I see two major factors that people don't seem to want to discuss.
1) The Y2K process employed a large number of programmers that are honestly no longer needed.
2) The shortages of programmers for Y2K caused Programmer Salaries to expand
The problem with the modern US economy is that Wages do not tend to be allowed to go down. Out-sourcing to other Countries is very much a direct result of this. Companies are stuck with huge numbers of US programmers that earned big bucks at the turn of the century, and they are very reluctant to start making a bunch less than they were.
What *must* happen is that US Salaries for programming go down. Once (IF) that happens, the demand will return.
The worst thing that could happen is if the Government gets involved and tries to prop up the over-inflated wages, and tries to penalize companies for outsourcing. Then companies will just have to go out of business, and whole sections of the industry will be gone.
Separately, one area that is going to continue to be a viable job source is Medium Enterprises that do alot of internal programming. Especially with more and more Open Source alternatives coming about, companies are going to need the Nerds and Geeks to implement specializations for their company on top of that software.
This is exactly the point of the Constitution's separation of the Federal Government and the States' Government. The other 49 States don't have a right to tell 1 State what to do with it's electoral votes. It is supremely up to the State and ONLY the State to determine how it will cast it's votes in the Presidential Election.
The solution to this problem is not to take away more State's power, but to begin to restore it by breaking down the powers of the Federal Government. As a citizen of Missouri, I should have absolutely *NO* say about what the citizens of Kansas can and cannot do.
In another post, another person brought up the secession of Georgia. The problem they cited thoroughly in that document was the arrogance and corruption of the Northern States that refused to follow Constitutional laws and statutes because of their own determined ideals. It should not matter how many people in New York and California decide that people that live by the Ocean should get a new car, the people of Missouri should not be coerced into paying for it. (or Any OTHER State)
The United STATES of America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The Sovreign States should not be required to change their methods of sending representatives to the Federal Government. That should be left to their own governments to decide.
1. Ashley Highfield 2. Steve Jobs 3. Niklas Zennstrom 4. Tom Ridge 5. David Blunkett 6. Richard Granger 7. Linus Torvalds 7. Bill Gates 9. Eric Schmidt 10. Marc Benioff 11. Sir Peter Gershon 12. Marten Mickos 13. Meg Whitman 14. Sir David Tweedie 15. Jonathan Ive 16. James Murdoch 17. Arun Sarin 18. Rupert Murdoch 19. Sven Jaschan 20. S Ramadorai 21. Karen Price 22. Lawrence Lessig 23. Ian Foster 24. Jonathan Schwartz 25. Joe McGeehan 26. Vivek Paul 27. Sam Palmisano 28. Eric Abensur 29. Martin Varsavsky 30. Donald E Knuth 31. Len Hynds 32. David Levin 33. John Connors 34. Michael Dell 35. Azim Premji 36. Ben Verwaayen 37. Daniel Egger 38. Van Honeycutt 39. Jon Rubinstein 40. Mark J Cox 41. Hu Jintao 42. Dan'l Lewin 43. Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley 44. Richard Stallman 45. Ratan Tata 46. Michael Powell 47. David Sainsbury 48. Andy Duncan 49. Bernard C Soriano 50. Simon Davies
The foolishness of people never ceases to amaze me.
The news hits that Microsoft is involved with contributing a piece of software to the community at large, and immediately it's website is completely defaced and vulgarized. If I was Microsoft or Pro-Microsoft I'd be using that as major FUD against corporations thinking about using Open Source anything.
So many losers in the world with nothing to do but smoke, drink, jerk off, and cuss at Microsoft.
Would you like to provide an ancient historical reference to Marriage that pre-dates Genesis?
It is the belief of Jews and Christians (probably Muslims too) that God invented/created Marriage, and defined it as between one man and one woman.
Aside from that,
A question that needs to be answered is this: Can Government actually positively affect the course of Society as a whole?
If Government can not actually change the course of the function of Society, then it should not practice the encouragement of one behaviour or belief over another.
On the other hand, if it does have that ability, a new question is raised: What direction can Goverment try to guide Society?
