Do they think consumers are too unsophisticated to understand a simple number like "this OLED TV achieves a fairly average 66 percent AdobeRGB coverage"
The think that enough that they are unwilling to cut into their profit margin to perform the testing and waste the ink to put that on the boxes, yes. The vast majority of people walk into $store and buy the largest TV that looks better than the rest on the wall of TVs. Manufacturers spend their money wisely, which means they put all of their effort into the factory default 'demo' mode that the TV is set to out of the box. Truly nothing else matters in terms of the majority of consumers' interest in image / color quality.
Was your change made at a state school? My experience as I've stated it is not exaggerated or embellished. I applaud you for making a change. But, as you've said, a single class change - as long as it fulfills the stated expectations of the curriculum - can be fairly fluid and easily accomplished. Affecting more impactful changes like, "Professional practices should not be a final semester senior year class. How can we move that to the sophomore year?" or "Students in this department need a high-level programming class so they can understand how to script professional DCC applications such as 3ds Max or Maya." are more holistic goals that absolutely take large amounts of time to accomplish. Since the OP asked about fixing an outdated curriculum I felt that stated experience at that level could possibly be a benefit.
Thank you for pointing out your post further down. I look forward to reading it.
As a student you're not going to accomplish anything. Imagine if every semester just one student went to the department head and said, "This is outdated, this is ridiculous, this is asinine, change it all. For I have been *in industry* and I know better than you." The department can't give in to you. If they did, then every semester they would be affecting short term changes based on the whim of the other students like you. There would be no stability. There would be no basis for education or fair evaluation of students. You can make suggestions, but do not expect anything to happen.
Graduate. Then offer to come back and guest lecture on occasion. Mentor capstone projects, return for the capstone presentations and provide critique. Maintain relationships with the professors. Then, maybe, in a few years you may get invited to join the industry advisory board for the department. Now you've made real progress! On the IAB you can advocate for changes as someone *in industry* you can explain why class A is not providing benefit relative to the current industry hiring practices and should be changed to accommodate that. If you keep those contributions up for a few years you may finally get the department to agree to a curriculum change. Now in at least six years time (for a state school) you may actually affect a small change. Private schools may make changes faster, or not.
Yes, six years. On average a curriculum change to a state school takes that long. This is because every person in the state legislature wants to have their input on the change, so the bureaucratic nightmare lasts 72 months. That's positively expedient considering starting an entirely new curriculum at a state school can take up to a decade.
I am speaking from experience here. I graduated in 1995. I've been returning to my alma mater on average 2-3 times a year to guest lecture, do the capstone mentoring, etc.. I've been on the department's IAB for close to a decade now. I've affected about three reasonable changes in that time. If you're ability to stick to your conviction of bettering the department doesn't include a long-term commitment on your part, give up now. If your desire to affect one specific change is not fluid enough for compromise or patience (lots and lots of patience), give up now.
I can't imagine that trying to understand empathy and integrate it into your personality is like one of those sham Hollywood 28 day substance abuse therapy retreats. It will be interesting to see if anything about Linus' demeanor changes.
It's not the possible recovery or lack thereof that is the take-away from this. There's absolutely no way any cryptocurrency will ever gain a foothold as a currency used for every day transactions if the best it can offer is, as you said, 80% price plunges every two or three years. It's all speculative and highly volatile. Other than suckers continually and cyclically losing their shirts by believing the unregulated pump-n-dump schemes occurring around cryptocurrencies everyone is going to quickly lose interest and move their investment capital over to more secure financial products.
No. Powershell is a shell. This is all about improving the console so the various shells (Powershell, cmd, etc...) can gain vastly improved output (amongst others) capabilities.
1) Because users overwhelmingly want it (based on UserVoice) 2) Apple has stumbled / is stumbling and Microsoft wants to be there with interesting form factor computers and an OS that supports what those people prefer to make jumping ship easier.
