I don't know where you get that from. The law change in New Zealand is important to the country in the sense that the USA refuses to sign a free trade agreement with NZ if they don't have laws to support the DMCA.
I agree with you that those are real, existing issues.
However, from a legal standpoint, they mean nothing.
Another real issue is that she is ignorant. People are ignorant when they are "uneducated or lacking in knowledge".
From a customer service point of view, I think Dell did a really terrible job in educating one of it's customers.
I guess it's a catch-22 problem with first line support personnel:
The first line of support are all working from lists of questions, and going about things the "flowchart way". They lack the motivation and enthusiasm to actually help a customer.
A knowledgeable, helpful person is not working in the first line support, they are working in third line or top line.
Of course, my two cents on this particular customer is that she did not really apply any due dilligence on her part: 1. She did not research what she could/should buy 2. She did not research what to do with what she bought 3. Other things might happened that caused her to drop out of the courses. I doubt the article's explanation and her claim is completely true. 4. Especially because she's now playing the blame game.
I heard a rumour that OOo can actually save files in MS Word format. Perhaps that school is a case of GIGO then, seeing that its allumni go in clueless, and come out the same?
Absolultely. Also, all sources are actually untrustworthy. Security is not about being paranoid, necessarily, it's about the simple fact that things can and do go wrong. And when something that goes wrong can be caused or reproduced, then you have yourself an exploitably vulnerability.
In the real world you need lots and lots of written references, and you can get any job.
Provable qualifications only matter when it comes to bureacracy, such as when involving any government (issuing work permits, visas), or actually working for a government entity.
Where you actually got such qualifications only matter in the sense that it's from an accredited university. Those places that sell you a degree because "you have equivalent industry experience" are obviously fake, and will lead to your dismissal if you even get the job.
Beyond that, there is no difference between Cornell, Maryland, Boston Campus. A degree is a degree.
part of the purpose of the Long Now Foundation is to make current scientific knowledge available to our descendants
Once again: why include the bible? I'm sick and tired of the bible and religion being brought into everything. This could have been a good venture, but merely including the bible in it makes it worthless in my opinion. Maybe you can use the bible translations as a key to deciphering surviving scientific texts, you say? Bollocks. Unless workds like "quark" and "fission" and "virus" appear in the bible, it'll be a waste of time, now won't it?
The "argument" that the bible is already translated isn't worth very much. You can translate anything from one language to another. More than enough people are alive who are capable of this feat. If you're going to go through the trouble of creating pockets of knowledge like this, I don't think hiring or perhaps getting a volunteer translator is such a big stretch in effort.
Nevertheless, C is more often compiled to native machine code than it is interpreted, and JavaScript is more often interpreted than it is compiled natively.
Even with the addition of a technology such as JIT, this remains true.
C is derived from B, not BCPL. Note: BCPL could only address a word, while C could address a byte. An operating system cannot be written in a language without this ability. This is not the same as not having datatypes.
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I don't know where you get that from. The law change in New Zealand is important to the country in the sense that the USA refuses to sign a free trade agreement with NZ if they don't have laws to support the DMCA.
Luckily SciFi will never go under, or at least, not because of this.
Rather, SyFy now has a good chance of going under:)
That's a meaningless distinction which you pulled from your arse.
Or at even sifi. Why the Ys?
You're making the mistake of believing the article. If you weren't someone's bitch, you would've found the actual law:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2008/0027/latest/DLM1122643.html
Awesome
How big an opening does a WOMAN normally have?
Is the newscast available online somewhere? I'll search, but I might not find it... Thanks.
I agree with you that those are real, existing issues.
However, from a legal standpoint, they mean nothing.
Another real issue is that she is ignorant. People are ignorant when they are "uneducated or lacking in knowledge".
From a customer service point of view, I think Dell did a really terrible job in educating one of it's customers.
I guess it's a catch-22 problem with first line support personnel:
The first line of support are all working from lists of questions, and going about things the "flowchart way". They lack the motivation and enthusiasm to actually help a customer.
A knowledgeable, helpful person is not working in the first line support, they are working in third line or top line.
Of course, my two cents on this particular customer is that she did not really apply any due dilligence on her part:
1. She did not research what she could/should buy
2. She did not research what to do with what she bought
3. Other things might happened that caused her to drop out of the courses. I doubt the article's explanation and her claim is completely true.
4. Especially because she's now playing the blame game.
I heard a rumour that OOo can actually save files in MS Word format. Perhaps that school is a case of GIGO then, seeing that its allumni go in clueless, and come out the same?
I'm reading a very interesting Sci-Fi book about this sort of ethical thinking called "Heaven" by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Ian-Stewart/dp/0446611034/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231730963&sr=1-1
It might provide some food for thought...
So a blatant lie to "capture attention" is ok, in your opinion?
There is so much misinformation, incorrect "facts", lies, crap and bullshit out there, why add to the problem?
Your reasoning is invalid anyway: If the headling isn't taken literally, then why would it capture anyone's attention?
Please report this infraction to the AAAAA - American Association for Acronym Abuse Anonymous
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It can be both, plus a third choice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Terminology
It has nothing to do with 42. It has more to do with the mouse...
Go and actually read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The movie version won't help you much here.
Yeah, I have to agree. I used Google Chrome for 10 minutes after reading the whole cartoon and all the hype.
Not worth it.
It loads fast, and it renders ok, but I have to wait for ads the whole time.
No thanks. Give me Firefox + Adblock.
The use of moribund in a sentence is moribund, or at the least uncommon:)
Absolultely. Also, all sources are actually untrustworthy. Security is not about being paranoid, necessarily, it's about the simple fact that things can and do go wrong. And when something that goes wrong can be caused or reproduced, then you have yourself an exploitably vulnerability.
In the real world you need lots and lots of written references, and you can get any job.
Provable qualifications only matter when it comes to bureacracy, such as when involving any government (issuing work permits, visas), or actually working for a government entity.
Where you actually got such qualifications only matter in the sense that it's from an accredited university. Those places that sell you a degree because "you have equivalent industry experience" are obviously fake, and will lead to your dismissal if you even get the job.
Beyond that, there is no difference between Cornell, Maryland, Boston Campus. A degree is a degree.
You would need 4000 of those drives to sort of have enouogh space for one of the new 1 Petabyte databases
Sort of a waste of time though, don't you think? Human descendants should only be told why our society failed, as a warning to them.
If our society didn't fail, then our descendants would already have all of the knowledge we have gathered, including the knowledge of language.
part of the purpose of the Long Now Foundation is to make current scientific knowledge available to our descendants
Once again: why include the bible? I'm sick and tired of the bible and religion being brought into everything. This could have been a good venture, but merely including the bible in it makes it worthless in my opinion. Maybe you can use the bible translations as a key to deciphering surviving scientific texts, you say? Bollocks. Unless workds like "quark" and "fission" and "virus" appear in the bible, it'll be a waste of time, now won't it?
The "argument" that the bible is already translated isn't worth very much. You can translate anything from one language to another. More than enough people are alive who are capable of this feat. If you're going to go through the trouble of creating pockets of knowledge like this, I don't think hiring or perhaps getting a volunteer translator is such a big stretch in effort.
Nevertheless, C is more often compiled to native machine code than it is interpreted, and JavaScript is more often interpreted than it is compiled natively.
Even with the addition of a technology such as JIT, this remains true.
C is derived from B, not BCPL. Note: BCPL could only address a word, while C could address a byte. An operating system cannot be written in a language without this ability. This is not the same as not having datatypes.
no - the problem is COBOL