The best Lego set we ever bought for my son was a castle set at a garage sale. It didn't have instructions. He just put together pieces and made castles, they didn't have to look like anything pre-made at all.
Had I been more forward thinking, I would have thrown away all his Lego instruction sheets and booklets.
I think he drawing showed a miniaturized typical computer of the era primarily because the artist wanted it to be recognizable as a computer on the wearer's wrist. A drawing of a Pebble would have shown a smooth featureless slab; it would also have been hard to represent an RF data connection replacing physical data transfers, even if such things had been envisioned 33 years ago. (Although not impossible: Dick Tracy comics showed lightning bolts coming from the "2-way wrist radio" back in the 1950s.)
Apple doesn't support more than one version of iOS. If you want to fix a problem with 6.1.2, you get to go to whatever version is current (7.1). You don't get to go to 6.1.3, you don't get to go to 7.0.5 or 7.0.6, you go to 7.1. Your choice is "upgrade or don't."
How about killing two birds with one stone? Stand the zombies in a circle, and fire the rounds at them. Count the number of dead zombies. Now you've got an approximation for Pi AND a bunch of dead zombies. Win-win.
Of course I meant ubiquitous global communications. I will spend time in the morning talking with a co-worker in India, during the day I may attend an on-line meeting being held in Arizona, then the evenings chatting with a friend in New Zealand, and not think twice about where any of them are, other than to make sure I'm not calling them at an inopportune time. This kind of communication (and at no incremental cost!) has been around only for the last decade or so.
There will still be plenty of room for more research; and some will be revolutionary. We are just seeing the tip of some really cool advancements in fields as diverse as biotech, farming, and AI. The patent office is a long way from closing their doors.
Yes, because the U.N. is known for shoddy science.
The data files include the source of the figures, generally reported by the WHO instead of the national police in those countries where the official figures may be suspect. If there are official complaints about the figures, they'll likely come from the ambassador of Bananazuela who will claim that the figures for his tourist-friendly country are too high.
What happened was the advent of computing, which made solutions to unattainably hard problems attainable. That was rapidly followed by the advent of global communications, allowing people to collaborate like never before. Cheap energy has turned the average person's daily tasks of searching for food and warmth into a side task, allowing more people than ever to get a high quality education, and enter a research field. All kinds of work has gone into discovery at an unprecedented rate.
We don't know for sure what the next advance will be, but it will be built on a lot of the new tools we've just created.
This flaw, plus heartbleed, makes it sound like all the conspiracy theorists got together for a secret cabal to convince the world that the NSA really is out to get everyone.
My windshield washer fluid tank ran dry, so I quickly learned to not drive in the rain. Oh, wait, no, I did something about it.
I clean my rear view lens every time I fill the tank, and every time I walk past the back of the car and notice it's dirty. It takes about three seconds to give it a swipe of the thumb; if you're planning ahead and are afraid of dirt, you could pocket a tissue before you head out to your car.
a society should strive to enable all it's citizens to acquire sufficient real estate
That's a concept that once went by the name "lebensraum". The "good old days" generally failed to deliver that which most of us would consider "good", except from the point of view of the select beneficiaries.
When we can easily get off this rock and start acquiring real estate elsewhere in the galaxy, it'll be a great solution. Until then, it's only a recipe for war.
You have to weight that cost, and the ongoing cost of that approach against migrating to something new.
As pre-canned software becomes more flexible and cheaper, and talent to tweak it into what you need, simply tossing out a perfectly functional system starts to make more sense.
Your first sentence makes a certain amount of sense, but your second sentence indicates a lack of appreciation for dependencies.
Most people look at the cost of a system as the price of the servers, the price of the software, the cost of the project to implement them, and the ongoing maintenance contracts. What they often don't consider or fully understand is the impact to people and process. Changing a system means retraining the people who use the current process; changing paper forms, supplies, expectations, timings. There may be things like quality assurance steps built into the current process that the system builder is completely unaware of, such as "between filling out form 37-stroke-B and submitting form 52-mark-K, we have the testing team pull out a sample for evaluation."
Then again, we've got crap like SAP as a pretty good encouragement to pour more money into that old mainframe and hold off for a few more decades..
