" What of the claim that mathematics sharpens our minds and makes us more intellectually adept as individuals and a citizen body? It's true that mathematics requires mental exertion. But there's no evidence that being able to prove (x² + y²)² = (x² - y²)² + (2xy)² leads to more credible political opinions or social analysis."
It seems to me that you can't tell the difference in the opinions of people who read his stance and those that read the title... since it summarizes the article nicely.
That might work for someone with a working knowledge of computers, but for the average Joe, the slow response times of having to load everything off of a CD is a major turn off. The livedisks are great for fixing a broken install, but I've never been convinces of their effectiveness at being demos.
False dichotomy. I would want someone familiar or with expertise in the subject area, but without the conflict of interest of having patents themselves.
That is largely a cultural problem, and one that Khan tries to address. Oftentimes, "not caring" is a cover for being afraid to try hard and fail. Learn at you own pace type programs largely eliminate failure when trying. Most kids want to feel smart or make their parents proud, but there are always outliers.
As a society, we are obligated to provide everyone a standard, but not necessarily obligated to, say, make sure everyone goes to college (unlike what many current educational programs are geared for).
"Are most Americans with technology-related jobs insured against that scenario?"
Between worker's comp, life/ltd insurance, and SS, mostly..
The parent was exaggerating a bit when he said "The fact is, most Americans don't save because there is no financial incentive to save", and I'm not disagreeing with you that there are good reasons to save money. And most American's do save for retirement, either through a 401k, personal savings, or indirectly through Social Security.
However, beyond a rainy day fund (low 10s of k), there are fewer incentives to not have a large expendable income when real inflation is high. That is partly why so many people put their money into their houses before the 2008 collapse, and why gold experience the recent bubble. Material assets scale with inflation better than pure cash does, as long as the goods preserve their value (houses, collectibles, items with intrinsic values) and the economy stays strong. Alternately, spending it on luxury items now provides a better return than spending it later.
Inflation in the U.S. has been staved off by Chinese consumer good production increases, but as their economy evolves and slows, they will stop being the hedge driving our inflation rates down.
Those reasons are why I am saving to put my money into land (low priced, low development areas, of course). As an investment, it is less risky than stocks, and more valuable than securities. If shit hits the fan, I'll end up being a real winner.
The "full sized" images on their website make me rage a little. First off, for a 16 MP camera, they can do a little better than 0.5MP image on their website.
Yea, it could have been scaled down, but that is a minor gripe compared to them publishing a telecope image as a HIGHLY COMPRESSED JPEG.
Seriously? Most of the stars and gas clouds in that blasted image are lossy compression artifacts.
Don't blame the Republicans for "Starve the Beast" policies that lost our AAA credit rating and are the cause of Sequestration?
Don't blame Republicans for not stopping the rise of mortgage backed securities and the derivatives market from 1999 until its meltdown in 2008, causing our current economic depression?
Well, maybe if we find life on mars, we can blame the martians instead.
A valid assumption given the audience. We will be extinct from zombies before technology related jobs become insecure.
Besides that, consumerism drives the economy. A lot of the stagnating economy problems that Japan has are due to a very conservative population that believes in saving all their money and not spending on the types of consumer goods that many other countries consume.
The phablet is both part of the problem and the solution for me. The trend away from slide out keyboards to tablet style screen keyboards makes me want a phone with a larger and easier to use typing surface.
This was written from my phone.... with many deletes of fat-finger errors.
Most of the US Navy surface ships are diesel, not nuclear. The nuclear ships are underwater and do as they please, as NZ isn't capable of knowing they are there.
If U.S. skirts NZ, it is to improve their image to the rest of the world, not because they give a rat's rear-end what NZ'ers think.
Low power, 35$ is cheaper than hundreds, and with this many features, you can use it in many places that you can't use a full sized pc.... like to play music from a solar powered messenger bag.
Most of the world isn't English speaking, so what do you know about it? Just because you are European or some other nationality (economics considers EU a nation) doesn't really give you the right to speak for the world. Some of which (looking at you, China) are heavily invested in stealing corporate and gov't technology.
