As a social conservative who appreciates the damage done by sex offenses and as a pragmatist who recognizes the liklihood of recidivism, I find the concept of sex offender registries appealing. The problem is that sex offense laws have been turned on their head. The Judaic Law (I am Catholic) tolerated teen fornication provided the couple got married afterward, yet in the U.S. an 18-year-old having sex with a 16-year-old is considered rape. On the opposite end of the criminalization spectrum, adultery -- the topic of two of the ten commandments -- has been completely decriminalized in most states!
Yes, a barrier to a universal registry is the pluarlism of sex ethics in the U.S. (obviously I myself am in a minority), so perhaps a solution is to require registries to include searchable/keyed details, so that consumers of registry information can make their own judgment.
Since everyone is putting forth their sweeping generalizations, here's mine:
From the late 90's up until 2008-2010, there were two camps: the old school and the web crowd. But now the old school is learning web, and the web crowd is finally learning OO, design patterns, etc. So now everyone's the same.
Who says Ham Radio is old? It started in 1909, six years after the electrical outlet was patented, which the iPhone already utilized. The iPhone is just catching up with latter-day interfaces.
I'm really glad that, in that post, you label the "rise" of Ron and Rand Paul as a major 21st-century historic event. We all now know that anything you might say on any subject is pretty much total horse hockey.
I wrote that in May, 2010 -- six months before the election of Rand Paul to the Senate. I'd call that ascendancy.
Now, a mistake you make when you are 14 can haunt you for the rest of your life. How is this better?
When you go to apply for a job, they ask, "Do you have any convictions other than traffic violations?" That's because traffic violations have always been public record. When teenage indiscretions become commonly known, society will adapt to what level of indiscretion is acceptable.
The return to societal accountability will be a good thing, in my opinion, but the panopticon that prevents business and political trade secrets and that immortalizes peeping-tom photos will be bad things.
There was a set of circumstances that allowed Maria Montessori to express her genius. She was born smart and put in the effort == yes, she had those two components -- becoming the first female physician in Italy, and having majored in engineering prior to that.
But then something happened to propel her into the work for which we know her today.
She became pregnant -- recall this is circa 1900 Italy -- and the father of her child refused to marry her. So she secretly gave up the child to an orphanage and was heartbroken over missing the child as well as the father of the child, and actually more over the latter. It was at this point that she launched herself into the scientific study of children.
She loved the study of children and appears nurturing of them in photos, yet her writings speak of the children in a cold and scientific manner. Oh, there is a lot of purpose expressed in her writings, a lot of "this is the future of the world," and "this is how we will achieve world peace," but the day-to-day observations are eerily at arms-length. It is just so natural for the rest of us -- too natural -- to "think of the children" with emotion rather than intellectually and scientifically think of the children. My personal theory is that her mothering nurturing was prematurely ended when she gave her son up for adoption.
One of her biographers theorizes that the reason she restricted her study of children to those 3 years old and up -- until 50 years into her career when she was 80 years old and relented to creating a toddler program -- was because it would remind her of her son.
And no one since Maria Montessori seems to have been able to scientifically analyze children and create a resulting pedagogy. Tallying filled scantron bubbles is too narrow -- Maria Montessori was able to observe motion, behavior, and motivation. And other pedagogies are derived from preconceived notions, much as pre-Renaissance "physics" was.
It's not impossible. You just show the computer a photo of a dinosaur, let it start from the DNA of a Komodo Dragon, and let it try different "what if" changes to the DNA, simulating the growth of the each resulting organism. Could even happen within the lifetime of Randall Munroe.
The forces that brought about written documentation were:
1. Computer RAM too small to hold a document, lack of multitasking (in DOS days), and lack of screen resolution/real estate (even pre-dual monitor days, which was only 2-5 years ago).
