Um, no. The dangers of texting, phone calls, alcohol etc is that they distract you from even recognizing that you are in a potentially dangerous situation.
I'll meet your (unbelievable) anecdote with an anecdote of my own:
I lived with a close friend and his father for about 5 months back in the 90's and I literally never saw the dad eat a meal or drink water. I'd estimate 90% of his calories came from beer and the rest from whisky or the occasional glass of wine. Both the father and I were jobless at the time and we shared the apartment together for the entire day, so it wasn't like he was grabbing lunch at the office.
I talked to my friend about it and he said that's just the way his dad is. He couldn't even remember the last time his dad actually ate food.
He probably had some sever deficiencies and I have no idea what his internal organs looked like, but just looking at him you'd guess he was the epitome of health... about 130lbs and could run up the 4 flights of stairs without losing his breath. So, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your particular theory.
First I would learn how to solve the problem on paper. Then I would learn how to solve the problem given a generic set of input. Then I would write a program to do it on the calculator.
Thus at 14, I learned that school was not necessarily about learning.
"A lot of times, I'll drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake."
I don't think his whining is unethical at all... Win RT market penetration is already facing an uphill battle and, without developer support, it is inevitably going to fail. MS seems to have forgotten this (once again) and Rubicon is giving them the verbal kick in the pants they need to get their act together. It might sound like whining, but MS has so far given Win RT developers absolutely pathetic support.
A single poor example is not indicative of the technology as a whole. Look at voice recognition on current Android or iPhones... compare that with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 years ago and it's stunning how far the tech has progressed.
Because for the last 20 years we've seen pretty amazing progress with speech recognition and interpretation technologies and there's no reason to think the next 20 years will be any different?
So English speakers should learn to speak another language so that they can learn what it's like to learn to speak another language... that's sound logic if I've ever heard it.
...Plus, I would have to buy an additional controller for $50. So, console game = $59 + $50. PC game = $29.
You only purchase an additional controller once, so including it in the cost of the console version while not including it in the cost of the PC version is nonsense. Also, Lego Pirates is $20 on all 3 consoles and $30 on the PC http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Pirates-Caribbean-Pc/dp/B002I0JJMK.
PC games get updates and bugs get fixed. My daughter and I recently played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on Wii and it was practically unsolvable with 2 player co-op. It kept locking up with no way to update it or fix it. I wish I had bought the PC version.
The Xbox and PS often get bugfixes as well. For most multiplayer PC games, if you want to play with your daughter, you'll need to buy a second PC (and 2 copies of each game as well). Kinda makes that $59 you spent on a second controller look like chicken scratch...
- Games last longer: This might sound a bit odd, but I love to keep my games forever, and so I keep the consoles forever as well. I still have my Atari 2600, repaired the joystick a 100+ times, but enough OT. The games last longer because the games ages with the consoles. When you purchase NEW PC's or upgrade, you need endless patches and driver updates - buzz killington right there!
it's not really fair to keep the old console hardware around and say that works, but not also keep the old computer around for those old games.
But that's the reality of the situation... far more people keep their old consoles to play old games than keep old computers to run old games.
To try to directly try to compare the release of a MS service pack, which is nearly always little more than a conglomeration of bug, vulnerability, and driver updates and patches, to the periodic updates Apple releases for each version of OS X is being disingenuous. I'm frankly surprised that you even attempted it...
... that functionality personally to compare him to Turing and Edison. Not presided over a team of engineers who did the work.
I don't know about Turning, but thats exactly what Edison did. He personally didn't invent most of the inventions he's credited with, but was the visionary and leader for a team of engineers that did the actual work.
This isn't a chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is when an image isn't focused correctly because different wavelengths (colors) of light refract differentially when entering a new medium (like how a prism separates white light into the full spectrum). When you have chromatic aberrations, objects in the image have a slightly out-of-focus color streaked look to them, like when an old projector TVs didn't have the RGB elements aligned.
