Fyi, Swift is open source (swift.org), and one of the most popular depositories on Github.
I do like Swift, a lot, but perhaps introductory CS should start with something like Python for concepts and then move to Swift or whatever once performance becomes a factor.
Yeah, and it was the Mormon Church that bankrolled Proposition 8 in California to take away others' civil rights (though I imagine you would deny it, because you "want to have seven wives"). Funny how you leave that factor out...
"The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,[5] after which Congress passed the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act",[6] (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future—a requirement unique to this agency), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced[7] declining mail volume,[8] prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.[9]"
I’m sure that like most of us in the country the USPS also benefits from using roads and sidewalks and highways and water and electricity systems that were built for us by all those socialists between the 1930s and 1980, back when the personal tax rates were three times higher. (No doubt you have built your own alternative transportation system, perhaps jetpack-based.)
I agree, but I also think budget and direction (and all the other skills that are involved in creation) are elements that are worthy of consideration, and especially in the area of "cult" films (Plan 9 from Outer Space or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Planet of the Vampires, for example, to name three films of widely varying caliber) the relationship between quality and enjoyment are looser than for mainstream Hollywood productions. I'm just trying to say the movie in question can be enjoyed without anesthetizing your higher brain functions.
I see movies, tv and commercials all the time that I don't care for but can still, on occasion, appreciate their production values and efforts. I recognize my viewpoint as being subjective. Yeah, 90% of everything is crap, but you and I might disagree on why something is crap, or what's in the other 10%.
I respectfully disagree. "Nazi" has become a generic term, like "aspirin" or "hell" (in fact it's nearly as common as punctuation at this point, as Godwin observed).
Whoever owns the trademark for "nazi" will have to send out C&Ds if they want to prevent that, though they'd probably have to change it up a bit -- Microsoft Nazi(tm)*, anyone?
* (/. is stripping out the "tm" symbol from my post.)
Coincidently (as some has pointed out), there was a B-movie called "Carnival of Souls" that was released in 1963. I haven't seen this movie, so I can't comment on if it was inspired by Ray Bradbury's novel.
It isn't. I've seen it, and it's rather good for a $33K (1962 dollars) budget and first-time director. (He'd directed industrial films but this was his first and only feature.)
Copyright is generally assumed for any work that benefits society.
Not true. That's a paraphrase of the Constitutional language, yes, but there's plenty of copyrightable materials that are of minimal or negative benefit to society: The Turner Diaries, say, or [insert completely crap Hollywood movie here].
And of course anyone might disagree about what is or is not of social benefit, depending on their particular ideological/political/financial/social/etc filters. One person's Ulysses is another's 50 Shades of Gray. They're both equally copyrightable, though, and the First Amendment sez that the government can't distinguish between them (the only major exception afaik being if it's something highly classified).
I don't know if many humans would be willing to take essential medical advice from a fictional alien doctor, much less one who could probably eat nuclear waste and crap out Daleks. Why not eat some nuclear waste from the pits at Hanford and get back to us on its health benefits?
In a sense the British van Vogt, with a unique mind and approach, but even less well-known. If it weren't for Wollheim appreciating his work he would be almost unpublished in the US.
Lots of other worthies have been named above, and I would add Rudy Rucker, but to be honest nearly all of them were/are better-known.
When I was a kid, I thought growing up was about taking on responsibilities and getting work done. So wrong! It doesn't matter if you're the President or you're a drunk, what makes you an adult is how you entertain yourself. If you do anything with your leisure time more fun than reading War and Peace or putting together ships in a bottle or something, you're still a "kid".
I would generally agree with you but would take issue with the word entertain. I think it's more how you spend your time, which is a finite resource.
The focus on entertainment in this culture (speaking primarily for my US experience but possibly throughout the industrialized world) is mostly marketing of passive entertainment to passive consumers for profit, like any other consumer item. The manufacturers of passive media may want your feedback, but that's so they can better sell you the next one down the line. (Joss Whedon may be much loved, and I'm sure he appreciates it personally, but if his products weren't likely to make a profit most of us wouldn't even know his name.)
I'm not sure that playing video games or watching porn result in a whole lot more than greater skill in playing video games and watching porn (with, I suppose, a substantial improvement in one's eye-hand-dick coordination). It's not that building a ship in a bottle (or any other creative activity, like writing an app or developing an Arduino project or nearly any hobby) is absolutely a superior use of any person's leisure time, or indeed makes that person superior to Zimbardo et al's hypothetical tribe of hairy-palmed joystick obsessives, but I know which activities are more likely not to bore me (or hurt someplace) after an hour or so.
