This may be a little off the point of TFA but I am not sure what the author means when he refers to the part of the brain that is related to "Consciousness". Neither am I clear on what the author means by the term "consciousness" here. Is consciousness, per the author, limited to the brain? What about the emotional, vital parts of a human being and what about that "inner voice" or daemon or feeling many people talk about? Are those not parts of consciousness? Coz then I would like to make them a part of the equation on which people base their fears, also.
But teachers do have a moral responsibility. Hell, if I think about what I would do if I were a teacher and was facing such behavior by my students who were mocking other students, I would sit and spend a lot of time would them, scold them, reason with them, try to make them understand and even though 90 % wouldn't not understand, the 10 % who would, justify the energy and time I would spend on this.
Moreover, there are plenty of bad influences on children these days, coming from everywhere, so the least any good teacher can do is to spend time to guide these students, knowing that they are probably gonna mock the teacher for 'lecturing' and being boring, but when the mind is not listening, the subconscious absorbs...even if they don't understand 99 % of what you are saying, unknowingly or subconsciently definitely some impact will be made.
So Yes, any good teacher would take that responsibility (and the pain that comes with it).
I see a big liability here. If for some reason MS fails to deliver a dead person's emails/records to the descendents, the dead would come after them. From all those movies, the dead coming after you could really be messy business...
That is a really base argument. Who are you to say humans are better or superior to the dolphins. There are countless vices that those dolphins did not have and humans do. Just cause you have reason? Given that you do have reason and the dolphins don't, is this what your reason tells you??? That the jobs of a few irresponsible individulals are more important than an entire species?? A beautiful creation has ended, whether it affects the food chain or not is irrelevant.
So I think most of us agree that global warming is a problem. At some scale or the other. The only question is...SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT NOW? Is there something we can do at our level with the heavy politics going on???
There's a big difference between TFA and Brave New World. Even though there may be similarities in the end-result, in brave new world Huxley suggested a society that was, on-purpose being genetically engendered a certain way with different classes while the author of TFA is talking about these classes/species emerging via the natural path of evolution.
Yes, and it is kinda unfortunate that such is the case. Since when stupid political decrees are granted, engineers and coders are the ones to be pissed off (for good reasons most of the time). But what right do they have to be pissed when they were sitting on their desks and coding and not getting actively involved in the process (yes, easier said than done, but what is the alternative?).
A strong coder or clear-thinking technician (not necesarrily an einstein) who also understands the paradoxes and idiosyncrasies of management/politics and is ready to face the frustrations for the better is what is needed at this time.
You are referring to the age old puzzle of pain. Pain, suffering are evil they say, but then when we look back, all enlightenment, all wisdom and all evolution has happened through the means of pain. Then is it good or bad? Shall we like pain then?
Its quite an interesting problem.
Although what you say may be true in that complex or not so straight-forward bugs are more difficult to find, I have seen many a time myself or another developer struggling with a bug for a good 2-3 hours and as soon as another set of eyes looks at the code, he/she points out something obvious, simple, that was wrong with the code.
This I have seen more than a few times, surely.
So I think there's still merit to a static analyzer/bug-finder, even though it may not be able to find complex problems.
I played a game, a first person shooter...which obviously involved a lot of use of the mouse, hence of my right hand. I played on, and derived great pleasure in it. One day I felt a little pain in my hand, I dismissed it...after all it was just a little silly pain...everyone else plays it, and nothing happens...I played on...got better...
An year later, I couldn't play as well...my hand hurt a little. So I tried harder...and got better...I played on.
Another year after, my hand started hurting, even when I wasn't playing. It hurt while typing, playing my guitar, using my cellphone and what not. Sometimes I felt, it was trying to tell me something...heck...who cares. It will be fine...NO IT WON'T BE FINE.
If we think we can go on ignoring the signals nature is patiently been giving us for so many years, and nothing will happen...WE ARE DEAD WRONG! She has her bounds...if we ignore her calls (which we are doing) she will use other, more drastic ways (of which she has no dearth) to break the mould of our flippancy and inertia.
Very Correct:
- OSS is about freedom
- And about collaboration
- And about the joy of creation
- And about perfection
- And about not monopolizing what we may have learnt from many different sources
- And about giving users choices, options, i.e. freedom to decide whether or not they are willing to pay for something or not, buying a support contract or not.
