Think about it -- you have a system where resources are out of balance with the population (wealth vs. population, bandwidth usage vs. residents). In one case, the Slashbot crowd cries and moans because they're not part of that 5% with the money. In the other case, the Slashbot crowd cries and moans because they are part of the 2% that's overusing bandwidth.
What do you mean we're not part of the 5% with the money? Dude, we have computers! Do you realize just how poor the Third World is?
Anyway, I see the structure of your argument: my point is merely that poverty is directly connected to mortality, and a person's life is qualitatively different from a person's access to Internet bandwidth.
That said, I really don't see a lot of posts crying out at the injustice of this deed. Most people accept that the bandwidth provider has the right to regulate it.
(Isn't it interesting that you'll use the "libertarian" term for right-wingers, but you won't use the "socialist" term for yourself, instead prefering "lefty"? Just something to think about...)
Well, okay then: I'm a socialist. Sure, "lefty" is more vague; specifying my exact alignment on the political spectrum was unnecessary for my purpose, which was just to say I'm left-wing enough to be painfully aware of the predominance of Slashdot libertarians.
To your other point, where did I imply all right-wingers are libertarian? I merely said there were a lot of libertarians on Slashdot.
First off: dude, apples and oranges. You're comparing people starving to death from economic sanctions and soulless global capitalism with people who are unable to download porn quickly.
Next, from my rather lefty perspective, I find an inordinate number of the Slashdot crowd irritatingly libertarian. It's all about perspective.
A rather less politely-worded letter was sent to the maintainer of Ulysses for Dummies, a spoof of Joyce's novel, back in 1998. The hilarious and thorough reply concluded, 'Frankly, we're going to keep the site just as it is, and the successful IDG Books "... for Dummies" series will just have to learn to live with it.'
MediaDefender president Randy Saaf said the company can also block downloads through a technique called "interdiction," which closes off a user's hard drive to others on the network.
Whoa. For a second there I thought he was going to request the Pope interdict any offending user. I guess even the RIAA realizes that an eternity of fiery damnation is a bit much for a few mp3s.
Coming from a company that paid for Oracle on Linux (well over $60,000), I can assure you that companies have no problems paying for software on Linux.
Dude, that's his point: that Microsoft is wrong, and that Linux users *do* pay for commercial software.
No, the news is not about the fact that C# will or will not be required in the E&CE 150 course.
It is simply that the university administration was decided to spend a year in consideration of the integration of C# into E&CE 150, rather than immediately springing for it as previously announced.
If, after this consideration, they decide to go for it, it will indeed be a mandatory part of the course, and thus of the electrical and computer engineering program.
Again it's important to emphasize that Waterloo has a computer science program and an computer engineering program, and they're quite separate.
I suspect University of Waterloo is has a pedagogical philosophy more along the lines of a community college and scimps on theory.
I respect your Washington for avoiding the appearance of compromise. But I have to diagree with you here. Comp.Eng. has pretty substantial theory requirements in itself, but CS especially has quite a bit of theory. They're trying to reduce it here, of course, because code-monkey-wannabes complain, but I was able to make theory the bulk of my fourth-year specialization.
At the University of Washington I felt no pressure to learn Microsoft products or proprietary languages. It was quite the opposite, in fact. I'm certain no other University has a stronger relationship with Microsoft.
A while ago there was a big issue when the Ottawa Citizen claimed that something like 40% percent of Waterloo graduates were snapped up by Microsoft; this fed right into the "brain drain" flames the paper had been fanning for months. It turned out to be a misunderstanding -- the paper's source was some statistic cited about "UW", which was actually the Washington, not Waterloo. So I'll grant you that no one is tighter to Redmond than Washington.
I realize it has different links, but it doesn't seem like the editor was even aware it had been posted before. Is it so hard to do a simple keyword search before posting? Please!
You mean your species. Not trying to be racist. but if India reached mars first, then you'd have to have had an Indian ancestor to claim that. Same thing with Chinese.
You don't have to use the word "species"; there is such a term as "the human race".
Indeed, the use of this term should be encouraged, to emphasize that there is only one race, i.e. that a "race" is an ill-defined collection of arbitrary phenotypes and hence meaningless.
You wannabes cry like a girl about lost freedom, constitutional rights, etc. when it comes to the DMCA, yet when american citizens are granted some their most fundamental rights, that's "sugar coating" for you. stfu and sit down you little hypocrite.
I'll grant you your point: it's premature and unfair to call this "fraud" as yet.
