6 Plus checking in. It's been by far the best phone I've owned. I got it at launch, and it'll be 3 this year with no signs of needing to be replaced.
Mine just started suffering from touch disease. Before that, it's been great. Going to replace it with a 7 Plus. The 8 Plus doesn't offer enough compelling differences from the 7 Plus. I don't care about wireless charging or a slightly faster processor. The difference in the camera is enough to choose the 7 Plus over the 6 Plus for me.
So your current Apple product is failing horribly, so you are considering getting a new Apple product? Why reward them for making a crappy phone that failed on you?
I had it for 3 years, so that's not too bad. Plus, my wife has had 3 crappy Android phones over the same period, and the design flaw the 6 plus had was corrected in the next iteration.
Who in their right mind would now buy an iPhone 8 when it is obsoleted in the very same product announcement by the iPhone X?
Oh, I suppose people who can't afford an iPhone X will buy the iPhone 8, to show off with. Right? Right??
Then there's people like me who can't wait until it's released because my phone is almost dead. My 6 Plus has "touch disease", so I need to get a new one soon. Also, I'm a bit disappointed that the only storage options for the 8 & X are 64 or 256 GB. I might even be inclined to get an iPhone 7 Plus, since I can get a 128 GB model for $769, instead of $799 for the 64 GB iPhone 8 Plus. The only thing you really lose is fast/wireless charging, which I don't really need.
I don't understand why techies have never figured out that government and business have similar goals.
They have never figured it out because your premise is wrong. Government and business do not have similar goals. Just because Trump wants to cut some sectors of the government doesn't mean that most bureaucrats do. There are many in the government whose goal is to expand the number of people using their services, so they can justify increases in their budgets & staff. As Oscar Wilde put it, "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
Watching a lecture and then getting one on one time for things you don't understand or follow has got to be the greatest idea ever and would be the greatest improvement to the education system if implemented across the board.
While I'd like to claim credit for it, it's called a flipped classroom, and it's being implemented all over the place. It is also very helpful that I have a small class. It is much more difficult if I have more than a dozen or so students.
Right now, I'm teaching a Web Programming & Database integration course. I do a flipped classroom model where I record the lecture, and we work on the homework in class. They can do the homework before class, but they have to show me their code & explain it before they hand it in. That way, I can catch any errors they have before they hand it in, and answer questions that they run into if they haven't finished it yet. I also know that they're doing their own work.
Also, if I see a common issue, I can do a 5 minute "mini lecture" to give an example technique in front of the class. If I come across a common issue after things have been submitted, I can do a 5 minute recorded lecture to reinforce what they should do in the future in that situation. Seems to work out well for my students.
I meant to add a ">" when quoting your original line in my reply... sorry about that:) I can't tell you how many times I wish I could correct things after they are posted.
You can also use <quote> and </quote> to quote another post...
Last time I checked, Comcast used mostly roadside utility poles and roadside underground cabling. All owned by the state and local municipalities. If they want to use the public's property, they have to abide by the public's rules.
I don't like Comcast any more than most people, but I think they have a point. From the limited amount of information we have, it seems as though Vermont is treating them differently from other cable providers. If that's the case, they aren't getting equal protection under the law.
Part of what made Blade Runner such a good movie was that unlike Star Trek and that ilk, it portrayed a dystopian future fraught with massive inequality, where the haves lived in massive wealth, while the have nots lived in relative poverty. The method used to portray those differences were more important to the story than the Scifi backdrop.
We live in a present with massive inequality. The key phrase you used above though is *relative* poverty. Think about poor people in the U.S. Chances are good that a single-parent family that lives below the poverty line still has food, shelter, clothing, electricity, running water, refrigeration, an oven/stove/microwave, free education and medical care. Probably television, cable, internet, cell phones and game consoles too. Basically the poor in the U.S. today live a better standard of living than rich people who lived in the U.S. 100 years ago could have ever dreamed of.
Honestly, I was underwhelmed with the experience. Thankfully some people with better gear shared pretty amazing photos.
