Neil deGrasse Tyson is not a celebrity,
No matter how much you want to think so.
To the Joe on the street
Or the cop on the beat
It's "Joe Tyson??? Who's that schmoe?"
In such cases, "he" is the gender neutral. Being insulted by proper grammar only makes one look ignorant.
It's no longer "proper grammar." Please update your wetware
Q: Is there a special rule regarding which pronoun to use when talking about a non-specific gender (“he/she,” “he or she,” “he”) or is it completely the writer’s choice? —Jarrett Z.
A: For years, the masculine pronouns (he, his, him) graced most literary work when referring to a non-specific gender. It was an unspoken rule that was sexist and one-sided, but it stood in place for a long time. Being the equal-opportunity pronoun nation that we are today, that rule has changed—or, more precisely, completely disappeared.
Both male and female pronouns are acceptable to use when the sex isn’t specified. Therefore it’s OK to write “he/she,” “he or she” or declare one gender to use throughout an article. Many writers will stick with their own biological genes—men tend to use the pronoun “he” while women generally use “she.” Both ways are perfectly fine. The preference lies in the hands of the writer.
Many magazines, including the one you’re reading, take a different approach. Writing “his or her” or “his/her” can start to look clunky, and No. 1 on the Writer’s Digest 10 Commandments list states: “Thou shalt avoid clunkiness at all costs.” Our rule is to alternate pro-nouns: If we say “he” in one paragraph referencing a non-specified gender, the next time an example comes up in the article we’ll use “she.” And so on. Switching back and forth is easy to do, gets rid of the clutter and keeps readers from calling you unwanted names.
Not so much in NJ, teachers have it made here. My kid has a 7th grade math "teacher" who's just riding his way out, he barely teaches or talks at all. He sits with his feet on the desk and does facebook, and tells the kids to just read their textbook.
I guess by doing nothing he can claim he's "doing no harm."
or know that "he or she" is not grammatically correct when trying to be "gender neutral" which should use the neutral gender (it for singular or they for plural).
I would hope you would be aware that referring to someone as an "it" (for example, when not clear from the name what gender the person is, or the person is trans) can be pretty insulting, right?
If you have nothing good to say,
You might want to keep your mouth shut
You never know if there'll come a day
'Cuz the backups never go away
You'll regret calling your boss a real slut.
It's kind of funny - this is the first time I'm responding all week (even indirectly) to APK's crapflood against me (some days it's over 100), just because you made me laugh. This is just one example.
The really strange thing is APK keeps saying I'm downmodding him when, if I had unlimited mod points, I would mod all his crapfloods to +5 so that everyone can see what a jerk he is.
Any AI intelligent enough and autonomous enough to implement the three laws is also intelligent enough and autonomous enough to ignore them.
Some people will nit-pick at "autonomous enough", but if it's not calling the shots, it's not capable of deciding to follow the rules in the first place.
And then there's alien AI, which if it operates by survival of the fittest, will wipe us out on the first encounter.
Will real estate agents even exist in 10 years? Companies that specialize in letting they seller sell directly to the buyer and taking much less $$$ while helping with the paper work and promotion are growing like crazy. Here they're the #1 way to sell a property, and the #1 company doing this is #1 in sales. They alone increased by 7%, while the rest of the industry declined by 8%. People like the idea of not paying a sales commission.
Game developers could, for example, use it to paint a 3D virtual battlefield in your living room. Or create large scale virtual and augmented reality experiences. Real estate companies could build interactive, 360-degree “fly-through” tours. Interior designers could scan a client’s home and test design ideas, such as moving walls or inserting furniture. Retailers can guide the user to specific places or products
We already have better solutions for 3d virtual battlefields. real estate companies already do video walk-throughs of property. Interior designers? Obviously they haven't met any. Retailers guiding user to specific products? Many stores already have that.
Your second link? Nothing whatsoever to do with 3d vision - only one camera front and one camera back.
Your third one? Same thing.
Running the 3d dev kit takes 10 watts. People who might buy this expect to use it more than 2 minutes a day (why 2 minutes? Because the higher the discharge rate, the lower the time the battery will supply current. A 10 watt drain is way beyond what today's smartphone batteries are expected to deliver. You'd be replacing the battery with a new one pretty often, too. 3d in a smartphone is a dud.
