You're right about it being logical. But then, that is the point of mind maps. The brain works associatively, not reasonably. For some people this is a good layout, for some bad - it depends on their brains wiring. For that reason it is relevant, but obviously not to you.
Now correct me if I'm wrong (everyone usually does) but Halo bears a very close resemblence (at least in the game) to Larry Nivens Ringworld story. I don't know it there was an explicit connection and he was paid or whether the whole ring-word/Ringword thing was pure coincidence. I can however see a very close resemblence to a contemporary courtcase being undertaken by one Dan Brown.
Thank you trivialising such a complex topic. I will write immediatley to the government of Rwanda, Serbia, Iraq, Turkmenistan and etcetera and inform them immediately that the problem with their education system is the cost.
I will then write to community aid abraod and thell them their commercial managed to educate someone on the complexities of policy construction. "Give them more money, that's the answer."
There are many complex problems associated with education in Global South Countries and your pub arguement mentality is a little basic for solving their problems.
Yeah maybe. But then, wouldn't my use of computers, coupled with my poor spelloing indicate perhaps that I am correct. If you want to troll about spelling and such then your usage of the word 'that' is incorrect.
I wasn't saying I was right because I'm educated, I was saying those were arguement I've come across in the course of study. I was trying constructively to contribute to the conversation - that is the point of Slashdot.
Finally, there are different ways of constructing an arguement. One approach, which is a valid approach, is to appeal to authority. This is the foundationstone of the Bolongia system of University study (that used in nearly all the Western World). I hope you wouldn't discount your Math's teacher's opinion in school because he spelt poorly. I am not a literature teacher, I am a political scientist.
What the hell, I'm already on negative karma. I am a politics honours student currently doing my thesis on the educational value of IT in education in Western Australia. My research is not limited to that scope.
Most studies into this sort of feild indicate the educational value of IT in schools is minilmal and may actually negatively impact on students. The only app which is generally real world related is the word processor and those who get to the end of an education which leads into an occupation which requires those skills generally requires it at the tertiary level. That mean's they are going to learn it, whether they are taught it or not. Most it related tasks bear no resemblance to those taought in the education system and only the most basic of skills are required.
Secondly, the students in, for example, grade ten wont be moving into an office job for at least three years, if not six. For promary school users it is even further. That means the technology they are currently learning will be SIX YEARS OR MORE OUT OF DATE. In the meantime they are experiencing the degradation caused by spelling and grammar checks.
Thirdly, the students with access to computers at home will succeed in the classroom where they are graded on those skills and those without access will fall further behind. This has the effect of widening the socio-economic gap. This means the laptops for everone (or whatever) will need to be implemented in a way which increases equity. I'd imagine selling your free$100 laptop would be quite profitable.
I think that serious thought needs to go into the education value and expected outcomes of implementing this program. While Bill is right to mock these people, it is for the wrong reason.
Okay, here comes my troll points. My opinion is that it is one of those, "if you need to ask, this is not for you." Gamers know their machines more intimately than most. It's not a step by step process, though there are steps to quicken a machine. Instead, it is a love affair as the gamer touches every little nook, exploring his/her computer.
I think for the person who needs to ask about tweaking a game machine, the best advice is throw money at the problem, and then hit google. The truely passionate will seperate from the chaff.
Which is just crap anyway. I was illustrating that there is no justification for America being 'the greatest nation.' Your acknowlegement of America having 'realproblems' is acknowlegement of my point. Your point about being poor in Sweden is of course simple ridiculous. The facts of life are that even the poor in Sweden are far better of than the poor of America. They have more money and better access to public services.
The wealth of America is not in anyway because of its superiority in any way. It is the result of a number of historical accidents. If you were actually interested in an arguemnet instead of a quarrel, perhaps you could suggest some countries of similar size and polity and population to America.
Instead you give silly qualifications without anything constructive. How about this. Turkey, England, Australia, Canada - similar social problems. Now where do you want to start?
How about civil gun deaths per head of population? Times the Univeral Charter of Human Rights has been broken? Foreign military action deemed illegal under unternational law?
And once again, I reiterate, YOU DO NOT LIVE IN A REPUBLIC! Noone does. Republicanism is an ideal and completely irrelevant to the modern nationstate. You live in a constitutional representative democracy. As for the measure of the effectiveness of democracy, you an idiot. Just because you say it is in the standard of living does not make it so. You can say it till your ass bleeds, but that's just pub crap. How about the measure is in its ethical treatment of its citizens (look at your prisons). The quality of leadership in responsible government (three strikes and your out). And what about standards of living even. Racism is alive and well in America. If they develop only the undamaged areas of New Orleans, the majority of those displaced will be blacks. I presume then the standards of living you are talking about are for whites only.
