You raise some good points. It is certain that as your own intelligence increases to where you find yourself smarter than all but a fraction of a percent of the population, the ideas you have will be mostly correct but most other people won't be able to understand you. This can be incredibly frustrating.
Other than restrict yourself to using only your mundane ideas, you need some way for people to take you seriously. This means credentials (e.g. doctor, lawyer, engineer, MBA), and/or it means making enough money that you can afford to hire and fire until you find others who will take you seriously. Or living with other similarly smart people who can understand you. Sucks, but that's the way the world works.
Also, be very careful about uncovering the BS that the average Joe believes in. You will find a lot in life that everyday folks believe which won't stand up to scrutiny. However, think long and hard before you argue against it publicly, as you either face breaking taboos or interfering with the interests of powerful people.
I also really don't see what the big deal is about TDP - all that determines is what sort of HSF you use. The important thing is the idle power because that is where the CPU sits most of the time.
There are several things that can momentarily override the need to educate your children. A tornado less than a mile away and heading in your direction, for example. On the whole though, I agree that doing this is a form of "educational debt" that you should make up for your kids at a later date. A similar concept to "technical debt".
Kids also need to learn when it is appropriate to ask questions.
...the most outspoken OSS proponents are in fact the developers of OSS, to the extent that other users are just background noise? If regular users are so silent, then this must mean that the exponential spread of OSS must be due in fact to the developers. Ergo, developers are in fact brilliant marketers. A prime example of this would be the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which succeeds because of its sexy acronym.
You can still have a rifle in the house. It just can't be semi-automatic. This means that the guy who wants to do target practice or shoot roos can do so, but the guy who wants to easily kill as many people as possible in a short period of time has some difficulties. How is that a bad thing?
The guy who wants to kill as many people as possible in a short period of time is going to figure out a way to do so. Somehow people manage to buy drugs and that's illegal too. With no CCW and everyone's lame-ass bolt action rifle in the gun safe a prospective mass murderer is virtually guaranteed a large number of kills.
I have no idea why Britain is so proud of their defenseless citizens. It used to be that every man age 15-60 had to have a bow, and practice on Sundays and public holidays.
That atmosphere does a pretty darn good job of protecting us. Intercepting space debris, to blocking radiation, to providing us oxygen - it does it all.
It seems to be heading that way. OTOH, the sneakernet of 2060 may well consist of transmitting every intellectual work that has existed to date (including video form) on something like a USB stick. (Yes I know, we'll probably hit physical limits before then.)
Windows 8 brings multi-arch to the Microsoft table. Expect to see Windows 8 on all your shitty ARM tablets, and shitty ARM phones, and shitty ARM netbooks.
Which is why 9 out of 10 proctologists recommend Windows 8. It has your shitty ARM covered.
And most of those people can't do math because the government schools failed to teach them.
Prob and stats seems to be beyond most people's grasp. Most of it is probably genetic. And the part that isn't genetic (i.e. how much kids learn from age 0-5) is also highly influenced by genetics. Are two people of average intelligence going to do as good a job of selecting an early learning program for their children as someone who is highly intelligent? Or even think it's important? e.g. If their parents never had any use for math in their lives, why would they think raising smarter kids is going to do anything?
While the public schools are in many ways crap, I don't think this is one of their failings. And considering that if casinos, online gambling and the like are legal and money from poor, stupid people is going to be spent in that manner anyway, better that the money goes directly to the tax base than to the hands of a wealthy private individual.
My apologies for that stereotype, but I've noticed that the perspective of young adults shifts radically once family and/or community plays a stronger role in their lives.
This is very much true. However, in this case my fear is that the very valid, or at least valid sounding pretext (blocking cp) is going to result in other sites being blocked. Which will result in domains being blocked that are whatever the censors will block. Whoever has the most money or the most desire to censor is going to ultimately determine what will be censored, which will be things completely unrelated to cp.
How is this flamebait? What Tablizer says is true. The fish that are the normal predators of jellyfish have been overfished, along with a lot of the smaller fish they feed on. What results is an abundance of the food that jellyfish eat along with an absence of predators (including the human predator), which causes a surge in jellyfish numbers.
The success of English as a global lingua franca has more to do IMO with the dominance of the British Empire and then the American Empire over the last few hundred years, which happened to coincide with the Industrial age, Information age, and globalization. Especially in the last twenty years, the network effect brought about by the Internet has served to especially boost English.
I suspect the result would have been the same whether the actual language spoken by the countries with the money, power and military might were English, Navajo, or Mandarin. It's hard to argue though that the "worse is better" aspect of English didn't help the perfect storm of events. With English you only have to learn 26 letters before you can write words, unlike anything with Chinese characters. The fact that Chinese characters map to concepts instead parts of syllables means that anything Chinese character based is very terse compared to English. That has to have some advantages, but easiness of learning is not one of them.
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The same way you get anyone else to riot. Wait until they have to have nothing else to lose.
You raise some good points. It is certain that as your own intelligence increases to where you find yourself smarter than all but a fraction of a percent of the population, the ideas you have will be mostly correct but most other people won't be able to understand you. This can be incredibly frustrating.
