the concept in some undeveloped minds that a "hacker" is a term for cyber-locksmith instead of cyber-craftsman
Sorry, the term 'hacker' was in use for people breaking crypto, penetration, and 'locksmithing' the virtual realm long before it meant 'cyber-craftsman'. It is only in about the last decade that the 'hacker' concept has turned to someone who repurposes technology for different uses.
If you think all of these individual 'separate' virtual worlds are not connected to each other, then it is you, good sir, that do not understand how the internet actually works.
If they were not connected together, then I would not be able to simultaneously connect to two of them from my one connection point.
Or when you 'exchange' your real, actual money for a virtual currency via that corner of cyberspace's producers.
Things that cost real money that I routinely spend: Planetside 2 Station Cash EVE Online PLEX Cards Rock Band DLC BeatPort Music Anything Purchased on iTunes
Anything you buy online is technically 'virtual goods'. Is an MP3 something you can actually print out and hold? Is game content a physical object, or is it virtual? Shit, EVE even has its own player-funded and player-traded stock market complete with resource gathering, production, distribution, and sales. You can play the game entirely without putting in a dime of real money if you are a pro at station trading or PVP.
I would say, then, that never having seen this 'god' thing, and never having seen any direct results of its existence, and never having had any human interaction(of verifiable origin) is a pretty good way to disprove this hypothesis.
I learned a whole bunch of different cultures' Intelligent Design belief systems in a public school. The difference was, we called it "Creation Myths" and they didn't try to pass it off as factual material.
believers of evolution don't want religion being taught to their kids.
1. I don't have to 'believe in evolution'. It is a proven, scientific fact(despite the frequent and erroneous argument that it is 'only a theory').
2. I don't want it being taught to anyone, not just to my kids. It is so confoundingly stupid and against common sense, that it is like actively teaching disinformation and stupidity. I think we have plenty of both already.
The default position is that work you do for your employer is theirs.
"work you do for your employer" would be considered work you do, in the course of performing your job, at the employer's facilities. I don't argue with that - that work should belong to the employer.
What I do argue with is the idea that - by default, according to you - the employer can claim ownership of anything you create at home in your free time as well. That's simply not true, and is not a good way to keep happy, productive employees.
In the US, it's not just as simple as crossing it out and signing the contract. For striking something from an official contract to actually modify the contract, you need the other party to agree to each change as well.
This is usually done by striking out a clause and having both parties initial it, or by reprinting the contract with the changes included. I have signed several modified contracts, and all I had to do was get the employer to initial the parts I crossed out(which, as we had discussed it beforehand, they happily did).
Don't be afraid to talk to whoever is providing the contract. They may understand where you're coming from and help with the modified contract, and if they don't you may not want to work with them after all.
It's actually quite uncommon. Of the probably ten large (multimillion-dollar, international) corporations I have worked for, only one had this provision.
I do software development - one of the most contentious patent fields right now, and probably the easiest field to slyly slip away with some company property(code) and do what you will with it. The one that did have that provision was a short contract, so I never really had a chance to work on anything out-of-office that they would want.
It shows active malice and contempt toward your employees to say something they make in their free time, at home, with their own materials, is your property. If I ever go back on the job hunt, I sure as hell won't be pursuing any jobs with that clause.
Telling me anything I code in my free time at home is theirs would mean I don't code in my free time at home. Me not coding at home would eventually make me loathe the company, and I'd probably just end up quitting in frustration so I can have my free time to myself again. Not a super productive environment for employees.
If the kids you are referring to don't understand something, why not just ask "why" or "how"? Do they WANT to be ignorant?
I went to public schools. I imagine my education would be about half as complete had I not bothered to question "why" or "how" to every new subject or piece of information. I had to PULL the information out of the teachers, because they were pretty unmotivated. Once I showed a teacher I was actively interested in something, they would begin to show me more and give seriously fun and interesting 'extra credit' work that the rest of the students didn't do(synchrotron experiments in Sophomore year anyone?)
All of this came from my parents. They ENCOURAGED me to ask why. They would tell me some neat fact, like how fast the earth was going. When I asked "Why doesn't it just fly into space?" my parents explained to me (or at least tried their best) how gravity works, and in kiddie terms, basically laid out several of Newton's principles. THAT is how you answer a kid's question.
