The point of a console. Is that everything is given to you in a nice little box. The Hardware is balanced for affordability and high performance gaming. Meaning the CPU doesn't need to be Uber fast when your GPU is the slowest part. So you can get hardware balanced for gaming. The same thing with the OS if the box is designed for high end gaming have a generic all purpose OS doesn't make much sense, and giving low level access to the end user is a good way for the average gamer to make things worse.
The problem is finding good teacher to improve education is good in a perfect world but it isn't. You got suburban schools with most of the parents working at a good middle class job. The students will on the whole do better then the students who live in the slums. Also you have the overall culture of the school. Where some schools cultures are setup as an education facility where they demand the students to learn things. Then there are other schools who operate more like a day care that just make sure the kids are safe for when they are there, and they use teaching as a way to try to pacify them. School have a hard time separating the slackers from the people who want to do good but are having problems. There are parents who put unneeded political pressure on the school to make sure if F+ turns to a D or his C turns into an B+. There are parents who do nothing and let their child slide. Discussion about politics, religion is forbidden. Standardized test make sure every child thinks that everything must have a right answer.
You take a good teacher and put them in a bad environment they will not perform, or they may get fired very quickly. You take a bad teacher and put them in a good environment the students will learn in spite of them.
I spent my childhood in spite of most of my teachers. I got the message every year from one teacher "There is no way you will be able to make it threw the next level of school" I didn't get this message during Grad school though. Granted I wasn't an A+ student a Solid B+ was my standard. But it let me go by and by no means was I ever in any threat of failing out. The problem is I have a learning disability in writing it is a minor one so it never was considered a disability, however it makes getting my point across difficult.
To more the point. The Grandparent with all those 0's were an exaggeration how how small of a factor a minor share holder had. Which I feel is dangerous, because it make people feel too small. The biggest problem we have isn't these big companies, but there are so many people in fear of these big companies that they are no doing anything. Afraid to start their own business, afraid to invest... So the 1% who isn't afraid to take risks are reaping in the money.
We have gotten wishy-washy and afraid to take risks, yet we are angry that we feel like we have little control or good pay for our relativity safe jobs.
I would expect now that the popularity of desktops is waning, a lot of the prices to make really beefy systems in the short term will go down to much of a cheaper rate. Hopefully it will revise the revival of build it yourself computers. Perhaps we can get the whitebox equlivlant of a tablet PC.
Which do you find more annoying. Star Trek which can spend a good portion of the show trying to explain how and why they break the laws of physics. or Star Wars which breaks the laws of physics but doesn't care to explain themselves.
No the Liberal Idiots loss. You miss the point. They are dealing with classified information. Every country has classified information. The reason why a lot of it is classified is to protect the people who give them the information. Wikileaks probably would have gotten away without the US putting much pressure on them if it wasn't for all the uncensored information about the war. But the fact that they released all the names of the personal involved in the information, it put these people at risks of death. Most of the other information wouldn't be that big of a deal. And not worth the US trying to stop it.
Yes but copying a book letter for letter is expensive, and so is printing them. The fact that the printing press is an expensive item, is the fact the major violators are indeed people with money and resources and are making a pant load of money from piracy. Get the latest book from London in a week or so you publish it in the states and make a lot of money.
Today's digital data you have an exact copy in seconds not weeks. They can be shipped globally instantly. and is done with average Joe's consumer products. My point stands. Copyright is about insuring the owner of the material has control and profits of of their media. If it is a big business then they get it. Content creators need rights with with content, if they are going to be held liable for it they also need to be rewarded for it.
They are just as good as the number equating Vaccines with autism. Complected made up but exaggerated to make a point that more people will die without vaccination then the remote possibility that it will cause autism.
For one. Who honestly thinks during war any Country including the United States was a pure good group people who never did anything wrong? If you do then you are an idiot. You take a person, you give him a gun, you back him up with thousand of other people with guns, place him in a situation were other people are going to try to kill him. He will bend the rules to the breaking point to survive and if they have a lot of people backing him up he can really test how far it will bend. When we go to war, having troops who break the laws is expected and is usually factored into the calculation, it just isn't publicized as it isn't PC. Immunity makes sure these people can come back home and lot of them will live normal honest lives when they are outside that environment.
