I worked at my college's pool hall for a couple months. It was a great way to socialize, but paid just minimum wage. Definitely not the sort of place anyone's expected to work long term.
The Star Trek trek that I thought was the most futuristic was the Personal Waste Transporters that would automatically beam out solid, liquid, and gaseous human waste, plus dirt, oil, etc.; which eliminated the need for toilets, showers, etc. from Star Ships and Away Missions.
I don't think that's quite right. They just never showed bathroom use. Their Replicators would turn their waste (bio and non-bio) into whatever they wanted "via converting mass to energy to mass."
I will not buy one to fund the "slavery" of Foxconn workers.
I agree. The trade off is that everything else consumer-IT related is also made by forced Chinese labor. (read that: I sure see the name "Foxconn" labeled on way too many of the stuff I purchase.)
You guessed what my gripe was about really well. The mini iPad sounds really useful...too bad anything iphone related sucks the oxygen out of anything else they might like to announce.
So in the future they'll have interest payments to meet in addition to their other factor costs for creating displays.
In the short term, they can continue to meet whatever short-term debt obligations they have. (Bonus question: What are likely to be their short term debt obligations?)
In the long term...who knows? Their future ability to pay appears less secure.
He just wants to get all the geniuses with the foresight to plan properly off of the planet. That way when Lord Xeno from Omicron III arrives there will be little resistance both now and in the future.
Not sure which of you to reply to, so I'll reply to you. What I said is:
most of the time in a car is uneventful. It's the 5% of the time where something really bizarre happens that we have to be prepared for the rest of the time.
Driving a car *really is* the basics 95% of the time: go forward until you come to the stop sign, stop, wait three seconds, etc, etc, etc. Most of the time, driving is boring. But perhaps 5% (or less) of the time something unexpected happens and the driver has to immediately avoid an accident (of some kind). The 95% of the time where everything goes according to plan causes people (eventually) to become blind to the random, unexpected events. It's like radar technicians. They can only stare at the screen for twenty minutes at a time. The technician's eyes start missing important details after twenty minutes. These are trained people at the top of their field, and they're only good for twenty minute shifts. It doesn't have anything to do with ability and everything to do with being human.
Yep! The only caveat being Amendments, once ratified, may only be "interpreted" by the SCOTUS. So, if they don't like abortion but there's an amendment saying "abortion is ok"...they can't come down on a law with the reasoning that "abortion is not ok".
Yes, and the vitriol the AC expresses proves my point better than a thousand words could. People get emotionally clouded, distracted, or even just fail to register all information (because we only have 2 eyes after all). It's best if they're not in charge of piloting thousands of pounds of metal at speed.
So make vehicles only identify where they are (and how fast they're moving, etc). You don't have to put an ID to every vehicle...just like a you don't have to identify individual electrons to direct electron flow competently.
I know our entire world is built against it, at the moment. But I hope that, sometime in my life, robotic systems replace humans in the driver's seat. Driving is one task we humans seem inept at safely executing. It makes sense, most of the time in a car is uneventful. It's the 5% of the time where something really bizarre happens that we have to be prepared for the rest of the time. But human attention span doesn't work that way and so people get lazy, start slurping sodas (or worse), and people wind up dead. So, I hope to see the human driver become a thing of the past in my lifetime. It may not happen, but it is worthy of working toward.
I'm not sure you're correct on that. I've read comments elsewhere suggesting it's a modified Fedora. Further, the statement you listed does not say anything about Qubes itself. It says there are microkernels that are verified as "secure", but that X itself is not.
Funny that my honest question gets modded down. This is not an obvious question that's readily apparent from the blog post nor project website.
I agree to "pay for performance" so long as the performance is measured in a rational way. You can't set up a situation where teachers with motivated students earn more, regardless of whatever their individual contribution is. You'd need to reward adding to a student's knowledge.
As for summer breaks, I just don't see the need for taking two-three months off if the school schedule is flexible enough. Maybe devise a system where students are "endowed" with 2 or 3 months of vacation time every year. Let them take that time as they need it instead of these rigid schedules schools have now.
We need: -year round schooling (with periodic vacations because kids are humans, too). -fewer standardized tests (read that: none) -appropriate homework, tests, and projects -incentives for grades/performance (pay or decreased tuition, leeway with due dates) -highly paid teachers/professors -internship/apprenticeship programs
I can appreciate about BSD in contrast to GNU and Linux is how the kernel and userland cli tools are in lockstep and developed together by the same group of people. Seems to me that this might be a good time to extend the scope of this and develop their own DE. It doesn't have to be anything fancy with a bunch of bespoke programs just something that's "theirs" and insulates them from the shenanigans and politics on the Linux side.
