I only vaguely remember that time, but IIRC according to Norbert's Rules of Adolescence, being a "nerd" pretty much precludes being "cool" and vice versa.
So if the kids at makerspace are cool, then they are not nerds.
I have always felt this same cognitive dissonance with regard to "comic book stores". I think that comic books were only truly "nerdy" when you had to buy them from the newsstand/drugstore in front of "normal people".
No one cares, but IMHO XP was (is) not really too bad.
I use Mac OS X––after having used DOS, and all of the previous Mac Systems thru 9––and frankly I don't like it so much.
Apple's hardware––regardless of what anyone says about it––is the best, but OS X is the least of the BSD's and ought to be replaced with a real one of those.
. . . it doesn't have to be autonomous or even ambulatory.
I agree that a "robot" doesn't have to move around, but "not autonomous" seems to mean that any refined measurement system––like the one used in pro tennis, or even a good thermometer––qualifies as well. That appears to be the kind of thing that this question is asking about.
Maybe it's just a personal bias, but it seems like a robot should not only sensor/measure the environment, but react "autonomously" to it, like do some useful work.
Indicating whether a given pitch falls within in the parameters of a strike zone (to be established for each individual player?) might move the system from "thermometer" to "thermostat", but still doesn't seem like a full-fledged robot.
An automated system for sensing and interpreting play on a baseball diamond wouldn't really be "robotic" would it?
It would rather be a system of cameras and sensors and some calibrated displays so that close plays in the physical world could be replayed and interpreted.
(Killing Bob Costas would not only be good for baseball, but just in general make the world a better place.)
I don't know what Jobs actually knew about engineering or software design, but I could certainly see that Apple was good when he was involved with the company and pretty awful when he wasn't.
Maybe he was all flash (pun intended), or maybe he knew more than he had diplomas for, or maybe he just had the right managerial stuff. Whatever it was, genius or flourish, it's obviously not given out as readily as are MBA's.
The living can talk about loving or hating or even respecting those no longer with us, but, at the end, one would hope (and it seems very likely) that a life well-lived is its own reward.
Grammar is all well and good, but the phrase," . . . high rate . ..", doesn't convey the same "splat factor" that it does when the word "speed" is included.
Without "splat" your corpse might actually be good-looking . . . unless, of course, you already looked like, uh . . . like a grammar Nazi going in.
The Tunny is an emulator of the German 12-rotor Lorenz cipher machine, which encrypted messages from the German high command using a new machine-generated code each time
The "original" can always be "just one more iteration back" in history.
Back in 2003 when Mozilla and Firefox first emerged, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer owned 95% of the browser market. Mozilla single-handedly destroyed IE over the next five years
That's a bit of an overstatement I think. Keeping in mind the "guesstimate" nature of browser market share, the usage trends for both IE and FF (mutant Mozilla) are probably not so much the results of direct competition as they are simply the predictable result of the market "maturing" as the executive types say.
IE probably went downwards b/c there is actually a lot more competition now in terms of OS and platform; it's not all desktops on desks running XP.
Having used the Walmart service a few times myself, I always found it to be a pretty good one.
I remember being surprised at the extent of the catalog they offered, but that was at least more than 5 years ago.
I should say that as highly as I value Apple's hardware––and used to swear by their software (now, not so much, just give us 'BSD for cryin' out loud)––I have never liked iTunes or its store.
Walmart would've done better I think to put those "create your own mix CD" machines into their stores. I believe that was their original plan a long time ago and it's probably a better fit for their clientele.
Of course, the downside would be kids hanging around the elec. dept. like it was a "malt shop", legal challenges from the RIAA about extra fees for discouraging album-unit sales, and teeth-gnashing from tweedy musicologists about how "Walmart is killing the concept album as an artistic medium."
Police power? All they need are Terms Of Service. Copyright infringement = TOS violation = internet connection terminated. You'll need a lawyer to convince them to reinstate, assuming such is even possible.
