These processors would be silly in a desktop computer. We're not even fully loading down 2-8 core machines now.
I'm not sure what you're saying. A desktop that is anywhere near being "loaded down" is a chore to use and unresponsive. I wish I had more cores for all the crap that my operating systems run against my will these days.
When I was a kid, I could go buy a book, hit control-reset on my Apple IIe, and start writing code. Later I got a disk with an OS on it so that I could actually save my programs. The first thing I ever wrote beyond hello world was a half-assed Zork type game.
Then I got a modem, and could get on some BBS. The internet blew up, and I could get information from AltaVista about everything that I happened to look up. All of a sudden I could write programs to do far more than I could have ever imagined on my Apple IIe.
Is it fun today? Kids now can 3d print pretty much anything. They can make games easily with tooling that didn't exist when I was younger. They have access to the sum of mankind's knowledge. They don't have to write sorting routines anymore, since every major language has a built in function to do just that - better than whatever you throw together would do.
Sure, it's different, but the tools just got better and better. There are annoyances, like ads on every damn thing on the internet, but looking past that the sky truly is the limit.
How old is Second Life? Like 12 years or so? That's an amazing thing to think about. An immersive world that you could customize to your heart's content, and it's basically dead. When I was a kid, the best we could have hoped for would have been better referred to as "third world."
Is it the same as it used to be? Certainly not. Is it no longer fun? Only if you want to do exactly what you used to with those same limitations.
> Far too often I see pedestrians step into the crosswalk in such a way as to make it all but impossible for the left turning car to safely stop.
I think you fail to understand the concept of right of way. If you are going too fast to safely stop, you are going too fast.
You quoted his caveat and then spoke as if you hadn't read it, or parsed it very differently than I did.
Even at 15 miles per hour it's easy for someone on a sidewalk in NYC to step right out at a time when it's impossible to stop the vehicle. Usually they don't do that.
On iTunes I set up an account for my son that has no CC tied to it and is funded with gift cards to prevent exactly this. If he blows $50 because he has no idea what he's doing, then who cares?
As of October 1, 2006, the exemption for delivery charges imposed by the seller is repealed for taxable goods and services. For deliveries on and after October 1, 2006, if a shipment includes both taxable and exempt property, the seller should allocate the delivery charge based on either the total sales price or the total weight, and collect tax on the portion of the delivery charge allocated to the taxable goods. In such mixed transactions, if the seller does not allocate the delivery charge, the entire delivery charge is taxable.
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I don't understand how this made the front page of Slashdot.
This post seems to postulate a conversation similar to the following:
Bruce: Hey Bob, how about we have a company party at the museum? This was a tough project and it's finally over.
Bob: That sounds like a great plan, Bruce, but there's one problem: That damn woman Grace will show up and have fun. We cannot allow her to have any fun.
Bruce: Well, how about we hold it at a strip club? Then she probably won't show up.
Bob: Oh, those places are terrible with the naked women and loud music. I bet the team will hate it.
Bruce: Yeah, but there's no other way to prevent Grace from being rewarded!
Bob: So be it. We'll have to suck it up and be miserable at a strip club.
Aside from Windows itself, I'd offer SharePoint as the most wide-reaching product that the company produces. To deploy and work with a SharePoint installation crosses all boundaries between servers to end-user software.
This being the case, a brief examination of a few pieces of it can illustrate the walls between the various groups.
Firstly, there are around 6 distinct People Picker controls in use through the product. That's the dialog where you pick a user from AD or whatever authentication provider you're using to either give them rights or attach them to something. All do exactly the same thing, some look exactly the same, and some look different. But there are 6 of them.
Interface customization in SharePoint is a huge mess. You can create an application page and deploy it to the server. You can customize other page types with SharePoint Designer. You can use InfoPath to customize list forms. Now you can even take some random HTML you made in a text editor or dreamweaver and run a process to create a new layout from that as a template. I could keep going about the various customization vectors (if you can think of another manner, I've probably done that too). Even the pages making up the functionality that ships with the product don't follow any sort of reasonable pattern. Sometimes you're looking at an InfoPath form, and sometimes an HTML form, and sometimes you're kicked to an application page that looks distinct from other application pages doing the same thing for other services. Some functionality is in web parts, and some are in delegate controls.
