It's magical imagination that allows us to have healthy fears and paranoia. "Magical thinking" is when your imagination takes over and completely derails your ability to think rationally. That's not good for you or anyone around you.
Difficult to explain, but it reminds me of how some people say that there's no point having a frame rate higher than 30 fps. No, your eyes can't actually see the screen flickering above that frame rate, but that doesn't mean it looks perfectly fluid. The author is assuming the point of diminishing returns is actually a point of no returns, which may be far from the truth.
If you had no experience with wheels, I think you would intuitively believe that the friction at the axle would be just as bad as a sledge sliding on the ground. What's really required to understand how a wheel works is how the wheel reduces frictional force at the wheel tread by acting as a lever. That's not a simple concept.
Good folksy, homey people from the heartland with good hearts who love their families and are good, wholesome and folksy and wear cowboy hats and say "god bless" all the time.
You're just saying what people who don't have too much on their plates always say about people who do have too much on their plate. And management often says the same sort of thing.
Granted some workers don't manage their time well. But that doesn't change the fact that some workers simply have too much on their plates.
It's more basic than either religion or ideology. It's just stubborn thinking habits. An inability to accept that one has been wrong. Religion and ideology are symptoms of that.
For computing I prefer Linux, and to a lesser extent, even MS. But I think Jobs has a point about freedom. Freedom can mean different things. We're accustomed to thinking of freedom in the grand terms of human rights, but that only applies in a vast, over-arching governmental or societal context. I think we have to get used to the idea that in a smaller context, the concept of freedom can sometimes be something more limited, petty or banal. Yes, freedom from porn is a petty, but not completely worthless, kind of freedom. No doubt it provides some value to a lot of his customers. As computers become relentlessly more and more powerful and pervasive, innovators will come up with more and more ways to provide these little freedoms that some of us roll our eyes at, but provide value to others.
Clearly it does fit the technical definition of a differential (if you remove the electric motor). But I don't see any particular reason why a differential can't be used as a component in a transmission. I'm not saying it's not bunk. It probably is. But I'd like to see someone really slam the door shut on this one with a more decisive argument.
When I was a PC technician in a corporate campus, it seemed obvious to me that the senior technicians could solve the most difficult problems tens or even thousands of times faster than the inexperienced ones. No matter how intelligent the inexperienced tech is, he's got to spend lots of time researching a fix, and maybe he doesn't even know where to begin looking. There's really no theoretical upper limit on how long a fix could take. Compare that to a guy who just knows the fixes from memory, or at least has some experience with similar problems to help his intuition. He could literally fix something in a few minutes that takes the inexperienced guy weeks to figure out. It drove me nuts that the senior techs were looked at as managerial assistants, when it was obvious that their most effective use was as a Q and A resource for the other technicians.
Apply this concept to programming, where you're dealing with bugs, problems that the developer has essentially created himself, so they are ALL difficult problems, and experience becomes even more valuable. Not to mention the experienced developer's better ability to avoid creating bugs in the first place.
I'm sure one day it will suddenly become obvious that all the airport security is pointless once a terrorist figures out he can suicide-bomb or just plain old gun-massacre a large crowd of people waiting in line to get through airport security. Heck, don't they already bomb people waiting at security checkpoints in Iraq? Although its possible the government will be dumb enough to decide they just need another security checkpoint outside of the existing ones.
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It's magical imagination that allows us to have healthy fears and paranoia. "Magical thinking" is when your imagination takes over and completely derails your ability to think rationally. That's not good for you or anyone around you.
Difficult to explain, but it reminds me of how some people say that there's no point having a frame rate higher than 30 fps. No, your eyes can't actually see the screen flickering above that frame rate, but that doesn't mean it looks perfectly fluid. The author is assuming the point of diminishing returns is actually a point of no returns, which may be far from the truth.
If you had no experience with wheels, I think you would intuitively believe that the friction at the axle would be just as bad as a sledge sliding on the ground. What's really required to understand how a wheel works is how the wheel reduces frictional force at the wheel tread by acting as a lever. That's not a simple concept.
