I am happy with my Galaxy J3. It's not a high-end phone, but it doesn't need to be. It has enough RAM and storage to do what I want it to do.
Yesterday I noticed at WalMart that they sell a 'body glove' case for the J3. Problem is, it was $20. The phone was only $80. And it has a gorilla glass display and a plastic case. I'm so glad I don't have to be afraid of breaking my phone, because it wasn't much of an 'investment.' The stuff on the SD card is more important than the phone itself, and even if the phone was dropped in the water the SD card would be recoverable.
50% of those who actually make it to graduation "should not be programming", to paraphrase some of the world's leading CS teachers who have been trying to make learning CS easier for decades, working with some of the best and trying everything.
Said 'leading CS teachers' should not be programming. But that's a pretty redundant point of view, because they AREN'T programming. Except little sandbox exercises from their Ivory Towers.
What does McCarthyism have to do with any of this? The people practicing McCarthyism in most recent history were the hysterical 'Hillary is being hacked by Russia' fanatics.
And anyways, McCarthy was an opportunist and unethical, but he made use of a legitimate issue to establish himself. The Russians WERE infiltrating the US government in the period when he was ranting. It was very well documented shortly after the USSR fell, during a short period when the KGB archives were accessable.
I once bought a black-and-white television set, to keep in my dorm room, because of rumors that The Beatles were going to have a reunion appearance on SNL.
You started off seeming like you had a point to make, but your posts are degenerating into crapflooding. What a pity that you actually seem like you're making an effort to convey information in each post.
A problem is that Augmented Reality requires that one provide a reality to the 'system' or 'game' that is worth augmenting. It means a non-stationary experience in a real world you can safely 'play' in. I could do that because I have 5 fenced acres here. People could do it in parks, i.e. the way I play Pokemon Go a few miles from here at a large park adjoining a small mid-western downtown.
There are places where it won't work without large infrastructure changes. Heavily urban areas will probably continue to be too dangerous for a long time.
And technology is driven by great games. I was happy with a paper-white grayscale VGA monitor until I saw SimEarth on a friend's computer. Once she gave me the disks to install SimEarth on my machine, I HAD to get a color VGA monitor to enjoy it. This was back when a new 648x480 color VGA monitor was a $600-800 purchase. (I found one among the oscilloscopes and power supplies in an electronics surplus store for under $200)
The new game drove my need to upgrade my hardware.
In the Tesla crash in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, one of the riders in the car was trapped in the battery fire and died, slowly, in the heat. What a hell of a way to go.
I haven't seen that much national coverage of the accident. But geez. Trapped in a metal can with 10,000 Galaxy Note 7's...
Did you really just point to two of the biggest fake news sites...
Be careful. When you paint with a broad brush, you run the risk of getting paint on sites you probably like, such as motherjones, etc. There are some real echo-chamber nutcase sites out there, like infowars. It's a mistake to throw all the sites you don't like in the same heap with them. Fever swamps like infowars need draining, not more roughage heaped into the stew.
I remember about 15 years ago when I downloaded the darwin ISO and installed it on a machine. It was a basic unix-like system, similar to installing a NetBSD base install. Probably pkgsrc would be portable to it, so it could be a complete freenix solution to install and just use.
But my understanding is that Apple quit supporting or even allowing an installable Darwin ISO. So this is just bits and pieces out of their code repository that you can look at but not do much with unless you buy their stuff.
I'm sure I have that old darwin ISO stored away somewhere in my large collection of media (I save everything, so I even have Windows 2 shareware and applications stuck somewhere on an archived DVD) but it's about fifteen years old.
I'm pretty sure I have a NextSTEP CD install set, but it's for the PA-RISC hardware (Hewlett Packard desktop workstations, which are LOOONG gone) I wish I had an x86 NextSTEP installer, but those go for huge $$ when you can even find them, on the collector's market.
OpenDarwin was killed by Apple ages ago. This 'Open Source Darwin Code' is a joke.
The biggest problems I've had with this entire process is getting the nimrods at Apple support to take me seriously when I file a bug report complete with a roadmap of how to fix the error
That is NIH (not invented here) syndrome. Everything good comes from Apple, and if it doesn't come from Apple it must be bad. Except for things they steal, of course, which is most of the big things like the GUI, Mouse, etc.
Lenin openly advocated terrorism. He advocated the execution of economic speculators, etc. I don't understand what people in the modern era mean when they call things like a 'universal basic income' Leninist. Typically, they are people who have never, ever, read anything written by Lenin.
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Advanced batteries isn't really an Electrical Engineering project. It's chemistry and material sciences.
"Around" Detroit is a safe thing to say. The suburbs around Detroit are very different from the center city.
I am happy with my Galaxy J3. It's not a high-end phone, but it doesn't need to be. It has enough RAM and storage to do what I want it to do.
Yesterday I noticed at WalMart that they sell a 'body glove' case for the J3. Problem is, it was $20. The phone was only $80. And it has a gorilla glass display and a plastic case. I'm so glad I don't have to be afraid of breaking my phone, because it wasn't much of an 'investment.' The stuff on the SD card is more important than the phone itself, and even if the phone was dropped in the water the SD card would be recoverable.
