Sorry about your experience. I came so close to your fate, but I guess I was lucky. Well, maybe.
In 2nd grade when I got bored with their stupid slow lesson plan, they transferred me to Special Ed. The teacher there was actually a lot brighter than the other teachers. She quickly assessed my real problem and sent me back. Actually, at the time it was a bit traumatic; the Special Ed kids were a lot nicer, I'd have preferred to stay there and be able to read without being harassed.;) I felt totally rejected that I wasn't good enough for even that class. lol that was early 80s
Uuhhhhh... the minimum wage jobs are being replaced with robots. Sorry about that. My personalized recommendation for your lesson plan is to read Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut.
If these 18 year old children stay in college, they get closer to adulthood before they're foisted on the world with nothing to occupy their time. Also, "free college" doesn't make everybody want to go to "college." A lot of the colleges that would be attended would be also known as "trade schools." A significant percent of the people who don't go to college, wouldn't. But they might be willing to go to Heavy Equipment Operators School, or whatever the job that robots hate is.
The funny part is that if those meals were being prepared by computerized machines, it might be trivial to provide each soldier a customized meal.
In the olden days, if I wanted to produce a photo calendar, I had to buy 5000 copies because they had to do a bunch of work to set up a press. Then JIT printing presses became a thing, and that evaporated; now they don't have to change anything at all physically, they just insert a print job in their queue and I can order 5, 50, or 5000 no problem!
I absolutely expect the soldier of the future to have personalized meals, because they'll be more effective soldiers with better fuel.
And they won't build the machines out of strawmen, even rich strawmen.
In my public schools many years ago we didn't divide things up by grade but by lesson, so for example a math class would have people from 3 different grades in it; and maybe one younger prodigy.
In English it had the effect that I was never taught most of the fake rules, because I could already correctly pick out the incorrect sentences on the standardized tests. Comprehension meant that I would skip over big parts of the lesson plan. Thank goodness, most of those "rules" aren't even part of the English language!
It wasn't a problem because the reality is that there are refreshers again and again along the way. 0% of the students are being asked to learn something, and then remember it forever. There will always be a refresher, and a student who missed something will have a chance to pick it up later. And students who are skipping a step will be able to handle that.
The only things that were locked to grade level were things without tests; things where we were just being exposed to the information, like watching Why We Fight and other educational movies.
If these are supposed to be problems for personalized education, I'm skeptical.
If computer learning is to work, it needs to start small. I'd vote for teaching elementary arithmetic.
When I needed a calculus refresher I just went to Khan Academy and found the lessons I needed. Starting small already happened.
When I was a wee lad, I mastered the alphabet. It was very exciting! Then my mother taught me my first written word: C-A-T. So, so amazing. Magical. And then she showed me the first spellbook I learned from: the Dictionary. This is how you learn what you want to learn about: you guess the first letter from the sound, and then look, the words are all in the same order as the alphabet! You can just sing the letters until you find your spell, yay! From there I eventually moved on to an encyclopedia. With computers, even those who are not as gifted at turning pages and indexing can have access to knowledge. What a brave new world this is.;)
And once you learn some Library Science, you can even personalize your learning by subject, just by learning which isles to hang out in.
Using computers to bring all this to the masses is easy: you just take all the steps where I learned how to access knowledge, decide for them which personalized knowledge will help them to thrive, and order them to complete those lessons! Then you can just do everything else about their education the same way as normal. You can even put all the kids with similar lesson plans into the same rooms while they're on that part that is the same. The computer can give the teacher a digital lesson plan guide tablet that includes the teacher guide for each lesson currently in the room. And, since humans are idiots and those who can't do it get to teach it, we can just apply some Deep Learning and have the computer personalize the lesson plans. The teachers will appreciate that, as long as the teacher guide tablet has an easy and convenient user interface.
I know that personalized education is compatible with collaboration and student interaction, because how else would I have been granted the nickname Dictionary in school?
In particular, we need to share a common culture (which includes things like having read the same books and viewed the same artworks).
