That's how newspapers work. I only want the funnies and the recipes but I must buy the entire paper. If you live in a rural town you can at least subscribe only to the Sunday edition to get closer to what I consider ideal.
I'm ahead of the curve. I've hated my job starting at age 20. I must be throwing the averages of a bit, meaning there are plebeian who are in their 50's and still love their jobs.
Does polymath even mean mastery of several fields in the sense that you mean the word mastery? Should the word mastery even be part of the definition, or should the more common dictionary definition of "A person of wide knowledge or learning." be used?
If you wish to kill the term for anyone born after the Enlightenment, then fine. I guess that's how it's going to be. If you want the word to be of some practical use, then you'll have to accept a definition that recognizes the achievements of some small, but non-zero, fraction of the world's population.
Being master of something doesn't mean you are the very best in the world of that field, there is only one best.
Traditionally, in the trades a master is a person who is formally recognized by his/her peers to be equivalent enough in skill to join their ranks.
A master's degree is the obvious equivalent to this. And there are numerous people who have gone beyond this and possess PhD's in multiple fields. A Doctor of Philosophy is an important distinction and indicates that you have contributed to a field in some way.
If you contributed to multiple fields in a way that is recognized by the other leads of the field, I believe that is quite a fair qualification to be called a Polymath.
You can see which codenames are stable, testing or unstable. The third paragraph starts "The current "stable" distribution of Debian is version 9, codenamed stretch", and you can scroll down further for the index of releases. So now you know the number too, but most Debian users will say they run "stable" or which release they are on if they are not stable (like jessie or stretch).
Is your complaint that most of the Debian community use codenames instead of numbers? Or that it is too hard to find the information that I have linked you. The secret is very few people care about anything except tracking stable and unstable.
Ubuntu's numbering scheme is nice because the version number is also the year and month. But you have to be a disciplined team to have your release date baked into every part of your distro well in advanced.
I'm sure that would be very important to me, if I were a SJW or I were part of a grapefruit picking union.
But what you propose is the opposite of a commodity. If you want to get more than the common market price for your goods, you need to differentiate. So you do them as "organic" and imply they have some additional health benefits or improved taste. Or "free-tree" and hope that consumers are concerned that small farmers are being treated fairly by large multinational export corporations.
There are lots of different ways you make money through appeals to emotion.
So should Coca-cola Company lose their trademark because a bunch of Georgians erroneously call all soft drinks "coke" ?
Sure, sometimes trademarks become genericized. And sometimes the trademark is lost, and other times the courts decide that the trademarks are still valid. Usually the newer the trademark the less likely it is to be lost, probably because modern courts are corporation-friendly.
Damn, you've found the one weakness in my language. I guess I'll have to scrap the whole thing and start over, oh well, what's yet another programming language on the pile?
My language will have 0 questions on Stackoverflow, because everything will be so intuitive and the documentation will be so excellent that there will be no need for even a novice to ask for help.
So if I make a social media app, and KKK and Nazi members start using it, my app gets banned? How far will they take that? What if they start using MineCraft?
Shame on you for not kicking them off your network first. And putting your app on Google's and Apple's store is not some inalienable right. You are free to make your app and offer it on your own website. Obviously you will not get nearly as many users, but perhaps you can attract the fringe groups that you seem to want to coddle.
From a tax revenue perspective it would be ideal if they all made $53K. But if you have a bunch making $20k and a few making $1M, that's going to result in almost no tax revenue.
It would have been easier to burn the state treasury down.
The tax revenue from Foxconn is being suspended, and exchanged for a much smaller tax revenue from the people that Foxconn will employ. It's around a 5 cents on the dollar exchange by my estimate, which I suppose is better than 0 cents, but it still seems like a bad deal for the state.
I don't know about that. Locally grown and in season produce is vastly superior.
So you live in Texas, Florida or remember when California had good grapefruits. And if I lived in Hawaii I'd probably go for Tahitian Pommelmousse instead, because I could grow it my yard instead of having going to the store.
Amazon at least gives you the option to turn the 1-click feature on and off.
We're going to see lots of other sites who make 1-click the only way to do business and are going to be far less tolerant of accidental orders than Amazon has been. I'm going to take the first site that tries to rip me off like this to court, even if only small claims court.
Well a video game, I'd sell them virtual Nestle bars and not give Nestle any of the money. But that's fair right, because Nestle isn't interested in copyright or trademarks.
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That's how newspapers work. I only want the funnies and the recipes but I must buy the entire paper. If you live in a rural town you can at least subscribe only to the Sunday edition to get closer to what I consider ideal.
Not having cable TV is equivalent to child abuse.
I'll pay Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or Disney but not all four. And even then HBO and Starz are a problem as well.
Here's a question for you, why should they consolidate under Netflix and not YouTube Red?
I'm ahead of the curve. I've hated my job starting at age 20. I must be throwing the averages of a bit, meaning there are plebeian who are in their 50's and still love their jobs.