Why should the airlines desire to make money supercede other business' access to the airspace? SpaceX isn't making money at the expense of the airlines. The airlines are losing a trivial amount of money because they haven't accounted for the airspace not being entirely theirs.
And yes, $70/min * 8 minutes * 568 flights = $318,080.00 is trivial to airlines. The average passenger count on a domestic flight is 90 (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-amount-of-passengers-on-a-plane) and the average per passenger profit for a domestic one-way flight is $17.75 with an average profit margin of 9% (http://time.com/money/5158363/airline-profit-per-passenger/). So the average per-one-way profit is 90*$17.75 = $1597.50. That multiplied by those 568 flights is a profit of $970,380.00. Well maybe ~30% of profit isn't paltry. But, those 568 flights only account for 2% of the 28,537 average daily US airline passenger flights (http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_total_number_of_US_commercial_flights_daily). That $1,597.50 profit per flight multiplied by almost 30,000 daily flights equates to an industry daily profit of $45,587.857.50. Of that the $318,080.00 the airlines "lost" so the Falcon Heavy could launch comes out to a, yes, trivial 7/10ths of 1%.
Cry me a river, "Why should the airlines have to lose money so that SpaceX can make money?".
'Linux is only the kernel' is so very reductive given that the GNU project's own kernel hasn't come to fruition after so so many years of trying. It seems to me GNU got the easy stuff done, punted on the truly hard work, and are now trying to ride on the coattails of the project that tackled the truly complex portion. If anything it should be Linux/GNU, but just Linux is totally fine.
I never understood why Stallman just stopped at software. Aren't all for-purchase tools evil? My hammer could have a GPS tracker in it. I have no way of knowing. My table saw that has 'that look' about it. Totally untrustworthy.
I always find Stallman's 'GNU/Linux because Linux is *just* the kernel' argument funny, given that he and his haven't been able to produce 'just a kernel' in how many decades now?
"Blockchain could help" Yeah, so could a practically infinite number of other things. The 'put blockchain in everything' era of "ideas" is getting old fast. It's all very reminiscent of the game development space about four years ago when every game pitch was " IN VR!"
The company that designs and builds the laptop you prefer to use is focused on devices for consumption, not creation. They will most definitely make the laptop line closer in behavior to the iPad line and not the other way around.
I can run ancient MS DOS code in Windows 10, no problems. There's no way I'm ever going to get any Mac software coded for the 68K MacOSes or PPC MacOSes to run on modern hardware. Heck, even 32bit OSX software may not still work.
Apple's track record for maintaining backwards compatibility is that they don't care about it. They sacrifice it regularly. Microsoft, conversely, pours enormous effort into ensuring old software continues to function.
Everything you just stated, except for the HVAC system issues, can be said about Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, etc... So, really, your pitch for CA comes down to, "You don't have to know how to use a thermostat".
Do you understand the irony in an organization that openly takes in and cares for homeless animals using a glorified Roomba to drive off homeless humans. They spent donation money on a robotic sentry so that they didn't have to directly deal face-to-face with these people. It's sterile and disgusting and all the more so because of the fact that the SPCA is showing that they value the dignity of animals more than humans.
There is no equivalency between displacing kids looking for alcohol and a supposedly compassionate organization buying a robot to (quite literally) inhumanely drive off people whom society has failed.
That it isn't made by Apple That you don't have to go to a 'genius bar' to get it fixed That the USB audio drivers work correctly with high end audio production software That there are real function keys instead of a touch bar That you can (on quite a few laptops) use your fingers on the screen to interface with it That it is reasonably priced That there are games available to play on it That Jonny Ive had no hand in ruining it.
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Do they think consumers are too unsophisticated to understand a simple number like "this OLED TV achieves a fairly average 66 percent AdobeRGB coverage"
The think that enough that they are unwilling to cut into their profit margin to perform the testing and waste the ink to put that on the boxes, yes. The vast majority of people walk into $store and buy the largest TV that looks better than the rest on the wall of TVs. Manufacturers spend their money wisely, which means they put all of their effort into the factory default 'demo' mode that the TV is set to out of the box. Truly nothing else matters in terms of the majority of consumers' interest in image / color quality.
