Math is a means of describing the world. It is not entirely abstract. It can be balls or calories or dollars.
Money and Finance are all driven by math.
If you don't understand math, then you will be ill equipped to deal with any serious issue of finance that you will encounter in your life. You won't be able to understand the issues surrounding any significant financial transaction rather it be using credit cars, buying a car, buying a house, or planning for your retirement.
Math isn't just something "artificial and abstract". It's a survival skill.
Perhaps should someone clue in this "political science" professor.
In the rest of the industrialized world Algebra is considered an elementary schools subject. The idea that it is too cumbersome to bother average students with simply boggles the mind.
Formalized education should challenge the students in some way. Otherwise, there is no point in bothering at all.
It needs to be diverse enough to push everyone outside of their comfort zone if only by a small amount.
You are confusing the guy that deserves to have is name on the patent with the company that comes along afterwards and makes a product out of it.
If you are going to bother with this nonsense of ownership and the right to exclude the rest of the market then the real inventors need to be given their due. Otherwise you're an obvious hypocrite.
No. It just removes Apple's work from the realm of something that a layman would grant them a 20 year exclusive monopoly on. That is what this is really all about. That's what happens when you take a highly technical subject and present it to people that are COMPLETELY UNEDUCATED on the matter. You end up with them clamouring to give Apple the right to stiffle further innovation for the next 20 years.
By the time technology has reached a consumer a lot of iteration and collaboration has already occured. Plus underlying technology has gotten good enough for the resulting product to be viable outside the lab.
> This notion that iOS is not for the technical is something that rabid Apple haters cling to with all thier might,
No. That's the Apple Fanboy rhetoric.
According to your garden variety Apple Fanboy, "geeks" and other sorts of technical people don't matter any more. History has shifted and left us all behind.
Apple is specifically marketed based on being usable by the willfully ignorant.
If you can swim against the current, then that's just you.
> This attitude is exactly why you will never understand Apple's success.
Nonsense. That attitude PERFECTLY sums up Apple's success and always had. They have always been the overpriced option even back when they claim that they created the home computer market. Even back then they were being undercut by pretty much everyone.
Hell, I remember when their 8-bit machines cost more than everyone else's 32-bit machines.
Apple has always been the boutique for people that can't be bothered to know what they're buying. This leads to them having a "spendy" user base that tends to pay for things that might be considered shocking with PCs.
Their the biggest conspicous consumers in the market so they get to take advantage of higher margins and people who don't really value money. They've got the biggest collection of loose spenders.
That can certainly be an advantage if you are an Apple developer and Apple's market share is big enough.
However, Apple may lose early adopters that have no particular brand loyalty, or who don't need to show off, or who see Apple as yesterday's news.
Android is no more infested than MacOS and it hasn't ever really needed a draconian lockdown either. This kind of nonsense wasn't advocated by Apple Fanboys before but they're suddenly advocating it now.
You're argument only make sense if we all suddenly have collective amnesia.
Quite. He seems to be a bad person to take any sort of advice from.
However, I at least know who he is. Most of the guys propped up to defend PhoneOS as a platform and declare Android users to be a den of pirates are people I haven't even heard of before.
Although, the only know about John Romero because he's a laughing stock in the industry.
Neither do iPhone users. A lot of the download statistics at the Apple Store are skewed by freeware and adware. You need to stop drinking the kool-aid quite so much and have as much skepticism for the media darling as you do Android.
The "safe" money is on doing the same thing over again. This includes porting Angry Birds to a new platform versus trying something new and interesting that could also fail to find a market.
Of course thinking like bean counter is the death of art anyways.
Microsoft's original strategy with the xbox was to make it an extension of the PC and the APIs that Microsoft already had in place there because of it's dominant position.
Citing "xbox 360" seems like an obvious attempt to gloss over all of that.
Yes. Quite. It's funny how the Lemmings are getting their panties in a bunch over this when this nonsense could easily describe any large corporation in America.
Apple was pretty much on permanent deathwatch until a recent change of fortunes.
Things change.
The fact that Linux can't be done in by something like Apple going out of business means that it can linger on with or without a "year of the desktop". It may eventually take the world by storm but doesn't really need to.
