Throwing a wrench in all of this of course is Apple's decision to stop charging for new Mac OSes as of Mavericks. Since it's free, is it a new OS or is it just another patch for Mountain Lion?
If the system requirements have increased, it is a new operating system because it is likely to require hardware replacement.
Mavericks has the same system requirements as the previous version (Mountain Lion) did (that is, all Macs 4 years old or newer and most models back 5 or 6 years - dependent on 64bit EFI). Mac hardware went through a lot of changes in the PC->Intel and then 32->64 bit transitions, but now that that's settled as of 4+ years ago I expect system requirements won't get any harder for a good while.
I want knobs. Knobs and physical buttons. Let them surround a fancy whizz-bang touchscreen if you want, but I damn well want to be able to turn up the heat or volume without looking.
It is important to note that in ancient Roman times, many species that are now confined to sub-Saharan Africa were living in North Africa (and some all the way into Greece) because of the wetter climate. This includes elephants, lions, and giraffes. These "exotic" animals weren't as far away as it seems.
There's no escaping Mormoness in his work, but fortunately I don't find it detracting from the story. Hell, at the root of it it's answering the question, Why does God allow (pain | bad things to happen)? but the answers are relevant to anyone. Everyone experiences these things whether they believe in god(s) or not.
Looking back at my post again, I feel the need to clarify that I think The Giver is also a great book, and better for a younger (grade school) audience than The Worthing Saga. I don't know if Lowry intentionally pulled from The Worthing Saga or if the similarities are just a massive set of coincidences, but that doesn't take anything away from the story.
If you know a kid that enjoyed The Giver (here in California it's often assigned in school around 6th grade) and they are strong readers, they may be interested in reading TWS and comparing how the same underlying story can be written for different audiences (kids vs. adults). It's right about the time kids start transitioning to more complex books anyway, and it makes for some interesting insight. I did this with my friend's kid (we actually read TWS together because reading isn't his strong suit - working on that!) and it was a fun process.
The Worthing Saga: I like Ender's Game, but The Worthing Saga is definitely the best of Card's work (if little-known). A great story about the meaning of pain and choice. If you read and liked The Giver in grade school, it was essentially a ripoff of The Worthing Saga, with different dressing.
That's Scott's side of the story. Since we weren't there and they didn't put anything in writing, we can't know who is telling the truth. Most likely when they discussed the art and it's placement they both left unsaid the things they thought were obvious - and what is obvious to an artist (I get credit for my work) and obvious to an astronaut with a strong spiritual sensibility (this is going to be subtle and dignified) are two very different things.
Your claim of a "commissioned work of art" is wrong, because it was the artist that went to THEM to get them to put his work up there. Look at the artist's reaction to being called "the workman" - "then you might as well call Scott 'the postman.'" It was in reality a collaboration, but one where both sides unfortunately had different expectations.
You're pulling only part of what he wrote, out of context. He also quoted several other sections that referenced (1), and described some of the other things it must do... greatly expanding on that one paragraph.
I used the summary portion and skipped the details for brevity, but here they are. Feel free to point out the parts that require an advanced artificial intelligence system instead of a properly targeted brochure or pamphlet:
"(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR PATIENT DECISION AIDS—Patient decision aids developed and produced pursuant to a grant or contract under paragraph (1)—
"(A) shall be designed to engage patients, caregivers, and authorized representatives in informed decision making with health care providers;
"(B) shall present up-to-date clinical evidence about the risks and benefits of treatment options in a form and manner that is age-appropriate and can be adapted for patients, caregivers, and authorized representatives from a variety of cultural and educational backgrounds to reflect the varying needs of consumers and diverse levels of health literacy;
"(C) shall, where appropriate, explain why there is a lack of evidence to support one treatment option over another; and
"(D) shall address health care decisions across the age span, including those affecting vulnerable populations including children."
