1. Bill Gates owns a competitor of Apple.
2. Competitors diss each other's products; it's profitable.
3. Bill Gates disses the iPad, because it was made by Apple.
4. Bill Gates disses the iPad, only because it was made by Apple, and no other reason is possible.
intelligent person who
doesn't [know the] difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.
don't know about "right clicking".
don't know how to use the file browser (Finder or Windows Explorer).
(and they have no idea how to do things like sum up a column).
Taking extreme liberties with the meaning of 'intelligent', aren't we?
The States has serious issues whereby many actually do think that there is something wrong with a particular group but that if they keep changing words fast enough then they can outpace the prejudiced and keep ahead of them. Bollocks.
In Canada, 'Asian' applies to East Asians (Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans) and 'South Asian' or 'East Indians' is used to refer to South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis). I'm not sure if 'Oriental' is considered a slur, but it is considered hopelessly obsolete (seen any 'thinking machines' lately?)
Reminds me of an old Persian (/Indian/Chinese/Turkish - it's one of those popular ones) story -
A villager goes to visit a wise man to gain wisdom. As he walks into the wise man's home, he sees him blowing into his cupped palms.
"Why are you blowing into your hands?", he asks.
"To warm them", comes the reply.
A little while later, the wise man's wife serves soup. The wise man blows into it.
"Why are you blowing into your soup?", the villager asks.
"To cool it", is the reply.
The villager finishes his soup and hurries to leave. When the wise man asks him why he won't stay, he says "I can't trust a man who blows both hot and cold."
The moral isn't that one can't trust scientists who claim global warming can have a local cooling effect. It is that, despite all indignant incredulity, the same cause can have different effects in different contexts and scales.
I agree with your spin-off technologies angle, but here's another. If it hadn't been for the pyramids, would we have bothered to make the ancient Egyptians as important as they are in our common culture, or would we have shunted them to the periphery of our skewed image of history, like the great empires of Ghana or Mali? I should think the latter.
Something like the pyramids may seem non-functional and unnecessary, but they did keep Egypt in the limelight, and it is impossible to have a discussion about human civilisation as a whole without bringing them up.
What every other agency or department in the American government was doing in the sixties will barely register by the next sixties, but America will always remain the nation that put a man on the moon and no one can take that away. I am not saying the departments of health or agriculture or commerce aren't important; they are, but some achievements are more permanent than others. A nation needs bread and hospitals and soldiers and flood relief for survival, but it needs something more than all that for a feeling of lasting national pride - the pyramids did that for Egypt, and NASA does that for America.
The question is not "did a government organisation invent all of the technology used to land on the moon in-house?" The question is "would private industry have achieved the goal of landing a man on the moon in a decade, lacking a clear economic incentive?" The answer seems to be a "no".
If by 'Silicon Valley' you mean the area north of that and east of the other thing, then yes, may be, I don't know, perhaps.
If by 'Silicon Valley' you mean a place where a large number of intelligent, creative and well-educated people mostly concerned with computer science and engineering can find meaningful and well-paid employment or start a company with relatively few hurdles and a fighting chance of commercial success with a genuinely good idea - then no, I do not believe Silicon Valley can die out. It may no longer be in the same place in California, or in California, or even the United States or the western hemisphere, but Silicon Valley as an idea simply will not and can not die out. Silicon Valley as a concept existed before the literal Silicon Valley itself, and it will continue to live on, even if it's closer to Bangalore or Doha or Shanghai than Mountain View.
And when it does, let's put up a sign - "The valley spirit never dies." [Verse 6, Tao Te Ching]
They released a product. They got feedback from the people who use it. They acted swiftly and concretely, fixing the product by listening to the feedback and making the user experience more relevant and comfortable. I for one wouldn't mind more companies doing the same, and not just in software.
Distilling the fabric of space and time into a single equation is genius. Marketing a sub-functional system to hipsters without the competence to use and fix a single computer responsibly isn't.
Fur is warm, soft, and cozy. Spending an entire lifetime in a cage and being killed for your skin is unpleasant, but if there are painless ways of growing beef, there must be painless ways of growing fur.
There are a lot of things nobody 'needs', but it's hardly a command economy, is it? If there are things anybody wants and can be acquired without undue pain to an animal, I don't see why not.
Fur has simply become a taboo, and like all taboos, it's more a matter of a knee-jerk reaction than any considered view of the situation (you know, the type that is supposed to be modded 'insightful'). A society that freely consumes leather, milk, eggs, fish and meat can hardly afford to act holy about fur.
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1. Bill Gates owns a competitor of Apple.
2. Competitors diss each other's products; it's profitable.
3. Bill Gates disses the iPad, because it was made by Apple.
4. Bill Gates disses the iPad, only because it was made by Apple, and no other reason is possible.
3 follows from 1 and 2. 4 doesn't.
intelligent person who
doesn't [know the] difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.
don't know about "right clicking".
don't know how to use the file browser (Finder or Windows Explorer).
(and they have no idea how to do things like sum up a column).
