In my country we don't do our own taxes. I got fired from a job for not being able to add and subtract properly, among other problems. There were always certain types of maths I was great at and other things I just couldn't do.
This the bill is 12.75, the guy gives you 20 euro and 75 cents, what change do you give him? ARrrrrrrrrrrgh WHY DID YOU GIVE ME 75 cents! You ruined my life! 6,7,8,9? Just take your 75 cents back for christ sake. 7.35.
I'd have liked a little less linear programming and geometry (which i excelled at) and a little more practical math, that way maybe I could have a normal job now if I wanted one.
Understanding it and applying it aren't the same thing. I know lots of people who are much much much better at maths than I am and still can't get their head around the concept of coincidence.
I don't understand it. It seems much worse to me to go to someones funeral or wake and say nasty things about them and yet that's fine.
The guy is a dick but this is ridiculous. It's not illegal to be a dick, nor should it be. Things like this make me worried for the future.
my mom has a Sharp phone. It's really pretty but it took us 3 years to figure out how to send a picture on it, the instruction manual was useless and the Internet was filled with people trying to figure out how to send a picture on it.
I agree, and (don't take this the wrong way) i agree even from the perspective of someone from a country with a far superior public school system.
The only useful things I learned in school were how to read, how to write, add, subtract, multiply, divide, and how to socialize (albiet poorly). Everything else was a complete waste of time and I could have learned it 100 times faster on my own if someone had just given me a bit of information on how to learn.
I think we have different idea about what a luxury is. If you think it's a sin to have a fulfilling life that's your problem.
Who benefits from us having to spend money on books? Not the customer and not the author, because as i said even a successful author is very unlikely to make as much money from books as he spends on books.
Who gets the highest portion of the profit? The publishers. Why? Because they distribute it. All of us are capable of distributing books now.
It's a money pit. Money = human energy and time.
Oh and god forbid bread-makers should go out of business!
This is what I don't understand, I spend most of the money I have on things like books and educational equipment if it's not on rent or food. If we had access to infinite food would we throw it away so a small portion of people could still make profits on selling it? Surely it would be better for them and everyone else to have free food instead? If we had access to an unlimited amount of land would we still make people buy it and rent it? Why? So the person who benefits from that can have more land? Wouldn't it make sense to let the tenants and the landlords have the infinite land for free?
And here we go! We have this exact situation with information and we're trying to limit it! what on earth is going on! People have been dreaming about this for centuries and we're charging for things FOR NO REASON.
One of the greatest modern Irish writers, John Mc Gahren, died of old age shortly before this whole e-book craze. He survived on a special state grant for artists and writers. The money from his book sales actually wasn't enough to support him. He had some bestselling books! These are the people whose incomes we are trying to think? Don't you think an infinite free library would have been worth more to him than the amount of money he earned selling those books? You think he wrote to make money!? You think that people will stop writing when they're not getting paid!? There is more writing being published and more published writers now than ever before in the history of the world.
We haven't got unlimited space or unlimited energy or unlimited food yet. These are the things we should pay for. I don't mind reading a blog that has an ad for things like this on the side, which I will buy with money I earn doing concrete things. But unlimited access to books and information wouldn't cost anyone a penny beyond the costs of electricity and bandwidth. It would make each and every one of us with access to a hundred dollar computer and the internet; writers, cleaners, artists, waitresses, CEOs - each and every one of us the richest people in the history of the world.
Okay Jesus what we're gonna do is we're gonna keep these loaves and fishes in this little box.
- But my child, there is no need, there is an infinite number of them.
yes but Jesus Christ we don't want them decreasing in value, people won't appreciate your creative energy.
Right, it's a beautiful thing. I feel more independent organizations like Amnesty international should be able to proof read everything. Assenege seems like someone with a hard-on for power and attention, a bit of a megalomaniac. Why should a random person have this amount of power just because they came up with / helped implement the idea?
I don't think they do. They are both for people who want an ultra-portable computer and are willing to sacrifice certain stuff like CD drives etc. etc. etc. I don't see why anyone would want both. I think you'd either by a tablet, if you wanted ultra portable (i'm talking in 2 years time when tablets aren't shit) a laptop, if you wanted semi-portable (like if your job means you're somewhere different every week or every month or every year and you want a proper computer you can put in your backpack) or a desktop pc (if you have your own house or are living with your parents and when your read in public you feel self-conscious)
I don't see that there's any niche for a netbook.. unless you really really want a proper laptop and you can't afford one.. because netbooks are just cheap laptops.
Never helped open source? What about all that good work they did making sure that Netscape would go open source? We even wouldn't have firefox without Microsoft, bless 'em.
It kind of reminds me about what someone said about the new anti-virus systems in voting machines. "It's like compulsory condoms for preschool teachers. Of course it's better than the alternative, but someone somewhere is doing their job horribly horribly wrong."
Did you read the article? They explain how the cars won't need special engines and how this could reduce the fuel requirements of the nation by 10%
And it uses a by-product that would otherwise go to waste.
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This has been my home page for a while. (You can get invites from their twitter). What sold me was kittens /liberal vs kittens /conservative
In my country we don't do our own taxes. I got fired from a job for not being able to add and subtract properly, among other problems. There were always certain types of maths I was great at and other things I just couldn't do.
This the bill is 12.75, the guy gives you 20 euro and 75 cents, what change do you give him? ARrrrrrrrrrrgh WHY DID YOU GIVE ME 75 cents! You ruined my life! 6,7,8,9? Just take your 75 cents back for christ sake. 7.35.
