A very big part of success in sciences is concentration and focus. While this kid may or may not know the subject, he/she was spoiling the learning environment for others. Such a person should be home schooled. If they are wunderkinds, the experience would help them grow faster than the coursework can make them. If not, good riddance.
The numbers still say that biology teachers have a harder time in the U.S. teaching evolution because of regulations on textbooks requiring them to have nonsense from the Discovery Institute, et al, as an alternate 'theory'.
Curiouser and curiouser. Please supply those numbers since the famous court case did establish that any such regulations on textbooks would violate the establishment clause. While it is conceivable that certain biology teachers in red states experience some social ostracism for teaching evolution in science class, there are no regulations of the sort you speak of. At least AFAIK.
I am not necessarily in favor of calling out the cops, but an example sometimes has to be made. If this kid is more interested in texting than in the math, then he/she should be chucked out of the school and be home schooled.
I do not understand the reference to creationist nonsense. Or do you folks imagine that every county in the US is like Dover, PA (the people there had the good sense to finally get rid of the neanderthals in any case) ?
Had this been another country, one more serious about education, and parenting, this character would have been given an immediate failing grade and forced to repeat.
But this is America, and we molly coddle our kids, who generally end up laying an egg when it comes to technical topics in high school.
Moonlight will always be at least one version behind the latest and greatest silverlight version in terms of features. And that will be dependent on Microsoft's latest game plan. Linux distros will be extremely stupid to fall for this de Icaza maneuver.
One man's pork is another man's infrastructure spending. What Republicans want is 100% tax cuts. Tax cuts (from the evidence of the last few times we have tried this) do not return as much in terms of economic activity as infrastructure spending does (the comparison is $1.02 vs $2.10 per dollar spent). And that totally ignores the modern reality of globalized economic interactions.
More damningly, since there is not much manufacturing left in the US, whatever money you choose to spend out of the tax cut goes straight to the Chinese or whichever third world hellhole the greedy US corporations are importing that week. Tax cuts made perfect sense before this age of globalization. Now, we are simply stimulating the Chinese economy while borrowing money from them. So, the Chinese get to see their economy boosted by each US tax cut plus they get to earn interest on whatever was spent by the US federal government. Can't think of too many deals sweeter than that one.
The current stimulus bill is utterly misguided. 100% of it should have gone to infrastructure spending (the stuff you like to call pork) with an explicit buy American clause (otherwise any stimulus would again flow to China). If we are going to borrow money and get deeper into debt, we might as well spend it on boosting our competitiveness and creating new future industries rather than giving a double fillip to the Chinese economy.
The Democrats have always been in the pocket of RIAA/MPAA/Hollywood types. Look up Hillary Rosen if you have any doubts. Republicans have scr*w*d up the country but on this issue, they have always been a better alternative. Not because they are more moral or anything, but because they are not as beholden to the Hollywood set.
Perhaps. Me the individual may be dependent on that goodwill. The United States as a country is more dependent upon the desire of her population to remain free.
Given the general dumbing down of our political discourse, recent events, and the active hatred that exists between the left and the right wings of the two respective major political parties, I doubt that the population even has the foggiest idea of what freedom means.
Better or not, is a different matter. Apple hardware is commodity hardware, often found in systems sold by other companies. Yet, Apple charges more for the same hardware. Here are two experiments any of us can do :
1. Go to your neighborhood computer store (I know few remain in business) and buy components that are identical to an iMac and then for a Dell Dimension.
2. Assemble the two systems. Compare the price to what Apple and Dell have on their websites.
Substitute Dell for your favorite hardware vendor.
Multitasking is a standard feature of modern OS'es. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that a commonly used OS is contemplating placing limits on that.
Not doing multitasking, or limiting it anyway, when your hardware is fully capable of supporting it, is lack of hardware support.
Which is the problem here. It should be enforcable if both parties entered into that contract willingly.
Not if the terms of the contract were illegal to start with. Otherwise slavery would be legal if consensual. As would be hiring a hitman to kill someone. Examples abound.
This undermines all business contracts and makes the market a very dangerous and unpredictable place.
It is in public interest for all illegal contracts to be undermined. Contract law cannot be used as a way to excuse felonies.
One would hope that our military wouldn't go along with dropping a nuclear weapon on Portland......
