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I think a more important story, related to the market stumble, is the fact that the IMF\World bank protests show that global corporatism has over played its hand. I don't know if the protests going on in Washington DC are inside of the scope of Slashdot news, but they are certainly important, and also related to the Stock Market.
Personally, I think that global corporatism has overplayed its hand, and people are getting pissed off. Maybe 1-5% of Americans are getting rich off of invisible money and holding out the promise of a golden future where anyone can get consumer goods online whenever they want to. "The Best is yet to come", and all the workers are getting screwed and tired of getting screwed.
I remember the attitude of my fellow Baby Bell employees during the Dedication, and I think anyone with enough sense to know what was going on knew that this would impact us directly. Lower middle class tech workers have had enough.
All the money that the economy is pouring into consumer goods should have gone to the workers. Then it wouldn't be evaporating right now.
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I am waiting for "Voices from The Henhouse" by Jojn Katz.
First OS...Apple running Basic. Then DOS, which I hated. Then Windows 3.11, which I hated. Then Windows 9x, which I hated. Then Linux, which I liked for political reasons but I haven't been able to succesfully use. And then MacOS 7-9, which I loved for political reasons and kept on loving because it r0(|s!
Since it is 1:30 AM and no one else else in America is reading Slashdot, let me try to answer that question.
...Hummm, it can't be implemented in cars because they don't have Diesel engines, meaning that the combustion is triggered by spark plugs and not by compression of the hyrdocarbon\oxygen mixture. Since it is mostly the sparks doing the job in a normal automobile engine, the amount\temperture\density of the air doesn't matter as much as it would in a compression based diesel engine. I think.
The real question I was wondering is when do we get magnetic brakes? Since turntables are powered by magnets, why can't we use magnets to stop car wheels?
And why don't I know anything? Why am I so ignorant?
It doesn't matter if the most prestigious scientists in the world say they are running a Linux Cluster ran off of a 286, a Sega Master System, a toaster and a Sony Walkman; and that they expect to find a cure for cancer, for 12,000 dollars, and in two years.
No matter how established and mainstream Linux becomes among people who actually know what they are doing, the future of computing belongs in the hands of a few big stupid corporations ran by marketing hacks.
Yeah, they are way way stupider then us.
Yeah, they are in charge anyway.
Get used to it.
Twelve years later, and nothing has changed
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I remember when we had computers first introduced into our schools, I guess when I was about eight. They told us that there was a keyboard, a monitor and a "computer", and that was about the extant of our computer education. Then they left us to play on them.
Most educational software that I ever remember using was cheap and gimicky and didn't really convey anything. Most of the software that people actually "need" to use has to do with modelling of technical scientific systems...not really educational at all, but more of a technical aid for people who already understand the concepts involved.
I guess that in introducing students to the bare bones of computers, the previous decades or so of educational computing has been succesful. But it is akin to thinking that because they teach a preeschooler that a goose goes quack, that he will be a farmer.
Do they want to give these students computers so that they can use them as a utility in their normal studies? As a place to store notes and read data? Kind of like a notebook and textbook, only more expensive? Or, are they teaching them how to actually use their computer? If so, they are probably only teaching the functions of the current wave of consumer software and common applications, that will be out-of-style\obsolete by the time the student is in college?
Or, are they actually teaching students the "secrets" of computers...not only that there is a thing called a "hard drive" and "modem" and "processer" and things called "programs", but how these things actually function? I doubt they would ever take the time\money to explain this to high school students, and I even more seriously doubt that they would give them this power.
Hmmm...using my Slashdot simplification engine, I don't know what to think of this. Usually when I read a story about anything bad happening to AOL, I get happy.
But censorship is bad!!! (Although I don't know if this is censorship, the issue seems to be around copyright and not content). So what do I think...
I will have to start throwing off sparks, smoking, and saying "ERROR...ERROR...ERROR" in a monotone.