Was your change made at a state school? My experience as I've stated it is not exaggerated or embellished. I applaud you for making a change. But, as you've said, a single class change - as long as it fulfills the stated expectations of the curriculum - can be fairly fluid and easily accomplished. Affecting more impactful changes like, "Professional practices should not be a final semester senior year class. How can we move that to the sophomore year?" or "Students in this department need a high-level programming class so they can understand how to script professional DCC applications such as 3ds Max or Maya." are more holistic goals that absolutely take large amounts of time to accomplish. Since the OP asked about fixing an outdated curriculum I felt that stated experience at that level could possibly be a benefit.
Thank you for pointing out your post further down. I look forward to reading it.
As a student you're not going to accomplish anything. Imagine if every semester just one student went to the department head and said, "This is outdated, this is ridiculous, this is asinine, change it all. For I have been *in industry* and I know better than you." The department can't give in to you. If they did, then every semester they would be affecting short term changes based on the whim of the other students like you. There would be no stability. There would be no basis for education or fair evaluation of students. You can make suggestions, but do not expect anything to happen.
Graduate. Then offer to come back and guest lecture on occasion. Mentor capstone projects, return for the capstone presentations and provide critique. Maintain relationships with the professors. Then, maybe, in a few years you may get invited to join the industry advisory board for the department. Now you've made real progress! On the IAB you can advocate for changes as someone *in industry* you can explain why class A is not providing benefit relative to the current industry hiring practices and should be changed to accommodate that. If you keep those contributions up for a few years you may finally get the department to agree to a curriculum change. Now in at least six years time (for a state school) you may actually affect a small change. Private schools may make changes faster, or not.
Yes, six years. On average a curriculum change to a state school takes that long. This is because every person in the state legislature wants to have their input on the change, so the bureaucratic nightmare lasts 72 months. That's positively expedient considering starting an entirely new curriculum at a state school can take up to a decade.
I am speaking from experience here. I graduated in 1995. I've been returning to my alma mater on average 2-3 times a year to guest lecture, do the capstone mentoring, etc.. I've been on the department's IAB for close to a decade now. I've affected about three reasonable changes in that time. If you're ability to stick to your conviction of bettering the department doesn't include a long-term commitment on your part, give up now. If your desire to affect one specific change is not fluid enough for compromise or patience (lots and lots of patience), give up now.
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I would up-vote you if I could. Thank you for sharing.
I can't imagine that trying to understand empathy and integrate it into your personality is like one of those sham Hollywood 28 day substance abuse therapy retreats. It will be interesting to see if anything about Linus' demeanor changes.
It's not the possible recovery or lack thereof that is the take-away from this. There's absolutely no way any cryptocurrency will ever gain a foothold as a currency used for every day transactions if the best it can offer is, as you said, 80% price plunges every two or three years. It's all speculative and highly volatile. Other than suckers continually and cyclically losing their shirts by believing the unregulated pump-n-dump schemes occurring around cryptocurrencies everyone is going to quickly lose interest and move their investment capital over to more secure financial products.
No. Powershell is a shell. This is all about improving the console so the various shells (Powershell, cmd, etc...) can gain vastly improved output (amongst others) capabilities.
cmd.exe has accepted either \ or / for path separators for years. You can even mix/match them within a command.
C:\Users\jeff>cd ../..\windows
C:\Windows>
1) Because users overwhelmingly want it (based on UserVoice)
2) Apple has stumbled / is stumbling and Microsoft wants to be there with interesting form factor computers and an OS that supports what those people prefer to make jumping ship easier.
The headline of this article is odd. Why does it matter how the robot is getting to the ISS? It's the robot that is the interesting part of the story.
