It was in another post about a week ago I was arguing for a much greater emphasis on teaching civics in schools, at least from middle school up until graduation. The constitution isn't being trampled on by the government, the police, the terrorists. People need look no further than a mirror to see where the problem lies. Too many people are too quick to blame yet too slow to act.
I'm all for exploring the science, but I think it is silly to elude ourselves into thinking that ancient megaliths were erected using technology that we are only currently beginning to understand. It is much more reasonable to attribute the construction of those structures with a basic understanding of geometry and a shitload of slaves and time.
You can get any number of open source disk imaging utilities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software. On my windows machine I run a virus check and clone the drive twice a week. Hard drives are cheap enough where the space to do this for most users shouldn't be an issue, it doesn't take much effort, and restoring your drive from an image is much less a pain in the ass than having to do a windows and application reinstallation.
The problem with pandora is it is too damn expensive. You can buy 2 netbooks for the price of the pandora ($500 US). If they can get the price lower I would gladly buy one.
Paradigm is certainly well known but almost never rightly used jargon in the computer software industry. That particular word is most frequently used to describe concepts which hardly meets the definition of a paradigm, rather it is used to describe concepts that have existed for a long time (e.g. the cloud). The original post was quoting The Simpsons (which I should have indicated earlier), and I was using it to illustrate a point. Namely that paradigm is often used by companies to advertise a product and by inept managers to validate their positions by hopping onto the bandwagon without any real understanding of the technology. The people competent enough to see through the smoke and mirrors (usually the developers) often can't push back, especially in this economic climate, because inept managers are also the ones who feel the most threatened, and respond poorly to anyone who questions their judgement.
By hundreds of years of imperialism I was referring to the western world, not just the US. The US has been around for a little over 200 years, but we have pretty much been imperialistic from the get go. Here are a few examples: manifest destiny (Native Americans), the slave trade, Mexican-American war, Japanese expansionism, annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Spanish-American war. All of these things happened before WWI. It is ironic you mention Japan in the context of isolationism for 3 reasons:
1. The US broke Japanese isolationism
2. The Japanese attacked us for much as the same reason we are currently in the middle east, that is oil.
3. The US (justifiably) went to war with Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, where most of the casualties were military. Do you think that it is unreasonable for a people who are being attacked, where the intentional casualties are primarily innocent civilians, to respond aggressively?
At any rate, Japan was hardly considered isolationist by WW2. I am not condoning Osama or any terrorist attacks for that matter, and I think military intervention in Afghanistan was justifiable. I'm just pointing out why that region hates us so much, and if we stop interfering in their territory eventually hostilities will quell down.
Nope, I'm referring to the Crusades, the English occupation of India, the French invading Egypt, the construction of the Suez canal and retaining control over it for nearly a century, creating the state of Israel and then dramatically expanding its borders, invading the Middle East numerous times, exploitation of their oil reserves, stationing soldiers in Mecca, interfering in their internal conflicts, and most recently, engaging in a war under false pretenses resulting in casualties of innocent people several orders of magnitude greater than the United States suffered during the September 11th attacks.
This is just another example of why there needs to be a much higher emphasis on civics in the school system, from at least middle school up until the end of HS. The problem isn't the terrorists, it isn't the TSA agents or agency, it isn't the airlines or the airports, nor is it the branches of government. It boils down to the average complacent american citizen. The point of a democracy and a republic is to encourage citizens to participate in their government, yet most don't even know who their elected politicians are. People complain about how they have no power, how the rich are the only class with influence, yet they don't bother to do a single thing about it. You need look no further than voter turnout statistics to see how much people actually care about their government.
I'm familiar with the definition, and the only distinct thing I see in there is the bizarre syntax. All of the features touted in this language are things that either already exist, or for any well designed application be a non-issue. As others have noted, "advanced primitives" is an oxymoron. This product screams of something inept managers want to use because they think it is the latest and greatest thing and don't know any better.
Ever wonder what the root of that threat is? Ever wonder why they hate us so much? Perhaps hundreds of years of western imperialism has something to do with it. Maybe if we stop fucking around in their affairs they will leave us alone.
It is one thing for a private company to mandate security checks, it is much different for the federal government to do so. You can stretch that logic out to just about anything. You choose to drive in your car, therefore you consent to be searched. You choose to walk outside, therefor you consent to be searched. You purchased a house in a bad neighborhood, you consent to be searched. The government can't pass laws that require citizens to waive their constitutional rights.
But "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. I'm fired, aren't I?
Well, when you are living in a country where the people in charge would disappear your ass for having internet access, those people are still are still around, and may return to their leadership positions, I think a little hesitation is understandable.
If only 2.7 million was lost, something seriously fucked up is going on. They should be spending more than that just for a 3rd party to audit their security.
