Millions of millennials will need to learn cursive writing so that they can fill out a check.
I don't think you understand what cursive writing is. Or if you do, can you tell us what you think it has to do with writing a check?
You use it to sign your name. I guess you could always just "make your mark" with an X.
Lots of people use a personal mark. I certainly wouldn't call my signature cursive. Ever since my father berated me about my penmanship of my name in grade school, I looked how he signed his name and have written First letter + long squiggle ever since. Collecting checks for pizza delivery when I was in college, I saw lots of weird signatures, squiggles, and signs, but none of the ones I checked on at work came back as bad. I remember one that was just a weird looping of ovals like from a spyrograph that they wrote in a quick, obviously well practiced motion. Such personal marks are usually quicker to sign and harder to counterfit.
I watched the first episode of Max Headroom a year or so ago.
I laughed at a scene where they hacked a company, and I shit you not, by connecting to water pipes somehow and then jumping from a urinal in a men's room to a security camera, again not defecating anywhere near or on your person, located there.
The tragedy is that we're at the point where such things seem to be shifted from the realm of uneducated entertainment to reality.
I watched the entire series a couple of years ago. Despite the fashions and limitations in imaging, I was surprised that the series held up surprisingly well, and if anything was presentient to the way things would come to pass.
I lost access to so many of my older games when they killed Rosetta-- I'm about to lose a lot more when Apple kills off 32 bit.
I still have an old machine running 10.6 just for that reason. Luckily I found a copy of SMACX on gog.com. It looks like I'll have another one running 10.9 sitting next to it to continue running my Adobe CS5 Suite and other software (once Apple makes a new desktop I'll actually buy).
Games are an example of software that doesn't usually get updated, but you still want them to keep working.
True. Until I got it off of GOG.com, I built an old Mac Pro running 10.6 just to play Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire. I still have it to run other, older powerPC software.
Also to this day by federal law the federal militia includes all able bodied male citizens age 18-45. There is no enlistment, no signup, no requirement to show up anywhere and train, you are in automatically. This is the "inactive" component component of the militia, the national guard is the "active" component of the militia. The national guard is not the entire militia. Armed citizens with no prior armed forces affiliation are also part of the federal militia.
I don't think that is quite true. Congress does get to organize and decide the training standards of the militia (Article I, Clause 15 & 16), and as things have it, they have essentially made organization and training for the militia into joining the National Guard (ie active military) and any militia which hasn't done so is not covered by articles of war and can be tried for disobeience.Larger discussion here.
Funny enough, my coworker just got the iMac as her work computer. The most recent version of the mouse that comes with it has a rechargeable battery instead of using AAs. Okay cool... except Apple didn't want to blemish the sleek design of the mouse, so the charge port is ON THE BOTTOM. I.e. if your mouse battery dies, you can't use it at the same time you're charging it up.
Well,let's be serious. I'm much more of a Mac addict than most of you lot, and one of the first things I'll admit is that Apple hasn't had a usable mouse since before the puck style appeared in '98.
The way they've been neglecting the Mac for years, you'd expect all their pro users to have jumped ship. But then again, the alternatives are all flawed.
I suspect they have plenty of pro users. Just understand that by "Pro" these days, they mean people catching planes to give some Powerpoint show in a nice suit. That's why we still get laptops while desktops flounder.
. . . committing your daughter to a mental health institution is not socially acceptable.
Bit more complex than that I think. Due to various legislation through the 60's and 70's, it was decided that most of those committed people could not be held against their will. Combine with reduced funding on both federal and state levels, and the sanitariums all got emptied. Now, people just end up on the street or in prison. Parents of an adult who can speak in functional sentences with no criminal charge have pretty much no ability to commit them without that persons cooperation.
"What next? Sending troops and predators to the Mexican border?"
There's a thought. Let's just make the souther boarder, or both borders, game preserves with lots of lions, tigers, and bears. Perhaps stock our sea borders with sharks (and lasers).
China already retaliated and published a list of 106 articles, Soy, Corn, Beef, Orange juice...almost all the things that Trumps deplorables produce.
It will be fun to watch how the 'winning' will be going.
Tiger Blood!
Have no fear, I have word from a devote Republican (my father) than this is all just meant to bring the Chinese to the bargining table, and then Trump will unleash his mastery of business and deal making on them and easily win this "trade war".
