Its beyond your comprehension. It is very simple. They don't care.
Sure the PS4 or XBox One can probably work as a PC. But why buy a console if you want a PC. You want a game console that play games, and plays them well. So most people who buy these things are not going to be making a PC out of it, or hacking it, trying to pirate games... They are OK to be playing by the rules.
If you can hack it. Then you can get a (bigger) issues such as Modifications to Online Games so players can cheat. Malware programs propagating across the network.
Are these problems worth it with the reduced freedom probably not... However most people would rather be safe then sorry and not think about it.
With all the problems in the world and you spend your time pining on the fact that you cannot modify your gaming console. It probably means you are not really living, or you are living with too many First World Problems.
Yes, but they are just as mean and cruel about it. In some cases they could be worse, because they don't think there is an invisible guy up there to make them accountable for what they did.
Yes but the punishment for failure is set artificially high, so it makes it riskier. You get widget X and it breaks, the maker of widget X gets sued. and Pays for the the Widget X plus more just to make sure they are punished for giving you, YOU of all people a faulty product. As you have taken a risk of buying a product, and you do not want to take any risk that it wouldn't work.
What is Christianity in America. You can ask each sect and they will groups X,Y,Z are also Christians but U,V,W are not. But if you ask an other group they will say other groups are and are not. They cover a wide range of values. Some very Progressive other very Conservative, some take a more moderate approach.
The whole of Christianity isn't the people who knock on your door trying to convert you, or the people fighting anti-science. That is just a vocal group.
I think you used the wrong word for "Any strong belief"
Stalin Russia was quite violent and evil by today's terms. He wasn't touting Religion but Communism.
Religion tends to make an easy excuse, because most religions are based on old texts that have been translated a few times over, written in people from different cultures and different views of the world, it makes it easy to justify nearly anything with these texts by saying this is fact, this is metaphor, Lets focus on these words and not from those.
When Jesus ask what was the most important commandment, he gave two. Love God, and Love your Neighbor. I choose to take that as the important parts, but others don't because they dislike their neighbor, and will focus on other parts where it was OK to strike people down.
There is an other side. Our tolerance towards failure has became much shorter too. When we read articles about a cloud service going down for a few minutes we jump the gun and say "Well it looks like that sysadmin guy got fired for that mistake" or if a bridge fails, or a building collapses, or some rich guy losses money... There is always seems to be an investigation that will find the person who had made that critical mistake and have them fired or jailed.
We learn by failures, but our system punishes failures. So we punish learning. That sysadmin who knocked down that cloud service for 5 minutes because he unplugged the wrong undocumented cable, or typed the wrong command to the router to shutdown and not update. Will be much less likely to do it again, then if he got fired, and someone else started working there.
We love that straight A student but we ignore the C/B student. The A student isn't learning much, while the C/B student is learning a lot of stuff.
There are some kids who are inspired by teacher to become great, There are other who become great in spite of the teachers.
As someone who has grown up with Teachers saying, there is no way you will be able to pass that next grade, all the way up to me finishing Grad School, usually do to my dyslexia. I personally never put a high opinion on their work, and see most of the stuff they do as just enjoying the power ride of being the king of their 40x40 room.
Now not all teachers are bad, but they are a lot of bad ones, and they like sticking the kids who are struggling with the bad ones, so the good teachers get all the smart kids, who knows how to barf up what they crammed in their minds the night before, then forget the next day.
Education policy is advanced, it is too complected for the normal teacher, their world is too small. Sure there are a lot of arm chair educators, but we should be listening to them, as they have all have unique experiences.
The problem is most education professionals are not so good at understanding Math, and many really do not trust is.
You go to any college and talk to education majors, and ask them why they didn't major in other majors, after they repeat the normal BS, about wanting to help children yadda yadda, It comes down to the fact that many of the other majors that has a clear career path requires much more Math study, and they don't like Math.
Sure we have a few educators like Math and Science teachers who get it, but they are the minority, and the ones who seems to get promoted to positions where they can make decisions, are usually History and English teachers. So they don't know about this research is because they are not looking for it, and they really don't want to find it, because the numbers may contradict what you opinion is, and no one likes that.
We have the State and Unions fighting over these details and little focus on what works.
Haven gotten my MBA, I have learned the meaning of the word Synergy, (then told to never use it as it has been over used to a point where it is just sounds stupid to say it)
In essence if you are working in a team the sum of what all the members together create is greater then what each individual can do by themselves.
In real life this doesn't happen so much. Usually when you work in the group the result of the group is less then the sum of each individual.
Lets say we use a game of Tug of War. Each person alone can pull 450 newtons, and you have a team of 10. Synergy would happen if together they can pull 4501 or more newtons of force. What normally would happen is that they pull less then 4500 newtons of force because seeing the other people they will not try as hard.
