Why not just have skype/similar video conferencing software and a few web cams in a different offices?
What do I get by having a webcam-on-wheels?
Perhaps the answer is that the distance person controls where they move to... so an issue of power? But I can see low-powered workers subverting that very easily ("oops, sorry, I forgot I put some boxes down, that why you can't come through here. Wait just one moment... / Oh dear we had a small oil spill / the IT techs are working under the carpets... so your robot won't be able to come into Room X123 today....)
thoughts? Ideas on the benefits of these devices? Down the line maybe if they have arms and can get involved rather than just talking. But while it's just talking then why not webcams?
So now the asteroid is estimated to be 325m not 270m across, it will be coming EVEN CLOSER at 35,999.945 km away? Eeek! run for the hills! we're dooomed Mr. Mainwaring!
Yes, I can see that working. But who's going to pay for the emergency services helicopters' radio equipment to make sure drones don't fly into them? (apologies if this is trivial, I don't know what equipment police/ambulance helicopters carry)
No. Everybody in the college/university world has to do some sort of workload of preparation, teaching, marking (you mean those 50 essays the students wrote this week don't get marked instantly by some AI engine?! somebody reads each of them and does their best to offer personalised feedback?... and the same again next week for another module... where does the weekend go? ). Not many jobs for life these days, everybody is being assessed and colleges are all trying to cut costs all the time. Very few fields can be taught without courses being revised frequently, transferred to this year's VLE, modified to fit in to the director's view of how the college should be presenting itself to current demand etc.
Good luck on persuading the authorities in New York, London, Paris etc that you want to fill the urban airspace with drones. How will you manage 'collision detection' in its very real and physical form if this becomes popular and there are large numbers flying around? How will they talk to other air traffic (e.g. police / ambulance helicopters)? Will they be able to re-route if emergency services wish to land rapidly? How about environmental lovers concerned about the effect they'll have on local birdlife?
I guess it is manageable but a> you'll need some fine control systems to be built b> you'll have to persuade the public that lots of little buzzing machines are a good thing and not annoying and c>you're insured against the occasional fail (if you have "millions" operating, I expect some will fall out of the sky, 5kg dropping from 100m in the air onto a city crowd?)
Curious as to why there is still a fan scene. Is it like a classic auto scene, where everybody is keen to show off their well kept old machine, or is it the fun of writing code on a limited old machine and seeing how far it can be pushed? I'd be interested to hear about the different motivations people have for participating in the scene. I am guessing there aren't too many people in the scene who do it because they believe the world would be a better / more efficient place if we all moved over to using C64's for our computing needs?
"And this folks is precisely why we never get anything done anymore."
I think this is mostly a USA-specific curse, so the business will just go elsewhere. You do seem to be rather plagued by lawyers, and citizens ready to sue for millions/quadra-tetra-billions at the first whiff of a split hot coffee or cracked paving slab that might cause them emotional damage.
So I think it will just be to the detriment of the USA and not necessarily anywhere else. Though to be fair we do seem to be having more of this kind of legal madness occurring in Europe these days as well, so perhaps space will be Asian based in the future?
Interested in academic references/ well researched critiques of the pedagogy of the Khan academy approach. Lots of media coverage about how it's wonderful, revolutionises children's understanding of various school topics, lots of hype.... but I'd be really interested in academic reviews or articles that have tracked children using Khan academy and identifies how well this approach performs compares to other teaching methodologies.
Cheers! really curious to know what sort of research has been carried out to explore the efficacy of the Khan approach, what its strengths are etc. (real research, not just journalist hype). One assumes these educators have done their research if they are committing to it as a means of teaching, so maybe they've written up their investigations?
In itself, the Pi is just another small cheap computer. Right now it's got a great lead over other similar devices because of all the fan-publicity (I suspect mostly led by dewey-eyed 40-somethings who remember their teenage programming years on the BBC B and the like). At some point the honeymoon will be over and the Pi will be in a box in the back of the garage with all the other Christmas geek toys that were fun for a week in the holidays.
What will give it life in the educational sphere will be the development of decent educational supporting material. Provide educational material - particularly content that ticks off required elements in the National Curriculum that teachers have to deliver - and you have something will get taken up by thousands of schools.Without it, the Pi will be just another piece of hardware foisted onto teachers that they have to manage and maintain on top of their already busy schedules, that they will get fed up with and dump as soon as they can.
Of course this raises the moral question of "what's off limits for a game" - but also - "what's a game?".
Does something have to be "fun" to be a game? Is this the definition of a game (as opposed to say a "simulation"). Or is a game a "simulated environment where there is a win condition"?
