I would get an iPad Pro or the Pixel C but the office apps on them are crippled (I regularly use regex, mail merges, macros, etc.). So an Ubuntu tablet with an attachable keyboard would be perfect for my usage. Looking forward to it!
I'm loving the fact that voting with your wallet has become very powerful in this field right now. I just cut the cord on my basic cable package and moved to Zattoo.com (in Europe), which is a web-based TV provider. I get pretty much the same thing as before for either free (but in SD with a few more adverts) or I get more than I'd have got before (a generous cloud-based DVR and replay of anything in the last week) for half the money I used to pay the cable provider for its crappy set top box. This plus Netflix is great for me.
Yes "it works", but of course "it" isn't introducing children to code. "It" is giving children opportunities to experience many new things and develop interests. You were probably exposed to various other things at school that made little or no impression on you, yet for some of your classmates those same things would have proved transformative and set them on whatever path they are now on. It sounds like I had exactly the same opportunities you did: we had the toy car at school (Big Trak) and there was basic on my Dad's home computer and later on my Amiga. Of course, I did different things with those experiences.
There is a sequence of testing which is done on animals. I can't remember exactly how it goes, but I think it starts with mice and rats then moves up to rabbits and dogs (beagles, because the poor buggers are so docile). A whole host of tests are done and these are, unfortunately, necessary unless we want more things like this to happen. Tests can't catch everything, but they're better than nothing. It should be emphasized that these are safety tests, which are distinct from the research that needs to be done to find the drug in the first place.
You present it as though there were a choice. As internet access spread beyond a small number of geeks (and people started to buy stuff via the internet) then adverts began to appear in earnest and what you describe is more less inevitable. Telling people (at least the non-tech "general public") not to use sites that have advertising is akin to telling them not use the web at all. When a platform becomes as widely used and powerful as the web then it inevitably becomes of interest to the rich and powerful who wish to control it. This is what is happening to the web and it will continue to happen. That's not "our" fault, it's just how things are.
I think the internet will remain a medium for making your voice heard--anyone can start a website, for instance--but we will increasingly give up control to use it. This has been happening continuously. e.g. who bothers to make a website to put up family photos and so forth for their relatives? Nobody really. It's all on the Facebook private sub-internet.
No one is forcing you to use said private companies services. Don't like terms and conditions? Stay away.
Yes, you're free to do that on an individual basis. However, if we reach a situation where the bulk of the population depends on these services to express themselves then society in general may potentially have a problem. My initial objection to Facebook was that it's a sort of privately controlled "sub-internet" where people make a Facebook page that they don't really control instead of a webpage that they can fully control. Of course Facebook is also much more than that, because people's profiles are linked and it's very dynamic. I know there's nothing stopping peopel from making their own webpage, but increasingly this is becoming pointless in most cases.
To keep this from happening, you need to either restrict immigration into the basic income zone -- which you can't do in the EU -- or implement it on a large enough scale that the tax base can handle the immigration spike, and national, cultural, and language barriers limit the size of the
Or you only give the benefits to Dutch nationals who've lived in the city longer than X years.
Free is free and it doesn't exist was what I was getting at, yes. However the wikipedia simply says that a free market is one where the prices of goods are set freely, and that wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
I don't know if I should tell you what my username means. It might destroy what you imagine it to be.
I was 8 when I watched the first movie. I should have know better than to go to this kind of movie at my current age.
This is exactly the point. All of these movies are only good if you are 8. The only reason Star Wars kept going is because of the good will it generated in many of its viewers when they were 8. Some people were prepared to go back for more because it was a way of reliving their childhood.
I made it this far down the thread and, it appears to me, many people are using their own definition of "free market."
I suspect that, in the past, we had a certain areas where there were true, pure form, free markets. I suspect that those were in areas where there were little demands for markets anyhow and probably few items to actually market. I know that China was one of the first groups of people to do some of the standardized things (like weights and measures) according to What the Ancients Knew. But, I'm sure, somewhere back there was a completely free coconut market which may well have been rife with abuse or may have worked as well as some people envisage.
I think that's right. The poster I as replying to seems to have meant one thing and I another thing.
It was always like this. I remember being deluged Star Wars toys in the 80s too. Nothing has changed. The original movies also weren't much good. I liked them as a kid and watched them when the came on at Christmas but now I find them utterly unwatchable. This isn't the case for everything I watched as a kid. e.g. Back To The Future is still fun.
There is no such thing as free market anyway. All markets have rules and restrictions, it's just a question of what we choose these rules to be and how lenient they are.
No, that's not what I meant. The AC (I just realised he was AC, so he won't see the question I asked) stated that he had nifty editing tricks. I was after screen casts of those with explanations. e.g. like the SublimeText site.
