(Sorry for the late reply, had the tab opened somewhere and just found it.)
Ignoring this particular person, I completely agree that coding and IT isn't the most important part of STEM. The problem is that STEM is meant to teach children skills which will be helpful with jobs, which is a totally backward thing. In this sense I agree with what's his name. We don't want schools to prepare kids for jobs, we want schools to prepare human beings who understand the world and can take it forward.
Yes, learning to code can give a little bit of understanding, but it's much better to focus on math, logic, critical thinking, the scientific method and scientific knowledge.
The only reason to put a stress on coding in STEM is for jobs, and the main reason to want a lot of coders is so they could be paid less.
I hate it when publications use Kickstarter price as a device price, especially early bird price as in this case. Who knows what the final price will be.
As for Windows 10, you can run full Windows 10 on 16GB flash with 1GB RAM. Even Windows 8.1 could be installed on 16GB and 10 uses less space. It's sub-optimal, but given that Windows 10 can have both software and apps installed to an SD card, it could work.
Agreed, it's rather strange. My guess is that most values on that list have few occurrences, where the top ones from 2 million might have tens of thousands or thousands of occurrences, the ones at the bottom of the list, or even its middle might have dozens. That would make these values highly affected but what subset of all password this 2M sample represents. For example if the list of hacked passwords contained passwords culled from a company where the standard password is 1qaz2wsx, then that would make it a very common password, but wouldn't mean a thing about the use of that password in general.
Of course OpenAI is going to solve the root problem. Clearly having AI masters will prevent the human race from continuing its foolish course, and AI will definitely end up ruling, so that's a good start. The problem is that if AI is developed by for-profit corporations it will end up being greedy and violent. What we want is benevolent masters, who will keep us kids from doing bad things, but will still give us presents on our birthday. Clearly the only way to get there is if AI is developed in an open way, far from the cynicism inherent in big money. Oh, and with no access to the Internet, that would just ruin any shred of decency. Either that or get the AI addicted to cat pictures and stupid memes.
What does 1m distance between cars matter? It's the throughput that matters, that is, how long it takes a car to travel a distance. That changes little whether the distance between cars is 1m or 100m. Cars will naturally keep a larger distance than 1m, because that would allow navigating (in particular, cars getting in from a side road).
Anyway, the measure (how many people in vehicles can stand on a piece of road) is pointless, and since the article is based on it, the article is pointless.
Tab Groups are a useful feature with a less than optimal UI. I found that adding something like Tab Group Helper helped me enjoy using it. So instead of fixing the UI, Mozilla is dropping the feature. That's a really lazy way to handle this.
Thanks for the great post. It's bothered me for quite a while now that people try getting women into IT, a field that's well known for work dissatisfaction and lack of job stability, and they keep trying to find all kinds of reasons to it, rather than women being more savvy than men about the jobs they choose.
It's important to realise that the issue at hand is the definition of 'art', and that's not directly related to video games. If and when a definition that's agreed upon by all sides can be reached, deciding whether games are art would be easy.
The difference is that neither the results nor the methodology are proven wrong. With the cancer studies for example it was clear that the experiments simply didn't work in many cases. Here there's no indication of faulty research.
My guess is it will be configurable, and that notifications will also be optional. The system does show the speed during the trip, so parents will be able to make their own judgement.
Thanks for the link. I'd mark your comment up as informative if I could.:)
Still, comparing to iOS devices is like saying "there's no performance problem for games on laptops; my Alienware laptop runs them well." Android devices are a lot more varied than iOS ones, and it'd be nice to have web pages work well on a sub-$100 device and not just flagships. I don't know how well old iOS devices cope with pages either. Last I heard a comment from an iPhone 4 user it was that the phone was very sluggish. So just because web pages work well for someone who recently spent $600 and up on a phone doesn't mean that it's not worth optimising them.
Men go: "ooh, that sounds like a cool thing to do; it doesn't matter how many hours per week I work, that I don't have a life, that nobody will ever recognise my contribution, it's still cool and hey, doing it in my free time is even cooler!"
Women go: "why would I work in a field that has some of the lowest satisfaction scores, asks me to give up my personal life, and then on top of it also do that stuff for free? That's crazy!"
The post says this basically: "A lot more people are riding bikes than before, especially in the older age group, yet for some unexplained reason more bike riders get into accidents, especially in the older age group. That's so bewildering we can't wrap our heads around this strange phenomenon."
This article is yet another useful point against encouraging children to get into tech.
Do we really hate our children so much that we want them to have a low satisfaction job with long hours and a high chance of being unemployed when they get over 40?
"Teamspirit" is the loaded problem here. This can lead to homogenising the team (can be with respect to age or anything else). A person can be personable and still not fit in a team because his life and work experience is vastly different. A person can also think that the work method is flawed, because he has more experience and is right, but he won't fit the team because that would be rocking the boat.
