The problem with this mentality is that, if it were true, Windows would eventually fade away (hurray) and there would be NO platform for computer gaming. I do not think Halo 23 is a good example, but the reason for computer gaming are mods and other customer driven content (not to mention keyboard + mouse, God's one true user interface). Sometimes Linux can do it, sometimes not, depends on what year.
Mac does not offer anything there (yet, maybe ever, who can tell with their secrecy goals).
I agree there is no reason that professional engineers, developers or scientists should ever, ever use Windows for anything. But I'm not sure the world can yet survive in a Mac-only ecosystem.
I find myself "bailing" on events I was high pressured into in person, often held semi-captive, but then divesting myself of it when I had freedom again. Often, for example, people assume that you do not like them if you do not agree to their request. That's rarely true. It's more convenient to agree to go, then not go. There are limits of course, if someone is spending money on the event or going out of their way I will be blunt (ex. weddings) but thats about it.
The only trend in society that may be destructive to in-person relationships is that there is *always* plenty to do. Meat-space meetings with friends are pretty confining and limited in scope, rarely with any expected gain. I also imagine there was a day when one might be so bored that one didn't bail, that even a dubious meeting might be preferable to sitting on your couch watching The Jeffersons. But that day is well in the rear-view.
In reality I do not want, nor do I ever seek social events of any kind, everything I want or need is in my house at my keyboard, with the exception of time. That I never have in the quantity I would like. If I accept such an invitation I'm almost certain to bail but felt like I had to accept due to some real or imagined pressure on me. I will never do the inviting, and if I do you can be sure I won't bail on YOU, that really is rude. I have had people arrange large get-togethers from diverse social groups who bail, leaving those groups confused and stuck with each other...that's just a dick move.
No, that part is not stupid. Students absolutely should be challenged with contrasting opinions and learn the skills required to weigh the evidence. This goes to critical thinking, more important to real science even than learning all the facts and proofs. In yon textbook by the great scientific minds of Falwell and Graham we find the Theory of Solar Cheddar. Students, let's discuss this theory today. Joe, you have a question, "I saw a moon rock at the Johnson space center, it did not look like Marshmallow". Sally, "Mass spectrometry suggests that the composition of the moon is largely minearal in nature, including some minerals that are rare on earth or haven't been found. Marshmallow is comprised primarily of simple sugars.". Bobby, "How does cheddar make light? I don't get it. I have cheddar cheese in my lunch box, I don't see any light".
The teacher's job is obviously to not devote a significant amount of class time to clearly wrong theories, and to some extent to choose the bad theories based on the society they live in, while focusing students on the ones that are generally accepted. Science is not a religion, it should stand up to any amount of questioning, and if you cannot answer the question, you absolutely should try.
What's STUPID is assuming that something is correct until it is disproven, what's STUPID is putting "feels" over data. We may not have time to evaluate every scientific theory in our lifetime perhaps, but we should be in a position to question them and at least find experimental results others did. Evolution is nearly impossible to prove correct in the microscopic lifespan of humans, although the evidence supporting it is fairly tremendous. Contrasting theories of having been placed on the planet by beings unknowable have absolutely zero evidence. I see nothing wrong with weighing that theory and tabling it for lack of support. Again, what's STUPID is giving weight to that latter theory because of "feels" that are largely established based on how you were raised, rather than observable proof, which is definitely a scientific pursuit. It's equally stupid to trust the theory of evolution because some guy said so...but based upon the preponderance of evidence, what better theory exists? The best thing is to give kids the ability to weigh statements against each other and evaluate which one they want to get behind. This has value far outside of science, particularly right now with the term "fake news" being thrown around freely and for political gain.
I think if we could structure schools that way (which definitely requires smarter, better paid teachers than what we often have) it would end up pounding the final nail in the coffin of religion, and these lunatics would help the whole process along.
If you want to challenge the veracity of the material or bring up reasonable objections to why it can't be true based on some form of evidence based experiment, go for it.
If you want to quote one of a number of different book with the same name, translated to your language from some other intermediate language, compiled by persons with definite political agendas, based on materials written by a number of different authors who heard verbal stories passed around from a number of different people 2000 years ago... it belongs in buildings dedicated to that topic.