The article doesn't actually seem to say much of anything (insights into stupid European wheelbarrow design notwithstanding). And there's this:
I looked at one of the actual laws that make up Obamacare... After a few pages I ran into this definition of patient decision aid:
(1) PATIENT DECISION AID—The term patient decision aid' means an educational tool that helps patients, caregivers, or authorized representatives understand and communicate their beliefs and preferences related to their treatment options, and to decide with their health care provider what treatments are best for them based on their treatment options, scientific evidence, circumstances, beliefs, and preferences....
Unless Congress thinks of teachers as "educational tools," I think we can take it as written here that they expect this to be some kind of computer program.... These paragraphs legislate that Obamacare will fund research in heavy-duty state-of-the-art artificial intelligence—I somehow doubt that is what Congress intended it to say. I posit that Congress worried about having enough doctors and nurses for this new health care, so they wanted to use computers to cut down the talking and explaining. In other words, they want to save manpower—by replacing the front man on the handbarrow with a wheel.
It looks to me like his interpretation of the law is extremely ridiculous. As I read it, it applies just as well to a simple brochure, ie. "Your Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer..." that is required to be understandable to the patient or caregiver (in their native language and not overly technical) so they can make an educated choice about their own treatment.
The author of the article is the one attaching the unnecessarily complicated wheel to this particular example.
Parent needs to be modded +5. The more the robots take over, the more people will be unemployed, and as robots get better and better at automating more complex tasks there's going to be very little labor for actual humans to do. This will be wonderful - once we're able to transition from the social and economic systems that rely on people working. That transition probably will not be pretty.
There have been an (almost spam-level I'd say, except that even then it seems nobody noticed) number of posts here highlighting the differences in function between the previous connectors and Apple's method which made Apple's method patentable. There's nothing stopping anyone from making or using a magnetic connector that works like the deep-fry connectors, or in some other way different from the specific method Apple patented, because contrary to popular belief here patents are *specific* and don't cover anything and everything that might be hinted at by a vague summary (Apple patents magnetic connector? Oh my!). There have even been multiple posts pointing out the Pogo "magnector" and HP Veer magnetic charger as proof of that.
While it sounds nice, that kind of system can only work on signals with set timing. Signals with variable timing based on street sensor information (more than 50% of the signals in my city, I would guess) have no idea how long they may be green or red. Half may be better than none at all, though.
As an AC pointed out, your (delusional) reply illustrates the problem perfectly.
Common sense and hard data both point to strong social safety nets improving opportunity, and increasing entrepreneurship and the number of small businesses. There are two main reasons for this:
1. The safety net makes it much more possible to take the chance of starting your own business. Failure means you may lose your investment capital, but your family won't starve, won't lose their healthcare, won't lose their retirement, and won't lose access to a thorough education.
2. The safety net levels the "benefits" playing field between small business and large corporations. Not only does the US's system of employer-based healthcare make it more difficult and risky for those who try to start a small business, but it gives large, established companies an advantage because they have the size and weight to push for better deals.
The ONLY people whose economic opportunities are strengthened by the lack of a social safety net are the people who are already on top, who already own large companies and already make loads of money. They don't want competition from employees who can easily quit and start their own company. But even the rich would probably benefit in the long run, because pushing your customer base into abject poverty is not a way to increase sales (IMO right now they're coasting along on their ability to make goods dirty cheap by using third-world labor).
The copyright of a photo is owned by the person who creates the photo, not by the person in it. That said, your vague recollection was correct in so far as a photographer cannot sell/use the photo for commercial purposes without a model release.
As for search, the full-library keyword search is more than enough 99% of the time I'm looking to jump to an artist/album, but if you want to get more complex, smart playlists let you search your library for files using just about any criteria and combination you can imagine (no regex though, not that I've ever found need to regex search my music). Smart playlists are seriously iTunes' most powerful feature and I've never seen it satisfactorily duplicated in any other music player.
iTunes' database/spreadsheetness is it's most powerful feature - you're not limited to just one set folder hierarchy for navigating your music. iTunes gives the user a myriad ways to look at their data; sometimes too many, really. TBH, all the newer UI views that make iTunes "pretty" instead of looking like a spreadsheet are simply more silly and time-consuming to navigate. Fortunately they've left the spreadsheet-style views available for people who aren't afraid of data.
iTunes certainly has lots of issues, especially on Windows where it's buggy and (from what I hear) slow, and it suffers terribly from a decade of feature-creep and try-to-be-everything-for-interfacing-with-iOS, but if you simply use it as a music library/player it can be fantastic.
