This is a wonderful app. I push files around my home network using the ssh integration etc. Your comment motivated me to "go pro". I've been using the app for years and it never even occurred to me to buy it. For 2.99USD, it's really a pittance and the developers deserve a little compensation for a job well done. Thanks for motivating me.
It's not clear at all to me why the OP or the editors wouldn't at least mention that this information is taken nearly word-for-word from the really excellent weekly podcast 99% Invisible, so I'm making this comment to get it on the record. Also, here's a gratuitous link to the podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/ and the episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
It's too bad that the/. editor that posted this didn't dig into this shoddy piece of journalism before posting. You can read more about how arbitrary this "ranking" is at On The Media and then move along, there's nothing to see here.
The Aurora shooting suspect left a digital path a mile wide indicating he was up to something nefarious. NSA didn't see that coming. I don't thing their reach is as pervasive as people fear.
My stock response to this is that educators simply don't know what a person will end up doing in life. Hence the goal of educators is to provide a broad spectrum of ideas for the student to draw upon in their future endeavors--whatever they may be. It's certainly true that a student without calculus has fewer options in life than one with calculus. That doesn't mean I think every student should be required to take calculus, just that your argument for not requiring it is not sound.
who actually needed math skills and who didn't this would be great, but we don't. If we de-emphasize math education in this country, then we will surely diminish the future supply of mathematicians and scientists.
"Among its various tactics? It hires a team of interns to trawl iTunes and other community forums posing as real users, and has them write positive reviews for their client's applications."
Just so we're all clear, this is already illegal. If they are engaging in this kind of activity, then it's just a law enforcement issue.
To install it I used something like 60-80 1.44" floppy disks on a Packard-Bell which I created using the network connection and computers at school. I successfully installed it, but I never got the video past 800x600 (though I played with modelines til my eyes crossed). My only network connection was a modem. I can't remember if I had ppp at that point, but something makes me think I did because I was so excited to have multiple shells connected to the school machines.
The whole reason for even trying was to get a unix environment at home to run LaTeX. I was in graduate school in the math dept at the University of Kentucky. I've been running some flavor of linux at home ever since (slackware, redhat, debian, centos, ubuntu).
As with most things, follow the money. Without cell phones, the only way that a prisoner may communicate with loved ones outside is through collect phone calls. These collect phone calls are outrageously expensive--about $20 for 10 minutes. The reason is that the prisons sign exclusive contracts with phone providers and get a cut. It's wrong on a number of levels:
1) Usually the families of prisoners can ill afford such rates.
2) Families make reasonable economic choices to limit the calls that they take. This further isolates the prisoner from his family (and support system).
3) We all know that legitimate companies are able to make money charging only 2 or 3 cents per minute on long distance calls. The 10,000% mark up is unconscionable.
These anti-cell phone policies are really just an attempt to protect a lucrative revenue stream.
Consider an old, weathered rock in the desert and a wheelbarrow in the yard. The wheelbarrow exhibits properties of intelligent design while the rock does not. There are properties of each that allow us to classify them as "intelligently" designed or not--along the lines of "I know it when I see it." I think that a cogent philosophical/scientific exploration of these properties would be useful to science. Such an exploration might help us to decide whether a certain physical phenomenon is the result of some intelligence acting or simply an unguided application of physical laws.
Imagine a scientist trying to explain how a wheelbarrow came to be via a sequence of unguided applications of physical law.
It is possibly the case that some of the astrophysical observations that we make today are of phenomena that are the result of guided application of physical laws rather than unguided. Attempts to incorporate the unrecognized "guidedness" into our scientific theories (which are biased towards unguided processes) may warp or even invalidate them.
Cost and openness are the key. Linux will completely dominate the non-US markets over the next 5 years. Desktops and servers alike. This squabble between OS X and Linux is laughable US-centered viewpoint. Neither OS X (nor M$ for that matter) will ever see the non-US growth that Linux will see. Cheap software on cheap hardware will win in the long run. Third world nations aren't interested in paying Apple for its hardware or M$ for its software. Nor are they able. Yet that's where ALL the people are.
