Maybe they felt that having name that sounds like mucus in Spanish wasn't for them (Yes, I know this has been mentioned before, but I still can't get over it. The US has a large Latin population, and I think they're shooting themselves in the foot with that name).
a lot of the time the community would be better served by everybody working together instead of against each other.
I disagree...They are not working "against" each other, they are evolving in parallel.
You're both right. The advantage of having lots of little projects is that people can take their idea to its end and, along the way, come up with things that would otherwise not have been thought of. The problem with this approach is that when you fragment the community too much, everything stays perpetually in the alpha or beta stages. Few things get done really well because there aren't enough people to do it properly. I would say that the design stage would be better kept in small groups where people take their ideas all the way. Then people look at each others ideas and implement the ideas they like into their or simply elaborate on them. After that, people vote on which implementation they like best and they ALL work together to implement it. I don't mean one project for any given need, but there definitely has to be more collaboration.
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You should be teaching to learn, not for tests.
I have mod points, but I don't think that one is enough to give this. Please, mod the parent the hell up (all the way up to 11 if you can)
I'm in university, and the system is the same (memorization, regurgitation, vegetation). The only reason we "learn" is so that we can pass a test. There is little or no application of what knowledge/information we get thrown at us. We were told in high school that what we were doing would prepare us for university. Now that we're in university, what the hell is test taking preparing us for? Are we really going to be forced to finish our jobs in a room without any research materials in 3 hours or less?
Information is cheap nowadays. I wished they would stop filling our short-term memories with it and start teaching us applicable knowledge and skills. That would be an education.
Disclaimer: I'm not African-American, and I have never been to Africa or the less affluent regions of any major city.
I didn't know Ali G. was black.
I'm sorry, I'm Canadian, racists aren't humourous here anymore I guess.
Yes, you are Canadian for apologizing immediately without having any reason to. As far as "racist" things not being funny in Canada....what are you, Québécois?
Ok, since Wikipedia has for many become the first thing they turn to for information, why not have a government sponsored and reviewed (or at least school sponsored) education wiki? It would probably take a few years to build up to the point where it could be a subsitute for a textbook, but if it was reviewed by either the teacher or the state, depending on minimum requirements of the institution, I could see a wiki as a far better alternative to textbooks. Not only would it give the teacher the flexibility to pick and choose from a huge list of available subject matter, it would also help the student, as they would not be stuck with only a single explanation for their subject matter. This is, at least to my understanding, different from wikibooks because it would offer several different explanations for any given subject rather than being a e-textbook.
An example: Take a first year calculus class. Students would sign on to their account on the wiki, where they would be presented with all the information for the course, as selected by the professor. While site would divided into chapters, also arranged by the prof, each chapter would include multiple approaches to the topic, which could be rated by the students. So, for example, there could a flash animation explaning limits and a more formal picture and text version. Students could also access other presentations not approved by the professor if they wanted to. There would also be the option of making a textbook out of a wiki for those who did not wish to access everything from their computer.
Now the wiki would not be as open as wikipedia. Not by a longshot. There would be an approved section of materials, and a "beta" section, where people could suggest changes or entirely new presentations. Editing the main articles would only be open to a select group of people. A prof could edit an article, but doing so would move the edited version to the "beta" section.
Now while this whole system could be open, it could be tax funded depending on whether or not it was government sponsored. Maybe if schools charged $1 per student per class for a class account. I don't know. It's an idealistic dream which will in all likelyhood never happen due to the incumbency of textbooks, or maybe it's already happening to a small extend and I don't know about it. Either way, I can dream can't I?
I really couldn't tell you. It seems the designs a lot of schools are putting out these days are really modern art masquerading as design. They don't improve usability. They don't really introduce any new (useful) functionality. Their only purpose it seems is to be looked at in wonder. They're a curiosity more than a product. You wouldn't want to actually use one of these. Form follows function, not the other way around.
Here we go. The hipocracy of Slashdot at it's worst. First you decry the stupid copyright laws and how companies are abusing their power. Then people get caught, and you act all righteous and say, "Oh, well they shouldn't have been doing that. They got what they deserve." And you get modded up. You can't claim that laws are unfair, and then say that people deserve the punishment that those laws lay out. In a legal sense, yes they "deserve" it, but in a logical one, no.
I'd rather have a million more Jane Doe lawsuits and investigations like this one before DRM achieves greater legal backing than (in the United States, anyway) the DMCA already gives it.
Wait, you'd actually prefer to have the RIAA suing millions of people than have DRM? Seriously, these people are facing thousands of dollars in fines for an action that maybe made the industry lose a couple hundred, at worst. I don't want DRM either, but in no way do I think suing people is going to help. The magnitude of the punishment in no way fits the crime.
Copyright holders have always had the right to take legal action against copyright violators, but they made a tactical error when they chose to fight Napster instead of the users, and when they attempt to pass laws instead of civilly enforcing existing laws.
Civilly enforcing? Raiding someone's home for copyright violations seems a little extreme. Maybe if they were selling the songs commercially they'd have a reason to do that, but for non-commercial filesharing that's a bit over the top.