2. Release cycle of software was annual or longer, rather than automaticaly patched daily from the Internet.
None of those is true any longer. Software should be self-explanitory. And if it's not, there is now an alternative:
YouTube
It's fairly simple to run a screen capture on your laptop with its built-in microphone. It shows the typical run-through, or use case to use the technical term, which is enormously helpful for first-time users. If you can't handle that, then you'd better hope you gain a fan who spontaneously does it for you.
And that's why the Star Wars prequels were forced to introduce swarms of drones.
It's a common problem with sci-fi prequels -- keeping the science (and the societal norms) more advanced than the present day but less advanced than what was shown in the original episodes.
"Skeuomorphism" irritates me as much as "cloud" and "mash-up" before it. The simple term is "metaphor", the pre-2012 standard term for this approach to UI. Are the anti-skeuomorphismists proposing that every GUI OS now give up the folder metaphor? You know, underneath they're "directories".
I'm guessing the objection is to photo-realism of the metaphor rather than the metaphor approach itself. Showing a 24-bit image is like having the joke explained to you. It also adds frustration and cognitive dissonance when the metaphor, which is an anology after all, breaks down -- when it doesn't operate exactly like what is being portrayed in 24-bits. Then, it's not just having the joke explained, it's also a bad pun.
When desktop UI metaphors are rendered in 1-bit, they take on a suggestive and less specific meaning, and the user understands them as hints and the users do not rise up in rebellion with endless trade articles about "skeuomorphisms".
And hundreds of street trees are being cut down. Street trees are not only aesthetic, but they provide shade to pedestrians (reducing VMT), protect pedestrians from cars jumping the curb, and provide shade to adjacent buildings, reducing energy consumption.
But just on aesthetics alone, the resultant concrete jungle visual blight will drag down that local economy far more than a space shuttle tourist attraction. The shuttle will be long forgotten before replacement trees can be grown.
Are there any free or cheap alternatives to get certificates or other more convincing ways to prove your IT knowledge?
Wrong question. What you really meant to ask:
Are there any free or cheap alternatives to get clients?
And the answer is: networking. It's free or cheap, but it's time-consuming and time-delayed.
And I consider referrals to be a special case of networking. You said you already "did stuff". If what you did was just for yourself, then you need to do it for someone else. There are plenty of non-profits (or even mom & pop for-profits) who would love some free work.
Although Debian and the chart refer to AMD64, it's really generic x86 64-bit support, not AMD-specific. I.e. even though there are differences between AMD 64 and Intel 64, Debian AMD64 will run on both. It would have been clearer had it been named x86-64, and indeed it used to be until it was changed with some tortured logic and desire to give AMD credit for being first with 64-bit extensions rather than have clarity of names and purpose.
When robots start doing work autonomously, output becomes decoupled from "hours per capita".
So "By definition, whenever hours per capita decline, then output per capita must grow more slowly than productivity" is true now, but won't be true once robots act more autonomously than they do now.
I actually read the full 25 page paper, thus my late comment that will now be buried at the bottom of the heap. It was a fascinating perspective on the past millenium of human history -- I can't recall the last time I read a 25-page PDF word-for-word in one sitting. But in its stated goal of predicting "per capita output" of the "99%" for 2007-2100, it failed to consider three critical upcoming changes to human society.:
1. The Singularity. Estimates vary of when it will happen, centered on around 2050. Any forecast for 2007-2100 must account for the Singularity.
2. Population. The UN is forecasting "peak population" sometime during the coming century. By not taking into account population, the paper ignores the denominator of its thesis metric! As automation continues to replace human labor, it's possible that in the future, contrary to millenia past, population reduction may result in an increase of GDP per capita.
3. Sex. A combination of increasing wealth disparity and accelerating promiscuity will turn a greater share of the 99% into sex chattel to serve the 1%. The paper goes on and on about the "disgusting" work of shoveling horse excrement a century ago, but fails to consider the possibility that future work will be even more disgusting.
The overall irony here is that in this dystopia that I've painted here, that of human sex chattel and singularity robots serving the 1% with overall reduced population, the ratio GDP/capita might actually still be increasing. The paper author reveals a critical error in thinking when he writes, "By definition, whenever hours per capita decline, then output per capita must grow more slowly than productivity." That is certainly true in the Calculus "infentissimal" sense but ignores the possibility of the Singularity bringing exponential "output" that overwhelms a declining human population.
