Your analysis sounds like a pal of mine who hated it because they it was all about them traveling between dimensions, and that is just a remake of Sliders. You apparently missed the very premise of the show, and that likely plays a huge factor in your opinion of it.
Funny, the definition I have always heard was that vegetables ARE stems, leaves, flowers and roots that you eat. If you want to only go with textbook terms, there are no humans either, just homosapiens. So, squash was never a vegetable. Tomatoes are not vegetables either.
"Socially" depends on the society. If you hang out on Slashdot, it's socially acceptable to rip off people's work and investments because "copying isn't theft",
As well as if you hand out any place else in the world. Since everyone thinks that "copying isn't theft". The ones that claim they think copying is theft just don't count the copying they do.
What the US is doing now is exactly how you make "terrorists". Find a martyr that is calling a corrupt government to task, and persecute him. The worse Assage is treated, the more rabid those who agree with his cause will become. If the US isn't careful, they will make Assage into another Ghandi. I don't know what choice US politicians have though. If they persecute Assage, they legitamize him. If they don't their own crimes get reported. They are in the proverbial rock and a hard place.
The story you quoted sound mighty suspicious. First, is it common for people that think they might have an STD to tell that to strangers when they ask where someone is? That seems suspicious, unless the woman is from 'crazy-town'. Second, one of the women is intelligent enough to organize a conference, but is dumb enough to go to the police to find out if they could have contracted HIV? Maybe in Stockholm, the police do double duty as doctors, so that wouldn't be an obvious lie. I was under the impression that in pretty much all countries, doctors handled the medicine, and the police handled law enforcement.
I cannot say what did and didn't happen, but the timing of all this seems highly suspicious. And the last paragraph makes absolutely no sense. It reads like someone was trying to make up a story to explain something that was a little too convenient to be believable.
The / isn't a key used by programmers in place of the division symbol, it is the symbol used to indicate a fraction. As in 1/2 =.5 and 4/2 = 2. Using an angled slash is not entirely uncommon even when writing fraction with pen and paper. Now since there is no proper division symbol, and division problems can be written as fractions, that is what is used. It is the same as using $0.35 to say 35 cents. They are the same thing, even if one is more cumbersome than the other. This doesn't argue for or against the keys, just that the / is not an arbitrarily chosen symbol. It is mathematically correct.
For the confusing buttons, you could use a bottle of nail polish to simply white out any unused buttons. That being said, you are correct that there are some things that people just have to learn. Light switches, electrical outlets, and computers....
Honestly, I think the "Computers are hard" line of reasoning is seriously flawed. People use it because they can get away with it. Having watched a 1 year old child that cannot read learn to use a computer in ~10 minutes, and the same child at 2 years old, still unable to read, install Ubuntu, I think that grown adults could figure it out if they wanted. Obviously there are those with physical problems with their brains, but for the bar is set pretty low for using a computer if the software is set up properly.
They are being hurt in the same way that your wife would get hurt if I distributed the video I secretly took of her going A2M your neighbor. Now, perhaps you wouldn't feel that was harmful too her. In that case, I can understand why you do not feel that children in already filmed porn movies are being hurt.
The question comes down to...Does distributing videos of people having sex without their consent constitute hurting them?
Given that virtually every school in the nation says that they do not have enough money, yes it is about sports vs. education. When there isn't enough money, and you have to choose, you have to choose.
Claiming that having a billion dollar sports facility and a 10k or 100k science facility certainly shows the attitude that a school has concerning intelligence vs. entertainment.
The sign in the front of most schools shows our societal values. You can claim that it isn't so all you want, but the advertising the schools do, the budgets that schools run are in direct contradiction to what you claim. The ratio of good civics teachers who are assigned to be gym teachers (and are crappy at it) to round out their schedule vs. good coaches who are assigned to be civics teachers (and are crappy at it) to round out their schedule also contradicts your statements.
I would guess that you would offer them to some relatively unknown upstart without MUCH of a history over the well known and respected news organization that you believed (correctly or not) would simply refuse to publish the documents, but might sell your identity to the authorities for an exclusive interview.