For about 95% of the time, I was underwhelmed, then when totality hit, it was pretty amazing. I have seen some really good photos, but none of them do justice to seeing it with the naked eye.
My wife & I went camping this past weekend in southern Illinois to view the eclipse. The location where we were at had no service on our phones. No Facebook, no news, etc. I get the same thing in the area where I go hunting. It's actually very refreshing. I highly recommend it.
The problem isn't that he got a prison term. He got that for violating his probation on a different matter. The problem is that Obama made the false claim about the video pertaining to Benghazi in the first place, and that the NYT never challenged Obama's claim, nor corrected their own articles after the fact.
Not everyone can be their ideal weight and go to the gym three times a week. Personally I don't think shaming them for that is likely to motivate them to do something about it.
Part of the problem is that a lot of people interpret not accepting or embracing a thing as shaming it. If my doctor tells me I need to lose weight, they aren't shaming me, they're telling me a factual statement about my health. I think people need to work toward a goal without beating themselves up. I've been going to the gym now 4-5 days a week for the past few months. I haven't really lost any weight, but I certainly have toned up a lot of flab and am now considerably stronger that I was a few months ago. That's progress, and good enough for me.
And I say this as a fat man. While I don't believe in fat "shaming", I also don't think it should be considered a positive. The only positive I can think of being fat is that I can more easily float in water. All that means is if I'm on a plane and it crashes in the ocean, I can last 10% longer than a thin person before dying of exposure.
Basically, we should encourage people to be in a healthy weight range, and not beat themselves up if they're not perfect.
The real reason though is our brains are wired to be attracted to healthy people. In our evolved brains, healthy people will give us healthy offspring. Hollywood might consider women like Scarlett Johansen or Jennifer Lawrence to be fat, but most guys see them as fat in all the right places.;-)
The internet has always been an open discussion forum of all ideas.
Ideally. IMHO, the best way to dispose of bad ideas is by countering them with good arguments. It's not guaranteed, but seems to work in general.
I dislike the idea of posting hate speech online just as much as the next, and in principle I agree with what GoDaddy and Google did here, however if you can cancel someone's domain over unapproved speech, what protections do others have with holding their domains when they speak ill of the government of otherwise?
You have none. The definition of hate speech is intentionally vague & always changing, now to the point where doctors who tell their patients they should lose weight are accused of "fat shaming".
Restricting speech is a slippery slope, if you remove it for one nutjob (like GoDaddy and Google did here), however awful it might be, you're opening the door for the government to shut down other domains that are critical of them.
One difference here is neither GoDaddy or Google are the government. If your goal is freedom, then GoDaddy & Google should have the freedom of association, and they can freely decide with whom they will & won't do business. That's quite a bit different than the government actively preventing it. And if the market won't support an idea, the best case scenario is that it dies out, the worst is that it goes underground on the dark web.
Is Hate Speech very specifically called out as an exception to freedom of speech? I'm curious what their rationale is here, and how easily others can link this case to shutting down other people's view points on the internet as well.
Like I said earlier, the problem with "hate speech" is it's a vague term, so what's acceptable today might not be tomorrow. It's also not equally enforced. Certain groups and also certain individuals get a free pass using derogatory epithets, but others don't. Also, a lot of it boils down to "you hurt my feelings" (i.e. the Google Manifesto).
Would love to hear how this is or is not a slippery slope towards censorship. Thanks.
Again, that all boils down to who is doing the restricting: Is it private entities, or is it the government? I have the right to say what I like, but nobody else has to listen. I have the right to write what I believe, but nobody else has to publish it or pass it on for other to read.
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6 Plus checking in. It's been by far the best phone I've owned. I got it at launch, and it'll be 3 this year with no signs of needing to be replaced.
Mine just started suffering from touch disease. Before that, it's been great. Going to replace it with a 7 Plus. The 8 Plus doesn't offer enough compelling differences from the 7 Plus. I don't care about wireless charging or a slightly faster processor. The difference in the camera is enough to choose the 7 Plus over the 6 Plus for me.
