. ..but it is not what I would call a healthy lifestyle choice. There are lots of sports and other active hobbies that are inherently fun and also a nice break from staring at a screen.
Here's an idea. Instead of being a "Flash Developer", how about you just be a developer and understand that a language is a tool and like all tools, there's a right one for the job. Tiny device programming is a different art form, one of where less really is more and it isn't necessarily an easy world in which to work.
Sorry to be a buzz kill.
I wonder if Steve Jobs agrees with you that the iPhone & iPad are tiny devices that are so inherently limited that they can't be expected to support ubiquitous tools. Tools, I will add, that are tailored towards creating exactly the kind of multimedia/interactive apps that the iPhone and iPad are typically associated with.
Jobs can BS all he wants. The ban of Flash is either about his business goals, the inability of his products to live up to his own hype, or both.
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I emphasize that because few people actually read. I've read about studies indicating that only 10% of people who buy books read them to the end. I read almost all my books to the end. I like to read, thus I am in the minority of readers.
Most people like the idea of reading, but rarely actually read. These people are in the majority. They often buy books, but not in the quantity of the people who read. I certainly see them buying more iPads than Kindles, but how many books are going to actually be purchased by them? Kindle owners buy books all the time - a blog I follow linked to a short book being sold by a community member for $4 on Kindle, and a few days later the author thanked the community for downloading and reading his book in measurable volume.
What? You read about studies. You like to read -- why not read the actual studies? Does this alleged majority that only reads 10% of books read the same number of books? Do you know that they don't read 10% of the books they start, but they start 20x as many books as people who read 100% of books and thus actually read twice as much? Were these figures adjusted for page count?
A blog you follow mentions a book that Kindle users downloaded in "measureable volume"? And this proves your point? And how do you know that the downloaders read the book. Oh wait, they are Kindle users -- of course they read it.
Y'know, most people like the idea of being better read than everyone else. . .
There was _one_ paper, in _one_ journal that suggested a link between vaccines and autism. The study was widely criticised by many scientists and was subsequently retracted. Hardly the protracted controversy that you imply it was.
But it only takes one such rouge theory to inspire an entire movement of amateur know-it-alls and conspiracy theorists. Such was the case with the vaccine/autism link (or "cover-up" as I am certain a legion of misguided people still view it).
I can't quite figure out if this is flamebait, or if I'm just the only person who can't make a connection between liquid sensors in a consumer electronic device and a dystopian police state.
Orwell wrote a couple other things besides 1984. Just sayin'. . .
This is less about science and more about state's rights. They are just piggybacking on the current trendiness of climate change denialism to make a power grab.
They should do the same with gravity. Instandly they will have flying cars.
I live in Salt Lake City, and there is an effort to overturn child saftey seat laws for trips that are within a certain distance and under 25mph. Doctors and safety experts who point out that a 25mph crash can still be devastating are cast as nanny-staters who want to curtail parent's rights.
Once these clowns re-establish man's dominion over inertia, I am sure they will get around to gravity.
IME, this is typical of a job market where there is an abundance of qualified labor. Decisions are made based on exactly the kinds of distinctions described by GP. Even if it isn't overtly racist, sexist, ageist, etc. the end result is often the same -- denial of opportunity and persistence of the attitudes and environment that created the "discomfort" in the first place.
One, the end demographics are entirely irrelevant, so long as the process is colorblind.
The process is not colorblind.
Two, someone who is a "mediocre jack-off" by Apple or Google standards would easily be in the top five, and probably still in the top one, percent anywhere else in the world. So my second point still stands.
My contention is that they are mediocre by common standards, so your point is still just you kidding yourself.
Makes me wonder about previous posters claiming they've never seen an African-American engineering student in their classes. Its possible that they are there and yet unseen by certain people.
I am half black, half white, and don't always relate to either half. One the whole, the black side of my family is much more worldly, educated and open minded. Thats just how it worked out in this particular case. Members of my father's family have spread all over the country and lived in foreign countries. Members of my mother's family have tended to stay in the Western US. Their attitudes are about what you would expect, even if you knew nothing of their skin color.
I think that these stand-offish attitudes are another relic of physical and often legal segregation that is, again, part of living memory for many Americans. Its not as if there was mass migration for the purposes of integration once the Civil Rights movement took hold. Where members of either culture have since moved to seek a better or different life, I think the cultural chasm narrows. Where insular communities (of any race or ethnicity) persist, ignorance and distrust of outsiders persists.
I've often heard that Africans do not naturally relate to African Americans. Is this so surprising? The United States and most African nations are as different as can be. Why do we assume that blacks of vastly divergent cultures would automatically relate?
But if those asshole high school teachers had succeeded in keeping him out of architecture school, it would be their responsibility; NOT that of any architecture firm years down the road. Get it?
Firms should not be held to unreasonable standards. However, the point I was addressing was the relative dearth of African American engineers, not whether they are being discriminated in the workplace. Get it?
