The few who didn't made arguments that seemed more political than teaching related.
The education industry in a nutshell. I worked with a teacher who was ex-military. His indoctrination went pretty smoothly once he got his Master's, but people still felt like he was kind of a dick. He was, but he was a damn good teacher despite that.
Education can pretty harsh to outsiders, especially those with a political belief system that clashes (anti-union, anti-federal control, free textbooks, etc). I've seen an entire school dismantled and the principal ousted simply because he was a conservative and was on the "shit-list" of state administrators (this particular school served students other districts refused to take, and had the highest transition rate back to their home district than any other in the state). It was not long afterward that the school failed completely, as nearly the entire staff left in support of the boss.
Just about everyone turns off their phones at the gates and leaves them off all week.
Pretty sure they aren't doing that because they want to "disconnect" for the week. They are turning them off for the week because they aren't going to be of any use. You said it yourself, after 8am, it "gets crushed with users".
Honestly, I would rather pay $400 for a good video montage of people at Burning Man sitting around a fire ignoring each other with faces glued to their iThings, than pay $400 to go camping with 50,000 people.
Winkey(or 'super' as some like to call it) + D just hides all windows and shows the desktop. Ctrl + A, that's your standard select all. Enter opens everything selected. The second enter is just to open it all again... for good measure.
To correct your view a touch: The majority of *sub-urban* people are pure consumers. Here in the city, it's still the standard way of life. Everyone buys stuff from thrift stores, has a community vegetable garden, and rides a bike to work.
In The Rebels of Oakland (a great documentary by the way) Tom Hanks has a wonderful quote about the city that I can only paraphrase:
You can go anywhere in the world and tell someone you're from Oakland, and people will respond by saying "oh, you mean where the Raiders play"... Yes... That's exactly where Oakland is. It's where the Raiders play.
Nobody knows about Oakland, PA in the same sense that nobody knows about Pittsburg, CA.
...not a single person could come up with a single reason why i should give up my Android for this phone.
I guess you just glossed over and completely missed my point.
Nobody is giving you a reason right now for the same reason nobody could give an IE user a reason to switch to Firefox way back in 2004 (at least a reason they would care about). Then waddya know, all of a sudden the DOD recommends it. Well, that's a pretty good reason... IE must be neglecting some key aspects that people didn't even think about previously.
So, if you look back several years from now, you just might find that the same happens with Android. Nobody really recognizes (in the mainstream) many of the inherent flaws right now, but in a few years they might be so obvious that you'll wonder how you managed to live with Android so long.
As to your 1,2,3 points: 1: Android does not have unlimited backing from Google. They WILL end it someday as things before it have ended at some point. 2: Android leaves quite a few security holes you could drive a much larger truck through than the ActiveX holes IE had back in the day. A phone contains access to a lot more valuable information than a 2004 copy of IE. 3: Bug and security fixes don't get rolled out to many Android devices, they're only implemented in new versions. That's great the new Gizmo10.0 has the lastest patches, but old devices will be left out to dry.
I'm not trying to give you a reason to switch, I'm simply saying that when the time is right, there will be a reason to switch to this FirefoxOS phone, or whatever other competitor shows up with a superior product.
IOS, on the other hand... I believe Fischer Price is working together with Duplo on a replacement for that.
I don't think representatives in DC give a flying shit about what one constituent writes them in disapproval about, well, not unless they can spin it in their favor to land votes.
If you want to change their behavior, try pulling some tricks out of the Mitnick book. Or Spock. Or Loki. Doesn't matter. Use their weaknesses against them to exploit their behavior. This might involve a woman in a red dress. I don't care... social engineering works on anyone.
Funny, the same thing was being said (and still is to an extent) about switching to Firefox from IE. "Why should I switch? Why should I care?"
Then, all of a sudden, Firefox was popular and had a solid market share. Maybe they're betting on the fact that Android will start to lose steam because of some the inherent (and possibly unforeseen) flaws. When the time is right, they charge forward with a "better alternative".
I just assumed the engineers would be H1B status. Not that it should matter as far as moral compass goes, but even that is relative. It'd be a lot easier to build things that fuck over people if you did it away from your home.
