OK, answer me this: How much does a Calorie (kilocalorie) weigh? How much weight do I lose if I burn one kilocalorie, or under which conditions?
It's not an exact science. Fat contains 9 Cal/gram, so a pound (454 g) of fat can be said to contain about (9 Cal/g * 454 g) = 4086 Cal. Or you can say a kcal "weighs" 0.004 oz or 0.11 gram which is too small to be of any interest.
By far the easiest way to take 4086 Calories out of your life is not to eat them in the first place. The second-easiest is to ride a stationary bike vigorously for about TEN HOURS.
Time is being wasted with too much microscopic detail. "In light of the several recent Android vulnerabilities..." is where the question starts. From the first word, all the way down to "...a phone that's not cutting edge" is 148 words (60% of the post) describing trivial concerns and working too hard to explain (thereby only begging the question) why someone would keep old gear. That's why people are saying the problem is trivial and accusing you of holding on to old junk. Me, I applaud old junk, but anyway. Cut those 148 words and replace with, preferably nothing, or you could sum it all up with something like "Old phones still exist because of reasons." (Wow no shit? You mean it's not mandatory to buy every new phone that comes along and toss the old one?)
Sounds like a long-overdue simplification of their ridiculous & Byzantine pricing structure. Too late for them to keep me as a customer, but a step in the right direction.
On the one hand, this type of attack happens all the time and is entirely plausible. On the other hand, the US continues to try to antagonize Russia and propagandize US citizens, and unnamed sources don't exactly speak well for journalistic quality.
Hero worship is in our DNA. The more you study apes the more you see the parallels. Every pod of chimps needs its leader. Usually said leader will not be the most deserving per se but the most ruthless. Ultimately he has very little effect compared to the cooperative efforts of the pod as a whole. It's not so much that a leader is needed, but that one is wanted.
I get your point, and if the Turkish government has that many users now, just imagine how many it could have if it fixed that "Repressive Bullshit" bug that's been plaguing it since v.1.0
Can't think of a starker admission that government is having trouble maintaining the rule of law. Which we already knew, but still it's interesting. Picture a graph, with time on the x axis, and "rule of law" on the y axis. In between "privateering times" and "now," there's a hill with a peak occurring sometime around 1950-1960, and now we're on the downhill side.
Everybody who buys a calculator doesn't get to be an engineer either, but all engineers start out by buying calculators. Newcomers are the future experts, and they also bring new ideas. Since the "already troubled" IT industry keeps producing shitty software, it sounds like maybe not enough people and not the right kind of people are currently doing it.
Anyway everyone has a computer, why shouldn't they be able to properly tell it what to do? Don't we sit around and make fun of passive "end users" who don't know jack? And yet all good software is made by understanding what users want/need. The typical programmer has certain blind spots that impact his (yes it's usually a he) ability to do that. So the more "users" you turn into "coders," the wider the bandwidth of that communication channel, and the software gets better inevitably.
You still need a way to sort out the good from the bad, but that too, is enhanced the more people know about coding.
And can it be loud too? Loud and take up the whole road? And shining lights at you arrogantly like a cop? A big mechanized searchlight-sweeping hunter-killer from a present more horrible than the Skynet future? K great guys thanks, love you lots!!! XOXO
Hey if I dare to walk outdoors without a car wrapped around me, can the auto makers please make sure to shine an obnoxious light in my face? I was just thinking cars don't dominate public space thoroughly enough, and the lights they currently use don't actively target my face for maximum annoyance/humiliation.
Someone turning 65 this year, was born in 1950. If we take 1980 as a rough date for when personal computers became affordable & popular, that means in all likelihood this person spent 30 years with NO COMPUTER. I find it hard to believe someone like this, with 20, 30, 40 computerless years under their belt, can have their life RUINED by not using them in their later years. In other words for every elder who is heart-wrenchingly and helplessly falling out of step with the Great Boon, I guarantee there are at least two who are basically just blowing computers off, because they were never that attached to them in the first place.
I don't suppose anyone wants to talk about the fact that the survival of any species including humans depends 100% on males "falling in love with" females of that species and vice-versa? Or that our attention to the pursuits of the intellect and will, including all of science, are easily trumped by the reproductive urge, because life depends on it, and this urge has evolved in us to be very strong and distracting? Any species with a reproductive urge that is not strong and distracting is bound for the evolutionary scrap heap.
So the guy is correct on both counts. The next sentence is the dubious part: Whether "girls" cry when you criticize them... well yeah they're usually called women actually, and whether they cry or not depends on who it is, how narcissistic she is, what culture you're in, the degree to which she has "fallen in love with" the criticizer, what kind of day she's having, and how much of an ass the criticizer is being in their criticism.
See, you summed it up pretty clearly in two sentences. Why all the lengthy "attempts to clarify?" It's almost like Microsoft is not the paragon of honesty. Or maybe they're just panicky that nobody cares anymore. Either way (both) they remind me of myself 10 years ago making up an overwrought excuse for why I couldn't come to work.
Dual monitors are pretty essential. You don't want to be studying on the bus anyway. A consistent, quiet place where Learning takes place every day, that's the ticket. Also get a sturdy music stand, preferably with spring-loaded clips to hold the pages (or make your own, hacker), and put the inevitable, paper textbook on it. Maybe it's just a holdover from my years in public school but there's something about a book.
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If you're a child, Google is looking out for you. If you're over 50 and Google's own employee, you can suck it unless you want to sue them for 6 years to get fair treatment.