Secondly. If they are a good person, they will be following US law and orders. Not the other countries laws and orders. So for example it may be illegal to eat pork in the country but while the troops are there they had their monthly Pork Ribs BBQ. or the fact they are hunting down an enemy and had to break into a bunch of peoples houses to get the job done. Immunity will stop the defeated country from being a dick and wrap the US up in decades of legal hearings, or imprison good people.
Third. For the people who have been committing crimes will need to deal with US court. Where the rules are what they know of and sure that it isn't a show trial.
As someone with experience in this. Outsourcing doesn't save a company a lot of money, and it is usually better to hire local people to do the work.
1. Cultural problems. In the US we have Software Developers in India they have Programmers. The difference is US Software Developers think on their feet better, and put their artistic flare and pride in their work. In India you give them a spec you get your code. It meets the spec but without any fore-site or creativity in the process. So when the requirements do change they have to go back and re-code. Also US Developers are more willing to say they need help, when they see there wheels spinning. India programmers will just keep on going and going. You then ask them a week later why it isn't done they will go well I am stuck on step 1. To solve these problems you need an engaged management who cost more then the developer does, being that they need to do micromanaging they can probably only do 2 or 3 programmers while one manager can Manage 6-8 US Developers.
2. Time zones. The further you outsource the bigger the problem with time zones are. Not allowing the people to attend meetings or have them explain to you what they have been doing means more work disjointed to what needs to be done.
3. Lack on interpersonal communication. You don't know what each person strengths and weaknesses are. Giving them jobs that they cannot perform well.
4. Language problems. A joke or an attempt to be friendly can sometimes cause a problem.
There are a lot more too... Many companies are actually resourcing a lot of their work back, because they found that there is actually value to it.
My point wasn't that autism is easy. I have dealt with autistic people in the past and they take a lot of work. But more to the point that autism 1 comes in many degrees from mild (functional) to extreme ("heartbreaking, stressful, and hideously expensive") for the most part it is still better then the grief of their child dying. If you are someone with a family with an autistic child, would you prefer if they were dead?
People really want to have a link between something popular and widely used and a deadly condition. If we have it and we like it. It has to be bad and evil and must be banned so no one can enjoy this again. It is kinda funny that it is usually the less informed segment of the liberal groups (AKA Dirty Hippies) who really push this stuff. And not the religious right who many religions focus of steering away from early possessions.
And you didn't get a dime from your work. How selfish are you. We support giving away your ideas and your work for free and in the same breath you complain how hard it is to get a job, or how the middle class is getting paid less. However you give away tools for the big corporations to use for free. Meaning they won't need to spend money on hiring people to do a lot of good middle class jobs such as making software for them. Or buying it from a company who has a team of middle class paid developers working for them.
Technology is getting to a point that they can take a lot of good jobs away from people because they are cheaper and better. Now you want to give away for free to these fat cats resources that computers cannot replace.
However as the autism rate drops by a fraction of a percent. There seems to be a 20% increase in deaths due to children dying of viruses. The greater good be damn! I don't care how many kids die from preventable virus I don't want the shame of my child being autistic.
Digital data is unique as it can be copied over and over again without loosing anything. It can be done for cheap and any individual can do it.
Old media Each copy degrades per copy. And making the media was expensive.
This is the problem.
Copyright law is based on the old media. So those large fines for violations were fair laws. Because if you were to say pirate 10,000 records, or 100,000 books at a near production quality. Then you have already have invested a substantial money to do this, with the idea of making more money from it. So if you get caught then you probably already have a lot of wealth acquired illegally.
Now that violating the law is much too easy, now the fines are hurting the "innocent" people who's crime is closer to sneaking into a movie theater without a ticket. Even if they have hundreds of thousands of illegal material, and shared it millions of time.
The root cause of the piracy like any black market activity is the fact there is demand for a product that is priced too high, or is treated in a way people do not want. Or they legally cannot get it otherwise. To lower piracy Media companies need to expand their internet usage of their media (That is what people want), Make it affordable (Now that you have greatly increased your supply capacities as you are sharing data not physical stuff), and make sure people who want it can get it.
