I've always wondered about the phrasing of that last part...deserve neither liberty nor safety. With the subtlety in writing of the day, it sounds more like a threat than anything else. "Benjamin Franklin will lock you up, or maybe just kill you in your sleep."
This is what got me into game design in the first place. Then I realized it was a lot harder than middle-school-me expected. A couple decades later, and people who didn't give up are finally making the things I wanted in the first place...I'm okay with this.
It's pretty cool but it also seems super low color, like someone converted it to gif with the standard websafe palette from the 90s. I was really hoping that this was hardware launched two decades ago, because then the colors would have felt very appropriate:/
Google's app upgrades are a minefield at best and a disaster at worst. Chrome seems to get slower every update (typing a website now hangs for a couple seconds after the first letter while it populates the history, and sometimes before you start typing at all, and loses letters typed during the pauses), plus the interface changes at random (pulling down at the top of a page reloads it now, which works great with websites that want you to swipe to control them). Chat->Hangouts drops a lot of information about contact status. Maps, similar issues to their web version.
Based on preliminary observations, Former NTSB Aviation Safety Director Tom Haueter says the part –- identified by Malaysia Airlines as a “flaperon,” a wing component used for balance –- appears to have a pristine leading edge. The rear section, called the trailing edge, appears to be missing.
“To me, it indicates that it was not a high speed, high angle impact, because if that had happened, the leading edge would be crushed,” Haueter, an ABC News contributor, said. “What I don’t see is a severe nose down impact.”
The condition of the debris suggests the flaps were down at the time of the crash, possibly indicating that “somebody's controlling the aircraft,” when it hit the water, said Haueter.
“The airplane wouldn’t have done that on its own,” he added. But “you’re trying to land or ditch the airplane – you’d have the flaps folded down.”
It's medical research. There's insanely stringent restrictions on how you can release it. Research scientists get special permission (with patient consent) to have personally-identifiable medical info, because it's necessary to their research, but it's so detailed that releasing it for public consumption would be pretty darn bad for the subjects in the study, and they didn't give consent for it. It would also drive research subject recruitment rates way down if that was mandated in the future
This distinction is also key to one of the Republican oppositions to environmental research. "The EPA can't make policy decisions on any research that doesn't completely 100% open all its data to the public"--who can argue with that? Problem is, that would mean releasing the entire medical history of all those patients. No thanks. And again, requiring patients to give consent to full public release of their medical history is a great way to discourage people from participating in any environmental-issue-related medical study.
Just throwing in my $0.02 of personal experience that HDMI is questionable past 15', at least with the cables I've been buying. Apparently you can get signal boosters that help though.
Windows-R is a very nice shortcut for bringing up the run box. Clicking the start button is a mild pain (especially if you have a monitor to the left of your main monitor), ctrl-esc is an extra button to hit...and the 'run' in the start menu in Windows 7 isn't even a normal run thing, it's a search window that happens to let you run things too. You can't scroll through command history. I actually don't know if there's any way to open the run box with a mouse! I can't find it if there is.
I've been using some random ergonomic keyboard (with Windows key included) for over a year without realizing that 1) it didn't have a context-menu key, and 2) that's where the 'fn' key lived, which apparently makes my f-keys do weird undesirable things. So...I guess my curiosity towards "what happens if I try to put the menu key into my workflow" will have to wait for a different keyboard.
As far as I can tell from the summary, it's not about people learning code. Totally it would make the world a better place if everyone who uses a computer regularly could at least write a simple shell script. (Impractical to spend the time to learn or just plain out of reach for a lot of folks, but whatever, it's a dream.) Instead, the objection looks like it's about lowering the barrier to make marketable things for an app store or whatever.
"With this toolkit, anyone can make furniture and sell it!" Learning carpentry is good, opening up the market is good, but if you're going to distribute to the wider world, maybe you should know enough about engineering principles to build a chair that won't collapse after a couple months.
I'd say that people who insist that evil scientists are refusing lower that mortality rate are a much bigger part of the problem. Um, that research is still happening. The fact that you haven't heard of breakthroughs recently can just as easily mean that 1) nobody bothered to write about it or 2) it's a really hard problem, despite the large amount of money thrown at it.
