Long story short, color cameras aren't conducive to science, just shiny and "oohhh, ahhhh". It's just one more thing to maintain that won't help anyone.
Power point isn't inherently bad. It's just that there's only about a handful of people that can use it properly.
My physics lectures are power point based. I've learned more physics (not just mindless drone calculations, but honest to god physics from concept to proof) from these lectures than anything else.
Of course, reading the slides without actually going to the lecture doesn't result in much learning, but the lecture without the power point would be just as horrible. That's the ideal balance in a lecture.
The problem is that most people throw EVERYTHING onto the slide as if it's a magic screen that must contain all of the information in the entire lecture.
"Every serious study to date has shown that the more computers in the school, the less learning going on. "
Nope, you're wrong. Every serious study to date shows that the more computers in the school, the more oranges kids bring to school in their lunchboxes.
See? I can make up nonsense studies and not source my information either!
Why don't you go build your own desk and run electrical cable to your office. After all, if you can't be bothered to go read a book on wiring and carpentry, you're probably a lazy fuck who doesn't deserve the job you have.
Last time I checked, there didn't exist a manual for connecting a document cam, projector, smartboard, and sound system to a laptop computer and configuring the entire mess using an account without administration privileges (standard teacher account).
Like I said, a chalkboard teaches calculus just as well or better than this new system. Why hold it against a teacher who didn't decide to use the system and just got it thrown into their room?
They run win XP in the computing commons and the room used for physics studios. I've seen a couple linux boxes and a few in one of the AC&N offices, but none other than that.
This doesn't really ever happen except on television. If anyone is taking hostages, they're going to make a big fucking deal of it anyway because that's the entire point. You take hostages because what you're doing is obvious and you need them so the police don't storm in and kill you. You don't take hostages and try to be sneaky about it.
"The system's efficiency is dropping steadily and steeply; teachers are out of touch with current technologies"
Has calculus changed in the last 150 years? Has English changed (aside from a handful of grammar constructs, a few words, etc.) in the last 50? Does addition work differently that it did in the 15 century?
Adding new teaching methods is a good idea if they work and help learning. i.e. putting full color 3-D graphs of certain functions in calc. books. But adding new technology is bad if it isn't used correctly. i.e. putting "smartboards", projectors, etc. in every classroom. No teacher knows how to use them, they are all required to use them, and student learning completely stops. Sitting in class for 20 minutes because the teacher can't get the computer to talk to the projector HARMS learning.
Unfortunately, every time anyone tries to put "technology" into public schools, it fails miserably. Students are much better off taking notes from a lecture written on a chalkboard than watching a presentation bluescreen for the third time this week.
People are very quick to say "TEACHERS ARE OUT OF DATE!", but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The material being taught hasn't changed because IT STILL WORKS LIKE IT DID BACK THEN!
The other argument is that classes are "less relevant" to today's students. This is really just another way of saying "students are lazy and without spinning animations on screen every 5 seconds they start to daydream". Calculus is just as relevant to students now as it was to students 50 years ago (depending on choice of profession, this may be a lot or a little). But putting the fundamental theorem on calculus or on "these new-fangled interwebs" doesn't result in better learning over seeing it on a chalkboard.
No, a company should not slander their competitors to do more business. Propaganda results in an overall decline of the happiness of almost all consumers.
Consumers that are too ignorant to know any better will believe the ridiculous claims of "windows is safer than Linux" and "Linux is hard to update". (apt-get upgrade <-- 10 times simpler than windows bullshit update system). These consumers buy the product, have a bad experience with it (sales guy: Yeah, win vista will run fine on this laptop with POS specs!) then are forced to take the advice of these companies as complete lies and do their own research.
Consumers that know enough about this nonsense in the first place walk into the store with the (unfortunately correct) idea that everyone is lying to them and thus all advice needs to be disregarded.
Now, this means that if a consumer wants to buy some product and walks into the store and sees another similar product with a similar price they must then leave the store, research it, and then decide which to buy. It would help both the consumers and the store if the sales people could HONESTLY and ACCURATELY answer "what's the difference between these two products". Instead of "Well, this one is more expensive, so I get a larger commission, so you have to buy this one."
Yeah, he's insulting harleys because he can't afford one. Not because they're inefficient and amazingly loud at the expense of actually working well. People buy a harley because they have a small penis and need the amazingly loud and annoying noise of their shitty engines to drown out this reality.
"Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?"
HIRE A FUCKING LAWYER. Why on earth is it that people keep asking these questions when they know full well that no one here is a lawyer and half the posts are signed with "IANAL"? They have lawyers for a reason, that reason is to give you legal representation in matters involving the interpretation of the LAW. You need a lawyer, not a bunch of people on the interwebs claiming that "they've seen such and such a technique work", "long ago", and "once when my friend got sued by this one guy".
