Why do they need a job? Why can't they be freed to follow their dreams? Wasn't that the plan? Robotics, computers, etc, freeing us from the tyranny of labour?
Why does everyone get excited and upset over high unemployment figures? Shouldn't we be working towards 100% unemployment as technology frees us to follow our creative and intellectual pursuits?
Imagine the horror story news headline of the future: "Black day for employment! Employment rose above 5% for the first time in 50 years! Ministers calling for the Prime Minister to step down!"
Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? If free copies of cars could be created without cost? Just imagine how much money people would save! They are expensive items. They then could use that money for other things that they want/need.
But if you can replicate cars at no cost, then you could probably replicate just about anything at no cost, and then, that is heading down the road to utopia, where anyone can have just about anything they way for free. Awesome. Of course, there is a danger in such a society as well, that of the Lotus Eaters, but that's a problem for tomorrow. The economics of scarcity still dominate the minds of those who run businesses. They need to realize in the age of the internet and electronic good, they need to change to the economics of unlimited supply, which requires a completely different business model.
Force users to chose complex passwords they write them down or learn what the minimum requirement is and create something stupidly simple anyway. Or they constantly forget their complex passwords and are bugging the admins to reset their passwords every 5 mins. Final variant is they use the same complex password for all systems. So, its fairly secure from brute force or random guessing, but once a hacker has one password, he has them all... one password to rule them all etc.
I've used systems with ridiculous requirements where i've not been able to remember 1 hour later what the hell i used. Something like requiring at least one capital, one number, one punctuation mark, no more than 2 consecutive characters, and no less than 12 characters. I ended up with something like this: Aabbaabbaabb1!
but the low numbers of problems is a testament to Valve's commitment to makes sure it stays a value adding form of DRM rather than value subtracting.
I'm sure their hearts are in the right place, but the only "value add" that comes from DRM is for the supplier, never for the purchaser. All DRM does is makes it harder for the legitimate purchaser to play/use/copy their own legally purchased copy.
LOL... And, just to reinforce my belief, my internet just dropped 2 seconds after making this post. If I was playing an always online game at that point, my game would have either stopped/lagged badly/or maybe just crashed.
but I'm already boycotting any always connected games or any other product. I can live without, plenty of other good games available, plus my back catalog of awesome games that i always go back to, and thanks to visualization, i can always return to even the oldest ones.
After the Bioware debacle where they disabled their authentication servers (fortunately games still playable online) and Gamespy shutting down their old servers (without the publishers releasing patches to enable online matchups without gamespy - eg: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance), I'm totally against any form of always-on connection.
I'm not even willing to trust Steam now. I believe Gabe is a good man, and as long as he is at the helm things will be cool, but one day he will be gone, and when the first profit oriented CEO takes over, it will just turn into another EA or Ubisoft, and at that point, support for old games will suddenly disappear, and one by one, those games you paid for will no longer work. Or at least that is my guess... i'm not willing to risk it. I want the games i bought to be mine.
But i think its a good move for the reasons many have already mentioned.
One point i think has been missed, is as i understand it, TPB is ok with people using their CSS and stuff, as long as they ask permission first.... which the CIAPC didn't.
I wonder if this was actually a bit of a sting job or an IT guy within the CIAPC having a laugh.
Boss: We want to make a parody of TPB Mr. IT Guy... whip us one up. IT Guy: LOL... oh boy, i'm going to have some LULZ here.
I just modded this funny, then discovered that someone has modded it insightful! LOL.
I mean, Ubuntu is not my choice of distro. I'm currently switching to Mint, and yeah, its going to be a games box, playing mainly older windows games and some linux ones, but meets my needs.
The funny mod point was mainly awarded for the Aliens: Colonial Marines comment though, which is getting totally panned by all the games reviewers. You'd probably be doing yourself a favour by switching to Linux.:-P
I did this once. Spoke to them about it. Said i didn't like it and would only accept a modified version which said they only owned my creations if i used their time or equipment. They agreed.
You teach understanding through examples. Practical application (where possible).
Measure progress? You do not test with standard tests which basically require memorization. You test by seeing how they can apply their understanding. This can be done via practical sessions (rather subjective, requires good teachers with a good understanding themselves and a critical eye). Or you make the tests more open and allow students research time and materials as part of the test. Its the ability to apply knowledge that counts in the real world. Of course, this means they can't automate scoring and it also requires impartial and intelligent assessors, and lots of time, so that's probably not an option unfortunately.
There is a difference between remembering principles and knowing how to approach problems than memorizing facts.
