Well, from my understanding changing times/styles also contribute to this. Wasn't C once considered a relatively "high" language when it first emerged and is now more of a "middle" language?
Compared to rubbing two sticks together or use of flint matches are "simple", but now we have lighters.
This article would have made more sense realistically a while back. Current teen gamers are part of a console generation where one of the main three contenders, the Wii, is even doing well in Nursing homes. Gaming could be seen as having a stronger correlation back when gaming was more niche.
To use your analogy, anyone can make and eat pizza these days. At one point, in a steadily decreasing percentage of those alive, the only people who made/ate Pizzas were enthusiasts who either built their own oven, knew someone who did, or was a relative of an over owner/builder. If you are this involved, connected, etc. you might be more inclined to work at a pizzaria than anything else.
These days anyone can buy a frozen pizza for a dollar and nuke it in the microwave. Yet the TFA makes a big deal that these microwave pizza eaters aren't as dedicated or interested as the oven building pizza eaters. Go fig.
Unrepairable by user is a surprise? I thought Apple computers shipped with a screw driver detecting alarm that invalidated the warranty if an unlicensed screwdriver got within five feet of one.
The need is always relative to your own needs. I know a color blind person who has trouble with tablets with "acceptable" display resolutions depending on color schemes, but can make out the iPad "3" just fine due to the higher resolution.
Yes, this would have worked oh so well when that time my editor, myself, and third reporter were rushing home to get an immediate article out. We even snagged a designated driver. Our sole source of wi-fi in this remote area where Amish were a majority population was my hot spot enabled smart phone and the satellite trucks the big boys sent in.
Look, if you are reaching this point of trying to not-distract people then you might as well take the next steps: * No cup holders to encourage drinking while driving. Drinking/eating anything is also a distraction. * No radios or other music devices. Distractions are distractions. * Maybe even a ban on talking while in a vehicle. How different, when you get down to it, is talking on a phone and talking to a person next to you. One sideways glance to see their reaction at the wrong moment, blammo, road carnage.
On a sad note, it is sad (redundancy win!) to see him pass on.
On the bright side, maybe we'll finally have him stop changing what the meaning of Fahrenheit 451 is. Did he ever change his mind on the whole "Wait, it isn't about censorship at all. It really is about stupid kids watching TV all the time instead of reading. That is the important message." (not an actual quote).
Nah, Google was just pretending to be helpless. If you look carefully at photos of this craft over the year you'll see one of Google's Streetview Vehicles constantly within standard wi-fi range of this craft. You know Microsoft and Facebook can't secure anything.
No, a Pennsylvanian school with a habit of promoting looking for good coaches and giving them teacher positions to save money. This guy was softball. The football/chemistry showed "Remember the Titans" weekly after he got tired of doing chemistry labs. Not that the other chemistry teacher was much better. Replace "Remember the Titans" with self-written poetry readings. There were a few more, but that is not here or there.
Grad school prof.. maybe? I dunno. I remember in public school ~2000 I had a teacher was adamant that continental drift was an impossible pseudoscience. Spent a whole day's lesson explaining its flaws. The bizarre thing was he was supposed to be teaching U.S. history from the revolution to the modern day.
Both are the larval forms of the Ultimate Malware. Flame is it for machines, Angry Birds for humans/organics. Now, now we just need to watch for reverse-time-traveling pyramids and an obsidian colored homocidal robot called The Shrike. Wait, aren't Shrikes a type of bird?! God damn it, we are so doomed. Clearly Flame and Angry Birds eventually has a love child who travels back in time to kill off the whole universe one person at a time from the beginning.
Yeah, local area wages hit my workplace hard when a new owner came in. 3-21% paycuts once the owners realized they had recieved two thousand applications for forty job positions.
One of my jobs is a photographer. I make videos too. I generally see copyright as a good thing. However, I'm also a realist. Piracy is bad, m'kay. However, at this point fighting piracy like this is going to do as much if not more harm to our economy and/or culture.
