Ooooh. Before reading TFA I didn't realize there was a way to turn off this obnoxious behavior. Thanks, OP!
Of course, in some future build, I fully expect there to not be a way to turn off M$ product promotion. But at least for now, I can get a little peace.
Part of the purpose of a formal education is to push you out of your comfort zone -- to have you try things that you wouldn't normally be inclined to do. My concern is that if schools pander to kids not wanting to give presentations, that entire skill set will wither away. We're already raising a generation -- a couple generations now, I guess -- of kids who are disinclined to interact with other humans. I don't think encouraging that is a good idea.
I think the reason PCs didn't get replaced by tablets is that there didn't arrive any reasonable method for content creation on touch-only machines. This can be done (think Minority Report) but requires a tremendous amount of work in establishing a sufficiently sophisticated input method, way beyond what's available on today's smartphones, and that never happened. I think people quickly realized that tablets are great for content consumption, but beside putting cute little ears and noses on pictures, not so much for content creation.
As a photographer, I really thought, years ago, that there would come a time when I could leave my PC at home and bring a tablet into the field for post-processing. There were even products that looked like they were going to provide that function, but years later they're still toys. Great for preparing photos taken with the built-in camera for publishing on social media, not sufficient for serious work.
And I totally realize -- this is what the market wants. There just isn't enough demand for feature rich content creation on a tablet to do the work necessary to get there. But I'm not surprised at all that now that the shininess has worn off, tablets have settled into their own little niche, which only intersects partially with the PC feature set.
I own a tablet, but haven't booted it up in quite awhile. My PC is immensely more capable, and my phone is more portable. (In fairness, I don't use entertainment streaming services. Wife does, and she uses her tablet daily. But that only serves to illustrate the point.)
I think you're right, but I have to ask, if they think women and minorities need extra babying because they're women and minorities, isn't that fundamentally sexist/racist?
We ran a test while I was still deciding whether to use it, and so that she could see what the alert looked like, and it seemed to work as advertised.
Side note, latitude and logitude coordinates mean nothing to her, but 911 services know how to use them. I discovered this when I hit a deer on a remote road. I had cell service but the truck's GPS didn't know where I was on a map -- it would only give me lat/long coordinates, which the 911 operator knew how to use.
I realize this is using the phone's sensors in a way not intended by the manufacturer, but in absence of a purpose-built crash sensor (which would be an interesting selling point should such a feature be available and affordable) it's better than nothing.
That (using a smartphone for crash detection) has been around for years. I personally use "cradar", an app that texts my coordinates to my daughter's phone if I dump my bike. I have 30 seconds after it's gone off to prevent it from sending the text if the crash isn't bad or I've just dropped my phone.
Why daughter's phone? Because she actually pays attention to her phone. If I sent it to my wife's phone, I could be leaking on the side of the road for hours before she notices.
Generally true, although I personally check the viewer scores (and generally ignore the critics) if I'm undecided about paying money to see a film in-theater.
I don't feel any compulsion to track RT because there's absolutely no hurry. When there's room in my schedule for another show, I can see what's become available, whether people liked it, make sure it didn't die an untimely death, and stream it when I feel like it. There's no urgency anymore.
I think I covered that. I was and still am socially awkward. I've learned to compensate over the years, but it's always been like following a formula rather than anything I did naturally.
"Sheldon is basically protrayed as an arsehole for laughs a large amount of the time."
I agree! And the overuse of Sheldon's character is probably my only real beef with the show. The character got somewhat less obnoxious when he started dating, and the writers broadened their scope a little when Leonard got married and Howard had a child. But for a couple seasons it might have been "the sheldon show" and I was starting to lose interest.
My family and I enjoy Young Sheldon, but not because of the character himself (although occasionally he does a cool thing) but all the other characters, especially his "normal" sister's deadpan reactions to his bizarre behavior.
