You *DONT* need a computer to learn.. you need to learn, in school, Math, Science, ENGLISH (yes, its america, ENGLISH) and history. Sports if you want, etc etc.. but those are foundational.
Hmm...not to start an off topic flame war, but "its america, ENGLISH" is not a logical argument, even if you weren't abusing capitals, failing to use apostrophes, and if we lived in a country called England. English is an important language to read and write, especially for business and functioning. On the other hand, the bible, the Mahabharata, the Elder Edda , the Quenta Silmarillia HongLongMeng, the Odyssey, the Quran , the Linux kernel and many other important works were not written in English. But that is incidental.
The logical fallacy of your (implied, not stated) argument is that because we live in a country where English is the predominate language that English should be the predominate language. Making a prescriptive statement from a descriptive one gives one a recursive loop where it is impossible to move from where one is.
There are concerns among educators and psychologists about the 7 to 9 percent of American children who play computer games for more than 30 hours a week.
What about adults who have to spend 40 or more hours working on a computer? Why isn't anyone upset for them? And I'm not talking about programming or image manipulation or something creative like that. I'm talking about the type of working on a computer where all you create is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
including an interwoven web of relationships that last through time
How many of you have a relationship with other members on Slashdot? It seems that Slashdot seems to have a set of phrases and jokes that we can use to communicate with each other, but do any of us really have a relationship with each other?
and if we do, does that mean we are going to have to start remembering each others birthdays, and having phone conversations where we yell at each other?
A group of Slashdotters actually had the first bid for the job, and were going to build it for much cheaper out of legos and potatos, but the deal fell through when they ran out of 2*3 flatsies.
This is a big problem for me, too. The major problem is that they tend to put the various kinds in with the food they are meant to flavor, instead of grouping them all together in a single aisles. So it is really a matter of personal preference.
But I would suggest going over to the Mexican food aisle, because I find Tobasco to be very beautifully tasting...
Espera un minuto...
OH...Source, you are looking for source then! Well, never mind.
Well, Dr. Yacoub, why don't you just go and do some more of your genetic tampering so that the polar caps will freeze more and the penguins will have a better habitat?
Actually your post was funny. I was thinking of trying to write something along the same line, but knew people would make fun of me, so I just decided to be a spoilsport:)
Before anyone posts anything attempting to be funny by having football players quoting dialogue from the Matrix, remember that every possible parody of the Matrix has already been done, and is no longer funny.
Thank you
Has anyone besides me ever noticed that O'Rielly books have the paper with the best smell and texture. It's light, almost trancelucent, but stiff and sturdy. There's nothing like coming home from a nice workout all sweaty and settling down for a nice night of paging through O'Rielly techincal manuals. C'mon people, I am not alone in feeling this way, am I?
For some reason, and this may just be me, when I think of a great teacher and what they teach, technology is not high on the list. Like many/. readers, my education in technology didn't come at school...it came at work (Stream:::shudders:::). But that is probably not the reason I don't equate a great teacher with teaching about technology.
I think this is because I equate technology more with experiencing things and practicing on my own, as well as discusions with people of my own age. And part of the process of learning about technology is creating your own. On the other hand, when I think about a great teacher, I think about someone who is teaching me "timeless wisdom" and things that are etched in stone. I would definitly think the best teacher is one that is in a hierarchal relationship with me, while I have always thought that learning about technology is more of a matter of equality.
Does any of this make sense? Am I totally off-topic and off-base?
So now the mystery is finally solved as to where Alatar has been hiding all these years. While Mithrandir was getting himself killed fighting the Valarauker, you were busy in the East, fighting the armies of JavaScript.:)
I think the most interesting part of the EFF argument was about functionality of speech.
Part of the ruling of the District Court was that "functional speech" was not granted the same protection as other modes of speech. The EFF argued that nothing in the first amendment, or until now, the judgements on the first amendment, had ever made a distinction between "functional" and "non-functional" speech.
If speech isn't meant to have a function, and have an influence on things, what is the point of speech? This would be a world of totally reflective speech, where speech will only be able to repeat or abstract what already exists. I think that speech is inherently meant to change things and have a function, not just to describe the world as it is. If the courts seem to think that only descriptive speech is protected, I think we are in trouble.