Those people you mention are not Apple employees, I'm not sure why you'd expect Apple is paying their wages at all.
The opposite is mostly true. You very rarely hear of leaks from Apple employees in the US, because those in engineering are in a job market that consists significantly of companies looking to outsource, offshore and H1B every possible thing they can. One does not intentionally jeopardize a top flight job by doing something like that, particularly since they are going to be blackballed and have trouble gaining employment anywhere similar. The cost to get someone to leak in this job market, assuming said person is not a total moron, is probably $5-$10M, depending on what he thinks he needs to retire at a quality of life acceptable to him.
In contrast if you live in China, or some other country that is mostly being outsourced TO, then the cost of leaking is whatever makes it worth your while to find another job. For someone who works in a factory, that's probably not a lot at all, and it's no big deal to them, they'll just find a new job (possibly by same employer, working on products for a different foreign company).
I bought her a pepper spray canister, to keep in her apron. It made her feel safer.
A part of me looks forward to the day when the cashier, required by management to say "How are you!" (exclamation point, not question mark, they don't care) gets pepper-sprayed by customer who doesn't want human interaction, and then the bag-boy (I'm in the south, we have them, not always boys, not always quite human) has to pepper spray back.
This would be only slightly more lively than the whole "Happy Holidays" brouhaha, which might involve heavier weapons.
1) Beatings. Obviously, the beatings. 2) Date-rape scanners 3) Illegal search and seizure 4) Increasingly obscene rules about laptop use 5) Sardines get more legroom 6) Increasingly obscene rules about carry-on bags 7) If you live in central USA, it often is faster to drive than to deal with the airport. Particularly if you have to check bags 8) Flights are often late, connections are often missed. Bad if flying alone, horrifying if flying with young kids 9) Flying with other people's young kids (Not that mine are angels, but I suffer from them regardless of venue) 10) Going to go back up to beatings, because that's worth two mentions
This falls into the no-shit category, but let's wait for the PRC trolls to come and explain to us that we're mistaken about low quality products being made in China, and utilization of that particular business model being an epic mistake. I say this having been a designer of electronics, having seen what their factories do and just how difficult it is to keep them on task and pulling shady ass shit we explicitly asked them not to do. I cannot imagine how bad it is when you give up all control.
Uber faced a legitimately wrong uphill battle in their business model, that of established taxi companies with government granted monopolies barring their entry into the market. They have a reasonable product that may do us all some good, but rather than addressing legitimate concerns they tried to be as slimy as existing taxi companies.
Legitimate concerns that led to establishment of granted monopolies (in some places) were drivers preying on tourists and strangers, drivers who did not have insurance, drivers who themselves were dangerous (criminal or mentally impaired), poor conditions of the vehicle, etc. These have been legitimate and widespread concerns in various points in history, and if you travel to certain places abroad you know that taking a taxi is a somewhat dubious affair that we have significantly less issues with here.
Uber did not wish to address these concerns in their business model, instead focusing on the various strong-arm tactics their competitors were using and shouting down anyone who pointed out the problems. I'm ignoring the "toxic work environment" stuff, I have no way of evaluating whether that is real or made up bullshit, my friends on the inside suggest more of the latter than the former. If instead they had managed to address the issues at hand, I am fairly certain that they would have won. It may be appropriate for their management to be replaced, it seems like they are most guilty of having chosen the wrong strategy, and their apparently devotion to the religion of Libertarianism may have led to their own failure, rather than working with the world as it actually is.
Why would most of us need more than one programming language?
I find that Python and C combined answer 100% of my programming needs. While C alone can do literally anything at all, as the youngins are quick to point out "there's all those pointers". Some tasks need to be done quickly, other tasks need to run quickly.
It was, is and will always be useless for a certain domain of programming in which some of us live. We're also the same group of people who continue to use C, in spite of the fact that it does not have every new feature that some CS prof thinks is essential. In fact we prefer to not have that stuff, it makes everything more difficult for us.
However I know many people in finance and business functions who use Basic exclusively to this day, and probably will for some time to come. I'm not sure Python works for them.
