Hmm, I don't think their motives are that viciously evil. People with degrees like Art who aren't inspired enough to make it big in commercial art etc, are also the cheap desperate labor because now they also have that debt to pay off. Questioning the value of the traditional degree is fine, with the cost analysis thrown in there.
I like to observe that the classes themselves are related to the Copyright problem. A lot of my lower level courses were your classic lectures - so just suppose that you could buy the 40 hour lecture set in mp3 format plus book plus Khan-Academy type diagrams for something like the TV Special "Low Price of $129.95". You could then get the bird's eye view of the degree path for a few thousand bucks. For one thing that might cut down on hand-wringing about picking a major. (Yeah Yeah, then someone decides to make it free, copyright lawsuits ensue, but then eventually someone will make free versions of the materials, and THAT'S when this topic really kicks off.)
This is innovation at work. But innovation is messy. So there will always be detractors of the flaws of the Alpha and Beta versions of the new idea.
But what exactly is a maze? If you knowingly pick a valid start and end point, doesn't it become one? Isn't a maze basically a bunch of twisty lines designed to obfuscate the path from start to finish?
Quit with the subtle disparaging of anonymous sources. The term for decades was "an anonymous reader". Who suddenly decided to call them "random users?"
Someone trolled Digitimes well apparently. Everybody got their ad clicks in already. I don't know if anyone "loses face" in events like this. Does the media care about posting incorrect stories?
I've written a couple of encryption applications (C#, trying to move them to C++); that's the kind of thing I like.... I also think I've written an unbreakable encryption application but doesn't everyone think that?
Hello Mr. Hatfield. I walked into that little trap myself a few months back. If you're an encryption fan, how good are you at breaking other "ad hoc" encryption methods? I got a little ahead of myself a while back and eventually learned that I'd come up with a method that does have a weakness, the interesting question for me became if certain other people thought it was worth their time to break it. I didn't get any takers at the time. I keep seeing stories about "_____ hacks into ______", however it would just be fun to pit my little idea against an expert code breaker for real so that I (and others, I'd publicize the results here and a couple other forums) so we can get a hands on demo of the dangers of home brewed encryption.
"Pundits are there to draw people to a news organization, not provide accurate information. How many people would tune into the election if they said "Obama's got this one in the bag" (which we've known ever since Romney was nominated). Of course they will say you don't know who's going to win! Otherwise no one will watch their show."
However, Media might have burned a bridge on this one. I'd vaguely heard about Nate Silver and the 538 corner of the political world a year or so ago,and somehow forgot about it until the very night of the election after it was already over, when some other site (Yahoo?) included a link to it. I'm no fan of Fox News, but I hadn't considered that other entities would artificially drive up the closeness of the race for drama-revenue reasons.
A lot of life happens in four years, so we're all hyped up about this now, but possibly the meme will get around that next election without an incumbent, everyone will just head over to Nate Silver land and skip the entire rest of the media empire as junk.
Sorry, but you missed every single line of my point. A huge part of the internet is "talking to people out there" and getting answers back. You disagreed with me but your reply is there, which is precisely what I meant. Having lots of "old literature" on my shelves, the amount of time they spend in the stories actually reading is a bit grim. Much more of it is spent pining away at various things.
Meanwhile, with an internet connection, you can post notes and go to chat rooms and talk to people at all hours of the day, which is darn near impossible for any number of reasons in local small town life. Then there's that "instant research" capability that answers the kind of silly questions that used to occupy people for days. "Where is Bath, England?" "I dunno, is that near London?"
So yes, lots of money ALSO changes lives, but so does the net. I'll skip the xkcd comic about IQ because you have seen it already.