Yeah, for me the warning bells signalled back in tum-te-tum-oh-one when they named it HOMELAND security. I mean, that was totally blatant, but the US public seemed to fail to notice it. I mean. Fatherland (Nazis), Motherland (Commies).... how could they fail to notice the similarity?
After seeing all the cam videos I think I'd need a tank to be on the road in Russia.
Drivers, pedestrians, all crazy. Driving too fast when it's icy. And what's with pedestrians running into the path of cars in winter? Trying to commit suicide?
Its a typical swear word, used similar to how we use "shit" or "fuck". Other common ones are "yo moyo" "yob tvoyu mat" "pizdetz" and "kazul". Last one means literally "goat" and you shout it at other drivers who cut you up and stuff while making a variety of hand signals.
Driving in Russia is a fun game, but not for the faint of heart. Generally any drive of more than a kilometer or two around a city will enable you to see an accident or three.
If you are in an accident it usually takes several hours for the police to arrive, which is just lovely when the temperature is -20 or -30.
A previous poster mentioned that whoever gives the bigger bribe gets the better report, and its pretty true. Most road police will accept bribes, even though there was a big purge against corruption in my city a few years ago, things got a little better after that. Having a car video is a definite good idea.
What happens when the Master key is found/hacked/whatever?
I mean, the big hacking groups, you know, the real criminal ones with the money, are probably salivating at the idea of finding an exploit or getting their hands on the master key. Its really only a function of time, and even money that it happens in the next few years. Hell, they could probably throw enough money at someone within MS with access to the master key and have it within a few days if they knew who would be open to taking a bribe.
Still, i'm pretty much with the camp that thinks this is all useless security theater. I haven't seen a virus in years that did anything to the BIOS or pre-OS loading stage. They usually just rely on people's stupidity to click "yes" to everything and boom, their OS is compromised anyway.
I haven't used it yet. I'm quite leery of it. I really didn't like the idea of ribbon's in office and still have annoyances even after years of working with them.
But one adapts to these things, even if they are a step backwards, and in some cases they are a step forward.
The video, even if you take into account irrational bias or whatever, still has some pretty damning comments.
However, the biggest put off for me is... well... just look at it. Its just plain fugly. As OSes go, its the equivalent of the ugly girl in your class at school. Yes, you remember the one. The one who nobody would ever date, except as part of some nasty dare, which would inevitably leave the poor girl even more depressed. This is Metro... hell, even CDE or windowmaker could look nicer than this. And... can i have a desktop background please? Something that identifies my desktop, personalizes it, shows it as being mine?
Now, plenty of people have mentioned installing a classic shell program. That's cool. I love things that allow you to customize your desktop, but that is flying in the face of where MS want to go, and as Windows RT, Windows 9, etc are developed further, i imagine this is going to become harder and harder to do.
For all its faults,Linux is awesome because i can chose the desktop interface of my choice, and customize like crazy. This is what we are losing with Metro and the planned direction for Windows.
And there goes control our of the window. Its fine on a phone, its not mission critical. But consider the workplace.
You're a developer, and you have your browser open on a page with some info that you will need later. Took you a while to dig it out. You don't want to bookmark it, its just for using once. But you go back to your dev environment, work work work, time passes... hmmm, time to compile. Compiler is getting a bit memory hungry... hmmm, you've not used the browser for a while, so it gets closed? Wow. Ok, you have browser history, but id say thats an annoyance.
Perhaps a more "regular" user version could be more helpful.
Cashiers in banks. I've seen how long it takes them to fire up their systems and log in to the various apps they need, the security measures etc. For example, they have their own bank's system, various affiliated ones, and maybe some additional like money transfer stuff for Western Union. Now, they may only do a WU transfer a few times a day, so that app is going to get pretty "sleepy" under metro. These things usually have activity time outs anyway, but at least its just a case of reinputting password, not relaunching the entire app. And i've seen that take a few minutes while it makes all the necessary connections to DBs and stuff.
Now that is going to slow down the speed of service. Not something a bank is looking for.
So soon technology will release us all from the slavery of work? I hope so, they have been promising it for decades already! 99% unemployment here we come! Woo hoo!
Pioneer is only alpha, but has linux, Mac, and Windows binaries. And its already awesome, just wait for the final release... schedule unknown, but hell, even alpha is playable.
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Haha, i've never heard of Funduntu before. Sounds like what you would get if you mixed Microsoft with Ubuntu... FUDunutu.
with the prevalence of advertising and corporations dominating everything, you can be sure that soon the answer to all questions will be "Pepsi"
http://homepage.smc.edu/nestler_andrew/pepsi.jpg
Why do they need a job? Why can't they be freed to follow their dreams? Wasn't that the plan? Robotics, computers, etc, freeing us from the tyranny of labour?
