And then when the operator comes looking for you to fix something, you can be all like "That aint my program! Shit doesn't even look like my code! A lot of dudes we're typing in all sorts of things there, go find one of them!"
It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and, if you're the proprietor of a gaming company, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if you get stopped by the cops in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean, that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
* Goto may be used to exit a function as a stand in for "finally". * Any other use of goto is allowed unless exceptional circumstances require it, and if so, clearly document in a comment why you need to do this.
...high. Probably already diagnosed and on meds, but the committal laws in our country are so week and the health and services budgets so slashed this guy was allowed to walk around along with all the other assholes muttering to themselves on the street.
No way did someone not know he was nuts already. Criminal negligence at best.
Irony, noun: Slashdot reader tells others they are living in a vacuum and don't understand reality.
I love it here, but the "normal" here is so far from reality that its hard to not see the irony when you tell someone else they're living in a bubble. If you took/. at face value, Linux won 12 years ago, Bill Gates has made a baby-puppy-kitten hybrid just so he can stomp all three at once and get through his busy schedule faster, and Skynet became active 18 minutes after assembly of its base Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pis was complete.
I imagine it will take about 24 hours before the first dev hacks together two phone cameras on the front of this thing and then pipes the input back through the screens for an augmented reality kit.
He didn't get the assumption wrong. He said "no command line shit REQUIRED to do stuff". That didn't preclude it, and it certainly doesn't imply that Android is successful because of the command line access. There aren't too many people lining up for it because of that, despite how cool it may be.
The point of the post was that "these things make Linux more adoptable", not "my phone can do this!"
What's really behind is the visor -> eye implant's for Geordi. Given what we're seeing now with eye implants its odd they would have the big clunky visor thing instead of new eyeballs. Especially given that Data has completely artificial eye's that work ok.
Shit, someone is coming to stuff me in a locker, gotta go!
Not to mention that its fast enough you could use it for primary memory on some systems. Eliminate a whole component out of the system - that saves cost and power. I'm guessing we'll see this in embedded stuff first.
Please point me to the phone that had as tight integration, as good a web browsing experience, as populous and non-fragmented an app market, and as nice and intuitive an interface as the iPhone 1 at exactly the same time as when it came out?
Apple took disparate components and repackaged them in a way that built a market. If there was one there before, its amazing how quickly they owned it through commercials alone. Definitely not through quality of a product!
I'm far from an Apple apologist, I've owned one iPod and that's about it. (Check my posting history, I have one!) Form guides function, and vice versa, and to not recognize that fact is basically to bury your head in the sand. But give credit where credit is due - you're stretching to actually say that iPhone had 0 impact on the market, and 0 impact on how things are done.
That's complete bullshit, and that's really sad if you think that's what/. is about.
While I'm sure the apple maps thing didn't help, the SIII just seems more sleek and modern. I've had a few android phones and they've always seemed like "almost but not quite" compared to Apple. In this latest round, head to head with the IPhone5 you can't really make an argument based on interface, design, screen size, speed, app quality, etc. Its all there, and I can't help but feel like Apple got complacent. Android has seen revolutionary upgrades to its OS, IOS hasn't taken the big leaps and now they're paying for it.
"The exact type of robot to be developed also is left open, said Hong. The competition calls for neither an autonomous humanoid robot that can function on its own without instruction nor an “avatar”-like robot that would be fully controlled by an off-set human user. Hong said the robot developed by his team will operate under “supervised autonomy.”
So probably a combination of remote control for direction plus automated walking to avoid debris, etc. Just solving issues of power are going to be tough here.
I seriously doubt he used the word to be intentionally snobbish. In fact, forcing people to talk down so that "the plebes can better understand you" is arrogance in its own right. One situation where it is appropriate to use simpler language is when speaking to someone who's first language isn't English. But even then they might appreciate hearing and learning a word like "rectify", which is pretty commonly used.
Once you hit the real world, the "best guy in the room" won't be 3 years ahead of you but 20, and once the greybeard shuts you down for the first time and patiently explains why you're "awesome idea" a) will fail, b) will cost the company millions, c) is the first obvious naive solution everyone always comes up with you'll get a little bit of that chipped out of you.
I generally learn something new every day at my job, and that fact humbles me. Everyone is right sometime, and that fact humbles me, and helps me listen and see their point of view.