I wasn't coping. The key part of my note was "only able to take an hour of nothing". I had barely managed to think ahead and have my freshly purchased flashlight (I hadn't had one for years), my scavenged old AA's from the Big Box o' Stuff I dumped on the floor, and one of the 5 CD players from six years ago I hadn't needed. But I had all that because I am a pack-rat. I basically got lucky. If I hadn't had all of that I would have gone mildly crazy basically tossing and turning in bed until the power came back. That's all the indication that we don't like chunks of time we can't use anymore. Modern power makes Night Owl lifestyles possible, so when the power goes out unless you're a hotshot at body manipulation and can flip your sleep schedule on a dime, you're stuck with 10 hours of night and nothing to do.
Now, you gotta take the Nostalgia out of it. That's simply not fair for any game. You're applying some weird brand of "impress me now with more as much as you impressed me then with less because I knew that there simply wasn't anything better back in the day".
We old timers knew that for some 30 years computing sukked, but we liked the feel of progress happening. Easy example - a hysterical 3rd rate dev for the C64 called Keypunch Software. Every minute you played any of your titles you secretly laughed at the execrable non-quality. (Ascii characters for Player Characters?! Really?!) But it was cheap so it became "Oh, for $6 at the game store, I'll play it for a week, why not." I'm sure my lawn-owning betters would have killed for drawn backgrounds and all that. But that stuff only lived in a certain place and time when deeply subconsciously we knew that we were just too many years early, so we just self-mindwiped ourselves to like it.
My fun example of Nostalgia is Ataxx. Cute little Anti-Othello game from about 1992, well into Abandonware by this point (though watch out for the Copyright Brigade!), and I still can't beat the top two levels, and the third level ("Mushman") still scores 50-50 on me.
In the old days you just downloaded programs. Now they want to tie programs to App Stores. Except when they get grumpy because they're only 4th best, they shut down the App Stores leaving you with all the hardware locks and nowhere to go.
To use that word everyone loved in the 1990's, it's a Paradigm Shift. The simplest example is the raw internet - once you grok that the internet is "always on" (service glitches aside), your entire life changes forever. You can do or not-do something on the internet, but it's now a choice that needs to be made every hour of the day forever. Try reading old literature sometime, with the perspective of looking for when characters were really rather bored with nothing to do - "kick the can" for 3 hours and then dinner - really?! Or the farmers sitting around the parlor when Ma didn't feel like playing the piano, so they all just sat there kinda listless. Eew.
I got a glimpse of all those changes when my power went out for Hurricane Sandy (and I was only on the edge of it!). I only managed to sit in the dark for an hour before I reached for my CD player, stash of AA batteries, flashlight, and a book. In the modern world, we don't just burn multiple hours doing nothing anymore.
From my very cursory recall of my history classes, the Panics of ______ tend not to get touched on, which is funny if they were bad enough to be called "Panics of ____". There's a bunch of them, I'm too lazy to look up the exact dates, but one after the Civil War, one near the 1890's, and now the 1907 one. The main money event anyone really remembers is the Great Depression day.
"We've grown used to the world wide web, but what are the implications of sharing a net that only covers a small local or regional area?"
If you can get an "honest" implementation that sidesteps all the very real privacy issues, Location Based Services really are useful. Dating apps, restaurant reviews, traffic and police-hotspot info, disaster updates, and all the rest are types of info that mean mostly nothing to anyone outside a certain distance radius. The problem the "ordinary citizens" are wrestling with is the Big Money angling their agendas into all that, meaning the cizitens are stuck with rock-hard place choices.
If it's already written, then you're ready to go viral. We don't want to wait until January. That's not how the modern release cycle works anymore. Release it as a "Beta", with further editing to come later. What's this about funds for "Publicity"? You just nailed an Ask Slashdot, so here we are!
And what's the license? I would like for once to see texts released in one of the Creative Commons licenses, and not the straight "Copyright ___". You say your text is about teaching adults, right? So why not go with the pure "By" (Attribution) license, where you freely allow mashups and chopping and all that fun stuff that used to be praised as "Active Learning". If you try to lock down your exact words it sends a chill related to the basic school methodology of "I am the teacher, so be quiet and listen."
