The trick is finding the correct balance between education and entertainment. Edutainment companies haven't seemed to be that effective. Edutainment seemed to be such a gimmick that few people put real effort into doing it right. Even the big hope of Leap Frog tended to fizzle out.
The one thing I remember being super effective for me was a math game for TI-99 where you counted, added, and subtracted. You got a "reward" of a small cut scene(been so long I forget it) if you got things right. I played that things for hours on end. I knew my education would be enhanced if I knew how to add and subtract like a pro.
There's a real market for video games that train people *ALL KNOWLEDGE KNOWN TO MAN* and sell it cheaply or for free with ads. Some people think the web has already accomplished this, but it hasn't. Take my example I had above of adding and subtracting. Kids so young can't navigate the web to get what they need. Also people who are intelligent can't always find the website they want. Even Wikipedia is only like "education lite". I think what needs to be done is some people to form some companies with the notion to train kids on educational topics with great skill.
It will take a lot of work to do this and funding, but there would be great rewards if you could make it so people can learn behind a computer without teachers. You can have paid or peer tutors in chatrooms and video conferances, so its not like the human element is gone, but less of an impact. Anyway, I'm doing this myself. First I'm making some Flash video games to get a bankroll. And once I've exhausted my ideas for fun video games, I'm moving into the educational "video game" arena. I don't even mind if big players are in it. I think the more people making education easier and more accessible across the world, the better! We can provide laptops to needy children, but if there's no software to give them an education, it won't impact their lives as much as it could.
A museum of video games would try and buy up every game ever made. Then people could pay admission to visit for the day and play every video game the museum collected. The goal of the museum is to own every video game ever made.
I love this stuff because people who lost limbs or are paralyzed can become fully functional if it comes to pass! This sort of thing inspires great hope. Still I think about strange mad scientist applications...
If an electrical connection can control an arm, how much longer until you can control a whole body?
Since its an electrical connection, it could also be a wireless connection so you could control things at a distance.
If you had a computer, it could control the body too.
If someone goes brain dead or a coma, a computer could use that body like a robot with the right wiring and WIFI.
Or what might happen is that it doesn't use people... The setup may use an animal instead.
Who wants a monkey butler with the brain of a computer? How about a spy cat?
I don't expect those things to actually happen because people have morality, but they could be possibilities. I think its more likely that robot bodies will be built by people, but this technology makes you wonder what strange things are possible.
Figure out which commands are synonymous with your known functions, and code how you always have.
Hard way:
Take a class and learn some new languages. You can still come up with your own coding style instead of doing everything to your prof's methodology. But he'll teach you some optimal ways.
Video recording your lectures for the world to see would be beneficial to humanity. But if every university did it, people could just watch videos instead of going to the universities.
I've heard that electric powered engines provide more torque than internal combustion. This added torque on the wheels means you lay tire instead of fully accelerate. Why hasn't someone made an electric car with very wide tires. The additional surface area could mean less spinning and more acceleration. A high speed car is a novelty in countries with a speed limit, but acceleration limits are something not really enforced. So it'd be really cool to have a car that shoved you into the back of your seat because it had the best acceleration of any car. Would having wider tires really help a situation like this? I'm talking anything from an additional couple centimeters to a solid tire that goes the whole way across your car and looks like a steamroller. This steamroller back tire could mean the car is rear wheel drive because I don't want to get into thinking how do you drive with it. This is just an idea I had recently. How feasible would it be?
Combine my post with yours, and you have a flawed mad scientist scheme of eradicating malaria.
Just so you know, I'm against this sort of thought mainly because I didn't put much into it. But its still something to discuss.
Step 1: Make Mosquito that can't contract Malaria (check)
Step 2: Be really sure this gene is a dominant gene.
Step 3: Make Super Bug who can't die to a certain kind of bug spray
Step 4: Release Super Mosquito into wild.
Step 5: Spray bug spray to kill off a majority of mosquitoes without Super Bug gene.
Step 6: Let population regrow.
Step 7: Spray Bug spray periodically to make sure non Super Bug mosquitos get weeded out of the gene pool.
First we find a gene we want expressed.
