Neil Armstrong was one of the greatest men of the last century, but so were a whole heap of other people, including the men and women that made his flight possible.
I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't diminish the contributions of the nameless people, but neither should we those of the renown people.
Settings could be any setting in the "Settings" menu, right?
Then I have already implemented Apple's patent with Tasker and a computer with a Bluetooth radio. When my Android phone is in range of my desktop PC (which can be detected with Bluetooth), I toggle developer mode on. What exactly is different with Apple's implementation, other than Apple probably using proprietary devices and protocols?
So basically Apple patented Bluetooth car receivers changing the phone's voice output and input (those are "settings", are they not?) to the in-car speaker and microphone when in range?
You must be kidding right? Until around Wilbur and Orville's time, most people thought flight was either impossible, would be stuck to air balloons or would be achieved by imitating birds with non-fixed wings.
The actual implementation and conception of fixed wings that could carry a heavier-than-air vehicle were novel and non-obvious at the time.
The fact of the matter here is that many of these patents, while claimed to be for specific implementations, are vague enough to cover just about all implementations. To give a simple example, how many different ways do you see to implement a loop?
Hah! Nice one. Just a single look at the deficient UI for Skyrim on PC should be proof enough that Bethesda makes games for the most profitable platform available at the time, and then try to mostly port it to the other platforms. Hint: that platform isn't the PC.
This is why the 360 gets the best experience with the fewest bugs and receives all the DLC exclusively for a certain time period.
Perhaps they're simply dumping hardware that could be affected by a ban before the ban happens? I doubt they'd have the ability to resell banned hardware as easily.
Whatever the case, however, this doesn't imply that they're all moving over to Apple. It could be that they're upgrading to the newest Samsung device, another Android device, iOS, or other possibilities.
My problem with that is that we're still working on the assumption that you need to memorize those enzymes.
Why?
For the vast majority of people taking general biology classes, knowing those by heart won't be of any use. Furthermore, for just about everyone, they'll be forgotten hours after the test.
TFA is right for some courses: they're becoming memorization courses. Sciences where there is a lot of things to recall, like chemistry or biology, seem particularly affected, and I think it's the premise that's wrong, not merely the execution. To give an example, in one of my college chemistry courses we had to remember the orbitals of the hydrogen atom (1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3d, etc.). Now this isn't a particularly hard thing to memorize, but you didn't have much context for it. It was merely "these are the orbitals" and you'd need to regurgitate them in a test. Later, I've gone through numerous physics courses and those orbitals naturally popped up. We were never asked to memorize them, but we did because we actually needed them. We understood what the symbols meant and had to use them to get the answer.
So I say, only get students to solve problems. If something needs to be memorized along the way, they will be, and probably far more efficiently and in a far more durable fashion than would be if the question was strictly about memorization.
My classical mechanics teacher used the technique described in TFA, or at least a derivative of it. It was the single most interesting class I've taken at university, and that's despite the subject matter being rather ordinary.
The funny thing is that it would actually have been perfect for everyone, you included! If you actually want to learn and understand, you attend the classes and interact with other students all while actually solving problems instead of being a biological xerox. If all you want is "take the test and make the grade", then you can stay the fuck out of class and let those who want to interact, interact. The teacher didn't care whether you were attending and all coursework was given online, including all study material.
I wonder how exactly you'd want to download games or updates for games without necessarily requesting that file from Steam's servers and thus letting them know that you're downloading that game.
This is entirely different from an OS sending a list of all applications that you install, regardless of where they were downloaded from and what services the OS provides for them (read: none for the vast majority).
If Microsoft screws up too much (and they're certainly heading down that path right now), 7 could become the new XP. That means you'll have a long time before ever being forced away from 7 due to incompatibilities that are not purely business reasons. I could see a handful of Microsoft-published PC games being locked to Windows 8, but that's not much of a loss considering the terrible game publishing Microsoft has been doing on PC since the 360 came out.
Most companies producing PC hardware have no interest to press people in this way.
It's the "get off my lawn" syndrome. People absolutely hate change and this is one example of it. They've been running on XP for so long now that changing to anything, even the best thing since sliced bread, would still be met with resistance.
This isn't to say that all change is good, but neither is it inherently bad. It's just that humans are creatures of habit.