The problem is disk space is incredibly cheap, so why would anyone rent from people when they can just peer with someone else they trust and each back up the other? Or just back up to multiple hard disks and take them off-site - faster backups, no dependency on bandwidth ("never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with hard disks"), and much quicker recovery times in the event of a disaster?
Nobody's going to buy a software license to participate in this sort of scheme where it makes it more likely for them to suffer a catastrophic data loss from quicker hard drive failure, never mind the inconvenience and cost of leaving the computer on 24/7.
The other problem is that backing up your files is not sufficient. You need to back up the OS as well, which means making a whole disk image (or at least a partition image). Taking a snapshot of that disk is going to require a disk with the same capacity, so you're stuck with having a second drive anyway, so why not just bring that second one off-site?
This was, IMHO, poorly thought out wrt competing technology and practicality. People who absolutely need dependable backups can't use it. People who don't need absolutely dependable backups can use free solutions or an external backup drive - 3Tb is now going for as low as $90.00 at tigerdirect, and if there's one thing we know, it's that it will get cheaper in the future.
Another reader pointed out that I was wrong in assuming that Charlie Hebdo was ad-supported. It isn't, which explains why they have so much editorial independence. For sure they'll increase their subscriber base. Rather than terrorize people, they've galvanized them. There will be much more support for anti-terrorism programs.
3 days ago, I saw the same story on a video game news site. Only then, they made it very clear in their story that the ebay sale was probably a fraud. The bidding was much lower until an anonymous ebay troll with no feedback kept artificially inflating the bid.
So thanks for the news which is both incorrect and old.
Instead of bitching and moaning about it, why didn't you just submit a better summary yourself 3 days ago?
What's worse is that we let these wrong perceptions of what's appropriate influence our behavior. Two women hugging? Nothing wrong there. Two men hugging "OMG gays engaging in a public display of affection cover your eyes!" And so what if they ARE gay? At least the newer television shows are normalizing displays of affection in same-sex relationships.
Now if we can just get rid of the anti-stereotype politically correct ads that show men are always the helpless dummies and women are always coming to the rescue... these are just as corrosive as the previous generation ads where women were dumb blondes and men ruled the roost.
People with bandwidth caps are going to hate this. People with "soft" bandwidth caps (throttling after x gb) are also going to hate this. But I think the worst is that it now incentivizes people to install a trojan on your system and rent out your storage space without you knowing, same as they did for bitcoin mining.
Fair enough. The chattering class always needs something to chatter about - just like they were calling for the ban on "The Last Temptation of Christ" even before it was released. People are sheeple:-)
First, the money google paid into the fund was a business decision - no more extortionate than any other business decision, and negotiated with the French government, which didn't give french publishers what they were asking for.
Second, the problem is that the people backing these terrorists, while fully aware that it's not google funding this, can use the apparent link to target google for some mentally ill nutjob who is open to irrational suggestions.
Did I imagine this video? Did I imagine these reactions? As I said, I believe this is what we'd all be outraged about if the CH attacks hadn't occurred the exact same day that the video was released.
From the article: "Watching it, I realised that the intensity (Sia’s “emotional content”) was the reason it was jarring – the mere fact that the video wasn’t carefully benign, cheaply titillating or just plain boring, like so much else in the genre. In Elastic Heart, the grown man and the young girl are alive with feelings for each other, running the gamut from amusement and play through to fury to despair. What isn’t there is sexuality. In fact, it baffles me how anyone could look seriously at Elastic Heart and claim to see any sexual content whatsoever."
Any "sexuality" is in your head, same as the comments collected on that obscure website. The vast majority of the comments I saw on youtube were telling people to watch the video a second time if they thought it had anything to do with pedophilia.
What's outrageous (and maybe this video is a good way to point it out) is that we've pathologized any contact between even a father and daughter, to the point where fathers have become hyper-vigilant about not showing many displays of affection in public, of hugging for what seems to some people a second too long, saying "I love you sweetie", etc.
Don't bother trying to reason with him. He thinks we can't see the forest through the trees. I say he's not close enough to what's going on in machine learning/opencv to appreciate the promise the future holds. I'm killing time right now pushing opencv to my Jetson TK1 I got for Christmas. It doesn't bother me that people like him don't "get it". They'll be playing catchup when the job market shifts again.