Defense contractors and military sources get pounded with millions of probes from other states each month. And employees are regularly spied on. A couple years ago a company had a bunch of classified information stolen by China from a backdoor passed in by a USB drive, given to them by a vendor at a conference.
You probably don't hear about these things if you don't work in the industry or if you aren't valued as a target, bu. This is the stuff we deal with on the day-to-day.
Look at the great time Unicomp has had selling IBM model M's (durable keyboards). Companies get rich on consumerism, the practice of making things that you will consume and will need to consume again.
Magic bullets don't generate steady demand, or steady profits. No cure will generate as much revenue as periodic installments of $xx,xxx for treatments.
And due to the high entrance costs, nobody has the money to challenge Big Pharma. And nobody but Big Pharma is willing to take a XX billion dollar risk on a new drug, even if it is a miracle cure for something like AIDs.
On a closely related note, why keep records for a million years if there are a million years of transcribers (similar to how the Bible has survived, mostly intact, for thousands of years).
Or... why keep records when we can expect everyone up to a million years from now to be able to easily detect large concentrations/quantities of nuclear waste/radiation?
In addition to the other points, if the tablets are being sold through other vendors (BestBuy, newegg) then Google only get wholesale (less than retail).
So what you are saying is, humans are tools of the military-industrial complex, and therefore the parasitic species is evolutionarily superior (since it is able to adapt rather than being force into a form)?
I realise the snark was intended to be funny... but it is an interesting foray.
The article mentions this... the problem is, it sets up a false dichotomy. The options aren't no vacuum trains or ones that go at 4k mph... there is a whole range of speeds that these trains could be effective and efficient, and not all will turn passengers into goo if it crashes.
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" What of the claim that mathematics sharpens our minds and makes us more intellectually adept as individuals and a citizen body? It's true that mathematics requires mental exertion. But there's no evidence that being able to prove (x² + y²)² = (x² - y²)² + (2xy)² leads to more credible political opinions or social analysis."
It seems to me that you can't tell the difference in the opinions of people who read his stance and those that read the title... since it summarizes the article nicely.
That might work for someone with a working knowledge of computers, but for the average Joe, the slow response times of having to load everything off of a CD is a major turn off. The livedisks are great for fixing a broken install, but I've never been convinces of their effectiveness at being demos.
What the fuck does this have to do with exploding termites?
False dichotomy. I would want someone familiar or with expertise in the subject area, but without the conflict of interest of having patents themselves.
Like most technology companies, the value is customer loyalty/information, branding, and the platform.
That is largely a cultural problem, and one that Khan tries to address. Oftentimes, "not caring" is a cover for being afraid to try hard and fail. Learn at you own pace type programs largely eliminate failure when trying. Most kids want to feel smart or make their parents proud, but there are always outliers.
As a society, we are obligated to provide everyone a standard, but not necessarily obligated to, say, make sure everyone goes to college (unlike what many current educational programs are geared for).
In that respect, online learning is an enabler.
"Are most Americans with technology-related jobs insured against that scenario?"
Between worker's comp, life/ltd insurance, and SS, mostly..
The parent was exaggerating a bit when he said "The fact is, most Americans don't save because there is no financial incentive to save", and I'm not disagreeing with you that there are good reasons to save money. And most American's do save for retirement, either through a 401k, personal savings, or indirectly through Social Security.
However, beyond a rainy day fund (low 10s of k), there are fewer incentives to not have a large expendable income when real inflation is high. That is partly why so many people put their money into their houses before the 2008 collapse, and why gold experience the recent bubble. Material assets scale with inflation better than pure cash does, as long as the goods preserve their value (houses, collectibles, items with intrinsic values) and the economy stays strong. Alternately, spending it on luxury items now provides a better return than spending it later.
Inflation in the U.S. has been staved off by Chinese consumer good production increases, but as their economy evolves and slows, they will stop being the hedge driving our inflation rates down.
Those reasons are why I am saving to put my money into land (low priced, low development areas, of course). As an investment, it is less risky than stocks, and more valuable than securities. If shit hits the fan, I'll end up being a real winner.
The "full sized" images on their website make me rage a little. First off, for a 16 MP camera, they can do a little better than 0.5MP image on their website.
