I agree. If you don't have some sort of degree in education, child development, psychology, ect, you are incapable of teaching anyone anything, ever. Only those with the proper certificates, and have spent thousands of dollars towards their education in said areas, have any possible hope of someone learning something from them. I never learned anything from my parents, who didn't have degrees in any field, or my grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, friend's parents, ect. Anyone that has taught me anything has had the proper certificates, plaques, degrees to prove that they themselves can teach and be learned from. So it has been since the beginning of time. Since God, who himself had all of the proper degrees, graduated Adam, the first person, and, the first person ever to earn a doctorate.
Not the original AC.
But I agree with him. I would take it a step further. Warring tribes used to completely wipe each other out. I would call this evolution as well. You see the same pattern of behavior in ant colonies. When they find another colony, they go and attack. At the end one colony wins the other is defeated. The capture the living as slaves. On the scale of ants, its evolution. On the scale of humans, it's evolution. Just because we are self aware does not mean evolution stops for us.
Bringing a child into this world is murder. You know that new life will die. There is 0 chance that they will live forever. Therefor you create life while knowing it will suffer and die.
This is a pretty flimsy case. There are other things that are just as risky. If not more risky.
The text is larger, there is tons of wasted 'white space'. You can't fit as much on your screen as you can in classic. So why do I want to spend more time scrolling?
Why do I want less content per screen? Why do I want to go to a website that now looks like its designed for old people who can't read small font? I didn't buy monitors with high resolution just so the massive text would be nice and crisp.
Yea, it's nice being able to fit half the news articles on the page before being required to scroll to see more. Its even worse in the comments area. These people are addicted to large text and dead white space.
Place looks like a crappy blog. It looks like I'm on my damn phone, not a desktop.
Thanks for acknowledging that quite a few of us hate beta.
For starters, how about making the new site not look like its made for people that can't see 2 inches in front of them. The text is huge. It's also white spaced to hell and back. You can see about 2-3 posts on beta before you have to scroll. However on normal slashdot, you can see 4-5. That's a huge issue. I don't want to scroll. I don't want needless white space. Slashdot.com doesn't have a huge freaking touch screen user following where we need tons of white space taking up room for no reason.
Also if anyone else has a problem reading small text, its a website for nerds, I believe they have the skills to increase the font size on their end.
Reasons I hate beta is because it looks like another f*** blog website. Beta has no style what-so-ever. It all just blends in with itself. Nothing stands out. And you spend a good portion of your time scrolling because of all the white space beta has.
I left netflix when they started pulling their shit years ago. Their member base exploded in outrage and they went back on their plans. I think you should follow suit.
There are other places that serve up other peoples news so a discussion can be had.
Biological and chemical weapons were used, are used. It is just that now the world decries their use. If you look at WWI for instance. So it wasn't always the case that doctors were persecuted for using their knowledge for war.
With engineers, creating conventional weapons, that is something accepted by the world. There is no moral outrage(on a large enough scale to matter)against a 500lbs bomb. When it comes to conventional weapons, everyone accepts the risks. We realize we need defense, so they are good. If someone uses them for offense, or evil instead, then that person is blamed, not the engineer.
Should people that create steak knives also think about the ethical implications if someone gets stabbed with their knife? What if a car is used for violence? I realize these aren't the best examples, but my point is intended use. That is what matters.
If an engineer creates a single weapon that will destroy the planet, then you will have your outrage. There is no point to such a weapon. Nuclear weapons are close to that, but they have been used to save lives as well.(est. that over 1 million Americans would have died invading Japan, along with millions of Japanese)
There is nothing wrong with stepping back and saying, "Am I morally Ok with what I am creating?" But when it comes to conventional and nuclear weapons, if someone says no, then there will be hundreds to take your place. Military technology also trickles down to the general public and improves their lives as well.
Almost 7 times over budget. And it didn't handle the load placed on it. 8 days later and it's still having problems. And you want to defend it? Oh it's ok that it's a huge steaming pile of crap because why exactly? Do you work at CGI Federal?
I could see if it came in on budget. But even then, they obviously did not do any research into how many people would be interested in the site.
What really annoys me is there aren't different sounds for different grains of wood or even different wood types themselves. There's really a lot to improve on in the area of wood sounds. Bet you could make a bundle of money making an app that would do different wood sounds effectively.
