has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases.
Worried about the real-world consequences of a feel-good measure? if you're not conservative already, you're well on your way.
You know, I used to consider myself a social liberal and economic conservative because of your point. But I have gone the other way. No I consider myself a fully blown liberal because they will at least recognize that a market failure needs fixing.
I agree in principle that we should not needlessly waste oil or produce trash. But an outright ban has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases. We have market-based regulations available that produce the desired outcome at a lower cost. Place a Pigouvian Tax on manufacturing these items. Bonus: you can marginally lower some other tax or decrease deficits.
Fundamentally I think this is the right idea. Merge the developer experience to the extent possible, i.e. outside of the interface design. Merge the retail experience. Look how much better the iPhone/iPad experience is with universal apps.
But leave the user experience separate. Because a phone is different from a tablet is different from a traditional computer. Trying for the same user experience across the board is not that great.
How knows? Maybe in the process we'll get pointer support on iPad Pros and be able to run Mac-style apps on it. That would be a big bonus in my book.
This is well intentioned, but misguided. Here's why:
We already have a problem with too many students going into low market value degrees and too few into high market value degrees. This is partially because there are many low market value degrees that are easier to earn. If you charge a fraction of future income, you are charging lower (or no) tuition for degrees that have low market value. And you are charging higher tuition for degree that have high market value.
People respond to incentives. This scheme incentivizes even more students to choose low value degrees and fewer to choose high value degrees; further exacerbating the problem. Instead we should focus on getting more students into fields that have low unemployment and high wages and to curb the number of graduates in fields with poor job prospects.
This is not to say that labor market outcomes are the only justification for a higher education. But let's face reality: most students cannot afford to pursue a degree purely for its intrinsic value. Such luxury is reserved for the aristocracy.
That's a bold statement to come from the world's largest car maker. Automotive development cycles are long. What if they get it wrong and EVs don't prove to be universally applicable; for example because some can't charge at their homes?
If I were in their shoes I would want to milk at least some ICE cars for the profit and to have a fallback plan. Wait until demand has fallen sufficiently for these legacy cars and then pull the plug.
Unless of course that is their plan and they simply won't be updating their platforms anymore but continue selling them for as long as possible. Sort of how the Crown Vic soldiered on with the same platform for a quarter century.
Apple, come on! Just give us a tower with good cooling and standard expansion slots. That's what the pros want. This shouldn't take long to design, even if you want to make it all shiny.
If you can't handle designing a tower anymore, just give us a "blessed" motherboard that we can assemble our own computer out of. No support, etc. For pros only.
It goes deeper than that for me. If it were an actual $10 app, I would be more interested. Pay once, and everyone in my family could play courtesy of Apple Family Sharing. But by making the unlock an in-app purchase, everyone in my family would have to work over $10. And then there's in-app purchases beyond that.
I almost bought it anyway because I'm about to fly internationally and would have enjoyed the diversion on the trip. But to combat privacy[sic], Nintendo requires an Internet connection to play. So that use case is out as well. That just doesn't leave me with a lot of value for $10.
If it were a regular $10 app and there were some modes I could play offline, I would have bought it at launch.
How is this different from the driver assistance package you can get in Benzes now? They cruise down to a stop-start situation and steer to keep you in your lane. Am I missing something?
A car UI should be usable without looking at it. That's why physical buttons and dials of different sizes and shapes with satisfying tactile feedback are the gold standard. Touchscreens should be limited to interaction while parked, such as setting up your sat nav.
In addition to the lost productivity, increased uncertainty, 3 points off GDP growth (estimate by Macroeconomic Advisers), there's also the plain old bill of $24 billion in shutdown and startup cost.
In Slashdot money, that would have built about 4 Large Hadron Colliders including fully funding the experiments; or about 1.5 ITERs.
Think of online learning and platforms to create great online course material not as making teachers obsolete, but as tools for teachers, which will enable them to do a lot more than they could previously with the time they had. [...] Blogging sites and online news did not make journalists obsolete, rather created 10 million journalists, while making news much more interactive and exciting. In much the same manner, online learning has the potential to transform education.
Agarwal liked that line so much, he used it in the answer to two questions about the future of lecturers. But let's be real here. Online news has not been good for journalists. Arguably it has been good for the public in terms of access to journalism or journalism quality; these are debatable notions that I don't want to get into.
