Your dad at least discusses his fucking jigsaw with you -- that makes him much more emotionally available than mine. I mean, my dad just will not open up about his fucking jigsaw, his boning sawhorse, his nipple-pinching vise or even his fisting workbench. Perhaps it's best if one's parents conceal those things from you.
Hey, even if he is confusing them, weather forecasting has gotten much more accurate in our lifetimes. If you routinely use the weather forecast to plan an outdoor activity -- say, a daily bike ride, or a fishing trip, or whatever you as a unique individual care about in the great outdoors -- you must have noticed this improvement. I'm in my forties now and there are days when the weather forecast is so right on the money it is astounding.
The hope has always been that if your air stuff is awesome enough, you don't need guys on the ground. That's at least as old as Dunkirk and as recent as the US invasion of Iraq.
As much as I occasionally feel like slashdot sucks or isn't what it used to be, when I see a post like this one, I fondly remember why I spend so many hours reading here.
The goal of BallMer is "to kick the ball into the opponents goal by deforming the ground itself"?! My hands are shaking as I consider the joke potential here. Level playing field? The propensity of the real Ballmer to deform the earth as he does his ecstatic "I LOVE THIS COMPANY!" dance? I just can't believe it doesn't involve chairs.
(The cartoonists inexplicably neglect to depict what Russell later described as "the happiest morning of my life," when Alys allowed him to kiss her breasts)
So there's that, and from what I could tell there is no mention of Gödel's incompleteness theorems, either. Meh.
Seems to me all college classrooms these days come standard with dedicated pc, projector, document cam, and other goodies. If math apps would benefit from a stylus, why not attach a Wacom tablet? Good bang for the buck until tablet pc's come down in price.
Most of my reading now is done on the web, and I'm anxious for a touch screen tablet to make that activity seem more like reading a book. But I can wait for the price to come down to within my price range. I am a math teacher, and I have two kids to feed.
It's not just freshman classes that subsidize the more expensive offerings. Humanities courses cost less than sciences but are billed at the same rate, so English departments subsidize more costly departments. The people in these institutions are uncomfortable talking about who subsidizes whom. In business, the criterion is simple: make your unit profitable or it dies. Colleges have been unwilling to live by that. As a result, programs aren't cut and tuition only goes up. But as we know, unsustainable trends cannot be sustained indefinitely. The brightest minds no doubt will continue to get free rides to places like Harvard, but I suspect that some other bright minds are at work on creative ways to get tuition within reach for those who have to pay their own way.
I'm feeling lately that a lot of "advances" haven't really improved our lives. Our "technologically advanced" running shoes don't offer any more protection than what Roger Bannister wore fifty years ago when he ran a four minute mile. (See "Born to Run", Christopher McDougall). Our food supply system as a result of the "green revolution" (by which I mean industrial agriculture following World War II, not the environmental movement) that was supposed to feed the world is actually making us less healthy than the family farms that used to supply our food. (See "The Omnivore's Dilemma", Michael Pollan). Plastic, what was enthusiastically proclaimed as "the future" for Benjamin in "The Graduate" in 1968, turns out to be the bane of living things when it disrupts our endocrine systems. (See "Our Stolen Future," Theo Colborn, et al). I'm not a Luddite. I just don't see all technology or "The Future" in general exclusively through rose-tinted glasses.
I think you meant "lasso." Honestly, I think Apple out-lassoes Google, the way they corral all apps through their app store, the way users get roped into a consistent look-and-feel at the expense of choice. Google, on the other hand, gives developers just enough rope...
Google "You know, morons." It's a Mel Brooks line, delivered by the great Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles." I love my neighbors and my neighborhood, but most of them don't work in science and technology. As such, I figure they provide a pretty good gauge of what and how tech is penetrating the mainstream. My point is that when a product has the union of the feature sets of the Kindle and the iPhone, the Kindle is going to wind up on the shelf, as it did at this party.
Slashdot Mirror
Your dad at least discusses his fucking jigsaw with you -- that makes him much more emotionally available than mine. I mean, my dad just will not open up about his fucking jigsaw, his boning sawhorse, his nipple-pinching vise or even his fisting workbench. Perhaps it's best if one's parents conceal those things from you.
