Well let's not be idiots, and actually carry over this argument that the RIAA guy presents into the real world. In the real world, we can recreate cars ourselves if we have a lot of car know-how. Now is this taking away money from the original manufacturer? Most certainly. I understand that it's at a greater cost to the user than downloading an MP3 is, but this same argument carries over. Is it wrong to recreate a car? I mean you can buy old cobra body kits... Yet in this example wouldn't it be painfully obvious that the end user is better off getting the original?
The whole point of cable was to get rid of commercials. You know, customer paying for TV rather than advertisers paying for TV. Not to mention product placement. If we're talking about free-as-in-free TV that you got from your rabbit ears, we can question it. But, if we're talking about paid TV, you're only accepting that there are commercials, not that there should be.
'"Sept. 11 heightened fears that we could lose this thing -- along with other high-profile American icons -- to cultural terrorism," said Glenn Hill, an architecture professor at Texas Tech who heads the scanning team.'
I think what makes most of the US landmarks great is that they're originals. Anyone that's studied the history of Mount Rushmore knows that one of the great things about it is that it was so hard to make. To reproduce something like that nowadays rids us of the pre-destruction history. I like what they're planning on doing at ground zero, instead of recreating the two towers, they are planning on doing... something else... I don't like "undoing" bad things that happen, I think bad things are important to everyone and should be left as such. Hmm, so maybe they can make 3d models in the future for us to remember it. Life is life, bad stuff happens, people die. I don't know why America wants to prevent ANYTHING bad from happening. Errr, anything bad happening to them.
But who is to say that those he disclosed secrets to is going to use them for economic benefits? Hell, since the kid that gave them these secrets has been caught, I would say it's fair to assume that they won't be using it for any economic benefit whatsoever. In which case, he's being arrested for someone else potentially considering breaking a law. I say he's an idiot, but I also don't think he broke that specific law.
"But professors say the technology poses a growing challenge for them: retaining their students' attention."
My lack of attention has absolutely nothing to do with technology.
On another note, I really dislike my teachers, yet I want to be a teacher myself.
Try this: go to a class like analog electronics where you can pay full attention in class and still have no clue what the teacher is saying, then go back to your room and have no idea what the textbook is saying, ask your friends what's going on and find out they have no idea either. Then take a class like Programming 1 where you don't go to class for 3 months and have a 103% average. Explain to me why it's so important that I paid attention in class.
I don't even want classes to be enjoyable, I just want teachers to care about me. I go to a small, Christian school, you think it'd be much easier.
It's important to realize the point of RBL blocking. It isn't to make end-users happy, it's designed to lower traffic on the mail servers. So a proposed solution needs to be something that the ISP can execute without having to analyze the email. RBLs monitor a single variable, IP, to determine whether it should be accepted or not. If someone could come up with an idea that processed emails based on another single variable, then we'd have ourselves a good spam filter.
I was merely pointing out that this specific opinion parallels problems in society as a whole, or at least with the government. I completely agree with this guy's opinions.
What I find terribly funny, as a non-American, is that similar things are taking place in American society as a whole, the Patriot Act for example, denying people civil rights in order to exercise freedom. I don't understand the complaint that a company is doing things that impose on privacy when it's a common thread in the entire society around it. Linux is counter-culture; I don't think many people would deny that. Once I see America embracing the freedom it so adamantly preaches, I'll understand complaints such as this one.
"Candidates should have Windows NT or Windows 2000 system programming experience, development experience with object-oriented languages and design methodologies as well as with scripting and shell languages like PERL, Python and Bash. Candidates should have at least 2-5 years experience (based on level interviewing for) in high technology, preferably delivering products for both Windows and non-Windows operating systems."
I guess Microsoft has viewed users of other platforms as important before (recruiting of Palm developers) but this seems like a direct call to Unix (mostly Linux) developers to make Windows shell exactly like other existing technology. Though I can't say I'm surprised, I think this is one of the first times where Microsoft seems to have stated that they are persuing similar technologies.
Anything that can prove anything helpful to a case should be used. It lets people who are obviously guilty win cases. I don't think that EVERY digital enhancement should be used, just ones that you can prove are valid. Like, if in the court room, they scan a picture in and enhance it in front of the jurors... Or, just like forensics, a team in charge of such things. Don't pretend that you can't influence lots of different types of evidence.
I have an 850 mHz Duron that I think is perfectly fast. I had a 1.4 GHz XP processor that I thought was just as fast. I have a 400 MHz Powerbook that I was going to upgrade to a 500 MHz processor, but didn't feel it was slow enough to make a difference. Put it in perspective, most computers are too damn fast, and an extra half a second to load a webpage is a pretty pathetic thing to complain about. On my Mac, I leave programs open without windows, so when I want to pop up a new window, it's pretty damn fast. Once I have Chimera opened the first time, it takes half a second to open up and display my default page (wireless and on a 400 MHz laptop). Pretty damn slow eh?
5% of the computer market is HUGE. If you were sitting around in a meeting and someone said "Hey, I have an idea that could add 30 million people to our potential customer list, and it'll cost us next to nothing, wanna give it a shot?" wouldn't you pay attention?
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Well let's not be idiots, and actually carry over this argument that the RIAA guy presents into the real world. In the real world, we can recreate cars ourselves if we have a lot of car know-how. Now is this taking away money from the original manufacturer? Most certainly. I understand that it's at a greater cost to the user than downloading an MP3 is, but this same argument carries over. Is it wrong to recreate a car? I mean you can buy old cobra body kits... Yet in this example wouldn't it be painfully obvious that the end user is better off getting the original?