If you pay taxes for 20 years then need a hand paying for bills for a few months, getting 50 / week back out of those 20 years taxes does not equal "free money".
Studying part time for certified courses costs money as well. Studying using free resources either requires access to the internet (costs money for net connection) or libraries (government seems to be closing them down, our local one isn't open on Saturdays any more, means no parent and child reading sessions if the parent is in work....).
Will be compulsory to use for jobseekers from next year (as in, 2 weeks from now).
Have a friend who uses it. They checked the terms and conditions of signing up to use it (remember this is mandatory for those people who wish to sign on for benefits, e.g. somebody who has paid taxes for 20 years and would now like a little back from the taxes to help them get by on important bills for the next few months til they find their next job). If you register on the system, the terms and conditions currently note that your personal data can be passed on to third parties outside the EU.
I don't remember us signing up to that agreement when we agreed to the contract where we pay taxes into society, and when we need some help we can get a little back.
I'll ask my friend to send over the details of the text and I'll post it.
Did you not read the parent post about the "Cobra Effect"? $10 for a snake would not only make an industry out of killing them, it would create an industry of people who would start to breed snakes for profit.. and who would then let them go in to the wild if they were closed down.
Stable technology (and the desk!:-) ) - Using the hand tools my dad gave me, some of them were his grandfather's (e.g. the chisels), to build the desk I work on with my laptop. Can't see me passing down any of my electronic equipment to grandkids for them to use day-to-day. Nice to be using tools that have worked for generations.
Maybe they got pragmatic and decided the best way to bring in local jobs (Raspberry Pi = British,so jobs in the UK) was to find an existing plant that could take on the work. Maybe setting up their own factory from scratch was unrealistic for the Raspberry Pi organisation (these guys aren't an existing multinational megacorp, just a start-up, effectively) but they could at least try to get them manufactured in the UK and create some British/Welsh jobs. Perhaps they also felt this would allow them better quality control (an easy drive across the country for a few hours rather than a flight to Shanghai to check on facilities) and also be more ethical in terms of production line worker conditions. Puts them ahead of Apple, at least...
I am sure national governments will be really happy about storing their private/ secret data in another country's territory "because it's encrypted so it will be safe".
Would the US government network be happy about a Chinese commercial provider supplying their network provision on Chinese territory? without auditing the network? From the article: "Amazon had concerns over the stipulation that the UK government could audit US data centres" - Amazon were asking the UK government to store their data on another country's territory, and not even be given permission to check how the centres were secured? Not surprised the UK government weren't too keen on this deal.
I guess this is a case of the biggest guys slugging out for who has rights. Ouch, could be some collateral damage to bystanders! THERE IS ONLY ONE ARMY AND IT IS OUR ARMY!!!! COME AND HAVE A GO IF YOU DON'T AGREE! ooh could be nasty....
(actually to be fair probably the US are just arguing.army shouldn't be there as it's just too much trouble sorting out everybody wanting their army to have it...)
Feel a bit sorry for the folks in South America mind, 20 years time and maybe the amazon shipping company will be history while hopefully the river and its ecosystem will still be around for a while to come...
I would have thought that as big as US corporates can get, national governments can still throw more resources (people, money) at such a goal - so isn't it a different game? (commercial as opposed to govt. funded). And we know that governments have previously landed on the moon and will continue to do so (I'd expect India to also have further ambitions, perhaps Brazil, etc). So why reduce the money?
Got to get people to tune in to your channel, sell the newspapers. I was reading a BBC article where they noted "Filipino relatives were watching from home as they were concerned about the well being of their relatives and they understood the seriousness as the Philippines experience 20 typhoons a year". It's just exciting in the US as Cat1 storms hitting cities have novelty value. I guess some places in the world that probably only makes the local newspapers.
Probably more people die in traffic accidents each week in NYC than due to this storm, but I guess those don't make international news.
Agreed - three year olds aren't adults. To compare the two groups is foolish. Biologically, their brains are very different (I Am Not A Developmental Psychologist... but I work with some;-) ) . To compare the two is comparing different biological structures.
Three year olds aren't "small adults with less life experience" - they are less developed and hence act and react to stimuli in different ways. This is why the vast majority of countries do not treat children the same as adults in terms of rights, responsibilities, and legal situations.
They may have the ability to appear to absorb more new knowledge - but they don't have the ability - at a biological level - to assess and act upon their new learning in the same way as adults.
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Why not just have skype/similar video conferencing software and a few web cams in a different offices?
What do I get by having a webcam-on-wheels?
