The Pacific Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere circulates in a clockwise direction. That puts Alaska as the 2nd place the current will reach after Russia.
This isn't news. This is expected.
Hey! Let's make laws forcing all transportation to be converted to electric so the next coronal mass ejection that hits earth can take out all transportation when the power grid goes up in smoke!
What civilization really needs is a single point of failure so a natural occurrence brings modern life to an end. (Or maybe a hacker can attack the grid and accomplish the same thing first!)
Besides what is listed in the article there is the more modern CME in 1859. If that happened now it would take out all satellites in orbit and every large power grid on the planet.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey has a similar awkward and stilted bent towards gender and gender identity equality that it is a constant nagging irritation throughout the game. The percentage of female soldiers is ridiculously high and the endless number of NPCs trying for same sex hookups jars you out of your suspended disbelief.
MAKE A GAME. DON'T PUSH A SOCIAL AGENDA.
If you really want to display same sex relationships in an ancient Greek setting you have a historically accurate example sitting there: Adult men with young boys. It was an accepted relationship that was seen as a form of mentor-ship. But that doesn't fit your social agenda does it?!
What idiot thinks that the Permanent Fund dividend is in any way shape or form an example of "Universal Basic Income"? That is totally ridiculous. It shows a complete lack of understanding of what the PFD is and what a "Universal Basic Income" is. They have NOTHING to do with each other. It is like calling your tax return a "Universal Basic Income".
Obviously the writer of the article has a conclusion they want to justify and they are manufacturing a pathway to get there.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Computers have a very basic problem. You are presented with a 2D screen that is popularly presented as this panacea but even with your ability to do so much with it, it is falls very short in some basic ways. Your brain, visual system, body, in fact everything about you is evolved to operate in a 3D world. Your thoughts, even dreams, are in 3D.
A perfect example is how a 2D screen falls short for a task it was obviously designed for: The simple task of reading. Billions of people read off of billions of screens every day. But you can read faster and more effectively from a book. Most people's knee jerk reaction rebels against this idea but a simple speed reading test will confirm it and the reason makes sense once you look at it.
A book is a real 3D object. The text is laid out on a somewhat flat page but even the page is a 3D object. Your brain and visual systems are specifically designed to deal with observing and manipulating it. It has no resolution limitations. Your eyes scan across it exactly in the way they were meant to interpret the world instead of having to deal with the serious limitation of 'scrolling'.
As you go from page to page you are manipulating and processing a natural 3d real world object. An easy example of the power of this is to grab a magazine at random that you haven't looked at. Take 20 seconds and flip from one end to the other quickly. You will have some idea of what content is in the magazine.
- Now try the same exercise with a PDF of a magazine. You won't pick up hardly any impression because it isn't displayed in a way your brain is designed to deal with.
Another simple example is look at all the research showing how physical activity slows the onset of Alzheimers and dementia. These are purely mental conditions but the fact that our brains are primarily designed to deal with the physical world means that moving through the physical world exercises our mental functions even though we aren't consciously aware of it.
Over reliance on computers has actually harmful effects but it is really really easy to do. Here is a basic truth: Any time you automate a human's ability the human will lose that ability. The quickest example is the contacts in your phone. How many phone numbers do you know for your friends and family? Probably at most 2 or 3 and 5 would be pretty extreme. 20+ years ago your average competent adult would know at least 20 phone numbers and many would know a lot more than that. They would also know the complete street address with zipcode to a number of those.
People can't add and multiply in their heads anywhere as well as they could 20 years ago. They can't even apply critical thinking as well as they could a generation ago. (Which partly explains why huge portions of an "educated" populous can be dragged around by their noses by click bait viral "news".)
To go more directly to the point of the article, it is well known that multi sensory teaching techniques are more effective. For people with more difficulty learning multi sensory teaching methods can be the only effective method to get results. For much more information on this look into IMSLEC and their various member organizations.
Computers aren't evil. They are just a tool like a stapler. Use them but at least do it with your eyes open.
The article has such a focus on race and other "ism" bent agendas that it pointed out the exact reason why it wasn't valid. SCIENCE doesn't care. It is a process, not an agenda. Trying to bend science to a liberal agenda is just as bad as it being bent to a political power elite agenda.
We all already know that EVERYTHING is monitored and recorded so the whole idea that it would be some big process to "wiretap him" is ridiculous. All that would be needed would be to look at what they had already recorded.
(Doesn't mean that he did but it does mean it would be impossible to tell...)