The trouble is user interfaces don't seem to be their "bag". There's PC-BSD which has made inroads with its AppCafe, portsjail, and pretty good installer (needs work, but it's "user friendly" when used simply). So, maybe PC-BSD would be the place to go for a custom, BSD-UI...but I frankly doubt it. I'm guessing GUIs are just a PITA to develop, all around. They'd need to duplicate the efforts of someone like GNOME within their own project...
Random idea...maybe they could pull a "borg". Make it so that there's a very natural interface between a Windows guest-os within the BSD userland. Say you boot up your box and its BSD running the show through boot. it sets up all the services (network, file systems, etc) and leaves the "user interface" to windows (i.e. most of the video card, the entire sound system). The value-add being the machine's state is always independent of the windows guest state. Yes, you can do this now, but I'm talking about making it simple/trivial to set up.
Well, somewhat. There is quite a lot to be said for reading material *while* working on problems relevant to the material. (It's far too easy to only *read* something, and feel that you "know it".)
It's also pretty challenging to make that leap from reading to doing, no matter the subject. But, if you can do it...then you can *do* whatever you read including how to program.
...but, I can't be. Yeah, BeOS *was* awesome and I really *wanted* to see BeOS 5 (I remember one of the versions had a nifty menu system where the selector followed your selections as you drilled down).
But, come on, it's 2012. Maybe it's time to call it a day.
Actually, I take that back. I think this is just some Google summer of code project. Great for the student who ported the kernel! Not really big news outside of that, though...
Best time for such back lit devices is at night. Sigh.
Actually, no. The backlight really just competes with the ambient light. If you're in a bright, sunny room then it's going to require more light shining through the pixels for your eyes to see the picture clearly. If you're in a dark room, there's no glaring of light from other sources to mess up the image...so you need less backlighting to see the image.
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I worked at my college's pool hall for a couple months. It was a great way to socialize, but paid just minimum wage. Definitely not the sort of place anyone's expected to work long term.
The Star Trek trek that I thought was the most futuristic was the Personal Waste Transporters that would automatically beam out solid, liquid, and gaseous human waste, plus dirt, oil, etc.; which eliminated the need for toilets, showers, etc. from Star Ships and Away Missions.
I don't think that's quite right. They just never showed bathroom use. Their Replicators would turn their waste (bio and non-bio) into whatever they wanted "via converting mass to energy to mass."
Look, until we can whip matter up to our exact specifications, we can't rightly say anything we're doing is remotely similar to a "holodeck".
Sorry but fancy images on a 2D or pseudo-3D screen aren't what they're hopping about in TNG/DS9.
I will not buy one to fund the "slavery" of Foxconn workers.
I agree. The trade off is that everything else consumer-IT related is also made by forced Chinese labor. (read that: I sure see the name "Foxconn" labeled on way too many of the stuff I purchase.)
You guessed what my gripe was about really well. The mini iPad sounds really useful...too bad anything iphone related sucks the oxygen out of anything else they might like to announce.
At least not at the moment. But I do want to hear about Apple's *other new hardware*, assuming any exists...
Yes! The title crossed my eyes. The wording is uncomfortable and unfortunate.
So in the future they'll have interest payments to meet in addition to their other factor costs for creating displays.
In the short term, they can continue to meet whatever short-term debt obligations they have. (Bonus question: What are likely to be their short term debt obligations?)
In the long term...who knows? Their future ability to pay appears less secure.
He just wants to get all the geniuses with the foresight to plan properly off of the planet. That way when Lord Xeno from Omicron III arrives there will be little resistance both now and in the future.
(sarcasm)
Not sure which of you to reply to, so I'll reply to you. What I said is:
most of the time in a car is uneventful. It's the 5% of the time where something really bizarre happens that we have to be prepared for the rest of the time.
Driving a car *really is* the basics 95% of the time: go forward until you come to the stop sign, stop, wait three seconds, etc, etc, etc. Most of the time, driving is boring. But perhaps 5% (or less) of the time something unexpected happens and the driver has to immediately avoid an accident (of some kind). The 95% of the time where everything goes according to plan causes people (eventually) to become blind to the random, unexpected events. It's like radar technicians. They can only stare at the screen for twenty minutes at a time. The technician's eyes start missing important details after twenty minutes. These are trained people at the top of their field, and they're only good for twenty minute shifts. It doesn't have anything to do with ability and everything to do with being human.
Yep! The only caveat being Amendments, once ratified, may only be "interpreted" by the SCOTUS. So, if they don't like abortion but there's an amendment saying "abortion is ok"...they can't come down on a law with the reasoning that "abortion is not ok".
