They are challenging old ideas that myopia is the domain of the bookish child and are instead coalescing around a new notion: that spending too long indoors is placing children at risk.
Doesn't that amount to the same thing? Not spending much time on distance focussing?
Yeah, I laughed when I saw that. Someone's pretty clueless.
And I'm probably going to step on a lot of toes here, but people like me strongly prefer Postgres to MySQL. And by "people like me" I mean folks for whom their first real rdbms experience was theoretical or "commercial". I did both.
I used ingres in college to a small extent and then the Ingres commercial product for years after that. I have also used Sybase and Oracle professionally. PostgreSQL easily walks among the giants of that industry.
Every time this discussion comes up the MySQL side has to say "yeah, but..." about a thousand times. MySQL doesn't do ______ properly? "Yeah, but if you just install this other piece of software and change a couple of config files it *can* do it.' Well, con-fucking-gratulations!
The point is that PostgreSQL does exactly what it should do out of the box. I don't have to change a configuration file to make it ACID compliant, fast, correct, whatever. It just works and works correctly out of the box.
Every time someone tells me how easy MySQL is to set up they've betrayed their experience level in this realm.
I know a lot of you are going to mod me down - I don't care. But why not reply instead?
I lived 35 years in Jersey and my family is still mostly there. I had a few years when all I did was drive from one dealership to another doing auto insurance claims. The place is full of car dealerships. They tend to be in clusters along old highways, though sometimes embedded in urban neighborhoods too. The last thing Jersey needs is more car dealerships and lots. So I can see the numerical limits as having some merit. It's a crowded place, and more lots competing for the same number of buyers is not really an improvement, however much Elon Musk doesn't want to use existing dealer networks. Or how much people want Tesla electric vehicles out on the road.
Yeah, if only there were a way for everybody together to decide how many auto dealerships are needed. We could call it a "market".
But, yeah, silly stuff. We should centrally plan how many dealerships there should be. It'll work out much better.
You're missing anti-GMO, anti-economic-reality, anti-free-markets, and other lunacy of the left. I'm a libertarian - neither right nor left. From my view up here (yes, take that as condescending) it's pretty obvious that they're two sides of the same coin.
Anti-vaxxers are spread pretty evenly across the political spectrum. In fact a study published in December 2014 found that conservative Republicans are very slightly more likely to hold anti-vax views than liberal Democrats.
Uh, yeah, but only one side is yelling "anti-science" at the other. There should be *no* liberal Democrats on the anti-vax side if I were to believe the bullshit coming from that side.
Both sides are anti-science, just in different ways. But it's only the Democrats who try to use this as a political point.
There's a video on liveleak of someone being *killed* by one of those. I'm very familiar with them. See my other screed above explaining why the FAA is pushing the "drone" language.
We had toy helicopters for years before we had drones. There's a huge difference as "drones" fly autonomously or semi-autonomously. If you've ever watched liveleak videos of drone use you'll note the thing flies itself, the operator works on targeting and killing people. The interface is extremely high level. The operator marks an area as the target and the software alters the flight path and camera angle to make that area available for attack.
A toy helicopter, on the other hand, is directly flown by the operator and generally has a rolling camera that simply aims straight ahead or is simply movable by the operator.
You can turn a toy helicopter into a drone with the right software, but they are otherwise *very* different things. Calling it a drone is done simply to invoke images of people flying actual drones over the middle east and therefore make it scary.
Hobbyists have been flying toy helicopters far longer than that without incident. Don't let the FAA shit in this punchbowl any more than they already have.
This is crazy nonsense. Virtually every industry and business, especially manufacturing, gets subsidies and tax breaks. Economics have nothing to do with it.
No, not every industry. Typically cronies get subsidies.
Yeah and back in 1991 you were probably telling us Apple could never fail at anything ever. Keep riding the hype wave, everyone knows they always last forever...
I agree with that, but keep in mind that Apple has a couple hundred billion dollars in the bank right now. They have more money than the federal government and they don't even have the machines to print it. Think about that.