Go to the administration settings for PowerPivot, and you get something that looks different than the settings for Excel Services. Then look at PerformancePoint. All are serving very similar functions, and providing very similar settings, but it's like learning Mandarin and then needing to also pick up Cantonese to set up the next thing that is ostensibly part of the same product.
They've taken some steps to unifying parts of the product in SharePoint 2013, but there is still a long way to go before it can be called cohesive. If they can break down some of these walls for Microsoft as a whole, then maybe it'll make SharePoint more solid as an offering.
Then again, if it wasn't a mess and made sense I'd be an order of magnitude less valuable as a SharePoint guy.
As others have pointed out, music is probably a far better distraction than random noises that people around you are making with their discussions and what not.
What I do is to put a song on repeat. There are a bunch of songs that I have heard so many times that I don't even notice that they're playing anymore, and that allows me to concentrate on whatever it is I'm trying to figure out.
When I hear people talking or walking around or anything that I cannot control, I'm distracted because I'm trying to figure out what is causing that noise and am taken out of my "figure things out" shell.
You cannot be expected to guess the intelligence level of the test-writer, and should never be penalized for answering with a completely defensible answer.
This specific test is especially atrocious because the "wrong" answers (only due to knowledge they didn't think the kid would have) are exactly the kind of answers that some self-satisfied test writer would throw in there as correct.
The part you skipped over was explaining the other 3/4 of the cost, and the part you continued with was clearly speaking to that 3/4 and not the 1/4 you opened with.
FFS he even ended with a $35 book costing $28, which is about 1/4 less plus a tiny bit more to handle the formatting stuff.
I can't tell if you did this intentionally or not.
The thing you had to load from a disk was a DOS so you could actually save your stuff to one. Unless there was a trick that I'm unaware of that allowed you to directly write a program to a disk without an explicit one.
I don't see how removing the middle man from the equation is giving more control to apple. If anything, it's just distributing it to every single person with a phone.
I think you're all getting hung up on the 'ONLY APPLE' part, and not the "you won't pay anything for service anymore, since you're 'paying' by extending the network with your own device."
If he's like me, then get him into college and grad school ASAP and get him on with his life before he's 18.
If he's like my wife, then leave him in the normal school system so that he can enjoy the rest of his childhood. He'll thank you for it.
Both my wife and myself were at the top of our respective classes and went to top tier colleges. We're both well above (though not as much as this kid) what society would consider genius. And we both would have been better served by completely different approaches.
There isn't a single answer for this. Thinking that there is one answer for "what to do with a genius" is making the terrible assumption that all geniuses are alike.
How about we just ask the kid what he wants? He'll be better qualified to answer that question.
I just bought a couple bags of Taco Flavor (the original) in their original-design packaging (think Pepsi Throwback for Doritos if you haven't seen these).
This is not about wanting to have different identities, or to be able to be a dick online. It's about freedom itself.
Without anonymity you don't have the freedom to say what is right if it goes against society's current notions of morality. If you do, you'll be silenced and punished (either by the authorities or society at large) for stepping out of line. I want to live in a world where people have true freedom of speech, and that world cannot exist without anonymity.
If anonymity weren't a foundation of freedom of speech there would be no such thing as a witness protection program. You need to be able to say things with freedom from repercussion for any social or scientific progress to be made. You won't always be right, but you'll never know if you had to keep it held inside until the world was ready to hear whatever it was that you wanted to say.
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These processors would be silly in a desktop computer. We're not even fully loading down 2-8 core machines now.
I'm not sure what you're saying. A desktop that is anywhere near being "loaded down" is a chore to use and unresponsive. I wish I had more cores for all the crap that my operating systems run against my will these days.