I do not think that you will find agreement across the histories of the States of America about the level of involvement in this process. Since Belief systems(commonly called religion) are core to the direction people take in their lives, and one of the most fundamental freedoms that this country was founded upon is the ability to believe however you wish (as long as it does not infringe upon other people's rights (Life, Liberty, Property/Pursuit of Happiness)), the Federal Government (by no means) and the State Goverments should not prescribe which beliefs the people should hold to.
A question that you must ask yourself, is this: If the majority of the people in this country somehow became Muslim (or Buddhist, Jewish, Wiccan, Mormon, whatever) how much right do you think they should have in Guiding your belief system, or even rewarding certain activities? Should the government reward people for women not working? Should the government place restrictions on the pork industry? How about tax breaks for polygamy?
My proposed answer is that the Federal Government needs to get out of the Societal Guiding business.
And YES, I'm willing to give up my Married and Child based Tax Breaks. Although I strongly prefer a Federal Sales Tax
Tell me exactly what the United States of America did in 1776 to become the greatest nation ever formed in the history of the Earth?
My opinion is that it granted freedom to it's citizens.
The libertarian viewpoint isn't to destroy government, but to re-focus it on giving individuals the freedom to "Life, Liberty, and " property/pursuit of happiness.
In addition, please explain how universal education directly affects Companies, Lords, Kings, and Warlords.
Since the latter three generally do not exist in the USA, an explanation of how Companies are affected would suffice.
There is information to suggest that not only is Universal Education (Government Schools) not beneficial, it actually creates the whole problem of an overly gullible populace.
You're consistently assuming that the public is going to be controlled in such a way that they won't be able to freely read/hear/watch the truth about these supposed corporations. The number 1 reason that the people of America aren't properly educated is because of the Government Schools that intentionally retard maturity, and create a dependency upon the "establishment" if you will. Once people are freely taught how to think for themselves, then said advertisements won't mean anything anymore. Plus, when you return individual accontability to the mix, you will eventually get away from the big corporations that don't have any responsibility from their own actions. It's all tied together. You have to look at how big a corporation can get without blind public investment. When investors are actually responsible for where their money goes, there will be far fewer dollars thrown at these big corporations. Publicly held corporations are not the same as Privately held companies. These changes will push towards privatisation of companies as well. In addition, when the companies are inherently smaller, they will have to form coalitions instead of having huge international corporate vertical monopolies. The bottom line of it all is this: Individual citizens **MUST** be held to account for their own actions. This is the only way that individual freedoms can be protected.
Because they're smarter than the sex crazed majority of American Sheep out there. Unfortunately they're not less likely to be sex obsessed if they're between 12 and 25...
Exactly. As long as you don't claim that you gained the insight of seeing the parallel yourself, and quote some other source you may actually get bonus points for doing the research. It all depends on the assignment itself too. If the professor specifically asks you to read only the book and give your own first take on it, then using other sources would of course be failing to complete the assigned task appropriately.
In general, we need educators with more passion for education, and students willing to accept the evaluation of their honest effort. 70% of the class should get C's since that's *AVERAGE*. Instead we have problems on both sides. If students don't all get A's and B's they complain, or worse have their rich Allumni Daddies, Uncles etc. complain and maybe have the professor removed.
Universities need to ditch the big money Athletic programs and return to actually educating people. Which means helping them to think for themselves!
What in the world are you talking about? We are more powerful now in relation to the rest of the world than ever before in our brief history. The rest of the world is scared to death of us because there is noone that can stand against us (In the recent past, the Cold War kept us balanced in opposition to another Super Power). In fact, just because of the US' economic, technological, and military power the rest of the world is being compelled to join forces as a precaution (eg European Union), and they always assume we're just in it for us.
It's important to note that the US is also the most benevolent country in terms of Humanitarian Aid. For instance, our giving to the UN AIDS CAP in 2003 (http://www.un.org/depts/ocha/cap/appeals.html) is more than the next 10 donors combined. Only 4 very small countries gave more as a % of GDP.
We as citizens of the United States have had a long history of being very very benevolent to the world. That comes directly out of the population's Christian roots. As we lose that, and as the Radical Left seeks to squash every expression of Christianity from the public view, we will become a lesser nation.
