The perp has something to lose - he could get shot. The officer has the added concern of accidentally killing someone for trying to pull out their license. Most cops I've heard speak after being involved in a shooting (even a legitimate one) seemed to consider that a lot more important than the paperwork.
The biggest difference is that the officer has to read and react, whereas the bad guy has a much simpler set of actions.
This is pretty important, and follows the police and self-defense literature I've read. It's a real concern for officers who might have a gun pointed at a suspect who draws and fires.
Previous studies have shown that even though the officer should have an advantage, if they actually process what is being drawn instead of just firing, the suspect who began with a gun at their head wins most of the time. Reading some of those studies provided a whole new perspective on all of the horrible "cop accidentally shoots a kid with a toy gun" moments.
This *really* reminds me to hurry up and talk to my lawyer about a living will. Being able to sit around thinking without it meaning anything would be horrible.
I guess the best course is going to be up to the individual kid, and finding some kind of middle ground. I definitely see what you're saying about trying too hard to fit in. I guess I just know from my experience that it's completely possible to go too far the other way as well, which isn't something children's specials mention too often.
I had this exact same experience when I had two months without net access and a copy of the orange box. Pretty much nothing worked in offline mode. Yes, I had logged in and activated the games at some point in the past, although it had been a while since I ran any of them.
One additional thing - I think all of the "be yourself" and "be an individual" message kids of my generation were raised on is an absolutely horrible idea for kids who are naturally a little weird socially. I mean, it's great advice for what I assume is the "normal" kid whose big social problem is giving in to peer pressure and doing drugs, failing their homework, and taunting the loser kids. But for kids who already have an individualist streak (or even who just are naturally social pariahs) it's a horrible message. I actively resisted developing some interpersonal skills because I felt it was being dishonest to myself or being too much of a sheep, up to the point of refusing to attempt to match social norms in clothing or poor grammar until I was in high school. Yes, I was *that* kid.
The true message here is to pick your battles. There are real individualistic moral boundaries that we have to set and know for ourselves, and then there's a lot of junk that's just window dressing and social noise. The philosophy required to getting along in society isn't to "just" be yourself - it's to be as much of yourself as you can while still vaguely conforming on the stuff that doesn't really matter to who you are. In short - refusing to wear Abercrombie&Fitch is just as shallow and pointless as needing to wear it every day. I think most adult nerds finally realize this, but somehow no one ever seems to tell their kids about it.
This study is more useful in determining which kids are chosen to be bullied than it is at explaining why *someone* is bullied. It's like lions attacking a herd of antelope - the lions attack because they're lions, but which antelope gets eaten is more dependent on the antelope.
I know, personally, that I failed to get along with other children until I understood social protocols enough to run them essentially on an emulation layer. Laugh here because it's supposed to be funny, be grossed out at this because it's supposed to be gross. Eventually it became second nature, and I can make small talk and fit in with a group comfortably. Normal children develop this social ability earlier and with less process. I can see a great deal of benefit in identifying the aspects of socialization that some children fail at and trying to teach them how to fake it until they can do it naturally.
Just like in rape cases, the fact that rape is caused by the rapist does not make walking alone and drunk through a bad neighborhood at night in a slutty dress a smart idea! Taking rapists off the street helps protect society in general, but calling a cab is more likely to help you specifically.
You know, just because it's important to notice when you *do* get good support, I'm going to have to give my local ISP Embarq (now CenturyLink, I guess) some props for having overall good support. I have never waited on hold for more than a few minutes, I had no trouble escalating the problem when I showed that I was generally competent, and they have resolved all of my issues quickly and with minimum of fuss.
Granted, their tier 1 guy did once tell me to reverse my ethernet cable to unclog it, but for all that I laugh at that story I spent less time getting past that idiot than I ever did getting to a useful level of support with Time Warner.
Honestly, I feel the same way driving a coupe. If an SUV or a tractor trailer decides to pull into my lane without checking their blind spot, I'm toast. I've ended up literally with parts of a semi trailer *over* the front of my car before.
