Macs are very powerful. More expensive than the equivalent PC though. The only weakness is in graphics suitable for top end gaming. It's good enough for average game for average people though, it just won't compete with the people who buy $2000 gaming rigs. That's not the market Apple is in, or most PC makers for that matter.
They lack skills for the real world though. "I'm sorry David, you just don't seem to be cut out for a career here at Dairy Queen. Have you considered make a moving to politics?"
He may be too young to really remember 9/11. What I remember is that congress jumped and did exactly everything the government asked for and we ended up going to war with two countries that we still haven't managed to extricate ourselves from, hundreds of thousands of people are dead, terrorism is now rampant primarily due to US actions, we have many failed states in its wake, and plenty of politicians will readily admit that they made a mistake when authorizing military action. So now we have a dumb congressman asking us to again blindly obey?
But don't buy their games then there's no problem. You act as if Microsoft is making these changes to all PC games, which they can't do without making Windows completely closed and retroactively closing Windows 7 and 8 at the same time. No one is being forced to buy these upcoming games. 9 out of 10 new games are crap anyway, and 10 out of 10 games from Microsoft are crap. So a few titles that you can't easily play is no big deal.
Every platform is stupid and has exclusive games. So what? Anyone playing games for awhile has learned that you can't play all of them. Can't play the xbox ones, can't play the playstation ones can't even play the windows games, it's an old story. On the other hand 9 out of 10 games are utter crap so you're not really missing anything. Any game from Microsoft is worth skipping anyway.
If a venture succeeds then Trump takes full credit and will loudly point to it. If the venture fails, Trump will say he only gave his name to the project but was not personally involved. And his followers think he's a great at running businesses despite all his failures. Sure he's rich but he didn't start at $0. If you start with $200 million you should be at a billion in a few decades but it's unclear that he has that much as he's not releasing his financial details.
Trump only makes sense when he's not talking. When he is talking he's just whipping up the crowd into a frenzy without actually saying anything substantive.
Odd. Before we had calculators you had to know logarithms just for basic use of slide rules to do arithmetic... The concept at least should be useful for everyone, even if all their do in their life is scrub floors.
At high school level everything is dumbed down with the sciences. Just memorize the formulas and then regurgitate for the test. At least with algebra, trig, algebra2, and calculus (if the high schools offers it), you're forced to use your brain to do more than just memorize.
And yet I see those fields being used all the time. Maybe not for you (lemme guess, IT help desk?). Graphic theory with network routing or circuit routing, calculus with EE, antenna design, number theory all over the place computers if you're using floating point numbers or cryptography, computability theory if you're designing EDA tools or writing compilers, and so forth. But if you're content to be the least that you can be, then you must be very happy.
During the cold war, especially after Sputnik was launched, the US panicked and decided that the education system needed immense change lest we be beaten by those Godless commies. And it worked, science programs improved and got larger budgets, math was given priority, and even outside of math and science there were improvements, you could learn one of several foreign languages for example, music programs abounded. Then it started petering out again once there was no competition. We're down to one foreign language offering (Spanish) if you're lucky, music programs are being dropped, and people are pushing to drop the math and science as inappropriate to tomorrow's service industry. The US has given up on being competitive, it's like we'll be happy asking the Chinese to come over and build stuff for us.
I think everyone needs to learn something that they hate, something that they are forced to struggle with. It is much better exercise for the brain. What decent physical education teacher tells the struggling student "ok, you can just sit down on the bench and watch, you'll never amount to much anyway"? We require some effort to improve the body so why are we perfectly fine with students having flabby brains? Society has decided that being healthy physically is important but for some reason thinks that when it comes to the brain you only need the minimum necessary to get a job.
This reminds me too of physics in high school. Which I didn't take, it was only offered every other year, the same with pre-calculus. But that class was all memorization of equations, only algebra was needed. When I got to college and took physics it was all about mathematics, deriving those equations from scratch, and it was impossible to do any of that without calculus.
Statistics in high school is just the same. Even statistics in college outside of the math department is all about memorizing and regurgitating. If you learn biology you just want to know when to apply chi-square tests, and plugging in the numbers. We had a stats class for biologists, a stats class for psychology and cognitive science, a stats class for sociology, etc. But you're unable to do much beyond applying formulas if you take those classes.
