It's stupid to speak of science in terms of "truth" because science is never anything but a best guess. This undermines the idea that scientists are not Bishops in lab coats and another variation on the same invallid appeals to authority that dominate other important ideas.
Declaring "truth" requires more certainty than an honest scientist should ever have.
He seems to misunderstand the philisophical basis of science. He also can't seem to avoid antagonizing those he needs to reach most. He's a sort of anti-Sagan.
> so what, why would they? I doubt 1 in 20 executives has a masters-level understanding of mathematics nor do we ask them to.
Is that supposed to be an example of a school teacher's grasp on logic and rhetoric?
An executive usually has a masters degree relevant to their field, namely an MBA. That's the key here. What's relevant to the task? Most teachers are taught about "teaching" rather than being competent in their subject area.
If you're willing to explore something other than what Microsoft has spoon fed you, there's more than enough shiny happy development interfaces out there.
The media loves to push this narrative. It's almost as bad as other ideas they feel compelled to shove down everyone's throats.
I'm not convinced. Storage requirements only seem to be escalating while storage technology for the most part doesn't seem to be keeping up. It doesn't matter how much the pundits wish their fantasy were true.
An all flash array is as impractical now as a single SSD drive was 10 years ago (or 15). It's an application limited by it's pricetag.
You can build all sorts of crazy things if you can spend someone else's money freely.
In 10 years, spinning rust won't be nearly as obscure as tape is now.
You, that teacher, and this article all seem like excuses to overlook actual performance and to find new ways to hand out bogus grades based on entirely subjective metrics.
Much like the "self esteem" fad, this seems like an excuse to give better grades to the unworthy and an excuse to be blatantly anti-intellectual. School teachers were generally the less contientious students.
Almost but not quite. Anyone that doesn't follow their particular brand of Islam is a target. This includes other Muslims. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the news.
The hero of Vincennes is as much of a target as the people he saved.
> Bullshit. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be an asshole to anyone at any time.
Yes it is actually. You have just fallen off the slippery slope that a great deal of us are worried about. You have quite effectively identified the big problem with any attempts to "fight online harrasment".
I once had a next door neighor that had 4 cars on blocks in his driveway.
A) This guy is cooler than any neighbor I've ever had in an HOA B) This guy's car collection did not devalue my home one bit or make it harder for me to sell it (location baby).
HOAs are just an affront to your personal liberties and a money pit. Their enforced conformity preserves nothing and gives you nothing (except some light fascism).
They don't even enforce the useful (safety) rules.
No. You just have an expensive plan imposed on you by a local monopoly at gunpoint. You are stuck with that plan regardless of how effective or responsive it is.
I would rather spend my own money as I see fit.
And I am already taxed for the poor and the elderly. So it's not quite like the guilded age image some try to pretend the US is.
Planned economies often miss important details (like flouride toothpaste) or drive away useful goods and services.
These practices haven't lowered airfares. They have been a run-around to AVOID raising prices due to the increasing price of fuel. Nearly NONE of the airlines accounted for fluctuations in the price of fuel. They are stuck in a cut throat race to the bottom market where no one wants to be seen raising prices to cover costs.
In the beginning, it was just a stupid shell game.
That's funny because I have taken MREs through TSA checkpoints and been pretty upfront about it when they ask me what they are looking at in the X-ray scanner. They didn't seem to bat an eyelash at it.
ISIS is the modern manifestation of the Islamic empire. They conquered most of the Roman world. This is why Rome itself is so powerful to begin with. Islam WIPED OUT all of the other early centers of Xianity.
Whining only about Catholics is a little one sided.
The problem isn't so much that one religion or the other is bad or not bad but the fact that one of them is still powerful enough to spawn theocracies.
No. I think it's a broad cultural issue. People tend to be drawn to the well glamorized professions. Like anything else in America, this is a SALES issue and has nothing to do with the tech industry.
It's not glamorized. It doesn't have a reputation for being lucrative.
The geek bashing done by the feminist press doesn't help.
"Arguing the law" here is silly. As a crime, NO ONE cares. As a tort, no one seems to be willing to step forward. Until they do, you can't say there are any damages. Even then, what would those damages even be?
There is simply no basis for "pretentious moral outrage".
