I don't think it was the Gates' intention to steer their daughters into scientific fields, either. They specifically mention being excited about science. Personally, I think that's what we need more than anything else: a population that's stimulated, that knows about science, technology, history and more, that understands, if not the whole thing, at least core concepts to a certain degree. That would give us a much more reliable voting base (critical thinking, knowledge on various issues), not to mention generally raise our intellect, which has all sorts of positive side-effects.
Making a career in a scientific field is hard, and there's not that much demand for it anyway. Knowing and enjoying science, however, is something we should strive for everyone.
We know that something is wrong with general relativity because it does not work with quantum mechanics, and vice-versa. We also have dark matter and dark energy which are throwing a wrench in the works and could very well be just that the theory is incomplete. They could all end up being factors that affect other things and GR could actually be 100% correct as it is, but we have too many unknowns right now to say that. In contrast, evolution has pretty much no dissent or issue as of now.
I find that usually the biggest problem with CG isn't the CG itself, it's the fact that it removes actors from the scene. It's much more difficult to convincingly act when you're stuck in a green room talking to a character that doesn't exist yet, or sitting on a chair strapped to some kind of steampunk-esque machine that captures your every muscle twitch.
We've been making significant progress in that area, giving actors more surrogates to act with, going back and reintroducing real scenery in the foreground, etc. I think that's key, because in the end if the acting is poor then the film will suffer greatly.
The difference is that Dish is large enough to know better. They're not just a scam operation, they have more than enough money to get lawyers to look into what they're doing and tell them if it's right, and they decided to ignore all of that and go for it anyway. A nice fat punishment would at least show that the DNC list has some teeth, make an example out of them.
The biggest problem with IQ is that its causal relationship is almost always incorrect. People take lower average IQ as to mean that the social group exhibiting said lower IQ is inherently less intelligent and that that's why they're poorer/less educated/less well-off, but in reality it's the other way around: being poorer and having less access to means of bettering yourself directly harms your ability to develop intellectually.
Then there's also the fact that IQ is regularly redefined so that the average is 100 (and no, the average doesn't go down, it actually goes up systematically). People forget this fact and attempt to compare IQs made using different scales, not realizing how a 130 today might've been a 160 a century ago.
The funny bit is that your entire rant only shows how you don't understand what a smart watch even is... The vast majority of them only have Bluetooth and have no GPS. The only thing they do is relay information to the phone and, especially, get information from it. They can't do anything particularly scary in and of themselves. If you wanted to have that rant, you should've done it back when the iPhone came out.
So in essence it breaks often or is very obtuse, requiring lots of Google searches and questions on Stack sites, it's used as a buzzword by HR and they spam about it a lot.
Great, that's completely representative of actual usage.
While I think CBS/Warner are probably in the right here, I'd still rather see them lose and get harsh penalties. The media cartels made this bed with their utterly ridiculous copyright extensions, now they should get to lie in it.
What's with all the Bruce hate? What is wrong with discussing a "gender empathy gap", why it might exist and what we might do about it? If you disagree with his point then offer sensible counterpoints of your own, but when you insult him or his ideas you're just reinforcing his point that the tech world is full of socially challenged asshats.
While I agree that hating on him isn't the right call, I can see why people would do that. We're hearing about "Waaah tech is hostile to women!" and "Nerds are mean to women!" and so on every week. People are quite frankly exasperated with the constant berating that's largely baseless or restricted to a tiny minority that everybody would rather see disappear, women treatment or not, but who're extremely difficult to dispose of. It's not because suddenly women are involved that excising those rotten apples becomes more important.
Combined with how computer science curricula are getting changed in a bid to appeal to women (which often seems to mean dumbing it down, because women need things easier for some inexplicable reason?), making the current group feel alienated with their own favorite subject, and how nerds/geeks as a group are known to be often harassed or bullied, the shield raising shouldn't really surprise anyone.
In the past they've indicated a target price less than $500. I can't help wonder if they've found that to be a tad unrealistic and are bundling games and an xbox one controller as a way to smooth over a higher price tag.
VR is at that stage in its life where it could become the next big thing, but it's not going to take off if the kit costs much more than a traditional high-end gaming monitor.
