I should have figured that everybody (in this crows) would jump on the technical distinction between "degrees of separation" and biological cousins. Well, DUH! I guess i need to spell it out. The point was, we all have an awful lot of fourth cousins!
If there are only six degrees of separation between you and just about everybody on earth, the classification "fourth cousin" probably covers a large part of the earth's population!
Suing over something silly is an old trick to get publicity. There are sure to be people who have never heard of "The Ministry of Sound," who hear about the lawsuit, and decide to check out the music just to see what the hoopla is about. They might lose the lawsuit, but still win new customers.
So you do agree, then, that the Baptists have not "subjugated" the public schools. That was my point.
There are plenty of Southern Baptists (and members of other Christian denominations) who believe in evolution. The American Scientific Affiliation, for example, is an organization of scientists who are Christians, most of whom believe in evolution. http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Evolution/
I've lived in the South for the last 25 years, and I can tell you first hand that Southern Baptists of any stripe would not agree that public schools have been subjugated by any religious cause. They see public schools not as neutral towards religion, but as antagonistic towards religion. Given the tone of your comment, you probably would approve of that antagonism.
The point I was making, however, was that there are reasons besides the quality of the education, for choosing a private school.
My kids go to a private Christian school. No amount of reform or improvement in the public school system is going to produce a public Christian school.
For those who value a Christian education, there is, and can be, no public option.
Screen real estate would be a real issue if you think of a smart watch as a wearable version of cell phones as we know them. If that's the standard, then even a 6" x 2" screen will disappoint.
Cell phones have already displaced watches. Why? Because they have bigger screens? No, not really. The bigger screen is useful for other phone features, but it didn't really improve much on what watches do best. It's more that most of us didn't see a need any longer to keep two timepieces, so we ditched our watches.
To be successful, smart watches will have to find a niche that doesn't require much screen real estate. They will also have to find a role beyond just duplicating what a cell phone does--but on your wrist--because in that role, they will always be inferior to cell phones.
In Levesque’s view, the field of artificial intelligence has fallen into a trap of “serial silver bulletism,” always looking to the next big thing, whether it’s expert systems or Big Data, but never painstakingly analyzing all of the subtle and deep knowledge that ordinary human beings possess.
Why is this a bad thing? One by one, we look for better ways to tackle problems that we can tackle. You can't start at A and jump to Z, you have to first go through B, C, D, and so on. This is the way it has been with every invention. We didn't go directly from the telephone to the smart phone, or from the Wright Brothers to the 747. With every major invention, there is a long, painstaking process requiring solving a series of small problems, and following the process where it goes.
I think it's great that I can speak to my phone at all, and ask it about the weather, or game scores, or to text my friend. The rest of the so-called AI will come, it just takes time to get there, one silver bullet at a time.
So the super-rich go to some hide-away. These people are accustomed to having things done for them. Automation will cover only so much. So now they have to bring in some help (people who aren't super-rich). And then, there are a lot of rich people who are mean and selfish, so they are going to have to have a police force--more outsiders who aren't super-rich. These rich people will have children who don't appreciate or care about the ideals of their parents, and take their world for granted.
Domino after domino, the ideal world these rich people have created will degrade into a rather "normal" place, with rich and poor, law-abiding and lawless, just like any other place.
It doesn't matter, hackers will attack because that is what they do, that is how they feel important. They'll find a reason, or no reason at all. Snowden will just be an excuse.
We are born with talents. Skills are learned. People can have both. Some talent may be required to reach a truly proficient skill level. Untrained talent may be dazzling, but unrefined. For businesses, skill is the more important attribute, but talent certainly helps.
The author seems to think that every device should also be a router. Sure, that's going to speed things up! So now my phone has to connect to the fridge to get to my car to get to my neighbor's toaster so I can read Slashdot? That seems a lot less efficient to me, than the hub-and-spoke system we have today!
Why would a dedicated router not be better than some generic device that is also a router?
Chariots were masterpieces of art. They were often made of precious metals and had elegant design work. They were environmentally friendly, using no fossil fuels whatsoever. They didn't cause noise pollution, or kill dozens of people when they crashed.
Aircraft makers should learn from the past. They have totally functional designs, no semblance of artistry anywhere. Accommodations are cramped, passengers treated like cattle.
We should go back to the good old days, things were so much better back then.
No. I've loaded decks of punch cards and distributed printouts. But who could afford a computer of their own? Nobody. He can have his good old days...no way *I* want to go back!
Virtualization makes it easier to stand up a new "server." True. This simplicity will lead to using more "servers." Granted. But those virtual servers require far less hardware than the old physical servers. Many of these virtual servers are used only a small percentage of the time. Depending on the load, 10, 20, or even more servers can run on one physical piece of hardware.
So even if we use, say, five times more "servers" with virtualization, we will be using fewer physical units--fewer "resources."
It's kind of like the banks waiting to write off all the bad mortgages on their books, for the sake of keeping shareholders happy. The bad mortgages really are never going to be paid off, they will have to write them off, they are just hoping to stave off the inevitable.
I have a feeling Microsoft will have to take another $900M hit next quarter, when they realize that the "new lower prices" still aren't low enough.
