Huge "herds" is what gives us civilization and technology. If you don't like these things, feel free to throw away your computer and shut off your electricity and go live off-the-grid in rural Alaska, trying to survive by killing a few squirrels here and there.
Private schools don't have to worry about a). A private business is allowed to discriminate against customers in any way it pleases, as long as it doesn't discriminate based on a "protected class": race and sex mainly. A lawsuit alleging discrimination by anti-vaxxers would be thrown out of court immediately I think.
It's public schools that have to worry more about this stuff, since people can make the case that public education is supposed to be universal, and public schools can't just arbitrarily exclude kids it doesn't like for some reason. If a private school wants to exclude kids who are too dumb (don't score well on a standardized test), or are too short, they're totally allowed to do that. In fact, there aren't many private schools who take in special-needs children. Public schools can't easily exclude anyone.
I could be wrong, but I believe that if you're taught things which are totally wrong and contrary to what actual learned people teach, that doesn't count as "education".
No, I haven't seen anything of the sort. I've only seen the all-touchscreen idiocy from Ford (and its other monikers Lincoln and Mercury); the other carmakers seem to have somewhat-intelligent people working for them who move the most-used functions to actual buttons and knobs, even if there is a touchscreen there.
Actually, I believe Hyundai might have some models with the all-touchscreen idiocy, but still, 2 carmakers does not equal "all".
Yep, I've tried out Audis with knobs and buttons for the navigation, but those suck actually. They're much clumsier to use than a touchscreen, since you have to fumble around with a big knob just to select each letter for the name of your destination; it's completely stupid. Knobs for HVAC and radio controls (the often-used ones, like volume, etc.) are very sensible; knobs to type in letters is asinine.
However, ALL car navigation systems are idiotic, because they're all 5 years behind the times by the time they make it to market; smartphone navigation apps are far more advanced, and always will be. It's even more idiotic that the carmakers actually expect people to pay for map updates, instead of just updating the maps continuously for free like Google Maps. They should just give up on putting navigation in cars altogether, and instead make it so my phone can work with the car's screen. Then I can use whatever navigation app I want, and not be stuck with some old piece of crap software that was only current when the car was under development.
Have you been car shopping lately? Find a car that meets all of your non-electric criteria that still has physical buttons.
Actually, yes, I have. The Volvo V70 is pretty nice and has physical buttons (along with a touchscreen for lesser-used stuff), so does the Mazda 3, even a Dodge Charger rental I drove a few years ago was like that, having a touchscreen for lesser-used stuff and physical buttons for the commonly-used stuff. It's a good balance; the touchscreen gives you the ability to have a lot of functionality for when you need it, but putting all the commonly-used stuff on physical buttons avoids the UI nightmare of having to fiddle with a touchscreen while driving just to turn the fan speed down.
Even today, there are military patrolling Grand Central and Penn Stations in New York City on a daily basis.
Yep, I've seen (and talked to) them too. Technically, they're National Guardsmen called up by the state governor (which is why the Posse Comitatus Act doesn't apply) (also note that the NY state governor is a Democrat), but still that's military.
However, every time I bring this up on an internet forum some moron says that I'm making it up.
Fusion owner here with the "my ford touch" sync system + touch sensitive climate/media controls on the console. Having to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're touching the right 1x1 inch area on the screen, or small indentation seems silly.
Every car I've had prior had physical buttons for these things that after about a week of owning the car could be operated completely by touch alone.
There's two things you need to take into account here with that "desktop" usage: 1) Much of that is actually laptops, not desktops. Laptops can't be oriented into picture mode. 2) Much of it is corporate desktops, where people are surfing from work.
Well first off, you need to differentiate between a laptop and a PC (desktop). The two are entirely different (for the purposes of this discussion), and it all comes down to a single feature: laptop screens cannot be rotated. You open the lid, and there's your screen, in landscape orientation, and that's it. So this discussion is entirely useless for laptop users (unless they're using a docking station with external monitors, but how many "regular web users" do that? That's something you only see with corporate users.).
Anyway, I don't have any direct citations, but the sheer sales numbers tell the whole story. Desktop PC sales are pathetically low these days, laptops are OK but not great, while tablet and smartphone sales are booming. No one is buying desktops any more, except for power users/gamers and corporations needing to refresh their old equipment (and even here, many corps have dumped desktops and moved to laptops, albeit frequently with docking stations and external monitors). Laptops are still moving, but not so much because people are keeping their computers much longer. But your casual web user who just surfs and buys from Amazon isn't buying this stuff any more; they've moved to iPads.
Your story reminds me of someone I once knew who liked having her monitor in 640x480 mode, and refused to let me increase it (even though the monitor was fully capable of 1024x768). She was only about 26 at the time.
Bullshit. It's an open-plan work area where everyone can talk to people at any time and it's extremely noisy with all the conversation going on.
You may disagree, but there's plenty of studies "proving" this.
Basically, there's different types of workers. There's workers who are much more productive in open-plan areas, and workers who are more productive in private offices. The latter become extremely unproductive in open-plan areas, but they're all the rage these days because of the rise of the Brogrammers. So if you need any kind of peace and quiet to get work done, you need to stay the hell out of programming jobs, because you're not going to find any programming jobs these days which don't have open-plan work areas and distractions galore.
