This is great. Everyone is always asking how many linux users there are, and Ubuntu is the most popular everyday one, so we'll get an idea. Also the company will be able to make more money. Imagine going to a search engine to make a deal about defaults and being asked how many users you have, only to reply you really can't be sure.. but you've had a lot of downloads!
Also better figures might mean better 3ed party support? If they can go to them and say: look! We have 500,000 users!
WTF? You know I thought I understood the simple premise of the game but apparently not because I'm 24 now and testicles show no sign of dropping, Doom or no Doom.
Chesticles maybe?
He must have been seriously stuck for something to write about it.
Of course it's not "all for nothing". Not everyone gets Alzheimers, strokes and brain tumours. Ordinary dementia can be fought tooth and nail by reading/listening to the radio/watching television/having friends and family around you.
My grandfather lived to be 87 and was sharp as a tack right up until the day he died.
What? Of course there's an in between. If there wasn't an in between then the names and addresses and phone numbers of ever celebrity or criminal or person of interest would be up on the Internet.
Watching popeye did make me want to try spinach, it's horrible taste stopped me from continuing to eat it. The same with sonic the hedgehog and chillydogs. I loved swiss cheese because of tom and jerry.
I still think of sonic the hedgehog when I have chilli fries in Eddie Rockets, TV definitely affected the way I think about food. When I went to America I was so excited to try twinkies and cream soda and sarsaparilla and orieos (They're available here now, they weren't then) and pretzels (same) and flan and maple syrup and hershi chocolate bars and mac n cheese and hundreds of other things that don't exist here.
Maybe you guys didn't notice it, because you didn't grow up with the television telling you to buy things that weren't available on your continent. But I guarantee you, unless you grew up without tv, it had an effect.
Amnesty International are an incredible organization that are making real change on a daily basis. I haven't read much of the leaks, but if they're worried about this then suddenly I'm worried.
Mr. Assange should show a little respect for an organization that have educated and mobilized so many people around the world with real life consequences for human rights. Guess he's too busy talking about himself to every journalist he can find.
There's no treatment for it and nothing they can do. I'd rather not know for as long as possible, you start going crazy as you watch yourself deteriorating every day. If I forget and put door keys in the microwave I think "oh I'm such an idiot." and laugh. I don't feel the terror that someone with Alzheimers feels, thinking every mistake is a sign.
I had to google what first grade meant.. ages 6 an 7?
I was pretty much the same as I am now. Yup. 12-18 wasn't me, it was some kind of lunatic, from 19 on I started to notice the old personality and interests coming back.
the only difference is I was a bit spoiled, it wasn't that I didn't worry about other people; I did and still do worry about them all the time, but I just didn't notice I was hurting them. Also I was a massive attention seeker, still am, but repress it. I'll do things that I tell myself make me deserving of attention, and then not tell anyone about them.
For me and most of the people I still know from childhood.. this is basically right.. the way we act changes with what we learn, but our basic interests and temperaments are the same. Like okay I don't like the same music, but i still like music, I don't read the same books, but I still read books. I still think it's more important to be intelligent than.. errum... most other qualities.. and more important to be nice than any other quality.
I didn't suddenly get interested in make-up tutorials and knee-high boots. I still love animals, though I don't want to own a pet-shop where all the animals walk around freely and monkeys serve the customers anymore.
This doesn't already exist in the states? If i tried to sit in a coffee shop (even one without wi-fi) for over an hour on a single cup of coffee they'd tell me to buy something or get out.
Your post is so random and out of the blue. What made you start talking about that exactly?
I haven't got a degree in CS, so I don't know it inside out! But it seems to me 90% of it can be done between videos and books and software tutorials. The other 10% you can pay for and see a tutor every now and then, which you have to do in college anyway if you want any individual attention.
As I said if you want to meet other people studying Computer Science you can start a club. And I don't see why residency would suddenly become impossible.
I don't get how anyone could be against this, there will always be a choice for the rich and privileged or particularly gifted westerners to go to traditional college. What about everyone else? What about the very hard working people who aren't clever enough for scholarships or rich enough college or manic enough to work their way through it as a waitress. No one is forcing you to change your life. They're trying to make it better for everyone and give everyone more chances.
I feel that education can save every single nation and solve almost any world problem. I think that free or affordable education for all will be responsible for bringing us the next Einstein.
Agreed, but "baggaged with land-lines." That's interesting. Like Americans were never "baggaged" with health care.