That's cool! We now know that SAP will be dead in a few years because no one will consider them for use in any new system and they will be rolling systems off of SAP to get away from stupid licensing. As a rule you don't want to do business with a company so stupid that they are actively trying to discourage customers.
Time to make sure anyone I knows dumps SAP stock as it only has one direction to go.
Yeah. I didn't guess that from the graduation photo in the article. They really pumped up the "daughter" relationship and then buried the "she is quite past the age of adulthood" detail way down in the article.
In this case there is really no reason for them to portray the incident in this light other than it is a more spectacular news-bite laid out this way.
Really this should have been reported as an irresponsible adult through their own stupid actions killing themselves and another person.
(A little secret I've learned is no matter how much power a car has it will still only accelerate as hard as you push down on the gas pedal!!!)
Exactly. Why would you give a child a super car? Exactly what thought process could have been going on there? And why spread blame anywhere else?
"With great power comes great responsibility." But responsibility is learned and while you are figuring out if a child has learned it you do not give them something quicker then a Ford Pinto.
That can only be described as fucking stupid. Hell, why don't we make them submit to vivisection? Then we could learn LOTS and be certain they couldn't be a threat afterwards!
There are many reasons it is stupid but for starters: Most everyone reuses passwords simply so there is some chance that they can actually remember their passwords. So what this amounts to is, "Give us unrestricted access to everything."
And this coming from one of the least trustworthy things that exists: A government agency...
If they want your social account's name, fine. They can look it up for themselves. If a court wants to approve it they can have Facebook build them a read-only interface that will show a person's complete activity. (I suspect they already have this.) I'm wondering if they want this so they can go pillaging through all of a person's other internet activity. That makes sense.
There are no laws related to a wheel or pedal placement requirement in the various top rank motor racing series. Why don't they have a single car EVER with the "much more natural and precise side stick"?
A side stick would be WAY less precise then a steering wheel. Most driving of a car can be accomplished within 720 degrees of rotation of a steering wheel. With a smaller then stock steering wheel (with a 1' diameter) you are talking about more then 6 feet of control movement. So you are going to have a stick with MAYBE 9" of movement and claim it is more precise?
Another thing that people don't realize is you don't actually steer the car by turning the wheel. You turn it by PUSHING against the force created by the spring action of the distortion of the tire's contact patch. (The slip angle.) You cannot control the car accurately without having the feel of the feedback and in slick conditions it is impossible to control the vehicle. (When the car is sliding and not pointed straight forward the feedback forces are the only thing telling you what kind of steering force you are applying.)
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In airplanes you don't need the huge control defections and when you add high G-forces a stick makes a lot more sense. A side stick is used in some fighter aircraft so the arm is supported by the armrest so very high g-force maneuvers can be performed with much greater ease.
There is no reason that the user can't be offered a large quantity of differences in the shell. It is basically just a theme. Forcing a new UI on billions (literally!) of users is insane.
When the bring out a new model of car they don't mess with the pedals and steering wheel because that would be stupid. About as stupid as changing an ingrained UI just to make it "NEW!!!" Almost as bad as the use of the "white it out and spread it out" interface in Windows is that so many websites are now "updating" their look to this new user vicious standard so they can be "NEW" too.
The problem is contained in his statement: "We know we want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective..."
To be successful a company should NEVER let 'what they want' get in the way of 'what the customer wants'. It is pretty simple but when a company gets way too powerful in their position this sort of crap happens.
"Any time you automate an ability you lose that ability." People will never become better at driving as they are less a part of the driving experience then they were even a decade ago.
This all misses the bigger level of stupidity of a whole NHTSA mandated "new driving-safe mode". How does a smart phone know what seat you are sitting in? If you want to hear a big outcry put the restrictions in place and wait for the passengers in cars, buses, and trains start to whine.with a new driving-safe mode.
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The Pacific Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere circulates in a clockwise direction. That puts Alaska as the 2nd place the current will reach after Russia.
This isn't news. This is expected.
Hey! Let's make laws forcing all transportation to be converted to electric so the next coronal mass ejection that hits earth can take out all transportation when the power grid goes up in smoke!
What civilization really needs is a single point of failure so a natural occurrence brings modern life to an end. (Or maybe a hacker can attack the grid and accomplish the same thing first!)
Besides what is listed in the article there is the more modern CME in 1859. If that happened now it would take out all satellites in orbit and every large power grid on the planet.
