Apple commercials show people doing actual useful things with their gear. MS commercials show people magically dancing through time and space with their gear.
I stand outside the MS store with a sign: "I'll pay $660 for the first working 2012 or later MBA 13 4/256" They get their cash, I get a very nice MBA for a song, and if the Surface3 is all that they'll still head into the store and buy it.
MS store managers can't legally use a taser, right?
The innovation here is not opening a network on your router to perfect strangers, nor is it having FOSS running your wifi router. This is more of a theoretical experiment, to take the existing paid-for-services model and try and build an "information wants to be free" system knitted into it.
Which will be fine until router owners hit their monthly limit and run sputtering back to their ISP or outside users realize they're getting 3G/ISDN speeds anywhere they please and don't like it.
"The false notion that an IP address could be used as a sole identifier is finally a thing of the past, creating a privacy-enhancing norm of shared networks."
Right. Good luck to the first several thousand defendants of DOJ warrants who claim anything noxious on their network was one of hundreds of strangers driving by their house. I'm not sure the EFF has the manpower to tackle that one. Nobility of intent is nice and all, but I think we're too far into the business model for networking for this to have much of an impact - the Neo900 of data networks.
All systems of thought only hold up in reference to their own systems - looking outside their relative window shows them to have flaws. Hume showed us that science as empiricism is only a good tool because the underlying empiricism supports its continued use - so it's technically a circular argument. Practically, it's the best way to stop getting hit by buses and for getting to the moon. So you have a way to discover best-for-now rules. Scientists understand they are building models the same way clothing designers understand they are building dreams. People needing to use science need to know that the gas grill will do amazing things and can also kill you. The nuances of modeling vs. explaining (or dreaming vs. wearing pants) are secondary at that point.
And it's not so much "because it is that way" as it is "that's the current reach of our understanding". That first one makes it sound like we are throwing up our hands. The second makes is sound like we are resting for now, prepared to pick up the load again as needed.
... that pretty much covers it. Hey, its balanced journalism, right? I mean c'mon he had Seth Shostak, Michio Kaku as well as John McAfee and Whitley Streiber.
This might be more laziness than malice. Front load it with a warrant with a judge's approval. Hard to imagine nobody involved would not want it that way - technically they are intercepting a signal, it is supplying information they could not get without using that signal, and as wiretapping there's a clear procedure for how much and how long you can do, with a warrant approved by a judge. That seems to be the direction GPS tracking is headed, though there's a third federal case about to go on.
(1) CMB is based on data that can't be explained any other *reasonable* way and fills a gap in an otherwise too-sensible-and-supported-to-be-discarded model,
(2) there are not "ideas that cannot be questioned" - in science, any existing model or theory has its chin out like a brash boxer, daring the rest of the data to "go ahead, take your best shot!" and if it does, we have a winner and new champeeen!
Much of the problems with public perception of science have to do with the fact that people "know" how gravity and light behave, or the growth of a tree or the flight of a bird from their earliest days observing the world. They have little or no idea of the complexity that is behind any one of those things once you start to analyze them. That discovery is the stuff that most school science should (and now more than ever does) create in students. The sticky part then comes when science tackles something that most people will never observe - black holes, quasars, DNA, The Big Bang, TCP/IP, natural selection in vivo, etc. They then have little else to fall back on than practical experience: "It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes...", "If God had wanted us to fly...", "It's turtles all the way down!" People will sooner cling to a familiar falsehood than an unfamiliar truth. I don't blame them, but I do want to make sure the truth is available.
as governmental education agencies have pretty much said that anyone can now take an AP course and exam, whether they have demonstrated the needed aptitude or not. Pushing students not yet ready for these courses into them is the wrong way around. Building a system that can get them there has been pushed off to commercial pre companies, which is tough if your actual goal is to give traditionally disadvantaged students the needed guidance to get there (cost is the issue). In fact most of this is in order to promote a honorable but currently undeliverable system of egalitarianism. In my state, this solution was created in response to a lawsuit instead of by - oh, I dunno - actually implementing a sensible educational system and having local non-educational government agencies work on the life-in-hell part of urban living. Students spend 6 hours per day in school, 18 back in whatever else is going on in their lives, none of which the policy makers would put up with on their property for more than 5 minutes. It's like holding someone's head underwater for three minutes out of four, then being surprised that they spend that other minute gasping for air and clawing at your face.
