That's pure bullcrap, I'm a vegan and I have been for six year, my wife is also a vegan and one of my cousins is a vegan an a medical doctor; we all smell not only because of the bacteria in our skin but because swear is actually smelly because of the following reasons:
Is not only water but it has some oil, and even if you got your skin bacteria from wholefoods rotten fat smells bad.
It has musk, we are animals and produce musk the things evolutionary purpose is to smell, even if you don't find it particularly offensive TRUST ME most people do.
Is true, what you eat has a direct impact on how you smell, eat a bunch of onions and your pee and sweat will smell like onions; that's cause the body eliminates what it doesn't need trough feces, urine and sweat; and in this damned chaotic world most of nutrients are bound to things we don't need in the organisms that we eat, even if we are vegan.
I'll concede that people with poor hygiene and diets smell the worst (or with weird conditions, like the fat kid from 'Freaks and Geeks') but your armipit sweat is not socially tolerable if you don't wear deodorant, you might be accustomed to it, but if you commute please, please use deodorant.
Besides painted concrete is one of the ugliest things on earth, you have to plaster it first unless you like the hipster/industrial look. I fail to see how this all connects to flossing though.
I've been playing pokemon for 18 years of my life, I've bought at least one game of every generation (Except II cause my gameboy color was stolen on release week, I still weep a little when I remember) Go is not even officially released in my country and I'm already level 14 (and juggle that with married life and full time job) Maybe not all pokemon go players are like me, but judging by the size of pages like bulbapedia, smogon and the alike I would say that I'm no isolated case either. What matters here is the hipster-pokecore ratio, is hard to tell but I judge there is a good solid 30% of long term gamers. Pokemon matters a lot to us millennials you see.
Apple with Jobs is a company that knows how to thrive on consumer trends as early as they catch on (personal computers, mp3 players, fancy laptops, smartphones, non beige desktop computers); Apple without jobs is a company that stagnates and overcharges for everything (pre OS X macOS, 55% profit margin Machintosh II, Newton, iWatch) Jobs is no longer on this world, so I thing is very possible that Apple crumbles completely.
The thing is that "the best that can be practically done" today is rather underwhelming to the über geek crowd and they will be the primary buyers of the first successful generation of smartwatches (if there's ever such a thing). The primary buyers of expensive watches today (that apple and others tried to lure with "classy" designs) will be first caught dead than using a quartz watch, so it is pretty useless to try to sell them smartwatches.
Battery is not a concern in selfwinding watches, and a full medical diagnosis band can be worn more discreetly. the thing is that, related to watches, there are three kinds of people: first and more numerous is the crowd that don't like them, they are perfectly happy with their cellphones and won't be bothered with an expensive cell-remote; also abundant are those who like watches as a status symbols or fashion they will invariably gravitate towards mechanical watches cause they are much more classy than any strap-on toy computer, plus they actually can become a valuable heirloom; and finally there are the guys who love all the belts and whistles in a watch, this crowd wore casio databank and calculator watches, they were thrilled when timex got that outlook synchronization via a pulsating CRT monitor and were waiting for smartwatches to become a thing and were willing to pay the amount of money smartwatches cost without expecting a mechanical chronograph with power reserve dial, but they are not very numerous and got ultimately shafted by smartwatch makers that went and tried to fancy the second crowd with rose gold options but not better battery options or standalone features.
They guys that attempted to use iwatches as status symbols got cruelly mocked by the Patek wielders and the guys that wanted an upgrade to their casio watch calculators got underwhelmed by current designs; maybe in 15 years smartwatches can become viable as standalone übergeeky toys (VR made a comeback). but this gen of smartwatches is doomed to be a fad.
You get throw away (good for a couple of times) incubators as you level up. And currency if you get to hold a gym for more than 24 hours, so I'm pretty sure you can save your buck and a half.
The distance between my 2000 machine and my 1995 was abyssal thanks to Moore's law, the difference between your IvyBridge and your current machine is a couple frames more on games that run very similar, very optimized engines.
I'm on on the Apple fanboys side either, even if progress has slowed, Apple products don't even keep up with the new, slower rate.
And what the fuck is a high I.Q. country? In every serious study about individuals, I.Q. testing is adjusted for income and sometimes even parents education.
And this quote from the article:
“After controlling for the potential effect of outlier nations in the sample, software piracy rate declines by about 5.3 percentage points if national IQ increases by 10 points,”
Isn't that just saying: "We dismissed data points that didn't confirm our bias"?
About two months ago I was searching for a men's cologne in several specialized stores in my town with my wife, then we hit a restaurant and ordered checking our Facebook accounts and what not while waiting, both were bombarded with perfume adds. We didn't even touched the phones while searching for my cologne.
Yes, this is just about right. I won't be the devils advocate, Oracle is a nasty litigious company, but this time they were LEGALLY entitle to their bullying. The outcome does in fact debilitate free software licenses cause now any big company can say "Hey, the code structure is the same but we changed the variable names, see? fair use!"
