Net neutrality is one of many things that seems to be wrong with this stimulus. Personally, I have no immediate opinion of the stimulus, I'm on the fence about it. What does bother me is that so many lawmakers are using the urgent nature of the stimulus bill for political expediency. Naturally, the response is that they do this all the time, but the stimulus bill really brought them out of the woodwork. Instead of having a straight up and down vote on funding for so many different programs, the congress is sidestepping legislative process yet again by shoving more pet programs and such into the stimulus. I'm tired of hearing justifications for all this spendings prefaced by the line "Well the Republicans for the last eight years." Who cares about them and the last eight years? Give me some real reasons for this spending, not some 5 year old excuse "I did it because he did it first" nonsense.
I'm probably expecting too much of my government. A government which is comprised mostly of 7th graders.
I wish the president had line item vetoes, it would let us get legislation through, but allow the presidential administration to take out cruft funding. Congress would never agree to this willingly. It's probably just trading one evil for another, though.
I think he's well aware that Linux developers don't get a crystal ball to analyze hardware. Consumers are caught up in the "fierce urgency of now" they want something that does the most for the least in the smallest amount of time. Consumers are going to buy what gets rolling in the smallest amount of time and effort, unfortunately for the Linux community (really "unfortunately" is used as a contrast here, it may not be unfortunate) this is still Windows...even if it is inferior to Linux..consumers can still pick it up quicker and get it working with the least amount of effort and know how.
That being said, I think that it is a waste of energy for FOSS supporters to kvetch about this. They open source model has long since bested Windows in the software arena with its collaborative approach to problem solving. Why not dream up a new way to get FOSS friendly products to the downtrodden consumer? One that's innovative and bests the current big box retailer model? Hmm?
Critiquing something includes acknowledging its merits where they exist. You have to give credit where credit is due. It all plays back into making a "better" DMCA for the future.
Like the old adage: "You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Second that motion. I teach labs for an introductory programming class myself. The best way to get concepts to stick with students is to present them as pertinent problems or tasks to the students. Some examples that work for me are making small games (card games, dice games, etc) and writing programs that perform some kind of pertinent calculation (like business calculations or health BMI, target heart rate) calculations. All of these can be encapsulated in the task of presenting the program to the user in a nice interface..be it command line, web, or desktop GUI.
These examples don't cover everything, but what you do should work for you, your students, and the concept that needs to be transferred to the students.
Obviously, the perpetrator was not entitled to any of the information contained within that Yahoo! email account and should be punished for breaking the law. What sucks is that he not really being punished for breaking the law, rather he's being punished for making Sarah Palin and thus the GOP look bad.
What happens when I put the crystal in with the super fluid helium and the magnetic fields? Will the Combine show up and take over the world in less than 24 hours?
How would that hurt the economy, though? People are always looking for better jobs. Companies who want the best employees have to offer the best conditions. Does this legislation say it's ok to not pay Employees? Yes. Does that mean companies will do it? No. If you piss off your IT staff enough and they leave, you're going to be in serious operational trouble.
Besides, the main difficulty in writing apps for the iPhone is learning Cocoa, not Objective-C. Most programmers can pick up new languages (even fairly unique ones) in a matter of days or weeks (at least to a passable level of competence), but a giant framework like Cocoa is hugely intimidating and often changing and much harder to find resources for.
Not to mention learning Xcode. It's not exactly the most intuitive IDE around.
It's my understanding that Android runs on the VM in order to enable it to be cross platform. I mean Cross platform in that the hardware specifics of the handset don't matter as long as the handset implements the android spec correctly. Developing a native app for Android would be difficult, because there could be different hardware specifications across phones that implement the platform. You could be looking at different processors...ARMs, Motorolas, maybe even x86s now that they're getting so small (ugh, just what we need)..honestly though I don't really know what they put in phones...but I'd imagine that it's not uniform by any means. I guess you're trading one evil for another...being trapped in Objective-C/Cocoa/Carbon-ite to being trapped in Java. Tough call.
In America, your mileage can vary when it comes to powers of local governments. In theory, as long as they don't interfere with the constitution and other overarching federal rules, they can vary quite a bit...though I digress.
