The problem as I see it for mass adoption of such a diet is that people these days think meat comes in packages in the store. There's been a complete disconnect between what meat is and what it comes from. I suspect such an effort wouldn't get very far -- as soon as urban people saw meat that.. you know.. really looked like an animal, the would be a huge hue and cry, and there'd be huge pressure to go back to eating faceless meat that came from factories.
Um, not really. My understanding is that dodos tasted terrible. (Look up the Dutch word "walgvogel".) It wasn't that we ate them all, it's that we introduced predators into their environment that ate their eggs.
This is why it's important to communicate with your kid. These things are not difficult to foresee. Kids (and a lot of adults) tend to believe against all reason that Facebook and it's ilk are their own private playground where nothing goes past their own circle of friends. But Facebook is just the tool here -- an attractive nuisance, if you will. It's so easy to acquire the momentary satisfaction of revealing information to your circle of friends. But it's really part of a larger problem, that of knowing when to keep your mouth shut in any medium. Adults presume at their peril that kids have this kind of insight.
So if, in this case, the adult told the kid "this is what a confidentiality agreement means, and doing this or that will violate it" and the kid did it anyway, she now owes the family about a century of allowance. But if the adult did not adequately explain this, it's really the adult's fault, because this is a natural thing for kids to want to do.
Well, yes. I wrote a comment on the article "why haven't we run out of IPV4 addresses yet" (the most recent article a few days ago, not the one last week or the one last January or the one around Thanksgiving, or the one late summer...) saying that the reason we haven't run out is that most of us are using NAT now, and have only one, or at least very few, actual outwards facing addresses. I strongly suspect that car components will have a similar arrangement. My comment above was a mild zinger to the hand-wringers who think every single device should be IPV6 RIGHT NOW.
Parenthetically, the idea of every one of my devices having an unique, outward facing network address is absolutely terrifying.
I agree, which makes me a little puzzled as to why random vs sequential is even a measurement for silicon drives. It's a completely different storage paradigm.
Kind of moot since he was not moving at the time (see TFA). But you don't have to be tapping to find map directions in order to use a mapping app. Often the app itself doesn't allow that.
The navigator built into my vehicle will give you turn-by-turn while you're moving, but won't let you program an address unless the parking brake is on. The Garmin that we rented twice on trips back east would not let you program it if it sensed that you were in motion. This makes it kinda difficult when you have a navigator riding shotgun manipulating the device, but it is a technical way to avoid "looking at the phone and tapping to find map directions" while in motion.
Poor choice for analogy since Windows 1.0 was only ever a weak beta. Try 8.0, it's a weak full release with malarkey marketing monkey behind it.
I understand what you're saying, (and agree with the assessment of 8.0) but I can't go there. The concept of Bitcoin is interesting, even if the implementation might be lacking. What I was trying to say is that it's too much to expect one to "trust" version 1.0 of anything. (Or in this case, one could argue that it was version.9 or less.)
Bitcoin was (still is...) an interesting experiment, and I watch it with interest. But trust? C'mon, that's like saying "do you still trust Windows 1.0?"
Yeah, that'll be a big attraction to hirees. "Come work at Google, in the armpit of Northern California. I love the smell of aged garbage in the morning."
At $3000/month for a shack, all of Silicon Valley is the armpit of Northern California!
Somewhat true, which is why I don't live there anymore.
I've been holding onto my older pre-Microsoft F150 because I really didn't want to have to make that decision. I'm still not in a hurry to trade up, but it's great news that I finally can.
> Googles and Apples of the world should 'locate themselves in existing urban communities. Ideally, in blighted ones,' says Dutta."
Yeah, that'll be a big attraction to hirees. "Come work at Google, in the armpit of Northern California. I love the smell of aged garbage in the morning."
Instead of trying to force or guilt companies into coming back to urban, why not try attracting them instead?
Well, it's not for the US market, and very low end Android phones do ok in foreign markets. I think it's a contingency for if the Microsoft buy-out doesn't go through.
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The series was fun also.
The problem as I see it for mass adoption of such a diet is that people these days think meat comes in packages in the store. There's been a complete disconnect between what meat is and what it comes from. I suspect such an effort wouldn't get very far -- as soon as urban people saw meat that .. you know .. really looked like an animal, the would be a huge hue and cry, and there'd be huge pressure to go back to eating faceless meat that came from factories.