Maybe race wasn't intended. Construction and landscaping is stereotypical illegal immigrant work, and when people think illegal immigrants they think Latinos. It still raises eyebrows when you talk about dropping off orange soda and KFC to an inner-city homeless shelter even if you have a ton of soda and KFC left over from your nephew's birthday party. It wasn't your fault if they ate all the pizza and drank all the Coca-cola, right?
I won't deny you don't raise some relevant points. It is going to be an up hill battle unless he starts learning Mandarin. Even if he telecommutes or freelances online to English speaking areas he'll be isolated locally.
Well, it isn't just a TV show. It is one you are engaged in enough to want to see what happens. I know what I did with the one season of Doctor Who that got delayed a week because in the states BBC America didn't want to air a new episode on Memorial Day.
I had two options: 1) Stay a week perpetually behind for the rest of the season. Avoiding sites I enjoy like a lepper because of where I lived. After all, the net isn't local, it was filled with people who didn't get delayed due to a holiday. Avoid talking with other friends who enjoyed the show that weren't bound by this limitation about this mutual interest.
2) Pirate the bloody episode and watch it so I was in sync with the rest of the fandom.
You might not care about this television show, true. But television of largely digital these days. A week made more sense back in the day when things had to be shipped. A week for a book, a movie, a cd (cassette, 8-track, record, whatever)? Yes, acceptable. A week for a eBook to come out just to fit out dated norms? A week for a digital downloaded song because of where you live? Or any other such good?
The exact topic, a television show, is a bit laughable I suppose. The important thing this is a symptom, and one that helps triangulate the real disease. Sometimes a sneeze is just a lil' pepper, and sometimes a sneeze is something worse. The specific is relevant to/, and what is going on in the world. What is going on with piracy when anti-piracy measures are driving so much law creation lately.
People don't want to be pirates. They just see a stupid road block and know a way around it. Gabe of Valve called this a service problem. If this were a government act, not a corporate one, we'd be calling it a stupid regulation, a hindrance that should be stricken from the books. This is one more piece of evidence that a chunk of piracy could be fought by offering what services and goods the people want.
Grandparents will tell tales of the great scourging. The day the net erupted into flames as two forces collided. Children will think it nothing but tall tales, but those who lived it will know better. We know, we remember the day that Anonymous launched their DDOS attack against/. and the day they were slashdotted by curious nerds wanting to see what was going on The day the pipes burst open.
Maybe they are looking at what Microsoft is capable of vs their leader. RIM at times sounds like a complete implosion. Microsoft produces outbursts of good ideas inspite of their leadership implying some good thinkers/workers are left.
I would argue that if we follow his reasoning why stop at icons? Let's apply his logic to a word since he brings up "radio" buttons.
Everyone knows how confused people are with the term computer. How can anyone use computers with such a confusing and contradictory term. Computers are humans capable of performing above average mental mathematical calculations using their minds alone without the aid of machines. Calling a machine a computer may have been tongue-in-cheek for a time, but now it is just a ticking time bomb of confusion that needs updated. We need to fix and rename digital machines that we currently call computers.
In short, yes, the guy is an idiot. He fails to realize words change meaning and thus images can. There is no difference between a 3.25 disk for a save image and some committee designed image as long as we are taught it means that. After all, how many people care that the power button on computers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_symbol , has a meaning in binary? How many care?
There is nothing wrong with being carbon neutral in theory. If every country were carbon neutral the economic benefits would go to those who do it most efficiency without simply resetting your economy to pre-Industrial.
One of the problems is how to implement it. It is almost like arguing over flat, progressive, or recessive taxes*. Make it perfectly neutral between all countries and you hinder the development of... well... developing countries. The developed have a huge advantage and they can keep it. Have a progressive and it puts a larger burden on the developed countries and the developing get economic advantages. Unlike taxes where the stratification between rich, upper-class, middle-class and lower class, we have a developing country as the second largest economy in the world. Another sixth in GDP (Brazil). Two developing countries above Russia and the United Kingdom.
