That's a good question. What are we missing? I can remember many many years ago dreaming of the day when I could carry a computer in my pocket. The iPad is basically the same as the iPhone but with a bigger screen, which is nice under the right circumstances. Going in the other direction, smaller, you have the iWatch which I think has been shown to just be too small to be able to do anything useful with it. So, they basically have all computer form-factors/sizes from 1.5" up to... I suppose there is no upper limit as long as it has hdmi input from a mac. I guess I just don't think outside the box enough to imagine what I'm missing from my life that Apple needs to come up with. I really wish they'd spend their billions of dollars on things like longer battery life.
Security! I haven't used a Windows machine in years, but recently I purchased a new HP laptop for my daughter going off to college. I added it to our home wifi and within 24 hours it was chock full of malware. I was aghast. This it the same network that I've had my macs on for years. The laptop was running Windows 10 with all updates installed. There was a virus checker program installed and running. We were using Chrome instead of Internet Explorer (or maybe it was Edge, I don't remember). Anyway, I was able to get the machine cleaned up and locked down, but how in the world do normal people, who don't have technological expertise, use Windows?
I don't know. I was an adult with a full-time job by the time of September 11 and we spent the whole day crowded around a computer at work. Just like when I was in middle school we spent the day crowded around the tv in the library during the Challenger disaster. I'm fairly certain they had TV when JFK was killed (I jest! kinda) and I imagine people crowded around TVs then as well, though maybe not. Perhaps TVs weren't prevalent enough back then.
"my generation's JFK" I've never thought of it like that, but I think that is insightful. I was born after JFK and his assassination doesn't have much more meaning for me than the assassination of Caligula. But the Challenger disaster... it's as poignant for me as September 11. And I imagine baby boomers would say the JFK assassination was a poignant for them. I know my Mom has talked about where she was when she found out JFK was killed (high school).
When I heard the news, I was in a middle-school science class; our teacher walked us solemnly over to the school library, where we watched the television news.
What about the NorthWest? Plenty of water, cheap electricity from all the dams, there is some risk from earthquakes and volcanoes, but the risk goes down if they build east of the cascades where there is lots of sunshine (for solar power) and lots of cheap land.
I would think it would be much less risky than dealing with tornadoes in the flyover states.
I think the one thing you are missing is a lot of the non-California western states would join together before joining with California. There is a log of antipathy regarding California in the West (mostly from Californians leaving California to other states and causing a rise in housing prices). I know I personally would rather belong to Canada than California.
We once needed to hire another developer, but we were short on space. There was a woman that we really wanted to hire, but she would have had to share my cube with me. I told my boss no way no how. I would never harass a woman or do or say anything even close to harassment, but the chance of some sort of harassment complaint would go so high with us working in such close proximity (what if I accidentally backed my chair into hers? Obviously that was an unwanted advance) so I flat out refused. We hired a man instead. I felt bad for the woman, but the environment is so toxic for men working in close proximity to women that we couldn't chance it.
I'm honestly curious. If the USA is dead, then what will replace it? There are 300+ million people within the borders of the current USA. The land and the people aren't going anywhere. Are you imagining the USA will be divided up between Mexico and Canada? Maybe some oversees power will invade and make the USA a colony? Maybe there will be a military coup? Maybe a civil war? Maybe some other sort of internal rebellion that will result in a new form of government? Maybe you don't really mean the end of the short life of the USA, but some sort of long drawn out withering? Curious minds want to know!
"hopefully physics, computer science, engineering, philosophy and economics are next." Don't you really mean, "hopefully this is only a problem with astronomy and no matter how deep we dig we will not find this issue in any other field"? Do you really hope this issue is widespread?
A house or an apartment? I have a 1900 sq. foot home and I just counted up and we have 67 interior lights (not counting things like appliance lights, that would add on an additional 6 or so). I have a hard time imagining a home with only 12 lights. I actually have a hard time imagining an apartment with only 12 lights.
They haven't overcome the dimmable issue at all. My living room has recessed lights. I recently replaced 2 out of the 7 bulbs with new LEDs (phillips and not some cheap brand) and they work full when fully lit, but suck when they are dimmed. The incandescents get down to basically candlelight glow, while the LEDs only dim down to about 60% of their full output. And lest anyone think it is the dimmer switch, I replaced the dimmer switch with one that is compatible with both LED and incandescent lights. Oh, and the LEDs also start buzzing when they are dimmed. It's not a loud buzzing, but it is definitely a buzz. I'm going back to incandescents until they can fix the buzz and get them to dim as low as incandescents.
Why was he embarrassed? Was he embarrassed because he was wrong or because he believed that those who claimed to be on the autism spectrum were wrong? I've read the paragraph a number of times and I'm just can't tell what the source of his embarrassment was.
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That's a good question. What are we missing? I can remember many many years ago dreaming of the day when I could carry a computer in my pocket. The iPad is basically the same as the iPhone but with a bigger screen, which is nice under the right circumstances. Going in the other direction, smaller, you have the iWatch which I think has been shown to just be too small to be able to do anything useful with it. So, they basically have all computer form-factors/sizes from 1.5" up to ... I suppose there is no upper limit as long as it has hdmi input from a mac. I guess I just don't think outside the box enough to imagine what I'm missing from my life that Apple needs to come up with. I really wish they'd spend their billions of dollars on things like longer battery life.
