"supported by industry associations such as the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and members including Apple, Microsoft and SAP"
The evil trio of IT and it's attack dog. But hey, they just play the game of monopoly as far as the law allows. The really ugly part are the politicians who accept the bribes - sorry, I mean, work with lobbyists - and decide regulations benefitting the 1% only.
I also see two other reasons: On the one hand, stricter parents and more discipline. On the other hand, studying engineering in the past was more into "build things", rather than "specialize and memorize".
When reading about projects like these I'm always wondering how the poor people pay for phone usage, the vouchers, or even where they charge their phones, because I am under the impression that in these rural villages people exchange goods and services, not money.
Why [...] would you bring electricity to a society that doesn't have it?
Ignoring the obvious practical advantages of electricity and related appliances for a moment, this is indeed an interesting question.
In the end it's a good thing I'd say - modern civilization and infrastrucure gives people more time to use their brains. Unfortunately, that surplus time is often wasted by watching TV, going to church, or similar brain washing activities.
Excellent analysis. And as most people have the desire to "communicate" about every day trivialities while using their brains as little as possible, FB rules the internet every day a little bit more. FB is basically the culmination of Eternal September.
Especially the crap "video". It actually looks like taken during the 60s, recorded to VHS from TV, transferred to another VHS tape, and then converted to digital by filming it from an old TV with a 10 year old point-and-shoot camera.
This is a good one. The main culprit of this cycle seems to be the Uni PR office - if they wouldn't start to simplify the research results, they would only be picked up by those who understand it, and no dumbing-down-let's-all-panic-and-draw-wrong-conclusions cycle would start.
Wrong. "2+2=4" does not "exist". It is merely the result of a useful tool developed through philosophical thinking. Apart from the fact that "2+2" - under certain conditions within specific mathematic theories - is not necessarily "4".
You actually illustrate the article's point: as long as we don't see the errors or shortcomings in a theory, we take it for granted and base further assumptions on it. And of course it is a success when errors are found and scientific knowledge is enhanced. But meanwhile, erroneous assumptions can hurt us, especially in medicine.
This article is good. It is not anti-science. Those who dismiss it as stupid and laugh about the psychological test example don't get the correlation (pun intended) between our brain's inclination to simplify and the errors we make by using the scientific method.
The fact that our understanding of complex systems isn't getting better by trial and error can mean two things: we need another approach to understand them, or we need to do trial and error much faster in order to have more statistical data. The latter will be possible in some areas of science with computing power and AI. Hopefully medicine is one of those areas.
First a story about a comet flying through the sun unharmed. Now a story about planets surviving an expanding sun. Clearly a new PR strategy of the Climate Change Deniers (tm) !
Politicians and journalists from English speaking countries ALWAYS overstate the potential of national threats. And boy do they love their security theatre. The best one: The American president giving a speech abroad. Hilarious!
say 15' away, having a device cranking out enough power to go 200' is way too much power
The WiFi routers I've seen have a setup were one can adjust the output power. Of course, almost noone sets it to something sensible, which means my neighbour's signals a stronger than my own in parts of the apartment (on the other hand, that same inability to configure WiFi means they all fight around the channels 1-4, so I can avoid them).
Routers should have an automatic power adjustment for the devices it has connected. Is this technically possible?
When there is no Apple nor BitCoin story, 3D Printing comes to the rescue. But/. editors should have learned that instead we need more stories with female scientists who discuss Mechanical Stimulation (TM).
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"supported by industry associations such as the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and members including Apple, Microsoft and SAP"
The evil trio of IT and it's attack dog. But hey, they just play the game of monopoly as far as the law allows. The really ugly part are the politicians who accept the bribes - sorry, I mean, work with lobbyists - and decide regulations benefitting the 1% only.
I also see two other reasons: On the one hand, stricter parents and more discipline. On the other hand, studying engineering in the past was more into "build things", rather than "specialize and memorize".
When reading about projects like these I'm always wondering how the poor people pay for phone usage, the vouchers, or even where they charge their phones, because I am under the impression that in these rural villages people exchange goods and services, not money.
Why [...] would you bring electricity to a society that doesn't have it?
Ignoring the obvious practical advantages of electricity and related appliances for a moment, this is indeed an interesting question.
In the end it's a good thing I'd say - modern civilization and infrastrucure gives people more time to use their brains. Unfortunately, that surplus time is often wasted by watching TV, going to church, or similar brain washing activities.
In his case, the correct designation is "nooooooob".
That kind of triviality is what FB was meant for.
Excellent analysis. And as most people have the desire to "communicate" about every day trivialities while using their brains as little as possible, FB rules the internet every day a little bit more.
FB is basically the culmination of Eternal September.
Strange, for some reason I misread your nick as "GodwinHell".
In that case it is not because of the wages, but because of Brazil's customs laws - they're very protective, and import tax is very high.
I guess he wanted to add mass to the thread.
Especially the crap "video". It actually looks like taken during the 60s, recorded to VHS from TV, transferred to another VHS tape, and then converted to digital by filming it from an old TV with a 10 year old point-and-shoot camera.
I just heard the refraction of light as it WHOOSHES through a prism...
This is a good one. The main culprit of this cycle seems to be the Uni PR office - if they wouldn't start to simplify the research results, they would only be picked up by those who understand it, and no dumbing-down-let's-all-panic-and-draw-wrong-conclusions cycle would start.
Wrong. "2+2=4" does not "exist". It is merely the result of a useful tool developed through philosophical thinking. Apart from the fact that "2+2" - under certain conditions within specific mathematic theories - is not necessarily "4".
You actually illustrate the article's point: as long as we don't see the errors or shortcomings in a theory, we take it for granted and base further assumptions on it. And of course it is a success when errors are found and scientific knowledge is enhanced. But meanwhile, erroneous assumptions can hurt us, especially in medicine.
This article is good. It is not anti-science. Those who dismiss it as stupid and laugh about the psychological test example don't get the correlation (pun intended) between our brain's inclination to simplify and the errors we make by using the scientific method.
The fact that our understanding of complex systems isn't getting better by trial and error can mean two things: we need another approach to understand them, or we need to do trial and error much faster in order to have more statistical data. The latter will be possible in some areas of science with computing power and AI. Hopefully medicine is one of those areas.
Average information content - does a page view give me more insight as a user now than it did 10 years ago?
First a story about a comet flying through the sun unharmed. Now a story about planets surviving an expanding sun. Clearly a new PR strategy of the Climate Change Deniers (tm) !
That's what his wife said.
Pics or it didn't happen. No, wait...
Politicians and journalists from English speaking countries ALWAYS overstate the potential of national threats. And boy do they love their security theatre. The best one: The American president giving a speech abroad. Hilarious!
Why getting worked up over moderation? Browse at -1 and be done with it. Also, threads make more sense this way.
insta-gib kills galore
OK, I'll buy it.
The programming references were good, but I think I still need a car analogy.
say 15' away, having a device cranking out enough power to go 200' is way too much power
The WiFi routers I've seen have a setup were one can adjust the output power. Of course, almost noone sets it to something sensible, which means my neighbour's signals a stronger than my own in parts of the apartment (on the other hand, that same inability to configure WiFi means they all fight around the channels 1-4, so I can avoid them).
Routers should have an automatic power adjustment for the devices it has connected. Is this technically possible?
When there is no Apple nor BitCoin story, 3D Printing comes to the rescue. But /. editors should have learned that instead we need more stories with female scientists who discuss Mechanical Stimulation (TM).