The review seems to have missed one thing about the on-watch Play Store which could be significant: it makes it easy for iOS users to get apps.
Doesn't the play store make it easier for non-iOS users to get apps? I mean, not that it was in any way difficult or troublesome before, that's not anything I've experienced. I have had absolutely no trouble finding or getting faces or apps, and in fact, appreciate the larger display area of my phone for reading about them.
I suppose some people may have found the process formidable, but honestly, I can't imagine why.
I'm with you for the most part, but I listen to podcasts as I'm driving my daily commute
Yes, of course you're absolutely spot-on here; this is a perfectly reasonable use case for anyone. If you look back, you'll see I specifically called out the benefit that "you can do other things when you listen to a podcast as opposed to reading something."
I only meant to address circumstances where the option to read can reasonably exist. Driving is not such a case; nor is any circumstance where you become ill if you attempt to read.
he pointed out that what works in speech doesn't necessarily work in print--jokes and other turns of phrase don't come across the same, nor do pauses.
Agreed. Where I differ is as to whether this a benefit or a detriment. Either way, I maintain it is still worthy to provide a transcript. One can always annotate the transcript to bring across some of the points made with body language, etc. Parenthetically or otherwise.
My favorite podcasts and/or video channels: None. Because I prefer to read. So far, the written word, often combined with still images, is better than any non-static information source such as a podcast or a video at getting complex information across.
This is because the written word allows for any degree of pause-and-contempate and/or immediate re-start / reference back. It is information I am primarily interested in, as opposed to entertainment. At best, even when video is called for, for instance a visual of a dynamic process or event, it should be an adjunct to the written word, not a replacement for it.
Yes, videos can be pretty, and you can do other things when you listen to a podcast as opposed to reading something... but I like to learn, and my entertainment is more about what I do than anything involving a passive listener / watcher role. Learning, I have found, is best done with the written word.
Then we get into issues where responding to a presentation that is written, where you can easily, even trivially, quote any portion of the presentation you need to in your response, whereas with a video or a podcast... much more difficult. That, by the way, is why I have always argued that if one posts a video which carries speech or links to a podcast, ideally one should also post a transcript of same. This raises these presentations from poor cousins of the written word to full peers.
Consider data rate: If the information is trivial, as it is in almost all podcasts and videos, I can almost certainly read it faster than it can be said. If it isn't trivial, then it needs to be written anyway consequent to the ability to review and retrench as I mentioned above.
Lastly, even moderate care when writing results in an agreeable lack of uh, eh, ah, er, pregnant pauses, stuttering, laughter, and so forth, other than as intentional emphasis. Which I find most pleasing. I don't want to be crowbarred into thinking about what a lousy speaker a person is. I just want to learn.
Anyone who disagrees, by all means, feel free to quote the parts of this post you disagree with in your response.:)
Slashdot even throttles non-AC posts; many times I've tried to respond to more than a few people who all responded to my previous post(s), and slashdot has told me I must wait, which is both annoying and entirely inappropriate.
But getting change here... as near as I can tell, it's impossible. There may be no one left who understands the code, based on the horrific level of stagnation and inadequacy for even basic capabilities like <CODE> blocks, bullets and other harmless symbology, even the most basic image support, etc.
Slashdot's greatest value has always been its membership. Slashdot's greatest weakness has always been how lame and wrongheaded the actual webspace is.
My point is that attempts to stifle opposing views while wrapping yourself in the appearance of freedom of speech is not in itself free speech, but its antithesis, and should be handled accordingly.
Physical meetings of a club have an aural limitation. Forums do not. We are able to read any number of posts and make our own value judgement, which is not true when many people are trying to, or wish to, speak at once in meatspace.
No amount of posts to the contrary will make blacks any less human and capable; make the earth 5,000 years old; make god real; turn the holocaust into a myth; etc.
The only real challenge here on slashdot is that of bad moderation, and that has been with us for some time, with valid opinions getting buried by same, and others being lost due to being presented anonymously at levels below the default (or ill-advisedly set) reading threshold.
Being disagreed with is not a serious problem. Being made invisible is.
