the only thing school did for me professionally was teach me MacOS (six classes out of my entire school cirriculum) and get me in touch with the guy that got me the job I have now.
School also gave you that stupid piece of paper without which the drones in the personnel department will not even hint of considering the possibility of perhaps, maybe, one day, to think about looking at your résumé.
The "education deficit" is the only reliable way for the rich to perpetuate their wealth; if the unwashed masses are allowed access to education, they have a good opportunity to become rich, thus removing wealth from the grasp of those who are already rich.
This is the reason why public schools are chronically underfunded, to provide a steady stream of proletarians that will work to enrich their bosses without becoming rich themselves, and to steadily consume without question the worthless stuff the bourgeois constantly peddle them.
But if the poor start getting educated and rich, the world as we know it will most definitely crumble!!!
Railroads prophesied all these telecom events. But were railroad-car packets too small to see?
Railroads prophecized many aspects of the internet/telecom/computer networks. They were the first entreprises that were widely distributed geographically that needed good and fast communications (on the order of seconds) for it's daily operations.
So they developped more than 150 years ago the technology to transmit information and to manage operations that were spanning a very wide territory.
Reduntancy, checksums and whatnot were all technologies developped by railroads:
Reduntancy: telegraphed train orders from the dispatchers were repeated by the telegraph operators in the stations;
Checksums: whilst the orders were transmitted and repeated, every other station on the line listened, to check for errors in fact or retransmission;
Master control: only one man ran a line at the same time; he alone had the authority to order train movements. This way, there was no chance of miscommunication, since every information was in one head at a time.
Just as you're required to have a driver's license to drive a car, or to buckle-up to ride one, it is not far-fetched to assume that requiring identification is a reasonable requirement not only for air travel, but for any kind of travel by any common carrier by any means of travel (aircraft, airship, helicopter, balloon, boat, rowboat, steamboat, passenger train, freight train, mixed train, piggyback train, work train, runaway train, day train, night train, fairmont, section speeder, hi-railer, tamper, ballast regulator, taxi, bus, jitney, jeepney, motorcycle sidecar, rickshaw, pedicab, wheelchair, horsecart, oxcart, police cruiser, ostrich cart, dog sled, snowmobile, hovercraft or velocipede), as the transportation title (the ticket) is issued to one person and is not transferable.
As usual, a slashdot story that links to an article *** totally *** devoid of any technical details that would make it news for nerds, or merely stuff that matters.
Volvos (Volvoes?) are the most dangerous cars on the road.
Not to those inside it, but to those outside. The morons who buy Volvoes buy it for the "safety" that's a trade-mark of the car, so they drive like assholes, thinking that if they're in accidents, they'll be okay.
Perhaps if seats belts were outlawed (for the driver), you'd see people driving carefully, because in case of accident, they'd know they'd get turned into marmalade.
Nothing new there. Is Slashdot a nostalgia technology site????
More than 20 years ago, I remember seeing at a computer show a daisywheel printer whose head was propelled by a linear motor (it was manufactured by a subsidiary of Exxon).
How radical is it? It dispenses with just about everything that makes a car a car, such as the engine, transmission, steering wheel, and gas tank. Rather than spitting out carbon monoxide and other smog-causing gases, it emits nothing but water because it runs on hydrogen. With few moving parts, it will last for decades. It will generate more electricity than it uses and be equipped to apply the surplus to power the owner's house. Manufacturing will cost a fraction of what it takes to build a traditional car, because the AUTOnomy will contain many fewer components. And it will be ready for mass production by the end of the decade, which in the automotive world is a week from Tuesday.
As an editor myself, however, one problem I've had with accepting electronic manuscripts is that the writers, for some reason, seem to want to go apeshit with the style menu... italics, bold, large font for subheads, headers and footers, footnotes at the bottom of each page... all of these things make it very difficult to get at the actual text of the article. Some people even want to submit manuscripts as HTML (a nightmare).