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Translations: I got the new and hippest distro out there. Now that I got older I want it to stay the same. Ubuntu is actually trying to make a better product, that will compete for modern times. Not just put a couple of fixes on a 1970's unix workstation layout just so you can do the new stuff.
Linux is about choice. Ubuntu isn't, Ubuntu is about making it user friendly. The problem with Linux getting mainstream usage was there were too many choices and they didn't always jive together. Some historal examples (some of them for the most part have been standardized finally) 1. Copy and Paste 2. Sound. 3. Wi-Fi 4. Xservers 5. File Systems
Sure choice will let you pick and choose and get the optimal choice for you... However it isn't user friendly because a new user who wants to figure out the system doesn't have all the choices to make an informed decision, and depends on the distro packages to make a good guess. If you don't like ubuntu try an other Distrobution. You like a few things try to install the software from one distribution with an other.
If you are using college as an investment, you need to make good use of it. The problem is too many students are not focused on going to college to do a particular job. Back in the olden times when someone who graduated from college was in the minority and no matter what their major was the fact that they had a college degree opened up a lot of job opportunity. Today more people are graduating and it is no longer a big deal, so the job market is getting more selective. If you are hired as a computer programmer you should have a computer science/computer engineering degree. You should have a business degree in Sales/Marketing if you want to go to sales and marketing. Students who go to college with a career goal in mind, and work towards that career goal more often then not get the job. A minor degree is what you should put in things you are very interested in however you realize that you do not want a career in it.
The rise in college prices are due to many factors. 1. New technology for education. back in the good old time, in college you needed warm a place to sleep, food to eat, books to read, and paper and pens to write, and a typewriter for you final papers. Now there are computers in every classroom, students have their own too. Cable TV, High speed internet, telephone service, Card security locks on the door, every inch of the campus with lights. Or in the sciences to be competitive making nano-technology and all the neat and cool stuff you need really expensive equipment. 2. Higher Demand. More students are trying to get in college. Colleges have limited space. (Granted they can be more optimized) they raise their education levels so they are more appealing to the best and the brightest and Economics 101 kicks in as Demand increases and Supply stays the same price goes up. 3. Demand for smaller classroom size meaning less professors per class, reducing the supply.... and there are a lot more.
It is not the colleges fault that so many students go into majors that leave them to be useless in society, making low end jobs that cannot pay off their debt. The parents need to guide their children into investing in their future not just let them pick a topic they like without a major goal after it. Also the idea that one college is that much better then an other after you leave the top 10 they get basically the same level of education.
Education is worth it... However you need to be smart with your education. If you don't see your education as an investment into your future then chances are you will take a major that will make you happy for the here and now, then the future will not have many options for you.
The core problem is they are too many people, doing illegal and harmful stuff.
One of the biggest problems that we face is the difficultly for a small business to get a foot hold, while the big corporations take all the goods. Part of the problem is those small business often only have the resources to advertise the same way that most of the conmen do. But there is enough of these people selling faulty/damaging goods only to make a quick buck that people shortly learn to ignore and tag these areas of advertisements for products and services as too shady. As a consumer we learn to avoid those small shops who looks like a hole in the wall, and those internet adds with obviously little marketing budget. When choosing a company we tend to choose the big one (no one got fired for choosing IBM) because if you get a small company it could be a scam where you loose money, and get nothing back. Small companies as they grow they hire people, the bosses are on a more personal level with their employees and tend to treat them better (The trickle down does work for small companies) Big corporations when they get more money they put it towards improving efficiency meaning getting the business to run with less people, and more jobs that are more humdrum. The policing of the internet is overall good for everyone. If you can keep the conmen down to an acceptable levels then you can spur more growth in small businesses and get people people working globally.
This is a really cool exercise and I would love to see how complex they can go... But is there any really good application for this? Aren't current electronics have gates that are smaller and faster then bacteria, and faster then they could ever really get to be. Then you need to keep the bacteria alive and operating.
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It was found buried in millions of years of parentheses. and CAR and CDR actually did something useful.
The point of a console. Is that everything is given to you in a nice little box.