Next we breed a super mosquito which is much hardier, has better survivability and better mating potential.
Scary, but it actually could be someones thought process.
If you've ever seen a Blizzard forum, they're some of the worst trolled forums I've ever seen. Blizzard needs to do something. Blizzard looks to be grasping at straws though. What Blizzard really needs is a moderation system like Slashdot.
I am writing a Christian book, and one article I was writing was about Intellectual property. Big media seems to try and argue that,"Downloading is stealing and it just isn't morally correct", but we all know they come from a biased standpoint. Big Media has something to lose, and the rest of the world has something to gain. My friend who is co-authoring the book didn't feel I convinced him that "Free Media" is the future and Big Media is a dying relic fighting for as long as it can against the world.
I'm opening up a video game museum and will try to get every video game ever made. I'll charge admission and people can play the video games and learn about video game history.
I can't see how God hurts the world since he teaches us to love one another and forgive each other.
Indeed we're called to love people who even do evil to us. God is good, so he wants everyone to do good regardless of what happens to them. If you can philosophically explain why being good, forgiving and loving at all times is bad for humanity, I'd like to hear it. But if you just want to pick out "Christians" in name only behaving badly in the news, I don't want to hear it. The news seldom covers Christian missionaries helping the poor because it happens so often its no longer newsworthy.
Step 1) Get famous with eye stream.
Step 2) Some women start to like you.
Step 3) A few women(one?) will think its funny showing up at all the places you're at.
On the plus side, if you start dating she won't ask annoying questions,"Where have you been all night?"
I want to hear stories like this. I want to know if Solar Sails are viable. Back in highschool I wondered about a space ship propulsion device. My theory was to make particle accelerators to get the maximum propulsion out of hydrogen atoms and fire them out the back of the craft. The problem was you could run out of hydrogen. Its not something serious, but just trying to figure out something better than rockets. The solar sail sounds like it is plausible, and I'll be excited to hear this story develop. The last thing I was excited about was the Mars Rovers. How cool were those.
Korea used to be weak in the 98-99 years of Starcraft because they were predictable. You could tell they were clicking at speeds 2x as well as you, and they were using a good strategy, but the fact was they all used the same strategy. I think it was attributed to them having internet cafes where they all hung out and shared strategies. The strategy EVERYONE used was muta/ling. Since I was Terran at the time, I'd just make marines, hold my choke, tech to scivessels, and win. Irradiate > Mutalisks, so I'd win almost every time.
Now I was planning on making my big comeback into Starcraft2. My theory was I've been #1 in ladder in SC1 and War3 that I could do it again for SC2, but this time I'd bring the heat with long play hours. My goal was to either make some money on Progaming, or get a job with Blizzard. Two problems stand in my way though: 1) I got a job with a promising company making video games so its like I accomplished my goal already. 2) Starcraft2 is buggy still in beta, and I get dropped from random games resulting in a loss.
Not everyone gets my bug in SC2, but its due to their code not attempting to reconnect to Battle.net when dropped. Also SC2 does not support rejoining games, like Heroes of Newerth does. I'd think with a big budget that SC2 would have it all, but they don't even have chat rooms yet.
I'm going to buy SC2 and play it casually, probably get #1 on their divisional ladder(meaningless compared to a real ladder), but things have changed, and I can't honestly bring it to the Koreans anymore because I don't have the time to get a perfected game. If they had professional leagues for SC2 in the states like professional sports in the states, I'd be pro easy. There's just not any infrastructure for pro games in the states like Korea has. I'm a little jealous:)
Lets say 5 years ago you bought three tractor trailer full of taxable items you resale. You sell $50,000 worth of stuff, but you actually paid $45,000 for the stuff initially. Do you have to pay taxes on $50,000 or the $5,000 difference?
Christianity worships love for God is love.
People may say science has nothing to do with love, but they're wrong.
Many people are into science because they want to help humanity, and that is a good form of love.
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All symbols are not created =
Super man already tried and failed to destroy the sun with atomic weapons.
The trick is finding the correct balance between education and entertainment. Edutainment companies haven't seemed to be that effective. Edutainment seemed to be such a gimmick that few people put real effort into doing it right. Even the big hope of Leap Frog tended to fizzle out.
