Good AI: Just Cause 2 has guys that flank you, use cover, and call in air support. Of course, I often provoke air support so I can get another chopper, but no matter.
"Teaching to the test" is a talking point, not a valid criticism. It presupposes the system will be implemented badly. Anything and everything will fail when the execution is poor.
No, it's perfectly reasonable given the history of these things. Demanding standardized tests without really knowing what makes for good tests or putting up the money to get good tests and then tying school budgets to test performance guarantees failure. Fact is, some kids need this stuff, and a lot don't. The best thing would be to acknowledge that and set up tracks to serve it. Don't look at trades as a lesser thing - it's honest work that pays well. Meanwhile, add a required course in home ec: basic food prep, budgeting, money management.
They've always been a marketing company, from the very start. Part of their genius is building stuff that makes things easier for people to use (failures never even get talked about, much less released) - iphone, for instance. You can talk about marketing a floppy all you like, but the iphone is the first phone I've had that wasn't awful. Sure, any phone can do dialing and voicemail, but Iphone was the first one to do all the other stuff we like doing and make it almost pleasurable.
I suspect there's also a little dirty secret behind the iPad -- that a large percentage of them aren't used very often.
I dunno, my bud got one and he runs down the battery all the time. It's really handy for pdfs and math websites, apparently.
I don't see how that's a problem - keep the branding, but make it all tabletty. For instance, the start menu thing gets turned into a launcher page with start-menu branding and subtle MS branding cues. Ahh, who am I kidding, the chief problem has always been that MS has no taste.
Demanding money for a free app so you can use a paid service by a third party is evil. Basically, MS isn't providing enough value to justify charging for it.
Capitalism works under the asumption that no one in particular "knows better", so we have to allow for markets to self-regulate (the invisible hand).
No we don't; regulation is required to keep the market as free as practical. The results so far when we deregulate the jackals on wall street have been two bubbles and a financial meltdown. I'd rather not have a third.
you should question the value of capitalism even in theory.
Hey, it's a fine theory, but no way to run a country. Of course, we don't run the country, or even economy that way. We give advantages to large corporations, crush the little guy, and call it capitalism.
Clearly that isn't the case - tech brings us the tools of a modern age, and finance gives us new ways to swindle and corrupt. Since talent isn't being used efficiently, perhaps the answer lies in our assumptions.
The free market economy is an abstraction - nobody should believe for a second that it's what is really going on. I suppose I could write a paper on why things are the way they are, but the quick version is that we lack informed actors, rational actors, and good access to information.
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If they want more people in engineering, then offer more money.
Heh, we have buildings older than that.
Evolution as the origin of life is still a theory.
And will be until something better comes along. Theory is as good as it gets.
Now the fact that life does evolve over time is actually a fact because bacteria evolve resistance to drugs as well as many other examples.
Change over time is an observed fact. That's all a fact is: we see this thing happen. We then explain it as best we can (with evolution).
ID is not a theory and not science. Nothing you've said even addresses that.
"God could plant anything anywhere to test you. " according to the bible, he can not. In timoohy it is stated the god will not deceive people.
That's right, it's the devil that plants fossils to test you (or something). Maybe he's just being a dick.
Where do you get off calling him left wing? He's a center-right wimp.
If you use a salted hash (like you're supposed to), then rainbow tables are pointless.
Good AI: Just Cause 2 has guys that flank you, use cover, and call in air support. Of course, I often provoke air support so I can get another chopper, but no matter.
"Honey, I'm not here, I'm at work".
Yeah, I'm a freaking programmer and I know that.
2) "Most People" won't bother ordering from overseas. Shipping costs are high, and times are a bitch (1 month is not uncommon).
So buy a crate of CDs at $3 and import them to the US, then resell at $10. Why would this not work?
"Teaching to the test" is a talking point, not a valid criticism. It presupposes the system will be implemented badly. Anything and everything will fail when the execution is poor.
No, it's perfectly reasonable given the history of these things. Demanding standardized tests without really knowing what makes for good tests or putting up the money to get good tests and then tying school budgets to test performance guarantees failure. Fact is, some kids need this stuff, and a lot don't. The best thing would be to acknowledge that and set up tracks to serve it. Don't look at trades as a lesser thing - it's honest work that pays well. Meanwhile, add a required course in home ec: basic food prep, budgeting, money management.
In my group of friends, it's mostly the guys who can cook, although the one nutritionist can also cook (also, she's hot & dances).
Apple is a marketing juggernaut.
They've always been a marketing company, from the very start. Part of their genius is building stuff that makes things easier for people to use (failures never even get talked about, much less released) - iphone, for instance. You can talk about marketing a floppy all you like, but the iphone is the first phone I've had that wasn't awful. Sure, any phone can do dialing and voicemail, but Iphone was the first one to do all the other stuff we like doing and make it almost pleasurable.
I suspect there's also a little dirty secret behind the iPad -- that a large percentage of them aren't used very often.
I dunno, my bud got one and he runs down the battery all the time. It's really handy for pdfs and math websites, apparently.
I think I saw one of these on a radio commercial last week; Android based, perhaps.
So why aren't people doing that? Could it be that Apple did it better?
I don't see how that's a problem - keep the branding, but make it all tabletty. For instance, the start menu thing gets turned into a launcher page with start-menu branding and subtle MS branding cues. Ahh, who am I kidding, the chief problem has always been that MS has no taste.
You know, I haven't seen much in the way of agreement on what constitutes evil, so I'll keep my definition, TYVM
So use emacs. It's available for the mac. And if linux is important, get a bunch of ram and run it in a VM.
Sure it does - evil doesn't have to be on a grand scale or anything, it just has to fit our individual idea of evil.
Demanding money for a free app so you can use a paid service by a third party is evil. Basically, MS isn't providing enough value to justify charging for it.
Capitalism works under the asumption that no one in particular "knows better", so we have to allow for markets to self-regulate (the invisible hand).
No we don't; regulation is required to keep the market as free as practical. The results so far when we deregulate the jackals on wall street have been two bubbles and a financial meltdown. I'd rather not have a third.
you should question the value of capitalism even in theory.
Hey, it's a fine theory, but no way to run a country. Of course, we don't run the country, or even economy that way. We give advantages to large corporations, crush the little guy, and call it capitalism.
When you think about it, closing off basic research would make it easier for the current fat cats to maintain their position indefinitely.
Clearly that isn't the case - tech brings us the tools of a modern age, and finance gives us new ways to swindle and corrupt. Since talent isn't being used efficiently, perhaps the answer lies in our assumptions.
The free market economy is an abstraction - nobody should believe for a second that it's what is really going on. I suppose I could write a paper on why things are the way they are, but the quick version is that we lack informed actors, rational actors, and good access to information.