No kidding. He's smart enough to know that it's different tools for different jobs. CVS is wrong for him, which is fine. It's usually worked well for me because of different requirements, a different environment, and thus a different workflow.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to as "false", but my guess is you're getting caught up on the right brain/left brain language. How left brain of you!
Terms like "right brain" and "left brain" are shorthand for referring to the abstract and concrete portions of the mind. Think of it like how we say that quarks have color and spin, when there's no such thing. The important bit here is that there are different parts of the mind (which may map to locations in the brain to some degree, or maybe not) but you can certainly come across situations where parts of the mind are dominant, and teasing these things apart can give valuable insight into how we think and operate.
The book, despite being neurologically loose, has a lot of insight into the balance between the analytical and artistic capacities of the mind.
Reminds me of the excellent art book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - which talks about how we have to turn off some of the analytical features of our mind to become better artists. For example, when you look at a wheel and try to draw it, you don't want to think "wheel" and start drawing what your mind knows of a wheel: depending on the angle it may be oval instead of circle, shadows and other objects may obscure the circular shape. Instead you want to draw what your eyes see "raw", whether those shapes and shades make sense or not.
The book goes a lot further down this path, but it is fascinating to think that our brains can have power that is hindered by other parts of the brain. This guy seems to support that. I imagine there's significant talents and skills we have within us that simply don't know how to access.
Just because a person doesn't need to be an expert to use MySQL doesn't mean that an expert won't like MySQL. Many of the things that make it easier for beginners make it easier for experts too. We all have limited time and resources and have to optimize for the situation at hand.
If you re-read my comment, you'll notice I made a point to mention local storage too. I do not believe the cloud will completely replace local storage in the foreseeable future, but by the time these optical disks get to market something like a 500GB USB3 thumb drive will be commonplace and will most likely outperform them in speed, price, and reliability. Even if they released this tech right now, it would have a hard time competing against cheap traditional HDDs.
If you'd care to wager whether this tech will ever be mainstream, I'll be happy to take that bet.
I consider myself one of the last holdouts - I still use my optical drive occasionally - but even I'd have to admit that it's a dying technology. By the time they get this to market everything will be solid state and/or in the cloud. Oh well, I was excited about these high capacity optical disks five to ten years ago. Now I just feel bad someone's wasting their r&d time and money on it.
"As for the power company, no one forces me to have electricity, I can choose to do without."
Spoken like a true libertarian ideologue with no willingness to concede to reality.
There are numerous things that cannot be effectively delivered by corps because they become de-facto monopolies. Electricity is a pretty good example. Roads and trains are a far better one - where we simply don't have the space to waste letting multiple companies build roads/tracks to each location. So we have to either grant a monopoly to a corp with whom you have no representation, or have them run by the government.
Or, as you suggest, just stay inside and don't use roads. Sigh.
The "government is bad" trope is ignorant: government is better for some things, corps for others.
Long time Apple user here, and unlikely to change in the near future. However I have to say Apple makes it hard on professionals. They refuse to give roadmaps and timelines on most products and they have no problem pulling the plug on things users depend on. It's why they are always at the forefront of what is hot, but it's not fun trying to run a stable business depending on them. That's true if you're a developer or a professional user. You just have to set aside some amount of your budget for surprises.
Anyone who hasn't noticed that Apple has been dropping the ball on professional users and generally releasing slightly lower quality software the past couple years is simply not paying attention, is not a professional user, or is hopelessly goggle-eyed over slick looking features instead of practical application.
And it's no surprise: there's far more money to be made in mass market products. It's sort of an inevitable thing that those who need the most from their hardware and software will be least served by the market - they're at the end of a diminishing returns curve.
I'm still fairly happy using their stuff - everything is better than what I had five years ago, so what do I really have to complain about? Still, I expect as computers become more a part of everyday life for all people, features will move closer and closer to the mean. I don't really expect Apple to focus on my needs any more. Who has the money to drive the market against a 100 x larger pool of users?
I look forward to the day when, thanks to LulzSec, everyone needs to have three-factor authentication for every website and a full 20% of the cost of all goods goes towards security.
I've lived in places where everyone has bars on the windows and razor wire fences around their propert. It's not a net win for society. Read up on the Broken Window Fallacy.
