I'm usually don't like art but this time I have to give credit. That wax figure is simply amazing, I've seen other ones but I think this is the best wax figure ever.
This has been going on for year, I can remember being 5 and seeing fast food commercials all over the TV, As did all the kids I grew up with. The real issue at hand is the lazy parents who instead of making dinner just jump in the car and order 4 happy meals to go. A kid can see all the advertisements in the world but with no access to money the kid can't act. If people are so concerned by this maybe the blame should be focused on the enablers that are handing the kids the fast food in the first place, the only issue is the enablers are the parents! So blame the parents not the company's.
Being a Fandroid would mean I support it no matter what, I'm just making a correct statement. The Android development time right now for a hardware / software co release is about 6 months and Apple is riding a year, so in the time the "new" iPhone comes out it's already sitting behind the curve. In fact Apples is losing the smart phone market slowly, they no longer have the biggest mobile OS and they don't have the best hardware. All they have is a fan base forged in stone that will take a bullet out of blind faith for them. So I'm not a Fandroid, I'm just practical.
At this point Apple is actually copying Samsung, Samsung is a full generation ahead of where the iPhone in both hardware and software is, so anything that Apple does to the iPhone is just following Samsung, I think Samsung should come back and drive Apple into the ground.
I love how instead of change and give themselves a different image they just want to block it. Here's a radical idea, if you just start acting and behaving like the rest of the world and admit your faults and change then people will stop making what right now is a VERY truthful videos. So how about instead of running to your mother you just own up and accept the fact that as a culture you need to change.
Isn't Apple copying Samsung at this point? Samsung is a FULL generation ahead of Apple in software and hardware, so anything Apple comes up with at this point is following Samsung.
The problem with switching to Bing is that you trade in a good search engine for yet another Microsoft LOC. If I search the same string on Google, Yahoo and Bing, in 100% of all cases Bing will return of most irrelevant search items, Yahoo will return the second most irrelevant and Google actually give me what I want, so why would any web user want to switch, I'm not just going to give up producitively because Microsoft seems to think they developed another good program ( they have yet to make 1 ).
To prove my point: If I search: hydrometers and arduino
Google:
Digital Hydrometer - Page 7 - Home Brew Forums
Battery Hydrometer Sensor? - Arduino
How to Make a Hydrometer | eHow.com
Those are good results! helpful and useful.
Yahoo
Arduino Forum - Moisture meter input
Measuring SG using capacitance...Arduino brewing
Digital Hydrometer - Home Brew Forums - HomeBrewTalk.com - Beer, Wine
Again not bad but not as good as Google
Bing
Density/Specific Gravity sensing - Arduino Forum
Arduino Wifi - Microcontroller Forum Tracker
Easiest Wifi module/shield to interface with Arduino Fio
Okay so proof! Bing showing it's complete and total fail at trying to search the world wide web, good job Microsoft! I'll switch as soon as I'm dead.
That is rediculous, no art in an art textbook. That would be like having no equations in a math textbook or no electic circuits in a circuit textbook. I think when it comes to students and textbooks there needs to be a lighter stance taken to fair use, what good can come from holding back information from students trying to learn.
I'm not speaking to everyone when I explain what I want in a user interface.
Personally clutter is one thing I can't stand, that is something I personally find Apple doesn't understand. Everything about Apples interface I see as an attempt to cram something else onto a bar or in a folder or as an icon and it drives me nuts. I don't care about 3D effects, I don't care about glass effects or anything useless that doesn't contribute to me getting work done.
In an ideal world every computer would come with a terminal and a window manager and that is it. Your don't need anything else to get the job done, your need some place to throw a window and you need a way to execute programs well being able to "quiz" the user space / kernel space. You don't needs bars, you don't need control panels and you 100% don't need desktop surfaces.
After all why should I have my computer wasting rendering time and power on something that doesn't assist me or help me relax? My rendering power should go to games or power hungry applications such as PCB layout / Autocad.
I know I don't speak for everyone, I can accept that people want all the extras and the kitchen sink in an interface but that's not what I want . This is one of the reasons I use Linux, Linux users understand interface design, slim, sleek and without the crap. After all shouldn't a computer be more about running application and not the desktop?
