Not as shocked as those who don't take advantage of the free "upgrade" will be if Microsoft sticks to tomorrow (29 July) being the last day that they'll try to sneak it onto your system. Somehow I don't see them giving up so easily.
Sure you can purchase a copy of iOS or Android. You just have to also purchase (in the case of iOS) the phone it's bundled with. But that has nothing to do with my argument, which is that nuts and bolts can be both a product in their own right, and part of another product. Same as welding rods. Same as the toner you buy for your printer, which you then use to print up pictures for sale. Same as the gold in your phone. Same as water, which you can buy as a stand-alone product or as a component of Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.
And yet 774 million people in India don't have a toilet. Many have no running water and no electricity. Almost 40% of India's children are stunted. A kid dies every 4 minutes from diarrhea. Would you want to live there, where only the privileged have what we take for granted?
The lineup of people waiting for their own toilet would stretch to the moon.
No country on this earth is now even remotely like it was 50 years ago.
There's plenty of shitholes that were shitholes back in the day. Even Somalis don't want to live in Somalia. Venezuela is, if anything, worse off than it was 50 years ago thanks to food riots, etc. And North Korea... well, it's still North Korea.
If we're going by total value or cost, the International Space Station at $150 billion for ONE, of one single model, is in the running. Then there's the 747, costing $357 million apiece in today's dollars, with over 1,500 built, for over $535 billion. And then there's anti-matter - $6.5 trillion per gram.
Plenty of cars are leased for fixed periods, after which you have to trade them in. Sounds similar to cell phones of all kinds, which also have to be changed every 24-36 months.
So do Bible thumpers - and they've got a lot in common with Apple fanbois.
1. The two groups live in reality distortion fields;
2. They both act smugly superior;
3. They both show the same behaviors as any other cult;
4. They both have over a billion sold;
5. They both end up costing a lot more to their average user than competing products (atheisim and android);
6. They both eagerly await the next revelation.
7. There's bugs in both - and the updates to "fix" them;
8. They both claim better security;
9. They both claim to be a better value over the long term;
10. They both have a messiah who rose from the dead.
And for the bonus - eventually many outgrow their narrow view.:-)
Fuck, do you have ANY common sense? ANY? Or are you just being obstinate for the sake of being obstinate? There are NO studies showing that note-taking is better than actually doing. Until you can prove otherwise, go be a pedantic troll somewhere else.
note taking is a poor substitute to active learning.
Are you suggesting that is a fact and applies to everybody in all cases?
Yes. Prove otherwise. Do you really want a surgeon working on you who spent their time sitting in class taking notes? Or hiring a truck driver who can quote all the rules of the road and safety regs but has never actually driven a truck? Or a short-order cook who learned everything by watching The Chew instead of doing practical chemistry experiments with food in the kitchen?
If you've learned it, you don't need the notes. If you need the notes, you've learned nothing of use.
And the reason for that is that too many so-called "programmers" are shit because they haven't cut their teeth on a real programming language. They need something that holds their hands at every step, isolates them as much as possible from the underlying hardware and OS, and really don't have a clue as to how computers work.
Reading a few O'Reilly books might cut it for web monkeys, but then again, anything you can learn from an O'Reilly book can also be learned just as well by someone in India or eastern Europe. Real programmers can re-implement chunks of the standard c library with their own mods because they know what's going on. And they learn the hard way that, as your mom told you, if you pick it up, put it back when you're finished with it - "it" being memory. No need for so-called smart pointers. If you're depending on automatic memory management, you don't really know what your program is doing at any one point. Just look at the non-deterministic Java gc (though there are ways to fix that).
You're ignoring the fact that the studies that claim note-taking results in better retention only compare it to the same students not taking notes, instead of students who are encouraged to actively take part in the learning process, discussion, arguments, etc.
Humans learn better by doing - by participating, not by sitting there taking notes. Programming is a good example - sitting there taking notes results in shit. History is another example - debating the causes and effects of historical events results in more learning than taking notes about dates.
You started out in life by doing - not by taking notes. Whether it was walking or talking or learning not to pick your nose, being told by someone isn't enough. It's never the optimum way, because that's not how humans learn.
Think of all those people who are watching Master Chef, Foodies, or whatever - how many of them have actually learned how to be great cooks just by sitting there on their asses? And do you think that if they took notes, THAT would turn them into good cooks? Same thing with anyone into sports - just watching it and knowing the stats will never teach you how to be a great, or even mediocre, player. Writing it all down won't help you either.
Just as likely to get abducted by the police. When the best you can say is "at least it's not Venezuela... yet".... Of course, money and power and fame are more important than common sense when it comes to decision-making. And let's face it, for every Caitlyn Jenner who uses it as a spring board, there are thousands who end up with nothing afterwards.
Bullshit. Nobody is saying you have to compete in Brazil's shit-hole. You have free choice. Others are refusing to go because of the risks.
happy at the progress made to get to this level of competition and be on this stage, even if it's a stage covered in human waste
Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Even mud wrestling is more hygienic.
Considering the long history of athletes struggling to make ends meet
Big f*cking deal. Go get a real job instead of living off the sports welfare system - a system that, for most, leaves them with no marketable skills when they're done, no future, and does significant damage to the cities that host it.
Or maybe you're the one suffering from confirmation bias, because you never tried anything different. I've tried both, and note taking is a poor substitute to active learning.
And yet carriers are not required to support E911, unlike in Canada. Thank your FCC for not having the guts to do the right thing because it might cost the incumbents some money.
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Not as shocked as those who don't take advantage of the free "upgrade" will be if Microsoft sticks to tomorrow (29 July) being the last day that they'll try to sneak it onto your system. Somehow I don't see them giving up so easily.
No one FORCES you to trade in your car either. So what's your point?