Typically emergency powers like evacuation orders falls within the branch of the executive powers like the mayorial types or the governor types. I'm not sure of the exact specifics of this in New Orleans, but I am pretty sure that the Mayor can tell the city staff (firefighters, cops, city workers) to stop working (at the very least..he may be able to issue evacuation orders). Regardless, if he can tell the city staff to shrink itself down to a skeleton crew, that should be reason enough for anybody to gtfo of a city like NOLA.
My bad, though by saying University of California "School" you might infer that I was referring to a specific campus specifically named "University of California". My state doesn't really follow the whole Cambridge convention of campuses in a U system. We're not sophisticated like ya'll Californians.
Just for the record, it looks like this was developed at UCSD. I'm no Californian, but I wasn't aware of a "University of California" school..I'm pretty sure they're all UC-something-something. Just giving credit where credit is due...
Like the other Anons...see FPGAs, or EEPROM or a host of other firmware-y devices for the "idea" of doing hardware in software...or software in hardware. It's quite likely that 10-20 years down the road we'll be using machines where we can completely reconfigure the hardware on the fly. Not that I'm saying that it will happen, or it will be ubiquitous..but with FPGA technology progressing like it is, the opportunities for reconfigurable computing in academia, military/gvt, and the consumer markets are looking pretty good.
Unless you dirtied up your license plates so they weren't recognizable by those pesky cameras they use at the toll stations...but hey, I'm from the midwest...wtf are toll booths?
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Net neutrality is one of many things that seems to be wrong with this stimulus. Personally, I have no immediate opinion of the stimulus, I'm on the fence about it. What does bother me is that so many lawmakers are using the urgent nature of the stimulus bill for political expediency. Naturally, the response is that they do this all the time, but the stimulus bill really brought them out of the woodwork. Instead of having a straight up and down vote on funding for so many different programs, the congress is sidestepping legislative process yet again by shoving more pet programs and such into the stimulus. I'm tired of hearing justifications for all this spendings prefaced by the line "Well the Republicans for the last eight years ." Who cares about them and the last eight years? Give me some real reasons for this spending, not some 5 year old excuse "I did it because he did it first" nonsense.
I'm probably expecting too much of my government. A government which is comprised mostly of 7th graders.
I wish the president had line item vetoes, it would let us get legislation through, but allow the presidential administration to take out cruft funding. Congress would never agree to this willingly. It's probably just trading one evil for another, though.
Republicans know where the money is.
I hope Obama has a plan to fix our sagging economy!
And our sagging asses....Maybe American should hold off on the bon bons and Mickey D's so they can fit on planes.
In 5...4...3...2....
I think he's well aware that Linux developers don't get a crystal ball to analyze hardware. Consumers are caught up in the "fierce urgency of now" they want something that does the most for the least in the smallest amount of time. Consumers are going to buy what gets rolling in the smallest amount of time and effort, unfortunately for the Linux community (really "unfortunately" is used as a contrast here, it may not be unfortunate) this is still Windows...even if it is inferior to Linux..consumers can still pick it up quicker and get it working with the least amount of effort and know how.
That being said, I think that it is a waste of energy for FOSS supporters to kvetch about this. They open source model has long since bested Windows in the software arena with its collaborative approach to problem solving. Why not dream up a new way to get FOSS friendly products to the downtrodden consumer? One that's innovative and bests the current big box retailer model? Hmm?
Critiquing something includes acknowledging its merits where they exist. You have to give credit where credit is due. It all plays back into making a "better" DMCA for the future.
Like the old adage: "You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Second that motion. I teach labs for an introductory programming class myself. The best way to get concepts to stick with students is to present them as pertinent problems or tasks to the students. Some examples that work for me are making small games (card games, dice games, etc) and writing programs that perform some kind of pertinent calculation (like business calculations or health BMI, target heart rate) calculations. All of these can be encapsulated in the task of presenting the program to the user in a nice interface..be it command line, web, or desktop GUI.
These examples don't cover everything, but what you do should work for you, your students, and the concept that needs to be transferred to the students.
Please stop reposting from the DailyKos.
