And watches the same movies, and listens to the same music. Yet we're the only ones with a mass murder fetish, and the shittiest mental healthcare. Media isn't the problem.
Do you also consider big-studio released albums as not "music" then? By your argument only garage bands can truly make "music". Seems like a very skewed view of the world you live in.
"Don't release confidential guest, team member, or company information on social media...."
So you are saying that I can post confidential company information online, including trade secrets, and as long as it's on Facebook I'm covered? Sweet!
That's akin to saying cereal shouldn't have sugar if it's aimed at kids.
A 9 year old usually can't walk in to a grocery store and buy a $6 box of Sugar-Cocaine-Pops without their parents knowing, and any parent with an ounce of common sense would let their child run free on a device that you can keep charging cash to.
And seriously, this guy didn't notice charges appearing on his credit card THAT HE USES ONLINE as it "drained"? I don't know about you, but any credit card # I put online for purchases I monitor like a fucking hawk with the amount of identity theft that's been going around.
By your logic it's my fault if my front door wasn't locked with 10 deadbolts instead of 1, someone broke in, and pointed out that my financial statement filing system could be improved.
Great, but they still broke the law, and caused me time and money fixing the situation.
Am I slave? People in the US work ungodly stupid amounts of hours as well. We get paid more, but in economic terms our "living wage" is a lot different than China's "living wage".
Abuses should be found and stopped, but ask any of the people working for Foxconn if their life is better or worse off because of Foxconn (and by extension Apple), they'll probably say their life is much better with the high-tech manufacturing jobs.
I'm not really sold on the idea that we need interactive textbooks, I've never had a textbook that wasn't very sufficiently searchable using the contents and index, and I don't see how you can keep a straight face and make the argument that a $400+ iPad is more durable than a $30 textbook, especially in a school environment where some textbooks can last for a decade or more.
Apple may want the iPad to be the standard with all their little monopolistic heart, but I just don't see it happening anywhere but in random charter or magnet schools who want to show everyone how hip they are with the new technology.
Why the hell would you WANT your child using a Textbook that's a decade old or more? That's part of the problem. When I was in high school (94-98), I had a social studies textbook which had a giant "USSR" label over the northern Asian continent.
I use Mac's personally, and somewhat professionally (my Macbook Pro serves as my mobile work computer as well using VPN, RDP, and various Open Source apps that I can use to connect to my work/client databases).
In the office I use a Win7 box, as is required. I have Win7 on my Mac Pro only for games. And then it's only for three (MW3, BF3, and as of today, Skyrim). If those games had Mac OS ports, I'd never use Windows on my personal machines ever again.
I never understood why tech people take the stance of "Oh you can't customize Mac OS as much as Windows, you can't put any hardware you want in it". That seems like a very small minority, at least at in my circle.
CAN I spend 5 hours hunting down a Windows driver issue or rebuilding my hardware from scratch? Yes. Do I WANT to spend time doing that? No. That's why I own Mac's.
Just because you haven't found a personal need/use for a tablet, doesn't mean the millions who've bought them (iPads and the dozen or so Xooms and Galaxy's out there) haven't.
The CEO of Acer sounds like he's trying to make noise because Acer isn't in the competitive tablet business. In fact, nobody is in the competitive tablet business at this point, except Apple. And all signs point to it not slowing down anytime soon.
There's a lot of examples in TFA that are just silly.
But there's also a lot of instances where schools don't go far enough. Sorry but if at age 15-18 you hit somebody at class, that's assault. I never understood why someone who is old enough to know the law be allowed to skirt it. If it's against the law when you are 25, it should be against the law when you are 17. Too many kids get away with crap in their teens and continue that into their adult life because they were never corrected.
Who would have thought.
I care about my privacy, but I see no reason to ditch my iPhone 4 over this:
1. It's not accurate
2. It doesn't get sent to Apple
3. Even if it did get sent to Apple, they can use that information to better manage their cell-tower connection code or what have you, I see that as a Win for the consumer.
Seriously, it's like people complaining that their credit card keeps track of the date/time/location of their purchases (which I'd be MORE worried about, with the amount of money I spend in liquor stores!).
