- I keep writing these stupid iOS 7 posts because I cannot believe —it’s believable, so the flaw is with me— how bad most of what I’ve read about it is. These designer-celebrities, these tech-pontificators: they love to recite that “design is how it works,” yet in reviewing a redesign they haven’t bothered to consider what functionality it enables, what strategic ends it serves. They’re not thinking about ends at all, only the most superficial sort of means.
- The phrase “born on third, thought s/he hit a triple” is a good one, but it’s not that good. People have no idea where they were truly born, relative to the global population, relative to historical populations, relative to the future. People have no idea what they hit: not those who work hard, not those who slack. Nothing is so clear as that phrase suggests; it is hard to tell who “deserves” what, and what should be allotted based on deserving, when the world will allow its resources to be ethically divided. Anyway: people who angrily post that phrase online are almost certainly on third in all sorts of senses, and I’m sure they worked super-hard to get there, great hits everyone.
- Yeah, I don’t know.
In modern physics, the phenomenon of gravitation is most accurately described by the general theory of relativity by Einstein, in which the phenomenon itself is a consequence of the curvature of spacetime governing the motion of inertial objects. The simpler Newton’s law of universal gravitation postulates the gravity force proportional to masses of interacting bodies and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. It provides an accurate approximation for most physical situations including calculations as critical as spacecraft trajectory.
— Wikipedia. Think about how wacky it is that the “most accurate” description of gravity is that it’s just curved space-time —not a force at all but a matter of relation— while calculations can continue to be made using a deprecated theory that is factually in error about its description of the universe but which still produces accurate-enough results!
“Beats me, man. Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain’t my scene.”