That isn't just wrong, it is dangerous and scary. Plus it is total crap; people in this culture don't read, and they "art" means pop music. No, I don't need to read the same books as them. It is better if we each read the books we want. Maybe that could be a culture? Oh, wait, it already is my culture! Glad I learned it somehow, while reading all the wrong books and looking at all that old art most people don't bother with.
Personalized learning doesn't mean private learning. It does not imply separating the children, or keeping ones working on the same subject from doing it together. Those are hand-wavy inanities.
Montessori does personalized learning, for example. And the kids interact more than in traditional schools. Locally, we have numerous different "alternative education" schools that all do more personalized learning, and they all also put more emphasis on cooperation. It may be that the very process of personalization involves collaboration!
1) The current system was put into place without widespread testing of different possible educational systems. 2) Widespread testing has shown that the standard mainstream system of teaching is unsuitable for some students. 3) You have no widespread testing to prove any of your statements or conclusions are reasonable. 4) You have no idea what Gates or Zuckerberg's daily work life and schedules are, or who does what planning for them. 5) Basing opinions on a hunch is REALLY stupid unless you have no other choice. There are other choices here.
Given 1) and 2), it is as reasonable to try a new untested system and see if it is better as not to! If the existing system had been pre-tested, maybe there would be a different balance there.
It depends on the field, too. An English major once told me, after graduating and deciding not to be a writer: "The first three years of an English degree they teach you all the rules. The fourth year, they teach you not to follow them because they're just for beginners."
Feynman talks about that in physics lectures; the first few years they teach the students a bunch of stuff that isn't really true, it is just a simplification that is useful. So naturally in a field where it is required to go to graduate school before you're employable then that is where they'll finally start exposing you to the field.
A lot of people don't know what a postdoc is. That is a person who finished their graduate degree in good standing, but couldn't land a job in their field. So they get a semi-academic "postdoc" job which is basically an intern but who isn't a student anymore. They work 80 hours a week, and if they're lucky they get paid minimum wage for the first 40 hours of that. Postdoc is the vaguely job-like thing that you can do to cling to the field you studied if you can't get a research grant or a teaching position.
IMO, if you just presume you don't know shit and always look things up, you'll operate as if you knew what you were doing. It isn't enough to read the manual once; the manual should be kept open while doing the work.
... airtight logical models that show certain conclusions are likely correct because all other conclusions are mathematically impossible
So, wherever you're wrong, you can't see it because you tricked yourself into believing that your thoughts are magical and so you can prove negatives. Complete fail. You didn't even convince me to be interested in checking your numbers, because I already know they're a steaming pile of garbage. Anything that claims to be proven right because the biased phrasing of the alternate view is clearly wrong... already has me convinced.;)
Example:
for example: reducing cost of a general market good always *eventually* reduces price as a proportion of both per-capita and median buying power, else we'd have eliminated all employment thousands of years ago--any other conclusion prohibits the creation of new products
What a load of crap that is. No, that not only doesn't prove your point, it doesn't even try to. There are too many logical problems with that to count, even as short as it is. It is factually wrong, even in Adam Smith he points out specific products and services where price isn't responsive to competition. You simply over-simplify until you are no longer considering other views, and then decide that must prove your view to be correct. That is not mathematical, sorry Homer.
Each student's parents just need to hire an individual full-time tutor for their kid, who can then teach them in whatever way best suits that individual kid.
This ignores the huge benefits in some situations of working together in small groups. Nothing in education is so simple.
Nowhere in that formula does it say that kids won't sometimes be working in groups.
Do kids with private tutors sometimes learn in groups? This is a factual question with an answer. You seem to be arguing that you believe the answer is that no, they do not. I find that hilarious, as there is thousands of years of evidence that they do in fact work with their peers; the tutors often find value in this, and it gives the other tutors a bit of a break. And for public schools, there is only a couple hundred years of data; less in most places.
Nothing is as simple as you made it out to be, that much is true. But you won't know if you just presume falsehoods that you could have checked first.
There is just something about Cat Planet Cuties. Whenever they start eating, the cat people get so exited and happy, I just can't help feeling all the warm fuzzies. And I don't even eat pork, which is what the food always is. Also, I like they way they mix dealing with women's issues of body ideals and self confidence at the same time as showing off lots of boobs in a juvenile way. I can't decide if I should feel sorry for the characters with small boobs who are shocked and feel overlooked, or the ones with gigantic boobs who are being dismissed and scolded just for other people staring at them. There is very good balance there. And the boy really doesn't care, sure his eyes pop out and he can't stop staring but he also just wants everybody to get over it, to accept their bodies and stop talking about boobs.
