The reason Russia failed is because after Stalin, everybody realized that they could never again have such a powerful ruler. So they ran everything by committee. "Topical boards" is actually close to how they did it, although there were no elections, just greasy palms and "remember to be a good Communist."
>communism consisted of basically one dominant organization
If it was America, it would be like if your first priority was to be a "good Democrat." We actually have a milder form of this, it's called taxes. You have to pay taxes to be a "good citizen." If this leaves you with nothing, it's not their problem. The question is whether you can change your leadership.
People really get torn up over Communism, but basically it was 1-party rule with state intervention in the economy (farm quotas, for example). But that's it. Any powerful party can be "communist" if it wants. It just means checking with them first.
>If someone's missing the firmware that makes vision useful, the sunconscious breaking down of raw data into "objects" positioned in a 3D mental model, that's a severe disability
In grade school, drawing was a major activity for pretty much everyone. The best kids ("artists") were revered as godlike. They had a natural talent that could not be replicated with effort.
For me, it was a major wake-up call to realize the "artists" probably had autism. They were seeing 3D as 2D. They simply drew what they saw.
I'm still jealous of them, but not nearly as much. I have to wonder what they aren't doing with their lack of spatial perception.
Anyone got test results? There were many spatial tests in childhood, fwir.
>Also, it's far from clear that "mild cases" are really a problem at all.
I think he addressed this when he said,
Anger management is a major issue for a lot of people with autism, and they risk taking it out on subordinates in a fashion that to the rest of us is utterly irrational
My two cents, "fitting in" is very important and ultimately not that hard. If you're still having problems with it, then maybe "mild" is not the word.
>Something as empowering as the internet should not be faulted for this.
You mean people aren't ready for the internet? Like those housewives who think that chain letters are real?
Question, is this why some things like drag racing and public drunkenness are illegal? Not because they're morally "wrong," but because most people can't do it right?
How do the "experts" maintain their freedom while (properly) denying it to others?
>Schools routinely "graduate" kids who can't read, write, spell, or do math
If you've been an educator, you know that the challenge isn't to get kids above a certain level, it's to get them to do something. You are given an incomplete Lego puzzle, can you make *something* out of it? After all, education is (mostly) self-motivated, even in a structured environment. As an educator, you take what you can get.
>Slashdot is a collection of people so atypical - so skilled as compared to the average US citizen
Right. Educationally speaking, these are people who are more like 2 or 3 complete Lego puzzles with the instructions to build only one. The possibilities are many.
>Maybe if the job is ditch digging, it would, but not in an office environment.
Then schools are not doing a good job of elevating the completes over the incompletes. You have a fixed bar of graduation requirements. Some people never achieve it, and drown themselves in sports. Others can easily achieve it, and become listless and unguided.
I would say that even an "office environment" is a low bar for some. These are the AP kids, for whom typing and Excel are considered basic skills.
Basically, high school is not job-placement or career oriented. They just try to get everybody out, and after that, it's on to the next batch. If you get a job after high school...who cares? Your guidance counselor? Not really.
>The brain is a muscle just like the rest of the body. If you don't exercise it regularly, it atrophies.
That's true, but being a "media consumer" is a skill. It's something young people take very seriously. They feel smarter by watching TV or Youtube, since that's what they do.
As for myself, I might not keep track of the latest viral video, and that makes me uncool. But I feel like whatever it is, you can just pick a topic from a short list. It's predictable, and so I don't care.
Getting into the older generations is even more profound. They really don't care if their TV is high-def or if they can rewind a baseball game. They've survived without these conveniences, so it's a hard sell.
>The Kno will be a hard sell without a unique selling point. (Other than a hinge)
Stunning. Are you aware that the Nintendo DS is owned by (practically) every kid in America? Or that the Kno apparently has a combined resolution of 2880 x 1800 and a 28" diagonal screen size? I'll bet that's bigger than the cheap-ass desktop monitor you used to write your lame comment.
I'd swear you people are all trolls if I didn't think you were so stupid.
>A laptop is not the END ALL solution for computing. It is a great general purpose design, but there are many areas it can be improved.
Indeed, I think what Apple is teaching us is that major leaps forward in end-user software design are not happening on general-purpose computers. Sure, they CAN, but for some reason nobody is doing it.
Example, what made Apple great? The iPod jog wheel. Does your computer have one?
> there is no point in gettting a slate device because general purpose machines(as indicated by the comment that you so helpfully provided) will outperform the slate for about every purpose imagineable.
Incorrect. This is the first time I've seen side-by-side e-reader screens and I've had dual monitors and web access for over 10 years now.
If you want to prove yourself right, program a web page that supports dual screens.
Can you write an HTML table with one row and two cells? Good luck, you'll be the first.
>Really, why would I want a giant, heavy, LCD tablet not running a real OS?
You should try looking at the product before trashing it. What's worse, I'd love to know the thought process of the guy who modded you from +4 to +5. Seeing as how you've added nothing to the discussion (besides angst) that wasn't already in TFA.
