I found the upload-download ratio, was a bad way to keep people engaged. What it did was caused people to upload a lot of crap just to keep their ratio up. They were other ways of encouraging good behavior. Such as elevated to different message boards, special download directories etc...
The big issue I think isn't what common core is, but how it was implemented. New York implemented by stating all grade levels needed to start using common core. Not starting kindergarten and going up. So Highschool students who have been learning the old way needed to change their methodology.
You are basing all religions based on a vocal subset.
So your stance against religion is based on your current political standpoint?
Those Soviets never got themselves in a war. WWI and WWII were all about religion.
Being Anti-Abortion a bad thing? So you are all for killing unborn children, on a whim? Where there is a complex societal issue, on when human life begins and needs social support, vs. the rights of the parent who's own needs needs to be considered as well. That is why they Call themselves Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. They are not Anti-Life and Anti-Choice. They feel the line where one precedes the other are in different spots.
Gay Marriage, Many religions do not have issues with this. Some do. Culturally this had became an issue with this generation, previously across multiple faiths and non-faiths it was considered deviant behavior. As we are now culturally being more accepting of such behaviors we need to consider how this applies to the traditional institutions that have existed.
Getting rid of religion, will not get rid of the Conservatives, who you seem to have more of an issue with. And for many people the fact that they are God fearing is the only thing that is holding them back from being really violent.
There are complex issues, where a particular religion may have a stance on, however you and what ever group you may belong to may have a stance on it too.
What I think is really happening, is our culture is more accepting of people who are not religious. So the good portion of non-religious folks who have always been around, feel more open about it. Where before they would just label themselves the religion their parents said they were.
It is much like how there seems to be a surge in homosexulality, however it is more of a case it was always there it was just people never reported it.
I have seen bad and anti-science dribble spread across equally from Religious and Atheist alike. If the science is against their worldview or political viewpoint then they will choose to disagree with it. You don't see too many Evangelical Religious folks touting the dangers of GMO food, or stating the dangers of vaccines (The religious folks may refuse to take vaccines, but not because of the risks or rewards, but due to other reasons).
Also jumping onto the latest diet trend, (Remember the low fat, high carbs movement back in the 1990's)
Religion and Science are not in conflict nor are they one in the same. The "Proofs" against the existence of God, are just as faulty as the "Proofs" for God.
What I find to be the biggest point to that argument, is the bomb of Kings Quest 8, which killed the series.
Kings Quest Games were usually state of the art games, and they had a tendency to use new features for the game. The first "3D" Perspective game, where the character can walk behind objects. By Kings Quest IV they started going big into quality sound. Kings Quest V Jumped into multi-media with VGA painted Graphics, and speech. Kings Quest VII, moved towards advanced 2d Animations to give more of a cartoon like feel. Then came Kings Quest VIII, It jumped on the 3d bandwagon, It looked like crap, we were use to beautiful impressive 2d worlds where it was a joy to get to a new screen, to a much larger, but very bland and repetitive 3d world. The 3d technology was too new back then. And they jumped to the technology without much insight of the quality of the universe.
"HD" Doesn't mean the end of quality 2d Games and graphics, It is just a tradeoff of how impressive of a world you want. If your game has a fixed camera angle. Then 2D may work to your advantage. Better hand drawn/photographic art, animation that doesn't need to follow physics, to give a better artistic effect. But if you need a world where you are looking in around, up and down... Then you may need to deal with some of the artististic quality loss for a 3D World.
Pixel art, and its older siblings Ascii/Ansi art, were perfected out of necessity. If you are stuck on 40x25 resolution, 80x25 resolution,160x200, 320x200, or 640x200 and the different modes meant you had different color pallets available, with screens with a low fuzzy dpi. Created creativity to create worlds that are more impressionistic of the character and less realistic.
Unless.... You expect a targeted strike where the only survivors are liberal art majors. Spin some magnets in some copper wire you get electricity. You can spin it with a water wheel, wind turbine, combustion engine, or steam power.
You reverse the process and you can make a motor. Place some resistance you get heat and light.... This dystopia future just isn't practical unless there is some lead time where science and engineering has been some how removed from our cultures.
Yea, all those Netflix users, are just such a small user base, that they add no legitimacy to DRM at all. Unlike all those GNU fans who, who seem to complain the fact that Firefox actually needs a VGA display to work.
