And it's very likely that the reader judges the work, even irrespective of the author, based on their own experiences and an ability to relate to it. I suspect that East Asian Science Fiction or African Science Fiction would be a lot harder for me to relate to than American Science Fiction or even European Science Fiction. I also expect that American or European authors that use socioeconomic backgrounds that differ greatly from what I'm accustimed to would be harder to relate to.
Awards and acclaimation are trailing indicators usually, especially when a fairly long-established mentality only changes slowly.
How about books that are barely 'scifi' that are part of collegel-level science fiction lit curriculum, like "Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail and "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute?
The definition of Science Fiction is very, very wide. There's a lot of, "no true Scottsman" fallacy in the way people attempt to exclude works because they're not Campbellian enough or they don't mess with society's norms enough.
The only way it's going to be fixed is if works are anonymously judged, much the same way that many orchestras have switched to blind auditions and chair challenges. Unfortunately it's much harder to do that with science fiction because most of the popular stuff has probably been purchased and read by the Hugo voters.
If they're using an apple as their trademark for their watches, then even if they're only superficially similar that could cause a problem.
The creators of the Bloom County comic strip got into hot water over their "Opus and Bill" screensaver, which featured the characters shooting down toasters with little propellers holding them up in the air. Berkeley Systems sued over the Flying Toasters trademark if I'm remembering correctly, and the software got pulled from the shelves.
Swiss watchmakers don't compete with Apple. Those that want a Swiss watch aren't looking for an electronic watch. That ship sailed decades ago with the introduction of the quartz-timed watch, and Japan and now China provides those to the world.
The Swiss still make mostly mechanical watches with loads of beautifully machined small moving parts. Those that want that kind of watch probably aren't even considering an electronic watch.
Even some shows that try to have closed-captioning have such awful results that it's useless. Live shows are essentially unwatchable with closed captioning, and the cheaper the show (especially time-filler shows mid-day on weekdays) the worse the captioning.
That doesn't mean that the viewer that turns around and reproduces the work in the video is an expert though.
That's part why the trades have been organized in an apprentice/journeyman/master structure. An apprentice either doesn't know anything or knows enough to get into trouble. The journeyman has experience but has not really encountered enough situations deviating from the common training materials or circumstances to necessarily know how two handle all conditions. The master has encountered enough varied conditions that he can react to just about anything thrown at him, regardless of how obtuse.
People that watch videos and reimplement what they see are apprentices. Sometimes they hurt themselves because they've made assumptions about the conditions that are incorrect. Other times they make things worse. That doesn't mean that hobbyist experience is bad, it's not, but people need to be realistic with themselves when they set out to start.
It's not as bad as you imply, and newer engine designs are pushing the efficiency further as well. This doesn't mean that a reciprocating piston engine is incredibly efficient, but there's no sense in fabricating numbers to support a point either.
Oh, I am well aware that one cannot do everything all of the time without references. There are lots of things that I *might* have to do at any given time that I don't have to do regularly, and I do have reference materials to call on, and not just an Internet search engine.
Text and e-mail still offer no confirmation though, there's no mechanism for feedback beyond that archaic, rarely used 'return receipt' in e-mail, which can be ignored too.
Businesses need to be mindful that employees can ignore them in any communications medium that the employee has access to.
I get a cell phone stipend through work. As such, if they want to get ahold of me in-real-time they call me. No other medium has an instant confirmation that that they've reached me upon actually doing so. If you need me right now don't e-mail me, don't SMS-message me, call me. I might be in a building that makes for poor service. Odds are if calling me doesn't result in my answering the telephone, I won't be able to receive text messages or e-mail either.
Not really. Facebook has embedded themselves deeply with so many third-party websites that they can infer a lot on you simply as you use your browser after having used Facebook in the past.
That's what I don't get... If you don't have a Facebook account then you're probably not going to be wasting time at work on Facebook...
When I was relatively young in the world of work I had listed my social club memberships on my resume as I had held officer positions in those clubs at times. Now that this social crap appears to be a problem I think I'll have to leave such memberships there so that I look 'well rounded' without having to deal with an online presence.
