And yet Shakespeare did not do it via public funding or copyright. So, it would seem the if drsmithy needs a history lesson, it isn't because he is confused about copyright.
It seems a tad self severing for the storefront owner who smashed in the manufacturers and window and slapped on their own label before putting it in their windows, to complain about looting on the grounds that when they do it it doesn't count.
Using your analogy, the people the current media barons are breaking into our homes and stealing our great grandmother's wedding rings. They are then swapping the diamonds between the bands, and declaring it their own.
Oddly enough, I think we MIGHT have been better off with Al Gore as President. Al Gore is an attention whore. Being president would have sated that goal. Most of the stuff we dislike Gore for has been in his attention whoring behavior. He might have been useful as a president, and likely would have been less damaging than Bush.
Your question could also be phrased as "Was it better to get Bush for president and 'An Inconvenient Truth' from Gore, or would it have been better to just have had Gore for president?"
Good example. Even one step farther, The traditional source is at least as untrustworthy, but most people don't even think about it because it is the traditional source.
The reason so many jobs require college degrees instead of a HS diploma is because traditional education has failed through the HS level. The reason that you are not seeing the requirement of Masters degrees instead of Associate's or Bachelor's is because the "Reputable" colleges have become the same kind of paper mills as DeVry, Phoenix, etc...
Online education isn't the Idiocracy approach. Traditional eduction has become the Idiocracy education.
A major piece of this conversation that gets completely ignored is that there are different levels of education. Look at all of the comments in any thread concerning Khan Academy , and people start talking about how they don't want to be operated on by someone who got their medical degree online, or drive on a bridge by someone who got their engineering degree online. The conversation should start with "Does a 6 year old learn math better via Khan Academy or in a traditional 1st grade classroom?" This should then be asked for each year until you get to the end. I can tell you that my 7 year old child gets about the same amount of education from 6 hours of Khan Academy as traditional education would provide in 6 months.
The basic UI of the desktop on iOS is the same basic UI of Notes all the way back to version 1.0. It is a series of tabbed windows with square chicklet icons in rows and columns for launching apps.
I don't know your mom, your dad, or your situation for real, but I do know that when you tell a story about how your dad was always drunk, and a male friend of your mother's gave her kid a $600 gift, it makes your dad sound like someone who was living with a whore. Like I said, I don't know your mom, dad or situation beyond your words here, but if your mother wasn't screwing around on your dad, you might want to consider how you describe them.
Excuse me? When I open my mail on an iOS device, I have to use an expanding hierarchy with the look and feel of a file browser.
In fact, with both Lotus Notes 1.0 and iOS, the path to opening an email is:
Select the tab that contains your icon
Scan the grid of squire chiclet icons, and select the one that represents your mail
Look at the list of emails that shows the from, subject and time of the email and select the one you want to read.
You may not want to accept that the Super Duper Always Better Apple Interface is just a rehash of the Icky Yucky Lotus Notes Always Bad Interface, but whether you accept it or not, it doesn't change the fact that the basic interfaces are the same.
True and False are orthogonal to Fact and Opinion as are Fact and Fiction.
If we go with your your definition, there are no statements that can ever be taken as fact. Can you think of a single statement that can truly said to be a "fact" using your definition?
Part of the problem is that "Fact" has the same kind of naming collision that "Free" has. The word has more than one meaning, and it is common for people to get confused on this. You are wanting to use the Fact/Fiction form of the word "Fact" (more accuratly called non-fiction) in place of the Fact/Opinion form of the word "Fact".
For example, when Bilbo Baggins says "I'm Mr. Bilbo Baggins, I've lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way." It is a statement of fact even though it is in a work of Fiction. Whereas When Bilbo Baggins says "Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbitton." he is making a statement of opinion in a work of fiction.
Neither of them have actually happened being that they are in a work of fiction. Of course, you can walk past the fiction section of your library into the non-fiction, or fact section. In that section you could find a book quoting Einstein with "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", you are reading a statement of opinion that was in fact stated.
