I thought you could get the iPhone SDK for free and self-sign your own applications to use on your own phone for testing purposes. Otherwise how would the independent developers who put up free, open-source software on iTunes survive ?
I've also found that if students are given a copy of the slides beforehand they don't listen as well, skip ahead, etc. Whereas if things are written on the board, people are forced to concentrate and write, draw, think, ask questions, engage and have a better chance of understanding in fine. Also the material can be presented in multiple ways, whereas a single figure on a slide can be confusing.
Go have a look at the MIT Gilbert Strang applied math lectures on the web. This guy is well over 65, he should be a relic, but he teaches enthusiastically on the blackboard like a young man and it works. It even works on video !
Actually a lot of people don't put a lot of value into tertiary humanities or science education. The secondary education in Australia is pretty good, and so is the trade training system through technical education (called TAFE - tertiary and further education). You can get a good trade degree in everything from cooking to carpentry via horticulture going there one day a week over three years, while you work. At the end you can get a really good job that meets most people's needs : enough to pay for a house and family. Going to college is for those who want to become lawyer, doctor, scientist or teacher. This is not necessarily everyone.
Reread what you wrote. The top 1% of income earners in America are getting an excellent deal. They are using most of the public and private infrastructure for their own benefit at only about 40% of what it really costs to maintain them.
Ah yes, you are out of touch with reality. How many Americans have you met that didn't go to college because they couldn't afford it? In a country with community colleges charging $26 a credit, in a country with Pell grants for the poor, anyone can afford college.
With all due respect, you are the one out of touch with reality. Only 29% of Americans achieve tertiary education, this means the vast majority of Americans either go to college but do not graduate or don't go to college at all. Even at a $26 a credit, one needs to see a value in education. Pell grants eventually have to be repaid. This requires long-term thinking but many people do not or cannot think long-term.
Of course the math you know from 100 years ago is the one that you do use. It does not follow that all math (of physics) from 1909 as enormous value now.
From memory CISCO got an early license because they bought the startup from CSIRO that set put to exploit that patent and related others. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The implication was that netbook took off *even without* XP. Eeepc were selling like hotcakes even when XP was not available for them, only a specially-designed version of Linux. I remember (about a year ago) people queuing to get them.
Microsoft got late into the party and netbook have become much bigger, with more memory, they sport a HD instead of an SSD, and yes, they do run XP. My original serie 7 eepc fits into my coat pocket, but none of the latest 10" screen offering does. I don't necessarily view this as progress.
Now lately my workplace tried to order 3 MSI Wind with Linux on them (cheaper and with a 20GB SSD instead of a 120GB HD), but our corporate provider didn't have them, only the XP version. We installed Linux on them ourselves.
Reading between the line, I think the GP meant that the NeXT OS felt very responsive on NeXT hardware, which was like a 25MHz 68030 or 68040 at the time. Given that we have now multi-GHz CPUs and that user-responsiveness is not great on OS/X, this is an indication of stupendous non-achievement.
I see your point, but Apple will only have incentive to raise their salaries when their engineers leave in drove for Microsoft or Google or elsewhere, stating that their level of pay was inadequate.
There is more to a workplace than the paycheck. Many people will take a paycut if they are in a place where they feel happy and productive.
The lower level of pay is also a barrier to entry for the merely greedy. "Let no one enter here who does not feel enthusiasm for the Apple cause", or some such nonsense.
Even reading it as you put it I find Google argument very shaky. No one actually admits that Libraries are within their right to do anything else than lend actual books to actual physical subscribers. Hosting works online is a massively different matter, and moreover Google was making money off the deal. I think they would have lost, but IANAL.
Thanks for sharing your experience and really sorry about your dad. Western societies generally lacks compassion, this is exactly it, but the US is an extreme example it seems, at least judging by the incredible comments on this forum. There is more to life than one's supposedly short term achievements, carees, money and showoff items.
Feeding the troll I know, but everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, mine is that altruism works better than greed for a *society* as opposed to a collection of individual. Kant explained that better than I ever could.
As for contribution to society vs. wealth I'm not sure that they correlate that well. Look up the Enron executive or Bernie Madoff on the one hand and Vincent Van Gogh or Charlie Parker on the other.
Thanks for the link to the Wright-Curtiss patent war of the early 20th century in aviation. There it states that because of that patent war, aviation did not progress as swiftly in the US as it did in Europe, so much so that when the US entered WWI, it had no competitive aircraft and was forced to use French ones!
This is a perfect illustration that in the wrong context, especially patent trolls, patents actively hinder progress.
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I thought you could get the iPhone SDK for free and self-sign your own applications to use on your own phone for testing purposes. Otherwise how would the independent developers who put up free, open-source software on iTunes survive ?
You haven't been in his class, so you don't know.
