Just thinking.. suppose we were advanced enough to be able to travel between the stars and came across another civilisation who were just making it into space, what decides whether we make contact or not.
This is kind of a prime directive situation, where a major factor would probably be how religious that civilisation is. Somebody weighing this with us would probably think that religion has too much control and it would almost certainly mean war. They wouldn't want that so they back off and leave us to evolve.
My problem with this method was that during my degree I looked forward to the pissup after handing in a coursework so much that when I didn't have it finished in time I still went out and celebrated. In my final year I was lucky to hand in any courseworks on time, the punishment for handing in late (-5%/day) was far outweighed by getting sloshed in the uni bar with my mates.
There is a reason why we released the Web into the public domain and did not make it GPL. GPL would have closed the door on commercial versions which was absolutely the opposite of our objective.
The GPL does not close the door on commercial versions. Selling Free Software. It does stop proprietary versions however. They are different.
I still use moz for my main machine but galeon works so well for my laptop. The best thing about it is the ability to use the full screen to surf, using the whole of my laptop LCD is really fucking sweet. Doing the same on my monitor doesn't give the same effect, 1280x1024 is just to big a res to browse at.
People never stop complaining about the state of the NHS, the schools and other public services, but no-ones willing to put there hands in the pockets. Paying extra taxes for the services is not basing the economy on public spending.
"New Labour" here in the UK appear committed to mass-producing corporate drones with as little individuality as possible, and at the lowest possible cost - our Education services are woefully underfunded and stretched to the limits.
As a result of 17 years of tory mismanagement. Labour are trying to make things better without increasing taxes <sarcasm>as we know money in our pocket is better than decent public services</sarcasm> (by the way that's a dig at all political parties - with the exception maybe of the lib dems). Labour have failed to put it right in the 4 years they've had, but what do you expect when the destruction was drawn out over a much longer period.
ok so 2600 can't link to a site just because it has DeCSS on it, but what if they linked to a site that didn't have DeCSS on it and then the site owner replaced that page with a copy of the DeCSS code. 2600 didn't provide the link for the purpose of DeCSS but that is what the outcome is.
if we do buy this MS processor, in the light of the recent DeCSS trial MS could by all means disallow us from writing alternative software (OS's) to run on the processor, even though it surely counts as fair use to use any os we want.
Maybe that's their master plan.
Microsoft launches a processor and an operating system to run on the software. The tv BSOD's every 20 mins ut nobody minds as we can reboot during the commercials.
Linux then gets ported to use the processor and allows people to keep their tv on for months on end.
Microsoft sues Linus Torvalds and the coders who did the porting, stating that linux is aiding piracy by allowing the tv to communicate with other proper computers and therefore allow people to tape off the webtv.
It wouldn't suprise me if the RIAA didn't throw huge amounts of money at AOL for them to do nothing. A couple of Billion dollor 'bung' would probably safeguard their monopoly for the time being, and AOL wont mind because tehy won't suffer financially (they may even gain) and there reputation wont take a hit because they're 'admitting' that Gnutella is illegal.
So I for one won't be suprised if AOL does just turn around and take it on the nose, the backhanders are sure to soften the blow.
so you consider yourself a typical non-graduate? I don't think all non-grads have the experience you have, you are an exception. He was just saying that more non-grads are 'dumber' than most postgraduates.
I think it is very possible to teach yourself a lot in the computing area, but it is also to make mistakes, and IMHO non-grads are more likely to make those mistakes because they don't have lecturers and other grads pointing them out when they do.
For the various classes of degrees you will probably find that the corresponding number of 'dumbs' increases the lower the degree classification, and the number of exceptions will decrease proportionally too.
first |==================================--|
2.1 |============================--------|
2.2 |====================----------------|
third |=============-----------------------|
none |======------------------------------|
-- dumbs
== exceptions (non-dumbs)
I am sure you'll still get dumbs getting firsts, and by dumbs I mean lacking general computing ability. Some people can listen to instructions and follow them to the letter every time, but if they are expected to use their common sense and computing ability they fail because nobody has told them exactly how to do it, hence frying the motherboard.
Think of it dumbs are procedural people rather than declarative people.
This just goes to show the single mindedness of MS! Who says that all software is produced by a company, and that two companies cannot share libraries and resources.
For me I always install to C:\Program Files\Appname as I distinguish programs by name and not by company.
And as a side note when are they going to change it to C:\My Program Files:) as that seems to be the way MS seems to be going
C:\My Documents
C:\My Download Files
C:\My Games
C:\My Music
C:\My Program Files
C:\MY Windows
C:\MY Temporary Files
together with My Network (or whatever it is for ME and 2k)
- when building architects are incompetent, buildings fall down! -
This is what I have found too, althought it always seems to be the sheer number of programming tasks and Sys admin stuff that fills up my list. Often although I think I have coders block it is the exact opposite.