Would it kill the Muslim culture to get a sense of humour? It seems every single time a video is posted that is apparently "offensive" we get wars, protests and freak outs. If a Christian sees a picture of Jesus eating a hot dog we laugh and close it or just don't do anything. If a Muslim notices a picture of Muhammad eating a hot dog seven mosque's get blown up, acts of terrorism get spoken against the free world and people get killed. Here is a new idea, laugh or ignore but shut the F up, radical Muslims are children maturity wise, time to grow up a bit.
Anyone can learn to program but not everyone can learn to script. A programming language means when finish writing the code you can compile it to an executable. If your not able to compile down to an executable then your not programming, your scripting. I think a very clear line needs to be drawn between those who script and those who program.
I think it's also important to separate programming languages into multiple groups, low level, mid level and high level. At the high level you have anything Object Oriented, these language should be programmed by a monkey and require about as much effort and learning to tie your shoe. Object Oriented languages well very popular just take work and consideration away from the programmer, this to me is a horrible concept. Anyone can pick up an Object Oriented language and hit the ground running.
Mid level languages like C are not as simple but still don't pose a huge challenge. Mid level languages are for the real programmers, those that don't need to hold on to there mothers hands well they cross the street. Your in control with a mid level language, you have the ability to crap out the OS completely if your not careful and they leave the programmer with most of the control. Not everyone can pick these languages up and those that do and become well versed in proper programming have a very power tool. ( Something C# doesn't give you ).
Assembler and machine code represent low level languages. These are the big dogs on the play ground. If you can program a low level language and well then you are a master programmer. They're hard to pick up, hard to use and hard to teach, they're reserved for the best programmers on the market and they leave the programmer with 100% control.
If you start with the simplest tear to learn you enter with OO languages like C#, C++ and the entire group of easy to use languages, I personal think they make programmers lazy and unfocused but at the same time anyone can learn how to become an OO programmer. It leaves the programmer with little work to do and little consideration on safe programming. These are great for beginners and can really help a novice to get there feet wet.
When you step it up to the real languages like C you have to take responsibility for what you do and not fall back on the garbage collectors. These languages are harder to program, require thought and safe programming. Not for novices or lazy programmers . Well still fairly easy to learn the time required does jump considerably.
When you jump to low level languages I would say that it's only for the best programmers around. You have no protection, you can cause serious damage and you can run your head into a wall just attempting hello world. Most professional programmers in the workforce can't even learn how to program in assembler properly. You have to be a true master and I recommend that novices don't even look this way.
In all cases I'm going to say that if you want to learn programming stick to OO languages but move quickly to something that will actually involve skill. If anyone cares I'll talk about scripts and why I don't consider them programming languages.
Shouldn't we be asking ourselfs why our kids are dumb as sand?
We keep blaming the summer or the teachers but never actually blame the kids. Summer break does cause children to loose some knowledge, this is true and we can't agrue it. However how many users of this site had summer break and now are engineers, inventors or scientists. If summer break is so bad for children then how year after year does the school system turn of engineers, scientist or inventors.
The problem isn't the break, it's the kids and therefore by extention the parents. Don't blame the wrong source to try and pass the torch.
Thats great Windows 7 is the new "king" but to be honest market share doesn't correlate to quality. Users want simple, if you don't make it simple you'll never attract the user base. Windows 7 is simple, you could have an IQ of 90 and figure out it, OSX is next but still a little more complicated. In either case both OSX and Windwos 7 require you to pick up a mouse and your off and running.
Linux however requires you to actually understand OS design and OS theory and when you understand both you develop a much deeper understanding of why Linux is and always will be the hidden OS king. It doesn't have the desktop market share but it doesn't need to, it holds it's own and doesn't have to try and announce itself with bells, commericals and ad's. Linux knows it's place, just as it's users and you'll be hard pressed to find a Linux user who doesn't agree.
The average developer can't maintain rockstar code because what the post secondary schools are turning out for average programmers are fucking horrible piles of crap. You can't actually teach a human to program, you either have it or you don't, it might be hidden and brought out but you can never teach it. I think what needs to happen is for the entire software engineering industry to sit back and re-evaluate just what average needs to be. I have a feeling 45% of programmers would be out of work if the "average programmer" got redefined.
The funny thing is that all the IT guys who don't know Linux tend to smash it. All the IT guys who know Linux will sell it like no tomorrow. So I don't know how to get a job being a Linux admin but put it on your resume and the good IT guys will notice it and want to talk. The worst thing you can see on an IT resume is the absence of Linux, it just screams stay back.
