Of course it's silly. I'd call it a legitimate concern if the only way to vote was via the Internet, but it's not. Go to the nearest physical location you can vote at, and do so. And besides, if you *really* want to vote through the internet, just stop by your local public library.
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Neo/Zargon/Multiple Bogeys/Numerous Boogers on a certain rec.games newsgroup was like this. mutate, mutate, mutate.
I was horribly inconvenienced, thank you very much
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My 486 thought it was 1993 and my 8086 thought it was 1984. I had to spent fifteen seconds of my life setting their clocks.
Yes. Thank you. I have a good copy of some of the solo violin works on CD, and they're amazing. However (and this is biased due to the fact that I play the instrument), I feel that his greatest work was actually his partita for solo flute in A minor. The first movement in particular sends chills up my spine whenever I play it or hear it; it's just beautiful. Other than that, I adore his 'cello suites and organ works. Next to the flute partita, his pasacaglia and fugue (in c minor? I can't remember, and don't have the LP handy) is undoubtedly his greatest work.
Then again, I've never been a sucker for the human voice, so this is going to influence my opinion.
Maybe to you and I. However, most people don't give a damn about software freedom. If I asked my sister or my father what "free software" was, they'd assume it meant price. For these people, it's best just to try to bring them the best possible system.
Zhirinovsky is a dangerous guy. If I recall correctly, he's run into trouble with the law after punching out a fellow MP (member of parliament, I'm unsure of the Russian term) who disagreed with him. This, coupled with his anti-west hatred and the fact that Russia still has a nuclear arsenal, makes him someone who would be a real threat should he gain power.
Score -1, Redundant, I know, but it can't be over emphasised.
How can we attempt to show the general population that censorship is not a good thing? It seems that people accept the spoonfed excuse of "it's for your own good"; how can we get people to think critically about the situation and come to their own conclusions?
I mean, seriously. I've visited my city's water and sewage treatment plants in the past (you wouldn't believe where elementary schools go for field trips when the teachers can't think of anything better to do), and my general impression was that they have very little reliance on computers, with almost everything being done mechanically. And what's the worst that can happen?
Computer: "Hmm, my date went from 99 to 00. Time to dump all of the chlorine supply into the water, and remove all my filters to allow the random filth through!"
I somehow don't really see that happening. Your mileage may vary.
I too know the feeling. Too often I drink from public fountains, and when people protest, I pull out my blessed +5 Grayswandir (cleverly disguised as a stick), and bash them silly. That'll teach those silly watchmen.
Look. I've got friends who are avid electronic musicians, but, due to Canada's looming tax on recordable media, will face Yet More Moronic Charges. You know what that means? That's right. It's going to be even more expensive to buy blank CDs to record their music to.
I don't give a flying fsck if people are pirating CDs. If people are prevented from getting their music out there and listened to, then that is far more of a crime than people ripping CDs and somehow shorting some multi-millionaire recording artist.
As far as I can tell, they died quite a while ago. For me, the end came when my favourite BBS shut down in February of 1997. The Sysop took it down because it was a pain having to continually maintain it, and I think it was also because he wanted to free the time up for other things. That was sort of the end of an era for me; up until that point, I had used a 2400bps modem on an 8086 with a lovely monochrome CGA monitor (there's still no burn in!), so you could accurately guess that BBSs are something of a nostalgic memory for me.
But yes, I definitely miss the sense of community. I still talk with some people I knew from my BBS days on ICQ and very rarely on IRC...it's sort of hard to believe that I've known one of my friends for three and a half years now, and we've never once met in real life, despite the fact that we live in the same city, and on the same side of the city.
Thank you. You managed to state exactly how I feel about relationships.
I'm a first year undergraduate, and have had one relationship in my life; to put it mildly, it did not go well. I still see her occasionally, as we live in the same general area of the city, and every time I see her I feel shame, anger, and resentment (as you can guess, it was not a good relationship for me).
That's essentially why, through various means, I branded "uninterested" on me for the better part of four years. I didn't want to experience the strong, deeply negative emotions that she triggered. I've managed to put that behind me, for the most part, but it's still a lurking fear: "what if I get hurt"? "What if..."
But the late romantic period in particular. I like Anton Bruckner, as his symphonies have that wonderful quality where you can listen to them at the edge of your hearing, fully concentrating on code, and still hear everything. Lovely stuff. I also like Mahler and Brahms for these purposes.