But without a doubt journalists have been layed off in droves, salaries have fallen, and careers especially at the low end have ended. Just look at what has happened to local newspapers. Even the premier papers like the NYT have fallen on hard times.
So maybe MOOCs are a good idea. Maybe they'll make education more accessible, cheaper, meritocratic, higher quality, etc. Let's talk about that. But let us not pretend that it isn't very bad news for all but the very top tier of instructors, and perhaps even bad news for them. Pointing this out is not a sufficient argument against MOOCs. All sorts of job fields have been made obsolete by technology.
I dislike the spin of pretending this is good news for instructors though.
This article, like many others, misses an important point. Even if colleges hold their total expenditures to the rate of inflation, state support has been declining dramatically over the past decades. As a consequences students are picking up a greater share of the total expenditures through tuition. Clearly that will result in tuition rising at a rate faster than inflation.
If you want to attack wasteful college expenditures, which is a worthwhile topic, you must focus on total expenditures per unit of size (student, degree, credit hour, whatever). Looking at only the part of the expenditure financed by tuition is highly misleading. Unless we're talking about for-profit colleges. Those are sucking the lifeblood out of college-bound youth. Just look at the per degree debt levels of college loans that go to for-profits. "Among all bachelor's degree recipients, median debt was about $7,960 at public four-year institutions, $17,040 at private not-for-profit four-year institutions, and $31,190 at for-profit institutions." [http://www.asa.org/policy/resources/stats/]
They said that if the US is about to start a nuclear war they reserve the right to make a pre-emptive strike, just like all nuclear armed countries do. There is no threat of action, merely a warning to the US that NK will defend itself.
Actually, they are at war. There's a cease-fire in place, there's no fighting to speak of, but the Korean war hasn't actually ended.
Correction to two posts above:
1. Not every nuclear nation reserves the right to a pre-emptive strike. Russia for example has a no-first-use policy. The U.S. on the other hand changed to a more aggressive stance under Bush II, where it may use ("mini") nukes to attack targets not reachable by conventional weapons.
2. N.K. has quit the armistice with an effective date of March 11. So ever so technically we'll be back to an active war.
True he might not have anything on him at the time that he sent the email, but he may have something now.
If fat face is smart he sent a slightly different email to each department to narrow down his list of suspects.
I would hope the leaker would be smart enough not to leak this email. Presumably it was leaked somewhere else since it was sent to a large number of employees.
iPads in the classroom can be a great tool. But here's the thing. You have to plan for it before adoption.
Projection: AirPlay, HDMI, or VGA? Documents: KeyNote, Quicktime, PDF; or maybe go to something less prepared and more on the fly. It can be neat to have a blackboard in your hand that projects on the screen. Storage: Internal cloud, iBooks/iTunes for education where you can create your own courses with files, Moodle.
etc, etc. And only after you've worked these things out, you then beta-test by having a few tech savvy instructors run courses with them. Collect feedback. Discuss. Revise.
For the love of gods, don't just buy a bunch of hardware, hand it to people, and tell them to go educate. How's that supposed to work?
"Flying Coffin." Interesting nickname. In my home country it was called the Widow Maker. Erich Hartmann, the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of air warfare, called it fundamentally flawed and unfit for service. Lockheed's money caused his superiors to force him into early retirement. 115 German pilots were killed in non-combat missions while piloting the F104.
Ohhhh, poor AT&T. Your regulator has some teeth and is preserving the bit of competition that still exists in wireless? We all feel so very very bad for you.
Everybody's a critic, including myself. So you're about to have to read some strong responses. But please keep in that, IMHO, there's still no place on the Web like Slashdot. So thank you for keeping it together, warts and all.
Not necessarily. The Fed could sterilize the move by selling off an amount of Treasuries equal to the value of the coin and destroying the money it receives. Then the money supply would be unaffected. Effectively the Treasury would be proxy borrowing by having the Fed sell Treasuries, which have already been counted against the debt limit, instead of selling new Treasuries itself, which it cannot legally do.
It's only inflationary if the money supply is increased.
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has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases.
Worried about the real-world consequences of a feel-good measure? if you're not conservative already, you're well on your way.
You know, I used to consider myself a social liberal and economic conservative because of your point. But I have gone the other way. No I consider myself a fully blown liberal because they will at least recognize that a market failure needs fixing.
