial sense.
Like everything else context matters, ideas are the foundation of everything when you get down to it, so ideas matter. Take things like say videogames. If you have bad ideas for a game and then go execute on those bad ideas (theme/art), it's quite clear that you can have million dollar ideas. It's just that most people don't realize just how many sub-ideas are in big ideas that make money.
One can think of an idea as a framework for what needs to be done that is not fixed and is modified and adapted along the way, since most ideas evolve to some extent as one runs into issues that need to be dealt with.
"The problem in the USA today isn't a lack of quality teaching and quality schools or even a lack of quality curriculum."
The real problem is the whole idea of school, the idea that you can just throw kids randomly into a prison like system and get them to sit still and "learn" is totally flawed from the outset.
Schools by their very nature KILL CURIOSITY. I think most slashdotters can attest to the fact that school and learning has to be approached from ones own innate curiousness about things and can't be brow beaten into ones head without severe damage.
"If this is becoming big that's a very serious problem. The internet isn't really a place to gain an informed opinion over things."
This is incorrect, I believe the internet is a great place to teach oneself. The problem is resources are often all over the place, the real issue is searching for high quality resources and then combining them in one place. The other aspect is the quality of the language in a curriculum and how ideas are framed.
All people teach themselves stuff on their own everyday, how do you think somebody learned language? Most kids learn to speak without having to be explicitly taught. Every time you get into a car you are actually learning on the go (adapting and changing in response to your environment).
The real hard problem is that not everyone has the same potential, work ethic or quality of judgement to teach themselves.
The idea that learning doesn't take discipline is the issue. One has to have discipline and also be at the right stage of ones life (readyness).
Our whole western notion of "educating" children is often wrong, human beings have natural rhythms and cycles when they are more or less ready to be in a mature and disciplined enough state to seek and value learning. I would say most of public school and high school for many kids is totally wasted already because kids curiosity has been killed and there is too much distraction and toys (videogames, etc).
The whole idea that learning can be valued for it's own sake is flawed, since all human beings have limits on time, energy, tiredness, boredom, etc.
"IANAL but if you copied my game, and put a new name on it I'd be a little upset too."
This is why intellectual property is a bad thing. At what point do you stop? Do we start copyrighting pixels, squares, shapes? I think the whole IP thing reeks.
This private ownership of things the public has INVESTED IN but the public gets no partial-stake in the copyright is bullshit. This is corporatism and can do nothing but stifle recombination of old and new ideas and new takes on old ideas.
"The kind of cosmic inbreeding you describe can't be good."
According to evolution we are all inbred. The whole idea of our existence requires it, it's only that populations are now so large and geographically isolated over geological time that we don't notice, its far removed.
"Probably because governments should be held accountable for their actions by their citizens and not the opposite?"
In theory this is how it's supposed to work, in practice the logistics don't work out very well. If anything someones going to write a book about how governments should be structured in the future and the failures of western model governments.
Slashdot Mirror
"Rich People in the west have NEVER been as free as they are now."
FTFY
"Commenters here and at Huffington Post are seriously suggesting we have a second American Revolution because you didn't get everything you wanted on a Net Neturality policy change?"
Uhh were you awake the last 10 years, it is far more then just about net neutrality... take stock of what has happened more then a few days ago. Some days I wonder if people are even awake.
http://dailybail.com/
Most important video you will ever see!
http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html
... are incompetent when it comes to computers, this is why they avoid teaching "real" computer science, i.e. most teachers have no clue (not qualified) and find the prospect of teaching it dreary.
This may change over time as demographics change however since more and more kids are brought up on technology.
"HOW did that ship crash on that planet? Where did it come from? Who created those aliens?"
The real issue for me was that aliens 3 and 4 were such garbage. Aliens 3 would have been ok as a spin-off movie (alternate universe), but the directors had no clue where to take it after Aliens (technically 'alien 2').