If it were only those parent's kids, I'd be in favor of vaccination being voluntary.
I wouldn't. If you were born out of crazy parents who think vaccines are some conspiracy by the government, would you find it fair that YOU are getting endangered because of THEIR beliefs? Not all children share the beliefs of their parents, and punishing them for it is just as bad as punishing other kids for it.
The first thing I thought when I saw the pictures was "Hey, this looks a lot like the Sony store we have 20 minutes from here!"
Non-story if I've ever seen one. As long as you want to make a more boutique store look (as opposed to the more warehouse style of Best Buy), you're bound to have similar store design in this day and age.
Ads? Oh you mean those things most people who care about Google's intrusive practices have already blocked, alongside all scripts from blacklisted domains?
That's entirely false actually. It's not only doable, but fairly simple not to use Google if you're more paranoid about them than about the alternatives, which is the statement being made here.
Instead of Google, use something like DuckDuckGo. Instead of Gmail, use Thunderbird with a private mail server. Go to YouTube with private browsing through a proxy and don't comment, or use something like Vimeo/DailyMotion/whatever. Use Android without connecting a Google account, or get an iPhone.
Nah, the thing is that it's much easier to whine about things than to do something about it.
I think the ridiculous thing is that my email and phone account is orders of magnitude safer than my bank account.
Google's security is already miles beyond the average website, it's banks I want to see get into the 21st century. I should be able to use top-notch encryption techniques if I so desired, instead of an 8-character password coupled with questions for which anybody could find answers if they even vaguely knew me.
Now apply this logic to every country and you'll see why it doesn't work this way.
Knowledge shouldn't be segregated by national borders. I'm not American or European, but I am still proud of what NASA and the LHC have achieved. It's not about any single country, but advancement of our race as a whole. Every country should take part.
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Neil Armstrong was one of the greatest men of the last century, but so were a whole heap of other people, including the men and women that made his flight possible.
I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't diminish the contributions of the nameless people, but neither should we those of the renown people.
How am I supposed to type C-x M-c M-butterfly on an iPad keyboard?
Nah, obviously his interest tends to "peak", if you catch my drift...
So just like Apple didn't invent the smartphone?
Yeah. He got a patent on it so nobody else can have one.
Let's see here.
Base station could be a PC, right?
Settings could be any setting in the "Settings" menu, right?
Then I have already implemented Apple's patent with Tasker and a computer with a Bluetooth radio. When my Android phone is in range of my desktop PC (which can be detected with Bluetooth), I toggle developer mode on. What exactly is different with Apple's implementation, other than Apple probably using proprietary devices and protocols?
So basically Apple patented Bluetooth car receivers changing the phone's voice output and input (those are "settings", are they not?) to the in-car speaker and microphone when in range?
You must be kidding right? Until around Wilbur and Orville's time, most people thought flight was either impossible, would be stuck to air balloons or would be achieved by imitating birds with non-fixed wings.
The actual implementation and conception of fixed wings that could carry a heavier-than-air vehicle were novel and non-obvious at the time.
The fact of the matter here is that many of these patents, while claimed to be for specific implementations, are vague enough to cover just about all implementations. To give a simple example, how many different ways do you see to implement a loop?
Hah! Nice one. Just a single look at the deficient UI for Skyrim on PC should be proof enough that Bethesda makes games for the most profitable platform available at the time, and then try to mostly port it to the other platforms. Hint: that platform isn't the PC.
This is why the 360 gets the best experience with the fewest bugs and receives all the DLC exclusively for a certain time period.
Perhaps they're simply dumping hardware that could be affected by a ban before the ban happens? I doubt they'd have the ability to resell banned hardware as easily.
Whatever the case, however, this doesn't imply that they're all moving over to Apple. It could be that they're upgrading to the newest Samsung device, another Android device, iOS, or other possibilities.
The Leeroy Jenkins Award?
My problem with that is that we're still working on the assumption that you need to memorize those enzymes.
Why?
For the vast majority of people taking general biology classes, knowing those by heart won't be of any use. Furthermore, for just about everyone, they'll be forgotten hours after the test.
