"Congratulations, you just summarized TFA."
On slashdot, that's considered a public service, and you're welcome. Besides summarizing it, I validated it citing my vast and fascinating personal experience. Yay me.
Look, I love my iMobilePersonalComputingDevice, it does an unbelievable number of things pretty darn well. But as a phone, it sucks. The sound is terrible, the form factor is less than ideal for a phone conversation, the connection can be spotty. For a 5-minute quick check in it's fine, but I had a friend call me yesterday for what turned out to be a 2-hour heart-to-heart about the meaning of life, and it was excruciating.
Yes, texts and other media are often superior to voice. But part of the reason millenials don't like to call is that the phones are terrible. Given the design constraints inherent in mobile devices, that's probably not going to change.
Being a slashdotter in good standing, I have the option to turn off ads here, but I don't, because I find Slashdot's ads harmless and unobtrusive. But lordy, some sites I go to they're insane, causing the page to constantly reload, while my CPU and hard drive churn away full-bore. How can they expect people won't want to block ads like that? Seems like it's grown worse in the last few months, these stupid advertisers are driving me to block their ads.
I expect Google patented the hell out of if to keep Facebook from implementing something similar. Be nice if they'd let that go so Facebook users could use them.
...even then it was pretty bike friendly. It's interesting that in the article about the Copenhagen skyway, they cite pedestrians slowing bike traffic on the ground as an impetus for building the skyway. And the photo accompanying the article shows...a couple pedestrians walking down the center of the skyway *sigh*.
According to the 2009 census, there are about 80 million occupied single-family homes in the US. That seems like a pretty significant market, even if electrics currently won't work for everybody.
...to one of the most famous chefs on the planet. That's quite a journey. Hopefully she didn't keep her shark-repellent ingredients in the kitchen, could make for some...interesting meals:
"Ooops, looks like I grabbed the copper acetate instead of the cumin again, I really need to separate those better! Save the liver!"
This. Apple is bad enough at trying to shoe horn new releases into a set schedule, but for MS to pull that off, given their track record, would take a Parting-the-Red-Sea miracle. Hey MS, here's a crazy idea:
1. Come up with a list of cool features your users and best developers want to see.
2. Implement them.
3. Test them.
4. Bake them into a new OS and release it when it's ready. If it takes 14 months instead of 12, THAT'S OK!!! Really. The number of people jonesing for a new Windows release, even if it's half-baked and buggy, is incredibly close to zero.
5. Profit!
BTW, if any of this is too complicated I'm available to consult at very reasonable rates.
" Microsoft seem to be focused on last minute refinements of the UI..."
The words "Microsoft" and "last minute" in the same sentence are....concerning. Hell, they have enough issues when they're not trying to reach self-imposed deadlines.
...where ladies need to stop falling in love with men and stop making men fall in love with them. Because when a man and a woman get together, it's always the lady's fault. How do I know? A Nobel scientist told me.
When US corporations were destroying local economies, most Americans didn't have a clue because our corporate media never thought to bring it up. Funny that.
some people are just paranoid control freaks. I worked with a guy who was always worried about losing his job-which he was quite good at--and getting him to share knowledge, passwords, etc could be excruciating. And this was a unionized, government position, he was about the last person who should be worried about getting canned.
I've had 3 or 4, different brands, that after a year or so would only work with brand new batteries for a few shots and then quit, and forget rechargeables. Now that phone cameras have become good enough, I haven't owned an actual camera for some time, maybe they've improved.
...provided they don't show the same damn one every time. I find a lot of good shows through the "Recommended for You" category, if they teased one of those I'd be OK with it. But it's a slippery slope. You kids won't believe this, but used to be we didn't have to sit through half an hour of commercials in movie theaters, they even showed cartoons before the movie. And my lawn, get off it.
...or let teachers introduce technology into the classroom. "
Oh hell no. Tech in the classroom is not an end unto itself, and certainly not a justification for Powerpoint. Don't get me wrong, PP can be a useful tool (in some cases), and yes, it don't work without tech in the classroom. But the idea that any random PP show is valuable because "it's introducing students to technology" is ridiculous. Students are on a first-name basis with technology, they don't need to be introduced to it.