Yea, it could have been scaled down, but that is a minor gripe compared to them publishing a telecope image as a HIGHLY COMPRESSED JPEG.
Seriously? Most of the stars and gas clouds in that blasted image are lossy compression artifacts.
Why couldn't we have a nicely sized PNG?
Don't blame the Republicans for "Starve the Beast" policies that lost our AAA credit rating and are the cause of Sequestration?
Don't blame Republicans for not stopping the rise of mortgage backed securities and the derivatives market from 1999 until its meltdown in 2008, causing our current economic depression?
Well, maybe if we find life on mars, we can blame the martians instead.
I chose the option, paraphrased as, "This is a personal account and needs to remain anonymous".
I have a feeling this option will be removed once lawsuits over defamation start flying.
A valid assumption given the audience. We will be extinct from zombies before technology related jobs become insecure.
Besides that, consumerism drives the economy. A lot of the stagnating economy problems that Japan has are due to a very conservative population that believes in saving all their money and not spending on the types of consumer goods that many other countries consume.
The phablet is both part of the problem and the solution for me. The trend away from slide out keyboards to tablet style screen keyboards makes me want a phone with a larger and easier to use typing surface.
This was written from my phone.... with many deletes of fat-finger errors.
Or a fertilizer bomb.
Due to retrials afforded the accused, death penalties are often much more expensive than life sentences.
Most of the US Navy surface ships are diesel, not nuclear. The nuclear ships are underwater and do as they please, as NZ isn't capable of knowing they are there.
If U.S. skirts NZ, it is to improve their image to the rest of the world, not because they give a rat's rear-end what NZ'ers think.
Low power, 35$ is cheaper than hundreds, and with this many features, you can use it in many places that you can't use a full sized pc.... like to play music from a solar powered messenger bag.
Most of the world isn't English speaking, so what do you know about it? Just because you are European or some other nationality (economics considers EU a nation) doesn't really give you the right to speak for the world. Some of which (looking at you, China) are heavily invested in stealing corporate and gov't technology.
Defense contractors and military sources get pounded with millions of probes from other states each month. And employees are regularly spied on. A couple years ago a company had a bunch of classified information stolen by China from a backdoor passed in by a USB drive, given to them by a vendor at a conference.
You probably don't hear about these things if you don't work in the industry or if you aren't valued as a target, bu. This is the stuff we deal with on the day-to-day.
Source: I've work in cybersecurity.
I play on PC and on PS3, ~300 hrs between them... and I haven't seen any of what you experienced. Sounds to me like you are just a whiner.
At what point does this involve a cloud? Renting a server(providing ftp, for example) is easy, and doesn't require anything from the "cloud age".
Also, building a server or buying one secondhand is cheap, if you want to DIY.
Look at the great time Unicomp has had selling IBM model M's (durable keyboards). Companies get rich on consumerism, the practice of making things that you will consume and will need to consume again.
Magic bullets don't generate steady demand, or steady profits. No cure will generate as much revenue as periodic installments of $xx,xxx for treatments.
And due to the high entrance costs, nobody has the money to challenge Big Pharma. And nobody but Big Pharma is willing to take a XX billion dollar risk on a new drug, even if it is a miracle cure for something like AIDs.
On a closely related note, why keep records for a million years if there are a million years of transcribers (similar to how the Bible has survived, mostly intact, for thousands of years).
Or... why keep records when we can expect everyone up to a million years from now to be able to easily detect large concentrations/quantities of nuclear waste/radiation?
In addition to the other points, if the tablets are being sold through other vendors (BestBuy, newegg) then Google only get wholesale (less than retail).
So what you are saying is, humans are tools of the military-industrial complex, and therefore the parasitic species is evolutionarily superior (since it is able to adapt rather than being force into a form)?
I realise the snark was intended to be funny... but it is an interesting foray.
The article mentions this... the problem is, it sets up a false dichotomy. The options aren't no vacuum trains or ones that go at 4k mph... there is a whole range of speeds that these trains could be effective and efficient, and not all will turn passengers into goo if it crashes.
If man was meant to fly, he'd have been born with wings.