So it is monitored but does the policy say who may read the logs? The police? Teachers? Other students? School Board?
This ruling says the general public may view those logs. While there is the freedom of information, there is the right to privacy.
Just like many things we use are monitored, there are laws to protect us from an invasion of privacy.
Old and new technology can coexist
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And be reliable. On NPR, they had a story on another Florida county that had not problems with the voting method that used an interesting mix of old and new technology.
You just needed a Number 2 or appropriate pencil and a hole puncher. To vote: Fill in the appropriate hole (standardized test style) and punch the other hole. All the ballots are then scanned into the computer where a program will read the scanned documents and tally the results. If there is a power outage or a quesioning of the computer, the paper ballots may still be hand counted. The county in question did not have any discrepancy in vote count.
This is interesting because of the analogies one may use.
Are Internet transactions the equivalent of a telephone call? Therefor, the same rules of privacy apply as a telephone call and conversation?
Or is an Internet transaction like a borrowing a book from the library? Even though, the borrowing and returning is instant. So the record of transactions follow the same provacy rules as to what you checked out at your school library.
What if it wasn't a member of the public asking for the information, but a teacher. Teachers have some special privacy privledges equivalent of a parent of students.
Does this ruling apply to any publicly funded entity: Library or even better the Internet transactions logs of our "friends" in Congress or State/Local Government. (I think there was a ruling already on the gov't one)
Actually, I bet companies could implement MMX. But they could not state or advertise it because of the trademark Intel owns on MMX. Intel would never allow another another company to advertise: Our product also has that fancy MMX instruction set too. Companies may implement it, ship it, but if they told the customer in a way that violated the MMX trademark, the attack lawyers would be released.
Tricky proposition, I can release a technically superior product, but not advertise it because I someone else owns the lingo.
If you can have a degree in medicine, computer science or some hard science (physics, chem): you are very valuable. Corporations need those kind of people as well as everyone else. Getting a lawyer is easy, getting a tech person is "easy", getting a tech laywer is damn near impossible. There aren't many out there.
Spencer, the plan's chief architect, said the proposal grew out of concerns that too few graduates of state colleges have the technological skills to fill tens of thousands of business and high-tech job openings in Massachusetts.
And because I can use a calculator means I am good at math.
This program has merit but this is a lot of money on something that could backfire. Here are some ways:
Teachers can't ramp up to the tech fast enough or they ramp up emphasizing too much on the technology and not on learning the subject matter.
The laptops can be underpowered and be obsolete by their 2nd year of school.
No one can support that volume of laptops so a significant percentage of students own an expensive paperweight.
With the surplus, everyone has been saying "Let's have a tax cut, Let's have a tax cut".
In the meantime, Alan Greenspan and friends are trying to keep inflation and the speed of the growing economy in check so it doesn't burst. Which they are doing by raising interest rates periodically. (6 times this year)
A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing.
Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
This summer, Network Solutions touched off a controversy when it warned customers with delinquent payments that it would auction off their domain names to recoup losses. Critics were outraged and demanded that the expired names be returned to the public pool of available names instead.
Sounds like someone should fix their business model. Get money, then allocate domain name. Not allocate domain name, then wait for money.
I have always found it funny when people make fun of Gore for his misstep about inventing the Internet when in reality what he said was taken out of context and not well phrased by him.
I remember back in 1994 or so when some Internet books had forwards by Gore. Gore knew about the Internet and was pushing for more use of it even during the time when the Internet was really used for the DOD or Academia.
He didn't explain himself well in that infamous interview, but his role in government defintely helped, not hurt the progression of the Net.
If marketing can be convinced that they can make a better sell by not using clock speed and by touting another feature they will.
But then Marketing has to have the ability to teach the buyer. Not the easiest task in the world for something so technical.
Clock speed is deathly easy to understand. Faster clock speed means faster computer. (Of course the clock speed argument breaks down when you look at different processors/different buses/supporting architectures/etc)
My main point is: clock speed is the easiest and most effective sell for marketing.