Are you really willing to risk your patents based on some advice you got off of the internet from someone whose name you don't know whose credentials you don't have and probably don't actually exist? If so, then by all means keep asking legal questions on a tech website. But your post makes it seem like you actually want credible legal advice, so stop asking slashdot and GO HIRE A LAWYER.
Imagine taking your desk fan and attaching a 5HP motor to it and physically shocking the hell out of the thing. Spin a wind turbine too fast and you get some pretty crazy forces that will rip it apart. LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA
If you have no idea how a stealth aircraft works then why do you think you're qualified to say "that's not stealth"? Just because it looks a little different from past stealth aircraft doesn't mean jack shit.
No, you're obviously not going to the movies because you're pirating everything. Customers don't care about service, they're clearly PIRATING EVERYTHING if they don't pay $10 to sit in seats next to smelly people and walk on soda-sticky floors and sit through ads.
"The family of the victim is often out for revenge, and as part of the bargain, it is up to the state to provide it." What the hell are you talking about? It is NOT up to the criminal justice system to do this.
There is a civil court system for the family to sue the "killer". No vengeance is necessary.
This is exactly why I'm going to shortly be implementing a cell phone jamming device in my car. I'm one of the last people to advocate cell phone jamming for numerous reasons (emergency calls, for one). But anyone driving while on their cell phone, clearly chatting to someone is not on an emergency call. Thus, someone comes up and tailgates me while on a cell phone and I'll turn on the jammer for a good 10-25 seconds to drop the call. Turn it back off and if they pick up the phone again, re engage it.
Please don't bother to cite any sources regarding how dangerous any of these things are or any evidence to show that texting takes more thinking. You are obviously the expert in the area.
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Long story short, color cameras aren't conducive to science, just shiny and "oohhh, ahhhh". It's just one more thing to maintain that won't help anyone.
Power point isn't inherently bad. It's just that there's only about a handful of people that can use it properly.
My physics lectures are power point based. I've learned more physics (not just mindless drone calculations, but honest to god physics from concept to proof) from these lectures than anything else.
Of course, reading the slides without actually going to the lecture doesn't result in much learning, but the lecture without the power point would be just as horrible. That's the ideal balance in a lecture.
The problem is that most people throw EVERYTHING onto the slide as if it's a magic screen that must contain all of the information in the entire lecture.
"Every serious study to date has shown that the more computers in the school, the less learning going on. "
Nope, you're wrong. Every serious study to date shows that the more computers in the school, the more oranges kids bring to school in their lunchboxes.
See? I can make up nonsense studies and not source my information either!
Why don't you go build your own desk and run electrical cable to your office. After all, if you can't be bothered to go read a book on wiring and carpentry, you're probably a lazy fuck who doesn't deserve the job you have.
"To make post/edit/delete on slashdot, right to the box of typing click button marked "japanese symbol""
That's so easy.
"more than $2,000 a year above the poverty line"
You're completely right. The staring salary for a teacher is slightly above enough to live in a completely miserable condition.
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It's truly amazing that more people don't become a teacher from their jobs that pay 2-3 times what a teacher makes.
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Last time I checked, there didn't exist a manual for connecting a document cam, projector, smartboard, and sound system to a laptop computer and configuring the entire mess using an account without administration privileges (standard teacher account).
Like I said, a chalkboard teaches calculus just as well or better than this new system. Why hold it against a teacher who didn't decide to use the system and just got it thrown into their room?
They run win XP in the computing commons and the room used for physics studios.
I've seen a couple linux boxes and a few in one of the AC&N offices, but none other than that.
Why don't you get your shit straight. "TEENagers" are so called because they have the word TEEN in them.
TEN doesn't have TEEN anywhere in it.
You don't have to wait for anything. She'll just make one and not tell you. Problem solved.
This doesn't really ever happen except on television. If anyone is taking hostages, they're going to make a big fucking deal of it anyway because that's the entire point. You take hostages because what you're doing is obvious and you need them so the police don't storm in and kill you. You don't take hostages and try to be sneaky about it.
"The system's efficiency is dropping steadily and steeply; teachers are out of touch with current technologies"
Has calculus changed in the last 150 years?
Has English changed (aside from a handful of grammar constructs, a few words, etc.) in the last 50?
Does addition work differently that it did in the 15 century?
Adding new teaching methods is a good idea if they work and help learning. i.e. putting full color 3-D graphs of certain functions in calc. books.
But adding new technology is bad if it isn't used correctly. i.e. putting "smartboards", projectors, etc. in every classroom. No teacher knows how to use them, they are all required to use them, and student learning completely stops. Sitting in class for 20 minutes because the teacher can't get the computer to talk to the projector HARMS learning.
