If that poster is still reading: why does it make you so angry? What is wrong with someone going past? You're going to get to your destination at a pace you are obviously happy with , since you chose to go at the speed you are doing; so what is wrong with someone else getting to their destination at their pace? It doesn't affect you..
It doesn't make me one tenth as angry as apparently one sentence from my end made you.
It's all a matter of degrees. You took my "throw away" statement and blew it up to -1 troll proportions. Who's the control freak now? ha!
But, seriously, read my post again. I'm not applauding the latest traffic camera. I hate traffic cameras and I would think the con I pointed out makes that clear. Do you really think I want some camera on me? No. Not if all it's going to do is ding me and anyone else for going 5.01 mph over the limit.
I actually wish they'd spend more time addressing your pro point. Rather than just making sure people aren't speeding, how about making sure people aren't passing people at too great a difference in speed? Or cutting people off with too little space?
Of course I agree. Simple speeding is a lesser danger on the road. It's just easier to spot speeders than unsafe driving practices (for a computerized camera)
pro: Who hasn't been passed by a jerk going 15 (at least) over the limit and wished there were someone around to catch them. con: Does anyone have 'perfect speed' all the time? Especially coming down hills or just going with the flow of traffic?
cars tagged with a green dot are traveling below the speed limit, those with a yellow marking are chugging along within an acceptable range above the limit, while vehicles with a red tab are just asking for trouble
There's some leeway built into the system, and it looks like it's about 5 (mph?)
We don't come here to read useless details about comparatively minor operating systems in a comparatively minor segment of the computing market.
Since when? I've read everything I 'know' about os/2 from slashdot. Heck, linux, *bsd, and Sun news have always been covered here. Mobile computing and mobile OSes are just another step on the trail. It may be annoying that there's more activity with the new OSes, but that doesn't make them irrelevant.
It isn't just computer science that the world ignores. People still smoke, go on drinking binges, and smoke pot - all of which are very bad for you. But, for a number of reasons, medical research into the impact of the aforementioned's affects on human health go ignored or even denied. There's a paper (written by Case and Shiller in 2003 named "is there a bubble in the housing market?") where a pair of economists CLEARLY suspect irrational behavior in the residential real estate market. Back in 2003! But it wasn't convenient for society to hear that message, so they didn't.
Ultimately, people pay attention and homage to whatever or whoever they *think* is important.
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I agree, it reads like a 'road often traveled' list. He's been there, done that, and here's his quality control list.
I'm lucky enough to say I've met him. He really is *very* well thought-out in his ideas. Too bad I was a college sophomore at the time or I would have said more to him.
PS: I find it hilarious that your repliers are defending Van Halen. I'm not saying they're wrong, I just find it hilarious.
Yes, I can see how owning a no longer supported by anyone tablet with an OS with NO FUTURE is preferable to an "also ran" that still has a company behind it.
Yes, there isn't a native email application...but who cares? Browse to whatever webmail you're using and you're fine.
(Of course that doesn't work if you're not using something with a web front end. But even my old alma mater has a web front end for its email and it's got 1500 students.)
Suppose I know some amount (X) of C now (Just out of college)
Will that be less valuable after having 2 years experience in the field?
No, it wont. He's talking about *certain* IT skills. I'm going to go out on a limb and bet he's referring to the kind of tools you learn in a simple ITT-Tech type certification program.
Legible as in readable for laymen? I hope not. [...] But if I want to read any of the articles in those Journals I have to have an affiliation with the university, or I have to physically go there and download them there and then. And then I can only take them home on paper. How oldfashioned!
No, just better written. Everyone in academia has to publish and put forth a facade of being 'well read', but some articles are just soooo poorly written and/or poorly edited. If there were more people actively attempting to read academic journals, at some point the feedback *should* help produce better articles. (Just a hypothesis of mine.)
Yeah, if nothing else they could have an 'online only' reader. Load up whatever pdfs you want in their embedded reader and you can only read 'em there. It's still not ideal, but it's better than a drive, right?
Delayed open access: Articles more than 12 months old (biological sciences) and 24 months old (physical sciences) are freely available to all. This excludes the Digital Journal Archive (1665-2000).
I should clarify, by "resource heavy" I mean it's on par with firing up another browser (firefox, say, along with chrome if you're already using chrome). It's not that bad, especially if the wm you load is lightweight.
You add one. You can run X on its own 'VT' (a Mac OS X version of a VT anyway). Just install the X11 server (X11.app) and under preferences click "run in full screen mode". You use a key combo to switch between wms. It's resource heavy, but it's fine.
You can install apps and tweak the system to pretty much any reasonable degree.
Yeah but if I want to tweak it to do ANYTHING outside of that slice of 'reasonableness' I do not want to have to drag my computer kicking and screaming behind me.
You're complaining about them letting you install any 3rd party software, in the general, now too?
"Man I hate this Ferrari...only let's me go 180 mph..."
