But science isn't neutral unless you mean value free, but if you do, then doesn't that mean that the people who "embrace" (i.e. let their world view be dominated by science) become value free? The only value in science is truth. Everything else is secondary. It's like business. The only value in business is profit. Sure, you can bolt other things on to it but they are extrinsic. Left to their own devices science and business subordinate everything to their primary value. Now you can draw boundaries to both but most people do so in stupid ways (e.g. banning stem cell research or mandating salaries) but just because most people suck at it doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done. As to why science isn't neutral, the pursuit of science changes the world which in turn changes the way we see the world. It makes some things more apparent and obscures other things. For most people that don't think much about it those things that are easiest to see (i.e. "obvious" or even "self-evident" things) are as far as most people get. It's not like we are atoms completely independent of each other.
Actually I expect the biggest issue to be battery life and that's why I am expecting AMOLED but like I said I'm not sure how that will fit in the price profile.
I think it's safe to say the Apple Fanboys have high hopes, but Apple has a number of things going against them:
1) Android quickly catching up with Apple in terms of usefulness and it's working across a large set of diverse devices. ChromeOS will only make Apple's problem worse 2) If the expected price of $1000 is to be believed, it'll be a real turn off for anyone looking for a low cost MID. You can buy two (or three) netbooks for that price. 3) Let's be clear, if it's not e-ink or similar, this is in no way competition for the Kindle/Nook/Sony eReader
1) Android has a long way to go and Apple isn't standing still. It's like the difference between most linux desktops and Mac OS X. I use both daily as well as Windows and I far and away prefer Mac OS X. 2) $1000 may be unlocked or wholesale but do you believe Apple doesn't understand pricing? How do you think they maintain fat margins? Everyone complains about how expensive Apple products are, but they seem to be selling just fine, TYVM. 3) E-ink is a non-starter for a Tablet from Apple. It has to be color and do touch. E-ink sucks at both. I expect either a high density LCD or AMOLED display although I'm not sure how they will square that with price issue above.
So, I'd say that if Apple were filled with idiots, you might have some valid points, but I think they'll have the obvious covered.
Of course, the protection for that isn't as strong as copyright. And in the end, it doesn't matter; if I know that a company isn't proud of its employment agreement such that they want it kept secret, then I'm thinking twice about subjecting myself to said agreement.
I don't agree with any of this nonsense but I just wanted to add that a company may want to keep the terms of the contract confidential because they are good, not just, as in this case, bad.
by the incessant Apple rumor-mongering lately. I love Apple products but I don't need to hear about every little detail. Is it really a surprise to anyone that Apple is preparing to upgrade its hardware to something comparable to the Droid or the forthcoming Nexus One? Frankly I'd rather be surprised but here I am reading this article, right? Now I feel self-loathing setting in... Great!
I am fairly certain the Chinese government cares very little for the loss of educational opportunity provided by the Internet. It will allow them to control that more thoroughly as well. I guess The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution didn't really end in 1976. Anyhow it will be interesting to see if the Internet is really the untameable beast that many of its boosters have suggested and whether exercising so much control over the internet will stifle innovation and commerce. Everyone should care about what happens in China because every other government is paying attention and if China succeeds, your government will try it next. Look at Australia.
It seems like you're being a bit harsh. She seems like an amateur doing amatuerish work that has found something suggestive. It's not like she tried to get it published in a journal or claims to be a some sort of professional. Sure she has a phD after her name but that doesn't mean she is trying to claim he phD applies to Voynich Manuscript. Maybe I'm being naive.
Since when is vehemently disagreeing "trolling"? You may not like what I have to say or the way in which I said it but that doesn't mean I'm being a "troll".
Clearly you know zero about education and are just spouting off some ridiculous ideology disconnected from reality. Before zero tolerance and standardized tests our school system sucked. With them it's marginally better but improving. At least we have something to measure now. What do you recommend we replace it with? Experiential learning? Maybe create some portfolios and talk about our feelings?
Good. With the focus now on probes and robots maybe they can stop talking about the idiotic idea of sending people there. I'd rather see them dump the money into developing human-like androids to send to Mars than planning and paying to send humans.
Censoring spoilers? Allowing them to disable our ability to speak about a movie via some sort of implant? Chargin us every time we mention a movie? Ridiculous. I wish they would just shut up and produce content.
It has everyone complaining about the stoopid government but did you notice that this was printed in a Detroit newspaper? Gee, I wonder why people in Detroit would care about a new type of glass in a car window that adds extra cost to a vehicle? You just got played due to your knee-jerk anti-government attitude. Regardless of whether you agree with the manufacturers or the government you should realize when you are being manipulated by the media.
Here are their concerns: 1) net neutrality will make internet access more expensive and will cause the Telcos to slow roll-out to new locations; 2) net neutrality will prevent, say, Comcast from offering, say, Yahoo the chance to serve its content an additional 4 mbps faster to Comcast customers for a fee. Both concerns are overblown. While to a certain extent they are true in the long run slow incremental increases in the global quality of connectivity is highly preferred to localized improvements. Basically, the Telco's lobbyists' fingerprints are all over this astroturf. They feed these representatives a line with just enough truth to motivate them and lots of money and then watch them spinoff into a public frenzy spreading FUD everywhere. As usual we see that politicians are idiots and lobbyists are scum bags.
Do these RIAA and MPAA have no shame? Seriously. How can they ask for these things with a straight face? Must be desperation in the face of an obsolete business model.
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Probably not. But I'd say you are wrong. Natal + 3D TV brings us closer to "Virtual Reality"... but there is a long way to go.
