10,000$ could be much better off helping the poor. People starve to death with what $0.33 of food would nourish them. So 365days/year *.33food/day so approximately 100$ would keep someone from starving to death for a year. He could have saved 10 kid's lives for 10 years if he spent his money there. When talking of giving, Jesus doesn't want you to grandstand and boast about it though, and maybe that is all this guy wants to do.
The modern Christian's life involves working at a moral job, living frugally and giving one's excess to the poor. Jesus says we'll always have poor, but he didn't say they'll always be starving to death. Outside of horribly corrupt regimes, world hunger could be something that this generation could solve if enough of us helped out some.
The cost for web cams and 100' USB cables is like 20$. So give a home 5 security cameras for $100. Hook em up on their computer and have code that records a buffered state so far back. Or if you're concerned about disk space, attach motion sensors to the recording states. Write some software that allows them to check out their house on their smart phone. Installation shouldn't take more than a a few hours.
So if you wanted to start your own security system, you'd be back 100$ for 5 cameras/cables. You'd need to write some code, or have someone write it for you, but this is only a one time cost. And you can charge people 45$/month or a one time fee of 500-700$, and that is way cheaper that what is on the market, and what is on the market doesn't let you check your security cameras from your smart phone.
Home security looks like a cash cow at first glance, what am I missing besides lawyer stuff?
I hate giving the bad guys ideas, but P2P really can reduce your server load by a great deal. Essentially, use other random players to simulate a server for you, or just check for hacks and keep your state. Then when the game is shutdown, if you don't do an eloquent shutdown yourself, the other players check their data against each other to make sure they're not hackers, then they send your state to the main server.
It sounds like these guys tried to use an always on clientserver architecture which works for World of Warcraft, but the costs of which aren't sustainable for a game people might want to play 5-10 years down the road. Maybe EA just banked on the "fly by night" sim city where they take your money, then laugh in 2 years when people get cut off like they do with their EA sports games.
Windows could have been sandboxed too making it impossible to edit system files, access files outside the installation directory too. Also autobooting at start should be something only the user can choose and can't be automatically checked. This would have rendered most viruses useless. This should have been done circa 1995-98 when the Internet was just going mainstream.
Al Gore is right on one thing. Since the politician who gathers the most campaign contributions tends to win elections, we have a system in place now where the best sell outs get in office. This means politicians do things like make pork projects to special interests, and the special interests pay them kickbacks, all increasing the national debt. At one point the phone company and monopolies were supposed to be regulated by the government. Now corporations regulate the government by writing the legislation for them. Unless we change how campaign contributions work, the system will eventually fail because the national debt's interest becomes more and more of the total tax dollars taken in. Politicians in charge now won't change campaign contributions, because that's how they get paid, that's how they play the game and feel they're winning. But the people's interest aren't always the same interests as corporate interests, and the politicians might not give a damn about the people, but just themselves. This is the biggest problem of democracy as I see it now.
So I went ahead and looked on Android market. It seems like there are many free educational aps already. So there is no real need to code everything by scratch which is good.
I think the trick would be to compile an indexed syllabus of what aps to master in what order. Remember when you're not in a classroom setting, kids can advance at any rate! So don't put limitations on "this is for a first grader or x years old", simply place the aps in the order that they should be mastered, or groups of aps they can bounce around in.
A list of indexed syllabus aps would mean people wouldn't have to get impossibly lucky to find the right aps for themselves or their child. It is like a reviewer who lines up the best things for someone to use. All the teacher/student would have to do is find this Indexed syllabus ap, and if they follow it, they should gain a partial education. Over time, as people write better aps to fill in the gaps, the education could become better and better.
So what I think what the ap store could use now more than anything is an indexed syllabus(A review of best aps in order of building blocks to the next ap), and then constantly update this ap as more aps come in. It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to do, but you'd have to deal with malware coming from the Android market, and have a great patience to try out as many aps out there as you can.
I don't know if anyone has attempted this yet. I don't know if someone has chained quality educational aps together in the order that they will educate you. I think it could be possible to get an entirely ap based education in the future, but even in the short run, a partial ap based education could be helpful too.