Considering he seems to be acting like a cranky old man, and considering where we stick our cranky elderly relatives? Sounds like he is a bit better ahead.
To keep pushing the boundaries. Long term, we need to leave Earth, we need to get humans in some survivable form on other worlds and eventually out of the solar system. We don't have just the sun exploding to worry about. Natural disasters, unexpected celestial events. Heck, we have companies looking into trying to move asteroids into Earth orbit for mining. Imagine if we had a Fukushima/B.P. incident with one of those? The sooner we can get the tech tested feasible the better in case we need it.
Take at the look at the discovery of the Americas. The first there and/or with tech to quickly get there and utilize any game changing discovery will greatly benefit.
The thing is we don't know how imperfect it is. Considering these machines allegedly broke a medical device in recent news. Considering that U.S. citizens are being made to go through humiliating procedures that these machines are a part of and may or may not work well? "Exactly how bad the body scanners are is not being divulged publicly" is a big thing.
Also $90 million? That is $90 million less towards the debt. That is $90 million that could be towards STEM promotion in education. That is $90 million that is money that could have been used as an incentive or subsidy to get businesses to hire more employees (if you believe in trickle down) or applied to the people directly (if you believe in trickle up). That $90 million could pay ~5500 people to work for one year at minimum wage.
Whether you think it could go elsewhere or no where, why spend it on a program that isn't working? That's just direct cost anyways.
Think about how many people fly. Let's make this easier, how many people fly for business. How much time is wasted going through this extra security that may or may not be working to suitable levels. Multiple that extra time by their salaries. That is another economic hit.
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Well, from my understanding changing times/styles also contribute to this. Wasn't C once considered a relatively "high" language when it first emerged and is now more of a "middle" language?
Compared to rubbing two sticks together or use of flint matches are "simple", but now we have lighters.
Realistically, yes. I agree.
I'm still dumb founded by those who genuinely believe that we have our life-long career and ambitions set by time we enter high school.
This article would have made more sense realistically a while back. Current teen gamers are part of a console generation where one of the main three contenders, the Wii, is even doing well in Nursing homes. Gaming could be seen as having a stronger correlation back when gaming was more niche.
To use your analogy, anyone can make and eat pizza these days. At one point, in a steadily decreasing percentage of those alive, the only people who made/ate Pizzas were enthusiasts who either built their own oven, knew someone who did, or was a relative of an over owner/builder. If you are this involved, connected, etc. you might be more inclined to work at a pizzaria than anything else.
These days anyone can buy a frozen pizza for a dollar and nuke it in the microwave. Yet the TFA makes a big deal that these microwave pizza eaters aren't as dedicated or interested as the oven building pizza eaters. Go fig.
Unrepairable by user is a surprise? I thought Apple computers shipped with a screw driver detecting alarm that invalidated the warranty if an unlicensed screwdriver got within five feet of one.
The need is always relative to your own needs. I know a color blind person who has trouble with tablets with "acceptable" display resolutions depending on color schemes, but can make out the iPad "3" just fine due to the higher resolution.
Yes, this would have worked oh so well when that time my editor, myself, and third reporter were rushing home to get an immediate article out. We even snagged a designated driver. Our sole source of wi-fi in this remote area where Amish were a majority population was my hot spot enabled smart phone and the satellite trucks the big boys sent in.
Look, if you are reaching this point of trying to not-distract people then you might as well take the next steps:
* No cup holders to encourage drinking while driving. Drinking/eating anything is also a distraction.
* No radios or other music devices. Distractions are distractions.
* Maybe even a ban on talking while in a vehicle. How different, when you get down to it, is talking on a phone and talking to a person next to you. One sideways glance to see their reaction at the wrong moment, blammo, road carnage.
