No. In my experience, most CS students now are part of the 'digital generation' and want to get an easy A or an easy degree. Not that this (introduction to the world of FLOSS) is a bad thing, quite the opposite. But still, for a perspective, most of the people in a web design class I'm in use Internet explorer and design all sites with WYSIWYGs.
Just something I've always thought about the failings in several traditional forms of governments:
Republics (representative democracies)- Work great in the beginning but degenerate into oligarchy. This is fairly close to inevitable.
Absolute Democracies- Work well in the beginning, degenerate into mob rule like in ancient Greece. Can be lessened with good education systems.
Benevolent dictatorships- Obviously degenerate into malevolent dictatorships. Inevitable.
Anarcy- works great for about 5 minutes then you get conquered by a warlord. Solvable if everyone sticks to their guns, but that presents a whole new set of problems
Meta government looks interesting, and I'm not sure how well it would work, but I'm keeping an eye on it from now on.
actually if I recall correctly, beta radiation is fairly dangerous and penetrates the skin quite well; its alpha that can't do much of anything outside the body.
I like and buy AMD CPUs, but I've always preferred nVidia for graphics cards; mostly because I run linux, for which ATI/AMD cards have notoriously poor support compared to nvidia. Vendor lock in, no matter the company is a terrible thing, I and everyone else should be able to get GPUs independent of CPUs, or any other hardware for that matter.
Seriously; what they need to do if they want to stop voter fraud and corruption (which they don't- its how they get into office, but this is if they did) they would just make the machines extremely simple single purpose hardware. What's it take to record a value (Say 0 for GOP, 1 for Dem, 2 for libertarian etc.) and send it in to be counted? Not much; barley anything. Hell, I could probably build one keeping the price in the double digits with parts from radioshack (though maybe I'm overestimating my abilities).
Reminds me of these xkcds a bit:http://xkcd.com/801/ http://xkcd.com/463/
that would require some type of force field technology or else you'd just walk right through. If they got that out of the way, most holodecks would need a good cleaning crew, preferably robotic.
that's strange; here in the conservative south, everyone (technologically illiterate or not) I explain NN to supports it fully; tea partiers included. Maybe you're just bad at explaining it?
Something I found extremely disturbing when comparing proposed space travel budgets as opposed to government overspending: The (extremely bloated) nasa mars mission plan in the early 90's, which called for orbital fuel depots, a quadrupling of the size of the ISS, lunar bases and ship yards plus a whole host of other stuff cost 450B$, or a fraction of the combined recent government bailouts of big business. Mars direct, zubrin's plan, called for something like 55B$, including mars habitation units left behind and fuel refineries.
I'd argue that w3c is generally visited by web developers. You're pretty much guaranteed to get a lower IE turnout among those who actually code for it.
I'm not sure if its available for windows, but here's a useful extension that I use to test minefield and beta firefoxes alongside my usual 3.6:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/141505/
Though it is, my bet is that we'll have to continue coding for IE6 until: A. Windows XP dies (2040's, 50's maybe) or B. Until free software conquers the computing world.
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No. In my experience, most CS students now are part of the 'digital generation' and want to get an easy A or an easy degree. Not that this (introduction to the world of FLOSS) is a bad thing, quite the opposite. But still, for a perspective, most of the people in a web design class I'm in use Internet explorer and design all sites with WYSIWYGs.
I say 20.
most humans see the world in black and white, rather than shades of gray.
Meta government looks interesting, and I'm not sure how well it would work, but I'm keeping an eye on it from now on.
If I go to google.cn, it's still just a link box to google.hk. I did a test search on Tienanmen square, and it showed relevant results.
It'd probably be canceled out by google's ending their censorship in china. Not that I disagree with you.
actually if I recall correctly, beta radiation is fairly dangerous and penetrates the skin quite well; its alpha that can't do much of anything outside the body.
I like and buy AMD CPUs, but I've always preferred nVidia for graphics cards; mostly because I run linux, for which ATI/AMD cards have notoriously poor support compared to nvidia. Vendor lock in, no matter the company is a terrible thing, I and everyone else should be able to get GPUs independent of CPUs, or any other hardware for that matter.
should've elected a knight?
Seriously; what they need to do if they want to stop voter fraud and corruption (which they don't- its how they get into office, but this is if they did) they would just make the machines extremely simple single purpose hardware. What's it take to record a value (Say 0 for GOP, 1 for Dem, 2 for libertarian etc.) and send it in to be counted? Not much; barley anything. Hell, I could probably build one keeping the price in the double digits with parts from radioshack (though maybe I'm overestimating my abilities).
Reminds me of these xkcds a bit:http://xkcd.com/801/ http://xkcd.com/463/
GPLv3 anyone?
that would require some type of force field technology or else you'd just walk right through. If they got that out of the way, most holodecks would need a good cleaning crew, preferably robotic.
that's strange; here in the conservative south, everyone (technologically illiterate or not) I explain NN to supports it fully; tea partiers included. Maybe you're just bad at explaining it?
or make lobbying count as treason in a court. And yeah, violent revolution's great.
People will stop using IE6 when windows XP finally dies. Late 357th century, if ever.
"The revolution shall come from within."- I just made that up
*shouts* THIS. IS. LINUX!!!
Use whatever the hell DE you like, you can change it at any time.
A tax dedicated to furthering technological progress? Experts say it'll happen on February 31, 2011.
Something I found extremely disturbing when comparing proposed space travel budgets as opposed to government overspending: The (extremely bloated) nasa mars mission plan in the early 90's, which called for orbital fuel depots, a quadrupling of the size of the ISS, lunar bases and ship yards plus a whole host of other stuff cost 450B$, or a fraction of the combined recent government bailouts of big business. Mars direct, zubrin's plan, called for something like 55B$, including mars habitation units left behind and fuel refineries.
I'd argue that w3c is generally visited by web developers. You're pretty much guaranteed to get a lower IE turnout among those who actually code for it.
I still want to know what idiot had the idea of putting windows 7 on a netbook...
I like having them at each other's throats (if they weren't, we'd get another IE6) but I still think IE should be killed off quickly, yet painfully.
Assuming you're not joking: WebM
I'm not sure if its available for windows, but here's a useful extension that I use to test minefield and beta firefoxes alongside my usual 3.6:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/141505/
Though it is, my bet is that we'll have to continue coding for IE6 until: A. Windows XP dies (2040's, 50's maybe) or B. Until free software conquers the computing world.