I'm not sure humanity's collective moral compass is even able to be recalibrated at this point.
I too have fond memories of taking giant garbage bags of containers back and getting cash for them so I could go buy baseball cards (ie. lottery for kids).
Today, though, I'd be afraid to do this if I were a kid, since the only people I see collecting beverage containers are the homeless folks who scrape the alley for them. Can't have a nine year old stepping on the toes of a washed up junkie looking for their next fix.
Fond memories of my axe throwing barb in D2. He was one of the very few out there that would kick some ass in pvp. Throw Axes had no sockets. The unique was terrible. I spent countless hours gambling rares to get the ones I had.
D3 was sorta okay fun for a little bit, but the total lack of diversity just made the game too dull. I enjoyed having an actual unique character that was fun to play and of my own creation. D3 ruined that.
And that means more money for me when I come in and fix their problem with clean, maintainable (and noob-proof) code. *cackle*
Not entirely sure what you specifically mean by "noob-proof code", but the chances that this code is actually less maintainable are high. Never underestimate the power of a manager to be convinced the $25/hour talent can perform at a $75/hour level. That $25/hour talent is going to break things during maintenance no matter how high-quality the code was to begin with.
I agree there's a bunch of ugly code out there (no bigger red flag in my book that poorly indented code), but it doesn't matter to a beginner whether code is highly understood or not, they're still going to mess with things, and the less they understand, the more harm they will do.
One thing I've learned about sloppy code is that the business with sloppy code is busy selling shit while the business going after that elusive "clean, maintainable" thing is still a year away from launch.
Frankly, I've never understood why guys would want to carry phones in their pockets.
Not wanting to have that "I have stuff for you to gank" look.
Not wanting to have the whole "I'm very important and need 24-7 communications" thing blatantly represented.
Not wanting to have to deal with yet another accessory in the morning.
Pockets are made to hold stuff just like this.
Ah, but in the end, why even carry a phone? I stopped having a cell phone on me all the time a couple years ago. It's very nice not having people feel like they can and should get a hold of you at any time of day or night, and if it's important, they can leave a voice mail (or just send a normal email).
Though compared to Maps where there is significantly development and "improvement,"...
Funny thing is, I still use Voice every single day, but the only times I use Maps is when it runs as the map platform for some other service. If I want to look something up on a map, I use Bing Maps now. Google maps have become too slow and clunky in the last year. Tiles simply do not update fast enough.
If that's what you call "development and improvement", I'll stick with "neglected" just about every single time.
I need your help to find a soldier whose pictures I received thru possible hackers who stole them. I am a female from Texas and would really like to find this soldier and get to know him. Want to be his friend and possibly more.
Indeed... creeps manage to... well, creep into every walk of society.
People without access to maps is cause for concern if we want to ever get back in this STEM battle everyone says we're losing.
Ken Jennings loves maps. He's smart as a whip. This chick at least understands why Mr. Jennings is the greatest Jeopardy contestant ever, even if she can't spell the show's name correctly.
Print some damned maps, people! Think of the children of the Iraq and such as South Africa?
...and he is a god damn supporter of the modern slavery movement (for profit prison industrial work farms).
He also vetoed more bills as a governor of New Mexico than any other governor, from any other state, in history (if my memory serves me correctly).
Yes, he's a politician like any other, but this single fact alone puts him a bit above the rest. The bureaucratic weight that is crushing this country is generated by endless legislation. We are managing a 21st century nation with 200 year old methods. It's time to modernize and clean house.
Much like cleaning out a garage, we'll have to make a large organized mess in the yard if we intend to get it clean.
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The few who didn't made arguments that seemed more political than teaching related.
The education industry in a nutshell. I worked with a teacher who was ex-military. His indoctrination went pretty smoothly once he got his Master's, but people still felt like he was kind of a dick. He was, but he was a damn good teacher despite that.