In fact Apple almost certainly added that feature FOR the Chinese market. It remains to be seen if it will be used in the US, where everyone is set up to accept payment via credit cards and there's a significant amount of money behind them.
Lawyers are the last argument of technology companies that have lost the power to innovate. Intel wouldn't be saying these things if they had invested in technology rather than idiotic purchases of horrid anti-virus companies, bizarre offshore strategies, and generally letting wall st. run them rather than engineers and technologists.
Siri is useful in the car when you want to do simple things: send a text message, play music (you can name), answer simple questions or set reminders/calendar dates. I can't say I've used Siri in any other context: in most environments talking bothers other people, so I try not to talk.
My parents have amazon echo, and I haven't really found a use for it in the house except to play music I can name. I'm not sure what else I *would* do with these things. In all other cases I'd rather be quiet and push buttons on my phone. Turning off lights and what not is a feature I always forget to use and usually forget to set up at all... the only time its useful is in bed at night, and I don't really want any further spying in the bedroom for a number of reasons.
He was cremated, perhaps they rubbed his ashes into the telescope. Or perhaps they lacked the foresight and imagination required to conceive of such a stupid and ill informed headline to describe what they actually did.
I think the better generalization is that colleges are being used as prep for employment, and teaching us the loads of data required to function in a corporation in a particular discipline. Most of that work is not creative or intellectual at all and requires knowledge to perform, but not necessarily make judgement calls. I guess thinking is optional, being the right cog is required.
In reality very few people even would be allowed (funded) to use critical thinking in anything more than a trivial capacity, there simply isn't enough to go around...unless you can afford to go out alone, which very few of us can.
Or the government should just invalidate their patent and open the ball-game. Basically tell Mylan they can go fuck themselves, and they will soon have plenty of time to do so. Patents aren't natural rights of man, they're arbitrarily granted government monopolies created to encourage R&D, not to be abused in the name of greed.
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The problem with this mentality is that, if it were true, Windows would eventually fade away (hurray) and there would be NO platform for computer gaming. I do not think Halo 23 is a good example, but the reason for computer gaming are mods and other customer driven content (not to mention keyboard + mouse, God's one true user interface). Sometimes Linux can do it, sometimes not, depends on what year.
Mac does not offer anything there (yet, maybe ever, who can tell with their secrecy goals).
I agree there is no reason that professional engineers, developers or scientists should ever, ever use Windows for anything. But I'm not sure the world can yet survive in a Mac-only ecosystem.
I find myself "bailing" on events I was high pressured into in person, often held semi-captive, but then divesting myself of it when I had freedom again. Often, for example, people assume that you do not like them if you do not agree to their request. That's rarely true. It's more convenient to agree to go, then not go. There are limits of course, if someone is spending money on the event or going out of their way I will be blunt (ex. weddings) but thats about it.
The only trend in society that may be destructive to in-person relationships is that there is *always* plenty to do. Meat-space meetings with friends are pretty confining and limited in scope, rarely with any expected gain. I also imagine there was a day when one might be so bored that one didn't bail, that even a dubious meeting might be preferable to sitting on your couch watching The Jeffersons. But that day is well in the rear-view.
In reality I do not want, nor do I ever seek social events of any kind, everything I want or need is in my house at my keyboard, with the exception of time. That I never have in the quantity I would like. If I accept such an invitation I'm almost certain to bail but felt like I had to accept due to some real or imagined pressure on me. I will never do the inviting, and if I do you can be sure I won't bail on YOU, that really is rude. I have had people arrange large get-togethers from diverse social groups who bail, leaving those groups confused and stuck with each other...that's just a dick move.
No, that part is not stupid. Students absolutely should be challenged with contrasting opinions and learn the skills required to weigh the evidence. This goes to critical thinking, more important to real science even than learning all the facts and proofs. In yon textbook by the great scientific minds of Falwell and Graham we find the Theory of Solar Cheddar. Students, let's discuss this theory today. Joe, you have a question, "I saw a moon rock at the Johnson space center, it did not look like Marshmallow". Sally, "Mass spectrometry suggests that the composition of the moon is largely minearal in nature, including some minerals that are rare on earth or haven't been found. Marshmallow is comprised primarily of simple sugars.". Bobby, "How does cheddar make light? I don't get it. I have cheddar cheese in my lunch box, I don't see any light".
