Only in the software industry, folks, can you buy a product and then buy another product to make the first product work. I suppose if you are making a bomb that could apply too.
Are China and the US becoming more and more like eachother nowadays? It's like this country is moving to a pseudo-communist form of government:(
Please, what a lot of fearmongering and nonsense. Communist governments spend vast sums of nonexistant money, they tend to create an elite "politburo" class of elite rich while everyone else remains poor, they begin wars and conquor countries to control resources they otherwise wouldn't have and couldn't afford, and they promote lies in schools that run contrary to science and evidence.
Now tell me, HOW is America becoming to a pseudo-communist form of government??
Some posts have suggested Unix and assembly (as a joke?), which is like suggesting you can't read unless you can read hyroglyphics. Not that it's not important or that Unix is bad, it just is irrelevant to "basic literacy" IMHO. So, here is my list:
1. How to set up and troubleshoot basic Windows XP issues 2. How to add or remove components (AGP card, PCI cards, etc.) 3. What ethernet is, what USB is, what bluetooth is, etc. 4. The basics of Microsoft Word + Excel (create new document, save, print, etc.) 5. Internet searching 6. How to manipulate files (move between folders, delete, etc.)
That's right -- I didn't mention OS X or any other operating system. Even though I use a Macbook Pro myself I would still say that Windows is more important to "literacy". Also, I would venture to say that most people who are adept at Windows could learn OS X extremely quickly. (Except my grandfather, who decries the fact there is no "maximise" button for the web browser to make his stock charts big.)
This is such a great thing!!...Because Ticketmaster's monopoly and average $10 per ticket fee (half paid by promoter, half paid by customer) is not enough profit. Plus, they even make you pay $2.50 extra when you want to print out tickets on your own printer since they just scan in the barcodes anyway. Sometimes Ticketmaster charges up to 35% of the face value of the ticket.
When was the last time you have been to a major ticketed event where Ticketmaster didn't control everything? Ticketmaster is the primary ticket seller for 27 of the 30 NHL teams and 28 of 30 NBA teams. An anti-trust case has been brought against them in the past, but it was unsuccessful. Ticketmaster has even been accused of signing you up for services you never ordered.
The end-user has really very little choice in matters like this, aside from not going to ticketed events.
I just got my Macbook Pro on Sat. THANK GOD I still can exchange for a free 2.0 Ghz upgrade!!
I don't think I'm going to go with the iBook this time round... I like the screen size on the Pro but I'll bet the battery life in the MacBook is just killer.
Plus.. the whining people have been talking about is barely audible... the only issue with the MacBook pro I found is the HEAT... the HEAT... they are hot as a mother fucker... no matter how much of a tough guy you think you are, you can't let it touch your skin!!!
huh? I couldn't understand the first line you wrote, "The graphic on the side says that perhaps just over 1/2 of emails are understood + interpreted correctly" - but I got lines 2, 3, and 4... what the hell are you talking about?
How do you know that you never misunderstand an e-mail? Are you like John C Dvorak who never gets spam? Maybe you should write trolling magazine columns too.
Was the above comment a personal attack, or an insightful comment? And what if I put an emoticon at the end of this sentence?;-)
True, natrually. Even Slashdot posts can contain language and diction which seems haughty and arrogant. It is like the poster is trying to "educate" the less informed. Some people even make alot of spelling mistakes and get flamed for it, and we typically assume that these people are poor-intentioned, even when they use ill expressions to correct the original poster.
Short of writing like Charles Dickens I don't anticipate a solution any time soon. (Webcam?)
Actually, not necessarily. It is also possible that they are on the far end of the statistical spectrum, when it comes to plotting data like this. e.g. if you take all the buildings with one of these towers, you might also find that there is one tower with 40 people (unusually high in a 100 person building) who drive a Mercedes... but that does not mean that driving a Mercedes is corelated to the presence of a tower.
Given the poor quality of some of these games when they are not platform-specific, I almost hope that they will stick to one platform.
Some of these games are ported so poorly that attention is barely paid to the controls specific to the platform (e.g. Keyboard + Mouse = PC).