Prop 8 doesn't discuss equality the way a proposition that defined "Person" as a white landowning male wouldn't be discussing equality. Defining what can and cannot legally be done based on gender is by definition a discussion of equality. Would you make the same statement if Prop 8 were to define marriage as a union between two individuals of the same race? It wasn't that long ago that interracial marriage wasn't legal either.
It is bizarre that the exact same arguments are used to argue for a ban on gay marriages that were used to argue for a ban on interracial marriage. What is even more amazing is that the pro gay marriage people don't point that out every chance they get.
As for the constitutional amendment part. First, if the law violates another part of the state constitution in an incompatible way, that I would guess would make it unconstitutional. They may need to specifically identify it as an exception to another section of the constitution. Of course, that would mean they would need to openly admit that it is discriminatory.
Of course, if the comment is in regards to judges reviewing it to see of it is FEDERALLY unconstitutional, then you are confused. The state constitution and the federal constitution are two different sets of laws. Dropping the adjective that tells you which set of laws your looking at doesn't make them the same.
I am on my second Android phone, and am looking at a third. I have just have not configured Voice, as there seem to be some choices that will forever be set on your account, and cannot be changed. I figured I would look again after a while, as I expect that will change. Maybe it already has....
Although that is a good reminder that it is probably time to look again.
No, he is just got his "Chick's I would do" scale out of whack. With the categories being:
I would do her and brag to my wife
I would do her and brag to strangers
I would do her and brag to my friends
I would do her and admit it to my friends
I would do her and wouldn't admit it to my friends
I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself
I wouldn't do her
Most people are incapable of categorizing these until the oppertunity is staring them in the face. Perticularly the "I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself" by it's very nature. I would put Billie Piper in the category of "I would do her and brag to my wife", but the poster claiming that she is anywhere below "I would do her and brag to strangers" shows a distinct lack of self awareness.
I'm not saying that it was difficult. I do believe that Sun tried. They kept reinventing the graphics classes. You have AWT, SWT, and Swing. The hardware UI differences are a red herring. There are only a couple of different classes of display, and other systems have been able to handle that without trouble.
It was, and is clear that the group in charge of Java was in over their head when they created it. There were some things they got right, but they got a lot more wrong. They were simply far behind the curve in the emulator field.
What it is used for, and what it is good for today was not their target when it started. Java was a failed solution for a problem, that eventual found a different problem it could solve.
If they had, I think they would need to require any contributions to have the copyright assigned to Sun. As I understand it, Linux pretty much couldn't move to GPL3 even if it wanted to, as so many additions have been made by so many people, with the "or later" clause removed that large portions would have to be removed just to get it to GPL3.
Well, Sun did TRY to make applets work on every platform. They failed. Java as a whole was, much like the IBM PC, a piece of junk. The key was that it was a piece of junk that had big corporate backing. This got enough people using it that it remained relevant long enough to improve.
At the time of it's release, it was just a crappy emulator without a reference platform to point to to say "that is correct behavior", so it ran differently, not only on different systems, but even on the same system depending on what it was embedded in. I remember running an applet on a system in IE, Netscape, and Lotus Notes. On the same system, it looked different in each application.
My six year old has one. We got it for him last year. Or more accurately, I go my new phone, and he got my old one. Having a cell phone is a great idea for a kid. By having a phone, I can give him WAY more freedom, and know that he can find us if he needs something. Once we decided to get him a phone, a smart phone only made sense. Once you are already on a family plan, extra phones just are not that expensive.
That said, it isn't even close to a replacement for a DS. Sure, the numbers look like phones are replacing traditional hand helds, but the numbers are deceptive. In 1995, the same know of statistics could show that gamers were abandoning traditional gaming in favor of Solitaire. After all, if you polled PC users, you would find that a much larger percentage of users played Solitaire than any other PC game. We can see how, while technically true, it is implying something that isn't true.