Yet another example is that I can say "Green is the best color." This is a statement of opinion, and yet at the same time (contrary to what most people have been taught is possible) it is false. That's right. When I say "Green is the best color.", I am making a statement of opinion that is false. How is that? Well, I don't think green is the best color at all. Thus even though the statement is one of opinion, it is false.
Her prescription was.5 worse than when she got an eye exam 12 months prior. While it is possible that her vision was consistantly changing for 15 years straight, and it was complete coincidence that on the 16th year, which just happened to be the exact same time she got eye surgery, that her eyes suddently when from consistent changes to near total stability. It is technically possible, but would take a great leap of faith to believe that. In fact, it would take almost as much of a leap of faith as believing that it wasn't the surgery that improved her vision, but that it was just coincidence that she could see better when she left the building than when she entered it.
I don't see what part you don't understand. The series of events were:
Over a decade of consistent eye degradation and wearing of corrective lenses.
Surgery.
Over a decade of stable vision and not wearing corrective lenses.
I can't rule out coincidence, but I can't rule out a gift from FSM either.
Because the dongle as a general tool has been in use widely for several decades? They are patenting the specific use storing the dongle in the power brick.
You describe that like it is a problem. Complaining that a TV has a 3D capabilities that you don't use is like complaining that your computer has the capability of running programs you don't use, or even more so, complaining that your TV has composite video inputs when you only use HDMI.
I'm sure that active CAN be better, but of the two 3D TVs in my home, the passive looks just as good as the active 3D, the glasses can be had for less than $2, and they are always ready to go without worrying about charging them. Passive 3D is good enough that I would not consider buying an active system again.
So what you are saying is that you think passively watching low brow crap live is somehow better than passively watching low brow crap prerecorded. It isn't. I asked why people think it is, and you had no answer for it.
As for my Risk box? The dust is 8 days thick. I have played cards in the last 72 hours, painted in the last week, haven't played tennis live in years, although I have played it on the Wii withing the last 6 months, and I am posting on slashdot right now. Given all that, I still say that live theater is vastly inferior to prerecorded programming.
Basically yes. When people used to say that the lines on the surface of Mars were alien canals, they were making statements of fact. It turns out they were wrong. Read a physics book written before Einstein, and all sorts of statements of fact will be stated that turned out to be wrong.
The simple rule is that if the correctness of the statement is true or false based on the feelings or beliefs of the stater, it is a statement of opinion. If it is true or false irrelevant of the person making the statement, it is a statement of fact.
When you make a statement, there are not 3 types. Fact, Opinion and Statement. Statements of fact, and statements of opinion are both statements. Fact and opinion are adjectives that you add to something being a statement. If I say "The Higgs Boson exists." I am making a statement of fact. Is it true? Maybe. Maybe not. What I say doesn't change whether it exists or not. It's state of being or not is a fact.
If I say "The Higgs Boson is the best Boson." I am making a statement of opinion, even if I don't really like the Higgs Boson.
The logic that a statement of fact isn't a statement of fact if it isn't true is how people rationalize that being wrong makes them right. The logic being that if it isn't correct, it isn't a statement of fact, thus it is a statement of opinion, and opinions by their very nature are not right or wrong. Since the statement isn't wrong, it must be right. Hence, if they are wrong, then they must be right!
Your previous post shows exactly this kind of muddled thinking. Taco Cowboy made a statement of fact. What he said is either true or not true, irrelevant of what his opinion is. If Taco Cowboy never existed, the statement would still either be true or false. Taco Cowboy's feelings on the matter have no bearing on whether the statement is true or false. Thus it is a statement of fact. You think he is wrong, and you think that if he said "In my opinion" at the beginning, it would somehow convert the statement of fact into a statement of opinion, and thus it would magically make it no longer an incorrect statement.
Not only does being wrong not turn a statement of fact into a statement of opinion, putting "In my opinion" in front of a statement also does not turn a statement of fact into a statement of opinion.