I'd have liked a little less linear programming and geometry (which i excelled at) and a little more practical math, that way maybe I could have a normal job now if I wanted one.
Understanding it and applying it aren't the same thing. I know lots of people who are much much much better at maths than I am and still can't get their head around the concept of coincidence.
Breach of the peace/harassment. But this was neither.
I don't understand it. It seems much worse to me to go to someones funeral or wake and say nasty things about them and yet that's fine.
The guy is a dick but this is ridiculous. It's not illegal to be a dick, nor should it be. Things like this make me worried for the future.
I clicked that link, and the girl on the right did a poo. Whatever stokes your goat man.
They're homos too, right, so don't we come from them?
In other words, you don't like it 'cause it's too difficult.
my mom has a Sharp phone. It's really pretty but it took us 3 years to figure out how to send a picture on it, the instruction manual was useless and the Internet was filled with people trying to figure out how to send a picture on it.
I agree, and (don't take this the wrong way) i agree even from the perspective of someone from a country with a far superior public school system.
The only useful things I learned in school were how to read, how to write, add, subtract, multiply, divide, and how to socialize (albiet poorly). Everything else was a complete waste of time and I could have learned it 100 times faster on my own if someone had just given me a bit of information on how to learn.
Don't read? Don't educate myself? Don't study?
I think we have different idea about what a luxury is. If you think it's a sin to have a fulfilling life that's your problem.
Who benefits from us having to spend money on books? Not the customer and not the author, because as i said even a successful author is very unlikely to make as much money from books as he spends on books.
Who gets the highest portion of the profit? The publishers. Why? Because they distribute it. All of us are capable of distributing books now.
It's a money pit. Money = human energy and time.
replying to myself with source of information: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread599045/pg1
They died before the names were released.
You're gonna get modded up to 5. Slashdot thinks rape is SO funny.
Oh and god forbid bread-makers should go out of business!
This is what I don't understand, I spend most of the money I have on things like books and educational equipment if it's not on rent or food. If we had access to infinite food would we throw it away so a small portion of people could still make profits on selling it? Surely it would be better for them and everyone else to have free food instead? If we had access to an unlimited amount of land would we still make people buy it and rent it? Why? So the person who benefits from that can have more land? Wouldn't it make sense to let the tenants and the landlords have the infinite land for free?
And here we go! We have this exact situation with information and we're trying to limit it! what on earth is going on! People have been dreaming about this for centuries and we're charging for things FOR NO REASON.
One of the greatest modern Irish writers, John Mc Gahren, died of old age shortly before this whole e-book craze. He survived on a special state grant for artists and writers. The money from his book sales actually wasn't enough to support him. He had some bestselling books! These are the people whose incomes we are trying to think? Don't you think an infinite free library would have been worth more to him than the amount of money he earned selling those books? You think he wrote to make money!? You think that people will stop writing when they're not getting paid!? There is more writing being published and more published writers now than ever before in the history of the world.
We haven't got unlimited space or unlimited energy or unlimited food yet. These are the things we should pay for. I don't mind reading a blog that has an ad for things like this on the side, which I will buy with money I earn doing concrete things. But unlimited access to books and information wouldn't cost anyone a penny beyond the costs of electricity and bandwidth. It would make each and every one of us with access to a hundred dollar computer and the internet; writers, cleaners, artists, waitresses, CEOs - each and every one of us the richest people in the history of the world.
Okay Jesus what we're gonna do is we're gonna keep these loaves and fishes in this little box.
- But my child, there is no need, there is an infinite number of them.
yes but Jesus Christ we don't want them decreasing in value, people won't appreciate your creative energy.
Right, it's a beautiful thing. I feel more independent organizations like Amnesty international should be able to proof read everything. Assenege seems like someone with a hard-on for power and attention, a bit of a megalomaniac. Why should a random person have this amount of power just because they came up with / helped implement the idea?
I don't think they do. They are both for people who want an ultra-portable computer and are willing to sacrifice certain stuff like CD drives etc. etc. etc. I don't see why anyone would want both. I think you'd either by a tablet, if you wanted ultra portable (i'm talking in 2 years time when tablets aren't shit) a laptop, if you wanted semi-portable (like if your job means you're somewhere different every week or every month or every year and you want a proper computer you can put in your backpack) or a desktop pc (if you have your own house or are living with your parents and when your read in public you feel self-conscious)
I don't see that there's any niche for a netbook.. unless you really really want a proper laptop and you can't afford one.. because netbooks are just cheap laptops.
Never helped open source? What about all that good work they did making sure that Netscape would go open source? We even wouldn't have firefox without Microsoft, bless 'em.
Oh my god.
Being a heterosexual male = having motive to rape?
What the fuck is wrong with you? You sick bastard.
Rape is not about sex, if it was committed by guys who just wanted sex then they could go to a prostitute or a bar.
I can't believe this got modded up, you know how unwelcome I feel as a woman on Slashdot right now? Fuck you all. Fuck you all. jesus fucking christ.
It kind of reminds me about what someone said about the new anti-virus systems in voting machines. "It's like compulsory condoms for preschool teachers. Of course it's better than the alternative, but someone somewhere is doing their job horribly horribly wrong."
Obviously.
"what McAfee has that 15 cheap startups don't" A deal with Microsoft.
I think we're all thinking that. I'm so amazed at this. Someone paid 7 billion for the right to sell people magic beans.
Did you read the article? They explain how the cars won't need special engines and how this could reduce the fuel requirements of the nation by 10% And it uses a by-product that would otherwise go to waste.