They had such an awesome universe which they royally f'd up with the third and fourth movies. So badly that the whole series just doesn't feel right anymore. I'm not holding my breath for the prequel. As far as I'm concerned the series ended for me with Aliens.
"But we use Wikipedia so we don't have to read books."
Wikipedia cannot do everything yet, and many free books on Wikibooks are incomplete or are not that great.
"Maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I'd be more comfortable with the federal government reading my mail than Google."
Anything you put out openly in plaintext not using encryption on the net is being recorded by someone somewhere.
... are only finally beginning to catch up with our imagination, special effects is a huge field unto itself and so far most special effects go for a pseudo-realistic style, but there are many other styles explored in other areas of storytelling and entertainment.
You are with the faith based economics community apparently.
But let us not forget the grand (socialist) bail out of the right which they begged dear nanny state so they could pay their rich friends with so they wouldn't suffer any losses. But yet they can't afford to help the homeless or the poor right?
It's ok when the federal reserve gives the warm embrace of socialism to the rich. Trillions in offsheet balance transactions to domestic and foreign multinational corporations.
http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html
Ben Bernanke on 60 minutes, look at how nervous the man is!
http://dailybail.com/home/bernanke-on-60-minutes-were-not-printing-money.html
Everyone loves socialism... just remember to point your fellow conservatives to the following videos next time they start with the ridiculous partisan rhetoric.
... misleading, after all many so-called terrorists are merely frustrated people who have not had their voices heard or who have been abandoned by lawless and reckless rulers or who've had their countries unlawfully invaded.
I wonder if these studies check the conditions that these "terrorists" arise out of.
... what users want, since many people search because they already know what they need they spend needless ours searching through stuff to find it instead of a service that does it for you on your behalf0.
I know I'd like to be informed when the things I want hits the price I want to pay and no one has invented this service yet. Google is big enough to monitor prices on items around the net and it could inform you of who has the best price at x time, and it could use a chart like google finances to compare prices from different vendors over time. I've always wished places like Steam had a "I'd only pay x price for this product" where users could participate in telling developers what they think their product is worth. This can apply to all sorts of products, not just games but steam is well positioned to take advantage of things like that.
See google finance chart here:
http://www.google.com/finance
"It is important to have a sense of proportion, it can keep you from making unwarranted assumptions."
The problem is that the rich aren't paying their fair share and lets be frank - most people are stupid and the market prices are not transparent, i.e. you have no idea how much profit rich people are making using over-sea's labor and offshoring while milking you for everything you got.
Then there is also the sheer number of people, and through competition monopolies and cartels tend to form so you get transactional monopolies where most of the populations money is being centralized towards the rich just by how markets operate + law of large numbers of people spending money in you general direction.
For instance I just can't understand the insanity in the states where Obama caves to the republicans after the bail out of all things, america is still moving to crazy right territory. It just befuddles the mind how ignorant people are.
"a 2 or 3 year old 1280x1024 LCD panel... All CRTs before that lasted way longer"
I had an LCD panel that only lasted 3 years and I have a 19" CRT monitor that still in perfect order after almost 10 years.
I have a feeling that perhaps LCD manufacturers need to be investigated I wonder how common failures of LCD's are after 3 years. They should be able to last way longer then that.
"and you're class warfare crybaby"
Right... because we certainly know class war really doesn't exist (See below). I see you're with the the faith based economics community apparently.
It's ok when the federal reserve gives the warm embrace of socialism to the rich. Trillions in offsheet balance transactions to domestic and foreign multinational corporations.
http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html
Ben Bernanke on 60 minutes, look at how nervous the man is!
http://dailybail.com/home/bernanke-on-60-minutes-were-not-printing-money.html
Everyone loves socialism... just remember to point your fellow conservatives/hardcore capitalists to the following videos next time they start with the ridiculous partisan rhetoric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTZOekaQlE&feature=player_embedded
You are correct sir!
Are you american per chance?
... to PC games!
"If you believe that the current model is outdated, You can lobby. you can vote. you can inform. you can raise awareness. you can debate. but just ignoring the fact that it's illegal doesn't make it legal."