So your current Apple product is failing horribly, so you are considering getting a new Apple product? Why reward them for making a crappy phone that failed on you?
I had it for 3 years, so that's not too bad. Plus, my wife has had 3 crappy Android phones over the same period, and the design flaw the 6 plus had was corrected in the next iteration.
Who in their right mind would now buy an iPhone 8 when it is obsoleted in the very same product announcement by the iPhone X?
Oh, I suppose people who can't afford an iPhone X will buy the iPhone 8, to show off with. Right? Right??
Then there's people like me who can't wait until it's released because my phone is almost dead. My 6 Plus has "touch disease", so I need to get a new one soon. Also, I'm a bit disappointed that the only storage options for the 8 & X are 64 or 256 GB. I might even be inclined to get an iPhone 7 Plus, since I can get a 128 GB model for $769, instead of $799 for the 64 GB iPhone 8 Plus. The only thing you really lose is fast/wireless charging, which I don't really need.
I don't understand why techies have never figured out that government and business have similar goals.
They have never figured it out because your premise is wrong. Government and business do not have similar goals. Just because Trump wants to cut some sectors of the government doesn't mean that most bureaucrats do. There are many in the government whose goal is to expand the number of people using their services, so they can justify increases in their budgets & staff. As Oscar Wilde put it, "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
Watching a lecture and then getting one on one time for things you don't understand or follow has got to be the greatest idea ever and would be the greatest improvement to the education system if implemented across the board.
While I'd like to claim credit for it, it's called a flipped classroom, and it's being implemented all over the place. It is also very helpful that I have a small class. It is much more difficult if I have more than a dozen or so students.
Right now, I'm teaching a Web Programming & Database integration course. I do a flipped classroom model where I record the lecture, and we work on the homework in class. They can do the homework before class, but they have to show me their code & explain it before they hand it in. That way, I can catch any errors they have before they hand it in, and answer questions that they run into if they haven't finished it yet. I also know that they're doing their own work.
Also, if I see a common issue, I can do a 5 minute "mini lecture" to give an example technique in front of the class. If I come across a common issue after things have been submitted, I can do a 5 minute recorded lecture to reinforce what they should do in the future in that situation. Seems to work out well for my students.
I meant to add a ">" when quoting your original line in my reply... sorry about that :) I can't tell you how many times I wish I could correct things after they are posted.
You can also use <quote> and </quote> to quote another post...
Last time I checked, Comcast used mostly roadside utility poles and roadside underground cabling. All owned by the state and local municipalities. If they want to use the public's property, they have to abide by the public's rules.
I don't like Comcast any more than most people, but I think they have a point. From the limited amount of information we have, it seems as though Vermont is treating them differently from other cable providers. If that's the case, they aren't getting equal protection under the law.
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Part of what made Blade Runner such a good movie was that unlike Star Trek and that ilk, it portrayed a dystopian future fraught with massive inequality, where the haves lived in massive wealth, while the have nots lived in relative poverty. The method used to portray those differences were more important to the story than the Scifi backdrop.
We live in a present with massive inequality. The key phrase you used above though is *relative* poverty. Think about poor people in the U.S. Chances are good that a single-parent family that lives below the poverty line still has food, shelter, clothing, electricity, running water, refrigeration, an oven/stove/microwave, free education and medical care. Probably television, cable, internet, cell phones and game consoles too. Basically the poor in the U.S. today live a better standard of living than rich people who lived in the U.S. 100 years ago could have ever dreamed of.
Until next week!
Honestly, I was underwhelmed with the experience. Thankfully some people with better gear shared pretty amazing photos.
For about 95% of the time, I was underwhelmed, then when totality hit, it was pretty amazing. I have seen some really good photos, but none of them do justice to seeing it with the naked eye.
Which brand was that?
Westinghouse.
I bought mine less than a month ago from Best Buy for $99. Granted it was a 32" 720P, but it was for my bedroom, so good enough.
my last TV purchase was a dumb TV.