1. There is no Astrophysics 101, Astrophysics is a 400 level course. 2. I have taken that course. 3. Space curvature is something you learn in Physics, when you learn special and general relativity.
Mortgages can go up if interest rates go up (unless you manage to find the rare fixed-term mortgage that remains fixed term for the duration of the loan - around here the longest fixed term mortgage is 5 years and it's at almost double the interest rate of a 2-year fixed-term mortgage). At least here, the difference is that the amount that rents can go up by during a tenancy is limited by law (with some quite wooly terminology) and there's an appeals mechanism if it your landlords puts it up too much (mine went up by about 3% each year when I was renting here, and when we moved out the property was advertised with rent 10% higher than we'd been paying, which creates a somewhat perverse incentive for landlords to have a high tenant turnover).
Whew. Not in Seattle. Many places are rented by the month and I've had friends rents double or up by $1k from one month to the next without warning (because they wanted them out to remodel the building and charge more). Even the variable rate loan they tried to sell me on my house was fixed for five years or so. I had no problem getting a 30 year fixed (right after the Brexit vote so loan rates were rock bottom too). My mortage was x+y, but the month I moved out everybody in the complex I was in got a rent bump that equaled my y (water and garbage bills) for the new house.
Yeah, a story like this is kind of hard to believe. I know that Apple isn't as good as keeping secrets as it used to be, but a leak about Apple's product line 2 years from now almost never happens.
I'd love to see a second source of this information besides Bloomberg and the various tech blogs who are just pointing to the Bloomberg article.
There have already been stories out on rumor sites about how Apple planned to have iOS apps running on Macs. At the time it was described or at least assumed to be two chips in the laptop, but still, this isn't coming out of nowhere. It was probably about two years before they switched that rumors started coming out about MacOS X being able to run on x86. It became known that they had pretty much made sure it was portable to x86 the entire life of OS X.
This attitude nicely sums up California's view of everywhere else; punching down and speaking truth to the powerless:
As a tech professional, I would rather eat glass than live in a so called "flyover" state. I have in-demand skills and I have zero desire to live in places that are small minded, lack diversity, and lack interesting and rich culture. The tech sector is chock full of diverse immigrants and unique people who have no desire to live in a conformist mono-chromatic culture. Top tech talents don't want to eat breakfast at the Waffle House.
It also sums up the attitude of much of the people who grew up in those fly over states and moved to California. We got an education and got out. Going home to visit family pretty much convinces us nothing has changed in 25 years.
Typically renting costs $x per month, and buying costs $(x + y) per month.
It does depend, but you forgot to figure in that rents never go down, while mortgages can stay the same and eventually go away. Often, y is less than the next raise in rent that will happen at end of the lease year. And really, in my experience, renting is $x, a mortgage is $y+z, and if looking around y+z
..no, shocked, shocked I tell you, that Ajit Pai didn't specifically and categorically deny SpaceX from doing this, then turn around and announce that Verizon, or AT&T, or Comcast is going to do precisely the same thing, and how it'll "increase competition and innovation".
That probably wouldn't work well as those other players will have to use SpaceX rockets. Better to let SpaceX start, then use anti-trust issues to get the rocket cost down for others.
... in other ways. I remember reading a paper that explained exactly that away very nicely.
You are wrong and a troll. At best, those that are attempting a modified theory of gravity have come up with a theory to explain galactic roate in 2D, not 3, and completely misses any other observations such as gravitational lensing.
So saying "without any dark matter" is already highly questionable. Rather, this galaxy might help us fix our silly theories, to match the cold hard reality that we simply observe. Not the other way around.
From TFA: "It turns out that a galaxy without dark matter is incompatible with models that replace it using modified gravity. Since there's some normal matter here, any version of modified gravity would have that matter produce dark-matter-like effects. We don't see any indication of these effects, so modified gravity ideas must be wrong.
"Paradoxically, the existence of NGC1052–DF2 may falsify alternatives to dark matter," the authors conclude, noting that those alternatives include both variations of MOND and emergent gravity."
As the Bullet Cluster was supposed to be the thing that proved the dark matter model, this is even more so as offering proof that other theories can't even begin to explain these observations.