Perhaps the answer is that the distance person controls where they move to... so an issue of power? But I can see low-powered workers subverting that very easily ("oops, sorry, I forgot I put some boxes down, that why you can't come through here. Wait just one moment... / Oh dear we had a small oil spill / the IT techs are working under the carpets ... so your robot won't be able to come into Room X123 today....)
thoughts? Ideas on the benefits of these devices? Down the line maybe if they have arms and can get involved rather than just talking. But while it's just talking then why not webcams?
JSTOR has posted a condolences note on their website.
"Like the Good Night Lamp(tm))"
Will you be revisiting all articles every time a company name is mentioned that has a trade mark to note "(tm)"?
So now the asteroid is estimated to be 325m not 270m across, it will be coming EVEN CLOSER at 35,999.945 km away? Eeek! run for the hills! we're dooomed Mr. Mainwaring!
Apparently due to increased safety regulations being adhered to in Chinese mines. Damned commies! they'll have unions next!
Yes, I can see that working. But who's going to pay for the emergency services helicopters' radio equipment to make sure drones don't fly into them? (apologies if this is trivial, I don't know what equipment police/ambulance helicopters carry)
No. Everybody in the college /university world has to do some sort of workload of preparation, teaching, marking (you mean those 50 essays the students wrote this week don't get marked instantly by some AI engine?! somebody reads each of them and does their best to offer personalised feedback? ... and the same again next week for another module... where does the weekend go? ). Not many jobs for life these days, everybody is being assessed and colleges are all trying to cut costs all the time. Very few fields can be taught without courses being revised frequently, transferred to this year's VLE, modified to fit in to the director's view of how the college should be presenting itself to current demand etc.
Good luck on persuading the authorities in New York, London, Paris etc that you want to fill the urban airspace with drones. How will you manage 'collision detection' in its very real and physical form if this becomes popular and there are large numbers flying around? How will they talk to other air traffic (e.g. police / ambulance helicopters)? Will they be able to re-route if emergency services wish to land rapidly? How about environmental lovers concerned about the effect they'll have on local birdlife?
I guess it is manageable but a> you'll need some fine control systems to be built b> you'll have to persuade the public that lots of little buzzing machines are a good thing and not annoying and c>you're insured against the occasional fail (if you have "millions" operating, I expect some will fall out of the sky, 5kg dropping from 100m in the air onto a city crowd?)
Curious as to why there is still a fan scene. Is it like a classic auto scene, where everybody is keen to show off their well kept old machine, or is it the fun of writing code on a limited old machine and seeing how far it can be pushed? I'd be interested to hear about the different motivations people have for participating in the scene. I am guessing there aren't too many people in the scene who do it because they believe the world would be a better / more efficient place if we all moved over to using C64's for our computing needs?
"And this folks is precisely why we never get anything done anymore."
I think this is mostly a USA-specific curse, so the business will just go elsewhere. You do seem to be rather plagued by lawyers, and citizens ready to sue for millions/quadra-tetra-billions at the first whiff of a split hot coffee or cracked paving slab that might cause them emotional damage.
So I think it will just be to the detriment of the USA and not necessarily anywhere else. Though to be fair we do seem to be having more of this kind of legal madness occurring in Europe these days as well, so perhaps space will be Asian based in the future?
Interested in academic references/ well researched critiques of the pedagogy of the Khan academy approach. Lots of media coverage about how it's wonderful, revolutionises children's understanding of various school topics, lots of hype.... but I'd be really interested in academic reviews or articles that have tracked children using Khan academy and identifies how well this approach performs compares to other teaching methodologies.
Cheers! really curious to know what sort of research has been carried out to explore the efficacy of the Khan approach, what its strengths are etc. (real research, not just journalist hype). One assumes these educators have done their research if they are committing to it as a means of teaching, so maybe they've written up their investigations?
In itself, the Pi is just another small cheap computer. Right now it's got a great lead over other similar devices because of all the fan-publicity (I suspect mostly led by dewey-eyed 40-somethings who remember their teenage programming years on the BBC B and the like). At some point the honeymoon will be over and the Pi will be in a box in the back of the garage with all the other Christmas geek toys that were fun for a week in the holidays.
What will give it life in the educational sphere will be the development of decent educational supporting material. Provide educational material - particularly content that ticks off required elements in the National Curriculum that teachers have to deliver - and you have something will get taken up by thousands of schools.Without it, the Pi will be just another piece of hardware foisted onto teachers that they have to manage and maintain on top of their already busy schedules, that they will get fed up with and dump as soon as they can.
Of course this raises the moral question of "what's off limits for a game" - but also - "what's a game?".
Does something have to be "fun" to be a game? Is this the definition of a game (as opposed to say a "simulation"). Or is a game a "simulated environment where there is a win condition"?
