But then again the United States is hardly a democracy. I seem to remember that the whole system worked using representatives. They rarely follow the will of the people, instead they cater to the big corporations that line their pockets and the ballot boxes.
Considering the way the US government runs we should be thankful for what's left of freedom of speech and we should be thankful for what's left of freedom of assembly (though I prefer C personally).
Democracy scares me even more though.. imagine all the Oprahnites turning from their TV and voting on the laws we must live by. Eek.
It's ironic that so many years after the civil war the US has managed to recreate slavery. Don't like the working conditions, well, how would you like to go back to the poverty in your own country?
Actually, I believe the Pentium has many RISC concepts at the core. Above that is a microcode layer that provides the somewhat antiquated CISC command set.
I think that is insightful of what will happen to our beloved operating systems. Linux, Windows, and other flavors will steal elements from each other and turn into something new.
I'm using Linux for the first time in many many years. It boots up into KDE and looks an awful lot like Windows.
Win2K has added elements that smell like Unix as other posters have pointed out.
Imagine years ago if you told the CISC guys that they'd embrace RISC. What if you then told the RISC guys that they'd start to implement some CISC ideals?
If everyone would use the TLD for their country each country could police its name space independently. Of course arbiters are going to run into a backlog when they are trying to take on the entire planet.
It's retarded to leave this in the hands of the United Nations. The country TLD's are representative of specific countries, let them decide who can arbitrate and who can't and who has specific rights to what names.
Why don't they work on a "world currency" or something equally impossible to implement (and be just as pointless).
Of course, if that $2400 buys you much better service than it could very well be worth it. We don't use Linux for much where I'm at but we do run most everything on Dell equipment. I'd have to rate their Technical Support very highly (but we also pay $$$ for service contracts).
We can pretty much point to any peice of equipment and ask for a replacement and have it within 24 hours. We've even had their technicians onsite to assist in diagnosing problems. I do miss the days of building a system from scratch though, it was more fun that way.
Were they protesting something? Maybe my eyes sped over it but if I were a protester I'd make the majority of my story about the protest. The cuff & stuff would be filler to get people to read "the message".
Damn troublemakers.
Interesting that they didn't confiscate the gas mask, aren't they illegal in some places now (such as Seattle)?
This isn't quite what you were talking about but..
When I was in High School I had a TI85. I loved it because I could type my notes into them and have them during a test. This obviously wasn't allowed but I was only one of two people in the school that had a TI85 so the teachers couldn't tell when the memory was not erased.
Anyway, I found that I was looking at the books and class notes much more after getting the calculator. Why? I had to type it all in in that obnoxiously small keyboard. I never would have paid that much attention to my work otherwise. I wanted to be sure I converted all the notes and equations into a representation I could easily understand.. I was learning.
I found that by the time the quiz/test happened I had memorized almost all the material. I only needed the calculator for an occasionly double-checking of work.
I plan to be a teacher at some point (software engineering just pays too damn good right now). I hope my students would do the same things I did as a student. I'm more interested in someone's ability to solve a problem than their ability to memorize equations. It's still learning.
I continue to take college classes now. Just recently I had a math professor that actually encouraged the use of Mathmatica-like programs. We could even use them as justifications to problems in our exercises. The only caveat was that when something was first introduced the first set of exercises had to be done by hand.
This what great. Prove I learned the material the first time and then not have to grind it in later. The only thing was the later exercises were crafted as to not make nice results in a math program. This was frustrating but also led to a better understanding on how the math programs worked and a better understanding of how the theorums we were studying worked.
I can't wait to try out this new HP. I have the 48GX, RPN kicks ass (though the 48GX is freaking slow). Why buy one when I have a decent laptop? A calculator is alot less conspicuous, cheaper to replace if it's stolen, it's lighter, and it's a lot quieter (the keys, hard drive, and fans, etc..).
Heh, I exploited a line in our employee handbook that says our corporation supports employee learning. I started taking night classes to finish my CS degree. Going to work and to class at night sucks, but at least I get to leave on time two to three nights out of the week.
Believe it or not I almost lost my job because of this. I used to work 80-90 hours a week and love it, now with the new attitude those in charge have I can barely stomach 40 hours.
As long as people are designing the hardware no "tamper-proofing" attempts will ever be 100% effective. Face it, you have to hear the audio at some point.
