Just like to point out that I remember you, Mr. al-Sahaf, and can recollect that you are personally responsible for ordering the torture and execution of my cousin in Dimaniyah.
I know your new personality cult is a rich, rich vein for jokes---winning smile, somewhat nerdy, "going down with style"...charming affect overall. Similar to a famous Reich's Minister.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but what Im interpreting from the above statement is that you believe that prayer was removed from schools and replaced with evolution because of Sputnik?
Yes Plebe, I do. At about this time, Cold War panic had set itself firmly in our government. There was a frenzy to contrast our society against the "godless" menace of communism.
On June 14, 1954, Congress unanimously ordered the inclusion of the words "Under God" into the nation's Pledge of Allegiance. On July 11, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 140 making it mandatory that all coinage and paper currency display the motto "In God We Trust" in some cases replacing Jefferson's beautiful 'E Pluribus Unum'. It was enacted October 1, 1957.
It's funny you should mention Madalyn Murray O'Hair as she has written on the motivating influence of these legislative acts.
These actions took a backseat after the launch of Sputnik. The Sputnik scare prompted a renaissance in American science education, during which evolution worked its way back into the mainstream. In 1961, the National Science Foundation, in conjunction with the Biological Science Curriculum Study, outlined a basic program for teaching the theory of evolution and published a series of biology books in which the organizing principle was evolution.
You will find the Executive Directive, with mention of Sputnik and the United State's emerging space program in the National Archives; Records of the National Science Foundation (Record Group 307.4.2).
I got up on the right side of the bed this morning and I'm sure I'd like you personally but I must say "Bullshit" as you draw Hume into your own Private Jericho --- taken by your fascination with myth and destroyed.
The quote you're referencing: "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
Unassailable. It is a maxim of jurisprudence. When a logical argument has achieved valid form, it is used to evaluate a posteriori the truth-bearing claims of the deductive syllogism and the inductive argument alike. It is absurd to marginalize Hume as if he were not one of the many similarly rigorous epistemologists, from the pre-Socrates onward, by which a formal predicate calculus has been developed for deduction and statistical methods generally for induction.
By 'pseudo-scientific "faith"' I assume you're trying that old cant: empiricism, humanism, communism etc. are all religions? This was part of the tack used by Bryan in 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" to win another three decades of superstition at the expense of science education until the rude wake-up call that was Sputnik I.
Mencken summarized the trial and Bryan nicely: "Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor half-wits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards . . . It is a tragedy, indeed, to begin life as a hero and to end it as a buffoon."
Ever hear a shitless version of an otherwise familiar voice?
After calibrating, say, Dragon Naturally Speaking to a high degree of accuracy, have someone wake you in the middle of an unspecified night. Develop the conviction that someone is silently hunting you in the dark and speak into the microphone.
Have allergies?
A burglar will quickly cover that muttering coming from the opposite side of the bed.
How about ambient handgun reports, shotgun blasts, traffic, and screaming? To get shot with one's gun to the mouth like a radio or coaxing the pin with your lips like a holy relic . . . bad outcome and looks silly besides.
That was a good action, sincere letter, and decent sentiment. I feel that it doesn't matter if this seizure of Mr. Johansen's equipment is a hoax---enough facts are in.
Smack down those marginally worthy posts by replying anonymously with any variety of "Moderate this up" encouraging retallation against this suspect karma-pander.
Even though the second principal is no karma, some mention of "I know I'll be moderated down for this" disclaimers and qualifiers would be worthwhile.
"small computer, itself connected to the main network, into the base of a lamp with an infra-red port (network connection) aimed out the window of an office or linked to a mobile phone."
The lamp is acting as a bridging transceiver. If the LAN was a 'sensitive' network, it would not be eg. wireless ethernet in the office. You would have a segment or twisted-pair, thin-coax, or twinax plugged into this lamp.
On the other hand, if it were a secured LAN there would be no live unallocated cable run. The required splitter would be detected. Not a likely situation all around.
