While working as a chef I found that I could put things in the oven, completely forget about them and go on with other tasks. My internal timer would go off exactly when the food was supposed to come out of the oven. It's been timed by others. Correct to within seconds. Didn't bother with timers. Even if I'd forgotten that I'd put something in the oven, the internal timer would remind me at the right time. At a trattoria I knew where every pizza etc was in the belt driven oven too. Could tell the head chef or front of house exactly when each dish would be coming out. Don't know how it works, but it works.
Give popular science a big miss, they are weird ass copyright freaks, articles not available in other countries, articles deleted at random intervals etc. Just give them a big miss and go somewhere else and never ever link to them, really rather pointless to attempt to do so.
The link was pop-sci Australia. I'm in Australia, can read all the other articles, but it says that one isn't there. Strange. It was however while reading my first article on the main page that I realised that I didn't want to bother with any more...
Well said! Unfortunately, catering for idiots is the mark of the late 20th century and early 21st and it isn't going to get better. People are busy and lazy. They don't want to have to learn new things. Learning for the joy of learning is going out the door and has become 'vocational learning' only. Universities even back in the 70's were dropping art and history courses as well as classical languages and history etc.
The industries that have run the American economy that has influenced the world in these things so much just want consumers. People who know what the specials are at the dept store, but don't really think much. They know how to use facebook, are not savvy enough to avoid the ads and know how to use youtube enough to view cat videos. Mostly, they know how to buy, buy, buy and consume what they are told to consume. Stupidity is the desired outcome. Stupid consumers who just buy whatever crap is dished out to them.
What's useful about it? I mean the laptop itself this time. You have a keyboard and a touchpad. Why reach further and touch the screen? Touch screens are great on tablets, but somewhat limiting. Why the hell would they be useful on a laptop or a desktop? Just seems like more work for the same results to me.
Who wants the US to have air superiority anyway? US meddling in foreign affairs has generally led to future diplomatic problems, civilian suffering and wars. Bring on the birds I say.
Talking of math and science in general, this idea isn't related to either. What the hell are pictures and videos of a single king tide going to tell us about about anything EXCEPT the level of that single king tide. There simply isn't enough data to show anything. No real measurements, no real data.
Strange as it may seem to citizens of the USA, in other countries people have this thing called democracy and trust their governments more. Also in other countries, people are sometimes more concerned about what the USA will do invading their privacy or killing off their soldiers than their own government.
This is just part of a trend - the world slowly standing up to the USA and putting it back in it's place as just another nation.
While managing milestones is important, in Australia it just seems well recognised that after 8 hours of work, people's brains have often turned to mush and the quality of people's work goes down, so we have, in general, the 38 hour week and even strict rest stop and log book requirements for truck drivers.
Just wondering why he didn't just put the car in neutral and then use the handbrake to control his decelleration? Seriously some people should never be allowed to get behind the wheel...
In Australia we already use composting toilets on country roads for rest stops etc. They don't smell and are cheap to produce and maintain and the ventilation fan runs off a solar cell on the roof. Why should someone pay 40k for old tech?
You can question and probably should until you are satisfied. Just don't be blinded by your own opinions when you do question things.
Case in point. This guy I know has been tested to have an IQ way higher than average. He's designed and built beautiful gardens, is generally considered by his friends to be able to fix anything from their washing machine to their cars (and generally can), he learned html, css, javascript etc on the fly just because someone asked him to build a website for them. He writes all his code/markup by hand - no editors - it works in all common browsers equally and is standards compliant. It's good solid code. He reads and writes in 4 alphabets and was a top grade student of ancient languages. He's written beautiful music, poetry that people want to publish etc etc. When he's up he just do what he want to do and learns what he want to learn, figures out whatever he puts his mind to generally without any formal training at all. He thinks of elegant solutions to problems that suprise professionals - while doing things he's never done before.
When he's down however... He suffers terribly from depression. He finds it hard to remember to wash his clothes or trim his beard. It is almost impossible for him sometimes accomplish even do the basics of life. Stability has never been his strong point, but pretty much everyone I know still considers him to be brilliant.
While there may be discrepancies in IQ testing, surely people can be considered to be brilliant by their accomplishments.
My big sister's boyfriend gave us his old Apple II Europlus when I was a kid. Awesome little thing. When we weren't playing Akalabeth or Moonpatrol, we were teaching ourselves Apple Basic.