Sometimes being smart is knowing how to access the resources needed to do obscure things that aren't one's normal responsibiltiies. That said, relying on Google to point one toward the answers is not the best approach, at least for one's career, as answers on the Internet may be wrong or due to so many askers relative to answerers, might be hard to find.
When I was in elementary school we were taught how to use the library to find what we needed. Most people don't get the point of the lesson; it's not teaching children how to find books, it's teaching children how to find information. Lessons learned back then apply all of the time, even though it's much less common for me to look at a paper book for my information.
No, the tendency was to not think of one's self as the expert. That didn't make one dumb, that made one ignorant.
Now people think that they're experts even when they cannot demonstrate mastery of the subject without having access to resources. It's the difference between an open-book test and a more traditional testing technique.
I can't deny a certain amount of perverse pleasure from watching people with poor cell phone signal squirm because they are attempting to consult the Internet for an answer to something that's part of their responsibiltiy that clearly they cannot do on their own and aren't able to do so.
The employer probably wouldn't appreciate the police finding the cocaine hidden in the door panels, seats, rocker panels, tires, fuel tank, crankcase, valley tray, transmission pan, fender liners, dashboard, subwoofer box, air cleaner housing, and coolant overflow bottle.
The first version of either C or C++ I worked with used a Borland development environment. It doesn't matter that Borland is long gone, I suspect that anything I wrote back then would compile either without issue or with only minor correction on a modern compiler. Admittedly my stuff was very simple as it was student code, but I expect that many of the libraries available from Borland had equivalents from other developers.
I'll believe it if we get another 20 years of the same behavior, or they lose dominance in total OS market share and release Office, even as a paid application, on open source platforms.
I remember OS/2 Warp ads in print magazines. The ads featured a Robinson Projection map of the world, with arrows to specific areas and a blurb about the OS/2 user in that area.
I mused with my friends, "hey, it's a map of all of the OS/2 users in the world!"
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And it's very likely that the reader judges the work, even irrespective of the author, based on their own experiences and an ability to relate to it. I suspect that East Asian Science Fiction or African Science Fiction would be a lot harder for me to relate to than American Science Fiction or even European Science Fiction. I also expect that American or European authors that use socioeconomic backgrounds that differ greatly from what I'm accustimed to would be harder to relate to.
Awards and acclaimation are trailing indicators usually, especially when a fairly long-established mentality only changes slowly.
How about books that are barely 'scifi' that are part of collegel-level science fiction lit curriculum, like "Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail and "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute?
The definition of Science Fiction is very, very wide. There's a lot of, "no true Scottsman" fallacy in the way people attempt to exclude works because they're not Campbellian enough or they don't mess with society's norms enough.
The only way it's going to be fixed is if works are anonymously judged, much the same way that many orchestras have switched to blind auditions and chair challenges. Unfortunately it's much harder to do that with science fiction because most of the popular stuff has probably been purchased and read by the Hugo voters.
They wrote something that people liked to read or watch?
As someone that eats both chicken sandwiches and roast beef sandwiches from time to time, if I want one, the other will not do.
If they're using an apple as their trademark for their watches, then even if they're only superficially similar that could cause a problem.
The creators of the Bloom County comic strip got into hot water over their "Opus and Bill" screensaver, which featured the characters shooting down toasters with little propellers holding them up in the air. Berkeley Systems sued over the Flying Toasters trademark if I'm remembering correctly, and the software got pulled from the shelves.
Swiss watchmakers don't compete with Apple. Those that want a Swiss watch aren't looking for an electronic watch. That ship sailed decades ago with the introduction of the quartz-timed watch, and Japan and now China provides those to the world.
The Swiss still make mostly mechanical watches with loads of beautifully machined small moving parts. Those that want that kind of watch probably aren't even considering an electronic watch.
Even some shows that try to have closed-captioning have such awful results that it's useless. Live shows are essentially unwatchable with closed captioning, and the cheaper the show (especially time-filler shows mid-day on weekdays) the worse the captioning.
That doesn't mean that the viewer that turns around and reproduces the work in the video is an expert though.
That's part why the trades have been organized in an apprentice/journeyman/master structure. An apprentice either doesn't know anything or knows enough to get into trouble. The journeyman has experience but has not really encountered enough situations deviating from the common training materials or circumstances to necessarily know how two handle all conditions. The master has encountered enough varied conditions that he can react to just about anything thrown at him, regardless of how obtuse.
