Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel!
I agree. How many cars and alarm clocks are there with support for the iPod? Heaps. Now how many are there with support for a generic USB UMS/MSC device? Zero (AFAIK).
The single best thing about the internet is that no one has full control of it. Had it been controlled by government or industry, it would be a miserable little shadow of what it is today.
And then the government comes along with they're mandatory internet filtering, and we have ourselves a miserable little shadow.
Wouldn't that behavior be unrealistic though, since the NPCs would 'know' things that they shouldn't? e.g. that they have a bunch of allies hiding behind that wall. If each NPC acted individually, perhaps they could use swarm-based behavior when they teamed up.
How difficult would it be to download a torrent file via a proxy? Proxies are typically too slow for full downloads, but a.torrent file is only a few KB. And of course, the actual BT protocol won't be filtered...
But from a legal perspective, isn't downloading the act of copying data? The only users of the service would be intent on downloading illegal (or controversial, since they want to expand the scope of the filter) material, so the service could be seen as encouraging illegal acts. iiNet is getting sued for the same thing, and that's only because they are the only ISP which provides high speed connections with large caps relatively cheap, meaning that they are the ISP of choice for BT users. http://www.iinet.net.au/about/media/releases/201108_iinet_to_defend_court_action.pdf
Now, ISPs are usually international companies, few are still single country.
I don't know how it works in the US (or wherever you live) but the 2 of the top 3 ISPs in Australia (Telstra and iiNet) only serve within Australia, AFAIK. There headquarters are here too, meaning it would be difficult to move, especially since they own so much of the local infrastructure. The reason for this is likely that Australia is geographically isolated from other countries, being a continent in its own right.
Most ISPs are either also in telco or cable TV, so let's shut down the ISP biz and concentrate on the rest.
Telstra is a telco, but iiNet is only an ISP. There's actually talk of them providing IPTV next year, but that would be over the internet. Besides, at least one company will remain, and feel free to charge whatever they want (probably Telstra, due to their government given monopoly on the infrastructure). Isn't that the situation in the US - few people can choose an ISP other than Comcast?
'Supernatural', 'magical', 'miraculous' - these are just fancy, romantic words to describe what we do not understand. Modern technology would be magical to anyone even a decade in the past.
You can use science to shutdown arguments against life after death all you want, but when it comes down to it, no one knows anything for sure. Science consists of hypotheses based on evidence. Because there can be no evidence regarding life after death, anyone who uses science to mock followers of religion is equally susceptible to the same mockery. I believe in life after death. I don't care whether you do or not, but that is my belief. Does it matter whether or not I'm right? Probably not, but I believe that its impact on my life is far more significant.
Because real, pure love is good. It cannot be dark and twisted unless it is not love, but merely a corrupt shadow of it. Hate just eats away at you. It can grant you some strength in the short term, but in the end it eats away at you until you have nothing left. We tend to value love more than the other emotions because it is the closest to goodness. What motivates all good acts? Love.
Who is to say that living on in your memories is not a form of ghostliness? Its an unorthodox view, but I believe this is what the summary is getting at.
Let's say that driving with a phone is like driving with 0.079% blood-alcohol level. Drinking and driving is perfectly legal. Driving while drunk is not, and legally drunk is 0.08% blood-alcohol.
Except that the limit varies by country. For example, 0.05% is the limit in Australia.
That's because it isn't a high speed that causes accidents so much as a high relative velocity. If everyone travels at 100 km/hr on a 80 km/hr road, then it becomes very dangerous for the few going at 80, just as dangerous as it would be for someone going at 80 on 100 km/hr road. This happens because people believe that the speed limit is too low (i.e. they can drive safely at a higher speed) and there speed. The absence of speed cameras means that the few people traveling at the speed limit are at greater risk than those who speed. Traveling so slowly compared to the rest of the traffic would normally be considered dangerous driving, but here its that or speeding. People will drive at whatever speed they want in the absence of enforcement.
There also aren't any stupid copyright restrictions. I live in Australia, and most of the services I've tried (paid or free) give some notice about being unable to access the video because I don't live in the USA. Australia has several copyright treaties with the US which basically makes their law valid here, but they still aren't accessible. OTOH, BT is accessible anywhere, and can be easily viewed on any computer, MP4 player or streamed to a TV by an Xbox, etc.
Cyberbullying is a head-scratcher for me: how is it that saying mean things to someone is worse when done on the internet than when it is done face-to-face?
