The State would probably find it quite economical to establish a database of public domain textbooks. Especially for fields that don't change much. They may even HIRE THE AUTHORS DIRECTLY to write the textbooks for them, or to update existing documents for which they have rights. Fields that change rapidly may have to go to a wiki-based format that can be downloaded as a flat file. There are already repositories of public domain and CC texts that can be utilized, and the argument that high-speed networking is needed? Bullshit. Tons of files got moved around on old-fashioned BBS systems and disks moved via sneakernet. Even a cheap, SMALL thumbdrive can hold one hell of a reference library, recreational library, database, podcasts, etc...
The Publishing Industry may be skeptical because of the downsides of a net-based education system vs a dead-tree based system, but they can't be expected to be objective.
I played a "no glasses" arcade game back in 1991. No scan lines, flicker, or color bleed, just high def that puts my 43 incher to shame. Of course, it was in the PX at the Army Signal School. More geeks per square foot than anyplace else I've ever seen. Literally THOUSANDS, and not an English major to be seen!
You're exactly right. When I was in basic training the Drill Sargent was droning on about racism not working with the ethnic diversity of the soldiers. "This soldier is white, this one brown, this one black. We even have a guy from china!" "Excuse me, I'm not from China. I'm from Laredo, TX." He just had Mayan ancestors!
Another option is that the "robot" leap-frogs from OUR evolutionary development. A likely development, imho, is for cerebral prosthetics to be implemented for persons with disabilities or extreme processing requirements, e.g. autistics, network admins, security professionals, engineers, quadraplegics, head injury survivors, stroke and alzheimer's victims, etc... It would become a 4th brain layer (reptilian, mammalian, cortex, cyber), starting out as a "thin" implementation (communication or bodily control), and developing into a "thick" layer (symbol manipulation, concurrent mental tasks, emotion simulation calculations, backup/replace neural networks with sims, etc...). When the layer gets thick and pervasive enough, it would survive the removal of the biological base. It would have developed from OUR evolution, with OUR biological imperatives as a GUIDE, not a requirement.
So we could see "borgs" that look and act like super suave, charismatic, models (why look like a pasty geek when you can be a tan, buff, Ken doll?) that are effectively immortal. The straight biological humans won't be able to compete with them mentally, socially, physically, or likely economically. The "borgs" will wind up running things, and the humans won't be exterminated, they'll be groomed and developed like prize pets, and given upgrade to full borg status for the exceptional ones. It could easily be the "anti-Terminator" plot: the borgs take power, and become humanity's greatest benefactor, making us greater than nature ever could.
And your cry-baby, whiny, criticism effectively does WHAT? Go cry in your beer, bitch. Real men are busy learning how to roll their own distros, for their own needs, and getting shit done.
Nice straw man, there. I don't remember being required to buy Netscape Navigator (the big IE competitor).
This whole thread seems to be deteriorating into Linux fanbois vs MS fanbois. I'm personally in the *nux camp, but I understand that people fear change, including the technically literate. MS seems to be these peoples' binky, to help with their anxiety.
I suppose I do see a resemblance between Vista/Win7/Win8(?) and Ubuntu, if you make the GUI look like a pimped up Win 3.1, lock up the powerful capabilities (if they don't pay for the "Ultimate" version), install backdoors, and bury all the services under encryption and DRM. If the UI starts getting slow, just do what MS did for Win7: set the windowmanager priority a little higher. The task will still take just as long, but the UI will feel more responsive to the user.
"It's about time we started throwing Presidents and Prime Ministers in jail." Well, that's not going to happen. Not in Amerika, anyways.
Haven't you heard? It's not illegal if the President does it. Unfortunately, the laws have been corrupted enough that's true.
People keep assuming that the problem was that the NSA got caught "overstepping" the law. I'm sure the NSA is busy working to fix that. Getting caught, that is.
You sound like my kids,"That happened last year. That's ancient history!" You're being a model example of the consumer with no memory. "We fucked 'em hard last Christmas shopping season, but they have no memory so we'll do it again this year! More money!"
If you forget your history, you're doomed to repeat it. And not the good parts.
I put easypeasy 1.0 on mine, and set up the standard Ubuntu interface. It's so sweet. I have it sitting on my desk at work playing music and videos, downloading torrents, checking the network, and talking to my servers, while my other 2 systems are doing paying work. It's like having a Nintendo DS for a non-gamer geek.