I find it ironic given the frequent backlash here for SJWs and PC types being too thin-skinned and not being able to lighten up, and then a show that jovially pokes fun at nerds is suddenly "blackface for nerds" and must be taken off the air. *Everyone* needs to lighten up.
I'd say that stamina, physical strength, and coordination strongly depend on what kind bow you use. For example are you shooting compounds? Or maybe longbow or recurve? What is the draw weight of your bow?
I guess I should expect this to get geeky.:-). I drew a 35 pound recurve in high school. I currently shoot a 45 pound recurve. I intentionally stay away from high technology -- no pulleys, stabilizer or sight. The only change I've made is replacing the shelf with a more modern rest and I admit to shooting carbon fiber shafts instead of wood.
Because I like to go (deer and boar) hunting with a bow now an then (not allowed in my own stupid country). Therefore I need an appropriately high draw weight - 60lbs. And since I also like the challenge, I'm not using a compound but a recurve. Drawing the bow and keeping it drawn already requires some considerable upper body strength, and stamina in your latissimus dorsi muscles. Otherwise your muscles tire quickly and you don't get a lot of time to aim before your arms become shaky.
Mind you, I have a lot more upper body strength now than I did in high school. I see the advantage of a 60 pound pull for hunting, but I don't hunt. I just make holes in targets. I try to stay low technology as a survival skill but I have no real interest in hunting.
Finding an anchor point (or whatever it is called) for a consistent draw requires some muscle memory that you have to acquire first. Then you also need a consistently clean release, which has to be coordinated with your aiming.
Also you don't need to understand a lot about physics and mathematics to be good at this. Everything can be learned by practising enough until your muscle memory does most of the work for you. And practice is also going to improve the strength and stamina of the required muscles if you do it regularly enough.
Of course if you understand a lot about physics and mathematics it doesn't hurt either. Maybe you're quicker to grasp why you're doing what you're doing and why your equipment behaves like it does.
And the latter probably applies to most sports or martial arts. After all we live in a universe that is governed by the laws of physics as far as we know. And apparently we have evolved under these circumstances in a way that does not require us to have a profound understanding of the universe we live in for most day to day tasks.
I can see where one could acquire the same skills through repeated practice. I think that's necessary in any case, but an intellectual understanding of the principles certainly helps it along.
I disagree with that. You're correct that there are also non-smart jokes, but I think they maintain a good balance between the jokes we would get and the jokes regular people would get. As someone pointed out, there are scientists and engineers among the writing staff for the show.
I'd even go so far as to say there are smart jokes that aren't engineering or physics jokes. Sheldon exhibits symptoms that a psychiatrist could have interesting conversations about. Amy's casual references to her experiments on animals, and Bernedette's references to her rather dangerous work with pathogens, would be things neither a normal person *or* a physicist would necessarily get.
. Next year I'm testing for 3rd in an obscure style nobody has heard of. What style is it?
Uechi Ryu. There's only one school in all of Oregon, and it's an hour and a half drive from my home. The style is similar to Goju Ryu, which gained popularity through the original Karate Kid films. But Uechi is not an offshoot. Rather, the two styles are separate Okinawan interpretations of a southern Chinese martial art.
Really, archery is just applied mechanics combined with some physics.
Please tell me which sport is not "applied mathematics combined with some physics".
I get you. At some level I guess many are, although I don't see a fullback thinking much about physics. The advantage of archery is that you didn't need coordination, stamina or even much physical strength to be good at it.
Reading through the comments, I get the impression that a significant number of Slashdot readers had pretty crappy childhoods that they still haven't gotten over as adults. I'm genuinely sorry to see that.
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Ooooh. Before reading TFA I didn't realize there was a way to turn off this obnoxious behavior. Thanks, OP!
Of course, in some future build, I fully expect there to not be a way to turn off M$ product promotion. But at least for now, I can get a little peace.
