Spending more money on education isn't the be-all and end-all. But we are talking about a country where lots of children have no access to any education at all. We're not arguing about class sizes in the UK or iPads for US classrooms.
Crap idea for London, where tesco.com, sainsburys.co.uk, waitrose.com, and ocado.com would wipe the floor with them. Our shopping patterns are wildly different from yours!
Nah. In the UK, supermarkets' delivery services are taking increasing share of the market cf store visits. So it makes more sense to pair up with this kind of delivery service.
Here in the uk, I think it would make more sense to partner with ocado.com or one of the supermarkets. They deliver in one-hour slots so theyre reliable and usage rates are prettty high. A "deliver with my next ocado" button would see a lot of usage, I'm sure.
There's a difference between features and experiences.
Sure. Features can be objectively defined and compared. "Experience" is utterly subjective.
So what? Who cares if experience is subjective? It doesn't mean it's not real. It is patently obvious that "more" does not always create a better experience; and that conversely, simplicity is something to strive for. A spare writing style; minimalism; a plate of sashimi; a solitary chorister singing; famously, Google's home page; etc etc.
Any chance of some references? Cos I'm thinking that your "statistical analysis" and "consumer advocacy groups" exist in a fetid imagination rather than the real world. A quick google finds only references showing the opposite of what you assert.
Are you honestly, truly, questioning whether a capacitative touchscreen has been a core part of the interface for smartphones and tablets?! That's just.... weird.
Try to switch Wi-Fi on or off on iOS. Or bluetooth. Or GPS. Or change brighness. Oh yeah.
Eh? What on earth is difficult about switching off Wifi? It's right there in the settings (and you can just turn on airplane mode too, if you're happy to turn off GPS etc as well). Or changing brightness? Double-click the home button, swipe to the left, choose brightness level, job done. It takes seconds. I've never needed to turn off bluetooth or GPS, but I can't imagine it would be any trickier.
Overall OS experience is more than animations. Try to get a nice calendar or weather plugin on in iOS device. Try to make it switch off at night.
Eh? What do you mean? Why not just, you know, turn the iPad off by clicking the button on the top? Who needs it when they're asleep?
For instance, compare GoodReader with ezPDF or anything else in the Android ecosystem...
One can write (or port) any iOS app to android.
That's just silly. It may be true in principle, but in practice I'd really rather just buy the friggin' thing. Same way as I don't grow my own wheat or weave my own clothes.
Zillions of apps designed with a stylus in mind? Zillions of such apps for the *iPad*?? Boyohboyohboy, I wish I could live in your world, where you merely wish something to be so, and pow! it is.
I have no idea of the facts, but the obvious answers would be: - the chinese gov't, to build market share - for the same reasons that applied when they were trying to sell to the US pre-tariff
Why would this work differently from any other field of scientific endeavour? Say, virology, or fluid dynamics, or pharmacology, etc? In every field, people who've studied it forever are going to be the first port-of-call vs people who've studied some other branch of science.
Firstly, in case you hadn't noticed, Europeans have income taxes *as well as* VAT -- just like the US does.
Secondly, billionaires remain billionaires by *not* spending all their money, or even a tiny fraction of it. Economists call consumption taxes regressive because they hit the poorest hardest. The poorest have to spend the vast bulk of their income (and often have to spend down their wealth) to support their day-to-day needs -- food, clothing, shelter etc. That is the original justification for why some items are zero-rated for VAT.
Back in your box, where you can curdle up with your copy of Atlas Shrugged and have yourself a little rightwing wankfest. And yes, curdle was a deliberate pun.
Hmm. I have a work think pad. The latch broke immediately. The swivel mechanism doesn't function as it ought to. The backlight never lit. The trackpad regularly reads a right click as a left click and vice versa. It's stupidly heavy and bulky, given its screen size (it's an x220t). It is a pos compared to my MacBook pro...
Perhaps if you'd learned some higher order thinking skills yourself, you'd be able to spot the multiple flaws in your implicit assertion that the existence of a literature describing the nature of higher order thinking skills will not necessarily mean that US students' test scores will be skyrocketing. You might, for example, learn to question the chain of causality you have implicitly created.
You don't have to codify "critical thinking" or any other higher-order thinking skill like problem-solving in a once-and-for-all way. You just have to teach the techniques of one or other system so that people have useful tools to hand. For example, for problem-solving: - define the problem - structure it into subcomponents, using appropriate logic - develop potential answers for each subcomponent - test and refine answers - put it all together
Plenty of other methods work too, but that one is pretty effective for most people, most of the time
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Your buddy is wrong. You wanna magiah, you can make aliya no probs.
We also know that you can't count. You said "a couple of things". And then listed more than two. Clever boy!
"Simple shit like getting clean water"
Priceless comment. I'm glad it's simple. Perhaps you can head over and teach the poor benighted heathens how to solve the issue.
Spending more money on education isn't the be-all and end-all. But we are talking about a country where lots of children have no access to any education at all. We're not arguing about class sizes in the UK or iPads for US classrooms.