Just to be clear I disagree with you, but that doesn't make your point wrong.
I still believe we need to restructure and redefine what a patent is and what it can cover. Apple effectively made a rectangle and was able to protect it, that doesn't make any sense. If I draw a triangle on my desk can I then go out and patent the fact that I drew a triangle? Apple was allowed an unjust patent on a shape, effectively every single preschool student world wide has infringed on Apple, so is Apple going to sue them?
That was just the design, which granted I personally don't care about because the design doesn't mean the inner workings are any good. Lets get into software patents, the biggest joke of them all, having a function to unlock a screen by a swipe is hardly such a radical concept that the world stood still and clapped. For god sacks the Etch-a-sketch did the same thing in the 90's, All Apple is did was recreate an Etch-a-sketch.
The one thing I will agree with is the hardware patent, designing hardware circuits requires skill, true skill. Anyone can sit down and spit out software but not to many people can sit down and spit out good hardware,. The hardware is the actual selling point of any device because it can look as good as you want but if it can't perform then you have a brick. So I'm fully in support of hardware patents, but if you take into account JUST the hardware patents Apple owns then what really is the damage here?
This just shows how insanely broken the legal and patient system are in the world. The only thing that should be patentable is a NEW invention, not a change, not an idea, not a concept, AN INVENTION. What Apple has done is exploited the patient system in the most horrible way possible, almost like when you find a life cheat in a video game, Apple is just cheating the system to make the game a joke. It's time to change the way the system works and return it back to what it should be.
Actually your right, I don't know that anyone has ever really invented anything at all, Humanity has discovered new uses for existing objects but never actually gone out and invented. With that being said I think we need to get rid of the patient system, if humanity can't truly invent then there is nothing to protect.
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I'm usually don't like art but this time I have to give credit. That wax figure is simply amazing, I've seen other ones but I think this is the best wax figure ever.
This has been going on for year, I can remember being 5 and seeing fast food commercials all over the TV, As did all the kids I grew up with. The real issue at hand is the lazy parents who instead of making dinner just jump in the car and order 4 happy meals to go. A kid can see all the advertisements in the world but with no access to money the kid can't act. If people are so concerned by this maybe the blame should be focused on the enablers that are handing the kids the fast food in the first place, the only issue is the enablers are the parents! So blame the parents not the company's.
+1 to Anonymous Coward, no point try to reason with Apple fans, because on the 7th day Apples created humanity.
Being a Fandroid would mean I support it no matter what, I'm just making a correct statement. The Android development time right now for a hardware / software co release is about 6 months and Apple is riding a year, so in the time the "new" iPhone comes out it's already sitting behind the curve. In fact Apples is losing the smart phone market slowly, they no longer have the biggest mobile OS and they don't have the best hardware. All they have is a fan base forged in stone that will take a bullet out of blind faith for them. So I'm not a Fandroid, I'm just practical.
At this point Apple is actually copying Samsung, Samsung is a full generation ahead of where the iPhone in both hardware and software is, so anything that Apple does to the iPhone is just following Samsung, I think Samsung should come back and drive Apple into the ground.
I love how instead of change and give themselves a different image they just want to block it. Here's a radical idea, if you just start acting and behaving like the rest of the world and admit your faults and change then people will stop making what right now is a VERY truthful videos. So how about instead of running to your mother you just own up and accept the fact that as a culture you need to change.
Isn't Apple copying Samsung at this point? Samsung is a FULL generation ahead of Apple in software and hardware, so anything Apple comes up with at this point is following Samsung.
1) Meet Deadlines!
2) Make good software!
3) Follow trends and don't attempt to set them!
If Rim just got there act together and started running like a mature company and not a cutting edge start up then they might be able to turn around.
The problem with switching to Bing is that you trade in a good search engine for yet another Microsoft LOC. If I search the same string on Google, Yahoo and Bing, in 100% of all cases Bing will return of most irrelevant search items, Yahoo will return the second most irrelevant and Google actually give me what I want, so why would any web user want to switch, I'm not just going to give up producitively because Microsoft seems to think they developed another good program ( they have yet to make 1 ).
