Maybe with Ballmer on his way out, there's hope for MS to actually start producing decent products again. Win 7 was pretty mediocre, but after XP and Vista that was a serious step in the right direction. Then they came out with Win 8 which through all of that progress in the trash because they wanted the same interface to work on tablets, forgetting that few desktops have a touch interface.
OTOH, Ballmer deserves an award from Linus for doing more than anybody else to popularize Linux. Without his dedication to incompetent software design, many people wouldn't have known that Linux existed and that it's actually a viable desktop for most purposes.
Or we could actually have the legislature make doing so in any form without the expressed written permission of the person being tracked, illegal. Unfortunately, getting the conservatives to allow an up or down vote on that in the Senate is rather unlikely. Because ZOMG TEH BIG GUBMINT GUNNA HURTZ TEH BIZNISS.
Those aren't facts, those are a subset of the facts edited to support your point of view. You're leaving out things like the 19k gun suicides compared with the other 12k gun related homicides in a typical year in the US. And the fact that in Australia when they changed their gun laws to take the excess guns off the streets, they've had only 1 mass murder in 10 years, and that one used a knife, IIRC. And that one incident was a smaller number of people killed or injured than the typical US shooting spree. Compare that to the US where last year alone we had more gun deaths in mass murder sprees than they have had in a decade.
Also a fact is that nobody is trying to take the guns away at this stage, we're pushing for proper back ground checks, reasonable limits on magazine size for firearms and other common sense measures.
Whereas the gun nuts around here keep crying about how being slightly inconvenienced is barred by the 2nd amendment and how criminals will just break the law anyways. Perhaps they will, but that's no excuse for standing idly by while broken gun policy continues to take the lives of thousands of people each year that otherwise would be alive.
The problem there is that hitting a football field sized antenna is harder than hitting one that cover 30 square kilometers. You'd have to have a more advanced targeting system and you'd still have to put the most expensive part in space.
Also, nice mixing of units, can I get this in LoC or hogsheads?
Most likely this would be restricted to countries like the US that have a huge amount of space that's largely uninhabited. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any such nation that's also located close enough to the equator to have a geosynchronous orbit. IIRC, you really need to be within about 10 degrees of the equator, or something like that. If you get too far away, then the speed necessary to keep the satellite in orbit prevents it from staying directly above the receiver.
The other alternative would be figuring out how to put the collector in the middle of the ocean, but the task of getting the power back to land, would be a challenge on par with the rest of it, and would likely be hugely inefficient.
That's sort of how it's done with nuclear power, the control rods default to being all in the core and the fuel rods default to being out of the core. So, barring the case where something comes in and prevents that from happening, the reaction comes to a gradual slow down and stops.
Presumably, a satellite like this would be designed to default to off and require intervention to keep it on.
I can't help but notice that you're comparing with social programs, and the DoD, which is grossly overfunded, is thrown in as an after thought. Goes to show why the US is in such trouble. Wellfare programs are essential, but get relatively little money. But, the DoD, gets a crap load of money, with little or no benefit for the funds.
What's more, a huge number of the people on welfare are there because we signed all those free trade agreements and shipped the decent paying jobs overseas. All while making it harder and harder for employees to organize, and slashing taxes that the rich pay.
As much as I dislike certain practices that Adobe has, like limiting the availability of Flash and their new pricing scheme for Photoshop, nothing they do is as evil as what Amazon and Apple are up to in the market. Adobe has a huge incentive to permit their software to be used as widely as possible, because that's how they make their money.
Amazon and Apple both have a huge incentive to not play well with others and lock people into their ecosystem as much as possible. It remains to be seen if B&N is going to be able to survive without going that route, but at least they're trying to do things responsibly.
A couple things, first off, that's similar to the epub standard. But, you can't remove the DRM from kindle books without having the ID from a Kindle. So, if you buy a book and the Kindle breaks, you can find yourself in a position where you can't decrypt it.
Secondly, in much of the world, cracking the DRM is illegal. If you're going to go to that trouble, you might as well just download a pirate copy if you can no longer access it.
Lastly, all ebook readers have a similar magic number, ebooks are ultimately not possible to secure completely, as they need the ability to decrypt the book without being online. Which means that somewhere in the reader there is a key that can be used to unlock the book.
