And at some point expect a serious backlash from the population when they've had enough. The problem is that it will be indiscriminately targeted at all Muslims and will probably shape immigration policies and cause further discrimination. I don't see this turning out well for Islam one way or another, unless the moderates get their shit together and fight back against the fundies tainting them name and religion.
Obligatory "why is this on/." comment found. Answer is always the same: Stuff That Matters. If you don't think 12 people dying to mad shooters because they made cartoons matters, go check in at your nearest psychological institute.
I'm not here to debate the merits of Islam, but to claim that Christianity as a whole has been perfectly clean since the 1500's is a gross mischaracterization of the numerous religious organizations and individuals that fall under the Christian designation.
Try as I might, I don't see that claim being made in the parent post. That Islam has caused more deaths in the last few decades, especially the last decade, should come as a surprise to precisely nobody. As much as I don't particularly like Christianity as a religion either, nobody's sent planes into buildings with thousands of civilians in the name of Jesus. Nobody's trying to transform the Middle East into a new Christian country, beheading all that oppose them and sending out the videos on Twitter.
It is a much better way around it, of course, but I'm not sure just throwing money at the problem is the way to go. I'd rather we figure out why exactly minorities and women don't go in tech, instead of enticing them to get into tech anyway because money.
It also further exacerbates jealousy and a feeling of inequality from the disgusting straight white males (do I need to add more adjectives there?) we keep bashing. Perhaps this'll come as a shock, but not all white males are rich. By having a scholarship for pretty much every state of being but white males, you're going to segregate the people who already love what they're doing and do it because of that in spite of the monetary problems. You're telling them that they're not worth fussing over.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein
These days, I'd say this miracle is unfortunately becoming more and more rare. It's become all about "the economy" and "job creation" and essentially working 9 to 5 hoping to make ends meet, and your brain becomes a tepid lump of flesh. Creativity and curiosity are useless for drones, they can safely be hacked away.
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Alternatively, you stumbled on some really good weed.
Yep. That Professor needs to check back, it's not the "young people", it's their parents' generation. The ones who've decided that repairable appliances reduces income for companies, that cheap materials are the way to go, that throwaway electronics pave the future. I'll be the first to agree that many changes have been for the better: you wouldn't be able to get cars as efficient as they are now without a lot of complex machinery and ICs everywhere. Many of our most beloved gadgets can only exist because of miniaturization and automation of production, at the cost of being able to repair them. It's just that when your washing machine's motor fails after a year, or you need to replace your convection oven's fan seven times before it stops making a buzzing sound, you realize that it's about as much about cost-cutting as it is about efficiency and actual, material gains.
Your information is laughably outdated there. AMD's latest cards are so hot that their dual-GPU card is only available with a water cooler. Their top-tier card has been called obnoxiously loud. Nvidia meanwhile has managed to increase power efficiency so much that they can share their architecture on PC and mobile.
The French had an extremely far-reaching culture in that time period. Many of the most renown authors, specifically, (be they novelists or philosophers) were French. There were English people of the same notoriety, of course, but they were not as numerous and far-reaching, and many ironically frequented Paris to enjoy the cultural boom there. People often forget, but culture is one of the (if not the) primary vectors for a language's reach. Just look at how English culture (specifically, American) has evolved: English entertainment is ubiquitous, Hollywood is the place every actor dreams of working at, regardless of their country of origin. As a result, if you want to enjoy the culture as it was initially created, you need to learn English. In fact, you often learn English while consuming that culture.
In fact, that may be China's hurdle. While they are very powerful in manufacture and economically, their culture is weak outside of China. They're generally seen as a novelty, and very few works are popular outside of China.
"Computer" in French is actually "ordinateur", introduced by IBM in the 50s. They were looking for a word that was distinct from computer, which was usually associated with scientific machines, for the introduction of their IBM 650 data processing machine.
Um... No. Identity theft is using someone else's identity, not just obtaining information about them. It'd be using those credit card details to make purchases, or to write checks with some other data, and so on. You're the one mistakenly using words with much stronger meaning.
I'd say that it's a very gray area. If she were doing a critique of the let's play videos she used, that would be entirely fine. Using the videos to critique the game, however, is not the same. She should've recorded her own footage (and let's be honest, she's gotten enough Kickstarter money to buy a few games and spend the time to play them).