Of course it's useful for non STEM fields. Everything is useful for everyone, except those who's goal in life is to learn the minimum necessary to become an office drone. Of course you're talking about minimum requirements for academic credit, which is not the same thing as saying what is and is not useful in someone's life or career. Most universities provide for a breadth requirement of graduates, meaning that they have to learn something not directly related to their major while in college. Society should value a well educated populace, and the fact that the US always seems to be aiming for the minimum necessary requirements means it has its priorities screwed up. We should aim to do our best rather than just squeaking by.
The difference here is that we have a math-phobic political scientist advocating getting rid of algebra 2 in favor of basic statistics, statistics that are far too basic to be used even in political science. If your career or field makes use of statistics then you NEED algebra 2 and calculus! It is all about that fear of math, which gets instilled early on merely because someone isn't good at a arithmetic which has almost nothing to do with aptitude with mathematics. And even if it is hard, what's so wrong with struggling to get through a class? Builds character, builds a better brain, builds a better person. Isn't that what we want schools to do?
And yes, I think the math and science whiz at high school should also be required to take classes in literature, sociology, history, P.E., and music.
Did Jaime Escalante get numerous awards and named best teacher in America because he encouraged his students to only do the minimum necessary to get a job flipping burgers?
When I was in school, Algebra 2 was a requirement for college prep track and Calculus was freshman level college. But that's simplistic. Even people not going into STEM can make use of both Algebra 2 and Calculus. Even English majors can and do learn those subjects, since the problem is one of expectations ("oh no, math is hard!") rather than ability. When people struggle with arithmetic they are told they're not very good at math, even if they might otherwise be very good at abstract thinking and excel at algebra 2.
This is more of the dumbing down of America. Every time we get more evidence that the US ranks very low in the world in education we panic and dumb it down even more. Everyone wants a short cut.
Algebra 2 however is nearly mandatory for introductory college mathematics or engineering courses. And it's not that hard. Society has been manufacturing a false view of math as too hard for average people, which means everyone goes into those classes assuming they'll be very hard and you end up with a feedback loop. Of course people won't understand feedback loops without algebra 2...
And thus appeals to the demographic of users who don't pay attention to how much money they actually spend. They don't want to know about the 2% transaction fee since they're probably going to be talked into the extended warranty anyway.
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Macs are very powerful. More expensive than the equivalent PC though. The only weakness is in graphics suitable for top end gaming. It's good enough for average game for average people though, it just won't compete with the people who buy $2000 gaming rigs. That's not the market Apple is in, or most PC makers for that matter.
Well, there is a bit of difference between stopping charitable grants to an organization versus a boycott.
They lack skills for the real world though. "I'm sorry David, you just don't seem to be cut out for a career here at Dairy Queen. Have you considered make a moving to politics?"
He may be too young to really remember 9/11. What I remember is that congress jumped and did exactly everything the government asked for and we ended up going to war with two countries that we still haven't managed to extricate ourselves from, hundreds of thousands of people are dead, terrorism is now rampant primarily due to US actions, we have many failed states in its wake, and plenty of politicians will readily admit that they made a mistake when authorizing military action. So now we have a dumb congressman asking us to again blindly obey?
But don't buy their games then there's no problem. You act as if Microsoft is making these changes to all PC games, which they can't do without making Windows completely closed and retroactively closing Windows 7 and 8 at the same time. No one is being forced to buy these upcoming games. 9 out of 10 new games are crap anyway, and 10 out of 10 games from Microsoft are crap. So a few titles that you can't easily play is no big deal.
Sure, but for 12 whole seconds it was state of the art.
Every platform is stupid and has exclusive games. So what? Anyone playing games for awhile has learned that you can't play all of them. Can't play the xbox ones, can't play the playstation ones can't even play the windows games, it's an old story. On the other hand 9 out of 10 games are utter crap so you're not really missing anything. Any game from Microsoft is worth skipping anyway.
Sanctuary!
They have evolved beyond such primitive notions that mankind can conceive.
I don't think there's any relation here.
If a venture succeeds then Trump takes full credit and will loudly point to it. If the venture fails, Trump will say he only gave his name to the project but was not personally involved. And his followers think he's a great at running businesses despite all his failures. Sure he's rich but he didn't start at $0. If you start with $200 million you should be at a billion in a few decades but it's unclear that he has that much as he's not releasing his financial details.
Trump only makes sense when he's not talking. When he is talking he's just whipping up the crowd into a frenzy without actually saying anything substantive.
Of course they have DRM still. They just made a decision that protecting the publisher's data is more important than protecting the customer's data.
Odd. Before we had calculators you had to know logarithms just for basic use of slide rules to do arithmetic... The concept at least should be useful for everyone, even if all their do in their life is scrub floors.