Our IT sector is already entrenched. Intel alone employs more people in my county than any other employer, and that doesn't include other silicon shops (FEI, etc.) or other innovation based firms (Genentech, or the hundreds of new media/content producers and hosters that aren't a part of the industrial tech scene).
Wyden is a good guy, I voted for him. But he's a politician, so he's doing what a politician does.
Welcome;)
In reality this also has to do with our large IT industry here in Oregon, which is expanding as we speak. He doesn't want something as stupid as this draconian law to impede that.
I'm not disagreeing that there are problems with the for-profit model (including lack of oversight). What I am saying is that there are people out there (like myself), who have had positive experiences with for-profit schools, such as:
1. Measurable outcomes to demonstrate the effectiveness of the coursework
2. Positive results in career advancement, partially based on the education
3. A feeling of personal accomplishment
Saying that any online school is a scam is insulting, just like saying that your University of X_State_01 is full of drunken, womanizing, drunk, frat boys.
I welcome more government oversight of for-profit Universities. But I'm also happy with my decision to get my BS from a for-profit University, and use it what I learned over those 4 years in my current position.
One can make the same argument about some brick and mortar colleges as well. I'm a graduate of a "for-profit" University, and found the coursework to be on par with friends that attended "traditional" universities. Having taken both traditional and for-profit/flex/adult classes, I feel that online universities require more effort as far as personal discipline.
That said, there are a lot of diploma mills out there that DO fit your description. But don't lump all online Universities together. Last I checked, even Ivy League schools offer online programs now. I'd argue that even major Universities operate with a profit in mind (that may not be purely financial, but personal gain is personal gain).
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And watches the same movies, and listens to the same music. Yet we're the only ones with a mass murder fetish, and the shittiest mental healthcare. Media isn't the problem.
Do you also consider big-studio released albums as not "music" then? By your argument only garage bands can truly make "music". Seems like a very skewed view of the world you live in.
"Don't release confidential guest, team member, or company information on social media...."
So you are saying that I can post confidential company information online, including trade secrets, and as long as it's on Facebook I'm covered? Sweet!
Instagram as an app is not worth $1 Billion.
But they're dedicated users and install base are. That's what Facebook was after.
Reading that list, you could argue that a sports play is "choreographed" and can therefore be protected. Which is just stupid as all hell.
Copyright should be the bare minimum to protect innovation, not all inclusive to generate profits and exclusivity.
That's akin to saying cereal shouldn't have sugar if it's aimed at kids.
A 9 year old usually can't walk in to a grocery store and buy a $6 box of Sugar-Cocaine-Pops without their parents knowing, and any parent with an ounce of common sense would let their child run free on a device that you can keep charging cash to.
And seriously, this guy didn't notice charges appearing on his credit card THAT HE USES ONLINE as it "drained"? I don't know about you, but any credit card # I put online for purchases I monitor like a fucking hawk with the amount of identity theft that's been going around.
By your logic it's my fault if my front door wasn't locked with 10 deadbolts instead of 1, someone broke in, and pointed out that my financial statement filing system could be improved.
Great, but they still broke the law, and caused me time and money fixing the situation.
So if I'm reading the Satanic Bible in a library and a Christian fundie walks past and flips their shit, am I being disruptive?
Your company has bigger problems than unproductive meetings.
Am I slave? People in the US work ungodly stupid amounts of hours as well. We get paid more, but in economic terms our "living wage" is a lot different than China's "living wage".
Abuses should be found and stopped, but ask any of the people working for Foxconn if their life is better or worse off because of Foxconn (and by extension Apple), they'll probably say their life is much better with the high-tech manufacturing jobs.
I'm not really sold on the idea that we need interactive textbooks, I've never had a textbook that wasn't very sufficiently searchable using the contents and index, and I don't see how you can keep a straight face and make the argument that a $400+ iPad is more durable than a $30 textbook, especially in a school environment where some textbooks can last for a decade or more.
Apple may want the iPad to be the standard with all their little monopolistic heart, but I just don't see it happening anywhere but in random charter or magnet schools who want to show everyone how hip they are with the new technology.