If you Read The Article you would have realized that they were not only advocating page reload *programs* and distributing them (for the express purpose of DoS), but also "mischief and mayhem" by hacking and defacing websites.
I would wager to guess that the "organizers" of this DoS could be charged with something, but no I don't think it is currently *expressly* illegal, but it is at minimum disturbing the Cyber-Peace, which could be translated from current laws.
The grooves mentioned don't look like they have anything to do with the landscape. Some of the lines move across more "real" looking features. The lines look too regular, and can be seen across too many different parts of the picture. (The closer you look, the more you can see these lines)
I would interpret them as compression anomalies until I saw multiple images of the same thing from different angles.
Another thing that was interesting is that each pixel of the photograph is 20m across.
Finally, if you look closely, at the lower right part of the flat spot in question you see similar patterns that are white instead of black in nature. If they were physical grooves, you would see the proper shadows of the ones going up and down in the picture, but when the grooves turned to run right to left they would be less visible.
I think this is directly related to the question at hand. You have to ask yourself what you're going to be doing long term. Just ask how many people on slashdot quit their degree back in the mid-late 90's and are regretting it now. Do you ever plan to get married? Do you ever plan to have kids? Do you think getting a Bachelors or even an advanced degree will be easier at that time in the future, or now? Just because the economy is slow currently doesn't mean it will remain so, AND, the more capable you are OVERALL, not just in a specific technology, the better the chances that you'll get a good long term career going.
Another way to look at it is this: When you're applying for the good jobs, what types of things will potential employers use to statistically eliminate the majority of applicants?
In my experience, experience doesn't always count enough. If my resume is on a 100 deep pile, and I have more experience than someone with a degree, it doesn't end up mattering. They say "Ok, show me the pile with degrees." Then they may say, "Ok, show me the pile with degrees AND experience." They'll do this just to lower the number of applicants they have to look over.
You can still get hired, but only in situations where your skillset matches what they want, AND none of the degreed applicants comes close. Degrees do matter, and at 19, you have it SO SO SO easy. Go enjoy the irresponsible life in a dorm and don't skip class! Develop the skill of working hard at things you don't like doing. Everyone knows there's plenty of stuff you don't like doing in every job.
That's true for any second language though.. And you could learn something that actually DOES have international ties as well as root ties to English, and that would be Latin. Learning Latin will give you a better understanding of the constructs of the English language as well as being the formal root for Spanish, Italian, and French. I don't think you could rate Esperanto as highly since it's a modern make believe language.
All that besides the benefit of learning an ancient language to orient yourself with the history of western civilization. The world didn't come into being in the Information Age.. There are many things to learn from the histories of all peoples. (most of which are not included by Latin, yes I understand that:) I happen to enjoy Asian languages as well (Japanese))
The top game guesser has 25 points when you get 10 for a correct game guess, so I'd say they need a ton more people visiting the site with that nostalgic feeling. Sounds like a cool idea, but I suppose this story didn't get posted to the front page.
Get out there and help them solve their unknown games all you who lurk in the gamers hall of memories:)
The biggest thing I have to say is that you should do a little dividing of the playing field.
For power gamer types, you can have a really difficult server where they will find many more people just like them. They will have no restrictions on how much they can play or do, but getting to the top will take tons of effort and time.
For more casual gamers, the kind that may get frustrated by how much time and effort it takes to do anything (WHAT?? I have to kill 300 Rats to get to level 2????), you should have a Social/Casual server. One in which "levelling" aspects of the game are restricted. You can only be in a fighting area of the game for a certain time amount per day/week. This would allow people that like to do things socially, or maybe only have time to play 1 or 2 nights a week or weekends to enjoy the game and progress, but not have tons of freaking power gamers running around to get jealous of.
The other main aspect that is critical, is that you need to make the game require some cooperation to reach goals. It can't be just click click click wow, I'm a god.... Next game! Make the game require teamwork and creativity to go forward. You also have to allow power gamer types to have influence over the world. They have to be able to affect the storyline, and be spontaneously inventive. Otherwise they will hit any limit you imagine.
