Just reminding folks that the "KC" which is getting the fiber is one of four separate "Kansas City"s in the KC metro area. It is the one that is in Kansas instead of Missouri, and is almost all poor neighborhoods. That is why it was chosen. It is a lot of poor people but really close to wealthier areas with good infrastructure.
I know, Missouri isn't much better politically, but I just get tired of everyone thinking that all of "Kansas City" is in Kansas just because it has "Kansas" in the name. It was called "Kansas City" because it is the city next to Kansas. Kansas City, KS came later.
It was a conjecture! If you are going to define "Theory" as being supported by a preponderance of evidence, as we do when we say, "The theory of evolution." then we can't keep going around calling every damned conjecture a theory too.
What the hell is so wrong with the word "conjecture"?
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Agreed and agreed.
And I prefer to think that the lack of grammatical perfection in your post is due either to typing on a phone or to make a point. Though the Grammar Nazis are correct: A good point is made better with a little additional care as to grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
I think what you meant to say was "elegant code." You can have very elegant code that very efficiently does Thing X. But that doesn't matter one whit if the users expect the software to do Thing Q. Or if it takes five clicks to get to Thing X and the user has to do that a hundred times a day.
Amen to that, Brother. I am 52 but most people think I am in my late 30s. Problem is: I have to juggle three DIFFERENT pair of progressive bi-focals just to see what the hell I am doing. This is partly due to all the time I have spent reading and on the computer, partly just due to heredity. I don't know how many times I have been looking for something that was right in front of me.
But this has nothing to do with programming. Or one's IQ.
I think your last statement does apply, though. Older people are less ego driven and more willing to ask questions. The younger coders may not be asking the questions simply because they don't want to appear stupid. So they waste hours Googling things when they could have just asked someone and gotten on with their day. People need to remember that the reason people all go to the same place to get work done is so they can actually interact with those other people who go there too. This was found to be more efficient... oh... maybe a few thousand years ago.
Yes, "Better" is part of the name, and they truly are.
I have used this pen for decades now. (OK, not the same one.) It is listed as having a.5 mm tip but it writes much more fine than that. I once legibly signed my name (Grant S. Robertson) with one in about 1/4 of an inch. Not.25" HIGH....25" long and only about 1/16" high. You can't do that with any gel pen or drafter's pen. It writes on just about any surface, including photographs and thermal receipt paper. It never globs up. It rarely needs to be "started" by scribbling on a piece of scratch paper. The line is even, without those spaces where you can see that the ball pushed the ink out of the way as with cheaper ball-point pens. They last a really, really long time. They don't look fancy so no one will steal them from you. And they are super inexpensive. You can get some here: http://www.amazon.com/Better-Ballpoint-Retractable-Ribbed-PIL30000/dp/B00006IEB8.
I even got a bunch of refills so I won't ever have to worry about doing without them for at least ten years.
With two separate views and a touchscreen interface it is only a matter of time before people start smacking each other's hands and fighting for screen real estate. It would be so much easier to simply use two monitors. They aren't that damned expensive.
For all those people who think this is silly... Who think that people who do this don't have the mental capacity to simply choose their clothes for the day....
You aren't thinking enough. It is not a matter of not having the TOTAL mental capacity to choose clothing. It is a matter of not having the EXTRA mental capacity because we are spending so much of our capacity on other things. Some of us spend every waking minute (and many of our non-waking minutes) constantly thinking about a dozen different things. Interrupting that chain of thought for the mundane things is more trouble than it is worth. And it is not just picking the clothes. It is a hundred different things throughout the day, for which wasting even one minute's thought each adds up to about two hours of wasted thinking time per day, especially when you consider the time it takes to get back into what you were thinking about before.
Read 'Your Brain at Work.' It is an excellent book about how your brain actually functions and how to maximize how much "work" you can get out of it per day. More and more research is showing that the more we can automatize in our daily lives, the more capacity we have left for what really matters.
Given all the caveats and assumed programming skills in all the other messages, I agree that this is the fastest, simplest method. I mean, really, how much attic, shelf, or drawer space do three 2-terabyte drives take up? Just copy off what you know you need to a new drive. Set the old ones aside. Then, when you need something that you can't find on the new drive, just fire up those old drives and do a search.