I understand APIs, I've designed them and I believe they are copyright worthy independently from implementation.
Most of the world disagrees with you, as do I, and this judge, and Google, and... well, you get my point.
Good API design is hard work, requires expertise to do it, is not trivial and does guide implementation.
Partly true, and completely beside the point.
Implementation is guided only so far as what the input and output (and possibly effect) should be.
As long as the specific piece is not completely trivial (thus negating all of your points by definition) then the implementation need not at all be guided.
So SQL and Prolog code isn't copyright worthy either, cause you only define sets and sentences and the actual algorithm it is inferred by a runtime environment? Defining output, input and effect does indeed guide the implementation in a way no functional requirement would. Your last quote is a non sequitur because I never trivialized implementation I just pointed out that API design is not trivial.
You are right according to the current legal ethos the functional aspects or things aren't copyright-able but PATENTABLE, and we surely don't want that, so copyright is a good compromise.
The problem is that Oracle didn't sue because Google used the APIs but because they re-implemented them, they used a fairly good design and redone it, but the design was copyrighted and it was copyright worthy.
No one is saying that using an API is copyright violation, but this was never the issue.
I understand APIs, I've designed them and I believe they are copyright worthy independently from implementation. Good API design is hard work, requires expertise to do it, is not trivial and does guide implementation.
Look I know Oracle is a company that doesn't raise a lot of sympathy for totally understandable reasons (litigiousness, overpricing, monopolistic behavior, you name it). But the APIs were never released by Sun to be open sourced even if they were permissive, and you all know that even when implementing an API is hard work, designing it is also hard work; I would argue that is half the work. Java APIs are very robust and comprehensive so the design wasn't at all trivial and the names and interfaces are work that is protected by intellectual property laws, and Oracle is the lawful owner of that intellectual property.
I don't like Oracle, and I understand that asking for compensation is a dick move, but a lawful dick move that they were entitled to. I don't understand why all people are supporting Google on this, specially the open source people as this undermines the very provisions of licensed software that protect open source licenses; and I know android is a great way to monetize your software writing skills, and that Oracle is a big bully and I know that open source is copyrighted only because is the only way to keep it free in our legal environment but I don't think this is good news. I only see two big (and fairly evil) companies playing with the legal system and the worst outcome becoming a reality.
This article is just a excuse so the fedora-neckbeard crowd can congratulate themselves for being better human beings than those diverse non tech workers.
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Heck! don't mind the regular scheduled backups, how about a backup before a major OS update?
Is not only water but it has some oil, and even if you got your skin bacteria from wholefoods rotten fat smells bad.
It has musk, we are animals and produce musk the things evolutionary purpose is to smell, even if you don't find it particularly offensive TRUST ME most people do.
Is true, what you eat has a direct impact on how you smell, eat a bunch of onions and your pee and sweat will smell like onions; that's cause the body eliminates what it doesn't need trough feces, urine and sweat; and in this damned chaotic world most of nutrients are bound to things we don't need in the organisms that we eat, even if we are vegan.
I'll concede that people with poor hygiene and diets smell the worst (or with weird conditions, like the fat kid from 'Freaks and Geeks') but your armipit sweat is not socially tolerable if you don't wear deodorant, you might be accustomed to it, but if you commute please, please use deodorant.
Besides painted concrete is one of the ugliest things on earth, you have to plaster it first unless you like the hipster/industrial look. I fail to see how this all connects to flossing though.
I've been playing pokemon for 18 years of my life, I've bought at least one game of every generation (Except II cause my gameboy color was stolen on release week, I still weep a little when I remember) Go is not even officially released in my country and I'm already level 14 (and juggle that with married life and full time job) Maybe not all pokemon go players are like me, but judging by the size of pages like bulbapedia, smogon and the alike I would say that I'm no isolated case either. What matters here is the hipster-pokecore ratio, is hard to tell but I judge there is a good solid 30% of long term gamers. Pokemon matters a lot to us millennials you see.
Apple with Jobs is a company that knows how to thrive on consumer trends as early as they catch on (personal computers, mp3 players, fancy laptops, smartphones, non beige desktop computers); Apple without jobs is a company that stagnates and overcharges for everything (pre OS X macOS, 55% profit margin Machintosh II, Newton, iWatch) Jobs is no longer on this world, so I thing is very possible that Apple crumbles completely.
Didn't their smart watches sales started shrinking?
The thing is that "the best that can be practically done" today is rather underwhelming to the über geek crowd and they will be the primary buyers of the first successful generation of smartwatches (if there's ever such a thing). The primary buyers of expensive watches today (that apple and others tried to lure with "classy" designs) will be first caught dead than using a quartz watch, so it is pretty useless to try to sell them smartwatches.