Do you really think most people are intelligent and informed enough to make just laws? The people are so stupid that they have allowed the corporations to extend copyright indefinitely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg
You are insanely ignorant and naive, the only path now is resistance - i.e. ignoring the unjust law lobbied into existence by the powers that be.
"A house that uses less power by monitoring it's environment."
I think the problem is the whole concept of idea is too vague, so people operate off of misconceptions. Lets say information. Every waking moment you are using ideas(information). When you observe the world the objects and locations of those objects exist as ideas in your head that you need to navigate a problem space. Without say vision providing you with those ideas what is and is not there, what this is not that you are dead in the water. Ideas - that is information *is fundamental*.
It's just that most people when THEY think of ideas they are not thinking of it in a deep sense, they are thinking of it in a trivial sense.
"Really ideas are cheap."
Like everything else context matters, ideas are the foundation of everything when you get down to it, so ideas matter. Take things like say videogames. If you have bad ideas for a game and then go execute on those bad ideas (theme/art), it's quite clear that you can have million dollar ideas. It's just that most people don't realize just how many sub-ideas are in big ideas that make money.
One can think of an idea as a framework for what needs to be done that is not fixed and is modified and adapted along the way, since most ideas evolve to some extent as one runs into issues that need to be dealt with.
"The problem in the USA today isn't a lack of quality teaching and quality schools or even a lack of quality curriculum."
The real problem is the whole idea of school, the idea that you can just throw kids randomly into a prison like system and get them to sit still and "learn" is totally flawed from the outset.
Schools by their very nature KILL CURIOSITY. I think most slashdotters can attest to the fact that school and learning has to be approached from ones own innate curiousness about things and can't be brow beaten into ones head without severe damage.
"If this is becoming big that's a very serious problem. The internet isn't really a place to gain an informed opinion over things."
This is incorrect, I believe the internet is a great place to teach oneself. The problem is resources are often all over the place, the real issue is searching for high quality resources and then combining them in one place. The other aspect is the quality of the language in a curriculum and how ideas are framed.
All people teach themselves stuff on their own everyday, how do you think somebody learned language? Most kids learn to speak without having to be explicitly taught. Every time you get into a car you are actually learning on the go (adapting and changing in response to your environment).
The real hard problem is that not everyone has the same potential, work ethic or quality of judgement to teach themselves.
The idea that learning doesn't take discipline is the issue. One has to have discipline and also be at the right stage of ones life (readyness).
Our whole western notion of "educating" children is often wrong, human beings have natural rhythms and cycles when they are more or less ready to be in a mature and disciplined enough state to seek and value learning. I would say most of public school and high school for many kids is totally wasted already because kids curiosity has been killed and there is too much distraction and toys (videogames, etc).
The whole idea that learning can be valued for it's own sake is flawed, since all human beings have limits on time, energy, tiredness, boredom, etc.
"IANAL but if you copied my game, and put a new name on it I'd be a little upset too."
This is why intellectual property is a bad thing. At what point do you stop? Do we start copyrighting pixels, squares, shapes? I think the whole IP thing reeks.
This private ownership of things the public has INVESTED IN but the public gets no partial-stake in the copyright is bullshit. This is corporatism and can do nothing but stifle recombination of old and new ideas and new takes on old ideas.
"The kind of cosmic inbreeding you describe can't be good."
According to evolution we are all inbred. The whole idea of our existence requires it, it's only that populations are now so large and geographically isolated over geological time that we don't notice, its far removed.
"Probably because governments should be held accountable for their actions by their citizens and not the opposite?"
In theory this is how it's supposed to work, in practice the logistics don't work out very well. If anything someones going to write a book about how governments should be structured in the future and the failures of western model governments.
See the twins that can understand and/or hear each others thoughts
http://gizmodo.com/5682758/the-fascinating-story-of-the-twins-who-share-brains-thoughts-and-senses