This is why I go around town knifing tires. To show how poor security is.
No, sorry, I don't buy it. I agree with the original poster - I hope something terrible happens to them. If they have the skills to do this, they could find something much better to do. Vandals don't deserve any respect or support.
It seems pretty obvious that some people - maybe most - use "reason" as an rhetorical debating device to win. It is equally obvious that some people actually use reason to sort their way to the truth. Most people probably do both, depending on the topic and their mental/emotional state at the time.
I've had my mind changed on important topics by reason and discussion, so I know that I have the capability to use it that way. I have convinced others of things with reason and discussion, so I know it goes both ways. I've also had arguments where I could sense that the other person was not really interested in the truth, but in winning. I'm sure I've done that too, but I didn't "sense" it:)
The researchers may be right that it evolved as a weapon. But many things that start as a weapon become useful in other ways. I think a large percentage of people use reason to seek truth a large percentage of the time - whatever its origin.
I agree - I don't think it would have made all that much difference. Both countries developed lots of space tech over the years. Like most things that seem critically important at the time, a few decades down the road they often don't seem nearly as important. What was important was that that mankind spent a lot of money on technology. That pushed society forward in many ways. What's kind of pitiful is that we only seem willing to devote those kind of resources to technological progress in wartime (hot or cold).
I feel you're missing my concern. I don't care if they're magically efficient: if it's going to interfere with food production then I am concerned that it is a bad idea. I assert that we are going to need all our arable land and all our fresh water to run worldwide food production in the future. Those resources cannot be meaningfully expanded. Commercial energy should come from something else that can be.
Sure, cookies can be used for shady purposes but for heaven's sake - every useful website I can think of uses the hell out of cookies. It's the only practical way to maintain UI state. Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. They used to come with this turned on by default, but most have stopped that now. Ever tried turning those warnings on in the past ten years? You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd. This is the result of passionate but ignorant people.
Oh well. Like most such laws, there will almost surely be a legal workaround that dodges the spirit of the law. And in this case thank god for that.
If this grass or process can benefit from using arable land and irrigation, then please no.
The biofuel thing has always mystified me. If there are two things in the world that are more scarce and fundamental to life than oil, they've got to be arable land and irrigation water. The corn ethanol thing caused all sorts of havoc in farming and food pricing, particularly with international farmers destroying staple food crops to grow fuel plants and selling corn to oil producers instead of families. This is not the way of the future.
If this grass can grow in otherwise unusable land, and it can grow without diverting otherwise useful drinking or irrigation water, then fine. I'm very skeptical that even if that is technically possible that it will play out as such once the prices come in and farmers have to choose between taking money from poor hungry people or rich gas guzzlers.
Can we just abstract the whole fuel source thing and skip to all-electrics like the Tesla and power them with... nuclear? solar? hydroelectric? wind? geothermal? hamsters?
15 years prison time? In comparison to other crimes that's pretty insane. This guy is a bigger danger to society than the numerous fraudsters that pushed the financial crisis? Bah.
That was the first time I ever heard it and I fell in love. Everything even remotely interesting that my friends and I did during the 90's would at some point be called (in deep sonorous tones) a "paradigm shift".
I was ever so pleased when it became a weasel buzzword.
Yeah, you know - I'd rather be a hypocrite about free speech than justify what the WBD does. Ideals are great, but in the real world you can always find cases where you'll get run up against them. I support the WBC in saying what they want as long as it's not right in the face of those who don't want to hear it. I'd be totally fine with a completely hypocritical law aimed directly at keeping them away from the mourners. I have my idealist streak, but humanity comes first.
If by strange you mean unusual, I'd have to disagree. Group mythos seems to be pretty high on the list of what binds people together. Even in not religious groups - people are fairly unwelcoming of those who maintain contradictory beliefs.
On the other hand, if by strange you mean hard to understand as a rational person, I'd have to agree:)
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No kidding. He's smart enough to know that it's different tools for different jobs. CVS is wrong for him, which is fine. It's usually worked well for me because of different requirements, a different environment, and thus a different workflow.
I'm also a guy who is over 35 and can still enjoy modern stuff. And I think some old stuff is overrated.
But Fifth Element less passé than Blade Runner?