You forgot the other option: There wasn't any warrant issued. I happened to "see" a raid executed several years ago without a warrant (in Dallas). When we asked to see it, the cop in charge said,"Don't worry, we'll have one by the time we get to the jail." I spent 4 days in a holding cell before being released with all charges dropped against me. My friend wound up in court with a disbelieving judge catching the arresting cops in lies, and who dismissed the whole case after 15 min of police testimony. It still cost my friend several months and thousands of dollars for his lawyer to prepare a defense.
That absolutely killed ANY trust in the legal system (there is no JUSTICE in it).
I've got Karma to burn, and you just hit a sore spot for me, MoFo. My wife and I are both degreed electronics techs, worked in aerospace, and TOGETHER brought in $70K for a few months, then 9/11 happened, her job got off-shored, I got laid-off and informed I was "over qualified". I was out of work for almost 2 years, lost our home and cars, my credit has been wrecked for years, I've had to change my career and start over, yada, yada, yada...
We've had to live in my parents basement, move into a rural area, and finally live in a 20 year-old single-wide trailer and raising 3 kids (one special-needs) on $24K.
If you were standing in front of me I'd stab you in the eye.
"I don't think the labels care if other rightsholders get a fair share, they only care about their own pockets and as long as they get paid, they don't sue." But do they hold MULTIPLE rights? If so, you could pay the protection squeeze and STILL be open for a lawsuit because you didn't pay the squeeze for ALL the rights.
You ducked the left hook, but the uppercut got you...
My roommate and I both got hit with "Gnats' Ass" virus back in the mid 90's. It was nasty, embedded itself in executables, MBR, any CDs we burned... My roommate had it stuck in his BIOS even *ouch*. A virus written in assembler doesn't have to be huge, or hit all motherboards, just enough of the right ones to propagate.
"The logistics involved with actually having a non-trivial number of these things up in the air over urban areas without mass casualties are just too difficult."
Who said that you had to let craft fly over urban areas? Air traffic over cities is usually confined to certain altitudes/directions/areas. Why change this for flying cars? If it's flying, it's governed by FAA flight rules.
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Marconi's ocsillator was a generator made by Westinghouse. The generator was designed by Nikola.
The State would probably find it quite economical to establish a database of public domain textbooks. Especially for fields that don't change much. They may even HIRE THE AUTHORS DIRECTLY to write the textbooks for them, or to update existing documents for which they have rights. Fields that change rapidly may have to go to a wiki-based format that can be downloaded as a flat file. There are already repositories of public domain and CC texts that can be utilized, and the argument that high-speed networking is needed? Bullshit. Tons of files got moved around on old-fashioned BBS systems and disks moved via sneakernet. Even a cheap, SMALL thumbdrive can hold one hell of a reference library, recreational library, database, podcasts, etc...
The Publishing Industry may be skeptical because of the downsides of a net-based education system vs a dead-tree based system, but they can't be expected to be objective.
Should have said sure, if you got half the kickback from the publisher!
I played a "no glasses" arcade game back in 1991. No scan lines, flicker, or color bleed, just high def that puts my 43 incher to shame. Of course, it was in the PX at the Army Signal School. More geeks per square foot than anyplace else I've ever seen. Literally THOUSANDS, and not an English major to be seen!
You're exactly right. When I was in basic training the Drill Sargent was droning on about racism not working with the ethnic diversity of the soldiers.
"This soldier is white, this one brown, this one black. We even have a guy from china!"
"Excuse me, I'm not from China. I'm from Laredo, TX." He just had Mayan ancestors!
Another option is that the "robot" leap-frogs from OUR evolutionary development. A likely development, imho, is for cerebral prosthetics to be implemented for persons with disabilities or extreme processing requirements, e.g. autistics, network admins, security professionals, engineers, quadraplegics, head injury survivors, stroke and alzheimer's victims, etc... It would become a 4th brain layer (reptilian, mammalian, cortex, cyber), starting out as a "thin" implementation (communication or bodily control), and developing into a "thick" layer (symbol manipulation, concurrent mental tasks, emotion simulation calculations, backup/replace neural networks with sims, etc...). When the layer gets thick and pervasive enough, it would survive the removal of the biological base. It would have developed from OUR evolution, with OUR biological imperatives as a GUIDE, not a requirement.
So we could see "borgs" that look and act like super suave, charismatic, models (why look like a pasty geek when you can be a tan, buff, Ken doll?) that are effectively immortal. The straight biological humans won't be able to compete with them mentally, socially, physically, or likely economically. The "borgs" will wind up running things, and the humans won't be exterminated, they'll be groomed and developed like prize pets, and given upgrade to full borg status for the exceptional ones. It could easily be the "anti-Terminator" plot: the borgs take power, and become humanity's greatest benefactor, making us greater than nature ever could.