Said 'leading CS teachers' should not be programming. But that's a pretty redundant point of view, because they AREN'T programming. Except little sandbox exercises from their Ivory Towers.
Specifically, Castro's hell is in a supermarket in Venezuela. They've given him a can-opener, but there are no canned goods at all on the shelf.
What does McCarthyism have to do with any of this? The people practicing McCarthyism in most recent history were the hysterical 'Hillary is being hacked by Russia' fanatics.
And anyways, McCarthy was an opportunist and unethical, but he made use of a legitimate issue to establish himself. The Russians WERE infiltrating the US government in the period when he was ranting. It was very well documented shortly after the USSR fell, during a short period when the KGB archives were accessable.
I once bought a black-and-white television set, to keep in my dorm room, because of rumors that The Beatles were going to have a reunion appearance on SNL.
And I have this clunky large UID on Slashdot.
Maybe you are one of the who thinks Che Guevara was heroic and cannot see the irony of selling t-shirts with his picture.
Che was a serial killer. There are ironic t-shirts with Charles Manson's picture on them, too.
But is Chomsky even an excellent researcher in Linguistics, or has he already done his best work? Decades ago, actually.
Lake Superior isn't a lake in Michigan. In fact, there are numerous states and provinces around Lake Superior.
Michigan mainly has several of the lesser and dirtier great lakes on it's borders.
Crapflooder confirmed!
Does your mother know what a potty-mouth she raised?
You started off seeming like you had a point to make, but your posts are degenerating into crapflooding. What a pity that you actually seem like you're making an effort to convey information in each post.
Do you have any idea what kind of an idiot you are making of yourself?
And, thus, private bakeries can choose who they will make cakes for, correct?
Godwin is out of style now, eh?
A problem is that Augmented Reality requires that one provide a reality to the 'system' or 'game' that is worth augmenting. It means a non-stationary experience in a real world you can safely 'play' in. I could do that because I have 5 fenced acres here. People could do it in parks, i.e. the way I play Pokemon Go a few miles from here at a large park adjoining a small mid-western downtown.
There are places where it won't work without large infrastructure changes. Heavily urban areas will probably continue to be too dangerous for a long time.
And technology is driven by great games. I was happy with a paper-white grayscale VGA monitor until I saw SimEarth on a friend's computer. Once she gave me the disks to install SimEarth on my machine, I HAD to get a color VGA monitor to enjoy it. This was back when a new 648x480 color VGA monitor was a $600-800 purchase. (I found one among the oscilloscopes and power supplies in an electronics surplus store for under $200)
The new game drove my need to upgrade my hardware.
In the Tesla crash in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, one of the riders in the car was trapped in the battery fire and died, slowly, in the heat. What a hell of a way to go.
I haven't seen that much national coverage of the accident. But geez. Trapped in a metal can with 10,000 Galaxy Note 7's...
Did you really just point to two of the biggest fake news sites...
Be careful. When you paint with a broad brush, you run the risk of getting paint on sites you probably like, such as motherjones, etc. There are some real echo-chamber nutcase sites out there, like infowars. It's a mistake to throw all the sites you don't like in the same heap with them. Fever swamps like infowars need draining, not more roughage heaped into the stew.
"There may be Russians under your bed at night."
-- Joe McCarthy.
"Blame Canada!"
-- South Park.
"Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about."
You openly admitted here recently that you spent years fighting in online forums against creationists.
Basically, you're an online zealot. Climate change is your latest gig.
Find a new hobby. We're tired of semi-pro flamers here.
I remember about 15 years ago when I downloaded the darwin ISO and installed it on a machine. It was a basic unix-like system, similar to installing a NetBSD base install. Probably pkgsrc would be portable to it, so it could be a complete freenix solution to install and just use.
But my understanding is that Apple quit supporting or even allowing an installable Darwin ISO. So this is just bits and pieces out of their code repository that you can look at but not do much with unless you buy their stuff.
I'm sure I have that old darwin ISO stored away somewhere in my large collection of media (I save everything, so I even have Windows 2 shareware and applications stuck somewhere on an archived DVD) but it's about fifteen years old.
I'm pretty sure I have a NextSTEP CD install set, but it's for the PA-RISC hardware (Hewlett Packard desktop workstations, which are LOOONG gone) I wish I had an x86 NextSTEP installer, but those go for huge $$ when you can even find them, on the collector's market.
OpenDarwin was killed by Apple ages ago. This 'Open Source Darwin Code' is a joke.
The biggest problems I've had with this entire process is getting the nimrods at Apple support to take me seriously when I file a bug report complete with a roadmap of how to fix the error
That is NIH (not invented here) syndrome. Everything good comes from Apple, and if it doesn't come from Apple it must be bad. Except for things they steal, of course, which is most of the big things like the GUI, Mouse, etc.
Lenin openly advocated terrorism. He advocated the execution of economic speculators, etc. I don't understand what people in the modern era mean when they call things like a 'universal basic income' Leninist. Typically, they are people who have never, ever, read anything written by Lenin.