If SAP is progress, that can only mean that the prior process was done by filling out forms in Klingon using wax crayons writing on saran wrap in an iron foundry.
Are you afraid of the whole "shoot out a window and Hollywood makes it seem as if the plane will empty itself via the hole" scenario? Mythbusters tested it. No, the plane doesn't explosively decompress, the passengers don't get sucked out the window. Basically, the results are "it's loud". Much more of a problem is that everyone's panicking and screaming because someone is shooting a gun.
The problem is the air of legitimacy they get by being next to actual medicine. Now, if they labeled the aisle with a sign that reads "you must be this stupid to enter", at least I'd have some people to laugh at.
The label should be more clear: "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING. this bottle contains nothing of value, and will not be effective at treating any disease or illness."
Lots of oddball "medicinal" practices have survived, not just homeopathy. For every disproving study of a nonsensical 'healing' practice, there is a quack profiting from it, and they don't want to lose their revenue stream. They scream loudly, they claim "persecution by the establishment", they hide behind tax havens or religious shelters, and they gather their flock.
I think it's kind of interesting how many of these insane ramblings have survived and are still practiced today.
Despite all the attraction that Sharknado and all the other jumping-the-carcharodon shows have received, they do have a few original sci-fi programs still on the air: Helix and Warehouse 13 come to mind; and while Haven may be a bit more paranormal, it kind of fits.
But if I never see a wrestler, sparkly emo vampyre, or ghoti hunter again, it'll be way way too soon.
The best part about this entire discussion is that the tools in question are IDEs, compilers, and editors. At no point in "putting them down" do they physically need to move from a higher elevation to a lower elevation. "Downing their tools" is already a metaphor.
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The best Lego set we ever bought for my son was a castle set at a garage sale. It didn't have instructions. He just put together pieces and made castles, they didn't have to look like anything pre-made at all.
Had I been more forward thinking, I would have thrown away all his Lego instruction sheets and booklets.
I think he drawing showed a miniaturized typical computer of the era primarily because the artist wanted it to be recognizable as a computer on the wearer's wrist. A drawing of a Pebble would have shown a smooth featureless slab; it would also have been hard to represent an RF data connection replacing physical data transfers, even if such things had been envisioned 33 years ago. (Although not impossible: Dick Tracy comics showed lightning bolts coming from the "2-way wrist radio" back in the 1950s.)
"I felt a disturbance in the gravitational force, as if thousands of tiny particles coalesced into a single moon and were suddenly silenced."
Apple doesn't support more than one version of iOS. If you want to fix a problem with 6.1.2, you get to go to whatever version is current (7.1). You don't get to go to 6.1.3, you don't get to go to 7.0.5 or 7.0.6, you go to 7.1. Your choice is "upgrade or don't."
How about killing two birds with one stone? Stand the zombies in a circle, and fire the rounds at them. Count the number of dead zombies. Now you've got an approximation for Pi AND a bunch of dead zombies. Win-win.
Of course I meant ubiquitous global communications. I will spend time in the morning talking with a co-worker in India, during the day I may attend an on-line meeting being held in Arizona, then the evenings chatting with a friend in New Zealand, and not think twice about where any of them are, other than to make sure I'm not calling them at an inopportune time. This kind of communication (and at no incremental cost!) has been around only for the last decade or so.
There will still be plenty of room for more research; and some will be revolutionary. We are just seeing the tip of some really cool advancements in fields as diverse as biotech, farming, and AI. The patent office is a long way from closing their doors.
Singapore, or as William Gibson put it: Disneyland with the death penalty.
Yes, because the U.N. is known for shoddy science.
The data files include the source of the figures, generally reported by the WHO instead of the national police in those countries where the official figures may be suspect. If there are official complaints about the figures, they'll likely come from the ambassador of Bananazuela who will claim that the figures for his tourist-friendly country are too high.
What happened was the advent of computing, which made solutions to unattainably hard problems attainable. That was rapidly followed by the advent of global communications, allowing people to collaborate like never before. Cheap energy has turned the average person's daily tasks of searching for food and warmth into a side task, allowing more people than ever to get a high quality education, and enter a research field. All kinds of work has gone into discovery at an unprecedented rate.
