Glenn Beck makes all kinds of attacks (including personal attacks that don't have anything to do with politics) against people on his for-profit radio and cable shows, using people's names. I don't see how this is much different, except that the website probably had fewer visitors during its lifespan than any of Beck's individual shows have listeners/viewers. If people have a problem with the things he says, he cites the First Amendment and complains about political correctness. Now, when this website comes along, he takes it up in an international court, to shut the website down based on IP law. So much for what he says about Free Speech and World Government.
The next time I hear him say "I may not like what you say, but I'll defend to my death your right to say it", this is what I'll be thinking of. And he does use that quote to show what an upstanding guy he is.
The GP pointed out that the curve isn't about learning versus the time it takes to do something, it's about the amount of time spent learning versus the time spent doing actual work.
I always thought that the "Learning Curve" referred to how much you had to learn before you could do anything useful.
A steep learning curve means you have a lot to learn right from the beginning, while a shallow learning curve would mean that you don't have to spend as much of your time trying to learn what to do.
If we were talking about your abilities over time, wouldn't we call it an ability curve?
It's modded troll because the truth is that while all maps are not stored on the unit, maps for the current route are cached locally. As long as you have service when you start driving and you don't go too far out of your way, you'll be fine.
Over a year ago, I was still using a 600MHz P3 as our main family computer. Picasa was one of the few programs that ran well on it. And it ran very well.
I love Picasa, but I think it's pretty clear that it's for regular folks who want to get their pictures off of their cameras and post them on Facebook or on their blogs. It's obviously not a professional solution, as it's very much geared towards making things simple.
And for that it's great, and I'd recommend it to every non-professional owner of a digital camera.
I need a camera, and I need a mike and I don't want to pay AT&T fees. I also need them soon. I thought I would get that in the new touches. Instead, Apple is giving the tiny Nano more features but not the iPod touch.
Calm down, they're not giving the Nano more features, they're just giving it a couple of features that the Touch doesn't have. Why? Who really cares. I'm sure the battery isn't going to suck that bad on the Nano. If you need those features now and don't want the Nano, then get the Flip camera.
The Touch most definitely has more features than the Nano.
Not to mention it's $100 cheaper to buy the slimmer, current 160GB iPod Touch than it was to buy the old fatty back then.
Although I still would have liked to see more happen with the classic this time around. If they do a VGA camera in the Nano, maybe they could do an HD camera in the classic. Or even just the FM radio.
I think what you mean is that the mid-range model has some features that the premium model doesn't have. There are still plenty of things you can do on a touch that you can't do on a nano.
With all due respect, if you already own a classic and a touch, you probably don't really need another iPod. I like to see what they announce at each of these events, but why would someone buy another iPod just because they came out with another one?
Seeing as how the iPhone 3GS can play 1080p video and now they've released this new iPod Touch with a faster processor and all that, I would say the new Touch can most likely output 1080p video as well, which is a dead giveaway that it's more powerful than the 720 Zune HD.
I'm not really serious about the "dead giveaway" part, I just think there are more things to consider than the bullet points on the Zune HD's box. Obviously, since Apple hasn't officially unlocked this HD playback, it's not actually a distinguishing feature, but still we know the device is capable of it.
By the way, an engineer I know had a Zii in his office the other day. I picked it up and looked at it, and it felt thick, plastic, and cheap. It's also currently just a development platform, there are no consumer-level products based on it yet. I wouldn't be using the Zii as a comparison point against a device that's slicker, thinner, and has been shipping for 2 years already.
I always tested in the top percentile, but I wasn't bored at school. We spent time learning about a lot of things that I didn't already know about, and even math and science, which were my easiest and best subjects, usually moved along at a pace that still kept me fairly occupied. If I needed more to do, my teachers would usually offer me extra stuff I could do for extra credit.
