I wonder why I think about that story everytime someone talks about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
I don't know, but it's best not to judge others. Regardless, I don't think the moral of the story was to not give at all if you weren't going to give enough.
The office I work in has about 300 people in it and 6 (that I know of) IT staff that do nothing but fix our computers. If you assume that each one costs the company $150K/year
I'm sorry, but if it takes 6 IT people to support 300 people/computers, then none of the IT people are worth $150K/year, even with benefits and payroll taxes included in that number.
It's so good to see that the delegation of priorities regarding Human Rights has now moved Robot one notch above Dark Skinned Human.
At least in America, we only care about you if you're an American. Robots could potentially be in this country, so then we'd care. If robots were getting kicked in Africa, we'd be happy to ignore that because, well, I'm not sure, but we would.
why is everyone jumping on the Nintendo bandwagon? I played a Wii for about an hour and wasn't exactly impressed
Perhaps because everyone is not you? A large number of people have played it and seem to really like it. I got one and I like it quite a bit - I think MS and Sony will end up incorporating this technology because it's a good thing.
Also,
"It's harder than playing basketball," says Kaitlin Franke, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Ky.
I find this absolutely ridiculous. This article is horribly worded and this quote seems completely out of context. What is harder than playing basketball?
The boxing game that's in Wii Sports will give you a pretty good workout. I was sweating after a few matches.
I do! Are you using an LCD to look at Cleartype with? I've never tried it on a CRT, so I can't comment. But on my 24" widescreen LCD in front of me, I've just turned Cleartype off, and then on again. There is no way I could read without Cleartype on this thing.
How is your vision? Do you wear glasses? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I'm just trying to add to my collection of anecdotal evidence regarding Cleartype. I can't stand Cleartype - it's blurry, and my eyes spend all day trying to focus the letters, which isn't possible due to the designed blurriness. From what I have found, the people that like Cleartype are people that wear glasses. People with excellent vision tend to dislike it due to the blurriness.
We call this a free country, but lawsuits have scared everyone into ridiculous rules and restrictions. We shouldn't be allowed to talk about freedom when we are imprisoning ourselves even in the areas the government isn't. I'm tired of all the reasonable things I'm not allowed to do because some organization's insurance company doesn't like or some fool sued someone. Maybe I just didn't notice this stuff when I was younger, but it seems ridiculous anymore.
Don't eat peanut butter at school, people have allergy's. Freakin peanut butter, I grew up on that.
As someone who's allergic to peanuts, I'm okay with you eating peanut butter, but don't plan on that being your meal for the class field trip, please! An apple, a bag of chips, Hi-C and a Little Debbie is not a filling meal, even for an eight year old!
The reports of overdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD are way overblown. Yes, it happened/happens, but it's not as if pills are just stuffed into kids, and the fact that there is some overdiagnosis is no reason to doubt the existence of a condition or to disparage anyone that truly has it by exaggerating statements of overdiagnosis and minimizing any real effects of the condition.
Neither behaviors are affected by Ritilin at all, trust me.
Sounds like perhaps you don't have ADD if the drugs didn't work for you. Your sole experience is not scientific proof. I know plenty of people that are helped by the medication (I don't know any kids, just adults). And besides, the meds aren't going to finish your work for you, they're going to help with the mental block that's preventing you from doing so.
Blah, blah. There are too many people at Slashdot that roll out the correlation/causation statements and dismiss every study that comes out. That is equally as foolish as those that assume that every observation means a truth. The fact is that they have found something worthy of further investigation. To say cable TV causes autism is wrong at this point, but to say that it doesn't is equally wrong. Fact is, we don't yet know.
That is, the study shows just that children born with autism are more likely to spend time watching TV (knowing the features of autism, this is entirely possible).
That's some excellent market research on the part of the cable providers! They knew autism was on the rise and so they rolled out cable TV to latent market.
Compared to a closed source project that relies so heavily on a single person, the open source project is a much safer bet.