When I was a kid, I could go buy a book, hit control-reset on my Apple IIe, and start writing code. Later I got a disk with an OS on it so that I could actually save my programs. The first thing I ever wrote beyond hello world was a half-assed Zork type game.
Then I got a modem, and could get on some BBS. The internet blew up, and I could get information from AltaVista about everything that I happened to look up. All of a sudden I could write programs to do far more than I could have ever imagined on my Apple IIe.
Is it fun today? Kids now can 3d print pretty much anything. They can make games easily with tooling that didn't exist when I was younger. They have access to the sum of mankind's knowledge. They don't have to write sorting routines anymore, since every major language has a built in function to do just that - better than whatever you throw together would do.
Sure, it's different, but the tools just got better and better. There are annoyances, like ads on every damn thing on the internet, but looking past that the sky truly is the limit.
How old is Second Life? Like 12 years or so? That's an amazing thing to think about. An immersive world that you could customize to your heart's content, and it's basically dead. When I was a kid, the best we could have hoped for would have been better referred to as "third world."
Is it the same as it used to be? Certainly not. Is it no longer fun? Only if you want to do exactly what you used to with those same limitations.
Is that Singapore apparently has workers from the future.
> Far too often I see pedestrians step into the crosswalk in such a way as to make it all but impossible for the left turning car to safely stop.
I think you fail to understand the concept of right of way. If you are going too fast to safely stop, you are going too fast.
You quoted his caveat and then spoke as if you hadn't read it, or parsed it very differently than I did.
Even at 15 miles per hour it's easy for someone on a sidewalk in NYC to step right out at a time when it's impossible to stop the vehicle. Usually they don't do that.
On iTunes I set up an account for my son that has no CC tied to it and is funded with gift cards to prevent exactly this. If he blows $50 because he has no idea what he's doing, then who cares?
Step 1: get a baseball bat
Step 2: wrap it with paper
As of October 1, 2006, the exemption for delivery charges imposed by the seller is repealed for taxable goods and services. For deliveries on and after October 1, 2006, if a shipment includes both taxable and exempt property, the seller should allocate the delivery charge based on either the total sales price or the total weight, and collect tax on the portion of the delivery charge allocated to the taxable goods. In such mixed transactions, if the seller does not allocate the delivery charge, the entire delivery charge is taxable.
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I don't understand how this made the front page of Slashdot.
This post seems to postulate a conversation similar to the following:
Bruce: Hey Bob, how about we have a company party at the museum? This was a tough project and it's finally over.
Bob: That sounds like a great plan, Bruce, but there's one problem: That damn woman Grace will show up and have fun. We cannot allow her to have any fun.
Bruce: Well, how about we hold it at a strip club? Then she probably won't show up.
Bob: Oh, those places are terrible with the naked women and loud music. I bet the team will hate it.
Bruce: Yeah, but there's no other way to prevent Grace from being rewarded!
Bob: So be it. We'll have to suck it up and be miserable at a strip club.
I think they might be up to some spying.
Aside from Windows itself, I'd offer SharePoint as the most wide-reaching product that the company produces. To deploy and work with a SharePoint installation crosses all boundaries between servers to end-user software.
This being the case, a brief examination of a few pieces of it can illustrate the walls between the various groups.
Firstly, there are around 6 distinct People Picker controls in use through the product. That's the dialog where you pick a user from AD or whatever authentication provider you're using to either give them rights or attach them to something. All do exactly the same thing, some look exactly the same, and some look different. But there are 6 of them.
Interface customization in SharePoint is a huge mess. You can create an application page and deploy it to the server. You can customize other page types with SharePoint Designer. You can use InfoPath to customize list forms. Now you can even take some random HTML you made in a text editor or dreamweaver and run a process to create a new layout from that as a template. I could keep going about the various customization vectors (if you can think of another manner, I've probably done that too). Even the pages making up the functionality that ships with the product don't follow any sort of reasonable pattern. Sometimes you're looking at an InfoPath form, and sometimes an HTML form, and sometimes you're kicked to an application page that looks distinct from other application pages doing the same thing for other services. Some functionality is in web parts, and some are in delegate controls.