There were a lot of subjects in school that I never would have learned about on my own, and I would never use in my professional career... such as Shakespeare. I'll have to admit that I don't remember a lot about the Shakespeare plays that we covered in junior high and in high school, but I at least know some of their names and some basic things about them. In a world where references to Shakespeare are all around us, at least I generally know what they're talking about now. The same goes for other subjects, such as history and government. And even if your teachers weren't the brightest and didn't teach you everything you should have learned on some subjects, at least you learned some basic concepts so that you knew what to look up if you ever needed to learn about it more on your own. I remember teachers that taught total BS, and one teacher who used to mispronounce everything, and even corrected students' mispronunciations with worse mispronunciations. But at least it taught me to watch out for that, and to think critically about what my teachers were saying.
My wife was watching an episode of "Wife Swap" on TV a while back, and one of the families was an "unschooling" family. They went to amusement parks and briefly mentioned physics principles behind rides, but never actually studied them or understood them. They sat around the dinner table and discussed meanings of words and metaphysical concepts, but never actually looked to see what anything really meant. They totally ripped off Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure by having a crappy time-travelling phone booth history lesson... they even used the same historical figures as the movie. I'm guessing they said "Quick, the camera crew is coming, let's just do what they did in that movie!" The father of the family referred to formal education as "intellectual inbreeding", which I thought was painfully ironic, because his own kids never got any actual knowledge other than what they discussed, and the parents never demonstrated that they knew anything to teach the kids. The kids were several years behind their peers in reading ability (who uses that in the real world, though, right?), they couldn't sit still and listen to a grown up talk, they had no friends and no opportunities for social interaction. The kids said that most of the time during the day, the mom would just sit on the computer.
I know some people that home school, and I wish them the best of luck, but I wouldn't personally do that to my kids. I think that even if some of their teachers aren't great teachers, and least they're getting the opportunity to learn from someone with a different style. They are interacting and playing with other kids all day long. They have structure and responsibility, and someone to answer to besides just their parents (what kid doesn't tune out their parents).
I have one friend whose wife says that she plans on homeschooling their kids until they go to college. I'd like to know how her kids are going to be prepared for assignments, deadlines, papers, and class schedules if they've never experienced them before? How will they handle having 6 or 7 different teaching styles in their first semester alone, when they've only ever been used to the way their mom did things? How will they get a wide range of general knowledge before they go to college and are expected to perform at a certain level in a lot of different subjects, if they've only had one teacher in their life (who most likely went easy on them most of the time)? I know my own mother never could have taught me calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, US/World history, geography, foreign lang
The Model T didn't come out when other cars were already commonplace. When the iPhone came out, there were plenty of other smartphones that had installable apps, 3G, and even the dumbphones of the time could do copy/paste and video recording.
I opened my hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
"They're supposed to say, 'I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right -- can you interview this person?' They're not doing that," she said.
I like how the most important part of her argument (the part she mentions first) is her attendance, not her GPA. For just showing up, and doing a mediocre job, which means she could have been sleeping or texting her friends all through class, employers should hire her. Not that I believe GPA is everything, but it is some sort of measurement, and it's more meaningful than attendance. In fact, I'm pretty sure my college transcript has no record of attendance, and I don't even recall many of my classes where attendance was recorded.
Also, if she's going to raise such a stink that she's going to be quoted all across the world-wide-internets, she should probably speak as if she's actually a college-educated person, i.e. "I have this student".
Buying from Amazon will get you around the DRM issues (but who doesn't have DRM these days). The problem with buying the same music from a DRM-free source is that the RIAA is still getting the money. Remember when it seemed like DRM-free music sales wouldn't ever happen? Steve Jobs wrote his letter, Amazon MP3 opened up shop, iTunes dropped DRM on a few songs, then after a long time dropped it on everything? Well, it's not so much that the RIAA now believes that music wants to be free or anything... they just figured out a new way to make you pay full price for songs you've already bought. All of a sudden, Apple's "upgrade your music to iTunes plus for slightly less than you paid for each song originally" deal starts to seem like a bargain. The sad thing is that even though they're moving away from DRM, it's not because it hasn't been profitable... They'll still be making money due to DRM from months or years after the last license server goes offline.
