> In the soda example, at 3 soda's a day per $1.50 a piece
Good god, where you people getting your numbers? A soda is more like a quarter. Even if you get it out of a machine, it's still not likely not going to be as much as $1.50.
Informative? Informative my ass. You're trying to sell a total fantasy based on completely out of whack numbers.
"skipping a movie from time to time"
You simply don't get it. You have absolutely no clue what working stiffs (or the poor) have to deal with or how to relate to them or their challenges.
It's really hilarious how some of you twits think that anyone can get anywhere put socking away triffling amounts of money. The math simply doesn't add up. Those little bits aren't just big enough in aggregate. A key distinction of the working poor is that they don't have any discretionary income to speak of and not even much income in general.
"Saving for college" just isn't happening.
Preparing for college is another matter and something that is achievable. They money part of it will sort itself out in other ways. The idea that the working poor can pay for it beforehand is a pipedream and a destraction. It's filling their heads with stupid, destructive, harmful, untrue and unrealistic ideas.
It's the kind of crap you want to get out of their heads rather than implanting it in there.
It gets even better. Someone may view handouts as inherently harmful to a person, their pride, and their ability to fend for themselves. It may not even be about whether "they deserve it" at all.
> something like 86% of people in prison are suffering from severe mental illness.
When you consider the breakdown of prison populations in the US, that leads to some interesting conclusions. They're probably not the sort you would own up to either.
> You wouldn't want just any Jerome Doe being able to write prescriptions for norepinherine would you?
Yes you would.
While the "authorization" part of this bad analogy might be a problem, the consumer knowledge aspect of this hits on a very important point. You should never seek to make yourself helpless or at the mercy of people that know more than you do. This is especially true when all you really need to do is pick up the right reference manual.
It can quite literally be a matter of life and death as many of these "authorize" and "trained" indidviduals SCREW UP on a regular and ongoing basis.
You're funny. The PDR is even more accessible than documentation about programming.
The usefulness of a tablet is limited by the corporate IT policies that surround it. There have already been educational software suppressed on both major platforms for various reasons.
In order for an educational tool to be really useful, it needs to be in control of the educator.
In any ecosystem there are flagship species that will thrive if that ecosystem is healthy. Their success is has much broader implications than one might fathom from fixating on the most superficial view of the situation.
There is no incentive in government to do things effectively or efficiently.
A government solution will always be more costly because any external pressures to work in an economically sustainable fashion have been removed. Large corporations that are "too big to fail" suffer from similar problems.
Fortunately, we still have plenty of startups and small companies to bridge the gap.
Government should not be the only available option.
Government should not be the first option to be considered.
> You can get smaller PCs however most of them you'll have to build it yourself.
This is the PC market we're talking about here. Just about anything you can think of, there's already some speciality vendor out there trying to fill the niche. The NUC is just the tip of the iceberg.
> And the cooling is not always great.
You mean like my Mini that cooked itself? The one I mentioned in the post you were responding too?
Apple gear is nothing special in this regard despite of all of the mindless and unjustified accolades they get.
Just goes to show what utter trash journalism has become. Invariably, if you have any knowledge of a subject you can't get over just how badly "journalists" get things wrong or intentionally leave out crucial details.
> Are there many other PCs as small as a Mac Mini?
Are you really that ignorant?
PCs come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and always have. I bought first low profile PC before Apple ever considered having something similar.
I even advocated that Apple build such machines right here on this website.
I bought my own Mac Minis because they were CHEAP, not because there weren't other x86 options available. Once that stopped being the case, I ditched Apple hardware.
The fact that my "ION" Mini cooked itself also didn't help.
This reminds me of a mini Mac Plus I saw on Digg yesterday. It was supposed to be the world's smallest Mac. It was not running Apple kit but was a Raspberry PI running an emulator.
Without a discrete GPU, a Mini is a pretty generic system that can be replicated by any number of mITX boards.
If you don't need to boot MacOS, going out of your way to use Apple hardware is a little silly.
> Well, if you put it like that, then yeah, the court's decision would be nonsensical. But the court didn't say that. The court said that you share responsibility if you have good reasons to believe the text receiver is not merely driving, but will read the text while driving.