then it's a lot more like computational thinking. A team of us - 3 college math profs (goals) , 6 HS math teachers (reality check) and 2 scientists (applications) were asked to craft a HS math series from scratch. We were able to condense most of traditional HS math into three years, then allow for a year of electives. What we came up with as the start of the three years was to "force the card" onto the students with some evocative event, like the teacher walks into the room and declares "boys are taller than girls". And that's when the battle starts. "I'm taller than him!" "Yeah, but look at these four tall boys and those five short girls." Etc. So the socratic stuff starts, and they go through the developmental history of statistics in order to find the tools needed to solve problems (i.e., arguments about numbers). It leverages all the arithmetic they learned K-8 and some of the geometry, they need to think hard about why a stdev can be more sensible than a variance, why diagrams and structures are important in dealing with numbers, why arrays and variables and sorting and the procedures involved in mean/median/mode etc. have to be thought out thoroughly. Add in testing, logic, thresholds, and you pretty much have the basis of many of the skills you want a programmer to have when they're tackling an actual problem in context. Put a Ti-83-ish in their hands, and have them use it all along. Far less whining about "like will we ever use this" and a glimpse of what a career can be doing this sort of thing.
Art Mullen would never stand for this. See what happens when you send a shoot from the hip deputy back to Florida. Wait, what? Actual US Marshals did this? Nice way to jeopardize current and past cases, guys.
whitey, crackers, or The N Word. So it's not the same. There is only one live US trademark with some form of the N word - the rest are no longer active - so it seems the consistency is there on the part of USPTO. Did you expect an instrument of the US government to continue to approve of something that a class of people find derogatory? White people don't get to overrule what other groups want to be called. Each class gets to decide. And if members of that class are not internally consistent, I may never understand it, neither may you, but that's not a pass for others to do the same.
How much Al Jazeera America have you watched? Known Islamic radicals John Siegenthaler, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Eaves and Ray Suarez notwithstanding, are they really that polarized? OK seriously, you may be conflating Islamic point-of-view with pro-Islam warmongering ("jihad"). Telemundo presents media from a Latino point of view, but I don't think anyone is suggesting they are promoting some sort of violent Latino takeover.
Well take the bait out of your mouth and abate your breath, but please not for long.
It's not that mass-produced things will be cheaper by the piece to the consumer - it's hard to compete with lost-wax, styro molding, sand casting, injection molding, etc and the cheap labor to do them. But if you need that first one made, you can get access to 100 micron precision on shoebox-sized builds for the cost of a week or two of a decent salary. Which can save you time and money compared subbing it out. And since time is money...
Well, besides confused microcontrollers? From his blog, he's using a 3D plastic printer to prototype the parts for this printer. Cool. Some test pieces in the blog photos, but let's see the sparkenmaken!
The higher numbers are for without a contract.
Dynamic perspective is Apple's current feature plus flagpole-sitting.
Firefly is nice, it's their version of Delicious Library plus Shazam plus ABC, "It even tells you where to buy it!" Really? Guess where it's going to tell you to buy it...
That one handed tilt feature will come in very handy while walking or being the passenger in a vehicle. Repurpose it as a speed reading app.
I would wager the effect noted in the study has a mode somewhere below age 22. Given the adolescent search for identity, the typical middle/high school - even college - is basically an emotional tuberculosis ward. You know, the old kind where they would try anything - open windows, giant bowls of ice and fans - to try and cool things off and stem the epidemic. Most of which doesn't work. What does work is making their media experience symmetric for consumption and production. Give them a way to express themselves in original work and you'd be stunned by the diversity of thought. Their technology of choice - mobile devices - is still heavily weighted towards content consumption. The ability to "share" - the only real innovation in the recent past - does not make them true producers, but mostly reflectors. Better and more accessible content creation on popular devices is the key. Yes, they will first mimic what they've seen in media - their spin on some favorite story - but that will be dropped after a while - and is really no different from what the pros do - the vast majority of noob filmmakers and writers are doing their spin on a genre or the dreaded mashup pitch "it's The Godfather meets Armageddon!" and then they need a second thing to do and originality rears its hydra-like heads.
The new Fiats being sold as Dodges? Ask Motor Trend, specifically Kim Reynolds, their track tester. For a car that (finally) replaced the SCCA-worthy Skip Barber favorite child Neon, his quote from emerging from the test track was "This is just an awful car. It is completely uncomposed and sloppy. It doesn't do anything well out there."
Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/road...
as smaller wheels may be stronger but you kinda need rotating mass to help stabilize, and move the pedal strike out of the picture. $850 is a great price for a well made tandem. It's overall a step above simply brazing together most of two standard diamond frames.
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Apple commercials show people doing actual useful things with their gear. MS commercials show people magically dancing through time and space with their gear.
