Arbitration works well between equals, or those who have equal exposure, and in highly technical disputes like proifessional services where a jury of one's peers would be hard to find.
That relationship does not hold for an individual customer against a company that is larger than most nations, and controls vast resources.
I really hope not. The strength of ARM is that there really is no standard, so everyone is free to build whatever they want. Look at the breadth of ARM hardware: watches, phones, embedded platforms, video players in airplanes.... How do you shoehorn that into a standard PC platform? I like the bazaar that is ARM. We have the PC cathedral, let the bazaar goers have the ARM.
I've always scored really high on IQ tests. But then I'm a slow learner. I mean s.l.o.w.w.w As in, it literally takes me a year or two sometimes to understand a lecture on a difficult topic and put it to use. I used to sit in a class, and do horribly on the tests, and barely pull a C. Four years after graduating college I'd finally understand what the class was about.
So IQ measures something; I think a lot of it measures your ability to think under stress and how quickly you can change your mode of thinking and how tenacious you are. I'm not sure if that's intelligence.
Apple has some of the best school software out there. It's slick, it's neat, it's cool, and it's easy to use, so the teachers actually use it. Plus Apple gives schools truckloads of hardware, so they all work together.
iPad +1 on that score.
On the rest of it:
Kids respond to rules that make sense. Once ingrained, the rules stick. My daughter looked at her grades the other day and found that she had gone from A+ honor roll to B average. I don't know what she did, but she's doing lots of homework, talking to her teachers, and all of the sudden she has no missing work and an A+ average.
The point is that if you instill the desire to succeed by laying down some basic rules, and enforcing them the same way a winning football coach does, you get kids who know hard work and the rewards of hard work. My kids know that if they come home with a bad grade and an excuse, they get no sympathy. Now they don't even try. They just say, "I blew a test, I'm going to study for the make up; I know, no sympathy. "
oohOohhh OOOOH! Well reasoned and said. I guess Apple doesn't vet and approve each and every item in the App store, and never ever pulls anything it considers offensive to its strict code....
Anyway, I was reacting to the quick draw "blame the parents" crap, not so much the Apple bashing.
OK, that's different from the crap T-Mobile was pulling....
My kids' iPods are hooked to their debit (cash) cards. So if they spend money, it's their own - and limited by the amount of cash they have. They spend wisely. (Amazing how frugal kids get when they're spending their own money.)
This is one of those issues of parenthood.... My daughter sends some 7K per month. Of those, 2 in the last year were bad (resulting in extra charges). That to me is responsible use. (And lest people start yelling at me about her 'excessive' use, we don't have cable TV, she's on the honor roll and carries an A to A+ average in school, blah, blah, blah. She's not a slacker.)
So imposing draconian limits on her use is not the answer. The fault lies with deceptive and fraudulent marketing tactics. teaching her to be more careful, yes. Punishing, no.
OTOH I've had my kids' phones "virused" with pay-per-month crap... The invitation is sent as a text, and it's the typical "Hey check this out!" and all the kid has to do is reply. Bang! $10/month for ever for a monthly fortune. I don't know what stuff Apple was pulling, but certainly the texts my kids got were deceiving and not clear. And T-Mobile was complicit in allowing these operators to continue, no doubt getting a big slice of the action. I asked my daughter if she ever subscribed intentionally; she didn't even know she had subscribed. And T-Mobile admitted when I bitched about it that the come-on was often deceptive.
Try working in an embedded environment. When you have 4 MB of flash and 8 MB of RAM, and python (even a barely usable stripped python) takes 3 MB, you use shell. Most of my programming is on embedded platforms; if I have 32 MB of flash I don't know what to do with it. I use a lot of shell and awk.
Don't even get me started on PERL; it works for some and for others it is the most obtuse incomoprehensible glop you can imagine. Instant cruft. And it takes megabytes of storage.
Just because you can't see it from your house doesn't mean it has ceased to exist.
As someone who has kids in school, and also is a bit older, I have to disagree with you. The dumbing down of school curricula is real and is a symptom of the dumbing down of the general level of discourse in this country. Look at the rhetoric flying around, the derogatory language used to describe people who work with their brains instead of their muscles. It's as if this country has decided that the only two worthy classes are the moneyed rich (the busines s owners) and the blue collar workers, and everyone else is a leech on the face of society.
It's bad, it's worse than at any time I've seen it, and it's deep rooted in the very partisan discourse we hear every day. America used to be a country where people gave each other a hand up; now more and more we seem intent on crushing anyone who has more than us. Take away their paycheck, their benefits, their retirement; if I don't have it neither should they. We don't want decent health care, we don't want decent retirement, we don't wand consumer protections, we want to drive the other guy to a level where he's worse off than we are. WTF?