Sure you can purchase a copy of iOS or Android. You just have to also purchase (in the case of iOS) the phone it's bundled with. But that has nothing to do with my argument, which is that nuts and bolts can be both a product in their own right, and part of another product. Same as welding rods. Same as the toner you buy for your printer, which you then use to print up pictures for sale. Same as the gold in your phone. Same as water, which you can buy as a stand-alone product or as a component of Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.
The lineup of people waiting for their own toilet would stretch to the moon.
The original claim was that note-taking works. Prove your original claim.
No, just that "real programmers" are an increasingly small minority compared to code monkeys.
You can't say it works well unless you compare it to something else. Otherwise, "taking a shit" works well for learning.
No country on this earth is now even remotely like it was 50 years ago.
There's plenty of shitholes that were shitholes back in the day. Even Somalis don't want to live in Somalia. Venezuela is, if anything, worse off than it was 50 years ago thanks to food riots, etc. And North Korea ... well, it's still North Korea.
If we're going by total value or cost, the International Space Station at $150 billion for ONE, of one single model, is in the running. Then there's the 747, costing $357 million apiece in today's dollars, with over 1,500 built, for over $535 billion. And then there's anti-matter - $6.5 trillion per gram.
Or matches, which didn't change their price over a period of 100 years.
Or they're holding it wrong :-)
Plenty of cars are leased for fixed periods, after which you have to trade them in. Sounds similar to cell phones of all kinds, which also have to be changed every 24-36 months.
So do Bible thumpers - and they've got a lot in common with Apple fanbois.
2. They both act smugly superior;
3. They both show the same behaviors as any other cult;
4. They both have over a billion sold;
5. They both end up costing a lot more to their average user than competing products (atheisim and android);
6. They both eagerly await the next revelation.
7. There's bugs in both - and the updates to "fix" them;
8. They both claim better security; 9. They both claim to be a better value over the long term;
10. They both have a messiah who rose from the dead.
And for the bonus - eventually many outgrow their narrow view. :-)
Android is not a product and neither is iOS; they are both components of products.
They are both products in their own right. Same as nuts and bolts can be both products in their own right as well as components of other products.
Fuck, do you have ANY common sense? ANY? Or are you just being obstinate for the sake of being obstinate? There are NO studies showing that note-taking is better than actually doing. Until you can prove otherwise, go be a pedantic troll somewhere else.
note taking is a poor substitute to active learning.
Are you suggesting that is a fact and applies to everybody in all cases?
Yes. Prove otherwise. Do you really want a surgeon working on you who spent their time sitting in class taking notes? Or hiring a truck driver who can quote all the rules of the road and safety regs but has never actually driven a truck? Or a short-order cook who learned everything by watching The Chew instead of doing practical chemistry experiments with food in the kitchen?
If you've learned it, you don't need the notes. If you need the notes, you've learned nothing of use.
And the reason for that is that too many so-called "programmers" are shit because they haven't cut their teeth on a real programming language. They need something that holds their hands at every step, isolates them as much as possible from the underlying hardware and OS, and really don't have a clue as to how computers work.
Reading a few O'Reilly books might cut it for web monkeys, but then again, anything you can learn from an O'Reilly book can also be learned just as well by someone in India or eastern Europe. Real programmers can re-implement chunks of the standard c library with their own mods because they know what's going on. And they learn the hard way that, as your mom told you, if you pick it up, put it back when you're finished with it - "it" being memory. No need for so-called smart pointers. If you're depending on automatic memory management, you don't really know what your program is doing at any one point. Just look at the non-deterministic Java gc (though there are ways to fix that).
You're ignoring the fact that the studies that claim note-taking results in better retention only compare it to the same students not taking notes, instead of students who are encouraged to actively take part in the learning process, discussion, arguments, etc.
Humans learn better by doing - by participating, not by sitting there taking notes. Programming is a good example - sitting there taking notes results in shit. History is another example - debating the causes and effects of historical events results in more learning than taking notes about dates.
You started out in life by doing - not by taking notes. Whether it was walking or talking or learning not to pick your nose, being told by someone isn't enough. It's never the optimum way, because that's not how humans learn.
Think of all those people who are watching Master Chef, Foodies, or whatever - how many of them have actually learned how to be great cooks just by sitting there on their asses? And do you think that if they took notes, THAT would turn them into good cooks? Same thing with anyone into sports - just watching it and knowing the stats will never teach you how to be a great, or even mediocre, player. Writing it all down won't help you either.
Just as likely to get abducted by the police. When the best you can say is "at least it's not Venezuela ... yet" .... Of course, money and power and fame are more important than common sense when it comes to decision-making. And let's face it, for every Caitlyn Jenner who uses it as a spring board, there are thousands who end up with nothing afterwards.
That's because most people don't really listen either. If they're not asking questions ...
We can't pick where we go to compete
Bullshit. Nobody is saying you have to compete in Brazil's shit-hole. You have free choice. Others are refusing to go because of the risks.
happy at the progress made to get to this level of competition and be on this stage, even if it's a stage covered in human waste
Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Even mud wrestling is more hygienic.
Considering the long history of athletes struggling to make ends meet
Big f*cking deal. Go get a real job instead of living off the sports welfare system - a system that, for most, leaves them with no marketable skills when they're done, no future, and does significant damage to the cities that host it.
Or maybe you're the one suffering from confirmation bias, because you never tried anything different. I've tried both, and note taking is a poor substitute to active learning.
Maybe you're dealing with the wrong people? Or they're used to dealing with simple tasks.
Just don't connect to the Internet. Computers can be used for more than surfing the web and twittering.
And yet carriers are not required to support E911, unlike in Canada. Thank your FCC for not having the guts to do the right thing because it might cost the incumbents some money.