When I thought of the revolution in Africa, I always thought it'd be,"I figured they'd have laptops without internet, but with a decent hard drive full of educational materials. Also I figured they'd have solar installations just big enough to run their laptops. This way I thought African's could get a first world education through video, textbook, and interactive resources. I figured the Africans would occasionally travel to a library to download the next series of course work every so many months."
But what this summary is saying is that Africa actually has a wireless connection to the Internet! And instead of laptops, they have cheap phones. Interesting... I'd assume they generally don't have smart phones now because smart phones consume more power, and they're saying power is a limiting factor. I could see educational smart phone aps teaching people math. I could even theorize how you could educate someone via a dumb phone, but I would reason dumb phones will move over to smart phones eventually. I think it'd be better to start investing in making educational aps for smart phones, than trying to force textbooks into text messages a dumb phone can receive. Maybe if you wanted to tie twitter into SMS, someone could be a twitter teacher. Or maybe you could have a script that played information through SMS if someone requested it. Either way, it doesn't seem too alluring to look to the education revolution of Africa through dumb phones, but with smart phone aps, it does seem quite alluring.
I'm a computer programmer who's done some Android development. I'm a guy who supports that text books should be free, just to start the education revolution that the poor can't afford. I think even if you can't make money selling educational aps to poor people in Africa, there is societal benefit for doing so. Education helps a person in so many way it is immeasurable. The only people who don't want others educated are evil dictators since your neighbor being educated can help you out if he cures a disease, or at the very least works more efficiently to produce things cheaper. Africa has lots of corrupt governments, so education would help there. But mainly I just like seeing people empowered in general, so if you're not doing anything major right now(aka a real job), you could be writing educational aps for Africa as an act of charity. Down the road as smart phone prices decrease, it'd make an impact. Also first world countries wouldn't mind their children having more interactive educational "games".
So that is my thought process on the whole thing. People are all mad that the Android market is hard to make money on, but look at the untold charity it could unleash. Imagine if Africa had access to the Android market. Their kids could have all sorts of games to play first off. But the major thing would be that they could get educated too if some of us over here in the first world would make that possible. I've thought the education revolution would start with free text books on laptops, then down the line interactive course work could be designed. But the first line could be interactive coursework as Android aps! Man, it is a good time to be a programmer, we're in demand, even if no one wants to give us a job, we can strike out and help society out.
Baby Pac Man seemed cool at first:"Hey, a video game/pinball hybrid game!"
Problem is there is no reward for playing pinball well, but if you play pinball bad, they take away power pills.
It is a penalty system, not a reward system. It made you feel bad if you didn't have perfect pinball play, and if you had perfect pinball play you didn't get any noticeable reward. This makes a person go,"Hey, I'd be better of playing the original Pac Man where I won't get screwed with less than 4 power pills." Then the next thought is,"Well that game is old and I didn't feel like playing it anyway." This is long hand for saying it had bad game design.
I graduated right after the dotcom bust, when everyone was looking for jobs and had lots of experience. Even with a degree from Carnegie Mellon, programming since I could press buttons, and my main hobby at home programming, I couldn't start my career. I thought of hiding in academia myself, but the major problem was I couldn't get student aid. Having student loans I can't ever pay off now is a pain as is.
Anyone want a Flash(AS3)/C/C++ programmer with over ten thousand hours coding? I'm a guy who's been told he works better than teams of 4 in 1/4 the time. I'll work for $15/hr, negotiable. I actually am on some personal projects at the moment(trying to start a business), but I can always shelf em and come back later.
Well you know Verizon and Comcast put you on their own personal phone book, and then sell that information to mass marketers? You can ask to be hidden, but that costs 5$/month to recoup the lost revenue they get from selling off your name/number.
These people don't actually know who their calling when they call this number, so they frequently ask,"Hello, is this ?"
So I've gotten to the point where I need to ninja answer my phone,"Hello, who may I ask is speaking?". This puts them on the defense, and they might tell me what company is calling, or they might still go ahead with the,"Hello, is this " At which point, I just hang up on them to keep them in the dark.