Brandon Reinhart claims portions of the Linux UT source will be released: I have permission from Tim to open source certain parts of the engine for the purposes of improving Linux support. What I would like to do is make available the code I have written for Glide, Mesa, input, and audio. I would appreciate Linux programmers taking the time to submit improvements to me at brandon@epicgames.com. I will look into putting up a webpage for this and perhaps a discussion forum. Please email me your input or ideas.
I'm leaving to go home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I may not be able to start on this until I get back on Friday. Right now I'm working on the Mesa renderer, because I would like to release that soon, if possible.
The code that I open source will not allow you to really dig very deep into the engine, but it will let you do a lot of stuff to the renderer and X windows interface.
Since my time is split between non-Linux related projects, the Linux port could no doubt be improved if it gets some attention from experienced Linux programmers.
Brandon Reinhart claims portions of the Linix UT source will be released: I have permission from Tim to open source certain parts of the engine for the purposes of improving Linux support. What I would like to do is make available the code I have written for Glide, Mesa, input, and audio. I would appreciate Linux programmers taking the time to submit improvements to me at brandon@epicgames.com. I will look into putting up a webpage for this and perhaps a discussion forum. Please email me your input or ideas.
I'm leaving to go home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I may not be able to start on this until I get back on Friday. Right now I'm working on the Mesa renderer, because I would like to release that soon, if possible.
The code that I open source will not allow you to really dig very deep into the engine, but it will let you do a lot of stuff to the renderer and X windows interface.
Since my time is split between non-Linux related projects, the Linux port could no doubt be improved if it gets some attention from experienced Linux programmers.
It may sound silly. I'd like a Slashdot gift exchange program; I feel more empathy and rapport for the community here than for my extended family. It could provide a time a rapprochement between the argumentative turfers and patronizing polemicists, between the bored, sardonic dilettantes and the lucid rants of exhausted 'developers'. Yes, to AC--who wondered if I'd ever used Lotus Notes after I took a poke at v4.x--I'd like to buy you a copy of UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications by W. Richard Stevens and Merry Solstice/Christmas/Hanukah to you!
Ever want to sign a death warrant? This pen is mighty as a BFG! Write off your opponents with the red ink of Epitaph USB. Or send them a loving billet-doux with our new Optical Double Cross(TM) arena version!
Back in January, a/. story lead me to this article containing a prize anecdote: Those well worn issues of how one make money with open source technology were batted back and forth and Richard always won the argument. Gerry, IBI's CEO, said at one point that SAP, the second largest software company in the world, does not give away its software for free, and it never will. SAP customers pay lots of money to buy their software and don't want it to be free. Richard responds by saying that he is going to write a GPL'ed version of the software SAP sells. It will take time, but there will be a freely, source code distributeable version available sometime in the future. How can you argue with that.
When I read that, I wanted to kiss his pate and laugh. At the time, I was one of three in our company charged with finding an ERP package to replace all our RS/400 OLTP and PC business intelligence applications. It would then fall to me to implement these changes company wide in 90 days. We were left with choosing between the lesser of five evils. Why? Our budget required that the software licenses be within US$200,000 per 30 users. Final cost for the project worked out to US$417,000 per 30 users.
My response in the thread was essentially "FreeSAP: Now that's the work of a patriot! Is this a declared project? Where do I sign up and what can I contribute (equipment, money, industrial eng research, code, APICS pulp, blood)?";)
In reply, AC summed-up the problem: I found his comments about writing GPL'd SAP clone software to be hilarious. He can't be serious. Just who does he think is going to write all that code? I mean, the free software community considers the Linux kernel and Mozilla to be "large" projects, both of which are trivial compared to writing software to compete with SAP from scratch. He would have to mobilize an army of free software developers, most of which would have no personal interest in or use for the kind of software SAP sells. A clarification was submitted by RMS.