For some reason I can't comprehend, parents are annoyed when their children ask "why" repeatedly. The kid is trying to naturally figure out how something works and why it ended up that way. Parents shut them up, or distract them with games or TV, and actively discourage them from truly understanding a topic. Louis C.K. even has a whole bit about this. THAT is the real problem with education today: parents are too lazy to help teach their kids, they don't give a shit, and just want the schools to 'do it for them'.
Beyond the 'rights' people have to what they create during employment, why go and take more rights away from the most important, hardest working, and most poorly paid professions? Do you really want to discourage teachers from doing anything above and beyond basic lesson plans because they're worried the school will essentially rip them off at their own expense?
Seems like the biggest thing stopping government education from functioning properly is the government.
Adding Apple tech to anything makes it that much dumber. The whole PURPOSE of Apple is to dumb-down the computing experience to where Grandma and Aunt Judy don't have to know anything about computers to use it, aside from "If I click this envelope, I see the email." I have used more complicated vending machines.
Careful, if they get into console hardware they might patent "attaching something to your television" and make a proprietary, $99, single-button remote for it with a custom 128-pin charging cable coded to your specific remote(which also costs $99, and is only available from the Apple store).
Exactly this. The article basically outlines how the takedown notices are being used as intended. This isn't anything to fault Mega or the copyright holders over, and it certainly isn't big news.
The headline and summary essentially comes out to "Mega got some copyright notices and took some stuff down". It's a non-issue, and clearly someone trying to be the first one to paint the new Mega service as a bad-willed haven for pirates and thieves. As long as they take stuff down when reported, there's no issue.
Also, please note that Mega is in New Zealand, and thus is not subject to US copyright laws.
I also like DigiKey. Sparkfun is great for the interface components like LCDs and custom buttons. Nice place for unique sensors, displays, and stuff like GPS modules too. Everything is super well-documented and they do great stuff with the community like free day and supporting hackerspaces./sparkfun fanboy
I am a PIC guy, so according to the comments thus far, I like doing things the hard way.
If they wanted to be consistent, they should have put a BUTTON in the bottom-left corner of the screen. The hot corners are, for lack of a better word, janky. They don't always activate correctly. The 'start menu' also doesn't have the same functions and layout as it has for the last ~20 years.
I wish I had been a coral snake on the floor when they were planning this...so they never did it again.
If it was a truly new technology, and not just a bastardization of an existing system, I would agree. However, Microsoft cooked up this heaping pile of dung and slapped a Windows logo on it. Is it so surprising that people are unhappy it doesn't work like Windows?
If I sold you a carton of Rocky Road ice cream, and you got home, took a big bite, and discovered it tasted like liverwurst: wouldn't you be pissed too?
I can produce an ipad viable file from a retail DVD in ten minutes or less, including conversion and transfer, using commodity hardware and free software
I am a PC guy, but the rest of my family is Mac. I had no trouble getting the driver-only package for OSX and doing a non-invasive setup for at least 4 MacBooks. HP LaserJet, I do believe. They also have the WiFi photo printer, which worked immediately without driver downloads at all.
As much as I hate Mac OS for my computing, it's no more difficult than PC for installing a printer.
I would be with you, except they made it cost-prohibitive to develop for metro - even the tacked-on metro offered with Win8.
They also didn't give the users the OPTION to use metro, they shoved it down their throats. If someone wants to run the desktop like they have been for the last 20-some years, they are apparently unable to just switch it off so it doesn't interfere with productive computing. Instead, it pops up all the time, some programs open into it and block out the regular desktop environment, and sharing between the two environments is almost nonexistent.
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the concept in some undeveloped minds that a "hacker" is a term for cyber-locksmith instead of cyber-craftsman
Sorry, the term 'hacker' was in use for people breaking crypto, penetration, and 'locksmithing' the virtual realm long before it meant 'cyber-craftsman'. It is only in about the last decade that the 'hacker' concept has turned to someone who repurposes technology for different uses.
