How many people switched because they were told it was simply 'cool' or '1337' or that it would help them 'h4x05 their friendz b0x', and then moved on from that but sticked with Linux.
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslow's hierarch of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_o f_needs) would say that a job can, over time, satisfy an employees physiological needs and safety, however, once these demands are met with money, an employer will look upwards in the hierarchy to love and belonging, and see that he could be doing better. I think that this is what happens, people see that once they are 'safe' from their basic needs, they look to expand both their emotions and themselves as individuals. People wish to do as well as they can, and doing so they look up the pyramid, leading them to change jobs, even if this produces a pay cut, as long as the pay cut allows them to live without any hardship.
So true. However, if you are interested in one of the few books writen about writers that is extreemly good, go read 'Bag of Bones' by Stephen King, honestly, i cant stand him most of the time, but its great.
Google Print is your friend.
although About Google Blog Search Does not give many answers on how it decides what is and isn't a blog, it seems that they do a good job of deciding, as i could not (in the past 5 minutes of trying) find a news site which is in their DB. I think that if they simply had an option to simply eliminate blogs, or the majority of blogs, it would be very helpful. This brings up the bigger issue of consolidating all of google into one place, as opposed to searching for different things on different sub domains, but that is a conversation for another day. For now however, I must say that there is a difference between secondary sources (CNN, BBC, ect...) and tertiary and beyond sites, with the tertiary you get two levels of possible bias, and that increases with every blog that moves further away from the source.
'That Is Soo 1950': Diary/Journal 'That Is Soo 2002': Blogging 'That Is Soo 2004': Podcasting 'That Is Soo Right Now': Video Blogging / Video Casting 'That Is Soo 2020': Streams of Conciousness downloaded directly From your conciousness 'That Is Soo NEVER': Reading/Watching/Listening/uploading them.
Nearly 50% of the blogs in existence are not interesting for an overwhelming majority of people is what i read from this. Thats not to say that all the non-personal blogs aren't just as bad. As Leo Laporte talked about on TWiT this week, Blogging is quickly becoming a serious problem with Google, and all the other search engines. Search just about any news topic, and you might find yourself with a blog talking about it, the source of material from said blog is another blog, and the chain will continue until you get to one of a few websites. I think that Google might be going in the right direction with their blog search, if they can use it to eliminate all blogging sites from searches which do not wish to return results from blogs. This must happen for search engines to be as easy and timeless as they have been in the past unless the novelty of blogging wears off, but who knows when that will happen.
If you have ever been to Malaysia, Russia, or Thailand, or any of the other main locations in which there are extremely lax copyright laws, you will agree with me when I say that this will change nothing. There may be a president set, after which we will see a stronger law, which may be enforced once or twice, like the 100 bat fine placed on anyone caught selling illegal videos and music at the PanTib center in Bangkok, but after the initial constrictions, I think that life will go on for those chinese downloaded. To you guys: It may take a while for the party to get going again, but dont put down your collar just yet, threes still a lot more sex drugs and alcohol to be had.
The thing about using this different approach to learning trig is that there will always be students who are taught, like techno-vampire, to understand what they are doing, and there will always be students who are not taught how the math is working. My thought is that the same teachers that teach trig functions as 'black boxes' will be the ones to continue, and thoes who don't will continue to teach based on telling the students 'this works' instead of showing them what is going on 'behind the scenes' if you will.
Will this method be an easier way to understand trig? Yes, but will it be something teachers who don't want to go into more complex explinations be happy about teaching? I dont think so.
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How many people switched because they were told it was simply 'cool' or '1337' or that it would help them 'h4x05 their friendz b0x', and then moved on from that but sticked with Linux.
Maslow's hierarch of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_o f_needs) would say that a job can, over time, satisfy an employees physiological needs and safety, however, once these demands are met with money, an employer will look upwards in the hierarchy to love and belonging, and see that he could be doing better. I think that this is what happens, people see that once they are 'safe' from their basic needs, they look to expand both their emotions and themselves as individuals. People wish to do as well as they can, and doing so they look up the pyramid, leading them to change jobs, even if this produces a pay cut, as long as the pay cut allows them to live without any hardship.
So true. However, if you are interested in one of the few books writen about writers that is extreemly good, go read 'Bag of Bones' by Stephen King, honestly, i cant stand him most of the time, but its great. Google Print is your friend.
although About Google Blog Search Does not give many answers on how it decides what is and isn't a blog, it seems that they do a good job of deciding, as i could not (in the past 5 minutes of trying) find a news site which is in their DB. I think that if they simply had an option to simply eliminate blogs, or the majority of blogs, it would be very helpful. This brings up the bigger issue of consolidating all of google into one place, as opposed to searching for different things on different sub domains, but that is a conversation for another day. For now however, I must say that there is a difference between secondary sources (CNN, BBC, ect...) and tertiary and beyond sites, with the tertiary you get two levels of possible bias, and that increases with every blog that moves further away from the source.
'That Is Soo 1950': Diary/Journal
'That Is Soo 2002': Blogging
'That Is Soo 2004': Podcasting
'That Is Soo Right Now': Video Blogging / Video Casting
'That Is Soo 2020': Streams of Conciousness downloaded directly From your conciousness
'That Is Soo NEVER': Reading/Watching/Listening/uploading them.
Nearly 50% of the blogs in existence are not interesting for an overwhelming majority of people is what i read from this. Thats not to say that all the non-personal blogs aren't just as bad. As Leo Laporte talked about on TWiT this week, Blogging is quickly becoming a serious problem with Google, and all the other search engines. Search just about any news topic, and you might find yourself with a blog talking about it, the source of material from said blog is another blog, and the chain will continue until you get to one of a few websites. I think that Google might be going in the right direction with their blog search, if they can use it to eliminate all blogging sites from searches which do not wish to return results from blogs. This must happen for search engines to be as easy and timeless as they have been in the past unless the novelty of blogging wears off, but who knows when that will happen.
If you have ever been to Malaysia, Russia, or Thailand, or any of the other main locations in which there are extremely lax copyright laws, you will agree with me when I say that this will change nothing. There may be a president set, after which we will see a stronger law, which may be enforced once or twice, like the 100 bat fine placed on anyone caught selling illegal videos and music at the PanTib center in Bangkok, but after the initial constrictions, I think that life will go on for those chinese downloaded. To you guys: It may take a while for the party to get going again, but dont put down your collar just yet, threes still a lot more sex drugs and alcohol to be had.
The thing about using this different approach to learning trig is that there will always be students who are taught, like techno-vampire, to understand what they are doing, and there will always be students who are not taught how the math is working. My thought is that the same teachers that teach trig functions as 'black boxes' will be the ones to continue, and thoes who don't will continue to teach based on telling the students 'this works' instead of showing them what is going on 'behind the scenes' if you will.
Will this method be an easier way to understand trig? Yes, but will it be something teachers who don't want to go into more complex explinations be happy about teaching? I dont think so.