How the hell did this get modded informative? Regardless of how effective "modern education" (as a monolithic entity) is, it certainly is worth more than words on a resume.
Maybe this has changed in the last few years, but back when I used Windows, Acrobat would not respect the choice not to automatically search for updates. That is what bothered me about the program, more than anything else.
Many companies advertise a "free bonus" if you purchase a product - when I see those, I know that the companies products have been marked up enough to pay for the "free" bonus.
Organizations at my university often offer "free" pizza at their meetings - when I see posters advertising this fact, I know that my tuition pays for them, and thus there is still a cost attached to it.
I don't see how the language is inappropriate in either case, nor in the case of federally subsidized internet access. I can see how a reasonable person would disagree, but please keep in mind not everyone agrees with your definition of the word "free".
They pay a higher portion of the total tax revenue, but as a percentage of their total income, rich people pay less taxes than the middle class. I can dig out some citations for that if anyone wants me to, but they should be easy to find via google if it really sounds that implausible.
A living wage in the country is certainly not $5.00. 5 * 40 * 50 = $10,000 to live on for a year. According to the 2008 federal poverty guidelines, single person household making less than $10,400 is living in poverty. I don't really feel like debating the validity of the fed's guidelines, but suffice it to say that I'm glad I don't have to live in those conditions.
You forget about differences in worker protection laws, environmental regulations, etc. that create artificial differences in the price of labor between different regions of the world.
I have used Blackboard extensively as a student. My experiences with have been mostly positive, though the uni which uses Blackboard has a much better tech department than the program that used Moodle, which might account for the difference.
I've only used Moodle for one semester while studying off campus, but my impression was that it's very rough around the edges. Perhaps it was just the install that we were using, but we had constant problems with it, ranging form getting people registered so that they could use the application to messages randomly (albeit rarely) getting dropped.
I think the biggest effect this will have will be raising people awareness that other browsers exist. Didn't Opera report seeing a bump in their download numbers after Chrome came out?
I would question the wisdom of having anything other than Google as the default search engine, with or without payment. It's just common sense to have the most popular option be the default.
Unfortunately, the EM signals (as I understand it) are radiated from the image displayed on the screen, and thus encrypting bits as they travel to the screen won't make a difference. I like the way you think, though.
Honestly, it's because I typed the first half of my post, then thought "wait a second, there's no way that a recount could have been completed so soon" and looked up the status of it. The first half of the post still applies, however, despite it not being an actual recount. As I noted, the closeness of the race ensures that many more people will be observing the count, which makes it significantly more difficult to fraudulently alter the results of the election. Rereading my post, I shouldn't have assumed that others would be able to follow my train of thought based on what I'd written.
There are two possible explanations for this phenomenon:
a) Fraudulent ballots are being added for the Democratic candidate in the midst of the recount.
b) For whatever reason, more valid democratic ballots went uncounted during the first counting.
Since recounts are heavily observed by both sides, I find option a to be unlikely. To be perfectly accurate however, the Alaska race was never recounted - they just finished counting all the ballots (absentee and so on take longer) for the first time. Despite this, given the closeness of race, I find it hard to believe that election monitors for either side would have been so incompetent as to allow the level of fraud that you suggest.
No worries - too often we're caught up in a "us v them" mentality which ends up being divisive and harming us and them. I'm glad that you recognize that it's all in good fun.
I understand your desire to promote Linux, but why would you actively hope that your colleague's computer will malfunction? It's one thing to get a chuckle when the "other OS" (whatever that might be for you) acts up, but to hope that somebody you know has problems using it so that they will go back to "your" OS (which didn't work correctly either) is just mean-spirited.
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What "cybersecurity issues" could arise that do not involve sensitive secrets to be leaked?
How the hell did this get modded informative? Regardless of how effective "modern education" (as a monolithic entity) is, it certainly is worth more than words on a resume.
Maybe this has changed in the last few years, but back when I used Windows, Acrobat would not respect the choice not to automatically search for updates. That is what bothered me about the program, more than anything else.