And to all my old customers, this just proves, No, IT DID NOT "ALWAYS WORK ON AOL"
Then everyone would be talking about how the evil IBM monopoly had bullied the small, innovative Microsoft into abandoning their intuitive, consumer friendly Windows Operating System.
Not that I have ever seen OS\2 or know anything about it, and not that I:::shudders::: like Windows or M$, but the point is, hindsight is 20\20, or maybe the point is you can never win.
Was I the only one who was ever scared by Populous? Was I the only person who ever pulled my covers over my head at 5 AM, blurry eyed, as I realized that after long long hours, I couldn't find a way to defeat the forces of evil?
A repetitve game that starts out the same every time, with the promise of new things...and then lures you in, as you repeat the same mistakes, and hope that this time it will work.
Ironically enough, I am playing Civ II right now. Maybe this would be a good Slashdot Poll... Populous vs. Civilization vs. SimCity, although most Slashdotters seem to like all these new fangled first person shooters for some reason. In my day we didn't have such things. In my day, Mario didn't have a Brother...oh never mind, I am rambling.
The perfect food that provides all the physical and emotional nourishment that a person needs is already available. It is called a Lil' Debbie Nutty Bar.
5000 times, which means that every man, woman and child in Tuvalu just got $5000 each. Which is good, because it doesn't look like there is much else going on there, money wise.
This link tells more about Tuvalu: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/tv.h tml
The FBI says that the choice is between getting raped and murdered and losing "a little privacy"...well, do they have any evidence that losing privacy leads to me being safer? If they do, "Bring it out and show it".
Am I the only person who is harassed by police, etc. more often them I am harassed by criminals?
I don't think Tolkien was in anyway exceptionally racist. At the time Tolkien wrote, however, racism was just taken for granted. So he just incorporated that in his book, without even thinking it was a big deal.
Every kid has a rock n' roll role model who they think is the totally pure representation of righteous rebellion...I remember Chuck D being this for me when I was 15. And of all the people who filled the role for me through my adolescense, I would say Chuck D is the only one who is still around and keeping the fight up.
Those were pretty simplistic days, and I hoped that the great revoloution would come and we would all be free...just as long as we had good beats to chant along to, "The good would get even"...well, many people have dreamed that dream, but Chuck D has really matured to be an intelligent, important part of the technology, music, politics, etc. scene. As long as he keeps it up, hip-hop won't go all bad.
It seems to me that a lot of the discussion going around is about picking on the stereotypical "depressed" teenager. And when I saw the "signs of danger" that were listed on the WAVE site, they seem to be looking for signs of a stereotypical depressed teenager. But where is the evidence that any of these stereotypical signs of depression actually havea ny corealation (sp?) to actual suicides?
Just for my own anecdotal evidence, I was over at a young friend of mine's house,and he is in high school still, and he was telling me how the second student at his high school had commited suicide in two years (if these were murders and not suicides, I am sure this would qualify as national news). The reason for the second suicide? The student hadn't been able to make the varsity soccer team. Probably a great deal of suicides are done not by stereotyped anti-social children, but by mainstream over-achievers who can't live up to expectations. Is there any stastistical data on this?
Over all, I think that social manifestations of depressive behavior are the effect, not the cause...and a rather minor effect at that. Some people manifest their depression by being anti-social, others do it in less obvious ways. The root causes of depression and suicide are personal and social, and to recognize them takes a trained professional or someone with lots of experience, not just a kid who is acting on stereotypes...I just find it hard to believe that professionals who should know better are going along with this.
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They do this in Vermont, too...actually in Vermont they charge for any local phone call:::Shudders:::
The words that anyone that works ISP technical support dreads. Usually uttered by someone running Windows 3.11 with 4 Megs of RAM on a computer with sparks flying out of it.
And, of course: "I pay $15.00 a month for this, and now I have to click on two seperate icons?" (You get this when you try to explain the difference between a dialer and a browser). I can only imagine someday someone yelling at me because with AOL they could get online by using the clapper and an etch-a-sketch connected into the wall with a coat hanger (and not even a metal coat hanger, too).