This is a flare, which is caused by the scattering of bright light just outside of the frame as it hits the side of the lens.
Yeah, they should have gotten someone important... like why couldn't they find the guy who came up with the company name Micro-Soft or something? I bet he's pretty important!
People get that impression because they're usually TOLD that Linux can be used as a replacement for Windows, not that you have to buy or build a system dedicated to running it. They aren't trying to run it on an Amiga... they just want to try it out on the PC they bought at Best Buy or put together from components they bought on NewEgg. If you go to most of the popular distributions, they'll say something along the lines of it "runs on almost any hardware that runs Windows". When Linux newbies read that, they automatically assume that everything will just work the way it did when they installed Windows. Sure, they'll need to install drivers, but that's easy, right? Just download and the double-click - DONE!
So, they download Ubuntu and install it, then find out that their sound card or wireless or video or whatever don't work. So, they go online and are told 'oh yeah, you need to compile the driver... etc'. While not necessarily difficult to someone with experience, to Linux newbies that's the end of that experiment. Sure, it RUNS, but it still requires a bit of fiddling around to get fully operational, and to newbies the instructions telling you what you need to do may as well be in ancient Greek.
Oh yeah... the "it's just marketing" argument spouted by anti-Apple types because they refuse to admit to themselves that different people prefer different things. I mean, there's NO WAY Apple might offer products that actually appeal to the way some people might want to use them, so their success has to be based on how much they spend on TV commercials, right?
And in return, as an example of "brilliant" marketing, you link us to a guy in a tiger suit dancing on the moon... yeah... GOOD ONE.
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Um, no. The dangers of texting, phone calls, alcohol etc is that they distract you from even recognizing that you are in a potentially dangerous situation.
Or, if you have a passive 3D TV, get multiple pairs of glasses for the price of a movie ticket.
I'll meet your (unbelievable) anecdote with an anecdote of my own:
I lived with a close friend and his father for about 5 months back in the 90's and I literally never saw the dad eat a meal or drink water. I'd estimate 90% of his calories came from beer and the rest from whisky or the occasional glass of wine. Both the father and I were jobless at the time and we shared the apartment together for the entire day, so it wasn't like he was grabbing lunch at the office.
I talked to my friend about it and he said that's just the way his dad is. He couldn't even remember the last time his dad actually ate food.
He probably had some sever deficiencies and I have no idea what his internal organs looked like, but just looking at him you'd guess he was the epitome of health... about 130lbs and could run up the 4 flights of stairs without losing his breath. So, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your particular theory.
The only cultures that still practice cannibalism today do so because of their religious beliefs...
First I would learn how to solve the problem on paper. Then I would learn how to solve the problem given a generic set of input. Then I would write a program to do it on the calculator.
Thus at 14, I learned that school was not necessarily about learning.
Seems like you did a lot of learning to me...
"A lot of times, I'll drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake."
-Mitch Hedberg
I don't think his whining is unethical at all... Win RT market penetration is already facing an uphill battle and, without developer support, it is inevitably going to fail. MS seems to have forgotten this (once again) and Rubicon is giving them the verbal kick in the pants they need to get their act together. It might sound like whining, but MS has so far given Win RT developers absolutely pathetic support.
We allow commercial exploitation of the Earth and we live here...
A single poor example is not indicative of the technology as a whole. Look at voice recognition on current Android or iPhones... compare that with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 years ago and it's stunning how far the tech has progressed.
Because for the last 20 years we've seen pretty amazing progress with speech recognition and interpretation technologies and there's no reason to think the next 20 years will be any different?
So English speakers should learn to speak another language so that they can learn what it's like to learn to speak another language... that's sound logic if I've ever heard it.
I'm just curious as to which of his many brilliant and famous feats of computer engineering or programming you are referring to as his "one item"?
Why are you replying to your own post with a counter argument? Whoops... I think you forgot to log in with your alt!
or, for that matter, the skulls in my safety deposit box...