The Hardware is balanced for affordability and high performance gaming. Meaning the CPU doesn't need to be Uber fast when your GPU is the slowest part. So you can get hardware balanced for gaming. The same thing with the OS if the box is designed for high end gaming have a generic all purpose OS doesn't make much sense, and giving low level access to the end user is a good way for the average gamer to make things worse.
The problem is finding good teacher to improve education is good in a perfect world but it isn't.
You got suburban schools with most of the parents working at a good middle class job. The students will on the whole do better then the students who live in the slums.
Also you have the overall culture of the school. Where some schools cultures are setup as an education facility where they demand the students to learn things. Then there are other schools who operate more like a day care that just make sure the kids are safe for when they are there, and they use teaching as a way to try to pacify them.
School have a hard time separating the slackers from the people who want to do good but are having problems.
There are parents who put unneeded political pressure on the school to make sure if F+ turns to a D or his C turns into an B+.
There are parents who do nothing and let their child slide.
Discussion about politics, religion is forbidden.
Standardized test make sure every child thinks that everything must have a right answer.
You take a good teacher and put them in a bad environment they will not perform, or they may get fired very quickly.
You take a bad teacher and put them in a good environment the students will learn in spite of them.
I spent my childhood in spite of most of my teachers. I got the message every year from one teacher "There is no way you will be able to make it threw the next level of school" I didn't get this message during Grad school though. Granted I wasn't an A+ student a Solid B+ was my standard. But it let me go by and by no means was I ever in any threat of failing out. The problem is I have a learning disability in writing it is a minor one so it never was considered a disability, however it makes getting my point across difficult.
To more the point. The Grandparent with all those 0's were an exaggeration how how small of a factor a minor share holder had. Which I feel is dangerous, because it make people feel too small. The biggest problem we have isn't these big companies, but there are so many people in fear of these big companies that they are no doing anything. Afraid to start their own business, afraid to invest... So the 1% who isn't afraid to take risks are reaping in the money.
We have gotten wishy-washy and afraid to take risks, yet we are angry that we feel like we have little control or good pay for our relativity safe jobs.
I would expect now that the popularity of desktops is waning, a lot of the prices to make really beefy systems in the short term will go down to much of a cheaper rate. Hopefully it will revise the revival of build it yourself computers. Perhaps we can get the whitebox equlivlant of a tablet PC.
Am I the only person who never heard of a "Mug Club"?
Is it a way to have more drinks at once or something?
So how much does "The Man" pay you to dribble out lies to debunk what we know is true.
Which do you find more annoying.
Star Trek which can spend a good portion of the show trying to explain how and why they break the laws of physics.
or
Star Wars which breaks the laws of physics but doesn't care to explain themselves.
No the Liberal Idiots loss.
You miss the point. They are dealing with classified information. Every country has classified information. The reason why a lot of it is classified is to protect the people who give them the information. Wikileaks probably would have gotten away without the US putting much pressure on them if it wasn't for all the uncensored information about the war. But the fact that they released all the names of the personal involved in the information, it put these people at risks of death.
Most of the other information wouldn't be that big of a deal. And not worth the US trying to stop it.
That is one big company even if its socks at less then a dollar the company is work over Sextillion dollars.
Yes but copying a book letter for letter is expensive, and so is printing them. The fact that the printing press is an expensive item, is the fact the major violators are indeed people with money and resources and are making a pant load of money from piracy. Get the latest book from London in a week or so you publish it in the states and make a lot of money.
Today's digital data you have an exact copy in seconds not weeks. They can be shipped globally instantly. and is done with average Joe's consumer products. My point stands. Copyright is about insuring the owner of the material has control and profits of of their media. If it is a big business then they get it. Content creators need rights with with content, if they are going to be held liable for it they also need to be rewarded for it.
They are just as good as the number equating Vaccines with autism. Complected made up but exaggerated to make a point that more people will die without vaccination then the remote possibility that it will cause autism.
For one.
Who honestly thinks during war any Country including the United States was a pure good group people who never did anything wrong? If you do then you are an idiot. You take a person, you give him a gun, you back him up with thousand of other people with guns, place him in a situation were other people are going to try to kill him. He will bend the rules to the breaking point to survive and if they have a lot of people backing him up he can really test how far it will bend.