"The enemy of having a life is perfect hard drive de-duplication"
Me (just now)
This is moot. They already patent existing genes. Hell, Monsanto patented existing plants that the government had collected and put in a repository. Monsanto didn't even have to do the work of finding them. They just walked into the repository and started filing patents.
This is actually a good reason to let the rich go ahead and mess with this. Let them go about tinkering with their genetic code, removing bits here and there that they think will make them perfect. Then, after a few generations, the house of cards will start to collapse. All the bits that they have removed will add up to some major defects. But it will be too late. They will have screwed themselves. Just as ruling classes of the past have caused their own demise through inbreeding, these selfish bastards will genetically modify themselves into oblivion. Bwahahahaha!!!!
Just because war does not actually help the economy does not mean that wars have not been waged on the mistaken presumption that they would help the economy. Besides, even when those waging the war claim it is to help the economy, they neglect to mention that they only mean a small subset of the economy consisting of rich people they know.
Sensitive much? The rich already take advantage of the better health-care that they can afford while arguing that the poor can just go to the emergency room. What would make any rational being believe that the rich would take advantage of this as well? If you can't look around and see how the rich are already taking every opportunity to manipulate things to their advantage - and have been for centuries - then you already have the rich blinders on. Either that or you blindly think you will be rich one day and want to be able to take advantages of that same system.
The entire point of a QR-Code is that it can be placed where-ever anything visual can be placed.
Which is exactly why they invented the rectenna, because it can be "placed" where you wouldn't be able to see anything visual. QR codes for where the sun does shine and rectennas for where the sun does not shine. It makes perfect sense.
Perhaps I shouldn't let the secret out, but my son makes some pretty big bucks for his programming-experience-level precisely because he can do the heavy lifting in the math department. He was a physics major in college, which anyone who reads XKCD knows is the highest form of applied math (in terms of being the applied math that is closest to pure math). For his undergraduate research work, he worked on software that processed data from one of the neutrino telescopes operating in Antarctica. So, yeah, he had to use some pretty high end math to design his software. Now he does business analytics. He is on the leading edge of a technology that will drive the future. And I don't mean "technology" as in some nifty, new programming trick which will be obsolete next month. Or a programming language that looks slightly easier to read. I mean Technology (with a capital T) which applies across all fields from biology, to marketing, to astronomy to how to best manufacture the tires on your car. Every EFFING thing you will ever touch or do anything with for the rest of your lives. Analytics and it's cousin, Modeling, will play a part in it. Even the keyboard you type on all day required some pretty high-level math just to design the springs to give it just the right feel so you can keep tapping away all day thinking you aren't using any math.
Now, perhaps the reason most of you programmers out there don't think anyone will ever use any math in programming is merely because YOU will never use any math in programming, because YOU don't know how to do it. And I am not talking about just taking a course in calculus, maybe getting an A, but then moving on and forgetting what you learned. (Admittedly, exactly what I did.) If you really want to learn and KNOW math you gotta beat your head against it for years. Practicing more and more and never giving up even when your brain has gone into nuclear melt-down for the fifth time today. Taking more advanced courses and courses that require the use of that math all the time, not just a couple of times a semester. Perhaps, if you actually still knew any of the math you were forced to sit through, you would have been offered jobs where you would use that math and then you would be singing a different tune.
Has everyone forgotten that Google is based on a mathematical algorithm, not just a lot of fast servers or fancy programming. How do you think they calculate the trajectories for Mars missions and make real time adjustments, taking into consideration the lag time between when the message is sent and when it will be received, as well as the relativistic factors considering how fast the vehicle is moving now and how fast it will be moving when the maneuver is finished..... I guaran-damn-tee you that they don't just do a hash-table lookup and then do an x++.
So, if all you ever want to do is write more code to push more HTML and bits and CSS out to browsers, like a bajillion other programmers, then stay in your comfy, mathless world. Just keep in mind, that it is easy to train billions of Indian and Chinese programmers to do the exact same thing. Soon, there will be software that does it almost automatically. However, if you really want to participate in the most exciting parts of computer technology that are coming up in this century, then I highly recommend that you double-triple down on that math.
Now, I know I am getting a little braggy and preachy. But hey, people ask questions because they want opinions. And all I saw was a bunch of boring answers based on a limited, dead-end view of the future. And, I am really proud of my son. So there!