They missed the link to his idea
The whole point of cable was to get rid of commercials. You know, customer paying for TV rather than advertisers paying for TV. Not to mention product placement. If we're talking about free-as-in-free TV that you got from your rabbit ears, we can question it. But, if we're talking about paid TV, you're only accepting that there are commercials, not that there should be.
'"Sept. 11 heightened fears that we could lose this thing -- along with other high-profile American icons -- to cultural terrorism," said Glenn Hill, an architecture professor at Texas Tech who heads the scanning team.'
What's cultural terrorism?
The real God is only Allah, and all other false gods should be removed." This statement from the one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar sent a chill through the international community following an edict issued by Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban regime announcing that all pre-Islamic statues in the country were to be destroyed. That edict, and the resulting destruction, has been universally condemned as "cultural terrorism."
If stuff like this is cultural terrorism, wouldn't it mean that America was founded on terrorism? (relating to native Americans)
I think what makes most of the US landmarks great is that they're originals. Anyone that's studied the history of Mount Rushmore knows that one of the great things about it is that it was so hard to make. To reproduce something like that nowadays rids us of the pre-destruction history. I like what they're planning on doing at ground zero, instead of recreating the two towers, they are planning on doing... something else... I don't like "undoing" bad things that happen, I think bad things are important to everyone and should be left as such. Hmm, so maybe they can make 3d models in the future for us to remember it. Life is life, bad stuff happens, people die. I don't know why America wants to prevent ANYTHING bad from happening. Errr, anything bad happening to them.
I meant the music, not the voices associated with it.
But who is to say that those he disclosed secrets to is going to use them for economic benefits? Hell, since the kid that gave them these secrets has been caught, I would say it's fair to assume that they won't be using it for any economic benefit whatsoever. In which case, he's being arrested for someone else potentially considering breaking a law. I say he's an idiot, but I also don't think he broke that specific law.
"But professors say the technology poses a growing challenge for them: retaining their students' attention."
My lack of attention has absolutely nothing to do with technology.
On another note, I really dislike my teachers, yet I want to be a teacher myself.
Try this: go to a class like analog electronics where you can pay full attention in class and still have no clue what the teacher is saying, then go back to your room and have no idea what the textbook is saying, ask your friends what's going on and find out they have no idea either. Then take a class like Programming 1 where you don't go to class for 3 months and have a 103% average. Explain to me why it's so important that I paid attention in class.
I don't even want classes to be enjoyable, I just want teachers to care about me. I go to a small, Christian school, you think it'd be much easier.
The theme song for "Are You Being Served" ;)
Seriously
You can find a few copies here
It's important to realize the point of RBL blocking. It isn't to make end-users happy, it's designed to lower traffic on the mail servers. So a proposed solution needs to be something that the ISP can execute without having to analyze the email. RBLs monitor a single variable, IP, to determine whether it should be accepted or not. If someone could come up with an idea that processed emails based on another single variable, then we'd have ourselves a good spam filter.
Ignoring is ignorant? Wow
I was merely pointing out that this specific opinion parallels problems in society as a whole, or at least with the government. I completely agree with this guy's opinions.
What I find terribly funny, as a non-American, is that similar things are taking place in American society as a whole, the Patriot Act for example, denying people civil rights in order to exercise freedom. I don't understand the complaint that a company is doing things that impose on privacy when it's a common thread in the entire society around it. Linux is counter-culture; I don't think many people would deny that. Once I see America embracing the freedom it so adamantly preaches, I'll understand complaints such as this one.
There are also other jobs related to the same area listed for Microsoft India Development Center here.
"Candidates should have Windows NT or Windows 2000 system programming experience, development experience with object-oriented languages and design methodologies as well as with scripting and shell languages like PERL, Python and Bash. Candidates should have at least 2-5 years experience (based on level interviewing for) in high technology, preferably delivering products for both Windows and non-Windows operating systems."
I guess Microsoft has viewed users of other platforms as important before (recruiting of Palm developers) but this seems like a direct call to Unix (mostly Linux) developers to make Windows shell exactly like other existing technology. Though I can't say I'm surprised, I think this is one of the first times where Microsoft seems to have stated that they are persuing similar technologies.
George Orwell got the year wrong and the name of the organization, but man did he call it: the ministry of truth.
Anything that can prove anything helpful to a case should be used. It lets people who are obviously guilty win cases. I don't think that EVERY digital enhancement should be used, just ones that you can prove are valid. Like, if in the court room, they scan a picture in and enhance it in front of the jurors... Or, just like forensics, a team in charge of such things. Don't pretend that you can't influence lots of different types of evidence.
I'm sorry, but did no one else read "FUI" as fooey?
Yeah, that was a good episode of South Park...
I have an 850 mHz Duron that I think is perfectly fast. I had a 1.4 GHz XP processor that I thought was just as fast. I have a 400 MHz Powerbook that I was going to upgrade to a 500 MHz processor, but didn't feel it was slow enough to make a difference. Put it in perspective, most computers are too damn fast, and an extra half a second to load a webpage is a pretty pathetic thing to complain about. On my Mac, I leave programs open without windows, so when I want to pop up a new window, it's pretty damn fast. Once I have Chimera opened the first time, it takes half a second to open up and display my default page (wireless and on a 400 MHz laptop). Pretty damn slow eh?
I worked at an ISP this summer. We were happy when MAC users called in. It meant that we could basically rule out a computer problem.
5% of the computer market is HUGE. If you were sitting around in a meeting and someone said "Hey, I have an idea that could add 30 million people to our potential customer list, and it'll cost us next to nothing, wanna give it a shot?" wouldn't you pay attention?
Unless you have an auduitorium I could rent
I was simply implying that I'd be doing something OUTSIDE
The prime audience has nothing to do on a Friday night ;)
Which is probably why I won't be watching it tonight, but maybe I'll download it later.