Take off the rose colored glasses. Learning constantly for 12 years is hard. Meaningful breaks are very important to avoid burnout and keep morale up. If people want to look at schooling maybe we should reconsider how the school time is allocated but lets not do it from the perspective of 'lazy students, they need to do more'.
This process reminds me of an exam from hell, where there are 11 other people all trying to answer your questions. If you want to pass exams you focus on the low hanging fruit and use the remaining time to chip away on the hardest questions. I wouldn't call it obvious to attempt to solve this problem by doing the exact opposite.
So of your list of important laptop upgrade features the only one you can't do with a Retina Mac is upgrade the RAM. Sure it is restrictive to force forethought of the appropriate amount of RAM to select for the tasks the laptop will be used for however it is clearly a tradeoff to get a fancy new type of fast RAM. Once it comes in a small form factor stick I imagine it will become upgradable again.
If not being able to upgrade the RAM is all the Apple-haters can drum up against this laptop all I can say is this is a storm in a teacup.
I prefer something productive like widely shown moderated public debates like we have in Australia. This could be the basis of an enforced voting question to ensure the voter at least bothered to skim an hours TV. We get away without the voter question as several million of our population watch the shows and discuss it after with those who didn't.
Our two successful formats are 'the worm' and 'Qanda'.
In the worm a panel of the countries best media journalists ask targeted policy questions of the two contending political leaders and an audience (either right/left or swing only) controls an opinion graph that is shown to the TV audience in real time.
For Qanda a balanced audience including undecided voters and online viewers may ask literally any question and a moderator enforces either a reasonable answer or an admission of some type. The audience and moderator ensure facts are kept forfront so very little spin survives the process without embarrasment.
Furthermore, CSIRO immediately reinvested almost all of this money into developing better wireless technology for rural communities in Australia and worldwide (as part of the NBN project). If patent trolls used their gains for research instead of lining pockets of the rich I imagine we'd all have a very different opinion of them.
I know school supplies were very expensive when I was young but I'd have thought that $499 american dollars probably covered all of my pens and paper for at least half of my schooling, if not all of it. Where is the rational to splash out on iPads but then continue to penny pinch on basic supplies?
Where are the coal versions of Fukushima and Chernobyle? Surely you can point to tens of examples easily as coal has been in use much longer and on a larger scale.
I was flying to Brisbane from Melbourne just before Christmas and my only thought, as I lined up for 20 minutes to get through the huge crowd at security, was that I felt insanely less-safe in that small enclosed space with 200-400 other people than I did on the plane.
If you attack the plane it requires thought, planning, and luck. Compare that to just blowing yourself up in an unmoderated stagnat enclosed queue. They are shifting the threat to another venue that is easier to exploit which can only support the Security Theatre argument.
Then again, Australia has never had a terrorist attack on its soil and ASIO is doing a bang up job getting those who are plotting, so why aren't we giving them this money?
That's all fine and dandy if you know that the source you are downloading is in fact the source that everyone has reviewed. And, if you're paranoid enough to go along with things like Iron this is something that would concern you. However, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Iron users are actually downloading the binary which really could have anything in it so my first point is moot.
I'm pretty sure the rest of us left Internet Explorer due to its lack of bloat (no modern features at all) and its total lack of churn ('IE6 is perfect, it'll never need another release!').
The summary uses the word 'infamous' to describe the original announcement. In my mind it could only be considered infamous if they made a simple and blatant error. As it looks to a layman they have made an error but in finding the error physics will gain some interesting knowledge it didn't have before. If the latter is true then I'd imagine this would be remembered for all the right reasons not all the wrong ones.
Would this be the case or is the physics world full of jerks?
I signed up for the express purpose of untagging myself from all photos that include me. I've found, not even using the most strict privacy options, I've been able to limit the exposure of my privacy fine. Marketing companies can still deduce my friendship groups, where I work, my rough age, and where I went to school but all of that was public knowledge once FB became popular regardless of my participation.
In exchange for this it's facilitated my ability to keep up with friends across two continents.
Regarding the 'Like' button tracking me I'd thought everyone would have assumed that something like this was going on. It doesn't surprise me at all.
Well it does make it right. Microsoft created a precedent in league with the trademark people. Now they are unhappy with their abuse of the rules being used by another company. Tough cookies in my opinion.
I tried to confirm this for a WWN story last year (year before?) and couldn't get a single virus to execute without failing. I tried to run 30 common viruses that had been suggested due to simple Windows requirements and not a single one caused damage. In all of the discussions regarding what should be done when viruses do start working no comment has been made about a single one running to a point where it would be a concern.
I was unable to trace the origin of this claim either. People just seem to assume that since it runs complex applications now that it should run a virus too. This assumption is flawed for a few reasons.
Like the quality of your post, the opposition in the state and federal parliaments is a waste of time. If Baillieu was any good he'd win this election hands down over the horrific failure by the Brumby government regarding the bush fires. Instead we get yet another Liberal scare campaign, when they could be getting down to real issues.
My reference to reckless spending is regarding the Myki system which cost a billion dollars, and counting, to replace a system that wasn't broken. Worse still, the Metcard system it replaced is still required and the public transport network is still unreliable!
If you consider a billion dollars in context: We could have just had free public transport for 1-3 years without a single ticket instead of this failure. That's based on back of a napkin maths but a billion dollars buys a lot of zone 1 dailies. And it's not the only waste I can point to.
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As per their Ruxcon presentation it was a previously un-compromised system that used magnetic stripes.
I was at their Ruxcon talk this last weekend and I can categorically state that the headline is accurate!