I'm no big fan of Surface, but I am a big fan of competition. The author is right about one thing: they set the price point too high. But $75 is too low. nobody sells tables at that price. Why not a competitive price, like, $200? Or, since there are so few apps, maybe undercut the competition at $170 or so. That price would be high enough to keep a bit of respectability, while making it attractive to bargain hunters and Microsoft enthusiasts. They might even be able to break even at that price point.
We were early to the party, rolling out broadband before most other countries. That early broadband was between 256Kb/s and 1Mb/s. By the time these other countries got on the bandwagon, 5-10 Mb/s technology was already the norm, so they naturally started at that higher speed. Here in the US, there is less motivation financially to upgrade from 1 Mb/s to 5 Mb/s, than the other countries had to go from 0 to 5.
Very often, the country that invents a new product gets stuck with version 1.0, while everybody else leapfrogs directly to 2.0.
I have to admit, I've been spoiled by Visual Studio. It's the "Apple" of IDE's--it "just works."
Speed - The author starts out by dismissing reports of Eclipse's slowness, blaming it on the hardware. I have both VS and Eclipse installed on the same machine, with 8 GB RAM and 8 processor cores. Visual Studio runs circles around Eclipse.
Intellisense - works flawlessly in VS. Eclipse takes forever to show the dropdown list of properties or whatever, if it shows it at all. Sometimes I have to backspace and type that . again several times to get it to show something.
Perspectives - I'll turn them off when I figure out how. Why doesn't it switch back when debugging is done?
Flakiness - I keep having problems with the "clean" function not rebuilding the "gen" folder. Or the debugger suddenly stops breaking on breakpoints until I restart Eclipse. Or an incremental update breaks the configuration. Eclipse is NOT the polished machine that VS has become.
If I could easily write Android apps in Visual Studio, I would!
I majored in computer science and minored in math. I loved both subjects. They were--and are--easy to me, and fun!
But I stink at art. I can't draw or paint or sculpt or play an instrument well, even after 10 years of trying. ART IS HARD...for me!
It's not so much that science and math are "hard," it's more that people are wired certain ways, and if you try to go outside what you are good at, it's going to be hard!
Math and science are currently popular because they lead to well-compensated professions, so lots of people try to major in math and science, who have no aptitude for either. So it seems hard to lots of people!
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I should have figured that everybody (in this crows) would jump on the technical distinction between "degrees of separation" and biological cousins. Well, DUH! I guess i need to spell it out. The point was, we all have an awful lot of fourth cousins!
If there are only six degrees of separation between you and just about everybody on earth, the classification "fourth cousin" probably covers a large part of the earth's population!
Suing over something silly is an old trick to get publicity. There are sure to be people who have never heard of "The Ministry of Sound," who hear about the lawsuit, and decide to check out the music just to see what the hoopla is about. They might lose the lawsuit, but still win new customers.
So you do agree, then, that the Baptists have not "subjugated" the public schools. That was my point.
There are plenty of Southern Baptists (and members of other Christian denominations) who believe in evolution. The American Scientific Affiliation, for example, is an organization of scientists who are Christians, most of whom believe in evolution. http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Evolution/
I've lived in the South for the last 25 years, and I can tell you first hand that Southern Baptists of any stripe would not agree that public schools have been subjugated by any religious cause. They see public schools not as neutral towards religion, but as antagonistic towards religion. Given the tone of your comment, you probably would approve of that antagonism.
The point I was making, however, was that there are reasons besides the quality of the education, for choosing a private school.
My kids go to a private Christian school. No amount of reform or improvement in the public school system is going to produce a public Christian school.
For those who value a Christian education, there is, and can be, no public option.
If it's "evil"!
Screen real estate would be a real issue if you think of a smart watch as a wearable version of cell phones as we know them. If that's the standard, then even a 6" x 2" screen will disappoint.
Cell phones have already displaced watches. Why? Because they have bigger screens? No, not really. The bigger screen is useful for other phone features, but it didn't really improve much on what watches do best. It's more that most of us didn't see a need any longer to keep two timepieces, so we ditched our watches.
To be successful, smart watches will have to find a niche that doesn't require much screen real estate. They will also have to find a role beyond just duplicating what a cell phone does--but on your wrist--because in that role, they will always be inferior to cell phones.
That's OK, just pick it up and move it!
You've never had children, have you?
In Levesque’s view, the field of artificial intelligence has fallen into a trap of “serial silver bulletism,” always looking to the next big thing, whether it’s expert systems or Big Data, but never painstakingly analyzing all of the subtle and deep knowledge that ordinary human beings possess.
Why is this a bad thing? One by one, we look for better ways to tackle problems that we can tackle. You can't start at A and jump to Z, you have to first go through B, C, D, and so on. This is the way it has been with every invention. We didn't go directly from the telephone to the smart phone, or from the Wright Brothers to the 747. With every major invention, there is a long, painstaking process requiring solving a series of small problems, and following the process where it goes.
I think it's great that I can speak to my phone at all, and ask it about the weather, or game scores, or to text my friend. The rest of the so-called AI will come, it just takes time to get there, one silver bullet at a time.