When the trolls have been laughing at you for 10+ years while you've been happily using the thing of your choice, the rantings of the trolls don't mean so much anymore.
Also the breakdown is much more in favor of Windows. If you are some Apple Fanboy trying to lump your platform in with Windows then you're just a moron. MacOS is only slightly less obscure than Linux when it comes to 3rd party support.
PhoneOS is much more of a thing. Apple was an early mover in a new space and has something of a lead. That doesn't magically improve the situation with Apple's computer OS.
This has nothing to do with your twisted fantasies regarding Linux users.
You want "cheap bastards", then you have to look no further than Windows users that happily steal anything that isn't nailed down and pass it around to random strangers.
OEMs have done a great job of making appealing hardware for Windows. That's the only reason Windows even exists today. Otherwise MS-DOS would just be some obscure thing from the 80's that you never heard about.
Tablets are a sticky wicket because consumer price points require using a microprocessor architecture that Windows doesn't support. Even if you do port Windows to ARM, you will have nothing to run on it.
When prospective employers contact me through the Internet and current employers expect me to work through the Internet then it is no longer a "convenience".
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It should be. However, given the increasingly pro-corporate decisions by SCOTUS lately I wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that.
You must have read I different article than I did because I just went back and RTFA'ed and it is obviously an anti-intellectual diatribe.
Not surprising from a poly sci prof really.
Algebra a "higher math requirement"? Really? Next you will be advocating that we water down the english lit and composition requirements.
Here's a situation where a better background in History can provide some perspective on the matter.
Math is a means of describing the world. It is not entirely abstract. It can be balls or calories or dollars.
Money and Finance are all driven by math.
If you don't understand math, then you will be ill equipped to deal with any serious issue of finance that you will encounter in your life. You won't be able to understand the issues surrounding any significant financial transaction rather it be using credit cars, buying a car, buying a house, or planning for your retirement.
Math isn't just something "artificial and abstract". It's a survival skill.
Perhaps should someone clue in this "political science" professor.
In the rest of the industrialized world Algebra is considered an elementary schools subject. The idea that it is too cumbersome to bother average students with simply boggles the mind.
Formalized education should challenge the students in some way. Otherwise, there is no point in bothering at all.
It needs to be diverse enough to push everyone outside of their comfort zone if only by a small amount.
You are confusing the guy that deserves to have is name on the patent with the company that comes along afterwards and makes a product out of it.
If you are going to bother with this nonsense of ownership and the right to exclude the rest of the market then the real inventors need to be given their due. Otherwise you're an obvious hypocrite.
No. It just removes Apple's work from the realm of something that a layman would grant them a 20 year exclusive monopoly on. That is what this is really all about. That's what happens when you take a highly technical subject and present it to people that are COMPLETELY UNEDUCATED on the matter. You end up with them clamouring to give Apple the right to stiffle further innovation for the next 20 years.
By the time technology has reached a consumer a lot of iteration and collaboration has already occured. Plus underlying technology has gotten good enough for the resulting product to be viable outside the lab.
> This notion that iOS is not for the technical is something that rabid Apple haters cling to with all thier might,
No. That's the Apple Fanboy rhetoric.
According to your garden variety Apple Fanboy, "geeks" and other sorts of technical people don't matter any more. History has shifted and left us all behind.
Apple is specifically marketed based on being usable by the willfully ignorant.
If you can swim against the current, then that's just you.
> This attitude is exactly why you will never understand Apple's success.
Nonsense. That attitude PERFECTLY sums up Apple's success and always had. They have always been the overpriced option even back when they claim that they created the home computer market. Even back then they were being undercut by pretty much everyone.
Hell, I remember when their 8-bit machines cost more than everyone else's 32-bit machines.
Apple has always been the boutique for people that can't be bothered to know what they're buying. This leads to them having a "spendy" user base that tends to pay for things that might be considered shocking with PCs.
Their the biggest conspicous consumers in the market so they get to take advantage of higher margins and people who don't really value money. They've got the biggest collection of loose spenders.
That can certainly be an advantage if you are an Apple developer and Apple's market share is big enough.