Nor were they intended to be in control. If I'm driving a car and no one told you, and let you believe you were driving the car, that isn't me misdirecting the vehicle, It's you being ignorant of who is in control. The yacht was going on its intended course controled by the people who were given control. The crew were just patsies pressing buttons and turning wheels.
If you have control of the vehicle, you can't misdirect it is my point. Just because their control was obfuscated doesn't mean misdirection.
Probably would have been clearer if I decided to make my stand on the word 'hijack' instead.
Well, it doesn't sound like its flying. I know of other articles that have talked about them getting shut down in cities.
If the legal definition of a taxi relies on you not picking a driver and them having standard fairs, that strikes me as odd. I am open to being wrong. But I would have thought a taxi service is someone taking me from A to B for a charge.
Gas? Insurance? Repairs? You still think a 12k car is only 180 a month? Plus they do two completely different things.
Now if you say Gen Y is giving up cars for bikes, mopeds, ect, I can follow that. But here you might as well say, Gen Y is choosing showering over visiting family.
erm...apparently i never finished my sentence...
The government and people of the city/state/county/ect saw fit to put them in place to make sure the taxis would not descriminate against different classes of people.
And that is not a taxi service how? There are regulations set up for taxis that they must follow. The government and people of the city/state/
If you want to argue on if the government should be involved in this sort of transaction, that's another conversation.
Also, disagreeing with a law, doesn't give you the right to skirt it. We have a system in place to change laws. Use it. In the mean time if you wish to live in this society, obey its laws.(this is more of a general statement against a ton of people lately that seem to think that breaking the law is ok if you don't think its just, not necessarily you entroplus)
The ride sharing services, are trying to skirt the law. They are taxis but they try to act like they are somehow something else. As if they are just all friends giving each other rides, thus the name..
from the article, "In addition to franchise and inspection fees, regulated taxis have to serve far-flung and low-income parts of the city where Lyft drivers need not venture. The city also requires cab companies to offer disabled-accessible vehicles, "
The ride sharing services don't have to do any of that.
They are taxi's that found a loop hole and will soon be shut down. It's unfair to the real taxis and the government isn't getting their cut. This won't last.
Also the article sites people using them as an alternative to taxis when coming home from the bar. Yes, that's a good way to watch a car trend. Since drunk driving is illegal, and these people are using 'taxis', they don't want cars and no longer ride alone...
These articles are just writers trying to get out ahead of a trend. If they are wrong no one will remember, if they are right, they can point to how they saw the trend comming. They are BS articles filled with outlier data. I'd be more apt to believe Gen Y doesn't want cars because they are all deep in debt due to college and don't have jobs to pay for them.
"If they had to pick between a smartphone or a car, they would pick the phone."
What sort of choice is that anyway? They aren't comparable. A phone is a few hundred dollars. A car is thousands. Why would you have to choose between them? The second article is also riddle with 'Gen Y would'. Didn't hear from an actual Gen Y person. Just a bunch of old fuddy duddies trying to predict a future market, acting like they are in the know. That always works out. Some old guy telling you what kids think...
You would have thought though, that before they wildly expanded in order to spend 8 times what you wanted in funding, you would deliver on your core game.
This is what I am doing. Yes, some corporate games suck, but I don't have money to blow funding someones pet project. Plus I don't know what I will be doing years from now. Maybe I gave up gaming altogether. Maybe they drastically change their concept to something I don't want. Maybe, they just flat out lie(WarZ).
You can give to kickstarter groups. I've been screwed before, thanks.
I disagree. Swearing isn't because you couldn't come up with something clever or meaningful. This is just something people say that don't like swearing, and want to have an "I'm rubber you're glue" response to being insulted.
Swearing can be concise and to the point. Maybe you don't care to explain yourself further, or waste extra breath on someone or something. Maybe the person you are talking to parses your words and comes up with different meanings to what you actually meant. Maybe, just maybe they abhore swearing and you want the shock value.
If they video game industry is repeling half the target market, then my question is how do women make up 45% of gamers?
Obviously not doing a good job of repelling the market as you think.
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I agree.