I don't think that's the case, what's much more likely to be the reason is that they don't want a chicken and egg problem. VR has very little penetration, so there are very few games for it, so why buy a VR headset now? By bundling games with it, you increase its value, perhaps sufficiently so that people will buy it just for the packaged games. It's pretty much what Nintendo did with Wii Sports.
The pacing was fast and I suspect aimed at Millennials and Sub-Millennials with 0 attention span and their goddamn phones out at all times (as evidenced by the 2 chattering girls and one of their boyfriends who wouldn't shut the fuck up the whole time - guy "Sick!" every 30 seconds).
Oh would you kindly fuck off with those generational stereotypes. All you're doing is showing your age. Did you forget to put "Now get off my lawn!" at the end of your post?
Why did you sell your franchise in the first place? You know Disney's track record for mucking up stuff and should have known that they would not listen to you after you sold Lucasfilm to them. That would be like me selling a nice hot rod to Disney and telling them "Oh don't put flames on that car! It looks better in solid candy apple red!"
Actually, what is Disney's track record for mucking up stuff? Seriously. Disney's acquired Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and Maker Studios. I haven't seen much of a difference with Maker. Pixar has been as great as they've always been (don't blame Cars on Disney, it was and still is Lasseter's pet project) and have retained their creative freedom (just look at Inside Out). Marvel has never done better on the big screen.
Now we have the first SW film. Yes, it plays it safe. But... it feels like Star Wars. Gone are the stunted acting, terrible writing and extreme reliance on CG of the prequels. The new SW film is probably how IV would have been made had they released in 2015. And while it's conservative, it also shows that they knew what elements to keep to make the film work. As a result, it's similar, but still very enjoyable and a nice start for the new series.
As of now, Disney has done a much better job with Star Wars than Paramount has with Star Trek.
Every major GUI toolkit on Linux has a file chooser. Tk has one. GTK+ has one. Qt has one. Winelib has one.
Yeah, so that's already three different file choosers, and there's more because a lot of Linux software has NIH syndrome. You're reinforcing the GP's point here.
From what I can gather: publisher is asked by Google if they want to put their books on Google Play. Publisher head refuses, does "detective work" and suddenly arrives in the 21st century, realizing that there are many pirate sites hosting their books. Since the guy used Google to reach those pirate sites, he comes to the conclusion that Google is doing the piracy.
The TL;DR of the summary of the rant is that somebody in a tiny position of power doesn't understand the internet.
It seems you have absolutely no understanding of 2 factor authentication then. The entire point of 2FA is that neither the phone nor the password are sufficient on their own to login. Compromising the phone gives you fuck all, a string of numbers that do not give you any information about the account. Getting the password means you still can't login without also compromising the phone that matches with that account.
Is it perfect? No. Web security is inherently imperfect. Is it better than not having 2FA? Absolutely. You have to be a complete cretin to not turn on 2FA if you have a phone and the service supports it.
Yeah, it's amazing how there's always an external bogeyman whenever socialism makes things worse.
And always a story about northern European success. Northern European socialists do ok. Northern European capitalists do ok. Maybe northern Europeans just have a strong, resilient culture?
Or maybe socialism and capitalism are both viable social models but require the correct foundations to flourish?
Largely because it's a big binary blob (even open source, it still would be) that at this point doesn't do a whole lot that Javascript + CSS3 + HTML5 can't do, and it can be argued that the things it can do that those standards cannot shouldn't be present in a web page anyway. Flash has been abused to provide the most annoying and obtrusive ads, the least standard and most awkward "web apps", a bunch of shitty Newgrounds games and so on. That's before you talk about the insecurity of a binary blob getting executed in the web page with the browser having very limited knowledge of what's actually going on.
The parent meant that Hzone's customers are flapping in the wind because of Hzone's incompetence at protecting their data, not that HIV/leprosy/cancer are a result of incompetence.
Those who suggest workarounds have no understanding of the implications or the technical challenges. They just desire something and expect everyone else to figure it out for them.