You have a responsibility as a citizen to think about your country and its managemnet. Blind faith is killing freedom and destroying lives in your country.
I would have to agree with the other poster. Maerican aid is worth shit if it means returned profits for America. This is the reason most people in the know have a problem with the World Trade Organisation. I would suggest to you that you actually look for the response of Global South nations in response to America's 'aid'.
So, being reconciled to the fact that the world is imperfect, we don our apathy hats and vote 'aye.' That is a little stupid in terms on an explanations. It is, in short, a pub arguement.
The Patriot Act is not a pluralistic compromise. Nor would I argue, is your nation a Republic. Last time I checked America was a Constitutional Representative Democracy. In fact, it is exceedingly rare for George Citizen to make ANY direct decision about his civil life in America.
And better than alternatives? I think (which is to say I know) it was John Locke who pointed out that democracies had a propensity to create tyrannies of the majority. This is a theme which ran from the time of Plato.
The facts of life are there are other forms of government and regardless of what yuo've been told, they stand up very well in contrast to your polity. There are dictatorships in the world which have far better human rights records than America. There are democracies in the world which are far more republican than America.
In fact, I have no idea what your basing your value judgement on. Who is the best Wealth per capita - Kuwait Best Health System - France (including most doctors per head) Economic Wealth - India Highest Salaries - Monaco Least discrepency between Rich and Poor - Sweden Life Expectencies - Andorra Fertility - Israel Literacy - Australia GDP Per Capita - Luxemburg School Life Expectancy - Norway Economic Aid Per Dollar - Luxemburg
And so on...
Maybe you should look at your nations history and ask yourself how America got to the place it is and what the Patriot Act actually signifies.
Well I am a Political Scientist and you are 100% correct. Here in Australia we suffer under the same idiocy. There are bills passed such as 'People planning terrorism are now going to face much harsher penalties.'
What kind of moron has this opinion though? Is the terrorist suddenly going to think, "Wait, I could go to jail for this?! NO WAY!'
Acts like the patriot act are negligible in their impact on terrorism. They are highly visible acts which are more public relations than contents. The unfortunate part is they relieve citizens of their rights and liberties.
Thos who do not jump on the band wagon are seen to be opposing those concerned for our wellbeing. As one of my professors pointed out, what would happen if we sent these battleships, capable of housing thousands, into the middle east decked out as massive schools, or hostpitals.
There are better policies and they have been tried for decades but it is more politically savie to create a villain and then protect the people from it. It was James Madison, an American Founder who pointed out, "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
You could give it a second thought. After all, all cocoa apps have spell-checking built in automiatically. That includes web browsers for writing Slashdot posts.
It is not because you are a sci fi fan or because of CG that you didn't REALLY like it. The reason is that, for this movie to really appeal, you had to see it in your youth.
As a child you can forgive the crude mechatronics, or puppetry, or whatever the hell it was. As a younger person with their limitless imagination, there is a completely new world for total immersion. There is also life concepts of good and evil and there co-dependence. Maybe that's just crap though.
The Dark Crystal was for me though probably one of the prime movers for my introduction to the fantasy genre. The escapism it alloed was amazing.
The first point I would make is that George Orwell was not talking about the same 'literacy' that article was talking about. Orwell was making commentary regarding the ability of individuals to talk but convey no real meaning. I syntactically correct prose with no content. This is what we in the contemporary period would probably call managerial speak (itself a pun in the language coined in 1984).
The generational decline of language as being successive from its predecessor is regarded as the etymological falacy. Whether they are correct, linguistics critics that is, the jury is still out.
The article mentioned nothing about morals. That is only your associative mind at work making something irrelevant seem relevant.
The author is not talking about people's ability to communicate. Most five year olds have a moderate grasp on the syntactic nature of english. He is talking about the ability of individuals to transmit a stream of conscious to paper. This is not postmodern crap. This is plain writing ability.
It is irrefutable this is in recession. Term papers and examinations as well as the constant barrage of media provide more than enough case study material. Linguistics, sociologist and anthropologists with more time than me dedicate much research to this.