I mean seriously, is there any other person who has left a larger mark on the world this year? He's put his life on the line, angering the largest world power in order to reveal a bewilderingly sprawling surveillance network spying on its own citizens with a complete lack of ethics and oversight. He will not be able to step into most of the Western world for years to come because of his honesty and moral code. Everyone has heard of his revelations and we are still not done with them.
She's also used a lot of material without permission or even attribution, she's knowingly and repeatedly published incorrect or misleading videos and statements and she's taken an extremely antagonistic attitude which has ironically been fueling a lot of hate speech of late. Her cause definitely has merit, but her arguments are often weak and her methods questionable.
I disagree with your assessment about EA. I think there are many other companies in danger well before EA.
Activision, if you discount Blizzard, is basically a one-trick pony: Call of Duty. If that franchise ever tanks (and it will), they have nothing. They sabotaged Guitar Hero years ago (which was their other high selling franchise), they axed most of their studios, so all they're left with is essentially Call of Duty. We could very well see the disappearance of the Activision brand name as Blizzard keeps the company up.
Ubisoft has done some awful decisions the past few years, taking all of their franchises and building them using the same bloody structure. Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, they all have the same gameplay with minor variations (oh, here you have GUNS!) in different worlds. You all run up towers to reveal a map full of little dots to amuse you (they even did that in The Crew, a racing game...). You have inane storylines with unlikable protagonists. Even better, they're now releasing games with crippling performance and graphics problems despite hyping how great they would be. They need to stop farming each of their game to five different studios, give the dev teams more leeway to be original, and fix their common engine architecture so it's not sluggish and buggy. Also, Uplay is a fucking disaster.
Square Enix is also in a bit of trouble. They've been putting out some middling games for the most part. The Japanese arm keeps pumping out Final Fantasy, which is less and less inspired, while their other worldwide studios make good, but ultimately forgettable, games. Tomb Raider was supposed to sell an absurd number of copies to be profitable, Hitman: Absolution was okay but didn't sell all that well, Thief got mixed reviews as well... Their last great success was likely Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and that's getting a bit long in the tooth now.
Meanwhile, EA still has all of its sports franchises which keep printing money even if they're just roster upgrades. The Sims is also a license that keeps selling well and they've just released The Sims 4, so they can re-release all past expansions and get a boatload of money without doing much innovation. They still have strong brands like Mass Effect or Battlefield, they've restored some of Dragon Age's, and let's not forget the popular but lesser known stuff like Mirror's Edge. They also have a new Battlefront game coming, which will most likely be timed to go out around Episode VII. Origin's not doing too badly either.
My assessment is that Square could very well be bought out like THQ. Ubisoft is unlikely to disappear, but unless they shift focus and fix their shit they might shrink a fair bit. Activision's success is entirely dependent on how long they'll be able to farm Call of Duty.
The way I see it, Microsoft is at risk with their OS due to the shift away from traditional PCs. They have no presence there. Flip side, Office is still king, and I don't see a contender taking that away anytime soon. It's just fairly likely that their consumer audience is going to contract, leaving Office largely to businesses.
If your goal is touch-typing, you picked all the wrong switch types. Browns are the closest and are designed as an in-between of Reds (gaming-focused) and Blues (typing-focused). You truly want Blues for typing.
You do realize that until the point where his daughter died, he very much wanted to see the photos and share them, right? You're essentially asking for a grieving father to go through his entire photo collection and mark his daughter's photos as "don't show this". That's in no way a solution.
Is it just me who found the title for this submission a little strange, especially considering the hackers threatened to bomb the theaters which'd show the movie? I initially misread it into thinking they actually did it somehow.
So instead of students working during summer, they'll... not work at all? What's more likely to happen is that they'll work during the school year, which is known to severely impact grades. Teenagers want to have some spending money and many parents consider them old enough to start working to earn it. Good luck changing that sort of mentality on both points.
Also, it's cue, not queue and even less so que, which isn't even an English word.
You're almost on the spot: the thing isn't the slide rule or the core curriculum or anything. It's that different people learn differently. As it is, there is only ever one (two if you're lucky) method taught at school for any given subject. If you don't get it with that explanation, you're relegated to the bottom of the barrel and need out-of-school-hours help, if you can even get it. Most students aren't motivated enough to do so and just fall by the wayside.
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And at some point expect a serious backlash from the population when they've had enough. The problem is that it will be indiscriminately targeted at all Muslims and will probably shape immigration policies and cause further discrimination. I don't see this turning out well for Islam one way or another, unless the moderates get their shit together and fight back against the fundies tainting them name and religion.