Glasses and contacts were making my wife go blind. From the time she was 12 years old until the time she got lasik at 25, every single year, her eye sight got noticeably worse, and she needed a stronger prescription. At her last eye exam prior to the surgery, she was trying to read the eye chart, and could not make out the largest letter. This prompted her to ask the doctor, at what point they considered someone 'legally blind'. His response was that it was when they couldn't read the top letter from the chart.
She is now 13 years into having had her eye surgery, and she still doesn't need glasses. She tells me here eyesight is not entirely as good as it was right after the surgery, but in 13 years her eyesight has deteriorated less that it was deteriorating every year prior to it.
Active glasses are on the way out. Passive glasses are the thing now, so you can buy two pair of $2 glasses, pop out the lens of one and put it in the other pair. Tada! 2D. My guess is that we will see cheap glasses that use the same filter on both eyes become available just as we have seen cheap regular glasses come out.
If two different channels could be merged and the audio for each channel being sent out over different channels so that one view could use headphones, this tech would really take off. (perhaps this is what "SimulView" is?)
That and get the console makers on board. People are correct that having to were glasses for passive TV watching isn't going to take off. The 3D TVs would be a hit for some active TV watching (The rare movie), Two viewers watching two separate channels at the same time, and video games (which are already active viewing and are generally down converted from 3D to 2D for display anyway).
No, you are not supposed to replace all of your equipment and deal with those stupid glasses over one movie. What your supposed to do is replace your TV when you would be replacing it anyway, and when you look at two TVs that fit your need, you decide that you will take the one with 3D just in case you ever want to use that feature.
Yes, building codes are a double edged sword. No, I don't want my neighbor filling their lot with a shanty town, but It would be nice if instead of buying a house that will support any contingency for the next 30 year, I could buy one that works for me today, and expand it as I needed/could afford to.
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And yet Shakespeare did not do it via public funding or copyright. So, it would seem the if drsmithy needs a history lesson, it isn't because he is confused about copyright.
It seems a tad self severing for the storefront owner who smashed in the manufacturers and window and slapped on their own label before putting it in their windows, to complain about looting on the grounds that when they do it it doesn't count.
Using your analogy, the people the current media barons are breaking into our homes and stealing our great grandmother's wedding rings. They are then swapping the diamonds between the bands, and declaring it their own.
It may be hard, but it is what we do all day every day. We just tend to do it looking forward instead of backwards.
Oddly enough, I think we MIGHT have been better off with Al Gore as President. Al Gore is an attention whore. Being president would have sated that goal. Most of the stuff we dislike Gore for has been in his attention whoring behavior. He might have been useful as a president, and likely would have been less damaging than Bush.
Your question could also be phrased as "Was it better to get Bush for president and 'An Inconvenient Truth' from Gore, or would it have been better to just have had Gore for president?"
Good example. Even one step farther, The traditional source is at least as untrustworthy, but most people don't even think about it because it is the traditional source.
That's not fair. No one that doesn't place a value on life would ever ride in one of those deathtrap machines known as a car.
The reason so many jobs require college degrees instead of a HS diploma is because traditional education has failed through the HS level. The reason that you are not seeing the requirement of Masters degrees instead of Associate's or Bachelor's is because the "Reputable" colleges have become the same kind of paper mills as DeVry, Phoenix, etc...
Online education isn't the Idiocracy approach. Traditional eduction has become the Idiocracy education.
A major piece of this conversation that gets completely ignored is that there are different levels of education. Look at all of the comments in any thread concerning Khan Academy , and people start talking about how they don't want to be operated on by someone who got their medical degree online, or drive on a bridge by someone who got their engineering degree online. The conversation should start with "Does a 6 year old learn math better via Khan Academy or in a traditional 1st grade classroom?" This should then be asked for each year until you get to the end. I can tell you that my 7 year old child gets about the same amount of education from 6 hours of Khan Academy as traditional education would provide in 6 months.
The basic UI of the desktop on iOS is the same basic UI of Notes all the way back to version 1.0. It is a series of tabbed windows with square chicklet icons in rows and columns for launching apps.