Could cell phones replace traditional hand held game systems? Sure they could. Just adding regular buttons would help with that a lot. As they stand now, they don't. I still think that the solution is to make a case that the phone plugs into that has the gaming buttons. This could also be offered with a keyboard instead. This way the phone maker could make one model of phone, and sell it to the "It has to be as thin as physically possible", the "it is useless without a keyboard", and the "gaming" crowds. The key is that the protocol for the devices to talk to the phone must be standardized and open, so that you don't end up with a hundred different implementations.
I can tell you that if my boss called me at 2 am on a Saturday night and said, I need you hear right now, I would get in my car and drive to the office. On the way there, I wouldn't once think badly of him. I would be wondering what was so wrong that he needed to call me. No doubt, he takes comfort in knowing that he COULD could me on nights and weekends if he has a concern. By the same token, I telecommute, and when my wife is not home, I can have my son with me all day while I work. If I need to take care of something in the middle of the day, I just do it.
The absolute separation of work and home is a band-aid for a dysfunctional job/work environment, and the number of people who have the power to tell their employer that they cannot call after 5, but do not have the power to have a functional relationship that is beneficial to both is a pretty narrow band.
I look forward to this kind of a phone. I have wanted a dual number phone for years.
I do understand that a lot (most?) of employer/employee relationships are seriously dysfunctional. Even down right hostile. That doesn't mean that there are not tons of us out there that have employers who have a clue.
The number of replies to this post is amazing. It would be highly repetitive and time consuming to respond to each one individually, so I'll respond as a group.
As to the water getting smaller when it melts. Good catch. That is one of the great things about how we teach. A subject doesn't end at the end of the 'assignment'. So, we will talk again, and get to have a whole new lesson on the specific subject of why water expands at less than 4 degrees Celsius.
It also give us a great opportunity to teach him that being in authority does not necessarily make you correct about everything. Two new lessons in one!
To the people that think the water weighs less because it floats. Being less dense doesn't make something weigh less. Volume and mass are different things. I didn't say one cubic meter of water vs. one cubic meter of ice.
To they guy that though I was wrong because phase changes and gravity have nothing to do with each other...That was the point. You seem to have missed what a six year old could understand just fine.
And to the teacher who is complaining about how poor they are. Public school teachers are in the top 50% of earners by year in pretty much every state of the union. They are in top 75% hourly. I know that the lie helps in union negotiations, but anyone that can count isn't buying it.
Every one of your examples also describes personal computers. An embedded device is a device that has a predetermined set of software installed at manufacture, and is intended to run that same set of software for it's life. A personal computer is a device that is designed for an individual user and is intended to have it's functionality changed by adding new software.
I agree. That points out a anecdote that happened just this evening with my 6 year old son. Understand, we are one of those 'crazy' home school families, so, yes, it will seem a little bizarre. Anyway, we were playing "Matter", a solid/liquid/gas trivia game with our son. He got the question "when you freeze water, it's weight A) get lighter, B) stays the same C) gets heavier.
When our son was clearly guessing at the answer, we we simply walked through it. It went like this:
Dad: What is water made of?
Son: Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Dad: What is Hydrogen and Oxygen made of?
Son: Atoms?
Dad: What makes atoms weigh something?
Son: Gravity.
Dad: What is gravity?
Son: The force that pulls matter together.
Dad: OK, what happens what are you doing to the ice when you melt it?
Son: Making it hotter.
Dad: So, what happens to the atoms?
Son: The move faster?
Dad: And?
Son: They take up more space?
Dad: And?
Son: B, its weight stays the same!
This is not how math and science are normally taught. Normally, the same information is taught as "If you freeze water it's weight doesn't change. Remember that." If your lucky it is "If you freeze matter, its weight doesn't change. Remember that."
Yes, we could have just had him memorize the trivia, but instead we helped him "Rediscover" that mass doesn't change weight when you heat it.
The fact that a public school would just have him memorize the fact is one of the reasons we home school.
