"IT Doesn't Matter" was the article that prompted my comment. It was written to appeal to B-school amateur philosophers in comparing IT to railroading and electricity as a field that will shortly become commoditized and boring. IT will be just as basic to the future as the electrical grid, but there's a major difference in that new uses for information is a wide-open field, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Further, Carr is the author who because famous for opining that the Internet will make us stupid. If you spend all your online time watching cat videos, you will remain just as stupid as you were when you were diverting yourself with something else before that. But for the rest of us, superpowers like being able to instantaneously find the kind of information you had to remind yourself to look up next time at the library make a big difference in how we view the world.
I'm not "shallower" (to use his term). I not only see more detail out there than ever before, but I can express myself socially in ways I never could before. Being part of the sociopolitical process once meant writing letters to newspapers and occasionally getting one published. Because of the Internet, we can now express ourselves in many more direct and detailed ways.
"Nicholas Carr was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. For his writing on technology."
Which exemplifies parent's point. Academic luddites, all equally clueless about where tech is taking us, toasting each other for their assumed perspicacity.
"When I use the GPS on my iPhone5 it gets hot. (And it eats the battery.)"
This depends on the GPS app you're using. I hike with Motion-X, which autopauses the GPS readings when it senses that you are on a water break or have been eaten by a bear. This gives you enough battery life to hike all day.
The great thing about being a company with more spare cash than most national budgets is that every so often you can throw out not just a test product, but an entire test category. Apple wants to know if some use case emerges that will motivate people outside the jewelry-watch demographic to start wearing something on their wrist again. A secondary question the Watch is asking is whether there are good use cases for other sorts of wearable devices. A pendant? A skin patch?
I get an earful from my German in-laws about the labor situation.
Apparently there is a six-month probationary period for any job before you become legally eligible for the layoff protection, the 6-week vacation and use of the company spa and vacation resort in Turkey. During the probation period, you are getting a reduced salary. So everybody gets laid off at 5 months 29 days, and must scratch for another crappy probation 'job'.
"Americans are so ridiculous when it comes to work culture. they have no joy, no pride, no self esteem, no passion. It's just work work work for them."
You're getting your Eurotrash lefty narratives mixed up. Aren't Americans supposed to be all fat and lazy?
Human chimera tech is a little too new for the activists to have focused on yet, but judging from the left's Absolutely No Under Any Circumstances Whatever attitude to a few tweaks to vegetable genomes, even in non-corporate aid projects like Golden Rice, er can bet that chimera tech will be their next target.
Something that will piss off the right (because of embryonic stem cell research) and the left. (Because of animal/human hybrids.) The left and right will finally agree on something.
After people can use this technique to get rejection-fee transplant organs without a waiting list, Luddites will quickly be selected out of the human species.
"As an adult male who now tinkers on stuff in the garage, I make it a point to shut the door to avoid any sort of 'trouble'."
Now there's a whole other reason you have to keep the garage door closed. If the manufacturer knows you're working on your car, they can sue for infringement under the DMCA.
No, I knew a bunch of radio nerds in those days and the field had its own pecking order from the very beginning. Higher status was accorded to those who built more of their own rigs; those who bought ready-made gear were looked down on as "appliance operators." But the greatest dividing line was use of Morse code over voice. The highest status hams were those who could "pound brass" at maximum speed.
"My grandfather's generation grew up with ham radios. He said all the kids used to do it."
Radio hams were the very first generation of electronics nerds. It's fascinating to look at the cultural history of hamdom 50 and 75 years ago to see what nerd of that time were like.
There are 60, 70, 80 year olds that literally wrote the books on what our modern society is built on.
In my business (residential/small business IT services) I work mostly with fellow chrono-Americans. What I find is that the real oldsters, the Greatest Generation folk, are noticeably more adaptable than the Boomers.
"The twenty year-olds haven't had to learn new technologies and adapt."