You repeating the nonsense doesn't make it any less moronic.
The driver has free will. The driver as moral awareness. The driver is a legal adult. The driver is capable of being in control of himself and the situation.
It's the driver's duty to not do dangerous stupid shit.
You demean all of us when you try to strip people of moral responsibility for their actions. You turn us into something less than human.
This isn't just about whether or not people believe in some vague idea of some magical creature off somewhere that may nor may not be relevant to their everyday lives. This is about the kind of people that would gladly subject you to Sharia Law (or equivalent) if given the opportunity.
Merely "Believing in God" is not "religiousity". The people from this megachurch would be the first ones to tell you so and they would be more obnoxious about it too.
It's far less shocking when much of the rest of the world is no more enlightened than we are. Standards should be applied equally or not at all. Although some people just want to engage in mindless America bashing.
Sounds like a nice example of "correlation does not imply causation". They have found two beliefs associated with the same sort of bias and managed to demonstrate that they occur together in some people.
Between the bling capital of the planet (Dubai) and the ubergeek capital of the planet (Israel), there should have been at least one middle eastern city on that list.
Interestingly enough this list reads like a list of the biggest capitols on the planet. That makes the entire list far less interesting. The fact that you can get good internet in Stockholm is not nearly as interesting as how that compares to what you might see up in the fiords.
NO country has more than one city on the list, that includes countries that are elevated above the US in these metrics.
Slashdot Mirror
Ban software patents and business method patents and probably any other type of "new" patent from the last 20 or 30 years.
The problem is hardly as difficult as you try to make it out.
It's very easy to identify really.
> In the soda example, at 3 soda's a day per $1.50 a piece
Good god, where you people getting your numbers? A soda is more like a quarter. Even if you get it out of a machine, it's still not likely not going to be as much as $1.50.
Informative? Informative my ass. You're trying to sell a total fantasy based on completely out of whack numbers.
"skipping a movie from time to time"
You simply don't get it. You have absolutely no clue what working stiffs (or the poor) have to deal with or how to relate to them or their challenges.
It's really hilarious how some of you twits think that anyone can get anywhere put socking away triffling amounts of money. The math simply doesn't add up. Those little bits aren't just big enough in aggregate. A key distinction of the working poor is that they don't have any discretionary income to speak of and not even much income in general.
"Saving for college" just isn't happening.
Preparing for college is another matter and something that is achievable. They money part of it will sort itself out in other ways. The idea that the working poor can pay for it beforehand is a pipedream and a destraction. It's filling their heads with stupid, destructive, harmful, untrue and unrealistic ideas.
It's the kind of crap you want to get out of their heads rather than implanting it in there.
It gets even better. Someone may view handouts as inherently harmful to a person, their pride, and their ability to fend for themselves. It may not even be about whether "they deserve it" at all.
> something like 86% of people in prison are suffering from severe mental illness.
When you consider the breakdown of prison populations in the US, that leads to some interesting conclusions. They're probably not the sort you would own up to either.
> You wouldn't want just any Jerome Doe being able to write prescriptions for norepinherine would you?
Yes you would.
While the "authorization" part of this bad analogy might be a problem, the consumer knowledge aspect of this hits on a very important point. You should never seek to make yourself helpless or at the mercy of people that know more than you do. This is especially true when all you really need to do is pick up the right reference manual.
It can quite literally be a matter of life and death as many of these "authorize" and "trained" indidviduals SCREW UP on a regular and ongoing basis.
You're funny. The PDR is even more accessible than documentation about programming.
The usefulness of a tablet is limited by the corporate IT policies that surround it. There have already been educational software suppressed on both major platforms for various reasons.
In order for an educational tool to be really useful, it needs to be in control of the educator.
In any ecosystem there are flagship species that will thrive if that ecosystem is healthy. Their success is has much broader implications than one might fathom from fixating on the most superficial view of the situation.
There is no incentive in government to do things effectively or efficiently.
A government solution will always be more costly because any external pressures to work in an economically sustainable fashion have been removed. Large corporations that are "too big to fail" suffer from similar problems.