My one bank does that. It irks me to no end. Kind of like an unmatched (.
On a sad note, it is sad (redundancy win!) to see him pass on.
On the bright side, maybe we'll finally have him stop changing what the meaning of Fahrenheit 451 is. Did he ever change his mind on the whole "Wait, it isn't about censorship at all. It really is about stupid kids watching TV all the time instead of reading. That is the important message." (not an actual quote).
I was under the impression that Apple had already filed for a patent on this.
Nah, Google was just pretending to be helpless. If you look carefully at photos of this craft over the year you'll see one of Google's Streetview Vehicles constantly within standard wi-fi range of this craft. You know Microsoft and Facebook can't secure anything.
No, a Pennsylvanian school with a habit of promoting looking for good coaches and giving them teacher positions to save money. This guy was softball. The football/chemistry showed "Remember the Titans" weekly after he got tired of doing chemistry labs. Not that the other chemistry teacher was much better. Replace "Remember the Titans" with self-written poetry readings. There were a few more, but that is not here or there.
Grad school prof.. maybe? I dunno. I remember in public school ~2000 I had a teacher was adamant that continental drift was an impossible pseudoscience. Spent a whole day's lesson explaining its flaws. The bizarre thing was he was supposed to be teaching U.S. history from the revolution to the modern day.
*Has creepy Hyperion tetraology vibes*
Both are the larval forms of the Ultimate Malware. Flame is it for machines, Angry Birds for humans/organics. Now, now we just need to watch for reverse-time-traveling pyramids and an obsidian colored homocidal robot called The Shrike. Wait, aren't Shrikes a type of bird?! God damn it, we are so doomed. Clearly Flame and Angry Birds eventually has a love child who travels back in time to kill off the whole universe one person at a time from the beginning.
Yeah, local area wages hit my workplace hard when a new owner came in. 3-21% paycuts once the owners realized they had recieved two thousand applications for forty job positions.
One of my jobs is a photographer. I make videos too. I generally see copyright as a good thing. However, I'm also a realist. Piracy is bad, m'kay. However, at this point fighting piracy like this is going to do as much if not more harm to our economy and/or culture.
Maybe race wasn't intended. Construction and landscaping is stereotypical illegal immigrant work, and when people think illegal immigrants they think Latinos. It still raises eyebrows when you talk about dropping off orange soda and KFC to an inner-city homeless shelter even if you have a ton of soda and KFC left over from your nephew's birthday party. It wasn't your fault if they ate all the pizza and drank all the Coca-cola, right?
I won't deny you don't raise some relevant points. It is going to be an up hill battle unless he starts learning Mandarin. Even if he telecommutes or freelances online to English speaking areas he'll be isolated locally.
Well, it isn't just a TV show. It is one you are engaged in enough to want to see what happens. I know what I did with the one season of Doctor Who that got delayed a week because in the states BBC America didn't want to air a new episode on Memorial Day.
I had two options:
1) Stay a week perpetually behind for the rest of the season. Avoiding sites I enjoy like a lepper because of where I lived. After all, the net isn't local, it was filled with people who didn't get delayed due to a holiday. Avoid talking with other friends who enjoyed the show that weren't bound by this limitation about this mutual interest.
2) Pirate the bloody episode and watch it so I was in sync with the rest of the fandom.
You might not care about this television show, true. But television of largely digital these days. A week made more sense back in the day when things had to be shipped. A week for a book, a movie, a cd (cassette, 8-track, record, whatever)? Yes, acceptable. A week for a eBook to come out just to fit out dated norms? A week for a digital downloaded song because of where you live? Or any other such good?
The exact topic, a television show, is a bit laughable I suppose. The important thing this is a symptom, and one that helps triangulate the real disease. Sometimes a sneeze is just a lil' pepper, and sometimes a sneeze is something worse. The specific is relevant to /, and what is going on in the world. What is going on with piracy when anti-piracy measures are driving so much law creation lately.