The problem is less about the science than it is that the researches were clearly biased and pursuing specific results. The fact that others have claimed to reproduce the results does not lend credibility as long as they fail to acknowledge their bias and operate in a fully transparent way.
Whether you agree or disagree with the question of human affected climate change you really can't deny the fact that these folks are heavily biased toward a specific outcome for their research.
I'm sure that by "these folks" you are including AGW deniers, right? Or are there no scientists on that side?
You seem to be awfully confused as to what science is and isn't. A hypothesis (you know, what the experiment is testing) isn't a bias, and if the hypothesis doesn't test out, then the results are against it whether the scientists involved are believers in AGW, the Good Fairy, a fourth branch of US government containing Dick Cheney, or not. If the research was biased and changed the outcome, it's not science. I'm not sure you can have it both ways.
Are you kidding? Dell and HP make a third of all PCs (and half of the ones sold in the US, where Apple's share is peaking at 15%). And they (along with ASUS) are some of FoxConn's biggest customers. They surely have as much pull as Apple, but they don't use it, do they?
[Reposting because I wasn't logged-in. I stand behind these words, sorry for any confusion.]
His arguments appear to be logical -- at least, posters here seem not to be contesting the arguments but instead castigating the person. So we'll see if he's right this time. Maybe he learned something from pissing you people off, or is it your opinion that no one learns anything after age, oh, 28?
We get plenty of stories front-paged on/. that are astroturfed, self-promoting, and/or nearly total spin. (And that's not even including the astroturfed comments -- some of our more, ah, highly-ideological commenters don't seem to have any other work to do daily, and they can't all be living with their parents.) Why single out Mueller? (I'm asking that in general, I know you were answering someone's Mueller-specific question.)
And there's still the mystery of why he inserted an earmark for a contributor in Floridaafter the bill involved had passed the House and Senate. That bit of extra-Constitutional law-jiggering was hardly the act of a moderate, Republican or not.
Although you can download the development environment (Xcode) and work with non-beta iOS SDKs for free, you still need to pay that $99/year for the iOS developer program if you want to upload code to your own iDevice instead of using the simulator, regardless of whether you want to sell in the App Store. Any developer will have to decide if that's acceptable.
You seem to be confused and that is okay, there is an almost concerted effort lately among the faithful to confuse the scientific method with faith.
Yes, and there's a similar effort among the scientific faithful to confuse science with religion. Symptoms include believing "myth" and "truth" are opposites and a patronizing tone towards anyone evincing a different point of view on the subject. Since you seem to be able to use Wikipedia, I'd suggest looking up "scientism".
Me, I'm an atheist and I don't see science and religion as being incompatible so much as entirely distinct. They're both tools that we can use, for good or for bad, and if we forget that we're being used by them instead. What many of the more outspoken atheists seem to be doing is imitating the fundamentalism of their would-be opponents, not transcending it — hardly an improvement.
(It's been fun watching my first comment get moderated up, then down, then up, then down again. You'd think something so rational wouldn't be controversial, but what the hey.)
Try teaching belief systems to someone who has been raised without myths and given reason and critical thinking skills.
Such a person would be quite remarkable, but I doubt any such exists. Even science (yes, *S*C*I*E*N*C*E*) has its myths and belief systems, not all of which are true (or provable).
Rationality is under-appreciated by those who have less of it, but often wildly overvalued by many who think they have more — they tend to have an irrational, pre-Gödel belief that a)they are completely and totally rational, and b)rationality is all that's necessary to live a doubleplusgood life. And maybe they'd get away with it, if it weren't for the other 6.3 billion of us meddling with their perfect world.
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Fyi, Swift is open source (swift.org), and one of the most popular depositories on Github.
I do like Swift, a lot, but perhaps introductory CS should start with something like Python for concepts and then move to Swift or whatever once performance becomes a factor.
Yeah, and it was the Mormon Church that bankrolled Proposition 8 in California to take away others' civil rights (though I imagine you would deny it, because you "want to have seven wives"). Funny how you leave that factor out...
If only I had mod points. Thanks for the laugh.