Your right, communication has changed. There are new form and it is generally faster. However, the basic units of professional writing have remained. Periodicals and treatsies persevere. An sms of 'c u l8r' does not transmit the same volume and value of content as Henry Thoreau's Thinking Like A Mountain.
I would argue that the decline in language is concurrent with people reading less formal literature. Goerge Orwells political commentary may be such, and so might be Henry Thoreau. At the least it wont do them any harm and with luck it might provide role models for their own scholastic meanderings.
A number of other innovations spring to mind regarding the free exchange of ideas. Writing is a good one. The telegram was, socially, a far more important invention than the internet. It went further to revolutionise the worlds of commerce, private lives, etc... The renaissance was pretty important. It is only historically ignorant people who would claim such a thing.
I actually don't think the majority of people care that much about cocoa v carbon. For most people, viewing most sites, Camino is excellent. I agree Safari is the best, but I don't think it would take much for another browser to take the lead. Omniweb and Firefox are to slow and hog too much memory respectively. If Camino implemented all the Safari crap, including hotkeys, I would consider changing.
Mind you, if I could theme Safari, I would consider putting OS X on an intel box.
You should have stopped at unethical. It IS unethical, but not because people are going without their wages. For example, I may download a copy of OS X and install it. If it wasn't available to download, I wouldn't by it. Either way he is not getting his wage.
Great!!! Flash just got better!! I can't wait for FlexBlock to come out for Firefox so I can feel like I'm REALLY getting value from the open source community.
Then the police should keepd there nose out of it. If it is not in their mandate as an officer then they should not be doing it on the job. It is my tax money (yes I'm Australian) that pays their wages and I pay them to uphold the law, not dispense advice.
Secondly, as they are an authority figure they should be more wary of what they say. It would be inappropriate for them to give the impression something is legally reprehensible when it is not.
That's just stupid. If IE started doing everything it is already doing really well, it would still be crap. Why? No RSS, extensions, and etcetera. It is more a sliding scale where "Doing your shit really well" is on one axis, and "Heaps of features" is on the other.
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You're right about it being logical. But then, that is the point of mind maps. The brain works associatively, not reasonably. For some people this is a good layout, for some bad - it depends on their brains wiring. For that reason it is relevant, but obviously not to you.
Alright, the bar is set. Here we go Taco...
Now correct me if I'm wrong (everyone usually does) but Halo bears a very close resemblence (at least in the game) to Larry Nivens Ringworld story. I don't know it there was an explicit connection and he was paid or whether the whole ring-word/Ringword thing was pure coincidence. I can however see a very close resemblence to a contemporary courtcase being undertaken by one Dan Brown.
Thank you trivialising such a complex topic. I will write immediatley to the government of Rwanda, Serbia, Iraq, Turkmenistan and etcetera and inform them immediately that the problem with their education system is the cost.
I will then write to community aid abraod and thell them their commercial managed to educate someone on the complexities of policy construction. "Give them more money, that's the answer."
There are many complex problems associated with education in Global South Countries and your pub arguement mentality is a little basic for solving their problems.
Yeah maybe. But then, wouldn't my use of computers, coupled with my poor spelloing indicate perhaps that I am correct. If you want to troll about spelling and such then your usage of the word 'that' is incorrect.
I wasn't saying I was right because I'm educated, I was saying those were arguement I've come across in the course of study. I was trying constructively to contribute to the conversation - that is the point of Slashdot.
Finally, there are different ways of constructing an arguement. One approach, which is a valid approach, is to appeal to authority. This is the foundationstone of the Bolongia system of University study (that used in nearly all the Western World). I hope you wouldn't discount your Math's teacher's opinion in school because he spelt poorly. I am not a literature teacher, I am a political scientist.
What the hell, I'm already on negative karma. I am a politics honours student currently doing my thesis on the educational value of IT in education in Western Australia. My research is not limited to that scope.
Most studies into this sort of feild indicate the educational value of IT in schools is minilmal and may actually negatively impact on students. The only app which is generally real world related is the word processor and those who get to the end of an education which leads into an occupation which requires those skills generally requires it at the tertiary level. That mean's they are going to learn it, whether they are taught it or not. Most it related tasks bear no resemblance to those taought in the education system and only the most basic of skills are required.
Secondly, the students in, for example, grade ten wont be moving into an office job for at least three years, if not six. For promary school users it is even further. That means the technology they are currently learning will be SIX YEARS OR MORE OUT OF DATE. In the meantime they are experiencing the degradation caused by spelling and grammar checks.