Need breeds creativity just as much as interest, the creative brains aren't always going to be interested in the same things. But if they all need the same things then those things will evolve fast.
So say I'm getting a degree in Computer Science online. Can't I just start a club for other people getting the same degree?
There's already python clubs and Esperanto clubs all over the world precisely because people are learning those subjects outside of university and need this social interaction we're talking about with other learners.
That is true. Unfortunately the forced educational environment stopped me being a self-learner for 16 years. The second I left school I started reading and learning with every spare minute I got. And I never studied a bit in school, I never realized it was fun.
I don't think anyone is talking about learning practical things at home. Many degrees are 100% theoretical. Many are partially, and these parts can be done at home. Of course there will always be some things that necessitate real life experience, but the time you spend sitting in front of a teacher listening to them talk can be done much better at home.
Gates is not the first person to say this, hundreds of universities have put full courses online. Google are working on "Google University." And "Open University" has been around for what, 40 years?
I'm afraid you're not looking far enough into this. Try the Harvard "Justice" course which is online now, including all the reading materials. I see a future where you get the course online and can still go somewhere to meet the teacher/form study groups (if you can afford to get into the city, if not then a web forum)/do exams/collect your degree (or have it posted out).
Please think about the simple fact that for most people in the world the alternative is not traditional education, the alternative is no education.
There's no reason why hundreds of people have to pay to pile into a room to watch an underpaid over-worked lecturer who doesn't even know their name say the same thing as he's said 100 times before.
Google University is going to give examinations and degrees. There's no reason why you can't study at home and do the exams in your capital. Like Open University.
of course it doesn't apply to all degrees, but it would work fine for most academic things.
In Ireland we have a service that does courses for the unemployed called "FAS" Which does online javascript education this way.
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I'm guessing they ping a special page and count the hits. The IP address will be in that. (like it is with any website you visit)
They're giving me a free OS. This is the least I can do for them.
This is great. Everyone is always asking how many linux users there are, and Ubuntu is the most popular everyday one, so we'll get an idea. Also the company will be able to make more money. Imagine going to a search engine to make a deal about defaults and being asked how many users you have, only to reply you really can't be sure.. but you've had a lot of downloads!
Also better figures might mean better 3ed party support? If they can go to them and say: look! We have 500,000 users!
WTF? You know I thought I understood the simple premise of the game but apparently not because I'm 24 now and testicles show no sign of dropping, Doom or no Doom.
Chesticles maybe?
He must have been seriously stuck for something to write about it.
Of course it's not "all for nothing". Not everyone gets Alzheimers, strokes and brain tumours.
Ordinary dementia can be fought tooth and nail by reading/listening to the radio/watching television/having friends and family around you.
My grandfather lived to be 87 and was sharp as a tack right up until the day he died.
What? Of course there's an in between. If there wasn't an in between then the names and addresses and phone numbers of ever celebrity or criminal or person of interest would be up on the Internet.
Watching popeye did make me want to try spinach, it's horrible taste stopped me from continuing to eat it. The same with sonic the hedgehog and chillydogs. I loved swiss cheese because of tom and jerry.
I still think of sonic the hedgehog when I have chilli fries in Eddie Rockets, TV definitely affected the way I think about food. When I went to America I was so excited to try twinkies and cream soda and sarsaparilla and orieos (They're available here now, they weren't then) and pretzels (same) and flan and maple syrup and hershi chocolate bars and mac n cheese and hundreds of other things that don't exist here.
Maybe you guys didn't notice it, because you didn't grow up with the television telling you to buy things that weren't available on your continent. But I guarantee you, unless you grew up without tv, it had an effect.
I guess there are a lot of things that can make it easier to deal with, but there is nothing that can slow it down or stop it.
It's great to read your experience with your grandfather, you must be a great comfort to him.
Amnesty International are an incredible organization that are making real change on a daily basis. I haven't read much of the leaks, but if they're worried about this then suddenly I'm worried.
Mr. Assange should show a little respect for an organization that have educated and mobilized so many people around the world with real life consequences for human rights. Guess he's too busy talking about himself to every journalist he can find.
No one ever answers my questions. It's like I'm supposed to be an expert on American Culture.
There's no treatment for it and nothing they can do. I'd rather not know for as long as possible, you start going crazy as you watch yourself deteriorating every day. If I forget and put door keys in the microwave I think "oh I'm such an idiot." and laugh. I don't feel the terror that someone with Alzheimers feels, thinking every mistake is a sign.