TFA is right for some courses: they're becoming memorization courses. Sciences where there is a lot of things to recall, like chemistry or biology, seem particularly affected, and I think it's the premise that's wrong, not merely the execution. To give an example, in one of my college chemistry courses we had to remember the orbitals of the hydrogen atom (1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3d, etc.). Now this isn't a particularly hard thing to memorize, but you didn't have much context for it. It was merely "these are the orbitals" and you'd need to regurgitate them in a test. Later, I've gone through numerous physics courses and those orbitals naturally popped up. We were never asked to memorize them, but we did because we actually needed them. We understood what the symbols meant and had to use them to get the answer.
So I say, only get students to solve problems. If something needs to be memorized along the way, they will be, and probably far more efficiently and in a far more durable fashion than would be if the question was strictly about memorization.
My classical mechanics teacher used the technique described in TFA, or at least a derivative of it. It was the single most interesting class I've taken at university, and that's despite the subject matter being rather ordinary.
The funny thing is that it would actually have been perfect for everyone, you included! If you actually want to learn and understand, you attend the classes and interact with other students all while actually solving problems instead of being a biological xerox. If all you want is "take the test and make the grade", then you can stay the fuck out of class and let those who want to interact, interact. The teacher didn't care whether you were attending and all coursework was given online, including all study material.
Just grab the book and cram.
I wonder how exactly you'd want to download games or updates for games without necessarily requesting that file from Steam's servers and thus letting them know that you're downloading that game.
This is entirely different from an OS sending a list of all applications that you install, regardless of where they were downloaded from and what services the OS provides for them (read: none for the vast majority).
If Microsoft screws up too much (and they're certainly heading down that path right now), 7 could become the new XP. That means you'll have a long time before ever being forced away from 7 due to incompatibilities that are not purely business reasons. I could see a handful of Microsoft-published PC games being locked to Windows 8, but that's not much of a loss considering the terrible game publishing Microsoft has been doing on PC since the 360 came out.
Most companies producing PC hardware have no interest to press people in this way.
It's the "get off my lawn" syndrome. People absolutely hate change and this is one example of it. They've been running on XP for so long now that changing to anything, even the best thing since sliced bread, would still be met with resistance.
This isn't to say that all change is good, but neither is it inherently bad. It's just that humans are creatures of habit.
If it were only those parent's kids, I'd be in favor of vaccination being voluntary.
I wouldn't. If you were born out of crazy parents who think vaccines are some conspiracy by the government, would you find it fair that YOU are getting endangered because of THEIR beliefs? Not all children share the beliefs of their parents, and punishing them for it is just as bad as punishing other kids for it.
The first thing I thought when I saw the pictures was "Hey, this looks a lot like the Sony store we have 20 minutes from here!"
Non-story if I've ever seen one. As long as you want to make a more boutique store look (as opposed to the more warehouse style of Best Buy), you're bound to have similar store design in this day and age.
Ads? Oh you mean those things most people who care about Google's intrusive practices have already blocked, alongside all scripts from blacklisted domains?
That's entirely false actually. It's not only doable, but fairly simple not to use Google if you're more paranoid about them than about the alternatives, which is the statement being made here.
Instead of Google, use something like DuckDuckGo. Instead of Gmail, use Thunderbird with a private mail server. Go to YouTube with private browsing through a proxy and don't comment, or use something like Vimeo/DailyMotion/whatever. Use Android without connecting a Google account, or get an iPhone.
Nah, the thing is that it's much easier to whine about things than to do something about it.
I think the ridiculous thing is that my email and phone account is orders of magnitude safer than my bank account.
Google's security is already miles beyond the average website, it's banks I want to see get into the 21st century. I should be able to use top-notch encryption techniques if I so desired, instead of an 8-character password coupled with questions for which anybody could find answers if they even vaguely knew me.
So the US has half the childhood mortality rate but fourteen times the GDP of Mexico. I'm sorry but that doesn't really reflect nicely on the US.
Samsung was not interested in making a better iPad or iPhone.
Indeed, they just made a good phone instead. That minimalistic designs look similar to one another is a flaw of that kind of design.
Only in tech does this kind of behavior warrant lawsuits all over the damn place.
Liar. See politician.
Now apply this logic to every country and you'll see why it doesn't work this way.
Knowledge shouldn't be segregated by national borders. I'm not American or European, but I am still proud of what NASA and the LHC have achieved. It's not about any single country, but advancement of our race as a whole. Every country should take part.