I don't know your mom, your dad, or your situation for real, but I do know that when you tell a story about how your dad was always drunk, and a male friend of your mother's gave her kid a $600 gift, it makes your dad sound like someone who was living with a whore. Like I said, I don't know your mom, dad or situation beyond your words here, but if your mother wasn't screwing around on your dad, you might want to consider how you describe them.
Yes, I do realize that I miss spelled square. That doesn't make my point any less valid.
Excuse me? When I open my mail on an iOS device, I have to use an expanding hierarchy with the look and feel of a file browser.
In fact, with both Lotus Notes 1.0 and iOS, the path to opening an email is:
Select the tab that contains your icon
Scan the grid of squire chiclet icons, and select the one that represents your mail
Look at the list of emails that shows the from, subject and time of the email and select the one you want to read.
You may not want to accept that the Super Duper Always Better Apple Interface is just a rehash of the Icky Yucky Lotus Notes Always Bad Interface, but whether you accept it or not, it doesn't change the fact that the basic interfaces are the same.
True and False are orthogonal to Fact and Opinion as are Fact and Fiction.
If we go with your your definition, there are no statements that can ever be taken as fact. Can you think of a single statement that can truly said to be a "fact" using your definition?
Part of the problem is that "Fact" has the same kind of naming collision that "Free" has. The word has more than one meaning, and it is common for people to get confused on this. You are wanting to use the Fact/Fiction form of the word "Fact" (more accuratly called non-fiction) in place of the Fact/Opinion form of the word "Fact".
For example, when Bilbo Baggins says "I'm Mr. Bilbo Baggins, I've lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way." It is a statement of fact even though it is in a work of Fiction. Whereas When Bilbo Baggins says "Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbitton." he is making a statement of opinion in a work of fiction.
Neither of them have actually happened being that they are in a work of fiction. Of course, you can walk past the fiction section of your library into the non-fiction, or fact section. In that section you could find a book quoting Einstein with "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", you are reading a statement of opinion that was in fact stated.
Yet another example is that I can say "Green is the best color." This is a statement of opinion, and yet at the same time (contrary to what most people have been taught is possible) it is false. That's right. When I say "Green is the best color.", I am making a statement of opinion that is false. How is that? Well, I don't think green is the best color at all. Thus even though the statement is one of opinion, it is false.
Her prescription was .5 worse than when she got an eye exam 12 months prior. While it is possible that her vision was consistantly changing for 15 years straight, and it was complete coincidence that on the 16th year, which just happened to be the exact same time she got eye surgery, that her eyes suddently when from consistent changes to near total stability. It is technically possible, but would take a great leap of faith to believe that. In fact, it would take almost as much of a leap of faith as believing that it wasn't the surgery that improved her vision, but that it was just coincidence that she could see better when she left the building than when she entered it.
I don't see what part you don't understand. The series of events were:
Over a decade of consistent eye degradation and wearing of corrective lenses.
Surgery.
Over a decade of stable vision and not wearing corrective lenses.
I can't rule out coincidence, but I can't rule out a gift from FSM either.
Because the dongle as a general tool has been in use widely for several decades? They are patenting the specific use storing the dongle in the power brick.
You describe that like it is a problem. Complaining that a TV has a 3D capabilities that you don't use is like complaining that your computer has the capability of running programs you don't use, or even more so, complaining that your TV has composite video inputs when you only use HDMI.
I'm sure that active CAN be better, but of the two 3D TVs in my home, the passive looks just as good as the active 3D, the glasses can be had for less than $2, and they are always ready to go without worrying about charging them. Passive 3D is good enough that I would not consider buying an active system again.
So what you are saying is that you think passively watching low brow crap live is somehow better than passively watching low brow crap prerecorded. It isn't. I asked why people think it is, and you had no answer for it.