More like the DailyKos should stop reposting from me, introspekt.i . They took it right out of Joe Biden's playbook.
Obviously, the perpetrator was not entitled to any of the information contained within that Yahoo! email account and should be punished for breaking the law. What sucks is that he not really being punished for breaking the law, rather he's being punished for making Sarah Palin and thus the GOP look bad.
What happens when I put the crystal in with the super fluid helium and the magnetic fields? Will the Combine show up and take over the world in less than 24 hours?
I very much enjoyed Chronicle of a Death Foretold. :-D.
and in the interviews i've watched of Chavez, he comes off as a surprisingly intelligent person--i had no idea national leaders could be like that.
Funny, I've watched some interviews of him, too. I think he sounds stark raving mad. I had no idea national leaders could be like that, either. XD
you don't download the Internet. The Internet downloads you!
How would that hurt the economy, though? People are always looking for better jobs. Companies who want the best employees have to offer the best conditions. Does this legislation say it's ok to not pay Employees? Yes. Does that mean companies will do it? No. If you piss off your IT staff enough and they leave, you're going to be in serious operational trouble.
Besides, the main difficulty in writing apps for the iPhone is learning Cocoa, not Objective-C. Most programmers can pick up new languages (even fairly unique ones) in a matter of days or weeks (at least to a passable level of competence), but a giant framework like Cocoa is hugely intimidating and often changing and much harder to find resources for.
Not to mention learning Xcode. It's not exactly the most intuitive IDE around.
It's my understanding that Android runs on the VM in order to enable it to be cross platform. I mean Cross platform in that the hardware specifics of the handset don't matter as long as the handset implements the android spec correctly. Developing a native app for Android would be difficult, because there could be different hardware specifications across phones that implement the platform. You could be looking at different processors...ARMs, Motorolas, maybe even x86s now that they're getting so small (ugh, just what we need)..honestly though I don't really know what they put in phones...but I'd imagine that it's not uniform by any means. I guess you're trading one evil for another...being trapped in Objective-C/Cocoa/Carbon-ite to being trapped in Java. Tough call.
If only we had more good corporate neighbors like this that solved our own problems and did our thinking for us so we don't have to.
Good lookin' out, TDS. Cough.
In America, your mileage can vary when it comes to powers of local governments. In theory, as long as they don't interfere with the constitution and other overarching federal rules, they can vary quite a bit...though I digress.
Typically emergency powers like evacuation orders falls within the branch of the executive powers like the mayorial types or the governor types. I'm not sure of the exact specifics of this in New Orleans, but I am pretty sure that the Mayor can tell the city staff (firefighters, cops, city workers) to stop working (at the very least..he may be able to issue evacuation orders). Regardless, if he can tell the city staff to shrink itself down to a skeleton crew, that should be reason enough for anybody to gtfo of a city like NOLA.
Valve's copy protection is some work, but I put up with it because TF2....IS...JUST...THAT...GOOD.
My bad, though by saying University of California "School" you might infer that I was referring to a specific campus specifically named "University of California". My state doesn't really follow the whole Cambridge convention of campuses in a U system. We're not sophisticated like ya'll Californians.
Just for the record, it looks like this was developed at UCSD. I'm no Californian, but I wasn't aware of a "University of California" school..I'm pretty sure they're all UC-something-something. Just giving credit where credit is due...
But I like Jesus trucks....
Like the other Anons...see FPGAs, or EEPROM or a host of other firmware-y devices for the "idea" of doing hardware in software...or software in hardware. It's quite likely that 10-20 years down the road we'll be using machines where we can completely reconfigure the hardware on the fly. Not that I'm saying that it will happen, or it will be ubiquitous..but with FPGA technology progressing like it is, the opportunities for reconfigurable computing in academia, military/gvt, and the consumer markets are looking pretty good.
Many of these tools require a working knowledge of Russian. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that Chinese-language tools exist too.
Damn. And here I was looking for fraud tools in Klingon. No wonder I can't ever find anything.
Unless you dirtied up your license plates so they weren't recognizable by those pesky cameras they use at the toll stations...but hey, I'm from the midwest...wtf are toll booths?