Meanwhile, there are lots of middle-agers who survive in development because they remain adaptable. Unfortunately, the ones who are stodgy and set in their ways and ageist work have been shunted into HR.
The mosquito release will have the beneficial side effect of driving away liberals who may have been infesting the area.
The role of mosquitoes in the ecosystem has already been studied, and there are plenty of other species, like damsel flies, that would take their place as fish and bat food. Besides, we would need to eliminate only a small number of species that bite humans: http://www.nature.com/news/201...
Replacing the lost liberals could be more of a problem. Scientists are not sure whether Republicans can be trained to save whales or help out at homeless missions. And how would whipping up date rape controversies at retirement homes even work?
A distributed Olympics might work better. Have venues all around the world, each hosting one class of sport every four years. No more need for bidding or for holding winter and summer Games at different times.
Imagine pool sports in Los Angeles, equestrian events in Lexington, golf in Scotland, skiing at Bariloche, cycling in France, marine sports in Vancouver, and track in Kenya - all at the same time.
Hm? last I checked a hospital in the united states can not deny anyone for emergency care.
They are required to treat you in the ER, but if you pick a hospital that doesn't take your insurance, you will be billed at the chargemaster rate and spend spend the rest of your life paying it off.
This is Big Pharma's wet dream: an unfolding pill robot that rips its way out of your chest holding an enormous, bloodstained bill. For an amount more than you ever imagined was possible. Take that, Harvoni!
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Except the UK has almost completely stopped burning coal for electricity...
Converting British coal plants to burning wood chips from shredded American trees does not count as going carbon free.
"IT Doesn't Matter" was the article that prompted my comment. It was written to appeal to B-school amateur philosophers in comparing IT to railroading and electricity as a field that will shortly become commoditized and boring. IT will be just as basic to the future as the electrical grid, but there's a major difference in that new uses for information is a wide-open field, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Further, Carr is the author who because famous for opining that the Internet will make us stupid. If you spend all your online time watching cat videos, you will remain just as stupid as you were when you were diverting yourself with something else before that. But for the rest of us, superpowers like being able to instantaneously find the kind of information you had to remind yourself to look up next time at the library make a big difference in how we view the world.
I'm not "shallower" (to use his term). I not only see more detail out there than ever before, but I can express myself socially in ways I never could before. Being part of the sociopolitical process once meant writing letters to newspapers and occasionally getting one published. Because of the Internet, we can now express ourselves in many more direct and detailed ways.
"Nicholas Carr was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. For his writing on technology."
Which exemplifies parent's point. Academic luddites, all equally clueless about where tech is taking us, toasting each other for their assumed perspicacity.
"Utopia, American Style, is turning out to be a hell for most people. "
Which is why nobody wants to come to the US. Not from Mexico, not from Europe, not from the poorer parts of the world.
If Facebook can't stop everybody's page from being cloned, it can't stop the next AdBlocker update.
"When I use the GPS on my iPhone5 it gets hot. (And it eats the battery.)"
This depends on the GPS app you're using. I hike with Motion-X, which autopauses the GPS readings when it senses that you are on a water break or have been eaten by a bear. This gives you enough battery life to hike all day.
The great thing about being a company with more spare cash than most national budgets is that every so often you can throw out not just a test product, but an entire test category. Apple wants to know if some use case emerges that will motivate people outside the jewelry-watch demographic to start wearing something on their wrist again. A secondary question the Watch is asking is whether there are good use cases for other sorts of wearable devices. A pendant? A skin patch?
I get an earful from my German in-laws about the labor situation.
Apparently there is a six-month probationary period for any job before you become legally eligible for the layoff protection, the 6-week vacation and use of the company spa and vacation resort in Turkey. During the probation period, you are getting a reduced salary. So everybody gets laid off at 5 months 29 days, and must scratch for another crappy probation 'job'.
"Americans are so ridiculous when it comes to work culture. they have no joy, no pride, no self esteem, no passion. It's just work work work for them."