I heard on the radio today that a baseline income for a family of 4 should be $68K / yr. That would pay for food, shelter, transportation, day care, health care, and retirement. But we don't want that. That's too much money. We want to drive that family into destitute because - well, because we need to provide tax breaks to the ultra wealthy! That's why!
BS. We can afford it; our politians have convinced the population that we are broke, broke, and broke, and that we must give ever greater tax breaks to the ever more wealthy.
If we chose to, we could afford high speed rail. Heck, we pay hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars to build new stadiums for private sports franchises but we can't afford to build a railroad?
The only problem is that your method will miss those without an address, those who moved, those who got married and changed their name, and so on. I serously doubt anyone has even close to accurate data on where people live in this country. And the return rate on most forms is dismal; in the single digits. So if you want the census to be near-accurate you need to have people out there counting. Also, since political power is divied up on the basis of census data, you want a process that's verifieable. It's not as simple as shoving 200,000,000 forms out the door and then waiting for the returns - unless you want people cooking up info to get more political representation.
Depends on the state. In SC you get to keep a mattress. Seriously. Still, a bankrupcy will fuck up your life for at least 7 years. No decent job, no college, no rentals, no credit cards, no checking account. You wanna live like that?
Next time you're looking down the barrel of a gun, or at a multi-billion dollar company out to crush you, tell me how brave you're going to be.
It's easy to watch an action flick and say "I can do that" and another thing not to shit yourself when you hear the bullet whiz by before you hear the crack of the rifle.
I was a disaster preparedness officer with the US Air Force for a number of years. I would not allow foreigners on my disaster site either. What with the language barrier and unfamiliar equipment someone would be sure to get killed, and then you really have a PR disaster.
In the vast majority of single point disasters, a small well trained group can do much better than a large poorly coordinated group. Something about a mythical man-month, except that people die when you screw up.
The "building" that blew off is just a light screen around the reactor building itself. It's very light weight panels hung on an equally light frame, designed to screen the reactor building from view. Nothing else. A relatively small explosoin would blow the panels off. They did not "prevent" the second explosion; it was a calculated risk necessitated by a release of steam and hydrogen from the overheated core.
If you've been following the IAEA blog it's serious but not out of control.
Ummm.... Those idiots have the best disaster response in the world. They did not delay and did not screw up. They did the best they could; far better than the US did in Katrina.
But then don't let your paranoia and xenophobia get in the way of the facts.
But the point of science is that it is repeatable. I don't have to understand how a TV works; in fact the vast majority of people don't have the basic concepts to understand a TV transmission.
But they know that if they hit the ON button the remote, the TV turns on. If it doesn't they change the batteries. This works for everyone who pushes the button, even if they don't believe in the science.
The whole point of science is that it works, and can be made into solid artifacts. Show me one article of faith that can be made repeatable to the masses, constantly, boringly repeatable.
Given that science, as exemplified through engineering, has built this web of trust, I am more inclined to believe in quantum mechanics, even if I don't understand it, because those pointy headed scientists brought me the picture on my TV.
Show me one holy man who can repeatedly perform the same miracle, every time, even to and on disbelievers. Not once, not a story in a book written 400 years after the fact, but NOW, in front of my eyes. Show me a miracle equivalent to the TV remote and I'll believe.
25 years ago "working together" was cheating, and would be cause for expulsion. It's only now that those in my generation that were brought up that way are in positions of power that we see how stupid that was.
I am not kidding - if you were to so much as ask advice from a fellow student on a critical assignment you could be expelled. Cooperation, unless strictly supervised, was not allowed. The sort of informal peer review that goes on today was unheard of.
Is it any wonder that those who got PhDs then now foster a "cut throat" environment?
In the end, it's worthless debating about. just use it or don't use it. make it better by supporting it or... pass along please.
That was my point.... In an environment where there is no barrier to trying out new desktops, a pundit's opinion isn't worth the electrons that were disturbed to read his stuff. Just try it and draw your own conclusions.
Pundits' opinions only matter when the barrier to trying it out is higher than your ability to try it. To compare Windows against, say , Mac OSX is expensive. To compare KDE v. Gnome is free. See for yourself.
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Arbitration works well between equals, or those who have equal exposure, and in highly technical disputes like proifessional services where a jury of one's peers would be hard to find.
That relationship does not hold for an individual customer against a company that is larger than most nations, and controls vast resources.