Granted that's an idiotic problem, but in fairness I remember being annoyed by the stupidity(but not THAT stupid) of number-line exercises over 40 years ago. Yes, the standards are loose enough to allow educators to make crappy problems and exercises. They should be.
Common Core isn't a curriculum, it's a set of standards: At this grade, students should learn how to do these things. How you teach them to do it is not mandated, so educators are free to try different approaches. Some of those suck, but that's nothing new, parents have been complaining about "New Math" for as long as I've been alive.
I think you don't know how to read the standards. MD.A.2 doesn't require that teachers write a single problem that includes all those elements. It suggests that they cover a number of problems that incorporate those features. Perfectly reasonable. Yes, that's too vague if you're defining requirements for a software project, but that's not what they're doing. "Standards" and "requirements" are not interchangeable, requirements are narrow and quantifiable, standards are broader and more open to interpretation. Note that in the article you cite "requirement" appears only once, and in a very specific context.
Hell, I've been working in tech for 30 years, and I have to get my daughter to show me how to do stuff on my iPhone half the time, because nothing is discoverable, if you don't know how to get to a feature there's no way in hell to figure it out, and 70-year-old minds with failing short-term memory will have a heck of a time remembering what you have to swipe over and in which direction to get to the pics of their grandkids. And a tablet's tiny screen is hardly friendly to aging eyes.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and they've conducted case studies where seniors did all kinds of awesome things with tablets. Oops, no they have not, but they are planning to run some tests in a few months. Sure would be interesting to see how they turn out.
" they dump it as heat into rivers as the storage infrastructure simply doesn't exist"
I'm pretty sure excess electricity from windmills and PV farms are not creating hot water that has to be released into rivers, but feel free to prove otherwise.
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"Congratulations, you just summarized TFA."
On slashdot, that's considered a public service, and you're welcome. Besides summarizing it, I validated it citing my vast and fascinating personal experience. Yay me.
I do like "ergonomicize".
Look, I love my iMobilePersonalComputingDevice, it does an unbelievable number of things pretty darn well. But as a phone, it sucks. The sound is terrible, the form factor is less than ideal for a phone conversation, the connection can be spotty. For a 5-minute quick check in it's fine, but I had a friend call me yesterday for what turned out to be a 2-hour heart-to-heart about the meaning of life, and it was excruciating.
Yes, texts and other media are often superior to voice. But part of the reason millenials don't like to call is that the phones are terrible. Given the design constraints inherent in mobile devices, that's probably not going to change.
Being a slashdotter in good standing, I have the option to turn off ads here, but I don't, because I find Slashdot's ads harmless and unobtrusive. But lordy, some sites I go to they're insane, causing the page to constantly reload, while my CPU and hard drive churn away full-bore. How can they expect people won't want to block ads like that? Seems like it's grown worse in the last few months, these stupid advertisers are driving me to block their ads.
I expect Google patented the hell out of if to keep Facebook from implementing something similar. Be nice if they'd let that go so Facebook users could use them.
...even then it was pretty bike friendly. It's interesting that in the article about the Copenhagen skyway, they cite pedestrians slowing bike traffic on the ground as an impetus for building the skyway. And the photo accompanying the article shows...a couple pedestrians walking down the center of the skyway *sigh*.
According to the 2009 census, there are about 80 million occupied single-family homes in the US. That seems like a pretty significant market, even if electrics currently won't work for everybody.
...to one of the most famous chefs on the planet. That's quite a journey. Hopefully she didn't keep her shark-repellent ingredients in the kitchen, could make for some...interesting meals:
"Ooops, looks like I grabbed the copper acetate instead of the cumin again, I really need to separate those better! Save the liver!"
This. Apple is bad enough at trying to shoe horn new releases into a set schedule, but for MS to pull that off, given their track record, would take a Parting-the-Red-Sea miracle. Hey MS, here's a crazy idea:
1. Come up with a list of cool features your users and best developers want to see.
2. Implement them.
3. Test them.
4. Bake them into a new OS and release it when it's ready. If it takes 14 months instead of 12, THAT'S OK!!! Really. The number of people jonesing for a new Windows release, even if it's half-baked and buggy, is incredibly close to zero.