Yeah... back in college I worked for a PC Tech Support call center, and we had no shortage of calls that started out with "I had this little problem, so my friend/nephew/neighbor, who's really good with computers..." and ended with "...and now it won't turn on."
I'm just saying, you can't be friends with just any geek, or even just any geek "who's really good with computers".
These days it seems absurd to talk about running Photoshop or AutoCAD through a web browser... But in another dozen years it may make perfect sense.
I don't think you have to wait a dozen years... I'm sure that none of these options are equal to the full power of Photoshop right now, but with the direction things are going, it could happen before too many years go by:
http://lifehacker.com/5307419/five-best-online-image-editors
When my company switched from Outlook to Lotus Notes, I thought "hey, Lotus is something different, we wouldn't be switching if it didn't add something for us." I was wrong, and I hate it completely. That said, we are two versions behind the current release (and will be for the foreseeable future). I'd like to think that the latest version will fix all my gripes, but seeing how the last transition went, my expectations are that it will actually be worse. Lotus Notes is horrible.
I couldn't stand Emperor's New Groove the first couple times I saw it. I think it's hilarious now, but the David Spade-style sarcasm and cynicism, coupled with the "all over the place" humor was too much at first. After a while, and after hearing family members relentlessly quoting the funniest lines, it's grown on me a lot.
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Glenn Beck makes all kinds of attacks (including personal attacks that don't have anything to do with politics) against people on his for-profit radio and cable shows, using people's names. I don't see how this is much different, except that the website probably had fewer visitors during its lifespan than any of Beck's individual shows have listeners/viewers. If people have a problem with the things he says, he cites the First Amendment and complains about political correctness. Now, when this website comes along, he takes it up in an international court, to shut the website down based on IP law. So much for what he says about Free Speech and World Government. The next time I hear him say "I may not like what you say, but I'll defend to my death your right to say it", this is what I'll be thinking of. And he does use that quote to show what an upstanding guy he is.
The GP pointed out that the curve isn't about learning versus the time it takes to do something, it's about the amount of time spent learning versus the time spent doing actual work.
I always thought that the "Learning Curve" referred to how much you had to learn before you could do anything useful.
A steep learning curve means you have a lot to learn right from the beginning, while a shallow learning curve would mean that you don't have to spend as much of your time trying to learn what to do.
If we were talking about your abilities over time, wouldn't we call it an ability curve?
It's modded troll because the truth is that while all maps are not stored on the unit, maps for the current route are cached locally. As long as you have service when you start driving and you don't go too far out of your way, you'll be fine.
Over a year ago, I was still using a 600MHz P3 as our main family computer. Picasa was one of the few programs that ran well on it. And it ran very well.
I love Picasa, but I think it's pretty clear that it's for regular folks who want to get their pictures off of their cameras and post them on Facebook or on their blogs. It's obviously not a professional solution, as it's very much geared towards making things simple. And for that it's great, and I'd recommend it to every non-professional owner of a digital camera.
I need a camera, and I need a mike and I don't want to pay AT&T fees. I also need them soon. I thought I would get that in the new touches. Instead, Apple is giving the tiny Nano more features but not the iPod touch.
Calm down, they're not giving the Nano more features, they're just giving it a couple of features that the Touch doesn't have. Why? Who really cares. I'm sure the battery isn't going to suck that bad on the Nano. If you need those features now and don't want the Nano, then get the Flip camera.
The Touch most definitely has more features than the Nano.
Not to mention it's $100 cheaper to buy the slimmer, current 160GB iPod Touch than it was to buy the old fatty back then.
Although I still would have liked to see more happen with the classic this time around. If they do a VGA camera in the Nano, maybe they could do an HD camera in the classic. Or even just the FM radio.