Why does everyone get excited and upset over high unemployment figures? Shouldn't we be working towards 100% unemployment as technology frees us to follow our creative and intellectual pursuits?
Imagine the horror story news headline of the future: "Black day for employment! Employment rose above 5% for the first time in 50 years! Ministers calling for the Prime Minister to step down!"
Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? If free copies of cars could be created without cost? Just imagine how much money people would save! They are expensive items. They then could use that money for other things that they want/need.
But if you can replicate cars at no cost, then you could probably replicate just about anything at no cost, and then, that is heading down the road to utopia, where anyone can have just about anything they way for free. Awesome. Of course, there is a danger in such a society as well, that of the Lotus Eaters, but that's a problem for tomorrow. The economics of scarcity still dominate the minds of those who run businesses. They need to realize in the age of the internet and electronic good, they need to change to the economics of unlimited supply, which requires a completely different business model.
Damn my lack of mod points today. +1
Force users to chose complex passwords they write them down or learn what the minimum requirement is and create something stupidly simple anyway. Or they constantly forget their complex passwords and are bugging the admins to reset their passwords every 5 mins. Final variant is they use the same complex password for all systems. So, its fairly secure from brute force or random guessing, but once a hacker has one password, he has them all... one password to rule them all etc.
I've used systems with ridiculous requirements where i've not been able to remember 1 hour later what the hell i used. Something like requiring at least one capital, one number, one punctuation mark, no more than 2 consecutive characters, and no less than 12 characters. I ended up with something like this: Aabbaabbaabb1!
I endorse this!
but the low numbers of problems is a testament to Valve's commitment to makes sure it stays a value adding form of DRM rather than value subtracting.
I'm sure their hearts are in the right place, but the only "value add" that comes from DRM is for the supplier, never for the purchaser. All DRM does is makes it harder for the legitimate purchaser to play/use/copy their own legally purchased copy.
LOL... And, just to reinforce my belief, my internet just dropped 2 seconds after making this post. If I was playing an always online game at that point, my game would have either stopped/lagged badly/or maybe just crashed.
but I'm already boycotting any always connected games or any other product. I can live without, plenty of other good games available, plus my back catalog of awesome games that i always go back to, and thanks to visualization, i can always return to even the oldest ones.
After the Bioware debacle where they disabled their authentication servers (fortunately games still playable online) and Gamespy shutting down their old servers (without the publishers releasing patches to enable online matchups without gamespy - eg: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance), I'm totally against any form of always-on connection.
I'm not even willing to trust Steam now. I believe Gabe is a good man, and as long as he is at the helm things will be cool, but one day he will be gone, and when the first profit oriented CEO takes over, it will just turn into another EA or Ubisoft, and at that point, support for old games will suddenly disappear, and one by one, those games you paid for will no longer work. Or at least that is my guess... i'm not willing to risk it. I want the games i bought to be mine.
So when do they disband the TSA and Fatherland^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Homeland security?
But i think its a good move for the reasons many have already mentioned.
One point i think has been missed, is as i understand it, TPB is ok with people using their CSS and stuff, as long as they ask permission first.... which the CIAPC didn't.
I wonder if this was actually a bit of a sting job or an IT guy within the CIAPC having a laugh.
Boss: We want to make a parody of TPB Mr. IT Guy... whip us one up.
IT Guy: LOL... oh boy, i'm going to have some LULZ here.
I just modded this funny, then discovered that someone has modded it insightful! LOL.
I mean, Ubuntu is not my choice of distro. I'm currently switching to Mint, and yeah, its going to be a games box, playing mainly older windows games and some linux ones, but meets my needs.
The funny mod point was mainly awarded for the Aliens: Colonial Marines comment though, which is getting totally panned by all the games reviewers. You'd probably be doing yourself a favour by switching to Linux. :-P
Anyway, mod point gone now.
I think this is a good response: http://jackofkent.blogspot.ru/2010/05/reply-given-in-arkell-v-pressdram.html
I did this once. Spoke to them about it. Said i didn't like it and would only accept a modified version which said they only owned my creations if i used their time or equipment. They agreed.
You teach understanding through examples. Practical application (where possible).
Measure progress? You do not test with standard tests which basically require memorization. You test by seeing how they can apply their understanding. This can be done via practical sessions (rather subjective, requires good teachers with a good understanding themselves and a critical eye). Or you make the tests more open and allow students research time and materials as part of the test. Its the ability to apply knowledge that counts in the real world. Of course, this means they can't automate scoring and it also requires impartial and intelligent assessors, and lots of time, so that's probably not an option unfortunately.
There is a difference between remembering principles and knowing how to approach problems than memorizing facts.