I think the FBI should crack down on people scamming in general.
Look at free credit report, they bill your credit card even though they say it is free. They should be fined all their assets, shut down, and people who signed up with them refunded if that last part is possible.
Robo calls make me not want to own a phone at all. I get a couple each week, and they distract me from day. Today one woke me up. Robo calls should be illegal, including political robo calls.
There should be a way to disable text messages on phones. The phone company's dirty secret is that they over charge for text messages so they don't want to provide this service. Every time some spammer sends me scam bait, it costs me.10.
Phishers, and all those email scams should be looked into by the FBI too.
Look at the people who mail everyone who signs up for a webpage with a bill for their webpage making them think it comes from their webhost, but it is actually a scammer wanting money.
I'm pretty sure it always wasn't this way, but today, it seems like a large portion of incoming communication is from someone who wants to scam you. I can understand not being able to shut down some threats out of the country, but a lot of these things come from inside the country.
Makes a guy wonder. With the advent of cheap web cams and 100' USB cables, how hard would it be to start a cheap home security business? Charge people a one time 400$ fee and tell them their computer has to stay on all the time. The cost of components at most is $100, so you'd get 300$ profit per installation.
The first order of business is to turn off all your IMs. Next order of business is to tell people who call you that you're busy working. If your company is a programming company, but still communicates via IM, suggest going to email only. Nothing is worse for coding than distractions.
Ever since RIAA realized they can sue grandmothers for millions and people with open WIFI access points, they've gotten super sue happy. The bar down the street got sued for $100,000 for doing karaoke. I mean everyone is getting sued. The radio stations online are sued to do tribute. The Canadian government got influenced so they impose taxes on CDs to give tribute to RIAA. RIAA probably realizes there is more money to be had in suing people than actually producing something now since everything goes in their favor. Now they're weighing up a big whale and seeing if they can take it sounds like it. Someone needs to stop the RIAA, they ruin lives because they're just plain greedy and have no morals to stop them. They started with screwing artists, now they're trying to sue everyone possible. It's just sick.
The only reason Online Poker is illegal is because the Brick and Mortars don't like the perceived idea of losing business. So they lobbied against it. Now if Pokerstars starts making Brick and Mortar Casinos and taking away from the business of them, I'd feel smug.
I'm a winning poker player up %100,000 until Black Friday hit(Poker is a game of skill). Now I'm just waiting to be able to play Full Tilt again as I have a great strategy for Rush Poker.
Until Pokerstars and Full Tilt get legalized, I'm stuck on Carbon Poker.
One reason is the progress bar starts out as just a generic tool to show that your loading hasn't froze. At first it is parsed correctly with the elements to be loaded, but as scope increases and more things load, it can get sketchy later on.
Another reason is it is difficult to estimate time left. If you look at some old FTP programs, they'd estimate the rest of the download's time based on how fast the previous has taken. Future lag, fragmented files, etc aren't taken into consideration.
There's a bunch more reasons, but namely the progress bar's main purpose is to show you that the whole system isn't locked up, which they've been doing well for the past 30 years or so.
Is there some way to stop people from seeing evolution as a threat? It is possible to believe in a literal creation and an old age earth. I know when I say my prayers for God to cure diseases and feed the hungry that God will be increasing mankind's knowledge of science and technology in order for this to happen. Just because God never makes mistakes doesn't mean clergy who interpret scripture into theology never make mistakes.
The whole situation is embarrassing. On one hand, a few select Christians look silly for not being able to understand evolution. But I think worse yet, some scientists actually believe that if evolution is real that God can't be.
On one hand, faith used correctly is a great force to do good in the world. When you realize God loves you and you live after death, you can have faith to spend this life helping the poor instead of living for yourself. But on the other hand, faith in something that is incorrect, well that will lead people to unquestioning and screwing up the world. Zealotry applied correctly can be good, but I think you don't have to look too far to see some idiots.
I find the idea of having ebooks for free and then K-12 kids getting an ereader for saving the school district money. Expanding this, I feel edutainment was never done right and could be explored again. Finally if some professors do their lecture once, they wouldn't have to do it again stored in video format.
