This is no shock. They've been proclaiming the death of the PC for 15 years or better and the laptop for the last 5 or so. Tablets are cheap, they perform all of the functions the average user needs (browsing, email) But sit down and try to type a novel on a tablet. Or do any sort of CADD work. Programming, 3D modelling, animation, it's not going to happen on a tablet. And 3-4 years from now when everyone's tablet batteries start failing and people realize they have to throw them away and buy another, we'll see the laptop and PC coming back stronger, but it probably won't ever reach the levels it was once at. Doesn't mean it's going away, just the market balancing itself.
Yes, the data is incredibly hard to find.... http://thelongrunblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/lets-go-postal/
The USPS has lost money a lot more often than it's made money, and that's even WITH TAXPAYER subsidies every year. If it was a privately held business it would have been shuttered 30 years ago.
I read about the 3d printed prosthetic hand weeks before on here. I think that's great news, too. One thing about internet forums like this, there's room for all of it.
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Most hospital equipment doesn't undergo the type of stress a handgun does when fired. This type of test shows that the metal produced is just as strong and even stronger than machined metal. 20,000 psi is pretty intense.
Start button? I haven't been able to download it and try it yet, but every review I've read says the "Start Button" just flips you back out to the tiled Metro UI. That's not a start button. The start button lets users get to the app they want to run in 2-3 clicks. That #$*$@&@ed up Metro UI takes 10 times as long to do the same thing. F#$k Microsoft, the only reason I had one Windows computer left at home was for Netflix, but that's not enough anymore, Windows is gone.
This is something that should be addressed by market demands. If people want to see it in games, they'll demand it of the developers and it should happen. If they don't want it and it gets put in anyway, the game will fail, no one will buy it and no one will ever see it.
Couldn't agree more. All those "evil capitalists" are the ones that have already put in the work, hours, resources and risk to make their business successful. So many new businesses fail in their first year, meaning those "evil capitalists" lost everything they put into it with no reward whatsoever. To demonize the few that do become successful will wind up being the downfall of our civilization. Between government meddling with regulations, oversight and taxation, and the whole "occupy" crowd making villains of those who have sacrificed for years to become successful, it's a wonder any entrepreneurs still exist. The risk and the demonization just isn't worth it anymore.
To say that digital information is just bits and copyrighting the ordering of them shouldn't be allowed is just naive. By that reasoning, any novel is just letters, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. Any item produced is just atoms, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. People have to work to create these WORKS of music, art, programming, whatever the item may be. They deserve fair compensation for that work, as they have families, bills, things they have to pay to survive. What OP is trying to get across is that stealing intellectual property is no different than any other crime, it's not victimless. While his example may be a bit extreme, I'd be more likely to use "maybe stealing money from the banks would make them more likely to just give it away, but that doesn't make it right."
This government shutdown doesn't even put a blip on my radar screen. Much less hassle than even a 10 minute power outage. Turn the national parks over to the states, highway maintenance as well and seal the doors on the federal buildings. Good riddance!
Rote memorization is the only way to learn the fundamentals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, but those aren't taught any more. No kids are required to memorize math tables unless it's done by a parent. More complex ideas require teaching a kid how to think, but if they're busy counting on their fingers to subtract 7 from 13, more complex problems will never sink in.
I agree, nothing wrong with teaching "some students" a different way of doing it. But when the teacher's throw out a tried and true way of doing something to benefit the few, thus causing it to be more complex and difficult for the many, that's a problem. It's unfortunate that your son struggles with a method of learning that works for most other people, but that's no reason for people to advocate tossing out the entire system and starting from scratch. There will always be some people that don't get it no matter what method is used or taught.
This is a new one to me... the "US Inch-standard system?" I always grew up hearing it called the "English System of Measurement" for the country it originated in, England....
Not saying there's never room for improvement, I'm saying there's no need to fix what already works and has worked well for centuries. The constant plea from the teacher's unions is that we just need to spend more money per student when we already spend more money per student than any other civilized nation and still graduate kids that can't read and write at an elementary school grade level. One room school houses with a single teacher for all grades used to be able to teach the basics, no reason they shouldn't be able to now with the resources available.
Yes, and the vast improvement in the public school system over the last 50 years certainly proves their "new way" of doing things to be so much better than the old way. American education is in a steep decline, because we've stopped teaching the basics and tried to come up with a "one-size fits all" approach. It won't work, every child is different and there are some kids that will just never get it now matter how far we dumb things down. One of the biggest causes of this is the recent belief that every kid needs to go to college. Sorry, some kids have to go to Vo-Tech and learn to fix cars, some kids have to go to beauty school and be hair stylists, and some have to get their BA's so they can ask me if I want fries with that.