Personally, I think something like basic is one of the worst languages to start with if you are interested in learning how to program. Sure, it is relatively simple, but therein lies the problem. Basic fosters bad programming habits that tend to transfer over to other languages. I would even recommend avoiding C when starting, even though it is pretty much the backbone to everything out there. I know many excellent C programmers who are very intelligent, but found it difficult to transition over to an object oriented language. I would recommend either C++, Java, or C#. Java and C# are pretty much the same and simpler than C++. C++ is more difficult, however it forces you to think about your applications much more carefully, and if you know C++ transitioning to another language is pretty easy. C++ also exposes you to C. Regardless of the language you choose to learn I would highly recommend picking up a book on design patterns and antipatterns.
I'm surprised it has taken Sony this long to shut it down. Sony turned a great mmo into absolute shit. They even had a small window to rectify their mistakes by listening to the vast majority of players. Fortunately, there is the star wars galaxy emulation project, which is a pre-cu version of the server. There are plenty of people on there (almost certainly more than the official swg), and you don't have to pay a monthly fee. The only thing I am leery of is Sony pulling a Blizzard and shutting them down. For anyone interested, the url is www.swgemu.com.
I like google. I use at least one of their products on a daily basis, and most of their products are superior than their competition's. Google is incredibly innovative and most of what they have done has been beneficial. They have put a lot of hard work getting to where they are today, which I have a great deal of respect for. They are also a public corporation, and the ultimate objective of a public corporation is to make money and remain competitive to continue remaining profitable. Just because a company is behaving itself now does not in any way imply it will continue to do so in the future. Google has penetrated many markets, some to the point where their competition is laughable. A company becoming a monopoly is never a good thing. The amount of power they can wield is enormous, and the incentives to conduct themselves responsibly diminishes. When you have a product or service only one company can provide the incentive to expand beyond that product diminishes as well, stifling innovation.
I use chrome because it uses a lot less cpu and memory compared to firefox and ie. It also didn't have as many security vulnerabilities as the aforementioned browsers a few years ago. Overall, it is a superior product.
The only thing I agree with in your post is the scammers don't deserve to be executed, but the rest is just fucking idiocy. You seem to imply that the people involved aren't important or powerful. A multination effort resulting in the arrest of these assholes implies otherwise. Most people with a computer and access to the internet have had to deal with some form of malware at some point, and almost certainly were pissed off about it. Apparently these people you so kindly refer to as pissants were powerful enough to take care of the problem. The extent of the problem extends beyond being able to play online games unfortunately. This software has resulted millions upon millions of hours wasted.
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Of course they did, they were far from being stupid people, and civilizations long before ours spanned more than just a single continent.
It was in another post about a week ago I was arguing for a much greater emphasis on teaching civics in schools, at least from middle school up until graduation. The constitution isn't being trampled on by the government, the police, the terrorists. People need look no further than a mirror to see where the problem lies. Too many people are too quick to blame yet too slow to act.
I'm all for exploring the science, but I think it is silly to elude ourselves into thinking that ancient megaliths were erected using technology that we are only currently beginning to understand. It is much more reasonable to attribute the construction of those structures with a basic understanding of geometry and a shitload of slaves and time.
Retailers operating nationwide seem to handle it just fine.
When I think about how much more the US could do if we didn't squander our money on bullshit
You can get any number of open source disk imaging utilities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software. On my windows machine I run a virus check and clone the drive twice a week. Hard drives are cheap enough where the space to do this for most users shouldn't be an issue, it doesn't take much effort, and restoring your drive from an image is much less a pain in the ass than having to do a windows and application reinstallation.
The problem with pandora is it is too damn expensive. You can buy 2 netbooks for the price of the pandora ($500 US). If they can get the price lower I would gladly buy one.
Paradigm is certainly well known but almost never rightly used jargon in the computer software industry. That particular word is most frequently used to describe concepts which hardly meets the definition of a paradigm, rather it is used to describe concepts that have existed for a long time (e.g. the cloud). The original post was quoting The Simpsons (which I should have indicated earlier), and I was using it to illustrate a point. Namely that paradigm is often used by companies to advertise a product and by inept managers to validate their positions by hopping onto the bandwagon without any real understanding of the technology. The people competent enough to see through the smoke and mirrors (usually the developers) often can't push back, especially in this economic climate, because inept managers are also the ones who feel the most threatened, and respond poorly to anyone who questions their judgement.
By hundreds of years of imperialism I was referring to the western world, not just the US. The US has been around for a little over 200 years, but we have pretty much been imperialistic from the get go. Here are a few examples: manifest destiny (Native Americans), the slave trade, Mexican-American war, Japanese expansionism, annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Spanish-American war. All of these things happened before WWI. It is ironic you mention Japan in the context of isolationism for 3 reasons: 1. The US broke Japanese isolationism 2. The Japanese attacked us for much as the same reason we are currently in the middle east, that is oil. 3. The US (justifiably) went to war with Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, where most of the casualties were military. Do you think that it is unreasonable for a people who are being attacked, where the intentional casualties are primarily innocent civilians, to respond aggressively? At any rate, Japan was hardly considered isolationist by WW2. I am not condoning Osama or any terrorist attacks for that matter, and I think military intervention in Afghanistan was justifiable. I'm just pointing out why that region hates us so much, and if we stop interfering in their territory eventually hostilities will quell down.