I'm just hoping that the Galaxy 11.8 comes out in the next month or two as planned, since it will be the first with 128-bit ARM NEON vector double-precision floating point, useful for the scientific applications that I develop. The Galaxy 11.8 ushers in the era of tablet number crunching. iPad won't get it until iPad 5.
The "unanswered questions" are critical for stimulating interest, but from the standpoint of accurate portrayal of science (the author's main point), what is more important is portraying the evolution of knowledge discovered thus far.
The most glaring example is the periodic table. Bam! There it is. It is knowledge in its most reductionist form. How were the elements separated and identified? Heck, how would you even go about separting elements today? (This would lead into the beginnings of material science, a subject important for everyday and political life but which much less than 1% of college students touch on, let alone grade school and high school students.)
I was really confused in all my science classes, because I was a Math/CS major. I would have been a lot less confused if someone had explained the philosophy of science -- not just the "scientific method" (and I don't think I even got that explicitly -- labs seemed to be more about showing how bad we were at taking measurements than about the process of discovery), but that the "laws" of physics were merely the best known model of observed phenomena, and that furthermore the models tended to break down at the extremes. I.e., it was never explained to me that science works backwards of math and computer science.
That's one reason I favor classical education for schools. Classical education cover the "great books" from the beginning of recorded human history to the modern era, in chronological order. Mortimer Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World, called it the "Great Conversation".
A conversation that reveals the evolution of human knowledge is comprehensible, interesting in the way drama is, cross-disciplinary, and leads to holistic and lasting knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
As a social conservative who appreciates the damage done by sex offenses and as a pragmatist who recognizes the liklihood of recidivism, I find the concept of sex offender registries appealing. The problem is that sex offense laws have been turned on their head. The Judaic Law (I am Catholic) tolerated teen fornication provided the couple got married afterward, yet in the U.S. an 18-year-old having sex with a 16-year-old is considered rape. On the opposite end of the criminalization spectrum, adultery -- the topic of two of the ten commandments -- has been completely decriminalized in most states!
Yes, a barrier to a universal registry is the pluarlism of sex ethics in the U.S. (obviously I myself am in a minority), so perhaps a solution is to require registries to include searchable/keyed details, so that consumers of registry information can make their own judgment.
Since everyone is putting forth their sweeping generalizations, here's mine:
From the late 90's up until 2008-2010, there were two camps: the old school and the web crowd. But now the old school is learning web, and the web crowd is finally learning OO, design patterns, etc. So now everyone's the same.
What do the anti-copyright "information wants to be free" people have to say about this case?
iPhone Interface For Ham Radio Mates Old With New
Who says Ham Radio is old? It started in 1909, six years after the electrical outlet was patented, which the iPhone already utilized. The iPhone is just catching up with latter-day interfaces.
I'm really glad that, in that post, you label the "rise" of Ron and Rand Paul as a major 21st-century historic event. We all now know that anything you might say on any subject is pretty much total horse hockey.
I wrote that in May, 2010 -- six months before the election of Rand Paul to the Senate. I'd call that ascendancy.
Now, a mistake you make when you are 14 can haunt you for the rest of your life. How is this better?
When you go to apply for a job, they ask, "Do you have any convictions other than traffic violations?" That's because traffic violations have always been public record. When teenage indiscretions become commonly known, society will adapt to what level of indiscretion is acceptable.
So your opinion is that privacy for individuals is bad, but privacy for corporations is good?
"Business" != "corporations"
As I wrote two years ago here, 20th century anonymity was an anomaly.
The return to societal accountability will be a good thing, in my opinion, but the panopticon that prevents business and political trade secrets and that immortalizes peeping-tom photos will be bad things.
There was a set of circumstances that allowed Maria Montessori to express her genius. She was born smart and put in the effort == yes, she had those two components -- becoming the first female physician in Italy, and having majored in engineering prior to that.