The District Court correctly observed that imposing liability for linking to circumvention technology like DeCSS creates a serious risk of chilling
"the free exchange of ideas and information." Universal, 111 F.Supp.3d at 340. It sought to "limit the fear of liability of web site operators" by
modeling a test after the "actual malice" test for defamation. Id.[17]
I think that goatse.cx posters definitly qualify as "actual malice"!
Re:Learn some history, dammit!
on
Antitrust
·
· Score: 1
The fact that the lame, corporate Edison used Gnome in his movie is just further proof that GNOME is a t00l of the man. If you were to study some more history, you would know that Nikolai Tesla ran all of his Cydonia,Mars-based superexploding earth-quake death-ray software in X.
If I was a community college writing teacher, and Microsoft kept on turning in reports to me where they used the word 'innovation' everytime they meant 'good', I would start marking their papers down.
I would have taken this paper as almost a serious critique of communications policies, but the minute I see that damn word, I realize that is is more M$ propaganda. And for a company that probably spends more on propaganda then the budgets of many countries (and infinitly more then they do on taxes:)), M$ really needs to come up with something fresher then the word innovative. Maybe they need to form a committee called "Freedom to Innovate into Using New Adjectives"...okay, enough rant for me for right now.
I am a little disappointed that there hasn't been as great of a reaction to this article. Have we all become so cynical in the United States that we accept politcal arrests by the police? I was expecting that this article would have at least as many responses as the WAVE program, or the MS vs. Slashdot articles (>1000).
Come on now people!!! Even if most of the Americans reading this are cynical fscks who care more about partying then about their freedoms, isn't their some people who really love their freedom, Serbians maybe, who are willing to raise some shit about this?
Why not? After all this is the year where the candidate with the majority of the votes got into power in Serbia and the candidate with a minority got into power in the US:)
If voting should be the result of logic, what we need is not electronic counting machines, but electronic decision machines. After all, once we all agree on the right logic, we don't need voting at all since that just reflects people's emotional deviation from the norm.
Of course, we need an ace programmer with great logical skills to do the job. Are you up to it?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm...not to start an off topic flame war, but "its america, ENGLISH" is not a logical argument, even if you weren't abusing capitals, failing to use apostrophes, and if we lived in a country called England. English is an important language to read and write, especially for business and functioning. On the other hand, the bible, the Mahabharata, the Elder Edda , the Quenta Silmarillia HongLongMeng, the Odyssey, the Quran , the Linux kernel and many other important works were not written in English. But that is incidental.
The logical fallacy of your (implied, not stated) argument is that because we live in a country where English is the predominate language that English should be the predominate language. Making a prescriptive statement from a descriptive one gives one a recursive loop where it is impossible to move from where one is.
What about adults who have to spend 40 or more hours working on a computer? Why isn't anyone upset for them? And I'm not talking about programming or image manipulation or something creative like that. I'm talking about the type of working on a computer where all you create is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
How many of you have a relationship with other members on Slashdot? It seems that Slashdot seems to have a set of phrases and jokes that we can use to communicate with each other, but do any of us really have a relationship with each other?
and if we do, does that mean we are going to have to start remembering each others birthdays, and having phone conversations where we yell at each other?
A group of Slashdotters actually had the first bid for the job, and were going to build it for much cheaper out of legos and potatos, but the deal fell through when they ran out of 2*3 flatsies.
This is a big problem for me, too. The major problem is that they tend to put the various kinds in with the food they are meant to flavor, instead of grouping them all together in a single aisles. So it is really a matter of personal preference.
But I would suggest going over to the Mexican food aisle, because I find Tobasco to be very beautifully tasting...
Espera un minuto...
OH...Source, you are looking for source then! Well, never mind.
Yes they did, and Herbert Kornfeld is on his way over in the Nite Rida right now. Now they really got problems.
Because when I got her at the age of 9 years old, I wasn't that original in naming cats, so she got named Boots because of ehr little white paws.
now, if you want an interesting answer, ask how my cat Joe Hill got his name.
Well, Dr. Yacoub, why don't you just go and do some more of your genetic tampering so that the polar caps will freeze more and the penguins will have a better habitat?
Actually your post was funny. I was thinking of trying to write something along the same line, but knew people would make fun of me, so I just decided to be a spoilsport :)
Before anyone posts anything attempting to be funny by having football players quoting dialogue from the Matrix, remember that every possible parody of the Matrix has already been done, and is no longer funny.
Thank you
Cheap shot...
{Body bgcolor="blue" text="white"} {center} {strong} A fatal exception error has occured in...