[SARCASM] BUT that's against the American way to parent! Both of us (mom and dad) are driving around in our SUV's and working overtime to pay for them, and the Boat, and the lake house, and the House that we've refinanced 3 times in the last 3 years. We don't have TIME to monitor their video game usage. Heck we're not even there to hug them when they come home from school. We're pissed that our kids and their friends are out vandalizing the neighborhoods between the time school is out and we get home, and it's the government's job to do something about it! [/SARCASM]
I am a Father of 2, and the only one that works outside the home. I would never say that my wife doesn't work, but she does not work for income. As parents it is solely our responsibility what our children do, what they learn, and who they become. The government doesn't owe us anything in regards to raising our children, and I don't want them telling me anything about how I raise them. We have a full-time loving caregiver, and our 2 are the only ones she has to provide for. This is thousands of times better than paying some daycare to watch them.
More specifically, as parents, we have to teach our children to control their own time. To make decisions about their own well-being. Not to rigidly control things from the outside, or to set up arbitrary devices to run their lives. They have to learn to be responsible for their own actions. We do this by telling them the rules, and then enforcing consequenses if they go outside the rules. They know up front what will happen, and we must be consistent so that they will make the right decisions. You can't delegate your responsibilities to some electronic box. Period. You can't even trust government employees, teachers, day care workers etc. They aren't the parents, you must decide and work to instill values, morals, and the ability to act responsibly yourself. Noone can do that for you. If you don't like it, don't have children.
I can't believe that anyone who doesn't care about the humans that will have to die in experiments having rights, will care at all whether the genetically modified products of said experiments have any rights. When the value of a human life is reduced enough to allow arbitrary choices to determine whether a human being lives or not then it doesn't matter at all whether these GM's are persecuted. They don't even have the right to live according to the scientists that created them. That GM is lucky to even be alive if they make it past the experimental selection process. Why should anyone be bickering about whether these people attain citizenship of the USA, or some other country.
As soon as scientists can create their own life from matter that they produced, then they will have the right to do anything they please with it. Until then, noone has the right to destroy a human life.
You'd be doing yourself an immense favor if you chose not to purchase anything, and simply used books for entertainment. Is even our "Intellectual" community now desiring to turn off their brain by simply having Audio Visual input blasted straight at them?
Back on the topic though, I can't imagine spending money on a portable DVD player. For that matter, I can't imagine collecting any single purpose electronic devices. I'd have to say go the Laptop route. It will always be just as capable of playing DVDs as a dedicated portable, and you'll get all the other more useful features out of it. I don't have any experience with a Mac, but that's what I'd consider first.
Are there any links or more detailed analyses of the archaeoligical find? I'd like to know what methods of dating they were using to be able to throw around 1.4 million year numbers.
Generally the dating methods used are quite unfalsifiable. We have no way to prove any of the data that they return.
BTW, on a related note, where is the crater from the extinction event they refered to? Anyone have links for that?
I work for the same type of company in a different industry. We are the number two food service distributor in the southeast Texas market. We have one location, and distribute all over Texas. The reason we are number two (Behind the national company Sysco, headquartered here in Houston, and the largest food service distributor in the world) is because we take care of our customers. If they forget to order something, we have reps that will get in their car and drive that product out to them. We service those customers. You have to find what your customers need and provide it for them.
People don't want a computer, they want to DO something with the computer. If you have people that are willing to talk to these customers and find out their needs, you will be able to form bonds with customers that will out-last any hardware you may sell them.
Some people have said that you need to find those med-large businesses, but I'd say one of your best bets would be to find those businesses that are like ours. If a business is built on servicing their customers, they are very likely to appreciate a service that you can provide them. Business works when your customers can say, "They just take care of me". They really honestly won't care about the 5-15% increased cost of hardware. As long as they are getting the service they pay for.
No, I haven't done my research. Have you? I'd like to look at some good hard evidence. Statistics and Satellite photography. Do you have any references to Scientific journals that back up your arguments? I don't want any links to activist groups' pages. Nor do I want any links to Political opinion.
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Maybe he should keep his un-informed too busy mouth shut about the Red Sox then.
I see two major factors that people don't seem to want to discuss.