But you know what? I can utterly, totally, annihilate people using better "UX quality" text editors when it comes to heavy duty text editing. I've had people literally gasp out loud watching what can be done.
Can you make a screen cast with stuff like this and explain it? I'm not asking to be a dick, I'm genuinely interested.
"Flying cars" of this sort exist already, they just require a real pilot. The really interesting thing about the Terrafugia flying car is that it flies itself, so I imagine the challenge isn't so much the hardware as it is the software. If they can get that done right, "flying cars" could be made accessible to more people.
The challenge is not the hardware?? Terrafugia looks like nothing like the three vehicles in your linked video: it looks like science fiction. No way is that thing ever leaving CGI-land with those stubby little wings and tiny props. What the hell is powering it "cruise mode" when the props fold away? Probably hot air...
Don't get me wrong, I can see why people (especially here) don't like the data selling. I certainly uninstalled all the lens stuff even though I don't use Unity. However, I also see that there are salaries that need paying and this is one way of doing it. With a lot of web-based services, such as Facebook, if you want to opt out of the data collection you must also opt out of the service. With Ubuntu you can choose to keep the service but ditch the data collection. Seems pretty benign to me compared to all the other BS that's going on.
Canonical will never regain my trust. The mere fact that they were capable of sending users' private data to their business partners means Ubuntu is dead for me.
I'd understand claiming there was a breach of trust if they did this on the sly, but they didn't: it was common knowledge, easy to switch off, and only occurred if you used Unity. I fail to see what the problem is.
"The word 'novel' now appears in more than 7% of PubMed paper titles"
Isn't this simply a reflection of how long the papers are?
Papers are shorter now than they were. I remember reading all these mid-20th century classics that were 50 or more pages long. Now you never find anything that long because the funding cycle is about 5 years and they expect you to produce multiple high impact papers. So people push things out as fast as possible and break it down as much as possible.
Cable may decline and restructure but it'll be a long slow death. They will still retain huge numbers of subscribers due to sporting events or other big current events that people like to watch.
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I would get an iPad Pro or the Pixel C but the office apps on them are crippled (I regularly use regex, mail merges, macros, etc.). So an Ubuntu tablet with an attachable keyboard would be perfect for my usage. Looking forward to it!
It's called a laptop.
I'm loving the fact that voting with your wallet has become very powerful in this field right now. I just cut the cord on my basic cable package and moved to Zattoo.com (in Europe), which is a web-based TV provider. I get pretty much the same thing as before for either free (but in SD with a few more adverts) or I get more than I'd have got before (a generous cloud-based DVR and replay of anything in the last week) for half the money I used to pay the cable provider for its crappy set top box. This plus Netflix is great for me.
It works.
Yes "it works", but of course "it" isn't introducing children to code. "It" is giving children opportunities to experience many new things and develop interests. You were probably exposed to various other things at school that made little or no impression on you, yet for some of your classmates those same things would have proved transformative and set them on whatever path they are now on. It sounds like I had exactly the same opportunities you did: we had the toy car at school (Big Trak) and there was basic on my Dad's home computer and later on my Amiga. Of course, I did different things with those experiences.
There is a sequence of testing which is done on animals. I can't remember exactly how it goes, but I think it starts with mice and rats then moves up to rabbits and dogs (beagles, because the poor buggers are so docile). A whole host of tests are done and these are, unfortunately, necessary unless we want more things like this to happen. Tests can't catch everything, but they're better than nothing. It should be emphasized that these are safety tests, which are distinct from the research that needs to be done to find the drug in the first place.
Except that most people are right-handed and wear watches on their left hand. So not a problem in most cases (as even TFA hints)
You present it as though there were a choice. As internet access spread beyond a small number of geeks (and people started to buy stuff via the internet) then adverts began to appear in earnest and what you describe is more less inevitable. Telling people (at least the non-tech "general public") not to use sites that have advertising is akin to telling them not use the web at all. When a platform becomes as widely used and powerful as the web then it inevitably becomes of interest to the rich and powerful who wish to control it. This is what is happening to the web and it will continue to happen. That's not "our" fault, it's just how things are.
I think the internet will remain a medium for making your voice heard--anyone can start a website, for instance--but we will increasingly give up control to use it. This has been happening continuously. e.g. who bothers to make a website to put up family photos and so forth for their relatives? Nobody really. It's all on the Facebook private sub-internet.
I think you've mixed up so many different concepts that what you're written no longer makes sense.
With the Raspberry Pi Zero available for only 5 U.S. dollars, is the Arduino obsolete?
No. Because the Arduino is a microcontroller and the Pi is a small computer that runs a fully fledged OS. There is a big difference.
No one is forcing you to use said private companies services. Don't like terms and conditions? Stay away.