I agree in principle that we should not needlessly waste oil or produce trash. But an outright ban has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases. We have market-based regulations available that produce the desired outcome at a lower cost. Place a Pigouvian Tax on manufacturing these items. Bonus: you can marginally lower some other tax or decrease deficits.
Fundamentally I think this is the right idea. Merge the developer experience to the extent possible, i.e. outside of the interface design. Merge the retail experience. Look how much better the iPhone/iPad experience is with universal apps.
But leave the user experience separate. Because a phone is different from a tablet is different from a traditional computer. Trying for the same user experience across the board is not that great.
How knows? Maybe in the process we'll get pointer support on iPad Pros and be able to run Mac-style apps on it. That would be a big bonus in my book.
This is well intentioned, but misguided. Here's why:
We already have a problem with too many students going into low market value degrees and too few into high market value degrees. This is partially because there are many low market value degrees that are easier to earn. If you charge a fraction of future income, you are charging lower (or no) tuition for degrees that have low market value. And you are charging higher tuition for degree that have high market value.
People respond to incentives. This scheme incentivizes even more students to choose low value degrees and fewer to choose high value degrees; further exacerbating the problem. Instead we should focus on getting more students into fields that have low unemployment and high wages and to curb the number of graduates in fields with poor job prospects.
This is not to say that labor market outcomes are the only justification for a higher education. But let's face reality: most students cannot afford to pursue a degree purely for its intrinsic value. Such luxury is reserved for the aristocracy.
That's a bold statement to come from the world's largest car maker. Automotive development cycles are long. What if they get it wrong and EVs don't prove to be universally applicable; for example because some can't charge at their homes?
If I were in their shoes I would want to milk at least some ICE cars for the profit and to have a fallback plan. Wait until demand has fallen sufficiently for these legacy cars and then pull the plug.
Unless of course that is their plan and they simply won't be updating their platforms anymore but continue selling them for as long as possible. Sort of how the Crown Vic soldiered on with the same platform for a quarter century.
Apple, come on! Just give us a tower with good cooling and standard expansion slots. That's what the pros want. This shouldn't take long to design, even if you want to make it all shiny.
If you can't handle designing a tower anymore, just give us a "blessed" motherboard that we can assemble our own computer out of. No support, etc. For pros only.
It goes deeper than that for me. If it were an actual $10 app, I would be more interested. Pay once, and everyone in my family could play courtesy of Apple Family Sharing. But by making the unlock an in-app purchase, everyone in my family would have to work over $10. And then there's in-app purchases beyond that.
I almost bought it anyway because I'm about to fly internationally and would have enjoyed the diversion on the trip. But to combat privacy[sic], Nintendo requires an Internet connection to play. So that use case is out as well. That just doesn't leave me with a lot of value for $10.
If it were a regular $10 app and there were some modes I could play offline, I would have bought it at launch.
How is this different from the driver assistance package you can get in Benzes now? They cruise down to a stop-start situation and steer to keep you in your lane. Am I missing something?
A car UI should be usable without looking at it. That's why physical buttons and dials of different sizes and shapes with satisfying tactile feedback are the gold standard. Touchscreens should be limited to interaction while parked, such as setting up your sat nav.
And nothing of value was lost. Or gained.
In addition to the lost productivity, increased uncertainty, 3 points off GDP growth (estimate by Macroeconomic Advisers), there's also the plain old bill of $24 billion in shutdown and startup cost.
In Slashdot money, that would have built about 4 Large Hadron Colliders including fully funding the experiments; or about 1.5 ITERs.
Think of online learning and platforms to create great online course material not as making teachers obsolete, but as tools for teachers, which will enable them to do a lot more than they could previously with the time they had. [...] Blogging sites and online news did not make journalists obsolete, rather created 10 million journalists, while making news much more interactive and exciting. In much the same manner, online learning has the potential to transform education.
Agarwal liked that line so much, he used it in the answer to two questions about the future of lecturers. But let's be real here. Online news has not been good for journalists. Arguably it has been good for the public in terms of access to journalism or journalism quality; these are debatable notions that I don't want to get into.
But without a doubt journalists have been layed off in droves, salaries have fallen, and careers especially at the low end have ended. Just look at what has happened to local newspapers. Even the premier papers like the NYT have fallen on hard times.