Lastly, can has been used to reflect permission for about 3 centuries, nitpicking of this sort isn't helpful. I could also get a new car by walking up to a dealer with a large gun. Doesn't mean that I can get a free car like that.
No, the sentence says no such thing. Perhaps if you would bother thinking about what was written you'd see that.
First off, there's no objective basis for claiming that Obama's policies are worse on any objective basis than W's were. We know more about what Obama is doing than what W was doing, but I have yet to see any evidence that Obama is torturing anybody. Whereas even W himself admitted that he was torturing people. Sure, he didn't use the word "torture" but he's acknowledged ordering the water boarding and various other harsh interrogation techniques
Second off, Presidents have had the authority to engage in short term conflict for decades. Hell, nobody ever bothered to go to congress to get Vietnam authorized. In terms of Libya, we parked a few gun ships off the coast, and that was about it. To call that a war is rather disingenuous as the Libyans were the ones actually fighting the war. We were just shooting missiles in there as support
It's people like you that hold back progress. Pretending like racism isn't the main cause, requires magical thinking. Obamacare was a GOP proposal that came from the Heritage Foundation. And it was more conservative than what Nixon proposed back in the '70s. And yet, all we hear are lies from the GOP about how terrible it is to force people to buy health insurance. Well, that section of legislation was from their own party.
Bottom line here, is that the criticism has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with melanin. Most of the most controversial things he's done were all GOP ideas and policies. But, suddenly, you get a black man doing it and all of a sudden there's something wrong with it.
Looks terrible in the store? None of the ereaders I've seen look appreciably different. Well, not since they dropped the physical keyboard in favor of a touch screen.
For the purpose of reading, I've found Nook to do a good job. My main complaint is that it has gimped support for foreign fonts.
I've never set one up this size. But, I've used open-mesh and the hardware is relatively nice and reliable. You can get a weatherproof one for about $75 and the software is relatively nice.
But the reason for mesh is that there's a fixed number of devices that you can simultaneously connect to a WAP before it becomes unusable. You can have a maximum of 3 different channels in use in an area before you start to have them sharing at least some portion of their spectrum with each other. But, you can probably do 4 without it being too bad.
With a good mesh set up, you're going to need more devices to cover the field, but each one of them is generally lower powered than a typical access point. So, if you lay them out properly, you get minimal interference from each other and a smaller number of users per node. Alternating between the 3 or 4 channels you have available. What's more, a good implementation will allow guests to log into the mesh rather than into individual access points.
The main downside here is that ideally you want no more than one hop between a given node and a wired connection. And it's going to be tough to do in a venue this size. But, that's going to be true regardless of what type of wireless you use. Although actual cellular data might be more resistant to it.
A good place to look would probably be some thing like open-mesh as the access points themselves are relatively inexpensive, and there are ample choices for the software side of things. You can limit the bandwidth if you so choose, you can also serve up a disclaimer.
But, this does depend a bit upon the strength of the antenna, you can get up to 26db on some of them, which shouldn't require too many units. But, the OP is going to need power and Ethernet running to them. Or at least power.
Presumably, this is for planning next year's Hempfest or the year after. If he's even considering 4G as a possibility that's going to take some time to arrange. Seeing as that spectrum has already been licensed out.
That's possible, but wouldn't you be stuck with some people being able to use it and others not? I'm not up on 4G, but a lot of handsets aren't going to support 4G from any carrier anyways.
Right, this sounds like a job for something like open-mesh, a larger number of smaller device is going to be the only reasonable solution. Setting up 4G is presumably going to require regulatory approval and the people who have licenses to the spectrum are probably not going to be willing to share for such a brief event. Especially seeing as they're money comes from charging access to use it.
You're missing the point. You can only read on devices that Amazon sanctions. Sure, Amazon does provide an iOS and an Android version on top of the Kindle itself, but so do the competitors. And I can load most of those books up in ADE, regardless of store. Adobe itself doesn't have the incentive to keep people restricted to one type of ebook reader or another.
Indeed, what they really need to do, is to expand the regions where they sell their reader. The US and the UK are not the only parts of the world where B&N does business. And they also need to push the marketing. The first gen Nook was far superior to Kindles of that era, but the word of mouth didn't really travel well enough without a marketing campaign to back it up.