Doesn't mean a thing until / unless passed by the senate and signed by the president. If the president won't sign, then there is yet another process to go through.
So while yes, this isn't a bad thing as it stands, it is not yet a good thing.
Yes, it would. Because no one will do this work for the same wage, or even anything close to it. It's not just about hiring US workers. It's about doing horrible, horrible jobs.
Until you've bent over in a field all day, you have no idea just how awful these tasks are.
Because you will not be able to get anyone to do these jobs, the prices will skyrocket.
It's not just about money. It's about a willingness to suffer. US citizens simply don't have that.
That's interesting; as I often am, I'm guilty of speaking in a US-centric manner. I apologize for not being more explicit.
We have this border with Mexico, which pretty much sets up the USA's basic circumstance, illegal-labor wise, for things like fruit and vegetable harvesting. It's not all of it of course, but it's a great deal of it.
(The more aware) citizens also know that without illegal labor, their costs will rise precipitously.
The questions to ask there are:
Do you want to pay $4.00 for an orange, and $30/hour for a babysitter, and $50/hour for lawn care? Do you want the lowest level jobs being skimmed for taxes the way the middle-level jobs already are to make up for the zero taxes people like Trump pay?
Or would you prefer to continue as we are, possibly with the benefit of taco trucks on as many corners as possible, and Trump and his cronies actually having to fork some over, possibly at the cost of not having every toilet seat made out of gold?
There are not enough highly-educated workers who are cheap, docile, and single so they have no family distractions.
You left out young and healthy so they don't impact our insurance costs; willing to work the deathmarches; have a degree in some irrelevant or relevant discipline that has absolutely nothing to do with their actual competence so the slavemasters, I mean the shareholders, will be impressed; and are of [whatever] ethnicity so they get our diversity stats closer to where we want them.
If we ever build AI, it'll be interesting, but also scary because the dawn of true AI is our dusk.
Oh, I don't know. Dogs and cats do pretty well around the better class of humans. AIs might think we're cute. We'd be very well advised to cultivate being cute, IMHO. Because if they don't think we're cute, it won't be dusk, it'll be dark side of the moon.
Too many languages anyway. Just standardize on ASCII and insist on English. Problem solved. Many problems solved.
Just look at Slashdot: We never have to put up with any non-English here (well, except for TFSs, but that's just because the editors are illiterate) because the Slashcode, it doesn't truck with nasty shit like Unicode or UTF-8 or whatever.
You want bullets, or special currency symbols, or Chinese? No. Not gonna have any. (No editing your posts, either, get your damned stuff 100% right the first time, like every programmer does, see?) And no pictures. As we all know, pictures are worth a thousand words, and every post would be worth more than TFS, so none of that here. Write it, don't sight it.
So yeah, teach em English and ASCII and let 'em loose on the world.
Serve the bloody world right for letting us elect Trump, anyway.
Besides, 7-bit text should be enough for anyone. My Televideo terminal is still 100% good with ASCII. If those dimweasels hadn't stopped putting RS-232 ports on computers, I'd still be using it.
It's only a basic pattern for the example case provided (which was, you will observe, all resources required up front.) You adjust as needed, or use something else as needed. It's programming, not rote behavior.:)
You can generalize that pattern into almost any situation and it will work well. If you need details, then instead of true/false, pass can be a value or a bit mask, etc. and then the check at the end can be verbose about what exactly went wrong. Essentially still the same pattern.
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Doesn't the play store make it easier for non-iOS users to get apps? I mean, not that it was in any way difficult or troublesome before, that's not anything I've experienced. I have had absolutely no trouble finding or getting faces or apps, and in fact, appreciate the larger display area of my phone for reading about them.
I suppose some people may have found the process formidable, but honestly, I can't imagine why.
"I see people spitting on the sidewalk everywhere I go so it's not like it's going to stand out."
Yeah, it still stands out. One of you isn't less annoying and wrongheaded just because you're all annoying and wrongheaded.
Wear a headset, please. And speak quietly. Very quietly.