Is it just me, or did games that were written for PCs and then ported to the console seem to be much better than games apparantly written the other way around?
Not only is this a standard troll, but it seems that the wikipedia article about slashdot trolling is creating a resurgance in trolls that should have been laid to rest.
Before modding me down, look into it for yourself... it has been known for a very long time that in the most severe cases of clinical depression, shock therapy is an extremely effective treatement, although it tends to conjure inhumane images in one's head.
Why is it that if I write something inflammatory, idiotic, and senselessly stupid and provocative that is designed only to infuriate the reader... I am a "troll" and I'm writing "flamebait." But if my name is John C. Dvorak, I am a "visionary" writing a "magazine column"?
According to the problem of induction (see Wikipedia we can never be sure about anything no matter how many times we observe it. For example, no matter how many times I observe that I am burned when I touch a candle flame, I cannot be 100% certain that if I go to China in a month and touch a candle flame there, I will be burned by it. Solving this seeming impossibility is a major problem in philosophy and science.
This idea always seemed really silly to me. And beleieve it or not, I took an entire advanced level course on it in University. The entire reading for the half-year course was 80 pages.
However, in light of this article, it makes a bit more sense now. Universal "constants" may not be constant after all, but John Stewart Mill could have told us this ages ago:-)
I am sure your parents subscribe to a "bundle" package, meaning they have Rogers cable TV or cell phone service. For example, my Rogers high speed extreme internet is $42/month but my cable TV is over $100. In the end, they are thieves, plain and simple.
Rogers, the only ISP I know in Ottawa that caps at 60 GB, also has a higher tier with a 100 GB cap. If streaming online radio while you sleep is so important to you, why don't you upgrade? It costs less than $60 which you claim to be paying for your current plan.
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Only in the software industry, folks, can you buy a product and then buy another product to make the first product work. I suppose if you are making a bomb that could apply too.
Personally, I am looking forward to the Windows gadgets. I mean what a great idea!! Who could have thought of something so ingenius...
Yes, but Windows server software and office software has been corporate customers for YEARS now...
Are China and the US becoming more and more like eachother nowadays? It's like this country is moving to a pseudo-communist form of government :(
Please, what a lot of fearmongering and nonsense. Communist governments spend vast sums of nonexistant money, they tend to create an elite "politburo" class of elite rich while everyone else remains poor, they begin wars and conquor countries to control resources they otherwise wouldn't have and couldn't afford, and they promote lies in schools that run contrary to science and evidence.
Now tell me, HOW is America becoming to a pseudo-communist form of government??
Gaming outside the home has been going on even longer than you think. It's called baseball, hockey, football, tennis, ....
The vulnerability is not a bug, but a feature, since according to TFA you linked to, it's "virus software".
Some posts have suggested Unix and assembly (as a joke?), which is like suggesting you can't read unless you can read hyroglyphics. Not that it's not important or that Unix is bad, it just is irrelevant to "basic literacy" IMHO. So, here is my list:
1. How to set up and troubleshoot basic Windows XP issues
2. How to add or remove components (AGP card, PCI cards, etc.)
3. What ethernet is, what USB is, what bluetooth is, etc.
4. The basics of Microsoft Word + Excel (create new document, save, print, etc.)
5. Internet searching
6. How to manipulate files (move between folders, delete, etc.)
That's right -- I didn't mention OS X or any other operating system. Even though I use a Macbook Pro myself I would still say that Windows is more important to "literacy". Also, I would venture to say that most people who are adept at Windows could learn OS X extremely quickly. (Except my grandfather, who decries the fact there is no "maximise" button for the web browser to make his stock charts big.)
This is such a great thing!! ...Because Ticketmaster's monopoly and average $10 per ticket fee (half paid by promoter, half paid by customer) is not enough profit. Plus, they even make you pay $2.50 extra when you want to print out tickets on your own printer since they just scan in the barcodes anyway. Sometimes Ticketmaster charges up to 35% of the face value of the ticket.
When was the last time you have been to a major ticketed event where Ticketmaster didn't control everything? Ticketmaster is the primary ticket seller for 27 of the 30 NHL teams and 28 of 30 NBA teams. An anti-trust case has been brought against them in the past, but it was unsuccessful. Ticketmaster has even been accused of signing you up for services you never ordered.