If you think all of these individual 'separate' virtual worlds are not connected to each other, then it is you, good sir, that do not understand how the internet actually works.
If they were not connected together, then I would not be able to simultaneously connect to two of them from my one connection point.
Or when you 'exchange' your real, actual money for a virtual currency via that corner of cyberspace's producers.
Things that cost real money that I routinely spend:
Planetside 2 Station Cash
EVE Online PLEX Cards
Rock Band DLC
BeatPort Music
Anything Purchased on iTunes
Anything you buy online is technically 'virtual goods'. Is an MP3 something you can actually print out and hold? Is game content a physical object, or is it virtual? Shit, EVE even has its own player-funded and player-traded stock market complete with resource gathering, production, distribution, and sales. You can play the game entirely without putting in a dime of real money if you are a pro at station trading or PVP.
I would say, then, that never having seen this 'god' thing, and never having seen any direct results of its existence, and never having had any human interaction(of verifiable origin) is a pretty good way to disprove this hypothesis.
These people consider the existence of the Christian god to be a proven fact.
I'm just dying to know what form of non-tautological proof they have. Sorry folks, "because I believe" is not a scientific fact.
I learned a whole bunch of different cultures' Intelligent Design belief systems in a public school. The difference was, we called it "Creation Myths" and they didn't try to pass it off as factual material.
design by definition is intelligent
Bullshit. If you really believe this, you haven't used Windows 8.
believers of evolution don't want religion being taught to their kids.
1. I don't have to 'believe in evolution'. It is a proven, scientific fact(despite the frequent and erroneous argument that it is 'only a theory').
2. I don't want it being taught to anyone, not just to my kids. It is so confoundingly stupid and against common sense, that it is like actively teaching disinformation and stupidity. I think we have plenty of both already.
The default position is that work you do for your employer is theirs.
"work you do for your employer" would be considered work you do, in the course of performing your job, at the employer's facilities. I don't argue with that - that work should belong to the employer.
What I do argue with is the idea that - by default, according to you - the employer can claim ownership of anything you create at home in your free time as well. That's simply not true, and is not a good way to keep happy, productive employees.
In the US, it's not just as simple as crossing it out and signing the contract. For striking something from an official contract to actually modify the contract, you need the other party to agree to each change as well.
This is usually done by striking out a clause and having both parties initial it, or by reprinting the contract with the changes included. I have signed several modified contracts, and all I had to do was get the employer to initial the parts I crossed out(which, as we had discussed it beforehand, they happily did).
Don't be afraid to talk to whoever is providing the contract. They may understand where you're coming from and help with the modified contract, and if they don't you may not want to work with them after all.
It's actually quite uncommon. Of the probably ten large (multimillion-dollar, international) corporations I have worked for, only one had this provision.
I do software development - one of the most contentious patent fields right now, and probably the easiest field to slyly slip away with some company property(code) and do what you will with it. The one that did have that provision was a short contract, so I never really had a chance to work on anything out-of-office that they would want.
It shows active malice and contempt toward your employees to say something they make in their free time, at home, with their own materials, is your property. If I ever go back on the job hunt, I sure as hell won't be pursuing any jobs with that clause.
Telling me anything I code in my free time at home is theirs would mean I don't code in my free time at home. Me not coding at home would eventually make me loathe the company, and I'd probably just end up quitting in frustration so I can have my free time to myself again. Not a super productive environment for employees.
If the kids you are referring to don't understand something, why not just ask "why" or "how"? Do they WANT to be ignorant?
I went to public schools. I imagine my education would be about half as complete had I not bothered to question "why" or "how" to every new subject or piece of information. I had to PULL the information out of the teachers, because they were pretty unmotivated. Once I showed a teacher I was actively interested in something, they would begin to show me more and give seriously fun and interesting 'extra credit' work that the rest of the students didn't do(synchrotron experiments in Sophomore year anyone?)
All of this came from my parents. They ENCOURAGED me to ask why. They would tell me some neat fact, like how fast the earth was going. When I asked "Why doesn't it just fly into space?" my parents explained to me (or at least tried their best) how gravity works, and in kiddie terms, basically laid out several of Newton's principles. THAT is how you answer a kid's question.