To prove my point: If I search: hydrometers and arduino
Google:
Digital Hydrometer - Page 7 - Home Brew Forums
Battery Hydrometer Sensor? - Arduino
How to Make a Hydrometer | eHow.com
Those are good results! helpful and useful.
Yahoo
Arduino Forum - Moisture meter input
Measuring SG using capacitance...Arduino brewing
Digital Hydrometer - Home Brew Forums - HomeBrewTalk.com - Beer, Wine
Again not bad but not as good as Google
Bing
Density/Specific Gravity sensing - Arduino Forum
Arduino Wifi - Microcontroller Forum Tracker
Easiest Wifi module/shield to interface with Arduino Fio
Okay so proof! Bing showing it's complete and total fail at trying to search the world wide web, good job Microsoft! I'll switch as soon as I'm dead.
Just like you wouldn't ask a programmer to compute your yearly cash flow you shouldn't ask just anyone to write code.
That is rediculous, no art in an art textbook. That would be like having no equations in a math textbook or no electic circuits in a circuit textbook. I think when it comes to students and textbooks there needs to be a lighter stance taken to fair use, what good can come from holding back information from students trying to learn.
I'm not speaking to everyone when I explain what I want in a user interface.
Personally clutter is one thing I can't stand, that is something I personally find Apple doesn't understand. Everything about Apples interface I see as an attempt to cram something else onto a bar or in a folder or as an icon and it drives me nuts. I don't care about 3D effects, I don't care about glass effects or anything useless that doesn't contribute to me getting work done.
In an ideal world every computer would come with a terminal and a window manager and that is it. Your don't need anything else to get the job done, your need some place to throw a window and you need a way to execute programs well being able to "quiz" the user space / kernel space. You don't needs bars, you don't need control panels and you 100% don't need desktop surfaces.
After all why should I have my computer wasting rendering time and power on something that doesn't assist me or help me relax? My rendering power should go to games or power hungry applications such as PCB layout / Autocad.
I know I don't speak for everyone, I can accept that people want all the extras and the kitchen sink in an interface but that's not what I want . This is one of the reasons I use Linux, Linux users understand interface design, slim, sleek and without the crap. After all shouldn't a computer be more about running application and not the desktop?
Would it kill the Muslim culture to get a sense of humour? It seems every single time a video is posted that is apparently "offensive" we get wars, protests and freak outs. If a Christian sees a picture of Jesus eating a hot dog we laugh and close it or just don't do anything. If a Muslim notices a picture of Muhammad eating a hot dog seven mosque's get blown up, acts of terrorism get spoken against the free world and people get killed. Here is a new idea, laugh or ignore but shut the F up, radical Muslims are children maturity wise, time to grow up a bit.
Anyone can learn to program but not everyone can learn to script. A programming language means when finish writing the code you can compile it to an executable. If your not able to compile down to an executable then your not programming, your scripting. I think a very clear line needs to be drawn between those who script and those who program.
I think it's also important to separate programming languages into multiple groups, low level, mid level and high level. At the high level you have anything Object Oriented, these language should be programmed by a monkey and require about as much effort and learning to tie your shoe. Object Oriented languages well very popular just take work and consideration away from the programmer, this to me is a horrible concept. Anyone can pick up an Object Oriented language and hit the ground running.
Mid level languages like C are not as simple but still don't pose a huge challenge. Mid level languages are for the real programmers, those that don't need to hold on to there mothers hands well they cross the street. Your in control with a mid level language, you have the ability to crap out the OS completely if your not careful and they leave the programmer with most of the control. Not everyone can pick these languages up and those that do and become well versed in proper programming have a very power tool. ( Something C# doesn't give you ).
Assembler and machine code represent low level languages. These are the big dogs on the play ground. If you can program a low level language and well then you are a master programmer. They're hard to pick up, hard to use and hard to teach, they're reserved for the best programmers on the market and they leave the programmer with 100% control.
If you start with the simplest tear to learn you enter with OO languages like C#, C++ and the entire group of easy to use languages, I personal think they make programmers lazy and unfocused but at the same time anyone can learn how to become an OO programmer. It leaves the programmer with little work to do and little consideration on safe programming. These are great for beginners and can really help a novice to get there feet wet.
When you step it up to the real languages like C you have to take responsibility for what you do and not fall back on the garbage collectors. These languages are harder to program, require thought and safe programming. Not for novices or lazy programmers . Well still fairly easy to learn the time required does jump considerably.