When you posted above saying "there are only Apple zealots and normal people," where does that put people like you who post lies and FUD? Honest idiots?
Yes, it's just idiots. If everyone were awesome "skilled drivers" we'd all be able to safely go 100 MPH through town. NO.
City roads are not a fucking race course. There are thousands of places where your car interfaces with other vehicles, pedestrians, and stationary objects and these interfaces are not blessed with unlimited sight distance. In places where your vehicle and others potentially intersect, it may be simple to visualize and ensure clear right-of-way at 35 MPH, but utterly impossible at 100 MPH (say, for example, crossing at a 2-way stop sign where the driver can only see a few hundred feet down the road due to curves or curb-parked vehicles). It doesn't matter if you're the most incredibly skilled driver on the planet, you can't predict the future and you can't go from 100 MPH to 0 in the space of a few tens of feet.
The kind of logic you and the GP are spouting is the kind of logic used by douchebags who use public roads as raceways - "hey, *I'M* a great driver, this is perfectly safe! If I ever get into an accident it's some other idiot's fault!" That's obviously fucking wrong on so many levels when you put even the tiniest bit of thought into it, to the point that anyone who spouts false logic like that is clearly the idiot and should have their license revoked for lack of ability to understand the physics and geometry of public roadways.
He's clearly referring to the anti-voting laws that have recently been put into place, mostly in the South and Bible Belt states (not exclusively there, for sure, but your bastions of crazy liberalism are not on the list).
California's list is a little longer, such that (it seems like) nearly every consumer product and many places of business must be, by law, clearly labeled as potentially cancer-causing. Wish I had mod points for that AC!
Modded 5 for random speculation.... Good old Slashdot. TFA says exactly where the power goes: the car's electronics don't sleep when the car is off.
It seems that the "sleep mode" in the original Model S software--the basis for the owner's manual statements--had caused so many glitches in other car functions that it had been disabled. With sleep mode missing from the current v4.2 software, he said, I could expect to lose about 8-10 miles of range per day when unplugged.
No big mysteries here. Room for complaint that this issue hasn't been resolved quickly, though.
The on-board systems continue to suck juice from the vehicle's batteries overnight because Tesla has temporarily disabled (or diminished) their sleep mode due to some issue waking them back up (incidentally, that makes this issue hardly mysterious or "bizarre").
Sometimes the simplest answers indicate someone didn't RTFA.
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Throwing a wrench in all of this of course is Apple's decision to stop charging for new Mac OSes as of Mavericks. Since it's free, is it a new OS or is it just another patch for Mountain Lion?
If the system requirements have increased, it is a new operating system because it is likely to require hardware replacement.
Mavericks has the same system requirements as the previous version (Mountain Lion) did (that is, all Macs 4 years old or newer and most models back 5 or 6 years - dependent on 64bit EFI). Mac hardware went through a lot of changes in the PC->Intel and then 32->64 bit transitions, but now that that's settled as of 4+ years ago I expect system requirements won't get any harder for a good while.
I want knobs. Knobs and physical buttons. Let them surround a fancy whizz-bang touchscreen if you want, but I damn well want to be able to turn up the heat or volume without looking.
It is important to note that in ancient Roman times, many species that are now confined to sub-Saharan Africa were living in North Africa (and some all the way into Greece) because of the wetter climate. This includes elephants, lions, and giraffes. These "exotic" animals weren't as far away as it seems.
There's no escaping Mormoness in his work, but fortunately I don't find it detracting from the story. Hell, at the root of it it's answering the question, Why does God allow (pain | bad things to happen)? but the answers are relevant to anyone. Everyone experiences these things whether they believe in god(s) or not.