When we go to war, having troops who break the laws is expected and is usually factored into the calculation, it just isn't publicized as it isn't PC. Immunity makes sure these people can come back home and lot of them will live normal honest lives when they are outside that environment.
Secondly.
If they are a good person, they will be following US law and orders. Not the other countries laws and orders. So for example it may be illegal to eat pork in the country but while the troops are there they had their monthly Pork Ribs BBQ. or the fact they are hunting down an enemy and had to break into a bunch of peoples houses to get the job done. Immunity will stop the defeated country from being a dick and wrap the US up in decades of legal hearings, or imprison good people.
Third.
For the people who have been committing crimes will need to deal with US court. Where the rules are what they know of and sure that it isn't a show trial.
Third.
As someone with experience in this. Outsourcing doesn't save a company a lot of money, and it is usually better to hire local people to do the work.
1. Cultural problems. In the US we have Software Developers in India they have Programmers. The difference is US Software Developers think on their feet better, and put their artistic flare and pride in their work. In India you give them a spec you get your code. It meets the spec but without any fore-site or creativity in the process. So when the requirements do change they have to go back and re-code. Also US Developers are more willing to say they need help, when they see there wheels spinning. India programmers will just keep on going and going. You then ask them a week later why it isn't done they will go well I am stuck on step 1. To solve these problems you need an engaged management who cost more then the developer does, being that they need to do micromanaging they can probably only do 2 or 3 programmers while one manager can Manage 6-8 US Developers.
2. Time zones. The further you outsource the bigger the problem with time zones are. Not allowing the people to attend meetings or have them explain to you what they have been doing means more work disjointed to what needs to be done.
3. Lack on interpersonal communication. You don't know what each person strengths and weaknesses are. Giving them jobs that they cannot perform well.
4. Language problems. A joke or an attempt to be friendly can sometimes cause a problem.
There are a lot more too... Many companies are actually resourcing a lot of their work back, because they found that there is actually value to it.
My point wasn't that autism is easy. I have dealt with autistic people in the past and they take a lot of work. But more to the point that autism 1 comes in many degrees from mild (functional) to extreme ("heartbreaking, stressful, and hideously expensive") for the most part it is still better then the grief of their child dying. If you are someone with a family with an autistic child, would you prefer if they were dead?
People really want to have a link between something popular and widely used and a deadly condition.
If we have it and we like it. It has to be bad and evil and must be banned so no one can enjoy this again. It is kinda funny that it is usually the less informed segment of the liberal groups (AKA Dirty Hippies) who really push this stuff. And not the religious right who many religions focus of steering away from early possessions.
And you didn't get a dime from your work. How selfish are you. We support giving away your ideas and your work for free and in the same breath you complain how hard it is to get a job, or how the middle class is getting paid less. However you give away tools for the big corporations to use for free. Meaning they won't need to spend money on hiring people to do a lot of good middle class jobs such as making software for them. Or buying it from a company who has a team of middle class paid developers working for them.
Technology is getting to a point that they can take a lot of good jobs away from people because they are cheaper and better. Now you want to give away for free to these fat cats resources that computers cannot replace.
However as the autism rate drops by a fraction of a percent. There seems to be a 20% increase in deaths due to children dying of viruses.
The greater good be damn! I don't care how many kids die from preventable virus I don't want the shame of my child being autistic.
Digital data is unique as it can be copied over and over again without loosing anything. It can be done for cheap and any individual can do it.
Old media Each copy degrades per copy. And making the media was expensive.
This is the problem.
Copyright law is based on the old media. So those large fines for violations were fair laws. Because if you were to say pirate 10,000 records, or 100,000 books at a near production quality. Then you have already have invested a substantial money to do this, with the idea of making more money from it. So if you get caught then you probably already have a lot of wealth acquired illegally.
Now that violating the law is much too easy, now the fines are hurting the "innocent" people who's crime is closer to sneaking into a movie theater without a ticket. Even if they have hundreds of thousands of illegal material, and shared it millions of time.
The root cause of the piracy like any black market activity is the fact there is demand for a product that is priced too high, or is treated in a way people do not want. Or they legally cannot get it otherwise. To lower piracy Media companies need to expand their internet usage of their media (That is what people want), Make it affordable (Now that you have greatly increased your supply capacities as you are sharing data not physical stuff), and make sure people who want it can get it.