Other than restrict yourself to using only your mundane ideas, you need some way for people to take you seriously. This means credentials (e.g. doctor, lawyer, engineer, MBA), and/or it means making enough money that you can afford to hire and fire until you find others who will take you seriously. Or living with other similarly smart people who can understand you. Sucks, but that's the way the world works.
Also, be very careful about uncovering the BS that the average Joe believes in. You will find a lot in life that everyday folks believe which won't stand up to scrutiny. However, think long and hard before you argue against it publicly, as you either face breaking taboos or interfering with the interests of powerful people.
"Interest rates will fluctuate." - who could argue with that?
FWIW I predict that that particles will have some speed limited to that which will be found in the complex plane.
I also really don't see what the big deal is about TDP - all that determines is what sort of HSF you use. The important thing is the idle power because that is where the CPU sits most of the time.
There are several things that can momentarily override the need to educate your children. A tornado less than a mile away and heading in your direction, for example. On the whole though, I agree that doing this is a form of "educational debt" that you should make up for your kids at a later date. A similar concept to "technical debt".
Kids also need to learn when it is appropriate to ask questions.
...the most outspoken OSS proponents are in fact the developers of OSS, to the extent that other users are just background noise? If regular users are so silent, then this must mean that the exponential spread of OSS must be due in fact to the developers. Ergo, developers are in fact brilliant marketers. A prime example of this would be the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which succeeds because of its sexy acronym.
There are way too many Randy jokes here already.
The guy who wants to kill as many people as possible in a short period of time is going to figure out a way to do so. Somehow people manage to buy drugs and that's illegal too. With no CCW and everyone's lame-ass bolt action rifle in the gun safe a prospective mass murderer is virtually guaranteed a large number of kills.
SELECT grid_id FROM streets WHERE streetname LIKE 'Martin L%';
I have no idea why Britain is so proud of their defenseless citizens. It used to be that every man age 15-60 had to have a bow, and practice on Sundays and public holidays.
That atmosphere does a pretty darn good job of protecting us. Intercepting space debris, to blocking radiation, to providing us oxygen - it does it all.
It seems to be heading that way. OTOH, the sneakernet of 2060 may well consist of transmitting every intellectual work that has existed to date (including video form) on something like a USB stick. (Yes I know, we'll probably hit physical limits before then.)
It's how they are paid. A rising tide lifts all boats, and they want the rising tide as it makes their job easier and their remuneration higher.
The yeast in the bottle of grape juice said the same thing too.
Which is why 9 out of 10 proctologists recommend Windows 8. It has your shitty ARM covered.
A path need not continue forever. It can have a final destination.
Prob and stats seems to be beyond most people's grasp. Most of it is probably genetic. And the part that isn't genetic (i.e. how much kids learn from age 0-5) is also highly influenced by genetics. Are two people of average intelligence going to do as good a job of selecting an early learning program for their children as someone who is highly intelligent? Or even think it's important? e.g. If their parents never had any use for math in their lives, why would they think raising smarter kids is going to do anything?
While the public schools are in many ways crap, I don't think this is one of their failings. And considering that if casinos, online gambling and the like are legal and money from poor, stupid people is going to be spent in that manner anyway, better that the money goes directly to the tax base than to the hands of a wealthy private individual.
I think it needs a little more oil.
"Patents, eh?", he asked him knowingly.
This is very much true. However, in this case my fear is that the very valid, or at least valid sounding pretext (blocking cp) is going to result in other sites being blocked. Which will result in domains being blocked that are whatever the censors will block. Whoever has the most money or the most desire to censor is going to ultimately determine what will be censored, which will be things completely unrelated to cp.
How is this flamebait? What Tablizer says is true. The fish that are the normal predators of jellyfish have been overfished, along with a lot of the smaller fish they feed on. What results is an abundance of the food that jellyfish eat along with an absence of predators (including the human predator), which causes a surge in jellyfish numbers.
The success of English as a global lingua franca has more to do IMO with the dominance of the British Empire and then the American Empire over the last few hundred years, which happened to coincide with the Industrial age, Information age, and globalization. Especially in the last twenty years, the network effect brought about by the Internet has served to especially boost English.
I suspect the result would have been the same whether the actual language spoken by the countries with the money, power and military might were English, Navajo, or Mandarin. It's hard to argue though that the "worse is better" aspect of English didn't help the perfect storm of events. With English you only have to learn 26 letters before you can write words, unlike anything with Chinese characters. The fact that Chinese characters map to concepts instead parts of syllables means that anything Chinese character based is very terse compared to English. That has to have some advantages, but easiness of learning is not one of them.
It's difficult to say where his destination will ultimately be. One thing we can be sure of - he will be piped there.
First they came for synaptic,
and I didn't speak out because I did not use synaptic.
Then they came for apt-get,
and I didn't speak out because I did not use apt-get.
Then they came for bash,
and I didn't speak out because I did not use bash.
Then they came for me,
and I paid them off through the convenient and intuitive Ubuntu Software Center.
Most companies and communities don't have 20 billion dollars in Net Current Assets just sitting there waiting to be thrown away on frivolous lawsuits.