Also, maybe it sucks, but if you have limited research resources, it's more efficient to try and develop a new vaccine to save millions of lives than it is to improve an old one and save dozens. It doesn't mean nobody is working on it--just, there's probably fewer. Triage is no fun for anybody.
I love the attitude of one of the anon commenters: if you don't know enough to configure every single security option on your system right out of the box, you shouldn't have your *nix machine hooked up to the internet. Truly, this is the year of *nix on the desktop.
Insurance prices are going to go up, I think. Not insurance for the drivers though; insurance for the car manufacturers, who need to pass that cost on to someone. I could imagine premiums being pretty high since you can't take it out of the hide of an at-fault human driver.
They talk about videos being big business right there. If you're going to pay them $$$ for "promoting" your posts, then controlling who you promote them to is...kind of obvious, isn't it?
I mean, promoting on FB isn't the same as a full advertising suite. It's almost more like blackmail. If you have enough followers, then they stop showing your posts to all of them unless you give Facebook money. As a halfway step between promoting and full targeted advertising, this makes total sense.
The argument isn't against testing, it's against standardized testing, and over-reliance on testing. If the standardized tests for history are based on a specific curriculum, that means everyone has to teach the same parts of history, with the same emphasis (which is a great way to indoctrinate people). It also means you can't focus on assignments and on general knowledge; a kid who has a broad understanding of world history and why things happened, but who doesn't have dates memorized, could get high grades in essay assignments but tank on standardized tests. Someone who's objectively better educated can still be rated very low by tests administered by someone who doesn't know their curriculum.
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Published almost a year ago, so, 4?
Damn it. That'll teach me not to read TFA before failing at first post.
Or have we upgraded to 19 years away now?
I've always wondered about the phrasing of that last part...deserve neither liberty nor safety. With the subtlety in writing of the day, it sounds more like a threat than anything else. "Benjamin Franklin will lock you up, or maybe just kill you in your sleep."
between the two greatest pasttimes of internet users: "laziness" and "being a dick". Which one will win?!
This is what got me into game design in the first place. Then I realized it was a lot harder than middle-school-me expected. A couple decades later, and people who didn't give up are finally making the things I wanted in the first place...I'm okay with this.
It's pretty cool but it also seems super low color, like someone converted it to gif with the standard websafe palette from the 90s. I was really hoping that this was hardware launched two decades ago, because then the colors would have felt very appropriate :/
Google's app upgrades are a minefield at best and a disaster at worst. Chrome seems to get slower every update (typing a website now hangs for a couple seconds after the first letter while it populates the history, and sometimes before you start typing at all, and loses letters typed during the pauses), plus the interface changes at random (pulling down at the top of a page reloads it now, which works great with websites that want you to swipe to control them). Chat->Hangouts drops a lot of information about contact status. Maps, similar issues to their web version.
Promises, promises, promises...
If you RTFA, there's a link to another article that states their reasons.
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
Based on preliminary observations, Former NTSB Aviation Safety Director Tom Haueter says the part –- identified by Malaysia Airlines as a “flaperon,” a wing component used for balance –- appears to have a pristine leading edge. The rear section, called the trailing edge, appears to be missing.
“To me, it indicates that it was not a high speed, high angle impact, because if that had happened, the leading edge would be crushed,” Haueter, an ABC News contributor, said. “What I don’t see is a severe nose down impact.”
The condition of the debris suggests the flaps were down at the time of the crash, possibly indicating that “somebody's controlling the aircraft,” when it hit the water, said Haueter.
“The airplane wouldn’t have done that on its own,” he added. But “you’re trying to land or ditch the airplane – you’d have the flaps folded down.”
Is this the new weekly version of the "You cows!" thing?