Your so-called "regular web users" don't use PCs these days, they use smartphones and tablets to look at websites. They sure as hell aren't using desktop PCs any more, and at the very most, laptops, which don't have any way of orienting the screen in portrait mode.
Everyone these days who has a desktop PC is a power user of some kind. Casual users haven't had desktop PCs in years.
Exactly. A portrait screen made sense back in the days of 17" monitors, before the widescreen craze. These days, it works much better for me to have two 24" monitors in landscape orientation, and then have 4 terminal windows across the two.
Again, the main point is that auto clicking can have unintended consequences. Its naive to think its just going to screw up advertisers and not provide and entirely new avenue for exploitation.
Shouldn't it be fairly simple to write the plug-in to "click" on ads, download the ads, and then direct the download results straight to/dev/null? Downloading an ad shouldn't have to mean actually interpreting the data or rendering anything and certainly not executing any downloaded JS code; all the advertiser needs to know is that you've "clicked" on something (which means you've downloaded it); they don't know that you didn't actually look at the ad.
Note that this is the same reason people buy pizza from pizzerias. How many people do you know with a brick pizza oven, or a pizza oven at all? Pizza ovens aren't like home ovens, so there's really no way for you to make a pizza as good as a professionally-made one from a pizzeria, even though you can buy Red Baron pizzas at the grocery store for much less, or even make your own from scratch. You can get close with a pizza stone, but it's not the same.
You're forgetting the steam part. Do you have an easy way to make steamed milk at home and make a coffee drink out of it in a minute or two? No, I didn't think so.
Note that this doesn't excuse Starbucks for having poor-quality drinks and burnt-tasting coffee, but every other coffee shop or anyplace that makes lattes has the same steaming equipment, which you probably do not have.
Yep, the simple fact that their entire command and control apparatus is located in a small metal house perched on top of the flat deck is probably a pretty big weakness all by itself.
One comment I heard way back was that men are no smarter on average than women, but that women tend to be clustered in the middle more, whereas with men there's a lot more outliers, in both directions, so there's a bunch of male geniuses and idiots, and not so many female ones of either.
Good points. So we're basically victims of our own success? We should have thrown a wrench into things earlier on to keep the rest of society from getting so interested in this stuff...
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That must be a recent development; the Audis I was looking at about 3 years ago had some horrible, clunky nav system.
Yes, hence my contention that that is not "education", but "indoctrination".
Huge "herds" is what gives us civilization and technology. If you don't like these things, feel free to throw away your computer and shut off your electricity and go live off-the-grid in rural Alaska, trying to survive by killing a few squirrels here and there.
Private schools don't have to worry about a). A private business is allowed to discriminate against customers in any way it pleases, as long as it doesn't discriminate based on a "protected class": race and sex mainly. A lawsuit alleging discrimination by anti-vaxxers would be thrown out of court immediately I think.
It's public schools that have to worry more about this stuff, since people can make the case that public education is supposed to be universal, and public schools can't just arbitrarily exclude kids it doesn't like for some reason. If a private school wants to exclude kids who are too dumb (don't score well on a standardized test), or are too short, they're totally allowed to do that. In fact, there aren't many private schools who take in special-needs children. Public schools can't easily exclude anyone.
I could be wrong, but I believe that if you're taught things which are totally wrong and contrary to what actual learned people teach, that doesn't count as "education".
No, I haven't seen anything of the sort. I've only seen the all-touchscreen idiocy from Ford (and its other monikers Lincoln and Mercury); the other carmakers seem to have somewhat-intelligent people working for them who move the most-used functions to actual buttons and knobs, even if there is a touchscreen there.
Actually, I believe Hyundai might have some models with the all-touchscreen idiocy, but still, 2 carmakers does not equal "all".
Yep, I've tried out Audis with knobs and buttons for the navigation, but those suck actually. They're much clumsier to use than a touchscreen, since you have to fumble around with a big knob just to select each letter for the name of your destination; it's completely stupid. Knobs for HVAC and radio controls (the often-used ones, like volume, etc.) are very sensible; knobs to type in letters is asinine.
However, ALL car navigation systems are idiotic, because they're all 5 years behind the times by the time they make it to market; smartphone navigation apps are far more advanced, and always will be. It's even more idiotic that the carmakers actually expect people to pay for map updates, instead of just updating the maps continuously for free like Google Maps. They should just give up on putting navigation in cars altogether, and instead make it so my phone can work with the car's screen. Then I can use whatever navigation app I want, and not be stuck with some old piece of crap software that was only current when the car was under development.
Have you been car shopping lately? Find a car that meets all of your non-electric criteria that still has physical buttons.
Actually, yes, I have. The Volvo V70 is pretty nice and has physical buttons (along with a touchscreen for lesser-used stuff), so does the Mazda 3, even a Dodge Charger rental I drove a few years ago was like that, having a touchscreen for lesser-used stuff and physical buttons for the commonly-used stuff. It's a good balance; the touchscreen gives you the ability to have a lot of functionality for when you need it, but putting all the commonly-used stuff on physical buttons avoids the UI nightmare of having to fiddle with a touchscreen while driving just to turn the fan speed down.