Have I been arrogant? Yep. Am I still? Yep. I'm pretty good at what I do, and confidence can spill over to arrogance. But once you've had your first taste of humble pie, you realize it won't be your last, and that arrogance will be tempered a bit. If you're truly good and know it, I wouldn't worry about it. If you think you're better than you are, well, that'll take care of itself too.:)
If they sell you a physical book one time, there's nothing to say you'll buy from them next time. If you're the kind of person who reads a lot, this decision can happen 10-30 times a year. Sure you might be loyal and enjoy Amazon's prompt delivery service, but you also might be in an airport or walking by a display in your neighborhood.
If they sell you a kindle you've made that ereader/tablet purchase once and will probably not do it so for a while. In between, they've got you for EVERY SINGLE purchase you're likely going to make because its very easy to get books on your kindle from Amazon, but a pain in the ass otherwise. And ebooks are as about low overhead as you can get. After costs to the publisher (which they also manage very well because they own the market) the rest is profit minus the fraction of a penny it costs to serve up 1-2MB of data.
Amazon is smart enough to realize that paper books are losing ground to ebooks quickly (probably not as fast as music, but still) and in the digital media world the best way to control the market is to control the store, and the best way to control the store is to control the device that connects to the store. Look no further than Apple, music, Itunes and the Ipod for that example.
Long term I agree its probably a stop gap - once they've bootstrapped the market and gotten you locked into your kindle library its unlikely you'll go elsewhere for books, but will instead continue to install the kindle app on all your devices.
What are you talking about? She was given three rescued and sightless mice to work with, who's tails had been cruelly shortened by their previous caretaker (the bitter spouse of a guy working at a meat processing facility). Now she was able to restore sight to them, and you should see how they run now! See how they run!
RTFA - or just skim the pretty picture at the bottom. The initial implementation will be a "visor" (ok glasses, but I'm sure the newly sighted cosplayers will go nuts) that holds the camera equipment and beams the info to the back of the eye (which has been genetically altered to receive the information).
But I think the VISOR went directly into the brain, not the eyeballs.
True, he is in some collections, but there's a ton of books by authors I can go to the bookstore and pick up, and very rarely is Egan one of them. I either get something by accident at a used store, or wait a few weeks while it gets to me from a reseller. (I know, the horror, but I want it now!:)
That's a great sample, basically describes the birth and development to consciousness of a new digital being. The book that's in extends out to a search for life, and an eventual push to escape the current dimension. Some of his books are easier to find than others, and it seems like only a few have gone digital so far. A lot are out of print, so you have to go used most of the time.
I know a lot of teachers and don't have anything against them, they do a great job and a great service that I would never want to do.
The main problem we have is as I see it is
a) High cost of education materials b) Tenure c) Lack of merit based pay
Working in schools can frequently be demoralizing because while you do get extremely intelligent, motivated people who are driven by the cause (and certainly not by the pay, which is of course primarily abysmal), you also get the burnouts and hangerons that work the system and can stay for years doing nothing and literally ruining kids lives with a shitty education. That number is low - like single digit percentage points. But its high enough that those individuals can demoralize the rest of the hardworking ones and burn them out (bad teacher zombie effect?), or more likely make them leave the profession. You also get the "lemon dance", where smart managers (aka principles) work the system on their end and get the bad teachers out of their school. They can't fire them, but the good managers will get them moved. These teachers tend to pool at the bottom onto the bad or inexperienced managers, who are at what typically end up being the schools all the poor & minority kids go to.
It shouldn't take two years to fire a shitty teacher, and places like the "rubber room" shouldn't exist. On the flip side, we should treat teaching like the professional job that it is and increase spending on merit based salaries for the excellent teachers out there. Keep them engaged, keep them employed.
On topic, I think leveraging technology like Khan academy is how we progress forward. Use tech to foster a 1:1 lesson plan for students so they can progress at the same rate. The teacher answers questions, directs learning, assesses the students progress etc. The content could probably use improvement, but 30 bored kids getting the same lecture when they didn't understand yesterday's lesson is probably not the answer either.
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And then when the operator comes looking for you to fix something, you can be all like "That aint my program! Shit doesn't even look like my code! A lot of dudes we're typing in all sorts of things there, go find one of them!"
It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and, if you're the proprietor of a gaming company, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if you get stopped by the cops in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean, that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
It can if you have a rule that says:
* Goto may be used to exit a function as a stand in for "finally".
* Any other use of goto is allowed unless exceptional circumstances require it, and if so, clearly document in a comment why you need to do this.