If you're the subject of physical bullying, then you can fight back. You might not win, but you still know how to. The problem with cyberbullying is that the person uses their social, instead of physical power, and most people have no idea how to retaliate or defend themselves from something like that. It's one thing when they hurt you physically, but when you are injured mentally, its a whole different ballgame.
The only school subject which might be the same between the 1950s and today is Maths. But even then there is less focus on doing long calculations on the page and more using a calculator.
I can verify that. I'm just about to start my final year of secondary education in Victoria, Australia, and this is how our math exams are broken up: 30 min - Tech Free 90 min - Tech Able
Note that in the Tech Free exam we get to take in a summary book filled with our own notes and a CAS graphics calculator that is capable of solving simultaneous equations, performing matrix operations including multiplication, inverse and rref, and finding derivatives and integrals. The marks are proportionate to the time allotted, and most of the TA exam just tests if you can use the calculator.The focus is on if you can use the calculator; that is, apply the correct algorithm to the problem at hand. I think that that actually makes more sense - if you're going to solve a problem in engineering or a different field, are you going to do it on paper? Or are you going to refer to your list of formulae (or Wikipedia) and crunch the numbers with a computer?
making learning fun hasn't helped anyone actually learn
I beg to differ. How many of us learnt to program games or did science experiments because they were fun? And how many students do you think will pay more attention in class if they are enjoying the work? Getting them to enjoy the work means that they will put in more effort than they would if they were forced to do it.
DISCLAIMER: I am a student in my final year of secondary education.
While that does work, I can testify from my experience in scanning music books (which are much shorter than textbooks - ~30 pages instead of 300) that it will take a painfully long time. You need to be there to turn each page, make sure its oriented the right way if you can fit both sides onto the scanner at the same time, and often you have to hold the book down so that it is scanned properly. And if its in colour, your scan time triples. In short, it works, but it takes forever.
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Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel!
I agree. How many cars and alarm clocks are there with support for the iPod? Heaps. Now how many are there with support for a generic USB UMS/MSC device? Zero (AFAIK).
It's obviously a conspiracy by HP. Everyone knows they have the biggest packages of all, though there isn't actually that much inside...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/
The single best thing about the internet is that no one has full control of it. Had it been controlled by government or industry, it would be a miserable little shadow of what it is today.
And then the government comes along with they're mandatory internet filtering, and we have ourselves a miserable little shadow.
Wouldn't that behavior be unrealistic though, since the NPCs would 'know' things that they shouldn't? e.g. that they have a bunch of allies hiding behind that wall. If each NPC acted individually, perhaps they could use swarm-based behavior when they teamed up.
How difficult would it be to download a torrent file via a proxy? Proxies are typically too slow for full downloads, but a .torrent file is only a few KB. And of course, the actual BT protocol won't be filtered...
Does this mean that people working for the company will be able to set up back doors? ;)
But from a legal perspective, isn't downloading the act of copying data? The only users of the service would be intent on downloading illegal (or controversial, since they want to expand the scope of the filter) material, so the service could be seen as encouraging illegal acts.
iiNet is getting sued for the same thing, and that's only because they are the only ISP which provides high speed connections with large caps relatively cheap, meaning that they are the ISP of choice for BT users.
http://www.iinet.net.au/about/media/releases/201108_iinet_to_defend_court_action.pdf
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Now, ISPs are usually international companies, few are still single country.
I don't know how it works in the US (or wherever you live) but the 2 of the top 3 ISPs in Australia (Telstra and iiNet) only serve within Australia, AFAIK. There headquarters are here too, meaning it would be difficult to move, especially since they own so much of the local infrastructure.
The reason for this is likely that Australia is geographically isolated from other countries, being a continent in its own right.
Most ISPs are either also in telco or cable TV, so let's shut down the ISP biz and concentrate on the rest.
Telstra is a telco, but iiNet is only an ISP. There's actually talk of them providing IPTV next year, but that would be over the internet.
Besides, at least one company will remain, and feel free to charge whatever they want (probably Telstra, due to their government given monopoly on the infrastructure). Isn't that the situation in the US - few people can choose an ISP other than Comcast?
isn't a hallucination just an image with no physical form? Saying that it isn't real is an assumption...
'Supernatural', 'magical', 'miraculous' - these are just fancy, romantic words to describe what we do not understand. Modern technology would be magical to anyone even a decade in the past.