I grew up in the Bay Area, started programming there and have several friends who did the same. There are plenty of really smart people and plenty of mediocre jack-offs, just like any other place.
We live in an age of junk science where money/fame has more influence on individuals than a desire to know the truth.
But the desire to one-up each other trumps the truth, money and fame, and specious nitpicks of people engaged in incredibly complex analysis is a cheap thrill.
If nothing came of it, that would be a defacto admission on the part of the Mercury-News that Google is within the norm for hiring diversity. It wouldn't be front page news, but it would be something that Google could point to if the question ever comes up again. By clamming up, Google is only inviting speculation. By citing an absurd reason like trade secrets, they are inviting skepticism.
I'm 35. My father was actively discouraged from pursuing a career in architecture by hostile highschool teachers (he now has a PHD in architecture). Based on a lot of replies (not yours), it takes more than a math genius to understand why there are still very few African American engineers. African Americans remain a numeric minority, only one generation (at best) removed from being told by their own teachers that they are too stupid to aspire to careers like engineering.
As with advertising, proceeds from data mining offset the cost of product/service in question. If they don't send you a gift at the end of the season, neither do they send you a bill or make you pay more up-front.
What do Presidential elections have to do with the malignancy that was Pete Wilson, or the incompetence of Arnold? Their last Democratic Governor was recalled.
California is as much an object lesson in the stupidity of Reganism as "liberal ideas" (liberal ideas like props 187, 209 and 8?).
But of course, Arnold is RINO. Even when the party of personal responsibility is in power, they are not personally responsible.
Bullshit. The last Power Mac G5 was released 2005 and Leopard was the current release of OS X until August 2009 where PPC support was dropped. That's a bit more than three years and it certainly came after the AppleCare agreements ran out, which means that most businesses with a sane strategy has already began looking at replacing the aging workstations. Also, 10.5 is still getting security updates.
Four years is indeed more than three years, but hardly the point where any sane business is going to accept that their workstations are so aged that they should require total replacement.
Typically, the solution is much more malleable than time or budget. Determine the baseline requirements. Then determine the resources available (time and money). The project will likely fill the latter two. Success should be measured against adherence to the requirements, not time or money saved.
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. . .but it is not what I would call a healthy lifestyle choice. There are lots of sports and other active hobbies that are inherently fun and also a nice break from staring at a screen.
Here's an idea. Instead of being a "Flash Developer", how about you just be a developer and understand that a language is a tool and like all tools, there's a right one for the job. Tiny device programming is a different art form, one of where less really is more and it isn't necessarily an easy world in which to work.
Sorry to be a buzz kill.
I wonder if Steve Jobs agrees with you that the iPhone & iPad are tiny devices that are so inherently limited that they can't be expected to support ubiquitous tools. Tools, I will add, that are tailored towards creating exactly the kind of multimedia/interactive apps that the iPhone and iPad are typically associated with.
Jobs can BS all he wants. The ban of Flash is either about his business goals, the inability of his products to live up to his own hype, or both.
I emphasize that because few people actually read. I've read about studies indicating that only 10% of people who buy books read them to the end. I read almost all my books to the end. I like to read, thus I am in the minority of readers.
Most people like the idea of reading, but rarely actually read. These people are in the majority. They often buy books, but not in the quantity of the people who read. I certainly see them buying more iPads than Kindles, but how many books are going to actually be purchased by them? Kindle owners buy books all the time - a blog I follow linked to a short book being sold by a community member for $4 on Kindle, and a few days later the author thanked the community for downloading and reading his book in measurable volume.
What? You read about studies. You like to read -- why not read the actual studies? Does this alleged majority that only reads 10% of books read the same number of books? Do you know that they don't read 10% of the books they start, but they start 20x as many books as people who read 100% of books and thus actually read twice as much? Were these figures adjusted for page count?
A blog you follow mentions a book that Kindle users downloaded in "measureable volume"? And this proves your point? And how do you know that the downloaders read the book. Oh wait, they are Kindle users -- of course they read it.
Y'know, most people like the idea of being better read than everyone else. . .
How the heck do you get data on or off the damn thing??
You don't need to do that.
Anyone that relies on a single app, cateogry of app, or platform for their financial well being is crazy.
That is a completely batshit crazy load of crap.
There was _one_ paper, in _one_ journal that suggested a link between vaccines and autism. The study was widely criticised by many scientists and was subsequently retracted. Hardly the protracted controversy that you imply it was.
But it only takes one such rouge theory to inspire an entire movement of amateur know-it-alls and conspiracy theorists. Such was the case with the vaccine/autism link (or "cover-up" as I am certain a legion of misguided people still view it).
I can't quite figure out if this is flamebait, or if I'm just the only person who can't make a connection between liquid sensors in a consumer electronic device and a dystopian police state.
Orwell wrote a couple other things besides 1984. Just sayin'. . .
This is less about science and more about state's rights. They are just piggybacking on the current trendiness of climate change denialism to make a power grab.