That's not saying there can never be a decline - even Rome fell. But Apple nearly died in the 1990s and ran out of cash. At this point they could quit selling products and they'd still have enough cash to coast along for decades (the cash is invested). It's a whole nother ball game.
Microsoft is essentially in the same boat, by the way.
Except no one will buy that watch. Why would you buy a disposable 18k gold watch?
If you buy an expensive watch you're buying the skill and craftsmanship of the watchmaker. You're buying something that will stand the test of time and pass down to generations. While i'm not a huge watch guy I have a very nice watch that was my great-grandfather's and has been passed down for several generations and it still works well.
Who's going to buy a $10,000 18k gold Apple Watch that will be obsolete in 6 months? There are no nice pieces, no craftsmanship; you're paying $10,000 for a disposable gold watch made by Chinese peons instead of a quality timepiece made by a master craftsman. There's a huge difference.
I've thought the same thing (many times) but I wonder if it'll be possible - if not easy - to simply change out the "guts" of it every couple of years when a new model comes out. I mean, the actual watch is worth a few hundred bucks, right? So if I dropped $10K for one upgrading it two years from now for $300 is a bargain. It should be possible to remove the old watch from the case and drop a new one in as long as Apple doesn't change the form factor. And my guess is that there's less desire to change the form factor given that this is a piece that goes on someone's wrist and it's already about as big as a watch should be.
Also, a high-end Swiss watch is a means of identifying yourself in a particular group, for example a Breitling Navitimer probably means you are a professional pilot or at least you want people to think you are. An Apple watch will never ever replace a Breitling in this market.
Yeah, until..... someone creates the Breitling Navitimer app for the Apple watch!
Hell, I can be among 5 different "in crowds" now. I'll get a Rolex app for it, too!
Because there's no need to destroy a big chunk of desert. Honestly, it's worth twice as much since the land is already "destroyed" and my roof is sitting there empty. People act like solar isn't environmentally destructive but it is - not to the extent that a coal plant is (and the destruction is limited to the immediate area of the plant).
My roof should either be a solar collector or painted white. Right now it's a solar collector and I'm paying good money in the summer to take the collected heat and move it to an air conditioning unit at the side of the house.
Seriously, it's like I just stumbled into high school again. "Who needs math, math is stupid! Why do you read science fiction, that's stupid!" Fuck off, some of us have dreams.
Actually, reading through all that I was thinking of "why do you need a faster internet connection?" The answer is "I'll know when I get it".
Same thing with the moon. Maybe all their reasons are BS right now, but with people putting a lot of $ into it someone will figure something out.
Its for a whole next level of "money to burn" above even people who have that kind of money to burn on trinkets.
I totally agree, and I will say that if I were going to drop that kind of money on a watch it would be a Rolex that I would have the rest of my life. Right now, I'm wearing a citizen eco-drive - I think a Skyhawk - that I paid $300 or $400 for in 2002. Do you think anybody's going to be wearing their Apple iwatch 12 years from now?
Anyway, what I was going to say is that my feeling from experience is that the $10K Apple watch is probably not going to be worn by truly wealthy people who can afford it, but rather by wannabes who want to look the part. The "fake it until you make it" crowd. The ones who bought the "I Am Rich" app (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich).
PHP is awful regardless of who uses it. The language was created as a Perl for Dummies and never moved beyond its roots until version 5 (which retains backward compatibility with all the madness). Any "extensions" - such as the ability to access an RDBMS server - had to be compiled in to the interpreter since the language initially didn't have the various pieces necessary to write such connecting code in actual PHP. And these extensions simply dumped a bunch of crap into the global namespace. So, if you compiled in support for MySQL, you ended up with a bunch of "mysql_whatever" functions to call. Better yet, there was little to no coordination between projects so mysql_whatever functions may or may not have analogous pgsql_whatever functions should you want to change to another RDBMS.
While a lot of that has been fixed there are simply a lot of historical problems like that. I don't see those sorts of issues in C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, or most other modern languages. No, PHP is a breed apart.
Other than that I agree with most of what you say. I don't find C++ to be terrible but I haven't touched it in 15 years, either.