If a guy's last name is Ford I wouldn't exactly say he has a compelling reason to register ford.com. I'd be pretty pissed as a consumer if I wanted to look at Ford autos and ended up staring at pictures of his favourite dog and last wife (in that order). Of course I'd never be looking at Fords but that's not the point.. I'm pretty sure.com denotes
commerce
, if you're not a commercial entity you ought to be using something other than.com. Now if you happened to be the Ford Paint Company I think you're on to something. I seem to remember something similar with the name Amazon.
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But then again the United States is hardly a democracy. I seem to remember that the whole system worked using representatives. They rarely follow the will of the people, instead they cater to the big corporations that line their pockets and the ballot boxes.
Considering the way the US government runs we should be thankful for what's left of freedom of speech and we should be thankful for what's left of freedom of assembly (though I prefer C personally).
Democracy scares me even more though.. imagine all the Oprahnites turning from their TV and voting on the laws we must live by. Eek.
It's ironic that so many years after the civil war the US has managed to recreate slavery. Don't like the working conditions, well, how would you like to go back to the poverty in your own country?
Ugh.
Actually, I believe the Pentium has many RISC concepts at the core. Above that is a microcode layer that provides the somewhat antiquated CISC command set.
I think that is insightful of what will happen to our beloved operating systems. Linux, Windows, and other flavors will steal elements from each other and turn into something new.
I'm using Linux for the first time in many many years. It boots up into KDE and looks an awful lot like Windows.
Win2K has added elements that smell like Unix as other posters have pointed out.
Imagine years ago if you told the CISC guys that they'd embrace RISC. What if you then told the RISC guys that they'd start to implement some CISC ideals?
If everyone would use the TLD for their country each country could police its name space independently. Of course arbiters are going to run into a backlog when they are trying to take on the entire planet.
It's retarded to leave this in the hands of the United Nations. The country TLD's are representative of specific countries, let them decide who can arbitrate and who can't and who has specific rights to what names.
Why don't they work on a "world currency" or something equally impossible to implement (and be just as pointless).
Of course, if that $2400 buys you much better service than it could very well be worth it. We don't use Linux for much where I'm at but we do run most everything on Dell equipment. I'd have to rate their Technical Support very highly (but we also pay $$$ for service contracts).
We can pretty much point to any peice of equipment and ask for a replacement and have it within 24 hours. We've even had their technicians onsite to assist in diagnosing problems. I do miss the days of building a system from scratch though, it was more fun that way.
Damn troublemakers.
Interesting that they didn't confiscate the gas mask, aren't they illegal in some places now (such as Seattle)?
This isn't quite what you were talking about but.. When I was in High School I had a TI85. I loved it because I could type my notes into them and have them during a test. This obviously wasn't allowed but I was only one of two people in the school that had a TI85 so the teachers couldn't tell when the memory was not erased. Anyway, I found that I was looking at the books and class notes much more after getting the calculator. Why? I had to type it all in in that obnoxiously small keyboard. I never would have paid that much attention to my work otherwise. I wanted to be sure I converted all the notes and equations into a representation I could easily understand.. I was learning. I found that by the time the quiz/test happened I had memorized almost all the material. I only needed the calculator for an occasionly double-checking of work. I plan to be a teacher at some point (software engineering just pays too damn good right now). I hope my students would do the same things I did as a student. I'm more interested in someone's ability to solve a problem than their ability to memorize equations. It's still learning. I continue to take college classes now. Just recently I had a math professor that actually encouraged the use of Mathmatica-like programs. We could even use them as justifications to problems in our exercises. The only caveat was that when something was first introduced the first set of exercises had to be done by hand. This what great. Prove I learned the material the first time and then not have to grind it in later. The only thing was the later exercises were crafted as to not make nice results in a math program. This was frustrating but also led to a better understanding on how the math programs worked and a better understanding of how the theorums we were studying worked. I can't wait to try out this new HP. I have the 48GX, RPN kicks ass (though the 48GX is freaking slow). Why buy one when I have a decent laptop? A calculator is alot less conspicuous, cheaper to replace if it's stolen, it's lighter, and it's a lot quieter (the keys, hard drive, and fans, etc..).
Believe it or not I almost lost my job because of this. I used to work 80-90 hours a week and love it, now with the new attitude those in charge have I can barely stomach 40 hours.
As long as people are designing the hardware no "tamper-proofing" attempts will ever be 100% effective. Face it, you have to hear the audio at some point.
- commerce
, if you're not a commercial entity you ought to be using something other than