There is only one factor - the number of people or organizations that have significant incentive to continue the work. In the case of closed source software, this is likely a financial incentive of the organization that sells the software. They will continue in order to make money. Money is a strong motivator. In the case of open source, you have to hope that enough other people make significant use of that package that there is either a person (or persons) knowledgeable, capable, and willing to continue it or that there are organizations like RedHat or Novell that see enough fincancial incentive to pay someone to take up the work. While it is idealistic to say that open source is better here, it is not likely realistic. Money makes the world go around and software that was bringing money to someone stands a pretty good chance of continuance.
I remember back when I was young, we could go out and by music on optical discs. They played in your stereo, in your car, and you could even rip them to MP3. You could even head down to a used record store and pick up used CDs for around $8. Of course, back in those days, we had to walk both ways, up hill, in the snow.
I think ESR is wrong because most people aren't ever going to notice the 64bit transition, at least nothing like the 16-32 bit horrors of the 1990s. Both Linux (almost flawlessly on RH based distros and fairly useable on Debian ones) and Windows have made it all but unnoticable whether one is using 32 or 64 bit apps for 90+% of users and uses. Only those who need to malloc gigs need concern themselves.
The only way you could have written that paragraph is if you have never installed 64-bit XP. It's quite different, and you do notice. Many apps won't run on it. The default install includes two copies of Internet Explorer (one 32 and one 64) and neither works quite right. The only reason anyone uses XP 64 right now is if they have an app that requires it. Otherwise, they're just asking for misery.
I'm not missing the point, it's just that I don't want one in that form factor, so telling people that Apple has a $599 computer isn't always an answer.
And of course, there's the fallacious point of "Apple's computers starting at $1000". Apparently you haven't heard of the Mac Mini, coming in at $599, just $199 more than Dell's "Bottom Line" and offering a ton more features.
Cut the crap. The Mac Mini won't let me pop in a new hard drive or two. It won't let me drop in a new video card (and the video card they give you sucks). It's incredibly restrictive due to its size. Apple needs more flexibility in their product line. I have to buy an itty bitty computer, a computer attached to the back of a monitor or a muscle car. I want to buy a Mac, but I don't want any of those. I want a Mini or iMac in a Mac Pro case. I know, I know, they're keeping their product line simple. Well, that means you sacrifice having what some of us are looking for.
excuse me, isn't that what everyone is doing? Hunting for bargains, searching where they can get 'more for less'? It's stupid to accuse the corporations and to forget that everyone else is busy with the same thing exactly.
I'm not accusing corporations, I'm accusing people. Corporations are run by people.
I was born in the former USSR and have heard that one before. It doesn't work.
I absolutely do not want a government mandated system - I want a changed people.
Nothing will change if you change the system without changing the people.
And change starts with each individual - firstmost me.
basically getting a mac now means being able to do all the stuff you've always done on your pc
Actually, there is one major thing you can't do when you get a Mac - borrow all your friends' copies of MS Office and Photoshop and Halo and Quicken and whatnot.
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You will now be able to find porn clips on Google Video as easily as you can find porn images on Google Images.
I don't know, but it's best not to judge others. Regardless, I don't think the moral of the story was to not give at all if you weren't going to give enough.
I'm sorry, but if it takes 6 IT people to support 300 people/computers, then none of the IT people are worth $150K/year, even with benefits and payroll taxes included in that number.
At least in America, we only care about you if you're an American. Robots could potentially be in this country, so then we'd care. If robots were getting kicked in Africa, we'd be happy to ignore that because, well, I'm not sure, but we would.
Nice way to lose some useful data in the translation. Do you work in Marketing?
Perhaps because everyone is not you? A large number of people have played it and seem to really like it. I got one and I like it quite a bit - I think MS and Sony will end up incorporating this technology because it's a good thing.
The boxing game that's in Wii Sports will give you a pretty good workout. I was sweating after a few matches.