You can use science to shutdown arguments against life after death all you want, but when it comes down to it, no one knows anything for sure. Science consists of hypotheses based on evidence. Because there can be no evidence regarding life after death, anyone who uses science to mock followers of religion is equally susceptible to the same mockery.
I believe in life after death. I don't care whether you do or not, but that is my belief. Does it matter whether or not I'm right? Probably not, but I believe that its impact on my life is far more significant.
Because real, pure love is good. It cannot be dark and twisted unless it is not love, but merely a corrupt shadow of it.
Hate just eats away at you. It can grant you some strength in the short term, but in the end it eats away at you until you have nothing left.
We tend to value love more than the other emotions because it is the closest to goodness. What motivates all good acts? Love.
Who is to say that living on in your memories is not a form of ghostliness? Its an unorthodox view, but I believe this is what the summary is getting at.
Yeah, but the content filter doesn't know that...
Let's say that driving with a phone is like driving with 0.079% blood-alcohol level. Drinking and driving is perfectly legal. Driving while drunk is not, and legally drunk is 0.08% blood-alcohol.
Except that the limit varies by country. For example, 0.05% is the limit in Australia.
That's because it isn't a high speed that causes accidents so much as a high relative velocity. If everyone travels at 100 km/hr on a 80 km/hr road, then it becomes very dangerous for the few going at 80, just as dangerous as it would be for someone going at 80 on 100 km/hr road. This happens because people believe that the speed limit is too low (i.e. they can drive safely at a higher speed) and there speed. The absence of speed cameras means that the few people traveling at the speed limit are at greater risk than those who speed. Traveling so slowly compared to the rest of the traffic would normally be considered dangerous driving, but here its that or speeding.
People will drive at whatever speed they want in the absence of enforcement.
There also aren't any stupid copyright restrictions. I live in Australia, and most of the services I've tried (paid or free) give some notice about being unable to access the video because I don't live in the USA. Australia has several copyright treaties with the US which basically makes their law valid here, but they still aren't accessible.
OTOH, BT is accessible anywhere, and can be easily viewed on any computer, MP4 player or streamed to a TV by an Xbox, etc.
Cyberbullying is a head-scratcher for me: how is it that saying mean things to someone is worse when done on the internet than when it is done face-to-face?
If you're the subject of physical bullying, then you can fight back. You might not win, but you still know how to. The problem with cyberbullying is that the person uses their social, instead of physical power, and most people have no idea how to retaliate or defend themselves from something like that.
It's one thing when they hurt you physically, but when you are injured mentally, its a whole different ballgame.
The only school subject which might be the same between the 1950s and today is Maths. But even then there is less focus on doing long calculations on the page and more using a calculator.
I can verify that. I'm just about to start my final year of secondary education in Victoria, Australia, and this is how our math exams are broken up:
30 min - Tech Free
90 min - Tech Able
Note that in the Tech Free exam we get to take in a summary book filled with our own notes and a CAS graphics calculator that is capable of solving simultaneous equations, performing matrix operations including multiplication, inverse and rref, and finding derivatives and integrals.
The marks are proportionate to the time allotted, and most of the TA exam just tests if you can use the calculator.The focus is on if you can use the calculator; that is, apply the correct algorithm to the problem at hand. I think that that actually makes more sense - if you're going to solve a problem in engineering or a different field, are you going to do it on paper? Or are you going to refer to your list of formulae (or Wikipedia) and crunch the numbers with a computer?
making learning fun hasn't helped anyone actually learn
I beg to differ. How many of us learnt to program games or did science experiments because they were fun? And how many students do you think will pay more attention in class if they are enjoying the work?
Getting them to enjoy the work means that they will put in more effort than they would if they were forced to do it.
DISCLAIMER: I am a student in my final year of secondary education.
While that does work, I can testify from my experience in scanning music books (which are much shorter than textbooks - ~30 pages instead of 300) that it will take a painfully long time. You need to be there to turn each page, make sure its oriented the right way if you can fit both sides onto the scanner at the same time, and often you have to hold the book down so that it is scanned properly. And if its in colour, your scan time triples.
In short, it works, but it takes forever.
Yes, because all the girls want a guy who can write file systems for Linux...
I can't seem to find it - would someone mind posting it?
Is 100Mbits/sec really better than 20Mbits/s
Try moving around some (300 MB - 7 GB) video files sometime. I guarantee you'll value the improvement.
All your other comparisons still hold though.