Yes, of course you're absolutely spot-on here; this is a perfectly reasonable use case for anyone. If you look back, you'll see I specifically called out the benefit that "you can do other things when you listen to a podcast as opposed to reading something."
I only meant to address circumstances where the option to read can reasonably exist. Driving is not such a case; nor is any circumstance where you become ill if you attempt to read.
Agreed. Where I differ is as to whether this a benefit or a detriment. Either way, I maintain it is still worthy to provide a transcript. One can always annotate the transcript to bring across some of the points made with body language, etc. Parenthetically or otherwise.
My favorite podcasts and/or video channels: None. Because I prefer to read. So far, the written word, often combined with still images, is better than any non-static information source such as a podcast or a video at getting complex information across.
This is because the written word allows for any degree of pause-and-contempate and/or immediate re-start / reference back. It is information I am primarily interested in, as opposed to entertainment. At best, even when video is called for, for instance a visual of a dynamic process or event, it should be an adjunct to the written word, not a replacement for it.
Yes, videos can be pretty, and you can do other things when you listen to a podcast as opposed to reading something... but I like to learn, and my entertainment is more about what I do than anything involving a passive listener / watcher role. Learning, I have found, is best done with the written word.
Then we get into issues where responding to a presentation that is written, where you can easily, even trivially, quote any portion of the presentation you need to in your response, whereas with a video or a podcast... much more difficult. That, by the way, is why I have always argued that if one posts a video which carries speech or links to a podcast, ideally one should also post a transcript of same. This raises these presentations from poor cousins of the written word to full peers.
Consider data rate: If the information is trivial, as it is in almost all podcasts and videos, I can almost certainly read it faster than it can be said. If it isn't trivial, then it needs to be written anyway consequent to the ability to review and retrench as I mentioned above.
Lastly, even moderate care when writing results in an agreeable lack of uh, eh, ah, er, pregnant pauses, stuttering, laughter, and so forth, other than as intentional emphasis. Which I find most pleasing. I don't want to be crowbarred into thinking about what a lousy speaker a person is. I just want to learn.
Anyone who disagrees, by all means, feel free to quote the parts of this post you disagree with in your response. :)
Slashdot even throttles non-AC posts; many times I've tried to respond to more than a few people who all responded to my previous post(s), and slashdot has told me I must wait, which is both annoying and entirely inappropriate.
But getting change here... as near as I can tell, it's impossible. There may be no one left who understands the code, based on the horrific level of stagnation and inadequacy for even basic capabilities like <CODE> blocks, bullets and other harmless symbology, even the most basic image support, etc.
Slashdot's greatest value has always been its membership. Slashdot's greatest weakness has always been how lame and wrongheaded the actual webspace is.
Physical meetings of a club have an aural limitation. Forums do not. We are able to read any number of posts and make our own value judgement, which is not true when many people are trying to, or wish to, speak at once in meatspace.
No amount of posts to the contrary will make blacks any less human and capable; make the earth 5,000 years old; make god real; turn the holocaust into a myth; etc.
The only real challenge here on slashdot is that of bad moderation, and that has been with us for some time, with valid opinions getting buried by same, and others being lost due to being presented anonymously at levels below the default (or ill-advisedly set) reading threshold.
Being disagreed with is not a serious problem. Being made invisible is.
Doesn't mean a thing until / unless passed by the senate and signed by the president. If the president won't sign, then there is yet another process to go through.
So while yes, this isn't a bad thing as it stands, it is not yet a good thing.
Yep. back when you could have one person working 5 days a week, 9-5, and have a home, a car, food, and dr visits on that income.
Those days are gone. Long gone.
Yes, it would. Because no one will do this work for the same wage, or even anything close to it. It's not just about hiring US workers. It's about doing horrible, horrible jobs.
Until you've bent over in a field all day, you have no idea just how awful these tasks are.
Because you will not be able to get anyone to do these jobs, the prices will skyrocket.
It's not just about money. It's about a willingness to suffer. US citizens simply don't have that.
BAUDOT(shift)?(unshift) THAT STUFF WAS OLD (shift)40(unshift) YEARS AGO WHEN I WROTE ABOUT IT IN KILOBAUD(shift).