This is really more like flamebait considering you didn't do your homework.
Here in the US, you have an on-ramp, and you have a traffic jam next to the on-ramp. It happens every day. Every day drivers get fucked.
Then they have electric signs that tell you when the next traffic jam is coming up. The signs say (basically), "Traffic jam at next on-ramp."
I realize that past a certain point in the day, there's enough cars that the traffic flow becomes unmanageable. But when you have traffic jams at 6am (60mph to gridlock and back to 60 again), it just says to me that voters, politicians, traffic planners, etc. collectively don't give a shit about their morning commute, safety, sanity, or even how they look to the outside world.
>If you are willing to forgo some short-term profit, you can generate modest returns more or less in perpetuity.
Not quite true. If you are in the middle of a naval war, and your ships are built with 100-year-old timbers, the strength of your navy is directly related to the size of your forest.
Forestry seems sustainable now. And we've learned to use faster-growing trees for many applications. Once upon a time, a warship made of pine (as opposed to oak) was considered dangerously lightweight.
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The reason Russia failed is because after Stalin, everybody realized that they could never again have such a powerful ruler. So they ran everything by committee. "Topical boards" is actually close to how they did it, although there were no elections, just greasy palms and "remember to be a good Communist."
>communism consisted of basically one dominant organization
If it was America, it would be like if your first priority was to be a "good Democrat." We actually have a milder form of this, it's called taxes. You have to pay taxes to be a "good citizen." If this leaves you with nothing, it's not their problem. The question is whether you can change your leadership.
People really get torn up over Communism, but basically it was 1-party rule with state intervention in the economy (farm quotas, for example). But that's it. Any powerful party can be "communist" if it wants. It just means checking with them first.
It seems to me that web users would be hitting this button a lot as the design of most webpages classifies as an "online crime."
Body vs. brain is the crucial aspect you guys are missing.
Alcohol is a brain stimulant (dopamine) while also being a whole-body anesthetic.
Never mix brain and body. Otherwise you will be wondering why cocaine (anesthetic) is an "upper".
>Don't confuse stimulant with lack of inhibition.
Wrong. Rec-drugs are popular because they are stimulants.
You thought everyone at a bar wants to go to sleep?
Read up on dopamine versus seratonin. +100% dopamine is not the same as a depressant. I'm sure Michael J. Fox envys your dope-dealing ways.
>Just to clarify... Ritalin=stimulant. Alcohol=depressant. They don't do the same kinds of things.
IN COR RECT.
They are different, but not as you would assume.
All "good" drugs are stimulants in some way. Alcohol stimulates something, otherwise it wouldn't be so popular.
I'm not going to hold your hand while you figure out why they're similar. Suffice to say, barely. But more than you think, apparently.
You mean SLC Punk was right? Mods and punks are allies?
It's not that hard. But I wonder who buys the scooters.
>If someone's missing the firmware that makes vision useful, the sunconscious breaking down of raw data into "objects" positioned in a 3D mental model, that's a severe disability
In grade school, drawing was a major activity for pretty much everyone. The best kids ("artists") were revered as godlike. They had a natural talent that could not be replicated with effort.
For me, it was a major wake-up call to realize the "artists" probably had autism. They were seeing 3D as 2D. They simply drew what they saw.
I'm still jealous of them, but not nearly as much. I have to wonder what they aren't doing with their lack of spatial perception.
Anyone got test results? There were many spatial tests in childhood, fwir.
>Also, it's far from clear that "mild cases" are really a problem at all.
I think he addressed this when he said,
Anger management is a major issue for a lot of people with autism, and they risk taking it out on subordinates in a fashion that to the rest of us is utterly irrational
My two cents, "fitting in" is very important and ultimately not that hard. If you're still having problems with it, then maybe "mild" is not the word.
>Which woud bolster the decision to remove Aspergers from the Autism Spectrum in the new DSV
It would mean that Asperger's is social, and Autism is biological.
But they still have similar symptoms.
Question: Joe Rock is a terrible major-league pitcher. Is it because he has short legs, or is it because he never went to baseball camp?
I would say "causation" can be pretty subjective. Important, but ultimately not an issue to his employer.
Published tomorrow, gotta love that. And when it is published, they will ask for everyone to pony up $20 to check THEIR research.
Wasn't science supposed to be openly reviewed?
Not saying this is wrong, just that it falls into a pattern of money first, answers later.
>Something as empowering as the internet should not be faulted for this.
You mean people aren't ready for the internet? Like those housewives who think that chain letters are real?
Question, is this why some things like drag racing and public drunkenness are illegal? Not because they're morally "wrong," but because most people can't do it right?
How do the "experts" maintain their freedom while (properly) denying it to others?
>Schools routinely "graduate" kids who can't read, write, spell, or do math
If you've been an educator, you know that the challenge isn't to get kids above a certain level, it's to get them to do something. You are given an incomplete Lego puzzle, can you make *something* out of it? After all, education is (mostly) self-motivated, even in a structured environment. As an educator, you take what you can get.