Any disaster could be averted with extra millions and millions spent on it, it's just balancing risk and reward.
Come on, don't be dense. The claim here is precisely that they weren't balancing risk and reward - they were overweighting their own immediate gains and underweighting the future risks, which were mostly to other people.
So a country rebuilt by the USA after WWII ended up with an industry based oligarcy? How surprising!
I think he is mostly refering to older hardware, not modern hardware.
That is something I am curious about to. A lot of old hardware isn't supported anymore by modern drivers in new linux kernels. Possibly most of it is FOSS anyway and so you could (given the needed knowledge) recompile them to work for modern distros but I can see where a gov implementation would get stuck there.
Not to say I don't like the idea, I fricking love it. Still I really don't think much of the IT skills of the gov sector (in any country).
This problem is lessened by the machines involved probably having been purchased in large numbers. All that is required is to get the OS running on one machine, then roll it out to the 10,000 or so identical machines from the same purchase.
Personally though I've been setting up free student computers for years using, at times, some very old hardware. I have very rarely had any driver issues at all.
The other angle is that Australia has always had censorship. Radio and TV are censored. Video games were logically censored to keep things in line with alread excepted policy. I'm personally surprised that censorship of the Internet has taken so long. I used to run a PC repair business and every customer with children and some without were concerned about what is available on the internet and many asked me to install Net Nanny or some other similar service. Any internet filter that filters out things like child porn and bestiality will be, except for some vocal small groups, quite popular here.
As for the 'oversights' outlined by the parent, Australians trust our governments a lot more than people in the US. Up until not too many years ago all of our public utilities were government owned, we have free government run or supplemented health care, education and payments and job training for the unemployed. It is quite natural to us that there should be censorship and I think the majority if Australians would be quite happy for the government to be doing it without questioning things too much.
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Staying out of other people's countries more like it.
While working as a chef I found that I could put things in the oven, completely forget about them and go on with other tasks. My internal timer would go off exactly when the food was supposed to come out of the oven. It's been timed by others. Correct to within seconds. Didn't bother with timers. Even if I'd forgotten that I'd put something in the oven, the internal timer would remind me at the right time. At a trattoria I knew where every pizza etc was in the belt driven oven too. Could tell the head chef or front of house exactly when each dish would be coming out. Don't know how it works, but it works.
Give popular science a big miss, they are weird ass copyright freaks, articles not available in other countries, articles deleted at random intervals etc. Just give them a big miss and go somewhere else and never ever link to them, really rather pointless to attempt to do so.
The link was pop-sci Australia. I'm in Australia, can read all the other articles, but it says that one isn't there. Strange. It was however while reading my first article on the main page that I realised that I didn't want to bother with any more...
Couldn't find the story the article originally linked to, but here's the wikipedia article on the teletanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Well said! Unfortunately, catering for idiots is the mark of the late 20th century and early 21st and it isn't going to get better. People are busy and lazy. They don't want to have to learn new things. Learning for the joy of learning is going out the door and has become 'vocational learning' only. Universities even back in the 70's were dropping art and history courses as well as classical languages and history etc. The industries that have run the American economy that has influenced the world in these things so much just want consumers. People who know what the specials are at the dept store, but don't really think much. They know how to use facebook, are not savvy enough to avoid the ads and know how to use youtube enough to view cat videos. Mostly, they know how to buy, buy, buy and consume what they are told to consume. Stupidity is the desired outcome. Stupid consumers who just buy whatever crap is dished out to them.
What's useful about it? I mean the laptop itself this time. You have a keyboard and a touchpad. Why reach further and touch the screen? Touch screens are great on tablets, but somewhat limiting. Why the hell would they be useful on a laptop or a desktop? Just seems like more work for the same results to me.
Who wants the US to have air superiority anyway? US meddling in foreign affairs has generally led to future diplomatic problems, civilian suffering and wars. Bring on the birds I say.
Talking of math and science in general, this idea isn't related to either. What the hell are pictures and videos of a single king tide going to tell us about about anything EXCEPT the level of that single king tide. There simply isn't enough data to show anything. No real measurements, no real data.
Strange as it may seem to citizens of the USA, in other countries people have this thing called democracy and trust their governments more. Also in other countries, people are sometimes more concerned about what the USA will do invading their privacy or killing off their soldiers than their own government. This is just part of a trend - the world slowly standing up to the USA and putting it back in it's place as just another nation.
