A good way to find out:: Give the guy a polygraph before he's extradited! (Results would be interesting indeed, and if he's telling the truth, it should be recognizable, well, unless he's an expert at bypassing the polygraph test...)
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To me, an intermediate PHP coder, it seems like a great way to move forward with developing new apps. Lots of redundancy in my PHP, and so I'm seeking a simpler, more elegant solution. Of course, that's partly due to my non-expert programming skills, but I'm switching over nonetheless. So, I guess you could say that it's gaining a following. The question is, as you point out rightly, how many sites have used it in their framework?
Perhaps there's no good answer, as commercial hosts are only now finally intergrating the Ruby code into their servers. But that they've elected (for example, Site5, my own host) to include the Rails in their hosting options seems to indicate that it's growing...
To me, it seems a challenge to ensure that the sense of the media included is retained within the mashup; quotes out of context (indeed, entire articles out of context, or even just small snips!) could lead of the spread of dis/mis/information. And in a society that increasingly needs the real information, as correctly as possible and as quickly as possible to get tasks done, is this a step in the wrong direction?
--dc
"According to a recent report on adult gamer statistics, it turns out that the adults are more hardcore about gaming than the kids are. "
This comes as no surprise; some of the research I've done into gaming suggests that adults are quite content gamers, and more, youth use the opportunity to mix with adults in ways they might not with their parents. So, proxy parenting, perhaps.
What strikes me, and what I wonder is, given adults' penchant for gaming, what epidemiological impact will this have upon the health of our population? Right, right - so it's easy to say that gamers might get less exercise. But I think there's potentially more to it; for instance, parents that are heavy gamers will teach their children than sentient lifestyles are OK, or that their kids will be exposed to fewer (or more, depending on your thoughts) experiences.
Interesting to consider, I think, what impact this will have upon our culture in, say, 20 years... (which then causes me to wonder: what is culture anyway?
"Reversing his rhetorical field a bit, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre on Tuesday declared that his company won't try to block or degrade customers' access to Internet applications or content, a marked change of tone from his previous statements on the issue of network neutrality. And Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin said that his agency has the authority to police any so-called net neutrality violations, both in the voice and video arenas.
Both messages were sent to the keynote speech audience here at the TelecomNext show to support the idea that new legislation or regulation to specifically encode net neutrality beliefs into law isn't needed. Whitacre, who last year told BusinessWeek in an interview that Google and Vonage were "nuts" for thinking they could "use these [AT&T's] pipes for free" -- comments that sparked much of the fear and loathing in the net neutrality debate -- on Tuesday admitted that any service provider who tried to block or degrade Internet services would be committing economic suicide.
"Any provider who blocks access to the Internet is inviting customers to find another provider," Whitacre said in his keynote speech. "It's bad business." He then emphatically stated that AT&T would not block independent services, "nor will we degrade [Internet access]. Period, end of story."
In a question-and-answer period in front of the keynote audience, Martin said that "I do think the commission has the authority necessary" to enforce network neutrality violations, noting that the FCC had in fact done so in the case last year involving Madison River's blocking of Vonage's VoIP service.
"We've already demonstrated we'll take action if necessary," Martin said.
However, Martin also added that he supports network operators' desires to offer different levels of broadband service at different speeds, and at different pricing -- a so-called "tiered" Internet service structure that opponents say could give a market advantage to deep-pocket companies who can afford to pay service providers for preferential treatment.
While Martin said that consumers who don't pay for higher levels of Internet service shouldn't expect to get higher levels of performance, he did say in a following press conference that "the commission needs to make sure" that there are fair-trade ways to ensure that consumers "get what they are purchasing." When asked how consumers could measure service performance levels, Martin said that public Web sites already exist that let users measure their connection speeds."
Why is related to my thought:: I guess the question in my mind is, why? I didn't purchase my wonderful Mac just to load it with some malware called Windows (3.1, 98, ME, XP, 2K, Vista, and whatever else I'm missing). I thought the whole existance of a Mac was fluid simply because of how well the GUI meshed with the hardware... so to introduce Windows... is... *shudder*... to operate in the klunky Windows way?