But then something happened to propel her into the work for which we know her today.
She became pregnant -- recall this is circa 1900 Italy -- and the father of her child refused to marry her. So she secretly gave up the child to an orphanage and was heartbroken over missing the child as well as the father of the child, and actually more over the latter. It was at this point that she launched herself into the scientific study of children.
She loved the study of children and appears nurturing of them in photos, yet her writings speak of the children in a cold and scientific manner. Oh, there is a lot of purpose expressed in her writings, a lot of "this is the future of the world," and "this is how we will achieve world peace," but the day-to-day observations are eerily at arms-length. It is just so natural for the rest of us -- too natural -- to "think of the children" with emotion rather than intellectually and scientifically think of the children. My personal theory is that her mothering nurturing was prematurely ended when she gave her son up for adoption.
One of her biographers theorizes that the reason she restricted her study of children to those 3 years old and up -- until 50 years into her career when she was 80 years old and relented to creating a toddler program -- was because it would remind her of her son.
And no one since Maria Montessori seems to have been able to scientifically analyze children and create a resulting pedagogy. Tallying filled scantron bubbles is too narrow -- Maria Montessori was able to observe motion, behavior, and motivation. And other pedagogies are derived from preconceived notions, much as pre-Renaissance "physics" was.
Wake up Tesla
It's not impossible. You just show the computer a photo of a dinosaur, let it start from the DNA of a Komodo Dragon, and let it try different "what if" changes to the DNA, simulating the growth of the each resulting organism. Could even happen within the lifetime of Randall Munroe.
To paraphrase the piano enthusiasts, it's not a shuttle but rather a shuttle-shaped piece of furniture.
The forces that brought about written documentation were:
1. Computer RAM too small to hold a document, lack of multitasking (in DOS days), and lack of screen resolution/real estate (even pre-dual monitor days, which was only 2-5 years ago).
2. Release cycle of software was annual or longer, rather than automaticaly patched daily from the Internet.
None of those is true any longer. Software should be self-explanitory. And if it's not, there is now an alternative:
YouTube
It's fairly simple to run a screen capture on your laptop with its built-in microphone. It shows the typical run-through, or use case to use the technical term, which is enormously helpful for first-time users. If you can't handle that, then you'd better hope you gain a fan who spontaneously does it for you.
And that's why the Star Wars prequels were forced to introduce swarms of drones.
It's a common problem with sci-fi prequels -- keeping the science (and the societal norms) more advanced than the present day but less advanced than what was shown in the original episodes.
"Skeuomorphism" irritates me as much as "cloud" and "mash-up" before it. The simple term is "metaphor", the pre-2012 standard term for this approach to UI. Are the anti-skeuomorphismists proposing that every GUI OS now give up the folder metaphor? You know, underneath they're "directories".
I'm guessing the objection is to photo-realism of the metaphor rather than the metaphor approach itself. Showing a 24-bit image is like having the joke explained to you. It also adds frustration and cognitive dissonance when the metaphor, which is an anology after all, breaks down -- when it doesn't operate exactly like what is being portrayed in 24-bits. Then, it's not just having the joke explained, it's also a bad pun.
When desktop UI metaphors are rendered in 1-bit, they take on a suggestive and less specific meaning, and the user understands them as hints and the users do not rise up in rebellion with endless trade articles about "skeuomorphisms".
And hundreds of street trees are being cut down. Street trees are not only aesthetic, but they provide shade to pedestrians (reducing VMT), protect pedestrians from cars jumping the curb, and provide shade to adjacent buildings, reducing energy consumption.
But just on aesthetics alone, the resultant concrete jungle visual blight will drag down that local economy far more than a space shuttle tourist attraction. The shuttle will be long forgotten before replacement trees can be grown.
Wrong question. What you really meant to ask:
And the answer is: networking. It's free or cheap, but it's time-consuming and time-delayed.
