Anything that exposes people to what programming a computer is really about is a good thing. Maybe in 20 years there will be a bunch of managers and hr people that say stuff like, "how can you possibly think you will get that system implemented in 2 months, you need 2 years at least!", or, "No bob, we don't need a programmer to manage our twitter feed."
one of Facebook's motive is to confuse users as much it can with respect to privacy. Timeline is doing that. for e.g., if u enable timeline any person on FB can see where u are born
you mean people will be able to view what is already public record? oh the horror!
I have 2 cars, a ford focus and a nissan xterra. the xterra is much better to drive in the snow. That doesn't mean i put it in 4wd and drive like a bat outta hell. It means i can just sort of plod along and never once has anything in the rockies, the midwest, or the northeast ever come close to stopping me. Compare that to the focus. It's front wheel drive. With all season tires, it's not a bad car for light snow, but it just doesn't have the ground clearance or wheel diameter to handle a significant amount of the stuff.
other than some rear wheel drive only pickups, or wierdly configured escalades with wide low profile tires, most trucks and suvs have a huge advantage in the snow. The problem is people don't realize that advantage is you can drive really slow and never get stuck.
sometimes fortunes are lost when markets are simply ended by decree. There was a point in US history where President Lincoln said (and i paraphrase), "i don't care how much you invested in your farming equipment. it's not yours anymore and you don't get to recoup anything."
Obviously locking people into a cellphone contract is not comparable to slavery (despite what some here might claim), but i suspect the economic impact of simply declaring those contracts null is also less significant.
I'm sure there are other examples of laws being passed to end a previously lucrative but legal way of business that incorporate less hyperbole.
Why not use it? You aren't going to find any platform that doesn't have haters. Every platform also has some kind of poster child high visibility large scale application that's implemented using it. PHP seems perfectly capable of anything. You already know it. You like it. Without doing anything, you are months farther down the road than you would be by picking the platform du jour.
In the end, nobody really cares about what's on your server. If you want to tout a platform that is trendy, just talk about how HTML5y your site is.
I never thought the idea behind webOS was to create the highest performance UI. I thought it's selling point was the low barrier to entry for development. At least that's what i remember the selling point being back in '09. iPhone was king. Apps were huge and everyone was talking about how Palm's app store was going to swiftly rise to the top as the whole world began creating apps with html and javascript instead of that unforgiving objective-c.
That sounds like a sound engineering decision to me. Lets trade some performance for ease of development. That mantra has boosted countless platforms over the years. Everything from.net to java to, well, even c++ is really trading performance for ease of development.
Plus, if UI performance was really all it took to be a good phone, Android wouldn't be where it is right now. Android in '09 certainly didn't hold a candle to ios when it came to snappy UI. Honestly, i remember webOS being pretty snazzy. Also, android wasn't exactly known for having a good api either. I don't really think the tech was what hurt webos. Maybe it didn't perform like IOS, but it seemed as good as android and more accessible at the time.
I think if anything was fundamentally broken with webOS, it's that the company didn't remember what they set out to make. Their app store certainly wasn't friendly to developers. They don't even seem to remember why the ui was webkit based.
Inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex; Separated spouses posting nasty comments about each other; and, Facebook friends reporting spouse’s behaviour.
I'm posting to slashdot, so obviously I'm no expert on interpersonal relationships. However, the reasons given for divorce seem to always be present in bad relationships. People have talked bad about each other, engaged in behaviors with members of the opposite (or same) sex in ways that make your spouse jealous, and heard about how bad thier spouse is long before we had facebook. I'm pretty sure these have been problems in relationships as long as there were homo sapiens. I'm pretty sure these problems will still exist after facebook is gone.
What exactly is the human experience? If everyone had to experience the same thing every generation would have to discover fire and how to kill animals that are stronger than us. It seems more like the human experience is to take what the previous generation did and learned for granted and come up with new stuff. Eschewing reunions for facebook is no less human than going to school rather than foraging for food.
according to the article, the mice with unchecked muscle growth also gained speed and endurance beyond a normal mouse. They even provide some video showing how well a supermouse can perform on a treadmill vs a normal mouse. They had cute little mouse treadmills.
The article also notes that they have not yet identified any negative effect on the mice. In fact, they say the super mice are all around healthier.
