I've spent 50 bucks during the last week over "promo-torrents." I haven;t spent so much money on music since the Napster free-for-all.

You are looking to /. readers for platform ideas.. What will you do when you find that our ideas are not popular and cause you to have absolutely no influence as a political party? Will you change your platform to be more popular? You may as well stop now and call yourself Rep. Dem. Right or Left... A real political party should have real convictions.. people will flock to the truth and real beliefs.. not wishy-washy-go-with-the-wind bullet points.

How has your education helped or hindered you? You are the "ideal" educated man. In our (American) culture, we don;t seem to be producing people devoted to learning, discovering, thinking, inventing, etc. What in your opinion can an educational system do to foster what you've become?

Take this comment about getting more sci-fi on the air...

and this comment about doing things...

Can Straczynski set out to do it because he said it isn't being done?

Yay! Quake finder is making a comeback. This just makes my day, I've never been a fan of gamespy and find a good old fashioned game of legacy quake I on quakeworld or quakefinder just hasn't been the same. I mean it has been years since...{{rereads the summary}}

Oh. Well. I'll just go in a corner and look for my quake I discs...

I can't get HBO, for various reasons. So I download Game of Thrones. When the DVDs are available, I buy them. Actually. 95% of the things I download I buy... It may be interesting to see how much media I purchase that I haven;t downloded... I am thinking that most of it I've already downloaded.

http://bobcargill.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/535132_10150690521932395_705822394_8026655_1008504104_n.jpg Nope, Not Goatse.

Damn, We were just getting rid of the American middle class. Now it is off to keep the rest of the world in it's place: Below our corporate regime.
Signed,
Corp. Amerika

Is this the next big reality TV show? In their faq, it is mentioned that a lot of the funding will be through a huge media spectacle.

This is what I need: watching a bunch of people who believe they are on mars; when they will just exist for our entertainment...Truman Show anyone?

Fist a little background so you can understand a little of my context: I'm a teacher. I've taught in the classroom for 17 years at both the high school level and the college level. I have taught online classes for a Virtual High School. I also use Moodle extensively in my classroom for a blended learning environment. I try to integrate the best of both worlds in my classroom. (I'm lucky enough to work in a district where 80% of the students have internet access at home and plenty of computers available at school for non-net accessible students to use in school.)

Online classes need good instructors to help students past "blocks." It is where good teachers thrive to recognize when a student is learning something in a way that is not quite correct or in partiality. The good teacher can recognize these things and help the student past this educational block. In the "brick and mortar" classroom the teacher has face to face interaction and can see confusion or understanding on students, but a confused student can go unnoticed in the traditional classroom if he or she doesn't give those visual queues and doesn;t ask for assistance. Then the test comes by and it is too late for the student.

In the online classroom the good teacher is right there every step of the way with the student and can see in the work when the student "gets it" and when the student is confused. The teacher doesn't need to rely on an answer to the worst question a teacher can ask in a classroom full of students, "OK, Who doesn;t understand this?" In the online classroom, a well designed curriculum with a good teacher will know if the student gets it or not.

In my years of experience though, I have come across students that are able to figure things out and learn faster than I can teach, students that want to learn anything and everything. These are the students that I learn from as they, through the course of the years, learn more than I have to teach (within the school's limited curriculum.)

These students are wonderful for online classrooms as they tend to be the type of students who "step up" to a challenge and try to figure things out in order to learn. A lot of students in the classroom today just want me to tell them what the answers are. These students will not grow in their education on their own. Gamifying a curriculum can help some of these students.

A lot of teachers are worried about "online schools" as they are afraid that these online classrooms will eliminate the need for teachers. It is the same fear factory workers had with the introduction of robotics. But Teachers will still be needed. Just teachers with different skills.

(Back to class students are coming in....)

Movie was called Final Yamato. From the wikipedia article:

RPG Maker. This game is a great way to introduce programming logic. I use it in classes and the students that use this game have no problems with going into programming...

Perfect. Thanks.

There was a TV show about technology from star trek that is around today, cell phones, medical equipment, etc... Shatner did some of the narration, but I never knew the name of it and never spent more than a cursory look on google/imdb for it. What was this show? Where/when was it aired? Thanks.