Basic. My high school used to 'time share' on some 'big iron' at a local military base. We used a teletype-like console and stored our programs on paper tape. We also had some RPG fundamentals, but not too much.
It's not the computer that's at fault but the people who are responsible for the idea.
You're absolutely right! I've been itching to blame Charles Babbage and Alan Turing for something ever since I took my first programming class 31 years ago. I'm off to Wikipedia to add this to their pages.
More and more school districts and states are moving towards using standardized tests to measure "learning". If you only teach students to score well on those tests then they aren't "learning" as much as they are "memorizing facts". Teaching kids how to think, critical thinking, reasoning, etc will benefit them (and the rest of us) much more in the long run... there just aren't any easy ways to measure that kind of performance.
You teach a kid 'how to think' and then sit them in front of 'World of Goo', 'Gears', etc and you'll see they can 'think'.
... that kind of kills it for me. Any politician making such proclamations must be taken with a pound of salt. Wasn't Nevada also proclaimed as the dumping ground for nuclear and toxic waste?
Points for not scoring? Isn't that the same as a woman telling you that she just wants to be friends because your friendship means more than a relationship would?
AOL is very bad at acquisitions. They are all gung-ho about buying companies, but they just sit on them and hope they continue to be relevant (if they ever were relevant). They don't understand that you have to make things happen - these types of companies don't just improve themselves.
AOL overpays for a company, lets it get stale and then sells it for less than its current market value just to shed it from the cupboards. Great business model if you can afford to hemorrhage money forever.
Amazon's patent on "no, you can't have that because you bought an iPad!!" hasn't been approved yet. Once it does I'm sure you'll not only get refused at the point of purchase but you'll probably get an email from Jeff Bezos telling you that this would never have had to happen if you'd just bought a Kindle.
An iPad hasn't been elected to Congress, yet... but given the recent developments in South Carolina I may have a shot to get my 32 GB 3G iPad on the ballot. Think I'm crazy? In politics "shiny" = "success"...
He posted what could reasonably be interpreted as a threat... and the police took him seriously. Hopefully he will learn from this experience. To paraphrase Field of Dreams "Post it and they will come" - count on it.
Does that stand for "Federal Bureau of Investigation" or "FaceBook Initiative"? Remember kids, the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover is watching everything you do... and so is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
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Basic. My high school used to 'time share' on some 'big iron' at a local military base. We used a teletype-like console and stored our programs on paper tape. We also had some RPG fundamentals, but not too much.
Are you saying that I'll be able to pay for and 'license' a copy of a German newspaper but never 'own' it?
Which will come first, this "Second Renaissance" or the year of Linux on the desktop?
Halley's Comet
Here's one they can 'monopolize': German Publishers Can Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass!
First!
btw, I'm not an anonymous coward. I have a name you insensative claud!
You may have a name but you obviously don't have a spellchecker ;-)
It's not the computer that's at fault but the people who are responsible for the idea.
You're absolutely right! I've been itching to blame Charles Babbage and Alan Turing for something ever since I took my first programming class 31 years ago. I'm off to Wikipedia to add this to their pages.
higher test scores != learning more
... there just aren't any easy ways to measure that kind of performance.
More and more school districts and states are moving towards using standardized tests to measure "learning". If you only teach students to score well on those tests then they aren't "learning" as much as they are "memorizing facts". Teaching kids how to think, critical thinking, reasoning, etc will benefit them (and the rest of us) much more in the long run
You teach a kid 'how to think' and then sit them in front of 'World of Goo', 'Gears', etc and you'll see they can 'think'.
...does it run anything besides linux?
Is there something people want to run besides Linux?
This went from "it was an accident" to "there's nothing in the data anyway" to "hey, will you look at that! How'd that get in there??"
... that kind of kills it for me. Any politician making such proclamations must be taken with a pound of salt. Wasn't Nevada also proclaimed as the dumping ground for nuclear and toxic waste?
Points for not scoring? Isn't that the same as a woman telling you that she just wants to be friends because your friendship means more than a relationship would?
Let them eat cake.
Who? The public, the researcher, Google or the aforementioned ducks?
I'm degrading over time so why not my personal data?
AOL is very bad at acquisitions. They are all gung-ho about buying companies, but they just sit on them and hope they continue to be relevant (if they ever were relevant). They don't understand that you have to make things happen - these types of companies don't just improve themselves.
AOL overpays for a company, lets it get stale and then sells it for less than its current market value just to shed it from the cupboards. Great business model if you can afford to hemorrhage money forever.
"But, but, I'm so so sorry boss. I couldn't predict the big quake because my crystal ball fell off the work bench when the little tremors hit."
Amazon's patent on "no, you can't have that because you bought an iPad!!" hasn't been approved yet. Once it does I'm sure you'll not only get refused at the point of purchase but you'll probably get an email from Jeff Bezos telling you that this would never have had to happen if you'd just bought a Kindle.
An iPad hasn't been elected to Congress, yet ... but given the recent developments in South Carolina I may have a shot to get my 32 GB 3G iPad on the ballot. Think I'm crazy? In politics "shiny" = "success" ...
The best spam stopping tool is still an alert, critical mind!
I'm not sure what you mean.
I wonder if they conduct questionable surveillance of American citizens in return?
They don't need to - we have the FBI for that ;-)
yes, but only one of them is masturbating furiously over your profile pictures.
But which one is going to town like a clown?
He posted what could reasonably be interpreted as a threat ... and the police took him seriously. Hopefully he will learn from this experience. To paraphrase Field of Dreams "Post it and they will come" - count on it.
Does someone out there thinks there is an expectation of privacy for data they post on the internet?
I thought that was exactly what you should NOT expect.
Well, you can expect all the privacy you want ... but you're not going to get it.
Does that stand for "Federal Bureau of Investigation" or "FaceBook Initiative"? Remember kids, the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover is watching everything you do ... and so is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
The only time my poor driving skills from video games crosses over into my real driving is when I'm playing a driving game while driving my car.
The 3D display uses a camera to track viewers so that it knows where to steer the light
And the Blue Screen of Death will be looking back at you!