If you don't have some sort of degree in education, child development, psychology, ect, you are incapable of teaching anyone anything, ever. Only those with the proper certificates, and have spent thousands of dollars towards their education in said areas, have any possible hope of someone learning something from them. I never learned anything from my parents, who didn't have degrees in any field, or my grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, friend's parents, ect. Anyone that has taught me anything has had the proper certificates, plaques, degrees to prove that they themselves can teach and be learned from. So it has been since the beginning of time. Since God, who himself had all of the proper degrees, graduated Adam, the first person, and, the first person ever to earn a doctorate.
Not the original AC. But I agree with him. I would take it a step further. Warring tribes used to completely wipe each other out. I would call this evolution as well. You see the same pattern of behavior in ant colonies. When they find another colony, they go and attack. At the end one colony wins the other is defeated. The capture the living as slaves. On the scale of ants, its evolution. On the scale of humans, it's evolution. Just because we are self aware does not mean evolution stops for us.
Bringing a child into this world is murder. You know that new life will die. There is 0 chance that they will live forever. Therefor you create life while knowing it will suffer and die. This is a pretty flimsy case. There are other things that are just as risky. If not more risky.
The text is larger, there is tons of wasted 'white space'. You can't fit as much on your screen as you can in classic. So why do I want to spend more time scrolling? Why do I want less content per screen? Why do I want to go to a website that now looks like its designed for old people who can't read small font? I didn't buy monitors with high resolution just so the massive text would be nice and crisp.
Yea, it's nice being able to fit half the news articles on the page before being required to scroll to see more. Its even worse in the comments area. These people are addicted to large text and dead white space.
Place looks like a crappy blog. It looks like I'm on my damn phone, not a desktop.
Thanks for acknowledging that quite a few of us hate beta. For starters, how about making the new site not look like its made for people that can't see 2 inches in front of them. The text is huge. It's also white spaced to hell and back. You can see about 2-3 posts on beta before you have to scroll. However on normal slashdot, you can see 4-5. That's a huge issue. I don't want to scroll. I don't want needless white space. Slashdot.com doesn't have a huge freaking touch screen user following where we need tons of white space taking up room for no reason.
Also if anyone else has a problem reading small text, its a website for nerds, I believe they have the skills to increase the font size on their end.
Reasons I hate beta is because it looks like another f*** blog website. Beta has no style what-so-ever. It all just blends in with itself. Nothing stands out. And you spend a good portion of your time scrolling because of all the white space beta has.
I left netflix when they started pulling their shit years ago. Their member base exploded in outrage and they went back on their plans. I think you should follow suit.
There are other places that serve up other peoples news so a discussion can be had.
Biological and chemical weapons were used, are used. It is just that now the world decries their use. If you look at WWI for instance. So it wasn't always the case that doctors were persecuted for using their knowledge for war. With engineers, creating conventional weapons, that is something accepted by the world. There is no moral outrage(on a large enough scale to matter)against a 500lbs bomb. When it comes to conventional weapons, everyone accepts the risks. We realize we need defense, so they are good. If someone uses them for offense, or evil instead, then that person is blamed, not the engineer. Should people that create steak knives also think about the ethical implications if someone gets stabbed with their knife? What if a car is used for violence? I realize these aren't the best examples, but my point is intended use. That is what matters. If an engineer creates a single weapon that will destroy the planet, then you will have your outrage. There is no point to such a weapon. Nuclear weapons are close to that, but they have been used to save lives as well.(est. that over 1 million Americans would have died invading Japan, along with millions of Japanese) There is nothing wrong with stepping back and saying, "Am I morally Ok with what I am creating?" But when it comes to conventional and nuclear weapons, if someone says no, then there will be hundreds to take your place. Military technology also trickles down to the general public and improves their lives as well.
Almost 7 times over budget. And it didn't handle the load placed on it. 8 days later and it's still having problems. And you want to defend it? Oh it's ok that it's a huge steaming pile of crap because why exactly? Do you work at CGI Federal? I could see if it came in on budget. But even then, they obviously did not do any research into how many people would be interested in the site.
What really annoys me is there aren't different sounds for different grains of wood or even different wood types themselves. There's really a lot to improve on in the area of wood sounds. Bet you could make a bundle of money making an app that would do different wood sounds effectively.
