Multi-touch applications for painting and arranging photos? You really are going to drag individual photos with your fingers to arrange them or navigate through some other gimmicky interface to arrange your photos? It doesn't feel more natural it feels like inefficient grunt work.
As opposed to dragging a mouse with your arm, and using that to arrange your photos? Or, perhaps, typing a lot of mv or exiftool invocations from the commandline to do the same?! Or do you use a MIDI foot pedal set to arrange your photos? Because I sure as heck don't get your point, if there is one.
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This is of course right, but then the passenger cage is designed to take some abuse as well. The front seats eventually start moving backwards, so that you're not merely just crushed between the seat and the engine, and these days the steering column is benign. I've seen a few crash test videos where the rear seats seemed to be sacrificial -- if there were any passengers there, the front seats would have crushed them, saving the driver and the front passenger. You'll get injuries, bad ones, but you won't be necessarily dead. Heck, I've passed by a crash scene (traffic was slower than walking speed) where the driver's seat seemed to pretty much collapse the entire rear bench. The driver apparently had broken legs, but was very much alive otherwise. The entire front crumple zone was used up, it looked as if the car was pulled out from a junkyard crushing machine. It hit a large viaduct pylon.
Sideways rollovers are always bad because the loads on the neck are too high, even if you had four point safety harnesses and whatnot. There doesn't seem to be any way to fix that without having a contoured racing seat with stiff head support and seat-integral rollbar.
An in Europe, where many cars don't have speed hold servo (a.k.a cruise control), it's a perfect way of distracting the driver by having him/her concentrate on maintaining "proper" (read: arbitrary) speed rather than staying otherwise safe.
I'm thinking about it and I don't know whether the driver education matters all that much. You'd think it does, but what they haven't had a way to check is what is the impact of merely trying to pay those those 1000-2000 Euro (1300-2600USD) to get a driver's license. I figure merely having to pay that much in the US would make one have less accidents per capita too. People tend to care more when big money is involved (except for investment bankers, of course). Alas, such prices would probably make the roads deserted, since most poeple who drive cars in the US probably couldn't even afford insurance and taxes in Europe, never mind actually owning a car or paying for the driver's education and license.
ehow is generally full of crap, so I would presume it'd be bad until proven otherwise. It seems all to be bad 25c-per-page mass writing with no real content, just meaningless words. Everytime an ehow result pops up on google, it's like having it explained in a 1000 words how to pee.
I've seen it built (passed a rolling road head) and these days I'd think it's mostly automated machines that follow DGPS trajectory. It's gravel ahead, and more-or-less finished road behind. Nobody bothers with manual or laser levels in setting that stuff up I'd think.
The way the crash survivability statistics are grouped together, they are pretty much useless at estimating your likelihood of survival in any particular situation. They only tell how likely you're to survive when looked at as a sample from a large average. Individual circumstances have huge impact on survivability. Namely the make and model of the car, what did you hit, what kind of road it was, etc. So yes, facilities do increase when you go faster, but it doesn't necessarily mean you in particular will be more likely to die.
65mph frontal crashes into a wall/pylon larger than the car's front are survivable in plenty of modern cars. Just barely, perhaps, but they are. Arguably, for such a "survivability", I'd much rather go 85MPH and not make it for sure.
I wonder, though, if AAPL shares might be affected by it. I need to check if Apple seems to have second-sources for their display tech. The Sharp plant suddenly looks like a lost case in the long run.
It's OK as a hobby, I'm not suggesting they need to know about it. What they should know is, say, how to use applescript (if they have a mac), or VBA/powershell on windows. No bubble sorts needed, and recursion isn't that big of a mental leap if you teach it early enough. The whole compiler thingy can be pretty much left out as far as I'm concerned.
People need to in fact use computers not as typewriters, but as computers: general purpose programmable things where you can leverage a whole lot of software to do what you need done without manual, repetitive labor so often seen when people have no clue that their day-long task can be described to the machine in a page of VBA, powershell, applescript or whatever other scripting environment is present. I have leveraged fairly minor scripting in homework and assignments all the way through high school and college, for a multitude of purposes, and it saved me easily 10k hours of menial, mind-dumbing work over the years. And that's a conservative estimate. Just as being unable to read and write will waste you a lot of time and perhaps close quite a few doors, being unable to do minor programming/scripting will do the same, people just don't realize it.