5. Profit!
BTW, if any of this is too complicated I'm available to consult at very reasonable rates.
" Microsoft seem to be focused on last minute refinements of the UI ..."
The words "Microsoft" and "last minute" in the same sentence are....concerning. Hell, they have enough issues when they're not trying to reach self-imposed deadlines.
And you're assuming these outliers made up a significant portion of the population based on....what?
Do some digging yourself:
http://www.civilwarcauses.org/...
http://www.vastpublicindiffere...
I have to say that looks very promising. I'm in.
...where ladies need to stop falling in love with men and stop making men fall in love with them. Because when a man and a woman get together, it's always the lady's fault. How do I know? A Nobel scientist told me.
Faster boot up? Faster application launches? Faster searching? What, exactly, is faster?
When US corporations were destroying local economies, most Americans didn't have a clue because our corporate media never thought to bring it up. Funny that.
some people are just paranoid control freaks. I worked with a guy who was always worried about losing his job-which he was quite good at--and getting him to share knowledge, passwords, etc could be excruciating. And this was a unionized, government position, he was about the last person who should be worried about getting canned.
I've had 3 or 4, different brands, that after a year or so would only work with brand new batteries for a few shots and then quit, and forget rechargeables. Now that phone cameras have become good enough, I haven't owned an actual camera for some time, maybe they've improved.
...provided they don't show the same damn one every time. I find a lot of good shows through the "Recommended for You" category, if they teased one of those I'd be OK with it. But it's a slippery slope. You kids won't believe this, but used to be we didn't have to sit through half an hour of commercials in movie theaters, they even showed cartoons before the movie. And my lawn, get off it.
From TFA(screenshot): "There's also an all- new browser designed to get stuff done online."
Admittedly, getting stuff done online with IE could be painful. Glad they saw the light.
"First-name basis" implies that one is fairly well acquainted with the person in question, so an introduction would be unnecessary.
...or let teachers introduce technology into the classroom. "
Oh hell no. Tech in the classroom is not an end unto itself, and certainly not a justification for Powerpoint. Don't get me wrong, PP can be a useful tool (in some cases), and yes, it don't work without tech in the classroom. But the idea that any random PP show is valuable because "it's introducing students to technology" is ridiculous. Students are on a first-name basis with technology, they don't need to be introduced to it.
Granted that's an idiotic problem, but in fairness I remember being annoyed by the stupidity(but not THAT stupid) of number-line exercises over 40 years ago. Yes, the standards are loose enough to allow educators to make crappy problems and exercises. They should be.
Common Core isn't a curriculum, it's a set of standards: At this grade, students should learn how to do these things. How you teach them to do it is not mandated, so educators are free to try different approaches. Some of those suck, but that's nothing new, parents have been complaining about "New Math" for as long as I've been alive.
I think you don't know how to read the standards. MD.A.2 doesn't require that teachers write a single problem that includes all those elements. It suggests that they cover a number of problems that incorporate those features. Perfectly reasonable. Yes, that's too vague if you're defining requirements for a software project, but that's not what they're doing. "Standards" and "requirements" are not interchangeable, requirements are narrow and quantifiable, standards are broader and more open to interpretation. Note that in the article you cite "requirement" appears only once, and in a very specific context.
Hell, I've been working in tech for 30 years, and I have to get my daughter to show me how to do stuff on my iPhone half the time, because nothing is discoverable, if you don't know how to get to a feature there's no way in hell to figure it out, and 70-year-old minds with failing short-term memory will have a heck of a time remembering what you have to swipe over and in which direction to get to the pics of their grandkids. And a tablet's tiny screen is hardly friendly to aging eyes.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and they've conducted case studies where seniors did all kinds of awesome things with tablets. Oops, no they have not, but they are planning to run some tests in a few months. Sure would be interesting to see how they turn out.
" they dump it as heat into rivers as the storage infrastructure simply doesn't exist"
I'm pretty sure excess electricity from windmills and PV farms are not creating hot water that has to be released into rivers, but feel free to prove otherwise.