Your $90K car not being able to move through your $1M/mi highways at a speed that will not make you frowny.
As much as I still think Bill Gates might be the Bob Dylan of tech (talent factor roughly equivalent to right place/right time factor) I think Bill has done the right thing with Being A Wealthy Person in giving money to projects that will solve the "we're dying here" problems. There's the old bit about Bill Gates makes so much money that it would be a net loss for him to stop and pick up a $100 bill. Musk seems to think that such time-saving for productive people is an actual plan to make money and that the majority cares about such kewl solutions.
Also, people who think that everyone would rather spend time in a driverless car or a tube pod rather than with their hands on the wheel and their foot on the accelerator are mis-judging up to a third of the travel population.
and honestly if I have to run Windows 10 on something - I prefer to a surface to a laptop or desktop. Not sure what the difference is, but it just seems and feels better. Maybe I still flinch at Windows mouse drivers from the bad old days or maybe the mouse routines still stink. My index finger driver still works flawlessly.
That said, I'd still take my MacBook Pro over Surface or Chromebook. OS updates are bog simple and fast, the apps are powerful with lotsa FOSS available. I can run other OSs on it.
My new favorite computer however is Raspberry Pi 3B running Raspbian. I've suggested that all of our incoming students get one.
Any sign that it's working? If they only offer that one hour per year what do they do next? With no followup the kids will be teased with something they can't do in their school. The old line about kids asking about math - "Will we ever use this?" is mild compared to "Hey kids! Here's something you could use to make six figures and change the world! Now, run along. We'll give you "what most schools offer" - nothing - plus another hour of it a year from now!" As for teachers, when the first teacher nets were rolled out decades ago, TENet being one of the most robust first ones, they found that most of the teachers went online and average of 20 min a day in the first year, and it was mostly from home - as they didn't have 20 minutes to spare inside the school day. The idea that teachers will somehow find a way to shoehorn meaningful tech learning into their classrooms without standards or curriculum is not a reliable path forward.
It's like having "book hour" or "music hour" once a year. At our school the kids get 2 periods per week for tech (straight coding, sure, or movie making, or web, or animation or embedding code into robotics, or Arduino or AR or etc...) and then can articulate that with other subjects. One hour is barely even inspiring, especially if there is not a structure to keep it going, and in this case history repeats: IIRC Seymour Papert said having a computer in every classroom back in the 80s was like having one piece of toilet paper in each room of your house. It's not hurting anything per se but it's a lot more useful if brought together in the right time and place.
against Richard Nixon. He was thereby charged with some form of "high crimes and misdemeanors". He resigned before a Senate trial could take place, but criminal charges could have grown out of the impeachment.
The info wasn't that damaging, but that, plus Comey's October statement plus Gary Johnson - remove those three and Clinton is President in solid fashion.
Open to cracks, hacks, and 2-bit malware, that is - AMIRITE? > Try the veal... tip your waitress... I'm here all week... Nadella OUT!
That's the only way this makes sense. More so if you read it in Andy Kaufman's "Tony Clifton" voice.
Not just LOGO but a culture of rich, gentle and welcoming education involving technology. And wonderful to work with. I recently dusted off a copy of logo to put out for a tool in enrichment. The kids still took to it like ducks to water. Thank you Seymour (and Mitch, and Steve and the rest of the lab) for bringing smiles to people learning to think through code.
was a page out of the LBJ playbook, when he called a fatuous press conference as Fannie Lou Hamer was about to address the 1964 DNC. Not a politician my ass.
which eventually became AOL, we were routinely sent CDs with patches on them. Eventually we got the CDs that would patch our beta releases to become public release apps. As beta testers the service was charged at half price. Almost a year into the public release, I got a phone call from Steve, the boss at Quantum, letting me know that the one thing they forgot to patch in the upgrade CDs was the switch to full price. So would you please cut us a check for everything you paid us already for the past year.? Um, no... by the way how many users did this affect? We're not sure. Dozens? Well yeah. Hundreds? Yeah. Thousands? Look, that's not the important part. I believe I offered to pay double the monthly bill until I was caught up. Never heard back, next release placed us at full charges. I bailed once it was AOL, and it was back to Delphi and The WELL.
And these are the grownups. Still playing Pokemon. How about a reverse age restriction? You can't be old enough to drive to play this game... or just let augmented natural selection run its course.
I mean sheet 4 of the drawings takes the cake, and all of them pretty much look like they got creative with a spare parts bin from several other appliance companies. Frankly I was shocked NOT to see a 1950s pull-lever ice cube tray as part of one of the designs.
Inch-for-inch a Golf, unlike a Volt or Fusion or Focus. 84 miles. USD$21K after credits. If my next house is oriented right, my first two calls are to SolarCity and VW. If this is their first consumer stab at it, can't imagine where they will be in 10 years.
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I worked in Mary Gates Hall at UW. I don't care if his money is old or new. He's keeping people from dying while Musk is whining about his commute.