Well, other thoughts? What's the point here, anyhow? Besides games, and maybe some MS development stuff, why run Windows on a PC??
This might be a great time for an open community solution to the next evolution of e-mail. After all, will we still be writing messages through the same data standards in five or ten years? Perhaps there's a better message solution that will authenticate the sender and recipients... and in fact, maybe there are some out there already, in testing, or that haven't gained widespread attention, but are good ideas based upon open, readily-adoptable standards?
Future history will most likely prove me wrong, but maaaaaaybe THIS is Bill Gates' challenge to Negroponte's $100 Laptop! After all, MS smalled the $100 laptop as too large... and that everyone should be able to have one!
(And oh yeah, fine print, it's $500, runs a closed-source OS and can't be charged with a hand crank)
Too perfect. Distortion correction? Stitching? So not only does the picture lack the qualities of film (such as grain) - now it even corrects my creativity! Pah, film is so much more fun. Digital? The digital race: well, how normal can we get?
Wow, a useful and impressive innovation, although I'm certain that the "Live Chat" software providers are probably stewing in their cauldron over this one. I wonder, though: could this be abused by phreakers? With the digital age of IP Telephony, let us live in interesting times! ~d
There's a crucial difference between then and now. Then, rapid communication was written -- as in, a letter or a phone call. I would guess that writers wrote to the best of their ability to get the point across, or at least spelled out words correctly. The culture of intentional "l337 sp43k" was most likely small.
On the other hand, kids now use this language more frequently - and it's leaking into school essays, assignments and homework. During my most recent teaching stint, kids simply replaced "you" with "u," perhaps by unconscious slip of the typing hand. So IMHO, there is a danger in not addressing and resolving this challenge.
So the scary thing is that plot is emphasized as the important part of reading -- of literature. Is it? Let's consider that reading a book teaches us language, teaches us history and teaches us, above all, how to (or not to) think.
So when some e-book comes along that bows down to the quick-speak of IM counterculture, let's stop to ask ourselves just why the product is harmful. What is it that we want our population to learn through reading? Granted that not everyone is going to pick up Anna Karenna. But for those who pick up Great Gatsby, there's a hellova lot more to be gleaned from reading the book than knowing that "G4tz di3z."
I would have thought that the "world changing medium" would be that IRC services chat rooms both directly and indirectly (through its protocol), game servers (Tiberian Sun, etc. are now played through an IRC derivative), and plays host to countless other apps.
So yep, it's a world changing medium, but man, the world its changed is so, so much larger than a single chat room.
And oh -- it's probably landed some 1337 k1dz in jail. So it's changed their world, too.
What this will ensure is less innovation in the online schooling front; competition generally drives innovation. Unfortunately, these two packages are so very cumbersome that innovation is unlikely; the pedagogical framework that once strengthened the software(s) is kaput.
It will be a challenge, but Moodle stands a great chance to out-think the combined WebCT/Blackboard group. What they MUST do effectively is reach out to districts - THIS is where the combined merger will find its force, in its broad reach.
~d
Why do I block ads? Simple. I'm after content, and ads are not part of that content. If I need an answer to a question, the purchase is a Widgit is far from my mind. It's a distraction, plain and simple. If I'm out to purchase a book from Amazon, I need that book: nothing else.
Above me now, there'a a Rackspace ad. Believe me, the *last* thing I need is rackspace. Even if I needed rackspace, which remember - I don't! - I'd ask a friend for his or her personal suggestion. It wouldn't occur to me to click on the ad because lo and behold, how do I know it's actually a trustworthy company? Oh -- their ad tells me so!
Awww, and I had my luck pinned on my small, 8'' homemade Dobsonian. Second trial run was tonight, and I had expected to find the next Planet Earth! FYI anyhow, it's really easy + inexpensive to make your own telescope... and find the next E-type Tw2002 colonizable planet!!!
~d
Innovation in tutoring software is going to come through advanced assessment schemes. For instance, software that simply tells me if I'm right (or wrong) in my answers is, IMO, quite passe.
Instead, software could explore the relationships between incorrect answers - for example, is the student forgetting to carry a number in some situations? Or, if the student arriving at incorrect answers, what other commonalities do those incorrect answers share?