>Slashdot is a collection of people so atypical - so skilled as compared to the average US citizen
Right. Educationally speaking, these are people who are more like 2 or 3 complete Lego puzzles with the instructions to build only one. The possibilities are many.
>Maybe if the job is ditch digging, it would, but not in an office environment.
Then schools are not doing a good job of elevating the completes over the incompletes. You have a fixed bar of graduation requirements. Some people never achieve it, and drown themselves in sports. Others can easily achieve it, and become listless and unguided.
I would say that even an "office environment" is a low bar for some. These are the AP kids, for whom typing and Excel are considered basic skills.
Basically, high school is not job-placement or career oriented. They just try to get everybody out, and after that, it's on to the next batch. If you get a job after high school...who cares? Your guidance counselor? Not really.
>The brain is a muscle just like the rest of the body. If you don't exercise it regularly, it atrophies.
That's true, but being a "media consumer" is a skill. It's something young people take very seriously. They feel smarter by watching TV or Youtube, since that's what they do.
As for myself, I might not keep track of the latest viral video, and that makes me uncool. But I feel like whatever it is, you can just pick a topic from a short list. It's predictable, and so I don't care.
Getting into the older generations is even more profound. They really don't care if their TV is high-def or if they can rewind a baseball game. They've survived without these conveniences, so it's a hard sell.
Excuse me, half that rez in one direction. I don't want to be accused of trolling myself.
>The Kno will be a hard sell without a unique selling point. (Other than a hinge)
Stunning. Are you aware that the Nintendo DS is owned by (practically) every kid in America? Or that the Kno apparently has a combined resolution of 2880 x 1800 and a 28" diagonal screen size? I'll bet that's bigger than the cheap-ass desktop monitor you used to write your lame comment.
I'd swear you people are all trolls if I didn't think you were so stupid.
>A laptop is not the END ALL solution for computing. It is a great general purpose design, but there are many areas it can be improved.
Indeed, I think what Apple is teaching us is that major leaps forward in end-user software design are not happening on general-purpose computers. Sure, they CAN, but for some reason nobody is doing it.
Example, what made Apple great? The iPod jog wheel. Does your computer have one?
It could but it doesn't.
>why the "paperless office" never really happened since screens are lousy seekers, and the only way we can fix it is ... more screens!
That's why this one has two.
> the real reason is the inability to resell
But they've mostly mastered that, haven't they?
Besides, I have no personal need for textbooks, but a device that can read them can (theoretically) read anything else.
>Speaking as a student I want to know why all these companies keep thinking we want e-readers and e-books instead of textbooks.
Did you watch the product demo? This completely replaces textbooks. It makes Kindle look like cheap newspaper.
>I don't want my textbook to go dead 9 hours into studying
Like you've ever studied that long.
> there is no point in gettting a slate device because general purpose machines(as indicated by the comment that you so helpfully provided) will outperform the slate for about every purpose imagineable.
Incorrect. This is the first time I've seen side-by-side e-reader screens and I've had dual monitors and web access for over 10 years now.
If you want to prove yourself right, program a web page that supports dual screens.
Can you write an HTML table with one row and two cells? Good luck, you'll be the first.
>Of course i'll be waiting to see if there's a second generation version that fixes all the problems
Does the Kno have these problems or are you completely off-topic?
>Really, why would I want a giant, heavy, LCD tablet not running a real OS?
You should try looking at the product before trashing it. What's worse, I'd love to know the thought process of the guy who modded you from +4 to +5. Seeing as how you've added nothing to the discussion (besides angst) that wasn't already in TFA.
This is really more like flamebait considering you didn't do your homework.
Here in the US, you have an on-ramp, and you have a traffic jam next to the on-ramp. It happens every day. Every day drivers get fucked.
Then they have electric signs that tell you when the next traffic jam is coming up. The signs say (basically), "Traffic jam at next on-ramp."
I realize that past a certain point in the day, there's enough cars that the traffic flow becomes unmanageable. But when you have traffic jams at 6am (60mph to gridlock and back to 60 again), it just says to me that voters, politicians, traffic planners, etc. collectively don't give a shit about their morning commute, safety, sanity, or even how they look to the outside world.
>The MPG of even the most efficient vehicle is at zero when it is stopped by a red light.
Nope. Not if the engine is turned off. Now you've got 0/0, is that zero or infinity?
>This is pretty clearly a greenwashing attempt by BMW.
It would still be nice if roads were designed better. Of course this takes more than timing the lights.
>If you are willing to forgo some short-term profit, you can generate modest returns more or less in perpetuity.
Not quite true. If you are in the middle of a naval war, and your ships are built with 100-year-old timbers, the strength of your navy is directly related to the size of your forest.
Forestry seems sustainable now. And we've learned to use faster-growing trees for many applications. Once upon a time, a warship made of pine (as opposed to oak) was considered dangerously lightweight.