- It's about taking pride in work, isn't that why so many developers have written such beautiful OSS and still respond to issues random people have with their software, without any support contract?
- OSS is a spark of light that leads towards the direction of the fundamental and pure human will.
Aren't all these points known to corporations that don't want to adopt OSS? But then corporations aren't the biggest advocates of human freedom, are they?
There's a difference between an article about a security flaw exploit and a security flaw fix. That about a flaw exploit IS slashdotworthy since it spans it's ramnifications, cause, affected community, details of the exploit (code). It's a lot more informative, detailed and usually educational too.
An article about a new version of a software having fixes...I don't know how much 'slashdotworthy' it is...
So you're saying the difference between us and Apes is simply that we humans have had some feature going for us, or we were naturally selected somehow?
How do you account for the development of "REASON" in humans, and not so much in apes??
And don't say that Apes have Reason too, it isn't the same level (consciousness) of reason that humans have.
Some developers are like artists, some are not. Ever seen a developer looking at his/her code with dreamy eyes and a stupid smile? Yes I say!
So some are like artists.
Sure they create what you want them to at times but there's many ways to do the same thing...including a 'beautiful/elegant' way!
The problem is that the claims of science that they have "proved" something, applies to a limited domain (which science forgets to mention). It doesn't apply universally. For example, cartesian geometry was known to be 'the' geometry, until it was proved that the shortest distance between 2 points is NOT a straight line in certain conditions. Science should understand that every proof found will definitely be applicable to only a limited domain and soon there will be a larger universe found where it may not be applicable.
It is said, another example is Newtonian vs Einsteinian physics.
Alas if science was a little more humble and conceded to the "fact" that the DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING...as the adage goes:
"A wise man knows what he does not know...".
The Mind is relative...
Incorrect. Science can prove everything...the only problem is that it comes up with something else after a few years to disprove it's earlier proof and establish a new one (which by the way will be disproved too and so on ad infinitum.....)
Agreed that for the kind of stuff you did xp wouldn't come close to scaling. But what about this guy who knows squat about technology and simply wants to install a music player. He needs an installer on which he can click on that would take care of everything.
He already has the hardware and doesn't need to assemble the hardware (like you did)?
Why do non-tech people still prefer windows?? How about installing a wireless internet connection on Linux? It wasn't straight forward at least 2 years before. Mistake me not, I work on Linux myself and am far from a windows lover. But I am a techie too...so I can deal with those problems. But the majority of non-tech person will not wanna spend more than 5 mins installing a 'run-of-the-mill' entertainment software for that matter.
Maybe part of the problem is that usability/ease-of-use or ease of installation is not the foremost in the geek's book of "software-virtues"? Maybe geeks derive a certain pride in going to a lower level and solving certain problems themselves (for example maintaining different versions of the Python Interpreter since various OSS work with different versions)?
In my view, this is NOT a good thing for the future of OSS. If OSS is to break the bounds of the limited community of tech-savvy personnel, we have to put a lot of effort into usability, ease of installation, solving version conflicts automatically.
Programs like apt-get and rpm are an example of what can be achieved.
I think this will be key in the imminent future for turning the balance for desktop users from OSs such as Windows to Open Source OSs.
I have heard this from a few people that they've been typing for a long time without any harm to their wrists/hands. I am happy for these people but it doesn't mean that those who are having problems are doing something wrong. I have met people who have been typing for years in ways that are "Not recommended" and yet not had any problems.
A lot of it has to do with how prone one is to develop a certain problem. Not everyone's wrists/hands are the same. Even minor physical differences in shapes of hands/wrists could prove to be huge.
It really is a trade-off. Sometimes it's okay to give a straight answer, sometimes you point out that the question is one that can be answered via documentation. I think technical people should try harder to find their own answers first and then post a question if they can't find the answer.
But a guy who's not that technical and has just switched to linux and is trying to setup say his wireless internet connection on linux; I think deserves a straight answer if linux is to be adopted by the naive users.