Oh, I get it - but there's no real use for a 3d camera in a smartphone, even putting aside the power consumption (your kit takes ~10 watts). The average smartphone would run for maybe 10-15 minutes, and get seriously hot.
Why would you need to "paint the world with qr codes?" Your phone simply does not need to extract information about its' environment from an image. If it needed to, we'd already be doing that today with 2d technology.
How about a navigation system for the blind that can tell the difference between a red light and a green light? What blind person is going to walk around holding their phone in front of them all the time (and killing the battery)? And you could do this in 2d anyway, and you'd also be better of either with a specialty device of a guide dog.
Or being able to pick your kid out of a crowd? 2d does that just fine.
Or picking someone out of a crowd in an airport? Again, 2d does that just fine.
Or finding your car in a parking lot? Unless it can see the license plate, it's not ever going to be dependable, since in a large enough parking lot you'll run into the same make, model, color and year once in a while (true story - unlocked and got into my car, couldn't figure out why the seat wasn't in its usual place, looked around inside - wasn't my car. Mine was a couple of spots over. 3d wouldn't have made a difference, since we only have plates in the rear).
Sticking a 3d camera in a phone is a really really dumb "solution" looking for a problem.
No it doesn't. You know what the internet would be outraged about right now if this attack had never happened? A pop video featuring a 28 year old man and a 12 year old girl playfighting in their underwear. We would all be incensed about the "pedophilic" content and we'd be calling for it to be banned as gross indecency. The fact that there's no overtly sexual content, and that the two actors in fact represent different facets of a single psyche, would be irrelevant, and we would all be calling for the censoring of offensive imagery. Hypocrisy.
Come off it. Even trying to compare a non-existent video with a series of murders by terrorists - troll much?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is not a celebrity,
No matter how much you want to think so.
To the Joe on the street
Or the cop on the beat
It's "Joe Tyson??? Who's that schmoe?"
Burma Shave
Sorry, it got eaten while editing
In such cases, "he" is the gender neutral. Being insulted by proper grammar only makes one look ignorant.
It's no longer "proper grammar." Please update your wetware
Q: Is there a special rule regarding which pronoun to use when talking about a non-specific gender (“he/she,” “he or she,” “he”) or is it completely the writer’s choice? —Jarrett Z.
A: For years, the masculine pronouns (he, his, him) graced most literary work when referring to a non-specific gender. It was an unspoken rule that was sexist and one-sided, but it stood in place for a long time. Being the equal-opportunity pronoun nation that we are today, that rule has changed—or, more precisely, completely disappeared.
Both male and female pronouns are acceptable to use when the sex isn’t specified. Therefore it’s OK to write “he/she,” “he or she” or declare one gender to use throughout an article. Many writers will stick with their own biological genes—men tend to use the pronoun “he” while women generally use “she.” Both ways are perfectly fine. The preference lies in the hands of the writer.
Many magazines, including the one you’re reading, take a different approach. Writing “his or her” or “his/her” can start to look clunky, and No. 1 on the Writer’s Digest 10 Commandments list states: “Thou shalt avoid clunkiness at all costs.” Our rule is to alternate pro-nouns: If we say “he” in one paragraph referencing a non-specified gender, the next time an example comes up in the article we’ll use “she.” And so on. Switching back and forth is easy to do, gets rid of the clutter and keeps readers from calling you unwanted names.
Not so much in NJ, teachers have it made here. My kid has a 7th grade math "teacher" who's just riding his way out, he barely teaches or talks at all. He sits with his feet on the desk and does facebook, and tells the kids to just read their textbook.
I guess by doing nothing he can claim he's "doing no harm."
or know that "he or she" is not grammatically correct when trying to be "gender neutral" which should use the neutral gender (it for singular or they for plural).
I would hope you would be aware that referring to someone as an "it" (for example, when not clear from the name what gender the person is, or the person is trans) can be pretty insulting, right?
If you have nothing good to say,
You might want to keep your mouth shut
You never know if there'll come a day
'Cuz the backups never go away
You'll regret calling your boss a real slut.