The best way to view this is that there is always someone else on the road who is going to do something stupid, and even if one of you end up worse for the encounter... it's still a really bad situation to be in knowing that you killed someone's mom through your negligence, or having to pay thousands of dollars in a settlement. One either side of the debate, you can't control the other idiots on the road. You can control yourself. Stay out of people blind spots, watch for doors opening and people pulling out of driveways, pull to the edge of the road as a slow vehicle or bike to let people pass... there are a lot of things people can do to make themselves safer without bitching about everyone driving around them.
Old-school Objective-C supports a midway point between C++ memory allocations and garbage collection in reference counting. The newer runtimes in OS X support full-on garbage collection, although I'm not sure whether that version is in the iPod or not.
Objective-C and C# are easy to pick up if you know any object oriented language. Most competent programmers can run through a couple tutorials and be programming at close to full speed in a couple days. Learning which of the different support frameworks and libraries to use can take a bit longer, though (especially if you heavily rely on something that doesn't have a direct replacement).
One of the earliest truths I've learned about programming - newcomers to the field confuse knowing a language with knowing how to program, and consider switching languages to be a similar level of difficulty. In my experience, I've pretty much had to pick up a new language at every new job I've had. You get annoyed at the little differences for a week or two, and then you're just moving. There are always more little details you can learn to make things easier on yourself or to write more efficient code, but in general, for as much as a language and framework can make things easier or more annoying in different areas, going to a new one of the same class (Java vs C++ vs Obj C vs C#) for a new project is rarely that big of a deal.
Now, if you've got a bunch of existing code that you want to run on a new platform... then it can be a pain in the ass. But it's going to be that regardless if you didn't plan the project to be portable to begin with.
Mission control decisions are made by drone pilot. Combat maneuvers are not. The lag time on the communications is FAR too high for dogfighting or sophisticated countermeasures.
I've written a training simulator for some of the drone pilots. They get a screen with a map showing the drone location and a couple feeds from its cameras. They can control where the camera is pointing on and zoom in and identify targets. They can tell the drone to launch air to ground missiles at those targets. They do *not* fly the drone like you would in a simulator to dodge an incoming radar-guided missile and get into a position to counterattack.
The pilots tell the drones where to fly, at what speed and velocity. They mark out waypoints on a map, and the drones fly there. The controllers decide what they do when they get there (what they take pictures of, who they shoot hellfires at, etc). That is the extent of the "flying" that is possible from several miles away over a radio or cellular link.
Making an AI that can fly a drone between GPS points and one that can best a human in a dogfight are two entirely different levels of difficulty.
The human body is the current limitation on the performance envelope, but the human mind is still far ahead in terms of strategic and tactical control capability.
So I assume you have installed your own turbo on your car, put together your house's furnace from scratch, can install software on your TV, and tear your refrigerator apart to make it cool more efficiently?
It has nothing to do with "thinking being hard for them" and everything to do with not having to think about *that specific item.* We all have a limited number of areas we can be expert in - some people more than others - and we want everything else to do what we want and not bother us about the rest. There are enthusiast and consumer markets for nearly all products for a reason. The ipad definitely fits into the latter category - most people don't care about using a computer, they care about what the computer allows them to do, and how easily it allows them to do it. Just like you probably don't want to know about internal combustion or whether you can install an after market intake to be able to drive a car.
Has a bit of the original purpose. It also has to do with the philosophy of assumed innocence. You are not beholden to the government to prove your innocence, nor to tell them the personal details of your life that may be required to prove it. A person should not have to open his whole life to government scrutiny because he has been charged with a crime. In addition to a basic right of privacy, the possibility for abuse is very high. I
Which is why the first rule of leadership in emergencies is to never shout "somebody do X" but always "you, guy with the red tie, do X". The first one means nothing will ever happen.
I think this will keep getting better as homeschooling becomes more mainstream, and is done by more "normal" parents. I think most kids who have been home-schooled in the last twenty years would have been socially awkward anyway, given their parents, but homeschooling doesn't seem to have helped.