The rest of the world isn't that surprised either.
While managing milestones is important, in Australia it just seems well recognised that after 8 hours of work, people's brains have often turned to mush and the quality of people's work goes down, so we have, in general, the 38 hour week and even strict rest stop and log book requirements for truck drivers.
They still use polygraphs in the USA?!? Polygraph results are inadmissable as evidence in Australia most of Europe.
Just wondering why he didn't just put the car in neutral and then use the handbrake to control his decelleration? Seriously some people should never be allowed to get behind the wheel...
In Australia we already use composting toilets on country roads for rest stops etc. They don't smell and are cheap to produce and maintain and the ventilation fan runs off a solar cell on the roof. Why should someone pay 40k for old tech?
If only the video on the link had shown some real footage instead of only CGI...
That was an awesome clip. Anyway. They wanted to analyse MUSIC and chose chart toppers? Music?
Sounds like me.
Tell your friend to try Ecstasy. It's a permanent fix.
I was actually writing about myself. Tried marijuana, opium, alcohol and stimulants. Didn't do me any good. Keep it clean these days.
You can question and probably should until you are satisfied. Just don't be blinded by your own opinions when you do question things. Case in point. This guy I know has been tested to have an IQ way higher than average. He's designed and built beautiful gardens, is generally considered by his friends to be able to fix anything from their washing machine to their cars (and generally can), he learned html, css, javascript etc on the fly just because someone asked him to build a website for them. He writes all his code/markup by hand - no editors - it works in all common browsers equally and is standards compliant. It's good solid code. He reads and writes in 4 alphabets and was a top grade student of ancient languages. He's written beautiful music, poetry that people want to publish etc etc. When he's up he just do what he want to do and learns what he want to learn, figures out whatever he puts his mind to generally without any formal training at all. He thinks of elegant solutions to problems that suprise professionals - while doing things he's never done before. When he's down however... He suffers terribly from depression. He finds it hard to remember to wash his clothes or trim his beard. It is almost impossible for him sometimes accomplish even do the basics of life. Stability has never been his strong point, but pretty much everyone I know still considers him to be brilliant. While there may be discrepancies in IQ testing, surely people can be considered to be brilliant by their accomplishments.
The Phantom. Only comic you need.
My big sister's boyfriend gave us his old Apple II Europlus when I was a kid. Awesome little thing. When we weren't playing Akalabeth or Moonpatrol, we were teaching ourselves Apple Basic.
Any disaster could be averted with extra millions and millions spent on it, it's just balancing risk and reward.
Come on, don't be dense. The claim here is precisely that they weren't balancing risk and reward - they were overweighting their own immediate gains and underweighting the future risks, which were mostly to other people.
So a country rebuilt by the USA after WWII ended up with an industry based oligarcy? How surprising!
I think he is mostly refering to older hardware, not modern hardware.
That is something I am curious about to. A lot of old hardware isn't supported anymore by modern drivers in new linux kernels. Possibly most of it is FOSS anyway and so you could (given the needed knowledge) recompile them to work for modern distros but I can see where a gov implementation would get stuck there. Not to say I don't like the idea, I fricking love it. Still I really don't think much of the IT skills of the gov sector (in any country).
This problem is lessened by the machines involved probably having been purchased in large numbers. All that is required is to get the OS running on one machine, then roll it out to the 10,000 or so identical machines from the same purchase. Personally though I've been setting up free student computers for years using, at times, some very old hardware. I have very rarely had any driver issues at all.
The other angle is that Australia has always had censorship. Radio and TV are censored. Video games were logically censored to keep things in line with alread excepted policy. I'm personally surprised that censorship of the Internet has taken so long. I used to run a PC repair business and every customer with children and some without were concerned about what is available on the internet and many asked me to install Net Nanny or some other similar service. Any internet filter that filters out things like child porn and bestiality will be, except for some vocal small groups, quite popular here.
As for the 'oversights' outlined by the parent, Australians trust our governments a lot more than people in the US. Up until not too many years ago all of our public utilities were government owned, we have free government run or supplemented health care, education and payments and job training for the unemployed. It is quite natural to us that there should be censorship and I think the majority if Australians would be quite happy for the government to be doing it without questioning things too much.
Of the top of my head, I think the Nazi party is the only sort which is banned outright.
This is VERY bad news to an already weakened dollar...
...but GREAT news for global economic stability!