Not one person, definitely. Of course there have always been people who pushed it for their own gain, but they largely grew from the collective myths of the people. That seems sanest to me, anyway.
The Christian (or any other mainstream) God wasn't invented by a crappy science fiction writer who himself said that starting a religion is the way to get filthy rich. That kind of helps.
Yes, and while I tend to agree with your point your reasoning was painfully flawed, effectively being "the government could possibly some day abuse this so it shouldn't exist".
Either you're trying to be funny or you're confusing a state, a system that consists of its "users" with the corporation/customer relationship, where the corporation exists as a separate entity that is trying to convince the customer to buy his stuff. I'm really hoping for the former.
Governments should NEVER be allowed to limit freedom X, because some future leader might abuse this ability to limit it in a way that isn't cool.
Effectively you're saying that a government should have their hands tied to their back or not exist. Not that I'm explicitly opposed to anarchism in some of its implementations, but I wonder whether you're aware of what you're saying.
Approaching it from the rear end, sir. Quit your whining and try to avoid this future, 'cause the worst-case scenario is indeed a very scary thought. Personally I'm really really happy with the WWW Foundation and hoping they can get something going.
I guess I should've more explicitly stated that exactly where you draw the line is another matter entirely. The 95% was pulled from nowhere, and very much specific to the example - assuming one number will work for every system is only a little bit silly.
I was making very broad statements, so consider thinking before you assume that I claim to have an all-encompassing solution. Hell, I wasn't even talking about Comcast - I only responded to OP, nothing more.
I hope you're not entirely serious. While I get the point of your message, it should be obvious that if a tool is used primarily (where exactly you draw the line is another matter entirely) for illegal or otherwise disagreeable (problematic word right there, I know) activity it should be banned. If 95% of all knife usage were stabbing people I'd sure want to do something about it, and (temporarily) removing the tool would be a useful if not quite desirable step.
> Getting a well rounded computer scientist is better than getting
> someone who knows the buzzwords and can code a bit in one language.
*cough* fizzbuzz
Every day when biking to university I see cars and cars with one person each. Somehow I feel that carpooling might just solve... a damn lot. Of course it has its limits, but I can't believe that it's applied half as much as reasonably possible.
I'd love to have a digital copy of University Physics by Young & Freedman, for the simple reason that the book is a pain to carry around with its 1500 larger than A4 pages. In fact, these digital copies exist and can be obtained from the publisher's website for free - if your lecturer is aware of the service and has registered with the publisher to make this available. Well, mine haven't. I'll be torrenting, no doubt.
The only issue I've had so far with all versions I've used (b5, rc2 and the release, both on windows and ubuntu) is that it doesn't always close cleanly, leaving an unresponsive process open. Other than that everything's shiny.
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It was my first reaction at seeing the headline. I suspect they skewed the number to make it sound more realistic ;)
Because it already happened: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/hospital_computer_virus_shutdown_update/
Try pasting a few lines and doing a grammatical analysis on them. That'll be nicely on-topic.
Not one person, definitely. Of course there have always been people who pushed it for their own gain, but they largely grew from the collective myths of the people. That seems sanest to me, anyway.
The Christian (or any other mainstream) God wasn't invented by a crappy science fiction writer who himself said that starting a religion is the way to get filthy rich. That kind of helps.
Yes, and while I tend to agree with your point your reasoning was painfully flawed, effectively being "the government could possibly some day abuse this so it shouldn't exist".
Either you're trying to be funny or you're confusing a state, a system that consists of its "users" with the corporation/customer relationship, where the corporation exists as a separate entity that is trying to convince the customer to buy his stuff. I'm really hoping for the former.
Only to redistribute them among the people, of course.
Governments should NEVER be allowed to limit freedom X, because some future leader might abuse this ability to limit it in a way that isn't cool. Effectively you're saying that a government should have their hands tied to their back or not exist. Not that I'm explicitly opposed to anarchism in some of its implementations, but I wonder whether you're aware of what you're saying.
Approaching it from the rear end, sir. Quit your whining and try to avoid this future, 'cause the worst-case scenario is indeed a very scary thought. Personally I'm really really happy with the WWW Foundation and hoping they can get something going.
That's exactly what I was hoping for when I saw the title :(
I guess I should've more explicitly stated that exactly where you draw the line is another matter entirely. The 95% was pulled from nowhere, and very much specific to the example - assuming one number will work for every system is only a little bit silly. I was making very broad statements, so consider thinking before you assume that I claim to have an all-encompassing solution. Hell, I wasn't even talking about Comcast - I only responded to OP, nothing more.
I hope you're not entirely serious. While I get the point of your message, it should be obvious that if a tool is used primarily (where exactly you draw the line is another matter entirely) for illegal or otherwise disagreeable (problematic word right there, I know) activity it should be banned. If 95% of all knife usage were stabbing people I'd sure want to do something about it, and (temporarily) removing the tool would be a useful if not quite desirable step.
> Getting a well rounded computer scientist is better than getting > someone who knows the buzzwords and can code a bit in one language. *cough* fizzbuzz
Every day when biking to university I see cars and cars with one person each. Somehow I feel that carpooling might just solve... a damn lot. Of course it has its limits, but I can't believe that it's applied half as much as reasonably possible.
Actually that'd be fairly nice - from what I hear the plans for PHP 6 are rather sane. Would be nice to see quadrupled efforts on that.
"Stronger, Faster, Stiffer"? I'm not sure of what 'lympics that'd be the motto, but I can guess >.>
"Creative Communism", you're making it way too easy. Sheesh.
It's not grammar, it's word usage. Now you angered me.
I'd love to have a digital copy of University Physics by Young & Freedman, for the simple reason that the book is a pain to carry around with its 1500 larger than A4 pages. In fact, these digital copies exist and can be obtained from the publisher's website for free - if your lecturer is aware of the service and has registered with the publisher to make this available. Well, mine haven't. I'll be torrenting, no doubt.
The only issue I've had so far with all versions I've used (b5, rc2 and the release, both on windows and ubuntu) is that it doesn't always close cleanly, leaving an unresponsive process open. Other than that everything's shiny.
The hole is not a particle, it's merely a spot in some piece of matter where an electron could pop in to make everything nice and neutral.