Every home-schooled kid I have met does not act like a normal kid their age. In some ways this is good - my neighbors kids are all incredibly nice, polite, and Brady-Bunch-esque outgoing and family oriented. I also think they would have a really hard time dealing with people who are jerks, but I don't know for sure. Every person I knew in school who had been home-schooled and then went to normal school in high school had a really, really had time fitting in. I can't think of a single exception. I notice how most of the people defending the practice here aren't children who have been home-schooled but parents who decided to home-school their children and decided that they turned out fine.
Kids need socialization with other kids. Heck, I know I was damaged socially just from growing up in the middle of nowhere - it took me years to really adjust to the fact that other kids weren't rational and nice like my parents, who I spent all my time with, but that I could deal with them anyway.
News flash to any parent who is home-schooling their kids - any child whose parents take that much of an interest and active role in their education is going to score in the top 25% at least on any standardized tests. Kids who are failing these things aren't failing it because the schools suck - as much as they do - but because their parents never taught them to value their education.
Public schools suck in many many ways, and everyone should have the right to choose to raise their kids at home instead. But just realize that you are inherently at a disadvantage when it comes to socializing your kid as a normal person when you do that, and you as a parent have to work overtime to make sure they are getting that knowledge somewhere.
As an aside, this includes sending them off to camp or someplace where they're on their own - a big part of getting used to school in those early years is separation from your parents. Even the home-schooled kids I've known who were close to normal were still huge mama's boys.
I really have to wonder what the analysis looks like at these companies. It does not affect companies one way or the other if someone pirates their games - only if they pirate them instead of buying them. Reducing piracy does jack unless it also increases sales.
I feel like an evil person, but honestly I'm ok with that.
h.264 is a specific technology - you should able to patent that and charge or not charge what you want for that. The problem with software patents has always been about patenting vague concepts and obvious designs. h.264 is a tech that took a lot of work and made a large jump in quality. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to charge for that. It just sucks that there isn't really a good mechanism for that world and the GPL to interact better.
Yes, and you have a whole hell of a lot of control over a statewide union as an individual teacher. I'm pretty sure she's voted however she thought things should be run every time. You mock the idealism here but still think that being a democracy means one person's view mean jack without dedicating their entire life to campaigning.
My mom is in a teacher's union in Ohio. She freely admits that the union keeps incompetent people from being let go in favor of those who are better teachers. They also remove your ability to bargain for your own wages - they bargain for you, and sometimes that means you get something better, and sometimes it means they ignore what areas of compensation you care about in favor of others (see increasing pensions to the point where the state will go bankrupt if they ever have to pay them, instead of money you are sure you'll actually get). They will fight for you if management tries to get rid of you... of course, they'll also fight for people who have no business being teachers, increasing the antagonism between you and administration. She firmly believes that no useful reform is going to come to the education system until you make a system that sidesteps the union and existing organizational structure. She also doesn't really want this to happen, because it will likely cost her a large portion of the benefits she has in her contract in lieu of decent pay.
There are a lot of people who, given the option, would take higher pay over a higher pension. However, if you've been working twenty years for that pension, it's not like you're going to be in favor of changing the system now. Unions pretty much remove your ability to have a choice there if you're going into a union-dominated field - you don't really have an option as a public school teacher - either you're in the union, or you pay the union dues anyway and don't get a say in what they negotiate for your salary.
Game developers get away with bad business practice because probably 3/4 of people going into computer science started out wanting to make video games. They are one of the few areas in CS where people just love the work they're doing enough to put up with poor management and horrible hours. Even if people try to unionize, there are so many scabs ready and willing to do the work instead, that I doubt there would be much success to it.
It should be noted that the current record holder *did* go into a spin, and if he had been going any faster in it would have died just from how fast he was spinning in addition to blacking out (which he did).
It's all about scale. The ipod interface is easier for doing simpler things, but when you try to scale it up to a power-user level, it fails miserably compared to OS X and Windows.
As long as people want to do complex things with their computers, normal desktops and laptops aren't going away. However, there is a lot of computer that isn't that complex, and I can see a tablet fitting well into that sort of middle ground being ultra-portable smartphones and something to get real work done on. The vast majority of users never do anything but write emails, surf the web, and listen to music.
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The perp has something to lose - he could get shot. The officer has the added concern of accidentally killing someone for trying to pull out their license. Most cops I've heard speak after being involved in a shooting (even a legitimate one) seemed to consider that a lot more important than the paperwork.