Interested to hear slashdotters thoughts.
If you pay taxes for 20 years then need a hand paying for bills for a few months, getting 50 / week back out of those 20 years taxes does not equal "free money".
Studying part time for certified courses costs money as well. Studying using free resources either requires access to the internet (costs money for net connection) or libraries (government seems to be closing them down, our local one isn't open on Saturdays any more, means no parent and child reading sessions if the parent is in work....).
Will be compulsory to use for jobseekers from next year (as in, 2 weeks from now).
Have a friend who uses it. They checked the terms and conditions of signing up to use it (remember this is mandatory for those people who wish to sign on for benefits, e.g. somebody who has paid taxes for 20 years and would now like a little back from the taxes to help them get by on important bills for the next few months til they find their next job). If you register on the system, the terms and conditions currently note that your personal data can be passed on to third parties outside the EU.
I don't remember us signing up to that agreement when we agreed to the contract where we pay taxes into society, and when we need some help we can get a little back.
I'll ask my friend to send over the details of the text and I'll post it.
Did you not read the parent post about the "Cobra Effect"? $10 for a snake would not only make an industry out of killing them, it would create an industry of people who would start to breed snakes for profit.. and who would then let them go in to the wild if they were closed down.
Stable technology (and the desk! :-) ) - Using the hand tools my dad gave me, some of them were his grandfather's (e.g. the chisels), to build the desk I work on with my laptop. Can't see me passing down any of my electronic equipment to grandkids for them to use day-to-day. Nice to be using tools that have worked for generations.
Indeed, mod parent up. Not all computers have to be networked, plenty of situations where that's a security risk, costs more for the unit.
Maybe they got pragmatic and decided the best way to bring in local jobs (Raspberry Pi = British,so jobs in the UK) was to find an existing plant that could take on the work. Maybe setting up their own factory from scratch was unrealistic for the Raspberry Pi organisation (these guys aren't an existing multinational megacorp, just a start-up, effectively) but they could at least try to get them manufactured in the UK and create some British/Welsh jobs. Perhaps they also felt this would allow them better quality control (an easy drive across the country for a few hours rather than a flight to Shanghai to check on facilities) and also be more ethical in terms of production line worker conditions. Puts them ahead of Apple, at least...
Enough said. Always been a fan of the bonkers commentary that Brian Sewell comes out with myself.
I am sure national governments will be really happy about storing their private/ secret data in another country's territory "because it's encrypted so it will be safe".
Would the US government network be happy about a Chinese commercial provider supplying their network provision on Chinese territory? without auditing the network? From the article: "Amazon had concerns over the stipulation that the UK government could audit US data centres" - Amazon were asking the UK government to store their data on another country's territory, and not even be given permission to check how the centres were secured? Not surprised the UK government weren't too keen on this deal.
I guess this is a case of the biggest guys slugging out for who has rights. Ouch, could be some collateral damage to bystanders! THERE IS ONLY ONE ARMY AND IT IS OUR ARMY!!!! COME AND HAVE A GO IF YOU DON'T AGREE! ooh could be nasty....
(actually to be fair probably the US are just arguing .army shouldn't be there as it's just too much trouble sorting out everybody wanting their army to have it...)
Feel a bit sorry for the folks in South America mind, 20 years time and maybe the amazon shipping company will be history while hopefully the river and its ecosystem will still be around for a while to come...
I would have thought that as big as US corporates can get, national governments can still throw more resources (people, money) at such a goal - so isn't it a different game? (commercial as opposed to govt. funded). And we know that governments have previously landed on the moon and will continue to do so (I'd expect India to also have further ambitions, perhaps Brazil, etc). So why reduce the money?
Got to get people to tune in to your channel, sell the newspapers. I was reading a BBC article where they noted "Filipino relatives were watching from home as they were concerned about the well being of their relatives and they understood the seriousness as the Philippines experience 20 typhoons a year". It's just exciting in the US as Cat1 storms hitting cities have novelty value. I guess some places in the world that probably only makes the local newspapers.
Probably more people die in traffic accidents each week in NYC than due to this storm, but I guess those don't make international news.
Agreed - three year olds aren't adults. To compare the two groups is foolish. Biologically, their brains are very different (I Am Not A Developmental Psychologist... but I work with some ;-) ) . To compare the two is comparing different biological structures.
Three year olds aren't "small adults with less life experience" - they are less developed and hence act and react to stimuli in different ways. This is why the vast majority of countries do not treat children the same as adults in terms of rights, responsibilities, and legal situations.
They may have the ability to appear to absorb more new knowledge - but they don't have the ability - at a biological level - to assess and act upon their new learning in the same way as adults.