Re:It's just training for future geekery
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Has Lego Sold Out?
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· Score: 4, Funny
I didn't get an allowance until I was a teenager and even then it was only 25 cents a week. Mowing a lawn in those days was worth $1..
You were lucky! We didn't have lawns when I was young.
We lived in a small shoe-box by the side of the road. Every night before bed our dad would thrash us and kill us and then dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah!"
You try telling the geeks of today that, and they won't believe you . . .
So you're saying that you believe that people who are facing their last moments on Earth, if given wifi/cell access during that time would/should NOT call their loved ones to say good-bye/"I love you", but should/would post on twitter instead, and include emoticons?
ps -- Thanks for your de rigueur introduction of victimhood into the discussion.:-O
TFA says that 80% of victims of scam artists are elderly.
Depending on what counts as a "scam"–some people think the lottery is a big one–there are way too many other reasons beyond something wrong with their brains to make this explanation complete or even useful.
For example, a much better and simpler explanation is that the older you are the more likely you are to be socially isolated. Socially isolated people are easier prey for scammers.
In fact, the results reported in TFA more usefully support something that trial lawyers have believed for a long time: young people see the world black and white, while the older you get the more it all runs to grey. So, depending on their case, they pack the jury accordingly.
Why didn't Wired ask her how she paid to live for 3 years in one of the most expensive cities in the world?
Seriously, I'd like to know.
None of the guidebooks I've ever read say anything about how getting an eff.org email address is a substitute for avg. $2K@month in rent. (Highest in the USA.)
There is also the “deskilling” issue, where eventually no one knows how to drive a car (or fly a plane). This isn’t so bad if every car on the road is autonomous, and if steering wheels are removed altogether, but the in between period could be tricky.
If all cars on the road are autonomous why don't we just have trains, light rail and subways?
It takes society thirty years, more or less, to absorb a new information technology into daily life. It took about that long to turn movable type into books in the fifteenth century. Telephones were invented in the 1870s but did not change our lives until the 1900s. Motion pictures were born in the 1890s but became an important industry in the 1920s. Television, invented in the mid-1920’s, took until the mid-1950s to bind us to our sofas.
We still have books and telephones and movies and tv's so what the hell is his point?
ps--Judging by his photo in the banner, his blog ought to be called, "I, Crinkly".
After looking at all of the ipads, galaxy media players and ereaders, I went cheap and got an ipod touch.
It may be walled, but it's a good kind of walled (and each of us already has a secret garden inside anyway).
Seriously though, the laptop is best for work and tv-substitute at home, IMHO; otherwise, for that on-the-go crap the ipod touch seems more than adequate (in a non-double-entendre kind of way). I don't know why the world needs more "in-betweens".
The bulk of TFA seems to be making the point that the more depressed respondents used the internet more, though in the same ways, as their less depressed cohorts.
That's neither surprising nor a bad thing since the main thing that people do with the internet is communicate with others. The primary problem for depressed people is feeling that they are alone and isolated in their suffering.
In that respect, particularly for college students who may be away from their homes for the first time in their lives, the internet is probably a good (and ready) palliative.
Doesn't this more likely mean that there are just a lot more people using IE than Chrome and so their average is going to be closer to the mean of the greater population?
On the other hand, I don't use Chrome, so my maths may not be as high good as my Englishin' and grammarin' is.
The proposed "right to be forgotten" seems very much like the already accepted "right to informational self-determination".
However, the naming of this latest version shifts the intent of the citizen exercising such a right from trying to retain some privacy from institutions and governments to trying to "cover up" the past.
I would say this is an attempt to position the implicit police goals of ACTA as being "pro-free speech" when really those are fairly clearly anti-privacy.
It's kind of like if John Doe, Jane Smith and Lady Gaga shopped at a clothing store whose clothes come from sweatshops, and complaining that everybody is focusing on Lady Gaga.