I really hope not. The strength of ARM is that there really is no standard, so everyone is free to build whatever they want. Look at the breadth of ARM hardware: watches, phones, embedded platforms, video players in airplanes.... How do you shoehorn that into a standard PC platform? I like the bazaar that is ARM. We have the PC cathedral, let the bazaar goers have the ARM.
I've always scored really high on IQ tests. But then I'm a slow learner. I mean s.l.o.w.w.w As in, it literally takes me a year or two sometimes to understand a lecture on a difficult topic and put it to use. I used to sit in a class, and do horribly on the tests, and barely pull a C. Four years after graduating college I'd finally understand what the class was about.
So IQ measures something; I think a lot of it measures your ability to think under stress and how quickly you can change your mode of thinking and how tenacious you are. I'm not sure if that's intelligence.
I'm actually a parent.... So my take on this:
Apple has some of the best school software out there. It's slick, it's neat, it's cool, and it's easy to use, so the teachers actually use it. Plus Apple gives schools truckloads of hardware, so they all work together.
iPad +1 on that score.
On the rest of it:
Kids respond to rules that make sense. Once ingrained, the rules stick. My daughter looked at her grades the other day and found that she had gone from A+ honor roll to B average. I don't know what she did, but she's doing lots of homework, talking to her teachers, and all of the sudden she has no missing work and an A+ average.
The point is that if you instill the desire to succeed by laying down some basic rules, and enforcing them the same way a winning football coach does, you get kids who know hard work and the rewards of hard work. My kids know that if they come home with a bad grade and an excuse, they get no sympathy. Now they don't even try. They just say, "I blew a test, I'm going to study for the make up; I know, no sympathy.
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See George Bush, Jr.
Need I say more?
She uses her fingernails, filed to sharp points.
oohOohhh OOOOH! Well reasoned and said. I guess Apple doesn't vet and approve each and every item in the App store, and never ever pulls anything it considers offensive to its strict code....
Anyway, I was reacting to the quick draw "blame the parents" crap, not so much the Apple bashing.
OK, that's different from the crap T-Mobile was pulling....
My kids' iPods are hooked to their debit (cash) cards. So if they spend money, it's their own - and limited by the amount of cash they have. They spend wisely. (Amazing how frugal kids get when they're spending their own money.)
This is one of those issues of parenthood.... My daughter sends some 7K per month. Of those, 2 in the last year were bad (resulting in extra charges). That to me is responsible use. (And lest people start yelling at me about her 'excessive' use, we don't have cable TV, she's on the honor roll and carries an A to A+ average in school, blah, blah, blah. She's not a slacker.)
So imposing draconian limits on her use is not the answer. The fault lies with deceptive and fraudulent marketing tactics. teaching her to be more careful, yes. Punishing, no.
OTOH I've had my kids' phones "virused" with pay-per-month crap... The invitation is sent as a text, and it's the typical "Hey check this out!" and all the kid has to do is reply. Bang! $10/month for ever for a monthly fortune. I don't know what stuff Apple was pulling, but certainly the texts my kids got were deceiving and not clear. And T-Mobile was complicit in allowing these operators to continue, no doubt getting a big slice of the action. I asked my daughter if she ever subscribed intentionally; she didn't even know she had subscribed. And T-Mobile admitted when I bitched about it that the come-on was often deceptive.
Try working in an embedded environment. When you have 4 MB of flash and 8 MB of RAM, and python (even a barely usable stripped python) takes 3 MB, you use shell. Most of my programming is on embedded platforms; if I have 32 MB of flash I don't know what to do with it. I use a lot of shell and awk.
Don't even get me started on PERL; it works for some and for others it is the most obtuse incomoprehensible glop you can imagine. Instant cruft. And it takes megabytes of storage.
Just because you can't see it from your house doesn't mean it has ceased to exist.
As someone who has kids in school, and also is a bit older, I have to disagree with you. The dumbing down of school curricula is real and is a symptom of the dumbing down of the general level of discourse in this country. Look at the rhetoric flying around, the derogatory language used to describe people who work with their brains instead of their muscles. It's as if this country has decided that the only two worthy classes are the moneyed rich (the busines s owners) and the blue collar workers, and everyone else is a leech on the face of society.
It's bad, it's worse than at any time I've seen it, and it's deep rooted in the very partisan discourse we hear every day. America used to be a country where people gave each other a hand up; now more and more we seem intent on crushing anyone who has more than us. Take away their paycheck, their benefits, their retirement; if I don't have it neither should they. We don't want decent health care, we don't want decent retirement, we don't wand consumer protections, we want to drive the other guy to a level where he's worse off than we are. WTF?