So the super-rich go to some hide-away. These people are accustomed to having things done for them. Automation will cover only so much. So now they have to bring in some help (people who aren't super-rich). And then, there are a lot of rich people who are mean and selfish, so they are going to have to have a police force--more outsiders who aren't super-rich. These rich people will have children who don't appreciate or care about the ideals of their parents, and take their world for granted.
Domino after domino, the ideal world these rich people have created will degrade into a rather "normal" place, with rich and poor, law-abiding and lawless, just like any other place.
It doesn't matter, hackers will attack because that is what they do, that is how they feel important. They'll find a reason, or no reason at all. Snowden will just be an excuse.
Have you actually tried this? Are there any sites left that don't rely on javascript?
You might as well just disable your browser.
In the US, violent crime rates have been decreasing for decades, while temperatures have been breaking records.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-1
We are born with talents. Skills are learned. People can have both. Some talent may be required to reach a truly proficient skill level. Untrained talent may be dazzling, but unrefined. For businesses, skill is the more important attribute, but talent certainly helps.
The author seems to think that every device should also be a router. Sure, that's going to speed things up! So now my phone has to connect to the fridge to get to my car to get to my neighbor's toaster so I can read Slashdot? That seems a lot less efficient to me, than the hub-and-spoke system we have today!
Why would a dedicated router not be better than some generic device that is also a router?
Chariots were masterpieces of art. They were often made of precious metals and had elegant design work. They were environmentally friendly, using no fossil fuels whatsoever. They didn't cause noise pollution, or kill dozens of people when they crashed.
Aircraft makers should learn from the past. They have totally functional designs, no semblance of artistry anywhere. Accommodations are cramped, passengers treated like cattle.
We should go back to the good old days, things were so much better back then.
No. I've loaded decks of punch cards and distributed printouts. But who could afford a computer of their own? Nobody. He can have his good old days...no way *I* want to go back!
Virtualization makes it easier to stand up a new "server." True.
This simplicity will lead to using more "servers." Granted.
But those virtual servers require far less hardware than the old physical servers. Many of these virtual servers are used only a small percentage of the time. Depending on the load, 10, 20, or even more servers can run on one physical piece of hardware.
So even if we use, say, five times more "servers" with virtualization, we will be using fewer physical units--fewer "resources."
In short, the math is not so simple.
It's kind of like the banks waiting to write off all the bad mortgages on their books, for the sake of keeping shareholders happy. The bad mortgages really are never going to be paid off, they will have to write them off, they are just hoping to stave off the inevitable.
I have a feeling Microsoft will have to take another $900M hit next quarter, when they realize that the "new lower prices" still aren't low enough.
I'm no big fan of Surface, but I am a big fan of competition. The author is right about one thing: they set the price point too high. But $75 is too low. nobody sells tables at that price. Why not a competitive price, like, $200? Or, since there are so few apps, maybe undercut the competition at $170 or so. That price would be high enough to keep a bit of respectability, while making it attractive to bargain hunters and Microsoft enthusiasts. They might even be able to break even at that price point.
We were early to the party, rolling out broadband before most other countries. That early broadband was between 256Kb/s and 1Mb/s. By the time these other countries got on the bandwagon, 5-10 Mb/s technology was already the norm, so they naturally started at that higher speed. Here in the US, there is less motivation financially to upgrade from 1 Mb/s to 5 Mb/s, than the other countries had to go from 0 to 5.
Very often, the country that invents a new product gets stuck with version 1.0, while everybody else leapfrogs directly to 2.0.
Xamarin might be nice, I don't know, but if you want Visual Studio support, it's $999. That's a little steep for personal / hobby projects.
https://store.xamarin.com/
I have to admit, I've been spoiled by Visual Studio. It's the "Apple" of IDE's--it "just works."
Speed - The author starts out by dismissing reports of Eclipse's slowness, blaming it on the hardware. I have both VS and Eclipse installed on the same machine, with 8 GB RAM and 8 processor cores. Visual Studio runs circles around Eclipse.
Intellisense - works flawlessly in VS. Eclipse takes forever to show the dropdown list of properties or whatever, if it shows it at all. Sometimes I have to backspace and type that . again several times to get it to show something.
Perspectives - I'll turn them off when I figure out how. Why doesn't it switch back when debugging is done?
Flakiness - I keep having problems with the "clean" function not rebuilding the "gen" folder. Or the debugger suddenly stops breaking on breakpoints until I restart Eclipse. Or an incremental update breaks the configuration. Eclipse is NOT the polished machine that VS has become.
If I could easily write Android apps in Visual Studio, I would!
I majored in computer science and minored in math. I loved both subjects. They were--and are--easy to me, and fun!
But I stink at art. I can't draw or paint or sculpt or play an instrument well, even after 10 years of trying. ART IS HARD...for me!
It's not so much that science and math are "hard," it's more that people are wired certain ways, and if you try to go outside what you are good at, it's going to be hard!
Math and science are currently popular because they lead to well-compensated professions, so lots of people try to major in math and science, who have no aptitude for either. So it seems hard to lots of people!