PS. These days there's arguably no such thing as tuning a car's engine, not on stock cars anyway, so that's a bad analogy.
OK, so you drew the line in the sand already and obviously decided that reading, writing and arithmetics are basic skill that everyone must learn, but suggesting anything more than that is narcissism on my end. That's where we disagree.
To me, computer literacy means being able to program the damn thing to do what you want it to do, not what someone who wrote a prepackaged piece of software thought you will want to do. One doesn't have to develop whole applications, scripting is a perfectly fine ability to have, and it is IMHO a dealbreaker. If you can't script Word or that finite element package that you have to use in class to do what you want it to, you will lose a lot of time if any sort of quantitative career is ahead of you. Just as one who is conventionally literate doesn't need to be able to write a book, I don't suggest application writing, or even dealing with bits and bytes. Being able to use, say, VBA and powershell at a basic level, having understanding of what APIs are available, that's what lets you use the computer to do your bidding, so to speak.
I do expect computer literacy in fact to include basic programming concepts. Everything else can be acquired fairly easily, but there aren't all that many kids out there who, say, learn mathematics from scratch by themselves. There are some, just as there are some who can learn decent programming and then software engineering all buy themselves. Yet those are few and far between. Mere use of prepackaged software is like only being able to fill in the blanks in form letters.
I don't know where the heck do you live, but being capable of learning reading and writing skills doesn't make you able to, you know, read and write. The idea that I measure intelligence according to specific knowledge is a fantasy you made up on the spot.
Not only there's no good reason not to, doing otherwise (not teaching) is IMHO a travesty.
To me, personally, not being able to program is akin to being illiterate. Paper, writing instruments and books and other printed matter are widespread, it'd make one look real bad not to be able to use them. Same goes for computers, and I don't qualify using prepackaged software without any ability to script anything being real use.
I have for a long time thought that basic programming skills are a necessary part of basic literacy education. It is irresponsible *not* to give everyone the tools they need to leverage computing technology to the fullest extent. Just as widespread adoption of reading, writing and arithmetic skills have enabled vast progress, the use of computers as tools to solve customized tasks that require some programming is the next logical step. Just as you can't go about in your life only filling out form letters, similarly you can't do everything efficiently using canned software without writing a single line of code. For most folk it'll probably mean writing scripts in VBA or similar, but it's still a skill that can aid quite a bit. Going through any sort of natural science or engineering curriculum without using programming from day one is IMHO unthinkable in this day and age, yet it's quite common, especially among incoming students.
Come on. Jeri Ellsworth is working for them. I doubt she's writing PC games, duh. There was a hackaday article about that a quarter ago. I don't follow this industry and even I've known about it for a while. Sigh.
How would you "destabilize" the magnetic field of a permanent magnet short of putting a hefty electromagnet next to it, or heating it up past the Curie temperature?
The vacuum of space is pretty natural too, yet we die when exposed to it. There is no practical "meaning" of "natural", everyone uses it to mean whatever they want. Humans are demonstrably a part of any given local environment where you observe them. Nuff said.
That's weird. We serve our Windows XP and 7 domain member machines from a Samba server on an RHEL system, and when Windows 7 came around I wrote some scripts to port the most important aspects of user profiles to the new profile scheme that win7 uses and that was it. I can't imagine what's this silliness about multiple full backups, and wiping document folders. Someone is lazy. Even on windows you've got powershell so you can automate all that.
That It costs 2x as much would be immaterial if only you invested in their stock;). I've got some AAPL soon after 9/11 and they are, pretty much, paying me to buy their stuff ever since. You're free to spend that money on Windows-running hardware of course. Once their stock won't perform well enough, I'll be back to good-ole PC hardware. So far, it's all freebies everytime I need something.
Sharp is not that big of a deal. I'd think that their optical properties are a much bigger issue. Presumably they have star trackers, windows and other optical paraphrenalia out there on the ISS. Wouldn't do much good flying in a cloud of reflective dust now, would it...
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Multi-touch applications for painting and arranging photos? You really are going to drag individual photos with your fingers to arrange them or navigate through some other gimmicky interface to arrange your photos? It doesn't feel more natural it feels like inefficient grunt work.