Take off the rose colored glasses. Learning constantly for 12 years is hard. Meaningful breaks are very important to avoid burnout and keep morale up. If people want to look at schooling maybe we should reconsider how the school time is allocated but lets not do it from the perspective of 'lazy students, they need to do more'.
This process reminds me of an exam from hell, where there are 11 other people all trying to answer your questions. If you want to pass exams you focus on the low hanging fruit and use the remaining time to chip away on the hardest questions. I wouldn't call it obvious to attempt to solve this problem by doing the exact opposite.
So of your list of important laptop upgrade features the only one you can't do with a Retina Mac is upgrade the RAM. Sure it is restrictive to force forethought of the appropriate amount of RAM to select for the tasks the laptop will be used for however it is clearly a tradeoff to get a fancy new type of fast RAM. Once it comes in a small form factor stick I imagine it will become upgradable again.
If not being able to upgrade the RAM is all the Apple-haters can drum up against this laptop all I can say is this is a storm in a teacup.
I prefer something productive like widely shown moderated public debates like we have in Australia. This could be the basis of an enforced voting question to ensure the voter at least bothered to skim an hours TV. We get away without the voter question as several million of our population watch the shows and discuss it after with those who didn't.
Our two successful formats are 'the worm' and 'Qanda'.
Exactly.
Furthermore, CSIRO immediately reinvested almost all of this money into developing better wireless technology for rural communities in Australia and worldwide (as part of the NBN project). If patent trolls used their gains for research instead of lining pockets of the rich I imagine we'd all have a very different opinion of them.
Why would they want to take down what may become the most effective honey pot in history?
I watched Avatar in 2D as that was all that was on offer and I suggest an alternative reason Avatar was successful.
It was a well directed, acted, scripted, and paced movie telling a time old tale that was fun and enjoyable.
I'm sure you won't agree as in your world view only technology dictates how good cinema is.
I know school supplies were very expensive when I was young but I'd have thought that $499 american dollars probably covered all of my pens and paper for at least half of my schooling, if not all of it. Where is the rational to splash out on iPads but then continue to penny pinch on basic supplies?
I, for one, don't see why we bothered moving past valves for transisters.
Where are the coal versions of Fukushima and Chernobyle? Surely you can point to tens of examples easily as coal has been in use much longer and on a larger scale.
I was flying to Brisbane from Melbourne just before Christmas and my only thought, as I lined up for 20 minutes to get through the huge crowd at security, was that I felt insanely less-safe in that small enclosed space with 200-400 other people than I did on the plane.
If you attack the plane it requires thought, planning, and luck. Compare that to just blowing yourself up in an unmoderated stagnat enclosed queue. They are shifting the threat to another venue that is easier to exploit which can only support the Security Theatre argument.
Then again, Australia has never had a terrorist attack on its soil and ASIO is doing a bang up job getting those who are plotting, so why aren't we giving them this money?
That's all fine and dandy if you know that the source you are downloading is in fact the source that everyone has reviewed. And, if you're paranoid enough to go along with things like Iron this is something that would concern you. However, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Iron users are actually downloading the binary which really could have anything in it so my first point is moot.
And Mythbusters.
I'm pretty sure the rest of us left Internet Explorer due to its lack of bloat (no modern features at all) and its total lack of churn ('IE6 is perfect, it'll never need another release!').
Guess you just have a short memory.
The summary uses the word 'infamous' to describe the original announcement. In my mind it could only be considered infamous if they made a simple and blatant error. As it looks to a layman they have made an error but in finding the error physics will gain some interesting knowledge it didn't have before. If the latter is true then I'd imagine this would be remembered for all the right reasons not all the wrong ones.
Would this be the case or is the physics world full of jerks?
Don't worry, I'm sure they're just saving it for 'S'...
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I signed up for the express purpose of untagging myself from all photos that include me. I've found, not even using the most strict privacy options, I've been able to limit the exposure of my privacy fine. Marketing companies can still deduce my friendship groups, where I work, my rough age, and where I went to school but all of that was public knowledge once FB became popular regardless of my participation.
In exchange for this it's facilitated my ability to keep up with friends across two continents.
Regarding the 'Like' button tracking me I'd thought everyone would have assumed that something like this was going on. It doesn't surprise me at all.
Yes, they should just continue allowing competitors to copy their small range of products verbatim!
The Apple Store geniuses or the hardened and seasoned UNIX geniuses?
Just FYI saying 'binary blob' is the same as saying 'automatic teller machine machine'.
Well it does make it right. Microsoft created a precedent in league with the trademark people. Now they are unhappy with their abuse of the rules being used by another company. Tough cookies in my opinion.
They probably haven't.
I tried to confirm this for a WWN story last year (year before?) and couldn't get a single virus to execute without failing. I tried to run 30 common viruses that had been suggested due to simple Windows requirements and not a single one caused damage. In all of the discussions regarding what should be done when viruses do start working no comment has been made about a single one running to a point where it would be a concern.
I was unable to trace the origin of this claim either. People just seem to assume that since it runs complex applications now that it should run a virus too. This assumption is flawed for a few reasons.
Like the quality of your post, the opposition in the state and federal parliaments is a waste of time. If Baillieu was any good he'd win this election hands down over the horrific failure by the Brumby government regarding the bush fires. Instead we get yet another Liberal scare campaign, when they could be getting down to real issues.
My reference to reckless spending is regarding the Myki system which cost a billion dollars, and counting, to replace a system that wasn't broken. Worse still, the Metcard system it replaced is still required and the public transport network is still unreliable!
If you consider a billion dollars in context: We could have just had free public transport for 1-3 years without a single ticket instead of this failure. That's based on back of a napkin maths but a billion dollars buys a lot of zone 1 dailies. And it's not the only waste I can point to.