I stand outside the MS store with a sign: "I'll pay $660 for the first working 2012 or later MBA 13 4/256" They get their cash, I get a very nice MBA for a song, and if the Surface3 is all that they'll still head into the store and buy it. MS store managers can't legally use a taser, right?
The innovation here is not opening a network on your router to perfect strangers, nor is it having FOSS running your wifi router. This is more of a theoretical experiment, to take the existing paid-for-services model and try and build an "information wants to be free" system knitted into it. Which will be fine until router owners hit their monthly limit and run sputtering back to their ISP or outside users realize they're getting 3G/ISDN speeds anywhere they please and don't like it. "The false notion that an IP address could be used as a sole identifier is finally a thing of the past, creating a privacy-enhancing norm of shared networks." Right. Good luck to the first several thousand defendants of DOJ warrants who claim anything noxious on their network was one of hundreds of strangers driving by their house. I'm not sure the EFF has the manpower to tackle that one. Nobility of intent is nice and all, but I think we're too far into the business model for networking for this to have much of an impact - the Neo900 of data networks.
All systems of thought only hold up in reference to their own systems - looking outside their relative window shows them to have flaws. Hume showed us that science as empiricism is only a good tool because the underlying empiricism supports its continued use - so it's technically a circular argument. Practically, it's the best way to stop getting hit by buses and for getting to the moon. So you have a way to discover best-for-now rules. Scientists understand they are building models the same way clothing designers understand they are building dreams. People needing to use science need to know that the gas grill will do amazing things and can also kill you. The nuances of modeling vs. explaining (or dreaming vs. wearing pants) are secondary at that point. And it's not so much "because it is that way" as it is "that's the current reach of our understanding". That first one makes it sound like we are throwing up our hands. The second makes is sound like we are resting for now, prepared to pick up the load again as needed.
... that pretty much covers it. Hey, its balanced journalism, right? I mean c'mon he had Seth Shostak, Michio Kaku as well as John McAfee and Whitley Streiber.
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"like elementary physics is." So you're willing to duck that snowball headed for your noggin, but the gamma radiation - not so much?
This might be more laziness than malice. Front load it with a warrant with a judge's approval. Hard to imagine nobody involved would not want it that way - technically they are intercepting a signal, it is supplying information they could not get without using that signal, and as wiretapping there's a clear procedure for how much and how long you can do, with a warrant approved by a judge. That seems to be the direction GPS tracking is headed, though there's a third federal case about to go on.
(1) CMB is based on data that can't be explained any other *reasonable* way and fills a gap in an otherwise too-sensible-and-supported-to-be-discarded model, (2) there are not "ideas that cannot be questioned" - in science, any existing model or theory has its chin out like a brash boxer, daring the rest of the data to "go ahead, take your best shot!" and if it does, we have a winner and new champeeen! Much of the problems with public perception of science have to do with the fact that people "know" how gravity and light behave, or the growth of a tree or the flight of a bird from their earliest days observing the world. They have little or no idea of the complexity that is behind any one of those things once you start to analyze them. That discovery is the stuff that most school science should (and now more than ever does) create in students. The sticky part then comes when science tackles something that most people will never observe - black holes, quasars, DNA, The Big Bang, TCP/IP, natural selection in vivo, etc. They then have little else to fall back on than practical experience: "It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes...", "If God had wanted us to fly...", "It's turtles all the way down!" People will sooner cling to a familiar falsehood than an unfamiliar truth. I don't blame them, but I do want to make sure the truth is available.
as governmental education agencies have pretty much said that anyone can now take an AP course and exam, whether they have demonstrated the needed aptitude or not. Pushing students not yet ready for these courses into them is the wrong way around. Building a system that can get them there has been pushed off to commercial pre companies, which is tough if your actual goal is to give traditionally disadvantaged students the needed guidance to get there (cost is the issue). In fact most of this is in order to promote a honorable but currently undeliverable system of egalitarianism. In my state, this solution was created in response to a lawsuit instead of by - oh, I dunno - actually implementing a sensible educational system and having local non-educational government agencies work on the life-in-hell part of urban living. Students spend 6 hours per day in school, 18 back in whatever else is going on in their lives, none of which the policy makers would put up with on their property for more than 5 minutes. It's like holding someone's head underwater for three minutes out of four, then being surprised that they spend that other minute gasping for air and clawing at your face.