I blame the Thundercats, especially Cheetara.
As for youtube, the channel owner doesn't get to choose what ads you see, only things like how long they play; but they do have intended control over the content that follows, so there is no reason to speculate about malicious audio. They can rickroll you as soon as you risk consuming their content. I may click some weird stuff, but I also don't click very many things. They promise naked catpeople, but they might be trying to sell horny goat weed extract.
Smart TV is great because it means my wife can call her mom on skype, and her mom can answer with the remote control. That is more teachable than the scary computer stuff. But I wouldn't let one in my home, blocking or not. If I wanted that crap on a different screen... I'd use a thin client. That is why the X Windowing System has network support, after all. Wayland is for Smart TV owners. They used to just have boob tubes, now they have morphed into Smart Boobs.
I'm a software guy but my first job after turning 18 was Wildland Firefighting, and I've worked in a plywood mill. I know hard work, and I know easy work.
And I know people in poor countries often don't have good choices, and that is sad.
But people in rich countries with jobs who whine about their awful job and blahblahblah? No sympathy at all. They can quit and even if they lose their home they're not going to starve or anything. If they spend some time on the streets (I have) they might decide what is really important to them, or they might just keep whining about their own choices.
I can say this; at the plywood mill, those of us who liked the job worked hard because it was the job, and we were happy to be doing it. The boss was a jerk, and we told him so and got back to work. The people who liked the job were the same ones who were not willing to "jump" or act silly, only to work hard. And that was respected. Other jobs don't respect that, I've worked at those places too; it is the employees responsibility to quit and move on. If they live in a country where losing your job means you won't have access to food, I can understand that is different. But I live in the USA. There isn't a happy "safety net" for most people, but there is plenty of food, and very few people die of exposure.
The funny part about the guy saying I might as well tell them to "eat cake" is that cake and donuts are easily available to the poor, because they keep pretty well and get donated. When I lived in a homeless shelter there were near riots at 9:30 and 3:30 when they put heaping trays of donuts out on the tables; just 3 or 5 donuts isn't enough for some of these guys. If they want veggies, they should really think about what career they're interested in, and what sort of qualities they are looking for in an employer. So many of these whiners can't come up with a job that they want to do other than, "one that pays good." Well, geeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I'm sure there is a giant shortage of people willing to cash paychecks, right?!
If that is the best they can think of for themselves, they might as well pretend their dirt is cake.
If they have a job and are whiny, they can afford their own damn cake. Ohhhhh, did the poor baby say "yes" to a sucky job, and they had to bake it themselves on their pay? waaaaa. waaaaa.
Note the vastly dissimilar character of "I spend all my time working and don't like my pay" and "the people are rioting because they have nothing to eat." Yeah, if they have jobs and are working long hours to pay back their credit card debt, that is not an "eat cake" scenario, that is a "choose your lifestyle" scenario. Own it, stop whining.
Her proof is either elegant, or clumsy but a great effort, depending who you ask.
You thought you were going to sound smarty, didn't you? I don't doubt your background is as you imply, more than minimal, but you simply forgot the relevant details and then presumed they don't exist. You even made up an argument for why! So no matter how smart you were, you'd still be an idiot.
I switched to small independent map app because I use it in the National Forest, and it has much better support for those roads. Also the interface has a lot of improvements for driving on windy roads. Instead of a single common denominator for-dummies interface, it has dozens of configuration options like traditional software.
Spending money making the software more profitable does not automatically even improve the usability for a particular use case. It might make it better for a more common use case, and awful for mine, with no configuration. That is true even if you spend billions and billions on it.
I already know that you can't be independent and even offer your app for iPhone. You have to join their proprietary blahblah just to ask permission to distribute!
Any developer with a Mac, an iOS device, and $99 per year can "join their proprietary blahblah" and submit apps for review. It's not like the consoles where you need to show evidence of things like "relevant industry experience", "financial stability", and "dedicated office",...
