Nobody is making that assumption other than you. The point is to expose kids to programming so that the ones who will enjoy it can discover that fact and pursue it. It's that whole "broadening your horizons" thing that school is supposed to do.

That says more about you than it does about television.

Do you have an unlimited plan for your cell phone? Do you feel obligated to use it constantly and feel guilty about not using it? Probably not.

Do you have unlimited internet? Do you download large files constantly in order to maximize your usage? Probably not.

Do you go to all-you-can-eat buffets and eat as much as you possibly can and make yourself sick? Probably not.

If you get out of the "gotta get my money's worth!" mindset and you'll find that a lot of things are more enjoyable, but you'll never escape that mindset until you stop blaming everything else and accept that the problem is your mindset.

You need something to pass the time during your refractory period.

Calculus is not a series of guesses. If you think it is, you should probably go back to school.

No, you can't. Calculus can tell you exactly how far the ball will travel down to the last millimeter if you account for all of the variables.

You can make an educated guess, but you'll completely fail to catch the ball if you then close your eyes and assume that it will be exactly where you predicted it to be. If you can tell exactly where is going to land, why would you need to see it and make corrections?

Only an idiot would believe that they can tell exactly where a ball is going to land from the instant they see it being thrown. And here you are claiming just that.

Calculus will tell you exactly how long it will take for a ball to get to you, not an approximate guess.

You've confused "being familiar with thrown balls so that you can make a good guess" with "actually doing math."

If they could do that, they wouldn't have to keep watching the ball as they ran and caught it. There's a reason they keep their eyes on the ball. Constant corrections.

It really isn't. Catching a thrown ball requires practice, during which you learn more or less how a ball moves after being thrown without any actual understanding of the math behind it.

If you were doing calculus, you'd know exactly where the ball was going as soon as you saw it moving and you could simply put your hand in the right place and wait for the ball to arrive.

In reality, you get yourself into what looks like it might be the path the ball is going to take, then you constantly correct your position as the ball gets closer. It's more like a series of guesses where you're constantly told whether you're getting closer or further away from the correct answer and that is not calculus.

It sounds that way, but it's intentionally deceptive. The trick is that the income inequality that Greenspan is referring to is the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, not the disparity between CEOs and everyone else.

He's arguing that programmers should be paid more like McDonald's burger flippers, not that CEOs shouldn't make hundreds or thousands of times more than their lowest paid employees.

Expanding the H1-B program would increase competition and drive down wages, but only in the middle class. In fact, the added profits from paying workers less would probably increase the bonuses that CEOs get and create even more income inequality.

Pi day greeting cards. No, not from Hallmark, but you can still buy them.

After that rant, I'm guessing that speak like a pirate day actually causes you to have a grand mal seizure each year.

No, it has nothing to do with paying to continue using something.

Every month, members get to borrow a book that they don't own and keep it for the month. When they pick out a book the following month, they have to return the one they borrowed the month before. They don't buy the book, so they don't own it.

Actually, that is exactly what the person I was replying to was implying with the question "what happens if the source is exhausted?"

The only demonstrations of the Dunning-Kruger affect here are the person asking what happens when the rivers run dry and you demonstrating that you couldn't comprehend the that I was responding to that person's question, not the actual problems with California agriculture.

The water California is watering its crops with comes primarily from rivers. The rivers are watershed from rain which condensed out of water vapor in the atmosphere. Most of that water they use then evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere where it eventually condenses and falls as rain again and feeds the rivers.

It's the water cycle that you should have learned about in elementary school.

The only reason the rivers that are the source of the water would be exhausted is if it stops raining. If that happens, it won't be because we were raising too much alfalfa.

That's how it's written on the actual website, too. The only place it's in all caps is in the logo.

LabOnFoil is the acronym chosen to designate the project named "Laboratory Skin Patches and SmartCards based on foils and compatible with a smartphone"

The author of the gizmag article is a dumbass who copied and pasted text, then went out of his way to fuck up the capitalization and needlessly capitalize "on foil" when the people behind the project are doing no such thing.

But then it's an article on gizmag, so what do you really expect?