As for my Risk box? The dust is 8 days thick. I have played cards in the last 72 hours, painted in the last week, haven't played tennis live in years, although I have played it on the Wii withing the last 6 months, and I am posting on slashdot right now. Given all that, I still say that live theater is vastly inferior to prerecorded programming.
Design cues from palm? iOS is basically the Lotus Notes 1.0 UI with prettier graphics.
Basically yes. When people used to say that the lines on the surface of Mars were alien canals, they were making statements of fact. It turns out they were wrong. Read a physics book written before Einstein, and all sorts of statements of fact will be stated that turned out to be wrong.
The simple rule is that if the correctness of the statement is true or false based on the feelings or beliefs of the stater, it is a statement of opinion. If it is true or false irrelevant of the person making the statement, it is a statement of fact.
When you make a statement, there are not 3 types. Fact, Opinion and Statement. Statements of fact, and statements of opinion are both statements. Fact and opinion are adjectives that you add to something being a statement. If I say "The Higgs Boson exists." I am making a statement of fact. Is it true? Maybe. Maybe not. What I say doesn't change whether it exists or not. It's state of being or not is a fact.
If I say "The Higgs Boson is the best Boson." I am making a statement of opinion, even if I don't really like the Higgs Boson.
The logic that a statement of fact isn't a statement of fact if it isn't true is how people rationalize that being wrong makes them right. The logic being that if it isn't correct, it isn't a statement of fact, thus it is a statement of opinion, and opinions by their very nature are not right or wrong. Since the statement isn't wrong, it must be right. Hence, if they are wrong, then they must be right!
Your previous post shows exactly this kind of muddled thinking. Taco Cowboy made a statement of fact. What he said is either true or not true, irrelevant of what his opinion is. If Taco Cowboy never existed, the statement would still either be true or false. Taco Cowboy's feelings on the matter have no bearing on whether the statement is true or false. Thus it is a statement of fact. You think he is wrong, and you think that if he said "In my opinion" at the beginning, it would somehow convert the statement of fact into a statement of opinion, and thus it would magically make it no longer an incorrect statement.
Not only does being wrong not turn a statement of fact into a statement of opinion, putting "In my opinion" in front of a statement also does not turn a statement of fact into a statement of opinion.
Glasses and contacts were making my wife go blind. From the time she was 12 years old until the time she got lasik at 25, every single year, her eye sight got noticeably worse, and she needed a stronger prescription. At her last eye exam prior to the surgery, she was trying to read the eye chart, and could not make out the largest letter. This prompted her to ask the doctor, at what point they considered someone 'legally blind'. His response was that it was when they couldn't read the top letter from the chart.
She is now 13 years into having had her eye surgery, and she still doesn't need glasses. She tells me here eyesight is not entirely as good as it was right after the surgery, but in 13 years her eyesight has deteriorated less that it was deteriorating every year prior to it.
Active glasses are on the way out. Passive glasses are the thing now, so you can buy two pair of $2 glasses, pop out the lens of one and put it in the other pair. Tada! 2D. My guess is that we will see cheap glasses that use the same filter on both eyes become available just as we have seen cheap regular glasses come out.
If two different channels could be merged and the audio for each channel being sent out over different channels so that one view could use headphones, this tech would really take off. (perhaps this is what "SimulView" is?)
That and get the console makers on board. People are correct that having to were glasses for passive TV watching isn't going to take off. The 3D TVs would be a hit for some active TV watching (The rare movie), Two viewers watching two separate channels at the same time, and video games (which are already active viewing and are generally down converted from 3D to 2D for display anyway).
No, you are not supposed to replace all of your equipment and deal with those stupid glasses over one movie. What your supposed to do is replace your TV when you would be replacing it anyway, and when you look at two TVs that fit your need, you decide that you will take the one with 3D just in case you ever want to use that feature.
Yes, building codes are a double edged sword. No, I don't want my neighbor filling their lot with a shanty town, but It would be nice if instead of buying a house that will support any contingency for the next 30 year, I could buy one that works for me today, and expand it as I needed/could afford to.
Where I live, $50k might get you the permits to break ground.