There may be some negative aspect (beyond needing more food), but TFA makes it sound like this process does indeed produce a superior quarterback. At least it does in mice.
Look at all the trouble those super smart rats caused. It's probably not a good idea to be doing that stuff with something that starts out even smarter, like a chimp.
You were modded funny, but i think your post is actually insightful. The article is an attempt to poke fun at these "dangerous" toys. However, compared to the toys i remember these seem about as dangerous as a sponge. I can only assume it's written by someone who's much younger than I (40). Rather than a collection of amusingly poorly thought out toys, the article illustrates how generations following mine are big sissies.
I too had a thingmaker so i assume you are a child of the early 70s. We had to contend with lawn darts, near supersonic mazinga missiles, wrist rockets (they still have those, but it was common to give them to young children then), the irresistibly chewy but probably toxicly colored light sabers of obi wan kenobi and luke skywalker, micronauts (a toy that must have been an attempt to put as many choking hazards on one figure as possible, etc. Almost every toy from my childhood was a trial by fire, gas powered tethered airplanes designed to wrap a steel cable around your neck, japanese robots made from stainless steele with razor sharp edges, etc. Either you figured out how to use it, or you were maimed or killed.
I would assume Tea Partiers are protesters and thus included in Time's lame cop-out. There are definitely some cases where it appears the tea party was treated like second class protesters, but i don't think this slashdot summary is one of them.
Bleh. My car stereo can control my iphone, but its controls are crappy and cumbersome. it's much easier to select a song from the device instead. This is anecdotal evidence only, but it seems to me that current music players are a safest way to select entertainment within the car. there's no fumbling for cds or tapes. no scanning for stations. well, searching for a pandora station is probably equivalent to texting, but i have all mine dialed in already.
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Anything that exposes people to what programming a computer is really about is a good thing. Maybe in 20 years there will be a bunch of managers and hr people that say stuff like, "how can you possibly think you will get that system implemented in 2 months, you need 2 years at least!", or, "No bob, we don't need a programmer to manage our twitter feed."
one of Facebook's motive is to confuse users as much it can with respect to privacy. Timeline is doing that. for e.g., if u enable timeline any person on FB can see where u are born
you mean people will be able to view what is already public record? oh the horror!
I have 2 cars, a ford focus and a nissan xterra. the xterra is much better to drive in the snow. That doesn't mean i put it in 4wd and drive like a bat outta hell. It means i can just sort of plod along and never once has anything in the rockies, the midwest, or the northeast ever come close to stopping me. Compare that to the focus. It's front wheel drive. With all season tires, it's not a bad car for light snow, but it just doesn't have the ground clearance or wheel diameter to handle a significant amount of the stuff.
other than some rear wheel drive only pickups, or wierdly configured escalades with wide low profile tires, most trucks and suvs have a huge advantage in the snow. The problem is people don't realize that advantage is you can drive really slow and never get stuck.
the first thing you should do after a car accident is to find and destroy its black box
first i would asses if i was or was not at fault and if the black box contained information that could help or hinder my case.
yeah. std::list all the time. it works great.
You would run out of customers really fast. You'd be unable to afford operation costs and go out of business. The free market works again!
sometimes fortunes are lost when markets are simply ended by decree. There was a point in US history where President Lincoln said (and i paraphrase), "i don't care how much you invested in your farming equipment. it's not yours anymore and you don't get to recoup anything."
Obviously locking people into a cellphone contract is not comparable to slavery (despite what some here might claim), but i suspect the economic impact of simply declaring those contracts null is also less significant.
I'm sure there are other examples of laws being passed to end a previously lucrative but legal way of business that incorporate less hyperbole.
this exoskeleton appears to feature a passenger with great, um, assets?
Tell that to Thomas Riker.
Why not use it? You aren't going to find any platform that doesn't have haters. Every platform also has some kind of poster child high visibility large scale application that's implemented using it. PHP seems perfectly capable of anything. You already know it. You like it. Without doing anything, you are months farther down the road than you would be by picking the platform du jour.
In the end, nobody really cares about what's on your server. If you want to tout a platform that is trendy, just talk about how HTML5y your site is.
I never thought the idea behind webOS was to create the highest performance UI. I thought it's selling point was the low barrier to entry for development. At least that's what i remember the selling point being back in '09. iPhone was king. Apps were huge and everyone was talking about how Palm's app store was going to swiftly rise to the top as the whole world began creating apps with html and javascript instead of that unforgiving objective-c.