I think what you mean is that the mid-range model has some features that the premium model doesn't have. There are still plenty of things you can do on a touch that you can't do on a nano.
With all due respect, if you already own a classic and a touch, you probably don't really need another iPod. I like to see what they announce at each of these events, but why would someone buy another iPod just because they came out with another one?
Seeing as how the iPhone 3GS can play 1080p video and now they've released this new iPod Touch with a faster processor and all that, I would say the new Touch can most likely output 1080p video as well, which is a dead giveaway that it's more powerful than the 720 Zune HD.
I'm not really serious about the "dead giveaway" part, I just think there are more things to consider than the bullet points on the Zune HD's box. Obviously, since Apple hasn't officially unlocked this HD playback, it's not actually a distinguishing feature, but still we know the device is capable of it.
By the way, an engineer I know had a Zii in his office the other day. I picked it up and looked at it, and it felt thick, plastic, and cheap. It's also currently just a development platform, there are no consumer-level products based on it yet. I wouldn't be using the Zii as a comparison point against a device that's slicker, thinner, and has been shipping for 2 years already.
I always tested in the top percentile, but I wasn't bored at school. We spent time learning about a lot of things that I didn't already know about, and even math and science, which were my easiest and best subjects, usually moved along at a pace that still kept me fairly occupied. If I needed more to do, my teachers would usually offer me extra stuff I could do for extra credit.
There were a lot of subjects in school that I never would have learned about on my own, and I would never use in my professional career... such as Shakespeare. I'll have to admit that I don't remember a lot about the Shakespeare plays that we covered in junior high and in high school, but I at least know some of their names and some basic things about them. In a world where references to Shakespeare are all around us, at least I generally know what they're talking about now. The same goes for other subjects, such as history and government. And even if your teachers weren't the brightest and didn't teach you everything you should have learned on some subjects, at least you learned some basic concepts so that you knew what to look up if you ever needed to learn about it more on your own. I remember teachers that taught total BS, and one teacher who used to mispronounce everything, and even corrected students' mispronunciations with worse mispronunciations. But at least it taught me to watch out for that, and to think critically about what my teachers were saying.
My wife was watching an episode of "Wife Swap" on TV a while back, and one of the families was an "unschooling" family. They went to amusement parks and briefly mentioned physics principles behind rides, but never actually studied them or understood them. They sat around the dinner table and discussed meanings of words and metaphysical concepts, but never actually looked to see what anything really meant. They totally ripped off Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure by having a crappy time-travelling phone booth history lesson... they even used the same historical figures as the movie. I'm guessing they said "Quick, the camera crew is coming, let's just do what they did in that movie!" The father of the family referred to formal education as "intellectual inbreeding", which I thought was painfully ironic, because his own kids never got any actual knowledge other than what they discussed, and the parents never demonstrated that they knew anything to teach the kids. The kids were several years behind their peers in reading ability (who uses that in the real world, though, right?), they couldn't sit still and listen to a grown up talk, they had no friends and no opportunities for social interaction. The kids said that most of the time during the day, the mom would just sit on the computer.
I know some people that home school, and I wish them the best of luck, but I wouldn't personally do that to my kids. I think that even if some of their teachers aren't great teachers, and least they're getting the opportunity to learn from someone with a different style. They are interacting and playing with other kids all day long. They have structure and responsibility, and someone to answer to besides just their parents (what kid doesn't tune out their parents).
I have one friend whose wife says that she plans on homeschooling their kids until they go to college. I'd like to know how her kids are going to be prepared for assignments, deadlines, papers, and class schedules if they've never experienced them before? How will they handle having 6 or 7 different teaching styles in their first semester alone, when they've only ever been used to the way their mom did things? How will they get a wide range of general knowledge before they go to college and are expected to perform at a certain level in a lot of different subjects, if they've only had one teacher in their life (who most likely went easy on them most of the time)? I know my own mother never could have taught me calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, US/World history, geography, foreign lang
And considering that its predecessor, Vista, is still not the corporate standard after almost 3 years.