I disagree, if you buy an ebook from Amazon you're pretty much stuck with Amazon devices. But, Nook uses epub with DRM from Adobe, so, my Nook can read books from just about any store that sells them. Whereas Nook requires that you get the books converted, or stick with Amazon books.
I've personally bought ebooks from Oreilly, Smashwords, B&N, Kobo and Ebooks.com, and they all work without converting them. And even the stores that sell DRM ebooks, I can load those without having to crack the DRM. Which I couldn't do with Kindle, unless I buy from Amazon.
But, more importantly, if I decide I don't like the next generation of Nook and my current one breaks, I can switch to a competing ebook reader, without having to crack my library or buy it a second time. Something that's impossible with Kindle.
The main problem with Nook is that they're only available for sale in the US and the UK. They're better than Kindle in most ways.
I've had two Nooks, one was the original and the other is Nook Simple Touch Glow. The only reason I upgraded was that I smashed the older one.
Anyways, they both feature a MicroSD slot, the ability to buy ebooks from pretty much any store not ending in azon.com. And Nook had a real light before anybody else did. I've used it and the glow light works well. Even lighting across the whole screen without it straining the eyes.
Also, Nook was the first reader to get the page flipping right. It has 2 sets of physical buttons so you can turn the page which ever way you hold it. But, it also has the touch screen to turn pages as well. Which works pretty well, except if you accidentally click on a citation link.
But, in general the thing about Nook is that it's just solid hardware with good design. The main problem I have with it is that the book shelves are a PITA to use. You have to shelve the books on the device itself, which doesn't work out well if you have a huge number of books.
The US Government is out of control and President "Hope & Change" Obama implements his real agenda, namely oppression of everyone not merely the black man.
Any further questions? The vast majority of the criticism of the President is not being done on the basis of what he's done or not done, it's based upon the color of his skin. People like the bigot I referred to had no problem with these policies when they were being enacted by a white President primarily against Muslims, but now that the policies are being enacted by a black President on a more equal basis, suddenly it goes too far.
And there was outcry, but not from the sort of right wing bigots that the person I was referring to represents. They only started to disagree with the policy when a black Democrat started to do it. It was just hunky dory when it was a Republican policy.
And also, if you read the post, it had some clear racist undertones to it. Why would anybody feel the need to underline that the President wasn't just oppressing black people? The obvious implication there is that it was fine when it was just colored people that were being oppressed, but somehow oppressing other groups isn't OK.
Probably a significant number. Polygraphs are at best 85-95% reliable, according to supporters, and the real reliability is probably substantially lower for people that have to pass a polygraph in order to get hired. What's worse is tha the type of people that would be engaged in this sort of thing are much less likely to think it's wrong or expect to be caught. If you don't think something is wrong and don't expect to be caught, the likelihood of a polygraph catching you is minimal.
Where were you racist idiots when these programs were being started by President Bush? Seems to me that it was only when we got a black President that suddenly these things became a problem. And none of you folks ever bother to mention that these policies were started by the GOP. Most of us on the left never wanted these policies in the first place, but it's not like voting GOP would have offered a better situation. So, we mostly voted for somebody that was going to fix something. Which he did, DOMA is over, DADT is over, ACA passed and he hasn't started any pointless wars.
But, unfortunately, he's staying the course on things that I would rather he not stayed the course on. But, you're a naive moron if you think that Romney or McCain wouldn't have. And in all likelihood they would be abusing it even worse.
You make it sound like this is a new phenomena. The fact that so many people even notice suggests that this is not the case. It's only relatively recently that schools were common enough for people to learn to write; as a result most of the ungrammatical language and spelling errors aren't available for perusal. Then there's folks like Shakespeare that couldn't spell to save their life, and editors of their works have fixed most of the spelling errors and unified the spelling choices a bit.
As for not correcting homework, the point isn't to get the write answer, the point is to learn how to think. If they can give a good argument for why their answer is acceptable, then they deserve the points. Once you get out of school the emphasis turns from correct answers to being able to use information. And doing homework that's written to be easily graded right and wrong does not move students closer to that goal.
It also sounds like you've finally figured out that schools don't operate the way that the real world is. Good for you. Unfortunately, you appear to be the sort that did well in school and is bitter because it doesn't really apply to anything else.