How many times does this question have to be asked and how many times do I have to say: "OneNote on a Tablet PC"
People say you can type notes on an iPad. Who are they frikkin kidding? You ever tried typing notes on a glass surface while paying attention to a professor? When was the last time any professor gave a lecture that could be typed up in a linear fashion?
People say you can draw diagrams on an iPad. Again, are you kidding me? You gonna draw up multiple complex molecular diagrams with your frikkin finger. It's college not kindergarten.
You gonna write your thesis on an iPad too? Have fun with that.
A Tablet PC is a real computer with a real operating system. It is a laptop with a touch-screen AND a stylus.
OneNote allows you to hand-write your notes just as you would on a piece of paper. But it is not just lines in a picture. The handwriting is converted to text behind the scenes and you can search for it. Or you can convert the handwriting to text. You can copy and paste in anything. On top of all that, you can have it recording the audio of the lecture and then have it play it back later, automatically highlighting the text you wrote while allowing you to add more notes as you listen to the lecture a second time.
In short, this combination is the ultimate note taking machine. How anyone gets through college without them is beyond me.
Mark my words! They will start it up, run it as poorly as possible, come very close to disasters that could have global effects, and then ask for some kind of concession in exchange for shutting it back down. They have repeated this "be bad, then ask for something in exchange for stopping the bad behavior" trick at least a dozen times that I can remember.
I was going to suggest the same thing. And the best part is that it requires absolutely no server-side app or back-end. You just store your primary files on a server, on each of your tech's laptops you "open" the "notebook," OneNote creates a cache of the files on the laptop that can be used even when not connected to the network. Then, all your tech's can modify to their heart's content while out in the field. Then, when they get back in to the office, OneNote synchronizes all the different data into the primary file automatically, just by opening OneNote again.
There are more details. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Just reminding folks that the "KC" which is getting the fiber is one of four separate "Kansas City"s in the KC metro area. It is the one that is in Kansas instead of Missouri, and is almost all poor neighborhoods. That is why it was chosen. It is a lot of poor people but really close to wealthier areas with good infrastructure.
I know, Missouri isn't much better politically, but I just get tired of everyone thinking that all of "Kansas City" is in Kansas just because it has "Kansas" in the name. It was called "Kansas City" because it is the city next to Kansas. Kansas City, KS came later.
Just sayin'.
It was a conjecture! If you are going to define "Theory" as being supported by a preponderance of evidence, as we do when we say, "The theory of evolution." then we can't keep going around calling every damned conjecture a theory too.
What the hell is so wrong with the word "conjecture"?
Agreed and agreed.
And I prefer to think that the lack of grammatical perfection in your post is due either to typing on a phone or to make a point. Though the Grammar Nazis are correct: A good point is made better with a little additional care as to grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
I think what you meant to say was "elegant code." You can have very elegant code that very efficiently does Thing X. But that doesn't matter one whit if the users expect the software to do Thing Q. Or if it takes five clicks to get to Thing X and the user has to do that a hundred times a day.
This is called "selection bias." It is when you assume that what you see or notice most often is actually the majority.
Amen to that, Brother. I am 52 but most people think I am in my late 30s. Problem is: I have to juggle three DIFFERENT pair of progressive bi-focals just to see what the hell I am doing. This is partly due to all the time I have spent reading and on the computer, partly just due to heredity. I don't know how many times I have been looking for something that was right in front of me.
But this has nothing to do with programming. Or one's IQ.
I think your last statement does apply, though. Older people are less ego driven and more willing to ask questions. The younger coders may not be asking the questions simply because they don't want to appear stupid. So they waste hours Googling things when they could have just asked someone and gotten on with their day. People need to remember that the reason people all go to the same place to get work done is so they can actually interact with those other people who go there too. This was found to be more efficient ... oh ... maybe a few thousand years ago.
Yes, "Better" is part of the name, and they truly are.
.5 mm tip but it writes much more fine than that. I once legibly signed my name (Grant S. Robertson) with one in about 1/4 of an inch. Not .25" HIGH... .25" long and only about 1/16" high. You can't do that with any gel pen or drafter's pen. It writes on just about any surface, including photographs and thermal receipt paper. It never globs up. It rarely needs to be "started" by scribbling on a piece of scratch paper. The line is even, without those spaces where you can see that the ball pushed the ink out of the way as with cheaper ball-point pens. They last a really, really long time. They don't look fancy so no one will steal them from you. And they are super inexpensive. You can get some here: http://www.amazon.com/Better-Ballpoint-Retractable-Ribbed-PIL30000/dp/B00006IEB8.