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I don't think it was the Gates' intention to steer their daughters into scientific fields, either. They specifically mention being excited about science. Personally, I think that's what we need more than anything else: a population that's stimulated, that knows about science, technology, history and more, that understands, if not the whole thing, at least core concepts to a certain degree. That would give us a much more reliable voting base (critical thinking, knowledge on various issues), not to mention generally raise our intellect, which has all sorts of positive side-effects.
Making a career in a scientific field is hard, and there's not that much demand for it anyway. Knowing and enjoying science, however, is something we should strive for everyone.
We know that something is wrong with general relativity because it does not work with quantum mechanics, and vice-versa. We also have dark matter and dark energy which are throwing a wrench in the works and could very well be just that the theory is incomplete. They could all end up being factors that affect other things and GR could actually be 100% correct as it is, but we have too many unknowns right now to say that. In contrast, evolution has pretty much no dissent or issue as of now.
I find that usually the biggest problem with CG isn't the CG itself, it's the fact that it removes actors from the scene. It's much more difficult to convincingly act when you're stuck in a green room talking to a character that doesn't exist yet, or sitting on a chair strapped to some kind of steampunk-esque machine that captures your every muscle twitch.
We've been making significant progress in that area, giving actors more surrogates to act with, going back and reintroducing real scenery in the foreground, etc. I think that's key, because in the end if the acting is poor then the film will suffer greatly.
The difference is that Dish is large enough to know better. They're not just a scam operation, they have more than enough money to get lawyers to look into what they're doing and tell them if it's right, and they decided to ignore all of that and go for it anyway. A nice fat punishment would at least show that the DNC list has some teeth, make an example out of them.
... which isn't mentioned in the summary. It's apparently the Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The biggest problem with IQ is that its causal relationship is almost always incorrect. People take lower average IQ as to mean that the social group exhibiting said lower IQ is inherently less intelligent and that that's why they're poorer/less educated/less well-off, but in reality it's the other way around: being poorer and having less access to means of bettering yourself directly harms your ability to develop intellectually.
Then there's also the fact that IQ is regularly redefined so that the average is 100 (and no, the average doesn't go down, it actually goes up systematically). People forget this fact and attempt to compare IQs made using different scales, not realizing how a 130 today might've been a 160 a century ago.
The funny bit is that your entire rant only shows how you don't understand what a smart watch even is... The vast majority of them only have Bluetooth and have no GPS. The only thing they do is relay information to the phone and, especially, get information from it. They can't do anything particularly scary in and of themselves. If you wanted to have that rant, you should've done it back when the iPhone came out.
So in essence it breaks often or is very obtuse, requiring lots of Google searches and questions on Stack sites, it's used as a buzzword by HR and they spam about it a lot.
Great, that's completely representative of actual usage.
While I think CBS/Warner are probably in the right here, I'd still rather see them lose and get harsh penalties. The media cartels made this bed with their utterly ridiculous copyright extensions, now they should get to lie in it.
Large parts of the church haven't kept up though, let alone other Christian groups.
Never said it was right, but it's definitely a double standard.
What's with all the Bruce hate? What is wrong with discussing a "gender empathy gap", why it might exist and what we might do about it? If you disagree with his point then offer sensible counterpoints of your own, but when you insult him or his ideas you're just reinforcing his point that the tech world is full of socially challenged asshats.
While I agree that hating on him isn't the right call, I can see why people would do that. We're hearing about "Waaah tech is hostile to women!" and "Nerds are mean to women!" and so on every week. People are quite frankly exasperated with the constant berating that's largely baseless or restricted to a tiny minority that everybody would rather see disappear, women treatment or not, but who're extremely difficult to dispose of. It's not because suddenly women are involved that excising those rotten apples becomes more important.
Combined with how computer science curricula are getting changed in a bid to appeal to women (which often seems to mean dumbing it down, because women need things easier for some inexplicable reason?), making the current group feel alienated with their own favorite subject, and how nerds/geeks as a group are known to be often harassed or bullied, the shield raising shouldn't really surprise anyone.
There's no shortage of stories of horrible treatment of men in Open Source projects either, but those don't show up on Slashdot every week.
In the past they've indicated a target price less than $500. I can't help wonder if they've found that to be a tad unrealistic and are bundling games and an xbox one controller as a way to smooth over a higher price tag.