Translations: I got the new and hippest distro out there. Now that I got older I want it to stay the same. Ubuntu is actually trying to make a better product, that will compete for modern times. Not just put a couple of fixes on a 1970's unix workstation layout just so you can do the new stuff.
Linux is about choice. Ubuntu isn't, Ubuntu is about making it user friendly. The problem with Linux getting mainstream usage was there were too many choices and they didn't always jive together. Some historal examples (some of them for the most part have been standardized finally)
1. Copy and Paste
2. Sound.
3. Wi-Fi
4. Xservers
5. File Systems
Sure choice will let you pick and choose and get the optimal choice for you... However it isn't user friendly because a new user who wants to figure out the system doesn't have all the choices to make an informed decision, and depends on the distro packages to make a good guess. If you don't like ubuntu try an other Distrobution. You like a few things try to install the software from one distribution with an other.
If you are using college as an investment, you need to make good use of it.
The problem is too many students are not focused on going to college to do a particular job.
Back in the olden times when someone who graduated from college was in the minority and no matter what their major was the fact that they had a college degree opened up a lot of job opportunity. Today more people are graduating and it is no longer a big deal, so the job market is getting more selective. If you are hired as a computer programmer you should have a computer science/computer engineering degree. You should have a business degree in Sales/Marketing if you want to go to sales and marketing. Students who go to college with a career goal in mind, and work towards that career goal more often then not get the job.
A minor degree is what you should put in things you are very interested in however you realize that you do not want a career in it.
The rise in college prices are due to many factors. ... and there are a lot more.
1. New technology for education. back in the good old time, in college you needed warm a place to sleep, food to eat, books to read, and paper and pens to write, and a typewriter for you final papers. Now there are computers in every classroom, students have their own too. Cable TV, High speed internet, telephone service, Card security locks on the door, every inch of the campus with lights. Or in the sciences to be competitive making nano-technology and all the neat and cool stuff you need really expensive equipment.
2. Higher Demand. More students are trying to get in college. Colleges have limited space. (Granted they can be more optimized) they raise their education levels so they are more appealing to the best and the brightest and Economics 101 kicks in as Demand increases and Supply stays the same price goes up.
3. Demand for smaller classroom size meaning less professors per class, reducing the supply.
It is not the colleges fault that so many students go into majors that leave them to be useless in society, making low end jobs that cannot pay off their debt. The parents need to guide their children into investing in their future not just let them pick a topic they like without a major goal after it. Also the idea that one college is that much better then an other after you leave the top 10 they get basically the same level of education.
Education is worth it... However you need to be smart with your education. If you don't see your education as an investment into your future then chances are you will take a major that will make you happy for the here and now, then the future will not have many options for you.
The core problem is they are too many people, doing illegal and harmful stuff.
One of the biggest problems that we face is the difficultly for a small business to get a foot hold, while the big corporations take all the goods.
Part of the problem is those small business often only have the resources to advertise the same way that most of the conmen do. But there is enough of these people selling faulty/damaging goods only to make a quick buck that people shortly learn to ignore and tag these areas of advertisements for products and services as too shady.
As a consumer we learn to avoid those small shops who looks like a hole in the wall, and those internet adds with obviously little marketing budget. When choosing a company we tend to choose the big one (no one got fired for choosing IBM) because if you get a small company it could be a scam where you loose money, and get nothing back.
Small companies as they grow they hire people, the bosses are on a more personal level with their employees and tend to treat them better (The trickle down does work for small companies) Big corporations when they get more money they put it towards improving efficiency meaning getting the business to run with less people, and more jobs that are more humdrum.
The policing of the internet is overall good for everyone. If you can keep the conmen down to an acceptable levels then you can spur more growth in small businesses and get people people working globally.
This is a really cool exercise and I would love to see how complex they can go...
But is there any really good application for this? Aren't current electronics have gates that are smaller and faster then bacteria, and faster then they could ever really get to be. Then you need to keep the bacteria alive and operating.
It would be a fitting platform for {choose your OS that you hate the most} now it can small like it performs.
How about iFrames that link to different sites and only get partial information and mix them together to create a brand new message.