1) The Y2K process employed a large number of programmers that are honestly no longer needed.
2) The shortages of programmers for Y2K caused Programmer Salaries to expand
The problem with the modern US economy is that Wages do not tend to be allowed to go down. Out-sourcing to other Countries is very much a direct result of this. Companies are stuck with huge numbers of US programmers that earned big bucks at the turn of the century, and they are very reluctant to start making a bunch less than they were.
What *must* happen is that US Salaries for programming go down. Once (IF) that happens, the demand will return.
The worst thing that could happen is if the Government gets involved and tries to prop up the over-inflated wages, and tries to penalize companies for outsourcing. Then companies will just have to go out of business, and whole sections of the industry will be gone.
Separately, one area that is going to continue to be a viable job source is Medium Enterprises that do alot of internal programming. Especially with more and more Open Source alternatives coming about, companies are going to need the Nerds and Geeks to implement specializations for their company on top of that software.
This is exactly the point of the Constitution's separation of the Federal Government and the States' Government. The other 49 States don't have a right to tell 1 State what to do with it's electoral votes. It is supremely up to the State and ONLY the State to determine how it will cast it's votes in the Presidential Election.
The solution to this problem is not to take away more State's power, but to begin to restore it by breaking down the powers of the Federal Government. As a citizen of Missouri, I should have absolutely *NO* say about what the citizens of Kansas can and cannot do.
In another post, another person brought up the secession of Georgia. The problem they cited thoroughly in that document was the arrogance and corruption of the Northern States that refused to follow Constitutional laws and statutes because of their own determined ideals. It should not matter how many people in New York and California decide that people that live by the Ocean should get a new car, the people of Missouri should not be coerced into paying for it. (or Any OTHER State)
The United STATES of America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The Sovreign States should not be required to change their methods of sending representatives to the Federal Government. That should be left to their own governments to decide.
1. Ashley Highfield
2. Steve Jobs
3. Niklas Zennstrom
4. Tom Ridge
5. David Blunkett
6. Richard Granger
7. Linus Torvalds
7. Bill Gates
9. Eric Schmidt
10. Marc Benioff
11. Sir Peter Gershon
12. Marten Mickos
13. Meg Whitman
14. Sir David Tweedie
15. Jonathan Ive
16. James Murdoch
17. Arun Sarin
18. Rupert Murdoch
19. Sven Jaschan
20. S Ramadorai
21. Karen Price
22. Lawrence Lessig
23. Ian Foster
24. Jonathan Schwartz
25. Joe McGeehan
26. Vivek Paul
27. Sam Palmisano
28. Eric Abensur
29. Martin Varsavsky
30. Donald E Knuth
31. Len Hynds
32. David Levin
33. John Connors
34. Michael Dell
35. Azim Premji
36. Ben Verwaayen
37. Daniel Egger
38. Van Honeycutt
39. Jon Rubinstein
40. Mark J Cox
41. Hu Jintao
42. Dan'l Lewin
43. Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley
44. Richard Stallman
45. Ratan Tata
46. Michael Powell
47. David Sainsbury
48. Andy Duncan
49. Bernard C Soriano
50. Simon Davies
The foolishness of people never ceases to amaze me.
The news hits that Microsoft is involved with contributing a piece of software to the community at large, and immediately it's website is completely defaced and vulgarized. If I was Microsoft or Pro-Microsoft I'd be using that as major FUD against corporations thinking about using Open Source anything.
So many losers in the world with nothing to do but smoke, drink, jerk off, and cuss at Microsoft.
Idiots.
Would you like to provide an ancient historical reference to Marriage that pre-dates Genesis?
It is the belief of Jews and Christians (probably Muslims too) that God invented/created Marriage, and defined it as between one man and one woman.
Aside from that,
A question that needs to be answered is this:
Can Government actually positively affect the course of Society as a whole?
If Government can not actually change the course of the function of Society, then it should not practice the encouragement of one behaviour or belief over another.
On the other hand, if it does have that ability, a new question is raised:
What direction can Goverment try to guide Society?