I have used this pen for decades now. (OK, not the same one.) It is listed as having a
I even got a bunch of refills so I won't ever have to worry about doing without them for at least ten years.
With two separate views and a touchscreen interface it is only a matter of time before people start smacking each other's hands and fighting for screen real estate. It would be so much easier to simply use two monitors. They aren't that damned expensive.
If it were not for magnetic fields, would you be able to think?
Actually, yes. But not without electrostatic fields.
For all those people who think this is silly... Who think that people who do this don't have the mental capacity to simply choose their clothes for the day....
You aren't thinking enough. It is not a matter of not having the TOTAL mental capacity to choose clothing. It is a matter of not having the EXTRA mental capacity because we are spending so much of our capacity on other things. Some of us spend every waking minute (and many of our non-waking minutes) constantly thinking about a dozen different things. Interrupting that chain of thought for the mundane things is more trouble than it is worth. And it is not just picking the clothes. It is a hundred different things throughout the day, for which wasting even one minute's thought each adds up to about two hours of wasted thinking time per day, especially when you consider the time it takes to get back into what you were thinking about before.
Read 'Your Brain at Work.' It is an excellent book about how your brain actually functions and how to maximize how much "work" you can get out of it per day. More and more research is showing that the more we can automatize in our daily lives, the more capacity we have left for what really matters.
Amen!
If you can't easily explain how to do it to a regular user, then you shouldn't design your program that way.
Far too many programs are "designed" based on what is easy or interesting to CODE rather than on what works for regular users.
Given all the caveats and assumed programming skills in all the other messages, I agree that this is the fastest, simplest method. I mean, really, how much attic, shelf, or drawer space do three 2-terabyte drives take up? Just copy off what you know you need to a new drive. Set the old ones aside. Then, when you need something that you can't find on the new drive, just fire up those old drives and do a search.
"The enemy of having a life is perfect hard drive de-duplication"
Me (just now)
Hello!!! Iraq??? War for oil???
The banana republics?
The military industrial complex?
Heard of these?
But you are someone who - even if I showed you a signed plan outlining who would get what - would not believe it. So, I am just wasting my time.
This is moot. They already patent existing genes. Hell, Monsanto patented existing plants that the government had collected and put in a repository. Monsanto didn't even have to do the work of finding them. They just walked into the repository and started filing patents.
Actually, this is something that shallow people like you already do. Most regular people are just hoping to find someone who will be nice to them.
This is actually a good reason to let the rich go ahead and mess with this. Let them go about tinkering with their genetic code, removing bits here and there that they think will make them perfect. Then, after a few generations, the house of cards will start to collapse. All the bits that they have removed will add up to some major defects. But it will be too late. They will have screwed themselves. Just as ruling classes of the past have caused their own demise through inbreeding, these selfish bastards will genetically modify themselves into oblivion. Bwahahahaha!!!!
Just because war does not actually help the economy does not mean that wars have not been waged on the mistaken presumption that they would help the economy. Besides, even when those waging the war claim it is to help the economy, they neglect to mention that they only mean a small subset of the economy consisting of rich people they know.
Sensitive much? The rich already take advantage of the better health-care that they can afford while arguing that the poor can just go to the emergency room. What would make any rational being believe that the rich would take advantage of this as well? If you can't look around and see how the rich are already taking every opportunity to manipulate things to their advantage - and have been for centuries - then you already have the rich blinders on. Either that or you blindly think you will be rich one day and want to be able to take advantages of that same system.
Which is exactly why they invented the rectenna, because it can be "placed" where you wouldn't be able to see anything visual. QR codes for where the sun does shine and rectennas for where the sun does not shine. It makes perfect sense.