Meanwhile, precisely why are you asking where to host it? Isn't that what Web Hosts are for?
I noticed some back there's a mediocre rate of these Ask Slashdot Askers actually ever coming to post in their own threads. I feel insulted posting notes to questions when they are not read by the Asker.
And once upon a time you could move to a new town and start over if you screwed up too bad.
By this point silly things you do with your buddies will be online for semi-forever (however long it takes the website and mirrors to fail). Then you get bored "Google Monkeys" (my term) who would have been nice to you but they saw you wearing the dead cat stuffed animal on your head first.
What percentage of players actually say "you know, I used to love 12 hour gaming marathons every weekend, and $60 for a year's worth was okay for me, but now I'm tired of all that so I'll throw projectiles at birdies for a dollar over lunch".
Sounds to me like this is part of the ongoing war of doing business in China - "Play nice or we'll lock the playground."
But isn't the point of Viral Media that it blossoms into a nice fireworks display of public recognition?
So what is stopping the NY Times of *altering* the content rights and making that report something like Public Domain and then power-posting it to 100 Chinese news agencies? Would China call that an act of aggression or something?
Despite a few humorous news stories, the Feds aren't stupid. So the age of insulting someone by calling them "tin foil hats" is fading. Off and on I am experimenting with pairing news stories with things like this one "Ooh New Shiny Service" with the followup story "Busted".
Having to live through the time delay in real time is becoming exhausting.
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Hmm, I don't think their motives are that viciously evil. People with degrees like Art who aren't inspired enough to make it big in commercial art etc, are also the cheap desperate labor because now they also have that debt to pay off. Questioning the value of the traditional degree is fine, with the cost analysis thrown in there.
I like to observe that the classes themselves are related to the Copyright problem. A lot of my lower level courses were your classic lectures - so just suppose that you could buy the 40 hour lecture set in mp3 format plus book plus Khan-Academy type diagrams for something like the TV Special "Low Price of $129.95". You could then get the bird's eye view of the degree path for a few thousand bucks. For one thing that might cut down on hand-wringing about picking a major. (Yeah Yeah, then someone decides to make it free, copyright lawsuits ensue, but then eventually someone will make free versions of the materials, and THAT'S when this topic really kicks off.)
This is innovation at work. But innovation is messy. So there will always be detractors of the flaws of the Alpha and Beta versions of the new idea.
But what exactly is a maze? If you knowingly pick a valid start and end point, doesn't it become one? Isn't a maze basically a bunch of twisty lines designed to obfuscate the path from start to finish?
Quit with the subtle disparaging of anonymous sources. The term for decades was "an anonymous reader". Who suddenly decided to call them "random users?"
So who Watches the Market Watchers?
Someone trolled Digitimes well apparently. Everybody got their ad clicks in already. I don't know if anyone "loses face" in events like this. Does the media care about posting incorrect stories?
Did any of the malware get past whatever new copy of Windows Security Essentials they cooked up especially for Win 8?
I've written a couple of encryption applications (C#, trying to move them to C++); that's the kind of thing I like. ... I also think I've written an unbreakable encryption application but doesn't everyone think that?
Hello Mr. Hatfield. I walked into that little trap myself a few months back. If you're an encryption fan, how good are you at breaking other "ad hoc" encryption methods? I got a little ahead of myself a while back and eventually learned that I'd come up with a method that does have a weakness, the interesting question for me became if certain other people thought it was worth their time to break it. I didn't get any takers at the time. I keep seeing stories about "_____ hacks into ______", however it would just be fun to pit my little idea against an expert code breaker for real so that I (and others, I'd publicize the results here and a couple other forums) so we can get a hands on demo of the dangers of home brewed encryption.
"Pundits are there to draw people to a news organization, not provide accurate information. How many people would tune into the election if they said "Obama's got this one in the bag" (which we've known ever since Romney was nominated). Of course they will say you don't know who's going to win! Otherwise no one will watch their show."