I think the notion of going from paid books to free content is noble, and I'd be willing to work for well below a standard software engineer salary. How can I get in contact with you to possibly get employment?
If you get in shape, you become more prone to bouncing around and spending more energy. The better you are in shape, the more you'd prefer to run than walk. Problem is, if you're booking it everywhere you go, you turn everyone's heads and they glare at you. I think it has something to do with the social idea,"If that guy is running, maybe he just did something wrong, aka a thief." Or maybe it is just jealousy. Seriously, go around running everywhere you go, and you'll get lots of upset people looking at you. I just got tired of it and forced myself to slow down to a walk so everyone didn't glare at me any more.
Sure, if you run on accepted running paths, it is no big deal. But go running around stores, or running down campus, or running on sidewalks, and the glares will make you wonder if it is socially acceptable to run everywhere you go.
You gotta make sure it takes at least 2 clicks to check out, or you're done for. I still wonder why someone doesn't patent the 2 click, 3 click... n click patent so for anyone to do business without tribute it takes 1000 clicks!
Some smart phones don't keep a charge for a full day. So people are constantly charging their phones and it is cumbersome sometimes. If you have a phone specialized for power economy to keep a charge for days, yet is just a dumb phone tied in on the same number, I'm sure people would go for it. Think about the benefits: 1) If your smart phone's battery dies, simply take your dumb phone for the interim. 2) Since your smart phone is your primary phone, if you lose it, you'll know your dumb phone is on the charger to make a call.... or call your smart phone to find out where you misplaced it. 3) The cost isn't recurring, it should be just a one time cost to get a dumb phone for you.
I don't advocate taking two phones around with you when you walk because that is cumbersome, but having your pick of which one you want to take with you really helps with the major problem of smart phones: That they run out of charge rapidly.
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10,000$ could be much better off helping the poor. People starve to death with what $0.33 of food would nourish them. So 365days/year *.33food/day so approximately 100$ would keep someone from starving to death for a year. He could have saved 10 kid's lives for 10 years if he spent his money there. When talking of giving, Jesus doesn't want you to grandstand and boast about it though, and maybe that is all this guy wants to do.
The modern Christian's life involves working at a moral job, living frugally and giving one's excess to the poor. Jesus says we'll always have poor, but he didn't say they'll always be starving to death. Outside of horribly corrupt regimes, world hunger could be something that this generation could solve if enough of us helped out some.
The cost for web cams and 100' USB cables is like 20$. So give a home 5 security cameras for $100. Hook em up on their computer and have code that records a buffered state so far back. Or if you're concerned about disk space, attach motion sensors to the recording states. Write some software that allows them to check out their house on their smart phone. Installation shouldn't take more than a a few hours.
So if you wanted to start your own security system, you'd be back 100$ for 5 cameras/cables. You'd need to write some code, or have someone write it for you, but this is only a one time cost. And you can charge people 45$/month or a one time fee of 500-700$, and that is way cheaper that what is on the market, and what is on the market doesn't let you check your security cameras from your smart phone.
Home security looks like a cash cow at first glance, what am I missing besides lawyer stuff?
I hate giving the bad guys ideas, but P2P really can reduce your server load by a great deal. Essentially, use other random players to simulate a server for you, or just check for hacks and keep your state. Then when the game is shutdown, if you don't do an eloquent shutdown yourself, the other players check their data against each other to make sure they're not hackers, then they send your state to the main server.
It sounds like these guys tried to use an always on clientserver architecture which works for World of Warcraft, but the costs of which aren't sustainable for a game people might want to play 5-10 years down the road. Maybe EA just banked on the "fly by night" sim city where they take your money, then laugh in 2 years when people get cut off like they do with their EA sports games.
Don't mess with people in court who have more money than you. FTFY
Windows could have been sandboxed too making it impossible to edit system files, access files outside the installation directory too. Also autobooting at start should be something only the user can choose and can't be automatically checked. This would have rendered most viruses useless. This should have been done circa 1995-98 when the Internet was just going mainstream.