Looking back at my post again, I feel the need to clarify that I think The Giver is also a great book, and better for a younger (grade school) audience than The Worthing Saga. I don't know if Lowry intentionally pulled from The Worthing Saga or if the similarities are just a massive set of coincidences, but that doesn't take anything away from the story.
If you know a kid that enjoyed The Giver (here in California it's often assigned in school around 6th grade) and they are strong readers, they may be interested in reading TWS and comparing how the same underlying story can be written for different audiences (kids vs. adults). It's right about the time kids start transitioning to more complex books anyway, and it makes for some interesting insight. I did this with my friend's kid (we actually read TWS together because reading isn't his strong suit - working on that!) and it was a fun process.
The Worthing Saga: I like Ender's Game, but The Worthing Saga is definitely the best of Card's work (if little-known). A great story about the meaning of pain and choice. If you read and liked The Giver in grade school, it was essentially a ripoff of The Worthing Saga, with different dressing.
That's Scott's side of the story. Since we weren't there and they didn't put anything in writing, we can't know who is telling the truth. Most likely when they discussed the art and it's placement they both left unsaid the things they thought were obvious - and what is obvious to an artist (I get credit for my work) and obvious to an astronaut with a strong spiritual sensibility (this is going to be subtle and dignified) are two very different things.
Your claim of a "commissioned work of art" is wrong, because it was the artist that went to THEM to get them to put his work up there. Look at the artist's reaction to being called "the workman" - "then you might as well call Scott 'the postman.'" It was in reality a collaboration, but one where both sides unfortunately had different expectations.
You're pulling only part of what he wrote, out of context. He also quoted several other sections that referenced (1), and described some of the other things it must do... greatly expanding on that one paragraph.
I used the summary portion and skipped the details for brevity, but here they are. Feel free to point out the parts that require an advanced artificial intelligence system instead of a properly targeted brochure or pamphlet:
It looks to me like his interpretation of the law is extremely ridiculous. As I read it, it applies just as well to a simple brochure, ie. "Your Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer..." that is required to be understandable to the patient or caregiver (in their native language and not overly technical) so they can make an educated choice about their own treatment.
The author of the article is the one attaching the unnecessarily complicated wheel to this particular example.
Parent needs to be modded +5. The more the robots take over, the more people will be unemployed, and as robots get better and better at automating more complex tasks there's going to be very little labor for actual humans to do. This will be wonderful - once we're able to transition from the social and economic systems that rely on people working. That transition probably will not be pretty.
There have been an (almost spam-level I'd say, except that even then it seems nobody noticed) number of posts here highlighting the differences in function between the previous connectors and Apple's method which made Apple's method patentable. There's nothing stopping anyone from making or using a magnetic connector that works like the deep-fry connectors, or in some other way different from the specific method Apple patented, because contrary to popular belief here patents are *specific* and don't cover anything and everything that might be hinted at by a vague summary (Apple patents magnetic connector? Oh my!). There have even been multiple posts pointing out the Pogo "magnector" and HP Veer magnetic charger as proof of that.
While it sounds nice, that kind of system can only work on signals with set timing. Signals with variable timing based on street sensor information (more than 50% of the signals in my city, I would guess) have no idea how long they may be green or red. Half may be better than none at all, though.
As an AC pointed out, your (delusional) reply illustrates the problem perfectly.
Common sense and hard data both point to strong social safety nets improving opportunity, and increasing entrepreneurship and the number of small businesses. There are two main reasons for this:
1. The safety net makes it much more possible to take the chance of starting your own business. Failure means you may lose your investment capital, but your family won't starve, won't lose their healthcare, won't lose their retirement, and won't lose access to a thorough education.
2. The safety net levels the "benefits" playing field between small business and large corporations. Not only does the US's system of employer-based healthcare make it more difficult and risky for those who try to start a small business, but it gives large, established companies an advantage because they have the size and weight to push for better deals.