Spot on. We just found out the the Ferguson "judge" responsible for jailing people who owe a few hundred dollars on a parking fine actually owes $170,000 to the IRS.
The bottom line is that people in power don't think the rules apply to them. Under rule of law, the rules do apply to them. But as we've seen more and more lately it's difficult to enforce the rules when they rule the enforcement mechanisms.
If parents leave guns in a locked safe, a teenage son cannot shoot himself if he suddenly decides life is hopeless.
People have been proudly campaigning for irresponsible gun ownership in the US for a very, very, long time. Suggesting things like locking up guns - even in the gun owner's home...
Makes a gun of little value for self defense unless one has a quick open gun safe. Guns are used over a million times per year in this country for self defense. Suicides clock in at 1.5% of that (on the high end) and perhaps 1% of that. I know it's hard to understand but guns are very useful for self defense. Unfortunately, they're useful for suicide, too. The answer isn't statutory law.
I'm as much "in the tech community" as anybody I know and I'd never heard of them. Browsing their web site and reading about the apple watch, well, I don't know. I still don't know what they were doing.
Meanwhile, a formal ban is pending at Versailles palace and Centre Pompidou in France, and visitors are now being told to stow their sticks by guards at the Louvre.
Yeah, if someone brings one of those stupid things to my house I'll help them "stow their sticks" where the sun don't shine.
there is no evidence it was replaced prior to aircraft going missing
And it seems even less likely that they were replaced after the aircraft went missing. Unless someone was able to get ahold of one of those liion batteries in the cargo hold and replace it.
Then it's time to update the laws to require them to give out their full names. In most places in the US police officers are legally required to give out their full name when asked. Anything less than that invariably leads to arbitrary rule.
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They are challenging old ideas that myopia is the domain of the bookish child and are instead coalescing around a new notion: that spending too long indoors is placing children at risk.
Doesn't that amount to the same thing? Not spending much time on distance focussing?
Yeah, I laughed when I saw that. Someone's pretty clueless.
And I'm probably going to step on a lot of toes here, but people like me strongly prefer Postgres to MySQL. And by "people like me" I mean folks for whom their first real rdbms experience was theoretical or "commercial". I did both.
I used ingres in college to a small extent and then the Ingres commercial product for years after that. I have also used Sybase and Oracle professionally. PostgreSQL easily walks among the giants of that industry.
Every time this discussion comes up the MySQL side has to say "yeah, but..." about a thousand times. MySQL doesn't do ______ properly? "Yeah, but if you just install this other piece of software and change a couple of config files it *can* do it.' Well, con-fucking-gratulations!
The point is that PostgreSQL does exactly what it should do out of the box. I don't have to change a configuration file to make it ACID compliant, fast, correct, whatever. It just works and works correctly out of the box.
Every time someone tells me how easy MySQL is to set up they've betrayed their experience level in this realm.
I know a lot of you are going to mod me down - I don't care. But why not reply instead?
I lived 35 years in Jersey and my family is still mostly there. I had a few years when all I did was drive from one dealership to another doing auto insurance claims. The place is full of car dealerships. They tend to be in clusters along old highways, though sometimes embedded in urban neighborhoods too. The last thing Jersey needs is more car dealerships and lots. So I can see the numerical limits as having some merit. It's a crowded place, and more lots competing for the same number of buyers is not really an improvement, however much Elon Musk doesn't want to use existing dealer networks. Or how much people want Tesla electric vehicles out on the road.
Yeah, if only there were a way for everybody together to decide how many auto dealerships are needed. We could call it a "market".
But, yeah, silly stuff. We should centrally plan how many dealerships there should be. It'll work out much better.
You're missing anti-GMO, anti-economic-reality, anti-free-markets, and other lunacy of the left. I'm a libertarian - neither right nor left. From my view up here (yes, take that as condescending) it's pretty obvious that they're two sides of the same coin.
Explain anti vaxxers
Anti-vaxxers are spread pretty evenly across the political spectrum. In fact a study published in December 2014 found that conservative Republicans are very slightly more likely to hold anti-vax views than liberal Democrats.