However, Media might have burned a bridge on this one. I'd vaguely heard about Nate Silver and the 538 corner of the political world a year or so ago,and somehow forgot about it until the very night of the election after it was already over, when some other site (Yahoo?) included a link to it. I'm no fan of Fox News, but I hadn't considered that other entities would artificially drive up the closeness of the race for drama-revenue reasons.
A lot of life happens in four years, so we're all hyped up about this now, but possibly the meme will get around that next election without an incumbent, everyone will just head over to Nate Silver land and skip the entire rest of the media empire as junk.
Sorry, but you missed every single line of my point. A huge part of the internet is "talking to people out there" and getting answers back. You disagreed with me but your reply is there, which is precisely what I meant. Having lots of "old literature" on my shelves, the amount of time they spend in the stories actually reading is a bit grim. Much more of it is spent pining away at various things.
Meanwhile, with an internet connection, you can post notes and go to chat rooms and talk to people at all hours of the day, which is darn near impossible for any number of reasons in local small town life. Then there's that "instant research" capability that answers the kind of silly questions that used to occupy people for days. "Where is Bath, England?" "I dunno, is that near London?"
So yes, lots of money ALSO changes lives, but so does the net. I'll skip the xkcd comic about IQ because you have seen it already.
I wasn't coping. The key part of my note was "only able to take an hour of nothing". I had barely managed to think ahead and have my freshly purchased flashlight (I hadn't had one for years), my scavenged old AA's from the Big Box o' Stuff I dumped on the floor, and one of the 5 CD players from six years ago I hadn't needed. But I had all that because I am a pack-rat. I basically got lucky. If I hadn't had all of that I would have gone mildly crazy basically tossing and turning in bed until the power came back. That's all the indication that we don't like chunks of time we can't use anymore. Modern power makes Night Owl lifestyles possible, so when the power goes out unless you're a hotshot at body manipulation and can flip your sleep schedule on a dime, you're stuck with 10 hours of night and nothing to do.
Now, you gotta take the Nostalgia out of it. That's simply not fair for any game. You're applying some weird brand of "impress me now with more as much as you impressed me then with less because I knew that there simply wasn't anything better back in the day".
We old timers knew that for some 30 years computing sukked, but we liked the feel of progress happening. Easy example - a hysterical 3rd rate dev for the C64 called Keypunch Software. Every minute you played any of your titles you secretly laughed at the execrable non-quality. (Ascii characters for Player Characters?! Really?!) But it was cheap so it became "Oh, for $6 at the game store, I'll play it for a week, why not." I'm sure my lawn-owning betters would have killed for drawn backgrounds and all that. But that stuff only lived in a certain place and time when deeply subconsciously we knew that we were just too many years early, so we just self-mindwiped ourselves to like it.
My fun example of Nostalgia is Ataxx. Cute little Anti-Othello game from about 1992, well into Abandonware by this point (though watch out for the Copyright Brigade!), and I still can't beat the top two levels, and the third level ("Mushman") still scores 50-50 on me.
In the old days you just downloaded programs. Now they want to tie programs to App Stores. Except when they get grumpy because they're only 4th best, they shut down the App Stores leaving you with all the hardware locks and nowhere to go.
To use that word everyone loved in the 1990's, it's a Paradigm Shift. The simplest example is the raw internet - once you grok that the internet is "always on" (service glitches aside), your entire life changes forever. You can do or not-do something on the internet, but it's now a choice that needs to be made every hour of the day forever. Try reading old literature sometime, with the perspective of looking for when characters were really rather bored with nothing to do - "kick the can" for 3 hours and then dinner - really?! Or the farmers sitting around the parlor when Ma didn't feel like playing the piano, so they all just sat there kinda listless. Eew.