When you jump to low level languages I would say that it's only for the best programmers around. You have no protection, you can cause serious damage and you can run your head into a wall just attempting hello world. Most professional programmers in the workforce can't even learn how to program in assembler properly. You have to be a true master and I recommend that novices don't even look this way.
In all cases I'm going to say that if you want to learn programming stick to OO languages but move quickly to something that will actually involve skill. If anyone cares I'll talk about scripts and why I don't consider them programming languages.
What Sick SOB is going to legalize child porn.
Shouldn't we be asking ourselfs why our kids are dumb as sand?
We keep blaming the summer or the teachers but never actually blame the kids. Summer break does cause children to loose some knowledge, this is true and we can't agrue it. However how many users of this site had summer break and now are engineers, inventors or scientists. If summer break is so bad for children then how year after year does the school system turn of engineers, scientist or inventors.
The problem isn't the break, it's the kids and therefore by extention the parents. Don't blame the wrong source to try and pass the torch.
Thats great Windows 7 is the new "king" but to be honest market share doesn't correlate to quality. Users want simple, if you don't make it simple you'll never attract the user base. Windows 7 is simple, you could have an IQ of 90 and figure out it, OSX is next but still a little more complicated. In either case both OSX and Windwos 7 require you to pick up a mouse and your off and running.
Linux however requires you to actually understand OS design and OS theory and when you understand both you develop a much deeper understanding of why Linux is and always will be the hidden OS king. It doesn't have the desktop market share but it doesn't need to, it holds it's own and doesn't have to try and announce itself with bells, commericals and ad's. Linux knows it's place, just as it's users and you'll be hard pressed to find a Linux user who doesn't agree.
The average developer can't maintain rockstar code because what the post secondary schools are turning out for average programmers are fucking horrible piles of crap. You can't actually teach a human to program, you either have it or you don't, it might be hidden and brought out but you can never teach it. I think what needs to happen is for the entire software engineering industry to sit back and re-evaluate just what average needs to be. I have a feeling 45% of programmers would be out of work if the "average programmer" got redefined.
They still can't manage to make a good OS, shouldn't they get that right before they jump into Memory and screw that up
He is so right, forcing a child to believe in creation is child abuse.
The funny thing is that all the IT guys who don't know Linux tend to smash it. All the IT guys who know Linux will sell it like no tomorrow. So I don't know how to get a job being a Linux admin but put it on your resume and the good IT guys will notice it and want to talk. The worst thing you can see on an IT resume is the absence of Linux, it just screams stay back.
Just to be clear I disagree with you, but that doesn't make your point wrong.
I still believe we need to restructure and redefine what a patent is and what it can cover. Apple effectively made a rectangle and was able to protect it, that doesn't make any sense. If I draw a triangle on my desk can I then go out and patent the fact that I drew a triangle? Apple was allowed an unjust patent on a shape, effectively every single preschool student world wide has infringed on Apple, so is Apple going to sue them?
That was just the design, which granted I personally don't care about because the design doesn't mean the inner workings are any good. Lets get into software patents, the biggest joke of them all, having a function to unlock a screen by a swipe is hardly such a radical concept that the world stood still and clapped. For god sacks the Etch-a-sketch did the same thing in the 90's, All Apple is did was recreate an Etch-a-sketch.
The one thing I will agree with is the hardware patent, designing hardware circuits requires skill, true skill. Anyone can sit down and spit out software but not to many people can sit down and spit out good hardware,. The hardware is the actual selling point of any device because it can look as good as you want but if it can't perform then you have a brick. So I'm fully in support of hardware patents, but if you take into account JUST the hardware patents Apple owns then what really is the damage here?
This just shows how insanely broken the legal and patient system are in the world. The only thing that should be patentable is a NEW invention, not a change, not an idea, not a concept, AN INVENTION. What Apple has done is exploited the patient system in the most horrible way possible, almost like when you find a life cheat in a video game, Apple is just cheating the system to make the game a joke. It's time to change the way the system works and return it back to what it should be.
That is EXACTLY what I'm saying. I'm serious.
Actually your right, I don't know that anyone has ever really invented anything at all, Humanity has discovered new uses for existing objects but never actually gone out and invented. With that being said I think we need to get rid of the patient system, if humanity can't truly invent then there is nothing to protect.