I do not think that you will find agreement across the histories of the States of America about the level of involvement in this process. Since Belief systems(commonly called religion) are core to the direction people take in their lives, and one of the most fundamental freedoms that this country was founded upon is the ability to believe however you wish (as long as it does not infringe upon other people's rights (Life, Liberty, Property/Pursuit of Happiness)), the Federal Government (by no means) and the State Goverments should not prescribe which beliefs the people should hold to.
A question that you must ask yourself, is this:
If the majority of the people in this country somehow became Muslim (or Buddhist, Jewish, Wiccan, Mormon, whatever) how much right do you think they should have in Guiding your belief system, or even rewarding certain activities?
Should the government reward people for women not working? Should the government place restrictions on the pork industry? How about tax breaks for polygamy?
My proposed answer is that the Federal Government needs to get out of the Societal Guiding business.
And YES, I'm willing to give up my Married and Child based Tax Breaks. Although I strongly prefer a Federal Sales Tax
Tell me exactly what the United States of America did in 1776 to become the greatest nation ever formed in the history of the Earth?
My opinion is that it granted freedom to it's citizens.
The libertarian viewpoint isn't to destroy government, but to re-focus it on giving individuals the freedom to "Life, Liberty, and " property/pursuit of happiness.
In addition, please explain how universal education directly affects Companies, Lords, Kings, and Warlords.
Since the latter three generally do not exist in the USA, an explanation of how Companies are affected would suffice.
There is information to suggest that not only is Universal Education (Government Schools) not beneficial, it actually creates the whole problem of an overly gullible populace.
There are definitely people willing to make a well-reasoned argument against government schools.
You're consistently assuming that the public is going to be controlled in such a way that they won't be able to freely read/hear/watch the truth about these supposed corporations. The number 1 reason that the people of America aren't properly educated is because of the Government Schools that intentionally retard maturity, and create a dependency upon the "establishment" if you will. Once people are freely taught how to think for themselves, then said advertisements won't mean anything anymore. Plus, when you return individual accontability to the mix, you will eventually get away from the big corporations that don't have any responsibility from their own actions.
It's all tied together. You have to look at how big a corporation can get without blind public investment. When investors are actually responsible for where their money goes, there will be far fewer dollars thrown at these big corporations.
Publicly held corporations are not the same as Privately held companies. These changes will push towards privatisation of companies as well. In addition, when the companies are inherently smaller, they will have to form coalitions instead of having huge international corporate vertical monopolies.
The bottom line of it all is this:
Individual citizens **MUST** be held to account for their own actions. This is the only way that individual freedoms can be protected.
Because they're smarter than the sex crazed majority of American Sheep out there. Unfortunately they're not less likely to be sex obsessed if they're between 12 and 25...
Exactly. As long as you don't claim that you gained the insight of seeing the parallel yourself, and quote some other source you may actually get bonus points for doing the research. It all depends on the assignment itself too. If the professor specifically asks you to read only the book and give your own first take on it, then using other sources would of course be failing to complete the assigned task appropriately.
In general, we need educators with more passion for education, and students willing to accept the evaluation of their honest effort. 70% of the class should get C's since that's *AVERAGE*. Instead we have problems on both sides. If students don't all get A's and B's they complain, or worse have their rich Allumni Daddies, Uncles etc. complain and maybe have the professor removed.
Universities need to ditch the big money Athletic programs and return to actually educating people. Which means helping them to think for themselves!
"No Longer A Superpower"???
What in the world are you talking about? We are more powerful now in relation to the rest of the world than ever before in our brief history. The rest of the world is scared to death of us because there is noone that can stand against us (In the recent past, the Cold War kept us balanced in opposition to another Super Power). In fact, just because of the US' economic, technological, and military power the rest of the world is being compelled to join forces as a precaution (eg European Union), and they always assume we're just in it for us.
It's important to note that the US is also the most benevolent country in terms of Humanitarian Aid. For instance, our giving to the UN AIDS CAP in 2003 (http://www.un.org/depts/ocha/cap/appeals.html) is more than the next 10 donors combined. Only 4 very small countries gave more as a % of GDP.
We as citizens of the United States have had a long history of being very very benevolent to the world. That comes directly out of the population's Christian roots. As we lose that, and as the Radical Left seeks to squash every expression of Christianity from the public view, we will become a lesser nation.