The biggest difference is that the officer has to read and react, whereas the bad guy has a much simpler set of actions.
You are correct. I would edit my choice of words if I could. I was speaking somewhat figuratively, not necessarily meaning that close of a range.
This is pretty important, and follows the police and self-defense literature I've read. It's a real concern for officers who might have a gun pointed at a suspect who draws and fires.
Previous studies have shown that even though the officer should have an advantage, if they actually process what is being drawn instead of just firing, the suspect who began with a gun at their head wins most of the time. Reading some of those studies provided a whole new perspective on all of the horrible "cop accidentally shoots a kid with a toy gun" moments.
This *really* reminds me to hurry up and talk to my lawyer about a living will. Being able to sit around thinking without it meaning anything would be horrible.
I guess the best course is going to be up to the individual kid, and finding some kind of middle ground. I definitely see what you're saying about trying too hard to fit in. I guess I just know from my experience that it's completely possible to go too far the other way as well, which isn't something children's specials mention too often.
I had this exact same experience when I had two months without net access and a copy of the orange box. Pretty much nothing worked in offline mode. Yes, I had logged in and activated the games at some point in the past, although it had been a while since I ran any of them.
One additional thing - I think all of the "be yourself" and "be an individual" message kids of my generation were raised on is an absolutely horrible idea for kids who are naturally a little weird socially. I mean, it's great advice for what I assume is the "normal" kid whose big social problem is giving in to peer pressure and doing drugs, failing their homework, and taunting the loser kids. But for kids who already have an individualist streak (or even who just are naturally social pariahs) it's a horrible message. I actively resisted developing some interpersonal skills because I felt it was being dishonest to myself or being too much of a sheep, up to the point of refusing to attempt to match social norms in clothing or poor grammar until I was in high school. Yes, I was *that* kid.
The true message here is to pick your battles. There are real individualistic moral boundaries that we have to set and know for ourselves, and then there's a lot of junk that's just window dressing and social noise. The philosophy required to getting along in society isn't to "just" be yourself - it's to be as much of yourself as you can while still vaguely conforming on the stuff that doesn't really matter to who you are. In short - refusing to wear Abercrombie&Fitch is just as shallow and pointless as needing to wear it every day. I think most adult nerds finally realize this, but somehow no one ever seems to tell their kids about it.
This study is more useful in determining which kids are chosen to be bullied than it is at explaining why *someone* is bullied. It's like lions attacking a herd of antelope - the lions attack because they're lions, but which antelope gets eaten is more dependent on the antelope.
I know, personally, that I failed to get along with other children until I understood social protocols enough to run them essentially on an emulation layer. Laugh here because it's supposed to be funny, be grossed out at this because it's supposed to be gross. Eventually it became second nature, and I can make small talk and fit in with a group comfortably. Normal children develop this social ability earlier and with less process. I can see a great deal of benefit in identifying the aspects of socialization that some children fail at and trying to teach them how to fake it until they can do it naturally.
Just like in rape cases, the fact that rape is caused by the rapist does not make walking alone and drunk through a bad neighborhood at night in a slutty dress a smart idea! Taking rapists off the street helps protect society in general, but calling a cab is more likely to help you specifically.
You know, just because it's important to notice when you *do* get good support, I'm going to have to give my local ISP Embarq (now CenturyLink, I guess) some props for having overall good support. I have never waited on hold for more than a few minutes, I had no trouble escalating the problem when I showed that I was generally competent, and they have resolved all of my issues quickly and with minimum of fuss.
Granted, their tier 1 guy did once tell me to reverse my ethernet cable to unclog it, but for all that I laugh at that story I spent less time getting past that idiot than I ever did getting to a useful level of support with Time Warner.
Honestly, I feel the same way driving a coupe. If an SUV or a tractor trailer decides to pull into my lane without checking their blind spot, I'm toast. I've ended up literally with parts of a semi trailer *over* the front of my car before.