Having professionnally been at the receiving end of so many typuscripts, the worst loss of time was the removal of useless formatting while keeping the crucial ones (bold, italics, quotations); (Microsoft) word basic scripts could do a lot, but not everything (did you know that there is actually a book named "the hacker's guide to Word Basic"???)
You realize, of course, that STDs would, for the most part, go away if promiscuity was eliminated? Also, your nemesis the Christian Coalition would be a lot happier if less abortions happened due to irresponsible sex.
Just my take on the whole subject, and yes, I've had sex. (Even a one-night stand.)
you oughta use that crucifix as a dildo and stick it into your arse; it would loosen you a bit, because you're a hell of a constipated asshole.
Telecommuting isn't an option for most people, really it isn't even an option for technical people like sysadmins. Yes, you can telnet over S/WAN and restart a mail server, that's trivial. But London is one of the world's financial centres; when there's a problem with an application consisting of millions of lines of bespoke code from half a dozen different vendors running on millions of pounds of hardware from another half dozen vendors (pretty much all IT in the Square Mile is like this), the only way to solve the problem is to get all the relevant people together in a room working on it.
But the many more users of the application can telecommute instead of clogging the streets.
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This is the reason why public schools are chronically underfunded, to provide a steady stream of proletarians that will work to enrich their bosses without becoming rich themselves, and to steadily consume without question the worthless stuff the bourgeois constantly peddle them.
But if the poor start getting educated and rich, the world as we know it will most definitely crumble!!!
Buy me off? You can bite my shiny metal ass!!!
This trick is as old as secret ballot voting; it's called a "telegram":
So they developped more than 150 years ago the technology to transmit information and to manage operations that were spanning a very wide territory.
Reduntancy, checksums and whatnot were all technologies developped by railroads:
November 17, 1973
Just as you're required to have a driver's license to drive a car, or to buckle-up to ride one, it is not far-fetched to assume that requiring identification is a reasonable requirement not only for air travel, but for any kind of travel by any common carrier by any means of travel (aircraft, airship, helicopter, balloon, boat, rowboat, steamboat, passenger train, freight train, mixed train, piggyback train, work train, runaway train, day train, night train, fairmont, section speeder, hi-railer, tamper, ballast regulator, taxi, bus, jitney, jeepney, motorcycle sidecar, rickshaw, pedicab, wheelchair, horsecart, oxcart, police cruiser, ostrich cart, dog sled, snowmobile, hovercraft or velocipede), as the transportation title (the ticket) is issued to one person and is not transferable.
Thou forgot to mention the need to lift the pinky finger whilst slurping thy tea!!!
Love your nickname... Masturbation is my favourite pastime; I really love beating that meat. On a good day, I can beat it up to 5-6 times.
As usual, a slashdot story that links to an article *** totally *** devoid of any technical details that would make it news for nerds, or merely stuff that matters.
Not to those inside it, but to those outside. The morons who buy Volvoes buy it for the "safety" that's a trade-mark of the car, so they drive like assholes, thinking that if they're in accidents, they'll be okay.
Perhaps if seats belts were outlawed (for the driver), you'd see people driving carefully, because in case of accident, they'd know they'd get turned into marmalade.
It is the bourgeois, embodied in their croporations, who are working hard to anihilate the very freedoms citizens take for granted.
More than 20 years ago, I remember seeing at a computer show a daisywheel printer whose head was propelled by a linear motor (it was manufactured by a subsidiary of Exxon).
And in 1984, in Toronto, the Scarborough RT (Rapid Transit) line opened, which was the first full scale ICTS implementation. Since then, the small linear motor subway has found home in Vancouver and Detroit.
Haven't you realized that there are other forms of entertainment?
Cheap ones, too.
I mean, real cheap. Masturbation, for example is real cheap, like free (as in free beer).
You just fantasize about some hot chick (or guy - all the tastes are in nature), then pop-out your boner, then just whip it 'till it creams.
No fuss, no bills, just a bit of jizz!!!
Bad as in Trade Federation ???
Where are the developpers located?
Area 51???