So maybe MOOCs are a good idea. Maybe they'll make education more accessible, cheaper, meritocratic, higher quality, etc. Let's talk about that. But let us not pretend that it isn't very bad news for all but the very top tier of instructors, and perhaps even bad news for them. Pointing this out is not a sufficient argument against MOOCs. All sorts of job fields have been made obsolete by technology.
I dislike the spin of pretending this is good news for instructors though.
This article, like many others, misses an important point. Even if colleges hold their total expenditures to the rate of inflation, state support has been declining dramatically over the past decades. As a consequences students are picking up a greater share of the total expenditures through tuition. Clearly that will result in tuition rising at a rate faster than inflation.
If you want to attack wasteful college expenditures, which is a worthwhile topic, you must focus on total expenditures per unit of size (student, degree, credit hour, whatever). Looking at only the part of the expenditure financed by tuition is highly misleading. Unless we're talking about for-profit colleges. Those are sucking the lifeblood out of college-bound youth. Just look at the per degree debt levels of college loans that go to for-profits. "Among all bachelor's degree recipients, median debt was about $7,960 at public four-year institutions, $17,040 at private not-for-profit four-year institutions, and $31,190 at for-profit institutions." [http://www.asa.org/policy/resources/stats/]
They said that if the US is about to start a nuclear war they reserve the right to make a pre-emptive strike, just like all nuclear armed countries do. There is no threat of action, merely a warning to the US that NK will defend itself.
Actually, they are at war. There's a cease-fire in place, there's no fighting to speak of, but the Korean war hasn't actually ended.
Correction to two posts above:
1. Not every nuclear nation reserves the right to a pre-emptive strike. Russia for example has a no-first-use policy. The U.S. on the other hand changed to a more aggressive stance under Bush II, where it may use ("mini") nukes to attack targets not reachable by conventional weapons.
2. N.K. has quit the armistice with an effective date of March 11. So ever so technically we'll be back to an active war.
Mental note: Toshiba laptops are now worth less because the manuals will be harder to come by.
True he might not have anything on him at the time that he sent the email, but he may have something now.
If fat face is smart he sent a slightly different email to each department to narrow down his list of suspects.
I would hope the leaker would be smart enough not to leak this email. Presumably it was leaked somewhere else since it was sent to a large number of employees.
iPads in the classroom can be a great tool. But here's the thing. You have to plan for it before adoption.
Projection: AirPlay, HDMI, or VGA?
Documents: KeyNote, Quicktime, PDF; or maybe go to something less prepared and more on the fly. It can be neat to have a blackboard in your hand that projects on the screen.
Storage: Internal cloud, iBooks/iTunes for education where you can create your own courses with files, Moodle.
etc, etc. And only after you've worked these things out, you then beta-test by having a few tech savvy instructors run courses with them. Collect feedback. Discuss. Revise.
For the love of gods, don't just buy a bunch of hardware, hand it to people, and tell them to go educate. How's that supposed to work?
And there'll be nothing wrong with the company as it won't exist in the near future.
Don't they realize that the more often they change the ruleset the more often players have to spend money buying new books?
Oh...
"Flying Coffin." Interesting nickname. In my home country it was called the Widow Maker. Erich Hartmann, the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of air warfare, called it fundamentally flawed and unfit for service. Lockheed's money caused his superiors to force him into early retirement. 115 German pilots were killed in non-combat missions while piloting the F104.
Ohhhh, poor AT&T. Your regulator has some teeth and is preserving the bit of competition that still exists in wireless? We all feel so very very bad for you.
After all these years, I still consider the WRT54GL to be the best wireless router for home use. I don't know if that's impressive or sad.
Consider giving Tomato a spin for firmware. Very user friendly, especially for slightly advanced uses like bridging.
Bald-faced lie. Sorry, I'll stop now.
Everybody's a critic, including myself. So you're about to have to read some strong responses. But please keep in that, IMHO, there's still no place on the Web like Slashdot. So thank you for keeping it together, warts and all.
Not necessarily. The Fed could sterilize the move by selling off an amount of Treasuries equal to the value of the coin and destroying the money it receives. Then the money supply would be unaffected. Effectively the Treasury would be proxy borrowing by having the Fed sell Treasuries, which have already been counted against the debt limit, instead of selling new Treasuries itself, which it cannot legally do.
It's only inflationary if the money supply is increased.
I believe the technical term is Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/