The one thing I remember being super effective for me was a math game for TI-99 where you counted, added, and subtracted. You got a "reward" of a small cut scene(been so long I forget it) if you got things right. I played that things for hours on end. I knew my education would be enhanced if I knew how to add and subtract like a pro.
There's a real market for video games that train people *ALL KNOWLEDGE KNOWN TO MAN* and sell it cheaply or for free with ads. Some people think the web has already accomplished this, but it hasn't. Take my example I had above of adding and subtracting. Kids so young can't navigate the web to get what they need. Also people who are intelligent can't always find the website they want. Even Wikipedia is only like "education lite". I think what needs to be done is some people to form some companies with the notion to train kids on educational topics with great skill.
It will take a lot of work to do this and funding, but there would be great rewards if you could make it so people can learn behind a computer without teachers. You can have paid or peer tutors in chatrooms and video conferances, so its not like the human element is gone, but less of an impact. Anyway, I'm doing this myself. First I'm making some Flash video games to get a bankroll. And once I've exhausted my ideas for fun video games, I'm moving into the educational "video game" arena. I don't even mind if big players are in it. I think the more people making education easier and more accessible across the world, the better! We can provide laptops to needy children, but if there's no software to give them an education, it won't impact their lives as much as it could.
A museum of video games would try and buy up every game ever made. Then people could pay admission to visit for the day and play every video game the museum collected. The goal of the museum is to own every video game ever made.
I love this stuff because people who lost limbs or are paralyzed can become fully functional if it comes to pass! This sort of thing inspires great hope. Still I think about strange mad scientist applications...
If an electrical connection can control an arm, how much longer until you can control a whole body?
Since its an electrical connection, it could also be a wireless connection so you could control things at a distance.
If you had a computer, it could control the body too.
If someone goes brain dead or a coma, a computer could use that body like a robot with the right wiring and WIFI.
Or what might happen is that it doesn't use people... The setup may use an animal instead.
Who wants a monkey butler with the brain of a computer? How about a spy cat?
I don't expect those things to actually happen because people have morality, but they could be possibilities. I think its more likely that robot bodies will be built by people, but this technology makes you wonder what strange things are possible.
Easy way:
Figure out which commands are synonymous with your known functions, and code how you always have.
Hard way:
Take a class and learn some new languages. You can still come up with your own coding style instead of doing everything to your prof's methodology. But he'll teach you some optimal ways.
Video recording your lectures for the world to see would be beneficial to humanity. But if every university did it, people could just watch videos instead of going to the universities.
I've heard that electric powered engines provide more torque than internal combustion. This added torque on the wheels means you lay tire instead of fully accelerate. Why hasn't someone made an electric car with very wide tires. The additional surface area could mean less spinning and more acceleration. A high speed car is a novelty in countries with a speed limit, but acceleration limits are something not really enforced. So it'd be really cool to have a car that shoved you into the back of your seat because it had the best acceleration of any car. Would having wider tires really help a situation like this? I'm talking anything from an additional couple centimeters to a solid tire that goes the whole way across your car and looks like a steamroller. This steamroller back tire could mean the car is rear wheel drive because I don't want to get into thinking how do you drive with it. This is just an idea I had recently. How feasible would it be?
Combine my post with yours, and you have a flawed mad scientist scheme of eradicating malaria. Just so you know, I'm against this sort of thought mainly because I didn't put much into it. But its still something to discuss.
Step 1: Make Mosquito that can't contract Malaria (check)
Step 2: Be really sure this gene is a dominant gene.
Step 3: Make Super Bug who can't die to a certain kind of bug spray
Step 4: Release Super Mosquito into wild.
Step 5: Spray bug spray to kill off a majority of mosquitoes without Super Bug gene.
Step 6: Let population regrow.
Step 7: Spray Bug spray periodically to make sure non Super Bug mosquitos get weeded out of the gene pool.
First we find a gene we want expressed.
Next we breed a super mosquito which is much hardier, has better survivability and better mating potential.
Scary, but it actually could be someones thought process.