You're getting your Eurotrash lefty narratives mixed up. Aren't Americans supposed to be all fat and lazy?
That's what you'd hope but the jehovas witnesses are still here with out blood transfusions
How many of them are left, though? And they have zero political influence.We need to arrange things so the No GMOers meet the same fate.
Oxymoron.
Muslims once invented chemistry, astronomy, and mathematics. Then Saudi Arabia gained influence of the faith and ownership of the holy cities.
Human chimera tech is a little too new for the activists to have focused on yet, but judging from the left's Absolutely No Under Any Circumstances Whatever attitude to a few tweaks to vegetable genomes, even in non-corporate aid projects like Golden Rice, er can bet that chimera tech will be their next target.
"I can't see the left getting pissed off though. They've not objected to chimera research before."
Oh yes you can: http://www.greens.org/s-r/20/2...
Something that will piss off the right (because of embryonic stem cell research) and the left. (Because of animal/human hybrids.) The left and right will finally agree on something.
After people can use this technique to get rejection-fee transplant organs without a waiting list, Luddites will quickly be selected out of the human species.
"As an adult male who now tinkers on stuff in the garage, I make it a point to shut the door to avoid any sort of 'trouble'."
Now there's a whole other reason you have to keep the garage door closed. If the manufacturer knows you're working on your car, they can sue for infringement under the DMCA.
No, I knew a bunch of radio nerds in those days and the field had its own pecking order from the very beginning. Higher status was accorded to those who built more of their own rigs; those who bought ready-made gear were looked down on as "appliance operators." But the greatest dividing line was use of Morse code over voice. The highest status hams were those who could "pound brass" at maximum speed.
"Most of the 30 people at our company cannot do basic tasks in Windows."
That's because they don't get around to running cCleaner and MalwareBytes on it every month to keep it from freezing up.
"Have you spoken to old people much? they bitch and moan and have a whole list of shit they don't like. "
Also, we vote and serve on juries.
"My grandfather's generation grew up with ham radios. He said all the kids used to do it."
Radio hams were the very first generation of electronics nerds. It's fascinating to look at the cultural history of hamdom 50 and 75 years ago to see what nerd of that time were like.
There are 60, 70, 80 year olds that literally wrote the books on what our modern society is built on.
In my business (residential/small business IT services) I work mostly with fellow chrono-Americans. What I find is that the real oldsters, the Greatest Generation folk, are noticeably more adaptable than the Boomers.
"The twenty year-olds haven't had to learn new technologies and adapt."
Meanwhile, there are lots of middle-agers who survive in development because they remain adaptable. Unfortunately, the ones who are stodgy and set in their ways and ageist work have been shunted into HR.
The mosquito release will have the beneficial side effect of driving away liberals who may have been infesting the area.
The role of mosquitoes in the ecosystem has already been studied, and there are plenty of other species, like damsel flies, that would take their place as fish and bat food. Besides, we would need to eliminate only a small number of species that bite humans:
http://www.nature.com/news/201...
Replacing the lost liberals could be more of a problem. Scientists are not sure whether Republicans can be trained to save whales or help out at homeless missions. And how would whipping up date rape controversies at retirement homes even work?
A distributed Olympics might work better. Have venues all around the world, each hosting one class of sport every four years. No more need for bidding or for holding winter and summer Games at different times.
Imagine pool sports in Los Angeles, equestrian events in Lexington, golf in Scotland, skiing at Bariloche, cycling in France, marine sports in Vancouver, and track in Kenya - all at the same time.
Hm? last I checked a hospital in the united states can not deny anyone for emergency care.
They are required to treat you in the ER, but if you pick a hospital that doesn't take your insurance, you will be billed at the chargemaster rate and spend spend the rest of your life paying it off.
Eat me from the inside.
This is Big Pharma's wet dream: an unfolding pill robot that rips its way out of your chest holding an enormous, bloodstained bill. For an amount more than you ever imagined was possible. Take that, Harvoni!