Hey, even if he is confusing them, weather forecasting has gotten much more accurate in our lifetimes. If you routinely use the weather forecast to plan an outdoor activity -- say, a daily bike ride, or a fishing trip, or whatever you as a unique individual care about in the great outdoors -- you must have noticed this improvement. I'm in my forties now and there are days when the weather forecast is so right on the money it is astounding.
I think the correct term is "de-resed." And it should be pronounced using the best possible David Warner snear.
He has no horse sense.
The hope has always been that if your air stuff is awesome enough, you don't need guys on the ground. That's at least as old as Dunkirk and as recent as the US invasion of Iraq.
Pics or it didn't happen.
As much as I occasionally feel like slashdot sucks or isn't what it used to be, when I see a post like this one, I fondly remember why I spend so many hours reading here.
Ever seen "Wild, Wild Planet", a.k.a. "I criminali della gallassia"? The Italians have had this distinction since at least 1965.
The goal of BallMer is "to kick the ball into the opponents goal by deforming the ground itself"?! My hands are shaking as I consider the joke potential here. Level playing field? The propensity of the real Ballmer to deform the earth as he does his ecstatic "I LOVE THIS COMPANY!" dance? I just can't believe it doesn't involve chairs.
Then we'll all be installing RAV antivirus for BeOS.
Yes, and it would be really helpful if those pirates kept detailed records of atmospheric CO2 concentrations as well.
From the article:
So there's that, and from what I could tell there is no mention of Gödel's incompleteness theorems, either. Meh.
Thanks for the tip, Buddy Ebsen.
Seems to me all college classrooms these days come standard with dedicated pc, projector, document cam, and other goodies. If math apps would benefit from a stylus, why not attach a Wacom tablet? Good bang for the buck until tablet pc's come down in price.
Most of my reading now is done on the web, and I'm anxious for a touch screen tablet to make that activity seem more like reading a book. But I can wait for the price to come down to within my price range. I am a math teacher, and I have two kids to feed.
Brown will be available as zune as possible.
That's almost indistinguishable from the sound that the doors make when they open.
Get your ass to Mars.
"Buy Thompson's Carbon Nanotube Bullets. The only nanotubes tough enough to penetrate nanotubes."
Your computer would probably say, "That's because you're not doing it right!"
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Liberal Arts students suddenly cried out in horror.
It's not just freshman classes that subsidize the more expensive offerings. Humanities courses cost less than sciences but are billed at the same rate, so English departments subsidize more costly departments. The people in these institutions are uncomfortable talking about who subsidizes whom. In business, the criterion is simple: make your unit profitable or it dies. Colleges have been unwilling to live by that. As a result, programs aren't cut and tuition only goes up. But as we know, unsustainable trends cannot be sustained indefinitely. The brightest minds no doubt will continue to get free rides to places like Harvard, but I suspect that some other bright minds are at work on creative ways to get tuition within reach for those who have to pay their own way.
I'm feeling lately that a lot of "advances" haven't really improved our lives. Our "technologically advanced" running shoes don't offer any more protection than what Roger Bannister wore fifty years ago when he ran a four minute mile. (See "Born to Run", Christopher McDougall). Our food supply system as a result of the "green revolution" (by which I mean industrial agriculture following World War II, not the environmental movement) that was supposed to feed the world is actually making us less healthy than the family farms that used to supply our food. (See "The Omnivore's Dilemma", Michael Pollan). Plastic, what was enthusiastically proclaimed as "the future" for Benjamin in "The Graduate" in 1968, turns out to be the bane of living things when it disrupts our endocrine systems. (See "Our Stolen Future," Theo Colborn, et al). I'm not a Luddite. I just don't see all technology or "The Future" in general exclusively through rose-tinted glasses.
I think you meant "lasso." Honestly, I think Apple out-lassoes Google, the way they corral all apps through their app store, the way users get roped into a consistent look-and-feel at the expense of choice. Google, on the other hand, gives developers just enough rope...
Are they hiring?
Google "You know, morons." It's a Mel Brooks line, delivered by the great Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles." I love my neighbors and my neighborhood, but most of them don't work in science and technology. As such, I figure they provide a pretty good gauge of what and how tech is penetrating the mainstream. My point is that when a product has the union of the feature sets of the Kindle and the iPhone, the Kindle is going to wind up on the shelf, as it did at this party.