Al Gore is right on one thing. Since the politician who gathers the most campaign contributions tends to win elections, we have a system in place now where the best sell outs get in office. This means politicians do things like make pork projects to special interests, and the special interests pay them kickbacks, all increasing the national debt. At one point the phone company and monopolies were supposed to be regulated by the government. Now corporations regulate the government by writing the legislation for them. Unless we change how campaign contributions work, the system will eventually fail because the national debt's interest becomes more and more of the total tax dollars taken in. Politicians in charge now won't change campaign contributions, because that's how they get paid, that's how they play the game and feel they're winning. But the people's interest aren't always the same interests as corporate interests, and the politicians might not give a damn about the people, but just themselves. This is the biggest problem of democracy as I see it now.
So I went ahead and looked on Android market. It seems like there are many free educational aps already. So there is no real need to code everything by scratch which is good.
I think the trick would be to compile an indexed syllabus of what aps to master in what order. Remember when you're not in a classroom setting, kids can advance at any rate! So don't put limitations on "this is for a first grader or x years old", simply place the aps in the order that they should be mastered, or groups of aps they can bounce around in.
A list of indexed syllabus aps would mean people wouldn't have to get impossibly lucky to find the right aps for themselves or their child. It is like a reviewer who lines up the best things for someone to use. All the teacher/student would have to do is find this Indexed syllabus ap, and if they follow it, they should gain a partial education. Over time, as people write better aps to fill in the gaps, the education could become better and better.
So what I think what the ap store could use now more than anything is an indexed syllabus(A review of best aps in order of building blocks to the next ap), and then constantly update this ap as more aps come in. It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to do, but you'd have to deal with malware coming from the Android market, and have a great patience to try out as many aps out there as you can.
I don't know if anyone has attempted this yet. I don't know if someone has chained quality educational aps together in the order that they will educate you. I think it could be possible to get an entirely ap based education in the future, but even in the short run, a partial ap based education could be helpful too.
When I thought of the revolution in Africa, I always thought it'd be,"I figured they'd have laptops without internet, but with a decent hard drive full of educational materials. Also I figured they'd have solar installations just big enough to run their laptops. This way I thought African's could get a first world education through video, textbook, and interactive resources. I figured the Africans would occasionally travel to a library to download the next series of course work every so many months."
But what this summary is saying is that Africa actually has a wireless connection to the Internet! And instead of laptops, they have cheap phones. Interesting... I'd assume they generally don't have smart phones now because smart phones consume more power, and they're saying power is a limiting factor. I could see educational smart phone aps teaching people math. I could even theorize how you could educate someone via a dumb phone, but I would reason dumb phones will move over to smart phones eventually. I think it'd be better to start investing in making educational aps for smart phones, than trying to force textbooks into text messages a dumb phone can receive. Maybe if you wanted to tie twitter into SMS, someone could be a twitter teacher. Or maybe you could have a script that played information through SMS if someone requested it. Either way, it doesn't seem too alluring to look to the education revolution of Africa through dumb phones, but with smart phone aps, it does seem quite alluring.
I'm a computer programmer who's done some Android development. I'm a guy who supports that text books should be free, just to start the education revolution that the poor can't afford. I think even if you can't make money selling educational aps to poor people in Africa, there is societal benefit for doing so. Education helps a person in so many way it is immeasurable. The only people who don't want others educated are evil dictators since your neighbor being educated can help you out if he cures a disease, or at the very least works more efficiently to produce things cheaper. Africa has lots of corrupt governments, so education would help there. But mainly I just like seeing people empowered in general, so if you're not doing anything major right now(aka a real job), you could be writing educational aps for Africa as an act of charity. Down the road as smart phone prices decrease, it'd make an impact. Also first world countries wouldn't mind their children having more interactive educational "games".