Dark matter has always struck me as a kludge. It amounts to "we don't know WTF is going on, so here's our fudge factor". There is no evidence that dark matter exists, other than the fact that gravity on large scales doesn't behave the way cosmologists expect. Two other possibilities receive too little attention:
- Our current theory of gravity does not apply on the scales we are observing, i.e., the theory is incomplete.
Which is pretty much the importance of the galaxy we are speaking of. Let's ignore the fact that any modified theory of gravity would be so weird that nobody can even come up with a possible example that would demonstrate what we are seeing, and thus be a much, much more complicated and weirder explanation than a dark matter model. That they found a galaxy, can determine the mass of it, and yet it is acting in a behavior that is not consistent with other galaxies, pretty much shows that a modified theory of gravity can't be the explanation for the observations attributed to dark matter. From the Ars Technica article: "It turns out that a galaxy without dark matter is incompatible with models that replace it using modified gravity. Since there's some normal matter here, any version of modified gravity would have that matter produce dark-matter-like effects. We don't see any indication of these effects, so modified gravity ideas must be wrong."
This is a extreme case like the Bullet Cluster. Two galaxies probably collided and the bayonic masses slowed each other down enough to separate from their dark matter halos and gravity was not enough to bring them back together. The Bullet Cluster was seen as proof of dark matter, and this is even more so.
- Physical laws are not constant. e are looking at very distant objects, and seeing them in the distant past. Perhaps universal constants are not, in fact, constant across large spans of space and/or time.
Besides undermining one of the basic postulates of science and cosmology, if this was the case, it would be fairly well observed in the cosmic distance ladder and be of an impact far beyond explaining the effects we attribute to dark matter.
So now they've discovered a galaxy where the kludge factor of dark matter is not needed. Maybe this will prompt more cosmologist to consider the alternatives...
As explained above, this prompts the exact opposite
I mean, when/. first started, it was all "embrace, extend, extinguish" with MS using a Borg Gates avatar.
Is this the "embrace" part or the "extend" part of that whole process? Or can we really trust them?
This is "embrace". "Extend" will come when they have their own linux group, their own distro, and are committing code to the kernel.
So, is it now that NOT targeting everyone with advertising is now discrimination???
I mean, what if we bring this into the analog world a bit....if I have a house for rent, and I print up flyers, and I only put them in in the neighborhood close to the property, or perhaps I choose to only nail them to poles in affluential neighborhoods....rather than also post them in "the hood"....I am now guilty of discrimination?
I'm not sure. Are there laws in your municipality that make it illegal to not advertise in "the hood" under certain conditions? But really, this isn't about you in this allegory, it's about the flyering company you hired to do the work. Did they offer you options that you thought were against local laws? Are you somebody who cares about the law and would report illegal behavior?
What TFS is saying is that 75% of all cars leak oil, have less than perfect emissions, or other problems up to and including sitting on blocks in somebodies front yard. What TFA apparently is really saying, is that 25% of all cars are sitting unused on new car lots.
Top-level Russian Spy super-hacker just happened to use his Kremlin IP address. Yeah, I bet it happened just like that.
Totally! What really probably happened, was that the real Guccifer 2.0 hacked the GRU, compromised one of their machines, and then remoted in and sent messages from there for the lulz.
Do you really think a human 70,000 years ago without any astronomic tools would have noticed? Or even cared?
Reading the article, while it is normally a 10th magnitude and not visible to the unaided eye, it apparently is the type of star that flares up a thousand times brighter which would put it in the range of a bight star in the sky. Given the importance of the sky, comets, stars are to primitive cultures, I'd say a new bright red star in the sky probably would be of some note to any living people at the time.
Apparently it would have been a tenth magnitude object, undoubtedly visible in Neanderthal telescopes.
Although not normally visible, it is the type of star that flares up to a thousand times brighter at times. Estimates are that with the time is spent in the Sun's neighborhood, it would have had such a flare up and be able to be seen. Probably in the range of Sirius or some other bright star. How aware "people" were 70k years ago of the night sky, importance given to it, and ability to tell others and preserve knowledge are probably no well known, but with nothing else to do at night but look up or go to sleep, somebody probably would have seen it at least. Supposedly, speech developed about 100k years ago, but now thought to be possible earlier.