Gilbert, meet Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usps
"The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,[5] after which Congress passed the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act",[6] (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future—a requirement unique to this agency), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced[7] declining mail volume,[8] prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.[9]"
I’m sure that like most of us in the country the USPS also benefits from using roads and sidewalks and highways and water and electricity systems that were built for us by all those socialists between the 1930s and 1980, back when the personal tax rates were three times higher. (No doubt you have built your own alternative transportation system, perhaps jetpack-based.)
I agree, but I also think budget and direction (and all the other skills that are involved in creation) are elements that are worthy of consideration, and especially in the area of "cult" films (Plan 9 from Outer Space or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Planet of the Vampires, for example, to name three films of widely varying caliber) the relationship between quality and enjoyment are looser than for mainstream Hollywood productions. I'm just trying to say the movie in question can be enjoyed without anesthetizing your higher brain functions.
I see movies, tv and commercials all the time that I don't care for but can still, on occasion, appreciate their production values and efforts. I recognize my viewpoint as being subjective. Yeah, 90% of everything is crap, but you and I might disagree on why something is crap, or what's in the other 10%.
I respectfully disagree. "Nazi" has become a generic term, like "aspirin" or "hell" (in fact it's nearly as common as punctuation at this point, as Godwin observed).
Whoever owns the trademark for "nazi" will have to send out C&Ds if they want to prevent that, though they'd probably have to change it up a bit -- Microsoft Nazi(tm)*, anyone?
* (/. is stripping out the "tm" symbol from my post.)
Coincidently (as some has pointed out), there was a B-movie called "Carnival of Souls" that was released in 1963. I haven't seen this movie, so I can't comment on if it was inspired by Ray Bradbury's novel.
It isn't. I've seen it, and it's rather good for a $33K (1962 dollars) budget and first-time director. (He'd directed industrial films but this was his first and only feature.)
Copyright is generally assumed for any work that benefits society.
Not true. That's a paraphrase of the Constitutional language, yes, but there's plenty of copyrightable materials that are of minimal or negative benefit to society: The Turner Diaries, say, or [insert completely crap Hollywood movie here].
And of course anyone might disagree about what is or is not of social benefit, depending on their particular ideological/political/financial/social/etc filters. One person's Ulysses is another's 50 Shades of Gray. They're both equally copyrightable, though, and the First Amendment sez that the government can't distinguish between them (the only major exception afaik being if it's something highly classified).
What do you make home-made bison out of? Baco-Bits, cat hair and soy?
I don't know if many humans would be willing to take essential medical advice from a fictional alien doctor, much less one who could probably eat nuclear waste and crap out Daleks. Why not eat some nuclear waste from the pits at Hanford and get back to us on its health benefits?
In a sense the British van Vogt, with a unique mind and approach, but even less well-known. If it weren't for Wollheim appreciating his work he would be almost unpublished in the US.
Lots of other worthies have been named above, and I would add Rudy Rucker, but to be honest nearly all of them were/are better-known.
Yeah, the only greater waste of time would be bothering to comment on such a thing. (Or commenting on such a comment.)
When I was a kid, I thought growing up was about taking on responsibilities and getting work done. So wrong! It doesn't matter if you're the President or you're a drunk, what makes you an adult is how you entertain yourself. If you do anything with your leisure time more fun than reading War and Peace or putting together ships in a bottle or something, you're still a "kid".
I would generally agree with you but would take issue with the word entertain. I think it's more how you spend your time, which is a finite resource.
The focus on entertainment in this culture (speaking primarily for my US experience but possibly throughout the industrialized world) is mostly marketing of passive entertainment to passive consumers for profit, like any other consumer item. The manufacturers of passive media may want your feedback, but that's so they can better sell you the next one down the line. (Joss Whedon may be much loved, and I'm sure he appreciates it personally, but if his products weren't likely to make a profit most of us wouldn't even know his name.)
I'm not sure that playing video games or watching porn result in a whole lot more than greater skill in playing video games and watching porn (with, I suppose, a substantial improvement in one's eye-hand-dick coordination). It's not that building a ship in a bottle (or any other creative activity, like writing an app or developing an Arduino project or nearly any hobby) is absolutely a superior use of any person's leisure time, or indeed makes that person superior to Zimbardo et al's hypothetical tribe of hairy-palmed joystick obsessives, but I know which activities are more likely not to bore me (or hurt someplace) after an hour or so.