...high. Probably already diagnosed and on meds, but the committal laws in our country are so week and the health and services budgets so slashed this guy was allowed to walk around along with all the other assholes muttering to themselves on the street.
No way did someone not know he was nuts already. Criminal negligence at best.
Irony, noun: Slashdot reader tells others they are living in a vacuum and don't understand reality.
I love it here, but the "normal" here is so far from reality that its hard to not see the irony when you tell someone else they're living in a bubble. If you took /. at face value, Linux won 12 years ago, Bill Gates has made a baby-puppy-kitten hybrid just so he can stomp all three at once and get through his busy schedule faster, and Skynet became active 18 minutes after assembly of its base Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pis was complete.
I imagine it will take about 24 hours before the first dev hacks together two phone cameras on the front of this thing and then pipes the input back through the screens for an augmented reality kit.
He didn't get the assumption wrong. He said "no command line shit REQUIRED to do stuff". That didn't preclude it, and it certainly doesn't imply that Android is successful because of the command line access. There aren't too many people lining up for it because of that, despite how cool it may be.
The point of the post was that "these things make Linux more adoptable", not "my phone can do this!"
Weren't those antique glasses though?
What's really behind is the visor -> eye implant's for Geordi. Given what we're seeing now with eye implants its odd they would have the big clunky visor thing instead of new eyeballs. Especially given that Data has completely artificial eye's that work ok.
Shit, someone is coming to stuff me in a locker, gotta go!
Not to mention that its fast enough you could use it for primary memory on some systems. Eliminate a whole component out of the system - that saves cost and power. I'm guessing we'll see this in embedded stuff first.
Welcome! And thanks for telling me what /. is!
Please point me to the phone that had as tight integration, as good a web browsing experience, as populous and non-fragmented an app market, and as nice and intuitive an interface as the iPhone 1 at exactly the same time as when it came out?
Apple took disparate components and repackaged them in a way that built a market. If there was one there before, its amazing how quickly they owned it through commercials alone. Definitely not through quality of a product!
I'm far from an Apple apologist, I've owned one iPod and that's about it. (Check my posting history, I have one!) Form guides function, and vice versa, and to not recognize that fact is basically to bury your head in the sand. But give credit where credit is due - you're stretching to actually say that iPhone had 0 impact on the market, and 0 impact on how things are done.
That's complete bullshit, and that's really sad if you think that's what /. is about.
So you're saying the original IPhone had no hint of ingenuity about it? Nothing original? Please...
While I'm sure the apple maps thing didn't help, the SIII just seems more sleek and modern. I've had a few android phones and they've always seemed like "almost but not quite" compared to Apple. In this latest round, head to head with the IPhone5 you can't really make an argument based on interface, design, screen size, speed, app quality, etc. Its all there, and I can't help but feel like Apple got complacent. Android has seen revolutionary upgrades to its OS, IOS hasn't taken the big leaps and now they're paying for it.
Doesn't have to be autonomous:
"The exact type of robot to be developed also is left open, said Hong. The competition calls for neither an autonomous humanoid robot that can function on its own without instruction nor an “avatar”-like robot that would be fully controlled by an off-set human user. Hong said the robot developed by his team will operate under “supervised autonomy.”
So probably a combination of remote control for direction plus automated walking to avoid debris, etc. Just solving issues of power are going to be tough here.
I seriously doubt he used the word to be intentionally snobbish. In fact, forcing people to talk down so that "the plebes can better understand you" is arrogance in its own right. One situation where it is appropriate to use simpler language is when speaking to someone who's first language isn't English. But even then they might appreciate hearing and learning a word like "rectify", which is pretty commonly used.
Once you hit the real world, the "best guy in the room" won't be 3 years ahead of you but 20, and once the greybeard shuts you down for the first time and patiently explains why you're "awesome idea" a) will fail, b) will cost the company millions, c) is the first obvious naive solution everyone always comes up with you'll get a little bit of that chipped out of you.
I generally learn something new every day at my job, and that fact humbles me.
Everyone is right sometime, and that fact humbles me, and helps me listen and see their point of view.
Have I been arrogant? Yep. Am I still? Yep. I'm pretty good at what I do, and confidence can spill over to arrogance. But once you've had your first taste of humble pie, you realize it won't be your last, and that arrogance will be tempered a bit. If you're truly good and know it, I wouldn't worry about it. If you think you're better than you are, well, that'll take care of itself too. :)
Don't forget the cost of the truck to haul all three of them around with you.