Apparently you didn't read your own link. While the guy is an obvious fanboy, and spends most of the short article making excuses for Apple not supporting their products for the long haul, even he says that MacOS is likely to disappear. He thinks it is 10 years off, but that doesn't change the fact that he describes the fate of OSX as "all good things must come to an end".
You are half right that the iPad+keyboard and the MacBook are not serving the same market. The same as a eeePC and an Alienware M17x are not serving the same market. That doesn't mean they are not both PCs.
The iPad is obviously designed for light computing. The addition of a keyboard is obviously a move to add to the amount of weight the iPad can carry. Whether you want it to be, or whether Apple want's it to be, the iPad is and will be for a growing number of people, a replacement for a PC.
Of course, Apple would be stupid to not want that. On the Mac, anyone can develop and sell software without giving Apple a cut of the action beyond the purchase of the computer. On the iPad, each and every sale means money in Apples pocket. It is an obvious move that I am really surprised MS didn't do with the Xbox.
Don't expect the big macs to go away. They will just be sold as workstations. Probably with the kind of price increase one would expect of a 'Workstation'. It is the lower end Macs that will dry up. The Mac will become the Dev kit for iPads. Apple is in the process of shifting from the PC pricing model to the console pricing model.
The best comparison of traditional jobs to a programmer is a plumber or electrician. We are "Tradesmen". We get a spec as to what the customer expects, light switch here... Light bulb there... faucet in this room... Should produce hot and cold water...
From these specs we make it happen. The customer doesn't care what is behind the walls. That doesn't mean that putting the right things behind the walls wont make the difference between an efficient fresh water system, and water stains in the ceiling 2 years later. What it means is that we are left to make sure that what is behind the wall works, and a good tradesman will make sure that the work is quality whether anyone sees it or not. Of course, a good tradesman will also know when to slap something together. He won't spend 6 hours making a quality sawhorse. He will slap some 2x4s together with a few pieces of chipboard, and use this temporary tool to get to the real work.
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Your analysis sounds like a pal of mine who hated it because they it was all about them traveling between dimensions, and that is just a remake of Sliders. You apparently missed the very premise of the show, and that likely plays a huge factor in your opinion of it.
Funny, the definition I have always heard was that vegetables ARE stems, leaves, flowers and roots that you eat. If you want to only go with textbook terms, there are no humans either, just homosapiens. So, squash was never a vegetable. Tomatoes are not vegetables either.
"Socially" depends on the society. If you hang out on Slashdot, it's socially acceptable to rip off people's work and investments because "copying isn't theft",
As well as if you hand out any place else in the world. Since everyone thinks that "copying isn't theft". The ones that claim they think copying is theft just don't count the copying they do.
The small penis line is just how you make it clear that you want to be the first guy to go anal on her.
What the US is doing now is exactly how you make "terrorists". Find a martyr that is calling a corrupt government to task, and persecute him. The worse Assage is treated, the more rabid those who agree with his cause will become. If the US isn't careful, they will make Assage into another Ghandi. I don't know what choice US politicians have though. If they persecute Assage, they legitamize him. If they don't their own crimes get reported. They are in the proverbial rock and a hard place.
The story you quoted sound mighty suspicious. First, is it common for people that think they might have an STD to tell that to strangers when they ask where someone is? That seems suspicious, unless the woman is from 'crazy-town'. Second, one of the women is intelligent enough to organize a conference, but is dumb enough to go to the police to find out if they could have contracted HIV? Maybe in Stockholm, the police do double duty as doctors, so that wouldn't be an obvious lie. I was under the impression that in pretty much all countries, doctors handled the medicine, and the police handled law enforcement.
I cannot say what did and didn't happen, but the timing of all this seems highly suspicious. And the last paragraph makes absolutely no sense. It reads like someone was trying to make up a story to explain something that was a little too convenient to be believable.