However, Apple may lose early adopters that have no particular brand loyalty, or who don't need to show off, or who see Apple as yesterday's news.
Something else might become the new hot thing.
What situation on Android?
Android is no more infested than MacOS and it hasn't ever really needed a draconian lockdown either. This kind of nonsense wasn't advocated by Apple Fanboys before but they're suddenly advocating it now.
You're argument only make sense if we all suddenly have collective amnesia.
> John Romero is a fucking failure.
Quite. He seems to be a bad person to take any sort of advice from.
However, I at least know who he is. Most of the guys propped up to defend PhoneOS as a platform and declare Android users to be a den of pirates are people I haven't even heard of before.
Although, the only know about John Romero because he's a laughing stock in the industry.
> Android users don't buy many apps
Neither do iPhone users. A lot of the download statistics at the Apple Store are skewed by freeware and adware. You need to stop drinking the kool-aid quite so much and have as much skepticism for the media darling as you do Android.
The sample of EA flatly contradicts you.
The "safe" money is on doing the same thing over again. This includes porting Angry Birds to a new platform versus trying something new and interesting that could also fail to find a market.
Of course thinking like bean counter is the death of art anyways.
It's a phone app. By definition is is somewhat limited. You are not exactly talking about some PC monstrosity.
Microsoft's original strategy with the xbox was to make it an extension of the PC and the APIs that Microsoft already had in place there because of it's dominant position.
Citing "xbox 360" seems like an obvious attempt to gloss over all of that.
The first xbox was basically a PC.
Yes. Quite. It's funny how the Lemmings are getting their panties in a bunch over this when this nonsense could easily describe any large corporation in America.
XP and 7 exploited the same OEM channels that forced MS-DOS down everyone's throats.
"Continuing to coast" is not quite the standard the author was looking for.
Windows and office are just the extensions of successes that date back to the 90s and before.
Sharepoint? Not much to write home about.
XBox is more interesting but still mainly something that leverages Microsoft's platform dominance with MS-DOS and derivatives.
So all in all you've basically got what boils down to MS-DOS and friends. Microsoft can only coast on that so long.
New stuff is find. New stuff is great. New stuff is not the problem.
Throwing away or breaking the old stuff is the problem.
Apple was pretty much on permanent deathwatch until a recent change of fortunes.
Things change.
The fact that Linux can't be done in by something like Apple going out of business means that it can linger on with or without a "year of the desktop". It may eventually take the world by storm but doesn't really need to.
When the trolls have been laughing at you for 10+ years while you've been happily using the thing of your choice, the rantings of the trolls don't mean so much anymore.
...and Android.
Also the breakdown is much more in favor of Windows. If you are some Apple Fanboy trying to lump your platform in with Windows then you're just a moron. MacOS is only slightly less obscure than Linux when it comes to 3rd party support.
PhoneOS is much more of a thing. Apple was an early mover in a new space and has something of a lead. That doesn't magically improve the situation with Apple's computer OS.
This has nothing to do with your twisted fantasies regarding Linux users.
You want "cheap bastards", then you have to look no further than Windows users that happily steal anything that isn't nailed down and pass it around to random strangers.
Windows is the platform of rampant piracy.
What a pathetic little Microsoft shill you are.
OEMs have done a great job of making appealing hardware for Windows. That's the only reason Windows even exists today. Otherwise MS-DOS would just be some obscure thing from the 80's that you never heard about.
Tablets are a sticky wicket because consumer price points require using a microprocessor architecture that Windows doesn't support. Even if you do port Windows to ARM, you will have nothing to run on it.
Consumers can run Linux and not even be aware of it.
It's step onto this side of the 90s timewarp you appear to be posting from.
> Even DVRs only help a little, because it depends on you knowing what you will want to watch later.
You only have that problem once. Then it goes away. That's kind of what the whole point of a PVR is.
I have recording rules as old as my current PVR setup.
You can even program a PVR with your personal preferences so it goes out and finds things you might not have sought out by name.
When prospective employers contact me through the Internet and current employers expect me to work through the Internet then it is no longer a "convenience".
Same goes for the phone (land line or cell).