I would urge anyone interested in the ethics of this topic to look at the Robert Latimer case, which has been an ongoing thing here in Canada for many years now.
I'm an undergraduate starting my first year at the University of Saskatchewan. I declared comp sci with honours; let's look at why.
When I was eight, my mom bought a Xerox 8086 to type up her English PhD thesis on. Besides learning WP5.1 (I still use it to this day, heh), I had fun playing games, and learning how to move around in DOS (3.1, I think). This is the machine that started me on computers.
At the end of the eighth grade, I bought a 2400bps modem for the old 8086, and started dialing BBSs, as well as using my friend's brother's dialup shell account at the U of S. At 13, I was introduced to the glory of the online world and of Unix.
Midway through the ninth grade, I noticed QBasic on my school's Netware network. After a friend taught me a few commands (PRINT and IF-THEN), I taught myself the remainder of the language over the rest of the school year. Having no previous programming experience, I found it thrilling to think that I could actually, in some way, tell the computer what to do.
Because of this, I signed up for all the comp sci classes available over the rest of high school. I learned BASIC, Pascal and some C; the languages weren't important, it was the sense of wonderment behind programming that held me. I could create. And if I had lots of error, it was my fault, not the fact that we weren't at STP.
Am I doing it for the money? Of course not. If I can make some money this way, it would be nice, but the reason I'm doing this is because I love programming, I love the feeling I get, and I love the sense of community and fellowship that can often be found in communities of programmers.
And that, friends, is why I chose to major in computer science. I'm doing it because I enjoy it, not because of the opportunities.
I love a written letter. One of my friends is gone until Thanksgiving to a lake in Manitoba. Though she has e-mail, we keep in contact via letter writing. It's so much more personal; I mean, admit it, do you get the same feeling from receiving an e-mail that you do from a letter? I certainly don't. With a letter, I can sit down wherever I want and enjoy trying to decipher someone's handwriting.
It's not about money, it's about incentive, and I'll stand by that.
You can use any computer to access the internet. I used an 8086 with a 2400bps modem to dialup both a university server and the local freenet for several years, because my parents couldn't buy a new computer. A couple of years ago, I bought a 486 and a 33.6 modem, and got access with that. Although now I'm using a 350MHz machine with cable, this should show that my internet access had and has everything to do with incentive.
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Of course it's silly. I'd call it a legitimate concern if the only way to vote was via the Internet, but it's not. Go to the nearest physical location you can vote at, and do so. And besides, if you *really* want to vote through the internet, just stop by your local public library.
Neo/Zargon/Multiple Bogeys/Numerous Boogers on a certain rec.games newsgroup was like this. mutate, mutate, mutate.
My 486 thought it was 1993 and my 8086 thought it was 1984. I had to spent fifteen seconds of my life setting their clocks.
Paul Erdos, a mathematician, did exactly what you described with a promising high-school student who wanted to study mathematics at Harvard.
Yes. Thank you. I have a good copy of some of the solo violin works on CD, and they're amazing. However (and this is biased due to the fact that I play the instrument), I feel that his greatest work was actually his partita for solo flute in A minor. The first movement in particular sends chills up my spine whenever I play it or hear it; it's just beautiful. Other than that, I adore his 'cello suites and organ works. Next to the flute partita, his pasacaglia and fugue (in c minor? I can't remember, and don't have the LP handy) is undoubtedly his greatest work.
Then again, I've never been a sucker for the human voice, so this is going to influence my opinion.
Maybe to you and I. However, most people don't give a damn about software freedom. If I asked my sister or my father what "free software" was, they'd assume it meant price. For these people, it's best just to try to bring them the best possible system.
Zhirinovsky is a dangerous guy. If I recall correctly, he's run into trouble with the law after punching out a fellow MP (member of parliament, I'm unsure of the Russian term) who disagreed with him. This, coupled with his anti-west hatred and the fact that Russia still has a nuclear arsenal, makes him someone who would be a real threat should he gain power.
Score -1, Redundant, I know, but it can't be over emphasised.
How can we attempt to show the general population that censorship is not a good thing? It seems that people accept the spoonfed excuse of "it's for your own good"; how can we get people to think critically about the situation and come to their own conclusions?
The first thing that came to mind for me when I saw the title was "Sleepers, Awake.", a piece by J.S. Bach.
Computer: "Hmm, my date went from 99 to 00. Time to dump all of the chlorine supply into the water, and remove all my filters to allow the random filth through!"