The end-user has really very little choice in matters like this, aside from not going to ticketed events.
If the PowerBook became the MacBook Pro, what's the Power Mac going to become?
Double Big Mac.
I just got my Macbook Pro on Sat. THANK GOD I still can exchange for a free 2.0 Ghz upgrade!!
I don't think I'm going to go with the iBook this time round... I like the screen size on the Pro but I'll bet the battery life in the MacBook is just killer.
Plus.. the whining people have been talking about is barely audible... the only issue with the MacBook pro I found is the HEAT... the HEAT... they are hot as a mother fucker... no matter how much of a tough guy you think you are, you can't let it touch your skin!!!
huh? I couldn't understand the first line you wrote, "The graphic on the side says that perhaps just over 1/2 of emails are understood + interpreted correctly" - but I got lines 2, 3, and 4... what the hell are you talking about?
How do you know that you never misunderstand an e-mail? Are you like John C Dvorak who never gets spam? Maybe you should write trolling magazine columns too.
;-)
Was the above comment a personal attack, or an insightful comment? And what if I put an emoticon at the end of this sentence?
True, natrually. Even Slashdot posts can contain language and diction which seems haughty and arrogant. It is like the poster is trying to "educate" the less informed. Some people even make alot of spelling mistakes and get flamed for it, and we typically assume that these people are poor-intentioned, even when they use ill expressions to correct the original poster.
Short of writing like Charles Dickens I don't anticipate a solution any time soon. (Webcam?)
So it is perfectly legal to view porn in the public library, and they will even give you a special screen to do it... but not myspace?
Actually, not necessarily. It is also possible that they are on the far end of the statistical spectrum, when it comes to plotting data like this. e.g. if you take all the buildings with one of these towers, you might also find that there is one tower with 40 people (unusually high in a 100 person building) who drive a Mercedes... but that does not mean that driving a Mercedes is corelated to the presence of a tower.
Given the poor quality of some of these games when they are not platform-specific, I almost hope that they will stick to one platform.
Some of these games are ported so poorly that attention is barely paid to the controls specific to the platform (e.g. Keyboard + Mouse = PC).
Is it just me, or did games that were written for PCs and then ported to the console seem to be much better than games apparantly written the other way around?
Soon they will be writing these things in java.
Not only is this a standard troll, but it seems that the wikipedia article about slashdot trolling is creating a resurgance in trolls that should have been laid to rest.
Yes, it is atually 1/3 larger than the largest currently known pyramid found here.
This refers to programs which do not exist in the archive.
Before modding me down, look into it for yourself... it has been known for a very long time that in the most severe cases of clinical depression, shock therapy is an extremely effective treatement, although it tends to conjure inhumane images in one's head.
Why is it that if I write something inflammatory, idiotic, and senselessly stupid and provocative that is designed only to infuriate the reader... I am a "troll" and I'm writing "flamebait." But if my name is John C. Dvorak, I am a "visionary" writing a "magazine column"?
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
According to the problem of induction (see Wikipedia we can never be sure about anything no matter how many times we observe it. For example, no matter how many times I observe that I am burned when I touch a candle flame, I cannot be 100% certain that if I go to China in a month and touch a candle flame there, I will be burned by it. Solving this seeming impossibility is a major problem in philosophy and science.
:-)
This idea always seemed really silly to me. And beleieve it or not, I took an entire advanced level course on it in University. The entire reading for the half-year course was 80 pages.
However, in light of this article, it makes a bit more sense now. Universal "constants" may not be constant after all, but John Stewart Mill could have told us this ages ago
I am sure your parents subscribe to a "bundle" package, meaning they have Rogers cable TV or cell phone service. For example, my Rogers high speed extreme internet is $42/month but my cable TV is over $100. In the end, they are thieves, plain and simple.
Rogers, the only ISP I know in Ottawa that caps at 60 GB, also has a higher tier with a 100 GB cap. If streaming online radio while you sleep is so important to you, why don't you upgrade? It costs less than $60 which you claim to be paying for your current plan.