Packet Sniffing is more of a cheap parlor trick then a good way to collect information.
For the most part our infrastructure has moved from Hubs to Switches so there are a lot less free packets bouncing around the net. Routers have gotten smarter and better so chances are it won't bother sending your packet around the world just just to go to your neighbors.
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold. I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
I do find it interesting how many Atheists are working very hard to formalize Atheism. Creating a more rigid structure that contains many of the trappings of Religions.
Because most of the Evils done by non-Athiests isn't because the person Believes in some sort of being that cannot be proven, but because they group together, formalize their beliefs and create a rigid structure that creates an us vs them mentality.
There are forming a lot of different sects of Atheism. Some examples. 1. The I don't think there is a god, but I am open to the possibility, however there isn't any proof. 2. The idea of a god scares me, so I will choose not to believe. 3. I don't believe in a god, however we should respect the people who they do, as there isn't any proof that god doesn't exist either. 4. I don't believe in a god, and don't respect people who do because they don't have the same beliefs that I do. 5. I don't know if I believe in a god or not, but the idea of a god makes me angry so I will not believe....
There are a lot of different types out there. And there will be a lot of debating saying one isn't atheist enough to call themselves an atheist.
Or you know, perhaps there are things like actually testing to make sure the patch works across their product lines. Or evaluating the Risk of the Flaw, and decide to put it in the next update, vs just keep on patching over and over again.
I remember back when Microsoft started its security initiative back after XP was released. There were a lot of security updates and often they would end up breaking more stuff then it fixed. Because they didn't spend the time testing it.
Each party will pick and choose whatever science suits their needs. The republicans want the religious vote, state you believe in intelengent design and you get the vote. If the democrats want the environentalist vote, stand behind the newest untested theory about something say GM Foods (all Genetically modified foods) and you got their vote.
We got this guy. He goes around and shoots his enemies. Or wait, we got this guy, he will jump around and avoid his enemies. Oh Oh wait, how about a car racing game!!!
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Its beyond your comprehension. It is very simple.
They don't care.
Sure the PS4 or XBox One can probably work as a PC. But why buy a console if you want a PC. You want a game console that play games, and plays them well. So most people who buy these things are not going to be making a PC out of it, or hacking it, trying to pirate games... They are OK to be playing by the rules.
If you can hack it. Then you can get a (bigger) issues such as Modifications to Online Games so players can cheat. Malware programs propagating across the network.
Are these problems worth it with the reduced freedom probably not... However most people would rather be safe then sorry and not think about it.
With all the problems in the world and you spend your time pining on the fact that you cannot modify your gaming console. It probably means you are not really living, or you are living with too many First World Problems.
Yes, but they are just as mean and cruel about it. In some cases they could be worse, because they don't think there is an invisible guy up there to make them accountable for what they did.
Yes but the punishment for failure is set artificially high, so it makes it riskier. You get widget X and it breaks, the maker of widget X gets sued. and Pays for the the Widget X plus more just to make sure they are punished for giving you, YOU of all people a faulty product. As you have taken a risk of buying a product, and you do not want to take any risk that it wouldn't work.
What is Christianity in America. You can ask each sect and they will groups X,Y,Z are also Christians but U,V,W are not. But if you ask an other group they will say other groups are and are not. They cover a wide range of values. Some very Progressive other very Conservative, some take a more moderate approach.
The whole of Christianity isn't the people who knock on your door trying to convert you, or the people fighting anti-science. That is just a vocal group.
I think you used the wrong word for "Any strong belief"
Stalin Russia was quite violent and evil by today's terms. He wasn't touting Religion but Communism.
Religion tends to make an easy excuse, because most religions are based on old texts that have been translated a few times over, written in people from different cultures and different views of the world, it makes it easy to justify nearly anything with these texts by saying this is fact, this is metaphor, Lets focus on these words and not from those.
When Jesus ask what was the most important commandment, he gave two.
Love God, and Love your Neighbor. I choose to take that as the important parts, but others don't because they dislike their neighbor, and will focus on other parts where it was OK to strike people down.
There is an other side. Our tolerance towards failure has became much shorter too.
When we read articles about a cloud service going down for a few minutes we jump the gun and say "Well it looks like that sysadmin guy got fired for that mistake" or if a bridge fails, or a building collapses, or some rich guy losses money... There is always seems to be an investigation that will find the person who had made that critical mistake and have them fired or jailed.
We learn by failures, but our system punishes failures. So we punish learning. That sysadmin who knocked down that cloud service for 5 minutes because he unplugged the wrong undocumented cable, or typed the wrong command to the router to shutdown and not update. Will be much less likely to do it again, then if he got fired, and someone else started working there.