If I were genuinely interested in a sport, I would want something dedicated to that sport/league and not run through the filter of some other middle man. "but sports" is a poor reason to put up with ESPN. It's time that this stuff got decoupled from monopolistic middle men.
Besides. A lot of "event sports" is shown on OTA broadcast anyways.
Again, the value of cable for "but sports" goes way beyond putting up with ESPN as a monopolistic middle man. Unfettered on demand streaming has even more potential for sports than it does other content because much of it is regional and currently subject to blackouts.
If you aren't terribly impatient, Netflix can displace a large number of channels including some that are in this new Dish bundle. The only thing this bundle gets you is the new stuff that you can already get PPV. It might even be cheaper as PPV.
Is what's in that bundle worth $20 per month? Is it worth $20 per month to some randomly selected user?
...because he will be an old geezer set in his ways pining for the "good old days" when everything wasn't total crap.
My problem is that there is a big gap between "wanting to buy anything new" and having these radio cable services available. So my costs are already spent and there's nothing for the likes of Pandora to sell me.
The main bulk of what I would listen to on such a service was already bought and paid for and ripped before even iTunes was launched.
Even if I were just starting out now, there would be some critical mass where it no longer makes sense to pay a monthly rental for no new material.
This is what "cord cutting" is about. It's just more stark with video because the costs are non-trivial.
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It's stupid to speak of science in terms of "truth" because science is never anything but a best guess. This undermines the idea that scientists are not Bishops in lab coats and another variation on the same invallid appeals to authority that dominate other important ideas.
Declaring "truth" requires more certainty than an honest scientist should ever have.
It is more the domain of religion.
He seems to misunderstand the philisophical basis of science. He also can't seem to avoid antagonizing those he needs to reach most. He's a sort of anti-Sagan.
HELL. Just requiring one year of training in their field PERIOD would be a massive improvement over what we have now.
> so what, why would they? I doubt 1 in 20 executives has a masters-level understanding of mathematics nor do we ask them to.
Is that supposed to be an example of a school teacher's grasp on logic and rhetoric?
An executive usually has a masters degree relevant to their field, namely an MBA. That's the key here. What's relevant to the task? Most teachers are taught about "teaching" rather than being competent in their subject area.
Teacher versus mathemetician or chemist.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
If you're willing to explore something other than what Microsoft has spoon fed you, there's more than enough shiny happy development interfaces out there.
The media loves to push this narrative. It's almost as bad as other ideas they feel compelled to shove down everyone's throats.
I'm not convinced. Storage requirements only seem to be escalating while storage technology for the most part doesn't seem to be keeping up. It doesn't matter how much the pundits wish their fantasy were true.
An all flash array is as impractical now as a single SSD drive was 10 years ago (or 15). It's an application limited by it's pricetag.
You can build all sorts of crazy things if you can spend someone else's money freely.
In 10 years, spinning rust won't be nearly as obscure as tape is now.
...except this isn't about Slashdot users.
You admit this yourself by referring to Amazon.
They are p*ssing off "normal" people with this. That's hardly surprising. They gutted the standard edition of the program that everyone's used to.
> Also, explain to this Canadian why NASA is researching climate.
Studying climate generally requires lobbing things into the sky.
That's covered by the ASA part of NASA.
Seriously? You're going to throw that out? Most of those kids ALREADY end up dead or in jail.
Also, you are ignoring the gap between spooner girls in academia versus the working class variety. They are worlds apart.
You, that teacher, and this article all seem like excuses to overlook actual performance and to find new ways to hand out bogus grades based on entirely subjective metrics.
Much like the "self esteem" fad, this seems like an excuse to give better grades to the unworthy and an excuse to be blatantly anti-intellectual. School teachers were generally the less contientious students.
> Indians think of Judaism as that new fangled sect
> Hinduism is contemporary with the ancient Greek and Iranian religions.
Whenever you see a menorah. That's a remembrance of when that "new fangled sect" collided head on with that ancient Greek religion.
You seem to be a great confirmation that this is an Indian flavor of "Chekov-ism" we are seeing here.
> You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them,
Insults aren't the same as murder in any sane or civilized society.
Liberty is a difficult virtue sometimes (like any virtue).
