my experience with the NYC subway system tells me that if I'm relying on the subway to get me between classes, forget it. Bad enough on one campus if a teacher goes long or has to talk after class I might not have enough time to run across campus and make it to my next class.

So, it's not just, "I won't use public transport" it seems more like the case that juggling two disparate school schedules IS a logistical hassle. I mean, if you got lucky and a class at MIT starts an hour or two after a class you're taking at Harvard, then sure. But it's really not practical.

This is about MOOCs, not degree work.

So if you're taking a history MOOC and you want to learn about the Mongols, then the module is there for you.

Bro, do you even RTFA?

Context is everything. For MOOCs. This makes perfect sense. For degree work? Not so much.

That's not The Problem. There's no single The Problem. There are lots of problems, including an obesity epidemic(Hence the sugary soda ban in NYC).

The biggest problem we have right now is that we have a bunch of people who are intellectually unserious and cling to various pop psychology or pop philosophy memes and claim that is the absolute truth to solving all of our problems. I'm not talking about just idiots on message boards, comment threads, on HAM radio, etc. I'm talking about Congressmen and Governors and business leaders who really have no idea what they're doing, much less that we have problems or how to solve them.

There ARE political ideologies that suggest the hideously controversial suggestion that we have complex problems that need serious, complicated, nuanced answers. The second biggest problem we have is that those political ideologies are given equal weight to the whack jobs who think that Ayn Rand is some kind of philosophy giant or something.

So, given that debate isn't going to solve the first problem, or the second problem, and that there's nothing of substance to discuss other than a rant about Atlas Shrugged and a bizarre smattering of links about ebola.

Which is somehow in mainstream news but covered up and we're being lied to? Also laced with factually incorrect fears to boot. Hint, airborne ebola isn't a thing like airborne flu. Don't huff fresh pig or monkey shit off of the ground and you'll be fine. Also when the CDC took the infected Americans into custody they did so with insane levels of control over the whole process.

Anyway, there's nothing of substance to debate. The dude's probably not a troll; it doesn't pass the "is this funny to assholes" test, sounds like the dude cracked.

Yeah, but no one was buying the old giant cheese grater. That's why it languished. It stopped being a priority for them.

Part of me wants, so badly, for Apple to come out with a reasonably priced mid tower Mac Pro or some other concept where I can mess around with the hardware, but another part of me knows that just ain't going to happen.

The time for those kinds of machines is gone.

I don't think that's necessarily true.

What we tend to think of as personal computer problems might just be Windows problems. I'm willing to buy the notion that tight and close driver development are absolutely points in Apple's favor, I'm curious as to what the day to day life is like with a Hackintosh.

That being said, Apple will never do OSX as generic PC OS unless someone can come up with a really compelling reason other than OSX on every desktop. This isn't 1992 anymore and shipping an OS isn't the whole product story anymore. Not unless life with such a machine actually turns out to be really good. Like, giving ice water to people in hell good.

There have been plenty of educated bloggers, and plenty of idiot journalists.

The difference between a reporter and a blogger is that a reporter tends to have the financial support needed to sustain long investigations and a better platform which to spew their news.

Dude, you've cracked. Turn off the computer, put down the copy of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, and go lay down for awhile. Deep breaths. Relax.

It's funny, this is actually dealt with in Gundam X. The captain of the ship that everyone rides around in was a veteran child soldier who fought in the war that ruined everything. He wound up with pretty bad PTSD.

What about false positives? We know hash collisions are a thing. If they find a positive, do they actually check it out? do they compare metadata? Like, hash matches, but the size and filename are wrong.

I'd hate to get some random binary blob(zip, mp3, etc.) emailed to me only to have Google flag it because it matches some kiddy porn.

I'm not sure if this counts, but on handhelds, day of release, I couldn't find fire emblem awakening anywhere. It was available at the same price on nintendo's e shop.

I don't know if that changes things fwiw.

I'd hate to be one of your users. The advantages of faster CPUs or fancy SSDs isn't in maximizing performance all the time, but rather day to day life with the machine gets nicer overall. A dual core Atom would be an awful day to day experience. Things will run, but not very well. Besides, how cheap is your company if you can't afford nice things for them? I'd hate to see what your bathrooms look like.

"Sure, a toilet would be nice, but a hole in the ground works just as well!"

As of Ivy Bridge, integrated video is already good enough. OEMs are trapped on two sides. First, margins are slim enough already, trying to add decent components is a hit they can't afford to take. Second, does Windows 7 or 8 even support actual high DPI screens? Or is it stuck in 72 DPI hell?

Everyone I know who has worked at an apple retail store who has sold a computer to someone who was looking for a machine with just that use case in mind has either directed them to a MacBook Air or an iPad. You're talking about people with more money than sense.

Though you're wrong about high res screens. The screen in the retina pros generally are taken advantage of by anyone who has eyes. The resolution is doubled but the OS interprets it as one point made up of a block of 4 pixels. So doing things like sub pixel manipulation makes everything look crisp and beautiful. I can't wait until this kind of thing is main stream. Going to even higher DPIs still has gains for the same reason, iirc. You can't see the pixel lines anymore, but that doesn't mean fonts get sharper or images look nicer. There's a point of diminishing returns, definitely, but I don't know if we are there yet.

My reading of it is that the functionality of the software on the recorder is a DARD, but, the AHRA doesn't make the distinction between software and hardware. Given that the AHRA was from a time before that was even a problem...

I still pretty much agree with the consensus that GM and Ford are going to knock this out of the park. However, I do see ways that it could be ruled against them and that has some interesting effects elsewhere.

I think this kind of thinking is pretty detrimental to mobile.

When you put a "better" camera on, will it have new optics? Will it jut out of the case like a sore thumb? What about new SoCs? Will heat and battery become problems?

I'm pretty skeptical. I think mobile has been a huge hit because of the trend away from desktop modes of thinking. Holistic integrated things are more than the sums of their parts than generic gizmos that are just a random slathering of parts.

Take for example the iPhone 5s. The finger print sensor has been amazing, but it wouldn't work with out the A7's secure enclave. To do that in Ara you'd have to ship a replacement button or have a sensor on the module itself.