Math was taught and learned just fine for over 2000 years. Pretty damn arrogant to come along in the last 50 and think we know how to teach children math in a better manner than they've learned math all along. Pick your slogan, acronym, whatever. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), If it ain't broke, don't fix it... Nothing wrong with the way math has been taught all along. I have 4 kids that have all gone through Algebra in the last few years, and I had to go out and buy them Lego sets to learn Algebra. A true WTF moment for me. We didn't get Legos in school and still learned Algebra just fine. When they learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division I'd help them with their homework only to hear "that's not how we do it" "our teacher taught us a different way" and we'd wind up taking 15 steps to solve a problem that should be done in 2 or 3. When people get paid to come up with "new and better" ways to do things, they have to come up with something or wind up losing that steady government paycheck. Doesn't matter that it's a worse solution than what's already in place, just that it's different.
And while you're at it, check to see if they were changing the radio station, talking to their passenger, turning around and hitting their kids, pump their stomachs to see if they were eating anything, rubbing their eyes or any other thing that could possibly have caused a driver to be distracted and crash. Cell phone laws are just like hate crime laws. A crime is a crime, doesn't matter why. If someone's distracted and they cause an accident, they're at fault and bear the responsibility of any damages they've caused.
I always said, in High School they teach you what to know, in College they should be teaching you how to think. Higher level mathematics is all about problem solving skills which is important in any career these days that requires a college degree. It's not about the answer to differential equations, but how did you get there? What steps did you take to look at the problem, determine what needs to be solved and then come up with a method to solve the problem. Problem solving is a skill that's sorely lacking these days. I may not know the resolution to each and every new issue that comes up in my environment, but the ability to track down the problem, understand the problem and then find or design a solution is what really matters.
So we have to make a law to make the gun makers make safe guns. Then we have to make a law to force current gun owners to get rid of their current guns and go out and buy safe guns. I have an idea, why don't we make a law making it ILLEGAL TO KILL SOMEONE? Oh, wait, we have that. And look how smashingly that's worked!
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Umm, ok... what are you running Linux on? A mainframe? I run Linux at home, but it's on a PC... (FYI, PC is not equal to Windows)
This is no shock. They've been proclaiming the death of the PC for 15 years or better and the laptop for the last 5 or so. Tablets are cheap, they perform all of the functions the average user needs (browsing, email) But sit down and try to type a novel on a tablet. Or do any sort of CADD work. Programming, 3D modelling, animation, it's not going to happen on a tablet. And 3-4 years from now when everyone's tablet batteries start failing and people realize they have to throw them away and buy another, we'll see the laptop and PC coming back stronger, but it probably won't ever reach the levels it was once at. Doesn't mean it's going away, just the market balancing itself.
Yes, the data is incredibly hard to find.... http://thelongrunblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/lets-go-postal/ The USPS has lost money a lot more often than it's made money, and that's even WITH TAXPAYER subsidies every year. If it was a privately held business it would have been shuttered 30 years ago.
No privately funded manned missions because the UN has declared the moon as no-man's land. Can't mine it, can't own it, why would private industry go?
UPSS? $15.9 BILLION loss last year... http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2012/pr12_131.htm NASA did manage to accomplish several things, but not very cost effectively.
I read about the 3d printed prosthetic hand weeks before on here. I think that's great news, too. One thing about internet forums like this, there's room for all of it. -- No trees were harmed in the posting of this message, though a few electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
Most hospital equipment doesn't undergo the type of stress a handgun does when fired. This type of test shows that the metal produced is just as strong and even stronger than machined metal. 20,000 psi is pretty intense.
At least we won't have to worry about any more lobbyists in Washington under this administration.
Start button? I haven't been able to download it and try it yet, but every review I've read says the "Start Button" just flips you back out to the tiled Metro UI. That's not a start button. The start button lets users get to the app they want to run in 2-3 clicks. That #$*$@&@ed up Metro UI takes 10 times as long to do the same thing. F#$k Microsoft, the only reason I had one Windows computer left at home was for Netflix, but that's not enough anymore, Windows is gone.
This is something that should be addressed by market demands. If people want to see it in games, they'll demand it of the developers and it should happen. If they don't want it and it gets put in anyway, the game will fail, no one will buy it and no one will ever see it.
Couldn't agree more. All those "evil capitalists" are the ones that have already put in the work, hours, resources and risk to make their business successful. So many new businesses fail in their first year, meaning those "evil capitalists" lost everything they put into it with no reward whatsoever. To demonize the few that do become successful will wind up being the downfall of our civilization. Between government meddling with regulations, oversight and taxation, and the whole "occupy" crowd making villains of those who have sacrificed for years to become successful, it's a wonder any entrepreneurs still exist. The risk and the demonization just isn't worth it anymore.