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Millions of millennials will need to learn cursive writing so that they can fill out a check.
I don't think you understand what cursive writing is. Or if you do, can you tell us what you think it has to do with writing a check?
You use it to sign your name. I guess you could always just "make your mark" with an X.
Lots of people use a personal mark. I certainly wouldn't call my signature cursive. Ever since my father berated me about my penmanship of my name in grade school, I looked how he signed his name and have written First letter + long squiggle ever since. Collecting checks for pizza delivery when I was in college, I saw lots of weird signatures, squiggles, and signs, but none of the ones I checked on at work came back as bad. I remember one that was just a weird looping of ovals like from a spyrograph that they wrote in a quick, obviously well practiced motion. Such personal marks are usually quicker to sign and harder to counterfit.
I watched the first episode of Max Headroom a year or so ago.
I laughed at a scene where they hacked a company, and I shit you not, by connecting to water pipes somehow and then jumping from a urinal in a men's room to a security camera, again not defecating anywhere near or on your person, located there.
The tragedy is that we're at the point where such things seem to be shifted from the realm of uneducated entertainment to reality.
I watched the entire series a couple of years ago. Despite the fashions and limitations in imaging, I was surprised that the series held up surprisingly well, and if anything was presentient to the way things would come to pass.
Amazon sells about 30-40 million books, the Library of Congress has about that many. So an Amazon is roughly equal to a Library of Congress.
This is as bad as expressing electrical power in watts. A Library of Congress is a unit. An Amazon is that unit over time.
I lost access to so many of my older games when they killed Rosetta-- I'm about to lose a lot more when Apple kills off 32 bit.
I still have an old machine running 10.6 just for that reason. Luckily I found a copy of SMACX on gog.com. It looks like I'll have another one running 10.9 sitting next to it to continue running my Adobe CS5 Suite and other software (once Apple makes a new desktop I'll actually buy).
Games are an example of software that doesn't usually get updated, but you still want them to keep working.
True. Until I got it off of GOG.com, I built an old Mac Pro running 10.6 just to play Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire. I still have it to run other, older powerPC software.
Also to this day by federal law the federal militia includes all able bodied male citizens age 18-45. There is no enlistment, no signup, no requirement to show up anywhere and train, you are in automatically. This is the "inactive" component component of the militia, the national guard is the "active" component of the militia. The national guard is not the entire militia. Armed citizens with no prior armed forces affiliation are also part of the federal militia.
I don't think that is quite true. Congress does get to organize and decide the training standards of the militia (Article I, Clause 15 & 16), and as things have it, they have essentially made organization and training for the militia into joining the National Guard (ie active military) and any militia which hasn't done so is not covered by articles of war and can be tried for disobeience.Larger discussion here.
Funny enough, my coworker just got the iMac as her work computer. The most recent version of the mouse that comes with it has a rechargeable battery instead of using AAs. Okay cool... except Apple didn't want to blemish the sleek design of the mouse, so the charge port is ON THE BOTTOM. I.e. if your mouse battery dies, you can't use it at the same time you're charging it up.
Well,let's be serious. I'm much more of a Mac addict than most of you lot, and one of the first things I'll admit is that Apple hasn't had a usable mouse since before the puck style appeared in '98.
The way they've been neglecting the Mac for years, you'd expect all their pro users to have jumped ship. But then again, the alternatives are all flawed.
I suspect they have plenty of pro users. Just understand that by "Pro" these days, they mean people catching planes to give some Powerpoint show in a nice suit. That's why we still get laptops while desktops flounder.
. . . committing your daughter to a mental health institution is not socially acceptable.
Bit more complex than that I think. Due to various legislation through the 60's and 70's, it was decided that most of those committed people could not be held against their will. Combine with reduced funding on both federal and state levels, and the sanitariums all got emptied. Now, people just end up on the street or in prison. Parents of an adult who can speak in functional sentences with no criminal charge have pretty much no ability to commit them without that persons cooperation.
"What next? Sending troops and predators to the Mexican border?"
There's a thought. Let's just make the souther boarder, or both borders, game preserves with lots of lions, tigers, and bears. Perhaps stock our sea borders with sharks (and lasers).