My point in this is to reaffirm that no Open Source software venue, aside from the NOS, could be of greater benefit than OS ERP applications. In the original 'Request for Comment and Quote' to ERP vendors, I listed 300+ functions that were essential to our business. The winning package checked-off all but two. In fact, only about seventy of those functions are handled meaning I had to write separate applications and find little better than compromises. In so many cases the goal could be met with a SQL trigger but all the application logic is in the client app!
Frankly, I'm awfully tired. I know that closed-source ERP applications have cost many others as dearly; I believe that hurts our economy broadly.
The Hon. Posner is a strange one as judges go: I'm not sure he fit's in any of the three political judicial camps mentioned in Richard Hawkin's reply to question #5 in the Ask Slashdot posted today. I remember the flap over his advocacy for legalizing marijuana.
One tenet of his is "The incidence of regulation appears to be unrelated to the incidence of the observed characteristics of natural monopoly". His view seems to be that regulation, government intervention to ensure precious commodities are fairly provided, is arbitrarily applied and benefit the regulated company. The subsidy becomes a profit center and encourages companies to align themselves toward lowest organizational costs. It results in an inefficiency used to lobby for more subsidies---a welfare case. Because this situation with utilities companies and MSFT doesn't compare, I'm not sure we can say where his sympathies point.
I am sure he's a great mind and is certainly a top authority on the subject having written the book Natural monopoly and its regulation and articles 'Theories of Economic Regulation' and 'Taxation by Regulation'(both from Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science). In fact, he's incredibly prolific . . . writes a book or two annually while serving as a Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and senior lecturer at Chicago Law.
The reaction to FPS games by this "moral minority" most commonly fixes on the possibility of what I've heard called "enactment fantasies". The idea is that the deed follows the emotional exciting dramatizations of these game actions: that adversity is solved by mortal violence and mental re-enactment is a hero fantasy.
Then it continues with props. The tools are variations of firearms and accessible. With a gun, your child has all he or she needs to sink sweetly into this vicarious psychosis.
Not really different from the objection to Dungeons & Dragons which I credit a great deal to my interest in reading at an early age. (Fortunately, I didn't have intellectual wardens but good appropriately caring parents.)
With sims, you don't have readily available props. It's more difficult to hijack an air-superiority fighter and ace a few airliners. It's also impersonal. You destroy mecha usually without thinking of the implied human meat inside.
How many members of this "moral minority" are pacifists? How many would be ashamed to have their child in active duty military service? The Christian Broadcast Network talking heads would approve of many of Jane's sims; you don't fly for the U.N. if I remember correctly.
Have you seen that ridiculous TV commercial for the Marines with the CGI demon slayed with a sword in an arena of fire?
Seeing as little of this article will be news to most delving into this thread, here's a link on the flagship Queen Elizabeth 2 to help you appreciate that analogy while increasing cultural literacy.
I have heard opinions both ways. It's interesting how passionate they are in either direction. One grain of salt keeps coming up that I do not see mentioned here. I'm told that distance education is a hot coffee-klatch topic with traditional academe. Many professors are paranoid and administrators livid with the revenue and census these programs generate. They will abet a "whorehouse" reputation at any opportunity. (I don't know personally, yet.)
I'm certainly reconsidering U o' Phoenix and will be sure to sample course materials.
I was a chemistry major at a good technical university literally recruited right "out"---sold out---of school. Although I'd only a handful of credits left to finish, I have no regrets but share your wish to follow through for it's own sake.
The best program I've looked at is the University of Phoenix Online distance degree program. I intend to matriculate soon unless I see a better opportunity (thanks for asking this question for me).
I'd like to see a judgement mandate that IE builds also be released for *nix and Mac platforms no later than 6 weeks after the Win32 build for major versions and at the same price(free or not). No later than a week for minor versions/patches under a meaningful penalty.
Would this reverse their high-handed works against Netscape and let me, say, bank on the Web with my OS? Is this within the powers of the judiciary resolution?