My wife & I went camping this past weekend in southern Illinois to view the eclipse. The location where we were at had no service on our phones. No Facebook, no news, etc. I get the same thing in the area where I go hunting. It's actually very refreshing. I highly recommend it.
... how?
They put up a story that isn't about Trump or the Google memo, and you're complaining?
She is curvy because she has curves, like hips etc.
I think you're misunderstanding me. It's not a criticism; I see that as a positive. However, many in Hollywood wouldn't.
Man Behind Anti-Islam Video Gets Prison Term
The problem isn't that he got a prison term. He got that for violating his probation on a different matter. The problem is that Obama made the false claim about the video pertaining to Benghazi in the first place, and that the NYT never challenged Obama's claim, nor corrected their own articles after the fact.
Actually both are super slim
Both are curvy, they're not waifs so "In Hollywood, They're Obese."
Not everyone can be their ideal weight and go to the gym three times a week. Personally I don't think shaming them for that is likely to motivate them to do something about it.
Part of the problem is that a lot of people interpret not accepting or embracing a thing as shaming it. If my doctor tells me I need to lose weight, they aren't shaming me, they're telling me a factual statement about my health. I think people need to work toward a goal without beating themselves up. I've been going to the gym now 4-5 days a week for the past few months. I haven't really lost any weight, but I certainly have toned up a lot of flab and am now considerably stronger that I was a few months ago. That's progress, and good enough for me.
Like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills? Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!
And I say this as a fat man. While I don't believe in fat "shaming", I also don't think it should be considered a positive. The only positive I can think of being fat is that I can more easily float in water. All that means is if I'm on a plane and it crashes in the ocean, I can last 10% longer than a thin person before dying of exposure.
Basically, we should encourage people to be in a healthy weight range, and not beat themselves up if they're not perfect.
The real reason though is our brains are wired to be attracted to healthy people. In our evolved brains, healthy people will give us healthy offspring. Hollywood might consider women like Scarlett Johansen or Jennifer Lawrence to be fat, but most guys see them as fat in all the right places. ;-)
Feeling bad about feeling good? Does that make you feel better?
The internet has always been an open discussion forum of all ideas.
Ideally. IMHO, the best way to dispose of bad ideas is by countering them with good arguments. It's not guaranteed, but seems to work in general.
I dislike the idea of posting hate speech online just as much as the next, and in principle I agree with what GoDaddy and Google did here, however if you can cancel someone's domain over unapproved speech, what protections do others have with holding their domains when they speak ill of the government of otherwise?
You have none. The definition of hate speech is intentionally vague & always changing, now to the point where doctors who tell their patients they should lose weight are accused of "fat shaming".
Restricting speech is a slippery slope, if you remove it for one nutjob (like GoDaddy and Google did here), however awful it might be, you're opening the door for the government to shut down other domains that are critical of them.
One difference here is neither GoDaddy or Google are the government. If your goal is freedom, then GoDaddy & Google should have the freedom of association, and they can freely decide with whom they will & won't do business. That's quite a bit different than the government actively preventing it. And if the market won't support an idea, the best case scenario is that it dies out, the worst is that it goes underground on the dark web.
Is Hate Speech very specifically called out as an exception to freedom of speech? I'm curious what their rationale is here, and how easily others can link this case to shutting down other people's view points on the internet as well.
Like I said earlier, the problem with "hate speech" is it's a vague term, so what's acceptable today might not be tomorrow. It's also not equally enforced. Certain groups and also certain individuals get a free pass using derogatory epithets, but others don't. Also, a lot of it boils down to "you hurt my feelings" (i.e. the Google Manifesto).
Would love to hear how this is or is not a slippery slope towards censorship. Thanks.
Again, that all boils down to who is doing the restricting: Is it private entities, or is it the government? I have the right to say what I like, but nobody else has to listen. I have the right to write what I believe, but nobody else has to publish it or pass it on for other to read.
Because white males are the source of all evil in the world. Didn't you get the memo?
Isn't that a positive attribute in the gaming industry? ;-)