Taking extreme liberties with the meaning of 'intelligent', aren't we?
The States has serious issues whereby many actually do think that there is something wrong with a particular group but that if they keep changing words fast enough then they can outpace the prejudiced and keep ahead of them. Bollocks.
I think you mean 'testicles'. Racist.
the British Iles are in Europe.
Don't be silly; they lied everywhere. Where do you think the Empire came form?
In Canada, 'Asian' applies to East Asians (Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans) and 'South Asian' or 'East Indians' is used to refer to South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis). I'm not sure if 'Oriental' is considered a slur, but it is considered hopelessly obsolete (seen any 'thinking machines' lately?)
owning her period.
Don't. Give them. Ideas.
Solves all problems. At least the ones that WD-40 can't.
- More/less heath
No Heath is definitely dead. And it wasn't global warming. It was Batman.
Reminds me of an old Persian (/Indian/Chinese/Turkish - it's one of those popular ones) story -
A villager goes to visit a wise man to gain wisdom. As he walks into the wise man's home, he sees him blowing into his cupped palms.
"Why are you blowing into your hands?", he asks.
"To warm them", comes the reply.
A little while later, the wise man's wife serves soup. The wise man blows into it.
"Why are you blowing into your soup?", the villager asks.
"To cool it", is the reply.
The villager finishes his soup and hurries to leave. When the wise man asks him why he won't stay, he says "I can't trust a man who blows both hot and cold."
The moral isn't that one can't trust scientists who claim global warming can have a local cooling effect. It is that, despite all indignant incredulity, the same cause can have different effects in different contexts and scales.
I agree with your spin-off technologies angle, but here's another. If it hadn't been for the pyramids, would we have bothered to make the ancient Egyptians as important as they are in our common culture, or would we have shunted them to the periphery of our skewed image of history, like the great empires of Ghana or Mali? I should think the latter.
Something like the pyramids may seem non-functional and unnecessary, but they did keep Egypt in the limelight, and it is impossible to have a discussion about human civilisation as a whole without bringing them up.
What every other agency or department in the American government was doing in the sixties will barely register by the next sixties, but America will always remain the nation that put a man on the moon and no one can take that away. I am not saying the departments of health or agriculture or commerce aren't important; they are, but some achievements are more permanent than others. A nation needs bread and hospitals and soldiers and flood relief for survival, but it needs something more than all that for a feeling of lasting national pride - the pyramids did that for Egypt, and NASA does that for America.
The question is not "did a government organisation invent all of the technology used to land on the moon in-house?" The question is "would private industry have achieved the goal of landing a man on the moon in a decade, lacking a clear economic incentive?" The answer seems to be a "no".
If by 'Silicon Valley' you mean the area north of that and east of the other thing, then yes, may be, I don't know, perhaps.
If by 'Silicon Valley' you mean a place where a large number of intelligent, creative and well-educated people mostly concerned with computer science and engineering can find meaningful and well-paid employment or start a company with relatively few hurdles and a fighting chance of commercial success with a genuinely good idea - then no, I do not believe Silicon Valley can die out. It may no longer be in the same place in California, or in California, or even the United States or the western hemisphere, but Silicon Valley as an idea simply will not and can not die out. Silicon Valley as a concept existed before the literal Silicon Valley itself, and it will continue to live on, even if it's closer to Bangalore or Doha or Shanghai than Mountain View.
And when it does, let's put up a sign - "The valley spirit never dies." [Verse 6, Tao Te Ching]
They released a product. They got feedback from the people who use it. They acted swiftly and concretely, fixing the product by listening to the feedback and making the user experience more relevant and comfortable. I for one wouldn't mind more companies doing the same, and not just in software.
It's annoyance at seeing fanboys drool over the iPad, of all things.
Distilling the fabric of space and time into a single equation is genius. Marketing a sub-functional system to hipsters without the competence to use and fix a single computer responsibly isn't.
Why 'the Western world'? Why not simply 'the world'? Plenty of eastern countries have democracies too, like Japan and India.
Weirdest. I'm pretty sure you'd have known that if you had gone to an approved school with an approved curriculum.
Rs. 200,000 to 300,000 ($44,000 to $6,600 US)
That is one volatile currency.
Capitalist pig.
And they were all rather proactive.
Very, very rarely, one comes across a Slashdot comment that truly does deserve the title of 'Insightful'. Do please mod parent up.
Fur is warm, soft, and cozy. Spending an entire lifetime in a cage and being killed for your skin is unpleasant, but if there are painless ways of growing beef, there must be painless ways of growing fur.
There are a lot of things nobody 'needs', but it's hardly a command economy, is it? If there are things anybody wants and can be acquired without undue pain to an animal, I don't see why not.
Fur has simply become a taboo, and like all taboos, it's more a matter of a knee-jerk reaction than any considered view of the situation (you know, the type that is supposed to be modded 'insightful'). A society that freely consumes leather, milk, eggs, fish and meat can hardly afford to act holy about fur.
Go on, extrapolate the rest.
Mod parent up.
God is into real estate?
And furniture. Matthew 5:35.