If you Read The Article you would have realized that they were not only advocating page reload *programs* and distributing them (for the express purpose of DoS), but also "mischief and mayhem" by hacking and defacing websites.
I would wager to guess that the "organizers" of this DoS could be charged with something, but no I don't think it is currently *expressly* illegal, but it is at minimum disturbing the Cyber-Peace, which could be translated from current laws.
The grooves mentioned don't look like they have anything to do with the landscape. Some of the lines move across more "real" looking features. The lines look too regular, and can be seen across too many different parts of the picture. (The closer you look, the more you can see these lines)
I would interpret them as compression anomalies until I saw multiple images of the same thing from different angles.
Another thing that was interesting is that each pixel of the photograph is 20m across.
Finally, if you look closely, at the lower right part of the flat spot in question you see similar patterns that are white instead of black in nature. If they were physical grooves, you would see the proper shadows of the ones going up and down in the picture, but when the grooves turned to run right to left they would be less visible.
I think this is directly related to the question at hand. You have to ask yourself what you're going to be doing long term. Just ask how many people on slashdot quit their degree back in the mid-late 90's and are regretting it now. Do you ever plan to get married? Do you ever plan to have kids? Do you think getting a Bachelors or even an advanced degree will be easier at that time in the future, or now? Just because the economy is slow currently doesn't mean it will remain so, AND, the more capable you are OVERALL, not just in a specific technology, the better the chances that you'll get a good long term career going.
Another way to look at it is this: When you're applying for the good jobs, what types of things will potential employers use to statistically eliminate the majority of applicants?
In my experience, experience doesn't always count enough. If my resume is on a 100 deep pile, and I have more experience than someone with a degree, it doesn't end up mattering. They say "Ok, show me the pile with degrees." Then they may say, "Ok, show me the pile with degrees AND experience." They'll do this just to lower the number of applicants they have to look over.
You can still get hired, but only in situations where your skillset matches what they want, AND none of the degreed applicants comes close. Degrees do matter, and at 19, you have it SO SO SO easy. Go enjoy the irresponsible life in a dorm and don't skip class! Develop the skill of working hard at things you don't like doing. Everyone knows there's plenty of stuff you don't like doing in every job.
That's true for any second language though.. And you could learn something that actually DOES have international ties as well as root ties to English, and that would be Latin. Learning Latin will give you a better understanding of the constructs of the English language as well as being the formal root for Spanish, Italian, and French. I don't think you could rate Esperanto as highly since it's a modern make believe language.
:) I happen to enjoy Asian languages as well (Japanese))
All that besides the benefit of learning an ancient language to orient yourself with the history of western civilization. The world didn't come into being in the Information Age.. There are many things to learn from the histories of all peoples. (most of which are not included by Latin, yes I understand that
The top game guesser has 25 points when you get 10 for a correct game guess, so I'd say they need a ton more people visiting the site with that nostalgic feeling. Sounds like a cool idea, but I suppose this story didn't get posted to the front page.
:)
Get out there and help them solve their unknown games all you who lurk in the gamers hall of memories
The biggest thing I have to say is that you should do a little dividing of the playing field.
For power gamer types, you can have a really difficult server where they will find many more people just like them. They will have no restrictions on how much they can play or do, but getting to the top will take tons of effort and time.
For more casual gamers, the kind that may get frustrated by how much time and effort it takes to do anything (WHAT?? I have to kill 300 Rats to get to level 2????), you should have a Social/Casual server. One in which "levelling" aspects of the game are restricted. You can only be in a fighting area of the game for a certain time amount per day/week. This would allow people that like to do things socially, or maybe only have time to play 1 or 2 nights a week or weekends to enjoy the game and progress, but not have tons of freaking power gamers running around to get jealous of.
The other main aspect that is critical, is that you need to make the game require some cooperation to reach goals. It can't be just click click click wow, I'm a god.... Next game! Make the game require teamwork and creativity to go forward. You also have to allow power gamer types to have influence over the world. They have to be able to affect the storyline, and be spontaneously inventive. Otherwise they will hit any limit you imagine.