Fortunately, we still have plenty of startups and small companies to bridge the gap.
Government should not be the only available option.
Government should not be the first option to be considered.
> one of the brightest minds of our time.
You must be joking? He's just some talking head.
The rest of the Astronomers Union probably view him as some hack with marginally better social skills.
> You can get smaller PCs however most of them you'll have to build it yourself.
This is the PC market we're talking about here. Just about anything you can think of, there's already some speciality vendor out there trying to fill the niche. The NUC is just the tip of the iceberg.
> And the cooling is not always great.
You mean like my Mini that cooked itself? The one I mentioned in the post you were responding too?
Apple gear is nothing special in this regard despite of all of the mindless and unjustified accolades they get.
> What made you go off on an Apple rant
The usual bullshit assumption that Apple is inherently superior rather than terribly generic and behind the curve.
Low profile PCs are commonplace and easy to find if you just bother to look.
Just use a f*cking search engine.
Just goes to show what utter trash journalism has become. Invariably, if you have any knowledge of a subject you can't get over just how badly "journalists" get things wrong or intentionally leave out crucial details.
A sysadmin had root? Imagine that?
> Are there many other PCs as small as a Mac Mini?
Are you really that ignorant?
PCs come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and always have. I bought first low profile PC before Apple ever considered having something similar.
I even advocated that Apple build such machines right here on this website.
I bought my own Mac Minis because they were CHEAP, not because there weren't other x86 options available. Once that stopped being the case, I ditched Apple hardware.
The fact that my "ION" Mini cooked itself also didn't help.
This reminds me of a mini Mac Plus I saw on Digg yesterday. It was supposed to be the world's smallest Mac. It was not running Apple kit but was a Raspberry PI running an emulator.
Without a discrete GPU, a Mini is a pretty generic system that can be replicated by any number of mITX boards.
If you don't need to boot MacOS, going out of your way to use Apple hardware is a little silly.
> Well, if you put it like that, then yeah, the court's decision would be nonsensical. But the court didn't say that. The court said that you share responsibility if you have good reasons to believe the text receiver is not merely driving, but will read the text while driving.
You repeating the nonsense doesn't make it any less moronic.
The driver has free will. The driver as moral awareness. The driver is a legal adult. The driver is capable of being in control of himself and the situation.
It's the driver's duty to not do dangerous stupid shit.
You demean all of us when you try to strip people of moral responsibility for their actions. You turn us into something less than human.
This isn't just about whether or not people believe in some vague idea of some magical creature off somewhere that may nor may not be relevant to their everyday lives. This is about the kind of people that would gladly subject you to Sharia Law (or equivalent) if given the opportunity.
Merely "Believing in God" is not "religiousity". The people from this megachurch would be the first ones to tell you so and they would be more obnoxious about it too.
It's far less shocking when much of the rest of the world is no more enlightened than we are. Standards should be applied equally or not at all. Although some people just want to engage in mindless America bashing.
Sounds like a nice example of "correlation does not imply causation". They have found two beliefs associated with the same sort of bias and managed to demonstrate that they occur together in some people.
> Ooh. A shiny new war. Goody.
No. This war has a great deal of mileage already.
The war has already killed plenty of people. There's very little the US could do at this point to increase the scale of destruction in Syria.
>> The problem is that the rules are phenomenally complex.
>
> Sure they are, but that doesn't stop 90% of people from filing on time,
Most people have taxes that are trivial because they have no money to speak of and do nothing interesting financially.
Is that you Joe?
With the state of modern journalism, you can't necessarily trust the contents of the linked article.
Between the bling capital of the planet (Dubai) and the ubergeek capital of the planet (Israel), there should have been at least one middle eastern city on that list.
Interestingly enough this list reads like a list of the biggest capitols on the planet. That makes the entire list far less interesting. The fact that you can get good internet in Stockholm is not nearly as interesting as how that compares to what you might see up in the fiords.
NO country has more than one city on the list, that includes countries that are elevated above the US in these metrics.
I had an uncle that tried to do that. Turned out that his physics degree was so esoteric that he had trouble finding a job.
He ended up being a produce clerk.