I don't think we can even have a meaningful conversation.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to as "false", but my guess is you're getting caught up on the right brain/left brain language. How left brain of you!
Terms like "right brain" and "left brain" are shorthand for referring to the abstract and concrete portions of the mind. Think of it like how we say that quarks have color and spin, when there's no such thing. The important bit here is that there are different parts of the mind (which may map to locations in the brain to some degree, or maybe not) but you can certainly come across situations where parts of the mind are dominant, and teasing these things apart can give valuable insight into how we think and operate.
The book, despite being neurologically loose, has a lot of insight into the balance between the analytical and artistic capacities of the mind.
Reminds me of the excellent art book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - which talks about how we have to turn off some of the analytical features of our mind to become better artists. For example, when you look at a wheel and try to draw it, you don't want to think "wheel" and start drawing what your mind knows of a wheel: depending on the angle it may be oval instead of circle, shadows and other objects may obscure the circular shape. Instead you want to draw what your eyes see "raw", whether those shapes and shades make sense or not.
The book goes a lot further down this path, but it is fascinating to think that our brains can have power that is hindered by other parts of the brain. This guy seems to support that. I imagine there's significant talents and skills we have within us that simply don't know how to access.
"HTML5 isn't the solution for every problem."
And anyone who thought it was has not been programming for very long, or simply doesn't learn from history.
On the plus side, HTML5 should make some aspects of life a bit easier, and hopefully introduce only a small number of new challenges.
Cheers.
Just because a person doesn't need to be an expert to use MySQL doesn't mean that an expert won't like MySQL. Many of the things that make it easier for beginners make it easier for experts too. We all have limited time and resources and have to optimize for the situation at hand.
If you re-read my comment, you'll notice I made a point to mention local storage too. I do not believe the cloud will completely replace local storage in the foreseeable future, but by the time these optical disks get to market something like a 500GB USB3 thumb drive will be commonplace and will most likely outperform them in speed, price, and reliability. Even if they released this tech right now, it would have a hard time competing against cheap traditional HDDs.
If you'd care to wager whether this tech will ever be mainstream, I'll be happy to take that bet.
I consider myself one of the last holdouts - I still use my optical drive occasionally - but even I'd have to admit that it's a dying technology. By the time they get this to market everything will be solid state and/or in the cloud. Oh well, I was excited about these high capacity optical disks five to ten years ago. Now I just feel bad someone's wasting their r&d time and money on it.
"As for the power company, no one forces me to have electricity, I can choose to do without."
Spoken like a true libertarian ideologue with no willingness to concede to reality.
There are numerous things that cannot be effectively delivered by corps because they become de-facto monopolies. Electricity is a pretty good example. Roads and trains are a far better one - where we simply don't have the space to waste letting multiple companies build roads/tracks to each location. So we have to either grant a monopoly to a corp with whom you have no representation, or have them run by the government.
Or, as you suggest, just stay inside and don't use roads. Sigh.
The "government is bad" trope is ignorant: government is better for some things, corps for others.
Long time Apple user here, and unlikely to change in the near future. However I have to say Apple makes it hard on professionals. They refuse to give roadmaps and timelines on most products and they have no problem pulling the plug on things users depend on. It's why they are always at the forefront of what is hot, but it's not fun trying to run a stable business depending on them. That's true if you're a developer or a professional user. You just have to set aside some amount of your budget for surprises.
Anyone who hasn't noticed that Apple has been dropping the ball on professional users and generally releasing slightly lower quality software the past couple years is simply not paying attention, is not a professional user, or is hopelessly goggle-eyed over slick looking features instead of practical application.
And it's no surprise: there's far more money to be made in mass market products. It's sort of an inevitable thing that those who need the most from their hardware and software will be least served by the market - they're at the end of a diminishing returns curve.
I'm still fairly happy using their stuff - everything is better than what I had five years ago, so what do I really have to complain about? Still, I expect as computers become more a part of everyday life for all people, features will move closer and closer to the mean. I don't really expect Apple to focus on my needs any more. Who has the money to drive the market against a 100 x larger pool of users?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't understand why people are hyped up about stuff like this.
keep your anger directed towards Cheney
Why? I got plenty! I'm the Rockefeller of outrage!
I look forward to the day when, thanks to LulzSec, everyone needs to have three-factor authentication for every website and a full 20% of the cost of all goods goes towards security.