The teacher's job is obviously to not devote a significant amount of class time to clearly wrong theories, and to some extent to choose the bad theories based on the society they live in, while focusing students on the ones that are generally accepted. Science is not a religion, it should stand up to any amount of questioning, and if you cannot answer the question, you absolutely should try.
What's STUPID is assuming that something is correct until it is disproven, what's STUPID is putting "feels" over data. We may not have time to evaluate every scientific theory in our lifetime perhaps, but we should be in a position to question them and at least find experimental results others did. Evolution is nearly impossible to prove correct in the microscopic lifespan of humans, although the evidence supporting it is fairly tremendous. Contrasting theories of having been placed on the planet by beings unknowable have absolutely zero evidence. I see nothing wrong with weighing that theory and tabling it for lack of support. Again, what's STUPID is giving weight to that latter theory because of "feels" that are largely established based on how you were raised, rather than observable proof, which is definitely a scientific pursuit. It's equally stupid to trust the theory of evolution because some guy said so...but based upon the preponderance of evidence, what better theory exists? The best thing is to give kids the ability to weigh statements against each other and evaluate which one they want to get behind. This has value far outside of science, particularly right now with the term "fake news" being thrown around freely and for political gain.
I think if we could structure schools that way (which definitely requires smarter, better paid teachers than what we often have) it would end up pounding the final nail in the coffin of religion, and these lunatics would help the whole process along.
"I don't always have sex with soda bottles, but when I do, I have sex with 18 year old soda bottles."
If you want to challenge the veracity of the material or bring up reasonable objections to why it can't be true based on some form of evidence based experiment, go for it.
If you want to quote one of a number of different book with the same name, translated to your language from some other intermediate language, compiled by persons with definite political agendas, based on materials written by a number of different authors who heard verbal stories passed around from a number of different people 2000 years ago... it belongs in buildings dedicated to that topic.
Contain them, light them, spin a turbine.
Those people you mention are not Apple employees, I'm not sure why you'd expect Apple is paying their wages at all.
The opposite is mostly true. You very rarely hear of leaks from Apple employees in the US, because those in engineering are in a job market that consists significantly of companies looking to outsource, offshore and H1B every possible thing they can. One does not intentionally jeopardize a top flight job by doing something like that, particularly since they are going to be blackballed and have trouble gaining employment anywhere similar. The cost to get someone to leak in this job market, assuming said person is not a total moron, is probably $5-$10M, depending on what he thinks he needs to retire at a quality of life acceptable to him.
In contrast if you live in China, or some other country that is mostly being outsourced TO, then the cost of leaking is whatever makes it worth your while to find another job. For someone who works in a factory, that's probably not a lot at all, and it's no big deal to them, they'll just find a new job (possibly by same employer, working on products for a different foreign company).
I bought her a pepper spray canister, to keep in her apron. It made her feel safer.
A part of me looks forward to the day when the cashier, required by management to say "How are you!" (exclamation point, not question mark, they don't care) gets pepper-sprayed by customer who doesn't want human interaction, and then the bag-boy (I'm in the south, we have them, not always boys, not always quite human) has to pepper spray back.
This would be only slightly more lively than the whole "Happy Holidays" brouhaha, which might involve heavier weapons.
1) Beatings. Obviously, the beatings.
2) Date-rape scanners
3) Illegal search and seizure
4) Increasingly obscene rules about laptop use
5) Sardines get more legroom
6) Increasingly obscene rules about carry-on bags
7) If you live in central USA, it often is faster to drive than to deal with the airport. Particularly if you have to check bags
8) Flights are often late, connections are often missed. Bad if flying alone, horrifying if flying with young kids
9) Flying with other people's young kids (Not that mine are angels, but I suffer from them regardless of venue)
10) Going to go back up to beatings, because that's worth two mentions
This falls into the no-shit category, but let's wait for the PRC trolls to come and explain to us that we're mistaken about low quality products being made in China, and utilization of that particular business model being an epic mistake. I say this having been a designer of electronics, having seen what their factories do and just how difficult it is to keep them on task and pulling shady ass shit we explicitly asked them not to do. I cannot imagine how bad it is when you give up all control.