How is your vision? Do you wear glasses? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I'm just trying to add to my collection of anecdotal evidence regarding Cleartype. I can't stand Cleartype - it's blurry, and my eyes spend all day trying to focus the letters, which isn't possible due to the designed blurriness. From what I have found, the people that like Cleartype are people that wear glasses. People with excellent vision tend to dislike it due to the blurriness.
We call this a free country, but lawsuits have scared everyone into ridiculous rules and restrictions. We shouldn't be allowed to talk about freedom when we are imprisoning ourselves even in the areas the government isn't. I'm tired of all the reasonable things I'm not allowed to do because some organization's insurance company doesn't like or some fool sued someone. Maybe I just didn't notice this stuff when I was younger, but it seems ridiculous anymore.
As someone who's allergic to peanuts, I'm okay with you eating peanut butter, but don't plan on that being your meal for the class field trip, please! An apple, a bag of chips, Hi-C and a Little Debbie is not a filling meal, even for an eight year old!
Sounds like perhaps you don't have ADD if the drugs didn't work for you. Your sole experience is not scientific proof. I know plenty of people that are helped by the medication (I don't know any kids, just adults). And besides, the meds aren't going to finish your work for you, they're going to help with the mental block that's preventing you from doing so.
Blah, blah. There are too many people at Slashdot that roll out the correlation/causation statements and dismiss every study that comes out. That is equally as foolish as those that assume that every observation means a truth. The fact is that they have found something worthy of further investigation. To say cable TV causes autism is wrong at this point, but to say that it doesn't is equally wrong. Fact is, we don't yet know.
That's some excellent market research on the part of the cable providers! They knew autism was on the rise and so they rolled out cable TV to latent market.
Ever hear of a single?
There is only one factor - the number of people or organizations that have significant incentive to continue the work. In the case of closed source software, this is likely a financial incentive of the organization that sells the software. They will continue in order to make money. Money is a strong motivator. In the case of open source, you have to hope that enough other people make significant use of that package that there is either a person (or persons) knowledgeable, capable, and willing to continue it or that there are organizations like RedHat or Novell that see enough fincancial incentive to pay someone to take up the work. While it is idealistic to say that open source is better here, it is not likely realistic. Money makes the world go around and software that was bringing money to someone stands a pretty good chance of continuance.
I remember back when I was young, we could go out and by music on optical discs. They played in your stereo, in your car, and you could even rip them to MP3. You could even head down to a used record store and pick up used CDs for around $8. Of course, back in those days, we had to walk both ways, up hill, in the snow.
And let them cane his ass. I'm serious. He won't even think about doing it again after that.
The only way you could have written that paragraph is if you have never installed 64-bit XP. It's quite different, and you do notice. Many apps won't run on it. The default install includes two copies of Internet Explorer (one 32 and one 64) and neither works quite right. The only reason anyone uses XP 64 right now is if they have an app that requires it. Otherwise, they're just asking for misery.
I'm not missing the point, it's just that I don't want one in that form factor, so telling people that Apple has a $599 computer isn't always an answer.
Cut the crap. The Mac Mini won't let me pop in a new hard drive or two. It won't let me drop in a new video card (and the video card they give you sucks). It's incredibly restrictive due to its size. Apple needs more flexibility in their product line. I have to buy an itty bitty computer, a computer attached to the back of a monitor or a muscle car. I want to buy a Mac, but I don't want any of those. I want a Mini or iMac in a Mac Pro case. I know, I know, they're keeping their product line simple. Well, that means you sacrifice having what some of us are looking for.
Because it's better than the alternative.
I'm not accusing corporations, I'm accusing people. Corporations are run by people.
I absolutely do not want a government mandated system - I want a changed people.
And change starts with each individual - firstmost me.
Actually, there is one major thing you can't do when you get a Mac - borrow all your friends' copies of MS Office and Photoshop and Halo and Quicken and whatnot.