So the car is much stronger... Then you need to build in crumple zones because the car is too strong. Unless you want your body to take the full force of an accident. Unlike airplanes Cars are not facing extreme forces. When a car does take those extreme forces, we really want it to fail. So there is no benefit of making the car stronger.
Now if you can say this will make the car lighter so it is more energy efficient then you are bringing up a better argument.
Good leaders get kick out of office. Why? They try to force change, people don't like change. They will bend the rules to get their way, this can cross the line into corruption. They will step on their opponents, this will toughen the resolve of their opponents so they will be stronger next time around. The realize the popular opinion, is based on assumptions made by a population with partial insight into the issue, and that 50% of the population has below average intelligence to really fully understand it.
Bad leaders stay in. Why? They are the nice guy you want to have a beer with. They try to keep things as they are. They flow with public opinion. They try to make you feel good about yourself.
Further proof of the moon landing conspiracy. There is no air on the moon so there is no gravity, so having a low center of gravity is useless. But I didn't have my coffee this morning yet so I can't think of too many more bad scientific assumptions to use as a matter of fact.
So if you are in need of a plot, there is a common malfunction that kicks in.
Ok I get it when a person intentionally turns them off. But for every error, the safety protocols seems the first to fail. I would expect in case of error default to the holodeck turns off. Taking a 2-3 meter fall, is much better than getting shot.
Please explain further... For most standard interfaces, I haven't seen anything that you couldn't do on the web. However the dev tools (especially by Microsoft) do a poor job at coding them easily.
Right now the limits are in High End Graphic Processing, and Interfacing with external hardware. Most applications are rather boring, Take in some input, do some calculation based on the input, perhaps look up some data on a database, then give you an output. These batch type of processing is great for the web, as you get to have a big system in the background crunch all those inputs rather quickly and you get your results back.
However for high end Gaming/CAD The browser will cause too much overhead. Then you have programs that access special hardware, that they may not have as part of the standard web standards interface for.
However as browsers keep on changing, as well if bandwidth gets to a point where it is fast enough it could go further to the browser. If the PC CPU/GPU gets quicker, and demand for special hardware goes up, then it will go back to the desktop.
Also if there are enough events that makes us consider that the cloud is too insecure then hosing it locally, then it could go back too.
I am going to propose the linux kernel changes the default color the text font from #AAAAAA to #ACACAC you know just to watch the massive outrage that will happen because of it.
Complaints from people with the CGA display monitors, Or how this prevent accurate representation of legacy console applications. (I am going to igore the fact the the default bios fonts have changed slightly over the decades as well, and how the higher DPI of the displays, make such changes necessary.
Not as small as you would think. Back in those days the average monitor was a 12" viewable display. I still think 80*24 will be a bit small on a watch. But 40x24 may work.
Back then you also had a different mobile web design standard. It tried to stay with strict html/2 features. And was quite limited. What would be like if you used that device today.
When I first started to use the web, I was at 800*600 at 8 bit display. I used Mosaic or Lynx. I used a slip connection to dial in at 14.4k. And I had access to the primitive web. Most of it were links to FTP sites.
Today it is a very different web, so saying my old tech worked great 10 years ago doesn't mean it will work well today.
This transformer explosion, why would this be more of an issue at a nuclear plant then at any other place? We have transformers explode along power lines too. They also create fire, damage property... Let's not confuse the regular damage of power generation with the nuclear is bad narrative.
When ever something is "Enterprise" class it means it is vastly inferior to other solutions on the market but cost 3x as much. For some reason this isn't a buzzword that sends shivers down every IT workers spine yet.
Sure if you keep it small nearly any system will work. There is the idea, if everyone would think the same way as me the world would be a good and happy place. You can probably find a small group of people who are on the same mindset as you.
However going bigger you will have much more deviation in mind sets. And will have competing ideas. Capitalism and democracy are not perfect there are problems... However it is still the one with the best track record of keeping the piece.
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I found the upload-download ratio, was a bad way to keep people engaged. What it did was caused people to upload a lot of crap just to keep their ratio up.
They were other ways of encouraging good behavior. Such as elevated to different message boards, special download directories etc...
The big issue I think isn't what common core is, but how it was implemented.
New York implemented by stating all grade levels needed to start using common core. Not starting kindergarten and going up. So Highschool students who have been learning the old way needed to change their methodology.