Or not.
Maybe not, but like I tell my friends, "I'm going to live forever, or die trying."
I will, too.
I want my pedestrian airbag to be in the shape of a grim reaper. They'll still die. Just of a heart attack!
And your cry-baby, whiny, criticism effectively does WHAT? Go cry in your beer, bitch. Real men are busy learning how to roll their own distros, for their own needs, and getting shit done.
You just go sit in the corner and cry.
Nice straw man, there. I don't remember being required to buy Netscape Navigator (the big IE competitor).
This whole thread seems to be deteriorating into Linux fanbois vs MS fanbois. I'm personally in the *nux camp, but I understand that people fear change, including the technically literate. MS seems to be these peoples' binky, to help with their anxiety.
I suppose I do see a resemblance between Vista/Win7/Win8(?) and Ubuntu, if you make the GUI look like a pimped up Win 3.1, lock up the powerful capabilities (if they don't pay for the "Ultimate" version), install backdoors, and bury all the services under encryption and DRM. If the UI starts getting slow, just do what MS did for Win7: set the windowmanager priority a little higher. The task will still take just as long, but the UI will feel more responsive to the user.
Please try to keep your bad guys straight: Ghostnet is run by the Chinese, and this is CIPAV.
"It's about time we started throwing Presidents and Prime Ministers in jail." Well, that's not going to happen. Not in Amerika, anyways.
Haven't you heard? It's not illegal if the President does it. Unfortunately, the laws have been corrupted enough that's true.
People keep assuming that the problem was that the NSA got caught "overstepping" the law. I'm sure the NSA is busy working to fix that. Getting caught, that is.
You sound like my kids,"That happened last year. That's ancient history!" You're being a model example of the consumer with no memory. "We fucked 'em hard last Christmas shopping season, but they have no memory so we'll do it again this year! More money!"
If you forget your history, you're doomed to repeat it. And not the good parts.
Why did they mod you Funny? You should have been modded Insightful!
I've heard of electricians putting incandescent lights in between florescent tube fixtures to "fill-in" and neutralize flicker.
I put easypeasy 1.0 on mine, and set up the standard Ubuntu interface. It's so sweet. I have it sitting on my desk at work playing music and videos, downloading torrents, checking the network, and talking to my servers, while my other 2 systems are doing paying work. It's like having a Nintendo DS for a non-gamer geek.
That is SO stup... er, yes?
You forgot the other option: There wasn't any warrant issued. I happened to "see" a raid executed several years ago without a warrant (in Dallas). When we asked to see it, the cop in charge said,"Don't worry, we'll have one by the time we get to the jail." I spent 4 days in a holding cell before being released with all charges dropped against me. My friend wound up in court with a disbelieving judge catching the arresting cops in lies, and who dismissed the whole case after 15 min of police testimony. It still cost my friend several months and thousands of dollars for his lawyer to prepare a defense.
That absolutely killed ANY trust in the legal system (there is no JUSTICE in it).
That's for sure, 'cause those burgers won't flip themselves!
I've got Karma to burn, and you just hit a sore spot for me, MoFo. My wife and I are both degreed electronics techs, worked in aerospace, and TOGETHER brought in $70K for a few months, then 9/11 happened, her job got off-shored, I got laid-off and informed I was "over qualified". I was out of work for almost 2 years, lost our home and cars, my credit has been wrecked for years, I've had to change my career and start over, yada, yada, yada...
We've had to live in my parents basement, move into a rural area, and finally live in a 20 year-old single-wide trailer and raising 3 kids (one special-needs) on $24K.
If you were standing in front of me I'd stab you in the eye.
"I don't think the labels care if other rightsholders get a fair share, they only care about their own pockets and as long as they get paid, they don't sue." But do they hold MULTIPLE rights? If so, you could pay the protection squeeze and STILL be open for a lawsuit because you didn't pay the squeeze for ALL the rights.
You ducked the left hook, but the uppercut got you...
My roommate and I both got hit with "Gnats' Ass" virus back in the mid 90's. It was nasty, embedded itself in executables, MBR, any CDs we burned... My roommate had it stuck in his BIOS even *ouch*. A virus written in assembler doesn't have to be huge, or hit all motherboards, just enough of the right ones to propagate.
"The logistics involved with actually having a non-trivial number of these things up in the air over urban areas without mass casualties are just too difficult."
Who said that you had to let craft fly over urban areas? Air traffic over cities is usually confined to certain altitudes/directions/areas. Why change this for flying cars? If it's flying, it's governed by FAA flight rules.
Please think before acting (speech is an act).