Thirdly, the students with access to computers at home will succeed in the classroom where they are graded on those skills and those without access will fall further behind. This has the effect of widening the socio-economic gap. This means the laptops for everone (or whatever) will need to be implemented in a way which increases equity. I'd imagine selling your free$100 laptop would be quite profitable.
I think that serious thought needs to go into the education value and expected outcomes of implementing this program. While Bill is right to mock these people, it is for the wrong reason.
Okay, here comes my troll points. My opinion is that it is one of those, "if you need to ask, this is not for you." Gamers know their machines more intimately than most. It's not a step by step process, though there are steps to quicken a machine. Instead, it is a love affair as the gamer touches every little nook, exploring his/her computer.
I think for the person who needs to ask about tweaking a game machine, the best advice is throw money at the problem, and then hit google. The truely passionate will seperate from the chaff.
Whilst MY girlfriend is appropriately attractive, my car needs an overhaul. I think I will throw it on that.
Which is just crap anyway. I was illustrating that there is no justification for America being 'the greatest nation.' Your acknowlegement of America having 'realproblems' is acknowlegement of my point. Your point about being poor in Sweden is of course simple ridiculous. The facts of life are that even the poor in Sweden are far better of than the poor of America. They have more money and better access to public services.
The wealth of America is not in anyway because of its superiority in any way. It is the result of a number of historical accidents. If you were actually interested in an arguemnet instead of a quarrel, perhaps you could suggest some countries of similar size and polity and population to America.
Instead you give silly qualifications without anything constructive. How about this. Turkey, England, Australia, Canada - similar social problems. Now where do you want to start?
How about civil gun deaths per head of population?
Times the Univeral Charter of Human Rights has been broken?
Foreign military action deemed illegal under unternational law?
And once again, I reiterate, YOU DO NOT LIVE IN A REPUBLIC! Noone does. Republicanism is an ideal and completely irrelevant to the modern nationstate. You live in a constitutional representative democracy. As for the measure of the effectiveness of democracy, you an idiot. Just because you say it is in the standard of living does not make it so. You can say it till your ass bleeds, but that's just pub crap. How about the measure is in its ethical treatment of its citizens (look at your prisons). The quality of leadership in responsible government (three strikes and your out). And what about standards of living even. Racism is alive and well in America. If they develop only the undamaged areas of New Orleans, the majority of those displaced will be blacks. I presume then the standards of living you are talking about are for whites only.
You have a responsibility as a citizen to think about your country and its managemnet. Blind faith is killing freedom and destroying lives in your country.
I would have to agree with the other poster. Maerican aid is worth shit if it means returned profits for America. This is the reason most people in the know have a problem with the World Trade Organisation. I would suggest to you that you actually look for the response of Global South nations in response to America's 'aid'.
So, being reconciled to the fact that the world is imperfect, we don our apathy hats and vote 'aye.' That is a little stupid in terms on an explanations. It is, in short, a pub arguement.
The Patriot Act is not a pluralistic compromise. Nor would I argue, is your nation a Republic. Last time I checked America was a Constitutional Representative Democracy. In fact, it is exceedingly rare for George Citizen to make ANY direct decision about his civil life in America.
And better than alternatives? I think (which is to say I know) it was John Locke who pointed out that democracies had a propensity to create tyrannies of the majority. This is a theme which ran from the time of Plato.
The facts of life are there are other forms of government and regardless of what yuo've been told, they stand up very well in contrast to your polity. There are dictatorships in the world which have far better human rights records than America. There are democracies in the world which are far more republican than America.
In fact, I have no idea what your basing your value judgement on.
Who is the best
Wealth per capita - Kuwait
Best Health System - France (including most doctors per head)
Economic Wealth - India
Highest Salaries - Monaco
Least discrepency between Rich and Poor - Sweden
Life Expectencies - Andorra
Fertility - Israel
Literacy - Australia
GDP Per Capita - Luxemburg
School Life Expectancy - Norway
Economic Aid Per Dollar - Luxemburg
And so on...
Maybe you should look at your nations history and ask yourself how America got to the place it is and what the Patriot Act actually signifies.
Well I am a Political Scientist and you are 100% correct. Here in Australia we suffer under the same idiocy. There are bills passed such as 'People planning terrorism are now going to face much harsher penalties.'
What kind of moron has this opinion though? Is the terrorist suddenly going to think, "Wait, I could go to jail for this?! NO WAY!'