For some reason I can't comprehend, parents are annoyed when their children ask "why" repeatedly. The kid is trying to naturally figure out how something works and why it ended up that way. Parents shut them up, or distract them with games or TV, and actively discourage them from truly understanding a topic. Louis C.K. even has a whole bit about this. THAT is the real problem with education today: parents are too lazy to help teach their kids, they don't give a shit, and just want the schools to 'do it for them'.
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Beyond the 'rights' people have to what they create during employment, why go and take more rights away from the most important, hardest working, and most poorly paid professions? Do you really want to discourage teachers from doing anything above and beyond basic lesson plans because they're worried the school will essentially rip them off at their own expense?
Seems like the biggest thing stopping government education from functioning properly is the government.
Adding Apple tech to anything makes it that much dumber. The whole PURPOSE of Apple is to dumb-down the computing experience to where Grandma and Aunt Judy don't have to know anything about computers to use it, aside from "If I click this envelope, I see the email." I have used more complicated vending machines.
Careful, if they get into console hardware they might patent "attaching something to your television" and make a proprietary, $99, single-button remote for it with a custom 128-pin charging cable coded to your specific remote(which also costs $99, and is only available from the Apple store).
Exactly this. The article basically outlines how the takedown notices are being used as intended. This isn't anything to fault Mega or the copyright holders over, and it certainly isn't big news.
The headline and summary essentially comes out to "Mega got some copyright notices and took some stuff down". It's a non-issue, and clearly someone trying to be the first one to paint the new Mega service as a bad-willed haven for pirates and thieves. As long as they take stuff down when reported, there's no issue.
Also, please note that Mega is in New Zealand, and thus is not subject to US copyright laws.
Which will protect so well against a child playing with the physical hardware device on the premises.
I also like DigiKey. Sparkfun is great for the interface components like LCDs and custom buttons. Nice place for unique sensors, displays, and stuff like GPS modules too. Everything is super well-documented and they do great stuff with the community like free day and supporting hackerspaces. /sparkfun fanboy
I am a PIC guy, so according to the comments thus far, I like doing things the hard way.
If they wanted to be consistent, they should have put a BUTTON in the bottom-left corner of the screen. The hot corners are, for lack of a better word, janky. They don't always activate correctly. The 'start menu' also doesn't have the same functions and layout as it has for the last ~20 years.
I wish I had been a coral snake on the floor when they were planning this...so they never did it again.
If it was a truly new technology, and not just a bastardization of an existing system, I would agree. However, Microsoft cooked up this heaping pile of dung and slapped a Windows logo on it. Is it so surprising that people are unhappy it doesn't work like Windows?
If I sold you a carton of Rocky Road ice cream, and you got home, took a big bite, and discovered it tasted like liverwurst: wouldn't you be pissed too?
I can produce an ipad viable file from a retail DVD in ten minutes or less, including conversion and transfer, using commodity hardware and free software
On a PC. Running Windows.
Apple is kicking who's ass, exactly?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-201112-201212
I am a PC guy, but the rest of my family is Mac. I had no trouble getting the driver-only package for OSX and doing a non-invasive setup for at least 4 MacBooks. HP LaserJet, I do believe. They also have the WiFi photo printer, which worked immediately without driver downloads at all.
As much as I hate Mac OS for my computing, it's no more difficult than PC for installing a printer.
If this is your experience with torrented versions of Windows, you don't computer good.
I would be with you, except they made it cost-prohibitive to develop for metro - even the tacked-on metro offered with Win8.
They also didn't give the users the OPTION to use metro, they shoved it down their throats. If someone wants to run the desktop like they have been for the last 20-some years, they are apparently unable to just switch it off so it doesn't interfere with productive computing. Instead, it pops up all the time, some programs open into it and block out the regular desktop environment, and sharing between the two environments is almost nonexistent.
Smooth 'introduction' if I do say so myself.
Or, you could put the high-powered processor in the screen portion, and just have the keyboard/mouse detachable.
If your battery starts to go, find an outlet, and plug in. Same thing you need to do with a laptop, but the tablet is smaller and more portable.