Does polymath even mean mastery of several fields in the sense that you mean the word mastery? Should the word mastery even be part of the definition, or should the more common dictionary definition of "A person of wide knowledge or learning." be used?
If you wish to kill the term for anyone born after the Enlightenment, then fine. I guess that's how it's going to be. If you want the word to be of some practical use, then you'll have to accept a definition that recognizes the achievements of some small, but non-zero, fraction of the world's population.
Sorry, but I do not accept your premise or definition of polymath or leaders within a field.
Being master of something doesn't mean you are the very best in the world of that field, there is only one best.
Traditionally, in the trades a master is a person who is formally recognized by his/her peers to be equivalent enough in skill to join their ranks.
A master's degree is the obvious equivalent to this. And there are numerous people who have gone beyond this and possess PhD's in multiple fields. A Doctor of Philosophy is an important distinction and indicates that you have contributed to a field in some way.
If you contributed to multiple fields in a way that is recognized by the other leads of the field, I believe that is quite a fair qualification to be called a Polymath.
You can see which codenames are stable, testing or unstable. The third paragraph starts "The current "stable" distribution of Debian is version 9, codenamed stretch", and you can scroll down further for the index of releases. So now you know the number too, but most Debian users will say they run "stable" or which release they are on if they are not stable (like jessie or stretch).
Is your complaint that most of the Debian community use codenames instead of numbers? Or that it is too hard to find the information that I have linked you. The secret is very few people care about anything except tracking stable and unstable.
Ubuntu's numbering scheme is nice because the version number is also the year and month. But you have to be a disciplined team to have your release date baked into every part of your distro well in advanced.
I'm sure that would be very important to me, if I were a SJW or I were part of a grapefruit picking union.
But what you propose is the opposite of a commodity. If you want to get more than the common market price for your goods, you need to differentiate. So you do them as "organic" and imply they have some additional health benefits or improved taste. Or "free-tree" and hope that consumers are concerned that small farmers are being treated fairly by large multinational export corporations.
There are lots of different ways you make money through appeals to emotion.
You only had to take a look at a can of "Diet Coke" or the wikipedia link I originally included to realize what you are saying is completely wrong.
So should Coca-cola Company lose their trademark because a bunch of Georgians erroneously call all soft drinks "coke" ?
Sure, sometimes trademarks become genericized. And sometimes the trademark is lost, and other times the courts decide that the trademarks are still valid. Usually the newer the trademark the less likely it is to be lost, probably because modern courts are corporation-friendly.
Damn, you've found the one weakness in my language. I guess I'll have to scrap the whole thing and start over, oh well, what's yet another programming language on the pile?
My language will have 0 questions on Stackoverflow, because everything will be so intuitive and the documentation will be so excellent that there will be no need for even a novice to ask for help.
Can we find a way to triple tax?
Sales tax.
So if I make a social media app, and KKK and Nazi members start using it, my app gets banned? How far will they take that? What if they start using MineCraft?
Shame on you for not kicking them off your network first. And putting your app on Google's and Apple's store is not some inalienable right. You are free to make your app and offer it on your own website. Obviously you will not get nearly as many users, but perhaps you can attract the fringe groups that you seem to want to coddle.
From a tax revenue perspective it would be ideal if they all made $53K. But if you have a bunch making $20k and a few making $1M, that's going to result in almost no tax revenue.
It would have been easier to burn the state treasury down.
The tax revenue from Foxconn is being suspended, and exchanged for a much smaller tax revenue from the people that Foxconn will employ. It's around a 5 cents on the dollar exchange by my estimate, which I suppose is better than 0 cents, but it still seems like a bad deal for the state.
And they have grapefruits? Are you certain the farmers markets aren't selling fruit that they bought from the co-ops?
It's an hour's drive to get local garlic and it's cheap, often free, but it's not worth the drive to me.
And some things aren't worth getting locally. I once drank wine from Michigan. never again.
Are you serious, or are you wasting my time with empty criticism?
I don't know about that. Locally grown and in season produce is vastly superior.
So you live in Texas, Florida or remember when California had good grapefruits. And if I lived in Hawaii I'd probably go for Tahitian Pommelmousse instead, because I could grow it my yard instead of having going to the store.
Amazon at least gives you the option to turn the 1-click feature on and off.
We're going to see lots of other sites who make 1-click the only way to do business and are going to be far less tolerant of accidental orders than Amazon has been. I'm going to take the first site that tries to rip me off like this to court, even if only small claims court.
I suspect many non-porn Bing searches are variations on "How do I set Google as my default search?"
I don't care how big Google or Bing is. Search is a commodity now. I don't really care which farm grew my morning grapefruit either.
Well a video game, I'd sell them virtual Nestle bars and not give Nestle any of the money. But that's fair right, because Nestle isn't interested in copyright or trademarks.
We should probably amend that law for software and set it to 20 years from first publication.