I've also found that if students are given a copy of the slides beforehand they don't listen as well, skip ahead, etc. Whereas if things are written on the board, people are forced to concentrate and write, draw, think, ask questions, engage and have a better chance of understanding in fine. Also the material can be presented in multiple ways, whereas a single figure on a slide can be confusing.
Go have a look at the MIT Gilbert Strang applied math lectures on the web. This guy is well over 65, he should be a relic, but he teaches enthusiastically on the blackboard like a young man and it works. It even works on video !
Most of the time the US does not have to pay Haliburton pork money to rebuild infrastructure in a far away land at vastly overinflated rates either.
Actually a lot of people don't put a lot of value into tertiary humanities or science education. The secondary education in Australia is pretty good, and so is the trade training system through technical education (called TAFE - tertiary and further education). You can get a good trade degree in everything from cooking to carpentry via horticulture going there one day a week over three years, while you work. At the end you can get a really good job that meets most people's needs : enough to pay for a house and family. Going to college is for those who want to become lawyer, doctor, scientist or teacher. This is not necessarily everyone.
Don't take this personally, but a nurse or a medical doctor is not a research scientist.
Thanks, that was very interesting.
Reread what you wrote. The top 1% of income earners in America are getting an excellent deal. They are using most of the public and private infrastructure for their own benefit at only about 40% of what it really costs to maintain them.
Ah yes, the good old 19th century, where men were men and died at age 50.
With all due respect, you are the one out of touch with reality. Only 29% of Americans achieve tertiary education, this means the vast majority of Americans either go to college but do not graduate or don't go to college at all. Even at a $26 a credit, one needs to see a value in education. Pell grants eventually have to be repaid. This requires long-term thinking but many people do not or cannot think long-term.
Many universities in Europe are free, getting into them is easy as long as you speak the language, and there is no shortage of them.
Specialisation is for insects.
Of course the math you know from 100 years ago is the one that you do use. It does not follow that all math (of physics) from 1909 as enormous value now.
From memory CISCO got an early license because they bought the startup from CSIRO that set put to exploit that patent and related others. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That is because Photoshop selection tools plainly suck. Look up grabcuts.
Grabcuts is what this tool uses.
OK, so the English provided centuries of oppression, but I don't think it was quite as *intense* as the Nazi's.
It's not OK to eat humans because you easily get very sick.
That's not what the parent implied.
The implication was that netbook took off *even without* XP. Eeepc were selling like hotcakes even when XP was not available for them, only a specially-designed version of Linux. I remember (about a year ago) people queuing to get them.
Microsoft got late into the party and netbook have become much bigger, with more memory, they sport a HD instead of an SSD, and yes, they do run XP. My original serie 7 eepc fits into my coat pocket, but none of the latest 10" screen offering does. I don't necessarily view this as progress.
Now lately my workplace tried to order 3 MSI Wind with Linux on them (cheaper and with a 20GB SSD instead of a 120GB HD), but our corporate provider didn't have them, only the XP version. We installed Linux on them ourselves.
Reading between the line, I think the GP meant that the NeXT OS felt very responsive on NeXT hardware, which was like a 25MHz 68030 or 68040 at the time. Given that we have now multi-GHz CPUs and that user-responsiveness is not great on OS/X, this is an indication of stupendous non-achievement.
I see your point, but Apple will only have incentive to raise their salaries when their engineers leave in drove for Microsoft or Google or elsewhere, stating that their level of pay was inadequate.
There is more to a workplace than the paycheck. Many people will take a paycut if they are in a place where they feel happy and productive.
The lower level of pay is also a barrier to entry for the merely greedy. "Let no one enter here who does not feel enthusiasm for the Apple cause", or some such nonsense.
Sorry if this redundant, but the title is not very clear, we are talking about 8 threads *per core*, not 8 threads total like with the Intel i7.
Even reading it as you put it I find Google argument very shaky. No one actually admits that Libraries are within their right to do anything else than lend actual books to actual physical subscribers. Hosting works online is a massively different matter, and moreover Google was making money off the deal. I think they would have lost, but IANAL.
Thanks for sharing your experience and really sorry about your dad. Western societies generally lacks compassion, this is exactly it, but the US is an extreme example it seems, at least judging by the incredible comments on this forum. There is more to life than one's supposedly short term achievements, carees, money and showoff items.
Feeding the troll I know, but everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, mine is that altruism works better than greed for a *society* as opposed to a collection of individual. Kant explained that better than I ever could.
As for contribution to society vs. wealth I'm not sure that they correlate that well. Look up the Enron executive or Bernie Madoff on the one hand and Vincent Van Gogh or Charlie Parker on the other.
Thanks for the link to the Wright-Curtiss patent war of the early 20th century in aviation. There it states that because of that patent war, aviation did not progress as swiftly in the US as it did in Europe, so much so that when the US entered WWI, it had no competitive aircraft and was forced to use French ones!
This is a perfect illustration that in the wrong context, especially patent trolls, patents actively hinder progress.
Because now Linux is pretty stable as well.