When people to refer to richest company, they mean market capitalization: Stock price time Number of shares. A few months ago, it was a 3 way fight between MS, Cisco and GE for company with most capital. Now, I bet GE is back on top.
For thousands of years people have made music, and only recently have people fooled the public into thinking that it is morally justifiable to say to all of us that we no longer have a right to participate in our culture, unless we pay a tax to Sony or BMG
Then don't buy any music and only attend concerts like everyone has always had to do excluding the last 100 years.
Many musicians make music because they like to make music, and will continue to make music, just as they have since we lived in caves.
And I love to code, but giving my code away makes me poor. Being poor sucks. Been there, still getting out of debt. When I get out of debt and get my own finances in order, I will be giving code away.
You represent the amoral corporations who only have one goal - to make money. And that is counterproductive to the creative process
Welcome to capitalism. Which has been based upon the creative process to achieve a better life.
Because of the slippery slope argument (which isn't that slippery). If one person can buy the cd then redistribute a copy to someone else. Then each copy can be given to another person, it is just copying a file. So in theory you can distbribute the same song an infinite number of times without any loss of quality. So in a worst case scenario, one can buy the music at the store, then rip it to mp3 and distribute on the Internet millions of times. That would mean millions of lost album sales. If I only sell one album, why would I make any more albums?
Of course people say, but I buy more cds now because of mp3s. Of course there will be a short term blip of people buying more cds because they are exposed to music they may not listen to before. But this is a short term blip. Why?
Portable mp3 players are expensive vs cd players (I can get a cd player for less the $50, an mp3 player will run me at least $150).
CD Players that play mp3 files are not mainstream.
MP3 players in general are a small market.
In a nutsell, if I want to listen to my music anywhere, my best chance is to put it on an old fashioned CD (read: buying it). When mp3's on cds become more common as well as better priced mp3 players come to market, we will see an exodus away from cd sales.
But when mp3 player prices become reasonable in price, (portable cd players can be found for less than $50, while portable mp3 players cost more than $150 and will be obsolete in a year because newer players will blow them away) mp3 players become more common to play from cd
Efficiency and "power" (not energy) is the reason for new chips. Like posts previously made, some processors are inefficient. Newer processors can do more per cpu cyle. Compare 486's and pentiums at the same clock speed and the Pentium kills the 486.
Making the chip smaller and cranking up clock speed also only takes you so far. Some chips are designed to go up to a certain clock speed because that is how they were designed. (Damn laws of physics)
Just because a design works and is proven to work doesn't mean it can't be made better. There are tons of improvements that need to be made to processors (as well as their supporting infrastructure).
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This ruling says the general public may view those logs. While there is the freedom of information, there is the right to privacy.
Just like many things we use are monitored, there are laws to protect us from an invasion of privacy.
You just needed a Number 2 or appropriate pencil and a hole puncher. To vote: Fill in the appropriate hole (standardized test style) and punch the other hole. All the ballots are then scanned into the computer where a program will read the scanned documents and tally the results. If there is a power outage or a quesioning of the computer, the paper ballots may still be hand counted. The county in question did not have any discrepancy in vote count.
Are Internet transactions the equivalent of a telephone call? Therefor, the same rules of privacy apply as a telephone call and conversation?
Or is an Internet transaction like a borrowing a book from the library? Even though, the borrowing and returning is instant. So the record of transactions follow the same provacy rules as to what you checked out at your school library.
What if it wasn't a member of the public asking for the information, but a teacher. Teachers have some special privacy privledges equivalent of a parent of students.
Does this ruling apply to any publicly funded entity: Library or even better the Internet transactions logs of our "friends" in Congress or State/Local Government. (I think there was a ruling already on the gov't one)
Tricky proposition, I can release a technically superior product, but not advertise it because I someone else owns the lingo.
Can someone with insight do some Karma whoring and get some references to this topic?