The best way to view this is that there is always someone else on the road who is going to do something stupid, and even if one of you end up worse for the encounter... it's still a really bad situation to be in knowing that you killed someone's mom through your negligence, or having to pay thousands of dollars in a settlement. One either side of the debate, you can't control the other idiots on the road. You can control yourself. Stay out of people blind spots, watch for doors opening and people pulling out of driveways, pull to the edge of the road as a slow vehicle or bike to let people pass... there are a lot of things people can do to make themselves safer without bitching about everyone driving around them.
Sounds to me like these universities need to bump their admissions standards a bit. Do they still require essays even?
Old-school Objective-C supports a midway point between C++ memory allocations and garbage collection in reference counting. The newer runtimes in OS X support full-on garbage collection, although I'm not sure whether that version is in the iPod or not.
Objective-C and C# are easy to pick up if you know any object oriented language. Most competent programmers can run through a couple tutorials and be programming at close to full speed in a couple days. Learning which of the different support frameworks and libraries to use can take a bit longer, though (especially if you heavily rely on something that doesn't have a direct replacement).
One of the earliest truths I've learned about programming - newcomers to the field confuse knowing a language with knowing how to program, and consider switching languages to be a similar level of difficulty. In my experience, I've pretty much had to pick up a new language at every new job I've had. You get annoyed at the little differences for a week or two, and then you're just moving. There are always more little details you can learn to make things easier on yourself or to write more efficient code, but in general, for as much as a language and framework can make things easier or more annoying in different areas, going to a new one of the same class (Java vs C++ vs Obj C vs C#) for a new project is rarely that big of a deal.
Now, if you've got a bunch of existing code that you want to run on a new platform... then it can be a pain in the ass. But it's going to be that regardless if you didn't plan the project to be portable to begin with.
Mission control decisions are made by drone pilot. Combat maneuvers are not. The lag time on the communications is FAR too high for dogfighting or sophisticated countermeasures.
I've written a training simulator for some of the drone pilots. They get a screen with a map showing the drone location and a couple feeds from its cameras. They can control where the camera is pointing on and zoom in and identify targets. They can tell the drone to launch air to ground missiles at those targets. They do *not* fly the drone like you would in a simulator to dodge an incoming radar-guided missile and get into a position to counterattack.
The pilots tell the drones where to fly, at what speed and velocity. They mark out waypoints on a map, and the drones fly there. The controllers decide what they do when they get there (what they take pictures of, who they shoot hellfires at, etc). That is the extent of the "flying" that is possible from several miles away over a radio or cellular link.
Making an AI that can fly a drone between GPS points and one that can best a human in a dogfight are two entirely different levels of difficulty.
The human body is the current limitation on the performance envelope, but the human mind is still far ahead in terms of strategic and tactical control capability.
So I assume you have installed your own turbo on your car, put together your house's furnace from scratch, can install software on your TV, and tear your refrigerator apart to make it cool more efficiently?
It has nothing to do with "thinking being hard for them" and everything to do with not having to think about *that specific item.* We all have a limited number of areas we can be expert in - some people more than others - and we want everything else to do what we want and not bother us about the rest. There are enthusiast and consumer markets for nearly all products for a reason. The ipad definitely fits into the latter category - most people don't care about using a computer, they care about what the computer allows them to do, and how easily it allows them to do it. Just like you probably don't want to know about internal combustion or whether you can install an after market intake to be able to drive a car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Self-incrimination
Has a bit of the original purpose. It also has to do with the philosophy of assumed innocence. You are not beholden to the government to prove your innocence, nor to tell them the personal details of your life that may be required to prove it. A person should not have to open his whole life to government scrutiny because he has been charged with a crime. In addition to a basic right of privacy, the possibility for abuse is very high. I
It's a very interesting racist relic that someone who is 1/4 or even less african is still "black" in our culture.
Which is why the first rule of leadership in emergencies is to never shout "somebody do X" but always "you, guy with the red tie, do X". The first one means nothing will ever happen.
I think this will keep getting better as homeschooling becomes more mainstream, and is done by more "normal" parents. I think most kids who have been home-schooled in the last twenty years would have been socially awkward anyway, given their parents, but homeschooling doesn't seem to have helped.
