Why stop learning after 12 years? We homeschool. Our kids are learning every day of the year, every day of the week, all hours of the day. They were learning before 'school age' and they keep learning past '12th grade' and so do we. School is never out. We do structured school work, work on the farm, work on construction and then there is just learning in life. The eight hour ten month five day a week school learning environment is totally artificial.
Public school in particular is a terribly inefficient system. Most of students time is wasted waiting. Kids know this. Then they spend the months of summer forgetting. Studies show that each summer they lose a third of what they learned in that school year.
Wonderful news to have real programming available on iOS however my Mac is a lot more than just a keyboard. I see a time when the iOS and MacOS will merge and there will be varying pieces of hardware that runs the new AppleOS (aOS). But just adding a keyboard (which I have) to my iPad does not make my iPad as functional as my Mac. The Mac has a lot more storage (iCloud is not available here in any reliable fast mode) and a lot more ports. My Mac can also play CD's (remember those - sort of like envelopes for music) and DVDs (envelopes for movies). The iPad has a long ways to go before it's as good as a Mac.
Hold it tight to your body. You are about 98ÂF (37ÂC) so you're much cooler than the tech or the environment. You're Fonzy like coolness will rub off on the device making it look cool too. Other people seeing this will say, "Oooooo!"
I don't like using software that depends on online connections to operate. Connections are not fast enough or reliable enough. Nor are they secure. Compute Locally.
But if the writer were truly egalitarian the 'subtle nod' would not be necessary because it is by default. If it must be mentioned that there might be women programmers out there then what about black, Jewish, Chinese, Mexican, Native American, French and Scottish programmers. Don't want to leave them feeling left out! The list becomes absurdly long. Just say craftsmen or programmers or what ever and leave it at that. No need to complicate communications. Simplify.
No need to do that. Women are included in human. Women programmers are included in programmers. Craftswomen are included in craftsmen. No need to complicate things.
One of the things that Apple detractors tend to miss is that Apple may sell fewer units but they make a lot more profit per unit. So Samsung sells a lot of low end units, making next to no profit. Big deal. It's like the pork industry. The big pig players sell 10,000 pigs a month and lose $1/pig. The small operators sell 100 pigs a month and make $25 per pig. The small operators are the winners in that game. Likewise the electronics manufacturers trying to dump large numbers of units a razor thin or even negative margins are not making it. Samsung should stick with what it does well. Competing with Apple isn't one of those things.
If the United States, or the UN in a pinch, will give me $2Billion in aid money, for food of course, then I hereby agree to not make nuclear weapons. And just to show how serious I am I will not explode a bum at an undisco site on Saturday.
Actually, that all depends on the orbit. Most countries can't hit anything above a certain height. In fact, most can't do diddly. Besides, space based doesn't mean near orbit satellite as you're thinking.
As to comparing with nukes, the point is not to nuke a whole area, just the target. The more precise and limited the better.
It is ridiculous to measure fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. That totally ignores payload moved. My 2004 Ford E-350 Extended Body van is far more efficient than a Prisus or any of those new fangled pseudo-green cars because I transport full loads including back hauling rather than running around with one person in the car for errands or commuting.
The real measure should be pounds moved miles per gallon. PMPG. Except it should be metric.
"I am in my mid-40s and the things that interest me in the world rapidly shrink."
That is really sad.
I'm older than you and I continually find new and interesting things to do, to invent, to create, to share with my family. Life is good and never boring.
"We are limited in our capacity of learning as we are limited in everything else."
Perhaps boring people are so limited but not some of us. Maybe this is the next evolutionary step.
I'll start with 1,000 years and take it from there, one day at a time. That has been my plan all along.
The other question is how long are people willing to be useful. This idea of retiring to a life of play is a modern absurdity. People used to work all their lives. Retirement is a very new concept. If you're going to live a lot longer then plan on working a lot longer. The good news is you should get good enough that you can better choose what you work at, accumulate resources to do interesting things, etc.
All play and no work makes Jack and Jill very dull indeed.
And will we really get faster or will it just go to the urban and pseudo-urban areas with denser populations. I rather detest paying a buck a bit and not getting any byte back for my money. I'm truly rural. I laid a mile and a half of my own phone wires to get very slow 'aDSL' and they've been making promises for years of more speed but I doubt we'll see it. Instead it will go to the larger population centers. Let them pay for their own cables and fibers.
Yes. Rather my point. People simply don't like change. Change happens. Life adapts. global cooling has tended (80%) to be far worse than global warming (20%). Thank you for making my point.