China already retaliated and published a list of 106 articles, Soy, Corn, Beef, Orange juice...almost all the things that Trumps deplorables produce.
It will be fun to watch how the 'winning' will be going.
Tiger Blood!
Have no fear, I have word from a devote Republican (my father) than this is all just meant to bring the Chinese to the bargining table, and then Trump will unleash his mastery of business and deal making on them and easily win this "trade war".
1. There is no Astrophysics 101, Astrophysics is a 400 level course. 2. I have taken that course. 3. Space curvature is something you learn in Physics, when you learn special and general relativity.
Mod parent up! Reinmannian space FTW!
Mortgages can go up if interest rates go up (unless you manage to find the rare fixed-term mortgage that remains fixed term for the duration of the loan - around here the longest fixed term mortgage is 5 years and it's at almost double the interest rate of a 2-year fixed-term mortgage). At least here, the difference is that the amount that rents can go up by during a tenancy is limited by law (with some quite wooly terminology) and there's an appeals mechanism if it your landlords puts it up too much (mine went up by about 3% each year when I was renting here, and when we moved out the property was advertised with rent 10% higher than we'd been paying, which creates a somewhat perverse incentive for landlords to have a high tenant turnover).
Whew. Not in Seattle. Many places are rented by the month and I've had friends rents double or up by $1k from one month to the next without warning (because they wanted them out to remodel the building and charge more). Even the variable rate loan they tried to sell me on my house was fixed for five years or so. I had no problem getting a 30 year fixed (right after the Brexit vote so loan rates were rock bottom too). My mortage was x+y, but the month I moved out everybody in the complex I was in got a rent bump that equaled my y (water and garbage bills) for the new house.
Yeah, a story like this is kind of hard to believe. I know that Apple isn't as good as keeping secrets as it used to be, but a leak about Apple's product line 2 years from now almost never happens.
I'd love to see a second source of this information besides Bloomberg and the various tech blogs who are just pointing to the Bloomberg article.
There have already been stories out on rumor sites about how Apple planned to have iOS apps running on Macs. At the time it was described or at least assumed to be two chips in the laptop, but still, this isn't coming out of nowhere. It was probably about two years before they switched that rumors started coming out about MacOS X being able to run on x86. It became known that they had pretty much made sure it was portable to x86 the entire life of OS X.
This attitude nicely sums up California's view of everywhere else; punching down and speaking truth to the powerless:
It also sums up the attitude of much of the people who grew up in those fly over states and moved to California. We got an education and got out. Going home to visit family pretty much convinces us nothing has changed in 25 years.
Typically renting costs $x per month, and buying costs $(x + y) per month.
It does depend, but you forgot to figure in that rents never go down, while mortgages can stay the same and eventually go away. Often, y is less than the next raise in rent that will happen at end of the lease year. And really, in my experience, renting is $x, a mortgage is $y+z, and if looking around y+z
..no, shocked, shocked I tell you, that Ajit Pai didn't specifically and categorically deny SpaceX from doing this, then turn around and announce that Verizon, or AT&T, or Comcast is going to do precisely the same thing, and how it'll "increase competition and innovation".
That probably wouldn't work well as those other players will have to use SpaceX rockets. Better to let SpaceX start, then use anti-trust issues to get the rocket cost down for others.
... in other ways. I remember reading a paper that explained exactly that away very nicely.
You are wrong and a troll. At best, those that are attempting a modified theory of gravity have come up with a theory to explain galactic roate in 2D, not 3, and completely misses any other observations such as gravitational lensing.
So saying "without any dark matter" is already highly questionable. Rather, this galaxy might help us fix our silly theories, to match the cold hard reality that we simply observe. Not the other way around.
From TFA: "It turns out that a galaxy without dark matter is incompatible with models that replace it using modified gravity. Since there's some normal matter here, any version of modified gravity would have that matter produce dark-matter-like effects. We don't see any indication of these effects, so modified gravity ideas must be wrong.
"Paradoxically, the existence of NGC1052–DF2 may falsify alternatives to dark matter," the authors conclude, noting that those alternatives include both variations of MOND and emergent gravity."
As the Bullet Cluster was supposed to be the thing that proved the dark matter model, this is even more so as offering proof that other theories can't even begin to explain these observations.