Ironic you should mention this when auto manufacturers are avid users of design patents and trade dress to protect IP
That is a really cool video!
What is your memorable place? seems to fit all those criteria, for example.
Crap idea for London, where tesco.com, sainsburys.co.uk, waitrose.com, and ocado.com would wipe the floor with them. Our shopping patterns are wildly different from yours!
Nah. In the UK, supermarkets' delivery services are taking increasing share of the market cf store visits. So it makes more sense to pair up with this kind of delivery service.
Here in the uk, I think it would make more sense to partner with ocado.com or one of the supermarkets. They deliver in one-hour slots so theyre reliable and usage rates are prettty high. A "deliver with my next ocado" button would see a lot of usage, I'm sure.
There's a difference between features and experiences.
Sure. Features can be objectively defined and compared. "Experience" is utterly subjective.
So what? Who cares if experience is subjective? It doesn't mean it's not real. It is patently obvious that "more" does not always create a better experience; and that conversely, simplicity is something to strive for. A spare writing style; minimalism; a plate of sashimi; a solitary chorister singing; famously, Google's home page; etc etc.
Any chance of some references? Cos I'm thinking that your "statistical analysis" and "consumer advocacy groups" exist in a fetid imagination rather than the real world. A quick google finds only references showing the opposite of what you assert.
Are you honestly, truly, questioning whether a capacitative touchscreen has been a core part of the interface for smartphones and tablets?! That's just .... weird.
Try to switch Wi-Fi on or off on iOS. Or bluetooth. Or GPS. Or change brighness. Oh yeah.
Eh? What on earth is difficult about switching off Wifi? It's right there in the settings (and you can just turn on airplane mode too, if you're happy to turn off GPS etc as well). Or changing brightness? Double-click the home button, swipe to the left, choose brightness level, job done. It takes seconds. I've never needed to turn off bluetooth or GPS, but I can't imagine it would be any trickier.
Overall OS experience is more than animations. Try to get a nice calendar or weather plugin on in iOS device. Try to make it switch off at night.
Eh? What do you mean? Why not just, you know, turn the iPad off by clicking the button on the top? Who needs it when they're asleep?
For instance, compare GoodReader with ezPDF or anything else in the Android ecosystem...
One can write (or port) any iOS app to android.
That's just silly. It may be true in principle, but in practice I'd really rather just buy the friggin' thing. Same way as I don't grow my own wheat or weave my own clothes.
Zillions of apps designed with a stylus in mind? Zillions of such apps for the *iPad*?? Boyohboyohboy, I wish I could live in your world, where you merely wish something to be so, and pow! it is.
I have no idea of the facts, but the obvious answers would be:
- the chinese gov't, to build market share
- for the same reasons that applied when they were trying to sell to the US pre-tariff
Hum.
Top-end is not the same as "standard guarantee"
Plenty of manufacturers offer 25 year guarantees for plenty of things. Saucepans, for example.
Why would this work differently from any other field of scientific endeavour? Say, virology, or fluid dynamics, or pharmacology, etc? In every field, people who've studied it forever are going to be the first port-of-call vs people who've studied some other branch of science.
That's why numbers are reported as C02e, not C02.
See, for example, http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/sustainability/latest_thinking/costcurves, where the reports talk about GHG emissions in terms of GtC02e.
Beautifully put. In a bitterly beautiful way
You're sort of right, but Concorde passengers flew first class, with dedicated checkin and security queues. It was more like 30mins at the airport.
What a stupid bloody comment.
Firstly, in case you hadn't noticed, Europeans have income taxes *as well as* VAT -- just like the US does.
Secondly, billionaires remain billionaires by *not* spending all their money, or even a tiny fraction of it. Economists call consumption taxes regressive because they hit the poorest hardest. The poorest have to spend the vast bulk of their income (and often have to spend down their wealth) to support their day-to-day needs -- food, clothing, shelter etc. That is the original justification for why some items are zero-rated for VAT.
Back in your box, where you can curdle up with your copy of Atlas Shrugged and have yourself a little rightwing wankfest. And yes, curdle was a deliberate pun.
Hmm. I have a work think pad. The latch broke immediately. The swivel mechanism doesn't function as it ought to. The backlight never lit. The trackpad regularly reads a right click as a left click and vice versa. It's stupidly heavy and bulky, given its screen size (it's an x220t). It is a pos compared to my MacBook pro...
Perhaps if you'd learned some higher order thinking skills yourself, you'd be able to spot the multiple flaws in your implicit assertion that the existence of a literature describing the nature of higher order thinking skills will not necessarily mean that US students' test scores will be skyrocketing. You might, for example, learn to question the chain of causality you have implicitly created.
You don't have to codify "critical thinking" or any other higher-order thinking skill like problem-solving in a once-and-for-all way. You just have to teach the techniques of one or other system so that people have useful tools to hand. For example, for problem-solving:
- define the problem
- structure it into subcomponents, using appropriate logic
- develop potential answers for each subcomponent
- test and refine answers
- put it all together
Plenty of other methods work too, but that one is pretty effective for most people, most of the time