Yes, you're free to do that on an individual basis. However, if we reach a situation where the bulk of the population depends on these services to express themselves then society in general may potentially have a problem. My initial objection to Facebook was that it's a sort of privately controlled "sub-internet" where people make a Facebook page that they don't really control instead of a webpage that they can fully control. Of course Facebook is also much more than that, because people's profiles are linked and it's very dynamic. I know there's nothing stopping peopel from making their own webpage, but increasingly this is becoming pointless in most cases.
To keep this from happening, you need to either restrict immigration into the basic income zone -- which you can't do in the EU -- or implement it on a large enough scale that the tax base can handle the immigration spike, and national, cultural, and language barriers limit the size of the
Or you only give the benefits to Dutch nationals who've lived in the city longer than X years.
Free is free and it doesn't exist was what I was getting at, yes. However the wikipedia simply says that a free market is one where the prices of goods are set freely, and that wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
I don't know if I should tell you what my username means. It might destroy what you imagine it to be.
I was 8 when I watched the first movie. I should have know better than to go to this kind of movie at my current age.
This is exactly the point. All of these movies are only good if you are 8. The only reason Star Wars kept going is because of the good will it generated in many of its viewers when they were 8. Some people were prepared to go back for more because it was a way of reliving their childhood.
I made it this far down the thread and, it appears to me, many people are using their own definition of "free market."
I suspect that, in the past, we had a certain areas where there were true, pure form, free markets. I suspect that those were in areas where there were little demands for markets anyhow and probably few items to actually market. I know that China was one of the first groups of people to do some of the standardized things (like weights and measures) according to What the Ancients Knew. But, I'm sure, somewhere back there was a completely free coconut market which may well have been rife with abuse or may have worked as well as some people envisage.
I think that's right. The poster I as replying to seems to have meant one thing and I another thing.
It was always like this. I remember being deluged Star Wars toys in the 80s too. Nothing has changed. The original movies also weren't much good. I liked them as a kid and watched them when the came on at Christmas but now I find them utterly unwatchable. This isn't the case for everything I watched as a kid. e.g. Back To The Future is still fun.
It was well written and subtle, with good character development and pacing.
Are you sure you saw a Star Wars movie?
There is no such thing as free market anyway. All markets have rules and restrictions, it's just a question of what we choose these rules to be and how lenient they are.
requiring a special microscope to be viewed.
WTF is a "special microscope"? What a shit article.
It's not a novel and it's not exactly "computer generated" but I do love the chicken paper and it's later presentation at a meeting
No, that's not what I meant. The AC (I just realised he was AC, so he won't see the question I asked) stated that he had nifty editing tricks. I was after screen casts of those with explanations. e.g. like the SublimeText site.
But you know what? I can utterly, totally, annihilate people using better "UX quality" text editors when it comes to heavy duty text editing. I've had people literally gasp out loud watching what can be done.
Can you make a screen cast with stuff like this and explain it? I'm not asking to be a dick, I'm genuinely interested.
"Flying cars" of this sort exist already, they just require a real pilot. The really interesting thing about the Terrafugia flying car is that it flies itself, so I imagine the challenge isn't so much the hardware as it is the software. If they can get that done right, "flying cars" could be made accessible to more people.
The challenge is not the hardware?? Terrafugia looks like nothing like the three vehicles in your linked video: it looks like science fiction. No way is that thing ever leaving CGI-land with those stubby little wings and tiny props. What the hell is powering it "cruise mode" when the props fold away? Probably hot air...
Don't get me wrong, I can see why people (especially here) don't like the data selling. I certainly uninstalled all the lens stuff even though I don't use Unity. However, I also see that there are salaries that need paying and this is one way of doing it. With a lot of web-based services, such as Facebook, if you want to opt out of the data collection you must also opt out of the service. With Ubuntu you can choose to keep the service but ditch the data collection. Seems pretty benign to me compared to all the other BS that's going on.
Canonical will never regain my trust. The mere fact that they were capable of sending users' private data to their business partners means Ubuntu is dead for me.
I'd understand claiming there was a breach of trust if they did this on the sly, but they didn't: it was common knowledge, easy to switch off, and only occurred if you used Unity. I fail to see what the problem is.
"The word 'novel' now appears in more than 7% of PubMed paper titles"
Isn't this simply a reflection of how long the papers are?
Papers are shorter now than they were. I remember reading all these mid-20th century classics that were 50 or more pages long. Now you never find anything that long because the funding cycle is about 5 years and they expect you to produce multiple high impact papers. So people push things out as fast as possible and break it down as much as possible.
Cable may decline and restructure but it'll be a long slow death. They will still retain huge numbers of subscribers due to sporting events or other big current events that people like to watch.