If you're a student you have to research and write; try the same thing in your personal life as well. I've written a little on the tl;dr phenomenon: the point is not so much to swim against the current of society but rather to follow the flow of your own native ability. In any event, avoid at all costs the solution to which so many become slaves (Adderall).
Whatever language it is in which you specialize, know that to stop doing it and just watch it for a while will not make you lose it. It will, however, deepen your understanding of yourself. Spend this time in this extraordinary place in debugging yourself. Thus, if you'd like to "practice fundamentals," here is a place to start.
CT was one of the most creative and refreshingly natural shows in the history of broadcasting -- among radio, TV, Internet, whatever, combined. Tom, you have left an extraordinary legacy.
One has to admire how the social sciences continually raise (or should I say lower) the bar of ineptitude. So marriage is a good topic for them, seeing as both succeed and fail at roughly the same rate, which in fact fairly matches that of random chance.
If time is important in terms of preparation and especially maintenance, then Adobe's Robohelp product may be worth considering, probably with Captivate for producing the video material. It has its own set of wiki templates, plays well with Sharepoint, is HTML5 ready in its current version (11), and allows for production of varying formats within the same file or project. Just be ready to tweak the code for the templates.
Hills and valleys, poetic images and wistful metaphors delivered with Shakespeareian bemusement over a cup of Earl Gray in the ready room, near the end of another episode's close shave with some Cosmic Anomaly or other. Perhaps Q is there as well, whispering: "the trial never ends, Jean Luc..."
Agreed - I've written at some length on this topic (see the footnote); and the BMI is not helping at all. Geeks here may find my approach to this question excessively new-agey and such, but the point is merely that weight loss is not a superficial undertaking, even if you consider it from a purely mechanical positivist perspective.
I'm fairly sure Commander Data would have come up with some more engaging compositions; this stuff could be placed in an online dictionary beside the word "dull." I suspect that in the next few generations the algorithm will be as abused in applied practice as email, texting, and video have been in our time. Still, if it goes well and the corporations stay away from it long enough for it to develop naturally, the algorithm could become a faltering forward step in human evolution. I am admittedly not confident about that, but it is a good target for hope.
Well, yeah, he could be. But for that to be, you must become the fool who would persist in his folly. Go so deeply into that darkness that only dark remains. Then it's all a great, purgative laugh.
I was just writing about this last week. One of my points is that there simply isn't enough information given in the series (most notably TNG and Voyager) to draw any inferences, let alone conclusions, That's what I mean by my desire to see "the real drama" of those ST stories -- what's really going on in the Terran system that makes that Wall St. goon awoken from his cryogenic sleep such a stranger there. It's such a fascinating notion, this amaterialistic global economy, that a completely new series could be made about it, but as presented it's all too vague.
Agreed, one of those metaphors that reveals rather than corrects ignorance (Judaism a "rules-deficient stripped down heresy"???). Stick to your own turf, analogy-maker: the Jedi, the mystic cult led by the captain of Deep Space 9 (didn't watch that show much, memory is vague), the quasi-platonic Tantrism of the X Files, etc., etc. --- there is religion enough in geek culture to work with. The I Ching (Taoism) is written in binary code, ain't it?
Perhaps an apocryphal story, but it goes that Leibniz was introduced to the I Ching (Yijing) oracle by a Catholic missionary friend who had gotten it translated into Latin (must have been strange). Anyway, the story goes that Leibniz instantly recognized the binary system in the 64 hexagrams and 8 trigrams. The I Ching is somewhere between 2,500 and 4,000 yrs. old in the format and ordering it still has today.
Youtube (along with large HD displays) will always keep the desktop viable. TV/video in general will -- small may be cool and convenient, but big still has panache. And don't forget the demographics: those retiring baby boomers will continue to demand ease of use and visibility.
It's the advertising screwed them -- I know when I saw the ads for the thing and the Maxwell Smart scene, I thought, "f*&$k the watch, I want the shoe!" So you might say Samsung shot themselves in the foot with their own ad.
agreed insofar as this is a horse that's already out of the barn. It's very often required to be printed to be employed -- I remember having to be printed when starting a gig for American Express in NYC; to get into the building we had to put a finger over a scanner. This was post-9/11 at the WFC (a block west of the WTC site); but I hear it's become fairly widespread over a decade.
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If you're a student you have to research and write; try the same thing in your personal life as well. I've written a little on the tl;dr phenomenon: the point is not so much to swim against the current of society but rather to follow the flow of your own native ability. In any event, avoid at all costs the solution to which so many become slaves (Adderall).
The cashless society that Capt. Picard talks about, that's what I'm waiting for. Another 3 centuries, I guess..