Education can pretty harsh to outsiders, especially those with a political belief system that clashes (anti-union, anti-federal control, free textbooks, etc). I've seen an entire school dismantled and the principal ousted simply because he was a conservative and was on the "shit-list" of state administrators (this particular school served students other districts refused to take, and had the highest transition rate back to their home district than any other in the state). It was not long afterward that the school failed completely, as nearly the entire staff left in support of the boss.
Just about everyone turns off their phones at the gates and leaves them off all week.
Pretty sure they aren't doing that because they want to "disconnect" for the week. They are turning them off for the week because they aren't going to be of any use. You said it yourself, after 8am, it "gets crushed with users".
Honestly, I would rather pay $400 for a good video montage of people at Burning Man sitting around a fire ignoring each other with faces glued to their iThings, than pay $400 to go camping with 50,000 people.
Winkey(or 'super' as some like to call it) + D just hides all windows and shows the desktop. Ctrl + A, that's your standard select all. Enter opens everything selected. The second enter is just to open it all again... for good measure.
While I don't know an equivalent on Mac (though I'm sure there is one), I've always been fond of the evil Windows key sequence:
Winkey + D, Ctrl + A, Enter, Enter
It's not going to do any damage, but I think it's great.
When I think of Cyclops, the first adjective that comes to mind is 'hairy'.
That is, until the US corporation is bought out by an overseas corporation. See: InBev and hops farmers.
Thanks for proving my point.
To correct your view a touch: The majority of *sub-urban* people are pure consumers. Here in the city, it's still the standard way of life. Everyone buys stuff from thrift stores, has a community vegetable garden, and rides a bike to work.
In The Rebels of Oakland (a great documentary by the way) Tom Hanks has a wonderful quote about the city that I can only paraphrase:
You can go anywhere in the world and tell someone you're from Oakland, and people will respond by saying "oh, you mean where the Raiders play"... Yes... That's exactly where Oakland is. It's where the Raiders play.
Nobody knows about Oakland, PA in the same sense that nobody knows about Pittsburg, CA.
...not a single person could come up with a single reason why i should give up my Android for this phone.
I guess you just glossed over and completely missed my point.
Nobody is giving you a reason right now for the same reason nobody could give an IE user a reason to switch to Firefox way back in 2004 (at least a reason they would care about). Then waddya know, all of a sudden the DOD recommends it. Well, that's a pretty good reason... IE must be neglecting some key aspects that people didn't even think about previously.
So, if you look back several years from now, you just might find that the same happens with Android. Nobody really recognizes (in the mainstream) many of the inherent flaws right now, but in a few years they might be so obvious that you'll wonder how you managed to live with Android so long.
As to your 1,2,3 points: 1: Android does not have unlimited backing from Google. They WILL end it someday as things before it have ended at some point. 2: Android leaves quite a few security holes you could drive a much larger truck through than the ActiveX holes IE had back in the day. A phone contains access to a lot more valuable information than a 2004 copy of IE. 3: Bug and security fixes don't get rolled out to many Android devices, they're only implemented in new versions. That's great the new Gizmo10.0 has the lastest patches, but old devices will be left out to dry.
I'm not trying to give you a reason to switch, I'm simply saying that when the time is right, there will be a reason to switch to this FirefoxOS phone, or whatever other competitor shows up with a superior product.
IOS, on the other hand... I believe Fischer Price is working together with Duplo on a replacement for that.
I don't think representatives in DC give a flying shit about what one constituent writes them in disapproval about, well, not unless they can spin it in their favor to land votes.
If you want to change their behavior, try pulling some tricks out of the Mitnick book. Or Spock. Or Loki. Doesn't matter. Use their weaknesses against them to exploit their behavior. This might involve a woman in a red dress. I don't care... social engineering works on anyone.
Funny, the same thing was being said (and still is to an extent) about switching to Firefox from IE. "Why should I switch? Why should I care?"
Then, all of a sudden, Firefox was popular and had a solid market share. Maybe they're betting on the fact that Android will start to lose steam because of some the inherent (and possibly unforeseen) flaws. When the time is right, they charge forward with a "better alternative".
I just assumed the engineers would be H1B status. Not that it should matter as far as moral compass goes, but even that is relative. It'd be a lot easier to build things that fuck over people if you did it away from your home.