And losing a finger isn't as bad as losing an arm. So what? Who cares? People who are choosing independent products and services, and those offering them, don't really care about your plea that gosh, it only costs a few thousand dollars to get set up to do iPhone apps. Here is the thing: Apple could offer me a free Mac, iOS device, and subscription to their proprietary blah-blah and it would still be a proprietary blah-blah and I would not agree to use it or make software for it. We don't care that there are worse proprietary blah-blahs that exist in the world. We live without them.
In the 90s Microsoft would send me thousands of dollars worth of free software, trying to get me to sell it to my clients. They made great coasters, I can say that their CDs were more scratch resistant than the average crap I would get in the mail. Microsoft Advanced Server 2000 is a much more stable coffee platform than AOL, for example. But I'm not going to run it. And if I have a client using MS SQL Server, I'm just going to use ODBC from linux, I'm not going to fire up the ol' free proprietary crap. As a pleasant side effect, the software I write can run anywhere; even on the proprietary system! Beautiful.
The mistake you made was that you conflated the word "independent" with "no."
A developer with an independent distribution channel might be successful or not. Simply not being in the distribution channel you pointed at tells you nothing about their success or failure. Lots of independent authors do not benefit from a traditional "distribution channel" that promotes their work, and yet they make a lot of money. Many more don't sell anything. There are successes and failures with, and without, being part of a mainstream controlled distribution channel.
"independent" means they are not connected to the combined distribution system.
For example in music, the mainstream labels participate in a system where they pay for store placement and radio plays. An "indie label" is not connected to that system; they sell their wares by traditional retail systems, be it a website, stores that simply chose to offer the item for sale, or directly at concerts.
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Sorry about your experience. I came so close to your fate, but I guess I was lucky. Well, maybe.
In 2nd grade when I got bored with their stupid slow lesson plan, they transferred me to Special Ed. The teacher there was actually a lot brighter than the other teachers. She quickly assessed my real problem and sent me back. Actually, at the time it was a bit traumatic; the Special Ed kids were a lot nicer, I'd have preferred to stay there and be able to read without being harassed. ;) I felt totally rejected that I wasn't good enough for even that class. lol that was early 80s
Is that pronounced like Suck?
Hey, I think we went to school together! I totally recognized your unique communication skills.
Uuhhhhh... the minimum wage jobs are being replaced with robots. Sorry about that. My personalized recommendation for your lesson plan is to read Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut.
If these 18 year old children stay in college, they get closer to adulthood before they're foisted on the world with nothing to occupy their time. Also, "free college" doesn't make everybody want to go to "college." A lot of the colleges that would be attended would be also known as "trade schools." A significant percent of the people who don't go to college, wouldn't. But they might be willing to go to Heavy Equipment Operators School, or whatever the job that robots hate is.
The funny part is that if those meals were being prepared by computerized machines, it might be trivial to provide each soldier a customized meal.
In the olden days, if I wanted to produce a photo calendar, I had to buy 5000 copies because they had to do a bunch of work to set up a press. Then JIT printing presses became a thing, and that evaporated; now they don't have to change anything at all physically, they just insert a print job in their queue and I can order 5, 50, or 5000 no problem!
I absolutely expect the soldier of the future to have personalized meals, because they'll be more effective soldiers with better fuel.
And they won't build the machines out of strawmen, even rich strawmen.
Bad kitty, my personalized cheesypoofs! MINE!
In my public schools many years ago we didn't divide things up by grade but by lesson, so for example a math class would have people from 3 different grades in it; and maybe one younger prodigy.
In English it had the effect that I was never taught most of the fake rules, because I could already correctly pick out the incorrect sentences on the standardized tests. Comprehension meant that I would skip over big parts of the lesson plan. Thank goodness, most of those "rules" aren't even part of the English language!
It wasn't a problem because the reality is that there are refreshers again and again along the way. 0% of the students are being asked to learn something, and then remember it forever. There will always be a refresher, and a student who missed something will have a chance to pick it up later. And students who are skipping a step will be able to handle that.
The only things that were locked to grade level were things without tests; things where we were just being exposed to the information, like watching Why We Fight and other educational movies.