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BUT that's against the American way to parent! Both of us (mom and dad) are driving around in our SUV's and working overtime to pay for them, and the Boat, and the lake house, and the House that we've refinanced 3 times in the last 3 years. We don't have TIME to monitor their video game usage. Heck we're not even there to hug them when they come home from school. We're pissed that our kids and their friends are out vandalizing the neighborhoods between the time school is out and we get home, and it's the government's job to do something about it!
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I am a Father of 2, and the only one that works outside the home. I would never say that my wife doesn't work, but she does not work for income. As parents it is solely our responsibility what our children do, what they learn, and who they become. The government doesn't owe us anything in regards to raising our children, and I don't want them telling me anything about how I raise them. We have a full-time loving caregiver, and our 2 are the only ones she has to provide for. This is thousands of times better than paying some daycare to watch them.
More specifically, as parents, we have to teach our children to control their own time. To make decisions about their own well-being. Not to rigidly control things from the outside, or to set up arbitrary devices to run their lives. They have to learn to be responsible for their own actions. We do this by telling them the rules, and then enforcing consequenses if they go outside the rules. They know up front what will happen, and we must be consistent so that they will make the right decisions. You can't delegate your responsibilities to some electronic box. Period. You can't even trust government employees, teachers, day care workers etc. They aren't the parents, you must decide and work to instill values, morals, and the ability to act responsibly yourself. Noone can do that for you. If you don't like it, don't have children.
I can't believe that anyone who doesn't care about the humans that will have to die in experiments having rights, will care at all whether the genetically modified products of said experiments have any rights. When the value of a human life is reduced enough to allow arbitrary choices to determine whether a human being lives or not then it doesn't matter at all whether these GM's are persecuted. They don't even have the right to live according to the scientists that created them. That GM is lucky to even be alive if they make it past the experimental selection process. Why should anyone be bickering about whether these people attain citizenship of the USA, or some other country.
As soon as scientists can create their own life from matter that they produced, then they will have the right to do anything they please with it. Until then, noone has the right to destroy a human life.
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I agree!
You'd be doing yourself an immense favor if you chose not to purchase anything, and simply used books for entertainment. Is even our "Intellectual" community now desiring to turn off their brain by simply having Audio Visual input blasted straight at them?
Back on the topic though, I can't imagine spending money on a portable DVD player. For that matter, I can't imagine collecting any single purpose electronic devices. I'd have to say go the Laptop route. It will always be just as capable of playing DVDs as a dedicated portable, and you'll get all the other more useful features out of it. I don't have any experience with a Mac, but that's what I'd consider first.
Doesn't Obfuscated Incompatible Code happen every time you open FrontPage?
Are there any links or more detailed analyses of the archaeoligical find? I'd like to know what methods of dating they were using to be able to throw around 1.4 million year numbers.
Generally the dating methods used are quite unfalsifiable. We have no way to prove any of the data that they return.
BTW, on a related note, where is the crater from the extinction event they refered to? Anyone have links for that?
I work for the same type of company in a different industry. We are the number two food service distributor in the southeast Texas market. We have one location, and distribute all over Texas. The reason we are number two (Behind the national company Sysco, headquartered here in Houston, and the largest food service distributor in the world) is because we take care of our customers. If they forget to order something, we have reps that will get in their car and drive that product out to them. We service those customers. You have to find what your customers need and provide it for them.
People don't want a computer, they want to DO something with the computer. If you have people that are willing to talk to these customers and find out their needs, you will be able to form bonds with customers that will out-last any hardware you may sell them.
Some people have said that you need to find those med-large businesses, but I'd say one of your best bets would be to find those businesses that are like ours. If a business is built on servicing their customers, they are very likely to appreciate a service that you can provide them. Business works when your customers can say, "They just take care of me". They really honestly won't care about the 5-15% increased cost of hardware. As long as they are getting the service they pay for.
No, I haven't done my research. Have you? I'd like to look at some good hard evidence. Statistics and Satellite photography. Do you have any references to Scientific journals that back up your arguments? I don't want any links to activist groups' pages. Nor do I want any links to Political opinion.
Elijah