I am glad that everyone here has passed economics 101. I wish more Americans had some kind of education in basic econimc theory, or, failing that, could just think logically.
MONOPOLIES ARE BAD FOR THE ECONOMY! Other then the obvious issues of freedom and privacy, having large corporations buying each other with made up money so they can monopolize services and drive up prices is detrimental to any business person that is not in the monopoly.
Since we know this already, I would like to publish a list of people that we should tell that we know this---the house sub-commitee on technology. "The subcommittee on technology has jurisdiction over all matters relating to competitiveness...antitrust, regulatory and other legal and governmental policies as they relate to technological development and commercialization".
Here they are. Unfortunatly, there e-Mail address are all different, some use first names and some use last (all are at @mail.house.gov , though), and their physical addresses are all in different buildings. However, you can reach most of their web sites at www.house.gov/(members last name). Subcommittee on Technology
The Honorable Constance A. Morella, Maryland, Chairwoman
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania
James A. Barcia, Michigan**
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland
Lynn N. Rivers, Michigan
Gil Gutknecht, Minnesota*
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois
Mark Udall, Colorado
Chris Cannon, Utah
David Wu, Oregon
Kevin Brady, Texas
Anthony D. Weiner, New York
Merrill Cook, Utah
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Mark Green, Wisconsin
Bart Gordon, Tennessee
Steven T. Kuykendall, California
Brian Baird, Washington
Gary G. Miller, California
Ralph M. Hall, Texas+
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Wisconsin+
I don't know if they will pay attention, but since we are still living in a democracy (for now), we might as well try.
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I think a more important story, related to the market stumble, is the fact that the IMF\World bank protests show that global corporatism has over played its hand. I don't know if the protests going on in Washington DC are inside of the scope of Slashdot news, but they are certainly important, and also related to the Stock Market.
Personally, I think that global corporatism has overplayed its hand, and people are getting pissed off. Maybe 1-5% of Americans are getting rich off of invisible money and holding out the promise of a golden future where anyone can get consumer goods online whenever they want to. "The Best is yet to come", and all the workers are getting screwed and tired of getting screwed.
I remember the attitude of my fellow Baby Bell employees during the Dedication, and I think anyone with enough sense to know what was going on knew that this would impact us directly. Lower middle class tech workers have had enough.
All the money that the economy is pouring into consumer goods should have gone to the workers. Then it wouldn't be evaporating right now.
I am waiting for "Voices from The Henhouse" by Jojn Katz.
the real question is, would you trust Iraq or North Korea with a copy of Scorched Earth?
And has anyone ever considered the possible military implications of Free Cell?
I'm sorry if you lost your shirt, or if you have a vendetta, Mr. Oog, but don't you think there is a better way to say this.
And can anyone imagine Micro$oft allowing someone to post these kind of comments about their business on their web site? Repeatedly?
First OS...Apple running Basic. Then DOS, which I hated. Then Windows 3.11, which I hated. Then Windows 9x, which I hated. Then Linux, which I liked for political reasons but I haven't been able to succesfully use. And then MacOS 7-9, which I loved for political reasons and kept on loving because it r0(|s!
Who is Kevin McMaster? I have gotten 27 replys off of the ICANN list, and none seemed to mention or be from Kevin McMaster. Is he the hunger site guy?
Since it is 1:30 AM and no one else else in America is reading Slashdot, let me try to answer that question.
The real question I was wondering is when do we get magnetic brakes? Since turntables are powered by magnets, why can't we use magnets to stop car wheels?
And why don't I know anything? Why am I so ignorant?
It doesn't matter if the most prestigious scientists in the world say they are running a Linux Cluster ran off of a 286, a Sega Master System, a toaster and a Sony Walkman; and that they expect to find a cure for cancer, for 12,000 dollars, and in two years.
No matter how established and mainstream Linux becomes among people who actually know what they are doing, the future of computing belongs in the hands of a few big stupid corporations ran by marketing hacks.
Yeah, they are way way stupider then us.