I heard on the radio today that a baseline income for a family of 4 should be $68K / yr. That would pay for food, shelter, transportation, day care, health care, and retirement. But we don't want that. That's too much money. We want to drive that family into destitute because - well, because we need to provide tax breaks to the ultra wealthy! That's why!
BS. We can afford it; our politians have convinced the population that we are broke, broke, and broke, and that we must give ever greater tax breaks to the ever more wealthy.
If we chose to, we could afford high speed rail. Heck, we pay hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars to build new stadiums for private sports franchises but we can't afford to build a railroad?
We're not broke, we're stupid and gullible.
Didn't we just have a discussion about how overpaid government workers are?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2008748&cid=35289538
Are you sure that wasn't $50K/yr with 25 hour workweeks?
The only problem is that your method will miss those without an address, those who moved, those who got married and changed their name, and so on. I serously doubt anyone has even close to accurate data on where people live in this country. And the return rate on most forms is dismal; in the single digits. So if you want the census to be near-accurate you need to have people out there counting. Also, since political power is divied up on the basis of census data, you want a process that's verifieable. It's not as simple as shoving 200,000,000 forms out the door and then waiting for the returns - unless you want people cooking up info to get more political representation.
Depends on the state. In SC you get to keep a mattress. Seriously. Still, a bankrupcy will fuck up your life for at least 7 years. No decent job, no college, no rentals, no credit cards, no checking account. You wanna live like that?
If you watch an action flick and think, I can do that, I have news for you, you're wrong..
Ever read the darwin awards?
It's not a building, it's a falsework designed to hide the building. Big difference.
The falsework blew off; no idea if the building itself sustained damage in the blast.
+1
Next time you're looking down the barrel of a gun, or at a multi-billion dollar company out to crush you, tell me how brave you're going to be.
It's easy to watch an action flick and say "I can do that" and another thing not to shit yourself when you hear the bullet whiz by before you hear the crack of the rifle.
I was a disaster preparedness officer with the US Air Force for a number of years. I would not allow foreigners on my disaster site either. What with the language barrier and unfamiliar equipment someone would be sure to get killed, and then you really have a PR disaster.
In the vast majority of single point disasters, a small well trained group can do much better than a large poorly coordinated group. Something about a mythical man-month, except that people die when you screw up.
The "building" that blew off is just a light screen around the reactor building itself. It's very light weight panels hung on an equally light frame, designed to screen the reactor building from view. Nothing else. A relatively small explosoin would blow the panels off. They did not "prevent" the second explosion; it was a calculated risk necessitated by a release of steam and hydrogen from the overheated core.
If you've been following the IAEA blog it's serious but not out of control.
Ummm.... Those idiots have the best disaster response in the world. They did not delay and did not screw up. They did the best they could; far better than the US did in Katrina.
But then don't let your paranoia and xenophobia get in the way of the facts.
But the point of science is that it is repeatable. I don't have to understand how a TV works; in fact the vast majority of people don't have the basic concepts to understand a TV transmission.
But they know that if they hit the ON button the remote, the TV turns on. If it doesn't they change the batteries. This works for everyone who pushes the button, even if they don't believe in the science.
The whole point of science is that it works, and can be made into solid artifacts. Show me one article of faith that can be made repeatable to the masses, constantly, boringly repeatable.
Given that science, as exemplified through engineering, has built this web of trust, I am more inclined to believe in quantum mechanics, even if I don't understand it, because those pointy headed scientists brought me the picture on my TV.
Show me one holy man who can repeatedly perform the same miracle, every time, even to and on disbelievers. Not once, not a story in a book written 400 years after the fact, but NOW, in front of my eyes. Show me a miracle equivalent to the TV remote and I'll believe.
25 years ago "working together" was cheating, and would be cause for expulsion. It's only now that those in my generation that were brought up that way are in positions of power that we see how stupid that was.
I am not kidding - if you were to so much as ask advice from a fellow student on a critical assignment you could be expelled. Cooperation, unless strictly supervised, was not allowed. The sort of informal peer review that goes on today was unheard of.
Is it any wonder that those who got PhDs then now foster a "cut throat" environment?
In the end, it's worthless debating about. just use it or don't use it. make it better by supporting it or ... pass along please.
That was my point.... In an environment where there is no barrier to trying out new desktops, a pundit's opinion isn't worth the electrons that were disturbed to read his stuff. Just try it and draw your own conclusions.
Pundits' opinions only matter when the barrier to trying it out is higher than your ability to try it. To compare Windows against, say , Mac OSX is expensive. To compare KDE v. Gnome is free. See for yourself.