Your $90K car not being able to move through your $1M/mi highways at a speed that will not make you frowny. As much as I still think Bill Gates might be the Bob Dylan of tech (talent factor roughly equivalent to right place/right time factor) I think Bill has done the right thing with Being A Wealthy Person in giving money to projects that will solve the "we're dying here" problems. There's the old bit about Bill Gates makes so much money that it would be a net loss for him to stop and pick up a $100 bill. Musk seems to think that such time-saving for productive people is an actual plan to make money and that the majority cares about such kewl solutions. Also, people who think that everyone would rather spend time in a driverless car or a tube pod rather than with their hands on the wheel and their foot on the accelerator are mis-judging up to a third of the travel population.
and honestly if I have to run Windows 10 on something - I prefer to a surface to a laptop or desktop. Not sure what the difference is, but it just seems and feels better. Maybe I still flinch at Windows mouse drivers from the bad old days or maybe the mouse routines still stink. My index finger driver still works flawlessly. That said, I'd still take my MacBook Pro over Surface or Chromebook. OS updates are bog simple and fast, the apps are powerful with lotsa FOSS available. I can run other OSs on it. My new favorite computer however is Raspberry Pi 3B running Raspbian. I've suggested that all of our incoming students get one.
you should buy stock in the StayPuft marshmallow company.
Now fusion power is only 29 years away!
Any sign that it's working? If they only offer that one hour per year what do they do next? With no followup the kids will be teased with something they can't do in their school. The old line about kids asking about math - "Will we ever use this?" is mild compared to "Hey kids! Here's something you could use to make six figures and change the world! Now, run along. We'll give you "what most schools offer" - nothing - plus another hour of it a year from now!" As for teachers, when the first teacher nets were rolled out decades ago, TENet being one of the most robust first ones, they found that most of the teachers went online and average of 20 min a day in the first year, and it was mostly from home - as they didn't have 20 minutes to spare inside the school day. The idea that teachers will somehow find a way to shoehorn meaningful tech learning into their classrooms without standards or curriculum is not a reliable path forward.
It's like having "book hour" or "music hour" once a year. At our school the kids get 2 periods per week for tech (straight coding, sure, or movie making, or web, or animation or embedding code into robotics, or Arduino or AR or etc...) and then can articulate that with other subjects. One hour is barely even inspiring, especially if there is not a structure to keep it going, and in this case history repeats: IIRC Seymour Papert said having a computer in every classroom back in the 80s was like having one piece of toilet paper in each room of your house. It's not hurting anything per se but it's a lot more useful if brought together in the right time and place.
against Richard Nixon. He was thereby charged with some form of "high crimes and misdemeanors". He resigned before a Senate trial could take place, but criminal charges could have grown out of the impeachment.
The info wasn't that damaging, but that, plus Comey's October statement plus Gary Johnson - remove those three and Clinton is President in solid fashion.
Without him, and if Johnson voters had gone for Clinton, that would have flipped MI, WI, PA and FL.
"Again?! Did you check the couch cushions?"
Open to cracks, hacks, and 2-bit malware, that is - AMIRITE? > Try the veal... tip your waitress... I'm here all week... Nadella OUT! That's the only way this makes sense. More so if you read it in Andy Kaufman's "Tony Clifton" voice.
for the people paralyzed by crashing into things while staring at their phones.
Not just LOGO but a culture of rich, gentle and welcoming education involving technology. And wonderful to work with. I recently dusted off a copy of logo to put out for a tool in enrichment. The kids still took to it like ducks to water. Thank you Seymour (and Mitch, and Steve and the rest of the lab) for bringing smiles to people learning to think through code.
was a page out of the LBJ playbook, when he called a fatuous press conference as Fannie Lou Hamer was about to address the 1964 DNC. Not a politician my ass.
desk accessory, this was labeled "Middle of Nowhere".
which eventually became AOL, we were routinely sent CDs with patches on them. Eventually we got the CDs that would patch our beta releases to become public release apps. As beta testers the service was charged at half price. Almost a year into the public release, I got a phone call from Steve, the boss at Quantum, letting me know that the one thing they forgot to patch in the upgrade CDs was the switch to full price. So would you please cut us a check for everything you paid us already for the past year.? Um, no... by the way how many users did this affect? We're not sure. Dozens? Well yeah. Hundreds? Yeah. Thousands? Look, that's not the important part. I believe I offered to pay double the monthly bill until I was caught up. Never heard back, next release placed us at full charges. I bailed once it was AOL, and it was back to Delphi and The WELL.
Looks like I'm going to have to call Android dev support. God, I hate this - every time I call I get another American on the line.
And these are the grownups. Still playing Pokemon. How about a reverse age restriction? You can't be old enough to drive to play this game... or just let augmented natural selection run its course.
I mean sheet 4 of the drawings takes the cake, and all of them pretty much look like they got creative with a spare parts bin from several other appliance companies. Frankly I was shocked NOT to see a 1950s pull-lever ice cube tray as part of one of the designs.
can't they be as least as creative as Bart Simpson's bar calls?
I'm sure he never saw the 1987 Knowledge Navigator video either...
Inch-for-inch a Golf, unlike a Volt or Fusion or Focus. 84 miles. USD$21K after credits. If my next house is oriented right, my first two calls are to SolarCity and VW. If this is their first consumer stab at it, can't imagine where they will be in 10 years.
Silicon Valley. Can we look forward to Remy the cartoon resumé leading you through your LinkedIn profile completion?
Assange is exhibiting his custom blend of paranoia and newsmaking. Plus this is all well known - hidden in the artwork of the dollar bill. Next?