Part of the purpose of a formal education is to push you out of your comfort zone -- to have you try things that you wouldn't normally be inclined to do. My concern is that if schools pander to kids not wanting to give presentations, that entire skill set will wither away. We're already raising a generation -- a couple generations now, I guess -- of kids who are disinclined to interact with other humans. I don't think encouraging that is a good idea.
I think the reason PCs didn't get replaced by tablets is that there didn't arrive any reasonable method for content creation on touch-only machines. This can be done (think Minority Report) but requires a tremendous amount of work in establishing a sufficiently sophisticated input method, way beyond what's available on today's smartphones, and that never happened. I think people quickly realized that tablets are great for content consumption, but beside putting cute little ears and noses on pictures, not so much for content creation.
As a photographer, I really thought, years ago, that there would come a time when I could leave my PC at home and bring a tablet into the field for post-processing. There were even products that looked like they were going to provide that function, but years later they're still toys. Great for preparing photos taken with the built-in camera for publishing on social media, not sufficient for serious work.
And I totally realize -- this is what the market wants. There just isn't enough demand for feature rich content creation on a tablet to do the work necessary to get there. But I'm not surprised at all that now that the shininess has worn off, tablets have settled into their own little niche, which only intersects partially with the PC feature set.
I own a tablet, but haven't booted it up in quite awhile. My PC is immensely more capable, and my phone is more portable. (In fairness, I don't use entertainment streaming services. Wife does, and she uses her tablet daily. But that only serves to illustrate the point.)
TFA seems to have been written by someone with a well-thumbed thesaurus and way too much time on his hands.
Having the sum total of mankind's knowledge in your pocket is a heady drug.
True, although access is sometimes a problem, and sorting out all of mankind's knowledge from all of mankind's excrement can be quite a chore.
I think you're right, but I have to ask, if they think women and minorities need extra babying because they're women and minorities, isn't that fundamentally sexist/racist?
I immediately thought of Clippy also. Cheery and wanting to help, while being absolutely useless and annoying.
We ran a test while I was still deciding whether to use it, and so that she could see what the alert looked like, and it seemed to work as advertised.
Side note, latitude and logitude coordinates mean nothing to her, but 911 services know how to use them. I discovered this when I hit a deer on a remote road. I had cell service but the truck's GPS didn't know where I was on a map -- it would only give me lat/long coordinates, which the 911 operator knew how to use.
I realize this is using the phone's sensors in a way not intended by the manufacturer, but in absence of a purpose-built crash sensor (which would be an interesting selling point should such a feature be available and affordable) it's better than nothing.
If this is really what it does, it's absolutely useless.
"Hello, you seem to have been in a crash. Perhaps you should call 911?"
"Yeah, thanks, Captain Obvious."
That (using a smartphone for crash detection) has been around for years. I personally use "cradar", an app that texts my coordinates to my daughter's phone if I dump my bike. I have 30 seconds after it's gone off to prevent it from sending the text if the crash isn't bad or I've just dropped my phone.
Why daughter's phone? Because she actually pays attention to her phone. If I sent it to my wife's phone, I could be leaking on the side of the road for hours before she notices.
Generally true, although I personally check the viewer scores (and generally ignore the critics) if I'm undecided about paying money to see a film in-theater.
I don't feel any compulsion to track RT because there's absolutely no hurry. When there's room in my schedule for another show, I can see what's become available, whether people liked it, make sure it didn't die an untimely death, and stream it when I feel like it. There's no urgency anymore.
I think I covered that. I was and still am socially awkward. I've learned to compensate over the years, but it's always been like following a formula rather than anything I did naturally.
Unless you're talking something deeper than that.
"Sheldon is basically protrayed as an arsehole for laughs a large amount of the time."
I agree! And the overuse of Sheldon's character is probably my only real beef with the show. The character got somewhat less obnoxious when he started dating, and the writers broadened their scope a little when Leonard got married and Howard had a child. But for a couple seasons it might have been "the sheldon show" and I was starting to lose interest.