People that watch videos and reimplement what they see are apprentices. Sometimes they hurt themselves because they've made assumptions about the conditions that are incorrect. Other times they make things worse. That doesn't mean that hobbyist experience is bad, it's not, but people need to be realistic with themselves when they set out to start.
It's not as bad as you imply, and newer engine designs are pushing the efficiency further as well. This doesn't mean that a reciprocating piston engine is incredibly efficient, but there's no sense in fabricating numbers to support a point either.
I don't think that you and I have the same definition of race car. 'cause there are a lot of race cars that don't even get close to 160mph.
Oh, I am well aware that one cannot do everything all of the time without references. There are lots of things that I *might* have to do at any given time that I don't have to do regularly, and I do have reference materials to call on, and not just an Internet search engine.
I don't view images in e-mail automatically. Often times I don't view images in e-mail at all.
Text and e-mail still offer no confirmation though, there's no mechanism for feedback beyond that archaic, rarely used 'return receipt' in e-mail, which can be ignored too.
I don't get why you were modded funny. Your comment deserved to be modded up, but I didn't really find it that funny.
Businesses need to be mindful that employees can ignore them in any communications medium that the employee has access to.
I get a cell phone stipend through work. As such, if they want to get ahold of me in-real-time they call me. No other medium has an instant confirmation that that they've reached me upon actually doing so. If you need me right now don't e-mail me, don't SMS-message me, call me. I might be in a building that makes for poor service. Odds are if calling me doesn't result in my answering the telephone, I won't be able to receive text messages or e-mail either.
Not really. Facebook has embedded themselves deeply with so many third-party websites that they can infer a lot on you simply as you use your browser after having used Facebook in the past.
The only winning move is not to play.
I wonder if it would work to get around that to say that you use your Facebook for private religious purposes...
That's what I don't get... If you don't have a Facebook account then you're probably not going to be wasting time at work on Facebook...
When I was relatively young in the world of work I had listed my social club memberships on my resume as I had held officer positions in those clubs at times. Now that this social crap appears to be a problem I think I'll have to leave such memberships there so that I look 'well rounded' without having to deal with an online presence.
Sometimes being smart is knowing how to access the resources needed to do obscure things that aren't one's normal responsibiltiies. That said, relying on Google to point one toward the answers is not the best approach, at least for one's career, as answers on the Internet may be wrong or due to so many askers relative to answerers, might be hard to find.
When I was in elementary school we were taught how to use the library to find what we needed. Most people don't get the point of the lesson; it's not teaching children how to find books, it's teaching children how to find information. Lessons learned back then apply all of the time, even though it's much less common for me to look at a paper book for my information.
No, the tendency was to not think of one's self as the expert. That didn't make one dumb, that made one ignorant.
Now people think that they're experts even when they cannot demonstrate mastery of the subject without having access to resources. It's the difference between an open-book test and a more traditional testing technique.
I can't deny a certain amount of perverse pleasure from watching people with poor cell phone signal squirm because they are attempting to consult the Internet for an answer to something that's part of their responsibiltiy that clearly they cannot do on their own and aren't able to do so.
The employer probably wouldn't appreciate the police finding the cocaine hidden in the door panels, seats, rocker panels, tires, fuel tank, crankcase, valley tray, transmission pan, fender liners, dashboard, subwoofer box, air cleaner housing, and coolant overflow bottle.
And that's where a lot of us differ from Stallman.
I'm fine with commercial software existing. I just want a level playing-field on which to run it.
The first version of either C or C++ I worked with used a Borland development environment. It doesn't matter that Borland is long gone, I suspect that anything I wrote back then would compile either without issue or with only minor correction on a modern compiler. Admittedly my stuff was very simple as it was student code, but I expect that many of the libraries available from Borland had equivalents from other developers.
I'll believe it if we get another 20 years of the same behavior, or they lose dominance in total OS market share and release Office, even as a paid application, on open source platforms.
I remember OS/2 Warp ads in print magazines. The ads featured a Robinson Projection map of the world, with arrows to specific areas and a blurb about the OS/2 user in that area.
I mused with my friends, "hey, it's a map of all of the OS/2 users in the world!"