The Model T didn't come out when other cars were already commonplace. When the iPhone came out, there were plenty of other smartphones that had installable apps, 3G, and even the dumbphones of the time could do copy/paste and video recording.
I had to use butterflies:
I opened my hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
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"They're supposed to say, 'I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right -- can you interview this person?' They're not doing that," she said.
I like how the most important part of her argument (the part she mentions first) is her attendance, not her GPA. For just showing up, and doing a mediocre job, which means she could have been sleeping or texting her friends all through class, employers should hire her. Not that I believe GPA is everything, but it is some sort of measurement, and it's more meaningful than attendance. In fact, I'm pretty sure my college transcript has no record of attendance, and I don't even recall many of my classes where attendance was recorded.
I never expected any of my advisors or my university's career placement office to call people to find me a job. I asked them for tips on interviewing and résumé formatting, and I watched their bulletin boards for job ads and career fairs. But when it came to finding a job, it was up to me to call companies, submit résumés, cruise the career fairs, and network through friends and professors and other colleagues. In times like these, a person has to work even harder. Has she heard of this recession thing? There's a lot of people looking for the same jobs, and nobody is going to just hand the jobs over to them unless they are truly exceptional. The people at her "Career Advancement" office have probably taken pay cuts to keep their own jobs, why should they stick their neck out for someone who has done almost the bare minimum in her college career?
Also, if she's going to raise such a stink that she's going to be quoted all across the world-wide-internets, she should probably speak as if she's actually a college-educated person, i.e. "I have this student".
Buying from Amazon will get you around the DRM issues (but who doesn't have DRM these days). The problem with buying the same music from a DRM-free source is that the RIAA is still getting the money. Remember when it seemed like DRM-free music sales wouldn't ever happen? Steve Jobs wrote his letter, Amazon MP3 opened up shop, iTunes dropped DRM on a few songs, then after a long time dropped it on everything? Well, it's not so much that the RIAA now believes that music wants to be free or anything... they just figured out a new way to make you pay full price for songs you've already bought. All of a sudden, Apple's "upgrade your music to iTunes plus for slightly less than you paid for each song originally" deal starts to seem like a bargain. The sad thing is that even though they're moving away from DRM, it's not because it hasn't been profitable... They'll still be making money due to DRM from months or years after the last license server goes offline.
Yeah... back in college I worked for a PC Tech Support call center, and we had no shortage of calls that started out with "I had this little problem, so my friend/nephew/neighbor, who's really good with computers..." and ended with "...and now it won't turn on."
I'm just saying, you can't be friends with just any geek, or even just any geek "who's really good with computers".
The same as the ratio of Schrute Bucks to Stanley Nickels or Unicorns to Leprechauns.
Apparently it's a feature that's in the works.
These days it seems absurd to talk about running Photoshop or AutoCAD through a web browser... But in another dozen years it may make perfect sense.
I don't think you have to wait a dozen years... I'm sure that none of these options are equal to the full power of Photoshop right now, but with the direction things are going, it could happen before too many years go by: http://lifehacker.com/5307419/five-best-online-image-editors
When my company switched from Outlook to Lotus Notes, I thought "hey, Lotus is something different, we wouldn't be switching if it didn't add something for us." I was wrong, and I hate it completely. That said, we are two versions behind the current release (and will be for the foreseeable future). I'd like to think that the latest version will fix all my gripes, but seeing how the last transition went, my expectations are that it will actually be worse. Lotus Notes is horrible.
If someone owed you $2000 and they only paid you $1300, would you say you almost got paid in full, or that you got paid far less than you were owed?
I couldn't stand Emperor's New Groove the first couple times I saw it. I think it's hilarious now, but the David Spade-style sarcasm and cynicism, coupled with the "all over the place" humor was too much at first. After a while, and after hearing family members relentlessly quoting the funniest lines, it's grown on me a lot.