So that is my thought process on the whole thing. People are all mad that the Android market is hard to make money on, but look at the untold charity it could unleash. Imagine if Africa had access to the Android market. Their kids could have all sorts of games to play first off. But the major thing would be that they could get educated too if some of us over here in the first world would make that possible. I've thought the education revolution would start with free text books on laptops, then down the line interactive course work could be designed. But the first line could be interactive coursework as Android aps! Man, it is a good time to be a programmer, we're in demand, even if no one wants to give us a job, we can strike out and help society out.
Baby Pac Man seemed cool at first:"Hey, a video game/pinball hybrid game!"
Problem is there is no reward for playing pinball well, but if you play pinball bad, they take away power pills.
It is a penalty system, not a reward system. It made you feel bad if you didn't have perfect pinball play, and if you had perfect pinball play you didn't get any noticeable reward. This makes a person go,"Hey, I'd be better of playing the original Pac Man where I won't get screwed with less than 4 power pills." Then the next thought is,"Well that game is old and I didn't feel like playing it anyway." This is long hand for saying it had bad game design.
I graduated right after the dotcom bust, when everyone was looking for jobs and had lots of experience. Even with a degree from Carnegie Mellon, programming since I could press buttons, and my main hobby at home programming, I couldn't start my career. I thought of hiding in academia myself, but the major problem was I couldn't get student aid. Having student loans I can't ever pay off now is a pain as is.
Anyone want a Flash(AS3)/C/C++ programmer with over ten thousand hours coding? I'm a guy who's been told he works better than teams of 4 in 1/4 the time. I'll work for $15/hr, negotiable. I actually am on some personal projects at the moment(trying to start a business), but I can always shelf em and come back later.
Well you know Verizon and Comcast put you on their own personal phone book, and then sell that information to mass marketers? You can ask to be hidden, but that costs 5$/month to recoup the lost revenue they get from selling off your name/number.
These people don't actually know who their calling when they call this number, so they frequently ask,"Hello, is this ?"
So I've gotten to the point where I need to ninja answer my phone,"Hello, who may I ask is speaking?". This puts them on the defense, and they might tell me what company is calling, or they might still go ahead with the,"Hello, is this " At which point, I just hang up on them to keep them in the dark.
I think the FBI should crack down on people scamming in general.
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Look at free credit report, they bill your credit card even though they say it is free. They should be fined all their assets, shut down, and people who signed up with them refunded if that last part is possible.
Robo calls make me not want to own a phone at all. I get a couple each week, and they distract me from day. Today one woke me up. Robo calls should be illegal, including political robo calls.
There should be a way to disable text messages on phones. The phone company's dirty secret is that they over charge for text messages so they don't want to provide this service. Every time some spammer sends me scam bait, it costs me
Phishers, and all those email scams should be looked into by the FBI too.
Look at the people who mail everyone who signs up for a webpage with a bill for their webpage making them think it comes from their webhost, but it is actually a scammer wanting money.
I'm pretty sure it always wasn't this way, but today, it seems like a large portion of incoming communication is from someone who wants to scam you. I can understand not being able to shut down some threats out of the country, but a lot of these things come from inside the country.
Makes a guy wonder. With the advent of cheap web cams and 100' USB cables, how hard would it be to start a cheap home security business? Charge people a one time 400$ fee and tell them their computer has to stay on all the time. The cost of components at most is $100, so you'd get 300$ profit per installation.
The first order of business is to turn off all your IMs. Next order of business is to tell people who call you that you're busy working. If your company is a programming company, but still communicates via IM, suggest going to email only. Nothing is worse for coding than distractions.
Patents are supposed to protect the little guy so he can get to market. But they're used to bully the little guy from ever getting a foot hold.
Ever since RIAA realized they can sue grandmothers for millions and people with open WIFI access points, they've gotten super sue happy. The bar down the street got sued for $100,000 for doing karaoke. I mean everyone is getting sued. The radio stations online are sued to do tribute. The Canadian government got influenced so they impose taxes on CDs to give tribute to RIAA. RIAA probably realizes there is more money to be had in suing people than actually producing something now since everything goes in their favor. Now they're weighing up a big whale and seeing if they can take it sounds like it. Someone needs to stop the RIAA, they ruin lives because they're just plain greedy and have no morals to stop them. They started with screwing artists, now they're trying to sue everyone possible. It's just sick.