In many senses it's easier to have a homogenic team, which is why discrimination based on age, race, gender happens. There's need to actively work against that, and to actively try to make the most of the differences. Having different points of view and different outlooks can be good, but it needs to be managed well, and that's hard to do.
Older people tend not to want to work long hours, which is expected in many places in the industry.
An older person won't fit well into a young company, probably won't enjoy hanging out with 20 year olds that much, etc.
Older people do, in general, have less "zest". They've seen enough, they're more measured, they don't go "OMG, my first job, how exciting is that" or "did you see that programming competition?"
Older people have more experience, and it's expected that they'd expect and ask for higher salaries.
While it's all individual, it's much easier to assume up front that a young code monkey will be more excited and willing to work for less, will fit in more easily and code 14 hours a day.
Both lack of sleep and stress can cause people to look older, if what research (as reported by popular media) is right. Parents tend to suffer from irregular sleep and more stress.
When I had a car that showed its speed in a more visible location, I kept looking there initially. When I first had a car which told me how much fuel I was using at any moment, I kept glancing there. Then the novelty wore off and I just returned to more standard driving distractions.:)
Besides, this test really was lame. They couldn't even use a PC with a driving simulation or something?
"unlike jazz it is not obnoxious to everyone else."
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mean that there aren't people who dislike it, then I'd beg to differ, it's really an "I can't do hi-res, so I'll leave that to your imagination" style. I doesn't really look good unless you're a circlejerk. If you're talking about circlejerks being obnoxious to others, then of course there are those.
So people realised it's more convenient to have phone functionality in their tablet, and total tablet market has grown, according to these stats. Sure, some people find it convenient to separate the two, but what's the point? Does a tablet/phone have a different effect on the "post-PC" world than a tablet without phone functionality?
In the digital world, stores enforce my nationality. I can order a music CD or a movie on DVD from Amazon.com, but if I want to buy digital music or stream a digital movie I can't. The more we move towards digital content the more borders there are, paradoxically.
I would hazard a guess that you didn't look at the list of best selling PC games in that report.
There's indeed a chance that female gamers spend less than male gamers per game on average, but I'm sure that even if that's the case it's nothing like what you state.
Even if you go by stereotypes, Candy Crush Saga is estimated to make $1m per day and the Sims franchise has always been a PC best seller.
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(Sorry for the late reply, had the tab opened somewhere and just found it.)
Ignoring this particular person, I completely agree that coding and IT isn't the most important part of STEM. The problem is that STEM is meant to teach children skills which will be helpful with jobs, which is a totally backward thing. In this sense I agree with what's his name. We don't want schools to prepare kids for jobs, we want schools to prepare human beings who understand the world and can take it forward.
Yes, learning to code can give a little bit of understanding, but it's much better to focus on math, logic, critical thinking, the scientific method and scientific knowledge.
The only reason to put a stress on coding in STEM is for jobs, and the main reason to want a lot of coders is so they could be paid less.
A human being may not injure another human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
You mean 'reproductive discussion'.
I hate it when publications use Kickstarter price as a device price, especially early bird price as in this case. Who knows what the final price will be.
As for Windows 10, you can run full Windows 10 on 16GB flash with 1GB RAM. Even Windows 8.1 could be installed on 16GB and 10 uses less space. It's sub-optimal, but given that Windows 10 can have both software and apps installed to an SD card, it could work.
Agreed, it's rather strange. My guess is that most values on that list have few occurrences, where the top ones from 2 million might have tens of thousands or thousands of occurrences, the ones at the bottom of the list, or even its middle might have dozens. That would make these values highly affected but what subset of all password this 2M sample represents. For example if the list of hacked passwords contained passwords culled from a company where the standard password is 1qaz2wsx, then that would make it a very common password, but wouldn't mean a thing about the use of that password in general.
Of course OpenAI is going to solve the root problem. Clearly having AI masters will prevent the human race from continuing its foolish course, and AI will definitely end up ruling, so that's a good start. The problem is that if AI is developed by for-profit corporations it will end up being greedy and violent. What we want is benevolent masters, who will keep us kids from doing bad things, but will still give us presents on our birthday. Clearly the only way to get there is if AI is developed in an open way, far from the cynicism inherent in big money. Oh, and with no access to the Internet, that would just ruin any shred of decency. Either that or get the AI addicted to cat pictures and stupid memes.
What does 1m distance between cars matter? It's the throughput that matters, that is, how long it takes a car to travel a distance. That changes little whether the distance between cars is 1m or 100m. Cars will naturally keep a larger distance than 1m, because that would allow navigating (in particular, cars getting in from a side road).
Anyway, the measure (how many people in vehicles can stand on a piece of road) is pointless, and since the article is based on it, the article is pointless.