We don't know for sure what the next advance will be, but it will be built on a lot of the new tools we've just created.
This flaw, plus heartbleed, makes it sound like all the conspiracy theorists got together for a secret cabal to convince the world that the NSA really is out to get everyone.
*blink* ... *blink*
"Double 'no', got it!
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My windshield washer fluid tank ran dry, so I quickly learned to not drive in the rain. Oh, wait, no, I did something about it.
I clean my rear view lens every time I fill the tank, and every time I walk past the back of the car and notice it's dirty. It takes about three seconds to give it a swipe of the thumb; if you're planning ahead and are afraid of dirt, you could pocket a tissue before you head out to your car.
a society should strive to enable all it's citizens to acquire sufficient real estate
That's a concept that once went by the name "lebensraum". The "good old days" generally failed to deliver that which most of us would consider "good", except from the point of view of the select beneficiaries.
When we can easily get off this rock and start acquiring real estate elsewhere in the galaxy, it'll be a great solution. Until then, it's only a recipe for war.
Well, it's still murky waters if random-pilot-of-the-day does it wrong...
You have to weight that cost, and the ongoing cost of that approach against migrating to something new.
As pre-canned software becomes more flexible and cheaper, and talent to tweak it into what you need, simply tossing out a perfectly functional system starts to make more sense.
Your first sentence makes a certain amount of sense, but your second sentence indicates a lack of appreciation for dependencies.
Most people look at the cost of a system as the price of the servers, the price of the software, the cost of the project to implement them, and the ongoing maintenance contracts. What they often don't consider or fully understand is the impact to people and process. Changing a system means retraining the people who use the current process; changing paper forms, supplies, expectations, timings. There may be things like quality assurance steps built into the current process that the system builder is completely unaware of, such as "between filling out form 37-stroke-B and submitting form 52-mark-K, we have the testing team pull out a sample for evaluation."
Then again, we've got crap like SAP as a pretty good encouragement to pour more money into that old mainframe and hold off for a few more decades..
If SAP is progress, that can only mean that the prior process was done by filling out forms in Klingon using wax crayons writing on saran wrap in an iron foundry.
Whatever it may have started, a love of neckties was not it.
I award you one Internets for that joke!
Are you afraid of the whole "shoot out a window and Hollywood makes it seem as if the plane will empty itself via the hole" scenario? Mythbusters tested it. No, the plane doesn't explosively decompress, the passengers don't get sucked out the window. Basically, the results are "it's loud". Much more of a problem is that everyone's panicking and screaming because someone is shooting a gun.
Acupuncture can cause harm. It can make you go blind. If you put the needles in your retinas...
The problem is the air of legitimacy they get by being next to actual medicine. Now, if they labeled the aisle with a sign that reads "you must be this stupid to enter", at least I'd have some people to laugh at.
The label should be more clear: "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING. this bottle contains nothing of value, and will not be effective at treating any disease or illness."
Lots of oddball "medicinal" practices have survived, not just homeopathy. For every disproving study of a nonsensical 'healing' practice, there is a quack profiting from it, and they don't want to lose their revenue stream. They scream loudly, they claim "persecution by the establishment", they hide behind tax havens or religious shelters, and they gather their flock.
I think it's kind of interesting how many of these insane ramblings have survived and are still practiced today.
Despite all the attraction that Sharknado and all the other jumping-the-carcharodon shows have received, they do have a few original sci-fi programs still on the air: Helix and Warehouse 13 come to mind; and while Haven may be a bit more paranormal, it kind of fits.
But if I never see a wrestler, sparkly emo vampyre, or ghoti hunter again, it'll be way way too soon.
Nothing sleazy about Riker, he simply misunderstood the mission statement - he thought they were out there to explore strange new whores.
...and eat all the food of every new civilization; to boldly go even when strapped into a nylon-web-reinforced-girdle.
Computer: make me a sammich!
The best part about this entire discussion is that the tools in question are IDEs, compilers, and editors. At no point in "putting them down" do they physically need to move from a higher elevation to a lower elevation. "Downing their tools" is already a metaphor.