Go to the administration settings for PowerPivot, and you get something that looks different than the settings for Excel Services. Then look at PerformancePoint. All are serving very similar functions, and providing very similar settings, but it's like learning Mandarin and then needing to also pick up Cantonese to set up the next thing that is ostensibly part of the same product.
They've taken some steps to unifying parts of the product in SharePoint 2013, but there is still a long way to go before it can be called cohesive. If they can break down some of these walls for Microsoft as a whole, then maybe it'll make SharePoint more solid as an offering.
Then again, if it wasn't a mess and made sense I'd be an order of magnitude less valuable as a SharePoint guy.
The original faster version made me cry the first time I heard it, and this got me again. Not sure what it is.
I need mod points for this one.
As others have pointed out, music is probably a far better distraction than random noises that people around you are making with their discussions and what not.
What I do is to put a song on repeat. There are a bunch of songs that I have heard so many times that I don't even notice that they're playing anymore, and that allows me to concentrate on whatever it is I'm trying to figure out.
When I hear people talking or walking around or anything that I cannot control, I'm distracted because I'm trying to figure out what is causing that noise and am taken out of my "figure things out" shell.
I have an enormous problem with this.
You cannot be expected to guess the intelligence level of the test-writer, and should never be penalized for answering with a completely defensible answer.
This specific test is especially atrocious because the "wrong" answers (only due to knowledge they didn't think the kid would have) are exactly the kind of answers that some self-satisfied test writer would throw in there as correct.
And if it were their network your post might make sense.
The part you skipped over was explaining the other 3/4 of the cost, and the part you continued with was clearly speaking to that 3/4 and not the 1/4 you opened with.
FFS he even ended with a $35 book costing $28, which is about 1/4 less plus a tiny bit more to handle the formatting stuff.
I can't tell if you did this intentionally or not.
I would guess that at $10k a pop there aren't all that many people that have actually purchased it.
Methinks you have never heard the song. Your other inferences are likely just as invalid.
If it were wrong, it would only have taken one.
The thing you had to load from a disk was a DOS so you could actually save your stuff to one. Unless there was a trick that I'm unaware of that allowed you to directly write a program to a disk without an explicit one.
I don't see how removing the middle man from the equation is giving more control to apple. If anything, it's just distributing it to every single person with a phone.
I think you're all getting hung up on the 'ONLY APPLE' part, and not the "you won't pay anything for service anymore, since you're 'paying' by extending the network with your own device."
It sounds like a cross between the themes from Blade Runner and Cosmos, but not nearly as good.
If he's like me, then get him into college and grad school ASAP and get him on with his life before he's 18.
If he's like my wife, then leave him in the normal school system so that he can enjoy the rest of his childhood. He'll thank you for it.
Both my wife and myself were at the top of our respective classes and went to top tier colleges. We're both well above (though not as much as this kid) what society would consider genius. And we both would have been better served by completely different approaches.
There isn't a single answer for this. Thinking that there is one answer for "what to do with a genius" is making the terrible assumption that all geniuses are alike.
How about we just ask the kid what he wants? He'll be better qualified to answer that question.
I just bought a couple bags of Taco Flavor (the original) in their original-design packaging (think Pepsi Throwback for Doritos if you haven't seen these).
Then I got back to my hotel and read this.
I'll dump a bag out on the floor in his honor.
This is not about wanting to have different identities, or to be able to be a dick online. It's about freedom itself.
Without anonymity you don't have the freedom to say what is right if it goes against society's current notions of morality. If you do, you'll be silenced and punished (either by the authorities or society at large) for stepping out of line. I want to live in a world where people have true freedom of speech, and that world cannot exist without anonymity.
If anonymity weren't a foundation of freedom of speech there would be no such thing as a witness protection program. You need to be able to say things with freedom from repercussion for any social or scientific progress to be made. You won't always be right, but you'll never know if you had to keep it held inside until the world was ready to hear whatever it was that you wanted to say.