That's what I mean: the "strikes" schemes won't survive any serious legal challenges.
I don't think that a group of commercial service providers can stop someone from contracting for their type of service based solely on the fact that the subscriber may have breached a contract for same at some time in the past. If the subscriber's options for that service are limited to just those providers then that would be an absolute bar to that person's access, something which that group of service providers does not have the power to enforce.
Rather, I think that what is probably sustainable is some kind of "copyright credit rating", which could be used to calculate how much to charge a subscriber based on their past history of infringing behavior. A person's rating would improve for time spent with access and no infringement; sort of like auto insurance rates vis a vis citations and accidents, or maybe/. karma points, eh.
It doesn't seem like any of the "strikes" plans has any hope of working out.
ISP's have no police power and locking someone out from access to any given service--particularly if they've paid the statutory damages for whatever infringing they've been shown to have committed--requires police power. And it does not seem like even if they did have that power that it could be used to accomplish any of the "strikes" that are described in TFV.
We’ll continue to push speed and innovation—the driving forces behind Google Labs—across all our products, as the early launch of the Google+ field trial last month showed.
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I only vaguely remember that time, but IIRC according to Norbert's Rules of Adolescence, being a "nerd" pretty much precludes being "cool" and vice versa.
So if the kids at makerspace are cool, then they are not nerds.
I have always felt this same cognitive dissonance with regard to "comic book stores". I think that comic books were only truly "nerdy" when you had to buy them from the newsstand/drugstore in front of "normal people".
IMHO, it ain't nerdy unless it's embarrassing.
No one cares, but IMHO XP was (is) not really too bad.
I use Mac OS X––after having used DOS, and all of the previous Mac Systems thru 9––and frankly I don't like it so much.
Apple's hardware––regardless of what anyone says about it––is the best, but OS X is the least of the BSD's and ought to be replaced with a real one of those.
The price should scale down the older one gets.
If you get it down when you're 22 it's a lot more valuable (in terms of avoiding plastic surgery later on) than if you are "of a certain age".
Past 88 years, it ought to be free. (Unless youre with the IM team.)
. . . it doesn't have to be autonomous or even ambulatory.
I agree that a "robot" doesn't have to move around, but "not autonomous" seems to mean that any refined measurement system––like the one used in pro tennis, or even a good thermometer––qualifies as well. That appears to be the kind of thing that this question is asking about.
Maybe it's just a personal bias, but it seems like a robot should not only sensor/measure the environment, but react "autonomously" to it, like do some useful work.
Indicating whether a given pitch falls within in the parameters of a strike zone (to be established for each individual player?) might move the system from "thermometer" to "thermostat", but still doesn't seem like a full-fledged robot.
An automated system for sensing and interpreting play on a baseball diamond wouldn't really be "robotic" would it?
It would rather be a system of cameras and sensors and some calibrated displays so that close plays in the physical world could be replayed and interpreted.
(Killing Bob Costas would not only be good for baseball, but just in general make the world a better place.)
I'd be for anything that gets agents out of the way.
Fewer gatekeepers is always a good thing.
The monk and the delicious strawberry (iMac).
I don't know what Jobs actually knew about engineering or software design, but I could certainly see that Apple was good when he was involved with the company and pretty awful when he wasn't.
Maybe he was all flash (pun intended), or maybe he knew more than he had diplomas for, or maybe he just had the right managerial stuff. Whatever it was, genius or flourish, it's obviously not given out as readily as are MBA's.
The living can talk about loving or hating or even respecting those no longer with us, but, at the end, one would hope (and it seems very likely) that a life well-lived is its own reward.
I can see my house!
Why are these called, "quantum" dots?
I am fairly ignorant when it comes to "quantum-ness", but I don't really see how the word applies here.
Is it just the pairing of the particles?
A cute one, no less.