Not really. It would only be sort of like that if (1) John Doe and Jane Smith were also in the business of becoming celebrated recording stars, and (2) buying clothes at the store you've described guaranteed cd sales and profits on those sales.
Then you might be on to something; as it is, Dell, Acer, the entirety of the US auto industry, Sony, Toshiba, etc, etc. aren't at all like John Doe and Jane Smith.
Apple hasn't compromised that much but definitely deliberately goes to cheaper more "flexible" places at cost of labor protection
That was basically what we were all told back in the 1990's was Michael Dell's "stroke of business genius".
Even if Dell Computer, Apple and the rest now made "moral choice" an imperative in their industry, wouldn't that be asking everyone who might want to get into that business to work with constraints imposed by competitors who now dominate the market basically because they never faced those same constraints?
That's like North Americans trying to force South Americans not to clear-cut the rain forest as a matter of environmental concerns even though a large part of our economy was built on the very same practice.
Sauce for the goose.
I heard he's divorcing Heidi Klumlab . . .
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Remembering Sealab
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I'm not sure that the fact that the "aquanauts" had funny-sounding voices when they were in their undersea, "synthetic-gas environment" is a sufficient explanation for the public and the media ignoring the Sealab programs.
If the media and a cereal company could turn Kim Kardashian's cross-dressing step-dad into a symbol of American manhood, then Scott Carpenter's helium-induced impression of Felix the Cat could not really have been that big of a public relations problem.
Slashdot Mirror
. (and anyone who works at a "museum for science/nature/mathematics") on a rocket and send them out to meet it.
Even if it doesn't work at least we will all at last know paradise, if only for a few brief moments.
It is a blogreggator.
So then the article is "blogreggation"?
I didn't get an allowance until I was a teenager and even then it was only 25 cents a week. Mowing a lawn in those days was worth $1..
You were lucky! We didn't have lawns when I was young.
We lived in a small shoe-box by the side of the road. Every night before bed our dad would thrash us and kill us and then dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah!"
You try telling the geeks of today that, and they won't believe you . . .
So you're saying that you believe that people who are facing their last moments on Earth, if given wifi/cell access during that time would/should NOT call their loved ones to say good-bye/"I love you", but should/would post on twitter instead, and include emoticons?
:-O
ps -- Thanks for your de rigueur introduction of victimhood into the discussion.
Who stops to type emoticons in the middle of a natural disaster (including switching to the alternate keyboard to get those characters)?
TFA says that 80% of victims of scam artists are elderly.
Depending on what counts as a "scam"–some people think the lottery is a big one–there are way too many other reasons beyond something wrong with their brains to make this explanation complete or even useful.
For example, a much better and simpler explanation is that the older you are the more likely you are to be socially isolated. Socially isolated people are easier prey for scammers.
In fact, the results reported in TFA more usefully support something that trial lawyers have believed for a long time: young people see the world black and white, while the older you get the more it all runs to grey. So, depending on their case, they pack the jury accordingly.
Why didn't Wired ask her how she paid to live for 3 years in one of the most expensive cities in the world?
Seriously, I'd like to know.
None of the guidebooks I've ever read say anything about how getting an eff.org email address is a substitute for avg. $2K@month in rent. (Highest in the USA.)
. McCain as "Iron Dome" when he writes about him in his diary at night.
True story.
There is also the “deskilling” issue, where eventually no one knows how to drive a car (or fly a plane). This isn’t so bad if every car on the road is autonomous, and if steering wheels are removed altogether, but the in between period could be tricky.
If all cars on the road are autonomous why don't we just have trains, light rail and subways?
It does make a person want to start dual-booting again.
This seems to be a ruling barring a complaining copyright holder from piling a negligence claim on top of any statutory damages.
So, if the kid here could show that he didn't do the downloading, but his roommate did he could still be held responsible by negligence.
With this ruling, the plaintiff is limited to statutory damages against the actual infringer, be that the defendant or his roommate.
