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<wit> If you study hunger, you find that the root causes tend to be uncontrollable forces of nature like greed, corruption, and politics. Not that we _can't solve problems like this with frankenrice, but it may be more straightforward to help those who find themselves oppressed into poverty, be slightly less oppressed. </wit>
"We don't create representations of visual stimuli"..."We don't retrieve information or images or word from memory registers" Neither do computers in many cases. It's as if the author is saying because in the brain isn't a tape recorder or film camera then it doesn't work like a computer. Nope. Studies show that much like a computer we encode information as we store it. Because we encode it fancy ( or weird :-) doesn't mean its not encoded or retrieved. The Dollar Bill example is a red herring. Just ppitballing here: What if, instead of creating an image for the dollar, the subject's mind created a visual'thumbnail' and 'hash' of the real dollar. The thumbnail she can recall easily and lets her draw 'enough' of the bill to be vaguely recognizable. The hash, lets her recognize the real deal whenever she sees it. She simply compares the hash of this new object with list of hashes, and if its a dollar the mind finds a match. Of course, it far more sophisticated, but these simple methods, cleanly account for what the author observed.
I decided to quit whilst standing there listening to him. As he spoke, he was thrilled, and was telling us how thrilled we should all be for what great news this was to the company. Distinctly remember thinking, oh! these guys are evil.
When Walmart Comes to Town https://economics.mit.edu/files/7575
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-25/wal-mart-...
An early Snapper Mower take on walmarts practices: https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
Forking a project, and adding features and removing pulls that you don't want and/or need is kinda the idea behind the whole 'open source' thing.. cause what else would you do with the source code, but compile it.
Speaking of Firefox, a build or two ago, without warning, Firefox deprecated (broke) every add-on. Because [insert-old-architecture-security-justification]. It's not like anybody was doing anything real with a browser anyway.
Thinking about it, Apple's genius has been finding this line: "How closed can we go, how disposable can we make them and maximize churn, while not slowing down buying. We can even create a desire for churn [it's September, time for a new $600 phone, anyone?] Its exactly like the one you have, only different." As others have pointed out here, the dog and pony show they put on recently, by inviting a select group of reporters (market influencers) into their hq was damage control when several magazines/sites called them out for crossing this line. New machines with lower specs than older machines, gaming battery life tests, irrational pricing, and selling 5 year old spec machines as 'Pro'. I might recommend reading the reporting of the meeting, it's a textbook example of high-end one-on-one selling, impressive location, the appearance of insider-access, sealed with a personal commitment from the leaders. Meanwhile, they don't have a 'pro' product line, and though they have enough cash on hand to buy every pro team in every sport in the U.S. they haven't made any investments or advancements in pro pc technology in a decade. And that's cool, if apple doesn't want to fill the gap, someone will fill the space eventually.
And I concede that the headphone jack is fine, it;s a combo, first glance i assumed just output. That works.
Its attractive because of the top end features. But they come in trapped in a disposable package. While that would not be terrible for $300 laptop, it is a piss-poor investment for what 9to5mac says will be a $17,500 top of the line box. Why? The instant one of the features is offspec,too little, to slow , you have an entire $17,000 machine that's too little, too slow.
And no mic input? Why? That's just silly. It cost them more to leave that out.
It belongs with Pro-Racecars, with prepacked engines and hoods welded shut, and with Pro-Lawn tools with no serviceable parts.
I wish I made all of those up. But after reviewing, and evaluating, that's the list of cool features. Sigh.
"Before IOS 11 we arbitrarily limited the apps in your dock to 6. Today we will allow up to 8!" <cheers from the crowd>. They've been dripping out features, that they could have delivered in 2010 but for reasons like Courage chose to hold back.
The article doesn't support the headline. Unless that also means 'Your ipad will still be the same old iPad, but you will find it more awkward to use"