People don't want to be pirates. They just see a stupid road block and know a way around it. Gabe of Valve called this a service problem. If this were a government act, not a corporate one, we'd be calling it a stupid regulation, a hindrance that should be stricken from the books. This is one more piece of evidence that a chunk of piracy could be fought by offering what services and goods the people want.
Maybe the poor guy or gal takes the "Leader of the Free World" thing too literally?
Grandparents will tell tales of the great scourging. The day the net erupted into flames as two forces collided. Children will think it nothing but tall tales, but those who lived it will know better. We know, we remember the day that Anonymous launched their DDOS attack against /. and the day they were slashdotted by curious nerds wanting to see what was going on The day the pipes burst open.
Maybe they are looking at what Microsoft is capable of vs their leader. RIM at times sounds like a complete implosion. Microsoft produces outbursts of good ideas inspite of their leadership implying some good thinkers/workers are left.
I would argue that if we follow his reasoning why stop at icons? Let's apply his logic to a word since he brings up "radio" buttons.
Everyone knows how confused people are with the term computer. How can anyone use computers with such a confusing and contradictory term. Computers are humans capable of performing above average mental mathematical calculations using their minds alone without the aid of machines. Calling a machine a computer may have been tongue-in-cheek for a time, but now it is just a ticking time bomb of confusion that needs updated. We need to fix and rename digital machines that we currently call computers.
In short, yes, the guy is an idiot. He fails to realize words change meaning and thus images can. There is no difference between a 3.25 disk for a save image and some committee designed image as long as we are taught it means that. After all, how many people care that the power button on computers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_symbol , has a meaning in binary? How many care?
There is nothing wrong with being carbon neutral in theory. If every country were carbon neutral the economic benefits would go to those who do it most efficiency without simply resetting your economy to pre-Industrial.
One of the problems is how to implement it. It is almost like arguing over flat, progressive, or recessive taxes*. Make it perfectly neutral between all countries and you hinder the development of... well... developing countries. The developed have a huge advantage and they can keep it. Have a progressive and it puts a larger burden on the developed countries and the developing get economic advantages. Unlike taxes where the stratification between rich, upper-class, middle-class and lower class, we have a developing country as the second largest economy in the world. Another sixth in GDP (Brazil). Two developing countries above Russia and the United Kingdom.
Considering he seems to be acting like a cranky old man, and considering where we stick our cranky elderly relatives? Sounds like he is a bit better ahead.
To keep pushing the boundaries. Long term, we need to leave Earth, we need to get humans in some survivable form on other worlds and eventually out of the solar system. We don't have just the sun exploding to worry about. Natural disasters, unexpected celestial events. Heck, we have companies looking into trying to move asteroids into Earth orbit for mining. Imagine if we had a Fukushima/B.P. incident with one of those? The sooner we can get the tech tested feasible the better in case we need it.
Take at the look at the discovery of the Americas. The first there and/or with tech to quickly get there and utilize any game changing discovery will greatly benefit.
The thing is we don't know how imperfect it is. Considering these machines allegedly broke a medical device in recent news. Considering that U.S. citizens are being made to go through humiliating procedures that these machines are a part of and may or may not work well? "Exactly how bad the body scanners are is not being divulged publicly" is a big thing.
Also $90 million? That is $90 million less towards the debt. That is $90 million that could be towards STEM promotion in education. That is $90 million that is money that could have been used as an incentive or subsidy to get businesses to hire more employees (if you believe in trickle down) or applied to the people directly (if you believe in trickle up). That $90 million could pay ~5500 people to work for one year at minimum wage.
Whether you think it could go elsewhere or no where, why spend it on a program that isn't working? That's just direct cost anyways.
Think about how many people fly. Let's make this easier, how many people fly for business. How much time is wasted going through this extra security that may or may not be working to suitable levels. Multiple that extra time by their salaries. That is another economic hit.