At high school level everything is dumbed down with the sciences. Just memorize the formulas and then regurgitate for the test. At least with algebra, trig, algebra2, and calculus (if the high schools offers it), you're forced to use your brain to do more than just memorize.
And yet I see those fields being used all the time. Maybe not for you (lemme guess, IT help desk?). Graphic theory with network routing or circuit routing, calculus with EE, antenna design, number theory all over the place computers if you're using floating point numbers or cryptography, computability theory if you're designing EDA tools or writing compilers, and so forth. But if you're content to be the least that you can be, then you must be very happy.
During the cold war, especially after Sputnik was launched, the US panicked and decided that the education system needed immense change lest we be beaten by those Godless commies. And it worked, science programs improved and got larger budgets, math was given priority, and even outside of math and science there were improvements, you could learn one of several foreign languages for example, music programs abounded. Then it started petering out again once there was no competition. We're down to one foreign language offering (Spanish) if you're lucky, music programs are being dropped, and people are pushing to drop the math and science as inappropriate to tomorrow's service industry. The US has given up on being competitive, it's like we'll be happy asking the Chinese to come over and build stuff for us.
I think everyone needs to learn something that they hate, something that they are forced to struggle with. It is much better exercise for the brain. What decent physical education teacher tells the struggling student "ok, you can just sit down on the bench and watch, you'll never amount to much anyway"? We require some effort to improve the body so why are we perfectly fine with students having flabby brains? Society has decided that being healthy physically is important but for some reason thinks that when it comes to the brain you only need the minimum necessary to get a job.
This reminds me too of physics in high school. Which I didn't take, it was only offered every other year, the same with pre-calculus. But that class was all memorization of equations, only algebra was needed. When I got to college and took physics it was all about mathematics, deriving those equations from scratch, and it was impossible to do any of that without calculus.
Statistics in high school is just the same. Even statistics in college outside of the math department is all about memorizing and regurgitating. If you learn biology you just want to know when to apply chi-square tests, and plugging in the numbers. We had a stats class for biologists, a stats class for psychology and cognitive science, a stats class for sociology, etc. But you're unable to do much beyond applying formulas if you take those classes.
Of course it's useful for non STEM fields. Everything is useful for everyone, except those who's goal in life is to learn the minimum necessary to become an office drone. Of course you're talking about minimum requirements for academic credit, which is not the same thing as saying what is and is not useful in someone's life or career. Most universities provide for a breadth requirement of graduates, meaning that they have to learn something not directly related to their major while in college. Society should value a well educated populace, and the fact that the US always seems to be aiming for the minimum necessary requirements means it has its priorities screwed up. We should aim to do our best rather than just squeaking by.
The difference here is that we have a math-phobic political scientist advocating getting rid of algebra 2 in favor of basic statistics, statistics that are far too basic to be used even in political science. If your career or field makes use of statistics then you NEED algebra 2 and calculus! It is all about that fear of math, which gets instilled early on merely because someone isn't good at a arithmetic which has almost nothing to do with aptitude with mathematics. And even if it is hard, what's so wrong with struggling to get through a class? Builds character, builds a better brain, builds a better person. Isn't that what we want schools to do?
And yes, I think the math and science whiz at high school should also be required to take classes in literature, sociology, history, P.E., and music.
Did Jaime Escalante get numerous awards and named best teacher in America because he encouraged his students to only do the minimum necessary to get a job flipping burgers?
When I was in school, Algebra 2 was a requirement for college prep track and Calculus was freshman level college. But that's simplistic. Even people not going into STEM can make use of both Algebra 2 and Calculus. Even English majors can and do learn those subjects, since the problem is one of expectations ("oh no, math is hard!") rather than ability. When people struggle with arithmetic they are told they're not very good at math, even if they might otherwise be very good at abstract thinking and excel at algebra 2.
This is more of the dumbing down of America. Every time we get more evidence that the US ranks very low in the world in education we panic and dumb it down even more. Everyone wants a short cut.
2% is linear. 2% per year compounded interest is exponential.
Algebra 2 however is nearly mandatory for introductory college mathematics or engineering courses. And it's not that hard. Society has been manufacturing a false view of math as too hard for average people, which means everyone goes into those classes assuming they'll be very hard and you end up with a feedback loop. Of course people won't understand feedback loops without algebra 2...
No, web app people treat development as a day job, to tide them over until that acting gig kicks in.
And thus appeals to the demographic of users who don't pay attention to how much money they actually spend. They don't want to know about the 2% transaction fee since they're probably going to be talked into the extended warranty anyway.