"compressed air does allow us to centralize the creation of pollution: Which would make eliminating air pollution an option"
No, sadly what they'll do is then move the air pollution out of the cities and dump it in the rural areas. This is what urbanites have been doing for millennia. It doesn't make them green. It just means their shitting in someone else's home. The dumping of garbage from cities in distant landfills is an example. The high smokestacks they use to send their pollution up, up and away where it falls down on us as acid rain is an example. Just moving the pollution is not zero emissions.
"So, if they use solar, wind and hydroelectric power, then it's zero emissions. Depending on your perspective, nuclear is also close to zero emissions."
" if you get the energy from nuclear or renewable sources then the "total system" is in fact zero-emission as well."
No, that is a fallacy. The inflatable Tatas are in and of themselves not necessarily zero emissions. The source of compression must be considered. If they achieve that compression through, for example, wind energy, then that would be far better than fossil fuels which produces immediate pollution or nuclear which produces long term pollution issues. Even renewables though have effects on the environment and culture. Do you want the wind tower or nuclear power station or refinery right next to your house? Seems most people don't. Yet they want to take advantage of the resource created. This idea that moving the pollution or production away from your home makes it okay is a deceit.
These are not zero emissions, not even close. They burn petroleum, coal, use nuclear or something else to compress the air. The air is merely a storage medium for the energy. This is all a marketing lie.
Wipe the memory. Update it to the latest iOS. Pass on to someone who will appreciate it. Either in the family, a friend or sell it on eBay.
A short battery life may still be plenty of time. Short is generally a day or half a day which is enough to still be able to enjoy it. If you want more battery life then it is only about $50 to $100 to upgrade the battery with a new one. Less if you do it yourself.
You just don't get it do you. Iceland is a tiny country with dense population centers. It's easy to wire Iceland. Go do the math for offering the same thing in the USA and then take away your beloved government subsidy to boot.
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"Learning constantly for 12 years is hard."
Why stop learning after 12 years? We homeschool. Our kids are learning every day of the year, every day of the week, all hours of the day. They were learning before 'school age' and they keep learning past '12th grade' and so do we. School is never out. We do structured school work, work on the farm, work on construction and then there is just learning in life. The eight hour ten month five day a week school learning environment is totally artificial.
Public school in particular is a terribly inefficient system. Most of students time is wasted waiting. Kids know this. Then they spend the months of summer forgetting. Studies show that each summer they lose a third of what they learned in that school year.
Life is learning. Better not stop at 12 years!
Wonderful news to have real programming available on iOS however my Mac is a lot more than just a keyboard. I see a time when the iOS and MacOS will merge and there will be varying pieces of hardware that runs the new AppleOS (aOS). But just adding a keyboard (which I have) to my iPad does not make my iPad as functional as my Mac. The Mac has a lot more storage (iCloud is not available here in any reliable fast mode) and a lot more ports. My Mac can also play CD's (remember those - sort of like envelopes for music) and DVDs (envelopes for movies). The iPad has a long ways to go before it's as good as a Mac.
People don't need bigger screens, they need smaller houses.
Hold it tight to your body. You are about 98ÂF (37ÂC) so you're much cooler than the tech or the environment. You're Fonzy like coolness will rub off on the device making it look cool too. Other people seeing this will say, "Oooooo!"
And human has the word man in it but it does not exclusively mean male.
Sometimes I think that the people who get so hung up over saying craftsmen and craftswomen must be hung up on sex.
I've decided I like crafty!
So we'll just call the craftmen and craftwomen... crafty! :)
I don't like using software that depends on online connections to operate. Connections are not fast enough or reliable enough. Nor are they secure. Compute Locally.
But if the writer were truly egalitarian the 'subtle nod' would not be necessary because it is by default. If it must be mentioned that there might be women programmers out there then what about black, Jewish, Chinese, Mexican, Native American, French and Scottish programmers. Don't want to leave them feeling left out! The list becomes absurdly long. Just say craftsmen or programmers or what ever and leave it at that. No need to complicate communications. Simplify.
"craftsmen (and craftswomen)"
No need to do that. Women are included in human. Women programmers are included in programmers. Craftswomen are included in craftsmen. No need to complicate things.
One of the things that Apple detractors tend to miss is that Apple may sell fewer units but they make a lot more profit per unit. So Samsung sells a lot of low end units, making next to no profit. Big deal. It's like the pork industry. The big pig players sell 10,000 pigs a month and lose $1/pig. The small operators sell 100 pigs a month and make $25 per pig. The small operators are the winners in that game. Likewise the electronics manufacturers trying to dump large numbers of units a razor thin or even negative margins are not making it. Samsung should stick with what it does well. Competing with Apple isn't one of those things.