Perhaps I shouldn't let the secret out, but my son makes some pretty big bucks for his programming-experience-level precisely because he can do the heavy lifting in the math department. He was a physics major in college, which anyone who reads XKCD knows is the highest form of applied math (in terms of being the applied math that is closest to pure math). For his undergraduate research work, he worked on software that processed data from one of the neutrino telescopes operating in Antarctica. So, yeah, he had to use some pretty high end math to design his software. Now he does business analytics. He is on the leading edge of a technology that will drive the future. And I don't mean "technology" as in some nifty, new programming trick which will be obsolete next month. Or a programming language that looks slightly easier to read. I mean Technology (with a capital T) which applies across all fields from biology, to marketing, to astronomy to how to best manufacture the tires on your car. Every EFFING thing you will ever touch or do anything with for the rest of your lives. Analytics and it's cousin, Modeling, will play a part in it. Even the keyboard you type on all day required some pretty high-level math just to design the springs to give it just the right feel so you can keep tapping away all day thinking you aren't using any math.
Now, perhaps the reason most of you programmers out there don't think anyone will ever use any math in programming is merely because YOU will never use any math in programming, because YOU don't know how to do it. And I am not talking about just taking a course in calculus, maybe getting an A, but then moving on and forgetting what you learned. (Admittedly, exactly what I did.) If you really want to learn and KNOW math you gotta beat your head against it for years. Practicing more and more and never giving up even when your brain has gone into nuclear melt-down for the fifth time today. Taking more advanced courses and courses that require the use of that math all the time, not just a couple of times a semester. Perhaps, if you actually still knew any of the math you were forced to sit through, you would have been offered jobs where you would use that math and then you would be singing a different tune.
Has everyone forgotten that Google is based on a mathematical algorithm, not just a lot of fast servers or fancy programming. How do you think they calculate the trajectories for Mars missions and make real time adjustments, taking into consideration the lag time between when the message is sent and when it will be received, as well as the relativistic factors considering how fast the vehicle is moving now and how fast it will be moving when the maneuver is finished..... I guaran-damn-tee you that they don't just do a hash-table lookup and then do an x++.
So, if all you ever want to do is write more code to push more HTML and bits and CSS out to browsers, like a bajillion other programmers, then stay in your comfy, mathless world. Just keep in mind, that it is easy to train billions of Indian and Chinese programmers to do the exact same thing. Soon, there will be software that does it almost automatically. However, if you really want to participate in the most exciting parts of computer technology that are coming up in this century, then I highly recommend that you double-triple down on that math.
Now, I know I am getting a little braggy and preachy. But hey, people ask questions because they want opinions. And all I saw was a bunch of boring answers based on a limited, dead-end view of the future. And, I am really proud of my son. So there!
How many times does this question have to be asked and how many times do I have to say: "OneNote on a Tablet PC"
People say you can type notes on an iPad. Who are they frikkin kidding? You ever tried typing notes on a glass surface while paying attention to a professor? When was the last time any professor gave a lecture that could be typed up in a linear fashion?
People say you can draw diagrams on an iPad. Again, are you kidding me? You gonna draw up multiple complex molecular diagrams with your frikkin finger. It's college not kindergarten.
You gonna write your thesis on an iPad too? Have fun with that.
A Tablet PC is a real computer with a real operating system. It is a laptop with a touch-screen AND a stylus.
OneNote allows you to hand-write your notes just as you would on a piece of paper. But it is not just lines in a picture. The handwriting is converted to text behind the scenes and you can search for it. Or you can convert the handwriting to text. You can copy and paste in anything. On top of all that, you can have it recording the audio of the lecture and then have it play it back later, automatically highlighting the text you wrote while allowing you to add more notes as you listen to the lecture a second time.
In short, this combination is the ultimate note taking machine. How anyone gets through college without them is beyond me.
Mark my words! They will start it up, run it as poorly as possible, come very close to disasters that could have global effects, and then ask for some kind of concession in exchange for shutting it back down. They have repeated this "be bad, then ask for something in exchange for stopping the bad behavior" trick at least a dozen times that I can remember.
Whoever, is forking the process should trademark a new name and call their standard by that name. To keep calling it "HTML5" is just mean.
Perhaps "HTML5X"
I was going to suggest the same thing. And the best part is that it requires absolutely no server-side app or back-end. You just store your primary files on a server, on each of your tech's laptops you "open" the "notebook," OneNote creates a cache of the files on the laptop that can be used even when not connected to the network. Then, all your tech's can modify to their heart's content while out in the field. Then, when they get back in to the office, OneNote synchronizes all the different data into the primary file automatically, just by opening OneNote again.
There are more details. Let me know if you have any questions.
Got better things to do than be trolled by someone who goes by "Score Whore."