then it's a lot more like computational thinking. A team of us - 3 college math profs (goals) , 6 HS math teachers (reality check) and 2 scientists (applications) were asked to craft a HS math series from scratch. We were able to condense most of traditional HS math into three years, then allow for a year of electives. What we came up with as the start of the three years was to "force the card" onto the students with some evocative event, like the teacher walks into the room and declares "boys are taller than girls". And that's when the battle starts. "I'm taller than him!" "Yeah, but look at these four tall boys and those five short girls." Etc. So the socratic stuff starts, and they go through the developmental history of statistics in order to find the tools needed to solve problems (i.e., arguments about numbers). It leverages all the arithmetic they learned K-8 and some of the geometry, they need to think hard about why a stdev can be more sensible than a variance, why diagrams and structures are important in dealing with numbers, why arrays and variables and sorting and the procedures involved in mean/median/mode etc. have to be thought out thoroughly. Add in testing, logic, thresholds, and you pretty much have the basis of many of the skills you want a programmer to have when they're tackling an actual problem in context. Put a Ti-83-ish in their hands, and have them use it all along. Far less whining about "like will we ever use this" and a glimpse of what a career can be doing this sort of thing.
Art Mullen would never stand for this. See what happens when you send a shoot from the hip deputy back to Florida. Wait, what? Actual US Marshals did this? Nice way to jeopardize current and past cases, guys.
... for kicking the habit so publicly.
of cold water to the face. Maybe they'll wake up.
whitey, crackers, or The N Word. So it's not the same. There is only one live US trademark with some form of the N word - the rest are no longer active - so it seems the consistency is there on the part of USPTO. Did you expect an instrument of the US government to continue to approve of something that a class of people find derogatory? White people don't get to overrule what other groups want to be called. Each class gets to decide. And if members of that class are not internally consistent, I may never understand it, neither may you, but that's not a pass for others to do the same. How much Al Jazeera America have you watched? Known Islamic radicals John Siegenthaler, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Eaves and Ray Suarez notwithstanding, are they really that polarized? OK seriously, you may be conflating Islamic point-of-view with pro-Islam warmongering ("jihad"). Telemundo presents media from a Latino point of view, but I don't think anyone is suggesting they are promoting some sort of violent Latino takeover.
Well take the bait out of your mouth and abate your breath, but please not for long. It's not that mass-produced things will be cheaper by the piece to the consumer - it's hard to compete with lost-wax, styro molding, sand casting, injection molding, etc and the cheap labor to do them. But if you need that first one made, you can get access to 100 micron precision on shoebox-sized builds for the cost of a week or two of a decent salary. Which can save you time and money compared subbing it out. And since time is money...
Well, besides confused microcontrollers? From his blog, he's using a 3D plastic printer to prototype the parts for this printer. Cool. Some test pieces in the blog photos, but let's see the sparkenmaken!
The higher numbers are for without a contract. Dynamic perspective is Apple's current feature plus flagpole-sitting. Firefly is nice, it's their version of Delicious Library plus Shazam plus ABC, "It even tells you where to buy it!" Really? Guess where it's going to tell you to buy it... That one handed tilt feature will come in very handy while walking or being the passenger in a vehicle. Repurpose it as a speed reading app.
Like it does with the cars themselves. Not.
(I"m looking at YOU George R R R R R...)
I would wager the effect noted in the study has a mode somewhere below age 22. Given the adolescent search for identity, the typical middle/high school - even college - is basically an emotional tuberculosis ward. You know, the old kind where they would try anything - open windows, giant bowls of ice and fans - to try and cool things off and stem the epidemic. Most of which doesn't work. What does work is making their media experience symmetric for consumption and production. Give them a way to express themselves in original work and you'd be stunned by the diversity of thought. Their technology of choice - mobile devices - is still heavily weighted towards content consumption. The ability to "share" - the only real innovation in the recent past - does not make them true producers, but mostly reflectors. Better and more accessible content creation on popular devices is the key. Yes, they will first mimic what they've seen in media - their spin on some favorite story - but that will be dropped after a while - and is really no different from what the pros do - the vast majority of noob filmmakers and writers are doing their spin on a genre or the dreaded mashup pitch "it's The Godfather meets Armageddon!" and then they need a second thing to do and originality rears its hydra-like heads.
like seeing that print appear before your very eyes in a tray of developer.
The new Fiats being sold as Dodges? Ask Motor Trend, specifically Kim Reynolds, their track tester. For a car that (finally) replaced the SCCA-worthy Skip Barber favorite child Neon, his quote from emerging from the test track was "This is just an awful car. It is completely uncomposed and sloppy. It doesn't do anything well out there." Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/road...
I love when MS invents these new things.
as smaller wheels may be stronger but you kinda need rotating mass to help stabilize, and move the pedal strike out of the picture. $850 is a great price for a well made tandem. It's overall a step above simply brazing together most of two standard diamond frames.