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Maybe with Ballmer on his way out, there's hope for MS to actually start producing decent products again. Win 7 was pretty mediocre, but after XP and Vista that was a serious step in the right direction. Then they came out with Win 8 which through all of that progress in the trash because they wanted the same interface to work on tablets, forgetting that few desktops have a touch interface.
OTOH, Ballmer deserves an award from Linus for doing more than anybody else to popularize Linux. Without his dedication to incompetent software design, many people wouldn't have known that Linux existed and that it's actually a viable desktop for most purposes.
Or we could actually have the legislature make doing so in any form without the expressed written permission of the person being tracked, illegal. Unfortunately, getting the conservatives to allow an up or down vote on that in the Senate is rather unlikely. Because ZOMG TEH BIG GUBMINT GUNNA HURTZ TEH BIZNISS.
Those aren't facts, those are a subset of the facts edited to support your point of view. You're leaving out things like the 19k gun suicides compared with the other 12k gun related homicides in a typical year in the US. And the fact that in Australia when they changed their gun laws to take the excess guns off the streets, they've had only 1 mass murder in 10 years, and that one used a knife, IIRC. And that one incident was a smaller number of people killed or injured than the typical US shooting spree. Compare that to the US where last year alone we had more gun deaths in mass murder sprees than they have had in a decade.
Also a fact is that nobody is trying to take the guns away at this stage, we're pushing for proper back ground checks, reasonable limits on magazine size for firearms and other common sense measures.
Whereas the gun nuts around here keep crying about how being slightly inconvenienced is barred by the 2nd amendment and how criminals will just break the law anyways. Perhaps they will, but that's no excuse for standing idly by while broken gun policy continues to take the lives of thousands of people each year that otherwise would be alive.
The problem there is that hitting a football field sized antenna is harder than hitting one that cover 30 square kilometers. You'd have to have a more advanced targeting system and you'd still have to put the most expensive part in space.
Also, nice mixing of units, can I get this in LoC or hogsheads?
Most likely this would be restricted to countries like the US that have a huge amount of space that's largely uninhabited. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any such nation that's also located close enough to the equator to have a geosynchronous orbit. IIRC, you really need to be within about 10 degrees of the equator, or something like that. If you get too far away, then the speed necessary to keep the satellite in orbit prevents it from staying directly above the receiver.
The other alternative would be figuring out how to put the collector in the middle of the ocean, but the task of getting the power back to land, would be a challenge on par with the rest of it, and would likely be hugely inefficient.
That's sort of how it's done with nuclear power, the control rods default to being all in the core and the fuel rods default to being out of the core. So, barring the case where something comes in and prevents that from happening, the reaction comes to a gradual slow down and stops.
Presumably, a satellite like this would be designed to default to off and require intervention to keep it on.
I can't help but notice that you're comparing with social programs, and the DoD, which is grossly overfunded, is thrown in as an after thought. Goes to show why the US is in such trouble. Wellfare programs are essential, but get relatively little money. But, the DoD, gets a crap load of money, with little or no benefit for the funds.
What's more, a huge number of the people on welfare are there because we signed all those free trade agreements and shipped the decent paying jobs overseas. All while making it harder and harder for employees to organize, and slashing taxes that the rich pay.
As much as I dislike certain practices that Adobe has, like limiting the availability of Flash and their new pricing scheme for Photoshop, nothing they do is as evil as what Amazon and Apple are up to in the market. Adobe has a huge incentive to permit their software to be used as widely as possible, because that's how they make their money.
Amazon and Apple both have a huge incentive to not play well with others and lock people into their ecosystem as much as possible. It remains to be seen if B&N is going to be able to survive without going that route, but at least they're trying to do things responsibly.
A couple things, first off, that's similar to the epub standard. But, you can't remove the DRM from kindle books without having the ID from a Kindle. So, if you buy a book and the Kindle breaks, you can find yourself in a position where you can't decrypt it.
Secondly, in much of the world, cracking the DRM is illegal. If you're going to go to that trouble, you might as well just download a pirate copy if you can no longer access it.
Lastly, all ebook readers have a similar magic number, ebooks are ultimately not possible to secure completely, as they need the ability to decrypt the book without being online. Which means that somewhere in the reader there is a key that can be used to unlock the book.