Here's my prediction: The version of OS X that comes after Mountain Lion will only let you install applications/software from the App Store.
Excellent. Looking forward to seeing if it's reality or the usual paranoid projection. Be seeing you...
The problem is less about the science than it is that the researches were clearly biased and pursuing specific results. The fact that others have claimed to reproduce the results does not lend credibility as long as they fail to acknowledge their bias and operate in a fully transparent way.
Whether you agree or disagree with the question of human affected climate change you really can't deny the fact that these folks are heavily biased toward a specific outcome for their research.
I'm sure that by "these folks" you are including AGW deniers, right? Or are there no scientists on that side?
You seem to be awfully confused as to what science is and isn't. A hypothesis (you know, what the experiment is testing) isn't a bias, and if the hypothesis doesn't test out, then the results are against it whether the scientists involved are believers in AGW, the Good Fairy, a fourth branch of US government containing Dick Cheney, or not. If the research was biased and changed the outcome, it's not science. I'm not sure you can have it both ways.
Are you kidding? Dell and HP make a third of all PCs (and half of the ones sold in the US, where Apple's share is peaking at 15%). And they (along with ASUS) are some of FoxConn's biggest customers. They surely have as much pull as Apple, but they don't use it, do they?
[Reposting because I wasn't logged-in. I stand behind these words, sorry for any confusion.]
His arguments appear to be logical -- at least, posters here seem not to be contesting the arguments but instead castigating the person. So we'll see if he's right this time. Maybe he learned something from pissing you people off, or is it your opinion that no one learns anything after age, oh, 28?
We get plenty of stories front-paged on /. that are astroturfed, self-promoting, and/or nearly total spin. (And that's not even including the astroturfed comments -- some of our more, ah, highly-ideological commenters don't seem to have any other work to do daily, and they can't all be living with their parents.) Why single out Mueller? (I'm asking that in general, I know you were answering someone's Mueller-specific question.)
No, it's a transcript of Nixon in the White House.
You can thank No Child Left Behind for a lot of that.
There you have it — market share is theft!
If a "moderate" Republican wants to spend $223 million on a quarter-mile "bridge to nowhere" then "moderate" has no meaning.
And there's still the mystery of why he inserted an earmark for a contributor in Florida after the bill involved had passed the House and Senate. That bit of extra-Constitutional law-jiggering was hardly the act of a moderate, Republican or not.
Although you can download the development environment (Xcode) and work with non-beta iOS SDKs for free, you still need to pay that $99/year for the iOS developer program if you want to upload code to your own iDevice instead of using the simulator, regardless of whether you want to sell in the App Store. Any developer will have to decide if that's acceptable.
Otherwise I'm generally in agreement.
You seem to be confused and that is okay, there is an almost concerted effort lately among the faithful to confuse the scientific method with faith.
Yes, and there's a similar effort among the scientific faithful to confuse science with religion. Symptoms include believing "myth" and "truth" are opposites and a patronizing tone towards anyone evincing a different point of view on the subject. Since you seem to be able to use Wikipedia, I'd suggest looking up "scientism".
Me, I'm an atheist and I don't see science and religion as being incompatible so much as entirely distinct. They're both tools that we can use, for good or for bad, and if we forget that we're being used by them instead. What many of the more outspoken atheists seem to be doing is imitating the fundamentalism of their would-be opponents, not transcending it — hardly an improvement.
(It's been fun watching my first comment get moderated up, then down, then up, then down again. You'd think something so rational wouldn't be controversial, but what the hey.)
And no, rationality isn't all that's necessary. It's necessary, not sufficient. That shouldn't be a hard concept for someone familiar with Godel.
Whoosh! Do you really think that's not what I'm saying? Is there some other Gödel I'm not familiar with?
Seems to me your patronizing tone is mis-aimed. (That's hardly rational, is it?)
Try teaching belief systems to someone who has been raised without myths and given reason and critical thinking skills.
Such a person would be quite remarkable, but I doubt any such exists. Even science (yes, *S*C*I*E*N*C*E*) has its myths and belief systems, not all of which are true (or provable).
Rationality is under-appreciated by those who have less of it, but often wildly overvalued by many who think they have more — they tend to have an irrational, pre-Gödel belief that a)they are completely and totally rational, and b)rationality is all that's necessary to live a doubleplusgood life. And maybe they'd get away with it, if it weren't for the other 6.3 billion of us meddling with their perfect world.