As opposed to dragging a mouse with your arm, and using that to arrange your photos? Or, perhaps, typing a lot of mv or exiftool invocations from the commandline to do the same?! Or do you use a MIDI foot pedal set to arrange your photos? Because I sure as heck don't get your point, if there is one.
I moved to namecheap for domains and hosting, and not only is it cheaper, but the overall experience doesn't leave sour aftertaste. They have been excellent so far.
This is of course right, but then the passenger cage is designed to take some abuse as well. The front seats eventually start moving backwards, so that you're not merely just crushed between the seat and the engine, and these days the steering column is benign. I've seen a few crash test videos where the rear seats seemed to be sacrificial -- if there were any passengers there, the front seats would have crushed them, saving the driver and the front passenger. You'll get injuries, bad ones, but you won't be necessarily dead. Heck, I've passed by a crash scene (traffic was slower than walking speed) where the driver's seat seemed to pretty much collapse the entire rear bench. The driver apparently had broken legs, but was very much alive otherwise. The entire front crumple zone was used up, it looked as if the car was pulled out from a junkyard crushing machine. It hit a large viaduct pylon.
Sideways rollovers are always bad because the loads on the neck are too high, even if you had four point safety harnesses and whatnot. There doesn't seem to be any way to fix that without having a contoured racing seat with stiff head support and seat-integral rollbar.
An in Europe, where many cars don't have speed hold servo (a.k.a cruise control), it's a perfect way of distracting the driver by having him/her concentrate on maintaining "proper" (read: arbitrary) speed rather than staying otherwise safe.
To put it in perspective: a Volvo S80 2.9 would get about 600 miles on the same tank and same speed, so no, it's not horrid at all.
I'm thinking about it and I don't know whether the driver education matters all that much. You'd think it does, but what they haven't had a way to check is what is the impact of merely trying to pay those those 1000-2000 Euro (1300-2600USD) to get a driver's license. I figure merely having to pay that much in the US would make one have less accidents per capita too. People tend to care more when big money is involved (except for investment bankers, of course). Alas, such prices would probably make the roads deserted, since most poeple who drive cars in the US probably couldn't even afford insurance and taxes in Europe, never mind actually owning a car or paying for the driver's education and license.
I've been passing Indianapolis and on 55MPH outerbelt/bypass people do 70MPH+ too.
ehow is generally full of crap, so I would presume it'd be bad until proven otherwise. It seems all to be bad 25c-per-page mass writing with no real content, just meaningless words. Everytime an ehow result pops up on google, it's like having it explained in a 1000 words how to pee.
I've seen it built (passed a rolling road head) and these days I'd think it's mostly automated machines that follow DGPS trajectory. It's gravel ahead, and more-or-less finished road behind. Nobody bothers with manual or laser levels in setting that stuff up I'd think.
The way the crash survivability statistics are grouped together, they are pretty much useless at estimating your likelihood of survival in any particular situation. They only tell how likely you're to survive when looked at as a sample from a large average. Individual circumstances have huge impact on survivability. Namely the make and model of the car, what did you hit, what kind of road it was, etc. So yes, facilities do increase when you go faster, but it doesn't necessarily mean you in particular will be more likely to die.
65mph frontal crashes into a wall/pylon larger than the car's front are survivable in plenty of modern cars. Just barely, perhaps, but they are. Arguably, for such a "survivability", I'd much rather go 85MPH and not make it for sure.
I wonder, though, if AAPL shares might be affected by it. I need to check if Apple seems to have second-sources for their display tech. The Sharp plant suddenly looks like a lost case in the long run.
It's OK as a hobby, I'm not suggesting they need to know about it. What they should know is, say, how to use applescript (if they have a mac), or VBA/powershell on windows. No bubble sorts needed, and recursion isn't that big of a mental leap if you teach it early enough. The whole compiler thingy can be pretty much left out as far as I'm concerned.
People need to in fact use computers not as typewriters, but as computers: general purpose programmable things where you can leverage a whole lot of software to do what you need done without manual, repetitive labor so often seen when people have no clue that their day-long task can be described to the machine in a page of VBA, powershell, applescript or whatever other scripting environment is present. I have leveraged fairly minor scripting in homework and assignments all the way through high school and college, for a multitude of purposes, and it saved me easily 10k hours of menial, mind-dumbing work over the years. And that's a conservative estimate. Just as being unable to read and write will waste you a lot of time and perhaps close quite a few doors, being unable to do minor programming/scripting will do the same, people just don't realize it.