But science isn't neutral unless you mean value free, but if you do, then doesn't that mean that the people who "embrace" (i.e. let their world view be dominated by science) become value free? The only value in science is truth. Everything else is secondary. It's like business. The only value in business is profit. Sure, you can bolt other things on to it but they are extrinsic. Left to their own devices science and business subordinate everything to their primary value. Now you can draw boundaries to both but most people do so in stupid ways (e.g. banning stem cell research or mandating salaries) but just because most people suck at it doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done. As to why science isn't neutral, the pursuit of science changes the world which in turn changes the way we see the world. It makes some things more apparent and obscures other things. For most people that don't think much about it those things that are easiest to see (i.e. "obvious" or even "self-evident" things) are as far as most people get. It's not like we are atoms completely independent of each other.
I have no particular love for Microsoft but the image is silly and dated.
Actually I expect the biggest issue to be battery life and that's why I am expecting AMOLED but like I said I'm not sure how that will fit in the price profile.
I think it's safe to say the Apple Fanboys have high hopes, but Apple has a number of things going against them:
1) Android quickly catching up with Apple in terms of usefulness and it's working across a large set of diverse devices. ChromeOS will only make Apple's problem worse
2) If the expected price of $1000 is to be believed, it'll be a real turn off for anyone looking for a low cost MID. You can buy two (or three) netbooks for that price.
3) Let's be clear, if it's not e-ink or similar, this is in no way competition for the Kindle/Nook/Sony eReader
1) Android has a long way to go and Apple isn't standing still. It's like the difference between most linux desktops and Mac OS X. I use both daily as well as Windows and I far and away prefer Mac OS X.
2) $1000 may be unlocked or wholesale but do you believe Apple doesn't understand pricing? How do you think they maintain fat margins? Everyone complains about how expensive Apple products are, but they seem to be selling just fine, TYVM.
3) E-ink is a non-starter for a Tablet from Apple. It has to be color and do touch. E-ink sucks at both. I expect either a high density LCD or AMOLED display although I'm not sure how they will square that with price issue above.
So, I'd say that if Apple were filled with idiots, you might have some valid points, but I think they'll have the obvious covered.
Would any of this tech. be useful for prosthetic arms?
Well, yes, the example of additional vacation is fairly conspicuous, but the more relevant issue is salary and stock options or RSUs.
litigate! It's a fairly obvious sign of weakness...
Yes, this is exactly what I am talking about.
Of course, the protection for that isn't as strong as copyright. And in the end, it doesn't matter; if I know that a company isn't proud of its employment agreement such that they want it kept secret, then I'm thinking twice about subjecting myself to said agreement.
I don't agree with any of this nonsense but I just wanted to add that a company may want to keep the terms of the contract confidential because they are good, not just, as in this case, bad.
by the incessant Apple rumor-mongering lately. I love Apple products but I don't need to hear about every little detail. Is it really a surprise to anyone that Apple is preparing to upgrade its hardware to something comparable to the Droid or the forthcoming Nexus One? Frankly I'd rather be surprised but here I am reading this article, right? Now I feel self-loathing setting in... Great!
Glad I'm not the only one. Well, for me it's writing not coding, but same process.
I thought nerd chic went out with the dot bomb.
I am fairly certain the Chinese government cares very little for the loss of educational opportunity provided by the Internet. It will allow them to control that more thoroughly as well. I guess The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution didn't really end in 1976. Anyhow it will be interesting to see if the Internet is really the untameable beast that many of its boosters have suggested and whether exercising so much control over the internet will stifle innovation and commerce. Everyone should care about what happens in China because every other government is paying attention and if China succeeds, your government will try it next. Look at Australia.
Paranoid much?
It seems like you're being a bit harsh. She seems like an amateur doing amatuerish work that has found something suggestive. It's not like she tried to get it published in a journal or claims to be a some sort of professional. Sure she has a phD after her name but that doesn't mean she is trying to claim he phD applies to Voynich Manuscript. Maybe I'm being naive.
Since when is vehemently disagreeing "trolling"? You may not like what I have to say or the way in which I said it but that doesn't mean I'm being a "troll".
Clearly you know zero about education and are just spouting off some ridiculous ideology disconnected from reality. Before zero tolerance and standardized tests our school system sucked. With them it's marginally better but improving. At least we have something to measure now. What do you recommend we replace it with? Experiential learning? Maybe create some portfolios and talk about our feelings?
Flamebait? Some people are so weird.
Good. With the focus now on probes and robots maybe they can stop talking about the idiotic idea of sending people there. I'd rather see them dump the money into developing human-like androids to send to Mars than planning and paying to send humans.
Censoring spoilers? Allowing them to disable our ability to speak about a movie via some sort of implant? Chargin us every time we mention a movie? Ridiculous. I wish they would just shut up and produce content.
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It has everyone complaining about the stoopid government but did you notice that this was printed in a Detroit newspaper? Gee, I wonder why people in Detroit would care about a new type of glass in a car window that adds extra cost to a vehicle? You just got played due to your knee-jerk anti-government attitude. Regardless of whether you agree with the manufacturers or the government you should realize when you are being manipulated by the media.
Here are their concerns: 1) net neutrality will make internet access more expensive and will cause the Telcos to slow roll-out to new locations; 2) net neutrality will prevent, say, Comcast from offering, say, Yahoo the chance to serve its content an additional 4 mbps faster to Comcast customers for a fee. Both concerns are overblown. While to a certain extent they are true in the long run slow incremental increases in the global quality of connectivity is highly preferred to localized improvements. Basically, the Telco's lobbyists' fingerprints are all over this astroturf. They feed these representatives a line with just enough truth to motivate them and lots of money and then watch them spinoff into a public frenzy spreading FUD everywhere. As usual we see that politicians are idiots and lobbyists are scum bags.
Do these RIAA and MPAA have no shame? Seriously. How can they ask for these things with a straight face? Must be desperation in the face of an obsolete business model.