I've lived in places where everyone has bars on the windows and razor wire fences around their propert. It's not a net win for society. Read up on the Broken Window Fallacy.
This is why I go around town knifing tires. To show how poor security is.
No, sorry, I don't buy it. I agree with the original poster - I hope something terrible happens to them. If they have the skills to do this, they could find something much better to do. Vandals don't deserve any respect or support.
It seems pretty obvious that some people - maybe most - use "reason" as an rhetorical debating device to win. It is equally obvious that some people actually use reason to sort their way to the truth. Most people probably do both, depending on the topic and their mental/emotional state at the time.
I've had my mind changed on important topics by reason and discussion, so I know that I have the capability to use it that way. I have convinced others of things with reason and discussion, so I know it goes both ways. I've also had arguments where I could sense that the other person was not really interested in the truth, but in winning. I'm sure I've done that too, but I didn't "sense" it :)
The researchers may be right that it evolved as a weapon. But many things that start as a weapon become useful in other ways. I think a large percentage of people use reason to seek truth a large percentage of the time - whatever its origin.
The question will sit. The question is correct in sitting.
I agree - I don't think it would have made all that much difference. Both countries developed lots of space tech over the years. Like most things that seem critically important at the time, a few decades down the road they often don't seem nearly as important. What was important was that that mankind spent a lot of money on technology. That pushed society forward in many ways. What's kind of pitiful is that we only seem willing to devote those kind of resources to technological progress in wartime (hot or cold).
I feel you're missing my concern. I don't care if they're magically efficient: if it's going to interfere with food production then I am concerned that it is a bad idea. I assert that we are going to need all our arable land and all our fresh water to run worldwide food production in the future. Those resources cannot be meaningfully expanded. Commercial energy should come from something else that can be.
Sure, cookies can be used for shady purposes but for heaven's sake - every useful website I can think of uses the hell out of cookies. It's the only practical way to maintain UI state. Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. They used to come with this turned on by default, but most have stopped that now. Ever tried turning those warnings on in the past ten years? You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd. This is the result of passionate but ignorant people.
Oh well. Like most such laws, there will almost surely be a legal workaround that dodges the spirit of the law. And in this case thank god for that.
If this grass or process can benefit from using arable land and irrigation, then please no.
The biofuel thing has always mystified me. If there are two things in the world that are more scarce and fundamental to life than oil, they've got to be arable land and irrigation water. The corn ethanol thing caused all sorts of havoc in farming and food pricing, particularly with international farmers destroying staple food crops to grow fuel plants and selling corn to oil producers instead of families. This is not the way of the future.
If this grass can grow in otherwise unusable land, and it can grow without diverting otherwise useful drinking or irrigation water, then fine. I'm very skeptical that even if that is technically possible that it will play out as such once the prices come in and farmers have to choose between taking money from poor hungry people or rich gas guzzlers.
Can we just abstract the whole fuel source thing and skip to all-electrics like the Tesla and power them with... nuclear? solar? hydroelectric? wind? geothermal? hamsters?
Cheers
15 years prison time? In comparison to other crimes that's pretty insane. This guy is a bigger danger to society than the numerous fraudsters that pushed the financial crisis? Bah.
Greatest use ever of the phrase "paradigm shift": NewTek Revolutions - Video Toaster Demo
That was the first time I ever heard it and I fell in love. Everything even remotely interesting that my friends and I did during the 90's would at some point be called (in deep sonorous tones) a "paradigm shift".
I was ever so pleased when it became a weasel buzzword.
Yeah, you know - I'd rather be a hypocrite about free speech than justify what the WBD does. Ideals are great, but in the real world you can always find cases where you'll get run up against them. I support the WBC in saying what they want as long as it's not right in the face of those who don't want to hear it. I'd be totally fine with a completely hypocritical law aimed directly at keeping them away from the mourners. I have my idealist streak, but humanity comes first.
If by strange you mean unusual, I'd have to disagree. Group mythos seems to be pretty high on the list of what binds people together. Even in not religious groups - people are fairly unwelcoming of those who maintain contradictory beliefs.
On the other hand, if by strange you mean hard to understand as a rational person, I'd have to agree :)
Cheers.