If you can have a degree in medicine, computer science or some hard science (physics, chem): you are very valuable. Corporations need those kind of people as well as everyone else. Getting a lawyer is easy, getting a tech person is "easy", getting a tech laywer is damn near impossible. There aren't many out there.
They charge by the hour. If it turns out costing too much, that means something needs revamped.
This program has merit but this is a lot of money on something that could backfire. Here are some ways:
A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing.
Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
I remember back in 1994 or so when some Internet books had forwards by Gore. Gore knew about the Internet and was pushing for more use of it even during the time when the Internet was really used for the DOD or Academia.
He didn't explain himself well in that infamous interview, but his role in government defintely helped, not hurt the progression of the Net.
But then Marketing has to have the ability to teach the buyer. Not the easiest task in the world for something so technical.
Clock speed is deathly easy to understand. Faster clock speed means faster computer. (Of course the clock speed argument breaks down when you look at different processors/different buses/supporting architectures/etc)
My main point is: clock speed is the easiest and most effective sell for marketing.
We geeks know the difference.
Considering each employee who took their options is probably a millionaire, this still isn't a bad deal for the employee.
When people to refer to richest company, they mean market capitalization: Stock price time Number of shares. A few months ago, it was a 3 way fight between MS, Cisco and GE for company with most capital. Now, I bet GE is back on top.
See http://slashdot.org/articles/ 00/ 09/11/146202.shtml, which is a ./ story already about this.
And I love to code, but giving my code away makes me poor. Being poor sucks. Been there, still getting out of debt. When I get out of debt and get my own finances in order, I will be giving code away.
Welcome to capitalism. Which has been based upon the creative process to achieve a better life.
Of course people say, but I buy more cds now because of mp3s. Of course there will be a short term blip of people buying more cds because they are exposed to music they may not listen to before. But this is a short term blip. Why?
Portable mp3 players are expensive vs cd players (I can get a cd player for less the $50, an mp3 player will run me at least $150).
CD Players that play mp3 files are not mainstream.
MP3 players in general are a small market.
In a nutsell, if I want to listen to my music anywhere, my best chance is to put it on an old fashioned CD (read: buying it). When mp3's on cds become more common as well as better priced mp3 players come to market, we will see an exodus away from cd sales.
But when mp3 player prices become reasonable in price, (portable cd players can be found for less than $50, while portable mp3 players cost more than $150 and will be obsolete in a year because newer players will blow them away) mp3 players become more common to play from cd
Does this mean that I can get other scientist's work without paying for it, then give that information to others without proper credit?
Making the chip smaller and cranking up clock speed also only takes you so far. Some chips are designed to go up to a certain clock speed because that is how they were designed. (Damn laws of physics)
Just because a design works and is proven to work doesn't mean it can't be made better. There are tons of improvements that need to be made to processors (as well as their supporting infrastructure).
Its not X86, its cool.
Its Sun, its cool.
Does it run Linux?
I can't wait to get a Boewulf cluster of these
Sun sucks. Alphas rule.
Sun sucks, IBM power pcs rules
Why would this chip be on a desktop since its a server chip?
Slashdot sucks, I posted this a long time ago. Lets moderate stories.
Lets see if I can post a link to Sun to get moderated up as informative.
Ask for the manager. Send letters to any and every manager in the chain of command about your problem.
Talk to the Better Business Bureau. They deal with these things all the time.
As a last ditch effort, a letter to the editor of complaining about service may open some eyes.
Even though the check was cashed, see if your bank has any clout with assisting you.
You best bet is talking to the Better Business Bureau.
Could also give new meaning the chastity belt...
If NANIX is a Linux-based OS, wouldn't that really just make NANIX just a distribution and not a different OS?
Intel is also the big dog and AMD is the little guy. Everyone loves to route for the little guy and see the little guy beat the big guy.
If the data is important enough, then buying a couple cheap 60GB drives would be worth it.