Tab Groups are a useful feature with a less than optimal UI. I found that adding something like Tab Group Helper helped me enjoy using it. So instead of fixing the UI, Mozilla is dropping the feature. That's a really lazy way to handle this.
Thanks for the great post. It's bothered me for quite a while now that people try getting women into IT, a field that's well known for work dissatisfaction and lack of job stability, and they keep trying to find all kinds of reasons to it, rather than women being more savvy than men about the jobs they choose.
... when people don't realise they're that.
It's important to realise that the issue at hand is the definition of 'art', and that's not directly related to video games. If and when a definition that's agreed upon by all sides can be reached, deciding whether games are art would be easy.
The difference is that neither the results nor the methodology are proven wrong. With the cancer studies for example it was clear that the experiments simply didn't work in many cases. Here there's no indication of faulty research.
My guess is it will be configurable, and that notifications will also be optional. The system does show the speed during the trip, so parents will be able to make their own judgement.
Thanks for the link. I'd mark your comment up as informative if I could. :)
Still, comparing to iOS devices is like saying "there's no performance problem for games on laptops; my Alienware laptop runs them well." Android devices are a lot more varied than iOS ones, and it'd be nice to have web pages work well on a sub-$100 device and not just flagships. I don't know how well old iOS devices cope with pages either. Last I heard a comment from an iPhone 4 user it was that the phone was very sluggish. So just because web pages work well for someone who recently spent $600 and up on a phone doesn't mean that it's not worth optimising them.
Men go: "ooh, that sounds like a cool thing to do; it doesn't matter how many hours per week I work, that I don't have a life, that nobody will ever recognise my contribution, it's still cool and hey, doing it in my free time is even cooler!"
Women go: "why would I work in a field that has some of the lowest satisfaction scores, asks me to give up my personal life, and then on top of it also do that stuff for free? That's crazy!"
The post says this basically: "A lot more people are riding bikes than before, especially in the older age group, yet for some unexplained reason more bike riders get into accidents, especially in the older age group. That's so bewildering we can't wrap our heads around this strange phenomenon."
This article is yet another useful point against encouraging children to get into tech.
Do we really hate our children so much that we want them to have a low satisfaction job with long hours and a high chance of being unemployed when they get over 40?
"Teamspirit" is the loaded problem here. This can lead to homogenising the team (can be with respect to age or anything else). A person can be personable and still not fit in a team because his life and work experience is vastly different. A person can also think that the work method is flawed, because he has more experience and is right, but he won't fit the team because that would be rocking the boat.
In many senses it's easier to have a homogenic team, which is why discrimination based on age, race, gender happens. There's need to actively work against that, and to actively try to make the most of the differences. Having different points of view and different outlooks can be good, but it needs to be managed well, and that's hard to do.
Older people tend not to want to work long hours, which is expected in many places in the industry.
An older person won't fit well into a young company, probably won't enjoy hanging out with 20 year olds that much, etc.
Older people do, in general, have less "zest". They've seen enough, they're more measured, they don't go "OMG, my first job, how exciting is that" or "did you see that programming competition?"
Older people have more experience, and it's expected that they'd expect and ask for higher salaries.
While it's all individual, it's much easier to assume up front that a young code monkey will be more excited and willing to work for less, will fit in more easily and code 14 hours a day.
Both lack of sleep and stress can cause people to look older, if what research (as reported by popular media) is right. Parents tend to suffer from irregular sleep and more stress.
When I had a car that showed its speed in a more visible location, I kept looking there initially. When I first had a car which told me how much fuel I was using at any moment, I kept glancing there. Then the novelty wore off and I just returned to more standard driving distractions. :)
Besides, this test really was lame. They couldn't even use a PC with a driving simulation or something?
"unlike jazz it is not obnoxious to everyone else."
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mean that there aren't people who dislike it, then I'd beg to differ, it's really an "I can't do hi-res, so I'll leave that to your imagination" style. I doesn't really look good unless you're a circlejerk. If you're talking about circlejerks being obnoxious to others, then of course there are those.
So people realised it's more convenient to have phone functionality in their tablet, and total tablet market has grown, according to these stats. Sure, some people find it convenient to separate the two, but what's the point? Does a tablet/phone have a different effect on the "post-PC" world than a tablet without phone functionality?
In the digital world, stores enforce my nationality. I can order a music CD or a movie on DVD from Amazon.com, but if I want to buy digital music or stream a digital movie I can't. The more we move towards digital content the more borders there are, paradoxically.
I would hazard a guess that you didn't look at the list of best selling PC games in that report.
There's indeed a chance that female gamers spend less than male gamers per game on average, but I'm sure that even if that's the case it's nothing like what you state.
Even if you go by stereotypes, Candy Crush Saga is estimated to make $1m per day and the Sims franchise has always been a PC best seller.
Kind of silly to say that there can be various definitions and you don't care, then act as if there's one single definition that's being violated.