Perhaps he does not want the comparatively walled (though curated?) garden of a mac.
The "walled garden" phrase refers to how every application on an iPod/iPhone/iPad has to come from the App Store (same way with a BB Playbook, btw). *That's* a walled garden. Currently, I have htop, ipython, the KDE desktop (konquerer, kpat, etc etc), and much more installed on my OS 10.6 MacBook via macports. While iOS may be a "walled garden", Mac COMPUTERS are *not* a walled garden. Not any more than Windows is, at least.
Remember, folks: Just because the function, locally, looks linear doesn't mean it's globally linear. Many, many functions (all the one's in your standard calculus text) can be locally approximated by linear functions, but globally act radically different.
The government program exists in a market where the private market doesn't want to go. That's a significant purpose of the government in a capitalist society.
-Rick
Bingo! Here's your gold star for the day! http://sharkeysgaragegym.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gold-star.jpg
If prices are artificially higher, we should be seeing new colleges forming. (I wish they weren't online colleges but that's a tangent.) For that matter, it wouldn't be a serious problem to change FAFSA's policies to prefer funding non-profit/public colleges. Maybe throw in an ad campaign to promote often over looked local, state colleges.
I don't like hearing talk about him being rich and therefore unable to empathize with anyone else. It makes me think that his opponents in this case have no better points to make than an appeal to emotion and the language of class division.
You're railing against a problem the US' political system's had since before it had a two party system. I don't agree with it either, though. It's not as bad as half the things I hear spewed about Al Gore (fully 11 years later...), just to keep this 'even'.
I often wonder just where Ron Paul gets his theories, but they're definitely the work of an isolated mind. He's either ignored evidence to the contrary of his many opinions in the past, or actively avoided informing himself. Or, he's simply taking his libertarian thoughts to their logical extremes so that someone will listen to him. None of those options depend on his bank account...they beg at his motives, but they're 'above the belt'.
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If that poster is still reading: why does it make you so angry? What is wrong with someone going past? You're going to get to your destination at a pace you are obviously happy with , since you chose to go at the speed you are doing; so what is wrong with someone else getting to their destination at their pace? It doesn't affect you..
It doesn't make me one tenth as angry as apparently one sentence from my end made you.
It's all a matter of degrees. You took my "throw away" statement and blew it up to -1 troll proportions. Who's the control freak now? ha!
But, seriously, read my post again. I'm not applauding the latest traffic camera. I hate traffic cameras and I would think the con I pointed out makes that clear. Do you really think I want some camera on me? No. Not if all it's going to do is ding me and anyone else for going 5.01 mph over the limit.
I actually wish they'd spend more time addressing your pro point. Rather than just making sure people aren't speeding, how about making sure people aren't passing people at too great a difference in speed? Or cutting people off with too little space?
Of course I agree. Simple speeding is a lesser danger on the road. It's just easier to spot speeders than unsafe driving practices (for a computerized camera)
I've never seen my cruise control be more than about 2-3mph over whatever I've set it at, even on downward slopes.
This isn't meant for *just* rural roads.
pro: Who hasn't been passed by a jerk going 15 (at least) over the limit and wished there were someone around to catch them.
con: Does anyone have 'perfect speed' all the time? Especially coming down hills or just going with the flow of traffic?
cars tagged with a green dot are traveling below the speed limit, those with a yellow marking are chugging along within an acceptable range above the limit, while vehicles with a red tab are just asking for trouble
There's some leeway built into the system, and it looks like it's about 5 (mph?)
We don't come here to read useless details about comparatively minor operating systems in a comparatively minor segment of the computing market.
Since when? I've read everything I 'know' about os/2 from slashdot. Heck, linux, *bsd, and Sun news have always been covered here. Mobile computing and mobile OSes are just another step on the trail. It may be annoying that there's more activity with the new OSes, but that doesn't make them irrelevant.
Nerdy news *is* non-Windows news!
It isn't just computer science that the world ignores. People still smoke, go on drinking binges, and smoke pot - all of which are very bad for you. But, for a number of reasons, medical research into the impact of the aforementioned's affects on human health go ignored or even denied. There's a paper (written by Case and Shiller in 2003 named "is there a bubble in the housing market?") where a pair of economists CLEARLY suspect irrational behavior in the residential real estate market. Back in 2003! But it wasn't convenient for society to hear that message, so they didn't.
Ultimately, people pay attention and homage to whatever or whoever they *think* is important.
I agree, it reads like a 'road often traveled' list. He's been there, done that, and here's his quality control list.
I'm lucky enough to say I've met him. He really is *very* well thought-out in his ideas. Too bad I was a college sophomore at the time or I would have said more to him.
PS: I find it hilarious that your repliers are defending Van Halen. I'm not saying they're wrong, I just find it hilarious.