How old are you? 2002 wasn't that long ago.
Security!
I haven't used a Windows machine in years, but recently I purchased a new HP laptop for my daughter going off to college. I added it to our home wifi and within 24 hours it was chock full of malware. I was aghast. This it the same network that I've had my macs on for years. The laptop was running Windows 10 with all updates installed. There was a virus checker program installed and running. We were using Chrome instead of Internet Explorer (or maybe it was Edge, I don't remember). Anyway, I was able to get the machine cleaned up and locked down, but how in the world do normal people, who don't have technological expertise, use Windows?
Birth Control - It's a feature!
You forgot "Bigot".
I don't know. I was an adult with a full-time job by the time of September 11 and we spent the whole day crowded around a computer at work. Just like when I was in middle school we spent the day crowded around the tv in the library during the Challenger disaster. I'm fairly certain they had TV when JFK was killed (I jest! kinda) and I imagine people crowded around TVs then as well, though maybe not. Perhaps TVs weren't prevalent enough back then.
"my generation's JFK"
I've never thought of it like that, but I think that is insightful. I was born after JFK and his assassination doesn't have much more meaning for me than the assassination of Caligula. But the Challenger disaster... it's as poignant for me as September 11. And I imagine baby boomers would say the JFK assassination was a poignant for them. I know my Mom has talked about where she was when she found out JFK was killed (high school).
When I heard the news, I was in a middle-school science class; our teacher walked us solemnly over to the school library, where we watched the television news.
Even annoying people deserve daydreams!
What about the NorthWest? Plenty of water, cheap electricity from all the dams, there is some risk from earthquakes and volcanoes, but the risk goes down if they build east of the cascades where there is lots of sunshine (for solar power) and lots of cheap land.
I would think it would be much less risky than dealing with tornadoes in the flyover states.
I assume so they can be monitored from a remote location.
I'd recommend moving out of the suburbs. Either into the city (no yard!) or rural (no neighbors!).
I think the one thing you are missing is a lot of the non-California western states would join together before joining with California. There is a log of antipathy regarding California in the West (mostly from Californians leaving California to other states and causing a rise in housing prices). I know I personally would rather belong to Canada than California.
We once needed to hire another developer, but we were short on space. There was a woman that we really wanted to hire, but she would have had to share my cube with me. I told my boss no way no how. I would never harass a woman or do or say anything even close to harassment, but the chance of some sort of harassment complaint would go so high with us working in such close proximity (what if I accidentally backed my chair into hers? Obviously that was an unwanted advance) so I flat out refused. We hired a man instead. I felt bad for the woman, but the environment is so toxic for men working in close proximity to women that we couldn't chance it.
I'm honestly curious. If the USA is dead, then what will replace it? There are 300+ million people within the borders of the current USA. The land and the people aren't going anywhere. Are you imagining the USA will be divided up between Mexico and Canada? Maybe some oversees power will invade and make the USA a colony? Maybe there will be a military coup? Maybe a civil war? Maybe some other sort of internal rebellion that will result in a new form of government? Maybe you don't really mean the end of the short life of the USA, but some sort of long drawn out withering? Curious minds want to know!
"hopefully physics, computer science, engineering, philosophy and economics are next."
Don't you really mean, "hopefully this is only a problem with astronomy and no matter how deep we dig we will not find this issue in any other field"? Do you really hope this issue is widespread?
Seriously, Xian? That like called a homosexual a faggot.
There's this new thing called YouTube.
A house or an apartment? I have a 1900 sq. foot home and I just counted up and we have 67 interior lights (not counting things like appliance lights, that would add on an additional 6 or so). I have a hard time imagining a home with only 12 lights. I actually have a hard time imagining an apartment with only 12 lights.
They haven't overcome the dimmable issue at all. My living room has recessed lights. I recently replaced 2 out of the 7 bulbs with new LEDs (phillips and not some cheap brand) and they work full when fully lit, but suck when they are dimmed. The incandescents get down to basically candlelight glow, while the LEDs only dim down to about 60% of their full output. And lest anyone think it is the dimmer switch, I replaced the dimmer switch with one that is compatible with both LED and incandescent lights. Oh, and the LEDs also start buzzing when they are dimmed. It's not a loud buzzing, but it is definitely a buzz. I'm going back to incandescents until they can fix the buzz and get them to dim as low as incandescents.
Why was he embarrassed? Was he embarrassed because he was wrong or because he believed that those who claimed to be on the autism spectrum were wrong? I've read the paragraph a number of times and I'm just can't tell what the source of his embarrassment was.
If it doesn't feature Jar Jar in his true guise as a Sith Master then I'm not interested.
Maybe you missed the part about the e coli being inside the leaf and not being able to be washed off.
At $180 per cam, this is definitely a rich people problem.
Anyone at an extreme of a social spectrum === mean/narrow-minded/bitter