You are basing all religions based on a vocal subset.
So your stance against religion is based on your current political standpoint?
Those Soviets never got themselves in a war. WWI and WWII were all about religion.
Being Anti-Abortion a bad thing? So you are all for killing unborn children, on a whim? Where there is a complex societal issue, on when human life begins and needs social support, vs. the rights of the parent who's own needs needs to be considered as well. That is why they Call themselves Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. They are not Anti-Life and Anti-Choice. They feel the line where one precedes the other are in different spots.
Gay Marriage, Many religions do not have issues with this. Some do. Culturally this had became an issue with this generation, previously across multiple faiths and non-faiths it was considered deviant behavior. As we are now culturally being more accepting of such behaviors we need to consider how this applies to the traditional institutions that have existed.
Getting rid of religion, will not get rid of the Conservatives, who you seem to have more of an issue with. And for many people the fact that they are God fearing is the only thing that is holding them back from being really violent.
There are complex issues, where a particular religion may have a stance on, however you and what ever group you may belong to may have a stance on it too.
What I think is really happening, is our culture is more accepting of people who are not religious. So the good portion of non-religious folks who have always been around, feel more open about it. Where before they would just label themselves the religion their parents said they were.
It is much like how there seems to be a surge in homosexulality, however it is more of a case it was always there it was just people never reported it.
I have seen bad and anti-science dribble spread across equally from Religious and Atheist alike. If the science is against their worldview or political viewpoint then they will choose to disagree with it. You don't see too many Evangelical Religious folks touting the dangers of GMO food, or stating the dangers of vaccines (The religious folks may refuse to take vaccines, but not because of the risks or rewards, but due to other reasons).
Also jumping onto the latest diet trend, (Remember the low fat, high carbs movement back in the 1990's)
Religion and Science are not in conflict nor are they one in the same. The "Proofs" against the existence of God, are just as faulty as the "Proofs" for God.
The issue is 2D design vs 3D Rendering.
What I find to be the biggest point to that argument, is the bomb of Kings Quest 8, which killed the series.
Kings Quest Games were usually state of the art games, and they had a tendency to use new features for the game.
The first "3D" Perspective game, where the character can walk behind objects. By Kings Quest IV they started going big into quality sound. Kings Quest V Jumped into multi-media with VGA painted Graphics, and speech. Kings Quest VII, moved towards advanced 2d Animations to give more of a cartoon like feel. Then came Kings Quest VIII, It jumped on the 3d bandwagon, It looked like crap, we were use to beautiful impressive 2d worlds where it was a joy to get to a new screen, to a much larger, but very bland and repetitive 3d world. The 3d technology was too new back then. And they jumped to the technology without much insight of the quality of the universe.
"HD" Doesn't mean the end of quality 2d Games and graphics, It is just a tradeoff of how impressive of a world you want. If your game has a fixed camera angle. Then 2D may work to your advantage. Better hand drawn/photographic art, animation that doesn't need to follow physics, to give a better artistic effect. But if you need a world where you are looking in around, up and down... Then you may need to deal with some of the artististic quality loss for a 3D World.
Pixel art, and its older siblings Ascii/Ansi art, were perfected out of necessity. If you are stuck on 40x25 resolution, 80x25 resolution,160x200, 320x200, or 640x200 and the different modes meant you had different color pallets available, with screens with a low fuzzy dpi. Created creativity to create worlds that are more impressionistic of the character and less realistic.
Unless.... You expect a targeted strike where the only survivors are liberal art majors. Spin some magnets in some copper wire you get electricity. You can spin it with a water wheel, wind turbine, combustion engine, or steam power.
You reverse the process and you can make a motor. ...
Place some resistance you get heat and light.
This dystopia future just isn't practical unless there is some lead time where science and engineering has been some how removed from our cultures.
Yea, all those Netflix users, are just such a small user base, that they add no legitimacy to DRM at all.
Unlike all those GNU fans who, who seem to complain the fact that Firefox actually needs a VGA display to work.
So the car is much stronger... Then you need to build in crumple zones because the car is too strong. Unless you want your body to take the full force of an accident.
Unlike airplanes Cars are not facing extreme forces.
When a car does take those extreme forces, we really want it to fail. So there is no benefit of making the car stronger.
