You're confusing products here. The poster is referring to non-consumer products, where you are referring to the opposite. Consumers don't choose the Prius based on it's API, but there are non-consumer products with that as their main selling point, and the people buying it know what an API is, which is why your sales person needs a tech next to him so he doesn't confuse it with an IPA.
People seem to forget the strings the fed enforces are things like no segregation based on the color of a person's skin, math must be taught, no classes teaching directly from the bible (I don't mean creationism, I mean quite literally, without the strings from the fed, bible class would exist in public schools in some areas).
If your solution is "people who don't want that should just move to the area with schools they want" you forget how many people don't have the means to just go buy the $200k or $300k house in a better area, or even enough to just go rent in a different area at all. Your solution says just because you lack fiscal means to move, you may be subjected to whatever nonsense the small set of folks around you want.
If it's valid good science it speaks to the competency of the individual who practiced it, if we aren't graduating these folks, then we're encouraging graduation of incompetent or sensationalist scientists.
I wonder how many of these "positive bias" results come from the fact that if you publish results that disagree with the bias of those who are paying for the study, they'll probably ensure it's never published and you'll find yourself no longer running studies on their dollars.
In the tech industry we all deal with non-technical managers who drive the technical direction and often times define the message to the clients. Does science suffer the same unskilled managerial types pushing scientists to interpret results in a particular way perhaps?
I have a hard time believing a professional scientist doesn't know how to apply the scientific method, but then again incompetence is rampant in every other industry I guess, why not the scientific one..
Engineering is about the application of knowledge to a practical purpose. People who live in extreme fear may feel inclined to study the practical application of knowledge as they feel it their best recourse against whatever they fear.
Who am I kidding, 10 years as an engineer and I know the truth- we're all stark raving mad. That's all.
Who wants to setup a proxy at allaboutguns.com for the rest of the internet to go through, so ISP's can share no information about our internet habits without it falling down in court as unlawfully gained evidence?
Thanks for finally posting this! I can't believe slashdot had to go this far down before someone mentioned chromium...
Just compile the kernel for it with no network connectivity, no usb support, or any other attachable plugs the tablet has on it, and put the HTML files/videos or whatever on the local drive and have all links written in relative pathing. HTML 5 in chromium should mitigate the need for any extra modules just to have an interactive interface with video and audio.
Make the drive mounted read-only, and ensure default login has access only to the files to be viewed in the browser.
Sorry but I picked up the knr when I was 11, it spoke to me. So I installed looplinux and started learning. I was kicked out of high school at 16 for lack of attendance because I wrote asp 3 days a week at a web design shop and only went to school 2. Never went to college but I have 10 years professional experience now and do my proper design by contract, write my unit tests, and follow SOLID. Education isn't necessary, far more valuable is the experience and skill needed to analyze a solution and identify it's strengths and weaknesses and know if the ratio can be changed. I have worked with people who had masters in cs but couldn't code, and those who could write a garbage collector offhand from their classes. The point here is the classes don't teach, rather the student learns. So the education you say is required for good code is not accurate, a learned person is required. The mechanism of their learning is irrelevant.
Unfortunately this is what all the self proclaimed free-marketeers in our country constantly beg for: Privatize citizen services from the government. What does that always end up meaning? Let the government pay private companys who are out to earn a buck. If the government paid outright it would save the government and country a boat load because they would set a pay rate and the market would meet that. Instead everyone involved is incentivized to raise the cost, because the banks get greater dividends off the higher loans, the colleges get more money, and the government has no say because the free-marketeers want not only to pay private companies for citizen services, but they don't want to regulate those companies because the free market is self regulating, they just don't mention they self regulate themselves into a state of enormous profits at the expense of the government and citizenry.
you have no control over what or how many third-party cookies that site sics on you without any overt warning.
Cookies aren't stuck to you. Don't like that your browser tells websites your cookies? Browsers are open source, figure it out. But don't sue people servers for your clients behavior.
Look, everyone has this all wrong, facebook didn't put the like buttons there, and clients are actively connecting to and making requests of facebook servers so there's NO interception. Facebook is merely mining there own server logs for what people are requesting from them. If this suit goes through it basically means you can no longer use cookies and mine your server logs.
When I was 11 years old sitting in the car home on a road trip with my mother, I found her copy of the K&R 1st edition sitting in the backseat and picked it up. Were it not for this incident my whole life would have been different. I have been a professional software engineer for 12 years now and can thank every second of those years to finding that book.
People always say Jobs was a visionary, but this man was a creator who shared what he made, Jobs monetized a vision other people made for him. Jobs may be loved by the public, but this man is loved by all who appreciate technology, though they may not realize it.
Quake 2 here. Coding is fun so I do it for work. Mentoring junior developers too, and that's more like these silly train a machine games id say. That's for the office, not the home.
Thankyou. Free is easier and that's the simple truth right now. I really wish there was a legal way to get any movie in 15 minutes. I'll pay, really. If netflix streamed what they have on mail request i'd stop torrenting altogether.
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But I care about the blathering fools on /. so deeply, I just don't want to fail all of you! :(
You're confusing products here. The poster is referring to non-consumer products, where you are referring to the opposite. Consumers don't choose the Prius based on it's API, but there are non-consumer products with that as their main selling point, and the people buying it know what an API is, which is why your sales person needs a tech next to him so he doesn't confuse it with an IPA.
I think Oremus didn't watch all of Minority Report, my memory of it was a tale of why not to do pre-crime arresting..