Great programming and careful attention to the learners' quirks can pull some of these guideances together. More, however, is needed to understand how this can 1) be done easily through code and 2) make a difference in a learners' entrenched, "buggy" pattern of finding solutions. Best of luck to your friend! Please, innovate!
Your reply touches upon something fundamental about how and why we learn. Whether learning is habituation, memorization or due to more narrow interests, we as a community are required to grow a future workforce.
Richard Murnane and Frank Levy (The New Division of Labor, Princeton U. Press) discuss the challenges we face in building this workforce. To describe the skills that future kids will need, they use the terms "expert thinking" and "complex communication."
Technology-enhanced schools definitely have a role to play, as much of future work will depend upon technologies. On the other hand, the debate about "Technology" often focuses on access (see many posts above) rather than method rather than pedagogical implementation. Indeed, our schools are hell-bent against the sort of innovation in teaching that's required for an effective workforce.
And in response to your post, computers are adept at containing the overwhelming quantities of information that we simply can't consume. Therefore, very much in line with Profs. Levy and Murnane, I believe we have to teach kids how to *think with* and *communicate with* the technologies as part of our school curriculum. There's a much richer send of tinkering and playing inherant in thinking and communicating with; for example, the computer is often a plaything (let's play a game!) and not a play tool (let's use a computer to explore a leaf!) and no, instant messager doesn't count as complex communication =>
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A good way to find out:: Give the guy a polygraph before he's extradited! (Results would be interesting indeed, and if he's telling the truth, it should be recognizable, well, unless he's an expert at bypassing the polygraph test...)
Surely, the warning should read:
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Sed lorem. Mauris dui. Donec ut purus sit amet urna molestie placerat. Integer laoreet. Fusce velit. Vivamus at massa. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vestibulum bibendum. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Integer felis nibh, semper non, ultrices et, facilisis nec, nulla. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Etiam fringilla ipsum nec dolor. Sed sit amet dui eu nisi viverra aliquam.
CURAE; ETIAM FRINGILLA IPSUM NEC DOLOR!!!
enough said?
Yay, 8088State & EFNet #o.w. !!! LOC's already been beat, hands-down, by preservationists! (Long before abandonware sites came online, thanks!)
To me, an intermediate PHP coder, it seems like a great way to move forward with developing new apps. Lots of redundancy in my PHP, and so I'm seeking a simpler, more elegant solution. Of course, that's partly due to my non-expert programming skills, but I'm switching over nonetheless. So, I guess you could say that it's gaining a following. The question is, as you point out rightly, how many sites have used it in their framework?
Perhaps there's no good answer, as commercial hosts are only now finally intergrating the Ruby code into their servers. But that they've elected (for example, Site5, my own host) to include the Rails in their hosting options seems to indicate that it's growing...
To me, it seems a challenge to ensure that the sense of the media included is retained within the mashup; quotes out of context (indeed, entire articles out of context, or even just small snips!) could lead of the spread of dis/mis/information. And in a society that increasingly needs the real information, as correctly as possible and as quickly as possible to get tasks done, is this a step in the wrong direction? --dc
Righto. Sentient, sedentary... sendentary... sedient... :-)
"According to a recent report on adult gamer statistics, it turns out that the adults are more hardcore about gaming than the kids are. "
This comes as no surprise; some of the research I've done into gaming suggests that adults are quite content gamers, and more, youth use the opportunity to mix with adults in ways they might not with their parents. So, proxy parenting, perhaps.
What strikes me, and what I wonder is, given adults' penchant for gaming, what epidemiological impact will this have upon the health of our population? Right, right - so it's easy to say that gamers might get less exercise. But I think there's potentially more to it; for instance, parents that are heavy gamers will teach their children than sentient lifestyles are OK, or that their kids will be exposed to fewer (or more, depending on your thoughts) experiences.
Interesting to consider, I think, what impact this will have upon our culture in, say, 20 years... (which then causes me to wonder: what is culture anyway?