If the United States, or the UN in a pinch, will give me $2Billion in aid money, for food of course, then I hereby agree to not make nuclear weapons. And just to show how serious I am I will not explode a bum at an undisco site on Saturday.
Worked for North Korea so I figure, why not?!
Actually, that all depends on the orbit. Most countries can't hit anything above a certain height. In fact, most can't do diddly. Besides, space based doesn't mean near orbit satellite as you're thinking.
As to comparing with nukes, the point is not to nuke a whole area, just the target. The more precise and limited the better.
Kinetic space based weapons aimed at all the cities would solve this dilemma. No radiation. 100% retaliation. Play nice or else.
I, of course, will hold the controls.
The greeks are a beautiful example. Only the upper classes retired. The peopons slaved away until death must they depart.
It is ridiculous to measure fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. That totally ignores payload moved. My 2004 Ford E-350 Extended Body van is far more efficient than a Prisus or any of those new fangled pseudo-green cars because I transport full loads including back hauling rather than running around with one person in the car for errands or commuting.
The real measure should be pounds moved miles per gallon. PMPG. Except it should be metric.
Learn to be ambidextrous. It will serve you well no matter which is your dominant hand and it is helpful protection against strokes and such.
I thought it was:
The first rule of the Tautology club is the Tautology club's first rule.
"I am in my mid-40s and the things that interest me in the world rapidly shrink."
That is really sad.
I'm older than you and I continually find new and interesting things to do, to invent, to create, to share with my family. Life is good and never boring.
"We are limited in our capacity of learning as we are limited in everything else."
Perhaps boring people are so limited but not some of us. Maybe this is the next evolutionary step.
I'll start with 1,000 years and take it from there, one day at a time. That has been my plan all along.
The other question is how long are people willing to be useful. This idea of retiring to a life of play is a modern absurdity. People used to work all their lives. Retirement is a very new concept. If you're going to live a lot longer then plan on working a lot longer. The good news is you should get good enough that you can better choose what you work at, accumulate resources to do interesting things, etc.
All play and no work makes Jack and Jill very dull indeed.
A buck or two extra per what?
Per bit?
Per byte?
Per Megabyte?
Per Gigabyte?
Per month?
Per year?
And how much faster?
And will we really get faster or will it just go to the urban and pseudo-urban areas with denser populations. I rather detest paying a buck a bit and not getting any byte back for my money. I'm truly rural. I laid a mile and a half of my own phone wires to get very slow 'aDSL' and they've been making promises for years of more speed but I doubt we'll see it. Instead it will go to the larger population centers. Let them pay for their own cables and fibers.
Yes. Rather my point. People simply don't like change. Change happens. Life adapts. global cooling has tended (80%) to be far worse than global warming (20%). Thank you for making my point.
"compressed air does allow us to centralize the creation of pollution: Which would make eliminating air pollution an option"
No, sadly what they'll do is then move the air pollution out of the cities and dump it in the rural areas. This is what urbanites have been doing for millennia. It doesn't make them green. It just means their shitting in someone else's home. The dumping of garbage from cities in distant landfills is an example. The high smokestacks they use to send their pollution up, up and away where it falls down on us as acid rain is an example. Just moving the pollution is not zero emissions.
"So, if they use solar, wind and hydroelectric power, then it's zero emissions. Depending on your perspective, nuclear is also close to zero emissions."
" if you get the energy from nuclear or renewable sources then the "total system" is in fact zero-emission as well."
No, that is a fallacy. The inflatable Tatas are in and of themselves not necessarily zero emissions. The source of compression must be considered. If they achieve that compression through, for example, wind energy, then that would be far better than fossil fuels which produces immediate pollution or nuclear which produces long term pollution issues. Even renewables though have effects on the environment and culture. Do you want the wind tower or nuclear power station or refinery right next to your house? Seems most people don't. Yet they want to take advantage of the resource created. This idea that moving the pollution or production away from your home makes it okay is a deceit.
These are not zero emissions, not even close. They burn petroleum, coal, use nuclear or something else to compress the air. The air is merely a storage medium for the energy. This is all a marketing lie.
Wipe the memory.
Update it to the latest iOS.
Pass on to someone who will appreciate it.
Either in the family, a friend or sell it on eBay.
A short battery life may still be plenty of time. Short is generally a day or half a day which is enough to still be able to enjoy it. If you want more battery life then it is only about $50 to $100 to upgrade the battery with a new one. Less if you do it yourself.
You just don't get it do you. Iceland is a tiny country with dense population centers. It's easy to wire Iceland. Go do the math for offering the same thing in the USA and then take away your beloved government subsidy to boot.