In other words, you are conceding that you are ultimately dependent on goodwill of people who choose not to follow orders. And implicitly accepting that our system of checks and balances is not so durable after all.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary (not verbatim - Madison).
That's a very unhelpful thing to say. Although you might have a deep understanding of law and/or business, talking down to others because you know something they do not is childish.
Talking down to others is generally considered an occupational hazard of being an Apple fanboy. That it is usually accompanied by a lack of understanding of what they are actually talking about, and no level of comprehension beyond "Apple is right" or "Steve Jobs is the best thing since sliced bread" or variants on that theme, is not particularly germane to that observation.
The OS X license explicitly says that it must be installed on Apple hardware.
The discussion on this subthread at least is, whether that term of the license is legal in itself. Mere acceptance of a contract does not make the contract enforceable. You cannot expect a contract specifying you to be someone's slave to be legal, as an example.
The Psystar assholes are trying to profit off of someone elses work, that is all there is to it.
The value of your gratuitous advice for me not to go into business or law has to be measured against this gem. I believe the system you are ranting against is called capitalism. Products create markets, which can lead to other products that you did not intend. If your sensibilities are so offended, one wonders if the following equally offend your taste (staying close to this subject) :
1. Apple's profiting off BSD kernel (what is your favorite pejorative for Steve Jobs, given your love of Psystar above ?).
2. The entire aftermarket slew of non-Apple products that exist for iPod ?
Or is it that your sensibilities are affected only if rules of capitalism work against Apple instead of for it ?
Totally agree. This is the reasoning that Codeweavers uses when you buy Crossover Linux from them. I am glad that the judge agreed to look at this again. Its an important legal point. For all of our rants against Microsoft, we forget that in terms of behavior, it is a relatively chastened version of what it used to be. Apple has not yet undergone that learning experience and which is why they feel free to overprice commodity hardware by such large margins.
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Strange that the link did not intrigue you enough into landing the following URL (obtainable through the URL you sent) :
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District/6:Curriculum,_Conclusion
A very big part of success in sciences is concentration and focus. While this kid may or may not know the subject, he/she was spoiling the learning environment for others. Such a person should be home schooled. If they are wunderkinds, the experience would help them grow faster than the coursework can make them. If not, good riddance.
The numbers still say that biology teachers have a harder time in the U.S. teaching evolution because of regulations on textbooks requiring them to have nonsense from the Discovery Institute, et al, as an alternate 'theory'.
Curiouser and curiouser. Please supply those numbers since the famous court case did establish that any such regulations on textbooks would violate the establishment clause. While it is conceivable that certain biology teachers in red states experience some social ostracism for teaching evolution in science class, there are no regulations of the sort you speak of. At least AFAIK.
I am not necessarily in favor of calling out the cops, but an example sometimes has to be made. If this kid is more interested in texting than in the math, then he/she should be chucked out of the school and be home schooled.
I do not understand the reference to creationist nonsense. Or do you folks imagine that every county in the US is like Dover, PA (the people there had the good sense to finally get rid of the neanderthals in any case) ?
Had this been another country, one more serious about education, and parenting, this character would have been given an immediate failing grade and forced to repeat. But this is America, and we molly coddle our kids, who generally end up laying an egg when it comes to technical topics in high school.
'nuff said.
... shoutcast ?
Pandora is a crippled app that does not even support the full power of shoutcast, which has been around for years.
Moonlight will always be at least one version behind the latest and greatest silverlight version in terms of features. And that will be dependent on Microsoft's latest game plan. Linux distros will be extremely stupid to fall for this de Icaza maneuver.
Linux for light tasks and windows for heavier ones ?? Yeah, right.
One man's pork is another man's infrastructure spending. What Republicans want is 100% tax cuts. Tax cuts (from the evidence of the last few times we have tried this) do not return as much in terms of economic activity as infrastructure spending does (the comparison is $1.02 vs $2.10 per dollar spent). And that totally ignores the modern reality of globalized economic interactions.
More damningly, since there is not much manufacturing left in the US, whatever money you choose to spend out of the tax cut goes straight to the Chinese or whichever third world hellhole the greedy US corporations are importing that week. Tax cuts made perfect sense before this age of globalization. Now, we are simply stimulating the Chinese economy while borrowing money from them. So, the Chinese get to see their economy boosted by each US tax cut plus they get to earn interest on whatever was spent by the US federal government. Can't think of too many deals sweeter than that one.