Good folksy, homey people from the heartland with good hearts who love their families and are good, wholesome and folksy and wear cowboy hats and say "god bless" all the time.
This will only further encourage drivers to fiddle with the radio, text, eat messy food, window shop etc etc.
Plain Doritos? I thought those were called "corn chips".
You're just saying what people who don't have too much on their plates always say about people who do have too much on their plate. And management often says the same sort of thing. Granted some workers don't manage their time well. But that doesn't change the fact that some workers simply have too much on their plates.
I think I know what the next Slashdot poll will be...
It's more basic than either religion or ideology. It's just stubborn thinking habits. An inability to accept that one has been wrong. Religion and ideology are symptoms of that.
Sounds to me like using a nuke would create a risk of causing fractures in the sea bed that would release even more oil from different locations. I'm surprised this idea hasn't gotten much attention http://www.fastcompany.com/1646820/could-the-gulf-oil-spill-could-cleaned-up-by-supertankers. Although its just a cleanup idea that wouldn't stop the leak.
For computing I prefer Linux, and to a lesser extent, even MS. But I think Jobs has a point about freedom. Freedom can mean different things. We're accustomed to thinking of freedom in the grand terms of human rights, but that only applies in a vast, over-arching governmental or societal context. I think we have to get used to the idea that in a smaller context, the concept of freedom can sometimes be something more limited, petty or banal. Yes, freedom from porn is a petty, but not completely worthless, kind of freedom. No doubt it provides some value to a lot of his customers. As computers become relentlessly more and more powerful and pervasive, innovators will come up with more and more ways to provide these little freedoms that some of us roll our eyes at, but provide value to others.
They all have weirdly shaped buttocks, and they all look like they're wearing stretchy children's pyjama bottoms. That's not attractive.
Clearly it does fit the technical definition of a differential (if you remove the electric motor). But I don't see any particular reason why a differential can't be used as a component in a transmission. I'm not saying it's not bunk. It probably is. But I'd like to see someone really slam the door shut on this one with a more decisive argument.
Somebody with connections at Intel just told me Intel is "down" due to a "virus". I wonder if this is the real reason.
...or is that more of a cadet blue?
...until you realize you'll spend most of your time talking to nude men and people who want to sell you something.
And I was just about to get into my 99.999998% lightspeed spaceship.
Yeah, sounds worse than the Toyota recall, huh?
When I was a PC technician in a corporate campus, it seemed obvious to me that the senior technicians could solve the most difficult problems tens or even thousands of times faster than the inexperienced ones. No matter how intelligent the inexperienced tech is, he's got to spend lots of time researching a fix, and maybe he doesn't even know where to begin looking. There's really no theoretical upper limit on how long a fix could take. Compare that to a guy who just knows the fixes from memory, or at least has some experience with similar problems to help his intuition. He could literally fix something in a few minutes that takes the inexperienced guy weeks to figure out. It drove me nuts that the senior techs were looked at as managerial assistants, when it was obvious that their most effective use was as a Q and A resource for the other technicians. Apply this concept to programming, where you're dealing with bugs, problems that the developer has essentially created himself, so they are ALL difficult problems, and experience becomes even more valuable. Not to mention the experienced developer's better ability to avoid creating bugs in the first place.
Shhhhh... you're making entropy.
Is it possible to increase information in a given space without increasing mass? Then perhaps you could make a gravity or anti-gravity generator.
It's full of buzzwords. And all aimed at people who use the internet, but don't quite understand what it is.
Yeah, terribly irresponsible. Write somebody in if you don't like the choices.
If that flight were longer than 4-hours you would need immediate medical attention.
I'm sure one day it will suddenly become obvious that all the airport security is pointless once a terrorist figures out he can suicide-bomb or just plain old gun-massacre a large crowd of people waiting in line to get through airport security. Heck, don't they already bomb people waiting at security checkpoints in Iraq? Although its possible the government will be dumb enough to decide they just need another security checkpoint outside of the existing ones.
I'm sure they are also willing work for very low pay and have terrible negotiating skills!