Uh, yeah, but only one side is yelling "anti-science" at the other. There should be *no* liberal Democrats on the anti-vax side if I were to believe the bullshit coming from that side.
Both sides are anti-science, just in different ways. But it's only the Democrats who try to use this as a political point.
the EPA can worry about the environment, leave NASA to what NASA is supposed to do.
The EPA is a regulatory agency, not a science agency. It's not the EPA's job to conduct the research on earth.
http://www2.epa.gov/research
Tell you what, I'll pass their phone number along to you so you can set them straight.
There's a video on liveleak of someone being *killed* by one of those. I'm very familiar with them. See my other screed above explaining why the FAA is pushing the "drone" language.
We had toy helicopters for years before we had drones. There's a huge difference as "drones" fly autonomously or semi-autonomously. If you've ever watched liveleak videos of drone use you'll note the thing flies itself, the operator works on targeting and killing people. The interface is extremely high level. The operator marks an area as the target and the software alters the flight path and camera angle to make that area available for attack.
A toy helicopter, on the other hand, is directly flown by the operator and generally has a rolling camera that simply aims straight ahead or is simply movable by the operator.
You can turn a toy helicopter into a drone with the right software, but they are otherwise *very* different things. Calling it a drone is done simply to invoke images of people flying actual drones over the middle east and therefore make it scary.
Hobbyists have been flying toy helicopters far longer than that without incident. Don't let the FAA shit in this punchbowl any more than they already have.
Can we just call it what it is? It's a "toy helicopter", not a "drone". That helps get the conversation on the right track.
This is crazy nonsense. Virtually every industry and business, especially manufacturing, gets subsidies and tax breaks. Economics have nothing to do with it.
No, not every industry. Typically cronies get subsidies.
Yeah and back in 1991 you were probably telling us Apple could never fail at anything ever. Keep riding the hype wave, everyone knows they always last forever...
I agree with that, but keep in mind that Apple has a couple hundred billion dollars in the bank right now. They have more money than the federal government and they don't even have the machines to print it. Think about that.
That's not saying there can never be a decline - even Rome fell. But Apple nearly died in the 1990s and ran out of cash. At this point they could quit selling products and they'd still have enough cash to coast along for decades (the cash is invested). It's a whole nother ball game.
Microsoft is essentially in the same boat, by the way.
Except no one will buy that watch. Why would you buy a disposable 18k gold watch?
If you buy an expensive watch you're buying the skill and craftsmanship of the watchmaker. You're buying something that will stand the test of time and pass down to generations. While i'm not a huge watch guy I have a very nice watch that was my great-grandfather's and has been passed down for several generations and it still works well.
Who's going to buy a $10,000 18k gold Apple Watch that will be obsolete in 6 months? There are no nice pieces, no craftsmanship; you're paying $10,000 for a disposable gold watch made by Chinese peons instead of a quality timepiece made by a master craftsman. There's a huge difference.
I've thought the same thing (many times) but I wonder if it'll be possible - if not easy - to simply change out the "guts" of it every couple of years when a new model comes out. I mean, the actual watch is worth a few hundred bucks, right? So if I dropped $10K for one upgrading it two years from now for $300 is a bargain. It should be possible to remove the old watch from the case and drop a new one in as long as Apple doesn't change the form factor. And my guess is that there's less desire to change the form factor given that this is a piece that goes on someone's wrist and it's already about as big as a watch should be.
Also, a high-end Swiss
watch is a means of identifying yourself in a particular group, for example a Breitling
Navitimer probably means you are a professional pilot or at least you want people
to think you are. An Apple watch will never ever replace a Breitling in this market.
Yeah, until..... someone creates the Breitling Navitimer app for the Apple watch!
Hell, I can be among 5 different "in crowds" now. I'll get a Rolex app for it, too!
If it were truly "economical" the government wouldn't be subsidizing it. I think that's a big part of the "upsetting".
Why subsidize residential PV?