However, calling it an "irregularity" is covering your ass in order to avoid libel because of "innocent until proven guilty". Calling it an "error" is not. "Rrror" means a mistake was definitely involved. Just as we don't know it was deliberate, we also don't know it was accidental, so we shouldn't say anything either way.
Well, the biggest argument I can make against USian is that appending "ian" to an abbreviation is damned ugly.
Regarding the bit about the English, note that technically there is no country named England; this is merely a territory of the nation known formally as Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So, at least as far as nationality is concerned, there are no "English", and there haven't been since the eighteenth century. That some "British" citizens happen to call themselves "English" is incidental.
A quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based, said Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Fred Mumford. That seems to rule out tar from roofs or street repairs and leaky cars.
This is not the same as what the OP claimed: "Investigators say that they're not petrolium based" (sic).
Unless AT&T has not changed its warnings in three years (unlikely) and such warnings have been leaked multiple times (more unlikely) this would seem to be a fake.
Sure, It's nice that it's there, but to really learn math, you will need to take classes. Mathworld is good for quick-reference definitions and theorem statements, but it's tough to learn from it.
If you're going to plug math content sites on Slashdot, though, you might as well plug PlanetMath, which in addition to being freely accessible, has all of its content published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
I don't think you're offtopic, but I do think you should have revealed your source. It wasn't until I got to the bit about serfs that I realized I was reading a communist tract.
I appreciate the need to explode propangandist myths about Tibet and the Dalai Lama, and I think the description of pre-Communist serfdom is believable and probably not far off the mark. But I think the one-sided presentation of China as egalitarian liberator is almost or equally false.
It's forgivable in propaganda that identifies itself as such, though, and that's why I think you should have identified your source.
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Think about it -- you have a system where resources are out of balance with the population (wealth vs. population, bandwidth usage vs. residents). In one case, the Slashbot crowd cries and moans because they're not part of that 5% with the money. In the other case, the Slashbot crowd cries and moans because they are part of the 2% that's overusing bandwidth.
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What do you mean we're not part of the 5% with the money? Dude, we have computers! Do you realize just how poor the Third World is?
Anyway, I see the structure of your argument: my point is merely that poverty is directly connected to mortality, and a person's life is qualitatively different from a person's access to Internet bandwidth.
That said, I really don't see a lot of posts crying out at the injustice of this deed. Most people accept that the bandwidth provider has the right to regulate it.
(Isn't it interesting that you'll use the "libertarian" term for right-wingers, but you won't use the "socialist" term for yourself, instead prefering "lefty"? Just something to think about
Well, okay then: I'm a socialist. Sure, "lefty" is more vague; specifying my exact alignment on the political spectrum was unnecessary for my purpose, which was just to say I'm left-wing enough to be painfully aware of the predominance of Slashdot libertarians.
To your other point, where did I imply all right-wingers are libertarian? I merely said there were a lot of libertarians on Slashdot.
First off: dude, apples and oranges. You're comparing people starving to death from economic sanctions and soulless global capitalism with people who are unable to download porn quickly.
Next, from my rather lefty perspective, I find an inordinate number of the Slashdot crowd irritatingly libertarian. It's all about perspective.
And maybe you're just wrong.
"Practise" is the verb; "practice" the noun, in countries that follow British spelling. Like Canada. Ask the Oxford English Dictionary.
A rather less politely-worded letter was sent to the maintainer of ... for Dummies" series will just have to learn to live with it.'
Ulysses for Dummies,
a spoof of Joyce's novel, back in 1998. The hilarious and thorough reply concluded,
'Frankly, we're going to keep the site just as it is, and the successful IDG Books "
MediaDefender president Randy Saaf said the company can also block downloads through a technique called "interdiction," which closes off a user's hard drive to others on the network.
Whoa. For a second there I thought he was going to request the Pope interdict any offending user. I guess even the RIAA realizes that an eternity of fiery damnation is a bit much for a few mp3s.
When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading Communism!
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0011/mp3/images/m p3.jpg
Is anyone else here like me, and upon reading about Ballmer's "MVP" initiative thought of the
MVP: Most Valuable Primate movies?
Ballmer being advised on Microsoft's technical strategy by a worldwide network of programmer chimps : it's more than just an amusing thought.
Coming from a company that paid for Oracle on Linux (well over $60,000), I can assure you that companies have no problems paying for software on Linux.
Dude, that's his point: that Microsoft is wrong, and that Linux users *do* pay for commercial software.
...never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
No, the news is not about the fact that C# will or will not be required in the E&CE 150 course.
It is simply that the university administration was decided to spend a year in consideration of the integration of C# into E&CE 150, rather than immediately springing for it as previously announced.