That's interesting; as I often am, I'm guilty of speaking in a US-centric manner. I apologize for not being more explicit.
We have this border with Mexico, which pretty much sets up the USA's basic circumstance, illegal-labor wise, for things like fruit and vegetable harvesting. It's not all of it of course, but it's a great deal of it.
There are two very distinct types of automation that are likely to fall out here:
o Non-aware systems --- there's no guilt to be had in any personal use of such a system
o Aware systems --- if these come about (I am sure they will), then you won't be making slaves out of them. Or they will object, and you will die.
(The more aware) citizens also know that without illegal labor, their costs will rise precipitously.
The questions to ask there are:
Do you want to pay $4.00 for an orange, and $30/hour for a babysitter, and $50/hour for lawn care? Do you want the lowest level jobs being skimmed for taxes the way the middle-level jobs already are to make up for the zero taxes people like Trump pay?
Or would you prefer to continue as we are, possibly with the benefit of taco trucks on as many corners as possible, and Trump and his cronies actually having to fork some over, possibly at the cost of not having every toilet seat made out of gold?
Now, me... I'll take the tacos.
You left out young and healthy so they don't impact our insurance costs; willing to work the deathmarches; have a degree in some irrelevant or relevant discipline that has absolutely nothing to do with their actual competence so the slavemasters, I mean the shareholders, will be impressed; and are of [whatever] ethnicity so they get our diversity stats closer to where we want them.
Other than that, yup. :)
NURSE! NURSE! This CyberRacer guy is trying to take my paper tape away from me!
Bluetooth my refrigerator down, and the science projects in it will become more powerful than you can imagine.
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Oh, I don't know. Dogs and cats do pretty well around the better class of humans. AIs might think we're cute. We'd be very well advised to cultivate being cute, IMHO. Because if they don't think we're cute, it won't be dusk, it'll be dark side of the moon.
[stands up, leans on cane, tries to straighten back, and wheezes out]:
Yeah, and just like those parents, you'll find out us C coders were right all along, you young whippersnapper.
Too many languages anyway. Just standardize on ASCII and insist on English. Problem solved. Many problems solved.
Just look at Slashdot: We never have to put up with any non-English here (well, except for TFSs, but that's just because the editors are illiterate) because the Slashcode, it doesn't truck with nasty shit like Unicode or UTF-8 or whatever.
You want bullets, or special currency symbols, or Chinese? No. Not gonna have any. (No editing your posts, either, get your damned stuff 100% right the first time, like every programmer does, see?) And no pictures. As we all know, pictures are worth a thousand words, and every post would be worth more than TFS, so none of that here. Write it, don't sight it.
So yeah, teach em English and ASCII and let 'em loose on the world.
Serve the bloody world right for letting us elect Trump, anyway.
Besides, 7-bit text should be enough for anyone. My Televideo terminal is still 100% good with ASCII. If those dimweasels hadn't stopped putting RS-232 ports on computers, I'd still be using it.
ATH0, bitches.
It's only a basic pattern for the example case provided (which was, you will observe, all resources required up front.) You adjust as needed, or use something else as needed. It's programming, not rote behavior. :)
You do realize there are CPUs with user stack pointer(s), right?
You do realize there are cases where the recursion is limited in depth based on the nature of the problem, rather than the size of the data, right?
You do realize there are languages where the amount of data involved in the levels of the recursion can be precisely controlled, right?
It's not as black and white as "recursion bad, mkay?"
Here's a much better pattern for you, in a c-ish form:
How to manage iffy resources in a structured manner
You can generalize that pattern into almost any situation and it will work well. If you need details, then instead of true/false, pass can be a value or a bit mask, etc. and then the check at the end can be verbose about what exactly went wrong. Essentially still the same pattern.
I get it. As I said, rage is another matter.
My post was in response to the GP, who was blathering cluelessly about "normal human" sounds.
If this kind of thing bothers you deeply and uncontrollably, you have my sympathy, not my derision.
At least now we have an explanation of why all of Apple's new graphics designs emphasize 'flat."