Dark matter has always struck me as a kludge. It amounts to "we don't know WTF is going on, so here's our fudge factor". There is no evidence that dark matter exists, other than the fact that gravity on large scales doesn't behave the way cosmologists expect. Two other possibilities receive too little attention:
- Our current theory of gravity does not apply on the scales we are observing, i.e., the theory is incomplete.
Which is pretty much the importance of the galaxy we are speaking of. Let's ignore the fact that any modified theory of gravity would be so weird that nobody can even come up with a possible example that would demonstrate what we are seeing, and thus be a much, much more complicated and weirder explanation than a dark matter model. That they found a galaxy, can determine the mass of it, and yet it is acting in a behavior that is not consistent with other galaxies, pretty much shows that a modified theory of gravity can't be the explanation for the observations attributed to dark matter. From the Ars Technica article: "It turns out that a galaxy without dark matter is incompatible with models that replace it using modified gravity. Since there's some normal matter here, any version of modified gravity would have that matter produce dark-matter-like effects. We don't see any indication of these effects, so modified gravity ideas must be wrong."
This is a extreme case like the Bullet Cluster. Two galaxies probably collided and the bayonic masses slowed each other down enough to separate from their dark matter halos and gravity was not enough to bring them back together. The Bullet Cluster was seen as proof of dark matter, and this is even more so.
- Physical laws are not constant. e are looking at very distant objects, and seeing them in the distant past. Perhaps universal constants are not, in fact, constant across large spans of space and/or time.
Besides undermining one of the basic postulates of science and cosmology, if this was the case, it would be fairly well observed in the cosmic distance ladder and be of an impact far beyond explaining the effects we attribute to dark matter.
So now they've discovered a galaxy where the kludge factor of dark matter is not needed. Maybe this will prompt more cosmologist to consider the alternatives...
As explained above, this prompts the exact opposite
I mean, when /. first started, it was all "embrace, extend, extinguish" with MS using a Borg Gates avatar.
Is this the "embrace" part or the "extend" part of that whole process? Or can we really trust them?
This is "embrace". "Extend" will come when they have their own linux group, their own distro, and are committing code to the kernel.
So, is it now that NOT targeting everyone with advertising is now discrimination???
I mean, what if we bring this into the analog world a bit....if I have a house for rent, and I print up flyers, and I only put them in in the neighborhood close to the property, or perhaps I choose to only nail them to poles in affluential neighborhoods....rather than also post them in "the hood"....I am now guilty of discrimination?
I'm not sure. Are there laws in your municipality that make it illegal to not advertise in "the hood" under certain conditions? But really, this isn't about you in this allegory, it's about the flyering company you hired to do the work. Did they offer you options that you thought were against local laws? Are you somebody who cares about the law and would report illegal behavior?
What TFS is saying is that 75% of all cars leak oil, have less than perfect emissions, or other problems up to and including sitting on blocks in somebodies front yard. What TFA apparently is really saying, is that 25% of all cars are sitting unused on new car lots.
Top-level Russian Spy super-hacker just happened to use his Kremlin IP address. Yeah, I bet it happened just like that.
Totally! What really probably happened, was that the real Guccifer 2.0 hacked the GRU, compromised one of their machines, and then remoted in and sent messages from there for the lulz.
Do you really think a human 70,000 years ago without any astronomic tools would have noticed? Or even cared?
Reading the article, while it is normally a 10th magnitude and not visible to the unaided eye, it apparently is the type of star that flares up a thousand times brighter which would put it in the range of a bight star in the sky. Given the importance of the sky, comets, stars are to primitive cultures, I'd say a new bright red star in the sky probably would be of some note to any living people at the time.
Apparently it would have been a tenth magnitude object, undoubtedly visible in Neanderthal telescopes.
Although not normally visible, it is the type of star that flares up to a thousand times brighter at times. Estimates are that with the time is spent in the Sun's neighborhood, it would have had such a flare up and be able to be seen. Probably in the range of Sirius or some other bright star. How aware "people" were 70k years ago of the night sky, importance given to it, and ability to tell others and preserve knowledge are probably no well known, but with nothing else to do at night but look up or go to sleep, somebody probably would have seen it at least. Supposedly, speech developed about 100k years ago, but now thought to be possible earlier.