Obligatory "why is this on /." comment found. Answer is always the same: Stuff That Matters. If you don't think 12 people dying to mad shooters because they made cartoons matters, go check in at your nearest psychological institute.
I'm not here to debate the merits of Islam, but to claim that Christianity as a whole has been perfectly clean since the 1500's is a gross mischaracterization of the numerous religious organizations and individuals that fall under the Christian designation.
Try as I might, I don't see that claim being made in the parent post. That Islam has caused more deaths in the last few decades, especially the last decade, should come as a surprise to precisely nobody. As much as I don't particularly like Christianity as a religion either, nobody's sent planes into buildings with thousands of civilians in the name of Jesus. Nobody's trying to transform the Middle East into a new Christian country, beheading all that oppose them and sending out the videos on Twitter.
It is a much better way around it, of course, but I'm not sure just throwing money at the problem is the way to go. I'd rather we figure out why exactly minorities and women don't go in tech, instead of enticing them to get into tech anyway because money.
It also further exacerbates jealousy and a feeling of inequality from the disgusting straight white males (do I need to add more adjectives there?) we keep bashing. Perhaps this'll come as a shock, but not all white males are rich. By having a scholarship for pretty much every state of being but white males, you're going to segregate the people who already love what they're doing and do it because of that in spite of the monetary problems. You're telling them that they're not worth fussing over.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein
These days, I'd say this miracle is unfortunately becoming more and more rare. It's become all about "the economy" and "job creation" and essentially working 9 to 5 hoping to make ends meet, and your brain becomes a tepid lump of flesh. Creativity and curiosity are useless for drones, they can safely be hacked away.
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Alternatively, you stumbled on some really good weed.
Yep. That Professor needs to check back, it's not the "young people", it's their parents' generation. The ones who've decided that repairable appliances reduces income for companies, that cheap materials are the way to go, that throwaway electronics pave the future. I'll be the first to agree that many changes have been for the better: you wouldn't be able to get cars as efficient as they are now without a lot of complex machinery and ICs everywhere. Many of our most beloved gadgets can only exist because of miniaturization and automation of production, at the cost of being able to repair them. It's just that when your washing machine's motor fails after a year, or you need to replace your convection oven's fan seven times before it stops making a buzzing sound, you realize that it's about as much about cost-cutting as it is about efficiency and actual, material gains.
In the case of fungi, no. An app which mistakenly identifies a poisonous mushroom as edible even 1% of the time would be extremely dangerous.
Your information is laughably outdated there. AMD's latest cards are so hot that their dual-GPU card is only available with a water cooler. Their top-tier card has been called obnoxiously loud. Nvidia meanwhile has managed to increase power efficiency so much that they can share their architecture on PC and mobile.
The French had an extremely far-reaching culture in that time period. Many of the most renown authors, specifically, (be they novelists or philosophers) were French. There were English people of the same notoriety, of course, but they were not as numerous and far-reaching, and many ironically frequented Paris to enjoy the cultural boom there. People often forget, but culture is one of the (if not the) primary vectors for a language's reach. Just look at how English culture (specifically, American) has evolved: English entertainment is ubiquitous, Hollywood is the place every actor dreams of working at, regardless of their country of origin. As a result, if you want to enjoy the culture as it was initially created, you need to learn English. In fact, you often learn English while consuming that culture.
In fact, that may be China's hurdle. While they are very powerful in manufacture and economically, their culture is weak outside of China. They're generally seen as a novelty, and very few works are popular outside of China.
"Computer" in French is actually "ordinateur", introduced by IBM in the 50s. They were looking for a word that was distinct from computer, which was usually associated with scientific machines, for the introduction of their IBM 650 data processing machine.
Um... No. Identity theft is using someone else's identity, not just obtaining information about them. It'd be using those credit card details to make purchases, or to write checks with some other data, and so on. You're the one mistakenly using words with much stronger meaning.
I'd say that it's a very gray area. If she were doing a critique of the let's play videos she used, that would be entirely fine. Using the videos to critique the game, however, is not the same. She should've recorded her own footage (and let's be honest, she's gotten enough Kickstarter money to buy a few games and spend the time to play them).
Yeah but, how many reflow ovens do you know of that smell like cookies after you're done with them?