So this makes it the first rock to do a round trip between the earth and the moon.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey has a similar awkward and stilted bent towards gender and gender identity equality that it is a constant nagging irritation throughout the game. The percentage of female soldiers is ridiculously high and the endless number of NPCs trying for same sex hookups jars you out of your suspended disbelief.
MAKE A GAME. DON'T PUSH A SOCIAL AGENDA.
If you really want to display same sex relationships in an ancient Greek setting you have a historically accurate example sitting there: Adult men with young boys. It was an accepted relationship that was seen as a form of mentor-ship. But that doesn't fit your social agenda does it?!
What idiot thinks that the Permanent Fund dividend is in any way shape or form an example of "Universal Basic Income"? That is totally ridiculous. It shows a complete lack of understanding of what the PFD is and what a "Universal Basic Income" is. They have NOTHING to do with each other. It is like calling your tax return a "Universal Basic Income".
Obviously the writer of the article has a conclusion they want to justify and they are manufacturing a pathway to get there.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Define "Common sense".
(And after that I'd like to see them code whatever the hell they come up with.)
Computers have a very basic problem. You are presented with a 2D screen that is popularly presented as this panacea but even with your ability to do so much with it, it is falls very short in some basic ways. Your brain, visual system, body, in fact everything about you is evolved to operate in a 3D world. Your thoughts, even dreams, are in 3D.
A perfect example is how a 2D screen falls short for a task it was obviously designed for: The simple task of reading. Billions of people read off of billions of screens every day. But you can read faster and more effectively from a book. Most people's knee jerk reaction rebels against this idea but a simple speed reading test will confirm it and the reason makes sense once you look at it.
A book is a real 3D object. The text is laid out on a somewhat flat page but even the page is a 3D object. Your brain and visual systems are specifically designed to deal with observing and manipulating it. It has no resolution limitations. Your eyes scan across it exactly in the way they were meant to interpret the world instead of having to deal with the serious limitation of 'scrolling'.
As you go from page to page you are manipulating and processing a natural 3d real world object. An easy example of the power of this is to grab a magazine at random that you haven't looked at. Take 20 seconds and flip from one end to the other quickly. You will have some idea of what content is in the magazine.
- Now try the same exercise with a PDF of a magazine. You won't pick up hardly any impression because it isn't displayed in a way your brain is designed to deal with.
Another simple example is look at all the research showing how physical activity slows the onset of Alzheimers and dementia. These are purely mental conditions but the fact that our brains are primarily designed to deal with the physical world means that moving through the physical world exercises our mental functions even though we aren't consciously aware of it.
Over reliance on computers has actually harmful effects but it is really really easy to do. Here is a basic truth: Any time you automate a human's ability the human will lose that ability. The quickest example is the contacts in your phone. How many phone numbers do you know for your friends and family? Probably at most 2 or 3 and 5 would be pretty extreme. 20+ years ago your average competent adult would know at least 20 phone numbers and many would know a lot more than that. They would also know the complete street address with zipcode to a number of those.
People can't add and multiply in their heads anywhere as well as they could 20 years ago. They can't even apply critical thinking as well as they could a generation ago. (Which partly explains why huge portions of an "educated" populous can be dragged around by their noses by click bait viral "news".)
To go more directly to the point of the article, it is well known that multi sensory teaching techniques are more effective. For people with more difficulty learning multi sensory teaching methods can be the only effective method to get results. For much more information on this look into IMSLEC and their various member organizations.
Computers aren't evil. They are just a tool like a stapler. Use them but at least do it with your eyes open.
I can see it now. Banners, pitchforks, and people chanting, "Broken encryption for safety!!!"
(Government is the best solution for EVERYTHING! Just ask someone in government and they will tell you!!!)
The article has such a focus on race and other "ism" bent agendas that it pointed out the exact reason why it wasn't valid. SCIENCE doesn't care. It is a process, not an agenda. Trying to bend science to a liberal agenda is just as bad as it being bent to a political power elite agenda.
Dumb, dumb, dumb...
"Clang clang wang clunka clunk ..."
Yep! They are going to sneak all silent like through our sonar net!
We all already know that EVERYTHING is monitored and recorded so the whole idea that it would be some big process to "wiretap him" is ridiculous. All that would be needed would be to look at what they had already recorded.
(Doesn't mean that he did but it does mean it would be impossible to tell...)