Burma Shave
That one made me laugh :-)
It's kind of funny - this is the first time I'm responding all week (even indirectly) to APK's crapflood against me (some days it's over 100), just because you made me laugh. This is just one example.
The really strange thing is APK keeps saying I'm downmodding him when, if I had unlimited mod points, I would mod all his crapfloods to +5 so that everyone can see what a jerk he is.
Any AI intelligent enough and autonomous enough to implement the three laws is also intelligent enough and autonomous enough to ignore them.
Some people will nit-pick at "autonomous enough", but if it's not calling the shots, it's not capable of deciding to follow the rules in the first place.
And then there's alien AI, which if it operates by survival of the fittest, will wipe us out on the first encounter.
"You want to go to Silk Road 2.0? You're either nuts or on drugs."
Tell that to real estate agents in 10 years...
Will real estate agents even exist in 10 years? Companies that specialize in letting they seller sell directly to the buyer and taking much less $$$ while helping with the paper work and promotion are growing like crazy. Here they're the #1 way to sell a property, and the #1 company doing this is #1 in sales. They alone increased by 7%, while the rest of the industry declined by 8%. People like the idea of not paying a sales commission.
Game developers could, for example, use it to paint a 3D virtual battlefield in your living room. Or create large scale virtual and augmented reality experiences. Real estate companies could build interactive, 360-degree “fly-through” tours. Interior designers could scan a client’s home and test design ideas, such as moving walls or inserting furniture. Retailers can guide the user to specific places or products
We already have better solutions for 3d virtual battlefields. real estate companies already do video walk-throughs of property. Interior designers? Obviously they haven't met any. Retailers guiding user to specific products? Many stores already have that.
Your second link? Nothing whatsoever to do with 3d vision - only one camera front and one camera back.
Your third one? Same thing.
Running the 3d dev kit takes 10 watts. People who might buy this expect to use it more than 2 minutes a day (why 2 minutes? Because the higher the discharge rate, the lower the time the battery will supply current. A 10 watt drain is way beyond what today's smartphone batteries are expected to deliver. You'd be replacing the battery with a new one pretty often, too. 3d in a smartphone is a dud.
Thanks for replying, and happy new year.
The problem is disk space is incredibly cheap, so why would anyone rent from people when they can just peer with someone else they trust and each back up the other? Or just back up to multiple hard disks and take them off-site - faster backups, no dependency on bandwidth ("never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with hard disks"), and much quicker recovery times in the event of a disaster?
Nobody's going to buy a software license to participate in this sort of scheme where it makes it more likely for them to suffer a catastrophic data loss from quicker hard drive failure, never mind the inconvenience and cost of leaving the computer on 24/7.
The other problem is that backing up your files is not sufficient. You need to back up the OS as well, which means making a whole disk image (or at least a partition image). Taking a snapshot of that disk is going to require a disk with the same capacity, so you're stuck with having a second drive anyway, so why not just bring that second one off-site?
This was, IMHO, poorly thought out wrt competing technology and practicality. People who absolutely need dependable backups can't use it. People who don't need absolutely dependable backups can use free solutions or an external backup drive - 3Tb is now going for as low as $90.00 at tigerdirect, and if there's one thing we know, it's that it will get cheaper in the future.
Another reader pointed out that I was wrong in assuming that Charlie Hebdo was ad-supported. It isn't, which explains why they have so much editorial independence. For sure they'll increase their subscriber base. Rather than terrorize people, they've galvanized them. There will be much more support for anti-terrorism programs.
This site fucking sucks.
3 days ago, I saw the same story on a video game news site. Only then, they made it very clear in their story that the ebay sale was probably a fraud. The bidding was much lower until an anonymous ebay troll with no feedback kept artificially inflating the bid.
So thanks for the news which is both incorrect and old.
Instead of bitching and moaning about it, why didn't you just submit a better summary yourself 3 days ago?
What's worse is that we let these wrong perceptions of what's appropriate influence our behavior. Two women hugging? Nothing wrong there. Two men hugging "OMG gays engaging in a public display of affection cover your eyes!" And so what if they ARE gay? At least the newer television shows are normalizing displays of affection in same-sex relationships.
Now if we can just get rid of the anti-stereotype politically correct ads that show men are always the helpless dummies and women are always coming to the rescue ... these are just as corrosive as the previous generation ads where women were dumb blondes and men ruled the roost.