Suppose you are listening to a piece of music, if you then turn on the tv as long as they are of similar volume you can happily distinguish between the two. If someone then turns on the hoover and there's noise from outside then you still should be able to distinguish the sounds (althought you may not here what the tv is actually saying). But at some point if you keep adding new sound sources you will be unable to pick out the music and the tv, the room will just be full of noise.
Now this is what I imagine inside my head when I get coders block. A mush of ideas and solutions fighting for processor time in my brain. It isn't that I can't think of answers its just there are so many.
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Just thinking.. suppose we were advanced enough to be able to travel between the stars and came across another civilisation who were just making it into space, what decides whether we make contact or not.
This is kind of a prime directive situation, where a major factor would probably be how religious that civilisation is. Somebody weighing this with us would probably think that religion has too much control and it would almost certainly mean war. They wouldn't want that so they back off and leave us to evolve.
My problem with this method was that during my degree I looked forward to the pissup after handing in a coursework so much that when I didn't have it finished in time I still went out and celebrated. In my final year I was lucky to hand in any courseworks on time, the punishment for handing in late (-5%/day) was far outweighed by getting sloshed in the uni bar with my mates.
I still use moz for my main machine but galeon works so well for my laptop. The best thing about it is the ability to use the full screen to surf, using the whole of my laptop LCD is really fucking sweet. Doing the same on my monitor doesn't give the same effect, 1280x1024 is just to big a res to browse at.
And where did I say that?
People never stop complaining about the state of the NHS, the schools and other public services, but no-ones willing to put there hands in the pockets. Paying extra taxes for the services is not basing the economy on public spending.
because religion murders a lot of people too, which is what people question.
The Indians of America didn't believe in ownership of land.
Look what happened to them!
ok so 2600 can't link to a site just because it has DeCSS on it, but what if they linked to a site that didn't have DeCSS on it and then the site owner replaced that page with a copy of the DeCSS code. 2600 didn't provide the link for the purpose of DeCSS but that is what the outcome is.
if we do buy this MS processor, in the light of the recent DeCSS trial MS could by all means disallow us from writing alternative software (OS's) to run on the processor, even though it surely counts as fair use to use any os we want.
Maybe that's their master plan.
It wouldn't suprise me if the RIAA didn't throw huge amounts of money at AOL for them to do nothing. A couple of Billion dollor 'bung' would probably safeguard their monopoly for the time being, and AOL wont mind because tehy won't suffer financially (they may even gain) and there reputation wont take a hit because they're 'admitting' that Gnutella is illegal.
So I for one won't be suprised if AOL does just turn around and take it on the nose, the backhanders are sure to soften the blow.
NASA did not invent velcro!! It was some guy and his dog (not that his dog did much of the inventing)
so you consider yourself a typical non-graduate? I don't think all non-grads have the experience you have, you are an exception. He was just saying that more non-grads are 'dumber' than most postgraduates.
I think it is very possible to teach yourself a lot in the computing area, but it is also to make mistakes, and IMHO non-grads are more likely to make those mistakes because they don't have lecturers and other grads pointing them out when they do.
For the various classes of degrees you will probably find that the corresponding number of 'dumbs' increases the lower the degree classification, and the number of exceptions will decrease proportionally too.
first |==================================--|
2.1 |============================--------|
2.2 |====================----------------|
third |=============-----------------------|
none |======------------------------------|
-- dumbs
== exceptions (non-dumbs)
I am sure you'll still get dumbs getting firsts, and by dumbs I mean lacking general computing ability. Some people can listen to instructions and follow them to the letter every time, but if they are expected to use their common sense and computing ability they fail because nobody has told them exactly how to do it, hence frying the motherboard.
Think of it dumbs are procedural people rather than declarative people.
then human nature evolved and adapted to reflect that history, making more history.
This just goes to show the single mindedness of MS! Who says that all software is produced by a company, and that two companies cannot share libraries and resources.
:) as that seems to be the way MS seems to be going
For me I always install to C:\Program Files\Appname as I distinguish programs by name and not by company.
And as a side note when are they going to change it to C:\My Program Files
C:\My Documents
C:\My Download Files
C:\My Games
C:\My Music
C:\My Program Files
C:\MY Windows
C:\MY Temporary Files
together with My Network (or whatever it is for ME and 2k)
- when building architects are incompetent, buildings fall down! -
This is what I have found too, althought it always seems to be the sheer number of programming tasks and Sys admin stuff that fills up my list. Often although I think I have coders block it is the exact opposite.
Suppose you are listening to a piece of music, if you then turn on the tv as long as they are of similar volume you can happily distinguish between the two. If someone then turns on the hoover and there's noise from outside then you still should be able to distinguish the sounds (althought you may not here what the tv is actually saying). But at some point if you keep adding new sound sources you will be unable to pick out the music and the tv, the room will just be full of noise.
Now this is what I imagine inside my head when I get coders block. A mush of ideas and solutions fighting for processor time in my brain. It isn't that I can't think of answers its just there are so many.