From the ARTICLE, NOT the blog message; also see Information Week, http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=183701605 . And from the TelCoWeb's own article: http://www.telecomweb.com/news/1142972723.htm
"Reversing his rhetorical field a bit, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre on Tuesday declared that his company won't try to block or degrade customers' access to Internet applications or content, a marked change of tone from his previous statements on the issue of network neutrality. And Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin said that his agency has the authority to police any so-called net neutrality violations, both in the voice and video arenas.
Both messages were sent to the keynote speech audience here at the TelecomNext show to support the idea that new legislation or regulation to specifically encode net neutrality beliefs into law isn't needed. Whitacre, who last year told BusinessWeek in an interview that Google and Vonage were "nuts" for thinking they could "use these [AT&T's] pipes for free" -- comments that sparked much of the fear and loathing in the net neutrality debate -- on Tuesday admitted that any service provider who tried to block or degrade Internet services would be committing economic suicide.
"Any provider who blocks access to the Internet is inviting customers to find another provider," Whitacre said in his keynote speech. "It's bad business." He then emphatically stated that AT&T would not block independent services, "nor will we degrade [Internet access]. Period, end of story."
In a question-and-answer period in front of the keynote audience, Martin said that "I do think the commission has the authority necessary" to enforce network neutrality violations, noting that the FCC had in fact done so in the case last year involving Madison River's blocking of Vonage's VoIP service.
"We've already demonstrated we'll take action if necessary," Martin said.
However, Martin also added that he supports network operators' desires to offer different levels of broadband service at different speeds, and at different pricing -- a so-called "tiered" Internet service structure that opponents say could give a market advantage to deep-pocket companies who can afford to pay service providers for preferential treatment.
While Martin said that consumers who don't pay for higher levels of Internet service shouldn't expect to get higher levels of performance, he did say in a following press conference that "the commission needs to make sure" that there are fair-trade ways to ensure that consumers "get what they are purchasing." When asked how consumers could measure service performance levels, Martin said that public Web sites already exist that let users measure their connection speeds."
... the software tells YOU how to operate!
Why is related to my thought:: I guess the question in my mind is, why? I didn't purchase my wonderful Mac just to load it with some malware called Windows (3.1, 98, ME, XP, 2K, Vista, and whatever else I'm missing). I thought the whole existance of a Mac was fluid simply because of how well the GUI meshed with the hardware... so to introduce Windows... is... *shudder*... to operate in the klunky Windows way?
Well, other thoughts? What's the point here, anyhow? Besides games, and maybe some MS development stuff, why run Windows on a PC??
... execs drive big cars (read: hummers) and man, it takes a lot of $ to fill those tanks...
This might be a great time for an open community solution to the next evolution of e-mail. After all, will we still be writing messages through the same data standards in five or ten years? Perhaps there's a better message solution that will authenticate the sender and recipients... and in fact, maybe there are some out there already, in testing, or that haven't gained widespread attention, but are good ideas based upon open, readily-adoptable standards?
Future history will most likely prove me wrong, but maaaaaaybe THIS is Bill Gates' challenge to Negroponte's $100 Laptop! After all, MS smalled the $100 laptop as too large... and that everyone should be able to have one! (And oh yeah, fine print, it's $500, runs a closed-source OS and can't be charged with a hand crank)
Go, little server, go! (Or more appropriately: Here come the hordes, prepare to be /.'ed!)
Too perfect. Distortion correction? Stitching? So not only does the picture lack the qualities of film (such as grain) - now it even corrects my creativity! Pah, film is so much more fun. Digital? The digital race: well, how normal can we get?
Wow, a useful and impressive innovation, although I'm certain that the "Live Chat" software providers are probably stewing in their cauldron over this one. I wonder, though: could this be abused by phreakers? With the digital age of IP Telephony, let us live in interesting times! ~d
There's a crucial difference between then and now. Then, rapid communication was written -- as in, a letter or a phone call. I would guess that writers wrote to the best of their ability to get the point across, or at least spelled out words correctly. The culture of intentional "l337 sp43k" was most likely small.
On the other hand, kids now use this language more frequently - and it's leaking into school essays, assignments and homework. During my most recent teaching stint, kids simply replaced "you" with "u," perhaps by unconscious slip of the typing hand. So IMHO, there is a danger in not addressing and resolving this challenge.
