Science majors in high-demand fields should be given subsidized loads because they are likely to get good paying jobs and will be able to pay off the loans. What the science majors are doing is going to directly benefit themselves the most.
What we should be doing is given lower tuition to liberal arts majors that are unlikely to get good paying jobs. Their degrees benefit society (by way of having an educated, informed electorate) more than the degree holder.
Before you mod me down, realize that this is the position of (conservative/libertarian and award-winning economist) Milton Friedman.
How is this much different from reading the headline through the glass at a paper vending machine? The newspapers ought to be paying Google for the traffic.
Kinda makes you just want to buy a new PC (with another copy of Windows) rather than go through the hassle. Not that M$ would ever make restores a PITA to "encourage" customers to buy a new PC.
Does anyone know exactly what is fried in the monitors and in the PC's? I would have thought that the metal cases found on most PC's would have provided some amount of protection.
Knowing a little programming is good (for scripting and "glue" programs), but I've seen too many CS majors that try to reinvent the wheel (because they like to program) rather than getting to know the built-in tools that are fairly standard and vetted.
e.g., I had a CS major ask if there was a Linux version of WinDiff because he was thinking of writing a Linux version.
This seems to have degraded into a general hardware failure thread. for my $.02, I'd like to remind readers that maybe 25% of small consumer products that fail (like routers, switches, etc) can be traced to a failed wall wart.
The French newspapers seem to be forgetting that Google provides them with a valuable service. If it weren't for Google, no one would know that the newspaper had the content in question. Sure, the user can directly type in the URI of the newspaper to get there and see if they have the content, but they can do this regardless of Google indexing them or not.
It's fairly obvious at this point that there needs to be a penalty associated with filing false DMCA takedown notices. It could be a financial penalty, or suspension of the right to file for a certain time.
NIC's should encrypt the data payload by default. The security benefits would be huge. (But this would make it harder for governments to spy on their citizens, so I don't expect to see it anytime soon.)
How is this substantially different than the unique CPU ID that Intel tried to do back in the PIII days? Everyone thought that was a Bad Idea because of privacy concerns.
First, on-line, no one is going to punch you in the face for a rude comment. It doesn't happen much IRL, but everyone knows the possibility exists. Second, what you say online is less likely to have social consequences because you are often conversing with people you will never meet IRL. Third, misunderstandings happen more often online because it is easy to misinterpret quickly written posts without non-verbal communication (body language) to add clarification.
Most of what I see in Windows 8 is a touch screen-centric interface. If you have a tradition desktop with a keyboard and mouse, it looks like a Pre-School, Fisher-Price interface.
Microsoft sees tablets and touch-screen devices as being the way of the future and desktop PC not shipping the their previous volumes. This may be true, but dumbing down the PC even more to accommodate touch-screens is not the way forward.
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Ever notice that companies that do right and deal honestly have little to fear and companies that are secretive and deceptive have much to fear?
There are ways to make small changes to the document and give different people different version of the document, thus tracking the leaker.
How about training under-performing or incompetent employees before the situation necessitates termination?
Take a time machine back to 1994.
Science majors in high-demand fields should be given subsidized loads because they are likely to get good paying jobs and will be able to pay off the loans. What the science majors are doing is going to directly benefit themselves the most.
What we should be doing is given lower tuition to liberal arts majors that are unlikely to get good paying jobs. Their degrees benefit society (by way of having an educated, informed electorate) more than the degree holder.
Before you mod me down, realize that this is the position of (conservative/libertarian and award-winning economist) Milton Friedman.
Never vote for a (criminal law) judge that hasn't worked both prosecution and defense.
Phone companies used to be able to afford not making much on pay phones until their lucrative long distance business was cannibalized by Sprint, etc.
How is this much different from reading the headline through the glass at a paper vending machine? The newspapers ought to be paying Google for the traffic.
Kinda makes you just want to buy a new PC (with another copy of Windows) rather than go through the hassle. Not that M$ would ever make restores a PITA to "encourage" customers to buy a new PC.
Just one issue:
$1,099.99 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit 1 Server 10 CAL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116853&name=Server-Software
I'll keep my thousand dollars and you can keep your buggy, virus ridden, proprietary OS.
"I don't really care about hardware that hasn't been generally "available in five years and hasn't been seen in the wild in two.
Does anyone know exactly what is fried in the monitors and in the PC's? I would have thought that the metal cases found on most PC's would have provided some amount of protection.
"There isn't much repeat business in the training wheel market."
--Brilliant
Where are my mod points from yesterday???
Knowing a little programming is good (for scripting and "glue" programs), but I've seen too many CS majors that try to reinvent the wheel (because they like to program) rather than getting to know the built-in tools that are fairly standard and vetted.
e.g., I had a CS major ask if there was a Linux version of WinDiff because he was thinking of writing a Linux version.
This seems to have degraded into a general hardware failure thread. for my $.02, I'd like to remind readers that maybe 25% of small consumer products that fail (like routers, switches, etc) can be traced to a failed wall wart.
The French newspapers seem to be forgetting that Google provides them with a valuable service. If it weren't for Google, no one would know that the newspaper had the content in question. Sure, the user can directly type in the URI of the newspaper to get there and see if they have the content, but they can do this regardless of Google indexing them or not.
It's fairly obvious at this point that there needs to be a penalty associated with filing false DMCA takedown notices. It could be a financial penalty, or suspension of the right to file for a certain time.
NIC's should encrypt the data payload by default. The security benefits would be huge. (But this would make it harder for governments to spy on their citizens, so I don't expect to see it anytime soon.)
http://slashdot.org/story/00/04/27/1021245/intel-to-drop-cpu-id-number
How is this substantially different than the unique CPU ID that Intel tried to do back in the PIII days? Everyone thought that was a Bad Idea because of privacy concerns.
First, on-line, no one is going to punch you in the face for a rude comment. It doesn't happen much IRL, but everyone knows the possibility exists.
Second, what you say online is less likely to have social consequences because you are often conversing with people you will never meet IRL.
Third, misunderstandings happen more often online because it is easy to misinterpret quickly written posts without non-verbal communication (body language) to add clarification.
Because I might drive through your lovely county some day.
Most of what I see in Windows 8 is a touch screen-centric interface. If you have a tradition desktop with a keyboard and mouse, it looks like a Pre-School, Fisher-Price interface.
Microsoft sees tablets and touch-screen devices as being the way of the future and desktop PC not shipping the their previous volumes. This may be true, but dumbing down the PC even more to accommodate touch-screens is not the way forward.
Slackware (from floppy!) -> Redhat Linux 5.x - 6.2 -> Mandrake -> Redhat Linux 8 - 9 -> Suse -> Fedora Core -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Fedora
I seem to recall at least one distro that would automatically install via a booted CD.