Uber faced a legitimately wrong uphill battle in their business model, that of established taxi companies with government granted monopolies barring their entry into the market. They have a reasonable product that may do us all some good, but rather than addressing legitimate concerns they tried to be as slimy as existing taxi companies.
Legitimate concerns that led to establishment of granted monopolies (in some places) were drivers preying on tourists and strangers, drivers who did not have insurance, drivers who themselves were dangerous (criminal or mentally impaired), poor conditions of the vehicle, etc. These have been legitimate and widespread concerns in various points in history, and if you travel to certain places abroad you know that taking a taxi is a somewhat dubious affair that we have significantly less issues with here.
Uber did not wish to address these concerns in their business model, instead focusing on the various strong-arm tactics their competitors were using and shouting down anyone who pointed out the problems. I'm ignoring the "toxic work environment" stuff, I have no way of evaluating whether that is real or made up bullshit, my friends on the inside suggest more of the latter than the former. If instead they had managed to address the issues at hand, I am fairly certain that they would have won. It may be appropriate for their management to be replaced, it seems like they are most guilty of having chosen the wrong strategy, and their apparently devotion to the religion of Libertarianism may have led to their own failure, rather than working with the world as it actually is.
The whitespace issue makes me nauseous. The lack of strong typing makes bugs.
Why would most of us need more than one programming language?
I find that Python and C combined answer 100% of my programming needs. While C alone can do literally anything at all, as the youngins are quick to point out "there's all those pointers". Some tasks need to be done quickly, other tasks need to run quickly.
It was, is and will always be useless for a certain domain of programming in which some of us live. We're also the same group of people who continue to use C, in spite of the fact that it does not have every new feature that some CS prof thinks is essential. In fact we prefer to not have that stuff, it makes everything more difficult for us.
However I know many people in finance and business functions who use Basic exclusively to this day, and probably will for some time to come. I'm not sure Python works for them.
In fact Apple almost certainly added that feature FOR the Chinese market. It remains to be seen if it will be used in the US, where everyone is set up to accept payment via credit cards and there's a significant amount of money behind them.
Fire is hot. This is now news.
Lawyers are the last argument of technology companies that have lost the power to innovate. Intel wouldn't be saying these things if they had invested in technology rather than idiotic purchases of horrid anti-virus companies, bizarre offshore strategies, and generally letting wall st. run them rather than engineers and technologists.
Siri is useful in the car when you want to do simple things: send a text message, play music (you can name), answer simple questions or set reminders/calendar dates. I can't say I've used Siri in any other context: in most environments talking bothers other people, so I try not to talk.
My parents have amazon echo, and I haven't really found a use for it in the house except to play music I can name. I'm not sure what else I *would* do with these things. In all other cases I'd rather be quiet and push buttons on my phone. Turning off lights and what not is a feature I always forget to use and usually forget to set up at all... the only time its useful is in bed at night, and I don't really want any further spying in the bedroom for a number of reasons.
He was cremated, perhaps they rubbed his ashes into the telescope. Or perhaps they lacked the foresight and imagination required to conceive of such a stupid and ill informed headline to describe what they actually did.
It's a fairness play, they are miserable and worthless human beings, the only way to reconcile this is to ensure we are also miserable and worthless.
You win this round, sir.
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Perhaps it's not that drinking makes you stupid, but rather you have to be stupid in the first place to drink.
In absence of the data in TFA, on what grounds do you base this statement?
I think the better generalization is that colleges are being used as prep for employment, and teaching us the loads of data required to function in a corporation in a particular discipline. Most of that work is not creative or intellectual at all and requires knowledge to perform, but not necessarily make judgement calls. I guess thinking is optional, being the right cog is required.
In reality very few people even would be allowed (funded) to use critical thinking in anything more than a trivial capacity, there simply isn't enough to go around...unless you can afford to go out alone, which very few of us can.
Or the government should just invalidate their patent and open the ball-game. Basically tell Mylan they can go fuck themselves, and they will soon have plenty of time to do so. Patents aren't natural rights of man, they're arbitrarily granted government monopolies created to encourage R&D, not to be abused in the name of greed.