I'd actually like to see a judgement mandate that IE builds be released for *nix and Mac platforms no later than 6 weeks after the Win32 build for major versions and at the same price(free or not). No later than a week for minor versions/patches under a meaningful penalty.
Wouldn't this do much to reverse their high-handed works against Netscape and let me, say, bank on the Web with my OS? Is this within the powers of the judiciary resolution?
What's more important to ensure compatibility with the web-at-large: a coherent desktop or au courant browser?
I remember back to a story here that sparked long-winded arguments about the allocation of Red Hat's funding. The posts seemed to overlook the urgency of these problems; I can't do my banking on the web with my Debian box, my nephew's diff calculus plug-ins don't work nor will the Apple QT media for his classes etc.
In the cause of expediency, content developers look at audience statistics. One can develop a plug-in that work's great on Win32 platforms or complete a security assay for a handful of platform/browser combinations in much less time so long as the consequences exclude only a very small minority. It doesn't matter how fully implemented is Mozilla's JVM or it's DHTML support.
They need to be developed in tandem but most important is overall ease-of-use. With that comes a strong showing in the census and content managers can no longer ignore us. I can not simply find a new *nix friendly bank.
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The big problem with using satellite packets is the latency of systems I've tried. If the application is delay sensitive, such as with online games, you can be the worse for a satellite. A short round-trip time is more important than accomodating a higher rate.
A server that I can ping at around 40ms with my DSL connection takes generally 500-700ms on my Hughes dish. The outbound packet headers contain a source address to the subscribers sat transmission POP which can be many more hops than shown from your outbound network interface. Then your downsteam packets are queued with every other subscriber for transmission. I'm better off with only a modem in this situation, even when factoring in the latency for modulation.
If you can receive a good DSL signal in the first place, what would be the benefit of bringing in a dish?
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Just like to point out that I remember you, Mr. al-Sahaf, and can recollect that you are personally responsible for ordering the torture and execution of my cousin in Dimaniyah.
I know your new personality cult is a rich, rich vein for jokes---winning smile, somewhat nerdy, "going down with style"...charming affect overall. Similar to a famous Reich's Minister.
And I can take a joke. Really.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but what Im interpreting from the above statement is that you believe that prayer was removed from schools and replaced with evolution because of Sputnik?
Yes Plebe, I do. At about this time, Cold War panic had set itself firmly in our government. There was a frenzy to contrast our society against the "godless" menace of communism.
On June 14, 1954, Congress unanimously ordered the inclusion of the words "Under God" into the nation's Pledge of Allegiance. On July 11, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 140 making it mandatory that all coinage and paper currency display the motto "In God We Trust" in some cases replacing Jefferson's beautiful 'E Pluribus Unum'. It was enacted October 1, 1957.
It's funny you should mention Madalyn Murray O'Hair as she has written on the motivating influence of these legislative acts.
These actions took a backseat after the launch of Sputnik. The Sputnik scare prompted a renaissance in American science education, during which evolution worked its way back into the mainstream. In 1961, the National Science Foundation, in conjunction with the Biological Science Curriculum Study, outlined a basic program for teaching the theory of evolution and published a series of biology books in which the organizing principle was evolution.
You will find the Executive Directive, with mention of Sputnik and the United State's emerging space program in the National Archives; Records of the National Science Foundation (Record Group 307.4.2).
Or look at this.
I got up on the right side of the bed this morning and I'm sure I'd like you personally but I must say "Bullshit" as you draw Hume into your own Private Jericho --- taken by your fascination with myth and destroyed.
The quote you're referencing:
"That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
Unassailable. It is a maxim of jurisprudence. When a logical argument has achieved valid form, it is used to evaluate a posteriori the truth-bearing claims of the deductive syllogism and the inductive argument alike. It is absurd to marginalize Hume as if he were not one of the many similarly rigorous epistemologists, from the pre-Socrates onward, by which a formal predicate calculus has been developed for deduction and statistical methods generally for induction.