We love that straight A student but we ignore the C/B student. The A student isn't learning much, while the C/B student is learning a lot of stuff.
There are some kids who are inspired by teacher to become great, There are other who become great in spite of the teachers.
As someone who has grown up with Teachers saying, there is no way you will be able to pass that next grade, all the way up to me finishing Grad School, usually do to my dyslexia. I personally never put a high opinion on their work, and see most of the stuff they do as just enjoying the power ride of being the king of their 40x40 room.
Now not all teachers are bad, but they are a lot of bad ones, and they like sticking the kids who are struggling with the bad ones, so the good teachers get all the smart kids, who knows how to barf up what they crammed in their minds the night before, then forget the next day.
Education policy is advanced, it is too complected for the normal teacher, their world is too small. Sure there are a lot of arm chair educators, but we should be listening to them, as they have all have unique experiences.
Well if they were a little better at math, they could use it to manage their time better.
The problem is most education professionals are not so good at understanding Math, and many really do not trust is.
You go to any college and talk to education majors, and ask them why they didn't major in other majors, after they repeat the normal BS, about wanting to help children yadda yadda, It comes down to the fact that many of the other majors that has a clear career path requires much more Math study, and they don't like Math.
Sure we have a few educators like Math and Science teachers who get it, but they are the minority, and the ones who seems to get promoted to positions where they can make decisions, are usually History and English teachers. So they don't know about this research is because they are not looking for it, and they really don't want to find it, because the numbers may contradict what you opinion is, and no one likes that.
We have the State and Unions fighting over these details and little focus on what works.
I would just move my offices to cruse ships.
Haven gotten my MBA, I have learned the meaning of the word Synergy, (then told to never use it as it has been over used to a point where it is just sounds stupid to say it)
In essence if you are working in a team the sum of what all the members together create is greater then what each individual can do by themselves.
In real life this doesn't happen so much. Usually when you work in the group the result of the group is less then the sum of each individual.
Lets say we use a game of Tug of War.
Each person alone can pull 450 newtons, and you have a team of 10.
Synergy would happen if together they can pull 4501 or more newtons of force.
What normally would happen is that they pull less then 4500 newtons of force because seeing the other people they will not try as hard.
Packet Sniffing is more of a cheap parlor trick then a good way to collect information.
For the most part our infrastructure has moved from Hubs to Switches so there are a lot less free packets bouncing around the net. Routers have gotten smarter and better so chances are it won't bother sending your packet around the world just just to go to your neighbors.
The world wide 1% yes. The US 1% no.
World Wide the 1% makes over $33,000
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
Yes because he is an astrophysicist, it makes him qualified to be an expert on all fields, like economics.
This XKCD Applies
I do find it interesting how many Atheists are working very hard to formalize Atheism. Creating a more rigid structure that contains many of the trappings of Religions.
Because most of the Evils done by non-Athiests isn't because the person Believes in some sort of being that cannot be proven, but because they group together, formalize their beliefs and create a rigid structure that creates an us vs them mentality.
There are forming a lot of different sects of Atheism. Some examples.
1. The I don't think there is a god, but I am open to the possibility, however there isn't any proof.
2. The idea of a god scares me, so I will choose not to believe.
3. I don't believe in a god, however we should respect the people who they do, as there isn't any proof that god doesn't exist either.
4. I don't believe in a god, and don't respect people who do because they don't have the same beliefs that I do.
5. I don't know if I believe in a god or not, but the idea of a god makes me angry so I will not believe....
There are a lot of different types out there. And there will be a lot of debating saying one isn't atheist enough to call themselves an atheist.
Does it do Color?
Or you know, perhaps there are things like actually testing to make sure the patch works across their product lines. Or evaluating the Risk of the Flaw, and decide to put it in the next update, vs just keep on patching over and over again.
I remember back when Microsoft started its security initiative back after XP was released. There were a lot of security updates and often they would end up breaking more stuff then it fixed. Because they didn't spend the time testing it.
It's not about morality it is that scientists can't get laid.
You do realize the Romans had a long history as an elected republic before it became an empire.
If you believe magic sky daddy is watching you all the time, you do.
Each party will pick and choose whatever science suits their needs. The republicans want the religious vote, state you believe in intelengent design and you get the vote. If the democrats want the environentalist vote, stand behind the newest untested theory about something say GM Foods (all Genetically modified foods) and you got their vote.
It isn't about science but calling your base.
We got this guy. He goes around and shoots his enemies.
Or wait, we got this guy, he will jump around and avoid his enemies.
Oh Oh wait, how about a car racing game!!!
So they couldn't find a GNU Tax software. So it must be a political reason.
Ohhhh Change....
So this change is going to mess your productivity of what... Checking Sports scores. Yep that sounds productive to me.