OK, answer me this: How much does a Calorie (kilocalorie) weigh? How much weight do I lose if I burn one kilocalorie, or under which conditions?
It's not an exact science. Fat contains 9 Cal/gram, so a pound (454 g) of fat can be said to contain about (9 Cal/g * 454 g) = 4086 Cal. Or you can say a kcal "weighs" 0.004 oz or 0.11 gram which is too small to be of any interest. By far the easiest way to take 4086 Calories out of your life is not to eat them in the first place. The second-easiest is to ride a stationary bike vigorously for about TEN HOURS.
Time is being wasted with too much microscopic detail. "In light of the several recent Android vulnerabilities..." is where the question starts. From the first word, all the way down to "...a phone that's not cutting edge" is 148 words (60% of the post) describing trivial concerns and working too hard to explain (thereby only begging the question) why someone would keep old gear. That's why people are saying the problem is trivial and accusing you of holding on to old junk. Me, I applaud old junk, but anyway. Cut those 148 words and replace with, preferably nothing, or you could sum it all up with something like "Old phones still exist because of reasons." (Wow no shit? You mean it's not mandatory to buy every new phone that comes along and toss the old one?)
Sounds like a long-overdue simplification of their ridiculous & Byzantine pricing structure. Too late for them to keep me as a customer, but a step in the right direction.
On the one hand, this type of attack happens all the time and is entirely plausible. On the other hand, the US continues to try to antagonize Russia and propagandize US citizens, and unnamed sources don't exactly speak well for journalistic quality.
Hero worship is in our DNA. The more you study apes the more you see the parallels. Every pod of chimps needs its leader. Usually said leader will not be the most deserving per se but the most ruthless. Ultimately he has very little effect compared to the cooperative efforts of the pod as a whole. It's not so much that a leader is needed, but that one is wanted.
I get your point, and if the Turkish government has that many users now, just imagine how many it could have if it fixed that "Repressive Bullshit" bug that's been plaguing it since v.1.0
Can't think of a starker admission that government is having trouble maintaining the rule of law. Which we already knew, but still it's interesting. Picture a graph, with time on the x axis, and "rule of law" on the y axis. In between "privateering times" and "now," there's a hill with a peak occurring sometime around 1950-1960, and now we're on the downhill side.
Everybody who buys a calculator doesn't get to be an engineer either, but all engineers start out by buying calculators. Newcomers are the future experts, and they also bring new ideas. Since the "already troubled" IT industry keeps producing shitty software, it sounds like maybe not enough people and not the right kind of people are currently doing it.
Anyway everyone has a computer, why shouldn't they be able to properly tell it what to do? Don't we sit around and make fun of passive "end users" who don't know jack? And yet all good software is made by understanding what users want/need. The typical programmer has certain blind spots that impact his (yes it's usually a he) ability to do that. So the more "users" you turn into "coders," the wider the bandwidth of that communication channel, and the software gets better inevitably. You still need a way to sort out the good from the bad, but that too, is enhanced the more people know about coding.
And can it be loud too? Loud and take up the whole road? And shining lights at you arrogantly like a cop? A big mechanized searchlight-sweeping hunter-killer from a present more horrible than the Skynet future? K great guys thanks, love you lots!!! XOXO
Hey if I dare to walk outdoors without a car wrapped around me, can the auto makers please make sure to shine an obnoxious light in my face? I was just thinking cars don't dominate public space thoroughly enough, and the lights they currently use don't actively target my face for maximum annoyance/humiliation.
Someone turning 65 this year, was born in 1950. If we take 1980 as a rough date for when personal computers became affordable & popular, that means in all likelihood this person spent 30 years with NO COMPUTER. I find it hard to believe someone like this, with 20, 30, 40 computerless years under their belt, can have their life RUINED by not using them in their later years. In other words for every elder who is heart-wrenchingly and helplessly falling out of step with the Great Boon, I guarantee there are at least two who are basically just blowing computers off, because they were never that attached to them in the first place.
Inspire your kids to be the best [name of your kid here] they can be, not any kind of Steve Jobs.
I don't suppose anyone wants to talk about the fact that the survival of any species including humans depends 100% on males "falling in love with" females of that species and vice-versa? Or that our attention to the pursuits of the intellect and will, including all of science, are easily trumped by the reproductive urge, because life depends on it, and this urge has evolved in us to be very strong and distracting? Any species with a reproductive urge that is not strong and distracting is bound for the evolutionary scrap heap.
So the guy is correct on both counts. The next sentence is the dubious part: Whether "girls" cry when you criticize them... well yeah they're usually called women actually, and whether they cry or not depends on who it is, how narcissistic she is, what culture you're in, the degree to which she has "fallen in love with" the criticizer, what kind of day she's having, and how much of an ass the criticizer is being in their criticism.
See, you summed it up pretty clearly in two sentences. Why all the lengthy "attempts to clarify?" It's almost like Microsoft is not the paragon of honesty. Or maybe they're just panicky that nobody cares anymore. Either way (both) they remind me of myself 10 years ago making up an overwrought excuse for why I couldn't come to work.
Dual monitors are pretty essential. You don't want to be studying on the bus anyway. A consistent, quiet place where Learning takes place every day, that's the ticket. Also get a sturdy music stand, preferably with spring-loaded clips to hold the pages (or make your own, hacker), and put the inevitable, paper textbook on it. Maybe it's just a holdover from my years in public school but there's something about a book.