If these are supposed to be problems for personalized education, I'm skeptical.
If computer learning is to work, it needs to start small.
I'd vote for teaching elementary arithmetic.
When I needed a calculus refresher I just went to Khan Academy and found the lessons I needed.
Starting small already happened.
When I was a wee lad, I mastered the alphabet. It was very exciting! Then my mother taught me my first written word: C-A-T. So, so amazing. Magical. And then she showed me the first spellbook I learned from: the Dictionary. This is how you learn what you want to learn about: you guess the first letter from the sound, and then look, the words are all in the same order as the alphabet! You can just sing the letters until you find your spell, yay! From there I eventually moved on to an encyclopedia. With computers, even those who are not as gifted at turning pages and indexing can have access to knowledge. What a brave new world this is. ;)
And once you learn some Library Science, you can even personalize your learning by subject, just by learning which isles to hang out in.
Using computers to bring all this to the masses is easy: you just take all the steps where I learned how to access knowledge, decide for them which personalized knowledge will help them to thrive, and order them to complete those lessons! Then you can just do everything else about their education the same way as normal. You can even put all the kids with similar lesson plans into the same rooms while they're on that part that is the same. The computer can give the teacher a digital lesson plan guide tablet that includes the teacher guide for each lesson currently in the room. And, since humans are idiots and those who can't do it get to teach it, we can just apply some Deep Learning and have the computer personalize the lesson plans. The teachers will appreciate that, as long as the teacher guide tablet has an easy and convenient user interface.
I know that personalized education is compatible with collaboration and student interaction, because how else would I have been granted the nickname Dictionary in school?
In particular, we need to share a common culture (which includes things like having read the same books and viewed the same artworks).
That isn't just wrong, it is dangerous and scary. Plus it is total crap; people in this culture don't read, and they "art" means pop music. No, I don't need to read the same books as them. It is better if we each read the books we want. Maybe that could be a culture? Oh, wait, it already is my culture! Glad I learned it somehow, while reading all the wrong books and looking at all that old art most people don't bother with.
Personalized learning doesn't mean private learning. It does not imply separating the children, or keeping ones working on the same subject from doing it together. Those are hand-wavy inanities.
Montessori does personalized learning, for example. And the kids interact more than in traditional schools. Locally, we have numerous different "alternative education" schools that all do more personalized learning, and they all also put more emphasis on cooperation. It may be that the very process of personalization involves collaboration!
Drumpf is just another bankrupt idiot who can't manage his finances.
He's filed for bankruptcy four times.
Being a successful business leader is at least different than being a rich kid who failed at business and then got a good job as a TV actor.
1) The current system was put into place without widespread testing of different possible educational systems.
2) Widespread testing has shown that the standard mainstream system of teaching is unsuitable for some students.
3) You have no widespread testing to prove any of your statements or conclusions are reasonable.
4) You have no idea what Gates or Zuckerberg's daily work life and schedules are, or who does what planning for them.
5) Basing opinions on a hunch is REALLY stupid unless you have no other choice. There are other choices here.
Given 1) and 2), it is as reasonable to try a new untested system and see if it is better as not to! If the existing system had been pre-tested, maybe there would be a different balance there.
It depends on the field, too. An English major once told me, after graduating and deciding not to be a writer: "The first three years of an English degree they teach you all the rules. The fourth year, they teach you not to follow them because they're just for beginners."
Feynman talks about that in physics lectures; the first few years they teach the students a bunch of stuff that isn't really true, it is just a simplification that is useful. So naturally in a field where it is required to go to graduate school before you're employable then that is where they'll finally start exposing you to the field.
A lot of people don't know what a postdoc is. That is a person who finished their graduate degree in good standing, but couldn't land a job in their field. So they get a semi-academic "postdoc" job which is basically an intern but who isn't a student anymore. They work 80 hours a week, and if they're lucky they get paid minimum wage for the first 40 hours of that. Postdoc is the vaguely job-like thing that you can do to cling to the field you studied if you can't get a research grant or a teaching position.
IMO, if you just presume you don't know shit and always look things up, you'll operate as if you knew what you were doing. It isn't enough to read the manual once; the manual should be kept open while doing the work.