My family and I enjoy Young Sheldon, but not because of the character himself (although occasionally he does a cool thing) but all the other characters, especially his "normal" sister's deadpan reactions to his bizarre behavior.
I find it ironic given the frequent backlash here for SJWs and PC types being too thin-skinned and not being able to lighten up, and then a show that jovially pokes fun at nerds is suddenly "blackface for nerds" and must be taken off the air. *Everyone* needs to lighten up.
What he said.
I'd say that stamina, physical strength, and coordination strongly depend on what kind bow you use.
For example are you shooting compounds? Or maybe longbow or recurve? What is the draw weight of your bow?
I guess I should expect this to get geeky. :-). I drew a 35 pound recurve in high school. I currently shoot a 45 pound recurve. I intentionally stay away from high technology -- no pulleys, stabilizer or sight. The only change I've made is replacing the shelf with a more modern rest and I admit to shooting carbon fiber shafts instead of wood.
Because I like to go (deer and boar) hunting with a bow now an then (not allowed in my own stupid country). Therefore I need an appropriately high draw weight - 60lbs. And since I also like the challenge, I'm not using a compound but a recurve. Drawing the bow and keeping it drawn already requires some considerable upper body strength, and stamina in your latissimus dorsi muscles. Otherwise your muscles tire quickly and you don't get a lot of time to aim before your arms become shaky.
Mind you, I have a lot more upper body strength now than I did in high school. I see the advantage of a 60 pound pull for hunting, but I don't hunt. I just make holes in targets. I try to stay low technology as a survival skill but I have no real interest in hunting.
Finding an anchor point (or whatever it is called) for a consistent draw requires some muscle memory that you have to acquire first. Then you also need a consistently clean release, which has to be coordinated with your aiming.
Also you don't need to understand a lot about physics and mathematics to be good at this. Everything can be learned by practising enough until your muscle memory does most of the work for you. And practice is also going to improve the strength and stamina of the required muscles if you do it regularly enough.
Of course if you understand a lot about physics and mathematics it doesn't hurt either. Maybe you're quicker to grasp why you're doing what you're doing and why your equipment behaves like it does.
And the latter probably applies to most sports or martial arts. After all we live in a universe that is governed by the laws of physics as far as we know. And apparently we have evolved under these circumstances in a way that does not require us to have a profound understanding of the universe we live in for most day to day tasks.
I can see where one could acquire the same skills through repeated practice. I think that's necessary in any case, but an intellectual understanding of the principles certainly helps it along.
I disagree with that. You're correct that there are also non-smart jokes, but I think they maintain a good balance between the jokes we would get and the jokes regular people would get. As someone pointed out, there are scientists and engineers among the writing staff for the show.
I'd even go so far as to say there are smart jokes that aren't engineering or physics jokes. Sheldon exhibits symptoms that a psychiatrist could have interesting conversations about. Amy's casual references to her experiments on animals, and Bernedette's references to her rather dangerous work with pathogens, would be things neither a normal person *or* a physicist would necessarily get.
. Next year I'm testing for 3rd in an obscure style nobody has heard of.
What style is it?
Uechi Ryu. There's only one school in all of Oregon, and it's an hour and a half drive from my home. The style is similar to Goju Ryu, which gained popularity through the original Karate Kid films. But Uechi is not an offshoot. Rather, the two styles are separate Okinawan interpretations of a southern Chinese martial art.
Please tell me which sport is not "applied mathematics combined with some physics".
I get you. At some level I guess many are, although I don't see a fullback thinking much about physics. The advantage of archery is that you didn't need coordination, stamina or even much physical strength to be good at it.
Where that theory falls apart is all the jokes that normal people wouldn't get.
Certainly not with *some* geeks.
Thank you.
Most especially the "reality" shows.
Reading through the comments, I get the impression that a significant number of Slashdot readers had pretty crappy childhoods that they still haven't gotten over as adults. I'm genuinely sorry to see that.