The / isn't a key used by programmers in place of the division symbol, it is the symbol used to indicate a fraction. As in 1/2 = .5 and 4/2 = 2. Using an angled slash is not entirely uncommon even when writing fraction with pen and paper. Now since there is no proper division symbol, and division problems can be written as fractions, that is what is used. It is the same as using $0.35 to say 35 cents. They are the same thing, even if one is more cumbersome than the other. This doesn't argue for or against the keys, just that the / is not an arbitrarily chosen symbol. It is mathematically correct.
For the confusing buttons, you could use a bottle of nail polish to simply white out any unused buttons. That being said, you are correct that there are some things that people just have to learn. Light switches, electrical outlets, and computers....
Honestly, I think the "Computers are hard" line of reasoning is seriously flawed. People use it because they can get away with it. Having watched a 1 year old child that cannot read learn to use a computer in ~10 minutes, and the same child at 2 years old, still unable to read, install Ubuntu, I think that grown adults could figure it out if they wanted. Obviously there are those with physical problems with their brains, but for the bar is set pretty low for using a computer if the software is set up properly.
They are being hurt in the same way that your wife would get hurt if I distributed the video I secretly took of her going A2M your neighbor. Now, perhaps you wouldn't feel that was harmful too her. In that case, I can understand why you do not feel that children in already filmed porn movies are being hurt.
The question comes down to...Does distributing videos of people having sex without their consent constitute hurting them?
Given that virtually every school in the nation says that they do not have enough money, yes it is about sports vs. education. When there isn't enough money, and you have to choose, you have to choose.
Claiming that having a billion dollar sports facility and a 10k or 100k science facility certainly shows the attitude that a school has concerning intelligence vs. entertainment.
The sign in the front of most schools shows our societal values. You can claim that it isn't so all you want, but the advertising the schools do, the budgets that schools run are in direct contradiction to what you claim. The ratio of good civics teachers who are assigned to be gym teachers (and are crappy at it) to round out their schedule vs. good coaches who are assigned to be civics teachers (and are crappy at it) to round out their schedule also contradicts your statements.
I would guess that you would offer them to some relatively unknown upstart without MUCH of a history over the well known and respected news organization that you believed (correctly or not) would simply refuse to publish the documents, but might sell your identity to the authorities for an exclusive interview.
Prop 8 doesn't discuss equality the way a proposition that defined "Person" as a white landowning male wouldn't be discussing equality. Defining what can and cannot legally be done based on gender is by definition a discussion of equality. Would you make the same statement if Prop 8 were to define marriage as a union between two individuals of the same race? It wasn't that long ago that interracial marriage wasn't legal either.
It is bizarre that the exact same arguments are used to argue for a ban on gay marriages that were used to argue for a ban on interracial marriage. What is even more amazing is that the pro gay marriage people don't point that out every chance they get.
As for the constitutional amendment part. First, if the law violates another part of the state constitution in an incompatible way, that I would guess would make it unconstitutional. They may need to specifically identify it as an exception to another section of the constitution. Of course, that would mean they would need to openly admit that it is discriminatory.
Of course, if the comment is in regards to judges reviewing it to see of it is FEDERALLY unconstitutional, then you are confused. The state constitution and the federal constitution are two different sets of laws. Dropping the adjective that tells you which set of laws your looking at doesn't make them the same.
I am on my second Android phone, and am looking at a third. I have just have not configured Voice, as there seem to be some choices that will forever be set on your account, and cannot be changed. I figured I would look again after a while, as I expect that will change. Maybe it already has....
Although that is a good reminder that it is probably time to look again.
No, he is just got his "Chick's I would do" scale out of whack. With the categories being:
I would do her and brag to my wife
I would do her and brag to strangers
I would do her and brag to my friends
I would do her and admit it to my friends
I would do her and wouldn't admit it to my friends
I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself
I wouldn't do her
Most people are incapable of categorizing these until the oppertunity is staring them in the face. Perticularly the "I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself" by it's very nature. I would put Billie Piper in the category of "I would do her and brag to my wife", but the poster claiming that she is anywhere below "I would do her and brag to strangers" shows a distinct lack of self awareness.