The current stimulus bill is utterly misguided. 100% of it should have gone to infrastructure spending (the stuff you like to call pork) with an explicit buy American clause (otherwise any stimulus would again flow to China). If we are going to borrow money and get deeper into debt, we might as well spend it on boosting our competitiveness and creating new future industries rather than giving a double fillip to the Chinese economy.
Of course. However, that has little to do with what we are talking about.
The Democrats have always been in the pocket of RIAA/MPAA/Hollywood types. Look up Hillary Rosen if you have any doubts. Republicans have scr*w*d up the country but on this issue, they have always been a better alternative. Not because they are more moral or anything, but because they are not as beholden to the Hollywood set.
It shouldn't be surprising that I had little issue with the second part of your response.
Perhaps. Me the individual may be dependent on that goodwill. The United States as a country is more dependent upon the desire of her population to remain free.
Given the general dumbing down of our political discourse, recent events, and the active hatred that exists between the left and the right wings of the two respective major political parties, I doubt that the population even has the foggiest idea of what freedom means.
Better or not, is a different matter. Apple hardware is commodity hardware, often found in systems sold by other companies. Yet, Apple charges more for the same hardware. Here are two experiments any of us can do :
1. Go to your neighborhood computer store (I know few remain in business) and buy components that are identical to an iMac and then for a Dell Dimension.
2. Assemble the two systems. Compare the price to what Apple and Dell have on their websites.
Substitute Dell for your favorite hardware vendor.
Multitasking is a standard feature of modern OS'es. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that a commonly used OS is contemplating placing limits on that.
Not doing multitasking, or limiting it anyway, when your hardware is fully capable of supporting it, is lack of hardware support.
Which is the problem here. It should be enforcable if both parties entered into that contract willingly.
Not if the terms of the contract were illegal to start with. Otherwise slavery would be legal if consensual. As would be hiring a hitman to kill someone. Examples abound.
This undermines all business contracts and makes the market a very dangerous and unpredictable place.
It is in public interest for all illegal contracts to be undermined. Contract law cannot be used as a way to excuse felonies.
Its cross platform. But, it does not support whole disk encryption for Linux or Mac.
By that reasoning, would you accept an "OS" in the future where you had to pay extra to get your USB ports to work ?
One would hope that our military wouldn't go along with dropping a nuclear weapon on Portland......
In other words, you are conceding that you are ultimately dependent on goodwill of people who choose not to follow orders. And implicitly accepting that our system of checks and balances is not so durable after all.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary (not verbatim - Madison).
That's a very unhelpful thing to say. Although you might have a deep understanding of law and/or business, talking down to others because you know something they do not is childish.
Talking down to others is generally considered an occupational hazard of being an Apple fanboy. That it is usually accompanied by a lack of understanding of what they are actually talking about, and no level of comprehension beyond "Apple is right" or "Steve Jobs is the best thing since sliced bread" or variants on that theme, is not particularly germane to that observation.
The OS X license explicitly says that it must be installed on Apple hardware.
The discussion on this subthread at least is, whether that term of the license is legal in itself. Mere acceptance of a contract does not make the contract enforceable. You cannot expect a contract specifying you to be someone's slave to be legal, as an example.
Next time, do a parts comparison hardware to hardware, before jumping in like a fanboi.
The Psystar assholes are trying to profit off of someone elses work, that is all there is to it.
The value of your gratuitous advice for me not to go into business or law has to be measured against this gem. I believe the system you are ranting against is called capitalism. Products create markets, which can lead to other products that you did not intend. If your sensibilities are so offended, one wonders if the following equally offend your taste (staying close to this subject) :
1. Apple's profiting off BSD kernel (what is your favorite pejorative for Steve Jobs, given your love of Psystar above ?).
2. The entire aftermarket slew of non-Apple products that exist for iPod ?
Or is it that your sensibilities are affected only if rules of capitalism work against Apple instead of for it ?
Totally agree. This is the reasoning that Codeweavers uses when you buy Crossover Linux from them. I am glad that the judge agreed to look at this again. Its an important legal point. For all of our rants against Microsoft, we forget that in terms of behavior, it is a relatively chastened version of what it used to be. Apple has not yet undergone that learning experience and which is why they feel free to overprice commodity hardware by such large margins.