Every home-schooled kid I have met does not act like a normal kid their age. In some ways this is good - my neighbors kids are all incredibly nice, polite, and Brady-Bunch-esque outgoing and family oriented. I also think they would have a really hard time dealing with people who are jerks, but I don't know for sure. Every person I knew in school who had been home-schooled and then went to normal school in high school had a really, really had time fitting in. I can't think of a single exception. I notice how most of the people defending the practice here aren't children who have been home-schooled but parents who decided to home-school their children and decided that they turned out fine.
Kids need socialization with other kids. Heck, I know I was damaged socially just from growing up in the middle of nowhere - it took me years to really adjust to the fact that other kids weren't rational and nice like my parents, who I spent all my time with, but that I could deal with them anyway.
News flash to any parent who is home-schooling their kids - any child whose parents take that much of an interest and active role in their education is going to score in the top 25% at least on any standardized tests. Kids who are failing these things aren't failing it because the schools suck - as much as they do - but because their parents never taught them to value their education.
Public schools suck in many many ways, and everyone should have the right to choose to raise their kids at home instead. But just realize that you are inherently at a disadvantage when it comes to socializing your kid as a normal person when you do that, and you as a parent have to work overtime to make sure they are getting that knowledge somewhere.
As an aside, this includes sending them off to camp or someplace where they're on their own - a big part of getting used to school in those early years is separation from your parents. Even the home-schooled kids I've known who were close to normal were still huge mama's boys.
I really have to wonder what the analysis looks like at these companies. It does not affect companies one way or the other if someone pirates their games - only if they pirate them instead of buying them. Reducing piracy does jack unless it also increases sales.
I feel like an evil person, but honestly I'm ok with that.
h.264 is a specific technology - you should able to patent that and charge or not charge what you want for that. The problem with software patents has always been about patenting vague concepts and obvious designs. h.264 is a tech that took a lot of work and made a large jump in quality. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to charge for that. It just sucks that there isn't really a good mechanism for that world and the GPL to interact better.
Yes, and you have a whole hell of a lot of control over a statewide union as an individual teacher. I'm pretty sure she's voted however she thought things should be run every time. You mock the idealism here but still think that being a democracy means one person's view mean jack without dedicating their entire life to campaigning.
My mom is in a teacher's union in Ohio. She freely admits that the union keeps incompetent people from being let go in favor of those who are better teachers. They also remove your ability to bargain for your own wages - they bargain for you, and sometimes that means you get something better, and sometimes it means they ignore what areas of compensation you care about in favor of others (see increasing pensions to the point where the state will go bankrupt if they ever have to pay them, instead of money you are sure you'll actually get). They will fight for you if management tries to get rid of you... of course, they'll also fight for people who have no business being teachers, increasing the antagonism between you and administration. She firmly believes that no useful reform is going to come to the education system until you make a system that sidesteps the union and existing organizational structure. She also doesn't really want this to happen, because it will likely cost her a large portion of the benefits she has in her contract in lieu of decent pay.
There are a lot of people who, given the option, would take higher pay over a higher pension. However, if you've been working twenty years for that pension, it's not like you're going to be in favor of changing the system now. Unions pretty much remove your ability to have a choice there if you're going into a union-dominated field - you don't really have an option as a public school teacher - either you're in the union, or you pay the union dues anyway and don't get a say in what they negotiate for your salary.
Game developers get away with bad business practice because probably 3/4 of people going into computer science started out wanting to make video games. They are one of the few areas in CS where people just love the work they're doing enough to put up with poor management and horrible hours. Even if people try to unionize, there are so many scabs ready and willing to do the work instead, that I doubt there would be much success to it.
It should be noted that the current record holder *did* go into a spin, and if he had been going any faster in it would have died just from how fast he was spinning in addition to blacking out (which he did).
It's all about scale. The ipod interface is easier for doing simpler things, but when you try to scale it up to a power-user level, it fails miserably compared to OS X and Windows.
As long as people want to do complex things with their computers, normal desktops and laptops aren't going away. However, there is a lot of computer that isn't that complex, and I can see a tablet fitting well into that sort of middle ground being ultra-portable smartphones and something to get real work done on. The vast majority of users never do anything but write emails, surf the web, and listen to music.