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This may be a little off the point of TFA but I am not sure what the author means when he refers to the part of the brain that is related to "Consciousness". Neither am I clear on what the author means by the term "consciousness" here. Is consciousness, per the author, limited to the brain? What about the emotional, vital parts of a human being and what about that "inner voice" or daemon or feeling many people talk about? Are those not parts of consciousness? Coz then I would like to make them a part of the equation on which people base their fears, also.
But teachers do have a moral responsibility. Hell, if I think about what I would do if I were a teacher and was facing such behavior by my students who were mocking other students, I would sit and spend a lot of time would them, scold them, reason with them, try to make them understand and even though 90 % wouldn't not understand, the 10 % who would, justify the energy and time I would spend on this. Moreover, there are plenty of bad influences on children these days, coming from everywhere, so the least any good teacher can do is to spend time to guide these students, knowing that they are probably gonna mock the teacher for 'lecturing' and being boring, but when the mind is not listening, the subconscious absorbs...even if they don't understand 99 % of what you are saying, unknowingly or subconsciently definitely some impact will be made. So Yes, any good teacher would take that responsibility (and the pain that comes with it).
I see a big liability here. If for some reason MS fails to deliver a dead person's emails/records to the descendents, the dead would come after them. From all those movies, the dead coming after you could really be messy business...
That is a really base argument. Who are you to say humans are better or superior to the dolphins. There are countless vices that those dolphins did not have and humans do. Just cause you have reason? Given that you do have reason and the dolphins don't, is this what your reason tells you??? That the jobs of a few irresponsible individulals are more important than an entire species?? A beautiful creation has ended, whether it affects the food chain or not is irrelevant.
So I think most of us agree that global warming is a problem. At some scale or the other. The only question is...SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT NOW? Is there something we can do at our level with the heavy politics going on???
What if you are travelling? Carrying 2 laptops (work and home) could be a pain.
There's a big difference between TFA and Brave New World. Even though there may be similarities in the end-result, in brave new world Huxley suggested a society that was, on-purpose being genetically engendered a certain way with different classes while the author of TFA is talking about these classes/species emerging via the natural path of evolution.
Yes, and it is kinda unfortunate that such is the case. Since when stupid political decrees are granted, engineers and coders are the ones to be pissed off (for good reasons most of the time). But what right do they have to be pissed when they were sitting on their desks and coding and not getting actively involved in the process (yes, easier said than done, but what is the alternative?). A strong coder or clear-thinking technician (not necesarrily an einstein) who also understands the paradoxes and idiosyncrasies of management/politics and is ready to face the frustrations for the better is what is needed at this time.
You are referring to the age old puzzle of pain. Pain, suffering are evil they say, but then when we look back, all enlightenment, all wisdom and all evolution has happened through the means of pain. Then is it good or bad? Shall we like pain then? Its quite an interesting problem.
Although what you say may be true in that complex or not so straight-forward bugs are more difficult to find, I have seen many a time myself or another developer struggling with a bug for a good 2-3 hours and as soon as another set of eyes looks at the code, he/she points out something obvious, simple, that was wrong with the code. This I have seen more than a few times, surely. So I think there's still merit to a static analyzer/bug-finder, even though it may not be able to find complex problems.
I played a game, a first person shooter...which obviously involved a lot of use of the mouse, hence of my right hand. I played on, and derived great pleasure in it. One day I felt a little pain in my hand, I dismissed it...after all it was just a little silly pain...everyone else plays it, and nothing happens...I played on...got better... An year later, I couldn't play as well...my hand hurt a little. So I tried harder...and got better...I played on. Another year after, my hand started hurting, even when I wasn't playing. It hurt while typing, playing my guitar, using my cellphone and what not. Sometimes I felt, it was trying to tell me something...heck...who cares. It will be fine...NO IT WON'T BE FINE. If we think we can go on ignoring the signals nature is patiently been giving us for so many years, and nothing will happen...WE ARE DEAD WRONG! She has her bounds...if we ignore her calls (which we are doing) she will use other, more drastic ways (of which she has no dearth) to break the mould of our flippancy and inertia.
Very Correct: - OSS is about freedom - And about collaboration - And about the joy of creation - And about perfection - And about not monopolizing what we may have learnt from many different sources - And about giving users choices, options, i.e. freedom to decide whether or not they are willing to pay for something or not, buying a support contract or not. - It's about taking pride in work, isn't that why so many developers have written such beautiful OSS and still respond to issues random people have with their software, without any support contract? - OSS is a spark of light that leads towards the direction of the fundamental and pure human will. Aren't all these points known to corporations that don't want to adopt OSS? But then corporations aren't the biggest advocates of human freedom, are they?