From TFA:
It takes society thirty years, more or less, to absorb a new information technology into daily life. It took about that long to turn movable type into books in the fifteenth century. Telephones were invented in the 1870s but did not change our lives until the 1900s. Motion pictures were born in the 1890s but became an important industry in the 1920s. Television, invented in the mid-1920’s, took until the mid-1950s to bind us to our sofas.
We still have books and telephones and movies and tv's so what the hell is his point?
ps--Judging by his photo in the banner, his blog ought to be called, "I, Crinkly".
BG's a drop-out, isn't he?
Desktop environments in general are losing ground aren't they?
In favor of cloud-clients and tablet-specific os's, no?
Screen "Forbidden Planet" for them and nonchalantly mention that it's often cited as having "inspired" much of ST's look and style.
If your friends have the remotest interest that will certainly reel them in.
After looking at all of the ipads, galaxy media players and ereaders, I went cheap and got an ipod touch.
It may be walled, but it's a good kind of walled (and each of us already has a secret garden inside anyway).
Seriously though, the laptop is best for work and tv-substitute at home, IMHO; otherwise, for that on-the-go crap the ipod touch seems more than adequate (in a non-double-entendre kind of way). I don't know why the world needs more "in-betweens".
vagaina
Is that the Star Trek creature that sucked all of the salt out of a person's body?
The bulk of TFA seems to be making the point that the more depressed respondents used the internet more, though in the same ways, as their less depressed cohorts.
That's neither surprising nor a bad thing since the main thing that people do with the internet is communicate with others. The primary problem for depressed people is feeling that they are alone and isolated in their suffering.
In that respect, particularly for college students who may be away from their homes for the first time in their lives, the internet is probably a good (and ready) palliative.
You should think about changing your userid to "ReallyReallyReallySadBob".
Linux is cool though . . .
Doesn't this more likely mean that there are just a lot more people using IE than Chrome and so their average is going to be closer to the mean of the greater population?
On the other hand, I don't use Chrome, so my maths may not be as high good as my Englishin' and grammarin' is.
I'm sure if Google builds it, "they" will com.
The proposed "right to be forgotten" seems very much like the already accepted "right to informational self-determination".
However, the naming of this latest version shifts the intent of the citizen exercising such a right from trying to retain some privacy from institutions and governments to trying to "cover up" the past.
I would say this is an attempt to position the implicit police goals of ACTA as being "pro-free speech" when really those are fairly clearly anti-privacy.
It's kind of like if John Doe, Jane Smith and Lady Gaga shopped at a clothing store whose clothes come from sweatshops, and complaining that everybody is focusing on Lady Gaga.
Not really. It would only be sort of like that if (1) John Doe and Jane Smith were also in the business of becoming celebrated recording stars, and (2) buying clothes at the store you've described guaranteed cd sales and profits on those sales.
Then you might be on to something; as it is, Dell, Acer, the entirety of the US auto industry, Sony, Toshiba, etc, etc. aren't at all like John Doe and Jane Smith.
Apple hasn't compromised that much but definitely deliberately goes to cheaper more "flexible" places at cost of labor protection
That was basically what we were all told back in the 1990's was Michael Dell's "stroke of business genius".
Even if Dell Computer, Apple and the rest now made "moral choice" an imperative in their industry, wouldn't that be asking everyone who might want to get into that business to work with constraints imposed by competitors who now dominate the market basically because they never faced those same constraints?
That's like North Americans trying to force South Americans not to clear-cut the rain forest as a matter of environmental concerns even though a large part of our economy was built on the very same practice.
Sauce for the goose.
I'm not sure that the fact that the "aquanauts" had funny-sounding voices when they were in their undersea, "synthetic-gas environment" is a sufficient explanation for the public and the media ignoring the Sealab programs.
If the media and a cereal company could turn Kim Kardashian's cross-dressing step-dad into a symbol of American manhood, then Scott Carpenter's helium-induced impression of Felix the Cat could not really have been that big of a public relations problem.