Has anyone besides me ever noticed that O'Rielly books have the paper with the best smell and texture. It's light, almost trancelucent, but stiff and sturdy. There's nothing like coming home from a nice workout all sweaty and settling down for a nice night of paging through O'Rielly techincal manuals. C'mon people, I am not alone in feeling this way, am I?
All submissions must be created using Linux and native Linux tools
Just another example of how the Linux industries discriminates and unfairly competes against those who choose not to use its tools.
sub Save your precious mod points, I am joking subFor some reason, and this may just be me, when I think of a great teacher and what they teach, technology is not high on the list. Like many /. readers, my education in technology didn't come at school...it came at work (Stream :::shudders:::). But that is probably not the reason I don't equate a great teacher with teaching about technology.
I think this is because I equate technology more with experiencing things and practicing on my own, as well as discusions with people of my own age. And part of the process of learning about technology is creating your own. On the other hand, when I think about a great teacher, I think about someone who is teaching me "timeless wisdom" and things that are etched in stone. I would definitly think the best teacher is one that is in a hierarchal relationship with me, while I have always thought that learning about technology is more of a matter of equality.
Does any of this make sense? Am I totally off-topic and off-base?
My government cheese song.
So now the mystery is finally solved as to where Alatar has been hiding all these years. While Mithrandir was getting himself killed fighting the Valarauker, you were busy in the East, fighting the armies of JavaScript. :)
I think the most interesting part of the EFF argument was about functionality of speech.
Part of the ruling of the District Court was that "functional speech" was not granted the same protection as other modes of speech. The EFF argued that nothing in the first amendment, or until now, the judgements on the first amendment, had ever made a distinction between "functional" and "non-functional" speech.
If speech isn't meant to have a function, and have an influence on things, what is the point of speech? This would be a world of totally reflective speech, where speech will only be able to repeat or abstract what already exists. I think that speech is inherently meant to change things and have a function, not just to describe the world as it is. If the courts seem to think that only descriptive speech is protected, I think we are in trouble.
The District Court correctly observed that imposing liability for linking to circumvention technology like DeCSS creates a serious risk of chilling "the free exchange of ideas and information." Universal, 111 F.Supp.3d at 340. It sought to "limit the fear of liability of web site operators" by modeling a test after the "actual malice" test for defamation. Id.[17]
I think that goatse.cx posters definitly qualify as "actual malice"!
The fact that the lame, corporate Edison used Gnome in his movie is just further proof that GNOME is a t00l of the man. If you were to study some more history, you would know that Nikolai Tesla ran all of his Cydonia,Mars-based superexploding earth-quake death-ray software in X.
Thank you.
If I was a community college writing teacher, and Microsoft kept on turning in reports to me where they used the word 'innovation' everytime they meant 'good', I would start marking their papers down.
I would have taken this paper as almost a serious critique of communications policies, but the minute I see that damn word, I realize that is is more M$ propaganda. And for a company that probably spends more on propaganda then the budgets of many countries (and infinitly more then they do on taxes :)), M$ really needs to come up with something fresher then the word innovative. Maybe they need to form a committee called "Freedom to Innovate into Using New Adjectives"...okay, enough rant for me for right now.
I am a little disappointed that there hasn't been as great of a reaction to this article. Have we all become so cynical in the United States that we accept politcal arrests by the police? I was expecting that this article would have at least as many responses as the WAVE program, or the MS vs. Slashdot articles (>1000).
Come on now people!!! Even if most of the Americans reading this are cynical fscks who care more about partying then about their freedoms, isn't their some people who really love their freedom, Serbians maybe, who are willing to raise some shit about this?
How about we just mirror the site about 20x or 100x times over? And draw as much publicity to this as possible? Oh wait...we are already doing that :)
Seriously, though, I might be interested in mirroring this site on my webpage...besides the pr0n.
Why not? After all this is the year where the candidate with the majority of the votes got into power in Serbia and the candidate with a minority got into power in the US :)
If voting should be the result of logic, what we need is not electronic counting machines, but electronic decision machines. After all, once we all agree on the right logic, we don't need voting at all since that just reflects people's emotional deviation from the norm.
Of course, we need an ace programmer with great logical skills to do the job. Are you up to it?
I guess when you have seven wives, you really need a multiuser OS.
Okay, that's cheap...anyone who can come up with a lime jello joke should get modded up though.