Acts like the patriot act are negligible in their impact on terrorism. They are highly visible acts which are more public relations than contents. The unfortunate part is they relieve citizens of their rights and liberties.
Thos who do not jump on the band wagon are seen to be opposing those concerned for our wellbeing. As one of my professors pointed out, what would happen if we sent these battleships, capable of housing thousands, into the middle east decked out as massive schools, or hostpitals.
There are better policies and they have been tried for decades but it is more politically savie to create a villain and then protect the people from it. It was James Madison, an American Founder who pointed out, "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
oops... ironic isn't it...
You could give it a second thought. After all, all cocoa apps have spell-checking built in automiatically. That includes web browsers for writing Slashdot posts.
Sorry... you've directed exactly what lately?
I kid, I kid....
It is not because you are a sci fi fan or because of CG that you didn't REALLY like it. The reason is that, for this movie to really appeal, you had to see it in your youth.
As a child you can forgive the crude mechatronics, or puppetry, or whatever the hell it was. As a younger person with their limitless imagination, there is a completely new world for total immersion. There is also life concepts of good and evil and there co-dependence. Maybe that's just crap though.
The Dark Crystal was for me though probably one of the prime movers for my introduction to the fantasy genre. The escapism it alloed was amazing.
The first point I would make is that George Orwell was not talking about the same 'literacy' that article was talking about. Orwell was making commentary regarding the ability of individuals to talk but convey no real meaning. I syntactically correct prose with no content. This is what we in the contemporary period would probably call managerial speak (itself a pun in the language coined in 1984).
The generational decline of language as being successive from its predecessor is regarded as the etymological falacy. Whether they are correct, linguistics critics that is, the jury is still out.
The article mentioned nothing about morals. That is only your associative mind at work making something irrelevant seem relevant.
The author is not talking about people's ability to communicate. Most five year olds have a moderate grasp on the syntactic nature of english. He is talking about the ability of individuals to transmit a stream of conscious to paper. This is not postmodern crap. This is plain writing ability.
It is irrefutable this is in recession. Term papers and examinations as well as the constant barrage of media provide more than enough case study material. Linguistics, sociologist and anthropologists with more time than me dedicate much research to this.
Your right, communication has changed. There are new form and it is generally faster. However, the basic units of professional writing have remained. Periodicals and treatsies persevere. An sms of 'c u l8r' does not transmit the same volume and value of content as Henry Thoreau's Thinking Like A Mountain.
I would argue that the decline in language is concurrent with people reading less formal literature. Goerge Orwells political commentary may be such, and so might be Henry Thoreau. At the least it wont do them any harm and with luck it might provide role models for their own scholastic meanderings.
A number of other innovations spring to mind regarding the free exchange of ideas. Writing is a good one. The telegram was, socially, a far more important invention than the internet. It went further to revolutionise the worlds of commerce, private lives, etc...
The renaissance was pretty important. It is only historically ignorant people who would claim such a thing.
I actually don't think the majority of people care that much about cocoa v carbon. For most people, viewing most sites, Camino is excellent. I agree Safari is the best, but I don't think it would take much for another browser to take the lead. Omniweb and Firefox are to slow and hog too much memory respectively. If Camino implemented all the Safari crap, including hotkeys, I would consider changing.
Mind you, if I could theme Safari, I would consider putting OS X on an intel box.
You should have stopped at unethical. It IS unethical, but not because people are going without their wages. For example, I may download a copy of OS X and install it. If it wasn't available to download, I wouldn't by it. Either way he is not getting his wage.
Because of economic rationalism. Or even neo-Malthusianism.
It's all made up. It is simply an excuse for everyone who hasn't made a DNF joke to do so now.
Great!!! Flash just got better!! I can't wait for FlexBlock to come out for Firefox so I can feel like I'm REALLY getting value from the open source community.
Then the police should keepd there nose out of it. If it is not in their mandate as an officer then they should not be doing it on the job. It is my tax money (yes I'm Australian) that pays their wages and I pay them to uphold the law, not dispense advice. Secondly, as they are an authority figure they should be more wary of what they say. It would be inappropriate for them to give the impression something is legally reprehensible when it is not.
That's just stupid. If IE started doing everything it is already doing really well, it would still be crap. Why? No RSS, extensions, and etcetera. It is more a sliding scale where "Doing your shit really well" is on one axis, and "Heaps of features" is on the other.