Why should the airlines desire to make money supercede other business' access to the airspace? SpaceX isn't making money at the expense of the airlines. The airlines are losing a trivial amount of money because they haven't accounted for the airspace not being entirely theirs.
And yes, $70/min * 8 minutes * 568 flights = $318,080.00 is trivial to airlines. The average passenger count on a domestic flight is 90 (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-amount-of-passengers-on-a-plane) and the average per passenger profit for a domestic one-way flight is $17.75 with an average profit margin of 9% (http://time.com/money/5158363/airline-profit-per-passenger/). So the average per-one-way profit is 90*$17.75 = $1597.50. That multiplied by those 568 flights is a profit of $970,380.00. Well maybe ~30% of profit isn't paltry. But, those 568 flights only account for 2% of the 28,537 average daily US airline passenger flights (http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_total_number_of_US_commercial_flights_daily). That $1,597.50 profit per flight multiplied by almost 30,000 daily flights equates to an industry daily profit of $45,587.857.50. Of that the $318,080.00 the airlines "lost" so the Falcon Heavy could launch comes out to a, yes, trivial 7/10ths of 1%.
Cry me a river, "Why should the airlines have to lose money so that SpaceX can make money?".
hahahah, no.
'Linux is only the kernel' is so very reductive given that the GNU project's own kernel hasn't come to fruition after so so many years of trying. It seems to me GNU got the easy stuff done, punted on the truly hard work, and are now trying to ride on the coattails of the project that tackled the truly complex portion. If anything it should be Linux/GNU, but just Linux is totally fine.
I never understood why Stallman just stopped at software. Aren't all for-purchase tools evil? My hammer could have a GPS tracker in it. I have no way of knowing. My table saw that has 'that look' about it. Totally untrustworthy.
I always find Stallman's 'GNU/Linux because Linux is *just* the kernel' argument funny, given that he and his haven't been able to produce 'just a kernel' in how many decades now?
"Blockchain could help"
Yeah, so could a practically infinite number of other things. The 'put blockchain in everything' era of "ideas" is getting old fast. It's all very reminiscent of the game development space about four years ago when every game pitch was " IN VR!"
The company that designs and builds the laptop you prefer to use is focused on devices for consumption, not creation. They will most definitely make the laptop line closer in behavior to the iPad line and not the other way around.
What?
I can run ancient MS DOS code in Windows 10, no problems.
There's no way I'm ever going to get any Mac software coded for the 68K MacOSes or PPC MacOSes to run on modern hardware. Heck, even 32bit OSX software may not still work.
Apple's track record for maintaining backwards compatibility is that they don't care about it. They sacrifice it regularly. Microsoft, conversely, pours enormous effort into ensuring old software continues to function.
Everything you just stated, except for the HVAC system issues, can be said about Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, etc... So, really, your pitch for CA comes down to, "You don't have to know how to use a thermostat".
There's no 'l' in either Frame or Tick. The name should be Frick or Frack,
Do you understand the irony in an organization that openly takes in and cares for homeless animals using a glorified Roomba to drive off homeless humans. They spent donation money on a robotic sentry so that they didn't have to directly deal face-to-face with these people. It's sterile and disgusting and all the more so because of the fact that the SPCA is showing that they value the dignity of animals more than humans.
There is no equivalency between displacing kids looking for alcohol and a supposedly compassionate organization buying a robot to (quite literally) inhumanely drive off people whom society has failed.
Learning to not care about the OS and going with the one that gives me the largest ecosystem of quality software.
That it isn't made by Apple
That you don't have to go to a 'genius bar' to get it fixed
That the USB audio drivers work correctly with high end audio production software
That there are real function keys instead of a touch bar
That you can (on quite a few laptops) use your fingers on the screen to interface with it
That it is reasonably priced
That there are games available to play on it
That Jonny Ive had no hand in ruining it.
100% absolutely not. The skill sets of developers and quality assurance personnel very rarely overlap.