So you can go over 900 miles with your car. Thats over 9000 decimiles.
If you've ever seen a Blizzard forum, they're some of the worst trolled forums I've ever seen. Blizzard needs to do something. Blizzard looks to be grasping at straws though. What Blizzard really needs is a moderation system like Slashdot.
Thank you johnhp.
,"Downloading is stealing and it just isn't morally correct", but we all know they come from a biased standpoint. Big Media has something to lose, and the rest of the world has something to gain. My friend who is co-authoring the book didn't feel I convinced him that "Free Media" is the future and Big Media is a dying relic fighting for as long as it can against the world.
I am writing a Christian book, and one article I was writing was about Intellectual property. Big media seems to try and argue that
please move along
A Knuther comment and I'm out of here.
I'm opening up a video game museum and will try to get every video game ever made. I'll charge admission and people can play the video games and learn about video game history.
I know God is real, Jesus is LORD.
I can't see how God hurts the world since he teaches us to love one another and forgive each other.
Indeed we're called to love people who even do evil to us. God is good, so he wants everyone to do good regardless of what happens to them. If you can philosophically explain why being good, forgiving and loving at all times is bad for humanity, I'd like to hear it. But if you just want to pick out "Christians" in name only behaving badly in the news, I don't want to hear it. The news seldom covers Christian missionaries helping the poor because it happens so often its no longer newsworthy.
Step 1) Get famous with eye stream.
Step 2) Some women start to like you.
Step 3) A few women(one?) will think its funny showing up at all the places you're at.
On the plus side, if you start dating she won't ask annoying questions,"Where have you been all night?"
The very though of it was Ludacris.
I want to hear stories like this. I want to know if Solar Sails are viable. Back in highschool I wondered about a space ship propulsion device. My theory was to make particle accelerators to get the maximum propulsion out of hydrogen atoms and fire them out the back of the craft. The problem was you could run out of hydrogen. Its not something serious, but just trying to figure out something better than rockets. The solar sail sounds like it is plausible, and I'll be excited to hear this story develop. The last thing I was excited about was the Mars Rovers. How cool were those.
Shouldn't all online publishing be free?
Anyone have a link to Monty Python Siemens training skits?
Korea used to be weak in the 98-99 years of Starcraft because they were predictable. You could tell they were clicking at speeds 2x as well as you, and they were using a good strategy, but the fact was they all used the same strategy. I think it was attributed to them having internet cafes where they all hung out and shared strategies. The strategy EVERYONE used was muta/ling. Since I was Terran at the time, I'd just make marines, hold my choke, tech to scivessels, and win. Irradiate > Mutalisks, so I'd win almost every time.
:)
Now I was planning on making my big comeback into Starcraft2. My theory was I've been #1 in ladder in SC1 and War3 that I could do it again for SC2, but this time I'd bring the heat with long play hours. My goal was to either make some money on Progaming, or get a job with Blizzard. Two problems stand in my way though: 1) I got a job with a promising company making video games so its like I accomplished my goal already. 2) Starcraft2 is buggy still in beta, and I get dropped from random games resulting in a loss.
Not everyone gets my bug in SC2, but its due to their code not attempting to reconnect to Battle.net when dropped. Also SC2 does not support rejoining games, like Heroes of Newerth does. I'd think with a big budget that SC2 would have it all, but they don't even have chat rooms yet.
I'm going to buy SC2 and play it casually, probably get #1 on their divisional ladder(meaningless compared to a real ladder), but things have changed, and I can't honestly bring it to the Koreans anymore because I don't have the time to get a perfected game. If they had professional leagues for SC2 in the states like professional sports in the states, I'd be pro easy. There's just not any infrastructure for pro games in the states like Korea has. I'm a little jealous
Lets say 5 years ago you bought three tractor trailer full of taxable items you resale. You sell $50,000 worth of stuff, but you actually paid $45,000 for the stuff initially. Do you have to pay taxes on $50,000 or the $5,000 difference?
Christianity worships love for God is love.
People may say science has nothing to do with love, but they're wrong.
Many people are into science because they want to help humanity, and that is a good form of love.