Yeah, they are in charge anyway.
Get used to it.
I remember when we had computers first introduced into our schools, I guess when I was about eight. They told us that there was a keyboard, a monitor and a "computer", and that was about the extant of our computer education. Then they left us to play on them.
Most educational software that I ever remember using was cheap and gimicky and didn't really convey anything. Most of the software that people actually "need" to use has to do with modelling of technical scientific systems...not really educational at all, but more of a technical aid for people who already understand the concepts involved.
I guess that in introducing students to the bare bones of computers, the previous decades or so of educational computing has been succesful. But it is akin to thinking that because they teach a preeschooler that a goose goes quack, that he will be a farmer.
Do they want to give these students computers so that they can use them as a utility in their normal studies? As a place to store notes and read data? Kind of like a notebook and textbook, only more expensive? Or, are they teaching them how to actually use their computer? If so, they are probably only teaching the functions of the current wave of consumer software and common applications, that will be out-of-style\obsolete by the time the student is in college?
Or, are they actually teaching students the "secrets" of computers...not only that there is a thing called a "hard drive" and "modem" and "processer" and things called "programs", but how these things actually function? I doubt they would ever take the time\money to explain this to high school students, and I even more seriously doubt that they would give them this power.
Computers in education are still a gimmick.
Hmmm...using my Slashdot simplification engine, I don't know what to think of this. Usually when I read a story about anything bad happening to AOL, I get happy.
But censorship is bad!!! (Although I don't know if this is censorship, the issue seems to be around copyright and not content). So what do I think...
I will have to start throwing off sparks, smoking, and saying "ERROR...ERROR...ERROR" in a monotone.
And to all my old customers, this just proves, No, IT DID NOT "ALWAYS WORK ON AOL"
Then everyone would be talking about how the evil IBM monopoly had bullied the small, innovative Microsoft into abandoning their intuitive, consumer friendly Windows Operating System.
Not that I have ever seen OS\2 or know anything about it, and not that I :::shudders::: like Windows or M$, but the point is, hindsight is 20\20, or maybe the point is you can never win.
Was I the only one who was ever scared by Populous? Was I the only person who ever pulled my covers over my head at 5 AM, blurry eyed, as I realized that after long long hours, I couldn't find a way to defeat the forces of evil?
A repetitve game that starts out the same every time, with the promise of new things...and then lures you in, as you repeat the same mistakes, and hope that this time it will work.
Ironically enough, I am playing Civ II right now. Maybe this would be a good Slashdot Poll... Populous vs. Civilization vs. SimCity, although most Slashdotters seem to like all these new fangled first person shooters for some reason. In my day we didn't have such things. In my day, Mario didn't have a Brother...oh never mind, I am rambling.
I am sorry that I posted this post earlier without throughly researching it. The actual best foods are...
3. Twix dipped in Mac'n'Cheese
2. Lil Debbie Nutty Bars
1. HOT GRITTSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
The perfect food that provides all the physical and emotional nourishment that a person needs is already available. It is called a Lil' Debbie Nutty Bar.
5000 times, which means that every man, woman and child in Tuvalu just got $5000 each. Which is good, because it doesn't look like there is much else going on there, money wise.
This link tells more about Tuvalu: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/tv.h tml
And isn't there a lot to know?
The FBI says that the choice is between getting raped and murdered and losing "a little privacy"...well, do they have any evidence that losing privacy leads to me being safer? If they do, "Bring it out and show it".
Am I the only person who is harassed by police, etc. more often them I am harassed by criminals?
I don't think Tolkien was in anyway exceptionally racist. At the time Tolkien wrote, however, racism was just taken for granted. So he just incorporated that in his book, without even thinking it was a big deal.
Every kid has a rock n' roll role model who they think is the totally pure representation of righteous rebellion...I remember Chuck D being this for me when I was 15. And of all the people who filled the role for me through my adolescense, I would say Chuck D is the only one who is still around and keeping the fight up.