Battery is not a concern in selfwinding watches, and a full medical diagnosis band can be worn more discreetly. the thing is that, related to watches, there are three kinds of people: first and more numerous is the crowd that don't like them, they are perfectly happy with their cellphones and won't be bothered with an expensive cell-remote; also abundant are those who like watches as a status symbols or fashion they will invariably gravitate towards mechanical watches cause they are much more classy than any strap-on toy computer, plus they actually can become a valuable heirloom; and finally there are the guys who love all the belts and whistles in a watch, this crowd wore casio databank and calculator watches, they were thrilled when timex got that outlook synchronization via a pulsating CRT monitor and were waiting for smartwatches to become a thing and were willing to pay the amount of money smartwatches cost without expecting a mechanical chronograph with power reserve dial, but they are not very numerous and got ultimately shafted by smartwatch makers that went and tried to fancy the second crowd with rose gold options but not better battery options or standalone features. They guys that attempted to use iwatches as status symbols got cruelly mocked by the Patek wielders and the guys that wanted an upgrade to their casio watch calculators got underwhelmed by current designs; maybe in 15 years smartwatches can become viable as standalone übergeeky toys (VR made a comeback). but this gen of smartwatches is doomed to be a fad.
Where does all this hate for millenials comes from?
You get throw away (good for a couple of times) incubators as you level up. And currency if you get to hold a gym for more than 24 hours, so I'm pretty sure you can save your buck and a half.
Heroin is a hard mistress, right?
iPhone 9, so thin you can shave with it!
Sure 30% is not "not getting faster" is just getting faster at a much much slower rate.
I'm on on the Apple fanboys side either, even if progress has slowed, Apple products don't even keep up with the new, slower rate.
And this quote from the article:
“After controlling for the potential effect of outlier nations in the sample, software piracy rate declines by about 5.3 percentage points if national IQ increases by 10 points,”
Isn't that just saying: "We dismissed data points that didn't confirm our bias"?
About two months ago I was searching for a men's cologne in several specialized stores in my town with my wife, then we hit a restaurant and ordered checking our Facebook accounts and what not while waiting, both were bombarded with perfume adds. We didn't even touched the phones while searching for my cologne.
Lol, I know. I hadn't had my coffee yet and had python on the brain. I couldn't delete the comment though. Feel free to MOD it out of the discussion.
Yeah like we have points to spare just cause you weren't properly drugged.
So now I have to upload mi resume to facebook?
Yes, this is just about right. I won't be the devils advocate, Oracle is a nasty litigious company, but this time they were LEGALLY entitle to their bullying. The outcome does in fact debilitate free software licenses cause now any big company can say "Hey, the code structure is the same but we changed the variable names, see? fair use!"
I understand APIs, I've designed them and I believe they are copyright worthy independently from implementation.
Most of the world disagrees with you, as do I, and this judge, and Google, and ... well, you get my point.
Good API design is hard work, requires expertise to do it, is not trivial and does guide implementation.
Partly true, and completely beside the point.
Implementation is guided only so far as what the input and output (and possibly effect) should be.
As long as the specific piece is not completely trivial (thus negating all of your points by definition) then the implementation need not at all be guided.
So SQL and Prolog code isn't copyright worthy either, cause you only define sets and sentences and the actual algorithm it is inferred by a runtime environment? Defining output, input and effect does indeed guide the implementation in a way no functional requirement would. Your last quote is a non sequitur because I never trivialized implementation I just pointed out that API design is not trivial.
You are right according to the current legal ethos the functional aspects or things aren't copyright-able but PATENTABLE, and we surely don't want that, so copyright is a good compromise.
The problem is that Oracle didn't sue because Google used the APIs but because they re-implemented them, they used a fairly good design and redone it, but the design was copyrighted and it was copyright worthy. No one is saying that using an API is copyright violation, but this was never the issue.
I understand APIs, I've designed them and I believe they are copyright worthy independently from implementation. Good API design is hard work, requires expertise to do it, is not trivial and does guide implementation.
Look I know Oracle is a company that doesn't raise a lot of sympathy for totally understandable reasons (litigiousness, overpricing, monopolistic behavior, you name it). But the APIs were never released by Sun to be open sourced even if they were permissive, and you all know that even when implementing an API is hard work, designing it is also hard work; I would argue that is half the work. Java APIs are very robust and comprehensive so the design wasn't at all trivial and the names and interfaces are work that is protected by intellectual property laws, and Oracle is the lawful owner of that intellectual property. I don't like Oracle, and I understand that asking for compensation is a dick move, but a lawful dick move that they were entitled to. I don't understand why all people are supporting Google on this, specially the open source people as this undermines the very provisions of licensed software that protect open source licenses; and I know android is a great way to monetize your software writing skills, and that Oracle is a big bully and I know that open source is copyrighted only because is the only way to keep it free in our legal environment but I don't think this is good news. I only see two big (and fairly evil) companies playing with the legal system and the worst outcome becoming a reality.
This article is just a excuse so the fedora-neckbeard crowd can congratulate themselves for being better human beings than those diverse non tech workers.