Because there's no need to destroy a big chunk of desert. Honestly, it's worth twice as much since the land is already "destroyed" and my roof is sitting there empty. People act like solar isn't environmentally destructive but it is - not to the extent that a coal plant is (and the destruction is limited to the immediate area of the plant).
My roof should either be a solar collector or painted white. Right now it's a solar collector and I'm paying good money in the summer to take the collected heat and move it to an air conditioning unit at the side of the house.
Seriously, it's like I just stumbled into high school again. "Who needs math, math is stupid! Why do you read science fiction, that's stupid!" Fuck off, some of us have dreams.
Actually, reading through all that I was thinking of "why do you need a faster internet connection?" The answer is "I'll know when I get it".
Same thing with the moon. Maybe all their reasons are BS right now, but with people putting a lot of $ into it someone will figure something out.
Its for a whole next level of "money to burn" above even people who have that kind of money to burn on trinkets.
I totally agree, and I will say that if I were going to drop that kind of money on a watch it would be a Rolex that I would have the rest of my life. Right now, I'm wearing a citizen eco-drive - I think a Skyhawk - that I paid $300 or $400 for in 2002. Do you think anybody's going to be wearing their Apple iwatch 12 years from now?
Anyway, what I was going to say is that my feeling from experience is that the $10K Apple watch is probably not going to be worn by truly wealthy people who can afford it, but rather by wannabes who want to look the part. The "fake it until you make it" crowd. The ones who bought the "I Am Rich" app (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich).
PHP is awful regardless of who uses it. The language was created as a Perl for Dummies and never moved beyond its roots until version 5 (which retains backward compatibility with all the madness). Any "extensions" - such as the ability to access an RDBMS server - had to be compiled in to the interpreter since the language initially didn't have the various pieces necessary to write such connecting code in actual PHP. And these extensions simply dumped a bunch of crap into the global namespace. So, if you compiled in support for MySQL, you ended up with a bunch of "mysql_whatever" functions to call. Better yet, there was little to no coordination between projects so mysql_whatever functions may or may not have analogous pgsql_whatever functions should you want to change to another RDBMS.
While a lot of that has been fixed there are simply a lot of historical problems like that. I don't see those sorts of issues in C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, or most other modern languages. No, PHP is a breed apart.
Other than that I agree with most of what you say. I don't find C++ to be terrible but I haven't touched it in 15 years, either.
Spot on. We just found out the the Ferguson "judge" responsible for jailing people who owe a few hundred dollars on a parking fine actually owes $170,000 to the IRS.
The bottom line is that people in power don't think the rules apply to them. Under rule of law, the rules do apply to them. But as we've seen more and more lately it's difficult to enforce the rules when they rule the enforcement mechanisms.
I mean, the only security they seemed to be interested in was keeping the emails out of the hands of people with subpoenas, FOIA requests and such.
If parents leave guns in a locked safe, a teenage son cannot shoot himself if he suddenly decides life is hopeless.
People have been proudly campaigning for irresponsible gun ownership in the US for a very, very, long time. Suggesting things like locking up guns - even in the gun owner's home ...
Makes a gun of little value for self defense unless one has a quick open gun safe. Guns are used over a million times per year in this country for self defense. Suicides clock in at 1.5% of that (on the high end) and perhaps 1% of that. I know it's hard to understand but guns are very useful for self defense. Unfortunately, they're useful for suicide, too. The answer isn't statutory law.
I'm as much "in the tech community" as anybody I know and I'd never heard of them. Browsing their web site and reading about the apple watch, well, I don't know. I still don't know what they were doing.
Meanwhile, a formal ban is pending at Versailles palace and Centre Pompidou in France, and visitors are now being told to stow their sticks by guards at the Louvre.
Yeah, if someone brings one of those stupid things to my house I'll help them "stow their sticks" where the sun don't shine.
there is no evidence it was replaced prior to aircraft going missing
And it seems even less likely that they were replaced after the aircraft went missing. Unless someone was able to get ahold of one of those liion batteries in the cargo hold and replace it.
Then it's time to update the laws to require them to give out their full names. In most places in the US police officers are legally required to give out their full name when asked. Anything less than that invariably leads to arbitrary rule.