People seem to forget the strings the fed enforces are things like no segregation based on the color of a person's skin, math must be taught, no classes teaching directly from the bible (I don't mean creationism, I mean quite literally, without the strings from the fed, bible class would exist in public schools in some areas).
If your solution is "people who don't want that should just move to the area with schools they want" you forget how many people don't have the means to just go buy the $200k or $300k house in a better area, or even enough to just go rent in a different area at all. Your solution says just because you lack fiscal means to move, you may be subjected to whatever nonsense the small set of folks around you want.
President Clinton's what now?
Where does he put them? Back in the cabinet? Must be when he finishes his breakfast I guess
If it's valid good science it speaks to the competency of the individual who practiced it, if we aren't graduating these folks, then we're encouraging graduation of incompetent or sensationalist scientists.
Science is a method dingbat, anyone who puts faith in a scientist however is practicing demagoguery.
Practice science, not demagoguery.
I wonder how many of these "positive bias" results come from the fact that if you publish results that disagree with the bias of those who are paying for the study, they'll probably ensure it's never published and you'll find yourself no longer running studies on their dollars.
In the tech industry we all deal with non-technical managers who drive the technical direction and often times define the message to the clients. Does science suffer the same unskilled managerial types pushing scientists to interpret results in a particular way perhaps?
I have a hard time believing a professional scientist doesn't know how to apply the scientific method, but then again incompetence is rampant in every other industry I guess, why not the scientific one..
Engineering is about the application of knowledge to a practical purpose. People who live in extreme fear may feel inclined to study the practical application of knowledge as they feel it their best recourse against whatever they fear.
Who am I kidding, 10 years as an engineer and I know the truth- we're all stark raving mad. That's all.
true/troo/ Adjective: In accordance with fact or reality: "a true story"; "of course it's true".
Dingbat, they're synonymous. Try again.
Who wants to setup a proxy at allaboutguns.com for the rest of the internet to go through, so ISP's can share no information about our internet habits without it falling down in court as unlawfully gained evidence?
Thanks for finally posting this! I can't believe slashdot had to go this far down before someone mentioned chromium... Just compile the kernel for it with no network connectivity, no usb support, or any other attachable plugs the tablet has on it, and put the HTML files/videos or whatever on the local drive and have all links written in relative pathing. HTML 5 in chromium should mitigate the need for any extra modules just to have an interactive interface with video and audio. Make the drive mounted read-only, and ensure default login has access only to the files to be viewed in the browser.
So does this mean Half-Life 3 will take a lot less disk space?
Sorry but I picked up the knr when I was 11, it spoke to me. So I installed looplinux and started learning. I was kicked out of high school at 16 for lack of attendance because I wrote asp 3 days a week at a web design shop and only went to school 2. Never went to college but I have 10 years professional experience now and do my proper design by contract, write my unit tests, and follow SOLID. Education isn't necessary, far more valuable is the experience and skill needed to analyze a solution and identify it's strengths and weaknesses and know if the ratio can be changed. I have worked with people who had masters in cs but couldn't code, and those who could write a garbage collector offhand from their classes. The point here is the classes don't teach, rather the student learns. So the education you say is required for good code is not accurate, a learned person is required. The mechanism of their learning is irrelevant.
Unfortunately this is what all the self proclaimed free-marketeers in our country constantly beg for: Privatize citizen services from the government. What does that always end up meaning? Let the government pay private companys who are out to earn a buck. If the government paid outright it would save the government and country a boat load because they would set a pay rate and the market would meet that. Instead everyone involved is incentivized to raise the cost, because the banks get greater dividends off the higher loans, the colleges get more money, and the government has no say because the free-marketeers want not only to pay private companies for citizen services, but they don't want to regulate those companies because the free market is self regulating, they just don't mention they self regulate themselves into a state of enormous profits at the expense of the government and citizenry.
you have no control over what or how many third-party cookies that site sics on you without any overt warning.
Cookies aren't stuck to you. Don't like that your browser tells websites your cookies? Browsers are open source, figure it out. But don't sue people servers for your clients behavior.
Look, everyone has this all wrong, facebook didn't put the like buttons there, and clients are actively connecting to and making requests of facebook servers so there's NO interception. Facebook is merely mining there own server logs for what people are requesting from them. If this suit goes through it basically means you can no longer use cookies and mine your server logs.
Wouldn't know, not one for hanging around twelve year old girls. Maybe you should spend more time with adults eh?
Bravo. I just threw up in my mouth.
When I was 11 years old sitting in the car home on a road trip with my mother, I found her copy of the K&R 1st edition sitting in the backseat and picked it up. Were it not for this incident my whole life would have been different. I have been a professional software engineer for 12 years now and can thank every second of those years to finding that book.
People always say Jobs was a visionary, but this man was a creator who shared what he made, Jobs monetized a vision other people made for him. Jobs may be loved by the public, but this man is loved by all who appreciate technology, though they may not realize it.
HP must be confusing the meaning of the word "wisdom"
I'm sick and can't sleep, no tells me leave :(
Quake 2 here. Coding is fun so I do it for work. Mentoring junior developers too, and that's more like these silly train a machine games id say. That's for the office, not the home.
Thankyou. Free is easier and that's the simple truth right now. I really wish there was a legal way to get any movie in 15 minutes. I'll pay, really. If netflix streamed what they have on mail request i'd stop torrenting altogether.