So what was the placebo in this study, twiddling your thumbs? :)
Or was it, watching Sponge-Bob for 20 minutes?
Pillsbury already passed this stuff off on unsuspecting kids in the 1960's-70's.
Since the link in TFS is no longer functioning, I conclude that, yes, they do.
Really, anything in this vein ought to at least "touch" Akibahara, no?
Grammar is all well and good, but the phrase," . . . high rate . . .", doesn't convey the same "splat factor" that it does when the word "speed" is included.
Without "splat" your corpse might actually be good-looking . . . unless, of course, you already looked like, uh . . . like a grammar Nazi going in.
. . .but then you'll leave a good-looking corpse . . . unless "live fast" also means you'll be traveling at a high rate of speed when you die.
From TFA:
The Tunny is an emulator of the German 12-rotor Lorenz cipher machine, which encrypted messages from the German high command using a new machine-generated code each time
The "original" can always be "just one more iteration back" in history.
I'm not convinced about the "profit" motive involved with this.
Every sporting event I've been to recently is pretty strict on where photos may be taken from.
I don't see the average iPhone user beating those people on the field with the lenses on monopods.
Now, shooting celebs as they come out of the tanning salon, maybe.
Back in 2003 when Mozilla and Firefox first emerged, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer owned 95% of the browser market. Mozilla single-handedly destroyed IE over the next five years
That's a bit of an overstatement I think. Keeping in mind the "guesstimate" nature of browser market share, the usage trends for both IE and FF (mutant Mozilla) are probably not so much the results of direct competition as they are simply the predictable result of the market "maturing" as the executive types say.
IE probably went downwards b/c there is actually a lot more competition now in terms of OS and platform; it's not all desktops on desks running XP.
Having used the Walmart service a few times myself, I always found it to be a pretty good one.
I remember being surprised at the extent of the catalog they offered, but that was at least more than 5 years ago.
I should say that as highly as I value Apple's hardware––and used to swear by their software (now, not so much, just give us 'BSD for cryin' out loud)––I have never liked iTunes or its store.
Walmart would've done better I think to put those "create your own mix CD" machines into their stores. I believe that was their original plan a long time ago and it's probably a better fit for their clientele.
Of course, the downside would be kids hanging around the elec. dept. like it was a "malt shop", legal challenges from the RIAA about extra fees for discouraging album-unit sales, and teeth-gnashing from tweedy musicologists about how "Walmart is killing the concept album as an artistic medium."
So, maybe it's better this way.
Police power? All they need are Terms Of Service. Copyright infringement = TOS violation = internet connection terminated. You'll need a lawyer to convince them to reinstate, assuming such is even possible.
That's what I mean: the "strikes" schemes won't survive any serious legal challenges.
/. karma points, eh.
I don't think that a group of commercial service providers can stop someone from contracting for their type of service based solely on the fact that the subscriber may have breached a contract for same at some time in the past. If the subscriber's options for that service are limited to just those providers then that would be an absolute bar to that person's access, something which that group of service providers does not have the power to enforce.
Rather, I think that what is probably sustainable is some kind of "copyright credit rating", which could be used to calculate how much to charge a subscriber based on their past history of infringing behavior. A person's rating would improve for time spent with access and no infringement; sort of like auto insurance rates vis a vis citations and accidents, or maybe
It doesn't seem like any of the "strikes" plans has any hope of working out.
ISP's have no police power and locking someone out from access to any given service--particularly if they've paid the statutory damages for whatever infringing they've been shown to have committed--requires police power. And it does not seem like even if they did have that power that it could be used to accomplish any of the "strikes" that are described in TFV.
We’ll continue to push speed and innovation—the driving forces behind Google Labs—across all our products, as the early launch of the Google+ field trial last month showed.
It's a lot faster just to read the orig.
The understandability to interact has always been an issue on Twitter for new users
Ummm . . . yes, "the understandability to interact" . . . that is an issue . . . ???