Lastly, can has been used to reflect permission for about 3 centuries, nitpicking of this sort isn't helpful. I could also get a new car by walking up to a dealer with a large gun. Doesn't mean that I can get a free car like that.
No, the sentence says no such thing. Perhaps if you would bother thinking about what was written you'd see that.
First off, there's no objective basis for claiming that Obama's policies are worse on any objective basis than W's were. We know more about what Obama is doing than what W was doing, but I have yet to see any evidence that Obama is torturing anybody. Whereas even W himself admitted that he was torturing people. Sure, he didn't use the word "torture" but he's acknowledged ordering the water boarding and various other harsh interrogation techniques
Second off, Presidents have had the authority to engage in short term conflict for decades. Hell, nobody ever bothered to go to congress to get Vietnam authorized. In terms of Libya, we parked a few gun ships off the coast, and that was about it. To call that a war is rather disingenuous as the Libyans were the ones actually fighting the war. We were just shooting missiles in there as support
It's people like you that hold back progress. Pretending like racism isn't the main cause, requires magical thinking. Obamacare was a GOP proposal that came from the Heritage Foundation. And it was more conservative than what Nixon proposed back in the '70s. And yet, all we hear are lies from the GOP about how terrible it is to force people to buy health insurance. Well, that section of legislation was from their own party.
Bottom line here, is that the criticism has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with melanin. Most of the most controversial things he's done were all GOP ideas and policies. But, suddenly, you get a black man doing it and all of a sudden there's something wrong with it.
Looks terrible in the store? None of the ereaders I've seen look appreciably different. Well, not since they dropped the physical keyboard in favor of a touch screen. For the purpose of reading, I've found Nook to do a good job. My main complaint is that it has gimped support for foreign fonts.
Open-mesh is a good place to start. They're self healing, have remote management and for those that need weather proofing, they have that as well.
I've never set one up this size. But, I've used open-mesh and the hardware is relatively nice and reliable. You can get a weatherproof one for about $75 and the software is relatively nice.
But the reason for mesh is that there's a fixed number of devices that you can simultaneously connect to a WAP before it becomes unusable. You can have a maximum of 3 different channels in use in an area before you start to have them sharing at least some portion of their spectrum with each other. But, you can probably do 4 without it being too bad.
With a good mesh set up, you're going to need more devices to cover the field, but each one of them is generally lower powered than a typical access point. So, if you lay them out properly, you get minimal interference from each other and a smaller number of users per node. Alternating between the 3 or 4 channels you have available. What's more, a good implementation will allow guests to log into the mesh rather than into individual access points.
The main downside here is that ideally you want no more than one hop between a given node and a wired connection. And it's going to be tough to do in a venue this size. But, that's going to be true regardless of what type of wireless you use. Although actual cellular data might be more resistant to it.
A good place to look would probably be some thing like open-mesh as the access points themselves are relatively inexpensive, and there are ample choices for the software side of things. You can limit the bandwidth if you so choose, you can also serve up a disclaimer.
But, this does depend a bit upon the strength of the antenna, you can get up to 26db on some of them, which shouldn't require too many units. But, the OP is going to need power and Ethernet running to them. Or at least power.
Presumably, this is for planning next year's Hempfest or the year after. If he's even considering 4G as a possibility that's going to take some time to arrange. Seeing as that spectrum has already been licensed out.
That's possible, but wouldn't you be stuck with some people being able to use it and others not? I'm not up on 4G, but a lot of handsets aren't going to support 4G from any carrier anyways.
Right, this sounds like a job for something like open-mesh, a larger number of smaller device is going to be the only reasonable solution. Setting up 4G is presumably going to require regulatory approval and the people who have licenses to the spectrum are probably not going to be willing to share for such a brief event. Especially seeing as they're money comes from charging access to use it.
You're missing the point. You can only read on devices that Amazon sanctions. Sure, Amazon does provide an iOS and an Android version on top of the Kindle itself, but so do the competitors. And I can load most of those books up in ADE, regardless of store. Adobe itself doesn't have the incentive to keep people restricted to one type of ebook reader or another.
Indeed, what they really need to do, is to expand the regions where they sell their reader. The US and the UK are not the only parts of the world where B&N does business. And they also need to push the marketing. The first gen Nook was far superior to Kindles of that era, but the word of mouth didn't really travel well enough without a marketing campaign to back it up.