Unfortunately, every time anyone tries to put "technology" into public schools, it fails miserably. Students are much better off taking notes from a lecture written on a chalkboard than watching a presentation bluescreen for the third time this week.
People are very quick to say "TEACHERS ARE OUT OF DATE!", but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The material being taught hasn't changed because IT STILL WORKS LIKE IT DID BACK THEN!
The other argument is that classes are "less relevant" to today's students. This is really just another way of saying "students are lazy and without spinning animations on screen every 5 seconds they start to daydream". Calculus is just as relevant to students now as it was to students 50 years ago (depending on choice of profession, this may be a lot or a little). But putting the fundamental theorem on calculus or on "these new-fangled interwebs" doesn't result in better learning over seeing it on a chalkboard.
"That is what a software company SHOULD do."
No, a company should not slander their competitors to do more business. Propaganda results in an overall decline of the happiness of almost all consumers.
Consumers that are too ignorant to know any better will believe the ridiculous claims of "windows is safer than Linux" and "Linux is hard to update". (apt-get upgrade <-- 10 times simpler than windows bullshit update system). These consumers buy the product, have a bad experience with it (sales guy: Yeah, win vista will run fine on this laptop with POS specs!) then are forced to take the advice of these companies as complete lies and do their own research.
Consumers that know enough about this nonsense in the first place walk into the store with the (unfortunately correct) idea that everyone is lying to them and thus all advice needs to be disregarded.
Now, this means that if a consumer wants to buy some product and walks into the store and sees another similar product with a similar price they must then leave the store, research it, and then decide which to buy. It would help both the consumers and the store if the sales people could HONESTLY and ACCURATELY answer "what's the difference between these two products". Instead of "Well, this one is more expensive, so I get a larger commission, so you have to buy this one."
I can get a free copy of windows 7 and I don't have to take any bullshit propaganda course.
It's completely unethical for bestbuy to go along with microsoft on pushing this course onto their employees. Though I can't say I'm surprised.
Yes, they should immediately start changing what ain't broke. If they're reliable then why on earth should they change?
Yeah, he's insulting harleys because he can't afford one. Not because they're inefficient and amazingly loud at the expense of actually working well. People buy a harley because they have a small penis and need the amazingly loud and annoying noise of their shitty engines to drown out this reality.
"Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?"
HIRE A FUCKING LAWYER. Why on earth is it that people keep asking these questions when they know full well that no one here is a lawyer and half the posts are signed with "IANAL"? They have lawyers for a reason, that reason is to give you legal representation in matters involving the interpretation of the LAW. You need a lawyer, not a bunch of people on the interwebs claiming that "they've seen such and such a technique work", "long ago", and "once when my friend got sued by this one guy".
Are you really willing to risk your patents based on some advice you got off of the internet from someone whose name you don't know whose credentials you don't have and probably don't actually exist? If so, then by all means keep asking legal questions on a tech website. But your post makes it seem like you actually want credible legal advice, so stop asking slashdot and GO HIRE A LAWYER.
Good god no.
Imagine taking your desk fan and attaching a 5HP motor to it and physically shocking the hell out of the thing. Spin a wind turbine too fast and you get some pretty crazy forces that will rip it apart.
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA
If you have no idea how a stealth aircraft works then why do you think you're qualified to say "that's not stealth"? Just because it looks a little different from past stealth aircraft doesn't mean jack shit.
No, you're obviously not going to the movies because you're pirating everything. Customers don't care about service, they're clearly PIRATING EVERYTHING if they don't pay $10 to sit in seats next to smelly people and walk on soda-sticky floors and sit through ads.
Or you're just being tracked. Don't worry, someone will be by to collect you for reeducation and execution shortly.
"The family of the victim is often out for revenge, and as part of the bargain, it is up to the state to provide it." What the hell are you talking about? It is NOT up to the criminal justice system to do this.
There is a civil court system for the family to sue the "killer". No vengeance is necessary.
This is exactly why I'm going to shortly be implementing a cell phone jamming device in my car. I'm one of the last people to advocate cell phone jamming for numerous reasons (emergency calls, for one). But anyone driving while on their cell phone, clearly chatting to someone is not on an emergency call. Thus, someone comes up and tailgates me while on a cell phone and I'll turn on the jammer for a good 10-25 seconds to drop the call. Turn it back off and if they pick up the phone again, re engage it.
Please don't bother to cite any sources regarding how dangerous any of these things are or any evidence to show that texting takes more thinking. You are obviously the expert in the area.
"this would epically fail in Amish country -- metal-shod horses are rough on asphalt, through plastic cratering, but would be absolute hell on glass."
That, and the fact that the Amish don't use electricity in the first place so it's kind of a moot issue.