The ONLY people whose economic opportunities are strengthened by the lack of a social safety net are the people who are already on top, who already own large companies and already make loads of money. They don't want competition from employees who can easily quit and start their own company. But even the rich would probably benefit in the long run, because pushing your customer base into abject poverty is not a way to increase sales (IMO right now they're coasting along on their ability to make goods dirty cheap by using third-world labor).
The copyright of a photo is owned by the person who creates the photo, not by the person in it. That said, your vague recollection was correct in so far as a photographer cannot sell/use the photo for commercial purposes without a model release.
A hierarchical display, like the column browser?
As for search, the full-library keyword search is more than enough 99% of the time I'm looking to jump to an artist/album, but if you want to get more complex, smart playlists let you search your library for files using just about any criteria and combination you can imagine (no regex though, not that I've ever found need to regex search my music). Smart playlists are seriously iTunes' most powerful feature and I've never seen it satisfactorily duplicated in any other music player.
iTunes' database/spreadsheetness is it's most powerful feature - you're not limited to just one set folder hierarchy for navigating your music. iTunes gives the user a myriad ways to look at their data; sometimes too many, really. TBH, all the newer UI views that make iTunes "pretty" instead of looking like a spreadsheet are simply more silly and time-consuming to navigate. Fortunately they've left the spreadsheet-style views available for people who aren't afraid of data.
iTunes certainly has lots of issues, especially on Windows where it's buggy and (from what I hear) slow, and it suffers terribly from a decade of feature-creep and try-to-be-everything-for-interfacing-with-iOS, but if you simply use it as a music library/player it can be fantastic.
Whoosh. I guess his joke flashed by too quickly...
"I'm going to spout some unsourced shit that a simple two-second googling would correct, but if you call me on it you're an Apple Zealot (tm)!"
Mac Portable came out 4 years after Jobs left the company.
Bullshit. They squarely placed the blame on the charger, and instituted a discounted trade-in program for 3rd-party chargers. It had nothing to do with cables and Apple never claimed that.
When you posted above saying "there are only Apple zealots and normal people," where does that put people like you who post lies and FUD? Honest idiots?
Yes, it's just idiots. If everyone were awesome "skilled drivers" we'd all be able to safely go 100 MPH through town. NO.
City roads are not a fucking race course. There are thousands of places where your car interfaces with other vehicles, pedestrians, and stationary objects and these interfaces are not blessed with unlimited sight distance. In places where your vehicle and others potentially intersect, it may be simple to visualize and ensure clear right-of-way at 35 MPH, but utterly impossible at 100 MPH (say, for example, crossing at a 2-way stop sign where the driver can only see a few hundred feet down the road due to curves or curb-parked vehicles). It doesn't matter if you're the most incredibly skilled driver on the planet, you can't predict the future and you can't go from 100 MPH to 0 in the space of a few tens of feet.
The kind of logic you and the GP are spouting is the kind of logic used by douchebags who use public roads as raceways - "hey, *I'M* a great driver, this is perfectly safe! If I ever get into an accident it's some other idiot's fault!" That's obviously fucking wrong on so many levels when you put even the tiniest bit of thought into it, to the point that anyone who spouts false logic like that is clearly the idiot and should have their license revoked for lack of ability to understand the physics and geometry of public roadways.
He's clearly referring to the anti-voting laws that have recently been put into place, mostly in the South and Bible Belt states (not exclusively there, for sure, but your bastions of crazy liberalism are not on the list).
You prefer the clit mouse to a multitouch trackpad?
I could see a small vampire draw to keep a few of the embedded systems online, but the amount quoted in the article seems extreme
You're right. It almost sounds like the electronics aren't shutting down at all.
California's list is a little longer, such that (it seems like) nearly every consumer product and many places of business must be, by law, clearly labeled as potentially cancer-causing. Wish I had mod points for that AC!
No big mysteries here. Room for complaint that this issue hasn't been resolved quickly, though.
The on-board systems continue to suck juice from the vehicle's batteries overnight because Tesla has temporarily disabled (or diminished) their sleep mode due to some issue waking them back up (incidentally, that makes this issue hardly mysterious or "bizarre").
Sometimes the simplest answers indicate someone didn't RTFA.