I disagree, if you buy an ebook from Amazon you're pretty much stuck with Amazon devices. But, Nook uses epub with DRM from Adobe, so, my Nook can read books from just about any store that sells them. Whereas Nook requires that you get the books converted, or stick with Amazon books.
I've personally bought ebooks from Oreilly, Smashwords, B&N, Kobo and Ebooks.com, and they all work without converting them. And even the stores that sell DRM ebooks, I can load those without having to crack the DRM. Which I couldn't do with Kindle, unless I buy from Amazon.
But, more importantly, if I decide I don't like the next generation of Nook and my current one breaks, I can switch to a competing ebook reader, without having to crack my library or buy it a second time. Something that's impossible with Kindle.
The main problem with Nook is that they're only available for sale in the US and the UK. They're better than Kindle in most ways. I've had two Nooks, one was the original and the other is Nook Simple Touch Glow. The only reason I upgraded was that I smashed the older one. Anyways, they both feature a MicroSD slot, the ability to buy ebooks from pretty much any store not ending in azon.com. And Nook had a real light before anybody else did. I've used it and the glow light works well. Even lighting across the whole screen without it straining the eyes. Also, Nook was the first reader to get the page flipping right. It has 2 sets of physical buttons so you can turn the page which ever way you hold it. But, it also has the touch screen to turn pages as well. Which works pretty well, except if you accidentally click on a citation link. But, in general the thing about Nook is that it's just solid hardware with good design. The main problem I have with it is that the book shelves are a PITA to use. You have to shelve the books on the device itself, which doesn't work out well if you have a huge number of books.
The US Government is out of control and President "Hope & Change" Obama implements his real agenda, namely oppression of everyone not merely the black man.
Any further questions? The vast majority of the criticism of the President is not being done on the basis of what he's done or not done, it's based upon the color of his skin. People like the bigot I referred to had no problem with these policies when they were being enacted by a white President primarily against Muslims, but now that the policies are being enacted by a black President on a more equal basis, suddenly it goes too far.
It's typo, it's clear what I meant.
And there was outcry, but not from the sort of right wing bigots that the person I was referring to represents. They only started to disagree with the policy when a black Democrat started to do it. It was just hunky dory when it was a Republican policy.
And also, if you read the post, it had some clear racist undertones to it. Why would anybody feel the need to underline that the President wasn't just oppressing black people? The obvious implication there is that it was fine when it was just colored people that were being oppressed, but somehow oppressing other groups isn't OK.
Probably a significant number. Polygraphs are at best 85-95% reliable, according to supporters, and the real reliability is probably substantially lower for people that have to pass a polygraph in order to get hired. What's worse is tha the type of people that would be engaged in this sort of thing are much less likely to think it's wrong or expect to be caught. If you don't think something is wrong and don't expect to be caught, the likelihood of a polygraph catching you is minimal.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit.
Where were you racist idiots when these programs were being started by President Bush? Seems to me that it was only when we got a black President that suddenly these things became a problem. And none of you folks ever bother to mention that these policies were started by the GOP. Most of us on the left never wanted these policies in the first place, but it's not like voting GOP would have offered a better situation. So, we mostly voted for somebody that was going to fix something. Which he did, DOMA is over, DADT is over, ACA passed and he hasn't started any pointless wars.
But, unfortunately, he's staying the course on things that I would rather he not stayed the course on. But, you're a naive moron if you think that Romney or McCain wouldn't have. And in all likelihood they would be abusing it even worse.
You make it sound like this is a new phenomena. The fact that so many people even notice suggests that this is not the case. It's only relatively recently that schools were common enough for people to learn to write; as a result most of the ungrammatical language and spelling errors aren't available for perusal. Then there's folks like Shakespeare that couldn't spell to save their life, and editors of their works have fixed most of the spelling errors and unified the spelling choices a bit.
As for not correcting homework, the point isn't to get the write answer, the point is to learn how to think. If they can give a good argument for why their answer is acceptable, then they deserve the points. Once you get out of school the emphasis turns from correct answers to being able to use information. And doing homework that's written to be easily graded right and wrong does not move students closer to that goal.
It also sounds like you've finally figured out that schools don't operate the way that the real world is. Good for you. Unfortunately, you appear to be the sort that did well in school and is bitter because it doesn't really apply to anything else.