Now if you can say this will make the car lighter so it is more energy efficient then you are bringing up a better argument.
kill -9
-9 is the silver bullet.
However sometimes you will need to kill the child processes before you can kill the parent one.
Good leaders get kick out of office.
Why?
They try to force change, people don't like change.
They will bend the rules to get their way, this can cross the line into corruption.
They will step on their opponents, this will toughen the resolve of their opponents so they will be stronger next time around.
The realize the popular opinion, is based on assumptions made by a population with partial insight into the issue, and that 50% of the population has below average intelligence to really fully understand it.
Bad leaders stay in.
Why?
They are the nice guy you want to have a beer with.
They try to keep things as they are.
They flow with public opinion.
They try to make you feel good about yourself.
Is this just California. I was under the impression that this was a common method of water useage and treatment?
For nearly every city with municipal water they have a rather large water treatment plant, and a sewer system that seems connected to it.
Further proof of the moon landing conspiracy.
There is no air on the moon so there is no gravity, so having a low center of gravity is useless.
But I didn't have my coffee this morning yet so I can't think of too many more bad scientific assumptions to use as a matter of fact.
So if you are in need of a plot, there is a common malfunction that kicks in.
Ok I get it when a person intentionally turns them off. But for every error, the safety protocols seems the first to fail. I would expect in case of error default to the holodeck turns off. Taking a 2-3 meter fall, is much better than getting shot.
Please explain further...
For most standard interfaces, I haven't seen anything that you couldn't do on the web.
However the dev tools (especially by Microsoft) do a poor job at coding them easily.
Well it is scary to think about it it was 15 years from Mac OS 1 to OS X
We had OS X for 15 years now.
So half of Mac OS existence has been in OS X
Right now the limits are in High End Graphic Processing, and Interfacing with external hardware.
Most applications are rather boring, Take in some input, do some calculation based on the input, perhaps look up some data on a database, then give you an output. These batch type of processing is great for the web, as you get to have a big system in the background crunch all those inputs rather quickly and you get your results back.
However for high end Gaming/CAD The browser will cause too much overhead.
Then you have programs that access special hardware, that they may not have as part of the standard web standards interface for.
However as browsers keep on changing, as well if bandwidth gets to a point where it is fast enough it could go further to the browser. If the PC CPU/GPU gets quicker, and demand for special hardware goes up, then it will go back to the desktop.
Also if there are enough events that makes us consider that the cloud is too insecure then hosing it locally, then it could go back too.
I am going to propose the linux kernel changes the default color the text font from #AAAAAA to #ACACAC you know just to watch the massive outrage that will happen because of it.
Complaints from people with the CGA display monitors, Or how this prevent accurate representation of legacy console applications. (I am going to igore the fact the the default bios fonts have changed slightly over the decades as well, and how the higher DPI of the displays, make such changes necessary.
What I would really want is the ability to say where I want my tax money to go to.
Not as small as you would think.
Back in those days the average monitor was a 12" viewable display.
I still think 80*24 will be a bit small on a watch. But 40x24 may work.
Back then you also had a different mobile web design standard.
It tried to stay with strict html/2 features. And was quite limited.
What would be like if you used that device today.
When I first started to use the web, I was at 800*600 at 8 bit display. I used Mosaic or Lynx. I used a slip connection to dial in at 14.4k.
And I had access to the primitive web. Most of it were links to FTP sites.
Today it is a very different web, so saying my old tech worked great 10 years ago doesn't mean it will work well today.
This transformer explosion, why would this be more of an issue at a nuclear plant then at any other place?
We have transformers explode along power lines too. They also create fire, damage property...
Let's not confuse the regular damage of power generation with the nuclear is bad narrative.
When ever something is "Enterprise" class it means it is vastly inferior to other solutions on the market but cost 3x as much.
For some reason this isn't a buzzword that sends shivers down every IT workers spine yet.
Sure if you keep it small nearly any system will work.
There is the idea, if everyone would think the same way as me the world would be a good and happy place.
You can probably find a small group of people who are on the same mindset as you.
However going bigger you will have much more deviation in mind sets. And will have competing ideas.
Capitalism and democracy are not perfect there are problems... However it is still the one with the best track record of keeping the piece.
Unfortunately due to the confusion about this I have to call Linux GNU/Linux It really sucks, because I hate to RMS any credit.