Nope, I'm referring to the Crusades, the English occupation of India, the French invading Egypt, the construction of the Suez canal and retaining control over it for nearly a century, creating the state of Israel and then dramatically expanding its borders, invading the Middle East numerous times, exploitation of their oil reserves, stationing soldiers in Mecca, interfering in their internal conflicts, and most recently, engaging in a war under false pretenses resulting in casualties of innocent people several orders of magnitude greater than the United States suffered during the September 11th attacks.
The best part was how Dee so eloquently eviscerated her proposal.
This is just another example of why there needs to be a much higher emphasis on civics in the school system, from at least middle school up until the end of HS. The problem isn't the terrorists, it isn't the TSA agents or agency, it isn't the airlines or the airports, nor is it the branches of government. It boils down to the average complacent american citizen. The point of a democracy and a republic is to encourage citizens to participate in their government, yet most don't even know who their elected politicians are. People complain about how they have no power, how the rich are the only class with influence, yet they don't bother to do a single thing about it. You need look no further than voter turnout statistics to see how much people actually care about their government.
I'm familiar with the definition, and the only distinct thing I see in there is the bizarre syntax. All of the features touted in this language are things that either already exist, or for any well designed application be a non-issue. As others have noted, "advanced primitives" is an oxymoron. This product screams of something inept managers want to use because they think it is the latest and greatest thing and don't know any better.
Ever wonder what the root of that threat is? Ever wonder why they hate us so much? Perhaps hundreds of years of western imperialism has something to do with it. Maybe if we stop fucking around in their affairs they will leave us alone.
It is one thing for a private company to mandate security checks, it is much different for the federal government to do so. You can stretch that logic out to just about anything. You choose to drive in your car, therefore you consent to be searched. You choose to walk outside, therefor you consent to be searched. You purchased a house in a bad neighborhood, you consent to be searched. The government can't pass laws that require citizens to waive their constitutional rights.
But "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. I'm fired, aren't I?
Well, when you are living in a country where the people in charge would disappear your ass for having internet access, those people are still are still around, and may return to their leadership positions, I think a little hesitation is understandable.
If only 2.7 million was lost, something seriously fucked up is going on. They should be spending more than that just for a 3rd party to audit their security.
Do you really think we should really be in the business of trying to attract asteroids into orbit? Can't see anything that can possibly go wrong?
Personally, I think something like basic is one of the worst languages to start with if you are interested in learning how to program. Sure, it is relatively simple, but therein lies the problem. Basic fosters bad programming habits that tend to transfer over to other languages. I would even recommend avoiding C when starting, even though it is pretty much the backbone to everything out there. I know many excellent C programmers who are very intelligent, but found it difficult to transition over to an object oriented language. I would recommend either C++, Java, or C#. Java and C# are pretty much the same and simpler than C++. C++ is more difficult, however it forces you to think about your applications much more carefully, and if you know C++ transitioning to another language is pretty easy. C++ also exposes you to C. Regardless of the language you choose to learn I would highly recommend picking up a book on design patterns and antipatterns.
I very much doubt that someone over the age of 5 stupid enough to eat an ipod is going to avoid natural selection by not heeding the warning.
I'm surprised it has taken Sony this long to shut it down. Sony turned a great mmo into absolute shit. They even had a small window to rectify their mistakes by listening to the vast majority of players. Fortunately, there is the star wars galaxy emulation project, which is a pre-cu version of the server. There are plenty of people on there (almost certainly more than the official swg), and you don't have to pay a monthly fee. The only thing I am leery of is Sony pulling a Blizzard and shutting them down. For anyone interested, the url is www.swgemu.com.
I like google. I use at least one of their products on a daily basis, and most of their products are superior than their competition's. Google is incredibly innovative and most of what they have done has been beneficial. They have put a lot of hard work getting to where they are today, which I have a great deal of respect for. They are also a public corporation, and the ultimate objective of a public corporation is to make money and remain competitive to continue remaining profitable. Just because a company is behaving itself now does not in any way imply it will continue to do so in the future. Google has penetrated many markets, some to the point where their competition is laughable. A company becoming a monopoly is never a good thing. The amount of power they can wield is enormous, and the incentives to conduct themselves responsibly diminishes. When you have a product or service only one company can provide the incentive to expand beyond that product diminishes as well, stifling innovation.
I use chrome because it uses a lot less cpu and memory compared to firefox and ie. It also didn't have as many security vulnerabilities as the aforementioned browsers a few years ago. Overall, it is a superior product.
The only thing I agree with in your post is the scammers don't deserve to be executed, but the rest is just fucking idiocy. You seem to imply that the people involved aren't important or powerful. A multination effort resulting in the arrest of these assholes implies otherwise. Most people with a computer and access to the internet have had to deal with some form of malware at some point, and almost certainly were pissed off about it. Apparently these people you so kindly refer to as pissants were powerful enough to take care of the problem. The extent of the problem extends beyond being able to play online games unfortunately. This software has resulted millions upon millions of hours wasted.