I mean seriously, is there any other person who has left a larger mark on the world this year? He's put his life on the line, angering the largest world power in order to reveal a bewilderingly sprawling surveillance network spying on its own citizens with a complete lack of ethics and oversight. He will not be able to step into most of the Western world for years to come because of his honesty and moral code. Everyone has heard of his revelations and we are still not done with them.
She's also used a lot of material without permission or even attribution, she's knowingly and repeatedly published incorrect or misleading videos and statements and she's taken an extremely antagonistic attitude which has ironically been fueling a lot of hate speech of late. Her cause definitely has merit, but her arguments are often weak and her methods questionable.
She doesn't hold a candle to Snowden.
I disagree with your assessment about EA. I think there are many other companies in danger well before EA.
Activision, if you discount Blizzard, is basically a one-trick pony: Call of Duty. If that franchise ever tanks (and it will), they have nothing. They sabotaged Guitar Hero years ago (which was their other high selling franchise), they axed most of their studios, so all they're left with is essentially Call of Duty. We could very well see the disappearance of the Activision brand name as Blizzard keeps the company up.
Ubisoft has done some awful decisions the past few years, taking all of their franchises and building them using the same bloody structure. Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, they all have the same gameplay with minor variations (oh, here you have GUNS!) in different worlds. You all run up towers to reveal a map full of little dots to amuse you (they even did that in The Crew, a racing game...). You have inane storylines with unlikable protagonists. Even better, they're now releasing games with crippling performance and graphics problems despite hyping how great they would be. They need to stop farming each of their game to five different studios, give the dev teams more leeway to be original, and fix their common engine architecture so it's not sluggish and buggy. Also, Uplay is a fucking disaster.
Square Enix is also in a bit of trouble. They've been putting out some middling games for the most part. The Japanese arm keeps pumping out Final Fantasy, which is less and less inspired, while their other worldwide studios make good, but ultimately forgettable, games. Tomb Raider was supposed to sell an absurd number of copies to be profitable, Hitman: Absolution was okay but didn't sell all that well, Thief got mixed reviews as well... Their last great success was likely Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and that's getting a bit long in the tooth now.
Meanwhile, EA still has all of its sports franchises which keep printing money even if they're just roster upgrades. The Sims is also a license that keeps selling well and they've just released The Sims 4, so they can re-release all past expansions and get a boatload of money without doing much innovation. They still have strong brands like Mass Effect or Battlefield, they've restored some of Dragon Age's, and let's not forget the popular but lesser known stuff like Mirror's Edge. They also have a new Battlefront game coming, which will most likely be timed to go out around Episode VII. Origin's not doing too badly either.
My assessment is that Square could very well be bought out like THQ. Ubisoft is unlikely to disappear, but unless they shift focus and fix their shit they might shrink a fair bit. Activision's success is entirely dependent on how long they'll be able to farm Call of Duty.
The way I see it, Microsoft is at risk with their OS due to the shift away from traditional PCs. They have no presence there. Flip side, Office is still king, and I don't see a contender taking that away anytime soon. It's just fairly likely that their consumer audience is going to contract, leaving Office largely to businesses.
How many people in Thailand live the Western lifestyle of working in a cramped office all day and then coming home to watch TV on the sofa?
If your goal is touch-typing, you picked all the wrong switch types. Browns are the closest and are designed as an in-between of Reds (gaming-focused) and Blues (typing-focused). You truly want Blues for typing.
You do realize that until the point where his daughter died, he very much wanted to see the photos and share them, right? You're essentially asking for a grieving father to go through his entire photo collection and mark his daughter's photos as "don't show this". That's in no way a solution.
Is it just me who found the title for this submission a little strange, especially considering the hackers threatened to bomb the theaters which'd show the movie? I initially misread it into thinking they actually did it somehow.
So instead of students working during summer, they'll... not work at all? What's more likely to happen is that they'll work during the school year, which is known to severely impact grades. Teenagers want to have some spending money and many parents consider them old enough to start working to earn it. Good luck changing that sort of mentality on both points.
Also, it's cue, not queue and even less so que, which isn't even an English word.
You're almost on the spot: the thing isn't the slide rule or the core curriculum or anything. It's that different people learn differently. As it is, there is only ever one (two if you're lucky) method taught at school for any given subject. If you don't get it with that explanation, you're relegated to the bottom of the barrel and need out-of-school-hours help, if you can even get it. Most students aren't motivated enough to do so and just fall by the wayside.