Also, do you really think if everyone stopped pirating that we'd get better deals for music? Do you think the music industry would reward us for not pirating? Nope. If anything, we'd get worse prices on music. They will shove down our throats whatever they can get away with. So, in a sense, piracy is an act of civil disobediance to laws which are unfair. It happened in China, where they are now selling legal DVDs for $1.50 to combat the 75 cent version people can get on the street.
It seems that what Sony has done with the "new" controller design is exactly what they have been doing with the rest of the PS3 development: same thing, with incremental upgrades. Nothing really new or innovative, no risks, just the same thing rehashed with current technology. I may be alone in this, but I think the old design for the PS3 controller was better. This demo shows how the original design was supposed to work. It just looks like it would fit in the hand much better than the PS2 controllers, which I've always thought were ergonomic disasters. But maybe that's just me.
If you scroll down to read the rest of that web log, it's almost 100% Nintendo bashing. The author is clearly trolling Ninentdo fans. Please don't feed the troll.
I agree that the author was stretching things a bit when he went off about Red Steel being nothing less that a next-gen duck hunt. I personally like the idea of making games with more arcade style interaction. I agree that playing games like this for hours would be physically tiresome, but it would be fun as hell. However, the rest of the article isn't Nintendo bashing. The author could easily have picked Sony or Microsoft and said the exact same things about either of them. It just so happens that there is more recent news about Nintendo and the hype got strong enough for them to write an article about Nintendo fanboys. The article isn't bashing Nintendo, it's bashing the blind loyalty some people have towards a particular company who, as they pointed out, doesn't give a shit about them. The author has a point. None of the companies making the next-gen console are terribly concerned about pleasing their fans beyond the point of making a profit, so blindly cheering for them like one would a sports team is just plain stupid.
I just finished taking an architectural perspective and rendering course. One of the topics that was discussed is while the amount of people doing hand rendering of building may be dropping, drawing will never really go away. While there are many advantages to computer renderings, there are certain things that it still is way behind drawing in. It will be a while before someone can render a building or car as quickly as they can by hand. Sometimes a person needs to see big changes, or to see what something will look like immediately. Those changes could take days to do on a computer. An artist could simply take out his pencil and paper and draw it for you right there. Another thing that computers lack is any sort of artistic flair. CAD renderings often look dead, unless someone spends time spicing them up in photoshop or the like, and even then lack that something that hand done art has. A hand done drawing will always have that little something that computers cannot have because they are so perfect. However, I do think computers are a useful tool that also have advantages over hand drawn renderings. The two must work together. As the parent said, the problem is that teachers and programs aren't emphasizing it enough, not the programs. I can communicate well with people even though I used IM a lot. I can write well even though I type a lot. The problem isn't the program, is how much time is spent in it rather than doing real drawings.
Yarrr. I spoke to soon. This is about software, isn't it. I apologize, mate. Your mention of piracy just make me think of all the booty I've acquired.....
I wish people would stop calling people who share software, pirates.
But we YARRRRR pirates! I don't know about yerself, mate, but when I gets me music, I goes into the music store cutlass in hand, killing employees left and right before I make off with the latest Jessica Simpson!! Yarrr, she be a good-lookin' lass...if only I could plunder her.....
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Come now. You're just jealous because they're smarter than us.Maybe they felt that having name that sounds like mucus in Spanish wasn't for them (Yes, I know this has been mentioned before, but I still can't get over it. The US has a large Latin population, and I think they're shooting themselves in the foot with that name).
NOBODY EXPECTS THE ECO-INQUISITION!
You're both right. The advantage of having lots of little projects is that people can take their idea to its end and, along the way, come up with things that would otherwise not have been thought of. The problem with this approach is that when you fragment the community too much, everything stays perpetually in the alpha or beta stages. Few things get done really well because there aren't enough people to do it properly. I would say that the design stage would be better kept in small groups where people take their ideas all the way. Then people look at each others ideas and implement the ideas they like into their or simply elaborate on them. After that, people vote on which implementation they like best and they ALL work together to implement it. I don't mean one project for any given need, but there definitely has to be more collaboration.
I have mod points, but I don't think that one is enough to give this. Please, mod the parent the hell up (all the way up to 11 if you can)
I'm in university, and the system is the same (memorization, regurgitation, vegetation). The only reason we "learn" is so that we can pass a test. There is little or no application of what knowledge/information we get thrown at us. We were told in high school that what we were doing would prepare us for university. Now that we're in university, what the hell is test taking preparing us for? Are we really going to be forced to finish our jobs in a room without any research materials in 3 hours or less?
Information is cheap nowadays. I wished they would stop filling our short-term memories with it and start teaching us applicable knowledge and skills. That would be an education.
I didn't know Ali G. was black.
Yes, you are Canadian for apologizing immediately without having any reason to. As far as "racist" things not being funny in Canada....what are you, Québécois?
Introducing the Spishak Mach20!
I guess that explains why we're always apologizing...
What makes you think he still won't?