I'm not saying that it was difficult. I do believe that Sun tried. They kept reinventing the graphics classes. You have AWT, SWT, and Swing. The hardware UI differences are a red herring. There are only a couple of different classes of display, and other systems have been able to handle that without trouble.
It was, and is clear that the group in charge of Java was in over their head when they created it. There were some things they got right, but they got a lot more wrong. They were simply far behind the curve in the emulator field.
What it is used for, and what it is good for today was not their target when it started. Java was a failed solution for a problem, that eventual found a different problem it could solve.
If they had, I think they would need to require any contributions to have the copyright assigned to Sun. As I understand it, Linux pretty much couldn't move to GPL3 even if it wanted to, as so many additions have been made by so many people, with the "or later" clause removed that large portions would have to be removed just to get it to GPL3.
Well, Sun did TRY to make applets work on every platform. They failed. Java as a whole was, much like the IBM PC, a piece of junk. The key was that it was a piece of junk that had big corporate backing. This got enough people using it that it remained relevant long enough to improve.
At the time of it's release, it was just a crappy emulator without a reference platform to point to to say "that is correct behavior", so it ran differently, not only on different systems, but even on the same system depending on what it was embedded in. I remember running an applet on a system in IE, Netscape, and Lotus Notes. On the same system, it looked different in each application.
My six year old has one. We got it for him last year. Or more accurately, I go my new phone, and he got my old one. Having a cell phone is a great idea for a kid. By having a phone, I can give him WAY more freedom, and know that he can find us if he needs something. Once we decided to get him a phone, a smart phone only made sense. Once you are already on a family plan, extra phones just are not that expensive.
That said, it isn't even close to a replacement for a DS. Sure, the numbers look like phones are replacing traditional hand helds, but the numbers are deceptive. In 1995, the same know of statistics could show that gamers were abandoning traditional gaming in favor of Solitaire. After all, if you polled PC users, you would find that a much larger percentage of users played Solitaire than any other PC game. We can see how, while technically true, it is implying something that isn't true.
Could cell phones replace traditional hand held game systems? Sure they could. Just adding regular buttons would help with that a lot. As they stand now, they don't. I still think that the solution is to make a case that the phone plugs into that has the gaming buttons. This could also be offered with a keyboard instead. This way the phone maker could make one model of phone, and sell it to the "It has to be as thin as physically possible", the "it is useless without a keyboard", and the "gaming" crowds. The key is that the protocol for the devices to talk to the phone must be standardized and open, so that you don't end up with a hundred different implementations.
I can tell you that if my boss called me at 2 am on a Saturday night and said, I need you hear right now, I would get in my car and drive to the office. On the way there, I wouldn't once think badly of him. I would be wondering what was so wrong that he needed to call me. No doubt, he takes comfort in knowing that he COULD could me on nights and weekends if he has a concern. By the same token, I telecommute, and when my wife is not home, I can have my son with me all day while I work. If I need to take care of something in the middle of the day, I just do it.
The absolute separation of work and home is a band-aid for a dysfunctional job/work environment, and the number of people who have the power to tell their employer that they cannot call after 5, but do not have the power to have a functional relationship that is beneficial to both is a pretty narrow band.
I look forward to this kind of a phone. I have wanted a dual number phone for years.
I do understand that a lot (most?) of employer/employee relationships are seriously dysfunctional. Even down right hostile. That doesn't mean that there are not tons of us out there that have employers who have a clue.
The number of replies to this post is amazing. It would be highly repetitive and time consuming to respond to each one individually, so I'll respond as a group.
As to the water getting smaller when it melts. Good catch. That is one of the great things about how we teach. A subject doesn't end at the end of the 'assignment'. So, we will talk again, and get to have a whole new lesson on the specific subject of why water expands at less than 4 degrees Celsius.
It also give us a great opportunity to teach him that being in authority does not necessarily make you correct about everything. Two new lessons in one!
To the people that think the water weighs less because it floats. Being less dense doesn't make something weigh less. Volume and mass are different things. I didn't say one cubic meter of water vs. one cubic meter of ice.