Almost but not quite. Anyone that doesn't follow their particular brand of Islam is a target. This includes other Muslims. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the news.
The hero of Vincennes is as much of a target as the people he saved.
> Bullshit. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be an asshole to anyone at any time.
Yes it is actually. You have just fallen off the slippery slope that a great deal of us are worried about. You have quite effectively identified the big problem with any attempts to "fight online harrasment".
I once had a next door neighor that had 4 cars on blocks in his driveway.
A) This guy is cooler than any neighbor I've ever had in an HOA
B) This guy's car collection did not devalue my home one bit or make it harder for me to sell it (location baby).
HOAs are just an affront to your personal liberties and a money pit. Their enforced conformity preserves nothing and gives you nothing (except some light fascism).
They don't even enforce the useful (safety) rules.
No. You just have an expensive plan imposed on you by a local monopoly at gunpoint. You are stuck with that plan regardless of how effective or responsive it is.
I would rather spend my own money as I see fit.
And I am already taxed for the poor and the elderly. So it's not quite like the guilded age image some try to pretend the US is.
Planned economies often miss important details (like flouride toothpaste) or drive away useful goods and services.
These practices haven't lowered airfares. They have been a run-around to AVOID raising prices due to the increasing price of fuel. Nearly NONE of the airlines accounted for fluctuations in the price of fuel. They are stuck in a cut throat race to the bottom market where no one wants to be seen raising prices to cover costs.
In the beginning, it was just a stupid shell game.
Now it's a crass money grab.
That's funny because I have taken MREs through TSA checkpoints and been pretty upfront about it when they ask me what they are looking at in the X-ray scanner. They didn't seem to bat an eyelash at it.
That includes the MRE peanut butter.
If you want to be "well rounded" there's enough sports broadcast over the airwaves. You don't need cable for that level of sports.
Cable sports is only necessary for the obsessed wannabes that are just another version of the GamerGate stereotype.
ISIS is the modern manifestation of the Islamic empire. They conquered most of the Roman world. This is why Rome itself is so powerful to begin with. Islam WIPED OUT all of the other early centers of Xianity.
Whining only about Catholics is a little one sided.
The problem isn't so much that one religion or the other is bad or not bad but the fact that one of them is still powerful enough to spawn theocracies.
No. I think it's a broad cultural issue. People tend to be drawn to the well glamorized professions. Like anything else in America, this is a SALES issue and has nothing to do with the tech industry.
It's not glamorized. It doesn't have a reputation for being lucrative.
The geek bashing done by the feminist press doesn't help.
It doesn't matter if it's fair use or not.
It's historical preservation.
"Arguing the law" here is silly. As a crime, NO ONE cares. As a tort, no one seems to be willing to step forward. Until they do, you can't say there are any damages. Even then, what would those damages even be?
There is simply no basis for "pretentious moral outrage".
If I were genuinely interested in a sport, I would want something dedicated to that sport/league and not run through the filter of some other middle man. "but sports" is a poor reason to put up with ESPN. It's time that this stuff got decoupled from monopolistic middle men.
Besides. A lot of "event sports" is shown on OTA broadcast anyways.
Again, the value of cable for "but sports" goes way beyond putting up with ESPN as a monopolistic middle man. Unfettered on demand streaming has even more potential for sports than it does other content because much of it is regional and currently subject to blackouts.
If you aren't terribly impatient, Netflix can displace a large number of channels including some that are in this new Dish bundle. The only thing this bundle gets you is the new stuff that you can already get PPV. It might even be cheaper as PPV.
Is what's in that bundle worth $20 per month? Is it worth $20 per month to some randomly selected user?
Very uncertain...
...because he will be an old geezer set in his ways pining for the "good old days" when everything wasn't total crap.
My problem is that there is a big gap between "wanting to buy anything new" and having these radio cable services available. So my costs are already spent and there's nothing for the likes of Pandora to sell me.
The main bulk of what I would listen to on such a service was already bought and paid for and ripped before even iTunes was launched.
Even if I were just starting out now, there would be some critical mass where it no longer makes sense to pay a monthly rental for no new material.
This is what "cord cutting" is about. It's just more stark with video because the costs are non-trivial.