'Passes'
Passes by the El Reg front door? Passes wind? Maybe you were at a kart track together?
I think you'll find that the word you were looking for is 'dies'. Passes away I might forgive if you're religious.
David G. Hartwell RIP
Posts by JohnNE12
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SciFi and fantasy titan David G. Hartwell passes, aged 74
Kids' tech skills go backwards thanks to tablets and smartmobes
Thursday 19th November 2015 13:34 GMT
Digital Native vs Foreigners
Maybe us oldies are better at IT because we have had to learn it from scratch. For the digital natives it just always been there to use.
This is the same as the many Europeans I know who speak better english than me (ok then:than I!). They have had to learn the building blocks of grammar, vocabulary and syntax; to decode idioms, slang and shorthand expressions.
In this case we are past peak IT, it is unnecessary for most people to understand it. They only have to use it. There will always be specialists in both English Grammar and IT. For everyone else, these are just tools put there to use.
R&D money for science – from your taxes?
Wednesday 21st October 2015 15:45 GMT
Bah Humbug
Keep repeating the mantra that 'economics is a science' often enough and somebody might start to believe it.
Economics is more akin to biography. Or possibly history. Apply labels to phenomena. Describe them. Show historic trends.
Science offers falsifiable hypotheses that can be tested and provide predictions of future outcomes. True predictions that work.
No two economists can agree on any intervention in the economy that works. Oh, except tweak the money supply this way and the bankers will get richer. Move interest rates that way and the bankers will get even richer still. Bankrupt the banks? The bankers still get richer. The real world? Doesn't matter. They're not bankers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