PS. These days there's arguably no such thing as tuning a car's engine, not on stock cars anyway, so that's a bad analogy.
OK, so you drew the line in the sand already and obviously decided that reading, writing and arithmetics are basic skill that everyone must learn, but suggesting anything more than that is narcissism on my end. That's where we disagree.
To me, computer literacy means being able to program the damn thing to do what you want it to do, not what someone who wrote a prepackaged piece of software thought you will want to do. One doesn't have to develop whole applications, scripting is a perfectly fine ability to have, and it is IMHO a dealbreaker. If you can't script Word or that finite element package that you have to use in class to do what you want it to, you will lose a lot of time if any sort of quantitative career is ahead of you. Just as one who is conventionally literate doesn't need to be able to write a book, I don't suggest application writing, or even dealing with bits and bytes. Being able to use, say, VBA and powershell at a basic level, having understanding of what APIs are available, that's what lets you use the computer to do your bidding, so to speak.
I do expect computer literacy in fact to include basic programming concepts. Everything else can be acquired fairly easily, but there aren't all that many kids out there who, say, learn mathematics from scratch by themselves. There are some, just as there are some who can learn decent programming and then software engineering all buy themselves. Yet those are few and far between. Mere use of prepackaged software is like only being able to fill in the blanks in form letters.
I don't know where the heck do you live, but being capable of learning reading and writing skills doesn't make you able to, you know, read and write. The idea that I measure intelligence according to specific knowledge is a fantasy you made up on the spot.
Not only there's no good reason not to, doing otherwise (not teaching) is IMHO a travesty.
To me, personally, not being able to program is akin to being illiterate. Paper, writing instruments and books and other printed matter are widespread, it'd make one look real bad not to be able to use them. Same goes for computers, and I don't qualify using prepackaged software without any ability to script anything being real use.
I have for a long time thought that basic programming skills are a necessary part of basic literacy education. It is irresponsible *not* to give everyone the tools they need to leverage computing technology to the fullest extent. Just as widespread adoption of reading, writing and arithmetic skills have enabled vast progress, the use of computers as tools to solve customized tasks that require some programming is the next logical step. Just as you can't go about in your life only filling out form letters, similarly you can't do everything efficiently using canned software without writing a single line of code. For most folk it'll probably mean writing scripts in VBA or similar, but it's still a skill that can aid quite a bit. Going through any sort of natural science or engineering curriculum without using programming from day one is IMHO unthinkable in this day and age, yet it's quite common, especially among incoming students.
Come on. Jeri Ellsworth is working for them. I doubt she's writing PC games, duh. There was a hackaday article about that a quarter ago. I don't follow this industry and even I've known about it for a while. Sigh.
How would you "destabilize" the magnetic field of a permanent magnet short of putting a hefty electromagnet next to it, or heating it up past the Curie temperature?
The vacuum of space is pretty natural too, yet we die when exposed to it. There is no practical "meaning" of "natural", everyone uses it to mean whatever they want. Humans are demonstrably a part of any given local environment where you observe them. Nuff said.
That's weird. We serve our Windows XP and 7 domain member machines from a Samba server on an RHEL system, and when Windows 7 came around I wrote some scripts to port the most important aspects of user profiles to the new profile scheme that win7 uses and that was it. I can't imagine what's this silliness about multiple full backups, and wiping document folders. Someone is lazy. Even on windows you've got powershell so you can automate all that.
That It costs 2x as much would be immaterial if only you invested in their stock ;). I've got some AAPL soon after 9/11 and they are, pretty much, paying me to buy their stuff ever since. You're free to spend that money on Windows-running hardware of course. Once their stock won't perform well enough, I'll be back to good-ole PC hardware. So far, it's all freebies everytime I need something.
Sharp is not that big of a deal. I'd think that their optical properties are a much bigger issue. Presumably they have star trackers, windows and other optical paraphrenalia out there on the ISS. Wouldn't do much good flying in a cloud of reflective dust now, would it...