...Plus, I would have to buy an additional controller for $50. So, console game = $59 + $50. PC game = $29.
You only purchase an additional controller once, so including it in the cost of the console version while not including it in the cost of the PC version is nonsense. Also, Lego Pirates is $20 on all 3 consoles and $30 on the PC http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Pirates-Caribbean-Pc/dp/B002I0JJMK.
PC games get updates and bugs get fixed. My daughter and I recently played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on Wii and it was practically unsolvable with 2 player co-op. It kept locking up with no way to update it or fix it. I wish I had bought the PC version.
The Xbox and PS often get bugfixes as well. For most multiplayer PC games, if you want to play with your daughter, you'll need to buy a second PC (and 2 copies of each game as well). Kinda makes that $59 you spent on a second controller look like chicken scratch...
- Games last longer: This might sound a bit odd, but I love to keep my games forever, and so I keep the consoles forever as well. I still have my Atari 2600, repaired the joystick a 100+ times, but enough OT. The games last longer because the games ages with the consoles. When you purchase NEW PC's or upgrade, you need endless patches and driver updates - buzz killington right there!
it's not really fair to keep the old console hardware around and say that works, but not also keep the old computer around for those old games.
But that's the reality of the situation... far more people keep their old consoles to play old games than keep old computers to run old games.
Slashdot agrees with you? Was there a vote I wasn't aware of?
To try to directly try to compare the release of a MS service pack, which is nearly always little more than a conglomeration of bug, vulnerability, and driver updates and patches, to the periodic updates Apple releases for each version of OS X is being disingenuous. I'm frankly surprised that you even attempted it...
... that functionality personally to compare him to Turing and Edison. Not presided over a team of engineers who did the work.
I don't know about Turning, but thats exactly what Edison did. He personally didn't invent most of the inventions he's credited with, but was the visionary and leader for a team of engineers that did the actual work.
This isn't a chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is when an image isn't focused correctly because different wavelengths (colors) of light refract differentially when entering a new medium (like how a prism separates white light into the full spectrum). When you have chromatic aberrations, objects in the image have a slightly out-of-focus color streaked look to them, like when an old projector TVs didn't have the RGB elements aligned.
This is a flare, which is caused by the scattering of bright light just outside of the frame as it hits the side of the lens.
Yeah, they should have gotten someone important... like why couldn't they find the guy who came up with the company name Micro-Soft or something? I bet he's pretty important!
People get that impression because they're usually TOLD that Linux can be used as a replacement for Windows, not that you have to buy or build a system dedicated to running it. They aren't trying to run it on an Amiga... they just want to try it out on the PC they bought at Best Buy or put together from components they bought on NewEgg. If you go to most of the popular distributions, they'll say something along the lines of it "runs on almost any hardware that runs Windows". When Linux newbies read that, they automatically assume that everything will just work the way it did when they installed Windows. Sure, they'll need to install drivers, but that's easy, right? Just download and the double-click - DONE!
So, they download Ubuntu and install it, then find out that their sound card or wireless or video or whatever don't work. So, they go online and are told 'oh yeah, you need to compile the driver... etc'. While not necessarily difficult to someone with experience, to Linux newbies that's the end of that experiment. Sure, it RUNS, but it still requires a bit of fiddling around to get fully operational, and to newbies the instructions telling you what you need to do may as well be in ancient Greek.
Oh yeah... the "it's just marketing" argument spouted by anti-Apple types because they refuse to admit to themselves that different people prefer different things. I mean, there's NO WAY Apple might offer products that actually appeal to the way some people might want to use them, so their success has to be based on how much they spend on TV commercials, right?
And in return, as an example of "brilliant" marketing, you link us to a guy in a tiger suit dancing on the moon... yeah... GOOD ONE.
They would have fixed it completely with a hippopotamus break-dancing on Saturn.
I read the parent about 4 times and still didn't understand what he was trying to say.