Um, not really. My understanding is that dodos tasted terrible. (Look up the Dutch word "walgvogel".) It wasn't that we ate them all, it's that we introduced predators into their environment that ate their eggs.
What's grey and comes in quarts?
Ok, but how about, there's a reason why species go extinct -- to make room for other species.
In other words, Some of the arguments against evolution puzzle me.
"Broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!"
This is why it's important to communicate with your kid. These things are not difficult to foresee. Kids (and a lot of adults) tend to believe against all reason that Facebook and it's ilk are their own private playground where nothing goes past their own circle of friends. But Facebook is just the tool here -- an attractive nuisance, if you will. It's so easy to acquire the momentary satisfaction of revealing information to your circle of friends. But it's really part of a larger problem, that of knowing when to keep your mouth shut in any medium. Adults presume at their peril that kids have this kind of insight.
So if, in this case, the adult told the kid "this is what a confidentiality agreement means, and doing this or that will violate it" and the kid did it anyway, she now owes the family about a century of allowance. But if the adult did not adequately explain this, it's really the adult's fault, because this is a natural thing for kids to want to do.
Irrelevant on a private network.
Well, yes. I wrote a comment on the article "why haven't we run out of IPV4 addresses yet" (the most recent article a few days ago, not the one last week or the one last January or the one around Thanksgiving, or the one late summer...) saying that the reason we haven't run out is that most of us are using NAT now, and have only one, or at least very few, actual outwards facing addresses. I strongly suspect that car components will have a similar arrangement. My comment above was a mild zinger to the hand-wringers who think every single device should be IPV6 RIGHT NOW.
Parenthetically, the idea of every one of my devices having an unique, outward facing network address is absolutely terrifying.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't we all hybrid descendants of the Cyclons and humans which fled the Twelve Colonies?
Dunno. I stopped watching partway into the third season.
Every component of my car outward facing.... that's absolutely terrifying.
nah, IPX
(slaps forehead) Of course!
IPV4. bets?
Yeah, everyone knows the Cylons are going to show up any day now.
I agree, which makes me a little puzzled as to why random vs sequential is even a measurement for silicon drives. It's a completely different storage paradigm.
Kind of moot since he was not moving at the time (see TFA). But you don't have to be tapping to find map directions in order to use a mapping app. Often the app itself doesn't allow that.
The navigator built into my vehicle will give you turn-by-turn while you're moving, but won't let you program an address unless the parking brake is on. The Garmin that we rented twice on trips back east would not let you program it if it sensed that you were in motion. This makes it kinda difficult when you have a navigator riding shotgun manipulating the device, but it is a technical way to avoid "looking at the phone and tapping to find map directions" while in motion.
> Although the drive boasts exceptional throughput with random I/O, its sequential transfer rates are nothing special."
But good random access will give you better overall performance in most cases. You rarely need to deathmarch through the drive.
Poor choice for analogy since Windows 1.0 was only ever a weak beta. Try 8.0, it's a weak full release with malarkey marketing monkey behind it.
I understand what you're saying, (and agree with the assessment of 8.0) but I can't go there. The concept of Bitcoin is interesting, even if the implementation might be lacking. What I was trying to say is that it's too much to expect one to "trust" version 1.0 of anything. (Or in this case, one could argue that it was version .9 or less.)
> The idea of wasting perfectly good electricity creating something of value out of nothing at all [...]
Don't let De Beers hear you talking like that.
Bitcoin was (still is...) an interesting experiment, and I watch it with interest. But trust? C'mon, that's like saying "do you still trust Windows 1.0?"
True. It's called Risk Management. (There's a wiki...)
Unfortunately, they do become administrators. . .
Sad. True.
At $3000/month for a shack, all of Silicon Valley is the armpit of Northern California!
Somewhat true, which is why I don't live there anymore.
I've been holding onto my older pre-Microsoft F150 because I really didn't want to have to make that decision. I'm still not in a hurry to trade up, but it's great news that I finally can.
> Googles and Apples of the world should 'locate themselves in existing urban communities. Ideally, in blighted ones,' says Dutta."
Yeah, that'll be a big attraction to hirees. "Come work at Google, in the armpit of Northern California. I love the smell of aged garbage in the morning."
Instead of trying to force or guilt companies into coming back to urban, why not try attracting them instead?
Well, it's not for the US market, and very low end Android phones do ok in foreign markets. I think it's a contingency for if the Microsoft buy-out doesn't go through.