Many companies advertise a "free bonus" if you purchase a product - when I see those, I know that the companies products have been marked up enough to pay for the "free" bonus.
Organizations at my university often offer "free" pizza at their meetings - when I see posters advertising this fact, I know that my tuition pays for them, and thus there is still a cost attached to it.
I don't see how the language is inappropriate in either case, nor in the case of federally subsidized internet access. I can see how a reasonable person would disagree, but please keep in mind not everyone agrees with your definition of the word "free".
They pay a higher portion of the total tax revenue, but as a percentage of their total income, rich people pay less taxes than the middle class. I can dig out some citations for that if anyone wants me to, but they should be easy to find via google if it really sounds that implausible.
A living wage in the country is certainly not $5.00. 5 * 40 * 50 = $10,000 to live on for a year. According to the 2008 federal poverty guidelines, single person household making less than $10,400 is living in poverty. I don't really feel like debating the validity of the fed's guidelines, but suffice it to say that I'm glad I don't have to live in those conditions.
Analogue RF NTSC out, (at 480p) or Composite out. (also 480p.)
I stopped reading when I got to this. Neither RF NTSC nor composite support progressive scan signals.
You forget about differences in worker protection laws, environmental regulations, etc. that create artificial differences in the price of labor between different regions of the world.
Because intelligent people never use other people's computers, including at work!
Bullshit - international roaming is not free with T-Mobile.
I have used Blackboard extensively as a student. My experiences with have been mostly positive, though the uni which uses Blackboard has a much better tech department than the program that used Moodle, which might account for the difference.
I've only used Moodle for one semester while studying off campus, but my impression was that it's very rough around the edges. Perhaps it was just the install that we were using, but we had constant problems with it, ranging form getting people registered so that they could use the application to messages randomly (albeit rarely) getting dropped.
Don't forget 1-swipe for those fancy new multitouch trackpads.
Pork isn't even close to the top budgetary problem. Here's some numbers to check out from the federal budget.
I think the biggest effect this will have will be raising people awareness that other browsers exist. Didn't Opera report seeing a bump in their download numbers after Chrome came out?
President Bush has as much power to declare himself dictator as I do. Which is to say that he can do it, but he'll just be pissing in the wind.
I would question the wisdom of having anything other than Google as the default search engine, with or without payment. It's just common sense to have the most popular option be the default.
Posting why the above statement is a lie would go a lot farther in convincing people not to believe it.
Unfortunately, the EM signals (as I understand it) are radiated from the image displayed on the screen, and thus encrypting bits as they travel to the screen won't make a difference. I like the way you think, though.
Honestly, it's because I typed the first half of my post, then thought "wait a second, there's no way that a recount could have been completed so soon" and looked up the status of it. The first half of the post still applies, however, despite it not being an actual recount. As I noted, the closeness of the race ensures that many more people will be observing the count, which makes it significantly more difficult to fraudulently alter the results of the election. Rereading my post, I shouldn't have assumed that others would be able to follow my train of thought based on what I'd written.
a) Fraudulent ballots are being added for the Democratic candidate in the midst of the recount.
b) For whatever reason, more valid democratic ballots went uncounted during the first counting.
Since recounts are heavily observed by both sides, I find option a to be unlikely. To be perfectly accurate however, the Alaska race was never recounted - they just finished counting all the ballots (absentee and so on take longer) for the first time. Despite this, given the closeness of race, I find it hard to believe that election monitors for either side would have been so incompetent as to allow the level of fraud that you suggest.
No worries - too often we're caught up in a "us v them" mentality which ends up being divisive and harming us and them. I'm glad that you recognize that it's all in good fun.
I understand your desire to promote Linux, but why would you actively hope that your colleague's computer will malfunction? It's one thing to get a chuckle when the "other OS" (whatever that might be for you) acts up, but to hope that somebody you know has problems using it so that they will go back to "your" OS (which didn't work correctly either) is just mean-spirited.
Why do you think that the Moz team is working so hard to make FF faster? Perhaps it's so they can keep up with other browsers on the market.
So we can just reserve the right to break the law on our own property now? Cool!