So, wherever you're wrong, you can't see it because you tricked yourself into believing that your thoughts are magical and so you can prove negatives. Complete fail. You didn't even convince me to be interested in checking your numbers, because I already know they're a steaming pile of garbage. Anything that claims to be proven right because the biased phrasing of the alternate view is clearly wrong... already has me convinced. ;)
Example:
for example: reducing cost of a general market good always *eventually* reduces price as a proportion of both per-capita and median buying power, else we'd have eliminated all employment thousands of years ago--any other conclusion prohibits the creation of new products
What a load of crap that is. No, that not only doesn't prove your point, it doesn't even try to. There are too many logical problems with that to count, even as short as it is. It is factually wrong, even in Adam Smith he points out specific products and services where price isn't responsive to competition. You simply over-simplify until you are no longer considering other views, and then decide that must prove your view to be correct. That is not mathematical, sorry Homer.
This ignores the huge benefits in some situations of working together in small groups. Nothing in education is so simple.
Nowhere in that formula does it say that kids won't sometimes be working in groups.
Do kids with private tutors sometimes learn in groups? This is a factual question with an answer. You seem to be arguing that you believe the answer is that no, they do not. I find that hilarious, as there is thousands of years of evidence that they do in fact work with their peers; the tutors often find value in this, and it gives the other tutors a bit of a break. And for public schools, there is only a couple hundred years of data; less in most places.
Nothing is as simple as you made it out to be, that much is true. But you won't know if you just presume falsehoods that you could have checked first.
You... You what? ;-)
There is just something about Cat Planet Cuties. Whenever they start eating, the cat people get so exited and happy, I just can't help feeling all the warm fuzzies. And I don't even eat pork, which is what the food always is. Also, I like they way they mix dealing with women's issues of body ideals and self confidence at the same time as showing off lots of boobs in a juvenile way. I can't decide if I should feel sorry for the characters with small boobs who are shocked and feel overlooked, or the ones with gigantic boobs who are being dismissed and scolded just for other people staring at them. There is very good balance there. And the boy really doesn't care, sure his eyes pop out and he can't stop staring but he also just wants everybody to get over it, to accept their bodies and stop talking about boobs.
I blame the Thundercats, especially Cheetara.
As for youtube, the channel owner doesn't get to choose what ads you see, only things like how long they play; but they do have intended control over the content that follows, so there is no reason to speculate about malicious audio. They can rickroll you as soon as you risk consuming their content. I may click some weird stuff, but I also don't click very many things. They promise naked catpeople, but they might be trying to sell horny goat weed extract.
Smart TV is great because it means my wife can call her mom on skype, and her mom can answer with the remote control. That is more teachable than the scary computer stuff. But I wouldn't let one in my home, blocking or not. If I wanted that crap on a different screen... I'd use a thin client. That is why the X Windowing System has network support, after all. Wayland is for Smart TV owners. They used to just have boob tubes, now they have morphed into Smart Boobs.
I'm a software guy but my first job after turning 18 was Wildland Firefighting, and I've worked in a plywood mill. I know hard work, and I know easy work.
And I know people in poor countries often don't have good choices, and that is sad.
But people in rich countries with jobs who whine about their awful job and blahblahblah? No sympathy at all. They can quit and even if they lose their home they're not going to starve or anything. If they spend some time on the streets (I have) they might decide what is really important to them, or they might just keep whining about their own choices.
I can say this; at the plywood mill, those of us who liked the job worked hard because it was the job, and we were happy to be doing it. The boss was a jerk, and we told him so and got back to work. The people who liked the job were the same ones who were not willing to "jump" or act silly, only to work hard. And that was respected. Other jobs don't respect that, I've worked at those places too; it is the employees responsibility to quit and move on. If they live in a country where losing your job means you won't have access to food, I can understand that is different. But I live in the USA. There isn't a happy "safety net" for most people, but there is plenty of food, and very few people die of exposure.