To they guy that though I was wrong because phase changes and gravity have nothing to do with each other...That was the point. You seem to have missed what a six year old could understand just fine.
And to the teacher who is complaining about how poor they are. Public school teachers are in the top 50% of earners by year in pretty much every state of the union. They are in top 75% hourly. I know that the lie helps in union negotiations, but anyone that can count isn't buying it.
Every one of your examples also describes personal computers. An embedded device is a device that has a predetermined set of software installed at manufacture, and is intended to run that same set of software for it's life. A personal computer is a device that is designed for an individual user and is intended to have it's functionality changed by adding new software.
I agree. That points out a anecdote that happened just this evening with my 6 year old son. Understand, we are one of those 'crazy' home school families, so, yes, it will seem a little bizarre. Anyway, we were playing "Matter", a solid/liquid/gas trivia game with our son. He got the question "when you freeze water, it's weight A) get lighter, B) stays the same C) gets heavier.
When our son was clearly guessing at the answer, we we simply walked through it. It went like this:
Dad: What is water made of?
Son: Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Dad: What is Hydrogen and Oxygen made of?
Son: Atoms?
Dad: What makes atoms weigh something?
Son: Gravity.
Dad: What is gravity?
Son: The force that pulls matter together.
Dad: OK, what happens what are you doing to the ice when you melt it?
Son: Making it hotter.
Dad: So, what happens to the atoms?
Son: The move faster?
Dad: And?
Son: They take up more space?
Dad: And?
Son: B, its weight stays the same!
This is not how math and science are normally taught. Normally, the same information is taught as "If you freeze water it's weight doesn't change. Remember that." If your lucky it is "If you freeze matter, its weight doesn't change. Remember that."
Yes, we could have just had him memorize the trivia, but instead we helped him "Rediscover" that mass doesn't change weight when you heat it.
The fact that a public school would just have him memorize the fact is one of the reasons we home school.
Apparently you didn't read your own link. While the guy is an obvious fanboy, and spends most of the short article making excuses for Apple not supporting their products for the long haul, even he says that MacOS is likely to disappear. He thinks it is 10 years off, but that doesn't change the fact that he describes the fate of OSX as "all good things must come to an end".
You are half right that the iPad+keyboard and the MacBook are not serving the same market. The same as a eeePC and an Alienware M17x are not serving the same market. That doesn't mean they are not both PCs.
The iPad is obviously designed for light computing. The addition of a keyboard is obviously a move to add to the amount of weight the iPad can carry. Whether you want it to be, or whether Apple want's it to be, the iPad is and will be for a growing number of people, a replacement for a PC.
Of course, Apple would be stupid to not want that. On the Mac, anyone can develop and sell software without giving Apple a cut of the action beyond the purchase of the computer. On the iPad, each and every sale means money in Apples pocket. It is an obvious move that I am really surprised MS didn't do with the Xbox.
Don't expect the big macs to go away. They will just be sold as workstations. Probably with the kind of price increase one would expect of a 'Workstation'. It is the lower end Macs that will dry up. The Mac will become the Dev kit for iPads. Apple is in the process of shifting from the PC pricing model to the console pricing model.
Well, I'm not going to argue that. No doubt plumbers and electricians get some pretty crazy requests too.
The best comparison of traditional jobs to a programmer is a plumber or electrician. We are "Tradesmen". We get a spec as to what the customer expects, light switch here... Light bulb there... faucet in this room... Should produce hot and cold water...
From these specs we make it happen. The customer doesn't care what is behind the walls. That doesn't mean that putting the right things behind the walls wont make the difference between an efficient fresh water system, and water stains in the ceiling 2 years later. What it means is that we are left to make sure that what is behind the wall works, and a good tradesman will make sure that the work is quality whether anyone sees it or not. Of course, a good tradesman will also know when to slap something together. He won't spend 6 hours making a quality sawhorse. He will slap some 2x4s together with a few pieces of chipboard, and use this temporary tool to get to the real work.