That's cool! We now know that SAP will be dead in a few years because no one will consider them for use in any new system and they will be rolling systems off of SAP to get away from stupid licensing. As a rule you don't want to do business with a company so stupid that they are actively trying to discourage customers.
Time to make sure anyone I knows dumps SAP stock as it only has one direction to go.
Yeah it is important to seed new planets with the worst thing you can think of. We need to make sure they have as bad of horror movies as we do!
Disregarding evidence because of an invalid hypothesis isn't an issue. Unless you have a hypothesis it isn't science. A hypothesis is required.
So toss out any invalid hypothesis and any "evidence" isn't evidence until you get a new hypothesis to test.
Science.
Yeah. I didn't guess that from the graduation photo in the article. They really pumped up the "daughter" relationship and then buried the "she is quite past the age of adulthood" detail way down in the article.
In this case there is really no reason for them to portray the incident in this light other than it is a more spectacular news-bite laid out this way.
Really this should have been reported as an irresponsible adult through their own stupid actions killing themselves and another person.
(A little secret I've learned is no matter how much power a car has it will still only accelerate as hard as you push down on the gas pedal!!!)
Exactly. Why would you give a child a super car? Exactly what thought process could have been going on there? And why spread blame anywhere else?
"With great power comes great responsibility." But responsibility is learned and while you are figuring out if a child has learned it you do not give them something quicker then a Ford Pinto.
That can only be described as fucking stupid. Hell, why don't we make them submit to vivisection? Then we could learn LOTS and be certain they couldn't be a threat afterwards!
There are many reasons it is stupid but for starters: Most everyone reuses passwords simply so there is some chance that they can actually remember their passwords. So what this amounts to is, "Give us unrestricted access to everything."
And this coming from one of the least trustworthy things that exists: A government agency...
If they want your social account's name, fine. They can look it up for themselves. If a court wants to approve it they can have Facebook build them a read-only interface that will show a person's complete activity. (I suspect they already have this.) I'm wondering if they want this so they can go pillaging through all of a person's other internet activity. That makes sense.
There are no laws related to a wheel or pedal placement requirement in the various top rank motor racing series. Why don't they have a single car EVER with the "much more natural and precise side stick"?
A side stick would be WAY less precise then a steering wheel. Most driving of a car can be accomplished within 720 degrees of rotation of a steering wheel. With a smaller then stock steering wheel (with a 1' diameter) you are talking about more then 6 feet of control movement. So you are going to have a stick with MAYBE 9" of movement and claim it is more precise?
Another thing that people don't realize is you don't actually steer the car by turning the wheel. You turn it by PUSHING against the force created by the spring action of the distortion of the tire's contact patch. (The slip angle.) You cannot control the car accurately without having the feel of the feedback and in slick conditions it is impossible to control the vehicle. (When the car is sliding and not pointed straight forward the feedback forces are the only thing telling you what kind of steering force you are applying.)
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In airplanes you don't need the huge control defections and when you add high G-forces a stick makes a lot more sense. A side stick is used in some fighter aircraft so the arm is supported by the armrest so very high g-force maneuvers can be performed with much greater ease.
There is no reason that the user can't be offered a large quantity of differences in the shell. It is basically just a theme. Forcing a new UI on billions (literally!) of users is insane.
When the bring out a new model of car they don't mess with the pedals and steering wheel because that would be stupid. About as stupid as changing an ingrained UI just to make it "NEW!!!" Almost as bad as the use of the "white it out and spread it out" interface in Windows is that so many websites are now "updating" their look to this new user vicious standard so they can be "NEW" too.
The problem is contained in his statement: "We know we want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective..."
To be successful a company should NEVER let 'what they want' get in the way of 'what the customer wants'. It is pretty simple but when a company gets way too powerful in their position this sort of crap happens.
Yeah, no preference shown to Samsung there!
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Uhhhh...
Hey, wait just a minute
And they don't now? How do you think they come up with all that traffic information in Google Maps?
"Any time you automate an ability you lose that ability." People will never become better at driving as they are less a part of the driving experience then they were even a decade ago.
This all misses the bigger level of stupidity of a whole NHTSA mandated "new driving-safe mode". How does a smart phone know what seat you are sitting in? If you want to hear a big outcry put the restrictions in place and wait for the passengers in cars, buses, and trains start to whine.with a new driving-safe mode.
Just dumb, dumb, dumb...
With the level of regulation involved it is probably pretty close to being illegal to make a car without electronic control of everything.
Yeah! Because we know that regulation stops stupidity!!!