Why the hell would you WANT your child using a Textbook that's a decade old or more? That's part of the problem. When I was in high school (94-98), I had a social studies textbook which had a giant "USSR" label over the northern Asian continent.
This.
I find it akin to letting a Developer QA their own work. Bad Ju Ju.
I use Mac's personally, and somewhat professionally (my Macbook Pro serves as my mobile work computer as well using VPN, RDP, and various Open Source apps that I can use to connect to my work/client databases).
In the office I use a Win7 box, as is required. I have Win7 on my Mac Pro only for games. And then it's only for three (MW3, BF3, and as of today, Skyrim). If those games had Mac OS ports, I'd never use Windows on my personal machines ever again.
I never understood why tech people take the stance of "Oh you can't customize Mac OS as much as Windows, you can't put any hardware you want in it". That seems like a very small minority, at least at in my circle.
CAN I spend 5 hours hunting down a Windows driver issue or rebuilding my hardware from scratch? Yes. Do I WANT to spend time doing that? No. That's why I own Mac's.
Just because you haven't found a personal need/use for a tablet, doesn't mean the millions who've bought them (iPads and the dozen or so Xooms and Galaxy's out there) haven't. The CEO of Acer sounds like he's trying to make noise because Acer isn't in the competitive tablet business. In fact, nobody is in the competitive tablet business at this point, except Apple. And all signs point to it not slowing down anytime soon.
There's a lot of examples in TFA that are just silly. But there's also a lot of instances where schools don't go far enough. Sorry but if at age 15-18 you hit somebody at class, that's assault. I never understood why someone who is old enough to know the law be allowed to skirt it. If it's against the law when you are 25, it should be against the law when you are 17. Too many kids get away with crap in their teens and continue that into their adult life because they were never corrected.
What's next? Banning cars to stop drunk driving? Go after the people who create a public disturbance, if necessary.
More like identity theft.
Who would have thought. I care about my privacy, but I see no reason to ditch my iPhone 4 over this: 1. It's not accurate 2. It doesn't get sent to Apple 3. Even if it did get sent to Apple, they can use that information to better manage their cell-tower connection code or what have you, I see that as a Win for the consumer. Seriously, it's like people complaining that their credit card keeps track of the date/time/location of their purchases (which I'd be MORE worried about, with the amount of money I spend in liquor stores!).
Our IT sector is already entrenched. Intel alone employs more people in my county than any other employer, and that doesn't include other silicon shops (FEI, etc.) or other innovation based firms (Genentech, or the hundreds of new media/content producers and hosters that aren't a part of the industrial tech scene). Wyden is a good guy, I voted for him. But he's a politician, so he's doing what a politician does.
Welcome ;)
In reality this also has to do with our large IT industry here in Oregon, which is expanding as we speak. He doesn't want something as stupid as this draconian law to impede that.
I clicked the story expecting something completely different. Not the "horniest" I was looking for.
21st century version of a protection racket? "Do what we say or we'll beat your connections down."
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?52,378166 I'm sure there's more exa
I'm not disagreeing that there are problems with the for-profit model (including lack of oversight). What I am saying is that there are people out there (like myself), who have had positive experiences with for-profit schools, such as: 1. Measurable outcomes to demonstrate the effectiveness of the coursework 2. Positive results in career advancement, partially based on the education 3. A feeling of personal accomplishment Saying that any online school is a scam is insulting, just like saying that your University of X_State_01 is full of drunken, womanizing, drunk, frat boys. I welcome more government oversight of for-profit Universities. But I'm also happy with my decision to get my BS from a for-profit University, and use it what I learned over those 4 years in my current position.
One can make the same argument about some brick and mortar colleges as well. I'm a graduate of a "for-profit" University, and found the coursework to be on par with friends that attended "traditional" universities. Having taken both traditional and for-profit/flex/adult classes, I feel that online universities require more effort as far as personal discipline. That said, there are a lot of diploma mills out there that DO fit your description. But don't lump all online Universities together. Last I checked, even Ivy League schools offer online programs now. I'd argue that even major Universities operate with a profit in mind (that may not be purely financial, but personal gain is personal gain).