I got a glimpse of all those changes when my power went out for Hurricane Sandy (and I was only on the edge of it!). I only managed to sit in the dark for an hour before I reached for my CD player, stash of AA batteries, flashlight, and a book. In the modern world, we don't just burn multiple hours doing nothing anymore.
From my very cursory recall of my history classes, the Panics of ______ tend not to get touched on, which is funny if they were bad enough to be called "Panics of ____". There's a bunch of them, I'm too lazy to look up the exact dates, but one after the Civil War, one near the 1890's, and now the 1907 one. The main money event anyone really remembers is the Great Depression day.
"We've grown used to the world wide web, but what are the implications of sharing a net that only covers a small local or regional area?"
If you can get an "honest" implementation that sidesteps all the very real privacy issues, Location Based Services really are useful. Dating apps, restaurant reviews, traffic and police-hotspot info, disaster updates, and all the rest are types of info that mean mostly nothing to anyone outside a certain distance radius. The problem the "ordinary citizens" are wrestling with is the Big Money angling their agendas into all that, meaning the cizitens are stuck with rock-hard place choices.
If it's already written, then you're ready to go viral. We don't want to wait until January. That's not how the modern release cycle works anymore. Release it as a "Beta", with further editing to come later. What's this about funds for "Publicity"? You just nailed an Ask Slashdot, so here we are!
And what's the license? I would like for once to see texts released in one of the Creative Commons licenses, and not the straight "Copyright ___". You say your text is about teaching adults, right? So why not go with the pure "By" (Attribution) license, where you freely allow mashups and chopping and all that fun stuff that used to be praised as "Active Learning". If you try to lock down your exact words it sends a chill related to the basic school methodology of "I am the teacher, so be quiet and listen."
Meanwhile, precisely why are you asking where to host it? Isn't that what Web Hosts are for?
I noticed some back there's a mediocre rate of these Ask Slashdot Askers actually ever coming to post in their own threads. I feel insulted posting notes to questions when they are not read by the Asker.
Yeah, now Google Kim Stafford and Tea Party and then you know every HR person she ever meets will do the same.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/10/internet_fail_the_truth_about.html
And once upon a time you could move to a new town and start over if you screwed up too bad.
By this point silly things you do with your buddies will be online for semi-forever (however long it takes the website and mirrors to fail). Then you get bored "Google Monkeys" (my term) who would have been nice to you but they saw you wearing the dead cat stuffed animal on your head first.
"Do what thou wilt"
So they can do whatever they want. Thread over.
Bang.
This is the point that is often overlooked.
Here's Conneticut vs Fourntin -
http://womenriseupnow.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/state-of-connecticut-v-fourtin/
Everyone is screaming "travesty" - I am digging around trying to find the awful case that results if the ruling went the other way.
However Slashdot threads are only good for 2 days anyway so I won't find it before everyone leaves anyway.
This is my "thread over" comment.
What percentage of players actually say "you know, I used to love 12 hour gaming marathons every weekend, and $60 for a year's worth was okay for me, but now I'm tired of all that so I'll throw projectiles at birdies for a dollar over lunch".
Everything else is Apples and Sweaters fallacies.
Sounds to me like this is part of the ongoing war of doing business in China - "Play nice or we'll lock the playground."
But isn't the point of Viral Media that it blossoms into a nice fireworks display of public recognition?
So what is stopping the NY Times of *altering* the content rights and making that report something like Public Domain and then power-posting it to 100 Chinese news agencies? Would China call that an act of aggression or something?
"If you post an article we don't like,
We will, we will, Block you! Block you!"
Notice how all the copyright junk is in the same say 12 countries? What's the copyright law in places like Morocco? Or Iceland?
Despite a few humorous news stories, the Feds aren't stupid. So the age of insulting someone by calling them "tin foil hats" is fading. Off and on I am experimenting with pairing news stories with things like this one "Ooh New Shiny Service" with the followup story "Busted".
Having to live through the time delay in real time is becoming exhausting.