.net to java to, well, even c++ is really trading performance for ease of development.
That sounds like a sound engineering decision to me. Lets trade some performance for ease of development. That mantra has boosted countless platforms over the years. Everything from
Plus, if UI performance was really all it took to be a good phone, Android wouldn't be where it is right now. Android in '09 certainly didn't hold a candle to ios when it came to snappy UI. Honestly, i remember webOS being pretty snazzy. Also, android wasn't exactly known for having a good api either. I don't really think the tech was what hurt webos. Maybe it didn't perform like IOS, but it seemed as good as android and more accessible at the time.
I think if anything was fundamentally broken with webOS, it's that the company didn't remember what they set out to make. Their app store certainly wasn't friendly to developers. They don't even seem to remember why the ui was webkit based.
Inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex; Separated spouses posting nasty comments about each other; and, Facebook friends reporting spouse’s behaviour.
I'm posting to slashdot, so obviously I'm no expert on interpersonal relationships. However, the reasons given for divorce seem to always be present in bad relationships. People have talked bad about each other, engaged in behaviors with members of the opposite (or same) sex in ways that make your spouse jealous, and heard about how bad thier spouse is long before we had facebook. I'm pretty sure these have been problems in relationships as long as there were homo sapiens. I'm pretty sure these problems will still exist after facebook is gone.
I've been playing TF2 with someone named "hard2k-IL"
haven't seen him on steam in a couple days.
What exactly is the human experience? If everyone had to experience the same thing every generation would have to discover fire and how to kill animals that are stronger than us. It seems more like the human experience is to take what the previous generation did and learned for granted and come up with new stuff. Eschewing reunions for facebook is no less human than going to school rather than foraging for food.
according to the article, the mice with unchecked muscle growth also gained speed and endurance beyond a normal mouse. They even provide some video showing how well a supermouse can perform on a treadmill vs a normal mouse. They had cute little mouse treadmills.
The article also notes that they have not yet identified any negative effect on the mice. In fact, they say the super mice are all around healthier.
There may be some negative aspect (beyond needing more food), but TFA makes it sound like this process does indeed produce a superior quarterback. At least it does in mice.
After all the purpose of twitter is pretty much endorsed stalking.
Themes central to so many slashdot discussions such as science, religion, and flying spaghetti monsters are all within the realm of Hitchens.
Yeah, that whole "be nice to people" aspect of christianity sucks.
Look at all the trouble those super smart rats caused. It's probably not a good idea to be doing that stuff with something that starts out even smarter, like a chimp.
Wait. Is NIH different from NIMH?
You were modded funny, but i think your post is actually insightful. The article is an attempt to poke fun at these "dangerous" toys. However, compared to the toys i remember these seem about as dangerous as a sponge. I can only assume it's written by someone who's much younger than I (40). Rather than a collection of amusingly poorly thought out toys, the article illustrates how generations following mine are big sissies.
I too had a thingmaker so i assume you are a child of the early 70s. We had to contend with lawn darts, near supersonic mazinga missiles, wrist rockets (they still have those, but it was common to give them to young children then), the irresistibly chewy but probably toxicly colored light sabers of obi wan kenobi and luke skywalker, micronauts (a toy that must have been an attempt to put as many choking hazards on one figure as possible, etc. Almost every toy from my childhood was a trial by fire, gas powered tethered airplanes designed to wrap a steel cable around your neck, japanese robots made from stainless steele with razor sharp edges, etc. Either you figured out how to use it, or you were maimed or killed.
Close. A Boston terrier.
My dog would fiercely defend my car to his death. I'd much rather just lose the laptop.
I would assume Tea Partiers are protesters and thus included in Time's lame cop-out. There are definitely some cases where it appears the tea party was treated like second class protesters, but i don't think this slashdot summary is one of them.
Bleh. My car stereo can control my iphone, but its controls are crappy and cumbersome. it's much easier to select a song from the device instead. This is anecdotal evidence only, but it seems to me that current music players are a safest way to select entertainment within the car. there's no fumbling for cds or tapes. no scanning for stations. well, searching for a pandora station is probably equivalent to texting, but i have all mine dialed in already.