Whatever language it is in which you specialize, know that to stop doing it and just watch it for a while will not make you lose it. It will, however, deepen your understanding of yourself. Spend this time in this extraordinary place in debugging yourself. Thus, if you'd like to "practice fundamentals," here is a place to start.
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CT was one of the most creative and refreshingly natural shows in the history of broadcasting -- among radio, TV, Internet, whatever, combined. Tom, you have left an extraordinary legacy.
One has to admire how the social sciences continually raise (or should I say lower) the bar of ineptitude. So marriage is a good topic for them, seeing as both succeed and fail at roughly the same rate, which in fact fairly matches that of random chance.
If time is important in terms of preparation and especially maintenance, then Adobe's Robohelp product may be worth considering, probably with Captivate for producing the video material. It has its own set of wiki templates, plays well with Sharepoint, is HTML5 ready in its current version (11), and allows for production of varying formats within the same file or project. Just be ready to tweak the code for the templates.
Seems like this guy has some work to do on the self-image of the old man. But I've already registered my ideas about all that online.
It's a holographic universe, so if we play the game with sincerity but not seriously, we'll be fine. Or not.
I don't play anymore either, but I recall really liking the Myst games. The graphics, music, and the puzzles were all terrific.
Lao Tzu, who seems to have a line for every human inanity compressed into his 81 little poems, said (in my translation):
"There is no greater disaster, no blinder ignorance
than not knowing when you have enough."
Hills and valleys, poetic images and wistful metaphors delivered with Shakespeareian bemusement over a cup of Earl Gray in the ready room, near the end of another episode's close shave with some Cosmic Anomaly or other. Perhaps Q is there as well, whispering: "the trial never ends, Jean Luc..."
See my sig line below: Buckminster's the man to read, you geeks.
Agreed - I've written at some length on this topic (see the footnote); and the BMI is not helping at all. Geeks here may find my approach to this question excessively new-agey and such, but the point is merely that weight loss is not a superficial undertaking, even if you consider it from a purely mechanical positivist perspective.
I'm fairly sure Commander Data would have come up with some more engaging compositions; this stuff could be placed in an online dictionary beside the word "dull." I suspect that in the next few generations the algorithm will be as abused in applied practice as email, texting, and video have been in our time. Still, if it goes well and the corporations stay away from it long enough for it to develop naturally, the algorithm could become a faltering forward step in human evolution. I am admittedly not confident about that, but it is a good target for hope.
Well, yeah, he could be. But for that to be, you must become the fool who would persist in his folly. Go so deeply into that darkness that only dark remains. Then it's all a great, purgative laugh.
I was just writing about this last week. One of my points is that there simply isn't enough information given in the series (most notably TNG and Voyager) to draw any inferences, let alone conclusions, That's what I mean by my desire to see "the real drama" of those ST stories -- what's really going on in the Terran system that makes that Wall St. goon awoken from his cryogenic sleep such a stranger there. It's such a fascinating notion, this amaterialistic global economy, that a completely new series could be made about it, but as presented it's all too vague.
a ring. Next big thing you know: throw away your watch, the e-moodring is here, coming to a finger near you.
oh c'mon give Jeff a break, it's hard to sell newspapers.
I apply the Friedman Postulate: If we can just stay the course six more months ad infinitum then the problem will go away.
Agreed, one of those metaphors that reveals rather than corrects ignorance (Judaism a "rules-deficient stripped down heresy"???). Stick to your own turf, analogy-maker: the Jedi, the mystic cult led by the captain of Deep Space 9 (didn't watch that show much, memory is vague), the quasi-platonic Tantrism of the X Files, etc., etc. --- there is religion enough in geek culture to work with. The I Ching (Taoism) is written in binary code, ain't it?
Perhaps an apocryphal story, but it goes that Leibniz was introduced to the I Ching (Yijing) oracle by a Catholic missionary friend who had gotten it translated into Latin (must have been strange). Anyway, the story goes that Leibniz instantly recognized the binary system in the 64 hexagrams and 8 trigrams. The I Ching is somewhere between 2,500 and 4,000 yrs. old in the format and ordering it still has today.
Youtube (along with large HD displays) will always keep the desktop viable. TV/video in general will -- small may be cool and convenient, but big still has panache. And don't forget the demographics: those retiring baby boomers will continue to demand ease of use and visibility.
It's the advertising screwed them -- I know when I saw the ads for the thing and the Maxwell Smart scene, I thought, "f*&$k the watch, I want the shoe!" So you might say Samsung shot themselves in the foot with their own ad.
agreed insofar as this is a horse that's already out of the barn. It's very often required to be printed to be employed -- I remember having to be printed when starting a gig for American Express in NYC; to get into the building we had to put a finger over a scanner. This was post-9/11 at the WFC (a block west of the WTC site); but I hear it's become fairly widespread over a decade.