They should do the same with gravity. Instandly they will have flying cars.
I live in Salt Lake City, and there is an effort to overturn child saftey seat laws for trips that are within a certain distance and under 25mph. Doctors and safety experts who point out that a 25mph crash can still be devastating are cast as nanny-staters who want to curtail parent's rights.
Once these clowns re-establish man's dominion over inertia, I am sure they will get around to gravity.
IME, this is typical of a job market where there is an abundance of qualified labor. Decisions are made based on exactly the kinds of distinctions described by GP. Even if it isn't overtly racist, sexist, ageist, etc. the end result is often the same -- denial of opportunity and persistence of the attitudes and environment that created the "discomfort" in the first place.
One, the end demographics are entirely irrelevant, so long as the process is colorblind.
The process is not colorblind.
Two, someone who is a "mediocre jack-off" by Apple or Google standards would easily be in the top five, and probably still in the top one, percent anywhere else in the world. So my second point still stands.
My contention is that they are mediocre by common standards, so your point is still just you kidding yourself.
Makes me wonder about previous posters claiming they've never seen an African-American engineering student in their classes. Its possible that they are there and yet unseen by certain people.
And the word "pad" has no other meaning than sanitary napkin. Good luck finding a word that isn't a euphemism for something.
"Pad" is not a euphemism. If Apple came up with some kind of electronic tabloid reader and called it the "iRag", that would be a euphemism.
I am half black, half white, and don't always relate to either half. One the whole, the black side of my family is much more worldly, educated and open minded. Thats just how it worked out in this particular case. Members of my father's family have spread all over the country and lived in foreign countries. Members of my mother's family have tended to stay in the Western US. Their attitudes are about what you would expect, even if you knew nothing of their skin color.
I think that these stand-offish attitudes are another relic of physical and often legal segregation that is, again, part of living memory for many Americans. Its not as if there was mass migration for the purposes of integration once the Civil Rights movement took hold. Where members of either culture have since moved to seek a better or different life, I think the cultural chasm narrows. Where insular communities (of any race or ethnicity) persist, ignorance and distrust of outsiders persists.
I've often heard that Africans do not naturally relate to African Americans. Is this so surprising? The United States and most African nations are as different as can be. Why do we assume that blacks of vastly divergent cultures would automatically relate?
But if those asshole high school teachers had succeeded in keeping him out of architecture school, it would be their responsibility; NOT that of any architecture firm years down the road. Get it?
Firms should not be held to unreasonable standards. However, the point I was addressing was the relative dearth of African American engineers, not whether they are being discriminated in the workplace. Get it?
I grew up in the Bay Area, started programming there and have several friends who did the same. There are plenty of really smart people and plenty of mediocre jack-offs, just like any other place.
We live in an age of junk science where money/fame has more influence on individuals than a desire to know the truth.
But the desire to one-up each other trumps the truth, money and fame, and specious nitpicks of people engaged in incredibly complex analysis is a cheap thrill.
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If nothing came of it, that would be a defacto admission on the part of the Mercury-News that Google is within the norm for hiring diversity. It wouldn't be front page news, but it would be something that Google could point to if the question ever comes up again. By clamming up, Google is only inviting speculation. By citing an absurd reason like trade secrets, they are inviting skepticism.
I'm 35. My father was actively discouraged from pursuing a career in architecture by hostile highschool teachers (he now has a PHD in architecture). Based on a lot of replies (not yours), it takes more than a math genius to understand why there are still very few African American engineers. African Americans remain a numeric minority, only one generation (at best) removed from being told by their own teachers that they are too stupid to aspire to careers like engineering.
Google is basically stipulating that race and gender are influential in its hiring process. Seems like they've backed themselves in to a corner here.
As with advertising, proceeds from data mining offset the cost of product/service in question. If they don't send you a gift at the end of the season, neither do they send you a bill or make you pay more up-front.
He's not a TdF champion, he's a cheat who had his medal withdrawn.
I don't think the prize for winning the TDF is a medal.
What do Presidential elections have to do with the malignancy that was Pete Wilson, or the incompetence of Arnold? Their last Democratic Governor was recalled.
California is as much an object lesson in the stupidity of Reganism as "liberal ideas" (liberal ideas like props 187, 209 and 8?).
But of course, Arnold is RINO. Even when the party of personal responsibility is in power, they are not personally responsible.
Bullshit. The last Power Mac G5 was released 2005 and Leopard was the current release of OS X until August 2009 where PPC support was dropped. That's a bit more than three years and it certainly came after the AppleCare agreements ran out, which means that most businesses with a sane strategy has already began looking at replacing the aging workstations. Also, 10.5 is still getting security updates.
Four years is indeed more than three years, but hardly the point where any sane business is going to accept that their workstations are so aged that they should require total replacement.
Typically, the solution is much more malleable than time or budget. Determine the baseline requirements. Then determine the resources available (time and money). The project will likely fill the latter two. Success should be measured against adherence to the requirements, not time or money saved.