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Because the heartless animatronic wetware/code chimeras of tomorrow need to be trained to know that "organic" is so far past its use-by date: [^].
Video of CHIP in action here: [^].
[^] Quote from ReadWrite.com article on various new gizmos at CES, describing the CHIP robot dog from WowWee:
The Canine Home Intelligent Pet (CHiP) by WowWee boasts an impressive array of infrared sensors to give it 360 vision and high speed Meccanum wheels, allowing it to move quickly in virtually any direction. It also comes with a special ball to play fetch with and a connected Smart Band that enables CHiP to act with intent. The Smart Band’s bluetooth technology tells CHiP when you’re around and gives you the power to positively reinforce good behavior with a Like button—just like with a real dog.
You can play with this cute robopup at Booth 80449.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: positively reinforce good behavior with a Like button—just like with a real dog.
Where's the "like" button on a real dog?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Between it's ... ears.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or under the tail 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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You...want...to lick...the...dogs... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Richard Deeming wrote: Where's the "like" button on a real dog?
It's in a bone with meat on it.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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If it starts shitting chips all over the house I'm leaving it at the pound.
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They have dinosaurs[^]!!!! 
The organic ones of those are, indeed, far past their use-by date 
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With the number of people in the world living in rented or leasehold property where they're not allowed to have pets it seems like a pretty good idea to me. With an estimated 10 million domestic dogs in the UK alone, I don't think the organic variety is under any real threat!
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I want a robotic dog that can be trained to clean my cat's litterbox. 
Marc
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Read -
Biz news..2015
The robotic toys company WowWee renames self to Cyberdyne Systems.
The toys look like the innocent babies hatching out of the T-rex eggs. It's amusing...but the future is coming..
(Just to spice up the weekend )
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I've just noticed some events in my system event log that have a source of 'bowser'??? Note: Mario has never played on this PC (win10 pro)... Bug report:[^]
Funny that this hasn't been fixed yet.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I suspect definition #4[^] applies to the person who proof-read the message.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Maybe Shanana worked for Microsoft at the time? 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Whilst checking out MVC6 recently (which I think is brilliant and took no time to get up and running with) I had the misfortune to have to faff around with some CSS again. I rarely go near it and only have painful experiences of trying to do anything useful with it. Took about 3 hours to get my head around MVC6 and create a new site and about the same to try and solve (unsuccessfully) a single CSS issue.
Am I right in thinking that to be good at CSS one of the main requirements is that you've been through the pain of solving a million different layout and browser problems?
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Google can be your friend. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites[^] is a good resource for CSS.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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One problem with trying to find help with CSS problems is that there are sometimes a dozen different ways to achieve an effect/layout but not all methods work everywhere, and may break or be deprecated in the near future. Weeding through all the irrelevant stuff and trying different solutions makes you a better developer. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I was working for a company 15 years ago that cared mostly about how each of their websites looked as they saw it as the profit engine. They didn't care about coding standards or security, just look and feel. They wanted things to be laid out exactly to their specifications. I would sit for hours making little changes to my CSS and clicking refresh. I learned CSS that way and even with CSS 3, things have not changed much.
CSS is worth learning because like SQL, it doesn't change much and once you learn it, you know it for life.
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jgakenhe wrote: CSS is worth learning because like SQL, it doesn't change much and once you learn it, you know it are scarred for life.
FTFY
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With CSS, I think of it as stacks and boxes. If I add bizarre layouts with tables, I'm just begging for it. The box model in CSS (margin, border, padding, width) is what gets me. The key is to keep it simple. It's also mobile friendly too. 
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I don't care what discipline, the old guy with the years on his face has seen it before.
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Having as a consultant tried to salvage two companies that had coded black holes inside their paper bags, and repeating the experience as an employee in a company managed by those that saw competence as a threat, I would have to agree that you learn a lot in suffering through the process of trying to save people from their mistakes. It's far more efficient than making all the mistakes yourself.
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At the moment we have a little icon next to our name when we post, showing the highest award we have been given: "Member", "Professional", or "Protector" perhaps.
I've just glance at two QA questioners I'm dealing with and one has 137 questions / 136 comments / 3 answers, and the other 100 questions / 128 comments and nothing else. (And those three answers? They are two additions to his own question, and one "thanks"  )
Perhaps we need a special award for these people: "Help Vampire" perhaps? Or "Holding down a job despite knowing nothing" maybe? (Or am I just being a Grumpy Old Griff because one of my brake pipes burst when I hit the brakes this morning?)
What do you think?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: because one of my brake pipes burst when I hit the brakes this morning?
Now we know how old you really are. 
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