It's medical research. There's insanely stringent restrictions on how you can release it. Research scientists get special permission (with patient consent) to have personally-identifiable medical info, because it's necessary to their research, but it's so detailed that releasing it for public consumption would be pretty darn bad for the subjects in the study, and they didn't give consent for it. It would also drive research subject recruitment rates way down if that was mandated in the future
This distinction is also key to one of the Republican oppositions to environmental research. "The EPA can't make policy decisions on any research that doesn't completely 100% open all its data to the public"--who can argue with that? Problem is, that would mean releasing the entire medical history of all those patients. No thanks. And again, requiring patients to give consent to full public release of their medical history is a great way to discourage people from participating in any environmental-issue-related medical study.
Just throwing in my $0.02 of personal experience that HDMI is questionable past 15', at least with the cables I've been buying. Apparently you can get signal boosters that help though.
Engineering implies a corporate budget, hacking implies doing it in your garage.
Windows-R is a very nice shortcut for bringing up the run box. Clicking the start button is a mild pain (especially if you have a monitor to the left of your main monitor), ctrl-esc is an extra button to hit...and the 'run' in the start menu in Windows 7 isn't even a normal run thing, it's a search window that happens to let you run things too. You can't scroll through command history. I actually don't know if there's any way to open the run box with a mouse! I can't find it if there is.
I've been using some random ergonomic keyboard (with Windows key included) for over a year without realizing that 1) it didn't have a context-menu key, and 2) that's where the 'fn' key lived, which apparently makes my f-keys do weird undesirable things. So...I guess my curiosity towards "what happens if I try to put the menu key into my workflow" will have to wait for a different keyboard.
As far as I can tell from the summary, it's not about people learning code. Totally it would make the world a better place if everyone who uses a computer regularly could at least write a simple shell script. (Impractical to spend the time to learn or just plain out of reach for a lot of folks, but whatever, it's a dream.) Instead, the objection looks like it's about lowering the barrier to make marketable things for an app store or whatever.
"With this toolkit, anyone can make furniture and sell it!" Learning carpentry is good, opening up the market is good, but if you're going to distribute to the wider world, maybe you should know enough about engineering principles to build a chair that won't collapse after a couple months.
A car analogy would just be gratuitous.
I'd say that people who insist that evil scientists are refusing lower that mortality rate are a much bigger part of the problem. Um, that research is still happening. The fact that you haven't heard of breakthroughs recently can just as easily mean that 1) nobody bothered to write about it or 2) it's a really hard problem, despite the large amount of money thrown at it.
Also, maybe it sucks, but if you have limited research resources, it's more efficient to try and develop a new vaccine to save millions of lives than it is to improve an old one and save dozens. It doesn't mean nobody is working on it--just, there's probably fewer. Triage is no fun for anybody.
Rechargable batteries last longer than the devices you put them in.
I love the attitude of one of the anon commenters: if you don't know enough to configure every single security option on your system right out of the box, you shouldn't have your *nix machine hooked up to the internet. Truly, this is the year of *nix on the desktop.
Insurance prices are going to go up, I think. Not insurance for the drivers though; insurance for the car manufacturers, who need to pass that cost on to someone. I could imagine premiums being pretty high since you can't take it out of the hide of an at-fault human driver.
None of it? None at all? Do the websites you visit not have to pay for hosting? Do the content providers you patronize not pay their writers?
The way people I know use it, it's just a useful tool for organizing events.
They talk about videos being big business right there. If you're going to pay them $$$ for "promoting" your posts, then controlling who you promote them to is...kind of obvious, isn't it?
I mean, promoting on FB isn't the same as a full advertising suite. It's almost more like blackmail. If you have enough followers, then they stop showing your posts to all of them unless you give Facebook money. As a halfway step between promoting and full targeted advertising, this makes total sense.
The argument isn't against testing, it's against standardized testing, and over-reliance on testing. If the standardized tests for history are based on a specific curriculum, that means everyone has to teach the same parts of history, with the same emphasis (which is a great way to indoctrinate people). It also means you can't focus on assignments and on general knowledge; a kid who has a broad understanding of world history and why things happened, but who doesn't have dates memorized, could get high grades in essay assignments but tank on standardized tests. Someone who's objectively better educated can still be rated very low by tests administered by someone who doesn't know their curriculum.