If, after this consideration, they decide to go for it, it will indeed be a mandatory part of the course, and thus of the electrical and computer engineering program.
Damn straight. And you can even get that slogan on a tank top.
Again it's important to emphasize that Waterloo has a computer science program and an computer engineering program, and they're quite separate.
I suspect University of Waterloo is has a pedagogical philosophy more along the lines of a community college and scimps on theory.
I respect your Washington for avoiding the appearance of compromise. But I have to diagree with you here. Comp.Eng. has pretty substantial theory requirements in itself, but CS especially has quite a bit of theory. They're trying to reduce it here, of course, because code-monkey-wannabes complain, but I was able to make theory the bulk of my fourth-year specialization.
At the University of Washington I felt no pressure to learn Microsoft products or proprietary languages. It was quite the opposite, in fact. I'm certain no other University has a stronger relationship with Microsoft.
A while ago there was a big issue when the Ottawa Citizen claimed that something like 40% percent of Waterloo graduates were snapped up by Microsoft; this fed right into the "brain drain" flames the paper had been fanning for months. It turned out to be a misunderstanding -- the paper's source was some statistic cited about "UW", which was actually the Washington, not Waterloo. So I'll grant you that no one is tighter to Redmond than Washington.
At least we can spell spaghetti, eh?
This was posted on Slashdot on Saturday.
I realize it has different links, but it doesn't seem like the editor was even aware it had been posted before. Is it so hard to do a simple keyword search before posting? Please!
You mean your species. Not trying to be racist. but if India reached mars first, then you'd have to have had an Indian ancestor to claim that. Same thing with Chinese.
You don't have to use the word "species"; there is such a term as "the human race".
Indeed, the use of this term should be encouraged, to emphasize that there is only one race, i.e. that a "race" is an ill-defined collection of arbitrary phenotypes and hence meaningless.
You wannabes cry like a girl about lost freedom, constitutional rights, etc. when it comes to the DMCA, yet when american citizens are granted some their most fundamental rights, that's "sugar coating" for you. stfu and sit down you little hypocrite.
I'll grant you your point: it's premature and unfair to call this "fraud" as yet.
However, calling it an "irregularity" is covering your ass in order to avoid libel because of "innocent until proven guilty". Calling it an "error" is not. "Rrror" means a mistake was definitely involved. Just as we don't know it was deliberate, we also don't know it was accidental, so we shouldn't say anything either way.
Besides, it's not like every news media outlet is keeping its ass similarly covered. As another poster noticed, the Washington Post has no problem with calling this "fraud".
Well, the biggest argument I can make against USian is that appending "ian" to an abbreviation is damned ugly.
Regarding the bit about the English, note that technically there is no country named England; this is merely a territory of the nation known formally as Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So, at least as far as nationality is concerned, there are no "English", and there haven't been since the eighteenth century. That some "British" citizens happen to call themselves "English" is incidental.
From the article (emphasis mine):
A quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based, said Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Fred Mumford. That seems to rule out tar from roofs or street repairs and leaky cars.
This is not the same as what the OP claimed: "Investigators say that they're not petrolium based" (sic).
Maybe it is just tar or cigarette remains.
Actually a lot of people are comparing it to Mathematica; some even favourably.
The real question is: what does the NSA use for symbolic computation? :)
Read this very similar AT&T warning about a 1998 DEF CON conference:
http://www.defcon.org/TEXT/6/att-dc-6-alert.txt
Unless AT&T has not changed its warnings in three years (unlikely) and such warnings have been leaked multiple times (more unlikely) this would seem to be a fake.
Sure, It's nice that it's there, but to really learn math, you will need to take classes.
Mathworld is good for quick-reference definitions and theorem statements, but it's tough to learn from it.
If you're going to plug math content sites on Slashdot, though, you might as well plug PlanetMath, which in addition to being freely accessible, has all of its content published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Well, in Russia you at least have the right to break encrypted PDFs. :)
Bundle your classes in executable JAR files.
Java registers the extension such that the code will be correctly executed.
In fact, Solaris machines even recognize the jar magic cookie sequence, so in recent Solaris versions (v 9, IIRC) you can do
./myjarfile
instead of
java -jar myjarfile
I don't think you're offtopic, but I do think you should have revealed your source. It wasn't until I got to the bit about serfs that I realized I was reading a communist tract. I appreciate the need to explode propangandist myths about Tibet and the Dalai Lama, and I think the description of pre-Communist serfdom is believable and probably not far off the mark. But I think the one-sided presentation of China as egalitarian liberator is almost or equally false. It's forgivable in propaganda that identifies itself as such, though, and that's why I think you should have identified your source.