An example: Take a first year calculus class. Students would sign on to their account on the wiki, where they would be presented with all the information for the course, as selected by the professor. While site would divided into chapters, also arranged by the prof, each chapter would include multiple approaches to the topic, which could be rated by the students. So, for example, there could a flash animation explaning limits and a more formal picture and text version. Students could also access other presentations not approved by the professor if they wanted to. There would also be the option of making a textbook out of a wiki for those who did not wish to access everything from their computer.
Now the wiki would not be as open as wikipedia. Not by a longshot. There would be an approved section of materials, and a "beta" section, where people could suggest changes or entirely new presentations. Editing the main articles would only be open to a select group of people. A prof could edit an article, but doing so would move the edited version to the "beta" section.
Now while this whole system could be open, it could be tax funded depending on whether or not it was government sponsored. Maybe if schools charged $1 per student per class for a class account. I don't know. It's an idealistic dream which will in all likelyhood never happen due to the incumbency of textbooks, or maybe it's already happening to a small extend and I don't know about it. Either way, I can dream can't I?
Maybe. That or the Easy Button.
Oh, so that explains it.
I really couldn't tell you. It seems the designs a lot of schools are putting out these days are really modern art masquerading as design. They don't improve usability. They don't really introduce any new (useful) functionality. Their only purpose it seems is to be looked at in wonder. They're a curiosity more than a product. You wouldn't want to actually use one of these. Form follows function, not the other way around.
Bere is waaay mor popoolre tnah podis! I heave noo idia wat ur talkn abowt ociffer....seeriuslee, man.
this could make quite a splash.
I hope I wasn't the only one to see that headline and read "Wombat Crawls Through Your Intestines" and wonder how exactly that was going to work.
Here we go. The hipocracy of Slashdot at it's worst. First you decry the stupid copyright laws and how companies are abusing their power. Then people get caught, and you act all righteous and say, "Oh, well they shouldn't have been doing that. They got what they deserve." And you get modded up. You can't claim that laws are unfair, and then say that people deserve the punishment that those laws lay out. In a legal sense, yes they "deserve" it, but in a logical one, no.
I'd rather have a million more Jane Doe lawsuits and investigations like this one before DRM achieves greater legal backing than (in the United States, anyway) the DMCA already gives it.
Wait, you'd actually prefer to have the RIAA suing millions of people than have DRM? Seriously, these people are facing thousands of dollars in fines for an action that maybe made the industry lose a couple hundred, at worst. I don't want DRM either, but in no way do I think suing people is going to help. The magnitude of the punishment in no way fits the crime.
Copyright holders have always had the right to take legal action against copyright violators, but they made a tactical error when they chose to fight Napster instead of the users, and when they attempt to pass laws instead of civilly enforcing existing laws.
Civilly enforcing? Raiding someone's home for copyright violations seems a little extreme. Maybe if they were selling the songs commercially they'd have a reason to do that, but for non-commercial filesharing that's a bit over the top.
Also, do you really think if everyone stopped pirating that we'd get better deals for music? Do you think the music industry would reward us for not pirating? Nope. If anything, we'd get worse prices on music. They will shove down our throats whatever they can get away with. So, in a sense, piracy is an act of civil disobediance to laws which are unfair. It happened in China, where they are now selling legal DVDs for $1.50 to combat the 75 cent version people can get on the street.
It seems that what Sony has done with the "new" controller design is exactly what they have been doing with the rest of the PS3 development: same thing, with incremental upgrades. Nothing really new or innovative, no risks, just the same thing rehashed with current technology. I may be alone in this, but I think the old design for the PS3 controller was better. This demo shows how the original design was supposed to work. It just looks like it would fit in the hand much better than the PS2 controllers, which I've always thought were ergonomic disasters. But maybe that's just me.
Really wish the fanboys had gotten that memo. My ears are still ringing.
I just finished taking an architectural perspective and rendering course. One of the topics that was discussed is while the amount of people doing hand rendering of building may be dropping, drawing will never really go away. While there are many advantages to computer renderings, there are certain things that it still is way behind drawing in. It will be a while before someone can render a building or car as quickly as they can by hand. Sometimes a person needs to see big changes, or to see what something will look like immediately. Those changes could take days to do on a computer. An artist could simply take out his pencil and paper and draw it for you right there. Another thing that computers lack is any sort of artistic flair. CAD renderings often look dead, unless someone spends time spicing them up in photoshop or the like, and even then lack that something that hand done art has. A hand done drawing will always have that little something that computers cannot have because they are so perfect. However, I do think computers are a useful tool that also have advantages over hand drawn renderings. The two must work together. As the parent said, the problem is that teachers and programs aren't emphasizing it enough, not the programs. I can communicate well with people even though I used IM a lot. I can write well even though I type a lot. The problem isn't the program, is how much time is spent in it rather than doing real drawings.
Yarrr. I spoke to soon. This is about software, isn't it. I apologize, mate. Your mention of piracy just make me think of all the booty I've acquired.....
But we YARRRRR pirates! I don't know about yerself, mate, but when I gets me music, I goes into the music store cutlass in hand, killing employees left and right before I make off with the latest Jessica Simpson!! Yarrr, she be a good-lookin' lass...if only I could plunder her.....
Dude, that would be awesome. However, man, I can't really see the DEA being chill with that. I mean, that would be a lot of weed.