By 'pseudo-scientific "faith"' I assume you're trying that old cant: empiricism, humanism, communism etc. are all religions? This was part of the tack used by Bryan in 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" to win another three decades of superstition at the expense of science education until the rude wake-up call that was Sputnik I.
Mencken summarized the trial and Bryan nicely:
"Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor half-wits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards . . . It is a tragedy, indeed, to begin life as a hero and to end it as a buffoon."
Ever hear a shitless version of an otherwise familiar voice?
After calibrating, say, Dragon Naturally Speaking to a high degree of accuracy, have someone wake you in the middle of an unspecified night. Develop the conviction that someone is silently hunting you in the dark and speak into the microphone.
Have allergies?
A burglar will quickly cover that muttering coming from the opposite side of the bed.
How about ambient handgun reports, shotgun blasts, traffic, and screaming? To get shot with one's gun to the mouth like a radio or coaxing the pin with your lips like a holy relic . . . bad outcome and looks silly besides.
You are the rarest of gentleman. I envy your organization generally and your staff in particular . . .
That was a good action, sincere letter, and decent sentiment. I feel that it doesn't matter if this seizure of Mr. Johansen's equipment is a hoax---enough facts are in.
I'm matching your donation.
Smack down those marginally worthy posts by replying anonymously with any variety of "Moderate this up" encouraging retallation against this suspect karma-pander.
Even though the second principal is no karma, some mention of "I know I'll be moderated down for this" disclaimers and qualifiers would be worthwhile.
The article puts the case like this:
"small computer, itself connected to the main network, into the base of a lamp with an infra-red port (network connection) aimed out the window of an office or linked to a mobile phone."
The lamp is acting as a bridging transceiver. If the LAN was a 'sensitive' network, it would not be eg. wireless ethernet in the office. You would have a segment or twisted-pair, thin-coax, or twinax plugged into this lamp.
On the other hand, if it were a secured LAN there would be no live unallocated cable run. The required splitter would be detected. Not a likely situation all around.
I remember this mention in a study done by avalon.net two years ago. This piece gives some more detail regarding frequencies at cross purposes.
As it mentions, a T-1 loop running in parallel to your POTS pair can also cause drop-out in your DSL frequency spectrum.
Yes. . .sorry about that *shamed*
Brandon Reinhart claims portions of the Linux UT source will be released:
I have permission from Tim to open source certain parts of the engine for the purposes of improving Linux support. What I would like to do is make available the code I have written for Glide, Mesa, input, and audio. I would appreciate Linux programmers taking the time to submit improvements to me at brandon@epicgames.com. I will look into putting up a webpage for this and perhaps a discussion forum. Please email me your input or ideas.
I'm leaving to go home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I may not be able to start on this until I get back on Friday. Right now I'm working on the Mesa renderer, because I would like to release that soon, if possible.
The code that I open source will not allow you to really dig very deep into the engine, but it will let you do a lot of stuff to the renderer and X windows interface.
Since my time is split between non-Linux related projects, the Linux port could no doubt be improved if it gets some attention from experienced Linux programmers.
Brandon Reinhart claims portions of the Linix UT source will be released:
I have permission from Tim to open source certain parts of the engine for the purposes of improving Linux support. What I would like to do is make available the code I have written for Glide, Mesa, input, and audio. I would appreciate Linux programmers taking the time to submit improvements to me at brandon@epicgames.com. I will look into putting up a webpage for this and perhaps a discussion forum. Please email me your input or ideas.
I'm leaving to go home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I may not be able to start on this until I get back on Friday. Right now I'm working on the Mesa renderer, because I would like to release that soon, if possible.
The code that I open source will not allow you to really dig very deep into the engine, but it will let you do a lot of stuff to the renderer and X windows interface.
Since my time is split between non-Linux related projects, the Linux port could no doubt be improved if it gets some attention from experienced Linux programmers.