Even today, there are military patrolling Grand Central and Penn Stations in New York City on a daily basis.
Yep, I've seen (and talked to) them too. Technically, they're National Guardsmen called up by the state governor (which is why the Posse Comitatus Act doesn't apply) (also note that the NY state governor is a Democrat), but still that's military.
However, every time I bring this up on an internet forum some moron says that I'm making it up.
Fusion owner here with the "my ford touch" sync system + touch sensitive climate/media controls on the console. Having to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're touching the right 1x1 inch area on the screen, or small indentation seems silly.
Every car I've had prior had physical buttons for these things that after about a week of owning the car could be operated completely by touch alone.
So why'd you buy it then?
There's two things you need to take into account here with that "desktop" usage:
1) Much of that is actually laptops, not desktops. Laptops can't be oriented into picture mode.
2) Much of it is corporate desktops, where people are surfing from work.
Well first off, you need to differentiate between a laptop and a PC (desktop). The two are entirely different (for the purposes of this discussion), and it all comes down to a single feature: laptop screens cannot be rotated. You open the lid, and there's your screen, in landscape orientation, and that's it. So this discussion is entirely useless for laptop users (unless they're using a docking station with external monitors, but how many "regular web users" do that? That's something you only see with corporate users.).
Anyway, I don't have any direct citations, but the sheer sales numbers tell the whole story. Desktop PC sales are pathetically low these days, laptops are OK but not great, while tablet and smartphone sales are booming. No one is buying desktops any more, except for power users/gamers and corporations needing to refresh their old equipment (and even here, many corps have dumped desktops and moved to laptops, albeit frequently with docking stations and external monitors). Laptops are still moving, but not so much because people are keeping their computers much longer. But your casual web user who just surfs and buys from Amazon isn't buying this stuff any more; they've moved to iPads.
Your story reminds me of someone I once knew who liked having her monitor in 640x480 mode, and refused to let me increase it (even though the monitor was fully capable of 1024x768). She was only about 26 at the time.
Bullshit. It's an open-plan work area where everyone can talk to people at any time and it's extremely noisy with all the conversation going on.
You may disagree, but there's plenty of studies "proving" this.
Basically, there's different types of workers. There's workers who are much more productive in open-plan areas, and workers who are more productive in private offices. The latter become extremely unproductive in open-plan areas, but they're all the rage these days because of the rise of the Brogrammers. So if you need any kind of peace and quiet to get work done, you need to stay the hell out of programming jobs, because you're not going to find any programming jobs these days which don't have open-plan work areas and distractions galore.
I've been running two monitors in Linux now for many years, and it's been working fine the whole time.
Your so-called "regular web users" don't use PCs these days, they use smartphones and tablets to look at websites. They sure as hell aren't using desktop PCs any more, and at the very most, laptops, which don't have any way of orienting the screen in portrait mode.
Everyone these days who has a desktop PC is a power user of some kind. Casual users haven't had desktop PCs in years.
Exactly. A portrait screen made sense back in the days of 17" monitors, before the widescreen craze. These days, it works much better for me to have two 24" monitors in landscape orientation, and then have 4 terminal windows across the two.
Again, the main point is that auto clicking can have unintended consequences. Its naive to think its just going to screw up advertisers and not provide and entirely new avenue for exploitation.
Shouldn't it be fairly simple to write the plug-in to "click" on ads, download the ads, and then direct the download results straight to /dev/null? Downloading an ad shouldn't have to mean actually interpreting the data or rendering anything and certainly not executing any downloaded JS code; all the advertiser needs to know is that you've "clicked" on something (which means you've downloaded it); they don't know that you didn't actually look at the ad.
Note that this is the same reason people buy pizza from pizzerias. How many people do you know with a brick pizza oven, or a pizza oven at all? Pizza ovens aren't like home ovens, so there's really no way for you to make a pizza as good as a professionally-made one from a pizzeria, even though you can buy Red Baron pizzas at the grocery store for much less, or even make your own from scratch. You can get close with a pizza stone, but it's not the same.
You're forgetting the steam part. Do you have an easy way to make steamed milk at home and make a coffee drink out of it in a minute or two? No, I didn't think so.
Note that this doesn't excuse Starbucks for having poor-quality drinks and burnt-tasting coffee, but every other coffee shop or anyplace that makes lattes has the same steaming equipment, which you probably do not have.
Yep, the simple fact that their entire command and control apparatus is located in a small metal house perched on top of the flat deck is probably a pretty big weakness all by itself.
They were probably also the first to have a navy at all.
Exactly. This is why Snowden is such a traitor: he violated American Rules of Acquisition 9, 62, 74, and 98.
One comment I heard way back was that men are no smarter on average than women, but that women tend to be clustered in the middle more, whereas with men there's a lot more outliers, in both directions, so there's a bunch of male geniuses and idiots, and not so many female ones of either.
Good points. So we're basically victims of our own success? We should have thrown a wrench into things earlier on to keep the rest of society from getting so interested in this stuff...