That's a good point! Insurance wont go the way of a dinosaur, but it should get so cheap as to be negligible.
the only people concerned with the what if's and maybe's are those who do not abide the law
Yes! Exactly! A thousand times yes! ;)
Yes, and the vitriol the AC expresses proves my point better than a thousand words could. People get emotionally clouded, distracted, or even just fail to register all information (because we only have 2 eyes after all). It's best if they're not in charge of piloting thousands of pounds of metal at speed.
So make vehicles only identify where they are (and how fast they're moving, etc). You don't have to put an ID to every vehicle...just like a you don't have to identify individual electrons to direct electron flow competently.
I know our entire world is built against it, at the moment. But I hope that, sometime in my life, robotic systems replace humans in the driver's seat. Driving is one task we humans seem inept at safely executing. It makes sense, most of the time in a car is uneventful. It's the 5% of the time where something really bizarre happens that we have to be prepared for the rest of the time. But human attention span doesn't work that way and so people get lazy, start slurping sodas (or worse), and people wind up dead. So, I hope to see the human driver become a thing of the past in my lifetime. It may not happen, but it is worthy of working toward.
Thank you! That's what I was trying to figure/find out!!
(I'm sure it's readily apparent somewhere in the documentation, I just had a difficult time finding it yesterday.)
I'm not sure you're correct on that. I've read comments elsewhere suggesting it's a modified Fedora. Further, the statement you listed does not say anything about Qubes itself. It says there are microkernels that are verified as "secure", but that X itself is not.
Funny that my honest question gets modded down. This is not an obvious question that's readily apparent from the blog post nor project website.
I agree to "pay for performance" so long as the performance is measured in a rational way. You can't set up a situation where teachers with motivated students earn more, regardless of whatever their individual contribution is. You'd need to reward adding to a student's knowledge.
As for summer breaks, I just don't see the need for taking two-three months off if the school schedule is flexible enough. Maybe devise a system where students are "endowed" with 2 or 3 months of vacation time every year. Let them take that time as they need it instead of these rigid schedules schools have now.
I've looked through the docs, and can't tell what distro this is based upon.
It's a cool thought, but it feels a little too 'new' and lacking in robustness.
We need:
-year round schooling (with periodic vacations because kids are humans, too).
-fewer standardized tests (read that: none)
-appropriate homework, tests, and projects
-incentives for grades/performance (pay or decreased tuition, leeway with due dates)
-highly paid teachers/professors
-internship/apprenticeship programs
I can appreciate about BSD in contrast to GNU and Linux is how the kernel and userland cli tools are in lockstep and developed together by the same group of people. Seems to me that this might be a good time to extend the scope of this and develop their own DE. It doesn't have to be anything fancy with a bunch of bespoke programs just something that's "theirs" and insulates them from the shenanigans and politics on the Linux side.
The trouble is user interfaces don't seem to be their "bag". There's PC-BSD which has made inroads with its AppCafe, portsjail, and pretty good installer (needs work, but it's "user friendly" when used simply). So, maybe PC-BSD would be the place to go for a custom, BSD-UI...but I frankly doubt it. I'm guessing GUIs are just a PITA to develop, all around. They'd need to duplicate the efforts of someone like GNOME within their own project...
Random idea...maybe they could pull a "borg". Make it so that there's a very natural interface between a Windows guest-os within the BSD userland. Say you boot up your box and its BSD running the show through boot. it sets up all the services (network, file systems, etc) and leaves the "user interface" to windows (i.e. most of the video card, the entire sound system). The value-add being the machine's state is always independent of the windows guest state. Yes, you can do this now, but I'm talking about making it simple/trivial to set up.
Well, somewhat. There is quite a lot to be said for reading material *while* working on problems relevant to the material. (It's far too easy to only *read* something, and feel that you "know it".)
It's also pretty challenging to make that leap from reading to doing, no matter the subject. But, if you can do it...then you can *do* whatever you read including how to program.
...but, I can't be. Yeah, BeOS *was* awesome and I really *wanted* to see BeOS 5 (I remember one of the versions had a nifty menu system where the selector followed your selections as you drilled down).
But, come on, it's 2012. Maybe it's time to call it a day.
Actually, I take that back. I think this is just some Google summer of code project. Great for the student who ported the kernel! Not really big news outside of that, though...
Best time for such back lit devices is at night. Sigh.
Actually, no. The backlight really just competes with the ambient light. If you're in a bright, sunny room then it's going to require more light shining through the pixels for your eyes to see the picture clearly. If you're in a dark room, there's no glaring of light from other sources to mess up the image...so you need less backlighting to see the image.