"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
Gandalf lived in a land of make believe with faeries and hobbits. He's off the path of reality!
by case and shiller. go look it up, read it, and toss this out.
modeling people is difficult if not impossible, and they dont always listen when economists DO know whats going on
Yes, I can see how owning a no longer supported by anyone tablet with an OS with NO FUTURE is preferable to an "also ran" that still has a company behind it.
Yes, there isn't a native email application...but who cares? Browse to whatever webmail you're using and you're fine.
(Of course that doesn't work if you're not using something with a web front end. But even my old alma mater has a web front end for its email and it's got 1500 students.)
Suppose I know some amount (X) of C now (Just out of college)
Will that be less valuable after having 2 years experience in the field?
No, it wont. He's talking about *certain* IT skills. I'm going to go out on a limb and bet he's referring to the kind of tools you learn in a simple ITT-Tech type certification program.
Legible as in readable for laymen? I hope not. [...] But if I want to read any of the articles in those Journals I have to have an affiliation with the university, or I have to physically go there and download them there and then. And then I can only take them home on paper. How oldfashioned!
No, just better written. Everyone in academia has to publish and put forth a facade of being 'well read', but some articles are just soooo poorly written and/or poorly edited. If there were more people actively attempting to read academic journals, at some point the feedback *should* help produce better articles. (Just a hypothesis of mine.)
Yeah, if nothing else they could have an 'online only' reader. Load up whatever pdfs you want in their embedded reader and you can only read 'em there. It's still not ideal, but it's better than a drive, right?
I think we'll see much more open access. It'd be great, since a crucial part of all academia *is* communication with the lay audience.
Who knows, maybe 50 years from now we'll have journal articles that are actually legible. >:)
Answered my own question:
Delayed open access:
Articles more than 12 months old (biological sciences) and 24 months old (physical sciences) are freely available to all. This excludes the Digital Journal Archive (1665-2000).
from: http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/about.xhtml
I looked over their website, and I couldn't find the answer to this basic question...
From when to when? What's the earliest year of archives and the latest year? Surely this is a lagged version of whatever they charge for access.
I love my Apple products, just full disclosure, but all things come to an end. Lives and the discussion about those lives all eventually end.
Though we might be talking All Jobs All The Time, for now, it wont always be this way. That doesn't belittle his memory in the slightest, of course.
I should clarify, by "resource heavy" I mean it's on par with firing up another browser (firefox, say, along with chrome if you're already using chrome). It's not that bad, especially if the wm you load is lightweight.
You add one. You can run X on its own 'VT' (a Mac OS X version of a VT anyway). Just install the X11 server (X11.app) and under preferences click "run in full screen mode". You use a key combo to switch between wms. It's resource heavy, but it's fine.
You can install apps and tweak the system to pretty much any reasonable degree.
Yeah but if I want to tweak it to do ANYTHING outside of that slice of 'reasonableness' I do not want to have to drag my computer kicking and screaming behind me.
You're complaining about them letting you install any 3rd party software, in the general, now too?
"Man I hate this Ferrari...only let's me go 180 mph..."
Perhaps he does not want the comparatively walled (though curated?) garden of a mac.
The "walled garden" phrase refers to how every application on an iPod/iPhone/iPad has to come from the App Store (same way with a BB Playbook, btw). *That's* a walled garden. Currently, I have htop, ipython, the KDE desktop (konquerer, kpat, etc etc), and much more installed on my OS 10.6 MacBook via macports. While iOS may be a "walled garden", Mac COMPUTERS are *not* a walled garden. Not any more than Windows is, at least.
Remember, folks: Just because the function, locally, looks linear doesn't mean it's globally linear. Many, many functions (all the one's in your standard calculus text) can be locally approximated by linear functions, but globally act radically different.
The government program exists in a market where the private market doesn't want to go. That's a significant purpose of the government in a capitalist society.
-Rick
Bingo! Here's your gold star for the day! http://sharkeysgaragegym.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gold-star.jpg
If prices are artificially higher, we should be seeing new colleges forming. (I wish they weren't online colleges but that's a tangent.) For that matter, it wouldn't be a serious problem to change FAFSA's policies to prefer funding non-profit/public colleges. Maybe throw in an ad campaign to promote often over looked local, state colleges.
I don't like hearing talk about him being rich and therefore unable to empathize with anyone else. It makes me think that his opponents in this case have no better points to make than an appeal to emotion and the language of class division.
You're railing against a problem the US' political system's had since before it had a two party system. I don't agree with it either, though. It's not as bad as half the things I hear spewed about Al Gore (fully 11 years later...), just to keep this 'even'.
I often wonder just where Ron Paul gets his theories, but they're definitely the work of an isolated mind. He's either ignored evidence to the contrary of his many opinions in the past, or actively avoided informing himself. Or, he's simply taking his libertarian thoughts to their logical extremes so that someone will listen to him. None of those options depend on his bank account...they beg at his motives, but they're 'above the belt'.
Yeah, I wish conditions such as that lowered the priority of an exploit.