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This is a wonderful app. I push files around my home network using the ssh integration etc. Your comment motivated me to "go pro". I've been using the app for years and it never even occurred to me to buy it. For 2.99USD, it's really a pittance and the developers deserve a little compensation for a job well done. Thanks for motivating me.
Haha. Found it! Thanks.
Did I miss something? Where does it mention 99% invisible?
It's not clear at all to me why the OP or the editors wouldn't at least mention that this information is taken nearly word-for-word from the really excellent weekly podcast 99% Invisible, so I'm making this comment to get it on the record. Also, here's a gratuitous link to the podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/ and the episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
It's too bad that the /. editor that posted this didn't dig into this shoddy piece of journalism before posting. You can read more about how arbitrary this "ranking" is at On The Media and then move along, there's nothing to see here.
The Aurora shooting suspect left a digital path a mile wide indicating he was up to something nefarious. NSA didn't see that coming. I don't thing their reach is as pervasive as people fear.
My stock response to this is that educators simply don't know what a person will end up doing in life. Hence the goal of educators is to provide a broad spectrum of ideas for the student to draw upon in their future endeavors--whatever they may be. It's certainly true that a student without calculus has fewer options in life than one with calculus. That doesn't mean I think every student should be required to take calculus, just that your argument for not requiring it is not sound.
At 35USD every 4 weeks, they overpriced by a wide margin. Clearly they missed this article. Try 35USD/yr and I might think about it.
who actually needed math skills and who didn't this would be great, but we don't. If we de-emphasize math education in this country, then we will surely diminish the future supply of mathematicians and scientists.
"Among its various tactics? It hires a team of interns to trawl iTunes and other community forums posing as real users, and has them write positive reviews for their client's applications."
Just so we're all clear, this is already illegal. If they are engaging in this kind of activity, then it's just a law enforcement issue.
To install it I used something like 60-80 1.44" floppy disks on a Packard-Bell which I created using the network connection and computers at school. I successfully installed it, but I never got the video past 800x600 (though I played with modelines til my eyes crossed). My only network connection was a modem. I can't remember if I had ppp at that point, but something makes me think I did because I was so excited to have multiple shells connected to the school machines.
The whole reason for even trying was to get a unix environment at home to run LaTeX. I was in graduate school in the math dept at the University of Kentucky. I've been running some flavor of linux at home ever since (slackware, redhat, debian, centos, ubuntu).
As with most things, follow the money. Without cell phones, the only way that a prisoner may communicate with loved ones outside is through collect phone calls. These collect phone calls are outrageously expensive--about $20 for 10 minutes. The reason is that the prisons sign exclusive contracts with phone providers and get a cut. It's wrong on a number of levels:
1) Usually the families of prisoners can ill afford such rates.
2) Families make reasonable economic choices to limit the calls that they take. This further isolates the prisoner from his family (and support system).
3) We all know that legitimate companies are able to make money charging only 2 or 3 cents per minute on long distance calls. The 10,000% mark up is unconscionable.
These anti-cell phone policies are really just an attempt to protect a lucrative revenue stream.
Consider an old, weathered rock in the desert and a wheelbarrow in the yard. The wheelbarrow exhibits properties of intelligent design while the rock does not. There are properties of each that allow us to classify them as "intelligently" designed or not--along the lines of "I know it when I see it." I think that a cogent philosophical/scientific exploration of these properties would be useful to science. Such an exploration might help us to decide whether a certain physical phenomenon is the result of some intelligence acting or simply an unguided application of physical laws.
Imagine a scientist trying to explain how a wheelbarrow came to be via a sequence of unguided applications of physical law.
It is possibly the case that some of the astrophysical observations that we make today are of phenomena that are the result of guided application of physical laws rather than unguided. Attempts to incorporate the unrecognized "guidedness" into our scientific theories (which are biased towards unguided processes) may warp or even invalidate them.
Cost and openness are the key. Linux will completely dominate the non-US markets over the next 5 years. Desktops and servers alike. This squabble between OS X and Linux is laughable US-centered viewpoint. Neither OS X (nor M$ for that matter) will ever see the non-US growth that Linux will see. Cheap software on cheap hardware will win in the long run. Third world nations aren't interested in paying Apple for its hardware or M$ for its software. Nor are they able. Yet that's where ALL the people are.