Yes, but the idea for 'prospects' smacks of playing the lottery. True, an office job might give you the theoretical chance to rise to be the CEO, but what is the chance of it actually happening? People need to consider the average salaries through their lifetime, not one in a million chances to get a million bucks a month.
Jobs are not just an excuse to hand people wages. You hire workers for the product they create. So there must be enough demand for whatever educated people do if they are to make a living. And the more they are the smaller the part each one gets of the pie.
So people just blindly assuming that being educated in a university will automatically make them richer needs to stop. It might be true, but it's not automatic! The more people enroll in university the less true it becomes.
You didn't understand what I meant by evolution - I meant the development of DNA, RNA, ribosomes, etc. evolved. Those things aren't evolving now, they're already set in stone, and new superbugs aren't telling us anything about the origins of life.
Yes, but things like how DNA and ribosomes work, and the basic molecular machinery would have already been set in stone even in bacteria that old. All the rest is fine tuning to the current conditions and doesn't tell you much about the evolution of life.
It's the same as looking at the evolution of reptiles after the Mesozoic or the evolution of insects after the Paleozoic. Sure, there is some evolution, but the really interesting changes have already passed.
While they are chronologically old, they probably aren't much different from modern bacteria. Bacteria's evolution finished so early that anything younger than 200-300 million years after life began would not tell us anything about its evolution.
But that is the problem - to get angry enough to start a revolution, people still need to know about those things that would make them angry, and the gatekeepers of information are in the position to ensure this doesn't happen.
I often use tabs, but not for multitasking - because going back does not preserve the state correctly in complex pages, so it's better to open a link in a new tab, read it, and then close it, than to open it in the same page and then do Alt+Left.
The idea behind Chromebooks is great, but in my opinion it really boils down to mounting the home directory from a centralized company ftp server (ok, sftp/ftps) instead of from the local hard-drive. That way your laptop becomes just a thin client and when it breaks, any other laptop would be ready to use for your account.
As for locking it down, you can make the root partition read-only, plus you can choose not to give the root password to the user, so if he's not computer-savvy, he won't be able to install stuff he doesn't need for work.
I'm sure this can be setup without inventing a new operating system for the purpose.
A colleague of mine used to work for a company where he would be criticized for not staying late with the others when deadlines were looming, even though he had already finished his part long before.
Remember the netbooks that started small, limited, and cheap. They gradually grew larger and more functional until they were basically laptops.
Well netbooks are still small (about 10 inch screen). That's not at all like the regular laptop which is 15.6''. The big difference for me is how much portable they are, I have a netbook and a laptop and if I want to do something quick I open the netbook, it's just more convenient to move it around.
Yes, but would it make the Internet stop working inside the USA? Or do you mean that China can disconnect itself from the Internet if it doesn't like it?
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That goes for hybrid cars also. The pollution while producing the batteries for those cars offsets the fact that you burn less fuel.
Do you mean that it's OK for the Chinese to do it, or do you mean that it's not OK for Americans to do it?
On the contrary. The barrier to entry will increase, as more and more people become college educated and refuse to take manufacturing jobs.
Yes, but the idea for 'prospects' smacks of playing the lottery. True, an office job might give you the theoretical chance to rise to be the CEO, but what is the chance of it actually happening? People need to consider the average salaries through their lifetime, not one in a million chances to get a million bucks a month.
Jobs are not just an excuse to hand people wages. You hire workers for the product they create. So there must be enough demand for whatever educated people do if they are to make a living. And the more they are the smaller the part each one gets of the pie.
So people just blindly assuming that being educated in a university will automatically make them richer needs to stop. It might be true, but it's not automatic! The more people enroll in university the less true it becomes.
What if their prices are lower than other retailers' with just the amount of the surcharge?
Access to the internet would bring outside information, which would help destabilize the dictatorship.
That's why I always install Linux with the encrypted home folder option checked.
Phone manufacturing is outsourced, operating system is outsourced...
Apple also outsources phone manufacturing, and it's not killing them.
You didn't understand what I meant by evolution - I meant the development of DNA, RNA, ribosomes, etc. evolved. Those things aren't evolving now, they're already set in stone, and new superbugs aren't telling us anything about the origins of life.
I was replying to the "it could move scientists one step closer to understanding the first chapters of life on Earth" part of the summary.
Yes, but things like how DNA and ribosomes work, and the basic molecular machinery would have already been set in stone even in bacteria that old. All the rest is fine tuning to the current conditions and doesn't tell you much about the evolution of life.
It's the same as looking at the evolution of reptiles after the Mesozoic or the evolution of insects after the Paleozoic. Sure, there is some evolution, but the really interesting changes have already passed.
While they are chronologically old, they probably aren't much different from modern bacteria. Bacteria's evolution finished so early that anything younger than 200-300 million years after life began would not tell us anything about its evolution.
Yes, but the lever would be on the INSIDE side of the door.
But that is the problem - to get angry enough to start a revolution, people still need to know about those things that would make them angry, and the gatekeepers of information are in the position to ensure this doesn't happen.
I often use tabs, but not for multitasking - because going back does not preserve the state correctly in complex pages, so it's better to open a link in a new tab, read it, and then close it, than to open it in the same page and then do Alt+Left.
Did they commission Mel Gibson to write the apology?
It depends. Does the box need to be connected to the Internet in order to perform its function?
A lot of cafes in my country are using some Turbo Vision based software for processing orders and receipts.
The idea behind Chromebooks is great, but in my opinion it really boils down to mounting the home directory from a centralized company ftp server (ok, sftp/ftps) instead of from the local hard-drive. That way your laptop becomes just a thin client and when it breaks, any other laptop would be ready to use for your account.
As for locking it down, you can make the root partition read-only, plus you can choose not to give the root password to the user, so if he's not computer-savvy, he won't be able to install stuff he doesn't need for work.
I'm sure this can be setup without inventing a new operating system for the purpose.
No, but in practice, they would have to pay the entire bill for an international call.
A colleague of mine used to work for a company where he would be criticized for not staying late with the others when deadlines were looming, even though he had already finished his part long before.
Well, if iPads win, it'll be more like year of the FreeBSD tablet.
Remember the netbooks that started small, limited, and cheap. They gradually grew larger and more functional until they were basically laptops.
Well netbooks are still small (about 10 inch screen). That's not at all like the regular laptop which is 15.6''. The big difference for me is how much portable they are, I have a netbook and a laptop and if I want to do something quick I open the netbook, it's just more convenient to move it around.
Yes, but would it make the Internet stop working inside the USA? Or do you mean that China can disconnect itself from the Internet if it doesn't like it?