The wheels fold in on this thing, and they claim 45 miles an hour on the water which is plenty fast for a jet ski.
I agree it seems like a pretty frivolous toy, but I'm guessing your homebuilt hobby kit hovercraft won't get the mileage and speed this thing does.
They sell Kindles to sell you books.
If they sell you a physical book one time, there's nothing to say you'll buy from them next time. If you're the kind of person who reads a lot, this decision can happen 10-30 times a year. Sure you might be loyal and enjoy Amazon's prompt delivery service, but you also might be in an airport or walking by a display in your neighborhood.
If they sell you a kindle you've made that ereader/tablet purchase once and will probably not do it so for a while. In between, they've got you for EVERY SINGLE purchase you're likely going to make because its very easy to get books on your kindle from Amazon, but a pain in the ass otherwise. And ebooks are as about low overhead as you can get. After costs to the publisher (which they also manage very well because they own the market) the rest is profit minus the fraction of a penny it costs to serve up 1-2MB of data.
Amazon is smart enough to realize that paper books are losing ground to ebooks quickly (probably not as fast as music, but still) and in the digital media world the best way to control the market is to control the store, and the best way to control the store is to control the device that connects to the store. Look no further than Apple, music, Itunes and the Ipod for that example.
Long term I agree its probably a stop gap - once they've bootstrapped the market and gotten you locked into your kindle library its unlikely you'll go elsewhere for books, but will instead continue to install the kindle app on all your devices.
With these guys, its more like they left the live CD in the cupholder.
Something else equally pithy, culturally relevant, and nerdy!
I love lamp!
What are you talking about? She was given three rescued and sightless mice to work with, who's tails had been cruelly shortened by their previous caretaker (the bitter spouse of a guy working at a meat processing facility). Now she was able to restore sight to them, and you should see how they run now! See how they run!
If your second one comes....out...talking...in...short...sentences...and......has great hair.....I'd....be suspicious!
(And/or extremely proud, depending on how much of a super fan you are).
RTFA - or just skim the pretty picture at the bottom. The initial implementation will be a "visor" (ok glasses, but I'm sure the newly sighted cosplayers will go nuts) that holds the camera equipment and beams the info to the back of the eye (which has been genetically altered to receive the information).
But I think the VISOR went directly into the brain, not the eyeballs.
True, he is in some collections, but there's a ton of books by authors I can go to the bookstore and pick up, and very rarely is Egan one of them. I either get something by accident at a used store, or wait a few weeks while it gets to me from a reseller. (I know, the horror, but I want it now! :)
Lots of good stuff, but not very accessible to the masses.
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html
That's a great sample, basically describes the birth and development to consciousness of a new digital being. The book that's in extends out to a search for life, and an eventual push to escape the current dimension. Some of his books are easier to find than others, and it seems like only a few have gone digital so far. A lot are out of print, so you have to go used most of the time.
I know a lot of teachers and don't have anything against them, they do a great job and a great service that I would never want to do.
The main problem we have is as I see it is
a) High cost of education materials
b) Tenure
c) Lack of merit based pay
Working in schools can frequently be demoralizing because while you do get extremely intelligent, motivated people who are driven by the cause (and certainly not by the pay, which is of course primarily abysmal), you also get the burnouts and hangerons that work the system and can stay for years doing nothing and literally ruining kids lives with a shitty education. That number is low - like single digit percentage points. But its high enough that those individuals can demoralize the rest of the hardworking ones and burn them out (bad teacher zombie effect?), or more likely make them leave the profession. You also get the "lemon dance", where smart managers (aka principles) work the system on their end and get the bad teachers out of their school. They can't fire them, but the good managers will get them moved. These teachers tend to pool at the bottom onto the bad or inexperienced managers, who are at what typically end up being the schools all the poor & minority kids go to.
It shouldn't take two years to fire a shitty teacher, and places like the "rubber room" shouldn't exist. On the flip side, we should treat teaching like the professional job that it is and increase spending on merit based salaries for the excellent teachers out there. Keep them engaged, keep them employed.
On topic, I think leveraging technology like Khan academy is how we progress forward. Use tech to foster a 1:1 lesson plan for students so they can progress at the same rate. The teacher answers questions, directs learning, assesses the students progress etc. The content could probably use improvement, but 30 bored kids getting the same lecture when they didn't understand yesterday's lesson is probably not the answer either.