VR is at that stage in its life where it could become the next big thing, but it's not going to take off if the kit costs much more than a traditional high-end gaming monitor.
I don't think that's the case, what's much more likely to be the reason is that they don't want a chicken and egg problem. VR has very little penetration, so there are very few games for it, so why buy a VR headset now? By bundling games with it, you increase its value, perhaps sufficiently so that people will buy it just for the packaged games. It's pretty much what Nintendo did with Wii Sports.
Should've called it "Luckey's Tale" instead.
The pacing was fast and I suspect aimed at Millennials and Sub-Millennials with 0 attention span and their goddamn phones out at all times (as evidenced by the 2 chattering girls and one of their boyfriends who wouldn't shut the fuck up the whole time - guy "Sick!" every 30 seconds).
Oh would you kindly fuck off with those generational stereotypes. All you're doing is showing your age. Did you forget to put "Now get off my lawn!" at the end of your post?
Why did you sell your franchise in the first place? You know Disney's track record for mucking up stuff and should have known that they would not listen to you after you sold Lucasfilm to them. That would be like me selling a nice hot rod to Disney and telling them "Oh don't put flames on that car! It looks better in solid candy apple red!"
Actually, what is Disney's track record for mucking up stuff? Seriously. Disney's acquired Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and Maker Studios. I haven't seen much of a difference with Maker. Pixar has been as great as they've always been (don't blame Cars on Disney, it was and still is Lasseter's pet project) and have retained their creative freedom (just look at Inside Out). Marvel has never done better on the big screen.
Now we have the first SW film. Yes, it plays it safe. But... it feels like Star Wars. Gone are the stunted acting, terrible writing and extreme reliance on CG of the prequels. The new SW film is probably how IV would have been made had they released in 2015. And while it's conservative, it also shows that they knew what elements to keep to make the film work. As a result, it's similar, but still very enjoyable and a nice start for the new series.
As of now, Disney has done a much better job with Star Wars than Paramount has with Star Trek.
Every major GUI toolkit on Linux has a file chooser. Tk has one. GTK+ has one. Qt has one. Winelib has one.
Yeah, so that's already three different file choosers, and there's more because a lot of Linux software has NIH syndrome. You're reinforcing the GP's point here.
From what I can gather: publisher is asked by Google if they want to put their books on Google Play. Publisher head refuses, does "detective work" and suddenly arrives in the 21st century, realizing that there are many pirate sites hosting their books. Since the guy used Google to reach those pirate sites, he comes to the conclusion that Google is doing the piracy.
The TL;DR of the summary of the rant is that somebody in a tiny position of power doesn't understand the internet.
It seems you have absolutely no understanding of 2 factor authentication then. The entire point of 2FA is that neither the phone nor the password are sufficient on their own to login. Compromising the phone gives you fuck all, a string of numbers that do not give you any information about the account. Getting the password means you still can't login without also compromising the phone that matches with that account.
Is it perfect? No. Web security is inherently imperfect. Is it better than not having 2FA? Absolutely. You have to be a complete cretin to not turn on 2FA if you have a phone and the service supports it.
I think this is much more relevant actually: https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t...
Yeah, it's amazing how there's always an external bogeyman whenever socialism makes things worse.
And always a story about northern European success. Northern European socialists do ok. Northern European capitalists do ok. Maybe northern Europeans just have a strong, resilient culture?
Or maybe socialism and capitalism are both viable social models but require the correct foundations to flourish?
Largely because it's a big binary blob (even open source, it still would be) that at this point doesn't do a whole lot that Javascript + CSS3 + HTML5 can't do, and it can be argued that the things it can do that those standards cannot shouldn't be present in a web page anyway. Flash has been abused to provide the most annoying and obtrusive ads, the least standard and most awkward "web apps", a bunch of shitty Newgrounds games and so on. That's before you talk about the insecurity of a binary blob getting executed in the web page with the browser having very limited knowledge of what's actually going on.
The parent meant that Hzone's customers are flapping in the wind because of Hzone's incompetence at protecting their data, not that HIV/leprosy/cancer are a result of incompetence.
Those who suggest workarounds have no understanding of the implications or the technical challenges. They just desire something and expect everyone else to figure it out for them.