It may sound silly. I'd like a Slashdot gift exchange program; I feel more empathy and rapport for the community here than for my extended family. It could provide a time a rapprochement between the argumentative turfers and patronizing polemicists, between the bored, sardonic dilettantes and the lucid rants of exhausted 'developers'.
Yes, to AC--who wondered if I'd ever used Lotus Notes after I took a poke at v4.x--I'd like to buy you a copy of UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications by W. Richard Stevens and Merry Solstice/Christmas/Hanukah to you!
Ever want to sign a death warrant? This pen is mighty as a BFG! Write off your opponents with the red ink of Epitaph USB. Or send them a loving billet-doux with our new Optical Double Cross(TM) arena version!
Rather than attempt to describe the Lotus Notes client, here's a link for our enjoyment.
Back in January, a /. story lead me to this article containing a prize anecdote:
;)
Those well worn issues of how one make money with open source technology were batted back and forth and Richard always won the argument. Gerry, IBI's CEO, said at one point that SAP, the second largest software company in the world, does not give away its software for free, and it never will. SAP customers pay lots of money to buy their software and don't want it to be free. Richard responds by saying that he is going to write a GPL'ed version of the software SAP sells. It will take time, but there will be a freely, source code distributeable version available sometime in the future. How can you argue with that.
When I read that, I wanted to kiss his pate and laugh. At the time, I was one of three in our company charged with finding an ERP package to replace all our RS/400 OLTP and PC business intelligence applications. It would then fall to me to implement these changes company wide in 90 days. We were left with choosing between the lesser of five evils. Why? Our budget required that the software licenses be within US$200,000 per 30 users. Final cost for the project worked out to US$417,000 per 30 users.
My response in the thread was essentially "FreeSAP: Now that's the work of a patriot! Is this a declared project? Where do I sign up and what can I contribute (equipment, money, industrial eng research, code, APICS pulp, blood)?"
In reply, AC summed-up the problem:
I found his comments about writing GPL'd SAP clone software to be hilarious. He can't be serious. Just who does he think is going to write all that code? I mean, the free software community considers the Linux kernel and Mozilla to be "large" projects, both of which are trivial compared to writing software to compete with SAP from scratch. He would have to mobilize an army of free software developers, most of which would have no personal interest in or use for the kind of software SAP sells.
A clarification was submitted by RMS.
My point in this is to reaffirm that no Open Source software venue, aside from the NOS, could be of greater benefit than OS ERP applications. In the original 'Request for Comment and Quote' to ERP vendors, I listed 300+ functions that were essential to our business. The winning package checked-off all but two. In fact, only about seventy of those functions are handled meaning I had to write separate applications and find little better than compromises. In so many cases the goal could be met with a SQL trigger but all the application logic is in the client app!
Frankly, I'm awfully tired. I know that closed-source ERP applications have cost many others as dearly; I believe that hurts our economy broadly.
One tenet of his is "The incidence of regulation appears to be unrelated to the incidence of the observed characteristics of natural monopoly". His view seems to be that regulation, government intervention to ensure precious commodities are fairly provided, is arbitrarily applied and benefit the regulated company. The subsidy becomes a profit center and encourages companies to align themselves toward lowest organizational costs. It results in an inefficiency used to lobby for more subsidies---a welfare case. Because this situation with utilities companies and MSFT doesn't compare, I'm not sure we can say where his sympathies point.
I am sure he's a great mind and is certainly a top authority on the subject having written the book Natural monopoly and its regulation and articles 'Theories of Economic Regulation' and 'Taxation by Regulation'(both from Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science). In fact, he's incredibly prolific . . . writes a book or two annually while serving as a Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and senior lecturer at Chicago Law.
The reaction to FPS games by this "moral minority" most commonly fixes on the possibility of what I've heard called "enactment fantasies". The idea is that the deed follows the emotional exciting dramatizations of these game actions: that adversity is solved by mortal violence and mental re-enactment is a hero fantasy.