I'm not sure humanity's collective moral compass is even able to be recalibrated at this point.
Or you could just be like Hi and put a panty on your head.
Yeah!!! Screw a glass from the cabinet! I need to drink my water out of a plastic bottle!
I too have fond memories of taking giant garbage bags of containers back and getting cash for them so I could go buy baseball cards (ie. lottery for kids).
Today, though, I'd be afraid to do this if I were a kid, since the only people I see collecting beverage containers are the homeless folks who scrape the alley for them. Can't have a nine year old stepping on the toes of a washed up junkie looking for their next fix.
Fond memories of my axe throwing barb in D2. He was one of the very few out there that would kick some ass in pvp. Throw Axes had no sockets. The unique was terrible. I spent countless hours gambling rares to get the ones I had.
D3 was sorta okay fun for a little bit, but the total lack of diversity just made the game too dull. I enjoyed having an actual unique character that was fun to play and of my own creation. D3 ruined that.
And that means more money for me when I come in and fix their problem with clean, maintainable (and noob-proof) code. *cackle*
Not entirely sure what you specifically mean by "noob-proof code", but the chances that this code is actually less maintainable are high. Never underestimate the power of a manager to be convinced the $25/hour talent can perform at a $75/hour level. That $25/hour talent is going to break things during maintenance no matter how high-quality the code was to begin with.
I agree there's a bunch of ugly code out there (no bigger red flag in my book that poorly indented code), but it doesn't matter to a beginner whether code is highly understood or not, they're still going to mess with things, and the less they understand, the more harm they will do.
One thing I've learned about sloppy code is that the business with sloppy code is busy selling shit while the business going after that elusive "clean, maintainable" thing is still a year away from launch.
Few things drive science forward more than the need for French designed anti-aging skin products.
If women weren't so vain, we'd still be stuck in 1820.
Frankly, I've never understood why guys would want to carry phones in their pockets.
Not wanting to have that "I have stuff for you to gank" look.
Not wanting to have the whole "I'm very important and need 24-7 communications" thing blatantly represented.
Not wanting to have to deal with yet another accessory in the morning.
Pockets are made to hold stuff just like this.
Ah, but in the end, why even carry a phone? I stopped having a cell phone on me all the time a couple years ago. It's very nice not having people feel like they can and should get a hold of you at any time of day or night, and if it's important, they can leave a voice mail (or just send a normal email).
Though compared to Maps where there is significantly development and "improvement,"...
Funny thing is, I still use Voice every single day, but the only times I use Maps is when it runs as the map platform for some other service. If I want to look something up on a map, I use Bing Maps now. Google maps have become too slow and clunky in the last year. Tiles simply do not update fast enough.
If that's what you call "development and improvement", I'll stick with "neglected" just about every single time.
They mention "LibrePlanet" four times in the first couple of lines. It reads like an ad for $19.95 bottle of Viagra at 5am sounds.
From a current W4M ad:
I need your help to find a soldier whose pictures I received thru possible hackers who stole them. I am a female from Texas and would really like to find this soldier and get to know him. Want to be his friend and possibly more.
Indeed... creeps manage to... well, creep into every walk of society.
She's got a good fucking point, though.
People without access to maps is cause for concern if we want to ever get back in this STEM battle everyone says we're losing.
Ken Jennings loves maps. He's smart as a whip. This chick at least understands why Mr. Jennings is the greatest Jeopardy contestant ever, even if she can't spell the show's name correctly.
Print some damned maps, people! Think of the children of the Iraq and such as South Africa?
...and he is a god damn supporter of the modern slavery movement (for profit prison industrial work farms).
He also vetoed more bills as a governor of New Mexico than any other governor, from any other state, in history (if my memory serves me correctly).
Yes, he's a politician like any other, but this single fact alone puts him a bit above the rest. The bureaucratic weight that is crushing this country is generated by endless legislation. We are managing a 21st century nation with 200 year old methods. It's time to modernize and clean house.
Much like cleaning out a garage, we'll have to make a large organized mess in the yard if we intend to get it clean.