People with bandwidth caps are going to hate this. People with "soft" bandwidth caps (throttling after x gb) are also going to hate this. But I think the worst is that it now incentivizes people to install a trojan on your system and rent out your storage space without you knowing, same as they did for bitcoin mining.
Storj is based on blockchain technology and peer-to-peer protocols to provide the most secure, private, and encrypted cloud storage.
That's what they all say. Funny how it never works out that way.
Fair enough. The chattering class always needs something to chatter about - just like they were calling for the ban on "The Last Temptation of Christ" even before it was released. People are sheeple :-)
Thank you for correcting me. I guess this gives them the editorial freedom that lets them take the stands they do.
First, the money google paid into the fund was a business decision - no more extortionate than any other business decision, and negotiated with the French government, which didn't give french publishers what they were asking for.
Second, the problem is that the people backing these terrorists, while fully aware that it's not google funding this, can use the apparent link to target google for some mentally ill nutjob who is open to irrational suggestions.
Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy
Troll much?
Did I imagine this video? Did I imagine these reactions? As I said, I believe this is what we'd all be outraged about if the CH attacks hadn't occurred the exact same day that the video was released.
From the article: "Watching it, I realised that the intensity (Sia’s “emotional content”) was the reason it was jarring – the mere fact that the video wasn’t carefully benign, cheaply titillating or just plain boring, like so much else in the genre. In Elastic Heart, the grown man and the young girl are alive with feelings for each other, running the gamut from amusement and play through to fury to despair. What isn’t there is sexuality. In fact, it baffles me how anyone could look seriously at Elastic Heart and claim to see any sexual content whatsoever."
Any "sexuality" is in your head, same as the comments collected on that obscure website. The vast majority of the comments I saw on youtube were telling people to watch the video a second time if they thought it had anything to do with pedophilia.
What's outrageous (and maybe this video is a good way to point it out) is that we've pathologized any contact between even a father and daughter, to the point where fathers have become hyper-vigilant about not showing many displays of affection in public, of hugging for what seems to some people a second too long, saying "I love you sweetie", etc.
Don't bother trying to reason with him. He thinks we can't see the forest through the trees. I say he's not close enough to what's going on in machine learning/opencv to appreciate the promise the future holds. I'm killing time right now pushing opencv to my Jetson TK1 I got for Christmas. It doesn't bother me that people like him don't "get it". They'll be playing catchup when the job market shifts again.
Oh, I get it - but there's no real use for a 3d camera in a smartphone, even putting aside the power consumption (your kit takes ~10 watts). The average smartphone would run for maybe 10-15 minutes, and get seriously hot.
Why would you need to "paint the world with qr codes?" Your phone simply does not need to extract information about its' environment from an image. If it needed to, we'd already be doing that today with 2d technology.
How about a navigation system for the blind that can tell the difference between a red light and a green light? What blind person is going to walk around holding their phone in front of them all the time (and killing the battery)? And you could do this in 2d anyway, and you'd also be better of either with a specialty device of a guide dog.
Or being able to pick your kid out of a crowd? 2d does that just fine.
Or picking someone out of a crowd in an airport? Again, 2d does that just fine.
Or finding your car in a parking lot? Unless it can see the license plate, it's not ever going to be dependable, since in a large enough parking lot you'll run into the same make, model, color and year once in a while (true story - unlocked and got into my car, couldn't figure out why the seat wasn't in its usual place, looked around inside - wasn't my car. Mine was a couple of spots over. 3d wouldn't have made a difference, since we only have plates in the rear).
Sticking a 3d camera in a phone is a really really dumb "solution" looking for a problem.
No it doesn't. You know what the internet would be outraged about right now if this attack had never happened? A pop video featuring a 28 year old man and a 12 year old girl playfighting in their underwear. We would all be incensed about the "pedophilic" content and we'd be calling for it to be banned as gross indecency. The fact that there's no overtly sexual content, and that the two actors in fact represent different facets of a single psyche, would be irrelevant, and we would all be calling for the censoring of offensive imagery. Hypocrisy.
Come off it. Even trying to compare a non-existent video with a series of murders by terrorists - troll much?