Those were pretty simplistic days, and I hoped that the great revoloution would come and we would all be free...just as long as we had good beats to chant along to, "The good would get even"...well, many people have dreamed that dream, but Chuck D has really matured to be an intelligent, important part of the technology, music, politics, etc. scene. As long as he keeps it up, hip-hop won't go all bad.
It seems to me that a lot of the discussion going around is about picking on the stereotypical "depressed" teenager. And when I saw the "signs of danger" that were listed on the WAVE site, they seem to be looking for signs of a stereotypical depressed teenager. But where is the evidence that any of these stereotypical signs of depression actually havea ny corealation (sp?) to actual suicides?
Just for my own anecdotal evidence, I was over at a young friend of mine's house,and he is in high school still, and he was telling me how the second student at his high school had commited suicide in two years (if these were murders and not suicides, I am sure this would qualify as national news). The reason for the second suicide? The student hadn't been able to make the varsity soccer team. Probably a great deal of suicides are done not by stereotyped anti-social children, but by mainstream over-achievers who can't live up to expectations. Is there any stastistical data on this?
Over all, I think that social manifestations of depressive behavior are the effect, not the cause...and a rather minor effect at that. Some people manifest their depression by being anti-social, others do it in less obvious ways. The root causes of depression and suicide are personal and social, and to recognize them takes a trained professional or someone with lots of experience, not just a kid who is acting on stereotypes...I just find it hard to believe that professionals who should know better are going along with this.
They do this in Vermont, too...actually in Vermont they charge for any local phone call :::Shudders:::
But the public needs Rutabegas.com! Where else can they go to get rutabegas airlifted to them no matter where they are in the world!
And more importantly, once Rutabegas.com makes our IPO, we can get some cash and buy a company that actually does something useful.
The words that anyone that works ISP technical support dreads. Usually uttered by someone running Windows 3.11 with 4 Megs of RAM on a computer with sparks flying out of it.
And, of course: "I pay $15.00 a month for this, and now I have to click on two seperate icons?" (You get this when you try to explain the difference between a dialer and a browser). I can only imagine someday someone yelling at me because with AOL they could get online by using the clapper and an etch-a-sketch connected into the wall with a coat hanger (and not even a metal coat hanger, too).
The horror, the horror...
What? Where else will the tremendous demand for anywhere in the world, before the end of the day, rutabega airlifts be fulfilled?
I am glad that everyone here has passed economics 101. I wish more Americans had some kind of education in basic econimc theory, or, failing that, could just think logically.
MONOPOLIES ARE BAD FOR THE ECONOMY! Other then the obvious issues of freedom and privacy, having large corporations buying each other with made up money so they can monopolize services and drive up prices is detrimental to any business person that is not in the monopoly.
Since we know this already, I would like to publish a list of people that we should tell that we know this---the house sub-commitee on technology. "The subcommittee on technology has jurisdiction over all matters relating to competitiveness...antitrust, regulatory and other legal and governmental policies as they relate to technological development and commercialization".
Here they are. Unfortunatly, there e-Mail address are all different, some use first names and some use last (all are at @mail.house.gov , though), and their physical addresses are all in different buildings. However, you can reach most of their web sites at www.house.gov/(members last name). Subcommittee on Technology
The Honorable Constance A. Morella, Maryland, Chairwoman
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania
James A. Barcia, Michigan**
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland
Lynn N. Rivers, Michigan
Gil Gutknecht, Minnesota*
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois
Mark Udall, Colorado
Chris Cannon, Utah
David Wu, Oregon
Kevin Brady, Texas
Anthony D. Weiner, New York
Merrill Cook, Utah
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Mark Green, Wisconsin
Bart Gordon, Tennessee
Steven T. Kuykendall, California
Brian Baird, Washington
Gary G. Miller, California
Ralph M. Hall, Texas+
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Wisconsin+
I don't know if they will pay attention, but since we are still living in a democracy (for now), we might as well try.
Boeing is the government! It is a design department of the DOD. much like Mikoyan-Gurevich was in the Soviet Union.