So the scary thing is that plot is emphasized as the important part of reading -- of literature. Is it? Let's consider that reading a book teaches us language, teaches us history and teaches us, above all, how to (or not to) think.
So when some e-book comes along that bows down to the quick-speak of IM counterculture, let's stop to ask ourselves just why the product is harmful. What is it that we want our population to learn through reading? Granted that not everyone is going to pick up Anna Karenna. But for those who pick up Great Gatsby, there's a hellova lot more to be gleaned from reading the book than knowing that "G4tz di3z."
I would have thought that the "world changing medium" would be that IRC services chat rooms both directly and indirectly (through its protocol), game servers (Tiberian Sun, etc. are now played through an IRC derivative), and plays host to countless other apps.
So yep, it's a world changing medium, but man, the world its changed is so, so much larger than a single chat room.
And oh -- it's probably landed some 1337 k1dz in jail. So it's changed their world, too.
First search result when "Desktop" is searched for in MS "Live": Google Desktop! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=LIVE&q=des ktop
w00t!
Old news... it's a good thing that our submitters aren't in the intel business! Or.... are they?
What this will ensure is less innovation in the online schooling front; competition generally drives innovation. Unfortunately, these two packages are so very cumbersome that innovation is unlikely; the pedagogical framework that once strengthened the software(s) is kaput.
It will be a challenge, but Moodle stands a great chance to out-think the combined WebCT/Blackboard group. What they MUST do effectively is reach out to districts - THIS is where the combined merger will find its force, in its broad reach.
~d
Why do I block ads? Simple. I'm after content, and ads are not part of that content. If I need an answer to a question, the purchase is a Widgit is far from my mind. It's a distraction, plain and simple. If I'm out to purchase a book from Amazon, I need that book: nothing else.
Above me now, there'a a Rackspace ad. Believe me, the *last* thing I need is rackspace. Even if I needed rackspace, which remember - I don't! - I'd ask a friend for his or her personal suggestion. It wouldn't occur to me to click on the ad because lo and behold, how do I know it's actually a trustworthy company? Oh -- their ad tells me so!
Awww, and I had my luck pinned on my small, 8'' homemade Dobsonian. Second trial run was tonight, and I had expected to find the next Planet Earth! FYI anyhow, it's really easy + inexpensive to make your own telescope... and find the next E-type Tw2002 colonizable planet!!! ~d
Innovation in tutoring software is going to come through advanced assessment schemes. For instance, software that simply tells me if I'm right (or wrong) in my answers is, IMO, quite passe.
Instead, software could explore the relationships between incorrect answers - for example, is the student forgetting to carry a number in some situations? Or, if the student arriving at incorrect answers, what other commonalities do those incorrect answers share?
Great programming and careful attention to the learners' quirks can pull some of these guideances together. More, however, is needed to understand how this can 1) be done easily through code and 2) make a difference in a learners' entrenched, "buggy" pattern of finding solutions. Best of luck to your friend! Please, innovate!
Your reply touches upon something fundamental about how and why we learn. Whether learning is habituation, memorization or due to more narrow interests, we as a community are required to grow a future workforce.
Richard Murnane and Frank Levy (The New Division of Labor, Princeton U. Press) discuss the challenges we face in building this workforce. To describe the skills that future kids will need, they use the terms "expert thinking" and "complex communication."
Technology-enhanced schools definitely have a role to play, as much of future work will depend upon technologies. On the other hand, the debate about "Technology" often focuses on access (see many posts above) rather than method rather than pedagogical implementation. Indeed, our schools are hell-bent against the sort of innovation in teaching that's required for an effective workforce.
And in response to your post, computers are adept at containing the overwhelming quantities of information that we simply can't consume. Therefore, very much in line with Profs. Levy and Murnane, I believe we have to teach kids how to *think with* and *communicate with* the technologies as part of our school curriculum. There's a much richer send of tinkering and playing inherant in thinking and communicating with; for example, the computer is often a plaything (let's play a game!) and not a play tool (let's use a computer to explore a leaf!) and no, instant messager doesn't count as complex communication =>