I somehow don't really see that happening. Your mileage may vary.
I too know the feeling. Too often I drink from public fountains, and when people protest, I pull out my blessed +5 Grayswandir (cleverly disguised as a stick), and bash them silly. That'll teach those silly watchmen.
Look. I've got friends who are avid electronic musicians, but, due to Canada's looming tax on recordable media, will face Yet More Moronic Charges. You know what that means? That's right. It's going to be even more expensive to buy blank CDs to record their music to.
I don't give a flying fsck if people are pirating CDs. If people are prevented from getting their music out there and listened to, then that is far more of a crime than people ripping CDs and somehow shorting some multi-millionaire recording artist.
But yes, I definitely miss the sense of community. I still talk with some people I knew from my BBS days on ICQ and very rarely on IRC...it's sort of hard to believe that I've known one of my friends for three and a half years now, and we've never once met in real life, despite the fact that we live in the same city, and on the same side of the city.
29-11-1999 isn't odd because one of the digits is a two, therefore even.
I've always said alt-control-delete. There's more of a natural rhythm in it, and besides, that's what everyone else I knew who used computers said.
Thank you. You managed to state exactly how I feel about relationships.
I'm a first year undergraduate, and have had one relationship in my life; to put it mildly, it did not go well. I still see her occasionally, as we live in the same general area of the city, and every time I see her I feel shame, anger, and resentment (as you can guess, it was not a good relationship for me).
That's essentially why, through various means, I branded "uninterested" on me for the better part of four years. I didn't want to experience the strong, deeply negative emotions that she triggered. I've managed to put that behind me, for the most part, but it's still a lurking fear: "what if I get hurt"? "What if..."
Anyway, you put it perfectly.
But the late romantic period in particular. I like Anton Bruckner, as his symphonies have that wonderful quality where you can listen to them at the edge of your hearing, fully concentrating on code, and still hear everything. Lovely stuff. I also like Mahler and Brahms for these purposes.
I would urge anyone interested in the ethics of this topic to look at the Robert Latimer case, which has been an ongoing thing here in Canada for many years now.
I don't know, but I hear NetBSD is working on it right now. ;)
Well, here at the University of Saskatchewan, computer science is found in the College of Arts and Science, not the College of Engineering.
When I was eight, my mom bought a Xerox 8086 to type up her English PhD thesis on. Besides learning WP5.1 (I still use it to this day, heh), I had fun playing games, and learning how to move around in DOS (3.1, I think). This is the machine that started me on computers.
At the end of the eighth grade, I bought a 2400bps modem for the old 8086, and started dialing BBSs, as well as using my friend's brother's dialup shell account at the U of S. At 13, I was introduced to the glory of the online world and of Unix.
Midway through the ninth grade, I noticed QBasic on my school's Netware network. After a friend taught me a few commands (PRINT and IF-THEN), I taught myself the remainder of the language over the rest of the school year. Having no previous programming experience, I found it thrilling to think that I could actually, in some way, tell the computer what to do.
Because of this, I signed up for all the comp sci classes available over the rest of high school. I learned BASIC, Pascal and some C; the languages weren't important, it was the sense of wonderment behind programming that held me. I could create. And if I had lots of error, it was my fault, not the fact that we weren't at STP.
Am I doing it for the money? Of course not. If I can make some money this way, it would be nice, but the reason I'm doing this is because I love programming, I love the feeling I get, and I love the sense of community and fellowship that can often be found in communities of programmers.
And that, friends, is why I chose to major in computer science. I'm doing it because I enjoy it, not because of the opportunities.
Nah, Windows' mascot would have to be that god-damned annoying paperclip thing. That's what people see the most of when they use it.
My soundblaster 16 has been wonderful...hopefully the PC will be just as well built.
I love a written letter. One of my friends is gone until Thanksgiving to a lake in Manitoba. Though she has e-mail, we keep in contact via letter writing. It's so much more personal; I mean, admit it, do you get the same feeling from receiving an e-mail that you do from a letter? I certainly don't. With a letter, I can sit down wherever I want and enjoy trying to decipher someone's handwriting.
There's simply no comparison.
You can use any computer to access the internet. I used an 8086 with a 2400bps modem to dialup both a university server and the local freenet for several years, because my parents couldn't buy a new computer. A couple of years ago, I bought a 486 and a 33.6 modem, and got access with that. Although now I'm using a 350MHz machine with cable, this should show that my internet access had and has everything to do with incentive.