The funny part about the guy saying I might as well tell them to "eat cake" is that cake and donuts are easily available to the poor, because they keep pretty well and get donated. When I lived in a homeless shelter there were near riots at 9:30 and 3:30 when they put heaping trays of donuts out on the tables; just 3 or 5 donuts isn't enough for some of these guys. If they want veggies, they should really think about what career they're interested in, and what sort of qualities they are looking for in an employer. So many of these whiners can't come up with a job that they want to do other than, "one that pays good." Well, geeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I'm sure there is a giant shortage of people willing to cash paychecks, right?!
If that is the best they can think of for themselves, they might as well pretend their dirt is cake.
If they have a job and are whiny, they can afford their own damn cake. Ohhhhh, did the poor baby say "yes" to a sucky job, and they had to bake it themselves on their pay? waaaaa. waaaaa.
Note the vastly dissimilar character of "I spend all my time working and don't like my pay" and "the people are rioting because they have nothing to eat." Yeah, if they have jobs and are working long hours to pay back their credit card debt, that is not an "eat cake" scenario, that is a "choose your lifestyle" scenario. Own it, stop whining.
One, two, few, lot, many... too many.
Ava K Lamb explains the cultural significance of prime numbers best:
https://youtu.be/_inzEWQRRsY?t...
Euclid's Elements, Proposition 9.
Her proof is either elegant, or clumsy but a great effort, depending who you ask.
You thought you were going to sound smarty, didn't you? I don't doubt your background is as you imply, more than minimal, but you simply forgot the relevant details and then presumed they don't exist. You even made up an argument for why! So no matter how smart you were, you'd still be an idiot.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoy...
Yes, but that term is no longer socially acceptable.
We just call them appers now. I mean groupies.
I switched to small independent map app because I use it in the National Forest, and it has much better support for those roads. Also the interface has a lot of improvements for driving on windy roads. Instead of a single common denominator for-dummies interface, it has dozens of configuration options like traditional software.
Spending money making the software more profitable does not automatically even improve the usability for a particular use case. It might make it better for a more common use case, and awful for mine, with no configuration. That is true even if you spend billions and billions on it.
I already know that you can't be independent and even offer your app for iPhone. You have to join their proprietary blahblah just to ask permission to distribute!
Any developer with a Mac, an iOS device, and $99 per year can "join their proprietary blahblah" and submit apps for review. It's not like the consoles where you need to show evidence of things like "relevant industry experience", "financial stability", and "dedicated office", ...
And losing a finger isn't as bad as losing an arm. So what? Who cares? People who are choosing independent products and services, and those offering them, don't really care about your plea that gosh, it only costs a few thousand dollars to get set up to do iPhone apps. Here is the thing: Apple could offer me a free Mac, iOS device, and subscription to their proprietary blah-blah and it would still be a proprietary blah-blah and I would not agree to use it or make software for it. We don't care that there are worse proprietary blah-blahs that exist in the world. We live without them.
In the 90s Microsoft would send me thousands of dollars worth of free software, trying to get me to sell it to my clients. They made great coasters, I can say that their CDs were more scratch resistant than the average crap I would get in the mail. Microsoft Advanced Server 2000 is a much more stable coffee platform than AOL, for example. But I'm not going to run it. And if I have a client using MS SQL Server, I'm just going to use ODBC from linux, I'm not going to fire up the ol' free proprietary crap. As a pleasant side effect, the software I write can run anywhere; even on the proprietary system! Beautiful.
The mistake you made was that you conflated the word "independent" with "no."
A developer with an independent distribution channel might be successful or not. Simply not being in the distribution channel you pointed at tells you nothing about their success or failure. Lots of independent authors do not benefit from a traditional "distribution channel" that promotes their work, and yet they make a lot of money. Many more don't sell anything. There are successes and failures with, and without, being part of a mainstream controlled distribution channel.
"independent" means they are not connected to the combined distribution system.
For example in music, the mainstream labels participate in a system where they pay for store placement and radio plays. An "indie label" is not connected to that system; they sell their wares by traditional retail systems, be it a website, stores that simply chose to offer the item for sale, or directly at concerts.
Otherwise, what is it that you're independent of?
Google (android) lets you use alternate app stores. For example, f-droid is popular.
So somebody could fill this space right now. No need to wait for handset manufacturers (holding breath; LOL)