And I consider referrals to be a special case of networking. You said you already "did stuff". If what you did was just for yourself, then you need to do it for someone else. There are plenty of non-profits (or even mom & pop for-profits) who would love some free work.
For anyone who's followed their dentist's advice, wireless charging is not new.
Although Debian and the chart refer to AMD64, it's really generic x86 64-bit support, not AMD-specific. I.e. even though there are differences between AMD 64 and Intel 64, Debian AMD64 will run on both. It would have been clearer had it been named x86-64, and indeed it used to be until it was changed with some tortured logic and desire to give AMD credit for being first with 64-bit extensions rather than have clarity of names and purpose.
"Do you guys have any ideas?"
The all-too-common customer support query. I wouldn't want to be on that help desk.
Now M.I.A. is controlling radioactive decay? That's one powerful finger.
When robots start doing work autonomously, output becomes decoupled from "hours per capita".
So "By definition, whenever hours per capita decline, then output per capita must grow more slowly than productivity" is true now, but won't be true once robots act more autonomously than they do now.
I actually read the full 25 page paper, thus my late comment that will now be buried at the bottom of the heap. It was a fascinating perspective on the past millenium of human history -- I can't recall the last time I read a 25-page PDF word-for-word in one sitting. But in its stated goal of predicting "per capita output" of the "99%" for 2007-2100, it failed to consider three critical upcoming changes to human society.:
1. The Singularity. Estimates vary of when it will happen, centered on around 2050. Any forecast for 2007-2100 must account for the Singularity.
2. Population. The UN is forecasting "peak population" sometime during the coming century. By not taking into account population, the paper ignores the denominator of its thesis metric! As automation continues to replace human labor, it's possible that in the future, contrary to millenia past, population reduction may result in an increase of GDP per capita.
3. Sex. A combination of increasing wealth disparity and accelerating promiscuity will turn a greater share of the 99% into sex chattel to serve the 1%. The paper goes on and on about the "disgusting" work of shoveling horse excrement a century ago, but fails to consider the possibility that future work will be even more disgusting.
The overall irony here is that in this dystopia that I've painted here, that of human sex chattel and singularity robots serving the 1% with overall reduced population, the ratio GDP/capita might actually still be increasing. The paper author reveals a critical error in thinking when he writes, "By definition, whenever hours per capita decline, then output per capita must grow more slowly than productivity." That is certainly true in the Calculus "infentissimal" sense but ignores the possibility of the Singularity bringing exponential "output" that overwhelms a declining human population.
I'm just hoping that the Galaxy 11.8 comes out in the next month or two as planned, since it will be the first with 128-bit ARM NEON vector double-precision floating point, useful for the scientific applications that I develop. The Galaxy 11.8 ushers in the era of tablet number crunching. iPad won't get it until iPad 5.
The "unanswered questions" are critical for stimulating interest, but from the standpoint of accurate portrayal of science (the author's main point), what is more important is portraying the evolution of knowledge discovered thus far.
The most glaring example is the periodic table. Bam! There it is. It is knowledge in its most reductionist form. How were the elements separated and identified? Heck, how would you even go about separting elements today? (This would lead into the beginnings of material science, a subject important for everyday and political life but which much less than 1% of college students touch on, let alone grade school and high school students.)
I was really confused in all my science classes, because I was a Math/CS major. I would have been a lot less confused if someone had explained the philosophy of science -- not just the "scientific method" (and I don't think I even got that explicitly -- labs seemed to be more about showing how bad we were at taking measurements than about the process of discovery), but that the "laws" of physics were merely the best known model of observed phenomena, and that furthermore the models tended to break down at the extremes. I.e., it was never explained to me that science works backwards of math and computer science.
That's one reason I favor classical education for schools. Classical education cover the "great books" from the beginning of recorded human history to the modern era, in chronological order. Mortimer Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World, called it the "Great Conversation".
A conversation that reveals the evolution of human knowledge is comprehensible, interesting in the way drama is, cross-disciplinary, and leads to holistic and lasting knowledge.