To say that digital information is just bits and copyrighting the ordering of them shouldn't be allowed is just naive. By that reasoning, any novel is just letters, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. Any item produced is just atoms, arranged in a certain way and shouldn't be copyrightable. People have to work to create these WORKS of music, art, programming, whatever the item may be. They deserve fair compensation for that work, as they have families, bills, things they have to pay to survive. What OP is trying to get across is that stealing intellectual property is no different than any other crime, it's not victimless. While his example may be a bit extreme, I'd be more likely to use "maybe stealing money from the banks would make them more likely to just give it away, but that doesn't make it right."
This government shutdown doesn't even put a blip on my radar screen. Much less hassle than even a 10 minute power outage. Turn the national parks over to the states, highway maintenance as well and seal the doors on the federal buildings. Good riddance!
Rote memorization is the only way to learn the fundamentals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, but those aren't taught any more. No kids are required to memorize math tables unless it's done by a parent. More complex ideas require teaching a kid how to think, but if they're busy counting on their fingers to subtract 7 from 13, more complex problems will never sink in.
I agree, nothing wrong with teaching "some students" a different way of doing it. But when the teacher's throw out a tried and true way of doing something to benefit the few, thus causing it to be more complex and difficult for the many, that's a problem. It's unfortunate that your son struggles with a method of learning that works for most other people, but that's no reason for people to advocate tossing out the entire system and starting from scratch. There will always be some people that don't get it no matter what method is used or taught.
This is a new one to me... the "US Inch-standard system?" I always grew up hearing it called the "English System of Measurement" for the country it originated in, England....
Don't think I've ever seen a better example of the English word "oxymoron" than "Democrat logic"....
Not saying there's never room for improvement, I'm saying there's no need to fix what already works and has worked well for centuries. The constant plea from the teacher's unions is that we just need to spend more money per student when we already spend more money per student than any other civilized nation and still graduate kids that can't read and write at an elementary school grade level. One room school houses with a single teacher for all grades used to be able to teach the basics, no reason they shouldn't be able to now with the resources available.
Yes, and the vast improvement in the public school system over the last 50 years certainly proves their "new way" of doing things to be so much better than the old way. American education is in a steep decline, because we've stopped teaching the basics and tried to come up with a "one-size fits all" approach. It won't work, every child is different and there are some kids that will just never get it now matter how far we dumb things down. One of the biggest causes of this is the recent belief that every kid needs to go to college. Sorry, some kids have to go to Vo-Tech and learn to fix cars, some kids have to go to beauty school and be hair stylists, and some have to get their BA's so they can ask me if I want fries with that.
Math was taught and learned just fine for over 2000 years. Pretty damn arrogant to come along in the last 50 and think we know how to teach children math in a better manner than they've learned math all along. Pick your slogan, acronym, whatever. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), If it ain't broke, don't fix it... Nothing wrong with the way math has been taught all along. I have 4 kids that have all gone through Algebra in the last few years, and I had to go out and buy them Lego sets to learn Algebra. A true WTF moment for me. We didn't get Legos in school and still learned Algebra just fine. When they learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division I'd help them with their homework only to hear "that's not how we do it" "our teacher taught us a different way" and we'd wind up taking 15 steps to solve a problem that should be done in 2 or 3. When people get paid to come up with "new and better" ways to do things, they have to come up with something or wind up losing that steady government paycheck. Doesn't matter that it's a worse solution than what's already in place, just that it's different.
And while you're at it, check to see if they were changing the radio station, talking to their passenger, turning around and hitting their kids, pump their stomachs to see if they were eating anything, rubbing their eyes or any other thing that could possibly have caused a driver to be distracted and crash. Cell phone laws are just like hate crime laws. A crime is a crime, doesn't matter why. If someone's distracted and they cause an accident, they're at fault and bear the responsibility of any damages they've caused.
I always said, in High School they teach you what to know, in College they should be teaching you how to think. Higher level mathematics is all about problem solving skills which is important in any career these days that requires a college degree. It's not about the answer to differential equations, but how did you get there? What steps did you take to look at the problem, determine what needs to be solved and then come up with a method to solve the problem. Problem solving is a skill that's sorely lacking these days. I may not know the resolution to each and every new issue that comes up in my environment, but the ability to track down the problem, understand the problem and then find or design a solution is what really matters.
So... you're saying the gun laws had no effect?
So we have to make a law to make the gun makers make safe guns. Then we have to make a law to force current gun owners to get rid of their current guns and go out and buy safe guns. I have an idea, why don't we make a law making it ILLEGAL TO KILL SOMEONE? Oh, wait, we have that. And look how smashingly that's worked!
Paramount doesn't hold the rights. Gene Roddenberry made the LCARS interface open source long ago, for anyone to use in free projects.