Oh but then how would you stop a "black market" of stem-cells from developing? Drugs are illegal, but are still exchanged...
There's a difference between an article about a security flaw exploit and a security flaw fix. That about a flaw exploit IS slashdotworthy since it spans it's ramnifications, cause, affected community, details of the exploit (code). It's a lot more informative, detailed and usually educational too. An article about a new version of a software having fixes...I don't know how much 'slashdotworthy' it is...
So you're saying the difference between us and Apes is simply that we humans have had some feature going for us, or we were naturally selected somehow? How do you account for the development of "REASON" in humans, and not so much in apes?? And don't say that Apes have Reason too, it isn't the same level (consciousness) of reason that humans have.
Some developers are like artists, some are not. Ever seen a developer looking at his/her code with dreamy eyes and a stupid smile? Yes I say! So some are like artists. Sure they create what you want them to at times but there's many ways to do the same thing...including a 'beautiful/elegant' way!
The problem is that the claims of science that they have "proved" something, applies to a limited domain (which science forgets to mention). It doesn't apply universally. For example, cartesian geometry was known to be 'the' geometry, until it was proved that the shortest distance between 2 points is NOT a straight line in certain conditions. Science should understand that every proof found will definitely be applicable to only a limited domain and soon there will be a larger universe found where it may not be applicable. It is said, another example is Newtonian vs Einsteinian physics. Alas if science was a little more humble and conceded to the "fact" that the DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING...as the adage goes: "A wise man knows what he does not know...". The Mind is relative...
Incorrect. Science can prove everything...the only problem is that it comes up with something else after a few years to disprove it's earlier proof and establish a new one (which by the way will be disproved too and so on ad infinitum.....)
All that money spent in research, and all we come up is with better mice! Plus I don't think they care too much about having cancer.
Agreed that for the kind of stuff you did xp wouldn't come close to scaling. But what about this guy who knows squat about technology and simply wants to install a music player. He needs an installer on which he can click on that would take care of everything. He already has the hardware and doesn't need to assemble the hardware (like you did)? Why do non-tech people still prefer windows?? How about installing a wireless internet connection on Linux? It wasn't straight forward at least 2 years before. Mistake me not, I work on Linux myself and am far from a windows lover. But I am a techie too...so I can deal with those problems. But the majority of non-tech person will not wanna spend more than 5 mins installing a 'run-of-the-mill' entertainment software for that matter.
Maybe part of the problem is that usability/ease-of-use or ease of installation is not the foremost in the geek's book of "software-virtues"? Maybe geeks derive a certain pride in going to a lower level and solving certain problems themselves (for example maintaining different versions of the Python Interpreter since various OSS work with different versions)? In my view, this is NOT a good thing for the future of OSS. If OSS is to break the bounds of the limited community of tech-savvy personnel, we have to put a lot of effort into usability, ease of installation, solving version conflicts automatically. Programs like apt-get and rpm are an example of what can be achieved. I think this will be key in the imminent future for turning the balance for desktop users from OSs such as Windows to Open Source OSs.
I hope you don't do that currently :)
With the thought password you won't have to if you and your friends 'think alike' ;)
What would suck is if someone's passing thought would unlock your door! With all those random thoughts in the atmosphere...
I have heard this from a few people that they've been typing for a long time without any harm to their wrists/hands. I am happy for these people but it doesn't mean that those who are having problems are doing something wrong. I have met people who have been typing for years in ways that are "Not recommended" and yet not had any problems. A lot of it has to do with how prone one is to develop a certain problem. Not everyone's wrists/hands are the same. Even minor physical differences in shapes of hands/wrists could prove to be huge.
It really is a trade-off. Sometimes it's okay to give a straight answer, sometimes you point out that the question is one that can be answered via documentation. I think technical people should try harder to find their own answers first and then post a question if they can't find the answer. But a guy who's not that technical and has just switched to linux and is trying to setup say his wireless internet connection on linux; I think deserves a straight answer if linux is to be adopted by the naive users.