Then it continues with props. The tools are variations of firearms and accessible. With a gun, your child has all he or she needs to sink sweetly into this vicarious psychosis.
Not really different from the objection to Dungeons & Dragons which I credit a great deal to my interest in reading at an early age. (Fortunately, I didn't have intellectual wardens but good appropriately caring parents.)
With sims, you don't have readily available props. It's more difficult to hijack an air-superiority fighter and ace a few airliners. It's also impersonal. You destroy mecha usually without thinking of the implied human meat inside.
How many members of this "moral minority" are pacifists? How many would be ashamed to have their child in active duty military service? The Christian Broadcast Network talking heads would approve of many of Jane's sims; you don't fly for the U.N. if I remember correctly.
Have you seen that ridiculous TV commercial for the Marines with the CGI demon slayed with a sword in an arena of fire?
Seeing as little of this article will be news to most delving into this thread, here's a link on the flagship Queen Elizabeth 2 to help you appreciate that analogy while increasing cultural literacy.
for your advice.
I have heard opinions both ways. It's interesting how passionate they are in either direction. One grain of salt keeps coming up that I do not see mentioned here. I'm told that distance education is a hot coffee-klatch topic with traditional academe. Many professors are paranoid and administrators livid with the revenue and census these programs generate. They will abet a "whorehouse" reputation at any opportunity. (I don't know personally, yet.)
I'm certainly reconsidering U o' Phoenix and will be sure to sample course materials.
I was a chemistry major at a good technical university literally recruited right "out"---sold out---of school. Although I'd only a handful of credits left to finish, I have no regrets but share your wish to follow through for it's own sake.
The best program I've looked at is the University of Phoenix Online distance degree program. I intend to matriculate soon unless I see a better opportunity (thanks for asking this question for me).
I'd like to see a judgement mandate that IE builds also be released for *nix and Mac platforms no later than 6 weeks after the Win32 build for major versions and at the same price(free or not). No later than a week for minor versions/patches under a meaningful penalty.
Would this reverse their high-handed works against Netscape and let me, say, bank on the Web with my OS? Is this within the powers of the judiciary resolution?
I'd actually like to see a judgement mandate that IE builds be released for *nix and Mac platforms no later than 6 weeks after the Win32 build for major versions and at the same price(free or not). No later than a week for minor versions/patches under a meaningful penalty.
Wouldn't this do much to reverse their high-handed works against Netscape and let me, say, bank on the Web with my OS? Is this within the powers of the judiciary resolution?
What's more important to ensure compatibility with the web-at-large: a coherent desktop or au courant browser?
I remember back to a story here that sparked long-winded arguments about the allocation of Red Hat's funding. The posts seemed to overlook the urgency of these problems; I can't do my banking on the web with my Debian box, my nephew's diff calculus plug-ins don't work nor will the Apple QT media for his classes etc.
In the cause of expediency, content developers look at audience statistics. One can develop a plug-in that work's great on Win32 platforms or complete a security assay for a handful of platform/browser combinations in much less time so long as the consequences exclude only a very small minority. It doesn't matter how fully implemented is Mozilla's JVM or it's DHTML support.
They need to be developed in tandem but most important is overall ease-of-use. With that comes a strong showing in the census and content managers can no longer ignore us. I can not simply find a new *nix friendly bank.
The big problem with using satellite packets is the latency of systems I've tried. If the application is delay sensitive, such as with online games, you can be the worse for a satellite. A short round-trip time is more important than accomodating a higher rate.
A server that I can ping at around 40ms with my DSL connection takes generally 500-700ms on my Hughes dish. The outbound packet headers contain a source address to the subscribers sat transmission POP which can be many more hops than shown from your outbound network interface. Then your downsteam packets are queued with every other subscriber for transmission. I'm better off with only a modem in this situation, even when factoring in the latency for modulation.
If you can receive a good DSL signal in the first place, what would be the benefit of bringing in a dish?