Nor were they intended to be in control. If I'm driving a car and no one told you, and let you believe you were driving the car, that isn't me misdirecting the vehicle, It's you being ignorant of who is in control. The yacht was going on its intended course controled by the people who were given control. The crew were just patsies pressing
buttons and turning wheels.
If you have control of the vehicle, you can't misdirect it is my point. Just because their control was obfuscated doesn't mean misdirection.
Probably would have been clearer if I decided to make my stand on the word 'hijack' instead.
Can't really say you directed it on a different route when the owner agrees to let you.
"less than 3 meters below the surface.'" That can't be fixed, ever...[sarcasm]
The summary fails. Not a big surprise, FTFA.
"Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; "
Why do we get this story about once every 3 months? This has been shoved into the ground. Let's finally bury it for god's sake.
Well, it doesn't sound like its flying. I know of other articles that have talked about them getting shut down in cities. If the legal definition of a taxi relies on you not picking a driver and them having standard fairs, that strikes me as odd. I am open to being wrong. But I would have thought a taxi service is someone taking me from A to B for a charge.
Gas? Insurance? Repairs? You still think a 12k car is only 180 a month? Plus they do two completely different things. Now if you say Gen Y is giving up cars for bikes, mopeds, ect, I can follow that. But here you might as well say, Gen Y is choosing showering over visiting family.
erm...apparently i never finished my sentence... The government and people of the city/state/county/ect saw fit to put them in place to make sure the taxis would not descriminate against different classes of people.
And that is not a taxi service how? There are regulations set up for taxis that they must follow. The government and people of the city/state/
If you want to argue on if the government should be involved in this sort of transaction, that's another conversation.
Also, disagreeing with a law, doesn't give you the right to skirt it. We have a system in place to change laws. Use it. In the mean time if you wish to live in this society, obey its laws.(this is more of a general statement against a ton of people lately that seem to think that breaking the law is ok if you don't think its just, not necessarily you entroplus)
The ride sharing services, are trying to skirt the law. They are taxis but they try to act like they are somehow something else. As if they are just all friends giving each other rides, thus the name..
from the article,
"In addition to franchise and inspection fees, regulated taxis have to serve far-flung and low-income parts of the city where Lyft drivers need not venture. The city also requires cab companies to offer disabled-accessible vehicles, "
The ride sharing services don't have to do any of that.
Thanks for the link.
They are taxi's that found a loop hole and will soon be shut down. It's unfair to the real taxis and the government isn't getting their cut. This won't last.
Also the article sites people using them as an alternative to taxis when coming home from the bar. Yes, that's a good way to watch a car trend. Since drunk driving is illegal, and these people are using 'taxis', they don't want cars and no longer ride alone...
These articles are just writers trying to get out ahead of a trend. If they are wrong no one will remember, if they are right, they can point to how they saw the trend comming. They are BS articles filled with outlier data. I'd be more apt to believe Gen Y doesn't want cars because they are all deep in debt due to college and don't have jobs to pay for them.
"If they had to pick between a smartphone or a car, they would pick the phone." What sort of choice is that anyway? They aren't comparable. A phone is a few hundred dollars. A car is thousands. Why would you have to choose between them? The second article is also riddle with 'Gen Y would'. Didn't hear from an actual Gen Y person. Just a bunch of old fuddy duddies trying to predict a future market, acting like they are in the know. That always works out. Some old guy telling you what kids think...
You would have thought though, that before they wildly expanded in order to spend 8 times what you wanted in funding, you would deliver on your core game.
This is what I am doing. Yes, some corporate games suck, but I don't have money to blow funding someones pet project. Plus I don't know what I will be doing years from now. Maybe I gave up gaming altogether. Maybe they drastically change their concept to something I don't want. Maybe, they just flat out lie(WarZ).
You can give to kickstarter groups. I've been screwed before, thanks.
I disagree. Swearing isn't because you couldn't come up with something clever or meaningful. This is just something people say that don't like swearing, and want to have an "I'm rubber you're glue" response to being insulted. Swearing can be concise and to the point. Maybe you don't care to explain yourself further, or waste extra breath on someone or something. Maybe the person you are talking to parses your words and comes up with different meanings to what you actually meant. Maybe, just maybe they abhore swearing and you want the shock value.
If they video game industry is repeling half the target market, then my question is how do women make up 45% of gamers? Obviously not doing a good job of repelling the market as you think.