Yeah, for me the warning bells signalled back in tum-te-tum-oh-one when they named it HOMELAND security. I mean, that was totally blatant, but the US public seemed to fail to notice it. I mean. Fatherland (Nazis), Motherland (Commies).... how could they fail to notice the similarity?
After seeing all the cam videos I think I'd need a tank to be on the road in Russia.
Drivers, pedestrians, all crazy. Driving too fast when it's icy. And what's with pedestrians running into the path of cars in winter? Trying to commit suicide?
Insurance scams.
Its a typical swear word, used similar to how we use "shit" or "fuck". Other common ones are "yo moyo" "yob tvoyu mat" "pizdetz" and "kazul". Last one means literally "goat" and you shout it at other drivers who cut you up and stuff while making a variety of hand signals.
Driving in Russia is a fun game, but not for the faint of heart. Generally any drive of more than a kilometer or two around a city will enable you to see an accident or three.
If you are in an accident it usually takes several hours for the police to arrive, which is just lovely when the temperature is -20 or -30.
A previous poster mentioned that whoever gives the bigger bribe gets the better report, and its pretty true. Most road police will accept bribes, even though there was a big purge against corruption in my city a few years ago, things got a little better after that. Having a car video is a definite good idea.
What happens when the Master key is found/hacked/whatever?
I mean, the big hacking groups, you know, the real criminal ones with the money, are probably salivating at the idea of finding an exploit or getting their hands on the master key. Its really only a function of time, and even money that it happens in the next few years. Hell, they could probably throw enough money at someone within MS with access to the master key and have it within a few days if they knew who would be open to taking a bribe.
Still, i'm pretty much with the camp that thinks this is all useless security theater. I haven't seen a virus in years that did anything to the BIOS or pre-OS loading stage. They usually just rely on people's stupidity to click "yes" to everything and boom, their OS is compromised anyway.
I haven't used it yet. I'm quite leery of it. I really didn't like the idea of ribbon's in office and still have annoyances even after years of working with them.
But one adapts to these things, even if they are a step backwards, and in some cases they are a step forward.
The video, even if you take into account irrational bias or whatever, still has some pretty damning comments.
However, the biggest put off for me is... well... just look at it. Its just plain fugly. As OSes go, its the equivalent of the ugly girl in your class at school. Yes, you remember the one. The one who nobody would ever date, except as part of some nasty dare, which would inevitably leave the poor girl even more depressed. This is Metro... hell, even CDE or windowmaker could look nicer than this. And... can i have a desktop background please? Something that identifies my desktop, personalizes it, shows it as being mine?
Now, plenty of people have mentioned installing a classic shell program. That's cool. I love things that allow you to customize your desktop, but that is flying in the face of where MS want to go, and as Windows RT, Windows 9, etc are developed further, i imagine this is going to become harder and harder to do.
For all its faults,Linux is awesome because i can chose the desktop interface of my choice, and customize like crazy. This is what we are losing with Metro and the planned direction for Windows.
I haven't BSOD'd in almost a month,
*sniggers* I haven't had a BSoD ever on my Win 7 box. Why should i upgrade then? I heard Win 8 was more stable...
And there goes control our of the window. Its fine on a phone, its not mission critical. But consider the workplace.
You're a developer, and you have your browser open on a page with some info that you will need later. Took you a while to dig it out. You don't want to bookmark it, its just for using once. But you go back to your dev environment, work work work, time passes... hmmm, time to compile. Compiler is getting a bit memory hungry... hmmm, you've not used the browser for a while, so it gets closed? Wow. Ok, you have browser history, but id say thats an annoyance.
Perhaps a more "regular" user version could be more helpful.
Cashiers in banks. I've seen how long it takes them to fire up their systems and log in to the various apps they need, the security measures etc. For example, they have their own bank's system, various affiliated ones, and maybe some additional like money transfer stuff for Western Union. Now, they may only do a WU transfer a few times a day, so that app is going to get pretty "sleepy" under metro. These things usually have activity time outs anyway, but at least its just a case of reinputting password, not relaunching the entire app. And i've seen that take a few minutes while it makes all the necessary connections to DBs and stuff.
Now that is going to slow down the speed of service. Not something a bank is looking for.
So soon technology will release us all from the slavery of work? I hope so, they have been promising it for decades already! 99% unemployment here we come! Woo hoo!
Whatever happened to educating children instead of grading (classifying) them?
I'd like to post something really constructive, but instead i think ill just say one word: Fuckwits.
Pioneer is only alpha, but has linux, Mac, and Windows binaries. And its already awesome, just wait for the final release... schedule unknown, but hell, even alpha is playable.
http://pioneerspacesim.net/