The only reason Online Poker is illegal is because the Brick and Mortars don't like the perceived idea of losing business. So they lobbied against it. Now if Pokerstars starts making Brick and Mortar Casinos and taking away from the business of them, I'd feel smug.
I'm a winning poker player up %100,000 until Black Friday hit(Poker is a game of skill). Now I'm just waiting to be able to play Full Tilt again as I have a great strategy for Rush Poker.
Until Pokerstars and Full Tilt get legalized, I'm stuck on Carbon Poker.
One reason is the progress bar starts out as just a generic tool to show that your loading hasn't froze. At first it is parsed correctly with the elements to be loaded, but as scope increases and more things load, it can get sketchy later on.
Another reason is it is difficult to estimate time left. If you look at some old FTP programs, they'd estimate the rest of the download's time based on how fast the previous has taken. Future lag, fragmented files, etc aren't taken into consideration.
There's a bunch more reasons, but namely the progress bar's main purpose is to show you that the whole system isn't locked up, which they've been doing well for the past 30 years or so.
Is there some way to stop people from seeing evolution as a threat? It is possible to believe in a literal creation and an old age earth. I know when I say my prayers for God to cure diseases and feed the hungry that God will be increasing mankind's knowledge of science and technology in order for this to happen. Just because God never makes mistakes doesn't mean clergy who interpret scripture into theology never make mistakes.
The whole situation is embarrassing. On one hand, a few select Christians look silly for not being able to understand evolution. But I think worse yet, some scientists actually believe that if evolution is real that God can't be.
On one hand, faith used correctly is a great force to do good in the world. When you realize God loves you and you live after death, you can have faith to spend this life helping the poor instead of living for yourself. But on the other hand, faith in something that is incorrect, well that will lead people to unquestioning and screwing up the world. Zealotry applied correctly can be good, but I think you don't have to look too far to see some idiots.
I find the idea of having ebooks for free and then K-12 kids getting an ereader for saving the school district money. Expanding this, I feel edutainment was never done right and could be explored again. Finally if some professors do their lecture once, they wouldn't have to do it again stored in video format.
I think the notion of going from paid books to free content is noble, and I'd be willing to work for well below a standard software engineer salary. How can I get in contact with you to possibly get employment?
Nah, its easier to bully around people with shallower pockets.
12. Is the universe a giant predetermined simulation playing out or do we have free will. :)
Both
If you get in shape, you become more prone to bouncing around and spending more energy. The better you are in shape, the more you'd prefer to run than walk. Problem is, if you're booking it everywhere you go, you turn everyone's heads and they glare at you. I think it has something to do with the social idea,"If that guy is running, maybe he just did something wrong, aka a thief." Or maybe it is just jealousy. Seriously, go around running everywhere you go, and you'll get lots of upset people looking at you. I just got tired of it and forced myself to slow down to a walk so everyone didn't glare at me any more.
Sure, if you run on accepted running paths, it is no big deal. But go running around stores, or running down campus, or running on sidewalks, and the glares will make you wonder if it is socially acceptable to run everywhere you go.
You gotta make sure it takes at least 2 clicks to check out, or you're done for. I still wonder why someone doesn't patent the 2 click, 3 click... n click patent so for anyone to do business without tribute it takes 1000 clicks!
Some smart phones don't keep a charge for a full day. So people are constantly charging their phones and it is cumbersome sometimes. If you have a phone specialized for power economy to keep a charge for days, yet is just a dumb phone tied in on the same number, I'm sure people would go for it. Think about the benefits: 1) If your smart phone's battery dies, simply take your dumb phone for the interim. 2) Since your smart phone is your primary phone, if you lose it, you'll know your dumb phone is on the charger to make a call.... or call your smart phone to find out where you misplaced it. 3) The cost isn't recurring, it should be just a one time cost to get a dumb phone for you.
I don't advocate taking two phones around with you when you walk because that is cumbersome, but having your pick of which one you want to take with you really helps with the major problem of smart phones: That they run out of charge rapidly.