I had to google what first grade meant.. ages 6 an 7?
I was pretty much the same as I am now. Yup. 12-18 wasn't me, it was some kind of lunatic, from 19 on I started to notice the old personality and interests coming back.
the only difference is I was a bit spoiled, it wasn't that I didn't worry about other people; I did and still do worry about them all the time, but I just didn't notice I was hurting them. Also I was a massive attention seeker, still am, but repress it. I'll do things that I tell myself make me deserving of attention, and then not tell anyone about them.
For me and most of the people I still know from childhood.. this is basically right.. the way we act changes with what we learn, but our basic interests and temperaments are the same. Like okay I don't like the same music, but i still like music, I don't read the same books, but I still read books. I still think it's more important to be intelligent than.. errum... most other qualities.. and more important to be nice than any other quality.
I didn't suddenly get interested in make-up tutorials and knee-high boots. I still love animals, though I don't want to own a pet-shop where all the animals walk around freely and monkeys serve the customers anymore.
This doesn't already exist in the states? If i tried to sit in a coffee shop (even one without wi-fi) for over an hour on a single cup of coffee they'd tell me to buy something or get out.
You see only problems without solutions. Others will see the solutions. It will be as good.
Your post is so random and out of the blue. What made you start talking about that exactly?
I haven't got a degree in CS, so I don't know it inside out! But it seems to me 90% of it can be done between videos and books and software tutorials. The other 10% you can pay for and see a tutor every now and then, which you have to do in college anyway if you want any individual attention.
As I said if you want to meet other people studying Computer Science you can start a club.
And I don't see why residency would suddenly become impossible.
I don't get how anyone could be against this, there will always be a choice for the rich and privileged or particularly gifted westerners to go to traditional college. What about everyone else? What about the very hard working people who aren't clever enough for scholarships or rich enough college or manic enough to work their way through it as a waitress.
No one is forcing you to change your life. They're trying to make it better for everyone and give everyone more chances.
I feel that education can save every single nation and solve almost any world problem. I think that free or affordable education for all will be responsible for bringing us the next Einstein.
Agreed, but "baggaged with land-lines." That's interesting. Like Americans were never "baggaged" with health care.
Need breeds creativity just as much as interest, the creative brains aren't always going to be interested in the same things. But if they all need the same things then those things will evolve fast.
So say I'm getting a degree in Computer Science online. Can't I just start a club for other people getting the same degree?
There's already python clubs and Esperanto clubs all over the world precisely because people are learning those subjects outside of university and need this social interaction we're talking about with other learners.
That is true. Unfortunately the forced educational environment stopped me being a self-learner for 16 years. The second I left school I started reading and learning with every spare minute I got. And I never studied a bit in school, I never realized it was fun.
I should pay 50,000 a year to learn how to socialize? Why can't I just go to a park or take up Yoga?
I don't think anyone is talking about learning practical things at home. Many degrees are 100% theoretical. Many are partially, and these parts can be done at home.
Of course there will always be some things that necessitate real life experience, but the time you spend sitting in front of a teacher listening to them talk can be done much better at home.
Gates is not the first person to say this, hundreds of universities have put full courses online. Google are working on "Google University." And "Open University" has been around for what, 40 years?
I'm afraid you're not looking far enough into this. Try the Harvard "Justice" course which is online now, including all the reading materials. /do exams/collect your degree (or have it posted out).
I see a future where you get the course online and can still go somewhere to meet the teacher/form study groups (if you can afford to get into the city, if not then a web forum)
Please think about the simple fact that for most people in the world the alternative is not traditional education, the alternative is no education.
There's no reason why hundreds of people have to pay to pile into a room to watch an underpaid over-worked lecturer who doesn't even know their name say the same thing as he's said 100 times before.
Google University is going to give examinations and degrees.
There's no reason why you can't study at home and do the exams in your capital. Like Open University.
of course it doesn't apply to all degrees, but it would work fine for most academic things.
In Ireland we have a service that does courses for the unemployed called "FAS" Which does online javascript education this way.
5, funny.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqlUZfOOS7E
I love you guys.
Isn't it obvious? Anything with graphic design or video editing that requires software that only works on Mac.
Even look at professional Youtubers, almost all of them use Mac, take "Mystery Guitar Man". You could not do what he does on Windows or Linux.
Anyone who is not using programs like this and has a Mac.. well they can burn their money whatever way they like!
It says right there you have the option to turn off silent updates.